Which Laptop for FreeBSD

2006-04-06 Thread David Schulz
Hello all, i would like to buy a new Laptop in the very near future, and of course it has to run my favourite OS. I have never searched for a Laptop, and now that i did i am overwhelmed with the confusing variety of different Brands and Models. One of the big Questions i am having is; Should

font renderer already registered

2006-04-06 Thread snnn
Help! I got many warnings such as Warning: font renderer for .pcf already registered at priority 0 when I start X. there is my Xorg.0.log X Window System Version 6.9.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.0 i386 [ELF]

Is there a way of automatically including a CVS tag in a string substitution

2006-04-06 Thread Murray Taylor
I am looking for a way to do string substitution for CVS tags in the same fashion as the $Id$ method for the RCS version info etc... or the SCCS @(#) tagging syntax. Is there something dumb I have overlooked or does it take manual intervention to include the 'official' release tag into

Re: FAX software ?

2006-04-06 Thread Igor Robul
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:41:14PM +0200, simon butsana wrote: Hi, Try hylafax. mgetty+sendfax is much easier to tune. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

2006-04-06 Thread Igor Robul
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 05:50:47PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: For a 3rd party BIOS, 39.95 is cheap. They can be much higher, close to $100. But for $50 it is possible to buy new not so bad motherboard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: programmer questions - MMAP

2006-04-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
#include sys/mman.h #include fcntl.h #include stdio.h #include unistd.h main() { int ff=open(test,O_RDWR|O_CREAT,0666); char *adr; lseek(ff,124,0); write(ff,,1); adr=mmap(0,124,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_NOCORE,ff,0); Try MAP_NOCORE|MAP_SHARED here. It's probably defaulting to a private

Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-06 Thread orange_4444
I would like to run a BSD distribution off a 1GB USB Flash drive... What would be the most suitable - something like FreeSBIE? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Which-BSD---Flash-Drive-t1404225.html#a3779463 Sent from the freebsd-questions forum at Nabble.com.

Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Karl Ma
Hi, I have a python program in freebsd, doing a heavey indexing job involving a mega size array. The process is so memory-hungry that it starts swap after the physical RAM max out. (To be exact, I've lowered the per-process limitation to make this possible). However, when I use top to monitor

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 04:43:42PM +0800, Karl Ma wrote: Hi, I have a python program in freebsd, doing a heavey indexing job involving a mega size array. The process is so memory-hungry that it starts swap after the physical RAM max out. (To be exact, I've lowered the per-process

adding ip:s with different gateway

2006-04-06 Thread Perttu Laine
I have currently ip:s from block ...125.192/26 on my freebsd server. with gateway ...125.193. added via rc.conf: defaultrouter=...125.193 ifconfig_rl0=inet ...125.194 netmask 255.255.255.192 ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet ...125.195 netmask 255.255.255.255 ifconfig_rl0_alias1=inet ...125.196 netmask

BST instead of GMT

2006-04-06 Thread Philip Radford
Hi all, I am looking for a way to get my FreeBSD 5.3 box to show my local time as BST (British Summer Time) as apposed to GMT. I have checked and double-checked the timezone and have set this to Europe/London. However I think I need to do something with the locale. Hunting around led me to

RESOLVED : Low perf of i386 6.0 on dell poweredge 1850 bi-Xeon2.8ghzDualCore

2006-04-06 Thread Eric
Hi, I'm comming back with solution to my problem. In fact solution was to disable any cache on perc4 controller. I do this at the beginning but with perc4 controller it doesn't seems to be effective unless you delete everything and put good configuration when creating the logical drive and on

Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
I've just installed a new server with gmirror and I like it. I've got an identical server running on-board RAID currently. Can I split the array in the BIOS, install gmirror on disk 1, reboot, and add the second disk in? Or will there be any complications with FreeBSD being initially

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-06 Thread freebsd-questions
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 01:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to the +CONTENTS file for the package, but then portmanager complains that it is nonexistent and won't complete 'portmanager -s'. To make matters more awkward, this package is built from a closed-source binary distribution and

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Igor Robul
Hello, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: I've just installed a new server with gmirror and I like it. I've got an identical server running on-board RAID currently. Can I split the array in the BIOS, install gmirror on disk 1, reboot, and add the second disk in?

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: I've just installed a new server with gmirror and I like it. I've got an identical server running on-board RAID currently. Can I split the array in the BIOS, install gmirror on disk 1, reboot, and add the second disk in? Or i

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
running for more than a few hours. In Windows XP, which has less per-task resource restriction (I guess?), I did successfully complete the task on the same hardware machine; although it takes more than 30 mins. How can I push up the priority of the whole paging task? How can I this will not

Re: BST instead of GMT

2006-04-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Philip Radford wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a way to get my FreeBSD 5.3 box to show my local time as BST (British Summer Time) as apposed to GMT. I have checked and double-checked the timezone and have set this to Europe/London. However I think I need to do something with the locale.

2 nets

2006-04-06 Thread Playnet
Hello freebsd-questions, I have two nets: wireless and ethernet and i need make something for combine these into 1 net. How do this in freebsd? -- Best regards, Playnet mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, that's fine, but how can I have a port on my system that isn't in the ports tree available to the world? I mean, won't anything I add to my local tree be deleted by cvsup'ing? cvsup won't delete things you add, but I believe portsnap does. I have a whole new

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Igor Robul
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:13:02PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: I've just installed a new server with gmirror and I like it. I've got an identical server running on-board RAID currently. Can I split the array in the BIOS,

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, that's fine, but how can I have a port on my system that isn't in the ports tree available to the world? I mean, won't anything I add to my local tree be deleted by cvsup'ing? Not with the default cvsup settings, no. cvsup will only delete things that were in the

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:03, Igor Robul wrote: I recommend you to follow this rule:  If it is not broken, then dont fix it. In your case I think you better leave all as is. Igor Actually one of the reasons is I get loads of out of memory errors (and a few others) during high load. Prob

PCL interprefer for unix

2006-04-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
anybody knows about program able to convert PCL printer code to postscript/PDF/bitmap/whatever - so it will be possible to view PCL prints on monitor and print it on non-PCL printers? thanks! Wojtek ___

Re: 2 nets

2006-04-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have two nets: wireless and ethernet and i need make something for combine these into 1 net. How do this in freebsd? man 4 bridge -- Best regards, Playnet mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Oneway mailing; does anything beat mailman??

2006-04-06 Thread Jonas Jacobsen
Hi list I work for af company who recently has started sending out weekly newsletters for other companys. Somtimes over 10 mail. It is only needed to send the mail out. And the most important is the speed. Is there another listsoftware there is better for oneway maling ??? and how

Java JDK, JRE 1.5 Binaries for FreeBSD

2006-04-06 Thread Rodrigo G. Tavares de Souza
Now we'll have a native JVM to FreeBSD It will be great...* *http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2006-April/001057.html http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14248limit=nothreshold=-1 Best Regards, Rodrigo Souza Sao Paulo - Brazil* *

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-06 Thread Joel Hatton
Alex Zbyslaw said: cvsup won't delete things you add, but I believe portsnap does. Thanks, Alex. I'll have to experiment with portsnap. cheers, -- Joel Hatton -- Infrastructure Manager | Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 The

Re: Cvsup installworld process question

2006-04-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bryan Curl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hopefully this is right place for my question and not to redundant. When in doubt, this (freebsd-questions) is always the right place for questions about FreeBSD. I have a new minimalist installation for use as a file server only (FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE)

pkg_add problem

2006-04-06 Thread serguey ogoltsoff
When I tried to pkg_add make-3.79.1 the attempt failed --NO RECORD. My try to copy the file via ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/make-3.79.1.tbz was also a failure. Then I sifted all http://ftps mirrored in A2.FTP Sites and found out that no one of them

Re: 2 nets

2006-04-06 Thread Igor Robul
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:51:08PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have two nets: wireless and ethernet and i need make something for combine these into 1 net. How do this in freebsd? man 4 bridge or better man 4 if_bridge ___

Re: PCL interprefer for unix

2006-04-06 Thread Igor Robul
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:50:33PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: anybody knows about program able to convert PCL printer code to postscript/PDF/bitmap/whatever - so it will be possible to view PCL prints on monitor and print it on non-PCL printers? Maybe

Re: understanding of make.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Beat.Siegenthaler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, i try to build NTP from ports. As I have a new old trimble GPS i want to add the parse clock for trimble tsip. When i do a ./configure --enable-TRIMTSIP directly in the work folder i get checking Trimble GPS receiver/TSIP

RE: Which Laptop for FreeBSD

2006-04-06 Thread fbsd_user
This question was just covered in great detail last 2 weeks. Check the archives for subject What laptop do you recommend? Secondly, you should first search the archives for answers to your questions before posting to this list. http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ us this url to search archives.

help for portdowngrade

2006-04-06 Thread Yuan Jue
Hi all. Could anyone please get me an outdated port called 'zh-CJK-4.6.0' through using portdowngrade zh-CJK-4.6.0 ? I am in a subnet and cannot connect the anonCVS directly. Any help would be very appreciate. Thanks in advance -- Best Regards Yuan Jue @ www.yuanjue.net

Re: Which Laptop for FreeBSD

2006-04-06 Thread David Kelly
On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:35 AM, David Schulz wrote: If there is anyone out there, that can recommend a new Laptop (Price is not an issue) that runs FreeBSD nicely, please let me know, i would most appreciate it. Apple released Boot Camp for their Intel based machines yesterday. I don't

Re: Oneway mailing; does anything beat mailman??

2006-04-06 Thread Emil Thelin
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Jonas Jacobsen wrote: I work for af company who recently has started sending out weekly newsletters for other companys. Somtimes over 10 mail. It is only needed to send the mail out. And the most important is the speed. Is there another listsoftware there is better

Security logfile

2006-04-06 Thread Jim Csoka
I accidentally deleted my security log file - /var/log/security I used touch to recreate the file, but logging is no longer occurring. I'm not sure why. It doesn't appear to be a permissions issue.I tried chmod 755 (I won't leave it that way) just to confirm that it wasn't a matter of

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Moran
Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just looking at Free BSD as a Windows alternative. I have a home workgroup that I am out growing and wanting to do more with, but don't want to give MS any more Hundreds of hard earned dollars. My first question is where can I find a site that will list

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Karl Ma wrote: The process is so memory-hungry that it starts swap after the physical RAM max out. (To be exact, I've lowered the per-process limitation to make this possible). What did you lower, exactly? If you reduce the max resident datasize needlessly, you're going to make your program

Postfix + saslauthd + Courier-IMAP

2006-04-06 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
Hi, I was using FreeBSD long time ago, and now I am trying to move back to FreeBSD from Linux. In doing so, I got a question on how to set up a FreeBSD 6.0 with Postfix + saslauthd (sasl2) + IMAP. I installed the necessary package from the ports, but I am not so clear how to set it up, and how

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Moran
Karl Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a python program in freebsd, doing a heavey indexing job involving a mega size array. The process is so memory-hungry that it starts swap after the physical RAM max out. (To be exact, I've lowered the per-process limitation to make this

Re: Security logfile

2006-04-06 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
On 04/06/06 15:52, Jim Csoka wrote: I accidentally deleted my security log file - /var/log/security I used touch to recreate the file, but logging is no longer occurring. I'm not sure why. It doesn't appear to be a permissions issue. I tried chmod 755 (I won't leave it that way) just to

Re: adding ip:s with different gateway

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Moran
Perttu Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have currently ip:s from block ...125.192/26 on my freebsd server. with gateway ...125.193. added via rc.conf: defaultrouter=...125.193 ifconfig_rl0=inet ...125.194 netmask 255.255.255.192 ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet ...125.195 netmask

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-06 09:49, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just looking at Free BSD as a Windows alternative. I have a home workgroup that I am out growing and wanting to do more with, but don't want to give MS any more Hundreds of hard earned dollars. My

RE: Postfix + saslauthd + Courier-IMAP

2006-04-06 Thread Zimmerman, Eric
I was using FreeBSD long time ago, and now I am trying to move back to FreeBSD from Linux. In doing so, I got a question on how to set up a FreeBSD 6.0 with Postfix + saslauthd (sasl2) + IMAP. I installed the necessary package from the ports, but I am not so clear how to set it up, and

Re: Oneway mailing; does anything beat mailman??

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jonas Jacobsen wrote: Somtimes over 10 mail. It is only needed to send the mail out. And the most important is the speed. Hmm. We are talking about opt-in lists, right? Is there another listsoftware there is better for oneway maling ??? Mailman is a fine mailing list manager, and I

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread eoghan
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-04-06 09:49, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just looking at Free BSD as a Windows alternative. I have a home workgroup that I am out growing and wanting to do more with, but don't want to give MS any more Hundreds of hard

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread usleepless
Hello, i am just wondering myself: this has nothing to with copy on write? or does that not exist on neither platform? regards, usleep On 4/6/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a python program in freebsd, doing a heavey indexing job

Re: Postfix + saslauthd + Courier-IMAP

2006-04-06 Thread Emil Thelin
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: In doing so, I got a question on how to set up a FreeBSD 6.0 with Postfix + saslauthd (sasl2) + IMAP. I installed the necessary package from the ports, but I am not so clear how to set it up, and how to run it. http://postfixwiki.org/ - will probably

Problems with Maxtor external USB hard drive - 6.1-PRERELEASE

2006-04-06 Thread Duncan Sayers
I am trying to use a Maxtor 3200 300GB external USB drive. When I connect the drive I get the following message: uhub0: device problem (SET_ADDR_FAILED), disabling port 2 You'll also see this in the dmseg that follows from when the drive was plugged in at bootup. There is nothing wrong

linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 is forbidden

2006-04-06 Thread Peter
Anyone know how to install flash6 on FreeBSD 5.4? This is what I get when I try to install the port: - === linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 is forbidden: http://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/83421018-b3ef-11da-a32d-000c6ec775d9.html. *** Error code 1 Stop

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread usleepless
how about one of the LiveCDs? or don't they work like knoppix/ubuntu auto configuring the most important hardware ( inputdevices, audio, video ) ? regards, usleep On 4/6/06, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-04-06 09:49, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
orange_ wrote: I would like to run a BSD distribution off a 1GB USB Flash drive... What would be the most suitable - something like FreeSBIE? That's possible. You do understand that flash drives only have very limited # of write cycles before they fail, and should be operated in

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i am just wondering myself: this has nothing to with copy on write? or does that not exist on neither platform? COW is only relevent when a process forks and the OS can make decisions about whether memory can be shared between the two processes. He hasn't

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how about one of the LiveCDs? or don't they work like knoppix/ubuntu auto configuring the most important hardware ( inputdevices, audio, video ) ? This sidesteps the point. If he doesn't have time to deal with hardware issues, does he have time to deal with software

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread usleepless
i guess you are right. i just wanted to bring it up, it should be mentioned in my opinion. maybe it saves a soul. regards, usleep On 4/6/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how about one of the LiveCDs? or don't they work like knoppix/ubuntu auto

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
Bill Moran wrote: Don't use FreeBSD. I know this will be an unpopular post on this list, but you've said a number of things that tell me that you will be unsuccessful with FreeBSD: 1) You don't seem to have any Unix experience 2) You're coming from a Windows world 3) You don't have time or

Re: FreeBSD hangs at boot

2006-04-06 Thread usleepless
Daniel, the only thing i can think of at the moment is go on removing hardware. remove the cd, the slave-hd etc. i can understand if you are not happy about it, it is your decision. regards, usleep On 4/6/06, Daniel A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am trying to get FreeBSD 6.0 running on

Re: FreeBSD hangs at boot

2006-04-06 Thread usleepless
Giorgios, i did it again! sorry! regards, usleep ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am just looking at Free BSD as a Windows alternative. I have a home workgroup that I am out growing and wanting to do more with, but don't want to give MS any more Hundreds of hard earned dollars. My first question is where can I find a site that will list all approved or thoroughly

Re: Linksys EG1032 support

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 18:43, Benjamin Lutz wrote: Hello Ashley, On Wednesday 05 April 2006 17:08, Ashley Moran wrote: I've tested the 6.1-BETA4 CD and that supports the card. I forgot my desktop actually runs a very old 6-STABLE, so the Linksys card v3 support must have been added a

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:13, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i think - just YES. no problem Wojciech You were right to have faith! It went perfectly and the server is now up on gmirror. Only took 90 mins or so to rebuilt a 200GB disk too. I've got to say this gmirror thing is scarily easy to set

Re: understanding of make.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Beat Siegenthaler
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Did you have any reason to think that would work? I would expect the syntax to be more like CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-TRIMTSIP makes sense, I think this could really work... Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: cron question

2006-04-06 Thread RW
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 01:32, Kevin Kinsey wrote: And furthermore, you edited /etc/crontab or something similar instead of using crontab(1) to edit /var/cron/tabs/root. Nitpicky, to be sure, but the cause of many a heartache:

Re: FAX software ?

2006-04-06 Thread usleepless
Hi Igor, Hi, Try hylafax. mgetty+sendfax is much easier to tune. exactly what needs tuning? ( if you are not in the mass-faxing-business ) regards, usleep ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: pkg_add problem

2006-04-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:22:17AM -0700, serguey ogoltsoff wrote: When I tried to pkg_add make-3.79.1 the attempt failed --NO RECORD. My try to copy the file via ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/make-3.79.1.tbz was also a failure. Then I sifted all

Re: linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 is forbidden

2006-04-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:20:12AM -0400, Peter wrote: Anyone know how to install flash6 on FreeBSD 5.4? This is what I get when I try to install the port: - === linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 is forbidden:

Re: RESOLVED : Low perf of i386 6.0 on dell poweredge 1850 bi-Xeon2.8ghzDualCore

2006-04-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:29:33PM +0200, Eric wrote: Hi, I'm comming back with solution to my problem. In fact solution was to disable any cache on perc4 controller. I do this at the beginning but with perc4 controller it doesn't seems to be effective unless you delete everything and put

Re: pkg_add problem

2006-04-06 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 06 April 2006 06:22, serguey ogoltsoff wrote: When I tried to pkg_add make-3.79.1 the attempt failed --NO RECORD. My try to copy the file via ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Lat est/make-3.79.1.tbz was also a failure. Then I sifted all

Re: Using javavmwrapper

2006-04-06 Thread Greg Lewis
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:28:26PM -0500, Jeff Cross wrote: Can anyone give me some guidance in using javavmwrapper? I have searched high and low (I know someone will post the link I have overlooked) but can't seem to find any detailed information on how to use it. I understand that there are

Re: jdk15 on 6.0

2006-04-06 Thread james g.
After several failed attempts at the package route, this was certainly a welcome surprise: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions! -james On Apr 3, 2006, at 12:55 PM, james g. wrote: Thanks everyone for the tips. I'm going to

Re: ipfw and ssh

2006-04-06 Thread RW
On Thursday 06 April 2006 02:50, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello everyone, Allow me to preface my problem by saying that I am very ignorant when it comes to networking. I do apologize if this is trivial. In any event, I enabled the client ifpw firewall located in /etc/ rc.firewall. This

Re: Help? (unix as windoze replacement)

2006-04-06 Thread wc_fbsd
At 09:49 AM 4/6/2006, you wrote: Don't use FreeBSD. I know this will be an unpopular post on this list, but you've said a number of things that tell me that you will be unsuccessful with FreeBSD: Unpopular, perhaps. But good advice. If you're looking for a nearly effortless desktop unix,

Re: linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 is forbidden

2006-04-06 Thread Peter
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:20:12AM -0400, Peter wrote: Anyone know how to install flash6 on FreeBSD 5.4? This is what I get when I try to install the port: - ===

Re: ipfw and ssh

2006-04-06 Thread RW
On Thursday 06 April 2006 03:27, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: What is the easiest way of making changes to the firewall rules and applying them so I do not have to reboot each time? I assume a kldunload ipfw.ko and then a kldload ipfw.ko should do it, but I don't want to risk doing something

NAT, VPN and other SOHO router advice

2006-04-06 Thread Nick Stenning
Dear all, I'm currently in the process of jiggling around my SOHO router and a FreeBSD box that I'd like to make more of a router. As it stands currently, the setup is something like this (I hope you've reading this in monospace or it's gonna be a like reading a circuit diagram on a

run_rc_command and redirect stdout

2006-04-06 Thread Miguel
Hi, what are the alternatives to redirect stdout from a process started using run_rc_command, only 21 /tmp/xxx ? --- miguel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 is forbidden

2006-04-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:10:52PM -0400, Peter wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:20:12AM -0400, Peter wrote: Anyone know how to install flash6 on FreeBSD 5.4? This is what I get when I try to install the port:

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
Ashley Moran wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:13, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i think - just YES. no problem Wojciech You were right to have faith! It went perfectly and the server is now up on gmirror. Only took 90 mins or so to rebuilt a 200GB disk too. I've got to say this

SCO OPENSERVER

2006-04-06 Thread American Eye Center
I just had a really quick question, the company I work for uses a software that runs on SCO Openserver 5, or later, I have read that Freebsd is compatible with software written for SCO OpenServer, I just wanted some specs as to how compatible you are, the software vendor is being shitty and

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
On Apr 06, 2006, at 5:35 pm, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi Ashley, I'm glad things worked well for you. Faith got you this far but how long do you want to depend upon it? A long time ago I was tasked with the administration of some HP-UX boxes running on K-series hardware. I didn't setup the

Re: SCO OPENSERVER

2006-04-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 06), American Eye Center said: I just had a really quick question, the company I work for uses a software that runs on SCO Openserver 5, or later, I have read that Freebsd is compatible with software written for SCO OpenServer, I just wanted some specs as to how

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/6/06, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-04-06 09:49, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just looking at Free BSD as a Windows alternative. I have a home workgroup that I

Access ip local

2006-04-06 Thread EDPSB
Dear Sir, Iam a beginner with freebsd. Iam using vers 4.11 fo gateway with dedicated internet. If i want to access one of comp client (ip local) from internet ,how can i do??? Example : ip client : 192.168.1.25 port 80, 4500,4600 Is it possible to using ipfw??? Thankyou for your help. Best

Re: linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 is forbidden

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:10:52PM -0400, Peter wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:20:12AM -0400, Peter wrote: Anyone know how to install flash6 on FreeBSD 5.4? This is what I get when I try to install the port:

Re: Access ip local

2006-04-06 Thread Andy Reitz
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, EDPSB wrote: Dear Sir, Iam a beginner with freebsd. Iam using vers 4.11 fo gateway with dedicated internet. If i want to access one of comp client (ip local) from internet ,how can i do??? Example : ip client : 192.168.1.25 port 80, 4500,4600 Is it possible to using

Re: NAT, VPN and other SOHO router advice

2006-04-06 Thread Andy Reitz
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Nick Stenning wrote: [snip] First, NAT'ing. Currently the Vigor router (10.0.0.2) is the default router for the network, as specified by the FBSD box's DHCP server. If I disconnect the cable I want to disconnect, however, obviously the FBSD box will have to be the router.

web server attack

2006-04-06 Thread fbsd_user
Posted this at 11am and now its 5:30pm and still have not seen this post return from the list mailer. So posting it again. In my httpd-access.log I have started receiving a lot of these. Looks like some kind of attack to me. This first showed up in my log on April fools day 4/1/06 and get 4 per

Re: FreeBSD stickers

2006-04-06 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Ashley Moran wrote: and 10 Linux Inside badges for our less-enlightened network admin :) For superior enlightenment, attach with a nail to the forehead :-) Wow, nice Tom Waits reference :^) -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] **

Re: NAT, VPN and other SOHO router advice

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Nick Stenning wrote: [ ... ] The second part of the question is perhaps slightly more complex. The Vigor router has set up on it a LAN-to-LAN PPTP VPN (enough acronyms for you?) to an office elsewhere. As it stands currently, machines on the LAN can access (ping/SMB shares) a class C subnet,

Re: web server attack

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
fbsd_user wrote: [ ... ] Does anyone know what this is and what I can do to stop it besides adding the ip address to my firewall block rules? I suppose that someone is trying to exploit mod_proxy to connect to an SMTP server (that's the CONNECT 4.79.181.15:25 part), or at least get HTTP

Re: NAT, VPN and other SOHO router advice

2006-04-06 Thread Nick Stenning
On 4/6/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given what you've said, you should set up the FreeBSD machine as a bridge rather than a router. It's possible to do other things, such as changing the NAT address range used by rl1 and your Vigor 2600, yet also set up NAT on the FreeBSD

Re: ipfw and ssh

2006-04-06 Thread Ean Kingston
Okay Anthony, Here is a bit more detail on your IPFW setup. Here is the section of rc.firewall that is relevant what we've discussed. View this in HTML mode if you can. I've highlighted changes in red and my own comments in blue. I also noticed that you use a Netgear router in your setup. You

Re: linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 is forbidden

2006-04-06 Thread Peter
--- Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:10:52PM -0400, Peter wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:20:12AM -0400, Peter wrote: Anyone know how to install flash6 on FreeBSD 5.4? This is what I

Re: Using Macromedia flash with native firefox

2006-04-06 Thread Ean Kingston
Thanks sort of. As your previous post mentioned, you were trying to do this with firefox 1.0.7 and you couldn't get it to work with firefox 1.5. Well, I went through it anyway and still couldn't get it to work but, oddly, when I started putting the flash stuff back into

Re: web server attack

2006-04-06 Thread Frank Laszlo
Chuck Swiger wrote: fbsd_user wrote: [ ... ] Does anyone know what this is and what I can do to stop it besides adding the ip address to my firewall block rules? I suppose that someone is trying to exploit mod_proxy to connect to an SMTP server (that's the CONNECT 4.79.181.15:25 part), or at

Re: pkg_add problem

2006-04-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:13:20AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 06:22, serguey ogoltsoff wrote: When I tried to pkg_add make-3.79.1 the attempt failed --NO RECORD. My try to copy the file via ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Lat

Re: jdk15 on 6.0

2006-04-06 Thread Mario Beltran
james g. escribió: After several failed attempts at the package route, this was certainly a welcome surprise: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml I have downloaded diablo-jre-freebsd6-1.5.0.06.00.tbz from the link above, ha, by the way i have a FreeBSD 6.1 box, when i

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread Daniel A.
So, Bill is basically (fully? !!) right. Anyone who's looking for a BSD for Idiots guide doesn't yet have the temperament established to give BSD a fair shake. BSD for idiots is an anachronism*, though I do have a copy, somewhere, of UNIX for Dummies, which apparently never made the Best

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