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2004-05-11 Thread Peter Risdon
wendy wrote: Easy to install FreeBSD can be installed from a variety of media including CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, floppy disk, magnetic tape, an MS-DOS® partition, or if you have a network connection, you can install it directly over anonymous FTP or NFS. All you need is a couple of formatted 1.44MB

Re: spam spoofers

2004-05-11 Thread Peter Risdon
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I also have a woman getting mail from a sick person with the address and return the same as her address. the police, FBI, are no help.. That may change. You probably know this already, but Received headers are your friend. PWR.

Re: php4 installation problem

2004-05-12 Thread Peter Risdon
Vivian wrote: Hi, I have problems installing php4. I have done cd /usr/ports/www/mod_php4 make install Then, it shows You cannot define WITH_IMAP *and* WITH_RECODE! Error code 1 Please help me resolve this. This means exactly what it says. When the install starts, you're invited to

Re: Mirroring Mysql databases - and secure tunneling, while I'm at it.

2004-05-12 Thread Peter Risdon
Andy Holyer wrote: I've looked in the docs, and used google, and I need a quick steer as to the best way to proceed. Our company is running two servers: one is a public web/mail/dns server sitting in a rack at Telecity, the other one is sitting here right next to me, and should never be seen

Re: pure-ftpd and dreamweavers files

2004-05-12 Thread Peter Risdon
Noah wrote: PureFTPd - 1.0.18 FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE I have been using PureFTPd fine for many months now. But there is a user that is telling me that there are issues when uploading dreamweaver generated files. This is new by me but I figured I would send it out to the list. It appears that there

Re: Transfering Files

2004-05-14 Thread Peter Risdon
Kent Stewart wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 07:11 pm, Bruce Hunter wrote: I have two computer systems. 1 windows 2k system where I do web development work, specifically php development. The other system is a FBSD headless system that I control via ssh, from my windows system. The FBSD system

Re: Apache returning multiple (Identical) pages?

2004-05-14 Thread Peter Risdon
Andy Holyer wrote: This is a weird one. I'm setting up a PHP page on the web server (Apache2, FreeBSD 5.2). When I fetch from a browser, the server delivers index.php over and over again, as fast as it can as far as I can tell. However if I telnet to port 80 and type in the get request

Re: Apache returning multiple (Identical) pages?

2004-05-14 Thread Peter Risdon
Andy Holyer wrote: On 14 May 2004, at 15:20, Peter Risdon wrote: Andy Holyer wrote: This is a weird one. I'm setting up a PHP page on the web server (Apache2, FreeBSD 5.2). When I fetch from a browser, the server delivers index.php over and over again, as fast as it can as far as I can tell

Re: Problem with FreeBSD 4.8, ipf, ipfnat and forwarding for pcAnywhere

2004-05-10 Thread Peter Risdon
adp wrote: I am using telnet just to see if the port accepts connections. That test works fine internally. We are not running a telnet server. Also, we are telnetting to the pcAnywhere port, not the telnet port. :) I've only historical experience with PCAnywhere, nowadays sticking with VNC

Re: Newbie: 4.9 / 5.2.1 / 4.10 ??

2004-05-08 Thread Peter Risdon
Daniela wrote: On Friday 07 May 2004 16:25, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: 4) Can freebsd use a linux swap space? Yes, anything can be used as swap space, but be sure to determine the correct device file, or else you'll overwrite precious data. If, for example, you have the Linux

Re: No Mouse

2004-05-04 Thread Peter Risdon
Darrell Blake wrote: I believe what you have is not supported in FBSD. Get standalone USB or serial mouse and it will work. How likely is it to ever be supported? Also, if someone can point me in the right direction I can research into writing my own driver for it. I am a Software Engineer

Re: Which php ?

2004-05-04 Thread Peter Risdon
Darryl Hoar wrote: I have 5.1-release installed. I wish to install php4 and want it to work with apache, mysql and openldap. Which one of the php ports do I use ? Easiest thing to do is install www/mod_php4 and select the options you want (mysql - which is a default - and ldap)under the

Re: Manually starting RCng scripts disabled in rc.conf

2004-05-17 Thread Peter Risdon
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 17), Freddie Cash said: Is it possible to manually run an rcNG-style script with app_enable=NO in /etc/rc.conf? For instance, there are a few services that I don't want running all the time on my laptop (like Apache, Squid, DansGuardian) but that I

OT - sendmail forwarding for entire domain

2004-05-20 Thread Peter Risdon
Is it possible to configure sendmail to forward mail for an entire domain to another mail server, identified by ip address rather than domain name, keeping the original To: headers intact? PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Problems with qmail and connecting to smtp daemon and problem with my virtual domain.

2004-05-22 Thread Peter Risdon
Mattias Björk wrote: Hi, list(ners) Problem nr 1. I have read the following guide to install qmail: http://www.stevenfettig.com/mythoughts/archives/cat_qmailhowto.php I'll try to help. You might have looked at these already but if not, they're worthwhile: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html for a

NDIS problem under 5.2.1

2004-05-26 Thread Peter Risdon
I used ndiscvt to convert windows drivers for a netgear WG311v2, recompiled the kernel and get the following in my dmesg output: ndis0: NETGEAR WG311v2 802.11g WIRELESS PCI ADAPTER mem 0xfeac000, 0xfead, 0xfeafe000-0xfea irq22 at device 1.0 on pci2 ndis0: Reserved 0x2 bytes for rid

Re: cannot load ndis module into kernel, FB 5.2.1, TrueMobile 1300

2004-05-27 Thread Peter Risdon
Dani Irinchev wrote: Hi all, I am willing to try the ndis wrapper for my TrueMobile 1300 card on a Dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 and did a cvsup to CURRENT(25th of May). No custom kernel as of yet. I'm having problems with this myself, but you do need some custom kernel

Re: DNS usage question

2004-06-01 Thread Peter Risdon
Luke Kearney wrote: On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 02:31:20 -0500 Jay Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I'm running sendmail on my 5.2.1 system, and have a number of DNSBLs set up in my sendmail configuration. I am not currently running BIND (or any other nameserver), and therefore have configured my

Re: install from floppies will not resolve any ftp server

2004-06-05 Thread Peter Risdon
SWIT wrote: I d/l the floppies and made them and get thru the whole install process but can not resolve any ftp servers to finish. I have tried several nics and I don't think thats the problem. My setup is this. to be freebsd computer hardwired to a switch. the switch is connected to the lan port

Wisdom of automating upgrades

2004-06-08 Thread Peter Risdon
The main cost of having computers for most companies lies not in software or hardware, but in support. I have been pondering the wisdom of automating the upgrade process, so that sources are cvsup'ed nightly and make buildworld buildkernel etc and portupgrade happen overnight maybe once a week

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

2004-06-08 Thread Peter Risdon
Vince Hoffman wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Peter Risdon wrote: I have been pondering the wisdom of automating the upgrade process, You may want to have a look at freebsd-update. Its a binary updater, Client/Server config, the server code and info on what it is, is available from http

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

2004-06-08 Thread Peter Risdon
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Peter Risdon wrote: The main cost of having computers for most companies lies not in software or hardware, but in support. I have been pondering the wisdom of automating the upgrade process, so that sources are cvsup'ed nightly and make buildworld

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

2004-06-08 Thread Peter Risdon
Bill Moran wrote: Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cvsup'ing overnight is routine and fine. The make build/install stuff seems a bit more delicate. I'm happy that I have figured out how to automate this, but not _whether_ I should do so. I am of course only considering tracking RELENG_4

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

2004-06-08 Thread Peter Risdon
Robert Huff wrote: Peter Risdon writes: I suppose what I'm driving at is whether the RELENG_4 branch sees many commits that are likely to be problematic. In general, no. On the other hand ... think of this as a Murphy's Law scenario: if you automate, it _will_ break horribly two days

usb wireless mouse prob on 5.2.1

2004-06-11 Thread Peter Risdon
I'm having problems getting a logitech wireless mouse working on 5.2.1 (cvsupped updated 12 hours ago). I had this working without problem with exactly the same hardware a few weeks ago but had to reinstall, for various reasons and sheepish mumble didn't make any copies of the

Re: New user questions :)

2004-06-17 Thread Peter Risdon
Jorn Argelo wrote: Graham Bentley wrote: [snip] Install the ports tree, use CVSUP to get the latest version of the ports tree (if you don't know how to do that, go to the FreeBSD website and search the handbook) Heres my immediate shortlist :- Setting up DHCP for LAN Clients cd

Re: [FreeBSD] Seti help

2004-06-19 Thread Peter Risdon
LW Ellis wrote: I downloaded the setiathome package. As far as I know everything went OK. It would have been much better to use the port, which launches you straight into registration after make install. It's almost always better to use the port if there is one. WHen I boot the system I get a

maxproc limit reached with trivial exec() in cgi script

2004-06-21 Thread Peter Risdon
apache+mod_ssl-1.3.29+2.8.16 (suexec), PHP 4.3.4 (cgi), FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE exec(ls -l) in a php cgi script works the first time it is run after a reboot Every subsequent invocation gives /kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 1208, please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5) in /var/log/messages

Re: maxproc limit reached with trivial exec() in cgi script

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Risdon
Hi Alexander, Alexander wrote: Hello Peter, Try tunning maxusers in your kernel configuration file maxproc = 20 + 16 * maxusers Thanks for this. Since posting my first message, I have been investigating the problem further. The server on which this behaviour appears also has mod_php

Re: Question about HP drivers

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Risdon
I sent this off-list, but it would be better here. Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC) wrote: FreeBSD 4.5 Is the ethernet chipset listed as supported on freebsd.org? What version of freebsd are you using? On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC) wrote: Hi Folks, we have installed two FreeBSD,

Re: 'ftp' command does what...?

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Risdon
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 2004-06-22 01:36 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: ftp ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu ...is not a valid URL in that no path component is specified (even a trailing '/') - at least, that's my understanding of it. Try this instead: ftp ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/ which works as

make clean all installed ports

2004-06-30 Thread Peter Risdon
I'm sure I saw recently on this list that it's possible to: #cd /usr/ports #make clean somethingorother and clean just installed ports. A straight make clean in the root of the ports tree takes rather a long time. But I can't seem to find the post anywhere. If this isn't the product of my

Re: RDP

2004-07-01 Thread Peter Risdon
Chad Albert wrote: This is for Linux, but it is a project to replace Windows Terminal Services, [snip] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Perry Riggle Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 12:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RDP I was wondering

Re: choice of boot manager

2004-01-14 Thread Peter Risdon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not know. Any information about positive or negative experiences with any of these programs in a multiple operating system configuration would be appreciated. This isn't on your list, but I tried using the romantically named gag graphical bootloader

Re: kernel problem with freebsd 5.2RC2

2004-01-14 Thread Peter Risdon
Zh Zhechev wrote: hi all, make buildkernel KERNCONF=FREESBIEKERNEL The error comes while compiling umass. From your kernel conf: device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da and from higher up in the same file: ## SCSI peripherals #device scbus

Re: share internet with win xp

2004-01-16 Thread Peter Risdon
Hanspeter Roth wrote: On Jan 16 at 15:38, Carvalho Paulo spoke: I do not want to change the connetion to the internet to the freebsd box. I like to leave it in the winxp box. This would require winxp to route. Is winxp able to route? FreeBSD is. Yes. I'd use the FreeBSD machine as

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Risdon
Eric F Crist wrote: What do people here use to edit HTML documents? I usually use Dreamweaver, but I haven't gotten the time to try to get wine working so I can run Dreamweaver on FreeBSD. TIA For a fully graphical html development tool, try /usr/ports/www/quanta PWR.

Re: sendmail help?

2004-01-22 Thread Peter Risdon
fbsd_user wrote: I think you are barking up the wrong tree. I don't think you understand how your ISP works. ISP's do not allow direct smtp access to their email servers, they consider it an security risk to their environment. Sorry, this isn't true. But they don't operate open relays. There

Re: sendmail help?

2004-01-22 Thread Peter Risdon
Micheal Patterson wrote: Fetchmail can't retrieve mail from an smtp server that I am currently aware of as it's designed to speak pop protocol and then deliver it locally to an awaiting smtp server for local delivery. Fetchmail can use various protocols, including etrn, which is used to

Re: Fetchmail config help

2004-01-23 Thread Peter Risdon
fbsd_user wrote: I have an registered domain name. The company that hosts my domain name has an application that allows me to forward all my different users email to an single account at my ISP. This was ok when all the email was for me, but now the family also wants to use my domain name. I want

Re: Printing list of sites access

2004-01-23 Thread Peter Risdon
Jenny Ravu wrote: Hi, I would like to know how I can print on one of my server with Freebsd, We use this server for our internet access, this is connected to a ROUTER that has a link to our ISP. And all the users fo via this server to access the internet, It's difficult to know what you are

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Peter Risdon
Matthew Seaman wrote: Certainly. You will find it better suited to the large filesystems you have than UFS1. I also have a vague feeling that background fsck is a UFS2 feature, but I can't find documentation to either confirm or deny that. I'm sure this is right. If one of my 5.* machines

Re: How do I get into GUI?

2004-01-23 Thread Peter Risdon
Claude Martin wrote: My problem is that I expected the booting process to finish in the graphical user interface. Instead, it stops at a CLI prompt. Maybe I did something wrong. No, although you were probably asked during the install whether you wanted to configure X Windows. Not everyone

Re: Dynamic Router IP.

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Risdon
Bjorn Eikeland wrote: På Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:10:25 +0300, skrev Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello everyone, I have FreeBSD 4.8-R as a NATd ipfw enable behind a DSL router. The router calling the internet and giving the connection 2the bsd box. BSD box does the rest for my LAN.

Re: Dynamic Router IP.

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Risdon
Mike wrote: that it's his dsl router that gets the dynamic ip address, not the freebsd box. Presumably, the router has a static 192.168.1.x address facing the LAN and the freebsd box uses this as its gateway. I doubt you can install a daemon on the router. The deamon has ways to

Re: Dynamic Router IP.

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Risdon
Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote: The deamon has ways to find out its external ip, so don't worry about installing the daemon on the router :) Mike It does? How? The daemon will be running on the Freebsd machine, which does not have the external ip address. I use dynamic dns services here and

Re: MySQL 4.x questions...

2004-01-30 Thread Peter Risdon
Eric F Crist wrote: Thanks for all your help with this problem. Both apps seemed to have successfully installed now, but they both have errors. PostNuke keeps telling me it's 'Failed to Initialize' and I can't get away from the phpBB install script, no matter where I go. I can try to

Re: After 4.6 to 4.9, SSH Lockout

2004-01-30 Thread Peter Risdon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, After upgrading from 4.6-STABLE to 4.9-STABLE (religiously following the Handbook), I could not login to a second or another ssh session. I still, however, have my current connection to where I performed the make world steps. This is a REMOTE machine and I do not

Re: Problem with mount_ntfs

2004-01-30 Thread Peter Risdon
Vladimir Yourtaev wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 15:19, you wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 05:08 am, Vladimir Yourtaev wrote: Hello all My system FreeBSD-4.9 REALEASE kernel compiled with options NTFS hard ad0 has 3 partition: ad0s1 -Primary NTFS; ad0s2 -Extended NTFS; ad0s3 - Primary

Re: Rockwell Modem

2004-02-02 Thread Peter Risdon
Extech wrote: Hi All Can anyone please help me with instruction or point me to doc's on how to install a pnp external Rockwell 56K modem in FreeBSD 5.1 Are you having a specific problem? If so, please say what it is. If not, the FreeBSD handbook is your best bet. But in short, you'll need to

Re: Rockwell Modem

2004-02-02 Thread Peter Risdon
Extech wrote: Here is my plroblem in short... I'm using a external Rockwell 56K modem on Freebsd 5.1. When starting up, the modem is quiried by freebsd (the DT light comes on just before the Login prompt is displayed), if I do a ps -aux it seems if the modem is up ns3# ps -aux root 476 0.0

Re: Communication (Mail Gateway concept) with MS Exchange

2004-02-03 Thread Peter Risdon
Hi, I'm coming into this slightly late, but you can use fetchmail to hand-roll a solution or (I expect) to collect mail for IMGate. Fetchmail can collect from a POP3 mailbox and forward using SMTP (fetchmail keyword: smtphost) to an Exchange server on a private ip address on a LAN. To the

Re: Cannot Add User

2004-02-04 Thread Peter Risdon
** Sometime around 09:21 -0500 02/04/2004, Lowell Gilbert sent everyone: Vince Sabio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I'm now trying to install Postfix, and the problem I'm running into is that I cannot create new user accounts. I created several user accounts during installation, and they seem

Re: Looking for Software on your site...

2004-02-04 Thread Peter Risdon
Donald Corn wrote: Hi. My account rep at Verio suggested I look at your site for software. I am not a technical person, more in the marketing area; but once I find what I am looking for I can pass onto our programmer. FreeBSD is an operating system which comes with some very elegant ways to

Re: Advertising?

2004-02-05 Thread Peter Risdon
Greg Wilson wrote: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-April/001602.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-April/001781.html Hi I reference these two documents, where you have publish my private correspondance. This was obviously inadvertent, but

Re: FDISK Can Not Find FreeBSD Drive

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Risdon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have installed FreeBSD on a separate HardDrive which is D: Not according to FreeBSD. Drive letters are used by DOS and Windows but not many other operating systems. FreeBSD organises disks differently. Maybe try reading the handbook, including but not

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Lewis Thompson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a script to use with the Apache auth plugin mod_auth_any. I have the whole setup working, bar the script that does the authentication. I am worried that because the script must be read/writeable by the Apache user (www) that anybody that can write

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Lewis Thompson wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:56:08PM +, Peter Risdon wrote: Lewis Thompson wrote: I am worried that because the script must be read/writeable by the Apache user (www) that anybody that can write a PHP script on my machine can read the auth script and read

Re: kernel compilation problems - 5.1 (long)

2004-02-12 Thread Peter Risdon
Tadimeti Keshav wrote: hi all, I am having problems compiling my kernel. Your immediate problem is a common one. Your kernel config includes the line: device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da But scbus and da are commented out. Uncomment them, and compile. PWR.

Re: Video card compatibility

2004-02-18 Thread Peter Risdon
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello Support ! I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old computer nut son for Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version. Good choice. Get him started right. When asked for video card on installation, I don't' know what to

Netgear MA111 USB WLAN

2004-02-18 Thread Peter Risdon
Hi, Everything I've seen says no, but as a last resort: has anyone managed to get one of these working with any version of FreeBSD? Thanks, PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: problems with interchange-4.8.7 on FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE

2004-02-19 Thread Peter Risdon
martijn wrote: Hi, I am trying to install and run interchange on my FreeBSD server. Brave... it's not completely straightforward. I first updated the ports directory- succesful. Then I did a make -DCHECK_FOR_IC_USER all install. This went all well. A new user and group (interch) is added and

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread Peter Risdon
Robert Storey wrote: I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. ... The client machines are connected to a switch, which is connected to a Windows 2000 gateway machine to access the Internet. I set up a FBSD client, and using dhcp it can find the network. And Windows

Re: power point

2004-02-19 Thread Peter Risdon
Martin Vana wrote: hi, is there a way to convert ms powerpoint presentation into jpegs? or to view it under Freebsd? Openoffice, or KDE's KPresenter can open MS Powerpoint docs. You'll find the results slightly imperfect but, normally, fine. KPresenter will export not as jpegs but as an html

Re: Shell scripting woes

2004-02-24 Thread Peter Risdon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts: 2) The same backup job - is written as a bash script, and it works perfectly when run by hand, but it won't run as a cron job. Are you using a full path in the shebang at the top of the script? Such as: #!/bin/sh

Re: problem with starting the apache server

2004-02-25 Thread Peter Risdon
Marek Denis wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:24:50PM +0800, Loo Eric wrote: 1) when i add the apache package it comes out following output: Added group www. Added user www. === COMPATIBILITY NOTE: As of version 1.3.24, the RedirectMatch directive requires an absolute URL target

Re: make world

2004-02-25 Thread Peter Risdon
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:16:45AM -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: [...] when i try to ping google.ca i get cannot resolve google.ca :host name lookup failure Can you ping a numeric ip address on the internet? If you can, it's a nameserver (/etc/resolv.conf) issue. If not, it's a

Re: make world

2004-02-25 Thread Peter Risdon
RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: when i ping i get no route to host OK... the ifconfig does not give me any ipadresses that is what puzzles me. Me too. Until you have an interface address, the firewall is surely irrelevant. I gather you're using dhcp. The rc.conf stuff is ok too, So what dmesg

Re: make world

2004-02-25 Thread Peter Risdon
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:24:27AM +, Peter Risdon typed: So what dmesg output is generated when the dhcp client invoked by your entry in rc.conf tries to obtain a lease at boot time? The dhcp client will never get an IP address. He has deny all as only rule

Re: problem with starting the apache server

2004-02-25 Thread Peter Risdon
Eric F Crist wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 03:45 am, you wrote: 2)then when i start the apache server by typing apachectl start it comes out the following output: /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started Have you edited your /usr/local/share/apache/httpd.conf

Re: Addition of user

2004-02-25 Thread Peter Risdon
Jeffrey Allan D. Java wrote: Hi, Is it possible to add an email account in a mail server without a shell account? Yes, by using some additional software to manage the virtual user. /usr/ports/mail/vpopmail is one such, but there are others. PWR.

Re: Addition of user

2004-02-26 Thread Peter Risdon
this so for my information, I generally use /nonexistent as the shell in situations like this, and add /nonexistent to /etc/shells. Is there a difference between using /passwd and something like /nonexistent? PWR. On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Peter Risdon wrote: Jeffrey Allan D. Java wrote: Hi

Re: Running virus scanner on FreeBSD Samba server

2004-02-26 Thread Peter Risdon
Gunnar Flygt wrote: Has anyone any experience from running any virus scanners on a FreeBSD Samba server? The server is serving mostly MS-workstations, so the scanner should be proficient in finding the most common viruses in the M$ world. I use Sophos, because it has Windows and

Re: Search Path in bash2

2004-02-27 Thread Peter Risdon
Martin McCormick wrote: I am trying to modify the execution path on a FreeBSD system for all the bash2 users on that system. The man page says that default path is system-dependent, and is set by the administrator who installs bash. A common value is

apache suexec, php cgi and mod php

2004-02-28 Thread Peter Risdon
Quick version - is there any way to compile the php port to get both the cgi version of the php executable and mod_php, as well as PEAR? Long version - mod_php is not affected by apache suexec - instead, php files in the normal document root of the webserver are executed as the global apache

Re: run perl scrip with post form from apache

2004-02-28 Thread Peter Risdon
fbsd_user wrote: All ready had sim.pl set as 770 and owner as www and group as wheel The httpd-error.log has these messages now (2)No such file or directory: exec of /usr/local/www/data/sim.pl Just a thought - where does your ScriptAlias line in httpd.conf point? The default is:

Re: Counter in php script

2004-02-29 Thread Peter Risdon
fbsd_user wrote: Need to set the initial value for an counter and save it, then bump the saved value by one every time the php script is executed. This must be a very basic function, but not being an php script coder my self this is all new to my. Can anyone provide sample code I can use to

Re: Counter in php script

2004-02-29 Thread Peter Risdon
Peter Risdon wrote: whoops... delete junk |characters inserted by my paste: |$counter_file = '/tmp/counter.txt'; ^ and ?| ^ PWR ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Counter in php script

2004-02-29 Thread Peter Risdon
fbsd_user wrote: Thanks, a really great reply. Have some questions about the fine details. I haven't used this script, just happened to notice it the other day while looking something up, but ... The counter file is an single line with any size numeric field starting in position 1? Like

Re: Search Path in Bash

2004-03-01 Thread Peter Risdon
Gerard Seibert wrote: Peter Risdon writes: When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file

Re: Search Path in Bash

2004-03-01 Thread Peter Risdon
Gerard Seibert wrote: Sunday, February 29, 2004 6:01:48 PM If I am following you correctly, then having a ~/,bashrc, ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile file is worthless, if bash reads only the first file that it finds. Just a couple more observations: /etc/profile and ~/.profile are both in fact the

Re: background color for php script created web page

2004-03-01 Thread Peter Risdon
fbsd_user wrote: FBSD friends Have php script that is creating web page. It's working all except I can not set the background color. It seems like it's ignoring the style options. How is the background color changed from the default white to #CCFFCC color from within an php script? It isn't.

Re: Once again floppy mounting problem

2004-03-02 Thread Peter Risdon
Robert Golovniov wrote: Hello, I tried to mount my floppy drive, but it turned out that I do not have the device named fd0 at all. I do have fd though. Did I miss something? Please show your dmesg (/var/run/dmesg.boot). PWR ___ [EMAIL

Re: Problems Mounting CDROM

2004-03-02 Thread Peter Risdon
Rishi Chopra wrote: Here's what happens: usha# mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: No such file or directory I don't think you've shown your dmesg... is the cd drive picked up? If so, what as? Perhaps you could copy your dmesg to the list. PWR.

Re: Once again floppy mounting problem

2004-03-02 Thread Peter Risdon
Robert Golovniov wrote: On Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 10:55:12 AM, Peter Risdon wrote: I tried to mount my floppy drive, but it turned out that I do not have the device named fd0 at all. I do have fd though. Did I miss something? PR Please show your dmesg (/var/run/dmesg.boot

Re: downloading text files from apache

2004-03-03 Thread Peter Risdon
fbsd_user wrote: From my web page I link to .zip, .tgz, and .exe files and when the link is clicked, apache will open window to download the file. When I link to an .txt file it gets opened and displayed. I want to have it open for download like the other files. Is there some config option in

Re: Help Setting Up .bashrc

2004-03-03 Thread Peter Risdon
Bob Perry wrote: Hello, My environment variables indicate SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash and ENV=/home/rperry/.shrc. My understanding is that bash reads ~/.bashrc for interactive shells and $ENV for non-interactive shells. I don't have the ~/.bashrc file. Neither do I have a ~/.bash_profile, or a

Re: downloading text files from apache

2004-03-03 Thread Peter Risdon
fbsd_user wrote: I got no info found for man mime.types No, my fingers were ahead of my brain... mime.types(5) is put there by cups and refers to its own mime.types file. Are you saying that if I delete the statement for .txt out of the /usr/local/etc/apache/mime.types file that apache will

Re: Monitoring TCP/IP traffic

2004-03-04 Thread Peter Risdon
Francisco Reyes wrote: As of a few days ago my DSL modem activity light rarely ever goes inactive for long. I am looking for any program anyone could recommend to monitor what's going on. Yesterday I added log options to all my IPFW rules to see if I could find anything suspicious. I added log

Re: crontab email

2004-03-04 Thread Peter Risdon
Brian Henning wrote: Greetings: Everytime something runs from the the crontab for a given user such as root, I get an email with the results of the execution. I am running a few crontabs that run every 2 minutes and this gets to be a lot of excess email. How can I turn off this feature. #man

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Risdon
Shaun T. Erickson wrote: JJB wrote: WD My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the search engines yet. www.a1poweruser.com Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD. 1) Surreptitiously plugging your own

Re: Fetchmail + Postfix + Amavisd-new

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Risdon
Robert Golovniov wrote: Hello, After doing some research, I still cannot figure out how to have fetchmail feed messages to postfix (running anti-virus and anti-spam filters through amavisd-new), which, in turn, would feed it to procmail for the local delivery. Could anybody help me

Re: Handling mail on a dialup connection

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Risdon
Robert Golovniov wrote: Hello, I would like to create an hourly cron to have the machine bring up the dialup connection, check for the new mail (with fetchmail), send any outgoing messages (with postfix) and then bring the connection down. To make things more complicated, I would

Re: squirrel/qmail/quota question ??

2004-03-09 Thread Peter Risdon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was recently assigned to take charge of creation of email accounts and maintenance and just hit a problem. I don't have any mail experience yet[and very minimal bsd experience], and still reading the documentation, also the previous admin is not around. I deduced from

Re: rc script timing issues?

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Shaun T. Erickson wrote: On 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1, in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I have scripts that start my MySQL database, and that start my Courier-IMAP daemons. When the scripts for courier run, one of the first things they do is start authdaemond, which should fire up several authdaemond.mysql

Re: rc script timing issues?

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Peter Risdon wrote: Shaun T. Erickson wrote: On 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1, in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I have scripts that start my MySQL database, and that start my Courier-IMAP daemons. When the scripts for courier run, one of the first things they do is start authdaemond, which should fire up several

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to

Re: web based configuration as root or equivalent

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Risdon
This is a bit belated, but I have been thinking along similar lines and hope this might be of assistance... Bjorn Eikeland wrote: På Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:27:21 -0600, skrev Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bjorn Eikeland wrote: I'm wanting to make a web based configuration

Re: NAT PPPoE (detailed email)

2004-03-12 Thread Peter Risdon
Mohsin Rahman wrote: Thank you. I will try tun0 as my nat interface. However, if lets say, the modem drops the connection and the next attempt to access the internet, wouldn't FreeBSD assign the new ip address to tun1 and basically render tun0 nat useless? I hope someone will correct me if I'm

Re: vhosts

2004-03-12 Thread Peter Risdon
John DeStefano wrote: --- Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, John DeStefano wrote: The relevent section of my httpd.conf file: #NameVirtualHost *:80 Uncomment this. Thanks... but if you look below, it's already un-commented... NameVirtualHost *:80

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