Re: How to repair a system?

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:27:04AM +0200, Daan Hoogland wrote: I have a system on which make buildworld won't work. I am thinking of doing a binary install on the system, but my only access to the system is ssh. So I am thinking of copying an image over and running sysinstall to install a

Re: majordomo question

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:34:28AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: I was trying to find out why I din't receive any mail from the freebsd-java list and sent a which command to majordomo at freebsd.org but didn't get me listed with my email address. That's strange since I'm definitely

Re: Sendmail and masquerading

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:43:22AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: I have another question(s) please: How can I have sendmail using a specified EHLO domain.tld instead of the machines name (changing the machines name is not a solution for me) Use: define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',

Re: PPP

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:18:19AM +0200, xavier collot wrote: Hi! I'm french and don't understand the chapter 18.2.1.2 (Creating PPP device Nodes) in the freeBSD handbook. Yes. It's a pity that http://www.fr.freebsd.org/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.html hasn't finished

Re: What chooses the cvsup server ?

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:22:34AM +0100, Aleksandar Simic wrote: the reason I ask is because when I issue 'make update' command in /usr/src I get the following message: *note the server name*: cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org *default host=cvsup18.us.FreeBSD.org -- note the server name So where is

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:13:11PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:04:56AM +0300, hugle wrote: SOmetimes I see such messages in dmesg. perl# dmesg uptime() went backwards (1574174.333073 - 1573478.944788) what they mean? and what causes them to appear ? is

Re: make package from port

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:59:19PM +, Killermink ! wrote: Is there a way I can create a package of xfce and its dependencies, so i can back them up, reinstall then pkg_add them/it easily? I tried a make package but it failed as it said it was already installed? To create a package from

Re: stupid sendmail question (did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN)

2004-04-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:40:42PM -0400, Duane Winner wrote: I am getting this in my /var/log/maillog: Apr 23 15:23:39 library sm-mta[169]: i3NJNd8g000169: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA Which means that the Java side did not issue any

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 10:49:50AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: * Terry L. Tyson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-24 08:32]: It's not a package, it's a tgz file. Use tar xzvf file.tgz. Go to the OO site and read the install instructions, there are other things you No. It's a package, and

Re: Which version of freebsd..

2004-04-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 12:54:56AM +0200, lists wrote: Currently were going to reinstall all servers we have from redhat 9 to freebsd because redhat 9 is EOL... But after reading a few mails here that 4.9 is most likely not supported for a long time.. what version should we take then?

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 08:32:37PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Can I use 'zxvf' to untar the packages and do 'setup' to install OOo, the normal way not FreeBSD way? No -- in this case the files being referred to are in fact FreeBSD pkg's. You can certainly extract the contents using 'tar

Re: From aliases using mail and sendmail

2004-04-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 12:13:05AM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: I really need something like sendmail aliases but operating on outgoing 'from' addresses rather than incoming 'to' addresses. That's precisely what genericstable is for. You'll need aliases or virtusertable entries as well, to

Re: DHCP to Static

2004-05-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 06:11:20PM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote: Just went and got an extra NIC card, and ordered static ip address and upgraded my service. I have a quick question. If I am changing from dhcp to static is there anything that I need to do in order to take advantage of static or

Re: Syerm temperature monitoring?

2004-05-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:26:01PM -0400, stan wrote: Can I monitor the system temerature and voltages etc. under 4 STABLE? If so, what do I need to do this? It depends on what sort of system motherboard you have. On my system xmbmon(1) works very well for this purpose. There are several

Re: Secure NFS (sNFS) on 4-Stable: has somebody succeeded?

2004-05-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 05:05:26PM +0900, Rob wrote: Perl comes with the FreeBSD-4-Stable base system as: 10 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 10168 May 11 20:39 /usr/bin/perl 10 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 10168 May 11 20:39 /usr/bin/perl5 10 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 10168 May 11 20:39

Re: newsyslog command in an script

2004-05-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:04:21PM -0400, JJB wrote: In an csh script I want to issue newsyslog /var/log/security. I need feedback from the newsyslog command in the form of an script testable return code / exit code so I can determine if the specified log met the rotate trigger for that file

Re: moving /var symlink to /usr/var isn't working, now broke mysql

2004-05-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 08:54:08AM -0700, carvin5string wrote: rm -rf /var I am using FreeBSD-5.2. Everything works except the rm -rf /var, I get a message that it is not empty. I look in /var and see a subdirectory called empty, which is empty. But I cannot delete it. See chflags(1) --

Re: Cron Mailing

2004-05-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:51:34PM +0200, Ian Barnes wrote: Hi, I am trying to find out if something is possible. On our servers we would like all mail from cron not to come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] but rather from say [EMAIL PROTECTED] I assume you still want the jobs to be run by root

Re: password expiry

2004-05-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:59:58PM +0200, Piotr Gnyp wrote: I`m trying to set password expiry for users, I`ve changed login.conf to: :minpasswordlen=6:\ :passwordtime=30d:\ :warnpassword=1w:\ But it doesn`t seem to work. What I`m missing, or where I will find the

Re: Question Regarding the Applicability of the GNU General Public License / GNU Library General Public License

2004-05-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 01:04:06PM -0500, Hatteberg, David J non Unisys wrote: I just went to the FreeBSD website (www.freebsd.org), and went to the The FreeBSD Copyright and Legal Information section. I see that two of the possible links are to the GNU General Public License and the GNU

Re: sound set up

2004-05-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:47:26PM +0100, arden wrote: ive been using linux for some time and thought was time to try something new the install of 5.2 went without a prob but did not set up my sound card in linux would be able to probe the pci bus to get an id of the card with cat /proc/

Re: password expiry

2004-05-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:22:45PM +0200, Piotr Gnyp wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2004, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:59:58PM +0200, Piotr Gnyp wrote: I`m trying to set password expiry for users, I`ve changed login.conf to: :minpasswordlen=6

Re: options in /etc/resolv.conf

2004-05-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 01:53:01PM +0200, Mipam wrote: I wish to use the following option in /etc/resolv.conf options timeout:40 However in man resolv.conf(5) i notice that this option isnt available. But i read here:

Re: Problem transporting signed emails

2004-05-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 11:57:05AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: I've been playing with signed emails (S/MIME, OpenSSL etc) but am running into an annoying problem: openssl smime -sign signs the text, but it adds ^M's at the end of the lines of the original text. When piping it through to the

Re: UPDATING - perl

2004-05-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:13:14AM -0400, Tuc wrote: Who do I contact to see if they can add a step to the UPDATING document in ports to make sure/remind/etc people to use.perl port before upgrading all the modules? Try contacting the maintainer of the perl ports: % cd

Re: ipfw and MAC-keyword: unknown arg; but it is in man page!

2004-05-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:51:26PM +0900, Rob wrote: With my ipfw firewall, I try to use the MAC keyword, as explained in the ipfw man page: But to no avail: # ipfw add 900 allow udp from any to any MAC 00:a0:b0:0e:3a:95 any ipfw: unknown argument ``MAC'' # Is this a bug, or what?

Re: ports upgrade question

2004-05-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 02:25:18PM +0300, alexander botov wrote: I'm sure that this is a trivial question to ask . I'm considering source and ports tree upgarde from 5.2_REL to 5.2.1_REL . I've never did cvs before (usually i back up , format + binary install and restore ) . I've read the

Re: Using MTREE

2004-05-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:25:41PM +0400, Oxid wrote: Hi, Could anyone explain me how to use mtree utility? Will this work? - mtree -deU -p / It looks like it doesn't work..nothing happens:( You need an mtree specification file in there: # mtree -deU -p / -f

Re: Openldap20

2004-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:44:06PM -0500, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, what graphical tools (web based ?) existing for creating and maintaining a Openldap directory ? I am running Freebsd 5.1-release. There's phpldapadmin -- http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ It's not in the ports yet

Re: Installing port - skip required port

2004-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:42:07PM -0600, Brent Macnaughton wrote: Is there any way to install a port and tell it NOT to install one or more of it's required ports? For example: I installed the mysqlcc port, and it wanted to install mysql-client. I already have mysql-client installed, but I

Re: Freebsd

2004-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:53:53AM +0900, Luke Kearney wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 20:52:30 -0400 XylonMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: I am a begginer in unix and would like to know which freebsd version is considered the most stable and reliable. So far i have

Re: MIPv6

2004-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:33:10AM +0200, BOUVARD Bruno wrote: I work at Celar in France and I would like to know how to set up mobility functions on free BSD 4.9 It's very hard to give you any coherent advice without a lot more detail about exactly what you're trying to do, what you've tried

Re: Openldap20

2004-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:54:48PM -0500, Darryl Hoar wrote: On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:44:06PM -0500, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, what graphical tools (web based ?) existing for creating and maintaining a Openldap directory ? I am running Freebsd 5.1-release. There's

Re: Question for the list about install BSD4.9 from FTP over CD

2004-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:46:02PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: If I were to install FreeBSD by doing FTP rather than from a disc, will I get updated sources EG: install 4.9 release, which doesn't support my nic right off, but there is an update driver that does For the base

Re: shrinkfs?? is this possible?

2004-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:26:58PM -0500, Chris Collins wrote: Hello I was wondering if somebody could tell me how to shrink /usr. I need 64K available at the end of my disk to write some RAID info. When I setup the disk I used all available disk space. Maybe shrinking /usr is not the

Re: Patching ports

2004-05-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:11:22PM +, Mikkel Christensen wrote: How do I add a patch to a certain port? Usually I would use the patch program to add the patch to the source code. But when using ports the system begins compiling right after rewtrieving the source. Thus not giving me a

Re: Ports Index Update Error - mail/lmtpd Failure

2004-05-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 10:40:39PM -0400, E. Eusey wrote: 2. Realizing that DB3 was a 'leaf package' (nothing depended on it), I simply You check dependancies by running 'pkg_info -a | grep -A 15 db3' at the command line. Look for a Required

Re: Installing portaudit from ports

2004-05-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:25:35PM -0400, R. M. Los wrote: Dependency error: this port wants the OpenSSL library from the FreeBSD base system. You can't build against it, while a newer version is installed by a port. Please deinstall the port or undefine WITH_OPENSSL_BASE. Since I

Re: any way to recover root password on 5.2

2004-05-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:28:18PM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote: I forgot root pasword on my just installed server. I've tryed to recover it by going to single user, then doing mount -a; passwd root, but no success. It says entropy device blocking. Dance fandago on keyboard to unlock. what

Re: Built-in lpr vs CUPS

2004-05-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 06:55:54PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: The default setup is to include /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin in $PATH. This means that entering lpr -Pfoo doesn't work for printing on my machine, I have to say /usr/local/bin/lpr -Pfoo. It is obvious that I could change

Re: identd getbuf error

2004-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:07:46AM +0800, John Lee wrote: I'm running freebsd4.10-pre on my AMD box and i have cvs to the latest source lately. I installed /usr/ports/security/pidentd and it doesn't work, i looked in /var/log/messages this is the error: identd[16356]: getbuf: bad

Re: FreeBSD 4.7 Syslogs

2004-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 01:51:40AM -0400, Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante wrote: I've inherited a FreeBSD 4.7 server as part of a system administration job.  Recently I noticed that the syslog files had stopped collecting data.  This includes /var/log/messages and /var/log/console among others.  Up

Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

2004-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:26:28PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: FreeBSD 5.2 What command will be used to display the complete history of the hard drvice (other than fdisk) listing all partitions, their allocated space, used space, available space, date of creation, etc. I don't think that

Re: Question re: eventual upgrade to 5-Stable

2004-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 02:13:35PM -0700, Robert Carr wrote: Is there any update as to when 5-stable might be released? Is 5.3 expected to be forked as 5-Stable? That is still the plan according to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/index.html However, dates

Re: Upgrading OpenLDAP 2.1.30 to 2.2.x

2004-05-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:25:33AM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Can portupgrade be used to upgrade OpenLDAP 2.1.x to 2.2.x by changing WITH_OPENLDAP_VER in my /etc/make.conf file to 22? Or do I have to deinstall the 21 package, and reinstall 22 and everything that depends on it? You can

Re: Upgrading OpenLDAP 2.1.30 to 2.2.x

2004-05-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:35:04PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 11:24, Matthew Seaman wrote: That means that all of the applications linked against the LDAP shlibs have suddenly stopped working. To fix them, all you need do is reinstall -- the situation

Re: properties of a file

2004-05-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:51:13PM +0100, arden wrote: just a quick question i know df will tell me the properties of the partition im in, but how do i find out how big a signal file is ? ITYM 'single file': % ls -l filename Where the 5th field in the output is the file size in bytes.

Re: How to allow 'User-A' to burn CD

2004-05-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:10:23PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Which file shall I re-configure to authorize 'User-A' using 'burncd' to burn CD and how to edit it. /usr/local/etc/sudoers would be a good file to use to set up that sort of thing. You will have to install the security/sudo port and

Re: How to allow 'User-A' to burn CD

2004-05-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 08:16:30PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: What do these numbers (5) and (8) referring to. Page number? Section of the user manual, where (1) is user commands, (2) is system calls, (3) is C api, (4) is kernel devices, (5) is configuration file formats, (6) and (7) are not

Re: New work on installer?

2004-05-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:00:37AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has there been any new work on the installer or planned? If not, I would like to help... What about graphical? There's been plenty of planning and various projects to produce something better, but to the best of my knowledge

Re: bit torrent

2004-05-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:30:04PM +0100, arden wrote: has bit torrent been ported to bsd i use btdownloadcurses.py under linux at the mo fx voice=obi wan Use the ports, Luke! /fx % cd /usr/ports % make search key=bittorrent | grep Port: Port: bnbt-7.5b2 Port:

Re: New work on installer?

2004-05-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:38:55PM +, slave-mike wrote: If one were to *not* use the installer to setup a FreeBSD system, (aka, like *old* dos, each step done manually), what are the manual steps involved? It's not something that I have at my finger-tips, as there's generally no need to

Re: sendmail problems

2004-05-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:01:09AM +1000, Andri Kok wrote: I don't know wether this problem have come up beore, so here it goes... After a fresh installing and rebooting, the sendmail takes around 1 min and 10 sec to load. Then everytime it starts up, it takes the same amount of time to

Re: ls(1) crashes

2004-05-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:25:09AM +0200, platanthera wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 00:05, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 18), platanthera said: ls(1) crashed (exited on signal 10) for the second time within a few days today. Could you please have a look at the core file and

Re: remote monitoring system variables?

2004-05-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 06:32:42PM -0500, Stephen P. Cravey wrote: I'm tryign to locate a pre-existing method of monitoring FreeBSD systems. Specifically, I'd like a way to monitor sysctl variables, IPFW/PF counters, cpu and ram utilization(in that order). I can write my own interface,

Re: cvsup ports questions

2004-05-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:54:28PM +0100, Robin Becker wrote: Recently I found that package openldap-client-2.0.27_1 was causing problems. The port 'net/openldap20-client' was removed on 2004-05-03 because: removed EOL version of OpenLDAP Attempted removal was blocked by

Re: remote monitoring system variables?

2004-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 04:20:39PM -0500, Stephen P. Cravey wrote: I was afraid of that. I'll look more closely into the SNMP MIBS to see how much of what I need is available. The Issue I have with scripting SNMP is that the OID numbers for custom scrips seem to be dependant on how many

Re: Howto set sysinstall to use CURRENT packages

2004-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:55:54PM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: How do I set sysinstall to use current packages? In the config menu I changed 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.2.1-CURRENT and several other values but would not recognize. Complains no such distribution is available on ftp.freebsd.org.

Re: root no found

2004-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:02:41AM +0100, mehrdad nosrati wrote: but every 5 minute I receive a mail from cron daemon in which it says: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun root:not found FAQ:

Re: Cannot Login After Using Kuser to setup Accounts

2004-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:23:24AM -0500, Mark Teel wrote: On a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.2, after I add a user via kuser, when I logout I cannot log back in! I get a message stating that the accound has expired, even for the root user. Please help as this has rendered my system

Re: sendmail only sends mail for root, not non-root users

2004-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:44:13AM -0700, carvin5string wrote: What do I have to do to make sendmail send mail for non-root users? Thanks Looks like your permissions are fubar'd. I assume you're running the standard sendmail daemon that comes with the system. If you're running the ports

Re: netstat output - diff between 'link' and 'inet' counters

2004-05-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:23:01AM -0600, Nathan Kinkade wrote: I delved into trying to determine the cause of an unreasonably high number of Ierrs on a few FreeBSD routers we have setup on campus. While probing through the netstat output on the machines I realized that I don't understand the

Re: WEB BASED EMAIL TRACKING

2004-05-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:54:59PM -0600, Shawn Guillemette wrote: Hello, I am in search for a application that I can use on my freebsd machine to read a mail spool and track email's that are sent in from customers. I would like to be able to track what employee has replied to how many

Re: upsd for Belkin F6C120-UNV?

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:54:59PM -0400, Miles Lubin wrote: All the ups ports seem to be only for APC UPSs, but I have a Belkin F6C120-UNV connected over usb (it is recognized as uhid0 when connected). Serial would be ok, but I don't see any ports that would work for that either. On

Re: named in sandbox

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Muhammad Reza I running named in sandbox as a secondary name server with FreeBSD-5.1.p17, Named log always complain: named-xfer exited with signal 6 and slave zone expired for every zone

Re: your mail

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 06:49:38AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Synopsis:I am pursuing this direction and these goals but have no knowledge of the path befor me I have been working with BSD at home know for about two months and still do not have a working cd rom , but my knowledge

Re: Help to start BIND on boot

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:07:25PM +0100, Nuno César Pires wrote: I'm setting up a BIND/DNS server (recursive) and I'm facing a problem when I try to start the named automatically on boot (named_enable=YES in rc.conf): First I noticed that the boot process takes a very long time in the

Re: FreeBSD mailing lists

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:41:08AM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: I have received no messages at all from freebsd-questions, or one or two of the other FreeBSD mailing lists, for about 2 days. Do you know if there is a problem at their end, or has perhaps my ISP decided they are all spam? Well,

Re: Postfix being stubborn

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:26:26PM +0100, Edd wrote: Hi there, I have installed and used postfix many a time with minimal fuss, but this time for some reasona all of my mail just gets stuck: hitbox# mailq -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- E76C639821*

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:36:11AM -0500, Jason Dusek wrote: I am trying to put a new disk on my system. I read the description of the process in FreeBSD Unleashed and apparently I misunderstood it, because I ended up installing a boot manager on the new disk. Now I can not mount it - I

Re: Chipset compatibility issues and FreeBSD

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:12:25PM +0100, Justin Finkelstein wrote: Hi there I'm about to make a decision on which motherboard to buy to run FreeBSD 4.9 in a production environment, and I'm getting a little confused over compatibility issues with the available chipsets and this version of

Re: named Configuration issue

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:18:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running bind 9.x on my primary and secondary servers. Since both are on the same C class subnet I have used a free DNS hosting to be a secondary for my site.. I am trying to added NS and A name records to the 2 name

Re: netscape memory leak

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:38:49PM -0700, whitevamp wrote: sorry if this quistion has allread been asked and awnsered.. i got noticeing that my system was runnung out of mem so i did top and this is what i found PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 9936 dave -22

Re: Multiple CPUs

2004-05-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 03:55:23PM -0700, Nicholas Bernstein wrote: How can one detect if a system is using multiple CPUs? I'm running freebsd 4.9 and I was hoping that either uname or top would give some information as to whether or not the second cpu is being used. dmegs outputs the

Re: Help: Uncommenting FTP line in Inetd.conf: What's Next???

2004-05-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:52:35PM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: What's the difference between an ftp and a tftp? And what's next? tftp is the trivial file transfer program -- which is a very different beast to your standard FTP server. TFTP is used for moving files between machines

Re: upgrading ports, skipping or deferring from automatic upgrades

2004-05-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 04:59:57AM +, Andy Smith wrote: On the other hand, is there maybe a simple way to tell portupgrade *never* to upgrade specific ports unless they are forced or specified singly? There is. That's what the HOLD_PKGS array in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf is for. That

Re: compiler err trying to make buildworld.

2004-05-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
[Sinal 11 problems] On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 02:21:17AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Can you give me a URL or should I google around? Y'know, the more I think about it, most of the time this system went down was during heavy builds or very heavy loads. It's a kind-of

Re: Router take advantage of device polling

2004-05-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 06:51:32AM -0400, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: I am currently running a router pushing about 15 megabit of traffic, with CPU usage like so: root 25 5.9 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 10:16AM 47:49.70 (irq7: bge0 amr0) root 14 5.9 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 10:16AM

Re: Install Identd for FreeBSD 4.5

2004-05-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 07:27:17PM +0700, Hadi Surya Wijaya wrote: Questions : How to Install Identd on FreeBSD 4.5 step by step ..? identd is built in. Just edit your /etc/inetd.conf and uncomment the line that says: #auth stream tcp nowait rootinternalauth -r

Re: Learning perl

2004-05-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:48:42AM -0400, JJB wrote: Looking for recommendations of best web sites for tutorials on learning perl, asking questions of peer group, lookup syntax, paper books, ETC. Three things: The Camel: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/ The Llama:

Re: keyboard country mapping

2004-05-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 03:12:09PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2004, arden wrote: I'm in the UK but my install has set up my keyboard as American how can i alter it ? You can choose a keymap interactively with kbdmap. Based on 'man rc.conf', adding keymap=uk.cp850 to

Re: Freebsd 4.x support IBM X235 Series and ServeRAID 6i/6M

2004-05-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:54:16PM +0700, Chinawat Wongvivitkul wrote: I have one question ask you about Freebsd 4.x. Does Freebsd 4.x support ServeRAID 6i on IBM X235 Series ? No, apparently not. It is however supported under FreeBSD 5.x:

Re: Help to start BIND on boot

2004-05-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:29:55PM +0100, Nuno César Pires wrote: My question is: what solve the problem, the new FreeBSD 5.2.1 or the BIND 8.3.7? Good question. It's unlikely to be the simple replacement of one OS version or one BIND version for another -- we would know about it if there was

Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall

2004-05-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:29:57PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: This is probably a simple question with a simple answer, but I wasn't sure where to look. I recently installed a deny-all firewall and everything is working fine. However, I keep getting /kernel log messages about attempts

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: man disklabel is pretty comprehensive. Yes. But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing. They could both use a complete systematic

Re: Getting source by anoncvs

2004-05-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 08:48:35PM -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: I just failed at an attempt to pull down the latest sources via anoncvs using the instructions found at the URL below. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html Looks like the docs have got a

Re: `call' function in `make'

2004-05-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:25:59PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote: Is there an analogue in BSD `make' of the `call' function in `gmake': $(call VARIABLE,PARAM,PARAM,...)? Not as such. You can however use the '!=' operator to assign a value to a variable based on the output of some external

Re: Running FreeBSD 4.9 Jails on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 system

2004-05-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:38:50PM -0500, Kung Foo Ham[p]?ster wrote: When I install FreeBSD 5 on my system can I run those FreeBSD 4 Jails on it and then upgrade them individually without much pressure. Afraid not. The jails have to run the same version of the OS as the host system.

Re: `call' function in `make'

2004-05-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:15:57PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote: At 2004-05-25T15:44:51+01:00, Matthew Seaman wrote: Is there an analogue in BSD `make' of the `call' function in `gmake': $(call VARIABLE,PARAM,PARAM,...)? Not as such. You can however use the '!=' operator to assign

Re: config is out of sinc

2004-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
I am a little confused on the difference of RELENG_4_9 and RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE. Is the first one for stable systems, and the later one for current systems? Think of it like this: RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE marks the *beginning* of the RELENG_4_9 branch.

Re: your mail

2004-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:36:48AM +1200, Richard Stevenson wrote: I've got a quick question about the most recent security advisory, FreeBSD-SA-04:11.msync. I'm trying to figure out how big an issue it is (whether or not I need to stop everyone's access to the file server until it's

Re: symbolic link cycling

2004-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 07:12:02AM -0400, Boucher, Eric wrote: Is it possible to know which folders are pointing to each other in a cycle manner by doing a find or some other command? I have a backup utility (in windows thru samba) which seems to backup redundant files, probably due to some

Re: LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 07:11:57PM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote: I was getting ready to give up with LDAP (for samba and pam_ldap) untill i tried phpldapadmin, worked like a dream, not sure its in ports yet though. ( oh and i'll recomend ldap account manager which is in ports but only useful if

Re: Zyxel Prestige 630

2004-05-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 01:41:08AM +0100, Jon Mercer wrote: Without double checking, the 630 is just an ADSL router running a connection to FreeBSD over ethernet. In short, so long as the ADSL parameters are configured on the 630 it should all work just fine. Hope this helps. I'm running a

Re: Problem after installing 'lprng'

2004-05-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 09:12:53AM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: Obligatory OS system info: uname -a FreeBSD rcn.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I was having problems printing from KDE, so I

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 02:43:37AM -0500, adp wrote: I am running a FreeBSD 4.9-REL NFS server. Once every several hours our main NFS server replicates everything to a backup FreeBSD NFS server. We are okay with the gap in time between replication. What we aren't sure about is how to automate

Re: Can I specify the resolver timeout?

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 06:38:58AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-05-30 22:26, adp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-05-30 12:04, adp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to override this timeout value? I know it is possible on other

Re: Freebsd - Mail configuration and syntax

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:32:21AM +0100, Carla Neves wrote: I would like someone to give me some good tips to configure my email on Freebsd v4.9, to send/receive messages. I would like to use what I have already installed: sendmail, mailx. I went through the Freebsd manual but I coulnd't

Re: Groups

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 08:37:39AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: To simplify administration for some temporary groups I would like to make a group a member of an existing group. The question is: Can a group be made a member of a group, i.e. nested groups? There is nothing in the

Re: HELP: I ran /stand/sysinstall...upgrade(100 % completed) But nothing happened..

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:11:28AM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: I'm currently using freebsd 4.9 and I've wanted to upgrade to freebsd 4.10. What I did was I've followed the instructions on the site which says that the most convinient way is to use the /stand/sysinstall utility and

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