Re: Booting from vinum RAID 1: How should I edit my disk label?

2003-12-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 30 December 2003 at 21:51:35 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: > On 31 Dec 03, 4:04PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 23:10:20 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: >>> On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:21, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 20:27:37

looking for virtual machine for testing booting ISO images

2003-12-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I am looking for a method where I can boot ISO images in a chroot-like environment. (I understand that VMware and Virtual PC may be able to do this, but I'd prefer to use an open source product.) I was told on the plex86 list to look at bochs. I did look at some bochs documentation that mentioned

Re: Booting from vinum RAID 1: How should I edit my disk label?

2003-12-30 Thread Micheas Herman
On 31 Dec 03, 4:04PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 23:10:20 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:21, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 20:27:37 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I am following "13.9.2

Mounting CDROM as user under 5.x

2003-12-30 Thread Dany
Hello, Because I didn't get any response on BSDforums, I've decided to try my chance here. I'm trying to get my single user (belonging to the wheel group) mounting a CD drive under 5.x using devfs (5.2RC2). Could somebody post a very simple howto showing the files to modify ? Thanx So far I've

Re: Booting from vinum RAID 1: How should I edit my disk label?

2003-12-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 23:10:20 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:21, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 20:27:37 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am following "13.9.2 Making a Vinum-based Root Volume Accessible to >>> the Bootst

Re: ports & package names changing?

2003-12-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:07:32AM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: > I an running 4.9 the pkg_add -r command default path is > /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/Lastest/ > All the names in that location do not have versions suffix appended > to the name. > > Though /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/pac

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Eric F Crist
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 08:52 pm, Lee Mx wrote: > > The only difference between your entry and mine is the rp that I commented > out for some reason that I don't remember right now. I assume that you get > no errors. > > What do > > # lpc status lp1 > # lpc restart lp1 > > give you? I get:

Re: netgear nic

2003-12-30 Thread Andrew Boothman
David Bear wrote: the NIC selection at the local store was terrible. I ended up buying a netgear FA311. I cannot tell what chipset this has.. It is the numbers VS318AG in it.. anyone used a netgear nic with fbsd 4.9? No, but I believe it should be supported by the sis(4) driver. See http://www.

rsh and rcp problems between Solaris and FreeBSD

2003-12-30 Thread John Von Essen
I have a Solaris 2.6 box that has been sending data to a Solaris 8 box via rsh and rcp. I finally changed the Solaris 8 box to a FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE machine. Unfortunately, I am noticing alot of problems with my rsh and rcp calls. Again, the rsh/rcp calls are being initiated on my Solaris 2.6 a

Re: RTS/CTS DTR/DSR with stty

2003-12-30 Thread horio shoichi
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:26:52 +0200 (EET) "Lefteris Tsintjelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need to control manually the output signals of a serial port. > Can this be done with stty? I seem to fail to do so by using > stty (-)crtscts. > > Thank you, > Lefteris Tsintjelis > > _

Re: combining partitions

2003-12-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, I must ask a dumb question. Exactly what are distfiles? Source code is distributed in whatever manner the software author desires. Frequently this is a tarred and gzipped file, but it might be comp

Re: file system

2003-12-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 30), Larry Johnson said: > The file systems used in Linux are limited to 32,000 files or > subdirectories within any given directory. Does anybody know what the > limit is in FreeBSD? Can't find any info about this anywhere. I don't think there's really a limit on the num

Re: ipf / pf

2003-12-30 Thread Jonathan Lin
Thanks for the reply ... I did a bit more reading about it, and found that ipf used to be in openbsd, until some sort of license dispute. Then the openbsd people supposedly wrote their own pf ... so there's probably no relation between the two... as for the scripting .. i'll probably have to l

netgear nic

2003-12-30 Thread David Bear
the NIC selection at the local store was terrible. I ended up buying a netgear FA311. I cannot tell what chipset this has.. It is the numbers VS318AG in it.. anyone used a netgear nic with fbsd 4.9? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson H

nVidia Quadro NVS 200

2003-12-30 Thread Jay Sern Liew
I couldn't find a comprehensive list of supported hardware in the handbook or in the release notes, hardware.txt file. I know nVidia provides FreeBSD drivers, but I can't seem to find anywhere on the FreeBSD WWW, mailinglist, freebsdforums.org, that says if the nVidia Quadro NVS 200 is supported.

Re: arp request problem with firewall

2003-12-30 Thread horio shoichi
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:30:40 -0800 (PST) Terry Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is my first post to freebsd questions. > > MY NETWORK > > Internet -- WAN_IF | FIREWALL - 5.1 RELASE | LAN_IF -- LAN network > > The WAN_IF has several public addresses as aliases. I have about 20 servers in

RE: hard drive test

2003-12-30 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, You can try and run distributed.net on it for awhile - that should give it a pretty good workout. - -- Jonathan === Jonathan M. Slivko ISP/Marketing PeeringSolutions, LLC === PeeringSolutions, LLC 90

RE: ipf / pf

2003-12-30 Thread fbsd_user
PF has been just ported to FBSD. I don't know if ipf & pf have a common code background, but I do know pf & ipf have totally different rule processing logic though the rules do look some what common. When it comes to using variables on the rule set, that is just the normal function of shell process

mount within a mount results in system crash

2003-12-30 Thread Ron Sweeney
I mounted an iso on the filesystem using mdconfig. I then mounted an .img file (msdos) from within that mount on its own mount . I cd'd to the mounted directory, ran ls twice and the system crashed. No forensics in /var/log/messages either. any ideas? interesting at best. mockbsd# mdconfig

Re: Mapping keys to various functions...

2003-12-30 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:08:41PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: > Hello all, > > I can't find the program someone listed in here about 6 months ago about a > program for X that tells you the key code when you press a key on the > keyboard. I have a laptop that I would like to map extra buttons to

hard drive test

2003-12-30 Thread David Bear
i just installed 4.9-rel. after having the system on for about two hours I got a console message that device ad0 had timed out. then the system froze. after a reboot (power off then on) the systems has been working fine. The HD is standard seagate barracuda ATA drive (30 gig). I am using an ata

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Lee Mx
From: Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lee Mx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ZOT Print Server Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:42:51 -0600 On Tuesday 30 December 2003 07:22 pm, Lee Mx wrote: > I forgot to ask in the previous email but if it doesn't help w

Re: x10d X10 interface controller: not compiling (4.9) (Also: other X10 apps?)

2003-12-30 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:24:33PM -0800, Matt Staroscik wrote: > I am trying to get a CM11A X10 interface wired into my FreeBSD server. It > looks like most of the software out there relies on "x10d," which is only > available as source code: > > ftp://ftp.danlan.com/ftp.danlan.com/homeauto/x10d.

Re: Complex quoting task in tcsh

2003-12-30 Thread Rob
On Wednesday 31 December 2003, Daniela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2003 05:06, Rob wrote: > > Daniela, > > > > This isn't the answer you would like, but tcsh is generally considered a > > bad language for writing scripts*. It's an excellent command-line shell, > > but script

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Eric F Crist wrote: > # APS2_BEGIN:printer2 > # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer2 > # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL > lp1|pcl3/unspec;r=300x300;q=medium;c=mono;p=letter;m=auto:\ > :lp=:\ > :rm=192.168.1.2:\ > :rp=laser:\ >

file system

2003-12-30 Thread Larry Johnson
Hello , The file systems used in Linux are limited to 32,000 files or subdirectories within any given directory. Does anybody know what the limit is in FreeBSD? Can't find any info about this anywhere. Many Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list h

Sleepmode for ATAdisks?

2003-12-30 Thread Joachim Dagerot
I have been told that freeBSD can't handle powermanagement for IDE disks, instead that should be tuned in BIOS. However I also found this post with some kind of patch: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-September/0104 10.html Though I'm in the computer business since late 80

Re: FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

2003-12-30 Thread Francisco
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > http://www.eilio.com/freebsd-motherboards/ One suggestion. Allow from the home page to view the results for a particular CPU only and for SMP. These are probably common enough that would be helpfull to allow them upfront. ___

Re: messenger: console based

2003-12-30 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-1] noir noir wrote: > I am looking for a Yahoo! or MSN Messenger which would > work from the console. > > I did a Freshmeat and Sourceforge search and came up > with libyahoo2/ ari-yahoo/ gtmsn messengers where none > of them are able to connect to the chat server.

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Eric F Crist
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 07:22 pm, Lee Mx wrote: > I forgot to ask in the previous email but if it doesn't help would you post > your printcap entry. > > thanks Sorry, that was really my bad. Here it is. Note that the top entry is for the parallel connection, which does work if it's connecte

Re: FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

2003-12-30 Thread Francisco
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > I'd love for this to take off and become a repository of sorts... It is a great idea. About the only thing that would be nice about it, is if someday there could be something like it for other pieces of hardware too. For instance DVD/CD burners come

x10d X10 interface controller: not compiling (4.9) (Also: other X10 apps?)

2003-12-30 Thread Matt Staroscik
I am trying to get a CM11A X10 interface wired into my FreeBSD server. It looks like most of the software out there relies on "x10d," which is only available as source code: ftp://ftp.danlan.com/ftp.danlan.com/homeauto/x10d.cm11.txt Karl Denninger's site advises adding this to get the code to com

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Lee Mx
From: Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lee Mx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ZOT Print Server Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:30:14 -0600 On Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:23 pm, Lee Mx wrote: > I looked quickly at the link and this seems to be a standard

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Lee Mx
From: Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lee Mx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ZOT Print Server Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:30:14 -0600 On Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:23 pm, Lee Mx wrote: > I looked quickly at the link and this seems to be a standard

Re: Where Live CD ISO image?

2003-12-30 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:51, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Where can I download a Live CD ISO? > > > The only place I was able to find was http://www.freesbie.org, but that's > basically some scripts on how to do an ISO from one's system. Was hopping > to find something already made. > > Want this just fo

Mapping keys to various functions...

2003-12-30 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello all, I can't find the program someone listed in here about 6 months ago about a program for X that tells you the key code when you press a key on the keyboard. I have a laptop that I would like to map extra buttons to, like volume up/down, and those funky email,search,internet buttons, e

Headless install problem

2003-12-30 Thread Daniela
Hi, I'm doing a headless install for the first time (4.9-R) but it won't work. I followed the procedure in the handbook carefully. When I enter `cu -l /dev/cuaa0` it just tells me I'm connected, but the handbook says it should prompt me for the second floppy. I tried cu -d: cu: fconn_ope

can't login to gdm

2003-12-30 Thread r t g tan
Hi, I'm trying to run gdm, but I can't login. - I don't get any .xsession-errors, and am able to login using xdm. - Neither message saying incorrect user passwd Tnx, -- robert t g tan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

XF86Keys.

2003-12-30 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I have a funky keyboard with lots of buttons along the top (like Back, Forward, Stop, Refresh, etc.). I use a number of these in fluxbox by defining them in my keys file. However -- can anybody suggest a way I can make the XF86Back key work in firebird? Previously I have hacked the keyboa

Re: Complex quoting task in tcsh

2003-12-30 Thread Daniela
On Monday 29 December 2003 05:06, Rob wrote: > Daniela, > > This isn't the answer you would like, but tcsh is generally considered a > bad language for writing scripts*. It's an excellent command-line shell, > but scripts are not its strong point. > > One reason is the one you've just run into - qu

ipf / pf

2003-12-30 Thread j . l
Hi, Here's a question that might seem trivial: What's the relationship between the freebsd ipf and the openbsd pf? Are they the same thing, or are they separately developed branches of a common codebase? Or maybe they are totally different. I ask this because I was looking around for guides

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Eric F Crist
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:23 pm, Lee Mx wrote: > I looked quickly at the link and this seems to be a standard network print > server. I assume that you have either assigned an ip or are using dhcp. > From there it is a standard setup. I also use apsfilter and it works great > for both my uni

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Lee Mx
"Compartir el conocimiento es una accion de seres inteligentes, que han comprobado que el conocimiento es un bien que crece a medida que se lo comparte" From: Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ZOT Print Server Date: Tue, 30

Re: VMware and Full Screen Mode

2003-12-30 Thread Eric F Crist
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 04:10 pm, Theresa L. Ford wrote: > Hi! Google is not looking promising on this topic. > > I have 4.9-STABLE, a nVidia GeForce Ti 4600, VMware 3, installed > through the ports collection. Theresa, It's a really good idea to not reply to someone's message for a new post

VMware and Full Screen Mode

2003-12-30 Thread Theresa L. Ford
Hi! Google is not looking promising on this topic. I have 4.9-STABLE, a nVidia GeForce Ti 4600, VMware 3, installed through the ports collection. When switching to full screen mode, the application terminates. Any help you can give me would be most appreciated. Thank you! - T VMware er

Re: combining partitions

2003-12-30 Thread Darren
Thanks all. I just took the easy way out and copied my distfiles to /hd2 and then sym linked them back to /usr/ports. See it now :) scsibox# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 126M38M78M33%/ /dev/da1s1e 2.0G 1.3G 532M72%/hd2 /

kmplayer issues anyone?

2003-12-30 Thread Eric F Crist
Hey all, Is there a secret to getting kmplayer to play dvds and mpeg files? I have mplayer, gmplayer, kmplayer all installed. If I enter mplayer from within KDE, I get an initial image on the screen, but don't know the keyboard shortcuts to get it to play (but I can pause it!). gmplayer and

Re: djbdns

2003-12-30 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:53:20 + Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > >Take a look at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan.sh.sample > > > >1. SVDIR=/var/service/ - so svscan will look at /var/service and not > >/service; either do: > >a) what is suggested and use /var/se

Re: Automated reply from mattm@mail.citystamp.com

2003-12-30 Thread paul beard
On Dec 30, 2003, at 11:20 AM, Eric F Crist wrote: Is there a way we can filter out these types of messages or perhaps can someone tell me how to do it fairly easily? I think your better autoresponders don't send these to mailing lists: not sure why these are getting through. -- Paul Beard paulbe

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Eric F Crist
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 04:25 pm, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > > Jesse Guardiani wrote: > >>Eric F Crist wrote: > >>>Hey all, > >>> > >>>I've been trying to get some remote pringing working to no avail. I > >>>purchased a ZOT print server (http://www.01tech.c

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Eric F Crist
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 04:09 pm, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Eric F Crist wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I've been trying to get some remote pringing working to no avail. I > > purchased a ZOT print server (http://www.01tech.com/m_p100s.htm) that I > > have working > > with Windows perfectly. I al

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Jesse Guardiani wrote: > >>Eric F Crist wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hey all, >>> >>>I've been trying to get some remote pringing working to no avail. I >>>purchased a ZOT print server (http://www.01tech.com/m_p100s.htm) that I >>>have working >>>with Windows perfe

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: Hey all, I've been trying to get some remote pringing working to no avail. I purchased a ZOT print server (http://www.01tech.com/m_p100s.htm) that I have working with Windows perfectly. I also installed apsfilter (Great job on that, btw) and have t

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Eric F Crist wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been trying to get some remote pringing working to no avail. I > purchased a ZOT print server (http://www.01tech.com/m_p100s.htm) that I > have working > with Windows perfectly. I also installed apsfilter (Great job on that, > btw) and have the remote pri

ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Eric F Crist
Hey all, I've been trying to get some remote pringing working to no avail. I purchased a ZOT print server (http://www.01tech.com/m_p100s.htm) that I have working with Windows perfectly. I also installed apsfilter (Great job on that, btw) and have the remote printer working on this end via par

Re: 1024x768 on a toshiba 8100 tecra in a text (Non X) Console

2003-12-30 Thread List Man
Hi, This problem even appears when installing the OS though sysinstall. Disabeling acpi was the solution. Greetings Lucio On 0, "Michael L. Squires" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :> Anyway right know I am having too many system freezes :> when trying to start X.. most of the time starting X will

Re: Prevent Port scaning

2003-12-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:13:48PM +0300, Marwan Sultan wrote: > > Hello Subscribers.. > > Happy new year for all, > > My /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg.today > Is full of the following lines: > > Limiting open port RST response from 332 to 200 packets per second > Limiting open port

RTS/CTS DTR/DSR with stty

2003-12-30 Thread Lefteris Tsintjelis
Hi, I need to control manually the output signals of a serial port. Can this be done with stty? I seem to fail to do so by using stty (-)crtscts. Thank you, Lefteris Tsintjelis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Where Live CD ISO image?

2003-12-30 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Chris Pressey wrote: > Why not the images on this page?: > http://www.freesbie.org/?section=ISO-en I guess if I don't find anything else I could use that, but that is a 4.7 image. Although it probably is enough I would prefer something a bit more recent.

Need some advice for a mail setup...

2003-12-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everyone and Happy Holidays. I was hoping to get some suggestions and advice here for a particular setup im designing. Here is what I want to do. I am going to use FreeBSD 4.9 as our Mail server. It will be running Postfix, courier-IMAP and a few other goodies. I also want to run webmail o

RE: Where Live CD ISO image?

2003-12-30 Thread fbsd_user
Try ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/ and then chose the release you want Note the cap letters in path have to be that way. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Francisco Reyes Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:22 AM To: Fr

Re: Where Live CD ISO image?

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:35:54 -0800 Chris Pressey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:21:53 + (GMT) > Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Where can I download a Live CD ISO? > > > > > > The only place I was able to find was http://www.freesbie.org, but > > that's

TTF to Postscript|enscript and X...?

2003-12-30 Thread Gary Kline
Hi people, Can anybody give me some clues re where to find code to translate ttf fonts to postscript|enscript style? I expected one port in x11-fonts to help me out, but it coredumped. tia, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where Live CD ISO image?

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:21:53 + (GMT) Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where can I download a Live CD ISO? > > > The only place I was able to find was http://www.freesbie.org, but that's > basically some scripts on how to do an ISO from one's system. Was hopping > to find somethin

Where Live CD ISO image?

2003-12-30 Thread Francisco Reyes
Where can I download a Live CD ISO? The only place I was able to find was http://www.freesbie.org, but that's basically some scripts on how to do an ISO from one's system. Was hopping to find something already made. Want this just for repairs and such when having problems with the HD. __

Re: messenger: console based

2003-12-30 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:24:28PM +, noir noir wrote: > I am looking for a Yahoo! or MSN Messenger which would > work from the console. centericq -- Mike perl -e 'print unpack("u","88V]N=&%C=\"!I;F9O(&EN(&AE861E pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: messenger: console based

2003-12-30 Thread Matthew Bettinger
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:24:28 + (GMT) noir noir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a Yahoo! or MSN Messenger which would > work from the console. try 'naim' from ports. It's ICQ but may do the others... -mb ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Which architecture?

2003-12-30 Thread Nate Lawson
This message is more suited for freebsd-questions@ On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Mobasher Sobhan wrote: > I'm a rookie with FreeBSD. I'm confused by which > platform of freebsd could be installed on various IBM > compatible/windows boxes. I have one pc with AMD > Athlon 2GHz and another running on Pentiu

Prevent Port scaning

2003-12-30 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello Subscribers.. Happy new year for all, My /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg.today Is full of the following lines: Limiting open port RST response from 332 to 200 packets per second Limiting open port RST response from 212 to 200 packets per second Limiting open port RST response fro

Re: Burning DVD-R's

2003-12-30 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 29, 2003, at 7:43 PM, Brett Glass wrote: At 03:31 PM 12/29/2003, Charles Swiger wrote: Meaning what? You want to make sure the software really works with DVD-R, but you are not willing to test the software yourself? I didn't say that. However, if there's an alternative that's a sure winne

Re: flash support

2003-12-30 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On 2003.12.30 12:51, Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to setup freebsd 4.9 at work as a desktop. I'm having problems with flash, even though I installed it from ports (linux-flashplugin-6.0r69 and flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.10_2 and to name a few ), I still can't view some sites. I guess that c

messenger: console based

2003-12-30 Thread noir noir
I am looking for a Yahoo! or MSN Messenger which would work from the console. I did a Freshmeat and Sourceforge search and came up with libyahoo2/ ari-yahoo/ gtmsn messengers where none of them are able to connect to the chat server. I am aware of the fact that MSN and Yahoo! are blocking apps a

Re: Automated reply from mattm@mail.citystamp.com

2003-12-30 Thread Eric F Crist
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 01:08 pm, you wrote: > I will be on vacation November December 26,29&30 and January 2, returning > on January 5th. If you have any immediate needs call 1-413-589-1311 and the > receptionist will direct your call. Is there a way we can filter out these types of messages

Re: combining partitions

2003-12-30 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Kent Stewart wrote: > On Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:50 am, backdoc wrote: >> I would like to combine the /hd2 and /usr partitions to one /new larger >> partition. >> >> Should I research vinum or should I be reading something else? >> >> I am running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE. >> >> My partition layout

RE: bridge - bridge box disappears from the network (even though it h as an ip assigned to one of the interfaces)

2003-12-30 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Fredrick Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's all on the same subnet. Could it be that my > switch is conflicting > somehow? This is my setup: > > - > Basically the same setup I use..It could be the switch. Do the other machines on the same switch have problems communicating

Re: opinion on NICs in mulithomed host

2003-12-30 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
David Bear wrote: I was wondering what opinions there are regarding the type of NICs to using in a multihomed machine. Will be using fbsd 4.9-rel. Is it a good idea to use NIC's from different manufacturers? Same manufacture? Non-3com? ... As far as performance issues are concerned, is one brand b

opinion on NICs in mulithomed host

2003-12-30 Thread David Bear
I was wondering what opinions there are regarding the type of NICs to using in a multihomed machine. Will be using fbsd 4.9-rel. Is it a good idea to use NIC's from different manufacturers? Same manufacture? Non-3com? ... As far as performance issues are concerned, is one brand better than another?

Re: KSambaClient install errors.

2003-12-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Eric F Crist wrote: Hey all, I was wondering if anyone has tried to get the ksamabaclient working on freebsd 4.9. A buddy and I are trying to get it to install from sources, but we get some funny errors. They are: From source, likely means that the code wasn't written to compile from a BS

Re: combining partitions

2003-12-30 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:50 am, backdoc wrote: > I would like to combine the /hd2 and /usr partitions to one /new larger > partition. > > Should I research vinum or should I be reading something else? > > I am running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE. > > My partition layout is: > scsibox# df -h > Filesys

Re: Backup Server

2003-12-30 Thread Dave McCammon
man mysqldump and check out the man page for rsync at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rsync&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.1-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html you can dump the databases and use rsync on the single machine("client") to copy or pull the files/directories of your choos

anonCVS

2003-12-30 Thread Vladimir Pianykh
Hi! Does any one know what's going on with the anoncvs.freebsd.org? My cvs failing with signal 9 in random places, I have 4.9-Stable system few month old, and sure for hardware - same happens on different servers that working fine long time. I updating sources by this way: % setenv CVSROOT :pserv

Re: bridge - bridge box disappears from the network (even though it h as an ip assigned to one of the interfaces)

2003-12-30 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Fredrick Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I've spent almost the entire evening trying to track > this down. But it seems > that I'm totally stucked. Hopefully, someone out > there has a solution :) > > Anyway, here's the problem: > > I'm using bridge, but I'm not able to cont

snd_maestro3.ko load/unload

2003-12-30 Thread Tim Kellers
FreeBSD 10.0.1.8 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Mon Dec 29 15:59:28 EST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PORCINUS i386 Hardware: Dell Latitude c800 laptop soundcard (from BIOS): maestro3 If I load snd_maestro3.ko from loader.conf (snd_pcm.ko is auto-loaded along with it), I

Anyone have Limewire working on 4.8?

2003-12-30 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I've installed /usr/ports/net/limewire v.3.6.15 without error. It didn't prompt me to do anything, nor present me with any dialogs when installing. When I type 'limewire' from a user shell, it loads the splash screen, which says "Loading shared files...", and a tiny window which says, "Welco

'Best' way of adding quoted string options to Makefile/pkgtools.conf?

2003-12-30 Thread Wayne Sierke
I was trying to add the following type of option to a port's Makefile: --option='space delimited list' (that's how it was indicated it should be presented in the port's installation notes). Not knowing the "correct" way to achieve it as a combination of Makefile/pkgtools.conf entries I ended up

KSambaClient install errors.

2003-12-30 Thread Eric F Crist
Hey all, I was wondering if anyone has tried to get the ksamabaclient working on freebsd 4.9. A buddy and I are trying to get it to install from sources, but we get some funny errors. They are: In file included from printerdlgimpl.cpp:58: printerdlgimpl.h:37: kcmprinterdlg.h: No such file or

RE: ports & package names changing?

2003-12-30 Thread fbsd_user
I an running 4.9 the pkg_add -r command default path is /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/Lastest/ All the names in that location do not have versions suffix appended to the name. Though /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/all/ does. The FBSD handbook says to use http://ww

Re: Using FreeBSD as a DHCP server

2003-12-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 09:17 am, stan wrote: > I need to use a STABLE machine for a DHCP server. > > Man -k and looking in /etc/defaults/rc.conf don't seem to point me to the > server side of this protocol. > > Do I need to add a port? If so what's the best one? Use /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3.

Using FreeBSD as a DHCP server

2003-12-30 Thread stan
I need to use a STABLE machine for a DHCP server. Man -k and looking in /etc/defaults/rc.conf don't seem to point me to the server side of this protocol. Do I need to add a port? If so what's the best one? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither libert

weird

2003-12-30 Thread Kenzo
I tried installing 4.9 on an old gateway machine. specs: intel chip, 500 MHz. 256 RAM and 30 Gig HD. it would go thru the whole install but than right when it's about to boot into FBSD, it reboots the machine. It just keeps rebooting. I thought it might be the RAM or hardware, but I tried putting

combining partitions

2003-12-30 Thread backdoc
I would like to combine the /hd2 and /usr partitions to one /new larger partition. Should I research vinum or should I be reading something else? I am running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE. My partition layout is: scsibox# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 126M

Re: 4.9 ACPI?

2003-12-30 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 08:10 AM 12/30/2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: ACPI is not enabled by default on 4.x (and it is experimental code, not suitable for general users). Generally you should leave ACPI enabled on 5.x unless it causes problems, in which case you should proceed with the usual bug reporting process (researc

Re: 4.9 ACPI?

2003-12-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:03:06AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I am looking at doing a fresh install (on a spare drive) of 5.2RC2 > and was wondering about ACPI impacts. When I tried the last version of 5.2, > it would panic on install (I assume thats been fixed)... > > So my question is...how d

Re: ports & package names changing?

2003-12-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:42:42PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: > Is there an project in progress to change the ports and package > names that > you select on to include the version number as an suffix on the > name? What do you mean? Packages already include the version number in the name. Kris pg

4.9 ACPI?

2003-12-30 Thread J.D. Bronson
I am looking at doing a fresh install (on a spare drive) of 5.2RC2 and was wondering about ACPI impacts. When I tried the last version of 5.2, it would panic on install (I assume thats been fixed)... So my question is...how do I know if I have any ACPI on 4.9 and would would it benefit me if I i

Re: jdk14+tomcat5 crashing box

2003-12-30 Thread Lucas Holt
system: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p11 #1: Fri Nov 28 0 5:09:25 EST 2003 /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BSD1007 i386 packages: apache-2.0.47 mod_jk-apache2-1.2.2 jakarta-tomcat-5.0.14 jdk-1.4.2p5 What threading model did you use with the JDK? Does the problem occur when starting other

RE: DHCP

2003-12-30 Thread fbsd_user
Stanley You question is not clear on what your final goal is, But maybe I can read between the lines. It is very common to use an FBSD gateway box with an single public ip address to share internet access with work stations on the private LAN behind the gateway box. DHCP can be used in this setting

gray network and ipfw2

2003-12-30 Thread "al vanyushenkov"
hi all i have freebsd 4.8 installed and i use ipfw2 with the rules #!/bin/sh fwcmd=/sbin/ipfw ${fwcmd} -f flush #!/bin/sh ipfw='/sbin/ipfw' $ipfw -f flush $ipfw add divert natd all from any to any via ppp0 $ipfw add allow log all from any to any my local ethernet card has 192.168.133.7 ip addre

Re: flash support

2003-12-30 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:51:35AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to setup freebsd 4.9 at work as a desktop. I'm having problems with > flash, even > though I installed it from ports (linux-flashplugin-6.0r69 and > flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.10_2 and > to name a few ), I still

Re: 5.2-RC Status

2003-12-30 Thread anubis
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:31 pm, Chris wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2003 08:33 pm, anubis wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:04 am, Chris wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > Ok, I see that 5.2-RC2 has made it to the site. Is there a time frame > > > on RC3 (if there is indeed going to be one)? >

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