Re: Make a jail visible in different networks

2007-05-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
and your 192.168.1/24 subnet, or setting up additional VPN endpoint on the 192.168.1/24 network, or using NAT to map the jail IP onto the 10.5.1/24 netblock. Without knowing your topology, it's hard to make more specific recommendations. -- -Chuck PS: Also, no need to ask the same question

Re: what's the easiest way to de-html-ize files?

2007-05-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
standalone converter that gets rids of markup more elegantly? Something where i can say % cmd file_1.html ... file_N.html and output file_1.text ... file_N.text? Perhaps: lynx -dump file1.html ... file.text ...? -- -Chuck

Re: Make a jail visible in different networks

2007-05-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
192.168 addresses, it's better to set up the VPN to go onto that, IMHO... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail init error: Can't assign requested address

2007-05-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
to be in a domain that you have no affiliation with and they have to get your ISP to clean up after you :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Can't get the syntax correct for my tcpdump command

2007-05-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
something like this, tcpdump -v -s 192 -i fxp0 ip6 host remote The above works. However, when I try to modify the command to filter out only the UDP traffic, I've tried something like this: tcpdump -v -s 192 -i fxp0 ip6 host _remote_ and proto \\udp -- -Chuck

Old 4.2 user, with 6.2 newbie questions

2007-05-10 Thread Chuck Grimes
I am in the process of moving from 4.2-RELEASE on an old box to 6.2-RELEASE on a new box (Core 2 Duo, DG965WH mobo, GeForce 7600gs, 1G RAM, 400G sata drive). I need to figure out a couple of userland changes to the default 6.2 installation which took about an hour and went great. I have a shell

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite? [semi-solved]

2007-05-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
direct calls to this script, that originate from anywhere but from the photography site itself. Add something like Allow from localhost to the Location block quoted above? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 4, 2007, at 9:10 AM, RW wrote: On Thu, 03 May 2007 11:07:34 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sun SPARC machines have good HW clocks, and also some of the newer Macs also seem to have consistently low values in ntp.drift and handle timekeeping well. Does that matter? A good

Re: NFS server not responding/is alive again

2007-05-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
filer01 directly than to forward a remote filesystem via this NFS-CIFS/SMB bridge... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scp/sftp without interactive shell?

2007-05-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
generally. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
for the rest of your machines. Sun SPARC machines have good HW clocks, and also some of the newer Macs also seem to have consistently low values in ntp.drift and handle timekeeping well. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: A good quiet power supply?

2007-04-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
enough air. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 5.5 hardware support

2007-04-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
supported. It isn't? Perhaps someone should update the list of Production Releases on www.freebsd.org's home page, then. :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: PF NAt

2007-04-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
. You'll have to change vr0 to use a publicly routable IP if your want to use it as the external NIC. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Digital signed mail- certificate issuing

2007-04-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
that forgeries can be readily identified by someone knowledgeable, but be aware that most normal computer users have significant problems dealing with PGP. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail

2007-04-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
in sendmail, change this: # my official domain name # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain #Dj$w.Foo.CO ...to: Djmyhost.example.com ...or whatever you like. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail

2007-04-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `hostname.example.com') -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help?

2007-04-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
the BIOS configure stuff it doesn't need to boot, and leaving FreeBSD to assign IRQs itself... If that doesn't help, I believe there's a freebsd-acpi list which contain people who can look at the dump of your BIOS and fix the broken IRQ assignments it is doing. -- -Chuck

Re: Linking error with __float128 conversions

2007-04-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
/doxygen/vmcore/html/ structFLOAT128.html ...to build your own float128 struct. The GNU MP library might also be useful. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Make Options -- just checking

2007-04-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
are building by hand, you would run ./configure --with-abc=def. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: random hangs/reboots with Dell servers

2007-04-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
servers, and I would like to listen on how to tackle this situation we are facing. Try to get a crash dump. Also, you might find reviewing the BIOS options and disabling everything which is not needed, hopefully including USB, will help. -- -Chuck

Re: ftpd and chmod

2007-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
to be a remarkably bad idea. :-) If you really want to change permissions remotely, why not use SSH as an authenticated user? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
: Repelling the Wily Hacker, ISBN-10: 020163466X http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,020163466X,00.html Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
indicate a problem with the ATA driver against your particular motherboard/chipset-- but without a dmesg or some hardware details, we can't do better than guess. Whom should I believe, FreeBSD or the disk diagnostics tool? Both. -- -Chuck

Re: BSD make vs. GNU make

2007-04-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
in that it will check out SCCS files for makefiles. * Various new built-in implicit rules. *Note Catalogue of Implicit Rules: Catalogue of Rules. * The built-in variable `MAKE_VERSION' gives the version number of `make'. Aren't you glad you asked? :-) -- -Chuck

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
firmware supports. However, to do more thorough testing, the (typically DOS-based) utility from the vendor will be somewhat better. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
. Most people using FreeBSD would recommend that you choose the best platform for your needs, and if you want to run a flavor of Linux, by all means, have fun. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Mysql Hogging all system resources

2007-04-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
you ask this question yesterday? Use nice/renice to change the process priority of the MySQL server so that you don't starve other processes of CPU -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Mysql Hogging all system resources

2007-04-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
_command_ under csh/tcsh. sh/ ksh/zsh ought to understand the -n flag and be more similar to the external command under /usr/bin. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Two firefoxes, 1.5 and 2.0, script keeps running 1.5 instead of 2.0

2007-04-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Does anyone know the way out of this? Try: cd /usr/ports/www/firefox15 make reinstall make deinstall -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Mysql Hogging all system resources

2007-04-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
processes which want to run at normal priority? -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proper list server? (was Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?)

2007-04-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
to be done more when you need to discuss private config files which contain passwords or some such... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
systems which include battery-backup for the drives... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Receiver (To/CC envelope fields) addresses verification against LDAP/Active Directory in sendmail

2007-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
-- that will return a 4xx temp failure for all initial connections (except from sites which have been whitelisted). Only if the sender retries will the mail go through-- this works great against dictionary-style attacks. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Devstart/FreeBSD

2007-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
is the closest thing to what you've asked for. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network Filesystem for BSD / Linux environment

2007-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
over the Internet, using a VPN such as OpenVPN with NFS or Samba works fine, too. It's easier to get Samba to pay attention to only the VPN address if you want to improve security; with NFS, you pretty much have to set up a firewall to contain it. -- -Chuck

Re: interpreting uptime output

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
are retrieved and assigned to successive elements of loadavg[]. The system imposes a maximum of 3 samples, representing averages over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes, respectively. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: interpreting uptime output

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
The By the way, thank you for the information. Since I have two processors now I know that I do not need to worry below 2.0. :-) You're welcome... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: About file systems and formats

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/fs/ -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
will help correctly sync if your local clock is one hour off (depends on whether your BIOS is trying to keep local time or GMT time)...see man adjkerntz. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: mdconfig device no faster then direct disk ...

2007-03-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
-2 GB worth of file data. Of course, trying to do I/O tests on a RAM disk means that you want the data to fit into RAM without swapping, which then means that trying to do identical testing between disk and RAMdisk doesn't really work too well. -- -Chuck

Re: FIPS 140-2 for government use

2007-03-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
5x0x devices. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sample cds

2007-03-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
/where.html You probably want to grab the 6.2 x86 image -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade suggestion

2007-03-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
to learn French :-) Donnez-moi tout mais le temps... -- Napoleon -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
then they would be elsewhere. Also note that what is in ports is the GNU reimplementation of Adobe's enscript, and it may or may not be as capable -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: TCP conection problems IBM VM - FreeBSD

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
right-- the SYN+ACK reply to a connection open (bare SYN) should reply with SEQ = ISS + 1 to acknowledge the SYN (which counts as a byte). -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
a broadband router or config a FreeBSD box to do the PPPoE stuff and then route the subnet internally (perhaps using RFC-1918 addresses via natd the redirect_address directive). -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
itself...if not, you might have to get a broadband router or config a FreeBSD box to do the PPPoE stuff and then route the subnet internally (perhaps using RFC-1918 addresses via natd the redirect_address directive). Very helpful. Thanks Chuck. What decides which IP will go to each machine

Re: Ports: Cannot compile CURL

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
are these variables set and how do I unset them? make -V WITH_CARES for example yields true Try make rmconfig and then re-configure the port next time you build it (assuming that those make variables aren't set externally somehow)... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd

Re: TCP conection problems IBM VM - FreeBSD

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
box are using routable IPs -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Updating GCC

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
making a port? Add: CC?=/usr/local/bin/gcc CXX?= /usr/local/bin/g++ ...to /etc/make.conf. You might also find looking at /usr/ports/Mk/ bsd.gcc.mk to be informative... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: TCP conection problems IBM VM - FreeBSD

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
straight routing via this /30, rather than re-writing the packets. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
? /usr/ports/print/acrobatviewer Alternatively, if you convert the PDF file to PostScript, (GNU) enscript ought to have an N-up filter which can deal with A3 - A4 conversions and so forth: /usr/ports/print/enscript-a4 -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions

Re: SOLVED: Re: Problems with burncd - cannot mount result on unix or windows

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
directory tree. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mysql Unlinked Files

2007-03-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
? If not, consider rebooting to single-user mode or off of a CD, and running fsck by hand on /var... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
to completely disable all of sendmail. Setting it to NO means that there is no sendmail daemon listening on port 25, but there will still be a local client mqueue runner spawned to handle local deliveries. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: OT: how to read BIND's debug file (named.run)

2007-03-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
is, and E seems to indicate whether one of the following two options is set: /* * This option is deprecated since we now only consider nibbles. #define DNS_BYADDROPT_IPV6NIBBLE0x0001 */ #define DNS_BYADDROPT_IPV6INT 0x0002 -- -Chuck

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

2007-03-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
in the Handbook on how to diagnose and debug system panics. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail ignores SmartHost directive

2007-03-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
, MTAs don't care about whether the contents of an email are HTML. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
, in theory, if you had free disk space, you could use growfs to expand the root partition without repartitioning, but I am dubious about using that command against /. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: pthread usage

2007-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
. The key component doesn't work, sigh... I don't know whether the problem is the ClusterIt code or FreeBSD, either. Are you using the port, /usr/ports/net/clusterit...? Talk to the maintainer, perhaps, who is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -- -Chuck

Re: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
with / var which prevents it from being mounted cleanly until, say, a manual fsck is completed :-/ -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Shared object libintl.so.6 not found

2007-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
came from, I don't know how to replace it. I assume I don't have to reinstall the OS (I hope) so where do I go from here? That library comes from the gettext port; so try to reinstall /usr/ ports/devel/gettext... (pkg_which might become your friend. :) -- -Chuck

Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5

2007-03-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
itself is under /usr/sbin -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5

2007-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
don't know why tzsetup makes a copy of the zoneinfo file rather than setting up a symlink, but making a copy simply allows the file in /etc to become out-of-sync if one updates the files under /usr/share{/lib}/zoneinfo without re-running tzsetup again. -- -Chuck

Re: sendmail not working?

2007-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
local delivery the way sendmail can. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NAT

2007-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
/books/handbook/advanced- networking.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- natd.html -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
/2822 include it. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound drivers

2007-03-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
settings and make sure that the on-board sound is enabled, and/or check for a BIOS update -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Installing a second hard disk

2007-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
: http://www. 48bitlba.com/ with some tools...I haven't looked into them, but it looks like they have a utility to check your BIOS for LBA48 compatibility. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: mirror without destroying existing contents

2007-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
drives to the mirror set. The same approach ought to work with software-mirroring such as (g) vinum. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Stopping named: rndc failed, trying killall: .

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
is configured with chroot() -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
that, then you'll need to switch to running a 64-bit version of FreeBSD. -- -Chuck [1]: Well, 3.5GB or 3GB, actually...due to the top portion of address space being occupied by PCI device space and the kernel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
alter rlim_cur within the range from 0 to rlim_max or (irreversibly) lower rlim_max. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: what port* string can I crontab that will *work*?

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
requires one to adjust or change a config file, an automated update will break there. There is no free lunch with regard to managing servers...a human eventually needs to oversee the process. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD Version 5.3

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
, but I don't expect that patches are going to continue to be produced for 5.3 in 2007. (I may be wrong; perhaps you should ask the security team for the real scoop. :-) Update to FreeBSD 5.5, or possibly 6.2 -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Problem Launching Applications in Gnome

2007-03-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
applications doing other things? I have of course looked at top when this problem occurs. CPU usage is about 2%, and there is no significant memory usage either. It would be helpful to know what state the GT vim processes were in, too. -- -Chuck

Re: Stopping named: rndc failed, trying killall: .

2007-03-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
/named, and thus the path to the PID file which rndc expects to find under / var/run/named.pid actually gets put under /var/named/var/run/named.pid. It would be nifty to make ndc/rndc smart enough to understand how to find the pidfile under the chroot location. -- -Chuck

Re: Network Printing recommendations please

2007-03-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
patient about receiving replies, however, at least if you intended to repost so quickly -- -Chuck [1]: Some flavors of Unix insist upon having printer hostnames being well-defined in DNS or /etc/hosts, and do not support IP addresses in printcap. I don't recall whether than limitation

Re: ps showing [appname] for some things -- how to get whole thing?

2007-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
exported env variables) and that will prevent ps from reliably returning that info. All you can be sure of it getting argv[0], which is used for accounting in the ucomm variable -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: w hangs before loading

2007-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
configured or is performing slowly in your situation. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About root user rights

2007-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
access to the machine. It's perhaps possible to create an encrypted file which you'd mount via mdconfig -t vnode -f _file_ once you've supplied another password... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: postfix and greylisting

2007-03-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
, confidential information x-d out. You want to whitelist the bank's mailserver by name and/or IP. The file you'd change is: /usr/local/etc/postfix/postgrey_whitelist_clients.local ...I believe. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: awk question

2007-03-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
. Putting it through pkg_delete (-f) might be safer. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Digital Nation Radio Show

2007-03-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
memory will help, of course, if you are running a GUI or lots of services. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fw: FIN_WAIT_2

2007-02-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
used ones, and rely on dynamic rules only for ad-hoc internal traffic, and not for inbound client requests. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: cron mystery

2007-02-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
the hour the hourly job came back. Is it the HOME variable or the act of rewriting? User did have home defined in /etc/passwd. I suspect that $HOME isn't being defined as one might expect-- cron provides a very minimal shell environment for scripts it runs. -- -Chuck

Re: Using source control to manage system configs

2007-02-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
into version control, as a backup and as a way of tracking significant changes, being able to rollback or merge changes, and so forth that you get from SCM/VCS. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: compiling always generates fast code?

2007-02-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
you obtain significant gains by using non-default optimizations, because the answer generally varies in different situations and on different CPU types. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Transparent redirect to another interface ?

2007-02-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
tree... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Transparent redirect to another interface ?

2007-02-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
of the other interface, but it's unlikely to result in much benefit. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PF slowing down file copies

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
is in charge of NATing, but I can reach the other network, and the copy just works. Perhaps try commenting out your scrub in line, and see whether PF's re-writing of the packets is screwing something up -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Ultrium 448 Tape Drive

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
systems, but I have a mild preference for (s)DLT. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
that are not as expected... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which file to request SIOCGIFMAC on?

2007-02-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
, your current approach is reasonable (assuming you can fix whatever the problem is); if you're targetting other platforms such FreeBSD 4, Dfly, OS X, or SysV things like Solaris, try installing the libnet port and invoke libnet_get_hwaddr(). -- -Chuck

Re: Which file to request SIOCGIFMAC on?

2007-02-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
the socket it opens because i can't find where it uses the maclabel_status function. Well, you could always invoke and parse the output of ifconfig (or arp), but I can understand wanting to get the information directly without frobbing external programs. :-) -- -Chuck

Re: Invisible process killing the CPU

2007-02-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
time and look at what's consuming the most... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Managed Switch Implementation

2007-02-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
to 1 port internally. You can implement port mirroring via the existing bridge capabilities. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Request for FreeBSD 2007 DST patch

2007-02-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
port to get the updated tzdata files from the master FTP site, which is here: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

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