Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 11/13/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday November 13, 2006 at 04:10:58 (AM) Frank Staals wrote: I had the same 'problem'. As said it's not realy a problem since FreeBSD will hold just fine if you don't have any rather stupid user + pass combinations. ( test test or

Re: changing swap size

2006-11-13 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 11/13/06, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Following the advice about periodic freezes, I am going to add some RAM to my system. However, currently my swap size is 512MB. If I increase RAM to, say, 1GB, would I need to change the swap size to 2GB? If so, is it a safe process

uhci.ko keeps showing up

2006-11-13 Thread Andy Greenwood
I've commented out device uhci in my kernel config, but I keep getting uhci.ko loaded on boot. I'm not using usb at all. I understand that I should be able to disable usb in my bios, but it's difficult to get to, as the server is remote. Is there anything I can do to prevent the uhci.ko from

Re: periodic, short freezes

2006-11-10 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 11/10/06, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Just a shot in the dark, but I haven't seen it mentioned yet: have you used any variables affecting kernel compilation, especially CPUTYPE, CFLAGS, COPTFLAGS? I remember seeing some

Xine and mplayer will not install

2006-11-05 Thread andy
After a new install of 6.2beta3 and Gnome2.14.2 I am unable to install mplayer. It fails with the following message: === Installing for mplayer-0.99.8_5 === mplayer-0.99.8_5 depends on file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins - found === mplayer-0.99.8_5 depends on file:

gimp and the gnome update...

2006-11-05 Thread Andy Harrison
(port has 2.0_1,1) p5-XML-Simple-2.15needs updating (port has 2.16) win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8,1 needs updating (port has 3.1.0.p8_1,1) Other relevant versions: gtk-2.10.6_2 glib-2.12.4 libgnome-2.16.0 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 -- Andy Harrison

Re: gimp and the gnome update...

2006-11-05 Thread Andy Harrison
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q2 Thanks! Using the find/grep suggestion did the trick. -- Andy Harrison ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

firefix 2.0 interface font size

2006-11-04 Thread Andy Harrison
. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 and all my ports are current. More details included in my screenshot. http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotzm4.jpg Anyone else had this problem? -- Andy Harrison ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: /var corrupted.....

2006-11-03 Thread Andy Greenwood
couldn't you do something like this? 1) install all your big ports (leafs with lots of dependancies) 2) run this to get a list of depedancy ports which should already be there, just not in /var/db/pkg # pkg_info -ar | awk '/Dependency:/ {print $2}'|sort|uniq 3) install these ports so that they

X windows fails after upgrade

2006-11-02 Thread andy
I recently upgraded to the latest 6-stable, now X won't start. I get the following error: (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) No core pointer Any suggestions how to fix this? TIA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: IPFW and PF

2006-10-30 Thread Andy Greenwood
PF, for two reasons. Firstly, because I don't have to mess with arbitrary rule numbers; I can just scroll down the page and know that rules will be executed in that order. Secondly becuase I can easily integrate bruteforceblocker. On 10/28/06, David Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, IPFW

Re: IPFW and PF

2006-10-30 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 10/30/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] top-posted: On 10/28/06, David Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, IPFW seems to be the same IPFW that is used on MacOSX, so it seems to make sense to learn and lean on IPFW when using in a mixed

boot loader choices

2006-10-28 Thread Andy Harrison
to load a few modules in my loader.conf, change rc.conf, and modify my hosts file a bit. For work, I'm wired and static, don't need anything in the loader.conf, I need different settings in rc.conf, revert my hosts file, and replace my resolv.conf. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10. -- Andy

Re: Ports collection issue

2006-10-27 Thread Andy Greenwood
Is it possible to use csup with my existing cvsup files? I skimmed the man page and it looks very similar. Is there any advantage to using cvsup over csup? On 10/27/06, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lane wrote: Adrian, Use /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui and create a

Re: Ports collection issue

2006-10-27 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 10/27/06, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: Is it possible to use csup with my existing cvsup files? I skimmed the man page and it looks very similar. Is there any advantage to using cvsup over csup? I use the same files for csup as I used for cvsup

Re: bittorrent consuming 100% cpu

2006-10-17 Thread Andy Greenwood
I'd recommend transmission. You can get the source from http://transmission.m0k.org/. You can configure it for console use with ./configure --disable-gtk gmake. It needs GNU make, BSD make won't work. Uses very little resources as it's written in C, so your python port won't matter. On

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Andy Harrison
the version number, /usr/local/foo-1.1.1/ or something. Like I said before, running FreeBSD is so easy it's almost like cheating. -- Andy Harrison ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: minimum requirements

2006-10-09 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 10/9/06, free bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you everyone for responding to my initial question. In hindsight I realize I worded my original inquiry inaccurately. What I am attempting to determine is how well or if ver 6.1 will work on a 4GB hard drive with a Pentium 4 - 3.06GHz cpu

sendmail won't start

2006-10-03 Thread Andy Greenwood
I modified my local freebsd.mc file to add support for spamhaus. After I compilied the sendmail.cf file, sendmail won't start. What am I doing wrong here? [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# m4 freebsd.mc sendmail.cf [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# /etc/rc.d/sendmail start 554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line

Re: Processors

2006-09-15 Thread Andy Greenwood
well, without more information. I can definitively say maybe FreeBSD works just fine on many multi-cpu machines. On 9/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To whom it may concern I have a computer with a dual-core processor. Will FreeBSD operate on this machine? Please answer

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Andy Greenwood
What about making it a sysinstall option? Not in the base install, but the option is presented when setting up a new box. On 9/14/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:53:04PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:09, Kris Kennaway wrote:

Re: pci modem question

2006-09-13 Thread Andy Greenwood
not to mention that winmodems are utter crap, even on windows. On 9/13/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be sure to get a real full modem. Not a winmodem. A full modem will cost considerably more, like double the price because it has all the modem hardware on the card. Winmodems rely

CLI text editor recommendation

2006-09-13 Thread Andy Greenwood
I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?. ee and vi both do so, I tried nano which also does the same. I haven't installed emacs to try

Re: CLI text editor recommendation

2006-09-13 Thread Andy Greenwood
Thanks for the advice everyone. I will certainly check out my php and see if I can figure out why it's giving me errors as-is. On 9/13/06, Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append newlines to the end of files as I save them.

Re: Torrentflux, PHP, and Apache

2006-09-11 Thread Andy Greenwood
torrentflux has it's own forum for problems like this. Please consult http://www.torrentflux.com/forum for help. I don't check that forum anymore as I'm a dev for b4rt's mod. If you can't get any help from the official TF folks, email me off-list and I'll see what I can do. On 9/10/06, Ryan

Can't Find Kernel

2006-09-03 Thread Andy Street
? Thanks in advance for the help. Andy Street ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can't Find Kernel

2006-09-03 Thread Andy Street
should I do? Copy the /dist/boot/defaults/loader.conf to /boot/defaults/loader.conf? Reinstall using the CD's I burned at school that I know work? Install a new boot loader and point it at /dist/boot/defaults/loader.conf? Thanks in advance for the help. Andy Street

Re: Forceig a resolution in xorg server

2006-08-28 Thread Andy Greenwood
I haven't used X in a lng time, but IIRC you should be able to just remove all the other modes from the .conf file. If there's only one availilbe mode, X will have to use it :-) On 8/28/06, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm (huridelly) building a new machine to replaced my (just failed)

Re: A webhosting script?

2006-08-25 Thread Andy Greenwood
We use perl scripts here. Unfortunately, I can't provide any specific examples. On 8/25/06, Kyrre Nygård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Does anybody run a webhosting business, where they've written a simple Bash script to add new users to the system and set up their domains, Apache virtual

Re: A webhosting script?

2006-08-25 Thread Andy Greenwood
PROTECTED] wrote: --On Friday, August 25, 2006 17:45:08 +0200 Kyrre Nygård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 17:30 25.08.2006, Andy Greenwood wrote: We use perl scripts here. Unfortunately, I can't provide any specific examples. So stop trolling :) Perl is obsolete anyway, thanks though. You must

CUPS 1.2.0 setup problem

2006-08-04 Thread andy
I reinstalled FBSD6.1 release on a machine that had been previously running 6.0 release. I had been using CUPS 1.1x and printing was working fine. However, I just reinstalled CUPS 1.2.0 and now printing is broken. The problem I have is the following: I can get to the main admin page, but

Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-25 Thread Andy Reitz
on the transport that the streaming server is using. HTH, -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-25 Thread Andy Reitz
, RTSP-style URLs). You can feed those URLs directly to mplayer, which in my testing should work fine. -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-25 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Gary Kline wrote: How best to decode this:: + fetch http://web.lightningcast.net/servlets/getAd?version=4.5anaid=175playerid=1streamref=1session=8AB1883F11EB3EE3spot=[0,0]ext=.rm Hi Gary, Try pointing mplayer at that URL. -Andy

Re: Reload commands

2006-07-21 Thread Andy Reitz
, then the cache will be refreshed. You could also try simply exiting your shell, and re-logging in. It is very rare to need to reboot in UNIX. Good luck, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Adding a (non default) route via rc.conf

2006-07-18 Thread Andy Greenwood
in rc.conf, put something like this: static_routes=legacy route_legacy=-net 192.168.2 192.168.1.150 the static_routes line is a list of network names that you want to put routes in for, then each name gets its own route_name line. As for your sanity check, I don't see why it would be a problem.

Re: ln -s in FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-18 Thread Andy Greenwood
If you typed ls -l var, that would display the contents of the var directory. I think what you want is (while in your home) ls -l | grep var On 7/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In FreeBSD 6.1 , there was created a directory named /var . I created a subdirectory in

Re: TIME loss

2006-07-13 Thread Andy Greenwood
IIRC, ntpdate only syncs your time at boot. You want something like ntpd_enable=YES On 7/13/06, Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Peter A. Giessel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:33 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc:

Re: Apache

2006-07-12 Thread Andy Greenwood
after you appropriately edit your conf file, you can start the server with # apachectl start You can test by going to http://127.0.0.1. should display an apache page basically saying that the server is running. Once you get it how you want it, you can start it at boot by adding this to your

Re: dvd image

2006-07-06 Thread Andy Greenwood
IIRC, there aren't any official dvd images. However, it's not too difficult to make your own. Check out this site http://www.pa.msu.edu/~tigner/bsddvd.html On 7/5/06, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I was wondering if there was any dvd images of freebsd releases? Thanks Eoghan

Re: Wire pickups.

2006-06-30 Thread Andy Greenwood
the only thing I've ever seen in a wireless router that caused it to not work with other operating systems was a flaw in it's dhcp server. It seems that windows doesn't conform to the DHCP standard and some of the packets transmitted were flawed. the DHCP server on the router had been configured

Re: place to obtain 4.11 install ISOs

2006-06-26 Thread Andy Reitz
. Did you try this path? ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.11 HTH, -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Simple DNS For Private LAN

2006-06-23 Thread Andy Greenwood
If you're getting a static IP, then you can become master for your domain, but you'll still need a secondary NS, and most (if not all) registrars will require that the secondary NS be on a different IP. I prefer to have mine on a completely seperate Class A, but that's just personal. I'd leave

Re: find misbehaving??

2006-06-23 Thread Andy Reitz
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Robert Huff wrote: Can anyone explain what's happening here? [EMAIL PROTECTED] find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/ -name Net_SNMP_util,pm Looks like a typo - you have a comma (',') in the target for find. -Andy

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD? -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smp kernel

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
, If you have the kernel source code installed, you can read /usr/src/sys/arch/conf/GENERIC, to see what options are in the GENERIC kernel. I'm pretty sure that most FreeBSD releases don't have the SMP option in the generic kernel, but I haven't used them all, so I can't be sure. :) HTH, -Andy

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
an AMD64-based processor, and have everythign work fine in 32-bit mode. Then later down the road, as the software evolves, you could upgrade FreeBSD to be 64-bit and be set. Just a thought, -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: make buildworld errors

2006-06-19 Thread Andy Greenwood
memtest is a good start, but isn't definate. I would recommend running memtest86, which you can get at http://www.memtest86.com/, overnight or longer and see if it comes up with anything. I had some wierd problems with compilling and this let me know that one of my sticks was bad. replaced them

Re: Getting Source Code after Installing the Software

2006-06-16 Thread Andy Greenwood
You can get the source code at any time with cvsup, which is availible through ports. check out http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html On 6/16/06, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed FreeBSD on a couple of computers without

posix_getpwuid() not in php5 base install?

2006-06-15 Thread Andy Greenwood
I'm trying to use posix_getpwuid(), but it doesn't appear to be there in php5.1.4 Does anyone know if it's availible as part of the php5-XXX ports? If not, where can I find it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Andy Reitz
-wm.html In the KDE section, there are instructions for installing KDE, and for enabling it so that KDE starts when you login. Hope this helps, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk

2006-06-08 Thread Andy Reitz
://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6013296355.html Good luck, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: portupgrade question

2006-06-07 Thread Andy Reitz
that there was a way to convince the ports to use a different file retreiver, but I don't see anything in the handbook. Have you tried setting the ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment variables, so that fetch can work with your proxy? HTH, -Andy Reitz

growisofs and dual layer dvd

2006-06-04 Thread Andy Miller
: 4173824*2KB Track Size:4173824*2KB ROM Compatibility LBA: 262144 READ CAPACITY: 0*2048=0 -- Andy pgpXtooMcpOUE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: audio playback glitches while using CD drive

2006-05-30 Thread Andy Reitz
in a general fashion: http://dmzweb4.europe.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=173,E=00127129525,K=5503,Sxi=1,Kb=ww_english_add,VARSET=ws:http://us.creative.com/,Case=obj(6516) Good luck, -Andy Reitz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

corruption problem

2006-05-29 Thread Andy Rozman (Aleksander)
again. Oh yes. My system is running AMD X2, but I am still running under i386 kernel image, because I have some problems compiling amd64... Please help Andy P.S.: Please CC to my address, sicne I am only on digest list... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Andy Greenwood
I don't know what you mean by kernel errors on boot, but you can recover your root password by booting into single user mode and then running passwd. On 5/26/06, Polina Mnouskina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am working for the company, that is using FreeBSD on the server mashins. At

Re: can't start apache 1.3 inside jail

2006-05-25 Thread Andy Greenwood
at 01:53:35PM -0400, Andy Greenwood wrote: I've built and installed apache13 from ports in my jail, but apachectl start just gives me [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# apachectl start /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started and httpd -X exits immediately with no output. I've tried

can't start apache 1.3 inside jail

2006-05-24 Thread Andy Greenwood
I've built and installed apache13 from ports in my jail, but apachectl start just gives me [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# apachectl start /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started and httpd -X exits immediately with no output. I've tried to run truss on apachectl start, but I'm not

Re: pflog

2006-05-22 Thread Andy Greenwood
This is discussed in the openbsd pf page http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/logging.html#syslog On 5/22/06, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 22/05/2006 à 16:59:02+0300, Iantcho Vassilev a écrit On 5/22/06, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you write your rules, you put log in

can't build perl-5.8.8 in a jail

2006-05-22 Thread Andy Greenwood
I'm trying to build perl 5.8.8 inside a jail and it won't build. I always error at the same spot. Below is the last 100 lines out of make. Anyone have any ideas? Finding dependencies for pp_ctl.o. Finding dependencies for pp_sys.o. Finding dependencies for regcomp.o. Finding dependencies for

Re: MESS (statically compiled vi )

2006-05-22 Thread Andy Greenwood
well, it looks like my sh has some dependancies too, so I wouldn't worry about it really. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/lang/php5]# ldd `which sh` /bin/sh: libedit.so.5 = /lib/libedit.so.5 (0x2808c000) libncurses.so.6 = /lib/libncurses.so.6 (0x280a) libc.so.6 =

Re: can't build perl-5.8.8 in a jail

2006-05-22 Thread Andy Greenwood
Not sure what I did, but It's compiled now. Sorry for the noise On 5/22/06, Andy Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build perl 5.8.8 inside a jail and it won't build. I always error at the same spot. Below is the last 100 lines out of make. Anyone have any ideas? Finding

Re: how to change roots shell

2006-05-19 Thread Andy Greenwood
how is he supposed to complete step one? Single-user mode is going to be the best way to get this fixed, IMHO On 5/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Login as root, type vipw hich puts you into vi on thwe password file, and change the root's shell to whatever you want

named always binds to *

2006-05-19 Thread Andy Greenwood
I'm trying to set up my first jail, and I've got the below named.conf. However, even with the query-source line below, it always binds to the wildcard address! Anyone seen this behavior before and what can I do to fix it? // Specify the subnets we're going to serve acl homenet { 192.168.0.0/16;

Re: named always binds to *

2006-05-19 Thread Andy Greenwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: I'm trying to set up my first jail, and I've got the below named.conf. However, even with the query-source line below, it always binds to the wildcard address! Anyone seen this behavior before and what can I do to fix it? Yes, add the following under

Re: A neural/distributed FreeBSD network

2006-05-19 Thread Andy Reitz
), Charm++ (distributed objects), and even Apple's Xgrid[1] (distribute compute-intensive tasks), that can all probably be made to work on FreeBSD. Are any of these similiar to what you are looking for? -Andy. [1] Xgrid main page: http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/ Xgrid unix agent: http

Re: how to change roots shell

2006-05-18 Thread Andy Greenwood
You should be able to boot into single-user mode and change it there. On 5/18/06, unixforums 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I did a completely newbie move and changed the root's shell to something that doesn't work. So, needless to say now I can't su to root or even login as root. Is there

Re: ping on desktop

2006-05-18 Thread Andy Reitz
-natd.html HTH, -Andy Reitz. [1] Well, but all traffic, I really mean most traffic. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to change roots shell

2006-05-18 Thread Andy Greenwood
can you not link /bin/sh to change? On 5/18/06, Izwan Mohd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope you have sudo you can do sudo -u root bash if don't nothing came cross my mine yet how to deal with it :-\ unixforums 1 wrote: tried it and i get the following error: su: change: No such file or

C coding question

2006-05-17 Thread Andy Greenwood
I am helping someone work on porting some code to Freebsd, and the code below works on Linux, but not on FreeBSD (compiles, but gives Segmentation Fault: 11). I'm not sure where the problem is, and any pointers would be much appreciated. /* Check if we must stop */ if(tf_stat_file

Re: C coding question

2006-05-17 Thread Andy Greenwood
That did it! thanks so much! On 5/17/06, Lorin Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: I am helping someone work on porting some code to Freebsd, and the code below works on Linux, but not on FreeBSD (compiles, but gives Segmentation Fault: 11). I'm not sure where the problem

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Andy Greenwood
On my system at least, /home is a symlink to /usr/home. I belive this is the default. On 5/15/06, Maan Jee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a507630

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Andy Greenwood
or even easier... cd pwd On 5/15/06, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/15/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33 +0200 Maan Jee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Not reliably.

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-11 Thread Andy Greenwood
Seems like the easiest thing to do would be to either get some serial consoles (or serial console emulators) or provide ssh access to the box. On 5/11/06, Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NAOD TSIGHE wrote: Hi, Is it possible to attach two monitors, 2keybord and 2 mouse to one PC,

Re: ftp install / base not found

2006-05-11 Thread Andy Reitz
of the bits for 5.3-RELEASE. HTH, -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-11 Thread Andy Reitz
/keyboards/mice for 1 CPU, for use in place that need super-cheap computers (i.e. Africa). I'm not sure what came of it, but the stuff that I've found so far was geared towards Linux. Good luck, -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ftp install / base not found

2006-05-11 Thread Andy Reitz
in this list is 'URL', which allows you to type in any FTP site -- and as I presume, the ftp-archive site will work if entered here. -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ftp server with no shell accounts

2006-05-10 Thread Andy Greenwood
I much prefer the pure-ftpd implementation of virtual users. However, both will get the job done effectively. The only reason I really prefer pure over pro is that pure has never had one root exploit found since release number 1. That's reason enough for me :) On 5/10/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL

Re: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right.

2006-05-10 Thread Andy Greenwood
# man tar specifically, the -L option On 5/10/06, Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all... I'm trying to move a file system from one disk to another, and when I do this: tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination tar xfv - ) It copies all the files, but the symbolic links are copied as

Re: HTTP

2006-05-05 Thread Andy Reitz
a special key combination to force a refresh of everything. HTH, -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread Andy Greenwood
I've used pure-ftpd for some time and really like it's virtual user implementation. Doesn't hurt that (from thier site) Unlike other popular FTP servers, the number of root exploits found since the very first released version is zero. On 5/4/06, Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What

Re: can't boot kern.flp on thinkpad 750

2006-05-03 Thread Andy Greenwood
Don't really think so. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=32830 On 5/3/06, Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: I'm trying to install 4.11 on an old IBM Thinkpad 750, but can't get the kern.flp disk to boot. I know that the floppy drive on this machine isn't

Re: Installation date ?

2006-05-02 Thread Andy Greenwood
If it's actually been running the entire time (no reboots) you can use the uptime command (this info is also displayed in top). If you've rebooted since install, I'm not sure how you could determine that. On 5/2/06, S t i n g r a y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its been a long time since i installed

can't boot kern.flp on thinkpad 750

2006-05-02 Thread Andy Greenwood
I'm trying to install 4.11 on an old IBM Thinkpad 750, but can't get the kern.flp disk to boot. I know that the floppy drive on this machine isn't exactly standard (it's a 2.88M drive, if that makes a difference), but I'm not sure what the differences are. In any case, when it tries to load the

Install question FreeBSD 4.8r13

2006-04-28 Thread Andy Kendall
). How do I now install the /crypt and other one please? Can mount floppy well. Any help appreciated. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

wierd output from pfctl -vvsq

2006-04-26 Thread Andy Greenwood
I've got all my queuing working like I want it to, but when I run pfctl -vvsq, I get this (sample) output queue root_dc0 bandwidth 256Kb priority 0 cbq( wrr root ) {tcp_ack, dns, ssh, http, std, p2p} [ pkts: 1018 bytes: 768010 dropped pkts: 0 bytes: 0 ] [ qlength: 0/

Re: Remote screen control software - recommendations please

2006-04-21 Thread Andy Reitz
on my FreeBSD machine for a little while (until it broke), and when it was working, it was quite fast. Here is a blog post that I read which helped me to get started: http://www.averageadmins.com/blog/2006/03/29/freenx-on-freebsd/ Good luck, -Andy

Re: How to do physical-to-virtual translation in FreeBSD? Does FreeBSD support kmap() or kmap_atomic()?

2006-04-21 Thread Andy Reitz
how to do it in FreeBSD? Thank for your help! Hi Hong, I'm not entirely sure, but you might want to try posting your question to the freebsd-hackers mailing list. Good luck, -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: SYSTEM HANG - NATD running FINE

2006-04-19 Thread Andy Reitz
could provide you with some post-mortem information to go over: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Good luck, -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: How do I change hostname in freebsd?

2006-04-17 Thread Andy Reitz
/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-core-configuration.html -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Andy Reitz
. Some other applications might put data in other places, however, so you might want to research the applications that you are running to make sure you don't miss any important data. -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: /usr/ports/www/p5-Apache-MP3

2006-04-13 Thread Andy Greenwood
Glad you got it all working, I really like this module On 4/13/06, Shawn Guillemette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you that worked out great ... I had added most of that but was missing a few entries. Thanks again -Original Message- From: Andy Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-12 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 4/12/06, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ashley Moran wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 02:37, Eric Schuele wrote: Either way... I hope somehow they see fit to loosen the language a bit in the future. Can't we petition Adobe somehow? I'm a bit stuck now - my company's main

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-12 Thread Andy Reitz
devices, and they want to ensure that the PC flash doesn't end up on a mobile device. Here is the URL for the embedded flash, Flash Lite: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/ -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: make buildword problem/documentation

2006-04-11 Thread Andy Greenwood
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html On 4/11/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, where do I find make buildworld documentation? It's mantioned a lot, but I can't find it in the handbook. I'm assuming the process is just make buildworld,

Re: Reboot hangs on xeon server

2006-04-11 Thread Andy Reitz
to me. You might try googling that (in conjunction with your motherboard) and see what comes up. HTH, -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: pow function working unexpectedly

2006-04-11 Thread Andy Reitz
the pow() function away when the arguments are hard-coded lvalues, instead of varibles. Now, what that thing *is*, I don't know. -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

/proc/loadavg?

2006-04-07 Thread Andy Greenwood
Does FreeBSD have a location that stores the load average information, similarly to /proc/loadavg in Linux? I've got a php site that displays this info, but I'm not sure where to point it to. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Access ip local

2006-04-06 Thread Andy Reitz
luck, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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