Re: XFree86 4.4.0 - when

2004-03-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:50:21AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:34:21PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > > I'm not sure if this is the appropriate list to ask or not, but, does > > anyone have a rough idea when XFree86 4.4.0 will be committed to th

XFree86 4.4.0 - when

2004-03-03 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm not sure if this is the appropriate list to ask or not, but, does anyone have a rough idea when XFree86 4.4.0 will be committed to the ports tree? I've got an nVidia AGP card that is supported in 4.3.99 and 4.4.0 Thanks! -- Regards, Doug _

Re: Curious sound problem in 5.2.1-R

2004-03-03 Thread Doug Poland
Aaron Peterson said: >> Have you compiled the following in your kernel? >> >> device pcm >> device sbc > > or alternatively add this to your /boot/loader.conf > > snd_ich_load="YES" > > then run "kldload snd_ich.ko" as root... > > adding to loader.conf makes the proper sound driv

Re: Curious sound problem in 5.2.1-R

2004-03-03 Thread Doug Poland
7;t exist in GENERIC or GENERIC.hints , which only confuses me more. > > On 3/3/2004, "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I'd like to preface this with the statement that I'm a long-time 4.x user but >>brand-new >

Curious sound problem in 5.2.1-R

2004-03-03 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'd like to preface this with the statement that I'm a long-time 4.x user but brand-new to the 5.x series. Also, I'm not sure if this belongs on -CURRENT or not, but, here goes... I'm trying to get sound working on a Dell Dimension 4600 with the following audio device: pcm0: port 0xedc

Re: Problem with sed and awk

2004-02-26 Thread Doug Poland
Roubíèek Zdenìk (T-Systems PragoNet) said: > > Any idea what I am missing? > >>cat test > 1;1 > 2;2 >>awk -F ';' '{print $1}' > 1 > 2 >>awk -F ' FS=";" {print $1}' > 1;1 > 2 >> > awk 'BEGIN{FS=";"}{print $1}' test -- Regards, Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Which video adapter for dual-head 5.2-R/XF86 4.3?

2004-02-23 Thread Doug Poland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Selon Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> So, can someone recommend a graphics apapter that runs dual-head in >> 5.2/XFree86 4.3? > > I'm using FreeBSD-5.2-RC with an NVidia TI-4200 dual-head and it works great :) > I never had a prob

Which video adapter for dual-head 5.2-R/XF86 4.3?

2004-02-23 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, I've done a lot of reading and searching mailing lists in an attempt to identify a graphics adapter that will run dual-head in FreeBSD 5.2/XFree 4.3 One of the problems with searching lists is what you see a lot of is people's problems and it tends to skew your impressions. There's lot's of

Re: True IMAP Trash Folder

2004-02-02 Thread Doug Poland
Matt Juszczak wrote: Does anyone know of a mail client that supports a true IMAP trash folder? >>> There is no trash folder in the IMAP protocol itself.. Removing mail is a two step process, first of deleting it, and second of purging the deleted mail. I understand now. Thanks. So do you know

Re: SCSI Tape drive problem

2004-01-28 Thread Doug Poland
Matthew Seaman said: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:18:27AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > >> I'm running 4.9-STABLE on a box with an older HP 35480A DDS tape >> drive. Recently the drive started spitting out any tape I insert. >> It simply will not accept any tape I

SCSI Tape drive problem

2004-01-28 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, I'm running 4.9-STABLE on a box with an older HP 35480A DDS tape drive. Recently the drive started spitting out any tape I insert. It simply will not accept any tape I load. I've tried 5 different tapes and it does the same thing. Loads, lights blink for a second or two, and the tape is spi

Re: a good ip subnet calculator with gui..!

2004-01-23 Thread Doug Poland
Neal Hamilton wrote: > Is there any subnet calculators with a gui for unixfreebsd? After > hours of searching i could only find ipsc with a reference of gipsc but > the ports are broken and the package i installed does not > have gipsc. I usually use solar winds or boson ip tools on windows,

Need advice from Asus P4C800-E owners

2003-12-29 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I recently purchased an ASUS P4C800-E motherboard and a couple of of SATA drives. I'm looking for ideas on how to "best" configure this MB with all it's PATA and SATA option for use with FreeBSD -CURRENT. I've been following the -questions and -current mailing lists and have seen several

Postscript printer, serial or parallel cable?

2003-12-21 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, I recently got my hands on a free (woowho!) HP 4050 printer. I'm going to hook it up to a FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE server. The printer has two serial (one male/one female) connectors, a Centronix port, and some odd looking port that looks like you plug a mouse into it. The handbook states that I

Re: mount_smbfs problems

2003-12-10 Thread Doug Poland
urity policy, > maybe consider checking "Password never expires" for that user. > bingo! > Hope this helps... > many thanks to you Sir. > > Doug Poland wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on a box that, daily, connects to a windows mach

mount_smbfs problems

2003-12-10 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on a box that, daily, connects to a windows machine and writes files to a "share". This system was working for about a month. But now, every time I issue the mount_smbfs command I get "mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = RPC struct is bad" In /var

Re: Ymessenger

2003-12-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:44:06AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how can i get yahoo y messenger > cd /usr/ports/net/ymessenger make install -- Regards, Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: racoon configuration syntax errors

2003-11-07 Thread Doug Poland
. I'll give your suggestion a try, thanks! -- Regards, Doug > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:17:14PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:17:14 -0600 (CST) > From: "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: racoon con

Re: racoon configuration syntax errors

2003-11-06 Thread Doug Poland
Toni Schmidbauer said: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:17:14PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: >> 2003-11-06 13:13:14: ERROR: cftoken.l:494:yyerror(): racoon.conf:99: "A.A.A.A" >> syntax >> error >> 2003-11-06 13:13:14: ERROR: cfparse.y:1397:cfparse(): fatal parse fa

racoon configuration syntax errors

2003-11-06 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to set up an IPSEC VPN tunnel between two FreeBSD servers using Dru Lavigne's excellent series of articles as a guide. (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/01/09/FreeBSD_Basics.html) Unfortunately, I'm having a problem getting racoon to run because of an alleged syntax error

Re: NAT and gateway

2003-11-02 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 06:07:23PM +0200, Petre Bandac wrote: > snack% /sbin/ifconfig > rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 213.157.171.x netmask 0xff00 broadcast 213.157.171.255 > ether 00:02:44:30:dc:4b > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > status: active > rl1: flag

NAT and gateway

2003-11-01 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running 4.8-STABLE. I've got a question about NAT and gateway. Today, I'm running a typical NAT configuration like this... if0 = public_ip if1 = private_lan Everything is working fine, internal clients use if1 and their gateway and their addresses are translated and sent out on if0.

Re: 4.9-STABLE prob building perl

2003-10-30 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:21:45AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:01:26AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > > > Good day, > > > > I just did a fresh cvsup and was build makeworld when I encountered > > and error in the perl build > &

4.9-STABLE prob building perl

2003-10-30 Thread Doug Poland
Good day, I just did a fresh cvsup and was build makeworld when I encountered and error in the perl build ===> gnu/usr.bin/perl/x2p/s2pl ===> gnu/usr.bin/perl/x2p/find2pl ===> gnu/usr.sbin 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error That's all the error message I received. Is th

postscript to pdf conversion

2003-10-15 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Is there a port that can convert a postscript file to a pdf? I've got GNU Ghostscript installed and think that should do it. Also, I'm in a pinch for time so if someone has a quicky command-line example I'd really appreciate it. -- Regards, Doug

Re: Seeking advice for new server: 4.8-REL vs. 4.9-BETA

2003-09-25 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:11:05AM -0700, Scott Schappell wrote: > Doug Poland wrote: > > >I guess I have some confusion between what's -STABLE and -RELEASE and > >when one becomes the other. Better read up on it. > > > > > The way I understand it is t

Re: Seeking advice for new server: 4.8-REL vs. 4.9-BETA

2003-09-25 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:23:50AM -0700, Scott Schappell wrote: > > > >Can I start with 4.9-BETA ISOs? My thinking is that what's in > >4.9-BETA will not be much different from -STABLE. > > > depends on what you want. If you want stability, install the 4.8 ISO and > CVS to 4.9 when it's RELEAS

Seeking advice for new server: 4.8-REL vs. 4.9-BETA

2003-09-25 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, On Monday, 29 Sep, I'll be building an apache/mysql server. I usually install from the latest release on CD then cvsup to -STABLE. My questions: Can I start with 4.9-BETA ISOs? My thinking is that what's in 4.9-BETA will not be much different from -STABLE. What do others when buildin

Re: yahoo messenger

2003-09-24 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:09:44PM +1000, Anthony Carmody wrote: > well, i have not been able to connect for 24hrs myself. > > I have heard rumours [gasp] that MSN and Yahoo are on a crusade to > block third party clients using their transport. i don't know the > weight of this in truth, but i mus

Re: yahoo messenger

2003-09-24 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:52:35AM -0400, Michael Sharp wrote: > Yahoo has officially updated messenger such that you can no longer connect > using the current freebsd yahoo port version ( 0.99.19.1 ). I just tried > to install their NEW package.. > > makayla# pkg_add fbsd4.ymessenger.tgz > pkg_ad

Re: Suggestions to a command line editor

2003-09-03 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:05:35PM -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote: > > Thanks to all those that replied. > Im going to take a shot at vim-lite, and see where it leads me. > VIM has the added advantage of being cross-platform. I use it on MacOS X and Windows. Very nice to have the same application o

Re: Backup and restore advise sought

2003-08-22 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:57:35AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > 1. I'm concerned that the FBSD partition names will change. i.e., / > > was ad0s3a may now become ad1s3a and so on. > > Yes, this will happen, but not in the way you've shown: ad0s3a is > the first partition (a) on the 3rd slice

Backup and restore advise sought

2003-08-21 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm building a dual-boot (FreeBSD 4.8 / Windows) workstation for a friend. Initially, he wanted FBSD/WinXP so I gave approx 1/2 of the hard drive (the 1st half) to FreeBSD and the 2nd 1/2 to Win. I've installed, configured, built a custom kernel and brought FreeBSD up to -STABLE. I've al

Re: make installworld fails on 4.8 in /usr/src/share/colldef

2003-08-21 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:36:57PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm attempting to installworld on a 4.8-RELEASE machine. I installed > the OS yesterday from CD-ROM. Today I did a cvsup for latest sources. > I've successfully built world, built and instal

make installworld fails on 4.8 in /usr/src/share/colldef

2003-08-20 Thread Doug Poland
Greetings, I'm attempting to installworld on a 4.8-RELEASE machine. I installed the OS yesterday from CD-ROM. Today I did a cvsup for latest sources. I've successfully built world, built and installed custom kernel. When I attempt to run: # make installworld this is what I see ... ... .

ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-14 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, This isn't so much a FreeBSD topic but a comment and a request for resources. As a long time FreeBSD admin/user I know this is a large, diverse, and eloquent community of technical users. I hope someone can point me to a resource or group of users that address this policy. Within the la

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:41:56AM -0700, Nicole wrote: > > Yes I too have resorted to blocking Ip's with no reverse DNS and > its amazing how many big companies can fall into this. > > As to the Dynamic Space, I also block DSL/dynamicly assigned Ip's > as I fall aware of them. (See Example

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:27:15PM +0200, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > Doug Poland wrote: > > >Within the last two months both AOL and Time Warner Road Runner > >have implemented port 25 blocks from hosts with IP addresses in the > >"dynamic address

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:34:45PM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote: > > > I do understand the counter argument about blocking ips.. but i think > thats frustration talking. Even if ip blocking is an improvement, it > won't stop spam. > Agreed, does anyone know why requiring reverse DNS isn't "good enou

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-11 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:14:28PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:19:57AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > > Within the last two months both AOL and Time Warner Road Runner > > have implemented port 25 blocks from hosts with IP addresses in > > the &

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-06 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:37:21AM -0500, Bruce Pea wrote: > --On Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:33 PM -0400 Steve Hovey > > > >I now block ip's with no reverse dns > > We are doing this as well. We get a fair number of complaints from people > who's mail doesn't get delivered but we tell them to

Re: dualboot, first fbsd, then xp

2003-06-17 Thread Doug Poland
Matthew Seaman said: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:40:48PM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: > >> Is it save to install WinXP after FreeBSD? My IBM recovery cd goofed >> up my WinXP and I'd like to reinstall XP only and keep my existing >> FreeBSD slices intact. Same goes for the MBR, of course. >> >> And y

Re: XFree86 4.3.0 anti-alias font problem

2003-06-01 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 07:33:51AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on a 4.8-STABLE box with XFree86 4.3.0. I'm going through the handbook > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html) > and adding anti-aliased fonts to my system. &g

Re: OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

2003-06-01 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:00:33AM +1000, David Gerard wrote: > > OK. I know that after much fiddling with OOo 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2, it > came out that OOo basically just, er, didn't work on FreeBSD at that time. > > So. On the other box (FreeBSD 4.8), we've just installed OOo 1.0.2 from > por

XFree86 4.3.0 anti-alias font problem

2003-05-31 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, I'm on a 4.8-STABLE box with XFree86 4.3.0. I'm going through the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html) and adding anti-aliased fonts to my system. The problem I'm having is adding TrueType and the bitstream-vera fonts to my fontpath via xset. Fol

openoffice port fails to build

2003-05-31 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm having a problem building the openoffice port. The build fails deep in the bowels of a mozilla build. Since I have the 1.3.1 Mozilla port installed on my 4-STABLE box, I'm wondering why it's attempting to install another mozilla. As always, thanks for your help and support. ... sn

SCSI tape: device not configured problem

2003-05-29 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've been using an HP HP35480A 1109 DAT tape in a -STABLE box for about a year and half with no problems. Just the other day, I started seeing mt: /dev/nsa0: Device not configured errors whenever I try to control the device. Should I just MAKEDEV nsa0 to fix it? Is it perhaps a hardw

Re: How to write to console

2003-04-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:49:42AM -0800, Ben Collver wrote: > Doug Poland wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'd like to write to the "default" console of a -STABLE box. In this > >case, no one is logged in on that console/terminal. > > > &g

How to write to console

2003-04-04 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'd like to write to the "default" console of a -STABLE box. In this case, no one is logged in on that console/terminal. The commands write, talk, and wall mention writing to a terminal of a logged in user. Ideally, I'd like to clear the screen and display an 80x25 message. Does anyone

Re: convert to jpegs

2003-03-20 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:26:55AM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > Greetings, > > i have a bunch of files of different image formats that i would like to convert > to jpeg. > is there a command line converter to be able to do them all in one shot? > maybe with xv or xnview? > The port ImageMagick i

Re: Port that makes HTML from jpeg images?

2003-03-15 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 04:15:50PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Sorry for the ambiguity of the subject. I thought there's a port that > > can generate HTML pages (with hrefs) from a bunch of .jpe

Port that makes HTML from jpeg images?

2003-03-15 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, Sorry for the ambiguity of the subject. I thought there's a port that can generate HTML pages (with hrefs) from a bunch of .jpeg images. I belive I came across something like this perusing the ports a few months ago but I'm unable to find anything searching the current ports for -STABLE.

Re: shell script to backup files with datestamp

2003-02-10 Thread Doug Poland
Jack L. Stone said: >> At 11:19 AM 2.10.2003 -0500, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: >> Without dumping to perl or another external language, would like >> to accomplish the following; >> >> prior to making changes in a file, backup incrementially the >> current file to create a record of changes ans ve

Re: speeding up NFS

2003-02-10 Thread Doug Poland
>> You may be able to increase the -r and -w sizes to improve >> things. > > Yes, well I already tried that but it didn't work (it was even > worse !) > >> My understanding is: you should use UDP mounts if the servers >> are close together (i.e., one hub/switch between them, low >> latency) but us

Re: text processing, excluding common lines

2003-02-09 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:24:21PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 08), Dan Nelson said: > > cat fileA fileB | sort | comm -13 - fileC > > Or to preempt someone marking this with a "useless use of cat" stamp: > > sort fileA fileB | comm -13 - fileC > Thank you to all that res

text processing, excluding common lines

2003-02-08 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, Anyone know a command-line tool (or tools piped together) that could achieve the following results. Given... % cat fileA line1 line2 line3 % cat fileB line2 line4 line5 % cat fileC line1 line4 line6 line7 I would like to see all the lines in fileC that are not in fileA

Re: CUPS instalation question

2003-02-07 Thread Doug Poland
stan said: > I have a 47. STABLE system that I recently cvsup'd and did a make > world. Now I;ve built cups-base, and cups-lpr from the ports. > > I'm able to send a test page to a printer using the web > interface, but I'm having trouble making things work from the > command line, and I suspect t

Re: multiple probs with cups 1.1.18.0-4

2003-02-04 Thread Doug Poland
Stephen Hilton said: >> > > # dmesg | egrep -i 'lp|parall' >> > > ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 >> > > lpt0: on ppbus0 >> > > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port >> > > ppi0: on ppbus0 >> > > ppc1: at port 0x278-0x27f irq 8 on isa0 >> > > lpt1: on ppbus1 >> > > lpt1: Interrupt-drive

Re: multiple probs with cups 1.1.18.0-4

2003-02-03 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:41:03PM -0600, Stephen Hilton wrote: > > # dmesg | egrep -i 'lp|parall' > > ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 > > lpt0: on ppbus0 > > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port > > ppi0: on ppbus0 > > ppc1: at port 0x278-0x27f irq 8 on isa0 > > lpt1

Re: multiple probs with cups 1.1.18.0-4

2003-02-03 Thread Doug Poland
Just about everything woking in cups now except I'm unable to configure a printer via web interface. The browswer reports: Admin Error: server-error-service-unavailable The error log says: I [03/Feb/2003:22:33:23 -0600] Started "/usr/local/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/ad

Re: multiple probs with cups 1.1.18.0-4

2003-02-03 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:05:05PM -0800, Derrick Ryalls wrote: > > > 1. CUPS does not see my parallel ports. > > > > I had the same problem with the parallel port. I had to reboot the > machine with the printer plugged in and turned on for it to show up. > I powered off the computer and pr

multiple probs with cups 1.1.18.0-4

2003-02-03 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm not really sure if QUESTIONS is the right place to start with this issue but here goes. (BTW, I've googled the mailing archives for both FreeBSD and CUPS, read TFMs, and used the article posted on freebsddiary.org) My intention is to build a print server supporting 2 parallel and tw

Re: copy a cd

2003-01-30 Thread Doug Poland
Brian Henning said: > i am trying to copy a data cd with > dd if=/dev/acd0c of=/home/image.iso bs=2048 > i don't think it is working... i don't have the error message, but > the cd doesn't work when i burn it. > can i somehow find out for sure if bs=2048 is correct ? > is there any other info i ne

Re: back up Win2k workstations?

2003-01-22 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:41:07AM +, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on > a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how? > Make a "share" for the disk(s) you want to backup, then use mount_smbfs to get at the data. You may not be suc

Re: IPFW, blocking IM servers

2003-01-21 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 06:20:09PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-01-21T23:03:09Z, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm concerned about the big 3, AOL, MSN, and Yahoo. They must > > have a limited IP range they use. > > Fr

Re: IPFW, blocking IM servers

2003-01-21 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:17:07PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-01-21T21:39:52Z, "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sorry for this slightly off-topic post... Is there a comprehensive list > > of IM servers (names, IPs) availabl

IPFW, blocking IM servers

2003-01-21 Thread Doug Poland
Sorry for this slightly off-topic post... Is there a comprehensive list of IM servers (names, IPs) available? I'd like to block IM servers from certain users on my network. >From what I've gathered on google, the only effective stragegy is to use firewall (in my case, IPFW) rules to block IP's,

How to read core dump

2003-01-18 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I am attempting to run MySQL Control Center (also known as MySQLCC) on FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE. FYI, is a platform-independent GUI administration client for the MySQL database server. The binary version I downloaded from MySQL.com is for Linux glibc 2.2. My system is running linux_base-7.1_2.

Re: Thought of the list: CERT Advisory CA-2002-36 Multiple Vulnerabilities in SSH Implementations

2002-12-17 Thread Doug Poland
FWIW, on the advisory itself, an OpenSSH author states, "From my testing it seems that the current version of OpenSSH (3.5) is not vulnerable to these problems, and some limited testing shows that no version of OpenSSH is vulnerable." -- Regards, Doug Stacey Roberts said: > This just landed in m

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I was at a local installfext yesterday > (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were > interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or > reliability. I'm currently about to finish the m

Re: Secure tunneling of remote-access Windows sessions?

2002-11-18 Thread Doug Poland
Darren Pilgrim said: > I want to setup VNC on some Windows machines so I can access them > over the internet, but I need to secure the connection in a way > that will work with NAT'ing firewalls on both ends of the > connection. How can I do this? I was thinking of setting up a > tunnel betwee

Re: Window/File Manager

2002-11-11 Thread Doug Poland
David S. Jackson said: >> -Original Message- >> From: Ryan Sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: 03 Nov 2002 21:55:37 -0600 >> Subject: Window/File Manager >> >> I recently decided to bring my old Presario 1220 our of >> retirement and make a small toy laptop to pla

Re: old way of compiling kernel

2002-11-08 Thread Doug Poland
Alessandro de Manzano said: > > _exactly_ why on a freshly installed system (no cvsup, no build > anything) to compile just the kernel I must use the "old way" (1) > and can't use new way (2) ? > > I've been told I can use (2) only after at least one "make > buildworld", not on a vergin system. >

Re: /etc/make.conf - Multiple Machines

2002-11-08 Thread Doug Poland
Drew Tomlinson said: > I'm trying to set up a build machine as described in section 21.5 > of the Handbook. The directions say to use a common > /etc/make.conf for all machines that will share binaries. One of > my machines is an i686 class CPU. The other is an i585 CPU. To > what value should

Re: Removing and Replacing FreeBSD

2002-11-07 Thread Doug Poland
Natalie Behm said: > Having gone over and over and over and over the > handbook and installation guides, I have determined > that the installation of FreeBSD just does NOT work > for me. Perhaps it is because I'm not a programmer, > perhaps it's because I'm a complete moron (as I'm sure > anyone

Re: extracting kernel compilation options

2002-11-02 Thread Doug Poland
paul beard said: > Doug Poland wrote: >> I need to see what options a kernel was compiled with. I >> remember a few years back that there is a command that will show >> you all the kernel options and devices. Does anyone know how to >> do that? >> > > You

extracting kernel compilation options

2002-11-02 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I need to see what options a kernel was compiled with. I remember a few years back that there is a command that will show you all the kernel options and devices. Does anyone know how to do that? -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freeb

Re: FreeBSD + samba PDC vs Win2K clients

2002-11-01 Thread Doug Poland
Stacey Roberts said: > > Has *any* list member succesfully got samba (version 2.2.6) > running on FreeBSD 4.7 Stable running as a PDC for Win2K clients? > If so, and you're able / willing to help me set this up, please > let me know. > Hi Stacey, I did it on 4.6 a few months ago. I'm willing to h

Re: Yes, but how do I upgrade?

2002-10-29 Thread Doug Poland
Steve Wingate said: > >> >> From: Steve Warwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2002/10/29 Tue PM 03:10:44 EST >> Subject: Yes, but how do I upgrade? >> >> Hi >> >> I have a 4.3 BSD machine to upgrade, and it's a production >> machine :( >> >> Ok, got that, but how do I upgrade? >> > > Theoretically,

Re: Yes, but how do I upgrade?

2002-10-29 Thread Doug Poland
Steve Warwick said: > > Ok, got that, but how do I upgrade? > > I am probably missing the point, but do I have to CVSUP, > sysinstall/upgrade, AND build-install the kernel? > > I looked at "makeworld" in the handbook but it read like the > instructions to building a house! Surely it's not a compl

perl system vs. perl port, help please

2002-10-21 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, I'm attempting to run an non-ported perl app that requires perl 5.6. (4.6-STABLE). I've installed perl 5.8 from ports, tested it, and issued the use.perl port command. My problem is when I'm attempting to build the p5-Gtk-0.7008 port. The make is failing. The following is the last couple o

Re: Native JDK 1.3.1 Linux JDK 1.3.1 vs JDK 1.4.1 inconsistencies

2002-10-10 Thread Doug Poland
Weston M. Price said: ... snip ... > I am not really sure if this is the right forum to post this > message, it may very be more appropriate for the ports list. Any > advice on these issues would be appreciated. I was also wondering > if there was a specific mailing list dedicated to Java runnin

Re: handling .exe self-extracting archives (Was: vmware)

2002-10-10 Thread Doug Poland
Nathan Kinkade said: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:08:12AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: >> Nathan Kinkade said: >>> >>> By the way, does anyone know of a reasonable way to get at the >>> contents of *.exe self-extracting archives. This problem was >>> w

Re: handling .exe self-extracting archives (Was: vmware)

2002-10-10 Thread Doug Poland
Nathan Kinkade said: > > I had Win2k Pro installed on the vmware2 port just a few days ago, > everything seemed to work find including networking. However, I > unistalled the whole thing as it is a big ugly beast - both vmware > and win2k. By the way, does anyone know of a reasonable way to > ge

Re: Savage 2000 (Diamond Viper Chipset) problems on X

2002-10-09 Thread Doug Poland
orks great with the savage > driver on an identical system (except for the video card). > > > > > > I don't suppose there are any Diamond Viper II users out > there? > > > > > The box mine came in says Diamond Viper II all over it. >

Re: Savage 2000 (Diamond Viper Chipset) problems on X

2002-10-07 Thread Doug Poland
except > for the video card). > > I don't suppose there are any Diamond Viper II users out there? > The box mine came in says Diamond Viper II all over it. -- Regards, Doug > > ----- Original Message - > From: "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: Savage 2000 (Diamond Viper Chipset) problems on X

2002-10-06 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 01:45:07PM -0400, Todd Robinson wrote: > Having a mind-bender of a time with a S3 Savage 2000 video card. > > The problem is that XFree86 4.2.0_1,1 does not seem to have drivers that > work for this card. > > Previously the same card (also not working with the Savage 2000

Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation

2002-10-01 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:22:34PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Doug Poland wrote: > > Liquid said: > > > Hey everyone. A family member asked me to setup a gateway in his > > > house so that the internet can be shared between a couple of > >

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