mail forwarding using ipfw

2004-04-06 Thread free bsd
dear all, i have network like this lanX.com - | lanA.com IPFW FBSD lanB.com === to Internet | | lanC.com ---| |--- lanD.com right now,... lanA.com , lanC.com, lanD.com have smtpoutgoing to internet via lanB.com the problem is ..

5.2.1 Dell Power Edge 1400 install

2004-03-29 Thread bsd
Has anyone installed a 5.2.1 on a Dell Power Edge ? From what I have read so far It seems ok with the 4.7 version -- http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:fT11f82O3U0J:prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl/ ~gregory/FreeBSD/ delli386.html+freeBSD+dell+poweredge+1400hl=enie=UTF-8 But i have no echo on a 5.2.1

Re: Incomplete Ports

2004-03-23 Thread BSD
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:41:51PM -0600, Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote: Hello, I'm working on creating a FreeSBIE CD as a new project of mine. I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Thu Mar 18 20:46:44 CST 2004. I've been installing a bunch of different utilities so that I can get them on

Re: ITunes app or player

2004-03-07 Thread BSD baby
Do we happen to have a port that can make use of ITunes? Moreover - the files you purchase from them. I think the file extension is m4p. They're locked Digital Rights Management-controlled AAC files. Unfortunately you can only play them in real Apple iTunes player or transfer them to an

Re: ITunes app or player

2004-03-07 Thread BSD baby
LUCKILY : as with ALL of the download services (most of which use Windows Media format), you can just click the {BURN TO CD} button, and burn an audio CD, then pop it in your FreeBSD machine and rip it to FLAC or MP3 or OGG or whatever you want. As true as the above may be, and as lazy

i'm having a problem making tightvnc 1.2.9 from the ports

2004-02-25 Thread bsd neophyte
i'm trying to make tightvnc 1.2.9 from through the ports. i have v.5.2 (unupdated) on a Sparc64 platform. i constantly run into the following problem: - rm -f bitmaputil.o cc -c -O -pipe -ansi -pedantic -Dasm=__asm -I../../.././/include/fonts -I../inc lude -I../../.././

issue with building intltool-0.30

2004-02-22 Thread bsd neophyte
build_alias=sparc64-portbld-freebsd5.2 --no-create --no-recursion checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for working aclocal-1.4... missing checking for working autoconf... missing

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-19 Thread BSD baby
What do people here use to edit HTML documents? I usually use Dreamweaver, but I haven't gotten the time to try to get wine working so I can run Dreamweaver on FreeBSD. Quanta is your best bet. It's very similar to Homesite on Windows. (Which I think is bundled with Dreamweaver these

if a file is used a lot, does it stay in a RAM cache?

2004-01-12 Thread BSD baby
If a file is loaded off the hard drive a lot, does FreeBSD keep it in RAM? For my high-traffic website, Apache+PHP, I have a PHP file that I'm going to be including a LOT. The file is 3 megs, though. Takes a few unfortunate seconds to load into memory off of disk the first time. So - what

Re: A jail?

2004-01-08 Thread BSD
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:07:35PM -0800, Rishi Chopra wrote: Simply trying to install postgresql - the message I included is what the system prints out when installing from the ports collection. Andrew L. Gould wrote: Er, what directory were you in when you did the make install? The only

IPF: Apparent packet duplication logged by IPF

2004-01-05 Thread bsd
Hi all. I am having a strange situation with IPF. I am trying to log all passed packets (the log is passed to a third-party stats program for graphical analysis). The problem is that I see many packets apparently being duplicated in the ipmon.log. The packet enters the firewall from the

Wire down PATA/SATA devices?

2003-12-25 Thread BSD user
I've recently installed a new machine with FreeBSD 5.2-RC2. This box is equipped with removable drive trays, a Promise SATA RAID controller, and PATA/SATA controllers on the motherboard. ATA_STATIC_ID is enabled in the kernel so that disks names don't flip around when I remove a drive or insert

Kernel Panic (obelix)

2003-12-10 Thread bsd
Hi folks! I have had two kernel panics in quick succession, after being stable for 6 months. Strange The box is quite up to date on the 4 Stable branch: # uname -v FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Nov 28 09:49:42 SAST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/obelix Suddenly it has

Re: Kernel Panic (obelix)

2003-12-10 Thread bsd
As expected - it crashed again today at 14:21... Stack trace at http://docs.perimeter.co.za/crash/2003-12/20031210_1421_a. HHeeeppp !:) Regards, Patrick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks! I have had two kernel panics in quick succession, after being stable for 6 months.

how can i change the default text size of applications?

2003-11-14 Thread KroNiC~BSD
the text for xterm or aterm is the same, too small to read comfortably. thanks in advance and have a great day. -- KroNiC~BSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: converting real media audio ... ENCODING working?

2003-11-12 Thread BSD baby
While we're on the subject, has anyone gotten the Linux version of the Real Audio Producer (encoder) to work? It's a commercial app from RealNetworks that I downloaded and did a core dump when trying to run. (Sorry I forget details now.) Just wondering if anyone's ever successfully done

Which Releases are stillsupported

2003-10-23 Thread bsd
Hi all. I know things are very different in the Open Source world, so the concept of officially supported versions is probably nonsense, but here's my dilemma: I received an email from Cyclades in which they told me: I am sorry to tell you, but the latest FreeBSD version supported by our

Re: Which Releases arestillsupported

2003-10-23 Thread bsd
with old releases, and updated packages are only provided for the head of the -STABLE branch. Kris Thanks Kris. It's a pity that Cyclades are so focussed on Linux that they are ignoring BSD... The fact that I have more than 10 of their devices (and I'm sure there must be many more

most direct way to get audio file to sound card?

2003-10-19 Thread BSD baby
What's the most direct way to cat an audio file into the sound card? The FreeBSD manual talks about wavplay or mpg123 or xmms, but what if I just want to send an audio file to the sound card without an application inbetween? (Reason why - I want to make a quick shell script to play my flac

gcc compiler issues with gcc version 3.3.1...,,, on freebsd 5-current

2003-10-18 Thread KroNiC~BSD
and have a great day. -- KroNiC~BSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: gcc compiler issues with gcc version 3.3.1...,,, on freebsd 5-current

2003-10-18 Thread KroNiC~BSD
for the help. have a great night. On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 14:03:08 -0700, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 12:29:05PM -0600, KroNiC~BSD wrote: I am trying to compile firebird on freebsd 5-current. Something appears to be wrong with the compiler on the 5.x series as i am getting

Re: portupgrade -Fa

2003-10-13 Thread bsd
Alex de Kruijff writes: On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:29:40PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: The strange part is that on some of the servers the script works just fine, and on others it runs, and emails me what looks like a job well done, but the distfile has NOT been fetched. When I then go to do

ipf - sample rulesets

2003-10-09 Thread bsd
Hi all. Are there any good references and/or sample ipf rulesets that I could use to look-and-learn from. I am quite familiar with ipfw, but I'm struggling with converting my thinking on issues like the setup and established keywords of ipfw. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Regards,

Re: wav to mp3?

2003-10-05 Thread BSD baby
I did a make search in the ports collection and didn't see what (I think) I need, so I'll ask here. Is there a utility (or utilities) in ports for converting .wav files to mp3? /usr/ports/audio/lame has really become the standard. SO easy to use from the command-line, just do: lame

RE: My jail can not ssh..

2003-09-28 Thread maillist bsd
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; maillist bsd Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: My jail can not ssh.. --On Tuesday, September 16, 2003 09:07:15 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:16:31AM +0800, maillist bsd wrote: I am

Re: Vinum and SoftUpdates

2003-09-18 Thread bsd
Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: That's because there's nothing to say about them. What was the cause of the panic? Greg, Thanks for following up. I realise my original post was rather scanty on detail, but I was just wondering about the specific combination of vinum/softupdates. Since you

Vinum and SoftUpdates

2003-09-16 Thread bsd
Hi folks. I have a few boxes which have recently begun to behave rather badly - frequent panics and lots of errors being spewed out during fsck on reboot. I note that these particular boxes have one thing in common - they have vinum devices which are also mounted with softupdates enabled.

IPMON Format ???

2003-09-11 Thread bsd
Hi all! A little help please with understanding the format of ipmon.log. I have entries like this (mind line-wrap): === Sep 11 14:52:46 fox ipmon[47]: 14:52:45.248487 2x ed1 @0:3 P 196.23.158.10,25 - 196.22.178.91,26704 PR tcp len 20 40 -A K-S OUT

cvsup syntax questions... and what's the difference between branch and release tags?

2003-09-11 Thread Bsd Neophyte
can someone take a look at my cvsupfile and see if it's alright: --- *default host=cvsup10.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_5_1 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all tag=RELENG_5_1_0_RELEASE # added manually...

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2003-09-11 Thread Bsd Neophyte
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Two X sessions on one machine???

2003-09-04 Thread KroNiC~BSD
the error is local because my current running local X session is on display 0 . is it possible for me to do this as i would like to remotly connect to 3 machines via X but still have use of my local machine Thanks in advance. -- KroNiC~BSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm

remote desktops?!!!

2003-09-03 Thread KroNiC~BSD
are connected via a cable modem, and when traveling i usually have a 56k or dsl connection to the internet. Thanks in advance. -- KroNiC~BSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

having problems with getting two interfaces running on FreeBSD 5.1

2003-08-27 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i have two NICs in my FreeBSD 5.1 box. the idea was to have the box run as a proxy server down the line... possibly an IDS as well. i'm having issues with getting both interfaces up and running. here's the output with ifconfig -a: fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500

Re: cvsup problems

2003-08-26 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...snip... there's nothing going on with my ISP that is causing this. is there any possiblility that something is wrong with the system itself? every single server i try i get the TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed error.

Re: cvsup problems

2003-08-22 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on now (the first error is VERY common): This is a network problem. Either the cvsup server, or something

Re: cvsup problems

2003-08-22 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Bsd Neophyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on now (the first error is VERY common): This is a network

Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers

2003-08-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- J. Seth Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, and I know this is off-topic, is anyone here happy with their router enough to recommend it? I'd prefer to go with a hardware router, but I prize reliability and stability apparently higher than the current crop of manufacturers. Even the

cvsup problems

2003-08-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
I've done a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.8 on my Dual p3-700 box. I've been having a lot of problems, which i'll outline progressively. However, at the moment, I'm having some issues with cvsup. I've been trying to update my ports and sources and I keep running into problems. I've deleted the

Re: /usr/ports/lang/ruby

2003-08-14 Thread bsd
Kris Kennaway writes: And I'm curious about dependencies. For example, portupgrade's own version has not changed, and 'pkg_info -r portupgrade*' still shows ruby-1.6.8.2003.04.19 as required. Yes, as it should. The port has not been upgraded, it has only moved location. The next time it is

Re: /usr/ports/lang/ruby

2003-08-14 Thread bsd
Kris Kennaway writes: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:51:59AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. In my cvsup of the ports tree last night the ruby port went bye-bye. Sort of. It moved locations (see the MOVED file). There are other ports which require it, most notably portupgrade. No,

having errors when doing a make buildworld

2003-08-14 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm getting Error code 1's i've cleared my /usr/obj as well as done a make cleandir twice under /usr/src. i've booted into single usermode. this is what happens. /sr/libexec/elf/ld: /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1../cc_int/libcc_int.a(toplev.o)(.data+0x1cec): reloc

/usr/ports/lang/ruby

2003-08-11 Thread bsd
Hi all. In my cvsup of the ports tree last night the ruby port went bye-bye. There are other ports which require it, most notably portupgrade. Of course, the pre-existing ruby is still installed, but I'm a bit confused about what the plans are, because right now portupgrade cannot even

can't connect to the network

2003-07-31 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on one of my machines. i'm having a really frustrating problem. i cannot connec to anything outside of the interface. i've quarduple checked that the NIC is assigned an address with the same subnet as my network. i can ping the ip address on the NIC, but i can't ping

Re: Sharing among jails

2003-07-26 Thread BSD
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:29:06AM -0700, User KATRINA wrote: I was wondering if there's a way I can share my main /usr/ports directory with the jails I'm running. I thought this would save me a LOT of space. I tried just the standard ln -s to the ports directory when I log into the jails

making a HUGE storage thing using hub+NFS+RAID - feedback?

2003-07-20 Thread BSD baby
Before I jump into something new, could I get some thoughts from someone who's done this kinda thing before in FreeBSD? I need at least 6 terabytes to be available all at once, NOT online but just as backup file storage. But file storage that needs to be available internally and easily to anyone

Re: Error doing 'make installworld'

2003-07-19 Thread BSD
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 03:21:27PM +0200, Juan Jos? S?nchez Mesa wrote: Hi! (sorry for my bad english) After an upgrade to 4.8-RELEASE from 4.7-RELEASE (using cvsup), when I do the 'make installworld', I got this error: --

Re: Virtual FreeBSD

2003-07-17 Thread BSD
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:16:40PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: Can anyone tell me exactly what Virtual FreeBSD is? If I Google the term, I get a whole bunch of help webpages from various web hosting outfits. What's spooky is all of the sites have the same content. That definately gives me the

how to copy just part of a file?

2003-07-16 Thread BSD baby
it with basic GNU/BSD commands. Anyone? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Centrino COU working on FreeBSD?

2003-07-16 Thread BSD baby
I just wondered whether the Centrino CPU was usable in combination with FreeBSD. Yep! I'm typing on my Gateway 450x Centrino laptop in FreeBSD 4.8 now. I *LOVE* it.Looks and works wonderful. Note that the Centrino built-in wireless ethernet is not recognized, though. But everything else

Re: Error installing Eclipse 2.1.1 port

2003-07-16 Thread BSD
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:03:54PM +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: I get several errors when I'm trying to install the Eclipse 2.1.1 port but before I'm trying to dump the errorlog I just wanted to see if anyone has managed to install this port, or if there's any known bugs. I've had no problems

Re: how many bytes send out of my box?

2003-07-08 Thread BSD
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:39:44AM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Can I find out how many byte my box is send out via each ethernet interface? netstat -ni man netstat. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Postfix With SASL Authentication?

2003-07-06 Thread Mauro Boschi (BSD)
Try with this link: http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/attachment.php?s=postid=57146 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Can anyone point me to a HOW-TO to enable Postfix to relay for clients that provide a valid login? In other words, if I tell my IMAP client that my outgoing SMTP server requires

Ports Name changes

2003-06-30 Thread bsd
Hi all. Occasionally ports have their names changed (as happened yesterday with autoconf and automake). Now when I run portupgrade I keep getting warnings that the names have changed, though there is no upgrade required. What steps should I follow to correct the names of my installed ports

fsck on single-user

2003-06-28 Thread free bsd
howto automatically fsck -y on single-user,.. howto rulesets ipfw using MAC address thx -bsd- - Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Xfree86 Config Problems

2003-06-24 Thread bsd
know? Where would I find them? What would I do with them all, just rm them? What if I found more than one? How do I know which one is being used? Why so many config utils? Why are there so many possible locations? This is my first install of BSD, and while I've installed Linux a dozen

natd[330]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied)

2003-06-18 Thread bsd
Hi folks. natd[330]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied) I've started seeing this message in /var/log/messages recently on one gateway server, and it is rather frequent, recurring about 4 times every minute. Obviously I am running ipfw and natd, and my ipfw ruleset does include

Re: natd[330]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied)

2003-06-18 Thread bsd
Doron Shmaryahu writes: Hi, This happens when natd cant send a packet back to a host. Nothing really to worry about. If it is happening all the time then start worrying. Could you give a display of your ipfw ruleset ?? Thanks for replying Doron. Could it be that natd returns the packet to

Re: restrictive ipfw ruleset and ftp

2003-06-17 Thread bsd
Andrew Thomson writes: any suggestions would be great. i have a restrictive ipfw ruleset that works great.. it only allows incoming connections that i allow and outgoing connections allow. i have a list of ports that i let my users go out on: 80, 22, 143, 443 etc etc.. All the stuff they

Re: restrictive ipfw ruleset and ftp

2003-06-17 Thread bsd
Jaime writes: IIRC, FTP sends its replies on TCP port 20. I can't recall if that is port 20 on the remote or local host, though. A little experimentation and you'll probably figure it out. (hint: netstat -nf inet) That's true of non-passive mode connections (FTP server port 20 to FTP

laptop hard drive spin-down APM stuff - controllable??

2003-06-14 Thread BSD baby
Anyone who's using FreeBSD with a laptop: I'm having problems with my hard drive spinning down (sleeping) every 30 seconds. Is that something that's controllable in FreeBSD? I don't see it in BIOS. Is it a kernel thing? This thing sleeps and wakes, sleeps and wakes about every 15 seconds.

Re: FLAC audio port in FreeBSD: boom. crash. core dump.

2003-06-06 Thread BSD baby
On a virgin FreeBSD 4.8 system, I've tried to use the FLAC audio compression port: /usr/ports/audio/flac Using no special options on a .wav file: flac mysong.wav I get Illegal instruction (core dumped). I've tried it on 3 different FreeBSD 4.8 boxes, and many different .wav files.

FLAC audio port in FreeBSD: boom. crash. core dump.

2003-06-05 Thread BSD baby
On a virgin FreeBSD 4.8 system, I've tried to use the FLAC audio compression port: /usr/ports/audio/flac Using no special options on a .wav file: flac mysong.wav I get Illegal instruction (core dumped). I've tried it on 3 different FreeBSD 4.8 boxes, and many different .wav files. Has anyone

Apache - mod_perl - PostgreSQL

2003-06-03 Thread bsd
Hi all! I did the portupgrade of postgresql 7.3.2 - 7.3.3 this morning. Since then my mod_perl web pages will not talk to the databases. It's wierd: 1) postmaster is running, and I can manually psql and see the conent of the databases OK. 2) Apache is running, and mod_perl is still

Re: FreeBSD and Windows XP

2003-06-01 Thread BSD baby
How do I get my new Win XP box to talk to me FreeBSD Server? When I try to map a drive I get : The account is not authorized to log in from this station. I think it's the Plain Text Password issue. I've dealt with it before on Win 98 but can't figure out how to configure Win XP to allow a

Re: any recommended simple text editors?????

2003-05-31 Thread BSD baby
THANK YOU to whoever recommended ee! I had never tried that little thing. It's wonderful. Though vi is good for me, I'm going to tell beginners to use ee from now on. Easiest one I've ever seen. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Mysql

2003-05-30 Thread BSD baby
I want to remove my mysql installation and re-install from scratch. Now the problem. I have 6 active databases. How can i make sure that i dont loose those. And that when i have re-installed, that they work immediatilly ?? The databases are in /var/db/mysql The smartest thing would be to do

Re: Mysql

2003-05-30 Thread BSD baby
I want to remove my mysql installation and re-install from scratch. Now the problem. I have 6 active databases. How can i make sure that i dont loose those. And that when i have re-installed, that they work immediatilly ?? I'd think mysql dump and restore would be the safest way and would

Proposal to rename jail(8) to matrix(8)

2003-05-29 Thread BSD
Just kidding! Heh. Jail rocks, btw. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rebuilding the MBR

2003-04-02 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i posted a message earlier, unfortunately, i received no responses. so i guess i'll ask a different question. i've moved my HD from one system to another. is it possible to rebuild the MBR? i'm booting from a promise controller. initially i was booting from the primary controller but now i'm

Re: PHY drivers for Proliant ML370

2003-04-01 Thread bsd
James Long writes: On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:02:04PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: The 4.6 CD installs OK, but it does not recognise the on-board PHYs Drop an Intel (fxp) NIC in there temporarily, install, cvsup sources, and update the OS to 4-STABLE. I bet then it'll recognize the

Re: PHY drivers for Proliant ML370

2003-04-01 Thread bsd
David Landgren writes: You might be able to get away by downloading just a bootable floppy, and then switching to your kit? OK - this is new territory for me. Can I boot off a 4.8 boot floppy and then start rebuild the box which still has a 4.6 world installed? Another thought - could I do

boot problem...

2003-03-31 Thread Bsd Neophyte
hardware on my first FreeBSD server has crashed. i was planning on swapping the HD into another machine, booting the generic kernel and then custom tailoring it to the new machine specs. however, i'm having a problem. the new machine is using a promise ultra100 card. i don't have any issues

KDE Errors: signal 11

2003-03-18 Thread bsd
Hi all! I just got KDE 3.1 running after sorting out the nvidia driver, etc. It seems to be OK, except for an Error I keep getting when closing various windows. Probably 80% or 90% of the time when I close a window, from simple apps like konsole and kedit, etc, I get an Error dialog box

hardware compatiblity list and upgrading

2003-03-12 Thread Bsd Neophyte
alright my bookpc that has served me nicely for over a year now has gone to hell. i've had a Dual P3-700e on an Asus P2B-LS. unfortunately, this MB doesn't have anything beyond an ata33. the drive I have is an ata100 drive. i'm sure as a PDC/NTP/DNS server, this is more than aqequate, but i'm

Opera browser native FreeBSD (was Re: AbiWord)

2003-03-06 Thread BSD baby
Browser-based apps are what I do, all day. And Opera is the best, by far: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/?platform=freebsd FreeBSD native. Fast. Small. Wonderful font-rendering. Totally HTML/XML standards-compliant, etc. If you use the web all day, it's worth paying the $39 USD to

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-06 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True ... I don't know if memtest is better/worse/equal to burnMMX or not. I've just always used both for testing. One thing about memory glitches, they try very hard not to occur when you're looking for them! murphy's law appears at the worst

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: burnP6 and burnMX have been running all night 342:16 49.17% 49.17% burnBX 340:52 48.10% 48.10% burnP6 and there are no problems so far. Have you tried running memtest for equal lengths of time? memtest doesn't seem to exist in the ports anymore

still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-04 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i've upgraded the kernel as well as the system from 4.7 to 4.8rc3. however, i'm still getting the same issues. my system will randomly reboot when i'm doing anything from changing a directory to ftp-ing. i cracked the case, cleaned out all the dust thinking that the cooling was an issue. i've

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-04 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Tuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please if anyone can help me resolve this... i can't stand having this extremely unstable server. it's causing all sorts of problems on the network. I feel for you. I too am having it. Most of the time it does it while I'm not around, but once

Re: Trying to run Quanta, but got error in libfreetype

2003-03-03 Thread BSD baby
You didn't mention your KDE version, but I know that Quanta 3.1 (the one that's in ports now) is meant to be run on KDE 3.1 (also in ports now.) If you installed KDE from the FreeBSD 4.7 CD-Rom, let's say, then that's KDE 3.0. You'd have to do a /usr/ports/x11/kde ; make install clean to do a

disallowing the user/pass login method for a key system?

2003-03-02 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i finally got my key-pair system working... sort of a makeshift eToken system. however, i only want to allow this sytem for system access. i don't want to allow for the standard user/pass authentication system. right now i changed the following: # To disable tunneled clear text passwords,

RE: problems with SSH/DSA authentication

2003-03-01 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Ronald Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Permissions. Start there by issuing the command chmod -R 0600 your-ssh-dir. i've done this. Also, how is your key pasted into authorized_keys2? If you did the key block, I have had some trouble in the past getting that to work. So take the public

Bison

2003-02-28 Thread bsd
Hi all! I am trying to 'make' the bison port, but it keeps failing. Has anyone experienced this problem? I have retried after cvsup every day this week, so - yes - my sources are up to date. Here's the last bit of the output: === Making all in doc

problems with SSH/DSA authentication

2003-02-27 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i want to get a makeshift eToken system working. i use putty to access my freebsd machine. i also used puttygen to create a DSA keypair. i coped the public key onto ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 and the private on to the usb flash device under id_dsa. when i point putty to the private keypair, i

Re: why does 'ssh-keygen -t dsa' cause a system reboot?

2003-02-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time? first, i mistyped, sorry... (cut and pasted the wrong thing)... i run 'ssh-keygen -t dsa' and this doesn't happen all the time. it happens about half the time i try generating a keypair. How about when you do a long compile? (build a

why does 'ssh-keygen -t dsa' cause a system reboot?

2003-02-20 Thread Bsd Neophyte
while trying to get this key-pair authentication system going, i noticed something pretty strange. for some reason when i run 'ssh-keygen -t rsa' my system reboots. is there any reason that this is happening? how can i prevent this from occuring?

FreeBSD laptop. $799. looks good

2003-02-20 Thread BSD baby
in case anyone didn't hear from Slashdot already, Lindows the linux company is selling a nice small laptop for $799. And if it'll run Linux I'll bet it'll run FreeBSD: http://info.lindows.com/mobilepc/mobilepc.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

how do i enable an RSA keypair? (already read handbook)

2003-02-19 Thread Bsd Neophyte
I followed the directions under 10.10.6, but nothing seems to have happened. When I try logging in, nothing has changed. I still login using my username/password combination. I've already created the keyparis, but why isn't this working? What I'm looking to do is to put the pub keypair on

A modern BSD UNIX workgroup - how would you do it?

2003-02-15 Thread BSD Freak
but feel there must be a better way to do a modern BSD UNIX environment. As silly as it may sound I am seriously thinking about running Samba for file sharing services even though this is a fully UNIX environment. Reasons for this include excellent performance on FreeBSD and better security than NFS. Some

Authenticating a FreeBSD users to Win2K Kerberos

2003-02-13 Thread BSD Freak
Hi everyone, Anyone know a good HOWTO guide for authenticating FreeBSD logons to Win2K/Acitive Directory Kerberos server. I really need some guidance here as I havn't the first idea where to start -Thanks in advance -

helping setting up dvi connections, Please!

2003-02-13 Thread KroNiC~BSD
Has anyone been able to get a geforce 4 dvi output working with xfree86? I want to connect my flat panel to my freebsd 4.7 machine via DVI-D. Thanks in advance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

does XFree86 installed from CD lack anything?

2003-02-11 Thread BSD baby
Does the default install of XFree86 4.2 binaries from the FreeBSD 4.7 CD-Rom lack any drivers? PCI video drivers, maybe? When I set up a new FreeBSD 4.7 box from CD-Rom I choose the option to install all sources + XFree binaries since I'm going to be running XFree86/KDE. Usually it's not a

OpenSSH security hole on FreeBSD?

2003-02-11 Thread BSD baby
I install OpenSSH like this: cd /usr/ports/security/openssh-portable make -DOPENSSH_OVERWRITE_BASE install That puts things here: /usr/bin/ssh /usr/sbin/sshd /etc/ssh/sshd_config BUT... it seems to be IGNORING the sshd_config! TWO major security holes: #1 - It won't let me turn off passwords

Re: does XFree86 installed from CD lack anything?

2003-02-11 Thread BSD baby
Does the default install of XFree86 4.2 binaries from the FreeBSD 4.7 CD-Rom lack any drivers? PCI video drivers, maybe? When I set up a new FreeBSD 4.7 box from CD-Rom I choose the option to install all sources + XFree binaries since I'm going to be running XFree86/KDE.

Re: OpenSSH security hole on FreeBSD?

2003-02-11 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- BSD baby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #2 - It only requires I type the first 8 characters of my password! (I use 16-character password.) check out this URL: http://sddi.net/FBSDSecCheckList.html it guides you how to change the password type to blowfish that allows for more than 8

game controller setup

2003-02-10 Thread Dazzler BSD
I need some help on setting up a game controller in FreeBSD 5.0 Release. I have an Axis Pad Colors and it connects via USB port. Any help will be apperciated _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*.

having syslog log certain results to a mysql database

2003-02-10 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i just finished setting up snort to run along with acid and mysql. if followed the tutorial on snort.org. while the tutorial wasn't too bad, it left a great deal out, and it was a pain to get things working. i now have a thought. i have my firewall sending output to my syslog. i would like to

Procmail site-wide recipe's

2003-02-10 Thread BSD Freak
Hi all, I am running a 4.7-R/sendmail mail server. I currently use procmail on a few email accounts using a .forward in each home directory. Does anyone know how I can make a procmail recipe apply to all users on the mail server? Thanks in advance...

Re: Procmail site-wide recipe's

2003-02-10 Thread BSD Freak
That's basically what I'm asking. HOW do I make procmail the local delivery agent in sendmail... On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:52:09AM +1100, BSD Freak wrote: Hi all, I am running a 4.7-R/sendmail mail server. I currently use procmail on a few email accounts using a .forward in each home

how to you intiate a passive ftp when you are building packages?

2003-02-09 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm behind a double firewall of sorts. so i have an issue with ftp'ing anything. how do you initiate a passive ftp transfer when you are retrieving files while trying to build a package from ports? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful.

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