Re: PXE boot images: 6.1 i386/amd64

Am 25. Mai 2006 um 14:59:50 +0100 schrieb Paul Civati: > For those of you wishing to PXE boot 6.1 RELEASE I have made some boot > images that work easily with pxelinux (syslinux) PXE set-up. Thank you very much! First time since several years I'm able again to install a FreeBSD at my site. My P

Re: serial terminal direct connection to remote host at login

Am 09. September 2005 um 16:56:19 +0200 schrieb Karl M. Joch: > is there any way to hardwire the terminal to a remote host? i already > searched all of the ttys aso man pages, but had no luck findig a > solution. Telnet is crap anyway. Use 'ssh' instead. If you provide ssh keys, you can login w/o

Re: Creating a mini install disk, for particular needs

Am 11. Mai 2005 um 00:56:07 +0100 schrieb Chris Phillips: > We need a fairly painless way, to roll out a fresh install onto some > random i386 hardware we have lying around (there's a plentiful supply), > for any new users, who require a basic functioning GUI, with access to > graphical email c

Re: ftp_proxy and http_proxy don't work

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:44:28PM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote: > My network is behind an http/ftp proxy server, that's why i set these 2 > options in /etc/make.conf but it seems that the fetch program refuse > to use it, any idea? Did you try with 'http_proxy' setting only? I've a Squid-Proxy he

Re: crypt() default behavior

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:46:43AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > You don't need to do this anymore at all. I thought this and did it comment out in my postinstall script before I run it first on 4.2-STABLE. But surprisingly a 'passwd somone' resulted in creating a DES password key! Therefore,

RELEASE vs. Snapshot (BETA) question

Hello. What is ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.2-20001121-BETA (from Nov 21 13:49 GMT) related to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE (from Nov 20 17:49 GMT) The RELEASE seems older than the BETA. Liebe Grüße, Nora. -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: crontab -e

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 02:01:35PM +, David Malone wrote: > xemacs, nvi, pico and joe). Do you have any unusual hooks or options > set? No, just a 'make install' from the current 'ports/editors/vim6'. > (I'm presuming that it is failing with the error that the file must be > edited in palce

crontab -e

Moin. I've changed one of my machines from 4.1-20001022-STABLE to 4.2-2000-BETA Now 'crontab -e' doesn't work anymore since my system editor is 'vim-6.0k'. Liebe Grüße, Nora. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.sappho-net.de/ Lesbian Computer Network

Re: Why cu i suid && sgid

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:28:29PM +0200, Tomasz Paszkowski wrote: > But think about the situation when you have cisco console connected > to the serial port. Everyone can operate on it. Well, the 'cu' command is like many others in your unix -- if not to say most others -- a program of genera

Re: Why cu i suid && sgid

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:44:28PM +0200, Tomasz Paszkowski wrote: > $ ls -l /dev/cuaa0 > crw-rw 1 uucp dialer 28, 128 14 Paz 01:09 /dev/cuaa0 > $ ls -l /usr/bin/cu > -r-sr-sr-x 1 uucp dialer 123456 7 Paz 19:45 /usr/bin/cu > > So when I plug in to machine cisco console, everyone can

Re: making a RELEASE

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:21:24PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > have MY snapshot on a bootable CD, just in case. The price is > > reasonable - a night of my life :-) > > And what is the advantage over simply making a backup > of your disk? If I have such a CD, I can it auto install on seve