Firewall/Web server difficulties

2006-02-13 Thread Brian Bobowski
All right. I've got my firewall up and running, and my workstation can get almost anywhere it needs to just fine. The lone exception being the web server located on the firewall machine itself. I can access it by directly referencing the private-interface IP, but if my workstation tries to

Re: Firewall/Web server difficulties

2006-02-13 Thread Brian Bobowski
Norberto Meijome wrote: Brian Bobowski wrote: All right. I've got my firewall up and running, and my workstation can get almost anywhere it needs to just fine. you dont' say if you are using ipfw, ipf , pf Sure I do. IPFW; mentioned lower down. I can access it by directly

Re: Firewall/Web server difficulties

2006-02-13 Thread Brian Bobowski
Norberto Meijome wrote: Brian Bobowski wrote: I'm poking at that now, yes. I had difficulty getting it to work with virtual hosts... but I can at least reference it by the private-side IP address and get places. assuming you are using Apache, you can use * for Ip address and let

Setting up a FreeBSD gateway (more detail) and IPFW

2006-01-08 Thread Brian Bobowski
Thanks to those who replied to my previous call for help. Now I think it's time I actually provide some relevant detail. I've got two computers - one is my workstation, one is my server / gateway-to-be. My outside connection is via a hub to a cable modem; currently I have my workstation

Setting up a FreeBSD gateway

2006-01-04 Thread Brian Bobowski
OK, I've tried searching through man pages and such, but I've got kind of lost here. I have one machine that's acting as a gateway for my home PC, in addition to running a few local servers. I know I shouldn't do that, but the traffic is low and I just don't have room for more computers in my

Re: Deleting Packages

2004-12-02 Thread Brian Bobowski
Gerard Seibert wrote: I have a large number of files in the '/usr/ports/packages/All' directory. Since I could use the disk space that they are taking up, I wonder if it is permissible to just delete them. I clean out the '/usr/ports/distfiles' directory on a regular schedule without incident.

Re: can't mount windows partition

2004-12-02 Thread Brian Bobowski
Rizal Ferdiyan wrote: hello ; my name rizal from indonesia, I have a problem. My partition windows (FAT 32) can't mount in freebsd. My partition in /dev/ad0s1 and /dev/ad0s2. I have been try writemount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0s1(ad0s2) /mnt/win1(ad0s1) and mount_msdosfs /node but it don't work. Please

Re: ndis driver adapter layer for FreeBSD?

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Bobowski
stan wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:29:52PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: man ndis, ndiscvt Hmm, $ man ndis No manual entry for ndis [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/stan $ man ndiscvt No manual entry for ndiscvt Must be a 5.x feature? In any case, thnaks for the pointer. I guess it's time to build

Re: Can 10M Buffer Ceiling be lowere?

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Bobowski
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:27:11AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A technical question: I have an old NEC computer (c. 1997) running 5.3-RELEASE with 48M of RAM. Getting a new computer isn't an option right now, but I would like to get as much out of my memory as

Re: mustek scanner Bearpaw 1200TA : Operation not supported

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Bobowski
Lin Tzu-yau wrote: I have tried for days ,but still not working 1. dmesg message uscanner0: Mustek Systems USB Scanner, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 2. proper firmware /usr/local/share/sane/gt68xx -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8118 12 1 11:46 A1fw.usb 3. test scannerscanimage -L device

Re: new freebsd users list (unofficial)

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Bobowski
Chris Conn wrote: Hi, I've started a small informal FreeBSD user's list on yahoogroups. This list is not one of the official FreeBSD lists, I just started it myself. If you're interested you can subscribe here: http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/freebsd-users or send me mail and I'll add you. Why

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 81, Issue 24

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Bobowski
Graham Bentley wrote: Hi All, As an experiment (and to gain some expereince) I would like to test out locally various CMS software. I have a 5.3 release disc here and can get a minimal install up and running and on the net quite quickly now. What I am struggling with is the following :- What

Re: Why can't I do mknod /dev/cdev c 32 0

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Bobowski
cm c wrote: I'm a newbie to freebsd. I'm trying to port a simple driver to freebsd, but something stopped me. I tried to use the /usr/share/examples to have a test, but mknod failed : mknod /dev/cdev c 32 0 even the make_dev call will cause system rebooting! I don't know why. Who can

Re: Why can't I do mknod /dev/cdev c 32 0

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Bobowski
cm c wrote: The output of 'uname -a' is: FreeBSD .itc.inventec 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 It's 5.x, but if the node is created automatically, how do

Re: How can I start a programm after installation??

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Bobowski
Laszlo Antal wrote: Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.10 with KDE. I installed Gimp from /usr/ports/graphics/. I typed make prefix=/usr/local/gimp It took a while and dowloaded a lot of other programms and installed them. After that I typed make prefix=/usr/local/gimp install Again everything looked good no

Re: USB Flash Drive

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
RL wrote: I just got a new USB 2.0 flashdrive that I want to access. It recognizes it fine as da0. I am wondering how I actually mount that. Do I need an entry in /etc/fstab? If not how would I mount it with the mount -t command? Yes, put an entry in /etc/fstab for it. e.g.: /dev/da0

Re: USB Flash Drive

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: Yes, put an entry in /etc/fstab for it. e.g.: /dev/da0 /flash[1] msdosfs[2] rw Perhaps my card is just unusal, but freeBSD makes a da0s1 node which is the appropriate one to mount. You're probably right about that, actually; it's been so long since

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: 3) I change resolution for consoles as vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 green. Can I change rate? How to do it? The rate of what? I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this part. Monitor refresh rate would be my guess. Checking setuid files and devices: Checking

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
Lars Eighner wrote: 3) I change resolution for consoles as vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 green. Can I change rate? How to do it? I don't know what rate you mean. Refresh rate is a common video parameter that I can think of, and often specified with resolution. Since vidcontrol refers to the

Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello I have been investigating (I have read all freebsd manuals and search on the internet) and my old pentium machine has got the bad CMD 640 disk controller. FreeBSD 5.3 says that it does NOT support it. I think that they have removed support for it in the 5.x versions.

Re: JDK Issues

2004-11-29 Thread Brian Bobowski
Dick Davies wrote: That's the trouble - the linux jdk14 *does* tell you you need to build linprocfs: snip port message but of course this is only helpful if you are building ports one at a time (otherwise you don't see the messages from the dependencies you are installing). That's a general

Re: ftp login/password

2004-11-29 Thread Brian Bobowski
j p wrote: i'm trying to download freebsd via ftp. what is the login and password. how do i copy the files Unless stated otherwise, an FTP site usually is set up for anonymous FTP; login is(if your client doesn't know how to do anon sign-on built in) anonymous and the suggested password is

Re: kernel compile error

2004-11-26 Thread Brian Bobowski
Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:03:52PM +0900, Rob wrote: Matt Emmerton wrote: Having such a mechanism, would prevent lots of beginners in the kernel compiling stuff, to get frustrated with errors like above. Also, as you see, it's well-documented in the kernel

Re: two hdd partitation

2004-11-21 Thread Brian Bobowski
Dude Dude wrote: hey, i will install tomorrow freebsd in a machine with two hdd (60+80GB), and i would like to use freebsd on both, what should i do? During installation put /usr under onde disk, and all the other stuff in the other? will these work? thank u You may want to consider putting

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 + any smtp server, Refuses to receive any emails...

2004-11-21 Thread Brian Bobowski
Erik Ellis wrote: FreeBSD 5.3 + any smtp server, Refuses to receive any emails from any external domain EXEPT bredband.net, witch is odd, cuz I haven't entered anything about bredband.net. Right now im using Sendmail, but iwe tried postfix but I get the same problem. No errors in logs, no errors

Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

2004-11-19 Thread Brian Bobowski
Mipam wrote: Hi, I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message: /bin/rm: Argument list too long. So, no go. newfs is also no option, because the dir is not a seperate fs. Any hints exept for manual labour? Bye, Mipam. I gather it's rm * that's not working? If so, try a

Re: system wide ports upgrade

2004-11-19 Thread Brian Bobowski
Steel City Phantom wrote: i remember there being a program out there that will go through all my installed apps and upgrade them with the latest versions in the ports collection, what was it called again? thanks portupgrade, in the sysutils directory. -BB

Re: Dual Boot with Windows XP

2004-11-13 Thread Brian Bobowski
Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote: My first IDE drive is (on IDE 0 - master) with windows XP controlling it MBR. My second IDE drive (on IDE 0 - slave) is with FreeBSD 5.3 controlling it MBR. How can I do to configure the boot loader and the scripts: loader.rc and loader.conf to

Re: Partition?

2004-11-12 Thread Brian Bobowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 20gb hard drive 10gb is free, and its NTFS partition. How would i go about installing FreeBSD on a daulboot? when Fdisk is started do i create a slice? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: how do I get the status of a raid array?

2004-11-03 Thread Brian Bobowski
Dave Alden wrote: Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD (switching my primary NFS server over from RHEL) and I'm trying to figure out how I can get the current status of my RAID setup. I'm using an LSI MegaRAID 320-2x card and FreeBSD 5.3RC2 (don't worry, I'm just testing for now, I'm going to wait until 5.3 is

Re: make buildworld.........24 hours????

2004-10-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
Kris Kennaway wrote: That's not unreasonable - the performance killer will be your lack of memory, which means that you'll be swapping a lot while compiling. Kris One thing I have to wonder - how compatible is 'make buildworld' with multiple build processes(e.g. 'make -j4

Re: make buildworld.........24 hours????

2004-10-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
Chuck Swiger wrote: Using -j is recommended only when you have lots of memory and can keep all of the processes resident in memory. Trying to run a parallel build on a low-memory machine is almost certainly going to be much slower, since you are going to swap more, not less. Time it for

Re: duel booting with 2x *nix

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Bobowski
Simon Burke wrote: I know duel booting is really easy to setup these days, but just a thought, I've never duel booted with two *nix OS's so i do not know this. Is it possible to use a single swap partition for multiple distro's on one machine? If so would it impair stability or stuff? And would it

Re: what KERNEL entry for an AWE64?

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Bobowski
Gary Kline wrote: Thanks, I'lll give it a try. (This is an *old* card, circa 1998-9 that I never used... .) gary If it's ISA old and emu10k1 doesn't work, you might also want to try the snd_sb16 driver. Or even snd_sb8. But if emu10k1 doesn't work my first option would still be

Re: what KERNEL entry for an AWE64?

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Bobowski
Gary Kline wrote: Seems to be a PnP card. I just tried snd_driver; no joy, so will try the sb16 next. Trying to use mplayerplugin. Maybe have to settle for realplayer. -g Mixer settings could be at fault if you're hearing no sound; my SB Live was VERY quiet under

Re: Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

2004-10-27 Thread Brian Bobowski
Ben Washington-Yule wrote: For a quick fix you could try pkg_add -r XFree86-fontScalable, this will download and install the pre-compiled binary. When was the last time you CVSup'd? Good luck with that. When I'd just installed 5.2.1, I could pkg_add -r with a fair likelihood of success. Since

Re: duplicate ports

2004-10-26 Thread Brian Bobowski
Petre Bandac wrote: do I really need both the old version of an port and the new one ? The specifics of perl have been addressed, but it's worth noting that sometimes, you do. A good example is tk; it's perfectly possible to have multiple versions of it installed because they're installed to

Re: First cvsup in sometime, and now I'm hosed

2004-10-24 Thread Brian Bobowski
John Adams wrote: Hi, folks, I ran a cvsup against my supfile, then a portupgrade -a, and now I'm hosed. For starts, ruby is complaining about an insecure version of OpenSSL, and will not install, leaving me without, well, portupgrade. What have I done to myself, and how do I recover?

Java under Opera 7.54?

2004-10-21 Thread Brian Bobowski
. Has anyone been able to convince Java and Opera to get along under FreeBSD? If so, any help would be appreciated. I'm not the most technical of people, so while I can install FreeBSD just fine, the multitude of JREs and JDKs leaves me at a loss. TIA. -- -Brian Bobowski

PCM not appearing in /dev ?

2004-10-18 Thread Brian Bobowski
16384 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default) - Did I miss some ultra-important thing here? I haven't compiled a custom kernel and, for the time being, would like to avoid doing so if possible. Thanks in advance, -Brian Bobowski [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PCM not appearing in /dev ?

2004-10-18 Thread Brian Bobowski
On Monday 18 October 2004 20:17, Jeremy Faulkner wrote: /dev/dspXX are what will appear in /dev, not pcm Fair enough. And the sound does appear to be working. My question really comes down to, where does pcm0 disappear to? I'm just expecting the system log messages to reflect the actual

Re: Multiple kernels on one machine?

2003-10-06 Thread Brian Bobowski
On October 6, 2003 12:11 pm, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I'm currently in the process of upgrading my kernel (5.1). Afaik, every time one installs a new kernel with make installkernel the old /boot/kernel is moved to /boot/kernel.old thus overwriting the old /boot/kernel.old. In order to keep

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Brian Bobowski
On October 6, 2003 01:16 pm, Mike Jackson wrote: Hi, You could try a USB keyboard. I'm not sure if USB Hotplugging is working in FBSD or not, but it *should* work theoretically. I don't know of any systems that allow PS/2 hotplugging. BR, -- mike USB hotplugging definitely works as of

Canon PowerShot A10 digital cam and FreeBSD 5.1

2003-10-04 Thread Brian Bobowski
Okay, I have the abovementioned camera, which the Digikam port supports through libgphoto2(that very camera is mentioned). When I plug the cam in, turn it on, and set it to Playback mode, I get a kernel message acknowledging its presence, complete with model info, on ugen2. However, no matter

Re: sym links

2003-10-02 Thread Brian Bobowski
On October 2, 2003 02:01 am, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: 2) How can you make a symlink for a user so that it can be seen while they are in an FTP session. Basically, I have a user who cannot see the symlink I've set up for them...not sure why. --AFAIK it is not possible. Even then I suppose it

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-02 Thread Brian Bobowski
On October 2, 2003 08:57 pm, Jud wrote: There are several ways you can do this. There's pkg_delete for packages, 'make deinstall clean' for ports, and for deleting an older version of a port to replace it with a newer one, there's the intelligent and lovely 'portupgrade.' (The upgrade can be

Re: JBoss3 Port on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-09-27 Thread Brian Bobowski
On September 27, 2003 09:08 am, Thorsten Greiner wrote: * Antony T Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-27 15:05]: My experience says that the only native JVM which runs JBoss is JDK1.3.1 The 1.4.1 JDK still has a few problems. Not true. Both JBoss 3.0.x and 3.2.1 run fine under native JDK

Re: Connection refused when setting up cyrus-imapd

2003-09-12 Thread Brian Bobowski
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:47:42 -0500 Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when I run imtest and point it to my localhost, it immediately gives me the following response: connect: Connection refused failure: Network initialization Not being familiar with imap that well as

Connection refused when setting up cyrus-imapd

2003-09-11 Thread Brian Bobowski
here? On a related note, I noticed some discussion in the cyrus-imapd docs and config files about mbox versus Mailbox format. The latter seemed to be preferable, being able to rearrange with less worry; is there any way I can make it be the storage format? -Brian Bobowski