Procmail: how to deliver email over an ssh-tunnel to my smtp server.

2005-04-05 Thread Rob
Hello, I'm having 4.11 and 5.3 FreeBSD PCs. All incoming email arrives through fetchmail (using imap protocol). I then filter all email with procmail, which is configured such that it trashes spam, or delivers to local mailbox, or forwards to another external address. For external del

Re: .iso

2005-04-05 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
bertybadboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which .iso files do i download and burn onto a cd? I think this is a FAQ more or less, but anyway - for a 'normal' install, with base system and a reasonable helping of the most popular packages, what you need is a -disc1.iso (which comes in two flavors i

make nodes for new disk with devfs

2005-04-05 Thread Tetsuji \"Maverick\" Rai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm having a problem with devfs in 6-current. I used to use FreeBSD about 7-8 years ago, but since then I've been using Linux, and got back to freebsd these days, and found MAKEDEV has gone!! I was astonished to see major nodes of all devices are

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 93, Issue 7

2005-04-05 Thread Tejaswy Appalla
i just got the latest freebsd 5.3 & started installing it. The system booted with the cd and a series of things appeared (including saturn "the red guy") on the screen until it got hanged up. I dont know what to do. The last two lines that appeared after which the system hanged were: ado: WARNING

Re: Geom_gbde and Hardware Crypto Accelerators

2005-04-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Tancsa writes: >On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:21:34 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions >you wrote: > >>After searching google and the archives I wasn't able to find any >>current information on the status of hardware cryptographic >>accelerators (like the Soekri

Re: flockfile does not work with stdout (on

2005-04-05 Thread Till Plewe
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:40:49PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 06), Till Plewe said: > > How can I control the output of processes (forked from a single > > process) all writing to the same file? > > f{un,}lockfile(file) seems to work unless file=stdout. > > If they are sti

Re: efax with a serial 3com us robotics 56k modem

2005-04-05 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Apr 5, 2005 2:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe your xfax modem is what is called a winmodem. > These type of cheap modems are built just for the ms/windows market > and do not work on FreeBSD. > They are missing the onboard hardware controller which is why you > ha

Re: flockfile does not work with stdout (on

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 06), Till Plewe said: > How can I control the output of processes (forked from a single > process) all writing to the same file? > f{un,}lockfile(file) seems to work unless file=stdout. If they are still the same process image (i.e. no execs), you could mmap some ANONYMOUS

Re: Copying files off Samba Server - freezes/very slow

2005-04-05 Thread Matt Navarre
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 03:13 am, Gareth Bailey wrote: > I have just upgraded the hardware of our development server. I thought > that our file server used to be slow due to slow hardware, but now > that we have upgraded I am a bit puzzled. > > Samba seems to slow or hang (top reports smbd CPU usa

Re: Geom_gbde and Hardware Crypto Accelerators

2005-04-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:21:34 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >After searching google and the archives I wasn't able to find any >current information on the status of hardware cryptographic >accelerators (like the Soekris vpn1401) and gbde. Can gbde harness the >power of one

PHP support for --with-oci8-instant-client

2005-04-05 Thread Nigel Wohlers
Hi All, Has anyone attempted to get Oracle Instant Client (http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/notes/technote_php_instant.html) working with PHP(4.3.11 or 5.0.4). Basically you download the rpm's or zip's supplied by oracle and add the --with-oci8-instant-client=/usr/lib/oracle/10.1.0.3/client to

Re: apcupsd with usb

2005-04-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:27:55 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Hi there, > >a few months back there was already a question in this list regarding >usb support in apcupsd since afaik only usb with linux is still supported. >But there was a beta version named apcupsd-3.10.16-test2

flockfile does not work with stdout (on

2005-04-05 Thread Till Plewe
How can I control the output of processes (forked from a single process) all writing to the same file? f{un,}lockfile(file) seems to work unless file=stdout. Are there any other simple methods I can try? - Till PS. I am using 5.4-PRERELEASE i386 SMP-GENERIC ___

Re: 4.12 release

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 05), Gerry Freymann said: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:44:50 -0700 > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:41:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Is there going to be a 4.12 release?? > > > >No. > > So... if I've read things correctly, we

Re: 4.12 release

2005-04-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:52:36PM -0400, Gerry Freymann wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:44:50 -0700 > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:41:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Is there going to be a 4.12 release?? > > > >No. > > So... if I've read thin

Re: ipf.rules

2005-04-05 Thread wizlayer
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:50 pm, Francis Whittington wrote: > Hi all, > In ipf.rules at the section below it says to run 1st rule, > then look for ip address, put it in commented out rule and > delete 1st rule . How do I know what ip address is my isp's > DHCP server address? > > > # Allow o

Re: Digital Cameras

2005-04-05 Thread dgmm
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 18:51, Danny Howard wrote: > Another tip: reading the data is only half the battle.  Personally, > managing pictures is one of the three things I do with my Windows > computer.  (The other two are games and Quicken.)  The XP/2k file > browser in "thumbnail" mode is very nic

Re: 4.12 release

2005-04-05 Thread Gerry Freymann
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:44:50 -0700 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:41:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is there going to be a 4.12 release?? > >No. So... if I've read things correctly, we are now moving to FreeBSD 5 Release? And the ports will be upda

ipf.rules

2005-04-05 Thread Francis Whittington
Hi all, In ipf.rules at the section below it says to run 1st rule, then look for ip address, put it in commented out rule and delete 1st rule . How do I know what ip address is my isp's DHCP server address? > # Allow out access to my ISP's DHCP server for cable or DSL networks. # This rule

Unusual dmesg output

2005-04-05 Thread Chuck Teal
I saw this roll by the screen on bootup. It came up 2X during the boot up process. What does it mean? It is something to be worried about? I have not noticed any problems with my system. It just bothers me not knowing what this is about. Here is a portion of the output. 534 numposza

Re: suspending login

2005-04-05 Thread Bob Ababurko
Ean Kingston wrote: On April 5, 2005 06:42 pm, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello all- I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) way to disallow a user from logging in? the safest way is to set the shell to

Re: [PATCH TO TEST] VESA [1024x768] mode support for FreeBSD-CURRENT

2005-04-05 Thread Michal Mertl
Didier Wiroth wrote: > Unfortunately with patch applied it does not compile on stable: > > Warning: Object directory not changed from original > /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol > cc -O -pipe -c vidcontrol.c > vidcontrol.c: In function `video_mode': > vidcontrol.c:500: error: `_VESA_800x600_DFL_CO

Re: drm/dri/glxinfo on 6-current & xorg 6.8.2 with radeon 9200

2005-04-05 Thread Michal Mertl
Randy Primeaux wrote: > Hi, > I'm having trouble getting DRI direct rendering enabled. I had it enabled > in October, however since then I've upgraded everything but my video > card. > > The earliest point where I can find a failure report is in Xorg.0.log: > (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to map v

Re: Bourn Shell Scripts that Produce Multiple Files

2005-04-05 Thread Mario Hoerich
# Martin McCormick: > I wrote a Bourn Shell script which has a while loop in it that > reads a file line by line. The output of the script is supposed to go > to a file with a different name for each iteration of the loop. This > scheme is obviously a rotten idea because all the new files e

drm/dri/glxinfo on 6-current & xorg 6.8.2 with radeon 9200

2005-04-05 Thread Randy Primeaux
Hi, I'm having trouble getting DRI direct rendering enabled. I had it enabled in October, however since then I've upgraded everything but my video card. The earliest point where I can find a failure report is in Xorg.0.log: (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to map vertex/indirect buffers list The onl

Re: suspending login

2005-04-05 Thread Ean Kingston
On April 5, 2005 06:42 pm, Bob Ababurko wrote: > Hello all- > > I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have > to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) > way to disallow a user from logging in? the safest way is to set the shell to /sbin/nol

Re: suspending login

2005-04-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:42:08 -0400 Bob Ababurko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, > I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I > have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute > force) way to disallow a user from logging in? do you want to directly di

Re: suspending login

2005-04-05 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 17:42, Bob Ababurko wrote: > Hello all- > > I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I > have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read > brute force) way to disallow a user from logging in? > > -thanks, > Bob > __

suspending login

2005-04-05 Thread Bob Ababurko
Hello all- I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) way to disallow a user from logging in? -thanks, Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: ftp problems

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 05), Brett Wiggins said: > Hi all, > I am having some problems using the freebsd ftp program. > when I type; > ftp username.customer.netspace.net.au password > I get the following message; > servname not supported for ai

Re: Hyperthreading not working on my 5.3 FreeBSD

2005-04-05 Thread Ed Stover
don't you need apic as well ? device apic# I/O APIC On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 13:42 +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > faisal gillani writes: > > > Well the output of my dmesg command is only showing 1 > > processor , HT is enabled in bios , & working on > > windows XP on the same

ftp problems

2005-04-05 Thread Brett Wiggins
Hi all, I am having some problems using the freebsd ftp program. when I type; ftp username.customer.netspace.net.au password I get the following message; servname not supported for ai_socktype Am I using the right syntax? When I consulted

Re: question about mysql-server.sh

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 05), Ed Stover said: > rcsubr is the culprit, when you added the line in the rc.conf then > all was well. You can add a line in the rc.conf and then run the > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start command with out having to > reboot. Personally I really dislike rcsubr,

Re: Copying files off Samba Server - freezes/very slow

2005-04-05 Thread Ed Stover
Let us take a look at you smbd.conf, that might help. On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 12:13 +0200, Gareth Bailey wrote: > I have just upgraded the hardware of our development server. I thought > that our file server used to be slow due to slow hardware, but now > that we have upgraded I am a bit puzzled. >

Re: PRERELEASE?

2005-04-05 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Apr 5, 2005 5:26 PM, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Hall wrote: > > >We currently have 5.4-PRERELEASE installed on our web box: > > > >outpost# uname -a > >FreeBSD outpost.blacklotus.net 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Wed > >Mar 30 13:38:38 MST 2005 > >[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: question about mysql-server.sh

2005-04-05 Thread Ed Stover
rcsubr is the culprit, when you added the line in the rc.conf then all was well. You can add a line in the rc.conf and then run the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start command with out having to reboot. Personally I really dislike rcsubr, makes me think that FreeBSD is drifting toward linux's

RE: ipfilter.log

2005-04-05 Thread bob
I wrote the official handbook firewall section based on 4.10 release before ipfilter was incorporated into the base of 5.3. You are incorrect to think that what you read in the official handbook is for 5.3 only. I have submitted a change to the handbook to correct it saying that 5.3 uses security.*

Geom_gbde and Hardware Crypto Accelerators

2005-04-05 Thread Dustin Wilhoit
After searching google and the archives I wasn't able to find any current information on the status of hardware cryptographic accelerators (like the Soekris vpn1401) and gbde. Can gbde harness the power of one of these accelerator cards yet? If so do they provide significant offloading from t

Re: ipfilter.log

2005-04-05 Thread Francis Whittington
Hi again Bob, I read the ipfilter section of the Official manual for 5.3. Where it talks about adding that line to syslog.conf, (local0.* /var/log/ipfilter.log), well it says to put local0.*. It doesn't mention putting security.*, although it did work for me. I looked through the errata sect

Re : Re: Re : Re: [PATCH TO TEST] VESA [1024x768] mode support for FreeBSD-CURRENT

2005-04-05 Thread Didier Wiroth
Unfortunately with patch applied it does not compile on stable: Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol cc -O -pipe -c vidcontrol.c vidcontrol.c: In function `video_mode': vidcontrol.c:500: error: `_VESA_800x600_DFL_COLS' undeclared (first use in this fu

Bourn Shell Scripts that Produce Multiple Files

2005-04-05 Thread Martin McCormick
I wrote a Bourn Shell script which has a while loop in it that reads a file line by line. The output of the script is supposed to go to a file with a different name for each iteration of the loop. This scheme is obviously a rotten idea because all the new files end up created, but quite e

Re: printing

2005-04-05 Thread Chris
Gert Cuykens wrote: Does anybody know if i need to install a extra cups pkg and what the uri is for a windows shared printer ? smb://workgroup/server/sharename ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

dhclient oddness?

2005-04-05 Thread Mark Cullen
Right, I have this weird annoying issue with my modem which I have finally got around to looking in to. Basically, it's all good and works fine (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be here!), except when I reboot the internet computer the IP will change, the connection DOESN'T drop, but the IP does

Re: Re : Re: [PATCH TO TEST] VESA [1024x768] mode support for FreeBSD-CURRENT

2005-04-05 Thread Michal Mertl
Didier Wiroth wrote: > Hello, > Thank you very much for replying. > > > cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol > > patch > I'm using the RELENG_5 sources from today. > The syscons.diff.20050215 works but the vidcontrol.diff.20050215 gives > some errors. The diff is against the sources from -CURRENT w

Re : Re: [PATCH TO TEST] VESA [1024x768] mode support for FreeBSD-CURRENT

2005-04-05 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hello, Thank you very much for replying. > cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol > patch http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

MosChip 9805 PCI Parallel Port

2005-04-05 Thread David Taylor
I'm having trouble trying to get a NM9805 PCI parallel printer port working in 5.4-STABLE. I've got "device lpt" and "device puc" in the kernel. pciconf -lv shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8:0: class=0x078000 card=0x00101000 chip=0x98059710 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'MosChip Semiconductors (Wa

Re: printing

2005-04-05 Thread Gert Cuykens
Does anybody know if i need to install a extra cups pkg and what the uri is for a windows shared printer ? smb://workgroup/server/sharename ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: [PATCH TO TEST] VESA [1024x768] mode support for FreeBSD-CURRENT

2005-04-05 Thread Michal Mertl
Didier Wiroth wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using freebsd 5.4-prerelease on my laptop. My laptop has an ati > mobility radeon 9600. > Unfortunately it has very poor console vesa support. SC_PIXEL_MODE does > not work, 90x60 is the highest resolution I can get for now. > It looks like I'm not the only one

Re: vesa 1024x768 mode in future version? to the freebsd community

2005-04-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Didier Wiroth writes: > May be other users think the same? I'd definitely like to see text modes with higher resolution. I don't really care about graphics, but I'd like to be able to squeeze more text onto the console. I'd also like a better choice of fonts to improve readability, and a better

vesa 1024x768 mode in future version? to the freebsd community

2005-04-05 Thread Didier Wiroth
Dear FreeBSD Team, Dear FreeBSD Users, I was wondering if the patches (see link below) have any chances to make their ways into a future release version or may be in the ports collection? Here are the patches I'm talking about: http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/vesa Actually the vidcontrol.dif

RE: shell question

2005-04-05 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Björn König wrote: > > > > program stdout 2> stderr > > > cat stdout > out > > > a2ps stdout >> out > > You meant > >program stdout 2> stderr >cat stdout > out >a2ps **stderr** >> out > > Don't you? > yes! sorry!

mc superuser

2005-04-05 Thread Gert Cuykens
is there a command you can do in mc that gives mc su rights without closing it ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Is sshd limiting the rate of successful connections?

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alex Kapranoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that a recent 5-STABLE limits the rate of successful incoming > logins. Is it true? We failed to find the relevant code neither in > openssh nor in openpam. The symptoms are that after a big number of > quick successful logins sshd starts to de

Re: vinum trouble on 5.3-Stable

2005-04-05 Thread Ean Kingston
> I upgraded to 5.3 on one system a while ago. And > when it boots up vinum panics the system on startup > with this message: > panic: unmount: dangling vnode > > I found that if I boot in single user mode and > mount / to make it rw, then start vinum, everything > is fine. > > I just patched the

Re: 4.12 release

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there going to be a 4.12 release?? Not in anyone's plans. I think we could get 4.11.1 though, in case 4.11 is compromised with a very critical security issue. Not very likely in any case. Wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Securely allowing just one application via telnet

2005-04-05 Thread Chris
Danny Howard wrote: Anthony, "Securely" and "telnet" is an oxymoron. This is mainly because any data, including passwords, sent through a non-encrypted connection, can be sniffed by anyone who can access any of the intervening networks. Your question is really very open-ended and vague. The

Re: Digital Cameras

2005-04-05 Thread Danny Howard
Anthony Atkielski wrote: You might be better off removing the card and using a card reader. Card reader specs are much more generalized and consistent than digital camera specs. If the type of card/reader your camera uses is unsupported by FreeBSD, at least you have a better chance of getting supp

Re: Securely allowing just one application via telnet

2005-04-05 Thread Danny Howard
Anthony, "Securely" and "telnet" is an oxymoron. This is mainly because any data, including passwords, sent through a non-encrypted connection, can be sniffed by anyone who can access any of the intervening networks. Your question is really very open-ended and vague. The correct question may

Re: 4.12 release

2005-04-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:41:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there going to be a 4.12 release?? No. Kris pgps8r8FVsucU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HZ=1000 ?

2005-04-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Emanuel Strobl writes: > Sorry, a bit OT, but I'm really impressed how constant power line frequency > is. It isn't just in Germany. A number of power utilities work hard to keep line frequency extremely constant, specifically for the purpose of allowing the frequency to be used to discipline cl

4.12 release

2005-04-05 Thread bob
Is there going to be a 4.12 release?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: can't make iso image

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"T.F. Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I want to make ISO image in order to burn a CD, but > both mkisofs and vcdimager failed to do so, mkisofs > reported as: > >>mkisofs: Input/output error. cannot read from > foo.mpg > while vcdimager said: > >>**ERROR: fread (): Input/output err

Re: Temperature and fan speed on INTEL D925CV2

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Danny Pansters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an INTEL D925CV2 baord in my new box. Does anyone know if/how I can > get > temperature - fan speed - other measurements from it? > > (No, lmmon does not work) I have no idea, but have you tried enabling acpi_thermal(4)? -- Lowell Gilbert,

RE: shell question

2005-04-05 Thread Björn König
> > program stdout 2> stderr > > cat stdout > out > > a2ps stdout >> out You meant program stdout 2> stderr cat stdout > out a2ps **stderr** >> out Don't you? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Boot manager

2005-04-05 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Teilhard Knight wrote: Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together with a Drive Overlay. I used to use System Commander, but have found the last few releases to be very unreliable, so I've since

Re: PRERELEASE?

2005-04-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
John Hall wrote: We currently have 5.4-PRERELEASE installed on our web box: outpost# uname -a FreeBSD outpost.blacklotus.net 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Mar 30 13:38:38 MST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OUTPOST i386 I need to know if we need to update the server to

RE: shell question

2005-04-05 Thread Björn König
mrspock at esfm dot ipn dot mx wrote: > I need to concatenate the standard output and then standard > error output in a file, but I need to convert the standard > output into PostScript before the concatenation. > > program stdout 2> stderr > cat stdout > out > a2

PRERELEASE?

2005-04-05 Thread John Hall
We currently have 5.4-PRERELEASE installed on our web box: outpost# uname -a FreeBSD outpost.blacklotus.net 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Mar 30 13:38:38 MST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OUTPOST i386 I need to know if we need to update the server to 5.4-RELEASE wit

Re: how to be a freeBSD mirror

2005-04-05 Thread Philip Hallstrom
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/index.html On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: Hello, We're the stuff of the free software department at the university of Orléans (France) We'd like to be a mirror of freee BSD (all arches, all branches) What documentat

shell question

2005-04-05 Thread mrspock
Hello FreeBSD gurus! I address you in hope of enlightment. Here is the problem: I have a program that creates a PostScript output and writes it to its standard output. This program also writes diagnostic messages to the standard error output at the same time, in this case the messages are writ

vinum trouble on 5.3-Stable

2005-04-05 Thread Paul T. Root
I upgraded to 5.3 on one system a while ago. And when it boots up vinum panics the system on startup with this message: panic: unmount: dangling vnode I found that if I boot in single user mode and mount / to make it rw, then start vinum, everything is fine. I just patched the kernel for the sendfi

Re: Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Iain Dooley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > do i need to edit the Makefiles? how can i cvsup only those programs > in contrib that i need? my aim here is to have a compact source tree > that i can use cvsup to keep current, but only takes up a couple of > hundred meg. Doing this is not supported.

how to be a freeBSD mirror

2005-04-05 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
Hello, We're the stuff of the free software department at the university of Orléans (France) We'd like to be a mirror of freee BSD (all arches, all branches) What documentation would you recommend us to read about technical tips and admnistrative request to the FreeBSD project team? The serve

Re: Viewing DNS cache entries

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 05), Martin Petraschek said: > The operating system is caching DNS name resolutions in order to > avoid repeated DNS requests for the same hostname. Is it possible to > display the entries of that DNS cache? > > Under Windows, the command "ipconfig /displaydns" exists, and

Re: Problem with 'pkgdb -F'

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Nehren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-04-05, Sergei Gnezdov scribbled these curious markings: > Here is the interaction with pkgdb. If I start 'pkgdb -F' after > running it once, the process will repeat itself. > > owl2-root % pkgdb -F > ---> Checking the package registry databas

Re: screwy network/dmz problem

2005-04-05 Thread Chip Wiegand
"Jerry Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/04/2005 05:11:22 PM: > The first thing I would check is that it's the BSD box that you are > actually pinging. I'd try unplugging it and trying the ping again from > the IIS box. Barring that, I would double and triple check the network > mask on the

Re: Sysinstall in Xterm in color ?

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andre Nas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How to make sysinstall menu in xterm have origin color (blue yellow) not > black and white. It does for me. [-STABLE, up-to-date XOrg] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: Keeping installed packages up to date

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Kenneth A. Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have followed the steps outlined in Richard > Bejtlich's document Keeping FreeBSD Applications > Up-To-Date > (http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_applications_up-to-date.html) Did you look at the official FreeBSD documentation before follo

Viewing DNS cache entries

2005-04-05 Thread Martin Petraschek
Hi! The operating system is caching DNS name resolutions in order to avoid repeated DNS requests for the same hostname. Is it possible to display the entries of that DNS cache? Under Windows, the command "ipconfig /displaydns" exists, and I would need that functionality under FreeBSD. Thank

RE: Promise TX2 Rebuild via atacontrol??

2005-04-05 Thread Edgar Martinez
I apologize...I usually am the one complaining to others about versioning...my bad... I do not think that the drive is at fault as much as the controller. I have had to deploy well over one hundred of the exact same configuration, and historically, it's always been the controller that just drops t

Re: dummynet problems

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sergey Lapin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, all! > Here I have a problem with dummynet. System is FreeBSD-5.3-STABLE month ago. > we have very small bandwidth from LAN. > rl0 is internal interface. > > ipfw rukes are (fwcmd=/sbin/ipfw): > ${fwcmd} pipe 1 config bw 60Kbit/s > ${fwcmd} add

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Danny Pansters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:46, Gert Cuykens wrote: > > Is the only way to setup a ftp by enabeling inetd ? > > If so i want a /etc/rc.d/ftpd script too > > Standard ftpd runs through inetd. It *can* run as a daemon, without inetd. __

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew P.
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 5, 2005 2:53 AM, Danny Pansters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:46, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 9:54 PM, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 12:04 PM, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote

Re: printing

2005-04-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:53:36AM +0200, Gert Cuykens wrote: > "USB interfaces, named for the Universal Serial Bus, can run at even > faster speeds than parallel or RS232 serial interfaces. Cables are > simple and cheap. USB is superior to RS232 Serial and to Parallel for > printing, but it is not

(Solve)Re: Securelevel dont let ipf read rules...

2005-04-05 Thread perikillo
One big mistake by my part. like you see below, i was having problems with secure level and ipf, but the problem was this: My old /etc/rc.conf was: kernel_securelevel=3 But after checking man rc.conf again, is kern_securelevel This way rc.conf dont let freebsd set that variable, now i can run

question about mysql-server.sh

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Lane
Hi, Long story made short: The mysql-server.sh that came with mysql-server-4.1.10a (installed from cvsup'ed ports) wouldn't work until after I rebooted the server. It's working now, so I know I shouldn't complain, but anyone know what happened? Long story: 1. Minimum installation, added port

Re: Hi please help

2005-04-05 Thread Jerold McAllister
zhane H writes: Hi dear staff at freebsd NOTE: FreeBSD does not have a "staff". Everyone is a volunteer. But people understand what you mean by your greeting. How may i check whether the hardware in my pc is supporte by freebsd 5.3 If you look on the FreeBSD web site at: http://www.freebs

apcupsd with usb

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Huff
Ing. Christian Sudec writes: > a few months back there was already a question in this list > regarding usb support in apcupsd since afaik only usb with linux > is still supported. But there was a beta version named > apcupsd-3.10.16-test2 which delivered the functions I need. Sad > but true

Re: Which mail server is the best for me?

2005-04-05 Thread Martin Hepworth
I'd suggest exim, -- martin On Apr 2, 2005 10:09 AM, Kiffin Gish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to setup a mail server but am a little confused about whether > to use sendmail, qmail, postfix or whatever. Basically my web server is a > simple one to be used for personal use with m

Re: printing

2005-04-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-05 09:53, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So my question is, for printing sake let there be a other way. > What do you use to print stuff, for example on a shared windows printer :) > > I guess there are only 3 choses LPD LPRng CUPS ? The print/apsfilter is my favorite. I use

Hi please help

2005-04-05 Thread zhane H
Hi dear staff at freebsd How may i check whether the hardware in my pc is supporte by freebsd 5.3 andalso i would liek to ask whcih one of freebsd do i install as i dont understand if i ahve to do i386 or some other one im instaling it on a msi board amd sempron 2200 with samsung cd-rw and a 10 gi

Re: efax with a serial 3com us robotics 56k modem

2005-04-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Gert Cuykens wrote: I connected the fax to god knows wich sio and said "ok modem start faxing" hoping for a mirical I'm not absolutely certain about this, and I'm not a firm disbeliever in miracles, but I'm quite sure you'd have to actually _type_ a command into your keyboard ... :-D Kevin Kins

Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-05 Thread Jerold McAllister
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Well, both types of documentation are needed. The official formal documentation, which, of necessity , needs to be written in a rather formal language style and o

[PATCH TO TEST] VESA [1024x768] mode support for FreeBSD-CURRENT

2005-04-05 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hi, I'm using freebsd 5.4-prerelease on my laptop. My laptop has an ati mobility radeon 9600. Unfortunately it has very poor console vesa support. SC_PIXEL_MODE does not work, 90x60 is the highest resolution I can get for now. It looks like I'm not the only one having this problem with ati chipset

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 93, Issue 6

2005-04-05 Thread anatolytyukanov
use /usr/ports/security/openvpn, its much better. Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:04:59 -0500 From: Jay Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: mpd as a dial-up server To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed I am in the process

Re: listing on obtaining freebsd page

2005-04-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris Hope - Linux CD Mall wrote: Good evening, I am enquiring about getting a listing on the obtaining freebsd page of the online doucmentation at the following address: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html Could you please reply to me with the email address of

RE: efax with a serial 3com us robotics 56k modem

2005-04-05 Thread bob
I believe your xfax modem is what is called a winmodem. These type of cheap modems are built just for the ms/windows market and do not work on FreeBSD. They are missing the onboard hardware controller which is why you have to install the win driver that comes with it. http://www.unixguide.net/free

Is sshd limiting the rate of successful connections?

2005-04-05 Thread Alex Kapranoff
Good day! It seems that a recent 5-STABLE limits the rate of successful incoming logins. Is it true? We failed to find the relevant code neither in openssh nor in openpam. The symptoms are that after a big number of quick successful logins sshd starts to delay or block login attempts for as long a

.iso

2005-04-05 Thread bertybadboy
Which .iso files do i download and burn onto a cd? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Virtual Sound card

2005-04-05 Thread Niels Timmerije
Dear Sirs I’ve already sent you an email, but I wrote it in dutch. (I got this adress from a Dutch site) But now my question in English. I’ve read something about a virtual soundcard at your site but it’s not clear to me if you deliver them. If you do, I would like some more information about thi

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