Re: Disabling DNS

2010-04-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
ate response. We do no call names on this list. It is unhelpful, unfriendly and non-professional. jerry > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ > > Regards > > > Alberto Mijares > ___ > freebsd-question

Re: freeze PHP5 at specific version

2010-04-16 Thread Jerry
ww.mywot.com/en/scorecard/myfreebsd.homeunix.net> gives a warning when accessing that site. I assume it is harmless, although I wonder why it is doing it. -- Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore t

Porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD

2010-04-16 Thread Jerry
Has there been any movement on porting NetworkManager <http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/> to FreeBSD? I read something awhile ago, I don't remember where, that it was planned for the 8.0 release (I think). I have seen it in use on a friends PC, and it is really awesome.

Re: mysql60 port broken? & Its 10:00. Do U know where ur mysqlclient.16 is?

2010-04-16 Thread Jerry
under development The MySQL60 port has been gone for a while now. I know, because I was in the same boat. Use portupgrade with the "-o" flag to fix the problem. -- Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore th

Re: denyhost: ERROR

2010-04-15 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:50:13 +0200 (CEST), Mohacsi Janos articulated: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Jerry wrote: > > > Using denyhosts-2.6_3 from the ports system, I am finding the > > following error message in the "/var/log/denyhosts" log file: > > >

Re: denyhost: ERROR

2010-04-15 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:57:32 -0500, Adam Vande More articulated: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Jerry > wrote: > > > This error message repeats anywhere from every hour to every three > > or four hours. I cannot seem to decipher the pattern. Is this error > > me

Re: fetchmail - problems with ssl since upgrade to 6.3.16

2010-04-12 Thread Jerry
s no way for anyone to verify your conclusions. The message indicates that you are using a self-signed certificate. That warning message is normal. Are you attempting to verify the certificate with fetchmail? If so, remove the check an retry the process. You might be better served on the fetchmai

IPFW and separate data files.

2010-04-11 Thread Jerry
c and I would rather work with the separate files than edit the master one and risk messing it up. -- Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header.

denyhost: ERROR

2010-04-07 Thread Jerry
6/xmlrpclib.py", line 838, in close raise Fault(**self._stack[0]) Fault: This error message repeats anywhere from every hour to every three or four hours. I cannot seem to decipher the pattern. Is this error message something I should be worried about; and if so, how do I go about corre

Postfix in base system

2010-04-07 Thread Jerry
I noticed that someone in another thread mentioned: "(2010-03-22) added option to install Postfix into the base" I have not been able to locate that item. Could someone list the URL for that notice or tell me where to look for it? :-? Thanks %-\ -- Jerry freebsd.u...@sei

Combining SSL certificates

2010-04-02 Thread Jerry
'c_rehash' on the file or do I have to save both certs in separate files to complete the chain? -- Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply

Re: FreeBSD Instalation question

2010-03-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
manager that I haven't learned about yet. MS puts some extra boot manager stuff in. I think how to get around it is documented. You will have to look that up. jerry > > The FreeBSD boot manager will then allow you to select > to boot FreeBSD or "Windows" at syst

Re: How to make "man" pages

2010-03-31 Thread Jerry
k in to a man page .gz file? If you visit this URL: <http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/writingscripts.html> you will see links to various scripts. One of them is for creating 'man' pages: <http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#MANED

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:26:08PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Jerry McAllister schrieb: > >On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > > >>Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk > >>parti

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
s way.I would be inclined to divide the disk as desired, do the MSW install in the first slice and then get a FeeBSD fixit and partition the other slice and then use dump/restore to move the FreeBSD stuff over. That way you get the best fit for the new disk, no worries about twea

Re: pure-ftpd with mysql authentication

2010-03-29 Thread Jerry
/usr/local/etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd-mysql.conf > [...] > CreateHomeDir yes > [...] If you are unable to secure a suitable solution to your problem here, you might try the "pure-ftpd" mailing lists, available here: http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/support I have use

Re: Creating multiple directories simultaneously

2010-03-26 Thread Jerry
foo-3 -> FOO.bak/FOO/foo-3 FOO/bar-1 -> FOO.bak/FOO/bar-1 FOO/bar-2 -> FOO.bak/FOO/bar-2 FOO/bar-3 -> FOO.bak/FOO/bar-3 -- Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header.

Re: Creating multiple directories simultaneously

2010-03-26 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:32:58 +, Daniel Bye articulated: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:12:48AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > I could have sworn that I saw a method of creating several > > directories, actually a parent direct and several sub-directories > > simultaneously; howev

Re: Creating multiple directories simultaneously

2010-03-26 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:15:04 +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) articulated: > did you try "mkdir -p dirtest/dir1 dirtest/dir2 dirtest/dir3" ? Yes, and of course it works. I just thought that I had once seen a faster method of accomplishing the same feat. Perhaps I was mistake

Creating multiple directories simultaneously

2010-03-26 Thread Jerry
tried: mkdir -p foo {foo-1, foo-2, foo-3} and several other variants and they all failed. I could easily write a simple script to accomplish it; however, I thought I could do it directly from the command line. -- Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or

Re: Upgrading from 6.1 to 7.3

2010-03-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
asonably doable. (Note, you failed to put all of your information in the body of the message. It is not helpful to put relevant information only in the subject line) jerry > > Sigmar > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: OpenOffice 3.2 fails to build on FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64

2010-03-24 Thread Jerry
ortmanager" installed, you could try this: portmanager editors/openoffice.org-3.2.0 -l -y -p Good Luck! -- Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

2010-03-22 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:51:01 -0600 Dan Busarow articulated: > > On Mar 22, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Jerry wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:00:17 -0430 > > Alberto Mijares articulated: > > > >> As I see it, FreeBSD is, in fact, a DNS server or a mail server by &

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

2010-03-22 Thread Jerry
> > I also must say that I frecuently use Postfix for Mail Servers, if I > don't need exotic features. Out of morbid curiosity, what limitations and exotic features? -- Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do

Re: confirm 0e468fd0cede091de70f462228a30f3c07dd71fa

2010-03-20 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:34:27 + freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org articulated: > Mailing list subscription confirmation notice for mailing list > freebsd-questions > > We have received a request for subscription of your email address, > "freebsd.u...@

Re: securing sshd

2010-03-20 Thread Jerry
rd log-ins and using key authentication is extremely secure. Do make sure that you password protect your keys however. In any event, if you laptop or whatever is stolen, you have more than just one problem to contend with anyway. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-

4K compatibility

2010-03-16 Thread Jerry
Leopard and versions of the Linux kernel released after September 2009 are all 4K aware. Would that also include FreeBSD? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Nachman's Rule: When it comes to foreign food, the less authentic the better. G

Re: how to use cdrecord

2010-03-14 Thread Jerry
loaded? If not load it. > No I do not. how do i do this? Add this to your /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC file: (or what ever you have named it) device atapicam You then have to rebuild your kernel. You would probably be best served by reading up on how to update FreeBSD

Re: How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?

2010-03-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
bly you can gett away with just doing fsck -a mount -u mount -a >From then you can edit. If it will not run the fsck or the mount -a, then you will have to reboot in to single user mode and do the above. jerry > > Thanks in advanced. > Oscar > __

Re: warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer

2010-03-09 Thread Jerry
le thing started after I updated to FreeBSD-7.3 pre-release from version 7.2 last week. Every sending attempt produces this error although the mail does go through whether it is to someone on the same network or to an entirely different domain. Do you have any good idea how I can debug t

warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer

2010-03-09 Thread Jerry
? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | I trust the first lion he meets will do his duty. J. P. Morgan on Teddy Roosevelt's safari ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Updating ports was Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-07 Thread Jerry
shutdown 'X' prior to doing the update also. When done, reboot and all should be well. I have done it before with great success. BTW, you might also want to set: "BATCH=yes" sans quotation marks in your "/etc/make.conf" file. It will eliminate those pesky pop-up messages co

Re: Java in FF3.6

2010-03-06 Thread Jerry
ng > list, but I am not x-posting. I'll just start a discussion there > depending on how I'm informed here. Please check out this URL: http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/firefox_newplugin.xml I believer that the FreeBSD version of Java is several versions behind that. Theref

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Jerry
n tell. That would sort of eliminate any pseudo "Breach of Contract" accusation against them. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Fortune favors the lucky. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

compiler flags

2010-02-28 Thread Jerry
g to the "/usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf" file, this is probably what I want: CPUTYPE=athlon64 I am assuming that the FreeBSD 'make' does not support 'native'. The version of 'gcc': gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD] -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=

Re: selling freebsd cd for profit

2010-02-28 Thread Jerry
nt fees for insurance and legal counsel in an attempt to protect themselves against nuisance suits. Perhaps if the tort system were changed and the instituter and lawyer of the suit were made to pay all expenses, plus the amount being sued for in an unsuccessful lawsuit things would change dramatically.

Re: problem with booting and installing

2010-02-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
It sounds like you have already looked in to this one so it is probably not the problem. The first one above is probably it. Good luck, jerry > > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.fre

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Jerry
uggles getting printers, especially wireless ones, working with FreeBSD for way too long also. It always seems to be a hit or miss adventure. While MS Windows has several problems, printing is not one of them. Good luck, and please post your solution once you have one. --

Re: left over restore file restoresymtable

2010-02-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
is in the root of whatever filesystem you just restored. That essentially means the mount point value. If you have just restored /usr (correctly by doing:cd /usrrestore -rf ...) then it will be in /usr. Don't worry about it. There is no harm in leaving it there until you get a

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 03:10:01PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 22/02/2010 14:30, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > No. In multi-user, files are still changing. The snapshot could > > possibly be made between par

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
> How does this process work in detail? Go back and read the good and quite complete description someone put in about how snapshotting works a while back in this thread. I think it was Matthew Seaman, but I don't remember for sure. jerry > __

Re: dump warning msgs??

2010-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
rs are inode identifiers. I don't know the exact algorithm dump uses for sorting the inodes, but this looks like a file was deleted between the time the list was made and the time dump got to reading it. That is a message of the sort it makes when those things happen. jerry >

Re: Dump/restore to clone disk

2010-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
a disk that is already in use. This is well documented. > > Is there some command to display > the file system allocation size? > Oh come on. This is all over the documentation. Try: df -k There are lots of other ways you can look up too. jerry > >

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:23:10PM +0800, Aiza wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > > >On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0800, Aiza wrote: > >>1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of th

Re: booting single user mode

2010-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
Note: I am using /dev/nsa0 as where the dump media is. that would be a tape device. You need to adjust this for where you really write the dump or have the dump stored. jerry > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
t its own partition/filesystem, you must use some other tool, such as tar or possibly rsync. jerry > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
e intended for use when the web sites are set up to start in some directory tree other than the users' own home directories. This might be the case if you create space for a web site, but do not allow logins - so the users do not actually have home directories. Just some stabs in t

Re: freebsd

2010-02-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
lf or to experiment. So, back to the Handbook and learn about these things. Once you learn them, it will be easy, but it will take a bit of fuss to get them just how you want it in the beginning. jerry ps. I never did get that 'plain vanilla' thing. Vanilla is a flavoring in

Re: Why does soft link in /var/log disappear?

2010-02-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
27;t move and link the actual file/directory the logger writes to, but create a directory above it in the bigger space and then set up configuration to write to log files within it so there never has to be a link on the actual files on which the

Re: Question about Freebsd 7.2 and Zend framework

2010-02-15 Thread Jerry
means I do not have to pay taxes to support them. Personally, I find that acceptable. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | While it may be true that a watched pot never boils, the one you don't keep an eye on can make an awful mess of your stove.

Re: Question about Freebsd 7.2 and Zend framework

2010-02-14 Thread Jerry
d all of our FreeBSD product line due to lack of demand. For further details, see the full text: http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=2412 -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | The Ken Thompson school of thought on expert systems: t

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
to you cannot log in over the net with a root (eg a UID 0) account. The recommended way to get to root is to either use the console or to log in as a non-root account using an encrypted path and then su(1) to root or to a root account (eg one with UID 0). jerry > > >

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
7;s status report where they talk about it: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-May/049873.html > This one looks a little more definitive, but it still uses the term 'exploring' rather than saying it is decided.So, keep listening. jerry > It w

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
t won't become the official direction at some future time either. Whatever 'official' means. jerry > > Cheers, > Ben > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
et the most out of it, even if you're not going to invest in a > lot of new hardware. The system nowdays does all that figuring for you and manages boundaries reasonably. jerry > > b. > ___ > fre

Re: The first file loaded is?

2010-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
ble partitions to read in and hand over control to. If you poke around in man pages for boot and init you will learn a lot of what you are asking. jerry > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
root should be the > first partition or can it follow swap space? It should work, but there are so many things that might assume to have / (root) as the first partition on a bootable drive that maybe it is best to just stick with that

Re: sysinstall and mfs

2010-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
s a handy device for creating these boot images, but that has little bearing on how sysinstall runs. jerry > > Martin McCormick > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
normal shutdown - such as from a sudden power loss. > The 'other' system > has 7.2 and has devolved to a 25% chance of a hard freeze every time I > unplug a ucom device (seems to have cropped up between 7.2-release and > 7.2-stable#3). 8 likes usb, so

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
kdir /bigwork mount /dev/ad1s1d /bigwork Edit /etc/fstab so it will mount automatically. It is not weird or mysterious, though I admit the man pages for both fdisk and bsdlabel could stand a going through. They do not follow the conventions of most man pages in the way they describe the swit

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
es with a series of files as they come from disk organized and located by inode. But, as I say, I haven't worked with ZFS yet so do not know how date is kept track of on ZFS. jerry > > So, my question is this: Can someone point me to the proper place to > start reading on get

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
nything I remember being possible. I don't happen to have any system handy at the moment that I can muck with disks on. jerry > > Steve > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists

Re: How does Sysinstall Mount File Systems?

2010-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
ore than last long para. But, just in case that is what you meant, I threw it in. jerry > > Thank you. > > Martin McCormick > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Swap Partition First?

2010-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
kip 'a') b = swap('' '' '' '' '' swap '' 'b') c = reserved for system d = /tmp( etc ) e = /usr( etc ) f = /var

Re: fixing up port dependencies

2010-02-02 Thread Jerry
in the short term :) > > I'm curious of people's thoughts on this. This will correct it: portmanager -u -p -y DO update your ports tree before running the above command. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | If *I* had a hammer

System Crash + Firefox-3.5.7

2010-01-31 Thread Jerry
. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Dibble's First Law of Sociology: Some do, some don't. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jerry
llowing line: > > /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 As far as I know, that cannot be done. I saw something about that here awhile ago. Perhaps, a patch has been submitted that will modify its behavior by now. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Jerry
t: japanese/samba Moved: japanese/samba3 Date: 2008-07-21 Reason: Superseded by japanese/samba3 Port: net/samba32-devel Moved: net/samba32 Date: 2009-02-16 Reason: Samba 3.2 became stable enough to be used in production. Did you read man pkg_add(1) thoroughly before using the utility? -- Je

Re: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread Jerry
ot;/usr/sbin/ntpd" # path to ntpd, if you want a different one. ntpd_config="/etc/ntp.conf" # ntpd(8) configuration file ntpd_sync_on_start="NO" # Sync time on ntpd startup, even if offset is high ntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drift&q

Re: Is their Automatic command to send a JPG file using FTP

2010-01-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
rsync. It is in the ports, probably //usr/ports/net/rsync It will work unattended if you sent up public/private key SSH. jerry > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: Problem with GnuPG

2010-01-25 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:16:06 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 06:19:58AM -0500, Jerry wrote: > > I posted this recently on the GnuPG forum; however, no one had ever > > seen it before. > > > > FreeBSD-7.2 > > > > gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.14

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
move first the > simple things over. > > > 7) Nuke /home and /var/mail and migrate them again to get the > > latest version 8) Do the real switch Move/migrate them first. Don't make assumptions about what the OP has on /home. But, I agree, if possible, use a second machin

Problem with GnuPG

2010-01-23 Thread Jerry
correct it? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Lunatic Asylum, n.: The place where optimism most flourishes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: How to troubleshoot a frozen boot sequence

2010-01-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
ation that your ad0 has any provision for hotswap. It isn't in any raid setup. Try taking everything from /dev/ad0 out of /etc/fstab - including both the big partition and the swap partition and then rebooting. jerry > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader 1.1 > It spins for a second,

Re: hardening FreeBSD, already using GBDE

2010-01-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
ffort to make it difficult and then just resign yourself to living in the real world. jerry > > --jg > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >

Re: ssh to root

2010-01-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
log in as root over the net if you can possibly avoid it. jerry > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send

Re: Restarting after Make Install....

2010-01-20 Thread Jerry
of time. I think that the old English saying: "six of one, a half dozen of the other" is appropriate to the situation. Just my 2¢. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | You are only young once

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Jerry
be an option to opt-out of this sort of behavior too, for > those who like the extra steps. If I remember correctly, 'portmanager -y' removed conflicting ports prior to installing a new or updated port. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== |

Re: Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
use Apache httpd web server a lot and some PHP. You need to think out what you are doing, study up on it and then do some experimenting. Since you plan to wipe that W98 machine and start over on it, then you can easily read and experiment and restart several times without any loss. Then you ca

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
I think you need to go to the FreeBSD web site www.freebsd.org and start reading. It is all there and more, especially including where to get the ISO files for downloading and how to do the install. jerry > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:34:17PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > >Of course, if you plan to dual boot FreeBSD along with the existing > >installation of W98, then you need enough disk for both of them. > >Probably 20 Gbytes each a

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
hat its graphics card is supported, though maybe not its wildest features. Someone else will have to talk about that. I do not do much with graphics, just the little that comes from a browser. I don't even have KDE or Gnome on most of the machines I work on. Good luck and have fun, jer

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Jerry
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." Robert Byrne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

FreeBSD + exFAT

2010-01-15 Thread Jerry
m/Blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!5216.entry?w http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa914353.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955704 -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Advice to young men: Be ascetic, and if you can&#x

USB 3.0

2010-01-14 Thread Jerry
advantage of this updated technology? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic. E. F. Benson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Catastrophic Installation Failure now!

2010-01-10 Thread Jerry
startup script. I believe "./mysql" is correct. This should create all of the necessary files and directories you need to initialise MySQL. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
the latest version in Hong Kong. There may even be a mirror site there. jerry > > Your sincerely, > Paul Shi > Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior > Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering > University of Hong Kong >

Re: Restoreing Dump on FreeBSD headless server

2010-01-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:03:41PM +0100, bsd wrote: > > Le 4 janv. 2010 à 22:36, Jerry McAllister a écrit : > > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:42:33PM +0100, bsd wrote: > > > >> > >> Le 4 janv. 2010 à 19:56, Jerry McAllister a écrit : > >> >

Re: Restoreing Dump on FreeBSD headless server

2010-01-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
ave done that. Probably some specific ssh method too, but I am so old I haven't done one with that new fangled secure ssh yet... jerry > > Any advice or howto will be (very) welcome. > > > Thanks. > > > P.S. Happy new BSD year !! > > > ¯¯

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Jerry
ight >> want to consider employing them. Then again, you could just install >> Postfix. It is far easier to configure. >What exactly did you try, Jerry? I used both the IP address and the domain name. Same results either way. Go to: <http://www.checkor.com/> and type in your IP

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Jerry
uration. I >just use it as came out of the box. > >Any ideas? > >Uli. I just tried and received a "Relaying denied" response. By the way, I noticed that you apparently do not employ SMTP Authentication or offer STARTTLS on either port 25 or 587. You might want to consi

spamassassin - Y2K10 bug

2010-01-03 Thread Jerry
There is an apparent bug in 'spamassassin' regarding 2010 e-mails. The full story is available here: http://spamassassin.apache.org/. There is also a discussion of it on SlashDot: http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/02/0027207/SpamAssassin-2010-Bug -- Jerry ges...

Re: Openoffice3 and aspell

2010-01-02 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:06:35 +0100 Randall Wood replied: >On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 06:22:13AM -0500, Jerry wrote: >> On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:00:28 -0800 (PST) >> Neil Short replied: >> >> >Does it include a thesaurus? >> >> Until at least recentl

Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Jerry
your case, the drive you are inserting the CD into to bootup. If you are only going to be using FreeBSD on the system, you could just wipe the drive clean and then install FreeBSD also. A free utility, "FreeDOS" <http://www.freedos.

Re: Openoffice3 and aspell

2010-01-02 Thread Jerry
much less get them to work correctly. If you have any other word processor available, irregardless of OS, I would strongly recommend using it. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get t

Re: Blocking a slow-burning SSH bruteforce

2010-01-01 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:56:17 +1100 David Rawling replied: >Apart from switching away from user authentication to private/public >keys ... is there anything I can do to mitigate these attacks? Any >advice welcome. Is there a specific reason that you don't want to use keys?

Re: Adding an alias to .cshrc

2009-12-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
within single-quotes: > > acct-dev: ISP-RADIUS % grep srm /home/steve/.cshrc > alias srm '/usr/bin/find . -name "*~" | /usr/bin/xargs rm' That is OK as long as you are not depending on shell expansion effects. jerry

Re: Adding an alias to .cshrc

2009-12-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
so it all needs to be quoted. Something like: alias srm "find . -name \"*~\" | xargs rm" jerry > ...so that I have an easy way to remove the temp files left by svn. > > After adding the alias, logging out and then back in, I get an error > stating: >

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
'vi' or install 'vim' from ports and us it. Since 'vi' is always available, it becomes important to learn it and then it is second nature to use it. (actually, vi is not available in single user mode if you do not have /usr mounted, but I usually just put a

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-29 Thread Jerry
ut-why That "article" is grossly out of date. Furthermore, D. J. Bernstein created an MTA that was a back-scatters dream. Then, he abandoned it. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com _ ___ _.--. # Jerry \`.|\.....-

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