Re: Is Java/Tomcat on FBSD practical?

2003-11-05 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> My biggest problem has been Java. I've done the diablo 1.3 package and > java seemed to work (java -v), but when I install Tomcat it won't start. > I've done the same install on mac and windows with no problem. The > stack trace is completely alien to me and I can try to get it if it > would h

Re: creating a small FreeBSD box

2003-11-05 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> I need to make a few FreeBSD boxes, these will all be limited in disk > space, > and act as firewall/router. (pentium and 300M disk) > What I want is a limited operating system that has only the essential > networking stuff, shell, and a custom kernel but for example no BIND and > CVS. For ver

Re: RFC 868 timeserver for freebsd

2003-11-14 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > According to the manufacturer, the interfaces requires a timeserver that > supports the RFC 868 protocoll, which ntpd and msntp doesnt seem to do. > I've found several references to RFC's in the manpage of ntpd, however, > it does not mentio

Re: driver for webcam?

2003-11-22 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The webcam I have is a USB Intel CS330 create and > share. usbdevs -v shows 'power 500mA, config 1, > product 0x0401(0x0401), vendor 0x0733(0x0733), rev > 0.90', so I guess my kernel setting is correct. This is a SPCA561 camera. See this page for

Re: Block IP

2003-11-26 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Grant Peel wrote: > Can I block a certain IP address at the machine or interface level using > freebsd? (No at the Apache or Sendmail level). > > CyberLaert monioting one of my hosts at the rate of 1.2 GB oer day! Easiest and quickest is to install the firewall - if it is n

Re: Lots of disks.

2003-12-10 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Is it even possible to have >4 IDE disks? I know the performance > would be terrible but I have considered this and realised it is > irrelevant since the box only has a 10Mbit connection (it's for storing > large data files (videos, etc.)). Yes - y

Re: 2 ip-addr for 1 netcard...

2003-12-15 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, flux wrote: > How do I assign two IP addresses for one netcard? Just use the command 'man ifconfig' and check out the section on 'alias'. In general it is somethign like vi /etc/rc.conf and near ifconfig_rl0="10.11.0.2/24" add things like ifcon

Re: Licensing issues

2003-12-19 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Elektronix Support wrote: > versions of FreeBSD on our hardware solutions, and sell to him. The > organization we will sell this to is the end-user. .. > I need to know if we can install FreeBSD and charge our customer for this, > or if there are restrictions we must be awar

Re: doubts

2003-12-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, manish gautam wrote: > 1. How to enable telnet service in freebsd 4.7 ? You may want to look at 'ssh' - it is used in the same way as telnet; i.e. 'ssh hostname' and is more secure. For telnet; edit /etc/inetd.conf - and uncomment the line with telnet (remvoe the #) and ei

Re: ip addressing in freebsd

2003-12-28 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, niraj kumar wrote: > 1. in freebsd we can have two ip address for a single host like 2.0.0.1 > & 17.0.0.1 by using ifconfig but why can't we assign two ip like 2.0.0.1 > & 2.0.0.2 (i know that both r in same network) In your rc.conf: ifconfig_fxp0=...2.0.0.1

Re: Starting Apache on 4.10 stable at boot time

2004-06-18 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Gareth Bailey wrote: > Does starting apache at boot time differ on 4.10 to 5.2? I > have the apache.sh script in rc.d/ and it has correct > privileges. Anything in /var/log/httpd_error_log ? In particular check any critical erros from mod_unique_id about (reverse) resolutio

Re: dhclient with reconfigured SSID

2004-06-28 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: > Why idea how I can preconfigure an SSID for dhclient ? Just use ifconfig wi0 ssid FOO to lock it. Dw. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: dhclient with reconfigured SSID

2004-06-28 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: > Will this lock the ssid during reboots as well ? If not, that actually > is what I am looking for. Ah - ok - putting into /etc/r.conf ifconfig_wi0="ssid foo" will lock it during/after reboots; but kills the DHCP. Options are -

Re: WPC11 ver 3 or bust...

2004-07-08 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Eric Crist wrote: > wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear What firmware are you using on the card ? You propably want: wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.01.01, Station 1.05.06 or higher. And in your kernel you are ju

RE: problem with 2 nics in same box

2004-01-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> > I don't want the interface without an IP to EVER transmit > > outbound. > A firewall could accomplish this... Or simply do not assign an IP address at all. And if you want to go below IP; check out the -arp option in the ifconfig man page. Dw ___ [

Re: Problems with Apache 1.3 segfaulting in 5.2.1-RC?

2004-02-18 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Feb 18, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Linh Pham wrote: Has anyone ran into problems with Apache 1.3.x segfaulting (signal 11) under FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC[12]? I had to recently re-install FreeBSD on my home server and grabbed the latest src-all for RELENG_5_2, which ended up being for 5.2.1-RC2. Afterwards, I c

Re: root is full

2004-02-18 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Feb 18, 2004, at 9:00 PM, Will Prater wrote: My root partition is full, but I cannot figure out how it got filled so fast the last security check claimed there to be 5% of capacity and now its at 108%. Where else can I check to see what is filling the root partition? Try cd /

Re: Information needed

2003-09-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Vincent Dorio wrote: > What files and folders do I need to download from > http://www.freebsd.org in order to have the latest and most complete > version of BSD? You propably want to first read - and then follow step by step: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO88

Re: mod_auth_pam/apache2

2003-09-24 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, John Morgan Salomon wrote: > I'm trying to set up Apache 2 with mod_auth_pam (or, for that matter, > anything that will let me use unix passwords to authenticate to a page.) > mod_auth_external won't do, as I've run into inexplicable freezes > compiling. Which module are yo

Re: barcode reader, card swiper

2003-10-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Aaron wrote: > I'm looking for a barcode reader for a bsd system. Need the peripheral, > and software to read it, from USB or keyboard or whatever interface is > appropriate. > > Also same for CC swiper. > > Anyone aware of these sorts of things for BSD? Most will work on t

Re: Probably dumb apache question

2003-10-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> I have set up a new freebsd/apache/mod_ssl server. I want to force all > connections to use SSL. > > I know I can simply turn off listening on port 80, but because I know people > using this site will instinctivly type "http" instead of "https", I'd like > to force a redirect. # Redire

Re: SNMP help

2003-10-29 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ronnie Clark wrote: > they have to have the ability to be polled by > OpenView. So I have to load SNMP on these servers. Any > suggestions as to what I should load to accomplish > this? Try: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=snmp&stype=all and the one you

Re: RedHat 7.2 -> Freebsd - BIG PROBLEN

2003-11-04 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> ifconfig fxp0 193.108.24.75 netmask 255.255.255.255 up > Looks impossible at freebsd...It says Network Unreachable. I read the man page > of route; It says this happens when the host is more than one hop away. Which it is - your netmask specifies tht just 193.108.24.75 is on that wire. You pr

Re: startssl at boot time

2004-04-08 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Apr 8, 2004, at 12:58 AM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: THANKS but i already have that line in my rc.conf file and the log entries that i have submitted to this list are not from a reboot but rather apachectl stop and start or startssl. So when i run a startssl i get the randomness i need howeve

Re: FreeBSD router: Can my internet provider detect my home network?

2004-04-09 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Apr 9, 2004, at 8:33 AM, Rob wrote: I plan to have a FreeBSD (4.9 stable) system serving as a router between my provider and a set of my home computers connected via a home network. My provider does not really like this, but I don't care so much, as long as s/he cannot detect (too easily) my ho

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Darryl Hoar wrote: > I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure > this machine to be a wireless access point ? Install a prism 2 card and do something like (assuming fxp0 is your upstream iface and wi0 your card in AP mode). rc.conf ifconfig_w

Re: apache permission problem please help

2004-08-25 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Apache (propably) runs as the 'www' user and group. So each file (and path) needs to be readable by -> the www group OR the www users must be a member of the group of the diretory OR the world And each directory needs the 'x' access flag set. See the man pages for chmod,

Re: Advice on webmail server

2004-08-26 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > I thought of Squirrelmail as the likely candidate. Mostly internal Make sure that you compile/activate SSL support in to the imap client linked in with PHP - See the relevant make files in ports (it is something like WITH_SSL=YES). OR search for my

Re: Update Databases from Webserver

2004-09-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, FreeBSD Mail Lists wrote: > I would like to see how other people are updating backend databases > (postgresql on FreeBSD, internal network) from a webserver (apache,php > on FreeBSD, dmz network) through a firewall. Pretty much what I am > trying to learn is how to take priv

Re: can't start Apache 1.3 server in freeBSD 4.9 release #0

2004-09-13 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Sujit Dey wrote: > 127.0.0.1, but using "/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start", can't start > the Apache server. It is giving httpd can not be started. I followed > [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname() Set the hostname in /etc/rc.conf (add 'hostname='www.foo.com' i

Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD?

2002-12-26 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Bill Moran wrote: > other way of overcoming this limit? find . -name "*.html" | xargs grep someting Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-30 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> I have carefully dried out all the units. You may want to use some distilled water, or very clean water, if there is any visible residue/chalk/salt on the boards. What I normally do with WiFi equipment which got wet/soaked is to rinse them well with very clean water and then dry them in an ove

Re: /etc/resolv.conf

2003-01-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Check out dhclient which uses the dhclient-script to overwrite your resolv.conf under certain (such as the default) conditions. Dw. On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, McClain wrote: > Hello ppl, > > i got a problem with /etc/resolv.conf. On every start up, it gets > somehow overwritten with settings i

Re: ssh+slrn screengarbage

2003-01-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote: > The ONLY way to work OK remotely is starting with: > "screen ssh remotehost" My screen stays uncluttered. That nice, but I > don't have an answer to the WHY ;-) I've seen this behaviour regularly on (debian) linux to freebsd, solaris or AIX terms. An

Re: ssh+slrn screengarbage

2003-01-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On 02 Jan Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > Am I to understand that a ssh connection _from_ my linux to my fbsd box > does not have these problems? Linux does not use cons25, does it? Linux its default terminal on the screen is 'Linux&#

Re: Shell guru needed.

2003-01-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Try any unix primer or man find or find /my/unorganized/dir -name '*.pdf' -type f -exec echo mv {} /my/pdfs \; and pray that you do not have files with identical names. On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, mike wrote: > Hey guys. heres the skinny. I have a huge library and i want to organize it

Re: archos and freebsd

2003-01-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> On his page it says to compile firewire, sbp, scbus, da and umass. > I'm cvsup'ed to 4.7 stable from release and did what he said. When I > try and 'mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /archos' I get 'Device not > configured'. I take it you've seen /sys/dev/firewire/00README ? Perhaps you want to do a

Re: Apache Wildcard Aliasing

2003-01-07 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > I'm trying to work out if there is a way that I can get apache to handel > wildcard subdomains. Bascially what I would like is that if I have a user > joe with the subdomain joe.fsck.me.uk that apache will automatically > direct http://joe.fsck.me.uk and

Re: Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-08 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> >> |Anybody recommend a good/simple tool to load/stress test an apache > >> |webserver ? (or any other webserver for that matter) > > > Check out http://hammerhead.sourceforge.net/ Apache comes with 'ab' which does braindead hammering (and is rather good at that) - or check out flood; also an a

Re: /usr/src/UPDATING

2003-01-13 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2003-01-13 11:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JoeB) wrote: > > I have installed FBSD 4.7 using cdrom and /stand/sysinstall, > > selected standard install with "user" distribution which does not > > install any source. This install config does not instal

Re: Epson LQ 550

2003-01-15 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
I've not used one in a long time; but remember treating it as an FX-80/RX-80 and it worked fine for me. The ghostscript did require a tweak to ensure that all 24 pins are used. Just run through the printing section in the manual to set it up. Dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Epson LQ 550

2003-01-16 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Blanka Neuhauserova wrote: > That's it: no mention of either L{Q,X}-{80,550} AFAICT: Duh - if you go through that list one by one... do make note of the 'epson'. And I would expect that a search for ghostscript LQ 550 would propably point you to the 'omni' or lq d

Re: Epson LQ 550

2003-01-16 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Blanka Neuhauserova wrote: > Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > anything about these models in gimp-print/ghostscript/ > documentations. Check out "Advanced Printer Setup": http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-adv

Re: Firewall + Cable Modem

2003-01-25 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Asenchi wrote: > I cannot get my card to remain connected, it keeps dropping its addressing, > or so it appears in IFCONFIG. I have included below outputs of various > processes for you all. Thank you in advance for any help you are able to > offer. With DHCP you get a le

RE: A vi for /bin?

2003-01-26 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> Assuming you have the object files from a buildworld hanging around, then > cd /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/vi > cc -O -pipe -o vi *.o -lncurses -static && strip vi && mv vi /bin/ > should probably supply you with what you want. When using VI in such a situation I usually also use rc.diskless2 to

Re: A vi for /bin?

2003-01-26 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote: > - As pointed out off-line, you also need to get it the termcap library. Doing > cp /usr/share/misc/termcap.db /root/.termcap.db You propably want to strip that bugger down to its bones; they weight in at around 2Mb including the un-db-ed version.

Re: Apache

2003-01-30 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> you have to recompile apache. mod_ssl comes with eapi > (enhanced api) and the standard apache modules have to be aware > of it. You want to just use 'ports' for this - there is a ssl module port which does all the right things. Compile and install this -before- you do PHP or mod_perl; as the l

Re: Analog Modum

2003-02-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Alex wrote: > I'm looking for a analog modem. I didn't see any in the hardware lists. > Can you please tell me which ones will work on FreeBSD? Virtually all external modems which connect to the COM1/COM2 serial port work perfectly fine. Dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Rich Fox wrote: > Apparently the Terminal program in MacOS X intercepts ctrl+o combinations > which are used to postpone messages in Pine. Thus, when I use the key I use: ssh -e none freebsd-machien.domain.com dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: FBSD firewall in front of windows IIS servers HOW

2003-02-04 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Peter wrote: > Just wondering what would be the best way to do this... > > INTERNETFBSD FIREWALLWINDOWS IIS SERVER Basically > what would be the best way to have freebsd accept incoming connections, > run them thru the firewall, and all the packets

Re: specifying the X window manager

2003-02-04 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
I usually use: .xinitrc and note: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc see also /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/ for some defaults coming from Xdm. Dw On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, David Larkin wrote: > I have installed my favourite X window manager. > > Can someone remind me how to configure star

Re: cleaning old messages from mailboxes

2003-02-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Sergei Vyshenski wrote: > Something like a batch analog of "mail" utility? Check the 'formail' which comes with procmail. Dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: X terminal saga continues

2003-02-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, J. Seth Henry wrote: > Presently, I have a local .xsession in every user's home directory, which > starts icewm. This is OK, as I can add it to /etc/skel, but it would be > nice if there were an override file, which automatically started the wm. Check out /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/

Re: resolv.conf

2003-02-10 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Per Nilsson wrote: > I got to have this to be enable to send mail, and from time to time, the > file /etc/resolv.conf changes back to the standard: > > search > nameserver 10.0.0.1 > nameserver 10.0.0.2 > > and i dont know how to do to have the resolv.conf NOT to be changed

Re: Procmail site-wide recipe's

2003-02-11 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, BSD Freak wrote: > I am running a 4.7-R/sendmail mail server. I currently use procmail on a > few email accounts using a .forward in each home directory. Does anyone > know how I can make a procmail recipe apply to all users on the mail server? Add to your sendmail.mc file

Re: diskless - anybody got one working?

2002-09-29 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > However, if I build the diskless kernel on a 4.6.2-RELEASE (the same box > that I'm trying to get to boot diskless) the kernel loads and boots, but > stops to ask me where the root filesystem is located. Has anybody got a > diskless setup working wi

Re: OT: FreeBSD mailing lists and DNS

2002-10-16 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Carlos Carnero wrote: > Anyway, is there a site that could tell me what the > nameservers "outside" my network see for my domain? Try 'dig' dig www.foo.com @123.123.123.123 tells you how www.foo.com resolves at 123.123.123.123. Assuming that 123.123.123.123 lets

Re: apache install problems w/expat

2002-10-18 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
y On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > --- Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <...snip...> > > > Well, does library expat.4 actually exist? If not, then what version > > is the expat2 port installing? Assuming that expat2 installs a newer > > version of the library, you might

Re: question: sending to stdout AND file

2002-10-18 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> How do I redirect output to a file *and* stdout simultaneously. My > particular want is to view the output of a script while also logging the > output to a text file. Check out tee(1), man tee Dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions"

WL200, new card support, PD6729

2002-10-31 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Up to a certain point (4.1 or so) it was possible to get a WL200 (which is a WL100 wireless pcmcia with a PD6729 pcmcia<->pci bridge afaik) to work on FreeBSD. In 4.7 and -CURRENT it consistently will either hang at boot, hang after detection or not function, whilst emmitting wi0 watchdog timeout

Re: Using iBook OS X 10.2 CD Writer to create a FBSD on Intel BootCDROM

2002-11-05 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Doug Hardie wrote: > Once you have a iso format from mkisofs you can use Toast to burn the > CD. I use that approach often. Likewise; to 'burn' a floppy; simply insert it in the USB floppy drive; wait for it to show up as a volume (or for the Error) and do a sudo

Re: Recovering /etc/passwd (was: REASON #7919 NOT to do things asroot!)

2002-11-10 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > # pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd > > /etc/passwd doesn't get used much any more. The real files are > /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db. See the man page for pwd_mkdb for more > details. And the files in /var/backups/ used by the periodic script

Re: Beep question...

2002-11-12 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Perhaps try man beep echo 'main() { initscr();beep(); }' > a.c && gcc -lncurses a.c && ./a.out; reset or man -k speaker and subsequently man speaker man spkrtest Dw. On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Chris P wrote: > > I have a simple question. I want to make my PC s

Re: OS X root passwd

2002-12-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Bernardo M. Brummer wrote: > Is there a default (preconfigured) root passwd for new Mac OS X machines , > or any simple (that can be executed remotely or that this user could manage > to follow on phone instructions) way to assign a new one ?. As the admin user (the first us

Re: More then 4 IDE devices in one FreeBSD server.

2002-12-05 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, mike wrote: > A: What is the hardware name of the device i am looking for that will > allow more then 4 ide devices to one box. Add extra IDE card(s). > B: do you know of a brand name i should be looking for that you recommend, > or even a retailer. Quite happy with a machi

Re: Does FreeBSD work on Walmart's $199 Microtel box?

2002-12-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Rich Morin wrote: > A quick web search didn't bring up any answer to this. > Does anyone here have the definitive word? The most recent machinine I saw was running what seemed a fairly stock Debian. So I'd expect you'd have little trouble up to console use; X may be compound

Re: FreeBSD Terminal Server?

2002-12-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Check out pico bsd; cd /usr/src/release/. That may do what you want. Dw On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Kevin Greenidge wrote: > I am going to setup a Terminal Server and was > wondering if there are any projects like > http://ltsp.org i would rather use freebsd than linux > if possible. Any suggestions

Re: Basic networking(ICS...)

2003-02-11 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Remington wrote: > I think i jusr dial into the net(assume internal addres 192.168.0.1) and > then i go to the other machine and i set the /etc/rc.conf, > defaultrouter="192.168.0.1". I know i'm missing something, any help is > greatly appreciated Google: http://www

Re: Temperature monitoring with ServerWorks chipset

2003-02-12 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Philip Murray wrote: > Has anyone got this working? I can't seem to get any values from any of the > monitors in the ports collection (consolehm, xmbmon, lmmon, healthd). Do a verbose boot (-v flag) - does it show these devices connecting to the hardware ? Dw. To Unsubsc

Re: Wireless install

2003-02-12 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Mable wrote: > freebsd. Is it best for me to use freebsd 4.7-stable > or is it ok to go with 5.0? Also, do I need extra > drivers, etc, or should it automaticly detect the > card? Both should be fine. The command is 'wicontrol' to configure things such as WEP keys. Dw T

Re: Customizing /etc/motd

2003-02-13 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Colin J. Raven wrote: > I'd like to tweak /etc/motd to give ssh users a personalized login text. su root ..type root password vi /etc/motd or, if you do not know the vi editor, use su root ..type root password ee /etc/motd

RE: Customizing /etc/motd

2003-02-13 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
For per user - you may do perhaps someting with /etc/csh.login (assuming they are using csh). Like adding a check for a file and cating that. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: s/key

2003-02-18 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Robert Munn wrote: > How do I turn off the prompt for an s/key password? I started getting > the request when I upgraded from 4.5 to 4.7 'man skey' or 'man skey.access' works; and also check things like the Challenge in 'man sshd_config'. Dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: roaring penguin pppoe ?

2003-02-19 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > did anyone try roaring penguin pppoe server on freebsd? any advice? Does normal freebsd 'man pppoed' not work for you ? Otherwise do pkg_add -r rp-pppoe or cd /usr/ports/net/rp-pppoe make install and you get roaring penguin

Re: RAM

2003-03-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Paul Patryas wrote: > What is the minimal amount of RAM do you need to install FreeBSD > 4.6/5.0? There is a lot of information on this in the INSTALL notes - and the minumun suggested is 4Mb. I personally stick to 16Mb of memory as a resonably minimum for a freebsd system co

RE: Mirroring/load-balance two servers

2003-03-09 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> www IN CNAME 12.34.56.78 > www IN CNAME 9.10.11.12 > www IN CNAME 65.4.3.21 Those should be 'A's. And you propably want a *short* livetime. > The DNS standard will give out a different address for every This is a particular feature of ICS (www.isc.org) their BIND na

Re: Screen Shots

2003-03-09 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Gerard Samuel wrote: > For the life of me, I cannot remember the command line program to take > screen shots. > Its been a while. > If someone could remind me with a man page would be great. xwd -root or xwd -id /-name window (xev to get one easily) x

Re: MBR screwed up

2003-03-12 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote: > master drive, but what do I do to get rid of the old fbsd loader on the > second and get a good windows-xp one? On older windozes one would boot from floppy and do a format.exe c: /mbr Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: MBR screwed up

2003-03-12 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > On older windozes one would boot from floppy and do a > > format.exe c: /mbr Actually - my memory is fading; that should be fdisk. And a quick man check on WinXP yeilds 'fixmbr' to be the equivalent: fixm

Re: isp control panel ?

2003-03-14 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> I looked at ispman ( www.ispman.org ) and it looks like what i need . > is there a similar app for freebsd ? There used to be a company called plesk.com which did a half decent product like that. You may want to ping them. Dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Three Terabyte

2003-03-20 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> Let's say I need 3Tb of cheap storage (preferably IDE disks) and I want it > controlled by a FreeBSD system; how (if at all possible) would I do set that > up in terms of hard- and software? Depends on what access patterns you have; is it mostly dormant archiving; or lots of access, concurrent,

Re: Intelligent Bandwidth Limiter?

2003-03-17 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Tino Didriksen wrote: > I have a dedicated server with 500GB monthly transfer limit, and I don't > want to cross that limit. So, I want to impose an artificial maximum > bandwidth, yet not until a certain threshold has been reached. Check out ipa in ports and dummynet. I've

Re: convert to jpegs

2003-03-22 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Brian Henning wrote: > i have a bunch of files of different image formats that i would like to > convert to jpeg. is there a command line converter to be able to do them > all in one shot? maybe with xv or xnview? ImageMagic is one route; the URT or netPBM toolkit the other

Re: NFS, something I should know?

2003-03-22 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jason Morgan wrote: > I have set up NFS for the first time and am having a few problems; .. > Does this look correct? OpenOffice crashes everytime I try to write to Can you do something like this as the same user you are running open office from; i.e. from an xterm or so:

Re: Anyone use a commercial X-server?

2003-03-22 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Rod Person wrote: > I was wondering if anyone is using a commercial x server such as Xig or > Metro-X with 4.7 or 5.0 and if so, what are you thought vs Xfree? Xig rocks. Works well, effective and is a dream to configure, if you need all the fancy accelleration on your card

Re: Transparent proxy

2003-03-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Maarten de Vries wrote: > $ ipfw add 2350 fwd 192.168.1.1 3128 from any to any 80 You sure you have not some earlier rule which prevents it from hitting this rule ? Also - if 192.168.1.1 is not this local machine's addr - but on a differnet box; be sure to allow that machin

Re: Load testing tool with apache ?

2003-03-24 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Thomas von Hassel wrote: > Some time ago i found a small webserver load generator that apparently > came with apache. Anyone know what its called, or am i imagining stuff ? 'ab' it is usually in 'support' or in bin. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: PCMCIA wireless nic

2003-03-26 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Brian Henning wrote: > ok, the wi0 driver loaded and it recognized the mac address. The only thing that > went wrong was the led on the card was blinking green. I don't know if that is That means it aint talking to no basestation. Putting the card in mode 3 / managed mode a

Re: Dan Gillmor could use some help

2005-04-21 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Alexander Chamandy wrote: > > I have a ThinkPad X40 and am looking for a version of Linux that > > recognizes all the hardware, including the Wi-Fi, and handles > > suspend/resume. I installed Xandros Linux, which handled the hardware > > perfectly but not suspend/resume. I

Re: Protecting against fork bombs

2003-04-05 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 5 Apr 2003, Adam wrote: > In light of the recent problems with cyclic Xft dependencies, it has > become painfully obvious how quickly a fork bomb can bring my computer > to a complete halt. ulimit -u 100 does not do that for you adequately enough (or setting the same in /etc/login.c

Re: Question

2003-05-27 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Doychin Lyudmilov Karakashev wrote: > We are group of boys who have the idea to make a new OS that will use FreeBSD > kernel. Can you give us the not compiled kernel of FreeBSD to use it? Naturally, > FreeBSD will be as well advertisized in our new operation system. Downl

Re: Licencing

2003-05-27 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 27 May 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I work for Department National Defence in Canada. I am aquiring on using > your OS to load on 6 or 4 stand alone computers. The purpose of these > computers is to teach our naval personnal a basic unix knowledge for some of > our systems. How muc

Re: Simple client/server

2003-06-10 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Olivier Nicole wrote: > I'd like to find an example of C programming for an Internet server > (client I have done already). Go to the bookshop and get Stevens; Unix Network Programming. You will not regret this :) > The idea is to write a tool that could jam the network wi

Re: Booting using serial console

2003-06-11 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Gary Aitken wrote: > I've made the serial console boot floppies, but get no response when I > try to use them. Give that I use that quite a lot with 4.8 - I'd expect that it perhaps is something like COM1 not connected in the bios or on the motherboard ? Dw __

Re: cmd to run after installing a new FreeBSD package

2003-06-18 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Fox wrote: > > There is a FreeBSD command that you should run after installing a package, > > which will 'refresh' the path. After running this command, you will have > > access to the new package command (ie. lynx). It saves you having to logout > > and relog back in. Th

Re: snoop

2003-06-20 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, adrian kok wrote: > Do you know where I can get snoop to analysis the > traffic? It is called 'tcpdump'. Just do 'man tcpdump'. Dw ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: VPN remote access server

2003-06-21 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> Node1 is already set up. Now I need to set up Node2. I have no idea how to > do it. What programs do I use? How do I set them up? Where can I find some > help on it? Please help. Thank you very much. mpd Use pkg_add -r mpd or cd /usr/ports/net/mpd make all insta

Re: Disable PING command

2003-07-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Nucking Futs wrote: > How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be > willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. Well - anyone could compile a fresh version; or copy a version from another machine into his home dir or

Re: the system startup (boot) information

2003-07-07 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, #ZOU ZIXUAN# wrote: > how and where to read the system startup information? cat /var/run/dmesg.boot more /var/run/dmesg.boot dmesg | more Dw ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Symbolic names for (ethernet) interfaces

2003-07-07 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
How does one specify a 'symbolic' name for an ethernet interface; i.e. be able to refer to rl0, vx1 or ep0 by a name like 'net0, net1' or 'net2'. With net1 et.al. tied to a specific PCI slot or card Mac address. So that it becomes easier to write HW independed rc.conf or zebra.conf files. Thanks

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