Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Mike Hauber
On Friday 11 February 2005 12:31 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: There can be only ONE 'flagship' logo just as there is only one company name in a conglomerate.  But there is plenty of space for different subsidiary marks for the product. For example, Chevrolet, Buick, Saturn, these are all part

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchasNetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:38 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dick Davies Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:10 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Mike Hauber writes: Heh... This gives me an idea... How about FreeBSD skins. The Beastie as the default (of course), and dis_ey-type themes for the weak in the faith. If FreeBSD's attempt is not to be offensive to anyone, anywhere, anytime, then perhaps it just needs to jump into a

mode 1777 /var/mail

2005-02-11 Thread Dikshie
dear all, how to keep /var/mail still on mode 1777 ? regards, -dikshie- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo

2005-02-11 Thread Karel Miklav
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Personally, I wonder how FreeBSD survives based exclusively on volunteer efforts. It's a noble idea, but in the real world, things cost money, and people need to earn a living. Something that survives exclusively from the kindness of strangers leads a fragile existence.

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchasNetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0238 05:38]: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dick Davies Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:10 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo

Re: glade-2

2005-02-11 Thread Dominik Epple
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:52:38AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: Does anyone know how glade-2 works ? I made a test gui and now i would like to make a test executable of the gui ? The menu option Project - Save will save your project's xml files. Then, Project - Build will generate C code from

I can't BOOT! You all need to WAKE UP and HELP a BROTHER!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Fafa Diliha Romanova
Hello! I am running a new HP Compaq DC7100 CMT. For more information, check: http://www.antonline.com/p_PC928A-ABA--DC7100-CMT-P4-3.0-512MB-40GB-DVD-WXPP-3-3-3-_102136.htm I've been trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE for a long time now. Nobody has bothered to offer me a solution. Let alone

Re: SQL Questions

2005-02-11 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 18:42 -0500, Sean wrote: I would like to install SQL here for my own use, not for any real life currently, round now for learning. Right now plan to install MySQL. Looking through the ports there is numerous version and some say for server, some say for client.

Installation Fails (trap 12)

2005-02-11 Thread Jon Francis
Have been trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 (i386) onto a barebones PC with: Biostar iDEQ 210P Athlon 64 machine Nforce3 250Gb chipset K8NBP motherboard It fails quite early in the installation with the following message: Can't re-use a leaf (recvspace)! Can't re-use a leaf (maxdgram)! Kernel trap 12

web hosting

2005-02-11 Thread Cezar Fistik
Hi all, Does anyone know a good resource that would describe how to implement a web hositng service? I mean a technical one, descibing which software is better to use, security mesures and in general how to set up a web hosting sysem from a sysadmin point of view. I would appreciate if you could

Re: SQL Questions

2005-02-11 Thread Jan Branbergen
I would like to install SQL here for my own use, not for any real life currently, round now for learning. Right now plan to install MySQL. Looking through the ports there is numerous version and some say for server, some say for client. Looking for some tips as to what version of SQL

Re: I can't BOOT! You all need to WAKE UP and HELP a BROTHER!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: I am running a new HP Compaq DC7100 CMT. For more information, check: http://www.antonline.com/p_PC928A-ABA--DC7100-CMT-P4-3.0-512MB-40GB-DVD-WXPP-3-3-3-_102136.htm I've been trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE for a long time now. Nobody has bothered to offer me a

Re: I can't BOOT! You all need to WAKE UP and HELP a BROTHER!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Dick Davies
* Fafa Diliha Romanova [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0239 10:39]: Hello! I am running a new HP Compaq DC7100 CMT. For more information, check: http://www.antonline.com/p_PC928A-ABA--DC7100-CMT-P4-3.0-512MB-40GB-DVD-WXPP-3-3-3-_102136.htm I've been trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE for a long

Re: disappearance of /dev/mem

2005-02-11 Thread Stephane Le Maure
Thanks You Kris, It works now, i will not forget any more to read the UPDATING now. still thank you. Stéphane. On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:00:51PM +0100, St?phane Le Maure wrote: Hello all I have a big problem since the upgrade of 5.2 towards 5.3. The file /dev/mem does not exist any more

log viewer

2005-02-11 Thread peter.lidell
Hello, I am looking for a good log viewer. It would be a plus if it comes with a gui but not a must. Do any of you guys use or have heard of a good log viewer tool for FreeBSD? Thanks for your time. Regards Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

First time DNS setup

2005-02-11 Thread kilim
Hello, I'm trying to set up my DNS server and before I go ahead I wanna ask you to tell me if my config is right. Thank you. This is my setup: FreeBSD 5.3 with Bind 9.3 My Static IP: 123.456.789.999 (example only, obviously) My domain name: really-cool-domain.com (example too) my named.conf:

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: That is so not true that it makes me almost as angry as the original debate. Maybe getting angry about a mere logo is a bad sign. Just to sum up things as I understand it... People want to change the logo from Beastie

Re: DNS virgin

2005-02-11 Thread kilim
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:41:52PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: kilim wrote: snip Now that I've registered a certain domain through godaddy.com I wish to set up my own DNS server. In the Godaddy's web interface there is a way to set two new DNS server. Can I just put one of the server

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Frank Laszlo
Oliver Leitner wrote: alot of discussions going on the past 48 hours about this topic, i guess there is alot of room for explanations left, that ppls want to hear, why not give the ppls that actually stand behind FreeBSD and behind the logo contest or whatever it is a chance to tell us what

Re: Can I...

2005-02-11 Thread Leandro D'Addario
Tnx a lot for your fast answer ;) I will try it and i will say you if i'll have problems. Regards, Leandro On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:11:05 -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! I would to know if i can install the last relase of freeBSD on my computer. It's an acer

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I love the, so called evil beastie but it's not like the idea of a new logo will make the FreeBSD OS any different! Here's a good view: Get over it... build a bridge... go write some software or do something else *useful* that makes a real difference. If you guy's, love beastie so much, get

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Greg Barniskis
Bart Silverstrim wrote: Out of curiosity, is Beastie so terrible, a logo, that a business would be stupid enough to base their server decisions based on it? Would you care if a business were that dumb...would you actually *want* them using it? The problem (from my point of view) really has a

Re: DNS virgin

2005-02-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, kilim wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:41:52PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: kilim wrote: snip Now that I've registered a certain domain through godaddy.com I wish to set up my own DNS server. In the Godaddy's web interface there is a way to set two new DNS server. Can I

Re: DNS virgin

2005-02-11 Thread kilim
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:00:11PM +, Vince Hoffman wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, kilim wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:41:52PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: kilim wrote: snip Now that I've registered a certain domain through godaddy.com I wish to set up my own DNS server. In the

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Imagine Linux dropping Tux for some meanlingless, lifeless logo? I'm glad you asked. Tux is a mascot, not a logo. These are Linux logos: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiccaldera.gif http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicdebian.gif

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/11/05 09:52 AM, Anthony Atkielski sat at the `puter and typed: Mike Hauber writes: Heh... This gives me an idea... How about FreeBSD skins. The Beastie as the default (of course), and dis_ey-type themes for the weak in the faith. If FreeBSD's attempt is not to be offensive

Re: wireless-to-wired bridging

2005-02-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question that is more of a networking question than a BSD question, but I am hoping someone out there has faced this same dilemma before and has some advice: I have a FreeBSD machine running -current that servers as a router for my home

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Greg Barniskis
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Here's a page (a NetBSD logo contest entry) which addresses many of these concerns, and coincidentally underlines my point about the daemon not being exclusive to FreeBSD: http://homepage.mac.com/codesamurai/netbsd-logo-entry/ That is not bad. But is it sufficiently

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Napper
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:53:17 -0600 Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: Out of curiosity, is Beastie so terrible, a logo, that a business would be stupid enough to base their server decisions based on it? Would you care if a business were that dumb...would

Re: wireless-to-wired bridging

2005-02-11 Thread Reid Linnemann
On 2/11/2005, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question that is more of a networking question than a BSD question, but I am hoping someone out there has faced this same dilemma before and has some advice: I have a FreeBSD machine

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Greg Barniskis wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: Out of curiosity, is Beastie so terrible, a logo, that a business would be stupid enough to base their server decisions based on it? Would you care if a business were that dumb...would you actually *want* them using it?

xinerama with an ati radeon 9200se

2005-02-11 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hi, I've installed freebsd 5.3 with xorg 6.8.1 (from ports). I've an ati radeon 9200se graphic adapters which has: a) 1 x digital connector b) 1 x analog connector On the digital connector I've a philips lcd monitor and on the analog connector I've a sony lcd monitor connected. Unfortunately

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchasNetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/10/05 10:30 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt sat at the `puter and typed: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis LeBlanc Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:59 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please don't change

Re: glade-2

2005-02-11 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:38:13 +0100, Dominik Epple [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:52:38AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: Does anyone know how glade-2 works ? I made a test gui and now i would like to make a test executable of the gui ? The menu option Project - Save will

Re: log viewer

2005-02-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 11), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am looking for a good log viewer. It would be a plus if it comes with a gui but not a must. Do any of you guys use or have heard of a good log viewer tool for FreeBSD? less? and if you want a GUI, less in an xterm -- Dan Nelson

Re: xinerama with an ati radeon 9200se

2005-02-11 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Friday, 11. February 2005 16:01, Didier Wiroth wrote: May be someone is alreay using a more less equal config with an ati 9200se in xinerama mode? Here's mine (I use two analog CRTs, one connected to the dvi-port with the dvi-rgb adapter). Ignore the VMware stuff in there, it's an

Re: Simulating webserver load balancing

2005-02-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Nick Pavlica wrote: Here are a couple of other solutions to look at: http://www.inlab.de/balance.html http://pythondirector.sourceforge.net/ --Nick On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:07:20 -0500, Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im looking for suggestions for a port and/or tips that would

linux_base compatibility issue? Counter-Strike

2005-02-11 Thread Jaron Parsons
Derrick Ryalls, I came across a post you made regarding the following erros on the CS source with freebsd 4.9 Illegal instruction (core dumped) cat: hlds.12893.pid: No such file or directory Deprecated bfd_read called at

Re: formatting a DVD+RW

2005-02-11 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:33:48PM +, Xian wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 21:51, Marc Fonvieille wrote: snip Under 5.X or 4.X ? 5.3R You have to read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html Marc ___

Re: Please don't change Beastie [bike shed, EOT]

2005-02-11 Thread Greg Barniskis
Bart Silverstrim wrote: I'm missing the part about the tennis shoes though. I didn't realize that was part of the joke...? :-) goes to why is it cartoonish?, the shoes mean 'fast', etc. Your duty should be to answer their questions and go over pertinent information for the presentation. If

Re: glade-2

2005-02-11 Thread Rob
PS When i build in c it works but when i try c++ i get this ? Error running glade-- to generate the C++ source code. Check that you have glade-- installed and that it is in your PATH. Then try running 'glade-- project_file.glade' in a terminal. Anybody know why ? PS is there much

too many procmail processes running

2005-02-11 Thread David Banning
My machine is running too many procmail processes. I believe that they are taking too long to run. Eventually it shuts down my machine. Any idea what could be causing this? -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: xinerama with an ati radeon 9200se

2005-02-11 Thread Didier Wiroth
Thanks a lot. Unfortunately still the same result! no signal on the digital output. -Original Message- From: Michael Nottebrock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 16:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Didier Wiroth; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xinerama

Re: xinerama with an ati radeon 9200se

2005-02-11 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Friday, 11. February 2005 16:41, Didier Wiroth wrote: Thanks a lot. Unfortunately still the same result! no signal on the digital output. Perhaps you're feeding your LCD/TFT with a signal it can't handle? Try conservative timings (60Hz refresh rate). -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-02-11 Thread John
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:10:31AM -0600, John wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:46:03PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 09:01 pm, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:53:21PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:10:00AM

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Dick Davies
* Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0201 13:01]: On Feb 11, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: That is so not true that it makes me almost as angry as the original debate. Maybe getting angry about a mere logo is a bad sign. Just to sum up things

Re : Re: xinerama with an ati radeon 9200se

2005-02-11 Thread Didier Wiroth
Yes, I had already changed that, both have: VertRefresh 60 But it still doesn't work On Friday, 11. February 2005 16:41, Didier Wiroth wrote: Thanks a lot. Unfortunately still the same result! no signal on the digital output. Perhaps you're feeding your LCD/TFT with a signal it can't handle?

Re: Can't get anything better than 800x600 resolution

2005-02-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:56:46PM -0500, RL wrote: I just got an Nvida PCI GeForce FX card, installed the NVIDIA drivers correctly (it loads), did an xorgconfig, and made the appropriate changed in xorg.conf. I have a DefaultDepth 24 line and under depth 24 I have Modes 1024 x768 etc...

Re: too many procmail processes running

2005-02-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
My machine is running too many procmail processes. I believe that they are taking too long to run. Eventually it shuts down my machine. Any idea what could be causing this? We saw that sort of thing with some of our systems. I did not work on that problem, but I seem to remember that it

Re: Script Questions

2005-02-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:24:34PM -0800, Chris Sechiatano wrote: Use -print0 (that's a zero at the end of print), and the -0 option of xargs. Then the whitespace shouldn't matter. # cd /storage/users # find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -sk That should do it. -

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Vonleigh Simmons
People want to change the logo from Beastie to something else because Beastie isn't professional enough, so some committers decided to hold a contest for a new logo? As an artist here is how I see it: Beastie is a mascot, not a logo. It's like having Disney with a Mickey Mouse. The logo is

(mySQL) benchmarks strike back

2005-02-11 Thread Jorge Mario G.
Hi there I just read http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/12/27/1243207.shtml?tid=72tid=29%20result and as in any onther benchmark there is a lot stuff that can be arguable. I would like to know why is that happening? the problem is that we are pushing FreeBSD/postgreSQL as a database

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-02-11 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

2005-02-11 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: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Bart Silverstrim writes: People want to change the logo from Beastie to something else because Beastie isn't professional enough, so some committers decided to hold a contest for a new logo? Beastie isn't a logo. There is no logo for FreeBSD at the moment. Creating one is probably a good

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Louis LeBlanc writes: They why would they care *what* the logo is? They wouldn't; but the logo has an effect on the people who write the checks, and it serves a useful purpose as a unifying identifier. The people who write the checks don't care about skins, though, since they'll never actually

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: Tux is a mascot, not a logo. These are Linux logos: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiccaldera.gif http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicdebian.gif http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicmandrake.gif http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicredhat.gif

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Napper writes: Its been my experience that the corporate suits get the perception of teenage hacker from the cartoonish mascots. Agreed. And their perception is not always incorrect. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Frank Laszlo
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: Tux is a mascot, not a logo. These are Linux logos: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiccaldera.gif http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicdebian.gif http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicmandrake.gif

Re: (mySQL) benchmarks strike back

2005-02-11 Thread Ean Kingston
Hi there I just read http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/12/27/1243207.shtml?tid=72tid=29%20result and as in any onther benchmark there is a lot stuff that can be arguable. I would like to know why is that happening? the problem is that we are pushing FreeBSD/postgreSQL as a

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Napper writes: Its been my experience that the corporate suits get the perception of teenage hacker from the cartoonish mascots. Agreed. And their perception is not always incorrect. Am I the only one that finds some amusement in the

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Frank Laszlo writes: Are we forgetting about the printing aspect of things? The redhat logo has some nice gradients in it. The GIF I'm looking at seems to contain only red and black, except for the drop shadow, which isn't part of the logo. And they just plain suck, IMHO. They look too

Re: New FreeBSD logo and website design

2005-02-11 Thread Chris Zumbrunn
On Feb 11, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Nice. It still has that devilish look to it, which might cause a problem politically, but at least it's clean and simple and easy to print. :-) Generally, in the discussion so far, almost everybody jumped through the hoops to emphasize that

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 11 February 2005 08:14 am, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Imagine Linux dropping Tux for some meanlingless, lifeless logo? I'm glad you asked. Tux is a mascot, not a logo. These are Linux logos: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiccaldera.gif

Re: (mySQL) benchmarks strike back

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 11 February 2005 10:46 am, Jorge Mario G. wrote: Hi there I just read http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/12/27/1243207.shtml?tid=72; tid=29%20result and as in any onther benchmark there is a lot stuff that can be arguable. I would like to know why is that happening? the

traceroute/udp issue

2005-02-11 Thread Chris Johnson
My laptop can not seem to traceroute using nat. I am running ipnat on 4.11-stable (code is new as of today) My router is running the same. I cant seem to traceroute using udp, if i -P icmp it will work fine. I have no ipfw rules blocking this and have tried with 0 firewall rules and still got

Newbie upgrade problem

2005-02-11 Thread aklist_061666
Hi: I upgraded from freebsd 5.1 to 5.3, and the upgrade went pretty smoothly. I had BIND 9.2.3 running on 5.1, and when I upgraded to 5.3, BIND 9.3.0 was installed. my old named.conf file is still in /etc, but 9.3.0 doesn't seem to be reading it. I tried restarting bind with /usr/sbin/named

Virus question

2005-02-11 Thread Karen Donathan
To Whom it may concern: My name is Karen Donathan and I am a computer science teacher at George Washington High School in Charleston, WV. We run our website (http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us) on a FreeBSD server. This project was given to me, and I am afraid that I really should know more about how

Re: Newbie upgrade problem

2005-02-11 Thread Hexren
a Hi: I upgraded from freebsd 5.1 to 5.3, and the upgrade went pretty a smoothly. a I had BIND 9.2.3 running on 5.1, and when I upgraded to 5.3, BIND 9.3.0 was a installed. a my old named.conf file is still in /etc, but 9.3.0 doesn't seem to be a reading it. a I tried restarting bind with

Re: Virus question

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Karen Donathan wrote: To Whom it may concern: My name is Karen Donathan and I am a computer science teacher at George Washington High School in Charleston, WV. We run our website (http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us) on a FreeBSD server. This project was given to me, and I

re: Newbie upgrade problem

2005-02-11 Thread Joachim Dagerot
Hi: I upgraded from freebsd 5.1 to 5.3, and the upgrade went pretty smoothly. May I ask if you had any guide that you followed nad if you please could post a link to it here. I'm just about to upgrade my system from 5.1 to the latest, but I don't know where to start, and I haven't got any

Re: Newbie upgrade problem

2005-02-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joachim Dagerot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May I ask if you had any guide that you followed nad if you please could post a link to it here. I'm just about to upgrade my system from 5.1 to the latest, but I don't know where to start, and I haven't got any answers when asking on this list.

Newbie: where is the startup configuration line for BIND?

2005-02-11 Thread aklist_061666
Hi All: I just upgraded from freebsd 5.1 to 5.3, and I want to edit the startup parameters for named so that it reads my previous config file, basically I want the startup parameter to be: /usr/sbin/named -4 -c /etc/named.conf But I can't find where that command string is? all that is in my

Re: Newbie: where is the startup configuration line for BIND?

2005-02-11 Thread Frank Laszlo
aklist_061666 wrote: Hi All: I just upgraded from freebsd 5.1 to 5.3, and I want to edit the startup parameters for named so that it reads my previous config file, basically I want the startup parameter to be: /usr/sbin/named -4 -c /etc/named.conf But I can't find where that command string is?

Re: Virus question

2005-02-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/11/05 01:55 PM, Karen Donathan sat at the `puter and typed: To Whom it may concern: My name is Karen Donathan and I am a computer science teacher at George Washington High School in Charleston, WV. We run our website (http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us) on a FreeBSD server. This project was

How do I set the source address on a multi-homed host?

2005-02-11 Thread Daniela
I have two NICs (one inside and one outside interface) with NAT activated. The problem is that every time I establish a connection with a machine on my LAN, it uses the address of the outside interface as the source of the packets, which creates problems with my firewall. How do I tell my

/tmp on same partition as /

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Morland
I'm setting up a mail server at the momment, one of the things that I forgot to do was create /tmp as a separate partiton (/ = 2gb). There will be no user logins to the machine aside from admins and the only thing that it will run is qmail acting as a smarthost (vanilla qmail, no amavis or

Newbie: BIND conf file not found error

2005-02-11 Thread aklist_061666
One last question on configuring Named to run: I'm able to start BIND from the command line with: /usr/sbin/named -c /etc/named.conf but when I modify my rc.conf file with: named_enable=YES named_program=/usr/sbin/named named_flags=-u bind -c /etc/named.conf I get an error on startup: Feb 11

5.3-RELEASE: Where is the blacklist referenced on the install disks?

2005-02-11 Thread Atle Veka
ASUS p2b-d motherboards are blacklisted on 5.3-RELEASE and refuse to install. Where is this blacklist located, I need to manually remove that block? The ASUS p2b-d motherboards are quite common, we have probably 100 or so left of them and have at one point had over 400. Seems really strange to

Re: /tmp on same partition as /

2005-02-11 Thread Tom Trelvik
Chad Morland wrote: In your opinion is having /tmp on the same partition as / really THAT bad in this case? I'm just wondering cause some people have mentioned that its a major security risk. Really, I don't think it is for what this box is doing. It's obviously a much bigger security risk on a

Re: Virus question

2005-02-11 Thread Ean Kingston
On 02/11/05 01:55 PM, Karen Donathan sat at the `puter and typed: To Whom it may concern: My name is Karen Donathan and I am a computer science teacher at George Washington High School in Charleston, WV. We run our website (http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us) on a FreeBSD server. This project was

Re: /tmp on same partition as /

2005-02-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
I'm setting up a mail server at the momment, one of the things that I forgot to do was create /tmp as a separate partiton (/ = 2gb). There will be no user logins to the machine aside from admins and the only thing that it will run is qmail acting as a smarthost (vanilla qmail, no amavis or

ye ol xargs unterminated quote error, thought it was gone?

2005-02-11 Thread Ken Hawkins
when I use the usual: find . -type f -print | xargs grep -sl foobar i get; xargs unterminated quote error and have to use: find . -type f -print | sed 's/^\(.*\)$//'\1'/' | xargs grep -sl foobar to quote the output from find. anyone know a more elegant solution? thoughts? ken;

Re: is there a cheat-sheet for WINE?

2005-02-11 Thread Ben Dover
I added the following to the top of my wine config file and the stoppable errors went away. [Drive C] Path = /windows Type = hd Label = msdos Filesystem = win98 Note that Path = /windows is the directory i created to mount the windows partition in /etc/fstab Good luck On Wed, 9 Feb 2005

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:00 AM -0500 2/11/05, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Just to sum up things as I understand it... People want to change the logo from Beastie to something else because Beastie isn't professional enough, so some committers decided to hold a contest for a new logo? We thought it would be nice, after

Re: ye ol xargs unterminated quote error, thought it was gone?

2005-02-11 Thread Lars Kristiansen
when I use the usual: find . -type f -print | xargs grep -sl foobar Have you tried: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -sl foobar i get; xargs unterminated quote error and have to use: find . -type f -print | sed 's/^\(.*\)$//'\1'/' | xargs grep -sl foobar to quote the output from

Re: 5.3-RELEASE: Where is the blacklist referenced on the install disks?

2005-02-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 11), Atle Veka said: ASUS p2b-d motherboards are blacklisted on 5.3-RELEASE and refuse to install. Where is this blacklist located, I need to manually remove that block? The ASUS p2b-d motherboards are quite common, we have probably 100 or so left of them and have

Re: 5.3-RELEASE: Where is the blacklist referenced on the install disks?

2005-02-11 Thread Atle Veka
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 11), Atle Veka said: ASUS p2b-d motherboards are blacklisted on 5.3-RELEASE and refuse to install. Where is this blacklist located, I need to manually remove that block? The ASUS p2b-d motherboards are quite common, we

Re: 5.3-RELEASE: Where is the blacklist referenced on the install disks?

2005-02-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 11), Atle Veka said: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 11), Atle Veka said: ASUS p2b-d motherboards are blacklisted on 5.3-RELEASE and refuse to install. Where is this blacklist located, I need to manually remove that block?

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Since when did FreeBSD, a project always driven by volunteers and not by commercial matters, suddenly gain a marketing department that is trying to steer FreeBSD into the business sector? Is FreeBSD starting to have marketing dictate

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 08:00 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Someone said people change logos all the time. That's flat out wrong. When a company spends mucho dinero on marketing their logo, they don't just flip around and decide to change their logo that they spent so much money and

Re: /tmp on same partition as /

2005-02-11 Thread Oliver Leitner
well, its ok to have /tmp on the same partition as /, as long as other security measurements work, for example a tripwire setup and logging user actions of any kind, also having an overview over the logs. as long as these work, and you take care whats going on on the box, it does not really

Beastie logo *is* a li'l devil, ya gotta admit

2005-02-11 Thread Mike Brown
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bob Johnson writes: I work in an office largely populated by born-again Christians, and some of them very definitely object to the BSD logo. Even after I explained the daemon thing, they still didn't think BSD should use The Devil as its logo. It doesn't

Re: How do I set the source address on a multi-homed host?

2005-02-11 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Daniela wrote: I have two NICs (one inside and one outside interface) with NAT activated. The problem is that every time I establish a connection with a machine on my LAN, it uses the address of the outside interface as the source of the packets, which creates problems with my firewall. How do

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/bell_logos.html I'm not sure that 6 times in 110 years is constantly changed -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Frank Laszlo
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Feb 11, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Since when did FreeBSD, a project always driven by volunteers and not by commercial matters, suddenly gain a marketing department that is trying to steer FreeBSD into the business sector? Is FreeBSD

Re: /tmp on same partition as /

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Morland
Thanks for the responses. I do have a firewall in place and the only open port to the public is 25 which is qmail. I think I'll take your considerations to heart and rebuild the box with its own /tmp partition with noexec. I should have done that in the first place. Thankfully it is not yet in

Re: How do I set the source address on a multi-homed host?

2005-02-11 Thread Frank Laszlo
Daniela wrote: I have two NICs (one inside and one outside interface) with NAT activated. The problem is that every time I establish a connection with a machine on my LAN, it uses the address of the outside interface as the source of the packets, which creates problems with my firewall. How do

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:04:34 -0600, Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 08:14 am, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Imagine Linux dropping Tux for some meanlingless, lifeless logo? I'm glad you asked. Tux is a mascot, not a logo.

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