Re: started playing with jails

recommend the ezjail port, which adds some additional admin scripts on top of the stock jail system that (in my opinion) make things a lot easier. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: started playing with jails

programs that use shared memory (such as Postgres) to run inside a jail, but it's been a while since I've tried. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: started playing with jails

In response to Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: I've had trouble getting programs that use shared memory (such as Postgres) to run inside a jail, but it's been a while since I've tried. Postgres needs this in the host rc.conf: jail_sysvipc_allow=YES My experiments

Re: started playing with jails

In response to Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 22/03/2007 3:50 AM, Greg Barniskis wrote: Bill Moran wrote: My experiments with Postgres in jail predate the existence of that setting. When I was working with it, you had to frob a sysctl via /etc/sysctl.conf But even then, I

Re: started playing with jails

, however, this may be overkill. You can just backup individual files/directories. If you use ezjail be careful not to follow mount points or you'll end up backing up the same stuff over and over for each separate jail you have. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: FreeBSD/Samba issue

in Windows do things differently: I believe IE will always try DNS first, where as most DOS tools will always try WINS first. As a result, you're probably best off getting rid of WINS altogether. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: UFS2 Snapshot limitiations

/snapshots.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UFS2 Snapshot limitiations

In response to Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3/13/07, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, March 13, 2007 10:10, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I seem to recall, but cannot find, the limitation on the number

Re: UFS2 Snapshot limitiations

In response to Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3/13/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3/13/07, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, March 13, 2007 10:10, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Doug Poland [EMAIL

Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?

answer is that it depends on which version your going from and to and what sort of changes have been made to kernel interfaces between those versions. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: rebuilding world

filesystem. Can't create /var/tmp/temproot. fsck; mount -a Do the instructions need updating? Might not hurt to add that information to the docs. You could file a PR or submit an update to the doc projects. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Anyone use KSH?

finally switched to bash from ksh several months ago when I found that tab completion works in vi mode on bash, and a simple alias r='fc -s' allows me to use the ksh style ``r'' commands to repeat previous commands. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http

Re: How Do I Find Find?

? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Post DST changes

programs that aren't picking up the time change. Probably the most important of these is cron as the major effect with many other programs would be to have bogus entries in log files. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box

Re: getting mail to work

the relayhost parameter to be your ISP's outgoing server. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

it because it's got everything I need, and not a lot of extra junk to get in my way (I find KDE and GNOME bloated) I use Sylpheed for mail and Firefox for web. HTH -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: OpenSSH Problem with disconnects

. There are also ssh_config and sshd_config parameters that relate to tcp timeouts and keep alive actions. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA

Re: ssh login as root

(but this one is quite a read) You can also edit /etc/group directly, see man 5 group -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: syncing user passwd information between servers

, you may want to consider Kerberos. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 65535 outbound connections

* port range. But the total number of available outgoing connections is limited by the port range, and that's where that 65536 comes from. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: cleaning old files

extensions? Vulnerability test port alerts me I still have them. Thanks! Looks like your ports database got corrupted at some point. I would just pkg_delete -f them, then reinstall the correct version if needed. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: ftp set up

other time, FTP is a liability. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Point of interest: PAIR networks finally moving to 6.2

They held on to FreeBSD 4 for a long time ... http://www.pair.com/support/notices/62-upgrade.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ftp set up

In response to Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 5:24 AM To: Vizion Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp set up Please wrap your lines around 72 characters

Re: Setting Env

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007, Drew Jenkins wrote: 20Hi; For some reason, I need to run this: setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib/mysql/ You can probably get around this by adding /usr/local/lib/mysql to the end of /etc/ld.so.conf then running ldconfig. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill

Re: Fetching sources from Windows?

) corrupt the files. If you can find somewhere that has a big tarball of the source tree and just grab that, it should work fine. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: awk question

that haven't been modified in the 360 days. find . -type f -mtime +360 -print0 | xargs -0 rm If you don't want it to go into subdirectories: find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +360 -print0 | xargs -0 rm Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC

Re: What is an implicit destination

'no mail' for all but one address. This will allow you to post without delay in the future. but I *am* subscribed! I believe that means that your envelope-from contains freebsd-questions@, but your To: and/or CC: lines do not. The way spammers use the unspecified-recipients crap ... -- Bill

Re: building jdk15 in a jail -- __mb_cur_max Undefined Symbol

a make package on my workstation, then shipped the package up to the jail system and installed it with pkg_add. Doesn't solve the problem, but if you're in a pinch, it's a handy workaround. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: top

look like when you do this? 99.9% idle, perhaps? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: top

: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] In response to Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, FreeBSD 'top' 6.n does not seem to show anything when the i flag (don't display idle processes). the whole display (below the mem and cpu information header) goes blank. Any ideas? Maybe all your

Re: find returns unusable result

755 {} \; should do it. While that works, the -print0 | xargs -0 is far more efficient as it isn't exec'ing a process for every match. This may not be important for a few files or directories, but can make a significant difference when processing thousands of entries. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL

Re: defrag

the file system is close to full. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: defrag

In response to Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 352462 files, 2525857 used, 875044 free (115156 frags, 94986 blocks, 3.4% fragmentation) Just to reiterate: Fragmentation on a Windows filesystem is _not_ the same

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

with about 10,000 mail clients hitting a single server (most of whom are using the POP interface as these are ISP sites). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

, and probably 10% of them are Outlook, and we don't have any more trouble with the Outlook clients than any other clients. We use Cyrus. Perhaps that's saying something in Cyrus' favor? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

with other Unix tools (e.g. you want to delete all files over thirty days old from a mail store, a command like this works a treat): find ~user/Maildir -mtime +30 | xargs rm Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820

Re: test

, at least put some humour in them :-). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 ``The Income Tax has made more Liars out

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

three years ago. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States

Re: PotsgreSQL question (differences for 7.4 ,8.1 and 8.2)

evaluating 8.2, and we'll be using 8.1 until we've don't a LOT of testing to ensure there are no regressions with 8.2. You should read Eric Raymond's _The_Art_of_Unix_Programming_. Especially the section about multiple development branches. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: PotsgreSQL question (differences for 7.4 ,8.1 and 8.2)

In response to Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Freitag, 23. Februar 2007 18:05 schrieb Bill Moran: In response to Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I'm new to PostgreSQL and see that there are 3 versions in the Ports and bsd.mk.ports defaults to 7.4 to resolve

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

think the issue is how localtime displays dates. This whole ``problem'' is a typical example of brainless politicians (but I repeat myself) doing things that cause far more problems then they ostensibly solve. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http

Re: PF slowing down file copies

is in charge of NATing, but I can reach the other network, and the copy just works. Have you tried stripping your pf rules down to JUST nat to see if the problem changes? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: PF slowing down file copies

In response to José Pablo Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 14:50, Bill Moran wrote: When I disable PF I can't reach outside because that is what is in charge of NATing, but I can reach the other network, and the copy just works. Have you tried stripping your

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

again to get the new timezone file installed. If you have an old version and can't updated, you can install a port that brings your tz data up to date. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 64-bits platform question

perfectly with EM64T systems. On a side note -- a LOT of people have been making this mistake recently. Can anyone think of a way to make it more obvious that people are downloading the wrong isos? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd

Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

of the lists I'm on. Odd. I find it reasonably common. The PostgreSQL lists have it as a convention as well. Must be a BSD license thing. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: FreSBIE NFS Client

be available under FreeBSD anyway, which includes the tools you need to do the two things listed above. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Advice needed - how did I get into this mess?

switch the mountpoint back and forth depending on whether we need to work with PHP-related port or other ports. You could achieve the same thing with symlinks. PHP 5.2 is a debacle in my opinion. I hope they get some of the problems with it fixed soon. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: i can't find available device in wireshark?

But it works fine when run as root. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

qemu a try. It's rather slow, but I use it often for an app we need that only runs on widows. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Xorg on FreeBSD does not work

any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named

Re: Fw: [Fwd: Re: A bit of a silly question - but I am desperate]

to the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE environment variable? See man 3 fetch -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual

Re: serious performance problems with 6.2 Release

to contribute before, but I just had a thought. If the problem seems centered around Apache, have you tried enable/disabling accept filters? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: [SOLVED] Help please: how to enable SSH password authentication under FreeBSD 6.2? Solved - but not in an expected way

understand how -d works on the server if you don't have physical access to it. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: CPU Intel core 2 (64bits). Which freeBSD should I install?

won't even boot. This machine is going to be exclusively an e-mail/DNS server. Any suggestions? Install amd64. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: New Install FreeBSD 6.2 with latest patch level question

/make world after installing 6.2? It's possible to create your own install cd. Do some googling on make release for FreeBSD. However, if it's only 1 machine, it will take the same amount of time/ effort to buildworld/buildkernel. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: building php5 with postgres support

to give a little more detail about what problem you're trying to solve. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: php.ini in /usr/local/etc

. The basic rule is that stuff that is installed through ports gets its config in /usr/local/etc. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: unqualified host name

to DNS to set your hostname properly, you can use a garbage name and add it to /etc/hosts and the delays will go away. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: jail question

although the host system has been updated to a new version? Yes, that is a problem you have to deal with. Have a look at the ezjail port, which makes this a lot easier to deal with. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Performance problems with routing (was Re: (no subject))

the output of ifconfig, netstat -rn, and any nat or packet filtering configuration. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Routing problem

anything more without details. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Routing problem

In response to George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2/8/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have FreeBSD 6.2 box with 1 NIC and 2 IPs. The first IP is to access internet, the second is for the ISP's LAN. Unfortunately I have

Re: Intel Core Duo. SMP kernel but still only 50% load while using make on ports...

to specify this, something like PARALLEL_MAKE=yes in the Makefile ... Or is that a dumb idea for some reason I don't understand? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Sync'ng directories between two servers ...

more work than it seems. I wish I had time to investigate this, as it sounds like an interesting project. /musing -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Intel Core Duo. SMP kernel but still only 50% load while using make on ports...

go above 50% if HT is off. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel Core Duo. SMP kernel but still only 50% load while using make on ports...

In response to Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:44:42PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Daniel Tourde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I have at my disposal an Inspiron 9400 with an Intel CoreFreeBSD 6.2 is installed and rebuilt to fit

Re: memory above 4Gb ignored

, I installed SuSe 10.2 on my machine and it recognized the full 4Gb; FreeBSD does not. Your searches didn't find this?: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#PAE -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd

Re: User Monitoring

the worst from happening to my Machine? Have a look at security/sudosh ... it won't prevent anything, but it will allow you to monitor what folks do. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: question about BSD time

In response to Alaa Alomari [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Alaa Alomari : [Please wrap your lines around 72 characters or so] Dear sir; I have a Unix BSD server, and i want to adjust the time of the server so i have used the following command

Re: I'd like to do my bit to support FreeBSD

my first submits. Thanks for stepping up to help out! -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recovery after power outage

. How can I try and recover from this? If you can't mount the filesystem that has fsck on it, you're going to have to boot off a CD (FreeSBIE or the FreeBSD fixit cd) and run fsck from there. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: question about BSD time

running that is changing the time? (ntp, perhaps). What happened between the time you set the time and when it reset itself? Also, check your system's securelevel setting, which will prevent manual time changes (or limit them to 1s). See the man page for date and securelevel. -- Bill Moran

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

copies the file instead of making a symlink? Doesn't seem like the best idea to me. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Question:encryption tool

support for encrypted backups: http://www.bacula.org -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: windows behaviour on installing new packages

this is completely unacceptable. Please copy me as I am not subscribed. I really think you're going to have to provide a _specific_ example. The behaviour you describe is neither intended nor expected. I don't see it on either of my desktop machines, or my laptop. -- Bill Moran Collaborative

Re: Backspaces converted to ^? -- want to get rid of ^? -_-...

in this file :-). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 ``Microsoft IIS has more holes than a wheel of Swiss Cheese after

Re: Command watching opened files by processes in FreeBSD

In response to O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello out there, does FreeBSD has a nativ root-restricted facility watching opened files of a process or process group (like lsof or filemon)? Is fstat what you're looking for? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD

forks matter to some OS X software, in particular the Reunion 8 genealogy program (which may also have issues when run on case sensitive file systems). Reunion is the only OS X program I personally use where this has been an issue (resource forks, not case insensitivity problems). Bill -- INTERNET

6.2 -- Linksys wusb11 wireless supported?

Hello Family, I have FreeBSD-6.2 installed and I'm having no luck finding any support docs nor any posts of successful usage with the (usb)Linksys WUSB11 wireless adapter. Does anyone have this wireless device working? If so, is there any docs on it? Thanks for any help in the area.

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: ... Probably the most portable way to do this would be to use awk. A simple script, homedir, might look like this: #!/bin/sh # getting the backwhacks correct is sometimes ``interesting'' homedir=`awk -F: /^$1:/{print \\$6

Re: I am unable to connect to my ftp server from anything other than the local host

know where you got the idea that you should worry about pam, but the fact that you can log in shows that your auth configuration is correct. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: brand new server timing out for sshd connections

the host command to do a few forward and reverse lookups on machines that you're trying to connect from. If they take a long time, that's likely the problem. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: 6.2 -- Linksys wusb11 wireless supported? (oh no!)

as a comparison test to show my coworkers that Linux and 2000 is not the only option. :( -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com ~ Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd

Re: 6.2 -- Linksys wusb11 wireless supported? (thank-you)

At Sun, 28 Jan 2007 it looks like Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri composed: On 1/28/07, Bill-Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sun, 28 Jan 2007 it looks like Jan Henrik Sylvester composed: The only usb wlan driver in FreeBSD is ural (Ralink RT2500USB). Also, ndis (Windows driver

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

cards perform much better. It's a shame that Dell decided to use ActiveX for the v5 DRAC :( -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

/Xenix, GNU/SunOS, GNU/OpenServer, etc. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 ``Most people, sometime in their lives

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

In response to Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Some excised We have 4 1950s and 3 2950s in use around here. Only one is actually in production so far, the rest

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

. A better solution (assuming you can't ditch ftp, which would be the _best_ choice) would be to set up your ftpd so it has different passwords than ssh/scp. There are a number of ftp servers out there capable of this. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

and less as they near actual deployment, but is pretty annoying at the time. Can you post your 2950 configuration? Kernel config? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007, James Long wrote: Message: 24 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:22:44 -0800 From: Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

. I sent them a comment about how FreeBSD should be included. I think that if enough of us send in comments, they'll re-open the submission. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

In response to Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

In response to Marco Muskus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2007/1/25, Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

'', ``sudo -'' invokes the login environment while a plain ``sudo'' doesn't. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 ``If we

Re: how can i obtain a @freebsd.org mail address ?

In response to i b [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi i'm a freebsd user and i can see a lot of people who has a @freebsd.org mail addr. (most are developers) how can I obtain an address like those ? Become a developer. @freebsd.org email addresses are offered to committers. -- Bill Moran

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

, not rebuilding/reinstalling a rebuilt/upgraded port, looking for stale ports never used anymore by another port? sysutils/pkg_cutleaves -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

a Good Idea(tm) when writing scripts that may be used on many systems to program defensively, for the lowest common denominator to avoid pitfalls like this. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way

Re: Enquiry on SAS in FreeBSD

the mfi driver. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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