Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:33:34AM -0500, Crucial Servers wrote: Hi, I need some advice on steps for upgrading a very valueble machine. This machine has an uptime of 393 days. I need to install a secure version of curl this is our main focus right now. FreeBSD 3.5 ports collection is very

Re: rc script timing issues?

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Shaun T. Erickson wrote: On 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1, in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I have scripts that start my MySQL database, and that start my Courier-IMAP daemons. When the scripts for courier run, one of the first things they do is start authdaemond, which should fire up several authdaemond.mysql

Re: Cron job without emailing errors to root?

2004-03-10 Thread Khairil Yusof
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 21:25 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am wondering is, is if there is a way to still have the entries in me /etc/crontab to run MRTG at 5 minute intervals without having any output emailed out. can i make it come out to concole instead? anything to get it from

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5

2004-03-10 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:33:34 -0500 Crucial Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need some advice on steps for upgrading a very valueble machine. This machine has an uptime of 393 days. I need to install a secure version of curl this is our main focus right now. FreeBSD

Re: USB Driver Questions

2004-03-10 Thread admin2
I figured it out. To dynamically load/unload the driver it has to be excluded from the kernel config. Only then will the kld* tools allow to manipulate the module. Chris On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one force the use of a particular driver for a USB device without

Re: rc script timing issues?

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Peter Risdon wrote: Shaun T. Erickson wrote: On 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1, in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I have scripts that start my MySQL database, and that start my Courier-IMAP daemons. When the scripts for courier run, one of the first things they do is start authdaemond, which should fire up several

Re: upgrade kde

2004-03-10 Thread Frank Mueller
Take a look at http://freebsd.kde.org There you'll find all information you need. Frank thank´s a lot, but this takes to long, or not? is there another way without a clean install? thank´s michael Chuck McManis schrieb: I found the easiest way was to start with a clean install, then

Re: upgrade kde

2004-03-10 Thread Michael Hollmann
thank´s, portupgrade -P kde that´s all what i need? is there anything else to do? regards michael Frank Mueller schrieb: Take a look at http://freebsd.kde.org There you'll find all information you need. Frank thank´s a lot, but this takes to long, or not? is there another way without a clean

Re: Per-User QUOTA's vs blocksize

2004-03-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:05:54PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:48:51PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: You may limit allocations based on disk space (block quotas) What exactly is the size of a block? As the quota system uses the term, a block is 512b -- this

Re: accessing FreeBSD FS from NT or Windows

2004-03-10 Thread Quintin Riis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 VMWare. Quintin C. Kukulies wrote: | Anyone knowing a way to access a FreeBSD partition/FS from a booted | NT or other Windows system? | | -- | Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de |

Re: Cron job without emailing errors to root?

2004-03-10 Thread Quintin Riis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 See documentation for crontab. ``MAILTO='' should do what you want, or send all output from command to /dev/null, i.e. command /dev/null Quintin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | A quick question-- | I run MRTG for many boxes on my network at five minute

RE: Howto for

2004-03-10 Thread Remko Lodder
Hi, Try searchin google, mgetty+sendfax howto gave some hits (3700) Perhaps there is something usefull for you between those. Have a look Cheers :) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene

Re: Recycled cd's

2004-03-10 Thread Alexei Khalimov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello there! I can send you 2.2.6 release 4CD box, if you wish =) - -- My PGP public key is avaible at: http://www.divo.ru/~lesha/4A2620A5.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD)

Re: ntpd question

2004-03-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:49:53PM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: I run ntpd to keep my server's time in sync with a remote server. In my netstat -a output, I see: Active Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state)

Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to know if I wanted to donate, or words to that affect. In any case, would that refer to

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to know if I wanted to

(Marty Landman) We do not process mail for spammers - using FROM ADDRESS

2004-03-10 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Hi all, Today I recieved another mail with the subject: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed. It seems that there a number of ppl on this list who think that they can look at the from address and see if someone is a spammer or not. I thougth that everybody on his list should know better

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Dan Pelleg
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to

Re: Recycled cd's

2004-03-10 Thread Quintin Riis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That has to be worth millions! Are you giving these away for free? :) Quintin Alexei Khalimov wrote: | | Hello there! | | I can send you 2.2.6 release 4CD box, if you wish =) | ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remote access in 5.1

2004-03-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 23:41, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:13:21PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: Since upgrading from 4.7 to 5.1, I can no longer open an xterm from another machine by setting the DISPLAY variable to point to the 5.1 machine. Is there some setting that is now

Re: Remote access in 5.1

2004-03-10 Thread Cordula's Web
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:13:21PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: Since upgrading from 4.7 to 5.1, I can no longer open an xterm from another machine by setting the DISPLAY variable to point to the 5.1 machine. Is there some setting that is now disabled by default for security? Other

Re: upgrade kde

2004-03-10 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:13 am, Michael Hollmann wrote: thank´s, portupgrade -P kde that´s all what i need? Probably not because I think you will need -PR kde for a first guess. In addition, that is a big jump going from 3.1 to 3.2. Whether you should pkg_delete kde-3.1 and add 3.2

Re: Recycled cd's

2004-03-10 Thread Mark Ovens
Quintin Riis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That has to be worth millions! If that's the case then I can retire as I've got boxed sets of 2.0.5, 2.2.5, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, and 3.1 here :-) I've also still got two sheets of FreeBSD stickers that Walnut Creek used to send with the

Strange cvsup problem

2004-03-10 Thread Da Shen
Hi, all folks: I use FreeBSD 4.7, and I have setup cvsup for updating my src-all, ports-all and doc-all, it worked fine before as I have used it for upgrading from 4.7 release to 4.7 stable. But after I changed supfile to force it update to 4.9 release, the cvsup stoped working and deleted all

Strange cvsup problem

2004-03-10 Thread Da Shen
Hi, all folks: I use FreeBSD 4.7, and I have setup cvsup for updating my src-all, ports-all and doc-all, it worked fine before as I have used it for upgrading from 4.7 release to 4.7 stable. But after I changed supfile to force it update to 4.9 release, the cvsup stoped working and deleted all

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:12:31 -0800 Jason Dictos [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Aren't the nodes /dev/ad[0-9] (ide) or /dev/da[0-9] (scsi/usb) created by their device drivers, i.e. protected mode device drives? That would mean that I would have to make sure that the hardware is supported by

RE: Firewall DSL performance

2004-03-10 Thread Darryl Hoar
Well, last night I changed the ipf.rules file to be: pass in all keep state pass out all keep state to completely open my firewall to test my performance. Well, it didn't make a lick of difference. Still got 700K. If I open the firewall like I did, shouldn't performance be a non issue ?

RE: Strange cvsup problem

2004-03-10 Thread Remko Lodder
Perhaps you should remove this: *default delete use-rel-suffix from your supfile. What i always do in case of troubles, mv /usr/src /usr/src.orig cvsup -g -L 2 $supfile so i always have a valid backup in case things go totally wrong :) Hope this helps you a bit, Cheers -- Kind regards,

Re: Jails and SSL..

2004-03-10 Thread adp
use SSL for several sites. With SSL we have to define one IP per site. Jails only have one IP. Is there a way around this other than just having one jail per SSL site? (I'd rather not do that!) Something I think I'm going to end up doing is running two jails: one for http, one for https.

RE: rc script timing issues?

2004-03-10 Thread Remko Lodder
I thought that under /usr/local/etc/rc.d every starts alphabetically (weird word :P) so you could try and start the mysql package as a_mysql.sh or something so that it is processed earlier on, i have exactly the same issue, my webservers etc all come up {using SQL, but SQL is started later on,

Re: web based configuration as root or equivalent

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Risdon
This is a bit belated, but I have been thinking along similar lines and hope this might be of assistance... Bjorn Eikeland wrote: På Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:27:21 -0600, skrev Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bjorn Eikeland wrote: I'm wanting to make a web based configuration

RE: Firewall DSL performance

2004-03-10 Thread Darryl Hoar
I didn't mean to imply that ipfilter itself had a performance problem, just that my configuration/hardware exhibited a performance problem once my DSL was boosted to 1.5Mb. There is a box on the side of my house that the fiber is connected to. It has a network port for testing. The tech

Enabling quotas

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am running 5.2.1 and trying to enable quotas, I see that I need to build and install my own custom kernel to support this? I read the Chapter 9 in the Handbook, but don't quite understand one thing. I can't seem to locate what changes I need to make to the new kernel configuration before

Restore command line options

2004-03-10 Thread Grant Peel
How about I post this again, without the typo's :-O Hi all, I recently had the opertunity to restore a clients mysql db as he had removed a bunch of needed data from his shopping cart. While the restore command worked OK I was wondering if there is a way to command line it a bit so as not to

Re: Enabling quotas

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Barten
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:00:50AM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I am running 5.2.1 and trying to enable quotas, I see that I need to build and install my own custom kernel to support this? I read the Chapter 9 in the Handbook, but don't quite understand one thing. I can't seem to locate

Re: Restore command line options

2004-03-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
How about I post this again, without the typo's :-O Hi all, I recently had the opertunity to restore a clients mysql db as he had removed a bunch of needed data from his shopping cart. While the restore command worked OK I was wondering if there is a way to command line it a bit so

Re: rc script timing issues?

2004-03-10 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Peter Risdon wrote: From man 8 rc.d: The scripts within each directory are executed in lexicographical order. If a specific order is required, numbers may be used as a prefix to the existing filenames, so for example 100.foo would be executed before 200.bar;

natd + ipfw - very slow internet for LAN users

2004-03-10 Thread Prodigy
Hi, i'm sharing internet to my local area network (LAN) users with my router. Everything would be fine, but internet is very slow. I tried to ping my ISP. Ping reply is ~50ms. It means, that internet for LAN users should be good enough, but it isn't. Ping reply in IRC is ~15 seconds. Then I

Re: ntpd question

2004-03-10 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Matthew Seaman wrote: Unfortuately if you're going to run ntpd, you can't get rid of these: ntpd(8) will automatically bind to all interfaces on the system, and there are no controls within ntpd to control that. Darn. Thanks for the suggestions! I was already controlling access to the port with

Re: Firewall DSL performance

2004-03-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:10:05AM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: Well, last night I changed the ipf.rules file to be: pass in all keep state pass out all keep state to completely open my firewall to test my performance. Well, it didn't make a lick of difference. Still got 700K. If I

Re: ntpd question

2004-03-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:49:53PM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: I run ntpd to keep my server's time in sync with a remote server. In my netstat -a output, I see: Active Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state)

kernel arp errors

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am running 5.2.1 with two NIC's, both connected to a Cisco switch with a Cisco router also connected to the switch for Internet connectivity. There are 5 eth ports on the router, one of them with an address assigned of 66.129.101.193/28 and another with 66.129.101.217/29, the other eth ports are

Re: Recycled cd's

2004-03-10 Thread Quintin Riis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aww! If I had more disposable income, I would purchase some. Nifty thing to have. Quintin Mark Ovens wrote: | Quintin Riis wrote: | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | That has to be worth millions! | | | | If that's the case

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
--Signature=_Wed__10_Mar_2004_08_12_00_+0300_m3U9Vu7vS=cMcNXd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:03:34 -0800 Jason Dictos [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: The situation is this, currently we

Re: Recycled cd's

2004-03-10 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 10:10 am, Quintin Riis wrote: Aww! If I had more disposable income, I would purchase some. Nifty thing to have. Quintin Mark Ovens wrote: | Quintin Riis wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | That has to be worth millions!

formail recipe

2004-03-10 Thread David Bear
Hope I'm not imposing too much on this group.. but since this group has a collection of the best, brightest, and generous.. I wonder if someone might have a formail recipe that would randomly select N messages from a mailbox of M messages? I have a spam corpus thats well over 1 and need to

IOCTL(SIOCIPFL6): Invalid Argument

2004-03-10 Thread Waif W. Urchin
Looking for some assistance, please: Working with FSBD 5.1. On reboot I see the following comment: ... Enabling ipfilter ioctl(SIOCIPFL6): Invalid Argument ... Google is mute on the subject except for listing where this item is used as a preprocessor directive. I have modified

Re: Restore command line options

2004-03-10 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have I missed some command line options here to avoide having to answer the perms and volume questions? I don't know, but the lang/expect port has one solution to running interactive programs non-interactively. See http://expect.nist.gov;. I think you can

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Dictos
The goal here is simply this: To be able to write to a systems hard drive with just bios support. I dont' want to have to deal with bundling every known ide/scsi/raid adapter driver in a bsd kernel. Here's something that I found though that may be exactly what I have been looking for:

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Dictos
DD's great and all, but I'm not talking about which method to use, I'm talking about a guaranteed way to access a device without having to rely on any device drivers. Take a look at this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lrmi/ This provides a dpmi style interface for linux and bsd, thats exactly

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Dictos
To Jason: take care not to *write* anything to the disk via int 13h. I still don't think I understand why you are using FreeBSD for this specific purpose. Why if you just spend time escaping from the OS? We actually _like_ protected mode, it allows us to be more flexible and our code doesn't

Re: formail recipe

2004-03-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I know what you mean. Mine's over 6700, and that's just since 1/1/04. I have no doubt whatsoever there are a good number of people here that have that beat several times over in the same period of time. What I do to trim mine down is just take the oldest messages out. Naturally, this can be

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:49:17AM -0800, Jason Dictos wrote: To Jason: take care not to *write* anything to the disk via int 13h. I still don't think I understand why you are using FreeBSD for this specific purpose. Why if you just spend time escaping from the OS? We actually _like_

corrupted boot loader

2004-03-10 Thread C.L. Lai [ALAN]
my boot loader is corrupted during improper shutdown, is there anyway i can fix it w/o having local access to the machine? thx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Dictos
Point well taken. -Jason -Original Message- From: Erik Trulsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:24 AM To: Jason Dictos Cc: 'Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko'; Dan Nelson; ''[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ' Subject: Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running On Wed, Mar 10, 2004

Re: natd + ipfw - very slow internet for LAN users

2004-03-10 Thread Prodigy
Ping to an ip address does not use DNS. What is response time when you use ping domain name? It's ~250ms for google.com and other domains (good enough too). I see you have forced ip address for your nic card connected to the public internet by using rc.conf statement. This looks wrong to me.

NIC-independent watchdog timeout on 5.2.1-R

2004-03-10 Thread Alan Gerber
Hey all, I'm trying to put 5.2.1-Release on my desktop at home, and I'm experiencing a couple of errors that have me confused. First, I get a number of module_register: module ???/??? already exists!\nModule ???/??? falied to register: 17 errors on startup (I'm including the dmesg output

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:35:48AM -0500, Dan Pelleg wrote: What would be useful is multiple (e.g. at least half a dozen) fast machines with good network connectivity. Individual machines aren't much help, I'm afraid. Thanks for the offer though. Just a thought - a distcc based

Newbie install goes well until...

2004-03-10 Thread Stewart Yaxley
I am installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 on an AMD 64 3000+, w/ 512Meg RAM. Booting from CDROM with the Boot CD (pulled from the FTP site as an ISO image, burned in Win XP). All the necessary hardware is detected without errors, I am able to get as far as partioning my drives (setup root, swap, /var,

Re: Per-User QUOTA's vs blocksize

2004-03-10 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, - Original Message - From: Scott Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: To Matthew Seaman Date: Wed, 10 Mar, 2004 09:56 GMT Subject: Re: Per-User QUOTA's vs blocksize On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:05:54PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:48:51PM +, Stacey

IPFW question

2004-03-10 Thread Nagy Lszl Zsolt
Hi! I'm using my own ip firewall (firewall_type=/etc/ipfw.conf) on my FreeBSD 5.2 system. My problem is, how can I reload the whole thing? The ipfw command is for creating and deleting individual rules. What I would like to do is to create profiles (different config files) and reload the

Server access using Samba from out side LAN.

2004-03-10 Thread samy lancher
Hey guys, I have a FreeBSD server and windows XP workstations in our LAN network.I use samba to access server files from XP machines. Very soon, I will be having a windows XP system outside our LAN that needs access to our FreeBSD server. Is there any way i can access the server data from

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to

Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.

2004-03-10 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher wrote: Hey guys, I have a FreeBSD server and windows XP workstations in our LAN network.I use samba to access server files from XP machines. Very soon, I will be having a windows XP system outside our LAN that needs access to our FreeBSD server. Is there any

Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.

2004-03-10 Thread samy lancher
Thanks for the reply. The XP system outside our LAN is not in another LAN. It is just an individual system. So does it work the same for this system. Could you please refer any good manual to achieve my goal. Thanks. Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher

Re: IPFW question

2004-03-10 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 10, 2004, at 1:52 PM, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: I'm using my own ip firewall (firewall_type=/etc/ipfw.conf) on my FreeBSD 5.2 system. My problem is, how can I reload the whole thing? Try sh /etc/rc.firewall, or ipfw -p /bin/cat /etc/ipfw.conf. If you are not on the console of the machine,

Re: IPFW question

2004-03-10 Thread Thomas Vogt
Hi ipfw flush # deletes all ipfw /etc/ipfw.conf # loads all regards Thomas Nagy Lszl Zsolt wrote: Hi! I'm using my own ip firewall (firewall_type=/etc/ipfw.conf) on my FreeBSD 5.2 system. My problem is, how can I reload the whole thing? The ipfw command is for creating and deleting individual

usb-serial adapter doesnt work

2004-03-10 Thread Macio Plona
Hello, Ive got laptop Toshiba Satellite A20-s103. There are no comms port, but 3 USBs. I need get to console to some server, so i purchased an USB-RS232 adapter. My system recognized it, but i cant `cu` or `tip` to any machine... :( Could somebody help me make it work? Part of `dmesg`: ugen0:

Re: IPFW question

2004-03-10 Thread Martin Welk
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:52:06PM +0100, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: FreeBSD 5.2 system. My problem is, how can I reload the whole thing? The /sbin/ipfw -q /path/to/your/custom/rulesetfile No RTFM intended - there are further options, plese have a look at the ipfw(8) man page. Regards,

Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.

2004-03-10 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher wrote: Thanks for the reply. The XP system outside our LAN is not in another LAN. It is just an individual system. So does it work the same for this system. Could you please refer any good manual to achieve my goal. There are IPSec clients that run

Re: IPFW question

2004-03-10 Thread MikeM
Since I reload the firewall rules remotely, I need the -q option on the ipfw command, e.g.: ipfw -q /etc/ipfw.conf otherwise I lose my ssh connection to the box. See man ipfw(8) for details on -q On 3/10/2004 at 8:27 PM Thomas Vogt wrote: |Hi | |ipfw flush # deletes all |ipfw

[5.2.1] trouble with an USB key

2004-03-10 Thread Jacques Beigbeder
On a FreeBSD 5.2.1, I have an *OLD* USB disk which works: [ ... ] kernel: vendor 0x0c45 USB Mass Storage Device, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 [ ... ] [ ... ] kernel: da2: 31MB (64000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 31C) Another one fails: [ ... ] umass0: Kingston DataTraveler2.0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 No

Re: XEmacs woes...

2004-03-10 Thread Henrik W Lund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary W. Swearingen wrote: | Henrik W Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | right after it has loaded view-less.el. I tried looking through | view-less.el, but to no avail. | | | You might try putting this in your .emacs file: | | (setq debug-on-error t)

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5

2004-03-10 Thread Crucial Servers
I wish this was an option for me but the contracted machine is in CW's network operation center, not mine. I have no access to there machine besides remote root. James - Original Message - From: Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Crucial Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: SOLVED :-) Re: Wierd time changes

2004-03-10 Thread Denis R.
Hi Mark! Gee, who would have thought that it was the keyboard. Thanks for your ideas. I recompiled the kernel (Compaq SP700 dual PII-450) following the NOTES guidelines and your email, with these enabled: # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP #

tty-level buffer overflows

2004-03-10 Thread webmaster
I've been searching for an answer to this for a while now. My freebsd box (4.9-RELEASE + Custom Kernel) runs ppp just fine (ppp -ddial from rc.conf) and I have no problems connecting. The problem I have is that after a while my connection will hang, but not disconnect, and I have a ton

sendmail config query

2004-03-10 Thread Chris Richards
Hiya, I am running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10 and want to configure SMTP-AUTH/TLS. A friend gave me some instructions on how to do it and they talk about editing $SRC/devtools/Site/site.config.m4 $SRC being the sendmail source of course. My friend is not a FreeBSD user so I can't ask him for help.

VPN Suggestions Please

2004-03-10 Thread Zen
Evening All, I am looking for the best way to connect the following machines together with a VPN. wk2 --FreebsdNT4 Server We have users with wk2 at home. We have a FreeBSD machine sitting on both internal and external network. They want to be able to get files off the NT server. Look

Re: FreeBSD, SSH and Enter Authentication Response

2004-03-10 Thread Rishi Chopra
To quote Ringo Starr ala The Simpsons, Please forgive the lateness of my reply. Matthew: Your suggestion worked beautifully. Changing /etc/ssh/sshd_config solved my confirmation login problem quite nicely. Just to confirm, I am running the version of SSH that comes standard with FreeBSD

3com modem

2004-03-10 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Have a 3com pci internal vioce modem installed in my 4.9 stable system but don't seem to be able to activate it sould this not happen automagically? I do not see it in the dmesg logs at all i am pretty sure that comm ports are compiled into the kernel. How do i go about ckecking it or

Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.

2004-03-10 Thread samy lancher
Ok, here is what i understood. I need to set up VPN server on my FreeBSD server giving permission to the outside XP system to access the server. On the outside XP system, I need to connect VPN box (eg. LinkSys part number BEFVP41) to the system and this one does not require any additional VPN

Re: SOLVED :-) Re: Wierd time changes

2004-03-10 Thread Mark Ovens
Denis R. wrote: Hi Mark! Gee, who would have thought that it was the keyboard. Thanks for your ideas. I recompiled the kernel (Compaq SP700 dual PII-450) following the NOTES guidelines and your email, with these enabled: # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP

IDE cd-burner, Can it be done???

2004-03-10 Thread whizkid
I have a IDE cd-burner in my FreeBSD 5.1 box. I have installed cdrecord from the ports but this looks like it needs a SCSI drive. Is there a CMD line cd-record package that works with a IDE cd-burner. Here is a line from dmesg: acd0: CD-RW MEMOREX CD-RW4224 at ata1-master PIO4 uname -a:

Re: IDE cd-burner, Can it be done???

2004-03-10 Thread Cordula's Web
I have a IDE cd-burner in my FreeBSD 5.1 box. I have installed cdrecord from the ports but this looks like it needs a SCSI drive. Is there a CMD line cd-record package that works with a IDE cd-burner. Here is a line from dmesg: /usr/sbin/burncd -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Java installation: pdmu not found

2004-03-10 Thread Sven Hohage
Well after a lot of steps i've had succes in doing portupgrade -ra Strangely kde wasn't updateddo I have to change some settings? But my real problem is Java. The port has been installed (it was very quick...I've read about some hours??) . But when I try to start java I get the message: Error

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:06:19PM -0500, Crucial Servers wrote: I wish this was an option for me but the contracted machine is in CW's network operation center, not mine. I have no access to there machine besides remote root. It's going to be pretty dangerous to update, then. You need some

Re: SOLVED :-) Re: Wierd time changes

2004-03-10 Thread Denis R.
Mark, No clue from sysctl -a. Yes, I've looked through archives and google. Since I don't see a lot of performance improvement from using the second CPU, I will leave this issue alone for now. Hopefully, someone will post a sweet solution to this bugging issue. Thanks for your help, Denis

Re: IDE cd-burner, Can it be done???

2004-03-10 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a IDE cd-burner in my FreeBSD 5.1 box. I have installed cdrecord from the ports but this looks like it needs a SCSI drive. Is there a CMD line cd-record package that works with a IDE cd-burner. Here is a line from dmesg: acd0: CD-RW MEMOREX CD-RW4224 at

GCC 3.3 seg faulting

2004-03-10 Thread Loren M. Lang
I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on an old system, mainly since I need bluetooth support. After trying to install a couple of ports, I've found that the default gcc compiler version 3.3.3-20031106 keeps segment faulting at different times. If I keep restarting the port install, it will

Re: GCC 3.3 seg faulting

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:02:47PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on an old system, mainly since I need bluetooth support. After trying to install a couple of ports, I've found that the default gcc compiler version 3.3.3-20031106 keeps segment faulting at

Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.

2004-03-10 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher wrote: Ok, here is what i understood. I need to set up VPN server on my FreeBSD server giving permission to the outside XP system to access the server. On the outside XP system, I need to connect VPN box (eg. LinkSys part number BEFVP41) to the system and this

libfreetype.a: Bad address when installing XFree86-4

2004-03-10 Thread eodyna
Hi everyone, May I request some assistance from you all. Ive recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 on my lappy. Ive recompiled my kernel and cvsupped my ports tree. I have gone to install XFree86-4 and get the following error snip installing in lib/font/Speedo... installing in

Re: 3com modem

2004-03-10 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Mike Maltese wrote: Have a 3com pci internal vioce modem installed in my 4.9 stable system but don't seem to be able to activate it sould this not happen automagically? I do not see it in the dmesg logs at all i am pretty sure that comm ports are compiled into the kernel. How do i go about

Samba problems...v2.2.8a

2004-03-10 Thread Ralph M. Los
Hi again, I've got a problem with Samba this time. I can't seem to get it to allow me to map drives, on a normal basis. I seem to be able to get things working - but...once my workstation reboots, I get errors about password or username is invalid. There is nothing in the log file(s),

RE: nVidia drivers on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop)

2004-03-10 Thread Ralph M. Los
Tried /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver and doing make install...worked great and gave some instructions about doing a make setup which doesn't exist. After thatstill getting this when I try to get X running. I've included my XF86Config snip at the bottom just for giggles. ERROR SNIP (WW) NVIDIA:

Re: 3com modem

2004-03-10 Thread Mike Maltese
It is not a win modem it is a hardware modem and was the best one my supplier had, it cost me $120.00. Thanks for your rely but it does not help me with my problem i have had it working on several other machines just not this one yet. Maybe you should have mentioned that. When someone posts

SOLVED: RE: nVidia drivers on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop)

2004-03-10 Thread Ralph M. Los
OK - I resolve to the fact that I just can't read error messages. I commented out the chipset portion...and voila...everything works like a CHARM. Sorry to waste everyone's time with a completely stupid mistake. -Original Message- From: Ralph M. Los Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:48

Re: 3com modem

2004-03-10 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Mike Maltese wrote: It is not a win modem it is a hardware modem and was the best one my supplier had, it cost me $120.00. Thanks for your rely but it does not help me with my problem i have had it working on several other machines just not this one yet. Maybe you should have mentioned

Re: 3com modem

2004-03-10 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Mike Maltese wrote: It is not a win modem it is a hardware modem and was the best one my supplier had, it cost me $120.00. Thanks for your rely but it does not help me with my problem i have had it working on several other machines just not this one yet. Maybe you should have mentioned

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