Re: OpenBSD/ (maybe FreeBSD) Firewall/Router/DNS

2004-05-11 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Bryan Cassidy wrote: Sounds good to me but I'm still confused about how I need to set this up hardware wise. The link at freebsddiary sounds good to start with I guess. I don't know if I need any extra hardware either. I have at the moment 2 NICs and 2 crossover cables. Do I need more? Do I keep

Re: websites visited

2004-05-11 Thread Steven N. Fettig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I find the different websites and e-mails sent and recieved from my computer? One way is to set up your firewall (vis a vis ipfw) to log all incoming and outgoing connections on ports 25, 80, 110, 143 and/or any others you want to monitor. It will be

Re: Network Help

2004-05-10 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Jeffrey P. Toth wrote: Thank you for your response Ion-Mihai, On the router question, no, the router is a separate device, a D-Link 504H but is a loaner while my D-Link 804HV is in the shop. After changing them out is when I discovered I had problems. Apparently the DL804 handled whatever the

Re: 3 Nics - Dual (Tripe) Homed Host

2004-05-10 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Travis Troyer wrote: I have a FreeBSD system that acts as a NAT Gateway, currently providing on LAN with access to the Internet. I have added a third NIC, connected to a second LAN. The second LAN does not need internet access, but I would like it to be able to communicate with the first

Re: OpenOffice ports build...

2004-02-15 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Eric, Have you considered installing the pre-compiled packages? If you aren't aware, they are available at: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ I have installed the 1.1 version on both fbsd 4.9 and 5.2.1 - they work fine for me although I haven't done extensive work with oo on either sys. HtH,

Re: Internet connection sharing

2004-02-15 Thread Steven N. Fettig
The network settings are usually in the rc.conf file in /etc/. For DHCP, you should have the line ifconfig_interface=DHCP where *interface* is the given nic you are using - in other words, it is *not* the word interface. If you are trying to set a static IP addy and gateway, then your rc.conf

Re: OpenOffice ports build...

2004-02-15 Thread Steven N. Fettig
I originally had problems with that error, too. I ran 'pkg_add -r openoffice-1.1' making sure that the openoffice-1.10_1.tgz was in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory. I can't remember having any issues after that. (Oh, I also made sure that /usr/ports/java/jdk14 was installed before going

Re: OpenOffice ports build...

2004-02-15 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Eric F Crist wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2004 10:51 pm, Steven N. Fettig wrote: I originally had problems with that error, too. I ran 'pkg_add -r openoffice-1.1' making sure that the openoffice-1.10_1.tgz was in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory. I can't remember having any issues after

Re: OpenOffice ports build... proceedure for FreeBSD 4.9

2004-02-16 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Eric (and list), I finally got it working this morning under the following conditions: Fresh install of FreeBSD 4.9 from the mini-ISO cd. Install X from the sysinstall via FTP Install Gnome from the sysinstall via FTP cd /usr/ports/distfiles (as root) make sure openoffice-1.1.0_1.tgz is in the

Re: FreeBSD on Dell PowerEdge 2500

2004-02-16 Thread Steven N. Fettig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any experience installing FreeBSD on a Dell PowerEdge server? 2500 or any other? I'm looking at having to do so and, having not done it before, I'm just wondering if there are any gotchas I should be aware of or if I have to use their OpenManage CDs or

Re: problems with FreeBSD 4.9 disk 1 ISO image

2004-02-18 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Martin Hudec (www.webcom.sk) wrote: Did you try to burn it using slower speed? This is maybe a long shot.. Cheers, Martin Martin actually has a point. I have had problems with the FreeBSD 5.1.2 ISO's - which made me think that for some reason the ISO's I was downloading were corrupted

USB 2.0 - 1.0 Support Backwards Compatible in 4.9? Re a SonyFileVault USB 2.0 Flash Drive

2004-02-18 Thread Steven N. Fettig
I have a Sony FileVault USB 2.0 Flash Drive that I use to store working documents on (I don't use the security portion of the drive - if anyone has had one themselves - I was simply able to get it for a steal) that I cannot get working under 4.9 on an HP D530 machine (2.5 GHz P IV w/

SFTP vs. SCP and transfer rates

2004-02-19 Thread Steven N. Fettig
I know this question doesn't relate directly to FreeBSD, but because I use both sftp and scp on FreeBSD systems constantly, I thought someone here might know. If I sftp into a server and get a file, it usually transfers at about 1.2 KBps - regardless of interface, machine speed and connection

Re: Rebooting problem

2004-02-22 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Stephen Liu wrote: ** Hi all folks, Version 5.2 new installation On rebooting it hangs on . syncing disks, buffers remaining ... 5 5 done Uptime: 45m45s Shutting down ACPI Rebooting... Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown. It hanged here and I have to make a 'hard reboot'

USB Timeout Period, KVM Problems

2004-02-23 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Hi all, Is there a setting somewhere sets a timeout period for USB inactivity. Better stated: I have an IOGear USB KVM that I use with the FreeBSD system I am writing this on (4.9) and every 2 hrs., the KVM stops functioning and I have to cycle its power. The USB port, however, that the KVM

Re: cvsup not working

2004-02-23 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Greg, I have the following cvsup file for my ports-upgrade: *default host=cvsup15.us.freebsd.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all This works like a charm every time. The only differences I see are

Re: Preferred MTA and mail configuration

2004-02-23 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Gareth Bailey wrote: I'm new to email on FreeBSD. Could someone please advise at what MTA i should use. I thought courier might be a good choice since it has integrated POP3 and IMAP servers (bearing in mind i have to serve Outlook clients). I want simple install. Thank you Gareth

Re: backup

2004-02-23 Thread Steven N. Fettig
I think there are better ways per se, but that is usually personal opinion... That being said, there are a few questions: 1) how big of an installation are you trying to back up? 2) is it necessary to back up all of the information? 3) do you have access to a faster drive (this one may not be

Re: backup

2004-02-23 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Eric, I think what you are looking for is drive mirroring (which I think is known as RAID 1). Although I have never done this myself, the Handbook seems to give good pointers at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/raid.html For more information on mirroring control,

Hostname in shell (bash)?

2004-02-27 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Hi all, I searched the archives and documents on bash, but I can't figure out how to put the hostname of the workstation I am on before the $ of the shell/command line. Does anyone know how to add the hostname (preferably the first part - i.e. www, db1, etc) to the command line for bash 2.x?

Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Steven N. Fettig
I have two workstations I use (one at home and one at work) connected via a private DSL link that each have the directories /home/me. I want to run a cron job to sync the directories (bi-directionally). Rsync seems to work only in one direction (I know I could set up the script on both

[OT] sed question

2004-03-14 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Sorry for posting an off-topic question to the list, but this is somethin that has been driving me nuts for weeks now and I can't figure it out. I want to pass a text file through sed that replaces all whitespaces with a carriage return. I.e., if I have the file my_test_text_document.txt

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Bill Campbell wrote: snip I would do this with two rsync runs from one machine cd $directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP $remote:$directory/ . Better yet, set up the directories in the rsyncd.conf files on each machine: cd $directory rsync -vaurP ./

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Steven N. Fettig
-P appears to allow you to show progress graphically with the -v switch also chosen. I think his example: cd $directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP $remote:$directory/ . was meant to look like: cd $directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory rsync -e

Recommendation for Dual T1 Routing/Firewalling

2004-03-18 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Sorry to cross-post this question, but I wanted to make sure my thinking is on track regarding a FreeBSD box I am going to use for routing/firewalling. A wireless project I am working on is getting 2 T1's from Global Crossing that I want to bring into a Sangoma dual CSU/DSU card (using their

Re: CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-23 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Scott I. Remick wrote: I'm thinking about setting up a FreeBSD-based CMS/intranet and wanted to know what other people were doing. I have a tiny bit of experience with PHP-Nuke because my webhost uses it. Although I have no real complaints about it, I am not wedded to it. snip Most promising