Re: man question

2004-01-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:30:55AM +0100, Didier Wiroth typed: Hi, I've compiled and installed software by my own in this directory: /home/me/custom/ In this directory I have the following directories and subdirectories: /home/me/custom/man /home/me/custom/man/man1

Re: Looking for C example of ARP lookup on FreeBSD

2004-01-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:24:31PM +0800, Laslett, Greg typed: Hi, The code that is being ported uses the 'ioctl' method to request a MAC address. eg: struct arpreqReqARP; struct sockaddr_in *pAddr_in; SOCKET s; . . s =

Re: Using a different User Database

2004-01-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:09:48PM -0800, Loren M. Lang typed: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:32:34PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:04:36PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: You may want to start by looking into the net/nss_ldap and security/pam_ldap ports. Beyond

Re: Loading balancing with more than one ISP.

2004-01-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:01:28PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot typed: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 15:46, Simon Gray wrote: Easiest way I would of thought would be to use BGP or OSPF under Zebra (/usr/ports/net/zebra)(www.zebra.org) I'm no expert, but the majority if ISPs tend to use BGP

Re: Mail in a Jail

2004-01-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:20:17PM -0700, Brent Wiese typed: Hi, I run my web sites from a jail. The time has come that i now need to send an email from one of those sites using the mail() function in php. I would like to know, what files do i need to be able to send mail from

Re: Updating DNS after DHCP

2004-01-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:09:38PM -0600, John typed: I see that some Microsoft systems send out an update to DNS with the system name. I configured my DNS server to accept these updates, but now that I'm running FreeBSD on a laptop - how do I do that from FreeBSD? I've looked at the dhclient

Re: Whan can I do if OS does not boot after makeworld

2004-01-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:34:25PM +0200, Vahric MUHTARYAN typed: Hi Everybody , I heared in list and some sites that some times after makeworld system can't boot . I wonder What FreeBSD Admins make to solve this problem . Does possbile to prevent this problem ?! Any way ?! What

Re: FreeBSD, SSH and Enter Authentication Response

2004-01-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:55:50AM +, Matthew Seaman typed: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:32:30PM -0800, Rishi Chopra wrote: I have a nitpicky question about logging into a FreeBSD machine and SSH. I'm using a minimal FreeBSD install and SSH Secure Shell client v3.2.0 - the crux of the

Re: FreeBSD, SSH and Enter Authentication Response

2004-01-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
# password #password sufficient pam_krb5.so no_warn try_first_pass passwordrequiredpam_unix.so no_warn try_first_pass Any ideas what I should change? -Rishi Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:55:50AM +

Re: fixit

2004-01-05 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 06:01:46PM -0500, Peter Leftwich typed: Hello everyone. [1] What is the best resource online for understanding how to use fixit?? I have a bootable FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE CD-R and I can start an emergency fixit shell on vtty4 (you start it after booting into sysinstall

Re: How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly

2003-12-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:16:36PM -0500, Peter Leftwich typed: Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... currently-running X session. That would allow me to use KDE and Konqueror to browse graphically to the directory /mnt/freebsdpartition

Re: How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly

2003-12-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:48:40AM -0500, Peter Leftwich typed: I thought I would GIVE BACK to the BSD community and share my breakthrough: Here is how to mount your freebsd partition from Linux (in my case, it was a CD-R of the Debian-based bootable known as Knoppix available from

Re: daily run output...

2003-12-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:44:39AM -0500, Xpression typed: Hi list, I have some scripts to execute everyday, I see that /daily contains some scripts but I don't know how to push mines on it and execute them without put on crontab, I mean if it can be achieved...thanks You can create

Re: ufs problem (mounting ufs under linux-2.6.0-test11)

2003-12-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:32:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hello, I don't seem to be able to mount the FreeBSD-5.1-RELEASE's ufs partition in linux-2.6.0-test11, which occupies another partition on the same machine (which is Acer Aspire 1304XC). Has the ufs format changed in 5.1?

Re: running freebsd with sendmail and qpopper

2003-12-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 07:07:59PM -0500, Marty Landman typed: I've given this another try and got much further albeit w/o visible success. Here are my notes interleaved in your instructions. At 09:53 PM 12/3/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: assume the following: - your domain name is

Re: using bsd commands

2003-12-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:09:23PM +0200, Yahya B?lent typed: How can I list all files in a directory that are 7+ days old? (That is except last 7 days) find . -mtime +7 -maxdepth 1 is that possible with use any command(s) on Freebsd4,x ? Thanks

Re: boot.flp

2003-12-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:00:02PM -0300, maykol irigoyen typed: I downloaded the FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE i386 and I try to install it, so I tried to copy boot.flp to a 1.44MB disk but the file is too big. In the installation guide says that it fits on a 1.44MB disk but the thing is

Re: Can't mount UFS in KNOPPIX

2003-12-02 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:16:36PM +0200, Gareth Bailey typed: Is it possible to mount freebsd native partitions in Knoppix? How can this be done? - i have tried 'mount -t ufs' and 'mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd' BUT Knoppix doesn't want to know about it. Wrong list. Try a knoppix mailing

Re: Resizing disk labels

2003-11-26 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:39:33PM -0500, Jerry McAllister typed: At 07:42 AM 11/25/2003, Konrad Heuer wrote: 3) Try to identify subdirectories containing a lot of data within the filesystem which is too small, move them by mv to a filesystem with enough free space and

Re: First time 5.1 install

2003-11-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:40:59PM -0500, Trey Sizemore typed: Doing a first time install of 5.1. The ports packages look comprehensive and very up-to-date. I'm coming from the linux world, having used it exclusively for the past year. I have the manual and will certainly read it before

Re: Upload site question...

2003-11-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:59:43PM -0500, Xpression typed: Hi list, I've a server running FreeBSD-4.8 with Apache-2.0.48, I've a site hosted and many user who develop their sites wants to upload and update their sites without my assist...Anyone knows any method to upload the files to

Re: 5.0 vs. 5.1

2003-11-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 08:12:08PM -0500, john typed: I'm currently running 5.0 release and am wondering about the possible positives/negatives of switching to another release, particularly 5.1 current. I'm running it as my work machine for programming and school type things, side by side

Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom

2003-11-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:31:19PM +0100, Frank Murphy typed: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:07:31 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] Anyplace at all Now, that is not much of a standard - why bother? Well, the idea would be that the standard wouldn't bother. :)

Re: firewall rules do not get read

2003-11-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:38:34PM -0800, Chip typed: I noticed my firewall rules are not being read. I have rc.conf set to read the file rc.firewall. In rc.firewall the first line is add divert natd etc etc. that is followed by pass all from any to any etc etc. Then nothing after that is

Re: Can I bakup like this...??

2003-11-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:43:30AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert typed: Keith Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] a) Throw another drive in the box b) Createthe same or at least minimum size partitions as the active drive c) Cron job to dump or tar or ??? the partitions dd(1) is the

Re: staring sendonly sendmail

2003-11-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:29:27AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff typed: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:49:51PM -0700, David Bear wrote: I do not want sendmail to receive message. I only want it to act as a local mta/mda and a sending agent. I have sendmail_enable=no in rc.conf, but can quite

Re: staring sendonly sendmail

2003-11-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:36:22PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff typed: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:59:49AM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:29:27AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff typed: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:49:51PM -0700, David Bear wrote: I do not want sendmail to receive

Re: lost mailbox

2003-11-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:27:34PM -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN typed: I run freebsd 4.8 and postfix 2.0.0.16 when i try to access my mail using mail version Mail version 8.1 6/6/93 i always have 0 messages even though i have sent several messages and watched them being received and sent to

Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi

2003-11-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:44:09PM +0100, Julien Gabel typed: I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done?

Re: chroot users

2003-11-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:38:39AM +0530, Sunil Sunder Raj typed: Hi, proftp is the best bet. It locks the user in his home directory not allowng him to go below his home directory. Why install a port when the base system ftpd can do the same thing? All you need to do is put the users you

Re: FreeBSD 5.x / make installworld woes

2003-11-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:12:46AM -0800, Edmund L. Wong typed: Hello all, I am a relatively new FreeBSD user running a CURRENT version of FreeBSD 5.x (I forget the number, but I just rebuilt the kernel about a week ago). When I ran a make buildworld/installworld this morning after

Re: Dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD - odd problem

2003-11-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:38:03PM -0800, Mike Maltese typed: Hi Mike, Do you have WinXP and FreeBSD on the same disc or on two separate discs? Thanatos Same physical disk. Windoze is on ad0s1 and FBSD is on ad0s2. At the moment I'm looking into restoring XP's MBR and then

Re: tar question...

2003-10-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:57:35AM -0500, Matthew Emmerton typed: Hi list, the question is: can I tar a hole directory without include the tree ??? I mean when I tar all files in a /dir1/dir2/dir3 path, the tar file includes me the path too and I want to tar only the filenames in dir3: I'm

Re: wrong name on emails

2003-10-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:37:44AM -0400, M.D. DeWar typed: Hello, Thanks. Yes it reports the correct hostname. And its correct in the rc.conf. Here is a copy of the FROM on a email sent by the cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) and hostname shows

Re: howto dissallow upgrade for specific port?

2003-10-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:23:03AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani typed: Howdy list, I have a port that I do NOT want to upgrade: python-2.2.2 If I do upgrade it, some of the software on my system will not work correctly. However, I'd still like to use portupgrade -R on a few ports to upgrade

Re: Freebsd 4.8 Command to finish typing

2003-10-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:37:52AM +, DanB typed: How do you have Freebsd 4.8 finish typing a line? On older version I just type Ma and escape to finish typing Make. That depends on your shell. You're probably used to a bourne-shell variant like ksh, where ESC is used for word completion.

Re: Best way to cleanly uninstall packages?

2003-10-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:55:59PM +1000, Chris Richards typed: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please don't hijack other threads when asking a new question. Hi Everyone, I have installed 2 packages which inturn installed a bunch of dependencies... They are imageindex-1.0.6 and

Re: Problems with /usr/libexec/save-entropy

2003-10-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:10:55AM -0500, Robert Small typed: Ok, I'm an idiot! I MUST have done something to my system yesterday. It's been running fine, and around 3:00pm yesterday, I started receiving emails from Cron /usr/local/save-entropy saying: *User: not found Look for the string

Re: console connectivity question.

2003-10-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:11:53AM -0600, Tim Hogan typed: I have installed FreeBSD v4.8 on an Intel system that had a monitor and a keyboard attached at the time of install. I would now like to remove the monitor and keyboard and have a headless unit however I can't seem to make the

Re: dhclient getting infinite IPs?

2003-10-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:20:12AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I have a Belkin 802.11g router (model F5D-7230-4) and my freebsd 4.7 server connected to it. Everything was working fine, but I moved and changed ISPs. I'm not aware of anything that has changed in the configuration on the

Re: How to create distribution for later NFS sysinstall on other box?

2003-10-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
redirected to -questions On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:39:41PM -0400, Chris Shenton typed: Some of my systems are 5.1-CURRENT but I still have some older 4.x boxes. I'd like to upgrade them to the same OS as my 5.1 boxes. It seems stupid to feed them boot floppies then FTP the OS across the

Re: Sendmail hosed after hostname changed

2003-10-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 10:15:21PM -0500, Charles Howse typed: SNIP Oct 12 13:19:06 larry sm-mta[1725]: h9C4x1o1000716: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=13:20:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=2550418, relay=howse.homeunix.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by

Re: dhcpd output to root console

2003-10-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:20:45PM -0700, jason dictos typed: Hi Guys, Whenever I boot up, dhcpd always splurges out stuff to roots console screen and /var/log/messages. Is there anyway I can disable it from spewing messages to the console and to only spew out messages to

Re: Ckermit, Minicom, and even Windows Dial Up won't work..

2003-10-09 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:10:02AM -0500, Peter Elsner typed: I disagree... There are 12 SCO Unix servers at 12 of my customers sites, and they haven't been modified in years... All 12 of them can't be having the same problem The only change was made to my FreeBSD server, when I

Re: rsync/mirroring permissions problem

2003-10-06 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:58:02AM -0500, Redmond Militante typed: hi all i'm trying to do a 'push' rsync operation to mirror the contents of my websites root directory on one machine over to a remote machine. rsync is installed on both machines. the command i'm using to rsync is

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-02 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:27:05PM -0600, SoloCDM typed: On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Todd Stephens wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:42 pm, SoloCDM wrote: Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger

Re: converting ext3 to ffs

2003-09-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:03:27AM +0530, Shantanoo Mahajan typed: +-- David Benfell [freebsd] [24-09-03 23:00 IST]: | On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:58:53 -0700, Mike Hogsett wrote: | | dump(8) and restore(8)* may do the trick. I would recommend dumping from | an os where ext3 is native (e.g.

Re: Security Script

2003-09-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:30:21AM +0100, Graham Lillico typed: Hi All, Below is a link to a script I am currently in the process of writing. It's purpose is to apply some basic security settings to a FreeBSD 4.X server build. I wonder if any of you would mind taking a look and letting me

Re: Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:27:00AM +0300, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV typed: OK! I admit that it isn't THE BIGGEST problem for me BUT it is A problem. What I ment in my last mail was that it is the biggest problem concerning cat. Since someone always seems to cat a binary file without having the

Re: Setting up a cvsup server

2003-09-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:02:56AM +0100, Wayne Pascoe typed: Hi all, Can anyone give me any pointers to setting up a server for all my other boxen to cvsup from ? What I'd like to do is have one box cvsup from the main freebsd cvsup servers, but then for all my other boxen to be able

Re: ssh hole?

2003-09-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:28:59PM -0700, Sean Hafeez typed: i thought sshd part of the default install? (sorry do not have a box to look at right now). That's right. To get the patched ssh version you have to install 4.8 and then cvsup and rebuild to eg. releng_4_8 Ruben On Tuesday,

Re: LABEL (The FreeBSD Disklabel Editor)

2003-09-16 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:19:28AM -0400, Michael A. Alestock typed: I have an existing FreeBSD v4.7 installation and want to delete a small filesystem that I had designated for email (/var/mail), and want to freeup that unused space to the '/usr/home' filesystem. If I use DISKLABEL to delete

Re: Is there cool download manager in FreeBSD?

2003-09-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:08:40AM +0300, Alex Zivenko typed: Hi people! Is there cool download manager in FreeBSD? Like Reget, or Flashget in WIN, Don't disturb me about KGet (he can't to continue download, when connection has broken) fetch(1) works for me. Check out the -a and -r flags

Re: Software patents

2003-09-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:58:23PM -0700, Kris Kennaway typed: On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:53:37AM +0200, Mickael Suzenne wrote: Hi the team ! I was wondering why you haven't placed any advert to protest against software patents european directive ? Nor you, neither Net team, neither

Re: FreeBSD 4.8 local startup issues

2003-09-09 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:59:46PM -0800, admin typed: On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:42:24 -0700, K Anderson wrote admin wrote: running: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE okay I am having a strange issue. after the last reboot after my FreeBSD machine became unreachable - and required a power

Re: RAID1 is DEGRADED, but which disk is faulty?

2003-09-05 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:07:50PM +1000, jesse reynolds typed: At 18:26 +0200 3/9/2003, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:45:05PM +1000, jesse reynolds typed: Hi How do you tell which disk has problems in a hardware RAID1 array? My machine has been up for nearly six

Re: .ko files in /boot/kernel

2003-09-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:03:22AM -0400, Seamus Abshere typed: /boot/kernel is full of .ko files for kernel options that I did not select. Why are they there? Are they in use? You can check which modules are loaded with kldstat(8) [/boot/kernel]#ls -l kernel -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel

Re: host and hostname

2003-09-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:07:12AM +0200, Peter Ulrich Kruppa typed: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Rommel B. Ikeda wrote: Hi... I am still a newbie...and practicing how to get use to FreeBSD and UNIX... I have a question: Why is it when I invoke the command host, this comes out host not

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:58:35AM -0700, Joshua Oreman typed: SNIP Ok; what you have done is made a dump on the root mirror device; great! But how do I now tell FreeBSD to use that restored partition as /? Edit /etc/fstab to effect the change for the next boot? I have a nagging

Re: RAID1 is DEGRADED, but which disk is faulty?

2003-09-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:45:05PM +1000, jesse reynolds typed: Hi How do you tell which disk has problems in a hardware RAID1 array? My machine has been up for nearly six months, and only the last three weeks of messages logs are retained. There is nothing any in the last three weeks of

Re: libc.so.3 not found

2003-09-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:59:42PM +0200, Nelis Lamprecht typed: Hi, Running a program ( Mcafee Viruscan ) and I get the following: pandora# ./uvscan /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libc.so.3 not found I'm using 4.8 Stable. Which port will give me this library ?

Re: MBR Corruption and Restore

2003-08-31 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 07:39:44PM -0400, yo _ typed: Hello All! Unfortunatly, i was having a minor hard disk problem on my first FreeBSD installation, and (so used to Debian) i thought i could fsck after shutdown now. Apparently this was not the case, as my file systems were still

Re: Correct syntax for ipfw to allow local traffic?

2003-08-27 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:48:50PM +0300, Vitali Malicky typed: Hi all, Hi! I have 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 in my firewall script. But although I get lines like silakka /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:2000 from 127.0.0.1:3914 into my messages log.

Re: Restricting ICMP

2003-08-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:56:04AM +, Mark typed: - Original Message - From: Andy Farkas [EMAIL PROTECTED] SNIP I am just not very fond of the idea of local users starting ICMP wars over the net, using my server :) I have already had an instance where a web-user did an

Re: Restricting ICMP

2003-08-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:01:03PM +1000, Andy Farkas typed: Mark wrote: I am just not very fond of the idea of local users starting ICMP wars over the net, using my server :) I have already had an instance where a web-user did an excessive ping attack on one of his buddies. And,

Re: resizing partition

2003-08-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:42:12AM +0200, Martin V??a typed: hi, is there any utility that can resize/merge two freebsd/165/ partitions? I've tried PartitionMagic under win but with no effect and sysinstall fdisk has no option like that. Important fact is that both are packed with data I

Re: Did I do something wrong?

2003-08-10 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:38:16PM -0400, Gregory Felter typed: I received the information for my dedicated FreeBSD box today from the hosting company. It's an unmanaged box which was supposed to be running 4.8 but is running 5.1 because they said 4.8 would not install (Doubtful to me,

Re: SCP where does the file xfer to?

2003-07-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:45:08AM +, DanB typed: SCP where does the file xfer to? scp file.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this is really the command you used (without : after chatusa.com), check the directory you were in when you issued the command and look for a file called [EMAIL

Re: Sendmail reject non-extant hosts? RFC1123

2003-07-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 05:37:31PM -0500, Jack L. Stone typed: At 09:38 PM 7.20.2003 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 01:37:15PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: I'm not happy that Sendmail is allowing connections from non- existent hosts (i.e., spammers...)

Re: ASP on FreeBSD/Apache - most recent, stable and viable solution?

2003-07-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:41:56AM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] typed: This may be better posted to the Apache list, but that has been filling up with windows implementations as of late... Have recently been inundated with requests for ASP on our FreeBSD/Apache servers (probably because the

Re: Headless and r5.1

2003-07-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 08:52:03AM +0200, Kjell Midtseter typed: On Release 4.x I used to recompile the kernel with the apropriate options, and I could disconnect and reconnect my keyboard as need arose. What changes should I make to to GENERIC for this to work under Release 5.1? None.

Re: No /proc or procfs by default in 5.1-RELEASE ... why ?

2003-07-16 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:42:49PM -0700, Josh Brooks typed: Hello, As I am sure many have noticed, a default installation of 5.1-RELEASE will leave you with no procfs mounted at /proc, and no entry in /etc/fstab for a procfs. Is this by design ? Yes Is it better to not run /proc on

Re: PCMCIA Support for Libretto 50CT

2003-07-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:50:43PM +0930, Eric Parsonage typed: Hi all I was hoping somebody could help me get FreeBSD working properly on my Toshiba Libretto 50CT. I have freebsd 5.1 loaded but for some reason the PCMCIA interface is not recognised (nor is the APM) without PCMCIA I

Re: getting ordb.org to stop spam with sendmail

2003-06-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:52:09AM -0400, David Banning typed: I am interested in getting my server to bounce mail from open relays. I have been to the ordb.org site. I have added the suggested line to my mc files; FEATURE(`dnsbl', `relays.ordb.org', ` 550 Email rejected due to sending

Re: getting ordb.org to stop spam with sendmail

2003-06-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:06:22AM +0300, ODHIAMBO Washington typed: I believe the ordb dnslists are not free anymore, but that is upto you to go and find out. Perhaps you already did. ordb.org is free and AFAIK they have no intention to change that policy. -Ruben

Re: getting ordb.org to stop spam with sendmail

2003-06-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:10:29PM -0400, David Banning typed: I am using sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.6 ^^ I of course recompiled the .mc files, and restarted sendmail. I don't think your sendmail.cf got updated, or you would now be running sendmail

Re: Moving users

2003-06-15 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:40:02PM +1000, Richard Beyer typed: Hi, I need to move users from one machine to another and keep their passwords intact. I've added a test user to Server-Source and a test user to Server-Destination and copied the password hash from /etc/master.password on

Re: Upgrading 5.0 - 5.1

2003-06-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:32:16PM -0700, Joshua Oreman typed: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:16:50PM -0700 or thereabouts, cp seemed to write: You should *really* use 'make buildkernel' in the toplevel if you're combining it with a world update. Recommended procedure: ~# cvsup

Re: restoring accounts

2003-06-10 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:40:31PM -0700, David Bear typed: I'm wondering, if I have a copy of /etc/master.password, is it better to just copy that over the default installed version? or to try write some kind of script to read it, and recreate accounts from it using pw? Try: pwd_mkdb

Re: Locking down secondary mx sendmail

2003-06-05 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 03:16:15PM -0700, Doug Silver typed: It seems the spammers like to target secondary mx machines and let those machines relay the email to the primary machine. I've tried setting up the virtusertable file to at least reject invalid emails on the secondary mx machine,

Re: file permission baffle

2003-03-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:11:18AM -0500, David Banning typed: I have these links from my web directory; root# cd /usr/local/www/data/fax/ root# ls -l lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Mar 29 16:37 chantelle - /usr/chantelle/fax lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 14 Mar 10 00:15 david -

Re: your mail

2003-03-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:09:23AM -0600, Ryan Thompson typed: Paul Lathrop wrote to Ryan Thompson: I'd also like to remind the original poster about the security risks associated with suid binaries. There are many subtle ways in which suid binaries can bite one in the ass...

Re: Jailed BIND not logging

2003-03-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:49:51AM -0500, IAccounts typed: I have lived with this for quite a while, but now that I would like to get some of my bind logs, I had to ask. Last summer, I managed to get BIND 9 running in a jail, (howto I generated is here:

Re: Java and mozilla

2003-03-06 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:30:22PM -0500, Adam Stroud typed: Can someone tell me how to get java working with mozilla under Freebsd. I have installed the jre from the ports collection, but I cant get java support in any browser working (opera, mozilla or konqueror) Creating a symlink: ln

Re: Can I run my own Dynamic DNS server for private use ??

2003-03-05 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:44:47AM -0600, Kirk Strauser typed: At 2003-03-05T05:25:50Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To make support/access easier can I set up my own Dynamic DNS server on the static address and have those remotes register their IP's with it when they change ? Thanks in

Re: FreeBSD Threads?

2003-02-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:39:40AM -0500, Aaron Walker typed: Does FreeBSD support POSIX threads? I was reading R. Steven's UNIX Network Programming last night at work, and he stated that 4.4BSD did not support threads, so I was just wondering if FBSD did.. I hope so. It does. See man 3

Re: samba in a jail

2003-02-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:25:46AM +0100, taxman typed: Anyone successfully running samba inside of a jail on 4.7R? I'm trying te get it to work for a friend of mine. It works ok for a while and then locks the machine up hard every night. Network access is gone. We haven't yet

Re: s/key

2003-02-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 08:55:54AM -0500, Robert Munn typed: How do I turn off the prompt for an s/key password? I started getting the request when I upgraded from 4.5 to 4.7 Putting the line: PreferredAuthentications publickey,password in /etc/ssh/ssh_config works for me. -- Robert

Re: syntax problem in /etc/csh.login

2003-02-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:40:17PM +0100, Colin J. Raven typed: snippage + if [ `whoami` = test ]; then + echo + echo -e This is a test message for user test \ + echo + fi + ### + /snip + and got an error upon subsequent login as

Re: how to delete a file called ????

2003-02-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:45:33AM -0800, Kent Stewart typed: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:21 am, parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote David Banning thusly... I have a file called ??? ... I can't seem to clean it away. rm rm

Re: Too many files open / file: table is full

2003-02-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi Gordon, On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 06:16:26PM -0500, aSe typed: Recently, one of the machines I help to admin ran into problems and had to be rebooted. The machine uptime was about 40days and one of the techs told me it became unresponsive and any command he typed into term it responded Too

Problem installing 5.0 on Libretto

2003-02-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
.x there used to be a kernel option especially for the Libretto floppy drive, but I can't find anything similar in 5.0. Has anybody succesfully installed 5.0 on a libretto? Any tips are welcome. Thanks, Ruben de Groot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Too many files open / file: table is full

2003-02-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:16:23AM -0500, aSe typed: This is not a matter of diskspace. The kernel holds a fixed length table in memory with all open files. If this table gets full it usually means one of two things: 1) You have a runaway application, opening way too many files. Identify

Re: Limiting memory usage of a certain process.

2003-01-31 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi, On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:26:25PM +0100, Florian Lorenzen typed: Hi all, I've got the following problem with my FBSD-4.7-STABLE-box: It is running a mldonkey-2.02-client under a dedicated user. This process eats up all memory. Thus the system starts swapping. This is in general not

Re: vnc at start-up

2003-01-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:27:42AM +0700, Roger Merritt typed: I've installed vnc from the ports and it works fine, but it's annoying to have to log on to my server and start the vncserver every time I want to connect from my desktop PC. One problem is my server has been randomly rebooting

Re: Ooops.

2003-01-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:56:54PM +1030, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Quoting Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you explain what you think is a problem? Well - it's happened to two uf us in the past month! In both cases the operator was copying files from one

Re: Why no /dev/one?

2003-01-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:53:05AM +, Jan Grant typed: On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2003-01-30 00:25, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Why isn't there a /dev/one device to provide an infinite number of all-ones bytes? Because it's easy

Re: How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9

2003-01-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:39:51PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev typed: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:29:22PM -0500, stan wrote: I want to use bind 9 from the ports tree. I see how to prevent the bundled bind from being built the next time I make world, and I see how to change the init files et all

Re: How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9

2003-01-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:38:02PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev typed: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:05:19PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: I have always found this to be a problem with FreeBSD: why can't sendmail, bind and the other contributed software be made optional at install time, so

Re: back up Win2k workstations?

2003-01-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:41:07AM +, P. U. Kruppa typed: Hi, I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how? If you want to make full backups of the workstations, including system files and all, I would recommend using a

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