Re: Advice on new hardware.... (long post)

-- Original message -- From: Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Out of necessity, I recently replaced my workstation motherboard (old one was apparently suffering a breakdown in the IDE controller chip). Funds being rather low, I opted for a fairly low

Re: DHCP and DNS

-- Original message -- From: Thomas D. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had a wired network with a FreeBSD gateway/firewall. The gateway died and I converted to a mixed network with a Belkin N1 wireless router. I have 2 windows machines and 3 FreeBSD 6.2-stable

Re: Freebsd Tomcat

-- Original message -- From: Yance Kowara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, A web and database developer requested me to build atomcat server. Is there any good integrated doco on FreeBSD andTomcat? All I get when I googled it is old docs on JDK

Re: Hey, you have a new Greeting !!! (exploit for Win32)

Just an FYI If you're on a win32 machine, and read your mail in HTML, don't open this as it will execute a .pif file ( win32 PE, portable executable) that wants to put sup.bat in your /system32 to do something undesirable...haven't figured that out yet. If you read in plain text, you'll see

RE: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

I apologize for that last comment... That was uncalled for. Ted brings out the best in people. snip an unnecessary explanation But I'll be damned if you don't parse me off sometimes. :) Ted brings out the best in people. That is my job. The ONLY way to get someone to re-examine

Re: Question about Window Scaling

Hi Baiju, Try this to get started: http://proj.sunet.se/E2E/tcptune.html http://www.wormulon.net/files/pub/FreeBSD_Network_Tuning_-_slides.pdf If upgrading is an option: http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/070717B/CAIA-TR-070717B.pdf Hope that helps, Bob -- Original message

Kernel options for increasing connections/shared buffers in Postgres

Hi everyone, I'm running OpenNMS on 6.2-Release, and I get this error message when it, I think, tries to hit the postgres DB: FATAL: Too many clients My guess is I'm getting this because I can't increase max connections and shared buffers in postgresql.conf because I haven't added the kernel

Re: Opera and Opera Linux Plugins

Hi Branko, Welcome to FreeBSD. And, welcome to FreeBSD and Flash. While you wait for an answer, try searching the list archives, this comes up a lot with different browser's and different plugins all the time. I've never tried myself. The handbook has a section on browsers and plugins too,

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

From: Brooks Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay i have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with centrino mobil technology at 1.86GHZ, 512MB of memory and a 60Gig HDD. Basically I need to know which of the OS from freebsd will be the best for me to use? Can i use Yahoo Messanger, Itunes, AOL Messanger.

Re: Convince me, please!

Latitude [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm interested in changing over to FreeBSD from Windows, but I'll have to say, you guys don't really present a forceful argument to Windows users of how easy the switch may be. It's up to you to figure out if you like it or not. If you install it and

Re: www.freebsd.org down?

I can get to www.freebsd.org, but not http://www4.us.freebsd.org/ (USA/2) or http://www2.us.freebsd.org/ (USA/1) and http://www5.us.freebsd.org/ (USA/3) gives me: It works! Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

starting GDM gets me an xterm, not the Gnome desktop

Hi everyone, I installed 6.2 and chose X-Developer for the distribution. After the install, but still in sysinstall, chose gnome from the packages. When gnome finished installing, I rebooted. I did startx as root and got the xterm, but when I typed gdm from the prompt, nothing happened.

Re: HARDWARE compatability

-- Original message -- From: Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone, I'm looking to retire my PIII freebsd box for something a little more of age- being that I'm at a non-profit I do not have the largest of budgets- On that note I have never used

Re: test

Please don't top post. Bob -- Original message -- From: Hangmn [EMAIL PROTECTED] You group of elitist fucks...the unsub link is FUCKING USELESS On 4/14/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Hangmn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GET ME OFF THIS

Re: How to stealth ports 0 and 1 on FBSD 6.2

From: Joe Vender [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've enabled the firewall in /etc/rc.conf via: firewall_enable=YES firewall_type=client But, ports 0 and 1 show as CLOSED, not STEALTHED at grc.com shieldsup! scan. I'm on a standalone desktop computer with no LAN and am using a dialup connection to

Re: firefox with flash and java!

-- Original message -- From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob Middaugh wrote: fwiw, I've followed these instructions on a few boxes, all 6.1-RELEASE, and have had no problems: http://www.unixlike.com.br/?p=%2081 Is that available in English

Re: firefox with flash and java!

-- Original message -- From: Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] Duane Whitty wrote: I have followed all of the instructions for patching the src (from above), and firefox still crashes with the error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:

Re: Beginner Questions

-- Original message -- From: Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck

Re: get file

-- Original message -- From: Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Is there a way from the console to get a file by http | ftp protocol? Which command should I run to do it? Thanks, Efren Bravo. - install wget from ports, gets you something like

Re: Running out of swap space????

-- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +pid 37308 (mysqld), uid 88, was killed: out of swap space +swap_pager: out of swap space +swap_pager_getswapspace(1): failed If you kill mysql server, does the swap space free up? Are there any known issues

Re: FreeBSD notebook

-- Original message -- From: Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] i would like to buy notebook to use with FreeBSD. Not new one, something like Pentium 200-PII/500 with 64-128MB RAM will be OK, and there are lots of them available cheaply. Unfortunately most

Re: FreeBSD notebook

-- Original message -- From: Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] i would like to buy notebook to use with FreeBSD. Not new one, something like Pentium 200-PII/500 with 64-128MB RAM will be OK, and there are lots of them available cheaply. Unfortunately most

RE: Windows Compatibility?

Hi Augusto, Build yourself a FreeBSD box on modern hardware with Xorg, and KDE or Gnome and you won't regret it. There are remote desktop and vnc utils to get to a windows box for using windowscentric apps, they work great and are hassle free. I'll bet in a year's time, that windows box doesn't

RE: sysctl.conf (formerly packet forwarding)

Yance Kowara writes: Thank you for the clarification about setting GATEWAY (packet forwarding) in systl.conf and rc.conf. The handbook suggested that Over five hundred system variables can be read and set using sysctl(8) ... Any clue as to where I can see those over five hundred system

RE: Hot-Swap HDD hardware recommendations?

Eric F Crist writes: Hello list, I need a cost-effective solution for hot-swap hard drives. I'm currently using a removable drive cage available at any CompUSA, but it's standard IDE/ATA, which is, AFAIK, not hot-swappable. What kind of RAID hardware/software would I need so that I can hot

RE: UNIX System Certification Programs

If you need a cert just to get a cert, and Linux is appropriate, I think Red Hat has an offering that would probably be considered industry standard. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Norgaard Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 11:08 AM

RE: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

Deepak Naidu wrote: Hi, I wanted to install nagios client on FreeBSD 5.4. I want to monitor my SMTP (25) and disk usage etc to be monitored from Nagios server installed on Linux box. How do I do... In linux there is Nagios-Client.rpm. What is the alternative on FreeBSD I

RE: 5.4 on a Dell D800

On Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:44 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 5.4 on a Dell D800 Hi, I tried installing 5.4 on my Dell D800 laptop. After the first boot, my keyboard stopped working. I don't know what to do from now or if it

RE: 5.4 on a Dell D800

On Behalf Of Wayne Witzke Ugo Bellavance wrote: Hi, I tried installing 5.4 on my Dell D800 laptop. After the first boot, my keyboard stopped working. I don't know what to do from now or if it is even worth the effort. Should I try 6.0RC? Regards, I have 5.4

RE: DNS caching locally ...

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kiffin Gish Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 2:32 PM To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS caching locally ... On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:44 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In

RE: Fwd: Re: music on FreeBSD

Any live Grateful Dead recording would work, no copyright, no licensing issues, etc There has to be at least 1 deadhead in the FreeBSD family. Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary W. Swearingen Sent: Tuesday, October 04,

RE: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gayn Winters Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:20 PM To: 'Jason Lieurance'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work -Original Message-

RE: IPFW won't go away!

Hi Paul, How about posting your rc.conf and kernel config file. You didn't happen to change the ipfw options in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, and maybe forgot? Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005

RE: Compatibility with Dell PowerEdge 2600 Servers

Hi Jason, I have a 2550 with Perc 3/DI card and I boot from CD, it freezes after detecting 2nd RAID 5 container. I know FreeBSD runs on Poweredge servers, lots of people do. If I remember correctly, one of the main developers uses a 2650 or 2850 for dev work. I'm going to try changing the BIOS

RE: IE in FreeBSD?

You guys are relentless. geez. Write it on a napkin for christ's sake, and send it by homing pigeon. :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RW Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:40 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: