Re: New user

Tharaka Abeysekera wrote: Hi… I’m a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I’m pissed off with Windows . Regards, Tharaka It might be worth looking for local users group near you. If you haven't got a lot of experi

Re: IPFW won't go away!

Paul wrote: Hi, I run ipf and ipnat. Recently I recompiled the kernel and since then ipfw loads at boot and blocks all my traffic. How do I disable it permanently or uninstall it? I have checked and double checked that it is not in my /etc/rc.conf and kernel config file. So I don't know why

Re: IE in FreeBSD?

RW wrote: However bad wine is for day to day use, and however good the native alternatives get, there remain occasions when it is essential to use an industry-standard Microsoft application. For example, if you are applying for a job, you have to check that your cv/resume views correctly on a r

Re: portsdb & portsnap

Vittorio wrote: I'm having a go at using portsnap on my fbsd 5.4 notebook instead of cvsup to update the ports. With the latter under the /usr/ports dir I issue "make update" and "portsdb -uU" and finally "portupgrade -arR". Now, using portsnap it seems to me that after "update" the program it

Re: Updating freebsd without cvsup

Vittorio wrote: Thanks. I've just compiled the portsnap sources and put the following in /usr/local/etc/portsnap.conf: # Defaults: WORKDIR=/usr/local/portsnap PORTSDIR=/usr/ports KEYPRINT=9b5feee6d69f170e3dd0a2c8e469ddbd64f13f978f2f3aede40c98633216c330 URL=http://portsnap.daemonology.net BUT

Re: Updating freebsd without cvsup

Vittorio wrote: Is there another alternative way of defining the proxy OR any other way of getting a new source three to be copied to the server, e.g., by means of a cd burnt at home? Have you considered using the sysutils/portsnap port? It's what I use to keep my servers up-to-date. It

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

Norberto Meijome wrote: > or figure out in which order things are started and make sure the > ttyvs are launched before syslogng Can you recommend a good description of the FreeBSD boot process? The handbook is a bit sketchy and only goes into the initial stages. I've tried flirting through

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

Alex Zbyslaw wrote: The requirements like BEFORE: SERVERS are not honoured by scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Try placing the script in /etc/rc.d calling it say syslogng (i.e. without the .sh). The BEFORE: doesn't bother me too much. I don't care enormously if I lose a bit of logging. I ju

Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

I have a 5.4-STABLE server that I've reconfigured to use syslog-ng instead of syslogd. It collects logs from all our servers and sorts them into per-host folders. Our network admin showed me his gentoo machine earlier which uses ccze to colour log files as they scroll up the screen. He wante

Re: Problem at first boot

Julien FOURNIER wrote: "Can't exec /bin/sh fot /etc/rc : No such File or directory. Enter full path of Shell or type Enter for /bin/sh" If I type Enter, the system tells me that the file can't be found...I don't know how to do!!! I have installed the system as following : Standard installation

Re: one answer

Bob Johnson wrote: > On 9/11/05, legalois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Root) >>The name of a famous American baseball player (1899-1970) "...gives rise >>to the name used for many "root" system accounts under the UNIX >>operating system.

Re: one answer

Bob Johnson wrote: On 9/11/05, legalois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: legalois wrote: According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Root) The name of a famous American baseball player (1899-1970) "...gives rise to the name used for many "root" system accounts under the UNIX opera

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