FreeBSD4 COMPAT

what if I don't compile FreeBSD4 into the FreeBSD5 kernel? do I wind up with problems in the ports?? TIA reed ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

pf

I thought I read in the CURRENT docs somewhere that pf was going to be the default packet filter. Was I hallucinating? Anyone seen it? Also anyone using pf on FreeBSD 5.x? Is it fully implemented? is it as solid as ipfilter? I have never used ipfw or ipfw2 so please don't refer to them

dspam

Anyone here use dspam? I posted to the dspam maillist but apparen;ty noone is lurking there today. FreeBSD 5.2.1 maildrop 1.6.3 dspam 2.10.6 I had maildrop delivering fine. Then I built dspam from the ports and modified postfix main.cf to read: mailbox_command = /usr/local/bin/dspam --user

Re: freebsd- Newby question

I am trying to learn unix. I need a recommendation for a good beginers book (eg: Unix for dummies) AbsoluteBSD by MICHAEL LUCAS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: limiting where a user can log in from

Please Please PLEASE DO NOT answer the questions below. In fact PLEASE never ask such questions again. Thomas Farrell wrote: What is the ip address of this server? and what accounts have no passwords? you may want to take a look at the file /etc/hosts.allow - Original Message - From: dave

incremental tar question

FreeBSD 5.2.1 I am using the folowing to backup saturday tar -jcf etc.bz2 /etc /usr/local/etc in /bak/saturday. I would like to do an incremental on monday (et al) in /bak/monday (et al) tar -cf etc.bz2 /etc/ /usr/local/etc/ -g /bak/saturday/etc.bz2 Is this the correct format? I cannot get it to

Re: which version?

If you aren't using it as a production machine you may as well start with the 5.x, 5.2.1 right now, as it could use a larger test base on the road to stable. cheers, reed stanisaw gsior wrote: hi which version will be good to my comp.plizz help me.

Re: UFS2 and ufs2 documentation ?

Mr. Schmoe I am sure I sent this but never saw it post to the list; so I try again. http://sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net/jeroen/faq.html cheers, reed Joe Schmoe wrote: Quick question - when I run `mount` or view /etc/fstab in fbsd 5.x, I just see ufs as the filesystem type. How can I get some kind

Re: Booting with Grub

in grub.conf # if it is default default 0 # how long to wait usually with default timeout 5 #title title FreeBSD #root location first on my disk here root (hd0,0,e) #kernel kernel /boot/loader # or if grub already exists and is working for WXP and Linux... # I last did it like so # FSBD 4.5 with

Re: Booting with Grub (correction)

I shouldlspecify that AFAIK the first listing is the 'old' way which still works and with multiple *BSD the second is the 'new' way that works with FBSD and maybe OBSD IIRC. cheersm reed Reed L. O'Brien wrote: in grub.conf # if it is default default 0 # how long to wait usually with default

Re: Adding FBSD to existing GRUB

I think you want something like title FreeBSD 5.x rootnoverify root (hd0,2,c) ## or e or something I think c tells it to maunt the whole slice... or is it e I think it is e chainloader +1 ## this is the new way I think. I think kernel /boot/loader is old (but prolly still works) cheers,