Re: malloc in 5.3

2004-11-07 Thread Charlie Schluting
UPDATING does mention libmap.conf... adding the suggested values was required once I got gaim rebuilt. So *shrug* nevermind I guess :) -Charlie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

setup X11

2004-11-07 Thread Damien Hull
Just installed 4.10 and am having all kinds of problems with X. Under linux it just works. Here are my problems. Video card didn't work 1. Nvidia GeForce FX5200 2. added DefaultDepth 16 to XF86Config and it worked 3. I tried to add: Modes 800x600. Didn't work I decided to give up on the card and

Re: dhcp problems (i think)

2004-11-07 Thread cape canaveral
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 11:46:14 -0800, Charlie Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:51:50AM -0800, cape canaveral wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 10:28:36 -0800, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 12:46:21PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gary

Firefox and Mozilla stopped working

2004-11-07 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everybody, I am using FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 I recently grabbed a recent ports-tree via ftp and happily installed firefox-1.0rc1. After the build process said Building Chrome Registry, firefox-bin was eating all free CPU-cycles. When I rebuilt, the same thing happened. Even more weird, Mozilla

RE: DSL support

2004-11-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. W. Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DSL support On Saturday 06 November 2004 15:34, Mark wrote: I am on sbc dsl and found this page covered the setup.

RE: Is FreeBSD (still) a registered trademark?

2004-11-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 2:29 PM To: Rob Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD (still) a registered trademark? On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:49:59PM +0900, Rob wrote: Hi,

Re: Is FreeBSD (still) a registered trademark?

2004-11-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-07 01:52, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:49:59PM +0900, Rob wrote: All I can find is: FreeBSD is a registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. This is expected to change soon. Has it changed, or is

FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Bridging problems

2004-11-07 Thread Kevin Roettger
Hello, I'm trying to setup a bridge on my FreeBSD box as follows: 3 NIC's: - A realtek plugged into a ADSL modem (rl0), this one is not part of the bridge - Two 3Com 3c905C: xl0 works for months without problems and is connected to the LAN. The second card (xl1) has just been added. I'd like

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:49:13PM -0700, Lloyd Hayes wrote: [ Hostname changes when going on-line from different locations ] don't worry about it. With XFree86, it is an issue. It appears that Xorg won't configure correctly without it. Although I won't swear that's the problem with

Re: Big Problem, Load Avg Very High

2004-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:43:16AM -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: i know that it isn't officially released, but the ISOs are availible on FTPs already. but these ISOs should change it's consistance and will be regenerated by the time. but anyway. i consider 5.3 to be better choice

Re: First questions: rebuilding world

2004-11-07 Thread David Jenkins
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:59:50 -0500, Joseph H. Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! So you can do everything in multiuser mode, or do you still have to drop to single user mode to actually install the new kernel and new system binaries? Also, does doing all of this bring me to the most recent

Re: First questions: rebuilding world

2004-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:49:03AM +, David Jenkins wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:59:50 -0500, Joseph H. Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! So you can do everything in multiuser mode, or do you still have to drop to single user mode to actually install the new kernel and new system

Re: Mac Address Spoofing(!)

2004-11-07 Thread Luke Kearney
On , 2004-11-07 at 06:58, eddie dandrades wrote: Hello guys, I've set out to spoof my gateway's mac address so that I can get a new ip address from my cable ISP without having to unplug my modem for 24 hours as they suggested (and is understandable, thats how long their DHCP lease last).

RE: compiling the kernel

2004-11-07 Thread Andrei Iarus
I have a 4.9R installed on my system. ANd I want to patch the existing system. I have downloaded those patches, I have done exactly as is written in those advisories. And the make command fails (I use the traditional way of compiling). Please, could you take a look at my kernel config file?

[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Announcement

2004-11-07 Thread Scott Long
It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. This release marks a milestone in the FreeBSD 5.x series and the beginning of the 5-STABLE branch of releases. Some of the many changes since 5.2.1 include: - A binary compatibility interface has been

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Announcement

2004-11-07 Thread Rob
Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. This release marks a milestone in the FreeBSD 5.x FTP --- ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ The file ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/README.TXT needs an

FTP access with ipfw

2004-11-07 Thread Emil Khatib
Hi, I-m trying to secure my FreeBSD box using ipfw, but i can-t configure FTP client to access the internet. I-ve googled aroun everywhere but none of the solutions worked for me! I-m connected using dialup and user ppp. And another question, Would it be better if I used the firewall included with

RE: FTP access with ipfw

2004-11-07 Thread Ara
Hello Are you connecting directly to internet or via nat? In that case you may have to enable passive mode on your ftp client -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emil Khatib Sent: November 7, 2004 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FTP

Re: Firefox and Mozilla stopped working

2004-11-07 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: | Hello everybody, | | I am using FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 | I recently grabbed a recent ports-tree via ftp and happily installed | firefox-1.0rc1. | After the build process said Building Chrome Registry, firefox-bin was | eating all

Re: FTP access with ipfw

2004-11-07 Thread Emil Khatib
I' m using natd. I have tried passive mode, but it doesn' t work. By the way, passive mode is activated when I thpe passive on command/line ftp, right? On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 09:02:10 -0500, Ara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Are you connecting directly to internet or via nat? In that case you may

Re: FTP access with ipfw

2004-11-07 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello I had a long time to figure out the rules for ipfw (with and without nat, no different for me). Attached I send you the part of rc.firewall that is for ftp: ipfw -f flush ipfw add check-state [snip] # FTP ipfw add allow tcp from any to any 20 ipfw add allow tcp from any to any 21 ipfw

Re: FTP access with ipfw

2004-11-07 Thread Emil Khatib
ipfw add allow tcp from any to any 1024-65000 keep-state is it secure to open those ports? On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 15:22:16 +0100, Martin Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I had a long time to figure out the rules for ipfw (with and without nat, no different for me). Attached I send you

cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

2004-11-07 Thread listmail
Hello - Running a current 5.2.1 machine, I attempted to get release 5.3 via cvsup. When it was finished, I found that among other things, the file UPDATING did not exist in /usr/src and make [ world | buildworld \ ... ] bombed out with don't know how to make [world | buildworld | ...] (missing

Re: cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

2004-11-07 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, listmail wrote: Running a current 5.2.1 machine, I attempted to get release 5.3 via cvsup. When it was finished, I found that among other things, the file UPDATING did not exist in /usr/src and [various other problems] The supfile used was as apperase below: *default

Re: DSL support

2004-11-07 Thread gabriel
lol, do you work for cisco? - Overall, his views are agreeable. Or get cable! :\ On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 01:49:34 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. W. Sent: Saturday, November 06,

Re: cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

2004-11-07 Thread Choy Kho Yee
On 2004/11/08, at 0:11, Chris Hill wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, listmail wrote: Running a current 5.2.1 machine, I attempted to get release 5.3 via cvsup. When it was finished, I found that among other things, the file UPDATING did not exist in /usr/src and [various other problems] The supfile

Re: Mac Address Spoofing(!)

2004-11-07 Thread gabriel
I tried the resetting for 24 hours (unplugging it from power), tried to have my isp give me different modem configuration files, no go, my modem just liked my mac, after following the instructions given I was able to acquire a new ip address, so far, no harm done. Cheers! On Sun, 07 Nov 2004

Re: cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

2004-11-07 Thread Gene
Chris Hill wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, listmail wrote: ^^^ Maybe this tag should be RELENG_5_3 if you want to track 5.3-RELEASE. That didn't work either. I also just noticed that all the files in .../i386/conf end with ,v too. Gene

RE: Mac Address Spoofing(!)

2004-11-07 Thread Ara
Hello There should be a file containing info about your network card. So if you vi the file and change the Mac to the one you need, and reboot, then you should get the new ip. My isp is like yours, dhcp but based on mac address. I can't remember the location of file containing the

Re[2]: cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

2004-11-07 Thread DanGer
Hello Gene, Sunday, November 7, 2004, 4:29:24 PM, you wrote: Chris Hill wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, listmail wrote: ^^^ Maybe this tag should be RELENG_5_3 if you want to track 5.3-RELEASE. That didn't work either. I also just noticed that all the files in

Re: mpd as VPN-client in FreeBSD

2004-11-07 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 4. November 2004 09:14 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! I'm using mpd (as client)to connect to VPN-server. When I don't use mpd, my default route is 192.168.1.1. Then when i'm connected to the VPN-server, i have a new iface ng0 with ip 212.192.123.86. But default route is still

Dell Photo Printer 720

2004-11-07 Thread Jason
anyone ever gotten this to work on cups under freebsd? supposedly its a Lexmark Z615 printer. Ive found the CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz driver for linux, but has anyone gotten it to work for freebsd 5.3? Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

2004-11-07 Thread Gene
DanGer wrote: Big Snip % try using some other mirror instead of using this .at, it seems to be broken :-) I tried several mirrors - all with the same results. Gene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: don't worry about it. With XFree86, it is an issue. It appears that Xorg won't configure correctly without it. Although I won't swear that's the problem with Xorg. If you describe the actual symptoms you're seeing, someone might be able to help.

Re: problem with XFree86-Libraries

2004-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
please. top-post, Don't Lowell Gilbert wrote: You don't seem to have libXft installed. That's strange; the port should require it. Are you building through the FreeBSD ports system? If not, you really should... k wrote: Yes, i am. Okay, then: do you have libXft installed? ( pkg_info

Re: Compiling the kernel

2004-11-07 Thread R. W.
On Saturday 06 November 2004 14:19, Valerian Galeru wrote: Could there appear any problems if the /usr/src/sys tree is not completely updated(I mean I started updating , but I didn`t finish) ? If you mean: can cvsup be stopped, and started again? the answer is yes it can. If you mean that

Re: dhcpd (reprise)

2004-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if my mail from last night (Friday, localtime) got thru or not. Part of sendmail is bolloxed too... I see my /var/log/maillog filling up, but unable to resolve mail from freebsd.org. Or anywhere. Anyhow,

Re: cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

2004-11-07 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 07 November 2004 09:00 am, listmail wrote: Hello - Running a current 5.2.1 machine, I attempted to get release 5.3 via cvsup. When it was finished, I found that among other things, the file UPDATING did not exist in /usr/src and make [ world | buildworld \ ... ] bombed out

RE: First questions: rebuilding world

2004-11-07 Thread Joseph H. Fry
Also, does doing all of this bring me to the most recent stable release? (I noticed that 5.3 was released yesterday, presumably just after I downloaded 5.2.1). If you've used the correct TAG in your cvsup files and have cvsup'd over the last day or so, then you should build 5.3-RELEASE.

Re: cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

2004-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
listmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thus I have two questions: 1) What am I doing wrong? (Or am I ?) 2) What's with the files ending in ,v? http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#missingtag The supfile used was as apperase below: *default tags=5_3_RELEASE That should be tag, not

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and ed0 [SOLVED]

2004-11-07 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 09:29:27PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: Im trying to move from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.3. When I used to install 3.x/4.x on this box, I would configure the network card during the install

Ipfw Impossibility - Perpetual Motion Achieved!

2004-11-07 Thread Jason C. Wells
Pray tell how is this report from 'ipfw show' even possible? 17100 3 228 count ip from any to any 65535 27 1986 deny ip from any to any If rule 17100 only counted three packets, then how did the very next rule count 27? I do not use 'skipto' rules. We appear to be passing more packets out

Re: Ipfw Impossibility - Perpetual Motion Achieved!

2004-11-07 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Jason C. Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pray tell how is this report from 'ipfw show' even possible? 17100 3 228 count ip from any to any 65535 27 1986 deny ip from any to any If rule 17100 only counted three packets, then how did the very next rule count 27? I do not use

Re: FTP access with ipfw

2004-11-07 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Emil Am Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 03:27:02PM +0100 Emil Khatib schrieb: ipfw add allow tcp from any to any 1024-65000 keep-state is it secure to open those ports? ... if no service is running there I see no problems. On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 15:22:16 +0100, Martin Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg Log-In

2004-11-07 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Any editing that I try to do beyond the Xorg -configure leads to 'User and Password with it not accepting my system passwords. I searched for .xinitrc and .xsession and nothing showed up. I read in the FreeBSD handbook about creating .xsessions. Following the exact directions listed, I got no

Re: cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

2004-11-07 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 07 November 2004 08:29 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: listmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thus I have two questions: 1) What am I doing wrong? (Or am I ?) 2) What's with the files ending in ,v? http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#missingtag The supfile used was as apperase below:

Re: cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

2004-11-07 Thread Gene
BINGO!!! That did it. Thanks for picking up on that ridiculous typo and for the link. That explains a lot. Gene Lowell Gilbert wrote: listmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thus I have two questions: 1) What am I doing wrong? (Or am I ?) 2) What's with the files ending in ,v?

ipfw allowing browser only

2004-11-07 Thread David Banning
I am trying to filter out all traffic except browser traffic. So I tried 01000 allow tcp from any to 192.168.1.6 80 01100 allow udp from any to 192.168.1.6 80 01200 deny ip from any to 192.168.1.6 65535 allow ip from any to any But this does not allow browser traffic. I have my browser traffic

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Thanks for the reply. I liked what you said, and it pretty much sums up what I've seen all across the UNIX world. BSD and Linux seem to be geared towards permanent locations and for regular repeated types of projects. Mobility seems to a available, but on a very limited scale. However, there

Completely remove MySQL?

2004-11-07 Thread W. D.
Hi Folks, How does one completely remove MySQL from FreeBSD 4.9? My router died, and upon replacement I switched to static IP addresses on my local network. Unfortunately, When using phpMyAdmin to access a database, it tries to access the database at the old IP. I can easily recreate the

5.3 problems

2004-11-07 Thread steveb99
I downloaded 5.3 and installed it a couple times last night and had some problems. I was wondering if anyone else is having similar problems. First it is a while box computer, Intel PIII 800, 256MB PC133 RAM, Intel 815 motherboard, 2 x 40GB IDE drives, FBSD 5.2 on one drive and installing 5.3 on

Re: First questions: rebuilding world

2004-11-07 Thread David Jenkins
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:28:50 -0500, Joseph H. Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've used the correct TAG in your cvsup files and have cvsup'd over the last day or so, then you should build 5.3-RELEASE. Which tag is the correct tag? In your source-tree supfile you should have a line like:

Re: ipfw allowing browser only

2004-11-07 Thread gabriel
did ya restart natd after making that change? - does it work without the deny rule? On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 13:57:05 -0500, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to filter out all traffic except browser traffic. So I tried 01000 allow tcp from any to 192.168.1.6 80 01100 allow udp

RE: ipfw allowing browser only

2004-11-07 Thread Ara
Hello You only need tcp 80 on regular http and 443 for ssl, https I don't get what exactly are you trying to do? Are you publishing a web server to external clients behind a firewall? Any diagram text would be nice Internet router (192.168.1.6) webserver(192.168.1.1) Is this right?

Re: Completely remove MySQL?

2004-11-07 Thread David Jenkins
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 13:05:10 -0600, W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, How does one completely remove MySQL from FreeBSD 4.9? My router died, and upon replacement I switched to static IP addresses on my local network. Unfortunately, When using phpMyAdmin to access a database, it

RE: Completely remove MySQL?

2004-11-07 Thread Ara
Hello I am a noob but I think the proper way would be use port collection and use make deintsall on my sql. Then after it is gone, build the new one -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W. D. Sent: November 7, 2004 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: don't worry about it. With XFree86, it is an issue. It appears that Xorg won't configure correctly without it. Although I won't swear that's the problem with Xorg. If you describe the actual symptoms you're seeing, someone might

Re: dhcp problems (i think)

2004-11-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:13:04AM -0800, cape canaveral wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 11:46:14 -0800, Charlie Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:51:50AM -0800, cape canaveral wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 10:28:36 -0800, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat,

Re: ipfw allowing browser only

2004-11-07 Thread Emil Khatib
You must enable also DNS queries. DNS port is 53 (i think) On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 13:57:05 -0500, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to filter out all traffic except browser traffic. So I tried 01000 allow tcp from any to 192.168.1.6 80 01100 allow udp from any to 192.168.1.6

FreeBSD release ISO purpose?

2004-11-07 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey folks. I've been a FreeBSD user for a good while, and with the 5.3 release, I've been trying to figure out the details of each of the release ISOs. The Lehey book, the online handbook, release notes, and whatnot never mentions the purpose of each. The install instructions simply say insert

Re: dhcpd (reprise)

2004-11-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:20:29AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if my mail from last night (Friday, localtime) got thru or not. Part of sendmail is bolloxed too... I see my /var/log/maillog filling up, but unable to resolve

Re: FreeBSD release ISO purpose?

2004-11-07 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Louis LeBlanc wrote: | Hey folks. I've been a FreeBSD user for a good while, and with the | 5.3 release, I've been trying to figure out the details of each of the | release ISOs. The Lehey book, the online handbook, release notes, and | whatnot never

Re: Xorg Log-In

2004-11-07 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 November 2004 19:10, Lloyd Hayes wrote: Any editing that I try to do beyond the Xorg -configure leads to 'User and Password with it not accepting my system passwords. I searched for .xinitrc and .xsession and nothing showed up. I read

Re: Xorg Log-In

2004-11-07 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 November 2004 21:18, Christian Hiris wrote: Log-in as user and do: echo #!/bin/sh ~/.xsession echo exec gnome-session ~/.xsession ^^ The handbook says echo /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session ~/.xsession

Re: Xorg Log-In

2004-11-07 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Thanks. I took Xorg off by formating the system and installing version 5.2.1 of FreeBSD. It's the 2nd time that I've had v5.3 on that laptop and both times were frustrating. Both times I ran into problems related to Xorg. There is a lack of documentation concerning Xorg. I'll stick with

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:58:24AM -0700, Lloyd Hayes wrote: If I read your answer right, I can put any name in here like traveler2.hayes.org, and as long as it's connecting to the Internet and it's not a server connected from the Internet, it should be OK. Right? Well, if this is your

Re: Completely remove MySQL?

2004-11-07 Thread Michael Stassen
That's using a shotgun to kill a gnat. The IP used by phpmyadmin is set in the config.inc.php file in the phpmyadmin directory. Just edit this file to change the old setting to the new value. Problem solved. Reinstalling mysql and php, on the other hand, will have no effect. Reinstalling

Re: FreeBSD release ISO purpose?

2004-11-07 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/07/04 03:17 PM, Jeremy Faulkner sat at the `puter and typed: Louis LeBlanc wrote: | Hey folks. I've been a FreeBSD user for a good while, and with the | 5.3 release, I've been trying to figure out the details of each of the | release ISOs. The Lehey book, the online handbook, release

5.3 tmpfs mount permissions

2004-11-07 Thread J.D. Bronson
I setup /etc/rc.conf as follows: tmpmfs=YES tmpsize=512m and it works - but I want to mount tmp with some additional options and wondering how to edit /etc/rc.d/tmp to accommodate this? I would like to add this: noexec,nosuid,nodev,nosymfollow when /tmp is mounted as tmpfs. Can anyone offer some

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:29:23PM -0700, Lloyd Hayes wrote: Xorg is a problem which seems to come under the heading of New Technology. I'll stick with XFree86. Xorg is now off of this computer. X.org and XFree86 are almost identical right now. Apart from a few small details (eg. the

Re: Xorg Log-In

2004-11-07 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Thanks for the effort It may be the version that I have. I downloaded version 5.3 a two or three months ago. I may have a testing version of 5.3. I'm not sure. I'll download a new image some other time. Lloyd Hayes Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX

Re: 5.3 diskless PC 2 NICs: Can I separate NFS from other network trafic?

2004-11-07 Thread R. W.
On Sunday 07 November 2004 06:16, Rob wrote: Hello, I have a master for a cluster of diskless slaves; the master serves the slaves over NFS (/, /usr, /home). I have two internet cards in all PCs, but only using one on the slaves right now. Could I use the second internet card to separate

Re: Completely remove MySQL?

2004-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:05:10PM -0600, W. D. wrote: I can easily recreate the database--as well easily reinstall PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin--but how do I remove everything so that the old IP address is not referenced? By the way, where is this IP address being stored? In the phpMyAdmin

Re: Completely remove MySQL?

2004-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 03:40:12PM -0500, Michael Stassen wrote: Reinstalling phpmyadmin may replace config.inc.php with default settings, but you'd still have to edit it to have the correct settings, so you may as well just edit the one you already have. No, it won't trash an existing

Re: FreeBSD release ISO purpose?

2004-11-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
Louis LeBlanc wrote: What's the mininst disk for? (I'm guessing it means minimum install) The mininst iso is a bit of a misnomer. It has everything in the base install, full docs, full src, etc the only thing it doesn't have is X11 and all the extra 3rd party packages that are on disk1

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Ouch! % host traveler2.hayes.org traveler2.hayes.org has address 64.15.175.5 ssh(1) will throw screaming hissy-fits. While the hayes has been popular with computers for almost 30 years, I was sort of hoping that it would not make a difference on my personal computer. Having an email

error installing 5.3-stable - WRITE_DMA

2004-11-07 Thread craig
hi, this weekend i decided to upgrade from a working installation of fbsd 4.10 to 5.3 instead of doing a binary or source upgrade, i decided instead to do a complete reinstall. after backing up my data and relevant config files, i booted onto the 5.3 disk1 and began the install. all went well

Trouble with X

2004-11-07 Thread Damien Hull
I installed 4.10 and got the system up and running. I've tried to setup X but I'm not having any luck. I even followed the instructions in the hand book. Here's what I have. 1. Onboard video 2. Works ok but only at 800x600 3. Text is bad Can someone tell me how to setup X in freebsd? Under

Re: Trouble with X

2004-11-07 Thread gabriel
Try looking at the XFree86 logs. Under linux it works cause it'll soon be a copy of M$. But yes, look at the logs, they are always useful. /var/log/X* On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 13:55:49 -0900, Damien Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 4.10 and got the system up and running. I've tried to setup

Re: Trouble with X

2004-11-07 Thread Damien Hull
I'm reinstalling 4.10. I think I broke something trying to get X working. As soon as I get data in the X logs I'll check them. I'm going to give frambuffer a try. Don't know if this will work but I've seen it work well under Linux. On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 15:03 -0800, gabriel wrote: Try

RE: error installing 5.3-stable - WRITE_DMA

2004-11-07 Thread Ara
Hello Don't you think you may have bad media? I mean have you checked the md5 sum of downloaded and burnt on low speed? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of craig Sent: November 7, 2004 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: error installing

RE: Trouble with X

2004-11-07 Thread Ara
Hello Don't use the fully graphical for setting up x, use the shell script based option during install or from sysinstall Also if you raise the security level to high, by default it won't let you run the GUI -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: FreeBSD release ISO purpose?

2004-11-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-07 15:17, Jeremy Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Louis LeBlanc wrote: | The install instructions simply say insert the installation CD. I've | always assumed this referred to disk1. I've never needed to use disk2 in | the install, so what's it for? What's the bootonly disk for?

Re: 5.3 tmpfs mount permissions

2004-11-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-07 14:52, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I setup /etc/rc.conf as follows: tmpmfs=YES tmpsize=512m and it works - but I want to mount tmp with some additional options and wondering how to edit /etc/rc.d/tmp to accommodate this? I would like to add this:

shutdown -r Hangs After Upgrading to 4.10

2004-11-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I've been happily using 4.9-RELEASE-p4 since April 2004. Then, I decided to upgrade to 4.10-RELEASE-p3 to fix the pthreads problem since I added an external tape drive to the QLogic SCSI card that was already in my system. Anyway, after upgrading, I experienced the same shutdown hanging

Re: Trouble with X

2004-11-07 Thread Dev Tugnait
Setting up X is well explained in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html * Damien Hull ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I installed 4.10 and got the system up and running. I've tried to setup X but I'm not having any luck. I even followed the instructions

Re: ipfw allowing browser only

2004-11-07 Thread David Banning
Hello You only need tcp 80 on regular http and 443 for ssl, https I don't get what exactly are you trying to do? Are you publishing a web server to external clients behind a firewall? Any diagram text would be nice This is simply to block all on the network from using any port except 80. I

re bittorrent

2004-11-07 Thread nbco
Hey list, I downloaded the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1 iso via bittorrent. The iso (644.91MB) downloaded in about 3 hours, over a 512/256 adsl connection. Which I think is pretty good. There don't seem to be that many people uploading it from me at the moment. I'm impressed, .nbco

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-07 Thread Quinn Ellis
nbco wrote: Hey list, I downloaded the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1 iso via bittorrent. The iso (644.91MB) downloaded in about 3 hours, over a 512/256 adsl connection. Which I think is pretty good. There don't seem to be that many people uploading it from me at the moment. I'm impressed, .nbco

Re: ipfw allowing browser only

2004-11-07 Thread David Banning
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 08:39:24PM +0100, Emil Khatib wrote: You must enable also DNS queries. DNS port is 53 (i think) I looked around and I think you are right on the port number, but it still does not run. Here is my list now; 01150 allow tcp from any to 192.168.1.6 53 01152 allow tcp from

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-07 Thread Dev Tugnait
Nice dude..well quinn the freebsd team is giving bitorrent a whirl! * nbco ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey list, I downloaded the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1 iso via bittorrent. The iso (644.91MB) downloaded in about 3 hours, over a 512/256 adsl connection. Which I think is pretty good.

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-07 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Quinn Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Why do you download with bittorrent as opposed to FTP? Distributed sources, this way FTP servers don't get as hammered if parts of the download are coming from multiple sources. Cheers Tim -- Tim Aslat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spyderweb

Re: 5.3 tmpfs mount permissions

2004-11-07 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 06:06 PM 11/07/2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-11-07 14:52, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I setup /etc/rc.conf as follows: tmpmfs=YES tmpsize=512m and it works - but I want to mount tmp with some additional options and wondering how to edit /etc/rc.d/tmp to accommodate

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-07 Thread nbco
On Monday 08 November 2004 00:28, Quinn Ellis wrote: nbco wrote: Hey list, I downloaded the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1 iso via bittorrent. The iso (644.91MB) downloaded in about 3 hours, over a 512/256 adsl connection. Which I think is pretty good. There don't seem to be that many people

RE: ipfw allowing browser only

2004-11-07 Thread Ara
So you only want to allow web access (http) and nothing else? The problem comes when the user is smart enough to get around the proxy access and use the proxy setting on messenger to use http traffic bypassing deny rule. Create deny rules based on this which might help AOL IM login.oscar.aol.com

Top question

2004-11-07 Thread Josh Paetzel
The top manpage does not explain what the C field in top's output is for. I assume it shows which CPU a process is running on...would be nice to know for sure what it is though. PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPUCPU COMMAND -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel

5.3RC2 and usb keyboards install problems

2004-11-07 Thread eodyna
Hi there, Work recently purchased a Dell gx280. I orignally installed 5.2.1 and had problems with drivers. It was kindly mentioned that i should install 5.3 to help with these problems. I was also informed about problems with usb keyboards on boot/startup. Ive tried to have a look on google

RE: 5.3RC2 and usb keyboards install problems

2004-11-07 Thread Ara
I have identical problem and haven't found a solution yet. Take a look here http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71443 Looks like so many people have problem with USB keyboard. My ps2 is broken and that is the only option I have -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Top question

2004-11-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-07 18:53, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The top manpage does not explain what the C field in top's output is for. I assume it shows which CPU a process is running on...would be nice to know for sure what it is though. PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME

Re: Top question

2004-11-07 Thread Dev Tugnait
The option C displays total cpu states or usage rather than indiviual cpus on a smp board. * Josh Paetzel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The top manpage does not explain what the C field in top's output is for. I assume it shows which CPU a process is running on...would be nice to know for

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