Re: huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2

2007-12-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net
Your HSDPA modem presented itself like a mass storage device, probably with some autorun and virus like drivers intended for the Windows operating system :-) unfortunately, this is the intended behaviour. this device has the ability to present itself as mass storage which will show up as a

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-07 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 06 December 2007 17:00, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:37:21 Silver Salonen wrote: In my case there's a straight connection between bridge1 and bridge2 too, so that they don't have to communicate through root-bridge. Yes, but that also can create a

Re: PF firewall

2007-12-07 Thread shinny knight
ajtiM wrote: Hi! I am a new FreeBSD 7.0 beta3 user and I have standalone computer connected to the internet (cable). I use both, console and KDE desktop. I tried to setup PF firewall for the standalone computer but I have a problem with internal messages (mail) which are blocked if

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:33:25PM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:56:33PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:43:35PM +, John Murphy wrote: snip Thanks for all the tips on this subject. One more question: How would I enable a

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:56:33PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:43:35PM +, John Murphy wrote: snip Thanks for all the tips on this subject. One more question: How would I enable a local keyboard layout in single user mode? I have had to find '/' by

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Doyle
On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:10:28PM +1100, David Morton wrote: I have been out of work so long (since being diagnosed as autistic and scared) that even as an IT professional, I now get very anxious about messing with my PC. However, I got a magazine that included FreeBSD/i386 6.2 on the DVD

Re: PF firewall

2007-12-07 Thread Erik Norgaard
ajtiM wrote: Hi! I am a new FreeBSD 7.0 beta3 user and I have standalone computer connected to the internet (cable). I use both, console and KDE desktop. I tried to setup PF firewall for the standalone computer but I have a problem with internal messages (mail) which are blocked if firewall

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:43:35PM +, John Murphy wrote: On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:53:02 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: RW wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-07 Thread John Murphy
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:53:02 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: RW wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount /

Re: join

2007-12-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Chris Els wrote: Chris Els Mail :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 011-542 1110 Cell : 082 783 7999 Fax: 0866975698 - PLEASE NOTE - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.

Re: When switching from console to X, mousebuffer gets pasted

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Huff
Willem Hendriks writes: I'm seeing this on Debian GNU/Linux, with the same version of X, so it's not a FreeBSD issue. Xorg related. It has been already reported to bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13144 Is it just me, or did Xorg 7.3 break a lot of

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
David Morton wrote: I have been out of work so long (since being diagnosed as autistic and scared) that even as an IT professional, I now get very anxious about messing with my PC. However, I got a magazine that included FreeBSD/i386 6.2 on the DVD and I have always wanted to play with BSD. My

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Ivan Voras
David Morton wrote: Anyway, I have a laptop preinstalled with Vista Home Premium and I would like to also run BSD on it. In reading your installation documentation, I do not see anything that suggests I can install FreeBSD onto my PC without wiping Windows. There are several ways to do it

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, David Morton wrote: I have been out of work so long (since being diagnosed as autistic and scared) that even as an IT professional, I now get very anxious about messing with my PC. However, I got a magazine that included FreeBSD/i386 6.2 on the DVD and I have always wanted

FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread David Morton
I have been out of work so long (since being diagnosed as autistic and scared) that even as an IT professional, I now get very anxious about messing with my PC. However, I got a magazine that included FreeBSD/i386 6.2 on the DVD and I have always wanted to play with BSD. My past experience

Re: PF firewall

2007-12-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 06:20:37AM -0600, ajtiM wrote: Hi! I am a new FreeBSD 7.0 beta3 user and I have standalone computer connected to the internet (cable). I use both, console and KDE desktop. I tried to setup PF firewall for the standalone computer but I have a problem with internal

Hopefully an easy header rewriting problem for Postfix

2007-12-07 Thread Clint Olsen
I essentially want to rewrite all envelope senders of the form: @host.my.domain to just @my.domain The examples in the Postfix docs seem to make it seem like the patterns only allow you to specify explicit recipients at the end of a rewriting rule, but that's not what I want. I know this was

join

2007-12-07 Thread Chris Els
Chris Els Mail :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 011-542 1110 Cell : 082 783 7999 Fax: 0866975698 - PLEASE NOTE - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Robert Huff wrote: I've got it installed, see the post-install configuration message, and have questions about how it will interact with existing printers. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2

2007-12-07 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Friday 07 December 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net wrote: Your HSDPA modem presented itself like a mass storage device, probably with some autorun and virus like drivers intended for the Windows operating system :-) unfortunately, this is the intended behaviour. this device has the

PF firewall

2007-12-07 Thread ajtiM
Hi! I am a new FreeBSD 7.0 beta3 user and I have standalone computer connected to the internet (cable). I use both, console and KDE desktop. I tried to setup PF firewall for the standalone computer but I have a problem with internal messages (mail) which are blocked if firewall running. This

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:10:28PM +1100, David Morton wrote: I have been out of work so long (since being diagnosed as autistic and scared) that even as an IT professional, I now get very anxious about messing with my PC. However, I got a magazine that included FreeBSD/i386 6.2 on the DVD

Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstrap.sh Yet this script just ran on Thursday, December 6 at 0930. Why? I just added it to cron

Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstrap.sh Yet this script just ran on Thursday, December 6 at 0930. Why? I

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Robert Huff wrote: I've got it installed, see the post-install configuration message, and have questions about how it will interact with existing printers. Were I you, I would install cups, and then goto web page interface on localhost. It kind of just works. --

Re: When switching from console to X, mousebuffer gets pasted

2007-12-07 Thread Willem Hendriks
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:10:58PM +, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 04:52:23PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: cpghost writes: For instance: I open an xterm, type some text and select it. When i do a switch to a console, and get back to my X with Alt-F9, the text

tusar kumar wants to chat

2007-12-07 Thread tusar kumar
--- tusar kumar wants to stay in better touch using some of Google's coolest new products. If you already have Gmail or Google Talk, visit: http://mail.google.com/mail/b-ae5b6f9772-cdf67e1bf1-f2da92df1bd66ae0 You'll need to

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-07 Thread Peter Schuller
If you are running without write caching turned on (which is the default), That should be, if you are running WITH write caching turned on. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Anish Mistry
On Saturday 08 December 2007, caldari_halo wrote: Anish Mistry wrote: On Friday 07 December 2007, Robert Huff wrote: Predrag Punosevac writes: I've got it installed, see the post-install configuration message, and have questions about how it will interact with existing

Re: DVD's and FreeBSD

2007-12-07 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 07 December 2007 22:37:12 Gary Kline wrote: Update: Well, totem chokes when trying to play a DVD, but kmplayer works --altho with fewer control flow options. And after compiling in device atapicam into my KERNCONF, k3b still chokes. So. For toys,

Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/7/2007 10:49 AM Kevin Kinsey wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstrap.sh

Re: Hopefully an easy header rewriting problem for Postfix

2007-12-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Clint Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I essentially want to rewrite all envelope senders of the form: @host.my.domain to just @my.domain The examples in the Postfix docs seem to make it seem like the patterns only allow you to specify explicit recipients at the end of a rewriting rule,

Re: Hopefully an easy header rewriting problem for Postfix

2007-12-07 Thread Clint Olsen
On Dec 07, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The myorigin variable is what you need. See postconf(5) for more things you can do with it. ( myorigin (default: $myhostname) ( The domain name that locally-posted mail appears to come from, and that ( locally posted mail is delivered to. The

Re: Scanner Compatibility

2007-12-07 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use Epson Perfection 1670 and it works like a charm. Unfortunately it does require binary blob which might be something you want to avoid. What is that binary blob stuff? Do you mean by this a binary image that should be loaded in kernel --- after

Partnership Program

2007-12-07 Thread Aaron Sink
To Whom It May Concern: Thank you for considering our firm in representing your products in the Federal Marketplace. Autonomic Resources is an 8a Firm - this designation is very favorable to you as Federal buyers are encouraged to spend $$ with 8a firms over all others - In addition they can

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2007-12-07 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-07 Thread Peter Schuller
My understanding from the reading I have done is that in a situation like this where power outages are a danger (and presuably having the UPS signal the server to shut down gracefully is not practical), you need to make the file system as robust as possible in the first place, rather than rely

Re: DVD's and FreeBSD

2007-12-07 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 07 December 2007 22:37:12 Gary Kline wrote: Update: Well, totem chokes when trying to play a DVD, but kmplayer works --altho with fewer control flow options. And after compiling in device atapicam into my KERNCONF, k3b still chokes. So. For toys,

Re: Hopefully an easy header rewriting problem for Postfix

2007-12-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Clint Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Dec 07, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The myorigin variable is what you need. See postconf(5) for more things you can do with it. ( myorigin (default: $myhostname) ( The domain name that locally-posted mail appears to come from, and that (

Re: Problems with auditd

2007-12-07 Thread Peter Boosten
On Fri, December 7, 2007 23:10, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, December 07, 2007 22:41:01 +0100 Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you compile the audit option into the kernel? optionsAUDIT Peter Apparently not. I compiled the GENERIC kernel, and it does not

[Fwd: Re: Help with Crontab]

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kevin Kinsey wrote: ] Well, as the sage said, the light at the end of the ] tunnel is an oncoming train. Note the word restricted ] there, and realize that it means that both fields are ] checked and the job is constrained by both of them. ] ] In other words, any of these should mail you the

Re: Problems with auditd

2007-12-07 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 07, 2007 22:41:01 +0100 Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, December 7, 2007 22:06, Paul Schmehl wrote: I upgraded my system from 6.0 RELEASE to 6.2 RELEASE by cvsupping the files and then running buildkernel/buildworld as usual. Since doing that, auditd will

Re: Problems with auditd

2007-12-07 Thread Peter Boosten
On Fri, December 7, 2007 22:06, Paul Schmehl wrote: I upgraded my system from 6.0 RELEASE to 6.2 RELEASE by cvsupping the files and then running buildkernel/buildworld as usual. Since doing that, auditd will not run, even though I have auditd_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf. I've been reading

Re: Hopefully an easy header rewriting problem for Postfix

2007-12-07 Thread Clint Olsen
On Dec 07, Noel Jones wrote: http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html#masquerade Looks like exactly what you describe. Just set in main.cf: masquerade_domains = my.domain and then run postfix reload Yes! This looks like it does what I want! I completely forgot about the

Re: DVD's and FreeBSD

2007-12-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:05:23PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Update: Well, totem chokes when trying to play a DVD, Totem is not good DVD player and that has to do nothing with the FreeBSD, OpenBSD or whatever Linux you want to use. You may read here why

DVD's and FreeBSD

2007-12-07 Thread Gary Kline
Update: Well, totem chokes when trying to play a DVD, but kmplayer works --altho with fewer control flow options. And after compiling in device atapicam into my KERNCONF, k3b still chokes. So. For toys, Linux; for superior [unbeatable] stability,

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 07 December 2007, Robert Huff wrote: Anish Mistry writes: You should be fine since your other printer is a parallel port printer. The HPLIP port doesn't configure parallel port printers so just use the normal CUPS configuration. There are some issues with the PSC printers

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Huff
Anish Mistry writes: You should be fine since your other printer is a parallel port printer. The HPLIP port doesn't configure parallel port printers so just use the normal CUPS configuration. There are some issues with the PSC printers and getting attached as umass devices. Search the

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-07 Thread José García Juanino
El lunes 03 de diciembre a las 19:14:12 CET, RW escribió: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. I think vi will also fail unless it

Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/7/2007 10:49 AM Kevin Kinsey wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstrap.sh Yet this script just ran

help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Huff
I've got it installed, see the post-install configuration message, and have questions about how it will interact with existing printers. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2007-12-07 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode? [now: keyboards]

2007-12-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:42:45PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:33:25PM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:56:33PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:43:35PM +, John Murphy wrote: snip Thanks for all the

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 07 December 2007, Robert Huff wrote: Predrag Punosevac writes: I've got it installed, see the post-install configuration message, and have questions about how it will interact with existing printers. You might want to repeat your message as attachments are stripped

Re: Hopefully an easy header rewriting problem for Postfix

2007-12-07 Thread Noel Jones
On Dec 7, 2007 12:23 PM, Clint Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I essentially want to rewrite all envelope senders of the form: @host.my.domain to just @my.domain http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html#masquerade Looks like exactly what you describe. Just set in main.cf:

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Huff
Predrag Punosevac writes: I've got it installed, see the post-install configuration message, and have questions about how it will interact with existing printers. You might want to repeat your message as attachments are stripped by the FreeBSD mail server. Didn't

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:10:20AM -0700, James Harrison wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move just / to a new disk, which

Re: CD/DVD writer no longer works

2007-12-07 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, December 06, 2007 19:14:51 +0100 Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /home/pauls/Downloads/FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso fixate burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCWRITESPEED): Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd acd0 acd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd1

Problems with auditd

2007-12-07 Thread Paul Schmehl
I upgraded my system from 6.0 RELEASE to 6.2 RELEASE by cvsupping the files and then running buildkernel/buildworld as usual. Since doing that, auditd will not run, even though I have auditd_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf. I've been reading online posts about auditd and auditing (as well as the

Re: DVD's and FreeBSD

2007-12-07 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Gary Kline wrote: Update: Well, totem chokes when trying to play a DVD, Totem is not good DVD player and that has to do nothing with the FreeBSD, OpenBSD or whatever Linux you want to use. You may read here why is so difficult to use DVDs