Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-03-31 Thread RW
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:36:32 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Tuesday 31 March 2009 14:24:11 RW wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:15:54 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: somebody please point me in the right direction ?

Re: Question about install of Fortran compiler

2009-01-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:30:11 -0500 V. M. Tame-Reyes mt...@instec.cu wrote: Hello FreeBSD community, I had a friend download all the files in freeBSD ports site (the official one) so i have a large collection of .tbz files but i don't seem to be able to find a correct fortran 77 compiler,

Re: Question about install of Fortran compiler

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Everett
The FreeBSD ports tree has a number of Fortran compilers in the ports collection: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/lang.html To install one from the ports collection, su to root and then install the port. For example to install G95 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/lang/g95/pkg-descr)

Re: Question in regards root

2009-01-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:48:08 +1100 (EST), Trevor Smolinski ad...@hellotoslev.com wrote: Hi, Just wondering if you can help. The permissions have been changed and now I can no longer login as root, it comes up and says login: Could not determine audit condition. I am wondering if there is a

Re: question regarding portsnap

2008-11-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
my /var/db/portsnap/pub.ssh file (i use 7.1-PRERELEASE): -BEGIN PUBLIC KEY- MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA0FgDRCCYpEOiTHwtjtDI rz/OLIOhjNZKa9OEtcbyHS24GMpMYp+lAb1uCxCyyJUQ7F08phNNud39cdpBBtjg ZFSisdJARYu2IhgEvxJqN+1EKVw6psLCOwlosIJlALPohf0LzTQ2eMkrDNk1xXru

Re: question regarding portsnap

2008-11-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:57:20 +0300 __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0 The OS was downloaded from freebsd.org two months ago. When I am trying to upgrade ports by using portsnap, portsnap doesn't work. # portsnap fetch Looking up

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Nov 12 15:44:29 mail sshd[30160]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for michael from 89.123.165.3 po rt 55185 ssh2 There is a user michael on the system, but whoever was doing this was not him. I am assuming someone tried to break in using a valid username (michael) but with an incorrect

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Very odd. Sigh, Michael is not vacationing in Romania. Doubt he's ever been there. I got rid of the michael account (it wasn't used anyway), and downloaded a new copy of chkrootkit, installed it and ran it along with chklastlog and chkwtmp. Nothing was found. Pehaps this was a harmless enough

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-15 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello, I personally use key authentication along with DenyUsers and AllowUsers directives from sshd. One more thing i do regarding ssh brute force is to make use of the max-src-conn and max-src-conn-rate from pf firewall. My auth logs look like: Nov 14 11:15:36 xxx sshd[3570]: User root from

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:37:15PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:00:13PM -0500, Lisa Casey wrote: Very odd. Sigh, Michael is not vacationing in Romania. Doubt he's ever been there. I got rid of the michael account (it wasn't used anyway), and downloaded a new

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Also keep in mind that the user may not have actually logged in and gotten a shell; the message you see can also happen if the individual simply scp'd something (e.g. no shell spawned). but this case there are other messages about scp, not sure if in auth.log or others. i use single file for

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-15 Thread mdh
--- On Sat, 11/15/08, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question about entry in auth.log To: Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008, 2:37 AM On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:00

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-14 Thread Steven Susbauer
Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I run several FreeBSD servers. Today I noticed an entry in the auth.log on one of them that concerns me. The entry is this: Nov 12 15:44:29 mail sshd[30160]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for michael from 89.123.165.3 po rt 55185 ssh2 There is a user michael

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Marchand
On Nov 14, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Steven Susbauer wrote: Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I run several FreeBSD servers. Today I noticed an entry in the auth.log on one of them that concerns me. The entry is this: Nov 12 15:44:29 mail sshd[30160]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for michael from

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-14 Thread Lisa Casey
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Tom Marchand wrote: Or michael is vacationing in Romania. Very odd. Sigh, Michael is not vacationing in Romania. Doubt he's ever been there. I got rid of the michael account (it wasn't used anyway), and downloaded a new copy of chkrootkit, installed it and ran it

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:00:13PM -0500, Lisa Casey wrote: Very odd. Sigh, Michael is not vacationing in Romania. Doubt he's ever been there. I got rid of the michael account (it wasn't used anyway), and downloaded a new copy of chkrootkit, installed it and ran it along with chklastlog

RE: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-11 Thread Bob McConnell
-Original Message- On Behalf Of Drew Tomlinson Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi All, OK, I'm just asking for opinions here on some application software. Like most people we have a nice big 21 TV set that will be obsolete in Feb. I have been thinking about replacing this with a big

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-11 Thread Dieter
[ This discussion is probably better suited for -multimedia@ than -questions@ ] I can pick up really high quality, large, old-style video monitors from a computer surplus place near here for next to nothing. If these were for workstations rather than pee-cees, they might be composite sync or

RE: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Almberg Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 3:38 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on creating a video server On Nov 8, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Ted

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi All, OK, I'm just asking for opinions here on some application software. Like most people we have a nice big 21 TV set that will be obsolete in Feb. I have been thinking about replacing this with a big screen TV set but the prices on them are still way, way way

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-09 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 22:09 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? mplayer play video files fine. no idea about HDTV tunes Mplayer works great, so does

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread prad
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:40:26 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? we found it awkward to do it on freebsd so used kubuntu. we tried lifeview

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? Look up MythTV. it's the opensource alternative to Windows Media Center and has a lot of nice functionality. It is in FreeBSD ports too. -Sean

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 11/08/08 11:14, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get o and what software works with it? Look up MythTV. it's the opensource alternative to Windows Media Center and has a lot of nice

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? mplayer play video files fine. no idea about HDTV tunes PREFERABLY cheap - since ultimately we likely will get a big screen TV set once the prices

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread John Almberg
On Nov 8, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi All, OK, I'm just asking for opinions here on some application software. Like most people we have a nice big 21 TV set that will be obsolete in Feb. I have been thinking about replacing this with a big screen TV set but the prices

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 10:40 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi All, OK, I'm just asking for opinions here on some application software. Like most people we have a nice big 21 TV set that will be obsolete in Feb. I have been thinking about replacing this with a big screen TV set but

Re: Question: Howto Cvsup mirror?

2008-11-04 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:01:17AM -0800, Oliver v.B.K. wrote: Hi, I've been trying to setup a freebsd7.0 mirror on my network for my needs. The ftp mirror is working great(used a repository with cobbler) but with the cvsup mirror I'm quite lost. I read in the freebsd handbook what cvsup

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 22:01:21 +0800 Alex Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? http://www.freebsd.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html And let me know how to

RE: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Johan Hendriks
Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? And let me know how to subscribe the QA list that I prefer. Thanks in advance. BR Alex The latest stable version is a release like 7.0 or 6.3 Both are at

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? And let me know how to subscribe the QA list that I prefer. Thanks in advance. All of

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Steven Susbauer
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? And let me know how to subscribe the QA list that I prefer. Thanks in

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:53:52 -0600, Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If using a release, can he not use freebsd-update to keep current on fixes rather than rebuilding everything? On a slow system, the more binary the better. Of course he can, I mean, that's what freebsd-update is

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:53:52PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now?

Re: question about sound-juicer

2008-10-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:19:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, There's a very useful audio app called sound-juicer; I have it installed but whenever I try to use it, a popup warns: Could not read the CD\n Sound juicer could not access the CD-ROM Device '1,1,0' Reason: No such file

Re: Question on bind page

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Powell
Richard Yang wrote: Dear support, I am trying to follow through http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-dns.html as to setup a dns server When I try /etc/rc.d/named forcestart it always said Starting named When I use ps to check whether it actually started, I can confirm

Re: Question on bind page

2008-09-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 08:12:13 Richard Yang wrote: [snip] To start named is pretty much the first step before going to configure BIND. I have to reinstall it and it still doesn't work. Personally, I would have said it's exactly the other way round: you shouldn't start named until after

Re: question -updating package + ignore depend

2008-08-14 Thread m cassar
actually I only installed ff2 cuz it was easier at the time - since i only ran into this while trying to update other parts of my system (thru pkg_add) and had other things to worry about. since ff3 runs flash ok, that's enough for me, and seems everything else is improving from what mike

Re: question -updating package + ignore depend

2008-08-13 Thread Mike Clarke
On Wednesday 13 August 2008, m cassar wrote: just wanted to mention that firefox3 does not handle addons/plugins correctly yet according to ports/UPDATING, so this is still probably right for now and i will probably end up installing ff2 anyway. It handles most of them OK for me with just a

Re: question -updating package + ignore depend

2008-08-13 Thread mc
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 09:25:19 Mike Clarke wrote: On Wednesday 13 August 2008, m cassar wrote: just wanted to mention that firefox3 does not handle addons/plugins correctly yet according to ports/UPDATING, so this is still probably right for now and i will probably end up installing

Re: question -updating package + ignore depend

2008-08-13 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mc wrote: | On Wednesday 13 August 2008 09:25:19 Mike Clarke wrote: | On Wednesday 13 August 2008, m cassar wrote: | just wanted to mention that firefox3 does not handle addons/plugins | correctly yet according to ports/UPDATING, so this is still

Re: question -updating package + ignore depend

2008-08-12 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mc wrote: | hi, | | can anyone briefly explain what is the general procedure here? | | i am trying to update a few packages which inevitably provoke a firefox2 | install, which i don't want (have ff3). | | checked google and porter's handbook, then

Re: question -updating package + ignore depend

2008-08-12 Thread mc
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 13:07:21 Greg Larkin wrote: mc wrote: | hi, | | can anyone briefly explain what is the general procedure here? | | i am trying to update a few packages which inevitably provoke a firefox2 | install, which i don't want (have ff3). | | checked google and porter's

Re: question -updating package + ignore depend

2008-08-12 Thread m cassar
hey Greg, just wanted to mention that firefox3 does not handle addons/plugins correctly yet according to ports/UPDATING, so this is still probably right for now and i will probably end up installing ff2 anyway. i got around it using make deinstall/reinstall to upgrade for now, but will try to

Re: Question re IPs-to-CIDR conversion program

2008-08-01 Thread Paul Procacci
Mark Wilson wrote: I'm trying to write a program that will take 2 IPs and return an appropriate CIDR which contains both. I found this file: ips-to-cidr-nets.pl listed under ~eivind on FreeBSD, which sounds like it might be a good model. Unfortunately, I can't download the file (get

Re: Question re IPs-to-CIDR conversion program

2008-08-01 Thread Duane Hill
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Mark Wilson wrote: I'm trying to write a program that will take 2 IPs and return an appropriate CIDR which contains both. I found this file: ips-to-cidr-nets.pl listed under ~eivind on FreeBSD, which sounds like it might be a good model. Unfortunately, I can't download

Re: Question re IPs-to-CIDR conversion program

2008-08-01 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Mark Wilson wrote: I'm trying to write a program that will take 2 IPs and return an appropriate CIDR which contains both. 3. Point me to another program which does what I need? Net::CIDR has a range2cidr method that will do that. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:46:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20 i can get widescreen with 1680x1050, so my current 1284x1024 would fit. IFF xorg know what kind of beast this is:-) Xorg can talk to modern monitors

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-30 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:46:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20 i can get widescreen with 1680x1050, so my current 1284x1024 would fit. IFF xorg know what

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-30 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:46:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20 i can get widescreen with 1680x1050, so my current 1284x1024 would fit. IFF xorg know what

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:46:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20 i can get widescreen with 1680x1050, so my current 1284x1024 would fit. IFF xorg know what

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:44:32AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:46:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20 i can get widescreen with 1680x1050, so my

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-30 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:26:45PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:46:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20 i can get widescreen with 1680x1050, so my

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:26:45PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:46:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20 i can get widescreen with 1680x1050, so my

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:16:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i'm on newegg.com that has a whole slew of options for narrowing the field. q's: is a higher contrast ratio better than a lower ratio? is the widescreen better than the std? --i think widescreen is

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-29 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:16:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i'm on newegg.com that has a whole slew of options for narrowing the field. q's: is a higher contrast ratio better than a lower ratio? Generally, yes. Contrast ratio

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-14 Thread Novembre
RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com writes: gmane.org offers many mailing lists via its news.gmane.org server and most of the lists will allow posting. You need a real email address to post, because the first one has to verified. ___

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-13 Thread RW
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:12:30 +0200 Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Novembre wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sorry, but I didn't quite get it. Do you mean that if I subscribe to the newsgroup which mirrors the list, and if I answer the question

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-12 Thread Novembre
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Novembre wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-12 Thread Novembre
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10-Jun-08, at 12:10 AM, Novembre wrote: So to be more specific, how can I answer to a post from a mailing list from within my, e.g., GMail or Yahoo! mailboxes? You might be able to use telnet to open a connection

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-12 Thread Tore Lund
Novembre wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Novembre wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Berry
Novembre wrote: I tried to telnet to smtp.gmail.com, but it didn't work. Is that what you meant? Pretty much. The problem you're having is caused partially by being unable to manually set headers in many mail clients. If you have a server with Sendmail set up which can send outbound email

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Norman Maurer
rtorrent should work for you bye Norman 2008/6/11 Steve Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Schiz0
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Steve Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hello, Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that I don't use any mail client, but the old fashion way of using a web browser to log into my account and read my emails. That's why I asked this question in the first place. Call me paranoid, but I just feel more comfortable that

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Nerius Landys
F1 (vote yes) to rtorrent. I have rtorrents running permanently on my servers, seeding torrent files. I use screen, just like you suggest. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Steve Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all.

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Chess Griffin
Steve Lake wrote: 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

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Steve Lake wrote: 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

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 15:16:29 Steve Lake wrote: 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

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Luke Dean
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

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread RW
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:16:29 -0400 Steve Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:08:13PM -0400, Schiz0 wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Steve Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-10 Thread Andrew Berry
On 10-Jun-08, at 12:10 AM, Novembre wrote: So to be more specific, how can I answer to a post from a mailing list from within my, e.g., GMail or Yahoo! mailboxes? You might be able to use telnet to open a connection to Google's SMTP servers, and paste the entire message, headers included,

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-09 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:22:24 -0500 Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-09 Thread Tore Lund
Novembre wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but since I'm not subscribed to the lists, even if I

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-09 Thread Novembre
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-09 Thread Novembre
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:22:24 -0500 Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From

Re: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-06 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 00:08, Mario Vazquez wrote: I have been using different Linux distributions for some years, and decided to give FreeBSD a try. The install was successful, but have a question about how the root account is made. Found that the root folder was created with the user/group

RE: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-06 Thread doug
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Mario Vazquez wrote: I have been using different Linux distributions for some years, and decided to give FreeBSD a try. The install was successful, but have a question about how the root account is made. Found that the root folder was created with the user/group

Re: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-06 Thread Mario Vazquez
On May 5, 2008, at 6:17 PM, doug wrote: To give limited priviledges I think sudo (as in linux??) would be used. I concur that sudo is really a very good way of managing privileges. I don't even know the root passwords on the systems that I administer (OK, I do have them stored in a

Re: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-05 Thread doug
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Mario Vazquez wrote: I have been using different Linux distributions for some years, and decided to give FreeBSD a try. The install was successful, but have a question about how the root account is made. Found that the root folder was created with the user/group

Re: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 5, 2008, at 6:17 PM, doug wrote: To give limited priviledges I think sudo (as in linux??) would be used. I concur that sudo is really a very good way of managing privileges. I don't even know the root passwords on the systems that I administer (OK, I do have them stored in a nice

Re: Question regarding Broadcom BCM5906M support under FreeBSD7

2008-04-24 Thread . .
On 4/21/08, Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably the most accurate and downright _to_the_point_ answer that I've ever received. Thanks a _lot_ Mr Schmehl Your kind answer has been really hepfull and highly appreciated =) Blessings --- Gonzalo Nemmi On Monday 21 April

Re: Question regarding Broadcom BCM5906M support under FreeBSD7

2008-04-24 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
Thnak a lot for your answer! Actually I knew about this one: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118975 but i wanted to know if it was already merged/solved/taken as officical/ or so... Basically, if it was approved or not in order to go witfbsd7 obsd4.3 (Dell vostros and inspirons both

Re: Question regarding Broadcom BCM5906M support under FreeBSD7

2008-04-21 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, April 21, 2008 4:44 AM -0300 Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While investigating about the Vostro 1400 .. I came across a lspci that claims that the Vostro 1400 comes packed with a Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) Ethernet

Re: Question regarding Broadcom BCM5906M support under FreeBSD7

2008-04-21 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
Probably the most accurate and downright _to_the_point_ answer that I've ever received. Thanks a _lot_ Mr Schmehl Your kind answer has been really hepfull and highly appreciated =) Blessings --- Gonzalo Nemmi On Monday 21 April 2008 13:32:52 Paul Schmehl wrote: Looking at the header file in

Re: question about gnash or kde-gnash

2008-04-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
Fraser Tweedale wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'd feel real warm+funny nuking the ads that churn my uprocessor. You can use the Firefox FlashBlock extension which blocks all flash objects, and allows you to run only the ones you want. xpi-noscript is even better IMHO. Blocks flash,

Firefox plugins from Ports [was Re: question about gnash or kde-gnash]

2008-04-20 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2008-04-20 08:16:51 UTC+0100, Matthew Seaman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: xpi-noscript is even better IMHO. Blocks flash, javascript and all forms of embedded media. Will remember the sites where you *do* want that stuff, or it will let you turn it on temporarily. It's in ports:

Re: question about gnash or kde-gnash

2008-04-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 08:16 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Fraser Tweedale wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'd feel real warm+funny nuking the ads that churn my uprocessor. You can use the Firefox FlashBlock extension which blocks all flash objects, and allows you to run only the ones you

Re: question about gnash or kde-gnash

2008-04-19 Thread Fraser Tweedale
Gary Kline wrote: I'd feel real warm+funny nuking the ads that churn my uprocessor. You can use the Firefox FlashBlock extension which blocks all flash objects, and allows you to run only the ones you want. frase signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Question regarding mail and dns server on Alix/Soekris?

2008-04-11 Thread David Duong
Luke Dean wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, David Duong wrote: I'm planning to redoing my home network. I currently have one server (Opteron 170) that is currently a NAS, Email, and DNS server (btw, the main OS is FreeBSD). I was thinking of purchasing an Alix2c3/Soekris 5501 and use it as a

Re: Question About Ports Update Cycle

2008-04-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Is there some regular interval at which new ports are processed by the FreeBSD team? I submitted a port (for a very minor utility) 3/20/2008 but it is still not in the tree. I'm not complaining in the slightest - the folks who do this work are volunteering their time, and I

Re: Question on Hardware support

2008-04-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
dick wrote: I am trying to find the hardware support list for the releases and have been unsuccessful. Any ideas where to look for this? My reason is that I have a new computer with the ASUS motherboard in an Intel Core2 Duo configuration. This board has an ATTANSIC Technology Corp. L1

RE: Question on Hardware support

2008-04-10 Thread Chris Haulmark
Hello fella, I am trying to find the hardware support list for the releases and have been unsuccessful. Any ideas where to look for this? My reason is that I have a new computer with the ASUS motherboard in an Intel Core2 Duo configuration. This board has an ATTANSIC Technology Corp. L1

Re: Question regarding mail and dns server on Alix/Soekris?

2008-04-09 Thread Luke Dean
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, David Duong wrote: I'm planning to redoing my home network. I currently have one server (Opteron 170) that is currently a NAS, Email, and DNS server (btw, the main OS is FreeBSD). I was thinking of purchasing an Alix2c3/Soekris 5501 and use it as a Email + DNS server.

Re: question about wpa and ifconfig scan

2008-03-06 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 sung.park wrote: | Hello, Hello, | The client box has solid connection until I type | Ifconfig ath0 scan | After scan all of access point it lose connection from access point. Is | there any way to prohibit losing connection after scan? I think

Re: Question urgent!!!

2008-02-21 Thread David Alanis
Veronica: Tu pregunta viene siendo un poquitito muy general. Por la mayoria Dell y HP son conocidos por ser estables. Claro que hay problemas que se conocen pero por la mayoria Dell tienes mejor servicio ahorita corremos freeBSD 7.0 amd64 en un Dell y FreeBSD 7.0 i686 en un Dell. Lo que

Re: OT - was Re: Question urgent!!!

2008-02-21 Thread David Alanis
Got it. Sorry I am not trying to offend anyone. I will no longer reply all. Thank you, David Alanis Quoting Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: is that list multilanguage? i think it's main function is to support other users, that could read all posts and archives from that list, so it would

Re: OT - was Re: Question urgent!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
David Alanis wrote: Got it. Sorry I am not trying to offend anyone. I will no longer reply all. Thanks. By the way, I'm not sure what language that was, but becuase it seemd like Spanish or Portuguese, I'd like to point out that there's probably a FreeBSD mailing list in that language, see

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