Re: Samba on a router; doesn't work for outer network.

2005-01-03 Thread James Jhai
Wish that my advice fixed it for you. Sounds like you found a better solution though. -- - James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: BTX halted

2005-01-03 Thread kalin mintchev
this is a few days old. i got a reply saying to try floppies but from the INSTALL.txt under the amd64/5.3-REL it says: 1.3 Floppy Disk Image Instructions Floppy disk based install is not supported on FreeBSD/amd64. like i said i played with bios settings and nothing really worked. can somebody

USB Bidirectional printer

2005-01-03 Thread regis rampnoux
Hi, Could you confirm that the use of bidirectional printer feature is not yet implemented? Now I need it because the new printers have no parallel port! -- regis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 3, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: A couple more questions, then I'm done. Promise. I need to verify whether or not there is an entry for grog_firewall_oif and grog_firewall_iif in /etc/r

Re: Samba on a router; doesn't work for outer network.

2005-01-03 Thread Rob
James Jhai wrote: On Monday 03 January 2005 08:45 am, Rob wrote: James Jhai wrote: On Monday 03 January 2005 07:12 am, Rob wrote: Hi, I have tried to configure Samba on a FreeBSD (5.3) router & NAT. I want to have a single accessible directory with a password, that can be accessed from the inner n

Re: installing a linux rpm, wants perl

2005-01-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 03 January 2005 09:24 pm, Karl Agee wrote: > freebsd 4.11-pre with linux compatibility. > > I'm trying to install a linux rpm but I am getting the following > errer: > > -su-2.05b# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath > /var/lib/rpm package.i386.rpm > error: failed dependencies

Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?

2005-01-03 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, it's in the ports tree. I don't think we've ever included a > linux openoffice port - are you perhaps thinking of staroffice, for > which a freebsd binary is not produced by sun? There's been quite a few reports of people having trouble getting pa

Re: installing a linux rpm, wants perl

2005-01-03 Thread jason henson
On 01/04/05 00:24:38, Karl Agee wrote: freebsd 4.11-pre with linux compatibility. I'm trying to install a linux rpm but I am getting the following errer: -su-2.05b# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/ rpm package.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/perl i

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote: > As root, I did the following (assuming I remember the Windows path > correctly:-): > > mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt [...] Try copying the file to a local BSD file-system; the NTFS semantics could be getting in the way. Also try write-once media, if

3ware Esclade 7006-2

2005-01-03 Thread Justin England
I have just installed 5.3-RELEASE on an IBM eServer series x330 with the primary ATA controller being an Esclade 7006-2 with two drives in a RAID 1 array. I configured the array with the BIOS utilities, and when installing 5.3 from the CD, it recognizes the array on the twe driver and everythin

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-03 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:49:26 +1100 (EST) Dave Horsfall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> I've also tried burning the first file to CD-Rs using Windows XP Home's >> own facilities and using Sonic RecordNow! under said system, but did not >> get bootable

mounting firewire/USB storate devices

2005-01-03 Thread Kevin Smith
I'm a little new at this, but can some suggest what is the best way to mount firewire and usb storage devices ? I am using both my ipod and compact flash devices with freeBSD but I find that I do not have a simple setup that allows me to mount them easily without manually looking at the /dev d

installing a linux rpm, wants perl

2005-01-03 Thread Karl Agee
freebsd 4.11-pre with linux compatibility. I'm trying to install a linux rpm but I am getting the following errer: -su-2.05b# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm package.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/perl is needed by package -su-2.05b# whereis per

RE: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Why in heavens name are you bothering with CUPS? And furthermore in FreeBSD 4.10 gimp-print version 4.2.6 is in the ports and that DOES have support for the C84, the advice to use C82 is just plain wrong. That's what you get for depending on some GPL-crutch like CUPS. Here's what you do: cd /us

Re: portupgrade system destruction?

2005-01-03 Thread Andrew Sinclair
Moved to freebsd-questions by Andrew Sinclair. Eric Anderson wrote: I have a few dedicated servers at a hosting company (about 3 hours drive time away). On one of the systems I ran a 'portupgrade -arR' this morning, and then disconnected (I ran it in a screen session). About an hour later, I rea

Re: atacontrol during boot ?

2005-01-03 Thread jason henson
On 01/03/05 14:28:02, Hexren wrote: I need to change the mode of ata channel 1 to UDMA33. When the system is up I use "atacontrol mode 1 UDMA33 UDMA33" for that. How can I do this during boot, before mounting HDDs (The reason for all this is, that one of my HDDs only likes UDMA33)? Thanks Hexren __

Re: ACPI and APM on 5.3

2005-01-03 Thread Eric Schuele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got around to cleaning up rc.conf, now using only acpi. 'acpiconf -s 1' works. Resume is _much_ faster. That only leaves me with a couple of acpi 'acpiconf -s 1' works well for me too on my laptop while using only acpi. However 'acpiconf -s 3' causes an immediat

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 3, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: A couple more questions, then I'm done. Promise. I need to verify whether or not there is an entry for grog_firewall_oif and grog_firewall_iif in /etc/rc.conf. If not, I want to exit with an error. Yo

Re: 4.8 - / out of space

2005-01-03 Thread David Kelly
On Jan 3, 2005, at 7:07 PM, Gregor Mosheh wrote: --- David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another goof is for root to "write" to an unmounted filesystem. Later when the filesystem is mounted the written files are hidden yet still consume space on the fs containing the mount point (usually /). Cou

Running top on system console without being logged on

2005-01-03 Thread Anthony Atkielski
I'd like to run top on the system console to keep an eye on the system, but I'd prefer not to have the console logged on to do so. Is there an elegant way to do this? I know I can start top and redirect output to /dev/console and detach it from the current terminal with "top -s 3 >/dev/console &"

Re: xorg/dri-6.2_1,2 upgrade problems

2005-01-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:49:43PM +, Ned Harrison wrote: > >CPUTYPE=athlon-xp > >CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -fschedule-insns2 -fomit-frame-pointer > >-funroll-loops > >COPTFLAGES=-O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -fschedule-insns2 > > It turned out to be the kdemultimedia package. It would

Re: Samba on a router; doesn't work for outer network.

2005-01-03 Thread James Jhai
On Monday 03 January 2005 08:45 am, Rob wrote: > James Jhai wrote: > > On Monday 03 January 2005 07:12 am, Rob wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have tried to configure Samba on a FreeBSD (5.3) router & NAT. > >> > >>I want to have a single accessible directory with a password, > >>that can be accesse

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:41:21 -0600 (CST) I wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:22:45 -0500 Timothy Luoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >>On Jan 3, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: >> >>> First off, let me thank you very much for the massive amount of >>> information you've given me thus far

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread S Salamander
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:13:43 -0700, Jon Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears that you should use the C82 driver. From: > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C84 > Parallel and USB ports. > > With Gimp-Print 4.2.2 or newer it will work (except full-bleed) when

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:22:45 -0500 Timothy Luoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Jan 3, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: > >> First off, let me thank you very much for the massive amount of >> information you've given me thus far. > >I am a commandline geek from way back, so you're welcome

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer

2005-01-03 Thread lists
It looks like it is having a problem relating to the mounting the drives. When I rerun the FreeBSD5.3 install a second time - it lists the drives from the first install but they are missing the mount locations. Any suggestions on a work around? Lino lists wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sun, Jan

Re: Backup with dd?

2005-01-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 04:27 am, Eric F Crist wrote: > Hello all, > > I've decided to try doing a complete system backup, attempting a > bit-for-bit copy. A friend told me to try the following: > > # dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6 > > Both drives are identical SATA150. Is this the best way? I'm hope to

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 3, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: A couple more questions, then I'm done. Promise. I need to verify whether or not there is an entry for grog_firewall_oif and grog_firewall_iif in /etc/rc.conf. If not, I want to exit with an error. You want to check for either "grog_firewall_oif" or

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread Jon Drews
It appears that you should use the C82 driver. From: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C84 Parallel and USB ports. With Gimp-Print 4.2.2 or newer it will work (except full-bleed) when choosing the Epson Stylus C82 as printer model, with older Gimp-Print versions whe

xorg/dri-6.2_1,2 upgrade problems

2005-01-03 Thread Ned Harrison
>On 12/30/04 22:18:32, Ned Harrison wrote: >> The upgrade to 5.3 fixed the Dri build problems. Thanks for the >> hint, Jason. It is much appreciated. I had to run xorgconfig to >> make a new config file in order to get the X server going again. My >> kde desktop keeps crashing but the Win

Re: 4.8 - / out of space

2005-01-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:07:23PM -0800, Gregor Mosheh wrote: > --- David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Another goof is for root to "write" to an unmounted > > filesystem. Later > > when the filesystem is mounted the written files are > > hidden yet still > > consume space on the fs co

Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread S Salamander
I'm trying to get my Epson Stylus C84 printer setup with CUPS and gimp-print (both of which are installed). The cups daemon is running and I can access localhost:631 for the administrative setup. However, don't see the option to use the CUPS/gimp-print driver. There is no PPD file as I can see f

Re: 4.8 - / out of space

2005-01-03 Thread Gregor Mosheh
--- David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another goof is for root to "write" to an unmounted > filesystem. Later > when the filesystem is mounted the written files are > hidden yet still > consume space on the fs containing the mount point > (usually /). Could you explain how this happens

Re: Help Please

2005-01-03 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 03 January 2005 11:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ANYONE: > > I have a huge problem. Our systems admin at my work went nuts and > locked us out of our BSD 5.0 server. He has disabled anyone's su > privs. Additionally, we cannot boot into single user mode without > entering the root p

Re: Sharing drive data with windows

2005-01-03 Thread Jonathan Franks
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:37:42 +0100 Phil Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/01/05 23:54, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: > > Is it possible to have NTFS writable? > > Do I have to use FAT32 to share data with Windows XP? > > > > there is limited support for writing to an ntfs filesystem in freebsd.

Re: 4.8 - / out of space

2005-01-03 Thread David Kelly
On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:31 PM, McCy Ron wrote: System: FreeBSD 4.8 with standard config on PII/400...used mainly as a backup server. df shows... Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a128990 119660-988 101%/ /dev/ad0s1f257998 4 237356 0%

Re: ACPI and APM on 5.3

2005-01-03 Thread doug
I finally got around to cleaning up rc.conf, now using only acpi. 'acpiconf -s 1' works. Resume is _much_ faster. That only leaves me with a couple of acpi boot errors to clean up (they do not affect anything AFAIK) and to set rc.resume to restore the network connection. I have some glitches that

Re: Programming with Bourne or C shell

2005-01-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-31 21:20, Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have most of my interactive shell experience using bash on Linux and > shell programing on Unix-like systems with Bourne shell. Since > FreeBSD's default shell is csh/tcsh, I was wondering if it's still > considered an atrocity to

Re: 9.3.0 on FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-31 10:35, Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >J.D. Bronson wrote: >>At 09:07 AM 12/31/2004, Richard Cotrina wrote: >>> Is there any reason for not using bind 9.3.0 that comes with FreeBSD >>> 5.3 ? It can be run chrooted with the same flags you are using. >> >> I deleted it by acc

Re: Hostname lookups? (tcpdump output)

2005-01-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-30 18:23, Florian Hengstberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I'm currently keeping track off all packets comming from my ISP using > tcpdump. I have a limited transfer rate and I'm wondering why there's > still (around 100KB per min) traffic although I have no network > connections

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Eric F Crist
A couple more questions, then I'm done. Promise. I need to verify whether or not there is an entry for grog_firewall_oif and grog_firewall_iif in /etc/rc.conf. If not, I want to exit with an error. Also, a little more advanced, I need to pull information from an ifconfig output. I need to pul

Compaq RAID 5 and a PC164

2005-01-03 Thread Bob Bomar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had a Proliant 5000 that I gutted a while back, and I am putting the RAID 5 card and enclosure in my Alpha PC164. When I try to boot the pc164, it hangs at loading the kernel. All it says is: Entering kernel at 0xfc33a6c0... And hangs. The m

Re: Attention Gary Kline

2005-01-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:08:42PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > You're accusing me of spam again.. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host ns1.thought.org[216.231.43.140] said: 550 5.0.0 > No SPAM (in reply to MAIL FROM command) > Apolgies again. That came from having rogers.com 550'd in my

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, January 03, 2005 04:49:04 PM -0600 Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By on-the-fly, I meant by manually typing in a new rule on the command line. From there, I'd take the output of ipfw show and figure out where I want that rule placed. So, for the purposes of this script, I j

FreeBSD 4.10 and finding dependant packages

2005-01-03 Thread Jordan Michaels
Greetings, I'm currently exploring FreeBSD 4.10 in an effort to get the "Emerging Technologies Bandwidth Manager" (www.etinc.com) set up. I'm pretty comfortable working in a Linux environment so I thought I'd tackle this project in FreeBSD because of BSD's reputation for stability and security.

Re: Postfix + SASL issue

2005-01-03 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/03/05 04:13 PM, artware sat at the `puter and typed: > Hello, > > I seem to be having some issue with saslauthd and postfix on 5.3-R... > When I try to send mail out, it fails, and puts this in > /var/log/maillog: > > Jan 4 05:56:17 n00330 postfix/smtpd[8103]: warning: SASL > authenticatio

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, January 03, 2005 04:21:41 PM -0600 Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe this is my last question. I need to do some math. Anyone familiar with ipfw knows that you can add a rule with: ipfw add [num] my firewall rule What

Re: Best way to back up to CD?

2005-01-03 Thread messmate
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:31:26 -0800 Tabor Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >I would like to start making periodic backups to CD. I know I can make >a tarball, and then create an iso with just that tarball on it, and >then burn that to a cd, but is there a better way? > >Specifically, I ha

Re: 4.8 - / out of space

2005-01-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 04:31:24PM -0600, McCy Ron wrote: > System: FreeBSD 4.8 with standard config on PII/400...used mainly as a > backup server. > > df shows... > > Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a128990 119660-988 101%/ > /dev/ad0s1f

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, January 03, 2005 04:21:41 PM -0600 Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe this is my last question. I need to do some math. Anyone familiar with ipfw knows that you can add a rule with: ipfw add [num] my firewall rule What I'm trying to do is have that number auto-comput

Re: Postfix + SASL issue

2005-01-03 Thread Jordan Michaels
Might want to send an email to the postfix list on this one... ;) -Jordan artware wrote: Hello, I seem to be having some issue with saslauthd and postfix on 5.3-R... When I try to send mail out, it fails, and puts this in /var/log/maillog: Jan 4 05:56:17 n00330 postfix/smtpd[8103]: warning: SASL

Re: Best way to back up to CD?

2005-01-03 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/03/05 01:31 PM, Tabor Kelly sat at the `puter and typed: > Hello, > > I would like to start making periodic backups to CD. I know I can make a > tarball, and then create an iso with just that tarball on it, and then > burn that to a cd, but is there a better way? > > Specifically, I have

4.8 - / out of space

2005-01-03 Thread McCy Ron
System: FreeBSD 4.8 with standard config on PII/400...used mainly as a backup server. df shows... Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a128990 119660-988 101%/ /dev/ad0s1f257998 4 237356 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g 7426528 2109420 4722986

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: In regards to the = or -eq, I can't discern a difference in output when I use them. Can you explain further their differences? I think they are different ways of saying the same thing. Personal pref

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Eric F Crist
I believe this is my last question. I need to do some math. Anyone familiar with ipfw knows that you can add a rule with: ipfw add [num] my firewall rule What I'm trying to do is have that number auto-computed. So, my command *should* look something like: $ipfwcmd add [rulenum1 + 50] my fire

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-03 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Scott Bennett thusly... > > I've downloaded the following ISO image files: > > 5.3-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso > 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso > 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso > > I've also tried burning the first file to CD-Rs using Windows XP > Hom

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: In regards to the = or -eq, I can't discern a difference in output when I use them. Can you explain further their differences? I think they are different ways of saying the same thing. Personal preference only as to which is better. What would NOT

Postfix + SASL issue

2005-01-03 Thread artware
Hello, I seem to be having some issue with saslauthd and postfix on 5.3-R... When I try to send mail out, it fails, and puts this in /var/log/maillog: Jan 4 05:56:17 n00330 postfix/smtpd[8103]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory Ja

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 3, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: elif [ "$grog_firewall_enable" <> "YES" or "NO" ] then echo "Syntax error in /etc/rc.conf file. grog_firewall_enable must be YES or NO" fi I don't know if you're on 5.x, nor whether you use ipfw, ipfilter or pf - I wrote

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: elif [ "$grog_firewall_enable" <> "YES" or "NO" ] then echo "Syntax error in /etc/rc.conf file. grog_firewall_enable must be YES or NO" fi I don't know if you're on 5.x, nor whether you use ipfw, ipfilter or pf - I wrote

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 3, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: elif [ "$grog_firewall_enable" <> "YES" or "NO" ] then echo "Syntax error in /etc/rc.conf file. grog_firewall_enable must be YES or NO" fi I don't know if you're on 5.x, nor whether you use ipfw, ipfilter or pf - I wrote

5.3-REL on Compaq SP700

2005-01-03 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi all, Tried installing 5.3-REL on a Compaq SP700 with on-board SYM 53C875 scsi chip but the controller/drives are not found during boot from CD. Are there any known problems with this machine/chipset? It had been running 4.10-REL before without any issues. Cheers,

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:27 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: Good to know. If I want to validate, like my first example, against some variables, how would I do that best. Say, for example, I have 4 possible entries for grog_firewall_enable but I want to single out three of them: if [ "$grog_firewall_enable" <

Oracle 10g

2005-01-03 Thread Toomas Aas
Has anyone tried running the Linux version of Oracle 10g on FreeBSD using Linux emulation? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Erik Norgaard
Eric F Crist wrote: elif [ "$grog_firewall_enable" <> "YES" or "NO" ] then echo "Syntax error in /etc/rc.conf file. grog_firewall_enable must be YES or NO" fi I don't know if you're on 5.x, nor whether you use ipfw, ipfilter or pf - I wrote a replacement for ipfilter as I got dizzy trying

Best way to back up to CD?

2005-01-03 Thread Tabor Kelly
Hello, I would like to start making periodic backups to CD. I know I can make a tarball, and then create an iso with just that tarball on it, and then burn that to a cd, but is there a better way? Specifically, I have read the into to backups in the Handbook and it says that dump/restore is sup

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Timothy Luoma
[Eric: sorry if you see this twice. Resending online. hit REPLY instead of REPLY ALL by accident] On Jan 3, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: First off, let me thank you very much for the massive amount of information you've given me thus far. I am a commandline geek from way back, so you'r

Attention Gary Kline

2005-01-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
You're accusing me of spam again.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host ns1.thought.org[216.231.43.140] said: 550 5.0.0 No SPAM (in reply to MAIL FROM command) Kris pgpTkou8Sv73P.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: best ide for c

2005-01-03 Thread Andrew P.
Alvaro Rosales wrote: Hello guys, I am learning how to program in C, Can yo recommend me an IDE ?. Thank you in advance Last October was rich in discussions on this topic. Check these out: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-October/062119.html http://lists.freebsd.org/piper

Re: SpamAssassin-Milter accuracy...

2005-01-03 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/03/05 08:34 PM, Martin Hepworth sat at the `puter and typed: > Eric > > you'll prob need to retrain the bayes filters ( or a good starter at > www.fsl.com/support). > > also alot of rules from the www.rulesemporium.com/rules.html can be useful. I believe that's actually www.rulesemporium.c

Re: build emacs - Xaw3d.8 problem

2005-01-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 04:20:00PM +0930, Hugh Ekeberg wrote: > Friends > > While doing a compile of Emacs-21.3, the build process ended with the > following error: > > ===> emacs-21.3_3 depends on executable: gmake - found > ===> emacs-21.3_3 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf213 - fo

Re: best ide for c

2005-01-03 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/03/05 03:28 PM, Alvaro Rosales sat at the `puter and typed: > Hello guys, > I am learning how to program in C, Can yo recommend me an IDE ?. > Thank you in advance Let the holy war begin :) This is gonna get a lot of action. It's been discussed here before, and will be discussed many tim

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 3, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Hexren wrote: I am not that great at bash but look in /etc/rc.firewall for the line where it says: ". /etc/defaults/rc.conf" I think this line includes /etc/rc.conf into the running script and as code in rc.conf is evaluat

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2005-01-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:41:11AM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:20:02PM -0500, rsh wrote: > > I am trying to 'make install clean' of openoffice and do not want to > > install Java. > > > > I have tried several things to say no to Java but it always wants to try > > to

Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?

2005-01-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:36:53PM -, John Conover wrote: > > Is there a native 5.3 port of OpenOffice, or does it still have to run > under Linux compatability? Yes, it's in the ports tree. I don't think we've ever included a linux openoffice port - are you perhaps thinking of staroffice, f

Re: library problems relating to mozilla

2005-01-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:30:31AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:03:13AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:44:54AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > People, > > > > > > Does anybody know why nppdf.so can't find libc.so.6? > > > 'locate' fi

Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?

2005-01-03 Thread John Conover
Is there a native 5.3 port of OpenOffice, or does it still have to run under Linux compatability? Thanks, John -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: Help Please

2005-01-03 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hey! Disregarding the reason he might have had to take these actions, it should be easy to solve the problem if you have physical access to the machine. Just boot from a CD and change to passwords from there. There is many descriptions out there on how to do that in detail. HTH, Ben On Mon, 200

Re: SpamAssassin-Milter accuracy...

2005-01-03 Thread Martin Hepworth
Eric you'll prob need to retrain the bayes filters ( or a good starter at www.fsl.com/support). also alot of rules from the www.rulesemporium.com/rules.html can be useful. Might want to look at some of the RBL.s and esp the URI rbl provided by surbl.org and built into SA3.x Could ask on the sa-

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 3, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Hexren wrote: I am not that great at bash but look in /etc/rc.firewall for the line where it says: ". /etc/defaults/rc.conf" I think this line includes /etc/rc.conf into the running script and as code in rc.conf is evaluated at the time it is included, all the variables

best ide for c

2005-01-03 Thread Alvaro Rosales
Hello guys, I am learning how to program in C, Can yo recommend me an IDE ?. Thank you in advance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Backup with dd?

2005-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've decided to try doing a complete system backup, attempting a > bit-for-bit copy. A friend told me to try the following: > > # dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6 > > Both drives are identical SATA150. Is this the best way? Not particularly. The primary

Re: [freebsd] Upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 and some icons broke in Window Maker 0.91.0

2005-01-03 Thread Tabor Kelly
regis rampnoux wrote: I added the ligne : Load "extmod" in the config file (Section "Module") and this solved the trouble. I had icons frames in blue and cyan too! Hope this can help you... No, I already had this line. I just changed all of my icons to their xpm formated equivalent. --

Re: ipfw question (FreeBSD 4.11)

2005-01-03 Thread Gerard Meijer
You are so the man! That's it. You have no idea how long I've spend looking for this. Thanks again! - Original Message - From: "Andras Kende" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Gerard Meijer'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 7:59 PM Subject: RE: ipfw question (FreeBSD 4.11)

Re: library problems relating to mozilla

2005-01-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:03:13AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:44:54AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > People, > > > > Does anybody know why nppdf.so can't find libc.so.6? > > 'locate' finds this libc in /compat/linux, so it's a > > headscratch. Re t

Re: Help Please

2005-01-03 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:09:39 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ANYONE: > > I have a huge problem. Our systems admin at my work went nuts and locked > us out of our BSD 5.0 server. He has disabled anyone's su privs. Did he have good reason for the above action? -- Jos

atacontrol during boot ?

2005-01-03 Thread Hexren
I need to change the mode of ata channel 1 to UDMA33. When the system is up I use "atacontrol mode 1 UDMA33 UDMA33" for that. How can I do this during boot, before mounting HDDs (The reason for all this is, that one of my HDDs only likes UDMA33)? Thanks Hexren

Re: Backup with dd?

2005-01-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:03 PM -0600 1/3/05, Eric F Crist wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Andrew P. wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: You seem to be under the impression that I'm doing this for the sole reason of a disk crash. I'm actually doing it for more than just that reason. For example, if my system gets hacked,

Re: Help Please

2005-01-03 Thread Hexren
dmc> ANYONE: dmc> I have a huge problem. Our systems admin at my work went nuts and locked dmc> us out of our BSD 5.0 server. He has disabled anyone's su privs. dmc> Additionally, we cannot boot into single user mode without entering the dmc> root password. How can I get around this without lo

Help Please

2005-01-03 Thread daniel
ANYONE: I have a huge problem. Our systems admin at my work went nuts and locked us out of our BSD 5.0 server. He has disabled anyone's su privs. Additionally, we cannot boot into single user mode without entering the root password. How can I get around this without losing any data on the serv

RE: [freebsd] Upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 and some icons broke in Window Maker 0.91.0

2005-01-03 Thread regis rampnoux
On 03-Jan-2005 Tabor Kelly wrote: >Hello, > >I just upgraded from Xorg 6.7.0 (where everything worked fine) to >Xorg 6.8.1 and my clip icon along with a few others have a black >background. >Is anybody else having this trouble with Xorg 6.8.1? Everything >else works fi

Re: Backup with dd?

2005-01-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:57 AM -0600 1/3/05, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello all, I've decided to try doing a complete system backup, attempting a bit-for-bit copy. A friend told me to try the following: # dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6 Both drives are identical SATA150. Is this the best way? While that will probably work, i

Re: Backup with dd?

2005-01-03 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 3, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Andrew P. wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Henry Miller wrote: This might work, but it isn't best. I can think of the following objections: You have no protection at all while the copy is in progress. You have overwritten part of the old backu

Re: library problems relating to mozilla

2005-01-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:44:54AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > People, > > Does anybody know why nppdf.so can't find libc.so.6? > 'locate' finds this libc in /compat/linux, so it's a > headscratch. Re the missing libstdc++, I'm building > gcc34 on zen right now. D

Re: Problem compiling gcc3.4

2005-01-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:02:17AM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > > Hi! > > On my FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE GENERIC (yeah, I will upgrade soon) I can't > get the gcc3.4 port to compile. > > Unless I'm mistaken, gcc3.4 is used for 5.3 nowdays. Do I dare to > upgrade to 5.3 or do I have the chance of

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 3, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: I'm trying to create a shell script for firewalling. What I'm hoping to do is create a generic script that looks for variables in /etc/rc.conf. I've tried looking at other scripts that use variable

RE: ipfw question (FreeBSD 4.11)

2005-01-03 Thread Andras Kende
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerard Meijer Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ipfw question (FreeBSD 4.11) I run apache webserver on my server with FreeBSD 4.11 I have a question about i

Re: Backup with dd?

2005-01-03 Thread Andrew P.
Eric F Crist wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Henry Miller wrote: This might work, but it isn't best. I can think of the following objections: You have no protection at all while the copy is in progress. You have overwritten part of the old backup, but not enough to be consistent. You have ma

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 3, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: I'm trying to create a shell script for firewalling. What I'm hoping to do is create a generic script that looks for variables in /etc/rc.conf. I've tried looking at other scripts that use variables placed there, but don't understand how to pull

library problems relating to mozilla

2005-01-03 Thread Gary Kline
People, Does anybody know why nppdf.so can't find libc.so.6? 'locate' finds this libc in /compat/linux, so it's a headscratch. Re the missing libstdc++, I'm building gcc34 on zen right now. Doing "about:plugins" on mozilla on zen turns up zip.

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