Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread John Cruz
Open the command prompt in windows first, then run ipconfig. Drew Jenkins wrote: 20Hi; I'm building a server at home to mimic my live server. The instructions require that I gather the following information: * IP address * IP address of default gateway * Hostname * DNS server IP address *

Re: Creating New Users over Telnet/SSH

2006-09-27 Thread John Cruz
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Tuesday 26 September 2006 18:29, Derek Ragona wrote: [snip] No, you can force a default shell without modifications. Check out login.conf(5) and shell variable. However, the original post implies little FreeBSD experience. Why do you want to automate such a

Creating New Users over Telnet/SSH

2006-09-25 Thread John Cruz
creates your user account, you can then log in to the system. Lonestar is using netBSD, we are going to use FreeBSD 6.1 Any info on how to accomplish this is greatly appreciated. -John Cruz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: I can start KDE

2006-06-29 Thread John Cruz
Saul Mena Avila wrote: I installed FreeBSD 5.2 in my laptop [Acer Aspire 3624WXCi] but when I configured it so the kde started after login in but instead the comes out this lines of error: xsetroot: unable to open display '' xset: unable to open display xsetroot: unable to open display ''

Re: min disk size for (useful) desktop

2006-05-27 Thread John Cruz
Pete C wrote: . . . looking for advice/guidelines for a minimum disk size for a decent desktop install of 6-stable with gnome, openoffice, firefox, gimp etc. . . . . . . I have both a 20G and a 250G on hand, so I guess the question really is is 20G enough ? ? ? TIA Pete C Peter, 20g is

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-26 Thread John Cruz
Scott Sipe wrote: This is not true--how do you think Bootcamp works? It provides BIOS emulation for booting windows, and whatever else. Secondly, why do people keep saying that OSX and FreeBSD are basically the same operating system -- if by basically the same you mean have a unix base, then

Re: installing MySQL with FreeBSD pkg_add

2006-05-20 Thread John Cruz
Peter, cp /usr/local/share/my-small.cnf /var/db/mysql/my.cnf. Have a look at your new config in /var/db/mysql and make any necessary adjustments. There's some other configs in /usr/local/share so if you need something other than the small configuration file copy that one over. All depends on

Setting Default NIC

2006-05-10 Thread John Cruz
I Just upgraded my freebsd machine to a new board, this one has an onboard NIC where as the old one just had a PCI 10/100 nic. I put the old NIC on the new board as well so I can have 2 running out of the machine, but I don't know how to set it so that the onboard NIC (vr0) is the default and

Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup)

2006-05-09 Thread John Cruz
So I want to upgrade to 6.1, but I've never used cvsup before and all the documentation is confusing as can be. Would it be easier to download the install mediums and do an upgrade install or is cvsup the better way? if so how do I go about it? the hanbook page on this is somewhat confusing,

Re: Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup)

2006-05-09 Thread John Cruz
Robert Huff wrote: John Cruz writes: So I want to upgrade to 6.1, but I've never used cvsup before and all the documentation is confusing as can be. What particularly of cvsup do you find confusing? On the larger question: it /may/ be easier to do a binary upgrade

Re: Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup)

2006-05-09 Thread John Cruz
John Nielsen wrote: cvsup is definitely the preferred way to upgrade, and is very easy to use, especially once you get it set up the first time. You need to: 1) Make sure you have cvsup installed pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui OR cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui make install

Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?

2006-04-30 Thread John Cruz
Mark Edwards wrote: At the risk of digressing on this topic, I want to add that I am actually at this point deciding between FreeBSD for the migration (i.e. 4.x on an old Gateway to 6.x on a Intel Mac Mini) and Ubuntu. The idea of moving to Ubuntu is that it might be simpler and less

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-04-29 Thread John Cruz
I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with UFS when you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD would be able to read them. Yousef Raffah wrote: What is the status of reading/writing to Mac's file system (HFS) or is it HFS+? Are they supported in FreeBSD 6.0?

Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?

2006-04-27 Thread John Cruz
A mac mini is an odd machine to make into a server, but no matter. I doubt you'll run into any issues with installing it. Darwin is nice, but it was developed to be the underlying layer of the finder GUI. And the freeBSD ports system is so much nicer than any other nix install system that

Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?

2006-04-27 Thread John Cruz
, at 1:58 PM, John Cruz wrote: A mac mini is an odd machine to make into a server, but no matter. I doubt you'll run into any issues with installing it. Darwin is nice, but it was developed to be the underlying layer of the finder GUI. And the freeBSD ports system is so much nicer than any other nix

Changing Default Shell

2006-04-24 Thread John Cruz
I'm running freeBSD 6 release (FreeBSD taurus.cruz 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 2 01:42:42 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FILESERV i386) and for whatever reason, i'm stuck in bourne. Sure, I can type bash and open a new shell that way, but it will not let

Re: Changing Default Shell

2006-04-24 Thread John Cruz
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Something is wrong with the entry already in the password file. Use vipw to (a) look at it, (b) fix it, and (c) rebuild the database. Thanks, that did it! I tried manually editing /etc/passwd before and I guess there's other ways that have to be done to change it.

Re: make install problems

2006-04-13 Thread John Cruz
I think it's installed with expat. Should be in ports under /usr/ports/textproc. Hunt for it there, and you should be all set. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've encontered a problem when I tried to make install xfce4 from ports collection. When pango was installing the error occured libexpat.so.5

Re: How to Stop Bruit Force ssh Attempts?

2006-04-11 Thread John Cruz
I used to have problems with brute force attempts as well. I just changed the port that SSH uses (TCP/IP port, not ports collection port) and the problems have stopped. I made it something that means something to me and maybe not others, so it's a simple and powerful way of getting the job

Re: swapping out mb and cpu

2006-04-08 Thread John Cruz
As far as I know, as long as your drive configuration is the the same (/root on ide0 disk 1 would be ide0 disk 1 on the new machine as well) then it should work without a hitch. I'll be upgrading my machine in the near future as well, so any insight on this is much apprecaited. -John je

Re: FreeBSD stickers

2006-04-05 Thread John Cruz
I don't know where else to get the stickers, but they should be on the bsdmall site, at least I thought they were but now can not find them. If anybody sees it, please post a link. But since you're in the UK, you should head on over to ScotGold and get some freeBSD case badges.

Re: Motherboards

2006-03-28 Thread John Cruz
I have to recommend MSI. I haven't run BSD on one yet but they have always given me great performance and reliability over time. They're not the cheapest, but I'd still rather have a low-end MSI board then the most expensive Abit or PC Chips board Doug Hardie wrote: I have a number of servers

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-28 Thread John Cruz
I'm running 6.0 on a pentium3 700mhzno problems whatsoever with it. Joseph Vella wrote: I notice a lot of references to version 4.x. Is there any overwhelming reason why its use seems to be still popular. I'm wanting to set up a server (just for play) on my home network using a PII

Re: scsi tape drives

2006-03-27 Thread John Cruz
There shouldn't be any issues with it, bacula should do the trick nicely. Mohan Singh wrote: According to FAQ 4.3.3, SCSI tape drives are supported. I'm looking at getting a Dell PowerVault 124T Autoloader LTO-3 system. This product has an Ultra-2 SCSI interface, can I reasonably assume that I

Re: DRBD equivalent for FreeBSD?

2006-03-13 Thread John Cruz
Can you run the linux prog on BSD with linux binary compatibility turned on? Miguel wrote: Hi, im trying to implement a cluster using freebsd , heartbeat and postgres, i dont want to replicate the databaases using slony or similar, i want to mirror the storage, i have a hp msa500 with two set

Re: SSHD Help?

2006-03-13 Thread John Cruz
SSHD will not allow you to log in as root (for security reasons). There may be a way to change it, but I don't reccomend it. Configure a user account to be able to use the su command or install sudo, then log in remotely as a user then su or sudo for administrative tasks. Huy Ton That wrote:

Re: SSHD Help?

2006-03-13 Thread John Cruz
I am logging in as root when the machine boots up. I'm aware of the issues as logging in as root but it's just a machine I am using to break over and over again for learning purposes. On 3/13/06, *John Cruz* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SSHD will not allow you

Re: VPN Server

2006-03-09 Thread John Cruz
I'd go with a VPN router, they usually have the best results. hal wrote: I need FreeBSD VPN server software that will support Win2K, unix, Mac OS X, and Linux clients. Anyone have a suggestion/s? hal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: VPN Server

2006-03-09 Thread John Cruz
suffer as a result. -john hal wrote: Any suggestions? hal On Mar 9, 2006, at 11:08 AM, John Cruz wrote: I'd go with a VPN router, they usually have the best results. hal wrote: I need FreeBSD VPN server software that will support Win2K, unix, Mac OS X, and Linux clients

Re: Powered-by FreeBSD icon using new logo

2006-03-05 Thread John Cruz
The FreeBSD website says that the old logo will still be valid and can be used, but I don't think there is a place to download the new logo yet, somebody mentioned something on here about the Copyright stuff still being finalized. fbsd_user wrote: Since there in now a new logo for FreeBSD,

Re: New Logo

2006-03-03 Thread John Cruz
Ceri Davies wrote: On 3/3/06 18:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ansar Mohammed wrote: Does anyone know where I can get apparel with the new FreeBSD Logos? On a related note: What's the status of the winner of the logo contest? Is it encumbered, is it free

Re: Fileserver with FBSD?

2006-03-03 Thread John Cruz
Huy Ton That wrote: I am curious if I setup a fileserver with freebsd, and let's say, I setup 4 HDDs within the unit. Is it possible to have one network link if you will, that will span over the 4 drives? Sort of like a clustered space? Is something such as this at all possible? Could I

PHP for MySQL question

2006-03-01 Thread John Cruz
Api No: 20041030 Zend Extension Api No: 220040412 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/php5-mysql. And that's all she wrote. I already have php and mysql installed, any and all help is appreciated. Thanks, John

Re: PHP for MySQL question

2006-03-01 Thread John Cruz
*** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/php5-mysql. - John Cruz wrote: Hi all, I've been a member a few days, this is my first post. I'm trying to install mysql support for PHP on my FreeBSD6.0 box, but when I try to install the port /databases/php5-mysql

Re: PHP for MySQL question

2006-03-01 Thread John Cruz
Robert Uzzi wrote: Install the meta-port lang/php5-extensions and it will install the php5 modules. I tried that, it still gives me the same thing about the aclocal15 not being found. It doesn't stop with the mysql part of php either, there's other stuff earlier in the php extentions list