FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread shanib.k.k
HI, Hi am a Ruby on rails developer. I have done a project in ROR and currently its hosted in Ubuntu.Now the requires it to be changed to FreeBSD. As am entirely fresh to FreeBSD i would like to know more about how can configure or install it. Am using Windows OS in my personal system.How

Re: FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/02/2012 05:43, shanib.k.k wrote: Hi am a Ruby on rails developer. I have done a project in ROR and currently its hosted in Ubuntu.Now the requires it to be changed to FreeBSD. As am entirely fresh to FreeBSD i would like to know more about how can configure or install it. The best place

Re: FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:13:41 +0530, shanib.k.k wrote: As am entirely fresh to FreeBSD i would like to know more about how can configure or install it. The basic documentation on how to install and configure the system can be found in The FreeBSD Handbook and the FAQ available from the main web

Re: From Arthur Sentsov - Questions from beginner

2010-05-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/05/2010 05:41:47, Artur Sentsov wrote: 1. I have freebsd server running apache and mysql. In logs i see around 100 attempts to hack the server. Is that normal? what i have to do that after three wrong attempts to enter password server will

Re: [#24495324] From Arthur Sentsov - Questions from beginner

2010-05-13 Thread dedicated
Hi, Please let us know if there is anything that we could assist you with, thanks. -- Best Regards Ramon Server engineer Hosting Services, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: From Arthur Sentsov - Questions from beginner

2010-05-13 Thread Pekka Niiranen
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/05/2010 05:41:47, Artur Sentsov wrote: 1. I have freebsd server running apache and mysql. In logs i see around 100 attempts to hack the server. Is that normal? what i have to do that after three wrong attempts to enter

From Arthur Sentsov - Questions from beginner

2010-05-12 Thread Artur Sentsov
Hi I have some questions. 1. I have freebsd server running apache and mysql. In logs i see around 100 attempts to hack the server. Is that normal? what i have to do that after three wrong attempts to enter password server will block ip address?! 2. I use SSH to sonnect to server and work on it!

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-18 Thread Laszlo Nagy
The address 192.168.0.11 must be assigned to a interface in the host FreeBSD. You can do it before starting the jail, or when the jail is being started. To assign the address before starting the jail do somthing like this: # ifconfig lnc0 alias 192.168.0.11/24 where lnc0 is the name of nic in

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-18 Thread Boris Samorodov
Laszlo Nagy gand...@shopzeus.com writes: I do not want to expose my jail's private IP address to the internet. Use loopback interface and 127.x.x.x address. -- WBR, bsam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-18 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
I really think that it should be corrected to: cd /usr/src make distribution DESTDIR=$D That's almost certainly correct, but it notes: Notes [1] This step is not required on FreeBSD 6.0 and later. But then I get this error in syslog: bind: Can't assign requested address That's a

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Svobodin
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:09:32AM +0100, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Great. Here is what I did: sorb# mkdir -p /usr/jails/vm1 sorb# cd /usr/src sorb# setenv D /usr/jails/vm1 sorb# make installworld DESTDIR=$D sorb# make distribution DESTDIR=$D sorb# cat /etc/rc.conf jail_enable=YES

jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Laszlo Nagy
I'm experimenting with jails. I have installed a 7.2 stable FreeBSD inside vmware. Then I have created two jails, using the method written in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-build.html The only thing that didn't work is this: cd /etc make

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Laszlo Nagy gand...@shopzeus.com writes: I'm experimenting with jails. I have installed a 7.2 stable FreeBSD inside vmware. Then I have created two jails, using the method written in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-build.html The only thing

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Laszlo Nagy
No, I think you added the '/' before 'etc', which isn't in the web page. Gotcha. Is the problem perhaps in your /etc/rc.d/vm1 script? Normally you would use /etc/rc.d/jail. Yes, I'm. Sorry - it was a typo. I used this: /etc/rc.d/jail start vm1 Are those addresses already assigned

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Michael Svobodin
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:41:14PM +0430, Laszlo Nagy wrote: My computer is a windows machine, with address 192.168.0.X Then the FreeBSD host is actually a guest os running in wvmare. It has address 192.168.37.133 And finally, the vm1 jail should have 192.168.0.11 I don't know why

Re: reference for beginner on configure/make/compile/linking/etc.

2009-06-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:09:43 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: As you may recall from a recent post I've been trying to get nTop compiled and working on Solaris 10 x86. After 40 - 60 hours (I loose track) I *THINK* it's actually working for the most part. Before certain people

Re: reference for beginner on configure/make/compile/linking/etc.

2009-06-12 Thread Gary Gatten
Subject: Re: reference for beginner on configure/make/compile/linking/etc. On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:09:43 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: As you may recall from a recent post I've been trying to get nTop compiled and working on Solaris 10 x86. After 40 - 60 hours (I loose track) I

reference for beginner on configure/make/compile/linking/etc.

2009-06-11 Thread Gary Gatten
As you may recall from a recent post I've been trying to get nTop compiled and working on Solaris 10 x86. After 40 - 60 hours (I loose track) I *THINK* it's actually working for the most part. Before certain people get pi$$ed off about this not being a Solaris list - chill for a sec! I'm

Re: reference for beginner on configure/make/compile/linking/etc.

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 14:09:43 Gary Gatten wrote: It seems COMPLETELY overly complex to me - maybe cause the developer tries to make it as portable as possible, but with every *nix like things putting files wherever they want, different cc's / ld's, etc. - I can see where it can get

another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Kline
i could've saved myself a lot of work over the weekend if i have checked the php randizer file but i didn't. so now, while this isn't entirely essential, is there a way of using /bin/ed or /usr/bin/ex within in a /bin/sh file to delete to-and-including PATTERN say, each of my 70 fils has

Re: another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i could do this kwik and dirty, and type in/fix any anomalies later, but it would be nice to know. I've already tried 1, /CENTER d and a other such. zip. % sed -e 1,/CENTER/d junk.in junk.out -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL

Re: another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:09:46PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i could do this kwik and dirty, and type in/fix any anomalies later, but it would be nice to know. I've already tried 1, /CENTER d and a other such. zip.

Re: another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:32:57PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:09:46PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've already tried 1, /CENTER d and a other such. zip. % sed -e 1,/CENTER/d junk.in

Re: another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:09:46PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i could do this kwik and dirty, and type in/fix any anomalies later, but it would be nice to know. I've already tried 1, /CENTER d and a other such. zip.

Re: another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:13:53PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:32:57PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:09:46PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've already tried 1, /CENTER d

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:47:17AM -0400, Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. I forgot one more important thing. Subscribe to this list -- FreeBSD-questions and probably at least FreeBSD-announce and maybe FreeBSD-newbies and read through all the discussions. Some

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Connie, I'm beginner, too. On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:47 -0400, Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. I guess you need first to have a look at Documentation's section on FreeBSD WWW site. Here is the link: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html In my case, actually I need

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. What are your specific goals? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Mel
On Friday 12 October 2007 17:47:17 Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/getting-started.html Connie Webb Montgomery County Courts Helpdesk Specialist :D -- Mel

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:47:17 -0400 Connie Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. No problems. what would you like to do? :) silliness aside, if u mean 'being with freebsd', you should start with the Handbook, which you can find online @ freebsd.org, under

a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Connie Webb
Please help as I don't know where to begin. Connie Webb Montgomery County Courts Helpdesk Specialist 41 N. Perry Street Dayton, Ohio Phone: 937-225-3480 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On 10/12/07, Connie Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. It is not clear from your email what do you want to do and what you have done up to know. If you do not have FreeBSD already installed you can start from Installing FreeBSD chapter in the

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:47:17AM -0400, Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. Presuming what you want to begin is learning and using FreeBSD, the first thing is to start studying the extensive documentation that is available. See:

Beginner - distcc error - Free BSD 6.1

2006-11-16 Thread VF
Hi, im working on a little old laptop Gataway. Celeron PII 500 // 512 Mo ram. #uname -a FreeBSD xx.dyndns.org 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Im trying to use distcc for my compilations, on the

Re: Beginner - distcc error - Free BSD 6.1

2006-11-16 Thread Michael Johnson
On 11/16/06, VF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, im working on a little old laptop Gataway. Celeron PII 500 // 512 Mo ram. #uname -a FreeBSD xx.dyndns.org 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Im trying to use

Re: Good networking books for a beginner?

2006-10-07 Thread James Long
Somewhere I seem to recall having read an RFC which is a primer on IP basics. I remember especially liking the sections where it described the the inter-relationships between the network mask, the role that ARP plays, and the use of routing. Darned if I can find such a thing now, though. If

Re: Good networking books for a beginner?

2006-10-02 Thread Duane Whitty
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:12:27AM -0400, Rob wrote: Does anyone happen to know of any good books that explain all about networking in detail (such as gateways, netmasks, etc)? I know the 'basics' but would like to dig in a little deeper. Thanks, rob An online article that I found quite

Re: Good networking books for a beginner?

2006-10-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
Chris Hill wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Rob wrote: Does anyone happen to know of any good books that explain all about networking in detail (such as gateways, netmasks, etc)? I know the 'basics' but would like to dig in a little deeper. For me, the old standby is TCP/IP Network

Good networking books for a beginner?

2006-09-30 Thread Rob
Does anyone happen to know of any good books that explain all about networking in detail (such as gateways, netmasks, etc)? I know the 'basics' but would like to dig in a little deeper. Thanks, rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Good networking books for a beginner?

2006-09-30 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 30 September 2006 20:12, Rob wrote: Does anyone happen to know of any good books that explain all about networking in detail (such as gateways, netmasks, etc)? I know the 'basics' but would like to dig in a little deeper. Thanks, rob I found Computer Networks: A Systems

Re: Good networking books for a beginner?

2006-09-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beech Rintoul wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 20:12, Rob wrote: Does anyone happen to know of any good books that explain all about networking in detail (such as gateways, netmasks, etc)? I know the 'basics' but would like to dig in a little

Re: Good networking books for a beginner?

2006-09-30 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Rob wrote: Does anyone happen to know of any good books that explain all about networking in detail (such as gateways, netmasks, etc)? I know the 'basics' but would like to dig in a little deeper. For me, the old standby is TCP/IP Network Administration by Craig Hunt

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Michael S
The open ports are simply port-forwarded from the router to my internal network (NAT). And I only have one public IP. For me the more important issue is whether DNS would work with private IP addresses. On 7/5/06, David Stanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/5/06, Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Derek Ragona
Yes DNS will work with your port forwarding assuming you have it set up correctly on your router. Are you trying to be the authoritative DNS for your domain? If you are you will still need a secondary DNS. -Derek At 05:56 AM 7/6/2006, Michael S wrote: The open ports are simply

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Michael S
Derek, Actually my domain is a subdomain (e.g. mysubdomain.domain.com), and obviously the domain server for domain.com points correctly to my site. What I want to have (mostly for the sake of configuring DNS) is something like www.mysubdomain.domain.com, and ftp.mysubdomain.domain.com. Can my

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Derek Ragona
You need a second IP for the secondary server. With a single public IP and port forwarding, you get only one destination. All you need is to add entries to DNS maps for the other host records you want. I assume your DNS is being hosted elseware now, so just have them add the two additional

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:06:39PM -0400, Michael S wrote: Hi all. I am trying to set up a DNS service. I have 2 FreeBSD machines, one's web and DNS (that I am setting up) and the other FTP. Both machines are behind a router and get local addresses (i.e. 192.168). If DNS, FTP and web

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:30:16AM +1200, I wrote: [ some totally irrelevant stuff ] Please disregard my last post. I must learn to read before answering. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Michael S
No problem. Thanks anyway. On 7/6/06, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:30:16AM +1200, I wrote: [ some totally irrelevant stuff ] Please disregard my last post. I must learn to read before answering. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DNS beginner question

2006-07-05 Thread Michael S
Hi all. I am trying to set up a DNS service. I have 2 FreeBSD machines, one's web and DNS (that I am setting up) and the other FTP. Both machines are behind a router and get local addresses (i.e. 192.168). If DNS, FTP and web ports in the router are open, will I be able to set up the DNS in

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Michael, I am trying to set up a DNS service. I have 2 FreeBSD machines, one's web and DNS (that I am setting up) and the other FTP. Both machines are behind a router and get local addresses (i.e. 192.168). If DNS, FTP and web ports in the router are open, will I be able to set up the

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-05 Thread David Stanford
On 7/5/06, Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I am trying to set up a DNS service. I have 2 FreeBSD machines, one's web and DNS (that I am setting up) and the other FTP. Both machines are behind a router and get local addresses (i.e. 192.168). If DNS, FTP and web ports in the

RE: Beginner Questions

2006-06-09 Thread Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI
Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: Beginner Questions On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:14:06AM -0400, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web

Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI
I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up after I log on? I got the graphical login

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Bob Middaugh
-- Original message -- From: Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday 08 June 2006 08:14, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions.  I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Andreas Rudisch
/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html Many beginner problems can be solved with the handbook :) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Welcome to FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Derek Ragona
Look at the file .xinitrc in your home directory, this is where the window manager is usually run from. -Derek At 07:14 AM 6/8/2006, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Andy Reitz
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Thursday 08 June 2006 13:35, Derek Ragona wrote: Look at the file .xinitrc in your home directory, this is where the window manager is usually run from. -Derek At 07:14 AM 6/8/2006, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time,

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:14:06AM -0400, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes:

FreeBSD beginner part2 questions

2004-07-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
after receiving lots of support from freebsd-question i completely (almost) moved home machine/server to freebsd. and have question: 1) can userland ppp negotiate deflate with NetBSD pppd on other side? my ppp.conf looks like that: stalka: set log Phase Chat tun set device /dev/cuaa2

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
I have used a single 256MB mfs on FreeBSD for months without any problem. I was not doing heavy IO on it, it was used in a /tmp fashion and most of the time was swapped out, going down to 8MB resident size at times. softdeps in NetBSD is very buggy. putting very high load like deleting huge

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have used a single 256MB mfs on FreeBSD for months without any problem. I was not doing heavy IO on it, it was used in a /tmp fashion and most of the time was swapped out, going down to 8MB resident size at times. does FreeBSD deallocate pages that are unused. NetBSD does not. if you create

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
does FreeBSD deallocate pages that are unused. NetBSD does not. if you create 100MB file on mfs and delete it, VM size of mfs is still over 100MB. while it will get swapped out it's a kind of nonsense IMHO FreeBSD tries to swap out idle pages. That means that you'll have more physical memory

FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of all new features :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large writing to file almost freezes everything) etc. etc. i installed FreeBSD once to do quick

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Mike Hogsett
Wojciech Puchar wrote: my questions: Start here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i installed FreeBSD once to do quick performance tests, and at least in disk I/O and fair scheduling it's MUCH better (tested 4.10 and 5.1). It's nice to be welcomed by higher performance when you switch OSes. :-) my questions: 1) what is Buf and Cache in top exactly? why

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:30:10PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of all new features :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large writing to file almost

RE: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Eric Crist
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced) [snip] my questions: 1) what is Buf and Cache in top exactly? why buf on 96MB

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:30:10 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of all new features :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large writing

RE: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced).

2004-07-15 Thread Julien Gabel
2) can i compile kernel with -march=pentium,pentium[234] -O2 optimization? in NetBSD 2.0 doing -march=pentium produces kernel that doesn't boot at all, just resets. 2.0 is always under develpoment and not yet released. I don't see the problem with 1.6.2. 4) is IPv6 working well? (i mean no

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i installed FreeBSD once to do quick performance tests, and at least in disk I/O and fair scheduling it's MUCH better (tested 4.10 and 5.1). It's nice to be welcomed by higher performance when you switch OSes. :-) while high performance is always cool, stable performance

Beginner Security Question

2003-11-17 Thread Jon Cavalier
hello, after lots of research and configuration, i finally have a freebsd box with a comfortable custom interface, lots of multimedia bells and whistles, and shortcuts to all of my most-used applications. i'm still fumbling with text, in that i haven't found a way to cut and paste from one

RE: Beginner Security Question

2003-11-17 Thread fbsd_user
moused_type=auto moused_flags=-m 2=3 # config for 2 button mouse -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Cavalier Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Beginner Security Question hello, after lots of research

Re: Beginner Security Question

2003-11-17 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:42:20PM -0800, Jon Cavalier wrote: so now my question is, since i haven't really crossed the next bridge which is to familiarize myself fully with the security aspects of freebsd.. is this thing safe? Yes. You have to do three thing just like you have to do with

Re: What version? I am beginner....

2003-08-14 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Denis wrote: Hi all! I am beginner in FreeBSD and in Unix at all. I know just Windows: Do u recommended me FreeBSD 5.1 Release? 5.1-RELEASE is less stable than 4.8-RELEASE. Particularly, you may have to do some tweaking to get the kernel booting on install and thereafter. However

What version? I am beginner....

2003-08-14 Thread Denis
Hi all! I am beginner in FreeBSD and in Unix at all. I know just Windows: Do u recommended me FreeBSD 5.1 Release? Or i must start learn FreeBSD from 4.8 stable? Rgrds, Denis. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: What version? I am beginner....

2003-08-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am beginner in FreeBSD and in Unix at all. I know just Windows: Do u recommended me FreeBSD 5.1 Release? Or i must start learn FreeBSD from 4.8 stable? 4.8 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http