The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-03-26 - 2006-04-15

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Newbie question -- which files to back up?

I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner, probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE. My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff? I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system backups for you. The

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar you installed from ports. The last directory will det all of your user's data.

a new ftp mirror of freebsd

i wish make a new ftp mirror of freebsd. i have a private server on the M9 established http://andr.ru/img/resume/se7320vp2.jpg ftp://213.248.60.220/ I shall be grateful for answers: 1) how many the mbyte should be had? 2) what for copying are better for using? (sitecopy?

adding root cert to openssl

Hi I'd like to add a certificate to OpenSSL. The OpenSSL HOWTO mentions OPENSSLDIR, which is /etc/ssl on FreeBSD (for OpenSSL from base). To have OpenSSL recognize a new certificate, it has to be put into OPENSSLDIR/certs/, but this does not exist on FreeBSD. The only certs/ dir I could find is

Re: a new ftp mirror of freebsd

On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 13:46 +0400, Andrew Wingorodov wrote: i wish make a new ftp mirror of freebsd. i have a private server on the M9 established http://andr.ru/img/resume/se7320vp2.jpg ftp://213.248.60.220/ I shall be grateful for answers: 1) how many the mbyte

Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 6.0

Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 6.0 on my intel Celeron 2.0 Pc, but every time i get the following error when the next installation process is Fdisk : no disks found! please verify that your disk controller is being properly probed please help. Regards, Mo.

TV Tuner viewing software suggestions

I'm trying to use my TV Tuner (A Leadtek Brooktree chipset tuner), and I have gotten FXTV to work great with one exception: It appears to only work in something that looks to be about 320x240, when I go fullscreen or anything larger than what it opens as, it only draws to part of the screen...

Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 6.0

You need to provide more information on your system such as what disk controller(s) it has and what hard disks. -Derek At 07:24 AM 4/16/2006, Mohamad Babaei wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 6.0 on my intel Celeron 2.0 Pc, but every time i get the following error when the

RE: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 6.0

try trying turn plug-n-play and power management in the pc bios. post the boot probe log here -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mohamad Babaei Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 8:24 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems Installing

Gmail vs FreeBSD

So what's up with gmail and freebsd sites? I haven't seen a single message delivered to my inbox since April 13. Not from mailing lists, not from gnats scripts - nothing. I told the lists to send mail to my other address, I then redirect from there back to gmail - and it works. So gmail seems to

Re: Gmail vs FreeBSD

Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: So what's up with gmail and freebsd sites? I haven't seen a single message delivered to my inbox since April 13. Not from mailing lists, not from gnats scripts - nothing. I told the lists to send mail to my other address, I then redirect from there back to gmail - and

Gmail and FreeBSD

Well I'm glad it's not just me - I even tried subscribing again and I haven't got the activation request. So I'd say for reason gmail is bouncing the emails, as the freeBSD lists seem to have unsubcribed me.. Other email seems to be coming in fine.. -- Martin

wifi ath

Bought a WiFi D-Link with atheros chipset. I use a non-default kernel, so I guess I have to put some options back in and recompile. Will upgrade to 6.1-rc at the same time ;-) Any pitfalls? What options exactly do I need to have my ath based wifi card up and running? -- dick --

where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

I want a non-root user (I'm happy to limit it to wheel users), to be able to mount smb shares and rip music, but I don't know how to do this. Where can I find documentation on this? Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: wifi ath

dick hoogendijk wrote: Bought a WiFi D-Link with atheros chipset. I use a non-default kernel, so I guess I have to put some options back in and recompile. Will upgrade to 6.1-rc at the same time ;-) Any pitfalls? What options exactly do I need to have my ath based wifi card up and running?

adding root cert to openssl

Tobias Roth writes: I'd like to add a certificate to OpenSSL. The OpenSSL HOWTO mentions OPENSSLDIR, which is /etc/ssl on FreeBSD (for OpenSSL from base). To have OpenSSL recognize a new certificate, it has to be put into OPENSSLDIR/certs/, but this does not exist on FreeBSD. The only

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want a non-root user (I'm happy to limit it to wheel users), to be able to mount smb shares and rip music, but I don't know how to do this. Where can I find documentation on this? For the mounting part, see the FAQ entry titled How do I let ordinary

direct rending doesnt work in xorg

Hi All I have been tearing my hair out trying to fix this problem. Basically Direct Rendering isnt working. My setup:- OS:- FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #3 Xorg Installed from ports:- [rvn] /home/danny# pkg_info | grep xorg xorg-6.9.0 X.Org distribution metaport xorg-clients-6.9.0_2 X

[SOLVED] Re: seeking help on adding a disk

--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] # newfs -U /dev/ad2s1e Newfs used to require the raw device name, as in newfs -U /dev/rad2s1e but I see the man page doesn't show that in its example

Re: wifi ath

On 16 Apr Patrick Bowen wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: Bought a WiFi D-Link with atheros chipset. Any pitfalls? What options exactly do I need to have my ath based wifi card up and running? Test the card with kldload if_ath as root, then ifconfig and dhcp, before you re-compile the

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar you installed from ports.

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

At 09:08 AM 4/16/2006, Oliver Iberien wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That

First Upgrade SUCCESS!

Hi all, After using FreeBSD for many years, and all the time upgrading via backing up data and installing from new ISO CD, I have finally decided to talke the time and learn source and ports upgrading. The first one I did was on a devel server with a few ports installed. Upgraded 5.4

Newbie question - using sysinstall Upgrade an existing system - easy?

What actually happens when you use Upgrade an existing system in sysinstall? Do you end up with the X-server, etc., all functioning as before, or is there a lot of cleanup to do afterwards? (In my case, this would be from 6.0 to 6.1, whenever the release version of 6.1 comes out. I am getting

Re: First Upgrade SUCCESS!

Grant Peel wrote: [ ... ] 1). Is there a simpler way to run mergmaster. What I wound up doing after going blind reading all the diffs, and saying I would 'Deal With Them LAter was to re-run it and hit 'i' to accept the newly installed version, as the manpage states 'i' is the most commonly

Plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 error .

Dear support. Am trying to install FreeBSD 4.11 on a new machine without anyother software ( HP Compaq dx6120 ) with SATA 80 Gb harddisk. But I keep on getting this error. Plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0. Reason am using the archived version is due to the fact that Etinc

wireless setup help

Hi, I'm having difficulties connecting to my roommate's apple airport. Following the guide I tried using a fixed IP: ifconfig ath0 10.0.1.5 netmask 0xff00 ssid True That but got status: no carrier and obviously couldn't ping anything. I believe WEP is turned off at the moment as my roommate

kill aRts

Hello Im having some trouble with my sound on gnome. When I go to my multimedia system selector both my default sink and default source are set to OSS, but when i test them i get: Failed to construct test pipeline for 'OSS - Open Sound System' I would like to kill aRts to see if this is my

Re: Why are people singing there postings on this mailling list ?

On Saturday 15 April 2006 15:23, Benjamin Lutz wrote: On Saturday 15 April 2006 15:23, Kees Plonsz wrote: Is is so important to know that the question or answer came from that person ? I don't think so. Even if it were so, for me it is too much trouble to import every key into my

Re: wireless setup help

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having difficulties connecting to my roommate's apple airport. Following the guide I tried using a fixed IP: ifconfig ath0 10.0.1.5 netmask 0xff00 ssid True That but got status: no carrier and obviously couldn't ping anything. I believe WEP is turned off

Re: direct rending doesnt work in xorg

Danny Butroyd schrieb: Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver ati VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] BusID PCI:1:0:0 Screen 0 EndSection You have to use the driver radeon in

Re: Anything to recode mp3 files in the ports?

On Saturday 15 April 2006 14:08, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Hi! I have a sizable collection of mp3 files (most of my CDs, actually) encoded at high ratio for archiving. I'd like to put some of them on a low-capacity player. Is there a utility (preferably -- a ported one), that can reencode an

Re: Improving kde perfomance...

Hey. I did jump in logic assuming kde is to blame, so I tried fluxbox on this machine and everything runs normal, XOrg cpu usage is 1%. but while I was setting everything up some stuff happened that I would like to mention. First I noticed there are two instances of kdm running at the same time

nvnet fails to make

I hope this would be appropriate for this list, I have just downloaded the distfile for the nvnet network interface card built in to a Gigabyte motherboard. The make command aborted with an avalanche of errors, see attachment. Does anyone have any info that would help me correct this situation

/boot at beginning of drive

Hello I'm trying to install FreeBSD with the following partition scheme... /boot 100mb (50mb too small? Install fails with filesystem full error) swap 1gb /tmp 100mb / remainder However after I install and boot, it says it can't find /boot/kernel/kernel The version is 6.0. Am I missing

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

At 12:40 PM 4/16/2006, Brendan Grossman wrote: Hello I'm trying to install FreeBSD with the following partition scheme... /boot 100mb (50mb too small? Install fails with filesystem full error) swap 1gb /tmp 100mb / remainder However after I install and boot, it says it can't find

Re: mouse scroll up problem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and optical Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, USB native, plugged to PS/2 port via it's own USB-PS/2 adaptor. When I scroll my mouse wheel up in X11 it acts like scroll up + left button one/double-click. For example, in Opera, Firefox. In MS

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

-Original Message- From: Glenn Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 5:16 AM To: Brendan Grossman; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive /boot has to be in the / file system. There's a rather lengthy thread about this a

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:59, Brendan Grossman wrote: -Original Message- From: Glenn Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 5:16 AM To: Brendan Grossman; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive /boot has to be in the /

FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM

On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC. There must be

Out of memory during ridiculously large request

Since an upgrade to 6.0 (perl 5.8.8) I am getting the following error: Out of memory during ridiculously large request at /usr/local/pop-before-smtp-1.36/pop-before-smtp line 355 Below is the offending line: foreach (keys %db) While googling I see there are other programs having the same

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

It's not a good idea to put everything on the / filesystem. At a minimum I would have: / swap /var /usr Your users will not fill up /var unless you allow them unlimited mail, databases or access to root. They will have unlimited access up until their quota has been reached. Where they

Newbie question - cannot add new disk

Hi, I have been trying to add a second IDE hard drive. I can't seem to get it mounted, or to get what I put into sysinstall and what comes out when I use the command line to agree. I can use sysinstall and then run newfs: bsd# newfs /dev/ad1s1c /dev/ad1s1c: 39205.5MB (80292804 sectors) block

Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM

On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) This is

Re: [SOLVED] Re: seeking help on adding a disk

This is all I have: $ ls -lh /dev/r* crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 10 Apr 9 15:55 /dev/random No raw devices. Yes. devices don't just show up and stay there any more. They are managed by devfs. I haven't studied that to see just how it works yet, so I

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: It's not a good idea to put everything on the / filesystem. At a minimum I would have: / swap /var /usr Your users will not fill up /var unless you allow them unlimited mail, databases or access to root. They will have

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

-Original Message- From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 6:19 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brendan Grossman Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: It's not a good idea to

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Sunday 16 April 2006 21:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: I agree that it's not a great idea, but considering the software I'm using, user files are stored in /var and /home. I don't know what percentage of quotas users will use for emails, databases, or home dirs, and I don't want to take a

gateway setup

I just moved into a new position and will be implementing a new network topology and I wanted to use the opportunity to introduce them to FreeBSD. I'll be setting up a FreeBSD gatewall/firewall with 3 NICs behind two networks. Say, fxp0-cable modem to nic1, fxp1-nic2 to a Microsoft Small Business

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:51, Brendan Grossman wrote: -Original Message- From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 6:19 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brendan Grossman Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive On Sunday 16 April

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Sunday 16 April 2006 21:51, Brendan Grossman wrote: -Original Message- From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 6:19 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brendan Grossman Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive On Sunday 16 April

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

Brendan Grossman wrote: Here is my reason for separating /tmp and mounting it noexec,nosuid: http://www.sagonet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2852 Quoth mount(8): noexec Do not allow execution of any binaries on the mounted file system. This option is useful

Re: adding root cert to openssl

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:03:03AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Tobias Roth writes: I'd like to add a certificate to OpenSSL. The OpenSSL HOWTO mentions OPENSSLDIR, which is /etc/ssl on FreeBSD (for OpenSSL from base). To have OpenSSL recognize a new certificate, it has to be put into

Not receiving email from FreeBSD lists on Gmail for about 3 days

Hi all, I'm subscribed to several FreeBSD lists and I stopped receiving any email on my gmail account on the 13th. Anyone else experiencing this problem or the exact opposite, actually receiving mail on your gmail account? Please add me as a direct recipient for any response. My thanks in

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /, /usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install. I can separate /usr, but my goal is to combine /home and /var, or at least where mail and databases are stored, for reasons already mentioned. I suppose I could do

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Sunday 16 April 2006 22:30, Brendan Grossman wrote: Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /, /usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install. I can separate /usr, but my goal is to combine /home and /var, or at least where mail and databases are stored,

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Sunday 16 April 2006 14:19, Colin Percival wrote: Brendan Grossman wrote: Here is my reason for separating /tmp and mounting it noexec,nosuid: http://www.sagonet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2852 Quoth mount(8): noexec Do not allow execution of any binaries on the

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:30, Brendan Grossman wrote: Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /, /usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install. I can separate /usr, but my goal is to combine /home and /var, or at least where mail and databases are stored,

ssh to Freebsd 6.1 (help)

Hello, I just fresh installed FreeBSD 6.0R, The box connected to a hub and 1 more computer XP connected to same HUB, on my home LAN, both can ping/replay each other, both NIC interfaces are up. XP is the internet gateway. 192.168.0.1 and BSD is 192.168.0.2 The problem is when i Open my

bounced email to a freedbsd mailing list

I just got a couple of messages to freebsd-chat rejected. Can someone clue me in? The rejection message was: The original message was received at Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:33:36 -0400 from h-67-101-99-172.snfccasy.dynamic.covad.net [67.101.99.172] - Transcript of session follows

/boot/loader and modules

Hello, Last night I installed FreeBSD 6.0 - Release on a Gateway 450SX4 laptop. For some reason it seems the loader is not reading the local changes made to /boot/loader.conf . Have any of you expierenced this? I've checked my changes made to loader.conf and they all seem fine. /boot/loader.rc

RE: ssh to Freebsd 6.1-UPDATE

Sorry, But forgot to say that this problem happens when there is no Internet connection only! But when internet sharing presents on my XP all works fine. Thank you and sorry again. Hello, I just fresh installed FreeBSD 6.0R, The box connected to a hub and 1 more computer XP connected

Re: bounced email to a freedbsd mailing list

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 03:23:44PM -0700, Dan Strick wrote: I just got a couple of messages to freebsd-chat rejected. Can someone clue me in? The rejection message was: The original message was received at Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:33:36 -0400 from

Re: Not receiving email from FreeBSD lists on Gmail for about 3 days

Joao Barros wrote: Hi all, I'm subscribed to several FreeBSD lists and I stopped receiving any email on my gmail account on the 13th. Anyone else experiencing this problem or the exact opposite, actually receiving mail on your gmail account? Please add me as a direct recipient for any

Re: TV Tuner viewing software suggestions

On Sunday 16 April 2006 14:39, Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to use my TV Tuner (A Leadtek Brooktree chipset tuner), and I have gotten FXTV to work great with one exception: It appears to only work in something that looks to be about 320x240, when I go fullscreen or anything larger than what

System user creation

Hello folks; I am trying to create a system user for a program to use. I haven't found any specific instructions for doing this in the FreeBSD manual or Absolute FreeBSD. The program exits with an error saying it can't create/write to a pid file. I believe it is the way I used adduser to

Re: /boot/loader and modules

On Sunday 16 April 2006 17:42, jesse marquez wrote: Hello, Last night I installed FreeBSD 6.0 - Release on a Gateway 450SX4 laptop. For some reason it seems the loader is not reading the local changes made to /boot/loader.conf . Have any of you expierenced this? I've checked my changes made

Re: System user creation

I am trying to create a system user for a program to use. I haven't found any specific instructions for doing this in the FreeBSD manual or Absolute FreeBSD. The program exits with an error saying it can't create/write to a pid file. I believe it is the way I used adduser to create it and I

Re: System user creation

On Sunday 16 April 2006 16:01, jekillen wrote: Hello folks; I am trying to create a system user for a program to use. I haven't found any specific instructions for doing this in the FreeBSD manual or Absolute FreeBSD. The program exits with an error saying it can't create/write to a pid

Re: ssh to Freebsd 6.1-UPDATE

On Monday 17 April 2006 00:46, Marwan Sultan wrote: Sorry, But forgot to say that this problem happens when there is no Internet connection only! But when internet sharing presents on my XP all works fine. Thank you and sorry again. Hello, I just fresh installed FreeBSD 6.0R, The

On-Board video card configuration.

I am fairly new to FreeBSD, and I have been having problems with my IBM Aptiva 2196-24A in getting the on-board video card configured with freeBSD. So i can run X window system at a decent resolution. All i can get to work is Standard VGA driver at 640x800 at 8bit. I have had this card working

a favorite graphical ftp client?

i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :) thanks, jonathan horne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :) gftp is quite nice imho -- http://gftp.seul.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

boot0: is booting from non-BIOS-recognized disk possible?

I have read the boot0cfg, disklabel (I have FreeBSD 4.9), and fdisk manpages trying to figure out if boot0 can solve my problem. I did not find the answer there, or in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/disks.html or the freebsd-questions archives. I would like to be able to boot from my Seagate

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :) gftp is quite nice imho -- http://gftp.seul.org/ ___

USB MODEM

I purchased a usb modem recently and connected it to my FreeBSD box to see if it is compatible. I have recompiled my kernel with device ucom device umodem When I connect the modem I get the following kernel message. ucom0: OMRON OMRON ME5614U2 DATA FAX MODEM, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 2/2

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :) gftp is quite nice imho -- http://gftp.seul.org/ sorry, i should have

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :) gftp is quite nice imho --

tip vs minicom

i am trying to setup a dial-in terminal service between 2 machines with serial modems attached. In the FreeBSD Handbook the instructions for a dial-out service use the tip and cu commands. I have been using minicom to connect to varius serial terminals such as cisco routers, so i am used to it. Is

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :) gftp is quite nice imho -- http://gftp.seul.org/

Re: System user creation

On Apr 16, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 16:01, jekillen wrote: Hello folks; I am trying to create a system user for a program to use. I haven't found any specific instructions for doing this in the FreeBSD manual or Absolute FreeBSD. The program exits with

DIAL-IN TERMINAL SERVICE

I have attached a modem to my freebsd box and trying to setup a simple dial-in terminal service. I have tried to follow the instructions in the freebsd handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/dialup.html I am able to get a terminal working on the serial port (tested

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

On Sunday 16 April 2006 22:56, Micah wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :)