Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Shenton
"Chess Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's just that nothing automounts like it's supposed to, and > that includes both USB sticks and CDs. > > Should I post this in freebsd-ports as well? I don't want to double-post if > the port maintainers also monitor this list as well. I may post in

Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Shenton
When you try to open a Thunar window to look at some directory, does it work? It did for me on one box, once, but since thing the window comes up with a gray pane and two white panels then hangs, with "top" saying it's in state "kserel". I haven't been able to resolve this on the ports or thunar

Easy USB-drive automounter and "filemanager" for nontechies?

2007-02-01 Thread Chris Shenton
I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or that there's a bunch of stuff in it. She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that interfaces to computers with a USB cable and she needs to get files

Easy USB-drive automounter and "filemanager" for nontechies?

2007-02-01 Thread Chris Shenton
I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or that there's a bunch of stuff in it. She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that interfaces to computers with a USB cable and she needs to get files

Re: Web mail for phones

2006-08-14 Thread Chris Shenton
Andrea Venturoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've searched the web a lot, but could not find anything about this; > maybe I can't figure the proper terms to search for. I was poking around for this recently and noticed that OpenWebmail includes a style (stylesheet?) which they say is designed s

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-09 Thread Chris Shenton
"Ansar Mohammed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the EPIA's look nice but cost too much. > For comparable performance you can retrofit an old netier XL2000 on ebay > with a laptop hard drive. > They are small, fanless and come with an AMD 400-450 Mhz proc. > They usually go for about 10$ on ebay. Yo

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-09 Thread Chris Shenton
cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using EPIA 5000 mini-ATX boards with 512 MB RAM, diskless booting > from an NFS server. They load X.org and everything else on demand. > Compared to local HDDs, there's a small performance hit when loading > programs [and those boards are not the fastest,

Re: Subversion web development question.

2006-07-28 Thread Chris Shenton
I'd definitely go with SVN for a code repo. I use a couple different SVN servers on various teams I work with at my clients. I also set one up for myself for code I'm working without other coders, mainly so I could get at it from home, on the road, or some client's site; a laptop or two, a desktop

Re: Boot hangs at "/bin/sh?", can't see USB keyboard

2006-07-13 Thread Chris Shenton
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On some Dells, there is a BIOS option to boot with "USB legacy support" > (or some similar wording) or without USB support at all. Having the > correct setting is pivotal to getting the USB keyboard to work. The > correct setting varies from model to mode

Boot hangs at "/bin/sh?", can't see USB keyboard

2006-07-12 Thread Chris Shenton
I have a borked entry in my /etc/fstab: the box can't find /dev/da4s1 or something at boot. So it hangs at boot asking me if I want to use /bin/sh in single user mode. But when I bang on the USB keyboard, FreeBSD doesn't hear the keys. I recall that previous boot menus offered a "boot with USB k

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-17 Thread Chris Shenton
robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have a look at qmail, It is very scalable and well supported with > various sites and mailing lists. Iv'e been using it for well over a year > now. Most important thing, IMHO, is uptime. If you use the Maildir mailbox format you can put it on a solid NFS serv

Build on one CPU, run on different ones? (AMD, VIA, Intel)

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Shenton
I've got a variety of boxes around the house which all share /usr/local and /usr/X11 binaries, libraries and such. These boxes are of different vintages ranging from an ancient P60 to a new Pentium D, but also an older AMD K6 cpu and a VIA EPIA. My main NFS server is a 4-year old Intel and isn't

Re: 6.0 Migration Guide?

2006-01-29 Thread Chris Shenton
Rowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Does anyone have a pointer to a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE Migration Guide? > Try /usr/src/UPDATING, search for "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable > or higher to 6.x-stable" (near the end of the file). I *just* went through this on two 5-STABLE systems, worked lik

Card for Xorg dual-head Xinerama? (Matrox G450 problems)

2005-06-13 Thread Chris Shenton
I'm running FreeBSD-5.4 from cvsup and having some Xorg problems with Xinerama on my Matrox G450 dual-head card. While Xinerama works fine for local X11 apps, an app started on a remote machine displaying back to my box fills the fvwm frame with nothing -- except whatever bitmap was already there.

Re: maybe slightly OT - web content management kits

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Shenton
Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm trying to find a good website management system. Content >> management. I'm running Apache 2.0 with (among others) mod_perl2, (perl >> 5.8.6) and Jakarta Tomcat 5.0. > http://www.opensourcecms.com/ > I'm probably going to try a few out, since the

Re: VPN questions

2004-10-27 Thread Chris Shenton
"Aaron P. Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggest looking at openvpn, it is a ssl based vpn that is fairly easy > to set up. I might shy away from freeswan as it is for the most part > out of development, only one more rollup and that's it. Any suggestions for something compatible with

Re: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Shenton
Tim Aslat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try one of the multitude of rsync based scripts, you can even get some > very good incremental backups happening, I have been thinking about this for my own use. One problem with basic rsync is that if (say) I trash a critical file and don't notice it for

Re: mini itx

2004-07-02 Thread Chris Shenton
arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > im collecting some bits to start a mini itx project > http://www.mini-itx.com/projects.asp > i have the need for a small silent pc > > has anyone used these boards with bds? I'm using an EPIA 6000 as a workstation in the kitchen. I boot FreeBSD-5.2 diskless s

Re: Documentation for LDAP Mail Server

2004-06-02 Thread Chris Shenton
David Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to setup a mail server on my FreeBSD box that runs Postfix and > Cyrus that authenticates through OpenLDAP and have encryption (ssl?). > Also, I'd like everything to be database backed... DB3 or DB4? I > can't seem to find anything on the internet

Re: IMAP server and client recommendations?

2004-04-23 Thread Chris Shenton
"Clarence Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could download Eudora for Windows and import > the outlook email into Eudora. It stores the email in > mbox format. I don't know if their mbox format is fully > unix standard, but they are the same people that maintain > the qpopper pop3 daemon, s

SORBS lists mx2.freebsd.org as open relay

2004-04-08 Thread Chris Shenton
I was adding RBL blacklisting to my qmail setup, with rblsmtpd using some blacklists which a couple folks on inet-access suggested. I noticed it logging connections from mx2.freebsd.org as being in SORBS: rblsmtpd: 216.136.204.119 pid 45632: 451 Open Relay See: http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/cgi-bin

Re: Problems installing to AMI MegaRAID array

2004-04-02 Thread Chris Shenton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It has a 'RPX' module installed which enables RAID on my 8 4.3GB SCSI > drives, apparently via an AMI MegaRAID controller. I've been able to get > into the MegaRAID bios setup and configure an initialize a RAID volume, > but FBSD can't find it. > > I've installed FBSD

Re: SUNRays

2003-12-08 Thread Chris Shenton
Andrew Boothman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They are *really* thin clients that really only consist of a > monitor, mouse and keyboard and rely on their host server for > everything else. That's not an architecture that you're going to get > FreeBSD to run under I wouldn't think. I'm quite happ

Re: IDE RAID controllers

2003-10-02 Thread Chris Shenton
Irvine Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They recommend the LSI MegaRAID i4 - see > http://www.lsilogic.com/products/stor_prod/raid/i4.html I got a DELL 600SC "server" a while back, not expensive, came with a DELL "CERC"-branded MegaRAID i4: 4 IDE drives on the single PCI controller card. I've

Re: How to read CF card via USB with umass on 4.7-STABLE?

2003-09-14 Thread Chris Shenton
Bernd Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A photo disk is most likely not ufs - it's msdosfs. > msdosfs is not is normaly not used on the whole device (exeptions are > floppies), so you want using the correct slice. > E.g. mount -t msdos /dev/da1s1 /mnt Yeah, I tried msdos as well (man page is w

How to read CF card via USB with umass on 4.7-STABLE?

2003-09-12 Thread Chris Shenton
I have an old digital camera which has a 64MB CF card in it. A friend loaned me a USB card reader to extract the images. I don't seem to be able to mount it on FreeBSD-4.7-STABLE per the umass man page. After plugging in the card and USB reader, dmesg shows: umass0: PQI Travel Flash, rev 1.10/

PC-style Console rendering with remote Xterm or rxvt? MEGAMGR

2003-08-04 Thread Chris Shenton
One of the four WD1200JB disks on my Dell CERC ATA RAID controller died and I'm trying to get at the controller remotely. Previously, I used: http://people.freebsd.org/~emoore/MegaRAID_SCSI/UserInterfaceGUI/MegaMGR.tgz which replicates the BIOS-level text interface to the controller: create/dest

Re: Fw: PERC 4/DI Raid SCSI Controler

2003-07-29 Thread Chris Shenton
"ipack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I bought a Dell PowerEdge 2600 with PERC 4/Di Raid SCSI Controler > and I would like to use FreeBSD on this server, so I would like to > know when it will be possible to have Dell PERC 4/Di drivers, I got a cheapie Dell 600sc server with a CERC 4-channel *IDE

Re: open source content management systems?

2003-07-29 Thread Chris Shenton
anubis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have a look at Bricolage > From the website http://bricolage.cc/ I've been thinking of giving that a whirl too, after reading that online tech site www.TheRegister.co.uk decided to use it. The article they link to points out that Salon.com and Macworld.com us

Re: new search tool for FreeBSD community

2003-07-28 Thread Chris Shenton
Vlad Shabanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rambler (www.rambler.ru) developed new search tool working > with FreeBSD project mail archives. You can try it at > http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ > > Index contains messages from all mail archives including cvs commits, > bug reports, etc. We plan t

Re: How to get FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE?

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Shenton
Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is out there. Look at http://www.freebsdmirrors.org to find just > about any release you want. (Most mirrors don't carry the older > releases, but some do.) Heh, I looked at ftp1-9.freebsd.org in the US and ftp.internat.freebsd.org in South Africa

Re: radius server

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Shenton
adrian kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > Does freebsd provide radius server? > > If yes, how can we get this running? any documents > also There are a number to choose from in the Ports collection: /usr/ports/net: wildcard *radius* drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 May 19 02:15 f

Re: How to get FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE?

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Shenton
"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why not simply use the compat3x libraries on 4.8-RELEASE? Bingo, just stumbled across that with a friend's suggestion. So far, RealServer8 seems to be working. Need to do a few streaming tests befor I declare victory. Excellent. Thanks. ___

How to get FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE?

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Shenton
I've been asked to install a specific version of RealServer on FreeBSD, and this version requires FreeBSD-3.0. I usually pull down the floppies and then install from the net. I can't find floppies for anything older then 4.7. I expect I can use modern install floppies and use the "options" to sp

Re: Two DNS servers with one IP address

2003-06-17 Thread Chris Shenton
Alfonso Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I wondered if it could be possible to have a primary and a secondary > nameserver with only one public IP address, sort of like virtual domains on > apache... Well, a nameserver can answer queries for many different zones, like for queries about

Re: Two DNS servers with one IP address

2003-06-17 Thread Chris Shenton
JacobRhoden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:52 am, Alfonso Romero wrote: > > Is it possible to have two DNS servers with only one public IP address? I > > have a FreeBSD gateway connected to the Internet with a DSL modem, using > > natd to connect the other PCs on my LAN, and

Boot/install/config util like Solaris Jumpstart?

2003-03-11 Thread Chris Shenton
We're planning on deploying a handful of commodity boxes to act as a loose mail cluster hidden behind a pair of load balancers. They'll have almost identical SW installs: APOP, SMTP, IMAP, LDAP. Naturally they'll have per-box differences, like their ethernet address, perhaps some box-unique servi

Re: A few 5.0-Release questions...

2003-03-05 Thread Chris Shenton
John Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Dell PowerEdge] > > What model? There are quite a few PowerEdges out > > It's a 600SC - P4 1.8 - Perc3/SC FWIW, I had absolutely no trouble booting and installing 5.0-R on my 600SC, with the DELL-supplied CER

amr AMI MegaRAID IDE card: "spare" drive as slave?

2002-12-06 Thread Chris Shenton
I have an AMI MegaRAID sold by Dell as a CERC ATA100; it has 4 discreet channels of IDE and can do RAID 0, 1, 5, or 10. I've been running it as RAID 1 for a couple months no problem, with a pair of WD1200JB 120G disks and a pair of 20G disks -- two logical partitions. The man page only talks ab

PhotoCD: ata/acd mount issue, data overrun with lockup

2002-07-25 Thread Chris Shenton
A friend gave me a CD burned by a film processing lab and I had problems mounting or dd'ing it off: thanatos# mount /dev/acd0a /cdrom mount: /dev/acd0a on /cdrom: incorrect super block thanatos# mount_msdos /dev/acd0a /cdrom mount_msdos: /dev/acd0a: Invalid argument thanatos