Re: Changing SendMail Port Number

2004-06-05 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jun 5, 2004, at 16:49, Gerard Seibert wrote: This is probably a stupid question, but how do I change the SMTP port number that SendMail listens in on? I want to change it to something else, like perhaps 24. My ISP is blocking 25 and I want to get around that problem. I use the following in

Re: Changing SendMail Port Number

2004-06-06 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jun 5, 2004, at 17:35, Mark wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: This is probably a stupid question, but how do I change the SMTP port number that SendMail listens in on? I want to change it to something else, like perhaps 24. My ISP is blocking 25 and I want to get around that problem. And how will

Top Consistency

2004-06-08 Thread Doug Hardie
I am running FreeBSD 4.6 and top does not show consistent data (at least in my understanding). The cpu states line shows the percent of time in user state. I would expect the percent processor used by all the active processes to add up to something close to that. (single processor machine).

File deletion problem

2003-09-19 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a situation that I have not been able to track down where on one of my servers some process is writing a log file (I presume) and it is getting rotated out from under it. The net result is that the log continues to be written to the original file which eventually is deleted thus

Bind 8 vs. Bind 9

2003-09-26 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a large mail server with a couple of zones defined where the sum of the zone definition files is 153 MB. When I use Bind 8 the VSIZE for bind jumps to 250 MB. Thats with nothing going on using bind. When I switch to Bind 9 and load the same files the VSIZE jumps to 353 MB. I was

INN Problems

2004-01-13 Thread Doug Hardie
I have sent the request below to the INN maillist but got no response. I have gotten nowhere trying to figure this out. Any help will be appreciated. I am running inn 2.4.0 and a few days ago postings by my users no longer get sent back to the news feed server. I have verified with them

Re: I need to resend messages from dead.letters

2004-01-13 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 13, 2004, at 04:18, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:24:21AM +, Jez Hancock wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:23:20PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: There was a problem last night with my mail server and a bunch of mail went into the dead.letters mailbox rather than being

Re: ftps server (ftp with SSL, not sftp)

2004-02-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 26, 2004, at 13:46, Dan Rue wrote: Hey Gang, I need to find a good drop in ftpd-ssl server. Please don't tell me to use sftp - I would love to but sometimes I don't get my druthers. I see there's a BSDftpd-ssl, and there's a couple others in ports - are any of them widely used? This

Syslog

2004-03-17 Thread Doug Hardie
FreeBSD 4.6. I have a server running that logs to syslog for recording interesting information. It uses LOG_DAEMON facility so give the standard syslog.conf entries of: *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err

Re: log off with process running

2004-03-25 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 25, 2004, at 17:27, Augusto Jun Devegili wrote: nohup is a possible solution; check its man page. Example: $ nohup wget http://server/big.iso On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 05:22, Robert Storey wrote: I want to log off and hang up the modem. The question is, how to do so? With the above

Reboot of 5.2.1

2004-03-31 Thread Doug Hardie
I am testing 5.2.1 in preperation for moving production servers eventually from 4.6 to 5.x. Most of the issues I have figured out, but there is one that I cannot get to work - shutdown -r now. Rebooting dies consistently. With the GENERIC kernel I get the message: Rebooting... Keyboard

Re: Reboot Problem with 5.2.1

2004-04-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 23:23:06 -0700 Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am testing 5.2.1 in preperation for moving production servers eventually from 4.6 to 5.x. Most of the issues I have figured out, but there is one that I cannot get to work - shutdown -r now. Rebooting dies consistently

Unusual login requirement

2004-04-13 Thread Doug Hardie
I am trying to figure out how to implement an unusual login requirement and haven't found a good approach yet. What I need is to have a specific user id that when it is logged in it executes a specific script and then immediately logs out. Basically what it needs to do is run a make that

Water Damage

2002-12-30 Thread Doug Hardie
My church had a fire in the computer room today. The equipment was not directly damaged by the fire as the sprinkler system put it out very quickly. However, the sprinklers ran directly on the equipment for a couple hours. There are several servers, routers, hubs etc. Most of them had

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-30 Thread Doug Hardie
Thanks for all the suggestions. Here is the latest update. The water from the sprinklers was purer than that from the tap. There was no residue from it anywhere. A bit of head (oven and hair drier used) and it was easily evaporated. However, all of the units except for one router were

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Doug Hardie
On Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002, at 02:32 US/Pacific, Rob O'Donnell wrote: If it's a PS/2 type keyboard connector (small plug) there is a plastic pin that often gets broken off and left in the socket if connectors are pulled out violently, blocking a new keyboard being inserted. (Seen it often with

BIND configuration problem

2003-01-05 Thread Doug Hardie
I am trying to setup a master DNS server on a test network (not connected to the internet). The network has an address of 10.0.1.xxx as that happend to require the least setup. However, I am unable to get the reverse DNS file to load properly. The error messages are: Jan 5 14:59:27 freebie

Re: Determining Ram

2003-02-02 Thread Doug Hardie
On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 18:39 US/Pacific, Dragoncrest wrote: Cool. That worked. A little more info than I wanted to sort through, but now that I know about that, I now have more information to pick through later on should I need any of that information that Dmesg listed. At 01:02

Re: qpopper pop3 and SSL experiences

2003-07-27 Thread Doug Hardie
I am using qpopper 4.0.3 for an ISP and it works fine for all the various SSL mail clients. Configuration may be a bit difficult for the client as some of them use the interim SSL mail port and some use the standard POP3 port. I have to run 2 separate POP servers with different ports to

Re: POP Before SMTP

2003-08-11 Thread Doug Hardie
On Saturday, Aug 9, 2003, at 05:30 US/Pacific, Matthew Seaman wrote: Hmmm... Don't know precisely about pop before sendmail, but setting up sendmail so that it requires authentication before it will relay a message from a foreign location is quite do-able, and can easily be integrated with the

Sendmail address rewriting

2003-08-16 Thread Doug Hardie
I have what is most likely a simple misunderstanding of the sendmail.cf file configuration. But, nothing I have tried works. Basically I have one machine (zoon) which is the mail host for all received mail. All user mailboxes are on that machine and it is the host identified in the MX

Re: Create a hot backup server machine?

2003-03-30 Thread Doug Hardie
On Sunday, Mar 30, 2003, at 14:18 US/Pacific, Ralph Dratman wrote: I'm trying to create an offsite hot backup of a FreeBSD server. If the primary server fails, I want to transport the spare machine to the existing site and bring it up as a replacement, with little or no reconfiguration

Re: Backup Tar

2003-06-28 Thread Doug Hardie
On Saturday, Jun 28, 2003, at 05:48 US/Pacific, Bill Moran wrote: DanB wrote: If I tar my files on freebsd box then FTP them to a window 98 box can I use that file to reinstall on a new Freebsd box? You're a little vague ... But as long as you do the FTP transfer in binary mode you'll be able

Re: Airsnort

2002-07-25 Thread Doug Hardie
At 1511 -0400 7/25/2002, Justin L.Boss wrote: Just worndering if someone has been able to get airsnort working with FreeBSD using a Cisco airownet 350? I have it working with the 340 if thats of any interest. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Secure FTPd

2002-10-06 Thread Doug Hardie
On Sunday, Oct 6, 2002, at 10:50 US/Pacific, Socketd wrote: I have read about adding SSL support to ftpd, but I can't remember where I read it. I am running a ftp server using the ftpd in the base system and now I want to only allow encrypted ftp connections. What should I do? Use

Re: Secure FTPd

2002-10-06 Thread Doug Hardie
On Sunday, Oct 6, 2002, at 15:05 US/Pacific, Socketd wrote: Original Message On 10/6/02, 11:52:16 PM, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Secure FTPd: The problem with adding SSL to ftpd is the clients. You would have to create an ftp client with SSL added also. ssh's

Re: Secure FTPd

2002-10-06 Thread Doug Hardie
On Sunday, Oct 6, 2002, at 15:20 US/Pacific, Socketd wrote: Original Message On 10/7/02, 12:09:14 AM, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Secure FTPd: Well, all my users use windows and there a some ftp clients that loves SSL (like CuteFTP). You would have to emulate

Re: Secure FTPd

2002-10-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On Monday, Oct 7, 2002, at 17:18 US/Pacific, Eric Parusel wrote: Hmm, I think you two *may* be doing down the wrong path... There's a (proposed) standard for encrypted FTP, it's called FTP over TLS ... Here's a link: http://www.ford-hutchinson.com/~fh-1-pfh/ftps-ext.html A number of

Re: SSH/FTP Access

2002-10-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 21:28 US/Pacific, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering is there a way to limit SSH access (when adding a user or period) so that user can only use SSH to access or effect their home directory? Not with the installed sshd Also is there a way to give

Re: Max Email Users

2002-10-29 Thread Doug Hardie
On Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002, at 06:03 US/Pacific, Matt Delaine wrote: We are running FreeBSD 4.6 on a PIII 600 with 256 Meg RAM as our mail server. At what point (how many users) will we start running into trouble (have problems allowing us to send and receive email?) Thanks. I run an ISP and

Re: Using iBook OS X 10.2 CD Writer to create a FBSD on Intel Boot CDROM

2002-10-30 Thread Doug Hardie
On Wednesday, Oct 30, 2002, at 12:41 US/Pacific, paul beard wrote: Ev Batey WaSixCre wrote: Subj is the question .. Where can I find a map of how I build a Unix (esp F.BSD) CD Using Apple iBook running OSX 10.2 CD-R / CD-RW burner. All clues are welcome. Or how to overcome us govt politics ...

vm error

2002-11-07 Thread Doug Hardie
I am getting a rash of vm errors that started today: vm_page_cache: attempting to cache busy page I don't seem to find anything obviously wrong in the system. How do I tell which process is causing the problem? It looks like something is hung, but I don't see any obvious candidates.

File Counts

2002-12-02 Thread Doug Hardie
How do I get a count of the files in directories? I need to be able to get a listing of the number of files in a directory and counts for the files in each sub-directory. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: File Counts

2002-12-02 Thread Doug Hardie
Thanks to all who responded. The approach below does just what I needed. On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 12:02 US/Pacific, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:42:28PM -0500, Kliment Andreev wrote: How do I get a count of the files in directories? I need to be able to get a listing

Mail resending

2002-12-07 Thread Doug Hardie
One of our system accounts had all its mail blocked and there now are over 500 emails in dead.letter that need to be resent. Is there a way to send them (either from dead.letter or from separate files) without having to do each one individually? I haven't been able to find any way using mail

Re: [OT] file synchronization between two machines

2003-03-25 Thread Doug Hardie
On Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003, at 08:01 US/Pacific, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Hey all. Sorry for the OT question, but here goes. Anyone know of a tool or method that can check the last modification date of two files under these conditions and keep them in sync? I've never tried this, but you might give

5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-16 Thread Doug Hardie
The instructions for building world/kernel for 4.x are straight forward and work fine. However, I seem to have munged two 5.3 installations now. I have been through all the UPDATING notes and the handbook and something is obviously not clear. The approach I used is: Clean install from 5.3

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-16 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 16, 2005, at 22:05, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: The instructions for building world/kernel for 4.x are straight forward and work fine. However, I seem to have munged two 5.3 installations now. I have been through all the UPDATING

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-16 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 16, 2005, at 22:05, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: The instructions for building world/kernel for 4.x are straight forward and work fine. However, I seem to have munged two 5.3 installations now. I have been through all the UPDATING

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-16 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 16, 2005, at 23:19, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:15:23PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: On Jan 16, 2005, at 22:05, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: The instructions for building world/kernel for 4.x are straight forward and work

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-17 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 17, 2005, at 11:07, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:32:31PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: The only way I can think for this to happen is if your source tree was inconsistent (i.e. not completely updated), or you updated your sources after you did the installworld, and the kernel

Re: Which Way to Partition.

2005-01-21 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 21, 2005, at 19:32, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 21 January 2005 at 22:01:14 -0500, Peterhin wrote: I am new to FreeBSD, and have only used Linux for less than a year. I have read the Handbook, also FreeBSD An open-source system for your personal computer, they both suggest that I

Re: Which Way to Partition.

2005-01-21 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 21, 2005, at 23:20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Friday, 21 January 2005 at 20:58:35 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: On Jan 21, 2005, at 19:32, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 21 January 2005 at 22:01

Possible SCSI address conflicts

2005-01-28 Thread Doug Hardie
FreeBSD 5.3-P5 with device atapicam in the kernel. From dmesg.boot: Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 da1: MAXTOR ATLAS10K4_36WLS DFL0 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing

Reboot Hangs

2005-01-28 Thread Doug Hardie
FreeBSD 5.3-P5 with optionsBROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET in the kernel. System was first built on hardware that required that option to be able to avoid hanging on reboot. However, now I have installed it on a newer system. It still has the option defined. And it hangs. I suspect that I

Disk Label Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a system with two SCSI disks. da1 has a complete working system on it that I need to clone onto da0. The disks are different sizes. So I went to sysinstall and used 'disk label' to create the desired structure. Thats where the problems started. If I create the first partition and

SCSI Problem

2005-02-05 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a system that was running fine with 2 SCSI drives. Both on the same line, the last one terminated. I removed the first one leaving the one with the termination. Now when the system boots I get the strangest messages and the results are quite unusual. Here are the console messages

Re: SCSI Problem

2005-02-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 5, 2005, at 15:59, Doug Hardie wrote: I have a system that was running fine with 2 SCSI drives. Both on the same line, the last one terminated. I removed the first one leaving the one with the termination. Now when the system boots I get the strangest messages and the results

Re: SSH terminal locking up from OS X to FreeBSD

2005-02-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 22, 2005, at 13:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-22 15:35:53 -0600]: On Feb 22, 2005, at 3:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version of Mac OS X are you using? All of my workstations are Mac OS X, and all but one server (an old cobalt raq 2) are

Re: SSH terminal locking up from OS X to FreeBSD

2005-02-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 22, 2005, at 22:57, Jim Freeze wrote: * Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-22 22:58:17 -0700]: Just for giggles, what happens when you try a different encryption method with the ssl client? For example, -c blowfish Ok, so I tried this, but it still locks up. However,

Port Problem

2005-02-23 Thread Doug Hardie
I seem to have done something to a port that is causing a problem. The port is dspam and I first did a make on it. Up cam this nice configuration option window (similar to sysinstall) where I select what turns out to be incompatable options. However, that wasn't obvious at the time. The

su from root

2005-02-26 Thread Doug Hardie
I have encountered an unusual issue where the behavior is different between FreeBSD 4.6 and 5.3. If I login and then su to root successfully, then do a su to a non-root user I get: pam_login_access: pam_sm_acct_mgmt: user-id is not allowed to log in on /dev/ttyv0 In chasing this down it

Disk Error

2005-03-06 Thread Doug Hardie
I have been getting the following disk errors consistently for the last month. ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 6934399 of 3467168-3467295 (ad2s1 bn 6934399; cn 431 tn 164 sn 52) status=59 error=40 spec_getpages:(#ad/0x20014) I/O read failure: (error=5) bp 0xc5678f94 vp 0xcb5f3a80

Re: Disk Error

2005-03-06 Thread Doug Hardie
. tunefs ( enable softupdate) 3. backup to new hard disk 4. remove this faulty hard disk Your hard disk is dyeing . Doug Hardie wrote: I have been getting the following disk errors consistently for the last month. ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 6934399 of 3467168-3467295 (ad2s1 bn 6934399; cn 431 tn

Re: tech question

2005-03-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 6, 2005, at 23:45, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Mar 7, 2005, at 12:31 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 11:28 pm, popbox wrote: Excuse me for foolish question and pig latin. I'm a new user of FreeBSD and I have a trouble with mounting DVD. There is no

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 10, 2005, at 01:49, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies that know what they are doing. SPF is only

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 10, 2005, at 15:24, Anthony Atkielski wrote: As it is, sometimes I can't answer clients by e-mail because their own ISPs (e.g., anything run by Time-Warner) simply throw away my e-mail because it doesn't come from a Big ISP. I doub't thats the reason. I am presuming you are referring to

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 10, 2005, at 17:38, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Doug Hardie writes: I doub't thats the reason. I am presuming you are referring to wanado.fr. No, I'm referring to e-mail sent directly from my own server (not relayed through Wanadoo). Time-Warner and a few other ISPs either reject it openly

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 10, 2005, at 18:30, Warren Block wrote: milter-greylist works great with sendmail. Here's a somewhat-dated article I wrote about using it and clamav-milter with sendmail: http://www.wonkity.com/greylist.pdf I am getting a no such file back on that.

NIS server selection

2004-07-08 Thread Doug Hardie
I have NIS running on a few servers. I have had them configured with the -S option with only their host name so they would use the local resolver. However, after a few problems with ypserv dying I tried adding additional servers to the -S list. Everything was as normal till I killed ypserv

Re: NIS server selection

2004-07-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 8, 2004, at 13:44, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 08), Doug Hardie said: I have NIS running on a few servers. I have had them configured with the -S option with only their host name so they would use the local resolver. However, after a few problems with ypserv dying I tried

Re: NIS server selection

2004-07-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 8, 2004, at 18:34, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 08), Doug Hardie said: On Jul 8, 2004, at 13:44, Dan Nelson wrote: The best you can do is make sure ypwhich points to the local machine so that subsequent processes will use it. You can't force existing processes to switch

Re: pop3s server?

2004-07-12 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 12, 2004, at 16:16, Chris wrote: On Monday 12 July 2004 06:01 pm, Eric Crist wrote: What can I use as a secure (SSL) pop3 server. I'm trying to eliminate all instances of passwords being transmitted to my network unencrypted. Mail is all that is left. I want to setup pop as a secure

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Doug Hardie
Not surprising. Gates and Microsoft didn't develop DOS. They bought it. On Nov 2, 2005, at 20:27, Moffatt, Chris wrote: It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn) I think it stands for console Actually, you can't create a folder named: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2,

Upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0

2005-11-06 Thread Doug Hardie
I am in the midst of upgrading via source from 5.3 to 6.0. All is going fine, but the instructions in UPDATING do not include a make installkernel command. I know that needs to be done somewhere. I suspect between the buildkernel and the reboot.

Re: Upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0

2005-11-06 Thread Doug Hardie
On Nov 6, 2005, at 22:15, Hans Nieser wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: I am in the midst of upgrading via source from 5.3 to 6.0. All is going fine, but the instructions in UPDATING do not include a make installkernel command. I know that needs to be done somewhere. I suspect between

Re: Upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0

2005-11-09 Thread Doug Hardie
On Nov 7, 2005, at 00:10, Hans Nieser wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On Nov 6, 2005, at 22:15, Hans Nieser wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: I am in the midst of upgrading via source from 5.3 to 6.0. All is going fine, but the instructions in UPDATING do not include a make installkernel

make buildworld

2005-12-26 Thread Doug Hardie
I am upgrading a server to 6.0 and encountered an error in make buildworld. However, I don't know what the error was as I piped stdout to a file, but not stderr. It was fairly near the end so I really hate to restart from the beginning again. The master server is a fairly slow machine.

Re: How to know that make buildworld finished

2006-03-05 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 5, 2006, at 19:25, Olivier Nicole wrote: For testing purposes, I am trying to build a quite old (read slow) machine. It happens that every time I start a buildworld, I will have to leave before the end. And next morning the shell I was using to run the buildworld will have terminated

Finding an LBA after a disk error

2006-03-13 Thread Doug Hardie
After much revision I finally have a tool that does a pretty good job of identifying the usage of an LBA. Its not perfect, but its normally only used with a disk with a bad sector. It no longer needs the complete source distribution but can be built from the normal libraries. It has

Motherboards

2006-03-27 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a number of servers that are reaching end of life. They are over 7 years old and I can no longer find IDE drives that work with the slower controllers they have. These are all towers and use ASUS motherboards. Those were quite cheap at the time and the boards have worked very

cvs

2006-05-05 Thread Doug Hardie
I have been building a cvs structure for a bunch of code and have a couple questions I have not been able to find answers to in the archives/documentation. When you run ident on many FreeBSD modules you see the identifier FreeBSD used frequently. It appears that cvs is properly updating

Re: cvs

2006-05-05 Thread Doug Hardie
On May 5, 2006, at 11:04, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-05-05 10:45, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been building a cvs structure for a bunch of code and have a couple questions I have not been able to find answers to in the archives/documentation. When you run ident on many

Monitoring a PPP Connection

2003-11-19 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a device that connects via PPP on a phone line (V.90) to my ISP. However, I am seeing significant delays on the connection but can't find a cause. I am looking for something that will monitor the phone line - like tcpdump for a phone line. I know that there are some expensive devices

Re: lost man pages after reinstalling and upgrading macosX

2003-12-12 Thread Doug Hardie
On Dec 12, 2003, at 06:35, John Minter wrote: Since I have reinstalled macosx (v 10.2) and upgraded to current v 10.2.8, i no longer can reach my man pages or many of my commands. on startup of terminal i get message saying system cannot find manpath or grep. I have tried to track down the

Re: halt while booting: recovering vi editor sessions /kv

2003-12-28 Thread Doug Hardie
If the first one or two DNS server entries are not working you will see this behavior. On Dec 28, 2003, at 15:23, Kai Vermehr wrote: While booting I get the message recovering vi editor sessions and the booting process is halted for a couple of minutes. I'm new to FreeBSD so I don't know

I need to resend messages from dead.letters

2004-01-12 Thread Doug Hardie
There was a problem last night with my mail server and a bunch of mail went into the dead.letters mailbox rather than being sent. I have that mailbox and need a way to send all of those messages. I split them out into individual files, but there are just too many to send by hand. Is there a

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-27 Thread Doug Hardie
On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:39, Nico Meijer wrote: Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's on your plate at dinner? ;-) I do, maybe you too,

Upgrade to 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Doug Hardie
I am doing some testing of 5.3 in preperation to converting a number of production boxes from 4.6. A couple questions I have not been able to find answers for: One of my systems has a very large IDE drive that is used to hold some long term very large files that are rarely created but

Root login at console

2004-11-12 Thread Doug Hardie
I am setting up some 5.3 systems and have encountered a situation I can't figure out. I have had the following (and only) active line in 4.6 systems /etc/login.allow: -:ALL EXCEPT user1 user2 user3: ALL That only permitted logins from those 3 users and not root. The users had to su to get to

Re: Root login at console

2004-11-12 Thread Doug Hardie
On Nov 12, 2004, at 23:18, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Hardie Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 10:52 PM To: f-questions List Subject: Root login at console I am setting up some 5.3 systems and have encountered

jabberd

2005-06-15 Thread Doug Hardie
Has anyone succeeded in making mu-conference work with jabberd v2 on FreeBSD 5.x? I can get jabberd working fine but it never seems to route anything to mu-conference. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mac osx disklabels

2005-06-20 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jun 20, 2005, at 07:59, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 20, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Bob Bomar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I went to mount a UFS filesystem on an OSX prepared drive and discovered | that apparantly FreeBSD can't

Re: FreeBSD and NetZero

2004-11-25 Thread Doug Hardie
On Nov 24, 2004, at 23:23, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: They are called dialup accellerators, and an entire industry has grown up to make and sell these programs, with the sole purpose of shagging money out of stupid people who run ISP's and don't understand you cannot compress jpgs, zips, .mp3s and

Re: blacklisting failed ssh attempts

2004-12-01 Thread Doug Hardie
On Dec 1, 2004, at 09:41, Charles Ulrich wrote: This morning I noticed that an attacker spent over a full hour trying to brute-force accounts and passwords via ssh on one of our machines. These kinds of attacks are becoming more frequent. I was wondering: does anyone know of a way to blacklist

Re: sftp and shell access

2004-12-14 Thread Doug Hardie
On Dec 14, 2004, at 02:11, Josh Paetzel wrote: I am looking for a way to give a user an sftp account without giving them a shell. So far I've tried setting their shell to /sbin/nologin, but when they try to log in via sftp it gives them a message to long error. Any pointers would be

Re: Centralized DB of system users

2008-12-12 Thread Doug Hardie
On Dec 12, 2008, at 10:19, Dan wrote: Wojciech Puchar(woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl)@2008.12.12 14:12:45 +0100: this case (though it's very complicated to set up, especially the first why it is right solution? Interoperability. Today, with Linux, tomorrow, Windows or Mac OS X. so not

Port 7070

2009-01-19 Thread Doug Hardie
I just ran a netcat (nc -z) on my production servers and found an unusual response: Connection to 7070 port [tcp/arcp] succeeded! I checked on all my production and test servers (7.0 stable as of quite some time ago) and got the same response. I can't figure out why that port is

Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System

2009-01-28 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 28, 2009, at 16:52, Jaime wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: dump is perfect. period. Is it possible to pull out individual files? A fellow sysadmin asked me that years ago and I didn't have an answer for him. Most

Image size manipulation

2009-02-03 Thread Doug Hardie
I am looking for a port that would take an image file (preferably and image format) and convert it to JPEG at a specified pixel size. I couldn't find anything in the ports that appears to provide this capability. If needed I would settle for requiring JPEG input format.

Re: Image size manipulation

2009-02-03 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 3, 2009, at 22:16, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: I am looking for a port that would take an image file (preferably and image format) and convert it to JPEG at a specified pixel size. I couldn't find anything in the ports that appears to provide this capability. If needed

Re: Image size manipulation

2009-02-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 4, 2009, at 06:38, Mehul Ved wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: You are looking for graphics/ImageMagick. This provides a 'convert' command that does lots of image file manipulations. Thanks. Don't know how I managed to miss it before. Also

Re: Image size manipulation

2009-02-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 4, 2009, at 08:17, Peter Giessel wrote: On Wednesday, February 04, 2009, at 07:10AM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I am currently using gd to create some images from data, but don't see how to resize the images to a specific pixel size. Nothing seems to stand out

Use of libgd

2009-04-01 Thread Doug Hardie
I am trying to use libgd to create some images. They are creating properly except there are color changes that I can't seem to figure out. The initial image is basically black and white PNG. I have converted it to GD2 format. There are a number of secondary images that have a couple of

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-04-06 Thread Doug Hardie
On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:12, Chris Rees wrote: Can no-one can come up with a reply either quoting a mailing list or giving the circumstances when: a) Background fsck caused data CORRUPTION _and_ b) A foreground fsck would not have done the same ? Yes. When background FSCK first became

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-04-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On Apr 7, 2009, at 02:34, Chris Rees wrote: \ So, the answer is NO, it does NOT cause data CORRUPTION. A simple reboot solved it? Really, you're advocating guaranteed extended downtime every time there's a power outage, compared with a slight chance of a slightly longer downtime while every

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On Apr 7, 2009, at 16:13, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, To copy data from one server, I normally (always) use scp. I'm looking for a method to perform this copy task without the overhead of encryption for infrequent, high-volume transfers (hundreds to thousands of GB). The data will be

Re: Upgrading from 6.3 to 7.1 -- how dangerous?

2009-04-19 Thread Doug Hardie
On Apr 19, 2009, at 10:06, John Almberg wrote: I need to upgrade a live, production server from 6.3 to 7.1. I can't afford to have any troubles with this server. I have Absolute FreeBSD and a few other BSD books, and the upgrade process looks fairly straightforward. That's the theory...

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 January 2010, at 01:45, Erik Norgaard wrote: To debug pf rules: - always add direction to the rule, pass or block, add interface to all rules except default policy, keep state on all pass rules - group your rules per direction, then per interface - add log to all rules and watch

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 January 2010, at 03:14, Erik Norgaard wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On 22 January 2010, at 01:45, Erik Norgaard wrote: To debug pf rules: - always add direction to the rule, pass or block, add interface to all rules except default policy, keep state on all pass rules - group your rules

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