Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is it that makes people rave about the longest uptime? To me, this is > just a list of sites whose admins have neglected to perform the necessary > upgrade-maintenances, seemingly for almost three years even. To me, this is > just a list of potentially vulne

Re: UPS Hardware / Software

2003-01-03 Thread nate
kouryuu said: > I'm considering a UPS for my home system, and was wondering if > anyone has any hardware/software recommendations. I've looked around a few > places., but when I ask about the software, they ask me > what OS I'm running. Then of course when I tell them FreeBSD, I get that > blank lo

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread J. Scott Edwards
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Dimitry Andric wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2003-01-03 at 02:29:49 Chris Doherty wrote: > > >> Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle > >> back to zero after 497 days > > > wacky. how/why is this the case? > >

UPS Hardware / Software

2003-01-03 Thread kouryuu
I'm considering a UPS for my home system, and was wondering if (Banyone has any hardware/software recommendations. I've looked around a few (Bplaces., but when I ask about the software, they ask me (Bwhat OS I'm running. Then of course when I tell them FreeBSD, I get that (Bblank look that we'v

sshd and reverse lookups

2003-01-03 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
Hi, (while I play around with dummynet, I have yet another q :) I can't seem to avoid the initial login delay for sshd. I have turned off reverse lookup - "VerifyReverseMapping no". I don't use inetd - even then, hosts.allow has only one - "ALL : ALL : allow". I have an ipfilter firewall which le

Re: Updating Pico & Pine

2003-01-03 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > #alias pico nano alias pico nano -Rimpwz for the full effect. If it'd scroll the whole screen for long lines, it'd be a nearly perfect simple editor. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: Mysterious problem with ldconfig and ld

2003-01-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 03), Justin Hopper said: > Hmmm, I guess I just assumed that since ldconfig had cached the > absolute path to the library, ld would not need to know the library > path as well, but for some reason it did. > > What ultimately fixed the problem was hardcoding the -L > /usr/l

Re: Mysterious problem with ldconfig and ld

2003-01-03 Thread Justin Hopper
Hmmm, I guess I just assumed that since ldconfig had cached the absolute path to the library, ld would not need to know the library path as well, but for some reason it did. What ultimately fixed the problem was hardcoding the -L /usr/local/lib in the configure script, since it refused to pick up

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Mike Hogsett
> I haven't seen FBSD 4.7 system with uptime > 1000 days, for quite > obvious reasons.. Should I recommend everyone to install FBSD 2.2.8 > since it has good uptime records? :) Sorry to step into the middle of a thread here, but to me it says that FreeBSD has had, and likely continues to have, a

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Jukka Simila
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 02:17, Mark wrote: > > What is it that makes people rave about the longest uptime? To me, this is > just a list of sites whose admins have neglected to perform the necessary > upgrade-maintenances, seemingly for almost three years even. To me, this is > just a list of potenti

Re: Mysterious problem with ldconfig and ld

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> This may be a very simple fix, but so far I've found no solution. Just > installed expat-1.95.5 in a FreeBSD 4.4 machine. The install went fine, > and I verified that ldconfig had picked up the library: > > host# ldconfig -r | grep expat > 73:-lexpat.4 => /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.4 > > Howeve

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 17:17 US/Pacific, Mark wrote: What is it that makes people rave about the longest uptime? To me, this is just a list of sites whose admins have neglected to perform the necessary upgrade-maintenances, seemingly for almost three years even. To me, this is just a li

Mysterious problem with ldconfig and ld

2003-01-03 Thread Justin Hopper
This may be a very simple fix, but so far I've found no solution. Just installed expat-1.95.5 in a FreeBSD 4.4 machine. The install went fine, and I verified that ldconfig had picked up the library: host# ldconfig -r | grep expat 73:-lexpat.4 => /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.4 However, I need to i

Re: Softer crash a show-interrupter only (please CC me in reply)

2003-01-03 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 06:42:42PM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: > [Please CC me in your reply] > > Can anything be gathered from the attached sysconsole messages? Oh, also, > is there a tcsh command line I can run that will "tee" messages both to the > console and to a file, such as `startx &2> s

Re: how can I filter on subject with sendmail 8.12.6?

2003-01-03 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Fuzzy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 2:48 AM Subject: how can I filter on subject with sendmail 8.12.6? > we're having a problem with some cracker using addresses > harvested from whois and the "abuse/www/webmaster"

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Marcus Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mike Hogsett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 1:02 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability > I like to point people in the direction of: > > http://uptime.netcraft.c

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2003-01-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 2 January 2003 at 16:53:05 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-02 16:40:45 +0100: >> # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-30 11:26:22 +1030: >>> On Sunday, 29 December 2002 at 18:46:12 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-29 10:55:11 +103

Re: how can I filter on subject with sendmail 8.12.6?

2003-01-03 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Jan 3 Fuzzy wrote: > > we're having a problem with some cracker using addresses > harvested from whois and the "abuse/www/webmaster" with > domains they get from the database. The mail appears to > come from us but it cannot as the addresses are oneway incoming > only. > > the subject is always

Re: Here are the logs...Re: qmail toaster wont deliver to v mailboxes

2003-01-03 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 09:52 PM, Keith Spencer wrote: Typical whinges to log when trying to deliver to a shell account user...At least it thinks the account exists! Dec 31 00:00:00 smmcroute newsyslog[34616]: logfile turned over Dec 31 00:00:03 smmcroute mail: 1041256803.908619 star

Softer crash a show-interrupter only (please CC me in reply)

2003-01-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
[Please CC me in your reply] Well, Gnome/Galeon/GAIM/xterm crashed again; the windows all lost their borders and this time thankfully all I could do was Ctrl-Alt-F1 to the console again and Ctrl-Z to the "startx" process running. I then hit ScrollLock a number of times and copied and pasted the h

Re: Disable Mozilla profile

2003-01-03 Thread Lee Harr
Thanks for the reply, I am seeing the profile manager when I try to open a second instance of Mozilla. I cant open another instance until I create another profile. I understand that these profiles can be useful, but they can also be a sole reason not to use Mozilla. If it is just you, maybe wha

RE: Majordomo results

2003-01-03 Thread Ullrich 'Jason' Haag
Sorry guys. Not just once but twice I am publicly screaming "I am stupid"... Please disregard my (hopefully temporary) stupidity... -Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: ppp on freebsd 4.7 - disable ccp?

2003-01-03 Thread Lauri Ahonen
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lauri Ahonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 4:13 AM Subject: Re: ppp on freebsd 4.7 - disable ccp? > - Original Message - > From: "Lauri Ahonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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2003-01-03 Thread freebsd-questions
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Majordomo results

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Re: ppp on freebsd 4.7 - disable ccp?

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew Emmerton
- Original Message - From: "Lauri Ahonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:06 PM Subject: ppp on freebsd 4.7 - disable ccp? > If I'm reading this logfile right trying to negotiate compression levels > kills my connection. > I got the connection

iomega usb zip 100

2003-01-03 Thread Ted
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 mount a USB Iomega Zip 100 drive under

ppp on freebsd 4.7 - disable ccp?

2003-01-03 Thread Lauri Ahonen
If I'm reading this logfile right trying to negotiate compression levels kills my connection. I got the connection working on windows by disabling software compression. Dns is static, so it's defined in resolv.conf. No ipv6 thank you (This is a GPRS connection, that's why the odd dial-in number an

Re: [resolution] Re: sendmail (Re: 5.0-RC2 informal PR: 90 sec sendmail delay)

2003-01-03 Thread Terry Lambert
"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > Thanks. I tried that and some other things (eg service.switch). Even > read the book and help files some more. Terry's suggestion regarding > "expensive" seemed like the opposite of what I needed (I was trying to > keep the msg out of the queues) and I had no luck t

Re: FreeBSD Handbook NIS/YP Instructions

2003-01-03 Thread Mike Hogsett
portmap is also required for NIS. - Mike > >From: Adam Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Since NIS uses RPC, > >do I need to configure inetd.conf to allow RPC on the NIS server and > >clients? > >The handbook does not make any mention of editing the inetd.conf file. > > inetd doesn't handle RP

Redirecting root's email

2003-01-03 Thread Adam Lofstedt
I am having trouble redirecting root's email to an external email account. This is a 4.7-Release box with not very modifications done to the standard installation. I have tried creating a .forward file and placing it in /root with my external email address in the file. No luck. I tried editing

Re: Redirecting root's email

2003-01-03 Thread Konstantin Borovik
> MDeferred: Operation timed out with localhost.visimation.com. For some reason sendmail tries to contact localhost.visimation.com What is the result of command host visimation.com on your box? Can you check /var/log/maillog file for error messages? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

realplayer8

2003-01-03 Thread T. Green
help ! i am trying to install realplayer 8 no freebsd ver 4.7 using netscape 7.01. i need to know what file go's where. thank you To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD Handbook NIS/YP Instructions

2003-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
From: Adam Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Since NIS uses RPC, do I need to configure inetd.conf to allow RPC on the NIS server and clients? The handbook does not make any mention of editing the inetd.conf file. inetd doesn't handle RPC. Use the rc.conf settings suggested in the tutorial and the nec

"The Complete FreeBSD", third edition: errata and addenda

2003-01-03 Thread Greg Lehey
Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, third edition Last revision: 2 August 1999 The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge com

"The Complete FreeBSD", second edition: errata and addenda

2003-01-03 Thread Greg Lehey
Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, second edition Last revision: 21 June 1999 The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge co

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2003-01-03 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update 3 September 1999 This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one o

FreeBSD Handbook NIS/YP Instructions

2003-01-03 Thread Adam Stroud
I am tryin to setup a NIS/YP domain. I just get done reading that chapter in the FreeBSD handbook and I just have a quick question. Since NIS uses RPC, do I need to configure inetd.conf to allow RPC on the NIS server and clients? The handbook does not make any mention of editing the inetd.con

Re: Adaptec 1200A Driver?

2003-01-03 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
> Hi > > I know this card is not supported - is anyone planning on writing a driver > or is the card fundamentally not compatible with FreeBSD? The 1200A is an Adaptec branded HighPoint controller. As such, I believe that Soren's HighPoint driver should drive it. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: sen

Re: Driver for DVD-RAM

2003-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings fellow BSD enthusiast. Can you let me know how to persue the following question, in the event that it has already been posted and answered. I am interested in attaching a DVD-RAM drive to an Intel computer with FreeBSD operating system. The computer has a S.C.

Re: Updating Pico & Pine

2003-01-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
> From: "Danny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:59 AM > Subject: Updating Pico & Pine > > Danny wrote: > > On a FreeBSD 4.3R major production system. Recommended steps to > upgrade *without* 'portupgrade' and do you see any implications? >E.g.

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Avleen Vig
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, randall ehren wrote: > not to stray too far, but if IPFW is set to allow all incoming packets and is > only used for shaping, and you have ipfilter handling nat, then it seems it > would just be: > network card --> IPFW (traffic shape) --> IPF (filter+nat) --> userland > i gu

Re: Updating Pico & Pine

2003-01-03 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Danny wrote: > On a FreeBSD 4.3R major production system. Recommended steps to > upgrade *without* 'portupgrade' and do you see any implications? E.g. > address books, config settings, etc. > > Current version is 4.21. I just upgraded to 4.51. My dependencies were all messed

4.7 release with shuttle s40g xpc

2003-01-03 Thread jay
hello, does anyone have freebsd working with a shuttle s40g xpc? at random times, under heavy disk access, i will get either a bus error or kernel panic and the machine will restart itself. errors i've seen are things like: panicstr: softdep_lock: locking against myself vm_page_unwire: invalid wi

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Konstantin Borovik
May be /usr/ports/sysutils/ipa is the answer to your problem. Quote from port description: ipa(8) allows to make IP accounting (network accounting) based on FreeBSD IPv4/v6 Firewall (including IPFW2), OpenBSD Packet Filter and IP Filter accounting rules on FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. It support

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread randall ehren
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=ipfilter+ipfw+together > > --> http://false.net/ipfilter/2000_02/0407.html > > This is what we settled with eventually, but the processing order for > packets when you're using both IPF and IPFW plus ipnat is seriously > f*rked. not to stray too far, but if IPFW

Re: questions-digest V5 #1820

2003-01-03 Thread J. Seth Henry
I have a command line utility that handles the lights for now, but I'm still working on shoehorning the business end into the blanksaver. I didn't have a development system over the holidays, but I plan to make another go of it this weekend. I can email you the C source for the current program, tho

RE: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Daniel Goepp
The question is, are they charging you for total bandwidth used, or some real time rate limit? When you use bandwidth shaping, you can reduce your rate, but that will just spread things out. So if they are charging you for total bytes moved, then you would have to do some math to figure out what

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Avleen Vig
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, randall ehren wrote: > > Darren could you answer this question please? > > Maybe we could get Phil to add the answer to the FAQ. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=ipfilter+ipfw+together > --> http://false.net/ipfilter/2000_02/0407.html This is what we settled with eventually

Re: Disable Mozilla profile

2003-01-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 03), Adam Stroud said: > Thanks for the reply, I am seeing the profile manager when I try to > open a second instance of Mozilla. I cant open another instance > until I create another profile. I understand that these profiles can > be useful, but they can also be a sole r

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
> Hari: > > I think you are going to find that rate-limiting at the box won't > provide any fiscal relief. The packets have already traversed your > ISP's interface where the accounting is taking place. > > Mike That's bad. But if the machine doesn't accept more than N packets/sec, why would the

Re: Procmail and Exim - Freebsd

2003-01-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 3 January 2003 at 10:10:56 +, Ian Watkinson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 23:39, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 2 January 2003 at 15:39:07 +, Ian Watkinson wrote: >>> Trying to get Fetmail - Procmail - Exim working. >> >> Please don't reply to a thread with a compl

Re: SOLVED: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 3 January 2003 at 11:11:13 +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: >> I'm afraid I don't know enough about Microsoft to give you any further >> information, but since you say that it happened after the DHCP lease >> expires, you should check your configuration files on the Microsoft >> machi

Re: Disable Mozilla profile

2003-01-03 Thread Adam Stroud
Thanks for the reply, I am seeing the profile manager when I try to open a second instance of Mozilla. I cant open another instance until I create another profile. I understand that these profiles can be useful, but they can also be a sole reason not to use Mozilla. To Unsubscribe: send mail

RE: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Daniel Goepp
Here is another article that summarizes what you need to do, it's pretty straight forward really. I just did this recently on my server, and it appears to work like a charm so far. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/07/26/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Peace. -Daniel -Original Message- From

[resolution] Re: sendmail (Re: 5.0-RC2 informal PR: 90 sec sendmail delay)

2003-01-03 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
(cc'd to -questions, where I first post my problem, with no luck) Valentin Nechayev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I fix it with: > define(`confDIRECT_SUBMISSION_MODIFIERS',`CC u')dnl > For now I has no such problem at my home machine. > Yes, this solution isn't intuitive. Thanks. I tried that a

Re: archos and freebsd

2003-01-03 Thread Matt Gostick
Okay - I added a couple more things to my kernel config file - but for all I know they have nothing to do with getting what I want. From what I've read, this is just supposed to work. I feel like I'm taking shots in the dark trying different kernel configs, etc. I did read the firewire/00README

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread randall ehren
> > Is there anything that limits us from using ipfilter on top of this ipfw > > b/w control? > > Darren Reed, the owner of IPF is probably in the best position to answer > that question. I posed it a week ot two ago on the ipf mailing list.. I'm > waiting for a reply, not sure if it was seen among

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew Whelan
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:05:05 -0800 (PST) Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 26 www.cravath.com 102 ok892 939 940 Solaris 8 > Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3 > > That's certainly more than 492 days... so even if they do reboot, > netcraft is ignoring it or accomodating it s

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread randall ehren
> Does anyone know any hardware (of the size of a regular home > DSL router) that can give me a simple limit of X bps for two > IP addresses. I am running out of time and removing ipfilter > (which I use now) and adding ipfw, learning dummynet and then > figuring out will take time (at least 5 days

Re: Disable Mozilla profile

2003-01-03 Thread Lee Harr
I once suggested on bugzilla that there ought to be a -never-ever-show-the-profile-manager option when starting mozilla, but I don't think it went over very well. Here is the (fairly active) bug, relating to mozilla opening a new window when it is already running and its icon is clicked again: http

Re: YP/NIS timeout.

2003-01-03 Thread lewiz
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 08:29:58PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 01), lewiz said: > > At the login: prompt I enter my username (lewiz), hit return and get > > nothing for a while until: > > > > yp_order: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out > Hit ^T during the pause and find out what pr

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:39:52PM -0800, randall ehren wrote: > > you'll want to lookup information on dummynet: > http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ Does anyone know any hardware (of the size of a regular home DSL router) that can give me a simple limit of X bps for two IP addresses.

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Avleen Vig
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Murat Bicer wrote: > Is there anything that limits us from using ipfilter on top of this ipfw > b/w control? Darren Reed, the owner of IPF is probably in the best position to answer that question. I posed it a week ot two ago on the ipf mailing list.. I'm waiting for a reply,

Re: Spontaneous 4.7-S reboots when using a Serial over USB adapter

2003-01-03 Thread William E Reid
I have noticed that if I disconnect the serial port from my usb to serial adapter and leave the dongle in(Aten International Serial adapter, SiS 5571 usb controller), my machine will reset as soon as I [Attempt to] send data from the usb side. So maybe you are losing carrier signal sometime d

Driver for DVD-RAM

2003-01-03 Thread Lee_Shackelford
Greetings fellow BSD enthusiast. Can you let me know how to persue the following question, in the event that it has already been posted and answered. I am interested in attaching a DVD-RAM drive to an Intel computer with FreeBSD operating system. The computer has a S.C.S.I. board, and Panasonic

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread randall ehren
> Is there anything that limits us from using ipfilter on top of this ipfw > b/w control? doesn't appear so... from http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymzh666/ipf/IPFfreebsd.html#12: IPF and IPFW both have features I want to use, must I choose between them? No. You can run them both on a single machi

Installing FreeBSD 4.7

2003-01-03 Thread Ying Shi
Dear Sir, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.7 onto a device. It's a PIII-1.2GHz with 1024 megs of memory, two-drive RAID supported by Promise FastTrak100. I can boot the Kernel floppy and MFS root floppy with no problem. After all the conflicts had been resolved, /stand/sysinstall Main Menu was

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Murat Bicer
Is there anything that limits us from using ipfilter on top of this ipfw b/w control? > Is there a way to limit incoming traffic (bandwidth) using > ipfilter/ipfw or any such software tool?. you'll want to lookup information on dummynet: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ you can use

RE: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread charles pelletier
ipfilter won't allow you to limit bandwidth, ipfw will. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hari Bhaskaran Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter Hi, Is there a way

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread randall ehren
> Is there a way to limit incoming traffic (bandwidth) using > ipfilter/ipfw or any such software tool?. I am running a mail > server and I pay per GB transfered. If I have my ISP do the > limiting, they charge extra $$ for it. I know I can limit > incoming mail size via the mail server. But still

incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
Hi, Is there a way to limit incoming traffic (bandwidth) using ipfilter/ipfw or any such software tool?. I am running a mail server and I pay per GB transfered. If I have my ISP do the limiting, they charge extra $$ for it. I know I can limit incoming mail size via the mail server. But still doesn

Disable Mozilla profile

2003-01-03 Thread Adam Stroud
Does anyone know how to disable the profile in Mozilla? I have tried re-building the port with the "--disable-profile" option, but profiles are still active. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

drive errors?

2003-01-03 Thread Bryce Newall
Hi all, Just looking for a second opinion... does this look like my hard drive is on its way to a slow (and possibly painful) death? Thanks! Jan 3 10:52:39 cosmos /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #da/0x20001, blkno: 648, size: 4096 Jan 3 10:53:21 cosmos /kernel: swap_pager

Re: archos and freebsd

2003-01-03 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Matt Gostick writes: > Hello, > > I got an Archos Jukebox Studio 20 for Christmas, and want to hook it > up to my FreeBSD box. It's uses a usb cable for data transfer, and I've > never had to use usb on FreeBSD before. I've done some research and the > best page I could find with instructions

Re: Shell guru needed.(xargs question)

2003-01-03 Thread David S. Jackson
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:55:09AM -0500 Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you please give another realworld example of using xargs and > your definition of it. I had a glance through man xargs, but I enjoy input > from humans that use it as well. :) Xargs is pretty neat. You have to remem

Re: maxsize of a file

2003-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Jan Blomqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how big can a file be in freebsd 4.1, cause i have problem with a database > file wich is very large 1,5-2Gb, now you can,t list the file or move or > copy, but it exist on disc cause the database can read data from it.Any idea > ??? Multi-terabyte fi

Re: Bug, show-stopper or hardware?! (please CC me in reply)

2003-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could this be a Gnome issue (my lib-bonobo-activation-server or something > is busted so I run Gnome and Sawfish without a panel at the bottom, middle > clicking to open apps and creating new launchers when I need to run an > "application &" :) Or does

ipfw dummynet port & ip priority

2003-01-03 Thread Kevin S. Brackett
I've looked around the achieves but I couldn't find anything that really explained how this was done: anyone have any examples for: 1, priority to port 22? 2, priority to ip 192.168.0.3? thanks, - kevin PS: please CC: me :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freeb

Re: archos and freebsd

2003-01-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> On his page it says to compile firewire, sbp, scbus, da and umass. > I'm cvsup'ed to 4.7 stable from release and did what he said. When I > try and 'mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /archos' I get 'Device not > configured'. I take it you've seen /sys/dev/firewire/00README ? Perhaps you want to do a

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:09:11PM -0600, Dave Uhring said: > > You do realize, I hope, that Linux and Solaris roll over their uptimes > > at something like 492 days. > > from http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#whichos > -- > Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of Free

Re: 5.0RC2 on an iPaq IA1

2003-01-03 Thread Joshua Coombs
Mine's a white unit, no onboard ethernet. The only bus powered device I'm running right now is the aue ethernet, which I can easily dump for testing. The HD is self powered. I'd love a microdrive, but figured I had this 60GB IDE drive floating loose, and the enclosure/adapter was only $35... migh

Re: audacity is creating (??) unwritable-by-cdrecord wave files

2003-01-03 Thread paul beard
joe wrote: As the subject says I am creating and manipulating wav files of audio tap recordings. The extent of manipulation is to join sides A & B into one file and do some noise reduction cleanup, and write the file in wav format. then attempting to write the file to cd with cdrecord cdrecor

audacity is creating (??) unwritable-by-cdrecord wave files

2003-01-03 Thread joe
As the subject says I am creating and manipulating wav files of audio tap recordings. The extent of manipulation is to join sides A & B into one file and do some noise reduction cleanup, and write the file in wav format. then attempting to write the file to cd with cdrecord cdrecord -v -eject

Re: Testing serial ports

2003-01-03 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:36:06AM -0500, Dragoncrest wrote: > I've got a slight problem where I think that I've got a serial port > that has failed on one of my machines. So I'm looking for the simplest way > to test a serial port to see if it is in fact working. Thanks for the inf

difs between 4.6.2 and 4.7

2003-01-03 Thread David Bear
I'm installing freebsd on a dell laptop (latituted). It only has a 6 gig drive. I guess my concern is to keep the install small both required memory and disk space. Yet, i would like to use the 'newest' version in hopes that it will have the latest kde and xfree stuff. This may be a mistake t

Re: JDK13

2003-01-03 Thread Joseph Olatt
I believe that you need to get the source for JDK from the sun site (after agreeing to their license agreement) and then compile it using the patches provided at the following site: http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html See above site for more info. On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:14:

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-02 17:41, "J. Scott Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is impressive. I'm curious if they stayed at a particular version or > if they update as new versions are available? I thought I read somewhere > that FreeBSD could load a new kernel without rebooting? Nope. To Unsubscri

Re: Updating Pico & Pine

2003-01-03 Thread doug
man pkg_version man pkg_info man pkg_delete "pkg_version -c > file" will produce a file containing a script with the necessary instructions. You must edit this script and then run as root. "pkg_info -rR -x pine" will tell you what packages require and are required by pine. Use pkg_delete and re-i

Adaptec 1200A Driver?

2003-01-03 Thread G D McKee
Hi I know this card is not supported - is anyone planning on writing a driver or is the card fundamentally not compatible with FreeBSD? Many thanks Gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

archos and freebsd

2003-01-03 Thread Matt Gostick
Hello, I got an Archos Jukebox Studio 20 for Christmas, and want to hook it up to my FreeBSD box. It's uses a usb cable for data transfer, and I've never had to use usb on FreeBSD before. I've done some research and the best page I could find with instructions was http://www.stalker.org/~sean/

Re: Shell guru needed.

2003-01-03 Thread David Bear
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:03:37PM -0500, mike wrote: > Hey guys. heres the skinny. I have a huge library and i want to organize it. I want >find to go through recursively, and move any "pdf" files it finds to a certain >directory. I need an example piece of script on how i would confront this. I

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Updating Pico & Pine

2003-01-03 Thread Danny
On a FreeBSD 4.3R major production system. Recommended steps to upgrade *without* 'portupgrade' and do you see any implications? E.g. address books, config settings, etc. Current version is 4.21. Thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in th

Re: Shell guru needed.(xargs question)

2003-01-03 Thread Danny
Could you please give another realworld example of using xargs and your definition of it. I had a glance through man xargs, but I enjoy input from humans that use it as well. :) Thanks. - Original Message - From: "David S. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <

/etc/make.conf Examples

2003-01-03 Thread Danny
Greetings, I am trying to wrap my head around the make.conf file, and I am curious to know if others have multiple /etc/make.conf files for certain situations, or just one. Could you please post your /etc/make.conf(s) and explain the contents and resulting actions of your file. Thank you! To Un

Re: command host does not check /etc/hosts.

2003-01-03 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:38:33PM -0700, Konstantin Borovik wrote: > Command host does not check /etc/hosts file. Is it a bug or normal behavior? That's normal. DESCRIPTION Host looks for information about Internet hosts. It gets this informa- tion from a set of interconnected server

RE: 5.0RC2 on an iPaq IA1

2003-01-03 Thread J. Seth Henry
Don't rule out hardware problems. I have been working with 4.7R on an IA-1. The power supplies in there aren't the greatest, and I've had problems with wireless keyboards loading the units down to where they had problems booting. I would suggest you get a self-powered USB hub, and make all your co

Re: Shell guru needed.

2003-01-03 Thread David S. Jackson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:03:37PM -0500 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys. heres the skinny. I have a huge library and i want to > organize it. I want find to go through recursively, and move any "pdf" > files it finds to a certain directory. I need an example piece of > script on how i w

Re: Is there a way to get a MAC address from an IP address

2003-01-03 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Dan Malaby wrote: > Is there a way if given an IP address to get the MAC address. The problem I > am having is that there are two nic's that are using the same IP address on > my network, but the error message my FBSD box gives me is only the MAC > address for the offending car

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