Re: Running X from a windows PC
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:27:34PM +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Marcel Stangenberger wrote: You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ? VNC would do the trick if it's just yourself using the system. Hope this helps. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?!
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:28:53AM +0100, Siegbert Baude wrote: If there was not a clean shutdown, I would start looking for faulty hardware, assuming the power was not interrupted. Any machine that spontaniously reboots on its' own usually has a bad power supply, but it could be very well be the motherboard, or even something else. Further, as many other people have said, just because the hardware is new does not necessarily mean it is problem-free. Look especially for the condensators on the motherboard. There is a wide-spread problem with a Taiwanese company having produced bad electrolyte. The resulting condensators are found in motherboards of nearly all manufacturers and (as I can say out of my own experience) give exactly the behaviour, you described. This is off topic (sort of), but out of curiosity, could problems like that on a motherboard cause problems relating to memory? If so, I bet this explains my problems at work lately with an NT4 server giving me the BSOD all the time with memory errors. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?!
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:20:56AM -0800, Steve Warwick wrote: Hi All, Is it possible for FreeBSD to shut itself down and restart for no reason? My machine was restarted last night and my hosting company claims they did not touch the server or have any problems. This has been going of for a few months now -- intermittent restarts that no one claims responsibility for. This is a new machine with the latest OS (4.7) so I can't blame a faulty power supply or something like -- I have more fans than Britney in the server, for HD and CPU so I don't think it's a temp problem. Run /usr/bin/last and check the line below the last 'reboot' (which is when the system came up). If you see 'shutdown', then FreeBSD did a clean shutdown because someone or something told it to do so. Any users that are logged in to the system will have 'shutdown' as their logout time. If there is no 'shutdown' before the reboot, then the system did not cleanly restart. You would also likely see / not cleanly unmounted, checking (that is not the exact message, but it is similar) in dmesg before the Mounting root from ... line. If any users were logged in, you will see 'crash' as their logout time. Here are two examples; This is normal. I shut down the system myself: reboot ~ Thu Mar 27 17:40 shutdown ~ Thu Mar 27 17:39 root ttyv0 Thu Mar 27 17:27 - shutdown (00:12) This is a crash. The power flickered in this case: reboot ~ Mon Feb 24 00:52 jhuntttyv0 Sun Feb 23 12:31 - crash (12:20) If there was not a clean shutdown, I would start looking for faulty hardware, assuming the power was not interrupted. Any machine that spontaniously reboots on its' own usually has a bad power supply, but it could be very well be the motherboard, or even something else. Further, as many other people have said, just because the hardware is new does not necessarily mean it is problem-free. Hope this helps. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Content Filtering on Exim
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:54:19PM +0200, Wayne Swart wrote: Does anyone know of a content filtering app that can check the body, and headers of emails for certain keywords and stuff, and then decide weather the mail should be delivered or not? Check out procmail (http://www.procmail.org/) Hope this helps. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where packets are dropped in route
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:32:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe your ISP is blocking port 22 after all. nmap will tell you. can nmap (which i don't have installed) tell me more than telnet - as far as a where a specific IP/port packet is being blocked/dropped? If you mean where along the path it is getting dropped, no. Other than what you have tried so far with traceroute, I don't believe there is really any way to tell WHERE certain ports are being dropped. For all you know, there could be a transparent firewall that drops the packet and does not send back an ICMP notification. Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: usb zip drive
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:46:20AM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: i am not sure it will be in my dmesg if the device doesn't exist on boot.. or will dmesg hold info about devices loaded after boot? dmesg will show you the most recent kernel messages, which can appear at any poing during operation, not just at boot. So basically, yes. Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:33:08PM -0800, Lin Jianfong wrote: Hi, I just bought a Palm m125 model recently and tried to sync it via the USB cradle/cable on my fbsd 4.7R box. I got the process going all up to the point when trying to backup and sync using jpilot and pilot-xfer. The problems : - For some reason, jpilot is having trouble reading AddressDB, ToDoDB and MemoDB off my palm. It can read DateBookDB no problem. If I tried syncing, the process will go thru and jpilot will sync only DateBook's but not the other 3 apps' database. Same thing when doing backup. I set both jpilot and palm to communicate at 9600bps. - For pilot-xfer, pretty much the same problem, when I tried doing % pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -b $HOME/palm_backup, the process will go thru, it reported succeeded in reading the RAM from Palm, and Palm itself reported success in synchronizing but...afterwards, $HOME/palm_backup is still EMPTY. pilot-xfer just didn't bother to report any error. To make a long story short, you're better off getting a serial cable/cradle for now. USB does not work with pilot-link in FreeBSD. My problem sounds similar to yours. It would only see one DB on the Palm and then finish the hoysynch. When I did pilot-xfer -l it would only list one of my applications DBs and then say it finished sucessfully. Using pilot-link with jpilot and a serial cable (or a cradle) works great, although I can't seem to make it go any 9600bps, or maybe I'm impatient :) Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: /etc/fstab config
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:29:33PM -0500, george donnelly wrote: hi i've got a 3 disk raid 5 partition that is my main fs and then an 80gb ide drive on a separate partition at /vol1. i need to config my /etc/fstab for this and this is what i've got (see below). can someone tell me if looks correct? # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/da0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad2s1e /vol1 ufs rw 2 2 proc/proc procfs rw 0 0 Check the fstab(5) man page. I think maybe the Dump field for /vol1 should be 1 as well. dump(8) tells you more about this. I am not 100% sure. also, if i were to reboot the machine with the pass # for /dev/ad2s1e (/vol1) set to 1, would this be incorrect (i think so) and would it cause damage to the disk? The fstab(5) man page says that the root filesystem should be set to 1 andother filesystems should be set to 2. If you set them to 0, they will not be checked. I don't think setting that field to 1 will damage anything, but should be set 2 anyways. Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: running freebsd os cobalt machines ?
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:32:02AM +0100, Thomas von Hassel wrote: We are about to inherit some cobalt raq or qube serves from another company. Now i dont know anything about except that they run some flavour of unix. Is it possible to run freebsd on those. Now i know that by doing that your scrap the fancy webinterface but i dont really need that anyways :) I'm almost positive that the answer is no, atleast on the i386 versions. Unfortunately the Cobalts are not just vanilla PCs (for obvious reasons). The Cobalt's BIOS is designed to only load a kernel with a specific name off of the first ext2 partition. You might be able to put a BSD kernel on an ext2 partition and then load then continue booting the OS from a different partition, but I have never tried it. The boot loader in the BIOS may or may not check if the kernel is valid or not. I do not have access to any Cobalt hardware anymore, and I never had enough time to try it when I worked for that company. FWIW, I ended up using those Cobalts for Slackware. Check google for slack raq or something alone those lines. There was a gentlemen who had a site with pretty good instructions on how to get Slackware installed on a RaQ 2, but they also worked on a RaQ 3. Also, I think some other people have mentioned during this thread, but if you have a MIPS-based Cobalt, you can put NetBSD on it. How do you know which one you have? The quickest way might be to open it and look at the processor. :) Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Samba and XP?
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Bill Moran wrote: There's an XP machine right behind me that talks to our Samba server just fine. Just don't configure Samba to be a domain server. And, it does work just fine under domain systems as well. Samba just doesn't do active directory yet. OT, but my understanding is that indows XP Home Edition will not log in to NT4-based (SMB-only) networks, but only Windows 2000 (Active Directory) networks. However, Windows XP Professional will log in to both. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Error while compiling kernel.
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Sergey Niunco wrote: Device scbus was and is in my kernel config. A few days ago I compiled it without a problem. Did you CVSUP since the lat time you compiled? If so, you might have done it during a commit, so something got broken. Every now and then (maybe two or three times a year?) I'll get a broken buildworld that is usually fixed by CVSUPing a day or two layer. If you have no clue what CVSUP is, or you did not perform a CVSUP, check your kernel config again. Although, I don't think that that synatax errors are usually caused by missing dependancies. Another possibility (doesn't seem likely, but you neverk now) is that there's some stale files sitting around. Remove /usr/src/sys/compile/* (remove the subdirectories, not the compile directory itself) and try again. Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: dos attack
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Michael wrote: Thanks for all that responded. Your ideas are great but they will just slow the dos down if even that. I guess no one has either thought of a true way to stop a DOS or maybe its really impossible because your allowing them in to begin with. Easier said than done. Some types of attacks such as SYN flooding and smurfs can be prevented, to a point. How can a peice of software determine the difference between legit traffic and traffic intended to bring down your server? It would be very hard to write a program that can tell the difference between someone downloading a large file off your website with a high through-put and someone flooding your services with invalid requests. Even if there was something like that, what are the chances of false positives? Look at all the problems trying to prevent spam. Both of these problems will likely need to be prevented through legislation, not code, before we will really see a declide. Yes, I am referring to Lawrence Lessig's idea for spam control. Anyways, this is not the place for that discussion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: iomega usb zip 100
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Ted wrote: Dear FreeBSDers, I've tried using the mount command to mount my USB Iomega Zip 100 drive but have failed. Upon boot w/ the device plugged into the pc, the kernal recognizes it as umass0 but on the very next line it states that Get Lun (stalled). How do I mount a USB Iomega Zip 100 drive under FreeBSD 4.7? Have you tried mounting the device anyways? I use mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /mnt (I might be a bit off about the device name - I will check later tonight). It could be a bad zip disk. Have you tried doing an extended format using the IOMega drivers under Windows? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: lock.
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, lewiz wrote: Is there any utility similar to lock (that I can do the equivalent of lock -npv) that I can set a timeout on - much like with xscreensaver? I don't want to manually have to run lock - instead a timeout would be good, so that if I don't hit any keys it will lock the machine? If you want to lock the X session, try xlock + xscreensaver. Both are in the ports. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Palm 515 setup
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Anne Sipes wrote: I just got mine syncing. I put together this howto: http://www.geekhome.net/palm.html Let me know if you have any problems with it. FYI, this works on my m125 as well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Palm 515 setup
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jason Hunt wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Anne Sipes wrote: I just got mine syncing. I put together this howto: http://www.geekhome.net/palm.html Let me know if you have any problems with it. FYI, this works on my m125 as well. Unfortunately, I spoke too soon. jpilot seems unable to read anything from the Palm other than the username and ID. Using the serial cable works fine. The strange part is I can use the pilot-link utilities just fine. Maybe it is something specific to jpilot? I thought jpilot just ran pilot-link's utils and collected their output? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: MSN Messenger
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Wayne Swart wrote: Is there an equivalant for msn messenger on X ? I use everybuddy. It supports a number of different IM protocols. One thing I liked is there are not too many dependancies. Now, I have not tried any of the other IM programs (for more than a few minutes anyways), but I have no big complaints about everybuddy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: possible problems in bootup
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Asenchi wrote: I am having what seem to be problems in the boot process. When it gets to the ata0 device it sits for about a minute then continues like normal. Is this supposed to happen, am I doing something that I just don't know about to make this happen? One of my machines will do this if I have no devices on any one of the IDE channels. For example, if I take my CD-ROM out, then the second IDE channel is empty and FreeBSD will pause for a moment when detecting the hard drives on boot. This only happens with one of my machines. The motherboard on that is a Asus P3V133 (I think) with a VIA Apollo MVP3 chipset. Maybe it is a small issue with some/all VIA chipsets? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: windows 2000 FreeBSD?
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Yes, of course. You can even use the Windows 2000 boot menu to boot your FreeBSD installation. I've done it recently, and it works fine :) FYI, I tried booting FreeBSD from the Win2k loader and it wouldn't work. The machine would just reboot when I tried to load FreeBSD, but Windows loaded properly. My HD is 80 gigs, with the first 40 gigs for Win2k and the other 40 for FreeBSD. Maybe the Win2k boot loader won't load your OS if the partition starts before the 1024th cylinder? Just speculating .. I ended up just installing the FreeBSD boot loader (booteasy). I was really hesitant at first because I was not sure if booteasy would be able to boot Win2k and I could not find anyone who gave detailed information about their setup. After just going ahead and installing booteasy anyways, I saw that Win2k's loader is not stored in the MBR and instead it will co-exist (it's stored on the Win2k partition) with booteasy. Basically, install Win2k, install FreeBSD and the boot manager, and then you're done. Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: testing memory speed
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, David S. Jackson wrote: Is there a utility to test memory speed? I looked at memtest in ports, but it looks like that mainly tests for faulty memory. I did a websearch and found a command: dd /dev/zero /dev/null, but that doesn't seem to summarize the memory speed easily for me. Can anyone else give me a pointer to how to test my machine's memory speed? How can I find out whether a memory stick is compatable with an old box? The speed of the memory is a hardware issue. If you mismatch the speeds of your memory and your motherboard, then the board will either try and force the memory to run a the speed it wants, or the motherboard will drop it's bus speed down to match that of the memory. Either way, I don't think that software is able to tell you if a stick of memory should be running at the speed it is, because the software can only read what the motherboard is running at. My suggestion would be to just try the memory. If it doesn't work, you won't break anything. The worst case scenario is that the motherboard detects the wrong size of memory if the speed is mismatched, which should still be usable anyways. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Unexpected Soft Update Inconsistency / Cannot Read: Blk
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Vinco Maldini wrote: 1) What does the result below mean? (Is my drive failing? Why can't I clean the FS?) [ ... snip ... ] CANNOT READ: BLK 152744928 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY [ ... snip ... ] THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 152744946, [ ... etc, etc, snip ... ] Were there any kernel messages displayed on the consoles (the bright white text)? If you don't have console access, run the /sbin/dmesg command. If you see any ad2 read errors from the console, then you likely have a bad drive. On the other hand, if you don't see any errors being reported by the kernel, then the CANNOT READ errors are probably just caused by incompleted meta-data writes to the drive. However, THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ makes me think it is a hardware problem. 2) Are there any BSD tools for reading the SMART data off the Hard Disk so that I can see whether it is about to fail or currently experiencing HW failure. Any other ways to check for bad sectors? I thought that someone asked this same questions a few days ago, but I can't find it in the archives. I'm honestly not sure if anything like that is available. Searching the FreeBSD site did not yield any results. My best suggestions is to check google. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: El Torito
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Fixer Corp wrote: I just pruchased FreeBSD 4.7. It requires a CDROM with El Torito support. My computer was purchased in 1998 and the owners manual does not say anything about El Torito. When I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.0, it did not support my Sony CDROM, so I bought an ATAPI CDROM. There is no way I'm purchasing a new computer so I can run version 4.7. If you know of any workarounds. Please let me know. Well, check around your BIOS for the setting that modifies what order the PC tries to boot off of different devices. You may be able to have it boot off of the CD-ROM. If not, you can use two floppys disks in order to boot the installer. Check Section 2.2.7 of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html for instructions on how to do this. Also, you will probably find the FreeBSD Handbook very useful if you are new to FreeBSD. It is available online at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html or /usr/share/doc/en/books/handbook/index.html once you have a FreeBSD system installed. Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Accessing Windows Share
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Chris Brotherton wrote: I want to mount a windows share on my FreeBSD box (alpha 500au running 4.7). I added the following options to my kernel configuration file: options NETSMB options NETSMBCRYPTO options LIBMCHAIN options LIBICONV options SMBFS When I compile my kernel, I get the following error: unknown option SMBFS Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I'm not sure about why options SMBFS doesn't work, but I've never had to add anything to my kernel in order to make Samba work. I just had to install Samba itself and was able to mount SMB shares with no problems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Accessing Windows Share
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Chris Brotherton wrote: I tried to install smbfs with ports and received the following message: smbfs-1.4.1 OS versions subsequent to 440002 include smfs I was under the impression that smfs is part of the base system, but that I had to include options in the kernel config. Hrmm, I've never even heard of smbfs before :) If I try and use mount_smbfs, I get: Command not found. Chris. p.s. I have samba-2.2.6 already installed. I have samba-3.0 installed, I believe. It is on my workstation at work, which I cannot access remotely, and I do not use SMB at home. I do know that, on my system at work, /sbin/mount_smbfs was installed by the Samba port. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Accessing Windows Share
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Jason Hunt wrote: Hrmm, I've never even heard of smbfs before :) Oops, I meant I have not heard of smfs before. Unless, that was a typo for smbfs. Either way, I had heard of smbfs before. I remember a year or two ago mount_smbfs was not available on FreeBSD, so this might have been a recent development. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
java/jdk13 problems
I am trying to install java/jdk13, but am running into the following: Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no] yes Unpacking... Checksumming... 0 0 Extracting... ELF interpreter /compat/svr4/lib/ld-linux.so.2 not found Abort trap Done. === Patching for linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.06 === Applying FreeBSD patches for linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.06 patch: can't cd to /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk13/work/jdk1.3.1_06: No such file or directory Patch patch-aa failed to apply cleanly. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk13. *** Error code 1 I tried searching google, and most/all of the results were from people complaining about not being able to install OpenOffice, and getting a similar error. One of the suggestions was to make sure that linux_base was installed. I do have linux_base-7.1_1 installed, but it might be interesting to note that I am one of the handful of people that seems to have a problem installing linux_base from the ports. I instead had to install linux_base from the packages. I'm really not sure where to start with this. Any help would be appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Sendmail: non-relay secure
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Steve Warwick wrote: I have sendmail / qpopper running on a production machine and have yet to figure out a way to open mail up to my client sin a secure way. Eg. Client logs in from aol.com to check and send mail. Is there a way to do this that will not open my machine up to abuse? One thing you might want to keep in mind is that some clients may not be able to even connect to your SMTP server. A lot of ISPs (ie: AOL, Bell Sympatico) and carriers (ie: UUNet, Bell Nexxia) do not allow their dial-up users to connect to third party servers on port 25. I believe that AOL forwards any connections on port 25 to their own servers. Sympatico simply drops port 25 packets to anywhere other than their servers. I know for a fact that UUNet and Bell Nexxia require their resellers to keep an up-to-date list of their SMTP servers, which is applied in a filter to drop packets for any other servers. One workaround is you could put your SMTP daemon on another port. I think that the best solution is to have your clients use their ISPs outgoing mail mserver. If they travel a lot and/or have different ISPs, a VPN might be an idea as well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: housecleaning and portupgrade question
On 24 Oct 2002, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: It looks to me like there is no reason for both aalib-1.4.r5 and aalib-1.4.r5_1. Seems that portupgrade does not cause this problem and is the prefered upgrade method There are numerous examples of this issue. My question is: what is the recommended way to delete an old version application x. This assumes of course that you are sure that it is not depended upon by some other app. Well you don't want to just 'pkg_delete -f' the older versions, since there will probably be a lot of files that got updated by the new version, which would cause a big mess. Personally I have always just installed the newer version of a port on-top of the older one. Then I go through the package database and fix the dependencies (I actually have a small script to do this for me). The package database is stored in the /var/db/pkg directory. Each port has it's own subdirectory, each of which contains a few files to describe the package, it's dependencies, files, etc. After fixing the dependencies I just remove the directory for the old package and it's uninstalled. I don't know if this is the best way to go about maintaining packages, and I realize that lots of unused/old files are being left around, but FWIW I have not run into any problems. Maybe someone has better advice? Also, I never really liked the idea of using portupgrade because it maintains a separate database and a completely different set of commands. I'm not saying portupgrade is bad since I really can't judge it, but (I know I sound like a prick here, but ...) if it's so good then why isn't it incorporated into the base system? I'm certainly open to new ideas, etc, but portupgrade seems like more of a bandaid to the original pkg database then fixing the problem (of upgrading ports and maintaining the database). Comments? Let me know if I'm way out of line. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Avoiding fsck at boot time
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Rus Foster wrote: Hi, I've got some unstable hardware ATM and whilst I'm trying to track it down I would like to minimize downtime. I've enabled soft updates on all but the rootfs as I thought this would do it. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Try setting fsck_y_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: IPsec Tunneling (VPN) from WIN2K (client) to FreeBSD (Server)
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, MrWebby wrote: I need to enable tunnels from my laptop running Windows 2000 Pro to my FreeBSD 4.6. I have a Cable Modem link to the Internet and for my firewall and NAT router I use a D-Link 707 Residencial Router capable of allowing VPN using IPsec 'only'. -- VPN Sever Gateway | | ------| | 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.1 --- Internet | ------| | FreeBSD 4.6 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx | | -- -IPsec Enabled IPsec: | -Running Racoon-ESP mode| -Setkey-In Tunnel Mode (DUH!) | -OpenSSL Certificates -DES encryption | -psk.txt -ESP mode with no encapsulation | -VPN Sever: PoPToPt-no Integrity| -Pre-Shared keys | | | | Client | - | 192.168.0.226 ---| - Windows 2000 Pro -IPsec enabled -Certificate Install The D-Link Router (gateway in the diagram) is performing NAT, correct? Is your laptop (Client) behind NAT as well? Your diagram does not make this entirely clear. However, assuming the above two questions are true, then that is your problem right there. IPSec will not work behind NAT, since the packets are altered by the NAT gateway. Make sense? In such a scenario, the gateway itself should become your IPSec server. The same goes for your client, assuming it is behind a NAT gateway as well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
MAKEDEV to a diff location
How can I tell MAKEDEV to make the devices on /mnt/dev instead of /dev? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
ppp with a null-modem cable
I am trying to get connectivity between two machines using the serial ports and a null-modem cable. I know the cable works because I can start tip or kermit on both machines and send characters back and forth. I've tried using the direct-server and direct-client samples that are given in /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample, with no luck. I've tried using pppd with settings given in the handbook, but I get errors such as Connection not open from kermit. I've also tried configuring a slip connection with no success. Has anyone ever done anything like this before? What am I missing? Any help would be appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: NIC problem
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Bob Bomar wrote: I have a dual P-200 file server that is haveing some connection problems. When I ssh to the box, I login in fine, but some times it lags for a while, but the two boxes are physically sitting next to each other, and are on ports that are side by side on the switch. While I ssh out of the box from the console, to another box on the LAN, it is still intermitant. Any body have any ideas? This is just a stab in the dark, but could it be DNS? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
