Re: Connecting to internet.

Thanks for the reply Ruben (and others). I did see these sections when having a cursory look at the docs but was hoping for something simpler. On some older versions of Linux that I have installed there was a program called adsl-setup that I used to get connected. Sounds like you're on a

Re: Configuration of current kernel

> # Redirected to freebsd-questions, from freebsd-newbies. > # Please do NOT post technical questions to the freebsd-newbies list. Uh, OK, I don't quite get what freebsd-newbies is for then... thought this was a newbie question. > The GENERIC kernel is just what the name suggests: a generic kernel

portinstall: fetch(1) doesn't fetch

Hi, I don't understand the behaviour of fetch(1). Whenever I try to fetch from an URL, I get anwers like > fetch http://www.google.com fetch: http://www.google.com: No address record I have set up my network correctly though. If, in contrast, I use wget, I get > wget http://www.google.

Re: portinstall: fetch(1) doesn't fetch

> > I don't understand the behaviour of fetch(1). Whenever I try to fetch > > from an URL, I get anwers like > > > fetch http://www.google.com > > fetch: http://www.google.com: No address record > > Do you have any weird environment variables set ? Like > FETCH_BIND_ADDRESS or maybe HTTP_P

gdbe - how?

I feel I'm bombarding the list with stupid questions, but I really can't find an answer to this. I'd like to use the gdbe disk encryption. I have activated GEOM_BDE in my kernel and would like to go ahead with the procedure described in the handbook. But I don't have a gdbe executable anywhere on m

Re: Howto monitor system security

[...] > > FreeBSD security email is rather anoying, because it keeps sending > > messages even if nothing has changed. I need an email sent to me only > > if there is something abnormal. > > What happens when someone breaks in and disables it from sending email? > > Think of it as a kind of heartb

Installing in a logical partition

Hi. I try to install FreBSD 6.2 as third OS on my laptop (after Windows XP and Gentoo Linux). I only have a logical partition left for it. sysinstall only shows four slices on my hard drive, ad4s1 - ad4s4. ad4s4 is correctly recognized as a DOS extended partition, but the logical partitions insid

Re: bash bug - or what?

Wojciech Puchar wrote: look at this $SORT is sort -S 512m $tmp2 is input filename (being 2GB size), $tmp3 is output this fragment tries (with success) to randomize lines from $tmp2 and write it to $tmp3 while read ll;do echo $RANDOM $RANDOM $ll done <$tmp2 | $SORT |cut -f 3- -d " " >$tmp3