Re: Running vsftpd from inetd

2003-09-22 Thread Joseph Begumisa
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > Would anyone running vsftpd successfully from inetd be kind enough to > share the relevant line from their inetd.conf file? hi, below is the line that i use in my inetd.conf for vsftpd. ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/local/libexec/

Re: Mixer

2003-09-22 Thread Andy K
K, kewlerz thanks Kris haven't had anything to do with sound before. Did that. Everything except Mixer mic is currently set to 75:75. Mixer mic is set to 0:0. Is that good ? I think my main prob is still that my output shows two video cards and no audio card. Any thoughts on this ? Regards Andre

Re: Mixer

2003-09-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:41:30PM +1000, Andy K wrote: > Hi all > > I posted earlier about my sound card not working, and C Ulrich sugested > that I try a mixer program,which I am about to try. Can anyone recommend > a good one from the ports collection ? What's wrong with mixer(8)? Kris pgp0

PPTP with mpd(8) Assigning Wrong Address

2003-09-22 Thread Crist J. Clark
I have a fairly straightforward PPTP configuration. Since WEP is hopelessly broken, I use a VPN across my WLAN. I use IPsec for hosts who can handle it, but some Windows hosts are stuck with Microsoft VPN, PPTP (which is somewhat less hopelessly broken than WEP). The wireless AP is FreeBSD RELENG_4

Mixer

2003-09-22 Thread Andy K
Hi all I posted earlier about my sound card not working, and C Ulrich sugested that I try a mixer program,which I am about to try. Can anyone recommend a good one from the ports collection ? Regards Andrew Kozak ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list htt

dynamic mail alias lists?

2003-09-22 Thread Doug Lee
Is there a way to make sendmail (or any other MTA for that matter, but I use sendmail) map an alias to the run of a process that returns the addresses for it? I know /etc/[mail/]aliases can forward through a program, but that's different. I also know it can read aliases from a file, but to use th

Re:

2003-09-22 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi all, Unless this EPIA architecture is a clone of the i386 or Alpha, I don't see it working on FreeBSD. In fact, I don't even see it on NetBSD's site (http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/). Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993

Re: FreeBSD, Linux and any other os beside Microsoft

2003-09-22 Thread Andy K
Hiya Ajax Munroe Seems that you don't have a lot of patience :) I never made a bootable CD - I just downloaded the .iso images and went nuts. Sure it took a little getting used to, I also come from a windows environment and am stuck in one everyday at work.BSD is for everyone, it's just that Bi

USB Ethernet (Billionton) not Recognised

2003-09-22 Thread Aeefyu
Hello to all I have with me a USB 10/100 Ethernet which is currently not being recognised by my FreeBSD-4.8_RELEASE-p5 The packaging name is Billionton, however it doesnt match any of the device listed in sys/dev/usd/usbdevs. My kernel is compiled with all the USB Ethernet device drivers - aue,

hot swapping IDE hard drives

2003-09-22 Thread Vulpes Velox
What does it take to hot swap a IDE hard drive? Can this be done on any controller or just some? 1: unmount device 2: swap trays 3: ??? 4: mount new drive What would 3 or so be? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Unix timestamp

2003-09-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 23), Jez Hancock said: > Is there a native FreeBSD shell util for returning the time in seconds > since the Unix epoch? date(1) doesn't seem to do this, only the > converse with the -r switch: > > [6:05:51] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/munk# date -r "1064293551" > Tue Sep 23 0

Re: Unix timestamp

2003-09-22 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003, Jez Hancock wrote: >Is there a native FreeBSD shell util for returning the time in seconds >since the Unix epoch? date(1) doesn't seem to do this, only the >converse with the -r switch: perl -e 'print time . "\n"' Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell

RE: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread liquid
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ajax Munroe > Sent: September 22, 2003 10:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft. > > Hello, *snipped* > > Your Friend; > >

Unix timestamp

2003-09-22 Thread Jez Hancock
Is there a native FreeBSD shell util for returning the time in seconds since the Unix epoch? date(1) doesn't seem to do this, only the converse with the -r switch: [6:05:51] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/munk# date -r "1064293551" Tue Sep 23 06:05:51 BST 2003 Just curious - I ended up making a simple

Re: Ports woes.

2003-09-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:45:29PM -0700, cuddlesomebunny wrote: > Could anybody explain to me what is up with ports? You'll have to provide specifics before we can diagnose what is going wrong (or not, as the case may be) on your system. It could be user error, a known problem, or something els

Re: Can I disable HTT in 4.8-STABLE?

2003-09-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 06:04:50PM -0700, Kent Ketell wrote: > Is there a way to disable the hyperthreading in 4.8-STABLE or > 4.9-PRERELEASE? I'd like to be able to test with and without HTT > enabled to see whether it's actually helping or not. Build a kernel without support for it. Kris pgp

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:59:30AM +0100, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: > Guys, > Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD set? > This is one area where Linux fares better. Debian > offers a 7 CD (OK they don'y make ISOs) set that > contains all packages. What are you really asking here? First yo

Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Ajax Munroe wrote: > I dont have a question but I would like to make a statement. I downloaded > Freebsd version 5.0 release and unpacked it in great anticipation. I made > a bootable CD (the best I could, It's not as easy as making a bootable > windows CD) put the cd in

FreeBSD on GigaByte GA-8EGXDR-E?

2003-09-22 Thread Tom Munro Glass
I shall be setting up my first FreeBSD server in the very near future. Can anyone please tell me if FreeBSD 4.8 (preferably) or 5.1 will run on this motherboard? Thanks, Tom Munro Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: Ports woes.

2003-09-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 22 September 2003 08:45 pm, cuddlesomebunny wrote: > Could anybody explain to me what is up with ports? > > I am using FreeBSD 5.x-p2 and I am using ports and am having one hell > of a time installing things. > > Here's what is happeng. > > I go to install ports and if it needs to get a d

Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread Gil Agno Virtucio
Did you download the ISO to make the installer? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/ i'd suggest that you browse this first before you try the installation... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html with regards to the partitioning of the hard disk if

Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 09:52 pm, Ajax Munroe wrote: > Hello, > > I dont have a question but I would like to make a statement. I > downloaded Freebsd version 5.0 release and unpacked it in great > anticipation. I made a bootable CD (the best I could, It's not as easy as > mak

Re: error with mysql when doing mysql -u root

2003-09-22 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, Hi, If you have set a root password, but forgot what it was, you can set a new password with the following procedure: 1) Take down the mysqld server by sending a kill (not kill -9) to the mysqld server. The pid is stored in a `.pid' file, which is normally in the MySQL database directory:

Ports woes.

2003-09-22 Thread cuddlesomebunny
Could anybody explain to me what is up with ports? I am using FreeBSD 5.x-p2 and I am using ports and am having one hell of a time installing things. Here's what is happeng. I go to install ports and if it needs to get a dependency it goes and fetches it and becomes the usual compile proces

Re:

2003-09-22 Thread Marc Wiz
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:25:45PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 10:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > FreeBSD- > > I have a question about Miny ITX processors (http://www.mini-itx.com > > for more info) EPIA processors. The release for it isn't at the FTP >

Re:

2003-09-22 Thread Todd Stephens
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FreeBSD- > I have a question about Miny ITX processors (http://www.mini-itx.com > for more info) EPIA processors. The release for it isn't at the FTP > site, unless it is compadible with some other processor type. > Tha

Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Ajax Munroe wrote: ... Please, if you could just tell me of one of your systems thats a little more user friendly I would love to use it, and tell all my friends about it too so that they can spread the word about the new operating system thats fun and

Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Ajax Munroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:52 PM Subject: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft. > Hello, > > I dont have a question but I would like to make a statement. I downlo

Re: help with installing port kde3

2003-09-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 22 September 2003 07:48 pm, Micheal Patterson wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "ALIAS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:33 PM > Subject: help with installing port kde3 > > > so i updated my ports with cvs then i installed xfre

Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread Todd Stephens
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:52 pm, Ajax Munroe wrote: > I dont have a question but I would like to make a > statement. I downloaded Freebsd version 5.0 release and unpacked it > in great anticipation. I made a bootable CD (the best I could, It's > not as easy as making a bootable windows CD) pu

Rebuilding man page indicies

2003-09-22 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I rebuild the man page indicies by hand? One of the programs I'm using isn't picking up the right man page...it keeps picking an old version. I've removed all old versions, but man $program keeps showing the old version. Unless I missed one

Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread chael
FreeBSD is widely used as a server. Being such, hands on it are of administrators which prefer the way it is, as is. It shines over ALL in the use of command line. I think you would be much better off trying Linux Mandrake instead. Hello, I dont have a question but I wo

[no subject]

2003-09-22 Thread esayer1
FreeBSD- I have a question about Miny ITX processors (http://www.mini-itx.com for more info) EPIA processors. The release for it isn't at the FTP site, unless it is compadible with some other processor type. Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: help with installing port kde3

2003-09-22 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "ALIAS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:33 PM Subject: help with installing port kde3 > so i updated my ports with cvs then i installed xfree4 from port then i tried > to install kde3 from port too, took about a

FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-22 Thread Ajax Munroe
Hello, I dont have a question but I would like to make a statement. I downloaded Freebsd version 5.0 release and unpacked it in great anticipation. I made a bootable CD (the best I could, It's not as easy as making a bootable windows CD) put

help with installing port kde3

2003-09-22 Thread ALIAS
so i updated my ports with cvs then i installed xfree4 from port then i tried to install kde3 from port too, took about a day and a half until some error came up with bison-1.75 the work/bison-1.75/doc/bison.texinfo has some errors in it with unknown commands copying and insertcopying and unmatc

[Fwd: Re: Sound Card - NOT]

2003-09-22 Thread Andy K
Hi All Thanks C Ulrich, Ill give that a try - I have checked where the speakers are plugged in, all is good, I even tried the others just in case - can you recommend a good mixer program from the ports collection ? (Ports rawk) Andrew Kozak FreeBSD Rox My Sox !! --- Begin Message --- On Mon, 2

AMP

2003-09-22 Thread florian mettetal
Hello everyone, I am looking for a FreeBSD (preferably 5.X) LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) tutorial/howto. Does anyone have any suggestions? the purpose: To get a webhosting jail up quickly that can process MySQL databases and use PHP. (To reiterate) I am looking for a tutorial. I have spent some

Re: Sound Card - NOT

2003-09-22 Thread C. Ulrich
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:25, Andy K wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Seems that quite a few people are having sound probs ! > > I am about to join in here - I also cannot get my sound card to > operate.I have a P2 with a 20 gig Hdd and 128Mb RAM - the machine has > onboard sound so I tried all the opti

Can I disable HTT in 4.8-STABLE?

2003-09-22 Thread Kent Ketell
Is there a way to disable the hyperthreading in 4.8-STABLE or 4.9-PRERELEASE? I'd like to be able to test with and without HTT enabled to see whether it's actually helping or not. Thanks in advance. -Kent- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://li

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-22 Thread Pat Lashley
--On Tuesday, September 23, 2003 00:59:30 +0100 Tadimeti Keshav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD set? This is one area where Linux fares better. Debian offers a 7 CD (OK they don'y make ISOs) set that contains all packages. The short answer is "No". Some

Sound Card - NOT

2003-09-22 Thread Andy K
Hi Everyone Seems that quite a few people are having sound probs ! I am about to join in here - I also cannot get my sound card to operate.I have a P2 with a 20 gig Hdd and 128Mb RAM - the machine has onboard sound so I tried all the options - PNP BIOS, pcm, anything generic, and the sound pro

ports on a CD

2003-09-22 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Guys, Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD set? This is one area where Linux fares better. Debian offers a 7 CD (OK they don'y make ISOs) set that contains all packages. I think the FreeBSD distribution would be better off having all ports on the 2 additional CDs rather than have packag

RE: how to enable auto power off

2003-09-22 Thread John Smith
As advised, I omitted the "at nexus? flags 0x20" part from the line: device apm0at nexus? flags 0x20# Advanced Power Management and that's how I got auto power off to work. I think LINT has more info. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Warren Block
"Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it's better for a newbie to get understandable jibrish from cat > when run on directories then an error message stating that they are > trying to run cat on a directory like ls says when they try to run ls > on a file. But as I said earlie

Running vsftpd from inetd

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, Would anyone running vsftpd successfully from inetd be kind enough to share the relevant line from their inetd.conf file? Thanks, Charles Got a computer with idle CPU time? Join [EMAIL PROTECTED] and help make history! http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ __

Re: Someone on list with latest virus?

2003-09-22 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Kent Stewart wrote: > I agree and I am seeing similar quanties of virus infected emails. Since > they are arriving from sites around the world, they have to be people > on the FreeBSD lists. There are several mail-to-news gateways that post the contents of the FreeBSD lists t

Re: FW: Spam mail warning notification! (MS-Update)

2003-09-22 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Sorry, but I don't receive the hundreds of virus you pretend you receive from this list. I think 10 of them is an accurate estimaition of what I got so far, and most wheren't from the list. I would rather bet that some of your friends or relative have _both_ freebsd-questions and _your_ address

Re: cvsup problem

2003-09-22 Thread Jan-Espen Pettersen
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:08, Toni Schmidbauer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:40:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile > > Parsing supfile "/root/ports-supfile" > > Connecting to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org > > Cannot connect to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org: Connection r

Re: Patch SSH Not Work?

2003-09-22 Thread Sean Hafeez
the patch does not change the version string. there is an earlier email about this. look back a few days. On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 01:45 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote: At 08:27 AM 9/19/2003 -0400, Ben Dover wrote: I patched my SSHD on FreeBSD ver 5.1 (base system, not ports) and after stop

Re: cvsup problem

2003-09-22 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:40:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile > Parsing supfile "/root/ports-supfile" > Connecting to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org > Cannot connect to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org: Connection refused > Will retry at 17:47:15 seems like cvsup1.freebsd.org

Re: soundcard stopping?

2003-09-22 Thread Jan-Espen Pettersen
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 07:03, Nicholas Holley wrote: > I'm running an up to date version of Freebsd 5.1, and I'm having > problems with my soundcard. I have an Asus a7n8x deluxe. The kernel has > pcm support compiled in and the sound card works mostly, but > occasionally the soundcard will not wo

Re: FW: Spam mail warning notification! (MS-Update)

2003-09-22 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Schalk Erasmus wrote: It is interesting to see that some of our colleagues belonging to the FreeBSD Mailing List, are infected with the Worm.Swen virus! I'm leaving this list, since I get hundreds of these DAMN MICROSOFT update emails. Luckily you can filter these stuff using TREND InterScan. Che

ethereal port - problems linking with libnetsnmp

2003-09-22 Thread David Rio
Hi all: I am trying to install ethereal from ports. But I always get the same error at the link stage: /usr/local/lib/libnetsnmp.so: undefined reference to `des_cbc_encrypt' /usr/local/lib/libnetsnmp.so: undefined reference to `des_key_sched' /usr/local/lib/libnetsnmp.so: undefined referenc

Re: Mozilla-firebird port question

2003-09-22 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Fredrik Carlén wrote: Hello! I am trying to add the package mozilla-firebird, the latest version, I guess. I downloaded the package mozilla-firebird-0.6.1_1.tgz from the www.freebsd.org/ports page (well, I followed the link to www first, of course...), and another package that was missing, obvious

Re: CVSUP howto ???

2003-09-22 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:18:12AM -0400, Brent Bailey wrote: > I was looking aroung trying to find a decent howto on CVSUP...seeing as > ive never had good luck with it .. i found this ...does this look like the > right procedure ?? > this is what ive been doing ...but ive only had it actually wor

Re: FW: Spam mail warning notification! (MS-Update)

2003-09-22 Thread Jez Hancock
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:47:18PM +0200, David Landgren wrote: > Schalk Erasmus wrote: > > >It is interesting to see that some of our colleagues belonging to the > >FreeBSD Mailing List, are infected with the Worm.Swen virus! > > Sven forges envelope senders; that you receive messages purporting

A quick kernel swap?

2003-09-22 Thread Sean Hafeez
All things being equal, same hardware, same version of the same build of 4.8, etc... I have one box with a kernel w/out DUMMYNET and one with a kernel w/DUMMYNET. If I were to copy the DUMMYNET kernel to the non-DUMMYNET would it work? The other issue I have is space. The system is running off

Re: FW: Spam mail warning notification! (MS-Update)

2003-09-22 Thread David Landgren
Schalk Erasmus wrote: It is interesting to see that some of our colleagues belonging to the FreeBSD Mailing List, are infected with the Worm.Swen virus! Sven forges envelope senders; that you receive messages purporting to come from FreeBSD lists means nothing. I'm leaving this list, since I get

Re: OT: finding a callers number

2003-09-22 Thread David Landgren
Jonas wrote: Sorry for the OT but I have an urgent question and don't really know how else to ask. We have some hostile issues in our planned community against our kids and need to find out who called us between 5-8PM Sunday evening. My 3 1/2 year old picked up the phone call and I need to find ou

RE: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
> > I assure you, I have just browsed the German language handbook in > > /usr/share/doc/~de. > > I have not cd /usr/doc ; make install. > > Some of the stuff in /usr/share/doc comes with the system, installed > out of /usr/src but the majority, installed under the locale specific > sub dirs comes

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:10:19PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > > > I have deleted the directories in /usr/ports and > > /usr/share/doc that I > > > don't want. > > > > You understand that the doc-all collection downloads into /usr/doc, > > and it contains the SGML source that gets processed int

Re: IPFW2

2003-09-22 Thread Bruce M Simpson
[Redirected to -questions] On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:07:13PM +0200, Uwe Klann wrote: > >From the Log file IPFW:- > "Sep 22 00:24:13 muc /kernel: ipfw: 3300 Accept TCP 217.10.213.30:4418 > 217.9.121.209:21 in via fxp0" > > How can I extend on FreeBSD 4.8 (ipfw2) the log contens to see the tranfer

RE: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
> > I have deleted the directories in /usr/ports and > /usr/share/doc that I > > don't want. > > You understand that the doc-all collection downloads into /usr/doc, > and it contains the SGML source that gets processed into the HTML or > other formats the Handbook is available in? You will have

Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Read my first post before reading this thing so you'll be on the right track > > > > >> Other *NIX systems seem to have done this to their cat program so why > >> can't FreeBSD? > > > >See above. FreeBSD has a better view of the world than some of the kiddie OSes. > Try to run for examp

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:07:54PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > I have deleted the directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc that I > don't want. You understand that the doc-all collection downloads into /usr/doc, and it contains the SGML source that gets processed into the HTML or other for

Re: XFree86 configuration process

2003-09-22 Thread C. Ulrich
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 06:28, Fredrik Carlén wrote: > Hello! I would like one of two things (inclusive OR, down below!): > - A pointer such as an URL to a resource where the details of the X server > and configuration is explained in an understandable way, > > Or > > - An explanation as to how to

Re: cvsup problem

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:40:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I am not able to use cvsup (I have tried other cvsup*) > > # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile > Parsing supfile "/root/ports-supfile" > Connecting to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org > Cannot connect to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org: Con

Re: XFree86 configuration process

2003-09-22 Thread C. Ulrich
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 06:28, Fredrik Carlén wrote: > Hello! I would like one of two things (inclusive OR, down below!): > - A pointer such as an URL to a resource where the details of the X server > and configuration is explained in an understandable way, > > Or > > - An explanation as to how to

FW: Spam mail warning notification! (MS-Update)

2003-09-22 Thread Schalk Erasmus
It is interesting to see that some of our colleagues belonging to the FreeBSD Mailing List, are infected with the Worm.Swen virus! I'm leaving this list, since I get hundreds of these DAMN MICROSOFT update emails. Luckily you can filter these stuff using TREND InterScan. Cheers Schalk -Orig

RE: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
> On Monday 22 September 2003 10:07 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > > On Monday 22 September 2003 09:39 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > > On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and > > > > > documentation. I

IBM Xseries 255

2003-09-22 Thread jeronimo romero
Does anyone have any experience running IBM Xseries 255 servers??? Any comments, tips, experiences would be greatly appreciated. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mai

cvsup problem

2003-09-22 Thread balaji
Hi, I am not able to use cvsup (I have tried other cvsup*) # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile Parsing supfile "/root/ports-supfile" Connecting to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org Cannot connect to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org: Connection refused Will retry at 17:47:15 I looked at the CVSup home page and so did t

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:07 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > On Monday 22 September 2003 09:39 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and > > > > documentation. I've deleted

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Scott Schappell
Charles Howse wrote: OK, the OP is getting confused. ;-) I have moved my refuse file to /usr/sup/refuse I have deleted the directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc that I don't want. I will cvsup when we get this straightened out in my mind. Dr. Seaman says run 'make index' *OR* portsdb -Uu a

RE: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
> On Monday 22 September 2003 09:39 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and > > > documentation. I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports > > > and /usr/share/doc, But

package question

2003-09-22 Thread Brian Henning
Greetings: when performing a 'make package' does that grab all the dependencies for that package so when you go to install the package it doesn't ask for dependencies? thanks, brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: apache, mod_php & filename-dist

2003-09-22 Thread Michael A. Alderete
At 7:19 PM +0200 9/21/03, H. Bartel wrote: >I installed mod_php4 on Apache and phpinfo(); tells me php 4.1.3 is >running. Nevertheless variables do not get parsed at all. I tried looking >for the /usr/local/etc/php.ini file and I realised it is called >/usr/local/etc/php.ini-dist Could this be the

Re: Installing Ethernet Driver.

2003-09-22 Thread Mike Maltese
> hey, > While installing FreeBSD4.5 from CD on my system, I could not install the driver for the ethernet. After installing the freeBSD, I checked "ifconfig" and found no entry for the ethernet. Well, since i did not install any driver for ethernet during installation of FreeBSD its obvious that t

Re: apache / php problem

2003-09-22 Thread H. Bartel
On 09/22/2003 11:26 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.) wrote: >If you have just updated to PHP4 from 3, be advised >that the "register_globals" handle in php.ini is now OFF >by default, and therefore any code of the type > >include "$sub"; > >should now read > >include "$_GET['su

OT: Windows and virus humor

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
For those of you who are not familiar with satirewire.com, here are a few choice articles that may be appropriate for this week and last: http://satirewire.com/briefs/windowsvirus.shtml http://satirewire.com/news/jan02/patchsoft.shtml Have fun, Andrew Gould _

Re: Installing Ethernet Driver.

2003-09-22 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:55:23AM -0700, Naveen Glore wrote: > hey, > While installing FreeBSD4.5 from CD on my system, I could not install the driver for > the ethernet. After installing the freeBSD, I checked "ifconfig" and found no entry > for the ethernet. Well, since i did not install any

RE: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
> Charles Howse wrote: > > >Hi, > >I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. > >I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and > /usr/share/doc, > >But they reappear on subsequent cvsups. > >Where have I gone wrong? > > > >* /etc/cvsupfile * > >

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 22 September 2003 09:39 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and > > documentation. I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports > > and /usr/share/doc, But they reappea

Installing Ethernet Driver.

2003-09-22 Thread Naveen Glore
hey, While installing FreeBSD4.5 from CD on my system, I could not install the driver for the ethernet. After installing the freeBSD, I checked "ifconfig" and found no entry for the ethernet. Well, since i did not install any driver for ethernet during installation of FreeBSD its obvious that t

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:39:33AM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > Also, should you be refusing to update ports/INDEX? I refuse the non-English > ports; but my refuse file does not include ports/INDEX. Most people will rebuild the INDEX immediately after running cvsup(1), either by running "make

Printing with Samba an a HP Deskjet 870Cse

2003-09-22 Thread Andy W Clements
Hello, I've been struggling with this problem for the last week and I am close to getting it to work, but I seem to be missing something. I currently have a HP DeskJet 870Cse hooked up via lpt0 to FreeBSD 5.1 i386 machine. I can print text files via lpr with no problem. This is done through aps

RE: apache error

2003-09-22 Thread John Straiton
Normally when I've seen this error in the past, it's been because of a module for php that isn't too happy with the state of affairs. What you might do is rebuild php without any modules and see if it still coredumps. If not, keep adding them back one by one until it dies again and then you'll know

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:26:49AM -0700, Scott Schappell wrote: > Charles Howse wrote: > > >Hi, > >I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. > >I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc, > >But they reappear on subsequent cvsups. > >Where ha

Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:01:15 -0400 Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Chris Pressey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22/09/03 11:54]: > > Also, I believe 'GNU ls', in the ports, supports coloured directory > > listings. > > As does FreeBSD's ls. From 'man 1 ls': > > -G

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. > I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc, > But they reappear on subsequent cvsups. > Where have I gone wrong? > > * /etc/c

Re: CVSUP and Make World help !?!?

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:41:23AM -0400, Brent Bailey wrote: > i found this how to ...is this the correct way to update via CVSUP and > make world ?? It's mostly right: probably goes a bit beyond what you actually need to do. The problem with it is here: > Drop to single user mode: > # shutdown

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:13 AM Subject: Cvsup refuse confusion > Hi, > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. > I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/po

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Scott Schappell
The refuse file goes in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/refuse as mentioned in the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html Section A.5.3.1 "The refuse file essentially tells *CVSup* that it should not take every single file from a collection; in other words, it te

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Scott Schappell
Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc, But they reappear on subsequent cvsups. Where have I gone wrong? * /etc/cvsupfile * *default host=cvsup11.FreeBSD.

Re: ports

2003-09-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Brian Henning wrote: Greetings: Can i perform a ports upgrade to a computer that has no internet connection by ftping the file /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz and replacing the /usr/ports/ directory with the uncompressed version of this file? please let me know your opinion to solve my probl

Re: apache / php problem

2003-09-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
H. Bartel wrote: Hi all, Since I do have php4 running and phpinfo() tells me that it does, Sites that I put into my root dir of Apache are not parsing their variables. The index pages are displayed properly, since they don't require any vars to be passed, but every other sub-pages (e.g. index.php

Re: ports upgrade w/out internet connection

2003-09-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 22 September 2003 08:44 am, Brian Henning wrote: > Greetings: > Can i perform a ports upgrade to a computer that has no internet > connection by ftping the file /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz > and replacing the /usr/ports/ directory > with the uncompressed version of this file? pl

Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:06:00AM +0300, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote: > Try to run for example "cat /bin" in Linux, HP-UX, Solaris and other > *NIXes and I'm 90% certain that they will not show the directory but > an error message saying something. "cat /bin" on Solaris 9 does exactly the sam

Re: CVSUP howto ???

2003-09-22 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Brent Bailey wrote: > I was looking aroung trying to find a decent howto on CVSUP...seeing as > ive never had good luck with it .. i found this ...does this look like the > right procedure ?? > this is what ive been doing ...but ive only had it actually work one time > ..all o

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