Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install

2004-05-07 Thread Rob
Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:01:29PM +0900, Rob wrote: Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the login prompt, which I do not understand :(. You probably need to tell the kernel to use the serial

realplay: spawns 7 processes after one call?

2004-05-06 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm confused by my call to realplay: $ realplay http://my.music.site/realplay.rm; will spawn this process over 7 different PIDs. Is that normal? Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

inodes for mailing list archive filesystem?

2004-05-06 Thread Rob Ellis
I'm creating a large new filesystem for an html mailing list archive... I think I need to create more inodes than the default 'newfs' does (?). Does something like 'newfs -i 4096 ...' seem reasonable? Thanks. - Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: dhcpd interface specification (Answer)

2004-05-05 Thread Rob
accordingly! Cheers, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need Advice in SSH

2004-05-05 Thread Rob
to laptop1; and for the reverse you have to play some tricks. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need Advice in SSH

2004-05-05 Thread Rob
no access to the gateways, I then wonder, if you could use any third computer with a real IP address (provided you have access to that one) and use this third computer as an inbetween in the ssh-tunnel between your two laptops. Above article may give a clue. Does that help? Regards, Rob

Re: Need Advice in SSH

2004-05-05 Thread Rob
Bull TORS wrote: could finish the last phrase of my sentence, they would say Oh, your not using Windows! so you are using Linux!... Why use strange things?...Imagine that Linux sounds strange to them, what would happen if I start explaining what FreeBSD is!...Hehehe...And the person in-charge

Re: Need Advice in SSH

2004-05-05 Thread Rob
Bull TORS wrote: Thanks for the response...I have tried to use ssh before but everytime I did a message always says operation timed out...and I could not know what went Try ssh -v ... to see debugging messages while ssh tries to establish the connection. You may also try ssh -v -v ... or ssh -v

Re: dhcpd interface specification

2004-05-04 Thread Rob
[...] /usr/local/sbin/dhcpd rl1 -cf /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcpd interface specification

2004-05-04 Thread Rob
you mean? Maybe you should discuss this issue on the isc-dhcp-server mailing list, since there you'll find the people who know about these details, I think. Cheers, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

ipfw and MAC-keyword: unknown arg; but it is in man page!

2004-05-03 Thread Rob
from any to any MAC 00:a0:b0:0e:3a:95 any ipfw: unknown argument ``MAC'' # Is this a bug, or what? I use FreeBSD 4.9-stable. Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Postfix + MySQL + Courier-IMAP + SpamAssassin + ClamAV

2004-04-20 Thread Rob Evers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a look at amavisd-new, it's an excellent 'glue' between mail-server and scanning programs (like spamassassin and clamav). Lot's of documents can be found on how to install this combo. Rob Evers

securelevel=3 and append-only: can I use this for files in /var/log/ ?

2004-04-19 Thread Rob
the system. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mouse in FreeBSD

2004-04-19 Thread Rob
at the top of the console for the cut/ paste option. I can not answer the other two. Rob M. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: base system vs. isc-dhcp : dhclient conflicts?

2004-04-18 Thread Rob
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:31:05AM +0900, Rob wrote: I have isc-dhcp3 port installed on my 4.9-Stable PC. I need that as I want to configure this machine as both, a DHCP client and server. Making a machine use itself as a DHCP server is somewhat odd

5-Current on Pentium-I with old hardware: still risky?

2004-04-18 Thread Rob
problems with early adoption of 5.X, I mainly encounter risks related to extremely large RAM, multi processors, or very new hardware. My simple and old Pentium-1 PC may therefore a very low risk system for installing 5-Current. Is that right? Or am making a big mistake here? Thanks, Rob

Re: 5-Current on Pentium-I with old hardware: still risky?

2004-04-18 Thread Rob
Olaf Hoyer wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: When I read about problems with early adoption of 5.X, I mainly encounter risks related to extremely large RAM, multi processors, or very new hardware. My simple and old Pentium-1 PC may therefore a very low risk system for installing 5-Current

Re: CUPS

2004-04-17 Thread Rob
of output: I [16/Apr/2004:15:55:35 +0800] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed? Do you have the port print/cups-pstoraster installed? I think that's the port which installs ESP stuff for you. Have a look at the 'distinfo' and 'pkg-plist' in the directory of this port. I hope that helps. Rob

FreeBSD Questions mailing list- external Hard drives

2004-04-17 Thread Rob Justen
Is it possible to boot Free BSD from a external hard drive Rob Justen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD Questions mailing list- external Hard drives

2004-04-17 Thread Rob
Rob Justen wrote: Is it possible to boot Free BSD from a external hard drive I have a PC without a harddisk that boot from another FreeBSD PC over the network. Is that the kind of thing you after? Then etherboot is a way to go. More info, search for 'diskless'. Rob

base system vs. isc-dhcp : dhclient conflicts?

2004-04-17 Thread Rob
multiple versions of dhclient related files? Is there a make.conf option that will prevent the build of dhclient in the base system? I don't know which dhclient to use, the one in /sbin or the one in /usr/local/sbin. And which dhclient.conf file to modify. Thanks for help, Rob. -- /sbin/dhclient

Re: thinkpad 600

2004-04-16 Thread Rob
as part of the instal, will install a menued bootloader, hope this helps sincerely, Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gimp 2 does not come with help?

2004-04-14 Thread Rob
incomplete, or do I need another port for the help XML pages of gimp? Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gimp 2 does not come with help?

2004-04-14 Thread Rob
says: Please check your installation. So there's something missing after installing the package, isn't it? Rob. On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 05:59, Rob wrote: Hi, I have gimp, version 2.0.0, with WITH_HTML_HELP_BROWSER=yes installed. When I click on Help-Help, I get an empty browser, but also a message

Re: Gimp 2 does not come with help?

2004-04-14 Thread Rob
mark rowlands wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gimp 2 does not come with help? try cd /usr/ports/graphics/gimp-manual-html make install clean

Re: Beginning C++ in FreeBSD

2004-04-14 Thread Rob
Me wrote: Hi, I've learn shell scripting and java on my freebsd box since I migrated from winblows 98 a while back. now i'm ready to move to a more sophisticated language. I have decided to go with C++. Is there any bigginer guides online that you may have run a cross that would help me get

Re: Interpreting ping response? (the POD lives??)

2004-04-13 Thread Rob
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: can you tell me what might be happening? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/home/kdk] [16:25] #sudo ping -s 2048 app PING app.southuni.com (192.168.0.80): 2048 data bytes 36 bytes from app.southuni.com (192.168.0.80): Destination Host Unreachable This may indicate that the

Windows VOD player: what to do in FreeBSD?

2004-04-12 Thread Rob
PCs it pops up the VOD player (whatever that is, I had never heard of it so far). The problem is that mplayer on FreeBSD no longer can handle this. Any ideas what I can do about this? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Networking Questions

2004-04-12 Thread Rob G
Thanks Bob, This worked out perfectly. All I did was add the second nic. COnfigured it for the First IP in my block and added the Enable Gateway and boom I was off and surfing :) Rob G [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Rob
Actually, when I do a make or make all, it appears as if nothing was done and when I check in the /etc/mail dir, none of the dates or times have changed. It may have done something but I can't see what it is. Rob. See what files in the directory now have a recent time and date. Malcolm

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Rob
is not there or cfhead.m4 is missing. cfhead is located here: /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cfhead.m4 -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 4:09 AM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed In order

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Rob
Ahhh... brilliant.. worked like a charm. Thanks Matthew and everyone else who helped. Much appreciated. I will also get sendmail upgraded as soon as I can. Thanks again. Rob. It appears that the sendmail version you're trying to use is too old for the required functionality using _CF_DIR

Networking Questions

2004-04-10 Thread Rob G
pretty much open to the internet and then start locking them down as need be once I get them seeing the outside world and the outside world seeing them. Regards, Rob G [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
I have a freebsd box that was configured by Interland. They offer no support on sendmail configuration and I would like to add some of the dnsbl lists to stop some of the spam received by the server. I have looked over the sendmail.org site and now I think I'm even dumber that I was before. I

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Yeah, I tried that... I just got an 'unable to make error. At this point, postfix is looking very attractive. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 4:42 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:17 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: I have a freebsd box that was configured by Interland. They offer no support on sendmail configuration and I would

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:28 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Yes. Is this correct? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:40 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
It does nothing at all, just right back to the prompt. I think Warren has found the answer to the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:36 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
in a few weeks so I may have a shot at the upgrades next weekend. -Original Message- From: Warren Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:23 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: That's

FreeBSD router: Can my internet provider detect my home network?

2004-04-09 Thread Rob
the home network for my provider? Are requests from all other networked home PC's done on behalf of the router, so that my provider will only see requests from my router? Or do I need some better (firewall?) configuration for this? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL

rc.firewall question on 'simple' and 'client' setup.

2004-04-09 Thread Rob
interface network and netmask and ip iif=ed1 inet=192.0.2.16 imask=255.255.255.240 iip=192.0.2.17 What is the difference between onet and oip, and same for inet and iip? Or are they in most common router setups the same (I mean, onet = iop, and inet = iip)? Thanks, Rob

Re: Natd and natd_interface

2004-04-09 Thread Rob
? ipfw add 50 divert natd all from 192.168.0.0/24 to any via fxp1 I don't think you have to do this yourself. I believe by adding natd_enable=YES to your rc.conf, you get the following rule as a result: divert 8668 ip from any to any via fxp0 which does what you want (I think). Rob

Can I block root login via xdm (console remote) ?

2004-04-07 Thread Rob
, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

internet via USB: how to use with FreeBSD?

2004-04-07 Thread Rob
at a loss what to do with the USB internet connection? I know how to get a router set up with RJ-45 cables and two ethernet cards. But can FreeBSD handle a USB internet connection? Hints how to deal with this, are highly appreciated. Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL

Re: internet via USB: how to use with FreeBSD?

2004-04-07 Thread Rob
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Rob wrote: My parents have an internet provider, that uses the TV-cable and connects through the USB port. The provider only has M$-Window$ software provided, and this works now with a single computer. I want to replace this M$-Window$ computer by a FreeBSD

Re: Vinum + new disk for mirror

2004-04-07 Thread Rob Ellis
it with /stand/sysinstall - edit the partition table with disklabel to match the partitions on the good disk - create a config file -- vinum.newdisk: drive vinumdisk2 device /dev/ad2s1d - run 'vinum create vinum.newdisk' - then 'vinum start data.p1.s0' # etc... Worked great. - Rob

Re: Vinum + new disk for mirror

2004-04-06 Thread Rob Ellis
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:40:09AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 5 April 2004 at 19:09:46 -0400, Rob Ellis wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:12:49AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 5 April 2004 at 12:42:12 -0400, Rob Ellis wrote: We have a machine with a vinum

Vinum + new disk for mirror

2004-04-05 Thread Rob Ellis
the bad disk with the bigger new disk - boot single user, mount / - copy the good disk to the new disk with: dd bs=128k if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 - vinum start - restart any stale subdisks (?) - ... ? Thanks. - Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Vinum + new disk for mirror

2004-04-05 Thread Rob Ellis
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:12:49AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 5 April 2004 at 12:42:12 -0400, Rob Ellis wrote: We have a machine with a vinum mirror, all the partitions except the root partition mirrored between two disks. The second disk has died and I want to replace

dmesg bootup-info removed/overwritten by syslogd ?

2004-04-04 Thread Rob
147.46.50.254 failed: host is not on local network Nothing else. How can I see the original bootup messages from the kernel? Do I have to reboot for that :( ? Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Make world procedure not updating uname -a

2004-03-31 Thread Rob Lensen
updated to -p4 or if the upgrade is gone well, have uname having correct output. best regards, Rob Lensen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAapT/DJBu2Qs6yB4RAsquAJ9Oii84jt2Bpi58K2qsB/ZCYSHo8QCfWh+K DKPiiy3Y9Zga1BuaXQFScdc= =0AjV -END PGP SIGNATURE

make on handbook/book.sgml ends with error

2004-03-29 Thread Rob
Hi, This is 4.9-Stable. I have cvsup'ed my /usr/doc directory. See below what happens when I do a make in the /usr/doc directory. In the past the make worked just fine, but not after last cvsup. Any idea what's wrong with current cvsup on the docs? Regards, Rob. # cd /usr/doc # make [...] /bin

mozilla: mms is not registered protocol ?

2004-03-29 Thread Rob
this Alert dialog. Manually, in an xterminal, I can type: mplayer mms://211.233.92.44/L_1FM which works fine, but why does mozilla not know about this. Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: automounting cd-rom cd-rw devices

2004-03-28 Thread Rob
variable'. I never could find any info on my FreeBSD box, to help me further understand. What is this sysctl-black-magic about and where is more information? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: automounting cd-rom cd-rw devices

2004-03-28 Thread Rob
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:04:43PM +0900, Rob wrote: What is this sysctl-black-magic about and where is more information? You're right that finding which sysctl is required to achieve whatever purpose can be tricky. Finding what sysctls exist is as easy as typing 'sysctl

Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

2004-03-28 Thread Rob
be in trouble when embedded in a Windows oriented environment. Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ! why?

2004-03-24 Thread Rob
Hahaha... Too funny! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roland Wells Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:16 PM To: '__Clint__'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ! why? Instead of wondering how they found your email address, I would be much more

Re: Top posting

2004-03-22 Thread Rob
does it? As for MUA... My ex-employer (anybody want an IT support/installation engineer in the UK?) decided to move everybody and all our clients to MS Outlook and Exchange. Because that's what people want. And that's another topic Rob

disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-22 Thread Rob
properly again. What else could I have done, if I can't type a single command anymore ?!? Isn't this silly? Can I configure my PC, so that a reconnected keyboard will work again automatically? Thanks, Rob. PS: If there's no local solution to the problem above, would it then be of help to have access

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-22 Thread Rob
to mention this. Yes, it is PS/2. Both, mouse and keyboard are. Is there really no way to let FreeBSD reinitialize the keyboard? Is a reboot the only way to go when the PS/2 keyboard has been unplugged? Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-22 Thread Rob
with the mouse here, or is a PS/2 mouse a less dangerous PS/2 device than the PS/2 keyboard? So back to my original question: a reboot is the only option after disconnecting the PS/2 keyboard. Right? Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Top posting

2004-03-21 Thread Rob M
the way it should be here and I will comply. For the first time in an email I didnt top post...entirely. -- Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Top posting

2004-03-21 Thread Rob M
an issue with the rules at all, as I said I am new here and learning. That being said, if my involvement in the discussion has offended I will take your advise and not post further. -- Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: KDE 3.2.1

2004-03-20 Thread Rob (Mailing Lists)
On Saturday 20 March 2004 01:55, Chris wrote: Is it me? Or does KDE 3.2.1 seem to run much faster then 3.2.0? I've noticed this ass well, and even more so since qt33 has been put into ports. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Mozilla + reallayer plugin: how to get this work?

2004-03-18 Thread Rob
/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so To no avail; realplay plugin does not work with mozilla. Any more hints? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mozilla + realplay plugin: how to get this work?

2004-03-18 Thread Rob
/rpnp.so To no avail; realplay plugin does not work with mozilla. Any more hints? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla's gone crazy?

2004-03-15 Thread Rob
Ralph M. Los wrote: Hey all, I've been having problems with the Mozilla 1.5 that comes with the 5.2.1 ports tree... Are you not using portupgrade? If not, then install that one from the ports first and use it for everything else. F.ex: # portinstall mozilla or # portupgrade mozilla check

Re: A laptop worth saving?

2004-03-11 Thread Rob
Mike Jackson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I'm a long time unix/linux user but have been away from FreeBSD for about a year or so and would like to solve that personal fault. I have a laptop (IBM ThinkPad T20) that once ran FreeBSD but currently sits with out floppy, OS, and at

Soundcard C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 with FreeBSD?

2004-03-10 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm asked to replace an OS by FreeBSD on a PC which has the soundcard C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738. I don't want to end up with a system that does not have sound. Can someone tell me whether this card works? And if yes, tell me a few details what to do to get it work. Thanks so much. Rob

Re: Tripwire question

2004-03-09 Thread Rob Ellis
and extension for Tripwire -- see /usr/ports/security/aide. it comes with an 'aide.conf.freebsd' config which uses the same (similar?) syntax as tripwire... - rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Mozilla-1.6 hangs on .pdf file

2004-03-07 Thread Rob
and mozilla is waiting. When I kill the hanging acroread app., mozilla resumes. Why is this not working? Is this a mozilla issue, or acroread ? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: mount floppy/cdrom on diskless PC: vfsload: Exec format error

2004-03-06 Thread Rob
Rob wrote: Hi, I have a diskless PC with a floppy and CDrom drive. I can create a dos floppy without a problem, but the mount fails: # /usr/sbin/fdformat /dev/fd0.1440 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0.1440'? (y/n): y Processing done. # /sbin

mount floppy/cdrom on diskless PC: vfsload: Exec format error

2004-03-05 Thread Rob
Any ideas what's going wrong here? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qmail revisited

2004-03-03 Thread Rob McQuillen
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:41 am, Brian H wrote: sorry for bringing up qmail again. It's OT on freebsd-questions, so I'm replying privately... I am able to get my mail sent to my user account henninb, but i can't get mail for root or postmaaster. Have you read www.lifewithqmail.org? I

Re: flashplugin-mozilla is marked as broken...?

2004-03-02 Thread Rob
albi wrote: On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:18:58 +0900 Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How am I ever be able to convince my labmembers that FreeBSD is so much better than M$-Window$, if they get stuck on FreeBSD already after two minutes by simply browsing with Mozilla to their favorite webpage? if you

Re: portupgrade/pkgdb problem

2004-03-01 Thread Rob
portupgrade and all related ruby stuff and then reinstalled portupgrade, which then installs ruby-1.8. All works well then. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

flashplugin-mozilla is marked as broken...?

2004-03-01 Thread Rob
to Click OK to download Plugin. when an unknown plugin is encountered? This is annoying, because when I click OK, I get a webpage telling me that there's no such plugin for my OS. I want to get rid of this, once and for all. Is that possible? Thanks, Rob

why bootpd running, though wrapped up in inetd superserver ?

2004-03-01 Thread Rob
-flags -t 5 and -i to no avail. Any idea what's wrong here, or am I myself making a mistake here ? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems Mounting CDROM

2004-03-01 Thread Rob
Rishi Chopra wrote: When I try to mount a CD, I get the following errror: usha# mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0: No such file or directory Any idea what the problem might be? You should have a line like this in /etc/fstab: /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Notice the c in

Re: NFS sharing /usr/ports and /usr/src

2004-02-28 Thread Rob
I have /usr/ports on a separate partition, I also have to add a line like: /usr/ports -maproot=root ip-addresses Take care of what is exported and mounted readonly and not readonly. Hope that helps. Cheers, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: cvsup config file

2004-02-25 Thread Rob
Noah wrote: FreebSD 4-9 can somebody please verify if I have my cvsup config file setup correctly? these are the only uncommented lines. --- snip --- *default host=cvsup13.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix ## Ports

make installworld to only install new/changed files?

2004-02-23 Thread Rob MacGregor
:( If this is more appropriate in another list, let me know which one and I'll go pester them instead :) Thanks -- Rob MacGregor (BOFH) [PGP key ID 0x1E51BF5A] If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell. -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil

make installworld to only install new/changed files?

2004-02-23 Thread Rob MacGregor
:( If this is more appropriate in another list, let me know which one and I'll go pester them instead :) Thanks -- Rob MacGregor (BOFH) [PGP key ID 0x1E51BF5A] If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell. -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil

RE: [doc pointer] Re: make installworld to only install new/changed files?

2004-02-23 Thread Rob MacGregor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert See the INSTALL variable as documented for make.conf(5). Thanks to both yourself and Matthew. For some reason I never thought of looking at make :( -- Rob | Oh my God! They killed

problem with port pdumpfs

2004-02-19 Thread Rob
..] At the end of each block of errors, it seems to miss the first part of the next line. I'm not sure if this is significant?! Anyway I know nothing about Ruby - what should i be looking for in the script? Are there type definitions I can add for 'bignum' anywhere? Thanks in advamce, Rob

How come the unsubscribe link at the bottom of message is borked

2004-02-17 Thread Rob
I've tried unsuccessfully to unsubscribe from this list but the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each message just does nothing. Am I missing something here? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R

2004-02-15 Thread Rob
At 13:32 15/02/2004 -0800, Graham North wrote: [snip] My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166 [snip] It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small files, most times the process stalls. I generally need to open a new terminal to kill the

rsync: exclude doesn't work?

2004-02-13 Thread Rob
Hi, I use rsync to back up my files, but I want to exclude uninteresting bulk files in cache directories of netscape, opera and mozilla. After reading the man pages, I use following call: /usr/local/bin/rsync \ --exclude rob/.netscape/cache/ \ --exclude rob/.mozilla/**/Cache

How to view BIOS settings on a running system?

2004-02-13 Thread Rob
there a tool in FreeBSD that shows the BIOS settings in a similar layout, without shutting down the system? I assume the kernel can access the BIOS and read all its settings, or is this impossible? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-12 Thread Rob
the data in all other partitions. Sysinstall did all that for me. Meanwhile I learned a lot more about disklabel, thanks to your comments. Great and many thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: stupid packages question

2004-02-12 Thread Rob Ellis
-recursive' the default ports make targets are documented in the comments in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk - rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creating mp3

2004-02-12 Thread Rob
, AIFF, AIFF-C or raw format. So where is your 'state-of-the-art' vorbis format? Or does it need more tricks to get the music in vorbis format? (Yes, meanwhile I also have installed libvorbis and vorbis-tools). Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-11 Thread Rob
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:19, Rob wrote: Malcolm, Thank you for your detailed answer to my question. Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:46, Rob wrote: Do not change the offset of 'f'. If 'g' does not physically follow 'f' on the disk then this is not going to work

Re: How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-09 Thread Rob
Malcolm, Thank you for your detailed answer to my question. Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:46, Rob wrote: Do not change the offset of 'f'. If 'g' does not physically follow 'f' on the disk then this is not going to work -- give up now!!! How can I find that out

How to query the computer's ip address?

2004-02-08 Thread Rob
Hi, Silly question, maybe, but is there a simple command to query the computer's ip address? Something similar to 'hostname' for finding the computer's hostname. I need the four dot-separated ip numbers. I can analyze the output of 'ifconfig', but isn't there an easier way. Thanks, Rob

How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-08 Thread Rob
), but destroying the data in the one afer (ad1s1h) is no problem. Is there a way to do this? What is the safest one? (without having to backup the whole disk). Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

bug in bootpd for FreeBSD-Stable ?

2004-02-06 Thread Rob
: --- But then I get in /var/log/messages this line: Feb 6 20:06:45 cisr bootpd[842]: in entry named .default, symbol T128: bad syntax Feb 6 20:06:45 cisr bootpd[842]: can't find tc=.default Why is this well-documented feature not working for bootpd on FreeBSD-stable? Regards, Rob

diskless operation: swapfile setup

2004-02-02 Thread Rob
and T129 variables (note that in this case I need to tell /etc/bootptab the exact size of the swapfile via T129) ? Any ideas? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: diskless operation: swapfile setup

2004-02-02 Thread Rob
Rob wrote: Hi, I had trouble to get the swapfile setup, as explained in the handbook (chapter diskless operation). I failed and then decided to do it in a more manual fashion: Maybe I should illustrate also what actually failed with the swapfile setup from the handbook. When my /etc/bootptab

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