Re: Procedures

2005-10-21 Thread David Wilhelm
Erik Norgaard wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Ronny Machado C. wrote: >> *My sound card is a Sound Blaster Live!, I've tried to load it by >> means of kldload emu10k1, it worked but I can't get it to work. >> Honestly I haven't configured MYKERNEL since I still don't understand >> the process. >

Who ever knew RTFM would work :)

2005-10-21 Thread Peter Leftwich
So I'm on my *nix shell just now, and I'm all, "hmmm how do I change my shell?" The default for this install [which shall remain nameless] is /bin/bash I type "echo $SHELL" I type chfn (nope) I try stuff like "setenv $SHELL /bin/tcsh" Nope I accidentally type "cat $SHELL" once (lol) (try i

Re: How do I chroot rsync like I chroot ftp ?

2005-10-21 Thread user
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 21), user said: > > Generally I chroot ftp users by simply adding their username to > > /etc/ftpchroot. In older days, I used login.conf, etc. > > > > The point is, it's easy to take a specific user and set a chroot that > > app

Re: Making ports in alternative areas

2005-10-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 06:42:36PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > I'm running low on disc space on my /usr partition and I would like to > > compile a program from the ports that is rather large. I have enough space > > once it's compiled, it's just the work that I don't have enough sp

Re: Suggestions for server hardware sub 800 dollars

2005-10-21 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 21, 2005, at 5:55 PM, Matt Crossley wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Matt Crossley wrote: I've found that if it's not really all that heavy a load, machines at Dell that regularly come up are worth it. The latest one that I saw in a Dell flyer (in Canada), w

Re: How do I chroot rsync like I chroot ftp ?

2005-10-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 21), user said: > Generally I chroot ftp users by simply adding their username to > /etc/ftpchroot. In older days, I used login.conf, etc. > > The point is, it's easy to take a specific user and set a chroot that > applies to what they can see when they use ftp. > > What

Re: Suggestions for server hardware sub 800 dollars

2005-10-21 Thread Matt Crossley
Eric F Crist wrote: On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Matt Crossley wrote: I've found that if it's not really all that heavy a load, machines at Dell that regularly come up are worth it. The latest one that I saw in a Dell flyer (in Canada), was a Celeron 2.9, 512MB, 80 or 60GB, etc, etc for $34

Re: Making ports in alternative areas

2005-10-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I'm running low on disc space on my /usr partition and I would like to > compile a program from the ports that is rather large. I have enough space > once it's compiled, it's just the work that I don't have enough space for. > how can I get the port to do it's work in a different area on

Re: Making ports in alternative areas

2005-10-21 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 21 October 2005 14:47, ross wrote: > I'm running low on disc space on my /usr partition and I would like to > compile a program from the ports that is rather large. I have enough space > once it's compiled, it's just the work that I don't have enough space for. > how can I get the port to

Re: Suggestions for server hardware sub 800 dollars

2005-10-21 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Matt Crossley wrote: I've found that if it's not really all that heavy a load, machines at Dell that regularly come up are worth it. The latest one that I saw in a Dell flyer (in Canada), was a Celeron 2.9, 512MB, 80 or 60GB, etc, etc for $349 CAD. Can beat it, i

Making ports in alternative areas

2005-10-21 Thread ross
I'm running low on disc space on my /usr partition and I would like to compile a program from the ports that is rather large. I have enough space once it's compiled, it's just the work that I don't have enough space for. how can I get the port to do it's work in a different area on a differen

Re: [Fwd: Re: port config questions]

2005-10-21 Thread Chris
RW wrote: I have 470 ports installed, that's a lot of Makefiles to check for changes. This was the issue for me. I am gradually developing a package server for a suite of desktops, adding more ports as required by the desktop users. In my original post I was imagining a utility akin to merg

Re: Dell PE 830, Intel 82801 SATA Controller not recognized.

2005-10-21 Thread Derrick MacPherson
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 13:14 -0700, Derrick MacPherson wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 11:39 -0700, Derrick MacPherson wrote: > > As per the subject, Dell PE 830, with Intel 82801 SATA Controller that > > is not recognized. Kind of. When I get to the boot loader, and type > > lsdev, it shows the driv

Re: CDROM input/output error

2005-10-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I can't seem to mount my CD drives, in particular my dvd-cdrw. I'm > trying to burn ISO's w/ k3b but can't add the device because of the > error. It won't even let me change drive permissions. What can I do? I may be wrong on this, but I do not believe you mount a drive to burn a cd/dvd.

Re: Suggestions for server hardware sub 800 dollars

2005-10-21 Thread Matt Crossley
Ben Siemon wrote: I need to make a server box that will serve web pages ( light ), do light file storage for my home network and allow me ssh access when I am away from the apartment. I have read a great deal about this on the site and looked at the manufactures sites. I see a great deal of pote

CDROM input/output error

2005-10-21 Thread James S Blankenship
I can't seem to mount my CD drives, in particular my dvd-cdrw. I'm trying to burn ISO's w/ k3b but can't add the device because of the error. It won't even let me change drive permissions. What can I do? Best regards, James ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

How do I chroot rsync like I chroot ftp ?

2005-10-21 Thread user
Generally I chroot ftp users by simply adding their username to /etc/ftpchroot. In older days, I used login.conf, etc. The point is, it's easy to take a specific user and set a chroot that applies to what they can see when they use ftp. What is the equivalent mechanism for rsync ? thanks. ___

Re: LDAP tutorial

2005-10-21 Thread Matt Crossley
Sasa Stupar wrote: Hi! Can someone provide me a link for a good tutorial for installing and configuring a LDAP server on FBSD 5.4? Regards, Sasa I've been able to successfully set up an openLDAP server pretty quickly using the docs at http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/ The setup is pr

Re: Suggestions for server hardware sub 800 dollars

2005-10-21 Thread John Pettitt
Ben Siemon wrote: >I need to make a server box that will serve web pages ( light ), do >light file storage for my home network and allow me ssh access when I >am away from the apartment. I have read a great deal about this on the >site and looked at the manufactures sites. I see a great deal of

Re: Suggestions for server hardware sub 800 dollars

2005-10-21 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 21, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Ben Siemon wrote: I need to make a server box that will serve web pages ( light ), do light file storage for my home network and allow me ssh access when I am away from the apartment. I have read a great deal about this on the site and looked at the manufactures site

Re: PPP setup through OS X

2005-10-21 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 20, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Live-Wire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm going to be connecting my 5.4 box w/ no monitor to my network, but before I move it to the router area I want to make sure I'll be able to change the network configuration without lugging the box ba

Re: DNS server on firewall

2005-10-21 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:04 AM, kilim wrote: Hi, I'm getting a second machine next week and was wondering if the following settup would be ok: 1st machine pf + NAT and also primary DNS 2nd machine as a secondary DNS Now I know that its not the smartest thing to do, have primary DNS on the firewa

Re: Problem with groups

2005-10-21 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:12 PM, RW wrote: From a KDE Root console, I changed a directory's permissions to 770 and added my account to it's group with pw. In another console, under my own account, I tried to cd into the directory and failed, no gui application could access the directory either.

Suggestions for server hardware sub 800 dollars

2005-10-21 Thread Ben Siemon
I need to make a server box that will serve web pages ( light ), do light file storage for my home network and allow me ssh access when I am away from the apartment. I have read a great deal about this on the site and looked at the manufactures sites. I see a great deal of potential there but I hav

Re: Problem with groups

2005-10-21 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 21, 2005, at 3:12 PM, RW wrote: From a KDE Root console, I changed a directory's permissions to 770 and added my account to it's group with pw. In another console, under my own account, I tried to cd into the directory and failed, no gui application could access the directory e

Re: Dell PE 830, Intel 82801 SATA Controller not recognized.

2005-10-21 Thread Derrick MacPherson
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 11:39 -0700, Derrick MacPherson wrote: > As per the subject, Dell PE 830, with Intel 82801 SATA Controller that > is not recognized. Kind of. When I get to the boot loader, and type > lsdev, it shows the drive, recognizes the linux partitions that are on > it, but when I get t

Problem with groups

2005-10-21 Thread RW
From a KDE Root console, I changed a directory's permissions to 770 and added my account to it's group with pw. In another console, under my own account, I tried to cd into the directory and failed, no gui application could access the directory either. pw showed I was a member of the group. I

Re: gdm starting without keyboard

2005-10-21 Thread Frederico Franzosi
It worked out, but I had to "strangely" disable gdm at /etc/rc.conf, do you have any idea on this?? On 17 Oct 2005 10:39:44 +0300, Vincent Ngundi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try: > > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > -- > >

Dell PE 830, Intel 82801 SATA Controller not recognized.

2005-10-21 Thread Derrick MacPherson
As per the subject, Dell PE 830, with Intel 82801 SATA Controller that is not recognized. Kind of. When I get to the boot loader, and type lsdev, it shows the drive, recognizes the linux partitions that are on it, but when I get to the sysinstall it says there's no drives found. I've tried with 5.4

Re: Contents, bootable, etc...

2005-10-21 Thread Tobias Fendin
IgnesAndros wrote: Is the boot-only CD simply for installing? If it functions as a live CD, does it include httpd and webmin? If not to either, can you help me find a BSD-based distro that does? Well, you can do some stuff from the boot-only CD, but not too much... Take a look at FreeSBIE http:

Re: removable usb media don't present devices to mount

2005-10-21 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:01:00PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >4. Re: removable usb media don't present devices to mount > (Ryan Zeigler) > > -- > > On Thursday 20 October 2005 04:29 pm, you wrote: > > Ryan Zeigler wrote: > > >I'm using FreeBSD 6.0-rc1

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2005-10-21 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-10-21 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that a

Re: linuxpluginwrapper and firefox

2005-10-21 Thread Mikael Backman
On Friday 21 October 2005 16.35, Mikael Backman wrote: I've installed both the native firefox and linux-firefox and the linuxpluginwrapper but when I check in firefox there are no plugins installed... What is it I'm missing? /clueless ___ freebsd-ques

Re: linuxpluginwrapper and firefox

2005-10-21 Thread Mikael Backman
On Friday 21 October 2005 17.16, Adi Pircalabu wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:04:49 +0200 > > Mikael Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did installl x11/linux-XFree86-lib > > How do I enable linux compatibility? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-inst

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ... - resolved, but two more Qs

2005-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 21 Oct 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > The snapshot doesn't know what the bits in the file are. All it knows > > is that the file's data used to be, say in "block 1857" and now the > > file's data are in "block 1956". The fact that both blocks are > > ide

RE: UNIX System Certification Programs

2005-10-21 Thread Bob Middaugh
If you need a cert just to get a cert, and Linux is appropriate, I think Red Hat has an offering that would probably be considered "industry standard". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Norgaard Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 11:08 A

Re: linuxpluginwrapper and firefox

2005-10-21 Thread Adi Pircalabu
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:04:49 +0200 Mikael Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did installl x11/linux-XFree86-lib > How do I enable linux compatibility? > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html -- Adi Pircalabu (PGP Key ID 0x04329F5E) -- This

Re: UNIX System Certification Programs

2005-10-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Martin McCormick wrote: As part of the formalization process for our carreer paths, our organization is wanting us to be certified in our areas of expertise as part of any on-going carreer path. Since I do all my work in Linux and FreeBSD, what sorts of programs are

Re: linuxpluginwrapper and firefox

2005-10-21 Thread Mikael Backman
On Friday 21 October 2005 16.54, Adi Pircalabu wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:35:05 +0200 > > Mikael Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > darkstar /home/mb 4:29:39pm %linux-firefox > > /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-firefox/linux-firefox-bin: error while loading > > shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot o

Re: Weird SSH problem... - Solved! :)

2005-10-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Olaf Greve wrote: # cd /etc # pwd_mkdb master.passwd # pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd I made copies of /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd, then I ran the two commands above and now it all seems to work fine!!! The abcdef user is now properly identified again. :) Great! Now,

startX slow to execute - X Windows system takes 10 minutes to load

2005-10-21 Thread Teo De Las Heras
When I run startX it takes about 10 minutes for Xorg to begin. Changes have been made to the system, but I don't know how to identify who the culprit might be. Here's what I did before this started happening 2. Installed firefox using pkg_add 3. Unable to see firefox in KDE so reinstalled firefox u

Re: Weird SSH problem... - Solved! :)

2005-10-21 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi Erik (and others), # cd /etc # pwd_mkdb master.passwd # pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd I made copies of /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd, then I ran the two commands above and now it all seems to work fine!!! The abcdef user is now properly identified again. :) Tnx a lot A great way to

Re: linuxpluginwrapper and firefox

2005-10-21 Thread Adi Pircalabu
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:35:05 +0200 Mikael Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > darkstar /home/mb 4:29:39pm %linux-firefox > /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-firefox/linux-firefox-bin: error while loading > shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory Did you inst

Contents, bootable, etc...

2005-10-21 Thread IgnesAndros
Is the boot-only CD simply for installing? If it functions as a live CD, does it include httpd and webmin? If not to either, can you help me find a BSD-based distro that does? -Andrew -- "Entweder man lebt, oder man ist konsequent" -Erich Kästner ___ fr

RE: Procedures

2005-10-21 Thread Ronny Machado C.
Thanks Erik...very helpful advices... ronny -Mensaje original- De: Erik Norgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Viernes, 21 de Octubre de 2005 10:23 Para: Ronny Machado C. CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Asunto: Re: Procedures On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Ronny Machado C. wrote: > *

UNIX System Certification Programs

2005-10-21 Thread Martin McCormick
As part of the formalization process for our carreer paths, our organization is wanting us to be certified in our areas of expertise as part of any on-going carreer path. Since I do all my work in Linux and FreeBSD, what sorts of programs are there that would be similar to the Microsoft ce

linuxpluginwrapper and firefox

2005-10-21 Thread Mikael Backman
Hi. I've just installed linuxpluginwrapper with portupgrade to try to listen to webradio. Now when I try to run firefox I get this error message: darkstar /home/mb 4:29:39pm %linux-firefox /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-firefox/linux-firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot

Re: About SCSI devices on freebsd 5.4...?

2005-10-21 Thread perikillo
On 10/21/05, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi people, i have this tape: Seagate STD224000N, is plug into one > > scsi pci card, freebsd is using this drives: > > > > *ahc > > *pass > > *sa > > > >My questions is, i need to setup first the pci-card on my BIOS or > > there

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ... - resolved, but two more Qs

2005-10-21 Thread user
On 21 Oct 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > The snapshot doesn't know what the bits in the file are. All it knows > is that the file's data used to be, say in "block 1857" and now the > file's data are in "block 1956". The fact that both blocks are > identical is not detected. > > If you're reall

Re: Procedures

2005-10-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Ronny Machado C. wrote: * How can I get some daemons working at boot time? In Linux you can do it via rc.* directories and S* scripts, but in freeBSD I don't know how, I've put scripts in rc.d but they don't execute at boot time, Is there a way to do it via rc.conf?

Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?

2005-10-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Olaf Greve wrote: I think you can use mtree to get permissions right if they for some reason have been changed. This might be a good one to check... I'm not familiar with it yet, but does this check all permissions and ownerships and corrects errors/mismatches where poss

Re: About SCSI devices on freebsd 5.4...?

2005-10-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi people, i have this tape: Seagate STD224000N, is plug into one > scsi pci card, freebsd is using this drives: > > *ahc > *pass > *sa > >My questions is, i need to setup first the pci-card on my BIOS or > there is no problem if the BIOS dont have the driver? FreeBSd supplies its own

Re: information of how to use scsi tape drives...?

2005-10-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi i want to know is someone of you knows about some links where i > can find some how-to use tapes drivers(scsi), thanks people. > > I try the man page, but get how to play with my tape... What sort of 'playing' do you want to do? If you just want to write to it and read from it, and do

Re: cvsup from localhost

2005-10-21 Thread Andrew P.
On 21 Oct 2005 09:42:25 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I run cvsup-mirror at our site. I wonder, what's the > > most efficient way to cvsup the mirror itself. > > Running cvsup'ping from localhost seems to > > create quite a load (di

Re: Problem installing asterisk

2005-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Owen Jeremiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a newbie at FreeBSD, been using MS products all my life. Being an > enlighten one (:P), trying to learn how to use FreeBSD. > Got this problem when trying to install asterisk from ports: > > ===> asterisk-1.0.9_2 depends on executable: mpg123 - foun

Re: mbr and boot disks?

2005-10-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Mark wrote: > > > I am currently dual booting between windows and freebsd but I need to > > reinstall windows on the other partition. How do I create a freebsd boot > > disk so that after windows rewrites my mbr I can still get back to bsd? > > Then how would I re-install freebsd's boot manag

Re: loader.conf question

2005-10-21 Thread makisupa
That was a serious id10T error THanks, mak (i must need more coffee) On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 09:47 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > makisupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Got k3b installed and trying to sort out some issues. This is a 6.0RC1 > > with a custom kernel box. In /boot/loader.co

Re: loader.conf question

2005-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
makisupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Got k3b installed and trying to sort out some issues. This is a 6.0RC1 > with a custom kernel box. In /boot/loader.conf i pass a > 'load_atapicam="YES"'. This is the only argument there...but its not > working. Once booted if I simply 'kldload atapicam' ev

Re: cvsup from localhost

2005-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I run cvsup-mirror at our site. I wonder, what's the > most efficient way to cvsup the mirror itself. > Running cvsup'ping from localhost seems to > create quite a load (disk and CPU) on the machine > even with compression disabled. True. Using cvs direc

Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?

2005-10-21 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi again, Erik Norgaard wrote: I think you can use mtree to get permissions right if they for some reason have been changed. This might be a good one to check... I'm not familiar with it yet, but does this check all permissions and ownerships and corrects errors/mismatches where possible?

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ... - resolved, but two more Qs

2005-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Folks, > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Gayn Winters wrote: > > > > Imagine that each data block is marked with labels > > > on change. It doesn't matter how many labels there > > > are, there will be only one data block saved. > > > > In trying to follow this thread,

convert maildir to cyrus mailbox

2005-10-21 Thread serge
Hi, Does anyone know of a utility that will convert courier-imap Maildir and mail to cyrus-imap mailboxes ? Thanks, Serge - Dit bericht is enkel bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u niet de geadresseerde b

RE: Starting with FreeBSD [rc.conf, ps(1) options, kernel modules, and other stuff] (was: Re: Procedures)

2005-10-21 Thread Ronny Machado C.
thanks a lot Giorgos...you were very kind... ronny -Mensaje original- De: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Viernes, 21 de Octubre de 2005 8:00 Para: Ronny Machado C. CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Asunto: Starting with FreeBSD [rc.conf, ps(1) options, kernel modu

loader.conf question

2005-10-21 Thread makisupa
Got k3b installed and trying to sort out some issues. This is a 6.0RC1 with a custom kernel box. In /boot/loader.conf i pass a 'load_atapicam="YES"'. This is the only argument there...but its not working. Once booted if I simply 'kldload atapicam' everything works like a charm -- scanbus, k3b (m

DNS server on firewall

2005-10-21 Thread kilim
Hi, I'm getting a second machine next week and was wondering if the following settup would be ok: 1st machine pf + NAT and also primary DNS 2nd machine as a secondary DNS Now I know that its not the smartest thing to do, have primary DNS on the firewall, but I'm thinking since the DNS is going t

Problem installing asterisk

2005-10-21 Thread Owen Jeremiah
I'm a newbie at FreeBSD, been using MS products all my life. Being an enlighten one (:P), trying to learn how to use FreeBSD. Got this problem when trying to install asterisk from ports: ===> asterisk-1.0.9_2 depends on executable: mpg123 - found ===> asterisk-1.0.9_2 depends on file: /nonexistent

Re: Having Some Trouble with Java on FreeBSD

2005-10-21 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, O.k., people please correct me if I'm wrong but... I've been having a small amount of trouble with running Java on FreeBSD (version 5.4 for amd64) and I was hoping that someone would be kind enough to help me out. I manually installed the linux version of Java. Which seemed to work alr

Re: natd redirect help

2005-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Efren Bravo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've a freebsd5.4 with ipfw and natd. I need that external users can enter > to my internal network services (http, ftp, etc). > > freebsd box: > out interface: 200.x.x.x > in interface: 10.x.x.x > > /etc/rc.conf file: > -- >

Re: Bluetooth to Cellphone (As a Modem)

2005-10-21 Thread StRakh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a usb bluetooth dongle and a SE T610 cellphone... I want FreeBSD (5.4 or 6.0-RC1; whatever floats your boat as I run both) to use the cellphone as a modem through bluetooth. FreeBSD just needs to dial *99# then so it uses gprs. I checked the handbook but

cvsup from localhost

2005-10-21 Thread Andrew P.
I run cvsup-mirror at our site. I wonder, what's the most efficient way to cvsup the mirror itself. Running cvsup'ping from localhost seems to create quite a load (disk and CPU) on the machine even with compression disabled. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Starting with FreeBSD [rc.conf, ps(1) options, kernel modules, and other stuff] (was: Re: Procedures)

2005-10-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-21 08:30, "Ronny Machado C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list > I'm new to freebsd, I come from Linux world, and I dont?t fully > understand some procedures: > * How can I get some daemons working at boot time? In Linux you can do > it via rc.* directories and S* scripts, but in

Procedures

2005-10-21 Thread Ronny Machado C.
Hi list I'm new to freebsd, I come from Linux world, and I dont´t fully understand some procedures: * How can I get some daemons working at boot time? In Linux you can do it via rc.* directories and S* scripts, but in freeBSD I don't know how, I've put scripts in rc.d but they don'

Re: route question

2005-10-21 Thread Björn König
Jeff Maxwell wrote: I added a route to my rc.conf now I get this message. The route that I added seems to work, but Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/libexec/save-entropy route: not found The route that I added seems to work, but the syntax must be wrong. this is what I added: defaultrouter="10

Add FreeBSD_AMD64__5.4 and keep GRUB

2005-10-21 Thread John Vandeput
I have an AMD64 system with : WindowsXP Suse 9.3 GRUB I want to install from CDs How can I install FreeBSD_AMD64__5.4 and add it to the GRUB later without harming Windows and Suse ? Kind regards John Vandeput ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: route question

2005-10-21 Thread albi
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:30:43 -0400 Jeff Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I added a route to my rc.conf now I get this message. The route that -- cut -- > route add -net 10.10.30.0 10.10.10.3 the static_routes section in rc.conf's manualpage might be what you need -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: l

route question

2005-10-21 Thread Jeff Maxwell
I added a route to my rc.conf now I get this message. The route that I added seems to work, but Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/libexec/save-entropy route: not found The route that I added seems to work, but the syntax must be wrong. this is what I added: defaultrouter="10.10.10.1" hostname="m

Re: Epson Stylus C65

2005-10-21 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:39:01 -0400 Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure what else to suggest. I didn't get a series of > characters like "< > Does the command "escputil -i -u -r /dev/unlpt0" give you the ink > levels? (This command often times out the first time you use it; try

Re: mbr and boot disks?

2005-10-21 Thread Björn König
Mark wrote: I am currently dual booting between windows and freebsd but I need to reinstall windows on the other partition. How do I create a freebsd boot disk so that after windows rewrites my mbr I can still get back to bsd? Then how would I re-install freebsd's boot manager so I can continue

Re: OpenOffice + movie/sound requires "Java JRE".....which port is this?

2005-10-21 Thread Igor Robul
Rob wrote: Hi, I'm running OpenOffice.Org-2.0-RC1 (from package), on a FreeBSD 5-Stable system. With this new release, I can include movie/sound in a presentation. But when I insert an mpeg file, a popup window appears with: OpenOffice.org requires a Java runtime environment (JRE) to perfor

Re: Java + Linux

2005-10-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:29:17PM +0100, Charles Smyth wrote: > Hi there, > > When I have downloaded the patches and parts from sun.com into the distfiles > directory and run ?make install? in /usr/ports/java/jdk14 for FreeBSD 5.4/6.0 > all goes okay apart from a prompt about also running make i

OpenOffice + movie/sound requires "Java JRE".....which port is this?

2005-10-21 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm running OpenOffice.Org-2.0-RC1 (from package), on a FreeBSD 5-Stable system. With this new release, I can include movie/sound in a presentation. But when I insert an mpeg file, a popup window appears with: OpenOffice.org requires a Java runtime environment (JRE) to perform this task

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-21 Thread Igor Robul
Deepak Naidu wrote: Hey Igor Robul, what made u seem my mail as spam Because you have writen : > I have LVS server in Linux, installed with Nagios. I have 5 spam servers and 5 IMAP and POP servers, from >which 2 spam servers are in your mail. Unfortunatel

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-21 Thread Deepak Naidu
Mike & Pete one question more, sorry dudes... I have the Nagios server on Linux, Have installed nrpe v2.0 on FreeBSD, when using check_nrpe from linux box, I get CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds error, theres no firewall, but when using chekc_nrpe from FreeBSD to FreeBSD it works fine.

information of how to use scsi tape drives...?

2005-10-21 Thread perikillo
Hi i want to know is someone of you knows about some links where i can find some how-to use tapes drivers(scsi), thanks people. I try the man page, but get how to play with my tape... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-21 Thread Deepak Naidu
Hey Igor Robul, what made u seem my mail as spam If replying the message is spam I hope there is no meaning of mail forum I just C one more spammer named Igor ha ha ha ha... Cheers, Deepak Naidu. --- Igor Robul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deepak Naidu wrote: > > >Right Mike, this is