which mail system is the best

2002-09-19 Thread fred
Hi, For the mail server, postfix and qmail which is the best? Can I do the authentication by ldap in the postfix? Does anyone now some resources about the mail (postfix, qmail) + Ldap Regards, Fred Zhang To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-q

user ppp problem

2002-09-19 Thread Shaun Branden
uname -a FreeBSD sagan.tpn 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Sep 10 02:39:30 CST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SAGAN i386 I am not sure if this is an ISP problem or an error in userland ppp or an error with my config files. However this has only been an issue since

Re: which mail system is the best

2002-09-19 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-19 00:44:27 -0700: > Hi, > > For the mail server, postfix and qmail which is the best? this question is too vague to yield a sensible answer. > Can I do the authentication by ldap in the postfix? yes. > Does anyone now some resources about the mail

Re: which mail system is the best

2002-09-19 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Roman Neuhauser on Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:08:49 +0200 > > For the mail server, postfix and qmail which is the best? > > this question is too vague to yield a sensible answer. Exim (www.exim.org) is as well a good one. Clear syntax and easy to understand configuration file. > > C

Re: Howto create a bootable self installing CD ?

2002-09-19 Thread Jimmy Lantz
At 16:27 2002-09-18 -0500, you wrote: >Hi all! > How can I create a bootable CD that has an image of an existing >custom freeBSD system, such that when I pop the CD into any other machine >it will boot and install the image on the hard drive? So that I just Hi, check out LiveCD, http://li

Re: Squid ncsa based authentication on FBSD

2002-09-19 Thread Ian Moore
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 22:54, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Ian Moore wrote: > > so I'm wondering how to get ncsa (or any other authentication system) > > running with squid. All the squid documentation just seems to assume that > > ncsa_auth is available. > > It is in the auth_modul

Re: openssl upgrade problems - newbie stuck

2002-09-19 Thread local.freebsd.questions
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:41:49 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roman Neuhauser) wrote: >hmmm, i got to http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/ >read this page. > >you have a kind of chicken and egg problem: you need to update >cvsup, but it's too old, and will get kicked from cvsup >s

Re: SVR4 -- Linux compatibility

2002-09-19 Thread GB Clark
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:44:13 + "Weston M. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to run a few applications, most notably Eclipse 2.0.1 and > Netscape7 (the FreeBSD port). Each time I try and start an app I get the > following error > > ELF interpreter /compa

Restart multi-user mode automatically

2002-09-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hi, This might seem like a strange question, but maybe someone has an answer or idea ... Under certain circumstances, I need to restart a machine's multi-user mode without manual intervention. In other words, it should perform a shutdown, killing all processes, but then (instead of prompting fo

Re: LaTeX packages

2002-09-19 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
On Thursday 19 September 2002 01:52 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: | On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 06:47:11PM -0400, Adam Bender wrote: | > I tried to install LaTeX through /usr/ports/print/latex, and it | > seemed to go OK, but it seems to be missing the package files. | > When I try to compile with it, i

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-19 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
On Thursday 19 September 2002 01:38 am, Peter Leftwich wrote: | Tonight I surprised myself by running `find ~/Desktop/folder/ -name | "*.jpg" -exec mv {} ~/Desktop/folderjpgs/ \;` successfully! My first | custom find command line ever. | | But there were two issues -- I had to escape the semic

Sendmail configuration question

2002-09-19 Thread stan
I've got a 4.6 STABLE machine (last cvsup'd about a month or so ago), that I use for my workstation within a medium size company. We are in the throes of a "merger", and the corporate people are using this as a n excuse to redo (read break) many things. I find myself in a position where I need to

Re: ipfw rulesets

2002-09-19 Thread Incoming Mail List
> yes, i can. :) the reason this doesnt work is that a telnet > connection is not between your host [port 23] and server host > [port 23]. it is actually between your host [random port number > between 1024 and 65535] and server host [port 23]. > i hope this cleared it up for you? Yes, it did,

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-19 Thread Matt Smith
Or, try "-iname" instead of "-name" man find ... -iname pattern Like -name, but the match is case insensitive. ... Hope that helps, -Matt On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 07:57, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > > > On Thursday 19 September 2002 01:38 am, Peter Leftwich wrote: > | Tonigh

font problem with KDE and openoffice?

2002-09-19 Thread Janos Mohacsi
Hi, I use KDE 3.0.3 and OpenOffice 1.0.1 under FreeBSD Stable, but I have problem entering in OpenOffice certain latin-2 characters. I use the KDE keyboard tools to change between the US and Hungarian keyboard layouts: If I use latin2-hungarian keyboard layout I got odiare

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tonight I surprised myself by running `find ~/Desktop/folder/ -name "*.jpg" > -exec mv {} ~/Desktop/folderjpgs/ \;` successfully! My first custom find > command line ever. > > But there were two issues -- I had to escape the semicolon with a "\" -

Re: what is the freebsd version for "useradd -M"?

2002-09-19 Thread Jim Durham
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 06:52 pm, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > --- Jim Durham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 'pw' has different arguments based on the first argument. If you say > > 'pw useradd' then "-M" is not valid. You'll see this if you carefully > > read the man page. > > i have, this is why

Re: what is the freebsd version for "useradd -M"?

2002-09-19 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-19 10:06:50 -0400: > The current man page for 'pw' does not show -m as an arg for 'pw > useradd'. it does: SYNOPSIS pw [-V etcdir] useradd [name|uid] [-C config] [-q] [-n name] [-u uid] [-c comment] [-d dir] [-e date] [-p date] [-g group] [-G grouplist]

OT sed help

2002-09-19 Thread Matthew Bettinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I know this is off topic however I hope someone can help. I have a flat file that I need to import into a database. The first field of the file is a part number which cannot exceed more than 8 characters. Does anyone know how I can use se

Re: OT sed help

2002-09-19 Thread Matt Smith
Try these Use this if part numbers are numeric only. cat my_flat_file | sed /"^[0-9]\{8\}[^0-9].*$"/d Use this if part numbres are alpha-numeric, and columns are seperated by whitespace cat my_flat_file | sed /"^[0-9a-zA-Z]\{8\}.*$"/d These will both simply delete(from view, not from the fil

RE: OT sed help

2002-09-19 Thread Barry Byrne
Matt: How about: grep -E "^\w{9,}," flatfile.txt > morethaneight.txt - Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland Phone: +353 1 417 0150 Fax:+353 1 478 5544 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.wbtsystems.com > -Origi

Upgrade Computer - old vidio card

2002-09-19 Thread Grant Cooper
Case - 147 with 350W Power Supply Motherboard -AUS A7V266-E-AA CPU - AMD Athlon XP 1800+ Memory - 256 MB DDR PC2100 Ram I have an old Pent 300 monitor card. Should I expect any problems or do monitor factory made computers have specific cards for mother boards? I have never replaced one and this

Re: DHCPD doesn't want to bind to any interface

2002-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > recently I rebooted my box (FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE) and since this reboot, dhcpd > cannot bind to any interface. I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE then > rebooted, same thing. The configuration file is ok and untouched for many > months. > I use isc-dhcp provided wit

Re: make installworld with error rpcgen:No such file or directory

2002-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"anak freebsd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > when i did run make installworld i got an error > > > > >>>Installing everything.. > ... > > ===> include/rpcsvc > rpcgen -C -h -DWANT_NFS3 /usr/src/include/rpcsvc/sm_inter.x -o sm_inter.h > rpcgen:No such file or directory > *** Error code 1 > >

IPv6 protocol switch implementation.

2002-09-19 Thread sasson, shuki
Hi, I've been reading through the implementation code of IPv6 and specifically ip6_input. I see the following. IPv6 uses the same protocol switch to process both the protocols (like UDP & TCP) and also the option headers like Fragmentation. My question is: Are these numbers are promised to be ali

Re: /etc/rc.conf question

2002-09-19 Thread Jan Grant
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Charles Pelletier wrote: > its all a matter of syntax. :) ya forgot a quote. > > ifconfig_rl0_alias0="192.168.1.189" netmask 255.255.255.0 That doesn't do what you think it does. Stick the quote at the _end_ of the line. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://w

RE: user ppp problem

2002-09-19 Thread JoeB
Log shows Bad compressed CRC-16 Add this to your ppp.conf default section disable pred1 deflate lqr # compression features & line quality reporting denypred1 deflate lqr # compression features & line quality reporting -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailt

Re: Howto create a bootable self installing CD ?

2002-09-19 Thread Pranav A. Desai
Hi ! Thanks for the help. I think LiveCD should do the job. I will have to customize it a bit, but I think I can handle that. Thanks -Pranav *** Pranav A. Desai Home :- (937) 294 1381 **

Re: OT sed help

2002-09-19 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-19 09:38:33 -0500: > I have a flat file that I need to import into a database. The first > field of the file is a part number which cannot exceed more than 8 > characters. > > Does anyone know how I can use sed to count the characters in the > first field and if th

Connecting to a router

2002-09-19 Thread Rafter Man
Hey FreeBSD lovers :-) I have a 800 series cisco router and it is attached to my FreeBSD 4.6.2 box. I can telnet right in, but how do I connect to it via /dev/cuaa0 (the com1 port)? Best regards Rafter -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send m

ASCII problems under gnome

2002-09-19 Thread Socketd
Hi again No one answered my last mail, so I will try again. I have FreeBSD 4.6.2 and installed KDE, where I had no problems with programs like centericq showing xx's and qqq's instead for text-frames (e.g 0xBA and 0xD1). But now I've installed gnome and there it doesn't work. I have also set

Re: Traffic shaping - current best practice?

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick O'Reilly
From: "Fernando Gleiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You need a "fair sharing" queueing discipline, something like CBQ. I don't > know if you can do that with dummynet. I know for sure ALTQ works great for > this. It supports a bunch of queueing disciplines (CBQ, RED, WFQ and > others). I recall seein

Re: Traffic shaping - current best practice?

2002-09-19 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I recall seeing in the man page that DUMMYNET has RED and GRED > algorithms built in - I don't know any more detail than that though... It also Has W2FQ+ (or something like that) fair queueing, although I havn't tried to set it up in a while, last time I used it, it worked great. Ken To Unsu

Re: Connecting to a router

2002-09-19 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: "Rafter Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:21 AM Subject: Connecting to a router > Hey FreeBSD lovers :-) > > I have a 800 series cisco router and it is attached to my FreeBSD 4.6.2 box. I can telnet right in,

Re: DHCPD doesn't want to bind to any interface

2002-09-19 Thread chojin
Selon Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > recently I rebooted my box (FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE) and since this reboot, > dhcpd > > cannot bind to any interface. I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE then > > rebooted, same thing. The configuration file is ok and untou

Re: DHCPD doesn't want to bind to any interface

2002-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Selon Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > recently I rebooted my box (FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE) and since this reboot, > > dhcpd > > > cannot bind to any interface. I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE then > > > rebooted, same thin

RE: where's sasl.h?

2002-09-19 Thread Toomas Aas
> SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -I/usr/local/include -DSASL > SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS+= -L/usr/local/lib > SENDMAIL_LDADD+=-lsasl > > cyrus-sasl is installed. But no /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src/sasl.h > > Any suggestions? I also have cyrus-sasl installed, and sasl.h is in /usr/local/include/sasl. I bel

Headless FreeBSD box - Serial Redirection Not Working

2002-09-19 Thread Jason Borkowsky
Greetings! I have FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE running on a rackmount chassis, and I want to convert it to a headless box, with all console output redirected to the serial port. I have followed the directions in the FreeBSD handbook as follows: In my kernel, I have the flag 0x10 set on serial port 1 to

What is the default keyboard mapping?

2002-09-19 Thread Dan Langille
Of the entries in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps, which is the default keyboard mapping? I've done a "kbdcontrol -d > ~/my-mappings" and tried to compare that to the files within /usr/share/syscons/keymaps, but I'm not finding any matches. -- Dan Langille I'm looking for a computer job: http://ww

Re: Connecting to a router

2002-09-19 Thread Rafter Man
- Original Message - > > I have a 800 series cisco router and it is attached to my FreeBSD > 4.6.2 box. I can telnet right in, but how do I connect to it via > /dev/cuaa0 (the com1 port)? > > man tip Thanks :-) Best regards Rafter -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Pow

Vidcontrol on S3 ProSavage DDR on board

2002-09-19 Thread jmp_fff0
Hello people... I need a help for us... I'm trying to configure my video card for VESA_800x600 it doesn`t obtain success... it show the error messaging after command vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: cannot activate raster display: Operation not supported by device my system is a F

Re: WCCP performance questions

2002-09-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 04:51 AM, Girnet Vladimir wrote: > We are about to build some new WCCP servers. These servers will be based > on FreeBSD 4.6.2 with Squid 2.4.7. > > The hardware will be: 2 x PIII 1.3GHz, 1GB RAM, 100GB HDD. Servers must > serve about 200 requests per second

Re: OT sed help

2002-09-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Matthew Bettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a flat file that I need to import into a database. The first field of > the file is a part number which cannot exceed more than 8 characters. > > Does anyone know how I can use sed to count the characters in the first field > and if t

Re: Server Lockups during Backups ad0 to ad1

2002-09-19 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 11:50 AM 9.18.2002 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >"Jack L. Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Am running FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE > >Updating might help; there are some changes to the ATA code which I >think *might* be relevant. Don't do that first, though; it could >certainly compound your pro

Fixes for modem lockup and cuaa4/KPPP problems

2002-09-19 Thread Art Swan
These are fixes I found on the web for a couple of problems I was having. 1. System lockup when I tried to use cuaa0 and 2. How to use cuaa4 on KPPP dialer. For the modem lockup when I tried to use cuaa0, I simply used (as root) /dev/MAKEDEV to create cuaa4, with which my modem worked perfectly.

Re: Headless FreeBSD box - Serial Redirection Not Working

2002-09-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:39:08 -0400 (EDT) > From: Jason Borkowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Greetings! I have FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE running on a rackmount chassis, and > I want to convert it to a headless box, with all console output redirected > to the serial por

IRQ problems

2002-09-19 Thread randallS
I'm getting there. It has taken me two weeks to get to this point. I will never give up! :-) I still can not install freeBSD with the graphical interface KDE. I get through the installation process ok and then when I restart, login as root (or any other acct) and invoke "startx" this is wha

Re: IRQ problems

2002-09-19 Thread Matt Smith
How is your mouse configured in /etc/X11/XF86Config? Try the sysmouse device, with Protocol set to auto -- I had the same problem, and these setting fixed it. I am using a Wheel Mouse with no problems now. the wheel will work once you add the ZAxisMapping configs.. -Matt On Thu, 2002-09-

Re: IRQ problems

2002-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:05:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The KDE desktop initializes and displays fine, but the mouse jitters and > jerks and stays in the upper left hand corner of the screen. It responds > to input, (when I move the mouse it jerks out of the corner then back in,

mini iso's

2002-09-19 Thread Socketd
Hi I have noticed that there isn't a mini iso for 4.6.2, why? Will there be one for 4.7? (I really hope so). br db To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

NFS Problems FreeBSD --> Solaris

2002-09-19 Thread Weston M. Price
Hello, I am attempting to mount a few directories from my Solaris machine(s) to my FreeBSD workstation. nfsd is clearly running on Solaris and the sharing the directories is not a problem. When I attempt to mount the directories on FreeBSD I get the following error: damascus:/usr/wmprice:

Re: NFS Problems FreeBSD --> Solaris

2002-09-19 Thread Mike Hogsett
> Hello, > I am attempting to mount a few directories from my Solaris machine(s) to my > > FreeBSD workstation. nfsd is clearly running on Solaris and the sharing the > directories is not a problem. When I attempt to mount the directories on > FreeBSD I get the following error: >

Re: OT sed help

2002-09-19 Thread Matthew Bettinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the solution. Informix fun fun ... Matt On Thursday 19 September 2002 02:40 pm, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Matthew Bettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a flat file that I need to import into a database. The first > > field of

mplayer barfs after portupgrade today

2002-09-19 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, I used portupgrade to update (a working) mplayer on my system tonight, and now it crashes with the following errors: MPlayer 0.90pre8-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS) CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner (Family: 6, Stepping: 3) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2:

Company mail system question...

2002-09-19 Thread Michael Pelletier
I am reseaching for a mail system for my company. I would like some information for my research. Basically, I would need POP3, IMAP, etc support ans many of the client are windoze based. Thanks in advance. Michael Pelletier _ Ch

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-19 Thread Duncan Anker
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:53, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > In general, it is a good idea to try to avoid -exec, because > it is inefficient. -exec runs the specified command for every > single file, whilch can be terribly slow if there are a lot of > files. Better use xargs instead, which will colle

Re: Company mail system question...

2002-09-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Your best bet would be to search these mailing lists for the following words (not necessarily in the same search). uw-imap qpopper courier cyrus postfix qmail that will turn up a lot of information on what other people are recommending. I myself use uw-imap, but our company is only 7 people so

Re: Company mail system question...

2002-09-19 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 07:05:20PM -0400, Michael Pelletier wrote: > I am reseaching for a mail system for my company. I would like some > information for my research. Basically, I would need POP3, IMAP, etc > support ans many of the client are windoze based. Thanks in advance. For both IMAP an

Re: mplayer barfs after portupgrade today

2002-09-19 Thread Adam Weinberger
root@smacky:~# pkg_info -L mplayer-gtk-0.90.0.8|grep codecs.conf /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf -Adam >> (09.19.2002 @ 1541 PST): Stacey Roberts said, in 3.8K: << > Hello, > I used portupgrade to update (a working) mplayer on my system > tonight, and now it crashes with the following

Re: Company mail system question...

2002-09-19 Thread Bob Johnson
On Thursday 19 September 2002 07:05 pm, Michael Pelletier appears to have written: > I am reseaching for a mail system for my company. I would like some > information for my research. Basically, I would need POP3, IMAP, etc > support ans many of the client are windoze based. Thanks in advance. >

Re: mplayer barfs after portupgrade today

2002-09-19 Thread Jud
9/19/2002 6:41:49 PM, Stacey Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > I used portupgrade to update (a working) mplayer on my system >tonight, and now it crashes with the following errors: [snip] Stacey - Adam's answered your questions, which gives me the luxury of asking the following

Re: dvdrip doesnt see my dvds

2002-09-19 Thread twig les
The problem turned out that I needed to point the device in preferences to /cdrom. It was /dev/dvd just like you thought it might be, so I tinkered a few times and voila! trial and error won the day. Thanks for the idea and the tip about PIO mode. I'm new to the whole dvd ripping scene. --- K

Re: Promise Ultra ATA 133 PCI card supported?

2002-09-19 Thread Jud
9/18/2002 10:01:53 PM, "S. Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "DB" == Donald Burr of Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >DB> Hello world. I'm about to add a 3rd hard drive to my system. >DB> Since my motherboard's built in IDE ports are all in use, I will >DB> need to ad

options SUIDDIR

2002-09-19 Thread Andy
I have been researching the use of "options SUDIDIR" in the kernel. I have noted several warnings about the use of this option being a security issue, but I have as of yet to read or see any explanation as to what kind of security issue its use represents. Any assistance in an explanation con

Re: Promise Ultra ATA 133 PCI card supported?

2002-09-19 Thread Donald Burr of Borg
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jud wrote: J>But before you run out and buy a new card - do you have room for J>another drive on your current cable(s), or ? If so, you might try hooking J>up the new drive on the cable to see if it works, and only springing for J>the new card if it doesn't. Or you might th

Re: SONY CD-RW CRX10U don't work with FreeBSD cdrtools

2002-09-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 19 September 2002 at 10:13:20 +0259, Aleksey Ovcharenko wrote: > Hi! > > I have a trouble trying to force my Sony CD-RW work on FreeBSD =) > > ... > Revision : '2.0b' > Device seems to be: Generic CD-ROM. > ^^ > Uh-oh, what is going o

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-19 Thread Tim Peters
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:05:10AM +1000, Duncan Anker wrote: > > > > find foo -type f | grep -i '\.jpg$' | xargs -J % mv % bar > > > > My preferred method also. But ... I can never get that to work if there > are spaces (or other illegal characters) in the file names. > > And no, I don't usua

Re: Upgrade Computer - old vidio card

2002-09-19 Thread dfolkins
From: "Grant Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:06 AM Subject: Upgrade Computer - old vidio card > Case - 147 with 350W Power Supply > Motherboard -AUS A7V266-E-AA > CPU - AMD Athlon XP 1800+ > Memory - 256 MB DDR PC2100 Ram > > I have an ol

Re: DHCPD doesn't want to bind to any interface

2002-09-19 Thread dfolkins
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:07 PM Subject: Re: DHCPD doesn't want to bind to any interface > Selon Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > recently I rebooted my box (FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE) and since this

weird files

2002-09-19 Thread mingo lu
Hi: i have two weird files under my home directory; one is file named "-bash.gmon" and another one is "xy ds". how could i remove them? rm just won't work ... tia __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com

Re: weird files

2002-09-19 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, mingo lu wrote: > Hi: i have two weird files under my home directory; one is > file named "-bash.gmon" and another one is "xy ds". > how could i remove them? rm just won't work ... > tia What error does rm give you? Have you tried `rm -i \-bash\.gmon` or `rm -i xy\ ds`? If

Re: weird files

2002-09-19 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, mingo lu wrote: > thanks. actually i did this before: Try the command I gave you. > freebiebsd@ rm -rf `\-bash.gmon` If you use apostrophes that start at top left and go down to lower right such as this: `` the text between them is interpreted by your shell as a command wit

PPP connection via a GMC router

2002-09-19 Thread Fuji Zhang
hi, i had ADSL working via a D-Link card to Bell Sympatico just fine. then my roommate wanted to share the ISP w/ me. so we bought a GMC router. He had his Linux box working behind the router. but my FreeBSD box stopped working. what am i missing? your help would certainly be appreciated. please r

Multibyte code and unicode support

2002-09-19 Thread hje
hi, (this might be a dumb question) does freebsd support mulibyte and/or unicode in kernel level? would it be possible that freebsd support japanese as natively as japanese version of ms win98? would it be possible for freebsd to support unicode while supporting japanese char coding system f

Re: weird files

2002-09-19 Thread M.T.
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, mingo lu wrote: > Hi: > > i have two weird files under my home directory; one is > file named "-bash.gmon" and another one is "xy ds". > how could i remove them? rm just won't work ... rm 'xy ds' -bash.gmon $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multibyte code and unicode support

2002-09-19 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:24:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > (this might be a dumb question) does freebsd support mulibyte and/or unicode in >kernel level? > > would it be possible that freebsd support japanese as natively as japanese version >of ms win98? It's pretty easy to

Re: number of snoop devices

2002-09-19 Thread Tien Duc Nguyen
My problem was this: -for the 10th + snp devices, I had to create it by hand with mknod; - I had an old version of watch, the one that comes with 4.6-REL does have the option of specifying the snoop device. Only weirdness I see is that the tty must be open before executing watch on it, else there

kldload way to send options into kernel?

2002-09-19 Thread Peter Leftwich
I tried running `wine GetBot.exe` because it is the best offline browser and web snake/bot program ever, but for Windows and I got this error: Did you reconfigure the kernel with "options USER_LDT"? Is there a command line I can give such as kldload to add this option in? -- Peter Leftwich Pres

Some problem with dummynet

2002-09-19 Thread budsz
Hi, Last night, I tried to limit my client which I changed 23Kbit/s to 1bit/s (Just experiment), I got some message like below: ---cut -- dummynet: warning, heap 0 is 1531352822 ticks late -- dummynet: warning, heap 0 is 1531314423 ticks late -- dummynet: warning, heap 0 is 1531276024 ticks late

usb devices not being detected

2002-09-19 Thread Jacob Rhoden
Hi, When I plug in (or boot with attached) my usb devices arent ever detected. (I have tried Microsoft Natural Keyboard, and Digital Camera). usbd is enabled in rc.conf and is in memory when i do a ps. dmesg output below. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jacob uhci0: port 0

Weird error when installing FreeBSD 4.6

2002-09-19 Thread Ron Andreasen
Okay, first off here's the error: acd0: read data overrun 34/0 acd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG command timeout -resetting ata0: resetting devices .. at0: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device Does this mean the problem is with my hard drives and cd drives? Here's how those are set up. 40 g

Re: Weird error when installing FreeBSD 4.6

2002-09-19 Thread nate
Ron Andreasen said: > Okay, first off here's the error: > > acd0: read data overrun 34/0 > acd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG command timeout -resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. at0: DMA limited to > UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > > Does this mean the problem is with my hard drives and > cd drives?

Console messages from ahc0 - how serious are they?

2002-09-19 Thread Matthew Emmerton
I'm running 4.4-REL on a bunch of older systems with onboard Adaptec 7870 controllers and recently I've been getting lots of console output from one of them. I'm pretty sure it means that one of my drives is dying (which I've suyspected for a while), but I'm just curious as to what the messages

free IDS code?

2002-09-19 Thread mingo lu
Hi all: are there any free IDS (intrusion dection system) packages out there for freebsd? i remember snort was one but I can't find the code any more, may be something else out there? tia __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo

gethostbyname

2002-09-19 Thread Tony
Anyone have a simple example of how to use this function.. I have spent the last couple of evenings trying to get it to work. Do not refer me to the man page as that is not very helpful. Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of

Running 2 wireless cards

2002-09-19 Thread Pete Muller
Hi all, Old 233mhz Vectra, FBSD v4.5 I'm struggling to get 2 Orinoco Silver .11b cards to run on FBSD v4.5. Each card is in an ISA adapter. The box does nat through the wired NIC to the world. (3Com 3C905 card) One wireless card is set up as the 192.168.10 network, the second being the 192.1

Re: Company mail system question...

2002-09-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-09-19 19:05, Michael Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am reseaching for a mail system for my company. I would like some > information for my research. Basically, I would need POP3, IMAP, etc > support ans many of the client are windoze based. Thanks in advance. Since others have r

add to gnome start menu?

2002-09-19 Thread Peter Leftwich
Could be simple, but how do you add to Gnome 2's "start menu?" I am tiring of clicking the MainMenu then "Run Program" gaim or freeamp! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Fwd: kldload way to send options into kernel?

2002-09-19 Thread Peter Leftwich
Nevermind - I'm going to keep trying to get httrack to compile http://www.httrack.com -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions LIST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: kldload way to send options into kernel? Da

Re: Running 2 wireless cards

2002-09-19 Thread Adam Weinberger
can you show your wicontrol scripts? and the output of "ifconfig -a"? and of "wicontrol -i wi0" and "wicontrol -i wi1". tell me whether i have this wrong: you have 2 cards in one computer, at you're trying to get them both to communicate with a card in a laptop running in host mode? are either

Re: gethostbyname

2002-09-19 Thread Jacob Rhoden
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:18, Tony wrote: > Anyone have a simple example of how to use this function.. Hope this helps. struct hostent *he; struct sockaddr_in sin; char *hostname="freebsd.org"; int port=80; sin.sin_family = AF_INET; sin.sin_port = htons(port); sin.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr

Re: add to gnome start menu?

2002-09-19 Thread Adam Weinberger
gnome2, if you installed the meta-port, comes with a program called "yelp" which is a comprehensive manual browser, primarily for gnome docs. if you don't have it, install /usr/ports/x11/yelp. start it up, click Desktop, the Menus, expand "Customizing Your Menus" on the left, and choose "To Add a

KDE and KDM issues still

2002-09-19 Thread James Dean
I'm running 4.7 RC1 and have kdm load at boot. My /etc/ttys file looks like this: # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv4 "/usr/li

Re: Company mail system question...

2002-09-19 Thread Moti Levy
I use : postfix + procmail - for smtp and filtering cyrus - for pop and imap SquirrelMail - for web mail client and i'm in the process of building an address book based on ldap . all in the ports my users use :mutt,outlook express , outlook , eudora , mozilla mail ,sylpheed and evolution . i like

make (pmake) question

2002-09-19 Thread Roman Neuhauser
I've been struggling a few make problems, where the actual behavior seems to differ from the documentation. It's more than likely that something just hasn't gotten through my thick skull, so I'm looking for explanations. For starters: variable assignment with expansion. make(1): := Ass

Re: user.mydomain.com

2002-09-19 Thread dfolkins
- Original Message - From: "Janine C.Buorditez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:44 AM Subject: user.mydomain.com > how is this created when adding a new user? > > are there any adduser scripts out there doing this automaticly as well as a

Re: IRQ problems

2002-09-19 Thread Denis N. Peplin
On Friday 20 September 2002 01:42, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:05:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The KDE desktop initializes and displays fine, but the mouse jitters and > > jerks and stays in the upper left hand corner of the screen. It responds > > to input, (wh

Re: free IDS code?

2002-09-19 Thread Denis N. Peplin
On Friday 20 September 2002 10:11, mingo lu wrote: > Hi all: > > are there any free IDS (intrusion dection system) > packages out there for freebsd? i remember snort was > one but I can't find the code any more, may be > something else out there? /usr/ports/security/snort /usr/ports/security/ports

Re: NFS Problems FreeBSD --> Solaris

2002-09-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 19), Weston M. Price said: > I am attempting to mount a few directories from my Solaris > machine(s) to my FreeBSD workstation. nfsd is clearly running on > Solaris and the sharing the directories is not a problem. When I > attempt to mount the directories on FreeBSD I g

Is It Possible To Sort My Text File?

2002-09-19 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm running Postfix and have it configured to send 450 errors if the IP address of a mail server fails reverse lookup as described at http://www.muine.org/~hoang/postfix.html. As part of this config, I have a "override" file that is checked first. When I initially created the file, I sorted my e

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