Re: DVD Writer problems

2008-06-05 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 05/06/2008, at 3:14 AM, Julien Cigar wrote: I have also this problem on almost all my machines .. the only solution I found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are very poor .. If you find a solution please let us know :) I tried disabling DMA 'atacontrol mode acd0

Storing a copy of queued mail?

2008-06-04 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hi, I have a 6.3 system running as a mail server, offering imap, pop3 and smtp. The smtp server can be used from anywhere because all users are required to authenticate with SMTP AUTH and it supports TLS. This is using sendmail 8.14.2. What I would like to do is have any mail submitted

DVD Writer problems

2008-06-04 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I'v been having problems getting this DVD drive working at all, I'm running on 6.3 p1.. On boot it is detected as: acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable acd0: DVDR ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P/9P57 at ata0-master UDMA33 Which is the first sign of trouble, it is

Problem with rsync to smbfs over vpn

2008-01-13 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello all, I'm getting a lot of time out problems using rsync between a local filesystem and a remote smb filesystem that is mounted with mount_smbfs over an encrypted wan tunnel. The following are the most common error messages: rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat somefile: Operation timed

Re: Sendmail: exposed root, why?

2008-01-09 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 09/01/2008, at 5:26 AM, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: There is no directive, but you can edit the resultant .cf file and remove the line C{E}root or root from that line if more than one user. Be warned, you _will_ break /etc/crontab and periodic scripts mail delivery. The reason it needs

Sendmail: exposed root, why?

2008-01-08 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, From the sendmail documentation: There are always users that need to be exposed -- that is, their internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name. Root is an example (which has been exposed by default prior to 8.10). Is there actually any reason why root needs to

Re: Sendmail: sub-domain masquerade as top level

2008-01-04 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 04/01/2008, at 7:11 PM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008 01:11, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: On 04/01/2008, at 12:59 AM, Barry Byrne wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerahmy Pocott I'm having an issue with getting

Sendmail: sub-domain masquerade as top level

2008-01-03 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I'm having an issue with getting sendmail to masquerade as the top level domain when the host is a sub domain. For example I want server.exmaple.com to send mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED], how ever the masquerade options don't seem to work for this.. It works

Re: Sendmail: sub-domain masquerade as top level

2008-01-03 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 04/01/2008, at 12:59 AM, Barry Byrne wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerahmy Pocott I'm having an issue with getting sendmail to masquerade as the top level domain when the host is a sub domain. For example I want

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-27 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 27/11/2007, at 5:49 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Jerahmy Pocott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 4:48 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT Perhaps, but I'v heard

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-25 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger Olofsson Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:09 PM To: Jerahmy Pocott Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT Hello again Jerahmy, I would suggest that you verify what port(s

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-25 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
! /Roger Jerahmy Pocott skrev: Sorry let me clarify.. There are two issues, one is connecting to any external VPN, with no filter I can establish a connection to PPTP VPN, but the 'Sonic Wall Global VPN Client' still fails to connect even with no filter rules. The redirect for the CVS server

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-25 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
a working solution and now you don't. So, clearly, in your case, it's WORSE. Ted -Original Message- From: Jerahmy Pocott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 2:12 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Roger Olofsson; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Difficulties establishing VPN

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-25 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 26/11/2007, at 1:00 AM, Roger Olofsson wrote: Hello Jerahmy, (sorry for top-posting, btw). Gre is protocol 47. In your firewall rules you only allow/block protocols tcp/udp/icmp. If you want to use PPTP you will need to allow both the port and the protocol for it. I put: pass out

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-25 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 26/11/2007, at 4:47 AM, Roger Olofsson wrote: Hello Jerahmy, Some progress it seems? Why not set it to allow gre from VPN server only? Ie pass in quick on fxp1 proto gre from vpn server ip to any? The way you ask your question, 'make it work without static ip or allowing all traffic',

Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-24 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I recently decided to give ipf and ipnat a try, previously I had always been using ipfw and natd. Since switching over I can no longer establish a VPN tunnel from any system behind the gateway. I did 'ipf -F a' to flush all rules but I was still unable to connect so I think it's a

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-24 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
want to connect from the outside to your VPN. Have you made sure that port 2401 is open for inbound traffic in your ipf.rules? You might also want to do 'ipnat -C -f path to ipnat.rules'. Man ipnat ;^) Greeting from Sweden /Roger Jerahmy Pocott skrev: Hello, I recently decided to give

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-24 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
: Hello Jerahmy, Assuming you want to connect from the outside to your VPN. Have you made sure that port 2401 is open for inbound traffic in your ipf.rules? You might also want to do 'ipnat -C -f path to ipnat.rules'. Man ipnat ;^) Greeting from Sweden /Roger Jerahmy Pocott skrev: Hello, I

rsync to lacie disk (via samba?)

2007-11-21 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I'm wanting to use rsync from FreeBSD to some lacie ethernet disks, they have a number of access options including ftp and windows file sharing.. Would mounting the shares with samba then using rsync on the mounted samba share as though it was syncing between two local disks work

Re: Install problems on Dell Vostro

2007-11-11 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 11/11/2007, at 1:55 AM, Olivier GARNIER wrote: Hi, I tried with FreeBSD and FreeSBIE when I received my vostro 1700 (on septembre), and the network wasn't working well. Network, Some Xorg problems and so on ... So I installed Ubuntu 7.04 witch was the less worth (network/video worked

Re: Install problems on Dell Vostro

2007-11-10 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 10/11/2007, at 1:57 PM, McCy Ron wrote: I was able to get 6.2 to install on a Vostro with stock BIOS settings but couldn't get the system to recognize the network card. network. Just for reference - Knoppix, Ubuntu, FreesBie live CDs, and a straight install of Ubuntu 7.04 didn't work

Install problems on Dell Vostro

2007-11-09 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I'm having difficulties getting 6.2 installed on these new Dell 'Vostro' systems. The BIOS is a Phoenix - AwardBIOS and it reports the version as 1.0.3. With the SATA controller set to IDE mode (default) in the BIOS booting FreeBSD will hang just before entering sysinstall, booting

Install problems on Dell 'Vostro'

2007-11-09 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I'm having difficulties getting 6.2 installed on these new Dell 'Vostro' systems. The BIOS is a Phoenix - AwardBIOS and it reports the version as 1.0.3. With the SATA controller set to IDE mode (default) in the BIOS booting FreeBSD will hang just before entering sysinstall, booting

USB Console?

2007-11-09 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, Firstly sorry for my recent double post mx1.freebsd.org was rejecting my mail for some reason.. I was wondering if there is any way to put the console on a USB port? Since serial and parallel ports are becoming things of the past and many systems don't come with them any more.. Serial

Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-07 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 07/10/2007, at 12:56 AM, andrew clarke wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 04:54:26AM +1000, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: I'm wanting to use BASH as my root shell, so I compiled a statically linked version then tried to log in with only / mounted. But I was locked out because elf.ld.so could

Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-06 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 06/10/2007, at 3:25 PM, Old Ranger wrote: Hey look, BASH is not a UNIX shell. BASH occurred with Linux then carried over into FreeBSD. While it has some advantages, it is still a bastard. UNIX is written in C Want the best you can get? Use tcsh as a shell and let the linux community do

BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-05 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I'm wanting to use BASH as my root shell, so I compiled a statically linked version then tried to log in with only / mounted. But I was locked out because elf.ld.so could not be found.. I though elf was the native binary format these days? But it needs a library to run them? Is it

Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-05 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 06/10/2007, at 4:59 AM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 04:54 +1000, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: Hello, I'm wanting to use BASH as my root shell, so I compiled a statically linked version then tried to log in with only / mounted. But I was locked out because elf.ld.so could

Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-05 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 06/10/2007, at 5:45 AM, RW wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 04:54:26 +1000 Jerahmy Pocott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm wanting to use BASH as my root shell, so I compiled a statically linked I would suggest using bash as your toor shell instead. toor exist precisely for this purpose

Files have no version after csup?

2007-10-03 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, After doing a csup on src-all with tag RELENG_6_2, the source files all have their version set to $FreeBSD$ with no other information.. (This was from au mirror) Is this an error? What is going on? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Files have no version after csup?

2007-10-03 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 03/10/2007, at 10:31 PM, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: Hello, After doing a csup on src-all with tag RELENG_6_2, the source files all have their version set to $FreeBSD$ with no other information.. (This was from au mirror) Is this an error? What is going on? It seems both

Creating Custom Install Media

2007-09-29 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I'm wanting to make a custom install cd that will load up on the serial console, the documentation says all that is required is the addition of a file named boot.config with the single line /boot/loader -h in it. However it doesn't actually say how to then create a bootable cd

Re: Booting to Sysinstall

2007-09-25 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 25/09/2007, at 1:57 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Jerahmy Pocott wrote: Hello, Okay so here is the situation: Server has dead fd and cd drives, or maybe none at all. You want to install FreeBSD on it. The idea I had was to create a small partition, copy the contents of a cd into, set

Booting to Sysinstall

2007-09-24 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, Okay so here is the situation: Server has dead fd and cd drives, or maybe none at all. You want to install FreeBSD on it. The idea I had was to create a small partition, copy the contents of a cd into, set it to boot off that partition, reboot and it would boot up into sysinstall.

Teamspeak Server

2005-10-31 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I recently tried running the Teamspeak linux server on a 4.7ish something box with linux compat installed but all I got was daemon failed to start or a message similar to that with no reason or errors.. Has anyone had any success running the linux binary on FreeBSD? Would

Re: freebsd on memory card

2005-09-08 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 08/09/2005, at 6:36 AM, Damon Blom wrote: Hi Still no go. will boot (very slowly) from external usb hard drive. da0 maxtor scsi -0 device 194481 mb will not boot da1 hp digital drive 976 mb (whole disk) da1s1a / da1s1d /usr

Re: Limiting closed port

2005-09-02 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 01/09/2005, at 7:20 PM, Dark Star wrote: Hello all, Im on FreeBSD 4.8-R my logs since over 4 months always complaining from th follow: /kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 243 to 200 packets per second /kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 222 to 200

Re: How do I get packages with tgz files

2005-08-24 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 24/08/2005, at 4:10 PM, Bharma wrote: Hi I am working with a machine with FreeBSD 4.2.8 version. I am not allowed to change the version on the machine. I want to install some packages - in particular the KDE package on the machine pkg_add ftp://pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/kde/kdeversion.tbz

Re: Where to FreeBSD Boot Manager?

2005-08-22 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 22/08/2005, at 11:22 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Yes, XP does have a boot manager, and I suppose I should have listed some available options when I originally replied to the email. Just thought that someone was making a split decision during an install and needed quick help.

Re: Where to FreeBSD Boot Manager?

2005-08-21 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 22/08/2005, at 12:17 AM, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my system which has two separate HDD (each has 40GB). I am already using the first drive (e.g., C drive) only for Window XP and now would like to install FreeBSD on the second drive (e.g., D drive). Which

Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-19 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 20/08/2005, at 11:34 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: You can keep a windows 2000 system secure without patching!: * Uninstall Outlook Express and IE ( http://www.litepc.com/ ), Install Firefox and Thunderbird. * Install Perl, Uninstall WSH. * Hardware (m0n0wall) and software (stealth mode, deny

Re: Counter-Strike, Wine and FreeBSD

2005-08-15 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 16/08/2005, at 5:00 AM, Andrew P. wrote: Hello! I'm sorry to bother you all guys, but this issue has really become a crusade for me :) I'm trying to play Counter-Strike 1.5 on FreeBSD - over network The easy part was to install wine, closed-source nvidia drivers, launch CS1.5 - and even

Re: Question

2005-08-15 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 15/08/2005, at 11:04 AM, jon freddy wrote: When I get my new computer and I am going to run FreeBSD, also, I want to still run the browser Firefox. But if you go to Firefox's website it also lists other OS, but not FreeBSD. But I see that a lot of my friends that run FreeBSD use firefox.

Re: fsck says UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

2005-08-11 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 66322510, Sounds like a HW issue to me. Anyway to confirm this? It is not a very old drive and the filesystem is still readable, I suppose it could have developed some bad sectors.. Is there a way to flag them as bad without formating

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

2005-08-11 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 12/08/2005, at 6:23 AM, Maude User wrote: Hello -- I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my laptop and now I want to install it onto a rackmount server (hardware specs below). I hate to ask a silly question but here goes: Do I need to get a USB CD-ROM drive (and keyboard and monitor)

fsck says UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

2005-08-10 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello everyone, After a server lost power unexpectedly (read: someone pulled the plug out), on reboot the automatic fsck failed with UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY as the message. Running fsck interactively doesn't seem to be able to fix it.. Every time in phase one it says: CANNOT