Re: Looking for a good multiple protocol proxy!!

2004-01-31 Thread Cordula's Web
I am looking for a proxy server that has the following features. /usr/ports/net/delegate. It doesn't support everything, but is good enough for most day to day tasks. YMMV. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: anonymous ftp

2004-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:49:12AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: I'm setting up an anonymous ftp server. I understand that a user named ftp can log in without a password, and that anonymous is an alias for user ftp. What I'm wondering is if it is possible to assign other aliases for ftp, let us

Redirect text from stdout to a variable?

2004-01-31 Thread W. D.
Hey folks, Is it possible to redirect text from stdout to a variable? I do something like this and get the output on the screen: echo Some Text to be Encrypted | /usr/local/bin/gpg -a --always-trust --batch --no-secmem-warning -e -u GPG Tester -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] Most sites advise to do

Re: Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:24 am, slave-mike wrote: Jeff Elkins wrote: No responses on this yet, but I can hope :) Another issue: After changing the permissions on the /dev/pass* devices, following a reboot, they all reverted, rendering k3b useless. I'd appreciate some help...

Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?

2004-01-31 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:00:26PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx typed: Can you build Gentoo on a machine currently NOT running Linux? Yes, you can boot Gentoo from a live-cd, you extract a temporary Gentoo-system to your harddisk, chroot into it and start recompiling from there. This comes

Re: Redirect text from stdout to a variable?

2004-01-31 Thread Quintin Riis
In Bourne shell: blah=$(something | something) blah2=`blah -K 2 -z` Quintin W. D. wrote: Hey folks, Is it possible to redirect text from stdout to a variable? I do something like this and get the output on the screen: echo Some Text to be Encrypted | /usr/local/bin/gpg -a --always-trust

Re: One of your employees are very rude.

2004-01-31 Thread Quintin Riis
Guy, we have nothing to do with IRC channels, and if you look at the website, you will notice that they are not an official support avenue. Quintin lorink wrote: To whom it may concern, I just want to let the bsd team know this has been a great OS and it is meeting my needs

Re: ERROR: BOOTDIR environment variable

2004-01-31 Thread Rommel B. Ikeda
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Seaman wrote: | On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:21:32PM +0900, Rommel B. Ikeda wrote: | |I am trying to install Java from my /usr/ports/java/jdk13 ports. |The error message below came out and I do not know to do with it. | |ERROR: Your BOOTDIR

Re: PHP4 with GD build problem.

2004-01-31 Thread Jez Hancock
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 06:28:02PM -0800, Derrick MacPherson wrote: Freebsd 4.7, ports up to date. When I compile php4 with GD, I get this error: ext/gd/libgd/gdkanji.lo: In function `do_convert': ext/gd/libgd/gdkanji.lo(.text+0x57b): undefined reference to `iconv_open'

fbsd splash

2004-01-31 Thread marlon corleone
i have an entry in /boot/loader.conf what else do i have to add? do i have to put also an entry in loader.rc? splash_bmp_load=YES bitmap_load=YES bitmap_name=power_logo.bmp %sysctl kern.version kern.version: FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE-p1 #1: Fri Jan 30 23:30:38 PHT 2004 [EMAIL

MBR problem

2004-01-31 Thread Kjell B.
I just installed FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE (using the mini-install CD) on my laptop which already had Win XP Home + Win XP Pro on it. During partition definition I chose not to touch the MBR. (I wanted to make use of Windows boot.ini for booting into FreeBSD.) Nevertheless, whenever I boot I get

Re: RELENG_5_2

2004-01-31 Thread Steinar Bormer
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:04:47PM +0100, Steinar Bormer wrote: | | [14:02 pallotta steinab uname -rsvp | FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 28 13:15:30 CET 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PALLOTTA i386 | | Am I

power off needed after install FreeBSD 4.9

2004-01-31 Thread Ben Koopmanschap
Hello fbsd_user and all the other people! Yesterday I changed the connection of my hard disk to the primary controller. First it was connected as Cable Select (I thought it was slave but after opening my box it appeared to be connected as CS), so I changed the jumper setting of my Seagate

Re: Make Syntax

2004-01-31 Thread Peder Blom
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:38:54 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to run a 'clean' command to remove 'WORK' directories from the ports tree after the fact? If you want to clean a specific port (and its dependencies) just do a 'make clean' in its directory, or if you

tcp blackhole and ident

2004-01-31 Thread J.D. Bronson
I have a question. I setup the following in sysctl.conf: net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 ..Well this works, but now I have a new issue. I run sendmail and as such, need to allow TCP 113 into this machine and yet get CONNECTION REFUSED. - I dont want to run IDENT, but need to

Re: where am I supposed to put my rc.firewall?

2004-01-31 Thread Eric F Crist
On Friday 30 January 2004 11:02 pm, JJB wrote: How can it cause connections problems, you have never used it yet, so how can you say that. I HAVE used it, and it is cause, primarily, DNS request problems. DNS queries don't seem to have the ability to forward to other servers. Yes the rule

Re: tcp blackhole and ident

2004-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:32:36AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: I have a question. I setup the following in sysctl.conf: net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 ..Well this works, but now I have a new issue. I run sendmail and as such, need to allow TCP 113 into this machine and

Re: Make Syntax

2004-01-31 Thread Eric F Crist
On Friday 30 January 2004 11:43 pm, Chris wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 11:38 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: Is there any way to run a 'clean' command to remove 'WORK' directories from the ports tree after the fact? Sure - portsclean -CDD To find out what the flags are: man portsclean The

Re: tcp blackhole and ident

2004-01-31 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 07:39 AM 1/31/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:32:36AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: I have a question. I setup the following in sysctl.conf: net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 ..Well this works, but now I have a new issue. I run sendmail and as such,

Re: tcp blackhole and ident

2004-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:46:39AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: At 07:39 AM 1/31/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: Run ipfw(8) or a similar firewall and set up a rule that sends an ICMP reject whenever it detects an incoming connection on port 113 as part of your firewall configuration. Eg.

Transferring the root filesystem to a ramdisk?

2004-01-31 Thread Cordula's Web
Hello, in an attempt to save power on FreeBSD servers, I'm trying to replace the hdd with a ramdisk. The idea is to: 1. boot from the hdd (or netboot from an NFS server) 2. configure a ram disk (md(4)) 3. copy everything that's needed to ram disk 4. transfer kernel root to ramdisk (*)

Re: Transferring the root filesystem to a ramdisk?

2004-01-31 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
I'm probably in over my head here, but; chroot should change the root filesystem for you. (look in the manpages for more details) As for powering down the hdd I did find a page for this, but havent had time to play with it yet: http://www.cran.org.uk/bruce/software.php best of luck! Hello, in an

Re: where am I supposed to put my rc.firewall?

2004-01-31 Thread Peder Blom
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:47:47 -0600 Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 06:54 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: I'm trying to add IPFW support. Where do I put my rc.firewall so that it gets read at boot time? I've tried /usr/local/etc/rc.d and

NFS performances on 5.1

2004-01-31 Thread Jacques Beigbeder
On a same Ethernet 100 LAN, I have several Unix and an NFS Solaris fileserver. On these Unix, I tried: time dd=/fileserver/aFile of=/fileserver/otherFile bs=32768 On each try, I use new files, to avoid the impact of file caching. I measured the time spent and the number of Ethernet

Being able to Program C++ with FreeBSD4.x

2004-01-31 Thread alphonso williams
I have a I386 mechine running FreeBSD 4.x and I will be upgraded shortly to 5.x, but I would like to know if I am able to program and compile using FreeBSD. I've never tried with 4.x and I would like to get into re-introducing myself to the C++ lanuage... Need to know fast... Thanks, AL

Re: Make Syntax

2004-01-31 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Rishi Chopra wrote: Is there any way to run a 'clean' command to remove 'WORK' directories from the ports tree after the fact? Sure. # make install clean actually does several steps; you can separate them by just using the individual make targets. To clean a port and

Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?

2004-01-31 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Edmund Craske [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that the procedure shown will likely break your system if you're upgrading from 5.1 or earlier, so do: shutdown -r now then boot into single user mode, as described in the handbook, instead of shutdown now. I guess this teaches me not to try to

asking for help

2004-01-31 Thread faina bogdan
Hello, my name is Bogdan Faina and I wote you a couple oof times regarding to the HDF5 instalation. I read the notes abot this matter and I tried to install first only the precompiled binaries for freebsd_4.9 but I've fount out that in the ports packages exists the HD5 latest version available

Re: where am I supposed to put my rc.firewall?

2004-01-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Peder Blom wrote: [ ... ] Add this to your rc.conf: (instead of firewall_type=...): firewall_script=/etc/grog.firewall See /etc/defaults/rc.conf ! While I won't speak against looking at /etc/defaults/rc.conf, setting firewall_type works fine; see the end of /etc/rc.firewall: *) if [ -r

RE: Being able to Program C++ with FreeBSD4.x

2004-01-31 Thread Colin J. Raven
+ I have a I386 mechine running FreeBSD 4.x and I will be + upgraded shortly to 5.x, but I would like to know if I am + able to program and compile using FreeBSD. I've never tried + with 4.x and I would like to get into re-introducing myself + to the C++ lanuage... As long as you have a

Re: NFS performances on 5.1

2004-01-31 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Saturday 31 January 2004 16:02, Jacques Beigbeder wrote: time dd=/fileserver/aFile of=/fileserver/otherFile bs=32768 NFS clienttime# pkts === === == Solaris 3.11s 2296 Linux Redhat9 2.42s 1929 FreeBSD

Re: Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-31 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:31, Jeff Elkins wrote: That succeeded in freezing the permissions from boot to boot, but I still get the error cd9660: /dev/cd0: Device not configured when I try to mount a cd via the passthrough device: mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /cdrom I _can_ mount cds using

Re: apache is seg faulting. why ?

2004-01-31 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Friday 30 January 2004 13:40, julien Beauviala wrote: the following : pid 72041 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72040 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72099 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72039 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 74202 (httpd), uid

Re: apache is seg faulting. why ?

2004-01-31 Thread Jon-Eirik Pettersen
Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 13:40, julien Beauviala wrote: the following : pid 72041 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72040 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72099 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72039 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid

Re: apache is seg faulting. why ?

2004-01-31 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Saturday 31 January 2004 17:36, Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote: Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 13:40, julien Beauviala wrote: the following : pid 72041 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72040 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72099 (httpd), uid 80: exited on

FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x doesn't find hard drives to install to! [SATA]

2004-01-31 Thread Daniel Butler
Hello: I have an Intel S875WP1-E MOBO and two Seagate 120 gig drives. Every time I try to install FreeBSD, I can get to the part to partition drives but it doesn't find any! I went into BIOS and set it up for Legacy mode, but still no go. Anyone else seen this issue?

Re: Errors

2004-01-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Gilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just installed FreeBSD 4.6 and included linux compatibility. I then tried to install a linux program and received the following errors:error: failed error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by TIVsm-API-5.2.0-0

Re: FreeBSD 5.2: How do I automatically restart twm with the Default session?

2004-01-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anthony Discolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Everytime I log in twm asks me to load the Default session. Is there any way I can have it automatically load it (maybe something in the ~/.twmrc)? I've also run into problems with reloading the Default session. Sometimes twm dumps core. If I

Re: fbsd splash

2004-01-31 Thread Jorn Argelo
Have you compiled VESA and Splash support in your kernel as well? Cheers, Jorn - Original Message - From: marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:32 PM Subject: fbsd splash i have an entry in /boot/loader.conf what else do i have to

Root pwd and single user mode question

2004-01-31 Thread Patrick Wilcox
I loaded FreeBSD on one of my old PCs a few years ago. I wanted to start using it again, but I can't remember what the root password was. I'm sure I used the default, but I tried hitting enter and using password, root, r00t, sysadmin, admin and a few others to no avail. Can anyone tell me some

Re: FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x doesn't find hard drives to install to! [SATA]

2004-01-31 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Daniel Butler wrote: Hello: I have an Intel S875WP1-E MOBO and two Seagate 120 gig drives. Every time I try to install FreeBSD, I can get to the part to partition drives but it doesn't find any! I went into BIOS and set it up for Legacy mode, but still no go. Anyone else seen this issue?

Re: Root pwd and single user mode question

2004-01-31 Thread Scott Kupferschmidt
It's boot -s and then you can passwd root Sincerely, Scott Kupferschmidt ISPrime, Inc. 866.502.4678 ext. 3 AIM: Scott ISPrime - ICQ: 174337249 On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Patrick Wilcox wrote: I loaded FreeBSD on one of my old PCs a few years ago. I wanted to start using it again, but I can't

Re: Root pwd and single user mode question

2004-01-31 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:33 am, Patrick Wilcox wrote: I loaded FreeBSD on one of my old PCs a few years ago. I wanted to start using it again, but I can't remember what the root password was. I'm sure I used the default, but I tried

Re: FreeBSD 5.2: How do I automatically restart twm with the Default session?

2004-01-31 Thread Anthony Discolo
Yes, this is the default twm that comes with 5.2. I was not using a ~/.twmrc or a ~/.xsession. I figured out that twm dumps core when it is restarted by xsm. I also learned that it's xsm that puts up the session dialog, and that xsm -session Default automatically starts the Default session

Slow bootstrapping

2004-01-31 Thread Roland Hammerle
Hello, I recently installed FreeBSD 5.2 on the first primary partition of my second hard drive. The other partitions a few logical partitions containing Linux and a fat primary partition. After installation everything went fine. Booting was fast as usual. Then I changed the layout of the

Re: NFS performances on 5.1

2004-01-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:02:21PM +0100, Jacques Beigbeder wrote: On a same Ethernet 100 LAN, I have several Unix and an NFS Solaris fileserver. On these Unix, I tried: time dd=/fileserver/aFile of=/fileserver/otherFile bs=32768 On each try, I use new files, to avoid the impact of file

Re: Root pwd and single user mode question

2004-01-31 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Saturday 31 January 2004 18:33, Patrick Wilcox wrote: I loaded FreeBSD on one of my old PCs a few years ago. I wanted to start using it again, but I can't remember what the root password was. I'm sure I used the default, but I tried hitting enter and using password, root, r00t, sysadmin,

Re: File Corruption

2004-01-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Randy Grafton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ourselves through ftp/sftp and sure enough the file is no longer functional and we'll have to replace it with another copy. I googled and searched the lists but have only found tips regarding speeding up http downloads, (reverting to the current Apache

Re: Memory leak on 5.1-RELEASE?

2004-01-31 Thread Jorn Argelo
Are you sure that there isn't anything else running? Why don't you give us an ps -ax output? I don't think there's a memory leak in 5.1, since I've seen running 5.1 just fine on a PE2650 with 2 GB RAM. You shouldn't rely on top too much acually. Vmstat is a better program when looking at memory.

Re: Building JDK14

2004-01-31 Thread Jorn Argelo
I didn't mount linprocfs when I compiled blackdown-java actually. Also I (always) type make all install clean. I don't know if that matters or not though. But other then that I didn't do anything else then you did. Cheers, Jorn - Original Message - From: Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x doesn't find hard drives to install to! [SATA]

2004-01-31 Thread Daniel Butler
KDK: Thanks for the tip. I think I misunderstood what Legacy meant :) As a matter of fact, I don't see the hard drives in the BIOS anywhere! I know the company that put the computer together said they got XP running on it, so I tend to think it worked at one point. I'm downloading RedHat 8

Re: where am I supposed to put my rc.firewall?

2004-01-31 Thread Peder Blom
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:50:19 -0500 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peder Blom wrote: [ ... ] Add this to your rc.conf: (instead of firewall_type=...): firewall_script=/etc/grog.firewall See /etc/defaults/rc.conf ! While I won't speak against looking at /etc/defaults/rc.conf,

Re: Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:25 am, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:31, Jeff Elkins wrote: That succeeded in freezing the permissions from boot to boot, but I still get the error cd9660: /dev/cd0: Device not configured when I try to mount a cd via the passthrough

Wine under 4.8

2004-01-31 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Has anyone had any success running Wine under FreeBSD 4.8? NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. jm -- My other computer is your windows box. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Building JDK14

2004-01-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
I think it may be a 5.2/JDK 1.4 issue - I installed jdk1.3 and it's working - the compile for a native 1.3jdk is running now... Jeff On Sunday 01 February 2004 12:45 pm, Jorn Argelo wrote: I didn't mount linprocfs when I compiled blackdown-java actually. Also I (always) type make all install

Re: NFS performances on 5.1

2004-01-31 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Saturday 31 January 2004 17:11, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 16:02, Jacques Beigbeder wrote: time dd=/fileserver/aFile of=/fileserver/otherFile bs=32768 NFS client time# pkts === === == Solaris 3.11s

most used programs

2004-01-31 Thread paul
Was wondering what everyones most used programs are or programs you just can't live without ( just looking for some new toys to play with) Best regards -Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: most used programs

2004-01-31 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Saturday 31 January 2004 19:07, paul wrote: Was wondering what everyones most used programs are or programs you just can't live without ( just looking for some new toys to play with) Best regards -Paul lft (from ports (net)) ___ [EMAIL

Re: Make Syntax

2004-01-31 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:45 am, Eric F Crist wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 11:43 pm, Chris wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 11:38 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: Is there any way to run a 'clean' command to remove 'WORK' directories from the ports tree after the fact? Sure -

Re: most used programs

2004-01-31 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
paul wrote: Was wondering what everyones most used programs are or programs you just can't live without ( just looking for some new toys to play with) Best regards -Paul Might be better posted to chat@; but you might get some answers here...of course, you may also get flamed ;-) I also

Re: L2TP server?

2004-01-31 Thread luke
Hi all, I searched the archive and didn't find any relevant information. Here is my situation: I have a FreeBSD box running as my gateway/firewall at home. I want to set up a VPN connection from my laptop (in office) to the router via public Internet. My laptop runs Mac OS X 10.3 and supports

finger information

2004-01-31 Thread J.D. Bronson
(I dont run finger to the outside..only within the machine itself). I am running 4.9 and noticed that finger will not resolve internal IPs whereas it will resolve external IPs sorta... For example: # finger testacct Login: testacct Name: Test Account Directory:

Re: MBR problem

2004-01-31 Thread Kjell B.
Kjell B. wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE (using the mini-install CD) on my laptop which already had Win XP Home + Win XP Pro on it. During partition definition I chose not to touch the MBR. (I wanted to make use of Windows boot.ini for booting into FreeBSD.) Nevertheless, whenever

Re: about logo (The Beasdie question)

2004-01-31 Thread Mark Terribile
Bubble Gum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to ask (i'm sorry if it's a silly question),why freebsd logo use devil character? Answered by Paul A. Hoadley and Peter Ulrich Kruppa: It's not a devil. It's a daemon. === 1) It isn't a devil but a small daemon, ... programs called

Re: Transferring the root filesystem to a ramdisk?

2004-01-31 Thread Cordula's Web
in an attempt to save power on FreeBSD servers, I'm trying to replace the hdd with a ramdisk. The idea is to: 1. boot from the hdd (or netboot from an NFS server) 2. configure a ram disk (md(4)) 3. copy everything that's needed to ram disk 4. transfer kernel root to ramdisk

Re: where am I supposed to put my rc.firewall?

2004-01-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Peder Blom wrote: I've never done it this way, but in this case I assume that you just define the rules in '/etc/ERICS_firewall', thus: -- add 100 pass all from any to any via lo0 add 200 deny all from any to 127.0.0.0/8 add 300 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any add 600 allow all from

Re: most used programs

2004-01-31 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/31/04 01:07 PM, paul sat at the `puter and typed: Was wondering what everyones most used programs are or programs you just can't live without ( just looking for some new toys to play with) Best regards -Paul Mutt, vim, xterm, gkrellm. Oh, and of course, fvwm2. -- Louis LeBlanc

Re: most used programs

2004-01-31 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote paul thusly... Was wondering what everyones most used programs are or programs you just can't live without ( just looking for some new toys to play with) To perpetuate a useless thread, i cannot live w/o ... acroread5, asapm, awk, bash2, bitstream vera

Re: asking for help

2004-01-31 Thread clayton rollins
Hi Bogdan, On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:46:47 -0800 (PST) faina bogdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, my name is Bogdan Faina and I wote you a couple oof times regarding to the HDF5 instalation. I read the notes abot this matter and I tried to install first only the precompiled binaries for

Xheretic - broken pipe???

2004-01-31 Thread Alex Zivenko
I have ported heretic on my FreeBSD. It's running, but when it's loading - it gives me an error bash-2.05b$ ./xheretic ==== == HERETIC v1.0.4 == ==

quota! but on the wrong fs :-(

2004-01-31 Thread stefan
Hi, Got quota working on another web server and wanted to get it working on a development/shell server that is kinda new. I forgot that i needed /home mounted on it's own like /dev/ar0s4e /usr/home ufs rw,userquota2 2 for example but i just have / mounted so now

Re: Redirect text from stdout to a variable?

2004-01-31 Thread W. D.
At 05:27 1/31/2004, Quintin Riis wrote: In Bourne shell: blah=$(something | something) blah2=`blah -K 2 -z` Quintin Thanks, Quintin! My problem is that when I try to do something like that, I get something like this: Cannot execute using backquotes in safe mode Any other

Re: about logo

2004-01-31 Thread Jez Hancock
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:56:05PM -0800, Bubble Gum wrote: I just want to ask (i'm sorry if it's a silly question),why freebsd logo use devil character? You might find the following link interesting: http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html :P There was also a funny post on the list that

Re: quota! but on the wrong fs :-(

2004-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:57:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Got quota working on another web server and wanted to get it working on a development/shell server that is kinda new. I forgot that i needed /home mounted on it's own like /dev/ar0s4e /usr/home ufs

scroll lock vs shift page up keys usage

2004-01-31 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hi, (fbsd novice using bash2) I switched from csh to bash2 today. I was wondering if it is possible under bash2 to scroll the screens in the ttyv0-6 consoles with shift page up and shift page down. In csh I've always used Scroll lock but I thought under bash it is possible. When under X with

Re: scroll lock vs shift page up keys usage

2004-01-31 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Saturday 31 January 2004 21:29, Didier Wiroth wrote: Hi, (fbsd novice using bash2) I switched from csh to bash2 today. I was wondering if it is possible under bash2 to scroll the screens in the ttyv0-6 consoles with shift page up and shift page down. In csh I've always used Scroll lock

Re: where am I supposed to put my rc.firewall?

2004-01-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jack L. Stone wrote: At 02:04 PM 1.31.2004 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: # set these to your inside interface network and netmask and ip #define IIF fxp0 #define INET 10.1.1.0/24 #define IIP 10.1.1.1 [ ...OIF info snipped... ] # port number ranges #define LOPORTS 1-1023 #define HIPORTS

Re: Xheretic - broken pipe???

2004-01-31 Thread Karel J. Bosschaart
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:30:51AM +0200, Alex Zivenko wrote: I have ported heretic on my FreeBSD. It's running, but when it's loading - it gives me an error bash-2.05b$ ./xheretic snip S_Init: Setting up sound. SB_Init: Loading patches. I_InitGraphics: using 16bit truecolor visual Using

Re: portsdb -U fails

2004-01-31 Thread r t g tan
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:28:26PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:51:43PM +0100, r t g tan wrote: Hi, Have done at least the following: 1 - fresh ports cvsup for all the ports 2 - rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db 3 - pkgdb -F However portsdb -U fails and

Building a custom release, not working

2004-01-31 Thread Chad M Stewart
I'm starting down the road of creating a firewall appliance using FreeBSD. An automated, hands off installation is a key component of this. I have to start somewhere and figured I would start with building my own release. Using that as an exercise to become familiar with how the process

Re: Mouse Wheel in X

2004-01-31 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Saturday 31 January 2004 18:49, Jammet wrote: Im running 4.9 right now, and i have a Logitech Trackman for a mouse. My current XFree86Config file looks like this with the mouse section Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option Protocol Auto

Re: Memory leak on 5.1-RELEASE?

2004-01-31 Thread dpk
Here's the top output from this morning: Mem: 1300M Active, 292M Inact, 295M Wired, 104M Cache, 112M Buf, 5116K Free Swap: 1024M Total, 8036K Used, 1016M Free At this time there are ~130 processes, whereas in the previous one there were ~76, with more memory marked as Active. vmstat says this:

Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP

2004-01-31 Thread Jud
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:09:49 -0600, greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 08:48, Mark Phillips wrote: [... snip ...] Hi Greg, I've just rebooted back into SUSE from FreeBSD. I use Grub to boot them both, and Win2k (for how often it gets used, I might as well dump it ;-)) I can

Re: FreeBSD 5.2: How do I automatically restart twm with the Default session?

2004-01-31 Thread Anthony Discolo
This is the twm that comes with 5.2. These problems occured when I was not using a ~/.twmrc or ~/.xsession. I found that there is some problem with xsm restarting twm within a session. I tried everything I could think of but twm always dumps core when its restarted by xsm. Twm only works

Re: MBR problem

2004-01-31 Thread Ryan Merrick
Kjell B. wrote: Kjell B. wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE (using the mini-install CD) on my laptop which already had Win XP Home + Win XP Pro on it. During partition definition I chose not to touch the MBR. (I wanted to make use of Windows boot.ini for booting into FreeBSD.)

Power off

2004-01-31 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
Hi. I used to run poweroff on RH Linux. Now I'm under FreeBSD 4.9 and I can't turn power off - I have to push button by my hand after running halt that prints that system has halted and ready to reboot. Is there any way to turn power off by software? Please. Yuri (CC to my email)

NFS exports and netgroups

2004-01-31 Thread Matt Weatherford
Hi, I cant seem to find a good example of an NFS exports file for freebsd that uses a netgroup to restrict mount access to a group of machines. Can anyone shoot me a netgroup example file I could look at? Ideally, the example would allow rw access to both a netgroup and an IP range like:

Re: Building a custom release, not working

2004-01-31 Thread Luke Johannsen
On Jan 31, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Chad M Stewart wrote: I'm starting down the road of creating a firewall appliance using FreeBSD. An automated, hands off installation is a key component of this. I have to start somewhere and figured I would start with building my own release. Using that as an

SSL Security

2004-01-31 Thread Pierre Leblanc
I'd like to know how to generate the key I need to request an SSL certificate from Thawte for my FreeBSD web server. Can you tell me where I can find this information? Thanks! Pierre LeBlanc, Directeur Développement [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nexus

Re: Power off

2004-01-31 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Saturday 31 January 2004 23:36, Yuri Grebenkin wrote: Hi. I used to run poweroff on RH Linux. Now I'm under FreeBSD 4.9 and I can't turn power off - I have to push button by my hand after running halt that prints that system has halted and ready to reboot. Is there any way to turn power

Re: Power off

2004-01-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Yuri Grebenkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I used to run poweroff on RH Linux. Now I'm under FreeBSD 4.9 and I can't turn power off - I have to push button by my hand after running halt that prints that system has halted and ready to reboot. Is there any way to turn power off by software?

What hostname should I set?

2004-01-31 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
Hi. I am a full time FreeBSD user at home and all I need from networking is dialup via modem to my ISP. I get my IP dynamically and thus it may vary from call to call. I have migrated to FreeBSD from RH Linux some time ago. RH installation procedure sets hostname and domain as 'localhost' and

Re: Building a custom release, not working

2004-01-31 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Saturday 31 January 2004 22:06, Chad M Stewart wrote: I printed off the FreeBSD Release Engineering document and read through it. I then proceeded to create a local copy of the CVS tree. And did you checkout /usr/src with that local copy? And did you do a make buildworld, to populate

Re: NFS performances on 5.1

2004-01-31 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Saturday 31 January 2004 19:03, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 17:11, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: Did you read the notes in src/UPDATING saying: NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW: Could you pleas explain that numbers? No, because you also failed to

Re: Memory leak on 5.1-RELEASE?

2004-01-31 Thread Jorn Argelo
How large are you MySQL databases? I suppose a large and intensly-used database eats away quite some RAM. What services is the inetd giving? You can disable some of your shells by editing the /etc/ttys file, saves some RAM as well, but it won't really make a difference when you have such a

Re: SSL Security

2004-01-31 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_faq.html#ToC28 Ken Bolingbroke [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Pierre Leblanc wrote: I'd like to know how to generate the key I need to request an SSL certificate from Thawte for my FreeBSD web server. Can you tell me where I can find this

Re: Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-31 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Saturday 31 January 2004 18:54, Jeff Elkins wrote: I _can_ mount cds using the /dev/acd* devices, while using the /dev/cd* devices for writing. Is this the way atapi cdrws are supposed to work under freebsd? So, is cam compiled into the kernel? Do you have the xpt SCSI driver?

Re: NFS performances on 5.1

2004-01-31 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Sunday 01 February 2004 00:26, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 19:03, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 17:11, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: Did you read the notes in src/UPDATING saying: NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW: Could you

Re: Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 31 January 2004 6:35 pm, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 18:54, Jeff Elkins wrote: I _can_ mount cds using the /dev/acd* devices, while using the /dev/cd* devices for writing. Is this the way atapi cdrws are supposed to work under freebsd? So, is cam

Create a package index

2004-01-31 Thread Daniela
Hi list! I'm creating a custom installation CD-ROM (4.9-R). I have downloaded a subset of the available packages, but the problem is: I don't know how to automatically create the index for them, and make the symlinks in the appropriate directories. Daniela

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