Re: newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: > --On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample > > message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks > > > > :

Re: problem whith cd-rom

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 11:17 am, golev wrote: > I'm having a problem under FreeBSD-5.1 > I can't mount cd-rom whith music ! > Thanks. You're not supposed to mount music CD's. Your CD-listening application should work fine as long as it knows which device represents the CD. Give it a try. Be

Re: ircd recommendations?

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 09:48 pm, Eric F Crist wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2004 08:08 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > The port for ircd-hybrid is marked as broken. Does anyone have any > > recommendations regarding other irc servers? > > I have a server running Unre

ircd recommendations?

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I'd like to experiment with an irc server. The irc server will not be configured to connect to other irc servers. (In fact, I'd like to make it local to the server and have the small number of users use ssh and a local connection.) The port for ircd-hybrid is marked as broken. Does anyone ha

Re: ipfw rules for letting ssh requests in

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:53 pm, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: > > You forgot the packets in the other direction... This should do the trick : > > ${fwcmd} add 00300 allow tcp from any to me 22 > ${fwcmd} add 00301 allow tcp from me 22 to any > > grtz, > Daan It worked. Thanks, Andrew Gould _

Re: ipfw rules for letting ssh requests in

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Does portmap have to be enabled to connect to sshd? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ipfw rules for letting ssh requests in

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:53 pm, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: > On Monday 19 January 2004 00:47, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > I can't seem to get the ipfw rules right for letting ssh clients access a > > ssh server. I can use ssh on the server to connect to the client;

ipfw rules for letting ssh requests in

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I can't seem to get the ipfw rules right for letting ssh clients access a ssh server. I can use ssh on the server to connect to the client; but if I try to connect from the client to the server, the operation times out. I have my rules in /etc/ipfw.rules. Executing 'ipfw show' displays all of

Re: trouble mounting a zip drive on parallel port

2004-01-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 17 January 2004 07:55 pm, Alex Walker wrote: > Alas, I got no message about "Creating DISK da0". I have double checked all > of the connections (my machine is set to dual boot with another OS, and > everything works fine there), so I know it's not a connection issue. Still > it just ref

Re: unknown host

2004-01-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 16 January 2004 06:12 pm, fabio Viquez wrote: > i can ping my freebsd 4.8 server, but when i try to use the ports or > navigate the internet with konqueror i get unknown host... any idea? Did you put the IP addresses of your DNS nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf? Best of luck, Andrew Go

Re: PowerPC?

2004-01-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 16 January 2004 11:50 am, Eric F Crist wrote: > Where do I get a PowerPC ISO to install? (I recently obtained an old Mac > G3). I'm not seeing anything readily identifiable in pub/FreeBSD on the ftp > server. > > TIA The PPC port of FreeBSD is in development. You can find more informati

Re: Remove CRs

2004-01-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 16 January 2004 10:15 am, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Someone recomended dosunix (from ports) which is > fine; please be aware of the fact that the same quid > pro quo applies: > > $dosunix foobar foobar > > will still give you an empty file. > > Kevin Kinsey Please note that

Re: Optical PS/2 mouse not working under X

2004-01-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 16 January 2004 08:49 am, Slabbert, C. (Clinton) wrote: > Hello, > > I recently purchased a new PS/2 optical mouse. I can't seem to get it > working under X. On Debian and Slackware I use: > Protocol auto or ImPS/2 > and it works fine. > > Under FreeBSD nothing seems to work, auto, Micr

Re: your mail

2004-01-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 16 January 2004 07:45 am, David Fleck wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Evan Sayer wrote: > > FreeBSD- > > Please help, this is really important. I was told that i could get rid > > of the ^m symbols at the end of the lines in my web page's html code > > by using sed. They said to execute

Solved: Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:28 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:25:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > >

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:28 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:25:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > >

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > >

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > If I'm trying to open the pdf file as a normal user, I get the following > > message: > > > > "There was an error opening this do

acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
After portupgrading my system, I'm having difficulties opening pdf files using acroread5 and xpdf as a normal user. I've tried using the applications as stand-alone apps, and I've tried opening pdf files in Mozilla and Opera --all with the same results: If I'm trying to open the pdf file as a

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:47 am, Donald Turnbull wrote: > I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already > installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly > in the future? > > > > Donald M. Turnbull MCSE, MCDBA KDE and Gnome are on the in

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
ts-all tag=.' in my supfile because I read that there > are no release tags for ports). I think you're correct here; but you could choose not to cvsup the ports. > > I just want to make sure I understand all of this correctly. > > Thanks again, > Duane > > On Wed,

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 10:11 pm, Duane Winner wrote: > Hello all again, > > I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes > and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good > habits/methods/instructions for updating routines for both myself and my > colleagues who

Re: Secure MSN and ICQ chat

2004-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 09:49 pm, Nicolás de Bari Embríz G. R. wrote: > Hello all. > > I want to secure the network traffic of the users on my LAN, I want to > secure the MSN and ICQ data so people on the building can't use a sniffer > and watch the conversations. > > I have something like thi

Re: buildworld failure 4.9 Stable --> 5.2 Release

2004-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 11:30 am, Goodleaf, John M wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to upgrade a system from 4.9 (Stable) to 5.2 release. I get a > buildworld failure with aand error that reads like this: > > In file included from /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm.c:62: > /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm.h:41:24:

FYI - Burned DVD-R on FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE

2004-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
A while ago there was an email thread regarding the possibility of burning DVD-R's using dvd+rw-tools. My first attempt to do so failed when using a Memorex DVD-R. Since someone else posted problems creating a bootable CD using Memorex media, I tried again using another brand. My second atte

Re: problems creating a bootable image using burncd

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 01:07 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: > I've been trying to create a a bootable CD using freesbie. I ran into > problems getting that to work. It failed to boot and the same thing > happened upon reburn. > > I then went to download a the 4.9 install iso to see if it was a possibl

Re: Whan can I do if OS does not boot after makeworld

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:31 am, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: > Did you ever have any problem about makeworld process ?! > I afraid of one day will come and I can't boot my FreeBSD > > Vahric For me, the trickiest part was understanding and executing 'mergemaster -i' after 'make world'. Once I go

Re: How "safe" is 5.2 to use?

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:19 am, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Jan 13, 2004, at 4:45 AM, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: > > Hi , > > > > You have to use FreeBSD 4.9, because you can see in freebsd web page > > prodcution version is 4.9. and please test it maybe you will see you > > can not >

Re: XFree86 configuration

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 02:31 am, Carvalho Paulo wrote: >Hello everyone, >I just installed FreeBSD 4.9, and when I try to > cofigure X through sysinstall it gives an error > message in the end. The messege says that an error has > ocurred and asks if I want to try again. I tried > severa

Re: Whan can I do if OS does not boot after makeworld

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 07:02 am, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: > Hi , > > I did not make something now and I don't have a problem with makeworld. But > I red something in FreeBSD from scratch and I saw that some problem can > occur and after makeworld process OS is not openinig > > Vahric This

Re: Script question...

2004-01-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 12 January 2004 05:04 pm, Xpression wrote: > Hi list, I've making a script to write the content of three text files to > one file, but I want to separate each files by a delimiter like the name of > the file. > > This is the script: > > #! /bin/sh > path=/some/dir > if !([ -f $path/this.o

Re: where are the jabber man pages?

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:43 am, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 11:17:56 -0600 > > "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A list of files that are installed by a port can be found in the > > "pkg-plist" file of the port

Re: where are the jabber man pages?

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 11 January 2004 10:36 am, David Fleck wrote: > 4.9-RELEASE-p1. > > I've installed jabber (successfully, as far as I can tell) from ports, > cvsup'ed Jan. 10. > > But I can't find any documentation for it on my system, either as man > pages, docs in /usr/local/share/doc, info pages... > >

Re: tail tip to Fortune?

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 11 January 2004 01:55 am, Jez Hancock wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:01:22AM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:39 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > In the last episode (

Re: tail tip to Fortune?

2004-01-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:39 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jan 09), Dru said: > > > I remember coming across a trick (which I can't find now) which > > > allowed you to page all of a file,

tail tip to Fortune?

2004-01-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 09), Dru said: > > I remember coming across a trick (which I can't find now) which > > allowed you to page all of a file, except for the first 10 lines. I > > think it used a combo of head and tail to achieve this. I can't just > > u

Re: nvidia geforce fx 5200 not working with nvidia driver

2004-01-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
e. > Any other idea ? Or someone having that same card + same kernel ? > (chipset is via kt400). > > Thanks, Luca. > > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Thursday 08 January 2004 03:21 pm, Luca Gerli wrote: > >>Hello all, > >> > >> just installed

Re: Yahoo! and GAIM

2004-01-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 09 January 2004 10:23 pm, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: > Eric F Crist wrote: > > Hello people. > > > > I used to think IM clients were passe and childish, until I tried to go > > without. I found that there are a lot of business associates and friends > > that use it, and it makes life a lot

Re: Booting from a hard disk not supported by the BIOS

2004-01-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 09 January 2004 10:36 am, Konrad Scorciapino wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an old computer with 2 hard disks. The first has 2GB and FreeBSD > installed; the second, 20GB and windows installed. However, the computer's > BIOS is quite old and doesn't detect the second hard disk, so I cannot boo

Re: A jail?

2004-01-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
all > required libraries.) As with any other port, missing dependencies will be installed by default. Have fun, Andrew Gould > > -R > > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >Okay, so to wrap up the PostgreSQL issue: > > > >1. PostgreSQL does not require Linux compatibility or a ja

Re: A jail?

2004-01-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
d 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 > >port that produces the message below is ports/emulators/li

Re: A jail?

2004-01-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 08 January 2004 06:13 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: > While installing postgres I get the following: > > > You need to create the null device in your jailed Linux environment. Run > this > outside the jail, then press enter: > > mkdir -m 0755 -p /dev > rm -f //compat/linux/dev/null > mknod //

Re: nvidia geforce fx 5200 not working with nvidia driver

2004-01-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
; not working is the 5200. I wonder if it is an AGP issue, but > even using the Kernel AGP made no difference. > Any other idea ? Or someone having that same card + same kernel ? > (chipset is via kt400). > > Thanks, Luca. Perhaps it's a FreeBSD 5.2RC2 thing. Remember, you'

Re: nvidia geforce fx 5200 not working with nvidia driver

2004-01-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 08 January 2004 03:21 pm, Luca Gerli wrote: > Hello all, > > just installed a new Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 on my pc (freebsd 5.2RC2), > and did a "startx" but just got this: > > Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, >(++) from command line, (!!

Re: Sound not working on laptop

2004-01-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 08 January 2004 01:07 pm, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: > Great! But what does " recompile the kernel with device pcm" mean? :( Here are some links to the handbook that should serve you well. Note that each url should be on one line: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbo

Re: Sound not working on laptop

2004-01-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 08 January 2004 04:21 am, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: > Hi, > > Sound is not working on my laptop that has FreeBSD 4.9 installed on. I > want to check the detected driver (if any) by the system and configure > it to use the right one. > > How can this be done whether by using KDE or on the

Re: Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

2004-01-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:07 pm, Nick Tonkin wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a dim recollection (and a CD) of using commercially produced X > drivers (by XI Graphics) in FreeBSD 2.x and maybe 3.x > > I called XIG and they do not offer drivers for 5.x. > > I am dissatisfied with the graphics perf

Re: Where is my KDE?

2004-01-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:44 am, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: > Hi, > > I installed kdebase along with other packages using pkg_add but I cannot > run start-kde. Why? Where is my KDE files that I installed are located? > > TIA. > > Mazen There is a meta-port "kde3" that will install the desktop e

Re: windows killed my boot manager

2004-01-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:35 am, Dan Dan wrote: > I needed to reinstall Windows after a FreeBSD 5.x > install. I knew that I could reinstall the boot > manager from the CD. However, looking at the FAQ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#WIN95-DAM >AGED-BOOT-MAN

Re: Wireless PCI card setup

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 05 January 2004 12:02 pm, G. Held wrote: > >Can you just paste dmesg -a? > > Righty-O: > > > --G. Held > -- > > Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University

Re: FreeBSD AGP or Nvidia AGP?

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 05 January 2004 10:38 am, Dany wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >On Monday 05 January 2004 10:21 am, Dany wrote: > >>What about DVD playing ? Does that take advantage of the Nvidia driver > >>or will that work with nv ? > >> > >>Dany wrot

Re: FreeBSD AGP or Nvidia AGP?

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 05 January 2004 10:21 am, Dany wrote: > What about DVD playing ? Does that take advantage of the Nvidia driver > or will that work with nv ? > > Dany wrote: > > That's a good idea but if I do that I will be missing the cool > > screensavers using OpenGL ;) > > > > Stijn Hoop wrote: > >> O

Re: converting manpages to postscript

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 05 January 2004 10:17 am, Dru wrote: > I'm trying to convert a manpage to postscript and have tried these 3 > variants: > > groff -Tps -mandoc /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz > ls.ps > groff -Tps -mdoc /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz > ls.ps > groff -Tps -man /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz > ls.ps >

Re: Mounting CDROM as user under 5.x

2003-12-31 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:39 pm, Dany wrote: > Hello, > > Because I didn't get any response on BSDforums, I've decided to try my > chance here. > > I'm trying to get my single user (belonging to the wheel group) mounting > a CD drive under 5.x using devfs (5.2RC2). > Could somebody post a very

Re: Using FreeBSD as a DHCP server

2003-12-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 09:17 am, stan wrote: > I need to use a STABLE machine for a DHCP server. > > Man -k and looking in /etc/defaults/rc.conf don't seem to point me to the > server side of this protocol. > > Do I need to add a port? If so what's the best one? Use /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3.

Re: How can I automatically mount a windows-xp share from a freeBSD box using windows usernameandpassword?

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 29 December 2003 01:31 pm, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > --- > > | On Dec 29, 2003, at 10:58 AM, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > | > I know this question has been touched earlier this year, but no > > answer > > | > came up at that point. So basically, has anyone been able to > > m

Re: KMail export to Outlook

2003-10-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 04 October 2003 09:36 am, Chris wrote: > Is there a way to take my mail (from KMail) and either export it to, or > some other app that will allow me to pull in all the mail into Outlook2000? > > Best regards, > Chris KMail allows you to create mailbox folders in maildi

Re: ftp recurvisely

2003-10-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 07:28 pm, Michael Sharp wrote: > Is there a way using the core ftp to mget all files on a site, creating > the directorys and getting the files in the recursively? > > michael I think wget (/usr/ports/ftp/wget/) can do it. Andrew __

Re: Firewall problem

2003-10-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 01:18 pm, Gary wrote: > I have set my firewall to > > firewall_type="open" > firewall_enable="YES" > > and when I want to drop a specific IP, I enter it manually, it accepts it, > but it does not drop the packets.. > > I am getting a lot of virus activity on my SMTP por

Re: WI-FI stuff ?

2003-09-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 11:08 am, Frank Bonnet wrote: > >Best of luck, > > > >Andrew Gould > > it's working ! ... except I cannot use DHCP for the moment to bootup the > client > but if I enter an IP address manually it works Since I need various wifi configurations on my laptop, I use startu

Re: WI-FI stuff ?

2003-09-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:03 am, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hi > > Is there some Wi-Fi related stuff somewhere > on FreeBSD area ? > > I need to test some HP/compaq notebooks with > integrated WI-FI interfaces with FreeBSD and Linux. > > Thanks a lot. The handbook's always a good place to start:

Re: burncd freebsd 5.1

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 29 September 2003 11:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > When i tried to burn this iso image i got the following error ( please find > below). > > #used command: > > burncd -f /dev/acd0 -t -v -s 4 data slackware-9.1-install-d1.iso > > iso image is correct (md5 cjhecked). > > #Out

Re: Post Installation Questions

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 29 September 2003 09:23 am, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings, > I installed 4.7 this past weekend. I screwed up a bit when I > did the post install configure and didn't specify the domain name. > Now, I get sendmail messages about not being able to figure > out the fully qualified domain n

Re: FreeBSD in Windows.....

2003-09-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 26 September 2003 04:51 pm, Timms, Simon wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 3:41 PM > To: Adam McLaurin > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FreeBSD in Windows. > > >On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:32:40P

Re: advice re mail

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:55 pm, David Bear wrote: > I need to write a program the grabs mail from a standard mail folder > and processes it. > > The trouble is I have no idea what mail file format FreeBSD uses by > default. I am using postfix, and currently postfix is my mta and mda. > I

Re: Why do you prefer FreeBSD???? Maybe Windows is more comfortable than FBSD?

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 02:05 pm, Denis wrote: > Hi All!!! > > I think that WinXP more popular and more easy than FreeBSD. People > all over the world know what is Windows but don't know what is > FreeBSD. More programs is written work on Windows > Windows more comfortable in wor

Re: Disk geometry

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:09 pm, Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:49 +0200 "radu.florin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm testing the coexistence of Win95, Linux Slackware and Free BSD 5.1 > > on a single physical disk PC ( P133, 16Mo R

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:23 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:04 am, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: > > --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On > > Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:59:30AM +0100, Tadimeti > > > > > Keshav wrote:

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:04 am, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: > --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On > Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:59:30AM +0100, Tadimeti > > > Keshav wrote: > > > Guys, > > > Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD > > > > set? > > > > > This is one area where Lin

Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 09:52 pm, Ajax Munroe wrote: > Hello, > > I dont have a question but I would like to make a statement. I > downloaded Freebsd version 5.0 release and unpacked it in great > anticipation. I made a bootable CD (the best I could, It's not as easy as > mak

OT: Windows and virus humor

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
For those of you who are not familiar with satirewire.com, here are a few choice articles that may be appropriate for this week and last: http://satirewire.com/briefs/windowsvirus.shtml http://satirewire.com/news/jan02/patchsoft.shtml Have fun, Andrew Gould _

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. > I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc, > But they reappear on subsequent cvsups. > Where have I gone wrong? > > * /etc/c

Re: Someone on list with latest virus?

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:22 am, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 08:10 am, vizion communication wrote: > > I agree that a number of people on this list have been > > affected by the virus and it is really helpful of you to > > have posted to the list because those infected ar

Re: Internal sound card cannot be recognized

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 02:24 am, you wrote: > Im using freebsd 4.8 and KDE where i usualy get d eror > during startx. > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 pm, Edwin D. Vinas > > wrote: > > > When i turn on my FreeBSD machine, I often rece

Re: Internal sound card cannot be recognized

2003-09-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 pm, Edwin D. Vinas wrote: > When i turn on my FreeBSD machine, I often receive a > pop-up window saying there's a problem with my sound > card (internal sound card). It says that it couldn't > open or find /dev/dsp0 or something similar. Is there > a way to slve th

Re: cvsup src help

2003-09-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 21 September 2003 01:27 pm, ALIAS wrote: > i use used cvsup to update the src after that what do i do? i read that > there are things like make world to install the new src files? how do i do > that? 1. study 'man mergemaster". 2. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ha

Re: need help with xfree86 4

2003-09-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:43 am, ALIAS wrote: > i'm trying to install this program and it says it needs xfree86 4x to > compile where do i get xfree86 4x and how to install it? Assuming your running FreeBSD 4.8: Use the ports system: su cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/ make instal

Re: modem on serial port?

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 September 2003 12:35 pm, Sean Hafeez wrote: > i am using a freebsd box as a router. it has a serial port. i would > like to hook up a modem and use it to manage the router if the lines go > down. now i know you can use the serial port as a console but how about > when i stick a modem o

Re: CUPS vs. apsfilter--newbie setup problems

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 September 2003 11:05 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Friday 19 September 2003 10:39 am, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to > > some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured > > with either CUP

Re: CUPS vs. apsfilter--newbie setup problems

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 September 2003 10:39 am, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to > some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured > with either CUPS or apsfilter (as someone here had recommended). > I've tried to look over the docs, and search throug

Re: antiviruos for FreeBSD mail server ?

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 September 2003 07:45 am, RJ45 wrote: > Hello, > I Tryed to search an economic antivirus for freebsd mailserver. > Anyone has comments on Vexira antivirus ? > anyone tryed it ? > It looks quit economic > > thanks > > Rick I'd like to add on to this question: Has anyone run the Linux D

Re: Witch database do you recommend?

2003-09-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 18 September 2003 09:49 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:13:22AM +0100, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: > > what about sybase? > > linux.sybase.com/ase > > THey have a native version for FreeBSD. > > Where? All I see downloads for Linux, not FreeBSD. FreeBSD-Intel is below

Re: Witch database do you recommend?

2003-09-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 18 September 2003 04:06 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > Hi, > > > > You've opened quite a can of worms ;) > > > > I would recommend PostgreSQL, I've always found it's documentation > > to be great, the mailing lists great, and just getting

Re: yahoo, hotmail, etc

2003-09-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 08:21 am, synrat wrote: > I was wondering if anyone is aware of any scripts > or programs that can retrieve mail from different > webmail sources. > > thanx in advance POP access is available for yahoo mail; but it's not free -- $19.99 (US) a year, or bundled with o

Re: Upgrade 4.8-RELEASE?

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 02:24 pm, Kjell B. wrote: > I was thinking of upgrading (binary) in order to correct the security > issues (sendmail, openssh, realpath, etc.) that have been discovered > since the 4.8-RELEASE. However, I fail to do so. I've searched the > online documentation but not

Re:

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 01:01 pm, d wrote: > so you go to your site and get the stable packages and put them on the hard > drive. you go to that folder and do a pkg_add * to add all the packages in > the x11 directory, thinking this will get you a GUI but it throws a bunch > of package not fou

Re: linking a dir

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 11:31 am, Gary wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 10:59:19 AM, you wrote: > >> room under /usr) without any problem. > >> > >> Thanks for input.. > > ALG> I don't think you should do this. In single-user mode, I don't think > /usr ALG> would be mou

Re: linking a dir

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:51 am, Gary wrote: > Hello Guys, > > It seems that on a remote box FBSD 4.8, my /dev/ad0s1a or / dir is at 73% > capacity already, and this has me somewhat worried. I attribute this to > the /etc dir inside of the / dir, as it contains many log files, etc... or > pe

Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 08:07 am, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Vledder, Hans wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > >> Based on that, it's not clear why you would want to > >> build an AP from a wireless card. > > > > Well, this to avoid having to deal with a 'swiss army knife' type of box, > > just like the o

Re: having trouble mounting cd rom

2003-09-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 14 September 2003 09:05 pm, Charlie wrote: > not sure why but when i run the command mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0c > /cdrom it gives me this error message cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument > ___ Is this a new problem? That is, did the co

Re: Problems trying to boot from an 80GB Seagate

2003-09-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 14 September 2003 12:06 pm, Sean A Reith wrote: > I'm trying to get my first FreeBSD (4.8-RELEASE) installation working, and > I am having trouble getting a system which boots, primarily due to what > appear to be disk geometry issues (but this is a complete newbie guess). > > The hardwar

Re: Internal Modems that work with freebsd

2003-09-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 12 September 2003 08:53 pm, Bob Shadley wrote: > Any suggestions for an internal modem in the $20 unit cost range that > works with freebsd? The modem source would need to be reliable since it > would be to support an ongoing project. > Good luck. The inexpensive modems tend to be winmo

Re: Trying to secure PostgreSQL

2003-09-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 12 September 2003 05:13 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-09-12T21:39:14Z, "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You're looking for something difficult when the easier answer is correct. > > > > As root, set pgsql's password by

Re: Trying to secure PostgreSQL

2003-09-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 12 September 2003 03:59 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I'm running PostgreSQL 7.3 on a FreeBSD 5.1 server. The databases are > working well and it's humming along nicely, but I really want to secure it. > > In particular, my pg_hba.conf looks like: > >local all pgsql

Re: FreeBSD's refusal to connect to the internet

2003-09-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:32 am, Colin Ryan wrote: > I have a small network of three computers in my office here. Two Windows > 2000, and one FreeBSD 5.1. It's the BSD box that's giving me problems. > > My computers are connected to my modem via an ethernet switch. My modem is > set up as

Re: nforce2 (for the zillionth time, I should imagine)

2003-09-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06:25 pm, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > I've just purchased a new machine (a micro-ATX machine) with an > nforce2 board. After a little searching on Google/Groups it looks to > still be pretty much unsupported. Can anybody give a run-down of the > how each aspec

Re: How to get 4.9 RC or Pre Release

2003-09-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06:42 pm, Ben Dover wrote: > How would I go about getting 4.9 RC or pre release whatever it is called. > I have spoken to a few people who are running it and even saw a dedicated > server business who was offering it. It's not in the i386 ISO folder so > I'm assumin

Re: Compile PHP for Postgresql

2003-09-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06:15 pm, Ricardo Javier Aranibar León wrote: > Hi list, > > I bougth FeeBSD4.8 (april 2003) from FreeBSDMall, I'm newbie with this > operative System, I installed Apache, PostgreSQL and PHP but when I like > connect in my script php with postgresql I have this error:

Re: help about freebsd4.7 /usr/port

2003-09-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:51 pm, Your Name wrote: > Hi all > > After we installed freebsd 4.7, we have problem to update the port > > We want to install the cvsup to update the port but got the following > problem > If you installed 4.7 from a CD, look for the cvsup package on the installati

Re: COM3 && COM4 && Modem

2003-09-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:00 pm, Claudiu Bichir wrote: > Hy folks ! > I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed on my computer and I wanted to know how can I > enable the COM3 & COM4 ports. The ports are disabled by default in 5.0. > I tried to modify /boot/device.hints but with no hope . > I commented hi

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