RE: evolution with truetype fonts?!

2003-02-19 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Thanks for replying! I've tried that but it "crashes" gnome and/or xfce4 which both use gtk2 or higher toolkit Didier > -Original Message- > From: Joe Marcus Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 18:32 > To: Wiroth Didier > Cc: FreeBSD User Question

vidcontrol -i mode, please help!!!

2003-02-18 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Could someone please enlighten me about the meaning of the "vidcontrol -i mode" output! Here is some info: I'm using the native freebsd nvidia driver from www.nvidia.com which brings its own nvidia.ko module. My card is a 32mb "Asus AGP-V7100D/2V1D" which uses the nvidia Geforce 2 MX chi

RE: XFree86 and Samsung 191T

2003-02-07 Thread Didier Wiroth
> match edit rgba=vgbr; Sorry a typo, I meant: match edit rgba=vrgb; Here is also some more eye candy for your mouse cursor, it gives you a shadow under the mouse cursor: Option "CursorShadow" "true" Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "75" Option "CursorShadowXOffset" "4" Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "3"

RE: XFree86 and Samsung 191T

2003-02-07 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Try settings this value: Option "DigitalVibrance" "integer" Enables Digital Vibrance Control. There are 4 levels: 3, 2, 1 and off (0). This feature is only supported on GeForce2 MX (and 200/400), GeForce2 Go, Quadro2 MXR/EX, Qu

freebsd console resolution vs linux console resolution

2003-02-07 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, 1) Are true bitmapped graphical consoles possible in freebsd, I mean at least like the resolution of the Vesafb driver in Linux? (Something like 16, 24 or even 32bpp with 1280x1024 screen resolutions) 2) If not, is a "Linux Vesafb" like driver planned for freebsd future releases? Thanks a l

Re: XFree86 and Samsung 191T

2003-02-06 Thread Didier Wiroth
I just saw that your are not using the native NVIDIA driver! Use the nvidia driver and I think the problem will be solved. Go to http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=freebsd_1.0-3203 Good luck Didier To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of

Re: XFree86 and Samsung 191T

2003-02-06 Thread Didier Wiroth
Are you using the nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com? If so, you could try experimenting one of these: Option "FlatPanelProperties" "string" there are other twin related options have a look at the link below. Or perhaps have a look at the different NVIDIA options here: http://download.nvidia.com/

mounting ntfs drive fails

2003-01-27 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, I have a primary master disk drive which has winxp installed and is ad0s1 My secondary slave drive is ad2: a) ad2s1 slice is a ntfs partition and b) ad2s2a-f is freebsd! I can mount without problems the ntfs slice ad2s1 When I try to mount my primary master which has xp installed I get the

Re: download port packages

2003-01-23 Thread Didier Wiroth
Kevin Golding wrote: Someone, quite probably Didier Wiroth, once wrote: Is it possible to download the "all" the packages of the meta port /usr/ports/x11/kde? I tried make fetch, that doesn't work or partially, because it only fetches qt! I would like to download all the pac

download port packages

2003-01-23 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Is it possible to download the "all" the packages of the meta port /usr/ports/x11/kde? I tried make fetch, that doesn't work or partially, because it only fetches qt! I would like to download all the packages and their dependencies to burn it on a cd, and install it on a PC which is not c

Re: New to FreeBSD

2003-01-23 Thread Didier Wiroth
Dan Pelleg wrote: "JCBotha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dear Sir I am new to this operating system and became interested when I started to look at a solution for a network set-up. I do not know if I will be able to master this OS because I grew up with Windows and know nothing about UNIX OS

http://www.fwbuilder.org and ipfw

2003-01-17 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Is someone using fwbuilder on FreeBSD with ipfw as a gui frontend for a workstation firewall? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

connecting to novell netware 5 server

2003-01-17 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, (using FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE) 1) Does someone have some links or documentation to share about how to connect from a freebsd client to novell netware 5 servers! how to mount netware shares, administrating netware servers from a freebsd client, tools etc... 2) Do you need ipx on FreeBSD to conn

learning to compile and installing sources without using the ports collection

2003-01-15 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Hi, I'm using xfce 3.8.18 (from ports collection). I download the sources of xfce4 from cvs and wanted to compile the stuff! Like they mentionned it: ./configure than make (but I get an error message)! I'm using FreeBSD 4.7-release Well honestly I'm a *NIX newbie (coming from Windows) and I'

identify app on a screenshot

2003-01-15 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Could someone have a look at this screenshot (link below): http://freebsd.kde.org/img/screenshots/en-us_bailey.png Which app is running on the right upper side, showing which FreeBSD version the user is running and the cpu +proc +disk +mem + swap usage! Is it available from the ports collect

garage.freebsd.pl what happened?

2003-01-07 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Does someone know what happened to this website? It had a few interesting patches for freebsd but it's not available anymore! Thanks! Didier To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

make world because of sendmail

2003-01-02 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hy, (from a *NIX newbie) I've been playing a bit around with freebsd! This a thing that happened a few times to me: When I did a "make world" it fails because of the sendmail configuration files! This happened to me when: 1) I simply had sendmail_enable="YES" in rc.conf or 2) when I modified a few

securing apache2 on freebsd

2003-01-02 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Does someone have a good link, pdf or doc to share about how to secure apache2 (or apache 1.3.X if there is currently no specific version 2 paper) on "freebsd", file permissions etc disable modules! How secure is the default installation of apache? Can you tighten it up if you only use static

how to use ndc when running in bind in a sandbox

2002-12-30 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, (i'm new to freebsd +/- a few month) I'm experimenting with freebsd and I have setup bind running in a sandbox and followed the exact step mentionned here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/dns.html Section 19.10.8 Running named in a Sandbox 1) I've created the same /

sendmail and jail question

2002-12-30 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, I would like to use sendmail "only" to send daily reports of it's own host and it's running jails, to an outside mail system! host (192.168.0.2) with sendmail -> should send mail/reports etc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] jail1 (192.168.0.3) with sendmail -> should send mail/reports etc to [EMAIL PROT

RE: sshd and passwordauthentication

2002-12-30 Thread Didier Wiroth
> > debug1: Sent encrypted session key. > > debug1: Installing crc compensation attack detector. > > debug1: Received encrypted confirmation. > > debug1: Doing challenge reponse authentication. > > Password: > > Response: > > These last two lines are part of the ChallengeResponseAuthentication > m

RE: sshd and passwordauthentication

2002-12-27 Thread Didier Wiroth
Re: sshd and passwordauthentication > > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 04:02:52PM +0100, Didier Wiroth wrote: > > These are the only activated options: > > Protocol 2,1 > > ListenAddress x.y.z.x > > LoginGraceTime 40 > > PermitRootLogin no > > PasswordAuthe

RE: sshd and passwordauthentication

2002-12-27 Thread Didier Wiroth
n /var/log/messages! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Daniel Bye > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 11:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: sshd and passwordauthentication > > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at

RE: sshd and passwordauthentication

2002-12-27 Thread Didier Wiroth
Yes! ;-) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Daniel Bye > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 11:02 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: sshd and passwordauthentication > > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 09:54:03AM

sshd and passwordauthentication

2002-12-27 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, I'm using FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE with sshd version OpenSSH_3.4p1 FreeBSD-20020702 I would like to use only public key authentication. I've set the "PasswordAuthentication" option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to "no" but it doesn't work! I can still log on with passwords! Why? How do I have to change t

how to check a revision of a file

2002-12-23 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, I was reading this security advisorie: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:43.bind.asc At the end of the file you can read for example this information: src/contrib/bind/CHANGES RELENG_41.1.1.7.2.8 RELENG_4_7

fixit cd how?

2002-12-13 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, I have corrupted my fstab file and I can't mount any drives anymore. Now I would like to fix that with the fixit cd (freebsd cd 2), but how? 1) I have launched the fixit prompt from the cd 2) created a directory "/fix" 3) And now I would like to mount my harddisk's root slice (ad2s2a) to /fix

RE: Installing orcale 8.1.7 on Freebsd 4.7 HELppppppppppppppppp

2002-12-11 Thread Didier Wiroth
problem resolved thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Installing orcale 8.1.7 on Freebsd 4.7 HELppppppppppppppppp

2002-12-11 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Need somme urgent help! Does someone have some doc or links to share (english, french or german) for installing Oracle 8.1.7 on FreeBSD 4.7. Please don't point me to: http://iamphet.fromru.com/linuxemu-oracle8i.html or to the freebsd handbood, as it does not work for me :-( The oracle instal

RE: urgent help

2002-12-10 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hy, Perhaps you can also do a: 1) cd /usr/ports && make clean && make distclean (this will take some time an clean up you /usr/ports/dist directory an your /usr/ports directory) You might not need to clean the entire /usr/ports directories perhaps only /usr/ports/x11-wm/kde3 for example if you hav

RE: Installing additional ports in a jail!

2002-12-10 Thread Didier Wiroth
Sorry for posting that! Your method (method from Ruben de Groot) is quite good! It works really good with the ports collection and with the src code! I have just tried after having post the message! So to avoid future postings, here is are the methods for the ports collection and for the source c

RE: Microsoft Intellimouse

2002-12-09 Thread Didier Wiroth
Do you have problems with XFree86 or in the console? If you are using the console? Are you using vidcontrol to set your resolution? What are your settings in XF86Config? Didier > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Christopher Armenio

Jail source patching question

2002-12-09 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, When you have a security issue or you have to modify the source code of a daemon, you have to patch the source recompile and install the new daemon. How do you do that? Let's take an example: The ssh daemon I have patched the daemon with: cd /usr/src/crypto/openssh diff < /pathtopatch/file.d

RE: Installing additional ports in a jail!

2002-12-09 Thread Didier Wiroth
Thanks for the reply! >where have you read that it's not recommended to do so? I'm installing >ports from inside the jail all the time and have not encountered any >problems so far. I have read this from the "Absolute BSD - The ultimate guide to FreeBSD", the author recommends not to build from t

Installing additional ports in a jail!

2002-12-09 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, (I'm a FreeBSD newbie) How do you install ports software to a jail as it is not recommended to "make and make install" from the ports collection inside the jail? I know I can use pkg_ commands, but how do I install software from the ports collection, if you do not use the ports collection of

Xntpd running on a host with jails

2002-12-06 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, I'm running xntpd on a host which has jails! I saw that ntpd listens on all ip addresses even the jails ip addresses! How can I force xntp to listen only at a specific ip address? Thanks a lot Didier To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the

RE: Need help with newbie training on DNS/Bind

2002-12-06 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, I would really recommand: DNS and BIND - 4th Edition (Covers Bind 9) ISBN 0-596-00158-4 Covers bind and name resolution in every possbile aspect! A really must have book! These own seems to be good (I personnaly don't have it, but it sounds interesting) and also good addition to the previous

Still a few problems in jail

2002-12-05 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Using (FreeBSD 4.7-Release) It takes considerably long to login from a workstation to a jailed ssh server or sometimes I even can't login. The "login:" appears, and then "Sent username 'xyz'" and then nothing happens or after 20 or even far more seconds I can enter my password! For informatio

Jail problems - CANCEL, SORRY

2002-12-05 Thread Didier Wiroth
Sorry for the posting! I found the mistake!! Thanks Didier To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Jail problems

2002-12-05 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey I'm running a jail which runs or should run :-) bind! I would like to run bind in a sandbox but I can't get it to work! I've followed these steps on the dns jail: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/dns.html#NAMED -SANDBOX Except the following 2 steps which I had to do o

Jail question

2002-12-04 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, I'm a freebsd newbie. I was experimenting with jails. I've build an entire jail under /usr/local/jail/test which I'm accessing through the network using ssh. I thought that you can't grep any path or any information outside the jail but when I use the command "df", I can clearly see the disk

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