Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:45:38 +0100, Henrik W Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I read somewhere that UNIX systems are more vulnerable to buffer overflows than Windows systems. Can't confirm the validity of this, though. Buffer overflows are already being addressed. http://www.openbsd.org/papers/auug04/ http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=573 http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:20:08 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip PMFJI, (especially since I'm a newbie) but I think I understand at least some of what Ted is saying here. I set up a home firewall and later had a hardware failure. I replaced the box and decided to use Mandrake Linux for the firewall because I thought it would be easier to set up. It was easier to set up initially with all the pointy clicky stuff. Then a friend (who knows much more than I do) sniffed the box and warned me that I had holes galore. As I tried to fix the problem it became more difficult than when I was using BSD. I finally installed OpenBSD for the firewall (still use FreeBSD for everything else) and even tho there is a lot to learn I can make it do what I want. I have learned that just because something looks good on the surface, that doesn't mean that it's better. -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Aterm cut-and-paste was Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:33:06 -0400, Frank Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been around for as long as I can remember, since before XFree86 4.x. Its nothing new. Regards, Frank Yes, it's all here. Takes a little getting used to the way it works. Is there any documentation on this? If not, I may write some kind of howto on it myself. This feature isn't exactly necessary but it sure is nice to have. -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:07:29 +0100, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Can people recommend some nice window managers, email clients etc ? I use 4.10 with Blackbox on my laptop. I installed the libraries for both Gnome and KDE so I can use some of their apps. I like Evolution as an Outlook clone but am using my gmail more and more. I switched to Gnumeric and Abiword from their Open Office counterparts because they seem to start up faster and have all the features I need. Aterm starts up alot faster than gnome term but doesn't have the cut-n-paste feature wich I never realy need anyway. These are just some of my personal preferences. They are working well for me. -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aterm cut-and-paste was Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:46:48 -0500, Pratt, Benjamin E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Terry mentioned Aterm, I like the flexibility, but I have gotten cut-and-paste to work. Just copy by highlighting what you want on the clipboard, and then paste by clicking my scroll wheel button. Cool, how did you get it to work? Is it only available with 5.3? -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Aterm cut-and-paste was Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:16:27 -0500, Pratt, Benjamin E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was searching for a way to cut-and-paste but couldn't find any documentation on how to do it with Aterm. I think I got frustrated and just started clicking and when I hit the scroll button it worked!! The only changes I've made are /etc/X11/xorg.conf changes to get my Z-axis button working: snip I'm using a laptop but I do have a wheel mouse I can plug in. I'll tinker with it some tonight with both the laptop mouse pad and the wheel mouse and see what I come up with. I'll let you know how it goes. -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compatibility freeBSD
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:35:42 -0400, Lester Stiefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am open to alternate OS. The person told me the OS was legit. I have my doubts. Now looking for Low cost or free OS to Replace current. My current equipment is: Canon S450 printer, Gigabyte Motherboard 7zxe, 768Meg RAM, Athlon XP processor @1.4ghz, ATI Radeon 7000series graphics, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Audio, 3com 3c900TPO NIC, APC Backups CS-500. Will These be usable on a free BSD system? Having doubts about something you're not familiar with is normal but be careful not to offend all the people who have worked so hard on this project. FreeBSD is, after all, FREE. The developers, as far as I know, get no monetary return for their hard work. FreeBSD is a wonderful operating system but you must be willing to read the materials available. Just like other open source projects, people here don't like having to hold other peoples hand. Read the two links below to see if your hardware is supported. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware.html http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware.html Read the faq and the handbook to get a feal for what the os is all about and especially if you are actually going to do an install. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:36:32 -0400, Frank J. Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think evolution has a news reader. You might want to look into that. Regards, Frank Yes evolution has a news reader and it works quite well for me. Have had a few problems but it wasn't with evolution, it was with the service. -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:51:28 +0100, Walker, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really didn't know that. At the moment I am using evolution for my mail and mozilla as my news client. How do you access the news client? I just had a quick look through the Ximian online doc's and couldn't find anything. Mick Walker It shows in the summary. You can see one (CNET_News.com) in this screenshot. http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/images/screenshots/1.4/summary.png Use the tools menu to configure. You can select from the set of news servers given or add any others you want. -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: questions
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:37:57 -0300, MAMware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip so when i installed freebsd 4.10 i dont know what to do, i google for basic commands for freebds but that isnt much helpfull for me It sounds like your looking for basic unix commands. If that's what you mean try http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/ The handbook is always good too http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html HTH -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: questions
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:05:11 -0500, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html is nice too Oops, forgot about that, thanks for reminding me. ;) -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to umount Cdrom drive.
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:22:12 -0700, Laszlo Antal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.10 installed. When I mount the cdrom with #mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom everything works fine.I can get to my ports and everything But when I want to swap cds and I type #umount /cdrom I get this error message:: Unable to umount /cdrom, Device is busy. If I do the umont from KDE I get the same error message. What I'm doing wrong?? Thank you for all the help. Laszlo Try # umount /dev/acd0c HTH -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pccard is started every other time
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 09:00:34 +1000, gradeAstudent.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello anyone have any experience configuring pccards? I've installed my favourite os (version 4.10) on my laptop but my pccard is only ever initialized and started on every other boot meaning that every second time to get it going I eject the card and reinsert it and it comes up. Is there a trick to getting it up every time on boot? Kind Regards, Andrew Firestone Did you turn on pnp in the bios? I could never get my pccard to work right till I did that. -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pccard is started every other time
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:09:38 -0500, terry tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 09:00:34 +1000, gradeAstudent.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello anyone have any experience configuring pccards? I've installed my favourite os (version 4.10) on my laptop but my pccard is only ever initialized and started on every other boot meaning that every second time to get it going I eject the card and reinsert it and it comes up. Is there a trick to getting it up every time on boot? Kind Regards, Andrew Firestone Did you turn on pnp in the bios? I could never get my pccard to work right till I did that. -- Terry Scratch that, meant to say off. ;P -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: apache install problem
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marty Landman Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: apache install problem I just installed Apache2 and not sure how to proceed, if I'm doing things wrong from here or there is some other problem: $ which apachectl /usr/local/sbin/apachectl $ apachectl start httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs $ I just had this problem the other day. It wasn't httpd.conf, it was /etc/hosts. I looked at my OpenBSD box that was working properly and copied the format listed there. ::1 localhost.domain.com localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.domain.com localhost 127.0.0.1 hostname.domain.com hostname I can't really explain this like others on this list, i just know it worked. Hope this helps, Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: how to mount floppy disk?
Denis, Make sure there is a floppy disk in the drive before running the command. Also, I think the actual command is mount_msdos not mount_msdosfs. :-) Terry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Denis Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to mount floppy disk? Hi All!!! I try next to mount my floppy disk driver: mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy I/O error. But why? -- Best regards, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Running X from a windows PC
Try cygwin. http://www.cygwin.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Edinho Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:35 PM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Running X from a windows PC Is it possible to run X remotely from a windows PC? What is the software needed? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Stupid question
Check the man pages for write and talk. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard Samuel Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:17 AM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Stupid question How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box via the command line?? Thanks -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://test1.trini0.org:81/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sony VAIO w/ Linksys card
I don't think it is a hardware problem. I have the same laptop (currently out of the office). It has a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Integrated PC Card. When I was dual booting with Win98 and Mandrake9.0, the card worked fine with both OS. I changed to Win98 and FBSD4.7. The card still works under Win98 but haven't got it configured correctly yet in FBSD. The hardware page lists: Linksys EC2T/PCMPC100/PCM100, PCMLM56, EtherFast 10/100 PC Card, Combo PCMCIA Ethernet Card (PCMPC100 V2) under the section: NE2000 compatible PC-Card (PCMCIA) Ethernet and FastEthernet cards ( ed(4) driver) When the laptop comes back from the field (2 weeks), one of our IT guys (more familiar with FBSD) is going to help me configure the driver. Will let you know how it goes. Hopefully someone else will have better answers before then. BTW, are you running X? I am having trouble getting it set up right. Regards, Terry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adam Lofstedt Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 6:08 PM To: 'Rodney Salomon' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Sony VAIO w/ Linksys card Hello, I'm trying to install FBSD on a Sony VAIO PCG-F350. I have a Linksys card in it. FBSD doesnt seem to recognize the Linksys card during the installation. Dont know why? Also, after installation, I added pccard_enable... to the /etc/rc.conf file now, it does see the card but, it see's it as ed1 device and it doesnt come up till after the boot is complete and im at a login prompt thats when it beeps and it gives me a ppcard started message, and I have to hit enter to get the login prompt back. Any help on this situation would be greatly appreciated. TIA I think it is a problem with the Sony not giving access to the PC card. I've tried similar things with the PCG-F series notebooks and a variety of different PC network cards, with no luck. I've tried without fail to use symantec ghost on the F series, which uses a DOS boot disk to boot to a DOS program that uses the Network card. On other machines such as Dells, Toshibas, etc, it works just fine, but on the Sony F series the NIC is never detected. This was a big clue to me that it must be some kind of hardware limitation with the Sony F series. I gave up trying to do anything with a Sony F series and a network card before an OS has fully booted up. That's just my experience, maybe someone else will have a better answer than me... Adam Lofstedt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
