Re: IPMON log to syslog doesn't work

2008-02-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:09:14PM +0100, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008 14:20:32 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm trying to troubleshoot my ipfilter firewall, and I cannot get any log data, i.e. /var/log/ipfilter.log is empty. Does: # logger -p security.notice test put anything

Re: IPMON log to syslog doesn't work

2008-02-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:42:51PM +0100, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008 15:25:37 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:09:14PM +0100, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008 14:20:32 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm trying to troubleshoot my ipfilter firewall, and I

SOLVED: Re: IPMON log to syslog doesn't work

2008-02-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:01:13PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:42:51PM +0100, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008 15:25:37 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:09:14PM +0100, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008 14:20:32 Anton

Re: port net/acx100 for usr5410 pcmcia wireless FBSD 6.3

2008-02-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On 19/02/2008, Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anybody using usr5410? With what driver? And what version of FBSD? On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:21:22PM +, Kemian Dang wrote: Try ndis, it works for my broadcom wireless adapter. On 20/02/2008, Anton Shterenlikht

porting acx driver from dragonfly to fbsd?

2008-02-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
to FBSD, or to develop a port for acx100+111? 4. Provided the acx100+111 FBSD port is available and working, what is more efficient - using a kernel acx module or acx built from ports? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk

Re: port net/acx100 for usr5410 pcmcia wireless FBSD 6.3

2008-02-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On 19/02/2008, Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to contact the port maintainer, but haven't heard anything back. I'd like to use US Robotics usr5410 wireless pcmcia card on my FBSD 6.3 laptop. I understand this card is (was?) supported by port net/acx100. However

port net/acx100 for usr5410 pcmcia wireless FBSD 6.3

2008-02-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
it? Is anybody using usr5410? With what driver? And what version of FBSD? Any other advice on getting usr5410 working on FBSD 6.3? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax

mailq takes 25 sec to respond

2008-02-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
my i386 and my alpha I can think of is that on alpha I run IPF: # grep = 25 /etc/ipf.rules pass out on dc0 proto tcp from any to any port = 25 flags S/SA keep state Is slow response of mailq an indication of misconfiguration? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building

SOLVED: Re: mailq takes 25 sec to respond

2008-02-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:33:34AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On my ds10l alpha sendmail seem to work fine with the exception of very long wait time for mailq (sendmail -bp) - about 25 sec. I'm not convinced it is an alpha problem, so

Re: XDVI, LaTeX, teTeX dependencies

2008-01-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
directly which I then view with xpdf. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Solved: Re: /dev/lpt0: Device busy, lptcontrol: ioctl: Operation not supported

2008-01-24 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:47:56PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: My printing stopped working quite suddenly. Until today I used FBSD-6.3-prerelease (today I updated to 6.3-stable) on compaq armada 1700 laptop to print on a parallel HP laserjet 2100 printer in text mode

/dev/lpt0: Device busy, lptcontrol: ioctl: Operation not supported

2008-01-23 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
? 3. Any other tests I could do to pinpoint the source of the problem? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

sound: get sbc, but no pcm

2007-11-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
) Installed devices: # What am I missing? Are the unknown messages relevant? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: sound: get sbc, but no pcm

2007-11-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:00:11PM +0800, Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:06:08 + Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get a sound from my laptop. I can see the actual card in dmesg, but no audio framework driver (no pcm). I added device

well done x.org 7.3 team!

2007-09-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
The best thing is that 30-40 ports, mostly drivers, are not required anymore in my simple installation. many thanks! -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

localise only one tty?

2007-08-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
is the point of changing the terminal type to cons25r if cons25 already shows russian characters? thanks a lot anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

well done xorg porters!!

2007-06-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
compaq armada 2GB disk laptop under FBSD 6.2-stable. well done! The only other thing I'd like to see would be some additional build options to choose something like the minimum config, e.g. only the minimum required fonts. thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept

minimal xorg installation?

2007-06-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
, perhaps in principal what must I have. I alredy have the following: === xorg-cf-files-1.0.2_2 === xorg-apps-7.2 === xorg-fonts-truetype-7.2 === xorg-libraries-7.2_1 === xorg-server-1.2.0_2,1 thanks a lot anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University

ssh to VMS - terminal problems

2007-02-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
HI I connect to a VMS box from my FreeBSD laptop via ssh. When I run a full screen text editor (EDIT) my terminal screen behaves unpredictably: cursor jumps from place to place, keystrokes produce characters in unpredictable places, screen menu flows with the text rather than stay at the bottom.

Re: ssh to VMS - terminal problems

2007-02-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:45:17AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:51:57PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: If I run ssh from a terminal emulator in xorg, all seems fine. yes - VMS only knows about DEC-compatible terminals. None of the *BSD console emulators do

Re: periodic passwd change?

2006-12-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:20:56PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:57:22PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I can't see how to prescribe periodic passwd change, only how to set expiry time. At the moment I put

Re: periodic passwd change?

2006-12-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:57:22PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I can't see how to prescribe periodic passwd change, only how to set expiry time. At the moment I put the following line in the root's crontab: 2 2 2 * * pw usermod shterenl -p `date '+\%d-\%m-\%Y

periodic passwd change?

2006-12-07 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I can't see how to prescribe periodic passwd change, only how to set expiry time. At the moment I put the following line in the root's crontab: 2 2 2 * * pw usermod shterenl -p `date '+\%d-\%m-\%Y'` This makes a user's passwd expire once a month. Is there a better way to force users

Re: lpt0 printer slows system response significantly

2006-11-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 03:03:21AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:49:36AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: * Change the printer port to polled mode. [lptcontrol -p] With this kind of hardware, it may even speed up your

Re: lpt0 printer slows system response significantly

2006-11-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:02:24AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 18 root1 -60 -179 0K 8K *Giant 15:09 77.05% irq7: lpt0 11 root1 171 52 0K 8K RUN 48.0H 11.13% idle The

Re: lpt0 printer slows system response significantly

2006-11-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:49:36AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: * Change the printer port to polled mode. [lptcontrol -p] With this kind of hardware, it may even speed up your printing as well. Thanks a lot, I think it does print a bit faster. But more importantly I see virtually

lpt0 printer slows system response significantly

2006-10-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Hello I have a printer attached to a parallel port on an old Compaq Armada 1700 laptop. When I print large ( 100k) documents the system responds very slow (1-3sec) to keyboard strokes or mouse moves. I wonder if I can lower the priority of printing. The details: $dmesg

boot2 - BTX halted, but loader(8) boots fine

2006-10-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
above? thanks anton - End forwarded message - -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions

Re: pdf editor

2006-09-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Maybe it's time to reconsider the nature of that itch? PDF was never meant to be edited (except peripherally), and most definitely not in the sense that you're thinking. Consider it a FINAL print format, like an image that's long since left the photographer, his studio and his camera

Is /boot/device.hints required if kernel is built with hints?

2006-09-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I was trying to build a kernel with statical device hints by uncommenting the following line in my kernel configuration file: # To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints hints VT.hints # Default places to look for devices. Before doing this I

Re: what happened to /dev/cuaa0

2006-09-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Switching to cuad* should have worked. sio(4) was the only driver where the cua* and tty* devices had different letters, so the cuaa* devices were renamed in 6.0 to match their ttyd* counterparts. If you're using an internal modem, if may be a Winmodem requiring a special driver. The

boot(8) - BTX halted

2006-09-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
to switch from UDMA to DMA in BIOS. As far as I can see with Compaq Setup for Portables, I use DMA. thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

boot without loader(8) - BTX halted

2006-09-14 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I can boot fine with loader(8). However if I try to load kernel directly from boot(8) I always get BTX halted no matter which kernel and options I choose. The only command that works is the loader itself, /boot/loader. Why? man 8 loader says that BTX client is the name of the loader on i386. So

Re: device vt causes boot freeze

2006-09-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On 2006 Sep 13, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I enable both sc and vt in device.hints? My impression from a very brief look at the code is that they cannot be active at the same time. Sorry, what code? But there is definitely no problem

device vt causes boot freeze

2006-09-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
# hint.lnc.0.at=isa # hint.lnc.0.disabled=1 # hint.lnc.0.port=0x280 # hint.lnc.0.irq=10 # hint.lnc.0.drq=0 -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On 2006 Sep 11, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the most important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think that having both a ncurses and a GUI (non-ncurses ;)

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
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 modest technical proficiency and fairly simple requirements (i.e., spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, email).

Re: Window Manager Recommendations

2006-09-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On 2006 Sep 11, Joel Adamson wrote: Gerard, Thanks for the recommendations. I'm still using Windows at work, so I'll keep your recommendations in mind. Let me explain the situation, just for your peace of mind: Let's say I'm writing something in a word processor; I want to check

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