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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Updating local copy of documentation

2004-08-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Tom Munro Glass wrote: When you install FreeBSD, lots of useful documentation is installed in the articles and books directories under /usr/share/doc/ including the essential handbook. Is there a way of automatically updating this documentation - I thought that maybe this was done as a part of

Re: installation of FreeBSD 4.10 on Dell PowerEdge 650 fails after reboot with mountroot

2004-08-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Spumonti wrote: snip The disk is a Seagate 120GB and it's actually ad4, not ad0. If I interrupt the boot process at: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: and enter: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: 0:ad(4,a)/kernel the machine will boot properly.

Re: Setting environmental variable for Netbeans

2004-08-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Peter Ryan wrote: I am treading more unknown ground trying to get NetBeans to run on 4.10. I installed jdk 1.4.2 (thanks to help from here), and have installed this Netbeans via the ports collection. Now when i try to run it, it wants an environmental variable called JDK_HOME to be set. Using

Re: MUSIC SERVER.

2004-08-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
vincent kihumba wrote: Dear Sir/Madam I am a university student and i wanted to know from you that is it possible to store music in a server? To be more precise, Is it possible that you have a server that is only desighned for storage of music only? I hope that my request will be consindered as

Re: FreeBSD's problem?

2004-08-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Skylar Thompson wrote: On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:37:50PM +0300, Vlad Tudorache wrote: Hello! I've been using Linux for 2 years and I know how to configure this system (not using GUI tools!). I'm now trying FreeBSD. My problems are: 1) If I enable ACPI, my floppy disk controller is not seen by

Re: does a working driver exist for the nForce2 MCP nic?

2004-08-10 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:16:16 -0700 (PDT) stheg olloydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Out of general principle, I would like to get the onboard NIC working on an MSI K7N2 Delta-L mobo. I have checked the archives and googled this issue. I found A LOT of discussion. To sum

Re: Clock problems [fixed len]

2004-08-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Dark-MiXer wrote: Hello, Im having problems with the clock on my FreeBSD 5.1-Release, and as a newbie in that area I dont have a clue on what could be wrong. The problem is, that it count too fast. It seem like it's counting 2 times the speed it should. The FreeBSD is running on an old Gigabyte

Re: Monitor Disk Usage (Unusual Load Avgs)

2004-08-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Steven Adams wrote: Hi, Server specs Dual p4 xeon 2.4 (4virtual cpus) 1gig ecc ram 5x 36gig 10k rpm scsi on a ami megaraid I only host a few web sites on this server which at the most peak hour of times there is only about 6-7%cpu usage. For some reason my load avg's will jump from 0.05 to 0.98

Re: Updating Emacs without installing X?

2004-08-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Your Name wrote: i have a server that's running FreeBSD 4.7 and the security patches are up to date but most software hasn't been upgraded in a long time. im trying to do some basic maintenance and there are some problems. First i want to upgrade Emacs from an older version, but when i try to do

Re: Acrobat Reader 4 on alpha?

2004-08-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, When I had 4.7-RELEASE running on my alpha I had acroread4 installed. Now I run 4.10-RELEASE but Acroread4 isn't in the ports anymore. I have Acroread3 installed but this version is very old and can't display some pdf's correctly. Unfortunately version 5 is i386 only.

Re: Is promiscuous mode bad?

2004-08-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Aaron Dalton wrote: Thank you so much for your replies! This makes much more sense now. I am currently running Snort. I will examine its documentation to see if promiscuous mode is really necessary. It is. In the meantime, am I correct in assuming the only threat is from local users?

Re: Frequent crashes with Mozilla and Firefox

2004-08-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Doug Poland wrote: Joshua Tinnin wrote: Two sites that failed consistently for me were http://www.pga.com and http://www.statefarm.com The browser versions are Mozilla 1.7.2 Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3 Both versions were built from ports the day after the port was committed. All other ports are

Re: 802.1x

2004-08-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Cubicool wrote: Anyways, again, sorry for the bumpage, but I have another complete day off and if I can find out that FreeBSD doesn't support it yet, I'm going to try and spend this time finding an alternative solution. If, however, support will be added soon, I won't reformat and I'll just go

Re: Nightly cron message question

2004-08-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jason Lieurance wrote: Hello, Late couple days on our Freebsd 4.7 email/web server I've got this message in the nightly cron jobs: Checking setuid files and devices: Checking for uids of 0: root 0 toor 0 You have this line: # 300.chkuid0 daily_status_security_chkuid0_enable=YES set in

Re: help !!!!!

2004-08-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
indunil wrote: Hi, I installed FREEBSD 5.2.1. I can telnet to Free BSD box from Windows 2000 client. I can telnet to it with my USERNAME and PASSWORD. Then I want to be root. So I issue SU - ( or SU - root). then FreeBSD box asks me the password (root's password ). when I give root's password,

Re: How to Build a Custom Port Tree

2004-08-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Abid Saigol wrote: I am a newbie to FreeBSD Welcome! I'm using an old machine right now with limited disk space, so I don't want to install the entire ports collection. I want to build a custom port tree, and I'm finding the docs to be a bit silent on this account as I guess nowadays disk

Re: make installworld error

2004-08-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Curtis Vaughan wrote: After going through a cvsup make buildworld make kernel reboot I am now on make installworld A little too quickly, it seems. I had to do a mergemaster -p in order to get make installworld to run, And the reason for that you may see in a minute ... but finally after seemingly

Re: File Manager

2004-08-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Emon wrote: Hello everyone I am a newbie, I have just installed FreeBSD(4.10), and would appreciate some guidance. First of all, is there any user friendly File Manager like Midnight Commander (or anything else)? Welcome to FBSD. If you've installed the ports tree, try this from a shell prompt:

Re: Root mount failed: 6

2004-08-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Abbas Karbassian wrote: Dear All; I install freebsd4.10 it was working ok before. Recently I tried to boot into freebsd and following message displayed on the monitor: --Start of Message Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a Root mount failed: 6 Manual root filesystem

Re: stale dependencies

2004-08-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mark Withers wrote: Hello everyone! I've been using FBSD for a few years now, but am not sure as to what a 'stale dependency' is... I am receiving an error message with ymessenger pkg that it has stale dependencies and to use 'pkgdb -F' to fix or -O to force. I'm a bit inexperienced when it comes

Re: Newbie Install Question: No Disks!

2004-08-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm using an old Gateway Pentium 90mhz, w/ 72MB of RAM - I don't actually know what kind of controller, but there is a second hard drive (Western Digital IDE) in the computer. I made the boot floppies for release 4.10 as indicated in the handbook and so on, and I

Re: Network Routing Problems???

2004-08-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: I am having problems getting a connection to my FreeBSD gateway from my Mandrake 10 Linux Machine. I am able to ping, traceroute, ssh etc. the linux box from my freeBSD machine however I am not able to ping the gateway. What could be the problem, this is my configuration:

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jay O'Brien wrote: I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is a mess. This is a tutorial on make. I've unzipped the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file.

Re: XFree86 -- next step?

2004-08-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jay O'Brien wrote: I finally have XFree86 working, at least to the point that I can type X and get the expected grid and X mouse cursor. That in itself doesn't seem very useful, but it works. As a learning exercise, which Desktop environment should I install as a first effort, and how do I run

Re: Installing ports

2004-08-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm in trouble with installing software using the ports collection. After typing make install everything seems to be okay, but in most cases I get a message like this after a few minutes: fetch time out It seemed to me that the mirror

Re: kernel compile

2004-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Cristi Tauber wrote: hi all, I compile a 5.2.1 release's kernel with IPFIREWALL and IPSEC (? IPSEC_ESP). I compiled the kernel w/o errors i rebooted and everything works great. I mention that I do not installed any IPSEC software at that time. I downloaded qmail ? ucspi and try to

Re: cvsup

2004-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Curtis Vaughan wrote: BTW, how come I can't scroll on the terminal. You can't? In Linux I am used to using PGUP and PGDN in order to scroll up and down my terminal. Works in FreeBSD, also. I can't figure out that functionality under FreeBSD. Even under bash this doesn't work. (NB. I am not

Re: 4.8 4.10 successful. Now 5.x?

2004-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Ok, it looks as though cvsup from 4.8 to 4.10 has been successful. Now, first off I want to say that I want this server to be a second Postfix / Courier IMAP server (our other is on a RedHat server, but that's irrelevant). I feel that I should go ahead and first upgrade to

Re: FreeBSD architecture

2004-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Riki wrote: Hi, I would like to know if FreeBSD could work on my PC. I noticed a lot of stuff about supported architectures, but that isn't my language yet and I can't tell if my computer fits into one of them or not. I would really appreciate your assistance. I have a pentium 4, intell

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 and TCP

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
wilsonb wrote: Good Morning, My name is Brian Wilson and I am currently studying computer science honours at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg South Africa. As part of our honours course we have to conduct some small scale research projects. A number of us are in the position of

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been answered previously, but please forgive me if

Re: Can you e-mail me the minimal requirements for FreeBSD?

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Douglas Blancahrd wrote: Yes, I need a list of minimal requirements for FreeMSD, Do you mean FreeBSD? ;-) including amount of video card memory or whatever it's called, Well, video card memory is video card memory. It sounds as if you're expecting a Windows-like recommended minimum hardware

Re: Can't upgrade from 5.2.1-p9 to 5.3-BETA1, wrong configversion!what to do?

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joel [Alikzus] Nilsson wrote: [fixed overlong lines] Hi! As my long subject says I can't upgrade from 5.2.1-p9 to 5.3-BETA1 (Source CVSuped with RELENG_5 tag). When I tries to build the kernel I got the error message beneth, telling me I got the wrong version of config. How can I upgrade just

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:28 am, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unlike the system crontab, user crontabs, including root's, are under /var/cron; the file format is slightly different, and misuse of the system crontab for regular jobs

Re: Messed up port updating (Was Re: Updated to 4.10, now portupgrade?)

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Ok, first off I didn't follow the instructions above verbatim. What I did do is copy ports-supfile, edited it, and perform a cvsup using it. All it seemed to do, however, is delete everything in the ports directory. Here's how I edited my ports-supfile *default

Re: editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:04:08PM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi typed: A couple of people suggested to read the ifconfig man page. I do understand the ifconfig, and I can change the IP settings using ifconfig without re-booting the system. What I wondered was a way of editing

Re: vi editor related question

2004-08-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: Hi, I edit C++ codes with a certain text editor under Windows XP, and then I open the C++ codes using vi editor under FreeBSD. Then, there are bunch of ^M sign at the end of each line. Does anyone know why this is happening? Microsoft has chosen (for a long time now) to

Re: FreeBSD

2004-08-29 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:01:13 +0200, falko klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD-Team, I am looking for somebody officially representing FreeBSD for a short e-mail-interview. As a background: I am student at Faculty of Management in Ingolstadt, writing my final thesis about

Re: finding the ip address

2004-08-29 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Matt Emmerton wrote: I'm messing with ubermon for superkaramba and I want to know how to get my hosts ip address from the command line (and only the ip address). I know I can grep and sed rc.conf or the output of ifconfig, but I'm hoping there's a command like whoami for the ip address.

Re: finding the ip address

2004-08-29 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Matt Emmerton wrote: I'm messing with ubermon for superkaramba and I want to know how to get my hosts ip address from the command line (and only the ip address). I know I can grep and sed rc.conf or the output of ifconfig, but I'm hoping there's a command

Re: xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop

2004-08-29 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Vaughan Moore wrote: I'm a complete newbie and I'm trying to set up X server on a Toshiba Satellite pro 4620dvd laptop. Everytime I run through xf86cfg or xf86cfg -textmode I get the error message The XFree86 configuration process seems to have failed. Would you like to try again? Obviously,

Re: Unsupported 3Com NIC? (dsl Was: Question)

2004-08-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
A W wrote: Hello, i am attempting to try FreeBsd on a very old computer, unfortunatly it does not have any cd drive. And i do not know which files to install. Leaving me with only 1 choice to use FTP servers but the problem is the version of FreeBsd that i've tried does not support the

Re: Hardware Recommendations (UK)

2004-09-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Graham Bentley wrote: Hi Can anyone recommend a good solid mobo for building a little web server ? Most brands have a reputation. Select one whose reputation is good. ;-) I have FreeBSD running on several mobos --- recently, builds have been FreeBSD 5.x on MSI and Shuttle (AK32V, IIRC). A

Re: 5.1, 5.2, or 5.3???

2004-09-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Charles Swiger wrote: If you can wait two weeks, 5.3 will become the preferred choice. I'd say that's about the size of it. And, for anyone who has to deploy immediately, I keep hearing the song in my head The Waiting is the hardest part... Now is the time for plenty of spare HDD, perhaps.

Re: Unable to boot after install, machine just reboots continuously

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Scott Pepperdine wrote: Hi all, I am attempting to load FreeBSD 4.9 from CD onto a Micron Millenia XKU (Pentium II, 300 MHz, 390 MB RAM). The install runs very smoothly and completes successfully. But when I attempt to boot from the hard drive it just reboots. If I tell the install to replace

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Andy Holyer wrote: The other day I was explaining something to my boss (a suit), You're a patient one, then ... and I mentioned that a FreeBSD box would easily run for a year or more. Oh, he said, and then you've got to reboot it?. I explained that generally some upgrade comes along that

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Robert Huff wrote: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes: IIRC, Netcraft now claims that most new FreeBSD builds reset to zero after 400-something days, so some of their statistics may be no longer as valid... From the NetCraft FAQ: Why do some Operating Systems never show uptimes above

Re: getting off windows

2004-09-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
David Litster wrote: I have a windows machine and I am trying to figure out how to replace the windows with freebsd. how do I do this? Read, read, read: www.freebsd.org/handbook Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: ftp-master.FreeBSD.org

2004-09-04 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Chris Ryan wrote: Hi All I am a keen freeBSD user. I love rebuilding the kernel / upgrading looking at where its going next... The concepts being released in 5.3 are great including the windows drivers hooks... I am keen to help out where I can. How can I get access to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org to

Re: ftp-master.FreeBSD.org

2004-09-04 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Lewis Thompson wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 03:53:48AM +1000, Chris Ryan wrote: How can I get access to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org to help with testing? I think you might be getting confused. If you want to help with testing you want to be tracking -STABLE (or maybe even -HEAD). Reading

Re: Name Lookup fail for cvsup.freebsd.org

2004-09-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Huajian Luo wrote: Hi, I have a Compaq Evo N610c Laptop and installed with 5.2.1 release, The Modem is a Lucent winmodem , I've installed comm/ltmdm and config /etc/ppp/ppp.conf as follow, --/etc/ppp/ppp.conf- enable dns and I run #ppp -ddial myISP and check /var/log/ppp/log

Re: ipfw question

2003-11-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Shawn Guillemette wrote: Looking at ipfw show 630000 0 deny log logamount 100 udp from any to any 119 via sis0 63000 24 1152 deny log logamount 100 tcp from any to any 135 via sis0 630000 0 deny log logamount 100 udp from any to any 135 via sis0 63000 is the rule

Re: portupgrade -arR

2003-11-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
William O'Higgins wrote: Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: portupgrade -arR It's been running for 15 hours or so now, and I'm wondering how much longer it is likely to take? I realize that that depends grin /, but I've love some anecdotal hints if anyone's got

Re: What should i do?

2003-11-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Valerian Galeru wrote: i installed blackbox, a simple window manager. Cool. It doesnt have any web browser in it. That's because it's a 'window manager'. AFAIK, the only way to install a 'window manager' and get a browser in the process is to install a complete environment such as Gnome or

Re: statvfs.h

2003-11-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
M.D. DeWar wrote: were do yo u get header files ? or can't you ? I am trying to load a webmin module and it needs some perl modules and one filesys::statvfs needs the header file statsvfs.h and I donthave it. thanks mark #find / -name statvfs.h -print /usr/include/sys/statvfs.h

Re: statvfs.h

2003-11-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
SWIT wrote: From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: M.D. DeWar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: Re: statvfs.h M.D. DeWar wrote: were do yo u get header files ? or can't you ? I am trying to load a webmin module

Re: RELENG_4_8 to RELENG_4_9 question

2003-11-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bryan Cassidy wrote: I am currently using FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE and I did a cvsup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile to a RELENG_4_8. I haven't done a build/install world and finished the update of the system. What I'm wondering is sence I did a cvsup to the latest security patches etc for

Re: quick question about turning the annoying beep off in X

2003-11-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
twig les wrote: Hey all, in my /etc/csh.cshrc I have xset b off which does what I want, which is to tell X to shut up without me having to type the command in every X session. But it seems clumsy as it puts up an error xset: unable to open display when I ssh in. I fully understand that this

Re: File permission question

2003-11-14 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
How Can ThisBe wrote: Hi, I've just noticed a small issue, which I'm sure others are aware of. For apache to server users webpages, apache need to be able to read files and directories. So we have something like the following (by default) on FreeBSD; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% ls -Al ./

Re: PHP.ini

2003-11-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Ian Barnes wrote: Hi, I appologise for duplicate posting. I forgot to attach the file I am having problems parsing php variables. say now i goto http://www.testdomain.com/index.php?news=TODAY its not carrying the news=TODAY variable to the next page. I have gone through my php.ini file and i

Re: Which Firewall ...

2003-11-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi Everybody , I'm linux admin . Now I'm working to pass my server to FreeBSD .. I'm using iptable on Linux box . on FreeBSD which firewall do you advise ?! I can't find any documents or How-to about ip-fw .. Do you have ?! Thanks Vahric MUHTARYAN Not an

Re: Opera

2003-11-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Valerian Galeru wrote: When i go to www.freebsd.org/ports and search for opera i find opera-7.22.20031103. When i go to ftp.freebsd.org with sysinstall i cant see that package... And then, if www.freebsd.org/ports finds the package, where i can take it from ( it could be downloaded from a web

Re: Make Problem

2003-11-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
BlackCat Hack Palace Admin wrote: I do: cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine make but it began to write me that local modification time doesnt match the remote ? What can I do ? thx Not sure, exactly, but have your checked your system time? Your mail is dated 11 months ago... KDK

Re: New CPU

2003-11-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Rafi Lurman wrote: Hi, I currently have FBSD 4.9 on a Celeron 950MHZ system. I plan to replace both the motherboard and CPU on it to a 1.2GHZ AMD ATHLON. Will I run into any problems if I did this? It's the same architecture. Would I have to compile all my ports again under the new Athlon?

Re: Call me stupid...

2003-11-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Gary Lum wrote: I've just built a new BSD box 5.1 and recompiled the kernel for SMP and firewalling. I was working on getting CVSUP working and used cvsupit to generate the supfile. Somehow, Prolly cause I didn't RTFM, I missed that the default tag . would get me FREEBSD-Current. I then started

Re: Please help me: Opera installing

2003-11-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Valerian Galeru wrote: Now I have /usr/ports. I go to /www/opera and run make install. I get this:fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/opera-7.20-20030919.1-static-qt.i386.freebsd.tar.bz2: File unavailable Couldn't fetch it- please try to retrieve this port manually into

Re: check NIC status command

2003-11-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Peter Kok wrote: Hi all What command in freebsd I can check the NIC status (full duplex or not)? I made it in the rc.conf and force NIC in full duplex but why it can't communiate to linux as full duplex when using cross cable? In linux, there is mii-tools Thank you #ifconfig xl0:

Re: Weird Problem...

2003-11-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Peter Elsner wrote: Okay, I have a really weird problem. Running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE (just installed it from CD). It's a basic gateway setup with 2 NIC cards. I've done this set up a hundred times and have never seen this before. DSL modem (with static IP address) goes into one NIC card (dc0).

Re: How do I set up a firewall with minimal disk access?

2003-11-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I'm hoping to use an old laptop for a dialup firewall. I'd like to leave it always on as part of the network, but I don't want it to have the HD running all the time. If possible, I'd like it to work almost completely without the drive. How could I do this?

Re: need info on hostname

2003-11-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Quid pro quo: I'm not an expert, and don't play one on TV. fbsd_user wrote: During the install you are asked for the host name which adds the following line to rc.conf. hostname=gateway.homepc.com What does FBSD use this for? DNS? Same stuff as any other system, with the possible exception

Re: a good way to save a keystroke?

2003-11-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Marty Landman wrote: At 08:40 PM 11/21/2003, Scott W wrote: So yep, it's doing what you want, the way you wanted to...use something similar fairly often myself, although note that the 'current' standard for executing commands is now $(cmd), eg more $(which apachectl) I get FreeB more

Re: Total newbie: What's after installation?

2003-11-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[cross-posted in attempt to change forums] Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: Hi, It's my first time using FreeBSD so wish me luck! :) I installed the OS, logged on as root and I have now the prompt in front of me, now what? I installed Gnome but the system didn't reboot using the Gnome interface.

Re: FBSD web site man lookup ipfilter

2003-11-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
fbsd_user wrote: IPFILTER is built into the base release of FBSD. I can do (man ipf) or (man ipnat) on a fresh install of FBSD and get the manual info. But when I go to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi to look up the manuals on ipfilter they are all missing. Is there some good reason for this,

Re: questions to decide

2003-11-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello, I want to install a new operating system in to my new notebook. I don't want to install any microsoft operating system, and I was asking myself what operating system could I install, but I'm not sure now. Well, on this list people are going to (wisely) tell

Re: First time 5.1 install

2003-11-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Trey Sizemore wrote: Doing a first time install of 5.1. The ports packages look comprehensive and very up-to-date. I'm coming from the linux world, having used it exclusively for the past year. I have the manual and will certainly read it before perfoming the install to hopefully make the

Re: Upload site question...

2003-11-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Xpression wrote: Hi list, I've a server running FreeBSD-4.8 with Apache-2.0.48, I've a site hosted and many user who develop their sites wants to upload and update their sites without my assist...Anyone knows any method to upload the files to the server ??? They have /nologin on

Re: Block IP

2003-11-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Cordula's Web wrote: Can I block a certain IP address at the machine or interface level using freebsd? (No at the Apache or Sendmail level). Quick and dirty fix: # route add 1.2.3.4 127.0.0.1 All ACKs to 1.2.3.4 would not be able to reach their destination, and no TCP connections could be

Re: crontab

2003-11-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Chris wrote: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a number of scripts that run every night using a crontab. In my crontab file I'm using the MAILTO flag to get cron to email me every time it runs which results in a lot of emails. Is there any way

Re: how 'which'?

2003-11-29 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Marty Landman wrote: I just installed joe from the ports collection and can run it fine from /usr/local/bin/joe. What puzzles me is that I get a null response to 'which joe'. What am I not understanding here? Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership

Re: Questions about updating...

2003-12-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
rotten rottie wrote: I am a linux user that wants to switch to freebsd... I am a bit confused about applying updates etc.. I installed a box for trial it was 5.1, I wanted to see if I could use ports to update openssh for a test examp. After the port installed I noticed that another version of

Re: Obtaining the unix o/s

2003-12-04 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Dominick DiMantova wrote: Hello, My name is Dominick DiMantova and I have a question, or two: 1. what is the difference in either purchasing the media or downloading the software? If I want to download the software, when I go to one of the ftp sites, I'm looking at the ste with alot of

Re: ls and color

2003-12-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mike Maltese wrote: Is there a how to on making ls show colors or a web pages. Thanks. Well., there's ls -G, but you could have found that in the man page, right? ls is not a web browser. Try www/lynx. if you want to grab a web page, try fetch or ftp/wget. I think the OP meant is there

Re:

2003-12-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
-Mark Hillis- (Netway Technical Support) wrote: Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.8 installed on my 400mhz amd with 256mb ram (this is probably useless info) I was wondering how I install packages like emacs? are they on the CD? can I choose them from the install menu? the reason I ask is because I

Re: which tool for a screenshot?

2003-12-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Which tool is best (easiest) to capture screenshots to be included in an HTML file? I need to capture several screen of a web app for a tutorial I've been writing. Merci d'avance, guys! gary I forget what desktop environment you said you're using (or even

Re: SUNRays

2003-12-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
cloper wrote: I have a few SUNRay thin clients that I would like to use on something other than Solaris. Has anyone successfully used these under BSD? Does anyone have any ideas what so ever? Thanks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No experience here. Not much ideas, either, but the list is a bit slow today,

Re: which tool for a screenshot?

2003-12-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:42:33PM +0100, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 21:28, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Which tool is best (easiest) to capture screenshots to be included in an HTML file? I need to capture several screen of a web app for

Re: home/end keys in pico

2003-12-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can any tell me how to get pico to recognize these keys. So far I have not been able to figure out how / pico this is possible using bindkey. My last attempt: cat .cshrc bindkey \e[1~ beginning-of-line # Home bindkey \e[4~ end-of-line# End Every other app works

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