Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 02:49:26 -0800 Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The whole point of this email has been entirely overlooked: to someone who is unfamiliar with adduser, the initial configuration questions aren't identifiable as such. Perhaps a note such as Answers to the following questions will be used as rules for future user additions: Or something that makes more sense. I agree with Adam, this bit me in the past also thinking that the Usernames must match regular expression: prompt was asking for the new users name, then also munging up my /etc/adduser.conf file with my proposed new users name, instead of the regular exp. This was all pilot error, but an easy error for a new admin/user to make. --snip-- desktop# adduser /etc/adduser.conf: No such file or directory Use option ``-silent'' if you don't want to see all warnings and questions. Check /etc/shells Check /etc/master.passwd Check /etc/group Usernames must match regular expression: [^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_-]*$]: --snip-- Especially unfriendly to a very new admin/user, who should probably be referred to /stand/sysinstall post-install configuration. Remember that as a new user to FreeBSD/UNIX one of the first recommended steps is to get a non-root login, and use it!. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] When you see a short coming like this, is there not some way to get it put into the software and/or FreeBSD handbook? I myself have seen an incident, which if it just had a couple of more words of explanation added, would eliminate a great deal of confusion. Where do you go with suggestions for changes? Joe Gwozdecki Houston, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Where is UserConfig documentation?
- Original Message - From: Lorenzo Seno [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 12:19 PM Subject: Where is UserConfig documentation? Dear Sirs, I'm installing FreeBSD on a Pentium 166 MX + 64 Mega RAM old machine. I got in troubles with the CD drive after installation (apparently, even if was working well during installation, it gives an I/O error after installation). Looking for some help, I read the Installation STABLE pdf document about the current stable version. At page 15 I found a remark about a so-called UserConfig utility, for wich the above document pointed to the HARDWARE.TXT document. I cold not find any trace of this utility in HARDWARE.TXT, nor in the man pages that are availablke on the site, nor making a site search using UserConfig as keyword. Where is this phantom utility? Regards Lorenzo Seno What version of FreeBSD are you installing? Joe Gwozdecki Houston, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Can't route past gateway
- Original Message - From: Adam Lofstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 11:24 AM Subject: Can't route past gateway I tried to send a message to the list earlier, but my email server was down. I checked the archives, but I can't tell if my message has been posted already, so I apologize if it has. If anyone has already replied, could you forward your response to this address? I have a freeBSD machine with two NICS that I am using as a NAT gateway. No matter what I do, clients on my LAN can't get past the gateway. They can ping both the interal and external interfaces of the gateway, but can't get outside. I am using IPF and IPNAT as loadable kernel modules. My /etc/rc.conf looks like this: gateway_enable=YES kern_securelevel_enable=NO linux_enable=YES moused_enable=YES nfs_reserved_port_only=YES sendmail_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES ipfilter_enable=YES ipfilter_program=/sbin/ipf ipfilter_rules=/etc/ipf.rules ipfilter_flags= ipnat_enable=YES ipnat_program=/sbin/ipnat ipnat_rules=/etc/ipnat.rules ipnat_flags= ifconfig_dc0=inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_xl0=DHCP inetd_enable=NO hostname=forcefield.mydomain.com ipf -V gives this: ipf: IP Filter: v3.4.29 (336) Kernel: IP Flter v3.4.29 Running: yes Log Flags: 0 = none set Default: pass all, Logging available Active list:0 Here is dmesg showing ipfilter stuff: IP Filter: v3.4.29 initialized. Default = pass all, Logging = enabled (it also says some things at boot, like IPFilter module loaded, and other things about ipnat getting flushed and loaded, but I don't know how to get dmesg to show me exactly what it says at boot time). My /etc/ipf.rules file has just this for testing: pass in all pass out all My ipnat.rules file has this: map 192.168.1.0/24 - 0/32 portmap tcp/udp 1:65000 map 192.168.1.0/24 - 0/32 In this configuration, my outside interface is getting its info via dhcp from my cable provider. I also tried this similar configuration at my work, using same internal addressing scheme, but using a fixed IP for the ext. interface with no luck. I just can't get past the outside interface of my gateway. What am I leaving out? And this is not a DNS issue, as I am pinging only by ip. Do I need to add static routes or something? I've googled for hours and hours already... :( Thanks for your help, Adam Lofstedt FreeBSD cheatsheets has instructions for setting up a Dual Homed Host (2 NICs) using IPFW. It works for me. You can also get some additional information from the FreeBSD handbook about NAT. Which I also used in setting it all up. It really is quite simple. Joe Gwozdecki Houston, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD
- Original Message - From: Steve Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 3:44 AM Subject: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD I had been having some problem trying to get FreeBSD installed onto a free partition because I was unsure whether my Voodoo 3500 AGP card was supported by X Windows. Thanks to some help received I now know that I need to use the tdfx driver. However when I select this as part of the graphical or shell- based W Windows setup during install it still fails. I wonder if anyone can advise whether I am missing some quirk of using the card. With regard to the graphical setup it may be useful to note that all the other devices are shown correctly while the graphics card is only shown as an outline box. Is it time to try to pick up a cheat ATi card? Cheers, Steve Hodgson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message I just looked at the XFree video driver list and they do not have Voodoo cards on it. Maybe it goes by some other name. But Voodoo is just not there. Which means there is no driver for it in X windows. When I first got into the X window system, I did not understand how important it was to have an exact card from the list. I tried and tried with what I had, and got no where. Finally, I printed off their list, went to the computer store with it, and got something exactly, and the key word is exactly, like on the list. Came back, put it in, set the variables in X, and voila! Again, it is not FreeBSD. It is X windows which is card specific. Joe Gwozdecki Houston, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Prroblem with X
A.Z., Did you download Gnome2 without first getting rid of the original 1.4 Gnome program? Joe Gwozdecki Houston, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
GNOME 2.0 Desktop Beta 3 from Sun Microsystems
Is it possible to get the GNOME 2.0 Desktop Beta 3 from Sun Microsystems going in FreeBSD? They are only offering it for Solaris 8 and 9. If you did get it going, would appreciate it if you could tell me how? Joe Gwozdecki Houston, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Voodoo Graphics Cards
- Original Message - From: Steve Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 1:28 PM Subject: Voodoo Graphics Cards I have been trying to find out if a 3dfx voodoo 3500 AGP is compatible with FreeBSD 4.7. I have managed to everything up to a successful GUI -free login. I checked out the various web resources and usenet with no success. My FreeBSD book (FreeBSd Unleashed) doesn't list the card in the supported hardware. I have used the card successfully with Linux, BeOS and Windows (not XP) so assumed it would be OK under FreeBSD too. Any help and pointers would be much appreciated at this stage! Steve Hodgson FreeBSD will run with any graphics card on the planet. If you never get into the GUI scene, you will be fine. It is the X window system which is picky about what will run and what won't. Check your card with the video driver list at www.Xfree.org If it is not on the list, go get a card which is and you will be up and going in no time. Joe Gwozdecki Houston, TX To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP
Instead of going through a lot of quirky Windows headaches and fixes, you can get a second computer and divide the OSs on them. Second hand computers with monitors go for $150, complete. If you have been in computers for a while, you probably have a lot of old cards, etc. just lying around. You will save yourself a lot of time. That is probably worth more than the $150, right there. Joe Gwozdecki Houston, Texas - Original Message - From: Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:45 AM Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:18:17 +0100, Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:06:44AM -0800, Mike McGranahan wrote: Hello, I would like to know what is the best way to dual boot FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP? I found this information ( http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7963936list=151 ) regarding how to use the Windows XP loader, and this information on GRUB ( http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_node/Booting.html#Booting ) though there is no mention of Windows XP. Grub works fine with FreeBSD and Windows XP. One of my machines does this very thing. I recommend Grub for it's ease of use, although you have to get it very clear in your mind how it defines disk names. Adter that it is a doddle, and even if you make a mistake you can dynamically edit the boot configuration :)..i.e. edit the boot entries while you are in the boot meny itself. Generally speaking Msoft has no respect for the existance of other OS'es so it should be installed first, otherwise it may zap your MBR created by Grub. Remember that Windows only really likes to be booted off of the first hard disk, but there is a little trick with Grub (and I gues with my most bootloaders) that fools it into thinking that even if it is on the second disk it is told it is on the first. This is explained in the manual for grub. The latter is in the appalling GNU Info format, so you might find it easier to convert it to html, there is a port to do this. The manual is also available in HTML format online at http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.92/grub.html . [snip] Are there any online documents that address this, or would be insightful? The Grub manual is not very good...unfortunately. I don't know if there is an HOWTO anywhere. I can send you some example menu entries from my own setup if you wish. To re-iterate you must understand not only the syntax of grub disk definitions, but also how it numbers them. The rest is a doddle. I actually think the manual is pretty good (maybe it's just having tried to get around it using the 'gnu info' format, Cliff?:). Be very sure to read through it and to understand the installation and configuration sections *thoroughly*. The consequence of screwing up could be an unbootable machine, not unrecoverable but distressing. The boot menu examples are also very helpful. Other perhaps more automagic alternatives: (1) Install the FreeBSD bootloader. Works fine, but your XP will show up in the boot menu as ???. (2) Use the XP bootloader. There's an FAQ about this at the FreeBSD web site (I think it's called the NT bootloader in the FAQ), which may be identical to what you found at Geocrawler. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to's
Go to www.groups.google.com and pose any question to 'groups'. They archive everything ever written about anything, on the internet. Also, check www.FreeBSD.org, as they archive all the freeBSD lists, have documentation, and links to other sites. There are other sites as well. These are the two I mainly use. Joe Gwozdecki Houston, Texas - Original Message - From: Nelson, Mark A [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 12:32 PM Subject: How to's Hello, I am familliar with Linux and Sys5 to a certain degree but still like some direction. I have a BSD book but its more of a refference tool. Where can I find some solid advice,documentation on setting up NFS, RAID and other topics for free BSD. Free BSD is awesome, I loaded it on a 386 with 8mb ram, talk about lean! Anyhow help is appreciated. Thanks mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: natd mostly working but not quite...
What is the OS you are running on the 3 operating systems? Is it FreeBSD also or something else? Joe Gwozdecki Houston, TX - Original Message - From: Scott R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: natd mostly working but not quite... [note: please cc me in any replies as I am not currently subscribed to freebsd-questions. Thank you.] I'm using a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE box as a gateway for my household network (3 machines total). I'm using natd + ipfw + DHCP. It works mostly as it should (i.e. the other two boxes are able to connect to the internet as expected), but there are some inconsistencies. For example, if I go to Yahoo! and look up a map, I get a The connection was refused while attempting to contact rd.yahoo.com message when I try to zoom in. This does not happen from the FreeBSD box itself (everything works perfectly normally on this box). Also, those wonderful ads embedded in many web pages do not come up due to similar connection refused messages. This leads me to believe that something is not translating but I'm not sure what it could be. I tried disabling the firewall completely and that brought no change to this odd behavior. I tried bypassing DHCP by setting everything statically, but the behavior was still the same. At my last apartment, I was running FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE as the firewall OS and everything worked just fine. Has something changed in 4.7 that might cause this behavior? Or, could this just be an oddity when dealing with ATT Broadband (I had Sprint at the other place). I'm not sure what information might be required to try and debug/diagnose this so more info is available upon request. Any and all ideas will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. -Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: natd mostly working but not quite...
Your TCP/IP settings in the Windows boxes are not configured correctly. FreeBSD gateway box is working as it should but it can't talk 100% to the Windows boxes. There is nothing wrong with the DSL modem, outside connection, long distance carrier, etc, or the FreeBSD gateway box, if it is operating perfectly to the internet. Joe Gwozdecki Houston, TX - Original Message - From: Scott R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joe Gwozdecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 5:10 PM Subject: Re: natd mostly working but not quite... The gateway machine is running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE and the other two are running WinXP and Win2000 respectively. -Scott Joe Gwozdecki wrote: What is the OS you are running on the 3 operating systems? Is it FreeBSD also or something else? Joe Gwozdecki Houston, TX - Original Message - From: Scott R. To: Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: natd mostly working but not quite... [note: please cc me in any replies as I am not currently subscribed to freebsd-questions. Thank you.] I'm using a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE box as a gateway for my household network (3 machines total). I'm using natd + ipfw + DHCP. It works mostly as it should (i.e. the other two boxes are able to connect to the internet as expected), but there are some inconsistencies. For example, if I go to Yahoo! and look up a map, I get a The connection was refused while attempting to contact rd.yahoo.com message when I try to zoom in. This does not happen from the FreeBSD box itself (everything works perfectly normally on this box). Also, those wonderful ads embedded in many web pages do not come up due to similar connection refused messages. This leads me to believe that something is not translating but I'm not sure what it could be. I tried disabling the firewall completely and that brought no change to this odd behavior. I tried bypassing DHCP by setting everything statically, but the behavior was still the same. At my last apartment, I was running FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE as the firewall OS and everything worked just fine. Has something changed in 4.7 that might cause this behavior? Or, could this just be an oddity when dealing with ATT Broadband (I had Sprint at the other place). I'm not sure what information might be required to try and debug/diagnose this so more info is available upon request. Any and all ideas will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. -Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
