Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

2007-09-22 Thread Robert C Wittig
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i personally use only sendmail. Yep... if it works, don't 'fix' it. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-09 Thread Robert C Wittig
Brian Astill wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:02:55 pm Bob Middaugh wrote: I'm interested in changing over to FreeBSD from Windows, but I'll have to say, you guys don't really present a forceful argument to Windows users of how easy the switch may be. The switch will not be particularly easy.

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-13 Thread Robert C Wittig
Claude Menski wrote: Why is freebsd better then ubuntu? ___ Ubuntu has an obviously intoxicated penguin for a mascot, whereas FreeBSD has a Dever little Clevil... oops, I mean a Clever little Devil, for a mascot. Daemon is a gas, whereas the

Re: How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-19 Thread Robert C Wittig
Drew Jenkins wrote: Hi; I have a production server that I've crashed a few times by working on it directly and making mistakes. As a result, I've finally built a mock server on my home PC on a separate hard drive with nothing but FBSD. I also have a laptop. All are connected by DHCP to a

Re: Onpening and Closing ports

2007-02-12 Thread Robert C Wittig
Dave Carrera wrote: Hi All, 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 Many kind regards Instead of changing the sshd port, I set a PF rule that only

Re: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer?

2007-01-04 Thread Robert C Wittig
Sunnz wrote: Perhaps the stability of FBSD has led to the infrequent use of the installer for (re)installation. Think about it: if you are using the installer frequent enough to worry about how it look like, what are you doing? Reinstalling your OS every several months? Personally, I prefer

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Robert C Wittig
Simon Gao wrote: Linux supports more devices than FreeBSD, especially new devices. So??? What's so compelling about that? BSD has a Dever little Clevil... Oops! I mean a Clever little Devil. ...and all that Linux has, is that obviously intoxicated Penguin. Daemon is a gas, whereas Tux is

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Robert C Wittig
Rob Gabaree wrote: Thanks. What I did was remove all lines except `sendmail_enable=NO` and in /etc/mail/aliases, I setup the root alias to goto my real email address: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] I setup my firewall to block incoming/outgoing email on ports 21/25 as well, so no one on the

Re: Problems during installing FreeBSD

2006-09-23 Thread Robert C Wittig
Sunil Kumar wrote: I have been trying to install FreeBSD on a system which already has Red Hat Linux installed with grub boot loader on a x86 hardware. I managed to provide one of the partitions for FreeBSD and use the option A' (Auto Defaults) for creating the /, /var, '/usr and /swap

Re: freebsd compilation of handbooks

2006-09-21 Thread Robert C Wittig
Bob M. wrote: Came across this earlier today, and figured it was a good resource: http://elibrary.fultus.com/technical/index.jsp?topic=/com.fultus.freebsd.books/books/arch-handbook/index.html Backing up a notch, brings up an interesting page listing a bunch of FreeBSD (and Linux)

Re: Firewall

2006-09-21 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hèrvé Simplice van der Eijk wrote: on 1 machine I set up a freebsd 5.4 server with dhcp, dns, ldap running on it. on an other machine I set up apachy webserver and both are working fine. when I'm making an http request on a windows client (internet explore) it shows my web site. but

Re: PART TIME JOB OFFER FOR YOU

2006-09-19 Thread Robert C Wittig
Jonathan Chen wrote: How exactly does this spam-scam work? Does the spammer require a proof-o-faith `donation' to initiate further communication or something? Nigeria 4-1-9 They send you a counterfeit money order/ cheque, you deposit it, your bank makes the funds available, you send the bad

Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

2006-09-02 Thread Robert C Wittig
Keith Phipps wrote: My questions really come down to this; I'll be working with 4.x and 6.1 boxes. Are there any global issues with them I should be concerned about, something you guys as admins have to deal with regularly. The boss also said something that confused me, said I'd need to

Re: mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread Robert C Wittig
DW wrote: So any ideas on why I need to do a chown -R dude:dude after the first mount?? Am I missing something, going insane, or is something buggy here You created the directory as root: # mkdir /usr/home/dude/drive2 ...so it belongs to root. I can only assume that...

Re: mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread Robert C Wittig
DW wrote: no, the first time this was my thought too, I've been known to do stuff like this, especially since so much activity is done with 'sudo', but we went back (each of us on our respective machines), and did it again, making sure we were doing it as 'dude', not sudo or 'root', and it

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Robert C Wittig
Marwan Sultan wrote: hello, Well, I did what im doing since 7 years on desktops! just inserted the cd, startedup the laptop and asked for installation, then the normal procedures, you know? partitioning..etc.. when the installation done, i removed the cd and restarted, but the laptop

Re: FreeBSD Installation CD Creation

2006-07-08 Thread Robert C Wittig
Walt Haynes wrote: I'm having a tough time creating the two 6.1-release installation CD's. I was told that it was best to go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.1/ and download the 6.1 RELEASE disc1 and disc2 ISO images in Windows, and use your favorite