Re: sudden peak in load average

2008-02-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, 2008/2/27, Mark Tinguely [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From the MRTG data I can see that suddenly on a currently not very busy machine the load averege went over 15 or more. This happened around 10 in the morning. Not many entries in httpd access log, smtp

Re: sudden peak in load average

2008-02-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Mark Tinguely wrote: Is it possible that there's a message in your queue that's *being processed*, so it may have arrived earlier than near that time and causes the spike? Bart is correct that the SA processing occurs before sendmail log entry. Lately, I have had problems with the latest

Re: join

2007-12-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Chris Els wrote: Chris Els Mail :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 011-542 1110 Cell : 082 783 7999 Fax: 0866975698 - PLEASE NOTE - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Randy Ramsdell wrote: We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Randy Ramsdell wrote: I think I will just set the rc.conf variable to answer Y to fsck questions unless there is a better way. A side note, this system has been hard shutdown two times and each time required intervention. We also use several Linux system ( reiserfs and ext3 ) and raely do I

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Wojciech Puchar wrote: ls | wc strange. i did [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/b]$ a=0;while [ $a -lt 1 ];do mkdir $a;a=$[a+1];done completed 25 seconds on 1Ghz CPU ls takes 0.1 seconds user time, ls -l takes 0.3 second user time. unless you have 486/33 or slower system there is something wrong.

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 08:12:36PM -0600, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: 1) first of all, i don't think that freebsd operating system is an appropriate forum to express political views. so whether we are for or against censorship or

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Peo Nilsson wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 18:13 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: it was the fascism that lost the war. He discarded his country for his fascism. *No* humans *win* any kind of war. They *all* loose... Loose? Catch them then. ___

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Tuesday, November 27, 2007 01:19:50 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Beastie's Law: Any demand of a modification of FreeBSD or it's website using political incorrectness as

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
David Benfell wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:31:51 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: We have adults who can't be bothered to tell the difference between lose and loose in writing. Wonderful things encouraged by people justifying their lazy writing styles. This might be slightly unfair

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Robert Huff wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: You're right in that top posting is a savings in effort. I disagree. It's not a savings, it's a transfer - moves the work from the poster to the reader. Okay, I'll qualify my statement by saying it is a time and effort saver

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Brent Jones wrote: I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread enough times that I like to cut to the chase and read the new input without having to scroll down, sometimes navigating an endless nesting of For me, reading through top posted replies saves time and

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Rob wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV http://xogiving.org/ I have to agree with many posters, this project

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 13, 2007 2:52 PM, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV

Re: OT: disk clone app

2007-11-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, sorry for the off-topic, but im ready to pull the last hairs off my head- a few months I downloaded an open source disk clone program for a friend of mine but it was like 3 am, it worked great booted from floppy and cloned the drive- Now that I really need

Re: Virtualization

2007-11-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Erik Osterholm wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:57:20PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: There's a donation box on http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html for developers to get VMWare Workstation working on FreeBSD but the status of the project is unknown. There's also some indication

Virtualization

2007-10-30 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I was curious with the information coming out regarding FreeBSD 7 what option are available for virtualizing other OS's using FreeBSD as a host. I've been running several servers (Windows of various versions and a Linux system) as virtual machines under VMWare Server for Linux for about a

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Jona Joachim wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun

Re: what kind of UPS will work best?

2007-10-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Rob wrote: think. Most the draw in a residence is the HVAC. what is this? HVAC? Heating and air conditioning, I believe. No? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: what kind of UPS will work best?

2007-10-06 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Gary Kline wrote: Hi Folks, Recently, a storm happened and the power surge blew me off-line. Time to get serious about buying a UPS that will handle my four main servers for at-most, a 10-second power outage. After that, shut down my computers. It took me 90

Re: Managing very large files

2007-10-05 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Steve Bertrand wrote: Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Donnerstag 04 Oktober 2007 22:16:29 schrieb Steve Bertrand: This is what I am afraid of. Just out of curiosity, if I did try to read the entire file into a Perl variable all at once, would the box panic, or as the saying goes 'what could

Re: Update on data corruption with Tyan/3Ware

2007-09-25 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bart Silverstrim Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 7:05 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Chris Boyd; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update on data corruption with Tyan/3Ware

Re: Update on data corruption with Tyan/3Ware

2007-09-24 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: 3ware is supported by the manufacturer - what do they say? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Boyd Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 2:54 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Update on data

Re: Convince me, please! - too much about GUI

2007-08-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Reid Linnemann wrote: My ten year old niece has been brainwashed by the GUI quagmire. She saw my FreeBSD 6-STABLE console on my amd64 3000+ and wanted to know why i was using such an old computer. She had the visual aspect of the user interface ingrained as a measure of

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Latitude wrote: I'm interested in changing over to FreeBSD from Windows, but I'll have to say, you guys don't really present a forceful argument to Windows users of how easy the switch may be. I get knee-deep in FreeBSD jargon the second I get to your webpage. I need to see an overwhelming

Re: USB keyboard not recognized at bootup

2007-08-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Oscar Chavarria wrote: On 8/3/07, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oscar Chavarria wrote: I have a GENERIC kernel. The /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC file contains the following under the USB Support section (among other devices): device usb #USB Bus (required

Re: Transparent email proxy

2007-07-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, As an ISP, or the person in charge of a large organisation, have you ever set-up a transparent email redirection: all outgoing email would be proceeded to an outgoing server in order to check for virus, spam, whatever. Incoming mail, yes. Outgoing, no, I haven't.

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-05-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Bart Silverstrim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 12:08 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: John Levine; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam You're making it sound as if greylisting

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-04-30 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Bart Silverstrim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 5:05 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Christopher Hilton; User Questions Subject: Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam Both of those are assumptions your making

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-04-30 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ted, usually I find your posts intelligent and food for thought, but I almost think you're doing this on purpose now. No, the problem is you haven't understood the point I was making. Here's the summary as I understand it. You're against greylisting because: a)

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-04-30 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 30, 2007, at 4:36 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I don't understand why people are focusing on trying to redesign the monitoring system I'm using. Don't you have any imagination at all? The point was that there are legitimate situations where the delays introduced by greylisting are a

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-04-30 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 30, 2007, at 6:19 AM, cpghost wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 01:16:23AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The system that would cause problems if it ran greylisting is not MY system. It's the mailserver owned by the cellular company that I am sending to. If they went and installed

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-04-29 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 29, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Bart Silverstrim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 5:01 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Eric Crist; Grant Peel; Christopher Hilton; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greylisting

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-04-29 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 29, 2007, at 4:45 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Sam Lawrance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 2:59 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam Email is not an instant

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-04-28 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 28, 2007, at 5:29 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Hilton Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:45 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam Ted

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-04-28 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 28, 2007, at 5:25 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Bart Silverstrim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 1:58 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Christopher Hilton; Grant Peel; Eric Crist; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greylisting

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:59:43PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Bill Moran wrote: A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy) describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 25, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 15:29:04 -0400 Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: No kidding. That professor should have his Wikipedia account banned, and the head of his

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-04-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:15 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: There are legitimate technical reasons that someone may want their mail to not be greylisted. For example, my cell phone's e-mail address is in our monitoring scripts to page me in the event of a server failure. I would be pretty pissed

Re: test

2007-04-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 16, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Bob Middaugh wrote: Please don't top post. Maybe he can't read and that's why the unsub link is useless? That would also explain the top posting to a degree. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: squid

2007-03-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 16, 2007, at 10:51 AM, RW wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:45:22 + neo neo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to configure to use my FreeBSD as a proxy with Squid ? Just install it and read the notes that are printed-out at the end of the install. What exactly is the question

firewall/proxy question

2007-03-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I am trying to find a way to stop some people on our network from accessing certain websites. We have been using Squid with SquidGuard on an older FreeBSD system. The Squid that was installed from ports doesn't seem to see https: connections. From what I can find, this appears to be

Proxy question

2007-03-05 Thread Bart Silverstrim
We are currently running Squid and SquidGuard on FreeBSD for monitoring/proxying web browsing activity at our workplace. The problem is that some users figured out how to use a specific type of proxy to bypass protections...specifically, they're going through an https site. Is it

Re: will it work?

2007-01-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 3, 2007, at 1:16 PM, X X wrote: Hello, I want to have a home server on my network. I have a pc with AMD Athlon xp 2200+ processor, 1gb ddr ram, 2- 500gb hard drives, 10/100 lan. I need it to serve files to 5 computers. It has to allow remote access from outside the network by

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-21 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Dec 20, 2006, at 6:39 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:06:34PM -0800, Terabyte Pete wrote: It's all true U know it. What's your title - head 'driver instal complicator'??? HAHAHAHAHAHA Enjoy your peddling I.T. services. Would all B so unnecessary if U actually

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Dec 20, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Andy Greenwood wrote: On 12/20/06, Terabyte Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 In Winblow$, the release bundling of IE was purposely as crippleware, virus, bug delivery system 2 trap people into constantly 'upgrading'. A

forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic

2006-09-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
This will probably be kind of wordy, but I could use some advice on how to track it. I have a freebsd system acting as a gateway (it's using IP forwarding) so it can act as a web proxy server and filter for the users. It is also filtering incoming email to act as a mail filter between

Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic

2006-09-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Is there some way to get the FreeBSD system to log machines using port 25 without interfering with the FreeBSD machine's filtering of email function? Or at least make the traffic visible to

Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic

2006-09-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Better to use something like: ipfw add 1 log tcp from any to me 25 setup If Bart would like to use tcpdump for the same purpose, consider running something like: tcpdump

Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous

2006-03-24 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 24, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Oliver Iberien wrote: I have never been on a list from which I have received as much help as this one, which raises a question for me. I would like to thank the people who post questions to my answers, such as the fellow below, but don't want to spam people's

Re: awk question

2006-03-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Noel Jones wrote: On 3/6/06, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm totally drawing a blank on where to start out on this. If I have a list of URLs like http://www.happymountain.com/archive/digest.gif How could I use Awk or Sed to strip everything after

awk question

2006-03-06 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I'm totally drawing a blank on where to start out on this. If I have a list of URLs like http://www.happymountain.com/archive/digest.gif How could I use Awk or Sed to strip everything after the .com? Or is there a better way to do it? I'd like to just pipe the information from the logs to

Re: How would you improve FreeBSD?

2006-02-17 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 17, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Kristian Vaaf wrote: At 13:11 17.02.2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kristian Vaaf Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How would you improve

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 10, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-10 09:44, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as the new slice had enough space, geometry shouldn't matter to dump|restore ? Right :) It also allows restoring in a

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 10, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Peter wrote: --- Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 10, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-10 09:44, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as the new slice had enough space

Re: Protecting Windows

2006-02-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:02 PM, Brian Astill wrote: Greetings, all. Can anyone help with this issue? Person with deteriorating vision has discovered Dragon Naturally Speaking which not only allows the construction of text from speech but can also speak from received text. ie letter writing and

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 18, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Matias wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the essential difference between FreeBSD and Linux (Fedora for instance)? Where can I find any list of differences? What/Where are the advantages of FreeBSD vs Linux? Greetings Greg

Re: FREE OS

2005-12-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Dec 1, 2005, at 4:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi FreeBSD, Hi My Names Mr Marc Harry Charles Corn, I am The CEO of _www.skyline2.co.uk_ (http://www.skyline2.co.uk) i am e-mailing you on consern to your free OS um i want to develop an

Re: Windows Compatibility?

2005-11-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 17, 2005, at 7:51 PM, Peter Clutton wrote: On 11/18/05, Augusto Montenegro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking into changing my Windows Operating system toFreeBSD or Linux. Most of my programs run in Windows. Can I use FreeBSD as my OS to run my programs? You can, with tools

log file conversion (OT?)

2005-11-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I have Squid running on a FreeBSD system and the log file (access.log) has lines like 1131556815.537101 172.16.2.153 TCP_HIT/200 35674 GET http://www.urprize2.com/adv77/images/header_08_23_05.gif - NONE/- image/gif 1131556815.584 47 172.16.2.153 TCP_HIT/200 1828 GET

Re: log file conversion (OT?)

2005-11-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-11-09 12:36, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Squid running on a FreeBSD system and the log file (access.log) has lines like 1131556815.537101 172.16.2.153 TCP_HIT/200 35674 GET http://www.urprize2.com/adv77

Re: log file conversion (OT?)

2005-11-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-11-09 13:44, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Yes. Perl should work fine here. $ echo '1131556815.537101 172.16.2.153 TCP_HIT/200 35674 GET' | \ perl

Re: New Logo

2005-11-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Ted, you are an *sshole Please try not to top post...you're being rather vague on what part exactly makes him an *sshole, in your opinion... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: New Logo

2005-11-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Of course not. You got what you deserved though so shut the hell up. Ted, you need to shut the hell up. FreeBSD is not your project and your whining and complaining

Re: New Logo

2005-11-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 1, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Danny Pansters wrote: On Tuesday 1 November 2005 22:22, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Of course not. You got what you deserved though so

Re: New Logo

2005-11-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 1, 2005, at 7:00 PM, ke.han wrote: In any efforts to expand the market share of freeBSD, I suggest the following: a - It is important to show professionalism, courtesy and restraint as a community. I chose to move from Linux to freeBSD in large part because of the quality of the

Re: New Logo

2005-11-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 1, 2005, at 8:27 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: -- snip -- That's correct, but we should recall that this is a mailing list to ask technical questions, not discuss logos or flame people. Discuss logos on the advocacy@ list; don't flame people on any list. I don't post here often, lest I

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Peter Matulis wrote: --- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YUK! Yeah, it has a something's missing feel to it. I suppose it was time to distance ourselves from the demon thing though. It not having a face is a step in that direction. The horns remain to

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

2005-10-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 18, 2005, at 9:19 AM, Bill Moran wrote: This will be FreeBSD 5.4 machine. I need to hook a printer to a server (actually, it's a plotter, an HP inkjet plotter). The server doesn't have a parallel port, and the printer doesn't have a USB port. The guy who provides our hardware

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 27, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:27, Josh Ockert wrote: There isn't a fuss. Someone asked for help. The only fuss is coming from Ted, who insists that any slight against Beastie is a Fundamentalist Christian Crusade. I get your point -

Re: port scanning and hidden servers

2005-09-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 7, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Denny Jodeit wrote: Hello: I have a user on my network with a Linux box that is performing a port scan on all the computers in my network manually. He's doing this 'because he can'. Although I've asked him not to, he continues to do so. 1) How can I block or

Re: video surveillance with freebsd

2005-09-04 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 4, 2005, at 9:07 AM, vittorio wrote: Alle 01:06, domenica 04 settembre 2005, nbco ha scritto: On Friday 03 June 2005 23:56, vittorio wrote: The aim: with up to 4 small cameras connected to a pci board in a freebsd 5.4 box, scattered suitably around to guard, surveille a seaside resort

Re: running more than one server with one IP address

2005-08-28 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 28, 2005, at 2:28 PM, David Banning wrote: Is it possible to run more than one server(machine) with one IP address? I have so many different server-applications running on my machine I would like to divide them up. Maybe using one machine email only, or use one for certain websites,

Re: force use proxy server

2005-07-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 20, 2005, at 2:52 AM, vladone wrote: Hi! How i can redirect web traffic from my lan, throught my proxy server? We set up Squid/SquidGuard, set the machine to forward traffic and created a firewall rule to forward port 80 traffic to the port Squid was listening to, then told the DHCP

Re: Spam:****, RE: Demon license?

2005-07-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 20, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bart Silverstrim Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:45 AM To: Josh Ockert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: Demon license

Re: Spam:****, RE: Demon license?

2005-07-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 20, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 20, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: As I understand it Apple is using some of the code from FreeBSD, but FreeBSD isn't necessarily *getting* anything as an obligation from them. Ideally, if businesses

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 19, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Josh Ockert wrote: Go ahead. Blocking it just shows that you are totally unwilling to consider any position different than your own. I am at least willing to continue to discuss it. No. I have no objection to your position. I have an objection to your complete

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 19, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Josh Ockert wrote: On 7/19/05, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 19, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Josh Ockert wrote: Go ahead. Blocking it just shows that you are totally unwilling to consider any position different than your own. I am at least willing

portmanager upgrade question

2005-07-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Is there a way to force a rebuild with new dependencies when you get errors like: ** OLD ethereal-0.10.11_1 built with old dependency net-snmp-5.2.1_2, current dependency is net-snmp-5.2.1.2 OLD gtk-2.6.8 built with old dependency libxml2-2.6.19, current dependency is libxml2-2.6.20 OLD

Re: Copying data onto a NTFS partitioned hdd

2005-07-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 7, 2005, at 7:07 AM, Igor Robul wrote: datora tehnika wrote: ''too small.'' Then I went with ''default,'' but then the volume size was ''too large.'' (for a 40 GB drive, the identical twin of which This is known problem for Windows 2000 DiskManager. You can create FAT32 with Win98,

Re: port rebuild question

2005-07-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 30, 2005, at 9:46 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: * Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050630 15:58]: wrote: Silly question... If I want to rebuild amavisd-new and ALL p5 ports that amavis uses (so I can make sure they are seeing the upgraded PERL version properly), would I just use

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 1, 2005, at 11:29 AM, fbsd_user wrote: So just because this guy was considerate and said 'test' in his subject he gets criticized. But all the posts to this list for selling drugs we all just ignore with no comments. And what good is posting to the 'test' list when the sole purpose of a

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 1, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/1/05, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [deleted] While proposing ways to stop people from sending test messages to lists, can someone find a way to filter out top posting as well? :-) I'm not trying to stop anybody. I'm

port rebuild question

2005-06-30 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Silly question... If I want to rebuild amavisd-new and ALL p5 ports that amavis uses (so I can make sure they are seeing the upgraded PERL version properly), would I just use portupgrade -rR amavisd-new? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

amavis problems

2005-06-29 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Ever since running the update to the newest version of perl I've run into difficulty with my amavis scanning. I think there are some p5* packages that aren't properly recompiled to run with the latest PERL...the logs are showing errors like Clam Antivirus-clamd: Error reading from

Re: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 2:40 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: freebsd as the basis

portmanager, amavis update problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
There seems to be a dependency loop occuring on our server when trying to do an upgrade; is there a way to force the update and rebuild dependencies? Below is a snippet of output (please let me know if more of the update info is needed...) -Bart * -=MISSING=-

portmanager, amavis install problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
There seems to be a dependency loop occuring on our server when trying to do an upgrade; is there a way to force the update and rebuild dependencies? Below is a snippet of output (please let me know if more of the update info is needed...) -Bart * -=MISSING=-

Re: portmanager, amavis install problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: There seems to be a dependency loop occuring on our server when trying to do an upgrade; is there a way to force the update and rebuild dependencies? Below is a snippet of output (please let me know if more of the update info is needed

Re: portmanager, amavis update problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: On 27/06/05, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a dependency loop occuring on our server when trying to do an upgrade; is there a way to force the update and rebuild dependencies? Below is a snippet of output

Re: portmanager, amavis install problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Monday 27 June 2005 07:32, Bart Silverstrim wrote: There seems to be a dependency loop occuring on our server when trying to do an upgrade; is there a way to force the update and rebuild dependencies? Below is a snippet of output

Re: portmanager, amavis update problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: On 27/06/05, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: Have you tried manualling installing the amavisd-new port? If there is a problem with the dependencies then manually installing

Re: portmanager, amavis update problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: On 27/06/05, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: I get mime_decode-1 FAILED errors in the amavis logs. I'm guessing that may have something to do with one of the perl mime

Re: portmanager, amavis update problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: On 27/06/05, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: I get mime_decode-1 FAILED errors in the amavis logs. I'm guessing

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 23, 2005, at 5:04 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I have to take my neighbour with her Ph.D. in biology again. We can assume she has proven not to be a plain idiot. She got some of the book, looked at them for some days and said 'why

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 23, 2005, at 6:30 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Why should I study the drivers manual before getting a drivers license? I do not know why people do it. I just learned driving in a deserted place. I didn't say learned driving I said get a license You have

Postfix on BSD

2005-06-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Probably off-topic, but it's a sysadmin question that maybe someone on the list could send a quick blurb answer about :-/ I'm trying to filter some mail coming into Postfix based on the body content. I have the line body_checks = regexp:/usr/local/etc/postfix/body_checks in main.cf. The

Re: Postfix on BSD

2005-06-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 16, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Ean Kingston wrote: On June 16, 2005 11:54 am, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Probably off-topic, but it's a sysadmin question that maybe someone on the list could send a quick blurb answer about :-/ I'm trying to filter some mail coming into Postfix based on the body

Re: Postfix on BSD

2005-06-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 16, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Ean Kingston wrote: On June 16, 2005 12:06 pm, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Jun 16, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Ean Kingston wrote: On June 16, 2005 11:54 am, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Probably off-topic, but it's a sysadmin question that maybe someone on the list could

Re: Very Dissapointed

2005-06-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 14, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Lane wrote: Ok, Ok. I think everybody gets it, now. FreeBSD Yay! Microsoft Boo. FreeBSD users are the most helpful EVER, with never a bad word uttered. Microsoft users are bad people whose feet stink and they might not love jesus. Now, please move on.

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