Re: whatkind of 19 LCD display??
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Gary Kline wrote: [snip] whatever display i get has to have dual capability. both digital and analog-- eventually I'll need a new KVM box. so what are the top few makes of LCDs out there? I've been using a ViewSonic VP930b for a few years, and been very happy with it. It has two VGA inputs, no DVI. Probably not made anymore so I guess that's moot. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: whatkind of 19 LCD display??
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Chris Hill wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Gary Kline wrote: [snip] whatever display i get has to have dual capability. both digital and analog-- eventually I'll need a new KVM box. so what are the top few makes of LCDs out there? I've been using a ViewSonic VP930b for a few years, and been very happy with it. It has two VGA inputs, no DVI. Probably not made anymore so I guess that's moot. - Replying to my own post like a tool - This monitor does in fact have a DVI input in addition to the two VGAs. Don't know if that counts as 'digital' or not. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about new monitor...
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:16:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i'm on newegg.com that has a whole slew of options for narrowing the field. q's: is a higher contrast ratio better than a lower ratio? Generally, yes. Contrast ratio in a display is analogous to dynamic range in audio. is the widescreen better than the std? --i think widescreen is 16x9, standard is 4x3. Correct about the aspect ratios. As for better, it depends on whether your graphics card can run at those resolutions. I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20 i can get widescreen with 1680x1050, so my current 1284x1024 would fit. 1280x1024 is actually a 5:4 aspect, but people use it on a 4:3 display. I'm doing that right now :^) But if you send it to a 16:9 display it will probably appear stretched unless you adjust the display so it's effectively not a widescreen display anymore. Every LCD or DLP or plasma display has a native resolution, which is the actual number of pixels in its imaging device. Nowadays they all have internal scan converters so that you could, for instance, send your 1280x1024 to a display of some other native resolution and get a picture, subject to some limits (e.g., I doubt any 1024x768 LCD monitor would display a 3200x2400 signal). But it will always look best at the native resolution anyway, so you're on the right track. IFF xorg know what kind of beast this is:-) Well, yeah, that's the elephant in the room, isn't it? -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: C++ compiler
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the URL where I can get gcc42 and is it easy to get or do I have to do devious things to eventually find it? # cd /usr/ports/lang/gcc42 # make install clean -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked^M -- TECRA
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Polytropon wrote: [snip] I'm sure you noticed the Ctrl-M (^M) at the ends of each line. This seems to be an MS-DOS-like line break (ASCII 0x13 + 0x10). UNIX (and so FreeBSD) use the NL or LF character 0x10. And 0x13 is the CR character which is equivalent to Ctrl-M, if I do remember correctly. Almost correctly. ASCII CR (Ctrl-M) is 0x0d, which is decimal 13; ASCII LF (Ctrl-J or newline) is 0x0a, which is decimal 10. Sorry for the off-topic pedantry. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: automagically share knoqueror with ff3-- bookmarks?
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Gary Kline wrote: Is there any way, short of writing my own program, to use the tens of bookmarks i've set up under konq and drop them into firefox3? I don't know how other browsers work - and haven't investigated this in years - but the old Netscape/Mozilla way was to store bookmarks as an HTML file, e.g. ~/.mozilla/default/xc43whpq.slt/bookmarks.html Assuming both browsers work this way, maybe you could symlink one to the other? -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network analyse tool? To debug IMAP related problems
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, ~_ wrote: Hello. I would wish to have a tool that would do this kind of thing: 1. listen on imap port on localhost, connect to localhost with my email client; 2. forward the traffic from/to/between real imap server; 3. meanwhile, print everything being transfer-ed, so that I can have a good ovewview of server-client conversation; I don't know what such kind of tool is usually called and thus difficult to do an effective google search. I tried a few tools in ports/net but none of them seems to be working in this way... (admit that I didn't look into pkg-descr of every package) This sounds like a job for net/wireshark (formerly known as ethereal). It won't forward as you describe, but will sit and monitor what goes over the wire. You can have it only look at traffic to/from certain IP addresses, and/or on certain ports; it's very flexible. You could run it on any machine that the IMAP traffic passes through - your local desktop, the server, any machine (gateway?) in between. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ]___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: streaming video (at 144kbps)?
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Gary Kline wrote: Any ideas how///what tools to use to watch PBS streams? Nothing/zip works with [linux-] firefox plus the flashplugin7 and mplayer. I'm able to watch PBS video clips using mplayer-plugin under native firefox on 5.5-R. I don't know about streams, because I couldn't find one after a cursory look through http://www.pbs.org/. Can you post a URL for something you are unable to watch? It may also be helpful to know what versions of everything that you are using (you know the drill). -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports Question
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Grant Peel wrote: What is the proper method to pass configure arguments when installing a port? example, I am trying to build exim with mysql and spf support make -D WITH_SPF=YES -D WITH_MYSQL=YES I think for this example the proper syntax would be: make -DWITH_SPF -DWITH_MYSQL or even make -DWITH_SPF -DWITH_MYSQL install clean ..although I know nothing of exim. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RE-upgraded and have a few problems.
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Desmond Chapman wrote: I reinstalled and re upgraded FreeBSD 7.0 on my drive. The testing distribution worked better than the stable. Some of my problems may not be directed to the right mailing list for help. Please let me know where I can get the information. By testing, do you mean -CURRENT? What tag are you using in your supfile? As for the mailing list, this is a reasonable place to start. If you don't get a solution here, maybe try multimedia for the gstreamer problems. There does seem to be a kde-specific mailing list; see https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd, and also http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL for the full list of lists. (URL may have wrapped.) Sound card is no longer detected. Maybe since upgrading you are no longer loading whatever kernel module it is that the card requires. You can # kldload sound.ko ...to load all sound modules, for the purpose of finding out which one you need. BTW, what make and model sound card is it? Also please post the output of the following commands: $ uname -a $ dmesg | grep ^pcm $ pciconf -lv $ kldstat DCOP server for KDE3 does not start. KDE hangs and has to be shut does by a vtty. These seem like issues with X and/or KDE. Are you able to run some other window manager, e.g. twm? Gnome-audio gstreamer trouble. There were some notes recently about gstreamer in /usr/ports/UPDATING; look there. If you can be (a lot) more specific about the problem, someone here may well be able to help. That is, tell us what you were trying to do, what command you issued, what result you expected, and what result you got. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RE-upgraded and have a few problems.
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: that the card requires. You can # kldload sound.ko are you sure what you say. kldload sound.ko loads common sound drivers code, not all modules OK, I sit corrected. I thought it loaded all of them. kldload /boot/kernel/snd_* would do what you've said after this - look at logs what module actually fit, and then add snd_something_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf to have it loaded every boot. Exactly. These seem like issues with X and/or KDE. Are you able to run some other window manager, e.g. twm? icewm is very good for those who like somehow windows looking, but only somehow and only looking, it works very fast and very well :) I suggested twm because it comes with X, and it's a quick and easy test of the xserver - trying to separate X issues from KDE issues. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Justin Archer wrote: Hi, I have just purchased a new Dell Server, to run with Plesk. I have just moved from an Apple XServe and seeing that OS X derived from FreeBSD, I felt that it was the best choice to start with. My only dilemma is, I am wanting to run the system in 64-bit, with using the Intel Quad 2.5Ghz Xeon, but I am unsure as to which version I should be downloading. For plesk, I need to use version 6.1 and had read somewhere that I would use the AMD 64-bit version, can you confirm if this is correct for an Intel processor? Justin, Yes, you want amd64 if this is a modern 64-bit Intel CPU. As was pointed out recently when someone asked more or less the same question, the amd refers to the architecture, not the chip manufacturer. I know nothing about plesk, but are you sure you *must* have 6.1? The legacy production release is now at 6.3. I've never built a 64-bit machine, but given the present situation I'd absolutely go with 7.0 for a new install, at least for a 32-bit system. A note, if I may. I have been on this list for many years and can say without hesitation that you're unlikely to get an answer when your subject line reads Hi. You may want to repost with a subject line that more accurately describes your question. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of cpghost On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a high pitched whine coming from my motherboard when the EHCI USB 2.0 controller is enabled in the BIOS. The whine only starts once FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is halfway through booting. The whine also goes away when I plugin a USB drive in with EHCI controller enabled (usb keyboard and mouse being already plugged in). Is this a hardware problem, or could it possibly be software related??? Hard to tell. I've had whining EPIA-boards when run at 1000 Hz, and after switching kern.hz to 100 Hz in /boot/loader.conf, the high-pitched whine stopped entirely. It also stopped when I slightly deviated from the 1000 Hz (to, say, 900 Hz or 1100 Hz), so there was obviously some hardware component on the boards oscillating like mad at this very frequency. I'm no specialist and it may be an urban legend, but from what I gathered, some coils could exhibit the behavior of generating those high-pitched whines when exposed to certain frequencies. -cpghost. No legends here. The horizontal sweep frequency for televisions in the US is 17,500 Hz. It was 15,750 for original NTSC (black and white RS170), and changed to 15,734 when color (RS170A) came in in the 1950s. The vertical scan (field) rate also changed from 60 Hz to 59.94. These numbers were chosen because they are relatively easily derived from the newfangled color subcarrier of 3.579545 MHz, yet close enough to the old values that old pre-color TV sets could still lock to the new color signals. Many people could hear that whistle from cheap flyback transformers. Other devices would buzz, hum or rattle when they resonated with EM fields. Occasionally they can be heard by humans, more frequently they can be heard by their pets. As I have gotten older, I don't notice it as much. The joke used to go, Why did they pick that frequency? Well, the crusty old engineers just cranked it up until they couldn't hear the flyback anymore. I can still hear it, but then I'm still [just] on the candy-coated side of 50. I guess this is getting a little OT here... but by way of a half-assed response to the OP's question, I think Bob is on the right track - seems like an electromechanical resonance of some sort. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Ports] How to find where a port is located?
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Gilles wrote: Hello Currently, to find where a software is located under /usr/ports/, I rune the find command. Is there a database that I could query instead so that it gives out the whole path to that the application? I wrote a lame-ass script to do this: $ more /home/chris/bin/findport #!/bin/sh # # Find a port whose name contains the string supplied as argument # prev_dir=`pwd` cd /usr/ports # make search key=$1 | grep Path | grep -v deps | grep -i $1 # cd $prev_dir HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cd drive won't open
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, chip wrote: chip wrote: Oddly enough, my cd drive will not open. Just yesterday I installed FBSD from cd and it was fine. Now it won't open. I haven't used it since installing FBSD. I've tried umount /cdrom but get an error message umount: /cdrom: not a file system root directory Doesn't make any sense. I'm gonna shut down the machine and check the cables, just in case it came loose. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, after reseating the cables for the cd drive, and rebooting twice, the drive finally opens. During bootup the system recognizes the drive correctly and assigns it to acd0. But, the orange activity light stays on continually (not flashing, just steady on) and everything is running very slow now. It's definately related to the cd drive, but what do I look for? Maybe the drive is bad? Are you able to try a different drive? -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XTerm fvwm2 Xorg
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Charles Smyth wrote: I~Rm trying out fvwm2 on a FreeBSD 5.4 box with Xorg The XTerm uses a small font as default. How can the font be made larger, and how can the XTerm window be made larger by default. Look in the file /usr/X11R6/etc/system.fvwm2rc. Assuming you're talking about the xterm you get when you click button 1 on the root window, look for the section AddToMenu RootMenu. There is a line that looks like + XTerm Exec exec xterm -sl 2048 -font 9x15 To make the font bigger you could, for example, change that 9x15 to 10x20. I'm not sure how to make the default window size larger, but I'd be looking for the word geometry in various config files. Also see man xterm. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deleting directories
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Rem P Roberti wrote: How does one go about deleting directories and their contents? RMDIR will only delete empty directories. rm -rf directory works for me. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Modem doesn't answer the phone
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Efren Bravo wrote: I need your help about incoming connections through the modem. My modem is a External CNet C56k v.92 Data/Fax Modem and it is unable to answer the phone. I made a test with an old Motorola V.3292 modem and it works well. The CNet modem works fine on Win2k Advanced Server. Where could be the problem, on fBSD box or on the modem? What can I do? You probably have to tell the modem to auto-answer incoming calls. The command is ATA, according to http://www.modemhelp.net/basicatcommand.shtml. I'd put this in a modem initialization script somewhere, but I haven't used a modem since 3.1 so I'm not sure exactly where that would go. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/ad0s1a: Permission denied.
On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Paul Clark wrote: I get permission denied when I try to read the label of any partition: theatlantis# /dev/ad0s1a /dev/ad0s1a: Permission denied. I've tried using freesbie live cd and unmounting all of the partitions. What's going on? That is not the way to read a label. Try bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1a. If you just type the name of the device file (or any other file), the system thinks you're trying to execute it. If you do an ls -l on the file, you will probably see that it has no execute permissions set, which causes the Permission denied that you're seeing. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quicken replacement?
On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Keith Beattie wrote: I'm looking to move from Quicken on Windows to something on FreeBSD for simple personal money management. I know there are several options (GNUCash, Gnumeric, MoneyDance, etc.) but was wondering if anyone here might be interested in offering their experience with any of these programs. From my experience with Gnumeric, it seems to pretty much an Excel replacement - a worthwhile thing if that's what you need, but not addressing the same problem as Quicken. It also has a whole lot of dependencies on gnome stuff, which can make the build kind of pokey (and bloated) if you're not already running gnome. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bad superblock question
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Mr. Darren wrote: I know, however it isn't fixing the first sector, it uses the backup(already repaired it), and never at any point does it fix the original. As a result, I can't mount it and get it to boot up.. my /var is on this drive. and is rather important. repeatedly running fsck, it just asks to use the backup at sector 32. I can't seem to find any other software to replace it or edit it. I've read a fair amount of man pages now. If you have another disk to boot from, try mounting your old /var read-only. At least then you could get your data off it. HTH. --- Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 14:29, Mr. Darren wrote: I had an ide cable go bad, the harddrive was unable to mount. I have since replaced the ide cable. when I fsck I use the alternative superblock at 32 I believe. How do I copy the alternative to the non-existant main? I think fsck does this automatically - you may have to reply y at the right place. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AaaarrrGGGH. linuxpluginrapper and linux-mozilla.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Gary Kline wrote: tao# `/compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig -p | grep libX` libX11.so.6 Hm. So nothing but libX11... . Not necessarily. Run it again unquoted, like so: tao# /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig -p | grep libX ...and you should see more. Running the command in `quotes' will try to execute the first match that grep finds, which on my machine is (you guessed it) libX11.so.6. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware selection for comment.
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Murray Taylor wrote: Comments requested from people who may have used / broken the following components. I'm looking for items like unwanted interactions, driver probs, etc. I have a very, very similar setup running 5.4 and xorg, and it's generally been good. See comments below. From looking at the 5.4 hardware page http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html the general selection seems to be supported, but I have mental question marks against the graphics card and the response time of the monitor (I intend to use KDE and Xorg, am not interested in flashy games / video, but do want sharp, full colour resolution) There seem to be grumbles from some linux forums re the 6600 locking up occasionally...? I have an NVidia 6200 PCIe, which has been fine. Just be aware that the binary-only nvidia driver seems not to support resolutions above 1280 x 1024. Also I *think* I might be getting some ghosting on text in xterms, but it's so slight that I'm not really positive it's there. OTOH my monitor is 10 years old. OTOOH I saw no such effect 6 months ago running an ATI card at 1600 x 1200. If I had to do it over, I'd get an ATI if I could find one without a fan. (The fan failed on the ATI, which is why I got the NVidia.) Case CoolerMaster Centurion ATX Tower Black/Silver 380Watt TruPower ^^^ You might want a beefier power supply if there's any chance you might add another disk, especially with that tape drive already drawing power. It will probably be OK, but since you're building a new system anyway... Ram 2.048GB (2x-1.024GB) CL3.0 DDR2 533 Good call. I only got two 512MB sticks when building mine, and now I kinda wish I'd gone for the gusto. CPUIntel Pentium 4 640 3.2Ghz 2MB 775 P4s are power hogs. HTH... -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:27:34AM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: Firefox has not had Ctrl-Q for some time. Try Alt-F followed by Q. I guess that's 2.5 keystrokes, but at least it's keystrokes. What version number would you call some time ago? I just used Ctrl-Q about six hours or so ago. I've used it too, but more like six years ago. I have not kept notes on the version numbers, just one day noticed Ctrl-Q not working anymore after an update. But I would guess it was sometime around the 1.x - 2.x transition. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: DVD-R not recording .iso
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, on FreeBSD 8 Current I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=/path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . Got this from FreeBSD handbook. Get no such file or directory error. Whats wrong with the syntax? Caveats about anything I say: 1) I'm using 7.2, and b) I'm using +R media. Nothing is wrong with the syntax, although your command above says the ISO file is in a directory called /path. Does the directory exist? Is the ISO in that directory? Permissions OK on everything? Does /dev/cd0 point to your burner? And as Adam said, make sure you have atapicam loaded. I'm also assuming that dot at the end of your line is a period at the end of your sentence, and not part of the command you issued. Is this the correct way to copy an .iso onto a DVD-R for installs? It burns the ISO to the disk as a premastered disk, which is what you want in this situation. If you wanted to just copy the ISO as a file, you'd replace the = sign with a space. Or can I just use burncd like somebody on the BSD forum said they did? I have no idea what somebody on the BSD forum said :^) HTH. Hang loose. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating the ports collection
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi Chris, The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? I cannot speak for postsnap, but for cvsup: csup works (almost?) the same as cvsup, and is in the base system nowadays. I used to install cvsup, but now I only install fastest_cvsup; it's just a utility to find the fastest server for you at the moment. Some may correct me, but I use a file that contains: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup2.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all I do the same, and run csup as: csup -g -h `/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c us` /etc/supfile.ports ...where /etc/supfile.ports is pretty much as above. In that case, it doesn't matter what default host is set to, since the -h option to csup overrides the default. The '-c us' part applies to me, but it might not for you; see the man page. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jacques Henry wrote: The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing the time. Slewing 587 seconds takes days. The thing is that ntpd is not slewing the time at all, even after several hours!! If I may pipe up... Can you not set the clock manually, then let ntpd take it from there? Seems like your clock would become synced a lot faster if it started out close. Sorry if I'm being naive, but this seemed like the obvious thing to do. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi Router and FreeeBSD - need some hints..
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Erik Norgaard wrote: herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, I need some basic information about Wifi routers - very little I know about it. There is my FreeBSD-server (the other one is Linux) and some clients are connected with a LAN-switch. Now I want to add a Wifi Router to the network. I am not sure if I can set up the router without using some Windows software what comes with the router. My questions: I just connect the Wifi router to the LAN and it should work? Or do I need any software (drivers) to keep the thing running? In the simplest case, yes, you can just plug it in. But see below. There must be some software to 'talk' to the router - for setup. Is there anything available for FreeBSD or do I need Windows environment (what I dont have available)? What did you use to install your Wifi-router? It depends on the router. Many if not most routers provide a web based configuration tool, but a special application may be needed to update firmware. I have an airport extreme, works great, but no web interface. My DSL is a 3Com with WiFi, it also has a web interface. I have seen routers that allows a commandline configuration tool, connect with ssh or telnet and upload or download the configuration with ftp. I have never installed an airport, but I have installed many consumer-grade Linksys, D-Link and Netgear WiFi boxes. They *all* have had a web interface and were pretty simple to set up. One thing to watch out for: before plugging in the ethernet wire, check the manual to see what the box's default IP address is. If it's the same as your gateway, you'll have to take steps to isolate them during the time it takes to change the WiFi box's IP. Other than changing the IP (and a password), all I've ever done is set up the wireless channel, SSID and encryption (type and key). HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: zfs on 8.0-RELEASE
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Victor Lyapunov wrote: I wanted to ask a simple question, is ZFS now ready to be used on production systems? From Thursday's announcement: - ZFS no longer in experimental status ...so I would guess the answer is 'yes'. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: booting??
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010 09:59:35 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: (I did try # cdrecord dev=1,0,0 foo.iso on a non-empty and and empty DVD. no joy. I'm not sure it's safe to use cdrecord for DVDs. Anyway, I always wqas lucky using growisofs (from port dvd+rw-tools). This is the command: # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=foo.iso You can replace /dev/dvd with the ATAPICAM device refering to your DVD recorder, usually something like /dev/cd0. The command # camcontrol devlist shows you the device name (l?ok for the SCSI ID 1,0,0 as from your cdrecord example). what are the magic commands to use from the cmdline to erase my dvd? is there a utility to erase? In man growisofs I found this: Note that DVD+RW re-formatting procedure does not substitute for blanking. If you want to nullify the media, e.g. for privacy reasons, do it explicitly with 'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/zero'. This should work, or try the respective cdrecord blank= command (all or fast). In addition to Polytropon's sage advice, I need to mention that you never said that these were rewritable DVDs you're working with. Not saying you're that dumb, but *I* am that dumb so it's the sort of thing I might have overlooked. Also, make sure that (assuming they are rewritable) they are the right kind for your drive: the plus and minus discs are not the same; that's DVD+RW versus DVD-RW. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Addition to BSDstats
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:12:21PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: BSDSTATS is dead. Don't waste your time. Not dead, still very active with reports in daily ... i see a golden opportunity here, marc. why not post the basic onlist now? i've been signed up for a long while and have never checked ... be nice to see the latest stats. Stats are updated real time ... just go to http://www.bsdstats.org ... The only stats that aren't working right now are the ports ones, not sure why we disabled that one, but suspect alot of it is size / load time related ... the database is *huge* for that ... I'm going to have to look into that one ... Since we're on the topic, and in light of Fbsd1's recent adventure... Panama seems awfully high in the country stats. I understand what you said upthread about haproxy being in Panama, but it's a small country to be always at the top; maybe there's some way to differentiate between really in Panama and don't know? It also seems odd that I, personally, as a home user, should be responsible for about 3% of the bsdstats-reporting FreeBSD machines in the US. (3 hosts out of 101) Just wondering. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: .Xmodmap problems after upgrading to Xorg 7.5
On Fri, 7 May 2010, Joey Mingrone wrote: My .Xmodmap is included below. When I run %xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap the output is: xmodmap: .Xmodmap:13: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Caps_Lock', no corresponding keycodes [snip] When I encounter an unfamiliar error, I'll paste the entire error text into google. Sometimes that helps. Does anyone know why the keysyms aren't mapping to the keycodes? All I can offer is my own .Xmodmap, which is a small subset of yours. [snip] remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Control = Control_L It looks like you're trying to end up with two left-control keys and no CapsLock. My .Xmodmap wants to swap CapsLock with the left Control key, for which purpose the following works. I don't know if the order of remove, keysym and add matters, but it might. remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Control_L [snip] HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Chip Camden wrote: [snip] Does anyone have a recommendation for NAS that works well for both FreeBSD and Windows clients? I built a FreeNAS last year which works like a champ for FreeBSD and Windows XP clients. I'm using it for backups: rsync for the FreeBSD clients, NASbackup for the Windows ones. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unexpected operator .sh error
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Aiza wrote: Added some code to a .sh script. When I run the script works but issues this message [: =: unexpected operator No line number telling where to look. I am not ever sure its talking about. IS [: whats wrong or =: I'd guess that what you added includes something like if [ x=y ] ... The open-square-bracket, [, is another name for test. IIRC the equal sign is not valid in that context. Can you post the 'before' and 'after' versions of that part of your script? It would help us in determining what the problem is. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: office apps
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Chip Camden wrote: [...] I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires that I send them specs in Word format. For that, I guess I'm stuck using some behemoth office tool, if only for converting from a different format. I'm currently doing that work on a Windows workstation, but I'd like to limit my involvement with Windows to only developing for it when I must. I have clients like that too. What I've done - only once or twice, and really just to be a dick - is to do my writeup in ASCII text, then `mv foo foo.doc`. There, it's in word format! And Word really can open the file, so... -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE:resize freebsd slice
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: only /home is in a diferent partition,but i don't care because i don't have any file in it (only .xinitrc,but this is not a prob) i give as a root the command dump -0Lauf /mnt/hd/FBSD/ /dev/ad0s3a but i receive the following error: DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jun 12 01:39:31 2010 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/ad0s3a (/) to /mnt/hd/FBSD/ DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 6843871 tape blocks. DUMP: Cannot open output /mnt/hd/FBSD/. DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: (yes or no) i tried to reopen the output but it had no effect. Is there a filesystem at /mnt/hd/FBSD/? Please show us the output of the df command. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: X11 question
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: [snip] I installed x11-servers/xorg-server but maybe should have installed Xorg instead. However, from looking at the pkg-descr for xorg it looks like it will install a huge amount of software that will not get used. I am reluctant to do this. I have installed 8.0-RELEASE from the CD and I want to run olvwm for a desktop. I have been using Solaris 2.6 with the OpenWindows desktop for 12 years and consider it to be as close to perfection as one can get. I am being forced, kicking and screaming, to move to some other type of Unix on a PC and would like to continue using OpenWindows. It is probably going to be an uphill battle to get olvwm to work. Am I going to have to install xorg to get everything needed? It really is the simplest way to get X working, and IMHO the least painful way to install xorg is to use the package. Without installing the xorg meta-port, you'd end up installing a lot of it by hand anyway. Come to think of it - since olvwm is a port (/usr/ports/x11-wm/olvwm), I *guess* it would pull in all of xorg as a dependency anyway. I, too, took a long time to come around to the idea that it doesn't do any harm to have unused software lying around. Disk is cheap; life is short. Hope this helps. Best regards, Fred Tim Kellers wrote: Fred, From man startx(1): SEE ALSO xinit(1), X(7), Xserver(1), Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5) Try: # whereis X If X is installed, it should return: # X: /usr/local/bin/X pkg_which if X is installed should return: # pkg_which /usr/local/bin/X xorg-server-1.7.5,1 If it doesn't, then the full X server isn't installed: Try: # whereis xorg xorg: /usr/ports/x11/xorg If xorg isn't installed, cd to: /usr/ports/x11/xorg and make config-recursive (If you add any options, run make config-recursive a second time after the shell prompt returns) and then make install clean HTH Tim Kellers On 08/12/10 15:40, Fred Boatwright wrote: Hi Oliver and Tim, I installed xinit but startx still doesn't exist. whereis returns nothing and man startx returns nothing. Fred Tim Kellers wrote: /usr/ports/x11/xinit On my system (with X, obviously, already installed): beta# whereis startx startx: /usr/local/bin/startx /usr/local/man/man1/startx.1.gz beta# pkg_which /usr/local/bin/startx xinit-1.2.0 beta# whereis xinit xinit: /usr/local/bin/xinit /usr/local/man/man1/xinit.1.gz /usr/ports/x11/xinit I' m not certain about the p5/Perl TK questions, but in the file: /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/p5-Tk/pkg-descr there is this description: This a re-port of a perl interface to Tk8.4 (John Ousterhout's production release). Perl API is essentially the same as Tk800.025 but has not been verified as compliant. It also includes all the C code parts of Tix8.1.4 from SourceForge. The perl code corresponding to Tix's Tcl code is not fully implemented. This version (Tk804.025) is only likely to work with perl5.8+. Tim Kellers On 08/12/10 12:02, Fred Boatwright wrote: Hello, Where would I find startx? I assume it is part one of the ports under X11 but I don't want to install all of them to find it. Also, is p5-Tk the same as Perl/Tk? Best regards, Fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problem with connecting FreeBSD 8.3 to wireless network
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Manish Jain wrote: Those in a position to help but smugly choose not to may soon start experiencing a dramatic decline in their good fortunes. I'm not in a position to help, but I can explain a couple of things. # kldload ath kldload: can't load ath: File exists # kldload wlan_tkip kldload: can't load wlan_tkip: File exists This tells you that the module in question has already been loaded, or is present in the kernel. [snip] none5@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x661711ad chip=0x0032168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' class = network The 'none..' tells you that no driver was attached to the device. I suspect that Alexander Kapshuk's reply is relevant here: that your Atheros card is not supported by the driver. I know it's not much help, but maybe it's nonzero. Good luck. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as an Access Point
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, dweimer wrote: I have been having a lot of performance issues with my home wireless, and am considering replacing the current APs early next year. I wanted something a little more flexible than the standard consumer AP, without spending the money for a high end Cisco AP (I do realize that the hardware will run me in the range of their low end APs). My early searching shows I should be able to get an Alix board, Wireless Card, and Antennas for around $300. Not really an answer to the question, but maybe a solution to the problem... At my work we deploy a fair amount of wi-fi at clients' sites. The access points we like are Pakedge brand. These are solid, high-powered industrial-grade equipment, and in your price range. For what it's worth. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: static ip address and ifconfig
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: [ ... ] My host just has ifconfig_xl0=DHCP in rc.conf and xl0 is the NIC connected to public internet connection coming from my ISP. In that case, you are not using static IPs. If your ISP has assigned you - as in Poly's example - 123.456.789.1 through 123.456.789.25, then those addresses are for your use to assign as you see fit. You would configure this machine's interface for any address in that block. You can then configure the same interface for more than one of those, or use your extra IPs for other machines (or interfaces). Instead of ifconfig_xl0=DHCP in rc.conf, you might have ifconfig_xl0=123.456.789.16 255.255.255.128 or some such. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: sh script code to get file size.
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated size of a sparse file. The only command that comes to mind is ls -lh The du -h command is not appropriate because it will show the occupied size and not the allocated size. I don't know how to parse out to the position in the output of that ls -lh command to pickup the file size value. Is there some other way to do this? To parse it out, I've used something like: $ ls -lh npviewer.bin.core | cut -d \ -f 9 186M After the backslash are two spaces: one being the space that's being escaped to make it the delimiter, the other to separate the options. The number after the '-f' determines which field of the output is displayed, which may vary. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: who am i logged in as
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: I know there is a command that will give me the name of the account I am logged in on. But I can not recall the name of this command. What is the name of this command? whoami Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: [ snip ] So what is the advice for transferring data via USB in such cases? Any other gpart partition I could use? I've always used FAT32 for thumb drives and the like. I don't know if the SPARC would be able to use it, but FAT32 seems like it's most likely to be usable by the largest number of different platforms. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: Allow sudo bash only. The OP didn't want to use sudo because it's not in the base system. I would guess he also doesn't want to use bash, since it too is not in the base system. [ snip ] -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: day light saving time happened today
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: date command shows Sun Mar 10 16:50:33 EDT 2013 Very odd that your clock would be off by *two* hours. The real question is does New York State have day light saving time? Yes, it does. I lived there for many years. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Test
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Al Plant wrote: Ping . Pong http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-test Mahalo. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Can sasl/sendmail Report IP Of Failed Access?
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 June 2013, at 08:47, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I am seeing login dictionary attacks on a FreeBSD mail server being reported. Is there a way to determine the IPs that are doing this so they can be blocked at the firewall? auth.log only notes the attempted user name, not the IP of origin. -- I wrote some code to find the appropriate maillog entries which do include the IP addresses. It automagically adds the IP addresses to the pf blackhole table if certain criteria is met. The criteria is changeable. If you would like a copy, let me know. That sounds incredibly useful. Can you post it somewhere? -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: learn
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Quark wrote: On Aug 1, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Mike Jeays wrote: [ big snip ] Hell, I may even get a hoody from the store :) hey, where are the hoodies??? I found for mozilla openSUSE on their respective sites very good looking hoodies, but nor FreeBSD I won't hesitate to order one for reasonable price of 20-30 USD https://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/scan/fi=prod_bsd/tf=list_order/sf=category/se=shirts?id=bipk46TBmv_pc=267 FreeBSD Mall, then shirts and jackets. They cost a little more than that, though. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Setup HP Laserjet 1120m over network with LPD
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Juris Kaminskis wrote: as suggested i tried now foo2xqx filter. My printcap entry: --- HP:\ :lp=:\ :sh:\ :mx#0:\ :rm=192.168.1.105:\ :rp=raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/hp:\ :if=/usr/bin/foo2xqx-wrapper:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ --- ^ That backslash needs to go, for one thing. The backslash indicates continuation on the next line, but I don't know what would happen if there is no next line. In other words, the last line should NOT end with a backslash. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
