Re: BSDPAN

2003-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
is subclass some of the ExtUtils modules to add some glue between the ports/pkg system and CPAN, so you can use the pkg_* tools on perl modules and so forth. Although generally I find it's preferable to use the perl modules available in the ports tree whenever available, as portupgrade(1)

Re: Call me stupid...

2003-11-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
that without good reason. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614

Re: Installation problems-Fatal trap 12 error

2003-11-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
en I'd strongly advise you to start by installing 4.9-RELEASE -- remember that the 5.x versions are still "New Technology" releases and not yet suitable for production use. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddock

Re: Can I bakup like this...?? <--user mode Reuben?

2003-11-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
kups available. Now, you could just run two backups every night onto separate sets of media, but that's really far too expensive, so generally people will opt for having several sets of backup media and cycling through them. Maybe the tape drive shredded your backup tape from last night, but

Re: Which webmail

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Faircliff
Hello, Me too. Squirrelmail using courier IMAP does the trick nicely. And fast too! Matt. On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:34:36PM +, Jake Stride wrote: Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:34:36 + To: "Vince Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Jake Stride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552)

Re: hostnames and interfaces

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
In summary the whole relationship between host and domain names and IP numbers is defined by whatever works for you... Cheers, Matthew [1] There was for a long time a confusion between the NIS domain name and DNS based names, especially on Solaris machines. However NIS and DNS are sepa

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
here, read about the two essential packages for managing your system: cvsup(1) and portupgrade(1) (use http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi if you haven't already installed those ports) and then congratulate yourself in choosing (IMHO) the most maintainable computer system available bar none.

Re: Downgrading from current to release or stable?

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
just re-install 4.9-STABLE from scratch. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks.

Re: Staying current with 4.9 - which supfile?

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
obby user, or for someone's workaday desktop machine. 4.9-RELEASE is what I'd recommend for a critical server that absolutely has to keep running 24x7. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: Staying current with 4.9 - which supfile?

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
hese questions sound dumb, but I didn't find any > comprehensive explanation about the differences between > stable/current/release/standard) This is all documented on the http://www.freebsd.org/ site and it's been discussed ad nauseam on various mailing lists. Try reading the &#x

Re: Static IP and fully qualified domain names

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
sh to you, I recommend getting hold of the Cricket book: "DNS and BIND", 4th Ed, P. Albitz and C. Liu, O'Reilly and associates, Sebastopol, CA. ISBN 0-596-00158-4 which will explain things with extreme lucidity. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Ph

Re: Perl configuration

2003-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
well as installing the updated version of perl. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Te

Re: name server on alternate port

2003-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
ce 12.34.56.78 port 53; (Nb. you can change the port number that bind uses in the 'listen-on' statement but as I said above, there's not a great deal of use in doing that) See file:///usr/local/share/doc/bind9/arm/Bv9ARM.html for details. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
FreeBSD is often via installing the system) but not up to the general professional standard of the system as a whole. Think of sysinstall as like the "training wheels" you had when you were trying to learn to ride a bike as a kid. Of course, my word is not law, and if sysinstall does w

Re: pidentd troubles

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
h -r -f -n -o UNKNOWN -t 30 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614

Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
hg /path/to/a/file should achieve the effect you desire. Although this will cause any write on the file to just fail, rather than causing P(u) to block waiting for a lock. You could try replacing /path/to/a/file with a fifo (see mkfifo(1)), and maybe hang another process on the other end of the fifo

Re: advice needed on creating hmtl docs?

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
imal HTML. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., S

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
behaves just like /bin/kill in this case. sh(1) and bash(1) seem not to use a built-in. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracanino

Re: Quick Mailing List Solution

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
ailing-list: :include: /etc/mail/my-mailing-list.entries Then list the addresses to send to one per line in that file. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: h

Re: i have linux mandrake

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
oc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/index.html for more details. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marl

Re: Resizing disk labels

2003-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
ons. If you take care to keep the partitions in the same order as before, you should be able to restore your the back-ups of your previous setup onto the re-partitioned drive without difficulty. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Questions on Setting up new Freebsd 4.9 NAT Firewall

2003-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
he box to doing NAT+packet filtering, you don't need much in the way of horsepower at all to cope with the sort of traffic levels you can get on a cable modem connection. An old pentium with a couple of good NICs should be able to cope. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Sea

Re: backup drive bootabel

2003-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
what esle can I check here? The disk geometry won't make any difference to the boot block. fdisk(8) will read in the current partition table and give you the opportunity to modify things, but don't do that unless you really do intend to wipe the disk contents.

Re: Managing passwd files outside /etc

2003-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
ing about SASL will pay dividends here. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614

Re: winxp hidden BSD license

2003-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
?kbid=306819 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 B

Re: crontab

2003-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
If you use precisely those file names, the log files will be automatically cycled by newsyslog(8). Refer to /etc/defaults/periodic.conf for all the other stuff you can modify. /etc/periodic.conf has exactly the same relation to /etc/defaults/periodic.conf as /etc/rc.conf does to /etc/default

Re: Wifi ipsec freebsd

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Faircliff
were encrypted (tcpdump reveals all) and everything else (broadcast included) was still in the clear. Your guide has helped explain this. Well done on a structured, concise article. Matthew Faircliff On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:25:34AM -0800, Timothy Ham wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:25:34

Re: Arplookup error.

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
setups nowadays. You can turn off some types of warning by: # sysctl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0 # sysctl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements=0 Use sysctl.conf(5) to have those values set automatically on reboot. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew

Re: Starting new entries in /etc/rc.conf

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
f DTR on the console. There's an equivalent thing you can do on the netras and other small kit that doesn't have a key as such -- I think it's just setting an environment variable in the OBP stuff. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman M

Re: netra t1

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
This also makes 5.x rather less suitable for FreeBSD beginners. The soon to be released version 5.2 (due early in December) should be yet another leap in stability and performance. That release might be most appropriate for the OP if he's willing to wait for it. Cheers,

Re: results of compiling with -lmysqlclient

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
ght work, but chances are various stuff will fail in inexplicable ways. The only real cures are either to keep multiple ABI versions of shlibs around, or to recompile everything that uses that shlib. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman

Re: results of compiling with -lmysqlclient

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:39:28AM -0800, Lee Mx wrote: > THanks a lot, Matthew. I assumed as much. I think I am going to start > backing up some of my more frequent libs > to a compat directory. That seems to be the least bad solution. Note that portupgrade(1) and pkg_deinstall(1

Re: Adding users...

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
d.apache.org/docs-2.0/urlmapping.html#user Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614

Re: Cannot perform make install

2003-11-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
# find /usr/ports -type f -name README.html -exec rm {} \; Pedants may also prefer: # find /usr/ports -type f -name README.html -print | xargs rm which will save you about 9000 invocations of rm given a ports tree fully populated with README.html files. Cheers, Matthew --

Re: not found...

2003-11-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/09/18/FreeBSD_Basics.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: Problem Booting (Bad Super Block)

2003-11-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
der 5.x -- there have been changes to the superblock format in UFS1 between 4.x and 5.x: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=54884 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: freebsd 4.8-STABLE hangs on boot with no error message

2003-11-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
image available on the drive (/kernel would be good, or /kernel.old or /kernel.GENERIC). If necessary try copying the kernel image from the CD. Once you've got that far, try booting again from your hard drive. Once you've got the system booting up again, then going

Re: named (bind) in jail does not start

2003-11-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
53; }; There are equivalent IPv6 statements if you're an IPv6 user. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
uldn't be standards compliant, so I'll keep quiet on the issue -- unless anyone really does have a burning desire to know how? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Sav

Re: php4...

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
ettings so you can't install it simultaneously with any of the other php4 or php5 ports. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracani

Re: Continued 4.9-5.x upgrade problems.

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
isted in SPEWS: http://www.openrbl.org/ip/216/118/91/17.htm http://www.openrbl.org/zones/SPEWS?216.118.91.17 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP:

Re: How to determine which distribution sets were installed

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
g'). See also pkg_version(1) for comparing the version numbers of what's installed with what's available in your ports tree. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: No reference to files ???

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
th the man command, all described faithfully in various man pages, but I'll leave it as an exercise for you to find them. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
ou can use the fully qualified [EMAIL PROTECTED] style if you want, or [EMAIL PROTECTED]). See aliases(5) for the syntax of the aliases file. virtusertable is just like genericstable except the columns are reversed and the e-mail address has to have an @... part: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: php4...

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
sing > up with my db hooks. Errr -- did you compile php4 with mysql and/or pg support? What does return? You may also need the PEAR DB abstraction layer: try installing the databases/pear-DB port. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seama

Re: Order of Creation of Partions

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
is is one of those conventions that practically has the force of law. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlo

Re: FAQ

2003-12-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
rg/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/floppies/kern.flp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/floppies/mfsroot.flp These contain exactly the same material as boot.flp but divided between two disk images. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Sea

Re: Compiling the kernel

2003-12-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
; date? No, what you describe is the new way. However, the old way still works for those that want to use it. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: ejecting a Zip disk using eject(1)

2003-12-01 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:13 am, DG wrote: > > > # eject afd0 > > > eject: No such file or directory > > > > I dont know the syntax expected but you probably should be doing: > > > > eject /dev/afd0 > > > > Regards, > > Jacob > > > I tried that too. The eject command accepts just the device name

Re: Can't mount UFS in KNOPPIX

2003-12-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
tem, then you may find the 2nd CD from the installation set useful -- it won't give you an X desktop, but it will make all of the important FS management tools available to you. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA

Re: Can't mount UFS in KNOPPIX

2003-12-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
that's all very well, but it doesn't help when the partition you want to mount is on the same machine where you're running Knoppix (or any of the other alternatives discussed). Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Why no FreeBSD ftp site in India?

2003-12-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
r of people, but they would have to be close enough together to interact. Cheers, Matthew Reply-To set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Wa

Re: rsync mirror

2003-12-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
you'll need it only if you're doing significant development work on FreeBSD itself, or if you will be acting as a mirror server providing sources for a reasonably large population of other FreeBSD users. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Adding a network card

2003-12-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
/run/dmesg.boot) to see if your card has been detected. Then adjust the network settings by editing /etc/rc.conf and either reboot or run ifconfig(8) manually to configure the new network interface. sysinstall(8) isn't the tool for thins job. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Mat

Re: Obtaining the unix o/s

2003-12-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
ompiled packages from the (except those packages where the license terms don't permit redistribution) and some source tar balls -- or you can obtain source code etc. via cvsup. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: IPSEC Tunnel Routing question

2003-12-05 Thread Matthew Faircliff
. Also, ensure that any firewall in A allows traffic from Building B to flow in and out router etc. HTH. Matthew Faircliff On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:50:08PM -0500, Tom Thompson wrote: Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:50:08 -0500 From: "Tom Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL P

Re: pppd

2003-12-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
time, try setting the kernel clcock date/time correctly using date(1), and then run 'adjkerntz -a' to set the CMOS clock from the kernel clock. Or you can set the CMOS clock from the BIOS setup screens. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: protecting loader

2003-12-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
rt of menu system or web-based interface which restricts what the user may do to a small subset of commands would be a good idea. As would booting from read-only media -- not having a writable hard drive in a machine does cramp the style of most attackers. Cheers, Matthew [1]

Re: Booting

2003-12-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.u

Re: pre-login massage.

2003-12-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
> > >From login.conf(5): > login_prompt string The login prompt given by login(1) Or just create /etc/issue -- it is supported under FreeBSD, just there's no default version supplied with the system. See gettytab(5) for more details. Cheers, Mat

Re: for understanding correctly -- Up-to-date - Upgread ..

2003-12-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
ak things without unpleasant consequences. Once you've got things built correctly and tested throughly, you can mount the /usr/src and /usr/obj directories from the build box onto your production server, and quickly reinstall ad reboot with minimum downt

Re: Resolution problems in x and CLI

2003-12-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
how to do this, but I'm sure someone here does. vidcontrol(1) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: ls and color

2003-12-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
mp; /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb -merge ${HOME}/.Xdefaults in your ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: htt

Re: Deinstalling questions....

2003-12-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
ompile system permits that (all autoconf based source packages do). Then compare what gets installed in there with what's in your /usr/local ports are your friend... trust the ports... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA,

Re: freebsd mount nwfs

2003-12-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
: # ifconfig fxp0 ipx 0x33A95AF6 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlo

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
refixes /usr/local or /usr/X11R6 -- means that all the binaries will appear in locations that are already on user paths, and dependent software packages will be able to find shared libraries to link against. But then again, it's your system and you can do what you like with

Re: List Failures

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
ndbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL Although messages should just be converted to plain text, rather than being bounced. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP

Re: kernel tcp connection logging

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
ization that the machines taken over by this worm generally get turned into zombie spam engines from hell... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http:/

Re: dd of mounted filesystem

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
ilesystem code will still probably throw a wobbly when it finds the disk contents have been changed out from underneath it. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Sa

Re: umounting /

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Hunt
ome (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s1e on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) mfs:20 on /tmp (mfs, asynchronous, local, nosuid) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) -- Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Salvage, like other forms of virtue, is http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * its own reward.

which one do i choose

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Sluiter
I would like to try out you OS but i'm not sure which files to download. I would like to make a cd installation possible, however i am quite confused. I have windows xp machine right now and was wondering what to download. can you help me? Matthew Sl

Re: which one do i choose

2003-12-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:34:01AM -0500, Matthew Sluiter wrote: > I would like to try out you OS but i'm not sure which files to download. I > would like to make a cd installation possible, however i am quite confused. > I have windows xp machine right now and was wondering wh

Re: Windows client - internet connection sharing

2003-12-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
them on the Internet side of the box and c) give potential attackers a lot more scope for finding an exploitable flaw. Most server software on Unix machines can be configured to bind to a subset of the available network interfaces. Cheers,

Re: Anonymous FTP

2003-12-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
ten description on how sysinstall set up > anonymous FTP? This is described in the ftpd(8) man page. The anonymous FTP behaviour requires that there be a "ftp" UID in the password file and is triggered by the remote user logging in as "anonymous" or "ftp".

Re: KDE, Gnome not coming down via cvsup

2003-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
ly they may transform into a real category, as happened to the 'dns' category fairly recently. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://w

Re: /proc directory

2003-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
which case, you don't mount it and do without the stuff that needs it to run. Note that mounting the /proc directory is only a risk in the eyes of the most utterly paranoid administrators. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: /proc directory

2003-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:09:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:12:18PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > Basically you mount it on your system, which lets a bunch of stuff > > work properly, and you then ignore it for ever more. Unless you&#

Re: How do I have sendmail forward emails from root...

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
l have the FQDN of the sending host as the RHS of the e-mail address. The answer is to add the names of all of the hosts that your smart host handles mail for to /etc/mail/local-host-names (one per line). Cheers, Matthew -- D

Re: Use of the BOOT.FLP floppy disk.

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
een around a while and been thoroughly debugged and is properly stable -- then you want 4.9-RELEASE. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracanin

Re: [Fwd: fixit.flp or fixit via "live filesystem" CD]

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
network management commands that usually live in /sbin, but not much else. That's really only just enough to patch the system and copy necessary data from a remote machine sufficient to boot up to single user mode and not a lot else. Once you've got to single user you've got the

Re: master.passwd -- securing

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
ashes (which means using MD5 rather than DES password hashes, and making sure that users choose passwords which aren't easy to guess). Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: Licensing issues

2003-12-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
erms, such as the GPL, but those do not impose any overly restrictive additional burdens on the user). Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks S

Re: EISA I/O port status error.panic: NMI indicates hardware failure

2003-12-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
y a whole new machine, if you're not interested in getting the screwdrivers out. If you do replace the CPU/Mobo make sure to replace the CPU heatsink and any fans -- you should monitor fan speeds and CPU temperature: a combination of the net/mrtg and sysutils/xmbmon ports does it for me.

Re: why do I need sendmail

2003-12-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
t your system and your e-mail address are appropriately registered in the DNS. Generally if you use the SMTP service from your provider, then this will not be a problem. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: Troubleshooting a Freeze

2003-12-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
sn't give you any clues as to how you can fix things, submit a PR with the traceback information and anything else pertinent, and see if any of the developers have any suggestions. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html explains all about kern

Re: backup drive bootabel

2003-12-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
ault auto boot process performed by the boot loader, unless you interrupt the boot process and change the device selection there manually. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: Initial install (packages vs. ports)

2003-12-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
ty directory. This works well if you have a decent amount of bandwith, and it avoids the 'adopt the ports tree into cvsup' problem as described in: http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#caniadopt http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#adopt Cheers,

Re: Sendmail in a jail

2003-12-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
o 127.0.0.1 in the jail, which is exactly how the MSP tries to communicate with the MTA process. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.

Re: DNS || sendmail? (or both?)

2003-12-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
ble: .thought.orgrelay:[%1.thought.org] Then just run 'make' in /etc/mail (Nb. mailertable support is in the default freebsd.mc config, so no config tweaking required.) (Nb.2 the [square brackets] suppress sendmail's looking up MX records when it tries to relay the messages.

Re: MUA's time out - Sendmail + SASL2 : "no shared cipher" and more...

2003-12-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
sing a self-signed cert generated according to these instructions: http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/other/cagreg.html and you may find this page useful, although using client certificates is possibly overkill (the standard LOGIN that OE uses should be sufficient): http://www.ofb.net/%7Ejheiss/s

Re: doc on make command

2003-12-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
ress beyond those introductory treatments is simply to study the way Makefiles are used in /usr/ports and /usr/src -- the files in /usr/share/mk and /usr/ports/Mk are where it's at. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: Routing to External IPs from Internal IPs

2003-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
d with a lease for a fixed address on that network. When all attempts to contact a DHCP server have failed, dhclient will try to validate the static lease, and if it succeeds, will use that lease until it is restarted. Che

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

2003-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
py or you can extract your drive and mount it in another machine. Let this be a lesson to you^Wyour friend not to be too hair triggered on the delete key... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: ipfw2

2003-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
the original poster was typing the rules in at the command prompt? In which case, simply use a few quote marks to stop the shell interfering: # ipfw add 1000 permit all from '192.168.1.1/24{3,5,9}' Or load the rules out of a file. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthe

Re: fbsd4.9 sendmail

2003-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
from fbsd box. You've changed the sendmail config just fine. What you need to do now is investigate why your machine isn't finding 'mail.domain.com' in the DNS. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: Straightening out perl

2003-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
installed anything under /usr/local/lib/perl5/{,site_perl/}5.6.1 in order to keep everything tidy -- that'll be pretty much every port with a p5- preffix, plus a few oddballs tike rrdtool, pdflib, ImageMagick -- judicious use of pkg_which(1) will help you there. Cheers,

Re: what is diff between pkg_delete & make deinstall

2003-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
he habit of installing multiple copies of ports/pkgs using different $PREFIX settings, that generally comes out to be the same thing. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Sav

Re: shutdown and reboot

2003-12-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
lly that command should tell you 'Filesystem clean' for all of the filesystems on your machine. You should then be able to type 'reboot' and the system will come up normally. However, this is just a guess and it could be something else wrong which needs different action in ord

Re: your mail

2003-12-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
here is a FreeBSD Power PC project, but it's nowhere near usable for ordinary mortals yet: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: identd in jailed 4.9-STABLE

2003-12-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
as address of 192.168.0.2 used by a jail, and you want inetd services in both, you would put: inetd_enable="YES" inetd_flags="-wW -a 192.168.0.1" in /etc/rc.conf on the host environment, and: inetd_enable="YES" inetd_flags="-wW -a 192.168.0.2&quo

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