RE: How to query the computer's ip address?

Hi, Silly question, maybe, but is there a simple command to query the computer's ip address? Something similar to 'hostname' for finding the computer's hostname. I need the four dot-separated ip numbers. I can analyze the output of 'ifconfig', but isn't there an easier way. For the sake of look

Ctrl+Alt+Delete

Hi, this is a rather auxilary question but my curiosity overpowered my self control. This is also more of a i386 specific question, but then again i'm not completely sure if FreeBSD handles it the same way on different machines. Does anyone on the list know what Ctrl+Alt+Delete does on a runnin

RE: Why BSD?

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? Honest question. Thanks, Jeff why not? -rian

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that statement. If the cour

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

I need to buy a book on C or C++ to help me in FreeBSD. Which would be better to buy? If you just want to start programming in FreeBSD, Learn C as well as you can. The route I took was learning basic programming skills then reading "The C Programming Language" by K&R, it's an excellent book if y

Custom FreeBSD boot floppy??

Hi Everyone! The MBR on my hard disk is corrupted (or sometimes is), after re-installing FreeBSD it was not overwritten and fixed even though the complete system was. So when i need to boot i use the bootcds i used to install FreeBSD and at boot0 i press any key (during rapid / - \ - spinnings)

Console Keyboard Difficulty

Hello! I am using FreeBSD 4.8. I recently installed emacs21 from the ports system but i'm afraid there may be a keybinding conflict. In my regular console and Xterm console Backspace is mapped at ctrl-h apparently. I think emacs knows this as backspace deletes the one character behind the cursu

Re: problem with perl version

After installing the newest perl port, at the command line type: use.perl port and FreeBSD will now default to using the ports and consequently latest version of perl. Conversely, to use the built-in system version of perl type: use.perl system Hope that helps out! -Rian Hunter From: Mike Woo

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX NIC not recognized...

The DFE-530TX and DFE-530TX+ use different ethernet chipsets. The D-Link website has information about the older model and what chipset it uses, it's not RealTek 8139, i forget what it actually is though. I remember being concerned with this when i got my 530TX+ though. Good Luck! -rian From:

Re: TCP/IP: Operation Timed Out

Thank you for your help but after looking in to the problem, i realized it is not the ident protocol. This could be a problem due to timeouts with the ident protocol, also known as auth, which uses port 113. Most mailservers will try and do an ident check on you when you connect to them. If you

TCP/IP: Operation Timed Out

Hello All! I manage a general mail server for my organization and recently i have been receiving complaints that not all their messages are being sent. A quick check to the maillog and i noticed that many of the mail servers of the receivers are getting "Operation timed out" responses. I manual

MBR Corruption and Restore

Hello All! Unfortunatly, i was having a minor hard disk problem on my first FreeBSD installation, and (so used to Debian) i thought i could fsck after "shutdown now". Apparently this was not the case, as my file systems were still mounted. After a quick re-install, with backups, it appears my M

POP3 user configuration

Hello all! I'm setting up a POP3/SMTP server (going to use qpopper/sendmail) for my community computer access center and i have little experience setting up a pop3 server (i have more experience setting up a private smtp relay server). My primary question is how can i set up user accounts stric

Complete hard-drive crash!

Hello! Hi everyone, i was under the impression that FreeBSD had great hard drive reliability even when using Soft Updates. I'm sure it does as nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I'm using FreeBSD 4.8 Release with a custom kernel (nothing questionable taken out) with the packaged

CUPSD problems.

Hi, I don't know if many other people have had this problem, but for some reason my cupsd refuses to add a printer. When i do it through lpadmin, it says "failed: server-error-internal-error". When i try to add a printer throught he web interface after i input the location and name it responds