dhclient + DHCPNAK = release ip?

2005-09-24 Thread Mark Cullen
Good morning :-) I've recently switched ISP and got a static IP. However, my ADSL modem is a bit dense it seems. With a dynamic IP things worked reasonably well. With my new static IP, however, whenever the connection drops - I don't have the worlds highest quality phone line or something -

FreeBSD 5.4 sendmail 8.13.3 no-DNS

2005-09-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hi, When I'm at home with my FreeBSD 5.4 and connected through an ISDN line with my company I've no DNS but I want to send e-mail as well; I've configured a submit.mc and made the submit.cf saying that e-mail should just go without DNS to some SMART_HOST ('proxy') and removed 'dns' from the

New user getting very discouraged with IPv6 problems, cannot get tunnel working completely :(

2005-09-24 Thread resonant evil
Hi all, I'm a brand new poster to the forums, and consider myself a novice FreeBSD user.. I used to use an IPv6 tunnel broker that worked fine, and even had a great program in C to do all the configuring of my tunnel automatically, but sadly, they are sharing my /48 with like 4 other people

Re: Port for html manipulating proxy

2005-09-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Jacob Rhoden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to find some sort of proxy server for my own machine, that allows me to manipulate/strip things (ie strip adverts and fix css on my commonly used pages). Is there a port for this? I use /usr/ports/www/privoxy. You can manipulate web

Re: New user getting very discouraged with IPv6 problems, cannot get tunnel working completely :(

2005-09-24 Thread aksis
On Friday 23 September 2005 01:08, resonant evil wrote: Here are the full tunnel details I was approved for Server IPV4 Address: 64.71.128.83 http://64.71.128.83 Server IPV6 Address: 2001:470:1F01:::DD2/127 Client IPV4 Address: 70.28.MY.IP Client IPV6 Address: 2001:470:1F01:::DD3/127

Re: touchpad's scrolling feature

2005-09-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Sebastien Chassot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to configure internal mouse on a inspiron 9300. Is there any way to configure horizontal/vertical touchpad's scrolling (right and lower side of the touchpad). All my dreams are coming true this feature is my last wish. actual config:

problem building sendmail+sasl FIXED

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Wang
May I ask how you were able to fix this problem? Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

portupgrade + make_ports.sh: Fixing everything in one go

2005-09-24 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello! I thought I'd ask you all if my make_ports.sh is as convenient as I think it is, or if it's totally off track or what not: # cat make_ports.sh cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile cd /usr/ports make fetchindex portupgrade -raP portsdb -uU pkgdb -F portsclean -CDLP As for portupgrade -raP I

Re: Is this possible? DHCP / DNS related.

2005-09-24 Thread Hornet
On 9/24/05, Ben Racine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently set up a web server on my college network. It is behind DNS and DHCP servers that are out of my control. What I would like to do is be able to associate a name something like bsdserve..edu . However, I'm fairly new at all

Re: gateway and smmsp

2005-09-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
steve lasiter wrote: I have all FreeBSD boxes running 5.4. My gateway server is set up as 192.168.0.1 and I have four behind it. My mail server is 192.168.0.2 running postfix and apache. I have the proper redirect in the ipnat.rules and the proper ipf.rules to allow in email on port 25. I can

problem with printed output from freebsd as a print server using cups, samba, hpijs

2005-09-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been experimenting with freebsd for a couple of weeks now, Im very familiar with linux, and I used gentoo (whose portage install setup is modeled from freebsd ports) I had a Gentoo server that did the following tasks... cups print system, samba shared those printers to windows boxes I have

Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-24 Thread Gordon Ross
I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop. I've mounted on the desktop the /usr/ports directory from the server. My idea being that I could share the one /usr/ports directory amongst my machines and save disc space, and also save having to recompile everything

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-24 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Gordon Ross wrote: I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop. I've mounted on the desktop the /usr/ports directory from the server. My idea being that I could share the one /usr/ports directory amongst my machines and save disc space, and also save having to

Volume managers

2005-09-24 Thread Valerio daelli
Hello we have an Apple XRAID disk and we would like to use it as a single disk, joining its two disks of 2.5T each in order to get a single volume of 5T. We are experiencing problems with vinum, we keep getting kernel panic and we heard the vinum code is not very stable with 5.4. Is there any

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-24 Thread Gordon Ross
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Gordon Ross wrote: I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop. I've mounted on the desktop the /usr/ports directory from the server. My idea being that I could share the one /usr/ports directory amongst

Java Runtime

2005-09-24 Thread virgil huston
I am running FreeBSD 5.4 and installed Blackdown JRE via the ports. I continue to get the plugin error that This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed with the appropriate plugin. Any advice? Am I missing something? Thanks. Virgil

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gordon Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop. I've mounted on the desktop the /usr/ports directory from the server. My idea being that I could share the one /usr/ports directory amongst my machines and save disc space, and

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-24 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Gordon Ross wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Gordon Ross wrote: I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop. I've mounted on the desktop the /usr/ports directory from the server. My idea being that I could share the one

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-24 Thread Gordon Ross
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gordon Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop. I've mounted on the desktop the /usr/ports directory from the server. My idea being that I could share the one /usr/ports directory

Re: portupgrade + make_ports.sh: Fixing everything in one go

2005-09-24 Thread Micah
Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: Hello! I thought I'd ask you all if my make_ports.sh is as convenient as I think it is, or if it's totally off track or what not: # cat make_ports.sh cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile cd /usr/ports make fetchindex portupgrade -raP portsdb -uU pkgdb -F portsclean -CDLP

diskless boot failure after installing xorg

2005-09-24 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Hi, I have just tried to setup 6.0BETA5 for diskless clients - just for the sport :-) I have installed the full system into /var/diskless/FreeBSD. Everything actually went fine, I could boot up, got root mounted and the home dir. So, next step was to install X.Org: chroot into

Re: Is this possible? DHCP / DNS related.

2005-09-24 Thread nawcom
I was having the same issue here at where I work at University of Michigan. We had a server that I personally set up for my work there, (static IP), but then we got a new net admin for the building that changed some stuff - making the server ip dynamic which made the dns record useless. There

Re: Is this possible? DHCP / DNS related.

2005-09-24 Thread Ben Racine
Well, I have permission to run the server, as I'm a CS major and it's an independent project I'm working on, so that's not a problem. I had already gone to dyndns.com and have a name associated with it that way, I was just wondering if there was a way to make some sort of end-run on the campus

Re[2]: Is this possible? DHCP / DNS related.

2005-09-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:12:59 -0500, Ben Racine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is this possible? DHCP / DNS related. Wrote these words of wisdom: Well, I have permission to run the server, as I'm a CS major and it's an independent project I'm working on, so that's not a problem. I had already

Re: Java Runtime

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:19:58PM -0400, virgil huston wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 and installed Blackdown JRE via the ports. I continue to get the plugin error that This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed with the appropriate plugin. You

Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Joe Graham
Hello, I've been playing off and on with FreeBSD for a bit of time now, but I would still consider myself a relative newbie. I've read enough and played enough to know how to install applications from ports (e.g., I was able to successfully install Moria just by reading the pages I could find).

Re: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:16 PM 9/24/2005, Joe Graham wrote: Hello, I've been playing off and on with FreeBSD for a bit of time now, but I would still consider myself a relative newbie. I've read enough and played enough to know how to install applications from ports (e.g., I was able to successfully install Moria

FreeBSD 6.0

2005-09-24 Thread Ansar Mohammed
I cant seem to find any information on FreeBSD 6.0 on the www.freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/ website. Where can I find information about it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 6.0

2005-09-24 Thread Chris
Ansar Mohammed wrote: I cant seem to find any information on FreeBSD 6.0 on the www.freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/ website. Where can I find information about it? http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html -- Best regards, Chris Whatever carrousel you stand by, your baggage will come in

Configuring sound

2005-09-24 Thread Michał Masłowski
I have problems with sound configuration. I've tried this: #kldload sound #kldload snd_ich Output worked, but I didn't hear anything recorded from input. I'd like to use Skype (with /dev/dsp), but its impossible without working sound input. What shall I do?

Re[2]: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:30:43 -0700, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help! Stupid Newbie Question Wrote these words of wisdom: If the port you installed was relatively recent, you just need mysql_enable=YES in your rc.conf. If it's an older port, look for a sample startup

Re: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Joe Graham
On 9/24/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:16 PM 9/24/2005, Joe Graham wrote: Hello, I've been playing off and on with FreeBSD for a bit of time now, but I would still consider myself a relative newbie. I've read enough and played enough to know how to install applications

Playing Itunes music

2005-09-24 Thread Chris
There still isnt a port that will play Itune files natively is there? -- Best regards, Chris Watching a birdie in hand is safer that watching one overhead. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re[2]: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:05 PM 9/24/2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:30:43 -0700, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help! Stupid Newbie Question Wrote these words of wisdom: If the port you installed was relatively recent, you just need mysql_enable=YES in your rc.conf. If it's an

Re: Configuring sound

2005-09-24 Thread jonas
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:57:23 +0200 Micha__ Mas__owski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have problems with sound configuration. I've tried this: #kldload sound #kldload snd_ich Output worked, but I didn't hear anything recorded from input. I'd like to use Skype (with /dev/dsp), but its impossible

Re: New user getting very discouraged with IPv6 problems, cannot get tunnel working completely :(

2005-09-24 Thread resonant evil
Hi, thanks for the response, but alas it's still not working :( On 9/24/05, aksis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im using Hurricane Electric as well, When you login to HE they have a link for an example config generation, this is what I used. I had some problems with the handbook as well. Yeah,

Re[2]: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Robert Huff
Glenn Dawson writes: I don't believe I've ever seen a port install itself so that it starts at boot time. As I understand it, up until recently (advent of rcNG ??) that was the default, i.e. ports routinely installed foo.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d instaed of foo.sh.sample.

Re[2]: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:51 PM 9/24/2005, Robert Huff wrote: Glenn Dawson writes: I don't believe I've ever seen a port install itself so that it starts at boot time. As I understand it, up until recently (advent of rcNG ??) that was the default, i.e. ports routinely installed foo.sh in

Re: Playing Itunes music

2005-09-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 24, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Chris wrote: There still isnt a port that will play Itune files natively is there? -- Best regards, Chris Watching a birdie in hand is safer that watching one overhead. If you mean encrypted mp4s, try hymn. You need the DRM info though from an iPod or

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 24, 2005, at 9:36 AM, Gordon Ross wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gordon Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop. I've mounted on the desktop the /usr/ports directory from the server. My idea being

Help with Xorg

2005-09-24 Thread Subhro
Hello folks, I am facing a problem in using the nvidia driver with Xorg. I have installed both the versions from the ports tree. When I start X with the nvidia driver, it complains that no GPU was found and subsequently it says that no usable Screens found. I am attaching the Xorg log file, the

Re: portupgrade + make_ports.sh: Fixing everything in one go

2005-09-24 Thread martinko
Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: Hello! I thought I'd ask you all if my make_ports.sh is as convenient as I think it is, or if it's totally off track or what not: # cat make_ports.sh cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile cd /usr/ports make fetchindex portupgrade -raP portsdb -uU pkgdb -F portsclean -CDLP As

Re: Help with Xorg

2005-09-24 Thread nawcom
Is the nvidia module being loaded into the kernel? i am assuming so. the devices should be created during bootup. let me know if /dev/nvidia* is being created, or email a boot log. Thanks, Ben Subhro wrote: Hello folks, I am facing a problem in using the nvidia driver with Xorg. I have

Re: Help with Xorg

2005-09-24 Thread Subhro
nawcom wrote: Is the nvidia module being loaded into the kernel? i am assuming so. the devices should be created during bootup. let me know if /dev/nvidia* is being created, or email a boot log. Thanks, Ben Hello Ben, Thanks for your reply. kldstat shows that nvidia.ko has been loaded.

Re: Help with Xorg

2005-09-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 24, 2005, at 4:32 PM, nawcom wrote: Is the nvidia module being loaded into the kernel? i am assuming so. the devices should be created during bootup. let me know if / dev/nvidia* is being created, or email a boot log. Thanks, Ben Subhro wrote: Hello folks, I am facing a

Re: New user getting very discouraged with IPv6 problems, cannot get tunnel working completely :(

2005-09-24 Thread aksis
On the HE site, after you login, in the Tunnel Details section, there is an option to rebuild the tunnel, this might fix the problem. Beyond that I would email HE, send them the relative info and ask them to look at it. Your side looks correct. ___

Re: Help with Xorg

2005-09-24 Thread Subhro
Garrett Cooper wrote: On Sep 24, 2005, at 4:32 PM, nawcom wrote: Is the nvidia module being loaded into the kernel? i am assuming so. the devices should be created during bootup. let me know if / dev/nvidia* is being created, or email a boot log. Thanks, Ben Subhro wrote: Hello