Re: FreeBSD zip drive install

2004-01-21 Thread f.johan.beisser
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, al plant wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 4.4 box that works fine with Zip drives. I have another > 4.4 that I can't get to configure the /zip drive. > > I am now building the box using 4.9 and can't get the zip drive to > work on it either. first, what kind of zip drive? USB? para

Re: wierd errors with USB drive & syslog

2004-01-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brent Bailey wrote: > anywho we are seeing alot of udp packets being dropped due to full > sockets..im worried that im not getting all the logging that i should be > getting. > > udp: > 38123594 datagrams received > 0 with incomplete header > 0 with bad data length fiel

Re: man question

2004-01-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Didier Wiroth wrote: > What do I have to do, to be able to use/view those man files, only ME? I > don't want to modif manpath.config (as this is a global configuration > file)? set shell environment variable MANPATH to include your directories. Regards,

FreeBSD zip drive install

2004-01-21 Thread al plant
Configuring a zip drive. I have a FreeBSD 4.4 box that works fine with Zip drives. I have another 4.4 that I can't get to configure the /zip drive. I am now building the box using 4.9 and can't get the zip drive to work on it either. snd module installs and works fine BTW on all three boxes. T

Re: Fwd: About *pwent() functions

2004-01-21 Thread Gabor Esperon
--- Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:31:12PM -0800, Gabor > Esperon wrote: > > I need some function to add a user to the system, > > something like the addpwent implemented in pw(8) > user > > and program but freebsd only have functions like: > > There aren't

Possible Large HD preventing boot?

2004-01-21 Thread K. Lewin
Hello- I have a 1.2GHz Athlon Thunderbird processor on a Shuttle AK12a motherboard. I recently installed a Hitachi 180GB HDD as my primary hard drive. No other hard drives are currently installed in the system. When trying to boot a FreeBSD floppy (with kern.flp) or a CD-RW with the install

Re: Configuring E-mail Services on a Standalone Wkst

2004-01-21 Thread Michael Wallendahl
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:59:51PM -0500, Bob Perry wrote: > > I started by opening the freebsd.mc file to edit the define line for > Dialup users, > entered the appropriate mail server name, saved the file and rebuilt it. I > ran the sendmail -q command and got the following error message: > >

Re: switch recommendations for first IDS

2004-01-21 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Jan 21, 2004, at 20:39, Troy wrote: Starting to work on first attempt at ids. I guess I currently would like recommendations on managed switches so that I can mirror/span port and that doesn't cost an arm and a leg to run the taps to. Any help of course will be appreciated. Depending on bandw

switch recommendations for first IDS

2004-01-21 Thread Troy
Hello, Starting to work on first attempt at ids. I guess I currently would like recommendations on managed switches so that I can mirror/span port and that doesn't cost an arm and a leg to run the taps to. Any help of course will be appreciated. Thanks, Troy ___

Re: Upgrade procedure question

2004-01-21 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 09:20 pm, John Adams wrote: > On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 10:55 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, > > S.P. wrote: > > What "install" do you mean? > > > > Upgrading a la: > > > > a. cvsup new source > > b. make buildworld

Re: The Complete FreeBSD

2004-01-21 Thread Michael Wallendahl
I had the same concern when I bought The Complete FreeBSD (4th Edition), but the book does a great job of covering both 4.x and 5.x. It's my favorite BSD book so far. -Mike - Original Message - From: "Jamie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4

Re: Upgrade procedure question

2004-01-21 Thread John Adams
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 10:55 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: What "install" do you mean? Upgrading a la: a. cvsup new source b. make buildworld c. make buildkernel d. make installkernel e. reboot and make installworld doesn't touch /etc. You give me far too much credit--I'

Re: new install of 5.2 ISO aft hour system freeze cold reboot only option

2004-01-21 Thread Q
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 04:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > Everything runs fine for about an hour and a half then everything freezes ( > doesnt recognize keyboard, mouse, anything etc ) and i have to do a cold > reboot ( ouch! ). Do you have X running or any additional cards/devices/drivers in

Re: Configuring E-mail Services on a Standalone Wkst

2004-01-21 Thread Bob Perry
Been trying to set up e-mail services on my workstation. I started by opening the freebsd.mc file to edit the define line for Dialup users, entered the appropriate mail server name, saved the file and rebuilt it. I ran the sendmail -q command and got the following error message: su-2.05b# sendm

problems with filesystems > 1TB

2004-01-21 Thread Eric
hello... i have been trying (for many moons now) to create a filesystem larger than 1TB. I've had a variety of RAID controllers in my boxes, and I have 250GB drives, so it adds up quick. I've also tried doing this with vinum, but that fails too. i've searched for help on this topic, and i've foun

Sound locking up

2004-01-21 Thread Chris Bendzel
Hi I have recently installed FreeBSD 5.1 on a Compaq with onboard sound. WinXP identifies the card as an "ESS Allegro PCI". Compiling the kernel with the "pcm" option did not load the driver or show up in the "dmesg" output. I chose the load all sound drivers in the /boot/loader.conf file. It loade

Re: record single files in IDE CDRW

2004-01-21 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:33:11PM -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote: > Hi all ! > How can I burn single files in a cdrom (RW-IDE) ? > Burncd allow burn iso files only ? > I want to burn files many times with the same cdrom (open session). I can't get burncd to work properly, but cdrecord will. Steps

Re: grepping distinct lines from many text files ?

2004-01-21 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Charles Swiger thusly... > > On Jan 20, 2004, at 1:56 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > >CUCU=`cat /path/do/dir/* | some_filer_program` > > > >and have in $CUCU the distinct lines from all the files. > > Try: > > CUCU=`cat /path/to/files/* | sort | uniq` Bett

Re: The Complete FreeBSD

2004-01-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 21 January 2004 at 18:28:40 -0600, Jamie wrote: > > I am looking into a personal copy of "The Complete FreeBSD", but I'd > like to get an edition which focuses on the 4.x series. From what I've > read, the fourth edition focuses primarily on 5.x. Is there a version of > "The Compl

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 06:06 pm, parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... > > > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very > > much since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen.

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... > > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very > much since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying > to think of something interesting to do with it now. > > Any ideas on something interestin

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-21 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 05:57 pm, parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Eric F Crist thusly... > > Content-Description: signed data > > > What do people here use to edit HTML documents? > > Vim. Lacking that any other modern vi-li

Re: Switching from Linux & need setup advice 5.2

2004-01-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Victor L. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I decided to switch from Gentoo Linux to FreeBSD recently after > becoming disenchanted with stability problems in it and several other > Linux distributions. Unfortunately, the handbook with the 5.2 Current > release seems outdated for 5.2.

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-21 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Eric F Crist thusly... > Content-Description: signed data > What do people here use to edit HTML documents? Vim. Lacking that any other modern vi-like software; lacking that non-emacs software (but not pine); lacking that emacs ... - Parv -- __

The Complete FreeBSD

2004-01-21 Thread Jamie
I am looking into a personal copy of "The Complete FreeBSD", but I'd like to get an edition which focuses on the 4.x series. From what I've read, the fourth edition focuses primarily on 5.x. Is there a version of "The Complete FreeBSD" which focuses primarily on FreeBSD 4.x? Thanks,

Re: man question

2004-01-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Didier Wiroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've compiled and installed software by my own in this directory: > /home/me/custom/ > > In this directory I have the following directories and subdirectories: > /home/me/custom/man > /home/me/custom/man/man1 > /home/me/custom/man/man8 > > The

Re: man question

2004-01-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:30:55AM +0100, Didier Wiroth wrote: > Hi, > > I've compiled and installed software by my own in this directory: > /home/me/custom/ > > In this directory I have the following directories and subdirectories: > /home/me/custom/man > /home/me/custom/man/man1 > /home/me/cust

Re: Formatting ZIP Disk

2004-01-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am attempting to format a 100 mb. ZIP disk, but am getting > nowhere. The ZIP drive worked fine under Windows. The disk is > presently formatted as NTFS, if that makes any difference. Nothing I > try seems to work . Since I am new to BSD, I assume tha

Formatting ZIP Disk

2004-01-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am attempting to format a 100 mb. ZIP disk, but am getting nowhere. The ZIP drive worked fine under Windows. The disk is presently formatted as NTFS, if that makes any difference. Nothing I try seems to work . Since I am new to BSD, I assume that I am using the wrong commands. I am presently

Re: Switching from Linux & need setup advice 5.2

2004-01-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Victor L. Davis wrote: Hello FreeBSD enthusiasts, What do I need to do or where are the FAQ documents with more detailed instructions to get CUPS with Gimp Print or the better FreeBSD solution working and more detail on setting up sound? I'm not getting /dev/sound/mixer created and need t

man question

2004-01-21 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hi, I've compiled and installed software by my own in this directory: /home/me/custom/ In this directory I have the following directories and subdirectories: /home/me/custom/man /home/me/custom/man/man1 /home/me/custom/man/man8 The man8 and man1 directory contains some .8 and .1 man files. For

Intel 875P support?

2004-01-21 Thread Sharrim Summers
Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask this quetion, if not I'm sorry. I am running a dual channel memory 400mhz MB with Intel's 875p chipset and a Pentium Hyper Threading cpu 800mhz FSB. Does FreeBSD support dual channel DDR mem configuration? Also is there any support for Serial ATA HDD and co

Switching from Linux & need setup advice 5.2

2004-01-21 Thread Victor L. Davis
Hello FreeBSD enthusiasts, I decided to switch from Gentoo Linux to FreeBSD recently after becoming disenchanted with stability problems in it and several other Linux distributions. Unfortunately, the handbook with the 5.2 Current release seems outdated for 5.2. I successfully installed bi

OT: remote printing:cups

2004-01-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
When printing to a remote cups server (under kde3.1) I'm asked for a user/ password combo...everything is rejected, including the root password for the cups server. Both machines are on the same subnet, (192.168.0). In the cupsd.conf: AuthType None Order Deny,Allow Deny From None Allow From

Re: upgrading 5.1 to 5.2

2004-01-21 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
Hello, If this is a repeat message i apologize as i've been having email issues lately. I've got two machines, both running 5.1 release. I'd like to do an update on both of them to 5.2, and either current or stable. One machine is significantly faster than the other so i'd like to do all

Re: upgrading 5.1 to 5.2

2004-01-21 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
dave wrote: Hello, If this is a repeat message i apologize as i've been having email issues lately. I've got two machines, both running 5.1 release. I'd like to do an update on both of them to 5.2, and either current or stable. One machine is significantly faster than the other so i'd like

upgrading 5.1 to 5.2

2004-01-21 Thread dave
Hello, If this is a repeat message i apologize as i've been having email issues lately. I've got two machines, both running 5.1 release. I'd like to do an update on both of them to 5.2, and either current or stable. One machine is significantly faster than the other so i'd like to do all th

Re: Fwd: About *pwent() functions

2004-01-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:31:12PM -0800, Gabor Esperon wrote: > I need some function to add a user to the system, > something like the addpwent implemented in pw(8) user > and program but freebsd only have functions like: There aren't functions to add user accounts via a C api in the standard Fre

Re: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports

2004-01-21 Thread Danie du Toit
heavy* load. But I mean = extremely heavy - compiling programs or rebuilding the system has no = notable effect. =) Also, I store my MP3s on a second machine and sh= are them with my desktop-machine via NFS, so if I put the network und= er heavy load, playback gets laggy, too,

Re: Unable to mount CDrom in 5.2, reading past threads is of no help

2004-01-21 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:29:23AM -0800, scott renna wrote: > mount /cdrom yields: > > cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument > > /etc/fstab is set up as such: > > /dev/acd0/cdrom cd9660ro,noauto0 0 Hope you're not trying to mount an audio CD. Otherwise, try what's below. It must

Fwd: About *pwent() functions

2004-01-21 Thread Gabor Esperon
I need some function to add a user to the system, something like the addpwent implemented in pw(8) user and program but freebsd only have functions like: getpwent(3) getpwent_r(3) getpwnam_r(3) getpwuid(3) getpwuid_r(3) setpassent(3) setpwent(3) endpwent(3) to get information fro

RE: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports

2004-01-21 Thread michael Alexander
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fbsd_user > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:39 PM > To: Dinesh Nair > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG > Subject: RE: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports > > > My friends PC is an MS/Wind

RE: Imap Server and Procmail

2004-01-21 Thread michael Alexander
I believe you have to add it into IE's certificate list, and then outlook will remember it. As for how to do that step with FreeBSD, I'm not sure on that. -Mike > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Drew Tomlinson > Sent: Wednesday, Ja

Re[2]: ALSA drivers

2004-01-21 Thread Stas
What about M-Audio Revolution 7.1 card? Did somebody try? -- Stasmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, January 22, 2004, 1:20:10 AM, you wrote: >> Does FreeBSD supports ALSA drivers? > No. FreeBSD comes with its own sound drivers (see pcm(4)). > Most sound chips are su

Need help finding bug using select()

2004-01-21 Thread J. Seth Henry
Guys, I am, needless to say, still fairly new to programming under *nix - despite months of learning. So far, I have been able to work out a lot of things, but this issue with the select statement has me stumped. I am attempting to listen to a serial port, and perform actions when data is recei

RE: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports

2004-01-21 Thread fbsd_user
My friends PC is an MS/Windows 98 box. I know all windows system have telnet in command.com. Which is reachable from start/run and opens an native dos window. Would anybody know the syntax of the native dos telnet command to include the port number to use? telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx would get me to

Re: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports

2004-01-21 Thread Stephen L Martin
Hi, >From Adelphia's terms of service: "You may not operate a server of any type using the Adelphia Broadband Service." Here is the link if you want to check it out: http://www.adelphia.com/esafety/Inter_Acc_Serv_Agmnt_08_27_03.pdf I use adelphia as well, last time I port scanned myself from t

Re: Upgrading from 4.3 to 5.2

2004-01-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:32:16PM -0800, David LeCount wrote: > I have what is proving to be a difficult challenge. My > friend wants to start using FreeBSD. Unfortunately the > latest disc I have is 4.3, and I don't have easy > access to broadband, so obtaining a newer iso is > unlikely in the n

Re: How to mount a FreeBSD-5.1 partition from FreeBSD-4.9

2004-01-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Just dump(8) it to a tape or other disk, create a new UFS2 file system > > where the UFS2 now lives and then restore(8) the dump. > > i'm sure you meant "create a new UFS1 file system where the UFS2 now > lives". :) Yup. My typing teac

Crash Dump

2004-01-21 Thread Jack L. Stone
FreeBSD sage-american.com 4.8-RELEASE-p13 Hello again. Hope this the place for this question. One of my mail servers has been crashing for several months about once every 2 weeks at random times and after changing out all hardware, including shifting the OS to 3 different machines, I finally con

wierd errors with USB drive & syslog

2004-01-21 Thread Brent Bailey
Im runnign FBSD 4.9 rc ...this box is running syslog server for a bunch of routers at work. Over the past couple weeks ive seen these errors more & more often, is this the swap filling up ??? whenever i do "top" only 3% of swap is in use.. any thoughts ??? swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: de

Re: Upgrading from 4.3 to 5.2

2004-01-21 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 02:32 pm, David LeCount wrote: > I have what is proving to be a difficult challenge. My > friend wants to start using FreeBSD. Unfortunately the > latest disc I have is 4.3, and I don't have easy > access to broadband, so o

Re: vpn options advice

2004-01-21 Thread Matthew Bettinger
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:58:46 -0500 Jeanne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have any thoughts or options I could present? A hardware > router that they could use at home that might work with a bsd vpn > server on the other end? Unfortunately, installing bsd gateways in > their homes just isn't a

Upgrading from 4.3 to 5.2

2004-01-21 Thread David LeCount
I have what is proving to be a difficult challenge. My friend wants to start using FreeBSD. Unfortunately the latest disc I have is 4.3, and I don't have easy access to broadband, so obtaining a newer iso is unlikely in the near future. Well I've been gradually upgrading mine and it's currently usi

Re: Monolithic kernel possible in 5.2?

2004-01-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:29:07PM -0800, Peter Schmiedeskamp wrote: > That's what I was afraid of. Hmm. That must mean > that something else must be different between 4.9 and > 5.2 that is preventing kernel boot messages from being > displayed when the kernel loaded via pxeloader/TFTP. You need

Re: Monolithic kernel possible in 5.2?

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Schmiedeskamp
That's what I was afraid of. Hmm. That must mean that something else must be different between 4.9 and 5.2 that is preventing kernel boot messages from being displayed when the kernel loaded via pxeloader/TFTP. Thanks for the pointer. If I figure out why I'm seeing what I'm seeing, I'll post a

Re: Monolithic kernel possible in 5.2?

2004-01-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:38:17AM -0800, Peter Schmiedeskamp wrote: > So, I know that FBSD 5 has moved to a modular kernel, > but is it still possible to build a monolithic one? Yes. > If so, how? The same way as always..just make sure you compile everything in so that you do not need to load

Re: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports

2004-01-21 Thread Cordula's Web
> I am thinking about enabling my gateway's sendmail email > server to receive email directly from the public internet and > also installing apache to serve my own home page. That's a common setup. > I have 24/7 cable internet connection plus an registered > domain name which goes no place ri

Re: IPFW and Dynamic Rules

2004-01-21 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Dinesh Nair wrote: > seems like you're hitting this limit with too many keep-state rules in > your ipfw ruleset. try trimming them down a little, by adding in > specific reverse packet flow rules. > It does not take many at all to hit the limit. This is what I used to use [in /etc/sysctl.conf] o

Re: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports

2004-01-21 Thread Gary
Hi fbsd_user, --On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 03:00:08 PM -0500 fbsd_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am thinking about enabling my gateway's sendmail email server to receive email directly from the public internet and also installing apache to serve my own home page. Okay... I have 24/7 cabl

Re: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports

2004-01-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, fbsd_user wrote: > So I need a way to test if the ports are blocked or not using an > friends PC and my current IP address. > > What do you recommend? why not just enable sendmail, apache and pop3 on your home box and telnet to ports 25, 80 and 110 respectively from your fri

mod_security, apache1.3.29 & freebsd5.2

2004-01-21 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hi, I'm trying for a few days to use mod_security with apache 1.3 & freebsd5.2. Unfortunately I'm unsuccessful. Mod_security rules doesn't seem to react or even filter any kind of data. I'm logging mod_security data with: SecAuditLog logs/audit_log SecFilterDebugLog logs/modsec_debug_log SecFil

Re: How to mount a FreeBSD-5.1 partition from FreeBSD-4.9

2004-01-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Just dump(8) it to a tape or other disk, create a new UFS2 file system > where the UFS2 now lives and then restore(8) the dump. i'm sure you meant "create a new UFS1 file system where the UFS2 now lives". :) Regards, /\_/\

Re: IPFW and Dynamic Rules

2004-01-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Adam Seniuk wrote: > I keep getting /kernel: Too many dynamic rules, sorry im my log file > several times and i am not sure whats going on I have read some articles > but they are all in 2000 and for FreeBSD 4.0. from the ipfw(4) man page: net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_max: 8192

how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports

2004-01-21 Thread fbsd_user
I am thinking about enabling my gateway's sendmail email server to receive email directly from the public internet and also installing apache to serve my own home page. I have 24/7 cable internet connection plus an registered domain name which goes no place right now. I know I can not ask my

Re: ALSA drivers

2004-01-21 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Stas wrote: > Hello, > > Does FreeBSD supports ALSA drivers? > > Thanks The L in ALSA stands for Linux ... so I highly doubt it. It might be possible to code such a thing for the Linux ABI emulation, but I don't believe it has been done. ___ [EMAIL PRO

Monolithic kernel possible in 5.2?

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Schmiedeskamp
Hello, I've been grappling with a problem I've got where my PXE booted kernel loads via TFTP and then fails to initialize the console. I verified that I do not have this problem under 4.9. I suspect that the pxeloader is incapable of loading the requisite kernel modules over the wire. So, I know

Re: passwd command problem.

2004-01-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:35:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello; >For some reason I had to add the passwd files of a previous FreeBSD 4.4 > server to a new 4.9 one. I added passwd and master.passwd. Then I > updated the db files. Now every thing is OK and all users can login. >My

Re: IPFW and Dynamic Rules

2004-01-21 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Adam Seniuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep getting /kernel: Too many dynamic rules, > sorry im my log file several > times and i am not sure whats going on I have read > some articles but they > are all in 2000 and for FreeBSD 4.0. > > If someone could give me a clue into what this is >

Re: ALSA drivers

2004-01-21 Thread Cordula's Web
> Does FreeBSD supports ALSA drivers? No. FreeBSD comes with its own sound drivers (see pcm(4)). Most sound chips are supported right out of the box. Good luck. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.

Re: latency

2004-01-21 Thread Cordula's Web
> How much is latency in FreeBSD? ??? > I would like to listen music playing on FreeBSD PC with hi-fi sound. > First I need to be sure the system latency is low enough. I'm listening mp3's (with mpg123) on a old 200 MHz Pentium box, which is running -STABLE. At the same time setiathome, multiple

Re: latency

2004-01-21 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:29:23 +0600 Stas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > How much is latency in FreeBSD? > > I would like to listen music playing on FreeBSD PC with hi-fi sound. > First I need to be sure the system latency is low enough. It depends. a) Where does the music come f

Re: latency

2004-01-21 Thread Lance E. Lott
$19.95. Sorry, couldn't resist... Lance At 12:29 PM 1/21/2004, you wrote: Hello, How much is latency in FreeBSD? I would like to listen music playing on FreeBSD PC with hi-fi sound. First I need to be sure the system latency is low enough. -- Best regards, Stas

Re: USB sound device questions (multiples!)

2004-01-21 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 13:47, you wrote: > > If they are all plugged in during boot they will get probed in the same > > order every time you boot, so yes, they will be static. > Okay, because this is going to be a fixed installation that will be pretty > much hands off. > > Be sure to calcu

Re: ALSA drivers

2004-01-21 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Stas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Does FreeBSD supports ALSA drivers? > No it doesn't. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

ALSA drivers

2004-01-21 Thread Stas
Hello, Does FreeBSD supports ALSA drivers? Thanks -- Best regards, Stas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

new install of 5.2 ISO aft hour system freeze cold reboot only option

2004-01-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Situation: This is a new install of 5.2 ISO from ftp.freebsd.org. (install went fine, etc, everything is up and running well,... but) Everything runs fine for about an hour and a half then everything freezes ( doesnt recognize keyboard, mouse, anything etc ) and i have to do a cold reboot (

Re: Using FreeBSD to burn in computers

2004-01-21 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On 21 Jan 2004 09:20:20 -0500 Dan Pelleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] b)make world; make world; make world; make world; make world (my idea here is to run make world and make on XFree86 concurrently, thus stressing the system further - I'm not sure if this is a good idea

[no subject]

2004-01-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Situation: This is a new install of 5.2 ISO from ftp.freebsd.org. (install went fine, etc, everything is up and running well,... but) Everything runs fine for about an hour and a half then everything freezes ( doesnt recognize keyboard, mouse, anything etc ) and i have to do a cold reboot ( ouch!

latency

2004-01-21 Thread Stas
Hello, How much is latency in FreeBSD? I would like to listen music playing on FreeBSD PC with hi-fi sound. First I need to be sure the system latency is low enough. -- Best regards, Stas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: ipfw/nated stateful rules example

2004-01-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:29:32AM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: [...] > As far as the question of using keep-state rules on both the private > and public interfaces this is cross population of the single > stateful table and returning packets are being matched to entries in > the stateful table which d

RE: Unable to mount CDrom in 5.2, reading past threads is of no help

2004-01-21 Thread fbsd_user
You found bug in FBSD 5.2 submit problem report on it from an FBSD system using send-pr command. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of scott renna Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Un

passwd command problem.

2004-01-21 Thread falaki
Hello; For some reason I had to add the passwd files of a previous FreeBSD 4.4 server to a new 4.9 one. I added passwd and master.passwd. Then I updated the db files. Now every thing is OK and all users can login. My problem is that only the users in the wheel group can use passwd to change t

Re: How to mount a FreeBSD-5.1 partition from FreeBSD-4.9

2004-01-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 17:26, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:52:25 +0100 > > > > Juan Rodriguez Hervella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 14:53, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: > > > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:26:25

RE: IPFW and Dynamic Rules

2004-01-21 Thread fbsd_user
First of all FBSD version 4.0 is the first release to have the keep-state option. Since them ipfw and keep-state has had a lot of changes. You should install stable 4.9 to get up to date. Ipfw also has been rewritten in 5.2 as ipfw2 but I would not recommend going to 5.2 as the questions list has b

Re: How to mount a FreeBSD-5.1 partition from FreeBSD-4.9

2004-01-21 Thread Juan Rodriguez Hervella
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 17:26, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:52:25 +0100 > > Juan Rodriguez Hervella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 14:53, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:26:25 +0100 > > > > >

RE: ipfw/nated stateful rules example

2004-01-21 Thread fbsd_user
You do what ever you want. But typically the private LANS are considered secure and only the interface facing the public internet needs stateful processing. What you are doing is an waste of resources and corrupts the stateful table no matter what you think. But the fact still remains that stat

RE: Unable to mount CDrom in 5.2, reading past threads is of no help

2004-01-21 Thread scott renna
mount /cdrom yields: cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument /etc/fstab is set up as such: /dev/acd0/cdrom cd9660ro,noauto0 0 --- fbsd_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try mount /cdrom > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf O

IPFW and Dynamic Rules

2004-01-21 Thread Adam Seniuk
I keep getting /kernel: Too many dynamic rules, sorry im my log file several times and i am not sure whats going on I have read some articles but they are all in 2000 and for FreeBSD 4.0. If someone could give me a clue into what this is and how I can fix it. That would be great! Thanks. Ada

RE: Unable to mount CDrom in 5.2, reading past threads is of no help

2004-01-21 Thread fbsd_user
Try mount /cdrom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of scott renna Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unable to mount CDrom in 5.2, reading past threads is of no help Hello, Im having issues in mounting a cdr

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 11:07 am, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:32:42AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > : Can you run a basic X-Windows system on it? > > > > Definitely. > > Then I think you should use your lapt

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:32:42AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > : Can you run a basic X-Windows system on it? > > Definitely. Then I think you should use your laptop as what it is meant to be: a mobile workstation. Even if you can't install

Re: arp problem in /var/log/messages

2004-01-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Mark wrote: But what causes them ? I get them too. I believe CISCO routers do this. I had a reference once but lost it. In my case the routers are somewhere on my ISPs network. --Alex ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: / is filling up

2004-01-21 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 10:39 am, Chris wrote: > Hiya everyone. > > Using 5.2-REL, what could be filling up my / directory? Any ideas? Negate this. Seems colortail cored in /root - Jeesh!!! - -- Best regards, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: ipfw/nated stateful rules example

2004-01-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Micheal Patterson wrote: Whereas what I'm doing "Private LAN Keep-State > NAT > World" is not secure and would not be accepted by a security professional? How do you figure that either method is more or less secure than the other? If stateful is breached in either method, the underlying network is

/ is filling up

2004-01-21 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya everyone. Using 5.2-REL, what could be filling up my / directory? Any ideas? - -- Best regards, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFADqs/D5P/gMAbw2MRAsctAJ46ism5zMJiL3TVB2itJ2RzaxyAHwCfeZfn Gpd6pwf

Unable to mount CDrom in 5.2, reading past threads is of no help

2004-01-21 Thread scott renna
Hello, Im having issues in mounting a cdrom on my FreeBSD5.2 system both as root and non root user. As root I execute commands like this: pluto# mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument pluto# mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argume

Re: Imap Server and Procmail

2004-01-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Loren M. Lang told a big fish story including the following on 1/20/2004 6:18 PM: [...] Lastly, are there any good how-tos on setting up ldap address book support for outlook? They're looking for any easy way to have a global shared address book. And how would they edit it from windoze? I w

Re: Imap Server and Procmail

2004-01-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Matthew Seaman told a big fish story including the following on 1/21/2004 1:26 AM: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:22:25PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:22:33PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:18:07PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: [...] acc

Re: How to mount a FreeBSD-5.1 partition from FreeBSD-4.9

2004-01-21 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:52:25 +0100 Juan Rodriguez Hervella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 14:53, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:26:25 +0100 > > > > Juan Rodriguez Hervella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > > Hello, please se

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