RE: hdd error

2004-11-29 Thread LiQuiD
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthias F. Brandstetter Sent: November 29, 2004 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: hdd error -- quoting LiQuiD -- I've installed 5.3 on the same machine

RE: hdd error

2004-11-28 Thread LiQuiD
After trying what Chuck suggested, if you're using 5.3 and it still doesn't work don't sweat it. I've installed 5.3 on the same machine (an IBM Aptiva k6-2 450) but using two different hard drives, both times giving me the same error. In both cases, I was able to install 4.10-STABLE without any

Soekris engineering routers

2004-10-30 Thread LiQuiD
Hi all, I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one of

RE: minor gcc 3.4 issue

2004-09-04 Thread LiQuiD
Please forgive me if there was an easy way to find this out and I'm retarded, but uhm... how can I know if the issue brought forward in the post last month by the person below applies to the 4.x or 5.x branch? I have a FreeBSD system that was cvsup'd to -STABLE on jul. 24th and I'd like to do so

RE: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications

2004-08-25 Thread LiQuiD
Hi Hugo, Look to NFS to do that for you. Here's a link to a page in the online handbook. NFS can do exactly what you want http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.ht ml -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: installed ATA RAID, now cannot boot - get mountroot prompt

2004-08-25 Thread LiQuiD
I'm by no means an expert, and thus the reason for my crude and unscientific solution that I'm proposing Seeing as you now know what it'll turn into upon adding this RAID card to your system, why don't you try the crude method of undoing everything, booting successfully, and then editing

problem with portupgrade.. or so it seems

2004-08-24 Thread LiQuiD
Hi all, I have a machine running 4.10 stable that has a problem whenever I try to run portsdb -Uu. The message the scrolls down the screen is as follows: /usr/ports/INDEX:11586:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. That number changes... it basically goes from 0 to that (for all I know)

Re: routing, was: Re: blank subject

2003-12-07 Thread liquid
Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, Liquid-- On Dec 6, 2003, at 3:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to have a static IP - say xx.xx.yy.zz - and a subnet as follows: xx.xx.xx.zz/28 Do you mean, I am switching from a single static IP to a 16-address subnet, or are you

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2003-12-06 Thread liquid
Hi all, (My mailserver is currently offline and this address is not subscribed, please cc me in all replies, thanks) I'm waiting for my new internet connection to be setup here, and in the meantime I'm starting to configure my network accordingly. I'm going to have a static IP - say

How do I get my NIC going again using ifconfig?

2003-10-11 Thread liquid
Hi everyone, Last night I was helping a guy out trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. His cable connection is DHCP and I have very little knowledge of how to set that up since it's been so long since I've had to do so. The result is I went to /stand/sysinstall and pretended to setup my

RE: ADSL modem ip addresses

2003-10-10 Thread liquid
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Moore Sent: October 10, 2003 9:59 AM To: freebsd-questions Subject: ADSL modem ip addresses Hi, I'm organising an ADSL connection and I'm a bit confused about our options.

RE: ADSL modem ip addresses

2003-10-10 Thread liquid
*snipped* Actually quite a few of the SOHO DSL routers I've seen do include simple firewalling but often enough they are only configurable via a browser and have a kind of all or nothing stance. For fine granular control over the firewall it is hard to beat FBSD and IPFilter / IPFW for

RE: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread liquid
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ajax Munroe Sent: September 22, 2003 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft. Hello, *snipped* Your Friend; AJAX

RE: question on cvsup

2003-09-21 Thread liquid
To be completely honest, I don't think it's good practise to use cvsup to go from freebsd 4-series to freebsd 5. I use cvsup all the time to stick to the latest -STABLE branch. Others use the -CURRENT branch. If I were to setup a machine and then decide I wanted to use the new 5.1 I'd probably

Migrating to BIND 9 (WAS: RE: BIND fix for VeriSign's unregistered domain redirections?)

2003-09-20 Thread liquid
Also, anyone know of a workaround for BIND 8 at this time? If I were to simply install bind9 on my system from the ports, does it in fact simply overwrite the default installation included with FreeBSD? No. It installs it under /usr/local. Ok, Stupid question now. I'm just

RE: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?

2003-09-02 Thread liquid
It is turned on *IF* you say so during the install. What does or does not run by default is actually determined by /etc/defaults/rc.conf. /etc/rc.conf is an override file, if you will. My guess here is that if you choose not to use the internet super server during the installation, it alters the

RE: Approved

2003-08-23 Thread liquid
LOL! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barbara Griffin Sent: August 23, 2003 2:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Approved You have a virus. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: how to install on fbsd 4.8 new version of KDE?

2003-08-17 Thread liquid
You can always install portinstall from the ports. Then cvsup your ports tree regularly and run ports db -Uu (or something similar, I can't recall right now - it's in the portinstall man page) and simply type: Portupgrade kde And it'll go through the whole thing. Be warned, it can take a LONG

RE: ipfilter - port forward question

2003-08-14 Thread liquid
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darryl Hoar Sent: August 8, 2003 2:38 PM To: 'Mike Maltese' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ipfilter - port forward question Well, it does in fact use udp. Here is what I have

RE: named.conf et al and home network segments

2003-07-29 Thread liquid
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David S. Jackson Sent: July 29, 2003 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: named.conf et al and home network segments Hi, I'm trying to setup dns for my two home network segments,

RE: Problems with Apache+ssl

2003-07-29 Thread liquid
You aren't running any sort of httpd. What do you do to start it? Try apachectl startssl. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daryl Hunt Sent: July 29, 2003 11:55 PM To: William Knechtel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: Is there any way to disable passive mode on ftpd?

2002-12-03 Thread Liquid
Sorry Alvaro, I forgot to send this to the list... oops. -Original Message- From: Liquid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 3, 2002 11:39 AM To: 'Alvaro Gil' Subject: RE: Is there any way to disable passive mode on ftpd? I have a better question perhaps... Is it possible

RE: Is there any way to disable passive mode on ftpd?

2002-12-03 Thread Liquid
Now I don't know if that's a result of using a certain NAT setup vs another, but I'm using ipnat + ipfilter, and I had ftp forwarded to a windows box, and it worked fine for ftp, setting ports 10010-1030 for passive mode. I then decided to play with ncftpd on a linux box a while back, and it too

RE: ARP flood = Firewall locks up???

2002-11-27 Thread Liquid
That 10.0.whatever crap is from your modem. When I had a box running on cable, I'd see a horrific amount of that crap in my logs. It never caused my firewall to stop working mind you. Mine, for instance was 10.0.80.31 - which, it appears, was my modem's IP address although I do not recall

RE: Find abandoned packages

2002-11-21 Thread Liquid
If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not itÂ’s a dependency though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that too come to think of it. -SM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

resent - in txt format - using PPP to establish a PPPoE connection - won't renew if connection is dropped

2002-11-14 Thread Liquid
Sorry everyone, forgot to convert to txt before sending this, so I'll resend I'm having this huge problem: I have adsl, and I connect using that PPPoE garbage. I also just changed ISP for a less expensive one, and I'm beginning to realize why its less expensive. I'm running a machine with

RE: Your experiences using PPPoE

2002-11-14 Thread Liquid
- which it has failed to do, given the link is never down according to ifconfig anyway. Thanks a lot Tim, Sandro -Original Message- From: Timothy L. Robertson [mailto:timothyr;timothyr.com] Sent: November 14, 2002 1:55 PM To: Liquid; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Your experiences

Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation

2002-10-01 Thread Liquid
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 tenants. I realize it can be very easily done using a router, but I have this 486dx2 50mhz at home with 8mb ram. It has a 300mb and 640mb hd in it too. If I only wish

RE: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation

2002-10-01 Thread Liquid
PROTECTED]] Sent: October 1, 2002 9:53 PM To: Liquid Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Liquid wrote: Hey everyone. A family member asked me to setup a gateway in his house so that the internet can be shared between a couple