Suggestions for replacements for vanilla ftpd?

2004-06-17 Thread Andy Holyer
before I start writing my own? Thanks in advance for any advice. --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB 08451 260895 x 241 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Sendmail for Large Sites

2004-06-22 Thread Andy Holyer
ic. 3) Sendmail's configuration file is written in an obscure style which has sent many brave souls to their deaths (recent versions are improved, but still AFAIK far from crystal clear. Postfix's configuration files are huge, but you colud at least read them out loud and they'

m0n0BSD: IPSec configuration

2004-06-28 Thread Andy Holyer
interfaces, and on m0n0BSD I'm limited to the tools which were installed at burn time. m0n0wall provides IPSec, so this must be a routine operation. I just need to work out exactly what incantation I need to use. Thanks in advance for any advice. --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgeho

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-07 Thread Andy Holyer
n the midwest. The only way I survived was that they did it on September 10th 2001, so the client had other things to think about soon after --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB 08451 260895

Re: LRZSZ

2004-07-12 Thread Andy Holyer
), rebuilt the kernel and the problem went away. I wonder if something similar is happening to you? --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB 08451 260895 x 241 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://

ifconfig seg faulting?

2005-02-17 Thread Andy Holyer
I just had a scamper to recover a FreeBSD 5.2 server (Dell Poweredge rack mount server, 1 GB RAM twin Gig Ethernet). The only bit that's not right now is that every time we run ifconfig, it has a segmentation fault and dumps core. Example: > ifconfig -a em0: flags=8802 mtu 1500 options=

I've broken /boot/device.hints

2004-04-06 Thread Andy Holyer
opy of the root partition on /dev/ac1s1a but I can't seem to boot from there. This box is very unhappy with ACPI. If I boot from floppies the emergency shell doesn't seem to include a copy of mount, so I can't rectify the fault. Is there an easy survival route? Thanks in advance

Is it worth using both gigabit ether ports?

2004-04-21 Thread Andy Holyer
ce by doing this? Do I have to do anything clever with DNS or the router (a Cisco 3660) to get requests evenly distributed, or can I rely on sharing outgoing traffic? Thanks in advance for any advice. --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brigh

Mirroring Mysql databases - and secure tunneling, while I'm at it.

2004-05-12 Thread Andy Holyer
mplemented on FreeBSD? Do i have to use IPSec? Thanks for any leads. --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB 08451 260895 x 241 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Problems configuring Postfix/Cyrus/MySQL

2004-05-14 Thread Andy Holyer
p and pop3 daemons to go (that is, I can telnet to their port and get a sensible prompt, however if I do cyradm --user cyrus localhost imap I get no response at all - the command just hangs. Any advice gratefully received. I have installed postfix and cyrus in the past, but that was last centur

Apache returning multiple (Identical) pages?

2004-05-14 Thread Andy Holyer
s the page correctly, as far as I can tell. Once, only. Has anyone seen anything like this before? --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB 08451 260895 x 241 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Apache returning multiple (Identical) pages?

2004-05-14 Thread Andy Holyer
On 14 May 2004, at 15:20, Peter Risdon wrote: Andy Holyer wrote: This is a weird one. I'm setting up a PHP page on the web server (Apache2, FreeBSD 5.2). When I fetch from a browser, the server delivers index.php over and over again, as fast as it can as far as I can tell. However

Odd one: my root account disappears into hyperspace.

2004-05-26 Thread Andy Holyer
tty" This doesn't happen when I log in as another user and try it. I've tried comparing the contents of our two home directories, and there appears no difference. Anyone seen this before? --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton B

Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Andy Holyer
I realized that I don't know how long a box would stay up in the maximum. So, come on, this should be fun, what's the biggest uptime you've ever had for a BSD box? --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough P

Advice: "The Right" authentication method

2004-09-23 Thread Andy Holyer
thing possible, I've got years of experience in perl scripting, but at the moment I wandering around in a twisty litte maze of standards, all different. Clue, please? Thanks in advance for any advice. --- Andy Holyer, Systems Administrator Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Mar

Fatal Trap 12 while booting up?

2004-10-15 Thread Andy Holyer
k every 10.000 msec Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode And then tries to reboot. Over and over again. I seem to recall there was a known fix for this behaviour... Thanks in advance for any advice. --- Andy Holyer, Systems Administrator Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brig

Funny one: "install" dumps core?

2004-09-30 Thread Andy Holyer
;ps" core dumping, but "install"? That's practically a shell script! Has anyone seen this before? Any idea what the solution is? --- Andy Holyer, Systems Administrator Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB 08451 260895 x 241 ___

Re: Funny one: "install" dumps core?

2004-10-01 Thread Andy Holyer
ll with no arguments... On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:03:04 +0100, Andy Holyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've managed to get the source and kernel out of sync (I blame a confusion between "make world" and "make buildworld"). Now in trying to install a port, I get "Segment