Re: New mail server setup

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Steve Bertrand wrote: I'm looking potentially to try a different mail server setup. I'm requesting honest feedback from experienced mail ops. My minimum requirements: - IPv6 for all protocols - SPF - IMAP|POP3 must support SSL - SMTP AUTH - submit on 587 - MySQL backend for un/pw, vpopmail

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-16 Thread perryh
Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: Waiting until someone is harmed is tantamount to being an accomplice to the act. And providing details of a currently-undefendable vulnerability to a black hat who did not previously know about it, thereby enabling the black hat to perpetrate harm that would

Re: portupgrade broken

2009-09-16 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya all Something weird going on with portupgrade (and maybe ports in general) here. Somewhere between last months upgrade and this month, portupgrade has started to ignore ports that are reported by portversion as needing upgrading. The result is I have to force each one, one at a

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-16 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:47:10 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: Waiting until someone is harmed is tantamount to being an accomplice to the act. And providing details of a currently-undefendable vulnerability to a black hat who did not previously know about

Re: Moused crashes with Synaptics

2009-09-16 Thread Eitan Adler
  hw.psm.synaptics_support=1   hw.psm.synaptics.vscroll_hor_area=1300 Did this help your problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: portupgrade broken

2009-09-16 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:18:39 +0200 DA Forsyth d.fors...@ru.ac.za wrote: [snip] I saw someone ask about this in Google Groups on the 14th but he has not got an answer yet, so I am not the only one. How do I fix this? You could try the following; 1) Update your ports tree. 2) Remove:

Re: Moused crashes with Synaptics

2009-09-16 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 16. Sep 2009, 11:16:24 + schrieb Eitan Adler:   hw.psm.synaptics_support=1   hw.psm.synaptics.vscroll_hor_area=1300 Did this help your problem? Arrgh. The problem was that I had hit Fn-F7 (deactivate touchpad). The really vicious thing was that every time I opened

Re: New mail server setup

2009-09-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: My minimum requirements: - IPv6 for all protocols - SPF - IMAP|POP3 must support SSL - SMTP AUTH - submit on 587 - MySQL backend for un/pw, vpopmail preferred, but not mandatory - Maildir storage preferred - easy (ie: well documented)

Someone using eclipse PDT?

2009-09-16 Thread Sdävtaker
Hi, i was wondering if someone coud install the PDT for eclipse, i can successfull install eclipse from ports, but pdt is not a port and using the standard procedure installing elcipse packages from the update tool fails. Damian ___

Re: New mail server setup

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Steve Bertrand wrote: What I don't have, and have always wondered about, is live redundancy for the IMAP/POP services. I know that this would be a challenge to some degree considering the high volume of data changes. Perhaps a carp(4) setup between a couple of MDA's, where when the

Re: New mail server setup

2009-09-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: If anyone has a setup that has redundancy for their IMAP/POP services, and a method to keep the changing data relatively up-to-date, I'd love to hear about it. Now, that is a different kettle of fish. This is a job for cyrus imap. I suggest

Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Steele
I posted this on the -net list but didn't get any responses. I'm hoping a wider audience might help. We're using the lag driver to provide automatic failover in case of a network outage. The default configuration looks like this: lagg0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST

Change one file in an ISO image

2009-09-16 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD
Hi list, I need to change one file in an existing ISO image. It is a DVD image btw. Unfortunately I dont have many options of changing the fie before creating the image. Mounting is not the issue, copying data neither but the ISO is also bootable. There must be a simpler solution as in copying

Help configuring sendmail to send only using authorization to smart host

2009-09-16 Thread Phusion
I need some help configuring sendmail to send only using authorization to a smart host being the ISP's mail server. I'm running 7.2-RELEASE. I've looked over http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/outgoing-only.html but want to use the built-in sendmail. I've run the following command:

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, September 16, 2009 06:08:50 -0500 Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:47:10 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: Waiting until someone is harmed is tantamount to being an accomplice to the act. And providing details of a

RE: New mail server setup

2009-09-16 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Steve Bertrand Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:09 AM To: Matthew Seaman Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New mail server setup Matthew Seaman wrote:

passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Worster
is there a general shell syntax that can be used to pass arguments to a daemon that you're starting with the /etc/rc.d/foo start command? for example, how does one start sshd using /etc/rc.d/sshd and pass it '-o X11Forwarding=no' without touching a config file? tom

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 18:45:29 Tom Worster wrote: is there a general shell syntax that can be used to pass arguments to a daemon that you're starting with the /etc/rc.d/foo start command? for example, how does one start sshd using /etc/rc.d/sshd and pass it '-o X11Forwarding=no'

Re: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 16:12:25 Peter Steele wrote: The problem we're having is when nfe0 comes online again, a failback occurs making nfe0 active again. This causes a momentary network outage that we want to prevent. Is there a way to configure the lagg device to stay with the

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 9/16/09 1:35 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 18:45:29 Tom Worster wrote: is there a general shell syntax that can be used to pass arguments to a daemon that you're starting with the /etc/rc.d/foo start command? for

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Chris Cowart
Tom Worster wrote: thanks, Mel, that's good to know. i think your suggestion of modifying rc.conf will turn out to be a tidy solution for me. You could also just put: sshd_flags=-o X11Forwarding=no into your /etc/rc.conf file. Pretty much all of the rc.d scripts support the use of

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:21:40 Chris Cowart wrote: Tom Worster wrote: thanks, Mel, that's good to know. i think your suggestion of modifying rc.conf will turn out to be a tidy solution for me. You could also just put: sshd_flags=-o X11Forwarding=no into your /etc/rc.conf

RE: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Steele
Not really, unless you manually change master. However I believe this also causes a slight or even bigger network outage. Any reason you're not using loadbalance algorithm, since it seems to suit you better? Our resident network guru is quite opposed to using the loadbalancing option since it

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 9/16/09 2:37 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:21:40 Chris Cowart wrote: Tom Worster wrote: thanks, Mel, that's good to know. i think your suggestion of modifying rc.conf will turn out to be a tidy solution for me.

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tom Worster wrote: is there a general shell syntax that can be used to pass arguments to a daemon that you're starting with the /etc/rc.d/foo start command? If you're starting service foo, then you should be able to define command arguments by setting foo_flags=-a -b -c. This is a convention,

/tmp sticky bit differences on FreeBSD 8

2009-09-16 Thread Artis Caune
Hi, can someone point me to what has changed in file creation modes in /tmp directory? # FreeBSD 6, 7: $ cd /tmp; id; touch testfile; mkdir testdir; ls -la uid=65534(nobody) gid=65534(nobody) groups=65534(nobody) drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody wheel 2 Sep 16 22:10 testdir -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody wheel

Re: /tmp sticky bit differences on FreeBSD 8

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Artis Caune wrote: Hi, can someone point me to what has changed in file creation modes in /tmp directory? # FreeBSD 6, 7: $ cd /tmp; id; touch testfile; mkdir testdir; ls -la uid=65534(nobody) gid=65534(nobody) groups=65534(nobody) drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody wheel 2 Sep 16 22:10 testdir

Re: /tmp sticky bit differences on FreeBSD 8

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matthew Seaman wrote: still behave in the expected BSD way (new files get the same group as the directory unless the user is not a member of that group, when they get the users' 1ary group). Errr... Correction. New files get the same group as the directory. Cheers, Matthew

Re: /tmp sticky bit differences on FreeBSD 8

2009-09-16 Thread Artis Caune
2009/9/16 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk: On FreeBSD 6,7 files are created with wheel group, but on 8 - with `gid`. It seems that ZFS uses SysV group semantics (new files get the 1ary group of the user unless the directory is set to SGID).  UFS filesystems on 8.x still behave

A question about the date Function

2009-09-16 Thread Martin McCormick
The man page on date has an example showing how to get an output showing the number of seconds since the Epoch. date -j -f %a %b %d %T %Z %Y `date` +%s There is an envokation of date embedded in this command of date +%s I was curious as to what this command does so I tried the

Re: /tmp sticky bit differences on FreeBSD 8

2009-09-16 Thread Leandro Quibem Magnabosco
Artis Caune escreveu: 2009/9/16 Matthew Seaman [1]m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk: On FreeBSD 6,7 files are created with wheel group, but on 8 - with `gid`. It seems that ZFS uses SysV group semantics (new files get the 1ary group of the user unless the directory is set to SGID). UFS

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 9/16/09 3:19 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Tom Worster wrote: is there a general shell syntax that can be used to pass arguments to a daemon that you're starting with the /etc/rc.d/foo start command? If you're starting service foo, then you should be able to

Re: Clock delays in FreeBSD guest VM on VirtualBox

2009-09-16 Thread Hashimoto
Hello. I am running several FreeBSD(8.0-BETA3) guest VMs on VirtualBox on OpenSolaris. On all hosts, I am configuring running ntpd. However, only one host (naming HostX) can sync the clock. All hosts except for HostX cannot sync the clock. (The time delays about 10 minutes in an hour.)

sSMTP, this mailing list, and helo errors

2009-09-16 Thread Chad Perrin
I moved email from a FreeBSD 6.2 machine to a FreeBSD 7.2 machine. On both machines, I'm using sSMTP[1] to send email to a mailserver managed by a shared hosting server, with SSL/TLS authentication. Everything works, except for one small problem -- sending email to this list. It has apparently

Re: sSMTP, this mailing list, and helo errors

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Powell
Chad Perrin wrote: I moved email from a FreeBSD 6.2 machine to a FreeBSD 7.2 machine. On both machines, I'm using sSMTP[1] to send email to a mailserver managed by a shared hosting server, with SSL/TLS authentication. Everything works, except for one small problem -- sending email to this

Re: A question about the date Function

2009-09-16 Thread RW
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:25:04 -0500 Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: date -j -f %a %b %d %T %Z %Y `date` +%s f0 date +%s f1 I then compared the outputs of f0 and f1 and they are identical. What does the long form of this command give us that date +%s fails to do?

Re: Change one file in an ISO image

2009-09-16 Thread Bryant Eadon
Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: Hi list, I need to change one file in an existing ISO image. It is a DVD image btw. Unfortunately I dont have many options of changing the fie before creating the image. Mounting is not the issue, copying data neither but the ISO is also bootable. There

Re: sSMTP, this mailing list, and helo errors

2009-09-16 Thread Chad Perrin
I evidently forgot to disable Sendmail in my rc.conf on the 7.2 machine, which in turn reminded me that I had forgotten to change the mailer.conf to indicate my alternate MTA for sending emails. This means that my ssmtp.conf file was irrelevant, because sSMTP wasn't being used to send emails at

Re: Change one file in an ISO image

2009-09-16 Thread Michael David Crawford
Bryant Eadon wrote: Have you tried mounting it as a vnode ? and mounting it R/W ? mdconfig -a -t vnode -f file.img mount -t type /dev/md0 /mnt/rw_dvd Where type may be cd9660 or some other format of the image. I haven't seen reported success with this method (checked with various google

Re: Change one file in an ISO image

2009-09-16 Thread Jason
Why not just make a release with the updated file? -jgh On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:26:01PM -0400, Bryant Eadon thus spake: Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: Hi list, I need to change one file in an existing ISO image. It is a DVD image btw. Unfortunately I dont have many options of

Re: Change one file in an ISO image

2009-09-16 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: I need to change one file in an existing ISO image. It is a DVD image btw. Unfortunately I dont have many options of changing the fie before creating the image. Mounting is not the issue, copying data neither but the ISO is also

Re: Change one file in an ISO image

2009-09-16 Thread b. f.
Patrick Gelsema wrote: I need to change one file in an existing ISO image. It is a DVD image btw. Unfortunately I dont have many options of changing the fie before creating the image. Mounting is not the issue, copying data neither but the ISO is also bootable. There must be a simpler solution as

CD doesn't eject from the drive.

2009-09-16 Thread Yuri
I have PIONEER Model DVD-RW DVR-112D. I started the command cdda2wav -v255 -D5,0,0 -B -Owav to grab audio but stopped it with Ctrl-C. Now disk doesn't eject. Both eject command and cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 eject commands hang, and system log gets messages, see below. It seems like a bug in

warning, 100pc Ot... almost

2009-09-16 Thread Gary Kline
this is only to the few hundred of you guys who read the slice of my novel. before i invest another twenty minutes in it, i'd be much obliged how many of you would actually buy th ebook. WEll, either ebook of pod. please answer only offlist; i'm asking here because this is where most of you

Re: A question about the date Function

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Martin McCormick wrote: date -j -f %a %b %d %T %Z %Y `date` +%s f0 date +%s f1 What does the long form of this command give us that date +%s fails to do? It's a contrived example: date -j -f %a %b %d %T %Z %Y `date` +%s -j says don't alter the system date -- this is used if