Re: ping -f differences in pinging windows 2003 and FreeBSD

2005-02-13 Thread Andrew Lewis
Hi, On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:45:28 +0100 (CET) "Gelsema, Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got the following kit running; FreeBsd 5.3Release-p5, > 4.10-RELEASE-p2, Windows XP SP2, Syslinux and Windows 2003 SP1. > > They all are connected to a 3com 100mbit Hub. All machines 100Mbit > HalfD

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-02-12 14:03, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ted Mittelstaedt writes: >> How exactly does one do this when the NT kernel code isn't available >> for perusal? > > One gains access to the kernel code. Hmmm, how? > However, just observing the systems and studying their design t

remove cpu in freebsd

2005-02-13 Thread Snopy Land
Hi, I am a newbie to freebsd, I need to remove one cpu from my freebsd (5.2.1-release version) server. Do I need to recompile my kernel? If yes, any hints? Or I can just shutdown, remove the cpu and reboot the machine ? Thanks a lot. ___ freebsd-questio

Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Because they wrote the software in question, perhaps? > > So? If it's truly open source, the copyrights should be assigned. copyright assignment isn't entirely doable in all jurisdictions, and beside the point. > All it takes is one copyright

Re: SQL Questions

2005-02-13 Thread Murray Taylor
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 23:54, Jan Branbergen wrote: > >I would like to install SQL here for my own use, not for any real life > > > > currently, round now for learning. > > > > Right now plan to install MySQL. > > Looking through the ports there is numerous version and some say for > > > > server

Re: Virus question

2005-02-13 Thread Murray Taylor
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 05:59, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > On Feb 11, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Karen Donathan wrote: > > > To Whom it may concern: > > > > My name is Karen Donathan and I am a computer science teacher at > > George Washington High School in Charleston, WV. We run our website > > (http://gw

Re: sudo never requires a password?

2005-02-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:53 PM -0600 Brian John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How come whenever I do a 'sudo' command I never have to enter a password? I have tried it several times and it is like I have root access but don't need a root password by just using sudo. I think this could be p

Re: sudo never requires a password?

2005-02-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, February 14, 2005 12:30 AM -0500 Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps you don't HAVE a root password. Have you tried to log in to the system as root to make sure it requires a password? It is quite possible to set up FreeBSD with no root password. Sudo doesn't use the roo

Re: HELP!! sshd permitting password free logins

2005-02-13 Thread Gene
Ean Kingston wrote: On February 13, 2005 04:10 pm, Gene wrote: I'm running version 5.3 of freebsd. I'm not sure what I did - I was experimenting in sshd_config. sshd began to permit logins without benefit of password. When logging in (I'm using putty from a local windows machine) I enter the use

Re: Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?

2005-02-13 Thread Remington
FreeBSD thishost 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #3: Thu Feb 10 10:43:38 PST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD64 amd64 This is a completely useless reply. I have had this problem for months. All ports are current, running www/flashplugin-mozilla. i core dump in both mozilla and

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 very slow data-transfer

2005-02-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:27:16AM +0100, Jack Raats wrote: > Yesterday I've install FreeBSD 5.3 on a machine. After compiling the kernel > with device my, I can connect through the network with that machine. > Everything works fine, but when I try to update the source tree or ftp-ing > to a local

Re: sudo never requires a password?

2005-02-13 Thread Bob Johnson
On Sunday 13 February 2005 11:53 pm, Brian John wrote: > How come whenever I do a 'sudo' command I never have to enter a > password? I have tried it several times and it is like I have root > access but don't need a root password by just using sudo. I think this > could be pretty dangerous. I've

Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.

2005-02-13 Thread Anthony Atkielski
bsdnooby writes: > When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new HP Pavilion laptop turns > itself off. While it's rather late for me to make this observation, I find that computers from big-name vendors tend to show a great deal of interdependence between the pre-installed OS and the hardware. Th

Re: FreeBSD logo design competition

2005-02-13 Thread Wes Peters
On Feb 9, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, stheg olloydson wrote: Any communications should come from someone with an easy-to-pronounce northern European surname (but not French) and, if at all possible, a first name that sounds American. Can I suggest Mark from a lovely town in Austria

sudo never requires a password?

2005-02-13 Thread Brian John
How come whenever I do a 'sudo' command I never have to enter a password? I have tried it several times and it is like I have root access but don't need a root password by just using sudo. I think this could be pretty dangerous. I've never setup sudo before, at least not myself. Could someo

FreeBSD 5.3 very slow data-transfer

2005-02-13 Thread Jack Raats
Yesterday I've install FreeBSD 5.3 on a machine. After compiling the kernel with device my, I can connect through the network with that machine. Everything works fine, but when I try to update the source tree or ftp-ing to a local machine, the data transfer starts at 10 Kbytes/sec and drops very qu

SCSI device numbers

2005-02-13 Thread Mike Jeays
I have at present two emulated SCSI devices on my system; a USB flash drive, and a DVD-writer. They get assigned: 0,0,0 0) 'SanDisk ' 'Cruzer Micro' '2033' Removable Disk 2,0,0 200) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-4160B' 'A300' Removable CD-ROM if the USB device is present at boot time (I th

Re: how to set up a dual boot system

2005-02-13 Thread Thomas Foster
Install the bootloader to sector 0 of the first drive in the system.. you can also use GRUB or GAG T - Original Message - From: "Marty Landman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:53 PM Subject: how to set up a dual boot system I must've goofed somehow. Left wind

UFS2 File System Recovery

2005-02-13 Thread Thomas Foster
I have done quite a bit of searching on the subject and seem to be coming back to the same conclusion. I recently accidentally removed a symlink recursively in a sleep deprived stupor and lost an entire directory of personal music projects. Being that I had not performed backups for that day,

Re: problem with realplayer

2005-02-13 Thread Brian John
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 04:11:29PM -0600, Brian John wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Brian John wrote: Well, I tried that and now I can't run realplayer at all. This is what happens: $ realplay /usr/loca

Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.

2005-02-13 Thread bsdnooby
Hi, When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new HP Pavilion laptop turns itself off. It does not matter if I use 4.x or 5.x, CD or floppies. There is no error log since it just shuts off after I choose to load a kernel. I have tried loading with ACPI off, and it does not help. I believe I t

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 13 February 2005 06:37 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:15 PM -0800 "Michael C. Shultz" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pkgdb -F is what screws up the installed ports registry. Here is an > > example of what happens: > > > > 1. port-A needs dependency port-B i

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 13 February 2005 06:34 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:15:18PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > Pkgdb -F is what screws up the installed ports registry. Here is an > > example of what happens: > > > > 1. port-A needs dependency port-B installed > > 2. port-B is installed >

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:35:06PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:18 PM -0500 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? It contains a suggestion for how to > >update the Perl ports which might have helped... > > > Well, no.

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:15 PM -0800 "Michael C. Shultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pkgdb -F is what screws up the installed ports registry. Here is an example of what happens: 1. port-A needs dependency port-B installed 2. port-B is installed 3. port-A is installed and marks its registry

Disappearing Swap

2005-02-13 Thread John
Hello list How can I see what process is eating my swap? vmstat indicates that the swap is being eaten, but by what? If it all gets eaten, badness occurs. I'm running freebsd 5.3-release-p5. thanks for any input -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questi

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:18 PM -0500 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? It contains a suggestion for how to update the Perl ports which might have helped... Well, no. Why on earth would I do *that*? ;-) (Thanks for the tip. I ran it.) I wonder wh

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:15:18PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > Pkgdb -F is what screws up the installed ports registry. Here is an > example of what happens: > > 1. port-A needs dependency port-B installed > 2. port-B is installed > 3. port-A is installed and marks its registry as being de

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 13 February 2005 02:02 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ean Kingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Cc: "Paul Schmehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 3:42 PM > Subject: Re: Updated perl - broke stuff > > > I stopped using portupgrade be

Question about setup virtual server

2005-02-13 Thread Kangaroo
Question about setup virtual server.. X4 zoom ADSL modem&router WANIP from X4: 64.234.33.45 LAN IP 10.0.0.6 this zoom ADSL modem connnect to D-LINK broadband router WAN PORT of D-LINK connect to WANPORT of ZOOM X4 WANIP :10.0.0.11 LAN IP: 192.168.0.2 D-LINK has enable virtual severs to allow por

Re: FreeBSD - Is it ok

2005-02-13 Thread Wayne
On 2/13/05 23:39, "Jeremy Faulkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi >>> I use a Mac G4 and have a spare hard drive. >>> I would like to put a Unix OS on it but do not know what I can use. >> >> >> Freebsd wont run on a g4. > > There are people on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list that would

how to set up a dual boot system

2005-02-13 Thread Marty Landman
I must've goofed somehow. Left windows 98 on the primary master ide and installed fbsd 5.2 on the other two ide's; installation seemed to go well, and I installed the bootmgr on the first of the two ide's that fbsd is on. However when I reboot from the hard drive go right into windows. Where di

Re: problem with realplayer

2005-02-13 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:52:14PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 04:11:29PM -0600, Brian John wrote: > > Loren M. Lang wrote: > > > > >On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Brian John wrote: > > > > > > > > > >>> > > >>> > > >>Well, I tried that and now I can't r

Re: problem with realplayer

2005-02-13 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 04:11:29PM -0600, Brian John wrote: > Loren M. Lang wrote: > > >On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Brian John wrote: > > > > > >>> > >>> > >>Well, I tried that and now I can't run realplayer at all. This is what > >>happens: > >>$ realplay > >>/usr/local/lib

Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?

2005-02-13 Thread Ben Dover
Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page with a Flash object Firefox core dumps. The error is as follows: Feb 13 18:57:53 w00f kernel: pid 27652 (firefox-bin), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped). I have installed the following relevant ports: /usr/ports/www/firefox /

Re : FreeBSD - Is it ok

2005-02-13 Thread Javier Prats
This is the link for the macintosh port of freebsd. http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html Unfortunatly it still appears to be under development. Alternatly here is a Netbsd port which is working (NetBSD is another branch off of the original BSD OS). http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/ And h

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Matthias Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope. Beastie is a way of life. I'd be quite upset if it were dropped for whatever reason. It is so intimately tied to FreeBSD that it would be a PR disaster if it were to be changed. NetBSD never had a real The BSD daemon image stems from around 4.3BSD, or an even earlier

Re: how to set up a dual boot system

2005-02-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:37:39PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 06:08 PM 2/13/2005, Roland Smith wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:40:13PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > >> I have a box with 3 ide's > >> > >> primary master - 4 gb, win 98 currently installed @ 150 mb in size That would be ad

Re: how to set up a dual boot system

2005-02-13 Thread Jud
Marty Landman wrote: At 06:08 PM 2/13/2005, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:40:13PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > I have a box with 3 ide's > > primary master - 4 gb, win 98 currently installed @ 150 mb in size > > primary slave - 4 gb, empty > > secondary slave - 6 gb, empty You c

Re: Recommended desktop?

2005-02-13 Thread Jan Branbergen
> > I am looking for a desktop environment to run > > with freebsd. I will be the sole user. .. zip ... > > word processor capable of handling .doc files > > openoffice or abiword. i prefer abiword. regards, Jan___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: X on a server Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-13 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 13, 2005, at 2:14 PM, Ean Kingston wrote: On February 13, 2005 03:53 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: You can install the X libraries and client apps on your server -- this works fine at secure level 3 and does not require kernel configurations changes or sp

Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dick Davies writes: > Shut up now, ok? or take it elsewhere. Don't forget discovery. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTE

Re: FreeBSD - Is it ok

2005-02-13 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Wayne wrote: On 2/13/05 15:18, "Tony King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I use a Mac G4 and have a spare hard drive. I would like to put a Unix OS on it but do not know what I can use. Freebsd wont run on a g4. There are people on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list that would disagree with you.

Re: how to set up a dual boot system

2005-02-13 Thread Marty Landman
At 06:08 PM 2/13/2005, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:40:13PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > I have a box with 3 ide's > > primary master - 4 gb, win 98 currently installed @ 150 mb in size > > primary slave - 4 gb, empty > > secondary slave - 6 gb, empty You can install FreeBSD on

Re: FreeBSD - Is it ok

2005-02-13 Thread Dick Davies
* Tony King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0219 15:19]: > Hi > I use a Mac G4 and have a spare hard drive. > I would like to put a Unix OS on it but do not know what I can use. I think it comes with one. -- 'The State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things b

I have given in trying to install

2005-02-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recently picked up the freebsd 1.1 from a Linux magazine I buy reg ular , I liked it so much I decided to download the full Freebsd iso's an= d install the real thing . 24 hrs later and constant effoft ... I have given in . It seems that regardless of whatever angle I approach

Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Dick Davies
* Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0216 21:16]: > Peter N. M. Hansteen writes: > > > Because they wrote the software in question, perhaps? > > So? If it's truly open source, the copyrights should be assigned. All > it takes is one copyright holder who withdraws a license and an entire > p

Re: WEIRD: telnet

2005-02-13 Thread Dick Davies
* Colin J. Raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0205 15:05]: > Some tangential observations: > 1. Unless you *must* use telnet for some reason, it's a good idea to > turn it off. This is a telnet client, how would you 'turn that off'. This is a very common way to test if a socket is listening, and there

Re: how to set up a dual boot system

2005-02-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:40:13PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > I have a box with 3 ide's > > primary master - 4 gb, win 98 currently installed @ 150 mb in size > > primary slave - 4 gb, empty > > secondary slave - 6 gb, empty > > Can I install fbsd (5.2) and set up dual booting from where I'm

Re: Recommended desktop?

2005-02-13 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Len Zettel wrote: I am looking for a desktop environment to run with freebsd. I will be the sole user. Just what I prefer: Must-have: graphical ftp client gftp if you like GUIs, wget if you prefer commandline apps. spreadsheet package capable of handling .xls files gnumeric or openoffice word proc

Re: An observation

2005-02-13 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ion-Mihai Tetcu writes: > BTW, there's enough MUAs that allow one to map keys combinations to > reply-all, reply-list, reply-sender. MUAs allow lots of things, especially the better ones. MTAs do likewise. > So you choose to disobey more that one thing from our mailing lists > rules :-( No.

Re: how to set up a dual boot system

2005-02-13 Thread Thomas Foster
As far as the size of the Windows Partition.. its up to you what your intended needs are. If you leave your configuration as is, you can install FreeBSD on the other driver(s) and use the FreeBSD bootloader, or even install GRUB from ports. I personally use the GAG bootloader and find that it s

Re: An observation

2005-02-13 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:39:12 +0100 Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony Atkielski writes: > > > I put it that way in my reply template, since I normally reply to the > > list, and not to the individual poster, and I get tired of cutting and > > pasting the correct address.

how to set up a dual boot system

2005-02-13 Thread Marty Landman
I have a box with 3 ide's primary master - 4 gb, win 98 currently installed @ 150 mb in size primary slave - 4 gb, empty secondary slave - 6 gb, empty Can I install fbsd (5.2) and set up dual booting from where I'm at now? Or should I install win 98 after fbsd? Also will I need to dedicate an enti

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Robert Huff
Piggy-backing on the Subject: line I recently upgraded perl per the entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING. Afterwards, gtk-gnutalla is broken. Run from the command line, I get a whole slew of messages like this: 05/02/13 17:19:58 (WARNING): hostiles.txt, line 243: rejected e

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Paul Schmehl wrote: I maintain a small hobby website on a volunteer basis. (I do all the technical stuff - server maintenance, etc.) I ran portupgrade today, and there was an update to perl. (I'm using the ports perl.) It broke the webserver. I had to deinstall and reinstall www/p5-libwww,

Re: problem with realplayer

2005-02-13 Thread Brian John
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Brian John wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:33:25PM -0600, Brian John wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:37:58PM -0600, Brian John wrote: Loren M. Lang

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
- Original Message - From: "Ean Kingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Paul Schmehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 3:42 PM Subject: Re: Updated perl - broke stuff I stopped using portupgrade because it only upgrades ports that are out-of date. It then modifies the in

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
Paul Schmehl wrote: I maintain a small hobby website on a volunteer basis. (I do all the technical stuff - server maintenance, etc.) I ran portupgrade today, and there was an update to perl. (I'm using the ports perl.) It broke the webserver. I had to deinstall and reinstall www/p5-libwww,

ping -f differences in pinging windows 2003 and FreeBSD

2005-02-13 Thread Gelsema, Patrick
Hi, I've got the following kit running; FreeBsd 5.3Release-p5, 4.10-RELEASE-p2, Windows XP SP2, Syslinux and Windows 2003 SP1. They all are connected to a 3com 100mbit Hub. All machines 100Mbit HalfDuplex. When I execute the ping -f command from 5.3 to 4.10 I am getting a ~18% packetloss, the sa

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Ean Kingston
On February 13, 2005 04:37 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I maintain a small hobby website on a volunteer basis. (I do all the > technical stuff - server maintenance, etc.) I ran portupgrade today, and > there was an update to perl. (I'm using the ports perl.) It broke the > webserver. I had to dei

Re: HELP!! sshd permitting password free logins

2005-02-13 Thread Ean Kingston
On February 13, 2005 04:10 pm, Gene wrote: > I'm running version 5.3 of freebsd. > I'm not sure what I did - I was experimenting in sshd_config. sshd began > to permit logins without benefit of password. > > When logging in (I'm using putty from a local windows machine) I enter > the user name. I'm

Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
I maintain a small hobby website on a volunteer basis. (I do all the technical stuff - server maintenance, etc.) I ran portupgrade today, and there was an update to perl. (I'm using the ports perl.) It broke the webserver. I had to deinstall and reinstall www/p5-libwww, www/mod_perl and ww

Re: Recommended desktop?

2005-02-13 Thread Ean Kingston
On February 13, 2005 08:18 am, Len Zettel wrote: > I am looking for a desktop environment to run > with freebsd. I will be the sole user. > > Must-have: > graphical ftp client > spreadsheet package capable of handling .xls files > word processor capable of handling .doc files > ability to handle em

Re: Ports

2005-02-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
- Original Message - From: "Erik Norgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Schmehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 2:43 PM Subject: Re: Ports Taking an arbitrary post, it appears that make.conf is not always the best place since th

Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Peter N. M. Hansteen writes: > Because they wrote the software in question, perhaps? So? If it's truly open source, the copyrights should be assigned. All it takes is one copyright holder who withdraws a license and an entire package can become unusable. -- Anthony _

Re: X on a server Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-13 Thread Ean Kingston
On February 13, 2005 03:53 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > > You can install the X libraries and client apps on your server -- this > > works fine at secure level 3 and does not require kernel configurations > > changes or special daemons or anything. What it a

HELP!! sshd permitting password free logins

2005-02-13 Thread Gene
I'm running version 5.3 of freebsd. I'm not sure what I did - I was experimenting in sshd_config. sshd began to permit logins without benefit of password. When logging in (I'm using putty from a local windows machine) I enter the user name. I'm presented with the challenge and the password promp

Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:02:19PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Ceri Davies writes: > > > Really? Grepped for Copyright in /usr/src recently? > > Wow! What a mess! How much would it cost to have a team of lawyers > verify that all those copyrights are cleared? Why are people asserting >

Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why are people asserting their own copyrights in the code? Because they wrote the software in question, perhaps? -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ htt

Re: Belkin wireless card issue

2005-02-13 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >However, my other card, a PCI Belkin Wireless F5D7000 is not being >recognized. This is a problem because the integrated NIC has no >connection, I'm on a wireless network. Any clue on how to make FreeBSD >pickup this interface correctly? Right now it's showing it as "unknown >netwo

Re: Ports

2005-02-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
Paul Schmehl wrote: Till then, you'll have to look in the Makefile, there are typically a lot of WITH_ or WITHOUT_ options. When posible, I recommend installing with default options and configure those options manually, otherwise, remember to save your custom options somewhere. It makes upgrade

Re: Machine refuses to boot with ACPI enabled by default

2005-02-13 Thread Nate Lawson
Ewald Jenisch wrote: I've got a strange problem wrt. ACPI on one of my boxes under FreeBSD 5.3: The box comes up with ACPI *disabled* by default. Only by manually selecting the menu option that says "Boot with ACPI enabled" can I make the box run ACPI which is kinda annoying when e.g. I remotely

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-13 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Vulpes Velox writes: > I think the problem there is ppl make largely pointless differences > between the two... the only difference between a server and desktop, > is a desktop needs support sound cards and a the kernel level stuff > for GL. There are dramatic differences between servers and desk

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-13 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ramiro Aceves writes: > Yes, they do what Windows teached them, pointing and clicking "accept" > without reading what the computer says. Windows does not teach anyone to do that. Windows creates the same habits in users that any GUI does. > You dont skip the GUI for your windows the same as I d

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-13 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Simon Burke writes: > I use photshop on IRIX i mean, and you can use gimp too, is what i meant. According to Adobe, Photoshop exists only for the Mac and Windows. Of course, Mac OS X is based on UNIX, but since it has a proprietary GUI, I don't think that would help much (?). GIMP is not an opt

Re: Concealing short disconnects

2005-02-13 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >Hello guys! > >I have a few machines behind my FreeBSD box. The box connects >to ISP via ppp (PPPoE protocol). It's all working very nicely, >but the ISP is a pain - it disconnects every 24 hours. I can >reconnect in just a moment - so the diconnect is usually less >than a second lon

Re: FusionPHP.net - Online Again Now!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Feb 14 at 06:36, Dave Horsfall explained: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: This is what's known as a "joe job". Now, who has an interest in discrediting php-fusion? eh? Could you perhaps...ermmm...expand on that just a tad? for the benefit of us uninitiated folks... inquiring minds et

Re: Crontab script

2005-02-13 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Hello, thanks a lot, it is a more advanced idea, I'll consider using it, but since then I've realized what caused my problem. I mistyped a line, and I should have written 2>&1 instead of 2>$1. I haven't been very advanced in shell scripting yet. :) Cheers, Gábor Paul Schmehl wrote: - Origin

Re: Crontab script

2005-02-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
- Original Message - From: "Kövesdán Gábor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 1:13 PM Subject: Crontab script Hi, I've seen somewhere an easy way to check whether a program with a specified pid is running or not. I've made a crontab script to check my programs ba

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-13 Thread Jon Drews
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:10:58 -0600, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look closely at the Linux community and you'll find its mostly > ex-Windows users focused on what Microsoft is doing. The desire is to > one-up Microsoft at Microsoft's own game. Their definition of > "computer" and "human

Re: FusionPHP.net - Online Again Now!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: > > This is what's known as a "joe job". Now, who has an interest in > > discrediting php-fusion? > > eh? > Could you perhaps...ermmm...expand on that just a tad? > for the benefit of us uninitiated folks... > inquiring minds etc. A "joe job" is a forg

Crontab script

2005-02-13 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Hi, I've seen somewhere an easy way to check whether a program with a specified pid is running or not. I've made a crontab script to check my programs based on this. The script is the following: #!/bin/sh PID_FILE="/usr/local/bopm/var/bopm.pid" PID=`cat $PID_FILE` EXECUTABLE="/usr/local/bopm/bin

Re: Recommended desktop?

2005-02-13 Thread Chris
Len Zettel wrote: I am looking for a desktop environment to run with freebsd. I will be the sole user. Must-have: graphical ftp client spreadsheet package capable of handling .xls files word processor capable of handling .doc files ability to handle email web browser. Given the above, the winner wi

Printing in KDE

2005-02-13 Thread Randy Powell
Gerald, I forgot to post my e-mail. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Randy Powell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Printing in KDE

2005-02-13 Thread Randy Powell
Gerald: I have the same problem that you have or still are fighting with printing within kde3. Your error messages are the same. Have you had any success solving the printing problem? Randy Powell Open Source Advocate 2/13/05 ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Recommended desktop?

2005-02-13 Thread Len Zettel
I am looking for a desktop environment to run with freebsd. I will be the sole user. Must-have: graphical ftp client spreadsheet package capable of handling .xls files word processor capable of handling .doc files ability to handle email web browser. Given the above, the winner will be the one wh

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-13 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:56:44 +0100 Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could you please either explain, why Freebsd is superior to Linux, > > (I am asking this as I would like to understand, in more depth, > > why it is better) or direct me to a source that might give me > > some fur

Re: Ports

2005-02-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
- Original Message - From: "Erik Norgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:07 AM Subject: Re: Ports Till then, you'll have to look in the Makefile, there are typically a lot of WITH_ or WITHOUT_ options. When posible, I recom

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-13 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ramiro Aceves writes: How can I trust on a company that creates such a bad OSes? Most companies that write operating systems don't do a very good job of it on the first few tries. The older Mac OS (the one that preceded Mac OS X) was of the same generation as 16-bit Wind

Re: How do I set the source address on a multi-homed host?

2005-02-13 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Daniela wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 16:06, Volker Kindermann wrote: Hi Daniela, Yes, this happens when I connect from my machine (which functions as a router with NAT to allow the other LAN machines connect to the internet) to another LAN machine. When the router establishes a connection t

Locale settings messed up

2005-02-13 Thread Trey Sizemore
It would appear that my locale settings are defaulting back to C, at least for gnome apps. I log in using GDM and set my locale to en _US but my gnome/gtk apps (specifically mailers like sylpheed and evolution) default to C when sorting my mail folders (case sensitive) or presenting date formats fo

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-13 Thread Simon Burke
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:59:29 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Burke writes: > > > Use on my SGI workstaion (IRIX), GIMP > > I said Photoshop, not GIMP. I use photshop on IRIX i mean, and you can use gimp too, is what i meant. > > I don't want equivalents, I want the sa

Re: Newbie upgrade problem

2005-02-13 Thread Ben Dover
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:46:43 -0500, aklist_061666 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: I upgraded from freebsd 5.1 to 5.3, and the upgrade went pretty > smoothly. > > I had BIND 9.2.3 running on 5.1, and when I upgraded to 5.3, BIND 9.3.0 was > installed. > > my old named.conf file is still in /etc,

Re: WEIRD: telnet

2005-02-13 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Valentin Nechayev writes: > If I show screenshot with ssh'ing to port 443, will it be convincing? Yes. I'd like to see how it's done, if it can be done, although I'm still now sure how it would be useful. But I'd rather see it used to connect to ports like 25 or 80. > Not current telnet, becau

Re: ipfilter outgoing

2005-02-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
dick hoogendijk wrote: I have configures pure-ftpd to use a restrict set op known ports to the outside. I also openen up 5999 already. Most problems I encounter are for streaming media. This is blocked most of the time. Are these random ports or always the same? Dunno, I think they are, but it is b

Re: Question

2005-02-13 Thread .:PBS:. Medik
Hello again, I'm just returning a final note as you have supplied me with the solution, many thanks. I ditched my 4.6.2R, and found another version in my old stack of CDs' the 4.7 version, and installed like a charm, as you suggested, I did a minimal install and fetched all relevant distribution

Re: ipfilter and ntp sserver

2005-02-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
dick hoogendijk wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:38:53 +0100 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ntp is udp-only, see rfc1305. Then how come I read in /etc/services 123/tcp 123/udp "network time protocol" ? I believe you, but am just curious. IANA has decided always to assign both tcp and udp,

Re: FreeBSD - Is it ok

2005-02-13 Thread Wayne
On 2/13/05 15:18, "Tony King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I use a Mac G4 and have a spare hard drive. > I would like to put a Unix OS on it but do not know what I can use. Freebsd wont run on a g4. Try netbsd - http://www.netbsd.org The page for your g4 would be http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/

Re: WEIRD: telnet

2005-02-13 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 16:38:18, atkielski.anthony wrote about "Re: WEIRD: telnet": >> 1. Telnet can use any ports providing the user redirects. >> 2. Telnet passes clear text no matter what. >> 3. ssh ought to be used to replace Telnet whenever possible. >> 4. ssh also can be made to work with a

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