Changing colors in shells

Lo folks, i would like to change the colors of the shell to FG=green BG=black. I do _not_ ask how to change the promt, i rather want to change the default FG BG colors, so that with whatever program (be it Konsole, putty, ssh.org, ...) i log in via SSH it uses this colors. I am aware of the fact

pppctl - delete config rules

Hello there, i can add a config rule to pppd via pppctl (e.g. nat port tcp10.0.0.2:80 80), but how do i remove it with pppclt again? thx -- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden

Re: mount an ftp or ssh filesystem

C. Ulrich wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 04:34, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: Hello, i'd like to mount remote ftp and ssh dirs into my local dir-tree, however can't find info on that for FreeBSD. I can't find neither a port, nor something for the kernel (like LUFS in Lunix). Other network-FSs

mount an ftp or ssh filesystem

Hello, i'd like to mount remote ftp and ssh dirs into my local dir-tree, however can't find info on that for FreeBSD. I can't find neither a port, nor something for the kernel (like LUFS in Lunix). Other network-FSs are not an option. BTW - If you wonder whats its use is: i would like to access

tool to sniff data from a device file

Hi, is there any generic capture-tool that can sniff and display the data that is going in and out of a device, say /dev/sio0 or /dev/usb0, and display it in whatever style, like tcpdump does with net-interfaces? TIA -- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum,

Re: ppp with DSL leaves unused routes

fbsd_user wrote: Add these 2 statements to your ppp.conf file disable iface-alias# Stop adding old IP addr as alias when ppp # redials because line was lost. These old ips # showed using ifconfig -a on tun0. iface clear# Remove

Fwd: ppp with DSL leaves unused routes

Hello, i have FreeBSD 5.1 running which is connected to the INet via a PPP / DSL. My DSL provider forces disconnect every 12 hours, and my ppp-script dials in back immediately (ddial). However, after the redial there is not one route, but 2 routes. How do i force the old route to be deleted?

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Hello, i want to extract a word with a regular expressions from a line of text. Here is what i currently have: grep -c -E 'Interesting ports on [a-zA-Z0-9-.]+ \((.+)\)' This will print lines (from nmap), but i need only the 1st match in parentheses, which is the IP in this case. What

Re: bandwidth prioritization

Hi there, I read this and I was wondering if anyone has done this with ipfw dummynet. http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html Thanks, - Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message Hi there, i

Re: bandwidth prioritization

Pascal Giannakakis schrieb: Hi there, I read this and I was wondering if anyone has done this with ipfw dummynet. http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html Thanks, - Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message Hi

Can not compile KDE / arts (coredump)

Lo, did anybody experience the same problem when trying to compile arts-1.1 on FreeBSD-STABLE? gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/audio/arts/work/arts-1.1/flow' ../mcopidl/mcopidl -t ../flow/artsflow.idl ../flow/artsflow.idl: warning: Arts::WaveDataHandle::load (method) collides

Re: FreeBSD and DSL CONNECTIVITY ISSUES,

To All, We are running a server using FreeBSD and have been experiencing DSL connectivity issues from our customers. Our pages are basically all HTML and some Java applets. Customers are reporting issues such as; Recently I've noticed that your site operates very slowly. When I

Re: Trouble with SMC2602W wireless card

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:32:46PM -0500, David Brodbeck wrote: I bought an SMC2602W wireless PCI card, based on it being listed in the FreeBSD Handbook as supported. However, I can't get the system to recognize it. I get this in dmesg: pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x1317,

Re: Login failure

Hi, In order to make the user able to use mtools, access to A: that is, I put a line in fstab like: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw wheel noauto this made it. As user I could use the floppystation with mtools. But starting the machine today failed. Here is what it says:

Re: power monitoring API

Hi, greetings all: Is there any way (API or Macros) provided by FreeBSD that can monitor power consumption? I would like to check how much energy consumed by some operation (for example, sending a package). Any suggestions on this are appreciated. Cheers, Ken Maybe

Re: WLAN D-Link DWL-520+ not recognized

Pascal Giannakakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: none2@pci0:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x3b011186 chip=0x8400104c rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Texas Instruments (TI)' device = '802.11b+ 22Mbps Wireless Adapter' class= network We don't support that chipset

WLAN D-Link DWL-520+ not recognized

Hi there, i just plugged in my brand new D-Link DWL-520 WLAN PCI-card, but it is not listed in dmesg. What's wrong? It is at least found in the PCI bus (pciconf -l -v): none2@pci0:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x3b011186 chip=0x8400104c rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Texas Instruments (TI)'

Re: X server for Windows

Ben Williams schrieb: Friday, January 31, 2003, 3:55:02 AM, you wrote: AWA Hi, AWA I need to connect to my FreeBSD box from a Windows PC using some kind of X AWA server for Windows. I was wondering if someone could be so kind and give me AWA a few recommendations? AWA I only need a simple

Compile for FreeBSD on another Sys?

Hey list, Please don't bash me if this sounds stupid to you, but most ideas that rock the world today were subject to public loughter in the past! :P My FreeBSD server is a Cyrix C3 800 MHz / 256 MB which is slooow and my Windows Workstations has a AMD Athlon XP 2400+ / 1 GB. Is there any

Re: mozilla build port hangs at /usr/bin/sed

# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-27 13:12:39 +0100: Hi, i can't build mozilla from ports on FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE. It hangs at this point: /usr/bin/sed -e s|%%PREFIX%%|/usr/X11R6|g -e s|%%MOZILLA%%|mozilla|g /usr/ports/www/mozilla/files/mozilla.sh

mozilla build port hangs at /usr/bin/sed

Hi, i can't build mozilla from ports on FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE. It hangs at this point: /usr/bin/sed -e s|%%PREFIX%%|/usr/X11R6|g -e s|%%MOZILLA%%|mozilla|g /usr/ports/www/mozilla/files/mozilla.sh /usr/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/mozilla (cd

IPFW smart networkshaping like in Linux

Lo ppl, a few month ago there was an article in the german computer mag c't which described how to tune an ADSL connection. One of the tips was to give small IP-packages (64 bytes and less) a high priority. According to the article this will result in an improved behaviour when up- and downstream

FreeBSD 4.7 +JDK 1.4.x

Hi there, did anybody ever get this (FreeBSD 4.7 and JDK 1.4.x) to run? While it works as root, it crashes immediately with any other users. I have tried sun, blackdown and ibm JDKs, none of them worked with normal users. IBM freezed even as root. Sticking with 1.3.1 is not an option in this

Strange FreeBSD / KDE behaviour during network problems

Hi there, today our company's inet falled out for a few hours. Only intranet worked. During this time I've booted my FreeBSD-STABLE (which took quite long due to ntpdate and hostname) and tried to start KDE with startx. It did not work and din't even print messages to the console. So I

Scanner for FreeBSD

Hello, what do I have to consider when buying a flat bed scanner for a FreeBSD-CURRENT box? Is there any possibilty to share the scanner in an Network, pretty much like a printer? Thx -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr

Re: Warcraft 3 ipf ipnat question

Hi, Please help me with the following problem. I'm not really a FreeBSD guru yet. I run FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE with ipf/ipnat I made an ipf.rules and a ipnat.rules. I want to play Warcraft 3 behind my fbsd box. That is as a matter of fact possible so that's ok. The only thing i

Re: changing directory listing type

Hi, I'm a new FreeBSD user and using FreBSD 4.6.2. I wonder if it is possible to colour directories in blue or symbolic links to another like linux systems. Now all them are in the same white colour. Is this simple? Thanks... # man ls The solution is ls -F. If you want to bind it

Re: changing directory listing type

alias ls ls -F You might consider this as more usefull: alias ll ls -alF Sorry, it must be alias ls ls -G and alias ll ls -alG -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! To

Re: How to make FreeBSD like NetBIOS names?

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 01:47:54AM +0100, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: But how can i make FreeBSD use NetBIOS-names, so that commans like the one below will work? ping winmachine I want my FreeBSD to resolve names this way: 1.) /etc/hosts 2.) NetBIOS names (probably managed

Re: Find abandoned packages

In the last episode (Nov 21), Pascal Giannakakis said: If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not it?s a dependency though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that too come to think

How to make FreeBSD like NetBIOS names?

Hi list, i have installed the latest Samba here, and can access it from my W2K. I can type \\freebsd\ in Explorer to access the FBSD-machine. But how can i make FreeBSD use NetBIOS-names, so that commans like the one below will work? ping winmachine I want my FreeBSD to resolve names this

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD

I'm learning how the FreeBSD upgrade process works. I've got cvsup working and can grabe 4-stable. What I don't understand is the ports tree. Does it get updated when I do make buildworld etc...? Nope. Look for a file ports-supfile on your system. You can make a copy e.g. to /root and then

Find abandoned packages

Lo folks, how do you find installed ports / packages on your system, that are not required by others? Thanx. -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Find abandoned packages

If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not it’s a dependency though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that too come to think of it. pkg_info or pkg_version - would be quite the same in

Re: main disk just died

I tried naively to 'mount /dev/ad4s1 /mnt', but got : not permitted. I also tried to handbook and google my way out of this paperbag, but that didn't work either :) fsck -y /dev/ad4s1 mount /dev/ad4s1 /mnt fsck -y /mnt/dev/ad4*whatever* mount /mnt/dev/ad4*whatever* /mnt/*wherever*

Re: Upgrading Computer

I just aquired a pent 300 and was currently using a pent 200. But I used a GENERIC kernel that came with the FreeBSD because I never new how to modify it at the time. Because I never changed the Kernel can't I just switch the hardrives and network cards? From reading the boot up

Uh-oh... fsck can't repair my files-partition!

Hello, after a total systemfreeze - probably due to a new installed kernel - i had to do a few resets. That bashed a few partiotions, among them the /files, which is my largest and most valuable with around 30 GB. All could be cleaned except of files, here is the output: -- # fsck /files **

Re: Uh-oh... fsck can't repair my files-partition!

Howabout answering these questions with 'yes' instead of 'no'? That always works for me. In fact, I have a hard drive on it's last legs, the other day it apparently crashed, I hard-reset the computer, ran fsck -y on that disk and finally after running this about 8 times it finally was marked

Re: Uh-oh... fsck can't repair my files-partition!

LOL There is no prompt to type y or n, and it is the same with fsck -y. Sorry for not mentioning this. Meanwhile i got the tip to try... Dismount the volume before running fsck. The (NO WRITE) message means that the filesystem was in use or otherwise read-only. YES :D Thank you

Bluetooth (BlueZ) or WLAN in FreeBSD

Lo ppl, i'd like to link a WinME PC to my FreeBSD via Bluetooth or WLAN, depending on what works and / or is cheaper. The (air-line) distance is around 10 meters through 2 walls. What would you recommend for this scenario (e.g., what drivers will work fine with FreeBSD)? - 2

Re: Problem compiling mpg123

I am running 4.6-STABLE on i396 and I cannot compile mpg123 as I get the following error any help appreciated sincerely Filippo I'm busy, so please excuse the short answer. - Did you update your ports-tree? The handbook has a chapter about updating it. - Did you consider

Writing a start / stop script (getting pid)

Lo ppl, how to i get the pid of a process i start in a shellscript? The Variables $$ / $PID are not really of use. What i would like to have, is some sort of command with has the return value of another startet script. The background: i try to write a rc.d script for ftpd, and i need

RE: Writing a start / stop script (getting pid)

, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pascal Giannakakis Sent: 24 September 2002 10:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Writing a start / stop script (getting pid) Lo

Updating Kernel to newest Version

Lo ppl, i updated my WS with the binary update from the 4.6.2 iso (CD 1). It finished successfully, but my kernel remains in the old version. How do i get a kernel of the new Version? I couldn't find anything about that in the handbook. thx -- Werden Sie mit uns zum OnlineStar 2002!

Re: Updating Kernel to newest Version

Hello Pascal, Monday, September 23, 2002, 11:54:16 AM, you wrote: PG Lo ppl, PG i updated my WS with the binary update from the 4.6.2 iso (CD 1). It PG finished PG successfully, but my kernel remains in the old version. How do i get a PG kernel of the PG new Version? I

[SSH] Session Problem w/ 2 FreeBSDs

Lo ppl, i've set up a FreeBSD server in the Intranet, so that we (my team and i) can use it for testing purposes and hacking. My colleagues use W2K and can connect to the server via their SSH immedeatly, but when i try to connect to it (i'm using FreeBSD as my workstation-OS), it hangs

Re: [SSH] Session Problem w/ 2 FreeBSDs

debug3: Trying to reverse map address 210.104.1.133. Does your box have reverse DNS set up? I suspect your VerifyReverseMapping is set to yes. So, either set up a reverse lookup for your host, or turn off VerifyReverseMapping. I changed it, but it seems that the

Re: [SSH] Session Problem w/ 2 FreeBSDs

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 03:59:09PM +0200, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: debug3: Trying to reverse map address 210.104.1.133. Does your box have reverse DNS set up? I suspect your VerifyReverseMapping is set to yes. So, either set up a reverse lookup