Re: Modems

2004-08-04 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
eagleimex wrote: Dear: Sir or Madem. I Have LTWinmodem and a U.S.Robotics 5660A modem. Can you please tell me if this modems will work under FreeDSB. Or where can find drivers to make them work under FreeDSB. Thank you for your help. A. H. BEY. Hello. Actually it's sirs *and* mesdames, as

Re: Bandwidth Limiting

2004-08-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jonathan wrote: Hello, I run FreeBSD 5-2.1 on a serv4er box used for my company (StreamForce Hosting Solutions). I was wondering if there is an application i can install or method of limiting per user bandwidth by like a certain group or class. If not is there a way to limit bandwidth for all

Re: Bandwidth Limiting

2004-08-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jonathan wrote: Hello, I run FreeBSD 5-2.1 on a serv4er box used for my company (StreamForce Hosting Solutions). I was wondering if there is an application i can install or method of limiting per user bandwidth by like a certain group or class. If not is there a way to limit bandwidth for all

Re: About FreeBSD

2004-08-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello how are you doing I have been thinking about buying a copy of FreeBSD PowerPak and I would like to know what kind of Modem, Sound Card, Display Card I would have to have for my computer the type of computer that I have is a Hewlett Packard Pavilion 4453. and could

Re: Screen Res 1024x768

2004-08-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Oryx wrote: Hey guys, I'm having a slight problem with FreeBSD... basically I want my screen resolution at 1024x768 and not 800x600 i have a standard internal graphics card (came with my pc and its by intel)... I had it working before, but i just simply can't remember how I done it... If you could

Re: raw devices

2004-07-31 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 10:30:21PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: where are raw devices in FreeBSD? do they exist at all? Actually, all devices under FreeBSD are raw or character devices. Block devices on the other hand disappeared a long time ago. It's all to do with

Re: FreeBSD and MySQL - mysqld eats CPU alive

2004-07-31 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
removed hackers@, database@ Before the rest of the message ... I think it'd be best not to shotgun your mails like this... adp wrote: I recently posted the following message to MySQL discussion list. The response there, and the one I keep finding on Google, is that this is a long-standing issue

Re: Sorry--I'm Newbie - Best way to add php4

2004-07-31 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bob Kukla wrote: Previous message had no subject,,, sorry for that We are all newbies ... some are older newbies ... Even the oldies know that they're just newbies with experience ... ;-) Hi, I am very new to BSD and web servers and have just recently installed the latest 5.2 version. I have

Re: backspace and delete keys behavior

2004-07-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mariano Guadagnini wrote: Hi guys, I am new to Freebsd (after years of linux) and, althought system installation and configuration was quite seamlessly, I've an issue with the delete key of my keyboard (101 keys us layout): In xterm, the backspace key works ok, but when I press del, it prints

Re: now extremely [OT]: 64-bit PCI in 32-bit slots??? crazy??

2004-07-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Josh Paetzel wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:32:30PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: I guess my question is hardware-related. I mean, I can't believe this worked! Has anyone else seen/done this? Is this as crazy as it seems to me? -- Bill Moran I have a friend that is using a 64 bit SCSI card (29160

Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installerpackage like this ???

2004-07-29 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-07-28 22:53, DK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really. But even if we provided examples of this configurability you wouldn't accept them as valid examples because they wouldn't be point and click on some wimpy

Re: startx doesn't work

2004-07-28 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Sandbox Video Productions wrote: I type startx and i get this msg before it terminates XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.10 i386 [ELF] Build Date: 29 April 2004 Before reporting problems, check

Re: security run output

2004-07-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Chris wrote: When I get my nightly email from the security run output it normally has about the last 20 lines or less from the /var/log/messages. Is there a way to increase that to about the last 50 lines? Thanks, Chris Hmm, I don't think that it's necessarily true that /etc/periodic is

Re: Samba

2004-07-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Stanley Wright wrote: I'm having a problem setting up Samba(Ver 2.2.7a) on FreeBSD. Ive already set Samba up on RedHAt and Mandrake with no issues. I can see the icon for the FreeBSD share under Network Neighborhood but when it is clicked I get the message: The computer or sharename could not be

Re: Are 4 IPFW rules enough?

2004-07-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kevin Curran wrote: I have a cable modem and I'm using 4.9 as a NAT router for my home network. I have 4 rules in my ipfw config. The first enables NAT and the last is 65000 allow any to any. In between I ha 2 rules to deny access to ports 53 and 110 on the Internet side. That's all. Here's

Re: FreeBSD v4.10 - Newbie Needs Help - KDE Really Slow !!

2004-07-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
DK wrote: Hi all, I just installed FreeBSD v4.10. All installed OK I choose KDE as the Desktop Problem: KDE v3 is reallly SLOW!! Probably true. - Takes 2 minutes to start/load !! 2 minutes --- After the system grabs the tty? How long from the power button until you have a desktop? - Just

Re: Portupgrade Stale dependency: specify -O to force

2004-07-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Rob wrote: Hi, When I use commands from the portupgrade port, I get this message: Stale dependency: kde-3.2.3 -- autoconf-2.57_1 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. I wanted to use the '-O' option, but that does not seem to exist. I've tried 'pkgdb -O' or 'pkgdb -FO' Is

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Aaron Benson wrote: Hi, For me, yes. YMMV. If you've 500 machines to switch over, I'd sure as heck buy one more and stick something else on it. You'll never learn as much from reading and not doing and you will from trying to do and reading Kevin Kinsey

Re: cvsup question

2004-07-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Steve wrote: am doing cvsup for the first time, and got the hang of it, but have one questions for those who used it. is it advisable to do src-all, or should i only do ports-all Depends on whether you want to update the OS as well as the 3rd party software (ports). also is this configuration

Re: Possible use of Mac GUI?

2004-07-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Andrew Croft wrote: Hi, Is there any way to control the mailserver running freeBSD using a Mac GUI application? I am not a UNIX whiz and hate having to do any manual text entry right on the server. There has got to be a better way. Not sure what you're describing, or looking for. Very few

Re: FreeBSD Gateway???

2004-07-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everyone, I am building a gateway/router from a i386 300Mhz, 32MB RAM, 5GB hda and ~ I need to buy the NIC cards. I wanted to have three interface connection points to my gateway/router. Does anyone have any suggestions on

Re: Apache/mod_php4/mysql issue

2004-07-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Robert Munn wrote: I recently upgraded apache2 and mod_php4 using portupgrade. Now all my scripts that reference mysql fail with the error message: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /usr/users/munn/public_html/Testing/MySQL.php I re-built Apache and mod_php4 with

Re: Power off

2004-07-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Marco Gonçalves wrote: Hi list how can i get a 'shutdown -p now' to actually cut the power off (instead of 'press key to reboot') ? Best regards, Marco Gonçalves Does your motherboard use ACPI? What version of FreeBSD? What hardware? shutdown -p now does it on compatible machinery, so is it

Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?

2004-07-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:09:13 -0400, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most

Re: Installation/Boot-up help please...

2004-07-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jeff Erickson wrote: Dear Group, I am new to FreeBSD and am having a problem. I downloaded Disk 1 and 2 of version 4.10 and go through the installation and everything seems to be fine until I reboot. Then it says that it cannot load the kernel or kernel.old. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in

Re: Anybody know how to run Skype for Linux on FreeBSD

2004-07-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Hasse wrote: On Wednesday 07 July 2004 02.05, Adam Smith wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:02:42AM +0200, Hasse said: Thx Adam, I'll certainly will do that. Shame on ME , and my faith in the FreeBSD porters. Offcourse I should have checked the ports first. Didn't even imagine it was

Re: How to turn off keyboard bell

2004-06-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bob wrote: Hi there, I'm having a difficult time turning off the keyboard bell. I have tried kbdcontrol -b off and setting keybell=NO in rc.conf, but this only shortens it down to a chirp. If I set kbdcontrol -b visual, then the audible bell goes away completely and I get a flashing screen

Re: Backup question

2004-06-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Karen Donathan wrote: Hello. What is the best way to back up the html directory? We do not have a tape drive. There are many. Keep watching the list and some might show up. Is there a way to have an automated .tar file created and sent as email so I could save it on another server? Any

Re: Apache-MySQL-PHP from ports

2004-06-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, TO this point, I have been installing everything from source. Starting with the new servers, which I am working on now, I would like to do as much as possible from ports. I have mysql installed correctly. I need now to install PHP and Apache. The source type install would

Re: Apache 2 / PHP Installation

2004-05-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bruce Hunter wrote: Hi all, I installed Apache 2 from the ports collection. Does apache2 come with php support? Probably not, but not sure. I want to install php on the system. I'm not sure what port I need to install?? All the pre recks.. are for 1.* versions of Apache. What's the deal?

Re: Port Install Error

2004-05-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bruce Hunter wrote: I am trying to install 'Portupgrade' using the ports collection What does this mean? and how do I solve the problem Dependency warning: used OpenSSL version contains known vulnerabilities Please update or define either WITH_OPENSSL_BASE or WITH_OPENSSL_PORT Thanks, Bruce

Re: SSH Help / Installing ports / Internet

2004-05-12 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bruce Hunter wrote: Brad Tarver wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:02 PM: Brad Tarver wrote: Check /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/rc.conf for your defaultrouter entry. my defaultrouter entry is set to my router ip, any other ideas? hmmm. what are you trying to ping? an ip address or a

Re: Newbie: 4.9 / 5.2.1 / 4.10 ??

2004-05-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
cc'ed to questions: let's move it there? Geoffrey Lane wrote: I'm fairly familiar with linux and have been running redhat for a few years now. I'm looking for something I have more control over and isn't bloated with alot of stuff I don't need... BSD is on the top of my list, there are only a

Re: PPP

2004-05-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
xavier collot wrote: Hi!! In the FreeBSD handbook, the chapter 18.3.3 talk about the file /etc/ppp/options. I think I must create it and copy that it's written in the handbook concerning this file but I'm not sure. Xavier That is correct, oui Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.

Re: Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup

2004-05-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
David H. Ingham wrote: Hopefully, a simple question. I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client. my system is: FreeBSD Version 5.2 Apache Version 2.0.47 MySQL Version 4.0.16

Re: best cd ripping option.

2004-05-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Lex Hider wrote: OK, there are 2 things I'd like help with: 1) What's the recommended or best way for ripping audio CDs in FreeBSD-5.X? That is putting music CD to HD for encoding ogg/flac/mp3 etc. I use lame (/usr/ports/audio/lame). KDK ___ [EMAIL

Re: Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup

2004-05-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
mark wrote: On May 5, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: David H. Ingham wrote: Hopefully, a simple question. I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client. my system is: FreeBSD Version 5.2 Apache

Re: makestrs not found installing X

2004-05-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Thomas Beer wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to install XFree86-4. It stops with Error code 127 makestrs: not found but makestrs is located in /usr/X11R6/bin and the path is set. Any pointers would be highly appreciated. Thanks Tom Hello Tom, Unfortunately, I'm not able to help you. There

Re: Which php ?

2004-05-04 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Peter Risdon wrote: Darryl Hoar wrote: I have 5.1-release installed. I wish to install php4 and want it to work with apache, mysql and openldap. Which one of the php ports do I use ? Easiest thing to do is install www/mod_php4 and select the options you want (mysql - which is a default -

Re: Supporting backup batteries over serial port?

2004-04-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Ralph M. Los wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of converting the last of my servers (Win2k) to FreeBSD. This last box has the following things, and I want to make sure I can get the equivalent in FreeBSD. Could someone give me suggestions on the stuff I can't find info on? This is a long list,

Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs.

2004-04-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joe Rhett wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:47:01PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: I'll make a try at answering the issues you raise, but the best way of handling missing documentation is to submit PR's which update the manpages or the Handbook with something better. When I know what

Re: Viewing *.chm files

2004-04-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: Can anybody point me to an application capable to view such files (or extract them into HTMLs)? For those asking what I'm talking about: *.chm is a MSWindows format to keep a set of HTMLs related info (content tree, index) in one compressed package. The Microsoft's

Re: Which port provides fig2dev?

2004-04-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kai Grossjohann wrote: Is there a way for me to find out which port provides the fig2dev binary? I tried pkg_which and ports_glob, but I think that the former operates on installed ports only, and the latter operates on port names only. Hm. Ah, I could grep fig2dev /usr/ports/*/*/pkg-plist, but

Re: Which port provides fig2dev?

2004-04-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kai Grossjohann wrote: Is there a way for me to find out which port provides the fig2dev binary? I tried pkg_which and ports_glob, but I think that the former operates on installed ports only, and the latter operates on port names only. Bah! Weekend, and my brain is turned off. Sorry for

Re: Using One Floppy Drive as Two Drives

2004-04-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Gerard Seibert wrote: This is probably very simple, but I can not seem to get it to work. I have one physical 3.5 1.44MB drive. It is configured as /dev/fd0. Is there a way that I can also configure this drive to be /dev/fd1. The reason is that I have an alias command : alias A:='sudo mount -t

Re: majordomo question

2004-04-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I was trying to find out why I din't receive any mail from the freebsd-java list and sent a which command to majordomo at freebsd.org but didn't get me listed with my email address. That's strange since I'm definitely subscribed to a couple of lists and I'm receiving

Re: Missing Port

2004-04-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am tring to install mrtg on my test FreeBSD 5.1 box. I change into my /usr/ports/net/mrtg directory and find that there is only a README.html How can I get this port back? I tried to cvsup it with ports-all but the files are not there. What would be a quick solution

Re: Newbie:Home network mail forwarding

2004-04-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Peter Tokanel wrote: Hi, I am new to unix but I have managed to setup a home network using Free BSD. The FreeBSD box is a gateway/firewall/router for my Windows XP box and a wireless access point. The XP box can access the web just great using the shared connection. My problem is when

Re: Help - where to report posting problem

2004-04-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Dick Davies wrote: * Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0430 12:30]: Here's your answer. This means that the SMTP server that you use as a relay is poorly configured. There is a FAQ entry: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES Looks like the 4th

Re: Shared Object Woes (or, why I shouldn't play in the ports tree)

2004-04-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Edward Aronyk wrote: Just a heads up: I did a search of the archives before posting this and found several posts that sort of answer my question, but none that answer it completely so I am posting this. If my question has been answered elsewhere I am sorry for wasting your time and only ask that

Re: 5.2.1 can't find sound card

2004-04-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Chris wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2004 07:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2004 12:18, you wrote: I found an email that said Audigy support was added to current after 5.2 was released. I doubt it ever made it into 5.2.1. You might do your own search of the archives. I

Re: Filesystem size limit

2004-04-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
hal wrote: A coworker is bumping up against the one terabyte file system size limit of Redhat Linux. He needs more space. Can FreeBSD help? Where would I look for info? hal This gets asked periodically, but AFAIK isn't documented as a FAQ. Furthermore, the best I can suggest is that you try

Re: tcp vulnerablity and freebsd?

2004-04-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Aaron Sloan wrote: Is the TCP vulnerability something to worry about in Freebsd? http://www.osvdb.org/displayvuln.php?osvdb_id=4030 Thanks, Aaron This potential DOS is currently being discussed on the freebsd-security list. I'm counting about 15 posts in my inbox on that one since someone

Re: Backing up my system

2004-04-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Bill, - snip - You can use dump/tar to back up the actual data. I also apply 'tar' command to backup actual data keeping the directory tree simultaneously. Kindly advise what is 'dump/tar' B.R. Stephen I'm pretty sure he meant OR, as in you can use dump or tar

Re: comments

2004-04-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
James T. Harrison wrote: My server had some apps running that should not have been there. That is probably true. It's possible that Microsoft Windows(R) is one of them, in this case. You have a hacker using your site to gather info on servers. That doesn't ring true. Your machine is

Re: kernel config optimized

2004-04-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Brian Henning wrote: The following is a copy of my kernel config file. I am trying to optimize it as much as possible. do i need any of these psudo devices? pseudo-device loop # Network loopback Most people would leave this in. I've no idea what might break without it, but I'll wager

Re: Networking problem! Watchdog -- Timeout

2004-04-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Henrik Zagerholm wrote: Hi all! Installing 5.2 on my new box with an integraded Intel PRO 1000 CT NIC. System detects it as em0 but I cant get it to work. I'm trying dhcp and I have added the line: ifconfig_em0=DHCP in rc.conf but I still get this problem. em0: Watchdog Timeout ---Resetting IF

Re: rc.conf.local error nn7j

2004-04-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Dan wrote: I made an error in the rc.conf.conf file used ;# for rem statement. Oops! You can recover, but it may be a tad tricky. It hang on that statement at boot. But then it at least gives a loader prompt, apparently? Also can't find shell get error message to use /bin/sh hit return.

Re: Interpreting ping response? (the POD lives??)

2004-04-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Stephen Fisher wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:46:21AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst 4 5 00 05dc 07bd 0 3f 01 1677 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.80 The device (router?) is sending a host unreachable message

Re: How do I know if the gnome upgrade script is running properly?

2004-04-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey thanks! If that isn't in any of the copious instructions on doing the upgrade it should be. It was, but given their copious nature, it's possible to miss it: From gnome-upgrade.sh: echo You can watch the upgrade process in real-time by running: echo

Re: installed mysql/php/apache but there's no mysql.sock file

2004-04-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Hi chip, Please wrap your characters at 80 columns of so for some of the people who use text based email. Thanks! Read on.. chip wrote: Yesterday I installed, from pkg_add, mysql/php/apache and apache and php work fine, mysql did not create the /tmp/mysql.sock file. I have searched the drive

Re: boot log

2004-04-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
RazorOnFreeBSD wrote: Hello everyone, I'm pretty sure I so that in another thread but I can't remember and I can't find it in the archive. I don't search the right words probably I just would like to know how can I read the exact text that is displaying very fast at the FreeBSD boot. All

Re: CUPS

2004-04-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Robert Storey wrote: Dear all, Having looked at the mind-boggling amount of configuration information that is in the Handbook, I decided to just install CUPS. I'm very familiar with CUPS, having configured it many times in Linux. So I installed the CUPS daemon, and started it by going to

Re: lament about freebsd sacrifices

2004-04-14 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Peter Leftwich wrote: I thought I would post this as something of a warning. Using FreeBSD as a primary, non-dual-boot OS means sacrificing. Here is a partial list of sacrifices, as compared to Microsoft Windows XP: I'm sure you put on your flame-retardant PJ's before you posted, right? So,

Re: Can't get online

2004-04-14 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 5.1, but I can't get online. When I try to ping yahoo, it either hangs or gives me an error message. Several folks on the list would like it if you'd wrap your email message lines at 80 chars or so Can you ping 66.218.71.114? Also, what is

Re: ssh Connection refused

2004-04-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
RazorOnFreeBSD wrote: - Original Message - From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RazorOnFreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 4:19 AM Subject: Re: ssh Connection refused Thanks for the ps / grep information. In my rc.conf

Interpreting ping response? (the POD lives??)

2004-04-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Can anyone help me interpret the following output? I read the ping manpage, but came to the end before I learned much that helps me here Other than source and destination, where can I find an explanation for the rest of this? And, if possible, can you tell me what might be happening? I've

Re: Interpreting ping response? (the POD lives??)

2004-04-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Rob wrote: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: can you tell me what might be happening? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/home/kdk] [16:25] #sudo ping -s 2048 app PING app.southuni.com (192.168.0.80): 2048 data bytes 36 bytes from app.southuni.com (192.168.0.80): Destination Host Unreachable This may

Re: src files

2004-04-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Brian Henning wrote: Greetings, The following files are in the /src directory on the bsd install cd. How can I get the most recent version of these files? or are they only updated on release? Thanks, Brian -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 240640 Apr 10 04:54 ssys.aa* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 240640

Re: BTX Halted by lsdev

2004-04-12 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
David Jones wrote: Hi all - I'm still trying to debug my first install of FreeBSD (4.9-RELEASE). Can anyone suggest why lsdev would hang with the following? bcachestat also reports a lot of misses - would this point at dodgy memory? ok heap Active Allocations: 581/598 155648 bytes reserved

Re: Newbie help: domain name servers and (inter)networking.

2004-04-12 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Lisa wrote: Greetings all, It has been a long time since I worked with any unix, and I had a spare pc laying around that hadn't been on in months, so I decided to toss freebsd onto it. The installation went smoothly and I've got it up and running. My next goal is to get it's internet access

Re: ssh root denied

2004-04-12 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
RazorOnFreeBSD wrote: Hi everyone, I have some troubles with ssh I have a Freebsd server 4.9 working in a closet without screen. So I would like to use it through ssh from another station with OpenSSH to configure it when I need it. I can connect with a user login / password, but not with

Re: ssh Connection refused

2004-04-12 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
RazorOnFreeBSD wrote: I have a firewall and it's running. But the outputs for the command ps -auxv | grep sshd are : root93 0.00.430082176??Is6:19PM0:00.16 /usr/sbin/sshd root1680.00.0336 204 v0R+ 6:58PM0:00.01 grep sshd I

Re: Tracerouting

2004-04-10 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jeff Coleman wrote: I have a Dlink 614 + router I use on my network using roadrunner as my isp I am running 5.2 freebsd I installed the MTR package and it can resolve names when it runs Ping works fine, and using Links text browser I can access the net. Traceroute itself however will not resolve

Re: nForce2 Soundstorm on 5.2.1 Release

2004-04-10 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Casey wrote: Hello, snip Also, on a completely unrelated note, how do you get the mouse scroll wheel to work? I've got a Microsoft Optical mouse(PS/2) and while I can use the wheel as a middle button, the scroll function doesn't seem to help. Thank you Casey Hi, Casey! Check the

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! I just decided to take a deep breath and cvsup some fresh ports. Now, having done that I have run 'portupgrade -ar' and constantly found it to stop some problems. Some ports have failed and been flagged as configure error or install error. Then I have tried to do a

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? Because it's a dependancy of about 538 distinct ports, at least one of which you must have installed GNOME, perhaps

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Martin Hudec wrote: Could it be I have made such a basic mistake as to not cvsup'ed a vital dependedcy?! I kind of figured the newly cvsup'ed port of cvsup would have included a new example file of ports-supfile if that had been the problem. One

Re: Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix

2004-04-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
lrnobs wrote: I am setting up a new server so I could just reinstall, but this is a learning opportunity. I was changing the hostname of the computer. In rc.conf I apparently left the leading off the name. BSD doesn't like this. It stops the boot and allows/forces me to a shell. So I found that

Re: Newbie stuck with kernel config (well sysinstall seams to hang)

2004-04-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
David Jones wrote: Hello. Im struggling with my first install of FreeBSD (4.9 from CDROM). I can find my way around the kernel config (visual and cli) but when I quit this, the sysinstall menu appears and my keyboard is dead (reset button doesn't work either). I have tried to supply as much

Re: printing manpages

2004-04-08 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Andrew Elmore wrote: [...] I can't for the life of me figure out how to print a manpage. The closest man man gives me is: -t Use /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual page, passing the output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff -S -man

Re: internet via USB: how to use with FreeBSD?

2004-04-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Rob wrote: Hello, My parents have an internet provider, that uses the TV-cable and connects through the USB port. The provider only has M$-Window$ software provided, and this works now with a single computer. I want to replace this M$-Window$ computer by a FreeBSD router, to start a home

Re: Connect to Internet

2004-04-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Remko Lodder wrote: RazorOnFreeBSD wrote: Hello, I just setup a freebsd box with the 5.1 release to be a gateway/firewall. The installation was smooth and to setup the gateway/firewall with nat a lot of sources are available on Internet. Here is my problem, I can't connect to Internet from

Re: internet via USB: how to use with FreeBSD?

2004-04-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Rob wrote: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Rob wrote: My parents have an internet provider, that uses the TV-cable and connects through the USB port. The provider only has M$-Window$ software provided, and this works now with a single computer. I want to replace this M$-Window$ computer

Re: unintelligible questions from pkgdb -F [ part of 5.2portupgrade hairball ]

2004-04-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jay Moore wrote: On Tuesday 06 April 2004 04:39 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: What this means is that the eel2-2.4.1 port claims to have a dependency on the gtk-2.2.4_1 port, but no such port is installed -- it's listed in the file: snipped some of Matthew's Amazing stuff Amazing! That

Re: Simplest way to block a single IP?

2004-04-04 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
H.Wade Minter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got a system that's sending a ton of referral spam to websites on my RELENG_4_9 system. I'd like to block them from accessing my system at the TCP level. What's the best and easiest way to do this? I assume I'll need to

Re: KVM Switches

2004-04-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Ron wrote: Need information on how to get a KVM switch to work with the FreeBSD mouse driver. The Monitor and keyboard work fine but I have to hook a mouse directly to the box for it to work. Thanks, Ron Martin I've a pair of TrendNet cheapo 2-ports that are doing fine in two different

Re: workaround for the expat problem

2004-04-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
paul beard wrote: If anyone has any ideas what this is all about and how best to cope with it going forward, I'd be grateful to know about it. Thanks. According to /usr/ports/UPDATING: 20040313: AFFECTS: users of textproc/expat2 Users of expat2 (and its

Re: unknown tcp connections to dawsonmail.com

2004-04-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
At 06:44 PM 3/30/2004, Lorin Lund wrote: I have freebsd 5.2 release running on my server. I have apache2 and MySQL installed and running. No other daemons to speak of. Yet my DSL router shows connections to dawsonmail.com. Does anyone have any knowledge or ideas of what might be going on?

Re: Server down regularly

2004-04-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
meimi wrote: Hello, Thanks everyone. Here is the information FreeBSD 4.8 Server specification: PIII1.7GHz 512MB ram 80GB harddisk The server is used for web, mail, dns and databases (mysql and postgresql). Recently, I have recompiled PHP with option curl and openssl added. The server is in

Re: file needed for XFree86

2004-03-31 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im trying to install XFree86 on my i386 FreeBSD 5.2.1 box but there is an error: cc -o xditview -O -pipe -ansi -Dasm=__asm -Wno-system-headers -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -L/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/exports/lib xditview.o Dvi.o draw.o font.o lex.o

Re: Why does favicon.ico show as error in apache log

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
JJB wrote: I do not use this favicon.ico file in my web site, But an small number of the visitors for some reason try to get this file which is not there. This is reported as file error in the analog apache log reports. Can someone explain why some visitor browsers try to get this file, and what

Re: NATd error Message

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
JP wrote: Hey Gang-- I recompiled my kernel to include support for firewall and such. OK, we kinda know what you mean. So I'll kinda give you an answer. You kinda did something wrong ;-) Seriously, exactly what did you add to your kernel config? After creating my rules file, fwrules and

Re: ! why? [original emails enclosed: last post hopefully]

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
__Clint__ wrote: I had no clue when I posted that bug report that I'd be hurting myself more than helping others. It's a shame what the spammers have done to the intrnet. Hopefully tar was at least fixed. A new tar(1), [actually, that was a new GNU tar(1)] was MFC-ed (merged from

Re: The usbdThis daemon

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jason Dusek wrote: Hi All, When my system boots up, it tries to start the 'usbdThis' daemon and then it tries to load the 'This' module along with the Linux ABI stuff. What files do I need to dig in to fix this problem? Just a guess ... something with rc in title, as in /etc/rc.d/*,

Re: NATd error Message

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
JP wrote: --- Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JP wrote: Hey Gang-- I recompiled my kernel to include support for firewall and such. OK, we kinda know what you mean. So I'll kinda give you an answer. You kinda did something wrong

Re: log off with process running

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Augusto Jun Devegili wrote: nohup is a possible solution; check its man page. Example: $ nohup wget http://server/big.iso On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 05:22, Robert Storey wrote: I want to log off and hang up the modem. The question is, how to do so? With the above process running, I can't even

Re: 4.9 minimal install

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
lee slaughter wrote: from mini cd, just for educational purposes. this is known as the base distribution, right? only 123MB. what does one do next? /usr/ports isn't even there. there is no discussion in handbook. thanks. This has been discussed rather extensively, on this list, over the past

Anyone using dual-Sendmail + Amavis? Startup...

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Hello, Is anyone using Amavis with the dual-Sendmail setup? If so, how are you starting two daemons? (And amavisd, for that matter ...) I'm assuming I'm going to have to do some magic with /etc/rc.conf? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need assitance installin FreeBSD

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jerry McAllister wrote: I downloaded the mini FreeBSD for this little pc i have, but im not sure what files to put on cd. Could you please give me a hand? the attached pic is what was unziped. Thank you -Chris No attached PIC. Yup. Maybe it was stripped automagically --- that'd

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