Being able to Program C++ with FreeBSD4.x

2004-01-31 Thread alphonso williams
I have a I386 mechine running FreeBSD 4.x and I will be upgraded shortly to 5.x, but I would like to know if I am able to program and compile using FreeBSD. I've never tried with 4.x and I would like to get into re-introducing myself to the C++ lanuage... Need to know fast... Thanks, AL Fre

NFS performances on 5.1

2004-01-31 Thread Jacques Beigbeder
On a same Ethernet 100 LAN, I have several Unix and an NFS Solaris fileserver. On these Unix, I tried: time dd=/fileserver/aFile of=/fileserver/otherFile bs=32768 On each try, I use new files, to avoid the impact of file caching. I measured the time spent and the number of Ethernet packets

Re: where am I supposed to put my rc.firewall?

2004-01-31 Thread Peder Blom
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:47:47 -0600 Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 30 January 2004 06:54 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Eric F Crist wrote: > > > I'm trying to add IPFW support. Where do I put my rc.firewall so > > > that it gets read at boot time? I've tried /usr/local/etc/rc.d

Re: Transferring the root filesystem to a ramdisk?

2004-01-31 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
I'm probably in over my head here, but; chroot should change the root filesystem for you. (look in the manpages for more details) As for powering down the hdd I did find a page for this, but havent had time to play with it yet: http://www.cran.org.uk/bruce/software.php best of luck! Hello, in an

Transferring the root filesystem to a ramdisk?

2004-01-31 Thread Cordula's Web
Hello, in an attempt to save power on FreeBSD servers, I'm trying to replace the hdd with a ramdisk. The idea is to: 1. boot from the hdd (or netboot from an NFS server) 2. configure a ram disk (md(4)) 3. copy everything that's needed to ram disk 4. transfer kernel root to ramdisk (*) 5

Re: tcp blackhole and ident

2004-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:46:39AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > At 07:39 AM 1/31/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >Run ipfw(8) or a similar firewall and set up a rule that sends an ICMP > >reject whenever it detects an incoming connection on port 113 as part > >of your firewall configuration. Eg. so

Re: tcp blackhole and ident

2004-01-31 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 07:39 AM 1/31/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:32:36AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I have a question. I setup the following in sysctl.conf: > > net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 > net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 > > ..Well this works, but now I have a new issue. > I run sendmail and as su

Re: Make Syntax

2004-01-31 Thread Eric F Crist
On Friday 30 January 2004 11:43 pm, Chris wrote: > On Friday 30 January 2004 11:38 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: > > Is there any way to run a 'clean' command to remove 'WORK' directories > > from the ports tree after the fact? > > Sure - > portsclean -CDD > > To find out what the flags are: man portscle

Re: tcp blackhole and ident

2004-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:32:36AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I have a question. I setup the following in sysctl.conf: > > net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 > net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 > > ..Well this works, but now I have a new issue. > I run sendmail and as such, need to allow TCP 113 into this machine

Re: where am I supposed to put my rc.firewall?

2004-01-31 Thread Eric F Crist
On Friday 30 January 2004 11:02 pm, JJB wrote: > How can it cause connections problems, you have never used it yet, > so how can you say that. I HAVE used it, and it is cause, primarily, DNS request problems. DNS queries don't seem to have the ability to forward to other servers. > Yes the rule

tcp blackhole and ident

2004-01-31 Thread J.D. Bronson
I have a question. I setup the following in sysctl.conf: net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 ..Well this works, but now I have a new issue. I run sendmail and as such, need to allow TCP 113 into this machine and yet get CONNECTION REFUSED. - I dont want to run IDENT, but need to stil

Re: Make Syntax

2004-01-31 Thread Peder Blom
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:38:54 -0800 Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to run a 'clean' command to remove 'WORK' directories > > from the ports tree after the fact? > If you want to clean a specific port (and its dependencies) just do a 'make clean' in its directory, or i

power off needed after install FreeBSD 4.9

2004-01-31 Thread Ben Koopmanschap
Hello fbsd_user and all the other people! Yesterday I changed the connection of my hard disk to the primary controller. First it was connected as "Cable Select" (I thought it was "slave" but after opening my box it appeared to be connected as CS), so I changed the jumper setting of my Seagate B

Re: RELENG_5_2

2004-01-31 Thread Steinar Bormer
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:04:47PM +0100, Steinar Bormer wrote: | > | > [14:02 pallotta steinab> uname -rsvp | > FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 28 13:15:30 CET 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PALLOTTA i386 | > | >

MBR problem

2004-01-31 Thread Kjell B.
I just installed FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE (using the mini-install CD) on my laptop which already had Win XP Home + Win XP Pro on it. During partition definition I chose not to touch the MBR. (I wanted to make use of Windows boot.ini for booting into FreeBSD.) Nevertheless, whenever I boot I get directly

fbsd splash

2004-01-31 Thread marlon corleone
i have an entry in /boot/loader.conf what else do i have to add? do i have to put also an entry in loader.rc? splash_bmp_load="YES" bitmap_load="YES" bitmap_name="power_logo.bmp" %sysctl kern.version kern.version: FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE-p1 #1: Fri Jan 30 23:30:38 PHT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src

Re: PHP4 with GD build problem.

2004-01-31 Thread Jez Hancock
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 06:28:02PM -0800, Derrick MacPherson wrote: > Freebsd 4.7, ports up to date. > > When I compile php4 with GD, I get this error: > > ext/gd/libgd/gdkanji.lo: In function `do_convert': > ext/gd/libgd/gdkanji.lo(.text+0x57b): undefined reference to `iconv_open' > ext/gd/libgd

Re: ERROR: BOOTDIR environment variable

2004-01-31 Thread Rommel B. Ikeda
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Seaman wrote: | On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:21:32PM +0900, Rommel B. Ikeda wrote: | |>I am trying to install Java from my /usr/ports/java/jdk13 ports. |>The error message below came out and I do not know to do with it. |> |>ERROR: Your BOOTDIR en

Re: One of your employees are very rude.

2004-01-31 Thread Quintin Riis
Guy, we have nothing to do with IRC channels, and if you look at the website, you will notice that they are not an official support avenue. Quintin lorink wrote: To whom it may concern, I just want to let the bsd team know this has been a great OS and it is meeting my needs over

Re: Redirect text from stdout to a variable?

2004-01-31 Thread Quintin Riis
In Bourne shell: blah=$(something | something) blah2=`blah -K 2 -z` Quintin W. D. wrote: Hey folks, Is it possible to redirect text from stdout to a variable? I do something like this and get the output on the screen: echo "Some Text to be Encrypted" | /usr/local/bin/gpg -a --always-trust --

Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?

2004-01-31 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:00:26PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx typed: > > Can you build Gentoo on a machine currently NOT running Linux? > > Yes, you can boot Gentoo from a live-cd, you extract a "temporary" > Gentoo-system to your harddisk, chroot into it and start recompiling from > there. This

Re: Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:24 am, slave-mike wrote: > Jeff Elkins wrote: > >No responses on this yet, but I can hope :) > > > >Another issue: After changing the permissions on the /dev/pass* devices, > >following a reboot, they all reverted, rendering k3b useless. > > > >I'd appreciate some he

Redirect text from stdout to a variable?

2004-01-31 Thread W. D.
Hey folks, Is it possible to redirect text from stdout to a variable? I do something like this and get the output on the screen: echo "Some Text to be Encrypted" | /usr/local/bin/gpg -a --always-trust --batch --no-secmem-warning -e -u "GPG Tester " -r "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Most sites advise to

Re: anonymous ftp

2004-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:49:12AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I'm setting up an anonymous ftp server. I understand that a user named > "ftp" can log in without a password, and that "anonymous" is an alias > for user ftp. What I'm wondering is if it is possible to assign other > aliases for ftp,

Re: Looking for a good multiple protocol proxy!!

2004-01-31 Thread Cordula's Web
> I am looking for a proxy server that has the following features. /usr/ports/net/delegate. It doesn't support everything, but is good enough for most day to day tasks. YMMV. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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