Re: strange ping behavior

2003-11-28 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:12:55AM -0800, Chip wrote: > Aaron Burke wrote: > > > > check this out - I have a fbsd 4.6 box on my network, as well as a > > > fbsd5.1 box and several XP boxes. I have a netgear router/firewall (also > > > does dhcp and print server) box as well. The 4.6 box is set up

Re: messenger: console based

2003-12-30 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:24:28PM +, noir noir wrote: > I am looking for a Yahoo! or MSN Messenger which would > work from the console. centericq -- Mike perl -e 'print unpack("u","88V]N=&%C=\"!I;F9O(&EN(&AE861E pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: x10d X10 interface controller: not compiling (4.9) (Also: other X10 apps?)

2003-12-30 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:24:33PM -0800, Matt Staroscik wrote: > I am trying to get a CM11A X10 interface wired into my FreeBSD server. It > looks like most of the software out there relies on "x10d," which is only > available as source code: > > ftp://ftp.danlan.com/ftp.danlan.com/homeauto/x10d.

Re: natd firewall settings for vpn

2004-06-18 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-06-18T00:11:03-0500, Jim Freeze wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to configure my firewall to allow packets through > for a VPN connection. I am running FBSD 5.2 as my router and am trying > to connect my laptop from behind the router to our work computer. > > The laptop is running OSX 10.3.4 w

Re: Starting Apache on 4.10 stable at boot time

2004-06-18 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-06-18T16:37:47+0200, Gareth Bailey wrote: > Hi all, > > I moved our work server over from 5.2 release to 4.10 > stable. All seems fine except for some reason apache > (apache-1.3.31_2) doesn't sart automatically at boot time. > > Does starting apache at boot time differ on 4.10 to 5.2? I

Re: natd firewall settings for vpn

2004-06-18 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-06-18T14:46:31-0500, Jim Freeze wrote: > mike oliver wrote: > > The trick here with NAT is that AH will build a checksum of the IP > > header, which includes the private IP address of your laptop. Since NAT > > changes this IP address, the destination will dump the packet since the > > AH

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-06-18T23:17:14-0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: > > A line that starts with: spec_getpages > > A line that starts with: vm_fault: pager > > One of the lines ends with: 0xc4866000 (can't tell > which) > > One of the lines contains: md0: I/O read failure > > One of the lines contains the word:

Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?

2004-06-26 Thread Michael W. Oliver
[please wrap your lines at <80 chars; 72 would be very nice] On 2004-06-26T14:39:12+0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I recently purchased a new laptop, an IBM X31 ThinkPad, which uses the > Centrino processor. I had high expectations for this machine. > > Alas, my expectations have been shattered. Al

Re: IP Management

2004-07-22 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-07-22T13:24:09+0200, Chris Knipe wrote: > Lo all (again), > > A bit off-topic, but I thought if there is something like what I want, > someone on this list should know about it... > > I'm looking for IP Management software (IP Networks that is). Basically, my > own repository where I can

Re: CVS Questions

2004-08-07 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-08-06T01:28:04-0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > I was contemplating banging together a quick script to find the fastest > CVS mirrors which essentially tries to retrieve a small distribution from > all the available CVS servers. Does this seem like the type of thing that > would

CPU speed not reported correctly

2004-12-30 Thread Michael W. Oliver
x27;s worth...). Is this just some cosmetic thing, or is my CPU really running that slow? $ uname -a FreeBSD gambit.gargantuan.com 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #3: Wed Dec 29 09:10:47 EST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GAMBIT amd64 Thanks. -- Michael W. Oliver [see complete headers for contact information] pgpG9pOfPHbBv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2005-03-10T01:49:20-0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [snip caustic commentary] [snip real-life facts] > The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the > DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such > a plan has been in the works for a while among the st

Re: All your laptops are belong to Windows.

2005-02-15 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2005-02-15T01:06:58-0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [ridiculous attribution from Outlook snipped] > > The computer is a HP Pavilion zv5445us, with 512MB RAM, P4-3Ghz, 100GB > > HD, 15.4" Hi-Def Screen, 54G 802.11b WLAN. I purchased it > > from Best Buy. > Best Buy is fairly good at taking exch

Re: GDBE and USB-sticks? [was: GBDE and file-backed filesystems?]

2004-01-19 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:52:32PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > Hello once more, > > One of the readers has replied privately, telling me there's a patch for > FBSD 5.x, "mdcrypt", he also supplied me with a URL for downloading > (thank you very much!). GDBE, he told me, would most probabl

need server motherboard with serial console

2004-02-07 Thread Michael W. Oliver
Hi BSDers, I need some guidance from you. I need to build a couple of headless machines, and though I have done headless boxen many times, I haven't yet worked with one that had a motherboard that supports a serial console. I Googled for a bit and found mention of one from Asus (the TR-DLS), but

Re: trafshow

2003-10-03 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:56:42AM -0700, Chris Appleton wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed my first port! But don't appear to know where to run > it from... Getting file not found all over but can read the man so > believe it's there. > > If this question belongs somewhere else, let me know

Re: SSH

2005-06-21 Thread Michael W. Oliver
[please don't top-post] On 2005-06-21T12:09:57-0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Daniel Gerzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:54 AM >> To: Jean-Paul Natola >> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: SSH >> >> Tuesday, June

Re: Reset root password...HOW?

2005-08-12 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2005-08-12T08:13:43-0700, Carstea Catalin wrote: > How can i reset root password? > . > Tks again! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW -- Mike Oliver [see complete headers for contact information] pgpj6W1

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2005-08-12T21:03:35+0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 20:53 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: >> Hi all, >> I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask some questions: >> So far I know how to generate s site-local address on basis of the MAC >> address of the interface. That's

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2005-08-12T22:56:19+0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 22:48 CEST schrieb Michael W. Oliver: >> ifconfig fxp0 inet6 3ffe:dead:beef:cafe::/64 eui64 alias > > Hmmm, that doesn't work here (6.0-beta2): > > ifconfig fxp0 inet6 fec0::/64 eui64 a

Re: Simple IPv6 question [Was: Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails]

2005-08-15 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2005-08-15T20:51:05+0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Dear inet6 guys, > > I don't know the kind of addresses FreeBSD uses for autoconfigured > link-local addresses. > For example: fe80::20e:cff:fe34:2bf8%em0 > > What the hack is %em0 ??? Interestingly I can use this address, but ping6 > fe80::2

special characters and how they are represented

2005-04-21 Thread Michael W. Oliver
hi folks. this may seem uber-simple to some of you, but i'm ignorant regarding this. your help is appreciated. so, i have this album from Mötley Crüe (that looks right in vim, my editor for mutt), and i have ripped it to FLAC and put it on my file server. on the server, however, the directory n

Re: special characters and how they are represented

2005-04-22 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2005-04-22T18:16:24+0900, Joel wrote: >> 1) ls --> this shows "M?tley_Cr?e" as directory name >> 2) ls | more --> this looks right, with umlaut over o and u >> 3) ls M --> this shows "M\366tley_Cr\374e" (backslash366 & >>backslash374, respectively), using csh as my shell w/set complete and >

Re: Two DNS servers with one IP address

2003-06-26 Thread Michael W. Oliver
n, but it worked for me. -- +-+----------+ | Michael W. Oliver, CCNP | "The tree of liberty must be | | IPv6 & FreeBSD mark | refreshed from time to time | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| with the blood of patriots | | http://michael.gargantuan.com/| and tyra

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread Michael W. Oliver
nd came back up and it appears there is > still support for IPv6 ipv6_enable="YES" is defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, so you have to define ipv6_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf to realize any change. FYI, since I actively use IPv6, I can't really say what the above defin

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread Michael W. Oliver
are right... as far as I can tell, it's always been set to "NO" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Sorry 'bout that. -- Michael W. Oliver [see complete headers for contact information] pgpQPw2UGjENZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cvsup on 5.1-RELEASE

2003-08-12 Thread Michael W. Oliver
d, respectively. - -- +-+--+ | Michael W. Oliver, CCNP | "The tree of liberty must be | | IPv6 & FreeBSD mark | refreshed from time to time | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| with the blood of patriots | | http://michael.gargantuan.com/| and tyrants."

Re: Server spontaneously rebooting

2003-08-24 Thread Michael W. Oliver
0: Sat Aug 23 08:54:25 EDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PHOENIX i386 I am going to recompile with the debugging options to see if I get the same output that you do. Stay tuned... -- +-+--+ | Michael W. Ol

Re: Old proliant memory detection

2003-09-03 Thread Michael W. Oliver
+--- On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:31, | Vince Hoffman proclaimed: | | Hi all, | I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on an ancient Dual P.Pro proliant, and its | not correctly detecting how much RAM i have, is there a way to tell | FreeBSD the correct amount? I'm sure i saw something on the list ab

Re: USB stick

2003-09-08 Thread Michael W. Oliver
+--- On Monday, September 08, 2003 17:12 --- | Todd Stephens proclaimed: | | On Monday 08 September 2003 04:05 am, Christoph Kukulies wrote: | > # mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt | > msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument | | This is speaking from Linux experience, as I do not have my USB CF card | reade

Re: Top posting

2004-03-21 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-03-21T19:33:58-0600, Gary wrote: > Hi JJB, > > --On Sunday, March 21, 2004 8:09 PM -0500 JJB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >So is there some MS/Outlook config option to change it to bottom > >post? > > Outlook fix > > OE fix

Re: Top posting

2004-03-22 Thread Michael W. Oliver
ribe to. Even so, once you have lurked here for a couple of years, you will see the same questions raised over and over again. Some get ignored, some get a FAQ pointer email, and some get a warm RTFM. > Something struck a chord with me so I need clarification. > > On Sunday 21 March 2004 0

Re: portupgrade -arR fails -> port/pkg-system no longer usable

2004-03-22 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-03-22T16:31:23+0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > So I tried > # pkgdb -F > /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb:35:in `require': No such file to load -- pkgtools (LoadError) > from /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb:35 [snip] I believe that this is related to the bump of ruby from 1.6 to 1.8, but I could be wron

Re: Virtual terminal buffer?

2004-03-22 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-03-23T02:29:04+0100, Peder Blom wrote: > And if you run csh/tcsh you can put these two lines in your .logut > script: > > vidcontrol -C > clear and if you run bash, you could create a sym link in your home directory like so... cd ln -s /dev/null .bash_history this is what I do on free sh