How much disk space is required when installing FreeBSD 4.7R?

2003-01-31 Thread Steve Gladstone
I am installing a FreeBSD distribution for the first time. My current system runs Windows 98 from a single partition 4GB hard drive. I intend to make my system dual boot Windows and FreeBSD. I have shrunk the existing partition to around 3GB using Partition Magic and left just over 1GB for

PCMCIA controller/card problem

2003-01-31 Thread Akifyev Sergey
Hello, All! I've got a problem with configuring PCMCIA on my laptop (Toshiba Tecra700CT, very old model). The FreeBSD kernel detects PCMCIA controller successfully. pccardd starts, and even detects card insertion/removal, but says that no card in database for (null)/(null). So, it seems to be

X server for Windows

2003-01-31 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
Hi, I need to connect to my FreeBSD box from a Windows PC using some kind of X server for Windows. I was wondering if someone could be so kind and give me a few recommendations? I only need a simple server, no print or stuff - just the plain (vnc-like) thing. Thanks! /Andreas --- Andreas

Re: X server for Windows

2003-01-31 Thread Ben Williams
Friday, January 31, 2003, 3:55:02 AM, you wrote: AWA Hi, AWA I need to connect to my FreeBSD box from a Windows PC using some kind of X AWA server for Windows. I was wondering if someone could be so kind and give me AWA a few recommendations? AWA I only need a simple server, no print or stuff

Problem getting opera to work

2003-01-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
I've recently installed the latest version of opera from ports and can't get it to start. Have used a couple of older versions of opera without problems. Starting with an unmodified opera installation, and no .netscape or .opera directories, running opera brings up the license window. When I

Re: security settings - kerberos or ssh?

2003-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:09:21PM -0800, chip wiegand wrote: I am going to set up a new machine with fbsd4.7R for web use - apache, mysql, php, phpmyadmin. I will be co-locating this box at my isp's office. I would like to make sure this is as secure as possible and still be able to have

Re: ssh ipfw

2003-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:06:45PM -0500, Pete C wrote: any quick pointers for how to go about setting up ssh though ipfw on a gateway/router running nat to one of the internal machines ? (FreeBSD on both the router and internal machine) Let me guess. You've set up natd(8) on your gateway

Re: ssh ipfw

2003-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ooops. On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:51:36AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: You should set up the host keys in ~/.known_hosts or ~/.ssh/known_hosts /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts accordingly. Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Problem getting opera to work

2003-01-31 Thread Jud
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:31:00 +1100, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently installed the latest version of opera from ports and can't get it to start. Have used a couple of older versions of opera without problems. Starting with an unmodified opera installation, and no .netscape

Re: cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out ....

2003-01-31 Thread Toomas Aas
planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out The directory I want to backup has 59GB. The tape has native 100GB and compressed estimated 200GB capacity. What is the length parameter in your tapetype? -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * If it

Re: X server for Windows

2003-01-31 Thread Pascal Giannakakis
Ben Williams schrieb: Friday, January 31, 2003, 3:55:02 AM, you wrote: AWA Hi, AWA I need to connect to my FreeBSD box from a Windows PC using some kind of X AWA server for Windows. I was wondering if someone could be so kind and give me AWA a few recommendations? AWA I only need a simple

Re: X server for Windows

2003-01-31 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 04:14, Ben Williams wrote: Friday, January 31, 2003, 3:55:02 AM, you wrote: X-Win32 by Starnet is the nicest win32 X Server I've seen, but you have to buy it after the trial's up. As a regular user of Xwin32, it's incredibly buggy and unstable compared to eXceed from

please comment on my nat/ipfw rules (resent)

2003-01-31 Thread Redmond Militante
hi all i have my test machine set up as a gateway box, with ipfw/natd configured on it, set up to filter/redirect packets bound for a client on my internal network. external ip of my internal client is aliased to the outside nic of the gateway box gateway machine's kernel has been

Re: X server for Windows

2003-01-31 Thread Chris Phillips
Subject: Re: X server for Windows On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 04:14, Ben Williams wrote: Friday, January 31, 2003, 3:55:02 AM, you wrote: X-Win32 by Starnet is the nicest win32 X Server I've seen, but you have to buy it after the trial's up. As a regular user of Xwin32, it's incredibly

Hospedagem profissional de domínios e sites

2003-01-31 Thread VirtualServ
Esta mensagem está sendo enviada em resposta ao cadastro do seu e-mail em sites associados. _ HOSPEDAGEM PROFISSIONAL DE DOMÍNIOS E SITES Servidores com plataformas: Windows - Unix A VirtualServ oferece o mais completo plano de hospedagem profissional do

Verizon DSL+PPPoE

2003-01-31 Thread Doug Reynolds
I remember seeing this posted about a year ago, but I couldn't google it one my business server, I run Verizon DSL and PPPoE. I setup it up like with the example they used on Freebsddairy. the problem I ran into, after about 1 week is that the connection just died. everything is lit up,

Re: Verizon DSL+PPPoE

2003-01-31 Thread Matthew Emmerton
I remember seeing this posted about a year ago, but I couldn't google it one my business server, I run Verizon DSL and PPPoE. I setup it up like with the example they used on Freebsddairy. the problem I ran into, after about 1 week is that the connection just died. everything is lit

Êîììåð÷åñêîìó äèðåêòîðó

2003-01-31 Thread wizardboyz_2000
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JDK, Tomcat, + argh!

2003-01-31 Thread Rich Fox
Hi, I have been trying to build and install the www/jakarta-tomcat41 package. As you may know, you must download the file jdk1_2_2-src.tar.gz from Sun only. The only problem is, they don't seem to have it on their site. All of the documentation I have read indicates that I need to NOT download

arplookup 0.0.0.0

2003-01-31 Thread Stephen D. Kingrea
hope one of youse can help with this... i am suddenly and inexplicably getting the message: www /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 0.0.0.0rt www /kernel: arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network nothing seems affected, that is to say that everything works as

Limiting memory usage of a certain process.

2003-01-31 Thread Florian Lorenzen
Hi all, I've got the following problem with my FBSD-4.7-STABLE-box: It is running a mldonkey-2.02-client under a dedicated user. This process eats up all memory. Thus the system starts swapping. This is in general not a big problem but it slows down the whole machine, which is also running

Re: suggested reinstall of KDE when original was from CD-Rom

2003-01-31 Thread Jim Trigg
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:22:32PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: BSD Baby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In this case, does make deinstall work? Or is there a better way? pkg_delete(1) I want to install the new KDE 3.1 from ports in its place. Any advice appreciated. Even better,

Re: CD installation problem

2003-01-31 Thread David Larkin
Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I was wondering if any subscibers to this list recognise the following problem. I just purchased 2 identical machines and I am looking to install 4.7 from CD. [...] It then formats the hard disk ok, but

Re: CD installation problem

2003-01-31 Thread David Larkin
Just for the record ... I wasn't able to persuade FreeBSD to recognise the drive, but changing the CDROM drive to another model fixed the problem. All ok now. I was wondering if any subscibers to this list recognise the following problem. I just purchased 2 identical machines and I am

Áåñïëàòíî çâîíèòå ïî Ìîáèëüíîìó

2003-01-31 Thread freesot
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Re: suggested reinstall of KDE when original was from CD-Rom

2003-01-31 Thread Lauri Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 January 2003 15:26, Jim Trigg wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:22:32PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: BSD Baby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In this case, does make deinstall work? Or is there a better way? pkg_delete(1) I want

Re: JDK, Tomcat, + argh!

2003-01-31 Thread Robin Damm
Rich Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have been trying to build and install the www/jakarta-tomcat41 package. As you may know, you must download the file jdk1_2_2-src.tar.gz from Sun only. The only problem is, they don't seem to have it on their site. All of the documentation I have

PPtP Client to MPD to boxes behind NATD are very slow ??

2003-01-31 Thread jdroflet
After connecting via VPN I can get decent throughput from the MPD host but very poor speed from anything past it. I have tried adjusting the iface mtu to as low as 1350 with the same results. Problems are on downloading files from the hosts to the client. I have: MPD version 3.10 4.5-RELEASE

Re: Limiting memory usage of a certain process.

2003-01-31 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi, On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:26:25PM +0100, Florian Lorenzen typed: Hi all, I've got the following problem with my FBSD-4.7-STABLE-box: It is running a mldonkey-2.02-client under a dedicated user. This process eats up all memory. Thus the system starts swapping. This is in general not

Re: PPtP Client to MPD to boxes behind NATD are very slow ??

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After connecting via VPN I can get decent throughput from the MPD host but very poor speed from anything past it. What do you mean by this? We use MPD off and on, and (honestly) it is just slow. I've got some tricks on how to speed it up, but it's slow no matter

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Re: Limiting memory usage of a certain process.

2003-01-31 Thread Florian Lorenzen
Yep, I mean login class and I ran cap_mkdb afterwards. Any other hints? Florian I tried to limit core-use of mldonkey by putting it into a seperate login group with a lowered maxmemorysize but that had no effect. I also niced it up, but that has no effect on swap usage, of course. When

IPFW2 setup

2003-01-31 Thread Jason Morgan
OK, I've read the man page for IPFW a couple times and I am still having difficulty setting up a working firewall. The firewall acts as a gateway to my inside network as well as a web server and mail server. I also need ssh connectivity from inside and out. Also, one odd thing is that I have a

RE: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs?

2003-01-31 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
Much appreciated. : ) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kevin Stevens Sent: January 29, 2003 3:55 PM To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs? On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Lowell

FW: A question about umask, groups and classes

2003-01-31 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
** re-post ** Hi there, What I'm trying to accomplish is - to have a group of users called 'developers' - read/write access to all files created by any member of that group by each member of that group. I believe in the past I've accomplished this via a umask of 002, but I don't recall where I

Apache-ssl

2003-01-31 Thread Gannater Jnos
I compiled apache-ssl safely on my computer. No error came up! When I try to start it: /usr/local/sbin/httpsdctl start The following error comes up: /usr/local/sbin/httpsdctl restart: httpsd could not be started What should I do? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

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Re: FW: A question about umask, groups and classes

2003-01-31 Thread Rich Fox
Hi, I believe in my adventures, this successfully worked by placing the umask command in /etc/login.conf... default:\ :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\ :welcome=/etc/motd:\ [snip] :priority=0:\ :ignoretime@:\ :umask=002: Rich. | Rich Fox | [EMAIL

Re: IPFW2 setup

2003-01-31 Thread Jason Morgan
Kernel firewall settings: options IPFW2 options IPFIREWALL #Firewall options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE #print info about dropped packets options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=10 #limit verbosity options IPV6FIREWALL options

Re: PPtP Client to MPD to boxes behind NATD are very slow ??

2003-01-31 Thread jdroflet
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:00:07 -0800 (PST), Bill Moran wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After connecting via VPN I can get decent throughput from the MPD host but very poor speed from anything past it. What do you mean by this? We use MPD off and on, and (honestly) it is just slow.

Re: Apache-ssl

2003-01-31 Thread Luke Hollins
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, [ISO-8859-2] Gannater Jnos wrote: I compiled apache-ssl safely on my computer. No error came up! When I try to start it: /usr/local/sbin/httpsdctl start The following error comes up: /usr/local/sbin/httpsdctl restart: httpsd could not be started What should I do?

Re[2]: appending files on smbfs

2003-01-31 Thread Alex
Dear/Beste Patrick, Thursday, January 30, 2003, 11:16:09 PM, you wrote: has anyone every had problems with appending existing files on volumes mounted by smbfs or shlight? $ echo sdsad hey $ echo sdsad hey cannot create hey: Permission denied You should look at permission on the windows

Apache 2.x conf with SSL startup problem

2003-01-31 Thread Alex
Dear/Beste users, I am a FreeBSD and Apache 2.x with SSL user. The webserver works when started by hand (apachectl start-ssl), but it causes the machine to hang during a boot. You still can logon to it from another machine. I didn't get a certification from a CA but created one by hand. During

Analog Modum

2003-01-31 Thread Alex
Dear freebsd-questions, I'm looking for a analog modem. I didn't see any in the hardware lists. Can you please tell me which ones will work on FreeBSD? -- Best regards, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

XFree86 configuration

2003-01-31 Thread David Larkin
I just installed 4.7 on a new machine and all seems well except the XFree86 is only working on the default VGA mode. Configuring X is a complete nightmare, am I missing something ? I haven't a clue what sync rates my monitor has and have no manual for it., also I intend moving the server to a

restricting user's directory listing and changing

2003-01-31 Thread Jay Sern Liew
Greetings. Basically, I have this group of users, that I give SSH/SFTP access, but I don't want them to be able to see the complete file hierarchy and ``cd'' to them. I just want a user to be able to access the user's home, and that's it. I looked up some docs on the shell(tcsh) and

Re: XFree86 configuration

2003-01-31 Thread Wiroth Didier
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:35:14 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed 4.7 on a new machine and all seems well except the XFree86 is only working on the default VGA mode. What previous step did you make, or what have you done here? Did you type: startx Configuring X is a

Re: PPtP Client to MPD to boxes behind NATD are very slow ??

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
[could you wrap lines around 72 chars or so, please] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:00:07 -0800 (PST), Bill Moran wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After connecting via VPN I can get decent throughput from the MPD host but very poor speed from anything past it. What do you

mrouted configuration question

2003-01-31 Thread lamont fung
I have mrouted running on freebsd 4.7. I am routing between two private networks: 10.100.100.x - mrouted - 192.168.3.x and I can see the multicast traffic on the client side (192.168.3.x) but the switch that connects the client side network with the router is getting flooded with the multicast

RE: please comment on my nat/ipfw rules (resent)

2003-01-31 Thread JoeB
1. Your firewall rules are not working at all, except for the natd redirect option. This is caused by the kernel compile time option IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT.This option tell your firewall that any packet that does not match a rule is allowed to pass on through the firewall. Comment out

Installation Problems

2003-01-31 Thread michaew
Hi. I'm trying to install release 5.0 on an i386 system with a P100 processor with native windows 95 on the hard disk. I have 16mb ram and a 1.2GB IDE Wester Digital Caviar. Because the computer does not support CD booting and I have not been able to find a way to change boot order in the

Syslog Configuration Question

2003-01-31 Thread Michael K. Smith
Hello All: I am trying to set up a few facilities to receive syslog info from various network devices. In all cases, not only do the arriving packets get logged to the logfile configured, but they also get logged to /var/log/messages. I would like messages to be used only for

Re: Analog Modum

2003-01-31 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 12:31, Alex wrote: Dear freebsd-questions, I'm looking for a analog modem. I didn't see any in the hardware lists. Can you please tell me which ones will work on FreeBSD? Any external hardware modem (The serial kind), or any internal hardware modem (Usually ISA PNP

Re: Syslog Configuration Question

2003-01-31 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:15:25AM -0800, Michael K. Smith wrote: Hello All: I am trying to set up a few facilities to receive syslog info from various network devices. In all cases, not only do the arriving packets get logged to the logfile configured, but they also get logged to

Re: can I upgrade 4.4 to 4.7 via cvsup

2003-01-31 Thread Barry C . Hawkins
Sergey, Are you referring to files such as those updated by mergemaster? If so, that might help Hal out. The link (English) to that page in the FreeBSD Handbook is http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ makeworld.html. Regards, On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 06:44

RE: Syslog Configuration Question

2003-01-31 Thread JoeB
Add this local5.none; local6.none; local7.none /var/log/messages -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael K. Smith Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 1:15 PM To: questions list Subject: Syslog Configuration Question Hello All: I am

RE: Syslog Configuration Question

2003-01-31 Thread JoeB
Add this local5.none;local6.none;local7.none /var/log/messages No spaces between works -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael K. Smith Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 1:15 PM To: questions list Subject: Syslog Configuration Question

RE: copy a cd

2003-01-31 Thread JoeB
I think your problem is this statement you made 'i don't think it is working' What do you mean by this?. The command you used copied the image.iso file to the cd. If you tried to boot from it of course it won't boot. To be able to boot you have to uncompress to ISO file into an FBSD directory

Re: ssh ipfw

2003-01-31 Thread kitsune
Do a man on natd and look at port redirection... To do it in rc.conf you should add to the natd_flag= line... -redirect_port tcp_or_udp address_of_target_machine:port_on_target_machine incoming_port_on_the_router here is a example here... -redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.2:22 6822 -redirect_port

swapinfo shows 0 0 Nan% and no device

2003-01-31 Thread Joe
Hello, I have created a file swap0 in /usr/local/swapfiles I then ran vnconfig -e /dev/vn0b /usr/local/swapfiles/swap0 swap When I look at the output from swapinfo It shows Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type 000

Re[2]: X server for Windows

2003-01-31 Thread Ben Williams
Friday, January 31, 2003, 8:08:00 AM, you wrote: PG Ben Williams schrieb: Friday, January 31, 2003, 3:55:02 AM, you wrote: AWA Hi, AWA I need to connect to my FreeBSD box from a Windows PC using some kind of X AWA server for Windows. I was wondering if someone could be so kind and give me

Re: PPtP Client to MPD to boxes behind NATD are very slow ??

2003-01-31 Thread jdroflet
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:23:37 -0800 (PST), Bill Moran wrote: [could you wrap lines around 72 chars or so, please] Sorry about that. After connecting via VPN I can get decent throughput from the MPD host but very poor speed from anything past it. What do you mean by this? We use MPD off and

Re: Syslog Configuration Question

2003-01-31 Thread Michael K. Smith
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 10:35 AM, JoeB wrote: Add this local5.none;local6.none;local7.none /var/log/messages No spaces between works Thanks for the info above. Are there any important system messages that will be caught by this? I wouldn't want to miss something because I

WebSSL

2003-01-31 Thread Gannater Jnos
I would like to set up ssl for my webserver. Altohught I want to use my non-secure webserve as well. How can I do this? Is it better to install Apche 2.0 then 1.3? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

growfs / fbsd 4.7

2003-01-31 Thread Alex A
I finally succeded in adding a new drive to my concat volume (by attaching it as a subdisk) but when I try to use 'growfs it says: growfs: wtfs: write error: 160809993: Undefined error: 0 'growfs -N xxx' gives no errors. What is preventing me from growing my file system? Any help would be very

Re: restricting user's directory listing and changing

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
Jay Sern Liew wrote: Greetings. Basically, I have this group of users, that I give SSH/SFTP access, but I don't want them to be able to see the complete file hierarchy and ``cd'' to them. I just want a user to be able to access the user's home, and that's it Look at the docs on the chroot

Re: cvsup problem with premature EOF from server

2003-01-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
yew chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yew chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Connected to cvsup14.freebsd.org Server software version: SNAP_16_1e If I recall correctly, that's an out-of-date version of the server software. I don't see

eterm key bindings

2003-01-31 Thread Petre Bandac
I'm using enlightenment and eterm as shell console I want my del key to act like del (not like backspace) and home/end as home/end - now when I press one oh those I get a ~ symbol where and what should I modify ? thanks, petre ps - and somewhat offtopic :) - after I built the kernel (the

Re: sysinstall suddenly quitting

2003-01-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Randy Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all, I've got a 4.6 system that I'm trying to get to 4.7. I've dropped on the sysinstall from 4.7(per the docs). I run it as /stand/sysinstall installUpgrade. When I get to the Choose Installation Media screen I go into Options to change the

Re: PPtP Client to MPD to boxes behind NATD are very slow ??

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone can read a tcpdump I can do one of those too. Let me know from which box and what options. I would be interested to see a tcpdump such as tcpdump -i ng0 file.txt done on the MPD machine while you're transferring a small file. You'll probably want to send

Re: restricting user's directory listing and changing

2003-01-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:19:09PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Jay Sern Liew wrote: Greetings. Basically, I have this group of users, that I give SSH/SFTP access, but I don't want them to be able to see the complete file hierarchy and ``cd'' to them. I just want a user to be able

Re: restricting user's directory listing and changing

2003-01-31 Thread Stephane Lee
You may want to check the restricted bash. http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.05a/html_node/bashref_75.html On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Jay Sern Liew wrote: Greetings. Basically, I have this group of users, that I give SSH/SFTP access, but I don't want them to be able to see the complete file

Installation Problem

2003-01-31 Thread michaew
Hi. I'm trying to install release 5.0 on an i386 system with a P100 processor with native windows 95 on the hard disk. I have 16mb ram and a 1.2GB IDE Wester Digital Caviar. Because the computer does not support CD booting and I have not been able to find a way to change boot order in the

Re: Ooops.

2003-01-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-31 13:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you explain what you think is a problem? Well - it's happened to two uf us in the past month! In both cases the operator was copying files from one drive to another and

Re: Ooops.

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Unfortunately, rm -rf home removed home from the source /usr directory as well! :-( I presume that this was due to /home being a symlink to /usr/home, and somehow that link remained, so that -r referred to everything below the symlink as well as to the directory I was

Re: please comment on my nat/ipfw rules (resent)

2003-01-31 Thread Redmond Militante
hi you've sold me :) do you have any good online tutorials to recommend for setting up a gateway/firewall/natd machine using ipfilter/ipnat? thanks redmond 1. Your firewall rules are not working at all, except for the natd redirect option. This is caused by the kernel compile time option

INSTALL.TXT for sparc installation missing instructions?

2003-01-31 Thread Edmond Baroud
hey all, I was checking out the INSTALL.TXT for instructions on making floppies to boot a sparc box and I found out that the Floppy Disk Image Instructions is missing or something? cheers, Ed. -- Edmond Baroud UNIX Systems Admin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint 140F 5FD5

SoftUpdate woes

2003-01-31 Thread Mike Dean
Maybe someone can straighten me out on something - from what I have read, it seems like softupdates are supposed to accomplish many of the same things as filesystem journaling. However, in my experience with them, they seem almost to be accomplishing the opposite objective. Two or three times my

Samba and XP?

2003-01-31 Thread John Wilson
Good Day, I am currently seeking advice in regard to allowing an XP Home Edition machine to have access to a FreeBSD mount. I've looked over Samba, and not only have I seen references to XP's inability to join a 'domain based-network', but also don't really like the idea of installing Samba as

RE: Syslog Configuration Question

2003-01-31 Thread JoeB
By your question I see you think you are to replace to /var/log/messages line with this one. You are not to remove the original line but add this line following the original line. If I remember correctly this second line is like a continuation. If this does not work then read man syslog.conf for

RE: Samba and XP?

2003-01-31 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
You could go upside-down and use the FreeBSD machine mounting a XP-share. You say that you're using XPhome so ActiveDirectroy or any other Domain-Controlling issues shouldn't play a role. I think mount_smbfs is your friend. Best regards, -Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Day, I am

Re: cvsup problem with premature EOF from server

2003-01-31 Thread yew chin
--- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yew chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yew chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Connected to cvsup14.freebsd.org Server software version: SNAP_16_1e If I recall correctly, that's an

tcpdump irregularity

2003-01-31 Thread Stephen D. Kingrea
using 4.7 on a gateway designated machine (ipfw/natd) serving 3 wstations. www#tcpdump -i dc0 ###in fact, any interface tcpdump: (no devices found) /dev/bpf0: Device not configured now, i read somewhere that kernel must be compiled with option PACKETFILTER, however; workstation running

Re: Samba and XP?

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
John Wilson wrote: Good Day, I am currently seeking advice in regard to allowing an XP Home Edition machine to have access to a FreeBSD mount. I've looked over Samba, and not only have I seen references to XP's inability to join a 'domain based-network', There's an XP machine right behind me

RE: please comment on my nat/ipfw rules (resent)

2003-01-31 Thread JoeB
Here is my IPFILTER environment config. I have also included some other hard to find kernel internal knobs to add tighter packet security. http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.html /etc/rc.conf # Activate IPFILTER IPNAT function auto start at boot time

Re: restricting user's directory listing and changing

2003-01-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stephane Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You may want to check the restricted bash. http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.05a/html_node/bashref_75.html Just be careful; restricted shells aren't really intended for security. They're more for situations where you want to avoid shooting yourself in the

Re: Samba and XP?

2003-01-31 Thread Philip Hallstrom
If you don't want to install samba, find a windows ftp client that is easy to use... seems I've seen some that pretend to be hard drives on your desktop... can't remember the name, but the friend that had it seemed to like it. -philip On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Wilson wrote: Good Day, I am

Full-Screen display with VMware?

2003-01-31 Thread David Loszewski
When I try to go into fullscreen display in VMware my whole screen turns to all kinds of wierd colors and then I come up with a core dump for vmware. I'm using FreeBSD 4.7, what could be causing this? Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in

Re: Full-Screen display with VMware?

2003-01-31 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 18:24, David Loszewski wrote: When I try to go into fullscreen display in VMware my whole screen turns to all kinds of wierd colors and then I come up with a core dump for vmware. I'm using FreeBSD 4.7, what could be causing this? From the README.FreeBSD that comes

Re: tcpdump irregularity

2003-01-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-31 16:44, Stephen D. Kingrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: using 4.7 on a gateway designated machine (ipfw/natd) serving 3 wstations. www#tcpdump -i dc0 ###in fact, any interface tcpdump: (no devices found) /dev/bpf0: Device not configured Check that you have the following in

A twisted home network

2003-01-31 Thread Thaddeus Quintin
There's plenty of information on how to install two network cards (done that), how to enable a FreeBSD box to run as a gateway, do NAT, DHCP, etc. However, I'm having a mental block with how the cards should be configured. Here's how I want my network setup- CABLE MODEM- D-link DI-701

Re: A twisted home network

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
Thaddeus Quintin wrote: There's plenty of information on how to install two network cards (done that), how to enable a FreeBSD box to run as a gateway, do NAT, DHCP, etc. However, I'm having a mental block with how the cards should be configured. Here's how I want my network setup- CABLE

Re: A twisted home network

2003-01-31 Thread Rich Fox
Hi, let's see here... (You should probably wait to get at least two responses since I am not feeling real confident about my description here... if they jive you're alright...) INET }--{ DLINK Thingie }--{ FBSD BOX }--{ Internal net Basically, the Dlink is going to get it's outside IP from

Re: Fixit instructions

2003-01-31 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Quoting Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe what's needed is an Essential BSD commands handbook entry, that covers the lists the commands available in Fixit mode that are actually useful for fixing a broken system? Yes, that's exactly what I

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2003-01-31 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update 28 January 2002, $Id: Howto-ask-questions,v 1.3 2003/01/28 00:26:41 grog Exp $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a

The Complete FreeBSD, second edition: errata and addenda

2003-01-31 Thread Greg Lehey
Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, second edition Last revision: 21 June 1999 The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge

The Complete FreeBSD, third edition: errata and addenda

2003-01-31 Thread Greg Lehey
Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, third edition Last revision: 2 August 1999 The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge

filesystem snapshots causes system to hang

2003-01-31 Thread Alan Chen
Hello! I am new to BSD and am asking for some help. When I try to get a snapshot mounted (mount -u -o snapshot /foo/bar /foo) the disk churns for a few minutes and then stops. After the disks stop churning, the system hangs. By hanging, I mean: frozen ssh sessions, frozen local console,

Resizing partions

2003-01-31 Thread stan
I've got a laptop that I originaly partioned inot a windoze, and FreeBSD partiton. I'm going to upgrade this unit this weekend, and I wnat to concatenate the 2 partions. Is there a way to do this? (Yes, it's the m$ parition I'm nuking). -- They that would give up essential liberty for

Sendmail directory ownership changed

2003-01-31 Thread Joey Teel
Hello, A few days ago I started getting errors in my syslog saying that sendmail couldn't write to the mail directories, on inspection of the permissions, I discovered that all the mail directories had been changed to be owned by my personal UID and GID Can someone tell me what the proper

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