Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Technical Director
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: No. While Beastie is cute and well executed, it's not professional graphic art. Here here... Rob. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Technical Director
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Mike Hauber wrote: weeks to figure out how to use correct grammar in an announcement or a responce (and even if the grammar is left _so_ wanting, take a look at the archives for this list. It can't be all _that_ bad, can it?) You raise issue with the grammar of tech

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Technical Director
and for a personal thing of mine, would you please leave terms like decision makers out of here, i just have the certain feeling that youre referring to the manager type of person, who does not ever go to a serverroom or really look at anything important anyways. of course thats my

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Technical Director
Oliver, On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Oliver Leitner wrote: im not rob, but thanks, already got one) Oh my that's so ... funny. interresting thought, so its a sweet tasting thing that youd like to drink? (in case i translated jello right, cause this is not my mother language...) Maybe where you

Re: FreeBSD 3.2

2005-02-03 Thread Technical Director
Greg, Wow, talk about handcuffing. One thing I am interested in is if they apply this policy to Microsoft/Sun/Oracle/{$Enterprise} software. Most institutions I know seem to feel that since they've paid the big bucks for this software they better stay up with the latest to be safe. If this is

Re: MySql Load balancing Solutions?

2005-02-02 Thread Technical Director
, Drumslayer wrote: --- Technical Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drumslayer, I am part of a team running MySQL 4.1.X on 5 machines in a replication setup. Our first way to help manage load is the use of useful rules in our connection classes to direct Writes to our big server

Re: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

2005-02-02 Thread Technical Director
Positive Negative, You might seriously consider not using '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as well since most php scripts read the username/password information in clear text on a nobody:nobody read filesystem. IOW other people can read your files. Possibly making the username/password somewhat cryptic, say

Re: MySql Load balancing Solutions?

2005-02-01 Thread Technical Director
Drumslayer, I am part of a team running MySQL 4.1.X on 5 machines in a replication setup. Our first way to help manage load is the use of useful rules in our connection classes to direct Writes to our big server with fast I/O and memory and directing Rreads to our slower I/O less RAM slaves

Darwin on FreeBSD

2005-01-30 Thread Technical Director
Hello everyone, I have successfully installed Darwin on freebsd using the ports tree, thank you [EMAIL PROTECTED] My question is in regards of the whole operation, has anyone successfully got this application to operate behind a natd firewall running only through port 80? I believe I followed

Re: Please explain. (What is HawkinsOS?)

2004-09-19 Thread Technical Director
Err, maybe you should use ... HawkinsOS??? T.J.HAWKINS Secure, Stable, Supported Operating System... I really enjoyed that. Maybe this inquiry is to get the developers to work out HawkinsOS, whatever version of FreeBSD you sed'd s/FreeBSD/HawkinsOS/g, problems with multi-threading? My troll

Re: mysql install problem Continued

2004-06-26 Thread Technical Director
One thing you can do to get around large INSERT collumn count matching is use this syntax: INSERT INTO user SET Host='localhost', User='username', Password=password('very_secret'), Select_priv='Y', Insert_priv='Y', etc.etc.etc. You will have to identify your table first, use: desc user Maybe

Re: FreeBSD on Gigabyte Motherboard GA-7N400 Pro2

2004-06-03 Thread Technical Director
Red, Wow, Ma'am or Sir... -- SNICKER I do believe the nVIDIA nFORCE 2 MCP Integrated controller will operate with the /usr/ports/net/nvnet port. From the port pkg-desc: bash-2.05b# cat pkg-descr This port contains a driver for the NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapter. It contains a wrapper

Re: This is Lan support questions

2004-05-31 Thread Technical Director
This card should work fine. If you are on a running system without the vr device compiled into the kernel you can test the driver by doing the following: kldload if_vr If this works, in bold white letters or in a dmesg output you should see: vr0: blah blah blah more blah vr0: Ethernet address:

3Com 3c905B-TX Fast EtherLink XL Packet Loss

2004-05-30 Thread Technical Director
Hello, I have the following: 4.10 - Stable PIII 1000MHz 3Com 3c905B-TX showing up as xl0 plugged in using a etl certified (whooie) cat-5e to: Linksys EtherFast 4116 Using ping -f /{some address}/, I've noticed at these configured speeds the following: 10baseT/UTP half-duplex == 11% packet

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 install

2003-11-18 Thread Technical Director
Hello, In almost all cases of a freeze or hang on install the problem lies with hardware resource allocation. Can you help us help you by listing what device was being probed at time of lock up? R. On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Marlon Bradley wrote: Hello. I've made 4 attemps to install FreeBSD

Re: floppy disk - device not configured error

2003-11-18 Thread Technical Director
Greetings back, You could try the following: dd if=./kern.flp of=/dev/fd0a That might fix your problem. R. On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am running FreeBSD 4.7-stable. I am trying to make new boot floppies so I can install Freebsd on another machine. When I try

Re: your mail

2003-11-18 Thread Technical Director
Hello, Your question/description was fine right up until the words is installed with linux if that helps. Is this the emulation of linux or is this box actually linux? If php4 is installed and you have access to the command line you might be able to run: php -v -- Should return a version of

Re: floppy disk - device not configured error

2003-11-18 Thread Technical Director
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jerry McAllister wrote: Is the floppy formatted? Used fdformat for that or do it on a MS machine. Also, write to /dev/fd0c or /dev/rfd0c. Here is just what I do and have done many times. First format two floppies for 1.4 meg using fdformat -

Re: updating 4.8-4.9 did it take?

2003-11-14 Thread Technical Director
Hello, For all of us text based mail client users, please try to wrap at a single screen width. Just so we get this right, you cvsup'd 4.9-RELEASE and then ran /stand/sysinstall? I might be out to lunch but I think you are going in two different directions. cvsup'ing down source and then

Re: Installation Hang

2003-11-11 Thread Technical Director
Nick, Alt - F2 will give you a screen of console messages that were experienced during different stages of your installation. Look for error messages or messages that have been printed in FULL CAPITALS. Bin is the first major read operation from the CD-ROM that occurs using the FreeBSD drivers

Question: LinkSys W11 802.11b Card

2003-11-06 Thread Technical Director
Hey group, Was wondering if anyone has successfully gotten a LinkSys W11 802.11b wireless card to work? When I run: # pccardc dumpcis I get a card found but no information returned. If I enable the card using: # pccardc enable 0 (or 1) wi0 -i 3 I get a kernel panic or lockup after the

Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variables notavailable--

2003-11-04 Thread Technical Director
= I doubt hardware manufactuers put out equipment that can't run at 100% at = least. FWIW, I doubt the accuracy of that last paragraph, and don't think this is so seemingly far fetched at all. :-) Considering the high demand for consumer's purchasing 'their' products, a mishap like My

Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variables notavailable--

2003-11-03 Thread Technical Director
Forgive me for saying: If this system is borked with FreeBSD due to the cpu's not cycling 'down', then use a different operating system. FreeBSD is not responsible for your trouble if you can solve the problem by moving on. Doing so and solving the problem is more important than holding the OS

Re: help me!

2003-11-02 Thread Technical Director
Hello, This is just a suggestion and may or may not solve your problem: 1) Start with brand new floppies, right outta the pack. 2) Maybe change the mirror site, although this is kinda gasping for straws. 3) Try the iso's and shoot for a CD-ROM install. I've seen this before on machines and

Re: Verifying integrity of Backup Tapes

2003-10-31 Thread Technical Director
Rick, I'm not to sure of a best method for checking the tapes, I might tar'ing a massive file to the tape and then back to see if it is working. Unfortunately during the use of your backup schema the tapes have to degrade. If it's a DLT400 tape or even a DDS# series I can see the need to hang

Re: http from command line

2003-10-30 Thread Technical Director
Hello, From the command line you can use an assortment of tools, even telnet if you want... ;) www == Wow, this one is fun. Probably already installed. lynx == Can be a security nightmare depending on what your computer is being used for. elinks == Haven't used it myself but I found

Re: ftp with user root

2003-10-28 Thread Technical Director
Hello, bootptab means you are using your server in a working environment, so consider not using an unsafe method like ftp to get the file from A to B. If your lan is TOTALLY non-public and has no ways for access you can open up ftp for user root by modifying the /etc/ftpusers file and knock out

Re: floppy

2003-10-09 Thread Technical Director
Hello, You can mount MS-DOS floppies by doing: mkdir /floppya mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /floppya df -k -- Should show your mounted floppy. If you have a problem you can check and see if: options MSDOSFS in your kernel configuration file. R. On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Lee Harr wrote: I am

Re: Users mySQL User

2003-09-23 Thread Technical Director
Holgar, No. MySQL supports users through the database manager itself. Once MySQL is running on the system you can add users to the user table found in the mysql database. Remember to 'flush privileges' once this is done to make the changes apply. It would also be a really good idea to

Re: mail server setup

2003-09-14 Thread Technical Director
Aaron, First question you might want to answer is can I solve the relaying problem on the system I have now? Certainly SCO Unix is ugly to me, but if it is working and your time is as limited as the rest you might be best to upgrade to the lastest version of Sendmail. It not only fixes the

Re: 486SX, 100MB HDD - need FreeBSD, how?

2003-09-14 Thread Technical Director
Alex, If your 486SX has a floppy that works then you are okay. FreeBSD will install from 2 floppies, takes a little longer but still works. This IS based upon the assumption that you either have: a) A CD-ROM on your 486SX and a FreeBSD CD-ROM. b) A network card (or similar device eg: ppp)

Re: 486SX, 100MB HDD - need FreeBSD, how?

2003-09-14 Thread Technical Director
, thank's. - Original Message - From: Technical Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alex Zivenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:21 PM Subject: Re: 486SX, 100MB HDD - need FreeBSD, how? Alex, If your 486SX has a floppy that works

Re: usbdevs

2003-08-29 Thread Technical Director
Alan, Do you get ugen# announcements for generic usb devices on boot up? eg: ugen0: Some Device, rev #, addr # R. On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Alan Batie wrote: I've just installed FreeBSD 4.8 Release from the cd's. There's a 4 port USB card plugged in, with a Logitech USB mouse, a USB Serial

Re: IPFW ICMP

2003-08-26 Thread Technical Director
Hello, Someone correct me if I am wrong, but, snort as with other traffic shapers and dumpers take actual traffic from the network card prior to the firewall/kernel getting it. The rule is in place and as long as you see numbers in the first two columns in the following command: ipfw -a l

Re: IPFW ICMP

2003-08-26 Thread Technical Director
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Technical Director wrote: Hello, ipfw -a l [INSERT_YOUR_FW_RULE_FOR_ICMP_BLOCKING] INSERT_YOUR_FW_RULE_FOR_ICMP_BLOCK is the rule ID Number. below is it as well... :) # 0 2300 deny icmp from any to me via ed0 Just to clarify. R

Re: Formatting a floppy - Help required.

2003-08-25 Thread Technical Director
Hello, Usually any type of floppy error can be associated with a 'bad' floppy. If you've ever taken a floppy apart you will quickly realize that the magnetic surface of the floppy has the feel and consistency of tissue paper. As well the majority of floppies are treated, myself included, as

Re: logitech usb camera driver and setup howto

2003-08-22 Thread Technical Director
jens, As far as I know there is no current running application or device driver for the USB Camera from Logitech. They (Logitech) have not been forthcoming with their support for other operating systems then the usual. The SDK's are for Win32 systems and don't really help too much besides give

Re: your mail

2003-08-15 Thread Technical Director
J, I had the same problem for a while and gave up on the floppies. I created a bootable CD-ROM and booted from it through the SRM console. There are bootable ISO's in the ALPHA/ directory on the ftp.freebsd.org (and mirrors) server. In the SRM I found out which drive was the CD-ROM and told the

Re: Finding your dynamic external IP

2003-08-04 Thread Technical Director
Hello, AFAIK in 4.#(.#) releases, /var/db/dhclient.leases also has the current IP in a block format: eg: lease { interface de0; fixed-address X.X.X.X; on and on ... } NOTE: When a new address is assigned it is appended to the end of the leases file. R. On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, David S.

Re: sendmail configuration

2003-08-04 Thread Technical Director
Hello, Are you using the default sendmail included with your copy of FreeBSD or have you installed a http://www.sendmail.org/ source/binary? If so (sendmail.org) you may want to return to the installation directory/cf/cf and attend your changes to the file sendmail.mc there and rerun the make