Can no longer boot 4.10 after installing 5.3RC1 on different partition.

2004-10-27 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Good day, A have a serious problem going on with my hard drive. My hard disk, 80 GB seagate has 4 partitions. 1 freebsd 4.10 2 openbsd 3.5 3 linux 4 Win2k I've downloaded the miniinst iso of FreeBSD 5.3 and decided to install it in linux partition. During the installation, I've deleted the

Flash Drives Sanity Check

2004-10-27 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi List ! I was wondering if anyone had any experience of running FreeBSD out of Compact Flash ? The HDD to Flash adapters are around 15GBP here and 1GB of Flash about 70GBP I know there are some projects around that use Compact Flash (like Openbrick) but I was thinking more in terms of

Re: Flash Drives Sanity Check

2004-10-27 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Does CF stand lots of read / write operations ? I read somewhere that it has quite low life expectancy ? I can't help you out on much of the quest, but this part is generally advertised when full specs are given for the card. Often I see cards looking in the neighbourhood of 100,000

RE: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

2004-10-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Micheal Patterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:23 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows I've seen the stuff with my

RE: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

2004-10-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I said it takes a higher talent level to generally administer a un*x box than a windows box. I

Re: Compiling PF and IPFW in the same kernel

2004-10-27 Thread Andrey Simonenko
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:46:53 +0100 in lucky.freebsd.questions, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Anyone knows if there is any problem in compiling ipfw and pf in the same kernel? Which one will be turned of by default? Or will they both be turned on? Will the default rule for PF be allow all ? They

VPN questions

2004-10-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am looking at how to implement VPN but I'm getting confused as to how IPSec, IKE, OpenSSL, FreeSWAN, racoon etc. all fit into the picture. I am looking at two scenarios, and I have two questions. 1) Standard IPSec tunnel: ++ IPSec/VPN ++ LAN---| FW

Re: Network speed mysteries

2004-10-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:46:02PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: Just an hour ago I decided to rebuild the file-server kernel - and it takes time to build it there, as it's an old Celeron box with little RAM. By coincidence, some files were being uploaded just when I entered make buildkernel

RE: GPL vs BSD Licence

2004-10-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GPL vs BSD Licence In a message dated 10/26/04 2:32:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

Re: FreeBSD and UPS's

2004-10-27 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Michael, On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 you wrote: I was just curious if FreeBSD supports any of the UPS's that have the automated powerdown feature in the event of powerloss (APM)? I'm using apcupsd with an APC Back-UPS Pro 650 under FreeBSD 4.10. It works great, including automatic powerdown.

Firewall and nmap

2004-10-27 Thread Florian Hengstberger
Hi! I'm compiled a Kernel using the GENERIC config-file that comes with the default 5.2.1 installation adding support for ipfw. I tried to scan my computer with a linux machine running nmap, but nmap tells me that the host seems to be down altough I was able to ping the freebsd-host. So I flushed

RE: GPL vs BSD Licence

2004-10-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Danny MacMillan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 11:24 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Graham Bentley; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GPL vs BSD Licence I will preface my reply with the following disclaimer: I am no lawyer.

Re: Firewall and nmap

2004-10-27 Thread Mark Frasa
On 2004.10.27 11:26:00 +, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I'm compiled a Kernel using the GENERIC config-file that comes with the default 5.2.1 installation adding support for ipfw. I tried to scan my computer with a linux machine running nmap, but nmap tells me that the host seems to

RE: GPL vs BSD Licence

2004-10-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gert Cuykens Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GPL vs BSD Licence If you buy a product what would you want ? A pretty box or pretty

Re: First impressions of FreeBSD 5.3

2004-10-27 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 06:31 pm, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Gordon Freeman wrote: ipfstat doesn't run. The error: openkmem:open:no such file or directory device mem in your kernel config. this bit me in the ass as well. ~j Heh - I see they pushed the formal release back to Nov. 5 My

Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

2004-10-27 Thread Adrien Reboisson
Hi all ! I'm new to freeBSD and I've a question about mozilla installation. I want to install mozilla. I use : su cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla make Files begin to be downloaded on my computer, all seems to be OK... But suddenly the process is stopped : === Configuring for

Re: some advice needed to considering to move my w2k machine into a freebsd workstation.

2004-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-26 16:31, Jian Guang Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My current system follows: AMD Athlon 1600+, 1 Gigabytes RAM, 40 Giga harddrive, GeForce 2 with 32 Mb, AC97 Onboard Audio Adaptor, D-Link DFE-538TX. The hardware is more than ok for running recent versions of FreeBSD. You shouldn't

Diagnosing program crashes.

2004-10-27 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
I have just destroyed a keyboard over this utterly frustrating problem; Evolution, (usr/ports/mail/evolution) crashes only about 1-2 minutes of use and by crash I mean that it crashes the entire system; screen freezes, keyboard locks up, have to flick switch off at back of computer. These

Re: Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

2004-10-27 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
Adrien Reboisson wrote: Hi all ! I'm new to freeBSD and I've a question about mozilla installation. I want to install mozilla. I use : su cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla make Files begin to be downloaded on my computer, all seems to be OK... But suddenly the process is stopped : === Configuring for

Re: Flash Drives Sanity Check

2004-10-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Graham Bentley wrote: I was wondering if anyone had any experience of running FreeBSD out of Compact Flash ? I would consider using NetBSD instead, as that OS seems to support a stripped-down config somewhat easier than FreeBSD (or PicoBSD). I am using NetBSD on a Soekris 4801 box via CF:

4.10 - 5.2.1

2004-10-27 Thread Mini Me
Where can i find a step by step upgrade method (from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.2.1)? Sorry if I seem lazy, but is somehow urgent (because a Plesk interface must be installed). Please post any link you think might be useful. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

2004-10-27 Thread Adrien Reboisson
Thank you Ben I don't understand where is the problem : when I ask freeBSD to install mozilla, sources and makefiles are downloaded from Internet - they should be up to date, no ? Anyway I'll try to use your command. Thank you very much. Regards, A.R. For a quick fix you could try pkg_add -r

Re: 4.10 - 5.2.1

2004-10-27 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:48, Mini Me wrote: Where can i find a step by step upgrade method (from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.2.1)? Sorry if I seem lazy, but is somehow urgent (because a Plesk interface must be installed). Please post any link you think might be useful. Thanks 1. Back up all valuable

Re: 4.10 - 5.2.1

2004-10-27 Thread Mini Me
I forgot to say it : remote. On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:01:02 +, Jeremy Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:48, Mini Me wrote: Where can i find a step by step upgrade method (from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.2.1)? Sorry if I seem lazy, but is somehow urgent (because a Plesk

Re: Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

2004-10-27 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
Adrien Reboisson wrote: Thank you Ben I don't understand where is the problem : when I ask freeBSD to install mozilla, sources and makefiles are downloaded from Internet - they should be up to date, no ? Not necessarily; you must update the skeleton files yourself using a utility like CVSup.

Re: GPL vs BSD Licence

2004-10-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [ ... ] You might consider that opensource.org is NOT a BSD site, it was setup by Linux people not BSD people. Sort of. The Open Source definition started from Debian guidelines about free software. However, the OSI board has people from various organizations besides

Re: Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

2004-10-27 Thread Brian Bobowski
Ben Washington-Yule wrote: For a quick fix you could try pkg_add -r XFree86-fontScalable, this will download and install the pre-compiled binary. When was the last time you CVSup'd? Good luck with that. When I'd just installed 5.2.1, I could pkg_add -r with a fair likelihood of success. Since

5.3 external ehci dvd drive

2004-10-27 Thread Dick Davies
Just got a new usb 2 enclosure and swapped out my internal cd/dvd drive to it. I can mount it fine on 5.3 as cd(4) over umass(4) but it's too slow to play DVDs over. Has anyone got this working, and is there a step I've missed? The 1Mb/s speed line looks worrying, though usbdevs does show it

Re: 5.3 external ehci dvd drive

2004-10-27 Thread Brian McCann
Did you compile ehci into the kernel? I chose to upgrade to 5.3 RC1 since it seamed to have better ehci support...still didn't work all that well with my drives...but it worked. Remember, ehci is new and buggy. :) --Brian On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:23:25 +0100, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 5.3 external ehci dvd drive

2004-10-27 Thread Dick Davies
* Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1032 12:32]: Did you compile ehci into the kernel? I chose to upgrade to 5.3 RC1 since it seamed to have better ehci support...still didn't work all that well with my drives...but it worked. Remember, ehci is new and buggy. :) Yeah, that's what I thought :)

Re: Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

2004-10-27 Thread Adrien REBOISSON
Okay : to upgrade the port system, I typed : portupgrade -all (I suppose it has the same effect than using cvsup, no ?) But, I still encounter problems with XFree86 (it's the first package which is downloaded) : XFree86-4.4.0-src-1.tgz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/xc. Attempting

Re: VPN questions

2004-10-27 Thread Aaron P. Martinez
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 03:38, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi, I am looking at how to implement VPN but I'm getting confused as to how IPSec, IKE, OpenSSL, FreeSWAN, racoon etc. all fit into the picture. I am looking at two scenarios, and I have two questions. 1) Standard IPSec tunnel:

Re: 4.10 - 5.2.1

2004-10-27 Thread Mini Me
like http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/FreeBSD53.html ? On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:03:41 +0200, Mini Me [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to say it : remote. On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:01:02 +, Jeremy Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:48, Mini Me wrote:

RE: Default router in a PPP conection was: [Re:]

2004-10-27 Thread Ming Zhang
OK, everybody, thank you very much! I have solved the problem. The reason that my dns server doesn't work is that the pppoe server filters the udp packages away.And the seemly problem that the gateway for device and its own ip address are the same is not a problem actually, because the only way

Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Jaime Moss
I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? I will also be looking at Linux. What is the differnce between FreeBSD and Linux? Kind regards Jaime Moss ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Mark Frasa
On 2004.10.27 12:18:03 +, Jaime Moss wrote: I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? I will also be looking at Linux. What is the differnce between FreeBSD and Linux? Kind regards Jaime Moss Freebsd has one: Sendmail, and

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Henry Miller
On 10/27/2004 at 12:18 Jaime Moss wrote: I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? sendmail is included, though mostly because it always has been included, not because we feel it is any good. Postfix, exim, and qmail are in ports in case you

Re: Re[2]: 2 Network Cards 2 IP's?

2004-10-27 Thread pete wright
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:54:40 +0200, Hexren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JP On Tuesday 26 October 2004 21:20, Hexren wrote: For example: 192.168.1.100 on NIC 1 192.168.1.101 on NIC 2 Gateway 192.168.1.1 -- Am I seeing the wrong problem

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jaime Moss wrote: What is the differnce between FreeBSD and Linux? The differences really only matters if you are using one system and want to change, they are mostly neuances in everyday use. You can run all the mentioned mailservers equally well on both FreeBSD and Linux, same configuration

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:18:03PM +0200, Jaime Moss wrote: I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? Yes, sendmail. There are also dozens of other mail servers in the ports collection. I will also be looking at Linux. What is the differnce

Re: xeon

2004-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:24:12PM -0700, sonjaya wrote: dear all can i use freebsd for my server ( Xeon 2 G ) Yes. This question is off-topic for freebsd-arch though; support questions should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in future. if can where should i read the document What document?

negative sbsize for uid = 0

2004-10-27 Thread jozzfest
I recently have been seeing the console and messages flooded with the following: Oct 27 00:00:01 deimos /kernel.old: negative sbsize for uid = 0 Oct 27 00:00:34 deimos last message repeated 131 times Oct 27 00:02:35 deimos last message repeated 51 times Oct 27 00:10:51 deimos last message

Sound problem

2004-10-27 Thread Gregory Nou
Hi folks ! Here is my question, related to sound. My problem is that when I have more than 2 days of uptime, I experience distorsions in the sound when I hear music, when I play games, or watch films, and even if the load is at 0.16 More surprising (and maybe related, but it is another question),

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? Yes, FreeBSd has about everything you would want and several alternatives for each. Sendmail is the long time workhorse of the Email agents. It gets some abuse because of its arcane configuration

5.3-RELEASE on Dell PowerEdge 2850

2004-10-27 Thread Tom Gidden
Hi, I've recently got a few Dell PowerEdge 2850 machines with 4 GB RAM to build a new database cluster. However, unlike our existing PowerEdge 2650 machines, they're only recognising about 3.25 GB. The machines are pretty much standard, with no extra cards (just the built-in MegaRAID).

ndis wrapper around dwl-520 rev E

2004-10-27 Thread lreid
Hello everybody, I'm starting fresh with FreeBSD 5 after my 4_STABLE system's disk ate itself, and I've been fighting with wireless adapters for a little while. I'm wondering if anyone can help me make some sense of this problem: The machine has inside it a DLink DWL-520 card. It's a revision

Re: Network speed mysteries

2004-10-27 Thread Andrew P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:46:02PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: Just an hour ago I decided to rebuild the file-server kernel - and it takes time to build it there, as it's an old Celeron box with little RAM. By coincidence, some files were being uploaded just when I entered

Re: First impressions of FreeBSD 5.3

2004-10-27 Thread Gordon Freeman
I'll toss that into my kernel the next time I can keep my server up long enough to run. But since the release date has been pushed back I promise not to start any more threads about 5.3. Very odd panic: panic: APIC: Previous IPI is stuck ___ [EMAIL

Problems to install FreeBSD 5.0 with USB keyboard

2004-10-27 Thread Thomas W. Summers
Hello read your message did you ever find a way to do the install??? If so could you share the info with me? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 5.3-RELEASE on Dell PowerEdge 2850

2004-10-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 27), Tom Gidden said: I've recently got a few Dell PowerEdge 2850 machines with 4 GB RAM to build a new database cluster. However, unlike our existing PowerEdge 2650 machines, they're only recognising about 3.25 GB. The machines are pretty much standard, with no

Re: Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

2004-10-27 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 06:45 am, Adrien REBOISSON wrote: Okay : to upgrade the port system, I typed : portupgrade -all (I suppose it has the same effect than using cvsup, no ?) No, it doesn't. To upgrade the port system, you need to use cvsup. to use cvsup, it needs to be installed.

Re: First impressions of FreeBSD 5.3

2004-10-27 Thread Chris Howells
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 11:06, Chris wrote: Heh - I see they pushed the formal release back to Nov. 5 My 5.3-RELEASE runs just dandy Working nicely here too. -bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD sauron.middleearth 5.3-BETA7 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 #0: Sat Oct 9 11:50:30BST 2004 [EMAIL

ACX100 Firmware Licensing

2004-10-27 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Compared to other types of hardware, the support for wireless cards is lacking on *BSD because many vendors don't provide documentation or the cards require the upload of a binary firmware image that, absurdly as it sounds, may not be redistributed. Well, some people are working on improving this

Re: VPN questions

2004-10-27 Thread Chris Shenton
Aaron P. Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggest looking at openvpn, it is a ssl based vpn that is fairly easy to set up. I might shy away from freeswan as it is for the most part out of development, only one more rollup and that's it. Any suggestions for something compatible with

installation of SSH port failing

2004-10-27 Thread Dean Pohlabel
Hi there, I'm trying to upgrade my version of SSH from 3.5p1 to 3.8.1p1 on a FreeBSD 4.10 machine. SSH 3.5p1 is working just fine, but I don't see it listed in either /var/db/pkg or /var/db/ports so I don't have a good way of uninstalling (that I know of). When I try to install the newer

installation of SSH port failing...one more try

2004-10-27 Thread Dean Pohlabel
Ack...sorry...had a little mailer problem with that last attempt. That message should have been: I'm trying to upgrade my version of SSH from 3.5p1 to 3.8.1p1 on a FreeBSD 4.10 machine. SSH 3.5p1 is working just fine, but I don't see it listed in either /var/db/pkg or /var/db/ports so I don't

RE: VPN questions

2004-10-27 Thread Michael Clark
Any suggestions for something compatible with Cisco's 3080 VPN product? Something that will work from behind my home NAT box, ideally? There is nothing that I know of, I have a 3000 at work and wanted to do the same thing. There is a cli client for the 3000 in ports that I did manage to get

Re: Sysinstall FTP from LAN - not working

2004-10-27 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 03:50:47PM -0400, Les Kruszewski wrote: I am trying to install 5.2.1 from an iMac running OSX with an FTP server. When I set up the FTP address I use the iMac's IP and enter the FreeBSD folder location. The iMac has a password and user so these are entered in the

Re: VPN questions

2004-10-27 Thread Aaron Nichols
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:47:43 -0500, Michael Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions for something compatible with Cisco's 3080 VPN product? Something that will work from behind my home NAT box, ideally? There is nothing that I know of, I have a 3000 at work and wanted to do the

Re: init - inittab , how to monitor process like on linux ?

2004-10-27 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:53:24PM +0200, ADNET Ghislain wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:45:13 +0200, ADNET Ghislain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The init process can watch daemon and respawn died ones on linux with simple configuration. I tried to reproduce this in my FreeBSD server. I

Re: Dmesg output confusion/printer problems

2004-10-27 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:56:12AM -0700, MrBluez wrote: Sorry to be impatient but I'm really curious about this stuff. I'm trying to get my printer (HP LaserJet 4L) to function in Free BSD 5.2.1. I'm following the handbook's instructions verbatim because I can't reliably get the printer to

Re: installation of SSH port failing

2004-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:29:47AM -0600, Dean Pohlabel wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to upgrade my version of SSH from 3.5p1 to 3.8.1p1 on a FreeBSD 4.10 machine. SSH 3.5p1 is working just fine, but I don't see it listed in either /var/db/pkg or /var/db/ports so I don't have a good way of

Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

2004-10-27 Thread Micheal Patterson
. - Original Message - From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:24 AM Subject: RE: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows I'll make this

[OT] Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

2004-10-27 Thread Ed Budd
little snip I'll make this short, sweet, and to the point. The Human Race, is by nature a lazy race. We, as in, ALL humans, strive to make our life easier. I'm well aware of monopolies and their effect on us. I'm also aware of how technology has changed our lives. If you think that you, or I don't

ATA Slave Devices

2004-10-27 Thread Jim Chapman
I have 2 devices that will not work as slaves. They are a CD-RW drive and an IDE tape drive. They both work fine as masters. They give a message ATA identify retries exceeded during the boot. I have tried different combinations of masters and slaves and different cables. The bios recognizes

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 / XFree86 4.3 .0 on Dell Inspiron 5000

2004-10-27 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:41:00 -0700 (PDT) orig injun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am wondering if somebody can help me get X up and running on my Dell Inspiron 5000 Laptop. hello, most likely. it has been running just fine on mine for years now. After installing the OS and

Problems with NAT on gif interface for VPN (long post)

2004-10-27 Thread Aaron Nichols
All, I'm having a problem getting nat to work on a gif interface. My goal here is to have a FreeBSD host (which is the gateway for a home network) connect to a VPN using a client vpn setup and masquerade (nat) the network behind the FreeBSD host using a single IP provided by the corporate VPN

MRTG monitoring specific ports

2004-10-27 Thread Spades
Hi, Is there anyway for us to trace the server bandwidth based on specific ports on a MRTG graph? Such as smtp bandwidth? port 25 pop3 bandwidth? port 110 web bandwidth? port 80 dns bandwidth? port 53 Is there any program or can MRTG do, please advise, thanks. -- Spades

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread W. D.
At 04:18 10/27/2004, Jaime Moss wrote: I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? Yes. I use qmail--it's very good with high volume. I will also be looking at Linux. What is the differnce between FreeBSD and Linux? They are both good operating

Re: MRTG monitoring specific ports

2004-10-27 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Spades wrote: | Hi, | | Is there anyway for us to trace the server bandwidth based on | specific ports on a MRTG graph? | | Such as smtp bandwidth? port 25 | pop3 bandwidth? port 110 | web bandwidth? port 80 | dns bandwidth? port 53 | | Is there any

Re: 4.10 - 5.2.1

2004-10-27 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 12:42, Mini Me wrote: like http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/FreeBSD53.html ? That describes the basic update procedure to build from source. Not specifically to update 4.10 - 5.x Your best hope to do the update remotely is:

pf moved to the base system, please build it from there

2004-10-27 Thread FreeBsdBeni
Hi, I've upgraded from 5.2.1 to 5.3-release and I had to rebuild quite some ports. So far all went ok (I think...). But then I came on pf. And when I tried to make reinstall, it gave me just a pf moved to the base system, please build it from there message. I launched sysinstall but I didn't

Re: Serial console weirdness

2004-10-27 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 26. Oktober 2004 18:18 schrieb Mark Cullen: Mark Cullen wrote: Artem Kazakov wrote: Mark Cullen wrote: Ok, I am having a bit of trouble setting up a serial console login. The cable is attached to com1, heres my /etc/ttys # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to

Re: pf moved to the base system, please build it from there

2004-10-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:16:18PM +0200, FreeBsdBeni wrote: Hi, I've upgraded from 5.2.1 to 5.3-release and I had to rebuild quite some ports. So far all went ok (I think...). But then I came on pf. And when I tried to make reinstall, it gave me just a pf moved to the base system, please

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 / XFree86 4.3 .0 on Dell Inspiron 5000

2004-10-27 Thread orig injun
Hello Epi, Thanks for your kind reply. Some comments inline : --- epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:41:00 -0700 (PDT) orig injun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am wondering if somebody can help me get X up and running on my Dell Inspiron 5000

Re: ATA Slave Devices

2004-10-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jim Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have 2 devices that will not work as slaves. They are a CD-RW drive and an IDE tape drive. They both work fine as masters. They give a message ATA identify retries exceeded during the boot. I have tried different combinations of masters and

Disk Problems

2004-10-27 Thread Hexren
In which log file should I look to find disk error messages, and which variable controls the log level for this kind of Problems (if there is any) Background. I have FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p11 running and serving my windows client a few samba shares. (2 shares from 2 physicaly different disks to

Re: 5.3 external ehci dvd drive

2004-10-27 Thread jason
Dick Davies wrote: Just got a new usb 2 enclosure and swapped out my internal cd/dvd drive to it. I can mount it fine on 5.3 as cd(4) over umass(4) but it's too slow to play DVDs over. Has anyone got this working, and is there a step I've missed? The 1Mb/s speed line looks worrying, though

Re: 4.10 - 5.2.1

2004-10-27 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/27/04 6:49:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can i find a step by step upgrade method (from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.2.1)? Sorry if I seem lazy, but is somehow urgent (because a Plesk interface must be installed). Please post any link you think might be

Re: 4.10 - 5.2.1

2004-10-27 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 2004-10-27] In a message dated 10/27/04 6:49:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can i find a step by step upgrade method (from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.2.1)? Sorry if I seem lazy, but is somehow urgent (because a Plesk interface must be installed).

Re: GPL vs BSD Licence

2004-10-27 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/27/04 4:49:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is yet another example of the GPL license flaw. While any of the copyright holders of the Linux kernel could sue Allot, if they don't, it pretty much builds evidence that is going to help those that

Need some ideas

2004-10-27 Thread Bob Bomar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am building a machine that connects to my stereo, to play mp3's, and does some other stuff. I am looking a way to add a keypad for fast forward/rewind/stop/play/pause/next/prev, etc. I tried hacking a keyboard, but I didnt get too far. The one

Software or hardware RAID1. (gstripe)

2004-10-27 Thread Thordur I.
I´m currently trying to decide upon a sultion on how to go about keepin my data safe. Now, a RAID1 setup sounds good in this position. But I can´t seem to find an answer to one question. Let´s say that I have 2x 120Gb (ad1 and ad2) disk. I stripe them wich should give something like

Re: 4.10 - 5.2.1

2004-10-27 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/27/04 4:55:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would you please use any form of quoting character to prefix the qouted lines of your reply? Any style would suffice. It's very hard to read your emails without. - Welcome to AOL my friend :)

Re[2]: 4.10 - 5.2.1

2004-10-27 Thread Hexren
Tac In a message dated 10/27/04 4:55:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Tac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tac Would you please use any form of quoting character to prefix the qouted Tac lines of your reply? Any style would suffice. It's very hard to read your Tac emails without. Tac - Tac Welcome to

Seeking help resolving an apparent device conflict

2004-10-27 Thread Jim McIntosh
Thanks for considering my dilemma. I have installed 5.1 on old PC and am having trouble with the NIC. Although I was able with the help of a couple of 'set hint' statements at boot loader to use the NIC to use ftp for the installation, now the NIC is unavailable after re-booting. After having

getloadavg and source for /usr/bin/uptime

2004-10-27 Thread David Jenkins
Hi, I'm running 5.3-RC1 and am trying to develop a (VERY) simple C based tool to retrieve the system loads (as reported by uptime). NB - I don't want to pipe uptime into awk or use a perl script etc, I'd much prefer it to be C based. As I'm dreadful at C I thought I'd look at the source for the

Re: GPL vs BSD Licence

2004-10-27 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/27/04 12:59:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you buy a product what would you want ? A pretty box or pretty software ? Finishing the product is just marketing and trying to make a very pretty box to put the software in. When something is open source

Re: getloadavg and source for /usr/bin/uptime

2004-10-27 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:09:46PM +0100, David Jenkins wrote: NB - I don't want to pipe uptime into awk or use a perl script etc, I'd much prefer it to be C based. If you *did* want to do it that way, something like uptime | sed -e 's/.*: \([0-9.]*\).*/\1/' is handy. If any knows where

Re: Opteron problem after recompile is ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp

2004-10-27 Thread Peter G
thx Kris i went over the kernel config file and it doesn't seem so, i successfully made another 3 kernels w/ more and more components in each, up to the point where the only items i did away with were just the NiC cards teh machine dowsn't have. In each case they all compile fine BUT they all

snd_neomagic kldloads, then 5.2.1-p11 freezes

2004-10-27 Thread Jan Stary
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1-p11 on a Dell Latitude LS notebook. (See KERNCONF and dmesg at the end.) Nearly everything is working fine, except for the sound chip. I built the sound stuff as modules (sound/pcm + sound/driver/neomagic, resulting in snd_pcm + snd_neomagic). When I try to

RE: font size on console.

2004-10-27 Thread Hauan, David
-Original Message- From: Eric Kjeldergaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 5:28 PM To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: font size on console. On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:15:34 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: getloadavg and source for /usr/bin/uptime

2004-10-27 Thread David Jenkins
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:14:18 -0600, Tillman Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably because /usr/bin/uptime is a hard link to the /usr/bin/w binary. I think you want the code from /usr/src/usr.bin/w/w.c. D'oh. That's exactly what I'm after. Thanks, David

Self-healing portversion?

2004-10-27 Thread Steven Friedrich
I ran portversion to check my ports after a make update, followed by portsdb -Uu. First time I ran portversion, it spewed errors. Second time it ran without error. Here's the session. % portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Warning: Duplicate INDEX

Re: Opteron problem after recompile is ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp

2004-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 03:23:48PM -0700, Peter G wrote: thx Kris i went over the kernel config file and it doesn't seem so, i successfully made another 3 kernels w/ more and more components in each, up to the point where the only items i did away with were just the NiC cards teh machine

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jaime Moss wrote: I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? I will also be looking at Linux. What is the differnce between FreeBSD and Linux? Kind regards Jaime Moss Hee hee, one is a devil armed with a big pitchfork, and the other a helpless

Re: GPL vs BSD Licence

2004-10-27 Thread nbco
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/27/04 12:59:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you buy a product what would you want ? A pretty box or pretty software ? Finishing the product is just marketing and trying to make a

RE: font size on console.

2004-10-27 Thread David Fleck
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Hauan, David wrote: So where is the best place to load this at boot so when all users log in they get the vidcontrol settings I set. On my 4.9 system, I put the following into /etc/rc.conf: allscreens_flags=132x43 to set vidcontrol for all the ttys. It gets picked up by

mplayerplugin on 5.3-beta7: what gives?

2004-10-27 Thread Gary Kline
People, Here I'm running 4.10 anf the mplayerplugin port works nicely with mozilla. On my laptop I've got 5.3-BETA7. mplayerplugin shows up, it pretends to be loading for a few seconds. It says Playing kuow.org ... but no sound. Here,

Re: VPN questions

2004-10-27 Thread Eric Crist
On Oct 27, 2004, at 3:38 AM, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi, I am looking at how to implement VPN but I'm getting confused as to how IPSec, IKE, OpenSSL, FreeSWAN, racoon etc. all fit into the picture. I am looking at two scenarios, and I have two questions. 1) Standard IPSec tunnel: ++

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