a number of widly varied questions [FreeBSD 6.0; stdc++6, Xorg/Drivers & issues, one KDE issue]

2006-03-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
n xorg log file and a kdm logfile request, but you might recommend I go to the KDE mailing lists instead, so I figured I'd verify here first. Thank you for your time, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: a number of widly varied questions [FreeBSD 6.0; stdc++6, Xorg/Drivers & issues, one KDE issue]

2006-03-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, that screen refresh rate seems to have fixed it. The original that xorg generated through the config script just drove my monitor bonkers (lots of shaking and a message on the screen that complained). I finally managed to get it to work forcing horiz and vert to be 60.0 (60.0-60.0 on eac

Re: Apache Httpd - Access error

2006-03-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
Have you tried setting up the part I have below here, which occures right after the server admin email address? The example shows the info for a test machine I have running on my network at home. # ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to

Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518

2006-03-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
ee buttons). At any rate, could someone tell me what driver to use, and what device to point it to? Right now I just have the xorg defualt setup, with the options to tell it to use the scroll wheel and 10 buttons (although it's only able to hand

Re: Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518

2006-03-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:13:49 -0500 > "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've googled the problem in general, tried looking around xorg and > > this site, but I couldn't find any useful

Re: Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518

2006-03-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
or ' xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 6 7 8" ') ensures that no buttons beyond 5 work. I strongly suspect that signals from buttons 8-10 aren't reaching the software that handles them properly. 8 is either being misread or sent wrong, 9 and 10 appear to simply be dropped

issues with ports: conflicts

2006-04-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
sorry, in my n00bness, I need to ask yet another question, a bit more serious. I have run into several instances where there are conflicts with ports. My current machine is an x86_64 machine, running FreeBSD 6.0 The first conflict issue that I run into a lot is that the applications want 32 bit x

Re: freebsd rocks

2006-04-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'd like to second this. Oh, and it's not just the network drivers, just about everything. And BSD has man, info, and html help too, but I actually like that. BSD just throws so much help in your face, in such better quality, it's nice. I got so much done with 1/10th the questions I would have ne

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I appologize is this stuff is too basic for you, but it sounds as if you need a crash course in Unix basics, not just FreeBSD. This will tell you how to do the basics. My suggestion is to go to the library and pick up some books on Unix use/administration and/or FreeBSD. O'Reily makes some nice st

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
ash, links/lynx, porgupgrade, and a couple others, in semi-random order at first). On 4/10/06, Andy Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 4/10/06, Jim Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I appologize is this stuff is too basic for you, but it sounds a

newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I did a "make install clean" in the lang/gcc40/ directory to get a newer version of GCC, and it seems happy, so the next thing I did was I replaced my /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/bin/g++, etc. binaries with hard links to the /usr/local/bin/gcc-freebsd-4.0, /usr/local/bin/g++-freebsd-4.0, etc. binaries. Now

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:43:51AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > > I did a "make install clean" in the lang/gcc40/ directory to get a > > newer version of GCC, and it seems happy, so the next thing I did was > > I replaced my /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/bin/g

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
> > When it comes to changing the default compiler a good rule of thumb is > that if you need to ask how to do it, then you should not do it. > That seems to be a general *nix world rule of thumb for just about everything... ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

make buildword problem/documentation

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Stapleton
AGS=-finline-functions -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse #CXXFLAGS=-finline-functions -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: make buildword problem/documentation

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Stapleton
ahh, thanks everyone, I was looking through the document, and focused on finding "buildworld". Still, anyone know why those particular cflags would cause problems? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: make buildword problem/documentation

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Stapleton
ok, thanks, I won't worry about it then. I just like to have everything as optimised as possible. Guess it'll have to wait here... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

I think I butchered my supfile - can anyone tell me why I get this result?

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
I used the examples as a basis, and a little trial and error if things didn't work, so I eventually got a working supfile. However, it did some weird stuff, even though this should be downloading 6.0 stable (from what I can tell), I get errors in port builds (even without optimisation flags). On t

Re: I think I butchered my supfile - can anyone tell me why I get this result?

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
quot; next to your src, ports, and doc entries, you > override the default setting of RELENG_6. Remove the "tag=." next to your > src, ports, and doc entires, cvsup again, and your sources should be updated > with 6 STABLE. > > -David > > > On 4/12/06, Jim Stapleton <[E

Re: I think I butchered my supfile - can anyone tell me why I get this result?

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
CVSUP gave no erros. As stated, my kernel compiled to 7.0-Current (o.O) $ cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2/ $ make install # fails $ cd /usr/ports/multimedia/kbtv/ $ make install #fails There were a few others, but it'll be a while until I can get to the point of replicating any of these and having the

Re: Wanted: Flash player for ....

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
> I'm not a lawyer either, but frankly I think their EULA is unenforceable > and their attitude ought to cost them customers. This isn't the most abusive thing they've done to date, not even close, and people still use their software (unfortunately), I doubt it'll change much... Overall, their pl

TV Tuner viewing software suggestions

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm trying to use my TV Tuner (A Leadtek Brooktree chipset tuner), and I have gotten FXTV to work great with one exception: It appears to only work in something that looks to be about 320x240, when I go fullscreen or anything larger than what it opens as, it only draws to part of the screen... prov

where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
I want a non-root user (I'm happy to limit it to wheel users), to be able to mount smb shares and rip music, but I don't know how to do this. Where can I find documentation on this? Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, both of you, this should be useful, and I'll try it later when I get home. Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
Works great so far, except I get the following error when trying to mount SMB files still: mount_smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (ISO8859-1:tolower): syserr = Operation not permitted Also, I still have to manually do a root 'kldload smbfs' before mounting samba, I tried adding these two

Re: from Mongolia

2006-04-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
> > azaraa > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: from Mongolia > Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:18:18 -0400 > > I would check their chipsets and the hardware faq, if the chip

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
sorry, I sent a second reply to the newsgroup, here's the error: mount_smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (ISO8859-1:tolower): syserr = Operation not permitted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
permitted On 4/18/06, Patrick Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Stapleton wrote: > > >That did not work either. > > > > > > > >>Jim; > >> > >>Unless I'm mistaken, "smbfs_load="YES""

Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
I can't answer this too well unfortunately, but I can give you a bit of info. Dell does not carry AMD, and probably will not for a long time. However they do have AMD64 compatable Intel chips, which are better at bandwidth, though not as good for calculations. Dell treats their business customers

rsnapshot: /bin/cp failed

2006-04-28 Thread Jim Stapleton
Anyone know what would cause this? I am on a 6.0 system, an installed rsnapshot via ports. It looks like it wants to use the "-a" option, and cp doesn't like that, what's the fix? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09:19:03 (0) ~ > sudo /usr/local/bin/rsnap

Re: rsnapshot: /bin/cp failed

2006-04-28 Thread Jim Stapleton
Now I'm getting a nother problem: gcp is trying to follow symlinks, even though it's being called with "-al", and -a implies no-dereference, which means it shouldn't follow symllinks anyway, I tried the two commands listed at the end of this, with the listed results. Anyone know of this issue wit

Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative pay/expensive (such as avast)? Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff to the Windows machine (which has McAfee Enterprise)? Background: System lags occasionally, and has crashed

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
again... On 4/29/06, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:06, Jim Stapleton wrote: > Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? > > Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative > pay/expensive (such as avast)? > Am I b

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks everyone. Virii would be the correct spelling we biologists use, but viruses is standard in normal-people-speak, and gets the meaing across. I doubt I need to scan my entire machine, just my /winbackup/ directory (about 10-15GB max) Thanks again!

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm not really here for windows advice, Just FreeBSD. I'm happy with my windows AV solution as it is, as I've had too many issues with many other solutions... And I have verified that it was hardware that was the problem, not a virus, makes sense, it would be my first virus if it were a virus rela

dd issues

2006-05-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm trying to back up some of my software, and I'm having some problems, I found something in the archives specifying the need to set a block size of 2k or greater. This makes a backup (I've not tested it yet). My questions are: (1) Why does this work? (2) Is it possible that not using the defaul

Re: dd issues

2006-05-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 5/1/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday, 1 May 2006 at 19:44:00 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > I'm trying to back up some of my software, and I'm having some > problems, I found something in the archives specifying the need to set >

Re: dd issues

2006-05-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
That doesn't sound like a backup to me. dd isn't a backup program, and CDs are not normally things you back up. A backup is just a copy of the data on a different media than the source (in this case, a hard drive). People back up CDs alll the time, in case they get scratched or damaged, and the

BSD equiv of /proc?

2006-05-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have a proc filesystem on my computer, but it's empty. I'm used to linux, where you can do stuff like 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' to get information about the system. What is the BSD equivalent of this, or is it /proc, and I'm just missing something? ___ free

Re: OT: Torn between SCSI and SATA for RAID

2006-05-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I've found that scsi isn't exceptionally faster given similar RPMs, or even slightly higher RPM (ex. a 10K RPM SCSI vs. 10K RPM SATA drive would have simlar performance). However, SCSI tends to high tighter standards, and you get the following advantages, which in some cases are worth the money, a

securing beyond the handbook

2006-05-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm about to get a static IP and direct outside access for my BSD box (before it was hidden behind a firewall/NAT). I was comfortable with the level of security I've had, but with the whole "open to the outside world" setup I'll have, what would you suggest for securing it? I'll be running: Apach

Re: securing beyond the handbook

2006-05-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
here is no difference between a dynamic and static ip address from the point of the firewall. If you felt secure before, then getting a static ip address will have no effect on that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Stapleton Sent: Wednesd

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
I know someone did it in linux for a booth at the mall for his company within the last year and a half, but I don't know the info. He had something like 4 consoles per machine. I'll ask, you'll find a response on this link, if one comes: http://vnboards.ign.com/pc_generalhardwaresoftware_and_tech

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
maybe this is a bit off target, but it seems to me the ports tree is not too large: I've found stuff I've wanted that wasn't on the ports tree. I think it's too small. Unless you are on a 56k, but then everything ports related will be painful. However a reoganization could be in order... Curren

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
Just remember it has to be a /better/ mousetrap. wouldn't it be a peopletrap in this case, since it's for people? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

CVSUP date for a successful x11-toolkits/fox-devel

2006-05-18 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm trying to install something that requires x11-toolkits/fox-devel, which will not compile, I've tried the following cvsup dates: 2006.05.05.00.00.00 2006.04.05.00.00.00 2006.03.05.00.00.00 2005.11.05.00.00.00 2005.08.00.00.00.00 Anyone know what CVSUP date works well? At the end is the last

Re: CVSUP date for a successful x11-toolkits/fox-devel

2006-05-18 Thread Jim Stapleton
ahh, yeah, that's the cvsup date: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14:25:54 (1) ~ > uname -a FreeBSD aragorn.ameritech.net 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #0: Thu Apr 13 13:54:03 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 weird., I had a custom kernel I compiled, I wonder why it's using GENERIC... *

Re: Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518

2006-05-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
can use evdev as the driver for your mouse, and things Should Just Work. See this guide: http://floam.sh.nu/guides/mx1000 HTH, Marshall On Mar 31, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Jim Stapleton wrote: > I have IMWheel installed and setup, and below is the mouse setting for > my xorg.conf file, however. But

/bin/[

2007-08-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
Sorry if you get this question a lot - a few searches didn't find results for me. I have a "/bin/[" file in my system - I just want to make sure it's not a sign of someone having hacked my machine. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton _

Re: /bin/[

2007-08-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks everyone for the help. I tried using man, but it didn't find anything. Glad to know my system isn't compromised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mai

I was a dolt and killed my pkgdb

2007-08-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
r www/lynx .. done] It will check for dependancies for the packages I want to install, but it won't actually install them. I've tried: pkgdb -f pkgdb -af mv /var/db/pkgdb/pkgdb.db ~; pkgdb -af and always end up with the same build results. What is the next step? Th

Re: I was a dolt and killed my pkgdb

2007-08-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
fixed. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 8/29/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Stapleton wrote: > > I was building a couple of packages, figured I'd do it while at work. > > I was using portupgrade, and accidentally hit enter before typing all > > the packa

file patterns and tar

2007-08-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
this issue). What should I do, short of running tars for /, /usr/ and /usr/local, or is that the only real option? But then there is always the possiblility of missing something because its name just happens to contain bin, or more likely contains lib. Thanks, -Jim

questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
ow clear text is not what I want - if I remember, that's unencrypted. Does TLS/SSL make this a non-issue? What about the other methdods? Aside from keeping it in a quiet comfortable jail (done) and not on a server with anything else important, any suggestions

problems with a rc.d script I'm creating

2007-09-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
sn't show an akpop3d process. When I run it manually (akpop3d -d -s -L .akpop3d), it starts just fine. Could anyone suggest what I am missing here? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton The script: #!/bin/sh # # $FreeBSD: N/A # # PROVIDE: akpop3d # REQUIRE: DAEMON # # Add the following line to /etc/

Re: problems with a rc.d script I'm creating

2007-09-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
ve something that *works* now, even if it spews errors. Thank you. Also, if you reply, could you please reply-all? Sorry, I have this list in digest mode due to volume, and I can't do a proper reply that keeps thread information without having a normal copy. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Re: problems with a rc.d script I'm creating

2007-09-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, I'll play with that a bit more. -Jim Stapleton On 9/2/07, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 14:18:17 Jim Stapleton wrote: > > > I haven't figured out the proper way myself, but the problem is that the > > > defaults

mail server setup questions

2007-09-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
done in FreeBSD? Please cc me, as I have the list subscribed in digest mode. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
for me and maybe a few friends. I plan on running incoming SMTP, maybe at some point outgoing (requiring authentication/SSL, definetly no relay), no relay, no webmail, POP, if possible only under SSL. I think there's enough here for me to do my research and get what I need. Thank you, -Jim Staple

Re: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
, that's almost all of what I needed there. You insinuated (but I don't think explicitly stated) that LOGIN is in fact encrypted in some form? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
much paranoia when setting up a server. I know to find out and learn what I don't know, rather than to just stumble along blindly. There, that about covers everything that I do/don't know. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
hings on which I don't care about the security (ex. reading mailing lists). I care about the security of my server. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
in general)? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Mouse diagnostics tools?

2007-10-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
ou need to work with xmodmap to get the left click functional. There are no hits for FreeBSD. I've tested with an old mouse (wired) and it works fine, however in this situation, a wired mouse is not a solution. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ fr

Re: Mouse diagnostics tools?

2007-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
uot;Card0" Monitor"Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1920x1080" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" En

Mouse/Keyboard recommendation?

2007-10-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
I found the Intellimouse Wireless 2.0 was not. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Wine and FreeBSD how to

2006-08-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 7/31/06, Jim Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/31/06, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I installed wine on my 6.1 system but I don't see a config file >anywhere on the system. Has anyone installed and used Wine >successfully that c

driver source compilation question

2006-08-25 Thread Jim Stapleton
I've found some driver source, it's just got the .c and .h files for the drivers, and no makefile. "make" and "make install" do nothing (I've extracted them to a folder in my home directory). How do I install them? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Re: driver source compilation question

2006-08-25 Thread Jim Stapleton
estions on an easier driver? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 8/25/06, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The simplest thing is to copy a make file from a port, or other driver source directory and edit it for your driver. -Derek At 08:20 PM 8/25/2006, Jim Stapleton wrote: I&#

Re: driver source compilation question

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
= Line 1587 of hdac.c: KOBJMETHOD(channel_init,hdacchan_init), channel_init is not described anywhere, but I noticed that several other driver files in the kernel tree use soemthing like this also - I&#

IPSEC, am I missing something?

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
w/ IPSEC) #ipsec optimsations options FAST_IPSEC # new IPsec (cannot define w/ IPSEC) options IPSEC_FILTERGIF #filter ipsec packets from a tunnel before adding these, I just had the default 6.1 generic kernel file with a few things commented and a couple uncommented. Am I mi

Re: IPSEC, am I missing something?

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
on. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 8/27/06, Erik Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: > What I found and added: > #ipsec: Required for VPN > optionsIPSEC#IP security > optionsIPSEC_ESP#IP security (crypto; define w/ IPSEC

free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra

2006-08-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
ble" And no, I am not installing windows/linux on my notebook to get this (and sound) working, each has it's own issues which make it much worse for my uses. :-P Thanks -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra

2006-08-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
e it for the latter error. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 8/30/06, Jim Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to connect my FreeBSD notebook to some shares at work, which are on an EMC Celerra box, which uses the windows SMB protocol, but I keep getting an odd error, which right now

Re: free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
"The right stuff": sudo mount_smbfs -I -W -d 550 -f 550 //@/ That's about it. On 8/30/06, Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 31/08/2006 2:18 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote: > nevermind, my own dumb mistake with the connection string, first I > didn't have

can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
don't want to send a lot of garbage to the VPN connection, should I connect the loopback (127.0.0.1), my local ip (192.168.1.84), or create a new loopback or virtual network connection (how?) Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions

Re: can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

2006-09-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
d'oh, thanks, I was looking for vpn in "net" and "net-mgmt", didn't think of grepping the security directory. Thanks! -Jim Stapleton On 8/31/06, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 11:28, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Jim Stapl

ndis + Linksys WPC54Gv3

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have just picked up this card for my notebook. On this site: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/02/linksys-wpc54g-with-freebsd-yesterday.html it is reported to work. I have inserted the card, the status light on it blinks green then goes off. I ran ndis and generated the driver as specified, k

Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

2006-10-07 Thread Jim Stapleton
nning due to some apps not compiling. Read the updating file, and you may have to try kde-lite. "openoffice.org-2.0" - a nice office suit, be prepared for a challange! Now, you may need a few java packages that won't be on the CDs for this - which you'll have to download elsewher

USB Mass Storage stopped working, help requested

2006-10-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
ida.c but I could not do a make in the scsi or cam directories. "make scsi" gave me a "don't know how to make" class of error, and "make cam" gave me an error saying cam is up to date. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: USB Mass Storage stopped working, help requested

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 10/15/06, Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: > It used to work on this machine, the kernel/world has not been > recompiled/reinstalled since then. However, A USB drive that used to > work (and still works in windows) no longer works in FreeBSD. When

Re: Route #3 - USB 802.11 a/b/g

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 10/8/06, Jim Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/8/06, Sam Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Stapleton wrote: > > On 10/7/06, Lars Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:22:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > >

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
Well, in my case: - No matter what method I use to install packages in Linux (Apt-Get, Yum, Deb, RPM, and to a much lesser extent, Emerge, and to a *MUCH* greater extent src tar.gz's), I tend to have a lot more trouble getting installs to finish than with BSD in ports. - The FreeBSD community is

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux. With Gentoo, version release does not matter that much, you can always

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
sktop had binary drivers in it too, they just weren't supplied with the BSD images (I don't think they would have been stored with linux images either). anyway, just another two cents of my own. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
yeah the ports make me fell in love with FreeBSD, the only thing that came close to FreeBSD ports is the gentoo portage, note came close but not really at par. yeah, portage wasn't bad, but it wasn't as clean as ports either. More errors, more fixing. _

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
Also, I'm not sure when you guys tried Gentoo, but as of late (within the past ~1 year), the quality of the packages and system as an OS has improved quite a bit, in the sense that many stable items now install and work properly in the OS. Another off-topic comment I admit, but I thought it should

Question with mouse pointer

2006-10-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
What's the best way to get a larger pointer on my comptuer? I'm running Xorg/KDE. I tried to look, but the only thing I could find was cursor profiles, and I'd rather not have to figure out how to create a new profile... Sorry for the lack of specifics and details, but I'm not what else to put he

Re: Question with mouse pointer

2006-10-20 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, that is what I was looking for/thinking of. On 10/19/06, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:16:16 -0400 "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the best way to get a larger pointer on my comptuer? I'm >

Re: Backing up SOHO server

2006-10-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
e help with your specific questions. -Jim Stapleton On 10/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All, I have freebsd 6.1 installed running Samba authenticating my home users and pc's and home shares for each user. This also serves as a web development box for my internal

Some old fashioned assistance requested, and some oppinions wanted.

2006-10-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
ur top 3 vendors if your main consideration is the combination of (1) FreeBSD compatable hardware, and (2) Reliable/Honest/Intelligent and Customer Friendly tech support for hardware issues. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

cleanly reading compressed backups

2006-10-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
forgot the args, basically 1GB files that are bsd-backup-(date)-??] anyway, without uncompressing them back to disk (it's the same slice/partitions as I have now), what's the easiest way to get read access to these contents of the files in these backups? Th

problems with jail

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
l narrow it down to a less privledged host/jailed system user later) jail /jail/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 192.168.1.85 /bin/csh The machine was rebooted since I set everything up. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
ot; Connecting to cvsup12.FreeBSD.org Name lookup failure for "cvsup12.FreeBSD.org": hostname nor servname provided, or not known Will retry at 20:52:12 I'm only using one jail (it'll run apache, mysql and possibly sftp) Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Jonathan Chen <[E

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, it still did not connect using that. The mail server is a SMTP server. Also I copied over my host's resolve.conf file. With all these hassles/headaches, would it be better/more secure for me to settup Bochs or QEmu running a virtual BSD server? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, that's at least useful testing, but it did not work. Jail is definetly not getting any network action. Would a host netstat output be useful? I looks pretty cryptic. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Jeff Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 08:22 PM 2/22/2007, you

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
JID IP Address Hostname Path 1 192.168.1.85legolas /jail Is that what you needed Thanks, -Jim Stapleton Jim Stapleton wrote: > Thank you, that's at least useful testing, but it did not work. Jail > is definetly not gettin

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
92.168.1.85 /bin/csh %ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes ^C --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss %exit exit On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:25:00PM +, Jim Stapleton wrote: > Thank you, it still did not conne

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
85 netmask 255.255.255.0" #defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" rpcbind_enable="NO" ifconfig_nve0="" I have tried this with both the above setup, and one setup commenting out the ifconfig_nve0="" line, and uncommenting the other ifconfig_nve0/defaultroute

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
/23/07, Jeff Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 02:38 PM 2/23/2007, Jim Stapleton wrote: >new host rc.conf: > >hostname="elrond.ameritech.net" >#ifconfig_nve0="inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 255.255.255.0" >ipv4_addrs_nve0="192.168.1.84-85/24 n

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
un/moused.ums0.pid 1957 ?? Ss 0:00.09 /usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/ums1 -t auto -I /var/run/moused.ums1.pid Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Philipp Wuensche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: > new host rc.conf: > > hostname="elrond.ameritech.net" > #ifc

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