Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-18 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Patrick Useldinger thusly... (Building from source) 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 improvements really visible? I haven't run any

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-18 20:38, Patrick Useldinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my question is basically: did you, in your experience, find that compiling from source *really* has any serious advantages that make up for the time it takes? Before I answer to this question, I cannot help noting that you

want ftp access through my gateway

2004-06-18 Thread Marty Landman
Hi, My gateway machine runs windows xp. Using zoneedit's nameservers am pointing a domain at my ip address and then using apache's reverse proxy pointing requests to an account running on my FBSD 3.8 box. Of course am running apache servers on both the gateway and fbsd boxes. Anyway, this part

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Patrick Useldinger thusly... (Building from source) 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 improvements

Re: natd firewall settings for vpn

2004-06-18 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-06-18T14:46:31-0500, Jim Freeze wrote: mike oliver wrote: 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 destination will dump the packet since the AH checksum

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-18 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 18, 2004, at 2:29 PM, Patrick Useldinger wrote: 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 improvements really visible? Tweaking the compiler flags and targetting

LED proggy question

2004-06-18 Thread klr
hey, I've been trying to find a program on the ports that allows me to change the state of the keyboard LEDs. I want to put the keyboard on the room wall and make a script to call a program which makes leds blink according to the kind of traffic being blocked on the firewall. I want a program

Re: want ftp access through my gateway

2004-06-18 Thread Renato Marques
How about use a Proxy just like you did with HTTP? There must be some kind of shareware doing that... You realy should think about your gateway being a FreeBSD Box... Hi, My gateway machine runs windows xp. Using zoneedit's nameservers am pointing a domain at my ip address and then

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-18 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Optimization and speed are indeed an arguable advantage of compiling from source, but another GREAT advantage is the possibility of setting compile-time options and dependencies. I.e. lots of packages have options which can be enabled/disabled only at compile time. For example whether you want

Re: 4.10 stable: xfree86 driver for ati rage xl chipset?

2004-06-18 Thread Brett Wiggins
Hi andrew, I'm running freeBSD 5.2 with a ati radeon card. In the xf86cfg go to configure video card(s), near the bottom will be 'vesa vesa' select it. I have been using it with my radeon card and have had no problems. Hope this helps some. Brett

Re: LED proggy question

2004-06-18 Thread Ted Freeman
You want XLeds. (I haven't used it on BSD yet.) For reference, read Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson. -- Ted On Jun 18, 2004, at 12:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, I've been trying to find a program on the ports that allows me to change the state of the keyboard LEDs. I want to put the

Re: LED proggy question

2004-06-18 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Something similar (playing sounds or blinking keyboard leds on firewall activity) was mentioned on Slashdot last week. Have a look at http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/9074 GH On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 07:08:31PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, I've been trying to find a program

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-18 Thread Renato Marques
Hi, When I was using 4.1 release, removing just the hardware that I was not using and building the Kernel gave me mutch better performance. I Dont know about internals so, probabily, this is not true anymore. Anyway, I could mount a DNS Server on a Pentium 75 Mhz with 16MB, because

How do I get usb actions to cause keyboard actions?

2004-06-18 Thread jason
I have a gamepad and I have been playing with usbhidaction, but I don't know how to get it to send keyboard events. Say if I was playing super tux and I wanted my game pad a button to be mapped to the jump key on the keyboard? Has anyone done this or know where I should look for information?

cvsup make world

2004-06-18 Thread John Lee
Dear All, I installed a clean 4.10-RC2 and CVSUP to the latest, while makeing world, I encountered this error and tried a few times but same error. Please advise. I'm using a P4 2.8Ghz 1U server system. stage 1: bootstrap tools -- cd

Turning off sshd version display when someone telnets to port.

2004-06-18 Thread Emperor of Florida
Okay, On my router I run sshd just in case I need to connect to my computers when I am away from home (this computer basically does NAT and firewalls everything behind it). I moved sshd to a different port than the standard 22 just so most port scanners won't run across it -- unless they are

Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-18 Thread Matt Juszczak
Hello all, Is there a way to do IP redirection without using layer 3? (IPNAT or routing)? I have a bridge setup and want to redirect any port 80 traffic outgoing through the bridge to a specific server but it seems I can only do this with ipfw's forward/fwd or ipnat's rdr commands ...

Re: LED proggy question

2004-06-18 Thread klr
Hey, Yes, that is where I got the idea from. But the C program there implies i'm using X, which i'm not. From what I understood, the functions lie on Xlib.h so they shouldn't work without X. I could be wrong tho. But I don't even have X libs installed on the machine in question. Something

Re: LED proggy question

2004-06-18 Thread Mike Maltese
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, I've been trying to find a program on the ports that allows me to change the state of the keyboard LEDs. I want to put the keyboard on the room wall and make a script to call a program which makes leds blink according to the kind of traffic being blocked on the

Sendmail slow...

2004-06-18 Thread Scott Stahl
Sendmail on my new FreeBSD 4.10 box seems to be VERY slow. When I use the PHP mailer function it sometimes takes almost a minute to run sendmail. On a closer look at my maillog there doesn't seem to be any errors and to log appears to be the same as when it isn't slow. I thought maybe it was a

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-18 Thread Chris Sechiatano
Hi, You will need some type of layer 3 device, router or firewall, to do what you want. A bridge works at layer 1 2 (physical and transport layers) and basically just allows one type of network (cable or dsl) to talk to antother (ethernet). On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 07:05:14PM -0400, Matt

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-18 Thread Renato Marques
I dont think a bridge could do some like that. A bridge see only IP packets, where are no information about ports, ports are used in TCP and UDP. Actualy, I think Layer 3 is where the IP protocol besides. NAT is done on layer 4... but i could be wrong... Hello all, Is there a way to do IP

[FreeBSD] Seti help

2004-06-18 Thread LW Ellis
I downloaded the setiathome package. As far as I know everything went OK. WHen I boot the system I get a message Run usr/local/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh register to start seti I tried start with that line and got command not known I switched over to usr/local/sbin setiathome start and got

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-18 Thread Renato Marques
Well, in the TCP/IP Model, IP is layer 2 and TCP/UDP layer3. I dont think a bridge could do some like that. A bridge see only IP packets, where are no information about ports, ports are used in TCP and UDP. Actualy, I think Layer 3 is where the IP protocol besides. NAT is done on

Re: [FreeBSD] Seti help

2004-06-18 Thread Byung-hee H.
Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:27:32PM -0600 LW Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the setiathome package. As far as I know everything went OK. WHen I boot the system I get a message Run usr/local/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh register to start seti I tried start with that line and got command

Re: [FreeBSD] Seti help

2004-06-18 Thread LWEllis
shell cd /usr/ports make search key=setiathome ...than install it. I did, now I can't get the register.. configure to run. Regards, Byung-hee H. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: contributing: addition of package

2004-06-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 05:43:23PM +, vishal kochhar wrote: Hi, This question is related to addition of a package (not related to OS or kernel) to freebsd. I read from the contribution page about 'value-added' packages. Is it related only to OS related packages or other s/w's like

Re: perl ?

2004-06-18 Thread Andy Harrison
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:34:38 -0400, JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

firefox not launching since upgrade to 0.9_1

2004-06-18 Thread otzinger
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:21:54 +0100 (BST) Richard Tobin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # firefox -- we no longer need to launch 1st time as root, but... (firefox-bin:87415): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Presumably you don't have DISPLAY set when you're running as root. hello,

Bittorrent not in ports?

2004-06-18 Thread Julian M. Mason
...is bittorrent really not in ports? my usual # cd /usr/ports ; make search name=bittorrent and # whereis bittorrent turned up nothing; nor did a wandering around /usr/ports/net. Do I have to actually go and get something myself? gasp --Mac -- Julian Mac Mason

Re: Bittorrent not in ports?

2004-06-18 Thread Chris
On Friday 18 June 2004 08:38 pm, Julian M. Mason wrote: ...is bittorrent really not in ports? my usual # cd /usr/ports ; make search name=bittorrent and # whereis bittorrent turned up nothing; nor did a wandering around /usr/ports/net. Do I have to actually go and get something myself?

Re: Bittorrent not in ports?

2004-06-18 Thread Danny Pansters
On Saturday 19 June 2004 03:38, Julian M. Mason wrote: ...is bittorrent really not in ports? my usual # cd /usr/ports ; make search name=bittorrent and # whereis bittorrent turned up nothing; nor did a wandering around /usr/ports/net. Do I have to actually go and get something myself?

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-18 Thread Matt Juszczak
So in summary, do I basically either have to do routing or a NAT, or find another alternative? There's no way to just bridge the traffic and do what i want? Thanks! :) -Matt Renato Marques wrote: Well, in the TCP/IP Model, IP is layer 2 and TCP/UDP layer3. I dont think a bridge could do

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to do IP redirection without using layer 3? IP *is* layer 3. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-18 Thread Matt Juszczak
I know its layer 3 ... my point is that FreeBSD's bridge supports IPFW, and IPFW allows for some IP-related things ...filtering by source IP, destination IP, etc. etc. But in the man page for ipfw, it says that the forward command in ipfw is not supported on layer 2 (bridging, etc.). So I

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-18 Thread Renato Marques
Hmmm.. I really can't think about some solution... All of them involve a router before, in or after the bridge. How about proxying before the bridge? So in summary, do I basically either have to do routing or a NAT, or find another alternative? There's no way to just bridge the

Re: Turning off sshd version display when someone telnets to port.

2004-06-18 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emperor of Florida wrote: | Okay, | | On my router I run sshd just in case I need to connect to my computers | when I am away from home (this computer basically does NAT and firewalls | everything behind it). I moved sshd to a different port than the

how to extract 512 bytes from a file

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Farrell
I am trying to recover some files which were on a windowz system, which crashed go figure so someone wiped out the drive format and then relized that they had important files on the drive. They then used sometype of recovery software to extract them and now I have them. These files are

Re: cvsup make world

2004-06-18 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
--- John Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I installed a clean 4.10-RC2 and CVSUP to the latest, while makeing world, I encountered this error and tried a few times but same error. Please advise. I'm using a P4 2.8Ghz 1U server system. stage 1: bootstrap tools

mysql install problem

2004-06-18 Thread LW Ellis
I get the following error when I try to install mysql40-server from the ports. Neither host '192' or 'localhost' could be resolved with usr/local/bin/resolveip I went thru something similar when I was configuring apache. I had to resolve it by setting the host name to the name assigned by my

Re: LED proggy question

2004-06-18 Thread W. D.
At 14:08 6/18/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: hey, I've been trying to find a program on the ports that allows me to change the state of the keyboard LEDs. I want to put the keyboard on the room wall and make a script to call a program which makes leds blink according to the kind of traffic being

Double messages

2004-06-18 Thread Scott Stahl
I'm new to this list... and I seem to be getting all the meesages on this list in duplicate. Thanks, Scott. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

make world problem

2004-06-18 Thread John Lee
Dear All, I installed a clean 4.10-RC2 and CVSUP to the latest, while makeing world, I encountered this error and tried a few times but same error. Please advise. I'm using a P4 2.8Ghz 1U server system. stage 1: bootstrap tools -- cd

Re: kdm questions

2004-06-18 Thread Andy Harrison
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:10:07 +1000, Brett Wiggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: ImageMagick

2004-06-18 Thread Andy Harrison
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:44:58 +0900, Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to install IM from the ports collection and have come across this showstopper. Usually when I have problems like that I start nosing around with the portversion command to make sure all the deps are up

Re: mysql install problem

2004-06-18 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 18 Jun 2004 at 22:08, LW Ellis wrote: I get the following error when I try to install mysql40-server from the ports. Neither host '192' or 'localhost' could be resolved with usr/local/bin/resolveip I went thru something similar when I was configuring apache. I had to resolve it by

Re: make world problem

2004-06-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 12:45:13PM +0800, John Lee wrote: Dear All, I installed a clean 4.10-RC2 and CVSUP to the latest, while makeing world, I encountered this error and tried a few times but same error. Please advise. I'm using a P4 2.8Ghz 1U server system. === usr.bin/yacc cd: can't

Re: mysql install problem

2004-06-18 Thread LW Ellis
thanks, I couldn't find it in the man pages. Been reading, should I put my mysql server in a 'virtual host' or is it seperate from my apache server - Original Message - From: Kjell Midtseter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LW Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 18,

Re: mysql install problem

2004-06-18 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 18 Jun 2004 at 23:20, LW Ellis wrote: thanks, I couldn't find it in the man pages. Been reading, should I put my mysql server in a 'virtual host' or is it seperate from my apache server No connection to apache and virtual host Just install it and the startup scripts will be installed for

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