Re: nss_ldap and openldap on the same server.

2007-03-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:26, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: It's a well-known problem rather than a bug, and it arises when looking up group information for a user. The system needs a list of all the groups the user is a member of. Since it's a list, not a single answer, you can't

Re: nss_ldap and openldap on the same server.

2007-03-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:21, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:13:00AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:26, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: [setting group: files ldap in nsswitch.conf] It looks as though you can instruct nss_ldap to unconditionally return

puc and uart as modules with FreeBSD6.2-REL

2007-03-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I have a two-port PCI serial card. I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on i386 and trying to get the card working using kernel modules puc and uart (after much Googling this seems like a viable option). With the GENERIC kernel, the boot process recognises my card as simple comms, UART but can't

Re: mirror without destroying existing contents

2007-03-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 16 March 2007 21:48, Steve Franks wrote: On 3/16/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 16 March 2007 11:18, Steve Franks wrote: I get the following: #gmirror label -v -b split -s 1024 data ad0 can't store metadata on ad0: operation not permitted. That

Re: puc and uart as modules with FreeBSD6.2-REL

2007-03-18 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 18 March 2007 08:32, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: [Jonathan wanted to use puc(4) and uart(4) as kernel modules to get a PCI 2-port serial card working] Am I missing something obvious, or do I need to compile yet another custom kernel to get this card working? The man page I see says

Re: Problems with burncd - cannot mount result on unix or windows

2007-03-22 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 22 March 2007 23:42, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:31:32PM -0700, UCTC Sysadmin wrote: [broken CDs under burncd] The main thing I did was take out the '-s max' speed parameter Just as a further point of reference, I also found that -s max caused the DVD+RW

passwd(1) and LDAP (was Re: FreeBSD 7.0, Open LDAP, PAM, TLS and NSS, howto?)

2007-10-01 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 28 September 2007 16:29, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x work fine with both PAM and NSS - LDAP w/ TLS (PKI). All other services (RADIUS, Apache ((mod_ldap, mod_pam_auth), PHP, interactive shell, SFTP, etc.) can be tied into LDAP either directly or via PAM. As for

Re: usb serial convertor

2007-10-01 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 01 October 2007 03:41, The Longs wrote: I'm trying to get Gregs temperature controlled fridge to work, but the catch is that the laptop I'm using doesn't have a serial port. I'm hoping I can use a usb to serial convertor and tell the program to look at the usb port for the

Re: passwd(1) and LDAP (was Re: FreeBSD 7.0, Open LDAP, PAM, TLS and NSS, howto?)

2007-10-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 01 October 2007 20:29, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Jonathan McKeown wrote: The passwd(1) program was rewritten some time ago to use PAM, but a test was left in which prevents it doing so. I have asked, both on this list and on freebsd-hackers in the last few weeks

Re: Separating Mail from Security Output and Daily Run Output

2007-10-19 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 19 October 2007 03:24, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Hello All: Is there a way on the server side to have the output from the Security Run and the Daily Run to go to separate email addresses? We have a gihugic number of servers sending everything to a single address and I'd

Re: tar Ignoring out-of-order file What Does that Mean?

2007-11-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 16:02, Martin McCormick wrote: I need to modify the first installation image for a headless installation of Freebsd6.2. The file in question is: 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso Thanks to a helpful member of the list [that was me - I'm glad I was of some

Re: shell programming

2007-11-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 09 November 2007 20:02, Eric Crist wrote: On Nov 9, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Bill Banks wrote: I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? Well, it depends on what you're using. If you're using sh, see `man date`. If you're using

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 12 November 2007 17:48, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:26:00PM +, Ashley Moran wrote: I've lost count of the number of times I've come back to a big install to find it hanging on a config screen. Possibly I'm missing something. [snip] What is the best way to

apache port knobs - WITH_APACHE2 deprecated?

2007-11-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
This is (I hope) a quick and easy question. I want to ensure that any ports which depend on Apache will depend on 2.0 rather than try to bring in 1.3. I used to do this by putting WITH_APACHE2 in /etc/make.conf. bsd.apache.mk says WITH_APACHE2 is deprecated. What is it deprecated in favour

Re: apache port knobs - WITH_APACHE2 deprecated?

2007-11-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 15 November 2007 19:39, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Jonathan McKeown wrote: This is (I hope) a quick and easy question. I want to ensure that any ports which depend on Apache will depend on 2.0 rather than try to bring in 1.3. I used to do this by putting WITH_APACHE2

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-18 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 17 November 2007 02:06, Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:11:57PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: prominently display the actual meaning of the word being set. The only reason to make the list binary is to force everyone to use the (basically database technology) tool to

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-19 Thread Jonathan McKeown
[Ted Mittelstaedt's words, heavily edited for brevity. Ted, please shout if I haven't caught the sense of what you're saying] Well, I know it's been a week since this came up but I'll toss in my $0.02 here. I've been against this project since I heard about it. Fortunately, it appears to be

Re: FreeBSD 7/OpenLDAP: Howto change passwords

2007-11-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 26 November 2007 17:11, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, trying to change passwords on a client machine for a LDAP authenticated user always fails due to the original passwd() command is not capable of changing passwords remotely. Their is a suggested patch, but is there an official way

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 22:14, David Banning wrote: 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

Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?

2007-12-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 20:04, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:00:06PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: I have scripts to add new users. However, after that any port that installs a user creates it with a UID after the ones I made. For example I want all employees

Re: BIND9 won't start

2007-12-23 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 24 December 2007 02:15, Jonathan Horne wrote: otherwise, there is always 'forcestart' intead of 'start'. and Darren Spruell wrote: You can get around the need to activate the variable by prefixing your commands with the 'force' keyword (e.g. /etc/rc.d/named forcestart, etc.) To

Re: curious root find running

2007-08-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 17 August 2007 13:34, Derek Ragona wrote: At 05:19 AM 8/17/2007, brad clawsie wrote: hi while sitting at my computer tonight i noticed a great deal of disk activity. i found that this process was running: $ ps -auxwww 1463 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED

Re: curious root find running

2007-08-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 17 August 2007 15:34, Derek Ragona wrote: At 06:59 AM 8/17/2007, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Friday 17 August 2007 13:34, Derek Ragona wrote: At 05:19 AM 8/17/2007, brad clawsie wrote: hi while sitting at my computer tonight i noticed a great deal of disk activity. i

passwd(1), pam_ldap and old PRs

2007-09-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I asked this on -hackers@ several weeks ago and the silence was deafening - what I have heard referred to as Warnock's Dilemma. I'm experimenting with OpenLDAP, pam_ldap, and pgina with the PAM plugin on Windows clients, for central authentication in a mixed network. passwd(1) won't allow me

Re: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 06:25, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [Jim Stapleton] I figured I'd try cyrus, I remember hearing that one is a good mail server. But I'm new to the mail server thing, and I'm not even sure where to look for some of this stuff if anyone can help. Also, I plan on

Re: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 12:46, Jim Stapleton wrote: All the authentication options you mention after plain text (which is the standard method built in to the protocol) require Cyrus SASL. This isn't as scary to set up as the docs make it sound. PLAIN and LOGIN can both use your

Re: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I've edited ruthlessly to reduce the length of this message. On Wednesday 05 September 2007 11:07, you wrote: My main question is on authentication. I was looking at authentication types in kmail to get an idea of what I can use, and I found: [list of SASL methods plus question what

(off-topic) Outlook 2003 msgids causing odd email problems

2007-09-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I'm raising this here in case anyone else has either seen this problem and has any thoughts, or alternatively has experienced the fallout and is wondering why. Over the last few weeks I've had complaints that email messages are going astray. This has happened in Cyrus imapd on delivery, and in

Re: (off-topic) Outlook 2003 msgids causing odd email problems

2007-09-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
Replying to myself, On Tuesday 11 September 2007 12:20, Jonathan McKeown wrote: After much scratching of head and tearing of hair, I have finally found two provable instances - one in Cyrus and one in Mailman - of replies to messages being sent using Microsoft Outlook Service Pack 2, where

Re: fbsd sendmail as MTA

2007-09-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 13 September 2007 03:46, Jack Stone wrote: We're switching our MTA from postfix to sendmail on a purely mail relay server and all is running just fine except for one minor essential. Is there any way to have sendmail perform the same service as the recipient_bcc.map and

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 13 September 2007 20:19, Kurt Buff wrote: On 9/13/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only space is the one separating the SMTP address from the OK or NO. Then you should be able to tell it to sort on the first token in the string with white space as a

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 13 September 2007 20:35, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:16:40AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm trying to do some text file manipulation, and it's driving me nuts. [snip] I've looked at sort and uniq, and I've googled a fair bit but can't seem to find anything that

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 14 September 2007 09:42, Steve Bertrand wrote: I don't have the perl skills, though that would be ideal. -- snip -- Another approach in Perl would be: #!/usr/bin/perl my (%names, %dups); while () { my ($key) = split; $dups{$key} = 1 if $names{$key};

Re: 6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

2007-09-21 Thread Jonathan McKeown
Hi Martin I often use the serial console for installs just to save digging out a screen and keyboard - especially on servers which are going to run headless anyway. What I do whenever I download release ISOs is unpack the disc-1 image to disk (tar now does this, I believe), add the line

Re: ipfw fwd not working in 6.2-release

2007-04-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 05 April 2007 15:42, Terry Todd wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:58:41AM -0500, Terry Todd wrote: I have tried to get ipfw fwd to work in 6.2-release but it always barfs. I have recompiled and installed a custom kernel with options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD [adding a fwd

Re: ipfw fwd not working in 6.2-release

2007-04-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:01, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 15:42, Terry Todd wrote: [ipfw not accepting fwd rules when kernel built with options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD and I agreed, saying] Has the way ipfw.ko is built changed? Do we need to compile ipfw into the kernel

Re: command to inentify the process that is listening in a port.

2007-04-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 09 April 2007 17:37, Martin Hudec wrote: Siju George wrote: How Do you actually Identify what process is listening on a TCP/IP port? nmap does not usually give the right answer. There should be some command that can be run on the local host for identification right? man lsof

Proper list server? (was Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?)

2007-04-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 05:12, L Goodwin wrote: For starters, how about getting this mail group on a proper list server? I'll gladly help if there is anything I can do other than get in the way... I normally try not to be rude, but... what on Earth are you talking about? What is it about a

Re: ipfw fwd not working in 6.2-release

2007-04-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
[Reordered, freebsd-questions re-added] On Thursday 12 April 2007 20:58, Terry Todd wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:20:22PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:01, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 15:42, Terry Todd wrote: [ipfw not accepting

Re: [OT] simpliest way to process this data file

2007-04-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 26 April 2007 08:51, Zhang Weiwu wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:18 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: [snip] I have a data file formatted like this each block of data consist of several lines; blocks are separated by empty lines like this This is a block of

Re: purging old mail

2007-06-01 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 01 June 2007 14:11, Steve Bertrand wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm setting up a FreeBSD 5.4 system that need to run unattended for a year or more. I've noticed that the /var/mail/root file grows a bit over time. Do I need to configure the system in some way to

Re: /var/preserve

2007-06-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 07 June 2007 20:26, Richard Lynch wrote: Or some way to get periodic to only tell me stuff I *need* to know, instead of telling me every time it cleans the damn toilet. Have you looked at the manpage for periodic.conf(5)? As an example, daily_show_success=NO daily_show_info=NO

Re: debugging pppoe

2007-06-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 11 June 2007 21:54, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 04/06/07 Nikos Vassiliadis said: ppp does not write much on the console. And that is probably a decision made by the authors, since it is meant to be run mostly interactively. You can see its logs in /var/log/ppp.log Indeed. I

Re: samba config problems

2007-06-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 14 June 2007 18:51, Andrew Falanga wrote: On 6/14/07, Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget to cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Once again I apologize to the forum. I keep forgetting to do this. The rc script at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba follows the FreeBSD

require pam_deny in auth chain causes logins to fail

2006-07-03 Thread Jonathan McKeown
pam.d/README says: Note that having a sufficient module as the last entry for a particular service and module type may result in surprising behaviour. To get the intended semantics, add a required entry listing the pam_deny module at the end of the chain. But in fact auth sufficient pam_unix.so

Re: How to change NIC IP when system is running FBSD 6.1

2006-07-18 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 15:49, Erin Fortenberry wrote: But please, that's so, um, Windows-ish? #ifconfig xl0 down* #ifconfig xl0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 Cake! Kevin Kinsey Don't forget to adjust the default route and save your changes for when the next windows-ish

Re: Sendmail: sub-domain masquerade as top level

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 03 January 2008 12:04, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: Hello, I'm having an issue with getting sendmail to masquerade as the top level domain when the host is a sub domain. For example I want server.exmaple.com to send mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED], how ever the

Re: Sendmail: sub-domain masquerade as top level

2008-01-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 04 January 2008 01:11, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: On 04/01/2008, at 12:59 AM, Barry Byrne wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerahmy Pocott I'm having an issue with getting sendmail to masquerade as the top level

Re: freebsd6 authenticating against openldap 2.4?

2008-01-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 17:48, Dave wrote: Hello, Does anyone have their freebsd 6.x machines authenticating against ldap specifically openldap 2.3 or 2.4? I'd like to get all my bsd boxes to do this. I've read and googled and have found some items, but i'd rather hear about how from

Re: freebsd6 authenticating against openldap 2.4?

2008-01-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
Hi Dave If you don't mind I'm going to reply on-list in case anyone else has comments. I might also teach you to suck eggs, a bit, because, not knowing your setup or experience level, I'm going to start a bit further back than your initial question, and mention a few things that I either think

Re: Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

2008-01-24 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 21:19, Kris Kennaway wrote: Historically, new versions of perl are a recipe for large amounts of pain because of all the old perl code that stops working. I haven't used perl 5.10 yet, but looking at the changes (available at

Re: Password file migration help

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 21:03, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and would like to migrate users in the password file with UIDs 3000 through 5000 to a FreeBSD 6.3 system on a running on a separate box. Is there a way to export just those users? I'd probably sort

Re: usb wifi

2008-02-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 00:28, Peter Harrison wrote: I don't know about the adaptor you've mentioned, but I'm using an Asus WL-167g (a ralink chipset) without problem using the native ural driver. Check the manpage for other supported devices. But be wary. I've recently been in

Re: cp -p

2008-02-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 07 February 2008 20:07, Pietro Cerutti wrote: HostServer exports via NFS /www, which belongs to user:www (uid=1001, gid=80). The directory has the segid flag set: drwsr-xr-x 13 user www 512 Feb 7 00:58 www HostClient mounts the exported directory on /share/www. HostClient

mv, cp, and sgid on directories (was: cp -p)

2008-02-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I think you may be getting too deep into the detail. Think of the bigger picture: when I move a file, I don't expect that to change its ownership or permissions - it would surprise me if it did; when I make a copy of a file, I expect to own the copy - after all, what use is a private copy I

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 10 February 2008 11:13, Matthew Seaman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, Alex Zbyslaw wrote SNIP Setuid/gid bits on shell scripts aren't considered safe, however and may even be disabled. THERE IS NO REASON FOR THIS, JUST USE THE

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 11 February 2008 20:36, Jonathan McKeown wrote: Are we sure the licence still bans FreeBSD? And it turns out that everyone else is looking at the Macromedia Shockwave Player licence, and I'm looking at the Adobe Flash player licence. FWIW, Shockwave (which claims to include

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 11 February 2008 22:26, Chuck Robey wrote: All you folks who are focussing on YouTube are (purposefully?  I don't know) the fact that with just about half of the entire Web using flash in one way or antoehr, not using Flash is a huge problem, as anyone who browses without a

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 11 February 2008 16:40, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Montag, 11. Februar 2008 15:32:26 schrieb Erich Dollansky: Hi, Reid Linnemann wrote: These ports have been removed because the End User License Agreement explicitly forbids to run the Flash Player on FreeBSD.

Handbook out-of-date after csup/buildworld

2008-02-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I have a machine which was initially installed from CD (including the source tree). It's subsequently been updated with cvsup, and latterly csup, and the make buildworld/make kernel/make installworld sequence described in the handbook. I noticed last week that the handbook on this machine

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 21:50, Chuck Robey wrote: Jonathan McKeown wrote: [snip] There are a few sites which don't work without Flash. Having checked on a number of occasions, I've found (and I stress this is a personal opinion) that heavy use of Flash is a fairly reliable marker

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 14 February 2008 00:14, Erik Osterholm wrote: IMHO, for an individual to state that Flash is not a relevant issue simply because they choose not to employ it, is similar to patient claiming that cancer research is a waste of time simply because they are not afflicted with the

fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found

2008-02-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
As part of our disaster recovery planning, I'm working up a bare-metal recovery sequence that can be followed by someone who's used Linux (easier to find here than a FreeBSD admin). My initial outline sequence was along the lines of: Boot install CD and choose Fixit fdisk -BI extract saved

Re: fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found

2008-02-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 17 February 2008 21:51, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Boot install CD and choose Fixit get live CD, it's better for this. To be honest, if I'm not using an install CD (which will do the job) I may as well look at making a custom recovery disk which just needs to be booted - but see

Re: fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found

2008-02-18 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 17 February 2008 23:55, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'd still rather there wasn't an ``error'' message at all unless there's a genuine error: I'm planning for the case of an operator with limited skills doing a ``monkey see, monkey do'' restore (not trying to be rude, but monkey

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-22 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 21 February 2008 23:03, D G Teed wrote: For example, no where in this have I heard a peep about backup software. Anyone serious about IT is serious about backup. Yet there is no support for EMC (Legato) Networker in FreeBSD, and this is why our organization is migrating away from

Re: Installing FreeBSD remotely via serial console

2008-03-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 17:37, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm getting a new Dell server delivered to our corporate datacenter. There is a serial console available there. What is the process for installing FreeBSD remotely by logging in to the serial console? I'm assuming that I can get a tech

Re: Using Install CD To Prepare Hard Disk

2008-03-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 14 March 2008 00:49, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 13, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I would like to use the CD install menus to only prepare the hard disk (Partition, Label, Format) without actually installing anything on the drive. Can this be done?

Re: List replies

2008-03-21 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 22 March 2008 06:33, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 22:38 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On March 22, 2008 1:10:40 PM +1000 Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 02:58 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:

Re: Install Linux in FreeBSD

2008-07-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 09 July 2008 08:46, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi again list, Is it possible to run a VM machine in your freebsd server in which inside that VM you are running on it a Linux environment? coul it be? You would rather want to know why do I want that set up? Simply because I want to

Re: Install Linux in FreeBSD

2008-07-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 11 July 2008 05:29, Ruel Luchavez wrote: [running Linux in a VM on FreeBSD] Did you read section 10 of the Handbook - Linux Binary Compatibility? Yes I read it Jonathan, Im newbie in BSD...regarding on my post is it possible? or Do you have any link so that i could much

Re: Install Linux in FreeBSD

2008-07-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 11 July 2008 12:36, Roberto Nunnari wrote: I believe the OP question is: How to run a Full blown linux OS on a Virtual Machine on FreeBSD, and not how to run linux binaries on FreeBSD via emulation.. Not in context: the original question was Is it possible to run Linux in a VM on

Re: How to divide up?

2008-07-20 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 20 July 2008 08:37, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:03:15AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:44:07 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, if you want to merely hack something quick and dirty, a short Perl script can probably do

Building modules distributed with Apache, using ports

2008-07-29 Thread Jonathan McKeown
This may be a daft question. I freely admit it's a lazy one - I'm hoping someone has a quick answer that'll save me a couple of hours building a test server and experimenting. I built apache 2.0 from ports, using WITH_LDAP - but not WITH_LDAP_MODULES, as the Makefile.doc says it's implied by

Re: Having some problems with a FreeBSD mail server (SMTP)

2008-07-31 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 31 July 2008 02:35, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I run a mail server for my church. Today I was called that folks are able to receive, but not send their mail. They are all currently configured for POP3 (I use dovecot). At home I tried to send mail to two different e-mail

Re: Handling of daily and weekly mails

2008-07-31 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 31 July 2008 09:03, Maximillian Dornseif wrote: I administer about a dozen FreeBSD Servers. This results in me getting about 100 mails a week from the PERIODIC(8) scripts. Obviously this is to much to read with care. I wonder what the canonical approach is to handling hundreds of

Re: shutdown/reboot suggestion

2008-08-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 10 August 2008 07:11, Michael Grant wrote: I have such a script, I put it in /bin/require_hostname and symlinked shutdown, halt, reboot, fastboot, and fasthalt to this script: #!/bin/sh if [ $1 = `hostname` ]; then shift exec /sbin/`basename $0` $@ else

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2008-08-27 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 15:25:02 Martin McCormick wrote: The sed pattern matching system is interesting because I can think of several similar situations in which the data are there but there is no guarantee where on a given line it sits and grep or sed usually will pull in the

Re: LDAP and Account Management

2008-09-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 01 September 2008 23:33:11 Chris wrote: I've toyed with LDAP accounts before to get them to work. But now I'm going to put it into production. I'm wondering though about user and group management. When ports are installed on individual servers, users and groups are sometimes added

Re: Question on bind page

2008-09-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 08:12:13 Richard Yang wrote: [snip] To start named is pretty much the first step before going to configure BIND. I have to reinstall it and it still doesn't work. Personally, I would have said it's exactly the other way round: you shouldn't start named until after

Re: kde3 build problems

2008-09-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 06:55:18 joeb wrote: I believe kde3 is obsolete. I Just did kde4 and it worked. That's most definitely not the case. KDE4 is still for early adopters, and KDE3 will continue to be supported as the ``conservative'' stable version for a while, according to

Re: Netprint perl script from Handbook doesn't work

2008-09-25 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 17:12:36 Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 24), Andy Kosela said: The netprint perl script provided in the Handbook (9.4.3.2) is not working.. or am I missing something: plotinus:~ cat new.txt | lp.sh Can't contact 10.10.21.12: Address family not

Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 22:25:21 Carl wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:41:03AM -0700, Carl wrote: I've been trying to create a modified FreeBSD 7.0 install CD that will allow me to do installations entirely via the serial console on a headless system. Lots of

Re: mysql rc script failure - correction: most installed rc scripts not running manually

2008-10-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 02 October 2008 01:59:18 Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 12:53 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:39:47PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: So are you saying I can't start a script manually without enabling it in rc.conf? I was not under that impression... I

Re: mimedefang with LDAP-enabled sendmail

2006-10-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 16 October 2006 16:54, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Sunday 15 October 2006 22:19, Jonathan McKeown wrote: sendmail -d0.1 -bt /dev/null gives me Version 8.13.6 Compiled with: DNSMAP LDAPMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET

Base sendmail: undefined symbol in libmilter when -DLDAPMAP set in make.conf

2006-10-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
This summarises the conversation I have had with myself on the list over the last few days: I'm not sure whether this is really a question or a potential PR. I am running FreeBSD-6.1-RELEASE-p5 (cvsup on 6 September). One of the source files for a rebuild of /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/libmilter

Re: Auto Create home directory

2006-10-27 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 27 October 2006 14:19, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Hello, I have a network based on FreeBSD and I have a centralized ldap server running OpenLDAP. I am using ldapeditor (http://www.ldapeditor.com http://www.ldapeditor.com/ ) to manage the accounts. However, ldapeditor is a Windows program

Re: Fetchmail: Error message in maillog

2006-11-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 04 November 2006 20:08, Gerard Seibert wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 Fetchmail release 6.3.5+RPA+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS. I had been running fetchmail without incident for over a year. I then did something stupid; I updated it. Now, it produces this error message in the /var/maillog file: Nov

portupgrade wishlist (was Re: portupgrade forget package options)

2006-11-06 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 01:26, Josh Carroll wrote: [snip: portupgrade waiting in config dialogs] Some ports have a config make target which will save options. For ports that do not, you can use pkgtools.conf and set MAKE_ARGS for that port. I know the answer is probably going to be one

Re: Cacti -vs- mrtg

2006-11-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 09:48, Jeff Mohler wrote: I can use MRTG, and have MRTG do what I want it to do. Id like to try cacti, but..am I alone in finding that it's a PITA? Im not trying to be negative, just looking for a reality check. I like the simplicity of mrtg, but I like the go

Re: multiple ports trees

2006-11-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 01:24, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 9 November 2006 at 8:46:00 -0600, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: [sharing ports tree] Also, what about user accounts between machines? With NFS you typically have the same user ID on all related machines. I got to

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 18:13, Scott Schappell wrote: The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long enough. What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive amount of ports installed and in googling and searching the list, it seems I need to

gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...)

2006-11-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:58, John Nielsen wrote: It is possible to convert regular devices into gmirror members after they have data on them, but unless you're extremely careful there's a small risk of the gmirror metadata sector overlapping a data sector. OK, I see the warning in the

Re: gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...)

2006-11-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 18:52, John Nielsen wrote: [risk that last sector of geom(4) provider is already in use] It's generally significantly less likely to even be available for use due to device sizes not dividing evenly into the block sizes used by the filesystem, etc. Depending on

Remote upgrade 4.8 to 6.0

2006-11-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
OK, I said I was intending to try this. I've carried out the following procedure on a test box in my office: before I do it with a live server 400 miles away, can anyone see any problems I've overlooked? I have two boxes on the remote site - call them server and gateway. I have ssh access to

Re: pb installing P5-BerkeleyDB

2006-12-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 07 December 2006 15:06, Len Conrad wrote: Checksum mismatch for bdb/db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Checksum OK for bdb/patch.4.1.25.1. === Refetch for 1 more times files: bdb/db-4.1.25.tar.gz === Vulnerability check disabled db-4.1.25.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in

Re: freebsd

2008-03-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 30 March 2008 14:25, computer tech wrote: Secondly I am currently doing my systems page on my website and currently doing network based systems and the operating system would be FreeBSD and a few other distributions of linux This is the second time I've seen this misunderstanding

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 05 April 2008 04:23, Steel City Phantom wrote: i have about 10 production servers that i want to upgrade to bsd 7 and update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats way too long for

Re: [7.0] Openldap client

2008-04-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 11 April 2008 16:03, Konrad Heuer wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fetch: http://www.padl.com/download/nss_ldap-257.tar.gz: size mismatch: expected 229242, actual 229299 Anyone, can tell me, how to install openldap client on Freebsd 7-Stable ? I do

Re: useradd adduser

2008-04-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 17 April 2008 08:35, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hello, I keep on thinking guys what is the difference between useradd adduser command? Ruel You really need to start reading the documentation. FreeBSD is about the best documented operating system and environment there is, and the

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