Re: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation

2006-11-28 Thread mato
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:09:50 +0200, albi albinootje wrote On 10/19/06, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading for some time about VMWare, Wine, Qemu, Bochs and some others, but I'm still not sure which one would (best) fit my needs: I've got a dual boot and I would like to

Re: Sendmail and smtp-auth against passwd

2006-11-28 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On 11/27/06, Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, i tried to get smtp-auth against the pass working but it is not work. I must add users with saslpasswd2 to the sasldb but I want to auth my smtp users with there normal password without the need to add them to an

Re: where to set SSL compile time cipher string ?

2006-11-28 Thread mato
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:00:46 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure I understood this correctly but at http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html I've read something about cipher list and defaults etc. And I would like to tell my system to build

Re: Mounting Freebsd partition on Linux

2006-11-28 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 27 November 2006 04:48, Keith McKenzie wrote: -- (Vol 157, issue 18, msg 11) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:38:17 +0530 From: Amit Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mounting Freebsd partition on Linux I am trying to mount the FreeBSD Partition on my Debian

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread Amit Joshi
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 13:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to buy an UPS. What should I know and take into account to choose a proper one? Elisej Babenko You may want to buy what fits your budget and still be good on features. I would generally recommend on buying an APC UPS. It

Quick mail advice / Laptop use

2006-11-28 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, I noticed that fetchmail created a file mbox but Mutt creates a 'Mail' directory however the mail seems to download into /var/mail Mutt asks me on exit to copy to mbox format. The Mail directory also has only one folder and on exit is empty. /var/mail still has copies. Can anyone

Re: Getting SHTML to work

2006-11-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday November 27, 2006 at 09:20:24 (PM) Olivier Nicole wrote: I run a site full of SSI, files are mode 644 and it is working fine. Do you have suexec configured?Then you may have to consider the configuration of suexec. No it isn't configured. The site will be rather small so I doubt

Novell / M4 Etc

2006-11-28 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, What are the opinions of people on this list regarding the above subject ? What are the implications for FreeBSD? Thanks ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Problem with https in konqueror

2006-11-28 Thread Mario Lobo
On Monday 27 November 2006 18:15, Lane wrote: On Monday 27 November 2006 11:41, Mario Lobo wrote: Hi there; Everything was working fine. Then I did a portupgrade -Rrv on KDE. At first, everything seemed fine but everytime I tried to start an https conecction I get this: An error

Re: Quick mail advice / Laptop use

2006-11-28 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:30:09 - Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And lastly, APM or ACPI what the best one to go with on my HP OmniBook 6000 and how to configure suspend etc etc if you can, ACPI. if it doesn't work, try APM. Check the handbook for docs on this - else the archives

Fixing OpenOffice

2006-11-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
Using: /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL= produces this: openoffice.org-2.0.3! Comparison failed I was told this is because OpenOffice has moved in the 'ports tree'. My question is other than reinstalling it, how do I proceed to correct it? -- Gerard [EMAIL

Re: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation

2006-11-28 Thread Bill Moran
mato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:09:50 +0200, albi albinootje wrote On 10/19/06, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading for some time about VMWare, Wine, Qemu, Bochs and some others, but I'm still not sure which one would (best) fit my needs:

Re: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation

2006-11-28 Thread mato
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:40:43 -0500, Bill Moran wrote mato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:09:50 +0200, albi albinootje wrote On 10/19/06, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading for some time about VMWare, Wine, Qemu, Bochs and some others, but I'm

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread Derek Ragona
If you are going to interface it with the FreeBSD for automatic shutdown, etc. Look at the port for nut in /usr/ports/sysutils. This supports only serial port models in the stable version but supports USB in the experimental version. I use the stable version and have bought Belkin's that

Re: Maia Mailguard

2006-11-28 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello, Maia Mailguard is a web-based interface and management system based on the popular amavisd-new e-mail scanner and SpamAssassin. Somehow Maia MailGuard is related/changed to amavisd. amavisd is in the ports. I think amavisd-new. Check

setting up transparent proxy/webcache server in bridge mode

2006-11-28 Thread Nima Tshering
Hi, Please kindly help me in setting up transparent proxy/webcache server in bridge mode using FREEBSD 6.1 Thanks nima Bhutan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation

2006-11-28 Thread Bill Moran
In response to mato [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:40:43 -0500, Bill Moran wrote mato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:09:50 +0200, albi albinootje wrote On 10/19/06, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading for some time about VMWare,

Gnome install - error

2006-11-28 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Hello, I updated my ports tree today: portsnap fetch portsnap update pkgdb -F Then I tried to add gnome2. I get several errors: cassiopeia# pkg_add -r gnome2 Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/gnome2.tbz... Done. Fetching

Re: Compiz/Beryl Port

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Johnson
On 11/27/06, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone working on a Beryl or Compiz port for freebsd? yes, see http://wikitest.freebsd.org/ModularXorg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation

2006-11-28 Thread Tore Lund
mato wrote: Do you think I could supply raw disk device directly to Qemu ?? As I understand it, you HAVE TO use a raw disk for qemu at present, though I cannot recall the reason for it right now. But this will not help you make use of existing Windows (XP) installation. I believe the OS

Re: Gnome install - error (using portupgrade)

2006-11-28 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
What is this null stale origin? cassiopeia# pkgdb -F --- Checking the package registry database Stale origin: '(null)': perhaps moved or obsoleted. Skip this for now? [yes] To skip it without asking in future, please list it in HOLD_PKGS. cassiopeia# portupgrade -a Stale dependency:

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread Nathan Vidican
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to buy an UPS. What should I know and take into account to choose a proper one? Elisej Babenko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

re driver in 5.3?

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Huff
Scott Gasch writes: I tried booting a 6.1 kernel on the machine and it _does_ detect the device. Is this likely due to driver code differences or something else in the 6.x kernels? Something in the kernel. Once upon a time, the Linksys eg1032 gigabit ethernet card

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Huff
Derek Ragona writes: If you are going to interface it with the FreeBSD for automatic shutdown, etc. Look at the port for nut in /usr/ports/sysutils. This supports only serial port models in the stable version but supports USB in the experimental version. For APC UPSes,

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread jdow
apcupsd rules. Adam is quite responsive (if he's not traveling) with fixes. USB works for most cases. {^_^}Joanne - Original Message - From: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are going to interface it with the FreeBSD for automatic shutdown, etc. Look at the port for nut in

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread David Robillard
Usually, if you are willing to interface the UPS with your Computer, like it should automatically shutdown the computer when there's a power failure, then you may want to buy one with USB support. But I am not sure that you can interface it with FreeBSD. It can be done with Linux and Windows.

Re: Sendmail and smtp-auth against passwd

2006-11-28 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, * Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] [27-11-06 11:03]: define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5') TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5') thx for all the answers even the PMs I got. I found the problem now: The problem is/was if you have the two lines:

Re: Fixing OpenOffice

2006-11-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 06:26, Gerard Seibert wrote: Using: /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL= produces this: openoffice.org-2.0.3! Comparison failed I was told this is because OpenOffice has moved in the 'ports tree'. My question is other than reinstalling it,

Re: Quick mail advice / Laptop use

2006-11-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:30:09AM -, Graham Bentley wrote: Hi All, I noticed that fetchmail created a file mbox but Mutt creates a 'Mail' directory however the mail seems to download into /var/mail Mutt asks me on exit to copy to mbox format. The Mail directory also has only one

FreeBSD VPS providers

2006-11-28 Thread Eric
Hello, I am looking to move a website i run from its current provider (linux based shared box) to a VPS solution. I have been doing some searching via google and the mailing list and so far have found http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html which seems like a good setup. Can anyone else

acpi and boot problem

2006-11-28 Thread leo fante
Hi I've installed freebsd 6.1 on an old pc on which I've configured several services. Everything worked fine since last week when the motherboard died. I've replaced the mobo and found that now the acpi could work (with the old motherboard the installation disabled the acpi at boot since the

Re: FreeBSD VPS providers

2006-11-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 10:41, Eric wrote: I am looking to move a website i run from its current provider (linux based shared box) to a VPS solution. I have been doing some searching via google and the mailing list and so far have found http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html which

How to go about diagnosing cause of packet loss

2006-11-28 Thread D G Teed
Howdy, Lately we have been seeing increased packet loss on our gateway/firewall. Running a ping plotter outside of the firewall shows the hops are running clean. From on or behind the firewall, we have 20 to 50% packet loss to each hop, reaching several popular test destinations. e.g.: $ mtr

Re: re driver in 5.3?

2006-11-28 Thread Scott Gasch
FYI: this issue is solved. I applied this patch (URL below) to the 5.3sources and built a kernel with an re driver that can detect the card. It seems to be working at gigabit speeds. Out of curiosity would someone who knows CVS better than I do kindly tell me what version of FreeBSD this patch

Re: ssh over http

2006-11-28 Thread Atom Powers
On 11/27/06, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Is there any ssh over http implementation available for freebsd? That doesn't even make sense. SSH is a transport layer protocol, HTTP is an application layer protocol. -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with

Re: How to go about diagnosing cause of packet loss

2006-11-28 Thread D G Teed
Hi, How quick I sometimes find answers after posting these types of questions. I've discovered that if ipaudit is shutdown (the promiscuous data gathering filter), the packet loss is very low. Once it starts up again at the half hour, the packet loss returns. Is there any strategy for dealing

Re: ssh over http

2006-11-28 Thread Joe Holden
Atom Powers wrote: On 11/27/06, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Is there any ssh over http implementation available for freebsd? That doesn't even make sense. SSH is a transport layer protocol, HTTP is an application layer protocol. If you mean by a HTTP proxy, then

Re: Sendmail and smtp-auth against passwd

2006-11-28 Thread Derek Ragona
SASL can and does fine with stronger authentication. However, some clients do not. Specifically Outlook doesn't support stronger authentication. -Derek At 09:17 AM 11/28/2006, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, * Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] [27-11-06 11:03]: define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',

Re: setting up transparent proxy/webcache server in bridge mode

2006-11-28 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Nima Tshering wrote: Hi, Please kindly help me in setting up transparent proxy/webcache server in bridge mode using FREEBSD 6.1 Actually I have got one running, but I forgot to write down how I did it. If you are sort of patient we can do a step by step installation

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-28 Thread Alexandre Vieira
On 11/28/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 November 2006, at 01:34, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for

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Re: secondary ide drive setup

2006-11-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:24:30PM -0500, David Banning wrote: I am attempting to setup a secondary ide drive. I have configured the entire 305MB drive for storage. I used /stand/sysinstall and -it- issued the command ; /bin/sh -c newfs -b 16384 -f 2048 /dev/ad2s1e which seems very disk

Re: ssh over http

2006-11-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:54:27PM -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Hello All, Is there any ssh over http implementation available for freebsd? I guess I would expect that to read http over ssh. Is that what you mean. jerry ___

ping through ipfw giving unexpected results

2006-11-28 Thread gschultz
I am running ping.exe from a Windows 2003 Server machine through FreeBSD 4.8 running ipfw, to another Windows server. With plr=0, I get no ping failures at all, and with ipfw at its defaults I get no successes, so I'm pretty sure the network is good. I configured ipfw with various packet loss

Re: ping through ipfw giving unexpected results

2006-11-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 28, 2006, at 12:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried this at plr's from 0.002 up to 0.47, and did the math: ping is failing exactly (allowing for statistical variation) 1.500 times more than expected. This is too unlikely to be chance, so I figure the nice round fraction of

Fwd: Problem with first run of 6.1

2006-11-28 Thread Fernando Capeletto
-- Forwarded message -- From: Fernando Capeletto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26/11/2006 17:39 Subject: Problem with first run of 6.1 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I installed 6.1 with success using 2 hds. hd1 (3G) / (1536M) swap (777M) /tmp (780M) hd2 (30G) /etc (1024M) /usr (8192M) /var

Re: Fwd: Problem with first run of 6.1

2006-11-28 Thread Joe Holden
Fernando Capeletto wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Fernando Capeletto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26/11/2006 17:39 Subject: Problem with first run of 6.1 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I installed 6.1 with success using 2 hds. hd1 (3G) / (1536M) swap (777M) /tmp (780M) hd2

Re: ssh over http

2006-11-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:54:27PM -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Hello All, Is there any ssh over http implementation available for freebsd? I guess I would expect that to read http over ssh. Is that what you mean. jerry If you want SSH access from a

Re: Fwd: Problem with first run of 6.1

2006-11-28 Thread Fernando Capeletto
Thanks a lot! Its obvious. I will try it at night. I wanted create a slice for /etc/ because i pretend have more security with the configurations files of services if the system crash. But there others ways to do this. Thanks! 2006/11/28, Joe Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fernando Capeletto

CUPS not working on FreeBSD 6.2-BETA

2006-11-28 Thread Tino Engel
Dear FreeBSD people, Despite having started various attempts, I cannot print within KDE 3.5.4 on FreeBSD 6.2-BETA. I always receive error message as follows: An error occurred while retrieving the printer list: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly

Re: ssh over http

2006-11-28 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Got one! http://www.ericdaugherty.com/dev/sshwebproxy/ allot of vendors are now encapsulating their application protocols in http... eg. citrix ica, exchange server mapi, msn messenger, there is even a project to provide access to fileshares with samba over ssl see: http://www.sslbridge.com/

Re: ssh over http

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 11/28/06, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/27/06, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Is there any ssh over http implementation available for freebsd? That doesn't even make sense. SSH is a transport layer protocol, HTTP is an application layer protocol. Listen

Re: FreeBSD VPS providers

2006-11-28 Thread Peter Schuller
http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html which seems like a good setup. For comparison you may want to have a look at leaseweb (www.leaseweb.com). They are offering dedicated physical machines for comparable prices. My private colo box is hosted there and so far my experience has been good,

RE: ssh over http

2006-11-28 Thread Ansar Mohammed
I think its pretty safe at this point in time to expect that everyone with a computer far less than the list is familiar with google. Probably a more helpful response would have been for you to recommend something you have experience with. Someone was kind enough to point me to something while it

Resolved: Re: Native Seamonkey Javascript error

2006-11-28 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Robert Huff wrote: Warren Block writes: Could you post your /var/db/ports/seamonkey/options file? # Options for seamonkey-1.0.b _OPTIONS_READ=seamonkey-1.0.b WITH_MAILNEWS=true WITH_COMPOSER=true WITH_LDAP=true WITH_CHATZILLA=true WITHOUT_JAVASCRIPT_DEBUGGER=true

Unable to install PEAR

2006-11-28 Thread Roger Merritt
I was getting errors trying to portupgrade PEAR, so I did a pkg_deinstall and then ran portinstall. The following is the last part of what I get: warning: pear/PEAR requires package pear/Archive_Tar (version = 1.3.1) warning: pear/PEAR requires package pear/Console_Getopt (version = 1.2)

Re: Resolved: Re: Native Seamonkey Javascript error

2006-11-28 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Warren Block wrote: Well, it wasn't that. However, removing Adblock (/usr/ports/www/adblock) solved the problem. Using Adblock Plus (adblockplus.org) restored the adblock functionality. Thank you for your help! Further information: it appears to be an interaction

Re: Unable to install PEAR

2006-11-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Nov 28, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Roger Merritt wrote: I was getting errors trying to portupgrade PEAR, so I did a pkg_deinstall and then ran portinstall. The following is the last part of what I get: warning: pear/PEAR requires package pear/Archive_Tar (version = 1.3.1) warning: pear/PEAR

Re: ssh over http

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 11/29/06, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think its pretty safe at this point in time to expect that everyone with a computer far less than the list is familiar with google. Probably a more helpful response would have been for you to recommend something you have experience with.

CAM Status SCSI Error

2006-11-28 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Server crashed. /var/log/messages shows this started Tues Afternoon: . Nov 27 23:20:40 defiant kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Retries Exhausted Nov 27 23:20:40 defiant kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[READ(offset=48365768704, length=2048)]error = 5 Nov 27 23:25:54 defiant proftpd[863]:

Re: secondary ide drive setup

2006-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/28/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:24:30PM -0500, David Banning wrote: I am attempting to setup a secondary ide drive. I have configured the entire 305MB drive for storage. I used /stand/sysinstall and -it- issued the command ; /bin/sh -c