TFT monitors and Xorg

2006-03-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
Hello, Probably a stupid question, but I'll take my chances. For years now I only used "normal" monitors on windows, linux, FreeBSD but soon I'll get a Samsung 930BF TFT screen. What I'd like to know is, if Xorg is capable of "seeing" this monitor and sets the right options. I know it does a good

soundcard optimize

2006-03-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
Running FreeBSD-6.0 on an older AMD duron800 (512Mb). Sometimes the sound stutters. It's an older soundcard (es137x / SB PCI 128) I *know* the sound support is much better in FreeBSD-6.1 but I can't update yet (production server). So I wonder, are there sysctl setttings that will improve the soun

Re: BEWARE upgrading Horde System

2006-04-08 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 09:53:05 +0200 Thierry Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Ven 7 avr 06 à 16:18:31 +0200, Jeremy Chadwick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : > > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:40:01AM +0100, Spadge wrote: > > > Why not overwrite the .dist and leave the .conf as it was? OK, so > >

DS WiFi fbsd6

2006-04-08 Thread dick hoogendijk
Does somebody using freebsd-6.1 have Nintendo's WiFi up and running for his/her DS? I run a couple of machines with fbsd-6.1pr on a wired home network and really would appriciate some info on using nintendo's wifi. If not needed I won't buy there USB stick. It needs XP and I don't want to dual-bo

Re: DS WiFi fbsd6

2006-04-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
ould go with the Wi-Fi router.(I > don't know if USB Wi-Fi dongles will work with the DS, gotta check > that!) > > On 4/8/06, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does somebody using freebsd-6.1 have Nintendo's WiFi up and running for > > his/her DS?

serendipity and security

2006-04-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
I read a lot about hacking attemps on weblog software. My former packages were not hacked but attacked quite often. My question to you is: how's serendipity blogging software on Freebsd? I noticed the port installed the directories quite like the docs say it should be, but maybe you have other sug

Re: Gamin and fam conflict...

2006-04-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 12 Apr Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:23:23PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > > portupgrade -f -o devel/gamin fam-\* > > This may not leave a working system since they're not 100% > inter-compatible. I don't see any reactions on this warning from you. You are absolutely

Re: Gamin and fam conflict...

2006-04-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 13 Apr David Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:42:56PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > > I don't see any reactions on this warning from you. > > You are absolutely right though. > > > > gamin != fam > > > > gamin is only partly co

Re: Boot0 configuration question...

2004-06-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 03:35:47 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-06-26 00:59, Henrik W Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this some weirdness of the BIOS? That the onboard IDE controllers > > are somehow inherently preferred, and that weirdness occurs if > > drives on

Re: Boot0 configuration question...

2004-06-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:31:33 -0700 Henrik W Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't found GAG in the ports. Has it not been added or have I just > not found it? I assume the source tarball off of SourceForge builds, > since people are running it, but it'd be so much cleaner if it existed > as

Re: cue images

2004-06-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 27 Jun Daniel Eriksson wrote: > Jeremy Faulkner wrote: >> What international standard describes their format? >> Windows is not a standard. > > Many times a de-facto standard is just as important/valid as a "real" > standard. That's precisely what M$ is aiming at. It's just a wrong attitude.

icewm or..?

2004-07-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
Recently I read in this mailinglist some advice about a windowmanager even more flexible then Icewm. I can't remember the name though ;-( Someone wrote that all you need to do to add a program to the menu was: open the menu some place and choose "add" ;-) I remember is was not fvwm (which I use n

OOo packages for FreeBSD porting <-> projects.imp

2004-08-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
Hello, Normally I download the FreeBSd packages (4.10R) on http://projects.imp.ch but the lates version they have for fbsd-4.10 is OOo-1.1.0_1 On the openoffice site I followed some links to the porting.openoffice.org for freebsd and saw packages for freebsd-4.10 OOO-version 1.1.2 which is quite h

make index problems..

2004-08-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
Usely I do something like this: # cd /root # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports.supfile # cd /usr/ports # make index # portsdb -u It always worked like a charm.. But this night after cvsup and a 'make index' I ran portsdb -u and almost every portentry was deleted because some error about 10 fieldnames nee

fvwm-themes-0.70

2004-08-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
Fvwm2 is a great windowmanager. I use 2.4.18 plus fvwm-themes and that works great. However, the developers version of fvwm also works very well and it's in the ports. What I don't quite understand is why the fvwm-themes-0.70 packages is _not_ in the ports. The developers version of the theme packa

Re: fvwm-themes-0.70

2004-08-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 03 Aug Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:40:35PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > Fvwm2 is a great windowmanager. I use 2.4.18 plus fvwm-themes and that > > works great. However, the developers version of fvwm also works very > > well and it's

aterm and us_intl (or xmodmap)

2004-08-11 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I'm desparate. Or, almost.. I always uses xterms under X, but recently I changed my default terms to aterm (transparant, pixmaps backgrounds..). Xterm, rxvt: they use my us_intl keyboard perfectly, but somehow when I use aterm *under_freebsd* things change! My key becomes a normal , my high-asci

Re: MAJOR DISFUNCTION! Computer reboots instead of booting FreeBSD!

2004-12-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 26 Dec Juha Saarinen wrote: > It looks like "Fafa" is a troll. Same message was posted to the misc > OpenBSD list. So what? He might think his problem is *BSD* related in stead of FreeBSD alone causing the problem. So in asking there too he hoped for more answers (?) Just my 2p -- dick -- ht

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2005-01-01 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 28 Dec Michael C. Shultz wrote: > Portmanager only addresses that one issue and for the forseeable > future that is where all the focus will be, only on correctly updating > ports. Am I to understand correctly that portmanager _always_ updates ALL the old ports? A 'pormanager -u sylpheed' is n

Re: Multiple OS one machine hda: hda1: windows, hda2: freeBSD, hda3: fat32 (emply), hda5: secundary on 4 Swap, Slackware Fedora more Linux, fdisk report up to 15 partitions, my configuration is ...

2005-01-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 01 Jan alex wrote: > Whats the steps to create a multiple operating systems on one > computer?? thanks. Install GAG (do a google search on it). Piece of cake ;-) -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.10 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) + Nai tiruvantel

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 03 Jan Scott Bennett wrote: > 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso > 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso > > I've also tried burning the first file to CD-Rs using Windows XP Home's own > facilities and using Sonic RecordNow! under said system, but did not get > bootable CDs either way. Strange. Ever

apache1.3 mysql and php

2005-01-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
I'd like to give phpBB (kind of a php driven userboard) a change. This means I'll have to change my apache 1.3.33 server into a PHP, MySQL Apache1.3.33 server. I will do the reading, but I appreciate some links on how to set up this combination from ports. I googled but got lost in the information

makefile args overrule

2005-01-15 Thread dick hoogendijk
Is it possible to *overrule* the arguments from a Makefile in the ports? I know you can add some options in the pkgtools.conf (portupgrade), but I want to disable a lot of options in the Makefile of apache13 because I want to disable a lot of modules. Can I add the options I want to the pkgtools.co

php.ini

2005-01-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I installed php4 from ports. In /usr/local/etc are two files, php.ini-recommended and php.ini-dist. I have two questions: (a) I understand the recommended file is the most secure (?) (b) To what location do I have to copy one of them as php.ini? I read somewhere that I need to copy the file to /usr

var/tmp

2005-03-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
I'd like some info on: man 7 hier: "/var/tmp tempory files that are kept between system reboots" Can I safely delete this directory. Probabl not 'cause it's kept in between, but how can I weed some files then in a safe manner? What can and what cannot be deleted and why? some info poiters would b

update all ports

2005-03-13 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
To update all installed ports with protupgrade (not portmanager) will I need "portupgrade -ra" or portupgrade -rRa" ? This will be done _after_ running the gnome_update.sh script ;-) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11 ++ FreeBSD 5.3 + Nai tiruvantel a

upgrade a couple of nearly identical machines

2005-03-13 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I run three machines with FreeBSD-4.11 and lots of the same ports installed. Upgrading these three must be more easy then running portupgrade on every machine again and again, upgrading the same ports multiple times. This is waste of cpu power ;-) Does anybody has suggestions on how to handle this

Re: HP LJ 1100 setup

2005-03-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 14 Mar Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Try Andreas' GREAT printer port, print/apsfilter, which is one of > >> hte best things in ports. How come it's so completly unknown? > Ghostscript supports the HP1100 directly. So there's no need to deal > with the other printer d

ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this windows machine? I mean, can my login to my FreeBSD server at home be *monitored* by someone while I'm using this windows machine at work? Can the keystrokes that I u

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 18 Mar Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2005, at 6:23 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > >I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ > >ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this > >windows machine? > >

password length default install

2005-03-18 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
What is the password lenght one may use at login? I didn't change the defaults on my fbsd-4.11 (login passwd md5 ??) I remember linux had as default some eight chars or so. I want to use more chars for some accounts. Can I safely use 10-12 chars? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F8

cc: cannot

2005-03-19 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
"cc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations" Compiling of gnome-vfs-2.10.0 stops with errors and this is not nice, cause I need this dep for bluefish. Does this error sounds familiar to somebody? An error in the port? (gnome is up2date) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/Gn

kaudiocreator

2005-03-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
kaudiocreator is a nice program for extracting audio tracks and converting them w/ almost any encoder. Only pittfall is hat kde is needed. Is there another program that comes close to the abilities and easy of use of this kaudicreator? -(My WM is fvmw)- I like fast running progs. -- dick -- http

gcc error

2005-03-26 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Hi, I'm getting desperate. First I couldn't compile just a gnome package. OK, it could be missed.. But now I want to compile the new KDE-3.4 and it does not work :-( Compiling kdelibs3 I get (again) this annoying error. Googling learned it shows up quit often, but I found no solution. So, what is

Re: gcc error

2005-03-27 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 26 Mar Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 04:24:42PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > > > So, what is this and waht can be done about it? I guess it's a gcc > > compiler error. I deleted all gcc packages that were installed (back > > to the system

Re: gcc error

2005-03-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:36:32 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-03-27 10:21, Dick Hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> "c++: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations" > >>> The same error happe

Re: gcc error

2005-03-27 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 26 Mar Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 04:24:42PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm getting desperate. First I couldn't compile just a gnome > > package. OK, it could be missed.. But now I want to compile the new > >

Re: Quicktime Plugin

2005-03-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:00:42 +0930 Ian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:46, Warren wrote: > > Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Plugger (/usr/ports/www/plugger) will open some quicktime files, > though not the nwer ones (last time I tried anyway). mplayer-plugin does a nic

gcc

2005-03-28 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
If you have different versions of gcc installed, which version is used then when you run a "portupgrade somepackage" ? I know a package can give the needed version itself, but what if the port does not do so? Is the system's default run then or what? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key:

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:23:46 +0200 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > The key point here, though, is that Windows apparently works correctly > with the firmware, whatever changes that firmware may contain. > FreeBSD does not. Therefore FreeBSD is broken. Wrong. Windows does /not/ work correctly with th

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 29 Mar Bart Silverstrim wrote: > You should go out and reinstall Windows on that server and leave this > list in peace. He won't do that. I told this weeks ago. He comes off on this shit he writes. You won't win this game. Why? 'Cause all of you use arguments and Anthony simply is /not/ He tal

cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations

2005-03-30 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I asked about it before and will ask about it again. I posted my errors but nobody reacted. -(it's hard to see people like anthony /do/ get attention)- It's a freebsd-4.11 system. Ports are up2date. Compiling gnomevfs2 and/or kdelibs3 I get this error "gcc cannot.." or "c++ cannot.." Nowhere on t

Re: c++ error compiling kdelibs3

2005-03-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 31 Mar 2005 12:08:04 +0400 Boris Samorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:51:26 +0200 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > > I have a very nasty error lately. I have asked for help on the > > freebsd questions list. But that list is too general ;-) >

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-31 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 31 Mar Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Sorry guys, I couldn't resist. Please, control yourself Ted. It's /so/ quite lately ;-) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11 ++ FreeBSD 5.3 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja ___

4.11-STABLE

2005-03-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
Now that FreeBSD-4.11 is deprecated, it will be the last release from the 4.xx series, what is it about RELENG-4 (the 4.11-STABLE)? This build will be /newer/ than 4.11R and always will be. Will it be safe to use? What about security updates? Or will it be safer to stick with 4.11R and update the s

Re: c++ error compiling kdelibs3

2005-03-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:07:13 +0200 Michael Nottebrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, 31. March 2005 09:51, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > I have a very nasty error lately. I have asked for help on the > > freebsd questions list. But that list is too general ;-) > &g

kerberos4 / kerberos 5

2005-03-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
FreeBSD-4.11-stable has kerberos4/5 unchecked in the defaults/make.conf Does that mean those two are not used? Probably so.. But how about when I want to get rid of earlier installs of kerberos4/5 using /stand/sysinstall once (long time ago..) What files do I remove than? There is no uninstall op

downgrade 4.11-stable to 4.11R

2005-03-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
Is it possible to go back to 4.11R if you've updated src to 4.11-stable first and updated sthe system w/ make buildworld, install.. If I put the 4.11R sources back in /usr/src and do a make/build etc.. again will my fbsd system really be 4.11R again without soem 'nasty' traces of the update? --

Re: downgrade 4.11-stable to 4.11R

2005-03-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:31:27 -0500 Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 31, 2005, at 2:26 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > Is it possible to go back to 4.11R if you've updated src to > > 4.11-stable first and updated sthe system w/ make buildworld, > >

Re: gcc error - SOLVED

2005-03-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:00:05 -0800 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 04:24:42PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm getting desperate. First I couldn't compile just a gnome > > package. OK, it could be

device_polling

2005-04-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
I was building a new kernel today and came across an option I had not seen before. I googled some and concluded that "options device_polling / options HZ=1000" would be a better way for my realtec network cards than the default interupt driven.. Is this correct?? Would it be better to have this po

Re: can i delete /stand ?

2005-04-02 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 02 Apr Danny Pansters wrote: > I suggest /sbin now and at a later stage /boot. There's already a > /bin, right, who needs an /sbin. Do keep /usr/doc and /usr/share/man > for emergencies. "LOL* But I don't think our guy is gonna understand your humorous reply. Personally I hardly can believe h

blanking the console

2005-04-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
OK, probably a stupid question. I can't find it though. Sorry. How can I blank the screen on the console (terminal). Something like the linux "setterm -blank 60" which will blank the screen after 60 seconds of inactivity. There must be a (freebsd) equivalent, but what is it? -- dick -- http://na

Re: can i delete /stand ?

2005-04-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 23:13:11 +0200 "Erik Nørgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some people like sysinstall as a postconfiguration tool, and documen- > tation refers to this. But you can run it from /usr/sbin/sysinstall I can't. Nor have I something like '/rescue/init' So I assume you're taking m

Re: Building /stand from /usr/src

2005-04-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 13:23:01 -0800 patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does one build all of the goodies in /stand from /usr/src? I have > a FreeBSD system that was originally installed with FreeBSD 4.7. I've > upgraded the system to 4.11 using cvsup and "make world", but > /stand/sysinstall s

Re: device_polling

2005-04-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 21:06:37 -0500 jason henson wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > >I was building a new kernel today and came across an option I had not > >seen before. I googled some and concluded that "options > >device_polling / options HZ=1000" would

Re: device_polling

2005-04-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 22:28:19 +0200 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > dick hoogendijk writes: > > > I build a kernel with devoce_polling and hz=1000 and experimented a > > bit. Using "netstat -w 1" I see a drop in performance. In/output is > > about 20% higher if pollin

Re: AMD64 optimization on FreeBSD 5.4 i386

2005-04-04 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 04 Apr Bachelier Vincent wrote: > Does I compile with march=k8 under cflags ? > for example: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe >CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS > > Well, what do you think ? > could I optimize more than CPUTYPE=k8 ? > ok see ya Don't have an answer to /your/ question, but mine is related

HZ=1000 ?

2005-04-04 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I read about polling and HZ=1000. The latter is not high enough for vmware3 (it complains..). I read 'man polling' and learn something about this, but I really want to know more about 'hz=1000' The GENERIC has hz=100 as I recall (fbsd-4.11). Can somebody explain I "human language" what happens if

Re: HZ=1000 ?

2005-04-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:37:55 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Interestingly, HZ=100 has remained constant for decades (!), despite > CPUs getting faster all the time. This is an excellent value for most > typical usage patterns. Cranking it up should only be required for > special cases. Anyway, th

dump question

2005-04-07 Thread dick hoogendijk
Hi, Need some reassurance on this: # dump -h0 -0f - /usr | gzip > /filelocation/filename.dump.gz Will this produce a good dumpfile of "/usr" ? I mean, witghout gzip it would have probably be something like "dump -h0 -0f /filelocation/filename.dump /tmp" am I right? Because I am a little short o

rtc question

2005-04-07 Thread dick hoogendijk
I decided to remove polling and hz=1200 from my kernel. The system was slower. Things run pretty smooth now (duron-800/512Mb) with the default HZ=100, /but/ : Now vmware3 is complaining about the rtc : timing error, please increase... The virtual machine itself runs just fine. If it does no harm I

Re: IPF Firewall Rules... help!

2005-04-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 08 Apr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you read the limewire website carefully you will see that no where > does it say it will work on PC on a local area network (LAN). This is > one of those products that buries the sending IP address in the > packets. A PC on the LAN uses an NATed ip address a

Re: IPF Firewall Rules... help!

2005-04-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:43:23 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dick > Since you say you have limewire working on your LAN behind firewall > why don't you post your rules so we can see how you did it. # Limewire pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to any port = 6346 flags S keep state pass out

change bootloader

2005-01-23 Thread dick hoogendijk
I installed the bootmng and now I have the "F1 FreeBSD" prompt at boottime. This is not what I want though. I want my disk to just boot into FreeBSD. I can't find the right option in boot0cfg to change this behaviour of my harddisk. Can I still change the F1 prompt into nothing? If so, how can this

ipf ipnat ftp question

2005-01-23 Thread dick hoogendijk
I want ftp services to and from the internet for my gateway and my lan machines. I read the handbook but still have some questions. As I understand I have to put two lines into my ipf.rules whe I use the IPNAT built in ftp proxy. #pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to any port = 21 flags S k

amsn

2005-01-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
Amsn states it needs port 1863 for chats and port 6891 for filetransfers. Using ipf and being quit new to it), does that mean I do this both ways (in/out) like: ## outgoing # Allow out msn messenger chatting and filetransfers pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to any port = 1863 flags S ke

ipf rules for ftp server

2005-01-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
I read the handbook and googled, but am still confused on the right rules for my FTP server. I use ipf. My ftp section in /etc/ipf.rules now is: # FTP server out pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to any port = 21 flags S keep state pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to any port > 102

Re: ipf rules for ftp server

2005-01-26 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 25 Jan Erik Norgaard wrote: > They are not right. > # ftp server - ftp session > pass in quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to 0/32 port = 21 flags S \ > keep state > # passive ftp-data > pass in quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to 0/32 port > 49151 flags S \ > keep state > # active ftp-data

Re: ipf rules for ftp server

2005-01-27 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 26 Jan Thomas Foster wrote: > I highly recommend switching over to PF instaed of IPF.. heres a > couple of articles that cover setting up IPF (or PF) and configuring a > decent ruleset to allow specific services. Maybe I would. But I run FreeBSD-4.11 and pf is not avail. Switching to 5.3 is no

Re: enable linux compatibility

2005-01-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 29 Jan Thomas Foster wrote: > Try downloading a linux binary or installing a linux based application > from ports.. if you do not get any elf binary errors then yo umost > likely have the linux compatibility enabled correctly. The only other > thing to watch for are any programs that might requ

spamassassin

2005-01-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
Hello, Never knew that spamassassin made connections to razor servers from cloudmark.com After installing ipf my logs overflew with blocked packages to machine.cloudmark.com. At first I didn't know what they were, found out it had something to do with spamblocking and after that I knew SpamAssassi

vmnet1 vmneet2 etc

2005-01-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
I lost all mail in transferring my system to another harddisk. I had the answer stored somewhere. Now it's gone. ;-( I want to run three virtual vmware machines on one host. It was something with different vmnet and the option custom, but I can't figure out how exactly.. Any link or info? -- dic

NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):712

2005-01-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
Ever since upgrading fbsd-4.10p5 to 4.11R I get these errors in wmware's win98.log file I cannot shut down the program nor suspend it anymore. Is it something that has changed in 4.11R? Jan 31 23:27:15: ide0:0|Checking for ambiguous errors. Jan 31 23:27:15: ide0:0| Jan 31 23:27:15: ide0:0|NOT_IMPL

Re: Ftp behind firewall/nat

2005-02-01 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 31 Jan eric wyzerski wrote: > The solution is to explicitly tell your FTP server what to report as its > IP address, and give it a range of ports to give out as well. > unix-server configuration file as follows: passive ports > 0.0.0.0/0 32768 49151 > passive address your.pub.IP.addr 0.0.0.0/

Re: Cleaning Out Ports?

2005-02-01 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 31 Jan Michael C. Shultz wrote: > If sysutils/pkg_cutleaves isn't right, please provide good detail why. What's the benefir over using "portsclean -D" or "portsclean -CDPP" Works like a charm. (see man portsclean). -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.

Re: Firefox

2005-02-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:07:53 -0500 Alfredo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just did a 'portupgrade firefox' and I still dont have forefox ver > 1.0 > > This is what I have on in my screen: > > "[Updating the pkgdg in var/db/pkg ... - 195 > packages found (-0 +159)...

Re: upgrading FreeBSD

2005-02-02 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 02 Feb Erik Trulsson wrote: > The sequence > backup all data > make a fresh install of 5.3 > restore data from backup > will almost certainly be quicker, simpler, and less prone to > catastrophic failure. > > (Making a backup of all important data is a *very* good idea anyway.) You're so ri

Re: FreeBSD Handbook typo?

2005-02-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 20:02:25 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the FreeBSD Handbook, page 24.5 "The IPFILTER (IPF) Firewall", > section 24.5.19.1 Assigning Ports to Use, I believe there is a typo. > It gives an example "map dc0 192.168.1.0/24 -> 0.32" and I think it > should say "map dc0 192.16

Re: Trying to get glib updated to run AbiWord-2.0

2005-02-06 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 05 Feb Michael C. Shultz wrote: > Try to upgrade with sysutils/portmanager, it doesn't require ruby. Can it upgrade just _one_ port ? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11 ++ FreeBSD 5.3 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja _

Re: Change Apache version string

2005-02-07 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:59:19 -0700 Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got mod_php installed as well as mod_jk, so whenever there's a > 404 Apache displays > Apache/2.0.52 (FreeBSD) PHP/4.3.10 mod_jk/1.2.6 > > I'm not sure if I'm being overly paranoid, but I don't really like the > fact t

ipfilter and ntp sserver

2005-02-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
I want my local ntp server up and running, so I put in /etc/rc.conf: xntpd_enable="YES" but waht are the right rules for ipfilter? Someting like: # Allow out ntp traffic pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to any port = 123 flags S keep state pass out quick on rl0 proto udp from any to any po

ipfilter outgoing

2005-02-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
It's difficult to program all outgoing filter rules in ipf. Every now and then I bumb into a blocked connection that I did want to work in the first place. Only because an outgoing port was/is blocked. What is the most secure way to do things? Block all outgoing and open up what I wnat or can I us

Re: ipfilter and ntp sserver

2005-02-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:38:53 +0100 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ntp is udp-only, see rfc1305. Then how come I read in /etc/services 123/tcp 123/udp "network time protocol" ? I believe you, but am just curious. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running Fre

Re: ipfilter outgoing

2005-02-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:46:09 +0100 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beware, that cvsup connects to port 5999, and passive ftp-data > connects to some port > 1024 depending on server config (however I > think default is/should be > 49151). I have configures pure-ftpd to use a restrict

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 14 Feb Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony > > Atkielski Just curious. Why do you keep replying Anthony in such a professional way if all he does is promoting windows again and again. He uses wi

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 13 Feb Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:35:06PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > --On Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:18 PM -0500 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > >Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? It contains a suggestion for how to > > >update the Perl po

Re: Updated perl - broke stuff

2005-02-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 14 Feb Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:24:07PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > Meaning I don't run this update script when updating perl from say > > "5.8.5" to "5.8.6" ? > > No, that what I meant by "when updating fr

Re: Anthony

2005-02-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 15 Feb Timothy Smith wrote: > Stijn Hoop wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:34:24AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > > >>MSIE has traditionally followed HTML standards more closely than > >>almost any other browser. Firefox does pretty well, tough; Opera > >>much less so. > > > >Thank you

ipfilter "flags s keep state" question

2005-02-15 Thread dick hoogendijk
I read a lot of rulesets for ipfilter just to study how others do the job. I've read the ipf HOWTO too. One thing is still very unclear to me though. Most rules for tcp have something like "flags S keep state" but *some* have "flags S keep state keep frags" Can someone explain to me *when* to use

Re: ipfilter "flags s keep state" question

2005-02-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 16 Feb Murray Taylor wrote: > tcp rules can use 'keep frags' > TCP packets allow fragmentation by intermediate routers > that need re-assembly at the final destination > > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 08:36, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > I read a lot of rulesets for ipfil

Re: Who creates /tmp/.X11-unix directory?

2005-02-17 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 17 Feb Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > >Who creates the /tmp/.X11-unix directory, and why? I'm not running > >x-anything on my system, but there's a directory out there that was > >touched a few days ago. > > > might tell you what's up. Screensaver, perhaps? No. The 'new'

Re: Who creates /tmp/.X11-unix directory?

2005-02-18 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 18 Feb Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Dick Hoogendijk writes: > > > No. The 'new' /etc/rc script does that. Kde problems after cleaning > > out /tmp are solved now too. You can freely enable > > "clear_tmp_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf again.

Re: FreeBSD multi-homed w/ipnat

2005-02-18 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 18 Feb Peter Kieser wrote: > vr0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 >inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 >inet6 fe80::211:d8ff:fe3d:564a%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 >ether 00:11:d8:3d:56:4a >media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) >status: activ

Re: Good rentable servers?

2005-02-21 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:34:47 -0600 Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's another company that offers FreeBSD virtual servers: > > http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html The last few days I get a lot of mail from this list *twice* Anybody ideas what's happening? It's only on this

Re: Good rentable servers?

2005-02-21 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 21 Feb bsdnooby wrote: > > Thank you for all the feedback, everyone. I have plenty of good leads > to follow up on now. Yeah sure, but all this stuff about misconfigured mailservers does not answer my original "question" or does it? Are there more people who should check their config? -- d

cd copy

2005-02-25 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
What is the easiest way to copy a complete cdrom with freebsd-4.11? Normally I use burncd to burn an iso file to a new cdr, but I never copied a complete cdrom to cdr under freebsd. My windows machines are down and I need the copy soon. So please forgive me if I'm ignorant. Hope the answer is easy

cdrom image to cdr

2005-02-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
What is the easiest way to copy a complete cdrom with freebsd-4.11? Normally I use burncd to burn an iso file to a new cdr, but I never copied a complete cdrom to cdr under freebsd. My windows machines are down and I need the copy soon. So please forgive me if I'm ignorant. Hope the answer is easy

Re: cd copy

2005-02-26 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 25 Feb Simon Dick wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:49:31 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:27:26 +0100 > > Dick Hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What is the easiest way to copy a comple

Re: cd copy

2005-02-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:33:33 +0100 Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dick Hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the easiest way to copy a complete cdrom with freebsd-4.11? > > Use readcd and cdrecord. I rebuild the kernel with atapicam (ata,

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