The LS -L command will display the long info about files
in a directory. FBSD 4.0 through 4.5 LS -L command would
display among other things the month/day/year the file
was created. FBSD versions 4.6 and 4.7 displays the
hour:minute the file was created in the year field instead
of the year. To
How do I check my ISP domain name to see if it's DNS server is
configured
correctly for email reverse DNS lookup? I have used dig
isp-domain-name
but I can not tell from what it displays what to look for to verify
it's configured
correctly. The dig display is lacking descriptive verbiage to
.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:00 PM
To: FBSDQ
Subject: LS -L command, year created field contains hour:minute
instead of year
The LS -L command will display the long info about files
in a directory. FBSD
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, JoeB wrote:
How do I check my ISP domain name to see if it's DNS server is
configured correctly for email reverse DNS lookup? I have used dig
isp-domain-name but I can not tell from what it displays what to
look
for to verify it's configured correctly. The dig display
I am using ipfilter for my firewall and ipmon to capture firewall
error msgs.
Where can I find description of the format of the ipmon msg text so
I can decipher what the msgs are saying?
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At 12:03 PM 1.12.2003 +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:01:44PM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote:
At 05:44 PM 1.11.2003 +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:31:22AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote:
I just updated from FBSD-4.5 to 4.7 on a server running
Your first problem is you are confused about what you are talking
about.
You state you are using IPFW but you give firewall rule for
IPFILTER.
IPFW IPFILTER are 2 different firewall software applications.
Verify what you really have installed and post the contents of your
/etc/rc.conf file for us
I have installed FBSD 4.7 using cdrom and /stand/sysinstall,
selected standard
install with user distribution which does not install any source.
This install config does not install /usr/src/UPDATING directory.
Where else can I find this info??
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I have read both the Freebsd.org online man page
and the man page installed on my FBSD 4.7 system for man ipmon
and the man page info does not match the syntax of the
ipfilter.log messages.
Man ipmon says than when option -s is selected to send ipfilter
log messages to syslogd the day, month,
]]On Behalf Of Thomas
Spreng
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:50 AM
To: FBSDQ
Subject: Re: /usr/src/UPDATING
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:42:27AM -0500, JoeB wrote:
I have installed FBSD 4.7 using cdrom and /stand/sysinstall,
selected standard
install with user distribution which does not install any
?
How or where can I find the UPDATING detail info just
for selected FBSD version without having to load
the complete FBSD sources from CD?
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Giorgos
Keramidas
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 12:09 PM
To: JoeB
Cc
Informational post for the archives
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote
We actually found it goes:
Internal private Net - NIC - IPF+NAT - IPFW - Public internet
World
Public internet World - IPF+NAT - IPFW - NIC - Internal Private
net
Suffice to say, IPF+NAT always sees the packets first
This
the error - are you saying to add
the
COMPT3 into make.conf cd /usr/src make clean and rm -rf /usr/obj to
get it
to work?
Is there not a few files I can copy to get it working?
Many thanks
Gordon
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To: Jack L. Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Matthew
which happened in FBSD 4.7
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Pascoe
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:35 PM
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Cc: FBSDQ
Subject: Re: ipfilter/ipmon log msgs
JoeB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Man ipmon says than when
:31 PM
To: JoeB
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Matthew Seaman
Subject: Re: /usr/src/UPDATING
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:22:41PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:00:20PM -0500, JoeB wrote:
Thanks this is what I was looking for, But after viewing
the URL you posted I see info
Have you been able to get any of the methods to work repeatable?
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Block
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 9:16 PM
To: Garance A Drosihn; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: Bootable CDs (was
Just some body knocking at your front door.
What this means is you have ports 20 21 open
and your were port scanned.
You have to add some rules to your firewall.
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Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003
Do you really have named Domain server configured? If not remove
named_enable=YES
If you really do not want sendmail it should be
sendmail_enable=NONE
From your description I see no reason for any of the router_
options
You don't need this either
network_interfaces=lo0 fxp0 dc0
ifconfig_lo0=inet
The mount_msdos has a -l option to force the use of msdos long
names.
Below is my fstab file and mount points /a /c are msdos file
types.
Is there some way in the fstab file to specify long msdos names?
# DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass#
/dev/ad0s2b
I have reviewed the FBSD handbook and can not find any documentation
listing all the FBSD console commands.
Are they documented some where?
Is there some way using the man command to list all the man files in
the man directory?
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Read man mtree, but it does not describe when or for what purpose
you would use the mtree command.
Would someone explain when to use the mtree command?
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Add this to ppp.conf
disable iface-alias# Stop adding old IP addr as alias when ppp
# redials because line was lost. These old
ips
# showed using ifconfig -a on tun0.
iface clear# Remove all previous IP address
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I take it you mean that you added iface clear to the ppp.linkdown?
I
thought I was supposed to add it to ppp.conf.
I'm also trying to figure out the best way to kill ppp and restart
the
connection clean without having to reboot the machine. Any ideas
there?
Thanks a lot for the reply.
Lou
When using the FBSD bootable CDROM to install FBSD the first thing
to display on the screen is the 'Kernel configuration menu'. The
handbook says to select the 'Start kernel configuration in
full-screen visual mode' which takes you to the 'Kernel Device
Configuration Visual Interface' screen that
The problem you describe is becoming common in the 4.x versions of
FBSD.
I have seen these solutions voiced previously in this list.
1. Check the PC's bios, look for a toggle to disable plug-n-play
function.
2. Check that your PCI Nic card is not in the first or last PCI
expansion
slot on the
You have just fallen onto the unpublished secret that IPFW / NATD
does not work with keep-state rules.
If you use user ppp -nat so the NAT function is done outside of
IPFW, then IPFW keep-state
rules will function as documented.
For true keep-state protection you are far better off using IPFILTER
Hay aren't you forgetting the most important usage.
Use the fixit cdrom to boot small running FBSD environment so
you can restore your tape backup to the failed hard drive, or dd
your bkup image.
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1. Your firewall rules are not working at all, except for the natd
redirect option. This is caused by the kernel compile time option
IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT.This option tell your firewall that
any packet that does not match a rule is allowed to pass on through
the firewall. Comment out
Add this
local5.none; local6.none; local7.none /var/log/messages
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael K.
Smith
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 1:15 PM
To: questions list
Subject: Syslog Configuration Question
Hello All:
I am
Add this
local5.none;local6.none;local7.none /var/log/messages
No spaces between works
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael K.
Smith
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 1:15 PM
To: questions list
Subject: Syslog Configuration Question
I think your problem is this statement you made
'i don't think it is working'
What do you mean by this?.
The command you used copied the image.iso file to the cd.
If you tried to boot from it of course it won't boot.
To be able to boot you have to uncompress to ISO file into an
FBSD directory
, JoeB wrote:
Add this
local5.none;local6.none;local7.none /var/log/messages
No spaces between works
Thanks for the info above. Are there any important system messages
that will be caught by this? I wouldn't want to miss something
because
I had stopped logging to messages for those
Militante
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 3:37 PM
To: JoeB; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: please comment on my nat/ipfw rules (resent)
hi
you've sold me :)
do you have any good online tutorials to recommend for setting up a
gateway/firewall/natd machine using ipfilter/ipnat?
thanks
redmond
1. Your
You do not uninstall FBSD, you just delete the FBSD partition on the
hard drive
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Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 12:40 PM
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Subject: UnInstalling
Hi. I would like to find out
Seven soles lost in the disaster.
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Can Spamassassin work directly with Postfix?
Meaning no procmail in the mix?
IF so is there any HOWTO's on it?
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The question of using the Norton Ghost program to make an single flat
image file of an hard drives partition containing FBSD has been asked
many times on this list. UP until now the answer has all ways been that
the benefits of using Ghost on a MS/win partition can not be
You state Network topology:
Internet---Campus Network---(xl0)FreeBSD NATD machine(xl1)---Internal host
Internet is public ip address, if Campus Network private ip address then
you
can not nat them again, if Campus Network is public ip address then you
should
nat x11 for the private ip
Pcanywhere has to be run from a pc that has a public ip address to
the other pc which also has to be on a public ip address.
What I do is have the user of the pc I want to take over to dial out to the
internet
and establish it's connection, then start pcanywhere and configure it to
wait for
PcAnywhere only speaks to pcAnywhere.
PcAnywhere is a windows application only.
You can not dial into pcAnywhere from user ppp, it does not work that way.
Forget pcAnywhere and work on dialin connection to NT host.
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Replace the power supply.
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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions;FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Moti Levy
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 2:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: server reboot's on it's own.
Hi to all ,
I can't belive it even as i write it
The problem you describe is becoming common in the 4.x versions of FBSD.
I have seen these solutions voiced previously in this list.
1. Check the PC's bios, look for a toggle to disable plug-n-play function.
2. Check that your PCI Nic card is not in the first or last PCI expansion
slot on the
Change rules so they look this.
$fwcmd add allow udp from 66.135.144.2 53 to $oip
$fwcmd add allow udp from 66.135.128.68 53 to $oip
$fwcmd add allow tcp from 66.135.144.2 53 to $oip
$fwcmd add allow tcp from 66.135.128.68 53 to $oip
$fwcmd add allow
Put your mail server and apache server domain names in /etc/hosts
file
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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions;FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kenny
Elliott
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: firewall / natd problem I
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Muller Petr
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Subject: Clone FreeBSD Partition
Hi,
Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot
FreeBSD file
system,
Add this to your ppp.conf file
disable pred1 deflate lqr# compression features line quality
reporting
denypred1 deflate lqr# compression features line
quality reporting
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Since you have tried FBSD 4.3, 4.4, 4.7, 5.0 I would say that the problem is not an
FBSD problem but a problem with the hard ware of the box you are installing FBSD onto.
From your description of what you have done to fix the problem, I can see that you
started to use the process of
The tunx devices are only created by 'user ppp'
You can not manually create tunx devices.
There is an kernel option to increase the number
of tunx devices that 'user ppp' can create.
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(Tepucom)
log_in_vain=YES in /etc/rc.conf
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Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:57 PM
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Subject: Where did I go wrong?
For some time, I've been seeing all these entries in my console
Does anyone have the gtkyahoo port working so they can use yahoo instant
messenger from a desktop?
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How do it configure gnome to restrict users to their home directory?
I don't want them to be able see any system directories or other users?
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Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 2:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG
Subject: Re: restrict gnome desktop user.
joeb wrote:
How do it configure gnome to restrict users to their home directory?
I don't
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:13:17PM +0800, FBSD1 wrote:
How do it configure FreeBSD to restrict users to their home directory?
You can give the users rbash as their shell. This will restrict them to
their
home directory. But this can be easily broken out of if the user starts
another shell! So
On Wed, October 29, 2008 9:09 am, FBSD1 wrote:
It's my understanding that a port maintainer has to install the port for
real any time a change is made to the port make files or a update to the
source of the software to test and verify the changes work as wanted.
Creating the package after this
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Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:47 PM
To: FBSD1
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Subject: Re: ports missing their packages.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:09:23PM +0800, FBSD1 wrote:
It's my understanding that
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FBSD1 wrote:
What port names need to be installed to create a XFCE4 desktop
environment?
I was looking for a mega port like kde3 has but could not identify one.
Thanks in advance.
I'm going to rake a random guess: x11-wm/xfce4 ?
When I am in xorg/xfce and do Ctrl+Alt+Fx it does in fact open the
selected
virtual console.
But I can not find any way to return to the xorg/xfce desktop running in the
virtual console I left from.
Alt+Fx does take me to the virtual console where x11/xfce is suppose to be,
but puts me
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Subject: Re: virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:45:12AM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote:
joeb wrote:
When I am in xorg/xfce and do Ctrl+Alt+Fx it does in fact open the
selected
virtual console.
But I can not find any way
Right click on the pgm launcher does not open the drop down menu. Reading
the xfce4 user guide says alternate way to open the pgm launcher drop down
menu is to use Ctrl + left mouse click. This works. I have a two button
mouse.
Is this a Bug?
By the way, once the pgm launcher drop down menu opens
On Thursday 06 November 2008, FBSD1 wrote:
I looked at OpenOffice but there is no package of it since freebsd
release 6 stable.
It takes a very very long time to compile this port.
Take a look at abiword.
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On 6.2 release of FBSD trying to mount a usb flash memory stick. The stick
has a msdos file system on it and has been loaded with files using windows
xp. When I plug the stick into my FBSD box I get console msg about da0
device as usb flash memory stick. All looks good at this point. When is
issue
On 6.2 release of FBSD trying to mount a usb flash memory stick. The stick
has a msdos file system on it and has been loaded with files using windows
xp. When I plug the stick into my FBSD box I get console msg about da0
device as usb flash memory stick. All looks good at this point. When is
issue
On 7.0 release of FBSD trying to mount a usb flash memory stick. The stick
has a msdos file system on it and has been loaded with files using windows
xp. When I plug the stick into my FBSD 7.0 box I get Geom console msg
'GEOM_LABEL:Label for provider Da0s1 is msdosfs_flashdrive'.
Does this mean
Why does the AUTOCONFxxx change the suffix between Freebsd releases?
In 6.2 it was called AUTOCONF259 in 7.0 its called AUTOCONF261.
Is this not a violation of the naming convention?
The ports names are not suppose to carry the version number as part of its
name.
To autostart mysql at boot add this to /etc/rc.conf
mysql_enable=YES
Add this to /etc/rc.conf to direct to use this location where there is disk
space
to hold your databases
mysql_dbdir=/usr/local/mysql
To start or stop mysql server do this
/usr/local/share/mysql/mysql.server start
In FreeBSD 6.2 and older the port SSH listened on was controlled by
/etc/services. Now in 7.0 SSH no longer looks at /etc/services to find out
what port to listen on. Is this by design or error in the move to a newer
release of SSH?
When it comes to security through obscurity don't be so fast to
pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf # loads the pf.conf file
pfctl -Nf /etc/pf.conf # Load only the NAT rules from the file
pfctl -Rf /etc/pf.conf # Load only the filter rules from the file
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I believe kde3 is obsolete. I Just did kde4 and it worked.
pkg_add -r kde4
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Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:24 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: kde3 build problems
Freebsd 7.0 xorg/kde. Changes made in kde stay in effect only for the
session. Logoff and log back in with startx command line command and
previous config settings are gone. How do I save config setting between
login sessions?
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Yea I would say your burn of the .iso file to your cd did not work. Mount
the cd and see if it contains a directory tree of Freebsd install files or
mp3 files.
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What is your xorg.new.conf file? It's in the root directory.
Here is my screen resolution from the above file
Section Screen
Identifier Screen0
Device Card0
MonitorMonitor0
SubSection Display
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
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