FreeBSD router: Can my internet provider detect my home network?

2004-04-09 Thread Rob
Hi, I plan to have a FreeBSD (4.9 stable) system serving as a router between my provider and a set of my home computers connected via a home network. My provider does not really like this, but I don't care so much, as long as s/he cannot detect (too easily) my home network. My plan is to use

Re: changing directory permissions recursively

2004-04-09 Thread Uwe Doering
Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004, dave wrote: Hello, I've got a problem, a directory area has the wrong permissions, occurred from a dump restore. Now my user's can't get to the files within the area. I could go around and do chmod permissions directoryname, but i was wondering if

Re: FreeBSD router: Can my internet provider detect my home network?

2004-04-09 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Is it correct, that the combination of firewall and natd divert all requests and thus hide the home network for my provider? Are requests from all other networked home PC's done on behalf of the router, so that my provider will only see requests from my router?

Re: enabling S.M.A.R.T on drives attached to Adaptec 2400A RAID controller

2004-04-09 Thread Uwe Doering
Guido Kollerie wrote: In my server I have four 40GB IBM Deskstar 120GXP drives attached to an Adaptec 2400A RAID controller in a RAID-5 configuration with one of the drives configured as a hot spare. According to Adaptec's raidutil utility the four drives do not have the S.M.A.R.T. capability for

rc.firewall question on 'simple' and 'client' setup.

2004-04-09 Thread Rob
Hi, In /etc/rc.firewall, the 'simple' and 'client' options have following that needs adjusted: # set these to your outside interface network and netmask and ip oif=ed0 onet=192.0.2.0 omask=255.255.255.240 oip=192.0.2.1 # set these to your inside

Re: FreeBSD router: Can my internet provider detect my home network?

2004-04-09 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Apr 9, 2004, at 8:33 AM, Rob wrote: I plan to have a FreeBSD (4.9 stable) system serving as a router between my provider and a set of my home computers connected via a home network. My provider does not really like this, but I don't care so much, as long as s/he cannot detect (too easily) my

Re: Viewing pointer addresses...

2004-04-09 Thread Eric F Crist
On Thursday 08 April 2004 11:25 pm, Jamie wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.9REL. Is there a way to find the current value of the stack and instruction pointers of a running process with ps or something similiar? Greetings from Minneapolis, MN, United States A friend is someone who lets

vmware trouble

2004-04-09 Thread Yuriy Gerasimov
I have FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and installed vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_6,1. I cannot Power it On. I have just error Cannot attach shared memory segment: Invalid argument. Failed to initialize SVGA device. I tryed to set up different OS there (DOS and Win98) but always I had this error. Regards --

Need advice on smbldap-passwd I/O Error when normal user want to change passwd

2004-04-09 Thread Suhaimi Jamalludin
Hi All, Need some advise regarding smbldap-tools-0.8.4. I have configure this tools and make it work with my LDAP server. FYI ...ldap+samba is on the same server. I manage to change normal user password when I a root. However if I'm normal user I got I/O Error? What can be wrong here? Really

Re: Viewing pointer addresses...

2004-04-09 Thread Jamie
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Eric F Crist wrote: On Thursday 08 April 2004 11:25 pm, Jamie wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.9REL. Is there a way to find the current value of the stack and instruction pointers of a running process with ps or something similiar? Greetings from

Re: How to get memory usage for process?

2004-04-09 Thread Uwe Doering
Artem Koutchine wrote: Hi! I need to figure out how much memory process really takes. For example, i am running 100 perl scripts, they are all the same source and i guess some memory is shared among them (mostly perl interperter i guess). So, i need to know how much memory is shared and how much

newbie questions

2004-04-09 Thread Radu MOLNAR
I hope this is the right place to post this.Sorry if it isn't Just some stupid newbie questions: 1) I have an alias made in my .profile alias vi='/usr/local/bin/vim' but the alias is not made when i log in X. If a log in console or using ssh from a remote host the alias is made but when i log in

Natd and natd_interface

2004-04-09 Thread Arek Czereszewski
Hi I have configuration like this: Intrenet - fxp0 (public IP) [freebsd box] - fxp1 (public IP) class /28 and some workstatins connected, mail daemon, www and others -

Re: remote install of freebsd via ssh

2004-04-09 Thread Cory Petkovsek
From: Brian Sent: April 8, 2004 05:21 Hello, Is there a way (or what is the best way) for installing freebsd remotely? I have a nontechnical person at the site that can put in a cd or enter a few commands, but the thought of walking through a full install via the phone is not fun. I

Re: WebMail

2004-04-09 Thread eric
Shawn Guillemette wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 8 19:59:55 2004 From: Shawn Guillemette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Freebsd-Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 22:59:57 -0400 Subject: WebMail I'm looking into options for webmail.. was looking for ideas... Looking for

Re: Natd and natd_interface

2004-04-09 Thread Rob
Arek Czereszewski wrote: Hi I have configuration like this: Intrenet - fxp0 (public IP) [freebsd box] - fxp1 (public IP) class /28 and some workstatins connected, mail daemon, www and others

Re: WebMail

2004-04-09 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM -0400, Shawn Guillemette wrote: I'm looking into options for webmail.. was looking for ideas... Looking for something with a good how to .. ;-) First pick a package, then worry about a howto. Openwebmail is nice, it reads mail directly off of the mail spool.

Re: changing directory permissions recursively

2004-04-09 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:47:07AM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: cd $topdir find . -type d | xargs chmod 755 In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this directory tree in the past, a safer alternative would be find /path/to/tree/root -type d -print0 | xargs -0

Re: can I shrink an existing slice

2004-04-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:53:35PM +0100, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: I know this might not be possible; but can I shrink a freeBSD slice to make room for linux? Not easily. You have to backup the data, change the slicing using fdisk(8), rebuild the FreeBSD partitions using disklabel(8) or

Re: Natd and natd_interface

2004-04-09 Thread Arek Czereszewski
Rob wrote: fxp0, the one that connects to the outside network. Yes. It is. I don't think you have to do this yourself. I believe by adding natd_enable=YES Yes, i have this. And gateway_enable, firewall_enable, firewall_type to your rc.conf, you get the following rule as a result: divert

Re: sendmail/strace hanging

2004-04-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:08:39PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote: Stopping sendmail with `sh /etc/rc.sendmail stop` works quickly. Starting it takes about 3min. Both sendmail-submit and sendmail-clientmqueue take a while before moving. Booting also has this delay. In the interests of

Question about multipath patch for FreeBSD

2004-04-09 Thread hugle
Hello all. I've just patched my kernel with option MULTIPATH http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~tanzer/multipath/mpath-48S.tgz patch -p0 /usr/src/mpath/mpath-diff-sys patch -p0 /usr/src/mpath/mpath-diff-route patch -p0 /usr/src/mpath/mpath-diff-netstat patch -p0 /usr/src/mpath/mpath-diff-man #here

Re: changing directory permissions recursively

2004-04-09 Thread Uwe Doering
Cory Petkovsek wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:47:07AM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: cd $topdir find . -type d | xargs chmod 755 In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this directory tree in the past, a safer alternative would be find /path/to/tree/root -type d

Re: changing directory permissions recursively

2004-04-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:03:51AM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:47:07AM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: cd $topdir find . -type d | xargs chmod 755 In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this directory tree in the past, a safer

Re: Install world fails, computer almost unusable

2004-04-09 Thread Artem Koutchine
From: Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Artem Koutchine [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-08 06:44]: IMHO the upgrade pricedure is unstable and wrong in either case. What do you think? I don't pretend to understand *all* of the reasoning behind the recommended upgrade procedure. Since I

Re[2]: Natd and natd_interface

2004-04-09 Thread vasilkin
Hello Arek, Write to /etc/natd.conf strings like: redirect_address 192.168.0.10 213.216.67.80 redirect_address 192.168.0.11 213.216.67.81 ... redirect_address INSIDE_IP PUBLIC_IP and write into /etc/rc.conf : natd_flags= -f /etc/natd.conf Friday, April 9, 2004, 1:13:18

RE: WebMail

2004-04-09 Thread mark rowlands
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Paetzel Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 5:04 AM To: Shawn Guillemette Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: WebMail On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM -0400, Shawn Guillemette wrote: I'm looking

How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-09 Thread Supote Leelasupphakorn
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Re: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Hi lists How can I delete file named prefix with - ? Use rm ./- -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Only the meek get

Re: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Hi lists How can I delete file named prefix with - ? If you had bothered to read the manpage for rm(1) you would already know that since the following paragraph appears there: The rm command uses getopt(3) to parse

Re: changing directory permissions recursively

2004-04-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-04-09T05:41:33Z, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a problem, a directory area has the wrong permissions, occurred from a dump restore. Out of curiosity, how is it that your permissions were different after the restore than before? -- Kirk Strauser 94 outdated ports on the box,

Why the 30-second pause after executing this script?

2004-04-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
One of my programs (plug: JailAdmin! Stays crunchy in milk!) uses 'jexec' to attach to a jail to execute /etc/rc.shutdown. I've noticed that this works as expected, unless its output is being piped into another program, in which case 'sh' waits about 30 seconds after the 'exit 0' line is

Re: When I'm all done..

2004-04-09 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Mark wrote: For a small 'emergency' disk, I'd like to remove those directories, after the 4.9R install has fully completed. Can it be safely done? Or is anything needed, at runtime, from those directories? You have a couple of options for creating small emergency disks: 1] The Live CD is

Re: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-09 Thread David Piniella
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Hi lists How can I delete file named prefix with - ? If you had bothered to read the manpage for rm(1) you would already know that since the following paragraph appears there: The rm command

RE: FreeBSD router: Can my internet provider detect my home network?

2004-04-09 Thread JJB
Your assumption is correct. For all practical purposes ISP's can not determine that an customer is using NAT or not. But like all things on the internet, with special custom packet interrogation focused on an particular customer it is possible to technically determine if that customer is using

Re: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device

2004-04-09 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Me wrote: --- When I try to change to udma100 --- atacontrol mode 0 udma100 biosdma Master = UDMA33 Slave = BIOSPIO - console output after i use atacontrol - ad0: DMA

RE: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-09 Thread Troy Settle
-Original Message- From: David Piniella Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:02 AM I've never run across that. % cd tmp % ls % touch - % ls - % rm - % ls % although if it was giving you trouble, I suppose you could do a rm ./\- -- David Piniella University of Miami

Complete system restore software for FreeBSD?

2004-04-09 Thread fbsd_user
Has the Mondo method made it to the official Freebsd port system yet? How about an status update? Thanks. I have used the Mondo Rescue backup and restore system before with my Linux machines with great success. What Mondo allows one to do is a complete system backup and restore from a

Re: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device

2004-04-09 Thread Me
Hi, Thanks for your response. Yes, It is a ata cable attached. This is a Averatec 3050HW Laptop. with 2 IDE channels. the HDD is in channel 0 and a CDRW-DVD drive is in channel 1. In the bios the drives are deteched on each channel. the drive was running at UDMA100 in windows. I have scsi

KMail seeing local maildirs differently than IMAP-server

2004-04-09 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Hi, i see some ambiguity in using maildirs through IMAP and directly through the filesystem, especially when using KMail. The canonical directory for maildirs is ~/Maildir, where the inbox is in the root of that directory, and any other mail-directory is a subdirectory of it. The

RE: remote install of freebsd via ssh

2004-04-09 Thread Me
hi, I agree, best way would be to do as suggested. then ssh that way, the only thing you may have to do is walk the user on entering single user mode to do a make installworld if you're updating your system. -Jose lima --- JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install FBSD on local pc and when

Disk Partition Sizing

2004-04-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I want to change my backup strategy a bit. Please review: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a 484M 219M 227M49%/ /dev/amrd0s1d 3.8G 2.7G 764M78%/backup /dev/amrd0s1h 7.6G 5.7G 1.3G81%/home /dev/amrd0s1g 992M

Re: Disk Partition Sizing

2004-04-09 Thread Josh Paetzel
Any ideas on strategy / directions for accomplishing this? -Grant Hope your familiar with the FreeBSD installer. ;) Josh Paetzel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: newbie questions

2004-04-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 11:18:34 +0300 (EEST) Radu MOLNAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this is the right place to post this.Sorry if it isn't Just some stupid newbie questions: 1) I have an alias made in my .profile alias vi='/usr/local/bin/vim' but the alias is not made when i log in X. If a

Re: Disk Partition Sizing

2004-04-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 11:54:09AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I want to change my backup strategy a bit. Please review: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a 484M 219M 227M49%/ /dev/amrd0s1d 3.8G 2.7G 764M78%/backup

Re: KMail seeing local maildirs differently than IMAP-server

2004-04-09 Thread Gary
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 05:48:23PM +0200 or thereabouts, Geert Hendrickx wrote: i see some ambiguity in using maildirs through IMAP and directly through the filesystem, especially when using KMail. although I do not use Kmail, I do know it works perfectly using IMAP, but you have to set up

Re: hard disk recover

2004-04-09 Thread Brad Waite
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting the dreaded ad1s1a: hard error reading fsbn 524543 of 96-127 (ad1s1 bn 524543; cn 520 tn 6 sn 5) status=59 error=40 errors. Based on what I've read, it means my drive's going bye-bye. As it is, it won't even boot - fortunately I have another FBSD drive to

Re: printing manpages

2004-04-09 Thread Shantanoo
+++ Chris Hill [freebsd] [08-04-04 19:40 -0400]: | On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Andrew Elmore wrote: | | [...] I can't for the life of me figure out how to print a manpage. | The closest man man gives me is: | | -t Use /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual page, passing the | output to

5.2.1-RELEASE boot problem

2004-04-09 Thread 10,000 Screaming Monkeys
I know I'm going to regret asking this, because it's undoubtedly something simple that I'm missing, but I can't for the life of me make this work. A little background: I have FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE installed on an ATA133 drive, which is connected to a Soyo SY-P4S Dragon Ultra motherboard. The

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! I just decided to take a deep breath and cvsup some fresh ports. Now, having done that I have run 'portupgrade -ar' and constantly found it to stop some problems. Some ports have failed and been flagged as configure error or install error. Then I have tried to do a

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 09 April 2004 11:55 am, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! I just decided to take a deep breath and cvsup some fresh ports. Now, having done that I have run 'portupgrade -ar' and constantly found it to stop some problems. Some ports have failed and been flagged as configure error or

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Andreas Davour
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: [snip] If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested in getting this to work. I

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? Because it's a dependancy of about 538 distinct ports, at least one of which you must have installed GNOME, perhaps

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, I am using portupgrade -airR for a long long time without any signs of trouble :), just for few days I am observing a message from portaudit regarding of upgrading my Midnight Commander that due to bug in mc (as do portaudit say) there will be no upgrade :). I thought that that bug

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Andreas Davour
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: It is best to have a ports tree that contains almost everything except foreign languages when using BSD on a workstation or in a desktop environment --- there are so many dependancies. So I thought. I edited away everything that was

Rsync autologin over ssh question

2004-04-09 Thread Brent Wiese
Here is what I need to do: I need to somehow automate an rsync from 1 box to several others. I have set up SSH for RSAAuthentication, the method I'd prefer to use (over RHostsRSA). I am able to slogin to the other boxes w/o supplying the passphrase. But here is where I'm stuck. How do I make a

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Martin Hudec
Hi Andreas, don't you really have atk in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk directory? Perhaps look into ports-supfile.. do you have there ports-all enabled? cheers, Martin On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:55:04PM +0200 or thereabouts, Andreas Davour wrote: And it is correct in

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Andreas Davour
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Kent Stewart wrote: Firefox depends on gtk-2.4.0, which depends on atk. All of these problems relate back to updating dependancies of glib-2.4.0. Ok, that at least explains why atk seems so important. The question at this point is what you updated and the order. If you

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Andreas Davour
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? Because it's a dependancy of about 538 distinct ports, at least

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Andreas Davour
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Martin Hudec wrote: Hi Andreas, don't you really have atk in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk directory? No. Perhaps look into ports-supfile.. do you have there ports-all enabled? No, I have it commented out, since I left all the individual ports collections in there

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:34:09PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Martin Hudec wrote: Hi Andreas, don't you really have atk in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk directory? No. Perhaps look into ports-supfile.. do you have there ports-all enabled? No, I have it

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 09 April 2004 12:34 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Martin Hudec wrote: Hi Andreas, don't you really have atk in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk directory? No. Perhaps look into ports-supfile.. do you have there ports-all enabled? No, I have it commented

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That sounds like an important port. I don't understand why I wasn't getting it when I cvsup'ed then. Is there a line the the ports-supfile which should read 'ports-accessibility'? Maybe I should add it and cvsup again. There probably wasn't such a

inode problems...

2004-04-09 Thread Gary Kline
Just to bring you (and the -questions list) up to date re my 4.9-RELEASE snafu. I did a upgrade last night. I have stable-supfile pointing to RELENG_4_9. I was trying to get back to 4.9-STABLE. No-joy. I now have FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p4 #4: Thu Apr

Re: Rsync autologin over ssh question

2004-04-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:21:33PM -0700, Brent Wiese wrote: Here is what I need to do: I need to somehow automate an rsync from 1 box to several others. I have set up SSH for RSAAuthentication, the method I'd prefer to use (over RHostsRSA). I am able to slogin to the other boxes w/o

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Martin Hudec wrote: Could it be I have made such a basic mistake as to not cvsup'ed a vital dependedcy?! I kind of figured the newly cvsup'ed port of cvsup would have included a new example file of ports-supfile if that had been the problem. One

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:55:04PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! accessibility/atk (atk-1.4.1_1) (port directory error) And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new cvsup'ed ports tree. But why

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Robert Huff
Andreas Davour writes: Well, I started out with a clean 5.2-RELEASE and did cvsup 4 days ago. I don't remember seeing glib being upgraded, but I guess I could always try to '-rf glib' if it is a problem. And on that day, your karma really sucked.

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: [snip] If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't get a new version of Firefox to compile

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Andreas Davour
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Gary Kline wrote: If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb -Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean. Well, when I have succeeded in doing a portupgrade by hand I think

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 09 April 2004 01:00 pm, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: [snip] If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 09 April 2004 01:08 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Gary Kline wrote: If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb -Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean. Well, when I

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 09 April 2004 01:31 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:08 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Gary Kline wrote: If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb -Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I make

Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix

2004-04-09 Thread lrnobs
I am setting up a new server so I could just reinstall, but this is a learning opportunity. I was changing the hostname of the computer. In rc.conf I apparently left the leading off the name. BSD doesn't like this. It stops the boot and allows/forces me to a shell. So I found that cat shows me

Re: Inexpensive wireless suggestions

2004-04-09 Thread Timothy Ham
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Aleksandar Simic wrote: : On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:31:52PM -0400, Bob Collins wrote: : On Tue, Apr 6, 2004, Jonathon McKitrick clacked the keyboard to produce: : : I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive wireless setup for home that will : work

Re: Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix

2004-04-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:55:39PM -0500, lrnobs wrote: I am setting up a new server so I could just reinstall, but this is a learning opportunity. I was changing the hostname of the computer. In rc.conf I apparently left the leading off the name. BSD doesn't like this. It stops the

Re: Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix

2004-04-09 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:55:39PM -0500, lrnobs wrote: I am setting up a new server so I could just reinstall, but this is a learning opportunity. I was changing the hostname of the computer. In rc.conf I apparently left the leading off the name. BSD doesn't like this. It stops the

Re: Fun with IPSEC and racoon - 5.2.1

2004-04-09 Thread Timothy Ham
Hi I've been having some fun with IPSEC, owing to the need to put in a VPN between two offices. At the far end, they've got a PIX, and I was pretty sure I could do this end with one of out FreeBSD boxen. As an experiment, I set up IPSEC (with keying provided by Racoon) between my (linux)

Re: Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix

2004-04-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
lrnobs wrote: I am setting up a new server so I could just reinstall, but this is a learning opportunity. I was changing the hostname of the computer. In rc.conf I apparently left the leading off the name. BSD doesn't like this. It stops the boot and allows/forces me to a shell. So I found that

Re: Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix

2004-04-09 Thread lrnobs
It works. Thanks all. XP recognizes my Samba Server now too. Apparently XP did not like my old hostname: localhost, claimed someone else on the network was already using that name, probably itself. Larry Nobs - Original Message - From: Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lrnobs [EMAIL

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:19:47PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:00 pm, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote:

2-machines IP network through user-ppp

2004-04-09 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko
Can anybody help to configure user(!)-ppp to make such an IP network. E.g. I need the next: 0) I'm not connected to any network 1) somebody calls me, I run ppp (not pppd) (in any way, I use getty) 2) he must log in through PAP with predefined login-password 3) I do !dynamically! assign him IP

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 09 April 2004 02:22 pm, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:19:47PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:00 pm, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday

Finding how the machine was rebooted

2004-04-09 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
Hi, I am trying to trouble shoot a problem where one of the machines got rebooted. I can see last shows a shutdown was done. How do I know if it was a Cntrl-Alt-Del done from the console or if it was a shutdown command executed via a ssh/remote login? I would also like to know if it was some

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-04-09 Thread Walter
Hi Parv, It looks like another directory structure has appeared in the ftp directory that Lynx does not see and that find . -inum inode -delete does not delete. It does have a dot as the first character, with some other non-printing characters, but no /. I haven't yet tried to delete it

Re: Finding how the machine was rebooted

2004-04-09 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:15:39 -0500 Hari Bhaskaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to trouble shoot a problem where one of the machines got rebooted. I can see last shows a shutdown was done. How do I know if it was a Cntrl-Alt-Del done from the console or if it was a shutdown

RE: KDM always starts failsafe (Philip Payne)

2004-04-09 Thread Larry Hammer
Now, whenever I try to login to KDE it always starts the failsafe i.e. a single xterm. It doesn't matter what session type I select in KDM, I always get failsafe so no KDE for me. If I start KDE using startx and a .xinitrc with exec startkde everything

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-04-09 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ 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

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2004-04-09 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: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Lucas Holt
The freebsd gnome website suggests downloading their gnome upgrading script instead of using the standard portupgrade process. In some cases, they claim that things may break if you don't do it with their script. freebsd.org/gnome Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-04-09 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Walter thusly... It looks like another directory structure has appeared in the ftp directory that Lynx does not see and that find . -inum inode -delete does not delete. It does have a dot as the first character, with some other non-printing characters,

Re: sendmail/strace hanging

2004-04-09 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 10:16:42AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:08:39PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote: Stopping sendmail with `sh /etc/rc.sendmail stop` works quickly. Starting it takes about 3min. Both sendmail-submit and sendmail-clientmqueue take a while

Newbie stuck with kernel config (well sysinstall seams to hang)

2004-04-09 Thread David Jones
Hello. I’m struggling with my first install of FreeBSD (4.9 from CDROM). I can find my way around the kernel config (visual and cli) but when I quit this, the sysinstall menu appears and my keyboard is dead (reset button doesn't work either). I have tried to supply as much relevant information

Re: Newbie stuck with kernel config (well sysinstall seams to hang)

2004-04-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
David Jones wrote: Hello. Im struggling with my first install of FreeBSD (4.9 from CDROM). I can find my way around the kernel config (visual and cli) but when I quit this, the sysinstall menu appears and my keyboard is dead (reset button doesn't work either). I have tried to supply as much

Re: Newbie stuck with kernel config (well sysinstall seams to hang)

2004-04-09 Thread David Jones
Responses inline. I just tried an lsdev at the console and it dies when accessing the disk; cd@ 0xff5c disk@ 0xef68 disk0: BIOS drive A: disk0a: FFS disk0c: FFS disk1: BIOS drive B disk2: BIOS drive C Any ideas? --- Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL