ot :stuck in GRUB

2011-09-27 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, A Friend of mine has some version of either *nux or bsd installed (he does not even know for sure), turns out he clicked yes for some updates to install and upon restarting he now winds up at GRUB , I told him to type boot and it reports kernel must loaded prior to booting I

ot :stuck in GRUB

2011-09-27 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, A Friend of mine has some version of either *nux or bsd installed (he does not even know for sure), turns out he clicked yes for some updates to install and upon restarting he now winds up at GRUB , I told him to type boot and it reports kernel must loaded prior to booting I

Read/Dump Bios chip info

2011-06-16 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Is there any program that can read and or dump the info written in a BIOS chip? TIA, JP ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

iptables equivaelnt

2010-06-21 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I'm looking for FREEBSD's equivalent of iptables I'm particuclary trying to implement some type of rate control as we are getting hammered by spam. Any and all help would be graetly appreciated ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: xfce display

2010-05-17 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
On 14/05/2010 21:56, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I installed Xorg and xfce when I start it (/usr/local/bin/startxfce) my screen just shows vertical lines of many different colors on the screen, The monitor (fairly old gateway 15 lcd) works fine in regular text mode, on windows

RE: xfce display

2010-05-17 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Did you configure Xorg to use the intel driver? Check the handbook chapter 5.4 especially 5.4.3.1 Configuration with Intel(r) i810 Graphics Chipsets. I have got it configured, now I'm a bit confused on which display section I'm supposed to add the mode there are many do I add the 10.24x768 to

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-14 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
You only need one of the last two things. You have to decide: a) Want X? Use Tcl/Tk. Install both tcl and tk ports. Examples in /usr/local/lib/tkversion/demos. b) Work in text mode? Use dialog. Comes with base system. Examples in /usr/share/examples/dialog. c) Work in text

xfce display

2010-05-14 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I installed Xorg and xfce when I start it (/usr/local/bin/startxfce) my screen just shows vertical lines of many different colors on the screen, The monitor (fairly old gateway 15 lcd) works fine in regular text mode, on windows os's as well. I do see this in the log (II) Module

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-13 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
If one would really want to go with X, Tcl/Tk, as it has been mentioned by others (and me), is a good way to go. There are helpful examples installed when you install it on your system. It's a very easy to learn, but still powerful scripting language that very well interacts with command line

installing tcltutor

2010-05-13 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm trying to install tcltutor on my bsd 7.3 box but its failing allover the place, I'm not really sure where to start looking, see the output below libtool: link: `libxml/libxml_rpl_la-xpointer.lo' is not a valid libtool object *** Error code 1 Stop in

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-12 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
As for directions: Use your choice of programming language to write a program that will call file(1) to determine filesystem, mount the device, virus scan, and unmount the device. Display prompts and results with dialog(1). Print results if desired. I do not know any language, other than

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-12 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Anyway, a bit of DOS batch programming experience helps people intending to write a /bin/sh shell script, and if this task is done, a GUI wrapper, either using text mode with dialog, or using Tcl/Tk in X is quite easy. Don't mean to sound TOO ignorant, but which Tcl should I be installing? This

user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm planning on setting up a workstation in our library for the SOLE purpose of scanning flash drives. My users are 100% windows users, and have never used anything else. In case you are curious, all usb ports are disabled on ALL windows machines. So the question is I want to make this

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
For virus/malware Sorry bout that -Original Message- From: Warren Block [mailto:wbl...@wonkity.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:49 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: user friendliest gui On Tue, 11 May 2010, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I'm planning on setting

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
My users here, no gui = machine is broken From: Eitan Adler [mailto:li...@eitanadler.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:48 PM To: Gary Gatten Cc: Jean-Paul Natola; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: user friendliest gui On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Gary

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
11, 2010 2:48 PM To: Gary Gatten Cc: Jean-Paul Natola; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: user friendliest gui On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: If that's all your doing on that system, maybe some restricted shell with automagical scan script would

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
: user friendliest gui From andrewlylego...@gmail.com Tue May 11 16:46:38 2010 Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:46:50 -0500 Subject: Re: user friendliest gui From: Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com To: Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org Cc: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-07 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
On 5/6/2010 5:06 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: This is the company wide share everyone has access to it, It even fails if I use the domain and enterprise admin accounts- And as I'm typing this, could that be the reason, because im using domain accounts

Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to map a directory from the windows box. TIA, I have Xp Win7 Win2003 Win2008 Freebsd 6.4 thanx ___

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
On 5/6/2010 3:47 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to map a directory from the windows box. TIA, I have Xp Win7 Win2003 Win2008 Freebsd 6.4 thanx

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Paul Natola Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:13 PM To: 'Tim Daneliuk'; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows On 5/6/2010 3

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Tim Daneliuk Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:28 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows- On 5/6/2010 4:19 PM, Jean-Paul

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-CORRECTION

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I'd be curious to know if it is still the case that ntfs writes are not reliable in that situation. There are times when doing this can be handy on a dual-boot laptop, for example. 'Anyone out there care to comment on the state of ntfs rw access? Sorry I was reading so much I go the commands

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
will be established. Same error: milter# mount_smbfs //jnat...@fcisql01/DATA /mnt Password: mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error milter# This sounds like you have a permissions problem on the Windows share. In Windows Explorer, right click on the shared

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
This is the company wide share everyone has access to it, It even fails if I use the domain and enterprise admin accounts- And as I'm typing this, could that be the reason, because im using domain accounts? ___ That was it , I was using a domain

alerts for stopped daemons

2009-12-26 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I was wondering how I can configure bsd to send an email or sms when a daemons stops running- i.e. perl5.10.0 stops for whatever reason send alert. thx and happy holidays ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

RE: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-24 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Im still trying to locate the 200 HP Although bestbuy has the a gateway for 229 today -Original Message- From: Gary Kline [mailto:kl...@thought.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:12 PM To: Matt Szubrycht Cc: Jean-Paul Natola; Doug Poland; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hp 10

RE: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-24 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Target has the asus at 199 -Original Message- From: Gary Kline [mailto:kl...@thought.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 7:38 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: Matt Szubrycht; Doug Poland; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hp 10-in mini? On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:26:46PM -0500, Jean-Paul

RE: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-23 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:19:50PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: On Nov 23, 2009, at 16:54, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: gang, I rarely glance at any come-on advertisement, but I just got one by amazon that has a $380 HP Mini 10 computer for $200. I want to use

RE: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-23 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
...@thought.org] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 9:43 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: Doug Poland; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hp 10-in mini? On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:58:35PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:19:50PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote

g4u option

2009-11-10 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out ,if possible, how to get g4u to only clone data, i.e. I have an 80 gig drive but my OS and applications only come to about 6gigs that’s what I want to clone to the new drive. Is there a way to accomplish this?   TIA J

RE: NIC

2009-05-04 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I don't think dell has their own brand of NIC's in my experience intel has always great quality and support (drivers) for their nic cards -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jos Chrispijn Sent: Monday,

RE: utility that scans lan for client?

2009-03-23 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/ -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Kelly Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:19 PM To: John Almberg Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:

RE: desktop app/config

2009-03-03 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: Ok so I left the machine running over the weekend to install KDE, And when I got in this morning it said that my disk was out of space- I loaded nothing but the basic freebsd os and nothing other than kde (granted its only a 10 gig drive

RE: desktop app/config

2009-02-24 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui Both KDE

desktop app/config

2009-02-19 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui thanx

RE: desktop app/config

2009-02-19 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
currently use ee for editing -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi

RE: desktop app/config

2009-02-19 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:17 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: jerr...@msu.edu CC

RE: desktop app/config

2009-02-19 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
, February 19, 2009 12:36 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:19:09 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: millenia2...@hotmail.com; jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app

RE: desktop app/config

2009-02-19 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Wish I would have seen that before I started this KDE install 2 hours ago Thx will look into it too -Original Message- From: Kevin Kinsey [mailto:k...@daleco.biz] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:12 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: Sean Cavanaugh; jerr...@msu.edu; questi...@freebsd.org

newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Can anyone recommend a newsletter application , preferably where I can just have an ordinary user login via a webpage , upload a file/message/ and click send? I was playing with mailman , but that seems to be a list serve app. tia ___

RE: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
-Original Message- From: Geoff Fritz [mailto:gfr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:26 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsletter APP NOT listserve On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:31:56AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Can anyone recommend

RE: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
The learning curve? That entirely depends on how comfortble you are with configuring applications on Unix/Linux servers in general. If you've never set up a web server, then it will take you some time to get things nailed down correctly. If you merely have not installed Apache before, as

RE: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
and are in the HIV prevention program- upload lists can be csv txt excel doesnt really matter- GUI would be great for managing contacts because if the the contacts address changes i want the user to be able to login and change his address or phone etc... Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information

G4U inquiry

2008-12-04 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) to replace it as it is quite old and slow - My question is when I clone it with g4u where will the extra space go The drive is currently sliced like this Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted

RE: file harvest

2008-11-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Since I cannot ssh into the snap, can I mount it to my BSD box and run some of those utilities? -Original Message- From: Polytropon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:29 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: file harvest On Mon, 10 Nov

file harvest

2008-11-10 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I have a SNAP 4100 appliance that lost 2 directories, no backup , I sent it out to a DR service and they have told me that all they can do is file harvest, where I would get a list of files such as file0001.xls file0002.xls etc... With no guarantee of what will come out, now we are a

g4u and ftp

2008-10-16 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm having an issue trying to write to my ftp server from linux- I just setup the ftp server with read and write access anonymous login From windows explorer no-problem from the mac's no problem- but when I try to upload an image using g4u (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/) I get rejected by

network documentation

2008-09-04 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm looking for an Open source application that will gather network data, and let me add info to it - e.g. nodes/mac address / ip address / os , which I will be able to add to; for example 192.168.10.4 freebsd mac address- then I will be able to add: mail filter server, running bsd/

OT: Clamd error

2008-08-21 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, Sorry for cross-posting but it seams that the members from the other list went on vacation- and I'm in a jam I run exim 4.69 clamav .93 and spamassassin on a freebsd box - basically it gets my smtp traffic, checks for spam virus etc,, then forwards it to my mailserver- Suddenly last

RE: OT: Clamd error

2008-08-21 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, Sorry for cross-posting but it seams that the members from the other list went on vacation- and I'm in a jam I run exim 4.69 clamav .93 and spamassassin on a freebsd box - basically it gets my smtp traffic, checks for spam virus etc,, then forwards

OT: Custmoize VNC

2008-07-28 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I know there are two apps (open source) that will allow you to customize vnc but I just cant remember, in essence I want the remote users (outside the lan) to be able to download the file click run and it will automatically, upon launch connect to the viewer here at HQ (ip add encryption port #

RE: OT: Customize VNC

2008-07-28 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
, July 28, 2008 1:55 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: OT: Custmoize VNC I guess this is what you look for: http://www.uvnc.com/pchelpware/download/index.html Kind regards, Peter Zyumbilev IT Manager for Convergent Media Pty Ltd t +61-290-374-211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Data recovery

2008-07-01 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm throwing this out to this list because our SNAP drive has a *nix kernel- One of the folders mysteriously lost a large portion of its data today, I immediately powered down the unit as to prevent further writing to the disks (raid 5)- Is there any tool or utlity you can recommend to

RE: g4u

2008-06-20 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Ghost for unix http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ The drives i'm working with are windows From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 6/20/2008 3:57 To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: g4u can I use G4U to clone a 40 gig

g4u

2008-06-19 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
can I use G4U to clone a 40 gig drive to a 30 gig drive, if the source drive only has 20 gigs of data? Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563

canned dist option

2008-04-15 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Which option does one choose during install for use as a server- Don't need games, X, or anything of the sort. I just want to have ssh access Then install my usual CLAM EXIM SA I know this is a lame question but its been over year since I did this TIA j

RE: canned dist option

2008-04-15 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I'm at a gui that has 5 options to choose from , average user- Developer x-developer etc.. __ Hello, Jean-Paul Natola set WHITOUT_X11=YES in /etc/make.conf for example. just see man make.conf and man src.conf You wrote: Which option does one

swapping hardware

2008-04-10 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I'm currently running FreeBSD 6.2 on a PIII 550 with 384 of ram and 10 gig drive- I got my hands a new box it's a PIV 1.8 with 1 gig of ram- I was wondering if it were possible to take the hard drive out from the older machine ( it's a dell dimension) and put it in the new tower- dell optiplex

RE: swapping hardware

2008-04-10 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I'm currently running FreeBSD 6.2 on a PIII 550 with 384 of ram and 10 gig drive- I got my hands a new box it's a PIV 1.8 with 1 gig of ram- I was wondering if it were possible to take the hard drive out from the older machine ( it's a dell dimension) and put

OT: disk clone app

2007-11-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
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 I can find it for the life

WEBEX type app

2007-08-13 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all Is there any open source app that is similar to webex? Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED

install app without ports

2007-08-13 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
the ports ( make install) How do I go about installing it on FreeBSD 6.2 ? Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: www.freebsd.org down?

2007-08-07 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Working perfectly here -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gaye Abdoulaye Walsimou Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:03 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org down? Heiko Wundram (Beenic) a écrit : Is anybody else

RE: www.freebsd.org down?

2007-08-07 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
NYC here Try it by IP http://69.147.83.33/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hakan K Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:10 AM To: Arend P. van der Veen Cc: Heiko Wundram (Beenic); FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org down?

daily report

2007-07-18 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi everyone, Before rebuilding my 5.5 server to the 6.2 I used to get daily reports emailed from the machine to me security run output daily run output and on Saturday's a weekly run output Cleaning up kernel database files: Rebuilding locate database: Rebuilding whatis database: -- End of

portdowngrade CVS error

2007-07-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I've read the docs and it *seems* I'm doing this correctly ,however , I getting this error Step 1: Checking out port from CVS repository CVS root directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs Cannot access /home/ncvs/CVSROOT No such file or directory Is the server just offline? Jean-Paul

RE: portdowngrade CVS error

2007-07-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I've read the docs and it *seems* I'm doing this correctly ,however , I getting this error Step 1: Checking out port from CVS repository CVS root directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs Cannot access /home/ncvs/CVSROOT No such file or directory Is the server just offline? It was the

external drive

2007-07-10 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, After yesterdays fiasco trying to upgrade 5.5 to 6.2 - I just grabbed a new drive and did a clean install of 6.2 Its working great, no errors I'm happy- There are some files (basically some custom config and cf files) that I would like to copy from the 5.5 drive - So I put it in an

reboot in single user

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm curious to know if there is a command to reboot into single user mode- * more importantly* if I do reboot in single user mode can I still SSH in? My box is not physically near me and I'm upgrading 5.5 to 6.2 - so it this possible- or do I need to go get the box and attach a keyboard

RE: reboot in single user

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I'm curious to know if there is a command to reboot into single user mode- * more importantly* if I do reboot in single user mode can I still SSH in? My box is not physically near me and I'm upgrading 5.5 to 6.2 - so it this possible- or do I need to go get the box and attach a keyboard

RE: reboot in single user

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
How long will this take- as stopping the daemons (spamd/clamd etcc..) will cause a halt in my incoming mail? Only a temporary halt. SMTP was designed for intermittent / flaky connections. The sending servers will just try again, for a few days typically, if it fails on the initial

mergemaster not found

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I've restart in SUM and when I attempt* to run mergemaster it returns; Where should I run this from? Jean-Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

RE: mergemaster not found

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
-Original Message- From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 2:26 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster not found At 01:15 PM 7/9/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I've restart in SUM and when I attempt

password failure- after mergmaster

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
OOOPSS- I got mergemaster to run- but now that the system restarted the root password and my password are invalid- I can ONLY start in single user mode- I still do have level 0 dump of 5.4 on my network is this my only option ? Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information

RE: password failure- after mergmaster

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:29:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: Having read this I must admit that it's a complete mystery to me why mergemaster would touch your password file at all... Because sometimes new versions of the OS come with new

RE: password failure- after mergmaster

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
On 09/07/07, Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:29:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: Having read this I must admit that it's a complete mystery to me why mergemaster would touch your password file at all

buildworld inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
%/dev /dev/ad0s1e 248M4.9M223M 2%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 4.9G1.7G2.8G38%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 248M128M100M56%/var Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International

RE: buildworld inquiry-Failing

2007-07-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, Hello, After failing to upgrade to 6.2 , I'm taking a members advice and going to buildworld- I have two questions- How long will it take- Hard to guess.. I have a PIII w/ 128M of ram and it takes around an hour or so... And do I need to stop

Upgrade Failure-

2007-07-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm once again trying to upgrade from 5.5 to 6.2 So in sysinstall I went to options - changed the release to 6.2-RELEASE Started the upgrade and I keep getting this error │Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) │

Upgrade from 5.5 to 5.5

2007-06-21 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I just finished ( what I thought was an upgrade) to 6.0 Only to find after I rebooted that I was still at 5.5 I did it via sysinstall- it said upgrade successful reboot - And when I did I was back at 5.5 Obviously , I missed something just not sure what/where Any help would be

RE: Upgrade from 5.5 to 5.5

2007-06-21 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
On Thursday 21 June 2007 03:18:32 pm Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I just finished ( what I thought was an upgrade) to 6.0 Only to find after I rebooted that I was still at 5.5 I did it via sysinstall- it said upgrade successful reboot - And when I did I was back at 5.5 Obviously , I missed

HARDWARE compatability

2007-05-07 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
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RE: HARDWARE compatability

2007-05-07 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hash: SHA256 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, I'm looking to retire my PIII freebsd box for something a little more of age- being that I'm at a non-profit I do not have the largest of budgets- On that note I have never used and AMD before for a server so I was looking at this box

port updates

2007-05-04 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi everyone, If this question is not for this list , I'm apologizing in advance I just ran cvsup because I wanted to install the latest version of SpamAssassin- 3.2 After doing portupgrade I see that its still at 3.1.8 When do the ports get updated- ? Jean-Paul Natola Network

UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld

2007-04-02 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
choose to redirect my SMTP directly to my mail server- NOT A GOOD IDEA. So I see there are two methods of upgrading - sysinstall or makeworld- what would be the optimal choice for someone with limited experience in the BSD world- Thanks Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information

RE: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld

2007-04-02 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:02 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld The difference is a binary upgrade using sysinstall booting a later version CD or using cvsup and a source install. Both should work fine for your

RE: Hard Drive problems

2007-03-27 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Each BIOS maps beep codes into a diagnostic message. Also, are you getting video signal/BIOS on your monitor? ~BAS http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Uptime

2007-03-23 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
It was that obvious, huh? :-) Thanks, Stan Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Type uptime at the prompt. Hi; How do I determine the uptime of my server? Thanks, Stan2 Top will also show it ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

DST

2007-03-16 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi everyone, I'm still having an issue with the new daylight saving- I ran tzsetup entered the appropriate zone- but when I reboot the machine it still in the old time zone- Is there a patch for freebsd 5.4 Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care

RE: DST

2007-03-16 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi everyone, I'm still having an issue with the new daylight saving- I ran tzsetup entered the appropriate zone- but when I reboot the machine it still in the old time zone- Is there a patch for freebsd 5.4 Paste the results of: zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 date

directory permission error

2006-12-28 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
to add the spamd user to another group, or do I need to change the permissions on the directory? Or am I way off here ? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012

spamstats incomplete

2006-12-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
: 20.42 Average clean message score :-16.28 Total spam volume : 6 Mbytes Total clean volume :38 Mbytes Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway

RE: spamstats incomplete

2006-12-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
As you can see its still reading from /var/log/maillog but data is not complete. File /var/log/maillog : from Dec 5 00:00:00 to Dec 5 11:33:44 Total number of emails processed by the spam filter : 0 Number of spams : n/a Number of clean messages:

SYMLINK

2006-12-01 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working, how can I verify a symlink? And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source world. Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone

RE: SYMLINK

2006-12-01 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Additionally, find filenamecan tell you if a symbolic link is broken: % ln -s ./linksource ./linkdest % file linkdest linkdest: broken symbolic link to `./linksource' (In this case linksource simply doesn't exist...) Uh-oh too much data - not processing- Maybe if I explain what I was doing-

RE: SYMLINK

2006-12-01 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Make sure that your exim data really resides in /usr/var2/exim. Afterwards, remove /var/spool/exim. The ln command won't remove any existing files and directories, but it doesn't complain in this case. And then you have to take care where you specify source and destination: The source is an

RE: SYMLINK

2006-12-01 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
You create this link (presuming all dirs exist). 'ln -s /some/other/dir/goodstuff /stuff' Then do 'cd /stuff' ...textfile You can use any text editor you like if vi is not to your taste (though you should at least learn how to use vi since it is so omnipresent in the UNIX world)

process stopped

2006-10-24 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
/var/run/clamav/clamd (Connection refused) 2006-10-23 21:28:43 1GcB5v-Mv-80 malware acl condition: clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (Connection refused) Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite

Samba install failing

2006-10-13 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
- │ │Please check the debug screen for more info. │ Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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