SSH / D-Link Router

2004-06-18 Thread Graham Bentley
My problem is that ssh and telnet don't work. I get as far as the Password prompt, I type it in, and then ssh freezes for a couple of minutes until it probably goes in timeout and gives up. I came across this after a new installation. I googled about and on some advice tried adding the

Re: startkde

2004-06-18 Thread Brett Wiggins
hello Eric, After installed the X window system and KDE I created the file ~/.xinitrc which contains; exec startkde after I created the file I could use startx to run KDE. I then setup KDM by editing the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession. I

FBSD 4.10 - kernel TCP_SIGNATURE requirements

2004-06-18 Thread Charles Gucker
Greetings, I'm trying to find somebody who has been able to compile the TCP_SIGNATURE kernel option into their kernel successfully, to determine what dependencies exist for it to work properly. Background information, I installed a fresh copy on an i386 machine from the i386 ISO

Re: [A bit OT]Re: New user questions :)

2004-06-18 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:27 am, Jorn Argelo wrote: That advice may be OK for some things, but it doesn't make sense to make yourself compile such behemoths as Openoffice and etc unless you are in to pain and suffering for your entertainment.   Heh, that's true. Though let's be honest, you

[FreeBSD]

2004-06-18 Thread LW Ellis
I'm trying to configure my ftpd so I can access the http server from another computer. (for uploading web pages) According to The Complete FreeBSD (I am a complete newby) I need to add a line to my /etc/rc.local file I don't have one. I have a /etc/rc.conf Are they the same? Or do I need a new

usb audio

2004-06-18 Thread ray
i have a Sony Vaio PCG-GRZ660, the onboard audio is a Yamaha AC-XG Sound Card. I also have an external creative labs USB Sound Card that i got working with device pcm in my kernel. The problem i am having is that the audio jumps and skips alot and isnt stable. does anyone know any

Re: [FreeBSD]: how to setup ftpd server?

2004-06-18 Thread Rob
LW Ellis wrote: I'm trying to configure my ftpd so I can access the http server from another computer. (for uploading web pages) According to The Complete FreeBSD (I am a complete newby) I need to add a line to my /etc/rc.local file I don't have one. I have a /etc/rc.conf Are they the same? Or do

Re: SSH / D-Link Router

2004-06-18 Thread bob
Which d-link router is this that you were using? the 504T being talked about has only been out since march this year an install that worked on a previous router (for pop/smtp, never tried ssh) didn't work on this d-link. We are going to be testing this at work talking to d-link (as a

Re: [FreeBSD]

2004-06-18 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 18 Jun 2004 at 0:48, LW Ellis wrote: Good morning! I'm trying to configure my ftpd so I can access the http server from another computer. (for uploading web pages) According to The Complete FreeBSD (I am a complete newby) I need to add a line to my /etc/rc.local file I don't have one. I

Re: [FreeBSD] Ftp Server

2004-06-18 Thread LW Ellis
Good morning (very late at nite for me) Kjell And thanx to you!!! I solved my httpd problem with your help. And installed PHP with much trouble. I removed that hash #, And I can access FTP OK, but I need to point the ftp to the right directory /usr/local/www/data (I believe) How do I do this?

Re: [FreeBSD] Ftp Server

2004-06-18 Thread LW Ellis
Sounds OK, but I am a complete newby.. I couldn't find anything in the book I have about that. This set up is on a local network, no access outside the network. I'm trying to set up a testing server. And need to access it from within the network to publish webpages Please point me in the right

Re: [FreeBSD] Ftp Server

2004-06-18 Thread Cordula's Web
but I need to point the ftp to the right directory /usr/local/www/data (I believe) How do I do this? Set the home directory of that user to /usr/local/www/data. Use 'vipw' to edit the password file directly. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: firefox not launching since upgrade to 0.9_1

2004-06-18 Thread UBM
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:36:14 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would anyone have ideas about what might be causing this? According to someone who had a similar (the same?) problem, you've have to remove the file prefs.js from your profiles directory and it should work again. Hope this helps! :-)

Re: firefox not launching since upgrade to 0.9_1

2004-06-18 Thread UBM
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:47:02 +0200 gaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [firefox woes] Firefox 0.9 won´t load under XP either. Try removing prefs.js from your %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\something directory, that should get firefox running again. Bye Marc -- And what rough beast, its hour

IPFW log results analysis

2004-06-18 Thread Uwe Kolsch
Is there a tool for FBSD like logwatch on Linux, which can provide a detailed but still somehow summarized output based on the logging results of IPFW. I mean more detailed than this from the daily security run: 02010557 48486 deny log ip from any to any out 1 1026 49716 deny

ImageMagick

2004-06-18 Thread Luke Kearney
Hi, I am trying to install IM from the ports collection and have come across this showstopper. src/contrib.mak:8684: warning: ignoring old commands for target `obj/stp.dev' src/gnudevs.mak:84: warning: overriding commands for target `obj/gdevstp.o' src/contrib.mak:8688: warning: ignoring old

login troubles (password prompt is slow to appear)

2004-06-18 Thread RF
Hello, I'm new to FreeBSD and am trying to work on a remote server. I started out with 5.2, but it was a NIGHTMARE trying to install the combination of software I want, because certain ports didn't work, certain packages didn't work, and I had to use older versions than what I wanted

Re: [FreeBSD] Ftp Server

2004-06-18 Thread LW Ellis
I do not quite see the problem. Are you running your FTP program on a Windows PC trying to access the ftp server on the FreeBSD PC? If that is the case you use the FTP program (I use CuteFTP or WS_FTP) on the Windows PC to navigate to the desired folder on the FreeBSD PC Then you will be able

Re: IPFW log results analysis

2004-06-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-18 10:43, Uwe Kolsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tool for FBSD like logwatch on Linux, which can provide a detailed but still somehow summarized output based on the logging results of IPFW. I mean more detailed than this from the daily security run: 02010557 48486

Re: IPFW log results analysis

2004-06-18 Thread Remko Lodder
Jow, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-06-18 10:43, Uwe Kolsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tool for FBSD like logwatch on Linux, which can provide a detailed but still somehow summarized output based on the logging results of IPFW. I mean more detailed than this from the daily security run:

RE: IPFW log results analysis

2004-06-18 Thread Uwe Kolsch
-Original Message- From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 June 2004 11:34 AM To: Uwe Kolsch Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IPFW log results analysis On 2004-06-18 10:43, Uwe Kolsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tool for FBSD like logwatch on

Re: IPFW log results analysis

2004-06-18 Thread Remko Lodder
Uwe Kolsch wrote: And how do I use a keyboard? connect it to a computer and start typing the letters you wish :) Or perhaps another person on this list wrote a summary tool already... Someone -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL

Re: portsdb -Uu trouble in www/mod_auth_check

2004-06-18 Thread Alexey Karguine
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:46:01 -0500 Guillermo Garc_a-Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ooops! Today the problem disapeared itself. I didn't anything else to fix it. Same problem. I was using a refuse file. So I stop using it and the problem disapeared. On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:02:55 +0400,

copy or listing problem

2004-06-18 Thread Yavuz Malak
Hello I use freebsd4.9 I have thousands of files in my any directory. and I need to copy them to another directory. but when I started to copy them I got error as below; /bin/cp: Argument list too long. Do I have to copy them in pieces ? What shall I do ? Thanks

Problems installing FreeBSD with 3ware 9500S-4LP

2004-06-18 Thread Patrick Hurrelmann
Hi, finally i received my new raid-controller, bu i have problems installing FreeBSD on it :/ I tried different releases and current snapshots... 5.1-Release w ACPI: Loading twa.ko (binary distribution of 3ware.com for 5.2) in sysinstall failes. w/o ACPI: same as w ACPI.

Re: IPFW log results analysis

2004-06-18 Thread George Keramidas
On 2004-06-18 12:45, Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uwe Kolsch wrote: And how do I use a keyboard? connect it to a computer and start typing the letters you wish :) Or perhaps another person on this list wrote a summary tool already... Someone I have a few summarizing scripts at

Re: copy or listing problem

2004-06-18 Thread Henrik W Lund
Yavuz Malak wrote: Hello I use freebsd4.9 I have thousands of files in my any directory. and I need to copy them to another directory. but when I started to copy them I got error as below; /bin/cp: Argument list too long. Do I have to copy them in pieces ? What shall I do ? Thanks Greetings!

Warning: E-mail viruses detected

2004-06-18 Thread MailScanner
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about cross-compiling

2004-06-18 Thread Yang M.M.
Hi all, I don't know How to cross-compiling FreeBSD for ia64 on i386 system.Please help me. Regards, Annie _ MSN Explorer: http://explorer.msn.com/lccn/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Ethereal + gtk + glib installation in freeBSD-4.7

2004-06-18 Thread Manish Gautam
hi all, i have a problem in intallation of glib-1.2.0 ,i have got the source code of glib-1.2.0, in the glib-1.2.20 directory i issued following : 1. ./configure 2. make this gives erroro message : ln : libgplugin_a.la : Operation not supported plz let me know why this error comes and how to

Can I cross compile FreeBSD?

2004-06-18 Thread Yang M.M.
Hi, I've installed FreeBSD-i386.And I want to cross compile FreeBSD for ia64 on i386, how should I do? Regards, Annie _ MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn ___ [EMAIL

identifying single drives on hardware RAID0

2004-06-18 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Hi all, Probably a dumb question here : but I want to identify a specific drive in RAID0 config, but only the logical drive is reported dmesg. Is this even possible ? Thanks in advance, Ruben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Sendmail for Large Sites

2004-06-18 Thread Martin McCormick
How well does the administration of Sendmail scale up to sites serving as many as 25,000 users? At this moment, everything is more or less on the table, but what I envision is 25,000 work stations or so, each using Microsoft Outlook and several Sendmail servers serving the

Re: IPSec Routing and Interfaces, ping problem (solved!?)

2004-06-18 Thread Andre Rein
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Andre Rein wrote: I'm able to ping 10.0.0.1 now from my vpnclient and ping the vpnclient from 10.0.0.1 without any trouble. The only problem I get, is to ping the vpnclient from the vpnserver. It won't work. So how should I setup the server to ping the client? Am I

freebsd and dns

2004-06-18 Thread Bradley McGuigan
Hi all, I hope someone out there can give me a hand with this important query!! My company has a freebsd server that is used as a secondary DNS server. Our ISP also get our DNS entries from this server (they shadow them on thier servers). Since this morning, no-one has been able to send

Re: Ethereal + gtk + glib installation in freeBSD-4.7

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
Manish Gautam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, i have a problem in intallation of glib-1.2.0 ,i have got the source code of glib-1.2.0, in the glib-1.2.20 directory i issued following : Is there a reason you are trying to compile yourself instead of just using the ports? 1. ./configure

how to processi log files before rotation.

2004-06-18 Thread Clarence Brown
2 questions ... 1. Where is the right, or standard place to save shell scripts that I want to use for administrative, or any other tasks. Some place on the path I suppose. 2. I'd like to process my maillog and maillog.*.gz files just before the maillog it is rotated into maillog.1.gz and

Re: freebsd and dns

2004-06-18 Thread Renato Marques
Hi, ps -auxw| grep named and see if its running. Hi all, I hope someone out there can give me a hand with this important query!! My company has a freebsd server that is used as a secondary DNS server. Our ISP also get our DNS entries from this server (they shadow them on thier

Re: freebsd and dns

2004-06-18 Thread Jan Muenther
Hi, don't meant to discomfort you, but is it by any chance a bit of an older version of bind 8? In that case, some Evil Person [tm] may have had his or her wicked ways with your machine. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: freebsd and dns

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
Bradley McGuigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope someone out there can give me a hand with this important query!! My company has a freebsd server that is used as a secondary DNS server. Our ISP also get our DNS entries from this server (they shadow them on thier servers). Since this

Re: freebsd and dns

2004-06-18 Thread Renato Marques
you can make it running with named -g but then, if you reboot the machine you will have start it again. Take a look in the Handbook and see how to start services at boot time. Renato, Many thanks for your quick response. This is obviously what the problem is as I can now see that it is

Re: natd firewall settings for vpn

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
Jim Freeze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to configure my firewall to allow packets through for a VPN connection. I am running FBSD 5.2 as my router and am trying to connect my laptop from behind the router to our work computer. The laptop is running OSX 10.3.4 with a Nortel Networks

kdm questions

2004-06-18 Thread Brett Wiggins
hello (again), I am still having some problems with kdm, I have searched (again) the archives and the handbook. Below are the steps I took, files I edited during setup. After I installed the X window system and KDE I created the file ~/.xinitrc which contains;

download

2004-06-18 Thread Major Hosea
please can I download FreeBSD for free without paying? where and how can i get FreeBSD - ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - so many all-new ways to express yourself ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: download

2004-06-18 Thread Lucas Holt
Yes its free. You can download it via ftp: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors- ftp.html On Jun 18, 2004, at 9:11 AM, Major Hosea wrote: please can I download FreeBSD for free without paying? where and how can i get FreeBSD -

Re: download

2004-06-18 Thread Brett Wiggins
hey :) please can I download FreeBSD for free without paying? where and how can i get FreeBSD Try this website. It should have all the info you need to download freeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html Hope this helps. Brett

Re: Tuneable Parameters

2004-06-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Richard Burnett-Godfree [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to port software currently running on hp-ux to freeBSD 4.9. The application I have will normally run for large numbers of users accessing database applications. On hp-ux to enable reasonable user numbers with large numbers of

Re: using apm to power a system down, 5.x

2004-06-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, there is a kernel apm module. I've also disabled acpi via device.hints, and enabled apm via that file as well. I've also put apm_enable in rc.conf. Is this overkill? Is the kernel module *loaded*? [I fixed up my scratch machine and this seems to work

Re: firefox not launching since upgrade to 0.9_1

2004-06-18 Thread Geert Hendrickx
I had the same problem. And even though it says you don't have to run it as root first any longer, it did help. ;-) GH On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:36:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all, problems since portupgrading firefox. i deleted all .mozilla .phoenix directories from

Re: Sendmail and /var/spool/mqueue

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 17, 2004, at 2:39 PM, Bill Moran wrote: What does it mean when I have a lot of files in /var/spool/mqueue? I don't really understand what that particular queue is for. That is the queue of unsent messages which sendmail will periodicly

Re: natd firewall settings for vpn

2004-06-18 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-06-18T00:11:03-0500, Jim Freeze wrote: Hi I am trying to configure my firewall to allow packets through for a VPN connection. I am running FBSD 5.2 as my router and am trying to connect my laptop from behind the router to our work computer. The laptop is running OSX 10.3.4 with a

Starting Apache on 4.10 stable at boot time

2004-06-18 Thread Gareth Bailey
Hi all, I moved our work server over from 5.2 release to 4.10 stable. All seems fine except for some reason apache (apache-1.3.31_2) doesn't sart automatically at boot time. Does starting apache at boot time differ on 4.10 to 5.2? I have the apache.sh script in rc.d/ and it has correct

Re: Starting Apache on 4.10 stable at boot time

2004-06-18 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Gareth Bailey wrote: Does starting apache at boot time differ on 4.10 to 5.2? I have the apache.sh script in rc.d/ and it has correct privileges. Anything in /var/log/httpd_error_log ? In particular check any critical erros from mod_unique_id about (reverse) resolution

Re: Starting Apache on 4.10 stable at boot time

2004-06-18 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-06-18T16:37:47+0200, Gareth Bailey wrote: Hi all, I moved our work server over from 5.2 release to 4.10 stable. All seems fine except for some reason apache (apache-1.3.31_2) doesn't sart automatically at boot time. Does starting apache at boot time differ on 4.10 to 5.2? I have

Compiling problem

2004-06-18 Thread Albert Shih
Hi I try to compile a big soft : OpenCascade5.1 The compilation don't work. Where can I have some help (I'm sysadmin, not a developper). Regards. AS. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local time: Fri Jun 18 16:51:57 CEST 2004

Re: copy or listing problem

2004-06-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-18 13:23, Henrik W Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yavuz Ma?lak wrote: Hello I use freebsd4.9 I have thousands of files in my any directory. and I need to copy them to another directory. but when I started to copy them I got error as below; /bin/cp: Argument list too long. You

5.3 NCP ?

2004-06-18 Thread David Denny
Hello Daemonisers um I wonder does anyone know when NCP support might be restored to the 5. series? If as seems it's a gcc compatibility thing that needs working through, I would be happy to run makes and report chokes typos etc.. I'm not a gcc guru but have fixed the odd silly in source files

Re: Sendmail and /var/spool/mqueue

2004-06-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:57:22AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 17, 2004, at 2:39 PM, Bill Moran wrote: What does it mean when I have a lot of files in /var/spool/mqueue? I don't really understand what that particular queue is for.

Re: copy or listing problem

2004-06-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:58:18PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-06-18 13:23, Henrik W Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yavuz Ma?lak wrote: Hello I use freebsd4.9 I have thousands of files in my any directory. and I need to copy them to another directory. but when I started to

Re: Sendmail and /var/spool/mqueue

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:57:22AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 17, 2004, at 2:39 PM, Bill Moran wrote: What does it mean when I have a lot of files in /var/spool/mqueue? I don't really

Re: [FreeBSD] pkg_add help

2004-06-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
Can someone point me in the right direction. I have a package I downloaded from FreeBSD.org thru Konqueor. It ends with .tbz I could not find this package in the ports collection thru stand/sysinstall My two questions are I need to extract this file Where And then how do I install,

New AOpen AX4SPE-UN Motherboard fails to boot ...

2004-06-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I've been running an AX4B-533 motherboard for the longest time, but, in order to make use of an SATA drive I just bought, I figured I'd upgrade the motherboard instead of buying an interface card ... got the motherboard, transfer'd all my old components to the new one ... and boot hangs. I

Re: copy or listing problem

2004-06-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello I use freebsd4.9 I have thousands of files in my any directory. and I need to copy them to another directory. but when I started to copy them I got error as below; /bin/cp: Argument list too long. You didn't include the command you used, but I it was something like:cp *

perl script code

2004-06-18 Thread JJB
I have this #(Scan line for word abuse,); if ((/([EMAIL PROTECTED])\s/) || (/([EMAIL PROTECTED])\s/)) { if (${1} eq [EMAIL PROTECTED]) { $abuse_email = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; next; } if (${1} eq [EMAIL PROTECTED]) { $abuse_email = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; next; } if

Re: Starting Apache on 4.10 stable at boot time

2004-06-18 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 18 Jun 2004 at 10:42, Michael W. Oliver wrote: On 2004-06-18T16:37:47+0200, Gareth Bailey wrote: Hi all, I moved our work server over from 5.2 release to 4.10 stable. All seems fine except for some reason apache (apache-1.3.31_2) doesn't sart automatically at boot time. Does

Re: vinum setup

2004-06-18 Thread synrat
thanx Greg, you're right as always. I booted into single user from start up and sure enough everything was editable then. I got another problem though. I set up 2 disks for vinum and want to allocate exisiting partitions to vinum mirrored volumes. I left 16 blocks at the begining, moved first

more kdm questions

2004-06-18 Thread Brett Wiggins
hello again, Did you set the hostname ? This is going to sound like a stupid question but how do I set the hostname? I searched the archive for 'kdm hostname' and found nothing. Thanks again Brett hello (again), I am still having some problems with kdm, I have searched

kernel support for old PC

2004-06-18 Thread Pascal Thibaudeau
Dear FreeBSD users I would like to boot and use the latest freebsd distribution available on an old i386 Pentium PC with no ATAPI nor IDE disk controller. My configuration is DPT smartcache III SCSI controller on ISA bus SCSI CD-ROM and disks Ethernet 3com 3C509 on ISA bus The 5.2.1

Re: perl script code

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004, JJB wrote: I have this #(Scan line for word abuse,); if ((/([EMAIL PROTECTED])\s/) || (/([EMAIL PROTECTED])\s/)) { if (${1} eq [EMAIL PROTECTED]) { $abuse_email = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; next; } if (${1} eq [EMAIL PROTECTED]) { $abuse_email =

Re: Starting Apache on 4.10 stable at boot time

2004-06-18 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:42:55AM -0400, Michael W. Oliver wrote: On 2004-06-18T16:37:47+0200, Gareth Bailey wrote: I moved our work server over from 5.2 release to 4.10 stable. All seems fine except for some reason apache (apache-1.3.31_2) doesn't sart automatically at boot time.

Re: kernel support for old PC

2004-06-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Is there a site where one can download pre-configured kernels on standard 1.44Mb floppy disk ? Sure. You can start the install from floppy, then do the actual installation of the system over FTP. You can find the info you need to do this here:

Re: [A bit OT]Re: New user questions :)

2004-06-18 Thread Jorn Argelo
Brian Astill wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:27 am, Jorn Argelo wrote: That advice may be OK for some things, but it doesn't make sense to make yourself compile such behemoths as Openoffice and etc unless you are in to pain and suffering for your entertainment. Heh, that's true. Though

Re: Sendmail for Large Sites

2004-06-18 Thread Jorn Argelo
Martin McCormick wrote: How well does the administration of Sendmail scale up to sites serving as many as 25,000 users? On my traineeship we used two sendmail servers (a mail in and a mail out, both connected to an anti virus machine and then send to an Exchange server, where the actual mail

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2004-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: Sendmail for Large Sites

2004-06-18 Thread Jason Stewart
On 18/06/04 06:13 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: There are other considerations such as the facts that all incoming and outgoing messages are checked for malicious attachments. ldap is used to drive the setting of customer mail delivery preferences and even their user ID choice. Hi

Re: more kdm questions

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
Brett Wiggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you set the hostname ? This is going to sound like a stupid question but how do I set the hostname? I searched the archive for 'kdm hostname' and found nothing. Set the hostname for the machine. For temporary (and testing) you can use the

Re: Sendmail for Large Sites

2004-06-18 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 18, 2004, at 7:13 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: How well does the administration of Sendmail scale up to sites serving as many as 25,000 users? Sendmail is fine for the task, as the main issues to be concerned about have more to due with user-agents reading the mail (as in, your POP

Odd performance issues - fxp vs xl?

2004-06-18 Thread J. Seth Henry
Guys, I recently had a little run-in with lightning during a recent thunderstorm - which destroyed my FreeBSD based router (along with a good chunk of my home automation system...) The machine had a VIA EPIA mainboard with a 933MHz processor. I had two 3Com 3C905C-TX boards installed for the

Re: more kdm questions

2004-06-18 Thread j . e . drews
Hi: Did you remember to change the line in /etc/ttys From: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure To: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure You can look at section 5.6.2 in the FreeBSD Handbook for more details. Also if you have any other troubles, then

Kernel build error

2004-06-18 Thread Mark
I am trying to build a new kernel after csvuping a 4.10 box error --config: line 69: fdc 0 not defined *** Error code 1 lines from config file # Floppy drives device fdc0at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2 device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 I had built a new kernel on 4.10 with

undefined reference to 'ngettext'

2004-06-18 Thread Marco Beishuizen
I'm trying to install xfce4 as my desktop manager on FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE. But when I try this from the ports I get an error message (this actually happens when I try to install everything that needs GTK so not only xfce4): ... ./.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so: undefined reference to 'ngettext' ***

RE: more kdm questions

2004-06-18 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Forgot to cc the list -Original Message- From: Ruben Bloemgarten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 8:13 PM To: 'Brett Wiggins' Subject: RE: more kdm questions # vi /etc/rc.conf Add hostname=yourhostname to the file Reboot will make the change permanent. For a

Re: Sendmail for Large Sites

2004-06-18 Thread Martin McCormick
My thanks to everybody who answered my questions. If we end up doing major revisions to our present mail system, I will have this information to contribute to the discussion. My experience with sendmail is very positive, but very limited. I am well aware that one person receiving a

Re: vinum setup

2004-06-18 Thread Lenny Shovsky
nevermind. I figured this out. still, Greg is one smart guy :). I just wish disklabel was at least a bit more user friendly. Every time I use it I have to understand it all over :) /boot/loader.conf vinum_load=YES vinum.root=root vinum.drives=/dev/ad2 /dev/ad3 synrat wrote: thanx Greg, you're

Re: Kernel build error

2004-06-18 Thread Jorn Argelo
Mark wrote: I am trying to build a new kernel after csvuping a 4.10 box error --config: line 69: fdc 0 not defined *** Error code 1 lines from config file # Floppy drives device fdc0at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2 device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 I had built a new kernel on

any use to build from source?

2004-06-18 Thread Patrick Useldinger
Hi all, I must say that I was initially interested in the idea of building software from source - but I am kind of loosing it. Certainly, it allows you to compile with the compiler options you want, you are able to optimize the binaries for your CPU, but: does it really matter? Are the speed

3 servers using jails

2004-06-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, I've got 3 devices that I would like to consolodate. Box A - IPFW/Nat gateway for corporate use. Box B - Squid/Dansguardian content filter (my use) Box C - Qmail/vpopmail (multiple domain) mailhub All three boxes are at separate locations. What I would like to do is implement a system

any use to build from source?

2004-06-18 Thread Patrick Useldinger
Hi all, I must say that I was initially interested in the idea of building software from source - but I am kind of loosing it. Certainly, it allows you to compile with the compiler options you want, you are able to optimize the binaries for your CPU, but: does it really matter? Are the speed

Dying disk?

2004-06-18 Thread twig les
Hey *, I can't quite figure out if this is a dire warning. I hope not since I can't convince my hard drives to stop failing ... sigh. The machine still works fine and has no data worth worrying about, but it'd be nice to know ... From dmesg: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG status=51READY,DSC,ERROR

RE: more kdm questions

2004-06-18 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
You don't need do this to get kdm working. Only if you want it to start at boot. I suggest you do this when you get kdm working properly, not before. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 8:01 PM To:

Re: Dying disk?

2004-06-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG status=51READY,DSC,ERROR sensekey=ILLEGAL REQUEST error=0 I believe that acd0 would be your CD Rom drive. I don't know what the error means, but it appears to have something to do with the CD system. Steve acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG status=51READY,DSC,ERROR

Re: Dying disk?

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
twig les [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey *, I can't quite figure out if this is a dire warning. I hope not since I can't convince my hard drives to stop failing ... sigh. The machine still works fine and has no data worth worrying about, but it'd be nice to know ... From dmesg: acd0:

Re: [FreeBSD] Ftp Server SOLVED

2004-06-18 Thread LW Ellis
Kjell, Jan, all others I guess I was looking at the problem to closely last nite... I got it working first thing today. Thanx for all your help Leon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Dying disk?

2004-06-18 Thread twig les
Wow I feel like a moron. I'll check the jumper settings on my *cdrom*. Thnx for the boot to the head. --- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: twig les [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey *, I can't quite figure out if this is a dire warning. I hope not since I can't convince my hard drives

Re: natd firewall settings for vpn

2004-06-18 Thread Jim Freeze
Protocol 50 is ESP, or encapsulating security payload Protocol 51 is AH, or authentication header Ok, thanks. The trick here with NAT is that AH will build a checksum of the IP header, which includes the private IP address of your laptop. Since NAT changes this IP address, the

Re: Logging the message body from an MTA

2004-06-18 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:22:44PM +, Lonnie Santella wrote: I need to log the message body of incoming and outgoing messages on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 Release server. I'm running Exim right now, but I really don't have a preference of MTA. The main thing is I need to facilitate the logging

Re: startkde

2004-06-18 Thread Eric Crist
On Friday 18 June 2004 00:58, Brett Wiggins wrote: hello Eric, After installed the X window system and KDE I created the file ~/.xinitrc which contains; exec startkde after I created the file I could use startx to run KDE. I then setup KDM by editing the

perl ?

2004-06-18 Thread JJB
I have $email field that sometimes may not end with alpha character. How would I codeif (last position of $email != alpha) { replace last pos of $email with blank } Or any other coding method to strip off non alpha from $email field if present. Thanks

4.10 stable: xfree86 driver for ati rage xl chipset?

2004-06-18 Thread andrew kagan
Hi All: I've been trying to install xfree86 at the same time I'm installing 4.10 stable. The graphical configuration tool comes up fine, but when I try to specify the adapter, there's nothing in the list that refers to ATI at all. If I try to select the default vga adapter, after the config is

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