Re: del key in bash or tcsh

2005-01-14 Thread Matthias Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how to change this annoying default behaviour of bash or sh in FreeBSD when somebody presses the del key? When I press the del key I want this to work as it works on any editor or in Linux bash! Anyway to achieve this? as we cannot guess what the

Re: SOLVED! Dial-in PPP FreeBSD 5.3 (was Re: m'gettying closer! (was Re: modem not responding to mgetty)

2005-01-14 Thread Timothy Luoma
a minor p.s. to my notes, I forgot this line for the mgetty login.conf: /AutoPPP/ - -/etc/ppp/ppp-pap-dialup which is crucial to making this work. Also, you may have to edit /etc/passwd manually to get it to accept a shell not listed in /etc/shells. Otherwise, I reinstalled 5.3

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2005-01-14 Thread shadi karimi
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Re: Memory Question

2005-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
If you want to be made fun of, this is the type of question that will push you in that direction (references 'Thanks You!' thread). ;) Your colleague is probably running more applications/services than you, which is why he has less available memory. To use up some of that memory, simply

apm on 5.3

2005-01-14 Thread Matthias Buelow
I'm trying to get APM to work (ACPI makes the kernel crap itself when I insert or remove a pcmcia card into my Armada m700 notebook) and load the apm.ko from loader.conf. However, it doesn't seem to create the necessary device entry /dev/apm, and apmd and apm(8) complain about that. What's

Re: automake, autoconf compiling

2005-01-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-13 20:13, Tom Huppi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I use autoconf/automake and libtool daily at work[1]. The programs I write have to run on at least 3 different operating systems (FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris) without the need for constant

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:38:08 +0100 Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony Atkielski wrote: Andrea Venturoli writes: AV Not exactly the same algorithm and on different set of data. But similar machine instructions, perhaps? Yes, both numerical computations. Basically one

Increasing Semaphores

2005-01-14 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Over the past few days, I had some problems with too few connections availabe for postgresql. I resolved them for the short term, but when I tried setting the max_connections for postgresql as high as 64, I received a message indicating that I had to increase the semaphores available in the

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2005-01-14 Thread Sergey Kulikov
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Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello FreeBSD Friends. I have just arrived to the FreeBSD world. I am not an expert on anything, I am only a computer fan and use my computer mainly for my engineering work and hobbies (amateur radio, photography, astronomy, etc.). I come from a happy Debian GNU/Linux experience. I paid

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Ed Budd
Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello FreeBSD Friends. I have just arrived to the FreeBSD world. I am not an expert on anything, I am only a computer fan and use my computer mainly for my engineering work and hobbies (amateur radio, photography, astronomy, etc.). I come from a happy Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:13:04PM +0100 or thereabouts, Ramiro Aceves wrote: If you argue that, you do not know Linux well. When I speak about Linux, I mean Debian or Gentoo. I do not think that they are chaothic or intended for desktop. Debian put all the pieces together in one OS

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2005-01-14 Thread Emon
Hello every one I am nwebie running FreeBSD 5.3 I was tryimg to install the mc-4.6.0_13.tgz pkg but it gave me a load of depedencies which I had to painfulluy downloaded usinf my dial-up connection. #pkg_add mc-4.6.0_13.tgz pkg_add: could not find package p5-File-Spec-0.90 ! pkg_add: could

Re:

2005-01-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
Emon wrote: But now some of the packages were complaining that an older version is installed I had no idea how to upgrade these packages. So in my blind rage I did pkg_add -vf on all packages including mc. Now mc works but I cannot uninstall it or any of the packages. I will show you an example.

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ramiro Aceves writes: RA So, why do we start always the war? The real war should be against the RA Bill Gates OSes, instead of fighting among us. Professionals and serious amateurs in IT never wage wars at all. -- Anthony ___

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread lord grinny
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ramiro Aceves writes: RA So, why do we start always the war? The real war should be against the RA Bill Gates OSes, instead of fighting among us. Professionals and serious amateurs in IT never wage wars at all. Don't they?? Then what are all the law suits about?

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Anthony Atkielski
lord grinny writes: lg Don't they?? Then what are all the law suits about? Business. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread martin hudec
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:41:03AM -0800 or thereabouts, lord grinny wrote: Don't they?? Then what are all the law suits about? Simple, dear Watson. About human stupidity and greed. Cheers, Martin -- martin hudec * 421 907 303 393 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-14 13:34, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ramiro Aceves writes: So, why do we start always the war? The real war should be against the Bill Gates OSes, instead of fighting among us. Professionals and serious amateurs in IT never wage wars at all. Well said.

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 14 January 2005 06:43 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: lord grinny writes: lg Don't they?? Then what are all the law suits about? Business. I respectfully disagree. Business is people. People who do business well abhor lawsuits. Lawyers are like nuclear missiles -- they have

DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread relax think
hi, i want to query root servers directly instead of my ISP dns and for tht have used couple of commands like tracert and route through (RT) but wasnt able to query root server directly , if u know how to directly query root server thn plz help thanks Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 14 January 2005 05:13 am, Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello FreeBSD Friends. I have just arrived to the FreeBSD world. I am not an expert on anything, I am only a computer fan and use my computer mainly for my engineering work and hobbies (amateur radio, photography, astronomy, etc.). I

Re: Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-14 Thread Derek
Toomas Aas wrote: 1. Attach one of the new drives to free ICH4 IDE port on motherboard, partition it and transfer the data using dump/tar. At this stage, I would recommend doing this in single user mode, to keep filesystem modifications during the procedure down. I typically use dump for all

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Ramiro Aceves
martin hudec wrote: MH Hello, MH MH On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:13:04PM +0100 or thereabouts, RAmiro Aceves wrote: MH RAIf you argue that, you do not know Linux well. When I speak about Linux, RAI mean Debian or Gentoo. I do not think that they are chaothic or RAintended for desktop. Debian put

Syslog server.

2005-01-14 Thread Ricardo Pichler
Hi folks, I've an slackware box that your main function is be a syslog server! Ok, it work, but I need to separate the log for each box that I've in files with the same name of box. Can anybody help me? e.g.: an entry in my /var/log/messages: Jan 13 18:11:49 ns500 ns500-sjc: NetScreen

perl -MCPAN -e shell question - need a howto

2005-01-14 Thread Andy Firman
Using FreeBSD 4.10 stable, perl-5.8.5 installed from ports. su-2.05b# perl -v This is perl, v5.8.5 built for i386-freebsd-64int When using perl -MCPAN -e shell, I can install the bundle fine, but the when I try to install XML::DOM, or Text::Aspell, they fail. Where can I go for help on getting

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
relax think wrote: i want to query root servers directly instead of my ISP dns and for tht have used couple of commands like tracert and route through (RT) but wasnt able to query root server directly , if u know how to directly query root server thn plz help Use dig(1). Eg. to see the

Re: Syslog server.

2005-01-14 Thread Ricardo Pichler
Sorry, my box is a FreeBSD 5.2.1. Ricardo Pichler - Original Message - From: Ricardo Pichler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:33 AM Subject: Syslog server. Hi folks, I've an slackware box that your main function is be a syslog

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Alvaro J. Gurdián
OK we get it you don't like freeBSD. Now shut up and quit wasting everyones bandwidth On Jan 13, 2005, at 7:40 PM, Boris Spirialitious wrote: Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies that need support for the latest hardware. Thank you for informing me. Boris Jerry

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: If your ISPs nameservers are unreliable or overloaded, and not giving you a good service, then one course of action you might consider is just configuring the named(8) built into your FreeBSD system to do recursive DNS lookups for you. (And caching -- but that's a given

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Duo
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, lord grinny wrote: Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ramiro Aceves writes: RA So, why do we start always the war? The real war should be against the RA Bill Gates OSes, instead of fighting among us. Professionals and serious amateurs in IT never wage wars at all. Don't they?? Then

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell question - need a howto

2005-01-14 Thread Bryan Fullerton
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:34:33 -0900, Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using FreeBSD 4.10 stable, perl-5.8.5 installed from ports. su-2.05b# perl -v This is perl, v5.8.5 built for i386-freebsd-64int When using perl -MCPAN -e shell, I can install the bundle fine, but the when I try to

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell question - need a howto

2005-01-14 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:42:06AM -0500, Bryan Fullerton wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:34:33 -0900, Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using FreeBSD 4.10 stable, perl-5.8.5 installed from ports. su-2.05b# perl -v This is perl, v5.8.5 built for i386-freebsd-64int When using

Re: modem in FreeBSD

2005-01-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there somebody who has succesfully installed a SoftModem in FreeBSD(5.3 or 4.10)? Depends on the modem. See the FAQ. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Listar: Post sent to moderator.

2005-01-14 Thread Listar
Post to list faq.fcol Subject: Post submitted to moderator for reason: Non-member submission to closed-post list. --- Gestionnaire de liste Listar/0.42 - fin de traitement/job execution complete. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell question - need a howto

2005-01-14 Thread Gary Hayers
Andy Firman wrote: Using FreeBSD 4.10 stable, perl-5.8.5 installed from ports. su-2.05b# perl -v This is perl, v5.8.5 built for i386-freebsd-64int When using perl -MCPAN -e shell, I can install the bundle fine, but the when I try to install XML::DOM, or Text::Aspell, they fail. Where can I go for

Re: How can I speed up a dd copy?

2005-01-14 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:38:14PM -0800, Drumslayer2 wrote: Hello When I am performing a dd between (2) 36 Gig 160 disks (to duplicate them) it takes about 2.5 hrs. Is there any way I can speed this up? Is there any better way I can clone a bootable main disk? Thanks NH.

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ramiro Aceves writes: RA I do not like to start wars among free OSes, I enjoy fighting the RA Bill OSes. There are plenty of challenging video games on the market if you like to fight. RA For me, making the war against Bill OSes means using Free Software RA OSes (Debian, Gentoo,

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell question - need a howto

2005-01-14 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:08:23PM +, Gary Hayers wrote: Andy Firman wrote: Using FreeBSD 4.10 stable, perl-5.8.5 installed from ports. su-2.05b# perl -v This is perl, v5.8.5 built for i386-freebsd-64int When using perl -MCPAN -e shell, I can install the bundle fine, but the when I

Re: Syslog server.

2005-01-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 14), Ricardo Pichler said: I've an slackware box that your main function is be a syslog server! Ok, it work, but I need to separate the log for each box that I've in files with the same name of box. Can anybody help me? e.g.: an entry in my /var/log/messages:

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell question - need a howto

2005-01-14 Thread Bryan Fullerton
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:20:49 -0900, Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:08:23PM +, Gary Hayers wrote: [snip] If you have the Ports tree installed you can install it from the ports tree # cd /usr/ports/textproc/p5-XML-DOM make install clean Understood.

Re: Trackball, extra buttons, and X - I've lost something

2005-01-14 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/13/05 09:29 PM, Mark Beaver sat at the `puter and typed: I think it's not so much a setting in X. I think it's more that X simply doesn't have the software to support those extra buttons (wether it's the server or the wm of choice) that's got the lack I'm not sure. What I do know is

FreeBSD 4.9

2005-01-14 Thread Richard Burnett-Godfree
I download 4.9 and successfully installed a working system in August following the process of creating the boot floppies etc. I have now come to make a second server (Backup/fail over) for the first one but cannot find 4.9 anywhere. How can I download 4.9 as I would like to maintain consistency

Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
I noticed something extremely odd this morning in my http access log. There's the usual activity, then suddenly this (about a hundred lines are snipped) 62.241.98.151 - - [14/Jan/2005:01:29:44 +0100] SEARCH /\x90\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell question - need a howto

2005-01-14 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:29:05AM -0500, Bryan Fullerton wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:20:49 -0900, Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:08:23PM +, Gary Hayers wrote: [snip] If you have the Ports tree installed you can install it from the ports tree

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: What is this person doing? or attempting to do? I'm guessing nothing good. Is there anything within...say httpd.conf..that I could do to prevent this..or curtail it before it grows to such an enormous size. Looks like a

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Hi Colin, I started seeing these in September. For a _very_ obscure and low hit url. chars dns date/time 27680 d142-59-129-32.abhsia.telus.net 11/Sep/2004:17:13:53 32713 stjhts18c101.nbnet.nb.ca09/Nov/2004:14:37:26 27670

Re: FreeBSD 4.9

2005-01-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:59:20PM -, Richard Burnett-Godfree wrote: I download 4.9 and successfully installed a working system in August following the process of creating the boot floppies etc. I have now come to make a second server (Backup/fail over) for the first one but cannot find

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:00:30 -0900 Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: What is this person doing? or attempting to do? I'm guessing nothing good. Is there anything within...say httpd.conf..that I could do to prevent

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Duo
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: I noticed something extremely odd this morning in my http access log. There's the usual activity, then suddenly this (about a hundred lines are snipped) Yeah, someone is trying a M$ DAV exploit. I get these alot, along with nimda attempts. Is there

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Dick Davies
* Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0122 14:22]: Matthew Seaman wrote: If your ISPs nameservers are unreliable or overloaded, and not giving you a good service, then one course of action you might consider is just configuring the named(8) built into your FreeBSD system to do recursive DNS

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/14/05 10:17 AM, Jacob S sat at the `puter and typed: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:00:30 -0900 Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: What is this person doing? or attempting to do? I'm guessing nothing good. Is

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:36:36 -0500 Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/14/05 10:17 AM, Jacob S sat at the `puter and typed: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:00:30 -0900 Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: What is this

Backups / Dump etc

2005-01-14 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, I'm looking around at backup solutions. Currently we are using bacula, but according to it's docs it only does a bare-metal restore for linux and solaris. I know that dump is the bees-knees for backing up, so I'm looking for any pre-made scripts for doing scheduled incremental backups with

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-01-14 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2005-01-14 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
Andrew P. wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: If your ISPs nameservers are unreliable or overloaded, and not giving you a good service, then one course of action you might consider is just configuring the named(8) built into your FreeBSD system to do recursive DNS lookups for you. (And caching -- but

NIC failover

2005-01-14 Thread Paul Khavkine
Hi Folks. Is there a way to configure 2 NIC's in a failover fasion connected to 2 different switches with FreeBSD 5.3R ? Thanx Paul Paul Khavkine Networks/Systems Planning and Engineering DISTRIBUTEL Communications. 740 Notre Dame West, Suite

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-14 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, Andrew L. Gould wrote: 3. Definitely go with a clean installation of FreeBSD 5.3 rather than 5.2.1. Just a sidenote, I did a source upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3, which basically worked okay. Switching from XFree to X.org was really troublesome, on the other hand... Kind regards, Benjamin

Re:

2005-01-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:05:07 +0100 Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emon wrote: But now some of the packages were complaining that an older version is installed I had no idea how to upgrade these packages. So in my blind rage I did pkg_add -vf on all packages including mc.

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 14 at 10:17, Jacob S launched this into the bitstream: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:00:30 -0900 Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: What is this person doing? or attempting to do? I'm guessing nothing good. Is there

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 14 at 07:00, Andy Firman wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: What is this person doing? or attempting to do? I'm guessing nothing good. Is there anything within...say httpd.conf..that I could do to prevent this..or curtail it before it grows to

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 14 at 10:22, Duo suggested this hysterically funny remedy: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: I noticed something extremely odd this morning in my http access log. There's the usual activity, then suddenly this (about a hundred lines are snipped) Yeah, someone is trying a M$

RE: NIC failover

2005-01-14 Thread Niy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Khavkine Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 12:09 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIC failover Hi Folks. Is there a way to configure 2 NIC's in a failover fasion connected to 2 different

Re: Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-14 Thread Toomas Aas
Derek wrote: Toomas Aas wrote: 1. Attach one of the new drives to free ICH4 IDE port on motherboard, partition it and transfer the data using dump/tar. At this stage, I would recommend doing this in single user mode, to keep filesystem modifications during the procedure down. Yes, that was my

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Freebsd0101
In a message dated 1/13/05 11:27:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BS Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies BS that need support for the latest hardware. It's not a question of latest, it's a question of which hardware. FreeBSD, like all operating

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Len Zettel
On Friday 14 January 2005 05:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/13/05 11:27:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BS Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies BS that need support for the latest hardware. It's not a question of

Re: Backups / Dump etc

2005-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Hi, I'm looking around at backup solutions. Currently we are using bacula, but according to it's docs it only does a bare-metal restore for linux and solaris. I know that dump is the bees-knees for backing up, so I'm looking for any pre-made scripts for doing scheduled incremental

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Freebsd0101
In a message dated 1/14/05 1:07:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: still-under-development 5.x. Which seems counterproductive for an O/S that is trying to establish itself as a choice as a server platform. Not necessarily. The interesting question hasn't been addressed yet.

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Freebsd0101
In a message dated 1/14/05 8:12:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People on the FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux mailing lists are very kind and help you in any case, if you ask questions politely and you have searched and read tha manuals first. So, why do we start always

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-14 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: Hello, Andrew L. Gould wrote: 3. Definitely go with a clean installation of FreeBSD 5.3 rather than 5.2.1. Just a sidenote, I did a source upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3, which basically worked okay. Switching

M$ mouse working?

2005-01-14 Thread Subhro
Hello folks, I have managed to get hold of a New Microsoft Optical Desktop. I have been trying to use its USB interface with Xorg but without any success (This box is running 5.3-Stable, amd64). During boot I can see that both the mouse and the keyboard are detected once and then detached. Again

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Freebsd0101
In a message dated 1/13/05 9:05:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Someone who begins with their first post on the questions list with invective and insults instead of asking a question will, not surprisingly, not receive much positive response. People here are interested in

Re: Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-14 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 January 2005 18:47, Toomas Aas wrote: Derek wrote: But if it is necessary, it should be possible to bring the machine up to single user mode and modify the fstab there, right? Given, of course, that the root partition is left on

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 14, 2005, at 12:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The entire point of this extended discussion, for those who have paid attention, is that FreeBSD 4.x, which is admittedly the fastest version available, DOES NOT work with intel's fastest CPUs because it doesnt support the necessary chipsets,

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/14/05 1:07:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: still-under-development 5.x. Which seems counterproductive for an O/S that is trying to establish itself as a choice as a server platform. Not necessarily. The interesting

bimap instead of public ip and servers

2005-01-14 Thread freebsd
Hi all, i have a following problem, probably someone was through this before and can offer advice. Now i'm using DSL with static ip address and on my home FreeBSD server there is group of servers serving my family and friends. Servers are qmail, djbdns and apache. I'm doing dns for my domain, mail

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
In a message dated 1/13/05 11:27:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BS Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies BS that need support for the latest hardware. It's not a question of latest, it's a question of which hardware. FreeBSD, like all

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Greg Barniskis
That always cheerful and bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] So your claim that its a heavy-duty server platform is tainted by the fact that in order to use the fastest server Mobos, you have to use the slower, still-under-development 5.x. Which seems counterproductive for an O/S that is

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
In a message dated 1/13/05 9:05:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Someone who begins with their first post on the questions list with invective and insults instead of asking a question will, not surprisingly, not receive much positive response. People here are

Re: Cut and paste in Emacs

2005-01-14 Thread Kris Maglione
I, personally, still don't completely understand the entire unix/X cut buffer system. First, there is more than one cut buffer, but I doubt that that's your problem. Second, there is select-to-copy and select+right click.../ctrl+c/... to copy. These use two different systems, which, like I

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:05:40PM +, Len Zettel wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 05:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/13/05 11:27:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BS Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies BS that

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Duo
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You really don't know what you're talking about Jerry (as usual), so why make comments when you never seem to understand the context? He asked a question and the response was why dont you donate your hardware to a freebsd developer. What's juvenile is

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
... Much misc drivel excised. rather ridicule people that ask why than fix things. So your claim that its a heavy-duty server platform is tainted by the fact that in order to use the fastest server Mobos, you have to use the slower, still-under-development 5.x. Which seems

Re: M$ mouse working?

2005-01-14 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/15/05 12:08 AM, Subhro sat at the `puter and typed: Hello folks, I have managed to get hold of a New Microsoft Optical Desktop. I have been trying to use its USB interface with Xorg but without any success (This box is running 5.3-Stable, amd64). During boot I can see that both the

growisofs problem

2005-01-14 Thread Jonathan Wallace
Hello, I've got a curious problem using growisofs on FBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0. I'm using the following hardware (from dmesg): acd0: DVDR HP DVD Writer 530 at ata1-slave PIO4 cd0: HP DVD Writer 530r VPS8 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device Using the cd0 device (through atapicam) I can write to

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 14 January 2005 12:23 pm, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: Hello, Andrew L. Gould wrote: 3. Definitely go with a clean installation of FreeBSD 5.3 rather than 5.2.1. Just a sidenote, I did a source upgrade from 5.2.1 to

Re: login.conf problems

2005-01-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. Static [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Original Message - From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Static [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:33 PM Subject: Re: login.conf problems Static [EMAIL

Dynamic IP and pf?

2005-01-14 Thread Christopher McGee
I have a cable modem that provides a dynamic IP address to the outside interface of my firewall(5.3 with PF doing NAT). If my IP address changes I have to run a script to update my dynamic dns and reload my firewall rules based on the new IP address. Is there a recommended way of doing this

Re: gmirror problem on 5.3-R i386 (SOLVED)

2005-01-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:51:03AM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote: Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:54, Doug Poland wrote: I'm having a problem with gmirror. It would seem that I cannot add my first disk to the mirror after booting off the second drive. My current status is a

Logitech access keyboard

2005-01-14 Thread Pieter Hustinx
Hi, I have a logitech access keyboard [1]. If I want to use the function keys, I have to press the 'F lock' key first (by default 'F lock' is off). I want to use the function keys without using 'F lock' I want to adjust my keymap, I need to know the scancode of that keys. How can I get the

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: Sure. Assuming you're using 5.3-RELEASE, 5.3-STABLE or better, then setting up a recursive-only nameserver is really very simple. The system comes with BIND-9.3.0 as standard, and it has all of the chroot-ing functionality available just by default. All you need do is

Re: Dynamic IP and pf?

2005-01-14 Thread Saad Kadhi
On 14/01/2005 20:39 Christopher McGee wrote: I have a cable modem that provides a dynamic IP address to the outside interface of my firewall(5.3 with PF doing NAT). If my IP address changes I have to run a script to update my dynamic dns and reload my firewall rules based on the new IP

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-14 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:32:03PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 12:23 pm, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: Hello, Andrew L. Gould wrote: 3. Definitely go with a clean installation of FreeBSD 5.3 rather

Re: Backups / Dump etc

2005-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 14 at 13:00, Jeff MacDonald launched this into the bitstream: I've also been told that dump lacks network support I'm not sure that's true. I sometimes take my laptop with me when I take a dump. It's got a wireless card in there so I'm able to sit there and catch up on

Re: Dynamic IP and pf?

2005-01-14 Thread Christopher McGee
Saad Kadhi wrote: On 14/01/2005 20:39 Christopher McGee wrote: I have a cable modem that provides a dynamic IP address to the outside interface of my firewall(5.3 with PF doing NAT). If my IP address changes I have to run a script to update my dynamic dns and reload my firewall rules based on

Re: Backups / Dump etc

2005-01-14 Thread Tabor Kelly
Jeff MacDonald wrote: snip On a related note: If I want to do complete dumps of all of my file systems do I need to be in single user mode? Will running in multiuser mode (with all of my normal daemons running) mess up my dumps? Thank You. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The entire point of this extended discussion, for those who have paid attention, is that FreeBSD 4.x, which is admittedly the fastest version available, DOES NOT work with intel's fastest CPUs because it doesnt support the necessary chipsets, AND, that freebsd people would

RE: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thank you! In a message dated 1/13/05 9:05:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,

Re: Dynamic IP and pf?

2005-01-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Christopher McGee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have setup my pf ruleset using the parentheses. I didn't realize it would auto update them. I thought I would still need to reload the rules so that it re-reads the interface IP. I still have the dilemma of dynamic dns and a couple of other

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