> > :
> > :Does anyone know why this person is trying to (poorly) impersonate MD?
> >
> > Probably because I lambast him mercilessly for being such a whimp.
It's
> > kinda sad, actually. He's probably not making any friends with the
> > people running the blind proxies he abuses to pos
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>
> After searching the archives and looking at the source, I find
> myself more confused. I've been asked to set up sendmail + ssl +
> SMTP auth on a FreeBSD host.
>
> A quick "strings" on the sendmail binary shows a number of SSL
> functions, so I'm t
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Leif Neland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010724 19:18] wrote:
> > I've got such a device; it was nessecary, because my camera run out of
> > batteries before I could retrieve 48MB of pictures over the normal serial
> > po
I've got such a device; it was nessecary, because my camera run out of
batteries before I could retrieve 48MB of pictures over the normal serial
port
When I plug it in it displays:
ugen0: SmartDisk Corp. SM/CF Combo USB Reader, rev 1.00/0.83, addr 2
Can this be read in FreeBSD?
Leif
To Unsu
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Huff wrote:
> I can't get XFree86 to work. Using /stand/sysinstall I use the script
> and configure everything manually to the best of my knowledge. I can't
> find any specs on the monitor I'm using (The Monitor is from the
> Toshiba Infinia 7200) so I'm not sure of the Ve
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From: "Sergey Babkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael C . Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium
> Anothing interesting point is that th
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From: "Victor Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 5:48 PM
Subject: ppp showing radius message
Hi,
> I made a simple (and ugly) patch to ppp to show the radius message when
> a radius rejec
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Bill Paul wrote:
> > Some body just told me that williams Paul from Columbia University (Bill
> > Paul @ Freebsd.org) has written that
> > kind of book. But I can't get his exact email address at FreeBSD.org to
> > ask him the reference.
>
> GR.
>
> Look, I have n
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> While talking to a friend about what his company is planning to do,
> I found out that he is planning a 70TB filesystem/servers/cluster/db.
> (Yes, seventy t-e-r-a-b-y-t-e...)
>
> Apparently, he has files that go up to 2gb each,
> > One of the things that would need to be documented is what will
> > happen to the new algorithm in the situation where cron is
> > stopped and re-started during one of the time periods that gets
> > repeated.
>
> Oh, you bring up an absolutely new datapoint it seems! Since all
> the inform
> In summary: I do not see a valid argument for not having the bugfix at
> all, available as an option. I do see the argument for not changing the
> default. I also see that everyone who opposes seems to believe that it
> is only people without major skills that get confused by all this, since
> > > If an fsck fails, ifconfig the interfaces and start an sshd so
> > > people can get in remotely and fsck...
> >
> > What if an fsck on /usr fails? Other than that, I love the idea!
>
> Force-mount it read-only if necessary, or simply copy a static sshd
> into /sbin. Runnning fsck -y is the
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Len Conrad wrote:
> Sorry to bother you hackers, but -questions isn't responding, and the
> handbook and Complete/Lehey don't, afaics, cover this situation
> explicitly. I can't really afford to screw up this production
> machine and start over from fresh disk, nor futz
> Hmm... Perhaps you're still missing my original point? I'm talking about
> a file with 96GB in addressable bytes (well, probably a bunch of files,
> given logical filesize limitations, but let's say for simplicity's sake
> that we have a single file). It's actual "size" (in terms of allocated
> Hi all again,
>
> Speaking of this subject again, I have read in the archives that FreeBSD
> has a method of building the whole source tree using the "make world"
> command. Although this is a nice feature, but isn't too much risky to
> upgrade the whole system in one shot?
>
> What if somethin
> First thing: read /usr/src/UPDATING. The proper procedure to
> build a kernel is in there. To save you some time:
>
> cd /usr/src
> make buildkernel KERNEL=
> make installkernel KERNEL=
>
> If the build still fails, then yes, you have a legitimate problem.
>
At least when
- Original Message -
From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Larry Lile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: Question about -Wchar-subscripts
> In the last episode (Oct 03), Larry Lile said:
> >
> > ...we get scores of
If I understand correctly, traceroute works by sending pings with ttl=1,
ttl=2,ttl=3 etc and records the names of the routers where the ttl reaches
zero.
However, an increasing number of sites believes in security by obscurity,
and blocks for pings.
Would the same technique work for making a tel
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Alexander Anderson wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I sent this question to freebsd-questions, but no one had replied, so I
> decided to try my luck here.
>
> I'm having trouble resolving "localhost" for telnet and fetchmail. All
> other programs (ftp, rlogin, rsh, ping, lynx
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From: "Chris Costello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Leif Neland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: 2 inetd's with 2 nics
> On Sunday, August 13, 2000, Leif Nelan
Is it possible and a good idea to have one inetd for the inside nic and
another with fewer services for the outside on a gateway machine,
or should I just use ipfw/ipchain for this?
Leif
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Is there an option in make world to work like a traditional make works?
i.e. just recompile if the source has changed.
Leif
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Talking about IrDA, how much hardware is needed on a Asus P2B ?
Is it something which can be build from parts from the local electronics
dealer?
Is a schematic available?
Leif
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How does handle it when one ups drives many machines?
Wire the ports in parallel, and have an ups-daemon on each?
Or just connect the ups port to one machine, and have this send a message
to the others when the power is failing?
And after a suitable time, turn off the ups regardless if the main
How do you control the shutdown?
If it is a simple logical signal, i.e. either high or low voltage, perhaps
the easiest way would be a hardware solution.
It could be as simple as a diode, a large capasitor and a resistor.
Your local electronic supplyer could probably build a delay circuit for a
> Well, thats reality.
> Sometimes the mobile telco hotlines are so overloaded, you cannot even tell
> them that your phone was stolen. (Talk about service-but you get what you
> pay for)
> In germany, there is some list, where every cell phone can be entered with
> its IMEI-number (thats like t
I'd like to turn on a relay to the power for my laserprinter 3 rooms away
where the server is located.
I have an i/o board with a 8255 24 bit i/o port.(IIRC)
So I wrote a simple userland program to do inb/outb, but it dumped core with
BUSERR, I presume because userland is not supposed to do i/o
You can not be sure your secondary dns servers are picking up your
zonefile, when you update the primary.
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> well ours is still working fine !
> thats why I asked this question, we did not realize that it went over 32
> bit boundary
> how can I underst
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is the bind have 32 bit unsigned integer variable for the serial
> number part of the dns records?
> if yes, it means that we cant have a number bigger than
> 4294967296 right?
Somewhere I read something like: "The format MMDDnn" is
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Dungeonkeeper wrote:
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> First of all: I want to apologise for my poor english.
>
> Today me and a few friends of mine discussed the shells' (well, shell is
> actualy one of: sh/bash/csh/tcsh... not tested for ksh) command line expansion
> routines, main
Which server do you get that message from?
Your own?
Your isp?
A complete stranger, you are trying to use as smarthost?
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From: "Rafael Gomez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FreeBSD Hackers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 7:42 PM
Subject: SendMail
> Eve
- Original Message -
From: "Eric D. Futch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images?
> I think people are forgetting that you do not necessarily need to download
> the entire ISO image in order to make a fr
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Leif Neland wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to use MS-VPN using poptop. (pptpd)
> >
> > It works nicely from home to my current at home, where both hosts are on the same
>network, ,but not >> where the two hosts are on different netw
I got 4 machines at home on an Ethernet coax.
A-B-C-D.
B is FreeBSD server (samba), the rest is win98 (C is split win/fbsd).
C and D talks fine to B. A talks nicely to C (haven't tried to D), but very poorly to
B.
I got ping losses of 1 out of 3 to 4 from A to B, but no loss A to C.
I then too
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Wes Peters wrote:
> Next time, just become root and ping -f that Win98 machine. Running
> lots of pings isn't going to get you what you're trying for, even if
> you don't crash your FreeBSD machine.
>
> Another great program for offing Windows boxes is spray.
>
>
A spray
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Leif Neland wrote:
> >
> > > Just configure it correctly. Don't tell it to talk to a serial device
> > > that will be sending it gibberish.
> >
> > A hack would be to have the loader emit AT
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Justin Hawkins wrote:
> >
> > I think (I am not positive on this) that if the boot loader talks to a
> > modem in command mode with echo on, it gets confused and won't boot any
> > further. Is this a known problem?
>
> I'd say this is an expected
>
> If it already hasn't been done, we should capture the procedure that
> Jordan posted, added to by Matt and maybe post it to the troubleshooting
> part of the guide(s).
>
>
> Unlike some of us who've been fooling with computers since pre-1985, this
> standard operating procedure may not be
I've been asked if this is possible:
Having a webserver running a database of some sort.
User clicks a button on a form, a cgi-script runs, determines the ip of
the user, and sends a command to "something" on the users pc, which then
sends commands to a modem, making it dial a number.
So our s
- Original Message -
From: Brian F. Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Leif Neland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: mrtg, user-ppp
> On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Leif Neland wrote:
>
> > I'd like
I'd like to plot uptime and number of calls from ppp to mrtg.
Any 'easy' way to ask ppp for these values, getting the answer for number
of seconds online since last asked?
Leif
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> > BTW.. although risking to be off-topic by miles, I always liked the way
> > how NetBSD's ftp(1) (since 1.4 or so) implemented http and ftp URL
> > fetching and thus eliminated the need for a fetch(1) command.
> > Couldn't the FreeBSD ftp(1) be enhanced that way, [ObTopic, slime slime]
> > to
Does anybody have any tips for using the above combination for graphing temperatures?
Leif
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> > That was exactly the suggestion the original poster made in his PR.
> > He also believed that assiging the PANIC function to a key
> > is no worse than having the DDB function key.
>
> I think that's a valid statement. Sure, you can return from ddb,
> whereas you can't from panic, but any ab
A simple question: Are USB cameras supported? Is anybody working on it?
Oh, btw, how long can USB be extended?
Leif
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A simple question: Are USB cameras supported? Is anybody working on it?
Oh, btw, how long can USB be extended?
Leif
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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> What follows is a diff that presents Doug's changes (which must have
> required quite a bit of effort, thanks!) in a slightly different format
> which I think the grumpies here might prefer.
>
> Specifically, case statements look mor
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> What follows is a diff that presents Doug's changes (which must have
> required quite a bit of effort, thanks!) in a slightly different format
> which I think the grumpies here might prefer.
>
> Specifically, case statements look mo
> >
> > After rechecking all the jumpers it turns out that the supplier
> > had set the core voltage to 2.2V instead of 2.4V!
>
> Interesting that the error was reproducible, if this was the cause of
> it. The problem never varied from that exact point? I'd like to say
> that I find that a
> >
> > After rechecking all the jumpers it turns out that the supplier
> > had set the core voltage to 2.2V instead of 2.4V!
>
> Interesting that the error was reproducible, if this was the cause of
> it. The problem never varied from that exact point? I'd like to say
> that I find that a
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:
> going in or going out?
>
> (draw picture)
vnc server
++
+---+ NT |
+
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:
> going in or going out?
>
> (draw picture)
vnc server
++
+---+ NT |
The main problem is to get past the firewall.
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:
> vnc is cool, but also check out back-orafice
> (not sure where you get it but the new one can take over NT as well as
> W95)
>
>
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Leif Neland wrote:
>
> &g
The main problem is to get past the firewall.
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:
> vnc is cool, but also check out back-orafice
> (not sure where you get it but the new one can take over NT as well as
> W95)
>
>
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Leif Neland wrote:
>
I need to remote-control an NT behind a unix-box running
nat-proxy/firewall/gateway.
Would it be possible first to connect from the outside to a vnc-server on
gateway, then to run vnc-client on the gateway to connect to a vnc-server
on the nt?
Or is it possible to have a vnc-proxy on the gateway
I need to remote-control an NT behind a unix-box running
nat-proxy/firewall/gateway.
Would it be possible first to connect from the outside to a vnc-server on
gateway, then to run vnc-client on the gateway to connect to a vnc-server
on the nt?
Or is it possible to have a vnc-proxy on the gateway
[Regarding GPL]
If a company sell or lease us a mailserver based on Linux, where we only
have smtp and pop3-access to, can we say "Hey, this is GPL'ed, give us the
source"?
Leif
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[Regarding GPL]
If a company sell or lease us a mailserver based on Linux, where we only
have smtp and pop3-access to, can we say "Hey, this is GPL'ed, give us the
source"?
Leif
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> Then again, SQL seems to be the current buzz... Having SQL-based access
> is cool/manageable (a friend generates the MySQL db from his Radius users
> file).
>
And we do it the other way: Generate the users file from mysql. I rather
prefer it like that; then I can still auth users, if mysql goes
> Then again, SQL seems to be the current buzz... Having SQL-based access
> is cool/manageable (a friend generates the MySQL db from his Radius users
> file).
>
And we do it the other way: Generate the users file from mysql. I rather
prefer it like that; then I can still auth users, if mysql goe
From: Matthew Dillon
> Check the size of the magic files on your FreeBSD and Linux boxen.
> file was never really designed to be efficient. FreeBSD's magic
> file is /usr/share/misc/magic - around 164K.
>
> -Matt
>
> :
> > :
> :The magic file is different, but almost the same size.
From: Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Check the size of the magic files on your FreeBSD and Linux boxen.
> file was never really designed to be efficient. FreeBSD's magic
> file is /usr/share/misc/magic - around 164K.
>
> -Matt
>
> :
> > :
> :The magic file is different, but a
While trying to port amavis, the virusscanner for mail,
http://aachalon.de/AMaViS/amavis-0.2.0-pre4.tar.gz ) I noticed it used the
file(1) several times for each file, and it took rather long time, causing
bb to report red for high CPU-load each time I collected a batch of mail.
So I compared it
From: Stephen McKay
> On Saturday, 17th July 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> >:Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I
have to
> >:either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this
machine?
> >
> >If you boot single-user, root will be mounted rea
While trying to port amavis, the virusscanner for mail,
http://aachalon.de/AMaViS/amavis-0.2.0-pre4.tar.gz ) I noticed it used the
file(1) several times for each file, and it took rather long time, causing
bb to report red for high CPU-load each time I collected a batch of mail.
So I compared it
From: Stephen McKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Saturday, 17th July 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> >:Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I
have to
> >:either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this
machine?
> >
> >If you boot single-user, root
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote:
> Ah, you have a point there. The problem is we have so many wires,
> we don't know which port goes to what on the Catalyst so we had it on
> autodetect and FreeBSD does boot up with fxp0 showing 100Mbps Full Duplex.
>
Cisco's can show you which ma
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote:
> Ah, you have a point there. The problem is we have so many wires,
> we don't know which port goes to what on the Catalyst so we had it on
> autodetect and FreeBSD does boot up with fxp0 showing 100Mbps Full Duplex.
>
Cisco's can show you which m
- Original Message -
From: Vincent Poy
To: Karl Pielorz
Cc: ; ;
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance?
> > There again, any network installer worth their salt will test the cable
when
> > in-situ, after the 'dust' has settled...
>
> Testing after
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From: Vincent Poy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Karl Pielorz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance?
> > There again, any network installer worth th
I have a machine with two scsi disks, one with /, one with /usr, and no
floppy.
I have turned on softupdates on /usr while usr was unmounted, but I can't
turn on softupdates on /, because it is always mounted.
Normally the answer would be to boot on a floppy, but the machine doesn't
have a floppyd
I have a machine with two scsi disks, one with /, one with /usr, and no
floppy.
I have turned on softupdates on /usr while usr was unmounted, but I can't
turn on softupdates on /, because it is always mounted.
Normally the answer would be to boot on a floppy, but the machine doesn't
have a floppy
It could be nice with some sort of budget control in ppp.
A few days ago I found out bb caused a dialup every 5 minutes.
Today I found I had been online 27 hours uninterrupted.
Some dialup-routers allows a setup of "max a connects/b minutes online over
c hours".
Also, I know it is possible to have
It could be nice with some sort of budget control in ppp.
A few days ago I found out bb caused a dialup every 5 minutes.
Today I found I had been online 27 hours uninterrupted.
Some dialup-routers allows a setup of "max a connects/b minutes online over
c hours".
Also, I know it is possible to hav
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From: David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Ruslan Ermilov
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c
ftp_var.h main.c ut
- Original Message -
From: David O'Brien
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav ; Ruslan Ermilov
;
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c
ftp_var.h main.c util.c
> > ... compared to the sources as of today. This gives minimal seman
Does anyone have any inside information on subj?
The website still claims: "We are planning to release 3.3.4 some time in
June 1999"
I'm longing to get support for my S3 Trio3D.
Leif
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Does anyone have any inside information on subj?
The website still claims: "We are planning to release 3.3.4 some time in
June 1999"
I'm longing to get support for my S3 Trio3D.
Leif
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I seem to have killed my 2.NIC. Both probe and init as usual, and can read
from the net (trafshow) but can't transmit.
I removed both from the pc, without removing the netcable. (Trying to
resolve an IRQ-conflict)
Is this a bad-thing (tm) ?
If something went broke from this, I would expect it to be
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