Re: IPFilter Firewall Tutorial

2004-11-18 Thread peter lageotakes
--- Darryl Hoar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a pointer to or know of a good tutorial for setting up a freebsd box as a firewall using IPFilter ? In the past, I have used the tutorial at: http://www.schlacter.net/ But it is for Freebsd 4.6-stable. I would need one

Re: FW: FreeBSD donation (sponsorship)

2004-11-18 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi have you tried here.. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/staff-who.html and here.. http://www.freebsd.org/donations/index.html -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Crystal Chiang wrote: Hi FreeBSD, My name is

www/mod_php4 port

2004-11-18 Thread dave
Hello, When i installed my 5.3 box i cvsupped the ports tree, and one of the ports i installed was www/mod_php4. I do nightly cvsups, this time portupgrade failed, saying that the makefile for mod_php4 is possibly broken and -- is an illegal option. I haven't heard any others on this, has

Re: FW: FreeBSD donation (sponsorship)

2004-11-18 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 05:12:02PM -0800, stheg olloydson wrote: it was said: Hi FreeBSD, My name is Crystal Chiang, I sent this e-mail to donation at FreeBSD about a week ago, but no one has got in contact with me, so I am not sure who's in charge of the PR or marketing over there. Could

Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer

2004-11-18 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:30:05AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote: Hi, I am running RELEASE-5-3 and tried to ssh to my machine (sshd is running). It asks me 3 times for my password and then quits. The output is shown below. However, if I try ssh localhost instead of the ip address (I am using

Re: Disk Space

2004-11-18 Thread Enrique Ayesta Perojo
El Jueves, 18 de Noviembre de 2004 05:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: But if you use Konquerer to analyze the drives the following capacities are reported: ad0s1a1500 MB (/) ad0s1e 16.7 MB(/var) ad0s1f 12.8 MB(/tmp) ad0s1g 1300 MB

Re: postfix launch at system startup

2004-11-18 Thread Luciano Musacchio
LeBlanc, if everything /works as planned/ when you start it as root, I guess you could add postfix start to the /etc/rc.local, good luck El Jueves 18 Noviembre 2004 02:36, Louis LeBlanc escribió: Hey all. I'm having a little trouble with postfix launch at startup in 5.3. At install, I

Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

2004-11-18 Thread Sebastian Holmqvist
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:52:49 +0100, Sebastian Holmqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:04:47 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well Sebastian, it looks like 5.3 has solved all my problems. I put my drive under extreme duress last night with a sustained load

Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer

2004-11-18 Thread Ivan Georgiev
On Thursday 18 November 2004 05:42 am, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:30:05AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote: Hi, I am running RELEASE-5-3 and tried to ssh to my machine (sshd is running). It asks me 3 times for my password and then quits. The output is shown below. However,

sil3112a SATA Controller, current status

2004-11-18 Thread Maseed
Hi, I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my system that has an onboard Silicon Image sil3112a SATA controller and a Western Digital Raptor WD740 74GB HD, for a few months now, with no luck. First I tried 5.2.1, which installs fine but starts to spew DMA timeout messages when put under any kind

uninstall freebsd

2004-11-18 Thread Ton Keesmaat
Question: I got a PC where freeBSD is installed. I want to uninstall freeBSD and format my the harddrive so i can install Windows. When starting the PC it asks for a login name and password which i don't know. Booting with a floppy with MS Windows 98 works...finally i am at the A: drive but i

Re: uninstall freebsd

2004-11-18 Thread Dick Davies
* Ton Keesmaat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1106 13:06]: Question: I got a PC where freeBSD is installed. I want to uninstall freeBSD and format my the harddrive so i can install Windows. When starting the PC it asks for a login name and password which i don't know. Booting with a floppy with MS

Re: uninstall freebsd

2004-11-18 Thread richter
hi, when you can boot win98 from floppy you should run fdisk and create new partition and then format it Question: I got a PC where freeBSD is installed. I want to uninstall freeBSD and format my the harddrive so i can install Windows. When starting the PC it asks for a login name and

Re: uninstall freebsd

2004-11-18 Thread Luciano Musacchio
Ton, you need to repartition your disk (to fat or fat32 iff win98se), I suppose A:\FDISK.EXE (that should be available from a win98se rescue disk, the one you have booted up) can do the work. After repartition with the dos/win file system (fat or fat32) you need to format the drive with A:

Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer

2004-11-18 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:49:03AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote: I changed PasswordAuthentication to 'yes' and this time it asks me 6 times for my password (3 times beginning with Password: You can disable these first three by changing ChallengeResponseAuthentication to no. and another 3

Re: postfix launch at system startup

2004-11-18 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/17/04 09:47 PM, Andrew L. Gould sat at the `puter and typed: On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:36 pm, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Hey all. I'm having a little trouble with postfix launch at startup in 5.3. At install, I specified postfix as the mta, and had it configured in

Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer

2004-11-18 Thread Sebastian Holmqvist
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:05 +, Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:49:03AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote: I changed PasswordAuthentication to 'yes' and this time it asks me 6 times for my password (3 times beginning with Password: You can disable these first

Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer

2004-11-18 Thread Ivan Georgiev
On Thursday 18 November 2004 08:26 am, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:49:03AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote: I changed PasswordAuthentication to 'yes' and this time it asks me 6 times for my password (3 times beginning with Password: You can disable these first three by changing

Re: PPTP client not working on 4.10-R

2004-11-18 Thread Brett Glass
Everyone: I've found what was causing the problems which I reported on net@ and questions@ involving a PPTP client. And I may have uncovered a security problem which -- if my analysis is correct -- should be addressed. (I'd like independent confirmation of this.) As mentioned in earlier

[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch

2004-11-18 Thread FreeBSD Security Advisories
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 = FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic:

Re: postfix launch at system startup

2004-11-18 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On Thursday, 18 November 2004 at 8:36:00 -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 11/17/04 09:47 PM, Andrew L. Gould sat at the `puter and typed: On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:36 pm, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Hey all. I'm having a little trouble with postfix launch at startup in 5.3. At

Corrupted Disk? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 5.x CCD]

2004-11-18 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:22:51PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: Well you just burst my bubble. I was hoping I was missing a node. Im trying to figure out a problem Im having -

acpi, apm and 5.3R

2004-11-18 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On my old 4.10 system I have set up the BIOS to turn the power on at 07:00, and this works fine ensuring that the system will come back on after a temporary mains failure when I am off on vacation. No such luck om 5.3R When I enter a shutdown -p now command I am told System halted. Push any

List of unofficial 5.3 make.conf options

2004-11-18 Thread Gerard Samuel
Is there a list of *unofficial* make.conf options saved somewhere? For example, WITHOUT_X11=yes isn't listed in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf, and the option seems to work on a box, that I don't want X11 pieces built. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Booting with ACPI enabled by default? (5.3)

2004-11-18 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've installed two system from scratch with 5.3 in the past few days. One system by default comes up with ACPI enabled, the other with ACPI disabled. Close watch has revealed that the boot-menu (the one that gives you chose among ACPI yes/no, single-user-mode etc.) has it's default to

Re: List of unofficial 5.3 make.conf options

2004-11-18 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:10:30AM -0500 or thereabouts, Gerard Samuel wrote: Is there a list of *unofficial* make.conf options saved somewhere? For example, WITHOUT_X11=yes isn't listed in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf, and the option seems to work on a box, that I don't want X11

Re: Corrupted Disk? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 5.x CCD]

2004-11-18 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:22:51PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: Well you just burst my bubble. I was hoping I was missing a node. Im trying to figure out a problem Im having -

Trying to install from ftp

2004-11-18 Thread CHris Rich
When i try to install some extra things from ftp using /stand/sysinstall i keep getting unable to extract distribution try again? of course i try again and it still doesn't work. When I first tried to install from ftp it gave me an error that 5.3RC1 could not be found on server..so in the options

Re: postfix launch at system startup

2004-11-18 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/18/04 03:31 PM, Kjell Midtseter sat at the `puter and typed: When I later went through a cvsup/portupgrade sequence, I had to answer YES to the question Would you like to activate Postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf [n]? If you answer No you will revert to sendmail. Kjekk I answered

Re: FW: FreeBSD donation (sponsorship)

2004-11-18 Thread Charles Ulrich
Loren M. Lang said: Hello, I speak only for myself, not the FBSD project or community. I think this is a lovely spam^H^H^H^Hoffer. One question though, would you be hosting freebsd.org on a Linux or Windows server? Judging by your site it could be either.

RE: List of unofficial 5.3 make.conf options

2004-11-18 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerard Samuel Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 20:41 To: freebsd-questions Subject: List of unofficial 5.3 make.conf options Is there a list of *unofficial* make.conf options saved somewhere? For example,

RE: Booting with ACPI enabled by default? (5.3)

2004-11-18 Thread Subhro
Can we have a dmesg -a on the box with ACPI disabled? Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ewald Jenisch Sent:

RE: Trying to install from ftp

2004-11-18 Thread Subhro
Are you behind some kind of proxy server? Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CHris Rich Sent: Thursday, November

BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.

2004-11-18 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
I'm starting to dabble in these self-contained self-building scripts and tools and so on, like automake, autoconf, libtool, and so on. Are these the preferred way of doing things on FreeBSD, or is there a better or more BSD-way of doing them? Some time ago, Terry Lambert suggested that tools

Re: postfix launch at system startup

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 18 November 2004 09:46 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 11/18/04 03:31 PM, Kjell Midtseter sat at the `puter and typed: When I later went through a cvsup/portupgrade sequence, I had to answer YES to the question Would you like to activate Postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf [n]? If

Re: Trying to install from ftp

2004-11-18 Thread CHris Rich
Hrmm my dsl modem acts as a type of firewall...perhaps that is it? On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:34:37 +0530, Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you behind some kind of proxy server? Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake

Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.

2004-11-18 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:05:31 +, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to dabble in these self-contained self-building scripts and tools and so on, like automake, autoconf, libtool, and so on. Are these the preferred way of doing things on FreeBSD, or is there a

Re: Trying to install from ftp

2004-11-18 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:40:08 -0600, CHris Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i try to install some extra things from ftp using /stand/sysinstall i keep getting unable to extract distribution try again? of course i try again and it still doesn't work. When I first tried to install from ftp it

Re: Trying to install from ftp

2004-11-18 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:36 -0600, CHris Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrmm my dsl modem acts as a type of firewall...perhaps that is it? Quite possibly. Have you tried using passive ftp? -- Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- In Unix veritas

Re: Trying to install from ftp

2004-11-18 Thread CHris Rich
Yes I am doing it as root and my intelligence can't be insulted, I've done dumber things On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:20:29 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:40:08 -0600, CHris Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i try to install some extra things from ftp

Current Release level

2004-11-18 Thread Jamie Ostrowski
Does anyone know where the current patchlevel for FreeBSD Release is posted? By this, I mean, I know that Release was just recently incremented from 4.10-RELEASE-p3 to 4.10-RELEASE-p4 due to the fetch.c security advisory. (I am assuming that the 'p' stands for patchlevel or something

Re: Trying to install from ftp

2004-11-18 Thread CHris Rich
I've tried using passive and still no luck, once i can get in front of the box I will see what I can do with it (perhaps I need to set some port forwarding up) On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:21:23 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:36 -0600, CHris Rich [EMAIL

Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.

2004-11-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-18 10:18, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:05:31 +, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to dabble in these self-contained self-building scripts and tools and so on, like automake, autoconf, libtool, and so on. I

Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.

2004-11-18 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:32:21 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-11-18 10:18, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:05:31 +, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to dabble in these self-contained self-building

Re: Trying to install from ftp

2004-11-18 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:30:27 -0600, CHris Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried using passive and still no luck, once i can get in front of the box I will see what I can do with it (perhaps I need to set some port forwarding up) Do you mean on the modem or in your machine's firewall/nat

Problem routing via two NICs to same subnet

2004-11-18 Thread Edvard Fagerholm
Hello! I'm building an interesting configuration and came up with some problems. Me and my roommate both have our own 10mb internet connection through the same ISP. The connection works over ethernet and IPs are assigned with DHCP and everyone in the building receives IPs from the same subnet.

Is this a bug?

2004-11-18 Thread Brett Glass
Just tried installing FreeBSD 4.10-R on a 60 GB hard drive. When I used the partition editor to enlarge the /var and /tmp partitions beyond the 256 MB that the install program recommended (I happened to pick 512 MB), the install consistently failed when the system began to write into the file

Re: List of unofficial 5.3 make.conf options

2004-11-18 Thread Gerard Samuel
Subhro wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerard Samuel Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 20:41 To: freebsd-questions Subject: List of unofficial 5.3 make.conf options Is there a list of *unofficial* make.conf options saved somewhere?

Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.

2004-11-18 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:32:21PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : The minimal Makefile for building a program in FreeBSD looks something : like this: : : PROG= foo : : .include bsd.prog.mk : : I can't even begin to describe all the 'make magic' that is hidden in :

Re: Trying to install from ftp

2004-11-18 Thread CHris Rich
It's in the modem, it's a speedstream 5200 which acts as a firewall, I do have port forwarding set up so I can ssh into it but not sure about ftp. On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:49:38 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:30:27 -0600, CHris Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.

2004-11-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-18 16:59, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:32:21PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : The minimal Makefile for building a program in FreeBSD looks something : like this: : : PROG= foo : : .include bsd.prog.mk : : I can't even begin

security run output question (GEOM: create disk)

2004-11-18 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Does anybody know what this means when I see this in a daily security run output?: locahost.local kernel log messages: GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc6b77d60 GEOM: create disk cd0 dp=0xc69a8600 I don't recall ever seeing this in my daily outputs, but my boss sent me an email with this and

RE: FW: FreeBSD donation (sponsorship)

2004-11-18 Thread Crystal Chiang
I don't really understand how the FreeBSD organization works, it seems like my e-mail was replied by an amount of people that's not part of this organization. If you don't represent FreeBSD, I will not respond from this point on. Thank you. Crystal -Original Message- From: Loren M.

Re: Booting with ACPI enabled by default? (5.3)

2004-11-18 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:33:40PM +0530, Subhro wrote: Can we have a dmesg -a on the box with ACPI disabled? Sure - I'm including it below. Please note, that the box *does* come up with ACPI enabled when I manually choose the menu item on the boot menu (beastie.4th) that says boot with acpi

RE: FW: FreeBSD donation (sponsorship)

2004-11-18 Thread Bill
At Thu, 18 Nov 2004 it looks like Crystal Chiang composed: I don't really understand how the FreeBSD organization works, it seems like my e-mail was replied by an amount of people that's not part of this organization. If you don't represent FreeBSD, I will not respond from this point on.

Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.

2004-11-18 Thread Matthias Buelow
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: This is exactly what I needed. I wanted to experiment with building, installing, linking, and the same with my own test 'libraries.' It looks like this is much easier than autoconf. Why do you want to use autoconf at all, if you want to build on only one system?

account management pam_ldap+nss_ldap

2004-11-18 Thread Cezar Fistik
Hello all, I would greatly appreciate if someone could help me or point me to the right place to find a solution to the following problem. I have a system (5.3-release) configured to do user authentication through pam and ldap using map_ldap.so and nss_ldap.so. Everything is fine with that

4.4bsd question

2004-11-18 Thread Karim Ali
Hello there, I would like to know which is the latest version of the 4.4BSD-lite Kernel and also could you send me a copy (preferably the one which FreeBSD ships with)?? please email it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , as such i found one online but it was modded quite a bit and I couldnt figure out

Re: Disk mounter panel utility in gnome

2004-11-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Cam wrote: I've configured necessary files to allow user mounting through the console, but the diskmounter still doesnt work. This is the error message I get. It works as root, of course. *Cannot mount device *mount /home/Orbo/Floppy 211 reported: mount: /home/Orbo/Floppy: unknown special file

Re: ports vulnerabilities

2004-11-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I had heard a bit about the new vulnerability check in FreeBSD's ports. I tried reading /usr/ports/updating and saw something like: Description: A new vulnerabilities database has been added to the ports system in order to keep more accurate, up-to-date, track

RE: PCMCIA Wireless Card Question

2004-11-18 Thread Tom Connolly
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:30 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I have just put FreeBSD 5.3 Release on my Dell Latitude C600 laptop. I wish to go wireless but I'm new to this technology. I have looked through the hardware compatibility notes and have found

Re: ports vulnerabilities

2004-11-18 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2004.11.18 12:27:38 -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I tried to install a port which had a conflict (ImageMagick) but I didn't feel the vulnerability was significant enough to warrant waiting for a new port to be created. I looked in the ports

RE: PCMCIA Wireless Card Question

2004-11-18 Thread Tom Connolly
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:30 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I have just put FreeBSD 5.3 Release on my Dell Latitude C600 laptop. I wish to go wireless but I'm new to this technology. I have looked through the hardware compatibility notes and have found

Re: sil3112a SATA Controller, current status

2004-11-18 Thread Søren Schmidt
Maseed wrote: [SNIP] I have to point out in the above e-mail that the problem is not just confined to the 36GB Raptor, which might be a PATA drive with a Marvel chip to make it work with SATA drives, but it also plages *real* native SATA drives as well, since the 74GB Western Digital Raptor I have

Re: sil3112a SATA Controller, current status

2004-11-18 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my system that has an onboard Silicon Image sil3112a SATA controller and a Western Digital Raptor WD740 74GB HD, for a few months now, with no luck. Pain. First I tried 5.2.1, which installs fine but starts to spew DMA timeout messages when put

Re: IRC recommendation?

2004-11-18 Thread chip
Xchat has always been one of my favorites: http://www.xchat.org Works on both *nix and Windows. Licensed under GPL. On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:07:29 +0530, Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Req: Good virtual mail server howto

2004-11-18 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, Has anyone got any good resources for configuring a virtual pop3/imap server under FreeBSD 5.x? I need to host mail for more than one domain and do not wish to give users system accounts. Cheers, Chris Smith http://www.ninjalabs.co.uk/ ___

pf/altq prioritisation (for ssh).

2004-11-18 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I want to use pf/altq to give ssh a high priority so I don't get lagged down when something is downloading. I have: altq on ath0 priq queue { default, ssh } queue default priq(default) queue ssh priority 15 priq(red) I'm pretty sure this ``works'' but I was really hoping for more.

Re: FW: FreeBSD donation (sponsorship)

2004-11-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
-Original Message- From: Crystal Chiang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD donation (sponsorship) Hi FreeBSD, My name is Crystal Chiang, I am contacting you on behalf of NetNation Communications Inc. regarding the

Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.

2004-11-18 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:51:06PM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : : This is exactly what I needed. I wanted to experiment with building, : installing, linking, and the same with my own test 'libraries.' It looks : like this is much easier than autoconf. : : Why do

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card Question

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 18 November 2004 12:42 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:30 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I have just put FreeBSD 5.3 Release on my Dell Latitude C600 laptop. I wish to go wireless but I'm new to this technology. I have

Re: Current Release level

2004-11-18 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 18 November 2004 08:25 am, Jamie Ostrowski wrote: Does anyone know where the current patchlevel for FreeBSD Release is posted? By this, I mean, I know that Release was just recently incremented from 4.10-RELEASE-p3 to 4.10-RELEASE-p4 due to the fetch.c security advisory. (I am

RE: PCMCIA Wireless Card Question

2004-11-18 Thread Tom Connolly
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 12:42 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:30 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I have just put FreeBSD 5.3 Release on my Dell Latitude C600 laptop. I wish to go wireless but I'm new to this

Re: Req: Good virtual mail server howto

2004-11-18 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello Chris, On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:07:40PM + or thereabouts, Chris Smith wrote: Has anyone got any good resources for configuring a virtual pop3/imap server under FreeBSD 5.x? I need to host mail for more than one domain and do not wish to give users system accounts. Go for

Re: postfix launch at system startup

2004-11-18 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On Thursday, 18 November 2004 at 10:08:51 -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 09:46 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 11/18/04 03:31 PM, Kjell Midtseter sat at the `puter and typed: When I later went through a cvsup/portupgrade sequence, I had to answer YES to the

best way to to a direct copy of audio cd

2004-11-18 Thread Dan Finn
I would like to be able to use dd to grab a full, single iso image of an audio cd and then use cdrecord to burn that. I know I can do this under linux but for some reason I can't get it to work under fbsd. I am trying to grab the entire audio cd image using the following: dd if=/dev/acd0

Re: best way to to a direct copy of audio cd

2004-11-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 18), Dan Finn said: I would like to be able to use dd to grab a full, single iso image of an audio cd and then use cdrecord to burn that. I know I can do this under linux but for some reason I can't get it to work under fbsd. Audio cds aren't filesystems, so the term

quotas on 5.3

2004-11-18 Thread dave
Hello, Got a question on quotas. I've enabled them on /usr and /var filesystems by adding the userquota option to their options in fstab. This is after i recompiled my kernel with the QUOTA option in it and rebooted. I then added: enable_quotas=YES check_quotas=NO to /etc/rc.conf and again

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
So basically: o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL Adam! Sorry to bother you again, but I

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Maybe you can disregard that. Looking at The Complete FreeBSD I see that you can just use GENERIC, if you want. So, I typed: make buildworld KERNCONF=GENERIC and off it went. Any reason why I wouldn't want to use GENERIC? I haven't compiled anything special for my kernel. On 18 Nov, 2004, at

This will be the end of the issue.

2004-11-18 Thread Crystal Chiang
Dear all, Thank you for all your responses to my original e-mail regarding the sponsorship for FreeBSD. I will try to find the appropriate people to talk to regarding this issue. And from now on, I will put a stop with all other responses. Thank you and have a nice day. Crystal Chiang

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Risdon
Curtis Vaughan wrote: On 18 Nov, 2004, at 12:12, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So basically: o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make

Re: 4.4bsd question

2004-11-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Karim Ali wrote: Hello there, I would like to know which is the latest version of the 4.4BSD-lite Kernel and also could you send me a copy (preferably the one which FreeBSD ships with)?? please email it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , as such i found one online but it was modded quite a bit and I

Re: postfix launch at system startup

2004-11-18 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/18/04 08:33 PM, Kjell Midtseter sat at the `puter and typed: On Thursday, 18 November 2004 at 10:08:51 -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 09:46 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 11/18/04 03:31 PM, Kjell Midtseter sat at the `puter and typed: When I later went

resolv.conf - hosts

2004-11-18 Thread Brian Henning
Greetings All: Is it possible to add a line above that name server entries in the resolv.conf file that will tell the system to check the hosts file for a resolution before querying the dns server(s)? Thanks, Brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: resolv.conf - hosts

2004-11-18 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/18/04 02:43 PM, Brian Henning sat at the `puter and typed: Greetings All: Is it possible to add a line above that name server entries in the resolv.conf file that will tell the system to check the hosts file for a resolution before querying the dns server(s)? Thanks, Brian That

Re: resolv.conf - hosts

2004-11-18 Thread Charlie Schluting
Brian Henning wrote: Greetings All: Is it possible to add a line above that name server entries in the resolv.conf file that will tell the system to check the hosts file for a resolution before querying the dns server(s)? Thanks, Depending on your version of freebsd, nsswitch.conf will have:

Re: resolv.conf - hosts

2004-11-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Brian Henning wrote: Greetings All: Is it possible to add a line above that name server entries in the resolv.conf file that will tell the system to check the hosts file for a resolution before querying the dns server(s)? Thanks, Brian # man nsswitch.conf KDK

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card Question

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 18 November 2004 01:28 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Thanks a ton Andrew. This is very good information. I also appreciate you taking the time to explain it to me in very simple terms. Like I said, I'm a complete newbie and I need things explained to me like I was 2 years old. I now

Odd 'sudo' behavior with FreeBSD 4.10

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello: I've been able to replicate this on two separate machines, one with a clean install of 4.10 and one with an in-production upgrade from 4.7 to 4.10. In both cases it appears that using the 'sudo' command for any purpose, including

RE: PCMCIA Wireless Card Question

2004-11-18 Thread Tom Connolly
Andrew L. Gould wrote: I find the thought of being curious and fascinated until the day I die quite comforting -- a satisfaction that a completed quest could never provide. Well Said! Use FreeBSD and die happy. !? That's the plan ;-) Thanks again, Tom

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL o install kernel/world in single user mode #

Re: FW: FreeBSD donation (sponsorship)

2004-11-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:18:21AM -0800, Crystal Chiang wrote: I don't really understand how the FreeBSD organization works, it seems like my e-mail was replied by an amount of people that's not part of this organization. If you don't represent FreeBSD, I will not respond from this point on.

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Ed Budd
Curtis Vaughan wrote: o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL o install kernel/world in

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Ed Budd
Ed Budd wrote: Curtis Vaughan wrote: o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL o install

Unable to create the partition. Too big?

2004-11-18 Thread David E. Meier
Hi folks, I am trying to custom partition my 73GB SCSI hard drive using 5.3. When I first create the partions using the Auto Default option I get the following table: amrd0s1a /256MB UFS2 Y amrd0s1b swap2022MB SWAP amrd0s1d /tmp 256MB UFS2+S Y amrd0s1e /var 256MB

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Risdon
Ed Budd wrote: Oops that should have read: make installworld KERNCONF=MYKERNEL This is the second time I've seen this in this thread. Is the KERNCONF argument meaningful with a make installworld? Peter. -- the circle squared network systems and software http://www.circlesquared.com

Re: Unable to create the partition. Too big?

2004-11-18 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:28:26PM +0100, David E. Meier wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to custom partition my 73GB SCSI hard drive using 5.3. When I first create the partions using the Auto Default option I get the following table: amrd0s1a /256MB UFS2 Y amrd0s1b swap

Re: Unable to create the partition. Too big?

2004-11-18 Thread David E. Meier
Yep, that did work. I did not delete the swap partition before. After deleting all of the partitions I was able to create the table as intended. However, I've installed FreeBSD in a similar way a couple of times before and never seen this happen. Does anyone know the reason for it? Dave. On

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Ed Budd
Peter Risdon wrote: Ed Budd wrote: Oops that should have read: make installworld KERNCONF=MYKERNEL This is the second time I've seen this in this thread. Is the KERNCONF argument meaningful with a make installworld? Peter. lol, no. I shouldn't bother responding to posts when I'm busy doing a

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