Problems printing to remote print server. (Not PC/Nix)

2003-07-21 Thread Robert Chalmers
The thing I have on the network isa Print Server. A DLink three port print server. Its not a FreeBSD box sharing print jobs, nor a W2K machine doing the same. Its on a network connection of its own, and the printers are plugged into it. oh well. I'll keep digging. :-) thanks Robert ___

Re: Update to XFree86-4.3 - long startup

2003-07-21 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 06:47, Martin wrote: > Hi, > > every PC on which I update XFree86 to 4.3 has long startup times when > started with gdm or kdm. > > Earlier (e.g. on 4.2) it took 1 to 3 seconds to get the gdm or kde > login. Now it takes from 10 seconds to 30 or more. I don't know wh

Update to XFree86-4.3 - long startup

2003-07-21 Thread Martin
Hi, every PC on which I update XFree86 to 4.3 has long startup times when started with gdm or kdm. Earlier (e.g. on 4.2) it took 1 to 3 seconds to get the gdm or kde login. Now it takes from 10 seconds to 30 or more. I don't know why it happens. Anyone found out what the problem is? Thank you

virus scanner for email

2003-07-21 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello I search a scanner which works with Sophos and Sendmail. Is there something in the ports? Do you have some experience? -- Regards Martin Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PC-Service M. Schweizer; Gewerbehaus Schwarz; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www

Re: set user-id

2003-07-21 Thread Ryan Thompson
Gerald S. Stoller wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT > 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > As root, I made a text file (named t ) that did > something like >

Re: Mail delivery wierdness

2003-07-21 Thread Ryan Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi Ryan... Hi Keith, > Yep I can confirm it was NOT listening on :25 > The techie on the ground swore black & blue it was (always follow what you > know!). I figured it wasn't but maybe it was somethjing I didn't > understand?? He changed the confi

set user-id

2003-07-21 Thread Gerald S. Stoller
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 As root, I made a text file (named t ) that did something like echo $USER | tee xx and then had it set user-id (I did 'chmod 4755

X 4.3 on thinkpad iSeries 1300

2003-07-21 Thread karl agee
Trying to get X running (correctly) on a thinkpad iSeries 1300. This unit has a silicon motion LynxEM+ video chip and a 800x600 svga display. I can get X running, but, it comes up only in 640x480. Additionally the display looks like it is displaying in a 1024x768 mode as all of the fonts, gra

Re: Mail delivery wierdness

2003-07-21 Thread keith
Hi Ryan... Yep I can confirm it was NOT listening on :25 The techie on the ground swore black & blue it was (always follow what you know!). I figured it wasn't but maybe it was somethjing I didn't understand?? He changed the config on exchange and voila! Now I can chat with smtp on the mail server

Re: "make depend" fails, cc1: no such file

2003-07-21 Thread Jez Hancock
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:12:57PM -0400, Stephen G Smith wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and I want to add firewall support to > my kernel. So, I carefully read and followed the instructions in section > 9.3 of the FreeBSD Handbook. But when I run "make depend" i get this > error: > >

Re: "make depend" fails, cc1: no such file

2003-07-21 Thread Stephen G Smith
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 20:36, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:12:57PM -0400, Stephen G Smith wrote: > > I am running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and I want to add firewall support to > > my kernel. So, I carefully read and followed the instructions in section > > 9.3 of the FreeBSD Handbo

RE: Printing to PrintServer problems

2003-07-21 Thread Derrick Ryalls
> > I can't get FreeBSD to print to the the network PrintServer > W2K machines do fine. FreeBSD sends the jobs, but they just > ... disappear ? > > Printing to a W2K machine with a printer on its LP1 port work fine, > under printcap control, but not to the PrintServer? > I recommend using aps

Re: Printing to PrintServer problems

2003-07-21 Thread Dragan Mickovic
Have you tried using cups? micko On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:08:55AM +1000, Robert Chalmers wrote: > I can't get FreeBSD to print to the the network PrintServer > W2K machines do fine. FreeBSD sends the jobs, but they just ... disappear ? > > Printing to a W2K machine with a printer on its LP1 po

fd0 device errors

2003-07-21 Thread Thanjee Neefam
I have no floppy device in /dev I think the following is the reason why, but I have no clue how to fix it: ~$ dmesg |grep fd fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3 fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3 fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports) I am running 5.1, although it has always been bro

Re: Mail delivery wierdness

2003-07-21 Thread Ryan Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to Free bsd : > Hi all, > I am trying to connect to an exchange server via my new gateway ipfilter > fbsd 4.7 ipnat firewall. > Telnetting to the server inside to port 25 reveals... > > Connected to 203.44.yyy.xx > Escape character is ']'. > Connection closed by foreign hos

wysisyg printing of web pages

2003-07-21 Thread Leonard Zettel
I have a quite vanilla installation of 5.1 running. Plaintext printing to my laserjet 1100 is working pretty well. I have KDE set up and am impressed with the performance of the Konqueror web browser. BUT when I click the Konqueror print button what comes out is an almost unending bunch of ACII fo

Printing to PrintServer problems

2003-07-21 Thread Robert Chalmers
I can't get FreeBSD to print to the the network PrintServer W2K machines do fine. FreeBSD sends the jobs, but they just ... disappear ? Printing to a W2K machine with a printer on its LP1 port work fine, under printcap control, but not to the PrintServer? any ideas anyone ? robert _

Re: "make depend" fails, cc1: no such file

2003-07-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:12:57PM -0400, Stephen G Smith wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and I want to add firewall support to > my kernel. So, I carefully read and followed the instructions in section > 9.3 of the FreeBSD Handbook. But when I run "make depend" i get this > error: > >

Printing problems

2003-07-21 Thread frank brierley
Hi all, I have a HP deskjet 640c attached to a freebsd 4.8 box. This printer doesn't do plain text real easy, something to do with carrage return and line feed. There are a few simple printing filters on the web that help print plain text with lpd, but ghostscript has me beaten. There is a p

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2003-07-21 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
One of my machines spontaneously rebooted today, during a run of `portsdb -Uu` after a cvsup of the ports collection. It's also done it a few times before, but I wasn't around and wasn't able to catch anything that it spit it before it rebooted. I was able to reproduce it, and here's what was out

Mail delivery wierdness

2003-07-21 Thread keith
Hi all, I am trying to connect to an exchange server via my new gateway ipfilter fbsd 4.7 ipnat firewall. Telnetting to the server inside to port 25 reveals... Connected to 203.44.yyy.xx Escape character is ']'. Connection closed by foreign host. Why would it close instantly? Does this reveal whi

Re: RELENG_5 ?

2003-07-21 Thread oremanj
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:41:55AM +0200, David Rio wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:27:21PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:18:40AM +0200, David Rio wrote: > > > Hi all: > > > > > > I have been using FreeBSD in production enviroments so I used FreeBSD 4.7 and >

Re: RELENG_5 ?

2003-07-21 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Monday 21 July 2003 06:18 pm, David Rio wrote: > If I am not wrong with this, what will be the reason to install 5.1 > instead 4.8? I mean, 5.1 has more features but a worst performace > that 4.8. On the other hand, there is no -STABLE branch of 5.1 so > the only way to keep you system up to da

Re: RELENG_5 ?

2003-07-21 Thread Torben Brosten
Hi David, You might want to look at the "FreeBSD-CURRENT vs. FreeBSD-STABLE" page which discusses the differences between stable and current. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html cheers, Torben David Rio wrote: Hi all: I have been using FreeBSD in pro

RELENG_5 ?

2003-07-21 Thread David Rio
Hi all: I have been using FreeBSD in production enviroments so I used FreeBSD 4.7 and 4.8. Now, I have installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my laptop. So I decided to keep track of the -RELEASE_5 (STABLE). But It seems that there is not such a branch on the repository. Reading diferent links at freebsd.org.

trouble installing

2003-07-21 Thread Ted Unangst
I tried to install FreeBSD 5.1 today, and ran into several issues. Machine in question is a generic AMD 1500 with 1GB RAM and 80GB IDE disk running OpenBSD. I'm attempting to install a small setup, just for quick testing. prep: Downloaded floppy images and base sets to a FAT32 partition, /mnt/fre

Re: no sound with 4.8 & KDE

2003-07-21 Thread Walter
liquid wrote: What sound isn't working? Just xmms? Or have you tried using something like noatun - which comes with KDE 3.1 When you run the sound "daemon" for system sounds and such on KDE, it interferes with xmms, and as a result xmms doesn't work. You have to turn that off in order to use xmms

"make depend" fails, cc1: no such file

2003-07-21 Thread Stephen G Smith
I am running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and I want to add firewall support to my kernel. So, I carefully read and followed the instructions in section 9.3 of the FreeBSD Handbook. But when I run "make depend" i get this error: cc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': no such file or directory *** Er

Re: no sound with 4.8 & KDE

2003-07-21 Thread Walter
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Okay, let's go back to the basics. What does "dmesg|grep pcm" show? pcm0: port 0x1080-0x10bf irq 10 at device 13.0 on pci0 I've checked that the port memory does not overlap anything else, also that there are no other devices that use irq 10 at device 13.0. Thanks. Walter

Re: ctrl+alt+del & shutdown/reboot

2003-07-21 Thread Andy Farkas
luca.massarenti wrote: > Hi, I install linux & freebsd servers, and I'd like to shutdown (and not reboot) my > servers pressing ctrl+alt+del. is mapped to "boot" in the default keyboard map. You want to remap it "halt" or maybe even "pdwn" See 'man keymap' for more info. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Ask about BSD's history.

2003-07-21 Thread Andy Farkas
Jerry McAllister wrote: > > I read from > > http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,555398,00.asp. > > Here are some more sites. > > http://www.levenez.com/unix/ > > http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html > > http://scnc.k12.mi.us/websites/bsdtree.html/ > > http://www.asand

Re: Error installing a port

2003-07-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pimp DUSK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to install centericq on my FreeBSd box. I am > running 4.7 stable. When I run make I ge this error. > > badseed# make > ===> Building for centericq-4.9.4 > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.1" not found > > It lookslike I ne

Re: How can i make dial up PPP easy? !!!

2003-07-21 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 05:04:31AM -0500, sweetleaf wrote: > I am trying to setup a friends computer with freebsd 5.1. He has used > windows for the last 5 years and has never used a unix based > computer...so i need to make things as easy and "point and click" as > possible. > He uses a dia

Re: Security of adding users for "accounts" ??

2003-07-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i hope this isn't too silly a question, but one of the really easy > ways we've found to manage "accounts" for customers is to just go and > create actual unix accounts for them on our FreeBSD boxes, which helps > us organise everything from directories to wher

Re: Changing gtk application fonts outside of gnome (Answer)

2003-07-21 Thread Phil Payne
Hi, Caveat, I'm no GTK/Gnome expert so if someone wants to pick holes, feel free... Did some further digging around on the web and I've concluded that the way to ensure your GTK apps appear as you want (font wise) outside of gnome is: If you want anti-aliasing ensure the following environment

Crypto novice: Can't import PGP key into GNUpg

2003-07-21 Thread Tom Parquette
Please CC me on any replies. I subscribe to the digest format. TIA. I'm working on Proof-of Concept for a project at work that requires cryptographic support (PGP). I'm trying to test with my FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT system at home. The other end is is PGP 2.6.3i running under UNIX System Servcies

Re: Dump from cron job, need to change tape

2003-07-21 Thread Matthew Bettinger
On Monday 21 July 2003 02:02 pm, Mike Maltese wrote: >I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. > The tape runs to the end, issues the end of tape, and then dump >fails. I would like to be able to change the tape and get a backup. I use bacula for my home lan and fbackup

SMC - 2402W wireless PCI ethernet card

2003-07-21 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Hi guys, anyone knows if this "*SMC - 2402W" *is supported by FreeBSD? I am going to buy 2 x wireless cards. If any other are better supported or one knows that they work well, please tell me, so I can buy the right one. Thanks for all, Alin. ___ [E

Re: spell checker for mozilla 1.4

2003-07-21 Thread sweetleaf
peter lageotakes wrote: Have you check out spellchecker.mozdev.org? Under downloads there is a version for FreeBSD 5.0/Mozilla 1.2.x Pete --- sweetleaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a spell checker xpi or port for mozilla 1.4? The only ones i have found were for linux and solaris. I

Re: Dump from cron job, need to change tape

2003-07-21 Thread stan
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:35:27PM -0400, Bob Collins wrote: > Sorry to repost, but wanted to post with a subject line. > > >I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and cron > >and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND allow user > >intervention to cha

Re: Dump from cron job, need to change tape

2003-07-21 Thread Mike Maltese
DDS2 is only 4GB native. - Original Message - From: "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bob Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:48 AM Subject: Re: Dump from cron job, need to change tape > > > > Sorry to repost, but wanted to post

Problems with MimeDefang?

2003-07-21 Thread Fernando Gleiser
I'm having some probles runing Mimedefang on FreeBSD. Here's my setup: P IV 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM, 4.8_RELEASE, sendmail, and cyrus imapd. The IMAP users are also Unix users. There are about 300 accounts in the system. I'm runing MIMEDefang 2.35, installed from the ports. All the ports MIMEDefang de

configure ftpd port range

2003-07-21 Thread John DeStefano
Due to ISP restrictions, I must change the default port on which ftpd runs in order to enable ftp access to and from my machine. I had to do the same for my httpd server, but that information was a bit more accessible. Reading material has been sparse, but I've read that adding a port number/rang

Re: Dump from cron job, need to change tape

2003-07-21 Thread Mike Maltese
I've also looked into this (I have a DDS2 autoloader), but unfortunately dump doesn't support multiple volumes. Because my /, /usr and /var partitions will fit on one tape, I use dump for those. For everything else (i.e. large file shares) I just use tar with the -M flag when doing a manual backu

Re: no sound with 4.8 & KDE

2003-07-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:44:03PM -0500, Walter wrote: > > Try setting both "vol" and "pcm" to 100:100 using the mixer(8) > > utility. > > For me at least, my soundcard is *extremely* soft unless I use 100% > > volume. Sample comma

Re: ISO9660/RockRidge transparent de-/compression

2003-07-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Benjamin Walkenhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason this is useful to me is this: I regularly write backups on cd-rw; > my cd-rw-writer can rewrite only at 2x-speed. Which really sucks if you have > to store several hundred megabytes of data. ;-/ Using transparent > de-/compression ca

Re: Dump from cron job, need to change tape

2003-07-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bob Collins wrote: I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and cron and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND allow user intervention to change the tape. Unfortunately, I believe that is correct, at least for normal tape drives (ones without a tape-sil

Re: Dump from cron job, need to change tape

2003-07-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Sorry to repost, but wanted to post with a subject line. > > >I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and cron > >and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND allow user > >intervention to change the tape. > > > >I am running a DDS2 tape drive and tr

Dump from cron job, need to change tape

2003-07-21 Thread Bob Collins
Sorry to repost, but wanted to post with a subject line. I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and cron and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND allow user intervention to change the tape. I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around

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2003-07-21 Thread Bob Collins
I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and cron and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND allow user intervention to change the tape. I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. The tape runs to the end, issues the end of tape, a

RE: Compaq ML370 and FreeBSD-5.1

2003-07-21 Thread Will Saxon
> -Original Message- > From: Richard Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:48 PM > To: Kerberus > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compaq ML370 and FreeBSD-5.1 > > I left the default kernel hanging, and it now seems to be progressing > through the kernel init

Re: Compaq ML370 and FreeBSD-5.1

2003-07-21 Thread Richard Jones
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 05:29:27PM +, Kerberus wrote: > Odd i have it running on an ML530 fine, saw the same errors at first and > just disabled ACPI, it worked and installed fine from there, though > during the boot process after disabling ACPI let it sit a while during > the hang time, its pr

RE: Compaq ML370 and FreeBSD-5.1

2003-07-21 Thread Will Saxon
> -Original Message- > From: Grzegorz Czaplinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compaq ML370 and FreeBSD-5.1 > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 05:14:50PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > Has anyone else had this problem?

Re: Compaq ML370 and FreeBSD-5.1

2003-07-21 Thread Grzegorz Czaplinski
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 05:14:50PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 5.1 on a Compaq ML370. When > booting the "default" kernel it hangs after printing: > > > vga0: at port 0x3c > > Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec > > If I try any of the other

Re: HP or Compaq servers.

2003-07-21 Thread Grzegorz Czaplinski
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:51:01PM -0400, Kevin Berrien wrote: > The real key is, getting BSD popular/requested enough that it's > tested/supported officially by HP et. al! > That is not so easy... I spoke to one of the HP engineers today and he said would too difficult for them to coordinate w

Re: Compaq ML370 and FreeBSD-5.1

2003-07-21 Thread Kerberus
Odd i have it running on an ML530 fine, saw the same errors at first and just disabled ACPI, it worked and installed fine from there, though during the boot process after disabling ACPI let it sit a while during the hang time, its probably probing something but it should boot. On Mon, 2003-07-21 a

Compaq ML370 and FreeBSD-5.1

2003-07-21 Thread Richard Jones
Hi, I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 5.1 on a Compaq ML370. When booting the "default" kernel it hangs after printing: > vga0: at port 0x3c > Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec If I try any of the other options (safe-mode, disable ACPI), the kernel panics with a "page not present er

Re: cant power off, using shutdown -p now

2003-07-21 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 21 Jul 2003, at 7:48, marlon corleone wrote: > im running 5.1-RELEASE, my problem is when i try to > execute the command: shutdown -p now, the error > message that i received is: > > POWER SYSTEM off using, ACPI.. ACPI POWER-OFF > failed-timeout the operating system halted. press any > key to

Need example of accessing MS Access via perl on FreeBSD

2003-07-21 Thread stan
I need to get some information that is stored on a windows amchine, in an Access "database" via a perl script with FreeBSD. I'v installed teh DBI::ODBC port. I've alos got working code that accesses a remote Oracle instance using Perl's DBD::Oracle. I've got access to a person who has admin access

Re: Portupgrade errors

2003-07-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 21), Per olof Ljungmark said: > 4.6.2-RELEASE-p13 > > cvsup very recent > > I get the following error on all ports I try to upgrade. Have seen > similar posts but unable to deduce how the problem was solved. Have run > pkgdb -F/portsdb -uU but no change. > > ===> Chec

Re: ctrl+alt+del & shutdown/reboot

2003-07-21 Thread Marc Ramirez
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > > > you're discouraged to use "halt" and "reboot" cauz it's not a good way to > > stop FreeBSD,... also there command "fasthalt", "fastboot"... > > Why isn't it a good way? It's not that halt(8) and reboot(8) aren't safe, they're just rude if you're

Re: FreeBSD-5.1 iso disk2 and kernel configuration

2003-07-21 Thread Toomas Aas
> 2)I used the iso disk1 to install version 5.1 but I could not configure > the kernel. I followed the kernel configuration procedure and the > linking process yielded the following lines: > BEGIN of inserted lines - > linking kernel > umass.o: In function `umass_cam_attach_sim':

Portupgrade errors

2003-07-21 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
4.6.2-RELEASE-p13 cvsup very recent I get the following error on all ports I try to upgrade. Have seen similar posts but unable to deduce how the problem was solved. Have run pkgdb -F/portsdb -uU but no change. creating pcregrep ---> Build of devel/pcre ended at: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:16:11 +02

Re: Advise needed to write a script

2003-07-21 Thread Marc Ramirez
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Jimmy wrote: > Hi > Good day to you. I need your advice to wrte a script > 1) stores the sum of A plus B in variable C > 2)Stores the difference of B minus A in variable C > > If A is 5 and B is 10. Please advice me on this issue pls . > Hope to hear from you soon. --

cant power off, using shutdown -p now

2003-07-21 Thread marlon corleone
im running 5.1-RELEASE, my problem is when i try to execute the command: shutdown -p now, the error message that i received is: POWER SYSTEM off using, ACPI.. ACPI POWER-OFF failed-timeout the operating system halted. press any key to reboot as you can see, the problem is with the ACPI POWER, bu

network performance testing

2003-07-21 Thread XR
I'm considering purchasing hosting from a provider that says I will have a dedicated 10 Mbit connection with burst to 20 Mbit on a FreeBSD box I rebuilt to suit my needs.. The network is Multihomed with three other providers. However, I'm a skeptic. I went ahead and purchased for 1 month and now

FreeBSD-5.1 iso disk2 and kernel configuration

2003-07-21 Thread Murilo Pereira de Almeida
I have two questions about FreeBSD-5.1 1)I dowloaded the iso-image of disk1 but I did not succeded in downloading the iso-image of disk2 despite my trying of several mirros sites; the downloading hangs at about 127M. Is there any problem with the iso-image of dik2? 2)I used the iso disk1 to in

Probelms buildign gedit2

2003-07-21 Thread stan
I'm building another machine that I had planed on being like several others. Unforutnately the gedit port does not seem to exist in a curent install. I assume this is part of the forced migration (a bit like a forced march as far as I can see) to Gnome2. Worse the gedti2 port build fails in buildi

cant power off, using shutdown -p now

2003-07-21 Thread marlon corleone
im running 5.1-RELEASE, my problem is when i try to execute the command: shutdown -p now, the error message that i received is: POWER SYSTEM off using, ACPI.. ACPI POWER-OFF failed-timeout the operating system halted. press any key to reboot as you can see, the problem is with the ACPI POWER, bu

Re: Ask about BSD's history.

2003-07-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I read from > http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,555398,00.asp. Here are some more sites. http://www.levenez.com/unix/ http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html http://scnc.k12.mi.us/websites/bsdtree.html/ http://www.asandler.com/jokes/computer/c.shtml/ The

Re: ctrl+alt+del & shutdown/reboot

2003-07-21 Thread Vitali Malicky
> > > you're discouraged to use "halt" and "reboot" cauz it's not a good way to > > stop FreeBSD,... also there command "fasthalt", "fastboot"... > > Why isn't it a good way? cauz reboot and halt don't execute the scripts in /etc nor in /usr/local/etc/rc.d > > -Pierrick > >

Linksys 54G WIFI card

2003-07-21 Thread John Morgan Salomon
Hi there, I just bought a Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA card. Are there any plans for drivers for this card? Syslog says: Jul 21 16:10:06 bolo /kernel: pcic0: Card type 32-bit cardbus is unsupported I don't know what chipset the card uses. Cheers, -John ___

[Fwd: panic: pmap_bootstrap: no local apic!]

2003-07-21 Thread John Morgan Salomon
I found the solution to this--removing all the HTT/SMP/APIC lines from the kernel config let me boot again. Still doesn't let me run hyperthreading, but at least it works. Cheers, -John Original Message Subject:panic: pmap_bootstrap: no local apic! Date: Sat, 19 Jul

Re: Integrating windows and freebsd

2003-07-21 Thread John Morgan Salomon
Novell eDirectory and OpenLDAP will work very similarly. I wouldn't bother with eDir; it's a hog and difficult to debug. As for replication, we looked at DirXML, which is (a) horribly expensive, and (b) terribly complicated. We settled on scripting something in Perl, which initially just did an

Re: Using spamprobe on a FreeBSD System

2003-07-21 Thread Martin McCormick
Kris Kennaway writes: >As others have explained, just install the port and everything will be >taken care of automatically. However, I recommend using bogofilter >instead of spamprobe; the latter has VERY high resource demands, and >takes a long time to process messages. bogofilter uses similar >

Re: Using spamprobe on a FreeBSD System

2003-07-21 Thread Martin McCormick
Jan Muenther writes: >BerkeleyDB is free to use - and it's in the ports as well. Don't worry. Many thanks. I see references to it, but I am not sure what I have done wrong or need to do to make the configure script in spamprobe-0.8b find BerkeleyDB. I found p5-BerkeleyDB so I tho

Re: Thanks

2003-07-21 Thread Peter Elsner
telnet and ftp are disabled by default on a new FreeBSD install. If you wish to use them, you must turn them on. edit your /etc/inetd.conf file and uncomment the lines that say telnet and ftp Save it and issue a SIGHUP to inetd. Peter At 06:06 PM 7/19/2003 +, you wrote: thanks what bou

Re: How an arbitrary user can install ports in own home dir?

2003-07-21 Thread Andrey Simonenko
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:46:34 + (UTC) in lucky.freebsd.questions, Daniel Bye wrote: First of all thank you for your help, all what you said is correct. Next see below. > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:03:04PM +0300, Andrey Simonenko wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> How an arbitrary user (without ro

Re: ctrl+alt+del & shutdown/reboot

2003-07-21 Thread Pierrick Brossin
> you're discouraged to use "halt" and "reboot" cauz it's not a good way to > stop FreeBSD,... also there command "fasthalt", "fastboot"... Why isn't it a good way? -Pierrick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Using spamprobe on a FreeBSD System

2003-07-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:30:49AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I started to install spamprobe-0.8b and discovered that it > needs something called BerkeleyDB. The instructions tell one to get > it from a place called sleepycat.com where it looks like one must buy > berkeleyDB. As other

VLAN limit?

2003-07-21 Thread Nils Vogels
Hi list, Currently I'm researching the maximum amount of possible VLANs for all kinds of network devices and one of them is a FreeBSD box with an FXP card in it. While the theorectical maximum is about 4096 VLAN's on one trunk, I've been seeing that several vendors impose different limits. Looki

Re: Stupid shell tricks

2003-07-21 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
I got it! > I'll cut right to it: I'm looking for a technique to do "atomic writes" > in a shell (sh(1)) script, playing with the trap builtin. It goes something > like this: > > 1: #!/bin/sh > 2: > 3: trapper () > 4: { > 5:rm -f $TMPFILE > 6:exit > 7: }

Re: Using spamprobe on a FreeBSD System

2003-07-21 Thread Herbert
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:30:49AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I started to install spamprobe-0.8b and discovered that it > needs something called BerkeleyDB. The instructions tell one to get > it from a place called sleepycat.com where it looks like one must buy > berkeleyDB. % cd

Re: Remap mouse buttons for remote X serverss

2003-07-21 Thread J. Seth Henry
LLeweLLyn, Thanks for the idea, but unfortunately, the X server is running on the Explora, and it doesn't have the equivalent of an XF86Config. It is beginning to look like I may just be out of luck, unless I can get KDE or gnome to handle the mouse mangling for me, as they (and the apps), are the

Re: Using spamprobe on a FreeBSD System

2003-07-21 Thread Aaron Siegel
Berkely db is in the ports collection databases/db[2-4,41] and is free. On Monday 21 July 2003 05:30 am, Martin McCormick wrote: > I started to install spamprobe-0.8b and discovered that it > needs something called BerkeleyDB. The instructions tell one to get > it from a place called sleep

Stupid shell tricks

2003-07-21 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
Hello all. I'll cut right to it: I'm looking for a technique to do "atomic writes" in a shell (sh(1)) script, playing with the trap builtin. It goes something like this: 1: #!/bin/sh 2: 3: trapper () 4: { 5:rm -f $TMPFILE 6:exit 7: } 8: 9: trap

Re: ctrl+alt+del & shutdown/reboot

2003-07-21 Thread Vitali Malicky
>Hi, I install linux & freebsd servers, and I'd like to shutdown (and not reboot) my servers pressing ctrl+alt+del. > >I know how to in linux (inittab) but not in freebsd, because reading manuals I have seen only how to disable the function >through kernel reconfiguration. > >Please help me the

Re: Using spamprobe on a FreeBSD System

2003-07-21 Thread Joachim Dagerot
Try out SpamAssasin, it works fairly good. Atleast more than 95 out of 100 spam mails are killed. > I presently use junkfilter which is excellent as far as it > goes, but the spam urchins can beat junkfilter to pieces with nothing > more than html and base64 and the garbage comes right on

ctrl+alt+del & shutdown/reboot

2003-07-21 Thread luca . massarenti
Hi, I install linux & freebsd servers, and I'd like to shutdown (and not reboot) my servers pressing ctrl+alt+del. I know how to in linux (inittab) but not in freebsd, because reading manuals I have seen only how to disable the function through kernel reconfiguration. Please help me Luca Ma

RE: Telnet?

2003-07-21 Thread unix
Enable telnet in /etc/inetd.conf (Remove the pound) and give inetd a HUP and you've got telnet server up and running on your fbsd host. There's only one good thing in life, UNIX. --- On Sat 07/19, Axl Rose < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: Axl Rose [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTE

iRiver MP3 Player

2003-07-21 Thread Pierrick Brossin
Hello! I saw on bsdforums.org that someone could mount his iRiver MP3 player as a mass storage device on FreeBSD. I tried but it's not working even if I upgrade the firmware to 1.05. Anyone here actually succeeded to mount one? btw the sound of these little things are freaking good ! I'm still

Integrating windows and freebsd

2003-07-21 Thread anubis
I have 4 freebsd boxes and 1 windows 2000 server box acting as servers for about 50 windows clients. The boxes are used for file serving, printing, intranet, database, firewall etc. In the future all files will be served by samba and all web pages will be served by apache but are now served by

Using spamprobe on a FreeBSD System

2003-07-21 Thread Martin McCormick
I started to install spamprobe-0.8b and discovered that it needs something called BerkeleyDB. The instructions tell one to get it from a place called sleepycat.com where it looks like one must buy berkeleyDB. Is that actually the case? If that is the case, is there any other spam

Re: automatically adjusting time

2003-07-21 Thread anubis
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:09 am, Dragoncrest wrote: > Hi all. I've got a server that keeps advancing it's local time by about > a minute every 3-4 days and I'm curious what steps I need to do to > syncronize the time with a given server so that it doesn't keep > advancing like this? I know I saw it

Re: FreeBSD native Opera 6.x + Flash plugin ?

2003-07-21 Thread Jud
On 21 Jul 2003 13:09:35 +0800, Edy Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone got the above mentioned browser + plugin works ? Thanks Best Regards, Edy Lie I didn't try since I have Linux-Opera working nicely with linux- flashplugin6 running under Linux emulation. Previous correspondence on this iss

Re: Mount a Sony Memory stick

2003-07-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:31:03PM -0600, Sean Countryman wrote: > I'm trying to mount a 64MB Sony memory stick via a USB cable and need a > bit of help. > > I recompiled my kernel and upgraded to 4.8 RELEASE and now, if I boot > with the camera connected, it finds it as a SCSI device, but it > co

Re: looking for http/web copy program - I think

2003-07-21 Thread Matt Heath
"wget" will do mirrors but can only follow links or urls from a script "curl" will retrieve files in a sequence curl "http://domain/file[1-100].rm"; -o "file#1.rm" will get you file1.rm file2.rm ... file100.rm (it can also cope with leading 0's file001.rm etc.) ___

Re: A couple of definitions

2003-07-21 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:05:09PM -0700, Lin Jianfong wrote: > As far as I know, objective C is sort of ancestor to C++, an object > oriented C, and I doubt if anyone is still using it nowadays. As for > re-entrant, this is used when doing thread programming. Objective C is NOT an ancestor of C+

Re: Sendmail reject non-extant hosts? RFC1123

2003-07-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 08:42:48AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 05:37:31PM -0500, Jack L. Stone typed: > > At 09:38 PM 7.20.2003 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > >On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 01:37:15PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > > >> I'm not happy that Sendmail

Re: Re: Is it possible there would be support for this chipset inthe near future?

2003-07-21 Thread Brian Skafte
That the system hangs up at boot time when trying to reach the hdd controller. Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Skafte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, I got this cheap motherboard, due to my study fees, > and now im > > stucked because I forgot to check if it was compatibl

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