Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-18 Thread Dick Davies
[Let me first point out I've seen about 4 different 'unix/windows is teh gayz0r' threads on completely unrelated mailing lists in the last 24 hours. If I sound bored rigid with the whole subject that might be why.] Can we please stop comparing *NIX to windows. They're nothing like each other.

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-18 Thread Dick Davies
On 18/01/06, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft pays hardware manufacturers to make drivers for their OS, I seriously doubt it. They don't need to with their market share. Ok, what do you guys live in a shoe or something? MS doesn't have to pay vendors, you toad. Did

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-18 Thread Dick Davies
On 18/01/06, Martin Tournoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what? That's exactly the same for FreeBSD, even it's core apps. And vendors rush to support MS' new OSes. There's a very big dump of unmaintained software, whenever I want to play an old classic game like cc, x-com or even system

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-18 Thread Dick Davies
On 18/01/06, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/01/06, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (actually, no he didn't. your mail clients quoting is insane) (some guy:) Microsoft pays hardware manufacturers to make drivers for their OS

Re: New FreeBSD 6.0 system advice sought

2006-01-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/01/06, Jason King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would stay with the apache 1.3 branch because of some compatibility issues with the 2.0 branch. Compatibility with what? 2.2 is out now, 1.3 seems to be getting mainly security fixes. To the OP: you'll get a better answer if you say what

Re: partitioning after the fact

2006-01-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/01/06, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #2 containing empty space recovered from a previous Linux install, 15G primary partition t I would like to make partition #2 to also contain FreeBSD. But if I remember correctly there is no way to do such a thing without starting all over again

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/01/06, David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone has an unsupported sound card with a Linux example. All the tough details about the hardware are spelled out in the Linux driver. Plenty of FreeBSD drivers have been ported to Linux and vice versa. Danger Will Robinson! The GPL can

Re: System hangs for 30 minutes before booting normally into freebsd 6.0

2006-01-16 Thread Dick Davies
Also, try toggling 'pnp os installed' in the bios. On 16 Jan 2006 09:22:55 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ravi Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 203 Then try disabling ACPI; I wouldn't be surprised if your system had no support for it

Re: Syntax of dhclient.conf(5)

2006-01-13 Thread Dick Davies
There should be semicolons after each line. On 13/01/06, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I failed to find detailed syntax layout in dhclient.conf(5) man page, via web search, or be able to deduce from files in /misc/src/sbin/dhclient. I was looking for something like as given in (i)pf.conf(5)

Re: pf question

2006-01-12 Thread Dick Davies
On 12/01/06, Vasile Cristescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does pf has something like ipfw -d show ? I don't know. What does 'ipfw -d show' do? -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/ ___

Re: WEIRD: telnet

2005-02-13 Thread Dick Davies
* Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0205 15:05]: Some tangential observations: 1. Unless you *must* use telnet for some reason, it's a good idea to turn it off. This is a telnet client, how would you 'turn that off'. This is a very common way to test if a socket is listening, and there are

Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Dick Davies
* Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0216 21:16]: Peter N. M. Hansteen writes: Because they wrote the software in question, perhaps? So? If it's truly open source, the copyrights should be assigned. All it takes is one copyright holder who withdraws a license and an entire package

Re: FreeBSD - Is it ok

2005-02-13 Thread Dick Davies
* Tony King [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0219 15:19]: Hi I use a Mac G4 and have a spare hard drive. I would like to put a Unix OS on it but do not know what I can use. I think it comes with one. -- 'The State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchasNetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0238 05:38]: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dick Davies Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:10 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo

Re: I can't BOOT! You all need to WAKE UP and HELP a BROTHER!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Dick Davies
* Fafa Diliha Romanova [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0239 10:39]: Hello! I am running a new HP Compaq DC7100 CMT. For more information, check: http://www.antonline.com/p_PC928A-ABA--DC7100-CMT-P4-3.0-512MB-40GB-DVD-WXPP-3-3-3-_102136.htm I've been trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE for a long

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Dick Davies
* Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0201 13:01]: On Feb 11, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: That is so not true that it makes me almost as angry as the original debate. Maybe getting angry about a mere logo is a bad sign. Just to sum up things

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0255 08:55]: Yep, I was wondering how long it would take before someone figured this one out. We know the real rea$on$ that this logo change is being contemplated, don't we. You seem to think you do, certainly. Why don't you ask core instead of

firefox creating oddly named profile directories

2005-02-09 Thread Dick Davies
anyone else seeing this? I rebuilt my laptop yesterday after an 'incident' (tip of the week; don't mix up ad0 and da0) and rsynced bacx /etc /home and /root, then pkg_add -r'ed my way back to a desktop without too much bother. But firefox (latest one with the hole, 1.0.7mumblemumble) refuses to

Re: Very general shutdown question

2005-02-07 Thread Dick Davies
* Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0203 23:03]: Hello Ned, you can add the user to the operator group. it is possible to run shutdown then (but not halt etc). Be caneful of that, I think operator has other privileges too (can read from any disk for starters). You could also create a shutdown

postgres 8 init script problem?

2005-02-06 Thread Dick Davies
Anyone else having problems starting postgres 8.0.1 (from ports) on RELENG_5? It seems to start alright, but clankily: root$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start hang for about a minute could not start postmaster root$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh status pg_ctl: postmaster is running (PID:

Re: postgres 8 init script problem?

2005-02-06 Thread Dick Davies
* Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0237 21:37]: Anyone else having problems starting postgres 8.0.1 (from ports) on RELENG_5? It seems to start alright, but clankily: root$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start hang for about a minute could not start postmaster root$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d

Re: de-installing kde Xfree86 from 5.2.1

2005-01-31 Thread Dick Davies
* bsd @ todoo. biz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0129 21:29]: Hello, I am looking for a fast and secure way to remove all kde* things from my system. We are using this machine as a headless server and do not need this kind of things at all. then why did you install them ? :) This is bothering

Re: Syncing 3 Freebsd servers' accounts Question

2005-01-27 Thread Dick Davies
* Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0129 20:29]: I forgot: O'Reilly has a really good book on LDAP LDAP System Administration - includes a chapter on how to migrate from NIS to LDAP. IMO that's one of the few bad oreilly books - if you want a really good ldap tutorial, get Understanding and

Re: perl and ports

2005-01-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0137 23:37]: No i dont know anything about c++ or perl, ok i know what a class is :P For me is not realy about perl it self its about the way it get used as a tool to help build things. For me freebsd is build as a base that can handle everything designed for

Re: Authentication with ldap very slow

2005-01-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0105 22:05]: Hi I've a server (FreeBSD 5.3-p5) to use a openldap for authentication. Everthing work fine butit's very slow when some operation need to known the id -- uid. For example if I try to execute some cd /home ls -l * It's

Re: Authentication with ldap very slow

2005-01-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0131 23:31]: Le 26/01/2005 ? 23:28:02+, Dick Davies a ?crit * Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0105 22:05]: Hi I've a server (FreeBSD 5.3-p5) to use a openldap for authentication. Everthing work fine butit's very slow when some operation

Re: dns question

2005-01-20 Thread Dick Davies
* Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0157 12:57]: Not really a freebsdquestion specifically. My company uses ns.foo.com and ns1.foo.com for primay/secondary dns, about 200 domains rely on these. We want a new physical machine , in a different location, with a different IP to be our

Re: Web Email

2005-01-17 Thread Dick Davies
* Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0158 02:58]: Hi, I'd like to have access to my spool via web browser. What kind of applications can I use? Nobody's perfect, but we have, on average, been generally happy with squirrel. Worth pointing out you need an imap server first.

Re: 5.3 Install

2005-01-16 Thread Dick Davies
* Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0109 11:09]: Lyn Robie wrote: Rarely have I found such an amateurish installation procedure. It's obvious you guys are hard put to find anyone competent in the user interfaces. snip I can't find my ass with both hands and it's all your fault troll

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Dick Davies
* Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0122 14:22]: Matthew Seaman wrote: If your ISPs nameservers are unreliable or overloaded, and not giving you a good service, then one course of action you might consider is just configuring the named(8) built into your FreeBSD system to do recursive DNS

Re: Freebsd 5.3 Performance

2005-01-10 Thread Dick Davies
* Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0154 09:54]: Mark writes: M Ah, this point fascinates me. Running for years? Do you ever have M to recompile your kernel? :) Usually once when I first install the OS, then never again (unless I change something in the hardware, which I hardly ever

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-07 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0135 07:35]: Perhaps we all should ask why it is OK for SuperMicro to release a motherboard that is incompatible with the existing FreeBSD versions? Because they hate our freedom, of course... -- 'One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0157 06:57]: Tom Vilot writes: I tend to agree. Are people still using Java? Keep in mind that Sun's main Java push was into micro-code for embedded devices, that is why Java was written in the first place. And somehow this mutated into J2EE :D

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0125 07:25]: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dick Davies I don't think it does cost the Foundation nothing, that's the trouble. You spend years jumping through hoops to get the certification (the only benefit of which is it pleases

re: bash- superuser

2004-12-21 Thread Dick Davies
(sorry if I cocked up your threading, readers - I accidentally deleted Gregs mail and so pasted this from google groups). There are a couple of reasons why this shouldn't happen: 1. You don't normally start networking until you have mounted your local file systems. 2. The problem

Re: bash- superuser

2004-12-21 Thread Dick Davies
* Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1234 11:34]: On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:14:15AM +, Dick Davies wrote: I thought the issue was the ldconfig path not being set up at the point that pppd called su? pppd lives in /usr, after all :) Not quite. The issue was that the /etc/rc.d/ppp

Re: [OT] rrdtool examples

2004-12-21 Thread Dick Davies
* Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1218 11:18]: Hi all, I've been playing around with rrdtool for quite a while, but I still don't really get it. I've been trying to find some example scripts for rrdtool, but I really can't find much of them. I have found Erik de Mare's perl scripts

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread Dick Davies
* Gerhard Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1207 12:07]: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote: I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2. I have installed bash from ports. How is possible to use bash in root account ? Do not change the shell of the

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread Dick Davies
* Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1250 14:50]: Using a shell not contained in the root filesystem can cause problems even when not in single user mode. There are enough examples in the archives. Indulge me with an example? -- 'When the door hits you in the ass on the way out, clean off

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread Dick Davies
* David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1241 17:41]: Dick Davies wrote: To the original poster: just be root and run 'chsh'. No. When you are logged in as root, you *should* have to go through extra hoops to get comfortable. On my box I have a # prompt to tell me I'm root. I don't sit

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread Dick Davies
* Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1224 00:24]: On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:30:20AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 15:52:27 +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:32:53PM +, Dick Davies typed: * Gerhard Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1207 12

Re: courier imap keys and self-signed ca signing

2004-12-19 Thread Dick Davies
* Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1204 18:04]: On 12/19/04 12:45 PM, dave sat at the `puter and typed: Hello, I've got a 5.3 box that i'm using as a self-signing ca. I want to get keys going for all the various protocols i use, http, which i've done, pop and imap, and smtp. It's

linux-base borked?

2004-12-18 Thread Dick Davies
just a quick sanity check - I'm trying to install linux stuff, and getting security warnings from portaudit about linux-base-7 having xpm vulns. Is that right? -- 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use regular expressions. Now they have two problems.'

Re: for Centrino (Pentium-M) - ways to decrease CPU power?

2004-12-15 Thread Dick Davies
* Miles Keaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1236 13:36]: Can FreeBSD tell a Centrino (Pentium-M) CPU to decrease its CPU power? I have a laptop (Gateway 450ROG) whose CPU seems to run hotter in FreeBSD doing *nothing* than it does in Windows doing almost anything. So much so that the loud emergency

Re: routing monitoring ?

2004-12-10 Thread Dick Davies
* Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1236 11:36]: Hi I've installed an old PC ( PII 350 Mhz ) as a router it works like a charm ;-) I wonder which tool I could install on it to monitor a bit the routing process. cricket kicks the ass. built on perl and rrdtool, really powerful config syntax

Re: different passwords for local and remote login?

2004-12-09 Thread Dick Davies
* Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1217 08:17]: Hi, is it possible to have a different password for local (console, xdm) and remote (ssh) logins? absolutely, you need to tweak pam settings for each service. I have a separate password database for my imap-server (dovecot), and I was

Re: Two versions of ruby == problem?

2004-12-09 Thread Dick Davies
* Roger Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1210 09:10]: After doing a cvsup on one of my machines I like to run 'portversion -c needs.update' to see what needs updating. If the output is small enough I might try doing 'portupgrade -a', but usually I go through the list one by one to set the flags

Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD

2004-12-05 Thread Dick Davies
* Damien Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1247 21:47]: I've been a FreeBSD user for a while now and I love it. I'm running 4.10 and plan on upgrading soon. I'm also an OpenBSD user but I tend to use it for firewalls and routers. I setup Apache and Subversion on OpenBSD 3.6 last week. This is the first

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d vs /etc/rc.conf question

2004-12-02 Thread Dick Davies
* Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1210 17:10]: --On Thursday, December 02, 2004 07:39:00 AM -0900 Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just took over a FreeBSD box and there is a proftpd.sh script in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory. There is also this entry in /etc/rc.conf:

Re: linux emulation

2004-12-02 Thread Dick Davies
* Mikko Heiskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1244 16:44]: I've been wondering about this some time now. The linux compatibility layer (kernel module + linux_base -port) is told to be able to run linux binaries. The handbook even describes for a couple of heavy-duty applications how this is done.

Re: JDK Issues

2004-11-29 Thread Dick Davies
* Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1126 22:26]: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location ^ Mount linprocfs. (Incidentally, you could have just googled this. 'If you can't figure this out for yourself.' :) ) --

Re: JDK Issues

2004-11-29 Thread Dick Davies
* Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ 16:11]: On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Dick Davies wrote: * Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1126 22:26]: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location ^ Mount linprocfs. (Incidentally

Re: kernel compile error

2004-11-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Brian Bobowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1134 14:34]: Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:03:52PM +0900, Rob wrote: Matt Emmerton wrote: Having such a mechanism, would prevent lots of beginners in the kernel compiling stuff, to get frustrated with errors like above.

Re: Copyright Issues

2004-11-24 Thread Dick Davies
* Jonathan T. Sage [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1102 07:02]: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Besides, I am amazed this company hasn't already had problems with theft, if one of these condom dispensers showed up around here, I can think of a dozen people who would be trying to figure out how to steal it.

Re: How do you make install without direct internet access?

2004-11-24 Thread Dick Davies
* Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1129 21:29]: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:22:07PM -0800, Ralph wrote: actually, since I was in csh, the setenv FTP_PROXY my.internal.proxy:80 worked like a charm, except that, for some reason, fetch refuses to work without internet DNS resolution. As with

Re: 4 part domain names

2004-11-24 Thread Dick Davies
* stheg olloydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1157 00:57]: .. Generally, however, the tertiary domain level is the system's function: www, ftp, mail, etc. if the system is public. nitpick the function is often the leftmost component, not the tertiary - plenty of domains have more than 2 domain

Re: 4 part domain names

2004-11-24 Thread Dick Davies
* Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1140 15:40]: Hexren wrote: JM On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Hexren wrote: JM : location. 510 could identify a rack or a datacenter so that JM : us.510.mail.example.com means a mail server in the datecenter with JM : the id 510 which serves the

Re: httpd.conf

2004-11-24 Thread Dick Davies
* metallarch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1131 16:31]: I made a virtualhost on apache 2.0 .. Here is my configs rc.conf: gateway_enable=yes ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.0.249 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet 192.168.1.35 netmask 255.255.255.0 httpd.conf: Listen 80 ServerName

Re: 4 part domain names

2004-11-24 Thread Dick Davies
* Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1153 16:53]: For example, I can create a host in example.com called us.510.mail and you can't stop me (evil laughter). Sent the RFC mail prematurely... RFC 952 says: quote A name (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up to 24

Re: Copyright Issues

2004-11-23 Thread Dick Davies
* Mick Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1137 14:37]: Hi all, Sorry if this post is off topic. Last night me and a few friends decided to go for a few quiet drinks after playing football for a few hours. For this we choose a little pub in the village of Yarm (Close to Middlesbrough in the north

Re: How do you make install without direct internet access?

2004-11-23 Thread Dick Davies
* Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1132 20:32]: Hey, I've got a proxy-out connection where these boxes are installed. In other words, the only way to get out to the internet is through the http/ftp proxy. So in my /etc/profile I have a line HTTP_PROXY=my.internal.proxy:80 try

Re: NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

2004-11-22 Thread Dick Davies
* Panagiotis Christias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1116 09:16]: On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:05:33 -0500, Ivan Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just another thing ... If I remove myself from the group wheel then I CAN ssh to my computer; if I put myself back to wheel - then CANNOT ssh to the computer.

Re: unsure about /etc/hosts

2004-11-22 Thread Dick Davies
* Oliver Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1107 21:07]: # Host Database # # This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts that # share this file. Replace 'my.domain' below with the domainname of your # machine. # # ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain

Re: your mail

2004-11-21 Thread Dick Davies
* Antoine Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1159 00:59]: Hello, I am unable to build the jdk14 port. Here are the errors that I get .java ; \ fi /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java:1: 'class' or 'interface' expected Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM

Re: User CD Mount

2004-11-20 Thread Dick Davies
* Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1103 15:03]: Hi All, I am trying to get permission to mount CD's when logged in non root Following the handbook advice I have :- As root set the sysctl variable vfs.usermount to 1. # sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1 Added the line vfs.usermount=1 to the

Re: uninstall freebsd

2004-11-18 Thread Dick Davies
* Ton Keesmaat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1106 13:06]: Question: I got a PC where freeBSD is installed. I want to uninstall freeBSD and format my the harddrive so i can install Windows. When starting the PC it asks for a login name and password which i don't know. Booting with a floppy with MS

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-10 Thread Dick Davies
* Andrew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1104 17:04]: I want to setup a Caching DNS server for my network using FreeBSD 5.3. Can someone point me in the right direction with what port I need to install and any links to installation guides? You can use bind as others have suggested , though I found

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-05 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1109 16:09]: Here's a new thread. Naming the computer host? I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different location. Yet FBSD seems to want a permanent assignment which I

Re: Postgresql not starting...

2004-11-05 Thread Dick Davies
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1153 22:53]: In /usr/local/etc/rc.d I find 010.pgsql.sh to start the service but /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start doesn't look to do anything. if I su - pgsql then try to createdb an error of missing server pops up. Could you please help in a

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-03 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1113 00:13]: Start with the basics Exactly! Here you go: plip0: flags=8851UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1057 19:57]: I have several wifi modems. I've read where the Linksys 802.11b seems the most compatable with UNIX type systems. I bought this one recently. I also have the US Robodics 802.11g, Netware 802.11b, and a generic wavelan 802.11b PCMCIA card. I have

Re: External Hard drive

2004-11-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1056 19:56]: I have been using this 6 year old laptop as a test bed for the different versions of Linux and FreeBSD. (The built-in CD ROM is almost worn out.) I just put v5.2.1 back on this laptop. It doesn't want to recognize this hard drive. I have checked

Re: FreeBSD wireless access point (under 5.2.1)

2004-11-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Jason Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1157 10:57]: Hi folks. I am trying to set up a FreeBSD wireless access point as per the instructions in chapter 24.3 of the handbook. I have successfully done this in the past using FreeBSD 4.8. My network topology is illustrated here:

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1138 20:38]: When I go to configure an Internet connection over a network, I seem to be getting the same errors with FreeBSD and the wifi card that I got with Linux. I am probably approaching it wrong, someway. Trying to do something (?) that I shouldn't,

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread Dick Davies
* Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1036 04:36]: On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200 Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to be used as temporary routers. They

Re: Hostname

2004-10-29 Thread Dick Davies
* Mick Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1004 10:04]: On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 00:25, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 12:19:01AM +0100, Mick Walker wrote: Hi, I recently (today) upgraded to 5.3-STABLE. I am wondering why I cant set my hostname. It works if I issue the

Re: question about openssh authentication.

2004-10-29 Thread Dick Davies
* joshua [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1036 13:36]: dear firends: there is a puzzle about openssh authentication, i try to solve it, but i could not, could you help me? there is two account named as 'joshua' and 'moon' on my server. i want to disable password authentication method for

Re: portupgrade and pkgtools.conf

2004-10-28 Thread Dick Davies
* Uros [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1054 10:54]: Hello! I'm trying to update subversion from ports and I have WITH parameters in my pkgtools.conf 'devel/subversion' = [ 'WITHOUT_NEON=1', 'WITH_APACHE2_APR=1', 'WITH_BERKELEYDB=42' ] but

Re: Can't login to Nessus

2004-10-28 Thread Dick Davies
* Alexandr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1030 12:30]: I cvsuped my ports tree and install nessus and nessus-plugins. As root a run nessusd and run nessus, when I type my user name and password I get message in concole: SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or

5.3 external ehci dvd drive

2004-10-27 Thread Dick Davies
Just got a new usb 2 enclosure and swapped out my internal cd/dvd drive to it. I can mount it fine on 5.3 as cd(4) over umass(4) but it's too slow to play DVDs over. Has anyone got this working, and is there a step I've missed? The 1Mb/s speed line looks worrying, though usbdevs does show it

Re: 5.3 external ehci dvd drive

2004-10-27 Thread Dick Davies
* Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1032 12:32]: Did you compile ehci into the kernel? I chose to upgrade to 5.3 RC1 since it seamed to have better ehci support...still didn't work all that well with my drives...but it worked. Remember, ehci is new and buggy. :) Yeah, that's what I thought :)

Re: Apache2 + SSL

2004-10-19 Thread Dick Davies
* Nelis Lamprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1041 11:41]: Hi, I've recently just installed apache-2.0.52_1 from ports on a new system. I've taken an already working configuration from an older machine and transferred it to the new server. No matter what I do I can't get SSL working even though it

Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers

2004-10-19 Thread Dick Davies
* Davon Shire [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1016 12:16]: If by high-speed support you mean 'as fast as a local disk' then try it. It works. While I appreciate the quick reply. Reading my messages in detail might have been a little more enlightening in the kind of info I wanted. If there was

Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers

2004-10-18 Thread Dick Davies
* Davon Shire [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1044 15:44]: Hello, I want to start this email saying I'm a very devoted FreeBSD user. I've been using it a very long time. Did the subscription thing. Etc etc That said, I'd very much like to know where on the horizon do USB 2.0 highspeed drivers sit?

Re: Named configuration question

2004-10-16 Thread Dick Davies
* Albert Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1023 10:23]: Hi all, I've got a freebsd dedicated server in germany. My web page is only accessible by www.mydomain.com. Now, I wanna create subdomains by country, for instance, france.mydomain.com, spain.mydomain.com, I think I have to set-up the

Re: Compiling mod_proxy WITHOUT apache2

2004-10-14 Thread Dick Davies
* Stephan A. Rickauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1041 16:41]: Hi there, I successfully run an apache2 server on freebsd 4.10. Now I realised that I've forgot to compile mod_proxy. Is there a way to only compile the module without compiling whole apache2 and destroying my current binary? Maybe a

Re: Postgres

2004-10-13 Thread Dick Davies
* Norman Uittenbogaart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1010 16:10]: I'm trying to write a backup script for postgres and us a crontab on it. In the manual it says for pg_dumpall make $HOME/.pgpass so it won't ask for a password. Now I made the .pgpass in root's homedir (i wanted to use root's crontab)

Re: ports freeze and portaudit alerts

2004-10-12 Thread Dick Davies
* Jacques Vidrine [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1027 17:27]: On Oct 10, 2004, at 3:43 PM, Dick Davies wrote: Shouldn't serious bugs (like the JPEG vuln in firefox for example) to override the freeze? What JPEG vuln in firefox? Sorry, that was from memory - I was thinking of the libpng hole (which

Re: Installer

2004-10-12 Thread Dick Davies
* Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1009 23:09]: Geez, another top poster who mangles the flow of the thread!! jerry Can we all shut up about top or bottom postings now please? We know how everybody feels about it, because they've told us a dozen times. Since we're all pouring

Re: Java5 and FreeBSD

2004-10-02 Thread Dick Davies
* Adam Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1005 02:05]: On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 01:46:51AM +0100, Dick Davies said: * De Savant [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1038 01:38]: I was looking around with this latest announcement of Sun's Java2 1.5, since I was considering using FreeBSD on our server (amd64) instead

Re: Pam_ldap

2004-10-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Bret Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1028 00:28]: I've been trying all day to get pam_ldap to authenticate an ssh session against Active Directory. I thought that I had found the perfect HOWTO (read: one that didn't require nss_ldap), but its instructions didn't seem to get it working on my

Re: Pam_ldap

2004-10-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Bret Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1043 13:43]: It is here: http://www.netsys.com/pamldap/2002/04/msg00074.html Thanks, Bret -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dick Davies Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 4:31 AM To: Bret Walker Cc

Re: Pam_ldap

2004-10-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Bret Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1023 15:23]: I have ldap.conf in /etc/ and in /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf The one in /etc isn't doing anything, so get rid of it. The /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf should be holding the ad stuff (what user to bind as , etc). I am able to log into the console as

Re: Java5 and FreeBSD

2004-10-01 Thread Dick Davies
* De Savant [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1038 01:38]: I was looking around with this latest announcement of Sun's Java2 1.5, since I was considering using FreeBSD on our server (amd64) instead of Linux. I made my way to Sun's java page, and then to the newest Java2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 release. Yet

daemon book discounts

2004-09-22 Thread Dick Davies
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Re: Using port system in network using proxy server

2004-09-22 Thread Dick Davies
* Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0933 14:33]: Good day! Do you have any idea on how I can install through freebsd port system when my internet connection is on LAN and our LAN uses proxy server? I can set the proxy details easily in my web browsers but I don't know how to do it

Re: What to backup

2004-09-16 Thread Dick Davies
* Gary Aitken [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0911 20:11]: Scott Gerhardt wrote: On Sep 15, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Curtis Vaughan wrote: I have a question about what exactly I should backup on my 5.3 FreeBSD Server. So far I have chosen the following directories for full backup. But perhaps some is

Re: /root default permisions

2004-09-15 Thread Dick Davies
* Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0956 09:56]: On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:36:59PM +0200, Martin Vana wrote: I installed FBSD 5.3 Beta 3 - Default install, and as a regular user I can 'cat /root/.cshrc' or any other file in admin's directory? is it a bug? No, that's not wrong. The

re: Which Distro?

2004-09-14 Thread Dick Davies
I am going to buy a Mac g4 soon, and I am thinking about turning it into a server. I asked around and everybody rocommended FreeBSD to me. So what distro of FreeBSD would I use for a mac computer? Everybody recommended you run FreeBSD on a Mac? Get some new friends :) OSX is a pretty

Re: does java needs linux base?

2004-09-01 Thread Dick Davies
You need a linux jdk tp build the native one. * Jorge Mario G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0937 05:37]: Hi there I built the native java from ports and I see it uses the linux_base which I dont want because I'm running out of space can I remove it??? completely?? and how by the way I mean all the

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