Re: Cleaning data off a remote machine

2008-07-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:23, Chris Hastie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm about to give up a FreeBSD dedicated server and would like to make sure I don't inadvertantly leave any bits of sensitive data on it. What is the best way to remove all data from the hard drive? I have no problem if this

Re: Free BSD on Macintosh OS 10.3.9 ?

2006-02-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:14:17 +0100 elisabet lundvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > can I use free BSD in my mac? I have Panther in my iBook, but there > is no BSD in it. > I tryed once to get it from the CD OS 10.2.3, but since it was older > than my updated > system OS 10.3.9 the system cras

Re: DVD Burners

2006-02-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:41:54 + dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 17 February 2006 21:05, Mike Jeays wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:36 -0500, Sean wrote: > > > I would like to add a DVD burner to my system. > > > > > > Anyone have recommendations on which ones play nice with Free

Re: Mounting data DVDs?

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:38:45 -0800 "Ronald F. Guilmette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know that I'm very late to the party, but I just recently bought and > installed my first ever DVD burner. > > The burner is installed on a system that I have set up to dual boot > to either FreeBSD 5.2.1 (

Re: Blocking an individual email address

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:27:40 -0500 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Jim Csoka wrote: > > > > No...I ran make maps, as well as make install for the > blacklist > > feature, > > > > and make restart. > > > > > > > > However, here is something interesting. When I access my > > corporate > > >

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:19:38 -0800 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do you say to the people who want to do some research before > putting the time into installing it? > > Ted http://www.freebsd.org/ http://www.freebsddiary.org/topics.php http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/ http:/

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:32:30 -0800 (PST) Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The computer is currently without keyboard, mouse or monitor. I am > > adding applications to the computer via ssh while I work. As soon > > as I get openbox and tightvnc installed, I'll switch to tightvnc s

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:57:04 -0700 "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Danial Thom wrote: > > > No, thats ridiculous. Linux has multiple > > distributions that use the same kernel. The fact > > that freebsd only has one distribution doesn't >

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
A FreeBSD vs Linux anecdote: I've read several articles over the years talking about how Linux can breathe new life into old computers. After the last couple of weeks, I don't buy it. After combining the hardware from 2 old computers (circa 1996 and 1998 -- anyone remember ISA cards, serial mice

Re: Problem with Cisco (Atheros) Wireless PCI card on IBM Thinkcentre MT-M-8183-T1S

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:02:47 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Greetings from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (The Maya Land) > > Am having problems installing FreeBSD in my University under IBM > Thinkcentre MT-M-8183-T1S boxes. > > I can´t detect the Wireless Cisco (Atheros) PCI lan card. Linux and >

Re: cups at bootup

2006-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:55:50 + Robert Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 16:03, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:30:01 + > > Robert Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:

Re: cups at bootup

2006-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:30:01 + Robert Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:00, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > After a complete system and port upgrade, cups does not start at > > bootup. During bootup, I see the following line: > > > >

cups at bootup

2006-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
After a complete system and port upgrade, cups does not start at bootup. During bootup, I see the following line: Usage: cups {reload|restart|start|status|stop} The command 'ps ax | grep cups' returns nothing. If I start cups as root manually ('/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start'), the cupsd sched

Re: php5 and apache2? -- Resolved

2006-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:59:48 + Crispy Beef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had the same problem before. I suppose you used portupgrade to > > install binary packages, right? > > The php5 package depends on apache13, this is why portupgrade > > installed apache13. > > You should deinstall php5

php5 and apache2?

2006-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I just finished upgrading via portupgrade and found that I now have both apache13 and apache2 installed. Upon examination of the php5 port, I've found that the "WITH_APACHE2=YES" option is no longer available. I'd like to stick with apache2 since I had everything working nicely (php5, webdav, ssl

Re: need help setting up wireless on my computer

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:23:30 -0600 (CST) "Brian John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:17:17 -0600 > > Brian John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > I just went to compUSA and bought their generic 802.11g PCI > > > wireless card. I was able to install it using t

Re: need help setting up wireless on my computer

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:17:17 -0600 Brian John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I just went to compUSA and bought their generic 802.11g PCI wireless > card. I was able to install it using the windows drivers at ndis0 > (see output from ifconfig below). > > The problem I'm having is I seem t

Re: Quick Install Question

2005-12-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:21:26 -0500 Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:39:04 AM > "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Quick Install Question > Wrote these words of wisdom: > > > On Tue, 27 D

Re: Quick Install Question

2005-12-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 "Daniel Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear FreeBSD- > > I'm a FreeBSD 6.0 newbie and very excited. > > Could you please by any chance answer the following basic install > Question? > > > What is the order of installing FreeBSD for a dual-boot XP

Re: Help

2005-12-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:34:07 + "mamaj m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Please answer my question > > This is the first time i use Freebsd > So i want to configare the webmin on my server , i download the > webmin on a cd > how can i configure the webmin on my Freebsd server > > Many Th

Re: how to dual boot

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:31:11 -0500 Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP > sp1. First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP > on the remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can > get bac

Re: dvdrecord?

2005-12-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:24:46 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> or maybe other tool? (but not growisofs that works good with DVD+R > >> only) ___ > > > > I use growisofs to burn database backup files to DVD-R on a regular > > bas

Re: dvdrecord?

2005-12-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:56:25 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why there is no dvdrecord in ports? it was available in NetBSD, and i > used it for recording DVD-R? > > or maybe other tool? (but not growisofs that works good with DVD+R > only) ___

Re: next question: dvd-burner.

2005-12-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:04:53 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:14:23PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 > > Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 12/

Re: next question: dvd-burner.

2005-12-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/14/05, Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. > > > Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to > > > be?

Re: FreeBSD starter machine

2005-12-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:07:44 -0800 (PST) "Matt S. Gann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a few questions about FreeBSD. I am just beginning to get > into UNIX. I know a few line commands, but really want to get > familiar and comfortable with the OS. I have been intrugued by > FreeBSD for

Re: Sharing filesystems between FreeBSD and Windows ...

2005-11-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:42:29 +0100 Kiffin Gish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 10:07 -0500, Nicolas Blais wrote: > > On November 22, 2005 09:59 am, Kiffin Gish wrote: > > > I have a home network running 3 desktop machines with Windows XP > > > Pro, and a webserver, fileserver an

Re: xorg.conf block my machine

2005-10-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:01:01 -0300 Pablo Allietti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all. i have xorg loading in tty7 at startup. > i change my mouse and i modified the file xorg.conf to mouse0 to > mouse1. > > well the problem is my machine cant start again :( load all system > but when finis

Re: Backing up postgresql data

2005-10-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:02:11 -0600 Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got postgresql 8 running on my system, and want to do nightly > backups of the database. I took a look at the docs, and there are a > few methods of doing backups - pg_dump, file system level, and using > WAL. I just

Re: Please help me !

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:21:30 + "mohammad ajorlou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Dear sir > >I'm Mohammad Ajorlou >I have MCP,MCSA,MCSE 2000 & 2003 certification , but very like > learn FreeBSD Operating System >i know FreeBSD very very stable , reliable and secure but >un

Re: why my daemon did not start

2005-10-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:34:15 +0800 "Foo JH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to write a simple RC script to run my little Perl > script as a daemon. The script is as follows: > > #!/bin/sh > > portal_enable=${portal_enable-"NO"} > portal_flags=${portal_flags-""} > portal_pidfile="

Re: D-Link wireless LAN card not working in 5.3-R

2005-10-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:33:29 -0500 Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:57:58AM -0700, N Deepak wrote: > > Thanks. A search for 'ath' in the configuration file gave no > > matches. There is no such .ko in my /boot/kernel either. > > Look for ath_hal.ko after you've

Re: How to read system mail?

2005-10-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:44:52 -1000 Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my system, I get the "You have mail" every time I log in as root, > but when I check, there is no mail. How do I fix this? > Does another account serve as an alias to receive root's email? Andrew Gould

Re: encrypted file sharing bsd<-->winxp/2k3

2005-10-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:00:38 +1000 Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mdff wrote: > >>>staying away from ipsec and hw-crypto-ether-cards how > >>>can i connect to network-shares on freebsd-boxes from > >>>windows-clients having the whole connection (auth and > >>>data stuff) encrypted?

Re: pccard, wi0, wep and DHCP

2005-09-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:34:55 +0200 Maarten Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > If used to have my wives laptop configured with rc.conf containing: > 'ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"' this works and brings up wi0. Since my town is > crowded with wardrivers I would like to use wep. Because my wife ofte

Re: FreeBSD vs. window managers

2005-09-02 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:19:09 -0600 hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the: > default window manager? > developer recommended window manager? > easiest to install? > > I am not trying to start a religious war here. > I am currently installing KDE from source and

Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:17:03 -0400 Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/20/05 11:23 PM, Andrew L. Gould sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:09:52 +0300 > > Ovidiu Ene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > is t

OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:09:52 +0300 Ovidiu Ene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is this a joke? > > Kent Hauser wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 > >years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of > >XP boxes. > > > >Can any

Re: FreeBSD and projects for kids

2005-08-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:12:12 -0700 "Gayn Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm building a PC with my 10 year old niece. Actually we are building > several PC's out of junk parts that we have laying around the office. > We are trying various OS's, including FreeBSD, on them. We are trying > to

Re: start up command for mysql

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:15:08 -0700 "Mick Wilcoxen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Found it. But the command is different from the command that > The person who created the database gave. Should I change it to mach > his command > > The command there is > > Start) > /sbin/id

Re: start up command for mysql

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:09:42 -0700 "Mick Wilcoxen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Ok found the fill, but what do use to check it. Its not viewable in > vi, so what do I use to check it ?? > > > *** > Mick Wilcoxen > (530)933-

Re: HOW to boot off the 5.4-Release CD with a different kernel that supports more hardware

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:39:37 -0400 (EDT) Ricky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The default 5.4 kernel does include the MK-III > patches from Soren as the 6.0 default Kernel does. I > have problems installing the 5.4 Release on my system > because I am missing these patches. I have tried

Re: start up command for mysql

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:36:31 +0530 Dev FreeBSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/19/05, Ed Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Dont forget to place it in the /etc/rc.conf as well.. darn > > rcsubr ;) > > Hi > > What is rcsubr ? > > -- > thanks > Dev. Good question. I don't

Re: start up command for mysql

2005-08-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:53:13 -0700 "Mick Wilcoxen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, really new at this FreeBSD & Mysql stuff. > > Which file do i put the startup command and the location of this ? > > The startup command is as follows > > /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld &. > > ***

Re: wireless DHCP + wep

2005-08-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:38:51 -0300 Pablo Allietti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all i have a question. > > i configure a Intel 2200 wireless card and the system detect ok and > load in the start time. > > so. now i need to add wep Key and DHCP. > > is that possible to do in automatically. >

Re: ath driver within 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:36:14 -0500 Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi > > I just wanted to know if the ath driver is included within the 5.4- > > RELEASE as I can't seem to find it with the GENERIC config or do I > > just

Re: i can't block win98 computers

2005-08-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:19:49 -0400 Hornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/15/05, vladone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I try to block some computers to acces my gateway based on MAC > > address. > > I use this ipfw rule: > > ipfw add 100 deny mac any xx:yy:aa:bb:cc:dd in via > > $priv

Re: Connect from distance!

2005-08-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:33:47 -0700 Carstea Catalin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can i "share" ( with chmod for example ) for only some users > ( web programmers ) only one directory where they can put his web > pages. Ex : "share" : /var/www/html/dir1 > for user1,user2,user3 > If user1 make s

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
e security mode OPEN, then my > windows works as shared too, but the router is still OPEN. > > my connection is working without WEP only, > but this is not what I want. > > without WEP was working before I did this posting. > > I need WEP and I want the connection wit

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:56:02 -0400 (EDT) "PK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is your wireless router on open or shared ? > If I set my wireless router on open, then it works without problems > and my ifconfig looks like yours. > > from man ifconfig: > > http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?sect

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 05:58:02 -0400 (EDT) "PK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is the channel correct? > > yes, it is, without wep works well > > Do you have an active firewall that could be blocking the wireless > interface? > > no, I don't have any firewall active > > > authmode OPEN is the

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:58:03 -0400 (EDT) "PK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi > > I removed the interface conf. from the cable but still doesn't work. > > What's very strange is authmode OPEN: > > # ifconfig > ath0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.2.20 netmask 0xff00 broadcast

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:19:54 -0400 (EDT) "PK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes, but cable is disabled at the moment Do you mean that the cable is unplugged or that you removed the interface configuration? Unplugging the cable does not change or remove the interface configuration. Reconfigure

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:57:44 -0400 (EDT) "PK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Poor signal strength > > no, very good (1 meter distance) > windows installed on the same machine shows 100% > > 2. Improperly configured nameserver information (/etc/resolv.conf) > > it's correct, because with et

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:09:31 -0400 (EDT) "PK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi > > I have wlan card WG311T from Netgear installed on freeBSD 5.4 > > # ifconfig > ath0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.2.20 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 > inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fe26

Re: AMD64 vs. i386

2005-08-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 19:46:48 -0500 "Joseph Sniderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I install the i386 version of FreeBSD on an AMD64(athelon64) > based computer? > Yes! Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: MySQL - Cannot access as root

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 28 July 2005 04:20 pm, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I have just installed MySQL 5. I can access the program as a regular > user, but not as root. As I regular user I have no privileges. If I > attempt to access as root, I receive this error message. > > ERROR 1045 (28000) Access denied for u

Re: Wireless with Aironet 350 Card Help needed

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 28 July 2005 01:28 pm, Reeves, Brandon wrote: > I have a Freebsd 5.3 Laptop with an Aironet 350 Card. I can get the > card associated with the AP using WEP etc. However, I still can not > ping the outside internet. I had this working while I was initially > toying with the card but for

Re: Sorry... newbie

2005-07-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 03:20 pm, Armando Richard wrote: > Hope find at least 1 patient person to answer this... > > I'm used to operate well systems in Linux and "R"windows and trying > from 2 days FreeBSD.. > > I've very very very novice questions and couldn't find any help in > literature i've b

Re: Apache 2 SSL Error

2005-07-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 11:01 am, Todd Suits wrote: > I set up a FreeBSD 4.11 jail to learn how to setup SSL on Apache 2 > correctly. I installed Apache 2.0.54 from ports. I generated SSL > certs just for testing purposes. I'm not able to get any response at > all from the server on SSL unless I se

Re: firewall on FreeBSD

2005-06-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 25 June 2005 09:17 am, mess-mate wrote: > Andrew L. Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Saturday 25 June 2005 05:19 am, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > | > mess-mate wrote: > | > > I've a firewall/router/proxy with openbsd and think to replace > | > >

Re: firewall on FreeBSD

2005-06-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 25 June 2005 05:19 am, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > mess-mate wrote: > > I've a firewall/router/proxy with openbsd and think to replace it > > with freebsd 5.4 > > Do you mean freebsd's PF don't support the 'quick' keyword ?? > > Thought PF on freebsd and openbsd was identical, isn't ? > > It

Re: Newbie question about ports.

2005-06-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 24 June 2005 01:01 pm, Sam Ip wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, > there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get > through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD > is its ports collection > > 1. Can

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 10:35 pm, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, /--big snip--/ > > Let me put it this way. A long time ago, we call it now stone age, > the people started to realise that a group of people shows better > results if they specialise. The people better in hunting went > hunting, the p

Re: Configuring Apache with DynDNS

2005-06-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 19 June 2005 09:07 am, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I am attempting to get Apache to work on my computer. My ISM only > supplies me with a dynamic IP as well as blocking of port 80. I am > using DynDNS to try and circumvent that situation. > > My knowledge of how to accomplish this quite frank

Re: OT: usage of split

2005-06-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 19 June 2005 10:34 pm, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > 2. How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the > > original file? I assume you can cat text files into a new file > > using redirection (>>); but can you do that with a binary file? > > I'd say yes, you can cat a binary

OT: usage of split

2005-06-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Regarding the usage of split to divide files into several parts: 1. Can the split utility be used on binary files? 2. How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the original file? I assume you can cat text files into a new file using redirection (>>); but can you do that with

Re: 3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R

2005-06-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 19 June 2005 07:15 am, Fabian Keil wrote: > "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a gzip'd database backup file that's 3GB in size. I used > > mkisofs to create an iso image for burning to a DVD-R. Both the > > m

3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R

2005-06-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I have a gzip'd database backup file that's 3GB in size. I used mkisofs to create an iso image for burning to a DVD-R. Both the mkisofs and growisofs process appeared to finish successfully; but 'ls -alh' shows the resulting file to be -514M in size when the DVD-R is mounted in FreeBSD 4.10.

Re: (starbucks) "ssid = tmobile" and 5.x (hit-n-miss)

2005-06-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 16 June 2005 11:36 pm, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 it looks like Andrew L. Gould composed: > > Try adding "ssid tmobile" to the ifconfig arguments in > > /etc/rc.conf. If adding it to your rc.conf file doesn't work for > > you, try

Re: web calendar program recommendation

2005-06-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 16 June 2005 08:38 am, Noah wrote: > FreeBSD-4.11 R3 > > > I am looking for a really nice calendar program that I can run from a > web interface. That has the ability to import my calendar from my > palm. > > horde is nice but I cant import any of my palm calendars. > > neither can web

Re: (starbucks) "ssid = tmobile" and 5.x (hit-n-miss)

2005-06-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:07 pm, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > Hello Family, > > Well sometimes I wish I had all the answers... I need some advice. > > When I proudly bring my FreeBSD-5.x laptop(s) into Starbucks, I have > my "wi0" set for "DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf and I never have consistant > handsha

Re: Sudden need for a wireless card for 5.3

2005-06-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 03:58 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: > I suddenly find myself in need of a wireless card for a 5.3 desktop > box. > > Anyone want to recommend something? > > Thanks, > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PRO

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.3 + FreeBSD + TCP/IP

2005-06-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 03:14 pm, Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:05:05AM -0500, Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm having a difficulty getting PostgreSQL to accept TCP/IP > >> connections on FreeBSD 5.3. I have edited 'postgresql.conf' in my > >> postgre

Re: WebCam support in FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:27 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What is the way to use webcam under FreeBSD ? > > > > Under Linux there are many drivers supporting many webcams exposing > > them as device with some standardised access. > > > > Under Windows there's wh

FYI - Commercial antivirus software for FreeBSD free for personal use

2005-06-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
FYI - AntiVir Personal Edition Classic is now available for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris. Workstation, Mailgate and Milter versions are available. The Personal Edition Classic version is available free of charge for personal/noncommercial use; although registration is required. http://f

Re: on demand virus scanning of XP share

2005-06-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 09 June 2005 11:28 am, dave wrote: > Hello, > I've got clamav installed on a 5.4 box and i'm trying to use it > to do demand scanning of a windows XP machine. I'm atempting to mount > the system's C$ share, but although it shows up in the listing of > smbclient -L //SystemName -N at

Re: x

2005-06-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 03 June 2005 10:44 am, jose luis wrote: > hi > i need help. > my english is little, then i hope that you understand me. > well i use freebsd 5.3 i installed xorg and kde. > i execute startkde and it appears this: kpersonalizer: can not > connect Xserver i execute kdm or xdm and it appear

Re: bsd vx tux

2005-06-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 03 June 2005 04:58 pm, Joe Wood wrote: > Another picture I found rather funny.. > > http://www.projectosiris.net/multimedia/pics/linuxsuxx.jpg > > Cheers > Joe > That's horrible -- the daemon should have used a drop cloth! ___ freebsd-question

Re: 5.4 Installation

2005-06-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 03 June 2005 04:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am a FreeBSD newbie and have some questions about installation. I > installed the 5.4 version from CD and selected the “User and X > Windows” (or something like it) installation. I also selected “yes” > for installing all of the packag

Re: Small MTA for Mutt?

2005-06-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 03 June 2005 08:07 am, Frits Westra wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for a small MTA for Mutt. I tried sSMTP but had to ditch > it since system messages to root @ my ISP couldn't be suppressed. > > Any suggestions welcome. > > Thanks in advance, > Frits I use msmtp. It's can be configure

Re: amd64 status

2005-06-02 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 02 June 2005 03:36 pm, Miguel Miranda wrote: > Hi list, i have heard a lot of good things about opteron servers, im > going to upgrade several old production servers (thinking on hp dl145 > or sun v20z, sugestions?), is the amd64 port stable enough to use it > on production?, what about

Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

2005-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 05:09 pm, Timothy Smith wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:51 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > >>Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >>>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > >>>>Andrew L. Gould wrote: &g

Re: starting xorg

2005-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 04:06 pm, Paul Blake wrote: > i have read thru the help pages and can not find the command (or way) > to start xorg please respond. thanks > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to start xorg from the command line, execute 'startx'. You can select your default window manager/de

Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

2005-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:51 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > >>Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >>>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > >>>>is there something

Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

2005-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > >>is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? > > > >What do you mean by "extra"? What have you

Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

2005-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? What do you mean by "extra"? What have you done so far? Have you recompiled the kernel with device lines for ath and ath_hal? Andrew Gould ___

Re: FreeBSD

2005-05-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 01:13 pm, Carolyn Taft wrote: > Will this program allow me create password access to websites? Can > I copy program from internet to my computer and burn CD (internal > burning)? > > Thanks FreeBSD is an operating system. Although the operating system, itself, is not a

Re: Impossible install of 5.4

2005-05-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 16 May 2005 10:26 am, Olivier Gautherot wrote: > Hi folks! > > I've tried to install 5.4 but can't boot the disk. I see a FreeBSD > prompt (the master boot selector being a Linux version of grub) but > it complains about a missing /kernel. > > When I check my 5.3 disk with the new 5.4 ins

> 95% packets dropped with Atheros in FreeBSD 5.4

2005-05-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I'm having problems with an Atheros PCI card (D-Link G520) when running FreeBSD 5.4 i386: 1. I've been testing the card with the computers placed within 4 feet of the wireless router. 2. When I tested the card in a AMD64 socket 939 computer, it worked fine in Windows XP (rules out hardware i

Re: Running out of memory

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:59 am, Jacob S wrote: > I've got a server that keeps running out of memory and crashing. It > has 1GB of swap and 1GB of ram. I originally made the swap the same > size as the ram, as my previous experience with *nix machines was > that when swap is double the size of ram

Re: gnumeric portupgrade fails (libgnomedb)

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 05 May 2005 10:14 am, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > On stardate Thu, 5 May 2005, the wise Andrew L. Gould entered: > > Hi Marco, > > > > Do you need gnome-db? (Better yet, have you seen **any** > > documentation as how to use gnome-db from within gnumeric?) >

Re: gnumeric portupgrade fails (libgnomedb)

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 05 May 2005 08:47 am, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to portupgrade gnumeric today (from 1.4.1 to 1.4.3_1), but it > fails at the point where it tries to compile libgnomedb 1.2.1. It > fails with the following error: > > ... > gnome-db-dsn-config-druid.c: In function `general

Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:25 pm, Chuck Robey wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64. If > > FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better. > > > > I was thinking about putting Fr

mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64. If FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better. I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data. Is there any reason I sho

Re: i need a file manager!

2005-03-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
e/gert/ in cm > using f5 ? ___ The link below leads to an introduction to mc that you may find useful: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue23/wkndmech_dec97/mc_article.html Best of luck, Andrew L. Gould ___ fre

Re: i need a file manager!

2005-03-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 03:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:41:16 +0100 > > Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What shell file manager do you like or x file manager ? > > i like mc and xfe and konqueror (good support for ftp,sftp,webdav), > but normally i only us

Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely

2005-03-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 03:26 pm, Ean Kingston wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:18 pm, Christopher Nehren wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 2005-03-22, daniel scribbled these > >> > >> curious markings: > >> > security note: > >> > vnc is *not* encry

Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely

2005-03-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:18 pm, Christopher Nehren wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2005-03-22, daniel scribbled these > > curious markings: > > security note: > > vnc is *not* encrypted and is not generally considered secure. any > > ports you open/forward should

Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely

2005-03-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 10:02 am, daniel wrote: > On March 22, 2005 10:54 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > I have this big curse that I have to access the office computer > > from home. The office PC runs WinXP Home, not Professional. > > I have turned the Internet upside-down trying to get an a

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