Re: Commercial Licensing

2013-08-09 Thread mikel king
Greetings Someth, With FreeBSD you are free use as you see fit. Think of the BSD license in terms of 'Free' beer and not the freedom to look under the hood like some other mock free licenses. If this were not the case then Apple would not have been able to derive Mac OS X from FreeBSD and close

Re: php problems

2013-08-06 Thread mikel king
On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:33 PM, Mark Moellering wrote: > A few years ago (2011) I set up an email system for a small internet based > company. I used postfix with a mysql backend for virtual accounts. I also > set up apache to test a php based webmail front-end. > I set up several php scripts t

Re: Archiving a log file

2013-08-03 Thread mikel king
local/sbin/rotatelogs /var/log/httpd-access.log 86400" SpecialFormat I hope that helps. I know I shall be experimenting with this one tomorrow. Regards, Mikel King BSD News Network http://bsdnews.net skype: mikel.king http://twitter.com/mikelking

Re: Archiving a log file

2013-08-03 Thread mikel king
Do you have logger installed? You coupled pipe your CustomLog into logger which will facilitate Apache writing to syslog, in lieu of directly writing the file. After some tweaking this should let you use the systems standard log rotation schema. Something like: CustomLog "| logger -t httpd -

Re: sshd - time out idle connections

2013-05-03 Thread Mikel King
of connection outages if they can reconnect to where the were when they were last on. Regards, Mikel King BSD News _ From: Fleuriot Damien [mailto:m...@my.gd] To: FreeBSD questions [mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] Sent: Fri, 03 May 2013 10:28:31 -0400 Subject: sshd - time out

Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2013-02-21 Thread Mikel King
Armando, Are you able to access anything on your web server? Try substituting the local IP address in place of localhost. Cheers, Mikel King BSD News mikel.k...@olivent.com @mikelking | +mikelking | in::mk | &mikelking On Feb 20, 2013, at 5:09 PM, Armando Palax wrote: > sor

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Mikel King
"inet 24.240.198.188 netmask 0xfff8" ifconfig_xl0_alias2="inet 24.240.198.189 netmask 0xfff8" … ifconfig_xl0_alias24="inet 24.240.198.210 netmask 0xfff8" You can change the netmask of the aliases to 0xffff if you are experiencing too much broadcast cha

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Mikel King
aseTX ) status: active Regards, Mikel King Senior Editor, BSD News http://bsdnews.net On Dec 29, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > snip previous >> It still all depends on your configuration, it won't look any different than >> a static private IP address shows when doing a

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Mikel King
you. Regards, Mikel King Senior Editor, BSD News http://bsdnews.net On Dec 29, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 13:05:30 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: >> Mike Jeays wrote: >>> On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:13:32 -0500 >>> Fbsd8 wrote: >>> >>

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-03 Thread Mikel King
On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:42 PM, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:09:06PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> Unless Congress >>> pulls a Mickey Mouse Protection Act-lookalike on patents by extending >>> them just as they did with Copyright. >>> >> >> then it will still hit USA us

Re: How to mirror the FreeBSD OS on two disks

2012-07-11 Thread Mikel King
There's an old article on BsdNews About using gmirrior perhaps that's the sort of thing you are looking for? -> http://BSDNews.net/index.php/2006/08/31/working-with-gmirror-on-a-sun-fire-x2100-part-1/ Regards, Mikel King On Jul 11, 2012, at 5:18 AM, miles kuo wrote: > Hi

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-06 Thread mikel king
st version of FreeBSD that your card was supported on? Perhaps it would be worth firing up that older version. I know it's a long shot but at least you would have access to the driver code that may actually still work in the current version. It would certainly make an interesting

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread mikel king
On Mar 8, 2012, at 11:56 PM, Bruno Comerci wrote: > > Hi guys. > > > Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS > project? > It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around > the world who wants a free OS with similar looking an

Re: Network interface aliasing?

2012-03-07 Thread mikel king
On Mar 7, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Bas Smeelen wrote: > On 03/07/2012 04:24 PM, Mikel King wrote: >> On 3/7/12 9:39 AM, Brent Clark wrote: >>> Hiya >>> >>> I would like to ask. >>> >>> Is it possible to, do network interface aliasing. Im not ta

Re: Network interface aliasing?

2012-03-07 Thread Mikel King
On 3/7/12 9:39 AM, Brent Clark wrote: Hiya I would like to ask. Is it possible to, do network interface aliasing. Im not talking about ip aliasing. I basically want to bind one process to network interface vr0:0 and another process to vr0:1. Thanks Brent Brent, You can rename an interf

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-07 Thread mikel king
On Feb 7, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of February 7, 2012 5:59:27 PM -0500, mikel king is alleged to have said: > >> >> On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:15 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:37 AM, dick wrote: >>>> I&#

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-07 Thread mikel king
On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:15 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:37 AM, dick wrote: >> I'm a bit confused. I always believed FreeBSD is a very safe system. That >> may be true for the core files, but what about ports. >> >> On the net I read _never_ to let the webserver be the owner

Re: Possible move back to FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread mikel king
I've been playing around with PC-BSD and their PBI system to be pretty good. Regards, Mikel King BSD News Network http://bsdnews.net skype: mikel.king http://twitter.com/mikelking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread mikel king
ac may not work directly on FreeBSD. What I mean is that bash3 syntax is not going to be backwardly compatible with sh. If you wish to retain the bashiness of the scripts then the easiest option would be to install the bash (3.x) port and use env to invoke the appropriate shell on each system. Reg

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread mikel king
p; compiler). > > Éric Masson Sadly I do. In fact I still have a Mega St in my basement... ;-S Regards, Mikel King BSD News Network http://bsdnews.net skype: mikel.king http://twitter.com/mikelking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: freebsd server limits question

2012-01-02 Thread mikel king
On Jan 2, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Robert Boyer wrote: > To deal with this kind of traffic you will most likely need to set up a mongo > db cluster of more than a few instances… much better. There should be A LOT > of info on how to scale mongo to the level you are looking for but most > likely you w

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread mikel king
ly even run am md5sum against all important config files and save that in your back up as well. Then give them well written explanation of why sudo is superior or at least safer to direct root access. Regards, Mikel King BSD News Network http://bsdnews.net skype: mikel.king http://twitter.com/mi

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread mikel king
d; I think > it was the RIAA representative at the SOPA hearing yesterday who > literally equated copyright infringement with *murder*. > > Don't be like that jackass. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheo

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread mikel king
On Nov 17, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Rod Person wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:55:02 -0500 > Jerry wrote: > >> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:28:57 -0300 >> Mario Lobo articulated: >> >>> Aren't there enough laws already to protect copyright? >> >> Laws to protect copyrighted or patented goods certainly exi

Re: Where to post articles on FBSD

2011-10-18 Thread mikel king
r of FBSD and the jails system >> especially with things like EzJail where I found that the info was >> scattered, incomplete or outdated. >> >> Where would be the place to publish these articles? FBSD Diary? >> >> Thanks, >> BSD News is always on the lo

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-14 Thread mikel king
> > Has anyone from the the project weighed in on this yet? Regards, Mikel King BSD News Network http://bsdnews.n

Re: A quality operating system Trolling For A Quality Operating System

2011-08-20 Thread mikel king
s off in a post to give it the careful consideration is truly deserves - Trolling For A Quality Operating System http://bit.ly/qUTAeh Regards, Mikel King BSD News Network http://bsdnews.net skype: mikel.king http://twitter.com/mikelking _

Re: Place to install library of shell functions

2011-04-05 Thread mikel king
your opinion on > this question. > -- > Best Regards, > Michael For the bash library (http://jafdip.com/?p=537) we choose /usr/local/lib. This just seems to be the most logical place for this sort of thing. Regards, Mikel King BSD News Network http://bsdnews.net skype: mikel.king http:

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread mikel king
not get too attached to their BSD rhetoric because the winds of business can change direction at any moment. On a side note: I would love to find a comprehensive list of both public and private companies that are BSD supportive. Regards, Mikel King BSD News Network http://bsdnews.net skype: mikel.king h

Re: ssh key authentication problem...

2010-10-28 Thread Mikel King
Peter, Have you verified permissions of 700 on .ssh and 640 on authorized_keys and authorized_keys2? If you do not have an authorized_keys2 simply copy the former to that name and give it a go. Cheers, Mikel King _ From: Peter Harrison [mailto:peter.piggy...@virgin.net] To: questi

Re: Twitter on FreeBSD

2010-09-19 Thread mikel king
.ly/czRpwx) twitfox should work. Regards, Mikel King Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelking http://twitter.com/mikelking ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread mikel king
I'm glad that I am not the only one who felt that was a bit extreme. This is a BSD, not Linux, list after all. Regards, Mikel King Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelking http://twitte

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread mikel king
passing the buck, I'd have to punt this back to someone familiar with the changes to FreeBSD made in JunOS. Regards, Mikel King Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelking http://twitte

Re: can't ping localhost

2010-08-19 Thread mikel king
Your lo0 only has inet6 addresses, perhaps try binding a v4 address? Cheers, m! On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:12, Tim Kellers wrote: > On 08/19/10 11:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 19/08/2010 15:21, Tim Kellers wrote: >> >>> I'm eagerly open to suggestions. >>> >>> >> What does 'ifconfig lo0

Re: Open Mail Relay

2010-08-14 Thread mikel king
ry setting a SPF record in your DNS to help reduce such impersonations, although that is not a guarantee. If you have any questions ping me off list. Regards, Mikel King Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine CEO, Olivent Technologies ~because IT matters~ http://

Re: USB1.1 WIFI adapted recommendation

2010-05-18 Thread mikel king
On May 14, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: mikel king wrote: I am refurbishing a laptop that only has USB1.1 and now built-in WIFI. Anyone with experience in these devices able to make a recommendation for a reliable device? I have an old Belkin F5D7050 USB wifi adapter - you

USB1.1 WIFI adapted recommendation

2010-05-13 Thread mikel king
I am refurbishing a laptop that only has USB1.1 and now built-in WIFI. Anyone with experience in these devices able to make a recommendation for a reliable device? Cheers, m! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread mikel king
ibility" then it would be a no brainer. Honestly this seems relatively unobtrusive and quite logical. Regards, Mikel King Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mik

Re: 'at' command syntax

2010-04-30 Thread mikel king
east point you to the section of the manual or even a good how to if we don't have the time to write one for you. RTFM responses are normally left to the Linux crowd and their lists. I hope that Thomas' note earlier shed some light on the subject. Cheers, Mikel King Senior Editor,

Re: OT: Goodbye and hosting wanted

2010-04-21 Thread Mikel King
Cheers, m! On Apr 21, 2010, at 20:15, Rod Person wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:50:50 -0400 DAve wrote: I will need to move my hosted domain, email, and DNS this week. I am sure I could continue to host it with my employer but I would rather not. I don't need much, less than a dozen email a

Re: Nethogs or similar for FreeBSD?

2010-04-10 Thread mikel king
interesting, and pretty light weight only requiring ncurses and libpcap. I wonder how hard it'd be to compile it and get it running. What version of FreeBSD are you running? Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine skype:mikel.king

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread mikel king
ut of curiosity, have you tried an active USB 2.0 HUB to buffer the speakers from the computer's USB ports? Or even a AC to USB adapter? Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine skype:mikel.king http://olivent.com http://www.linke

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread mikel king
On Apr 8, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:05:12 -0400 mikel king wrote: On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Seems like all I

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread mikel king
your desire. Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine skype:mikel.king http://olivent.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelking http://twitter.com/mikelking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: popd to send Mail to a Mac; I Really Appreciate this list.

2010-03-26 Thread mikel king
your IMAP service, and which one you go with. Either way procmail can filter can sort the message into IMAP folders so that you can just pick them up via an IMAP client. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, M

Re: popd to send Mail to a Mac

2010-03-25 Thread mikel king
P anyway. Filter the 'bad' messages into their own folder. Honestly that seems more trouble than it's worth. Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 c: 631.796.1499

Re: HTML5 under FreeBSD Desktop

2010-03-10 Thread mikel king
4 charges $5M for a license. Ogg Theora on the other hand is slightly more affordable as a semi-open codec. I certainly would not bet the farm on this fight ending nicely. Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Me

Re: HTML5 under FreeBSD Desktop

2010-03-10 Thread mikel king
L5 at this point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_%28HTML5%29 Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 c: 631.796.1499 skype:mikel.king http://olivent.com

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread mikel king
On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:44 AM, John wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:19:09AM -0500, mikel king wrote: On Mar 5, 2010, at 8:26 AM, John wrote: Way back about 10 years ago, I was playing around with IPFW a lot. I wrote a script to update IPFW from changes made to a MySql db. It was a just for

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread mikel king
ea where this set of scripts are now, but it would be rather trivial to build a new version. If anyone thinks it's worth revisiting hit me off list. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631

Re: Changing Default Shell

2010-02-25 Thread mikel king
rcampbell -s /bin/tcsh Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 c: 631.796.1499 skype:mikel.king http://olivent.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelking http://twitter.com/mikelking

BSD perspective at SCALE?

2010-02-21 Thread mikel king
Is the anyone who attend SCALE this weekend that would be interested in writing a couple of paragraphs about the event on BSD News? Please contact me off list. Regards, Mikel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Shared object "libcrypt.so.4" not found ...(or library munging after make-delete-old)

2010-01-29 Thread mikel king
As expected several port needed to be rebuilt however I have hit a roadblock with the built in perl with. ===>Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/ Date/Parse.pm in /usr/ports/devel/p5-TimeDate ===> p5-TimeDate-1.20,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - fo

make delete-old && make delete-old-libs

2010-01-22 Thread mikel king
I had a system that was royally borked after upgrading and completing these steps a few years ago. Ever since I have always skipped these steps. Has anyone else experienced any issues with these two steps? Cheers, Mikel ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Where is portsnap ?

2010-01-22 Thread mikel king
rnard de Joly Lasserre d'Amour 32250 Montréal du Gers Téléphone 09 53 79 84 21 http://www.gers.net/b.dejoly/ ___ It is part of the base. As of 6.3, I think. Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD

Re: Running PHP File under Crontab...

2010-01-17 Thread mikel king
crontab "php" file to another file? Simply the "hello world" output and not the code... ?? 2010/1/17 mikel king : On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Diego Montalvo wrote: I am using " 2010/1/17 mikel king : On Jan 17, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Diego Montalvo wrote: CLI meaning

Re: Running PHP File under Crontab...

2010-01-17 Thread mikel king
On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Diego Montalvo wrote: I am using " 2010/1/17 mikel king : On Jan 17, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Diego Montalvo wrote: CLI meaning, if I can run and excute in command line, a php file can run in crontab? doing the following in shell: "# php hell

Re: Running PHP File under Crontab...

2010-01-17 Thread mikel king
. Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 c: 631.796.1499 skype:mikel.king http://olivent.com http://mikelking.com http://twitter.com/mikelking

Re: rTorrent and XML-RPC

2009-11-24 Thread mikel king
rama. It was particularly useful in sussing out my php server code. http://gggeek.raprap.it/debugger/ Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 c: 631.796.1499 skype:mikel.king

Re: CMS

2009-10-16 Thread Mikel King
e huge strides in the last few months to improve their systems to require less work on the command line in regards to updating. I recommend that you test drive both systems and determine what you are comfortable with. Most canned themes are available in both systems. Regards, Mikel King CEO,

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-09 Thread Mikel King
On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:04:42 -0400, Mikel King wrote: Recommend sticking with 7.x branch until 8.0 has been through one or two solid releases. Then you should be able to perform a csup and rebuild the world to the current version of 8.x at the

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-09 Thread Mikel King
.. anything i should be aware of? Advices? Thank you. Marwan Recommend sticking with 7.x branch until 8.0 has been through one or two solid releases. Then you should be able to perform a csup and rebuild the world to the current version of 8.x at the time. Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent

BSD Professional Job Task Analysis Survey

2009-10-07 Thread Mikel King
The BSD News Network reports that volunteer as desperately needed to complete the BSDP JTA Survey by the deadline of October 16th. The BSD Certification Group has been diligently working toward this goal for quite some time now. http://bsdnews.net/index.php/2009/10/07/bsdcertdeadline-approa

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Mikel King
On Sep 22, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything you are asking for? I was just play

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Mikel King
through it... Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 skype:mikel.king http://olivent.com http://mikelking.com http://twitter.com/mikelking _

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-14 Thread Mikel King
.x will be officially retired at that time, is it possible that this was overlooked? Personally I don't think it's ever good to overlook security, especially in the case of a root exploit. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.4R/announce.html Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Techno

Invitation to help test the BSD News Network...

2009-09-08 Thread Mikel King
Although I have received a very good response, I am still looking for a handful of beta testers as well as some volunteers to help tweak the installation. If you are interested in helping build the BSD News Network then contact me directly off list. Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent

beta-testers needed

2009-09-07 Thread Mikel King
Looking for a few volunteers to help test drive the BSD News Networks' new site. If you are interested in becoming a beta-tester and helping out please email me directly off list. Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 A

Re: Enquiry

2009-08-31 Thread Mikel King
Try setting boot from USB and removable media in the bios. Cheers, m! On Aug 31, 2009, at 3:38, Kin Tat Yau wrote: Dear Sir/Madam My server is running with FreeBSD i386 4.11 release. Now i want to install FreeBSD i386 6.1 release. But it can not install from CD Rom. I have set the BIOS t

Re: How to doc available?

2009-07-27 Thread Mikel King
On Jul 27, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/7/27 Mikel King : Anyone know of a good tutorial for making a system on a USB key in limited space? I have a project that requires enough of running system with lighttpd and php5 to do some network magick. I would like to keep the thing

Re: How to doc available?

2009-07-27 Thread Mikel King
On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: excuse-me, but what is the problem with size??? I have a PQI stick that is 29mm X 11mm X 2.5mm and have 4gbytes... and works very good... sells for US$12 here... take a look: http://www.pqigroup.com/product2.asp?oid=19&cate1=19&proid

How to doc available?

2009-07-27 Thread Mikel King
Anyone know of a good tutorial for making a system on a USB key in limited space? I have a project that requires enough of running system with lighttpd and php5 to do some network magick. I would like to keep the thing below 512MB but if that is not feasible then I'll shoot for whatever the

Re: Install from a USB Pen (semi OT)

2009-07-22 Thread Mikel King
On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Ken Smith wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 11:41 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads f

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread mikel . king
ion but will likely require a skilled installer to setup that much cable for you. Depending on your locale I am may be able to put connect you to a supplier. Have you considered a wireless direct beam solution? Especially considering the 'temporary' nature of this install. ___ Cheers, M

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Mikel King
ware. Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 skype:mikel.king http://mikelking.com http://twitter.com/mikelking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-22 Thread Mikel King
On Apr 22, 2009, at 3:13 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Thu 2009-04-23 05:05:25 UTC+1000, andrew clarke (m...@ozzmosis.com) wrote: durep seems to have no concept of security :-) So how did you go about restricting unwanted people from viewing its output? I'm referring to the CGI version o

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-22 Thread Mikel King
On Apr 22, 2009, at 3:05 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Wed 2009-04-22 10:46:14 UTC-0400, Mikel King (mikel.k...@olivent.com ) wrote: I used to run durep on my shared servers. durep seems to have no concept of security :-) So how did you go about restricting unwanted people from

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-22 Thread Mikel King
s seem to be an issue. You can read more about the application. It generates a comprehensive report that can be automatically emailed, or viewed via the web. http://www.hibernaculum.net/durep/ Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Ma

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Mikel King
Most light weight webservers like nginx and lighttpd only run PHP as a cgi mod. Cheers, m! On Apr 18, 2009, at 2:19, Andrew wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any suggestions for a lightweight webserver that will run php? Apache is too bulky for what I need and thttpd won't allow me to run

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-03 Thread Mikel King
The latest samba port if very robust. You should find this trivial to complete. I encourage you to go with new hardware if possible. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court Medford, NY 11763 http://www.olivent.com

Re: web based file sharing

2009-03-27 Thread Mikel King
Terry Depending on the client OSes you could go with a WebDAV based solution. Apache has several modules for dealing with dav. Mac OS X, KDE, and even most versions of Windows have built-in clients. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-06 Thread Mikel King
me off list and I'll see if I can point you in those directions.... Regard, Mikel King ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "f

Re: Time skew

2009-01-14 Thread Mikel King
Marcelo, Try adding either, hint.apic.0.disabled=1 or kern.hz="100" to /boot/loader.conf Reboot the machine and check your time. The first line is the patch originally noted in the VMWare KB the latter is from the FreeBSD handbook on t

Re: looking for a secondary.

2008-12-16 Thread Mikel King
They also have a pay service available for more advanced configurations. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court Medford, NY 11763 http://www.olivent.com http://www.daemonnews.org http://www.bsdmag.o

Re: To swap or not to swap

2008-12-02 Thread Mikel King
On Dec 2, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Fellas, I need opinions. Asus Eee PC, SSD storage, 512MB RAM, with GNOME and other desktop thingy (testing out of curiousity). Question is, swap or no swap? Remember, this is SSD, it is reasonable to have no swap. However, what if I want

Re: almost OT os x

2008-10-28 Thread Mikel King
ternative network? I know this may sound crazy but for whatever reason Macs don't override the default route automatically. You would think that any attached ethernet device would be considered a best route to that LAN however I have had experience otherwise. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Oliv

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Mikel King
think this is good news, and thanks for posting it. While it may not be a record holder, from an advocacy point of view it's nice to see. It means there one more rock solid server out there. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD M

Re: Wireshark

2008-09-12 Thread Mikel King
On Sep 12, 2008, at 5:39 AM, gpeel wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:38:50 -0400, matt donovan wrote On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Christopher Cowart < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Just attempting to install the port. Something I noticed when the install crapped out was that

Re: changing network interface names

2008-09-08 Thread Mikel King
so possible to rename interface by doing: ifconfig_ed0_name="net0" ifconfig_net0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0x" Obviously you can also do this manually w/ ifconfig, but I suspect hat you'd like this change to occurr everytime you restart. Cheers, Mikel Ki

Re: Mac RDP (Was: apple mac laptop)

2008-08-18 Thread Mikel King
: 5900 tcp + udp 3283 tcp + udp 5988 tcp For VNC you should probably add 5800 tcp + udp as well. Ciao. Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court Medford, NY 11763 http://www.olivent.com http://www.daemo

Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-09 Thread Mikel King
On Aug 8, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This might better be asked offlist, but there may be others like me who are clueless, and since you are familiar, I'll ask you. How "interact-able" are FBSD and (say) MacBook? E.g., is there a "BSD-way" of my creatin

Re: Daemon Daily News

2008-03-24 Thread Mikel King
Scott, Yes. There are hardware issues, and it is being addressed. I do apologize for any inconvenience, we will have things back online as soon as possible. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News 6 Alpine Court Medford, NY 11763 http://www.olivent.com http

Re: Backup Large FileServer

2007-09-28 Thread Mikel King
latter would be good because you can serve the files from the device while you are transitioning the server. In any event it would make your transition fairly headache free. Cheers, Mikel King CITO, Tech Alliance, INC Senior Editor, Daemon News 39 West Fourteenth Street Second Floor New York

Re: reboot on problem

2007-09-21 Thread Mikel King
lease cc: message to my private address (reply all should do this) Thanks in advance Andy You could write a shell script to check the connection at a set interval and take corrective action should it encounter a problem. Cheers, Mikel King CITO, Tech Alliance, INC Senior Editor, Daemon Ne

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Mikel King
On Sep 5, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't even allow log

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-05 Thread Mikel King
On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that there was such a

Re: How to produce FreeBSD app under Windows?

2007-07-06 Thread Mikel King
Workstation or Parallels to create your own virtual server for this development work. However, I would wonder why you were building an app for FreeBSD but not actually already running it? Cheers, Mikel King CITO, Tech Alliance, INC Senior Editor, Daemon News 39 West Fourteenth Street Second

Re: [OT] Curious: what's up with bsdnews.com?

2007-06-21 Thread Mikel King
et al. The DN/BSDNews server is temporarily offline, as a result of a system failure. We hope to have everything back online as quickly as possible. On behalf of the entire DN/BSDNews staff I would like to thank everyone for your patience and understanding in this matter. Cheers, Mikel

Re: Moving Freebsd to a new Server

2007-06-07 Thread Mikel King
dium. I have a move coming up soon, so I shall try to document it for the future. Let me know how this works for you. Cheers, Mikel King CIO, Tech Alliance, INC Senior Editor, Daemon News 39 West Fourteenth Street Second Floor New York, NY 10011 http://www.techally.com http://www.daemon

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-13 Thread Mikel King
. I was thinking the same exact thing. On a second thought as much of flame bait as this question could have been, I must say I am quite proud of our community's response. Good work. Cheers, Mikel King CITO, Tech Alliance, INC Senior Editor, Daemon News 39 West Fourteenth Street Second

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