Re: Installing a second hard disk

2007-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Mar 13, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Aitor San Juan wrote: I am trying to install a secondary hard disk in a Intel-based PC with FreeBSD 5.4 This secondary disk's capacity is 250 Gb. When I enter sysintall to try to format it and create a slice, FreeBSD says that the geometry of disk is not

Re: mirror without destroying existing contents

2007-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 13, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Steve Franks wrote: Anyone made a mirror w/o destroying what's in the disk already? The atacontrol man page is less than adequate in this respect...is is even possible? Oh, yes-- it's certainly possible to create a mirror with live data, but one is advised to

Re: Stopping named: rndc failed, trying killall: .

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 8, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: [ ... ] It would be nifty to make ndc/rndc smart enough to understand how to find the pidfile under the chroot location. rndc doesn't need to know where the pid is; it connects directly to named over the control port (953) to do its magic. Try

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 12, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Dima Sorkin wrote: 2) 'maxdsiz' - Yes, as long as I keep 'maxdsiz + maxssiz' below physical memory size - everything is fine. Single process allocates successfully up to 'maxdsiz'. When tried to put 'maxdsiz' phys mem size, indeed

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Dima Sorkin wrote: Something is probably wrong. kern.dfldsiz on my machine does not influence. I don't believe you can change that value after the system has booted-- you have to set it either in the kernel's config file, or in /boot/loader.conf, for this to

Re: what port* string can I crontab that will *work*?

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Anybody have an automatic (/etc/crontab) method of keeping ports current? I'm almost done upgrading my 5 systems to 6.2 (to be able to grab valid packages) and tried portupgrade with several variants of

Re: FreeBSD Version 5.3

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Dominic Tampone wrote: The last Patch we can find for this Version is 2005. Are there subsequent Patches available to update and bring current? Security updates to FreeBSD 5.3 were published through the end of 2006, something along the lines of 5.3-RELEASE-p37,

Re: Problem Launching Applications in Gnome

2007-03-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 7, 2007, at 6:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main application I run is Vim, which I run through Gnome- Terminal. I frequently have several copies running simultaneously. In general response to Gnome-Terminal commands is very fast, but sometimes when I try to open a file with Vim it

Re: Stopping named: rndc failed, trying killall: .

2007-03-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 8, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Noah wrote: So I Have 6.2 install on my machine and restarting named gets the following error. any clues what is creating this? # /etc/rc.d/named restart Stopping named: rndc failed, trying killall: . By default, named runs in a chroot()ed environment under

Re: Network Printing recommendations please

2007-03-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 8, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Andy Kendall wrote: [ ...and... ] On Mar 8, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Andy Kendall wrote: I've just built my 6v2 box and all is going well so far. I've read the manual and understand LPD and directly attached printers. The manual however is pretty minimal when it comes to

Re: ps showing [appname] for some things -- how to get whole thing?

2007-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 7, 2007, at 2:49 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On my 6.1 system I have a script that launches some java programs [jdk142] and when I do a ps -auxwww I get the whole java command line that was used in launching. On my 6.2 system with jdk15 teh scame scripts launch the same

Re: w hangs before loading

2007-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 7, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Vivek Prasannan wrote: [ ...cross-posting between freebsd-questions and other FreeBSD lists is generally not encouraged; Reply-To: set... ] When I type the command 'w' it holds for a while before printing the output. There is no firewall in the system, load

Re: About root user rights

2007-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 7, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Halid Faith wrote: I am an admin for my bsdserver. That is, I can be root user. But There are 3 people who can be root user in the same server. I have a directory. I want them not to enter that directory. if it be possible the server should ask one more

Re: postfix and greylisting

2007-03-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 5, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Dave wrote: I've set up greylisting with postgrey on postfix 2.3, on a 6.1 machine. All seems to be working well, except my bank can't get through, and i'm wondering how to let them through, what file to edit the user or the recipient file? Here's the output,

Re: awk question

2007-03-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 5, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Having found $9 , how do I /bin/rm it (using system()--yes??) in an awk one-liner? I gather that you are looking under /var/db/pkg...? I'm trying to remove from packages from long ago and find and print them with

Re: Digital Nation Radio Show

2007-03-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My name is Josh Smith, I am the producer for the Digital Nation, radio show, based out of Orlando, Fl. Digital Nation, is about everything electronic and I would like to know some things about FreeBSD. Does a drive need to be partitioned to run it? Can it run on a

Re: Fw: FIN_WAIT_2

2007-02-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Grant Peel wrote: [ ... ] sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_keepalive=0 and in about 10 minutes all FIN_WAIT_2 's dissappear. (well almost all). I expect it virtually shut down dynamic rules too in ipfw, but I have been reading more and more that people are saying don't use dynamics on a busy site.

Re: cron mystery

2007-02-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Robin Becker wrote: [ ... ] before ## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * $HOME/bin/daily 19 * * * * $HOME/bin/hourly after ## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * /home/user/bin/daily 41 * * * * /home/user/bin/hourly and at 41 past the

Re: Using source control to manage system configs

2007-02-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Rob wrote: I'd like some advice on managing config files on multiple servers with a source control system. The idea is to update files locally, and commit them back to a central repository. I know that CVS is the usual choice, but there are a couple of things that I can't get CVS to do. [

Re: compiling always generates fast code?

2007-02-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you get processor-specific code when you do buildworld and buildkernel, particularly on a -RELEASE? No, not unless you've configured the kernel Makefile and /etc/make.conf to include processor-specific CFLAGS. See /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf. Does

Re: Transparent redirect to another interface ?

2007-02-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 23, 2007, at 2:41 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: You can do other things, such as using ng_fec to perform port trunking, or using IPFW or some other thing to manually force traffic out of the other interface, but it's unlikely to result in much benefit. Thanks for the infos , I'll try

Re: Transparent redirect to another interface ?

2007-02-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 22, 2007, at 3:55 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: I have a new mailhub with two ethernet gigabit interfaces, and I would like to transparently redirect IMAP or POP3 requests to the second interface which have a different IP address, to let the first interface drive the SMTP traffic only.

Re: PF slowing down file copies

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 21, 2007, at 9:41 AM, José Pablo Fernández wrote: This might be an MTU problem. Is the MTU set to 1500 everywhere? You can try using a smaller MTU - like 1400 - on two computers, try a transfer and if that works, you'll have to check the switches involved. Where is/should the MTU be

Re: Ultrium 448 Tape Drive

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I have read, I think the Ultrium tape drive is completely compatible with FreeBSD. If I am understanding the specs correctly, it uses hardware compression to compress data. And, again if I am understanding everything

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:55 AM, DAve wrote: Since we are in Indiana we just had to convert all our servers to DST last summer. It was a chore because we have everything from FreeBSD 6.1 to Solaris Sparc 10s. I am seriously considering switching all of our NOCs to GMT and calling it a done

Re: Which file to request SIOCGIFMAC on?

2007-02-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 20, 2007, at 1:10 PM, nocturnal wrote: I'm trying to get the ethernet address and from the manuals i understand that i need the ifreq structure for this. So i'm trying to request SIOCGIFMAC with ioctl on a socket of type SOCK_DGRAM. If you're just targetting FreeBSD = 5.x platforms,

Re: Which file to request SIOCGIFMAC on?

2007-02-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 20, 2007, at 2:33 PM, nocturnal wrote: [ ...looking up one's MAC address... ] I am buying a MacBook for personal use though so it would be nice to run it on osx. I wouldn't like to start using another library just to get the hardware address of an interface though, that seems kinda

Re: Invisible process killing the CPU

2007-02-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 16, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Possible hardware problem perhaps? Are you able to run a burn-in test on the machine? What is that? How can I perform that? (Tomorrow the machine will be free, I can play with it.) I can imagine that the processor is overheated and so the

Re: Managed Switch Implementation

2007-02-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 16, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Y Sidhu wrote: Is there anyone who has experience in developing port mirroring in FBSD? I am trying to combine 2 devices, a managed switch with a modified firewall. This device wants to see traffic from, say 3 ports. So, 3 ports in and all they do is mirror to

Re: Request for FreeBSD 2007 DST patch

2007-02-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 15, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Zaman, Rahat wrote: I would appreciate if you kindly provide me with information links to FreeBSD 2007 DST patch. If you've updated your FreeBSD system via cvsup or similar, you should be fine. Otherwise, you can probably install the /usr/ports/ misc/zoneinfo

Re: named: config filename (-c /var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf)

2007-02-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 14, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Noah wrote: [ ... ] named_flags=-c /var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf named_chrootdir=/var/named here is the error from the script: # /etc/rc.d/named start Starting named. named: config filename (-c /var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf) contains chroot path (-t

Re: How can I manually turn off the HDD?

2007-02-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 13, 2007, at 7:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I turn off the HDD? .. and leave the buffers in the memory, until the RAM is full .. then spin up the drive, write out the data, then it turn off again. ENOTSUPPORTED, at least with FreeBSD. Note that Apple has done a lot of

Re: Secure Telnet

2007-02-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 13, 2007, at 3:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working with oone of my vendors and they are asking for a secure telnet program on my FreeBSD box. Can anyone recommend a port for the secure telnet program, or a source where I can obtain one? There's a Kerberized telnet which is

Re: Onpening and Closing ports

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 10, 2007, at 11:37 PM, Dave Carrera wrote: Had a little nasty person trying to break my sshd on port 22. I need to change and open a new port for sshd but i do not know how. Can one of you kind people help me with this please If you use good passwords, the SSH dictionary attacks are

Re: backup solution

2007-02-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Dino Vliet wrote: [ ... ] Then I will install freebsd on the first disk and will use the two spare IDE-disks on the same cable as a geom-mirror. I will use the system then as a central node with rsync to do daily backups of my main data that is scattered around on different desktops on my

Re: Sync'ng directories between two servers ...

2007-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc G. Fournier wrote: I've got a directory on ServerA that I would like to keep sync'd on ServerB ... to date, I've been using rsync for this, but what I hate with that is that it has to scan the whole directory on both servers to compare, putting a good load on each of them ... Is

Re: READ_DMA48 error interpretation

2007-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Richard Lynch wrote: [I've tried to snip away a lot of stuff, without losing any context...] [ ...trimming away context good, people can go back and read the thread... ] I can touch the exposed front and back top (above IDE cable) and lay my finger along it. It's hot but not like, ouch hot

Re: SCP Delete

2007-02-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 6, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: How do I delete a file after I've copied it with SCP? Is there some sort of secure 'rm' command? Use rsync --delete via SSH. (Danger! Slippery when wet! Use with caution.) -- -Chuck ___

Re: sendmail setup

2007-02-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 6, 2007, at 4:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] i ran tcpdump on the external interface, and the only thing that seems to happen is my machine contacting the other machines, but they never reply!: Typically that means your ISP is filtering outbound connections to port 25. If

Re: Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition

2007-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Tore Lund wrote: The thing that should never, ever happen did happen yesterday. I lost a file and was not able to recover it. ROX-filer said NewFile where I should have seen a familiar filename. [ ... ] My question is whether I could have done anything else to make FreeBSD correct the goof

Re: Sendmail Weirdness on 6.2 (Duplicate Emails)

2007-01-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Tom Grove wrote: It seems as though something in my setup or in Sendmail 8.13.8 is causing certain domains, namely Hotmail, to keep sending messages over and over up to 15 times. Each message is accepted and sent to the user. The MX is just a machine that has 6.2, spamassassin, clamav,

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 26, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Joe Vender wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 17:41, Tore Lund wrote: You issue the command shutdown -p now. This should work with any BIOS that has apm or acpi, as far as I know. I've tried that, but it didn't power off, just got to the halted step. What

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 26, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Joe Vender wrote: The fact that you can shutdown within Linux suggests that your hardware does have the capability, so it's just a matter of figuring out what's different. Note that you might find that trying to run FreeBSD 4.11 to be informative, as the defaults

Re: Is a re-boot req'd after changing 'resolv.conf' ?

2007-01-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 25, 2007, at 11:53 AM, V.I.Victor wrote: I'm simply going to change 2 nameserver ip-addresses. Most of what I've found re. 'resolv.conf' implies it can just be changed on-the-fly. However, other sources (mostly upgrading info) have a reboot involved. So -- re-boot or not? (Note:

Re: RAID Performance Questions

2007-01-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Milo Hyson wrote: The write times of both RAID configurations are slower than the single drive (which is expected due to having to write to multiple drives). However, I wasn't expecting such a drastic reduction (about 50%). The read times, although faster, are

Re: nfs mount rw

2007-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 24, 2007, at 12:01 PM, WarrenHead wrote: I really want is the 'rw by default' bit. So that each user can create files and get their own uid:gid accordingly. If NIS is the answer here, I would not be surprised. Could it be? In order for NFS filesharing to work sensibly, the server and

Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a Unix shell command, and off-topic, but I'm curious. I've been reading a few 'make' commands at work that end in | and I was wondering if that redirection string is synonymous to | /dev/stdout. In csh/tcsh shells, that

Re: cache logs

2007-01-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 22, 2007, at 5:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 4.4 and currently have the following displayed as output from the command df FileSystem 1K blocksUsed Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a63503 63214 -4791

Re: How to catch a memory leak?

2007-01-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Roger Olofsson wrote: The application vlc (found in ports) when run on FBSD 5.x and 6.x behaves as if there's a memory leak somewhere hidden in it. [ ... ] My question is how do I track down a possible memory leak and would there be a tool to monitor (from

Re: DHCP server questions

2007-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Darryl Hoar wrote: I am considering modifying my web/email server by adding DHCP server duties to it. Any problems with this idea ? I can reboot the server if I need to without screwing up the clients that already have IP assigned, can't I ? No, the DHCP

Re: What have you done for me lately !!!

2007-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Joe Arcaro wrote: Maybe this is just a rant, But I'll vent anyway. Actually, I think you've graduated beyond just ranting to full- fledged trolling. I've been watching with some skepticism, the whole apple circus freak fanboy show ... Enjoy yourself. If you

Re: READ_DMA48 error interpretation

2007-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: I know the messages below mean the hard drive or IDE cards are having problems. But is this like RED ALERT or more like YELLOW or what? If you have current backups, it's a yellow alert. Otherwise... And what do I do about it? umount and

Re: perl substitution question

2007-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 14, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Man! truer words, (c)... . One o the very few suggestions left for improving shells [ and/or subshells ] is a flag, say '-N' which would have *nothing* to be escaped. In other words a '$' or '' would be interpreted

Re: uname question after update

2007-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Jay Chandler wrote: FreeBSD box1.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 20:01:29 PST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/ src/sys/SMP i386 FreeBSD box2.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #4: Sat Jan 13 15:40:40 PST 2007

Re: uname question after update

2007-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: The number of times you have rebuilt the kernel. (This number gets reset when the OS version gets bumped, I believe.) ---Chuck Hmm.. that's a new 'feature'. Can that be disabled in any way? This feature, whatever you might think of it,

Re: FreeBSD 6.2, rebuild. NO-MMX, NO-SSE?

2007-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Daniel Tourde wrote: The machine (Inspiron 9400) is fast but I saw at certain moments something like NO-MMX, NO-SSE (some flags or variables) during the compilation process. I thought then How come? What a pity not to use these instructions. Can someone tell me

Re: FreeBSD 6.2, rebuild the system with CPUTYPE=prescott?

2007-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Daniel Tourde wrote: So now, I am trying to rebuild my FreeBSD 6.2 system playing a bit with the parameters in the make.conf file (see /usr/share/examples/etc/ make.conf) to get the best out of my machine (double processor, MMX, SSE[1-3] and co...)

Re: perl substitution question

2007-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Gary Kline wrote: OMG! I managed to break a new shell war :) /me ducks and runs very far away No! no, cometh backeth, Giorgos! No war, just peace, love and flowers:-) % cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw/ make extract cd work/imap-2004g % tail -3

Re: Install from CVS?

2007-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Jay Chandler wrote: Is it possible to install (instead of upgrading) FreeBSD from my local CVS repository? Looking to find a good way to automate installations, and figured I'd start there. Sure, it's possible. You'd have to build a working system from the

Re: program kill

2007-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 12, 2007, at 9:05 AM, Arseny Solokha wrote: How can I kill the program at the defined time? For example, I need to kill mpg321 at 21.00 if it works. Set up a cron job to run pkill mpg321 at the appropriate time, or use an at job if this is a one-shot deal. -- -Chuck

Re: Are there any log files which shows who is logging to a FreeBSD box and when?

2007-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 12, 2007, at 11:10 AM, VeeJay wrote: Can anyone tell? Are there any log files which shows who is logging to a FreeBSD box and when? If yes, where can one find them? Yes, see the last command or man wtmp... -- -Chuck ___

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 12, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Lamont Granquist wrote: That cat is rather fortunate the server didn't kill the cat at the same time. I haven't lived with a cat in awhile, but don't they tend to 'spray' rather than 'stream' so that a direct line of current would not be established from the

Re: ntpd crashes every once in a while

2007-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Guido Demmenie wrote: ntpd crashes every once in a while, sometimes with days in between sometimes within a few hours. And the error I see in my /var/log/messages is: Jan 12 14:21:34 rottnic kernel: pid 516 (ntpd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) My

Re: Recovering select files from a failing hard disk

2007-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: 1. Can I bypass mounting or reading certain sections of the filesystem? Sure, if you boot off some other device or a CD-ROM. 2. Can I force part of a drive to be remapped to other sectors? Yes, but it is likely that modern drives will

Re: Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?)

2007-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Just wondering if anyone has IPFilter / nfsd setup properly on their boxes with any beta versions of FBSD. It is typically not useful to implement firewall rules between NFS servers and legitimate NFS clients. The large number of RPC

Re: Firewalls and RPC (was Re: Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?))

2007-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 11, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: It is typically not useful to implement firewall rules between NFS servers and legitimate NFS clients. The large number of RPC services using randomly assigned ports needed by NFS and the fact that machines which trust each other enough

Re: Firewalls and RPC (was Re: Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?))

2007-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 11, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Actually, no. While rpcbind/portmap/portmapper is assigned to 111/ tcp udp, most other RPC services get assigned high port numbers in the 327xx range, but that varies considerably from platform to platform. True. NFS is port 2049 by

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:52:44AM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: Gotcha all beat, screw the 'standard user' issue... I had a client call me once cause the office cat peed onto/into the server; no technical expertise required whatsoever, no password, no re-wiring of network, heck no opposable

Re: WWW Proxy/Traffic Analyzer

2007-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Tom Grove wrote: We have an employee who spends quite a bit of time on the net and currently have no way of analyzing where they go. Are there any decent proxy servers that I can put them on to see where they are going? Squid is a popular proxy server,

Re: Simple DoS

2007-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 10, 2007, at 6:53 AM, Nejc Škoberne wrote: yesterday one of our clients did something interesting (stupid): they connected both ends of an UTP cable to the same switch, to which our FreeBSD server was also connected. [ ... ] Any ideas how to prevent such situations in the future? (I

Re: /usr/ports/databases/db42 sudo make install clean

2007-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:51 AM, David Nicholas Kayal wrote: [ ... ] FreeBSD intextual.switch.wordnetworks.net 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1- RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 I'm actually trying to install subversion, but am running into this

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 10, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote: I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG 786432k above 4GB ignored Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this real

Re: a bit OT - VPN+Windows

2007-01-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 8, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: could You put me to some manual about configuring any king of VPN (with encryption at least, preferable compression too) with windows machines as clients and FreeBSD as servers. i used VPN's many times but always with unix on both sides and

Re: DNS propagation problems - changed ip

2007-01-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Alex Teslik wrote: I changed the ip address of my server (physical move to a new location) and updated my dns. Logs show that everything is fine. I can get out to other sites just fine, send email, and internally everything is working fine. However, I updated on Jan 1st and the changes for

Re: Emacs vs XEmacs: which to choose for plain console using?

2007-01-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are advantages and disadvantages of xemacs over emacs? At one point, there was substantial disagreement amongst the Emacs developers about how to add support for new windowing systems besides X11, and this ended up forking the

Re: OT: stupid sh scripting question

2007-01-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 3, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Robert Huff wrote: if [ ! -d foo] then mkdir foo fi You want a space before the ] and a semicolon after it. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Is there a solution for 550 User Unknown mails

2007-01-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Derrick Ryalls wrote: [ ... ] With secondary mail servers, I am accepting mail for other domains, and then forwarding them on. It is my belief that acting as a secondary mail server is what is causing me to receive all these errors. What I believe is happening is that for whatever reason the

Re: How to configure switching between network interfaces?

2006-12-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to configure switching between network interfaces? I would like to determine how, or if, the following can be accomplished with FreeBSD. Configuration: A BSD box setup with 1 GbE NIC and a 4 port 10/100 NIC The GbE interface will have a static IP configured

Re: How to compile first network program? E.g. to PING google.com

2006-12-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
linux quest wrote: [ ... ] Notice: steep learning curve ahead. I suggest you clarify what you want to do and what problems you are trying to solve; learning how to write simple code in C comes before learning how to write network code in C and learning how to work in Unix is a separate issue

Re: list of emails of mailing lists

2006-12-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, you can write to this list via the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org email, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] is also recognized as an email for this list. This can't be the same with freebsd-doc -doc and cvs-doc -doc, that would be ambiguous. Could someone please direct

Re: Need to restrict DNS requests to just 5 per second

2006-12-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: [ ... ] Thank you very much for your help and suggestions. Actually, the reason why I want to implement this restriction is because some clients whose Windows PCs are infected with viruses and malwares send up to 10-20 bogus DNS queries per second which causes the

Re: upgrade of portupgrade fails

2006-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Michael P. Soulier wrote: [ ... ] So, the logs tell me why. swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed pid 24321 (ruby18), uid

Re: Missing pkg-descr - Correction

2006-12-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 13, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Wayne M. Barnes wrote: The following Missing pkg-descr is happening to me a lot, with many packages. This time it was during portinstall jdk15. === Installing for m4-1.4.8_1 === Generating temporary packing list ** Missing pkg-descr for m4-1.4.8_1. ***

Re: Please help*

2006-12-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 13, 2006, at 12:56 PM, VeeJay wrote: I want to install MySQL5.0 at my FreeBSD 6.1 box with following configurations: --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysqld-user=mysql --with-unix-socket-path=/tmp/mysql.sock --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static How and at What place, can I configure the

Re: How does one bond two interfaces together to share bandwidth?

2006-12-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 13, 2006, at 5:01 PM, N. Harrington wrote: I have tried one way, however when I use it I seem to have an odd broadcast occuring on my switch. Such that I am seeing incoming traffic hit some other ports on the switch. Can someone confirm if I am doing it correctly? Perhaps I have a

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 11, 2006, at 11:14 PM, Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: Yes, you are right, I forgot about PPP. Many thanks. Also, the ARP table only contain info of your subnet The ARP table only contains information about machines on the directly connected collision domain(s). It's

Re: POP3 conection throttle

2006-12-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 12, 2006, at 9:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know any wrapper to popper server to throttle the per user connection rate? I would like to avoid some users to connect the pop3 server, every 30 secs, i.e. Something that returns no new messages, between a configurable time.

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 12, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Javier Henderson wrote: The ARP table only contains information about machines on the directly connected collision domain(s). Are you sure it's not the same broadcast domain? Yes. The term collision domain predates the wide deployment of switches, and

Re: gmake upgrade

2006-12-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 9, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: gmake does not require gmake to build. If it did, how could you build it for the first time? At one point, someone had to do something like: for file in *.c do cc -O -c $file done cc -o gmake *.o What becomes more fun is trying to bootstrap

Re: What is microsoft-ds port 445?

2006-12-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is microsoft-ds port #445? Mildly off-topic for this list, but it's used by directory-services, aka Active Directory -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-12-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 11, 2006, at 2:27 AM, lveax wrote: who are the people that works in apple and also a freebsd developer now? Jordan Hubbard and Wilfredo Sanchez come to mind, and maybe Garance Drosihn would also qualify, as I think he was part of Apple's darwin- developers, IIRC. There are others.

Re: squid: no buffer space available - after tuning!

2006-12-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 11, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: in dmesg i found lots of ipfw: pullup failed CPU load is always 10%, it's P4 machine with 2GB ram (much more than squid uses) running FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, 3 interfaces - out output, 2 for different connections, ipfw is used with only 1 line.

Re: What is microsoft-ds port 445?

2006-12-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 11, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 11 December 2006 at 11:06:12 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is microsoft-ds port #445? Mildly off-topic for this list, but it's used by directory-services, aka Active

Re: how do I do this special proxy?

2006-12-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 7, 2006, at 9:53 PM, 张韡武 wrote: We got a Windows file server in the next office, I have a FreeBSD host in my office. I wish to let it listen on 135/139 port (I am not sure which one is used for Windows file sharing), and forward any request to the Windows file server as if this FreeBSD

Re: How to install the same port twice but at different locations?

2006-12-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 8, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: I think you misunderstood my problem. I know how to install a port to a specific location using PREFIX. What I want to achieve is to have one port installed twice. For example, I want one whole instance of phpMyAdmin to be in

Re: acpi woes and dead filesystem

2006-12-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 8, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Steve Franks wrote: Now, I'm a bit of a tree-hugger, see, so I tend to like to suspend my computers insted of leaving them on perpetually. You might try turning them off entirely...? As such, tried acpiconf -s3 initially (others say unsupported). Seemed to go down

Re: RSA/DSA authentication

2006-12-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 7, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Erik Richards wrote: Now I'm editing some of my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file like uncommenting: (correct? I shouldn't be editing /etc/ssh/ssh_config?) RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes AuthorizedKeysFile /root/.ssh/authorized_keys (I did rename the

Re: Sendmail - restrict some users.

2006-12-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 7, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Efren Bravo wrote: Which feature of Sendmail can I use to prohibit an local user to send and to receive mails? For intance: jhon receive from *.cu only sendto *.cu and *.domain.com While it is possible to prevent a user from sending mail at all, it is

Re: Any way to tell what the RAM configuration is?

2006-12-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:00 AM, patrick wrote: I'm wondering if there's any way in FreeBSD (4.x on i386) to tell what the RAM configuration in the system is? ie. Can it show me if I have four 256MB modules versus two 512MB's? Obviously it would be possible to just open up the computer and see for

Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output

2006-12-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 6, 2006, at 6:46 AM, Dieter wrote: I found a couple more things that don't look right. 17 IP bsd.63743 src.65001: . ack 52 win 65535 000107 IP bsd.63743 src.65001: . ack 52 win 65535 12 IP bsd.63743 src.65001: F 52:52(0) ack 52 win 65535 05 IP bsd.63743 src.65001: F

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