Re: firewall

2003-09-14 Thread Bob Hall
that shouldn't be causing a problem for him. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Xterm-color

2003-09-13 Thread Bob Hall
> edit to make X start with xterm-color? ~/.Xdefaults --- xterm*background: green xterm*foreground: yellow xterm*highlightColor: purple I don't necessarily endorse those color choices. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://

Re: I need help getting a desktop working.

2003-09-13 Thread Bob Hall
nager. At the "$" prompt, type "startx". That's the quickest route to a working desktop. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Software patents

2003-09-12 Thread Bob Hall
can generally be documented. The problem is granting patents on trivial improvements, like "one click shopping". Patent law was never intended to protect that sort of thing. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: user-ppp faster then pppd ?

2003-09-11 Thread Bob Hall
lot of work solving problems on a couple of occasions that could have been solved quickly and easily if I had been using user PPP. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: user-ppp faster then pppd ?

2003-09-11 Thread Bob Hall
were slightly noisier, or slightly busier, or one of a hundred other possibilities. The odds that there is a difference in connection speeds caused by a difference between ppp and pppd lie somewhere between zero and null. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PRO

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-09-02 Thread Bob Hall
all the script. Ordinarily, if cron lacks a path, you get a "permission denied" e-mail, but in this case you're not getting e-mails. If the first test (no PATH) does work, then examine the output from the app cron is trying to run and see if there is any output for

dhclient denied repost

2003-08-24 Thread Bob Hall
- Forwarded message from Bob Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:50:04 -0400 From: "Bob Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: dhclient denied repost To: FreeBSD Questions List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm posting this again in hopes that s

Re: orphaned port?

2003-08-23 Thread Bob Hall
t; > I ran 'make clean' in all the directories that came up after running > 'find /usr/ports -name "work"'. Then I tried running make again in the > mysql-server directory. Here is the output: Have you updated your entire p

Re: NATD Firewall Rules Setup

2003-08-22 Thread Bob Hall
me tweaking; e.g. Windows vs. FBSD traceroute, but nstreams got me 90% of the way there. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Something rotten in the OS?

2003-08-22 Thread Bob Hall
problems than others, your software may be misconfigured in some subtle way, or you may be using it in ways it doesn't like. And finally, every OS has its own unique set of weaknesses, so sometimes you can fix a problem by changing the OS. Whether the new OS is better

Re: dhclient denied

2003-08-22 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:39:07AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Bob Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I posted about this a while ago, but I haven't been able to > > find the cause. I'm getting the following message: > > Aug 21 13:00:03

Re: Help setup home network when gateways, ip asigned by DHCP

2003-08-21 Thread Bob Hall
ork; try it and see. I use omask="255.255.255.0" onet=`ifconfig fxp0 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}'`/24 oip=`ifconfig fxp0 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}'` You could probably simplify that with oip=`ifconfig fxp0 |

dhclient denied

2003-08-21 Thread Bob Hall
the IP address and port at each end. This message doesn't have that, so that and the failure of firewall changes to end the message make me think that the blocked packets aren't getting as far as the firewall. Does anybody have any idea w

Re: SMTP attempt?

2003-08-21 Thread Bob Hall
; > > > I can't figure out what's trying to connect to the SMTP port. I've got > > sendmail turned off, so there's nothing listening at port 25. > > > > Bob Hall > >>>>>>>>>> > > Recent sendmail configurations r

SMTP attempt?

2003-08-20 Thread Bob Hall
I've been noticing a lot of the following the last week: Aug 21 01:00:01 kongemord /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:25 from 1 27.0.0.1:1074 I can't figure out what's trying to connect to the SMTP port. I've got sendmail turned off, so there's nothing listeni

Re: Interpreting Samba messages

2003-08-20 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:37:29PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > So what you're seeing is a conflict between the inetd.conf setup and > the persistent daemon setup. I'd recommend that you take out the > entries in /etc/inetd.conf. You're

Interpreting Samba messages

2003-08-20 Thread Bob Hall
ought you could have only one process listening at a port. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Traceroute issue

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Hall
t outgoing packets can be anything at all. Win uses ICMP, and FBSD uses UDP. If your firewall is using the default rules, they are likely to be set up for Win with no thought given to Unix. If that is the case, then you need a rule that allows outgoing UDP packets to

Re: ipfw syntax

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Hall
their kazaa usage (I'm really only looking to slow kazaa down). With that This might help. http://bandwidthcontroller.com/limit-kazaa-bandwidth.html Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: Finding your dynamic external IP

2003-08-03 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:21:59AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Bob Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 11:02:19PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > "David S. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >

Re: Need some help =(

2003-08-03 Thread Bob Hall
n, FreeBSD Unleashed and Annalise Anderson's FBSD book both contain good step-by-step guides. I prefer Anderson's instructions to the other two, but only by a very small margin. I wouldn't hesitate to use either the handbook or FreeBSD Unleashed. Bob Hall

Re: Finding your dynamic external IP

2003-08-03 Thread Bob Hall
ticular > example is attached... I use ifconfig rl0 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}' where rl0 is my external interface. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:42:46PM -0700, Paul Beard wrote: > > On Friday, August 01, 2003, at 08:03AM, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:24, W. D. wrote: > >> You will then > >> have had an "out of the box" experience, or "OBE". > > > >Why must we insist on confusin

Re: cdrom eject - by software?

2003-07-26 Thread Bob Hall
This may be a dumb question, but did you remember to "umount" before hitting the eject button? Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Setting up OpenLDAP

2003-07-26 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:08:48PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:13:28AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > > OpenLDAP 2.1.22, FBSD 4.8 > > > > I'm trying to set up LDAP to store passwords. Eventually I will > > want to store addresses and do g

Re: installing packages

2003-07-26 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 09:06:58AM +0200, Ian Todd wrote: > Hi > > How do u install .tbz packages from terminal. I am trying to install > samba off the freebsd cd samba-2.2.7a.tbz with out any luck. As root, type # /stand/sysinstall Follow the instruction

Setting up OpenLDAP

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Hall
dc=domain, dc=net" rootpw directory /var/db/openldap-data index objectClass eq # less domain.ldif dn: dc=domain, dc=net objectclass: dcObject objectclass: organization o: SNAFU dc: domain dn: cn=Manager, dc=domain, dc=net objectclass: organizational

Re: learning PHP - book idea?

2003-07-16 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:43:18PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:28:18PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:57:02AM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: > > > If you already have the basics down, a good intermediate level book is: > >

Re: learning PHP - book idea?

2003-07-16 Thread Bob Hall
no problems with OReily's PHP cookbook. My primary reference for PHP is WROX's Professional PHP Programming. I've been using it off and on (I don't use PHP on a regular basis) for about three years, and been very happy with it. Bob Hall __

Re: name all the uses for samba

2003-07-11 Thread Bob Hall
nge-over from Unix to Windows when a small law firm was bought by another law firm. Imagine a grandmotherly AA saying, with a strong southern accent, "It would bray-ik ma hawt ta hay-if ta learn Windows." You'll get a similar response fro

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-10 Thread Bob Hall
ully the expression "X is dead", repeated over and over, plays on the emotions? Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

ICMP redirect

2003-07-09 Thread Bob Hall
.120.194 I'm guessing that the router at 213.232.120.198 is redirecting ICMP packets, but why is this information showing up on the tty that handles internal messages? Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Samba passwords

2003-07-03 Thread Bob Hall
in box as a client, then either your network or your smb.conf file is misconfigured. At least, that's my best guess. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: dhclient

2003-07-02 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:19:16PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Bob Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The firewall is ipfw with the SIMPLE option. The modifications > > to the firewall script for DHCP were > > # Accept bootps (dhcp): > >

Re: dhclient

2003-07-02 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:22:47AM +0100, lewiz wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 06:06:02PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > > I'm getting the following message: > > dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied > > Just a guess, but do you have bpf in your kernel? Yes. It'

dhclient

2003-07-02 Thread Bob Hall
provide. The following seems to be the default. I'll provide any other info if it will help. uname -a FreeBSD kongemord 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Wed Jun 18 15:48:26 EDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/KONGEMORD0 i386 Bob Hall _

Re: Samba, FBSD, & kernel oplocks

2003-07-02 Thread Bob Hall
In old documentation I see references to FreeBSD supporting kernel oplocks "soon". I don't see any recent references to this. Does FBSD support kernel oplocks, or is that not going to happen? Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: asfrecorder

2003-07-02 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:25:43PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > Has anyone gotten asfrecorder to work from a command line? > I get the "200 - OK" message and no download. The developer's > instructions for getting around this on Windows don't work on > a FBS

Re: Samba passwords

2003-07-02 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:29:42AM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:25:57PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > > samba-2.2.8a > > FreeBSD 4.8 I have Samba working with encrypted passwords. In the earlier versions of Samba, the default location for the smbp

Re: mounting a floppy

2003-07-01 Thread Bob Hall
$ monterfd and my password, and the fd is mounted. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Samba passwords

2003-06-30 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:54:33AM +0200, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Bob Hall wrote: > > > samba-2.2.8a > > FreeBSD 4.8 > > > > I'm trying to get samba running on my FBSD server. I've done this > > previously with another server, bu

Samba passwords

2003-06-30 Thread Bob Hall
and user ids. There is no ENCRYPTION file included with this port, and I can't find any other instructions for setting up the password file. I've googled and searched, and can't find anything that goes beyond what I already know. If someone could point me to instructions for sett

asfrecorder

2003-06-30 Thread Bob Hall
Has anyone gotten asfrecorder to work from a command line? I get the "200 - OK" message and no download. The developer's instructions for getting around this on Windows don't work on a FBSD commandline. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PRO

Re: Repositioning /var | /tmp to avoid disk full condition

2003-06-01 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:58:23AM -0700, Joseph Maxwell wrote: > Hello, > The 3rd edition of "The Complete FreeBSD" suggest repositioning the /var > directory ( and even /tmp) to prevent filling up that partition. I > ignored it and did just that today, filled it up. So I attempted the > repositio

Re: lynx on 4.8-stable

2003-06-01 Thread Bob Hall
tp_proxy:http://name.domain.foo:3128/ > https_proxy:http://name.domain..foo:3128/ The lynx.cfg file is stock; the proxy settings are all commented out. > Try explicity setting no_proxy:* That works. Thanks. I'd still like to know what is creating the proxy settings. There&

natd not loading

2002-12-19 Thread Bob Hall
rpc.statd, even if it has nothing to do with my network problem. Bob Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: squid.sh problem

2002-12-17 Thread Bob Hall
EFIX}/squid/logs; ${PREFIX}/sbin/squid -D Thanks. It works now. But why did it work the other way in the past, and then suddenly stop working? > > This bash script has run in the past with > > the -D option without any problems. This problem started a few > > days ago.

squid.sh problem

2002-12-16 Thread Bob Hall
in the past with the -D option without any problems. This problem started a few days ago. The machine is booted at least once a day, so I'd like to have the bash script working properly again. Does anyone know what's causing this, or how to fix it? Bob Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: scanning the smbd port

2002-12-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 04:23:31AM -0500, Bob Hall wrote: > I looked in the archives, but I didn't find anything on this. I've gotten > a number of messages like the following: > > Dec 13 22:37:20 sten inetd[6015]: refused connection from 61-231-96-100.HINET-IP > .hin

scanning the smbd port

2002-12-14 Thread Bob Hall
want to provide any services outside of the local network. I want the hosts inside the local network to be able to request services out on the Internet. Is there a better way of doing this? Bob Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: squidGuard & starting squid

2002-12-08 Thread Bob Hall
e a regex that matches */advertisers fairly easily. Thanks, but that's exactly what I'm having trouble doing. I can block an entire site, but I can't block the parts I don't want, e.g. banner ads, and leave the parts I do want, e.g. the Dilbert cartoon. I tried copying the

squidGuard & starting squid

2002-12-08 Thread Bob Hall
containing, for example, '/advertisers/', and Sleezeball blocks it. SquidGuard seems to block entire sites, or nothing. It doesn't seem to have any effect on just banner ads. Is there a way to get squidGuard to remove just the ads? Bob Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Squid & transparent proxy: fixed

2002-12-07 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:34:34AM -0500, Bob Hall wrote: > I'm trying to set squid up as a transparent proxy. I'm able to > do everything except the transparent part. If I point a web > browser at squid, everything works fine. But it won't work > transparently.

Squid & transparent proxy

2002-12-07 Thread Bob Hall
.0.1,3128 tcp from 192.168.0.0/24 to any 80 When I sh /etc/rc.firewall and then then test squid again, I still can't get transparent proxying, except on the machine that squid runs on. Bob Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

pppd script and DVD-RAM backups

2002-11-22 Thread Bob Hall
kup and restore procedure by restoring my current setup to an unused hard disk, and everything worked perfectly. That doesn't mean that I didn't introduce any errors when I edited the web page. :) http://users.starpower.net/rjhalljr/Serve Click on 'Unix' on the side bar. Bob

Re: Bash programming; Was: connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-21 Thread Bob Hall
to try was putting '2>&1' *inside* the parentheses. It makes sense, now that I know about it. Bob Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Bash programming; Was: connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-20 Thread Bob Hall
drive, so the system error message is confusing.) I've tried read and redirection, but I can't seem to capture the error message in a variable. Does anyone know how to do this? Bob Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-20 Thread Bob Hall
l commands which > I don't recall off-hand would allow the device to be accessed. I think he means that I should reboot once to get some info, and then I can reuse the info in future sessions without having to reboot. Bob Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-20 Thread Bob Hall
xists? FreeBSD 4.4, external DVD-RAM drive. Bob Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: When is FreeBSD going to work properly with KVM switches?

2002-07-18 Thread Bob Hall
t out of spec enough that they don't work properly together and the KVM is a dog. (My appologies to any members of the genus Canis who happen to read this.) Sometimes a Belkin works with Windows but not FreeBSD (my experience) and sometimes it works with FreeBSD but not Windows (other peoples

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