Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters

2003-01-05 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Doug Reynolds wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 16:51:29 -0500 (EST), John Bleichert wrote: Hello All Is there anyway to get e.g. a u with an umlaught over it (ASCII 159 I think) in a text emailer like pine or mutt, if your keyboard doesn's have said character? How about

The FreeBSD Diary: 2002-12-15 - 2003-01-04

2003-01-05 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list

GPG integration with mutt

2003-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 06:37:46PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-01-05T00:27:01Z, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: there's one thing that everybody on the list can do to help: don't reply to off-topic or offensive mail messages. Actually, Greg, there are two things

Re: out of inodes (4.7-stable shortly post-install)

2003-01-05 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Eric Timme wrote: FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a89M44M37M54%1535 9983 13% / /dev/ad0s1e79M 4.0K72M 0% 2 102360% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 886M 620M 195M76% 107214

dummynet and ipfw

2003-01-05 Thread master
Hi all i have a little problem with ipfw i have try the following command : ipfw add 100 pipe 1 ip from 192.168.1.5 to any and i have no more network then i try a ping and get ping : sendto : No buffer space invalide any idea how can i fix this? thx To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Jail

2003-01-05 Thread Talon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All Not sure if I am doing this right (the mailing list thing that is) Anywayz here goes.. I have just installed a jail on a 4.7-STABLE system .. using the script from the man page jail Every thing works A-OK i can ssh into it add users ping

bgcc, an idea

2003-01-05 Thread Brett Glass
After the thread on GPL'd parts of FreeBSD, specially the compiler, I've decided to contribute my bit to the FreeBSD community. I'm proud to preset bgcc, 'The Brett Glass compiler collection', released under the BSD license, of course. As a lot of you know, I'm a professional programmer who does

Re: Slow local logins when YP/NIS server unavailable.

2003-01-05 Thread lewiz
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

Re: Working around problems when an NFS server dies / is unavailable.

2003-01-05 Thread lewiz
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

Re: Jail

2003-01-05 Thread lewiz
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 ;)

Re: Jail

2003-01-05 Thread Talon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lewiz wrote: | 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

Re: Jail

2003-01-05 Thread lewiz
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

USB memory stick

2003-01-05 Thread Flemming Froekjaer
I have a 128 MB USB memory stick from ez-memory. When I connect it to my FreeBSD 4.7 box it is recognized, but I can't mount it. Any hints? \Flemming Jan 5 12:56:53 athlon /kernel: umass0: USB Solid state disk, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 Jan 5 12:57:03 athlon /kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target

Re: USB memory stick

2003-01-05 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/05/03 01:24 PM, Flemming Froekjaer sat at the `puter and typed: I have a 128 MB USB memory stick from ez-memory. When I connect it to my FreeBSD 4.7 box it is recognized, but I can't mount it. Any hints? \Flemming Jan 5 12:56:53 athlon /kernel: umass0: USB Solid state disk, rev

Re: USB memory stick

2003-01-05 Thread Flemming Froekjaer
Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 01/05/03 01:24 PM, Flemming Froekjaer sat at the `puter and typed: I have a 128 MB USB memory stick from ez-memory. When I connect it to my FreeBSD 4.7 box it is recognized, but I can't mount it. Any hints? \Flemming Jan 5 12:56:53 athlon /kernel: umass0: USB Solid

Re: dummynet and ipfw

2003-01-05 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, master wrote: Hi all i have a little problem with ipfw i have try the following command : ipfw add 100 pipe 1 ip from 192.168.1.5 to any and i have no more network then i try a ping and get ping : sendto : No buffer space invalide any idea how can i fix this? Yes, you

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-05 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:42:03PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: [snip] I don't have it enabled: hw.ata.tags: 0 I've manually set: atacontrol mode 0 UDMA33 UDMA33 and the problem has not recurred. -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo

Re: lock.

2003-01-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
lewiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

copying audio cd's

2003-01-05 Thread Roman Neuhauser
Having searched the archives, I'm confused. I've seen a few posts suggesting the use of dd(1) to read in the cd, including a message by Mike Meyer, a knowledgable guy who used to frequent questions@: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-questionsm=100942595716612w=2 I've also seen a message

Re: Working around problems when an NFS server dies / is unavailable.

2003-01-05 Thread richard childers / kg6hac
Make sure no one (including you) is using (including your shell's current working directory) the directory which is acting as a mount point, when you umount(8). Otherwise, you'll get a message about the filesystem being in use ... (-: -- richard lewiz wrote: On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at

opying audio cd's

2003-01-05 Thread Brett Glass
Having searched the archives, I'm confused. I've seen a few posts suggesting the use of dd(1) to read in the cd, including a message by Mike Meyer, a knowledgable guy who used to frequent questions@: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-questionsm=100942595716612w=2 I've also seen a message

Re: koffice en français ?!

2003-01-05 Thread Pierrick Brossin
Benoit ROUSSEAU wrote: Comment télécharger i18 french pour koffice et l'installer ? man pkg_add a+ -- Pierrick Brossin IT Employee 15, Ch. du Château, 1422 Grandson, Switzerland Tel Prof: +41-327201423 Mobile Priv: +41-794137145 Mail Prof: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Priv: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2003-01-05 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-04 14:02:46 +1030: On Thursday, 2 January 2003 at 16:53:05 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: plus, you stuff the output in $myfile, and get the input from it as well. How's that supposed to work? :) Heh. You're looking at this section, no doubt: cat

Re: copying audio cd's

2003-01-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having searched the archives, I'm confused. I've seen a few posts suggesting the use of dd(1) to read in the cd, including a message by Mike Meyer, a knowledgable guy who used to frequent questions@:

Network cards for a firewall server?

2003-01-05 Thread Magnus Johansson
Hello everyone I am trying to build a firewall server with FreeBSD 4.7, but I'm having some problems with the network cards. When I install it with two Netgear FA-310TX network cards, I get the dc0: watchdog timeout messages. If I try two Intel PRO/100 cards, I get the fxp0: DMA timeout and

Examples of School Web Sites

2003-01-05 Thread jamieclarcksong
Found some other school web sites that we may want to compare ours too! http://bearcat.ubly.k12.mi.us/links/links.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Network cards for a firewall server?

2003-01-05 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 18:01, Magnus Johansson wrote: Hello everyone I am trying to build a firewall server with FreeBSD 4.7, but I'm having some problems with the network cards. When I install it with two Netgear FA-310TX network cards, I get the dc0: watchdog timeout messages.

Selecting a specific list of ports to update

2003-01-05 Thread Daniel Goepp
I know how to set cvsup to update ports-all, or a specific branch like ports-mail. However, I would like to be able to make a cvsupfile with a list of just individual ports to update. Any ideas? Thanks -Daniel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: bgcc, an idea

2003-01-05 Thread Chris Doherty
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:15:41AM -0800, Brett Glass said: After the thread on GPL'd parts of FreeBSD, specially the compiler, I've decided to contribute my bit to the FreeBSD community. I'm proud to preset bgcc, 'The Brett Glass compiler collection', released under the BSD license, of

Re: Network cards for a firewall server?

2003-01-05 Thread Magnus Johansson
Hello Currently the FA310-cards are installed. The mobo is the last versio of Abit BE6-II, (with a PIII 850MHz). It starts with the message: dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state, then the dc0: watchdog timeout messages starts showing up. PnP is disabled in BIOS. From dmesg I have:

Re: copying audio cd's

2003-01-05 Thread paul beard
Roman Neuhauser wrote: Having searched the archives, I'm confused. it looks like you want this section of the handbook: 12.5.5 Duplicating Audio CDs http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work

Re: Selecting a specific list of ports to update

2003-01-05 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:15:30PM -0500, Daniel Goepp wrote: I know how to set cvsup to update ports-all, or a specific branch like ports-mail. However, I would like to be able to make a cvsupfile with a list of just individual ports to update. Any ideas? Thanks -Daniel Check out the

Postfix vs. Sendmail

2003-01-05 Thread Daniel Goepp
So mx1.freebsd.org itself runs Postfix, but yet, sendmail is still so embedded in FreeBSD that it's almost imposible to get cleaned out. When are they going to make the FreeBSD install configurable enough to not have to include sendmail, bind, openssl, etc? I choose to either install these apps

Re: Network cards for a firewall server?

2003-01-05 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi, Is options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES compiled into the kernel? Check LINT for more information On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 18:37, Magnus Johansson wrote: Hello Currently the FA310-cards are installed. The mobo is the last versio of Abit BE6-II, (with a PIII 850MHz). It starts with the

RE: Selecting a specific list of ports to update

2003-01-05 Thread Daniel Goepp
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 And

Cyrus-SASL and OpenLDAP

2003-01-05 Thread Daniel Goepp
These two apps both have compile time options to include support for each other, but this quickly becomes a chicken or the egg question. My instinct tells me to install SASL first, without LDAP, then install LDAP with SASL, and then go back and reinstall SASL with LDAP. Anyone else run into this

Re: Selecting a specific list of ports to update

2003-01-05 Thread lewiz
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

Installing FreeBSD 4.7 from ISO image

2003-01-05 Thread William Coles
Greetings, I'm new to the list and new to FreeBSD. Here is my situation: I have downloaded the 4.7-mini iso from one of the ftp sites. I have extracted the file and burnt it onto a cd-rw as a data cd (ISO) using nero. I am trying to install FreeBSD from this disc, but am having difficulty. A

RE: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 from ISO image

2003-01-05 Thread Daniel Goepp
The problem may not be BSD. You say you have changed your BIOS to boot the CD, but have you verified that any other bootable CDs work? Like your original windows CD? Also, do you have another machine you could check to verify that the FreeBSD CD is bootable? If not, I would check your ISO

Re: Selecting a specific list of ports to update

2003-01-05 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Daniel Goepp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030105 19:17]: I would like to be able to make a cvsupfile with a list of just individual ports to update. Any ideas? Use CVS. cvsup only knows about 'collections' qvb -- pica To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 from ISO image

2003-01-05 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* William Coles [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030105 20:03]: Greetings, I'm new to the list and new to FreeBSD. Here is my situation: or how I can go about installing from the CD onto my available drive? Any help will be greatly appreciated. The easiest way is to boot from floppy. qvb -- pica

Re: Selecting a specific list of ports to update

2003-01-05 Thread Brian
Goepp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030105 19:17]: I would like to be able to make a cvsupfile with a list of just individual ports to update. Any ideas? Use CVS. cvsup only knows about 'collections' qvb -- pica To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: Cyrus-SASL and OpenLDAP

2003-01-05 Thread Goedeke Michels
Depends on your needs. Do you need LDAP as a SASL backend ? Most likely not. You probably want LDAP to make use of SASL, not the other way round. So you build SASL first and then LDAP. You can't have it both ways, I believe. Daniel Goepp schrieb: These two apps both have compile time options

RE: Selecting a specific list of ports to update

2003-01-05 Thread Daniel Goepp
the contents of /var/db/pkg as the input for a script? Bri - Original Message - From: Joan Picanyol i Puig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 11:09 AM Subject: Re: Selecting a specific list of ports to update * Daniel Goepp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030105 19

RE: Cyrus-SASL and OpenLDAP

2003-01-05 Thread Daniel Goepp
I supposed, I guess my curious mind was pondering actually playing with how to use LDAP as a back end to SASL, since LDAP is my authoritative DB for many of my apps. I think you are right though, I should just install SASL, then LDAP, and get over it. Interesting that these two apps would put

Re: Network cards for a firewall server?

2003-01-05 Thread Magnus Johansson
Hi Yes, this is the 4.7 GENERIC kernel, and according to LINT, PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES is compiled into the kernel. In /etc/rc.conf I have: ifconfig_dc0 = inet numbers.of.my.public.ip-address netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_dc1 = inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 It is after these statements

Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 from ISO image

2003-01-05 Thread Laszlo Vagner
Daniel Goepp wrote: The problem may not be BSD. You say you have changed your BIOS to boot the CD, but have you verified that any other bootable CDs work? Like your original windows CD? Also, do you have another machine you could check to verify that the FreeBSD CD is bootable? If not, I

Re: Working around problems when an NFS server dies / is unavailable.

2003-01-05 Thread Lars Eggert
On 1/4/2003 4:52 PM, richard childers / kg6hac wrote: Personally, I don't trust amd(8). It's not clear to me that it's any smarter than I am regarding hung NFS file servers. You're right, it's not (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/24391); amd is easily confused by changes in

Re: Network cards for a firewall server?

2003-01-05 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 19:30, Magnus Johansson wrote: Hi Yes, this is the 4.7 GENERIC kernel, and according to LINT, PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES is compiled into the kernel. In /etc/rc.conf I have: ifconfig_dc0 = inet numbers.of.my.public.ip-address netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_dc1 =

Re: Selecting a specific list of ports to update

2003-01-05 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:57:36PM -0500, Daniel Goepp wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nathan Kinkade Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Selecting a specific list of ports to update On

Re: Network cards for a firewall server?

2003-01-05 Thread Magnus Johansson
Hi Stacey After following your advice, including reading the manual more carefully with respect to IRQs, it now works without problems. Thank you very very much Magnus - Original Message - From: Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05 Jan 2003 19:49:50 + To: Magnus Johansson

Re: Network cards for a firewall server?

2003-01-05 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi, On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 20:19, Magnus Johansson wrote: Hi Stacey After following your advice, including reading the manual more carefully with respect to IRQs, it now works without problems. Thank you very very much Magnus You're very welcome indeed, Magnus. Best of luck! Regards,

Re: copying audio cd's

2003-01-05 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 11:45:57AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: [...] program that understands audio cd format, or (with ATAPI cd drives only, I believe) you can use the acdxty format, on a track-by-track basis. Yes, sort-of. For example, I just copied an audio CD by doing dd if=/dev/acd0t1

broken xterm.

2003-01-05 Thread lewiz
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

Re: bgcc, an idea

2003-01-05 Thread Terry Lambert
Not Brett Glass wrote: [ ... ] People can try an early beta, currently builds on FreeBSD and NetBSD. Get it from: http://www.brettglass.com/downloads/bgcc-0.0.tar.gz Besides being mildly humorous, as these things go, I think you have just provided the real Brett Glass with web server logs that

with respect to installing freebsd on a computer

2003-01-05 Thread root
This is a request for help made after extensive efforts to install freebsd on my computer, and only after having tried almost everything, i was wondering if you have any suggestions. Firstly, may I say what my system is., below: maxtor 6Y120LO hardrive sis 5513 chipset sis

Error message trying to set up sound card

2003-01-05 Thread Tom Parquette
I'm following the Handbook instructions trying to set up a sound card. At boot, I get the following messages. pcm0: Creative CT5880-C irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2 pcm0: unable to map register space devide_probe_and_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6 Searching the questions archive didn't turn up

RE: Redirecting root's email

2003-01-05 Thread Adam Lofstedt
hi, did you try digging the nameserver dig @nameserver localhost.visimation.com Cheers Here is the result: ; DiG 8.3 @nameserver localhost.visimation.com ; Bad server: nameserver -- using default server and timer opts ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got

Re: Error message trying to set up sound card

2003-01-05 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 21:22, Tom Parquette wrote: I'm following the Handbook instructions trying to set up a sound card. At boot, I get the following messages. pcm0: Creative CT5880-C irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2 pcm0: unable to map register space devide_probe_and_attach: pcm0

RE: Selecting a specific list of ports to update

2003-01-05 Thread randall ehren
And have it just updates those specific apps, not the whole branch. I realize that I can just download the individual ports I want, and install them, without using cvsup, but I like being able to leave it in my cron, and have them update automatically, and tell me when there are new versions

Re: broken xterm.

2003-01-05 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 08:30:50PM +, lewiz wrote: 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

Re: copying audio cd's

2003-01-05 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 11:45:57AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: [...] program that understands audio cd format, or (with ATAPI cd drives only, I believe) you can use the acdxty format, on a track-by-track basis. This seems correct. My CDROM drive

Re: fvwm2 mouse questions

2003-01-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 05 Jan Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Specifically, this is an X thing, not an fvwm2 thing. It would also work for any other window manager which doesn't try to change things. I have in my .xinitrc: xset m 6 2 Thank you. I could have found it myself. Next time..? -- dick --

Re: copying audio cd's

2003-01-05 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Roman Neuhauser wrote: Given that attempts to dd(1) an audio cd give me Invalid argument I'd say Dan is right. I don't however like what he suggests in the message above: creating WAV files, and burning those. I want a clone of the original cd. Is that possible? Or do the

DOS ATTACK. Any Suggestions?

2003-01-05 Thread Michael
Sigh. I have had my website for well over a few years now. I am very upset with the internet and where it is going due to the fact that their is so many children on it whose parents dont know how to do their jobs and they allow their children to perform dos attacks and god only knows what else on

Installing FreeBSD 4.7 from ISO image

2003-01-05 Thread William Coles
-Original Message- From: William Coles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 6:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 from ISO image Hello, Thanks to everyone for the suggestions so far. I'm still having trouble, but I'm determined to

BIND configuration problem

2003-01-05 Thread Doug Hardie
I am trying to setup a master DNS server on a test network (not connected to the internet). The network has an address of 10.0.1.xxx as that happend to require the least setup. However, I am unable to get the reverse DNS file to load properly. The error messages are: Jan 5 14:59:27 freebie

RE: Selecting a specific list of ports to update

2003-01-05 Thread Daniel Goepp
Right, I use pkg_version for tracking what I have installed, vs. what the latest is. I appreciate everyone's help on this one, but I think I'm being misunderstood. I really just wanted to know if there was a way to get cvsup to be more specific, and in fact there isn't. I would like to maintain

RE: Selecting a specific list of ports to update

2003-01-05 Thread Daniel Goepp
Thanks! The funny thing is, I do in fact already use their monitoring, however, I never noticed that utility to upload the output from pkg_info, that's pretty slick. Notification was not my primary goal, but rather a secondary benefit of having a tool to update specific ports. -Daniel

Re: DOS ATTACK. Any Suggestions?

2003-01-05 Thread Anti
more an issue with apache than freebsd i think... perhaps mod_dosevasive (http://www.networkdweebs.com/stuff/security.html) could be of use? `Anti` On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 17:53:23 -0500 (EST) Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sigh. I have had my website for well over a few years now. I am very

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2003-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 5 January 2003 at 16:16:22 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-04 14:02:46 +1030: On Thursday, 2 January 2003 at 16:53:05 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: plus, you stuff the output in $myfile, and get the input from it as well. How's that supposed to

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2003-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-05 16:16, Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-04 14:02:46 +1030: cat $myfile server=`egrep -i $myfile In: [HE][HE]LO|sed 's/^.*LO *//' ` if [ $server = ]; then server=`egrep -i $myfile ^Subject.*errors from |sed

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2003-01-05 Thread Sky McKinley
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rio 900

2003-01-05 Thread Sky McKinley
i've recently acquired a rio 900 mp3 player and would like to use it with my 4.7-Release system. if anyone has one of these things working with rioutil, please let me know. thanks. sky. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the

Re: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 4 January 2003 at 20:30:52 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: on 1/4/03 6:50 PM, Stephen Hovey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Phillip Smith wrote: Wondering what (if anything) can be done about this? freedom# tar -xf www.tar tar: Skipping to next file header... tar:

RE: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 from ISO image

2003-01-05 Thread Daniel Goepp
Couple more guesses for you. First, you are probably just burning the image file to the CD in your first example. If you put that CD in your computer when you have windows loaded, do you see one file called 4.7 mini.iso, or do you see what looks like a CD with a bunch of files on it? You do not

Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 from ISO image

2003-01-05 Thread Adam Maas
While WinRAR sees the iso as a WinRAR file it isn't, it should be burned as downloaded, not extracted. Download it and burn it as an image directly, you've just run into some brain damage on the part of WinRAR. Adam - Original Message - From: William Coles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: dos attack

2003-01-05 Thread Michael
Thanks for all that responded. Your ideas are great but they will just slow the dos down if even that. I guess no one has either thought of a true way to stop a DOS or maybe its really impossible because your allowing them in to begin with. I figured it was worth a shot to ask. Ill just wait it

Internal mail server

2003-01-05 Thread jonr
Here is my problem: I have a lab with students that is going to be taught how to use an email client(Outlook). I want to set them up on an internal server that will not be visible from the outside world(Internet). I have the mail server setup using qmail and freebsd4.7. I also want to use a

audio mixer doesn't work

2003-01-05 Thread Erik Sabowski
i am running freebsd 4.7, and using the latest kde packages from freebsd.org (3.0.3). My soundcard is a soundblaster live. I have no problem setting up the soundcard, it works fine, except for the fact that the mixer does not work at all. using mixer from the command line does not change the

Re: dos attack

2003-01-05 Thread paul beard
Michael wrote: Thanks for all that responded. Your ideas are great but they will just slow the dos down if even that. Well, that seems like it's better than nothing. I have always regarded DOS attacks as crimes of opportunity: as you say, it doesn't take a lot of smarts to pull one off. If

Re: audio mixer doesn't work

2003-01-05 Thread paul beard
Erik Sabowski wrote: i am running freebsd 4.7, and using the latest kde packages from freebsd.org (3.0.3). My soundcard is a soundblaster live. I have no problem setting up the soundcard, it works fine, except for the fact that the mixer does not work at all. using mixer from the command line

RE: DOS ATTACK. Any Suggestions?

2003-01-05 Thread Sean J. Countryman
As soon as my site gets big and i have a lot of users in irc, some little jealous network comes along and destroys what i worked on. The last time this happened my ISP shut ME off because it took out one of their facilities. I think this is your core problem... In all my years working tech

RE: Internal mail server

2003-01-05 Thread Derrick Ryalls
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Internal mail server Here is my problem: I have a lab with students that is going to be taught

Re: Error message trying to set up sound card

2003-01-05 Thread Tom Parquette
Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 21:22, Tom Parquette wrote: I'm following the Handbook instructions trying to set up a sound card. At boot, I get the following messages. pcm0: Creative CT5880-C irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2 pcm0: unable to map register space

Re: with respect to installing freebsd on a computer

2003-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-05 19:46, root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a request for help made after extensive efforts to install freebsd on my computer, and only after having tried almost everything, i was wondering if you have any suggestions. [snip] I don't know if any of this will help solve the

RE: DOS ATTACK. Any Suggestions?

2003-01-05 Thread Mike
Since the IP range seems to belong to shawcable.net (24.67.253.203)I would send an E-mail to them. The scanning back has worked for me as well BUT be carefull or you might be labled the bad one. Normaly I always poke back just to see who they are and e-mail the host if it becomes a problem. Also

Re: audio mixer doesn't work

2003-01-05 Thread Erik Sabowski
On Sunday 05 January 2003 07:01 pm, you wrote: what specific values are you trying to change and what are you trying to do? can you supply the output of mixer? and tell us what you're like to change? output of mixer: hobbes# mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 75:75 Mixer pcm is

Re: Palm 515 setup

2003-01-05 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Anne Sipes wrote: I just got mine syncing. I put together this howto: http://www.geekhome.net/palm.html Let me know if you have any problems with it. FYI, this works on my m125 as well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Error message trying to set up sound card

2003-01-05 Thread John Bleichert
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Tom Parquette wrote: Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 20:47:11 -0500 From: Tom Parquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error message trying to set up sound card Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, On Sun, 2003-01-05

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-05 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Bruce Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ cc'ing Soren since he's the ATA guru ] Dec 30 23:27:00 ecserv13 /kernel: ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode Dec 30 23:27:00 ecserv13 /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done The test

Re: flush?

2003-01-05 Thread Anti
sync? `Anti` On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:07:19 +0100 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I use dump to make a backup, I noticed that a very large file (several G), which had just been moved off the partition (several seconds before), seems to have been backup-ed by dump after all. Or, I should

Re: bootmgr labels

2003-01-05 Thread Jud
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 04:21:28 +0100, Gustaf Sjoberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'm currently dual booting freebsd 4.7 and windows xp pro on my laptop and everything works like a charm except one msall detail. when the boot selector shopws it displays the windows partition as ??. F1 -- ?? F2

RE: DOS ATTACK. Any Suggestions? - Some helpful links

2003-01-05 Thread Mike
Here's some links you may find interesting Apache mod http://www.networkdweebs.com/stuff/security.html not a complete solution but it will slow them down In an article from http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/27/140212.shtml?tid=172 there is a link http://www.research.att.com/

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-05 Thread Adam Maas
This would be legacy behaviour from the days of buggy ATA33/UDMA implementations, where falling back to PIO mode would allow a device with a buggy UDMA implementation (Unfortunately rather common at the time) to function. --Adam - Original Message - From: Bruce Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Forged e-mails

2003-01-05 Thread Brett Glass
It has come to my attention that an unknown party has been sending messages to several of the FreeBSD mailing lists from the address [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The messages are not mine; they're being sent from a bogus account on a Webmail service known as FastMail. An abuse report has been filed with

Re: Forged e-mails

2003-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 5 January 2003 at 20:53:41 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: It has come to my attention that an unknown party has been sending messages to several of the FreeBSD mailing lists from the address [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The messages are not mine; they're being sent from a bogus account on a

Re: Forged e-mails

2003-01-05 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Sunday, 5 January 2003 at 20:53:41 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: : It has come to my attention that an unknown party has been sending messages : to several of the FreeBSD mailing lists from the address

help with Lexar JumpDrive keychain USB device?

2003-01-05 Thread George Hartzell
Hi all, I have a Lexar 128Mb JumpDrive USB keychain thingy. It works beatifully on a RedHat Linux system and a Windows 2000 system. When I plug it into a FreeBSD 4.7 release system I get the following: [...] Jan 5 14:01:33 redtail login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 Jan 5 14:01:54 redtail

Re: Laptops w/ FreeBSD pre-loaded (somewhat OT)

2003-01-05 Thread Jimi Thompson
On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 04:00 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:28:31PM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: Last year (when I wasn't in the market for a laptop) I found a site/manufacturer which sold Athlon- and Pentium-based laptops with Free/OpenBSD and/or Linux

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