Re: windows 2000 FreeBSD?

2002-12-23 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Yes, of course. You can even use the Windows 2000 boot menu to boot your FreeBSD installation. I've done it recently, and it works fine :) FYI, I tried booting FreeBSD from the Win2k loader and it wouldn't work. The machine would just reboot

Re: MSN Messenger

2002-12-24 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Wayne Swart wrote: Is there an equivalant for msn messenger on X ? I use everybuddy. It supports a number of different IM protocols. One thing I liked is there are not too many dependancies. Now, I have not tried any of the other IM programs (for more than a few minutes

Re: possible problems in bootup

2002-12-24 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Asenchi wrote: I am having what seem to be problems in the boot process. When it gets to the ata0 device it sits for about a minute then continues like normal. Is this supposed to happen, am I doing something that I just don't know about to make this happen? One of my

Re: Palm 515 setup

2003-01-05 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Anne Sipes wrote: I just got mine syncing. I put together this howto: http://www.geekhome.net/palm.html Let me know if you have any problems with it. FYI, this works on my m125 as well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Palm 515 setup

2003-01-05 Thread Jason Hunt
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jason Hunt wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Anne Sipes wrote: I just got mine syncing. I put together this howto: http://www.geekhome.net/palm.html Let me know if you have any problems with it. FYI, this works on my m125 as well. Unfortunately, I spoke too soon

Re: iomega usb zip 100

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Ted wrote: Dear FreeBSDers, I've tried using the mount command to mount my USB Iomega Zip 100 drive but have failed. Upon boot w/ the device plugged into the pc, the kernal recognizes it as umass0 but on the very next line it states that Get Lun (stalled). How do I

Re: lock.

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Hunt
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, lewiz wrote: Is there any utility similar to lock (that I can do the equivalent of lock -npv) that I can set a timeout on - much like with xscreensaver? I don't want to manually have to run lock - instead a timeout would be good, so that if I don't hit any keys it will

RE: dos attack

2003-01-12 Thread Jason Hunt
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Michael wrote: Thanks for all that responded. Your ideas are great but they will just slow the dos down if even that. I guess no one has either thought of a true way to stop a DOS or maybe its really impossible because your allowing them in to begin with. Easier said than

Re: Samba and XP?

2003-02-01 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Bill Moran wrote: There's an XP machine right behind me that talks to our Samba server just fine. Just don't configure Samba to be a domain server. And, it does work just fine under domain systems as well. Samba just doesn't do active directory yet. OT, but my

Re: Error while compiling kernel.

2003-02-01 Thread Jason Hunt
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Sergey Niunco wrote: Device scbus was and is in my kernel config. A few days ago I compiled it without a problem. Did you CVSUP since the lat time you compiled? If so, you might have done it during a commit, so something got broken. Every now and then (maybe two or three

Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?!

2003-03-27 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:28:53AM +0100, Siegbert Baude wrote: If there was not a clean shutdown, I would start looking for faulty hardware, assuming the power was not interrupted. Any machine that spontaniously reboots on its' own usually has a bad power supply, but it could be very

Re: Running X from a windows PC

2003-03-28 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:27:34PM +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Marcel Stangenberger wrote: You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ? VNC

Re: NIC problem

2002-09-18 Thread Jason Hunt
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Bob Bomar wrote: I have a dual P-200 file server that is haveing some connection problems. When I ssh to the box, I login in fine, but some times it lags for a while, but the two boxes are physically sitting next to each other, and are on ports that are side by side on

MAKEDEV to a diff location

2002-09-23 Thread Jason Hunt
How can I tell MAKEDEV to make the devices on /mnt/dev instead of /dev? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

ppp with a null-modem cable

2002-09-23 Thread Jason Hunt
I am trying to get connectivity between two machines using the serial ports and a null-modem cable. I know the cable works because I can start tip or kermit on both machines and send characters back and forth. I've tried using the direct-server and direct-client samples that are given in

Re: IPsec Tunneling (VPN) from WIN2K (client) to FreeBSD (Server)

2002-10-11 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, MrWebby wrote: I need to enable tunnels from my laptop running Windows 2000 Pro to my FreeBSD 4.6. I have a Cable Modem link to the Internet and for my firewall and NAT router I use a D-Link 707 Residencial Router capable of allowing VPN using IPsec 'only'.

Re: Avoiding fsck at boot time

2002-10-13 Thread Jason Hunt
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Rus Foster wrote: Hi, I've got some unstable hardware ATM and whilst I'm trying to track it down I would like to minimize downtime. I've enabled soft updates on all but the rootfs as I thought this would do it. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Try setting

Re: housecleaning and portupgrade question

2002-10-24 Thread Jason Hunt
On 24 Oct 2002, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: It looks to me like there is no reason for both aalib-1.4.r5 and aalib-1.4.r5_1. Seems that portupgrade does not cause this problem and is the prefered upgrade method There are numerous examples of this issue. My question is: what is the recommended

Re: Sendmail: non-relay secure

2002-10-31 Thread Jason Hunt
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Steve Warwick wrote: I have sendmail / qpopper running on a production machine and have yet to figure out a way to open mail up to my client sin a secure way. Eg. Client logs in from aol.com to check and send mail. Is there a way to do this that will not open my machine

java/jdk13 problems

2002-11-16 Thread Jason Hunt
I am trying to install java/jdk13, but am running into the following: Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no] yes Unpacking... Checksumming... 0 0 Extracting... ELF interpreter /compat/svr4/lib/ld-linux.so.2 not found Abort trap Done. === Patching for linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.06 ===

Re: Unexpected Soft Update Inconsistency / Cannot Read: Blk

2002-11-29 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Vinco Maldini wrote: 1) What does the result below mean? (Is my drive failing? Why can't I clean the FS?) [ ... snip ... ] CANNOT READ: BLK 152744928 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY [ ... snip ... ] THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 152744946, [ ...

Re: El Torito

2002-11-29 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Fixer Corp wrote: I just pruchased FreeBSD 4.7. It requires a CDROM with El Torito support. My computer was purchased in 1998 and the owners manual does not say anything about El Torito. When I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.0, it did not support my Sony CDROM, so I bought an

Re: Accessing Windows Share

2002-11-29 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Chris Brotherton wrote: I want to mount a windows share on my FreeBSD box (alpha 500au running 4.7). I added the following options to my kernel configuration file: options NETSMB options NETSMBCRYPTO options LIBMCHAIN options LIBICONV options SMBFS When I compile

Re: Accessing Windows Share

2002-11-29 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Chris Brotherton wrote: I tried to install smbfs with ports and received the following message: smbfs-1.4.1 OS versions subsequent to 440002 include smfs I was under the impression that smfs is part of the base system, but that I had to include options in the kernel

Re: Accessing Windows Share

2002-11-29 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Jason Hunt wrote: Hrmm, I've never even heard of smbfs before :) Oops, I meant I have not heard of smfs before. Unless, that was a typo for smbfs. Either way, I had heard of smbfs before. I remember a year or two ago mount_smbfs was not available on FreeBSD, so

Re: testing memory speed

2002-12-09 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, David S. Jackson wrote: Is there a utility to test memory speed? I looked at memtest in ports, but it looks like that mainly tests for faulty memory. I did a websearch and found a command: dd /dev/zero /dev/null, but that doesn't seem to summarize the memory speed

Re: running freebsd os cobalt machines ?

2003-02-08 Thread Jason Hunt
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:32:02AM +0100, Thomas von Hassel wrote: We are about to inherit some cobalt raq or qube serves from another company. Now i dont know anything about except that they run some flavour of unix. Is it possible to run freebsd on those. Now i know that by doing that

Re: /etc/fstab config

2003-02-13 Thread Jason Hunt
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:29:33PM -0500, george donnelly wrote: hi i've got a 3 disk raid 5 partition that is my main fs and then an 80gb ide drive on a separate partition at /vol1. i need to config my /etc/fstab for this and this is what i've got (see below). can someone tell me if looks

Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer

2003-02-17 Thread Jason Hunt
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:33:08PM -0800, Lin Jianfong wrote: Hi, I just bought a Palm m125 model recently and tried to sync it via the USB cradle/cable on my fbsd 4.7R box. I got the process going all up to the point when trying to backup and sync using jpilot and pilot-xfer. The

Re: usb zip drive

2003-02-19 Thread Jason Hunt
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:46:20AM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: i am not sure it will be in my dmesg if the device doesn't exist on boot.. or will dmesg hold info about devices loaded after boot? dmesg will show you the most recent kernel messages, which can appear at any poing during

Re: where packets are dropped in route

2003-03-23 Thread Jason Hunt
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:32:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe your ISP is blocking port 22 after all. nmap will tell you. can nmap (which i don't have installed) tell me more than telnet - as far as a where a specific IP/port packet is being blocked/dropped? If you mean

Re: Content Filtering on Exim

2003-03-26 Thread Jason Hunt
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:54:19PM +0200, Wayne Swart wrote: Does anyone know of a content filtering app that can check the body, and headers of emails for certain keywords and stuff, and then decide weather the mail should be delivered or not? Check out procmail (http://www.procmail.org/)

Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?!

2003-03-27 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:20:56AM -0800, Steve Warwick wrote: Hi All, Is it possible for FreeBSD to shut itself down and restart for no reason? My machine was restarted last night and my hosting company claims they did not touch the server or have any problems. This has been going of for