Re: IMAP server and client recommendations?

2004-04-23 Thread Chris Shenton
Clarence Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could download Eudora for Windows and import the outlook email into Eudora. It stores the email in mbox format. I don't know if their mbox format is fully unix standard, but they are the same people that maintain the qpopper pop3 daemon, so they

Re: Documentation for LDAP Mail Server

2004-06-02 Thread Chris Shenton
David Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to setup a mail server on my FreeBSD box that runs Postfix and Cyrus that authenticates through OpenLDAP and have encryption (ssl?). Also, I'd like everything to be database backed... DB3 or DB4? I can't seem to find anything on the internet that

Re: mini itx

2004-07-02 Thread Chris Shenton
arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: im collecting some bits to start a mini itx project http://www.mini-itx.com/projects.asp i have the need for a small silent pc has anyone used these boards with bds? I'm using an EPIA 6000 as a workstation in the kitchen. I boot FreeBSD-5.2 diskless so it's

How to read CF card via USB with umass on 4.7-STABLE?

2003-09-12 Thread Chris Shenton
I have an old digital camera which has a 64MB CF card in it. A friend loaned me a USB card reader to extract the images. I don't seem to be able to mount it on FreeBSD-4.7-STABLE per the umass man page. After plugging in the card and USB reader, dmesg shows: umass0: PQI Travel Flash, rev

Re: How to read CF card via USB with umass on 4.7-STABLE?

2003-09-14 Thread Chris Shenton
Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A photo disk is most likely not ufs - it's msdosfs. msdosfs is not is normaly not used on the whole device (exeptions are floppies), so you want using the correct slice. E.g. mount -t msdos /dev/da1s1 /mnt Yeah, I tried msdos as well (man page is wrong

Re: IDE RAID controllers

2003-10-02 Thread Chris Shenton
Irvine Short [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They recommend the LSI MegaRAID i4 - see http://www.lsilogic.com/products/stor_prod/raid/i4.html I got a DELL 600SC server a while back, not expensive, came with a DELL CERC-branded MegaRAID i4: 4 IDE drives on the single PCI controller card. I've been

Re: Problems installing to AMI MegaRAID array

2004-04-02 Thread Chris Shenton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It has a 'RPX' module installed which enables RAID on my 8 4.3GB SCSI drives, apparently via an AMI MegaRAID controller. I've been able to get into the MegaRAID bios setup and configure an initialize a RAID volume, but FBSD can't find it. I've installed FBSD on

SORBS lists mx2.freebsd.org as open relay

2004-04-08 Thread Chris Shenton
I was adding RBL blacklisting to my qmail setup, with rblsmtpd using some blacklists which a couple folks on inet-access suggested. I noticed it logging connections from mx2.freebsd.org as being in SORBS: rblsmtpd: 216.136.204.119 pid 45632: 451 Open Relay See:

Re: new search tool for FreeBSD community

2003-07-28 Thread Chris Shenton
Vlad Shabanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rambler (www.rambler.ru) developed new search tool working with FreeBSD project mail archives. You can try it at http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ Index contains messages from all mail archives including cvs commits, bug reports, etc. We plan to

Re: Fw: PERC 4/DI Raid SCSI Controler

2003-07-29 Thread Chris Shenton
ipack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I bought a Dell PowerEdge 2600 with PERC 4/Di Raid SCSI Controler and I would like to use FreeBSD on this server, so I would like to know when it will be possible to have Dell PERC 4/Di drivers, I got a cheapie Dell 600sc server with a CERC 4-channel *IDE* RAID

PC-style Console rendering with remote Xterm or rxvt? MEGAMGR

2003-08-04 Thread Chris Shenton
One of the four WD1200JB disks on my Dell CERC ATA RAID controller died and I'm trying to get at the controller remotely. Previously, I used: http://people.freebsd.org/~emoore/MegaRAID_SCSI/UserInterfaceGUI/MegaMGR.tgz which replicates the BIOS-level text interface to the controller:

Re: Two DNS servers with one IP address

2003-06-17 Thread Chris Shenton
JacobRhoden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:52 am, Alfonso Romero wrote: Is it possible to have two DNS servers with only one public IP address? I have a FreeBSD gateway connected to the Internet with a DSL modem, using natd to connect the other PCs on my LAN, and was

Re: Two DNS servers with one IP address

2003-06-17 Thread Chris Shenton
Alfonso Romero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I wondered if it could be possible to have a primary and a secondary nameserver with only one public IP address, sort of like virtual domains on apache... Well, a nameserver can answer queries for many different zones, like for queries about

How to get FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE?

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Shenton
I've been asked to install a specific version of RealServer on FreeBSD, and this version requires FreeBSD-3.0. I usually pull down the floppies and then install from the net. I can't find floppies for anything older then 4.7. I expect I can use modern install floppies and use the options to

Re: How to get FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE?

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Shenton
Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why not simply use the compat3x libraries on 4.8-RELEASE? Bingo, just stumbled across that with a friend's suggestion. So far, RealServer8 seems to be working. Need to do a few streaming tests befor I declare victory. Excellent. Thanks.

Re: radius server

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Shenton
adrian kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all Does freebsd provide radius server? If yes, how can we get this running? any documents also There are a number to choose from in the Ports collection: /usr/ports/net: wildcard *radius* drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 May 19 02:15

Re: How to get FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE?

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Shenton
Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is out there. Look at http://www.freebsdmirrors.org to find just about any release you want. (Most mirrors don't carry the older releases, but some do.) Heh, I looked at ftp1-9.freebsd.org in the US and ftp.internat.freebsd.org in South Africa

PhotoCD: ata/acd mount issue, data overrun with lockup

2002-07-25 Thread Chris Shenton
A friend gave me a CD burned by a film processing lab and I had problems mounting or dd'ing it off: thanatos# mount /dev/acd0a /cdrom mount: /dev/acd0a on /cdrom: incorrect super block thanatos# mount_msdos /dev/acd0a /cdrom mount_msdos: /dev/acd0a: Invalid argument

amr AMI MegaRAID IDE card: spare drive as slave?

2002-12-06 Thread Chris Shenton
I have an AMI MegaRAID sold by Dell as a CERC ATA100; it has 4 discreet channels of IDE and can do RAID 0, 1, 5, or 10. I've been running it as RAID 1 for a couple months no problem, with a pair of WD1200JB 120G disks and a pair of 20G disks -- two logical partitions. The man page only talks

Re: A few 5.0-Release questions...

2003-03-05 Thread Chris Shenton
John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Dell PowerEdge] What model? There are quite a few PowerEdges out It's a 600SC - P4 1.8 - Perc3/SC FWIW, I had absolutely no trouble booting and installing 5.0-R on my 600SC, with the DELL-supplied CERC RAID

Boot/install/config util like Solaris Jumpstart?

2003-03-11 Thread Chris Shenton
We're planning on deploying a handful of commodity boxes to act as a loose mail cluster hidden behind a pair of load balancers. They'll have almost identical SW installs: APOP, SMTP, IMAP, LDAP. Naturally they'll have per-box differences, like their ethernet address, perhaps some box-unique

Re: maybe slightly OT - web content management kits

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Shenton
Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to find a good website management system. Content management. I'm running Apache 2.0 with (among others) mod_perl2, (perl 5.8.6) and Jakarta Tomcat 5.0. http://www.opensourcecms.com/ I'm probably going to try a few out, since there's only

Re: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Shenton
Tim Aslat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try one of the multitude of rsync based scripts, you can even get some very good incremental backups happening, I have been thinking about this for my own use. One problem with basic rsync is that if (say) I trash a critical file and don't notice it for a

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-17 Thread Chris Shenton
robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have a look at qmail, It is very scalable and well supported with various sites and mailing lists. Iv'e been using it for well over a year now. Most important thing, IMHO, is uptime. If you use the Maildir mailbox format you can put it on a solid NFS server

Re: 6.0 Migration Guide?

2006-01-29 Thread Chris Shenton
Rowdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have a pointer to a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE Migration Guide? Try /usr/src/UPDATING, search for To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable or higher to 6.x-stable (near the end of the file). I *just* went through this on two 5-STABLE systems, worked like a

Build on one CPU, run on different ones? (AMD, VIA, Intel)

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Shenton
I've got a variety of boxes around the house which all share /usr/local and /usr/X11 binaries, libraries and such. These boxes are of different vintages ranging from an ancient P60 to a new Pentium D, but also an older AMD K6 cpu and a VIA EPIA. My main NFS server is a 4-year old Intel and isn't

Re: SUNRays

2003-12-08 Thread Chris Shenton
Andrew Boothman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They are *really* thin clients that really only consist of a monitor, mouse and keyboard and rely on their host server for everything else. That's not an architecture that you're going to get FreeBSD to run under I wouldn't think. I'm quite happily

Re: VPN questions

2004-10-27 Thread Chris Shenton
Aaron P. Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggest looking at openvpn, it is a ssl based vpn that is fairly easy to set up. I might shy away from freeswan as it is for the most part out of development, only one more rollup and that's it. Any suggestions for something compatible with

Card for Xorg dual-head Xinerama? (Matrox G450 problems)

2005-06-13 Thread Chris Shenton
I'm running FreeBSD-5.4 from cvsup and having some Xorg problems with Xinerama on my Matrox G450 dual-head card. While Xinerama works fine for local X11 apps, an app started on a remote machine displaying back to my box fills the fvwm frame with nothing -- except whatever bitmap was already

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-09 Thread Chris Shenton
cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using EPIA 5000 mini-ATX boards with 512 MB RAM, diskless booting from an NFS server. They load X.org and everything else on demand. Compared to local HDDs, there's a small performance hit when loading programs [and those boards are not the fastest,

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-09 Thread Chris Shenton
Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the EPIA's look nice but cost too much. For comparable performance you can retrofit an old netier XL2000 on ebay with a laptop hard drive. They are small, fanless and come with an AMD 400-450 Mhz proc. They usually go for about 10$ on ebay. You need

Re: Web mail for phones

2006-08-14 Thread Chris Shenton
Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've searched the web a lot, but could not find anything about this; maybe I can't figure the proper terms to search for. I was poking around for this recently and noticed that OpenWebmail includes a style (stylesheet?) which they say is designed

Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?

2007-02-01 Thread Chris Shenton
I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or that there's a bunch of stuff in it. She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that interfaces to computers with a USB cable and she needs to get files

Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?

2007-02-01 Thread Chris Shenton
I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or that there's a bunch of stuff in it. She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that interfaces to computers with a USB cable and she needs to get files

Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Shenton
When you try to open a Thunar window to look at some directory, does it work? It did for me on one box, once, but since thing the window comes up with a gray pane and two white panels then hangs, with top saying it's in state kserel. I haven't been able to resolve this on the ports or thunar

Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Shenton
Chess Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's just that nothing automounts like it's supposed to, and that includes both USB sticks and CDs. Should I post this in freebsd-ports as well? I don't want to double-post if the port maintainers also monitor this list as well. I may post in the

Boot hangs at /bin/sh?, can't see USB keyboard

2006-07-12 Thread Chris Shenton
I have a borked entry in my /etc/fstab: the box can't find /dev/da4s1 or something at boot. So it hangs at boot asking me if I want to use /bin/sh in single user mode. But when I bang on the USB keyboard, FreeBSD doesn't hear the keys. I recall that previous boot menus offered a boot with USB

Re: Boot hangs at /bin/sh?, can't see USB keyboard

2006-07-13 Thread Chris Shenton
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On some Dells, there is a BIOS option to boot with USB legacy support (or some similar wording) or without USB support at all. Having the correct setting is pivotal to getting the USB keyboard to work. The correct setting varies from model to model.

Re: Subversion web development question.

2006-07-28 Thread Chris Shenton
I'd definitely go with SVN for a code repo. I use a couple different SVN servers on various teams I work with at my clients. I also set one up for myself for code I'm working without other coders, mainly so I could get at it from home, on the road, or some client's site; a laptop or two, a