Firefox and amule GUI problems in KDE 3.3? GTK?

2004-10-05 Thread Travis Troyer
I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1. I installed it about a week ago, and installed X.org 6.7.0 with KDE 3.3 from the most recent cvs versions at the time. The same was done for GTK (2.4.9), Firefox (0.9.3), aMule (1.2.8), and Gaim (0.82.1). Firefox and aMule both seem to have major problems with GUI

Re: php4 with gd?

2004-10-05 Thread Ray Davis
Thanks to all who replied! Here a compined reply... Haulmark, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... I must be totally dense, but after trying a number of things, searching the mailing lists, searching google, reading the freebsd ports doc, searching the php web - I still can not get php4 to

Re: gnome 2.8 mime associations

2004-10-05 Thread Gary Dunn
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 13:27, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: Ok, here is a snapshot. Expected result is how it is showed on the gnome website, and the real-result is how it is showed on my desktop. I got this by right-clicking a .PDF file, then selecting properties.

RE: php4 with gd?

2004-10-05 Thread Haulmark, Chris
Can someone please give me a clue? I thought I remembered that there was a text gui asking what options we want, but it doesn't appear anymore. Have you looked in the ports collection of lang/php4-extensions? Bingo! This seems to be the correct answer! cd

Re: passing origin through nat?

2004-10-05 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 03:29:38AM -0500, Anthony Philipp wrote: Hello, When I log in to my computer from a remote location, it still says that I am coming from my nat box. Is it possible to have my nat box forward where I am logging in from? I would also like to be able to forward where

Using fetch in http server that requires authentication

2004-10-05 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, I want to use fetch to get some files from our http snap server but it requires username and password; Here's the details username: renem password: mhall[;] How will I tell fetch to use those details and automatically provide it when the server asks for it? The reason why I want to do

Re: Using fetch in http server that requires authentication

2004-10-05 Thread Adam Smith
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:12:45AM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez said: Hi, I want to use fetch to get some files from our http snap server but it requires username and password; Here's the details username: renem password: mhall[;] fetch http://renem:mhall\[\;[EMAIL PROTECTED]/file.txt

Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread ALeine
Hello, I'm shopping for a new printer and I want to get a multifunction printer/scanner/copier that is proven to work well under FreeBSD for both printing and scanning. The Canon MP360 looks like a good choice for my needs in terms of quality and price range, so if you have any experience using

Re: tracking per process IO usage / stats ... help needed..

2004-10-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-04 06:15, Joe Schmoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a FreeBSD system (4.9) running a fair number of processes in a multi-user / shell hosting environment. One problem that routinely comes up is that the system will seem to be fine in terms of CPU, and none of the top 10 or 15

Re: tracking per process IO usage / stats ... help needed..

2004-10-05 Thread Joe Schmoe
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to see if the io mode of top can be ported to RELENG_4. In 5.X you can use top to display io statistics too: Wow - that is really useful. I didn't know you could output like that in 5.x. : $ top -m io | sed -e 1,7d | head -10

Re: Release Compiler options

2004-10-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 03:52 schrieb Haulmark, Chris: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emanuel Strobl Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 8:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Release Compiler options I really spent some

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-04 21:54, Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I developed a few rules and techniques for keeping the interest: 1. Avoid doing the same thing over and over again. 2. Do bigger projects as well as some playful experimenting. 3. Don't use closed-source (or commercial) software. I don't

Re: tracking per process IO usage / stats ... help needed..

2004-10-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-05 01:45, Joe Schmoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] : $ top -m io | sed -e 1,7d | head -10 (snip) The differences of top from RELENG_4 to CURRENT are many and I don't have the time right now to try porting the io mode stuff to RELENG_4, but

Xserver mouse won't work

2004-10-05 Thread freebsd
Hi everyone, I'm having troubles configuring my mouse for the X server. So, here's my story. I have a PIII 950MHz box with 128MB RAM. I have Windows98 on it and right now I'm turning it to dual boot with FreeBSD 4.7-Release being the second o.s. The installation itself went easy but setting up

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-05 Thread Mike Woods
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I can almost agree with what's written above, except for one minor but important detail. If you can use an editor that suits your needs both in console and GUI environment, both for assembly, Perl, Python, Java, C, C++ and whatever else you find yourself writing, an editor

Re: netstat 'Ierrs' - meaning and possible causes

2004-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:26:45PM -0600, Nathan Kinkade wrote: What possible type of errors comprise 'Ierrs'? Here is an example of the output: Name Mtu Network AddressIpktsIerrs OpktsOerrs Coll xl0 1500 Link#1 long mac 92977239 5723973 95001292 0 2070292

Re: Release Compiler options

2004-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:45:09AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 03:52 schrieb Haulmark, Chris: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emanuel Strobl Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 8:43 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:57:44AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: All this that I described above, and even more, I can do in Emacs or vim. Using the system vi(1) on Solaris isn't a problem either, but I don't push myself to use *THAT* editor if I don't have to. I stopped using vi(1) on

Re: Release Compiler options

2004-10-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 12:00 schrieb Matthew Seaman: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:45:09AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: [...] There is an excellent hint for compiler flags to be found in the 19.4.3 section of the FreeBSD handbook. Hm, this is for the world and is very well known and

namp usage ? (bug?)

2004-10-05 Thread stan
I'm trying to use nmap to check for all hosts that are up on a subnet. I'm using this syntax: nmap -sP 170.85.113.0/25 Bit, I'm getting the follwing error messge; Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-10-05 07:22 EDT sendto in send_ip_raw: sendto(4, packet, 28, 0,

Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail

2004-10-05 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 Stable on one of my servers and Sendmail 8.12.10. I'm trying to get mail auth to work so that my users can send mail (smtp port 25) through this server no matter which net they are connected to. I have installed cyrus-sasl-1.5.28_3 and followed the description

RE: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail

2004-10-05 Thread Walker, Michael
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andreas Widerøe Andersen Sent: 05 October 2004 12:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 Stable on one of my servers and Sendmail 8.12.10. I'm trying

Re: Re: Re: Re:

2004-10-05 Thread Unexpected reply handler
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Re: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail

2004-10-05 Thread Ed Budd
Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 Stable on one of my servers and Sendmail 8.12.10. I'm trying to get mail auth to work so that my users can send mail (smtp port 25) through this server no matter which net they are connected to. I have installed cyrus-sasl-1.5.28_3

Vinum Help Needed

2004-10-05 Thread John Souvestre
Hi. I'm running Vinum on a 4.9 system with 3 drives. The first drive is a small one and I boot from it. The second and third drive are mirrored, using Vinum, and contain most of the system's data (1 volume, 1 plex per drive, 1 subdisk per plex). The system locked up on me this morning. When I

Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:22:30AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm using an nfs mount to get at the underlying file system on a system that uses unionfs mounts ... instead of using nullfs, which, last time I used it over a year ago, caused

Re: Release Compiler options

2004-10-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, so share/examples/etc/make.conf is not evaluated like etc/defautls/make.conf was before? That's the point I guess. /etc/defaults/make.conf was *never* evaluated. That's *why* it was moved out to the examples tree.

FreeBSD 5.2 Installation problem on HP workstation xw6000

2004-10-05 Thread simon butsana
Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a HP workstation xw6000 which has two SCSI disk (40 GB each). The process evolved OK but at its end, after the required reboot of computer, everything messes up and the computer hangs at Waiting 15 sec for reply of SCSI device. On the other hand, the

Re: Xserver mouse won't work

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm having troubles configuring my mouse for the X server. So, here's my story. I have a PIII 950MHz box with 128MB RAM. I have Windows98 on it and right now I'm turning it to dual boot with FreeBSD 4.7-Release being the second o.s. The installation

Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Marcus Meng
Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD distributions? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RES: FreeBSD 5.2 Installation problem on HP workstation xw6000

2004-10-05 Thread simon butsana
It hangs indefinitely (actually I have been waiting 4 hours +) Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After that message, does the OS boot? Does the OS hangs? -Mensagem original- De: simon butsana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: terça-feira, 5 de outubro de 2004 10:04 Para:

Re: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail

2004-10-05 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
Thanks! However, could you please give me some more specific directions? Today my sendmail.mc file looks like this: divert(0) VERSIONID(`$FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc,v 1.10.2.18 2003/04/24 16:57:30 gshapiro Exp $') OSTYPE(freebsd4) DOMAIN(generic) FEATURE(access_db, `hash -o -TTMPF

Re: Using fetch in http server that requires authentication

2004-10-05 Thread Charles Ulrich
Adam Smith said: fetch http://renem:mhall\[\;[EMAIL PROTECTED]/file.txt I also noticed the password contains special characters, but I don't know if they'll have to be escaped. Perhaps you do. Any idea? thanks. They will. I have escaped them by prefixing a \ symbol before them. I suggest

Re: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail

2004-10-05 Thread Ed Budd
Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Thanks! However, could you please give me some more specific directions? Today my sendmail.mc file looks like this: divert(0) VERSIONID(`$FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc,v 1.10.2.18 2003/04/24 16:57:30 gshapiro Exp $') OSTYPE(freebsd4) DOMAIN(generic)

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD distributions? The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far. What would that gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere?

FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Rafa Teixeira
Hello!! I'm from Brasil and I would like to know what kind of scheduling FreeBSD uses. Can you help me? If you didn't understand my question, please tell me!! I'm waiting for your answer! See ya! Rafael (Student of COTIL - UNICAMP (State University of Campinas - SP - BRASIL))

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Troy Mills
The gain for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load (from those downloading ISO's) would distributed to the people who wish to help seed the

Re: FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Rafa Teixeira wrote: I'm from Brasil and I would like to know what kind of scheduling FreeBSD uses. Can you help me? If you didn't understand my question, please tell me!! I'm waiting for your answer! FreeBSD 4.x uses the 4.4BSD scheduler which is a multilevel feedback

Re: Release Compiler options

2004-10-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:01:04AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, so share/examples/etc/make.conf is not evaluated like etc/defautls/make.conf was before? That's the point I guess. /etc/defaults/make.conf was *never* evaluated. That's *why* it

Re: ipnat and udp consistent translation (Skype related)

2004-10-05 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:45:40 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: Using Skype on a machine behind a FreeBSD 4.x firewall using ipf/ipnat, if I try a file transfer I get your connection is relayed which suggests that there are problems using UDP hole punching to get a direct connection.

Re: imapd problem.

2004-10-05 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 08:59 +0300, Perttu Laine wrote: I have problem with imapd. I can't start dovecot 'cause it says this: -- koaze# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use koaze# I appreciate your choice in IMAP servers. :) But I don't know what could

Re: imapd problem.

2004-10-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Perttu Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! I have problem with imapd. I can't start dovecot 'cause it says this: -- koaze# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use koaze# -- But I don't know what could be using that address. I had cyrus for a

Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Alex de Kruijff wrote: I think you're problem is not that you disk is used havely but that you're NIC (rsync kinda does that) is. The warnings you get indicate that you're computer can't get a responce from you're server. It acts normaly as soon as it can. Except, the nfs

would async mount improve IO speed?

2004-10-05 Thread Rae
File systems used to be mounted with soft-updates(?) option. I disable it with tunefs -n disable . and mount all file system with async option but I can feel any difference. some said it's dangerous. Does it matter even if I'm not running any heavy load server?

Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: What kind of network topology is between the two machines? Do you notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? You may be able to improve the intervening network topology to improve the problem as well. My bad ... I thought i had

Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 06:00:50PM -0700, ALeine wrote: Hello, I'm shopping for a new printer and I want to get a multifunction printer/scanner/copier that is proven to work well under FreeBSD for both printing and scanning. The Canon MP360 looks like a good choice for my needs in terms

DRDB ... similar available for FreeBSD?

2004-10-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Does anyone know of anything similar to http://www.drbd.org/ that works under FreeBSD? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664

INDEX* in /usr/ports

2004-10-05 Thread Tarc
What different in this files?! I see the different package versions, but what naything else? For FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x different package organization? Why? Best regards, Tarc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Convert WMV to AVI, MOV or ASF format

2004-10-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
I need a program to convert WMV video files to either AVI, MOV or ASF format. Could someone supply me with a good recommendation for one? Thanks Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q. If your wife keeps coming out of the kitchen to nag you, what have you done wrong? A. Made her chain too long.

Re: would async mount improve IO speed?

2004-10-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:34:15AM -0400, Rae wrote: File systems used to be mounted with soft-updates(?) option. I disable it with tunefs -n disable . and mount all file system with async option but I can feel any difference. some said it's dangerous. Does it matter even if I'm not

Re: imapd problem.

2004-10-05 Thread Perttu Laine
Here's my message to the mailing list too. For some reason my mailer replied to the person who replied and not to the mailing list even tho I tried to do that. :) Damn webmails.. 'sockstat -4 | egrep :143\W' -cut- root inetd 531 8 tcp4 *:143 *:* -cut- So. it's

Re: would async mount improve IO speed?

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
Rae [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: File systems used to be mounted with soft-updates(?) option. I disable it with tunefs -n disable . and mount all file system with async option but I can feel any difference. some said it's dangerous. Does it matter even if I'm not running any heavy load

Re: imapd problem.

2004-10-05 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 17:40 +0300, Perttu Laine wrote: 'sockstat -4 | egrep :143\W' -cut- root inetd 531 8 tcp4 *:143 *:* -cut- So. it's inetd. Now the question is why 'cause only ssh is not commented in inetd.conf (or then I should re-check it few times).

Re: imapd problem.

2004-10-05 Thread Perttu Laine
Something running under the name of 'inetd' is binding to port 143 on all inet4 addresses. Either that, or there's a bug in sockstat or the kernel structures that it manipulates, though I've not seen mention of that anywhere. Maybe it's an old instance of inetd from a changed configuration?

/usr is growing and growing

2004-10-05 Thread bill
uname -a: FreeBSD serve.TechServSys.com 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 This box is a web server only. The web files are on their own filesystem which is at 8% utilization. I have watched the /usr

Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: What kind of network topology is between the two machines? Do you notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? You may be able to improve the intervening network topology to

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD distributions? The

Re: /usr is growing and growing

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uname -a: FreeBSD serve.TechServSys.com 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 This box is a web server only. The web files are on their own filesystem which is at 8%

Re: Convert WMV to AVI, MOV or ASF format

2004-10-05 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Gerard Seibert wrote: I need a program to convert WMV video files to either AVI, MOV or ASF format. Could someone supply me with a good recommendation for one? Try mencoder .It's part of the mplayer port. Fer

Re: DRDB ... similar available for FreeBSD?

2004-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:38:49AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Does anyone know of anything similar to http://www.drbd.org/ that works under FreeBSD? GEOM Gate by Pawel Dawidek. It comes with the system, assuming you're running recent 5.x or 6.0:

Re: /usr is growing and growing

2004-10-05 Thread Gary
Hi Bill, On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:01:16 -0400 UTC (10/5/2004, 10:01 AM -0500 UTC my time), bill in part wrote: b I have watched the /usr file system grow from about 69% utilization b to 85% utilization over 2 years and can not figure out what is taking the b space. b Would someone be kind enough

Re: INDEX* in /usr/ports

2004-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:38:57PM +, Tarc wrote: What different in this files?! I see the different package versions, but what naything else? For FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x different package organization? Why? The dependencies for many ports are different between 4.x and 5.x, which is why there

Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Peter Giessel
On Tuesday, October 05, 2004, at 00:51AM, ALeine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm shopping for a new printer and I want to get a multifunction printer/scanner/copier that is proven to work well under FreeBSD for both printing and scanning. The Canon MP360 looks like a good choice for my

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread nbco
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 17:08, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone ever considered

Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: What kind of network topology is between the two machines? Do you notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? You may be able to improve the intervening

What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-05 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
I would expect they are running 4.x, but does anyone know if they have migrated any production boxes to 5.x? Are they contributing any code to either branch? jm -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:01:32PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: I would expect they are running 4.x, but does anyone know if they have migrated any production boxes to 5.x? Are they contributing any code to either branch? Yes, a number of committers work for Yahoo. kris

Thanks to Bill Moran

2004-10-05 Thread Theodore K. Milbaugh
Bill gave an excellent presentation on stopping unwanted email at last week's Ohio Linuxfest in Columbus. You can see it at: http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/index.php It was very informative, and I think everyone can get something out of this. Thanks again Bill!

Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD

2004-10-05 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:23:31PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: Hello, I'm going to be working on a firewall box where I want to boot to CD and run an integrity check on the Hard Drive. If the Hard Drive

RE: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD

2004-10-05 Thread JohnsoBS
Seems you could just mount all the filesystems but /var and /tmp as readonly, set secure level to max, dump all logs to a new log daily, start a new log and do checks on the old logs. That would be my route. Or run a diskless server, or even a live cd of the setup install. -Original

shell script

2004-10-05 Thread Brent Bailey
i need to write a for-loop that will read the 1st line in a aliase file and grep a passwd file for that user...if that user doesnt exsist in the passwd file go the 2nd line and grep the passwd file for that user ...and so on anyone have any suggestions ? -- Brent Bailey

shell script

2004-10-05 Thread Brent Bailey
i need to write a for-loop that will read the 1st line in a aliase file and grep a passwd file for that user...if that user doesnt exsist in the passwd file go the 2nd line and grep the passwd file for that user ...and so on anyone have any suggestions ? -- Brent Bailey

Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD

2004-10-05 Thread Theodore K. Milbaugh
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:12:49 -0600, Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:23:31PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: Hello, I would like to have it completely automated: The machine goes

PHP Upgrade

2004-10-05 Thread digish reshamwala
Hi, I have installed mod_php4 php4-session using ports in my FreeBSD 5.2.1. Now I want to upgrade to mod_php5 php5_session... How can I do it? Can I directly use the ports or do I need to uninstalled the current versions first or anything? Pls help me out thanks, digish

Re: INDEX* in /usr/ports

2004-10-05 Thread Charlie Root
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 04:29:35PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:38:57PM +, Tarc wrote: What different in this files?! I see the different package versions, but what naything else? For FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x different package organization? Why? The

Re: shell script

2004-10-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
i need to write a for-loop that will read the 1st line in a aliase file and grep a passwd file for that user...if that user doesnt exsist in the passwd file go the 2nd line and grep the passwd file for that user ...and so on Use Perl or similar. It will be right up its alley. jerry

Re: Thanks to Bill Moran

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
Theodore K. Milbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill gave an excellent presentation on stopping unwanted email at last week's Ohio Linuxfest in Columbus. You can see it at: http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/index.php It was very informative, and I think everyone can get something out of this.

E-mail

2004-10-05 Thread Tarc
Sorry for my e-mail address, I have very few time to configure my mutt :-( Please, chenge the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:32:50AM -0700, Peter Giessel wrote: On Tuesday, October 05, 2004, at 00:51AM, ALeine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm shopping for a new printer and I want to get a multifunction printer/scanner/copier that is proven to work well under FreeBSD for both

Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD

2004-10-05 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:27:54PM -0400, Theodore K. Milbaugh wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:12:49 -0600, Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:23:31PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: Hello,

reverse ssh

2004-10-05 Thread Micah Bushouse
Quick Question~ I have a BSD box (home) sitting on an apartment complex network (dhcp/nat/firewall) that I don't control. I also have a BSD box (work) with a static IP sitting on my university's network. Is there a way to open a ssh/other connection before I leave for work in the morning (from

Re: EAL ?

2004-10-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Stiven wrote: What is the Evaluation Assurance Level have FreeBSD ? FreeBSD is EAL 24. Seriously ;-) If you try to haXor with v5.3, it sends 220 Volts/50A current to your console via TCP/IP. B^) Actually, this might shed a little light:

Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD

2004-10-05 Thread Theodore K. Milbaugh
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:22:47 -0600, Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding booting to the CDROM or HD, I'm not sure I understand the difference between what you are saying and what I said in my previous reply. How can the CDROM boot the machine to the HD? If the machine reboots the

Re: reverse ssh

2004-10-05 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Micah Bushouse wrote: Thanks in advance for any responses, ~Micah You could write a script that sends an email to you every morning which contains your IP-address. *Encrypted*, of course!!! Such a thing could easily be done in Perl or even in shell. Kind regards, Benjamin

Re: /usr is growing and growing

2004-10-05 Thread Gordon Freeman
How long has this server been up? Does it have softupdates enabled? On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:01:16 -0400, bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uname -a: FreeBSD serve.TechServSys.com 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL

Re: namp usage ? (bug?)

2004-10-05 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, stan wrote: I'm trying to use nmap to check for all hosts that are up on a subnet. I'm using this syntax: nmap -sP 170.85.113.0/25 Bit, I'm getting the follwing error messge; Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-10-05 07:22 EDT sendto in send_ip_raw:

Re: DRDB ... similar available for FreeBSD?

2004-10-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:38:49AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Does anyone know of anything similar to http://www.drbd.org/ that works under FreeBSD? GEOM Gate by Pawel Dawidek. It comes with the system, assuming you're running recent 5.x or 6.0:

Re: Mail server questions (SMTP Auth, Imap and virtual domains)

2004-10-05 Thread Toomas Aas
From: Wayne Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Setup a webmail solution. I'm currently using Squirrelmail for users that exist in /etc/passwd (not very many!), and am considering a migration to Horde/IMP. Near as I can tell though it's not the webmail client that matters, but the imap

FreeBSD schedulers (was: Re: FreeBSD)

2004-10-05 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:59:27AM -0300, Rafa Teixeira wrote: I'm from Brasil and I would like to know what kind of scheduling FreeBSD uses. Hi Rafa, you may want to read Chapter 4 (Process Management), pages 99-108 of: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-05 Thread Daniela
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 08:57, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-10-04 21:54, Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I developed a few rules and techniques for keeping the interest: 1. Avoid doing the same thing over and over again. 2. Do bigger projects as well as some playful experimenting.

Why is data linked to data-dist

2004-10-05 Thread LB
Greetings, I have a general question that I hope someone can help me with. I was wondering why the powers that be have chosen to link /usr/local/www/data to /usr/local/www/data-dist instead of just creating /usr/local/www/data-dist directly. Can anybody help me with the idea behind this ?

Re: Why is data linked to data-dist

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
LB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have a general question that I hope someone can help me with. I was wondering why the powers that be have chosen to link /usr/local/www/data to /usr/local/www/data-dist instead of just creating /usr/local/www/data-dist directly. Can anybody help

FTP Proxies and Installing Ports

2004-10-05 Thread Bigelow, Andrea L.
Hello, What form does the FTP_PROXY shell variable need to take to work with fetch, so that I can install ports through an FTP proxy server? Andi L. Bigelow Dyncorp EOS - Network Engineering Group bigelowa{at}sec{dot}gov (202) 942-4368 Every man dies, but not every man really lives. --

PEAR in freebsd

2004-10-05 Thread digish reshamwala
Hey, How can I install PEAR Package for PHP using ports in FreeBSD 5.2.1?? Please reply asap digish ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why is data linked to data-dist

2004-10-05 Thread l0rd
LB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have a general question that I hope someone can help me with. I was wondering why the powers that be have chosen to link /usr/local/www/data to /usr/local/www/data-dist instead of just creating /usr/local/www/data-dist directly. Can anybody help me

Re: Why is data linked to data-dist

2004-10-05 Thread l0rd
At 20:47 5-10-2004, you wrote: LB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have a general question that I hope someone can help me with. I was wondering why the powers that be have chosen to link /usr/local/www/data to /usr/local/www/data-dist instead of just creating

Re: PEAR in freebsd

2004-10-05 Thread DanGer
Hello digish, Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 8:46:49 PM, you wrote: Hey, How can I install PEAR Package for PHP using ports in FreeBSD 5.2.1?? install /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions and check what you need. Please reply asap digish -- Best regards +--==/\/\==--+ | DanGer

Re: Why is data linked to data-dist

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 20:47 5-10-2004, you wrote: LB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have a general question that I hope someone can help me with. I was wondering why the powers that be have chosen to link /usr/local/www/data to /usr/local/www/data-dist instead of just

Problems updateing local cvsup mirrors

2004-10-05 Thread stan
I haven't updated my machines in quite a while (a month or 2) and today I needed to do so. But when I looked I realized that both machines (at home, and at work) were no longer updateing. I'm getting erors like this in the logs: CVSup update begins at 2004-10-05 06:17:00 Updating from

Re: reverse ssh

2004-10-05 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
[ please don't loose context ] On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:45:38 +0200 Benjamin Walkenhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah Bushouse wrote: I have a BSD box (home) sitting on an apartment complex network (dhcp/nat/firewall) that I don't control. I also have a BSD box (work) with a static IP

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