Re: Upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 and some icons broke in Window Maker 0.91.0

2005-01-10 Thread Tabor Kelly
Tabor Kelly wrote: Dave Horsfall wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Tabor Kelly wrote: Of note: I have an Intel i810 video chipset and Xorg 6.8.1 "broke" the driver for it, but I set NoAccel in my xorg.conf file and that was supposed to take care of it (now X at least starts). Does anyone think this cou

Re: Hosts.allow and netatalk/cups

2005-01-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
To my knowledge, the effects in /etc/hosts.allow are immediate as soon as you save the modified file. And I have been using it that way for many years. No need to killall -HUP inetd, no need to reboot. If after a change the service is still not available: - you did not allow the right thing -

Hosts.allow and netatalk/cups

2005-01-10 Thread Bob Hall
Three questions: How do I cause changes in the hosts.allow file to take effect without rebooting? Everything I've seen says to restart inetd, but I'm not using inetd. How do I compile netatalk without CUPS? I don't see any obvious switches, but there has to be something that tells Make to use CUP

RE: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jez Hancock > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:42 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Blacklisting IPs > > > Another fairly simple option though is to just change the port that > sshd

RE: support

2005-01-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jens Holmqvist > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 4:41 PM > To: Anil Gaddam > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: support > > > there is already a #freebsd on the freenode network and it is > e

RE: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 4:07 PM > To: artware > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Blacklisting IPs > > > artware wrote: > > Hello again, > > > > My 5.3R system has only be

Re: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-10 Thread artware
Thanks for the input, everyone! Port-knocking is overkill at this point, but I did do the following things to sshd_config: Set port to non-default PermitRootLogin no LoginGraceTime 45s AllowUsers lists only one user -- me. :) I also did route -nq add -host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 127.0.0.1 -blackhole...

Re: HP Netserver 60 will not boot

2005-01-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
Yesterday I wrote: > I installed 4.10 RELEASE on an IDE disk on a HP Netserver 60. > > This isa fresh/default install. > > Installing was no problem, but whe I try to boot, the machine freeze > after the line: > > > pcic0: on motherboard > pci0: on pcib0 > agp0: mem 0-0xfff at devic

SOLVED! Dial-in PPP FreeBSD 5.3 (was Re: m'gettying closer! (was Re: modem not responding to mgetty)

2005-01-10 Thread Timothy Luoma
With many thanks to the folks who helped, I am happy to announce that I write this message from my own dialup connection to my own FreeBSD machine! Here the relevant configuration items. I'm using a standard 5.3 GENERIC kernel and my modem (an external serial port modem) is on sio0: Most o

Re: Virus Found in message "Re: Delivery Protection"

2005-01-10 Thread International Admissions at mum.edu
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Re: High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-10 Thread Tom Vilot
Murray Taylor wrote: I havent checked forsure but could sysutils/ipa help. it can 'open/close' firewalls upon certain limit conditions... The closest thing I have seen is portsentry. However, portsentry is a different beast. I don't think it "knows" about attempts to log in via ssh. In other w

RE: High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-10 Thread Murray Taylor
> Gene wrote: > > > Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high > level of > > brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way > > that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if > > more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a

Re: High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-10 Thread Tom Vilot
Gene wrote: Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip address,

High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-10 Thread Gene
Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip address, temporarily

New install won't boot

2005-01-10 Thread Dan Phiffer
Hello, I just installed a new 5.3 system that doesn't seem to want to boot. Here is the process I followed: 1. Install onto two disks ad0 and ad1 (20GB and 80GB, respectively) 2. Slice each to maximum size using 165 (FreeBSD) type 3. Partition with /, swap, /var, /tmp, /usr on ad0 and /home on /a

Re: building a package without installing it

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
daniel quinn wrote: On January 10, 2005 05:17 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: If the port is allready installed try: pkg_create -b {name of installed port as listed under /var/db/pkg} cool, thanks and what if i don't want it installed on this machine? if i just want to build it here for use elsewh

Re: netatalk, NFS, OS X and backup

2005-01-10 Thread Shane Ambler
Personally I use a combination of applescript and cli. With applescript you create a script that mounts the remote afp volume. Eg in script editor On run try mount volume "afp://server/sharepoint" as user name "name" with password "crypt" on error -- end try End run Personally

Re: FreeBSD 5.3-R, postfix smtp dying with sig11

2005-01-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:47:24PM -0500, Bryan Fullerton wrote: > So... what could cause this? Is the sig 11 causing the failure, or is > master killing off smtp as a result of some other issue? Anything I > can poke at? Usually hardware failure. Consult the mailing list archives or google for

Re: Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration - SOLVED - Thank you

2005-01-10 Thread Srot BULL
To All: Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> By the way, is my system clock wrong or yours? > Your clock seems to be off. In my Gnome Desktop my date and time are correct but anyways I will try to find out about this one... John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If you are getting DHCP from your aDSL modem, i

Re: m'gettying closer! (was Re: modem not responding to mgetty)

2005-01-10 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 10, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Jay Quinby wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Timothy Luoma wrote: I am unsure about several things - should be using cuaa0 or ttyd0 (I am using mgetty)? If I recall correctly, cuaa0 is the device name for Serial 0, or the equivalent of /dev/ttyS0 on Linux. One way to

Re: sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-10 19:38, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ ... ] Go to /etc/mail. Edit freebsd.cf (look for SMART_HOST), point it at your ISP's mail server. Do "make stop; make install; make start". FWIW, the file edited should be `freebsd.mc', not `freebsd.cf' otherw

Re: Onboard sound problem - FBSD 5.2.1 - Epox 8kta3

2005-01-10 Thread Rene C. Mendoza
Have you added this line to your kernel config? device pcm I think you need this line to enable sound. Gable Barber wrote: I recompiled kernel to include' options PNPBIOS ' ... per the Handbook. From the motherboard manual: Epox 8kta3 motherboard VIA kt133a built in AC97 (by vt82c686b) output

Re: WIFI USB

2005-01-10 Thread Kris Maglione
Kris Maglione wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html Kevin Downey wrote: Are any 802.11whatever USB adapters supported/working? Sorry for the plain url. For these types of questions, always check the hardware notes for your platform/release before asking. I have no real an

FreeBSD 5.3-R, postfix smtp dying with sig11

2005-01-10 Thread Bryan Fullerton
Below is an email I sent about this to the postfix-users list last week, but there've been no replies so I'm forwarding it on to freebsd-questions. Thanks, Bryan -- Forwarded message -- From: Bryan Fullerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:58:00 -0500 Subject: prematu

Re: Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration

2005-01-10 Thread John
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:15:03AM +, Srot BULL wrote: >... If you are getting DHCP from your aDSL modem, it is very likely that it is already doing NAT for you (and firewalling). Doing NAT upon NAT is probably not productive. If you are getting an RFC1597 private (non-routed) address, this

Re: WIFI USB

2005-01-10 Thread Kris Maglione
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html Kevin Downey wrote: Are any 802.11whatever USB adapters supported/working? A cursory google search turned up a few people asking similar questions, but positive or negative responses. ___ freebsd-que

Re: file roo large !!

2005-01-10 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:14:57 +1030 Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 07:37 pm, mess-mate wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:46:51 +1030 > > > > Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 01:07 am, mess-mate wrote: > > > > Hi list, > > > > this is not ne

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 RELENG source fails to build

2005-01-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:23:10PM -0800, Joe wrote: > Hmm, now 5.2.1 is having problems with config.h missing. > > > > cd /usr/src > > rm -rf contrib gnu > > cat supfile > *default host=cvsup6.freebsd.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs > *

Re: Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration

2005-01-10 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Srot BULL wrote: Hello and Good Day to all, I have tried to configure my system for Internet Connection Sharing but I could not implement the configuration properly. I am afraid that this is all my mind can figure out. Please look through below and I would appreciate if you could point out the

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 RELENG source fails to build

2005-01-10 Thread Joe
Hmm, now 5.2.1 is having problems with config.h missing. > cd /usr/src > rm -rf contrib gnu > cat supfile *default host=cvsup6.freebsd.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default tag=RELENG_5_2 *default comp

Re: BackupPC

2005-01-10 Thread Tom Vilot
dave wrote: Hello, Do you know if there's a port of BackupPC for FreeBSD? I'm looking for a backup solution for multiple platforms centering on a FreeBSD server. I've encountered BackupPC and Bacula, both look promising, primary backups are initially automated to disk then possibly later on to r

Re: sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

2005-01-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-10 19:38, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Srot BULL wrote: >>> The simple answer is that the name your machine claims to be isn't >>> registered in the DNS, which is normal for dynamic connections. You >>> should either relay all email to the mailserver your ISP should have >>>

Onboard sound problem - FBSD 5.2.1 - Epox 8kta3

2005-01-10 Thread Gable Barber
I recompiled kernel to include' options PNPBIOS ' ... per the Handbook. >From the motherboard manual: Epox 8kta3 motherboard VIA kt133a built in AC97 (by vt82c686b) output of uname : bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD home.localdomain 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 9 09:07:26 CS

Re: hdparm for FreeBSD?

2005-01-10 Thread David Kelly
On Jan 10, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 10 January 2005 05:04 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: You mean like atacontrol(8)? Or maybe you mean something more like tunefs(8)? Nope. atacontrol returns information about a drive's capabilities, but offers no way to change the settings tha

Re: hdparm for FreeBSD?

2005-01-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 10 January 2005 05:04 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > You mean like atacontrol(8)? > Or maybe you mean something more like tunefs(8)? Nope. atacontrol returns information about a drive's capabilities, but offers no way to change the settings that affect them. Example: # atacontrol c

perl bsdpan install Text::Aspell problem

2005-01-10 Thread Andy Firman
I am using FreeBSD 4.10 stable with the perl 5.8 port and can't install Text:Aspell. I need some help because I don't know much about bsdpan perl stuff. What am I doing wrong? I did this: perl -MCPAN -e shell install Bundle::CPAN with no problems.but then I did this: cpan> install Text::

Re: Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration

2005-01-10 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hello To make sure I understand, you can reach the internet from your router? So it is really a routing problem, right? The interface connected to the modem is bge0? aue0 is connected to your internal network?! Your internal machines can ping the router?? If everything is so then try natd_interf

growisofs killing every other DVD+R

2005-01-10 Thread Carleton Vaughn
I'm new to this list and how to ask it for help, so please bear with me if I have omitted anything critical or have included too much or am in the wrong place entirely. I'm running: > sally# uname -a > FreeBSD sally.keebler.homeunix.net 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE > #3: Mon Dec 27 18:45:53

Looking for SCSI RAID controller advice Please

2005-01-10 Thread Nicole H
Hi I am looking for recommendations for a SCSI raid controller to use preferably with 5.3 instead of 4.X that can be monitored remotely. What do people use for their raid arrays so that they can verify that they are working ok without having to reboot a system? The only things I have found are

Re: Firefox with "Spinlock" error

2005-01-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:26:43PM +, Ned Harrison wrote: > On Monday 10 January 2005 02:17 am, you wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:47:46PM +, Ned Harrison wrote: > > > I keep getting this error when I try to start Firefox: > > > > > > Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.'

Re: support

2005-01-10 Thread Jens Holmqvist
there is already a #freebsd on the freenode network and it is everything you want On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:00:02 -0800 (PST), Anil Gaddam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear FreeBSD team, > My name is Anil C. Gaddam. I am interested in starting > an official FreeBSD IRC channel. I will start the > ch

Re: sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Srot BULL wrote: [ ... ] The simple answer is that the name your machine claims to be isn't registered in the DNS, which is normal for dynamic connections. You should either relay all email to the mailserver your ISP should have available, or you should configure your MTA to masquerade as a val

Re: Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Srot BULL wrote: Thank you for the immediate response No problem, you are welcome. [ ... ] Well, does this mean that I will not be able to share my internet connection at home?...not a big problem though but it hurts!...I can still just remove and insert the LAN cable to which PC I want to use and

switching key mappings on a laptop (function and ctrl)

2005-01-10 Thread Joe Schmoe
I have a new laptop that has the FN (function) key in the very lower left, and the CTRL key one key to the right of it ... but I like the CTRL key to be in the far lower left ... Is it possible to switch the function of these two keys (not just in X, but in the console, virtual terminals, etc.)

Re: Firefox with "Spinlock" error

2005-01-10 Thread Ned Harrison
On Monday 10 January 2005 02:17 am, you wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:47:46PM +, Ned Harrison wrote: > > I keep getting this error when I try to start Firefox: > > > > Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in > > file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (er

Re: sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

2005-01-10 Thread Srot BULL
Again, thank you for the response, Haaa, I love FreeBSD! On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 18:50 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Srot BULL wrote: > [ ... ] > > If I am wrong, then can anyone...give me a simple explanation (simple > > please - I know that I am asking too much, but I can assure you that I > > have

Re: Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration

2005-01-10 Thread Srot BULL
Thank you for the immediate response On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 18:56 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Srot BULL wrote: > [ ... ] > > By the way, since this is my first try in Internet Connection > > Sharing...I am not that sure with my cable connections... > > My internal LAN Card "bge0" is connected to m

RE: Upgrade to Courier 4.0.1?

2005-01-10 Thread Scott Bye
Scott Bye wrote: [ ...format recovered... ] > I actually found that new RC flag for the authdaemon about 2 minutes after > my last post, and that fixed my problems. I must confess I didn't notice the > change in the SSL ones though. > > Is there anywhere these kind of things are documented/display

Re: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-10 Thread Chris
artware wrote: Hello again, My 5.3R system has only been up a little over a week, and I've already had a few breakin attempts -- they show up as Illegal user tests in the /var/log/auth.log... It looks like they're trying common login names (probably with the login name used as passwd). It takes the

Re: Upgrade to Courier 4.0.1?

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Scott Bye wrote: [ ...format recovered... ] I actually found that new RC flag for the authdaemon about 2 minutes after my last post, and that fixed my problems. I must confess I didn't notice the change in the SSL ones though. Is there anywhere these kind of things are documented/displayed? Yes, /u

Re: Upgrade to Courier 4.0.1?

2005-01-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/10/05 11:58 PM, Scott Bye sat at the `puter and typed: > Thanks :) > > I actually found that new RC flag for the authdaemon about 2 minutes after my > last post, and that fixed my problems. I must confess I didn't notice the > change in the SSL ones though. > > Is there anywhere these kin

RE: Upgrade to Courier 4.0.1?

2005-01-10 Thread Scott Bye
Thanks :) I actually found that new RC flag for the authdaemon about 2 minutes after my last post, and that fixed my problems. I must confess I didn't notice the change in the SSL ones though. Is there anywhere these kind of things are documented/displayed? Regards, Scott -Original Mess

Re: Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Srot BULL wrote: [ ... ] By the way, since this is my first try in Internet Connection Sharing...I am not that sure with my cable connections... My internal LAN Card "bge0" is connected to my ADSL Modem while my other externel USB LAN Card "aue0" is connected to my switching hub...and the other PC

Re: ip address behind router ?

2005-01-10 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 03:52:02PM -0600, Brian Davis wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:38:56 +0100 > FreeBsdBeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > How do I find what ip address I'm really having ? > > My adsl modem/firewall gives me a dynamic private address : > > 192.168.1.101, which

Re: sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Srot BULL wrote: [ ... ] If I am wrong, then can anyone...give me a simple explanation (simple please - I know that I am asking too much, but I can assure you that I have already bookmarked the sendmail Website and sendmail batbook is already in my list of books that I am planning to purchase...not

Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration

2005-01-10 Thread Srot BULL
Hello and Good Day to all, I have tried to configure my system for Internet Connection Sharing but I could not implement the configuration properly. I am afraid that this is all my mind can figure out. Please look through below and I would appreciate if you could point out the mistakes that I h

sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

2005-01-10 Thread Srot BULL
Hello and Good Day to all, I could not remember when this problem appeared but I have tried to post 2 to 3 emails to the FreeBSD ML (ACPI, questions...) some months ago...and every time I get the same messages from my sendmail (I think). But since I only use mutt for sending emails to the FreeBSD M

Odd kernel error on an NFS server

2005-01-10 Thread M
I occasionally see this on an NFS server under heavy load ufs_rename: fvp == tvp (can't happen) Any idea what this means and where I should look to fix it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: file roo large !!

2005-01-10 Thread Matthias Buelow
Malcolm Kay wrote: Is it really possible to have a ext3fs mount under FBSD 5.3? I know you can mount an ext2fs file system and an existing linux ext3fs will probably mount successfully (without journaling) as an ext2fs; but is this what are you trying to do? I've last mounted ext2 on 5.2.1 (it wa

Re: hdparm for FreeBSD?

2005-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Linux users have a tool, hdparm, that lets them adjust all sorts of > drive characteristics (read look-ahead, 32-bit I/O, multi-sector > I/O, and so on) beyond the normal things seen in the hw.ata tree. > Is there an equivalent for FreeBSD? You mean lik

Re: openoffice 1.1.4

2005-01-10 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 January 2005 16:51, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: > i get this error trying to install openoffice-1.1-devel > > ./install: not found > > whereis it? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-openoffice/2005-January/001197.html Cheers, ch

Re: building a package without installing it

2005-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
daniel quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On January 10, 2005 05:17 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > If the port is allready installed try: > >pkg_create -b {name of installed port as listed under /var/db/pkg} > > cool, thanks > and what if i don't want it installed on this machine? if i ju

Re: building a package without installing it

2005-01-10 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Chuck Swiger wrote: daniel quinn wrote: On January 10, 2005 05:17 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: If the port is allready installed try: pkg_create -b {name of installed port as listed under /var/db/pkg} cool, thanks and what if i don't want it installed on this machine? if i just want to build i

Re: NFS export of evolution-SOLVED

2005-01-10 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:04 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Robert Marella wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:01 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > > >>Robert Marella wrote: > >> > >>>Hello > >>> > >>>I am not sure where this problem should go so I am posting to > >>>-questions. > >>> > >>>I have a S

Re: How to save gif0?

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Idar Tollefsen wrote: I created the gif0 device with ifconfig, but I can't seem to find a way to "save" it so that I don't have to recreate it at boot time. Any ideas? It's reasonable to put the right commands into an /etc/rc.local, or use /etc/rc.conf's mechanisms to put commands in a /etc/start

Re: Portupgrade - Ruby error

2005-01-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 03:25:20PM -0500, Haulmark, Chris wrote: > Having problems using Portupgrade utilities because of Ruby. > > > It started last Friday and I waited for the weekend just in case the > cvs tree will get updated with a possible fix. /usr/ports/UPDATING (and wrap your lines at

How to save gif0?

2005-01-10 Thread Idar Tollefsen
Hi, I recently added the gif pseudo device to my kernel to set up a VPN tunnel. I created the gif0 device with ifconfig, but I can't seem to find a way to "save" it so that I don't have to recreate it at boot time. Any ideas? - IT ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: building a package without installing it

2005-01-10 Thread daniel quinn
On January 10, 2005 05:17 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > If the port is allready installed try: >pkg_create -b {name of installed port as listed under /var/db/pkg} cool, thanks and what if i don't want it installed on this machine? if i just want to build it here for use elsewhere? -- Also

Re: building a package without installing it

2005-01-10 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 10 January 2005 02:10 pm, daniel quinn wrote: > On January 10, 2005 05:02 pm, Frank Laszlo wrote: > > daniel quinn wrote: > > >is this even possible? a number of google results have informed > > > me that it isn't, but i'm hoping there's a hack or a work around. > > > essentially, i wa

Re: building a package without installing it

2005-01-10 Thread daniel quinn
On January 10, 2005 05:02 pm, Frank Laszlo wrote: > daniel quinn wrote: > >is this even possible? a number of google results have informed me that > > it isn't, but i'm hoping there's a hack or a work around. essentially, i > > want to build the packages on one box, copy them to many boxes and ru

Re: nvidia driver problem

2005-01-10 Thread craig
Louis LeBlanc wrote: (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/". Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"). (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/". Entry d

Re: building a package without installing it

2005-01-10 Thread Frank Laszlo
daniel quinn wrote: is this even possible? a number of google results have informed me that it isn't, but i'm hoping there's a hack or a work around. essentially, i want to build the packages on one box, copy them to many boxes and run package_add there. suggestions/comments? FYI, this bel

support

2005-01-10 Thread Anil Gaddam
Dear FreeBSD team, My name is Anil C. Gaddam. I am interested in starting an official FreeBSD IRC channel. I will start the channel on Freenode IRC network. Freenode thrives to host many official supports channels for various open-source projects. Currently Freenode is home to Gentto, fedora, and d

RE: ip address behind router ?

2005-01-10 Thread Tom Connolly
Brian Davis wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:38:56 +0100 > FreeBsdBeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> How do I find what ip address I'm really having ? >> My adsl modem/firewall gives me a dynamic private address : >> 192.168.1.101, which is what I see with an ifconfig. But how do I >>

Re: ip address behind router ?

2005-01-10 Thread Brian Davis
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:38:56 +0100 FreeBsdBeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How do I find what ip address I'm really having ? > My adsl modem/firewall gives me a dynamic private address : > 192.168.1.101, which is what I see with an ifconfig. But how do I find > the real (dynamic) addre

BackupPC

2005-01-10 Thread dave
Hello, Do you know if there's a port of BackupPC for FreeBSD? I'm looking for a backup solution for multiple platforms centering on a FreeBSD server. I've encountered BackupPC and Bacula, both look promising, primary backups are initially automated to disk then possibly later on to removable me

hdparm for FreeBSD?

2005-01-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
Linux users have a tool, hdparm, that lets them adjust all sorts of drive characteristics (read look-ahead, 32-bit I/O, multi-sector I/O, and so on) beyond the normal things seen in the hw.ata tree. Is there an equivalent for FreeBSD? -- Kirk Strauser pgpvJocPy8Pcv.pgp Description: PGP signa

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 and CD9660_ROOT bootable cdroms

2005-01-10 Thread Joe
In FreeBSD 4.x I used parts of that to create a cdrom. In 5.x I now use parts of the freesbie port to create bootable cdroms. It uses cdboot. Joe --- "Greiman, John K (Mission Systems)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using cdroot-1.2.5, I have successfuly created a bootable CD-R > which contai

Re: NFS export of evolution

2005-01-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Andrew L. Gould wrote: I had a hard time sharing NFS directories that were not actual mount points. When I changed the shared directories in /etc/exports to actual mount points (not directories below them) with -alldirs, I was able to mount the specific subdirectories I wanted on the client sid

Re: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-10 Thread daniel quinn
On January 10, 2005 01:20 am, artware wrote: > My 5.3R system has only been up a little over a week, and I've already > had a few breakin attempts -- they show up as Illegal user tests in > the /var/log/auth.log... It looks like they're trying common login > names (probably with the login name used

building a package without installing it

2005-01-10 Thread daniel quinn
is this even possible? a number of google results have informed me that it isn't, but i'm hoping there's a hack or a work around. essentially, i want to build the packages on one box, copy them to many boxes and run package_add there. suggestions/comments? -- Simon: This may come as a surpr

openoffice 1.1.4

2005-01-10 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
i get this error trying to install openoffice-1.1-devel ./install: not found whereis it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: NFS export of evolution

2005-01-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 10 January 2005 02:45 pm, Robert Marella wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:01 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > Robert Marella wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > I am not sure where this problem should go so I am posting to > > > -questions. > > > > > > I have a SOHO set up with several compute

Re: NFS export of evolution

2005-01-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Robert Marella wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:01 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Robert Marella wrote: Hello I am not sure where this problem should go so I am posting to -questions. I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of FreeBSD 5.3 Release and Stable. I have an NFS server set

Re: NFS export of evolution

2005-01-10 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:01 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Robert Marella wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am not sure where this problem should go so I am posting to > > -questions. > > > > I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of FreeBSD 5.3 > > Release and Stable. I have an NFS s

Re: Upgrade to Courier 4.0.1?

2005-01-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/10/05 01:44 PM, Scott Bye sat at the `puter and typed: > I updated to this via ports, and the services appear to be running and > listening for connections. > > However, if I connect to them, I get disconnected immediately, and > nothing appears to be logged for any of the services. > > It

Portupgrade - Ruby error

2005-01-10 Thread Haulmark, Chris
Having problems using Portupgrade utilities because of Ruby. It started last Friday and I waited for the weekend just in case the cvs tree will get updated with a possible fix. Output of error is.. %portversion /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/dl/types.rb:172:in `encode_type': unknown type: c

WiFi PCMCIA or CardBus cards with Compaq Armada laptops?

2005-01-10 Thread John
When I upgraded from FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE (yeah - about a year old) to FreeBSD 5.2.1, my WiFi capability went away. I have tried my own LinkSys card and borrowed a friend's NETGEAR card with essentially the same problem (it's not 100% deterministic even with the same card, so it's hard to be 100% su

Re: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 01/10/05 12:20 AM, artware sat at the `puter and typed: My 5.3R system has only been up a little over a week, and I've already had a few breakin attempts -- they show up as Illegal user tests in the /var/log/auth.log... It looks like they're trying common login names (probab

Re: dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied

2005-01-10 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 08:25:39PM -0500, Bob Hall wrote: > I keep getting the message > dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied This stopped when I added ${fwcmd} add allow udp from ${router} bootps to ${bcast} bootpc in via ${oif} to my rule set. My dhclient was

Re: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/10/05 07:42 PM, Jez Hancock sat at the `puter and typed: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:23:04 -0500, Louis LeBlanc > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 01/10/05 12:20 AM, artware sat at the `puter and typed: > > > Hello again, > > > > > > My 5.3R system has only been up a little over a week, and I'v

Re: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-10 Thread Jez Hancock
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:23:04 -0500, Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/10/05 12:20 AM, artware sat at the `puter and typed: > > Hello again, > > > > My 5.3R system has only been up a little over a week, and I've already > > had a few breakin attempts -- they show up as Illegal user te

Re: firewall setup and whois for blacklisting IP's

2005-01-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/10/05 01:34 PM, dave sat at the `puter and typed: > Hello, > For your setup of blacklisting IP's do you use any cron scripts for > procedure automation? > I'm assuming for your firewall block table that you store that in a > separate file? Can you send that file my way? I've tried to

Re: Router setup with FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-10 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Michael Madden [freebsd] [06-01-05 18:44 -0600]: | Does anyone have documentation and/or a | tutorial for setting a router with FreeBSD | 5.3? I want to share a broadband connection | with 5-10 Windows/Linux/FreeBSD boxes. I | assume I'll need to setup the two interfaces, | gatewaying, and so

Re: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/10/05 06:04 PM, John Conover sat at the `puter and typed: > Louis LeBlanc writes: > > > > A practice one of my former co-workers liked was to pick a song and pull > > letters out; take Fleetwood Mac: "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow". > > You could get "DSTAT", turn that into something el

Re: Free BSD

2005-01-10 Thread Shantanoo
+++ K.T. [freebsd] [06-01-05 17:42 +0100]: | |I think, BSD is one with lot of unusable, needless systems. |You never get over Windows or Linux. |FreeBSD is stupid system, which only nobody will use. :-( | | -- *clap* *clap* Now sit in the corner and observ

Re[2]: Upgrade to Courier 4.0.1?

2005-01-10 Thread DanGer
Hi Louis, Monday, January 10, 2005, 6:45:51 PM, you wrote the following: > On 01/10/05 11:40 AM, Tillman Hodgson sat at the `puter and typed: >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:19:26AM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: >> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 01:44:57PM -, Scott Bye wrote: >> > > I updated to thi

Re[2]: Upgrade to Courier 4.0.1?

2005-01-10 Thread DanGer
Hi Louis, Monday, January 10, 2005, 6:45:51 PM, you wrote the following: > On 01/10/05 11:40 AM, Tillman Hodgson sat at the `puter and typed: >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:19:26AM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: >> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 01:44:57PM -, Scott Bye wrote: >> > > I updated to thi

Re: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-10 Thread John Conover
Louis LeBlanc writes: > > A practice one of my former co-workers liked was to pick a song and pull > letters out; take Fleetwood Mac: "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow". > You could get "DSTAT", turn that into something else, like "dSt4T". > Pretty short, but definitely not a dictionary word. Y

Re: Lost my X11 config - what was the old tool to build it?

2005-01-10 Thread John
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 11:04:52PM +0100, Daniel S. Haischt wrote: > Did you read: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > AWESOME! My bad - I assumed that the procedure that /stand/sysinstall lead me through would be what was documented in the handbook - b

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