Re: Linux File System Won't Mount

2003-11-19 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:35, Barry Skidmore wrote: Vahric, Here are the results of the mount you suggested: digital-village# mount /dev/ad1s1a on / (ufs, local) /dev/ad1s1e on /boot (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad1s1g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad1s1d on /tmp (ufs, local,

Re: check NIC status command

2003-11-19 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, ifconfig | grep -i media displays status of the nic Regards SSR From: Peter Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: check NIC status command Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:41:24 -0500 Hi all What command in freebsd I can check the NIC status (full duplex or not)? I made it in the

RE: About Upgreading to New Verison 5.0 -- 5.1

2003-11-19 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi , First I installed FreeBSD 5.0 after that I booted from FreeBSD 5.1 and choosed Upgread Section ?! not more ?!! Sorry Where can I find recommended update procedure _? And I don't know What is cvs tag ?! and I have to use ?'' Vahric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

a Systemcrash, GBDE and fsck

2003-11-19 Thread Hagen Kuehl
Hello, my system crashed and the filessystems were not properly unmountet. After the reboot my GBDE partition makes some problems. When initializising GBDE and running fsck -p -t ffs /dev/ad1s1.bde this error occurs: /dev/ad1s1.bde: CG 416: BAD MAGIC NUMBER /dev/ad1s1.bde: UNEXPECTED SOFT

Monitoring a PPP Connection

2003-11-19 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a device that connects via PPP on a phone line (V.90) to my ISP. However, I am seeing significant delays on the connection but can't find a cause. I am looking for something that will monitor the phone line - like tcpdump for a phone line. I know that there are some expensive devices

Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware)

2003-11-19 Thread Bryan Cassidy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've put some parts together. This is what I've come up with. Please tell me any recommendations on changes or anything with this system. It will run on FreeBSD. Any comments what so ever is appreciated. Please try to explain in detail when you go to

Re: Security question

2003-11-19 Thread Bryan Cassidy
I've never used sysinstall for anything but installing the operating system. I'm sure what you want is cvsup. Use the /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile for updating source then follow instructions in handbook on make world to update the system. On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:09:03 -0800 Kevin

install problem

2003-11-19 Thread radoslaw . zukowski
Hi, I have a problem when trying to install FreeBSD 5.1. Problem appear on initialize part, installer have frozen and it is a little bit strange for me. Hardware configuration: 2 IDE Hdd, both on one cable, generally 3 partitions. One is empty for FreeBSD. 256 RAM Celeron 500MHz CD-RW Trace

Re: sysinstall vs ports

2003-11-19 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Kurt D. McCullum: I have a general question for the list. Does the sysinstall utility use the same scripts as the ports tree? Sysinstall uses packages, whereas the ports tree does not necessarily. A package is just an archive of everything to be installed for a given program. It is

Re: quick question about turning the annoying beep off in X

2003-11-19 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* twig les: Magic! I never bothered to check if putting the command *before* wmaker in ~/.xinitrc would make a difference. Thnx. The WindowMaker process typically *replaces* the shell interpreting the .xinitrc script, you can notice that by the exec keyword in front of it. Thus

Re: how to change the name of root?

2003-11-19 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I get admin emails from my remote boxes, or send messages from them, they are from root or charlie root. How do I change this? I would use vipw(1) to edit the password database. -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot http://caraldi.com/jbq/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: beeping on console...NOT X

2003-11-19 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've seen several posts about how to turn off beeping in X, but I've not been able to locate a response on how to turn off console based beeping. I'm using csh, but could use bash...does someone happent to know the wawy to turn off console beeping in the .cshrc

Re: how to change the name of root?

2003-11-19 Thread Julien Gabel
When I get admin emails from my remote boxes, or send messages from them, they are from root or charlie root. How do I change this? I would use vipw(1) to edit the password database. Or you can use the pw(8) command this way : # pw user mod -n root -c WhatYouWant -- -jg.

Re: user's rights ???

2003-11-19 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Xpression: Hi list, I have configured a server to act as a WWW server, but I have many users that have their own web page and they can access to their sub-dirs via FTP, now when they want to upload the files via HTTP (usin PHP) the system denied the write, I mean: Assuming you

news/press page

2003-11-19 Thread TEC Meganet
HI, I send this only to say that this article is a little bit wired because the author is saying that a T1 link is pushing 20Mbit/s and he controlles it with dummynet at the end ... Controlling Bandwidth OnLamp, Michael Lucas Using DUMMYNET to control bandwidth allocation

Re: floppy disk - device not configured error

2003-11-19 Thread Peter Risdon
Darryl Hoar wrote: Checked dmesg and the floppy controller is recognized, etc. It's often helpful to paste your dmesg into your question with problems of this sort. From my dmesg: fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone) port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0 x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0:

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2003-11-19 Thread Olcay Alic
Hello I am Olcay Alic from Turkey. I have setup a FreeBSD machine and had problems with trying startx and/or X.I think this is because I did not correctly entered the values for monitor specification.I tried to run xdm so I opened the etc/ttys file with ee editor and the made what was written

Re: Can't Install KDE

2003-11-19 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wednesday 19 November 2003 02:53, Barry Skidmore wrote: When doing a make on kde3 in ports on 4.9-RELEASE, I get stuck in the following install loop. I have looked at the file 'cdefs.h', and there It doesn't look like it. Why do you think

Re: DVD burner questions

2003-11-19 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wednesday 19 November 2003 04:22, Tom Parquette wrote: 1) I've seen DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD-R floating around. What does the plus and minus signs indicate? +RW and -RW are competing rewrite DVD standards. Typical of the computing

Re: news/press page

2003-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:02:14AM +, TEC Meganet wrote: HI, I send this only to say that this article is a little bit wired because the author is saying that a T1 link is pushing 20Mbit/s and he controlles it with dummynet at the end ... Sorry, what was your point? Kris pgp0.pgp

Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware)

2003-11-19 Thread Jud
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:58:05 -0600, Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've put some parts together. This is what I've come up with. Please tell me any recommendations on changes or anything with this system. It will run on FreeBSD. Any comments

Dell PowerEdge 1750 with PERC 4/Di on 4.7-REL

2003-11-19 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
I have a Dell PowerEdge 1750 with a PERC 4/Di . Unfortunately it does not locate the drives when attempting a CD install from 4.7-REL . My best guess is that the PERC 4/Di was not supported in 4.7 (I am assuming it is supported in 4.9 or 5.x though?), however, I have seen some people saying

Re: DVD burner questions

2003-11-19 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Tom Parquette wrote: I have a few questions I hope someone can answer for me: 1) I've seen DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD-R floating around. What does the plus and minus signs indicate? On the Sony DRU-510, DVD+R writes at 4X, and DVD-R at only 2X. Other than that, I'm

Re: xchat perl plugin

2003-11-19 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 01:15, Rafi Lurman wrote: Odd, when I try to load perl.so I get this: /usr/X11R6/lib/xchat/plugins/perl.so: Undefined symbol call_pv Think maybe something funky happened and I should reinstall the port? Possibly. The symbol name should be perl_call_pv. I've tested

5.1-RELEASE on a machine with 24MB RAM

2003-11-19 Thread Jan Stary
Hi list, I am running 5.1-RELEASE on a outdated machine - it's a Compaq Deskpro 2000, manufactured ~1995, with Pentium/100 and 24MB RAM. I made a 64MB swap partition. I wonder if there are any particular options (systcl vm.* ?) that I should be intersted in to get the best out of the machine. I

SOLVED!!! Re: HELP!!?...dirty fs and dont understand what to say to fsck

2003-11-19 Thread Keith Spencer
Thanks all Keith --- Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2003 04:34, Keith Spencer wrote: Hi all, System = 4.7 all Intel I have a filesystem mount error /dev/ad0s1e i.e. /var is dirty. 1)the first I noticed trouble was a system freeze. Untold screen logged

Partitions

2003-11-19 Thread George Theodo
Hello all. I am using FreeBSD 5.1 for a couple of weeks now. My situation is this, I have one hard disk with two partitions , one for WinXP and one for FreeBSD where I boot each one of them. Also I have a second hard disk with two partitions of WinXP. I am trying to administer WinXP from

Re: About Upgreading to New Verison 5.0 -- 5.1

2003-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post. Vahric MUHTARYAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First I installed FreeBSD 5.0 after that I booted from FreeBSD 5.1 and choosed Upgread Section ?! not more ?!! Yes, that should work fine. [assuming you ran the 5.1 version of the sysinstall utility] Sorry Where can

Re: Can I bakup like this...??

2003-11-19 Thread John Mills
Freebies - In case this helps: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Keith Spencer wrote: I need a quick n safe backup strategy. One that I can get the machine backup super quick if have to. What say you about this...(and how do I tips please) a) Throw another drive in the box If you can mount a shared

Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too

2003-11-19 Thread Bob Collins
At 10:46 PM 11/17/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 14 November 2003 at 11:50:09 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: Running FBSD 4.9 on an Intel SMP mobo w/ 2 Intel PII 350s. Onboard SCSI is recognized and sees all my drives. One SCSI 3 drive is 4.5G for the OS and /usr. I have 4 identical IBM

Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
Anyone used a mini ATX machine with FreeBSD? Have a client that has a space limitation and a mini atx machine like http://shentech.com/shutspacskvi.html Would be perfect for him. My primary concern is the network card. Since these small machines only have one PCI slot I will add one card for the

Re: Partitions

2003-11-19 Thread Robin Schoonover
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 01:10:29 -0800 (PST), George Theodo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all. I am using FreeBSD 5.1 for a couple of weeks now. My situation is this, I have one hard disk with two partitions , one for WinXP and one for FreeBSD where I boot each one of them. Also I have a second

Re: Security question

2003-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kevin McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read through the documentation but have not been able to find a definite answer. I am running a pretty core install of 5.1 minimal + bind9, postfix, apache, ssh, no ports collection. Here is my question. When I run the binary update from sysinstall

Re: mailbox location problems

2003-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
RYAN vAN GINNEKEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I run freebsd 4.8 and postfix 2.something when i try to access my mail useing mail version Mail version 8.1 6/6/93 i always have 0 messageseven though i have sent several messages and watched them being received and sent to maildir in the mailog

Re: nfsiod starting

2003-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have release 5.1 installed. I have not enabled any nfs stuff, and usually disable anything to do with it such as rpcstat.d etc. still, somewhere nfsiod was started. I didn't enable it in my rc.conf defaultrouter=129.219.120.129

Re: Can I bakup like this...??

2003-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Keith Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need a quick n safe backup strategy. One that I can get the machine backup super quick if have to. Okay, that's your main design goal in your backup strategy; fast recovery in case of main disk failure. You're not worrying about fire, etc. What say

Re: 5.1-RELEASE on a machine with 24MB RAM

2003-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jan Stary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running 5.1-RELEASE on a outdated machine - it's a Compaq Deskpro 2000, manufactured ~1995, with Pentium/100 and 24MB RAM. I made a 64MB swap partition. I wonder if there are any particular options (systcl vm.* ?) that I should be intersted in to

RE: floppy disk - device not configured error

2003-11-19 Thread Darryl Hoar
-Original Message- From: Peter Risdon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error Darryl Hoar wrote: Checked dmesg and the floppy controller is

Question abt arp in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-11-19 Thread Ilya V. Serov
Hello dear all. I've got a curious thing with FBS 5.1-RELEASE, concerning arp requests/reply. I have a LAN, connected to Internet through CISCO router. Recently I had to move one ip address inside my LAN from a 4.8 box to a 5.1 box without a reboot (ifconfig ...). After this I had

what is this for

2003-11-19 Thread M.D. DeWar
[ -x /usr/games/fortune ] /usr/games/fortune freebsd-tips why and what is this command for. I found it in the /home/user directory in the .profile file. no such thing in usr/games. no errors in the message files and searching freebsd ports shows no game called fortune. I assume its a x game

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Francisco, Anyone used a mini ATX machine with FreeBSD? It's mini ITX and yes, just did one yesterday. Small, quiet and beautiful. ;-) It was a ME6000 (fanless 600Mhz machine):

RE: floppy disk - device not configured error

2003-11-19 Thread Darryl Hoar
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darryl Hoar Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:57 AM To: 'Peter Risdon' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: floppy disk - device not configured error -Original Message- From: Peter Risdon

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:11:46PM +0100, Nico Meijer wrote: Hi Francisco, Anyone used a mini ATX machine with FreeBSD? It's mini ITX and yes, just did one yesterday. Small, quiet and beautiful. ;-) It was a ME6000 (fanless 600Mhz machine):

Re: what is this for

2003-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
M.D. DeWar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ -x /usr/games/fortune ] /usr/games/fortune freebsd-tips why and what is this command for. I found it in the /home/user directory in the .profile file. no such thing in usr/games. no errors in the message files and searching freebsd ports shows no

Re: floppy disk - device not configured error

2003-11-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
-Original Message- From: Peter Risdon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error Darryl Hoar wrote: Checked dmesg and the floppy controller

Re: what is this for

2003-11-19 Thread Jason Stewart
On 19/11/03 10:10 -0500, M.D. DeWar wrote: [ -x /usr/games/fortune ] /usr/games/fortune freebsd-tips why and what is this command for. I found it in the /home/user directory in the .profile file. no such thing in usr/games. no errors in the message files and searching freebsd ports

Installation Issues

2003-11-19 Thread Jake Stride
I have had freebsd 4.9 working fine on a dell optiplex, until I decided to do a re-install today. However, I am now no longer able to boot freebsd. The installation proceeds normally, but when I reboot the system, it gets to the boot manager and then reboots, and then keeps on rebooting

How do I set up a firewall with minimal disk access?

2003-11-19 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Hi all, I'm hoping to use an old laptop for a dialup firewall. I'd like to leave it always on as part of the network, but I don't want it to have the HD running all the time. If possible, I'd like it to work almost completely without the drive. How could I do this? NOTE: Please CC me, as I

Re: Can I bakup like this...??

2003-11-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:43:30AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert typed: Keith Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] a) Throw another drive in the box b) Createthe same or at least minimum size partitions as the active drive c) Cron job to dump or tar or ??? the partitions dd(1) is the

Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware)

2003-11-19 Thread Marc Wiz
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:58:05AM -0600, Bryan Cassidy wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've put some parts together. This is what I've come up with. Please tell me any recommendations on changes or anything with this system. It will run on FreeBSD. Any comments what so

Weird Problem...

2003-11-19 Thread Peter Elsner
Okay, I have a really weird problem. Running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE (just installed it from CD). It's a basic gateway setup with 2 NIC cards. I've done this set up a hundred times and have never seen this before. DSL modem (with static IP address) goes into one NIC card (dc0). Status is active, and

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Scott Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:11:46PM +0100, Nico Meijer wrote: . It was a ME6000 (fanless 600Mhz machine): I'm using a USB Ethernet adapter for the 'outside' interface on my ME6000, since I needed the PCI slot for the wireless card. Where

Re: usb 2.0

2003-11-19 Thread dave
Hello, Sorry, FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASe Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound recording questions

2003-11-19 Thread Bill Reid
Since you have a rec option in your mixer I would go ahead and set the record input (which you probably already did) mixer -f /dev/mixer[device] =rec [ line, mic ] When you run mixer you should see ... Mixer videois currently set to 75:75 Recording source: mic So I got my

Monitoring

2003-11-19 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Does anyone have a recommendation for a good system monitoring (swap,I/O monitor) from ports? Ideally I want something that runs out of cron and emails me if usage goes above a certain point Thanks Rus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1750 with PERC 4/Di on 4.7-REL

2003-11-19 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge 1750 with a PERC 4/Di . Unfortunately it does not locate the drives when attempting a CD install from 4.7-REL . My best guess is that the PERC 4/Di was not supported in 4.7 (I am assuming it is supported in 4.9 or 5.x though?),

OK, it's time

2003-11-19 Thread stan
It feels like time to start using FreeBSD 5.1 CURRENT. I'm starting to see things that are only supported in it (as oposed to 4 STABLE). So, is it possible (and safe) to upgrade a 4 STABLE machine to 5? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty

Re: Security question

2003-11-19 Thread Kevin McKay
So it will not just grab the latest patched binaries for 5.1? I am not sure I understand. Is it just for updating between releases and not for keeping the current release up to date? Kevin Lowell Gilbert wrote: Kevin McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read through the documentation

Re: Monitoring

2003-11-19 Thread paul beard
On Nov 19, 2003, at 8:59 AM, Rus Foster wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for a good system monitoring (swap,I/O monitor) from ports? Ideally I want something that runs out of cron and emails me if usage goes above a certain point net/mrtg has some threshold/alerting stuff builtin in

Re: Monitoring

2003-11-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 19, 2003, at 11:59 AM, Rus Foster wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for a good system monitoring (swap,I/O monitor) from ports? Ideally I want something that runs out of cron and emails me if usage goes above a certain point Check out Big Brother, from www.bb4.com. -- -Chuck

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:39:01AM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Scott Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:11:46PM +0100, Nico Meijer wrote: . It was a ME6000 (fanless 600Mhz machine): I'm using a USB Ethernet adapter for the 'outside' interface

Which webmail

2003-11-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi all, I'm considering installing a webmail system on one of my machines. Its internet facing, so i'd prefer security over features if its an issue. The machine in question is running 4.8, uw-imap, postfix and apache 2.0.47 Does anyone have any suggestions, experience they would like

Re: Which webmail

2003-11-19 Thread Jake Stride
On Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003, at 17:27 Europe/London, Vince Hoffman wrote: Hi all, I'm considering installing a webmail system on one of my machines. Its internet facing, so i'd prefer security over features if its an issue. The machine in question is running 4.8, uw-imap, postfix and

Re: what is this for

2003-11-19 Thread M.D. DeWar
Thanks All. Is it worth installing ? esp for a newbie ? Thanks mark - Original Message - From: Jason Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: M.D. DeWar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:31 AM Subject: Re: what is this for On 19/11/03 10:10 -0500, M.D.

Streaming Audio Video

2003-11-19 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I know this has been discussed to death because my research found lots and lots of posts on the subject. Mostly about the whatever port someone was using was broken, or it wouldn't work at all. The question is: What are most of you using for streaming audio and video? I'm running

Re: Which webmail

2003-11-19 Thread Lee Mx
I'd have to say Squirrel Mail http://www.squirrelmail.org/ I'm partial to http://www.horde.org AWESOME lee _ Share holiday photos without swamping your Inbox. Get MSN Extra Storage now! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es

Re: Monitoring

2003-11-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi, Does anyone have a recommendation for a good system monitoring (swap,I/O monitor) from ports? Ideally I want something that runs out of cron and emails me if usage goes above a certain point Nagios www.nagios.org is what we prefer. Works great and it (from our perspective) is easier to

loader(8) question

2003-11-19 Thread Oliver Neubauer
Hello, I just recently upgraded from 4.3 to 4.9 RELEASE by doing a clean install. While I am able to boot the system fully, I have noticed the error message no /boot/loader upon inital boot, with: loader(8) metadata missing showing up a bit later one during the boot process. I don't know about

Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread Feltis, Ralph C.
Is it possible to set some type of simple messaging system between networked FreeBSD machines? For example, client A pings client B, and then client B sends some prespecified text reply to client A. Ralph Feltis Information Technology Systems Specialist Western State Hospital

Re: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread paul beard
On Nov 19, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Feltis, Ralph C. wrote: Is it possible to set some type of simple messaging system between networked FreeBSD machines? For example, client A pings client B, and then client B sends some prespecified text reply to client A. to what end? I don't know how you

Re: OK, it's time

2003-11-19 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:17 PM 11/19/2003, Kent Stewart wrote: I think it is generally accepted that 5.x is not a release quality system such as 4.x is. Thanks Kent, you've assuaged my feelings of guilt for recently installing 4.8 from the d/l'd mini iso. Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On

RE: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread Feltis, Ralph C.
Currently, my use of FreeBSD is limited. I are using it for network-based imaging using Frisbee (http://www.emulab.net/software.php3, great program btw). One computer is serving up images using 4.8, and the clients boot using a customized 4.7 CD. The clients connect to the server and, depending

Re: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread Cordula's Web
Is it possible to set some type of simple messaging system between networked FreeBSD machines? For example, client A pings client B, and then client B sends some prespecified text reply to client A. to what end? I don't know how you respond to a literal ping, but you could code

Re: Which webmail

2003-11-19 Thread Kliment Andreev
I'd have to say Squirrel Mail http://www.squirrelmail.org/ I'm partial to http://www.horde.org AWESOME http://www.openwebmail.org/ I am using this... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Weird Problem...

2003-11-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Peter Elsner wrote: Okay, I have a really weird problem. Running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE (just installed it from CD). It's a basic gateway setup with 2 NIC cards. I've done this set up a hundred times and have never seen this before. DSL modem (with static IP address) goes into one NIC card (dc0).

Sharity Light -v- SMBFS

2003-11-19 Thread Micheal Patterson
I've got an interesting issue that I'm having trouble locating anything on. Here's the situation. I've got a win2k server running IIS that keeps it's logs on a local drive. I'm running awstats from my fbsd server. Here's the glitch that I'm running into. If I use smbfs to access the shares so

Re: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread Cordula's Web
The clients have to log into FreeBSD, and ideally, would receive a MOTD that tells them which image is on which port. Now, I know it's possible to simply edit the MOTD and create a new CD, but as often as the images change, it wouldn't be very practical. That's where my idea of sending some

Re: How do I set up a firewall with minimal disk access?

2003-11-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I'm hoping to use an old laptop for a dialup firewall. I'd like to leave it always on as part of the network, but I don't want it to have the HD running all the time. If possible, I'd like it to work almost completely without the drive. How could I do this?

Re: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:58 PM 11/19/2003, Cordula's Web wrote: Is ping not enough? An ICMP ECHO REPLY is a specific reply, directed only to the hosts that sent the ICMP ECHO REQUEST in the first place. It's not a prespecified _text_ reply, but it is a reply nonetheless. Of course, if you need more information, you

Re: Which webmail

2003-11-19 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello All, Hello there, i had a very bad experince with this issue.. once i install a webmail.. then i discover it need blah...once i install a webmail, i discover it need i dunt what to change the password.. once i install a webmail i discover .. i dunt know wat to

RE: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread Feltis, Ralph C.
Ahh yes, I see how preparing an elegant solution would provide greater flexibility. However, Cordula's solution (ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] strings somefile) is about a 15 second fix, whereas setting up a server is, well, not so much a 15 second fix. Thanks for your all help guys. -Original

Re: Weird Problem...

2003-11-19 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:13:37 -0600 Peter Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I have a really weird problem. Running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE (just installed it from CD). It's a basic gateway setup with 2 NIC cards. I've done this set up a hundred times and have never seen this before. DSL

Re: Weird Problem...

2003-11-19 Thread Peter Elsner
Kevin, Yes, gateway_enable=YES is in my rc.conf file. That's the first thing I checked :) Here is my rc.conf file... defaultrouter=??.??.??.??## Note: I do have a valid IP here... gateway_enable=YES hostname=gateway.gh.com ifconfig_dc0=inet ??.??.??.?? netmask 255.255.255.248

Re: Weird Problem...

2003-11-19 Thread Peter Elsner
Thanks, that's my next attempt. I don't have NAT running right now, but didn't think it was required unless I have the firewall enabled. I usually enable that after I get everything else up and running. At 03:21 PM 11/19/2003, you wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:13:37 -0600 Peter Elsner [EMAIL

Freebsd list rejects mail.

2003-11-19 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello everyone, I have my own pop3 email system, when i send from my private Email, it always rejects and says: cannot find my host name, I knew this is a sendmail, or whatever freebsd list restrictions, but how to solve it from my side? the machine has multi IPs, and when i send the

RE: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread Feltis, Ralph C.
The clients are pretty static, as they boot from a CD and do not authenticate anywhere but locally. User-specified MOTD would be the ideal way to go, but since the clients aren't normal clients, it doesn't seem so possible. Reading a text file from the server using ssh at logon will achieve

Re: How do I set up a firewall with minimal disk access?

2003-11-19 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:04:54PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : : Hi all, : : I'm hoping to use an old laptop for a dialup firewall. I'd like to leave : it : always on as part of the network, but I don't want it to have the HD : running : all the

Re: Freebsd list rejects mail.

2003-11-19 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hi there, There is a reverse record Name:host4.kifco.net Address: 216.65.57.4 Or shall it be something in MX? or mail.kifco.net? I face this problem ONLY with freebsd list. Thanks. Marwan. On Wednesday 19 November 2003 04:29 pm, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello everyone, I have my own

About setup FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE to Sony notebook PCG-R505GCK

2003-11-19 Thread toor
When I begin setup I see next message: eisa0: EISA bus on motherboard eisa0: unknown card [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0x0808) at slot 1 Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode instruction pointer = 0x58:0x81d1 stack pointer = 0x10:0xeb8 frame pointer = 0x10:0xf0e code

USB Printing

2003-11-19 Thread Jake Stride
I have tried to search the web for the answer to this question, but it seems most people suddenly become freebsd geniuses since they post a similar question get a few replies but never seem to publish the answer. I have a HP PSC950 USB printer, now after some playing around I seem to be able

Is there something special about mount points in / ?

2003-11-19 Thread Dr Lyman Hazelton
I have set vfs.usermount=1, and now I can create a local directory (call it xxx) in my home dir and use it successfully to do mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 xxx or mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 xxx However, if I attempt to use the standard mount points, /cdrom or /floppy, to do the same thing, like

Re: Freebsd list rejects mail.

2003-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a reverse record Name:host4.kifco.net Address: 216.65.57.4 There is no forward mapping for that name. [1003] (be-well) lowell dig host4.kifco.net ; DiG 8.3 host4.kifco.net ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;;

Re: Is there something special about mount points in / ?

2003-11-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:39:33PM -0700, Dr Lyman Hazelton wrote: I have set vfs.usermount=1, and now I can create a local directory (call it xxx) in my home dir and use it successfully to do mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 xxx or mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 xxx However, if I attempt to use

Re: news/press page

2003-11-19 Thread Nils Vogels
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:02:14AM +, TEC Meganet wrote: HI, I send this only to say that this article is a little bit wired because the author is saying that a T1 link is pushing 20Mbit/s and he controlles it with dummynet at the end ... Sorry, what was your

burncd ``only wrote -1...'' coasting discs.

2003-11-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I've tried to burn ISOs on a number of occassions using the burncd utility. I use the command ``burncd -s max -f /dev/acd0c data foo.iso fixate'' (as I always have done), but this fails /very/ quickly with the following message: next writeable LBA 0 writing from file disc1.iso size 646272

upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....

2003-11-19 Thread paul van den bergen
Hi All, I'm tempted to upgrade some machines in my test network to 4.9 from 4.8 (since the new KAME snap kits are configured to 4.9 over 4.8 now and if I want to be fashionable and bleedy, I'd better keep updated) and so I am wondering what the best way to do this is and anypitfalls... OK,

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread paul van den bergen
I have a bunch of these (8000s actually) for a testbed network. work like a treat... go fanless if you can... I did have some hassles with the onboard via network connection not coping with long vlan tagged packets... Not sure if this is still an issue, but the vlan man page lists compatible

Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....

2003-11-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:13:29AM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote: is there a method (other than de-installing all pkgs and reisntalling) to upgrade the ports or packages appropriately from 4.8 to 4.9? Not quite sure I fully understand, but you might want to take a look at portupgrade

Re: How do I set up a firewall with minimal disk access?

2003-11-19 Thread paul van den bergen
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:43 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:04:54PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : Hi all, : : I'm hoping to use an old laptop for a dialup firewall. I'd like to : leave it : always on as part of the

Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....

2003-11-19 Thread paul van den bergen
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:24 am, Lewis Thompson wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:13:29AM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote: is there a method (other than de-installing all pkgs and reisntalling) to upgrade the ports or packages appropriately from 4.8 to 4.9? Not quite sure I fully understand,

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