NSS ``ls''.
Hi, I've been playing around with pam_ldap and nss_ldap on my server in an attempt to replace NIS with something more flexible (i.e. that can have Linux and Windows clients, distribute other data, etc.) but I keep getting stuck. I can login fine (which shows that pam_ldap and nss_ldap are working), I have passwd: ldap files, group: ldap files in my nsswitch.conf file. However, if I do ls -ld /home the uids/gids don't get resolved to real names: they get left as 4001, 4002, etc. I've read some stuff on Google Groups about ls not being statically linked and therefore not being able to do this. Fine. However, on one machines I can do ``id lewiz'', which won't work on another (with an identical setup). Why? Last thing seems to be that cvsweb also doesn't recognize that I am lewiz, it lists me as uid4001 (I notice it's a cgi-bin script, could it be because it's using statically linked binaries to get the file structure?) Thanks very much! -lewiz. -- God is not dead! He's alive and autographing bibles at Cody's -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Possible Exim/FreeBSD problem: ``non-sleepablelocks held''.
Hi, After my server died a few times (at the time I didn't write the messages down... I wanted it back up asap) I decided to recompile the kernel with debugging, which I have done. It's running 5.1-RELEASE (still devel(ish), I know) and I get the following message: Sleeping on sw read with the following non-sleepablelocks held: exclusive sleep mutex ifnet r = 0 (0xc03a0360) locked @ net/if.c: 1637 I get messages related to Exim on the console (I don't know why, since all logging for the console is disabled) and they are always followed by these messages. Exim seems to be running the queue. I don't know if this is even a problem (maybe it's normal), but I'd quite like to understand what the messages mean. Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty. -- Henrik Ibsen -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Telnet?
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 05:46:17PM +, Axl Rose wrote: does anybody know what u need to telnet to a freebsd . i have small network and can ping through all but no telnet or ftp ? As the last poster said, SSH is a better alternative but if you really must use telnet: Look at /etc/inetd.conf and uncomment the telnet entries. You must then ensure that inetd starts at system bootup (man rc.conf). Next reboot (or after you manually start inetd) you will be able to telnet in. Best wishes, -lewiz. -- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. -- Russell Baker -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
X screen.
Hi, Just a quick question: is it possible to ``screen'' an X application the same way I can a console application? I have heard people using VNC for something similar (I think). Any suggestions? This would also be really great if I could then ``resume'' it on a different X box too ;) Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- Baker's First Law of Federal Geometry: A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by governors. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /var/run/ pid files
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:40:52AM -0400, Ronny Hippler wrote: What controls the creation of the pid files in the /var/run/ directory? afaik, sometimes you have to create them yourself. Some programmes don't have an option to create one. This can be done easily using a combination of ps, grep and awk ;) There's probably a more professional way of doing it, but I don't know (I'd be interested to hear though ;) Best wishes, -lewiz. -- I didn't like the play, but I saw it under adverse conditions. The curtain was up. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BitTorrent for Freebsd??
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:30:48AM -0400, Dragoncrest wrote: the Ports cause if it is, I certainly haven't found it yet. I'd like to cd /usr/ports make search key=bittorrent will help you ;) Best wishes, -lewiz. -- An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dialup + virtual users
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:43:16AM +0400, VirVit wrote: Hello! What way should I choose to setup dialup with virtual users? I need users dialuped to my server so they can see only some services (dns, http, ftp) and that's all. No shell, no login, no smb, etc... Well, I'd take a look at RADIUS or LDAP. I'm not sure how they'd work but they both provide a way of creating ``virtual'' users (but then, what is a virtual user anyway if they can login?) Hope that's some help, -lewiz. -- Celebrate Hannibal Day this year. Take an elephant to lunch. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Linux Debian Base?
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:29:56AM -0400, Person, Roderick wrote: I see that there is a Debian Linux Base in the ports. I can't seem to find any details on the Debian base and the differences between the current RH7 and RH6. I was wondering what are the precieved benefits if any are. I don't know specifically but I've noticed there has been some discussion in the Ports mailing list. Maybe you could have a look at Google Groups :) Best wishes, -lewiz. -- -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GNOME/CUPS printing.
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 19:50, Glenn Johnson wrote: If you do have it installed then you may want to uninstall it then reinstall a make world might have wiped it out. The cups-lpr port will install its binaries in /usr/local and is _not_ wiped out by a 'make world'. You just have to remember to use /usr/local/bin/lpr rather than /usr/bin/lpr. Setting the PATH so that /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin is first is an easy way to solve the problem. Okay, sorry I'm so late replying here (I've been quite busy :) but I think this may be the issue I'm having. I've been reading through the libgnomeprint files in /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/libgnomeprint but I don't think I should be editing those. Is there any way I can set a default location to lpr (other than with symlinks or by changing the PATH), much like, for instance, the /etc/mail/mailer.conf file works? Thanks very much, Best wishes, -lewiz. -- -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
GNOME/CUPS printing.
Hi, I know this is slightly off-topic (I've tried asking in #GNOME on FreeNode) but does anybody here use GNOME and CUPS for printing? I've got my printers setup nicely from CUPS (I can print test pages, etc.) but when I try and print from GNOME they are not listed. Some searching on Google Groups shows that this integration was planned, but I've been unable to determine if it's been done (an early post said it would probably be around for GNOME2.2) and how to use it. Any help on getting GNOME to print to local CUPS printers would be great. Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question on /etc/make.conf for upgrade to 4.8R
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 02:52:41AM -0700, Lin Jianfong wrote: I'm wondering about this group of options : # To avoid building various parts of the base system: #NO_CVS= true # do not build CVS #NO_BIND= true # do not build BIND ... #NOSHARE= true # do not go into the share subdir #NOUUCP= true # do not build uucp related programs Aren't some of the parts of the base system supposed to be upgraded along, such as tcsh, bind, cvs, lpr, etc or are they not really part of the base system ? I'm planning to upgrade a 4.7 box to 4.8. Yes. As I understand it, however, you can still not build some of them, which would be useful if you're not using that service. For example: many people won't be using BIND on their box. Some people use bash, or korn shells and therefore csh/tcsh are redundant. Hope that helps, -lewiz. -- There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. -- Oscar Wilde -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hi FreeBSD forum's Champs
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 05:56:31PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xwd -window image.xwd I also want to convert this default format (xwd) to X window bitmap, X window Pixmap. I always use The GIMP for my image needs (graphics/gimp or graphics/gimp-devel). However, for regular conversions you could use ImageMagick (graphics/ImageMagick) -- you'll have to do some extensive man page reading though, it's a bit more complicated than click-n-point. Best wishes, -lewiz. -- Expense Accounts, n.: Corporate food stamps. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to question: create mp3 from music video mpeg file?
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 10:44:41AM -0400, Michael E. Mercer wrote: I want to extract the audio from a few music videos (mpg,avi) I have and create mp3's from them. However I just can seem to find out how to do Well, a quick look at the mplayer man page found: -oac codec name Encode with the given audio codec. Use -ovc help to get a list of available codecs. (no default set) EXAMPLE: -oac copy no encoding, just streamcopy -oac pcmencode to uncompressed PCM -oac mp3lameencode to MP3 (using Lame) That sounds like what you want. You can find mplayer in multimedia/mplayer in the ports. Best wishes, -lewiz. -- We can defeat gravity. The problem is the paperwork involved. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: printer
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 05:58:32PM +0300, ZaiD Dashti wrote: how to setup printer HP ? (Note: my printer on the another computer in my network (LAN)) I like to use apsfilter (print/apsfilter) for all my printing needs. There are other solutions available (you might even look at CUPS (print/cups)) but I find apsfilter suits my needs. It can print to both remote Windows hosts and remote JetDirect-style hosts (which would suit your needs, I think). Hope that's some help, -lewiz. -- Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: E-Mail Proxy?
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:49:54AM -0400, Justin P. Michel wrote: Is this possible/feasible? And, which ports should I be looking at? Even better, if there is a web page with setup info from someone that has already done this, please forward me the URL. Absolutely, I do this using regular MTA/MDA software. mail/fetchmail is the obvious -- this retrieves mail from remote POP/IMAP (lots of variants) servers and can do many things from there. I have it reinject the messages to a local SMTP server, which is considered to treat the domains as local (this also means that somebody sending mail to a local recipient does not have the mail travel over the Internet in order to be received). Exim or Postfix are good choices, although stock Sendmail will also do the job. One note: you must have a local account for each and every user (I assume you already have this if you are using SAMBA). You could also use LDAP (with Exim and Postfix, at any rate) instead. The next issue is the POP/IMAP servers: I use Courier-IMAP (which provides both POP and IMAP, with optional SSL) -- this is much better than WU IMAPd -- it supports both Maildir and mbox, as well as having a smaller footprint. It is also more configurable (again, LDAP is supported). Hope that's some help, -lewiz. P.S. A final note: if the remote MUA (e.g. Outlook) is not configured to leave mail on server you will not have the backup of mail that you desire. This can be configured, but a better solution would be to use IMAP, where all mail is left on server. -- Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: IMAP stealing mail??
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:33:40PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote: squirrelmail on my webserver. Once I grab my mail using one of these webmail clients it's as if it's actually popping the mail from the mailserver instead of just imapping it so when i go to my desktop mail client it says I have no mail yet unless I have not used the webmail Just a guess but are you sure by ``no mail'' it doesn't mean ``no new mail''? If you read new mail via WWW it would change the flags and indicate the mail had been read. Best wishes, -lewiz. -- Keep grandma off the streets -- legalize bingo. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Spam and ad/popup blockers: Recommendations please
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:05:43PM -0400, Doug Lee wrote: I seek a good system (or systems) for filtering out mail spam, email viruses, and web pop-up ads and such at our FreeBSD Internet gateway. For adverts I run Squid with adzap (in the ports). I find it pretty good, although I find the pop-up support a little less advanced. The email situation is different (since not everybody runs the same MTA (although /almost/ all people running proxies I know do use squid)) and depends heavily on your MTA. I have tried quite a few (although for very low volume) and am now settled on Exim (althogh Postfix would suit my needs just as well). Whatever you do (imho) do /not/ use Courier, because it is slightly pedantic about standards. I run Exim with Julian Page's MailScanner (http://mailscanner.info/), which I find suits my purposes nicely. It supports many virus scanners and uses SpamAssassin for spam checks (SpamAssassin also supports Bayesian filtering). You can use more than one virus scanner, too. If you're using Qmail, there is the excellent Qmail-scanner, which does a similar job. MailScanner will also work with Qmail, though, and I like the way it works. Postfix and Sendmail are also supported. Another cross-MTA scanner is amavis (incld. amavis, amavisd and amavisd-new -- who knows which to pick?). SpamAssassian can either add headers to ``considered spam mails'' and you can filter them on a per-user basis with procmail (or even allow the user to do it from the MUA -- possibly changing the Subject instead of the header), or just delete the mail. mailscanner Weee! Spam Assassin Used by MailScanner. Vipul's Razor (the razor-agents port) See above. 2. Minimal upkeep time required from admin. Since setup I've not had to look at MailScanner (or adzap) again. 3. Simplicity of use by user (users can mail spam to an address I set up so it's flagged as spam, but I don't want users to have to know a lot of tech stuff like procmail just to filter spam). You could easily do something yourself to create a procmailrc, or just provide a stock one, and allow more advanced users to modify it, if they wish. Virus protection at the gateway is a lower priority since we protect individual computers, but it wouldn't hurt. For mail it's more important to do it at the gateway, I would have thought. Especially where Outlook is concerned... :) Best wishes, -lewiz. -- Don't feed the bats tonight. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Spam and ad/popup blockers: Recommendations please
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:16:46PM -0400, Doug Lee wrote: Oops, I meant to mention I use sendmail for my MTA but sometimes consider switching to Postfix for ease of maintenance. Well, MailScanner works well with Sendmail. You run two copies (one in, one out) -- in fact, that's how Postfix runs it too. It sounds quite a kludge, but I really think it's quite elegant. A design feature is that scanning gets more efficient as the volume of messages goes up -- many other scanners degrade in efficiency. Best wishes, -lewiz. -- Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. -- Lily Tomlin -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: openldap ssh problem
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:49:33PM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: Am I missing anything Yes. You need to look at nss_ldap ;) Be aware that for some reason the ldap.conf file resides in /etc not /usr/local/etc. Also, I found that my nsswitch.conf only worked if it was: passwd: ldap files group: ldap files (i.e. not files ldap). ymmv. Best wishes, -lewiz. -- A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: openldap ssh problem
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:31:45PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:16:30AM +0100, lewiz wrote: Yes. You need to look at nss_ldap ;) I would love to -- on 4.8 STABLE. When I last looked at nss_ldap on FreeBSD, I thought it only runs on 5.x. Ah. Sorry, I just missed that. In which case, as I understand it, pam_ldap is of little use to you... I've just upgraded my server to 5.1 for that very reason. Sorry to confuse the issue. -lewiz. -- I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. -- Fred Allen -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: IPSec to Windows 9x, 2k and XP
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 02:55:34PM -0700, Kevin Glick wrote: Just wondering if anybody has gotten FreeBSD's IPSec working with any version of Windows. I'd love to see the config's if you've got them. Yeah, I had it a while ago, but it was just for playing with, not for any serious use, so sorry, I don't have the configs anymore. I've looked for some How-To documents, but haven't come up with much. A quick Google for ``ipsec windows freebsd'' came up with: http://www.wiretapped.net/~fyre/ipsec/ -- this looks rather comprehensive, it's not the guide I followed, however. I'm not sure what I'd need to get it to work with 9x. Any takers? I'm not certain, but I don't know that it's possible with anything pre-2000. Best wishes, -lewiz. -- Don't get suckered in by the comments -- they can be terribly misleading. Debug only code. -- Dave Storer -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: make buildworld .. 4.5 to 4.8
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:16:12PM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote: Is it safe to do the mergemaster/makebuildworld etc. operation on it to bring it from 4.5 to 4.8 in one step ? I can't vouch for having done it but technically it is absolutely possible and I doubt you would run into any serious trouble. If you're really worried about upgrading between more than one minor release you could always try incrementing, which will work for sure. It seems a rather silly way to do it though. Best wishes, -lewiz. -- Alas, I am dying beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, as he sipped champagne on his deathbed -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ATI-Radeon-9000
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:03:46PM -0700, cloper wrote: I have a Dell Latitude D600 Laptop with the ATI Radeon 9000 video chipset, with FreeBSD-4.8 w/ XFree86-4.3, yet I still can not get X to I've had it working with an AIW 7200 before now. It was just a stock setup, very straightforward. I don't know if there's much difference between the 9000 and the 7200. Have you tried using an older driver? Best wishes, -lewiz. -- Never count your chickens before they rip your lips off -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Lexmark
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:33:47PM +0200, Per Nilsson wrote: for it, with a printer and a scanner. The name on that unit is 'Lexmark x75' and you can read about it at: I have an X85. Now I was wondering if FreeBSD 4.7 or higher support that Lexmark in any way, and where I can get software that works on it?! Absolutely, I've had mine working. I always use apsfilter for printers (it's under print/apsfilter in the ports). If your model is also a scanner, you should be taking a look at SANE. A quick Google will return lots of info. Best wishes, -lewiz. -- A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Restricting logins by terminal
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:14:06PM -0400, Charley wrote: I would like to restrict user login based on the terminal where the login request originates. Ideally, I want Root, and ONLY Root, to be able to log in at the console. The system is already running SSHD, so I want to be able That's more than possible. Take a look at /etc/login.access and /etc/login.conf. In login.access a simple: -:ALL EXCEPT root # taken from the examples near the end (which actual use groups) should do the trick. to check logins via SSH. Root should not be allowed to log in from a remote That's all defined in your sshd config (by default root cannot login via sshd). If you're really paranoid, the second example in login.access: -:root:ALL EXCEPT LOCAL # instead of considering root, the ``wheel'' group might be better. terminal and SU should be disabled for any remote terminal. Is there By default, only members of the wheel group can su to root. something in the ports collection that I've missed that will do this? Maybe I'm just blind and haven't yet seen something like this in the manual. Well, I don't know exactly what you want to do... but ``su'' is setuid root, so you could unset that and use the ``sudo'' command. Take a look at security/sudo in the ports collection. That'd be quite contrived though. Best wishes, -lewiz. P.S. Some of my examples might not work -- I didn't test them and I'm shocking for getting things to work first time. -- Why was I born with such contemporaries? -- Oscar Wilde -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
colorized tail.
Hi, I've seen a few people that have tail outputs on their desktop (root window) all nice, transparent and even colorized. I've found roottail which does the basics (tail -f's a log straight to the rootwindow), but I wanted to know how I could colorize the output? I've seen colortail, but the only way to get this to work is using an aterm, etc. Is there anything like a colorroottail in existence? Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- [Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -- Winston Churchill -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Compile fails (-lexpat).
Hi,
I'm trying to compile a programme called ``Dasher'' from source, which
requires Expat (which I do have installed according to pkg_info and
ldconfig -rv). However, it fails when I configure it:
sh configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local
with:
checking for XML_Parse in -lexpat... no
configure: error: Expat library not found.
the config.log shows:
configure:6789: cc -o conftest -O2 -pipe -march=pentiumpro
conftest.c -lexpat 5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat
configure:6792: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
#line 6764 configure
#include confdefs.h
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern C
#endif
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.
char XML_Parse ();
#ifdef F77_DUMMY_MAIN
# ifdef __cplusplus
extern C
# endif
int F77_DUMMY_MAIN() { return 1; }
#endif
int
main ()
{
XML_Parse ();
;
return 0;
}
configure:6809: result: no
configure:6819: error: Expat library not found.
I hope somebody might be able to help with this problem :) Sorry if
it's something really silly (I have never fully understood ld, ldconfig
and libraries). Thanks very much,
-lewiz.
--
Don't cook tonight -- starve a rat today!
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Eterm / imlib2 / image loaders.
Hi, I've just tried to install Eterm so I can use Esetroot for images, etc. However, I was getting messages and decided to try Eterm -- at which point I get: Eterm: Error: Unable to load image file bar_horizontal_1.png -- No loader available for that file format I get quite a few, but they're all the same with different image names. A bit of Googling helped me locate this to imlib2, which I rebuilt until I discovered the image handlers were ripped out, or something. I then installed graphics/imlib2_loaders, which has extra image loader plugins. I've rebuilt everything and it still doesn't work. In /usr/X11R6/lib/loaders/image I have plenty of .so files (I actually don't believe that imlib2_loaders provided the ones I required (the pkg-plist doesn't include jpeg)). Anybody with any ideas? It's getting a bit frustrating now... -lewiz. -- If God had wanted you to go around nude, He would have given you bigger hands. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Variable NFS mounts / firewall rules.
Hi, I have recently gotten around to setting up my laptop to play nicely with dhclient (not as easy as it sounds). I have a number of questions I should like to ask. I am going to provide a brief rundown of what I would like to know, and more detail, for those interested. 1. Why does dhclient.conf ``ignore'' the media directive? 2. Can I have /different/ NFS mounts, depending on the IP address dhclient assigns to me? 3. Can I have /different/ firewall rules, depending on the IP address dhclient assigns to me? And now for the more through version: Firstly, even though I specify ``media media 10base2/BNC'' in the correct manner in the /etc/dhclient.conf file, why does dhclient fail to switch the media to the BNC port? I have been searching through the dhclient-script file to no avail and the documentation is light on this issue. I have overcome the issue by putting ``/sbin/ifconfig ep0 media 10base2/BNC'' in /etc/start_if.ep0. Secondly, having been playing with the ``new'' /etc/rc.d stuff in 5-RELEASE I have started to wonder how I might go about setting up a nicely roaming laptop. When I'm at home I am assigned a static IP by the DHCP server, which serves as a way of determining my current location (although, if by chance I were assigned the same address by another DHCP server, I would run into troubles). When at home I want to have certain NFS mounts available to me (say, /usr/ports/distfiles and /usr/home.nfs). When I am roaming and there is no assigned address, I have /usr/home.ufs, which I want symlinked to /home to allow me to login. I synchronize /usr/home.ufs with the NFS home periodically. I have a local user account that I log on with whilst away from home. Previously, I did this with a nasty hack in /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks (a bit of grepping and gawking did the job to get the current IP, I compared it to what I was expecting then mounted exports accordingly). However, now that I have IPFIREWALL enabled this does not work, as the firewall rules are loaded /after/ dhclient-exit-hooks are executed (default to deny means there is no connectivity -- btw, how does dhclient communicate?) This led me to a second issue: while I am away, I want much more stringent firewall rules (i.e. deny almost all, allow me to establish out and allow DNS UDP requests). My question is therefore: is it possible that I could write either a) a new script to go in /etc/rc.d to perform different NFS mounting based on my ``location'' (i.e. IP address -- unless anybody else can think of a better, more robust way to do this (maybe some server checksum?)); or b) modify an existing script (probably mountcritremote?) to include this functionality. Regardless of which method might be chosen: would I use /etc/rc.conf to specify the options, or provide a custom configuration file in /etc that the new script would use? Furthermore, can the rc.firewall script be modified (or passed an argument) that causes different firewall rules to be loaded depending on my ``location'' (i.e. IP address, again)? If anybody can provide any insight into this problem, preferably with an idea of which files I might go modifying (please!) then I would do my best to come up with some solution which might be of benefit to others in a similar situation (if it exists). Sorry for such a bulky mail, I couldn't really find how else to cut it down. Many thanks! -lewiz. -- Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. -- Dean McLaughlin. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Using pw adduser to set password in a script
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 07:12:49AM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: I'm attempting to use pw adduser to add a new user to the system and would like confirmation that the following is the correct way to set the user's password at the same time: echo password | \ pw adduser -q -h - -u user -g group -s shell -d /home/user -c comment I usually just add a user with pw, then use passwd to set a password. That might be easier, not to mention looking (slightly) more elegant: pw adduser -q -u user -g group -s shell -d /home/user -c comment passwd user $passwd Can anyone also tell me the security implications of doing this, given that the command is executed from a within a script (actually php but this is more-or-less irrelevant)? I don't know, but I'd check how PHP does logging -- you really want to obfuscate your chosen method of setting the password, if it's gonna go down in the log... Sorry I can't help more, -lewiz. -- I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. -- Will Rogers -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Variable NFS mounts / firewall rules.
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:45:54AM -0400, Dan Pelleg wrote:
2. Use the automounter to mount NFS volumes on-demand. This way you will
not have to worry about mounting until you actually need to access the
volume. See amd(8).
That's a good idea I didn't think off :) I messed with amd(8) once
before and ran into trouble. I can see in this case it would be ideal,
and shall have a go at getting it to play nicely.
3. ipfw supports the me keyword, to flexibly refer to your currently
assigned IP address.
Yes, I had looked at this. However, I was meaning trying to have a
solution where a different set of firewall rules would be started based
on the assigned IP address.
4. Just in case it might help you, here is my /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks:
# nothing to do unless we're bound
case ${reason} in
BOUND | RENEW | REBIND | REBOOT )
if [ -n ${new_domain_name_servers} ]; then
if [ -z ${old_domain_name_servers} ] || [ x${old_ip_address} !=
x{$new_ip_address} ]; then
[ -x /etc/refresh-named ] /etc/refresh-named
${new_domain_name_servers}
[ -x /etc/set-time ] /etc/set-time
fi
fi
;;
esac
Yeah, I think I can see that this might even be a good place to
start/stop (stop if required, I haven't read amd(8) yet) amd from.
Also, I can set my symlinks in case the reason is not one of yours
listed.
5. You can further run ifconfig commands in /etc/start_if.INTERFACE NAME
(for example /etc/start_if.fxp0 ).
I use start_if.ep0 to set the media for my network card. Does this get
re sourced after dhclient has done it's magic? I was under the
assumption that it got executed /before/ dhclient, and would therefore
be of little use to set variables based on the output of dhclient... ?
Many thanks! You've given me some excellent ideas. I'll tell you how
I fare.
-lewiz.
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Re: Variable NFS mounts / firewall rules.
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:45:54AM -0400, Dan Pelleg wrote: 1. http://www.freebsd-support.de/misc/setnetparm/ I've never had the chance to use it myself, but it might help. I've checked this out briefly and it's geared more towards static setups, but I think DHCP can be configured to pretty much do everything this does (assuming I have control over each and every DHCP server... :) Again, thanks very much, -lewiz. -- If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. -- Benjamin Disraeli -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
splash_bmp_load problems.
Hi, This might seem a bit of a silly question to be asking. It's a bit pointless really but I can't figure out why it shouldn't work. I tried setting a 800x600 256 color bitmap as my splash bmp. The same bitmap works just fine on another machine (that isn't a laptop). Basically, while the modules are all loaded nicely I get a squashed and repeated image in the upper section of the screen. It's no more than 1/5th of the screen's height and it's repeated horizontally about four or five times. Any idea what might cause this? My /boot/loader.conf reads: bitmap_load=NO bitmap_name=/boot/splash.pcx splash_pcx_load=NO I have the VESA compiled into my kernel for the 800x600 mode (I also had the same problem with a smaller bitmap. PCX files result in the same problem also). Many thanks, -lewiz. -- However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner ... sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg15369/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CD to MP3
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:36:47AM -0800, Dave McCoy wrote: I have been looking for an easy way to convert music cds to mp3 files. The ports collection hasn't been much help on this subject. Does anyone know of a plug-in for xmms or an easy utililty to acomplish this. Many people have replied saying you could try writing a script. I use ``abcde'' (/usr/ports/audio/abcde) and it is an excellent script. It supports CDDB, numerous different rippers and many encoders (oggenc, lame, etc.) Of course, M3U playlists are also supported and it can do almost everything that grip can only without the unnecessary GUI. Hope that's some help. -lewiz. -- Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. -- Henry David Thoreau --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg15232/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: kazaa on bsd
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:03:29PM -0500, Adam Stroud wrote: The Kazaa client for Linux was discontinued. There is however a client for Linux that uses the Fast Track network. I forget the name of it, but I am usre that it can be found on sourceforge.net. It took some configuration and time, but I did have it running at one point. It seems to me that the name was gIFT Maybe? This is correct, yes. giFT is a client for the OpenFT network -- this is not the same one that KaZaA uses and there are not that many people using the OpenFT network so it's hard to find anything of any use. Anybody with any other information on FT clients? -lewiz. -- Love cannot be much younger than the lust for murder. -- Sigmund Freud --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14964/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: kazaa on bsd
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:05:47AM -0500, Adam Maas wrote: Kazaa for Linux undr Linux emulation? This is very interesting. I remember reading about the Linux client some time ago but when I searched I found little. It seemed that KaZaA had discontinued the Linux client. Do you have any more details (or even a copy of the original Linux client)? Many thanks, -lewiz. -- Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. -- Alan J. Perlis --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14865/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dhclient - no DHCPOFFERS received.
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:05:03PM -0600, Robin Damm wrote: I'm assuming the client eventually obtains a lease. Actually, this was the odd thing. It didn't obtain a new lease at bootup -- it actually used a cached lease (ie, couldn't contact the DHCP server but fell back to what it usually used). Does the problem persist if you manually release/renew the IP? # dhclient -r # dhclient ep0 A cache problem perhaps? If I did this after it used the cached lease it actually started talking to the DHCP server, so, yes, you were correct here. I've actually solved the problem now. I can't understand quite what I'd done wrong (because it was working earlier). For some reason I hadn't changed the default media for the if from 10baseT/UTP to 10base2/BNC -- although it should have done so in the startup scripts. Instead, I've now got /sbin/ifconfig ep0 media 10base2/BNC in /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks, which gets executed _before_ dhclient starts searching. It all works fine now. Sorry for bothering everybody, it might have been a mistake on my part. -lewiz. -- Absent, adj.: Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14625/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
squid offline_mode.
Hi, This might be a bit off-topic (I know there are squid mailing lists, but I've as of yet been unsuccessful in signing up) but I'm hoping somebody might have an idea. I have been attempting to use the offline_mode (I have offline_mode on in my squid.conf) when my PPP connection is offline (thus allowing me to view cached webpages without causing PPP to dial). However, this appears to make no difference and I get the regular DNS-type error message. Any help on this would be much appreciated. I am running squid-2.5_1, compiled today from ports. Many thanks, -lewiz. -- Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14633/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
dhclient - no DHCPOFFERS received.
Hi, Just recently I've found my laptop has been taking a while to obtain a lease. I turned on all logging to the console and found the following (modified a bit): dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on ep0 to 255.255.255.255.0 port 67 dhclient: Trying media media 10base2/BNC 1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ep0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 At this point a series of ``Trying media...'' and ``DHCPDISCOVERER'' are repeated (only the interval changed - 6, 12, 14, 18 then 6). dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.. dhclient: Trying recorder lease 192.168.0.10 It looks to me like the DHCP server is not responding. Is this the case? I've verified that the DHCP server is working (another machine has no problems obtaining a lease). Any ideas? -lewiz. -- Better dead than mellow. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14471/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Slow local logins when YP/NIS server unavailable.
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:57:03PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: If you set the laptop up as a NIS backup server, you'll be able to log in just fine, even when not connected to the network. It should circumvent the delays, as you'll have everything the login system is looking for. Yeah, I'd considered this myself and was going to implement it but after mentioning it in FreeBSD-mobile I got response saying it was a bit overkill (which, it would have been). Right now I've just got that code commented out in my login.c. The comment above the code says something along the lines of ``PAM may allocate more groups'' - I think that means that it provides the membership to all of the required groups. For me (at the moment) this is not an issue so I have now just compiled with that code disabled. It works perfectly but I really want to know what it's doing exactly, and whether it _should_ be causing a hang. Many thanks for your response, -lewiz. -- Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14300/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Working around problems when an NFS server dies / is unavailable.
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:52:48PM -0800, richard childers / kg6hac wrote:
I seem to recall a 'nomount' option in fstab(5), the manual page that
describes the contents of the /etc/fstab ('filesystem table') file.
That plus amd(8) should, in theory, get you a relatively stateless NFS
connection.
I must admit, I've never worked with amd but it may be worth a try -- it
can't be any worse than the situation I'm in at the moment. Thanks for
bringing it to my attention ;)
I've had some success using 'umount -f' to forcibly umount NFS filesystems,
from the client side, in the past.
This surprised me. I had assumed a forced umount would actually force
the umount, yet, it seems not to have done. I am confuzed as to what is
and what isn't a bug (often I'm screwing things up myself, I'm sure).
Do you think this would count as a bug? If other people have had
problems too, it almost suggests it might be.
However, NFS, while stateless in intent, is really not a good
infrastructural element for a plug-and-play network. Plugging in is easy;
unplugging may require an explicit shutdown to properly deallocate
resources.
Yeah, I'm starting to learn this now. I don't really know what else to
use. I've heard of CODA and even AFS but I don't know their suitability
to my purpose. I think I might do a bit more research then ask again on
this list.
Thanks for your information, I'll go read about amd ;)
-lewiz.
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Re: Jail
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 09:53:02PM +1100, Talon wrote: My question is how do i ping out from the inside of the jail after i have logged in. You cannot ping anywhere from inside a jail. You'll get ``ping: socket: Operation not permitted''. Don't ask me why, I just know it's the case ;) -lewiz. -- Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. -- Anatole France --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14302/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Jail
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:55:14PM +1100, Talon wrote: I still seem to have the prob with no rl0 interface in the jail .. and cannot make any outbound conection from inside the jail. Ahh, sorry. I missed this question. The way I have it setup is using NAT and a gateway. If you're using the same IP in the jail as your host environment you don't need the NAT -- just set the host up as a gateway and then in the jail add a default route pointing to the host. This way all traffic goes through the host. If you're using different IPs though you'll need to start using NAT to rewrite the packet headers. All of this stuff can be found in the handbook (although I doubt whether it mentions it specifically about jails). I am running ipf with default block from the kernel but allow all packets in and out from rl0 lo0 Is there a good doc on jail setup or troubleshooter on the www that anyone knows of ? Hope that's a bit more help, -lewiz. -- I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14304/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Selecting a specific list of ports to update
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:57:36PM -0500, Daniel Goepp wrote: Yes, I have been through all that, and I do right now just do a couple of the specific branches, but even that is more than I really want. I'm talking about being able to do something like ports-security-openssl ports-security-openssh ports-net-bind9 ports-mail-postfix ports-www-apache13 The only way I know of doing this involves an ignore file. It'd be pretty complicated though. -lewiz. -- Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. -- Plato --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14329/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
broken xterm.
Hi, For some reason my xterm seems to have broken. I'm sure it was working perfectly well earlier on today but now I can't run xterm without it disappearing/closing. It doesn't even show up in a ps aux so it appears it's just started then closed. Only root is able to start an xterm. Any ideas? -lewiz. -- Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14347/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
lock.
Hi, Is there any utility similar to lock (that I can do the equivalent of lock -npv) that I can set a timeout on - much like with xscreensaver? I don't want to manually have to run lock - instead a timeout would be good, so that if I don't hit any keys it will lock the machine? Many thanks, -lewiz. -- All my friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14234/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Slow local logins when YP/NIS server unavailable.
Hi,
I've been having problems recently trying to login as a local user
when my YP/NIS server is unavailable. This is essentially to me as the
machine in question is a laptop and is required to work without the
network.
I have a local user (lewiz2) and a NIS/YP user (lewiz). When I am
away from the network I use lewiz2, which has a homedir synchronized
with lewiz. When I return I resynchronize. This works perfectly.
However, I have come to find a problem in some code in login.c
(usr.bin/login). I have an up-to-date login.c (from 1859 today
(04/01/03)) and the code is from line 598 to line 601. It reads:
if (setusercontext(lc, pwd, pwd-pw_uid, LOGIN_SETGROUP) != 0) {
syslog(LOG_ERR, setusercontext() failed - exiting);
exit(1);
}
This means nothing to me but I have found that it causes local logins
(which have _nothing_ to do with NIS/YP whatsoever) to hang for a long
time. I am wondering if there is any way I can work around this problem
(without commenting out the code) and if this could be considered a
``bug''?
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated as it's been
causing me problems for ages ;)
Many thanks,
-lewiz.
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Working around problems when an NFS server dies / is unavailable.
Hi, Anybody know about using NFS with laptops. I want to be able to pick up and go with my laptop -- problem is I seem unable to umount any NFS filesystems when the NFS server is unavailable. The problem is -- I can't run many regular utilities like df without it getting stuck when the NFS mount is unavailable. I've tried the soft option but that doesn't seem to make any difference. Anybody with any good ideas on how best to cope with this situation? -lewiz. -- There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. -- Henry Kissinger --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14275/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: YP/NIS timeout.
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 08:29:58PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 01), lewiz said: At the login: prompt I enter my username (lewiz), hit return and get nothing for a while until: yp_order: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out Hit ^T during the pause and find out what program is hanging. You probably have a command in your shell's startup script that is trying to resolve an NIS username. ^T shows: load: 1.28 cmd: login 45573 [nanslp] 0.00u 0.04s 0% 1016k I couldn't find anything about nanslp (locate shows nothing but I eventually tracked it down to sys/kern/kern_time.c, where it shows up: sys/kern/kern_time.c: error = tsleep(nanowait, PWAIT | PCATCH, nanslp, Hence, it has something to do with the nanosleep(2) syscall. Other than this, I don't know what it's doing. Maybe you are correct that the shell is trying to do some stuff but I could find nothing like this in /etc/profile, /etc/csh.cshrc, /etc/csh.login or any of the user's personal copies. -lewiz. -- If only one could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to accomplish anything. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14154/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: YP/NIS timeout.
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:25:20PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 29), lewiz said: I'm wondering if there is any way to stop my system completely falling over when my YP/NIS server is no longer available? I am unable to login, even with my root account. I have a local user that I would like to use (when the YP/NIS server is unavailable) but this seems impossible. Any ideas on this matter? Make sure the local user is above the + in your passwd file and you should be okay. Define unable to login. Do you simply get login incorrect for all attempts, or are you able to log in but something else happens? At the login: prompt I enter my username (lewiz), hit return and get nothing for a while until: yp_order: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out This message gets repeated a few times but I can do pretty much nothing with my machine. Even as I log in as a local user (say root) I get past entering my password, at which point I get the same message. I can't understand why this happens. Update here: I've just sat and watched it a bit longer. I only get one repetition of this message with root, after which it allows me to login as per usual. Still, this seems odd because root has nothing to do with the YP/NIS configuration, does it? You might want to consider setting up a couple NIS slave servers if your master is unreliable. I agree :) I'm trying to do this with a laptop though. I want it so if I disconnect from my network that I can just log in as an alternate user (in my case I have lewiz2 setup, which is essentially a local mirror of the YP/NIS user lewiz). This way I can use a synchronization tool (unison and rsync) to ensure both accounts are up-to-date when I return. Many thanks for your reply. Happy New Year, -lewiz. -- As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. -- Weisert --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13918/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: spamassassin
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 08:57:06PM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: Without the -P spamassassin writes the message back to the mailbox instead of writing to STDOUT :-(( This may be different in FreeBSD, I'm warned now though :-)) Watch out! Why not setup another mailbox and direct spam to there. I've had a few false-positives from the default SpamAssassin settings so it's best to be aware you may still get some. Anyhow, I guess you've thought of this already :) Best wishes, -lewiz. -- I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13743/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3c589/PCMCIA.
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 02:47:29AM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: tried them both, it found my card in both pcmcia slots (baseport 300, irq 10) but freebsd is still not finding them in either of the pcmcia ports. Can you supply a dmesg dump, maybe I can see what's it's doing differently to mine. -lewiz. -- There is a green, multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13563/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3c589/PCMCIA.
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 05:12:55PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: it won't dump cause i can't get freebsd to install. (no cdrom in the laptop so i need a network install) If i look at the install log (on the second console (ALT-F2)) i do see that freebsd finds a pcmcia card in the slot. And is trying to detect what kind of card it is. It loads a few networkdrivers but as far as i can see they are all pci drivers. It seems that the card is simply not recognized. Is this 4.x or 5? I couldn't get it to work with 5. When you start the install process does FreeBSD ask you if you wish to install from a PCCard device? At this prompt I select yes, then at the next dialogue, chose default and the one afterwards I selected IRQ 10. If you can't get a full dump did you want to try and run dmesg and scroll through, write down all of the entries that relate to PCCard of networking. I'll rerun the setup and tell you what mine says. -lewiz. -- New Year's Eve is the time of year when a man most feels his age, and his wife most often reminds him to act it. -- Webster's Unafraid Dictionary --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13574/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PCCARD DHCP and media.
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:33:10PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
lewiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've just got a 3C589 PCCARD NIC going. However, I'm using the BNC
(10Base2) connector so I need to specify ``media 10base2/BNC'' in
rc.conf. However, if I do this DHCP doesn't seem to work. Is there any
way that I can combine media 10base2/BNC and DHCP into pccard_ifconfig?
Sure; just specify your own script, using pccard.conf.
Instead of the default pccard_ether, you can do a specialized script
that sets the medium before invoking dhclient.
Thanks for this tip, it was most helpful. After reading around a bit in
/etc/pccard_ether I found that there was an optional execution of
/etc/start_if.{if} and /etc/stop_if.{if} so I now have ifconfig ep0
media 10Base2/BNC in start_if.ep0.
Thanks again,
-lewiz.
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Working remotely.
Hi,
This may have come up before but I've not found anything after
searching Google that quite satisfies the question.
I run my laptop on my network during evenings but during the daytime I
attend college, where I really need to access my documents, mail, etc.
Is there any method of synchronizing the laptop with the server (I have
an NFS exported homedirectory and use NIS/YP for authentication).
I have considered writing a script that uses rsync to synchronize the
laptop with the server, in so much as maintaining a local copy of the
homedirectory -- I can do this quite effectively using
/etc/start_if.{if}. However, I have various problems with my Maildir
mailbox (files have letters appended to the filename depending on their
status) that could cause data loss or duplication.
The second problem is with authentication -- is there any way to cache
usernames/passwords so that I can still log on without an NIS/YP server
being available? If not, would the best method be to set up a local
server mirroring the NIS/YP database and authenticate against this?
Basically, I want to be as productive away from my network as I am at
it but there seem to be various things that don't allow this to happen.
Has anybody found good solutions to them?
I would be eager to hear what anybody has to say on this matter.
Many thanks,
-lewiz.
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Re: your mail
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 07:10:23PM +0100, Morten olson wrote: Hi.. can i update from FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE to FreeBSD 5.0 when its out? Yes, take a look at the FreeBSD Handbook. There are details on upgrading there. -lewiz. -- There is nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. -- Ross MacDonald --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13607/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Working remotely.
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 01:26:41PM -0800, Eric De Mund wrote: lewiz, ] This may have come up before but I've not found anything after ] searching Google that quite satisfies the question. ] ] I run my laptop on my network during evenings but during the daytime I ] attend college, where I really need to access my documents, mail, etc. ] Is there any method of synchronizing the laptop with the server (I ] have an NFS exported homedirectory and use NIS/YP for authentication). Unison might meet some of your needs: Having read your description and some of the FAQs and a bit of the documentation on the website I am most impressed. This sounds like exactly what I was looking for. I am even happier to find it in the ports and I'm getting it installed now. Many thanks for this piece of advice :) -lewiz. -- Justice always prevails ... three times out of seven! -- Michael J. Wagner --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13620/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Working remotely.
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 01:19:03PM -0800, richard childers / kg6hac wrote: Reading your questions, I am left unclear as to whether the NFS, NIS/YP, and server are at home, or at work. Sorry, I have the NFS, NIS/YP stuff at home. The question then becomes, which is the master and which is the slave, or copy? I recommend thinking of your laptop's current contents as the master, it makes things easier but if your server is providing megastorage for your MP3 collection, you're going to have to evolve your own, more complex algorithm for synchronizing specific elements of your home directories on each system with one another. While, yes, as everybody I think these days, I have my music/video collection, I was planning on leaving that where it was :) However, I already had some rsync stuff going to work around the fact that I don't want/need all my mail for the past n years -- I have a current mail (3 months at the most) that I would be taking with me, I've accounted for this, as suggested. Perhaps this is a better approach, anyway; what needs to be synchronized? If you're using it as a backup mechanism, maybe tar(1)'ing up your home directory into a timestamped tar(5) file and copying that to the server mkes more sense, along with a complementing script that deletes all tar(5) files over N days old, to keep disk usage to a minimum. I'm not so keen on this method. I would much prefer a synchronization idea, not a backup. Firstly, it's much quicker for me to pick up and go in the morning, and to get everything in synch when I get back. Also, this could cause problems if I were to log on to my workstation at home before connecting the laptop, etc. The other problem is the relationship between NIS/YP login information and your local login information. It sort of sounds like this laptop was built with a built-in NFS/NIS/YP dependency that assumed that you'd be using it on campus only. Not very well thought out, or tested, IMHO. Hehe, my bad. Yeah, that's how it's all done though -- I've only just got a hold of this laptop so until now I've not had need for it ;) I would recommend creating a login which we will call your 'off-campus', 'roving', or 'disconnected' login. This login has a UID and GID of N, and a home directory of, say, /local/home/roving. To begin with when I read this I thought you must have been smoking something. I was wondering how on earth I would bridge the gap between two different UID/GIDs, until I figured out what you meant by ``N''. This is a truly superb idea, that I would not have thought of. UNIX is truly about simplicity :) I shall get this implemented right away. My only consideration here is which goes first in the passwd file -- the roving user or the NIS/YP hash thingy? I'll play around with this and figure it out. Many thanks for your response. It's already been very useful and I've not got around to implementing some of it yet ;) What I think I'll be doing is using the ``Unison'' utily suggested by Eric De Mund to synchronize the two logins in conjunction with the secondary username you suggested. Thanks again, I'll follow up with how I got on. -lewiz. -- If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13622/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
YP/NIS timeout.
Hi, I'm wondering if there is any way to stop my system completely falling over when my YP/NIS server is no longer available? I am unable to login, even with my root account. I have a local user that I would like to use (when the YP/NIS server is unavailable) but this seems impossible. Any ideas on this matter? -lewiz. -- The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. It's absolutely not. -- Bill Gates --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13625/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Silicon Motion / XFree86.
Hey, I've been trying to get X running on a laptop with a Silicon Motion SM710 LynxEM. When I startx I get a brief flash on the screen (two vertical lines) but these soon disappear and I am unable to do anything (even CTRL+ALT+F1) other than SSH in and kill -9 X. pciconf shows it as: none1@pci1:0:0. I have the following in my XF86Config: Section Device Identifier Silicon Motion Lynx family Driver siliconmotion ChipSet lynxem BusID PCI:1:0:0 Option NoAccel EndSection When I run startx I receive the following (last few lines here): (II) Loading sub module int10 (II) LoadModule: int10 (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a (II) Silicon Motion(0): initializing int10 (==) Silicon Motion(0): Write-combining range (0xa,0x2) was already clear (II) Silicon Motion(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (II) Silicon Motion(0): VESA BIOS function failed Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting I can provide the whole output, if required. I'm fairly sure this is FreeBSD-specific because this card has definitely been working under Linux. There is somebody else that has this problem, I have tried contacting him to see if he got any further but in the meantime any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, -lewiz. -- Cocaine -- the thinking man's Dristan. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13468/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PCCARD DHCP and media.
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:33:10PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: lewiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just got a 3C589 PCCARD NIC going. However, I'm using the BNC (10Base2) connector so I need to specify ``media 10base2/BNC'' in rc.conf. However, if I do this DHCP doesn't seem to work. Is there any way that I can combine media 10base2/BNC and DHCP into pccard_ifconfig? Sure; just specify your own script, using pccard.conf. Instead of the default pccard_ether, you can do a specialized script that sets the medium before invoking dhclient. That's great, I'll have a try at doing that now. Many thanks :) -lewiz. -- The opossum is a very sophisticated animal. It doesn't even get up until 5 or 6 p.m. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13518/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3c589/PCMCIA.
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:21:55PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, lewiz wrote: I was playing around with some options on a 4.4-RELEASE disc1 ISO I'd burnt. I have now got it working. I'm just about to test if it'll work on 5.0-DP2. A guy on eu.openprojects.net in #freebsd told me to disable all unrequired devices in visual config. I did this and it actually didn't even detect this time, so I switched slots, rebooted and did the same. After this it actually detected and DHCP worked to resolve my IP. I used the 10BaseT port (UTP) instead of my preferred 10Base2 (BNC). i just did that but when i then started the kernel it did detect something in my pcmcia slot, but it was not useable as a network interface. when i changed slots it didn't detect it at all. I've now found out I didn't even need to disable all of the other stuff, it works just as well. It only seems to work in one of the two PCMCIA slots... make sure you double-check both seperately. My relevant rc.conf entires are as follows: ifconfig_ep0=DHCP pccard_enable=YES pccard_ifconfig=DHCP pccard_mem=DEFAULT pccardd_flags= -i 10 I believe that the first line (ifconfig_ep0) is irrelevant due to the pccard_ifconfig but I could be wrong. It works so I'm leaving it there. I ran the DOS-based 3Com configuation utility. I downloaded it from the Internet (mail me if you can't find it and I'll email it to you). This showed me that the NIC was using irq 10 (hence the pccardd_flags= -i 10) - this may be different for you so I suggest you try the utility. Hope that's some help, -lewiz. -- Moon, n.: 1. A celestial object whose phase is very important to hackers. See PHASE OF THE MOON. 2. Dave Moon (MOON@MC). --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13519/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3c589/PCMCIA.
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:22:56PM +, lewiz wrote: pccard_ifconfig but I could be wrong. It works so I'm leaving it there. I ran the DOS-based 3Com configuation utility. I downloaded it from the Internet (mail me if you can't find it and I'll email it to you). This On second thoughts... try Google for the file: http://www.google.com/search?q=3link-id.exe :) -lewiz. -- Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child -- if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. -- W. C. Fields --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13520/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:53:15AM -0500, Harry Tabak wrote: Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) gets rejected. _450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] I'm getting this all the time too. It seems that after a while my mails just get through anyway. In fact, just now they've been getting through first time. I'm sure my DNS is all messed up but it seems odd it gets through after a few retries -- is that part of the filter? If it's persistent, let it in? Does anybody know when this was implemented? -lewiz. -- Seminars, n.: From semi and arse, hence, any half-assed discussion. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13521/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3c589/PCMCIA.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:46:51AM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: i have almost the same problem with my 3Com 3C589 card. The light is not suppossed to blink tho, when i boot windows the light simply burns to indicate link and that is al it does. When i boot freebsd the light goes on and it does recieve a DHCP link. But after that all network communication fails. If not yet found a solution to it. But i was thinking that it might be because the pcmcia-controller from toshiba (laptop is a tecra 700CT) is not supported? Yeah, that sounds exactly the same as my problem. I have recently learned about the media option for ifconfig. I tried starting a fixit console directly after the installer started and running: ifconfig ep0 media 10base2/BNC This worked fine and switched the connection. The problem is, this now causes the machine to _HANG_ if I try and change any settings. So I plugged it back into a hub. Nothing happens, no light on the hub yet a solid LED on the 3COM connector thing. I have a Gateway Solo and I'm fairly sure the PCMCIA card is supported because it probes the card fine, it just fails to work. I'll post a followup if I find out any more. Thanks for your info, -lewiz. -- Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fate and captain of your soul. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13372/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
PCCARD DHCP and media.
Hi, I've just got a 3C589 PCCARD NIC going. However, I'm using the BNC (10Base2) connector so I need to specify ``media 10base2/BNC'' in rc.conf. However, if I do this DHCP doesn't seem to work. Is there any way that I can combine media 10base2/BNC and DHCP into pccard_ifconfig? Thanks, -lewiz. -- Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. Confound those who have said our remarks before us. -- Aelius Donatus --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13377/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3c589/PCMCIA.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:46:51AM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: i have almost the same problem with my 3Com 3C589 card. The light is not suppossed to blink tho, when i boot windows the light simply burns to indicate link and that is al it does. When i boot freebsd the light goes on and it does recieve a DHCP link. But after that all network communication fails. If not yet found a solution to it. But i was thinking that it might be because the pcmcia-controller from toshiba (laptop is a tecra 700CT) is not supported? w00t! I was playing around with some options on a 4.4-RELEASE disc1 ISO I'd burnt. I have now got it working. I'm just about to test if it'll work on 5.0-DP2. A guy on eu.openprojects.net in #freebsd told me to disable all unrequired devices in visual config. I did this and it actually didn't even detect this time, so I switched slots, rebooted and did the same. After this it actually detected and DHCP worked to resolve my IP. I used the 10BaseT port (UTP) instead of my preferred 10Base2 (BNC). Maybe you could try the same. -lewiz. -- I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it scattered around the beaches of the world ... Perhaps you've seen it. -- Steven Wright --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13378/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
3c589/PCMCIA.
Hi, I've just got hold of a laptop for Christmas. It has a PCMCIA network card - a 3COM EtherLink III 3C589. I am way out of date and still have Coax running around my house, so it needs to be using the 10Base2 not 10BaseT. My problem is, the card is detected as ep0 yet I have a feeling that it might be better as zp0. I am not certain about this. The problem is - while it gets detected, quite well, I think. I can see lights change on the NIC as it detects it, which suggests the probing is working fine. It doesn't actually communicate with the netwrok. When I try and resolve my address via DHCP it doesn't flash or anything. Maybe I'm missing something. I can provide any information required. Any help would be much appreciated, -lewiz. -- No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife in the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13285/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3c589/PCMCIA.
Hi, Just been told by somebody that PNP in the BIOS should be disabled. I have actually already got it disabled, so this doesn't seem to be the issue. -lewiz. -- Hurewitz's Memory Principle: The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to . to uh .. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13287/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
DTP under FreeBSD/UNIX.
Hi, I'm looking for some powerful DTP software for FreeBSD / UNIX in general (Linux would be fine, emulation is nice :). I am familiar with CorelDRAW (I have version 10) but so long as the software is quite powerful I'd be willing to put the effort in to learn it. I want to design a yearbook for my college, I've got some nice stuff in CorelDRAW right now. It'd need to be fairly sturdy. Any information would be appreciated. I know of the KDE/GNOME projects but haven't used them, any feedback on these would be good. Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- No, `Eureka' is Greek for `This bath is too hot.' -- Dr. Who --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg12899/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DTP under FreeBSD/UNIX.
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 04:47:55PM -0500, David S. Jackson wrote: On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 04:07:13PM + lewiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some powerful DTP software for FreeBSD / UNIX in general (Linux would be fine, emulation is nice :). Hi Lewiz. Powerful is a funny word to use when comparing Windows/Earlymac software with *Nix. TeX and groff are some of the most powerful typesetting/publishing software ever created, but there's a steep learning curve before you can be productive with it. Hehe, yeah, I agree. I've been playing around with TeX for a while just recently. I can do a bit with it - ie, write an essay, include a few pictures but tbh, I really would _hate_ to try and do a modern graphics-intensive DTP project in it. It's almost too clumsy yet... much more elegant at the same time ;) though I doubt they're anywhere near where FrameMaker and that type of software is (was?). Hehe, still is. I've looked at it a bit - for Windows only though. There was a Linux BETA of FrameMaker (or maybe it was PageMaker) but I couldn't get it to run under emulation, which was a bit disappointing. May I suggest that you take a larger view of the project and consider various ways to use the data that goes into a yearbook. It might be possible to create an SGML application with an SQL database that could give you many ways to reuse the data, including camera ready copy for the printer. But if you think of the data clearly and efficiently, you could also generate output for CDs for your class or school, a class website, specialized products for special interest groups in your class (sell the wrestling team or whoever all their data that didn't make it into the yearbook, for instance), or even print a web-based yearbook as well, without the restrictions that come with the printed format. I'm toying with the idea of a website now. For my school ICT coursework I'm doing some PHP coding for an ex-pupils website. Once I've finished this I might modify it a bit and make it the perfect base for such an idea. Not got far with this yet, though. Thanks very much for your ideas, they've been very useful. -lewiz. -- A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg12949/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DTP under FreeBSD/UNIX.
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:15:55PM -0800, nate wrote: I want to design a yearbook for my college, I've got some nice stuff in CorelDRAW right now. It'd need to be fairly sturdy. Any information would be appreciated. I know of the KDE/GNOME projects but haven't used them, any feedback on these would be good. never used it before but it's been out for a while: http://linux.corel.com/products/draw/index.htm Yeah, I knew about this. Unfortunately, it's no longer available for purchase and, what I consider to be even more important - if I've already paid for it, I don't feel totally happy paying again for the same thing, simply for a different platform! grin also never tried but .. http://xibios.free.fr/english/xclamation.html I've just had a look at the website and I've never heard of this before. The screenshots look _very_ encouraging. Looks like the site is a bit dodgy -- some of the links don't work and stuff. I'll see what I can do with this one, and tell you how I get on. Thanks very much for the details. -lewiz. -- The Kennedy Constant: Don't get mad -- get even. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg12951/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Unexpected busfree in Data-in phase
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:12:22PM +0100, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Unexpected busfree in Data-in phase Hi, This looks like you've got an Adaptec ahc SCSI controller, to me? Am I right? I was wondering if I could awfully cheeky and ask if I could see your kernel config for the device. I've been trying to get an AHA-2920 working for some time now and I have not yet got the kernel to even probe it (after booting in verbose mode). I'm wondering whether or not I have my kernel config. wrong. Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- Sattinger's Law: It works better if you plug it in. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg12823/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: QoS and jails.
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 02:53:09PM +, lewiz wrote: I've not really much (any) knowledge of QoS. I am wondering whether it would be possible to de-prioritize bandwidth from a certain ip address? Ideally I want a jail on my gateway for setting up downloads (using wget). Since I am only on 56k this kills web browsing speeds for the other workstations -- if the jail were deprioritized it would kick in only if there was no other traffic. Is this possible with QoS (or anything else) and if so, how? I've done a bit of hunting myself and I've come to the conclusion that this _is_ possible through using DUMMYNET and IPFW (the controller for dummynet). However, having read the DUMMYNET and IPFW man pages and searched Google for tutorials I have turned up very little. What I am trying to do: 192.168.0.1 is a gateway w/ nat. 192.168.0.4 is a downloading machine. 192.168.0.10-20 are workstations. I only have a 56k modem, so if somebody is downloading something from 192.168.0.4 the Internet access effectively stops for the workstations. Therefore I want to deprioritize Internet access from the downloading machine so it only utilizes ``free'' bandwidth. I guess this is almost like setting the nice of a process to 20. Any ideas? One useful page I've found is http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ but I still don't think it has quite what I want to do. -lewiz. -- Life would be much simpler and things would get done much faster if it weren't for other people -- Blore --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg12240/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Wheelmouse
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:07:46PM +0200, Wayne Swart wrote: i got like a generic type wheelmouse, and is running fbsd 4.7 How about this anybody. I have a Logitech TrackMan Marble FX. It's actually a trackball. It has four buttons. Left, right and middle work fine. However, the Windows software provides a scroll function when a forth button is pressed in conjunction with moving the ball. I've used xev and I can generate events for left, middle and right buttons but nothing happens for the fourth button. I am actually using MouseSystems /dev/sysmouse (in conjunction with moused) as I have two mice. I can switch to just PS/2 but does anybody know how I might set up similar functionality in FreeBSD as Windows. Also, is there any way I can make my middle button double-click (but also retain other uses, when defined in applications)? Many thanks. -lewiz. -- Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind. -- Mark Harrold --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg12243/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bandwidth allocation - is this possible?
Hi, I've been looking into something I've wanted to do (prioritizing bandwidth based on IPs). You could try looking at the man pages for ipfw and dummynet (where ipfw is the controller application for a dummynet). I'm 99% certain you can achieve the desired result in this way. -lewiz. -- [Nuclear war] ... may not be desirable. -- Edwin Meese III --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg12259/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: unknow chars from dmesg
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 09:14:10PM -0800, ann kok wrote: mail# dmesg ;1H\^[[m\^[[19;2H\^[[m\^[[20;2H\^[[m\^[[21;2H\^[[m\^[[9;1H\^[[m\^[[7m\^[[m\^[[23;1H\^[[m\^[[23;1H\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[9;1H\^[[9;1H\^[[m\^[[m\^[[23;1H\^[[m\^[[23;1H\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[9;1H\^[[m\^[[19;1H\^[[m\^[[20;1H\^[[m\^[[21;1H\^[[m\^[[19;2H\^[[m\^[[21;2H\^[[m\^[[19;27H\^[[m\^[[8;1H\^[[m\^[[7m\^[[m\^[[23;1H\^[[m\^[[23;1H\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[8;1H\^[[8;1H\^[[m\^[[m\^[[23;1H\^[[m\^[[23;1H\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[8;1H\^[[m\^[[19;1H\^[[m\^[[20;1H\^[[m\^[[21;1H\^[[m\^[[19;2H\^[[m\^[[20;2H\^[[m\^[[21;2H\^[[m\^[[9;1H\^[[m\^[[7m\^[[m\^[[23;1H\^[[m\^[[23;1H\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[9;1H\^[[m\^[[19;1H\^[[m\^[[20;1H\^[[m\^[[21;1H\^[[m\^[[19;1H\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[m\^[[m\^[[H\^[[Javail This looks suspiciously like ANSI escape sequences to me. I'm most likely wrong but doesn't anybody ever remember messing about with that sort of stuff to change colors? -lewiz. -- Hindsight is an exact science. This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) (``the intended recipient(s)'') to whom it is addressed. It may contain information which is privileged and confidential within the meaning of applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg12116/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
QoS and jails.
Hi, I've not really much (any) knowledge of QoS. I am wondering whether it would be possible to de-prioritize bandwidth from a certain ip address? Ideally I want a jail on my gateway for setting up downloads (using wget). Since I am only on 56k this kills web browsing speeds for the other workstations -- if the jail were deprioritized it would kick in only if there was no other traffic. Is this possible with QoS (or anything else) and if so, how? Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg12118/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
cp/mv verbose options.
Hi, This might sound like quite an odd questions but does anybody know if there is a way to have a simple verbose cp/mv output that shows a time elapsed/remaining counter, or the number of bytes copied? Very much like the copy progress bar used in wget or something similar. Mostly this would be pointless but it could kick in if files are over a certain file size (ie, copying ISO files across network disks). Any solutions exist? -lewiz. -- When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or a half loop? --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg10788/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mail to News software suggestions?
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 06:12:45PM -0500, Doug Lee wrote: Now, if you know of a mail reader sporting an nn/trn-style UI, I'm all ears! :) Hi, I use mutt for reading mail. From what I've read I'm quite sure that with some clever use of keybindings you could set all of that up easily. set sort=reverse-threads might be of use -- it groups all messages together much the same way as most newsreaders do. Tell me how you get on, if you decide to go down this route, I'd be interested to see what you come up with. Best wishes, -lewiz. -- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -- H. L. Mencken --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg10042/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Mutt / NNTP_patch.
Hi, Like many of you I use mutt for email. I recently reinstalled mutt and included the NNTP patch allowing me to read news directly through mutt. However, I have the same home directory (and therefore muttrc) shared across many machines - not all of which have the nntp patch. Because I have nntp switches in my muttrc is there any way I can have these ignored and not throw errors if I am running a version of mutt without the patch? Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg10045/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:39AM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: Will the nvidia drivers work with 4.7-RELEASE? 4.7-STABLE won't have ISOs, right? You need 4.7-STABLE to get the NVidia drivers working. I don't know exactly what -RELEASE is missing but I'm quite sure. There are still problems with them (they hang my machine all the time) so be prepared for trouble. -lewiz. -- There's no future in time travel. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg09657/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Advantages over GNU/Linux?
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:45:21PM -0500, Lee Nelson wrote: P.S. if you need a virus scanner on FreeBSD check out VirusScan from Network Associates. They have a command line scanner that integrates with Amavis and is very simple to install and update. Not affliated, just impressed. This sounds interesting - can you provide any more details? -lewiz. -- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russell, Skeptical_Essays, 1928 --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg09659/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
``root''?
Hi, I've been wondering - what does ``root'' stand for? I've just been doing some calculus as part of my math. homework and I've just written down ``there are no ``real'' roots'' - is this possibly something to do with the meaning of ``root'' - i.e. root = answer? I'm probably way off but any ideas? -lewiz. -- Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. -- Sydney J. Harris This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) (``the intended recipient(s)'') to whom it is addressed. It may contain information which is privileged and confidential within the meaning of applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg07664/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ``root''?
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:53:26PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2002-11-04T22:00:37Z, lewiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been wondering - what does ``root'' stand for? My understanding is that 'root' is the user that owns the base of the filesystem (the 'root' of the tree structure) and has full access to everything beneath it. Think of root in the 'tree' data structure sense. This message is intended only for the use of the person(s)... Ummm, think you could pick a different sig for use on mailing lists? Ah, yeah, sorry - I replied from the CC: to me so the mutt folder-hook didn't kick in. My bad ;) -lewiz. -- Katz' Law: Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg07671/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ``root''?
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:03:26PM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:00, lewiz wrote: Hi, I've been wondering - what does ``root'' stand for? I've just been doing some calculus as part of my math. homework and I've just written down ``there are no ``real'' roots'' - is this possibly something to do with the meaning of ``root'' - i.e. root = answer? Root of the user tree. Root of all users. Root of the machine. Tradition. Maybe I was reading into it just a bit too deep then... ;) -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -lewiz. -- Patageometry, n.: The study of those mathematical properties that are invariant under brain transplants. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg07717/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Upgrading a system with multiple jails
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 08:19:35PM +1100, BSD Freak wrote: Hi all, I have a system running multiple jails.Anyone know of a good (ie fast, non-risky) proceedure to upgrade the host system and all the jails it runs Thanks. - Would you like to receive faxes to your personal email address? You can with mBox. Visit http://www.mbox.com.au/fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message Hi, First off - make a backup. There are some good articles over at ONLamp.com about that (tar, pax, dump, restore, etc.). After that all I do is make buildworld in singleuser. Then I switch to single-user installworld and compile my kernel - this then gets installed and I just run make installworld DESTDIR=/kernel. This has caused no problems so far. You could try disabling the jails at startup (if you have them running by default) and just upgrade the host as per usual. Then you could tar the jails as a backup and make installworld after that - then just start them back up again. Neither of these has caused any problems for me. -lewiz. -- ... My pants just went on a wild rampage through a Long Island Bowling Alley!! --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg06717/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Alternative MTA that doesn't use /etc/passwd
Hi, I used to use Courier, which includes Courier-IMAP (a popular IMAP/POP3 server). Courier supports Maildir and can use all sorts of authentication methods. Check out http://www.courier-mta.org/ for details on all that it supports. Recently I have switched to QMail/Courier-IMAP because QMail has better support for pre-delivery virus and spam checking. You might want to read the docs for QMail as to whether or not it also supports alternative authentication methods as I am enjoying using it more than Courier... so far. -lewiz. On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 07:59:38PM +1000, BSD Freak wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of a good sendmail replacement with POP3/SMTP/IMAP support and which has it's own user/password list rather than using the system user/password list... Thanks in advance.. - Faxes delivered directly to any email address, new to mBox! Find out more http://www.mbox.com.au/fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- The more things change, the more they stay insane. This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) (``the intended recipient(s)'') to whom it is addressed. It may contain information which is privileged and confidential within the meaning of applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible. --|| http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pubring.gpg ||-- msg06423/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mailer
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 06:00:37PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: Hi, is there any mailer as for ex. mutt but with a graphical front-end in console ? Debian Woody. Thanks for your help mess-mate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message mutt has a graphical front-end. You could try pine though, if you don't like mutt. I think you are posting to the wrong mailing list, try a Debian one. -lewiz. -- Reflections on Ice-Breaking Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker. -- Ogden Nash This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) (``the intended recipient(s)'') to whom it is addressed. It may contain information which is privileged and confidential within the meaning of applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg06456/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mutt address book
Hi, I've been using abook for quite some time but I didn't realize it had any association with mutt. Are you saying that it can be invoked from within mutt (i.e. when I try and go to the address book - not through the regular execution of a programme)? Thanks, -lewiz. On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:07:30AM -0400, John Bleichert wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Brian Henning wrote: Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:03:31 -0500 From: Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mutt address book Hello, I know this is a bad question to ask but, i would like to know if mutt stores addess in an address book similar to how pine does it. if so what commands can i use to store and access these addresses. thanks, brian IIRC mutt stores its address in its rc file. However, there is an addressbook for mutt in the ports tree called 'abook' which works pretty well. It's not as featureful as the pine addressbook but it's pretty good. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it. -- Alex Schure This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) (``the intended recipient(s)'') to whom it is addressed. It may contain information which is privileged and confidential within the meaning of applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible. --|| http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pubring.gpg ||-- msg06686/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: UDMA limited to 33 - resolution
Hi, Afaik, UDMA100 is only supported if there is just one device on the channel. Feel free to shoot me if I am incorrect, which is quite possible. Just double-check by asking Google or something - but I have a gut feeling this may be the case. -lewiz. On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:38:00PM -0700, Steve Warwick wrote: Hi, Thanks to all of you that answered my call for help. Problem: dmesg / boot reported bus limited to UDMA33. Results: - CD-Rom was causing the problem. Once taken off the bus, UDMA100 was recognized. - Added a UDMA66 HD in place of the CD and the bus was limited to UDMA33 - Swapped the placement of the UDMA100 Master and the UDMA66 Slave on the bus and all items were recognized correctly. Master is now last on the chain. hth Steve Warwick To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) (``the intended recipient(s)'') to whom it is addressed. It may contain information which is privileged and confidential within the meaning of applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible. --|| http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pubring.gpg ||-- msg05562/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
