Re: Can't Mount Optical Drive

ster. Or, it might mean that you are about to be very grateful for your carefully-followed backup plan. :-) -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: Person new to FreeBSD needs help...

el.old. What am I doing wrong? Very strange -- those files should've been copied over as part of the installation. Are you able to post the exact message you get? Does your installation span more than one disk? Is this a dual-boot machine? Is there anything at all unusual about your setup?

Re: Information

y) may have security or bug fixes. The best way to upgrade is to use the portupgrade tool, which can be found in /usr/ports/sysutils. A good introduction to portupgrade can be found at: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html HTH. -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted

Re: Rebuilding wtmp

/log/wtmp" to fix things -- at least on Solaris. I am now blessing your keyboard... -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Installation and Hard Drive space

more than 620megs > in /usr??? Any reply would be appreciated. A minimal installation usually takes about 120MB. Are you adding X, or any additional packages? -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. _

Re: Gnome screensavers

h?). You can set preferences (like using a blank screen...some of the patterns use *insane* amounts of CPU) or just browse the selection by running "xscreensaver-demo". The home page can be found at: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ HTH, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EM

Re: BTX HALTED!!! I can't get this rocket in the air

ied between boxes, but look for anything that mentions DMA (UltraDMA, DMA Mode, whatever) or PIO, and start methodically tweaking them one at a time. HTH, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. __

Re: unable to ping my ISP's Servers.

d see if the result is any different. I am now blessing your keyboard... -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: more IPFW help please

vert rules, but tcpdump on (say) your client, or the machine running natd, would show a lot more. HTH, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd

ypset(8) attempts to bind to Weird IP (and possible solution)

s this a real bug, or have I misunderstood something? Please let me know if I've left anything out, or if there's a better place to ask this question. Thanks for your time, everyone! -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.

Re: ypset(8) attempts to bind to Weird IP (and possible solution)

I'm not completely wrong about this. I'll be submitting a PR later this week. I am now blessing your keyboard... -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list htt

Re: Active System Attack Alerts

fix in Sendmail 8.12.9. HTH, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Active System Attack Alerts

Geir Svalland disturbed my sleep to write: > Shouldn't this been taken care of when I'm running Sendmail 8.12.10 ? Well, I would expect the fix to be still in .10, and for the message to be logged. Or am I missing something? Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: can't assign requested address nn7j

e you trying to SSH from? If you're able to SSH from *another* box, that's a good sign. And as for pinging, where are you trying to ping from -- the box with de2, or another box entirely? Also, can you show the output of "ifconfig de2"? Thanks, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the

Re: BIND

tell what webserver you're running, or get a friend to portscan you. HTH, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: kernel probe of NICs

fconfig -a" to see what shows up. This will show you a lot of interfaces like "lo0" or "xl1"; if you chop off the number and look at the man pages (ie, "man xl"), you'll see what the device is. With luck, one of them will be your PCI card. Let me know what

Re: MySQL 4.x questions...

for your programs and MySQL. Is phpBB trying to connect via TCP/IP? If so, is MySQL set up to listen via TCP/IP, or is it only on a file socket? What about basics like the user name and password? Hope that helps...let me know how it turns out. Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted

Re: kernel probe of NICs

that instead -- there's no doubt it'd be a great deal easier. Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: kernel probe of NICs

Or, if you've got a working ethernet card, you may just want to use that instead -- there's no doubt it'd be a great deal easier. Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: usb umass flash drive mount/umount questions

dumb question, but wouldn't "-o sync" do this? -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: Modem help

what I can tell, there isn't support for it yet. If you're good at programming, you may be able to help write a driver. Hope that helps, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EM

Re: [Fwd: Re: kernel probe of NICs]

; freebsd's newbie thing says 4.8 no later. 5.2 is still bleeding-edge, so I'm a bit surprised that you've leaped into it for your first time. If you're happy with it, great, but keep in mind that it's still being worked on pretty seriously. 4.9 is definitely the safe-

Re: ipfw rules help.

excellent idea, and a lot of help to security people. I use ipfw2dshield to parse and mail my logs, and as a bonus I get a copy of the email myself to see if there's anything interesting. Hope that helps! Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote

Re: Resizing FFS

rtunately, I haven't been able to find any other reference to it. Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: dig/named - res_nsend: Protocol not supported

"grep localhost /etc/hosts" and see if you've got entries for both. Are you running the default version of BIND, or a version from ports? Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___

Re: snmpd Error opening specified endpoint

blems with the very latest version of net-snmpd. By any chance, are you compiling a very recent version? Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: net-snmp kvm_read: Bad address

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#NLIST-FAILED Since you rebuilt world+kernel, is there any chance the second part (which boot loader is being used) is relevant? Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdot

Re: IPFW rules

ny direction (from or to your machine), no matter what the interface. The address specified is different from the first -- it's 255.255.255.255, and the whole address needs to match. Usually you'd see this address when the host is trying to figure out its IP address -- during DHCP requests, say.

Re: Apache ssl certificates?

t me a couple times... Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: your mail

lps, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Using SED in a script

Elder Gods. (Yeah, I'm a fan. :-). The last line could be replaced by: perl -i.bak -new="$new" -old="$old" -e's/$old/$new/' \ /file/to/edit ...which would be a way of getting difficult values of new and old into single q

Re: linux binary equivalent to ldd?

ot-time by the /etc/rc script -- have you got the right option set in /etc/rc.conf? (linux_enable="YES") Hope that helps, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scanning Utility

ng. Hope that helps, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

SA-04:10 problem -- GPG error: "not a detached signature"

blessing your GPG key ring... -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: SA-04:10 problem -- GPG error: "not a detached signature"

Just a followup to let folks know that the GPG signature is working now -- looks like the patch/signature files have been updated, and the signature checks out. -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth

Re: ipfw, 2 scripts

what interfaces you have, their IP addresses, and what exactly is failing. -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: Jumpstart Guide / PXE network installation

e got this far, you're doing great. If you've not checked out this link, it's well worth a look: http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml Hope that helps! -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. _

Re: Perl metacharacters

you'd be better off emailing Perl questions to a Perl-related mailing list or newsgroup, or posting them to Perlmonks.org. -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list h

Re: NIS - FreeBSD server and Linux clients

larly), and that the NIS domain has been set. Hope that helps! -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: freebsd as platform for video security?

can help me out. Hope this helps, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: IMAP

a banner back like "+OK pop3d at starting", then you're good. Hope this helps, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: help needed!

r like Apache, and an SNMP daemon like Net-SNMP or UCD-SNMP. You can find more info on MRTG and some examples of how to use it at the website: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/ Hope this helps! Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecd

Re: Fetchmail slow? (was Re: Can't install fetchmail - HELP!)

set packets back, rather than silently drop them; the identd daemon gives up right away (or nearly so). Try using ipfw like so: reset tcp from any 113 to any in recv where is set to whatever your external interface, and see if that makes a difference. Hope this helps, Hugh -- Sa

Re: Customizing /etc/motd

o print the message you like, but an easier way would be to append something to /etc/profile: echo 'Welcome to FreeBSD, $USER!' $USER is the user's account name. And it looks like you need the single quotes there to get the exclamation point to work. Hope this helps, Hugh -- S

Re: new bie (tar command)

the tarball). The tar command won't let you do both. Hope this helps, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: DHCP access

on that it would work better if you ran on the DHCP server itself, but it might work in your situation as well. HTH, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lis

Re: 4.9 stable release installation probs on x86

m back into the BIOS, over, and over, and > over again. I had a problem like this a while back with a particular machine; eventually I tried turning off various settings in BIOS with the disk (DMA, PIO, etc) and it worked. HTH, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bec

Re: file selector and shell scripts

ove all your .so files. :-) Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 4.9 stable release installation probs on x86

n the list can see what's going on (and possibly correct my mistakes :-). Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Installing OpenOffice 1.1 question

Stephen Liu disturbed my sleep to write: > Now I have OOo1.1 downloaded but could not discover 'md5sum' Plain ol' md5 is probably what you're looking for. That bit me the first time I tried it in FreeBSD -- I was used to it being called md5sum in Linux. HTH, Hugh -- Sain

Re: Jails and SSL..

r natd or ipfw to forward different ports to the appropriate jail. HTH, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: remote restart of natd

give you a backup plan. HTH, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"