Re: X Configuration Woes

> Some updates: > > Following this I did a fresh install using the FreeBSD6.1 CD1. Xorg > installed is 6.9.0. > I did not run xorgconfig or anything. There was no /etc/X11/xorg.conf > either. From the command-line I ran "xdm" and the GUI started ... I > could login ... and then that's about it. >

Re: ipfw - bandwidth throttling (sanity check!)

* On 12/09/06 22:13 +0100, RW wrote: | On Tuesday 12 September 2006 20:49, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | > Hello Security guy ;) | > | > I have tried very hard to understand ipfw just for the purpose of | > bandwidth throttling for smtp service. | > | > Basically, I want to throttle the bandwidth us

Re: pci modem question

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 7:05 pm, musashi miyamoto wrote: > FreeBSD mori.ranmaru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 5 02:09:57 > PHT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SHOGUN i386 > > > is there a dialup pci modem that is compatible with FreeBSD? > ___

Re: libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:23:46PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: > cvsuping to -p6 wil not fix the problem. i had the exact same issue (except > it was a list of 6 different .so files) getting the NetBackup 5.1 agent for > UNIX to run on freebsd. my solution was as simple as: > > ln -s /lib/li

Re: libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE

In the last episode (Sep 12), Ahmad Arafat Abdullah said: > From: "Jonathan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:01, Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: > > > freebsdmail# /usr/local/share/kav/5.5/kav4mailservers/bin/licensemanager > > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "l

Re: libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE

> - Original Message - > From: "Jonathan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE > Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:23:46 -0500 > > > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:01, Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: > > Hye everyone.. > > >

Re: question about fortune at login

On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: what is the proper way to disable fortune? i deleted the .login file from my homedir... and it still runs at login! Depends on what shell you are using, but with tcsh moving ~/.login to ~/dot.login ended fortune for me via ssh login. W

Re: Newbie Experience

{expunged the old, typ} > > > > > > > > I've only been around since FreeBSD 5.4 > myself, > > > and > > > > found during installs that sysinstall would > get > > > > confused if you changed your mind and went > > > backwards > > > > through the menus to reconfigure options. it > seems > > > > like

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:02:33PM -0400, ograbme wrote: > > Howdie Jeff (if I may) and others, > > Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 6:41:38 AM, you wrote: > > JR> On 12/09/06, Arindam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> I chose not to install the ports collection because as of now, I do > >>

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

Perry Hutchison wrote: ... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from CD. That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't complete, as in: not all the ports are there. Any idea why? (I am ref

Re: libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:01, Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: > Hye everyone.. > > For my customer i need to install Kaspersky antivirus for mailserver > and for this case I'm using pkg build for version 5x.. ( no pkg for 6x yet > ) > > the problem is, installation seems like successfull but whe

question about fortune at login

what is the proper way to disable fortune? i deleted the .login file from my homedir... and it still runs at login! i would just as soon prefer to not see it when i log into my systems. can someone point me in the right direction? chmod -x on the binary seems to work... but i would rather kn

pci modem question

FreeBSD mori.ranmaru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 5 02:09:57 PHT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SHOGUN i386 is there a dialup pci modem that is compatible with FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE

Hye everyone.. For my customer i need to install Kaspersky antivirus for mailserver and for this case I'm using pkg build for version 5x.. ( no pkg for 6x yet ) the problem is, installation seems like successfull but when i want to key in the key ( for antivirus verification ), then this msg appe

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

> > ... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree > > does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from > > CD. > > That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't > complete, as in: not all the ports are there. Any idea why? (I am referring t

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

On Sep 12, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Chris wrote: Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been changed on the various components of the OS. Go to the source :-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Wow! That's an excellent resource and the bge driver

Re: Re[4]: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

On 12/09/06, ograbme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jeff, First of all ... thanks for your help and suggestions ... please see comments interwoven below. Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 4:20:51 PM, you wrote: JR> You need to go back into sysinstall and install the ports JR> collection. That

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

Perry Hutchison wrote: Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap. with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

Chris wrote: Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been changed on the various components of the OS. Go to the source :-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Especially for changes to limited components like a specific ethernet driver, it quite easy to see if anyt

Re: jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2005-1080).

On 2006-09-12, at 13:52:40, Remko Lodder wrote: David Robillard wrote: Hi everyone, Are there any workaround or a patch for this security problem? FreeBSD Foundation's Java JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 7 binaries for FreeBSD 6.1/i386: Affected package: diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00 Type of pr

RE: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic

> > There's a kernel option you need to enable for IPFW to do > logging. > > If you're kldload'ing the ipfw module, it probably wasn't compiled > > with IPFW_LOGGING or whatever the exact name is. > > I had set the verbosity (I think that was the parameter) from > googling around earlier, b

Re: RSS feeds for "important sites"?

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer miss anything ... or, at least, make it easier to keep on top of everything ... I can't seem to find stuff like DaemonNews and such ... Does anyone have a lis

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

> Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree > in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap. with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from CD. OP might be bet

Re: ipfw - bandwidth throttling (sanity check!)

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 20:49, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hello Security guy ;) > > I have tried very hard to understand ipfw just for the purpose of > bandwidth throttling for smtp service. > > Basically, I want to throttle the bandwidth used by my SMTP > server outbound to _anyone_ else ex

Re: jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2005-1080).

David Robillard wrote: Hi everyone, Are there any workaround or a patch for this security problem? FreeBSD Foundation's Java JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 7 binaries for FreeBSD 6.1/i386: Affected package: diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00 Type of problem: jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerabil

Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic

On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Better to use something like: ipfw add 1 log tcp from any to me 25 setup If Bart would like to use tcpdump for the same purpose, consider running something like: tcpdump

Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic

On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Better to use something like: ipfw add 1 log tcp from any to me 25 setup If Bart would like to use tcpdump for the same purpose, consider running something like: tcpdump -nt 'port 25 and (tcp[tcpflags] & tcp-syn != 0)' M

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:02, ograbme wrote: > I had mounted the ports CD I have and located sudo-1.6.8p12.tar.gz in > the distfiles directory. I copied it over into the /usr/ports/sudo > directory, gunzipped it, and then untarred it. > > I then made sure I was in the directory containing s

Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic

On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Is there some way to get the FreeBSD system to log machines using port 25 without interfering with the FreeBSD machine's filtering of email function? Or at least make the traffic visible to sniffin

Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic

In response to Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > >> Is there some way to get the FreeBSD system to log machines using > >> port 25 without interfering with the FreeBSD machine's filtering of > >> email function? Or at least make the traffic visib

Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic

On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Is there some way to get the FreeBSD system to log machines using port 25 without interfering with the FreeBSD machine's filtering of email function? Or at least make the traffic visible to sniffing with tcpdump or wireshark or ethereal? Off the t

Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic

In response to Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This will probably be kind of wordy, but I could use some advice on > how to track it. > > I have a freebsd system acting as a gateway (it's using IP > forwarding) so it can act as a web proxy server and filter for the > users. It is a

Re[2]: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

Howdie Jeff (if I may) and others, Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 6:41:38 AM, you wrote: JR> On 12/09/06, Arindam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I chose not to install the ports collection because as of now, I do >> not have access to Internet in my home-network and it would take a >> little wh

Re: Newbie Experience #2

Must have missed your rant Bob. You may want to check out PC-BSD, a graphical installer that loads the KDE desktop on completion and rides on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2. If your hardware is supported in FreeBSD then it's pretty painless. I dropped Windows at my home over 4 months

forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic

This will probably be kind of wordy, but I could use some advice on how to track it. I have a freebsd system acting as a gateway (it's using IP forwarding) so it can act as a web proxy server and filter for the users. It is also filtering incoming email to act as a mail filter between th

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/09/12 10:52, Chris seems to have typed: These are coming out of the boot as: bge0: The computer is a Tyan s4884 quad opteron (duals). I have a Tyan S2882G3NR-D with: bge0: mem 0xfc9c-0xfc9c,0xfc9b-0xfc9b irq 24

[HACK-AROUND] Re: OpenOffice build crashes the compiler

This hack presumably results in a broken slidesorter, but at least Writer seems to work (after a fashion), and that's all I really need. Since the *.obj are just empty sentinel files indicating that the corresponding *.o have been built, this # cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2.0 # touch

ipfw - bandwidth throttling (sanity check!)

Hello Security guy ;) I have tried very hard to understand ipfw just for the purpose of bandwidth throttling for smtp service. Basically, I want to throttle the bandwidth used by my SMTP server outbound to _anyone_ else except my ip blocks. My Server is 1.2.3.4 and my ip blocks are a.b.c.d/19 an

Postscript fonts in OpenOffice on 6.1

Has anyone gotten OpenOffice to use a Postscript printer's built-in fonts? If so, how did you do it? I haven't found the answer in the docs or FAQs, and got no response on the OpenOffice list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2005-1080).

Hi everyone, Are there any workaround or a patch for this security problem? FreeBSD Foundation's Java JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 7 binaries for FreeBSD 6.1/i386: Affected package: diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00 Type of problem: jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability. Reference:

Re: Flatscreen Monitor Specifications

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 07:25 -0700, Joel Adamson wrote: > Howdy Y'all, > > I am planning to install FreeBSD this weekend and I am doing a hardware > inventory. I have a fairly new computer (bought brand new a year ago: Dell > something-or-other 5100C), with a flatscreen monitor and USB everything

NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

I've had nightmares with my AMD65 Tyan quad that were most likely caused by the Broadcom built-in NICs. There are a lot of folks who've reported problems not only on FreeBSD, but also Windows and Linux. The issues seem to be negotiation problems and then packet loss if negotiation is disabl

SATA sil problems ...

Hello I have SATA SIL 3112 controller. Unfortunately it is not working correctly under FreeBSD. It does not work for me, and i found on google that it doesn't work correctly for many other people. I tried Freebsd 4.x, 5.x and 6.1. Here are the errors which occur when system works: Sep 12 11:0

Re: Problem installing Mathematica on FreeBSD 6.1

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:09:27PM +0400, Alexey Mikhailov wrote: > Hello! > > Sometime ago I posted this message to freebsd-questions@, but had no > answer. So I'll try my luck > here. > > - > > Hello! > > I installed Mathematica 5.1 on

Flatscreen Monitor Specifications

Howdy Y'all, I am planning to install FreeBSD this weekend and I am doing a hardware inventory. I have a fairly new computer (bought brand new a year ago: Dell something-or-other 5100C), with a flatscreen monitor and USB everything. I looked for my monitor specifications last night and have fo

AMD64 SSH Port Forwarding?

Has anybody noted any issues with port forwarding using SSH tunnels on FreeBSD 6.1 AMD64? I just recently upgraded my machine from i386 to amd64, using nearly all the same configuration files. Now, remotely, I make an SSH session to my machine and attempt to forward ports, as usual, and I find th

Problems with xscreensaver stealing my mouse

uname -a FreeBSD vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com 6.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 #6: Thu Sep 7 11:25:03 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VANQUISH i386 $ pkg_info | grep xorg linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5 Xorg libraries, linux binaries xorg-clients-6.9.0_3 X client

Re: X Configuration Woes

On 12/09/06, Jerold McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Arindam writes: > >> I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a >> lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII >> box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting

multiple slices and invalid partition table problem

Hello. I am trying to install 6.1 on a Dell 2950 with a Dell PERC 5/i (LSI Logic) SAS RAID controller. The controller is supported by the mfi driver. The system has six 300GB drives configured in a RAID 5 array for a total of 1.5TB. I would like to setup jails on this system with each jail in its

Re: X Configuration Woes

Arindam writes: I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs o

wow, i didnt realize we were so close!

"next" seems to be upon us! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a FreeBSD athena.dfwlp.com 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Sep 11 20:42:48 CDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ATHENA i386 cheers, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: X Configuration Woes

> > > > 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems protocol. > > > I've found I have to use /dev/sysmouse and Protocol "auto" instead of "PS/2" despite my mouse most definitely being PS/2. You already have moused_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf as well? Unfortunately we

Re: X Configuration Woes

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 14:28 +0530, Subhro wrote: > On 9/12/06, Arindam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems > > protocol. > > > I've found I have to use /dev/sysmouse and Protocol "auto" instead of "PS/2" despite my mouse most de

Re: Newbie Experience #2

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 08:46 -0400, Bob Walker wrote: > Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I am > going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a > twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS > products. Regards, >

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 12:03:47 PM, Jeff confabulated: > On 12/09/06, Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> The base system doesn't include X Windows. >> >> _

Re: 4x Kernel

On 9/12/06, Mark Cullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Keith Phipps wrote: > Good Day, > > We've got a FreeBSD box that's running 4.10 (that may not be correct, but > it's 4.x for certain) and it's not seeing our ATA driver on the appliance > it's been installed on. It's just a small 1u device, 1 ha

Re: Newbie Experience

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:05, Jeff Rollin wrote: > That was my point, that BSD was rewritten from the ground up to avoid AT&T > patents. So whilst some might consider BSD "real unix", it's really only > "emulating" V7 with Berkeley extensions. My understanding was that it was copyright rathe

Re: Newbie Experience

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:16, Jeff Rollin wrote: > I'm unconvinced you could take FreeBSD 4 box and run the kernel from 6.1 on > it without changing anything else. No, but the fact that you upgrade world+kernel in one go helps. FreeBSD also mantains a good level of back-compatibility. The

Re: 4x Kernel

Keith Phipps wrote: Good Day, We've got a FreeBSD box that's running 4.10 (that may not be correct, but it's 4.x for certain) and it's not seeing our ATA driver on the appliance it's been installed on. It's just a small 1u device, 1 hard drive, no RAID. The same version installs on the 2u with t

Re: Newbie Experience

On 12/09/06, backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/09/06, backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > When I first installed FreeBSD, circa 2003, > version > > > 4.9, the two reasons I chose it over Redhat and > > > Debian were the

Re: Newbie Experience

One question I often forget to ask myself is ; "What is my end goal ?" These days, if I want a non Windows desktop that is quick and easy to install / update I use this ; www.zenwalk.org [400MB .iso] For servers, I use FreeBSD :) Of course, you can use FreeBSD as a desktop machine too ... but

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 12:29, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > The base system doesn't include X Windows. > > _ > > Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it > must be installed as a package from sysinstall). That's actually my bigges

Re: Newbie Experience

--- Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/09/06, backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > When I first installed FreeBSD, circa 2003, > version > > > 4.9, the two reasons I chose it over Redhat and > > > Debian were the simplicity of the installation > and > > > good manu

4x Kernel

Good Day, We've got a FreeBSD box that's running 4.10 (that may not be correct, but it's 4.x for certain) and it's not seeing our ATA driver on the appliance it's been installed on. It's just a small 1u device, 1 hard drive, no RAID. The same version installs on the 2u with the RAID controller no

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

On 12/09/06, Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated: >> >> >> The base system doesn't include X Windows. >> _ > Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it > must

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated: >> >> >> The base system doesn't include X Windows. >> _ > Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it > must be installed as a package from sysinstall). Shouldn't

Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:25, Pete Slagle wrote: > Another,(possibly heretical) approach is to take 10 minutes to slap > Ubuntu (or the like) on your desktop box. Out of the gate it easily runs > Firefox, multimedia, ... Has this changed? I have an Ubuntu live cd and wasn't very inpressed.

Re: Putting a command/script as a user's shell

On 11/09/2006 16:56, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Monday 11 September 2006 09:20, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: >> Good day everyone, >> >> I'm trying to make it possible to restart (as in 'shutdown -r now') a >> FreeBSD based router from LAN network as easy as possible so it can be >> used by non-technica

Re: Putting a command/script as a user's shell

On 11/09/2006 16:39, backyard wrote: > > --- Karol Kwiatkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Good day everyone, >> >> I'm trying to make it possible to restart (as in >> 'shutdown -r now') a >> FreeBSD based router from LAN network as easy as >> possible so it can be >> used by non-technical

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

The base system doesn't include X Windows. _ Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it must be installed as a package from sysinstall). Jeff Rollin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:41, Jeff Rollin wrote: > To take your last question first: The ports collection allows you to > install software from source that does not come as part of the base > distribution - that equates, more or less, to stuff that on FreeBSD > installs itself to directories

Re: Ambiguous output redirect

bsd wrote: I don't understand why when I execute this script I have an "Ambiguous output redirect." ? p0f -l 'tcp dst port 25' 2>&1 | /usr/local/sbin/p0f-analyzer.pl 2345 & One answer would be that this is bourne shell syntax and you shell is csh. Try 0f -l 'tcp dst port 25' |& /usr/loc

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

On 12/09/06, Arindam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am a Linux user and have been recently trying to shift to FreeBSD. I got hold of a couple of FreeBSD CD ISOs (version 6.1) - their names being 6.1-RELEASE-i386-discX.iso, X being 1 and 2. I did my installation with the Disc1 alone. I did not nee

Re: Newbie Experience

On 11/09/06, backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Anton Shterenlikht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel > that FreeBSD will never > > >achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum > building for alternative > > >OS) > > >among people with mod

The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

I am a Linux user and have been recently trying to shift to FreeBSD. I got hold of a couple of FreeBSD CD ISOs (version 6.1) - their names being 6.1-RELEASE-i386-discX.iso, X being 1 and 2. I did my installation with the Disc1 alone. I did not need Disc2. What is the purpose of Disc2 and what can

Re: Newbie Experience

On 11/09/06, backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > Discussions like these leave me lost for words... > > Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. > :-) > > > Which is to say, apart from t

Page fault while in kernel mode

Hi, I am running 5.3-RELEASE on a P4 2.4GHz with 512 MB RAM. It is a normal PC hardware not a "real" server hardware. Today in the morning (while I was away from the console) kernel panicked and the output was "Page fault while in kernel mode" (the guy who wrote that down didn't write other info

Re: Newbie Experience

On 11/09/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote: > Discussions like these leave me lost for words... Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-) Heh. Maybe I ought to have said "almost!" Which is to say, apart from the occasio

Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox

On 12/09/06, Pete Slagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > uninstall firefox > > then make sure linux binary compatibility is enabled, the easiest way > to do that is with sysinstall. (read the handbook for more info on > this step) > > Now cd into /usr/ports/www > and look

Ambiguous output redirect

I don't understand why when I execute this script I have an "Ambiguous output redirect." ? p0f -l 'tcp dst port 25' 2>&1 | /usr/local/sbin/p0f-analyzer.pl 2345 & Can you help ? «?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§ ¯¯¯

Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

Hi, I am upgrading a few servers. I have noticed that on pentium III, it takes a VERY long time to upgrade Ruby 1.8. It blocks at some stage saying: zlib.c: mcc... Gener

Re: X Configuration Woes

On 9/12/06, Arindam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems protocol. You need to put the proper protocol in xorg.conf 2. What should I do about GNOME / KDE etc. I am not aching to get a jazzy a GUI on my FreeBSD installation. I can m

Re: RSS feeds for "important sites"?

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 05:57, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Napoleon Dynamite wrote: > > On Monday 11 September 2006 19:21, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer > >> miss anything ... or, at least, make it easier to ke

Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > uninstall firefox > > then make sure linux binary compatibility is enabled, the easiest way > to do that is with sysinstall. (read the handbook for more info on > this step) > > Now cd into /usr/ports/www > and look at any port whose name starts with "linux" > > th

Re: X Configuration Woes

I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs of [EMAIL PROTECTED],

X Configuration Woes

I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs of [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: RSS feeds for "important sites"?

Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer miss anything ... or, at least, make it easier to keep on top of everything ... I can't seem to find stuff like DaemonNews and such ... Does anyone have a list of BSD related RSS feeds that they'd be wi

Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:28:22PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > Hi list, > > I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and > themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're > not "supported in Unknown". > > Any ideas on how to fix this,