Re: Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD)

2004-06-15 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Jun 14, 2004, at 05:08, Jon Adams wrote: My network connectivity is ridiculously slow... I had OpenSSH timeout set to the default, 120 secs, and the messages file said the connections (on the same 100MBPs hub mind you) were timing out before authentication (password). I went in and

ltmdm0

2004-06-15 Thread Sergy V.Greg
Please help I have Winmodem Lucent with device number Ox048c FreeBSD 5.2.1 consist a package ltmdm-1.4_5 which have a driver for winmodems with device numbers from Ox0440 to Ox045c can I find a new version of ltmdm or I must to do something other changes in my system? Sergy

XFree and VIA chipset

2004-06-15 Thread junkmail
I am trying to set up a windows manager on a EPIA Mini-ITX M6000 board without any success. From the manual: Chipset CLE266/VT8235 Graphics: VIA Castlerock AGP From dmesg.boot: agp0: VIA Generic host to PCI bridge mem 0xd000-0xd7ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pci1: display, VGA at device

Re: setting variables in tcsh temporarily

2004-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:32:49AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: I have this simple question regarding the tcsh: in /bin/sh (Bourne shell) I can assign a value to an environment variable for just one command, like this: VARIABLE=value command e.g. DISPLAY=:0 xterm or CFLAGS=O2 make.

Re: XFree and VIA chipset

2004-06-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:20:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to set up a windows manager on a EPIA Mini-ITX M6000 board without any success. From the manual: Chipset CLE266/VT8235 Graphics: VIA Castlerock AGP From dmesg.boot: agp0: VIA Generic host to PCI bridge mem

Re: Detaching program from controlling terminal

2004-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:44:25PM +0800, Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim wrote: I'm somehow stuck in the loop now and am hoping some of you can give me pointers on how to proceed. Due to a customer requirement, I need to build a simple web-based (via cgi or php) script to change the system

Help: I think I've been hacked! what can I do??

2004-06-15 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, Last night before this morning, I was browsing fine with kde's konqueror. I don't remember doing anything about my system rather than dialing through ppp. This morning, when I ppp to dial into internet... my external modem established a successful connection(because I can see the LED's are

Re: Installing problems. No Desktop.

2004-06-15 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Lloyd Hayes wrote: I installed FreeBSD on an older Gateway laptop. 128 MB/ 233 MHz/ 800x600 screen/ 6 GB Hard driver with 4 GB on the hard drive set aside for FreeBSD. Windows 98 SE is installed in the other 2 GB. FreeBSD appears to be installed correctly, but I cannot get the KDE desktop to

Re: Single Xeon

2004-06-15 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, freebsd_daemon wrote: Dear list; will all Xeons also run if no second CPU (Xeon) is available? I need to know as i am building a system to be used by a small number of people, but don't know how many it eventually will become. I therefore would like to keep the system

Re: Help: I think I've been hacked! what can I do??

2004-06-15 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, Last night before this morning, I was browsing fine with kde's konqueror. I don't remember doing anything about my system rather than dialing through ppp. This morning, when I ppp to dial into internet... my external modem established a successful

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Anubis
Thompson, Jimi wrote: SNIP From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because they have religious objections to a product that is promoted by a devil. Why should The

Re: mpd3.18

2004-06-15 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:14:23 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: I have a box that is having a 24th hour crash, I have narrowed it down to mpd 3.18 as the cause, kill mpd and the box will hum right along for days, restart mpd 24 hrs later it goes into kernel panic and reboots. Anyone

Re: Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD).. Solved

2004-06-15 Thread Jon Adams
Thanks for the response, turns out Speakeasy (ISP) had... ahem.. reprovisioned my IP Address when I made some changes to my service.. figured this out by putting rl0 on another IP with the same settings.. its all fixed now.. and the IPFW issue is resolved (thanks to the person who posted the

Re: apm support

2004-06-15 Thread Henrik W Lund
ray wrote: ok i did that and got it to go in standby mode but i couldnt resume it by tapping keys on the keyboard. snip... Do a dmesg | grep apm. If that gets you a line saying something like apm0: APM BIOS ... or something like that, it's software disabled. Try an apm -e enable. Then run

ipv6 basic problem

2004-06-15 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
# netstat -f inet6 -rn Internet6: Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire ::/96 ::1 UGRSlo0 ::1 ::1 UH lo0

Re: ipv6 basic problem

2004-06-15 Thread Byung-hee H.
Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:04:29PM +0200 Feczak Szabolcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # netstat -f inet6 -rn Internet6: Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire ::/96 ::1 UGRSlo0 ::1

Re: RAID in FreeBSD

2004-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:53:02PM +0600, vladr wrote: Hi! I'd like to use RAID level 1 (mirror) as softaware. How I can to make it? I use FreeBSD version 4.7 Release. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr

Re: setting variables in tcsh temporarily

2004-06-15 Thread Geert Hendrickx
You need the env(1) command: % env DISPLAY=:0 xterm Syntax is just like the Bourne shell equivalent; just insert 'env' at the beginning of the command line. Cheers, Matthew Very nice, thanks! GH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipv6 basic problem

2004-06-15 Thread Robert Huff
Byung-hee H. writes: If you can not obtain native IPv6 address, try to connect via 6to4. But, 6to4 IPv6 address depends on IPv4 address. This means that you have to reconfigure your tunnel every time after your IPv4 address changes. I use Freenet6 (net/freenet6) which (if I

Re: Compiling only the base system?

2004-06-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Cordula's Web [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how can I compile just the base system (sysinstall's minimal install) from CURRENT sources in /usr/src into DESTDIR=/some/nonstandard/path? I don't need the complete system, just the stuff that is normally available under /cdrom/base on a RELEASE CD

Re: options tcp_drop_synfin and virtual hosts

2004-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
dave wrote: Is there a doc that says what the tcp_drop_synfin option does and what effect it has on webservers and why it should never be used on such? The meaning of the SYN and FIN flags is discussed in RFC-793. Normally, one goes through the 3WHS and exchanges some data before one side

Re: incremental tar question

2004-06-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Reed L. O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD 5.2.1 I am using the folowing to backup saturday tar -jcf etc.bz2 /etc /usr/local/etc in /bak/saturday. I would like to do an incremental on monday (et al) in /bak/monday (et al) tar -cf etc.bz2 /etc/ /usr/local/etc/ -g

Re: Compiling only the base system?

2004-06-15 Thread Cordula's Web
15 Jun 2004 08:19:04 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: how can I compile just the base system (sysinstall's minimal install) from CURRENT sources in /usr/src into DESTDIR=/some/nonstandard/path? I don't need the complete system, just the stuff that is normally available under /cdrom/base on

strange errors in quotacheck

2004-06-15 Thread Piotr Gnyp
In kernel: options QUOTA In rc.conf: enable_quotas=YES check_quotas=YES quota added by edquota when doing quotacheck -a: discordia# quotaon -a discordia# quotacheck -u /dev/da0s1a quotacheck: //quota.user: seek failed: Invalid argument Can you help me?

Re: Compiling only the base system?

2004-06-15 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:36:32PM +0200, Cordula's Web typed: 15 Jun 2004 08:19:04 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: how can I compile just the base system (sysinstall's minimal install) from CURRENT sources in /usr/src into DESTDIR=/some/nonstandard/path? I don't need the complete

Re: Detaching program from controlling terminal

2004-06-15 Thread Mark Frank
* On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:44:25PM +0800 Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim wrote: Hi all, I'm somehow stuck in the loop now and am hoping some of you can give me pointers on how to proceed. Due to a customer requirement, I need to build a simple web-based (via cgi or php) script to change the system

Re: Help: I think I've been hacked! what can I do??

2004-06-15 Thread Alan B. Clegg
Out of the ether, Mark Jayson Alvarez spewed forth the following bitstream: But when I launch the konqueror and typed something in the address bar and hit enter, it says Unknown Host Google, CNN, and a bunch of Akamized services were (are?) having problems this morning. Please try your

160 Gb Harddisk: needs extra tweeking?

2004-06-15 Thread Rob
Hi, I never had such a monster of a big harddisk; hence my question. I've got a 160 Gb Western Digital Harddisk (WD 1600 JB). It comes with a tiny CD-rom, about 8cm in diameter, entitled Data Lifeguard Tools. I don't know what to do with this CDrom. I am planning to use this harddisk as the only

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread MikeM
On 6/13/2004 at 5:02 PM Edward Hendrie wrote: | |Look at how MSN is marketing its ISP. They use characters dressed in |harmless butterfly costumes. = Looks more like a mosquito to me. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Detaching program from controlling terminal

2004-06-15 Thread Geert Hendrickx
For e-mail access, the same sort of arguments apply. You can alternatively separate the database of e-mail accounts completely from the system password database: the Cyrus e-mail system (in ports) works in that way, and there are some well documented recipes on the web for setting up such

Re: Help With Selection of Database Application

2004-06-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:09:17 -0400 Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (06/13/04 21:24), Andrew L. Gould wrote: Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:24:20 -0500 From: Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help With Selection of

Re: Detaching program from controlling terminal

2004-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:16:02AM -0400, Mark Frank wrote: * On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:44:25PM +0800 Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim wrote: Hi all, I'm somehow stuck in the loop now and am hoping some of you can give me pointers on how to proceed. Due to a customer requirement, I need to

Re: ucom* at uftdi? does not work with getty

2004-06-15 Thread Rudolf Cejka
Richard Kiss wrote (2004/06/14): The ports work fine with minicom and modems, but NOT with getty. The behaviour of ucomX appears to be similar to cuaaX, not ttydX -- dialing a modem attached to ucomX yields auto-answer and a connect just fine, but getty does not seem to notice that the line

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Mi A. Llort
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:02:49PM -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing Ed, it's obvious you've hit a nerve. Many list subscribers who have never contributed before, feel compelled to reply, repeating the same explanations which have

Can't boot install cd (Compaq DL380)

2004-06-15 Thread Aaron Peterson
hah, had to transcribe this whole thing with pen and paper since I couldn't think of any other way to copy it. I put the install cd in for FreeBSD 4.10, turn on the server, hit [Enter] to boot immediately instead of going to command prompt. in the Kernel Configuration menu, I just skip and boot

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On 6/13/2004 at 5:02 PM Edward Hendrie wrote: | |Look at how MSN is marketing its ISP. They use characters dressed in |harmless butterfly costumes. = Looks more like a mosquito to me. I don't know about that, but it probably tracks disease all over. And if that thing

Re: 160 Gb Harddisk: needs extra tweeking?

2004-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Rob wrote: It comes with a tiny CD-rom, about 8cm in diameter, entitled Data Lifeguard Tools. I don't know what to do with this CDrom. You can probably run the software on it to check the hard drive, format it (as in, create a MBR and probably FAT and maybe NTFS filesystems), etc. You don't

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:02:49PM -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing Ed, it's obvious you've hit a nerve. Many list subscribers who have never contributed before, feel compelled to reply, repeating the same explanations

Re: Can't boot install cd (Compaq DL380)

2004-06-15 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Aaron Peterson wrote: hah, had to transcribe this whole thing with pen and paper since I couldn't think of any other way to copy it. I put the install cd in for FreeBSD 4.10, turn on the server, hit [Enter] to boot immediately instead of going to command prompt. in the

Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-15 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hi, I've tried to install the last freebds4.10 on an ASUS PUNDIT, from the iso images downloaded from the freeBSD website. But it can't install. It stops on a : ata0 : resetting devices And I couldn't manage to have the Broadcom BCM4401 bfe0 recognised even if the 4.10 release notes tell bfe is

Re: Asus PSCH-L

2004-06-15 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, freebsd_daemon wrote: Dear list; does someone have good or bad experiences with ASUS PSCH-L motherboard? Colleague of mine bought it, ist quite satisfied with it, but had with a 5.2.1 several acpi-related problems with his ICP-Vortex SATA Raid, which are fixed in -current

RE: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Chris Lynch
This thread cracks me up. No matter how many times the same subject has been brought up, I still can't stop laughing at the silliness of it all. Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy dance...but, then we'd be stepping on the Easter Bunnies toes, and we all know what could

[OT ...] Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
Chris Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread cracks me up. No matter how many times the same subject has been brought up, I still can't stop laughing at the silliness of it all. Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy dance...but, then we'd be stepping on the Easter

Re: Can't boot install cd (Compaq DL380)

2004-06-15 Thread Aaron Peterson
Hi! Well, ok, I assume that you got a Dl 380 Generation 1, with the white case, and also 4U form factor, that has an ida RAID controller as PCI-card. That is correct. I had one of those running with FreeBSD 4.7, later updated to 4.8-stable with cvsup. Ok, I had only one CPU in, and I

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Andy Harrison
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:20:17 -0400, Chris Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread cracks me up. No matter how many times the same subject has been brought up, I still can't stop laughing at the silliness of it all. Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy dance...but, then

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
This thread cracks me up. No matter how many times the same subject has been brought up, I still can't stop laughing at the silliness of it all. Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy dance...but, then we'd be stepping on the Easter Bunnies toes, and we all know what could

[OT] Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:20:17 -0400 Chris Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread cracks me up. No matter how many times the same subject has been brought up, I still can't stop laughing at the silliness of it all. Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy dance...but, then

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Mike Galvez
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:20:17AM -0400, Chris Lynch wrote: This thread cracks me up. No matter how many times the same subject has been brought up, I still can't stop laughing at the silliness of it all. Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy dance...but, then we'd be

End of thread: Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi all, Mostly for entertainment. Agreed. It was fun, thanks all. EOT, please? ... Nico ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Randy Pratt
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:53:57 -0400 Mi A. Llort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:02:49PM -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing Ed, it's obvious you've hit a nerve. Many list subscribers who have never

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 11:19 am, Randy Pratt wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:53:57 -0400 Mi A. Llort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:02:49PM -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing Ed, it's obvious you've hit

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 11:19 am, Randy Pratt wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:53:57 -0400 Mi A. Llort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:02:49PM -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing ... The FreeBSD

Re: Detaching program from controlling terminal

2004-06-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-06-15T13:46:21Z, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The fact that sysadmins generally don't know users' passwords, and have no practical means of finding them out if the user doesn't want them to know what it is. Install and play with john. It was enlightening for me. Since

Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-15 Thread Matt \Cyber Dog\ LaPlante
Right now on a FreeBSD 4.7 box, net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain and net.inet.udp.log_in_vain are both turned on. I know they can be disabled using sysctl, but this only fixes the problem until the machine is rebooted, at which point they both come back on. Due to our network configuration, it's

Re: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
Matt \Cyber Dog\ LaPlante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now on a FreeBSD 4.7 box, net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain and net.inet.udp.log_in_vain are both turned on. I know they can be disabled using sysctl, but this only fixes the problem until the machine is rebooted, at which point they both come

Re: Detaching program from controlling terminal

2004-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:48:34AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2004-06-15T13:46:21Z, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The fact that sysadmins generally don't know users' passwords, and have no practical means of finding them out if the user doesn't want them to know what it is.

RE: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-15 Thread Matt \Cyber Dog\ LaPlante
-Original Message- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 1:04 PM To: Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keep log_in_vain Value Matt \Cyber Dog\ LaPlante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now on a FreeBSD 4.7 box,

Re: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante wrote: Right now on a FreeBSD 4.7 box, net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain and net.inet.udp.log_in_vain are both turned on. I know they can be disabled using sysctl, but this only fixes the problem until the machine is rebooted, at which point they both come back on. These default to

RE: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-15 Thread Matt \Cyber Dog\ LaPlante
-Original Message- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 1:22 PM To: Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keep log_in_vain Value Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante wrote: Right now on a FreeBSD 4.7 box, net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain and

how to mount /dev/ad0s1?

2004-06-15 Thread Julian D. Seifert
Hi guys, I have a 40gb harddisk with 2 windows(fat32) partitions and 1 fbsd partition. I am using fbsd 5.2.1(with devfs). /dev/ad0 tells me the first partition on my harddisk is a windows fat32 partition (as it should be). When i try to mount it with: mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win_c or

Re: problems with make buildworld

2004-06-15 Thread David Bear
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:09:06AM +0530, BSDBoy wrote: May we have a copy of /etc/make.conf and /etc/sysctl.conf? No changes to sysctl.conf -- its all default. attached is make.conf BSDBoy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David

Re: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-15 Thread David Fuchs
Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante wrote: Ah, grep saves the day again. It was being turned on in rc.network. Thanks. You sure it wasn't being turned on in rc.conf instead? Anything else would mean that someone was messing with rc.network or /etc/default/rc.conf, which really should be left alone. --

how to mount /dev/ad0s1?

2004-06-15 Thread Julian D. Seifert
Hi guys, I have a 40gb harddisk with 2 windows(fat32) partitions and 1 fbsd partition. I am using fbsd 5.2.1(with devfs). /dev/ad0 tells me the first partition on my harddisk is a windows fat32 partition (as it should be). When i try to mount it with: mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win_c or

RE: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-15 Thread Matt \Cyber Dog\ LaPlante
-Original Message- From: David Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:07 PM To: Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keep log_in_vain Value Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante wrote: Ah, grep saves the day again. It was being turned on in

Re: Can't boot install cd (Compaq DL380)

2004-06-15 Thread Aaron Peterson
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 10:01, Aaron Peterson wrote: hah, had to transcribe this whole thing with pen and paper since I couldn't think of any other way to copy it. I put the install cd in for FreeBSD 4.10, turn on the server, hit [Enter] to boot immediately instead of going to command prompt.

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 65, Issue 5

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Paley
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 10:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is pkgdb and where can I find it? If you mean the program, I think it's part of portupgrade/portinstall - if you install them you should have it... or do you mean where is the package database? it's /var/db/pkg Cheers, Ben

FreeBSD Commands

2004-06-15 Thread Lloyd Hayes
I have the FreeBSD Handbook on a computer hard drive. There isn't any mention of the line commands that FreeBSD uses or recognizes in the handbook. Where do I find these? I just received instructions to find and copy my X-configure file to a different directory so that KDE would work. One

Re: FreeBSD Commands

2004-06-15 Thread Julian M. Mason
This is generic unix, so it goes something like this: cd dir takes you to a directory. cp source destination copies a file from source to destination mv source destination does the same, but moves it. I recommend http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics.html (UNIX Basics

Re: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
Matt \Cyber Dog\ LaPlante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: David Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante wrote: Ah, grep saves the day again. It was being turned on in rc.network. Thanks. You sure it wasn't being turned on in

Re: Detaching program from controlling terminal

2004-06-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-06-15T17:10:28Z, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was a tacit assumption in what I was saying that users wouldn't choose weak passwords. Just checking. I give you more credit than that by default but wanted to be sure. :) -- Kirk Strauser pgpzxvoNpDsPi.pgp

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 65, Issue 7 Question 10

2004-06-15 Thread Frank Staals
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 10 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:26:05 +0900 From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 160 Gb Harddisk: needs extra tweeking? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Hi, I never had such a monster of a

RE: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-15 Thread Ilker Ozupak
hello On Tuesday 15 June 2004 21:10, Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante wrote: -Original Message- From: David Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:07 PM To: Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keep log_in_vain Value Matt Cyber Dog

Re: 160 Gb Harddisk: needs extra tweeking?

2004-06-15 Thread Bob Johnson
Message: 10 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:26:05 +0900 From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 160 Gb Harddisk: needs extra tweeking? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I never had such a monster of a big harddisk; hence my question. I've got a 160 Gb Western Digital Harddisk (WD

Re: FreeBSD Commands

2004-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:40:07PM -0600, Lloyd Hayes wrote: I have the FreeBSD Handbook on a computer hard drive. There isn't any mention of the line commands that FreeBSD uses or recognizes in the handbook. Where do I find these? Yes. The Handbook does assume that you are familiar with

Re: FreeBSD Commands

2004-06-15 Thread Julian M. Mason
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:32:56PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: cd ~ -- change directory to your accounts home directory I'm going to expand on this one a little, because it's helpful. To cd to your home directory (your own little corner of the file system, where all your personal files

Firewall rules

2004-06-15 Thread Robert Downes
I'm obviously missing something... I've read as much about IPFW and firewall packet filtering as I can, and Im still happy with these very simple rules: su-2.05b# ipfw -a list 00100 16 1144 divert 8668 ip from any to any in via rl0 00200 17 964 divert 8668 ip from any to any out via rl0

Re: FreeBSD Commands

2004-06-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the FreeBSD Handbook on a computer hard drive. There isn't any mention of the line commands that FreeBSD uses or recognizes in the handbook. Where do I find these? FreeBSD First Steps

Re: FreeBSD Commands

2004-06-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-15 12:40, Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the FreeBSD Handbook on a computer hard drive. There isn't any mention of the line commands that FreeBSD uses or recognizes in the handbook. Where do I find these? Hi Lloyd, Others have already mentioned the Basics section of

Re: Firewall rules

2004-06-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-15 20:54, Robert Downes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm obviously missing something... su-2.05b# ipfw -a list 00100 16 1144 divert 8668 ip from any to any in via rl0 00200 17 964 divert 8668 ip from any to any out via rl0 00300 0 0 check-state 00400 32 3296 allow ip

Re: Firewall rules

2004-06-15 Thread Robert Downes
JJB wrote: First indication is the hit count on the check-state rule. It's zero which means there is never an match in the keep-state table. For all practical purposes your firewall keep-state rules are useless. I was suspicious of that too, but if I remove the keep-state option from the allow

Sun ONE ASP for Linux ...

2004-06-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Anyone try (and succeed) in installing this? I can get it as far as: -e \nExtracting files to /usr/local/casp ... + bean-jre package done. + bean-support package . done. + bean package . done. + casp package . done. + caspdoc package .. done. + caspsamp package . done. +

Resulting difference between 2 directories

2004-06-15 Thread Gerard Samuel
The scenario. I have 2 snapshots of a CVS repository (old new), and I would like to execute a script/command that goes through the directories, and produces another directory, that contains, the difference of the 2 directories where it contains all the newer files/directories. So basically, Im

Re: Detaching program from controlling terminal

2004-06-15 Thread Julian Cowley
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim wrote: Hi all, I'm somehow stuck in the loop now and am hoping some of you can give me pointers on how to proceed. Due to a customer requirement, I need to build a simple web-based (via cgi or php) script to change the system password. They found

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)
Peter, Very funny. You nearly made me spew coffee all over my monitor. Edward, As a committed Christian I have no problem whatsoever with the mascot. I understand the obvious play on words between a daemon and a demon. Those who would have problems with this mascot have other, deeper issues

Re: Detaching program from controlling terminal

2004-06-15 Thread Volker Kindermann
Hi, system password. They found that sshing to the server and typing passwd to change the password is wee too involving hence the need to use a much friendlier interface. Letting the sysadmins change the user's password is not a good idea, as the sysadmins are outsourced and the users value

Re: Resulting difference between 2 directories

2004-06-15 Thread Julian M. Mason
Tools like unison do something (sort of) like this; they synchronize directories. The way I use unison (keeping a dir, which is only edited from one place at a time, consistent across several machines), it could be pretty easily adapted to this task. Given that, though, half an hour with a

Re: Detaching program from controlling terminal

2004-06-15 Thread Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
Matthew Seaman wrote: Since you aren't allowing your users to log into your FreeBSD server the question arises as to why exactly they need passwords there? Two things leap to mind immediately: access to shared filesystems or access to an e-mail server. It's an e-mail server. Previously I set it

RE: FreeBSD Commands

2004-06-15 Thread Michael Clark
Seems like people have sent you enough references to keep you reading for awhile. If you are interested in walkthroughs for setting this up in FreeBSD like sound, browser plugging, or java, I would recommend you check out http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/ and http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15 They have

Re: Detaching program from controlling terminal

2004-06-15 Thread Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
Volker Kindermann wrote: what about giving them /usr/bin/passwd as the shell? So, the only thing they have to do is ssh to the system and they're asked for the password. Haven't tried this on FreeBSD yet, but it should work. Did a cursory testing just now and they seem to work. I'm going to

Problem with X11 v4/keyboard not working - not missing XKeysymDB

2004-06-15 Thread atk2
From previous notes you see I attempted to upgrade from XFree86 v3 to v4. I have the system running (sort of) but I had to add the option: Option XkbDisable true to get things to work. With (or without this option) virtual console (alt-ctl fn) doesn't work when running X (works fine

Re: [OT] Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 10:39, Andrew L. Gould wrote: Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy dance... Too fluffy. FreeBSD is a no-fluff OS! ;-) No, but it keeps going and going and going and going and... Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a

3com 3c905 watchdog error

2004-06-15 Thread Pat Hayes
Undoubtedly this problem has been covered many times. I am not very savy with Freebsd. I am using Freebsd 4.9 compiled for use with smp. The system has a Promise Fasttrak tx2 100 raid card using 4x40 in a raid 0, which is currently acting as a small file server for my lan. Whenever I copy

Re: 3com 3c905 watchdog error

2004-06-15 Thread Andy Harrison
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:02:34 -0500, Pat Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Undoubtedly this problem has been covered many times. I am not very savy with Freebsd. I am using Freebsd 4.9 compiled for use with smp. The system has a Promise Fasttrak tx2 100 raid card using 4x40 in a raid 0, which

new server hardware recommendations ?

2004-06-15 Thread Stephan van Beerschoten
Hi Folks, I'm will be retiring my old and trusty rackmount machine soon and will be purchasing a new one to replace it. The old one was a home-grown combination of hardware, fitting into a 2U chassis. For its replacement however, I am looking for a more professional system, including professional

ipfw question

2004-06-15 Thread Reuben A. Popp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good afternoon all, I was tinkering around trying to get my firewall set the way I wanted it, but seem to be running into an issue. I know that I have logging set in the kernel and in rc.conf, as well as in my ruleset, but for some odd reason, the

Re: pkgdb and ruby

2004-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:52:52AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is pkgdb and where can I find it? $ pkg_info -W $(which pkgdb) /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb was installed by package portupgrade-20040529 $ pkg_info -o portupgrade-20040529 Information for portupgrade-20040529: Origin:

RE: 3com 3c905 watchdog error

2004-06-15 Thread Pat Hayes
Already is that way. Pat -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Harrison Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 5:44 PM To: Pat Hayes Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3com 3c905 watchdog error On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:02:34 -0500, Pat Hayes [EMAIL

Re: new server hardware recommendations ?

2004-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
Stephan van Beerschoten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I'm will be retiring my old and trusty rackmount machine soon and will be purchasing a new one to replace it. The old one was a home-grown combination of hardware, fitting into a 2U chassis. For its replacement however, I am

Re: Firewall rules

2004-06-15 Thread Robert Downes
JJB wrote: Fundamentally his keep-state rules work and yours don't. I have used his script exactly, modifying only for the differences in my ISP's addresses. Everything works as before, and still the check-state rule is showing zero packets and zero bytes, even though keep-state rules have been

Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-15 Thread Robert Downes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've tried to install the last freebds4.10 on an ASUS PUNDIT, from the iso images downloaded from the freeBSD website. But it can't install. It stops on a : ata0 : resetting devices I had that problem. I disabled UDMA (Ultra DMA) in the BIOS, and the problem was

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