Re: question about hardware configuration

2004-03-10 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:07:41 +0100 Rafa³ Janas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I've got a problem. > > I try to copy files per local network (freebsd is router/server) to/from > samba. > > Is goes OK but when I copy about 50MB freebsd hands up! > > This same problem is when freebsd is

Re: A laptop worth saving?

2004-03-10 Thread Mike Jackson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings all, I'm a long time unix/linux user but have been away from > FreeBSD for about a year or so and would like to solve that personal > fault. I have a laptop (IBM ThinkPad T20) that once ran FreeBSD but > currently sits with out floppy, OS, and at last test no

Re: writing to specific block address

2004-03-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 04:53:30PM +1100, eodyna wrote: > hello again, > > I dont know if this is possible, but does anyone know > if you can write to a specific address in Freebsd? > > Say, i want to write to block 7946848-7946879. Can i > do that, or is that something different? > > Thanks in

Re: IPFW question

2004-03-10 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Thanks for all, it has been a great help. MikeM wrote: Since I reload the firewall rules remotely, I need the -q option on the ipfw command, e.g.: ipfw -q /etc/ipfw.conf otherwise I lose my ssh connection to the box. See man ipfw(8) for details on -q On 3/10/2004 at 8:27 PM Thomas Vogt

Re: XEmacs woes...

2004-03-10 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Henrik W Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, it generated output allright. Nothing that makes sense (unless I > sit down and learn an entire programming language, which seems huge > and cryptic, by the way), though. Here it is: > > Signaling: (invalid-regexp "Invalid syntax designator") > ~

Re: openoffice and java on 5.2

2004-03-10 Thread peter lageotakes
--- Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Folks, > > I'm trying to install the latest OO on my 5.2 > server, but for > some reason, it can't see the java installation > there. > Originally, I had java/jdk14. No luck. Same with > java/jdk13. > > Shoul

question about hardware configuration

2004-03-10 Thread Rafał Janas
Hi. I've got a problem. I try to copy files per local network (freebsd is router/server) to/from samba. Is goes OK but when I copy about 50MB freebsd hands up! This same problem is when freebsd is working for about 6 days. My computer is Celeron 433 MHz, 10GB hdd Seagate, graphics & music i

writing to specific block address

2004-03-10 Thread eodyna
hello again, I dont know if this is possible, but does anyone know if you can write to a specific address in Freebsd? Say, i want to write to block 7946848-7946879. Can i do that, or is that something different? Thanks in advance . Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au

Re: Info request from a product developer

2004-03-10 Thread W. D.
At 23:29 3/10/2004, D.B. Lewis wrote: > >Hi, > >This is a request for information from a private software developer. > >I'm working on a commercial firewall generator for Free/Open/Net-BSD and >Linux systems that will support IPFW, ipchains and iptables. > >I hope you folks might be so kind as to t

Info request from a product developer

2004-03-10 Thread D.B. Lewis
Hi, This is a request for information from a private software developer. I'm working on a commercial firewall generator for Free/Open/Net-BSD and Linux systems that will support IPFW, ipchains and iptables. I hope you folks might be so kind as to tell me the titles of several books and document

Re: clamav ports

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Murphy
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:34:44 -0500 Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2004, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: > > > Bart - > > > > just a thought, but it is possible that the port updated the virus > > database to the possibly older version in the distfile. You may >

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:41:02AM +, Peter Risdon wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > > > > >>A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on > >>FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forge

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:58:33PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > I've been getting more interested in clustering. > With all the "hoopla" (as it were) about BSD clusters, > would one fast cluster do this task? (i.e., could > you build packages over MPI?) I don't currently use MPI

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Scott W
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines

openoffice and java on 5.2

2004-03-10 Thread Gary Kline
Hello Folks, I'm trying to install the latest OO on my 5.2 server, but for some reason, it can't see the java installation there. Originally, I had java/jdk14. No luck. Same with java/jdk13. Should I take the simpler route and download the pkg for 52

A laptop worth saving?

2004-03-10 Thread -={|TooManyMirrors|}=-
Greetings all, I'm a long time unix/linux user but have been away from FreeBSD for about a year or so and would like to solve that personal fault. I have a laptop (IBM ThinkPad T20) that once ran FreeBSD but currently sits with out floppy, OS, and at last test no CDROM. So my question is what ar

Re: libfreetype.a: Bad address when installing XFree86-4

2004-03-10 Thread eodyna
Hi, thanks for that. I know it works with 4.8. but ill try re-installing it again and see how i go. Ill post again later if i still have the same problems. Thank-you --- Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eodyna wrote: > [ ... ] > > Ive taken out the harddrive and replaced it with a > >

Re: clamav ports

2004-03-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 10, 2004, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Bart - just a thought, but it is possible that the port updated the virus database to the possibly older version in the distfile. You may want to run freshclam and see if this clears up the issue. Hopefully thats all the problem is. hope t

Re: clamav ports

2004-03-10 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
Bart - just a thought, but it is possible that the port updated the virus database to the possibly older version in the distfile. You may want to run freshclam and see if this clears up the issue. Hopefully thats all the problem is. hope this helps ~j (my appologies if this is a duplicate,

3com modem

2004-03-10 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Have a 3com pci internal vioce modem (it is a harware modem) Usrobotics model Model 0727 installed in my 4.9 stable systembut don't seem to be able to activate it sould this not happenautomagically? I do not see it in the dmesg logs at all i am prettysure that comm ports are compiled into the kern

Re: Soundcard 'C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738' with FreeBSD?

2004-03-10 Thread Mario Theodoridis
yep, got an old asus onboard cmedia on 4x [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18:08:30 ~]#uname -a FreeBSD snoopy.schmut.com 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Fri Feb 20 14:18:32 PST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18:08:45 ~]#scanpci pci bus 0x cardnum 0x05 function 0x00: vendor 0x13f6 device 0x0111 C-Media Elect

clamav ports

2004-03-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I've emailed the maintainer about this a few hours ago, but wondered if anyone else had experienced this... I'm running postfix with amavisd-new and clamav (clamd) to scan incoming email from the Internet then forward it to an internal Exchange server (a spam/virus filter server, essentially). I

Re: Amavis-Stats.

2004-03-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 10, 2004, at 2:29 AM, Julien Gabel wrote: :-/ I really am a little bit too far into the configuration of the 4.9 server to update to a 5.x server...isn't 4.9 the recommended production release from Freebsd.org? Yes, it is. To me, it looks like Perl isn't finding an end-of-line (;) somewhe

Re: IDE cd-burner, Can it be done???

2004-03-10 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:37:23 -0800 (PST) whizkid wrote: > > I have a IDE cd-burner in my FreeBSD 5.1 box. I have installed > cdrecord from the ports but this looks like it needs a SCSI drive. > Is there a CMD line cd-record package that works with a IDE > cd-burner. Here is a line from dmesg: >

Re: IDE cd-burner, Can it be done???

2004-03-10 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:37:23 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a IDE cd-burner in my FreeBSD 5.1 box. I have installed > cdrecord from the ports but this looks like it needs a SCSI drive. > Is there a CMD line cd-record package that works with a IDE > cd-burner. Here is a line from

Re: libfreetype.a: Bad address when installing XFree86-4

2004-03-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
eodyna wrote: [ ... ] Ive taken out the harddrive and replaced it with a different one and i still see the same sort of error message does anyone have any ideas on how to help me? Try a process of elimination, by swapping out each component and retesting until you figure out what is failing-- ie,

Re: Soundcard "C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738" with FreeBSD?

2004-03-10 Thread Barney Wolff
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:30:11AM +0900, Rob wrote: > > I'm asked to replace an OS by FreeBSD on a PC which has the > soundcard "C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738". > > I don't want to end up with a system that does not have sound. > Can someone tell me whether this card works? And if yes, tell > m

Florida Home Page - FYI

2004-03-10 Thread Bill
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libfreetype.a: Bad address when installing XFree86-4

2004-03-10 Thread eodyna
Hi again, further more, when i look in dmesg i get the following: ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 17696655 of 7946848-7946879 (ad0s1 bn 17696655; cn 18726 tn 9 sn 18) trying PIO mode ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 17696671 of 7946848-7946879 (ad0s1 bn 176966

Re: kernel arp errors

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 10:54, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I am running 5.2.1 with two NIC's, both connected to a Cisco switch with > a Cisco router also connected to the switch for Internet connectivity. > There are 5 eth ports on the router, one of them with an address > assigned of 66.129.101.193/

Soundcard "C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738" with FreeBSD?

2004-03-10 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm asked to replace an OS by FreeBSD on a PC which has the soundcard "C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738". I don't want to end up with a system that does not have sound. Can someone tell me whether this card works? And if yes, tell me a few details what to do to get it work. Thanks so much. Rob

Re: 3com modem

2004-03-10 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Mike Maltese wrote: It is not a win modem it is a hardware modem and was the best one my supplier had, it cost me $120.00. Thanks for your rely but it does not help me with my problem i have had it working on several other machines just not this one yet. Maybe you should have mentioned that.

Re: 3com modem

2004-03-10 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Mike Maltese wrote: It is not a win modem it is a hardware modem and was the best one my supplier had, it cost me $120.00. Thanks for your rely but it does not help me with my problem i have had it working on several other machines just not this one yet. Maybe you should have mentioned that.

SOLVED: RE: nVidia drivers on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop)

2004-03-10 Thread Ralph M. Los
OK - I resolve to the fact that I just can't read error messages. I commented out the chipset portion...and voila...everything works like a CHARM. Sorry to waste everyone's time with a completely stupid mistake. -Original Message- From: Ralph M. Los Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:48

Re: 3com modem

2004-03-10 Thread Mike Maltese
> It is not a win modem it is a hardware modem and was the best one my > supplier had, it cost me $120.00. Thanks for your rely but it does not > help me with my problem i have had it working on several other machines > just not this one yet. Maybe you should have mentioned that. When someone pos

RE: nVidia drivers on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop)

2004-03-10 Thread Ralph M. Los
Tried /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver and doing make install...worked great and gave some instructions about doing a "make setup" which doesn't exist. After thatstill getting this when I try to get X running. I've included my XF86Config snip at the bottom just for giggles. (WW) NVIDIA: Chipset

Samba problems...v2.2.8a

2004-03-10 Thread Ralph M. Los
Hi again, I've got a problem with Samba this time. I can't seem to get it to allow me to map drives, on a normal basis. I seem to be able to get things working - but...once my workstation reboots, I get errors about password or username is invalid. There is nothing in the log file(s), an

Re: 3com modem

2004-03-10 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Mike Maltese wrote: Have a 3com pci internal vioce modem installed in my 4.9 stable system but don't seem to be able to activate it sould this not happen automagically? I do not see it in the dmesg logs at all i am pretty sure that comm ports are compiled into the kernel. How do i go about ckeck

libfreetype.a: Bad address when installing XFree86-4

2004-03-10 Thread eodyna
Hi everyone, May I request some assistance from you all. Ive recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 on my lappy. Ive recompiled my kernel and cvsupped my ports tree. I have gone to install XFree86-4 and get the following error installing in lib/font/Speedo... installing in lib/font/Speedo/module... /

Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.

2004-03-10 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher wrote: > >Ok, here is what i understood. I need to set up VPN server on my FreeBSD >server giving permission to the outside XP system to access the server. On >the outside XP system, I need to connect VPN box (eg. LinkSys part number >BEFVP41) to the system and t

Re: GCC 3.3 seg faulting

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:02:47PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on an old system, mainly since I > need bluetooth support. After trying to install a couple of ports, I've > found that the default gcc compiler version 3.3.3-20031106 keeps segment > faulting at

GCC 3.3 seg faulting

2004-03-10 Thread Loren M. Lang
I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on an old system, mainly since I need bluetooth support. After trying to install a couple of ports, I've found that the default gcc compiler version 3.3.3-20031106 keeps segment faulting at different times. If I keep restarting the port install, it will event

Re: IDE cd-burner, Can it be done???

2004-03-10 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a IDE cd-burner in my FreeBSD 5.1 box. I have installed cdrecord from the ports but this looks like it needs a SCSI drive. Is there a CMD line cd-record package that works with a IDE cd-burner. Here is a line from dmesg: acd0: CD-RW at ata1-master PIO4 uname -a

Re: SOLVED :-) Re: Wierd time changes

2004-03-10 Thread Denis R.
Mark, No clue from sysctl -a. Yes, I've looked through archives and google. Since I don't see a lot of performance improvement from using the second CPU, I will leave this issue alone for now. Hopefully, someone will post a sweet solution to this bugging issue. Thanks for your help, Denis > Onl

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:06:19PM -0500, Crucial Servers wrote: > I wish this was an option for me but the contracted machine is in C&W's > network operation center, not mine. I have no access to there machine > besides remote root. It's going to be pretty dangerous to update, then. You need som

Re: Java installation: pdmu not found

2004-03-10 Thread Sven Hohage
Well after a lot of steps i've had succes in doing portupgrade -ra Strangely kde wasn't updateddo I have to change some settings? But my real problem is Java. The port has been installed (it was very quick...I've read about some hours??) . But when I try to start java I get the message: Error

Re: IDE cd-burner, Can it be done???

2004-03-10 Thread Cordula's Web
> I have a IDE cd-burner in my FreeBSD 5.1 box. I have installed cdrecord > from the ports but this looks like it needs a SCSI drive. Is there a CMD > line cd-record package that works with a IDE cd-burner. Here is a line > from dmesg: /usr/sbin/burncd -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

IDE cd-burner, Can it be done???

2004-03-10 Thread whizkid
I have a IDE cd-burner in my FreeBSD 5.1 box. I have installed cdrecord from the ports but this looks like it needs a SCSI drive. Is there a CMD line cd-record package that works with a IDE cd-burner. Here is a line from dmesg: acd0: CD-RW at ata1-master PIO4 uname -a: 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1

Re: SOLVED :-) Re: Wierd time changes

2004-03-10 Thread Mark Ovens
Denis R. wrote: Hi Mark! Gee, who would have thought that it was the keyboard. Thanks for your ideas. I recompiled the kernel (Compaq SP700 dual PII-450) following the NOTES guidelines and your email, with these enabled: # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP

Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.

2004-03-10 Thread samy lancher
Ok, here is what i understood. I need to set up VPN server on my FreeBSD server giving permission to the outside XP system to access the server. On the outside XP system, I need to connect VPN box (eg. LinkSys part number BEFVP41) to the system and this one does not require any additional VPN

3com modem

2004-03-10 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Have a 3com pci internal vioce modem installed in my 4.9 stable system but don't seem to be able to activate it sould this not happen automagically? I do not see it in the dmesg logs at all i am pretty sure that comm ports are compiled into the kernel. How do i go about ckecking it or troubleshoo

Re: FreeBSD, SSH and "Enter Authentication Response"

2004-03-10 Thread Rishi Chopra
To quote Ringo Starr ala The Simpsons, "Please forgive the lateness of my reply". Matthew: Your suggestion worked beautifully. Changing /etc/ssh/sshd_config solved my "confirmation login" problem quite nicely. Just to confirm, I am running the version of SSH that comes standard with FreeBSD

VPN Suggestions Please

2004-03-10 Thread Zen
Evening All, I am looking for the best way to connect the following machines together with a VPN. wk2 -->FreebsdNT4 Server We have users with wk2 at home. We have a FreeBSD machine sitting on both internal and external network. They want to be able to get files off the NT server. Look for

sendmail config query

2004-03-10 Thread Chris Richards
Hiya, I am running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10 and want to configure SMTP-AUTH/TLS. A friend gave me some instructions on how to do it and they talk about editing "$SRC/devtools/Site/site.config.m4" $SRC being the sendmail source of course. My friend is not a FreeBSD user so I can't ask him for help.

tty-level buffer overflows

2004-03-10 Thread webmaster
I've been searching for an answer to this for a while now. My freebsd box (4.9-RELEASE + Custom Kernel) runs ppp just fine (ppp -ddial from rc.conf) and I have no problems connecting. The problem I have is that after a while my connection will hang, but not disconnect, and I have a ton of

re: SOLVED :-) Re: Wierd time changes

2004-03-10 Thread Denis R.
Hi Mark! Gee, who would have thought that it was the keyboard. Thanks for your ideas. I recompiled the kernel (Compaq SP700 dual PII-450) following the NOTES guidelines and your email, with these enabled: # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP # Sy

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5

2004-03-10 Thread Crucial Servers
I wish this was an option for me but the contracted machine is in C&W's network operation center, not mine. I have no access to there machine besides remote root. James - Original Message - From: "Vulpes Velox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Crucial Servers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: XEmacs woes...

2004-03-10 Thread Henrik W Lund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary W. Swearingen wrote: | Henrik W Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | |> right after it has loaded view-less.el. I tried looking through |> view-less.el, but to no avail. | | | You might try putting this in your .emacs file: | | (setq debug-on-error

[5.2.1] trouble with an USB key

2004-03-10 Thread Jacques Beigbeder
On a FreeBSD 5.2.1, I have an *OLD* USB disk which works: [ ... ] kernel: vendor 0x0c45 USB Mass Storage Device, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 [ ... ] [ ... ] kernel: da2: 31MB (64000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 31C) Another one fails: [ ... ] umass0: Kingston DataTraveler2.0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 No d

Re: IPFW question

2004-03-10 Thread MikeM
Since I reload the firewall rules remotely, I need the -q option on the ipfw command, e.g.: ipfw -q /etc/ipfw.conf otherwise I lose my ssh connection to the box. See man ipfw(8) for details on -q On 3/10/2004 at 8:27 PM Thomas Vogt wrote: |Hi | |ipfw flush # deletes all |ipfw /etc/ipfw.co

Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.

2004-03-10 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. The XP system outside our LAN is not in another > LAN. It is just an individual system. So does it work the same > for this system. Could you please refer any good manual to achieve my > goal. There are IPSec clients that

Re: IPFW question

2004-03-10 Thread Martin Welk
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:52:06PM +0100, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: > FreeBSD 5.2 system. My problem is, how can I reload the whole thing? The /sbin/ipfw -q /path/to/your/custom/rulesetfile No RTFM intended - there are further options, plese have a look at the ipfw(8) man page. Regards,

usb-serial adapter doesnt work

2004-03-10 Thread Macio Plona
Hello, Ive got laptop Toshiba Satellite A20-s103. There are no comms port, but 3 USBs. I need get to console to some server, so i purchased an USB-RS232 adapter. My system recognized it, but i cant `cu` or `tip` to any machine... :( Could somebody help me make it work? Part of `dmesg`: ugen0: Pro

Re: IPFW question

2004-03-10 Thread Thomas Vogt
Hi ipfw flush # deletes all ipfw /etc/ipfw.conf # loads all regards Thomas Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Hi! I'm using my own ip firewall (firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.conf") on my FreeBSD 5.2 system. My problem is, how can I reload the whole thing? The ipfw command is for creating and deleting individ

Re: IPFW question

2004-03-10 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 10, 2004, at 1:52 PM, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: I'm using my own ip firewall (firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.conf") on my FreeBSD 5.2 system. My problem is, how can I reload the whole thing? Try "sh /etc/rc.firewall", or "ipfw -p /bin/cat /etc/ipfw.conf". If you are not on the console of the mac

Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.

2004-03-10 Thread samy lancher
Thanks for the reply. The XP system outside our LAN is not in another LAN. It is just an individual system. So does it work the same for this system. Could you please refer any good manual to achieve my goal. Thanks. Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher w

Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.

2004-03-10 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher wrote: > >Hey guys, >I have a FreeBSD server and windows XP workstations in our LAN network.I >use samba to access server files from XP machines. Very soon, I will be >having a windows XP system outside our LAN that needs access to our FreeBSD >server. Is there

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to know

Server access using Samba from out side LAN.

2004-03-10 Thread samy lancher
Hey guys, I have a FreeBSD server and windows XP workstations in our LAN network.I use samba to access server files from XP machines. Very soon, I will be having a windows XP system outside our LAN that needs access to our FreeBSD server. Is there any way i can access the server data from tha

IPFW question

2004-03-10 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Hi! I'm using my own ip firewall (firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.conf") on my FreeBSD 5.2 system. My problem is, how can I reload the whole thing? The ipfw command is for creating and deleting individual rules. What I would like to do is to create profiles (different config files) and reload the wh

Re: Per-User QUOTA's vs blocksize

2004-03-10 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, - Original Message - From: "Scott Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" To: To Matthew Seaman Date: Wed, 10 Mar, 2004 09:56 GMT Subject: Re: Per-User QUOTA's vs blocksize > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:05:54PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:48:51PM +, Stacey

Newbie install goes well until...

2004-03-10 Thread Stewart Yaxley
I am installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 on an AMD 64 3000+, w/ 512Meg RAM. Booting from CDROM with the Boot CD (pulled from the FTP site as an ISO image, burned in Win XP). All the necessary hardware is detected without errors, I am able to get as far as partioning my drives (setup root, swap, /var, /usr

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:35:48AM -0500, Dan Pelleg wrote: > > What would be useful is multiple (e.g. at least half a dozen) fast > > machines with good network connectivity. Individual machines aren't > > much help, I'm afraid. Thanks for the offer though. > > > > Just a thought - a distcc ba

NIC-independent watchdog timeout on 5.2.1-R

2004-03-10 Thread Alan Gerber
Hey all, I'm trying to put 5.2.1-Release on my desktop at home, and I'm experiencing a couple of errors that have me confused. First, I get a number of "module_register: module ???/??? already exists!\nModule ???/??? falied to register: 17" errors on startup (I'm including the dmesg output whi

Re: natd + ipfw - very slow internet for LAN users

2004-03-10 Thread Prodigy
> Ping to an ip address does not use DNS. > What is response time when you use ping domain name? It's ~250ms for google.com and other domains (good enough too). > I see you have forced ip address for your nic card connected to the > public internet by using rc.conf statement. > This looks wrong to

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Dictos
Point well taken. -Jason -Original Message- From: Erik Trulsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:24 AM To: Jason Dictos Cc: 'Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko'; Dan Nelson; ''[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ' Subject: Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running On Wed, Mar 10, 2004

corrupted boot loader

2004-03-10 Thread C.L. Lai [ALAN]
my boot loader is corrupted during improper shutdown, is there anyway i can fix it w/o having local access to the machine? thx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:49:17AM -0800, Jason Dictos wrote: > > > > To Jason: take care not to *write* anything to the disk via int 13h. > > I still don't think I understand why you are using FreeBSD for this > specific purpose. Why if you just >spend time escaping from the OS? > > We actuall

Re: formail recipe

2004-03-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I know what you mean. Mine's over 6700, and that's just since 1/1/04. I have no doubt whatsoever there are a good number of people here that have that beat several times over in the same period of time. What I do to trim mine down is just take the oldest messages out. Naturally, this can be trick

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Dictos
> To Jason: take care not to *write* anything to the disk via int 13h. > I still don't think I understand why you are using FreeBSD for this specific purpose. Why if you just >spend time escaping from the OS? We actually _like_ protected mode, it allows us to be more flexible and our code doesn

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Dictos
DD's great and all, but I'm not talking about which method to use, I'm talking about a guaranteed way to access a device without having to rely on any device drivers. Take a look at this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lrmi/ This provides a dpmi style interface for linux and bsd, thats exactly

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Dictos
The goal here is simply this: To be able to write to a systems hard drive with just bios support. I dont' want to have to deal with bundling every known ide/scsi/raid adapter driver in a bsd kernel. Here's something that I found though that may be exactly what I have been looking for: http://sourc

Re: Restore command line options

2004-03-10 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
"Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have I missed some command line options here to avoide having to answer the > perms and volume questions? I don't know, but the lang/expect port has one solution to running interactive programs non-interactively. See "http://expect.nist.gov";. I think y

IOCTL(SIOCIPFL6): Invalid Argument

2004-03-10 Thread Waif W. Urchin
Looking for some assistance, please: Working with FSBD 5.1. On reboot I see the following comment: ... Enabling ipfilter ioctl(SIOCIPFL6): Invalid Argument ... Google is mute on the subject except for listing where this item is used as a preprocessor directive. I have modified /etc/rc.d/ipfilt

formail recipe

2004-03-10 Thread David Bear
Hope I'm not imposing too much on this group.. but since this group has a collection of the best, brightest, and generous.. I wonder if someone might have a formail recipe that would randomly select N messages from a mailbox of M messages? I have a spam corpus thats well over 1 and need to tr

Re: Recycled cd's

2004-03-10 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 10:10 am, Quintin Riis wrote: > Aww! If I had more disposable income, I would purchase some. Nifty > thing to have. > > Quintin > > Mark Ovens wrote: > | Quintin Riis wrote: > |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > |> Hash: SHA1 > |> > |> That has to be w

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > --Signature=_Wed__10_Mar_2004_08_12_00_+0300_m3U9Vu7vS=cMcNXd > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:03:34 -0800 > Jason Dictos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > > The situation is > > this

Re: Recycled cd's

2004-03-10 Thread Quintin Riis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aww! If I had more disposable income, I would purchase some. Nifty thing to have. Quintin Mark Ovens wrote: | Quintin Riis wrote: | |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> That has to be worth millions! | | | | If that's the case

kernel arp errors

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am running 5.2.1 with two NIC's, both connected to a Cisco switch with a Cisco router also connected to the switch for Internet connectivity. There are 5 eth ports on the router, one of them with an address assigned of 66.129.101.193/28 and another with 66.129.101.217/29, the other eth ports are

Re: ntpd question

2004-03-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:49:53PM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > I run ntpd to keep my server's time in sync with a remote server. In my > "netstat -a" output, I see: > > Active Internet connections (including servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(stat

Re: Firewall & DSL performance

2004-03-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:10:05AM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Well, > last night I changed the ipf.rules file to be: > > pass in all keep state > pass out all keep state > > to completely open my firewall to test my performance. > > Well, it didn't make a lick of difference. Still got > 700K.

Re: ntpd question

2004-03-10 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Matthew Seaman wrote: Unfortuately if you're going to run ntpd, you can't get rid of these: ntpd(8) will automatically bind to all interfaces on the system, and there are no controls within ntpd to control that. Darn. Thanks for the suggestions! I was already controlling access to the port with m

natd + ipfw - very slow internet for LAN users

2004-03-10 Thread Prodigy
Hi, i'm sharing internet to my local area network (LAN) users with my router. Everything would be fine, but internet is very slow. I tried to ping my ISP. Ping reply is ~50ms. It means, that internet for LAN users should be good enough, but it isn't. Ping reply in IRC is ~15 seconds. Then I tr

Re: rc script timing issues?

2004-03-10 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Peter Risdon wrote: From man 8 rc.d: The scripts within each directory are executed in lexicographical order. If a specific order is required, numbers may be used as a prefix to the existing filenames, so for example 100.foo would be executed before 200.bar; with

Re: Restore command line options

2004-03-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > How about I post this again, without the typo's :-O > > Hi all, > > I recently had the opertunity to restore a clients mysql db as he had > removed a bunch of needed data from his shopping cart. > > While the restore command worked OK I was wondering if there is a way to > command line it a

Re: Enabling quotas

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Barten
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:00:50AM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I am running 5.2.1 and trying to enable quotas, I see that I need to > build and install my own custom kernel to support this? I read the > Chapter 9 in the Handbook, but don't quite understand one thing. I can't > seem to locate

Restore command line options

2004-03-10 Thread Grant Peel
How about I post this again, without the typo's :-O Hi all, I recently had the opertunity to restore a clients mysql db as he had removed a bunch of needed data from his shopping cart. While the restore command worked OK I was wondering if there is a way to command line it a bit so as not to hav

Enabling quotas

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am running 5.2.1 and trying to enable quotas, I see that I need to build and install my own custom kernel to support this? I read the Chapter 9 in the Handbook, but don't quite understand one thing. I can't seem to locate what changes I need to make to the new kernel configuration before buildin

RE: Firewall & DSL performance

2004-03-10 Thread Darryl Hoar
I didn't mean to imply that ipfilter itself had a performance problem, just that my configuration/hardware exhibited a performance problem once my DSL was boosted to 1.5Mb. There is a box on the side of my house that the fiber is connected to. It has a network port for testing. The tech connecte

Re: web based configuration as root or equivalent

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Risdon
This is a bit belated, but I have been thinking along similar lines and hope this might be of assistance... Bjorn Eikeland wrote: På Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:27:21 -0600, skrev Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Bjorn Eikeland wrote: I'm wanting to make a web based configuration to

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