Re: Signing up for an email account?

2004-07-24 Thread 'Andy'
Hello my name is Andy and Im looking for a web-based email that is powered by FreeBSD servers. Is there a way to signup for an email address like [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something like that so I could access it from all over the world? Im looking for something thats similar to Hotmail account.

Vinum.

2004-07-24 Thread Chris Keladis
Hi all, I was wondering what Vinum configurations others are using and what is a good balance between performance/redundancy? I've gone with RAID10 (2 striped plexes with 3 subdisks each. The plexes are mirrored to each other). vinum.conf: drive a device /dev/da1s1e drive b device /dev/da2s1e

Re: Signing up for an email account?

2004-07-24 Thread cIprO
Hello, I don't see how this relates to the list but I know yahoo runs on freebsd and so does hotmail, as for webmail look on google. On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:33:03 -0700, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello my name is Andy and Im looking for a web-based email that is powered by FreeBSD servers.

Re: How to send attached files on sendmail with mail tool?

2004-07-24 Thread Jay Moore
On Friday 23 July 2004 01:07 am, Murray Taylor wrote: man uuencode uuencode [-m] [-o output_file] [file] name he uuencode utility reads file (or by default the standard input) and writes an encoded version to the standard output, or output_file if one has been specified. The encoding uses

Re: Vinum.

2004-07-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 24 July 2004 at 17:03:41 +1000, Chris Keladis wrote: Hi all, I was wondering what Vinum configurations others are using and what is a good balance between performance/redundancy? I've gone with RAID10 (2 striped plexes with 3 subdisks each. The plexes are mirrored to each

Re: SSH Client - (newbie need help)

2004-07-24 Thread Jay Moore
On Friday 23 July 2004 07:58 am, Ralph Hempel wrote: Im a newbie to FreeBSD and I need to run an SSH client to connect to the Solaris server at my University. I was previously using Putty on WinXP, however there appears to be a bug in the current putty port which causes it to crash

Re: Vinum.

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
drive e device /dev/da5s1e drive f device /dev/da6s1e volume raid10 plex org striped 512k sd length 0 drive a sd length 0 drive b sd length 0 drive c plex org striped 512k sd length 0 drive d sd length 0 drive e sd length 0 drive f I

Re: best virtual server solution?

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've been struggling to find the best virtual server solution based on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 system. I was hoping some members of the list could help me take this decision. I have questions/thoughts regarding vmware/bsd jails: - Vmware - Does it run 5.2.1 nicely ? i think yes. it emulates

Installing php4

2004-07-24 Thread Drew Marshall
Hi all I have been trying to install php4 (On FreeBSD 5.2.1, cvsuped ports tree, php4-4.3.8_1, I have tried both the mod_php4 and lang/php4) and the full menu options seem to have disappeared. When I run make install I get a 3 line menu offering to allow me to install for apache2 instead of

Re: VOIP

2004-07-24 Thread Gustaaf Wijnands
Stanford .T. Mings Jr. wrote: Is anyone doing any work in VOIP in FreeBSD ? Did you have a look at Skype ( /usr/ports/net/skype ), www.skype.com or do you mean something else? -- Gustaaf ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: How can I type cyrillic with FreeBSD?

2004-07-24 Thread Ruslan N. Gogunsci
Hello Rob, On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:21:58 +0900 Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There is an article on using cyrillic/burgarian fonts: http://www.freebsd-bg.ringlet.net/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bulgarian/article.html but as far as I understand, this is only about how to display the

Re: Installing php4

2004-07-24 Thread Peter Risdon
Drew Marshall wrote: Hi all I have been trying to install php4 (On FreeBSD 5.2.1, cvsuped ports tree, php4-4.3.8_1, I have tried both the mod_php4 and lang/php4) and the full menu options seem to have disappeared. When I run make install I get a 3 line menu offering to allow me to install for

Make buildkernal KERNKONF ( etc etc )

2004-07-24 Thread Chris Ryan
Hi I have looked extensdively in the manual aespecially around pages 200-210... I have also read any old mailing lists, but i cant finsd the problem that i have come accross. I am trying to turn a p2 - 233 with 128mb RAM into a FW / router . and need to run natd I am running freeBSD 5.2.1 My

Re: resize and backup partitions?

2004-07-24 Thread Henrik W Lund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Do I have to have system running or can i do it from livecd too? Because I guess system has to be offline for recovering from an image which was built Thank you I imagine it would work from the livecd too (not knowing, though, having never used it). This is, of

Fwd: 801.Q VLAN questions (potential bug?)

2004-07-24 Thread emil
I don't know if this is more of a -hackers question or not, but I've come across something weird when trying to resolve the problem stated below; There's actually one single frame being sent across the network with a valid dot1q vlan tag, and that is being transmitted when a client signs on to the

Re: Installing php4

2004-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 10:35:10AM +0100, Peter Risdon wrote: Drew Marshall wrote: I have been trying to install php4 (On FreeBSD 5.2.1, cvsuped ports tree, php4-4.3.8_1, I have tried both the mod_php4 and lang/php4) and the full menu options seem to have disappeared. When I run make

mini-itx (ME6000), buildworld fails

2004-07-24 Thread Richard Kaestner
Hi all, I'm trying to setup a Via Epia ME6000 with FreeBSD 4.10 after several attempts (cvsup, make buildworld, even fresh install from CD), I get _consistent_ failures. The same source-tree compiles without problems on a - Via Epia CL1 - Intel Pent.4 / Asus The ME6000 is supposed to run

Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Aaron Benson
Hi, This email is going to any Linux house whom has pitched themselves via their websites and reviews, from my research as being possible alternatives to XP at this stage. Depends on your Google hit and thereafter (if found within 2 pages) site FAQ's I suppose. As a currently dedicated M$

Re: mini-itx (ME6000), buildworld fails

2004-07-24 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 02:15:41PM +0200, Richard Kaestner wrote: I suspect settings in /etc/make.conf, but I have no idea where to start! (CPUTYPE=i686 commented out - but didn't help) The VIA CPUs are not completely i686 compatible, so in your Kernel-Config you should have an I586_CPU entry:

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Ed Budd
Sir: 1. FreeBSD is NOT linux. Had you taken any time to read the FAQ and peruse the website at freebsd.org you would know this; 2. I've yet to read anyone in-the-know suggest that Freebsd is an appropriate desktop replacement OS for (typically) non tech-savvy Windows users. Internet servers

Re: mini-itx (ME6000), buildworld fails

2004-07-24 Thread Richard Kaestner
On Saturday 24 July 2004 15:06, Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 02:15:41PM +0200, Richard Kaestner wrote: I suspect settings in /etc/make.conf, but I have no idea where to start! (CPUTYPE=i686 commented out - but didn't help) The VIA CPUs are not completely i686 compatible, so

Re: FreeBSD Gateway???

2004-07-24 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: | | 10/100? There are less Gigabit types that are supported, yet, | but then the reason for that should be pretty obvious. | | Anyway, you generally can't go wrong with 3Com. That said, | I've never had trouble with 3Com, SiS, DEC/Intel, even

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Bill Moran
Aaron Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip As a currently dedicated M$ house (apart from Oracle Databases), we question the move to a XP desktop amid the Linux hype in recent times. Any IT department trying to save company money is only doing the right thing and ask the question, what can

Re: Third and (maybe) last try: GEOM fails to create ad0

2004-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subject: GEOM fails to create ad0 Date: Thu July 22 2004 05:58 pm From: Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I successfully built a kernel for FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1 on my 8Gig ad2 but when I boot it my 30Gig ad0 does not appear in /dev/ I boot

Re: FreeBSD Gateway???

2004-07-24 Thread Bill Moran
Hakim Z. Singhji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: | Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Hi Everyone, | | I am building a gateway/router from a i386 300Mhz, 32MB RAM,

Re: Third and (maybe) last try: GEOM fails to create ad0

2004-07-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat July 24 2004 08:29 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subject: GEOM fails to create ad0 Date: Thu July 22 2004 05:58 pm From: Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I successfully built a kernel for FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1 on my 8Gig ad2 but when

Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?

2004-07-24 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Friday 23 July 2004 10:10 pm, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just cvsup'd my system for the weekend and found three additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES file. They referenced a replacement of the XFREE86_VERSION variable by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable, a big update to PHP ports and

Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?

2004-07-24 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:36 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 23 July 2004 10:10 pm, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just cvsup'd my system for the weekend and found three additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES file. They referenced a replacement of the

Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?

2004-07-24 Thread Bob Perry
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:36 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 23 July 2004 10:10 pm, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just cvsup'd my system for the weekend and found three additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES file. They referenced a

Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?

2004-07-24 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 24 July 2004 08:36 am, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:36 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 23 July 2004 10:10 pm, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just cvsup'd my system for the weekend and found three

Re: Make buildkernal KERNKONF ( etc etc )

2004-07-24 Thread Michael L. Squires
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Chris Ryan wrote: I am trying to turn a p2 - 233 with 128mb RAM into a FW / router . and need to run natd I found that I had to go to more RAM, or use sysctl to set the maximum files open, with 4.10-STABLE on a PII/300 with 128MB of RAM doing what you describe,

Annoying 5.2.1 problem (em0 goes down)

2004-07-24 Thread Hugo Silva
Hi folks, I have a Dual Xeon 2.8ghz w/ 4GB ram, 2x80GB hdd + 200GB hdd running FreeBSD 5.2.1-p9 on a em0 network card.Every once in awhile, em0 will simply die. These are the longs from the last time: Jul 22 18:15:15 rhea kernel: em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex Jul 22 18:22:33 rhea kernel:

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
--- Aaron Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This email is going to any Linux house whom has.. chomp This is FreeBSD's mailing list... NOT Linux. Hope you get this one. As I believe is the summary of all that you are trying to say: what can Linux do for us? As I've said

Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?

2004-07-24 Thread Bob Perry
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 08:36 am, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:36 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 23 July 2004 10:10 pm, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just cvsup'd my

Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?

2004-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:12:47AM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: smogmonster# portsdb -uU Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Makefile, line 34: Malformed conditional (${XFREE86_VERSION} == 3 !defined(WITHOUT_X)) Makefile, line 36: if-less endif Makefile, line

Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?

2004-07-24 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:00 am, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:12:47AM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: smogmonster# portsdb -uU Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Makefile, line 34: Malformed conditional (${XFREE86_VERSION}

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Jorn Argelo
Hi, This email is going to any Linux house whom has pitched themselves via their websites and reviews, from my research as being possible alternatives to XP at this stage. Depends on your Google hit and thereafter (if found within 2 pages) site FAQ's I suppose. As a currently

Unrecognized database type (bdb) after openldap 21 upgrade to 22

2004-07-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
After running 'portupgrade -rfo net/openldap22-sasl-client openldap--sasl- client', it seems to have taken care of the server upgrade as well, but my slapd.conf file complains of the bdb database type. Can someone tell me what it is looking for? esmtp# ls /var/db/pkg | grep openldap

f-prot on 5.2.1

2004-07-24 Thread J.D. Bronson
Anyone successfully install the 'free' home version of f-prot for freebsd? It installs fine. It updates fine. But it doesnt run: # f-prot -verno Bad system call (core dumped) ..I tried older versions (4.4.1 and 4.4.2) and the newest 4.4.3 and they all do this. How can I troubleshoot this? Any

no subject (file transmission)

2004-07-24 Thread Paul Chan
1. I am running freeBSd ssd 5.2.1 on ~ntel motherboard (D865GBL) with a intel 3.2 GHZ pentium 4 cpu (BX80546GP320). Intel tells me that the motherboard follows Intel MP specification version 1.4. The rerelease notes in HARDWARWE.TXT on the installation cdrom says the kernel automatically

Re: Are 4 IPFW rules enough?

2004-07-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kevin Curran wrote: I have a cable modem and I'm using 4.9 as a NAT router for my home network. I have 4 rules in my ipfw config. The first enables NAT and the last is 65000 allow any to any. In between I ha 2 rules to deny access to ports 53 and 110 on the Internet side. That's all. Here's

VPN with multiple offices

2004-07-24 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I know this is a popular and probably discussed many times before. My problem is I am finding to much information and having trouble weeding through it all. I am an facilities engineer (not a network administrator) for a small firm that is in located multiple offices. We also work with

X: bad display name

2004-07-24 Thread Maksym Marchenko
Hello I'm installing FreeBSD. With XFree 86, and than at the end of X session I have always: xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority xauth: (argv):1: bad display name :0 in remove command xauth: (argv):1: bad display name :0 in remove command Something here isn't right. How (where)

RE: no subject (file transmission)

2004-07-24 Thread Andras Kende
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Chan Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: no subject (file transmission) 1. I am running freeBSd ssd 5.2.1 on ~ntel motherboard (D865GBL) with a intel 3.2 GHZ

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This email is going to any Linux house whom has pitched themselves via their websites and reviews, from my research as being possible 1) FreeBSD is (fortunately) not Linux. it's different things 2) FreeBSD doesn't try to be (fortunately) windows alternative in strict sense. I mean giving same

Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?

2004-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:25:16AM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:00 am, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:12:47AM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: smogmonster# portsdb -uU Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
OpenOffice.org can do the job there, but a file created with OOo will be rather misshapen when opened with Excel and vica versa. So it's not advicable. OpenOffice reads excel and word documents - so vice versa is not true. OpenOffice can export excel documents too

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Your detailed reply appreciated I've got to tell you, you're looking for a lot of detailed advice for free. I know you _say_ you did a lot of research, but the level of knowledge you display in your questions does not demonstrate that you did _any_ research. If research is defined by

Re: Installing php4

2004-07-24 Thread Drew Marshall
Matthew Seaman wrote: snipped Actually, php4-extensions works with any of the 'main' PHP ports -- lang/php4, lang/php4-cli, www/php4-cgi or www/mod_php4. The fact that there are 4 different variations on a plain 'php4' port in the tree is the reason why all of the module support was moved out

Re: VPN with multiple offices

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
companies who will need temporary access to the network while working on larger projects. In addition to this we would like to give remote access for our road warriors from anonymous networks. For the our offices I believe a tunnel with esp that seems to be the is documented in the handbook

Re: Installing php4

2004-07-24 Thread Drew Marshall
Matthew Seaman wrote: snipped Actually, php4-extensions works with any of the 'main' PHP ports -- lang/php4, lang/php4-cli, www/php4-cgi or www/mod_php4. The fact that there are 4 different variations on a plain 'php4' port in the tree is the reason why all of the module support was moved out

Re: Installing php4

2004-07-24 Thread Hasse
On Saturday 24 July 2004 21.58, Drew Marshall wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: snipped Actually, php4-extensions works with any of the 'main' PHP ports -- lang/php4, lang/php4-cli, www/php4-cgi or www/mod_php4. The fact that there are 4 different variations on a plain 'php4' port in the tree is

Re: Installing php4

2004-07-24 Thread antenneX
- Original Message - From: Drew Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: Re: Installing php4 Matthew Seaman wrote: snipped Actually, php4-extensions works with any of the 'main' PHP ports -- lang/php4, lang/php4-cli,

Re: Installing php4

2004-07-24 Thread Drew Marshall
antenneX wrote: - Original Message - From: Drew Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: Re: Installing php4 Matthew Seaman wrote: snipped Actually, php4-extensions works with any of the 'main' PHP ports -- lang/php4,

APC Back-UPS Pro1000 vs apcupsd

2004-07-24 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, Has anyone gotten an APC Back-UPS Pro1000 ups system working with FreeBSD (4.x / 5.x), using the supplied cable: 940-0020B? I've just attempted to install this on one of my systems, but can't seem to get this to do anything but (supposedly) start, with the corresonding message in

nagmin on 4.9

2004-07-24 Thread Steve
is there somebody on the list that installed and configured nagmin on fbsd 4.9, that i can ask a few questions ? thanx -- Steve Rieger ICQ # 5956607 yahoo IM riegersteve ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: X: bad display name

2004-07-24 Thread Jon Drews
Hello Maksym: You need to have the proper hostnames in /etc/hosts: ::1 localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net where notebook is my hostname. On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:24:21 +0200, Maksym Marchenko

FreeBSD v4.10 - Newbie Needs Help - KDE Really Slow !!

2004-07-24 Thread DK
Hi all, I just installed FreeBSD v4.10. All installed OK I choose KDE as the Desktop Problem: KDE v3 is reallly SLOW!! - Takes 2 minutes to start/load !! - Just opening a simple Console takes almost a minute !! - Resolution looks really grainy - as if its 256 colors - Don't know how to change

Re: FreeBSD v4.10 - Newbie Needs Help - KDE Really Slow !!

2004-07-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
DK wrote: Hi all, I just installed FreeBSD v4.10. All installed OK I choose KDE as the Desktop Problem: KDE v3 is reallly SLOW!! Probably true. - Takes 2 minutes to start/load !! 2 minutes --- After the system grabs the tty? How long from the power button until you have a desktop? - Just

Portupgrade Stale dependency: specify -O to force

2004-07-24 Thread Rob
Hi, When I use commands from the portupgrade port, I get this message: Stale dependency: kde-3.2.3 -- autoconf-2.57_1 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. I wanted to use the '-O' option, but that does not seem to exist. I've tried 'pkgdb -O' or 'pkgdb -FO' Is this '-O'

Re: Portupgrade Stale dependency: specify -O to force

2004-07-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Rob wrote: Hi, When I use commands from the portupgrade port, I get this message: Stale dependency: kde-3.2.3 -- autoconf-2.57_1 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. I wanted to use the '-O' option, but that does not seem to exist. I've tried 'pkgdb -O' or 'pkgdb -FO' Is

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Aaron Benson wrote: Hi, For me, yes. YMMV. If you've 500 machines to switch over, I'd sure as heck buy one more and stick something else on it. You'll never learn as much from reading and not doing and you will from trying to do and reading Kevin Kinsey

Re: Make buildkernal KERNKONF ( etc etc )

2004-07-24 Thread Chris Ryan
--- Michael L. Squires [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Chris Ryan wrote: I am trying to turn a p2 - 233 with 128mb RAM into a FW / router . and need to run natd I found that I had to go to more RAM, or use sysctl to set the maximum files open, with