Re: Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD)

2004-06-14 Thread K. Greenwood
--- Jon Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The (main) problem -> > > My network connectivity is ridiculously slow... I > had OpenSSH timeout set to > the default, 120 secs, and the messages file said > the connections (on the same > 100MBPs hub mind you) were timing out before > authenticat

Re: FreeBSD 4-10 install, RAM parity errors that don't seem to happen inLinux.

2004-06-14 Thread Derrick MacPherson
Derrick MacPherson mainframe.ca> writes: > > I am trying to move as much of our servers as I can to FreeBSD, and > there's a few boxes that they have here that the RAM is a about 2 mm > high and requires the case (1U machines) to press on the RAM when > closed. These machines run RH Linux for mo

Re: OT: web serving

2004-06-14 Thread Nagilum
Hi John, The simpliest solution would probably be to let your gateway machine not just forward port 80 to your fbsd machine, but also let it forward another port (eg. 81) to your .net machine and configure IIS to serve also via this port. If that is not an option you might be able to set up som

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Greg Pavelcak
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:31:40AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > This has come up 1 times. It's simply not going to happen because the > beastie has too much historical significance. It's a matter of pride that the > beastie mascot has more history than the Linux penguin and the Microshit

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Richard Tobin
> Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? You might want to look at the output of "whois antichristconspiracy.com" before wasting your time responding to this. Then you can construct much more amusing replies. -- Richard ___ [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Anthony Edwards
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:02:49PM -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: > Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing > perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people > of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD > becau

RE: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Spuds > > 2) Is FreeBSD in any way affected by the SCO lawsuits ... What you're asking for is legal advice. No one here will indemnify you if in a perverse travesty of justice SCO does succeed in its goals. You will have to assume the risk yourself. Risk = probability * severity. Probabil

RE: web serving

2004-06-14 Thread Andras Kende
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goodleaf, John Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: web serving Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I have a FreeBSD server at home serving some web pages, mostly

Re: FreeBSD 4-10 install, RAM parity errors that don't seem to happen inLinux.

2004-06-14 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 14, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Derrick MacPherson wrote: Derrick MacPherson mainframe.ca> writes: I am trying to move as much of our servers as I can to FreeBSD, and there's a few boxes that they have here that the RAM is a about 2 mm high and requires the case (1U machines) to press on the RAM when

Re: FreeBSD 4-10 install, RAM parity errors that don't seem to happen inLinux.

2004-06-14 Thread Derrick MacPherson
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 11:19, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Jun 14, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Derrick MacPherson wrote: > > Derrick MacPherson mainframe.ca> writes: > >> I am trying to move as much of our servers as I can to FreeBSD, and > >> there's a few boxes that they have here that the RAM is a about 2 m

[going OT ...] Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
Greg Pavelcak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:31:40AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > This has come up 1 times. It's simply not going to happen because the > > beastie has too much historical significance. It's a matter of pride that the > > beastie mascot has m

software equivs for netapps snapmirror / snapshots in FreeBSD fileserver ?

2004-06-14 Thread Joe Schmoe
I am very intrigued by some of the features that Network Appliance (NetApp) has for its network attached arrays. Chiefly: snapmirror http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/snapmirror.html which allows real time replication of a filesystem(s) over a WAN - and saves bandwidth by trans

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread lbland
You may think that is a small issue, but when you are trying to create market awareness you need a mascot that evokes simplicity and goodwill, not one that evokes evil and deception. ... and here I thought that giving software away for free to everyone in the world was a form of altruism and

spamassassin, clamav with sendmail - not scanning local mails.

2004-06-14 Thread Rajamani, Rajarajan (Rajarajan)
I have installed the spamassassin milter and the clam av milter ports and have made the following changes to the freebsd.mc file. INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock, F=,T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m') INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clmilter',`S=local:/var/run/clamav/clmilter.so

using freebsd and j2me

2004-06-14 Thread asolomon15
Hello all, I wanted to know has anyone used j2me with t heir freebsd workstation? I just noticed it wasn't in the ports ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EM

using freebsd and j2me

2004-06-14 Thread asolomon15
Hello all, I wanted to know has anyone used j2me with t heir freebsd workstation? I just noticed it wasn't in the ports ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EM

mpd3.18

2004-06-14 Thread Mark
I have a box that is having a 24th hour crash, I have narrowed it down to mpd 3.18 as the cause, kill mpd and the box will hum right along for days, restart mpd 24 hrs later it goes into kernel panic and reboots. Anyone else have this problem?? (side note - swap file full is one msg) As you can

Anyone else having trouble with Ethereal freezing up?

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
Subject is the question. I'm using 4.9-RELEASE (I know, it's time to upgrade) Just cvsupped ports and rebuilt ethereal. Using gtk-2.4.1 (gnome 2.6) Ethereal starts, but when I try to start a capture, it just freezes. Anyone else seeing this trouble? Anyone got any suggestions? -- Bill Mora

Problem creating slices or labels

2004-06-14 Thread Renato Marques
Hi, I am using FBSD 5.2.1 release and I can't create slices or labels using sysinstall. When I boot from the instalation CD everything works fine. The message from sysinstal is "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0!" I need to do this in a remote computer, so i can't boot from the CD. What am I

incremental tar question

2004-06-14 Thread Reed L. O'Brien
FreeBSD 5.2.1 I am using the folowing to backup saturday tar -jcf etc.bz2 /etc /usr/local/etc in /bak/saturday. I would like to do an incremental on monday (et al) in /bak/monday (et al) tar -cf etc.bz2 /etc/ /usr/local/etc/ -g /bak/saturday/etc.bz2 Is this the correct format? I cannot get it to wo

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Peter Pauly
I wonder if the FreeBSD daemon could be considered a "god"... because he can "make world". ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Devil Mascot(That

2004-06-14 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
--- Jan Muenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You may think that is a small issue, but when > you are trying to create > > market awareness you need a mascot that evokes > simplicity and goodwill, not > > one that evokes evil and deception. > > Man... either you're a (moderately funny) trol

using apm to power a system down, 5.x

2004-06-14 Thread dave
Hello, I've got a 5.x system, an older box that doesn't use acpi. My first item is i need to disable acpi. I believe i have done this. I have the following in /boot/device.hints: hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" hint.apm.0.disabled="0" hint.apm.0.flags="0x20" I next have to enable apm and get it to do syst

Re: Anyone else having trouble with Ethereal freezing up?

2004-06-14 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 14, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Ethereal starts, but when I try to start a capture, it just freezes. Anyone else seeing this trouble? Anyone got any suggestions? Hmm, try using tcpdump? Also, I've seen packet sniffers freeze like this if they try to perform DNS lookups and are wai

Re: spamassassin, clamav with sendmail - not scanning local mails.

2004-06-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 14), Rajamani, Rajarajan (Rajarajan) said: > I have installed the spamassassin milter and the clam av milter ports > and have made the following changes to the freebsd.mc file. > > INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock, > F=,T=C:15m;S:4m;

Re: Anyone else having trouble with Ethereal freezing up?

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Subject is the question. I'm using 4.9-RELEASE (I know, it's time to upgrade) > > Just cvsupped ports and rebuilt ethereal. Using gtk-2.4.1 (gnome 2.6) > > Ethereal starts, but when I try to start a capture, it just freezes. > > Anyone else seeing th

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Noah
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:07:41 +0200, Ole Guldberg Jensen wrote > Edward Hendrie wrote: > > > Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? > > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html > > > From a marketing > > perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people

Re: Anyone else having trouble with Ethereal freezing up?

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 14, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > Ethereal starts, but when I try to start a capture, it just freezes. > > > > Anyone else seeing this trouble? Anyone got any suggestions? > > Hmm, try using tcpdump? Also, I've seen packet sniffers fr

re Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread LW Ellis
I don't think there is much to worry about on that front. Please read below and you will understand. http://bonehead.oddballs.com/todays_bonehead.html TODAY WE BESTOW SIX BONEHEAD AWARDS Not Screwed Up Enough. The Stupids Try To Have A Baby Bonehead award one goes to a German couple who, after 8

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Jorn Argelo
Peter Pauly wrote: I wonder if the FreeBSD daemon could be considered a "god"... because he can "make world". Heh, now that's a nice one. Interesting discussion by the way, but I wonder, why are we going to reply to an obvious troll like that? Just let the man be, and we might as well spend ti

Re: apm support

2004-06-14 Thread Henrik W Lund
ray wrote: i did all that :) i added apmd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and i also removed the disable line from my kernel config. On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 03:13:56PM +0200, Henrik W Lund wrote: ray wrote: hi, i have a Sony Vaio PCG-GRZ660 laptop and i'm trying to get apm to work. i have the apmd

New Freebsd-FTP-Mirror in Germany

2004-06-14 Thread Volker Lieder
Hello List, we are an internet-service-provider in Frankfurt. We have installed a new mirror for Freebsd. It is soon available on ftp3.de.freebsd.org. The server is placed at DECIX in Frankfurt/Main and has an 1GBit interface. Hope the server helps to make FreeBSD more popular. A rsync is also poss

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Chris
On Monday 14 June 2004 04:09 pm, Jorn Argelo wrote: > Peter Pauly wrote: > >I wonder if the FreeBSD daemon could be considered a "god"... > > > >because he can "make world". > > Heh, now that's a nice one. > > Interesting discussion by the way, but I wonder, why are we going to > reply to an obviou

RE: spamassassin, clamav with sendmail - not scanning local mails .

2004-06-14 Thread Rajamani, Rajarajan (Rajarajan)
>> Since I use fetchmail/fetchyahoo/gotmail to retreive my >> ISP/yahoo/hotmail accounts (where I get most spam), the mails >> delivered to my mbox are not scanned by either clamd or spamd. I >> checked that these tools are having the appropriate switches to >> forward the pop'd mails to my ac

problems with make buildworld

2004-06-14 Thread David Bear
I received the following make error during a system update. I had cvsup'ed to the latest RELENG4. I googled for some of the search terms and could make sense of what I found there. Any help would be appreciated.. this was during 'make buildworld' FBSDID=__RCSID -I/usr/obj/mnt/wd/src/i386/

Re: spamassassin, clamav with sendmail - not scanning local mails.

2004-06-14 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Rajamani, Rajarajan (Rajarajan) wrote: I have installed the spamassassin milter and the clam av milter ports and have made the following changes to the freebsd.mc file. INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock, F=,T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m') INPUT_M

pkgdb and ruby

2004-06-14 Thread Ben Paley
Hello Contientiously, I like to run pkgdb -F fairly often, especially if I'm using portinstall or portupgrade a lot. Recently I've been getting this: su-2.05b# pkgdb -F ---> Checking the package registry database Duplicated origin: databases/ruby-bdb1 - ruby-bdb1-0.2.1 ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 Unregis

ifconfig [interface] destroy

2004-06-14 Thread Ben Paley
Hello, Occasionally when I run ppp I get this message: bash-2.05b$ ppp Working in interactive mode Using interface: tun0 Warning: Add route failed: 0.0.0.0/0 already exists ppp ON potato> and ifconfig shows: bash-2.05b$ ifconfig -a rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=8 inet 10.0.0.

RE: Bash Startup Files

2004-06-14 Thread Dan MacMillan
On Behalf Of Arend P. van der Veen: > > ... > > I have a case where both ~/.profile and ~/.bash_profile > exist and both are sourced. > > ... If this really is happening, it's likely one of your other startup files is explicitly sourcing ~/.profile. -- Danny _

SOLVED: Re: What is mcopidl ? - breaking kde upgrade

2004-06-14 Thread Murray Taylor
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 10:16, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Wednesday 09 June 2004 04:16 pm, Murray Taylor wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 18:14, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > On Wednesday 09 June 2004 12:56 am, Murray Taylor wrote: > > > > When attempting to rebuild kdebase I got the following error... > >

Re: pkgdb and ruby

2004-06-14 Thread Ben Paley
On Monday 14 June 2004 22:45, Ben Paley wrote: > Hello > > Contientiously, I like to run pkgdb -F fairly often, especially if I'm > using portinstall or portupgrade a lot. Recently I've been getting this: Sorry - I just discovered /usr/ports/UPDATING which has the answer! Silly me, Ben __

pkgdb and ruby

2004-06-14 Thread raymond
Ben Paley wrote: > Hello > > Contientiously, I like to run pkgdb -F fairly often, especially if I'm using > portinstall or portupgrade a lot. Recently I've been getting this: > > su-2.05b# pkgdb -F What is pkgdb and where can I find it? [snip] Ray Newman _

RE: web serving

2004-06-14 Thread Dan MacMillan
Goodleaf, John wrote: > Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > So I have a FreeBSD server at home serving some web pages, mostly web > mail (Apache). It's running on a DSL line behind a gateway that > forwards port 80 requests to it. Now here's the problem. I need to > serve also from an II

setting variables in tcsh temporarily

2004-06-14 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Hi, I have this simple question regarding the tcsh: in /bin/sh (Bourne shell) I can assign a value to an environment variable for just one command, like this: VARIABLE=value e.g. "DISPLAY=:0 xterm" or "CFLAGS=O2 make". Can this be done with tcsh as well? The only thing I can think of is

ucom* at uftdi? does not work with getty

2004-06-14 Thread Richard Kiss
We run a dial-up call center and are trying to find a replacement for our old Cyclades multi-port serial cards which never worked all that well. We purchased a USB to 8 serial port converter that uses an FTDI chipset from byterunner.com. The serial ports are hot-pluggable (a nice plus) and present

RE: Hard Drive going bad? (hard error reading fsbn)

2004-06-14 Thread Kevin Greenidge
The drive is only about 4 months old and freebsd 4.9 has been installed for about 3 1/2 months running flawlessly. I have a spare drive but I sure hate transferring all that data over to the new drive. I took a chance and installed a single drive since I've always had good luck with drives, now it

Installing problems. No Desktop.

2004-06-14 Thread Lloyd Hayes
I installed FreeBSD on an older Gateway laptop. 128 MB/ 233 MHz/ 800x600 screen/ 6 GB Hard driver with 4 GB on the hard drive set aside for FreeBSD. Windows 98 SE is installed in the other 2 GB. FreeBSD appears to be installed correctly, but I cannot get the KDE desktop to come up. In fact, al

Re: Installing problems. No Desktop.

2004-06-14 Thread LW Ellis
Just went thru this myself. Have you sent up the Xserver. KDE won't run with out it. Chapter 5 of teh handbook cover this, and you can do it thru stand/sysinstall Leon - Original Message - From: "Lloyd Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:12 PM

Re: ucom* at uftdi? does not work with getty

2004-06-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 14), Richard Kiss said: > We run a dial-up call center and are trying to find a replacement for > our old Cyclades multi-port serial cards which never worked all that > well. We purchased a USB to 8 serial port converter that uses an FTDI > chipset from byterunner.com. The

options tcp_drop_synfin and virtual hosts

2004-06-14 Thread dave
Hello, Is there a doc that says what the tcp_drop_synfin option does and what effect it has on webservers and why it should never be used on such? I've got an apache install on a 5.2.1 box with two hosts, and am having a problem that externalnections can only get to the primary site, while netw

Re: Help With Selection of Database Application

2004-06-14 Thread Bob Perry
On (06/13/04 21:24), Andrew L. Gould wrote: > Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:24:20 -0500 > From: "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Bob Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Help With Selection of Database Application > X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.9-gtk2-20040229 (

Detaching program from controlling terminal

2004-06-14 Thread Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
Hi all, I'm somehow stuck in the loop now and am hoping some of you can give me pointers on how to proceed. Due to a customer requirement, I need to build a simple web-based (via cgi or php) script to change the system password. They found that sshing to the server and typing passwd to change t

Re: No /boot/loader

2004-06-14 Thread freebsd
Hi all. A little over a month ago I posted the following: > I just installed 4.9 on a 8 x 4.3GB SCSI disk AMI MegaRAID array (RAID 5, > 30GB). The card's a HP NetRAID (aka AMI/LSI Enterprise 1200 or Series > 428). I set up slices as I have previously with 30GB+ IDE drives: > > 1GBswap > 29

Re: Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD)

2004-06-14 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Jun 14, 2004, at 05:08, Jon Adams wrote: My network connectivity is ridiculously slow... I had OpenSSH timeout set to the default, 120 secs, and the messages file said the connections (on the same 100MBPs hub mind you) were timing out before authentication (password). I went in and doubled

Re:

2004-06-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Monday 14 June 2004 15:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In operating system 2000 server what service pack I have to install for > installing the sap R3 4.6c sr2 . You are really in the wrong place! Come back here when you are running on a FreeBSD operating system; or at least some variant of unix

Re: Default make.conf in FreeBSD 5.x?

2004-06-14 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Monday 14 June 2004 02:41, Andrew McLaren wrote: > Apologies in advance for what might be a dumb question - but I have > searched Readmes, UPDATE, Handbook, FAQ, Google, without finding the answer Looks like you did not look at the man page. from make.conf(5): FILES /etc/make.conf /

USB 2.0 (ehci) - still buggy?

2004-06-14 Thread AK
Hello, everyone! I have just compiled EHCI into kernel, but have no luck on making USB2 working :( Is USB2 supported or it is still buggy on fbsd? When I plug USB2 device kernel yields: uhub3: port 1, set config at addr 2 failed uhub3: device problem, disabling port 1 uhub3: port 5, set con

RE: Default make.conf in FreeBSD 5.x?

2004-06-14 Thread Andrew McLaren
No, I read the man page :-) I may be stupid, but I am not lazy :-)) The man page also helpfully says "This man page may occasionally be out of date" so, while it's a useful document, it is not necessarily the final arbiter of correctness. What confused me was that /etc/default/make.conf had di

ATAPICAM - Sony AIT SDX-420 ATAPI tape drive on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-06-14 Thread raymond
I have added a Sony SDX-420 ATAPI tape drive to a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE system. The following is part of the kernel build: # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device atapicam # SCSI peripherals device scbus # S

ATAPICAM - Sony AIT SDX-420 ATAPI tape drive on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-06-14 Thread raymond
I have added a Sony SDX-420 ATAPI tape drive to a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE system. The following is part of the kernel build: # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device atapicam # SCSI peripherals device scbus # S

Re: more on XFree86-4 problem

2004-06-14 Thread atk2
Thanks - that seemed to fix it. Now on to the next project - java/mozilla :( Alan ||From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 13 15:34:32 2004 ||On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 15:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ||> Ok - I decided that perhaps my problem was a undetected conflict in old ||> packages - i deleted

Re: What's the big difference between Linux and Unix??

2004-06-14 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2004-06-12T14:06:07+01:00, Matthew Seaman wrote: > For more detail that you could possibly want about the descent of > Unix, see: > > http://www.levenez.com/unix/ Hi Matthew, Thanks for pointing out that interesting site. Cheers, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Se

Re: USB 2.0 (ehci) - still buggy?

2004-06-14 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Monday 14 June 2004 09:51, AK wrote: > I have just compiled EHCI into kernel, but have no luck > on making USB2 working :( Is USB2 supported or it is still > buggy on fbsd? If I compile ehci into the kernel and plug a USB2 Harddrive, my FreeBSD-5.2.1 box panics, so I guess it is still _very_

Re: Default make.conf in FreeBSD 5.x?

2004-06-14 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Monday 14 June 2004 10:01, Andrew McLaren wrote: > No, I read the man page :-) I may be stupid, but I am not lazy :-)) The > man page also helpfully says "This man page may occasionally be out of > date" so, while it's a useful document, it is not necessarily the final > arbiter of correctness

Hard Drive going bad? (hard error reading fsbn)

2004-06-14 Thread Kevin Greenidge
I started seeing the error messages in my logs. When I googled the error some seem to think it may be a hardware issue and some seem to think it's o/s specific. Trying to see what's the general opinon. Running 4.9 Jun 13 00:30:26 santacruz /kernel: ad0s1h: hard error reading fsbn 197442991 of 26

Single Xeon

2004-06-14 Thread freebsd_daemon
Dear list; will all Xeons also run if no second CPU (Xeon) is available? I need to know as i am building a system to be used by a small number of people, but don't know how many it eventually will become. I therefore would like to keep the system as scaleable as possible and would like to use a d

Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Edward Hendrie
Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because they have religious objections to a product that is promoted by a dev

Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Spuds
Hello, My name is Bryan and I am interested in using FreeBSD on my computer. Before I do so, I have a couple of questions I was wondering you could answer. 1) Is FreeBSD truly free, as in I don't have to pay for it and can download it at no charge or is FreeBSD just a name? 2) Is FreeBSD in any

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Johannes Lochmann
On Monday 14 June 2004 02:02, Edward Hendrie wrote: Hi, > Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? It's not a devil, it's a daemon. > Look at how MSN is marketing its ISP. They use characters dressed in > harmless butterfly costumes. ... looking ridiculous, IMHO... > You m

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Jan Muenther
> You may think that is a small issue, but when you are trying to create > market awareness you need a mascot that evokes simplicity and goodwill, not > one that evokes evil and deception. Man... either you're a (moderately funny) troll or *you're* the one with some serious issues here. It's

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Ole Guldberg Jensen
Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because the

Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD)

2004-06-14 Thread Jon Adams
Hi all, First a qualifier: I am FreeBSD noob, I have had exposure to it for about two years, but I just built my first FreeBSD box last nite... fresh install over an old (and extremely tweaked) Red Hat Linux box After much procrastination, I have finally made the change (been stuck on l

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Geert Hendrickx
> You may think that is a small issue, but when you are trying to create > market awareness you need a mascot that evokes simplicity and goodwill, not > one that evokes evil and deception. I think it looks friendly, not evil at all. Moreover, it says "FreeBSD, the power to serve". Sounds goo

Re: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 09:28:16PM -0700, Spuds wrote: > 1) Is FreeBSD truly free, as in I don't have to pay for it and can download it at no > charge or is FreeBSD just a name? Yes. It's free. You can download it and use it with out worrying about license fees. > 2) Is FreeBSD in any way af

submit mailq problem

2004-06-14 Thread Brent Bailey
Hello, Im running sendmail 8.12.10 on FBSD 4.9rc2 ..in my logging im seeing the the following. Mail in submit queue: /var/spool/clientmqueue (7 requests) -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- Sender/Recipient--- hBEGdCCd042259 (Permission denied) hBEGOrsB0

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
"Edward Hendrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing > perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people > of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD > because they have religi

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Jason Stewart
On 13/06/04 17:02 -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: > Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing > perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people > of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD > because they have reli

Re: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Jason Stewart
On 13/06/04 21:28 -0700, Spuds wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Bryan and I am interested in using FreeBSD on my computer. Before I do > so, I have a couple of questions I was wondering you could answer. > 1) Is FreeBSD truly free, as in I don't have to pay for it and can download it at no > charg

Re: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
[Please read http://www.lemis.com/questions.html] "Spuds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Bryan and I am interested in using FreeBSD on my computer. Before I > do so, I have a couple of questions I was wondering you could answer. > 1) Is FreeBSD truly free, as in I don't have

Re: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Spuds wrote: > Hello, Hi Bryan > > My name is Bryan and I am interested in using FreeBSD on my computer. Before I do > so, I have a couple of questions I was wondering you could answer. > 1) Is FreeBSD truly free, as in I don't have to pay for it and can download it at no

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 06/13/04 05:02 PM, Edward Hendrie sat at the `puter and typed: > Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a > marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. > There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will > be dissuaded from trying

Re: Hard Drive going bad? (hard error reading fsbn)

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
"Kevin Greenidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started seeing the error messages in my logs. When I > googled the error some seem to think it may be a hardware > issue and some seem to think it's o/s specific. Trying to > see what's the general opinon. Running 4.9 It's either a failing HDD, or

snmpd sleeping

2004-06-14 Thread Pavan Rao
Please could anybody tell me how to wake up my snmp daemon (snmpd)? It's sleeping .It doesn't respond to any of the snmp commands (snmpget,snmpwalk,etc). I've installed the latest version of snmp (v3) That too doesn't work. Also I've tried out various perl scripts in different packages like (RR

gnome error message

2004-06-14 Thread n3rdBoy .
hello, I have been looking over the Handbook and I cannot find an answer to my problem. Every time I start gnome as root or a normal user I get the following error message; "Could not look up internet address for .

Re: apm support

2004-06-14 Thread Henrik W Lund
ray wrote: hi, i have a Sony Vaio PCG-GRZ660 laptop and i'm trying to get apm to work. i have the apmd running. apm displays this: ~# apm APM version: 1.2 APM Management: Disabled Look here! My guess is that you've left the line apm_enable=yes out from

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Henrik W Lund
If some people are put off from FreeBSD because the "devil" mascot evokes "evil and deception", they are not people I personally would want using the same OS as me. Good riddance! Speaking only for myself, of course. Now MSN, and its behemoth parent Microsoft, on the other hand... *There's* evi

Re: Hard Drive going bad? (hard error reading fsbn)

2004-06-14 Thread Kevin Greenidge
Here is the /etc/fstab and my dmesg output: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1f /hom

Re: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 09:28:16PM -0700, Spuds wrote: > 1) Is FreeBSD truly free, as in I don't have to pay for it and can > download it at no charge or is FreeBSD just a name? Yes, it is truly free. You can download it at no charge. > 3) Is FreeBSD compatible with Linux software? I believe I

IPFW with NAT and keep-state

2004-06-14 Thread Robert Downes
There seems to be confusion as soon as IPFW is used for NAT and for stateful dynamic rules. My ruleset so far contains the below rules, and I wonder if someone can tell me if there's anything incorrect about them (with regard to correctly using NAT and dynamic rulesets): bash-2.05b# ipfw -a li

Re: USB 2.0 (ehci) - still buggy?

2004-06-14 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Monday 14 June 2004 09:51, AK wrote: I have just compiled EHCI into kernel, but have no luck on making USB2 working :( Is USB2 supported or it is still buggy on fbsd? If I compile ehci into the kernel and plug a USB2 Harddrive, my FreeBSD-5.2.1 box panics, so I guess i

RE: want sudo but not sudo su - how

2004-06-14 Thread Hauan, David
> -Original Message- > From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 6:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: want sudo but not sudo su - how > > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:59:59AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > > It might be best to just say "I don't want

EOL for FreeBSD releases

2004-06-14 Thread duncan brown
Hello, I've been using Linux for about 11 years now, and I'm starting to get interested in your distro. The thing is, I can't find anywhere on your site the EOL plan for your releases. I run my own server on Fedora Core, but the EOL schedule is too agressive for me to keep this up. I've re

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread K. Greenwood
Please realize that I am not an official representative of FreeBSD, nor any organization associated to it. --- Edward Hendrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? Daemon... > From a marketing perspective, Blasphemy... > you are shooting yourselves

Asus PSCH-L

2004-06-14 Thread freebsd_daemon
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Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 13, 2004, at 8:02 PM, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because they have religi

Re: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello, > > My name is Bryan and I am interested in using FreeBSD on my computer. > Before I do so, I have a couple of questions I was wondering you could > answer. OK. First, because many people on these lists use text based Email readers, please set your Email program to break lines at a

Re: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 14, 2004, at 12:28 AM, Spuds wrote: 1) Is FreeBSD truly free, as in I don't have to pay for it and can download it at no charge or is FreeBSD just a name? Yes, FreeBSD is free as in "you don't have to pay for it". You can download .iso images of the CDs to burn yourself for no charge fr

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. We are proud of it. Period. At 08:33 a.m. 14/06/04 -0400, you wrote: On 13/06/04 17:02 -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: > Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing > perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people > of various religio

RE: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Thompson, Jimi
> From a marketing > perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people > of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD > because they have religious objections to a product that is promoted by a > devil. Why should The FreeBSD project be in

Re: submit mailq problem

2004-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:43:34AM -0400, Brent Bailey wrote: > > Hello, > Im running sendmail 8.12.10 on FBSD 4.9rc2 ..in my logging im seeing the > the following. > > > Mail in submit queue: > /var/spool/clientmqueue (7 requests) > -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- > --

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