Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Thomas Beer wrote: The NIC on the AP has to be able to support Host AP mode to work as an access point. Netgear MA 521 *with firmware 1.3* are on example for this. Cheers Tom I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a

Re: Setting Up IMAP

2004-05-12 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Charles Swiger wrote: On May 12, 2004, at 9:29 AM, Jason Dusek wrote: Problem 1 My mail server's certificate 'fails' the authenticity test because it is self-assigned. Why is this bad (aren't I *supposed* to get a certificate with # make cert in the stunnel

Re: looks like i've dug my hole too deep, plz help quick.

2004-05-12 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 12 May 2004, carvin5string wrote: I may have screwed up big time - I tried moving /var to /usr/var and accidentally was in root when I ran the command tar cf - . | ( cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) if it was simply that then nothing was deleted. tar cf - just tars up the files and sends it

ipfilter rules for gif ipv6 tunnel

2004-05-12 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi all, I recently moved to using ipfilter from ipfw (no particular reason, just wanted to try another option.) The problem now is that where i used to have an ipv6 tunnel (from the people at http://tunnelbroker.net) (again no good reason but it gives me a change to try it out for when i

Re: Ideas for ftp server with ldaps:/// support

2004-05-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
Would pure-ftpd be any good ? not sure about ldaps:// but its fine for ldap:// On Mon, 3 May 2004, Jason Lixfeld wrote: I've tried proftp but the documentation sucks and I'm having an impossible time trying to get it to work with my LDAP server so I'm looking for alternatives. Anyone know

Re: PCMCIA to PCI hardware

2004-05-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
Bit late i know but http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=45001item=5701027269rd=1 works well for me in use as an access point (using it right now while writing this write.) hope the url comes out ok as its a bit long. Vince On Fri, 14 May 2004, sAndri Kok wrote: Hi guys, I'm

Re: Help with PCMCIA card support

2004-05-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Martin Phillips wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD on an old laptop that used to run various versions of Windows. I have two problems... 1. The installation process appears not to see my PCMCIA cards. Running pccardd says No PC-CARD slots. That's a shame really,

Re: freebsd 5.2.1 openssh hole

2004-05-24 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Mon, 24 May 2004, Thomas May wrote: Hi, i have installed the new version 5.2.1 and the ports collection from yesterday. i have checked the server with nessus and I got a security hole warning. You are running a version of OpenSSH which is older than 3.7.1 Versions older than

RE: Mystery Ports

2004-05-24 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Mon, 24 May 2004, JJB wrote: Then you must have moved up to 5.2.1 using the source buildworld method. If you install from the mini iso file then NFS is indeed run with the only way to get rid of it is by recompile kernel. SO it's NOT literally preposterous and ridiculous, you just

Re: LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Are there any references that will step through creating an LDAP database? I have been banging my head into a wall trying to get one set up...I have it at a point where the slapd will start and monitor for connections, but using ldapbrower

Re: LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On May 27, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Vince Hoffman wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2004, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Are there any references that will step through creating an LDAP database? I have been banging my head into a wall trying to get one set

RE: Need Help on Win98

2004-06-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
Snip typing it every time I start the PC. Microsoft does not support the -p command on the above in 95/98 system. For my XP machine, I just need to add the -p after add in both these lines and it will stay permanently even if you restart the system. try adding the commands to

Re: view the console on the serial port

2004-06-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, arden wrote: hi all ive just seen this working and curious as to how its done so thought id ask dose anyone know how to configure a machine to run headless then view the console by connecting a laptop to a serial port on a null modem cable

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

2004-06-08 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Peter Risdon wrote: The main cost of having computers for most companies lies not in software or hardware, but in support. I have been pondering the wisdom of automating the upgrade process, so that sources are cvsup'ed nightly and make buildworld buildkernel etc and

Re: X Session Attach/Detach?

2004-06-09 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Andy Harrison wrote: I was just wondering if there was any software to allow this? I've been googling around a bit, but not coming up with anything specific. Sort of like the Sunrays where you can detach from your local machine where you're working, go to another

Re: Arghhh!

2004-06-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, LW Ellis wrote: Apparently I have not been able to install FreeBSD correctly yet. I run the installation floppies, and everything seems ok. The kernel Configuration utility never runs.. Did I miss something in the instructions.. My understanding is that this should

Re: XFree86 configure question

2004-06-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Matt Navarre wrote: On Friday 11 June 2004 12:14, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 08:05, LW Ellis wrote: Having some difficulty setting up the XFree86 Server. I did like it said in the handbook, but when I ee XF86Config.new, I get a blank file.

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Peter Pauly wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:54:26PM -0400, JJB wrote: Are these supervisor cards unique to IBM HP? Can the card be bought separately and will they work on generic motherboard? Do you have URL for info on these supervisor cards? They are unique

Re: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please

2004-06-12 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, I am looking to replace a proprietary DSL router/modem with the Sangoma S518 ADSL PCI Controller, thereby placing a FreeBSD (4.10-Stable) server running ipfw to handle access, firewall and nat duties. The ISP's DSL package includes

Re: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Spuds wrote: Hello, Hi Bryan My name is Bryan and I am interested in using FreeBSD on my computer. Before I do so, I have a couple of questions I was wondering you could answer. 1) Is FreeBSD truly free, as in I don't have to pay for it and can download it at no

Re: IPv6

2004-06-16 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Minnesota Slinky wrote: Hey all, I am wanting to venture into the world of IPv6, but I don't really know where to begin. AFAIK, I only have IPv4 routes out of my network, on a 1.5/1Mbps DSL connection, with a bunch of static IPs (IPv4). I remember there being

Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 64 ?

2004-06-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Brian Astill wrote: FWIW, I have that card and it seems to work just fine using the nv driver. When you are given choices in the helper programs for XFree86 setup, just choose the nearest descrptor you can find which uses that nv driver. You could also write that nv

Re: 5.2.1-rel install CD hangs Tecra 9100

2004-06-30 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, xpi wrote: -or- Idiot user can't find the any key. I have a Toshiba Tecra 9100 laptop 1700mhz/256m, I'd like 5.2.1-rel on it. Think I'm falling off the directions about disabling laptop pcibios ..but I'm out of FAQ's Boot(8) sucessfully

gif config in rc.conf

2003-09-26 Thread Vince Hoffman
=10.21.0.0 192.168.1.254 netmask 0xff00 but no gif device is configured on boot. any suggestions as to what i am doing wrong/where to look ? I couldnt find anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages Thanks Vince --- Vince Hoffman

RE: Ports : Mozilla / Mozilla-devel

2003-09-30 Thread Vince Hoffman
A quicker (but working so far) way. till you have time to update all your ports. ln -s /usr/local/lib/libintl.so /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.4 (probably not recomemded for long term use though. but was enough for me to get X with GNOME running again. Vince -Original Message- From: Dan

RE: I think I messed up with gettext.

2003-10-01 Thread Vince Hoffman
I think the only options are upgrading all ports that use libintl.so.4 (recomended) or (for now) ln -s /usr/local/lib/libintl.so /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.4 (not recomended but works for me(tm) -Original Message- From: Eric F Crist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 October 2003

RE: Firewall problem

2003-10-01 Thread Vince Hoffman
you have allow ip from any to any before your deny rules, unless my memory is seriously faulty (always possible) a packet will match that rule and never get to your deny rules. -Original Message- From: Gary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 October 2003 19:18 To: FreeBSD Subject:

RE: Postfix problems

2003-10-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Saturday 20 September 2003 15:34, fbsd_user wrote: server you have to disable sendmail and reboot FBSD. *ouch* reboots are evil. surely there is another way of doing this. or? you shouldnt have to reboot. try making the rc.conf changes then, $ killall sendmail to get rid of any

irda

2003-10-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
in to the kernel, but i could have missed something. any hints appreciated Thanks. Vince --- Vince Hoffman Systems Administrator Euro RSCG Circle (London) P: 020 7959 7576 M: 0777 5822213 Icq: 50905590 PGP ID: 0xC859C861

RE: Running apache twice on the same system

2003-10-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
You shouldnt need to run it twice, use virtual host directives to make one virtual host listen to one IP and the other to the other. all in the apache docs. http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/ip-based.html for version 2. otherwise create different conf files and point your apache

RE: RE: Running apache twice on the same system

2003-10-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
3 tcp46 *:80 *:* I have it a similar setup and can access mine fine on both IPs. -Original Message- From: dhull [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 October 2003 18:56 To: Vince Hoffman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: Running apache twice on the same system

Re: ADSL modem ip addresses

2003-10-24 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:29:08PM +0930, Ian Moore wrote: Hi, I'm organising an ADSL connection and I'm a bit confused about our options. We need to provide web, ssh and mail access to our network for users from home across the Internet with an ADSL connection. I figure the best

Re: what happens when connection is lost ?

2003-10-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Oct 31, 2003, at 11:54 AM, M.D. DeWar wrote: Hello, If I am logged in on a FreeBSD machine with ssh. And doing say a ./configure or make and I lose connection does that stop what I was doing ? In general, yes-- what happens is that a broken connection results in a hangup (HUP)

VPN through NAT

2003-11-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi all, At my firm we use checkpoint VPN-1 so our windows laptop users can access the network from remote locations Clients offices etc etc., I'd like my Freebsd laptop to be able to do the same but i'm not sure if its possible as most locations are NATed these days and the only doc on

Re: MAKEDEV - where is it?

2004-03-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
GP wrote: Hi, would anyone know where the MAKEDEV file in FreeBSD version 5.1 resides if it does? I cannot find the file anywhere! 5.x uses devfs so you dont need/have MAKEDEV, /dev entrys are automaticly created as needed. Thanks, George

Re: iptables to ipfw

2004-04-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Chiang Seng Chang wrote: hi, anyone knows what is the equivalent of these in ipfw ? iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.1.0.2/32 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.50.4.0/22 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE it's for openvpn using tun0. i have

RE: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? All the emails have the same subject lines: Thank you! RE: That movie RE: RE: My Details RE: RE: My Details RE: Details RE: Wicked Screensaver RE: Approved RE: Your application But are from different

RE: Who installed games on my system?

2003-08-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
Have a look at make.conf to stop it building games (or edit your cvsup file to not download the games source.) if you on 4.x the default make.conf is in /etc/defaults/make.conf 5.1 seems not to have that but there is an example in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf -Original Message-

RE: Samba Iconv

2003-08-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
which options did you include ? I think you need options LIBMCHAIN options LIBICONV as well as options NETSMB #SMB/CIFS requester and possibly options NETSMBCRYPTO#encrypted password support for SMB Someone please correct me if i'm wrong

Old proliant memory detection

2003-09-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
Vince. --- Vince Hoffman Systems Administrator Euro RSCG Circle (London) P: 020 7959 7576 M: 0777 5822213 Icq: 50905590 PGP ID: 0xC859C861 A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature

RE: Old proliant memory detection

2003-09-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
+--- On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:31, | Vince Hoffman proclaimed: | | Hi all, | I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on an ancient Dual P.Pro proliant, and its | not correctly detecting how much RAM i have, is there a way to tell | FreeBSD the correct amount? I'm sure i saw something

RE: DSL router when what I need is a bridge; ARP problem?

2003-05-29 Thread Vince Hoffman
SNIP dsl line --- Cisco 678 -ed0- freebsd -de0- local host I naively picked up a Cisco 678 thinking it would do the trick. However, even with CBOS 2.4.7 installed, it won't route out the ethernet port -- only out the wan port. e.g., if the routing tables in the cisco look

RE: ipfw and statefull rules

2003-05-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
Damm does this mean that net.link.ether.bridge_ipf is only useful in 5.X ? After i found http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200211/ipfilter-bridge.html I was intending to try using ipf on my Freebsd wlan-AP. -Original Message- From: Olivier Nicole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 May 2003

Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot

2003-06-02 Thread Vince Hoffman
I cannot use the recovery option because I cannot for the life of me remember the admin passwd. Doh! indeed. Then if setting the Win2K partition active doesn't work, I'm out of better options than your suggestion to do a fresh install and mount the old Win2K partition from there. But I'm

Re: dhcpd for ipv6

2005-01-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: Erik Norgaard wrote: kame dhcpd does not support address allocation and isc-dhcpd does not support ipv6 - despite ipv6 being defined in 1996. This makes running an ipv6 based local network cumbersome to manage. You're absolutely right. Does anyone know

Re: [OT] easy authpf access from Windows (for non-unix users)?

2005-02-09 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Hexren wrote: ALG Is anyone running authpf with Windows clients in the network? If so, ALG how are the Windows clients logging in? What's the easiest mechanism ALG for this. ALG I want my grandson to have free access to the (Windows) computers; but I ALG want an adult to

Re: Secure file transfers

2005-02-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Gregor Mosheh wrote: I had a similar, perhaps related question. I'm making backups via tar to a SMB server, but I would rather use sftp/scp for it (the NAS supports both SMB and scp/sftp). I don't have enough disk space to make the backup to a tarchive and then scp that

Re: DNS virgin

2005-02-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, kilim wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:41:52PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: kilim wrote: snip Now that I've registered a certain domain through godaddy.com I wish to set up my own DNS server. In the Godaddy's web interface there is a way to set two new DNS server. Can I

Re: Freebsd 5.x on Toshiba Portege 3500

2004-08-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, J. Kenney wrote: Good Afternoon All, 4.x boots/installs and works fine on my notebook (Toshiba Portege 3500), but no version of 5.x has successfully booted (with/without ASPI, safe mode, etc), but the strange thing is that if I load VMWare or VirtualPC 2004 and try to

i think i've broken portinstall

2004-08-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
I just went to install netcat and portinstal seems to have broken, not sure when or how though. the process i use (as normal) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/root] [12:30] #cd /usr/ports/net/netcat/ snip reading the pkg-desc etc [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/ports/net/netcat] [12:30] #portinstall netcat ** No

Re: i think i've broken portinstall

2004-08-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 01:16:40PM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote: I just went to install netcat and portinstal seems to have broken, not sure when or how though. the process i use (as normal) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/root] [12:30] #cd /usr/ports

Re: FreeBSD 5.x /usr Partitioning advice

2004-08-18 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Terry wrote: I'm planning on making two partions for data found on /usr: /usr2 which holds ports, src, and obj; and /usrwhich holds everything else. the /usr2 directories would be symlinked to /usr. The reason I want to do this is because I have a different

Re: FreeBSD 5.x /usr Partitioning advice

2004-08-18 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Vince Hoffman wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Terry wrote: I'm planning on making two partions for data found on /usr: /usr2 which holds ports, src, and obj; and /usrwhich holds everything else. the /usr2 directories would be symlinked to /usr

Re: flashplugin-firefox

2004-08-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Mattias Björk wrote: Hi. Gerard Samuel wrote: Adam Stroud wrote: Hey all: Has anyone had any success installing the flashplugin-firefox port? If not can anyone point me towards some good instructions to getting flash to work with firefox.

Re: Question about Wireless USB Adapter

2004-09-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Friday 03 September 2004 00:21, Vince Hoffman wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:53, Will Lieu wrote: Hello, I was just wondering if FreeBSD is going/does it support

Re: Haven't been hacked, just prone to man-in-the-middle attacks (WAS: I have been hacked)

2006-01-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Kilian Hagemann wrote: Hi guys, Just to find closure on this thread, I'd like to admit that I jumped to conclusions too early and would like to share what had actually happened, after many hours wasted playing the detective :-( (glad I didn't format/reinstall though)

Re: LiveCD FreeBSD

2006-02-01 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: Jacob S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:17:44 -0600 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD Up untill Dec 01 '05 I was a die hard MicroShaft user, too many lockups and garbage caused me to search for

Re: Routing problems

2003-11-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
- Original Message - From: Dimitris Xochellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:43 PM Subject: Routing problems Dear list members, I have two subnets (10.X.X.X and 193.X.X.X) on the same physical network (ethernet). Subnet 10.X.X.X has its

RE: Routing problems

2003-11-12 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi Dimitris, snip lots of relevaent info The 10.X.X.X subnet will never need to use any of the services of the 193.X.X.X subnet or the 193.R.R.R router. It will always access internet via its own 10.R.R.R router, which only routes packets towards the internet and never towards the

Which webmail

2003-11-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi all, I'm considering installing a webmail system on one of my machines. Its internet facing, so i'd prefer security over features if its an issue. The machine in question is running 4.8, uw-imap, postfix and apache 2.0.47 Does anyone have any suggestions, experience they would like

Re: RSS/RDF feed reader

2003-11-26 Thread Vince Hoffman
I was hoping for something under KDE.. and installing Evolution just to use it as a RSS feed reader, seems like overkill ;) You could try 'snownews' http://home.kcore.de/~kiza/software/snownews/ It's text-based. hmm how about krss ? # more pkg-descr K.R.S.S. downloads Rich Site

RE: migrating users

2003-11-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
Either try john the ripper or similar password crackers. (ports or www.openwall.net) -Original Message- From: Rob Evers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 November 2003 13:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: migrating users Hi all, I'm going to move move my sendmail server to

Prism2.5 firmware

2004-09-16 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi all, I've been wondering why I cant seem to get more than approx 180k(bytes)/sec from my freebsd server with a netgear MA311 pci card in hostap. After some googling After some googling the evidence seems to point at me having rather ancient firmware. (23:46:36 ~) 0 # dmesg |grep wi0

Re: Prism2.5 firmware

2004-09-17 Thread Vince Hoffman
and run the .exe file http://bsd.mikulas.com/wifi/Fw_1.7.4.tgz Jiri Vince Hoffman wrote: Hi all, I've been wondering why I cant seem to get more than approx 180k(bytes)/sec from my freebsd server with a netgear MA311 pci card in hostap. After some googling After some googling

Re: Samba public directory on FreeBSD

2004-09-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, W. D. wrote: What is recommended for a public, 'free-for-all', anyone can read or write directory on FreeBSD? What are the reasons for preferring one place over another? Would these work? /usr/local/share/sambapublic/ /usr/share/sambapublic/ /home/sambapublic/

portupgrade problem

2004-10-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi all, Got a port upgrade problem here, ruby is dumping core during a portsdb -uU (and thus any time it tries to update the portsdb. only noticed it today but i did upgrade ruby recently so i tried following the emergency recovery part in /usr/port/UPDATING and did pkg_delete portupgrade-\*

Re: portupgrade problem

2004-10-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:05:17PM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote: Hi all, Got a port upgrade problem here, ruby is dumping core during a portsdb -uU (and thus any time it tries to update the portsdb. SNIP lots of info any suggestions welcome Gawd

Re: SSH and one time passwords

2004-10-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gene Bomgardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've implemented S/Key on my 5.2.1 system. It works well with telnet, but ssh just bypasses the whole thing and accepts the Unix password. How can I get ssh to recognize and use S/Key auth? I don't see any entry

Re: portversion error

2004-10-12 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Petre Bandac wrote: xxl# portversion | grep [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb1_btree in /usr/ports ... - 11731 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000..

Re: How to run a stream based command in place on a file

2004-10-18 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Richard Bradley wrote: Hi, I want to run stream based commands like `sed` and `tr` on the contents of a file, and save the results to the same file. Obviously I can do this with a temporary file: $sed s/dog/cat/ myanimals.txt tmp.txt $mv tmp.txt myanimals.txt But is there

Re: Mailgraph from the ports - now what do I do?

2004-10-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Massimiliano Stucchi wrote: On 211004, 15:03, Danny wrote: Greetings, After referencing the article here: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/08/12/mailgraph.html I decided to just install mailgraph from the FreeBSD ports system. So, after installing it successfully

Re: Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-06-29 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, bsd wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if there is a way to read mail with unix mail program? I've been using this program since couple of years and I am quite happy with It… I can't seem to find a shortcut to have It read maildir format… have a look at the mail/nail

Re: Looking for arp scanner

2005-06-29 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Fabian Anklam wrote: On 6/29/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:18 PM 6/29/2005, Fabian Anklam wrote: Hi there, I've browsing freshports.org for an arp scanner and found only arpscan, which is marked broken and knowlan, which hasn't been updated in years.

Re: pam_radius

2005-08-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Sean P. Malone wrote: I’m rolling out a new email system and would love it if I could get that system to authentic the user off of our existing Active Directory user database. As I understand, the pam_radius module should enable me to achieve the task. However, the

newsyslog and chrooted bind on 5.3

2004-11-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi all, since i updated my server to 5.3 and went with the default option of chrooting bind, anytime named recives a HUP signal it dies. Is this expected ? its a bit of a bugger as i will have to use cron and a short shell script instead of an entry in newsyslog.conf. Vince

Re: newsyslog and chrooted bind on 5.3

2004-11-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 07:45:56AM +0100, Kees Plonsz typed: Vince Hoffman wrote: Hi all, since i updated my server to 5.3 and went with the default option of chrooting bind, anytime named recives a HUP signal it dies. Is this expected ? its a bit

Re: Apache port

2004-11-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Trevor Hart wrote: I installed Apache version 2.0.43 on my FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE server. The httpd file is set up with Listen 80 and Listen 8000. The problem is that it will not accept connections on port 80, even though it is listening (checked using netstat, and sockstat). It

Disappearing directory/mount and Crash on umount since 5.3

2004-11-24 Thread Vince Hoffman
I'm having a reoccuring problem with one of my mounts, I have a disk i mount at /usr/scratch which is also exported via samba. since upgrading to 5.3 after a little while (sorry no exact timings yet,) an ls /usr/scratch gives ls: /usr/scratch: Bad file descriptor [EMAIL PROTECTED] (11:19:06

Re: Disappearing directory/mount and Crash on umount since 5.3

2004-11-25 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:29:26AM +, Vince Hoffman wrote: I'm having a reoccuring problem with one of my mounts, I have a disk i mount at /usr/scratch which is also exported via samba. since upgrading to 5.3 after a little while (sorry no exact

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2005-01-01 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Chris wrote: Timothy Luoma wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Chris wrote: Somewhat related - is there a port that will play the files downloaded from ITunes? I think the answer is no. Protected AAC files can only be played in iTunes, I believe. TjL I sorta thought so - Oh

Re: Possible to run 2 instances of Bind DNS server in jails??

2010-01-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
The only bit I'm not certain on is dedicating a nic to a jail (more because I havent tried than because I believe it cant be done, I'd expect that the network stack virtualization in 8+ should allow this.) You can most definately run seperate instances of applications in jails. I'd recomend

pam_radius and ssh

2005-04-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi all, I've been looking into using the pam_radius pam module and have been trying out the template_user feature as this would ease the administrative burden in our setup, (it allows a user to be specified as a template if the radius user does not have a local account.) I can get it to work

Re: netgraph netflow

2005-05-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to get ng_netflow to work, and I'm having a heck of a time doing so. So if anyone can shed some light on my problem, please do so. I've tried multiple configurations, and can't get it to work right. I can only get it to see traffic in

Re: easy patch management tools

2006-09-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
Aaron Bliss wrote: Hi everyone, first let me say that I'm pretty new to bsd, so please forgive the newbie questions; I've been using linux (redhat, suse, centos) for many years, and so learning bsd was a bit of a learning curve, but not bad (I almost never use gui's for administration); I was

Re: How to install the 3945ABG Driver on a fresh FreeBSD 6.2 install?

2007-01-17 Thread Vince Hoffman
Daniel Tourde wrote: Hello, I found the driver for my wireless card on: http://www.clearchain.com/~benjsc/download/20070106-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz but how is it supposed to be installed on a fresh FreeBSD 6.2? I hate to say this but this driver only seems to compile on -CURRENT as far as i

Re: How to install the 3945ABG Driver on a fresh FreeBSD 6.2 install?

2007-01-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
Gilbert Cao wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:36:04AM +, Vince Hoffman wrote: I hate to say this but this driver only seems to compile on -CURRENT as far as i can tell (and as far as the conversation at http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+archive/2007/freebsd-drivers

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
Chris wrote: RW wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:45:43 -0800 (PST) Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running vmware, and it works very well, but if I can find a open source version that works well, I would like to move in that direction. Thanks for the tips guys.

Re: defrag

2007-03-02 Thread Vince Hoffman
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Steve Franks wrote: How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? Thanks, Steve I'm thinking this one's

Re: upgraded 6.2 and mysql lost all privileges

2007-03-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
user accounts are held in /etc/passwd the default UIDs created by ports are listed in /usr/ports/UIDs including mysql mysql:*:88:88:MySQL Daemon:/var/db/mysql:/sbin/nologin you can either re-add it using pw or just paste the line in using vipw Vince Noah wrote: the user accounts are gone.

Re: vpn connection users+server

2006-07-25 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello everyone, Well, because really i didnot get an answer from the list regarding release internet access based on time+auth. I'm not sure about time, but it sounds like you might be able to use authpf (man authpf for details) otherwise have a

Re: Shell scripting kungfu

2008-01-18 Thread Vince Hoffman
Paul Schmehl wrote: I need to do the following: Take a list of various strings, one of which is a quoted IP address, and extract the IPs. (Done that.) Then take the list of IPs and convert them to a list of IPs with masks on a single line. IOW, I have converted the original list to

WPA and static IP

2008-01-30 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi all, I'm wondering if there is a way to specify WPA ad a static IP for an interface in /etc/rc.conf I've had a quick look though the handbook and google but all the examples use WPA and DHCP. any suggestions welcome, Cheers Vince ___

Re: WPA and static IP

2008-01-30 Thread Vince Hoffman
Peter Boosten wrote: Vince Hoffman wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if there is a way to specify WPA ad a static IP for an interface in /etc/rc.conf I've had a quick look though the handbook and google but all the examples use WPA and DHCP. ifconfig_ath0=WPA inet 192.168.13.8 netmask

acrobat reader (7 or 8) on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-30 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi, Has anyone else had any issues getting this working? my laptop runs acrobat reader7 fine while my desktop doesnt like it at all (see error below.) I am using compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 and linux_base-fc6-6_5 I have linux procf mounted. any suggestion? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (20:16:58

Re: acrobat reader (7 or 8) on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-30 Thread Vince Hoffman
KAYVEN RIESE wrote: Did you install that acrobat port? yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] (20:22:36 ~) 0 # pkg_info -Ix acroread acroread7-7.0.9_2,1 Adobe Reader for view, print, and search PDF documents (ENU acroreadwrapper-0.0.20071020 Wrapper script for Adobe Reader On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Vince

Re: acrobat reader (7 or 8) on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-30 Thread Vince Hoffman
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Vince Hoffman wrote: KAYVEN RIESE wrote: Did you install that acrobat port? You sir are missing the FREEBSD6_COMPAT config in your kernel. Just for a second I thought you had it, but sadly not [EMAIL PROTECTED] (22:45:02 /usr/src/sys/i386/conf) 0 # uname -a FreeBSD

Re: acrobat reader (7 or 8) on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:25:47 + Vince Hoffman wrote: Has anyone else had any issues getting this working? my laptop runs acrobat reader7 fine while my desktop doesnt like it at all (see error below.) I am using compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 and linux_base-fc6

Re: broadcom wireless card on FB7 using ndisgen, no ndis0 after kldload

2008-01-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
Kemian Dang wrote: Glen Barber 写道: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 07:18:51 pm Kemian Dang wrote: I have a laptop which using the broadcom wireless card. I download the bcmwl5a.inf/.sys and use ndisgen to generate the .ko file, then I kldload it as the doc said. I can see ndis,if_ndis and

Re: broadcom wireless card on FB7 using ndisgen, no ndis0 after kldload

2008-01-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
Kemian Dang wrote: Vince Hoffman 写道: Kemian Dang wrote: Glen Barber 写道: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 07:18:51 pm Kemian Dang wrote: I have a laptop which using the broadcom wireless card. I download the bcmwl5a.inf/.sys and use ndisgen to generate the .ko file, then I

Re: why does linux-base-f7 exist if the binary compatibility is to a kernel too old to run it? (and how to change that?)

2008-02-08 Thread Vince Hoffman
Steve Franks wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f7]$ sudo make install clean === linux_base-f7-7 compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 is not supported. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f7. ??? Theres work in progress to update the binary

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