Re: mysql install Q

2007-11-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
k to it as well. As for the problem above, the current libcrypt.so is linked to libcrypt.so.3, so your tarball is too old for your current system. Use ports instead ;-) And, finally, what does `hostname` return on your system? Kevin Kinsey -- I refuse to consign the whole male

Re: arbitrary build can't find libs - right way to do this?

2007-11-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
27;t. The developer swears something must be 'different' about freebsd because his gcc finds the same file in /usr/local/include. Appears his system is gentoo... Steve # setenv CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" # setenv LDFLAGS=&quo

Re: Updating samba fails

2007-11-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ports@" if you are the first. 5. Contact the port maintainer. HTH, Kevin Kinsey The following command failed: cc -I. -I/usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.26a/source -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_SAMBA_BUILD_=3 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.26a/sour

Re: Desktop printing, a request for your experiences

2007-11-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Dominic Marks wrote: List, Can anyone give me their experiences of desktop printing (OpenOffice/KDE/Gnome/Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, etc) recently? I haven't tried for a while but it was a pain to setup and maintain the last time I looked at it. If you are using this for "real-work" and

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
sed on my experience with the lists, and not taking into account whether or not the OP is a known troll, in which case it's 2 to 3 times faster, at least. :-D Kevin Kinsey -- An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the president but is always polite to tra

Re: Finding and installing new locale

2007-11-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Westin Shafer wrote: Hello everyone, I am having a hard time locating a Locale for Indonesia on our installation of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. The locale definition id_ID.(whatever) is missing. Does it exist, and if so how can I get this and install it? I have spent countless hours searching the n

Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop

2007-11-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:31:15 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but I don't want to logout and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
d1s1a /mnt dump -0 -a -L /usr | ( cd /mnt ; restore ruvf - ) Copying with dd(1) is not as fast :) ------ HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- There is no royal road to geometry. -- Euclid ___ freebsd-

Re: Any experience using cellphone as a modem on FreeBSD?

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
th", don't they? Too bad it's not *BSD; we could just ssh into that puppy and turn on NATD ... :-D Kevin Kinsey (if thread continues [and we should hope not, I think, at least in this direction] plx remove questions@ from CC list. I only left it in for "origin"'s sake

Re: Confusion about installing X and release upgrading?

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ee. 2. As root, do this: # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 # make install clean Kevin Kinsey -- You must dine in our cafeteria. You can eat dirt cheap there ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Rudy wrote: cron jobs seem to get stuck. Not always, but within a day, there are at least 20 stuck. It is not always the same cronjob that does the sticking. :) When this occurs, I can run ps ax| grep cron and get a bunch of lines like this: 51921 ?? D 0:00.00 cron: running job (cro

Re: Confusion about installing X and release upgrading?

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Zachary Kline wrote: "Kevin Kinsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Zachary Kline wrote: Hi, I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 release with security patches from Releng6-2. This is in a Qemu virtual machine, if only because I don't

Re: Determining kernel?

2007-12-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Patrick Baldwin wrote: I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF line. Is there any way to get a running FreeBSD system to tell me what kernel i

Re: more then 2G shm on RELENG_7

2007-12-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
exceeds the kernel limit. You might look in the FreeBSD GNATS database at bug 77353, and see if the advice there assists you in correction of the problem. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- If people see that you mean them no harm, they'll never hurt y

Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ill be run when either field matches the current time. For example, ``30 4 1,15 * 5'' would cause a command to be run at 4:30 am on the 1st and 15th of each month, plus every Friday. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/7/2007 10:49 AM Kevin Kinsey wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstr

[Fwd: Re: Help with Crontab]

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kevin Kinsey wrote: ] Well, as the sage said, "the light at the end of the ] tunnel is an oncoming train." Note the word "restricted" ] there, and realize that it means that both fields are ] checked and the "job" is constrained by both of them. ] ] In other words

Re: NIC "crashes" on heavy compile or HD action!

2007-12-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
u already know, and what you suspect the problem is, what about systat(1), top(1), ktrace(1), ptrace(1), iostat(8)? Try and use the console if possible; if disk, CPU, etc. seem to be OK, then suspect an issue with the NIC. As I said, YMMV. Good luck. Kevin Kinsey -- I have a hard time bein

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
??0:00.00 cron: running job (cron) # grep 85940 /var/log/cron Dec 13 12:16:00 pita /usr/sbin/cron[85940]: (root) CMD (/root/bin/raid-status.sh CRON) - Rudy Just as a favor to an old coot, could you change your crontab entry to read like this: */16 * * * * "/root/bin/raid-status.

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
#x27;d have been a smaller and cooler flame war. He didn't say "Tux Sucks". Kevin Kinsey -- There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone. -- Gloria Steinem

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
"/path/to/script.sh" and "ARG" as two jobs instead of one, and hanging on "ARG" since CRON is something of a reserved word. IANAE, YMMV, and all that. Kevin Kinsey -- I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bul

Re: Intel 82566DM-2 support (was: no subject)

2007-12-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
;t really know; it is/will be supported in 7.X. For an overview, read /usr/src/sys/dev/em/README. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing. -- Bertrand Russell ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Bare Metal Recovery FreeBSD How To

2007-12-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Right Way(tm). Also, I'd consider installing a newer release than 6.0, and only restoring the important stuff. Again, it depends on your situation. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey -- You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive. -- Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet _

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

2007-12-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
h is a more typical application as I understand it? Again, I'm not trying to convince you otherwise or say that using BIND is a bad idea. It's just that I'm curious because we use Squid for this sort of thing, and I was wondering why BIND instead? Kevin Kinsey In that file I ma

Re: Kernel Log Messages in Security Output

2007-12-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
list -v" say? Could maybe also be some unsupported device that *looks* like a umass(4)device, too, but I'm not guru enough to guess much about that. It's just that the error looks a lot like what I described above. Maybe FBSD senses something interesting with the HW Raid? HTH, if gras

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

2007-12-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
n? How does it perform? Kevin Kinsey -- 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/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

2007-12-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Darren Spruell wrote: On Dec 28, 2007 8:49 AM, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the absence of egress filtering on the firewall, that would definitely be an advantage. Does anyone use BIND for filtering in a small to medium business environment then? How does it p

Re: Fortune

2008-01-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
an 'all thumbs' newb. No problem --- we mostly remember when we were "all thumbs", too. Kevin Kinsey -- I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. -- Will Rogers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
age for msk(4) isn't a bad one. It could be that you need to add a KLD to loader.conf or something ... at the very least, it should say what variants are expected to work with msk(4). HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: changing cron's From: address in emails

2009-10-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
h mail(1), so I can have whatever subject header I want, and the envelope data comes from the user ("usually m...@myhost.tld"). Cron sees nothing because stdout/err is redirected to dev/null. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
he/she would attempt to conjure up the right code to make it work. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Eric to call up troops to end this holy war on this list once and for all. I'm sharpening blades in the shop even as I write this! DEUS VULT!!!! 'Nuff ... please? Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Remote ssh tunnel in background or script?

2009-11-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
for backgrounding issues.At any rate, what I'd like to do is have a script set up the connection, or write some daemon that would monitor the connection and fix it if it gets reset. At any rate, if I could get this SSH process to detach from a terminal, it'd be great. Any suggestions?

Re: Remote ssh tunnel in background or script?

2009-11-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ot; is needed to open the tunnel on the "localname" side on port 24 (a privileged port). You could do this as "root" on the local side, but shouldn't connect *to* root on the remote computer. On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Greetings! sudo ssh -L thisbox:2

Re: problem with php5-snmp

2009-12-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
tion. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
er clue on this, as I've not had the problem for years. I've also not burned a CD for FreeBSD on Windows *ever*, so I'm thinking it could be related to that, somehow or other, despite the fact that you can "see" everything. But then again, maybe I just don't t

Re: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
e happened in the past, I think. You might trying disconnecting one optical drive and trying again. Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
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 as a minimum. More is nicer. If you want to dual boot, then you will need to acquire a utility that will allow yo

Re: Server set up

2010-01-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:34:17PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: NTFS comes with "NT" versions of Windows, that is, NT, Windows 2000, and everything since then. W95 and W98 used FAT filesystems. Fat32 was the default for Win98 IIRC. I know a lot of MS Windows use

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

2010-01-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
insecur...@malandrines.net wrote: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! help me please $ grep ad /var/run/dmesg.boot Is /dev/ad0 there? /dev/ad0s1b ? Do you have SCSI disks instead? A RAID? Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions

Re: can't load smbfs kernel module

2010-01-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r202964M ia64 I've built a kernel with smbfs module: # ls -al /boot/kernel/smb* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 265579 25 Jan 13:36 /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 680186 25 Jan 13:36 /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko.symbols but can'

Re: FreeBSD sources from svn repos

2010-01-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
without developer's heads rolling, most likely, but stuff is Merged-from-Current (or wherever) fairly continually, and, as such, is occasionally susceptible to hiccups. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Problems with "make clean"

2010-01-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
02/out/freebsd.amd64/debug/obj/VBoxRT/VBox: Directory not empty No explanation, sorry. Have you tried $chflags -R nosch work $rm -rf work ? HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: /root permission reset on boot

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
upgrade my world (make buildworld, make installworld, etc.). I do this often (every time a release patch is released). So, perhaps this only happens during these upgrades? Yup, 99% sure of that. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: X11/freebsd problem

2010-02-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chuck Robey wrote: I have this problem with my built-under-freebsd-current Xorg, it gives me this following sort of error everytime it starts up: (pts/2):{14}% Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0

Re: ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address

2010-02-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
GLADtr GLADtr wrote: Hello my friends! Help me please with its problem. I`m don`t understood what it is problem... I doubt I do either, but I'll bite. *mx# uname -a* FreeBSD mx.taricat.ru 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Mon Jan 25 09:28:38 UTC 2010 r...@mx.taricat.ru:/usr/obj/ usr/src/s

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Programmer In Training wrote: Since the advisories from Mozilla[0-1] have been released, and updates for at least FireFox and Thunderbird are available, when will they be made available via ports (especially FF 3.6 TB 3.0.2)? Should I deinstall the ports version and go ahead and compile from sour

Re: How to check a ext3 partition ?

2010-02-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
zaxis wrote: There is a ext3 partition used to share data between linux and freebsd. Sometimes freebsd cannot mount this partition as abnormal poweroff. I have to enter linux to do `fsck.ext3` . Can freebsd fsck ext3 partition ? Not natively, AFAIK. Check out /usr/ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs;

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
mikel king 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 fun project, that turned out to be rather useful I have some developers that I managed who like you were road warriors. They

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 16:12:11, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman writes: Matthew> On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and anything that goes there gets bloc

Re: buildworld inquiry-Failing

2007-07-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Ok this has run 2 times with the same result- is this a "sign" that my box is doomed for disaster- sysinstall upgrade failed - the CD upgrade failed - and now CVS upgrade is failing- Is there anywhere that would tell me WHY its failing? arsing supfile "standard-supf

Re: Hello!

2007-08-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
to getting involved in the whole BSD scene. Nice meeting (sort of) you all! Greetings and welcome! Kevin Kinsey -- QOTD: Our parents were never our age. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: php failing

2007-09-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
on't know much about running Apache in a jail; you'll need to keep in contact with the list and hope that someone with a clue notices your problem. Since the question is really about PHP instead of FreeBSD, you might try some PHP forums/ma

Re: php failing

2007-09-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
reinstall. However, now I have a problem. I tried "pkg_add -r php5" and the latest PHP5 from www.php.net(www.php.net used to work, but that was before php5 existed). Kevin Kinsey wrote: The first thing to note is that PHP can install three different executables: a CLI (co

Re: X11 keyboard

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
se for all applications? If not, which apps? Are you using a terminal emulator? If so, which one, and what does $ env | grep TERM say? HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Fortune favors the lucky. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: Ports tree is already up to date.

2007-10-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
could have something to do with the effect you have noticed. "'Tis a puzzlement!" Kevin Kinsey -- The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohen ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Long msg: Unable to enable audio in FreeBSD 6.2 - Chipset VT8233A

2007-10-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
If not kindly guide me. Yes, more or less, that's what he means. You should have: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 in your supfile. The remaining steps are well-documented, also. For a complete overview, see Chapter 23 of the online handbook at www.freebsd.org/handbook. HTH,

Re: Incoming Mail Announcement

2007-10-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
s for the 'set mail' line. On mine, it is: set mail = (/var/mail/$USER) Which I believe defaults to checking the mail every 5 minutes. Change that to: set mail = (86400 /var/mail/$USER) and the old lady will only nudge you once each morning ;-) Probably somethin

Re: Where do I find the PERL compatible functions for php

2007-10-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
and Perl-compatible regular expressions (or at least whatever you enabled). HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. -- John Naisbitt, Megatrends ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Where do I find the PERL compatible functions for php

2007-10-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Falanga wrote: On 10/2/07, *Kevin Kinsey* wrote: Actually, it's been "split out" for some time now; you can get PCRE support for your pre-existing PHP installation by installing ports/devel/php5-pcre. But, since most users want PHP to support many techn

Advice on "new" hardware.... (long post)

2007-10-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
I guess). So, is there any hope for this hardware? I could try HEAD, I guess, but it doesn't appear that any work's been done in ICH on HEAD for 2 months or so (I'm currently running STABLE from yesterday). What about the ACPI? Should I beg over on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: too late to change to security branch?

2007-10-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
g/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/small-lan.html HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- APL is a natural extension of assembler language programming; ...and is best for educational purposes. -- A. Perlis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: PHP4 v. php4-4.4.7_2 refuse to up grade …

2007-10-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
judge without further research, but perhaps the development team is dragging their feet on purpose for some reason, or they've maybe handed PHP4 off to a couple of junior guys who are pulling their hair out on it? All conjecture. I'd advise moving to PHP5 now. It doesn't hurt

Re: Problems with www.freebsd.org

2007-10-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
#x27;t think freebsd.org should ever be there (do we have a Florida mirror?). 69.147.83.33 is Yahoo!, and I! think! that! seems! a! lot! more! correct! ;-) DNS problems/poisoning, perhaps? Kevin Kinsey -- One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day. ___ freeb

Re: portupgrade SOS

2007-10-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
cial attention to the upgrade to xorg-7.2 --- Kris wrote very explicit instructions for that. I'd just force a reinstall of /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade and go from there ... after reading UPDATING. Kevin Kinsey -- What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket. _

[Fwd: Re: src.conf: WITHOUT_SOMETHING]

2008-08-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Subject: Re: src.conf: WITHOUT_SOMETHING Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:34:59 +0200 From: Redd Vinylene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Redd Vinylene wrote: Let's say I add WITHOUT_SOMETHING to /etc/rc.conf, and remake and reinstall my world. What w

Re: Freebsd auto locking users

2008-08-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
erstand what I'm doing wrong, and what should be done solve this issues? I'm not an expert Freebsd administration, so any comments and suggestions are welcome. Kevin Kinsey -- //GO.SYSIN DD *, DOODAH, DOODAH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Interpreting top, vmstat, and company

2008-08-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Christopher Cowart wrote: I have a couple FreeBSD boxes that are providing a captive portal wifi authentcation system. Without delving into the implementation details, I'm running dhcpd, squid, and apache. We have in-house perl CGI scripts that handle session and IP management, dynamically creat

Re: Video streaming with freeBSD

2008-08-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
timedia" mailing list, I believe, which might have people on it who are more finely tuned (excuse the pun) in that direction. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Lost interest? It's so bad I've lost apathy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Auto Mount USB

2008-08-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
amd ... and, according to the manpage, has been since before FreeBSD existed. CVS seems to concur, with the initial revision of amd.c being committed by rgrimes@ on May 26, 1994. Kevin Kinsey -- Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance. ___

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
nswer all your questions, but --- you don't specify what "problems" are being experienced at the location, and, are you certain it's not about this? [25] Sat 06.Sep.2008 21:58:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/logs] host 72.24.34.252 Host 252.34.24.72.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Falanga wrote: *Not having* a reverse entry for a mail server is often the cause of issues. This I do know very well. I had similar problems when running a sendmail backup spooler for Syracuse Networks back in 2000. The eventual solution was that our ISP delegated control of our sub

Re: ssh

2008-09-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ort" parameter in the same config file. And as an aside ... don't do it. ;-) Just my guess. Kevin Kinsey -- Reactor error - core dumped! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: branches, updates, buildworld

2008-09-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
e system. If you, for example, happen to upgrade expat or something basic to a bunch of ports, things can go pretty haywire until everything's back up-to-date. But, then again, that's what the ports-mgmt tools are supposed to help with. Last but not least: Thanks for the fast and detaile

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
#x27;t get routed to the correct address when it's destined for port 25. So a common thread is that traffic on the ISP's net isn't going out via yourserver.com:25 --- would seem to indicate port blocking, which is quite common for port 25. Tried 587 or some weird alternate? Ke

Re: nat and firewall

2008-09-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
s MFC'ed, but apparently fairly recently? I suppose we need someone a tad more "in the know" to straighten that out for us. Kevin Kinsey -- A wise man can see more from a mountain top than a fool can from the bottom of a well. ___ freeb

Re: X server crashes on exit

2008-09-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
f how to diagnose and fix this problem? Thanks Herman Have you looked at the logfiles? (/var/log/Xorg.$n.log) Kevin Kinsey -- Let your conscience be your guide. -- Pope ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: NATD Reverse Proxy

2008-09-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ROTECTED] 831-459-5354 Someone else's wheel, for perusal, at least: http://www.shmoo.com/~bmc/software/wicap/announce.html The tarball is still up there. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. -- John Galsworthy ___

Re: Command to rechown

2008-09-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. As for restoring permissions on /etc/, mtree(8) is your friend ... I'd recommend taking a look at the manpage, however, because IANAE. However, all disclaimers included, I *think* you want % cd / % mtree -U -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist Kevin Kinsey -- It is now pitch dark. If you proceed

Re: Scanner

2008-10-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
owever, IANAE, some it may not, (YMMV, #include "disclaimer.h" and all that). I suppose I must be doing something wrong. Please bear in mind that this is my first time that I am using the command line. I have been able to thanks to the very easy and instructive FreeBSD's handbook. It

MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
the server (currently I'm running dual-sendmail with Amavisd-new and spamassassin). Anyone doing such a thing, or have a few hints handy? TIA, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
r me, but no one else likes it ;-) Thanks again, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

SSH Port forwarding when "PermitRootLogin"==no ?

2008-10-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
emote server is a dynamic port. Any suggestions how I might get this to work? TIA, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
pear that perhaps Mel also guessed right about df being aliased? Just my guess, but, as you mention, no nfs mounts appear. I may be mistaken, but I think it's also possible to get into this sort of situation by mounting a local partition on a non-empty mountpoint---at least, it happened to

Re: tool to recover fat partition

2008-11-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
used sysutils/ddrescue for recovery from a FAT partition, but I'm not at all sure if it will help in your situation. Kevin Kinsey -- Seems this guy showed up at a party, and all of his friends jumped for Joy. But she sidestepped, and they missed. _

Re: upgrade almost done on ns1.thought.org

2009-06-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
erver 2.us.pool.htp.org driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift restrict 10.47.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap anybody? Not certain, Gary, as IANAE; here, /etc/ntp/holds "ntpd.conf", and /etc/ntp.conf is a symlink to said file. No issues with ntp; I'm running 7-STABLE from

Re: FTP

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ropos truss truss(1) - trace system calls ... so you can use the above tool to see what's going on from the server's point of view. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re. Se non e vero, e ben trovato. ___ fr

Re: freebsd

2009-08-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: am doing research about freebsd ,so can you help me with this information 1. features, benefits and setbacks 2. Functionality and features 3. versions, strong and weak points 4. Unique features www.freebsd.org :-) Kevin Kinsey -- Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still

Re: freebsd

2009-08-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: i dont know if is me or what but you havent answerwd my question,please take ur time ad give me reply Kevin Kinsey 08/17/09 2:18 PM >>> BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: am doing research about freebsd ,so can you help me with this information 1. features, ben

Security cams/DVR, using FBSD?

2009-08-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
are combination you use or recommend for video monitoring? TIA, Kevin Kinsey -- There is a Massachusetts law requiring all dogs to have their hind legs tied during the month of April. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Tcpwrappers, sendmail, and unknown hosts...

2009-10-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Seems like a lot of the spam we fight comes from hosts with no DNS entries. What about using this? -- $grep sendmail /etc/hosts.allow sendmail : KNOWN : allow sendmail : UNKNOWN : deny - Comments? anyone tried it? Kevin

Re: Tcpwrappers, sendmail, and unknown hosts...

2009-10-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jeff Laine wrote: On Sat,10-10-2009 [12:31:01], Kevin Kinsey wrote: Seems like a lot of the spam we fight comes from hosts with no DNS entries. What about using this? -- $grep sendmail /etc/hosts.allow sendmail : KNOWN : allow sendmail : UNKNOWN : deny

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
nclusion with 8.0. However, a day is coming ... Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: Question about FreeBSD syscall usage

2009-10-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
on if I'm wrong). I hope this is helpful to you. Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: Help with router problem

2008-02-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
nterface that could be causing route problems and therefore "network unreachable" from ping(8)? It does seem rather odd, so I wonder if there's something we are all overlooking. Since no one but you is there, we can't tell you what it is, but only guess. Maybe something above w

Re: X configuration errors

2008-02-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ut maybe something will click. Xorg configuration is a tad magical; not difficult after you've done it a few times, but not exactly, err, intuitive (not sure that's what I mean exactly, tho) if you're not completely immersed in the documentation. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Never be afraid

Re: FreeBSD & Linux distro

2008-02-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Lone Wolf wrote: Hi. How FreeBSD differ from any Linx distro like Ubuntu? Thanks. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dreamed before. E.A Poe http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linu

Uname borked on ??-Release...

2008-03-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
xecutables"). There's more, but I'll wait until something moves with this data, I think. Question: why is uname reporting the {wrong} build? Kevin Kinsey -- I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Uname borked on ??-Release...

2008-03-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kris Kennaway wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: I get the following from uname -a: FreeBSD archangel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #6: Sat Jun 2 09:22:50 CDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/obj/backup/src/sys/GENERIC i386 However, I rebuilt world, more or less without issues, twice

Re: Uname borked on ??-Release...

2008-03-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
question is, with what I have above, why do I still have: sysctl -a | grep kern.osre kern.osrelease: 6.2-RELEASE kern.osrevision: 199506 kern.osreldate: 602000 ?? Thanks in advance, Kevin Kinsey ___ 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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