RE: pf for FreeBSD

2004-09-28 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, 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 installed pf from ports ( i did a cvsup before installing to get the

RE: pf for FreeBSD

2004-09-28 Thread Philip Payne
Message- From: Cristi Tauber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 September 2004 11:19 To: Philip Payne Cc: FreeBSD Question Subject: RE: pf for FreeBSD Hello, i'm using 5.2.1 and i want to recompile pf to take advantage of ALTQ. This was the reason for reinstalling. What

RE: pf for FreeBSD

2004-09-28 Thread Philip Payne
IMHO its not very hard in FreeBSD 5.3 either now its in the base. The only additional step to what you describe below is adding the kernel options building/installing the kernel to include them, which is only 2 commands. However, some of the log analysis ports I've tried (fwanalog... another

RE: correct routine of updating installed ports?

2004-09-23 Thread Philip Payne
# cvsup -g -L 2 supfile # portsdb -uU # pkgdb -F # port_version # portupgrade -a And what does make index actually do? Do I need it? You missed a step between cvsup and portupgrade. less /usr/ports/UPGRADING ... and read, to check out what will happen when certain

RE: Portinstall problem (config.guess not found)

2004-09-23 Thread Philip Payne
Hi Adam, Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 01:54 schrieb Adam Smith: On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:59:35PM +0100, Philip Payne said: Didn't use Konsole but I am using KDE. It appears to be a problem in aterm xterm, but strangely not Eterm. Exactly what I found, too. Any compiles I

RE: Portinstall problem (config.guess not found) ANSWER (sort of)

2004-09-22 Thread Philip Payne
- From: Philip Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 September 2004 23:16 To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) Subject: RE: Portinstall problem (config.guess not found) Snipped the rest of the debug cp: /usr/ports/devel/gmake/work/make-3.80/config /usr/ports/devel

RE: Portinstall problem (config.guess not found)

2004-09-22 Thread Philip Payne
I just rebuilt the machine as the problem was doing my head-in. Freebsd 5.3-beta5. Basically, X-Developer distro with KDE installed as desktop. The first port I try to to install is generally CVSUP. I get the config.guess not found error straight away... as below. I am not sure

RE: Portinstall problem (config.guess not found)

2004-09-21 Thread Philip Payne
Philip Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm getting the following error when trying to build any port. /usr/ports/portname/work/config.guess: No such file or directory. I've googled searched the mailing list archives which gave 2 suggestions. Autoconf

RE: Portinstall problem (config.guess not found)

2004-09-21 Thread Philip Payne
Ooer... this gets weirder... see below... Philip Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm getting the following error when trying to build any port. /usr/ports/portname/work/config.guess: No such file or directory. I've googled searched the mailing list archives

RE: Portinstall problem (config.guess not found)

2004-09-21 Thread Philip Payne
Snipped the rest of the debug cp: /usr/ports/devel/gmake/work/make-3.80/config /usr/ports/devel/gmake/work/make-3.80/config/config.guess: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ezm3. *** Error code

Portinstall problem (config.guess not found)

2004-09-20 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, I'm getting the following error when trying to build any port. /usr/ports/portname/work/config.guess: No such file or directory. I've googled searched the mailing list archives which gave 2 suggestions. Autoconf or libtool have got fubar'd and I should reinstall and/or to cvsup

RE: Question about FreeBSD.

2004-09-10 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, I'm quite new to the world of linux, and I are going to set up a linux server, and I'm looking aroud for a good linux system, and I find FreeBSD quite interesting. Does FreeBSD have a X-mode and is it easy to handle? Whats the difference between FreeBSD, Slackware and Redhat?

RE: Package version problem with portupgrade(1)

2004-09-03 Thread Philip Payne
On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:45 am, Philip Payne wrote: Well, png is up to png-1.2.5_8 and if you did a recent cvsup and recreated your INDEXs, that is what you should be seeing. OK, portupgrade(1) _is_ looking for 1.2.5_8 but it is trying to get it from ftp

RE: Package version problem with portupgrade(1)

2004-09-02 Thread Philip Payne
Well, png is up to png-1.2.5_8 and if you did a recent cvsup and recreated your INDEXs, that is what you should be seeing. OK, portupgrade(1) _is_ looking for 1.2.5_8 but it is trying to get it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/All where the version

RE: Trouble with ipfw :( help!

2004-08-25 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, SNIP #ipfw list 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 00200 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 00300 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any 00400 allow icmp from any to any 00500 allow tcp from any to any established 00600 allow ip from any to any frag 00700 allow ip from me to any setup

RE: Config freebsd as getway

2004-08-19 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, Is this something obvious like the default gateway not being set on either of the PC's in question. Without seeing the IP setup its not obvious. Cheers, Phil. -Original Message- From: Andras Kende [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 August 2004 17:34 To: 'lily'; [EMAIL

RE: IPFW Configuration

2004-08-05 Thread Philip Payne
Hi Jonathan, will be able to work. My box is located at a datacebter and my box is allocated with about 90 IP addresses (and also the main server IP which was given to me when i first purchased the line). I would like to know how to configure /etc/rc.firewall to support my MAIN ip and

RE: IPFW acting weird OR invalid ruleset?

2004-07-02 Thread Philip Payne
steve, Yes everything else seems to work fine. There are currently 2 PCs with this issue. 1 is XP the other is Win2k. This ruleset worked fine on FreeBSD 5.1, but I reformatted the box, and install 5.2.1 uploaded the rc.firewall.rules and natd.conf files, since the network

RE: IP bandwidth

2004-07-02 Thread Philip Payne
John Lee wrote: dear all, i'm using a freebsd 4.10-stable server with 50 IP addresses. Is there any program i can install that will be able to tell me: - how much bandwidth (ie. kbps) each individual IP is using? trafcount seems to count total traffic only, any idea?

KDM always starts failsafe

2004-04-06 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, Upgraded KDE yesterday to 3.2.1 . KDM was upgraded. Now, whenever I try to login to KDE it always starts the failsafe i.e. a single xterm. It doesn't matter what session type I select in KDM, I always get failsafe so no KDE for me. If I start KDE using startx and a .xinitrc with exec

RE: Why BSD?

2004-01-26 Thread Philip Payne
This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian sid. I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than Linux? My personal experience. 4 years ago I

RE: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Philip Payne
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? Like any newbie I heartily recommend reading through the handbook under the documentation section of www.freebsd.org . I

RE: firewall settings in rc.firewall

2004-01-09 Thread Philip Payne
Hi Dan, Hello, i am trying to make my webserver accessible to the net, i tried to run the out of the box rc.firewall, but there was some default rules which blocked the 192.168.0 network which is my local lan lol, so killed it instead of helped it, anyway i tried setting it to open, but

RE: IPFW confusion

2004-01-08 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, However, I can't get the config to work. I've commented out all the deny rules. In this instance, I can browse the web via SQUID that's installed on the IPFW box. I can't browse the web directly, though. That is the only external access I get. I can't ping any sites, DNS

RE: cvsup from 4.7-REL to stable

2003-12-11 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, I'm 99% your sufile needs to read (but nowhere near my machine to check): src-all ports-all release=cvs ports-base release=cvs ports-all tag=. So that you get the head of the source tree for ports. Phil. /usr/sup/refuse looks like this: src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc*

RE: FreeBSD Version...

2003-12-05 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, I am wondering why there was 4.9 release if the newest one it 5.1. Whick is better I am currently on 5.1. It's a little confusing. Well there be a 4.10 and 5.2 release at the same time? A lot of people are going to give you an RTFM style response back to the install

RE: IPFW strange events

2003-11-03 Thread Philip Payne
Hi Chris, The net address and subnet mask combination that is 96.0.0.0/3 covers the range 96.0.0.0 to 127.255.255.255. You are therefore blocking all traffic to the localhost address (127.0.0.0) Now, I'm a networking bloke not an MIS person but I would assume this is BAD as services/apps on

MozillaFirebird and Java

2003-08-22 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, I thought I would've been the millionth person to ask this but I had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything so feel free to tell me to RTF relevant article. Can someone help me setup Java MozillaFirebird? I've installed both MozillaFirebird and JDK14 from ports but on java

RE: MozillaFirebird and Java

2003-08-22 Thread Philip Payne
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:59:29PM +0100, Philip Payne wrote: I thought I would've been the millionth person to ask this but I had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything so feel free to tell me to RTF relevant article. Can someone help me setup Java MozillaFirebird

RE: MozillaFirebird and Java

2003-08-22 Thread Philip Payne
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:59:29PM +0100, Philip Payne wrote: What you need is the java plugin -- it's a loadable object that adds java capabilities to Netscape, Mozilla and (I think) Mozilla derived browsers like Firebird. The plugin is a standard part of the JDK, except that the FreeBSD

RE: backup static routes for freebsd (default)

2003-08-14 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, I have a gatway box running freebsd 4.8 and several links to the internet via different ISP's. This box is connected directly to one of the ISP's but also has access to the other gatways via the LAN. I would like to setup static backup (default) routes such that when and if the

RE: NATD Port Forwarding Problems

2003-08-06 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, Hi all...I'm at a dead end here. I'm trying to setup my firewall/nat box to forward requests on externalIP:portA to internalPC:portB. I put 'natd_flags=-redirect_port tcp 1internalPC:portB portA ' in my rc.conf file, and I have the following three statements in my rc.firewall

RE: CVSUP

2003-08-01 Thread Philip Payne
I have a question about cvsup. I read the manual and can update my ports with no problem. Here is my question though...what if I was to change the Makefile for a port? Is there a way I can still use CVSup to update my ports and merge the changes I made in the old Makefile with

RE: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Philip Payne
HI, I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its end. Is there some command in vi (or some way) by whcih ^M can be removed. Thanks Anil At the vi command line :1,$:s/here type ctrl-v then ctrl-M to get the ^M control character// Basically it's just

RE: How to get the software

2003-07-31 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, Hi all of the freeBSD team, I'm from Indonesia, and I'm interest with the software, if it is a free software then where I can get it?? and download it, globaly I'm still learn the basic of the system, may I know the address to download FreeBSD software. Thank you As per anything

RE: Changing gnome fonts from KDE

2003-07-28 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, Does anyone know how to change gnome fonts from KDE/command-line? I tried running gnome-control-center, which worked, but only the fonts for the control center and gthumb have changed. I posted recently about this. Look for subject Changing GTK fonts outside gnome in the archive. It may

RE: Why must I use firewall ?

2003-06-24 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, So far, I known firewall is a choice when I want to protect my boxes from crackers but my question is if I closed the service I don't use (such as port 25 for STMP) so the cracker out there can't attack, what's the reason firewall come to play ? From a general viewpoint the more

RE: Selling FreeBSD

2003-06-10 Thread Philip Payne
Paul Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030606 19:09]: If they aren't enthusiastic, it's because it's not solving any problems for them. The fact it works great as a high-traffic MX or HTTP server isn't something most businesses need. As for desktop use, well, it does suck

RE: How to add more swap space?

2003-06-10 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, Hi all... I found this () I have FBSD 4.7 system...is this article still ok or even the best way to go? Any ideas welcome Keith There's a specific chapter in the handbook on adding swap... which includes a section on using a swapfile as you detailed:

What the simplest way to do outgoing smtp?

2003-06-04 Thread philip payne
Hi, This is a pretty basic question so I don't mind if the answer is an RTFM style link. ;-) I recently obtained some 3rd party POP3 mailboxes unrelated to my current ISP for email to a new domain... unfortunately my ISP's smtp server doesn't let me send any email addressed as anything other

Xfree86 help required since upgrade.

2003-03-28 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, I recently upgraded Xfree4 via portupgrade (portupgrade -a) and I now have a problem. It appears X will only work in 8-bit mode. Before, my XF86Config specified the default bit depth as 24 and X was fine. Now X fails to start at anything over 8-bit... I mean, it starts... it just hangs after

RE: Dual homed host routing problem

2003-03-27 Thread Philip Payne
I'm running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE and I have trouble routing between two NIC's. On one side I have a 192.168.1.0/24 network and on the other a 212.110.94.64/27 network on which I have mail and web servers, which the 192.168.1.0/24 hosts should be able to reach. Here are the ifconfig and

RE: [URGENT] Bad MX record; very bad.

2003-03-14 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, I don't know how much you know about DNS so if I aim too low then ignore me otherwise read on for a full explanation. I strongly suspect you're suffering from the fact that your old address is simply cached on various resolvers around the internet and you've just got to wait until it times

RE: CVSUP of 4.7 only?

2003-02-21 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, CVS Tag list: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html Phil. -Original Message- From: Tuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 February 2003 14:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CVSUP of 4.7 only? Hi, I have : *default release=cvs

RE: CVSUP of 4.7 only?

2003-02-21 Thread Philip Payne
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs- tags.html So if I read it right: RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE - First ever 4.7 release. Oldest and never updated past that day it was tagged RELENG_4_7 - More current than _RELEASE, but only with critical

FreeBSD 5.0 tunnelling X through SSH

2003-02-13 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, Can anyone suggest a reason why I might see the following problem. Two remote FreeBSD machines. Box-1 is running 4.X-Stable and Box-2 is running 5.0-RELEASE. The same sshd_config on both. I'm ssh'ing to them from box-3 which is another 4.x-stable machine. If I ssh from box-3 to box-1

RE: Updating Procedure

2003-01-15 Thread Philip Payne
I was wondering can anyone tell me the correct procedure for updating my sources to the current 4.7 source. If you haven't already I can recommend reading the following chapter in the Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html I'd never attempted

RE: help

2003-01-09 Thread Philip Payne
Also, scbus da are required to build including umass. Phil. -Original Message- From: Andrew Y Ng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 January 2003 15:30 To: jeremy Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: help i saw one problem at least, device ed requires device miibus and it was