Re: Which book should I start?

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 02:52 pm, Laszlo Antal wrote: Hi, I am new to Bsd. I did a lot of research on the net which book should I start with. I got two of them. I can not deside which one should I start. Here are my books:: - The Complet FreeBSD. 4th Edition From O'Reilly, Greg Lehey.

HP visulaize B132 workstation

2004-06-29 Thread Ade Falusi
Can FreeBSD be installed on an HP visulaize B132 workstation, if so how and what type i.e alpha, amd64, i38,ia64, pc98 or sparc64. Pls help. Toni ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Means of trimming files

2004-06-29 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:21 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote: So Ill start using truncate() for now, and start investigating perl. Thanks As I was writing the previous email, I thought about combining find with php's cli interface and came up with this dirty command (all in one line) - find ./

Re: REPOST: Performance problems with FTP

2004-06-29 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 11:02 am, Bill Moran wrote: I'm having some really weird problems with ftp performance on FreeBSD 4.10 that I just can't seem to figure out. My uplink here maxes out at about 35k/sec. If I scp to the machine in question I get about 30k/sec (which is expected) but when

HP Visualize workstation

2004-06-29 Thread Ade Falusi
Can FreeBSD be installed on an HP visualize B132L workstation, if so how and what type i.e alpha, amd64, i38, ia64, pc98 or sparc64. Pls help. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: REPOST: Performance problems with FTP

2004-06-29 Thread Jorn Argelo
Kent Stewart wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 11:02 am, Bill Moran wrote: I'm having some really weird problems with ftp performance on FreeBSD 4.10 that I just can't seem to figure out. My uplink here maxes out at about 35k/sec. If I scp to the machine in question I get about 30k/sec (which is

Re: Help required installing 5.2.1

2004-06-29 Thread Jorn Argelo
Andrew Walrond wrote: I have tried unsuccessfully to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 from downloaded isos. I have the i386 isos, but the first machine I tried was an Asus SK8N motherboard with Amd Opteron and 2Gb ram. The various hardware is shown as supported on the Hardware list; notably the Promise

FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop.

2004-06-29 Thread Frédéric Hardy
Hi, I have just installed FreeBSD 4.10 - Release on my laptop Compaq Presario 2132. Everything's working fine, but I have a couple of doubts. 1. My console does'nt cover the entire screen of my laptop. It only appears in a middle rectangular area of the screen. How do I fix this to cover the

Re: IPFW acting weird OR invalid ruleset?

2004-06-29 Thread whizkid
[snip] Ok, I jumped earlier, but actually re-RTF ruleset, I've got a couple questions: - Is it only one pc that can't get through? - Do other services work from behind NAT? (http etc) It looks like rule 4109 should be BEFORE 4090, as 4090 denies all traffic and stops, and internal traffic

Re: FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop.

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:14 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Hi, I have just installed FreeBSD 4.10 - Release on my laptop Compaq Presario 2132. Everything's working fine, but I have a couple of doubts. 1. My console does'nt cover the entire screen of my laptop. It only appears in a middle

Re: xorg-clients-6.7.0 syntax error in xhost.c building xvinfo

2004-06-29 Thread Luke
I worked around that problem and ran into another. I had an old copy of Xlib.h in /usr/X11R6/include/X11, so XServerInterpretedAddress was undefined. Explicitly installing /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries before installing /usr/ports/x11/xorg did the trick. I still can't see why making xorg didn't

Re: FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop.

2004-06-29 Thread Frédéric Hardy
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:14 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Hi, I have just installed FreeBSD 4.10 - Release on my laptop Compaq Presario 2132. Everything's working fine, but I have a couple of doubts. 1. My console does'nt cover the entire screen of my laptop. It only

Re: amavisd-new postfix issue

2004-06-29 Thread dave
Hello, My thanks to everyone who has so far offered help. Unfortunately i'm not any closer to fixing this. I had to enable amavisd to log through syslog and set it to mail so it would put output in maillog, then i added -v to the end of the postfix smtpd line in master.cf. I then enabled

Re: FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop.

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:29 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:14 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Hi, I have just installed FreeBSD 4.10 - Release on my laptop Compaq Presario 2132. Everything's working fine, but I have a couple of doubts. 1. My

Re: REPOST: Performance problems with FTP

2004-06-29 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 02:05 pm, Jorn Argelo wrote: Kent Stewart wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 11:02 am, Bill Moran wrote: I'm having some really weird problems with ftp performance on FreeBSD 4.10 that I just can't seem to figure out. My uplink here maxes out at about 35k/sec. If I scp

Re: FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop.

2004-06-29 Thread Frédéric Hardy
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:29 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:14 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Hi, I have just installed FreeBSD 4.10 - Release on my laptop Compaq Presario 2132. Everything's working fine, but I have a

Re: HP Visualize workstation

2004-06-29 Thread Jan Grant
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Ade Falusi wrote: Can FreeBSD be installed on an HP visualize B132L workstation, if so how and what type i.e alpha, amd64, i38, ia64, pc98 or sparc64. Pls help. I believe that machine is based around the PA-RISC. You might want to see if NetBSD will run on it. -- jan

Re: FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop.

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:39 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:29 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:14 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Hi, I have just installed FreeBSD 4.10 - Release on my laptop Compaq

Re: Audio/multimedia recommendations

2004-06-29 Thread Curtis Almond
I have tried the following on earlier version of BSD. I had a specific need for MP3 jukebox features. Juk with KDE Net-Rhythm Jukebox (currently broken) Juk was functional and did a good job at organizing my small mp3 collection. Curtis On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:38:05 -0700, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD desktop newcomer (Enemy Territory players read) - need minor help

2004-06-29 Thread klr
Andreas Davour wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, 1. I've added a 'paw' menu to access the main menu, but I'd like the win-key to open this menu. possible? Almost anything is possible, if you work hard enough. Please tell us more about what your environment

Using syslog(3) after chroot-ing

2004-06-29 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! I'm writing a daemon, which chroots after initialization. It uses syslog(3) extensively. I have already figured out, that I need to openlog() with LOG_NDELAY, otherwise syslog() will not find the syslogd's socket. Is there a similar trick to make it use the local timezone instead of UTC?

RE: Which book should I start?

2004-06-29 Thread Rajamani, Rajarajan (Rajarajan)
Hi, I am new to Bsd. I did a lot of research on the net which book should I start with. I got two of them. I can not deside which one should I start. Here are my books:: - The Complet FreeBSD. 4th Edition From O'Reilly, Greg Lehey. - Absolute BSD The ultimate guide to FreeBSD. From

Re: Which book should I start?

2004-06-29 Thread Luke Kearney
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:33:50 -0400 Rajamani, Rajarajan (Rajarajan) [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hi, I am new to Bsd. I did a lot of research on the net which book should I start with. I got two of them. I can not deside which one should I start. Here are my books:: - The Complet

file system activity question

2004-06-29 Thread Jeronimo Romero
quick question: is there a way to monitor filesystem writes the way tcp/dump monitors tcp/ip activity on the network??? I know this is sort of a strange question. but i was just curious. I'm not in this list so please cc: me. thanks. ___ [EMAIL

Problems installing perl from ports

2004-06-29 Thread Axel Sjstedt
Hello all, I've run into a problem trying to install the perl5.8 port that I cannot solve. I've been Googling around, and found a few having a simular problem, but no solution. I have not updated perl before, so the present version are the one that came bundled with FreeBSD. Here's the last bit

WinKey doesn't work in X.org? (was Re: Guide to x.org update?)

2004-06-29 Thread Geert Hendrickx
One difference I noticed, after switching to X.org, is that my WinKey doesn't work anymore. I used it a lot for custom keybindings in IceWM. Any clue, anyone? GH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

SASL and Sendmail

2004-06-29 Thread Eric Crist
I've installed SASL(Cyrus) according to the instructions found in the handbook. I've removed all the proper entries in the relay-domains file, but I get the following error message now when I try to send mail: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject:

SASL and Sendmail

2004-06-29 Thread Eric Crist
I've installed SASL(Cyrus) according to the instructions found in the handbook. I've removed all the proper entries in the relay-domains file, but I get the following error message now when I try to send mail: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject:

SASL and Sendmail

2004-06-29 Thread Eric Crist
I've installed SASL(Cyrus) according to the instructions found in the handbook. I've removed all the proper entries in the relay-domains file, but I get the following error message now when I try to send mail: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject:

Re: Mail list problems.

2004-06-29 Thread Eric Crist
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 07:14, Bill Moran wrote: Yes, but front-door.secure-computing.net doesn't resolve to anything. Well, I fixed it. We'll see if this gets to the list OK. -- Eric F Crist Keep your pecker hard and your powder dry, and the world WILL turn.

Cyrus SASL

2004-06-29 Thread Eric Crist
Hey all, My other message doesn't seem to have gone through, so I'll ask again. I followed the instruction to the letter from the documentation on the freebsd site for smtp auth via sendmail and cyrus-sasl. In order to get sendmail running, I had to delete a bunch of nearly blank lines from

SASL and Sendmail

2004-06-29 Thread Eric Crist
I've installed SASL(Cyrus) according to the instructions found in the handbook. I've removed all the proper entries in the relay-domains file, but I get the following error message now when I try to send mail: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject:

Re: Means of trimming files

2004-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:21 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote: So Ill start using truncate() for now, and start investigating perl. Thanks As I was writing the previous email, I thought about combining find with php's cli interface and came up with

Sorry!

2004-06-29 Thread Eric Crist
Hey all! Sorry for the multiple posts. I was trying to get my mail server working again, and apparently I did. I just didn't happen to get the mail queue cleared before I did so. Sorry again. Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588

SASL and Sendmail

2004-06-29 Thread Eric Crist
I've installed SASL(Cyrus) according to the instructions found in the handbook. I've removed all the proper entries in the relay-domains file, but I get the following error message now when I try to send mail: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject:

Routing problem in IPv4/IPSec VPN environment

2004-06-29 Thread James Howard
(This message may reappear in the future, it was rejected by the lists from my webhost.) As a personal favor, I am building a VPN for a small business. I have chosen FreeBSD for this due to my greater familiarity. The project will consist of linking four sites, each with a FreeBSD system

Re: SASL and Sendmail

2004-06-29 Thread Richard Stevenson
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Eric Crist wrote: I've installed SASL(Cyrus) according to the instructions found in the handbook. I've removed all the proper entries in the relay-domains file, but I get the following error message now when I try to send mail: 550 5.7.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]...

Freebsd 5.2.1 , poweredge 1750 amr and messages

2004-06-29 Thread Moti Levy
Anyone using poweredge 1750 's with raid ? FreeBSD installed smoothly but if i remove a drive and the array is degraded , i dont see any messages in the logs . any idea' s ? Thanks Moti ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: Can I access a USB device that has no driver attached?

2004-06-29 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Bernd Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:22:54PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: I have a UPS with a USB interface. There isn't a specific UPS driver in FreeBSD beyond uhid. If I were to connect the UPS's interface port without having a driver attached, is it

Re: WinKey doesn't work in X.org? (was Re: Guide to x.org update?)

2004-06-29 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:05:22 +0200 Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One difference I noticed, after switching to X.org, is that my WinKey doesn't work anymore. I used it a lot for custom keybindings in IceWM. Any clue, anyone? by your question, it sounds as though you didn't

Smarter ACL

2004-06-29 Thread DrVince
Hi, is there a way to make ACL smarter about mkdir? When I set the default on a directory, it works fine and the files in it gets the right perms. But the subdirectories doesn't get their execution perms. So those dirs are unusable. My standard commands for user's web roots (Apache running

RE: SASL and Sendmail

2004-06-29 Thread Eric Crist
How, more specifically, do I enable TLS/SSL in sendmail, and where does the 'p' go? Thanks for your help. Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 -Original Message- From: Richard Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:48 PM

Re: Can't install XVID from ports tree, can someone understand the error message?

2004-06-29 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Joachim Dagerot thusly... I ran make install in /usr/ports/multimedia/xvid and it compiled for quite some time and then suddenly the rows below came up. What is wrong and how can I solve the problems? gmake[2]: *** No rule to make target `reload1.c',

RE: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-29 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Kenneth Culver wrote: It runs OK, with some minor nits compared to x86 version. I'm not sure what the laptop maker is talking about... but if you boot the x86 version of FreeBSD, it'll work. I think they meant you can't switch from amd64 to x86 after already booting an

RE: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-29 Thread Remi
Just to clarify exactly what you mean. I can the x86 version of BSD with no changes to the BIOS, jumpers or anything on an AMD64? Sorry in advanced if this is a stupid question, Ive never dealt with anything but x86 -Original Message- From: Kenneth Culver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

OPIEKEY and ssh

2004-06-29 Thread Eric Crist
Hey all, I can't, for the life of me, remember what I did to get opie to work when you su to root. I have it working on one of three servers, but can't get it to work on the other two. Any advice would be great! Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588

Re: REPOST: Performance problems with FTP

2004-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Can you reproduce by moving ftp to a different port #? (Perhaps some quality-of-service thingy is providing different bandwidth by port...) I haven't tried that, but I forgot to mention that a Debian box located right next to the problem

Re: Means of trimming files

2004-06-29 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:50:25 -0400, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: find ./ -name '*.php' -exec php -r '$f = file_get_contents({}); $h = fopen({}, wb); fwrite($h, trim($f)); fclose($h);' \; It did the job perfectly. $ perl -0 -pi -e

Re: amavisd-new postfix issue

2004-06-29 Thread Logan Ashby
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:39:40 -0400, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jun 28 21:35:01 zeus amavis[68580]: (68580-01) WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups Jun 28 21:35:01 zeus postfix/smtpd[68669]: fatal: open dictionary: need type:name form instead of: # Jun 28 21:35:02

Re: home directory questions

2004-06-29 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Thomas Moyer wrote: Is it possible to setup a file server with FreeBSD and use that as a home partition and also share other files on a small network? What kinds of utilities would I need to run? I imagine NFS for *nix clients and Samba for MS clients. Also possibly share

Thunderbird and Postfix

2004-06-29 Thread Jonas Mazakolo
Hello, I find thunderbird to be my favorite email program, but unfortunately I have already set up good spam filters through postfix/procmail/fetchmail and I wish to keep that. I read that some have set up IMAP servers so thunderbird can access it. Is that possible? How can I set up a very

Re: firewall on cdrom

2004-06-29 Thread zam4ever
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:50:56 +0200, Feczak Szabolcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any similar projects like closedbsd out there ? NetBoz Firewall http://www.netboz.net/ Best regards, zam4ever ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Thunderbird and Postfix

2004-06-29 Thread uidzero
Jonas Mazakolo wrote: Hello, I find thunderbird to be my favorite email program, but unfortunately I have already set up good spam filters through postfix/procmail/fetchmail and I wish to keep that. I read that some have set up IMAP servers so thunderbird can access it. Is that possible? How

Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?

2004-06-29 Thread Jorge Mario G.
Hi there I have a dell D600 and FreeBSD works with no problem I think I had some problems with ACPI but then I fixed that prob. I dont have the intel wireless card I have the broadcom one and it works very nice with the patches from the Evil project (aka DNISulator) Jorge =

Re: Thunderbird and Postfix

2004-06-29 Thread Gary
Hi Jonas, --On Tuesday, June 29, 2004 08:52:47 PM -0700 Jonas Mazakolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find thunderbird to be my favorite email program, but unfortunately I have already set up good spam filters through postfix/procmail/fetchmail and I wish to keep that. I read that some have set up

Re: sendmail +userdb + Release 4.10p1

2004-06-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greeting, How do i translate any outgoing mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to indicate [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have tried the genericstable as well as the userdb and no luck attached is my configs, please assist. I've tried the config setups below

Re: amavisd-new postfix issue

2004-06-29 Thread dave
Hi, Thanks for your reply. I thought of a misplaced comment in postfix, but two things lead me away from that. Firstly, this only occurs when i bring amavisd in to the picture. And secondly, postfix check does not report any syntax errors. I'm getting tempted to post these files somewhere,

RE: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Kenneth Culver wrote: It runs OK, with some minor nits compared to x86 version. I'm not sure what the laptop maker is talking about... but if you boot the x86 version of FreeBSD, it'll work. I think they meant you can't switch from amd64

RE: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Remi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just to clarify exactly what you mean. I can the x86 version of BSD with no changes to the BIOS, jumpers or anything on an AMD64? Sorry in advanced if this is a stupid question, Ive never dealt with anything but x86 Yeah, no changes anywhere. I have my machine set

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2004-06-29 Thread wrivera
I recently install freebsd 5.2.1, which seemed to go well. But lately my system has been locking up and rebooting out or the blue. I have included the error that is displayed each time my system locks. Jun 29 20:37:09 candice syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Jun 29 20:37:09

Re: setting a disk read only

2004-06-29 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 26 Jun 2004 at 10:44, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:38:28AM +0200, MICSKO Viktor wrote: Is it possible to setting a *whole* disk read only? I mean the way linux does it with hdparm -r 1 device. So adding an -o ro parameter to mount isn't enough, I want to be sure

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