PF binat rule issue - feature or bug?

2009-12-04 Thread Greg Barniskis
Using 7.2-RELEASE-p4 i386 with GENERIC kernel, I've found (the hard way) that if I have a pf.conf rule like nat on $ext_if proto { tcp udp icmp } from $my_subnet \ to any -> some.public.ip.num then pfctl will perform the expected expansion of the listed protocols into three separate NAT rule

Re: ports security branch

2005-12-19 Thread Greg Barniskis
d. Intricacies and suffering? Sometimes yes, but not that frequently, and it's worth it. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Inconsistencies in df

2005-12-22 Thread Greg Barniskis
.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html I haven't done the math against your example, but I'd wager it adds up correctly if you revise your assumptions accordingly. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange N

Re: Inconsistencies in df

2005-12-22 Thread Greg Barniskis
Greg Barniskis wrote: Tim Lastine wrote: Hi, We are wondering why df gives such peculiar outputs on large disk drives? If I'm not mistaken, it's because "Available" is a relative term. Some space is reserved by the OS for itself. See part 9.25 of http:/

Re: 6.0-REL && isos of distfiles

2005-12-29 Thread Greg Barniskis
compilation, and just batch it to do that fetching overnight or something. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: NATD Internal Network problems

2005-12-29 Thread Greg Barniskis
server have to take the reverse of that path. Yuck. Use split DNS so that that "www.example.com" appears to external clients as being your external NAT server address, and appears to inside clients as the web server's real inside address. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Syste

Re: NATD Internal Network problems

2005-12-29 Thread Greg Barniskis
son this doesn't work is that as a best practice, it shouldn't. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 6.0-REL && isos of distfiles

2005-12-30 Thread Greg Barniskis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Thursday, December 29, 2005 a las 11:13:50AM -0600, Greg Barniskis escribió: ... My point was that I don't have a fast Internet link at home to fetch all the (new) sources for the distfiles and I was looking for distfiles on CD which match exactl

Re: Recursive FTP upload tool?

2005-12-30 Thread Greg Barniskis
task. Have you seen this article on automating command line ftp? http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/BSDHacks_chap1/index1.html It recommends ncftp client, but I don't know if it does what you want or not. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library Sy

Re: 6.0-REL && isos of distfiles

2006-01-03 Thread Greg Barniskis
RW wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 13:54, Greg Barniskis wrote: distribution ISOs as packages. Again, if you simply must have sources not packages, then at your high speed location, do something like: portupgrade -F '*' Then burn your own ISOs any which way you like. Try

Re: FreeBSD 6.0: Problem with network, doesn't use default gateway

2006-01-03 Thread Greg Barniskis
i bge0 may also be informative (see man tcpdump). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: format disk in bsd

2006-01-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
partitioning on the same drive that FreeBSD normally boots from. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: how to tell aspell -c to ignore "_", ">", "<", and other bytes

2006-01-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
e edit distance may or may not help for those really bad mangles. Other than that, you should probably ask this question in an aspell support forum for best results. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608)

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-12 Thread Greg Barniskis
tcpdump is possibly your friend as well here. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-12 Thread Greg Barniskis
numbering, maybe use ipfw sets for rule ordering, etc. Maybe easier to just cp rc.firewall custom.ipfw, edit to your needs and use firewall_type="/etc/custom.ipfw" -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange N

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-12 Thread Greg Barniskis
ry, it's been a long while since I actually edited any part of my firewall rules (love that FreeBSD stability ;). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348

Re: httpd could not be started

2006-01-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
displays during the make install, but then so does several K of other info so it's not hard to miss these things. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___

Re: httpd could not be started

2006-01-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
Frank Staals wrote: Greg Barniskis wrote: apache2_enable="YES" in your rc.conf? The need for this as well as the proper syntax should be noted in the file /usr/ports/www/apache2/pkg-msg. For any other port you install there's probably gold nuggets of info in its pkg-msg f

Re: portmanager status?

2006-01-20 Thread Greg Barniskis
n seems to have been updated to state that portmanager will remain in (return to?) the FreeBSD ports collection. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 _

Re: cannot ping anything

2006-01-20 Thread Greg Barniskis
preventing appropriate packet flow. Ensuring that such features are disabled is the only thing I can suggest short of reinstalling, which I am fairly confident would solve the problem. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) L

Re: Apache not included

2006-01-25 Thread Greg Barniskis
rtsnap and sync your ports tree before adding apache (or, reinstall and install the ports tree and apache during install). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___

Re: What functionality is provided by minimal install

2006-02-01 Thread Greg Barniskis
exes online to be the most useful for the task of enumerating all functionality. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: Question of Interest

2006-02-09 Thread Greg Barniskis
dized, interchangeable, re-usable parts * philosophical aversion to bloatware * much of the software "included" is not really on the discs, it's just pointed to from within the ports tree and downloaded on demand -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library S

Re: A script for poets

2006-02-10 Thread Greg Barniskis
the Shakespearian insult generator (several versions exist). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: how to tell what ran what

2006-02-15 Thread Greg Barniskis
n your network. Probably not a trivial change to your working environment, but maybe worth it in the long run. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___

question on NAT for multiple subnets

2006-02-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
hink about this issue much appreciated. If the answer is ipfw doesn't handle this, but some other fw does, fine, I just need to know which. Thanks! -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LI

Re: question on NAT for multiple subnets

2006-02-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
onality with a PIX. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Barniskis Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:43 AM To: freebsd-questions Subject: question on NAT for multiple subnets I'm sure I could figure this out from scrutinizing

Re: question on NAT for multiple subnets

2006-02-21 Thread Greg Barniskis
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg Barniskis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:14 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: question on NAT for multiple subnets Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I've never done it but I thin

Re: help i need a help

2006-02-22 Thread Greg Barniskis
/ sharing solution may need to include the users and their need for some X Windows apps. The OP didn't state such a need explicitly but to me it seemed implied that the FreeBSD PC needs to open the Windows files and probably vice versa. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Ce

Re: Webserver behind nat/ipfw

2006-03-03 Thread Greg Barniskis
n't time to offer any specific advice on your ipfw rules except to suggest that liberal use of logging can help you isolate any bad assumptions really quickly, especially if you are able to test in a controlled lab environment so there isn't a lot of noise. -- Greg Barniskis, Comput

Re: rebooting and crashes on dell server

2006-03-03 Thread Greg Barniskis
way their diagnostics partition, you should still be able to go to support.dell.com and download a bootable ISO of them. Barring that, a plain old http://www.memtest86.com/ test may help. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library Syste

Re: New logo, new look

2006-03-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
x27;s been beaten to death, scalded with acid, ground into dust and thrown to the wind several times around already. The deed is done. Please, please, please take this thread to -advocacy@ or -chat@ where it belongs. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System

Re: To track or not to track

2006-03-08 Thread Greg Barniskis
rade is suddenly required), but only doing updates on production servers when: * there is an official FreeBSD security alert * portaudit throws a fit based on one or more of your installed port versions * some business requirement of yours creates a definitive need to have the latest versio

Re: SSHD Help?

2006-03-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
form tasks that require root privilege. This practice results in better logging of "who did what when". If you really want to allow remote ssh root logins (seriously, you probably don't ;) this can be achieved. See: man sshd_config -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems In

Re: help: fetchyahoo crash in perl on upgrading to 6.1-PRERELEASE #0

2006-03-23 Thread Greg Barniskis
ed to your problem or how to address your problem if it's not, I just know of several folks who were bitten by not submitting themselves to UPDATING wisdom. Your mention of perl brought it to mind. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Inte

Re: business of BSDmall

2006-03-24 Thread Greg Barniskis
fbsd_user wrote: BSD mall is separate company. This questions list has nothing to do with it. That's very true, but it may be of general interest that the site has had some service issues. I tried to order some stuff there a year or two ago and while they did (eventually) answer my repeated

Re: Apache config question

2006-03-29 Thread Greg Barniskis
mplexity where not needed. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: software recommendation

2006-04-04 Thread Greg Barniskis
would be of tremendous usefulness, but WWW-Mechanize is specifically designed for what you are asking. http://search.cpan.org/~PETDANCE/WWW-Mechanize-1.18/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) ,

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
you can print "borderless" on your particular printer via Windows, then you should have a reasonable expectation of being able to do that in FreeBSD as well. However, if you regressed your setup I think you'd find that the hardware is the limiting factor. -- Greg Barniskis, Com

Re: src upgrade from 4.11-p16 to 5.4 possible?

2006-04-07 Thread Greg Barniskis
basic procedures. Have you tried doing rm -rf /usr/obj/* before your buildworld? This step doesn't seem to be in the upgrade guide you cited, but it is in the Handbook under general buildworld procedures. Section 21.4.6 of: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mak

Re: Wanted: Flash player for ....

2006-04-12 Thread Greg Barniskis
animated ads), and the remainder's value is mainly just entertainment-oriented and not so precious that I'd really fight for it. On the other hand, I'd applaud anyone who does fight it, on principle alone. It's a bad EULA, 'nuff said. Good luck! -- Greg Barniskis, Computer S

Re: Wanted: Flash player for ....

2006-04-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Apr 12, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Greg Barniskis wrote: The Business Software Alliance will gladly descend on suspected violators of any commercial software EULA with a horde of lawyers and auditors and fines in the 5-6 figure range per violation. The

Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and Dell RAID

2004-07-20 Thread Greg Barniskis
atforms with built-in RAID (PERC 3/Di) using aac, and no trouble with either 4.8-STABLE or 4.9-STABLE since then. ------ Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Library Interchange Network (LINK) South Central Library System

Re: FReeBSD and dell optiplex

2004-07-23 Thread Greg Barniskis
parts. -- Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Library Interchange Network (LINK) South Central Library System (SCLS) (608) 266-6348 www.scls.lib.wi.us ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Greg Barniskis
contribute work, or money, or sage advice, or the very least, a bit of good humor to this project and list. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 _

Re: Running named on one interface only

2005-01-19 Thread Greg Barniskis
192.168.0.1 and no other interfaces. (YMMV, as I've never actually done this). Don't forget to stop and start named after tweaking named.conf. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-21 Thread Greg Barniskis
ory reconditioning before anyone could usefully attach it to another computer. I hope it's true, as that was our primary justification for the cost of the degausser. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange N

Re: Dual boot with XP

2005-03-01 Thread Greg Barniskis
ree" stuff you want, like an antivirus subscription or what not -- sometimes these installations come with serial numbers "embedded" by the vendor, that you must use to register the package before you'll be able to successfully reinstall them from CD after reinstalling Windows.

Dell PowerEdge with large storage array?

2005-03-07 Thread Greg Barniskis
of course I would prefer that FreeBSD be the custodian of the storage system. Speed is important, but reliability much more so. Any pointers would be much appreciated, thanks. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) ,

Re: Ethernet issue: works one way but not another

2005-03-18 Thread Greg Barniskis
s up, you've got connectivity just fine, but something's dropping the ICMP packets. PS to Abu -- your written English is as good or better than many native speakers of the language, so don't apologize for it. =) -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library Sy

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Greg Barniskis
, you *are* running Windows, are you not? You're just not dedicating your hardware to it. For a monster like Exchange, I'd probably want to dedicate hardware (just my prefs -- unruly beasts should be isolated). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System

Re: password length default install

2005-03-18 Thread Greg Barniskis
(4.x) The new password should be at least six characters long (which may be overridden using the login.conf(5) ``minpasswordlen'' setting for a user's login class) and not purely alphabetic. Its total length must be less than _PASSWORD_LEN (currently 128 characters). -- Greg

Re: perl and ports

2005-01-25 Thread Greg Barniskis
e Internet". It does far more support work than you probably suspect, and has a pretty good track record as such things go. Recommend you learn a lot more about "the robot arm" before asking for its removal. ;-) -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Librar

Re: perl and ports

2005-01-26 Thread Greg Barniskis
ribly cumbersome. If removal speeds development and testing, giving me more timely advances in FreeBSD features, at the cost of I have to "portupgrade -[args] perl" once in a while, I am A-OK with that. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Lib

Re: I can't boot from the CD...

2005-02-03 Thread Greg Barniskis
as simple as drag-n-drop, but not quite. Barring any other more detailed help that may pop up from this list, just go into the Mac software that you use to burn CDs and search their help for "ISO" to get tips on appropriate ISO image burning techniques. It should be blissfully simp

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Greg Barniskis
y: Love Beastie. Honor Beastie. Keep Beastie around on various web pages, book covers, shirts, etc. But getting a new logo for general purpose brand identification is definitely not a bad idea. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Ne

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Greg Barniskis
e, service dependencies, project activities, etc. OK, so now maybe I expect some flamage about bein' chicken, not standing up for what's right, etc. Well, horse hockey. I have a duty to my employer not to waste everyone's time with the deamon/demon discussion (over and over and

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Greg Barniskis
o there?". I suppose the solution to the potential ambiguity for this or any other comparable logo would be to get McKusick to sign off on it in some formal way, indicating "that is not Beastie". -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS

Re: Please don't change Beastie [bike shed, EOT]

2005-02-11 Thread Greg Barniskis
d emerges, I will be happy. If not, I will continue to use a high fence to obscure the view of the shed that I cannot use. I would of course be thrilled with a solution that used a sysinstall "theme" choice for boot screens and other "logo embedded" aspects of the OS so that

Re: Newbie: BIND conf "file not found" error

2005-02-14 Thread Greg Barniskis
hroot/path/etc/named.conf. (keep in mind that this advice is from dim memory of having this problem over a year ago, and it could be I'm just wrong, but I'm relatively sure about sandboxing having this problem ;-) -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library Sys

Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
is likely to look at alternate resolutions, but generally "there can be only one" with regard to best image quality. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___

Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
Dmitri Furman wrote: Thank you Greg. Yes it is native resolution for the display. This is what I run Windows on. It is also using 60 Hz for refresh rate. From: Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dmitri Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:

Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
Greg Barniskis wrote: ... Well, sorry it's not the simplest thing. Being an old school CLI mode server monkey, I don't really have any great X Windows expertise to offer. No sooner had I sent this than I recalled the result of a previous experiment I performed trying to get KDE runn

Re: get local sendmail to use MX records

2005-02-23 Thread Greg Barniskis
re domain.com is named for different purposes. Hunt them all down and kill them. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 A: Because it reverses the natural flow of a dialog. Q:

Re: get local sendmail to use MX records

2005-02-23 Thread Greg Barniskis
kup on server B's command line. If you ask there for the MX record in question, do you actually get the right answer? -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 A: Because it reverses the natural

MIME-Tools, sendmail or Eudora?

2004-06-04 Thread Greg Barniskis
server configuration to make this a non-issue? -- Greg Barniskis Library Interchange Network (LINK) South Central Library System (SCLS) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: perl -MCPAN problem

2004-06-07 Thread Greg Barniskis
m still learning the ups and downs of using portupgrade, but it is way more ups than downs (with one of the biggest downsides being trying to get it happy if you've previously done lots of MCPAN shell updates). Greg Barniskis ___ [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Newbie - Configuration File Location?

2005-06-15 Thread Greg Barniskis
nd VertRefresh attributes accordingly, and your Screen section. The Xorg -config step gets most everything else set to a basic working state for you (or at least it has been quite good at it on the last 4-5 boxes I used it on, all with various video cards -- using 5.4). -- Greg Barniskis, C

Re: commands "w" "who" & "finger"

2005-06-15 Thread Greg Barniskis
and that you don't give blanket superuser privileges to others -- give them discrete added privileges with sudo, and/or sink their accounts into a jail environment. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Networ

Re: getting DNS from DHCP IP address

2005-06-16 Thread Greg Barniskis
ir DNS server addrs (which you'd also do with dhclient.conf). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: A question about dwnloading Ports

2005-06-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
have a recipe for mass downloading the ports distfiles, but I've never thought about doing that so I can't comment. You might consider buying the CD or DVD release sets from freebsdmall.com. They come with many additional ports packages. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems I

Re: qpopper error

2005-06-20 Thread Greg Barniskis
like maybe it's looking for a separate POP user authentication database separate from /etc/passwd. I know that we do this to support APOP logins. Do you have /usr/local/etc/qpopper/pop.auth.db ? You may need to initialize it and then add your username to it. man qpopauth -- Greg Barniskis

Re: MS Project equivalent for FreeBSD

2005-06-24 Thread Greg Barniskis
n planning. Planner is easily installed as part of the gnome2-office metaport, or I'm pretty sure that you can install it separately. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) ,

Re: Questions about packages and ports

2005-06-27 Thread Greg Barniskis
is depends on the options that you specify (for either packages or ports). Typically, though -- yes, building a port will automatically build the dependencies. More about packages & ports can be found in Chap. 4 of the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.

Re: Upgraded Perl; and lo, errors cause exim to fail

2005-06-28 Thread Greg Barniskis
ntation OS independent and inseparable from the script). In this case, result is the same as the man page. See also: perldoc perlpod for more information on embedded Perl documentation. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LI

multi-port NIC suggestions?

2005-07-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
small footprint router/server device, where the small form factor host chassis will only have a couple of PCI slots, but 4 or more separate LAN interfaces are desired. Thanks for any information you can provide. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS

Re: Start telnet server help

2005-07-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
e). Rather than a port scan, you could test with some thing simpler, like $ telnet localhost Final note: telnet is "off by default" for a good reason (inherent insecurity). If you don't have a really good reason (e.g. "my priceless, irreplaceable legacy application requires

Re: Start telnet server help

2005-07-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
better than Windows command line telnet in many other ways (color control, selecting text with your mouse automatically copies text to the clipboard, etc.). Also, you don't have to figure out how to get telnetd working... just sshd_enable="YES" in rc.conf, and inetd_enable=&q

Re: suitability of freebsd 5.3 for 486 dx2 66?

2005-07-08 Thread Greg Barniskis
itry noted, you're likely in for some painful compile times if you do antyhing serious with it. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-quest

Re: Mouse problem solved???

2005-07-11 Thread Greg Barniskis
onents and applications up-to-date? You are emphatically encouraged to use portupgrade -- and only portupgrade -- to keep your GNOME 2.10 components and applications up-to-date. One would hope that if the answer ever changed, the FAQ would also. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integr

Re: Still uable to install DarwinStreamingServer

2005-07-11 Thread Greg Barniskis
ense). Then, put in /usr/ports/distfiles/DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5-Source.tar. Which you'll see is rather different from your original post. If you did do a recent cvsup, maybe some combination of make clean or portsclean is

Re: securing FreeBSD

2005-07-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
quot;case has been opened" bits). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Gnome upgrade killed mouse

2005-07-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
flaky problems, but I've never had any problem with any hardware or OS on this particular switch box model). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 _

Re: Gnome upgrade killed mouse

2005-07-14 Thread Greg Barniskis
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 17:22:31 -0500 Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I understand that your mouse problem got "solved", but just out of curiosity, was it PS/2 and was there a KVM switch box in the mix? Are you also tracking -STABLE? It i

Re: Freebsd bad routing

2005-07-15 Thread Greg Barniskis
the route provider upstream from you for clarification of whether this is legitimate (and whether you have specified the correct default gateway in the first place). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Int

Re: No sound on gx280 with 5.4

2005-07-19 Thread Greg Barniskis
er should probe all known sound devices, then # cat /dev/sndstat should tell you what specific module to name in loader.conf so that it is automatically available on subsequent reboots http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html -- Greg Barniskis, Comput

Re: Demon license? (copyright myths)

2005-07-20 Thread Greg Barniskis
e a written approval from the copyright holder for use as a "get out of jail free" card. IANAL, but IAAL (I am a librarian ;) and have spent more than a few hours on the subject. Anyway, this thread is getting way OT for -questions. The OP's question was answered I think.

Re: bridging

2005-07-20 Thread Greg Barniskis
ines cannot be load balanced with the fiber link because the fiber and T-1 lines end in two different ISP routers on the far side (actually in two different POPs). So, we just have the ISP router configured to use the fiber if it's up, or to use the combined T-1's if fiber goes down.

Re: Select Default Mirror (ports/pkg)

2005-07-22 Thread Greg Barniskis
-using.html -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: How do I get rid of booteasy??? & re-install windows xp mbr using ntfs???

2005-08-01 Thread Greg Barniskis
will simply invoke FreeBSD's fdisk on your behalf, if I'm not mistaken. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: How do I get rid of booteasy??? & re-install windows xp mbr using ntfs???

2005-08-01 Thread Greg Barniskis
Sorry, I'm an idiot and didn't read your whole message. Nor even half. Must sleep more. Greg Barniskis wrote: Jerry Tarwid wrote: I am dual booting with Winblows XP and FreeBSD. I installed the FreeBSD Boot manager so I can dual boot. I now want to remove it! I have freaking s

Re: Apache problems

2005-08-04 Thread Greg Barniskis
op | grep apache"). Got apache2_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf? -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: How well do USB -> parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-19 Thread Greg Barniskis
ey. More basic PCI parallel port cards are very common throughout my network, and we get them for under $15, IIRC. As cheap (or cheaper) and far more consistently well-behaved than most USB adapters. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread Greg Barniskis
ussion please go over there, perhaps? Or perhaps even better, just keep going on the slashdot thread already started? (the Pokemon bit is hilarious) I sense a long and flaming trail of utterly useless (non-germane) bike shed parts about to descend on this list... -- Greg Barniskis, Comput

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Greg Barniskis
is discussion is germane to that list charter (d) need a real big mop for all the spilled milk and tears Hey... take NetBSD's flag logo, flip it vertically, draw some more lines, update the text, and walla! a FreeBSD mop logo! Perfecto. Biggest. Bike. Shed. Ever. -- Greg Barniskis, Compu

Re: "Out of range" starting Xorg on dual display

2005-11-10 Thread Greg Barniskis
#x27;ve been through this particular annoyance a couple of times now, that's now my standard practice upon taking a new monitor out of the shipping carton. Finding the information on the web (or even in the product manual) is not always easy, and the xorg automated config tools can't always

Re: getting apache2 to process xml files?

2005-11-11 Thread Greg Barniskis
wser (e.g. you probably have to write or at least tune some XSL directives specific to your DTD, in addition to telling Apache to send XML to your XSL preprocessor). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) L

Re: How to redirect mail sent to root to external mailbox?

2005-11-14 Thread Greg Barniskis
ou can probably override this by putting an appropriate entry in your .mc file and then making a new config file from it, but offhand I don't know what mc syntax you'd use. Your bounces get masqueraded because the outside envelope is not "From root" anymore, it is From yo

Re: How to redirect mail sent to root to external mailbox?

2005-11-14 Thread Greg Barniskis
will get overwritten on upgrades. It is best to override the defaults via the mc config generator, so that "CE root" doesn't appear in the first place. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LI

Re: How to redirect mail sent to root to external mailbox?

2005-11-14 Thread Greg Barniskis
Mark J. Sommer wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg Barniskis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 8:02 AM To: Mark J. Sommer Cc: 'Hans Nieser'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to redirect mail sent to root to external mailbox? Mark J. So

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