I'm writing a review of FBSD for a well-known web site (I'll let you know when
it's posted - probably tomorrow). Anyway, I'm looking for a few FBSD graphics to
dress up the page - Beastie is the likely candidate. I don't need much, one or
two images will be sufficient. Can anyone suggest a source
I wanted to do some experimenting with ipfilter, and strangely, I can't figure
out how to install it.
It doesn't seem to be installed. If I do which ipfilter or man ipfilter,
there's no indication of its existence. I tried locate ipfilter, I do find
this:
/usr/share/examples/ipfilter
Hmmm...strange happenings here...
I tried installing fwbuilder (a tool for building firewalls - works with
ipfilter and pf) from ports. This is the first time I've seen this sort of
error...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/security/fwbuilder make
fwbuilder-1.0.11.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist
Dear Warren,
I followed your advice about compiling Links so that it could run in graphics
mode without X.
This is REALLY COOL - one of the best tips I've received in a long time, and I
thank you for it. However, I've run into one little glitch. As root, it works
fine, but as a regular user,
I'd suggest first testing it with a live CD (either FreeBSD or Linux) just to
eliminate the possibility of a software problem. If it's definitely hardware, a
possible cheap/temporary fix would be an external keyboard. As for repairing a
hardware problem, if a replacement keyboard didn't solve it,
On my system I have several Linux distros installed in the extended partition,
and FBSD 5.2 shows slices as high as /dev/ad0s9. I am able to mount all of these
with mount_ext2fs. Whether or not it is possible to mount msdos extended
partitions, I can't say, since I don't have any installed on my
Is anyone remotely interested in this?
Yes, for the reasons mentioned below, and strictly for practical personal use
because I'd love to be able to share data between FreeBSD and Linux ;)
Right now, FBSD offers the option to mount ext2 if you've compiled that into the
kernel - I'd be
On Wed, 12 May 2004 10:19:11 -0400
Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Specifically to a Brother MFC3820cn -
http://solutions.brother.com/mfc3820cn_us/en_us/
Im currently trying to print to it via CUPS, but Im getting nowhere fast.
Has anyone ever attempted to print to this unit via the
I've tried LILO for multi-boot Windows/Linux/FBSD, and have found it to be a
headache. You're better off with GRUB, in my opinion. A decent introductory
article about GRUB can be found here:
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue85/4622.html
regards,
Robert
On Thu, 6 May 2004 12:00:47
Is there any way to get links -g to run without starting X? If I run
it in an Xterm, it's fine, but at the console it just exits with an error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ links -g
Could not initialize any graphics driver. Tried the following drivers:
x:
Can't open display (null)
Would be nice
Dear Kai,
This problem can be solved by making file /usr/bin/lp* non-executable, like
this:
chmod -x /usr/bin/lp*
regards,
Robert
On Sat, 08 May 2004 18:55:54 +0200
Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The default setup is to include /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin in
$PATH. This
On Fri, 14 May 2004 14:57:53 -0400
Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have installed ProFTPd from the ports collection on a FBSD 5.2.1
system. The only problem is, it doesn't start up. I know I have to set /
change the ftp line in the
/etc/inetd.conf
i also have setup a user account
Unless you're really short of hard disk space, I'd say that this is a bad idea.
Multiple partitions give added stability and security.
The sole disadvantage of using multiple partitions is that you might not
allocate enough space on one particular partition and so it could fill up -
therefore,
On Mon, 17 May 2004 01:00:37 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has there been any new work on the installer or planned? If not, I would like
to help... What about graphical?
If you're looking to improve FreeBSD's user-friendliness, more usefual than a
GUI installer would be a few network setup
On Sat, 22 May 2004 12:54:29 +0200
platanthera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 21 May 2004 17:49, platanthera wrote:
hi all,
I want to move my home directory to a gbde encrypted partition.
I plan to have only the default dotfiles in /home/xxx (before
mounting the encrypted
I'm not an expert on Postfix or any other MTA, but it might be that your
logs are displaying headers or attachments with high-order ASCII text
used by non-Roman scripts (Chinese, Korean and Japanese would be good
examples).
I have some files from Chinese Windows (Word docs and html) and when I
2) When installing FreeBSD, sysinstall warns that a geometry of the
first drive (1) as it detects it (77545/16/63) is incorrect and
can't be used. It automatically replaces the values with
4865/255/63. The problem is that after replacing the geometry with
4865/255/63 the number of LBA
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:58:13 +0800
Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I would like to add a new user into my system.
I simply execute the vipw command from the remote machine.
No matter how I execute vipw as root or sudo vipw, the system shows
the error message to me.
i.e. I execute
If your users want a GUI client and they run Linux or *BSD, then they
can easily configure Gftp to use sftp rather than ftp. In this scenario,
you don't need to run Pureftp on your server - sftp (which uses the sshd
daemon) will do the whole job.
In Gftp, you set this up by clicking
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:10:48 +0100
Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is very scary, but thanks for the advice. I had some more advice
(not sure if it went to the list or not) to try setting the second
partition as unused (sysid=0), so I might try that first to see
whether I can avoid
I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my
system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I
correct this? Any good reading material?
FreeBSD will defragment itself without any action from the user.
However, defragmentation requires some blank space,
I'm surprised no one's mentioned this yet, but one way to significantly
reduce power consumption is to downclock the processor. Yes, that
reduces performance, but chances are you won't even notice it unless
you're running the server under a heavy load. You said your network
consists of two
I recently purchased a new laptop, an IBM X31 ThinkPad, which uses the Centrino
processor. I had high expectations for this machine.
Alas, my expectations have been shattered. All attempts at installing FreeBSD 5.2.1
quickly end with a crash. Interestingly, I have an old FBSD 4.8 CD - that
, what I can say is that with the configuration I have, I
can access my internal (ethernet) network, but ppp is totally blocked,
which of course I don't want.
Below are the configuration settings I've made, and the results I get. I
hope that somebody can help.
best regards,
Robert Storey
FROM /etc
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:52:40 -0400
Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could you be more specific about what doesn't work? Have you tried
ping and traceroute? nslookup? HTTP? Sometimes when people are having
trouble, it turns out that they are having trouble with specific apps,
but otherwise
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:49:50 -0400
yo _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The DFE-530TX and DFE-530TX+ use different ethernet chipsets. The
D-Link
I used to have a DFE-530TX. It requires the via-rhine driver (vr in FBSD
lingo).
regards,
Robert
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[EMAIL
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:56:07 -0400
Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another poster pointed out, and I seconded, that you need to set up
NAT. There was no divert rule in your previous rule list, and you
haven't mentioned setting up NAT, so I assume you still haven't done
it. Without NAT,
In the continuing saga of my firewall configuration...
One kind member of this list suggested I must compile this into my
kernel:
options IPDIVERT
So I did that, and it made a difference though it didn't solve the
problem. Previously, whenever I started ppp, if I attempted to ping I
would
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:33:30 -0600 (MDT)
Jeremy Pavleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi gang,
I was looking at purchasing a jukebox recently for a poolhall. When
all is said and done, I found a refurbished 100 cd jukebox which I
thought was really nice, until I heard the price - $4500. This is
Dear All,
For awhile now I've been using a Linux/Unix program called Mailfilter,
and it is SUPERB. It has solved my problems with the continuous
bombardment of Windows viruses that pour into my inbox. Unlike Procmail,
Mailfilter deletes the garbage on the mail server, so you don't have to
I'm setting up an anonymous ftp server. I understand that a user named
ftp can log in without a password, and that anonymous is an alias
for user ftp. What I'm wondering is if it is possible to assign other
aliases for ftp, let us say user aardvark or scary.daemon whatever?
How would I go about
Use the chainloader command to start FBSD, like this:
root (hd0,2,a)
chainloader +1
boot
best regards,
Robert
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 01:42:02 -0300
Roy Fokker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, i have installed in my computer FBSD 5.1, and RH9. The thing
is, when i try to get GRUB to
I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used FBSD
or even Linux, they are 100% Windows. They are interested in letting their students
gain experience with non-Windows software. So I need to prove to them that FBSD can
work, but I've run into a major obstacle.
I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used FBSD
or even Linux, they are 100% Windows. They are interested in letting their students
gain experience with non-Windows software. So I need to prove to them that FBSD can
work, but I've run into a major obstacle.
Dear All,
Thanks to everyone (8 persons so far) who replied to my question - I
greatly appreciate the help. Yes, I believe that the problem must be a
Windows proxy server - it's a school, and if I'm not mistaken, a proxy
server can be configured to block pornographic web sites (correct me if
I'm
You must add this line to the kernel and recompile:
options EXT2FS
regards,
Robert
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:22:28 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I mount ext2 under FreeBSD 5.2?
I use this command:
mount_ext2fs /dev/ad1s3 /mnt
and the reply with error:
Yes, I too have encountered the geometry bug a number of times on
different machines, and for awhile it put me off to using FreeBSD. Then
I discovered that if you just hit g during the partitioning process,
it finds the correct geometry and you can continue with the
installation. At least, this
I've decided to install proftpd from ports since (it is said) to be more
robust than the FBSD ftpd daemon.
I went to /usr/ports/ftp/proftpd. The port downloaded, compiled, and
appeared to install correctly. I edited /etc/rc.conf to make sure that
the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/proftpd.sh would run at
Thanks to those who responded. Manually creating the directory
/var/run/proftpd did indeed solve the problem, and yes, the man page is
incorrect as it suggests /var/run/run/proftpd.
best regards,
Robert
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 09:25:19 -0500
Paul Mather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with
I assume you're talking about configuring X for 32-bit color. If that's
the case, you need to add a line in the Screen section of
/etc/X11/XF86Config like this:
DefaultDepth 32
Be sure that your card supports this depth before enabling it.
regards,
Robert
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:14:21 -0800
The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my
rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on
these two would be awesome. Thanks.
I have not been successfule with that sort of thing. Anyway, I
don't think just putting it in rc.conf would do
I personally like the following one (because no matter where you are, it
will show you the working directory as well as who is logged in). Put
this into .bashrc...
PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w
export PS1
regards,
Robert
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing
I've set up a FreeBSD client at our school. The client gets its address
via dhcp from the gateway machine which runs Windows NT (yuch!). There
is apparently a proxy server installed which blocks http, but I can get
out onto the Internet using ssh to login to another server, from where I
run lynx
I have found that if you just hit g, it will report the correct disk
geometry and fix the problem without any further intervention. Ideally,
it would be better if this disk geometry bug gets fixed, but for the
time being, hitting g is a quick and dirty fix that works for most
people. I wouldn't
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:13:40 +
Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you need to find your external address quickly, then ssh into this
other machine and look at the variables that ssh sets in your
environment -- I'm assuming that the box you ssh into is running some
variety of
Can machine B ping the other machine? Even if it can, you might still be
blocking ssh (port 22) with your firewall (if you've installed a
firewall on B). If you do have a firewall, shut it down temporarily and
then see if ssh works.
regards,
Robert
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:37:01 -0600 (CST)
As some of you may recall, I'm engaged in an ongoing saga trying to set
up a FreeBSD machine on a school's network. The school is Windows only -
the administration knows nothing about FreeBSD (or Linux), and it's up
to me to prove to them that FBSD is worth teaching to the students. Due
to my
If you need fsck for ext2, you could just book a Knoppix (or maybe Slackware)
live CD. No need to install Linux, you should be able to run fsck from the CD,
and that will clear the ext2 partition.
I will also confirm what the other poster said, the correct syntax for mounting
the partition should
I know this has got to be a basic question, but strangely enough I haven't been
able to find the answer anywhere...
Suppose I'm at home with a dial-up connection to the Internet. At the school
where I work we have a server running FreeBSD with a full-time connection (T1
line). So from home, I log
You don't mount VCDs to play them. A simple command to play a VCD would look
something like this:
mplayer -vcd 2
This means play starting from track 2. You can of course start from track 1.
What's important is that you MUST specify a track, or else mplayer will exit
with an error message.
Of
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
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:51:30 -0700
Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.freebsddiary.org/cups.php
I no longer use CUPS myself, but when I had it setup, I had to make sure the
system lp* files where chmod'ed to -x so that the CUPS version would be used
instead. The above link
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:43:17 -0400
Rainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
any pointers would be useful,
Dear Ranier,
I'll give you below my entire ppp.conf file. There are four things you'll need
to change:
ISP_NAME
MY_FREEBSD_USER_NAME
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MY_PASSWORD
That ought to do it. Then to
Dear Dave,
Both the BSD ftp and proftp have worked for me in the past, though I've
never benchmarked them. The other major contender is wu-ftp.
regards,
Robert
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:45:09 -0400
dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I've got a 4.9 system and i'm out looking for an ftp server
Dear Noir,
For me to get kppp working, I did the following:
create empty /etc/resolv.conf
chmod 640 /etc/resolv.conf
create /etc/ppp/options with this content:
# Options file for PPPD
defaultroute
crtscts
modem
deflate 12,12
predictor1
vj-max-slots 16
user
lock
idle 600
I've been wondering what is the best way to prevent certain users from
being able to login with ssh, even though I want to allow them ftp access?
The opposite is easy to accomplish - if I put somebody's name in file
/etc/ftpusers, that person cannot login with ftp, but they could still
login with
Thanks Andy, that was easy. Wish all the solutions to my sysadmin
questions were so simple.
best regards,
Robert
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 02:33:05 +
Andy Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:25:06AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
I've been wondering what is the best way
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:58:34 -0500
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 09:54 pm, Neu, Benjamin S. wrote:
Nope! A cd-rom is built (hardware wise) for CD's not DVD's!
I wanted to be sure - someplace, somewhere I heard, that under
windows, this could be done. Heh - I musta
I'm wondering if anyone bought 5.1 from BSDmall, and can tell me how
many CDs are in the set? I sent a message to BSDmall but haven't heard
back yet. Their web site has a blurb here...
http://www.bsdmall.com/fr51pr.html
...but it really gives no clues as to how many CDs they are selling. I
I recently ordered and received the 4-CD set of FBSD 5.1.
I had presumed that this would give me a pretty complete desktop setup.
Alas, I was wrong. A lot of very commmon apps are missing, such as
Xemacs and Mplayer. It's disappointing. I only have a dialup modem. I
don't have broadband and have
I posted a message a few days ago regarding my frustrations to obtain an
up-to-date PowerPak for FreeBSD 5.1. Because I don't have broadband, I
really would like to have the entire ports collection on CD-R.
Unfortunately, the PowerPak sold by FreeBSDmall is version 4.6, a full
year (and four
Sendmail is the default MTA, but I have Exim installed and now would like that to be
my mail server. I'd like to be able to kill Sendmail startup permanently, and have
Exim start at boot time, but I'm not sure how to do this.
I did make an attempt. I edited /etc/rc.conf thus:
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 01:48, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Hello,
We are group of boys who have the idea to make a new OS that will
use FreeBSD kernel. Can you give us the not compiled kernel of FreeBSD
to use it? Naturally, FreeBSD will be as well advertisized in our new
operation system.
On 29 May 2003 15:49:00 -0400
Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I'm just about done rebuilding my box after a major crash and
burn. Now that things are slowing down, I'd like to get some input on
what might have caused the crash. I'm wondering if I stumbled on some
obscure bug, or maybe a
A trivial question, but a question nonetheless! My FreeBSD /etc/motd is
a static and rather boring file. I recall that when I used to login to
my Slackware machine, it spruced things up a bit by offering some sort
of rotating motd, which would spit out a random quote or joke instead of
the
I'm wondering where is the proper location to put a tarball (containing source code)
that I've downloaded and want to untar and compile. In Linux, you generally would put
it in /usr/src. I know all the FreeBSD documentation says /usr/local is where all your
personalized software should go, but
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:04:53 +0200
Didier Wiroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For a beginner (coming from a windows world) who doesn't know which shell is
better, sorry more adequate, it is easier to have a sample config file, to
start learning how to configure you shell!
Didier
Dear Didier,
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:31:05 -0400
Kliment Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm wondering where is the proper location to put a tarball (containing
source code) that I've downloaded and want to untar and compile. In Linux,
you generally would put it in /usr/src. I know all the FreeBSD
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 00:31:03 +0100
Matthew Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
Does anybody know how i can configure booteasy not to remember the last
choice i made. I would like it to default to one particular boot (XP in
fact), so that my 5 year old does not occasionally find himself
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:04:23 +0300
Ozdemircili Ozgur CIV 425 ABS/SGST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear sirs,
I have been using Freebsd for like 4 years and am a fan of the operating
system.When I checked www.freebsd.org.tr I have gotten a dns error which
means it is not registered.Is there any
Dear Greg,
I haven't bought The Complete FreeBSD, but I'm seriously thinking of doing
so imminently. However, I've been looking - so far in vain - to see if I
could find the Table of Contents and Index online. The O'Reilly web site
is supposed to have that, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
I recently installed 5.1-RELEASE - I was previously using 5.0.
When I had 5.0, I could easily boot FBSD from GRUB using these settings
in my Linux's /boot/grub/menu.lst file:
title FreeBSD
root (hd0,1,a)
kernel /boot/loader
boot
These settings no longer work, and I get an error message
On 25 Jun 2003 00:12:57 +0200
Christian Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently installed 5.1-RELEASE - I was previously using 5.0.
When I had 5.0, I could easily boot FBSD from GRUB using these
settings in my Linux's /boot/grub/menu.lst
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:52:33 -0500
Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the last episode (Jun 25), Robert Storey said:
On 25 Jun 2003 00:12:57 +0200 Christian Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I had 5.0, I could easily boot FBSD from GRUB
I've noticed that the FreeBSD 4-CD set is now available for 5.1-RELEASE
from FreeBSDmall.com for $40. I'm willing to order it and support the
cause, but nowhere have I been able to find out just what is on the
additional two CDs. Is it the ports collection, or source code, or
something else? If
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:49:20 -0700 (PDT)
RexFelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's what I did. I copied the contents of
/etc/ppp from my Linux partition to my Windows
partition and then compared each corresponding
file to it's freebsd counterpart. And what I
found was that my resolv.conf
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:58:47 -0400
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I set the background color for a session using fvwm95?
xsetroot sets the color, but when the window manmager starts up, it
overwrites that change.
I fell certain it's a setting in the .fvwm95rc file, but I cna't find
Dear All,
First off, apologies for this off-topic post, but I think this is the
only place I'm likely to get an intelligent (and well-informed) answer
to my question. I tried searching the web, but found a confusing and
contradictory bunch of poorly-informed opinions, which wasn't helpful.
I'm
Dear Chris,
I'm sure you'll get a lot of answers to this one, but I'll dive in.
First off, I guess you mean Xwindows, not Windows X. Xwindows by itself
is basic - you need a window manager to make it look nice. FreeBSD comes
with a few good ones. Most people who want bells and whistles use KDE,
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:41:56 +0200
Cedric GROSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'm running an AMD Duron 700 Box with freeBSD 5.2.1 - RELEASE, and
sometimes the system freeze so I must reboot. I haven't anything in
log. So, What could be the problem ?
How could I obtain some clue of the
I guess I missed your first post.
One thing I don't see in your posts is any mention of whether or not
you're running FBSD 4.x or 5.x. My experience with 4.x is that cards of
any type either don't work or work badly. I've had much better luck with
5.x. Aside from drivers, I believe this is due to
I never heard of spf until yesterday, when there was a big discussion
about it on Slashdot. The discussion was very political (about
Microsoft, Richard Stallman, etc). I don't want to get into any of the
politics here, as it's not appropriate for this list. But I am
interested in the technology
Dear Manuel,
I've run into similar issues with KDE in the past. You were on the right
track, but apparently the one file konquerorrc wasn't the problem. Just
delete the entire ~/.kde and then restart KDE. You will then be treated
like a new user, and KDE will query for the usual desktop settings
You haven't given us any information about what you've done (or tried to
do), so I'll do a little guessing.
There are several utilities for configuring X, but xf86cfg (the
graphical utility) is most newbie friendly, in my opinion. You can also
access it through sysinstall. I have found that it
One thing you could try is editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and substituting
vesa for ati. It's not an ideal solution, but the vesa driver often
works when nothing else will. You might want to take a look at
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.ati, and list all video drivers in
You ought to consider subscribing to the freebsd-mobile mailing list.
This isn't a RTFM reply - that really is a useful list and I'm
subscribed to it myself. Also, you can search the freebsd-mobile mailing
list (and all the other mailing lists):
Sorry John, I apologize for not reading all the to the bottom of your
post.
The only other thing I'd suggest is playing with xvidtune. I had to do
this to get my screen to center properly. The frustrating thing with
xvidtune is that it doesn't automatically save the adjustments you make
- you
If would be fine by me if you posted it here. I'm very interested in
getting one of these boxes, I would like to hear the experience of
others.
regards,
Robert
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:30:58 -0700 (PDT)
borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
I want to post some info on a mini-itx mobo I
Dear All,
I've been looking for a utility to reduce cpu speed to make my laptop
run cooler. Ideally, it should reduce cpu speed to about 20% when speed
is not needed, and restore speed to 100% when the load requires it.
There is such a utility for Linux, called powernowd:
Dear All,
I've succeeded in creating an encrypted partition using gbde. I followed
the directions in the FBSD Handbook which, among other things, states:
Unlike cumbersome encryption methods that encrypt only
individual files, gbde transparently encrypts entire file systems.
No
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200
Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman:
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet cards,
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 10:46:35 +0100
Nagilum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The partition itself is encrypted so it doesn't matter whether the
partition contains a regular filesystem, swapfs or is used as database
storage device. It's encrypted one layer below.
Kind regards,
Alex.
Thanks Alex,
Hi all,
Sorry to be asking such a dumb question, but I'm looking for the
changelog for FBSD 5.4 and I haven't been able to find it (even after
lots of Googling). Could anybody point me to the correct web page?
TIA,
Robert
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Dear All,
An interesting and disturbing problem recently appeared on our server
which is running FBSD 5.3. Rather suddenly, all users found themselves
locked out because ssh stopped working. We had to send an email to tech
support at our hosting service (Netsonic). They said this seems to be
Dear All,
I've noticed that transferring files (using the scp command) between a
laptop and a desktop is very slow when using FreeBSD. The laptop is
running Linux (Debian). The desktop is dual-boot (Debian and FreeBSD).
When I boot FreeBSD and scp files to the laptop, transfer times are very
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