On Wednesday 14 January 2004 10:11 pm, Duane Winner wrote:
> Hello all again,
>
> I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes
> and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good
> habits/methods/instructions for updating routines for both myself and my
> colleagues who
ts-all tag=.' in my supfile because I read that there
> are no release tags for ports).
I think you're correct here; but you could choose not to cvsup the ports.
>
> I just want to make sure I understand all of this correctly.
>
> Thanks again,
> Duane
>
> On Wed,
On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:47 am, Donald Turnbull wrote:
> I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already
> installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly
> in the future?
>
>
>
> Donald M. Turnbull MCSE, MCDBA
KDE and Gnome are on the in
After portupgrading my system, I'm having difficulties opening pdf files using
acroread5 and xpdf as a normal user. I've tried using the applications as
stand-alone apps, and I've tried opening pdf files in Mozilla and Opera --all
with the same results:
If I'm trying to open the pdf file as a
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > If I'm trying to open the pdf file as a normal user, I get the following
> > message:
> >
> > "There was an error opening this do
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > > >
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:28 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:25:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > > >
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:28 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:25:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > > >
On Friday 16 January 2004 07:45 am, David Fleck wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Evan Sayer wrote:
> > FreeBSD-
> > Please help, this is really important. I was told that i could get rid
> > of the ^m symbols at the end of the lines in my web page's html code
> > by using sed. They said to execute
On Friday 16 January 2004 08:49 am, Slabbert, C. (Clinton) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently purchased a new PS/2 optical mouse. I can't seem to get it
> working under X. On Debian and Slackware I use:
> Protocol auto or ImPS/2
> and it works fine.
>
> Under FreeBSD nothing seems to work, auto, Micr
On Friday 16 January 2004 10:15 am, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> Someone recomended dosunix (from ports) which is
> fine; please be aware of the fact that the same quid
> pro quo applies:
>
> $dosunix foobar foobar
>
> will still give you an empty file.
>
> Kevin Kinsey
Please note that
On Friday 16 January 2004 11:50 am, Eric F Crist wrote:
> Where do I get a PowerPC ISO to install? (I recently obtained an old Mac
> G3). I'm not seeing anything readily identifiable in pub/FreeBSD on the ftp
> server.
>
> TIA
The PPC port of FreeBSD is in development. You can find more informati
On Friday 16 January 2004 06:12 pm, fabio Viquez wrote:
> i can ping my freebsd 4.8 server, but when i try to use the ports or
> navigate the internet with konqueror i get unknown host... any idea?
Did you put the IP addresses of your DNS nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf?
Best of luck,
Andrew Go
On Saturday 17 January 2004 07:55 pm, Alex Walker wrote:
> Alas, I got no message about "Creating DISK da0". I have double checked all
> of the connections (my machine is set to dual boot with another OS, and
> everything works fine there), so I know it's not a connection issue. Still
> it just ref
I can't seem to get the ipfw rules right for letting ssh clients access a ssh
server. I can use ssh on the server to connect to the client; but if I try
to connect from the client to the server, the operation times out.
I have my rules in /etc/ipfw.rules. Executing 'ipfw show' displays all of
On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:53 pm, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote:
> On Monday 19 January 2004 00:47, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > I can't seem to get the ipfw rules right for letting ssh clients access a
> > ssh server. I can use ssh on the server to connect to the client;
Does portmap have to be enabled to connect to sshd?
Thanks,
Andrew Gould
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On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:53 pm, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote:
>
> You forgot the packets in the other direction... This should do the trick :
>
> ${fwcmd} add 00300 allow tcp from any to me 22
> ${fwcmd} add 00301 allow tcp from me 22 to any
>
> grtz,
> Daan
It worked.
Thanks,
Andrew Gould
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I'd like to experiment with an irc server. The irc server will not be
configured to connect to other irc servers. (In fact, I'd like to make it
local to the server and have the small number of users use ssh and a local
connection.)
The port for ircd-hybrid is marked as broken. Does anyone ha
On Sunday 18 January 2004 09:48 pm, Eric F Crist wrote:
> On Sunday 18 January 2004 08:08 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > The port for ircd-hybrid is marked as broken. Does anyone have any
> > recommendations regarding other irc servers?
>
> I have a server running Unre
On Sunday 18 January 2004 11:17 am, golev wrote:
> I'm having a problem under FreeBSD-5.1
> I can't mount cd-rom whith music !
> Thanks.
You're not supposed to mount music CD's. Your CD-listening application should
work fine as long as it knows which device represents the CD. Give it a try.
Be
On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> --On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample
> > message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks
> >
> > :
On Monday 19 January 2004 10:03 am, Quinn Ellis wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I have a 120gig drive i'm trying to install freeBSD onto the end of.
> i have two 51gig windows slices, and one unformatted slice of 10gig.
>
> FreeBSD is reporting this as only about 5 gig, after it recommends its own
> settin
When ports install sgml documents to /usr/local/share/doc/*, what apps are
used to view them without the markups?
Thanks,
Andrew Gould
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On Tuesday 20 January 2004 02:27 pm, fbsd_user wrote:
> Have FBSD gateway connected to internet with private Lan behind it.
> Manually configured an MS/Windows on Lan.
> Now trying to add FBSD PC to Lan.
>
> Put ifconfig statement in rc.conf to assign PC it's Lan IP address.
> Loaded resolv.conf w
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 03:35 pm, Andrew Hall wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Please forgive the cross post (sent to freebsd-mobile also), but I have
> not received a reply from -mobile yet.
>
> I have Netgear WG511 running on 5.2-CURRENT. If I boot with the card or
> insert it after boot I get the fol
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 03:49 pm, Kenzo wrote:
> My Pcmcia wireless card used to work on my laptop, now it doesn't.
> I can't think of what I might of done to make that happen.
> The card is a Cisco Aironet 350.
> I'm running FBSD4.9.
> My kernel is confiured with the "an" option, but nothing ha
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 04:18 pm, Kenzo wrote:
> No the card doesn't appear in dmesg.
> I tried other wireless cards and an old pcmcia modem and nothing.
> I just get the prompt "card inserted" "card removed". that's it.
> Could my laptop be going bad?
> If so, how come it works on the windows s
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 07:43 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > When ports install sgml documents to /usr/local/share/doc/*, what apps
> > are used to view them without the markups?
>
> Normally a web browser is
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 11:07 am, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:32:42AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > : Can you run a basic X-Windows system on it?
> >
> > Definitely.
>
> Then I think you should use your lapt
I'm still very much a newbie regarding networking issues and firewalls; so if
I need to be slapped, please be gentle. ;-)
Most of my home computers are behind a NAT router with very simple firewalls
-- let all requests out, allow established in, deny everything else. I put a
test computer in
On Thursday 22 January 2004 10:51 am, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> It seems like some port i want to install depend on mysql4, but i have
> some programs that depends on mysql-client-3.23.58_1 ( I also have
> mysql-server-3.23.58_1 installed)
>
> I was wondering upgrading the mysql ports to 4.x seri
On Friday 23 January 2004 10:40 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> This is not a troll.
>
> I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels,
> updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's
> equivilent to my Debian sid.
>
> I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather
On Saturday 24 January 2004 04:50 am, F.Aydýn DÜNDAR wrote:
> I downloaded .iso image files release 5.2. But
> sysinstall not read qt-3.2.1.tbz and arts-1.1.4,1.tbz.
>
>
> How can I make install? Thanks a lot...
Use pkg_add to install the packages from the ftp site:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/Free
On Saturday 24 January 2004 03:26 pm, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Occasion 2.) Got sick of Win 98 SE on my wife's computer, so I decided to
> "give Linux a second chance".
>
> This time I WANTED to go with Red Hat, since it's arguably the
> most popular Linux distro. However, one look at
On Monday 12 January 2004 04:18 pm, August Simonelli wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've looked in the handbook (and probably missed the explanation) but am
> still a little confused. What's the difference between these two rc.conf
> files? Both affect things, but what is best practice for their use?
>
> Tha
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 09:23 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 07:43 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > > "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
On Monday 26 January 2004 11:53 pm, Tommy wrote:
> this is very new to me-- I am now a Mac OS X user and extremely happy
> with it. I am also tinkering with Linux Red Hat for now. I really
> would like to know more about FreeBSD. Hardware compatibility and such!
Here's a link to the hardware comp
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 09:10 am, Brian H wrote:
> Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only
> have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is
> there a way with unix to safely reset the MBR?
I don't understand much about the MBR; but yo
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 09:48 am, Brian H wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I am trying to get dhclient to work on my laptop, but after a reboot there
> is an entry in the /var/db/dhclient.leases and ifconfig produces 0.0.0.0
> for inet.
> I took a look at /var/log/messages and there was nothing in there
Do you, by chance, have DHCP and dhclient on the same machine?
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:02 pm, Brian H wrote:
> This is the error that I am getting.
> "Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use"
> My /etc/dhcp.conf file is empty.
>
> How can I ask the dhcp server for another address?
Is the DHCP server up?
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:33 pm, Brian H wrote:
> no, i don't even have admin access to the dhcp server.
>
>
> From: "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >To: "Brian H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTEC
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 10:50 am, Brian H wrote:
> From: "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >On Tuesday 27 January 2004 09:48 am, Brian H wrote:
> > > Greetings:
> > >
> > > I am trying to get dhclient to work on my laptop, bu
Does the network administrator know you're adding a computer to the network?
Could it be that DHCP is only working with known MAC addresses?
Andrew Gould
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 08:42 am, Brian H wrote:
> From: Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: "Bri
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 11:25 pm, Jer wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I currently have a /etc/procmailrc file to send all my mail though a filter
>
> :0 wf
> :
> |/usr/local/sbin/renattach
>
> But I have one user that asked me to exclude him from the filtering
> I was just wondering how I would write that
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 03:58 pm, Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:26:00 +1100
>
> Rowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Matthew Hunt wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:03:46AM +1100, Rowdy wrote:
> > >>I am setting up MRTG and at the moment I am parsing /var/run/dmesg.boot
>
On Sunday 01 February 2004 11:56 am, Yuri Grebenkin wrote:
> Sorry it seems that my attachments fall in abyss some weird way. But
> forwarding must work well. Try to find them in this email.
>
> --- Forwarded message ---
> From: Yuri Grebenkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> S
On Sunday 01 February 2004 09:29 pm, Krikket wrote:
> I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to
> this flavor of *nix.
>
> The install went more or less without a hitch. For some reason ldap (part
> of the default package selection) didn't want to install.
>
> While I
I've been thinking about the combination of tools/applications needed to have
PIM functionality at the console. This would allow me to use the same
software on my desktop (FreeBSD) and NEC Mobilepro (NetBSD).
Syncing - rsync should provide efficient syncing of email if I use the maildir
email
On Friday 06 February 2004 10:47 am, Wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get access to the Internet via a wireless connection to my router in
> another room. I use a usb wireless adapter (Netgear WG121), which works
> fine under Winbut I am really not sure how to get this working with
> FreeBSD 5.1. I have
I've just noticed that I can't watch dvd movies anymore using vlc. I think
the last time I watched a dvd was prior to recompiling my kernel with
atapicam to burn dvd's.
Is vlc incompatible with atapicam?
If any of you are watching dvd movies on a computer that's configured with
atapicam, what
On Monday 16 February 2004 01:39 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> Marty Landman wrote:
> > Any advice on what to do here?
> >
> > # cd ../../mail/fetchmail
> > # make build && make install && rehash && which fetchmail
> >
> > >> fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/d
On Monday 16 February 2004 01:56 pm, JJB wrote:
> How can I tell the inetd anonymous ftp server to listen on an
> different port other that 21.
> I tried adding port 6021 in the /etc/services file but that did not
> work.
>
Did you restart inetd? I don't know if that's necessary; but it may be wo
On Monday 16 February 2004 02:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anyone have any experience installing FreeBSD on a Dell PowerEdge server?
> 2500 or any other? I'm looking at having to do so and, having not done it
> before, I'm just wondering if there are any gotchas I should be aware of
> or if I
On Monday 16 February 2004 06:44 pm, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> I have version 5.2 RC#1 installed.
>
> I have not been able to get the shutdown command to power down my computer.
> I used the following command:
>
> shutdown -p now
>
> It simple gets to a point where it says press any key to restart. I
On Monday 16 February 2004 10:33 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >On Monday 16 February 2004 06:44 pm, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> >>I have version 5.2 RC#1 installed.
> >>
> >>I have not been able to get the shutdown command to
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 02:08 pm, Derek Burns / Bend-Pak wrote:
> Is there a way I can administer my FreeBSD web server from my pc?
Yes. There are many ways.
How you administer the server remotely will depend upon many factors:
1. Are you comfortable on the command line, or do you want a GU
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 02:10 pm, bradford fligor wrote:
> Hello Support !
>
> I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old "computer nut" son for
> Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version.
>
> When asked for "video card" on installation, I don't' know what
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 02:58 pm, Derek Burns / Bend-Pak wrote:
> GUI
> Windows XP
> And we are on the same network
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Andrew L. Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:43 PM
> To: Derek Burns / Be
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 04:46 pm, Brian H wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I am looking for growisofs, but I can't find it in the ports.
> find . -name "*growisofs*"
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
It's a part of dvd+rw-tools at:
/usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools
Best regards,
Andrew Gould
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On Thursday 19 February 2004 07:49 am, RJ45 wrote:
> looks like 5.2.1 will be out soon, does it mean that the STABLE branch
> cycle is going to start also for 5.x ?
>
> thanks
>
> Rick
Currently, I think 5.3 is the planned "STABLE" release. See:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/article
On Thursday 19 February 2004 09:58 am, Pedro Sam wrote:
> On Wednesday February 18 2004 20:30, Robert Huff wrote:
> > Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes:
> > > >Where is a good place to start?
> > >
> > > 5.2-RELEASE. Grab the floppies from ftp.freebsd.org
> > > and install over the 'Net.
> >
On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How can I mount ext2 under FreeBSD 5.2?
>
>
> I use this command:
> mount_ext2fs /dev/ad1s3 /mnt
>
>
> and the reply with error:
> mount_ext2fs: /dev/ad1s3: Operation not supported by device
>
>
> uname -a output:
> FreeBSD 5.2-RELE
On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:57 pm, HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER wrote:
> mutt + fetchmail is a nice combo too.
>
> Felipe Neuwald wrote:
> >You can use pine + fetchmail.
> >
> >On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 15:13, Xpression wrote:
> >>Hi list, anyone are using exim as a MUA ??? I can't configure it
> >>
e code was needed to access the web page? If so, I
don't understand how clicking on the web address would send or use the blocks
of code.
Should I worry about these blocks of code?
Thanks,
Andrew L. Gould
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On Tuesday 09 September 2003 09:17 am, Timms, Simon wrote:
> Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >> Below the message, however, were two blocks of gibberish. Both blocks
>
> begin
>
> >> with a "begin" line and end with an "end" line. There is no indication
>
> that
>
> >> Kmail included an attachment in-l
ess would send or use the
> > blocks of code.
> >
> > Should I worry about these blocks of code?
>
> Yes, you should.
> Do not trust any unsolicited code and be cautious of that
> which you did request.
>
> jerry
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andrew L
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:49 pm, Leonard, Harry wrote:
> Hello FreeBSD,
HI Harry,
>
> My name is Harry Leonard and I'm very interested in using FreeBSD. I work
> in a small shop, outside of Flagstaff, Arizona for the State of Arizona, in
> a half Microsoft, half open source environment. I
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:00 pm, Claudiu Bichir wrote:
> Hy folks !
> I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed on my computer and I wanted to know how can I
> enable the COM3 & COM4 ports. The ports are disabled by default in 5.0.
> I tried to modify /boot/device.hints but with no hope .
> I commented hi
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:51 pm, Your Name wrote:
> Hi all
>
> After we installed freebsd 4.7, we have problem to update the port
>
> We want to install the cvsup to update the port but got the following
> problem
>
If you installed 4.7 from a CD, look for the cvsup package on the installati
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06:15 pm, Ricardo Javier Aranibar León wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I bougth FeeBSD4.8 (april 2003) from FreeBSDMall, I'm newbie with this
> operative System, I installed Apache, PostgreSQL and PHP but when I like
> connect in my script php with postgresql I have this error:
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06:42 pm, Ben Dover wrote:
> How would I go about getting 4.9 RC or pre release whatever it is called.
> I have spoken to a few people who are running it and even saw a dedicated
> server business who was offering it. It's not in the i386 ISO folder so
> I'm assumin
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06:25 pm, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just purchased a new machine (a micro-ATX machine) with an
> nforce2 board. After a little searching on Google/Groups it looks to
> still be pretty much unsupported. Can anybody give a run-down of the
> how each aspec
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:32 am, Colin Ryan wrote:
> I have a small network of three computers in my office here. Two Windows
> 2000, and one FreeBSD 5.1. It's the BSD box that's giving me problems.
>
> My computers are connected to my modem via an ethernet switch. My modem is
> set up as
On Friday 12 September 2003 03:59 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I'm running PostgreSQL 7.3 on a FreeBSD 5.1 server. The databases are
> working well and it's humming along nicely, but I really want to secure it.
>
> In particular, my pg_hba.conf looks like:
>
>local all pgsql
On Friday 12 September 2003 05:13 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-09-12T21:39:14Z, "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > You're looking for something difficult when the easier answer is correct.
> >
> > As root, set pgsql's password by
On Friday 12 September 2003 08:53 pm, Bob Shadley wrote:
> Any suggestions for an internal modem in the $20 unit cost range that
> works with freebsd? The modem source would need to be reliable since it
> would be to support an ongoing project.
>
Good luck. The inexpensive modems tend to be winmo
On Sunday 14 September 2003 12:06 pm, Sean A Reith wrote:
> I'm trying to get my first FreeBSD (4.8-RELEASE) installation working, and
> I am having trouble getting a system which boots, primarily due to what
> appear to be disk geometry issues (but this is a complete newbie guess).
>
> The hardwar
On Sunday 14 September 2003 09:05 pm, Charlie wrote:
> not sure why but when i run the command mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0c
> /cdrom it gives me this error message cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument
> ___
Is this a new problem? That is, did the co
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 08:07 am, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Vledder, Hans wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> >> Based on that, it's not clear why you would want to
> >> build an AP from a wireless card.
> >
> > Well, this to avoid having to deal with a 'swiss army knife' type of box,
> > just like the o
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:51 am, Gary wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
> It seems that on a remote box FBSD 4.8, my /dev/ad0s1a or / dir is at 73%
> capacity already, and this has me somewhat worried. I attribute this to
> the /etc dir inside of the / dir, as it contains many log files, etc... or
> pe
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 11:31 am, Gary wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 10:59:19 AM, you wrote:
> >> room under /usr) without any problem.
> >>
> >> Thanks for input..
>
> ALG> I don't think you should do this. In single-user mode, I don't think
> /usr ALG> would be mou
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 01:01 pm, d wrote:
> so you go to your site and get the stable packages and put them on the hard
> drive. you go to that folder and do a pkg_add * to add all the packages in
> the x11 directory, thinking this will get you a GUI but it throws a bunch
> of package not fou
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 02:24 pm, Kjell B. wrote:
> I was thinking of upgrading (binary) in order to correct the security
> issues (sendmail, openssh, realpath, etc.) that have been discovered
> since the 4.8-RELEASE. However, I fail to do so. I've searched the
> online documentation but not
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 08:21 am, synrat wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone is aware of any scripts
> or programs that can retrieve mail from different
> webmail sources.
>
> thanx in advance
POP access is available for yahoo mail; but it's not free -- $19.99 (US) a
year, or bundled with o
On Thursday 18 September 2003 04:06 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > You've opened quite a can of worms ;)
> >
> > I would recommend PostgreSQL, I've always found it's documentation
> > to be great, the mailing lists great, and just getting
On Thursday 18 September 2003 09:49 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:13:22AM +0100, Tadimeti Keshav wrote:
> > what about sybase?
> > linux.sybase.com/ase
> > THey have a native version for FreeBSD.
>
> Where? All I see downloads for Linux, not FreeBSD.
FreeBSD-Intel is below
On Friday 19 September 2003 07:45 am, RJ45 wrote:
> Hello,
> I Tryed to search an economic antivirus for freebsd mailserver.
> Anyone has comments on Vexira antivirus ?
> anyone tryed it ?
> It looks quit economic
>
> thanks
>
> Rick
I'd like to add on to this question:
Has anyone run the Linux D
On Friday 19 September 2003 10:39 am, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to
> some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured
> with either CUPS or apsfilter (as someone here had recommended).
> I've tried to look over the docs, and search throug
On Friday 19 September 2003 11:05 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> On Friday 19 September 2003 10:39 am, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to
> > some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured
> > with either CUP
On Friday 19 September 2003 12:35 pm, Sean Hafeez wrote:
> i am using a freebsd box as a router. it has a serial port. i would
> like to hook up a modem and use it to manage the router if the lines go
> down. now i know you can use the serial port as a console but how about
> when i stick a modem o
On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:43 am, ALIAS wrote:
> i'm trying to install this program and it says it needs xfree86 4x to
> compile where do i get xfree86 4x and how to install it?
Assuming your running FreeBSD 4.8:
Use the ports system:
su
cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/
make instal
On Sunday 21 September 2003 01:27 pm, ALIAS wrote:
> i use used cvsup to update the src after that what do i do? i read that
> there are things like make world to install the new src files? how do i do
> that?
1. study 'man mergemaster".
2. See:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ha
On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 pm, Edwin D. Vinas wrote:
> When i turn on my FreeBSD machine, I often receive a
> pop-up window saying there's a problem with my sound
> card (internal sound card). It says that it couldn't
> open or find /dev/dsp0 or something similar. Is there
> a way to slve th
On Monday 22 September 2003 02:24 am, you wrote:
> Im using freebsd 4.8 and KDE where i usualy get d eror
> during startx.
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 pm, Edwin D. Vinas
>
> wrote:
> > > When i turn on my FreeBSD machine, I often rece
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:22 am, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2003 08:10 am, vizion communication wrote:
> > I agree that a number of people on this list have been
> > affected by the virus and it is really helpful of you to
> > have posted to the list because those infected ar
On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation.
> I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc,
> But they reappear on subsequent cvsups.
> Where have I gone wrong?
>
> * /etc/c
For those of you who are not familiar with satirewire.com, here are a few
choice articles that may be appropriate for this week and last:
http://satirewire.com/briefs/windowsvirus.shtml
http://satirewire.com/news/jan02/patchsoft.shtml
Have fun,
Andrew Gould
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On Monday 22 September 2003 09:52 pm, Ajax Munroe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I dont have a question but I would like to make a statement. I
> downloaded Freebsd version 5.0 release and unpacked it in great
> anticipation. I made a bootable CD (the best I could, It's not as easy as
> mak
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:04 am, Tadimeti Keshav wrote:
> --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On
> Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:59:30AM +0100, Tadimeti
>
> > Keshav wrote:
> > > Guys,
> > > Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD
> >
> > set?
> >
> > > This is one area where Lin
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