On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Chad Morland wrote:
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:48:19 +, Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
See the thread "The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition
for the new logo design. " in -advocacy - I've already replied
with
my views on the subject, along t
The good news is that I can print from a Windows machine to my Brother
1240 connected via USB by using CUPS.
The bad news is that whenever you look at the printer on the Windows
machine, it says "Access denied, unable to connect" in the "Status"
Therefore it does not show jobs waiting to be pri
I stumbled across this somehow today (don't remember where from
unfortunately... I opened it in the background while reading another
page and by the time I saw it, I forgot where it came from).
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
He does a good job (I think) of explaining the pro
On Jan 31, 2005, at 4:45 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
it's either statically linked or it's using the 1.1.4 shared library.
1.1.4 is not vulnerable, only 1.2.0, 1.2.1 are. You can leave it be.
the other programs are linked to the shared lib, and when you updated
the libz.so file those got updated.
OK, so since I have updated 'zlib' to 1.2.2 I decided that I ought to
check for other programs which use it.
I installed 'find-zlib' (from ports :-) and ran it like this:
$ for i in `echo $PATH | tr ':' ' '`
for> do
for> sudo find-zlib $i/*
for> done
/usr/local/sbin/lpadmin: inflate version: "1.2
Yes, if you want to automatically log yourself in via telnet, then you
will need expect. There's no way to do this via /bin/sh
A-a-a-r-r-r-g-h-h. You are correct!
Actually... I'm not... I just tried this from my machine, and to my
utter surprise, it does work, at least from the commandline.
By
I'm looking for a simple chat server (ala AIM) that I can run on
FreeBSD to allow users on our LAN to communicate with one another.
What I need:
[ ] free, no-ad client apps for WinXP and Mac
[ ] ability to transfer files (drag and drop, ideally)
[ ] server to run on 5.3 (no-gui/x)
I did some l
On Jan 30, 2005, at 6:33 AM, Jay Moore wrote:
I need a shell script that initiates a telnet session to another host.
I have come up with the following, but unfortunately it terminates
when the script
is finished. What I wanted was for the telnet session to remain
"alive" and
interactive until man
Aha! I had to choose 'USB Printer #1 (no reset)" to get it to work
As I suspected, it was right in front of me... but knowing where to
copy the PPD was crucial. Apparently everyone assumes this will be
there or will be automatically installed by something.
Well you know what they say about bui
On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote:
The "known" printers have .ppd files in /usr/local/share/cups/model.
Aha! I copied the 'Brother-HL-1240-hl1250.ppd' file (from their
website) to the /model/ folder and restarted CUPS.
I configured it and my model did appear. I sent a test pag
Trying to setup Brother 1240 to be able to be printed to from across
LAN (Mac OS X/WinXP), preferably using smb.
The Brother 1240 hooked to the FreeBSD 5.3 machine via USB:
dmesg shows:
ulpt0: Brother Industries product 0x0006, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2,
iclass 7/1
ulpt0: using bi-directio
I was trying to configure && make 'clamav-0.81' when it complained
about this:
configure: error: The installed zlib version may contain a security
bug. Please upgrade to 1.2.2 or later: http://www.zlib.net. You can
omit this check with --disable-zlib-vcheck but DO NOT REPORT any
stablility iss
Ah, wonderful... I was hoping someone would ask this question.
Since I'm running sans-X I was wondering what my options were.
Tried ctorrent, but the UI was really confusing, and it didn't seem to
upload (for me, I know it is supposed to). Checked out the webpage and
it explained what the number
(I am still trying to solve my "connected but can't get anywhere"
dialin to FreeBSD problem)
Last time I connected but couldn't get anywhere, I believe this was the
mgetty log:
01/21 01:52:55 yd0 mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.31-Jul24
01/21 01:52:55 yd0 check for lockfiles
01/21 01:52
[more information on the problems originally outlined at
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-January/
072284.html ]
updated summary: dialing into FreeBSD box sometimes fails to provide a
connection to the Internet, however, it appears that if I maintain the
connection
I am wondering if anyone has any experience with 56k "Lan Modems"
(these combine an Ethernet hub with a 56k modem).
Apple's Airport Extreme does this, but it's only a 1-port, and it's
fairly pricey. 3Com has one called "office connect"
Anyone done any recent pre-purchase research on this that
Dialin modem has been working very well, with the exception of a couple
times last night when I couldn't connect. Here's the mgetty logs.
Note these lines:
01/16 02:10:35 yd0 waiting for ``CONNECT'' ** found **
01/16 02:10:56 yd0 send:
01/16 02:10:56 yd0 waiting for ``_'' ** found **
01/16
On Jan 13, 2005, at 5:18 PM, John wrote:
Yeah - thinking about that - but should I really need SEVERAL Gb to
support the environment I want? Maybe...
FWIW, the day after Thanksgiving, BestBuy had a 250GB drive for $80
after $100 rebate. Even if you can't find a deal that good, your time
is wor
On Jan 15, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Jordan Michaels wrote:
Anyone know where I can grab an iso of 4.9? I need that particular
distro for a project that I'm working on. All I see on the mirror
sites is 4.10 and up. Help?
Google + "freebsd 4.9 iso" gave me
http://mirror.lnnu.edu.cn/01.ISO/08.bsd/0.FreeBS
On Jan 15, 2005, at 1:55 AM, Timothy Luoma wrote:
-s looks promising (d'oh, checked make.conf settings but not man
page... far too late, must sleep)
it's still too chatty. Configure makes a lot of noise.
Actually the redirect works well, esp. now that someone explained the
redire
On Jan 15, 2005, at 1:05 AM, Scott Bennett wrote:
You've tried "-s"? And that was still too chatty?
-s looks promising (d'oh, checked make.conf settings but not man
page... far too late, must sleep)
Actually the redirect works well, esp. now that someone explained the
redirect (new to 'sud
[two replies in one]
On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
A local proxy won't help you any more than simply cranking up your
browser cache.
rats. I was thinking that if it was coming from one traceroute hop
away would be faster than from however many hops the other sites would
be.
Ca
Maybe I'm Googling the wrong terms, but I'm trying to find a way to
make 'make' less chatty during 'make install clean' (at least the
'make' part, I'd like to see the install stuff if possible... if not,
I'd rather not.)
There seem to be a lot of merely information stuff that comes by. I
didn
I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't get
more than about 26400 on my dialup.
My dialup is my FreeBSD machine (5.3).
I am wondering if I setup a proxy on the FreeBSD machine, if it would
speed downloads up any. If so, what would be a good proxy to use?
Anything els
a minor p.s. to my notes, I forgot this line for the mgetty login.conf:
/AutoPPP/ - -/etc/ppp/ppp-pap-dialup
which is crucial to making this work. Also, you may have to edit
/etc/passwd manually to get it to accept a shell not listed in
/etc/shells.
Otherwise, I reinstalled 5.3
On Jan 13, 2005, at 2:50 PM, William Cox wrote:
Any suggestions how to solve this problem which did not exist when I
initially downloaded MF?
Just a guess, but one possibility is a corrupted file which is used by
the app, such as a preferences file. You might try renaming them and
starting it
On Jan 12, 2005, at 12:34 AM, Timothy Luoma wrote:
ps - thanks to all who responded. I'm going to disable HT, boot to
FreeBSD and try another large file transfer and see if I see the large
delays. If no, I'll copy the files I need off the XP drive and
reinstall XP.
Ok, well I disab
I have an external firewire drive that I would like to use both with my
Powerbook (Mac OS X 10.3.7) and FreeBSD 5.3.
Ideally I would like read/write access from both machines.
Is there a filesystem that both OSes can read? The only one I know of
is FAT32, which (IIRC) isn't a good choice on lar
On Jan 12, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Eric Anderson wrote:
If you are simply recovering your mp3's^H^H^H^H^Hdata,
Heh... actually my iPod is FAT32 because I had it with Windows before I
had a Mac.
then just mount it read only, copy data, unmount.. After the copy, who
cares if it trashes it?
yeah, read on
I have an external 60GB Firewire drive currently (stupidly) formatted
in HFS+ (Mac OS X "Extended"). I'd like to get all the files off of
the drive and onto my FreeBSD machine (which has firewire card
installed, although I've yet to try and tackle mounting it).
http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/h
On Jan 11, 2005, at 9:09 PM, David Kelly wrote:
The benefits of HT are too few for me to risk trashing the fs now its
full.
That's a good enough reason for me.
Iif YES, I wasn't clear if people meant "disable in BIOS" or just some
configuration setting in a *.conf file.
In the BIOS.
Thanks...
(dis
On Jan 11, 2005, at 8:43 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2005-01-11 19:52, "Timothy J. Luoma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
summary: should I disable hypertheading in the BIOS when running 5.3?
[...]
If YES, I wasn't clear if people meant "disable in BIOS" or just some
configuration setting in a *.co
With many thanks to the folks who helped, I am happy to announce that I
write this message from my own dialup connection to my own FreeBSD
machine!
Here the relevant configuration items. I'm using a standard 5.3
GENERIC kernel and my modem (an external serial port modem) is on sio0:
Most o
On Jan 10, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Jay Quinby wrote:
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Timothy Luoma wrote:
I am unsure about several things
- should be using cuaa0 or ttyd0 (I am using mgetty)?
If I recall correctly, cuaa0 is the device name for Serial 0, or
the equivalent of /dev/ttyS0 on Linux. One way
Update on progress on project "ppp dialin". I am following the
instructions at
http://node.to/freebsd/how-tos/how-to-freebsd-pppserver.html.
On the advice of Charles Ulrich on FBSD-Questions, I bought a serial
modem Creative Modem Blaster v.92 Model DE5621. I shut off the
machine, hooked up
On Jan 6, 2005, at 11:00 PM, Tom Vilot wrote:
Eric F Crist wrote:
What is the point of the { } around some variables?
It's not strictly necessary, except in some cases. i.e:
m=34
echo $m
You don't need it there.
But you would want it here:
f=/var/filename
fname=${f//name/name2}
It's when you need t
On Jan 6, 2005, at 2:54 AM, Sergey Zaharchenko wrote:
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:44:50AM -0500,
Timothy Luoma probably wrote:
Well I think there's a problem with the modem. I ran the diagnostics
in Windows.
Complete log here:
http://tntluoma.com/freebsd/usr-pci-modem.txt
Quoting:
& A
Do you have a serial port on your computer?
There's a 9 pin connector (nothing attached) that I'm not sure what
it's for, a printer port, and mouse and keyboard connectors, otherwise
they are all USB ports. (Hardware is NOT my specialty. This is a new
Dell Dimension 3000, if that helps any.)
On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:55 PM, Jim Arnold wrote:
I've hit a wall getting this to work:
?spike# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mDNSResponder.sh start
.: Can't open /etc/rc.subr: No such file or directory
I created a symlink to /usr/local/etc/rc.subr from
/etc and it now works like a charm!
I'd suspect that you
On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:28 PM, Malcolm Kay wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 04:27 am, Timothy Luoma wrote:
(FWIW, the modem works under WinXP for dialing *out*. XP reports it as:
"PCI Slot 2 PCI Bus 1, Device 1, function 0" on "COM3")
FreeBSD seems to see it:
$ dmesg|grep "^sio&
On Jan 4, 2005, at 10:03 PM, Jim Arnold wrote:
I've hit a wall getting this to work:
spike# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mDNSResponder.sh start
.: Can't open /etc/rc.subr: No such file or directory
Andrew Gould mentioned
"/usr/ports/sysutils/rc_subr
A good explanation: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/rc_
On Jan 4, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote:
Are you controlling iTunes (and all it's music library) on your Mac
from a FreeBSD box somewhere on the net, and playing it on the FreeBSD
box?
Oh, there's one big caveat: there's apparently no way to tell iTunes to
look for a iTunes server,
On Jan 4, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote:
This sounds very interesting. But I am not sure I understand very
well what exactly is the task you were trying to accomplish. Are you
controlling iTunes (and all it's music library) on your Mac from a
FreeBSD box somewhere on the net, and pl
On Jan 4, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Bruce Campbell wrote:
The only processes for which we have hundreds running would be
sendmail, procmail, ipop3d and imapd.
I love procmail and would hate to live w/o it, but that would be my
first suspect out of that list.
TjL
who once got a phone call from his ISP be
This outlines some extra steps I had to take to setup an iTunes server
in FreeBSD 5.3
I followed the instructions at
http://home.introweb.nl/~dodger/itunesserver.html
There are a few notes (I suspect those instructions are a bit
old/outdated in a few places):
ORIGINAL TEXT:
"Now you'll hav
I have been attempting to setup mgetty (installed from ports) to allow
me to dial IN to my FreeBSD 5.3 machine.
$ mgetty -V
mgetty+sendfax by Gert Doering
experimental test release 1.1.31-Jul24
log file written to '/var/log/mgetty.'
config file read from '/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/mgetty.conf
On Jan 3, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:
On Jan 3, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote:
On Jan 3, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:
A couple more questions, then I'm done. Promise.
I need to verify whether or not there is an entry for
grog_firewall_oif and grog_firewall_iif in
On Jan 3, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:
A couple more questions, then I'm done. Promise.
I need to verify whether or not there is an entry for grog_firewall_oif
and grog_firewall_iif in /etc/rc.conf. If not, I want to exit with an
error.
You want to check for either "grog_firewall_oif" or
On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:
In regards to the = or -eq, I can't discern a difference in output when
I use them. Can you explain further their differences?
I think they are different ways of saying the same thing. Personal
preference only as to which is better.
What would NOT
On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote:
Eric F Crist wrote:
elif [ "$grog_firewall_enable" <> "YES" or "NO" ]
then
echo "Syntax error in /etc/rc.conf file. grog_firewall_enable
must be YES or NO"
fi
I don't know if you're on 5.x, nor whether you use ipfw, ipfilter or
pf - I wrote
On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:27 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:
Good to know. If I want to validate, like my first example, against
some variables, how would I do that best. Say, for example, I have 4
possible entries for grog_firewall_enable but I want to single out
three of them:
if [ "$grog_firewall_enable" <
[Eric: sorry if you see this twice. Resending online. hit REPLY
instead of REPLY ALL by accident]
On Jan 3, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:
First off, let me thank you very much for the massive amount of
information you've given me thus far.
I am a commandline geek from way back, so you'r
On Jan 3, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Hexren wrote:
I am not that great at bash but look in /etc/rc.firewall for the line
where it says: ". /etc/defaults/rc.conf" I think this line includes
/etc/rc.conf into the running script and as code in rc.conf is
evaluated at the time it is included, all the variables
On Jan 3, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:
I'm trying to create a shell script for firewalling. What I'm hoping
to do is create a generic script that looks for variables in
/etc/rc.conf. I've tried looking at other scripts that use variables
placed there, but don't understand how to pull
On Jan 1, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:
I would recommend setting up the lpd daemon. This is supported by Mac
OS X be default, so there's not a whole lot to setup. No Rendevous
necessary.
Thanks Eric. I'll try that. I was thinking Rendezvous would be easier
than setting up lpd, but I m
On Jan 1, 2005, at 11:46 PM, Rob wrote:
Timothy Luoma wrote:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-
troubleshoot.html tells me to use this command from /dev/:
sh MAKEDEV cuaa0 cuaa1 cuaa2 cuaa3
but there is no MAKEDEV in /dev/
Usually there are two entries for this in
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-
troubleshoot.html tells me to use this command from /dev/:
sh MAKEDEV cuaa0 cuaa1 cuaa2 cuaa3
but there is no MAKEDEV in /dev/
In fact, these are the only references to MAKEDEV on the entire machine:
$ locate MAKEDEV
/usr/port
I'm trying to install /usr/ports/print/cups on 5.3 with
ghostscript-afpl-nox11-8.50,1
$ /usr/ports/print/cups
$ make WITH_GHOSTSCRIPT_AFPL=yes install distclean
but that doesn't work, it still tries to install ghostscript-gnu
===> Installing for ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_11
===> ghostscript-g
I've been trying to find information on how to setup printer sharing so
that I can print from a Mac to a FreeBSD machine on the same LAN.
Everything I find seems to revolve around the announcement for
Rendezvous, but it's mostly PR and little actual information.
The question I can't seem to fin
On Dec 31, 2004, at 9:41 PM, jason henson wrote:
[did that... I have downloaded Rendezvous.tar.gz and
mDNSResponder-58.8.tar.gz to /usr/ports/distfiles/]
"After doing this, go back to /usr/ports/net/rendezvous (if needed)
and type: make install clean"
BUT... but... there is no /usr/ports/net/
On Dec 31, 2004, at 10:09 PM, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Friday 31 December 2004 08:14 pm, Chris wrote:
Timothy Luoma wrote:
On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Chris wrote:
Somewhat related - is there a port that will play the files
downloaded from ITunes?
I think the answer is no.
Protected AAC files
I've tried to install several ports that rely on gnu.org over the past
several days, and the first THREE attempts timeout. Here's one
example:
=> Attempting to fetch from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/.
fetch: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2:
Operation timed out
=>
On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Chris wrote:
Somewhat related - is there a port that will play the files downloaded
from ITunes?
I think the answer is no.
Protected AAC files can only be played in iTunes, I believe.
TjL
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Hello all. I'm trying to follow the instructions at
http://home.introweb.nl/~dodger/itunesserver.html
Here's where I hit a snag:
"After doing this, you can remove the mDNSResponder.shar file.
[did that]
"...Now you'll have to download Rendezvous.tar.gz from Apple. Go to
http://www.op
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:16:42 -0700, David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't understand a thing it does.. but I put it in my home directory
anyway and called it .forward.
It appears the procmail is no 'firing' when message come. Looking for
any pointers? been through to procmail faq sites a
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:11:22 +0200, Kai Grossjohann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a group calendar software (client/server or peer-to-peer)
solution that can run on FreeBSD?
Ideally has both a web front end as well as a client application.
My former colleagues and
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:24:07 -0700 (PDT), Ronnie Clark
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How does one edit the menu options when using the
FreeBSD boot menu to dual boot with Windows? Currently
mine says:
F1: ???
F2: FreeBSD
I searched the archives, but did not find my answer.
I believe that is just what
Is it possible to run vmware in FBSD 4.9? When I tried vmware3 it said it
was broken for
Is there a 3rd possibility (besides WINE I suppose)?
TjL
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:38:29 +0100, Matthew Seaman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As a desktop user, you will need to install some sort of working
environment, plus any specific applications that you need.
By "working environment" I mean essentially an X window manager and
any supporting infrastructu
I installed 4.8-Release on my machine, and got the dual boot working with
WinXP thanks to GAG[1]
So now I have this shiny new OS sitting there, and I can login, but I
haven't a clue where to begin. I don't know the diff. between KDE and
GNOME or how they relate to Blackbox or Afterstep or any
This email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) started to receive the virus not
long after I used it to post to this freebsd-(questions|mobile). Since
the address was just created and has only been used for these two lists,
it seems a good guess that someone here is infected.
I don't know if the heade
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:07:53 -0700, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:15:01AM -0400, Ryck wrote:
Hi
I've heard that SCO Group has an issue with Linux and is planning to sue
everyone who uses Linux because of the claim that it is using their
code.
Does Free BSD
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