The FreeBSD Diary: 2002-10-27 - 2002-11-16

2002-11-17 Thread Dan Langille
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Re: question on IP alias/broadcast

2002-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 02:04:57PM +0700, budsz wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:21:34PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: expressed as a hexadecimal or even decimal integer. thus: 192.168.100.1 is the same as 0xc0a86401 or 3232261121

Re: what does open source mean ?

2002-11-17 Thread Jens Rehsack
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, it's a pretty basic question I'm asking but I'd like to learn more about FreeBSD and Unix systems. For example I couldn't find how to recompile just one part of the base system (say ee for instance). Also when looking at the libraries I see lots of different

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November 2002 newsletter - Wedding Conferences more

2002-11-17 Thread Richard Markel
Hi Friend; This is a newsletter for wedding professionals, should you not be in the industry or you prefer not to receive these newsletters please click on the link on the bottom of this email. You will be removed from my list. On the same token if you are aware of other wedding professionals

Re: USB mouse oddity

2002-11-17 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:39:52PM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: Hello all I used the instructions at this page to get a USBmouse working on an IBM PC: http://www.freebsddiary.org/usb-mouse.php But they aren't working for me on my VIA-based PC: johnnyb:~ dmesg | grep -i usb uhci0:

single user mode VS normal using Dump restore

2002-11-17 Thread Grant
I have tested using dump in single user mode and normal mode for an online Web server. Both have worked great. But I am worried if I try to dump on a busy server that I will be more likely to have bad data or corrupted files. Therefore, I have decided to do this using the Fixit cd (cd II) and

configure the printer (II) and apsfilter

2002-11-17 Thread xxavi
Good, in this web page: http://apsfilter.org/docs/apsfilter-handbook-stable.html#install_notes_freebsd they say that it must alter this of a file of FreeBSD: Index: lpr.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/lpr/lpr/lpr.c,v

Re: question on IP alias/broadcast

2002-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:03:10PM +0700, budsz wrote: Thank you for your explaination, But it's valid if I use [http/ftp/mailto/https]://interger_decimal ?, What part RFC explain this is? It's application dependent. Most modern web browsers (Netscape 6, Mozilla, probably the latest IE)

Baby Boomers to GenX 3786Eelc1-526qKT-15

2002-11-17 Thread katie
* Reduce the amount of sleep you need * Cause wounds to heal faster * Lose weight while your sleeping * Become less winded when excersizing * Put color back in grey hair * Grow hair back where it had once fallen out * Tighten skin * Strengthen bones * Body builders - use this to build your

Server Reboot

2002-11-17 Thread Lew A
Hello, Last night at about 5 o'clock my pop server rebooted itself, looks like the kernel freak out. It doesn't look like the kernel cored, so I can't debug it. Here is the information if anyone has any helpful hints it'd be great. server: {14} % uname -a FreeBSD server.gwi.net 4.5-RELEASE-p20

RE: Advantages over GNU/Linux?

2002-11-17 Thread R. Zoontjens
11/16/02 3:20:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, propaganda time. Why should I use FreeBSD instead of GNU/Linux? What advantages does it offer? http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html :-) A more serious link: http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html PS: Post to [EMAIL

Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Vidor Demeter
Hi all, I used to be a SuSE user but I've decided to install FreeBSD instead, which I do not regret. I had some great surprises compared to Linux, and I've decided to stay with FreeBSD! :-) So I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I will have some questions until I get the system run after my whishes. The

Re: Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 03:56:15PM +0100, Vidor Demeter wrote: Hi all, I used to be a SuSE user but I've decided to install FreeBSD instead, which I do not regret. I had some great surprises compared to Linux, and I've decided to stay with FreeBSD! :-) So I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I

FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-17 Thread Pierrick Brossin
Hi! I 'm currently using SME (www.e-smith.org) as server at home. After reading some docs on the net and having heavy troubles with Linux, I decided to turn this server to a FreeBSD server. I've done a deep search on google and can't find any distribution like SME but FreeBSD based. Actually,

Re: Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Vidor Demeter
Hi Scott, Yes I tried with the -p also but it was the same result :-( Funny with Windows is working and Linux as well... Vidor - Original Message - From: Scott Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vidor Demeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 4:07 PM

Re: Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Marco Radzinschi
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Vidor Demeter wrote: Hi all, I used to be a SuSE user but I've decided to install FreeBSD instead, which I do not regret. I had some great surprises compared to Linux, and I've decided to stay with FreeBSD! :-) So I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I will have some questions

Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Vidor Demeter
Hi all, I used to be a SuSE user but I've decided to install FreeBSD instead, which I do not regret. I had some great surprises compared to Linux, and I've decided to stay with FreeBSD! :-) So I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I will have some questions until I get the system run after my whishes.

Re: Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Ulrich 'Q' Spoerlein
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:07:04 +0100, you wrote: The first problem is that I can not manage to configure the system shutdown with power off option. I've compiled the kernel with the apm option and I changed the rc.conf file as well, with ' apm_enable=YES ', but no luck. After the shutdown I have

console, ssh and so on ...

2002-11-17 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi - I run -STABLE on both my desktop and laptop, and have encountered this problem on both machines. Because it's more an annoyance than anything else, I've never asked about it ... I've alse feared it was really elementary. :( Anyhoo, the problem is: when I am in console and ssh into my mail

Re: FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-17 Thread Andrew Boothman
Pierrick Brossin wrote: I've done a deep search on google and can't find any distribution like SME but FreeBSD based. Actually, for those who do not know SME, it's a distribution based on RedHat and basically it can install a complete server in 10-15 minutes. FreeBSD is basically a one

Epson Stylus Color installation problem

2002-11-17 Thread hymette
I did not see any recommendation in the Handbook to set up communication mode with usb printers. When I run lptcontrol ... the answer is ioctl : Operation not supported by the device. Is it normal ? Is there anything to change in the kernel to set the mode to polled or interrupt ? To

Re: Power off problem (solved)

2002-11-17 Thread Vidor Demeter
Hi all, Thanks for the help, the problem is solved!! I've deleted the 'disable flags 0x20' from the line: device apm0 at nexus? and rebuilded the kernel, and now it works fine! Thanks a lot! Vidor - Original Message - From: Marco Radzinschi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Fw: [GWAVA:1cqx7h1v] Source block message notification

2002-11-17 Thread Vidor Demeter
Hi, Can anybody help me to get rid of these kind of messages?? I get one everytime I send a mail to the list. It is OK or it is something I can do about it ?? Vidor - Original Message - From: GWAVA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 7:02 PM Subject:

Re: dsniff problems

2002-11-17 Thread twig les
I can and often run tcpdump; and snort and ethereal and ettercap. This is a test box so it's got a bunch of crap going all the time. However I have not explicitly added bpf to the kernel. It's 4.7-RC #1, do I need to build a new kernel? --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov

Qs about snoop TCP

2002-11-17 Thread soheil soheil
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Re: Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Thanatos
Vidor Demeter wrote: Hi all, I used to be a SuSE user but I've decided to install FreeBSD instead, which I do not regret. I had some great surprises compared to Linux, and I've decided to stay with FreeBSD! :-) So I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I will have some questions until I get the system

Re: Seeking command similar to dd

2002-11-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
On 15 Nov 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a command similar to dd to analyze a CD that is in the drive? I use the dd bs=2k command on ISO 9660 CDs. Is there more to that command line? Or does it let you browse RAW data? I used mkisofs the

Re: Seeking command similar to dd

2002-11-17 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (11.17.2002 @ 1156 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 2.1K: On 15 Nov 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a command similar to dd to analyze a CD that is in the drive? I use the dd bs=2k command on

Arp and Route Commands

2002-11-17 Thread Karl Timmermann
Hello, I'm new to the list and was hoping maybe someone could help me. These commands work in Linux (and in this order), but not in FreeBSD/Mac OS X as the arp and route commands are different: arp -s 10.10.10.0 00:00:ca:13:4b:54 -i eth1 arp -s 10.10.10.0 00:00:ca:13:4b:54 -i eth1 route add

Re: Power off problem (solved)

2002-11-17 Thread John Bleichert
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Vidor Demeter wrote: Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:01:48 +0100 From: Vidor Demeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Power off problem (solved) Hi all, Thanks for the help, the problem is solved!! I've deleted the 'disable flags 0x20' from the line:

Re: what does open source mean ?

2002-11-17 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it's a pretty basic question I'm asking but I'd like to learn more about FreeBSD and Unix systems. There are several definitions of open source. Assuming understanding of the word source, I like software for which the source code is available for reading at no cost

Re: ftp Server

2002-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
How many simultaenous connections from one user are allowed to the ftp server ? In the standard FreeBSD ftp, either none, or as many as it can handle. That is on ftp.freebsd.org ? Because I am only getting four(4) connections only. Different mirrors run different ftpds. To

Re: package/port dependency failures (solved)

2002-11-17 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:54:35AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: [cut] You can break anything when you go out of the way to do it. If you had updated the links in the database pkgdb -F, I think it would have still found that sysconftool was a R-deps, at least, it was when I did a make search

Re: Seeking command similar to dd

2002-11-17 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The weird thing is that right after the burncd session finished, I was able to ls -al the cd (can't remember if it was mountable or not...) For ls to work on it, it must have been both mountable and mounted. Does it sound like not having put fixate on

Re: Epson Stylus Color installation problem

2002-11-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:37:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not see any recommendation in the Handbook to set up communication mode with usb printers. When I run lptcontrol ... the answer is ioctl : Operation not supported by the device. Is it normal ? Is there anything to

Re: Seeking command similar to dd

2002-11-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:10:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of Adam Weinberger, and lo! it spake thus: If the CD is all data (i.e. just one track): dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd.iso bs=2048 If the CD is multiple tracks: for i in `/compat/linux/usr/bin/seq 1 100`; do

where to get pkg_tarup

2002-11-17 Thread Bsd Neophyte
I'm having problems with my system because of this file. Where do I get it? I've looked in the ports. I thought it was in /ports/misc but then i read it was in /ports/sysutils. However, I can't find it in either location. My refuse file doesn't include anything that would exclude it from the

Re: where to get pkg_tarup

2002-11-17 Thread david
On Sunday 17 November 2002 18:13, Bsd Neophyte wrote: I'm having problems with my system because of this file. Where do I get it? I've looked in the ports. I thought it was in /ports/misc but then i read it was in /ports/sysutils. However, I can't find it in either location. Afaik it has

Re: Epson Stylus Color installation problem

2002-11-17 Thread hymette
First let me tell you that I they gave me the solution, so now my driver prints: I had installed ghostscript as a pkg when the ghostscript driver (stp stcolor) required by apsfilter was only available through compilation from the port. I had no luck with cups, not even the web interface wanted

Re: dsniff problems

2002-11-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:38:09AM -0800, twig les wrote: I can and often run tcpdump; and snort and ethereal and ettercap. This is a test box so it's got a bunch of crap going all the time. However I have not explicitly added bpf to the kernel. It's 4.7-RC #1, do I need to build a new

Re: what does open source mean ?

2002-11-17 Thread rens . emmanuel
Many thanks for this insight, I know that many web sites provide informations , but toomuch information does not always help knowledge . I was hoping to get documentation on FreeBSD, as well made as the Handbook, but on the theorical side. For ee, since my first message I found by myself (!)

Re: FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 17 November 2002 at 16:08:14 +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Hi! I 'm currently using SME (www.e-smith.org) as server at home. After reading some docs on the net and having heavy troubles with Linux, I decided to turn this server to a FreeBSD server. I've done a deep search on

Îôèñíàÿ òåõíèêà, ïðîäàæà, ðåìîíò è îáñëóæèâàíèå.

2002-11-17 Thread 123
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2002-11-17 Thread 123
Óâàæàåìûå ãîñïîäà! Ôèðìà Òåõíèêà äëÿ îôèñà, ðàáîòàþùàÿ íà ðûíêå áîëåå 10 ëåò, îôèöèàëüíûé äèëåð SHARP, ýêñòðà - ðåñåëëåð XEROX, ïðåäëàãàåò Âàì äîëãîñðî÷íîå ñîòðóäíè÷åñòâî â îáëàñòè êîìïëåêñíîãî îáñëóæèâàíèÿ, ïîñòàâîê îôèñíîé îðãòåõíèêè è âñåãî íåîáõîäèìîãî îáîðóäîâàíèÿ îïòîì è â ðîçíèöó. Ìû

Wireless Access Point w/ U.S. Robotics 2415 (Krissada Jindanupajit)

2002-11-17 Thread Krissada Jindanupajit (FreeBSD-question)
I did follow the instruction on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/wireless.html but it does not work. Would you please help me? I have 2 Wireless PCI card. One is on FreeBSD 4.6 and one is on WinXP Pro. sun# wicontrol NIC serial number: [

Re: Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Michael Nottebrock
Ulrich 'Q' Spoerlein wrote: halt -p or shutdown -p now ... does indeed not work on a lot of modern systems. All my athlon boxes here will only poweroff with 5-CURRENT, thanks to acpi-support there. -- Michael Nottebrock And the reasons? There are no reasons. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Real time server mirroring?

2002-11-17 Thread Karl M. Joch
Hi, i am working on a very big project thruout our whole country and have the possibility to install freebsd on all servers in this project. i already have solutions for all needed components including the needed ipsec and ssl stuff. there is only one point i havnt found a real solution. i need

Re: Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Stefan Farfeleder
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:33:30PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: Ulrich 'Q' Spoerlein wrote: halt -p or shutdown -p now ... does indeed not work on a lot of modern systems. All my athlon boxes here will only poweroff with 5-CURRENT, thanks to acpi-support there. jhb has a patch

Re: Real time server mirroring?

2002-11-17 Thread W. D.
At 14:01 11/17/2002, Karl M. Joch wrote: postgres, mysql sendmail and cyrus imap samba any idea how to have mirrored servers in real time with freebsd? Here are some ideas: http://www.Google.com/search?q=rsync+mirror+freebsd Start Here to Find It Fast!© -

Re: Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 09:31:44PM +0100, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:33:30PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: Ulrich 'Q' Spoerlein wrote: halt -p or shutdown -p now ... does indeed not work on a lot of modern systems. All my athlon boxes here will only

RE: Real time server mirroring?

2002-11-17 Thread Don Bowman
From: Karl M. Joch there is only one point i havnt found a real solution. i need to real time mirror some servers (4*2) for fault tolerance. the requirements is that these ones never can break down because it is used as a medical net. best would be mirror over locations. the servers are

Re: Real time server mirroring?

2002-11-17 Thread Karl M. Joch
thanks a lot. that was what i am looking for. will give it a try. karl - Original Message - From: Don Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 10:08 PM Subject: RE: Real time server mirroring? From: Karl M.

winxp no response by using samba fileserver?

2002-11-17 Thread wsk
hi,all: my xp box always occur no response while conncet to my samba fileserver.but if connect it using another frame window, it will ok.and samba work's well if use win2k to connect to samba server.cry: who can help me? thanks any info. best regards. N…'²æìr¸›zǧvf¢–Új:+v‰¨·ž è®

Re: remote X

2002-11-17 Thread John Mills
Rotaru - On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Rotaru Razvan wrote: Is it possible to use the local X11 Server for remote applications? For instance via ssh. I have my XWindows started, i log myself in via ssh on a remote host, and I want to run a graphical application on the remote host. Or is it possible

Re: where to get pkg_tarup

2002-11-17 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Afaik it has been removed from the ports tree. They use pkg_create now. okay, what do i do now? portupgrade depends on this package. -Sameer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your

converting passwords to blowfish

2002-11-17 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i've been running through some tutorials on how to convert the passwords from md5 to blowfish. there's mention of the following to actually do the conversion: cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf however, i don't see the conversion. the tutorial mentions that the password should start with $2$, but

Broadcom 440x NIC supported?

2002-11-17 Thread george
I have the asus A7v8x with onboard broadcom 440x 10/100 (not gig) chip and was wondering if work is underway to support this NIC? (found notta in LINT about it) on another note I was able to get the sound working using the pcm driver (great work) there are some other devices also not detected

linux compat and rpm...

2002-11-17 Thread Andrew Thomson
any tips on why this ain't working? athomson# pkg_info | grep linux linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.05_1 Sun Java Development Kit 1.3 for Linux linux_base-7.1_1The base set of packages needed in Linux mode athomson# linux Linux driver already loaded athomson# ls sybase-11.9.2Docs

Re: [GWAVA:1cqx7h1v] Source block message notification

2002-11-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Someone's got their spam rules set pretty tight. Check: a. Whether your SMTP server's domain is blackholed as a spam source or relay. b. Whether the SMTP server is of a variety known to be often used as a spam source or relay I have had trouble with this also,

Re: converting passwords to blowfish

2002-11-17 Thread Tim Peters
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:50:59PM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: i've been running through some tutorials on how to convert the passwords from md5 to blowfish. there's mention of the following to actually do the conversion: cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf however, i don't see the conversion.

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2002-11-17 Thread gs kurator
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Re: linux compat and rpm...

2002-11-17 Thread Andrew Thomson
doing a --noscripts sorted it out cheers, ajt. On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 15:17, Andrew Thomson wrote: any tips on why this ain't working? athomson# pkg_info | grep linux linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.05_1 Sun Java Development Kit 1.3 for Linux linux_base-7.1_1The base set of packages needed in

Re: where to get pkg_tarup

2002-11-17 Thread Kent Stewart
Bsd Neophyte wrote: --- david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Afaik it has been removed from the ports tree. They use pkg_create now. okay, what do i do now? portupgrade depends on this package. Update your port tree using cvsup of ports-all, update your index, and install a current version

Prep for 5.0-R

2002-11-17 Thread Remington L.
I want to know if there's any major reason I might want to reformat and do a fresh install of 5.0 on Wednesday? At the moment I'm running 4.7, and i'm just curious if anyone thinks it would be wise to just start off fresh rather than just an upgrade. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Prep for 5.0-R

2002-11-17 Thread Jim Mock
On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 10:35 PM, Remington L. wrote: I want to know if there's any major reason I might want to reformat and do a fresh install of 5.0 on Wednesday? At the moment I'm running 4.7, and i'm just curious if anyone thinks it would be wise to just start off fresh rather than