installation

2003-05-27 Thread Simon Sharratt
Hi can anyone help? I want to install bsd on my older computer (p90) that doesn't support large disks,( I also want to dual boot with win95) at present I have one small drive 540mb and one 20gig and overcome this with segate disk management that enables me to boot off a floppy if I want to and

Question

2003-05-27 Thread Doychin Lyudmilov Karakashev
Hello, 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. Thank You ___

Sendmail, jail and stuff.

2003-05-27 Thread Danny Carroll
So, here is the 2 minute spiel.. Host 1.2.3.4 (a real IP address) is a firewall It has 2 jails. Jail 1 is an apache server on 192.168.1.1 It hosts site. www.mysite.com Jail 2 is an mail server on 192.168.1.2 So, how do you convince sendmail running on 192.168.1.1 that www.mysite.com is not

Apache+mod_ssl

2003-05-27 Thread Peter Elsner
This might seem like a stupid question, but here goes... I have Apache 1.3 running on my system. It's running fine and has been for several years. I find that I'm in need of also have a secure https session (as well as my regular web sites). So I set out to learn about Apache13+mod_ssl.

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.

how to pass options to print filter

2003-05-27 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi ! I run FreeBSD-4.8-RELEASE and I wanted to know is the LPD in the base installation accepts options to send to the print filter. I have a filter which I can send options to (like pagesize=a4...). I know that with LPRng, I can use lpr -Z option and the spooler then send option to the print

Re: Can't find NIC

2003-05-27 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Socketd wrote: Hi all I have a laptop (Compaq Presario 1200, 400mhz, 6gb harddisk, 64 mb ram and so on). I am trying to install a SMC EZ Card 10/100, 16 bit which acoring to http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET is supported, but my FreeBSD 4.8-Release with a GENERIC

Re: Changing library paths?

2003-05-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Remington L. wrote: [ ... ] I want to be able to change the path to say something like /compat/linux/lib/libc.so.4 How is this accomplished? Given the context, see man brandelf and try something like: brandelf -t Linux foo -Chuck ___ [EMAIL

Raid - how do I???

2003-05-27 Thread vizion communication
Hi I could do with some help from someone who is an experienced hand. I have a compaq Proliant 5500 quad processor. This system includes the proliant raid which has four physical drives (each of 18.2G) on ida0 which are configured as three devices idad0, idad1 idad2. I have a reported soft

Re: FreeBSD HAM (Amateur Radio) ports

2003-05-27 Thread Gary D Kline
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:52:42AM +0200, Kjell Midtseter wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2003 at 8:40:48 +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: FreeBSD HAM (Amateur Radio) ports Hi Peter, On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 02:12 PM, Cornelius, Peter wrote:

promise ata drivers

2003-05-27 Thread doug
hi, i have been trying to get freebsd to play with promise ata133 oem chip pdc20378 http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/4-STABLE/hardware/i386/x27.html#AEN33 says that: Promise ATA100 OEM chip (pdc20265) Promise ATA133 OEM chip (pdc20269) ...are supported. linux kernel appears to be able to play

About nss_ldap

2003-05-27 Thread Sondre Rønjom
Well, I found out after a while that NSS-modules are not supported before 5.1-. I could ofcourse just asked in /usr/ports/ned/nss_ldap/, which would give me the answer, instead of first upgrading from 4.8 to 5.0. Well, enough of nothing. I just wonder if anyone has any good sollution to my

Re: Question

2003-05-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, 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. Thank You It's all there. You can just download

mozilla with flash and java plugin

2003-05-27 Thread Antoine Solomon
hello everyone. I was woundering how I can get flash and java plugin to work with freebsd 5.0 When I compile the flash plugin from the ports collection, Mozilla crashes when trying to enter flash site. Any solutions to this? I really don't know how to get java working at all..

Re: driver for scsi card

2003-05-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an Acard SCSI card, and the only device attached to it is an external CD-R drive. That's not enough information to figure out anything about this piece of hardware. I believe that the FBSD equivalent to modprobe is kldload, but Um, roughly.

Re: memory based filesystem / ramdisk

2003-05-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Thomas Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how can i create and mount a memory based filesystem? I've read the handbook, but i think i am too stupid to understand it. I only want to create a ramdisk, with for example 16MB in size, and mount it to some directory. man md If you're doing it

FreeBSD 4.8 -lock up on new box

2003-05-27 Thread anthony
Just got a new amd xp 2700 setup with freebsd 4.8-release and when ever attempting to upgrade the source (make buildworld), the machine locks up. We did sucessfully install the OS from an ISP and it seemed to go fine. Another amd I had before this one had FreeBSD 4.8-RC installed and would lock

Re: config error: mail loops back to me?

2003-05-27 Thread Phillip Smith (personal)
Since you don't give us real information, it's hard to fully understand (or investigate) what is going on. What information could I provide? p. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Licencing

2003-05-27 Thread PRESTON . WT
Hello 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 much would it cost to use this software on each

RE: The clock is too fast in FreeBSD!

2003-05-27 Thread J. Seth Henry
Eric, First, you didn't mention how fast the clock was under FreeBSD. If you are talking about minutes/seconds, then you can use ntpd to keep the clock in line. If you have permanent network access, then you can actually keep your clock to within a few milliseconds of the NIST/Navy official time.

Re: Kernel-level AGP GART support

2003-05-27 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:41:03AM -0500, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jonathan Chen wrote: The GENERIC kernel has agp support compiled in already. not in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE. Look again. It's in the GENERIC config file. -- Jonathan Chen | To

Re: config error: mail loops back to me?

2003-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:50:03AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, hoping this is a common issue with a simple fix... Someone is trying to use my box for a relay, which sendmail is taking care of nicely, but I keep getting A) my inbox filled with messages that for some reason

Re: Raid - how do I???

2003-05-27 Thread Danny Carroll
This most certianly means that the drive is dead. If you loce another, you will lose your data. Power down the system, replace the drive and power on again. The bios will inform you that the disk has been replaced and it will ask you to hit f1 to rebuild. It will take a while but all should be

Re: mozilla with flash and java plugin

2003-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Wood
hello everyone. I was woundering how I can get flash and java plugin to work with freebsd 5.0 When I compile the flash plugin from the ports collection, Mozilla crashes when trying to enter flash site. Any solutions to this? I really don't know how to get java working at all. I can't

Re: what MP3 portable hardware works with FreeBSD?

2003-05-27 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Derek at CD Baby writes: Anyone using an iPod or Archos Jukebox type USB HD MP3 player with their FreeBSD box? The Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 works just fine. Make sure it's the Recorder! If you get one, install Rockbox (http://rockbox.haxx.se) on it. Very nice and totally safe! --- Gary

Re: What is Tip used for??

2003-05-27 Thread Dragoncrest
Ah, sweet. Kinda like hyperterminal for unix. Neat. I'll have to remember that. :) I've been looking for a program like that for a while. At 09:38 AM 5/27/03 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-05-27T04:13:38Z, Dragoncrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just curious what the program

Sendmail woes (domain resolving)

2003-05-27 Thread UBM
Hello everyone! I'm not 100% sure if this belongs here, as it is primarily a sendmail configuration problem. Sendmail blocks incoming mail delivered to it by fetchmail, if it's unable to resolve the domain the mail is sent from. For example: sendmail[2424]: h4RKlrp0002424: ruleset=check_mail,

Sound on SiS 7012 under 4.8 ?

2003-05-27 Thread Florent DANIEL
Hello, I can't get my onboard soundcard to work on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE. My computer is an Asus Terminator P4-533A, and its motherboard is based on SiS 651/962 chipsets. I've addedd device pcm to my kernel and rebuilt it, and now my soundcard appears in boot messages : bash-2.05b$ dmesg | grep pcm

Epson CX5200 : scanner doesn't appear

2003-05-27 Thread Florent DANIEL
Hello, I've got an Epson CX5200 all-in-one (printer and scanner), on USB port. On my 4.8-STABLE install, kernel has been configured for usb : device usb # USB Bus (required) device ugen# Generic device uhid# Human Interface Devices

Re: What is Tip used for??

2003-05-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-05-27T22:04:41Z, Dragoncrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, sweet. Kinda like hyperterminal for unix. Neat. I'll have to remember that. :) I've been looking for a program like that for a while. Yep. However, it is a *very* minimal program - no x/y/z-modem transfers, no real

OT: biometric reader support

2003-05-27 Thread Nathan Vidican
I was wondering if anyone has used any parallel-port finger-print scanneing devices with FreeBSD. In specific, I am trying to use the device to authenticate in a custom program I am currently writting. Without going into messy details, I'm just looking for experience with these things,

Re: your mail

2003-05-27 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:21:42PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jeandre du Toit seemed to write: How do you turn of the console bell (using software)? I looked at termcap, I don't think that has anything to do with it. /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -b off|visual|normal `off' - no bell `visual' - blink

3Ware - a light?

2003-05-27 Thread MikeM
Last week I sent an email off to the Sales team at 3Ware asking them about support for their IDE RAID controllers on FreeBSD. Today I received the following reply: = Mike, FreeBSD is not currently supported by 3ware directly. However I did contact our Product

Re: Licencing

2003-05-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:55:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello 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

Re: mozilla with flash and java plugin

2003-05-27 Thread Hasse
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 19.53, Antoine Solomon wrote: hello everyone. I was woundering how I can get flash and java plugin to work with freebsd 5.0 When I compile the flash plugin from the ports collection, Mozilla crashes when trying to enter flash site. Any solutions to this? I really

RE: Machine statistics -Solved

2003-05-27 Thread Derrick Ryalls
put this minimal snmpd.conf in /usr/local/share/snmpd.conf: *** syslocation your localtion syscontact [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysname your.system.name.tld rwcommunity password rocommunity otherpassword agentaddressudp:[EMAIL

boot failure on new 4.8 kernel: DPT scsi and SMP

2003-05-27 Thread Rick Voland
I would welcome any suggestions on a boot problem with an SMP kernel for FreeBSD 4.8 (RELENG_4_8 obtained May 21). GENERIC (uniprocessor) kernel works fine and FreeBSD uniprocessor has worked fine on this machine for a couple years. (Opensound now supports SMP, so I'm finally trying the SMP

Re: Question

2003-05-27 Thread Robert Storey
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 01:48, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello, 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.

Mouse on vacation?

2003-05-27 Thread Bob Perry
I was just on the web and my cursor disappeared. It eventually came back but was motionless. I navigated out of X-Window and found an error message repeated numerous times on the command line: 5/27/ 20:23:29 machine name/kernel: psmintr: delay too long: resetting byte count There was

Dark lines on monitor

2003-05-27 Thread Joshua Oreman
Hello -questions, I've been using my monitor, an HP Pavillion M70, for about 2 years. But just the other day, all of a sudden, gray lines started appearing on lines containing black - the more black, the more gray on the *whole* line across the monitor. It happens both on X and console (but on

how to get it?

2003-05-27 Thread SS
Can you link me the EXACT files i will need to get freeBSD. Can you also instruct me on how to install them... Thank you in Advance! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Licencing

2003-05-27 Thread Nils Vogels
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:55:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote: Hello 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

Re: Licencing

2003-05-27 Thread Aaron Peterson
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 much would it cost to use this software on

Re: Dark lines on monitor

2003-05-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 27), Joshua Oreman said: I've been using my monitor, an HP Pavillion M70, for about 2 years. But just the other day, all of a sudden, gray lines started appearing on lines containing black - the more black, the more gray on the *whole* line across the monitor. It

Re: how to get it?

2003-05-27 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:28:34PM -0700, SS wrote: Can you link me the EXACT files i will need to get freeBSD. Can you also instruct me on how to install them... Thank you in Advance! If we were to tell you exactly what to do then afterwards the only things you would be able to do are what we

RE: shell programming - how to write a script that renames files after their last moddate?

2003-05-27 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Vince Hoffman wrote: This is certainly not freeBSD specific and probably I'm annoying someone for being off-topic but please be patient and hint me on where to find good resources in shell-programming. http://www.shelldorado.com/ isnt bad. otherwise comp.unix.shell

Re: Sound on SiS 7012 under 4.8 ?

2003-05-27 Thread yussef
I have a laptop with the 7018 sis audio chipset. not sure how similar they are, but FWIW: sound seems to work fine under win2k, so i doubt its a h/w problem [maybe just poorly designed hw ;)]. However, in fbsd 4.8 i have to perform a lil tinkering to get sound working. The problem will be when i

Re: Dark lines on monitor

2003-05-27 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:08:53PM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan Nelson seemed to write: In the last episode (May 27), Joshua Oreman said: I've been using my monitor, an HP Pavillion M70, for about 2 years. But just the other day, all of a sudden, gray lines started appearing on lines

FreeBSD Process questions

2003-05-27 Thread Alan Tek
Hi i'm a Computer Science student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and i am doing a paper on FreeBSD, and i was wondering if someone could help answer a couple questions on processes for me? oWhat states do processes move through? oHow does the OS

controlling a pcm audio stream

2003-05-27 Thread David Banning
I am trying cwtext which creates a more code pcm stream. It works if I simply take the file and dump it to /dev/audio like; cat pcmfile /dev/audio but I would like some kind of control, like slowing it down. The pcm audio stream world is foreign to me. I would even be great to create a mp3

scsi tape curiousity

2003-05-27 Thread David Bear
I have two machine with scsi hard drives and tape units in them. Since these were machine assemble 'on the cheap' they only had a single scsi controller. All scsi Hd's were attached to the same controller as the scsi tape unit. No raid was used in any form. One machine is at FBSD 4.3. It has

NAT clients behind FBSD

2003-05-27 Thread David Bear
Does anyone know how many NAT clients can be effectively served by a FBSD NAT box? I know a lot will be determined by RAM, but I'm looking for guidelines and experience. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803

Re: scsi tape curiousity

2003-05-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 27), David Bear said: Now the question is, when I upgraded my second server, I had to change scsi hardware to an adaptec 29160 as my older buslogix/mylex card was not supported under freebsd. I had to go with a wide scsi controller becuase my tape unit is an external

Re: NAT clients behind FBSD

2003-05-27 Thread Nils Vogels
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:15:35PM -0700, David Bear (DB) wrote: DB Does anyone know how many NAT clients can be effectively served by a DB FBSD NAT box? I know a lot will be determined by RAM, but I'm looking DB for guidelines and experience. The largest numbers I've had working was a P2-450