Solved: Re: What to use for conio?

2007-09-16 Thread Lars Eighner
[Also posted the news group] The problem was to capture key presses from a vtty (including such function keys as your keymap will allow) so they do not echo - as you might want to do in developing a full-screen text-mode interface or a simple console-type game. Here is my solution in demo form,

Own Install CD with custom kernel

2007-09-16 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I'm working currently on a custom FreeBSD install CD with included I4B. But I have my problems and every try takes about 8 hours to rebuild the CDs again so hopefully I'll get some help here to speed it up a little :) What I did: Prepared my environment like (checkout cvs, copy files, created

Re: linux-firefox dies after xorg update

2007-09-16 Thread beni
On Saturday 15 September 2007 19:10:02 Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:51:08PM +, beni wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After updating xorg to 7.3 (and adding a new ServerFlags section to > > my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to put "ignoreABI" to "on" to get kdm back), now my > > linux-firefox

Re: How to answer mails to me@?

2007-09-16 Thread Eric
look at /usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual and man 5 virtual it will explain how to handle virtual domains and direct anything to any mail account you want Kyrre Nygård wrote: Hello! A silly question probably. How do I get FreeBSD, or Postfix, to give me all e-mails sent to me@? Can /etc/a

Re: How to answer mails to me@?

2007-09-16 Thread Kyrre Nygård
Eric wrote: look at /usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual and man 5 virtual it will explain how to handle virtual domains and direct anything to any mail account you want I really appreciate it man, thanks a lot! -- Kyrre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: Xorg errs after updating ports

2007-09-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING (which may itself have been updated after you did your ports download, so you may not yet have this advice on your hard disk): Users of nvidia-driver will have to make sure Composite extension is turned off and start Xorg with the following command: $ startx

Re: Xorg errs after updating ports

2007-09-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> > An updated nvidia-driver should be released soon. I know one of the issues is some kernel mods nvidia needs but regardless is their any kind of ETA? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-16 Thread Mel
On Sunday 16 September 2007 03:01:26 RW wrote: > Essentially what has happened is that /dev/random has been abandoned in > favour of a better /dev/urandom, and that seems to be a bit high-handed > to me. Not high-handed. Logical. The difference between /dev/random and /dev/urandom was that /dev/

Re: Xorg errs after updating ports

2007-09-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Aryeh Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> An updated nvidia-driver should be released soon. > > > I know one of the issues is some kernel mods nvidia needs but regardless > is their any kind of ETA? Kernel modifications are not needed for this. NVidia don't release their developme

Re: Xorg errs after updating ports

2007-09-16 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:45:29AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING (which may itself have been updated > after you did your ports download, so you may not yet have this advice > on your hard disk): > > Users of nvidia-driver will have to make sure Composite exte

Re: Telnet & smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 16 September 2007 16:28:02 Bill Banks wrote: > How do I turn on telnet for smtp? Im installing qmail > Telnet for SMTP? Are you trying to connect to port 25 (SMTP) using a telnet client for testing purposes? Don't install telnetd (telnet server), just use a telnet client: telnet 25

Telnet & smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Bill Banks
How do I turn on telnet for smtp? Im installing qmail --- Bill Banks 508-829-2005 Wachusett Programming Ourweb http://www.ourweb.net http://www.ourwebtemplates.com __

RE: Telnet & smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Bill Banks
I cant do telnet sarah.ourweb.net 25 try it from your --- Bill Banks 508-829-2005 Wachusett Programming Ourweb http://www.ourweb.net http://www.ourwebtemplates.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Lack of Core Dumps on signal 11

2007-09-16 Thread Doug Hardie
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 The setup I have used for earlier versions to obtain core dumps on processes that receive signals is no longer working. /var/log/ messages no longer shows core dumped for the entries and nothing appears in the core dump directory. sysctl.conf has: kern.sugid_coredu

Re: Telnet & smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 16, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Bill Banks wrote: I cant do telnet sarah.ourweb.net 25 It appears that sarah.ourweb.net, 216.236.255.132, isn't listening on port 25. Hold on, let me do a more complete scan. (If you get indications of a scan from 72.64.112/29 please don't treat is as abus

Re: Xorg errs after updating ports

2007-09-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Frank Shute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:45:29AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> >> Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING (which may itself have been updated >> after you did your ports download, so you may not yet have this advice >> on your hard disk): >> >> Users of

RE: Telnet & smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Bill Banks
im running qmail --- Bill Banks 508-829-2005 Wachusett Programming Ourweb http://www.ourweb.net http://www.ourwebtemplates.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J

Re: remote [ssh] Backspace] key gives me "^?"

2007-09-16 Thread Jordan Gordeev
Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:12:04PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:28:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Trying to use stty failed... . What terminal emulator are you using? It may be that, as was the case with me when I was using aterm, I needed t

Re: remote [ssh] Backspace] key gives me "^?"

2007-09-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:40:00PM +0300, Jordan Gordeev wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > I find that if I use Settings -> Keyboard and then select > > "FreeBSD Console", I come fairly close. Then [Backspace] > > backs up, but the characters are not erased as I space > > backwa

Re: Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card?

2007-09-16 Thread Andrey Slusar
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:17:47 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > I'm looking to eventually upgrade my home network to all gigabit so I'm > > going to start by purchasing a few NICs for some old servers I just > > received. I know there are quite a few supported by FreeBSD6 which I > > found ( http://www

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Windows XP, which will be primarily used for gaming, and FreeBSD 7.0 for everything else. I wanted to ask if the new ULE scheduler will benefit from having four cores on the CPU, meaning that if I have many concurrent tasks, is it able to efficiently spread the load over all available cores? won

What about NAT graphical tools?

2007-09-16 Thread Administrador Nodo CITMATEL Las Tunas
Is there any ported application capable to allow the user to configure a NAT (Network Address Translation) service in a graphical interface way? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:21:38 +0200 Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007 03:01:26 RW wrote: > > > Essentially what has happened is that /dev/random has been > > abandoned in favour of a better /dev/urandom, and that seems to be > > a bit high-handed to me. > > Not high-han

Re: Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card?

2007-09-16 Thread Robert Huff
Andrey Slusar writes: >In gigabit networks if_re is not very stable card - needs >disabling TXCSUM(ifconfig re0 -txcsum) - it's not great >choice. (Wired) RealTek(-based) cards in general have a very bad reputation under FreeBsd. See the archives for examples.

flash plugin after xorg update

2007-09-16 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, not sure if these two are really related, only know that my flash plugin doesnt work after I update xorg and re-enter x windows. I first re-install plugins by deleting the old plugs directory and then running nsplugwrapper -v -a -i, anyhow, here is the error message: The program 'npviewer.bi

Re: What about NAT graphical tools?

2007-09-16 Thread Vince
Administrador Nodo CITMATEL Las Tunas wrote: Is there any ported application capable to allow the user to configure a NAT (Network Address Translation) service in a graphical interface way? If all you want is a Freebsd Firewall with gui setup have a look at http://www.pfsense.com/ or http://m0n

Multiple NICs - custom protocol development

2007-09-16 Thread Len Gross
I have a host on my local 192.168.0 / 24 subnet that works fine in getting to the Internet via a default route.via a wireless connection. I want to develop some custom link protocols and I have placed two Ethernet NICs in the box. I want to be able to send packets from one NIC to the other and main

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-16 Thread Mel
On Sunday 16 September 2007 22:55:50 RW wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:21:38 +0200 > > Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People > > travelling the random road, will simply account for the possibility a > > traffic light comes up, which never does. > > That's a poor analogy because they haven't

Re: How to answer mails to me@?

2007-09-16 Thread Kyrre Nygård
Eric wrote: look at /usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual and man 5 virtual it will explain how to handle virtual domains and direct anything to any mail account you want All I had to do was to add the domain to mydestinations! Thanks again! ___ freeb

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:51:56 +0200 Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007 22:55:50 RW wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:21:38 +0200 > An applicatation using /dev/random doesn't see the difference. It was > necessary at the time, because systems couldn't produce enough > ent

Re: remote [ssh] Backspace] key gives me "^?"

2007-09-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:40:00PM +0300, Jordan Gordeev wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:12:04PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > >>On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:28:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > >> > >>> Trying to use stty failed... . > >> > >>What terminal emulator are you

Re: remote [ssh] Backspace] key gives me "^?"

2007-09-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:31:40PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:40:00PM +0300, Jordan Gordeev wrote: > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > I find that if I use Settings -> Keyboard and then select > > > "FreeBSD Console", I come fairly close. Then [Backspace] > > > bac

RE: Telnet & smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On September 16, 2007 1:39:52 PM -0400 Bill Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: im running qmail First of all, stop top-posting. It's very confusing. Second, if you really do have qmail running (did you verify using ps -auxw | grep qmail? that's only one part of troubleshooting your problem

Re: flash plugin after xorg update

2007-09-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:16:43 -0400 "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > not sure if these two are really related, only know that my flash plugin > doesnt work after I update xorg and re-enter x windows. I first re-install > plugins by deleting the old plugs directory and then runni

Re: linux-firefox dies after xorg update

2007-09-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:51:08 + beni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running 6.2-Stable with linux-firefox 2.0.0.6. I'm curious... do you mind if I ask why are you using linux-firefox? if it is due to flash, it works just as well with native firefox. (and yes, i went over to 7.3 with zilch

Re: Telnet & smtp

2007-09-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:55:02 -0400 "Bill Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cant do telnet sarah.ourweb.net 25 > > try it from your > $ telnet sarah.ourweb.net 25 Trying 216.236.255.132... Connected to sarah.ourweb.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 sarah.ourweb.net ESMTP helo xxx.example.c

is there any way of turning muttrc list into an evolution or other mail alias database?

2007-09-16 Thread Gary Kline
This may be a bit off the wall, but does anybody have a tool to take my dozens of mutt aliases and turn them into an evolution -style database format? (if not, is there any universal "address-book" app that I could use?) tia, gary -- Gary

(no subject)

2007-09-16 Thread rag rag
1. i am implementing PPPoE_Client when we click on disconnect in diap-up box will the PPP send terminate-request if yes how please? 2. will the PPP inform network layer when it close the connection if yes please tell how ? 3. what must be be maximum idle time so that no packets

Re: RAID Controller Recommendations: ARC-1210 or 9650SE-4LPML

2007-09-16 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 6, 2007, at 5:59 AM, Johan Hendriks wrote: Do not go for the adaptec 1210! That was not one of the choices given. The ARC-1210 is a different device from a different manufacturer -- Areca. Chad I have the same model, and it always give errors on /dev/ad6 First I thought it was

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Yes, 4BSD is still the default, although you definitely want to use ULE for performance reasons (NB: only on 7, dont use ULE on 6). I don't know whether the release engineers plan to change that default, but I will check. could you point to some URL/explain what's the actual difference. _

Anyone can tell anything on this crash?

2007-09-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
As per subject; this is a 6.2p7/i386 uniprocessor box with options INVARIANTS,INVARIANT_SUPPORT,WITNESS,DEBUG_LOCKS,DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS,DIAGNOSTIC enabled and running a couple of gmirror mirrors. bye & Thanks av. ># kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.2 kgdb: kvm_nlist(_stopped_cpus): kg