RE: Driving Me Nuts

2005-06-12 Thread John Brooks
try this: kill the ntpd process run "ntpdate sundial.columbia.edu" restart ntpd ntpd is not happy if the clock is too far off -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Marshall >

RE: MAC address & rc.conf

2005-06-13 Thread John Brooks
just curious... what happens when your 'router' and your 'laptop' both have the same MAC address? -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Bomar > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2

RE: Buildworld problem?

2005-06-14 Thread John Brooks
run the hard drive diagnostics software of your hard drive manufacturer to test the condition of your hard drive. it should be available from their website. this should always be done on used drives being put back into service. -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Mess

RE: [Solved] How to disable > quoting of lines starting with From in email body?

2005-06-14 Thread John Brooks
this is a test From: hello From >From hello see which will be prepended This is an entirely distinct issue from the 'quoting' of previous message bodies (as in below) -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAI

RE: disabling ata devices

2005-06-15 Thread John Brooks
just unplug the cable and/or power to the hardware device -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dmitry Mityugov > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:24 AM > To: JM > Cc: freebsd-questions@fre

RE: df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why...

2005-06-15 Thread John Brooks
check /tmp for files run: # cd / # du -h -d2 | grep M this will show the total amount of disk usage in MB for files in directories 2 deep. you should be able to find the big ones from that (you may have to drill down a tad) -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- >

RE: Remote server warnings

2005-06-16 Thread John Brooks
might be good to make sure you can actually ssh into the box before you move it, make sure root logins are not permitted in sshd_config, make sure the daily reports will be emailed to you -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm going to be moving my server to a remote site, wher

RE: Remote server warnings

2005-06-16 Thread John Brooks
for security reasons, remote root logins are a bad thing. log in as yourself, then su to root. make sure you are a member of the 'wheel' group. -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon

RE: Complete Port Removal Question

2005-06-16 Thread John Brooks
"pkg_info -r "shows dependencies "pkg_delete -r " removes pkg and dependencies -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of M. Goodell > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005

RE: Complete Port Removal Question

2005-06-16 Thread John Brooks
yes -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: M. Goodell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: Complete Port Removal Question Will pkg_delete work with items installed via the ports

RE: Invoking rc.conf changes w/o rebooting

2005-06-17 Thread John Brooks
bmin_enable="yes"') you should be able to start it up with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/webmin.sh start (that is assuming that the assumptions are correct ;-) -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: Virtual Interfaces and Subnet Masks

2005-06-24 Thread John Brooks
uot;inet 192.168.1.7 netmask 255.255.255.255" IF the address is in a DIFFERENT network then the netmask should reflect that network. ifconfig_fxp0_alias1="inet 10.1.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0" HTH (ps - make sure your alias numbering is numerically sequential without gap

RE: IPNAT / IPF / rdr issue

2005-06-25 Thread John Brooks
izon capability, but then bind is not permitted to exist in any of my networks or systems (personal choice, but let's not go there ;-) ). google for tinydns and split-horizon for howto's. -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

RE: IPNAT / IPF / rdr issue

2005-06-25 Thread John Brooks
unless I'm completely misunderstanding this... sending packets out thru the gateway from the inside only to turn around and come back in thru the same gateway is not going to fly. if you can get that to work please let me know how. -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original

RE: Still trying to get my site up!

2005-06-26 Thread John Brooks
another host on your network: http://192.168.0.4:9545 then try: http://192.168.0.4:80 -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard Seibert > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 6:07 PM > To: freebsd-ques

RE: waiting 15 seconds for scsi devices to settle

2005-06-28 Thread John Brooks
just a shot in the dark here... have you tried shifting the drives to different positions in the drive cage? could it possibly be hanging when it probes a vacant slot? bad cable connections? bad termination? missing jumpers? -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- >

RE: Ping and general network weirdness

2005-06-29 Thread John Brooks
run: dig fragile.mshome.net a more /etc/resolv.conf more /etc/host.conf more /etc/hosts that should give you some good clues -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Phil Cooper > Sen

RE: autoblocking many ssh failed logins from the same IP....

2005-07-01 Thread John Brooks
they are originating from the high ports, arriving on port 22 at your box. this is normal. in a default setup sshd only listens on port 22. -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Cholewa >

RE: autoblocking many ssh failed logins from the same IP....

2005-07-01 Thread John Brooks
he is using 4.8, unless things have changed, pf is not available on 4.x PS: Oh, yeah ... "FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr 3 10:53:38 GMT 2003" ; openssh-3.6.1_5 ; openssl-0.9.7d_1 -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: dot.logout

2005-07-02 Thread John Brooks
lworld' process. -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stefan Thurner > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 11:36 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: dot.logout > > &g

RE: phpMyAdmin - Startup Error Message

2005-07-02 Thread John Brooks
onfig file and make sure you entered the correct mysql user account. Then check the mysql db to make sure that the correct user account exists. -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard Seibert >

RE: not-yet-a-newbie : DL (ftp?) iso image help question

2005-07-06 Thread John Brooks
don't know who "Anon" is, but you might try "anonymous" -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of nbco > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 6:04 PM > To: freebsd-questions@f

RE: Copying data onto a NTFS partitioned hdd

2005-07-07 Thread John Brooks
WinNT does not support FAT32 -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > BTW, I had to format as NTFS since Win2K is my only option for the > moment; first time I ever tried to use WinNT to format a volume or > drive as FAT32 & was strikingly unsurprised when it failed at such a >

RE: two 3C905B's in 5.4

2005-07-11 Thread John Brooks
you may need to set the parameters of the card with a vendor specific utility. depending upon your bios, you may also need to disable pnp (also a vendor specific utility) and then manually set the irq and memory addr. -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From:

RE: rcNG issue

2005-07-18 Thread John Brooks
> On Jul 18, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have a problem with my rcNG scripts. There are three scripts: > > named.sh, apache2.sh and proftpd.sh. Apache and ProFTPd require > > hostname resolving thus named should start firstly. > > > > Where do these scripts live?

RE: problem with setup of dns on freebsd-5.4

2005-07-18 Thread John Brooks
"netstat -an | grep LISTEN" doesn't show listening udp ports try instead "netstat -na | more" -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello Antoine, > > do you have a firewall on the box ? > > what about: > netstat -an | grep LISTEN &g

RE: pppOe 1000baseTX config

2005-07-25 Thread John Brooks
> > I've recently switched from a Netgear router to use pppOe for my public > internet ip on FreeBSD 5.4. > > My machine has two nics: bge0 and re0, both of which support 1000baseTX > configurations, however neither of the two seem to be able to > connect when I > configure them in /etc/rc.co

RE: disabling system boot text

2005-07-26 Thread John Brooks
# echo 'beastie_disable="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tommy Barus > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 8:45 PM > To: freebsd-question

4.7Release - sed problems?

2003-01-06 Thread John Brooks
se notes on 4.7 indicate: "sed(1) now takes a -i option to enable in-place editing of files." my question: Does this mean that the wrong version of sed is included in the iso of disk 1? (I've just subscribed to this list) -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send m

Ports failing

2003-01-06 Thread John Brooks
7;data definition has no type or storage class' I suspect this is related. Has anyone dealt with this or seen this before? -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

RE: permissions issue help ?!?!

2003-01-07 Thread John Brooks
you need to stop and restart mysql usually: /usr/local/etc/rd.d/mysql-server.sh stop /usr/local/etc/rd.d/mysql-server.sh start ymmv -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brent Bailey > S

RE: dig command for reverse dsn check

2003-01-07 Thread John Brooks
=5) by mx4.mail.yahoo.com yahoo.com mail is handled (pri=1) by mx1.mail.yahoo.com dle:demo:/etc {102} # host 64.58.79.230 230.79.58.64.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer w1.rc.vip.dcx.yahoo.com -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL P

Sendmail and NIS files

2003-01-07 Thread John Brooks
Does anyone know where I can find a complete list of all files specific to sendmail and nis, that exist in 4.7? -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

inbound ssh ceased on 4 servers at same time

2005-06-04 Thread John Brooks
efore? -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: inbound ssh ceased on 4 servers at same time

2005-06-04 Thread John Brooks
n both directions as does all other network services (internal mysql, intranet http, pop3, smtp, smbd, nmdb, dns). network hardware and cabling issues have been effectively ruled out. -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Glenn Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: inbound ssh ceased on 4 servers at same time

2005-06-04 Thread John Brooks
> > sshd is running on the affected machines > > > > no errors on console or logs, just times out waiting for > > the password prompt. interestingly: when investigating this > > at the console, attempting ssh sessions from the db server > > and backup server to the file server (these two are 'deep

RE: pf block question

2005-06-07 Thread John Brooks
Are you sure the ruleset is loaded, and pf is enabled? -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Rechkemmer > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

RE: DNS and Gateway in FreeBSD?

2005-06-08 Thread John Brooks
what is the contents of /etc/resolv.conf -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Xu Qiang > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:16 AM > To: Jonathan Chen; Xu Qiang > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD

RE: Setting Up Email Only / Very Restricted Accounts

2005-06-08 Thread John Brooks
I use a combination of postfix, courier-imap, and mysql. It eliminates the need for shell accounts. There are several good tutorials at http://www.postfix.org/docs.html -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: DNS problem?

2005-06-08 Thread John Brooks
> I am running a FreeBSD server behind a Linksys Wireless Access > Point / Router (BEFW11S4). Its local address is 192.168.1.1. The > Linksys is attached to a DSL modem. In my /etc/rc.conf file I have > defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 > which works most of the time. However occasionally, all network > t

RE: DNS problem?

2005-06-09 Thread John Brooks
are the dns servers of the other computers the SAME as the freebsd server? what are the contents of /etc/resolv.conf? -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thank you John. > > I will try this series of pings the next time my server freezes. I did > try something similiar, if no