Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-07 Thread Andy Holyer
On 6 Jul 2004, at 11:36, Erik Trulsson wrote: If you go back a bit further in time there was the Great Worm of 1988, which targeted VAX and Sun3 systems running BSD code, and which actually did bring down most of the Internet at the time. That was the incident that got people in the Unix

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:08:17AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Remember, this is not Windows, where everything is free and you have to share your personal data with the world :P ITYM nothing is free, except other people's access to your data. In short, I've heard of no viruses that

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-07-06 10:43, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, I've heard of no viruses that affect BSDs during the last 7-8 years that I'm using a BSD Unix at home and work. The only malware that ever achieved any sort of world prominence was the Scalper worm, which exploited the

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:43:03AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:08:17AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Remember, this is not Windows, where everything is free and you have to share your personal data with the world :P ITYM nothing is free, except other

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-07-06 12:36, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you go back a bit further in time there was the Great Worm of 1988, which targeted VAX and Sun3 systems running BSD code, and which actually did bring down most of the Internet at the time. That was the incident that got people in

A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-05 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hello, Questions: 1. What is the command for ejecting the cdrom? 2. Do you know if viruses exist in freebsd, like in Windows? 3. When I issued a netstat command, and i see something like 192.135.15... connected to 192.262.33..., what is the command for terminating such connections? 4. When

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-05 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:23:20AM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hello, Questions: 1. What is the command for ejecting the cdrom? # cdcontrol eject 2. Do you know if viruses exist in freebsd, like in Windows? In about 6 years of using FreeBSD I've never heard of one, or had a

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-05 Thread Gary
Hi Nathan, --On Monday, July 05, 2004 11:24:24 AM -0600 Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. When I issued a netstat command, and i see something like 192.135.15... connected to 192.262.33..., what is the command for terminating such connections? I'm not sure that this is possible? do a

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-05 Thread Phil Schulz
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hello, Questions: 1. What is the command for ejecting the cdrom? I don't think there is such a command. I'm not 100% sure though. 2. Do you know if viruses exist in freebsd, like in Windows? I believe there used to be some viri for Unix-like OSs, but they are all

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-05 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 20:01:42 +0200 Phil Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: 4. When I issued a alias ls ls -FGh how can I make this alias for 'ls' permanent? And where are the individual manpages for those built-in commands located? Check your shell's man

Ext2FS (was Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind))

2004-07-05 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Phil Schulz wrote: Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: 5. Does any version of freebsd supports mounting, reading, and writing of ext3fs partitions of linux? No. Maybe. ext2fs is supposed to be ext3fs with journalling, and ext2fs can be mounted with mount_ext2fs. I could swear I've

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-07-05 09:23, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. What is the command for ejecting the cdrom? # cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 eject The `cdcontrol' command works fine with my ATAPI CD-ROMs. I haven't used it with SCSI CD-ROM devices, but AFAIK it works for those too. 2.

Re: Ext2FS (was Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind))

2004-07-05 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Warren, Maybe. ext2fs is supposed to be ext3fs with journalling, and ext2fs can be mounted with mount_ext2fs. I could swear I've done this with ext3fs partitions, but can't recall when or where. IIRC, ext3 can only be mounted as ext2 as long as the partition is marked clean. HTH... Nico

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-07-05 20:01, Phil Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: 2. Do you know if viruses exist in freebsd, like in Windows? I believe there used to be some viri for Unix-like OSs, but they are all pretty much harmless since they aren't usually found 'in the wild'. A

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 11:24:24 -0600 Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7. What is the correct way of rebuilding my ports? In freebsd sources, I do a make buildworld and then make installworld. How do I do it in my ports collection? (e.g; make buildports, make installports??? :-)

Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

2004-07-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:58:22 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-07-05 09:23, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. What is the command for ejecting the cdrom? # cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 eject The `cdcontrol' command works fine with my ATAPI CD-ROMs.