Re: A laptop worth saving?

2004-03-11 Thread Dan Pelleg
nstall on it and then swap it back in. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-11 Thread Dan Pelleg
tions of) remote hardware on a need basis, rather than to own all of it all of the time. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Dan Pelleg
aren't > much help, I'm afraid. Thanks for the offer though. > Just a thought - a distcc based system should be able to take advantage of such offers. (No, I'm not volunteering to set one up). -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail

Re: Fax software question

2004-03-07 Thread Dan Pelleg
Do it in one of the following ways: 1. cd /usr/ports/comms/mgetty+sendfax make install clean cd /usr/ports/graphics/netpbm make install clean 2. portinstall mgetty+sendfax netpbm (assuming you have portupgrade installed). -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Fax software question

2004-03-07 Thread Dan Pelleg
t. For text input, it looks like pbmtext (from the netpbm port/package) will convert text files to a suitable format (and then you run pbm2g3, which is inclduded in the mgetty+sendfax pacakge). -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Amavisd and clamd startup on boot

2004-03-04 Thread Dan Pelleg
> Please let me know what i am doing wrong? > > Gareth Are they executable? They won't be run unless they are (and also end in .sh, which they do). -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Automount pcmcia flash reader?

2004-02-29 Thread Dan Pelleg
.html > That article has been extended to CF cards. See: http://www.daemonnews.org/200305/cfmount.html -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: UK Distributor???

2004-02-27 Thread Dan Pelleg
irrors.html#MIRRORS-CDROM (some of links in it are stale or broken - I'll send a note asking to update). The UK ones seem to be: http://www.freebsd-services.com/ http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/freebsd/ Also, some of the US-based ones are happy to ship internationally. -- Dan

Re: Running virus scanner on FreeBSD Samba server

2004-02-26 Thread Dan Pelleg
t; Any information is of value, and please CC me, since the information > flow on Questions is so high that it's hard to follow. > Use clamav (in the ports). -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: mac filtering

2004-02-21 Thread Dan Pelleg
8) can filter by MAC addresses. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: method to test for link before dhclient at boot?

2004-02-19 Thread Dan Pelleg
office and > plugged in. > > Is there a way to accomplish this? > > Thanks, > DW > Use nicmond (net/nicmond in ports). It will do all that, and even bring your interface up as soon as you plug the network cable in. -- Dan Pelleg ___

Re: PXE Booting 5.2.1-RC2 on Thinkpad X31

2004-02-16 Thread Dan Pelleg
> There are some hints on: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ also search the mobile@ list (or post a question there). I got it to install something around 5.1 by using a USB CD-ROM. It should also work to boot off the CDROM and do the rest of the install over FTP. -- Dan Pell

Re: very long connection times

2004-02-11 Thread Dan Pelleg
a web browser open on a page that auto-refreshes, or maybe an IM client that keeps connecting out (to make sure firewall rules are kept alive). Check out ppp's packet filtering options - you probably want to play with the dial and alive filters. You can also t

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping?

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Pelleg
Vincent Poy writes: > > That's the part where it becomes difficult since even though I > have 8 IP's, it's still on a /24 mask so only the 8 IP's in that /24 are > actually local. > Use a /27 mask. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://li

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping?

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Pelleg
atch wins. So: pass from 192.168.0.0/16 to any pass from 209.204.138.224/29 to any queue 1 from any to any alternatively, use a "skipto" rule. Whatever fits in your ruleset better. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:/

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping?

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Pelleg
Vincent Poy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 6 Feb 2004, Dan Pelleg wrote: > > > Vincent Poy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Greetings all: > > > > > > I have a ADSL connection where the upstream pipe is smaller than > &

Re: desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Pelleg
need to mount altogether, it's also likely to handle unmounting correctly for you (if not, just do amq -u as a regular user). Details here: http://www.daemonnews.org/200202/automounting.html -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping?

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Pelleg
shape outbound packets (ie, leaving your computer). Doesn't matter if they're up or down the DSL line, just that they go out (shaping incoming traffic makes no sense). -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Using FreeBSD to burn in computers

2004-01-21 Thread Dan Pelleg
ly interested in *running* them anyway. It can even incorporate a newly-added bug (sometimes the ports fail to build because of problems in the makefiles, and if you're unlucky you'll cvsup that just before the problem is fixed). I would just skip this altogether. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Using FreeBSD to burn in computers

2004-01-21 Thread Dan Pelleg
under benchmarks, but I assume you're already familiar with all of those which matter. Here's an idea - try and look at the tuning(7) man page, and apply every suggestion in reverse. I'm half-joking, but things like turning off softupdates should really increase the number of disk accesses. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Mozilla: changing IP w/o restarting

2004-01-20 Thread Dan Pelleg
s is related to the problem that made mozilla hang for a few seconds on some lookups (ISTR it being related to missing records), it has been fixed a while ago (at least in firebird). The OP didn't specify the mozilla version he's using Apart from that, I also like the local DNS cache a

Re: Is there some source navigator for freebsd ?

2004-01-18 Thread Dan Pelleg
manish gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi everybody.. > > I have worked in linux freebsd is a new to me. > > is there some source navigator in freebsd ...if yes tell me about that > > best regards > > manish > ht

Re: running ftpd in a jail

2004-01-15 Thread Dan Pelleg
t; i would appreciate advice and comments > You can use the punch_fw keyword to natd(8) for that. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: IPFW 'keep state' & 'limit'

2004-01-14 Thread Dan Pelleg
need > to be documented in the man IPFW data. > > Should this be submitted as an problem report? > > > > -Original Message- > From: Dan Pelleg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IPFW 'keep state' & 'limit'

2004-01-14 Thread Dan Pelleg
, and you should really specify one or the other. If you specify both, ipfw won't complain, but ipfw2 will. So it's best to not do that. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Mounting as non-root?

2004-01-13 Thread Dan Pelleg
ogram getting in the way. > > Ernst > > And in particular, for CF cards: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200305/cfmount.html -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

2004-01-12 Thread Dan Pelleg
ile size will not go crazy. > > > Thanks for your advices... > I've never tried this, but it should work: set up a vn(4) disk of the right size, and arrange for the user's spool to be on its mountpoint. See vnconfig(8) for setup examples. -- Dan Pelleg

Re: What is the end of FreeBSD ?!

2004-01-09 Thread Dan Pelleg
an > active participant. > > TIA Right here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/ Executive summary: install the textproc/docproj port, cvsup the doc tree, start generating patches, and send-pr them. -- Dan Pelleg __

Re: RCS

2004-01-05 Thread Dan Pelleg
, this would be a good resource to learn about it: http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: laptop hardware profile

2004-01-03 Thread Dan Pelleg
gt; Put these in your rc.conf file. For more options see man rc.conf. You might also find the nicmond port useful. It will attempt to bring the wired interface up only when it detects a live network. This also means it will auto-connect as soon as you plug a running la

mailing list search (WAS: DOS of named)

2003-12-17 Thread Dan Pelleg
"Robert Eckardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PS: BTW, is there a search engine on freebsd.org for the archives or > do I have to stay with google, which becomes less usable each day?) > You can use http://freebsd.ra

FAQ answer unclear: filesystem size limit

2003-11-24 Thread Dan Pelleg
r the default block size of 8K. In practice, there is a soft limit of 1 terabyte, but with modifications filesystems with 4 terabytes are possible (and exist)." Does anyone know what the modifications are, and if they are considered stable enough for production use? --

Re: what does this message mean ?

2003-11-17 Thread Dan Pelleg
bly an ipfw bug of some > kind. It is. But a few of those were corrected in the past. Make sure you're running an up-to-date version (eg 4.9-RELEASE; iirc even 4.8 should be ok). -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://list

Re: Dictionary in ports?

2003-11-14 Thread Dan Pelleg
Bryan Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a stand-alone dictionary port? I would like to have one on the > pc cause im gettin tired of goin online. thanks textproc/wordnet has an English dictionary and thesaurus, and comes with a CLI and GUI. --

Re: mounting a usb device

2003-11-14 Thread Dan Pelleg
usage tips, see: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200305/cfmount.html -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: converting real media audio

2003-11-12 Thread Dan Pelleg
Joan Picanyol i Puig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [please honour, Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] > > * Dan Pelleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031112 15:12]: >> Joan Picanyol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > [please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscr

Re: converting real media audio

2003-11-12 Thread Dan Pelleg
understand the format. What's the one liner to dump what is sounding on > my speakers to a file sox can convert (which device shoud I cat?)? Is > there some utility to convert from .rm files to .wav? > > tks > -- > pica Run realplayer under linux-vsound (in the ports). --

Re: How to patch and fix a broken port?

2003-09-22 Thread Dan Pelleg
y someone will take care of it. As for the technical guidlines, see the porter's handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Spam and virus filter for mailserver

2003-09-22 Thread Dan Pelleg
all in the ports. But amavisd-new seemed to work better out of the box, at least together with postfix. Note this month's DaemonNews has an article covering this configuration. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: antiviruos for FreeBSD mail server ?

2003-09-19 Thread Dan Pelleg
mentioned at the end of: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200309/postfix-spamassassin.html -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: configuring SpamAssassin?

2003-09-19 Thread Dan Pelleg
t; http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200309/postfix-spamassassin.html -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Installing Matlab R13 useing Linux compatibility

2003-09-08 Thread Dan Pelleg
ndbook/linuxemu.html Note it includes a Matlab section, which is known to work on 4.X. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ssh/root and remote X sessiosn

2003-08-01 Thread Dan Pelleg
t. Even manually setting the DISPLAY variable does not seem to allow > this. > > How can I make this work? > You need to get xauth to work. Assuming you're ssh-ing as user USER, this is an easy to to achieve this. Type this after the "su". For csh or tcsh: setenv HOM

Re: does freebsd support IRDA comm.?

2003-08-01 Thread Dan Pelleg
coldsync for some PalmOs devices). -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: MP3 Steamer with Web Control

2003-07-23 Thread Dan Pelleg
gnump3 or ample (both in /usr/ports/audio) -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Variable NFS mounts / firewall rules.

2003-07-01 Thread Dan Pelleg
nt-exit-hooks, see dhclient-script(8). 5. You can further run ifconfig commands in /etc/start_if. (for example /etc/start_if.fxp0 ). -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: tree-based quotas for UFS/UFS2?

2003-06-30 Thread Dan Pelleg
following is not a real solution, but it will work for some uses. Just define a vn(4) device of the size you want and mount it on the right directory. See vnconfig(8) for examples. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: dhclient acts odd with read-only '/' & other questions about/dev

2003-04-04 Thread Dan Pelleg
esult in this behaviour. But for dhclient.leases, it might. Advance warning: if you're using ntp, you will have a similar issue for ntp.drift. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Crucial USB CompactFlash reader and 4.6.2?

2003-04-02 Thread Dan Pelleg
I've had good luck with adding a QUIRK for my non-working CF readers. This requires light kernel hacking. See: http://www.root.org/~nate/freebsd/quirks.html My advice is to try DA_Q_NO_6_BYTE. If it works for you, submit a PR (assuming it wasn't already do

Re: Only one of two builtin USB hubs working with 4.x, both workwith 5.x

2003-03-31 Thread Dan Pelleg
s for > the second hub) or is this a known issue I'll just have to wait for? > > > Jody > Just checking for the obvious - do you have a device node created? -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Laptop with PCcard ethernet: how to set up?

2003-03-30 Thread Dan Pelleg
t; > The card comes up fine, but it doesn't get ifconfig'd. Do I need to add > something else to rc.conf? > 1. You don't need the ifconfig_ep0 line. 2. Change the pccard_ifconfig value to either "DHCP" or something like "inet 192.168.1.1/24". --

Re: IPFW - Why Doesn't This Rule Match?

2003-03-25 Thread Dan Pelleg
t; 00700288 329708 count ip from 192.168.1.3 8080 to any > > # Match everything else > 00800 0 0 count ip from not 192.168.1.3 8080 to any > > Can anyone tell me what I am missing? > > Thanks, > > Drew Probably because the "not"

getting device for umass?

2003-03-18 Thread Dan Pelleg
up a script from /etc/usbd.conf. However all I get from usbd is umass0 for DEVNAME. I poked around camcontrol but it didn't seem to give me enough information to come up with a robust script. Any ideas? -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebs

Re: freebsd nis server with debian clients

2003-03-10 Thread Dan Pelleg
he passwords with a "ypcat -k passwd"? If it does, I would triple-check the password encoding (section 19.8.11 of the handbook). Remember that you need to *change* the password after making a change to encode it in the right method. Next - what does /etc/nsswitch.conf on the client look lik

Re: Epson 740/USB Revisited

2003-03-01 Thread Dan Pelleg
k for me either way: - printer off when system boots - printer on when system boots -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: winmodem in freebsd?

2003-02-28 Thread Dan Pelleg
been able to find such drivers so > far, but maybe it's just a matter of editing the linux > drivers to work in freebsd. Has anyone tried this? > Try the ltmdm port. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: APC UPS

2003-02-25 Thread Dan Pelleg
> :) > FWIW, and I realize that's not a lot, the APC 1400RM2 does work with apcupsd. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Panic under load? 3 volumes in mirroring

2003-02-24 Thread Dan Pelleg
s are internal. Underspec'd power supply will give you all sorts of weird errors, and the motherboard will finally reboot the machine. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: USB flash drive mount - da device?

2003-02-22 Thread Dan Pelleg
;t help you here: cp -r will still create any intermediate directories as root/wheel). Note you can use either the usbd/pccardd hook or the automount method, or both - neither depends on the other to work. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: email and cvs opinion?

2003-02-19 Thread Dan Pelleg
u have to remember to sync before and after reading mail (or else be willing to merge your changes manually). Note that it really is just a 2-way syncher. To get it to do N-way, each of the replicas needs to be synched against a master copy. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PRO

Re: ipfw2 dynamic rules not dying

2003-02-17 Thread Dan Pelleg
essive, and they don't seem to > be timing out. Is my ruleset screwed up? > > Thanks > Jason > IPFW2 will attempt to test if a connection is still open, and if it is will keep the matching rule intact. Search for "keepalive" on the ipfw manpage. -- Dan Pell

Re: network issue

2003-02-13 Thread Dan Pelleg
sconfigure BSD1 and BSD2 so it happens. Please post the ifconfig output for both of them. Also, why is your default route "external" and not 192.168.1.254? Or am I not understanding you? -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Newbie Wireless Networking

2003-02-06 Thread Dan Pelleg
and figure this out, but I seem to be stuck. Any pointers would be > greatly appreciated. If I could get this thing up on the network it would > make my day. > > My first guess would be that pccardd isn't running. In any case, you'll probably want to read through: http:/

Re: How to use Port Collection without cd-rom and internet

2003-01-30 Thread Dan Pelleg
py them to the > /usr/ports/distfiles directory; some ports use specific subdirectories > within /usr/ports/distfiles. > And to get the list of files to download do a "make fetch-list" in the right directory. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: more named questions . . .

2003-01-28 Thread Dan Pelleg
sion in the mailing lists about this. In fact, there is one going on right now on freebsd-stable. Search for the thread "4.7-R-p3: j.root-servers.net" -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: New to FreeBSD

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Pelleg
estions. [BTW, would one of the satisfied readers of "FreeBSD unleashed" care to send a PR to update the page above with a link to it? I feel uncomfortable doing that has I haven't read it] -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on our School LAN?

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Pelleg
you get the policy, you can then decide on an infrastructure, and then go to the rulesets. # Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition # Brent Chapman and Elizabeth Zwicky # # O'Reilly & Associates, Inc # ISBN 1-56592-871-7 # http://www.ora.com/ # http://w

Re: list of fbsd console commands

2003-01-20 Thread Dan Pelleg
you have installed. Answer y and you'll get it. Having said that, for learning purposes you'll be much better off with a good Unix book, and reading the manpages for commands you find interesting. Then either use the "SEE ALSO" section for related commands, and/or use apropos(

Re: PDA Palm and images

2002-12-24 Thread Dan Pelleg
t; that I know does not support this). > > thanks. Try looking for PalmImage (it's in Java). Once upon a time I even used it in a script to parse MapBlast output and push the little turn maps to the Palm. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "uns

Re: Going from Windows to X - suggestions

2002-12-18 Thread Dan Pelleg
, but at least it starts up immediately and doesn't take up all of your RAM. It also thankfully lacks the toolbars and panels left and right, which is especially important for low-res displays. It's in the ports. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &qu

Re: jailed ftpd behind NAT'ing firewall: ftphosts?

2002-12-17 Thread Dan Pelleg
hing I should > just know. > Again, this is just a guess, but in my understanding a file with a single line that looks something like this should work: ftp.mydomain joe - - - -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Another Jail Question

2002-12-04 Thread Dan Pelleg
AT - the jail host can do it by itself. Here's a how-to for a jailed FTP process configured like this: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200212/ftpjail.html -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: How do I use uvisor?

2002-12-04 Thread Dan Pelleg
Pat Lashley writes: > --On Tuesday, December 03, 2002 06:36:45 -0500 Dan Pelleg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Pat Lashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I've been syncing my Handspring Visor over the USB cable using > >&g

Re: How do I use uvisor?

2002-12-03 Thread Dan Pelleg
27;m not sure how to get it to trigger a sync (from usbd) myself. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: media help

2002-12-01 Thread Dan Pelleg
gt; Thanks please reply soon Dialup is covered in chapter 18 of the handbook. I recommend "user PPP". Networking, in section 6.6 (as well as chapter 19). The handbook is at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: does ucom0 work?

2002-11-21 Thread Dan Pelleg
getting pilot-link working with FreeBSD's USB port. > Is this error a FreeBSD error? Is there FreeBSD'ers using ucom0 successfully? > ucom with uvisor certainly works for me. Look in the archives of the freebsd-stable list for a message I sent a few weeks ago that has a few tip

Re: SIZE of rpc.statd?

2002-11-18 Thread Dan Pelleg
> See #10.28 in: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Slightly OT (and more related to the wireless networking)

2002-11-18 Thread Dan Pelleg
t he > was seen such tool for Windows. > Try dstumbler, in the ports ("bsd-airtools"). -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: PDA, USB and synchronization

2002-11-14 Thread Dan Pelleg
onnection over the USB one. Once you have that working you can use utilities that expect a serial connection like jpilot (in the ports). You might need to upgrade your system to get ucom. I remember some discussions involving both in the mailing-lists. Try the -stable archives. -- Dan Pelleg

Re: USRobotics Wireless

2002-11-10 Thread Dan Pelleg
> It's in the Hardware Notes but I would prefer that someone who actually > uses a card like this tells me it's ok! > It works. Just get the firmware update off the manufacturer's site (you'll need to stick it into a Windows machine to upload it to the card). --

Re: setfacl requirements?

2002-11-08 Thread Dan Pelleg
Chris Faulhaber writes: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:38:17AM -0500, Dan Pelleg wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to use setfacl - just the example that's in the manpage. All I > > ever get is: > > setfacl: acl_get_file() failed: Operation not suppo

setfacl requirements?

2002-11-08 Thread Dan Pelleg
ago. Any clue? -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Laptops & FreeBSD?

2002-11-08 Thread Dan Pelleg
e it > dual-boot a Win2k/XP. > For FreeBSD-compatibility, check out: http://freebsd-laptop.grot.org/ -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: motherboard temperature/fan monitoring?

2002-11-03 Thread Dan Pelleg
this > board (Intel 440LX) supposedly has. Try healthd. The manpage says it does LM78. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD 4.7 on IBM Thinkpad T20

2002-10-31 Thread Dan Pelleg
th 4MB of video memory. > FWIW, a quick web-search brings up http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/thinkpad/index_e.html -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: dhcp option to *not* overwrite /etc/resolv.conf

2002-10-29 Thread Dan Pelleg
> Hi, > > I have read the man pages, searched a few forums, but I did not found a > way to prevent dhcp to do not change my /etc/resolv.conf. I do not have You can write a script to fix resolv.conf right after dhclient ruined it. The way to do it is to hook it from /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks (whic

RE: Keyboard maps

2002-10-27 Thread Dan Pelleg
ld be to look in geographically-local forums for Unix or X-windows. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

RE: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-24 Thread Dan Pelleg
W. D. writes: > At 20:39 10/23/2002, Dan Pelleg, wrote: > >FreeBSD systems are easy to maintain. You can do a source upgrade, > >or a binary upgrade, and the system will go through it and boot > >to the new version without a hitch. On one system I have I've gone f

RE: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-23 Thread Dan Pelleg
time and sanity are worth anything to you, you'd better put FreeBSD on this system. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

RE: need help with ipfw rules

2002-10-21 Thread Dan Pelleg
XXX for your external interface and see what's going out and what's coming in. Once you start firewalling for a network, a "tcpdump -ni III" with III being the internal interface becomes useful as well, either in itself or in addition to the external-watching tcpdump. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

RE: Questions about dialup

2002-10-19 Thread Dan Pelleg
t's a Lucent Winmodem, in which case the ltmdm port might prove helpful. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

RE: usb sync with visor/ palm pilot

2002-07-18 Thread Dan Pelleg
palm/coldsync in the ports works fine (visor over USB). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Thinkpad overheating when talking to a D-Link wireless AP

2002-07-15 Thread Dan Pelleg
David W. Chapman Jr. writes: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:42:49AM -0400, Dan Pelleg wrote: > > > > robert Backhaus writes: > > > I May be on the wrong foot, but are they all logically > > > switches, or are some hubs? I the D-Link is a logical > &g

Re: Thinkpad overheating when talking to a D-Link wireless AP

2002-07-15 Thread Dan Pelleg
robert Backhaus writes: > I May be on the wrong foot, but are they all logically > switches, or are some hubs? I the D-Link is a logical > hub, you would be processing many packets, just to see > they don't apply. Maybe possible.? Don't think so. The D-LINK does not broadcast any packets oth

Thinkpad overheating when talking to a D-Link wireless AP

2002-07-15 Thread Dan Pelleg
I noticed that my -STABLE thinkpad X23 gets very hot when talking to a D-LINK DWL900-AP but not to other access points. It will get uncomfortably hot, and the fan would go to high (loud) mode. I have never managed to otherwise get the laptop into this condition no matter how hard I work it, and e