Maxtor OneTouch USB Drive

2004-06-09 Thread Alex Teslik
Hello, Has anyone out there managed to get a Maxtor OneTouch USB Drive working on 4.9? Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Right now usbd sees it: Jun 8 18:39:57 gouda /kernel: umass0: Maxtor OneTouch, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 Jun 8 18:39:57 gouda /kernel: umass0: Get Max Lun not supported

LRZ bug?

2004-06-21 Thread Alex Mitchell
sing is /usr/local/bin/lrz -v --quiet --ymodem 12K file stops uploading at about 8K and the 24K file stops uploading at about 16K. Do you have any thoughts on why this would happen? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED]___

Re: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350

2004-06-22 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:56:26PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A number of software products use the Hauppauge WinTV 350 "Personal Video Recorder" (what a stupid name!). I've been planning to get one for some time, but here in Australia the prices are ridicul

du -k VS ls -l (what I'm missing?)

2004-07-01 Thread Alex K
Hello, all! (sorry for not wraping text, it messes up) what do I miss here? sum of individual file sizes is much more than "total" in ls and more than du -k reports bash-2.05b$ ls -l total 354112 -rw-r--r-- 1 lesha wheel 98490960 1 июл 12:29 88479E51B1D77190A2A8C882 -rw-r--r-- 1 lesha

Intel i845G chip and TV out?

2004-07-03 Thread Alex K
Hello everyone! I have spent some time googling around, but found no usefull information about enabling TV out on i845G under freebsd. On Linux it is avaible with Intel supplied XF86 driver. As described in: http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/manuals/27404103.pdf Anyone have any information on

Re: Remoute installation

2004-07-06 Thread Alex K
> I I have confronted with such problem as the remote installation >FreeBSD. >There is a server, on a nem is established Linux Debian 3,As to me to >reinstall Linux on FreeBSD when locally I of access to the server have notd . Hello, Artyom! You may wish to use: http://www.dae

Re: make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
. Someone else will have to tell you if that's possible. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

dynamically limit ip connections to ports over time?

2005-05-03 Thread Alex Teslik
Hi all, I have been running a FreeBSD box for a few years. Over this time spammers and other unfriendlies have found my box and have been attacking at a slowly increasing rate. Every night the daily periodic scripts run and report to me the number of rejected mail hosts. Last week, one of the

Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
erence is interface complexity, the rest, I'm sure, is that SCSIs tend to manufactured to higher tolerances. Ask owners of an IBM Deskstar 75 how reliable an IDE drive is :-) (Then duck). --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Inetd and a service listening only on localhost

2005-05-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
a firewall? Hosts.allow would just be there for backup. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

2005-05-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
lease unsubscribe yourself and go away. Stop wasting everyone's time. --Alex PS Don't bother replying as you are in a kill file. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: 4.9-RELEASE Xorg switch question

2005-05-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
hitches. Even upgraded gnome as well, and everything came back working. Clutching at straws, have you cvsup-ed your ports? Does pkgdb -F run cleanly? Does pkg_info show anything unexpected as being installed (such as imake or XFree)? --Alex ___

Re: mozilla

2005-05-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
know portmanager, but neither make clean nor cvsup have anything to do with deinstalling ports. I've installed and deinstalled mozilla about five times in the last few weeks trying out various patches, and I know that correct deinstallation will remove the files that cpio is complaining about. The

Re: a question

2005-05-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
your questions. We need to know what your question is about. e.g. "ISO images". --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: mozilla

2005-05-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
illa about five times in the last few weeks trying out various patches, and I know that correct deinstallation will remove the files that cpio is complaining about. The files are not gone on your machine, ergo mozilla was not deinstalled correctly. Why that happened, there is just too little inf

Re: mozilla

2005-05-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gert Cuykens wrote: On 5/10/05, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/10/05, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/9/05, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/9/05, Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> wrote: On Mon, 2005-

Re: firefox crashes after upgrade to R5.4

2005-05-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
need to tweak or delete /var/db/ports/firefox/options when you want to recompile without debugging again. That one caught me out, and mozilla is *still* beeping like a mad thing. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: a problem withcompiling kernel

2005-05-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
nd your CUSTOM side by side so that you can check that everything you took out really should have been taken out. Or try comparing them with diff. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: using 5-STABLE packages with 5.4 RELEASE

2005-05-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
c/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Re: FireFox is beeping at me!

2005-05-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
var/db/ports/firefox/options. Go to /usr/ports/www/firefox and do a make. This time do not turn debugging on when asked to pick options!. Then "make deinstall; make reinstall". --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

2005-05-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
nky is going on and reinstalling libIDL may be the best bet. (You're a bit out of date anyway as mine is up to libIDL-0.8.5_1). --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

2005-05-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: set the LIBIDL_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to libIDL-config. Or try: setenv LIBIDL_CONFIG `which libIDL-config-2` or it {ba,z}sh equivalent. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: mozilla

2005-05-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
g to argue about the gimp mozilla dependency :) I didn't say this would fix your build problem. You appeared to be complaining about mozilla being a dependency when you had uninstalled it, so I told you how to fix it. Maybe I misunderstood what

Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

2005-05-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Timothy Smith wrote: Or try: setenv LIBIDL_CONFIG `which libIDL-config-2` or it {ba,z}sh equivalent. --Alex ok i just did the following ( i must have mis typed the first tiem or something ) and the ./configure finished, but it get "Makefile", line 406: Missing dependency oper

Re: Box Mysteriously Rebooting?

2005-05-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
k go a bit duff. Windows rebooted all the time whereas freebsd noticed the problem, and stopped using the bad section of memory, thus keeping me working and earning until more memory arrived in the post. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

2005-05-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
L_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/libIDL-2.0 -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include checking LIBIDL_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib -lIDL-2 I'm not sure what else to suggest. make clean in firefox and try making again. --Alex ___

Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

2005-05-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
things like configuration issues. Is there a reason for trying to re-invent all those wheels? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: gnome-vfs does not compile.

2005-05-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
redundant by now, I think, so if it's installled you can uninstall it). Some combination of the above fixed similar problems for me. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Finding out original source of e-mail

2005-05-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
machine to be sending these with SMTP. But then again, I pay so little attention to these things these days that maybe this is not so unusual. --Alex PS See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: Finding out original source of e-mail

2005-05-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks AlexI have had a hacker problem lately and it is someone I'm pretty confident I knowI know they are very tech savy, so just trying to confirm. Alex wrote: Looking at the first received line shows that FWM-D38.sysops.aol.com received the email

Re: GNU cp location

2005-05-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
site should have it. Presumably this isn't a port that requires it? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

2005-05-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Timothy Smith wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Why aren't you compiling this from the port? With a port someone has already gone to the trouble of making FreeBSD specific patches to fix things like configuration issues. Is there a reason for trying to re-invent all those wheels? well what

Re: The availability of socketbits.h?

2005-05-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
the place of GCC usage of the option -std? Even google failed to find it. :( "info gcc" then down to invoking, command line and C dialect options. Whether it really is up-to-date and accurate, I cannot say. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Can't delete a file

2005-05-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
lete it as root: # rm -rf rcp rm: rcp: Operation not permitted can anyone tell me how to get rid of it? chflags noschg rcp rm -rf rcp Do a 'man chflags' for more information about the file flags. And look at the -o option to ls. --Alex _

Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

2005-05-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ode 2 This isn't the error though. This is gmake stopping because of something previous going wrong. Are you doing this as root? What's the actual error? I've compiled the latest just fine on 4.11. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: illegal user root user failed login attempts

2005-05-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ed Stover wrote: One of my personal favorite things to do is: move ssh to port 1001 Is there a reason behind choosing port 1001? <1024; not registered to anything else useful; reasonably memorable? Are there any other useful criteria I've missed? Thanks

Re: pf + squid

2005-05-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
pdated my ports collection to get it back and still it doesn't ask me anything before beginning to compile. Any clues? Delete /var/db/ports/squid/options. I think there is a make target in the port as well. Try man ports. --Alex -- Phone: +44 131 4

Re: Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf

2005-05-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
rs you care about. Send mail when you find something, or be nasty and delete the file or whatever. Run it from cron as often as you deem necessary. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

2005-05-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ackages as well. (When specified with -F, fetch recursively, including the brand new, uninstalled ports that an upgraded port requires) The man page is your friend. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: The availability of socketbits.h?

2005-05-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
, but that's very long winded. Typing ? shows key bindings in a split window. Finish with this window by typing ^X0 (control-X then a 0 (zero)). There's also an emacs mode. I don't know if there is a proper X interface of any kind. --Alex

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
one of the control programs in a manual page, and then I used ls to look for others: Another useful command is "man -k" e.g. man -k control and if you're not a C programmer man -k control | egrep -v '(3)' | less Or even "locate control" --Alex __

Re: gnome-update.sh

2005-05-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
I had installed, but that was mainly libraries and apps like gimp. I don't run gnome as a desktop. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: securing SSH, FBSD systems

2005-05-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
thousands of entries. There could be 128 dif- ferent lookup tables, numbered 0 to 127. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[

Re: Uninstalling software compiled from source

2005-05-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
one of the reasons why the ports collection is so useful. You might be able to get part of the way there by using find(1) creatively to identify files installed around the same time. Or try "make -n install" to see what it would install, the

Re: SB Awe 64 ISA PNP Problem Model CT4500

2005-05-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
then one at a time kldload snd_{next driver} until you load one which produces some messages on the console about recognising your hardware. Then put a line in /boot/loader.conf like snd_{your driver}_load="YES" e.g. snd_driver_load="YES" which catches

Re: tape record bigger than supplied buffer

2005-05-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
for example, has a -b option e.g. "-b 64" to set its record size. I'm puzzled by you only seeing three messages though. Why would three buffers be smaller and not the rest? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: tape record bigger than supplied buffer

2005-05-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
up yet). You could also try man 4 sa which talks about fixed and variable block sizes. (As far as I know, there is a limit of 64k for the record size, but this was info from the 4.X series, so I reserve the right to be wrong :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-q

Re: SB Awe 64 ISA PNP Problem Model CT4500

2005-05-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: I have no idea if your sound card is supported or not. To found out, do cd /boot/kernel ls snd_* then one at a time kldload snd_{next driver} until you load one which produces some messages on the console about recognising your hardware. Then put a line in

Re: portupgrade & make options

2005-06-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
idea how portupgrade et al. cope if there is a newline in the options string, so I make sure there isn't one. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 4.11-RELEASE install error

2005-06-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
y a problem if you don't run cvsup and don't do the portupgrade "correctly" which many less experienced users might try to do having just installed from the CD. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: ppp filling /var

2005-06-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
<!!! procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc # du -h /var ... snip ... 12M/var If a file is opened, deleted and then written to, it will keep taking space without showing up under du. Does fstat show anything useful when ppp is running? Could you use pppd instead? --A

Re: xorg and missing /dev/agpgart

2005-06-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ES NOTES > LINT.mine" to get a more old-style LINT file in one place, if in a somewhat different order from 4.X). --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Re: SATA HD power management disabling

2005-06-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
You need to create a bootable floppy. It's the only way I've found to control AAM (which I want ON, but if you like grinding seek chatter, who am I to argue :-)). It does APM as well. If you find any other ways, I'd love t

Re: patch errors

2005-06-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
do the deletions for you). --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: arplookup failed

2005-06-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
address 1 (the external interface) but has an IP address consistent with being on the internal network, hence the message. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Can't login with /var was not properly dismounted

2005-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
otice that this looks like a RAID disk (/dev/ar* is IDE raid is it not?). I'm not that familiar with RAID setups (yet), but is this hardware RAID and does the controller not tell you anything? If it's mirrored, can you try un-raiding and then seeing if any disk a

Re: 12TB GEOM stripe, newfs, then fsck: cannot alloc 768053748 bytes for blockmap

2005-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ted to a bit less, but I don't have any of them :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 12TB GEOM stripe, newfs, then fsck: cannot alloc 768053748 bytes for blockmap

2005-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dan Nelson wrote: You can also set it in /boot/loader.conf: kern.maxdsiz="1024M" Nice. Did not know that. Thanks, --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: 12TB GEOM stripe, newfs, then fsck: cannot alloc 768053748 bytes for blockmap

2005-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
options MAXSSIZ=(256UL*1024*1024) options DFLDSIZ=(256UL*1024*1024) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
t run it. Doing anything about that seems more complicated than can be justified for a small number of patches so I just keep them in a separate dir an re-apply them whenever I need to. In this case, it will be just after I reaslise that I've installed a beeping boot manager again :-)

Re: Summary: 12TB GEOM stripe, newfs, then fsck: cannot alloc 768053748 bytes for blockmap

2005-06-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
're interested, check out the -b and -f options to newfs. The defaults are 16k/2k. Decreasing the number of inodes would definitely make sense (see -i). The -N option ought to show you what would happen without actually doing anything. --Alex

Re: system cloning

2005-06-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
that expecting too much? Or what about using Ghost? No experience of *doing* it myself, but someone I work with did it very successfully just a couple days ago to get a copy of an unbootable Linux SCSI disk onto an IDE. That would make the disks identical. --Alex

Re: problem updating src

2005-06-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ENG_5_4 src |& tee /var/tmp/co.log in (t)csh. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Resizing /var (maybe off topic)

2005-06-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
dumps of single partitions on a single tape which makes tape management much easier. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: system cloning

2005-06-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
tore then you wouldn't end up with identical disks. If all you want is two identical directory trees, then slicing and partitioning are irrelevant. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: tape record bigger than supplied buffer

2005-06-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
tape drive manual, in the end? Just wondering why 64512 rather than 65536... --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: rcNG script problems

2005-06-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
mplains about them being obsolete -- I guess trying to spot stuff left over from 4.X). It would be great to know what the plans are. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: tape record bigger than supplied buffer

2005-06-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chuck Swiger wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Damian Sobieralski wrote: I added the following to my tape drive area in the bacula-sd-conf: Minimum Block Size = 64512 Maximum Block Size = 64512 I'm not seeing those errors any longer. I've restored and all seems to go well. Good s

Re: Card for Xorg dual-head Xinerama? (Matrox G450 problems)

2005-06-15 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:17:58PM -0400, Chris Shenton wrote: >I'm running FreeBSD-5.4 from cvsup and having some Xorg problems with >Xinerama on my Matrox G450 dual-head card. > >While Xinerama works fine for local X11 apps, an app started on a >remote machine displaying

Re: rcNG script problems

2005-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Anyway, thanks for the info. For now I'll keep with putting my own scripts into /etc/rc.d and keeping copies elsewhere for easy rebuilding. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: SMP and networking under FreeBSD 5.3

2005-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
IP address configured on an interface in the system. The address list is evaluated at the time the packet is analyzed. If you have that after your natd rule, though, it will (I think) just match everything so the interface name is good enough. e.g. from any to any via sis0 --Alex _

Re: Grub and NTFS

2005-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
RdBSD wrote: Dear all, Can I use grub to boot windows 2003 server with ntfs file system ? The FreeBSD boot loader will boot windows/ntfs. There are lots of mentions of grub in the archives so probably it will. Why not google for the grub home page? --Alex

Re: Very slow printing on 5.4 with cups anh HP LaserJet 4L

2005-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
erence it makes) and then set flags to 0x20 or ox28. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: rcNG script problems

2005-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
enough. The apache2.sh script was also quite informative though given that your example is an http startup script I guess you didn't install apache2 from ports. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: SMP and networking under FreeBSD 5.3

2005-06-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
when there isn't and you then feed that junk to an ipfw rule which gives you the error. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Custom Kernel Config

2005-06-16 Thread Alex McGeorge
em on the web. http://bob.jonx.com/MYKERNEL.txt is my kernel config http://bob.jonx.com/MYKERNEL-ERROR.txt is the error I get (sorry for the lack of line wrap) Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers! -Alex ---- Alex McGeorge <> Network Security Engineer Robbins-Gioia,

Re: SMP and networking under FreeBSD 5.3

2005-06-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joe wrote: Thanks Alex, Below are my rules. I have removed the IP addresses and replaced with x.x.x.x in most cases. Also some ports have been turned to y's instead of the actual port. I don't want to go into the details of your firewall; all I can offer is general advice

Re: filter by program?

2005-06-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
them from your systems ;-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: SMP and networking under FreeBSD 5.3

2005-06-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
hen you need ${natd_interface} to be replaced directly with dc0. The other things to check, I guess, are that those are the *only* natd lines you have: egrep natd /etc/rc.conf /etc.rc.conf.local --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: postfix or qmail?

2005-06-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
I haven't done anything tricky with it qmail, so take this with a pinch of salt, but I'd buy the O'Reilly book and pick Postfix. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: postfix or qmail?

2005-06-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
urthermore, Qmail seems to have earned its reputation for security the standard DJB way: by implementing only the easy parts of the standard and complaining loudly about the hard parts ("those are insecure!") until everyone quits asking for them. DJB? On Saturday 18 June 2005 10:21 am

Re: Problems since 5.3-RELEASE-p15

2005-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
run-time symbol table Are you sure you rebuilt and re-installed both your kernel and your world? If they are out of sync, that can cause unusual problems. If you have upgraded to 5.3-RELEASE-p15 why not just upgrade to 5.4-RELEASE-p*? --Alex ___

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
uestion for any decent SCSI controller under FreeBSD (e.g. Dell PowerEdge 2850 with PERC 4e/Di RAID controller). Can you, in general, see through the RAID controller to monitor individual disks? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: DDS Tape problems

2005-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
rubbish I got free with a SCSI CDRW and it was fine. The only other guess would be termination. Has anything else on your SCSI chain changed? Is the terminator properly plugged in? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: Detailed logging of ssh sessions

2005-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
nt this to be secure, the log files ought to be on a read-only medium. If someone hacks root they can delete the trace --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
said that *reads* were interleaved not that the *data* was interleaved. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: cvs

2005-06-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
r again, and also try another one somewhere else. If you still have problems then it may be that there is a firewall of some kind between you the the cvsup server. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: OT: usage of split

2005-06-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
siest way to flash a BIOS; Partition Magic still insists on using floppies for backing up partition tables. So sadly, yes, I still use floppies. I wouldn't trust a backup to one, though, and my free collection of worthless NT installation floppies generally just gathers dust :-

Re: After Install -- Where is FreeBSD?

2005-06-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
rrect. As long as you do nothing other than making a slice bootable, then you should do no damage. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Installing Apache 2 with custom options

2005-06-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
to be generous about what modules etc I compile, and try to include stuff I *might* need even if I have no use for it yet. Only experimental stuff gets left out. Saves a lot of grief when you suddenly find a use for proxying :-) Disk space is nearly always cheaper than time. --Alex _

Re: After Install -- Where is FreeBSD?

2005-06-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
from CD, but it tends to refuse to write stuff to currently mounted disks. Instructions for that already sent to questions, and may well be in the handbook :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: After Install -- Where is FreeBSD?

2005-06-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Alex: Thanks so much for your help. I did try it, went into Post Installation Config, Label, etc. But at the top there was no information whatsoever about any disks. Zilch. No slice, no partition. Nothing. Any idea what's going on? I'm sorry, I mea

Re: Problems since 5.3-RELEASE-p15

2005-06-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
. I mean, you have to be doing *something* before getting a hardware fault! --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: OT Shell Script

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
path issue, but I like setting the path anyway as it's really easy to forget to use absolute pathnames since we are so used to the shell finding things for us at the command line. --Alex --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Correct step for setting up MBR on a windows drive?

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
d windows; if I unplug the FreeBSD drive again, windows boots up happily, but I don't much like the idea of un-plugging and re-plugging drives to make things work. You need to write the FreeBSD loader onto your windows disk. I posted instructions about how to do that

Re: OT Shell Script

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
se, I probably learnt this when ls -lsR / only ran to thirty of forty pages of line printer output :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: Anyone using doormand

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
e a debugging option? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: DDS Tape problems

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
lo heads wearing out). Windows drivers could easily be doing something clever to compensate for some known (to Microsoft at least) problem with the specific tape drive. Being Windows it wouldn't bother to tell you. Glad you got something wo

Re: DDS Tape problems

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ave you ever had the opportunity to test a tape drive which failed under FreeBSD under another BSD or Linux? Or on an alternate SCSI controller under FreeBSD? I would guess that the scsi or hackers lists might be better places to find people who might know, but you've probably tri

Re: Problems since 5.3-RELEASE-p15

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ttent memory errors, then it could be that SETI always happens to get them in the data it is dealing with, in which case it might run perfectly happily but just produce the wrong results. Memtest is dull, and stops you using your PC, but like Windows virus scans

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