Re: ports-supfile config

2003-07-25 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 06:55:40AM -0700, marlon corleone wrote: > thanks for the reply guys, i reconfigure my > "ports-supfile" here's my new config: > > > *default host=cvsup.sk.freebsd.org > *default base=/usr prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs > *default delete use-rel-suffix compress > > p

Re: NEED HELP! on how to import new Xdesktop to .xinitcrc

2003-07-25 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Friday 25 July 2003 10:09 pm, marlon corleone wrote: > hi guys, download fluxbox how do i import it to my > .xinitrc? so i can use two X desktop at a time. here's > my .xinitrc looks like. > im running FreeBSd 5.1-RELEASE Two desktops? If you really want to run both Window Maker and Fluxbox at

Setting up OpenLDAP

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Hall
OpenLDAP 2.1.22, FBSD 4.8 I'm trying to set up LDAP to store passwords. Eventually I will want to store addresses and do general authentication, but right now I just want to do something really simple: add passwords. I installed from the ports using portintall, couldn't get it to work, and wen

Re: Cannot install any port

2003-07-25 Thread Leonardo Lazarte
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Leonardo Lazarte wrote: > >Unfortunately you have found a problem which those > > in the know prefer to ignore. On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > This is not true. Patches to fix this problem are currently be

Re: Cannot install any port

2003-07-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 26), Leonardo Lazarte said: >Unfortunately you have found a problem which those in the know > prefer to ignore. > >The ports system has been broken with the last upgrade, and many > of us which have found the same problem could not find a solution. Hm? I've seen l

Re: Cannot install any port

2003-07-25 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Leonardo Lazarte wrote: > > Dear Tom, > >Unfortunately you have found a problem which those > in the know prefer to ignore. This is not true. Patches to fix this problem are currently being tested on the ports build cluster. I am also testing an alternate set of patches

Re: Cannot install any port

2003-07-25 Thread Leonardo Lazarte
Dear Tom, Unfortunately you have found a problem which those in the know prefer to ignore. The ports system has been broken with the last upgrade, and many of us which have found the same problem could not find a solution. It has been suggested by some that you could copy pkg_info from

RE: PPP Dial-in Server NOW WORKS

2003-07-25 Thread Stephen
First, thank you a million times over fbsd_user! This has been bugging me for a LONG time. Quite kind of you to include all that information. Following the advice below and with some additional info I am able to dial in, although I haven't gotten to the routing stuff yet. Some things I found th

proxim

2003-07-25 Thread Mark Lapointe
I recently purchased a orinoco gold 802.11b card, and the wi driver isn't picking it up. I was just wondering if anyone has a soloution? thanks, Mark. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Fw: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 06:42, Peter Rosa wrote: > > Well, I have tried it. When I type exactly the same command > > awk -F: '$3==0 {print $1,$3}' /etc/master.passwd | tee /dev/stderr | > > sed -e > > > '/^root 0$/d' -e '/^toor 0$/d' | wc -l > > at prompt, it works well. So the error must be around [ -

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Anti
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:03:05 -0400 Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lol. > > Sendmail configuration is terrible. > > Some days i dream of a mail server that integrates smtp, pop and imap > into one server that is easy to configure with built in spam filtering. > (oh and it has to work

Re: linux-emulator problem

2003-07-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:42:06PM -0500, Shawn wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 17:10, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > It certainly could! Patches should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > for review :-) > > Doesn't that error basically mean unimplemented linux syscall or > something like that? Right, it

Re: Kernel Compile Error

2003-07-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:53:34AM +0200, A. Gillissen wrote: > Hi, > > While I was builing a custom kernel the following error occured during the > "make depend" (FreeBSD 5.0 RELEASE): Sounds like you don't have a consistent source tree. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment

2003-07-25 Thread Rod Person
On 25 Jul 2003 03:49:15 + Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 03:37, Rod Person wrote: > > I assume your isp uses DHCP. If so, did you try ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" in your > > /etc/rc.conf. > > First that's already set, I selected DHCP configuration of the network > interface

Re: Writing to parallel port

2003-07-25 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:12, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: > On Friday 25 July 2003 19:22, Mark wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Has anyone an idea how to set/unset a bit on a parallel port in freebsd > > 4.7? I installed Device::ParallelPort from CPAN (Perl 5.8.0), but that > > does nothing (seems made for

Re: linux-emulator problem

2003-07-25 Thread Shawn
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 17:10, Kris Kennaway wrote: > It certainly could! Patches should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > for review :-) Doesn't that error basically mean unimplemented linux syscall or something like that? -- Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://drevil.warpcore.org/ _

Re: Host name for sendmail.

2003-07-25 Thread Constantine
Olaf Hoyer wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Constantine wrote: Ok, you should in those cases register with a freemail-service, or any other independent mail-provider, which gives you the possibility to: a) Identify yourself with SMTP-Auth with his server b) and send mails with any from: address In

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-26T00:27:20Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, missed that. The whole intention of the exercise I describe in the > book is to have a mirrored root file system. This has been consistently > the most demanded new feature in Vinum. Understood. I had no desire to

NEED HELP! on how to import new Xdesktop to .xinitcrc

2003-07-25 Thread marlon corleone
hi guys, download fluxbox how do i import it to my .xinitrc? so i can use two X desktop at a time. here's my .xinitrc looks like. im running FreeBSd 5.1-RELEASE thanks! Akira# cat .xinitrc xterm & [ ! -d $HOME/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker ] && /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker.inst exec /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker

Adaptec AIC-7902 SCSI HostRAID Installation

2003-07-25 Thread Nigel Wohlers
Hello, I am having some issues installing FreeBSD (4.8 and 5.1) onto a server which has a SCSI HostRAID (http://www.intel.com/design/servers/se7501wv2/index.htm) mirror partition setup. FreeBSD 4.8> manages to get the installation menu, after choosing standard installation - reports no hard driv

Re: Host name for sendmail.

2003-07-25 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Constantine wrote: > >Ok, you should in those cases register with a freemail-service, or any > >other independent mail-provider, which gives you the possibility to: > > > >a) Identify yourself with SMTP-Auth with his server > >b) and send mails with any from: address > > > > >

Re: Host name for sendmail.

2003-07-25 Thread Constantine
Olaf Hoyer wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Constantine wrote: Olaf Hoyer wrote: I also use a 4.8 box as DSL Router via PPPoE, and there is a sendmail on it. Ok, I'd have to check whether he can relay directly, and what IP in the HELO appears, but the box itself can identify its IP without pr

Re: Newbie...

2003-07-25 Thread anubis
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:45 am, Robert wrote: > I've been messing around with the installion of Freebsd and think I've got > it after a few tries (I think). I'm at the "username #" command line. It > also says "I got mail". But now I'm so lost. I've downloaded Doc's, > handbooks and other information

Re: Host name for sendmail.

2003-07-25 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Constantine wrote: > Olaf Hoyer wrote: > > >I also use a 4.8 box as DSL Router via PPPoE, and there is a sendmail on > >it. Ok, I'd have to check whether he can relay directly, and what IP in > >the HELO appears, but the box itself can identify its IP without probs. > >I'm als

Re: Host name for sendmail.

2003-07-25 Thread Constantine
Olaf Hoyer wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Constantine wrote: Olaf Hoyer wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Constantine wrote: Hi! Well, do the following: in /etc/hosts, enter your domain name. then, edit the file: /etc/mail/service.switch (or the corresponding file location defined in sendmail

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 14:11:31 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-23T18:21:42Z, Eivind Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Are you able to have a mirrored root-device (/) with this approach? Or >> will you end up with having a single copy of / on one drive? > > I end up with a sing

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 9:19:16 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-23T13:51:28Z, Eivind Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> There's no data on the disks that I want/have to keep. Is it at all >> possible to configure Vinum and then install FreeBSD or will I have to >> install FreeBS

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 14:11:31 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-23T18:21:42Z, Eivind Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Out of curiosity, what offsets have you had to calculate? > >> I've read a bit of a chapter from the 4th edition of The Complete FreeBSD: >>

RE: question on cups

2003-07-25 Thread Derrick Ryalls
> Hi, > > I am running freebsd 4.8 stable, and have cups installed. > > # pkg_info | grep cups > cups-1.1.19.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport > to install > comple > cups-base-1.1.19.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, > libs, & daemons > cups-lpr-1.1.19.0 The CUPS B

Re: Host name for sendmail.]

2003-07-25 Thread Steve Devine
Quite often this happens because you dont have a valid hostname that maps to a ip address. This is a problem when you are using a dsl or cable modem with Dynamis ips. I suggest you look into a Dynamic dns service. I use dyndns.org for a free hostname / dns service. They run on the Freebsd platfo

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2003-07-25 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2003-07-25 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at

Re: suid files

2003-07-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Peter Rosa wrote: Some another question I wanted to ask a long time ago: 1. Is there some list of files, that REALLY need suid-bit set ? 2. Is there some list of files, installed from FreeBSD, which HAVE suid-bit set ? See /var/log/setuid.today for the latter, and maybe /etc/periodic/daily/450.st

Cannot install any port

2003-07-25 Thread Tom Kraus
Please help, when I try to install any port, everything is looking OK, but after while I got message like this: ===> Checking if net/apinger already installed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/apinger. ===> Checking if databases/mysql40-client already installed *** Error code 1 Stop in

Re: Host name for sendmail.

2003-07-25 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Constantine wrote: > Hello, > > I have a FreeBSD 4.8 box, I run it for my local small home network I > use it as a router. My DSL-modem has a NAT feature, and FreeBSD does not > have any routable ip-address, only the modem does. > > My sendmail always complains about the doma

Re: Apache help

2003-07-25 Thread Jez Hancock
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:27:01PM +0530, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: > Hi, > There is an error in the shell script apache provides. > > The line no.105 should be > >if [ -z "${apache_start}" ]; then > > check that the double codes are proper. Which file is this, my rc script for apache only

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
Well, well, well. We have done it. I just tried sh /etc/security and it REALLY works well. I have tried my changes in small fragment of /etc/security where I forgot to define $rc in the beginning. There was an really error in wc command - it did not count lines, so $n was never set properly. Thank

suid files

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
Some another question I wanted to ask a long time ago: 1. Is there some list of files, that REALLY need suid-bit set ? 2. Is there some list of files, installed from FreeBSD, which HAVE suid-bit set ? Peter Rosa ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Host name for sendmail.

2003-07-25 Thread Constantine
Hello, I have a FreeBSD 4.8 box, I run it for my local small home network I use it as a router. My DSL-modem has a NAT feature, and FreeBSD does not have any routable ip-address, only the modem does. My sendmail always complains about the domain name every time I start my FreeBSD, and the system

Kernel Compile Error

2003-07-25 Thread A. Gillissen
Hi, While I was builing a custom kernel the following error occured during the "make depend" (FreeBSD 5.0 RELEASE): -- mkdep -f .depend -a -nostdinc -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -I- -I. -I@ -I@/dev -I@/../in clude -I/usr/include /usr/src/sys/modules/aha/../../dev/aha/aha.c /usr/src/sys/m

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
You are right. We are so close the solution... But WHY is $rc empty ? As you can see in my previous mail I send whole security script, it is set in the beginning of script and then it is set along whole script at least 10 times (using && or =). So it should not be empty... Peter - Original

question on cups

2003-07-25 Thread Zhang, Peng
Hi, I am running freebsd 4.8 stable, and have cups installed. # pkg_info | grep cups cups-1.1.19.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport to install comple cups-base-1.1.19.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs, & daemons cups-lpr-1.1.19.0 The CUPS BSD and system V compatib

Re: Problem with NVIDIA drivers

2003-07-25 Thread sweetleaf
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:54:24 -0400 Marc LeMaire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I've installed the nvidia drivers from the ports. I've followed the > instructions, and all the files are in their directory. But when I'm > trying to start X, the machine crash and reboot. I've looked into the

Re: Problem with NVIDIA drivers

2003-07-25 Thread Vulpes Velox
After installing it run XFree86 -configure and that should create a config file. Test that. If it still crashes it is most likely a driver problem. On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:54:24 -0400 Marc LeMaire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I've installed the nvidia drivers from the ports. I've followed

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 26), Peter Rosa said: > And what's wrong on [ 0 -gt 0 -a -lt 0]. -lt needs a number in front of it, since it does a less-than comparison. > > > Could you, please, explain the following line: [ $n -gt 0 -a $rc -lt 1 ] ... which means that $rc is probably empty. --

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
And what's wrong on [ 0 -gt 0 -a -lt 0]. Peter - Original Message - From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Rosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 12:22 AM Subject: Re: Problem with periodically done scripts > In

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 26), Peter Rosa said: > But inside /bin is command named [ > > Is it what do you mean ? Or it should not be there and act only as an alias > ? /bin/[ and /bin/test are hardlinked together. It's supposed to be like that. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
But inside /bin is command named [ Is it what do you mean ? Or it should not be there and act only as an alias ? Peter Rosa - Original Message - From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Rosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 26), Peter Rosa said: > Dear Gilbert, > > I have replaced wc with make install from /usr/src/usr.bin/wc and now it > works. Up now wc -l gave no results, now it give proper number. > > Could you, please, explain the following line: [ $n -gt 0 -a $rc -lt 1 ] ??? > Why are

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
Dear Gilbert, I have replaced wc with make install from /usr/src/usr.bin/wc and now it works. Up now wc -l gave no results, now it give proper number. Could you, please, explain the following line: [ $n -gt 0 -a $rc -lt 1 ] ??? Why are there [] ? When I write it at prompt as [0 -gt 0 -a - lt 0] i

Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...

2003-07-25 Thread James Long
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:57:12PM +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Nothing in the Bible says you cannot use FreeBSD. > > When the bible was written I don't think anyone had heard about > servers and FreeBSD, hence there's nothing there to say you should > not use FreeB

Re: Announce Broken Ports

2003-07-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:00:07PM -0300, Leonardo Lazarte wrote: > > As seen in several messages to this and other lists, the PORTS > mecanism has been broken. > > I have read about some patches and possible solutions, but I > could not find an easy way to overcome the problem. > > Shouldn't it

Re: file table is full - but not...?

2003-07-25 Thread Jez Hancock
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:59:11AM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: > Jul 24 23:11:50 web1 /kernel: le: table is full > Jul 24 23:11:50 web1 /kernel: file: table is full File table in this context refers to the table that keeps track of open files I believe, not how full your disk is or how many i

Re: linux-emulator problem

2003-07-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:51:28PM +0200, Joachim Jaeckel wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use a linux application under a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE. > > Most things works fine, but sometimes I get the following error message: > > linux: 'ipc' typ=258 not implemented > > and the selected functi

HD problem, softupdates issue or nothing to be concerned?

2003-07-25 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
Hi, Several times under heavy disk load (copy/delete large directories, the last stage of CVS update) I got the messages like this last free inode /usr/96318 had -765900 blocks handle_workitem_freeblocks: block count (with different inodes), and then during reboot something about mount pending er

Re: Defragment HDD

2003-07-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 25), Jez Hancock said: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:12:42PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > I think he was joking :) The FFS filesystem reserves 8% of the > > disk space so that it can allocate contiguous blocks for files. In > > general, you don't have to worry about file f

Re: Defragment HDD

2003-07-25 Thread Jez Hancock
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:12:42PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > I think he was joking :) The FFS filesystem reserves 8% of the disk > space so that it can allocate contiguous blocks for files. In general, > you don't have to worry about file fragmentation. There are no tools > for optimizing the l

Fw: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
> Well, I have tried it. When I type exactly the same command > awk -F: '$3==0 {print $1,$3}' /etc/master.passwd | tee /dev/stderr | sed -e > '/^root 0$/d' -e '/^toor 0$/d' | wc -l > at prompt, it works well. So the error must be around [ -gt 0 -a -lt 1 ] && > rc==1 > > Of course, I *have* /etc/mas

Re: Postfix/receiving mail through router problem

2003-07-25 Thread Simon J Mudd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (pat bey) writes: > FreeBSD 4.8 Release hijra.homeunix.com > > Checking all the postfix conf files and everything seems to be in > the right place. Thou this is my first time setting up a mail > server so it's a learning experience for me. There are no errors in > any of the

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Peter Rosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > From: "Peter Rosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Cc: "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 6:59 PM > > > Subject: Re: Problem with periodically done scripts > > > > > > > > > > Here is comp

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Peter Rosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems now, that my /etc/master.passwd is really broken. How so? > Have anybody an idea, how to recreate it ? >From backups, of course. Failing that, rebuild it one entry at a time; /usr/src/etc/master.passwd is the original template. ___

Re: Laptop keyboard maps wrong keys during install

2003-07-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-25T20:44:33Z, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Just found the FAQ. Never mind. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Laptop keyboard maps wrong keys during install

2003-07-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm attempting to install 4.8 on an old IBM 340CSE laptop. I'm running into a roadblock, though: although the keyboard works fine all the way through the kernel configuration part at the beginning (moving around with arrow keys, deleting modules, saving, etc.), the keymap seems to get corrupted as

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:10:24PM +0200, Peter Rosa wrote: > Yes, in /var/backups was 2 old copies of master.passwd. One from Feb 9, > second from Feb 24 (the last time I changed something). I tried both, but > problem persists. Rats! :-( > Thank you, but have you still any idea? No, I'm done

[RTFM response] Re: o uid

2003-07-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Leonard Zettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nestled among the messages on startup I am getting something > like the following: > 0 uids: > root # (which I expect) > toor # (which I didn't) > > Is toor something to worry about? If not, any idea where > it came from? This is a FAQ, and has alread

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
Yes, in /var/backups was 2 old copies of master.passwd. One from Feb 9, second from Feb 24 (the last time I changed something). I tried both, but problem persists. Thank you, but have you still any idea? Peter Rosa - Original Message - From: "Daniel Bye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "freebsd

Problem with NVIDIA drivers

2003-07-25 Thread Marc LeMaire
Hello, I've installed the nvidia drivers from the ports. I've followed the instructions, and all the files are in their directory. But when I'm trying to start X, the machine crash and reboot. I've looked into the archives to see if someone had this problem but they are presently unavailable.

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:28:30PM +0300, Vitali Malicky wrote: > > > > It seems now, that my /etc/master.passwd is really broken. > > Have anybody an idea, how to recreate it ? > > if you have a backup in /var/backups then you might extricate yourself of > the situation. but there are backups o

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
Impossible to do. It continues from April 20... :-((( Peter Rosa - Original Message - From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Rosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 9:28 PM Subject: Re: Problem with periodically done s

Re: Writing to parallel port

2003-07-25 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 7:41 PM Subject: Re: Writing to parallel port > On Friday 25 July 2003 19:22, Mark wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Has anyone an idea how to

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Vitali Malicky
> It seems now, that my /etc/master.passwd is really broken. > Have anybody an idea, how to recreate it ? if you have a backup in /var/backups then you might extricate yourself of the situation. but there are backups only for two days... > > Pls, help. > > Peter Rosa > > ___

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 25), Peter Rosa said: > It seems now, that my /etc/master.passwd is really broken. > Have anybody an idea, how to recreate it ? Your last 2 previous versions should be in /var/backups. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
It seems now, that my /etc/master.passwd is really broken. Have anybody an idea, how to recreate it ? Pls, help. Peter Rosa ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

kernel panic with ? List valid disk boot devices, even tho the diskis listed?

2003-07-25 Thread Jaye Mathisen
Trying to boot from a CF card. Kernel loads, but root mount fails. Nothing I try at the "mountroot>" prompt seems to work. pccard: card inserted, slot 0 pccard: card removed, slot 0 IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing. ad0: 122MB [980/8/32] at ata0-master BIOSPIO Mounting root

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
It is doing xactly the same as my scripts (unexpected operator). Everything gone well until April 20. Scripts my machine use are from standard FBSD installation, so why they are not working now ? Peter Rosa - Original Message - From: "Vitali Malicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "freebsd-que

dri falling back to software in 4.8-stable

2003-07-25 Thread lreid
I've been noticing that GL performance has been really awful on my system lately, so I did some digging around. Here's a glxinfo: name of display: :0.0 libGL error: Radeon DRI driver expected DRM driver version 1.3.x or newer but got version 1.1.1 libGL error: InitDriver failed display: :0 scre

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
> > I'm asking again, as there is no response up now. > > You forgot to say "please", sir... 8-| > Sorry, sorry and one more sorry. You know, I'm currently about 14 hours at work SoP L E A S E Peter Rosa ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread David Benfell
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:00:47 -0500, george donnelly wrote: > [David Benfell wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 7/25/03 12:44 PM] > > > It does other things as well. A starting place for more information > > would be http://www.djbdns.org/ > > actually that's now http://www.tinydns.org/ now. > My bad.

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread george donnelly
[Lucas Holt wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 7/25/03 1:03 PM] > Some days i dream of a mail server that integrates smtp, pop and imap > into one server that is easy to configure with built in spam filtering. > (oh and it has to work). Then I realize I'm stuck with 6 different > programs to handle ess

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread george donnelly
[David Benfell wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 7/25/03 12:44 PM] > It does other things as well. A starting place for more information > would be http://www.djbdns.org/ actually that's now http://www.tinydns.org/ now. <--> george donnelly ~ http://www.zettai.net/ ~ "Quality Zope Hosting" Shared an

Re: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Vitali Malicky
> I'm asking again, as there is no response up now. You forgot to say "please", sir... 8-| > > As for me, now it seems as I don't know what's the error here, I have > never seen that listings (using -x switch). try my scripts, I never have any problems with them, so don't even understan w

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2003-07-25 Thread Shawn
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 12:53, Per Nilsson wrote: > Hi.. > My name is Per, and I have a problem. I wanna use my p3 2,4 as workstation > running under FreeBSD 5.1, but I cant get my videocard working.. The card > type is : ATI radeon 9700 TX Could you be more specific or post the contents of your X

Fw: Problem with periodically done scripts

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
I'm asking again, as there is no response up now. As for me, now it seems as I don't know what's the error here, I have never seen that listings (using -x switch). Peter Rosa - Original Message - From: "Peter Rosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd-questions"

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread David Benfell
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:54:15 +0200, Peter Rosa wrote: > >> And what should I do with my new book > >> (900 pages about configuring this mega program) ? > > > >900 pages about configuring which mega program? > > Of course, it is about sendmail. > To my knowledge, the only reason for using sendmai

RE: DVD/CD-RW not recognized (was: Re:)

2003-07-25 Thread Fierman
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 16:48, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > > > this problem sounds like the exact one as i am having, (see > > my mail to > > this list: > > > > Subject: > > ATA identify retries exceeded > > (still!) > > Date: > > 24 Jul 2003 23:59

Re: Crash with bpf

2003-07-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrea Venturoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem has started to show after an upgrade to 4.6 or 4.7 I believe (but I > cannot recall exactly). > I might as well try an upgrade to 4.8, but I'd rather have more insight. It's more work to try to track the problem if you're using different

Re: mod_perl

2003-07-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andy Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to install mod_perl from ports on freebsd, but even if I do something > as simple as 'make extract' it complains: > > Error: you don't have the right version of perl in /usr/bin. > > This is correct, I want to install it against the version of

Re: DVD/CD-RW not recognized (was: Re:)

2003-07-25 Thread Mica Telodico
Yes , your message is identical to mine . And the dmesg is also similar too ( but the drives are different) What is your HW? (CPU , MoBo and drive with problems) Bye Marcello --- Fierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 15:03, Volker Kindermann > wrote: > > > ACD0 is

Re: udp packets dropping

2003-07-25 Thread Vitali Malicky
> Hello, Hi. try to assign sysctl vars like mine... net.local.dgram.maxdgram=4096 net.local.dgram.recvspace=8192 net.inet.udp.maxdgram=9216 net.inet.udp.recvspace=41600 net.inet.raw.maxdgram=32767 net.inet.raw.recvspace=16384 net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=1 check if you netcard works in full duplex (

Re: problems do configure monitor in my notebook

2003-07-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"EDISON PIGNATON DE FREITAS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > XF86Config, and after in text mode with the vi. I think that the > problem is with > the is the configuration of the monitor, in the horizsync and vertRefresh > parameters I tryed many confs that I found in the internet... h: You need

Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> The standard dhclient-script sets the hostname. At least, it sure > *looks* like it does... [line 97 of > src/contrib/isc-dhcp/client/scripts/freebsd,v 1.9.2.6] OK, yeah, it does, so there must be some other configuration that needs to be done. Ken __

Re: trouble installing

2003-07-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to install FreeBSD 5.1 today, and ran into several issues. Please bear in mind that it is a bleeding-edge release. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html > 1. why do i need to create a swap partition? (i can deal with it, just

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Lucas Holt
lol. Sendmail configuration is terrible. Some days i dream of a mail server that integrates smtp, pop and imap into one server that is easy to configure with built in spam filtering. (oh and it has to work). Then I realize I'm stuck with 6 different programs to handle essentially 1 service (

Re: Virus Scanners

2003-07-25 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 06:38, Johan Paul wrote: > It just seems that I don't have that file and the latest version in > ports for FreeBSD 4.8 of clamav is 0.54. Damn. Any ideas how I can > install version 0.60 the smartest way on my 4.8 box? :) cvsup your ports tree and install it? j. -- Jere

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Rosa
>> And what should I do with my new book >> (900 pages about configuring this mega program) ? > >900 pages about configuring which mega program? Of course, it is about sendmail. Peter Rosa ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Lucas Holt
When I posted earlier, I was referring to bind 9. It is a complete rewrite.. bind 4 was terrible. As for sendmail, from my understanding the biggest problem in the past was that the entire thing ran as root. Didn't they setup the delivery agent in 8.12 to run as a different user with lower p

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2003-07-25 Thread Per Nilsson
Hi.. My name is Per, and I have a problem. I wanna use my p3 2,4 as workstation running under FreeBSD 5.1, but I cant get my videocard working.. The card type is : ATI radeon 9700 TX I was wondering if the 5.1 release do not support it, or if i have done something wrong.. please help!! // Per

Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment

2003-07-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kenneth Culver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Like I said before, you might want to look around in redhat's dhcp > scripts. If I understand correctly, dhclient calls a script that does the > actual ifconfig, etc... FreeBSD's probably doesn't use set the hostname > from the script, while redhat does

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > Well, but what about djbdns ? > > Is it fully compatible with BIND ? > > I think it is, as you use it :-) > > I have never heard about it. > > > no, try powerdns instead :) Depends on what he means by compatible. I took this to mean "will it communicate with bind servers" and the answer is "ye

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread David Benfell
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:06:50 +0200, Peter Rosa wrote: > Well, but what about djbdns ? > Is it fully compatible with BIND ? > I think it is, as you use it :-) > I have never heard about it. > djbdns does two things which may be of interest to you: 1) It is a secure, rock-solid alternative to BIND,

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