Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
interesting, but the major drop in attempts has me more worried than the attempts (could this drop off be because they no longer need to hack me? Could they have hacked me an that be the reason why?) How worried should I be, and what's the best recourse for this? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Re: Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have DSA. I will change it to a nonstandard port, but I was wondering what your oppinion on a good way to check if this is the result of me being hacked, or just someone loosing interest. On 4/14/07, Gabor Kovesdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton schrieb: Once I opened up SSH

Verifying that I have SMP up and running

2007-04-09 Thread Jim Stapleton
it's up an running. Can someone verify this, and are there any good tools to show how much each CPU is using in the way of resources? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents

Re: Verifying that I have SMP up and running

2007-04-09 Thread Jim Stapleton
Ahh, yes, I see that. And high-cpu multitasking seems to run a lot better too Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 4/9/07, Michael K. Smith - Adhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jim: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim

Re: some thoughts about gmirror

2007-04-07 Thread Jim Rees
Mike Wolman wrote: if you were keeping track of the blocks which had changed then you do not need to generate this list and simply send over the changed blocks. Unison keeps a list of files at each end and only exchanges block lists for files that have changed. I use it to sync 40GB (10K

Re: creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
oops, sent a reply to the wrong list a bit ago... Anyway, it is still not working. I forgot to mentions, sorry, doing $ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sb_server start works just fine. I used /usr/bin/env python because I would like to add this to the port that installs the server this script starts, and

Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Priovolos
- Original Message From: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim Priovolos [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:30:31 PM Subject: Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager You can boot the windows repair console and use fixmbr command from there. -Derek

Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2007-03-24 Thread Jim Priovolos
out how to shrink the partition. Thanks, Jim Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html

Re: creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
/local/etc/rc.d/hald /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fusefs /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ffserver /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-dnsconfd.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/001slpd.sh Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 3/21/07, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL

Mysql Unlinked Files

2007-03-21 Thread Jim Flowers
(/dev/aacd0s1d) mysqld 6179 mysql 11u VREG 4,170 0 24 /var (/dev/aacd0s1d) This doesn't cause problems but I am curious as to what is causing it and if I could do anything to fix it? Thanks. -- Jim Flowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses

creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-21 Thread Jim Stapleton
advise me? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton rc.conf: == #hostname/ifconfig/defaultrouter omitted usbd_enable=YES linux_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES ntpdate_enable=YES ntpd_enable=YES sendmail_disable=YES sendmail_enable=NO mail_enable=NO inetd_flags=-wW

Re: Mysql Unlinked Files

2007-03-21 Thread Jim Flowers
and figured it out. Thanks for responding. On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:49:06 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote On Mar 21, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Jim Flowers wrote: On startup of mysql-server 5.0.12 on FBSD 5.4-RELEASE my server always has 3 0-size unreferenced files with 69 links reported by lsof +L1. 23

Downloads

2007-03-21 Thread Jim Priovolos
to binary. I checked the boot order and CD is first. If I put a Windows boot CD in there it will boot off of it. Any ideas? I've got a Compaq Presario 2500 laptop with XP on it now. Thanks for the help in advance, Jim P

Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
mentioned on nVidias web site, and they are all in the right spots, which leads me to suspect it's an xorg.conf error, but I'm not sure. I've attached the xorg.conf file to the end, just in case. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton /etc/X11/xorg.conf: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, I'll call hauppauge tomorrow, they seem to be quite friendly about it. I was trying to find the file that spat out the error message but was lost. Thanks again, -Jim Stapleton On 3/4/07, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 March 2007 20:34, Jim Stapleton wrote: I

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
OK, I'm working on that, what's the most trivial method of finding out if the tuner is working? I saw a cat /dev/cxm0 test.mpg comment, do I have to set channel before I do that, should I use the pvr250_setchannel application? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
/dev/cxm0 | some_app Thanks, -Jim Stapleton #!/bin/sh INC=0.10 START=740.00 STOP=750.00 P=$START cat /dev/cxm0 test_$START.mpg TEST=$(echo $P = $STOP | bc) while [ $TEST -eq 1 ] do echo $P pvr250-setchannel -m 2 $P P=$(echo $P + $INC | bc) TEST=$(echo $P = $STOP | bc) sleep 2 done kill

hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
2 21:27:53 elrond kernel: device_attach: cxm0 attach returned 6 So it's safe to say I have an unknown tuner on this card, what would my next step from here be? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I appologize -questions, disregard this, it was supposed to go to multimedia. On 3/3/07, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After being unable to get the WinTV-Radio work, I replaced it with a PVR-150. I followed the instructions here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia

Asking for bugs instead of about them, for a change.

2007-02-28 Thread Jim Stapleton
/CPUTYPE) [b] the entire dependancy trace (the list of ports that the system is backtracking out of), and the last 15 to 20 lines of the actual build (be it the configuration steps, the compilation commands, etc). Also nice would be [c] How you fixed it or plan to fix it. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
ata* hide 2000 path atkbd* hide 2100 path kbd* hide 2200 path fd* hide 2300 path fid* hide 2400 path net* mode 777 2500 path show 2600 path * unhide Still no luck. Thanks everyone for all the help, hopefully this is enough information to indicate the problem. -Jim Stapleton sockstat

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, that fixed it. After all the other stuff (some of which also had it broke), it was a 1... ARGH! Thanks again, I am now the proud owner of a shiny new jail to put all my processes behind bars inside of. :-) On 2/24/07, Philipp Wuensche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, it still did not connect using that. The mail server is a SMTP server. Also I copied over my host's resolve.conf file. With all these hassles/headaches, would it be better/more secure for me to settup Bochs or QEmu running a virtual BSD server? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, that's at least useful testing, but it did not work. Jail is definetly not getting any network action. Would a host netstat output be useful? I looks pretty cryptic. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:22 PM 2/22/2007, you wrote: I'd like

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
legolas /jail Is that what you needed Thanks, -Jim Stapleton Jim Stapleton wrote: Thank you, that's at least useful testing, but it did not work. Jail is definetly not getting any network action. Would a host netstat output be useful? I looks pretty cryptic. Can

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
%ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes ^C --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss %exit exit On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:25:00PM +, Jim Stapleton wrote: Thank you, it still did not connect using that. The mail

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
commenting out the ifconfig_nve0= line, and uncommenting the other ifconfig_nve0/defaultrouter lines (just in case I misread something). Neither worked. Thanks -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Philipp Wuensche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: Jail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14:04:11 (0) ~ sudo

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 On 2/23/07, Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:38 PM 2/23/2007, Jim Stapleton wrote: new host rc.conf: hostname=elrond.ameritech.net #ifconfig_nve0=inet 192.168.1.84 netmask

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
?? Ss 0:00.09 /usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/ums1 -t auto -I /var/run/moused.ums1.pid Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Philipp Wuensche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: new host rc.conf: hostname=elrond.ameritech.net #ifconfig_nve0=inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
, but that didn't fix the problem. named is not running, and hasn't run on this machine. and I did read the jail man page, I'm still stuck. -Jim Stapleton On 2/24/07, Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 02:06 schrieb Jim Stapleton: yes, I can ping it from

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
to find documentation on them, X, and KDM. I can't find anything on limiting sockets of these to a specific IP only. -Jim STapleton On 2/24/07, Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 04:01 schrieben Sie: I saw them in there, but that section seemed to be lacking

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state) udp6 0 0 *.syslog *.* On 2/24/07, Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 04:21 schrieb Jim Stapleton: I did the ssh after you did

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
addendum, I fixed syslogd by adding this to my rc.conf: syslogd_flags=-b 192.168.1.84 However, looking through netstat's man page, I couldn't find the name of the flag (if it exists) that will show the process name. Does that require a different tool? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 2/24/07

problems with jail

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
with 192.168.1.85 and with assigned to it also jail command (run from root for testing purposes only - I'll narrow it down to a less privledged host/jailed system user later) jail /jail/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 192.168.1.85 /bin/csh The machine was rebooted since I set everything up. Thank you, -Jim

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
.FreeBSD.org Name lookup failure for cvsup12.FreeBSD.org: hostname nor servname provided, or not known Will retry at 20:52:12 I'm only using one jail (it'll run apache, mysql and possibly sftp) Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:22

x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices.

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
ask here before I put a lot of time into it (i.e. I'll try with no response or some I don't knows, but if I get a can't be done, then I won't waste my time). Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices.

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
Jim Stapleton wrote: I have two hard drives in my machine (ad8, ad10), ad10 is the system disk, ad8 has a few GB of swap at the end and 2 fat32 partitions. Mostly I'm using the fat partitions for a windows install to use as the base for WINE, but occasionally I'll want to install software

Re: CPU Intel core 2 (64bits). Which freeBSD should I install?

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
Hi all; I looked up on the Free archives and what I found was that I should either install amd64 ( if I use lots of multimedia stuff) or i386 (later compiling for SMP). I tried ia64 (which I thought means Intel Architecture) but the image won't even boot. This machine is going to be exclusively

I'd like to do my bit to support FreeBSD

2007-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
I've found quite a few tricks and techniques for handling FreeBSD's ports system when things go south. I'd like to add them to the handbook, adding, lets say 4.5.6 - When Ports Attack. OK, really it'd be more along the lines of 4.5.6 - Installing Ports When Things Go Wrong It would give hints

Re: I'd like to do my bit to support FreeBSD

2007-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, that doesn't look like a challange at all. Guess I'll have some fun with it when I get home. -Jim Stapleton On 2/6/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've found quite a few tricks and techniques for handling FreeBSD's ports system

NVidia troubls with AMD64..

2007-02-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
their time away from keeping this great OS great. (Don't bother searching if you don't know, just asking if anyone reading this knows off the top of their heads): Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

memory above 4Gb ignored

2007-02-05 Thread Jim Pazarena
I do not see any reference to resolving the 786432K of memory above 4Gb ignored anywhere in Google or otherwise. I see references to it for FreeBSD 4.XX, but I am running 6.2, and have the same problem. Is there any easy solution? For a hoot, I installed SuSe 10.2 on my machine and it

Re: configuring all dependancies before making in ports

2007-02-03 Thread Jim Stapleton
of the builds? i.e. $ cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 $ make -dependancies=configure install clean Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

configuring all dependancies before making in ports

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
the dependancies that need build, running their configuration menus /before/ doing any of the builds? i.e. $ cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 $ make -dependancies=configure install clean Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

USB2 drive speed problems

2007-01-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
to take at this point. I know I had the USB2 modules compiled into my kernel. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-08 Thread Jim Pazarena
http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions - Gentoo/FreeBSD: license problems require a development pause

Re: linux compatability question

2007-01-03 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, I had to use a different linux library (linux-dri I think), but it ended up working. -Jim Stapleton On 12/27/06, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:02:39 -0500 Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm not sure what to do at this point, I'm trying to run a linux app

good news for FreeBSD lovers who admin Stellent Content Manager, irrelevant news for everyone else...

2007-01-03 Thread Jim Stapleton
with it over to FreeBSD, you now can. If you don't know what SCM is, then you probaly wasted your time reading this message (sorry, I did warn you). I'm just happy to see a nice piece of mainstream commercial software on FreeBSD. It's not common enough as of yet. -Jim Stapleton

RE: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer?

2007-01-03 Thread Jim Stapleton
that although the learning curve is a touch higher when things work, it's a lot lower when fixing things that don't, add to that the fact that more of the listed supported stuff just works without the hassle you get on Linux, it's well worth the switch. -Jim Stapleton

linux compatability question

2006-12-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
suggestions? Thanks, -Jim Stpleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

trouble compiling a port - expect on 6.2RC1

2006-11-27 Thread Jim Pazarena
I have problems compiling the stock expect, well actually it is with the dependencies for expect tcl84 and tk84, on 6.2-RC1. How do I go about determining outstanding issues for any given port? Thanks. Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

v6 speed compared to previous versions

2006-11-13 Thread Jim Pazarena
please outline the choices/drawbacks/concerns of even considering going back a series? Thanks, Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

core dumps

2006-11-10 Thread Jim Pazarena
is there any way to have NO core dumps? ..aside from never causing one :) I mean, can you compile something into the kernel to prevent core dumps? I've never found it necessary to examine one in many years, and cannot foresee ever having to do it. Thx

cleanly reading compressed backups

2006-10-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
the args, basically 1GB files that are bsd-backup-(date)-??] anyway, without uncompressing them back to disk (it's the same slice/partitions as I have now), what's the easiest way to get read access to these contents of the files in these backups? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Some old fashioned assistance requested, and some oppinions wanted.

2006-10-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
of (1) FreeBSD compatable hardware, and (2) Reliable/Honest/Intelligent and Customer Friendly tech support for hardware issues. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Backing up SOHO server

2006-10-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
massively speed up the reinstall phase. When you recover, all you need is cat/bunzip2/dd to do the restore. It's quite a bit faster than a reinstall, especially if you compile your own apps - it saved me a lot of time when my notebook died. Sorry I couldn't be more help with your specific questions. -Jim

general VM / KMEM tunables question

2006-10-22 Thread Jim Keller
as to how to figure out (based on system config) what these values should reasonably be set to. Thanks. -Jim Keller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Question with mouse pointer

2006-10-20 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, that is what I was looking for/thinking of. On 10/19/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:16:16 -0400 Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best way to get a larger pointer on my comptuer? I'm running Xorg/KDE. I tried to look, but the only

Question with mouse pointer

2006-10-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
here. Lowering the resolution isn't really an option either... Thanks, -Jim Stapleto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
yeah the ports make me fell in love with FreeBSD, the only thing that came close to FreeBSD ports is the gentoo portage, note came close but not really at par. yeah, portage wasn't bad, but it wasn't as clean as ports either. More errors, more fixing.

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
of the portage features, such as about 10k more packages, and a few of the interface/display options, I'd still rather use FBSD any day. -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux. With Gentoo, version release does not matter that much, you can

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
weren't supplied with the BSD images (I don't think they would have been stored with linux images either). anyway, just another two cents of my own. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: USB Mass Storage stopped working, help requested

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 10/15/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: It used to work on this machine, the kernel/world has not been recompiled/reinstalled since then. However, A USB drive that used to work (and still works in windows) no longer works in FreeBSD. When I plug in the drive

Re: Route #3 - USB 802.11 a/b/g

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 10/8/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/06, Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: On 10/7/06, Lars Engels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:22:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: OK, that's interesting, I tried, that, and got

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
of the installer), but that's a different topic alltogether. -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB Mass Storage stopped working, help requested

2006-10-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
/scsi_da.h ./coda/coda.h ./dev/ida/ida.c but I could not do a make in the scsi or cam directories. make scsi gave me a don't know how to make class of error, and make cam gave me an error saying cam is up to date. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd

Re: webbased email administration

2006-10-12 Thread Jim Pazarena
Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Hi, We're considering setting up an email service here and we need to give IT admins in various companies the ability to administer their own email addresses (under their domain). I'm looking for software that will do this. We currently run Sendmail and WU-POP3,

Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

2006-10-07 Thread Jim Stapleton
have to download elsewhere and put on either a CD or a flash drive. Have fun, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Application run on SCO Openserver but not freeBSD.

2006-10-02 Thread Jim Borland
, I was hoping to do the same with FreeBSD, is that not possible? Regards, Jim. Jim Borland Unit 2 Wallace Studios 27 Wallace Avenue LisburnBT27 4AE mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: www.meridiansystems.co.uk tel: +44 (0)28 9260 5060 fax: +44 (0

Can't log in a root from anywhere but the console screen.

2006-09-28 Thread Jim Borland
I want to use a PC to telnet to the freeBSD server and login as root but it won't let me! Can you help? I can login as a normal user just not as root, I can't key in su to get in as superuser either. Jim. Jim Borland Unit 2 Wallace

RE: Can't log in a root from anywhere but the console screen.

2006-09-28 Thread Jim Borland
Jim Borland Unit 2 Wallace Studios 27 Wallace Avenue LisburnBT27 4AE mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: www.meridiansystems.co.uk tel: +44 (0)28 9260 5060 fax: +44 (0)28 9264 0700 mob

Running applications on freebsd which currently run on SCO Openserver.

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Borland
run! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jim Borland. Jim Borland Unit 2 Wallace Studios 27 Wallace Avenue LisburnBT27 4AE mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: www.meridiansystems.co.uk tel: +44 (0)28 9260 5060 fax: +44 (0)28 9264 0700 mob

Systems Administration Tool

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Borland
Hi, Is there any kind of systems administration tool on freebsd to enable the configuration of such things as printers and users? Is there a graphical user interface? Thanks, Jim. Jim Borland Unit 2 Wallace Studios 27 Wallace Avenue

ndis + Linksys WPC54Gv3

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have just picked up this card for my notebook. On this site: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/02/linksys-wpc54g-with-freebsd-yesterday.html it is reported to work. I have inserted the card, the status light on it blinks green then goes off. I ran ndis and generated the driver as specified,

Heavy internal network traffic seems to upset other network processes

2006-09-17 Thread Jim Keller
of tuning option I need to set, but I'm really not sure where to look. I have maxusers set to 256, nmbclusters is 8192 (maybe this should be higher?). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -Jim keller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

2006-09-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
d'oh, thanks, I was looking for vpn in net and net-mgmt, didn't think of grepping the security directory. Thanks! -Jim Stapleton On 8/31/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 11:28, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to VPN in to work from

Re: free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
] wrote: On 31/08/2006 2:18 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote: nevermind, my own dumb mistake with the connection string, first I didn't have the right stuff for logging into a domain, second time around when that was fixed, I had a / where there should have been an @. What was the right stuff for logging

can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
of garbage to the VPN connection, should I connect the loopback (127.0.0.1), my local ip (192.168.1.84), or create a new loopback or virtual network connection (how?) Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra

2006-08-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
am not installing windows/linux on my notebook to get this (and sound) working, each has it's own issues which make it much worse for my uses. :-P Thanks -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra

2006-08-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
, -Jim Stapleton On 8/30/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to connect my FreeBSD notebook to some shares at work, which are on an EMC Celerra box, which uses the windows SMB protocol, but I keep getting an odd error, which right now I'm suspecting is an incompatability between

Re: driver source compilation question

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
), channel_init is not described anywhere, but I noticed that several other driver files in the kernel tree use soemthing like this also - I'm assuming that I'm missing something in the makefile, but I cant figure out what. Any help is appreciated. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton

IPSEC, am I missing something?

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
options FAST_IPSEC # new IPsec (cannot define w/ IPSEC) options IPSEC_FILTERGIF #filter ipsec packets from a tunnel before adding these, I just had the default 6.1 generic kernel file with a few things commented and a couple uncommented. Am I missing soemeting? Thanks, -Jim

Re: IPSEC, am I missing something?

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
, -Jim Stapleton On 8/27/06, Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: What I found and added: #ipsec: Required for VPN optionsIPSEC#IP security optionsIPSEC_ESP#IP security (crypto; define w/ IPSEC) #ipsec optimsations optionsFAST_IPSEC

driver source compilation question

2006-08-25 Thread Jim Stapleton
I've found some driver source, it's just got the .c and .h files for the drivers, and no makefile. make and make install do nothing (I've extracted them to a folder in my home directory). How do I install them? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd

Re: driver source compilation question

2006-08-25 Thread Jim Stapleton
driver? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 8/25/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simplest thing is to copy a make file from a port, or other driver source directory and edit it for your driver. -Derek At 08:20 PM 8/25/2006, Jim Stapleton wrote: I've found some driver source, it's

Need help with Netgear wireless card WG311T

2006-08-15 Thread Jim Freeze
be appreciated. Thanks Jim Freeze ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wine and FreeBSD how to

2006-08-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 7/31/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/31/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed wine on my 6.1 system but I don't see a config file anywhere on the system. Has anyone installed and used Wine successfully that could point me towards an easy FreeBSD

Re: acpi module build fails

2006-08-13 Thread Jim Segrave
version (frozen, so you are less likely to be caught by similar updates on the STABLE release line). -- Jim Segrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

linux-opera and linux-firefox

2006-08-13 Thread Jim Segrave
/libpthread.so.0: symbolic link to `libpthread-2.3.6.so' Anyone have any suggestions as to the cause of this problem or its solution? -- Jim Segrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
ON u.uid = s.uid WHERE s.sid = d9fe25949f79f2c767a0d237b4fdf841 AND u.status 3 -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Richard Morse wrote: Hi! I recently updated MySQL to version 5.0.22 using the ports system (portupgrade -r -R mysql

anyone have any luck on installing FreeBSD on a SATA drive on an Adaptec 1205SA card?

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
with the card installed, except in safe mode, and even then the installer hanges at random intervals. Any fix suggestions? The motherboard is an ABit NF7-S. The drive is a Seagate and was used for a FreeBSD install on an ASUS A8N-E motherboard, quite successfully. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I thought there were mysql forums, but I am not sure. In the queries I gave you, none of the results were too large I take it (not above the low thousands)? -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! All of these queries worked just fine, without causing any

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
there: http://www.newegg.com. Alternatively, I got some SATAII cables from, oddly enough, Microcenter, that were good priced and worked well. -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Aug 2006 at 17:23, Nikolas Britton wrote: The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has

Re: Wine and FreeBSD how to

2006-07-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 7/31/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed wine on my 6.1 system but I don't see a config file anywhere on the system. Has anyone installed and used Wine successfully that could point me towards an easy FreeBSD how to? Or something similar. I told my 7 year old I

scsi performance these days

2006-07-24 Thread Jim Pazarena
does FreeBSD (6.1) still operate better on a SCSI drive system compared to EIDE or SATA ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1

2006-07-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
(such as KDE/Gnome), I'd probably use one of the light weights like TWM (and ION?), or maybe a medium weight (WMaker?), and no more. A memory upgrade is strongly recommended if possible. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: What FreeBSD users really want

2006-07-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
needs to do a task effectively. You do have to put some effort in, but this helps keep machines secure (by not having unknown and useless [for the user] things on them that could open vulnerabilities), and keeps the system resources from being wasted by things that aren't needed. -Jim Stapleton

network no longer auto-starts after mergemaster

2006-07-20 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network no longer auto-starts after mergemaster

2006-07-20 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 7/20/06, Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:36:42 -0400 Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I rebuilt my kernel/world, but now my network no longer auto-starts. I can easily start it with sudo ifconfig fxp0 up, which, while it works, is mildly annoying

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