Password file migration help

2008-01-30 Thread Sean Murphy
I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and would like to migrate users in the password file with UIDs 3000 through 5000 to a FreeBSD 6.3 system on a running on a separate box. Is there a way to export just those users? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

SATA DVD Drive Install Problem

2008-01-09 Thread Sean Murphy
Is anyone successful in installing FreeBSD from a SATA DVD Drive? I am having trouble as it boots from the CD of 6.3 RC2 but at the beginning of the install it fails. The CD I then tried in another computer and it installs fine. I was wondering if it was the SATA DVD drive or the

Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Sean Murphy
I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a larger ide disk drive, then pull the failing disk and replace it with the clone. What

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Sean Murphy
Noah wrote: Martin Hepworth wrote: what have you tried and what errors do you get? Martin thanks for responding. here are the errors I am receiving when I am attempting to update things. sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell-install(CPAN::Shell-r)'

Fibre Channel Card Detection

2007-10-03 Thread Sean Murphy
I have a Qlogic PCIe Fibre Channel card installed in my FreeBSD 6.2 Release server. I do not see it listed on boot up of the server. I have also run dmesg with no luck. How do I find out if it is detected and how would it be listed as. Thanks ___

Re: Best SCSI or SAS RAID for a NAS?

2007-09-10 Thread Sean Murphy
/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Its not just the controller you should be checking. The drives RPM speed, how many drives in the array, are you using RAID 0+1 or just RAID 5 for the array. Could you give more details on these issues? -- Sean Murphy Senior

syslog redundancy

2007-08-22 Thread Sean Murphy
Can syslogd provide failover redundancy to another box? Should I configure my devices to send to two different syslogd servers? (if the devices allow more then one syslogd box to log to. If not I would like to know if the first option is available.)

How do I make install clean a port in the background

2007-08-09 Thread Sean Murphy
How do I make install clean a port in the background? I used cd /usr/ports/www/apache22 make install clean it returns the pid but then compiles in the foreground What am I doing wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

IMAP Sent Folder and Address Book Question

2007-07-16 Thread Sean Murphy
Does the IMAP protocol support storing the sent folder from thunderbird and the local addressbook on the IMAP server? In case a computer fails? I want to use dovecot or UW-IMAP instead of POP to protect my users data and wanted a clearer idea of what would be kept/protected on the IMAP

Virtualization of FreeBSD

2007-06-06 Thread Sean Murphy
Is anyone running virtualization of FreeBSD servers on VMware or other virtualization software? What experiences have you had, good or bad? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Force Memory Dump

2007-06-04 Thread Sean Murphy
How do you force a memory dump from a specific PID? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Force Memory Dump

2007-06-04 Thread Sean Murphy
: In the last episode (Jun 04), Sean Murphy said: How do you force a memory dump from a specific PID? /usr/bin/gcore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Force Memory Dump

2007-06-04 Thread Sean Murphy
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Don't top-post, please. Sean Murphy [1][EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get this error when trying gcore what am I doing wrong? # gcore 581 gcore: /proc/581/file: No such file or directory # cd /proc # ls -la total 4 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512

Open Source Streaming Tools

2007-05-08 Thread Sean Murphy
Is there any open source software to create playlists, hinted movies, encoding, etc for use with Darwin Streaming Server running on FreeBSD. I have the Streaming Server working but would like the tools to be open source as well such as quicktime pro, broadcaster, qtss publisher. Thanks

3600 MCP Support

2007-04-25 Thread Sean Murphy
I was thinking about purchasing a Sun server that used the AMD CPU and the NVIDIA nForce Professional 3600 MCP. Is the 3600 Supported? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Does FreeBSD support the 3600 MCP Chipset?

2007-04-24 Thread Sean Murphy
Does FreeBSD support the 3600 MCP Chipset? I was thinking about purchasing a Sun server that used the AMD CPU and the NVIDIA nForce Professional 3600 MCP. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Best Open Source software to backup Cisco switches and routers

2007-04-18 Thread Sean Murphy
I am looking to automate the process of backing up my Cisco routers and switches config files and have come across RANCID. Is this what I should use on my FreeBSD server or is there something better? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-17 Thread Sean Murphy
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:51:19AM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: For probably the 2nd time in history for me, I am trying an FTP install. It's been a good while since I've done a FBSD install, and I assumed things had gotten more polished since 4.x.. I'm trying

mt command questions

2007-04-16 Thread Sean Murphy
I am learning about backing up to tape and have made quite a bit of progress with the mt command. I understand what the fsf option does. There are other options however and would like to understand them as well. I am looking at the man page and have tried googleing them with not a lot of

Shell PATH not being reread

2007-04-12 Thread Sean Murphy
I have just installed FreeBSD 6.2 Release. I su to root and run pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui It installed fine I edited the ports-supfile cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup vi ports-supfile but when I go to run cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile It tells me it cannot find the command I logout

Re: Shell PATH not being reread

2007-04-12 Thread Sean Murphy
sac wrote: As Kevin Kinsey pointed out, if your shell is csh, ksh, zsh or tcsh, all you have to do is run $ hash -r or $ rehash On 4/12/07, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.2 Release. I su to root and run pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui It installed fine

Motherboard Chipset Support List

2007-04-10 Thread Sean Murphy
I am having troubling installing FreeBSD 6.2 Release on and Intel DG965OT http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DG965OT/index.htm Which uses the Intel® G965 Chipset I have checked under the following link but it does not mention support for specific motherboards or chipsets. I realize

Re: var Filesystem Full Help

2007-04-04 Thread Sean Murphy
Derek Ragona wrote: I would reboot and run fsck in single user mode. The reboot will clear any old open files that may be causing the drive full problem. -Derek At 11:59 AM 4/3/2007, Sean Murphy wrote: Sean Murphy wrote: I am getting these errors on my var filesystem but df -h

var Filesystem Full Help

2007-04-03 Thread Sean Murphy
I am getting these errors on my var filesystem but df -h shows there is plenty of space available. I am running FreeBSD 5.4 muse2# df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a989M 56M854M 6%/ devfs1.0K1.0K 0B 100%

Re: var Filesystem Full Help

2007-04-03 Thread Sean Murphy
Sean Murphy wrote: I am getting these errors on my var filesystem but df -h shows there is plenty of space available. I am running FreeBSD 5.4 muse2# df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a989M 56M854M 6%/ devfs1.0K

isc dhcpd startup script error

2007-02-26 Thread Sean Murphy
FreeBSD 6.2 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.5 ISC DHCP server I installed from ports after cvsuping I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd start chown: not found /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd: WARNING: unable to change permissions of /var/db/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases however dhcpd

New Install FreeBSD 6.2 with latest patch level question

2007-02-12 Thread Sean Murphy
I am going to install FreeBSD 6.2 Release on a new box but I noticed it is now on patch 1. Is there a way to install FreeBSD 6.2 patch 1 on a new install without having to install 6.2 Release then updating the source and finally doing a build/make world after installing 6.2? Thanks

Re: New Install FreeBSD 6.2 with latest patch level question

2007-02-12 Thread Sean Murphy
Bill Moran wrote the following on 2/12/2007 9:37 AM: In response to Sean Murphy [1][EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am going to install FreeBSD 6.2 Release on a new box but I noticed it is now on patch 1. Is there a way to install FreeBSD 6.2 patch 1 on a new install without having to install 6.2

Special User Account Question

2007-02-06 Thread Sean Murphy
I would like to setup a FreeBSD user account that has specific rights to certain files. This special user should not be able to login or ssh in. Certain other user accounts must first login as them and then use su into the special account (to become that special user) thus gaining access to

disable cntl+alt+del function

2007-01-18 Thread Sean Murphy
cntl+alt+del at the console without being logged in reboots the server. The server runs through its shutdown procedure and reboots. How do I disable this function? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Soft Updates Help

2006-12-01 Thread Sean Murphy
I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. This will allow fsck to run in the background to restore the consistency of the file system which

Re: Soft Updates Help

2006-12-01 Thread Sean Murphy
Chuck Swiger wrote the following on 12/1/2006 4:25 PM: On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown

Network Monitoring Application Help, What do you use?

2006-11-14 Thread Sean Murphy
I was looking into a Network/Server monitoring application that would do the following Must have features email/page/sms if one of the rules fail has the ability to of course ping the device, ssh into or have someway of checking if a daemon is running. Optional but nice features reporting

Application to check FreeBSDs Logs Question

2006-10-27 Thread Sean Murphy
I find it very time consuming to check the many logs on my FreeBSD servers Is there a product that administrators use to quickly go through the logs of FreeBSD systems and organize the logs by category or severity and be alerted to a problem? ___

SUDO Help password change deligation question

2006-05-25 Thread Sean Murphy
I would like to not give root access but enable a user account (not in wheel) to change user passwords with passwd username command. I just would like to delegate the password changing ability to someone else but not give them super user privileges other then passwd. Would this be something

PAM and login.conf the login process

2006-05-15 Thread Sean Murphy
I am trying to understand how users login and what does the system do specifically with validating the passwords and change passwords. when I login at the console is the login/password information passed to PAM and does PAM check the login.conf for certain characteristics and then check the

How to require minium length passwords

2006-05-12 Thread Sean Murphy
I am trying to require users to put in 8 character passwords but as it stands it will take 1 just fine. I Tried messing with the login.conf file but it still looks like it accepts 1 character as an acceptable password. here is what i did. Also will this restrict other programs to the set

daemon to listen on localhost only?

2006-05-10 Thread Sean Murphy
Is there a way to tell a daemon to listen only to the localhost without using a firewall? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: daemon to listen on localhost only?

2006-05-10 Thread Sean Murphy
the ftp daemon that is started with inetd it is the ftp that comes with the freebsd system 5.4. Thanks Charles Swiger wrote: On May 10, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Is there a way to tell a daemon to listen only to the localhost without using a firewall? If the daemon has an option

Re: daemon to listen on localhost only?

2006-05-10 Thread Sean Murphy
the ftp daemon that is started with inetd it is the ftp that comes with the freebsd system 5.4. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

ftp server with no shell accounts

2006-05-10 Thread Sean Murphy
I tried the default ftp server with FreeBSD 5.4 and users with no shell accounts but it does not work. Does anyone know of a ftp server that users would still have home directories but no shell access /sbin/nologin and that could still upload files to there home directories. Thanks

bsnmpd help

2006-04-27 Thread Sean Murphy
I am running FreeBSD 5.4 and would like to monitor it using the included bsnmpd. However the handbook did not have any information about it, the man page was pretty lean and the list archive is very scarce on the topic. I checked the /etc/defaults/rc.conf and noticed there is not an

shadow.h compile question

2006-04-27 Thread Sean Murphy
I am trying to compile a plugin for squrrilmail it is the vacation plugin. when I run make it tells me the it cannot find shadow.h I did a find on the freebsd server which is 5.4 and did not find shadow or shadow.h what is shadow.h? can I get it from anywhere?

[Solved] Official Nvidia Drivers, Toshiba Laptop, GeForce 4 440 Cards: Always causes Freeze

2006-04-07 Thread Sean Murphy
I have finally come up with a way to use the official drivers from nvidia on Toshiba notebooks with a GeForce4 440 Go (and similar) video card. Normally, using either linux or freebsd and the drivers from nvidia (instead of the default nv driver) would result in a hard freeze as

Re: [Solved] Official Nvidia Drivers, Toshiba Laptop, GeForce 4 440 Cards: Always causes Freeze

2006-04-07 Thread Sean Murphy
Sorry for the formatting of my solution...a few things got mangled up. For easier reading, check out my post on freebsdforums.org. - Murph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: [Solved] Official Nvidia Drivers, Toshiba Laptop, GeForce 4 440 Cards: Always causes Freeze

2006-04-07 Thread Sean Murphy
On Apr 7, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Sorry for the formatting of my solution...a few things got mangled up. For easier reading, check out my post on freebsdforums.org. - Murph I'm having a conversation with myself here...three posts to get this right :) You can find the post

Sendmail Patch Question

2006-03-31 Thread Sean Murphy
do I download it ASCII or Binary? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail Patch Question

2006-03-31 Thread Sean Murphy
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-03-31 10:00, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do I download it ASCII or Binary? Patches are, in general, text-only files. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Sendmail Patch Question

2006-03-31 Thread Sean Murphy
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-03-31 10:23, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-03-31 10:00, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do I download it ASCII or Binary? Patches are, in general, text-only files. Ok I installed the patch and did the make

NIC and Jumbo Frames

2006-03-13 Thread Sean Murphy
How do I set Jumbo Frames on a Gigabit NIC in FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NIC and Jumbo Frames

2006-03-13 Thread Sean Murphy
Charles Swiger wrote: On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: How do I set Jumbo Frames on a Gigabit NIC in FreeBSD? ifconfig _device_ mtu 8192 ...where you would use em0, bge0, or whatever the actual interface device is. See the manpages for the various devices, for example man

sshd max users

2006-02-21 Thread Sean Murphy
It seems I cannot connect to my server through sshd when there are 10 processes running of sshd. My ssh client immediately terminates. If I kill one of the ssh processes I am able to login through ssh. Is there a max user setting? Thanks ___

Questions about FreeBSD arp table

2006-02-14 Thread Sean Murphy
I have a few questions with arp on FreeBSD Does the FreeBSD maintain its arp information in a File? Does rebooting FreeBSD clear the arp table? am I correct with arp -d * should clear all arp information? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Need help User Statistics with Finger

2006-02-07 Thread Sean Murphy
I need to gather mail statistics what users are checking there mail. I know finger shows the Mail Last Read but where does finger get that information from? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

pkg_add down!

2006-01-31 Thread Sean Murphy
i have set my PACKAGESITE to ftp3 and ftp10 and then monitored the throughput with my packetshaper and it looks as though there is a problem. I use pkg_add -r perl and pkg_add -r nessus-plugins noth of them going to different ftp servers one on 3 and the other on 10 however checking the ftp

No Shell User

2006-01-31 Thread Sean Murphy
I need to create a user with no login or home directory abilities. It just needs to own a few directories and files and be able to run a daemon. would I use pw or adduser and what would be the options for that command? Thanks ___

Re: pkg_add down!

2006-01-31 Thread Sean Murphy
Thanks for your replies I found out that dedicating traffic to ftp protocol did not help at all (we are very tight on bandwidth) once I dedicated 300Kbps to the server on all protocols It downloaded perl and nessus-plugins immediately with no change on the FreeBSD server. (does this mean that

pkg_add Broken Pipe

2006-01-30 Thread Sean Murphy
pkg_add -r nessus Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/Latest/nessus.tbz... Done. Broken pipe what does this mean? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Random password generation

2005-12-16 Thread Sean Murphy
When creating user accounts with adduser you can have the system generate a random password. Can you use a tool included in FreeBSD to change specific existing users passwords with a random one such as the one in adduser? it would also be usefull to do this from a input file to do multiple

File Integrity Checker Do You?

2005-12-15 Thread Sean Murphy
Do you think products such as tripwire, YAFIC, and other file checkers are necessary? Especially since you must check the reports daily and update the database. They do put a high load on my systems when they run. How many SysAdmins use products such as these?

Am I Right about Stable VS Point

2005-11-30 Thread Sean Murphy
I have read the FreeBSD Handbook Chapter 20 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html I understand what FreeBSD-Current is. FreeBSD-Stable is a little fogy for me. Here is what I found and I think. quote FreeBSD-STABLE is our development

Off-Topic: Vendor Control Software for computer labs

2005-11-23 Thread Sean Murphy
I need help with finding a software to do this Going into your local computer lab paying the clerk for an hour of computer time he accepts your money, types in some information in his computer, and tells you what computer station to sit at. The computer works for that hour, gives you a

File Server Which would you choose?

2005-11-18 Thread Sean Murphy
I want to set up a FreeBSD file server and want to choose the appropriate method. The filesytems must be mounted on the client, always available, and transparent to the user. NFS for *nix to *nix only NIS for better management of NFS Can OSX mount and respond to NFS/NIS? What other OSs can

File Server Questions

2005-11-16 Thread Sean Murphy
other OSs can use this? === Any thing for connecting to a Novell Server? NDS and Bindrey IPXSPX and TCP/IP === Am I missing any? -- Sean Murphy Senior Network Technician California Institute of the Arts 661-253-7732 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

debug.log questions

2005-11-07 Thread Sean Murphy
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 with sendmail that was included with FreeBSD. There is a debug.log that I have questions about. Is the debug.log just for mail troubleshooting? Can I turn it off or reduce the amount of logging? in /var/log/debug.log i see the following Nov 7 15:00:12 muse2

Re: debug.log questions

2005-11-07 Thread Sean Murphy
Charles Swiger wrote: On Nov 7, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 with sendmail that was included with FreeBSD. There is a debug.log that I have questions about. Is the debug.log just for mail troubleshooting? Can I turn it off or reduce the amount of logging

Login Max Chr?

2005-10-31 Thread Sean Murphy
I am running FreeBSD 5.4 Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more characters? The reason is I would like to do first initial last name for the login. However some last names are longer than eight characters. It would also work well for email addresses on the

Re: Login Max Chr?

2005-10-31 Thread Sean Murphy
Andrew P. wrote: On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more characters? The reason is I would like to do first initial last name for the login. However some last names are longer than eight

Re: Imap-uw and openssl certificate

2005-10-20 Thread Sean Murphy
the following line imaps stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/imapd imapd *note it cannot be imap it must be imaps go to uw source directory cd imapd-2004d make bsf cp imapd/imapd /usr/local/libexec/imapd hope this helps -- Sean Murphy Senior Network Technician California Institute

SoundBlaster Audigy Question

2005-10-06 Thread Sean Murphy
I have an onboard soundcard for my FreeBSD box and I was thinking of getting the new Audigy card. Does the FreeBSD drivers for the Audigy take advantage of surround sound, EAX, digital connections, or number of channels? Or does the soundcard operate at a more basic level ie. stereo sound no

5.4 SSH Timeout help

2005-09-12 Thread Sean Murphy
I am using FreeBSD 5.4 I SSH into the server with no problem and I'm able to do work however when I walk away from my desk SSH closes the session. It seems the timeout is 5 or 10 min how can I change this setting for all of our users? Thanks, Sean

Re: 5.4 SSH Timeout help

2005-09-12 Thread Sean Murphy
Will Maier wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:24:19AM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: I SSH into the server with no problem and I'm able to do work however when I walk away from my desk SSH closes the session. It seems the timeout is 5 or 10 min how can I change this setting for all of our users

Pine alternative?

2005-08-25 Thread Sean Murphy
We have been using pine for years on our Sun Solaris box. We are in the process of moving to FreeBSD. I installed Pine from an updated ports collection and received a message about pine not being very secure. Is anyone using an alternative to pine that can also read pine's folders and

Re: two dc cards on 5.4

2005-08-10 Thread Sean Murphy
*note* this is one line replace with an ip that works for your network ifconfig_dc1=inet x.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex -- Sean Murphy Senior Network Technician California Institute of the Arts 661-253-7732 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: two dc cards on 5.4

2005-08-10 Thread Sean Murphy
/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] try this in your rc.conf ifconfig_dc0=DHCP ifconfig_dc0=100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex ifconfig_dc1=DHCP ifconfig_dc1=100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex -- Sean Murphy Senior Network Technician California Institute

Re: two dc cards on 5.4

2005-08-10 Thread Sean Murphy
Sean Murphy wrote: dave wrote: Hi, Thanks for your reply. I'll give that a shot. My problem is the dc0 card gets it's ip via dhcp, can i still use media and mediaopt with dhcp? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Backup Products

2005-08-08 Thread Sean Murphy
to control 2 tape librarys on the same scsi chain, with each tape having a bar code, and be able to backup and restore the systems above. -- Sean Murphy Senior Network Technician California Institute of the Arts 661-253-7732 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

Rouge Wireless Client

2005-07-20 Thread Sean Murphy
We have an authorized access point that a rouge apple computer is connecting to. We have its ip and mac of the apple unit however this just tells me what access point it is connected to. Is there a tool to find its location by signal strength. Netstumbler does not currently do this it finds

Memory Problem? LEAK?

2005-07-13 Thread Sean Murphy
FreeBSD 5.4 Release Kernel is generic with SMP and Quotas I was monitoring the system while running make and i noticed that the Free Memory would slowly tick down while make is running I figured that was normal. However when it was finished it did not return the Memory to Free Status. It

Spam Assassin Reject

2005-07-12 Thread Sean Murphy
I've installed Spam Assassin and MIMEDefang with Sendmail however I would like Spam Assassin to tell sendmail to Reject Spam on the connection. Instead of accepting the spam and marking it so users then can filter on the spam tag. Can Anyone share there code in the MIMEDefang Filter to do

Help passwd file convert

2005-07-05 Thread Sean Murphy
I am going to move over from Solaris 8 to FreeBSD 5.4 but would like to keep uid, usernames, and passwords from the Solaris 8 box intact when I move them to the FreeBSD box. Is it just as simple as a copy and paste for the passwd file? Is there any commands I have to run after the copy and

Re: web mail interface program.

2005-06-28 Thread Sean Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gary, I´m using Openwebmail (www.openwebmail.org or ports/mail/openwebmail) for more then 2 years to serve +5000 users with no worry. It runs in perl, suport POP3 (local/remote), includes calendar, webdisk, ssh term, etc. everything configured at

Questions about packages and ports

2005-06-27 Thread Sean Murphy
I like to use the pkg_add -r feature of FreeBSD, however I have run into a problem where the ports have a more current version of the app then the package of the same app. It seems the ports collection is updated more then the package collection is this true? Is the maintainer of a package and a

Goals for 6

2005-06-22 Thread Sean Murphy
Where can I find the design goals for FreeBSD 6 and Current? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Goals for 6

2005-06-22 Thread Sean Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Sean. Try to read this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT Where can I find the design goals for FreeBSD 6 and Current? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

apsfilter problems

2005-06-21 Thread Sean Murphy
I have my printer printing postscript (it is a jetdirect with postscript) and text files; however I was trying to print jpeg and png files from the command line which came out as garbage. It was suggested that I use apsfilter which I then installed as a package. I ran the setup and it modified

JetDirect Printing Graphics

2005-06-14 Thread Sean Murphy
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0 I have a HP LaserJet 4000N postscript printer with JetDirect. I am able to print a text file from the command line lpr test cat test this is a test this prints perfectly the problem is when I try to print a graphics file I get garbage and lots of it. lpr sm_logo.png I

Web Based passwd

2005-06-09 Thread Sean Murphy
I am looking for a web based utility that would allow users to change there passwd. I have tried to compile changepassword 0.9 but I encountered errors. Anyone have a good one, it just needs to be web based. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Help ispell compile problems

2005-06-08 Thread Sean Murphy
Can someone please help i am using FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Jun 8 12:08:30 PDT 2005 I have copied the local.h.bsd to local.h I have tried using the generic I have tried using both in both of the previous files #undef USG #define USG but i think the problem is in defhash.h alum# make all

RE: Setting up ntpd on FreeBSD (5.4)

2005-05-12 Thread Sean Murphy
Ensure you due ntpdate before you run ntpd. This can be done just once from the command line and ntpd cannot be running. ntpdate ntp2.sf-bay.org then add the following to /etc/rc.conf ntpd_enable=YES ntpd_flags=-c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid between the lines is a example of ntp.conf in

Help understanding load averages

2005-04-27 Thread Sean Murphy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am running FreeBSD 4.11 it is a PIII 800 My system is running MRTG and SNMP for monotoring network switches. The system is very sluggish and sometimes not responsive. MRTG has had problems with writing the new logs. I am having trouble understanding

Re: NLB Network Load Balance

2005-03-21 Thread Sean Murphy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean Murphy wrote: | I have dual NICs (Intel 1000/MT) in my FreeBSD 5.3 Server. I would like | to use both NICs to send and receive traffic for NLB. Each currently | has a different IP can some one point me in the right direction so that | they can

NLB Network Load Balance

2005-03-18 Thread Sean Murphy
- -- Sean Murphy Network Technician California Institute of the Arts [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCO1GCU1XvdHZC/KcRAvpFAJ9MjT+Ak3nffLaaY4AfqgvVHZtR1ACfTD/w sU3Sry8H1/BsdQj1NFNu43A= =oYTP -END PGP SIGNATURE

email and messanging

2005-02-03 Thread Sean Murphy
Is there a project that anyone is using that has the features of groupwise, openexchange or exchange? Features such as calender/todo list that other users can add to another users, public folders, etc... thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: email and messanging

2005-02-03 Thread Sean Murphy
Aaron Sloan wrote: Sean Murphy wrote: Is there a project that anyone is using that has the features of groupwise, openexchange or exchange? Features such as calender/todo list that other users can add to another users, public folders, etc... thanks

Kernel Question

2005-01-31 Thread Sean Murphy
The FreeBSD kernel is monolithic correct? Does it support or does it use kernel loadable modules and if so why? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

NTP Output question

2005-01-27 Thread Sean Murphy
in my output from ntpdc -s i get the following $ ntpdc -s remote local st poll reach delay offsetdisp === *x.x.x.x 10.0.0.15 2 64 377 0.00018 0.029325 0.00363 .x.x.x.x 10.0.0.5 2 64 377

kern secure level help

2005-01-27 Thread Sean Murphy
I have read different views about implementing a secure level on FreeBSD on the web one said to implement it and gave certain things that it does at the different levels -1, 0, 1, 2 one said that it would break certain applications as the need to write to some /dev areas one even said it is a

Re: NTP Output question

2005-01-27 Thread Sean Murphy
Whats does falseticker mean? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Username and password limits

2005-01-24 Thread Sean Murphy
We would like to use first initial last name for usernames on FreeBSD. I am use to Solaris which is normally eight and if you have a long password on Solaris it doesn't care what you type after 6 characters. By default what is the max username and password limit in characters?

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