Creating a custom install disk for Freebsd?

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Lake
Hi all. I'm looking at trying to create a custom install disk for Freebsd based off an existing install to make reinstallation quick and painless, similar to how apt-on-cd works for Linux. The reason behind this is I'm looking at going overseas for a couple years and will be leaving a

Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Steve Lake
Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk away, allowing my s

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-02 Thread Steve Lake
> > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Unga > > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:14 PM > > To: Steve Lake > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Looking for gur

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-05-31 Thread Steve Lake
If you are honest for your site's objective, appreciate if could drop the penguin from the site's logo without a delay. It clearly shows your bias. Well, I am looking for a new logo, but I'd need someone who could help me design it since I'm not all that great at graphic design. ^_^;

Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-05-30 Thread Steve Lake
Hi everyone. I was wondering if anybody here might be interested in writing and donating a few Freebsd tutorials or articles to Raiden's Realm to help us boost the number of Freebsd related articles on the site. A lot of what we have is Linux oriented right now because most of the peo

Re: VPN setup question

2008-05-18 Thread Steve Lake
From what I'm reading, it looks like you want a secure proxy rather than a VPN, per se. SSH can be used to provide that functionality very simply: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=408 That explains how to use SSH for remote proxy service with Firefox, but it's simple enough to

Re: VPN setup question

2008-05-18 Thread Steve Lake
At 10:53 PM 5/18/2008 +0200, Mister Olli wrote: first you should consider the following questions: - what kind of VPN do you wanna use? (SSL or IPSec based) From what I remember of my security training years ago, IPSec was always better. So I'd likely go with that. - what kind of a

VPN setup question

2008-05-18 Thread Steve Lake
Hi everyone. I'm looking for a tutorial on how to setup a VPN server on Freebsd. Since I'm unfamiliar with VPN, a guide that is as simple as possible would be preferred. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Problem with packages on 6.2

2007-06-08 Thread Steve Lake
Ok, I don't know if this is a problem with the ports setup I have on my Freebsd box or something else, but I thought I'd ask anyways. I've got a machine with a fresh copy of 6.2 release on it. Thought I'd be cute and install all the ports first and then go from there. pkg_add -r xorg

Booting a Freebsd HD on a windows box?

2006-12-04 Thread Steve Lake
Hi all. I'm looking to merge two of my machines in my home office into one to free up the second one for other uses, but one is a windows machine, the second is my freebsd 5.3x machine. Can I just move the HD from the Freebsd machine over to the windows machine and add something to th

File associations, Mime-types and X

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Lake
Just curious of something. How are file associations handled in Freebsd? Are they handled on the OS level, Xwindows, or is it handled by the actual Window Manager such as KDE or Gnome? Just curious because I'm trying to help someone troubleshoot something he's developing. Thanks.

Needing a guide/tutorial please

2006-08-17 Thread Steve Lake
Looking for a guide online somewhere that will walk me through setting up a mail server with the following items on it. SpamAssassin Postfix (pop3 and smtp setup) MySQL (for database driven mail user administration) MyPHPAdmin (to visually admin the database) Squirrelmail (for webmail) A

A reason for major ports update?

2006-02-27 Thread Steve Lake
Ok, call me the curious cat, but I just cvsupped my ports tonight looking for a patch to Xine to fix a problem with MKV playback under KDE 3.5 and got quite the shocker. There were about 101 ports that said they needed to be upgraded. The part that's the kicker is I just upgraded everything

Re: questions about extra logging

2005-02-05 Thread Steve Lake
land Smith wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:33:45AM -0500, Steve Lake wrote: > I'm curious of something. I think I've got a fellow co-worker who may > be trying to break into my workstation and I need some help. > I know kde logs whenever a failed login attempt occurs if the scre

questions about extra logging

2005-02-03 Thread Steve Lake
I'm curious of something. I think I've got a fellow co-worker who may be trying to break into my workstation and I need some help. I know kde logs whenever a failed login attempt occurs if the screen is locked and sends that in the daily logs, but it doesn't log successes. IE successfully l

Re: Failure in build of sdl12

2004-12-25 Thread Steve Lake
Any word on when this might be fixed? It at least makes me feel better knowing it wasn't something *I* broke in the process of upgrading, but it does kinda leave me out on a limb. ^_^;; At 09:28 PM 12/24/04 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 12:25:34AM -0500,

Failure in build of sdl12

2004-12-24 Thread Steve Lake
When I'm trying to upgrade KDE to the latest build one of the things it asks me to install is SDL12. During the build it gives the error "dl_yuv_mmx.c:236: Syntax Error before '['" I also get one of these with 417 as well and a bunch of failures after it. The path this file is in is /usr/po

Problem upgrading QT still. (everything else upgrades)

2003-09-26 Thread Steve Lake
Still getting issues upgrading QT on my box. I'm to understand it's fixed for the most part for others, but it's not for me. When I try to upgrade QT or do a make on it I get the following error: ===> qt-3.2.1 is marked as broken: You have QT2 headers installed! Installing this port

Problem installing/upgrading QT3.2

2003-09-19 Thread Steve Lake
When trying to upgrade/install QT3.1 to 3.2 I get an install error. This is what it gives me. Sorry for the length of this but I'm not sure what's useful and what's not. Can someone look at this and maybe give me an idea of what I need to do to fix this? Thanks. I did manage