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Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: Source nat question (ipfw and natd)
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Vikash Badal wrote:
Greetings,
I currently
Hi there
Are there any NVIDIA GeForce2 Mobile Graphic Card Available In freeBSD
The xinit found that this is an NVIDIA (but) Uknown
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Hi there
Are there any NVIDIA GeForce2 Go Graphic Card Available In freeBSD
The xinit found that this is an NVIDIA (but) Uknown
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On Sunday 26 January 2003 11:07, soheil hassas yeganeh wrote:
Hi there
Are there any NVIDIA GeForce2 Go Graphic Card Available In freeBSD
I use Driver nv and works
The xinit found that this is an NVIDIA (but) Uknown
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A firewall set to accept by default has the last rule in the chain as an accept rule.
The opposite goes for deny, whereby the last rule is a deny rule (this is the most
common way to set up a firewall).
The firewall is not the problem. Leave the inetd running, just comment out all the
services
Hi,
Newbie. Two exiting weeks with FreeBSD. So far. Managed to setup
Balsa and GNOME+Enlightenment thanks to following the discussions on
this list in
Hello,
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:37, Ulf Amsell wrote:
Hi,
snipped
Hello all,
I am trying to set up serial console for the first time and I am having some
troubles to make it work.
I bought a null modem cable and connected it to COM1 on two computers. One
is Windows XP,
and one is FreeBSD. I created boot.config file with the line:
-Dh
When I rebooted the FreeBSD
Hi,
I am currently running freebsd 5.0-current and so do not have the perl
installation as core. Perl 5.6.1 was installed as a dependency when I
installed irssi from ports and everything has been using this since. I
assume because this is the version mentioned in /etc/make.conf:
Hi,
im using 'xterm-color' as TERM. I have a mutt color config that displays
the headers in the message index with different colors (depending on sender).
New and unread messages are colored with the same color but they are bright,
or better should be.
Heres the appropriate section:
color index
Où puis je, me procurer FreeBSD ?
Est-il disponible en version française ?
Est-il compatible avec les processeurs AMD Duron ?
Merci de répondre à toutes mes questions.
ROCH Guillaume
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On Saturday, 25 January 2003 at 13:55:50 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
pura life CR wrote:
What does this emulation consist on? Can I run linux and svr4 binaries?.
It's not really emulation. In the case of Linux, it actually installs a
RedHat kernel and uses it when the system calls differ from
On Thursday, 23 January 2003 at 19:01:30 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:45:04PM -0500, mikel king wrote:
McBride also confirmed that the company has hired high-profile
attorney David Boies and his legal firm to investigate whether
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and
On Saturday, 25 January 2003 at 17:36:39 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:44:18PM -0800, nate wrote:
Michael Ritchie said:
Not sure if this should be in -QUESTIONS or a report to VMware themselves,
but when attempting to run FreeBSD 5 within VMware Workstation 3.2 on a
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Bryan Ko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello all,
I am trying to set up serial console for the first time and I am having some
troubles to make it work.
I bought a null modem cable and connected it to COM1 on two computers. One
is Windows XP,
and one is FreeBSD. I created boot.config file
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on
a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how?
This more of a windows question, but here is what I do.
I use DriveImage from powerquest to make images of my files to a second
hard drive.
At 10:43 AM 1.26.2003 -0500, Francisco J Reyes wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on
a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how?
This more of a windows question, but here is what I do.
I use DriveImage from powerquest
guillaume ROCH wrote:
Où puis je, me procurer FreeBSD ?
Cette liste est en anglais uniquement.
Va voir http://www.freebsd-fr.org pour plus d'informations.
(http://www.freebsd-fr.org/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html
en particulier)
Est-il disponible en version française ?
Le
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:50:36PM +, Matt wrote:
I am currently running freebsd 5.0-current and so do not have the perl
installation as core. Perl 5.6.1 was installed as a dependency when I
installed irssi from ports and everything has been using this since. I
assume because this is
Hello all,
I was wondering exactly which malloc options:
- are considered safe and should be set;
- which are debugging options and may be turned off in 5.0; and
- which are hazardous but can be tried for maximum performance.
I'm thinking a simple 'A' is the safe and fast route, and 'AR' is
Greg Lehey wrote:
I don't expect anything to come of this.
It's generating lots of FUD, which is unfortunate.
That's probably their entire goal. After all, what else could
they hope to accomplish?
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Assuming you have the object files from a buildworld hanging around, then
cd /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/vi
cc -O -pipe -o vi *.o -lncurses -static strip vi mv vi /bin/
should probably supply you with what you want.
When using VI in such a situation I usually also use rc.diskless2 to
create
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote:
- As pointed out off-line, you also need to get it the termcap library. Doing
cp /usr/share/misc/termcap.db /root/.termcap.db
You propably want to strip that bugger down to its bones; they weight in
at around 2Mb including the un-db-ed version.
I didn't write the installation script but it seems that the
man page for lft didn't get installed. In any case, if everything
compiled and binary tested to work correctly, feel free to
simply copy man page to it's destination (/usr/share/man/something)
Seems like the binary got installed
I am recording audio tapes to wav files using gramofile. I'd like to be
able to walk away and automatically shut down the process without
corrupting the wav file. I know the tape duration so I was planning to
use the following script. I'd appreciate a better or more refined
approach:
(sleep
I am trying to use Horde.
When I execute this command:
mysql --user=root --password=pass mysql_create.sql
The following error comes up:
ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through
socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
What could be the problem? How can I fix it?
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Gannater Jnos wrote:
I am trying to use Horde.
When I execute this command:
mysql --user=root --password=pass mysql_create.sql
The following error comes up:
ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through
socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
What could be the problem? How can I fix it?
Can
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:00:44PM +0100, Gannater J?nos wrote:
I am trying to use Horde.
When I execute this command:
mysql --user=root --password=pass mysql_create.sql
The following error comes up:
ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through
socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
I know, it's poor form to followup to my own post, but I solved the
problem and wanted to get the solution into the archives.
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I have a test machine that boots a number of things, FreeBSD -stable
and -current among them. I tried
On 2003-01-26 09:40, Voicu Liviu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 26 January 2003 09:40, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2003-01-26 09:16, Voicu Liviu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok folks, my turn now to come here and cry :-(
I have FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE.
I got the /usr/src using cvsup and
Quick questions about machine architecture setting getting picked up. I set
my CPUTYPE = k7 in make.conf, but when I compile world or kernel, I see
-march k6. If I comment out this line, I see nothing, so I'm sure my
make.conf is being read okay. And I grep'd the dir for any other k6 that
might
Hi,
Is it possible to install Perl 5.8 next to 5.005_03, on FreeBSD 4.7R? The
docs say this can be done, and that using something like:
sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl5.8
Ought to do the trick. But has anyone ever tried this for real? I really
cannot afford to lose my Perl 5.005_03, as a
How can I set up IMAP to work?
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On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:07:17PM +0100, Mark wrote:
Is it possible to install Perl 5.8 next to 5.005_03, on FreeBSD 4.7R? The
docs say this can be done, and that using something like:
sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl5.8
Ought to do the trick. But has anyone ever tried this for real? I
Hi,
This is because your gcc doesn't support k7 optimization. In FreeBSD
5.0, gcc (3.2.1) supports more optimization flags.
Bye,
Nuno Teixeira
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:58:53PM -0500, Daniel Goepp wrote:
Quick questions about machine
Hello,
I have am hosting a site that has two domains setup on one I.P. address.
The first domain is a subdomain of my own domain name (under its own A
record). And the second domain is setup under its own zone file with
another A record using the same I.P. address. The reverse pointer points
to
i have a toshiba satellite 1110. I just put 5.0-release on it, and i cant for the life
of
me, get my touchpad to work (in console or X).
I have it set up using /dev/sysmouse because thats all it detected. It doesnt have a
psm0 device in /dev even though it IS a ps2 mouse.
No matter how
i downloaded the release 5 and installed, but my modem doesn't work at new
version i having the following message
.
sio2: configured irq 5 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio2: device may not be enabled
.
Well, but i changed the device.hints to:
hint.sio.2.at=isa
hint.sio.2.port=0x3E8
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-26 16:39:39 -0600:
we have recently noticed that if you visit the website using the
non-subdomain and click on a link, you are redirected to the subdomain
URL.
(In Apache it is setup with the subdomain as the server and the other
domain as a server alias)
Well 2 things:
First:
recompile your kernel adding support to toshiba satellite
Second:
try sysinstall to configure your mouse because your touchpad it's just a psm
mouse.
Third take a look at Handbook.
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Sent: Sunday,
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-26 18:08:40 -0500:
What files or directories shoud I ignore when doing a tar backup?
files you have customized in any way. it depends on what software
you run. there's no definitive answer.
And my exclude list is
/root/.netscape/cache
man, you run X
Does anyone know why OpenLDAP would not be able to find
SSLeay_add_ssl_algorithms in OpenSSL?
checking for openssl/ssl.h... yes
checking for ssl.h... no
checking for SSLeay_add_ssl_algorithms in -lssl... no
checking for SSL_library_init in -lssl... yes
This then in turn messes with a Postfix
On Sunday 26 January 2003 05:18 pm, Stacy Olivas wrote:
Greetings..
I have a question for the list.. I have a friend who is an avid Mac
freak..
Why should your MacFriend want to use FreeBSD or Linux when Darwin and
MacOS X exist?
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Just wondering, I've heard that FreeBSD can emulate the win32 kernal, is
that true? I'd love to run *nix but there are not any win32 emulators that
work well enough for me to play games and such.
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r3b00+ . writes:
Just wondering, I've heard that FreeBSD can emulate the win32 kernal, is
that true?
No.
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On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:16:11PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
r3b00+ . writes:
Just wondering, I've heard that FreeBSD can emulate the win32 kernal, is
that true?
No.
It can run PECOFF format binaries (the Win32 binary object format),
but that's it.
Kris
msg16807/pgp0.pgp
Greetings..
I have a question for the list.. I have a friend who is an avid Mac freak..
(yes, I know Avid is
a video editing platform available on the mac.. :)..
anyways, I've convinced him to try FreeBSD over say Linux, and he has a
question about the PowerPC
port of FreeBSD that is listed at:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Francisco Reyes
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What files or directories shoud I ignore when doing a tar backup?
So far my include list is:
/etc
/usr/home
/usr/local/etc
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf
/var/log
/root
/.profile
/.cshrc
And my exclude list is
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 10:18 AM, Stacy Olivas wrote:
Greetings..
I have a question for the list.. I have a friend who is an avid Mac
freak..
(yes, I know Avid is
a video editing platform available on the mac.. :)..
anyways, I've convinced him to try FreeBSD over say Linux, and he has
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 18:18, Stacy Olivas wrote:
Greetings..
I have a question for the list.. I have a friend who is an avid Mac freak..
(yes, I know Avid is
a video editing platform available on the mac.. :)..
anyways, I've convinced him to try FreeBSD over say Linux, and he has a
I have a cable connection connected to my network, where at the head of
my network is a FreeBSD 4.7 machine that I use for my gateway but also
have apache and pop-3 running on it at the same time. My connection was
great, I could download files no problem, but for the past 2 or 3 weeks
when I
port of FreeBSD that is listed at: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html
Last modified: 2002/12/13 00:00:33
A month is dated?
The page is a little dated... does this still exist? Does it work?
Read the mailling list archives. The mailling list is as active as the other
porting
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote:
It's a bad idea to exclude fstab.
Why? At one point I had it included and it actually clobered a working one
and just caused much more headaches.
I am not planning on doing a full backup/restore so if the machine totally
dies I can just get back up from
In the last episode (Jan 26), r3b00+ . said:
Just wondering, I've heard that FreeBSD can emulate the win32 kernal,
is that true? I'd love to run *nix but there are not any win32
emulators that work well enough for me to play games and such.
Have you tried WineX? Its whole purpose is enabling
Hi Adam,
Thanks for you reply, I am using the SMC barricade router,SMC7004ABR, w/ an
Admin GUI, according to the GUI it has been updated, where else would I find
that info, netstat's routing tables do not seem to supply that. When I try to
ssh or even ftp in I get the message: No address
I've got my FreeBSD system setup with KDE and sound. I have 2 questions:
1. I got sound to work simply by doing kldload snd but then I did
kldstat and saw that all available sound modules had been loaded. I
thought that was unnecessary - is there any way (besides inserting
each module one at a
Roman,
Thank you much. I guess I misunderstood the purpose of this variable. I
turned off canonical name and am able to get what I want now.
Thanks,
Jordan
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I've got my FreeBSD system setup with KDE and sound. I have 2 questions:
1. I got sound to work simply by doing kldload snd but then I did
kldstat and saw that all available sound modules had been loaded. I
thought that was unnecessary - is there any way (besides inserting
each module one at
I'm loooking for help with Cron. When cron is running my mailbox starts to
fill up with hundreds of mails from cron and they are all the same:
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:40:00 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron root@schro root /usr/libexec/atrun
On Sunday, 26 January 2003 at 11:47:15 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
Greg Lehey wrote:
I don't expect anything to come of this.
It's generating lots of FUD, which is unfortunate.
That's probably their entire goal. After all, what else could
they hope to accomplish?
I don't know. Maybe just
Looking for a good anti-virus to go with my spam filter. Currently using
spam assassin with mixed results, but now I'm getting more and more of
these stupid viruses coming into the mail server I'd rather deal
without. Anybody got a good suggestion for a good spam filter/virus filter
I am using amavis-perl with the auto update and spamcop BL list with
sendmail.
Works awesome, maybe 1 spam gets thru a week and 50 or more rejected a day
with about 10 users on the system.
amavis is in the ports under security
look to www.spamcop.net for the blocklist and how to add it to your
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 22:03, Joseph Maxwell wrote:
Hi Adam,
Thanks for you reply, I am using the SMC barricade router,SMC7004ABR, w/ an
Admin GUI, according to the GUI it has been updated, where else would I find
that info, netstat's routing tables do not seem to supply that. When I try to
Can someone post a set of ipfw rules to allow DHCP to work on the inside
interface, something that would work in the context of the SIMPLE
example in /etc/rc.firewall?
I've got too many variables to tell if I've got a working set of rules
and non-working dhcpd, or the other way around. Thanks!
In the last episode (Jan 27), Schrodinger said:
I'm loooking for help with Cron. When cron is running my mailbox starts to
fill up with hundreds of mails from cron and they are all the same:
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:40:00 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You need to allow UDP ports 6768 for full DHCP support, in both
directions...so
ipfw add allow any 67 to any any via int out
ipfw add allow any 67 to any any via int in
ipfw add allow any 68 to any any via int out
ipfw add allow any 68 to any any via int in
Something like that should do it.
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Brian McCann wrote:
You need to allow UDP ports 6768 for full DHCP support, in both
directions...so
ipfw add allow any 67 to any any via int out
ipfw add allow any 67 to any any via int in
ipfw add allow any 68 to any any via int out
ipfw add allow any 68 to any
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:58:08PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
Can someone post a set of ipfw rules to allow DHCP to work on the inside
interface
ipfw add allow udp from any 67-68 to any via ${iif}
for some value of iif
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On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:00:27PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
${fwcmd} add pass udp from any 67,68 to any via ${iif}
But I'm not seeing any counts on that rule when a notebook client tries
for a DHCP lease, and the client never gets a lease.
What deny rules do you have above that point in
I have FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE (was 4.7-STABLE) but even then, running CPAN
would give the following barf:
beastie% sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
Use of uninitialized value in bitwise and () at (eval 220) line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in bitwise and () at (eval 222) line 1.
cpan shell -- CPAN
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+++ Lorin Lund [freebsd] [26-01-03 10:37 -0700]:
| Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 10:37:13 -0700
| From: Lorin Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: sendmail configuration - how to route all mail through my ISP
|
| I have v 4.7 of FreeBSD.
|
| I have a static IP and a domain but I can't send e-mail out
Dragoncrest schrieb:
Looking for a good anti-virus to go with my spam filter. Currently
using spam assassin with mixed results, but now I'm getting more and
more of these stupid viruses coming into the mail server I'd rather deal
without. Anybody got a good suggestion for a good spam
Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Brian McCann wrote:
You need to allow UDP ports 6768 for full DHCP support, in both
directions...so
ipfw add allow any 67 to any any via int out
ipfw add allow any 67 to any any via int in
ipfw add allow any 68 to any any via int out
ipfw add allow
I have an Asante Giganix 1000TA card that I am having problems getting
to work maybe I have missed something.
I found in the LINT kernel the reference for 'nge0' wwhich is supposes
to be for my card. I copied it into my new kernel that I was building
then rebuilt the kernel.
When I issue the
I apologize for my mistake. I was trying to do to many
things at once and was not paying attention to where i
was sending the response.
Sorry
Steve
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