Disaster recovery ?

Hi I had a working FreeBSd 5.3 RELEASE server running postfix and zope until last night. When I checked it in the morning, it had a bunch of ad4 ... UNRECOVERABLE ERROR messages on it. Upon a reboot, it complains it cannot find /boot/loader (error 16). Last week, it had shut down without any

Effective user issue with zope

Hi  I am setting up zope-2.7.5-final on a server (FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE). Installed python-2.3.5 from sources (not ports). After configuring and compiling it correctly, I got an initial error on running runzope. Following the exhortation I found on the following webpage :

Re: Recommendations for All-in-One device?

On Saturday 19 March 2005 08:29, Brian J. McGovern wrote: I'm currently in the market for an All-in-One device for the home network, mostly for the fax functionality (it'll be replacing an Canon scanner and Okidata 810e laser printer). Before anyone suggests their favorite FreeBSD Fax

Re: dovecot is broken in ports

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:08, Jim Trigg wrote: On Mon, March 14, 2005 11:43 pm, Madhusudan Singh said: Hi Just want to report that dovecot seems to be broken : === Returning to build of dovecot-0.99.14 === dovecot-0.99.14 depends on shared library: sasl2.2 - found

Re: dovecot is broken in ports

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 20:57, Jud wrote: Thanks for your response. However, any attempt to clean it, remove gnutls (pkg_delete) and install it again fails with : === dovecot-0.99.14 Currently incompatible with security/gnutls. I do not have gnutls installed now (just removed

dovecot is broken in ports

Hi Just want to report that dovecot seems to be broken : === Returning to build of dovecot-0.99.14 === dovecot-0.99.14 depends on shared library: sasl2.2 - found === dovecot-0.99.14 depends on shared library: ldap-2.2.7 - found === dovecot-0.99.14 depends on shared library: iconv.3 -

Need help setting up qmail / binc imap on FreeBSD

Hi I am trying to implement a qmail based mailserver with binc imap on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE using the instructions found on : http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/mailserver/qmail+vpopmail+qmailadmin.php I am using packet filter (pf) to setup the firewall. I have added the following rules

Location of openssl certs in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

Hi  I am trying to set up bincimap with ssl support as a part of a wider qmail setup for a mailserver.  I have openssl installed (man openssl opens up the right manpage). I want to know where are the certs installed. The reason is that the FAQ on bincimap's webpage states :  SSL in Binc IMAP is 

Re: Qmail / FreeBSD / vqadmin problem

On Thursday 10 March 2005 05:57, Peter Risdon wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:12 -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: Hi I am new to both FreeBSD and qmail. However, I am definitely not new to unix/linux (2 years of HP-UX and 7 years of Linux experience). I am using a pf firewall

Re: Qmail / FreeBSD / vqadmin problem

for this or is just a matter of opening only selected ports (which ports ? 995 and imaps ?) ? Thanks for the lifewithqmail link. I have printed out the pdf version and will shortly go through it. MS On Thursday 10 March 2005 05:57, Peter Risdon wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:12 -0500, Madhusudan Singh

Qmail / FreeBSD / vqadmin problem

Hi I am new to both FreeBSD and qmail. However, I am definitely not new to unix/linux (2 years of HP-UX and 7 years of Linux experience). I am using a pf firewall on a machine that will host a webserver as well as my mailserver. I am interested in setting up IMAP access to email for my users

Re: Sources vs. ports

Thanks for your response. On Thursday 03 March 2005 16:21, Jeff With wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:47:02 -0500, Madhusudan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Since some of the ports I need are broken, I am thinking of installing those parts from source. However, is there a way

Re: Question about cvsup

cdrecord on linux had major problems after the 2.6.9 kernel came out). On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:24, Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:15:05PM -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: Hi I am new to FreeBSD and trying to use CVSup after someone suggested it to me

Sources vs. ports

Hi Since some of the ports I need are broken, I am thinking of installing those parts from source. However, is there a way to let the local ports hierarchy know that a certain package has been installed, albeit by other means ? Thanks. ___

A possibly simple query about pf on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

After nearly a week of fighting the dual problem of OpenBSD 3.6 release freezing on my hardware, and some rather odious personalities on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, I decided to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on the web server I am deploying and stick to it. I went through the webpage on

Question about cvsup

Hi I am new to FreeBSD and trying to use CVSup after someone suggested it to me on comp.unix.misc.bsd.freebsd. My supfile : *default tag=. *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/var/db *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress ports-all release=cvs I