running vmware3 on FreeBSD 5.2 with SMP

2004-02-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Hi, I have a problem running vmware3 on FreeBSD 5.2 on a HT processor (SMP). Dmesg says: device_probe_and_attach: xl1 attach returned 6 WARNING: driver "rtc" used unreserved major device number 202 vmmon: SMP support for this release is BROKEN. module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vmmon, 0xc4c08f17, 0

Re: configuring xl device

2004-02-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Dear Darryl, Could you check if Outlook has a option to cut the text at the word that have a letter at char 72. You now have it at ca. 100 and some of us have a screen that is 80 char width. And that doesn't result in something thats that readable On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:50:44PM -0600, Darryl

Re: KDE

2004-02-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:04:05AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Type startx and get message: Virtual height (0) is too small for hardware. Screen > found but none have a usable configuration. > Have tried all the display settings--don't know if monitor is the problem. > Thanks, > Jer

Re: power point

2004-02-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:38:28AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > hi, > > is there a way to convert ms powerpoint presentation into jpegs? > > or to view it under Freebsd? > > Install Openoffice. It has a presenter that can open Powerpoint > files to show them or incorporate them in to p

Re: Alcatel Speedtouch 330 using PPPOE, how can I do it on FreeBSD 4.9?

2004-02-19 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:01:29PM -, Godinho, Carla wrote: > Hi, > Is there anyone who has run with success the Modem Alcatel Speedtouch > 330 (USB) using the PPPOE, for FreeBSD 4.9? > Where can I find Alcatel Speedtouch 330 drivers or (ports) for FreeBSD > 4.9 using the PPPOE? > I'm trying to

Re: IPFW rules

2004-02-19 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:46:09PM -0800, Saint Aardvark the Carpeted wrote: > Peter Rosa disturbed my sleep to write: > > please what's the difference between this ipfw rules: > > > > ${fwcmd} add 6300

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Dear Robert, I was wondering, does your mailer hava option to cut the text on or becore char 72? This is a bit difficult to read, but i can answer you question. Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:46:57AM +0800

Re: System reboot afther shutdown -p

2004-02-15 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:53:42AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > Howdy, > > I have a problem with powering down my system. When I give the command > shutdown -p now then the system powers down, waits a couple of seconds > and the reboots. I've checked the BIOS but can&#

System reboot afther shutdown -p

2004-02-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Howdy, I have a problem with powering down my system. When I give the command shutdown -p now then the system powers down, waits a couple of seconds and the reboots. I've checked the BIOS but can't find anything wrong with it. I was wondering if anything i can do to fix this? I did look in the B

Re: domain and email problems

2004-02-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 03:39:13PM -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEIKEN wrote: > Just wondering why when i send email to yahoo or lycos and probably > hotmail too it always ends up in there bulk mail folder. This is a > great inconvenience do i need to be on or off some sort of list or > something. Any h

Re: background process limit?

2004-02-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 08:11:59PM +0100, Hugo (6s-gaming.com) wrote: > Hi list, > > Is there a way to limit background processes ? I need to separate these > from foreground processes, but can't find a way to. Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance. Dear Hugo, As an addition to what others already h

Re: ipfw bandwidth limit

2004-02-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 12:25:22PM -0600, Vulpes Velox wrote: > "Markus Kovero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:19:28 +0200 > > > I've got 172.16.0.0/24 network that is connected to internet via vpn > > gre tunnel. > > And now I've had bit hard time doing bandwidth control, m

Re: /tmp full (newbie)

2004-02-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:26:24PM +0100, gaf wrote: > Hello. > Im a newbie to unix and FreeBSD. I have 5.2 installed. When installing I > followed the advice in The Complete FreeBSD and made the following > partitions: > / 4G > swap 800M > /home 35G > I hav

Re: sendmail to a smarthost?

2004-02-11 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:56:53AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > >On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:31:10PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > > > > >>Hello. In my LAN the DNS server is my ADSL modem ... small device that > >>cannot do MX t

Re: Sendmail questions

2004-02-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:14:29AM -0800, Jason Williams wrote: > Morning everyone. > > I have a few questions in general about Sendmail and a few in regards to > sendmail on FreeBSD. > (NOTE: I do use postfix for a lot of my mail servers, but for one > particular instance, I need to use Sendmai

Re: 5.2 install hangs after menu

2004-02-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:05:09PM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD5.2 on an Athlon XP 2100+ machine with > 512Mb ram and 20gb hdd (5gb partition for FreeBSD)MSI 745 Ultra > motherboard. > > If I select any option on the menu, it tries to install and then hangs > saying

Re: supfile tag to use? port/src

2004-02-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:21:48AM -0800, Drew wrote: > > > > > You are right. > > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile is more... > > explicit :) > > > > What do you mean? The handbook says "don't use tag=., > except for ports", but the standard file has such. > Which is it? Use it or d

Re: java question part 2.

2004-02-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:40:11AM -0500, r.w.h wrote: > ok someone said goto freebsd foundation. > > here is what thay said. > > The current release of the JDK and JRE available via the FreeBSD > Foundation is 1.3.1. These binaries have been tested and certified to run > with FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

Re: sendmail to a smarthost?

2004-02-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:56:53AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > >On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:31:10PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > > > > >>Hello. In my LAN the DNS server is my ADSL modem ... small device that > >>cannot do MX t

Re: sendmail to a smarthost?

2004-02-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:31:10PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. In my LAN the DNS server is my ADSL modem ... small device that > cannot do MX type of address lookup. I wish to configure a fax server > (FreeBSD 5.2 + Hylafax) in the LAN to send emails to a group of people upon > receiving

Re: Fresh installation of FreeBSD 5.2

2004-02-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:01:38PM +, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi all folks, > > I am prepared to install FreeBSD 5.2 doing net installation using packages > from its developers' site. I have 4 CDs downloaded. Kindly advise which CD > shall I use and which document shall I follow during instal

Re: Spam Filter - Sieve

2003-12-10 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:47:58PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > I am using Cyrus mail appn and its filter appn is "sieve". FYI I am FreeBSD > > newbie want to learn to filter spam. Any suggetions. > > > > http://spamassassin.org You might wanna combine spamfiler (which is _realy_ good) wi

Re: It's very relevant emailing you

2003-12-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:37:52PM -0500, camuflag wrote: > Honourable Mr Park > > My name is Ziad Fazah.Indeed, I have already emailed you twice, > concerning the non-possibility of Freebsd installation version 4.7. But > after having installed Freebsd version 4.9, I got disappointed at > Free

Re: Hardware support IBM X335 (was: QUESTION ABOUT FREE BSD)

2003-12-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:59:25PM +0900, Takuya Satoh wrote: > Hi. > I'm workink for computer sales buissnes, and one of my costomer woul'd like > to know that your Free BSD would work on the IBM X335 Server. If you have > experienced that you?hear?in this case, please let me know it work or not.

Re: ADSL cannot dial ("0.0.0.0/0 already exist)

2003-12-03 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:46:49PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. > > I just brought an ADSL modem (Alcatel Homeplus 501). This modem is > pre-configured > I used FreeBSD several years, but this is the first time I use ppp: > . > My /etc/ppp/ppp.conf is: > > -- > default: > set log Ph

Re: Is there a guide to Upgrading a FreeBSD server remotely

2003-12-02 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:01:36AM +0100, Denis Fortin wrote: > Greetings, > > I've Google'd a bit, but I cannot find a "survival guide to upgrading > a FreeBSD system remotely". > > The Handbook's procedure is excellent (cvsup to the RELENG branch and > then make'ing world), but it requires go

Re: error installing FreeBSD 5.1

2003-12-02 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:27:29AM +1030, Andrew wrote: > Hello, > > > I managed to get access to FreeBSD 5.0 Official release and got the same > error message. this still occurred after doing a firmware update on the > dvd drive. > I managed to borrow a Pioneer DVD-105 slotload drive and the i

Re: lost labels

2003-11-30 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 06:42:07PM +0100, martin wrote: > Greetings, > I've encouted little difficuluty, don't know what exactly has happend, but > after installing W2K on the other disk, disklabel on my primary disk > disappeard /FREEBSD4.9/. Only thing I can do is to mount /dev/ad0s1 > unforunat

Re: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file

2003-11-30 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:16:02PM -0600, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > I've downloaded a couple of .xhtml files and they have ^M characters > all through it. I tried the col -b < name > newname command on these > files but when I do that it erases the whole document. Any ideas? There's a port called dos

Re: Laptop starts back up on its own

2003-11-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:45:57AM -0900, Jon Reynolds wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 23:43, Andreas Kohn wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 03:43, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > > First time I've seen this happen...I've installed FreeBSD: > > > > > > FreeBSD laptop.fbsdsizemore.com 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.

Re: loosing wireless connection...

2003-11-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:07:27PM +, Brett L. Brown wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a Dell Latitude c600. The laptop is > continuously powered on. When I close my laptop I lose my dhcp lease. I would > prefer the behavior of not ever loosing my dhcp lease when I close my screen.

Re: swap space on multiple drives

2003-11-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:15:38PM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > After reading the following section of the Handbook, I'm still a little > confused. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > configtuning-initial.html#SWAP-DESIGN > > If I have 128MB ram, and 2 drives

Re: ipfw pipes + firewall

2003-11-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:29:13PM +0800, Khairil Yusof wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 06:45, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > > > 00100 83 11350 pipe 1 ip from any to any out > > > 00200 93 11266 pipe 2 ip from any to any in > > > 00300 0 0 check-state > &

Re: monitoring with mrtg

2003-11-28 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:41:22PM -0500, SWIT wrote: > Hello, > newbie and its the holiiday so be nice or santa will poop in your stocking > :-) > > I am interested in monitoring my freebsd box with MRTG/rrdtool. > > I have the mrtg/rddtool setup on the box. > I can get to my devices w/o any iss

Re: ipfw and gateway SRVR controling.

2003-11-28 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:36:44AM +0300, Marwan Sultan wrote: > Hello everyone, > >My boss asked me to do a gateway server, which can control the access >to internet users on our LAN. Make sure it has two NICs. On one you put the lan on the other the internet connection. In some cases yo

Re: Kazaa/p2p on a LAN and ping problems

2003-11-28 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:49:07PM -0600, Eric Timme wrote: > Network topology: > > LAN <==> FreeBSD Gateway <==> Internet > > Gateway specifications: > FreeBSD overlord 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 22 07:05:09 CDT > 2003 > k6-233, 128MB ram > ipf packet filtering in place > > Inte

Re: ADSL question

2003-11-28 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 05:23:37PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. I never touched ADSL before, now I booked an ADSL phone line. > > I have a small LAN, the server (FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE) is there as > 192.168.0.1, providing services like NFS and it is a DHCP server. It > also need to act as NAT

Re: ipfw pipes + firewall

2003-11-28 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 09:37:06PM +0800, Khairil Yusof wrote: > I've read the man pages, and tested it out, and just want to confirm > that what I"m doing is right and that I didn't miss anything. > > Disable one_pass so that packets after matching pipe rule will continue > on to other rules. Wit

Re: Adding new IP's without reboot?

2003-11-26 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:32:54PM -0500, Ben Dover wrote: > Is there a way to add new IP?s to a FreeBSD 4.9 or 5.1 box without > rebooting. I add them to /etc/rc.conf but they are not effective until a > reboot. There are some webhosting assistant programs which allow instant > use of IP?s wi

Re: Mldonkey/xmule

2003-11-26 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Dear, Jonas, I bounced you responce to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and cc that list in to my reply. I have moved you text to the bottum becuase this can be better read as stand alone mail. On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:49:49PM -0800, Jonas Manalive wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 17:09, Alex de Kruijff wr

Re: Mldonkey/xmule

2003-11-25 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:56:11PM -0800, Jonas Manalive wrote: > Hello, > > I cannot figure out why neither mldonkey and xmule would connect. I am > using 5.1, cvsupped and make world yesterday. I have a router, but no > firewall (yet). I tried to google and see where I can pinpoint the > problem

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-24 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 09:02:29AM +0300, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:11:39 +0100 Alex de Kruijff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably > wrote: > > > Dear Will, > > > > I've moved you text to the buttom so its more readabl

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Dear Will, I've moved you text to the buttom so its more readable for other. On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 04:46:09PM -0800, Will Prater wrote: > On Nov 23, 2003, at 1:57 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:52:48AM -0800, Will Prater wrote: > >>List, > &

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:52:48AM -0800, Will Prater wrote: > List, > > What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been > loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there > any others that you reccomend? > > If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I ge

Re: PHP Auth

2003-11-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 06:20:00PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > Two questions > > I have been reading as much as I can find on paswwd, master.passwd, > shadow, crypt etc etc etc. and am Still stuck on one point. If the encrypted > password is normally aslways different, due to '

Re: Opera reg number

2003-11-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 02:29:39PM -0800, Valerian Galeru wrote: > How can i get the opera registration number? Of > course without buying it : Your asking me to break the law. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ __

Re: firewall rules do not get read

2003-11-21 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:19:09PM -0800, Chip wrote: > > > Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > >On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:38:34PM -0800, Chip wrote: > > > >>I noticed my firewall rules are not being read. I have rc.conf set to > >>read the file rc.firewall. I

Re: firewall rules do not get read

2003-11-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:38:34PM -0800, Chip wrote: > I noticed my firewall rules are not being read. I have rc.conf set to > read the file rc.firewall. In rc.firewall the first line is add divert > natd etc etc. that is followed by pass all from any to any etc etc. Then > nothing after that i

Re: sendmail question

2003-11-18 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:22:15PM +1030, Alex Wilkinson wrote: > Howdy all, > > I have yet another sendmail issue. > > This command will send mail fine ie no errors whatsoever and the mail arrives > masquared: > > $ /usr/bin/mail -s "testing" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If I Bcc or Cc recip

Re: ipfw dummynet bandwidth limiting questions

2003-11-18 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:02:27PM -0800, Kelsey Cummings wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:48:57AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:03:52PM -0800, Kelsey Cummings wrote: > > > I've had some trouble getting ipfw to behave as expected. I&

Re: staring sendonly sendmail

2003-11-18 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:59:49AM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:29:27AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff typed: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:49:51PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > > > I do not want sendmail to receive message. > > > > > >

Re: Beginner Security Question

2003-11-17 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:42:20PM -0800, Jon Cavalier wrote: > so now my question is, since i haven't really crossed > the next bridge which is to familiarize myself fully > with the security aspects of freebsd.. > > is this thing safe? Yes. You have to do three thing just like you have to do wi

Re: ipfw dummynet bandwidth limiting questions

2003-11-17 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:03:52PM -0800, Kelsey Cummings wrote: > I've had some trouble getting ipfw to behave as expected. I've got a ipfw > box sitting as a firewall and traffic shaper in bridge mode. It's working > great for the most part but I'm having trouble getting some specific behavior

Re: staring sendonly sendmail

2003-11-17 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:49:51PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > I do not want sendmail to receive message. > > I only want it to act as a local mta/mda and a sending agent. > > I have sendmail_enable="no" in rc.conf, but can quite seem to locate > what else I need to start it as mentioned above.

Re: OT sendmail mailing lists wanted ..

2003-11-17 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:43:18AM -0800, faisal gillani wrote: > IS there any mailing list of sendmail on the Intenret > where i can ask questions realted to it ? > sendmail question mail address is very late in reply > > thanks > hope you guys dont mind me posting this here Why don't you ask y

Re: Changing a company from 100% Windows to 100% FreeBSD.

2003-11-17 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:27:25AM -0800, Lee Mx wrote: > I am switching about 40 desktop's running different versions of > windows over to freebsd. One of the primary requirements is > OpenOffice-1.1 and I've always run it locally on my laptop. > I'm considering running it over the LAN which woul

Re: Which Firewall ...

2003-11-17 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:59:17PM +0200, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: > Hi Everybody , > > I'm linux admin . Now I'm working to pass my server to FreeBSD > .. I'm using iptable on Linux box . on FreeBSD which firewall do you > advise ?! > > > I can't find any documents or How-to about ip-fw

Re: failed X11 install, now what?

2003-11-16 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:46:14PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 01:55 PM 11/15/2003, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:44:43AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > > >> make all install clean > > > >Did you execute this in /usr/ports? >

Re: failed X11 install, now what?

2003-11-15 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:55:07PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:44:43AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > This is what I found on the screen this morning after letting > > > > make all install clean > > Did you execute this in /usr/ports? It

Re: failed X11 install, now what?

2003-11-15 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:44:43AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > This is what I found on the screen this morning after letting > > make all install clean Did you execute this in /usr/ports? Its better to select only the port you like to have. > run all night: > > /usr: write failed, file system

Re: portupgrade -Fa

2003-11-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Sorry, Your mail was cougth in my junk box. On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:43:47AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alex de Kruijff writes: > > >On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:29:40PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > >>The strange part is that on some of the servers the scrip

Re: HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:13:06PM -0500, David Bein wrote: > Hello ... > > I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup > for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, > but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because > if I te

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

2003-11-13 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:41:45PM -0500, Jud wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:41:40 +0100, "Alex de Kruijff" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:01:36PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > > > I&#

Re: ip-up script of pppd no triggered

2003-11-12 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:31:29PM +0200, Jim Xochellis wrote: > Hi list, > > I need persuade pppd to call its ip-up script in order to add a > non-default route when the link is up and running. Unfortunately it > seems that my ip-up script is not being called. The mode of the file is > rwxr-xr

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

2003-11-12 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:01:36PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task > of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be > pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is > inter

Re: recover from failed make build

2003-11-12 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:30:31PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:18 pm, Marty Landman wrote: > > I just tried doing a make build for Apache2 from the FBSD 4.8 mini port. > > Here's what I got > > > > fetch: httpd-2.0.44.tar.gz appears to be truncated: > > 4108

Re: Two Preinstall Questions

2003-11-11 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:03:28PM +0100, Siegbert Baude wrote: > Hi Ralph, > > >I have two questions before I plunge in and make my first FreeBSD install. > >Normally I keep a back up copy of all my data in a ReiserFS formated > >partion > >on my hard drive. When I do a Linux Distribution instal

Re: mouse curser

2003-11-11 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Would you mind modifing your mailer so that the lines are < 72? Long lines are a pain to read on the shell. On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:52:28PM -, Dagsylad wrote: > hi, i'm running windowmaker on a vodoo 3 card, all is set up nicely > and is displaying in 32bit color @ 1024x 768 the only proble

Re: portupgrade -arR

2003-11-11 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:24:31PM -0600, Chris wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:39 pm, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 18:33, William O'Higgins wrote: > > > Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: > > > > > > portupgrade -arR > > > >

Re: Build a duplicate system - but upgrade OS version?

2003-11-11 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:34:23PM -0600, W. D. wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a FreeBSD 4.4 webserver that's been working fine for nearly 2 years. > This computer was purchased from a systems integrator, so I am not > intimately familiar with how it was configured. > > I would like to build anoth

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-11 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:00:45PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:23:25PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > > instant-workstation is not included on cd#1. As stated, there isn't > > > enough space for everything. > > > > Instant-workstation itself is tiny. It con

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-10 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in > /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are > common to many users? Would this be something like /usr/home/public or > /

Re: how to modem

2003-11-10 Thread Alex de Kruijff
I've also CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could you also do this next time? On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 09:21:46PM -0800, james wrote: > Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > >On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:05:44AM -0800, james wrote: > > > > > >>Alex de Kruijff wrote: > >>

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:07:21PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:49:59AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:32:24PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:17:20AM +1030, Andrew wrote: > > > &g

[freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl: Re: how to modem]

2003-11-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Forwarded message from Alex de Kruijff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:05:22 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: how to modem In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Nov 09, 200

Re: ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla???

2003-11-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:45:01PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > People, > > Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took > awhile but I finally got it. I've been using mozilla > more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get > it to successfully

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:32:24PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:17:20AM +1030, Andrew wrote: > > > I have been trying to get FreeBSD 5.2 installed but i am unable to find > > all the packages that are required on the official cd-rom set i brought. > > i have tryed ins

Re: Gateway traffic reporting tool (port)

2003-11-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:29:08AM -0200, Augusto Jun Devegili wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a small home LAN with four machines. One of them (mine, actually) > runs FreeBSD 5.1 and serves as a NAT/gateway between the LAN and an ADSL > connection. > > I would like a tool for traffic reporting, deta

Re: how to modem

2003-11-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:41:47AM -0800, james wrote: > I can't find the modem . although I did finally get kde installed > are there any simple instructions for finding your modem and > hitching up to the internet What type of modum do you have? (i.e. external/internal, plug-n-play/jumpers) Did

Re: IPFW

2003-11-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:51:13PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 09:49, Shawn Guillemette wrote: > > I have installed ipfw and each time the machien is rebooted I lose the > > rules I added. > > > > any thoughts? > > > > Do you mean you have added them by hand at the command lline

Re: WinModem (ltmdm) on FreeBSD 5.1 - undefined reference.

2003-11-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 01:32:01AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:53:08AM -0800, Lorin Lund wrote: > > I made /usr/ports/comms/ltmdm and installed it. But > > it won't load. It gets an error. It reports suers_td > > being undefined. >

Re: WinModem (ltmdm) on FreeBSD 5.1 - undefined reference.

2003-11-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:53:08AM -0800, Lorin Lund wrote: > I made /usr/ports/comms/ltmdm and installed it. But > it won't load. It gets an error. It reports suers_td > being undefined. > > Is this a problem with the port or do I need to build > a custom kernel? I just tried it out. The port

Re: Firewall Making Many DNS PTR Queries

2003-11-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 01:00:06PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > If one of my clients makes a DNS query for a hostname that is not cached, > my firewall subsequently makes a flurry of PTR queries. I am at a loss to > explain why. > > For example: > > XX+/192.168.1.13/202.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/

Re: gateway/routing questions

2003-11-07 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:25:11AM -0700, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > I used to have a situation like this but it was a few years ago and I > have forgotten how to set this up in detail. > > I have a class C network (public) and I have a FreeBSD box with lots of > aliases on it providin

CenterICQ removing MSN users

2003-11-07 Thread Alex de Kruijff
I'm having trouble removing MSN users from CenterICQ. And liked to ask questions if there was something i have done wrong. What I have done is: 1. Remove a bunch of people from the contact list 2. Run MSN -> Synchonize contact list When I restart CenterICQQ al the deleded users are back. Is there

Re: lan bandwidth issue

2003-11-05 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:25:12AM -0700, silent slim wrote: > >From: Alex de Kruijff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: silent slim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: lan bandwidth issue > >Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 02:52:47 +0100 >

Re: Is Java/Tomcat on FBSD practical?

2003-11-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:58:19PM -0700, Heath Volmer wrote: > Hi. I'm new to FreeBSD, my previous -nix experience coming from OSX and > Debian/Suse linux. I've been generally very happy with the performance > and relative ease of setup on my 4.8 system. > > My biggest problem has been Java. I

Re: lan bandwidth issue

2003-11-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:13:34PM -0700, silent slim wrote: > This has gotta be a software issue... it seems logically impossible for > it to be otherwise. I have my windows box running off a nat on my fbsd > box, it transmits to my isp at a max of about 160k down 70k up. > Transfering files betw

Re: RedHat 7.2 -> Freebsd - BIG PROBLEN

2003-11-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:12:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - > lan 192.168.1.0/24 > - > LAN | > | > | > -- > rl0 192.168.1.1 > > ROUTER > > fxp0 193.108.24.75 > > LAN | > | >

Re: Mouse under X

2003-11-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:14:28AM -0600, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:48:31AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:34:09PM +1000, Adam Flaherty wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have recently installed FreeBSD

Re: Mouse under X

2003-11-03 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:34:09PM +1000, Adam Flaherty wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 and am having trouble getting my > PS/2 mouse to work with X11/ Gnome. The mouse works when setting up > moused with /stand/sysinstall and xf86cfg but when gnome loads any > mouse m

Re: How does FreeBSD calculate disk sizes

2003-11-03 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:07:15PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > Hello users, > > I have a disk which is actually 72GB. 2GB has been used as swap while > the rest was given to /. > > Can someone explain to me what I could be missing here, because what > I am seeing isn't what I expect. P

Re: 5.x Works, 4.x Fails ..

2003-10-31 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:24:38PM +0100, Wout A. wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.9-RC4 on a amd k6/2 333mhz with a seagate > 10gb hdd > and 64M ram. > When I partition my hdd and it 'should' start formatting the disk, I get > these errors: > > "Unable to swap to /dev/ad0s1b: invali

Re: request for comments

2003-10-31 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:08:21AM +0200, molotov wrote: > Hello, > > I've been looking for some assistance regarding hardware support, but I > can't find any. Sorry for repeated posts, but if you can, please read > the following message at http://news.gw.com/freebsd.hardware/3909 Sorry but i'm

Re: sendmail problem

2003-10-31 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:05:40PM -0800, Bugarin Luis wrote: > sir/madame, > > I didn't touch any of the configuration on my > > sendmail, running of freebsd4.5 but when i noticed i > > never received massage from any of the subcriptions Sendmail is closed by default for outsite traffic in th

Re: when I invoke startx, it seems to 'freeze' for a minute orso,then starts

2003-10-31 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:28:28PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed a port (fluxconf).That port installed Xfree86 Libraries 4.3.0. > Since then,when I invoke startx, it seems to 'freeze' for a minute or so, > then it starts the window manager. I have the same with KDE it

Pre-installation question (was Re: Question, I am new to FreeBSD.)

2003-10-31 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:24:33AM -0800, Shailesh Joshi wrote: > Hi, > I want to install FreeBSD on my home PC. I have > instlled Red Hat Linux currently on my PC. > > My question is i want to get all files for > installation (i.e. all ports), where can i get them in > one shot or is there any lo

Re: Should I upgrade to 4.9?

2003-10-31 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:52:09PM -0500, Dragoncrest wrote: > I'm upgrading all my workstations to 4.9 tonight, but I have a small > mail server (p120 with 120m ram) that's running 4.8 that does nothing more > than fetch mail, sort it, scan it, then deliver it locally for me to pick

Re: simple&silly wish to know port dependency.

2003-10-31 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:45:22AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. When I make deinstall a port I often get the message: > port xxx depends on this port, but I'll still deinstall it anyway. > > That's really frustrating. I'd like to be able to know who depends on it > before de-installing it.

Re: ADSL modem & ip addresses

2003-10-25 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:43:38PM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:29:08PM +0930, Ian Moore wrote: > > > What's the best way then to connect it to the ADSL line? > > > > I feel its best to have a hardware modum that also knows how to build up > > the connection. I'v

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