Re: Backup of hd using DD. (james.cook@utoronto.ca)

2005-03-10 Thread Graham Bentley
Just a point of conversation, heres what I usually do... Partition the disc into C / D Copy all the files from the Windows CD in Win98 to a folder on D, say win98.src Install Windows from there D:\win98.src\setup.exe Now install the rest of your software and get the install just the way you want

parallel making

2005-03-10 Thread Tarc
I have small network at home (2 machines with PentiumII/64mb ram with RELENG_5). How I can build system REALLY parallel (e.g. remote building and swapping via NFS) I saw to make(1) sources and found macros REMOTE, which if defined, enables(?) it. How it works now and how, if works? Does make(1)

RE: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-10 Thread Ben Paley
-Original Message- From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setting hostname - fake and real To: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:00:50PM -0800, John Pettitt wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, March 09, 2005 04:42:46 PM -0500 Ean Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I belive Bind is still included with the base FreeBSD OS. I've used it in the past and never had any problems

Sysinstall: No disks found. Please verify ...

2005-03-10 Thread Robert Grzyb
Hi! I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELASE on Compaq Deskpro 4000 model 5166 ... snip +- Message -+ |No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being | |properly probed at boot time. See the Hardware Guide on the |

RE: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
This is bullshit, milter-greylist is in the ports. Greylisting does not require postfix. Just because YOU are too lazy to understand sendmail doesen't mean everyone else is. Keep in mind that Greylisting isn't going to be very effective for long if a lot of people adopt it. We run, like most

Native POSIX threads + Java under FreeBSD 5.3 release i386

2005-03-10 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi all, As is typical, I have once again been given very limited time to get something running, and there are some interesting things to figure about about it. :) In brief, the application is a distributed one, loosely based on some CORBA concepts, though differently (fortunately!). The

Re: Hardware dongle with FreeBSD support?

2005-03-10 Thread jonas
Hi On Wednesday 09 March 2005 15:34, cyb wrote: Anyone here who can recommend a dongle with decent support for FreeBSD? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/077838.h tml http://bsdnews.org/03/cryptusb.php An ancrypted filesystem on a USB stick is nice, but the

Re: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Hodgins
Ben Paley wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setting hostname - fake and real To: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic

RE: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD

2005-03-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
What I use: Laser: HP Laserjet 4+. Incredibly cheap on the used market, Postscript simms for these are also cheap, take off the shelf ram, toner cartridges are also incredibly cheap off Ebay, or even from the local Office Depot which sells refurb ones. The things are workhorses and last

Re: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-10 Thread Ben Paley
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:03, Chris Hodgins wrote: You can simply use 127.0.0.1 in there. 127.0.0.1 localhost my-xp-machine.org I'll give that a go next! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:53:58 -0300 Luciano Musacchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :), I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one here give me a hint on this? mail/dspampd and mail/dspam-devel As for the lists,

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 10, 2005, at 4:49 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: This is bullshit, milter-greylist is in the ports. Greylisting does not require postfix. Just because YOU are too lazy to understand sendmail doesen't mean everyone else is. I've paid my dues to sendmail: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2005-03-10T01:49:20-0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [snip caustic commentary] [snip real-life facts] The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such a plan has been in the works for a while among the

RE: t1000e tape drive

2005-03-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
HP stopped supporting this drive after Windows 98, see here: http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lp g15246locale=en_US What you have is basically a floppy controller tape drive. If you have a parallel port one then you have a floppy controller tape drive

RE: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies that know what they are doing. Which, of

Re: in-kernel pppoe ?

2005-03-10 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 9. März 2005 17:32 schrieb J.D. Bronson: Does 5.4PRE offer in-kernel pppoe to use to connect to my DSL ISP (pppoe)? Yes, you can use kernelmode PPP (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip.html) or netgraph (man 4 netgraph). For netgraph you need mpd

Re: Qmail / FreeBSD / vqadmin problem

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:12 -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: Hi I am new to both FreeBSD and qmail. However, I am definitely not new to unix/linux (2 years of HP-UX and 7 years of Linux experience). I am using a pf firewall on a machine that will host a webserver as well as my mailserver.

Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE

2005-03-10 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
Hi, This is the output of top: last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13 08:11:07 48 processes: 1 running, 47 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 40M Active, 63M Inact, 45M Wired, 16K Cache, 35M Buf, 99M Free Swap: 487M

Re: IPv6 setup script ... doesn't work!!

2005-03-10 Thread Fafa Diliha Romanova
Mario, Thank you! I am beyond appreciation and respect to you! I feel I also learned a lot about shell scripting while doing this. You are truly a kind soul for letting your experience influence my life, man. Again, thank you. 1) How would this setup look in rc.conf? Since FreeBSD 5 is all

Re: How to identify xterm font

2005-03-10 Thread Matthias Buelow
Sergei Gnezdov wrote: I like the size of the xterm window. It is small and it uses very easy to read font. Unfortunately, it does not play very well with emacs. For these reasons I use Gnome terminal. Gnome font is bigger, thus it takes more space on the screen. How do I identify which font

RE: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Charles Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:17 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions list Subject: Re: how to deal with spam for good? On Mar 10, 2005, at 4:49 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: This

/usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts: echo on startup

2005-03-10 Thread Fafa Diliha Romanova
hello. i'm just wondering how to deal with the way the rc.d scripts echo on startup. like, some of the rc.d scripts contain the echo daemon, while some echo daemon, so on startup whereas it should look like: daemon daemon deamon it may look like: daemondaemon daemon 1.2 Loaded

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Dmitry Kozhevnikov
LM Hi, LM I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :), LM I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one here give LM me a hint on this? LM thanks Spamers are too lazy to subscribe freebsd-questions, so they can't post here :) -- WBR, Dmitry Kozhevnikov

RE: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Horsfall Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:42 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: how to deal with spam for good? On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The only long term

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 10, 2005, at 6:44 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: FreeBSD 4.EIGHT came with Sendmail 8.12.8 out of the box. OK, so now your not too lazy to understand Sendmail, you just have a gigantic chip on your shoulder against it so your going to ignore the most popular MTA on the planet and pretend it

Re: Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE

2005-03-10 Thread Michael Ross
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:13:53 -0300 Giovanni P. Tirloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is the output of top: last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13 08:11:07 48 processes: 1 running, 47 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0%

Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD

2005-03-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 01:04, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: - Lazer (black/white) - Some colored printer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

ng_netlow and mpd

2005-03-10 Thread Alexandr Lookoshkoff
Hello Freebsd-questions, I have ip statistics collector based on ng_netflow. It was working on old server, but now (server was reinstalled due to HDD failure). But now it is working with ethernet interfaces and not working with pptp (mpd). All configs and kernel was restored from

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts: echo on startup

2005-03-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-10 06:45, Fafa Diliha Romanova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello. i'm just wondering how to deal with the way the rc.d scripts echo on startup. like, some of the rc.d scripts contain the echo daemon, while some echo daemon, so on startup whereas it should look like: daemon daemon

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts: echo on startup

2005-03-10 Thread Mike Hauber
On Thursday 10 March 2005 06:45 am, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: hello. i'm just wondering how to deal with the way the rc.d scripts echo on startup. like, some of the rc.d scripts contain the echo daemon, while some echo daemon, so on startup whereas it should look like: daemon daemon

Re: Hardware dongle with FreeBSD support?

2005-03-10 Thread jonas
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:50, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Anyone here who can recommend a dongle with decent support for FreeBSD? See http://www.safenet-inc.com. They make dongles and (USB) hardware keys for software products and they mention support for Linux and OS X, so they may have

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 9, 2005, at 11:54 PM, Mike Hauber wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 10:53 pm, Luciano Musacchio wrote: Hi, I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :), I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one here give me a hint on this? thanks heh... I'm working on

ipfw tango

2005-03-10 Thread Andrei Faust Tanasescu
Hello, I have a legacy application that makes a direct connection to a hardcoded IP address and port. I need this connection to be made instead transparently through a SSH tunnel. For this to work, I need to tell the kernel to forward all packets destined to myserver:myport instead go to

Re: Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE

2005-03-10 Thread David Fleck
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Michael Ross wrote: last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13 08:11:07 Your may have compiled kernel and userland from different sources. and programs like ps(1) and top(1) will fail to work until the kernel and source code versions are the same.

installworld fails (5.4-PRE)

2005-03-10 Thread J.D. Bronson
I cvsup'd to 5.4-PRE and built world. (I was already in 5.4-PRE).. I have never had any issues until today World and kernel built fine. I follow the same steps as always but this time I have a twist: # make installkernel - that works fine # make installworld ... ... ... cd: can't cd to

Re: Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE

2005-03-10 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
David Fleck wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Michael Ross wrote: last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13 08:11:07 Your may have compiled kernel and userland from different sources. and programs like ps(1) and top(1) will fail to work until the kernel and source code

Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD

2005-03-10 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Epson Stylus C8x series (C84, C82, etc.) Use gimp-print and ghostscript to print. Can get full resolution to the printer. Has a parallel port. The C82 and C84 understand ASCII directly in addition to their epson language that you use to print color with. Cheap. Uses separate ink resivors so

Re: installworld fails (5.4-PRE)

2005-03-10 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:27:05 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cd: can't cd to /usr/include/dev/acpica *** Error code 2 shadow# cd /usr/include/dev shadow# ls -al -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4210 Mar 2 17:00 acpica and how do I fix this? The problem here is that the

FreeBSD Stickers

2005-03-10 Thread Antonio Barella
I would like to know where I can buy FreeBSD stickers. Please let me know, thank you. Respectfully, Tracy Antonio Barella ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: installworld fails (5.4-PRE)

2005-03-10 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 07:48 AM 03/10/2005, Pietro Cerutti wrote: shadow# cd /usr/include/dev shadow# ls -al -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4210 Mar 2 17:00 acpica and how do I fix this? The problem here is that the acpica folder is not executable (you can not cd into it). chmod 755 acpica should solve it.

Re: FreeBSD Stickers

2005-03-10 Thread Michael L. Hostbaek
Antonio Barella (tbar628) writes: I would like to know where I can buy FreeBSD stickers. Please let me know, thank you. http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdsticker?id=gDB8Sjtxmv_pc=94 /mich -- Best Regards, Michael L. Hostbaek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD

2005-03-10 Thread Jean-Jacques Dhenin
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 01:04, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: - Lazer (black/white) - Some colored printer I am not able to work whith all in one : HP1210 or lexmark x75. -- (° Dhénin Jean-Jacques / ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^

changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-10 Thread Brian John
Hello, I just switched my computer to a new case yesterday and now it won't boot. However, Windows boots fine (I dual boot). Here are some of the messages that FreeBSD has while it is starting up: ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name

Re: Configuration of current kernel

2005-03-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
# Redirected to freebsd-questions, from freebsd-newbies. # Please do NOT post technical questions to the freebsd-newbies list. # Followups set to freebsd-questions. On 2005-03-10 10:25, h p [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to recompile my kernel for disk encryption support (options GEOM_BDE).

Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD

2005-03-10 Thread David Kelly
On Mar 10, 2005, at 4:00 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The things are workhorses and last forever, they only need an input roller replacement at 10,000 copies or so, which costs about $100 for a decent printer repair shop, and very few on the used market ever went this high on the page count. Am

Re: ng_netlow and mpd

2005-03-10 Thread Dmitry Kozhevnikov
, Alexandr. AL Hello Freebsd-questions, AL I have ip statistics collector based on ng_netflow. AL It was working on old server, but now (server was reinstalled due to AL HDD failure). AL But now it is working with ethernet interfaces and not working with AL pptp (mpd). AL All configs

Re[2]: Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE

2005-03-10 Thread Dmitry Kozhevnikov
please show us 1. cat /var/run/dmesg.boot 2. uname -a 3. egrep (^REVISION|^BRANCH) /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh GPT David Fleck wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Michael Ross wrote: last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13 08:11:07 Your may have compiled kernel and

simple www forum software ?

2005-03-10 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hi I'm searching for a simple www forum software I've found phpBB but it seems overkill for my needings flat files would be enough as the forum will serve 20 users max and a very low traffic. The goal is to share technical problems/solutions between around 20 sysadmins of multiples sites. I need a

install FreeBSD 5.2R under Bochs-2.1.1

2005-03-10 Thread jumbler chi
Hi! I want to install FreeBSD 5.2R within Bochs. I inserted FreeBSD bootable CD , and created a new 500Mb image file for virtual HD via bximage.exe tools. When I dedicated bochs boot from cd-rom , it seems un-bootable. Alternatively, I copied boot.flp to Bochs folder and booted from virutal

Re: Mozilla Firefox problem

2005-03-10 Thread Jason Andresen
Warren wrote: Each time i start Mozilla Firefox it starts from scratch and asks if i want to import my previous bookmarks etc .. why is this occurying and how do i fix it ? Most likely you don't own your own .mozilla directory. Try this: $ cd $ ls -ld .mozilla If it is owned by root (most

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-10 Thread markzero
Oh, and c) djbdns isn't Free or Open Source by any definition of either phrase. That's not important to some people, but others consider it kind of important. Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use the source code of djbdns. The only restriction is that you may

X apps timeout on IPv6 after cvsup to Xfree86-4-clients-4.4.0.5

2005-03-10 Thread jshamlet
Guys/Gals; I recently cvsup'ed my 4.11 machine to the latest XFree86 source - and ran into a snag. I don't typically sit at console, so I didn't have a full X install (I do now - as part of debugging this problem...) Instead, I use Xwin32/Putty's automatic ssh tunnelling feature, and launch

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 21:53, Luciano Musacchio wrote: I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :), I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one here give me a hint on this? I just wrote an article for Free Software Magazine on this subject. It's

Re: installworld fails (5.4-PRE)

2005-03-10 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:53:17 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 512 Mar 9 20:37 . drwxr-xr-x 46 root wheel 4608 Mar 9 20:37 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4210 Mar 2 17:00 acpica But acpica is -not- a directory ??? It should be a directory, in my

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 22:22, you wrote: Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use the source code of djbdns. From http://www.qmail.org/not-open-source.html: For a program to be open source, you must be able to, among other things, change the source and

Re: Native POSIX threads + Java under FreeBSD 5.3 release i386

2005-03-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 10), Olaf Greve said: As is typical, I have once again been given very limited time to get something running, and there are some interesting things to figure about about it. :) In brief, the application is a distributed one, loosely based on some CORBA concepts,

Re: firefox and flash on freebsd

2005-03-10 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:47:20 -0500, Antoine Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do you actually get it to work with firefox ? Hello Antoine, I have this in my /etc/libmap.conf # Flash6 with Mozilla/Firebird/Galeon/Epiphany/Konqueror [/usr/local/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so]

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-10 Thread markzero
Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use the source code of djbdns. From http://www.qmail.org/not-open-source.html: For a program to be open source, you must be able to, among other things, change the source and redistribute it. DJB prohibits

RE: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Seguin
-Original Message- ... ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 ... mountroot I'm far from being the expert... But is it possible you have your hard disk plugged in

boot.flp for FreeBSD 4.11

2005-03-10 Thread Olivier Casasole
Hello, I am trying to create a floppy with boot.flp for FreeBSD 4.11. I am using fdimage as described in the handbook. But it says that there is not even space on my floppy. I had no problem to create floppies for msfroot.flp and kern.flp. Do you know why i don t succeed with boot.flp ?

Host unknown (Name server:XXXXXX no data known

2005-03-10 Thread tethys ocean
Hi, I am use sendmail Version 8.12.11 recently I have lived such error What is the meaning of this error mesages The following addresses had permanent fatal errors [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Transcript of session follows 550 5.1.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Host unknown (Name server: [EMAIL

Re: WebDAV on Freebsd

2005-03-10 Thread Ean Kingston
Hello, I apologize for the intrusion, but I got your email off a Google search for WebDAV on FreeBSD. I just bought a virtual server and need to install webdav and then allow Sunbird to publish and share calendars. I am all about using IMAP and I think I need to start using this for better

how to install Windows on an existing partition?

2005-03-10 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi List, I need to install Windows on an existing partition of my laptop. At the moment I have this label: laptop# bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1 # /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 30720004.2BSD0 0 0 b: 3072000 307200

CVSup versions?

2005-03-10 Thread cizuriet
Hi Guys, I am trying to get a copy of the CVS tree on my local machine. I would like to use the CVSup utility since it is supposed to be much faster. Can I use CVSup from my Windows XP machine? Or is there a version(binary) that runs on GNU/Linux? Thanks! Clem-- Clem Izurieta PhD

Re: Qmail / FreeBSD / vqadmin problem

2005-03-10 Thread Madhusudan Singh
On Thursday 10 March 2005 05:57, Peter Risdon wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:12 -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: Hi I am new to both FreeBSD and qmail. However, I am definitely not new to unix/linux (2 years of HP-UX and 7 years of Linux experience). I am using a pf firewall on a

SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread David Larkin
I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread Luke Kearney
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD

Re: Mozilla Firefox problem

2005-03-10 Thread Jason Andresen
Warren wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 1:05 am, Jason Andresen wrote: Warren wrote: Each time i start Mozilla Firefox it starts from scratch and asks if i want to import my previous bookmarks etc .. why is this occurying and how do i fix it ? Most likely you don't own your own .mozilla

Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD

2005-03-10 Thread Mikkel C. Simonsen
My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: - Lazer (black/white) - Some colored printer I have recently bought a HP Color LaserJet 2550L, which could work for both your needs. It prints fast in B/W, and not-so-fast in colour, but both in great quality. I have used it

Re: parallel making

2005-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:20:48PM +0300, Tarc wrote: I have small network at home (2 machines with PentiumII/64mb ram with RELENG_5). How I can build system REALLY parallel (e.g. remote building and swapping via NFS) I saw to make(1) sources and found macros REMOTE, which if defined,

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread David Larkin
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
sn1tch writes: I am looking into setting up a DNS server on our network using an existing FreeBSD box. I have been looking around and reading comments on different DNS servers out their but everyone has mixed feelings. I know someone who uses BIND and is happy with it .. is their any reason

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread David Larkin
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box.

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread Luke Kearney
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:19:45 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread Nick Pavlica
Is this safe ? Obviously security isn't really a priority in your situation. It sound like you are really looking for convenience. That said there are a large number of options out there for you, samba is one of them and can easily be configured with a utility called webmin

Re: Configuration of current kernel

2005-03-10 Thread h p
# Redirected to freebsd-questions, from freebsd-newbies. # Please do NOT post technical questions to the freebsd-newbies list. Uh, OK, I don't quite get what freebsd-newbies is for then... thought this was a newbie question. The GENERIC kernel is just what the name suggests: a generic kernel

Re: installworld fails (5.4-PRE)

2005-03-10 Thread Nick Pavlica
Make sure that your system is time synchronized then cvsup, rm files in /usr/obj, etc... This has helped me in the past. --Nick On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:46:04 +, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:53:17 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drwxr-xr-x

Re: Size of FreeBSD

2005-03-10 Thread Mark Goodell
THank you Philip, Jerry, Kris: (Actually, I went back and forth through the website literature trying to figure this out, and finally gave up. It may be that the question itself treads on an issue that no longer is challenged - the size of OS installations. I'm frustrated that they have to be

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 10, 2005, at 01:49, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies that know what they are doing. SPF is only

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
David Larkin wrote: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. I used to use anon ftp for

FreeBSD and RSA SecurID Authentication

2005-03-10 Thread Jeff Wirth
List, This post is really for archival purposes in the event that someone else is looking into centralized authentication with RSA SecurID and FreeBSD (or any other *nix platform for that matter).. The organization I currently work for has a large ($$$) investment in RSA SecurID (for VPN use

Re: how to install Windows on an existing partition?

2005-03-10 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:01:28 + Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I need to install Windows on an existing partition of my laptop. At the moment I have this label: laptop# bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1 # /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I

Re: how to install Windows on an existing partition?

2005-03-10 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:04:55 -0300, Alejandro Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hi there, thank you for your reply. Windows (and also a msdos filesystem, I think) needs a whole slice (thoose you edit with 'fdisk', called partition by Windows) to install (it does not understand a BSD

Re: Size of FreeBSD

2005-03-10 Thread W. D.
At 12:38 3/10/2005, Mark Goodell wrote: THank you Philip, Jerry, Kris: (Actually, I went back and forth through the website literature trying to figure this out, and finally gave up. It may be that the question itself treads on an issue that no longer is challenged - the size of OS

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 10 March 2005 12:40, Doug Hardie wrote: Unfortunately it does nothing for the spammers who get their own domain and establish their own SPF records. Not necessarily true. If you can *force* senders to tie themselves to their own domain, then it becomes rather easy to blacklist

Re: Kernel problems on 5.3.

2005-03-10 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:25:02 -0500 David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jacob, Hello David, You should try to CVSup your FreeBSD machines to get the latest code. Read section A.5 of the FreeBSD Handbook. Here's the link:

Re: boot.flp for FreeBSD 4.11

2005-03-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Olivier Casasole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to create a floppy with boot.flp for FreeBSD 4.11. I am using fdimage as described in the handbook. The Handbook says to use kern.flp and mfsroot.flp for FreeBSD 4.11. It says to use boot.flp on FreeBSD 5.x, but that is not what you are

FreeBSD-4.11 - Need help with booting with an MD_ROOT

2005-03-10 Thread David Clear
I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to boot a kernel with an embedded root filesystem. I've searched the mailing lists and the web without finding an answer. I hope someone here can help. Here's the procedure I have used: 1. My kernel is built with options: MFS, MD_ROOT and MD_ROOT_SIZE=32768.

Re: removing p5-File-Temp from portversions upgrade list ?

2005-03-10 Thread beni . brinckman
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:17:21 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:00:55PM +0100, FreeBsdBeni wrote: So, how do I get the p5-File-Temp out of the portversion-list of files that need to be upgraded ? Since File::Temp is bart of the base perl now, your

Re: how to install Windows on an existing partition?

2005-03-10 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:31:12 + Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:04:55 -0300, Alejandro Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hi there, thank you for your reply. Windows (and also a msdos filesystem, I think) needs a whole slice (thoose you edit

Re: how to install Windows on an existing partition?

2005-03-10 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:48:37 -0300, Alejandro Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hello, If you want to use the free space of 'g' you will have to delete it and collapse all the partitions near 'd'. But is *dangerous*, and in fact there are *no* tools (I searched and it is often said)

Re: RE: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-10 Thread Brian John
- Original Message - -Original Message- ... ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 ... mountroot I'm far from being the expert... But is it possible

Problem with pf.conf

2005-03-10 Thread Gardner Bell
Hello all, I'm trying to reconfigure a more restrictive packet filtering firewall for my home network but am running into some trouble. When I run dhclient dc0 at an attempt to obtain an IP address from my ISP I receive the normal: DHCPREQUEST on dc0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on

how to change process limits?

2005-03-10 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
Hi The following is aon 5.3-RELEASE-p5 If I do a limits command I get # limits Resource limits (current): cputime infinity secs filesize infinity kb datasize 524288 kb stacksize 65536 kb coredumpsize infinity kb memoryuseinfinity kb

Re: [pki-team] FreeBSD and RSA SecurID Authentication (fwd)

2005-03-10 Thread Jeff Wirth
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:14:52 -0800, Mike Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Webster forwards: 'shared secret'. (PAM module uses /etc/radius.conf for 'shared secret', servername, etc) 5 - Configure PAM/sshd (or whatever PAM aware services) to require RADIUS authentication 6 - Configure

Location of disklabel

2005-03-10 Thread Carl J
Hi all! To all your FS guru's outthere, I desperately need to know where the disklabel is stored (since my disk is in trouble!) Situation: My /dev/ad0s1 has 2 partitions: a (FS) followed by b (swap). By using disklabel -r, I see my a and b indeed take up the entire slice. My desperate

chroot jail and syslogd

2005-03-10 Thread comm
Hello, I'm trying to setup bind in a chroot jail, and have it log to syslogd. I'm using fbsd5.3 and the syslogd option: root 22858 0.0 0.1 1312 780 ?? Ss 12:19AM 0:00.16 /usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log - I have bind running with the following

Re: how to change process limits?

2005-03-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 09), Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC said: The following is aon 5.3-RELEASE-p5 If I do a limits command I get # limits Resource limits (current): datasize 524288 kb stacksize 65536 kb # However, login.conf has (and no other classes

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