error compiling mplayer

2012-07-21 Thread David Banning
getting this error on compile of mplayer; /usr/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `XRRGetScreenResourcesCurrent' /usr/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `XRRGetOutputPrimary' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status gmake: *** [mplayer] Error 1 *** Error code 1 Stop

mod_rewrite problem with tilde

2012-07-13 Thread David Banning
I am migrating to a new server location which right now has no domain name, so the ip address is being used. The ISP gives an address for the apache directory like so; http://184.154.230.2/~smartst2/ A simple redirect works, such as this one which directs to another site; Options

ppp connection goes down - requires reboot

2012-07-12 Thread David Banning
Lately I have a problem where the ppp connection goes down. Watching the log I see the following; Jul 12 09:54:58 3s1 ppp[30841]: tun0: Phase: deflink: Connected! Jul 12 09:54:58 3s1 ppp[30841]: tun0: Phase: deflink: opening - dial Jul 12 09:54:58 3s1 ppp[30841]: tun0: Phase: deflink: dial -

Re: problems with networking and route command

2012-05-18 Thread David Banning
It is machines that connect and receive via DHCP 192.168.1.2 and above that can't connect to the internet though the server. I don't know a whole lot about route - I have been attempting a variation of route commands without success. You need to implement NAT on this box, since

problems with networking and route command

2012-05-16 Thread David Banning
I am having a problem getting users who get their dhcp from my system to be able to connect to the internet. On one network interface my server can connect to the internet no problem - that's device vr0. On another, rl0 - I have a connection to the local network - no problem connecting to local

error: libm.so.4 needed by libspeex may conflict w libm.so.5

2012-05-08 Thread David Banning
while attempting to build and install mplayer under FreeBSD Release 8.2 I get the error; /usr/local/bin/ld: warning: libm.so.4, needed by /usr/local/lib/libspeex.so, may conflict with libm.so.5 /usr/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `XRRGetScreenResourcesCurrent'

mounting a hard drive via usb

2011-06-18 Thread David Banning
I am attempting to clone a drive by connecting the prospective copy drive via usb. I've just recently upgraded to FBSD 8.2 Here is what I get when I insert the drive; Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: da0:Fixed Direct Access

Re: mounting a hard drive via usb - solved

2011-06-18 Thread David Banning
As it turns out - my usb adapter was defective. Once I used an operational adapter all the devices appeared and the disk works like a charm! Thanks for your input. On 6/18/2011 3:48 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2011-06-18 20:53, David Banning skrev: I am attempting to clone a drive

copying hard drives

2011-06-10 Thread David Banning
I am interested in copying hard drives and would like some feedback. 1. I would like a way to take peoples windows -or- unix systems and store each on portable hard drive as a single file - so that in the end I have a large, say 2TB drive with a number of peoples operating system backed up - that

ports problem in an old system ver 4.9

2011-05-26 Thread David Banning
I have an old FreeBSD 4.9 installation that I cannot upgrade. I wanted to install something from the ports, but I am getting this error on almost every port; # make === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE === Extracting for

Re: forwarding ssh

2010-08-08 Thread David Banning
to the previous direct X-Win32 ssh connection soon. I'll look at the -R option that you mentioned which I was not aware of. On 8/7/2010 8:27 PM, Steven Susbauer wrote: On 08/07/10 16:23, David Banning wrote: I presently am using Putty and X-Win32 and I am connecting to a remote machine

forwarding ssh

2010-08-07 Thread David Banning
I presently am using Putty and X-Win32 and I am connecting to a remote machine successfully. I now need to connect using SSH over the internet -through- one machine, but have my SSH with a second machine on the same site - something like so; ssh-site1 --(internet)--- site2-(also 192.168.1.1)--

speed test in ports?

2010-01-11 Thread David Banning
I wonder if there is something in the ports that tests my DSL speed. I am guessing that if I installed firefox3 and then installed flash or Java then I could go to speedtest.net, but I wonder if there is a simpler solution. ___

Re: speed test in ports?

2010-01-11 Thread David Banning
You don't need ports for thatJust use fetch(1) and grab an ISO of a DVD (or even a CD) from somewhere. Eg, a debian DVD image or freebsd image or whatever. A lot of ISPs boost the first x MB of a transfer to give the illusion that you can download faster when doing speed tests (since speed

client control of sendmail

2009-07-08 Thread David Banning
I have several users who are requesting new mail user accounts and changes to email accounts all the time. I wonder if there is a package that allows a given virtual domain owner to change their email accounts - add, delete and change passwords etc - I am presently using sendmail.

libc.so.6: ELF file OS ABI invalid

2009-04-07 Thread David Banning
I get this error when I attempt to run acroread8; /compat/linux/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/libc.so.6: ELF file OS ABI invalid I get the impression maybe acroread is attempting run a linux binary using a freebsd library - but I am not sure if this is so, or how

Re: libc.so.6: ELF file OS ABI invalid

2009-04-07 Thread David Banning
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:18:30 -0400 David Banning wrote: I get this error when I attempt to run acroread8; /compat/linux/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/libc.so.6: ELF file OS ABI invalid I get the impression maybe

Re: libc.so.6: ELF file OS ABI invalid

2009-04-07 Thread David Banning
Tim Judd wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:18 AM, David Banning david+dated+1239553110.eb1...@skytracker.ca mailto:david%2bdated%2b1239553110.eb1...@skytracker.ca wrote: I get this error when I attempt to run acroread8; /compat/linux/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries

Re: libc.so.6: ELF file OS ABI invalid

2009-04-07 Thread David Banning
You shoudn't see it with native ktrace. Seems that you rewrote your linux(?) ldconfig database. It's not so hard to restore. Remove /compat/linux/etc/ld.so.cache and rebuild it by sudo /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig -r /compat/linux. That worked. Thanks Boris.

problem redirecting with ipnat

2009-04-02 Thread David Banning
I am attempting to route local and external traffic to a second machine on port 85 to apache. The redirection works for external traffic coming in but I cannot seem to redirect local traffic to the secondary machine. Here are my ipnat rules; rdr fxp0 0/0 port 85 - 192.168.1.10 port 85 rdr tun0

Re: problem redirecting with ipnat

2009-04-02 Thread David Banning
Thank Roger - I am not sure what the difference is between those two. You solutions worked. Thanks - David Banning skrev: I am attempting to route local and external traffic to a second machine on port 85 to apache. The redirection works for external traffic coming in but I cannot seem

Re: renaming many Chinese files

2009-03-26 Thread David Banning
that worked fine. Thanks. Just a very quick thought (the first that pops into my mind): you could see which are the western characters that appear in the names, and then use sed to substitute all non-matching characters with nothing, something like: for i in *.jpg; do b=`echo $i | sed

renaming many Chinese files

2009-03-24 Thread David Banning
I have hundreds of jpg images where each image is named P123.jpg where the are chinese characters. I can't open the file - it has to be renamed before I can open it. Evening if I could open it I don't want the Chinese part as the name. Each file starts with 3 or four western characters

dns woes

2009-03-17 Thread David Banning
I have had my dns server working fine in the past but now it seems to be down and I can't locate the reason. Here are some details; # dig @127.0.0.1 mylocaldomain.com works, but # dig @ns1.3s1.com mylocaldomain.com does not. I have all IP addresses listed in named.conf; listen-on

Re: dns woes - resolved

2009-03-17 Thread David Banning
As it turns out - following a new installation, named.conf is in /var/named/etc/namedb with a symlink from /etc/namedb. To keep all my original DNS records and settings I had restored a backup to /etc/namedb which destroyed the symlink - as a result when I altered /etc/namedb/named.conf named

Re: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-13 Thread David Banning
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: David Banning wrote: Here is the php line that gives the error; cat start_text | sed s/--maintext--/$test/ endtext give error; sed: 1: s/--maintext--/ Comment ...: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern where $test contains customer input from a website form

Re: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-13 Thread David Banning
Don't you have control over this web form??? That's the place you should filter your input... The sooner you do the filtering the better. Anyway, you could also use an intermediate variable that replaces all newlines with spaces. # a=This is the input from the web server # b=`echo $a` #

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-12 Thread David Banning
A first one is simple but it may not give any guarantee that the situation will not appear in the future: install those ports by hand. I'll advice the second one. Write down all linux applications you use (i.e. print/acroread8, net/skype, etc.) -- not infrastructure linux ports (they

sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-12 Thread David Banning
Here is the php line that gives the error; cat start_text | sed s/--maintext--/$test/ endtext give error; sed: 1: s/--maintext--/ Comment ...: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern where $test contains customer input from a website form There is something about the content of the text

Re: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-12 Thread David Banning
Well, it might be because test is a command line function. It actually doesn't matter whether I use the word test or any other word as a variable ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread David Banning
I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on execution I get the following error; /usr/local/Adobe/Reader8/ENU/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory the file

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread David Banning
Michael Powell wrote: David Banning wrote: I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on execution I get the following error; /usr/local/Adobe/Reader8/ENU/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread David Banning
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:37:07 -0400 David Banning wrote: Michael Powell wrote: David Banning wrote: I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on execution I get the following error; /usr/local/Adobe/Reader8/ENU/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux

all mail arriving empty - spamassassin?

2009-02-09 Thread David Banning
After some upgrades, all mail arriving via sendmail-provmail is empty - when I actually deinstall spamassassin - the mail starts arriving again. I haven't seen posts on this topic - I wonder if anyone has a guess as to where to look for answers on this. I am guessing if there is some way of

space char shell script problem

2008-08-23 Thread David Banning
I am running into a problem with the space character in filenames. For instance, If I want to run the script; for x in `ls` do echo $x done then filenames that have a space in them ie: john smith.jpg are processed by my script as two names, john and smith.jpg. What is the best way to deal

cvsup executed from crontab

2008-05-20 Thread David Banning
I am using cvsup for backup, so I control both the client and the server. Works fine everytime stand-alone, but when I execute via crontab it appears to stall - then restart. Eventually there is so many copies of cvsup running at the same time it starts to bog down the client. I noticed in the

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread David Banning
For backing up purposes, I use a number of tools. Thanks Frank for your input. I have chosen for now use Chuck's suggestion, that being cvsup. The only thing I would like to do is omit certain files that I don't want backed up - large unimportant files - some cache and log files. I'll look at

suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread David Banning
I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory - if it has off-site ftp, fine, but I can do that part myself via

email pop3 question

2008-03-12 Thread David Banning
I am using dovecot email on my server - Users can connect via IMAP or POP3. I have a user who is using pop3 but not removing the email from the server - so the email stays on the server, -and- it is collecting on their computer - as the emails build up, will there be a problem with this? For

command df just hangs

2008-02-21 Thread David Banning
I first noticed that I was not able to access a windows box mounted using mount_smbfs. While checking the drive status with the 'df' command I noticed that the command just hangs. I could probably resolve this by simply rebooting, but I don't like to use that solution if I don't have to. Any

Re: command df just hangs - answered

2008-02-21 Thread David Banning
As it turns out, my windows box was already mounted. Since my windows firewall was turned on - df was hanging probably because it was trying to read info on the windows drive mounted, but couldn't. Disabling the win firewall fixed the problem - now I have to open up a port in that firewall before

question on DSL signal

2008-02-04 Thread David Banning
I run a small FreeBSD server with a standard DSL line. I have it ping the ISP every five seconds, and when it doesn't ping it logs the results. I notice very inconsistent results. Sometimes it's up for a week without a single drop, while other times it's up for 30 seconds, down for a minute, up

Re: question on DSL signal

2008-02-04 Thread David Banning
Thanks Wojciech, for your thoughts. make sure you don't get a timeout because of high load or simply - the server you ping doesn't respond. Check that - it's not line problem but modem hardware problem or their routing problem. But isn't the sync going down a sign of a bad line connection?

looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread David Banning
Often I have to maintain my fbsd box from outside locations. I have tried using webmin but sometimes outside computers stop me from running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread David Banning
mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? ...You can't just SSH into your box and use vim? Let's say I'm in a library in some remote town. The only SSH I know that is

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread David Banning
running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? I use putty to ssh to remote servers and use

Linux problem? - realplay and acroread die

2007-11-25 Thread David Banning
All of a sudden I have both linux-realplayer -and- acroread7 die. realplayer ends with a Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) and acroread just dies without a message. I have done redone my ports using portsnap, and used portupgrade to reinstall both programs. I have also reinstalled

Re: Linux problem? - realplay and acroread die

2007-11-25 Thread David Banning
It appears the problem was not Linux but X. I simply ran portupgrade on -all- my installed ports and as it turns out once the font ports were reinstalled all worked fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

what is needed for realplayer

2007-11-24 Thread David Banning
I have been using realplayer for years and it has worked fine. All of a sudden I get a Segmentation fault: 11 error and core dump. I did a portupgrade on both realplayer and linux_base with no improvement. Presently using 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD. I wondered about even just a simple test to see if

ip address location database

2007-08-23 Thread David Banning
I am looking towards setting up something which will let me know what part of the world a specific ip address is from. Anyone know an easy process for this? Even if the database or text file was available somewhere I could probably adapt a search script.

Re: apsfilter setup problem

2007-08-06 Thread David Banning
You should let apsfilter SETUP program to add the entry in printcap (you wrote that you added it yourself). It should be marked with something like: # APS1_BEGIN:printer1 # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1 # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL

apsfilter setup problem

2007-08-05 Thread David Banning
I am setting up a new installation of apsfilter to a network printer. There a re the install options I have set during apsfilter setup. (D) Available Device Drivers in your gs binary (R) Read Ghostscript driver documentation(devices.txt) (1) Printer

Re: what triggers you have mail

2007-08-02 Thread David Banning
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:05:47AM +1000, Terry Sposato wrote: Hi David, It is most likely coming to your mailbox setup. You can create an alias for it to be delivered appropriately to your maildir. Do what configuration file is that? The only files I use are ~/.muttrc and ~/.mailcap

Re: what triggers you have mail (OFFLIST)

2007-08-02 Thread David Banning
Hrm, when you print out your environment variables, what is MAIL or mail ? Do either of those variables exist, and if so what are they set to? And if set, does a file exist at that location? I don't know how to print out environment variables, but echo $MAIL and echo $mail both

what triggers you have mail

2007-08-01 Thread David Banning
I keep getting the you have mail reminder. I am using Maildir and I have no new mail. I also have looked in /var/mail and nothing is new. Wondering what is being checked and where it is set. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

problems with mysql database

2007-07-28 Thread David Banning
I have recently converted from mysql 4.1 to 5.0 and some of my tables are not recogized. Using the mysql_upgrade utility is not effective as -it- does not recognize certain tables. On closer examination I see that the tables that are -not- recognize have the following extensions; -rw-rw 1

updating mysql database

2007-07-27 Thread David Banning
I installed mysql 5.1 on a new system and I want to run a 4.1 database. I notice that not all tables work. Is there a conversion to take the database from 4.1 to 5.1? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

php5 won't compile

2007-07-22 Thread David Banning
After a successful running installation, all of a sudden I have a problem where apache2 will not start. The error; Syntax error on line 274 of /usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so into server: /usr/local/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so: Undefined

using mouse via xterm window

2007-06-20 Thread David Banning
I presently access FBSD via an xterm window from within Windows using X-Win32. I would like to be able to run a window manager or file manager, but this exits with an error because there is no mouse attached to the FBSD box. Here is the thing - I -can- run xv (a FBSD image viewer from the

after deleting maillog, sendmail won't log

2007-05-05 Thread David Banning
I deleted my maillog files and for some reason sendmail will not log again. I have tried touch maillog to start a new file name and i have tried all different permissions on the the empty maillog file. In each case I have restarted sendmail. Any idea what I need to get logging happening again?

missing /usr/local in startup.sh files

2007-05-04 Thread David Banning
All of a sudden I notice that whenever I install a package from the ports, the startup file in /usr/local/etc/rc.d requires that I put /usr/local in - for instance, the most recent install of clamav I had to change . /etc/rc.subr to . /usr/local/etc/rc.subr there must be a variable or

Re: missing /usr/local in startup.sh files

2007-05-04 Thread David Banning
. /usr/local/etc/rc.subr there must be a variable or setting for this that went missing for me. Could someone be kind enough to direct me here? There shouldn't be a file /usr/local/etc/rc.subr. Did you by any chance move /etc/rc.subr to /usr/local/etc/? Maybe we are on different

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-04 Thread David Banning
What version of gzip are you using? From www.gzip.org: gzip 1.2.4 may crash when an input file name is too long (over 1020 characters). not in my case. The buffer overflow may be exploited if gzip is run by a server such as an ftp server. Some ftp servers allow compression and

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-04 Thread David Banning
Try the same operation on a known working system, take that output file and do a diff with that and the corrupt one after a 'strings', so 'strings new.gz new-text', 'strings corrupt.gz corrupt-text', 'diff new-text corrupt-text'. I'm just interested in how it's being corrupted and maybe

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-04 Thread David Banning
available. At least some of your utilities in /usr/bin are statically linked. In 5.5 the statically linked utilities are in /stand, while dynamically linked versions of the same are in their normal places. OK. -r-xr-xr-x 30 root wheel 2046148 Nov 4 2004 /stand/gzip I would expect

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-03 Thread David Banning
I have replace my memory. It didn't make any difference. root# gunzip *ian_mail* gunzip: 3s1.com-ian_mail-full-20070503-0105AM.1.tgz: invalid compressed data--format violated root# and another way; root# tar tzf *ian_mail* lists most files in the tgz, then terminates with; ... tar: Skipping

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-03 Thread David Banning
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors root# Unless you can demonstrate some other systematic effect (e.g. always truncated at the same size), it looks like you have some other kind of failing

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-02 Thread David Banning
Maybe you have defective RAM in the upper memory area. Try running MEMtest86 to see you have some bad memory. You may have something here. I don't have a floppy on this machine, and I can't shut down my server to test the memory but I may shut it down long enough to swap the memory chips so I

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-02 Thread David Banning
A lot of the features related to file sizes and other attributes of the files stored on a disk depend highly on the type of file system used on the disk. What file system does the destination directory live in? originally my problem was with a dedicated ide (on ide cable in machine)

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-02 Thread David Banning
originally my problem was with a dedicated ide (on ide cable in machine) secondary mounted drive - 300G I tried it in /usr with same results. The disk type isn't really what I asked about. Is your /usr file system mounted from UFS (I haven't kept all the messages of the thread, so I

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-02 Thread David Banning
I haven't been paying 100% attention. Just how does it fail? What do you mean by corrupt? Does the process run to completion? All programs zip with no errors. On reading; root# bzip2 -t zippedfile.bz2 bzip2: 3s1.com-smartstage_ftp-full-20070502-0125AM.1b.tar.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-02 Thread David Banning
Can't it be that zip just don't have enough space for temporary storage? Hi Igor. Thanks for the input. While gzipping and gunziping I watched those directories and they don't change. The new file is being created in the target directory - when it completes it deletes the old file in the same

can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-01 Thread David Banning
I am attempting to zip large files that are 2GB - 3GB. uname -a; FreeBSD 3s1.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #7 I have tried gzip, bzip2 from the ports and rzip. All give no errors on zipping, but will not unzip, siting CRC errors. Is there a maximum file size for zipping? Is my system

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-01 Thread David Banning
Maybe a file or library that all zip programs depend on that is corrupt? Your system is not too old, there were plenty of big files around when 4.11 was released. Sometimes we had to refill the oil lamps before gzip completed, but we made do. You are right about the age of the system - I

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-01 Thread David Banning
Another piece of info - I just complied rzip and it seems I have the same problem there! There must be something in common, that these programs are using... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-01 Thread David Banning
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:53:55PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:22:28PM -0400, David Banning wrote: Another piece of info - I just complied rzip and it seems I have the same problem there! There must be something in common, that these programs are using

procmailrc question

2007-04-20 Thread David Banning
It seems that putting anything in my /usr/local/etc/procmailrc file causes procmail to ignore ~/.procmailrc files. Is there a way to get procmail to look at ~/.procmailrc after it reads /usr/local/etc/procmailrc ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: procmailrc question

2007-04-20 Thread David Banning
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:41:04AM -0400, David Banning wrote: It seems that putting anything in my /usr/local/etc/procmailrc file causes procmail to ignore ~/.procmailrc files. Is there a way to get procmail to look at ~/.procmailrc after it reads /usr/local/etc/procmailrc ? It seems

Re: procmailrc question - solution?

2007-04-20 Thread David Banning
It seems that anything that is not processed by the global procmailrc file is processed by the local .procmailrc file. What I would like to do is flag a few users only and send them to the their users .procmailrc file. Kind of the reverse of the normal. If I had to improvise; :0 *

Re: procmailrc question

2007-04-20 Thread David Banning
You might take a close look at whatever you're putting into your etc/ procmailrc file. I've got plenty of rules in my global etc/procmailrc and the ~/.procmailrc files are processed as well. Thanks for that Dan. After having done some more reading, it seems private procmailrc files are

sendmail with dovecot with nologin account

2007-04-17 Thread David Banning
I am using dovecot imap and I am having a problem directing mail to go to users in Maildir format when they do not have a login shell. It seems that the .procmailrc file is ignored and the mail is put in mbox format into /var/mail For mail-only users with-out a shell, what is the best way to

Re: sendmail with dovecot with nologin account

2007-04-17 Thread David Banning
For mail-only users with-out a shell, what is the best way to direct mail to them in Maildir format within ~/Maildir - maybe directly from .forward? Not an expert but I am just starting to think about moving from mbox to mdir on my home server, so Id be interested in how you get on.

remote printing question

2007-04-04 Thread David Banning
I have a someone who wants to have a remote printer without using a server at the printing location. Is it possible to do; DSL Line-Modem - router - printer | - | | laptop laptop

Re: remote printing question

2007-04-04 Thread David Banning
Well, if your printer has its own Ethernet card and an IP address you can just set things up to go directly to it with no server. Or, what is that router? If it is something like a FreeBSD box or other more full service system, it can probably handle the task of serving the printer as

Re: remote printing question

2007-04-04 Thread David Banning
I don't want to use a server. So the router would have to do NAT. Is it possible that way for the outside world to address the printer directly since it has a network address, and not a www IP? You can probably setup the router to forward the ports used by that printer. The ports you'd

Return-Path missing via sendmail

2007-03-24 Thread David Banning
I am getting error on some of my mail processing because there is no Return-Path line in received emails. I see that the line H?P?Return-Path: $g -does- exist in my sendmail.cf. Since sendmail is recieving email from the outside world before delivering it to procmail it should be possible to get

how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread David Banning
I just spoke with my DSL supplier and they said that they could give me 5 IP addresses with a DSL line. I am used to only one IP address per phone line - how are the other IP addresses from the same DSL line utlilized and routed to different servers?

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread David Banning
Connect the DSL modem to a switch or hub, and connect several machines to that, each configured statically to use the /29 subnet which your ISP is making available to you. This is assuming your DSL modem deals with any PPPoE/PPPoA login stuff itself...if not, you might have to get a

help on picking an IMAP server

2007-03-22 Thread David Banning
I have been using imap-uw for some time but now I would like to have an imap server that can have subfolders. Out with imap-uw.. I tried dovecot but I was unable to get it to create subfolders, although it seems some say you can, may people are having problems doing so, and I didn't like the

Re: help on picking an IMAP server

2007-03-22 Thread David Banning
You must have been doing something wrong. I have Dovecot in multiple places and never had any trouble creating folders/subfolders. I use Maildir format for my mail store, for multiple reasons that you can research via Google if you're curious. Perhaps the Maildir support is better than

Re: help on picking an IMAP server

2007-03-22 Thread David Banning
P.S. Just tried creating a subfolder with Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 and Apple Mail Version 2.1 (752/752.2) and the previously mentioned IMAPs server, and it still works for both of them, so its not just in Thunderbird that it works. OK - I have it working - it seems the problem was

thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread David Banning
I have installed denyhosts from the ports to stop ssh attacks, but I have discovered a vulnerability, that is new to me. Denyhosts does not seem to notice FTP login attempts, so the cracker can attempt to login via FTP, 1000's of times until he finds a login/password combination. Once he has a

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread David Banning
I have discovered a vulnerability, that is new to me. Denyhosts does not seem to notice FTP login attempts, so the cracker can attempt to login via FTP, 1000's of times until he finds a login/password combination. Pardon the stupid question, but I'm assuming it's necessary that you run

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread David Banning
I have installed denyhosts from the ports to stop ssh attacks, but I have discovered a vulnerability, that is new to me. Denyhosts does not seem to notice FTP login attempts, so the cracker can attempt to login via FTP, 1000's of times until he finds a login/password combination. We

sendmail problem

2007-01-18 Thread David Banning
My problem is not with receiving but seems to be only with sending to certain locations. I started by getting this error on startup. STARTTLS: ServerCertFile missing Jan 18 13:52:53 3s1 sm-mta[30650]: started as: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m I learned that someone's mail was not

question on smtp AUTH

2007-01-13 Thread David Banning
I am still pouring over logs to check how my server has been spamming. I am wondering about the possibility of someone using a working login and password to send spam through my server. So here is my question; I look at my maillog and see the following spam; maillog.0:Jan 11 02:14:17 3s1

Re: question on smtp AUTH

2007-01-13 Thread David Banning
That would seem to suggest that the spam is being sent using an authorized account, however, is it possible that a host inside your network is sending the spam? Thanks for that test Paul. I do believe that it could have been a virus infected windows box. I am not convinced now. I -do- know

Re: stopping my server from spamming

2007-01-08 Thread David Banning
This is more of a question geared towards your mail server application than FreeBSD. You should check your mail logs. If you want better advise, you may want to provide more information on what mail server are you running, and what did you do to prevent SMTP relay. I am using sendmail. It

Re: stopping my server from spamming

2007-01-08 Thread David Banning
I think I located the problem. I discovered through one of the blacklist hosters when exactly they received the spam and that helped me track it to a virus infected windows box. Using nmap / tcpdump / snort to find rogue SMTP hosts is the next step I would pursue. Remember though, your hosts

stopping my server from spamming

2007-01-06 Thread David Banning
I have been blacklisted for spamming and I am attempting to ascertain the source. I have a few networked windows boxes which route through a FBSD server. I also have around ten off-site users who sendmail via port 26 - using smtp password authentication. How do I determine which email going

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