confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Pope
Dear FreeBSD community, It has been wonderful being a full-fledged member of this community, an administrator running FreeBSD on bare hardware (in his basement) for years. This is the coolest, hippiest, historically pure, and most technically advanced UNIX community on the planet (I'm one of

RESOLVED: Connection timed out

2007-02-14 Thread Matthew Pope
wrote: Matthew Pope wrote: I find that during the blocking behaviour, when I try and ping the windows box, a tcpdump shows that each second ping attempt is followed by a response (it appears) from an IPv6 address... 13:30:51.066625 802.1d config 8000.00:30:19:53:05:00.8011 root 8000.00:30:19

Re: Connection timed out

2007-02-13 Thread Matthew Pope
:53:05:00 pathcost 0 age 0 max 20 hello 2 fdelay 15 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to resolve a connection timed out problem. The problem occurs when I attempt to ssh, or http to my freebsd host from my windows (2K) box. About 3/4 of the time I get

Connection timed out

2007-02-11 Thread Matthew Pope
Hello, I am trying to resolve a connection timed out problem. The problem occurs when I attempt to ssh, or http to my freebsd host from my windows (2K) box. About 3/4 of the time I get a Connection timed out when I attempt to ssh into the freebsd host. Coincident with this behaviour, I can

installing port etherape

2006-11-10 Thread Matthew Pope
Hello, The 'make install' on the etherape stopped, complaining about a missing function. The output is included below. My environment is FreeBSD 6.1 p10 on an Asus motherboard with a Pentium 4 processor. Given the warnings about a dependancy conflict, and my newbie lack of knowledge of using

Unable to get fetch expat-2.0.0._1 from selected media

2006-10-28 Thread Matthew Pope
Environment: FreeBSD 6.1 (p10) Release Asus motherboard on Intel P4 IDE drives Realtek network adaptor chipset (no problems so far with that) ATAPI CDROM/writer Behind firewall. (no problems so far with that) Hello, I'd like to add the xorg distribution set to my existing FreeBSD system

Re: Unable to get fetch expat-2.0.0._1 from selected media

2006-10-28 Thread Matthew Pope
, Matthew P.S. Where is the debug screen? Matthew Pope wrote: Environment: FreeBSD 6.1 (p10) Release Asus motherboard on Intel P4 IDE drives Realtek network adaptor chipset (no problems so far with that) ATAPI CDROM/writer Behind firewall. (no problems so far with that) Hello, I'd like to add the xorg

Re: Unable to get fetch expat-2.0.0._1 from selected media

2006-10-28 Thread Matthew Pope
Lane wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:15, Matthew Pope wrote: Addendum (clarification) to my question: - When I boot from the Hard disk, and start /stand/sysinstall with FTP1 as the source (since CDROM as source doesn't work), when the Xorg packages are attempted to be added

problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread Matthew Pope
Hello, I have a bit of grey hair, but I've been blessed with working with FreeBSD gurus so much that I am struggling to run my own domain and webserver. That is I have have been co-dependant upon FreeBSD gurus in the past, so I was lazy. I'm now on my own and finding that administering a UNIX

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread Matthew Pope
Added to my original problem description the full list of WARNING messages from boot: BTW, my FreeBSD 5.5 is running on a Pentium 4/2.4 GHz, 512 M RAM, Asus mother board, oodles of disk Matthew Pope wrote: Hello, I have a bit of grey hair, but I've been blessed with working with FreeBSD

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread Matthew Pope
Matthew Pope wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but there are a number of messages of the form: source_rc_confs: not found $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) $ipfs_enable

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread Matthew Pope
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but there are a number of messages of the form: source_rc_confs: not found $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) $ipfs_enable is not set properly

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread Matthew Pope
Matthew Pope wrote: Matthew Pope wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but there are a number of messages of the form: source_rc_confs: not found $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see