Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 23 April 2004 08:01 am, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Probably. I'm not too familiar with how the ad-hoc connections work, but i am certain that for a single client it would work. Just get a wireless NIC in it, play a little routing magic, maybe look at the dhcpd port (dhcp server) ~j

Re: Problems connecting to the internet through a wireless router

2004-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:48:02 -0500 John Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed FreeBSD succesfully on my Gateway M500 laptop. The only problem I have is that my laptop connects to the internet through a wireless router. My wireless card is working fine on the laptop and I can

Re: Mounting CDrom

2004-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 24 May 2004 16:32:26 -0500 Donald Szatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for considering my question. How do I mount my cdrom and make it available to all users? I have tried: mount -t cd9669 /dev/acd0/cdrom I have tried: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0/mnt Nothing! I

How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
How can I make a screenshot of what's on my monitor? (I searched the archives unsuccessfully for screenshot.) I'm running FreeBSD 4.10. Thanks, Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:41:02 +0200 (CEST) Cordula's Web [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I make a screenshot of what's on my monitor? (I searched the archives unsuccessfully for screenshot.) Gimp is an image manipulation program similar to Photoshop or PaintShopPro, which can also

Re: How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:29:41 +0200 Michal Pasternak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew L. Gould [Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:17:10PM -0500]: I flubbed my first attempt with xwd -- I need to spend more time with it's man page. Try: xwd | xwdtopnm | pnmtojpeg foo.jpg ... and xli

Re: [from newbies]: XP + FreeBSD

2004-06-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:59:59 + clayton rollins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On June 6, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This has probably been answered before, but I was unable to find explicit confirmation. The installation guide (2.5.3) states that You now have the option to

Re: [OT] What's QED? (was Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades)

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:36:47 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Huff wrote: Peter Risdon writes: I suppose what I'm driving at is whether the RELENG_4 branch sees many commits that are likely to be problematic. In

FYI - Belkin Bluetooth USB Adapter recognized in FreeBSD 5.2.1 Release

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
The Belkin Bluetooth USB Adapter, model F8T001 (100 meter range), is not in the hardware notes, I thought I'd mention it here: I just installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8100. The Belkin Bluetooth USB Adapter mentioned above was recognized as ubt0. Also, 'hccontrol -n ubt0hci inquiry'

Console and X configuration for laptop display

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8100. During bootup and later, at the command line, the usable screen is much smaller than the available display size -- 2 to 3 inch margins on all sides. Does anyone know how I can fix this? In X, a resolution of 1400x1050 fills the display; but

Re: Console and X configuration for laptop display

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:09:13 -0500 Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 June 2004 18:42, you wrote: I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8100. During bootup and later, at the command line, the usable screen is much smaller than the available display size -- 2 to 3 inch

Re: Help With Selection of Database Application

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:48:21 -0400 Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had extensive experience with MS Access as a user and would like to port a comparable system into my FreeBSD box. Can anyone recommend a database application similar to Access? I've looked through the ports but

Re: Help With Selection of Database Application

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:13:40 -0400 Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (06/13/04 19:24), Andrew L. Gould wrote: Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:24:52 -0500 From: Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help With Selection

Re: Help With Selection of Database Application

2004-06-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:09:17 -0400 Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (06/13/04 21:24), Andrew L. Gould wrote: Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:24:20 -0500 From: Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help With Selection

[OT] Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:20:17 -0400 Chris Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread cracks me up. No matter how many times the same subject has been brought up, I still can't stop laughing at the silliness of it all. Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy dance...but, then

Re: Mounting a multicard reader (FBSD)

2004-06-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 19 June 2004 04:18 am, Jason Oakley wrote: Ive managed to mount the CF card in my multicard reader: /dev/da0s1 129254313349792024%/mnt/CF But not the SD card port on the same reader. I'm guessing it's /dev/da1s1 but I used MAKEDEV on it and I still can't

Re: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350

2004-06-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:56:26PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A number of software products use the Hauppauge WinTV 350 Personal Video Recorder (what a stupid name!). I've been planning to get one for some time, but here in Australia the prices are ridiculous (more than double what

Re: Best older model laptop for FreeBSD 5.x

2004-06-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:44:00PM -0700, 3BSD wrote: Hi, I'm thinking about buying an older model laptop to put FreeBSD 5.x on. I had an IBM Thinkpad T21 and FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE ran fine, but the XFree86 drivers were less than stable, and so was the ACPI support, sound support was also very

Re: LAN Internet

2004-06-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 25 June 2004 01:23 pm, sd sdfg wrote: Hello, I'm a newbie and please excuse for my poor language. I have FreeBSD 4.9 and my computer is in LAN with other people. One of our friends is the host of the internet. I have all the data required to connect to the internet, but I do not

Re: status of porting pf and spamd from OpenBSD to FreeBSD

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 28 June 2004 01:36 am, Jay Moore wrote: I heard some time ago that work was going on to port pf (and spamd, I think) from OpenBSD to FreeBSD. I also recently saw an announcement on the FreeBSD home page that Daniel Hartmeier had joined the FreeBSD team as a committer - a further

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:15 am, Chris wrote: On Monday 28 June 2004 11:10 am, Your Name wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how to do this? There's nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING. I see that some people have reported general success,

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:30 am, Chris wrote: On Monday 28 June 2004 11:25 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 28 June 2004 11:15 am, Chris wrote: On Monday 28 June 2004 11:10 am, Your Name wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how

Re: Burn

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 28 June 2004 01:12 pm, James Mooney wrote: I down loaded the newest version release 5.2.1 i386 and I seem to have a problem burning disk 2 it says ziped it is 268 megs but when I unzip it and try to burn it to CD it says it is 799 megs ?? Any ideas? James Mooney Are you talking

Re: Which book should I start?

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 02:52 pm, Laszlo Antal wrote: Hi, I am new to Bsd. I did a lot of research on the net which book should I start with. I got two of them. I can not deside which one should I start. Here are my books:: - The Complet FreeBSD. 4th Edition From O'Reilly, Greg Lehey.

Re: FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop.

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:14 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Hi, I have just installed FreeBSD 4.10 - Release on my laptop Compaq Presario 2132. Everything's working fine, but I have a couple of doubts. 1. My console does'nt cover the entire screen of my laptop. It only appears in a middle

Re: FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop.

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:29 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:14 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Hi, I have just installed FreeBSD 4.10 - Release on my laptop Compaq Presario 2132. Everything's working fine, but I have a couple of doubts. 1. My

Re: FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop.

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:39 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:29 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:14 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote: Hi, I have just installed FreeBSD 4.10 - Release on my laptop Compaq

Re: USB controller external modem

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 28 June 2004 08:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: Can anyone recommend an USB external modem, that is controller based? I have looked at the FreeBSD laptop compatibility list and found none. I have also done a considerable amount of googling and only found ones that attach

[OT] fetchmail, procmail and mutt (oh my!)

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Background: When I travel, I use access a home server via ssh and deal with my email using console applications. I obtain my email from several sources using fetchmail. I have a .procmailrc file that properly puts the emails into specified mbox files -- so far so good. Problem: If I put 'mda

Re: [OT] fetchmail, procmail and mutt (oh my!)

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 10:37 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:46:31PM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: Background: When I travel, I use access a home server via ssh and deal with my email using console applications. I obtain my email from several sources using

Re: FTP server will not initiate DATA connection back to client

2004-07-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 01 July 2004 07:45 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE running the standard ftpd. I can act as an ftp client from the console OK, however when I try to ftp from a client PC to the server running ftpd (which is running ipfw) the ftp server receives the

Re: portupgrade fails on every port, undefined method 'each' fornil:NilClass

2004-07-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 01 July 2004 03:44 pm, Lee Dilkie wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joey Mingrone Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bruce Hunter Subject: Re: portupgrade fails on every port, undefined

Re: Booting with Grub

2004-07-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 01 July 2004 09:32 am, Andrew Walrond wrote: I have installed 5.2.1 into a partition and I want to use my existing bootloader, grub. Can anyone tell me what the required grub configuartion line would look like, or point me to an FAQ? Andrew Walrond I found the url below by

Re: Adding FBSD to existing GRUB

2004-07-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 03 July 2004 11:01 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: I have a multiboot machine with Linux and FBSD currently set up as follows: /dev/hda1 5GB Linux SUSE root partition from 0 -652 /dev/hda2 40.5GB Extended partition from 653 - 5945 /dev/hda3 19.5GB FreeBSD partition from 5946 -8494

Re: Trying to secure PostgreSQL

2003-09-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 12 September 2003 03:59 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm running PostgreSQL 7.3 on a FreeBSD 5.1 server. The databases are working well and it's humming along nicely, but I really want to secure it. In particular, my pg_hba.conf looks like: local all pgsql

Re: Trying to secure PostgreSQL

2003-09-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 12 September 2003 05:13 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-09-12T21:39:14Z, Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're looking for something difficult when the easier answer is correct. As root, set pgsql's password by executing: passwd pgsql What would that buy me

Re: Internal Modems that work with freebsd

2003-09-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 12 September 2003 08:53 pm, Bob Shadley wrote: Any suggestions for an internal modem in the $20 unit cost range that works with freebsd? The modem source would need to be reliable since it would be to support an ongoing project. Good luck. The inexpensive modems tend to be

Re: Problems trying to boot from an 80GB Seagate

2003-09-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 14 September 2003 12:06 pm, Sean A Reith wrote: I'm trying to get my first FreeBSD (4.8-RELEASE) installation working, and I am having trouble getting a system which boots, primarily due to what appear to be disk geometry issues (but this is a complete newbie guess). The hardware:

Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 08:07 am, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Vledder, Hans wrote: Hi Greg, Based on that, it's not clear why you would want to build an AP from a wireless card. Well, this to avoid having to deal with a 'swiss army knife' type of box, just like the one you're

Re: linking a dir

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:51 am, Gary wrote: Hello Guys, It seems that on a remote box FBSD 4.8, my /dev/ad0s1a or / dir is at 73% capacity already, and this has me somewhat worried. I attribute this to the /etc dir inside of the / dir, as it contains many log files, etc... or perhaps

Re: linking a dir

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 11:31 am, Gary wrote: Hello Andrew, Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 10:59:19 AM, you wrote: room under /usr) without any problem. Thanks for input.. ALG I don't think you should do this. In single-user mode, I don't think /usr ALG would be mounted; so the

Re:

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 01:01 pm, d wrote: so you go to your site and get the stable packages and put them on the hard drive. you go to that folder and do a pkg_add * to add all the packages in the x11 directory, thinking this will get you a GUI but it throws a bunch of package not found

Re: Upgrade 4.8-RELEASE?

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 02:24 pm, Kjell B. wrote: I was thinking of upgrading (binary) in order to correct the security issues (sendmail, openssh, realpath, etc.) that have been discovered since the 4.8-RELEASE. However, I fail to do so. I've searched the online documentation but not

Re: yahoo, hotmail, etc

2003-09-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 08:21 am, synrat wrote: I was wondering if anyone is aware of any scripts or programs that can retrieve mail from different webmail sources. thanx in advance POP access is available for yahoo mail; but it's not free -- $19.99 (US) a year, or bundled with other

Re: Witch database do you recommend?

2003-09-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 18 September 2003 04:06 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jeff MacDonald wrote: Hi, You've opened quite a can of worms ;) I would recommend PostgreSQL, I've always found it's documentation to be great, the mailing lists great, and just getting it working

Re: Witch database do you recommend?

2003-09-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 18 September 2003 09:49 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:13:22AM +0100, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: what about sybase? linux.sybase.com/ase THey have a native version for FreeBSD. Where? All I see downloads for Linux, not FreeBSD. FreeBSD-Intel is below

Re: antiviruos for FreeBSD mail server ?

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 September 2003 07:45 am, RJ45 wrote: Hello, I Tryed to search an economic antivirus for freebsd mailserver. Anyone has comments on Vexira antivirus ? anyone tryed it ? It looks quit economic thanks Rick I'd like to add on to this question: Has anyone run the Linux Desktop

Re: CUPS vs. apsfilter--newbie setup problems

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 September 2003 10:39 am, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured with either CUPS or apsfilter (as someone here had recommended). I've tried to look over the docs, and search through

Re: CUPS vs. apsfilter--newbie setup problems

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 September 2003 11:05 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 10:39 am, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured with either CUPS or apsfilter (as someone here had

Re: modem on serial port?

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 September 2003 12:35 pm, Sean Hafeez wrote: i am using a freebsd box as a router. it has a serial port. i would like to hook up a modem and use it to manage the router if the lines go down. now i know you can use the serial port as a console but how about when i stick a modem on

Re: need help with xfree86 4

2003-09-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:43 am, ALIAS wrote: i'm trying to install this program and it says it needs xfree86 4x to compile where do i get xfree86 4x and how to install it? Assuming your running FreeBSD 4.8: Use the ports system: su cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/ make install

Re: cvsup src help

2003-09-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 21 September 2003 01:27 pm, ALIAS wrote: i use used cvsup to update the src after that what do i do? i read that there are things like make world to install the new src files? how do i do that? 1. study 'man mergemaster. 2. See:

Re: Internal sound card cannot be recognized

2003-09-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 pm, Edwin D. Vinas wrote: When i turn on my FreeBSD machine, I often receive a pop-up window saying there's a problem with my sound card (internal sound card). It says that it couldn't open or find /dev/dsp0 or something similar. Is there a way to slve this?

Re: Internal sound card cannot be recognized

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 02:24 am, you wrote: Im using freebsd 4.8 and KDE where i usualy get d eror during startx. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 pm, Edwin D. Vinas wrote: When i turn on my FreeBSD machine, I often receive a

Re: Someone on list with latest virus?

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:22 am, Kent Stewart wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 08:10 am, vizion communication wrote: I agree that a number of people on this list have been affected by the virus and it is really helpful of you to have posted to the list because those infected are

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc, But they reappear on subsequent cvsups. Where have I gone wrong? *

OT: Windows and virus humor

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
For those of you who are not familiar with satirewire.com, here are a few choice articles that may be appropriate for this week and last: http://satirewire.com/briefs/windowsvirus.shtml http://satirewire.com/news/jan02/patchsoft.shtml Have fun, Andrew Gould

Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 09:52 pm, Ajax Munroe wrote: Hello, I dont have a question but I would like to make a statement. I downloaded Freebsd version 5.0 release and unpacked it in great anticipation. I made a bootable CD (the best I could, It's not as easy as making a

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:04 am, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:59:30AM +0100, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: Guys, Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD set? This is one area where Linux fares better.

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:23 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:04 am, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:59:30AM +0100, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: Guys, Is it possible to get all of the ports

Re: Disk geometry

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:09 pm, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:49 +0200 radu.florin [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Hi, I'm testing the coexistence of Win95, Linux Slackware and Free BSD 5.1 on a single physical disk PC ( P133, 16Mo RAM, 3 GO dd).

Re: Why do you prefer FreeBSD???? Maybe Windows is more comfortable than FBSD?

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 02:05 pm, Denis wrote: Hi All!!! I think that WinXP more popular and more easy than FreeBSD. People all over the world know what is Windows but don't know what is FreeBSD. More programs is written work on Windows Windows more comfortable in work

Re: advice re mail

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:55 pm, David Bear wrote: I need to write a program the grabs mail from a standard mail folder and processes it. The trouble is I have no idea what mail file format FreeBSD uses by default. I am using postfix, and currently postfix is my mta and mda. I will

Re: FreeBSD in Windows.....

2003-09-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 26 September 2003 04:51 pm, Timms, Simon wrote: -Original Message- From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 3:41 PM To: Adam McLaurin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD in Windows. On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:32:40PM -0400,

Re: Post Installation Questions

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 29 September 2003 09:23 am, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I installed 4.7 this past weekend. I screwed up a bit when I did the post install configure and didn't specify the domain name. Now, I get sendmail messages about not being able to figure out the fully qualified domain name,

Re: burncd freebsd 5.1

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 29 September 2003 11:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When i tried to burn this iso image i got the following error ( please find below). #used command: burncd -f /dev/acd0 -t -v -s 4 data slackware-9.1-install-d1.iso iso image is correct (md5 cjhecked). #Output of the

Re: WI-FI stuff ?

2003-09-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:03 am, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hi Is there some Wi-Fi related stuff somewhere on FreeBSD area ? I need to test some HP/compaq notebooks with integrated WI-FI interfaces with FreeBSD and Linux. Thanks a lot. The handbook's always a good place to start:

Re: WI-FI stuff ?

2003-09-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 11:08 am, Frank Bonnet wrote: Best of luck, Andrew Gould it's working ! ... except I cannot use DHCP for the moment to bootup the client but if I enter an IP address manually it works Since I need various wifi configurations on my laptop, I use startup scripts

Re: Firewall problem

2003-10-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 01:18 pm, Gary wrote: I have set my firewall to firewall_type=open firewall_enable=YES and when I want to drop a specific IP, I enter it manually, it accepts it, but it does not drop the packets.. I am getting a lot of virus activity on my SMTP port 25. So I

Re: ftp recurvisely

2003-10-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 07:28 pm, Michael Sharp wrote: Is there a way using the core ftp to mget all files on a site, creating the directorys and getting the files in the recursively? michael I think wget (/usr/ports/ftp/wget/) can do it. Andrew

Re: KMail export to Outlook

2003-10-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 04 October 2003 09:36 am, Chris wrote: Is there a way to take my mail (from KMail) and either export it to, or some other app that will allow me to pull in all the mail into Outlook2000? Best regards, Chris KMail allows you to create mailbox folders in maildir or

Re: Whan can I do if OS does not boot after makeworld

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 07:02 am, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi , I did not make something now and I don't have a problem with makeworld. But I red something in FreeBSD from scratch and I saw that some problem can occur and after makeworld process OS is not openinig Vahric This is not

Re: XFree86 configuration

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 02:31 am, Carvalho Paulo wrote: Hello everyone, I just installed FreeBSD 4.9, and when I try to cofigure X through sysinstall it gives an error message in the end. The messege says that an error has ocurred and asks if I want to try again. I tried several

Re: How safe is 5.2 to use?

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:19 am, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jan 13, 2004, at 4:45 AM, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi , You have to use FreeBSD 4.9, because you can see in freebsd web page prodcution version is 4.9. and please test it maybe you will see you can not install

Re: Whan can I do if OS does not boot after makeworld

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:31 am, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Did you ever have any problem about makeworld process ?! I afraid of one day will come and I can't boot my FreeBSD Vahric For me, the trickiest part was understanding and executing 'mergemaster -i' after 'make world'. Once I got a

Re: problems creating a bootable image using burncd

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 01:07 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: I've been trying to create a a bootable CD using freesbie. I ran into problems getting that to work. It failed to boot and the same thing happened upon reburn. I then went to download a the 4.9 install iso to see if it was a possible

FYI - Burned DVD-R on FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE

2004-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
A while ago there was an email thread regarding the possibility of burning DVD-R's using dvd+rw-tools. My first attempt to do so failed when using a Memorex DVD-R. Since someone else posted problems creating a bootable CD using Memorex media, I tried again using another brand. My second

Re: buildworld failure 4.9 Stable -- 5.2 Release

2004-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 11:30 am, Goodleaf, John M wrote: Hello, I'm trying to upgrade a system from 4.9 (Stable) to 5.2 release. I get a buildworld failure with aand error that reads like this: In file included from /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm.c:62: /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm.h:41:24:

Re: Secure MSN and ICQ chat

2004-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 09:49 pm, Nicolás de Bari Embríz G. R. wrote: Hello all. I want to secure the network traffic of the users on my LAN, I want to secure the MSN and ICQ data so people on the building can't use a sniffer and watch the conversations. I have something like this:

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 10:11 pm, Duane Winner wrote: Hello all again, I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good habits/methods/instructions for updating routines for both myself and my colleagues who also

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
could choose not to cvsup the ports. I just want to make sure I understand all of this correctly. Thanks again, Duane On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 23:27, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 10:11 pm, Duane Winner wrote: Hello all again, I'm finally getting my arms around

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:47 am, Donald Turnbull wrote: I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? Donald M. Turnbull MCSE, MCDBA KDE and Gnome are on the

acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
After portupgrading my system, I'm having difficulties opening pdf files using acroread5 and xpdf as a normal user. I've tried using the applications as stand-alone apps, and I've tried opening pdf files in Mozilla and Opera --all with the same results: If I'm trying to open the pdf file as a

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: If I'm trying to open the pdf file as a normal user, I get the following message: There was an error opening this document. A temporary file could not be opened

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: If I'm trying to open the pdf file

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:28 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:25:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm

Solved: Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:28 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:25:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm

Re: your mail

2004-01-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 16 January 2004 07:45 am, David Fleck wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Evan Sayer wrote: FreeBSD- Please help, this is really important. I was told that i could get rid of the ^m symbols at the end of the lines in my web page's html code by using sed. They said to execute sed

Re: Optical PS/2 mouse not working under X

2004-01-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 16 January 2004 08:49 am, Slabbert, C. (Clinton) wrote: Hello, I recently purchased a new PS/2 optical mouse. I can't seem to get it working under X. On Debian and Slackware I use: Protocol auto or ImPS/2 and it works fine. Under FreeBSD nothing seems to work, auto, Microsoft,

Re: Remove CRs

2004-01-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 16 January 2004 10:15 am, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Someone recomended dosunix (from ports) which is fine; please be aware of the fact that the same quid pro quo applies: $dosunix foobar foobar will still give you an empty file. Kevin Kinsey Please note that dosunix

Re: unknown host

2004-01-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 16 January 2004 06:12 pm, fabio Viquez wrote: i can ping my freebsd 4.8 server, but when i try to use the ports or navigate the internet with konqueror i get unknown host... any idea? Did you put the IP addresses of your DNS nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf? Best of luck, Andrew

Re: trouble mounting a zip drive on parallel port

2004-01-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 17 January 2004 07:55 pm, Alex Walker wrote: Alas, I got no message about Creating DISK da0. I have double checked all of the connections (my machine is set to dual boot with another OS, and everything works fine there), so I know it's not a connection issue. Still it just refuses

ipfw rules for letting ssh requests in

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I can't seem to get the ipfw rules right for letting ssh clients access a ssh server. I can use ssh on the server to connect to the client; but if I try to connect from the client to the server, the operation times out. I have my rules in /etc/ipfw.rules. Executing 'ipfw show' displays all of

Re: ipfw rules for letting ssh requests in

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:53 pm, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Monday 19 January 2004 00:47, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I can't seem to get the ipfw rules right for letting ssh clients access a ssh server. I can use ssh on the server to connect to the client; but if I try to connect from

Re: ipfw rules for letting ssh requests in

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Does portmap have to be enabled to connect to sshd? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipfw rules for letting ssh requests in

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:53 pm, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: You forgot the packets in the other direction... This should do the trick : ${fwcmd} add 00300 allow tcp from any to me 22 ${fwcmd} add 00301 allow tcp from me 22 to any grtz, Daan It worked. Thanks, Andrew Gould

ircd recommendations?

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I'd like to experiment with an irc server. The irc server will not be configured to connect to other irc servers. (In fact, I'd like to make it local to the server and have the small number of users use ssh and a local connection.) The port for ircd-hybrid is marked as broken. Does anyone

Re: ircd recommendations?

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 09:48 pm, Eric F Crist wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2004 08:08 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: The port for ircd-hybrid is marked as broken. Does anyone have any recommendations regarding other irc servers? I have a server running Unreal 3.2 IRCd. You can download

Re: problem whith cd-rom

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 11:17 am, golev wrote: I'm having a problem under FreeBSD-5.1 I can't mount cd-rom whith music ! Thanks. You're not supposed to mount music CD's. Your CD-listening application should work fine as long as it knows which device represents the CD. Give it a try. Best

Re: newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: --On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks :##:#

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