Re: Connecting to internet.

Chris Saunders wrote: Just installed FreeBSD and it seems everything went fine. I have also recently installed Slackware Linux and it seems to have automatically set itself up to connect to the internet. I have had a look in the FreeBSD Handbook (not too deeply), but didn't see a section on getti

Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

. Is that possible? Thanks, Tom Norris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

Hexren wrote: I'll say exim *let the holly wars start* So, should I use vi, emacs, or pico to edit the config files ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

Something else just occured to me. Am I going to need a separate pop3 daemon, or does postfix do that too? Thanks again, Tom Norris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Question on roaming VPNs using mpd, NAT, and FreeBSD6

oo connects to a.b.c.194 (for the sake of argument), traffic gets forwarded to the laptop? Thank You for Your Time, Tom Norris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

A quick question about X11 and securelevels

I understand the things like not allowing the system clock to change and not allowing formatting of filesystems, but I want to know why you can't run x11 when you have a securelevel greater than or equal to one. there is no _serious_ reason I wish to know, I'm just curious and google keeps fee

Re: OT: Review of "An Illustrated Guide to IPSec"?

Parv wrote: To this IPSec ignorant but quite interested in the subject, this seems like a good reference ... http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-ipsec.html To those who are versed in the topic, how does it look? I'm not very versed in the topic of ipsec, but this definately looks like a

Are USB-typed wi(4) devices supported on FreeBSD?

Hello Everyone, Are USB-typed wi(4) devices supported on FreeBSD or being worked on at all? I'm just curious because I have a Buffalo WLI-USB-KB11 (Melco product 0x0044 rev 1.10/1.32) and FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE doesn't like it. (Generic kernel, I'm using kldload wi) on my IBM Thinkpad 240 300mh

Re: how to convert lower case to uppercase in a word in a line ?

I have heard of INTERCAL and BrainF*ck, but who cares next? What about COW? http://www.bigzaphod.org/cow/ or whitespace? http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ And I DO care.. just not enough to write a to-uppercase function :) -Tom ___ freebsd-qu

Re: hint.apic.0.disabled

Omer Faruk Sen wrote: line to disable acpi. Which one is the true one? To add to device.hints or loader.conf file. You could always do it to both and see if anything breaks. Sorry I don't have a more insightful comment :( -- Tom ___ freebsd-questio

Is it possible to mount MSDOS partitions on the 5.4 fixit floppy?

I need to mount a msdos partition on from is FreeBSD 5.4 fixit floppy(this machine doesn't have a CD Drive :\), but when I run the command: mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt/usb-msd I get: mount: exec mount_msdos not found in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory. Where could I go to get this

Re: Password

sulie halim wrote: systems, how can i view all their usernames and passwords? You can't. FreeBSD uses a one way hash to encode the passwords. If you are the administrator you can change the password though: #passwd user-that-forgot-their-password New password: anything like that> New p

Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD

Sean wrote: Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD operating system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term goal of the Gentoo/BSD project is to allow users to choose any combination of *BSD or Linux kernels, *BSD or GNU libc, and *BSD or GNU userland tools.

gnome2 failing build

Hey everyone, sorry to take up time with this question, but I have been going over it for a few hours to no avail :( I'm having problems building gnome2 on a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE GENERIC machine from ports. (/usr/ports/x11/gnome2) I did a cvsup at about 22:00hrs EST. I cvsuped because I found a

Re: gnome2 failing build

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: Looks like you need to reinstall devel/libbonobo first. Joe Yep, going into devel/libbonobo and doing a deinstall/clean/make/install made everything work. Thanks a bunch! Now onto the hours of compiling that comes with Gnome. _

Is there a patch for C-Media CMI9739 AC97 with snd_ich module to make the volume mixer work?

Hey everyone, I noticed xmms was either going mute or full blast when I came across this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-October/062858.html thanks to google. I was just wondering if there are any patches to make the mixer work? Or, if there isn't, where would I g

Re: burncd, eject before read

Tobias Fendin wrote: Hi folks. I've just burned an iso to a cd successfully. But before I could mount it, I had to eject the cd-tray and then close it, before I could mount it. I got this error message from mount: cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error I wonder if it's a bug or feature. -

Is there a daemon/program for FreeBSD that accepts Microsoft RDP connections?

coming RDP connections? Thanks, Tom Norris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Is there a daemon/program for FreeBSD that accepts Microsoft RDP connections?

Jonathan Horne wrote: WOW!! what an incredibly closed minded person you boss must be! i wonder what he thinks he will do, if he *could* get an rdp session to a freebsd box? (btw, the answer is no, he cannot have a port 3389 terminal services session to a freebsd box... but there are a millio