Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
at /etc/defaults/rc.conf for another example) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
[please fix your mail program so it doesn't mangle emails by wrapping lines] Danny wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:28 -0400, Bill Moran wrote Danny wrote: Greetings, So I have installed Postfix from the ports, read the pkg-message, read the changing the MTA in the handbook, and did a bit

Re: backing up cvs files

2004-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
permissions. So be sure that the anonymous user only has read access to the files in the repository (I could be wrong on this, I apologize if I lead you astray). -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Anyone else having trouble with Samsung 160G drives?

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
except where I need them to work (as an aside ... the client tried them in a Windows desktop machine and they worked fine there as well) Does anyone have any suggestions? Thoughts? Anything? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Anyone else having trouble with Samsung 160G drives?

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
Kent Stewart wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 10:23 am, Bill Moran wrote: This is the weirdest problem I'm seen in a while. Client bought a pair of 160G Samsung SP1604N ATA drives. I'm supposed to install them in an existing FreeBSD 4.9 system for additional storage space. As soon as the drives

Re: Anyone else having trouble with Samsung 160G drives?

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
Simon Barner wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Client bought a pair of 160G Samsung SP1604N ATA drives. I'm supposed to install them in an existing FreeBSD 4.9 system for additional storage space. [ drives don't work in various systems except for one ] I once had a similar problem with a 120 GB Maxtor

Re: Anyone else having trouble with Samsung 160G drives?

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 10, 2004, at 11:23 AM, Bill Moran wrote: This is the weirdest problem I'm seen in a while. Client bought a pair of 160G Samsung SP1604N ATA drives. I'm supposed to install them in an existing FreeBSD 4.9 system for additional storage space. As soon

Re: Show count of open files

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
related to files, including the max number of open files and the max number of open files per process. HTH. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: size of net.inet.tcp.sendspace and net.inet.tcp.recvspace

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
an eye on your memory usage to ensure you don't increase anything to where #1 starts to occur. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: need restore disc for Compaq Presario 2200

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
is not part of any of Compaq's products. However, I would recommend that you search Compaq's web site. The last time I did, I was able to find a section in the downloads area for requesting replacement CDs. Good Luck. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: mono

2004-05-07 Thread Bill Moran
enabled Then you can experiment with the crashes and help find the problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Can't build openoffice-1.1 from port

2004-05-07 Thread Bill Moran
*** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk14. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Can't build openoffice-1.1 from port

2004-05-07 Thread Bill Moran
Christian Hiris wrote: On Saturday 08 May 2004 00:24, Bill Moran wrote: Trying to install openoffice from ports tree cvsupped yesterday and failing. I don't want to install from a package, as I get an icky mess between gtk 1 (which the openoffice package wants) and gtk 2 (which the latest gnome

Re: installer

2004-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
: http://rtp1.slowblink.com/~libh/ It's been grinding along for quite some time now. Whether or not it ever gets completed is dependent on some folks jumping in and helping out. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL

Re: Help: /var: create/symlink failed, no inodes free

2004-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
how many inodes are available on your filesystems. Short-term, the solution is to delete some files off your /var partition. Long term, you may need to reformat /var with more inodes than the default, if this is a chronic problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Cron Setting up

2004-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
at the scripts in /etc/periodic/daily/ You can simply add your script to that directory, and periodic will execute it daily with all the others. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Using FreeBSD disconnected on a notebook

2004-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
at all. Only when it can find a master will it pull down replication of user information. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: arp issues...but WHY

2004-05-04 Thread Bill Moran
of traffic from arriving on the wrong ethernet card, thus evoking these messages. The reason you can turn them off in the kernel is that they're essentially harmless in this situation. If you know what you've done and you're comfortable with it, turn the errors off. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies

Re: arp issues...but WHY

2004-05-04 Thread Bill Moran
and it will act as a router for you. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: arp issues...but WHY

2004-05-04 Thread Bill Moran
J.D. Bronson wrote: At 09:49 AM 05/04/2004, Bill Moran wrote: Then how do I get data from one segment to the other w/o using a router and yet at the same time keeping 'arp' happy ? You don't. That's what a router does. If you want to move data between two different networks you either need

Re: Patching ports

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
to do make when done. You can also do make patch instead of make extract - this will do the extract step and also apply any patches provided by FreeBSD. It's a matter of whether you want to apply your patches before or after the FreeBSD patches. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http

Re: Source code of ln command

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
can download any version you want from cvs: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/ln/ -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: testing

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Printing to a Xerox Document Centre 332 (escape seq.)

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-intro-setup.html#PRINTING-TEXTFILTER You might also just install magicfilter or apsfilter. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: athlon-mp daily hang 5.2.1

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
weird problems. Undersized power supplies can cause similar problems. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: OpenOffice Install in FreeBSD

2004-05-19 Thread Bill Moran
the older dependent packages and getting them installed first. I should really do a make package on my setup and submit it to the OpenOffice.org folks ... -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

install questions (was Re: hello, urgent)

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
. A minumal is only a few hundred meg, but a more practical installation will probably require a few gig. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
describe generally result. Keep in mind that the user root has a user crontab that is different from the system crontab. If you're still fuzzy as to what went wrong, reading the man pages for crontab (in addition to my explanation) should help. good luck. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http

Re: Correct steps to recompile kernel

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
or not. Just a warning, if you _did_ update your source code, you need to remake world as well as the kernel or you'll have trouble. If you didn't update your source, the steps outlined above should cover everything. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Correct steps to recompile kernel

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
for not mentioning it on my first posting. NP. I just wanted to bring it up in case. It's a fairly common mistake to update ones sources, build a new kernel without rebuilding world, and then wonder where all the problems are coming from ;) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http

Re: Login question

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
the password for user. If you omit user, you'll change the root password. good luck. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: New work on installer? - Checked by AntiVir DEMO version -

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
some headway made on it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Login question

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
need to include your smb.conf file in order to get any decent help. Cheers Chris -Original Message- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 12:29 PM To: Christopher Svensrud Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Login question Christopher Svensrud wrote: I

Re: install questions (was Re: hello, urgent)

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
make things easier on you. Good Luck! --- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please read http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Praneeth Reddy wrote: i have only 1.38 mb floppy disks, so can i burn those 2 files into one cd and install it by cdrom. You have a few choices: 1) if you don't have a CD, you

Re: Is Freebsd graphical?

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
read through this chapter of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html and proceed with setting up XFree86. If you hit specific problems, don't hesitate to ask for help on this list again. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
carvin5string wrote: --- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've got a user's crontab created in the format of the system crontab. The system crontab has an extra field to designate the user under which the job should run. When this field is entered in a user's crontab, cron interprets

Re: Disabling atime updates...

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
it's hardly ever used) I think you've got a greenlight here. I've seen lots of people use noatime, and I've never heard of anyone having trouble. I'm sort of surprised that noatime isn't the default ... -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: relatively urgent question (about X)

2004-05-21 Thread Bill Moran
by deleting the .gnome (and other, similar directories) from my home directory. Note that this second one blows away all your Gnome settings. HTH -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: relatively urgent question (about X)

2004-05-21 Thread Bill Moran
Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:22:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Gary Kline wrote: For some months I've had increasing troubles with my 4.9/4.10 abruptly crashing. This morning I found my workhorse server, tao, down and hung up while trying to fsck /usr. I cleaned everything

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-22 Thread Bill Moran
made a few additions, and I think the handbook will explain this much better now. Sounds like a committer is going to get this into the tree within the next few days. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs%2F66963 -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-22 Thread Bill Moran
tried - /etc/crontab -u chip crontab (with and without the -e) and get permission denied, as root. I am running 5.1-Release, and a standard default install. Regards, Chip Bill Moran wrote: David Fleck wrote: If you already have a file written in the proper format, you can load it as your

Re: FreeBSD Installation error

2004-05-22 Thread Bill Moran
to remember a cheap CD-ROM plugged into the same chain as the HDD causing this. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: disk recovery

2004-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
critical stuff. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Excess Kernel Options

2004-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
that is that devices often have dependencies that aren't always obvious. (i.e., using a USB HDD requires SCSI support) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Mystery Ports

2004-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
because portmapper is running. See the docs on how to shut it down. Portmapper is often associated with NFS, but there are other programs that use it as well. Second, to find out what is opening a port, use sockstat -4. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
understand. Where is some nice documentation on this? man disklabel is pretty comprehensive. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Promise ATA100 controller and 160G disks

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
, or with 160G drives. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Promise ATA100 controller and 160G disks

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
Stijn Hoop wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:28:09AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: does anyone know if the Promise ATA100 controller PCI card supports 160 G disks on -STABLE? I'm not 100% sure that the Promise controller is the problem here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd

Re: tinydns +MX

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
it sends to where you'd expect. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: File encryption: bdes or gpg

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
time. Best wishes, Simon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Unable to post to lists

2004-05-27 Thread Bill Moran
/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD to Windows No Reboot

2004-05-27 Thread Bill Moran
version just today ... what kind of crazy nut is updating ports at 5:30 in the morning?) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: buildworld actually crashed

2004-05-28 Thread Bill Moran
information here to be sure, but it sure sounds like a hardware problem. You might do well to try memtest86 and cpuburn on that machine for a while, to see if you can track down a hardware problem. Monitor the temperature of the machine while doing so, could be that the cooling is inadequate. -- Bill Moran

Re: documentation on sysctl vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts?

2004-05-29 Thread Bill Moran
. vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts might do the trick, but so it seems to be poorly documented... Seems so. This might be a question better suited for hackers@ ... and then passed on to doc@ ... I believe there's an effort currently going on to document all sysctls ... -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http

Re: unable to install from floppies

2004-05-29 Thread Bill Moran
the IP address of the FTP server you want to use, and use that instead: bash-2.05b$ host ftp.freebsd.org ftp.freebsd.org has address 62.243.72.50 ftp.freebsd.org has address 204.152.184.73 -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: unable to install from floppies

2004-05-29 Thread Bill Moran
Message - From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SWIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 12:15 PM Subject: Re: unable to install from floppies SWIT wrote: Hello, I am tyring to install from the floppies. I get to the point were I choose the ftp server

Re: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-05-31 Thread Bill Moran
stack level, I don't think you can have FG more than one thread active at a time messing with the IP data structures. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-05-31 Thread Bill Moran
to 100Mbit swith? A gbit NIC isn't going to run at gbit speed on a 100mbit switch. I would look elsewhere than the NIC. Intel NICs are good units (in my experience, if someone knows of problems with them, please speak up) Read the polling man page and see if it will help you. -- Bill Moran Potential

Re: DNS usage question

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
of /service to comply with hier(7). Adjust the instructions accordingly. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
it's under. I'll ask _again_ ... is the machine's performance poor? Fact is, if you give it enough network traffic to shape, it's going to raise the CPU load, no matter what you do. I guess, if you absolutely want to come up with a reason to buy new hardware, this is as good a reason as any. -- Bill

Whatever happened to the sticky bit (for files)

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
understanding, and that complexity alone might prevent such a change. But I'm interested as to why it hasn't been done. I simply refuse to think that nobody else has thought of it. I just figure that there's a good reason somewhere why not to do it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http

Re: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
and the performance increases. If all that machine is doing is routing, you can configure it to be dedicated to routing. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Whatever happened to the sticky bit (for files)

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:04:36 -0400 Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 1, 2004, at 10:08 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, at one time turning on the sticky bit on a binary would tell the kernel not to swap out that program when it was running (or somtehing similar

Re:

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
and include your XFree config, as well as the log file mentioned above. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: kernel panic and postfix problems

2004-06-02 Thread Bill Moran
. This is _one_ of many anti-spam tricks. Consider setting up a greylist. I've had tremendious success lowering the amount of spam and viruses with a greylist on my mail sever. http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/ -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: port problem with asterisk

2004-06-02 Thread Bill Moran
. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:

2004-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
to my isp using the shell and never needing to use the x window http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pppapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL

Re: Re[2]: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
polling I don't see any changes.. Maybe bge NIC'a don't support pooling ? The man page for polling does not list the bge driver as supported, and the bge man page says nothing about polling that I can find. However, the fxp driver (for the Intel NIC) _does_ support polling. -- Bill Moran Potential

Re: Running FreeBSD/PostgreSQL on high-end dual Xeon box

2004-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
+softupdates (although it's just a _little_ slower). Now, I've never done plug tests on UFS, but I haven't heard of any UFS filesystems getting beyond the point that PostgreSQL couldn't recover the database. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Posts not appearing on mailing list.

2004-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: help me make a Mail Server choice

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
, and the greylister is the best I've used so far. It never has a false positive, rejects virus/spam before using up all the bandwidth to send it, uses almost no CPU and (in my experience) stops about 95% of the viruses and spams. http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/ -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies

Re: Freebsd Loading error

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html See section 2.2.7 on preparing the installation media. If you can tell us exactly what procedure you're trying to follow, and exactly how it is failing, I'm sure we can provide specific pointers. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http

Re: Freebsd Loading error

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
there on what needs reported. With what little information you've provided, I can only answer Either you're doing it wrong or your computer is broken. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: 5.2.1 SMP problems

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: security level and fsck

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
's background fsck? Is that set up so it's able to run after the securelevel has been raised? Background fsck seems to wait a minute or so for the machine to boot before it starts. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: more on fsck with securelevel

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
in the background, after booting, or in the foreground during the boot, forcing the boot process to wait on it (background_fsck=NO is basically the same behaviour as pre-5 systems) background_fsck_delay is pretty obvious. Hopefully, that will help you reach a config that works for you. -- Bill Moran Potential

Re: Recommended answering machine software?

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
going in to making asterisk work better on FreeBSD, so it's not going to be like this forever. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Recommended answering machine software?

2004-06-06 Thread Bill Moran
Jay Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 June 2004 10:02 pm, Bill Moran wrote: snip While it may be overkill, Asterisk is really the software you're looking for: http://www.asterisk.org  It'll do everything you need and more. Unfortunately, asterisk's ability to function

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
kindness. The fact that it also keeps out friendly people sometimes is something I don't like, but have to live with. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
is poorly set up and continue to push and they'll finally come around. Every time I've done this, it's been resolved eventually. Heck, you might even find that they'll be able to do it easily. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just make sure they are truly dynamic ips. Many people block ips identified as DSL connections. Those are not necessarily dynamic ip based. It's wonderful that most ISPs haven't figured

Re: [from newbies]: XP + FreeBSD

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
and have someone who has done it help you out. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
that said changes don't break more than they fix. On that count, I think FreeBSD is just as good, or better, than Windows or Mac. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Legal question regarding products built with FreeBSD

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
come back and tell the FreeBSD community about your success, so we can feel good about what we've done. :) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: free

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
/install.html Be sure you back up any important data before starting, _especially_ if you're unfamiliar with the process. If you hit specific questions or problems as you go, don't hesitate to ask the list again. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cvsup'ing overnight is routine and fine. The make build/install stuff seems a bit more delicate. I'm happy that I have figured out how to automate this, but not _whether_ I should do so

[OT] What's QED? (was Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades)

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
scenario: if you automate, it _will_ break horribly two days before some absolutely critical deadline. QED I must be out of touch with my jargon ... What's QED? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: free

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
important data before starting, _especially_ if you're unfamiliar with the process. If you hit specific questions or problems as you go, don't hesitate to ask the list again. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
;) But this is how things stand to the best of my knowledge. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 8, 2004, at 1:59 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Hopefully I'll get my flat screen back soon from repair. I guess those use less power, right? I remember having this conversation with someone not too long ago, and our consensus was that flat

Re: [Going further OT] Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
the duct built in (my brother's computer does). -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freebsd- Newby question

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
for beginners, and as you learn, it'll still have a lot to teach you. The online FreeBSD Handbook also has a chapter on basics: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics.html HTH -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: [still going ... OT] Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
(which is cooler) you can run slower fans (thus have a quieter system) and have the same quality of cooling. The flip side is that if you need _more_ cooling, you can keep the same speed fans, and by using cooler air you end up with better cooling overall. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http

Re: I must be doing something wrong!

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
. It also wouldn't be unusual if the breakage is already fixed and you just need to cvsup again. Good luck. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Net::LibIDN

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
this was the problem, but it's the most common reason I've seen for this kind of failure. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Apache-MySQL-PHP from ports

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
it, it will add the module to Apache -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backup question

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
/archive/backup-${DATE}.tbz /backup/source /dev/null 21 /usr/bin/find /backup/archive -mtime ${MAXAGE} -delete end simple backup shell script -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
quite right. The point at which performance starts to suck is 90% full. You won't have any _problems_, it's just that performance will degrade, according to the man page, up to 3x slower. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
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