Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Ed Budd
Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello FreeBSD Friends. I have just arrived to the FreeBSD world. I am not an expert on anything, I am only a computer fan and use my computer mainly for my engineering work and hobbies (amateur radio, photography, astronomy, etc.). I come from a happy Debian GNU/Linux

[WAY OT] Re: Scott Crain from Xenia?? (who played a Driud in Rob Scites Campaign)

2004-12-10 Thread Ed Budd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message is for Scott Crain that grew up in Xenia, Ohio. This is Dwaine Falls and I have been trying to get in touch with you. Please respond to confirm identity. If this is the wrong person then I apologize Dwaine R. Falls URS Corporation 277 West Nationwide Blvd.

Re: DSL Disconnects

2004-12-01 Thread Ed Budd
bryan cassidy wrote: Hello. My ISP is through Bellsouth FastAccess DSL and I am trying to get my connection to stay up without disconnected and having to run /etc/netstart everytime it disconnects. I am very confused about how connections are in general. I think it is a PPPoE. I have to use a user

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Ed Budd
Curtis Vaughan wrote: o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL o install kernel/world in

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Ed Budd
Ed Budd wrote: Curtis Vaughan wrote: o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL o install

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Ed Budd
Peter Risdon wrote: Ed Budd wrote: Oops that should have read: make installworld KERNCONF=MYKERNEL This is the second time I've seen this in this thread. Is the KERNCONF argument meaningful with a make installworld? Peter. lol, no. I shouldn't bother responding to posts when I'm busy doing

Re: Please take this somewhere else (was RE: difference betweenreleases)

2004-11-10 Thread Ed Budd
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Dear list moderators, I haven't been following or posting to this particular thread but the post from Manfred here caught my eye. I would like to propose the following: From now on, anyone calling for another member to be removed from the list, in an OPEN message to the

Re: [OT]Help me, Get a Free flat screen

2004-11-05 Thread Ed Budd
Daniel Jesperson wrote: Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... Copy and paste this link...and add one W to the front and you get a TV ww.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=1141739 Best regards, and Thank you

[OT] Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

2004-10-27 Thread Ed Budd
little snip I'll make this short, sweet, and to the point. The Human Race, is by nature a lazy race. We, as in, ALL humans, strive to make our life easier. I'm well aware of monopolies and their effect on us. I'm also aware of how technology has changed our lives. If you think that you, or I don't

Re: [OT] Error sending mail from off-network... (details inside)

2004-10-13 Thread Ed Budd
Eric Crist wrote: On Oct 13, 2004, at 7:00 AM, Subhro wrote: Are you authenticating yourself before attempting to send out mail to the ISP SMTP. To prevent spammers, almost all ISPs allow the use of their SMTPs only after you prove them that you are really a legitimate customer. Also many ISPs

Re: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail

2004-10-05 Thread Ed Budd
Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 Stable on one of my servers and Sendmail 8.12.10. I'm trying to get mail auth to work so that my users can send mail (smtp port 25) through this server no matter which net they are connected to. I have installed cyrus-sasl-1.5.28_3

Re: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail

2004-10-05 Thread Ed Budd
Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Thanks! However, could you please give me some more specific directions? Today my sendmail.mc file looks like this: divert(0) VERSIONID(`$FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc,v 1.10.2.18 2003/04/24 16:57:30 gshapiro Exp $') OSTYPE(freebsd4) DOMAIN(generic)

Re: pf for FreeBSD

2004-09-28 Thread Ed Budd
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:54:18 +0200 Cristi Tauber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello folks, i want to install the packet filter for FreeBSD so i recompile the kernel with the options : device bpf options PFIL_HOOKS options RANDOM_IP_ID and

Re: ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP on 5.3beta2

2004-09-21 Thread Ed Budd
John DeStefano wrote: I'm trying to get my ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP video card to oplay nice with with Xorg on FreeBSD5.3beta2. Since I've already asked for help, I won't pollute the list yet again with details, as they can be found at the BSD Forums:

Re: what are the pros and cons of running in single user?

2004-09-16 Thread Ed Budd
mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: I have a machine running 4.10-STABLE that will be a dedicated gateway with a router/firewall combo and web server plus mysql server (maybe). What would be the pros and cons of running this system single user? Processes that run under their own uid, would they be

Re: sendmail help needed!!!

2004-08-27 Thread Ed Budd
Hussain Umair wrote: hi all, im tryin to get my bsd box to run as an email server on my local lan, squid is already running perfectly on that but my lan clients cannot retrieve their mails through pop or smtp...ive tried everything but im getting nowhere my bsd box has an ip 192.168.1.125

[OT] fishing for addresses

2004-08-24 Thread Ed Budd
Klaus, Chris (ISSAtlanta) wrote: This is an automated message. I apologize for the inconvenience, but I need your help in fighting spam. Messages from approved senders go directly to my Inbox. Messages from addresses that have not put into my whitelist are quarantined until the address of the

Re: XFree86 Question

2004-08-23 Thread Ed Budd
Oliver Gould wrote: Sorry if this is not quite the place for this question but I'm at my wits ends here. I need viable Horizontal sync ranges and vertical refresh rates for my compaq presario laptop 1200-XL118 (13 HPA screen, Trident Cyberblade i7 video card)and I have not been able to find

Re: mozilla and courier-imap

2004-08-13 Thread Ed Budd
Richard Coleman wrote: I'm using the most recent ports for mozilla and courier-imap on an up-to-date FreeBSD-stable. Very often I will not see new messages in a folder until I restart mozilla. I was convinced it was mozilla that was broken, but I've seen similar behavior using Thunderbird on

Re: Receiving your address on my tv

2004-08-01 Thread Ed Budd
sylvia bowman wrote: I am receiving your email address on my television screen. It happens late on Saturday evenings. Can you address this situation, please. Sylvia Bowman - Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!

Re: Claiming that the list's e-mail showed up on her TV

2004-08-01 Thread Ed Budd
3BSD wrote: I think anyone who replies to that address is getting subscribed to a spam list. Please don't reply. -3BSD ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installerpackage like this ???

2004-07-28 Thread Ed Budd
What I have noticed so far about FreeBSD: FreeBSD is about 5 YEARS behind windows(I would actually say 1990, but people my have heart attacks) - apologies to all the hard work put in by BSD contributors! - with FreeBSD Windows 2000 installed on the SAME computer, the GUI of Windows 2000 is MUCH

Re: 3COM NIC Card???

2004-07-26 Thread Ed Budd
Hakim Singhji wrote: Hello All, I recently purchased a pair of 3Com 3C905CTXM EtherLink XL PCI TX Network adapter PCI 100 Mbps NIC Cards and I wanted to know if they are compatible with FreeBSD 4.10 (stable). Could someone please give me some feedback on this thanks. Hakim Z. Singhji

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Ed Budd
Sir: 1. FreeBSD is NOT linux. Had you taken any time to read the FAQ and peruse the website at freebsd.org you would know this; 2. I've yet to read anyone in-the-know suggest that Freebsd is an appropriate desktop replacement OS for (typically) non tech-savvy Windows users. Internet servers

Re: Mozilla 1.7 more unstable than 1.6?

2004-07-14 Thread Ed Budd
Rob Lahaye wrote: Hi, I have just upgraded my mozilla install from ports collection to version 1.7. Since then, mozilla seems to crash frequently (once a day or so) when webbrowsing. When I then revisit the same page it crashed on, there is no problem. This makes the error rather unreproducible.

Re: gateway questions

2004-07-12 Thread Ed Budd
Brett Wiggins wrote: Hi all, I have set up an internet gateway for my home network and have run into some problems. I got the gateway workibng by adding the following to my /etc/rc.conf. ipfilter_enable=YES ipnat_enable=YES gateway_enable=YES I can ping the gateway and

Re: apcupsd port not starting

2004-06-09 Thread Ed Budd
dave wrote: Hello, I've got the latest apcupsd port installed on my 5.2.1 machine. I've got an APC xs1500va UPS which is supported. I'm going by the apcupsd user's guide and have set both UPSTYPE and UPSCABLE to usb however when i start apcupsd i keep getting the message: apcupsd driver type

Re: need help setting up PPTP VPN using mpd

2004-05-03 Thread Ed Budd
On Mon, 03 May 2004 18:11:14 -0500 Brad Tarver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to setup PPTP connectivity in a lab environment before I attempt to implement in a real-world situation. I have two routers and four PCs (two laptops running Windows XP and two desktops running FreeBSD

Re: ClamAV 0.67, SendMail, FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1

2004-04-25 Thread Ed Budd
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:42:27 +0200 Jakub Lida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for bothering, but I assume that I have to recompile /usr/src/contrib/sendmail with milter support, don't I? Should I define MILTER in conf.h (in sendmail sources)? Or you don't mention milter support in sendmail

advice sought on tape backups with cyrus-imap

2004-04-22 Thread Ed Budd
Hi, all: Hoping for a reality check from anyone on the list with experience in doing tape backups with cyrus-imap: I've got FBSD 5.2.1REL acting as a mail server running cyrus-imap and wondering what the best (read: safest) method of backing up user mailboxes to tape might be. Can I just

Re: Portable mass-storage support...

2004-04-01 Thread Ed Budd
Nick Fahey wrote: I'm looking to build a 'tapeless' backup system using a FreeBSD backup staging server running both fixed and portable hard drives. The portable drive I fancy is the LaCie 'Pocket Drive' with both USB2 and Firewire interfaces. See:

Re: FreeBSD Install Guide Official Launch News release

2004-03-18 Thread Ed Budd
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:10:50 + Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sales wrote: Dear FreeBSD friend During the pass 3 years I have answered your questions on the FreeBSD questions mailing list. A pattern emerged with common questions about post install configuration,

Re: ClamAV 0.67, SendMail, FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1

2004-03-11 Thread Ed Budd
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 03:52:18 -0600 (CST) Eduardo Viruena Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD Gurus! I have installed FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and upgraded it to FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1. I also upgraded my ports with cvsup. I am trying to install ClamAV Milter in my system. I

calling xterm under KDE

2004-03-06 Thread Ed Budd
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 19:14:13 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - snip - You can add the fontsize as a parameter when you invoke it, like this: xterm -fn fontsize I use 'xterm -fn 9x15' on a high res monitor and set it (along with some other params) in my window manager

Re: xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Ed Budd
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:42:26 -0500 Gerald S. Stoller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use xterm a lot and I always set the font size to tiny which requires (to my current knowledge) an additional action (this action is particularly reprehensible to me because it requires that I use both

Re: sendmail: Operation timed out with

2004-03-03 Thread Ed Budd
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:15:05 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:11:36PM -0500, Justin Brody wrote: A couple pieces of information that might be relevant: About a month ago, I was running the same FBSD version with the same sendmail.cf from behind a

latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-03 Thread Ed Budd
Hi, Can anyone confirm whether 5.1R is affected by yesterday's security advisory (FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp)? On the one hand it says that this affects All FreeBSD releases but on the other hand only lists STABLE, 5.2, 5.2.1, 4.9 and 4.8 under corrected. Does this mean it IS affected but not yet

Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-03 Thread Ed Budd
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:29:14 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:24:43AM -0500, Ed Budd wrote: Can anyone confirm whether 5.1R is affected by yesterday's security advisory (FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp)? On the one hand it says that this affects All

Re: cvsup config file

2004-02-26 Thread Ed Budd
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:43:43 +0900 Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noah wrote: FreebSD 4-9 can somebody please verify if I have my cvsup config file setup correctly? these are the only uncommented lines. --- snip --- *default host=cvsup13.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr

Re: Permission denied error while doing a make installworld

2004-02-25 Thread Ed Budd
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 05:59:03 -0600 Kevin Greenidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything works well up until this point. I haven't changed any permissions or anything so I baffled as to why the error below may be happening. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong as this has worked many times

Re: Permission denied error while doing a make installworld

2004-02-25 Thread Ed Budd
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 06:11:44 -0600 Kevin Greenidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did a search on google and fixed the issue. /etc/fstab had noexec,nosuid on the /tmp partition so all I had to do was umount /tmp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: My fault or just Spam

2004-02-18 Thread Ed Budd
It's a virus (my AV calls it Worm.Gibe.F). I bet most of the list gets these occasionally. Some hapless windows user got infected and has you in their address book (perhaps through the outlook auto-add-addresses-to-addressbook-function applied to something you posted once on a public list??)

Re: FreeBSD and sendmail...

2004-02-12 Thread Ed Budd
Jason: Keep in mind that the bat book is the definitive reference on sendmail but also written to cover the widest possible user base as far as OS is concerned. Keep it handy and refer to it often for getting to know all the available options, rulesets, header formats, etc. but read it with this

Re: sendmail logs and other questions

2004-01-23 Thread Ed Budd
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:39:15 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Meyer) wrote: Dirk Thanks for the pointer to /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README. It seems like this is generic info not really targeted at the way sendmail is installed under FBSD. But it handle almot all configuration options.

Re: x crashed

2004-01-15 Thread Ed Budd
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:20:21 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after installing 5.2-RELEASE, startx crashed with this error, someone that i should change the securelevel to '-1' well i did changed it but same error message i also tried sysctl kern.secureleve=-1 as root but the

Re: Question about Cyrus IMAP

2004-01-08 Thread Ed Budd
Cyrus-imapd is somewhat unique in that it uses its own database for mail. This means you don't need local user accounts. However, it does take more work to set up. If you've already successfully installed cyrus-imapd (and all its dependencies) from the ports collection, you need to: cd

Re: Getting rid of sendmail

2004-01-06 Thread Ed Budd
I think what you want is: sendmail_enable=NO NONE removes all mail sending ability on the local machine - not what you want if I interpret your post correctly... On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 07:59:38 -0700 Emmanuel Gravel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a way to entirely remove an MTA from

rationale for /var/spool/mqueue permissions with 5.1R

2004-01-06 Thread Ed Budd
Hi, I've been working my way through the sendmail bat book (not *ALWAYS* the most exciting read but informative nonetheless) and have come across a recommendation to ensure that /var/spool/mqueue is set as root-owned with mode of 0700. However, it appears that by default the permissions on 5.1R

Re: OT : problems accessing sendmail from LAN

2003-11-17 Thread Ed Budd
What does sockstat -4 tell you? Are you sure sendmail is listening on a publicly-accessible interface (and not just the loopback)? On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:29:42 -0800 (PST) faisal gillani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes sure no firewall yes no other firewall also ... am working on local LAN

Re: GPGME + Sylpheed

2003-11-15 Thread Ed Budd
Uh, someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think you have to generate your key AS the user you want to use it under. Looks like maybe you created a gpg key for ROOT, not Bryan Cassidy. gpg --list-keys ...should help clarify/confirm this. On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:45:51 -0600 Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL

Re: jdk1.3 compile problem

2003-11-06 Thread Ed Budd
Try this: cd /usr/ports/java/linux-blackdown-jdk13 make install clean Then: cd /usr/ports/java/jdk13 make -DWITH_LINUX_BOOTSTRAP make install clean Worked for me on 5.1R Cheers, EB On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 21:53:41 -0500 asolomon15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone... I seem to have a