Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-20 Thread Terry Lambert
carmoda wrote: > ~sigh~ > > seems like an awful lot of stuffing around for something that a > user/developer should be able to access by default *in my opinion*. so > far i have about 30% of functionality of my previous W2K system after > several times the time required for setup. [as a workstatio

Re: Any ideas on X freezing up with NVIDIA drivers?

2003-10-20 Thread Don Whitteker
( I am sorry if this was duplicated...mistyped address and it was returned) --- Chris Readle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fellow newb here, but I've also been working on X > issues with my GForceFX > in Linux *and* FBSD so I might (and I stress might) > be able to help. Hey man...any help at all

Re: root passwd change

2003-10-20 Thread Eric Pogroski
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:37:19 + DanB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there other way to change the root password that been lost without > shutting down the computer. > > Old way shutdown space barboot -s #mount -t ufs -a > #passwd > # exit to multiusers. Try this: # shutdown now < hit

4.8-REL firewall/gateway not playing nicely with Comcast COM21 modem

2003-10-20 Thread J. Seth Henry
Hey gang, I have been trying to build an Internet gateway using a 933MHz EPIA mainboard, and a couple of 3Com 3C905C-TX NIC cards. The gateway works great, under low load - but has a problem with dropping connectivity under load. At first, I thought it might be the VIA LAN port, a vr device. Howev

RE: Help with NV driver - More information part 2

2003-10-20 Thread Jason Dictos
Hers is my xf86config: Section "Module" Load"dbe" # Double buffer extension SubSection "extmod" Option"omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection Load"type1" Load"speedo" Load"freetype" Load

RE: Help with NV driver - More information

2003-10-20 Thread Jason Dictos
I just noticed that if I connect the DVI cable to the second DVI port and reboot the machine, when I start X it loads a screen full of garble (tons of lines going everywhere) but when I check the monitors diag, it says it is at 1600x1200 70h 60v Is anyone else using a Geforce ti 4600 Gainward

Help with NV driver

2003-10-20 Thread Jason Dictos
Hi, I'm having difficulty getting the nv driver to work properly on my FreeBSD 5.1 box. Recently, the nvidia driver started causing my kernel to crash consistently, so I decided to move to the non-glx enabled NV driver. Whenever that driver starts using the SAME config as the one used

Re: Upgrade to 4.8 RELEASE

2003-10-20 Thread Robert H. Perry
Hello, I'm making plans to upgrade from 4.7 RELEASE to 4.8 RELEASE. My previous attempt was a binary upgrade from 4.5 to 4.7 which did not go very well. I eventually purchased the 4.7 CD. The FreeBSD Handbook stresses backing up the system and implies that /dump/ is a better backup progr

Re: not updating XFree86 related stuff while performing portupgrade

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Lee(HINET)
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:04:20 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:31:49PM +0800, Michael Lee(HINET) wrote: > > > Now I know the way to manipulate the actions of portupgrade for not > > upgrading everything. > > I just posted earlier another question for portupgrade not being abl

Re: Hacking calendar(1)

2003-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 16:13:09 -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > When I get my daily calendar email, there is no explanation of which > entries come from which calendars. > Other than hacking the source code, is there a way to get some headers > like this? > > Music History: > Oct 20

Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive

2003-10-20 Thread Paul Murphy
usbd.conf snippet: device "Flash Drive" devname "umass0" vendor 0x0ea0 product 0x2168 release 0x0200 attach "/sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /flash_drive" permissions of '/flash_drive' before mounting: drwxrwxrwx2 root wheel 512 Oct 20 22:27 flas

Re: a few questions about rebuilding a system?

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Sweetleaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Make world. is it really necessary to follow this step? > > 21.4.2 Check /etc/make.conf That step doesn't require you to actually change anything, so obviously it's not really required. Most people find it worth doing for efficiency reasons, if n

Re: root passwd change

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
DanB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there other way to change the root password that been lost without > shutting down the computer. Other than hacking the password file, no. At least, I hope not -- that would be a big security hole. ___ [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Monitor's picture position

2003-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 20 October 2003 at 0:30:13 +0400, CBuH wrote: > > I have two Os-es on one PC: Win & FreeBSD, > in Win picture at resolution 1280x1024 is placed (by my hand's configure) in > proper position (I mean each corner on my CRT monitor). Then -- in FreeBSD I > see that in such resolution (and t

Re: S-ATA disks

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
vipto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you say me, if *BSD systems support S-ATA disks and DVD+-RW > hardware (i cant find them in "Hardware Notes")? S-ATA support has been going in on -CURRENT. I think, but am not sure, that they (or at least most of them) should work in standard ATA mod

Re: Noob FreeBSD 5.1 install question

2003-10-20 Thread Jud
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:22:07 -0400 (EDT), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I am new to this list and new to freeBSD. I run a Mandrake 9.1 server and wish to convert to FreeBSD. Here are 2 questions that I have. A) I have reinstall freeBSD many times over and over. I work with W2k machine at

Re: Pentium 120 reboots after loading mfsroot floppy

2003-10-20 Thread Pete Renshaw
> > "Frederick Bowes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I was hoping to try out FreeBSD on an old machine I have been given > >> (Pentium 120, 514MB HD, 8mb ram) and it reboots after loading the > >> mfsroot > >> floppy disk. You insert the disk, it goes /|\|/ for a while then > >> reboots. >

Re: Vinum Offset for Swap: 265 or 281?

2003-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 0:42:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Sanity check whether the mirrored vinum root drive is setup correctly. > Going to setup two more machines the same way, so wanted to make sure the > reference machine was setup correctly. > > Was surprised to see that

Re: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS (long)

2003-10-20 Thread Jud
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:45:48 -0400, Osmany Guirola Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -Original Message- From: Jud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 10/20/2003 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Osmany Guirola Cruz Cc: freebsd-questions Subject:Re: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORT

portupgrade -arR problem

2003-10-20 Thread ivan georgiev
Hello, I use 5-1p10. I do not know what happened but now I get: -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin': failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:918:in `tsort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ru

error in packet "Ierrs"

2003-10-20 Thread Your Name
Hi all How can I verify the 3 in "Ierrs" coming from? Thank you for your help netstat -i -- NameMtu Network Address Ipkts IerrsOpkts Oerrs Coll vr01500 00:0c:6e:93:14:8515569 3 253 0 0 vr01500 24.100.96/24 route51

Re: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

2003-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:42:55PM -0400, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: > I do cd to /usr/ports/www/mozilla-firebird and these port does not exist > I can do cvsup due to restrictions on my FIREWALL I already told you how to get around this..see my earlier mail. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: P

Re: 5406 warnings during buildworld & other q's

2003-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 06:38:18PM +0100, David Carter-Hitchin wrote: > > d) installworld failed the first time as the user 'smmsp' didn't > > exist. I dutifully followed the advice given in UPGRADE by building > > and running mergemaster. Second run of installworld also failed - at > > mergemas

Re: thunderbird 0.3 wont compile

2003-10-20 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 18:59, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am using FBSD-4.8 STABLE with ports upgraded to the latest as I am > writing. I compiled firebird 0.7 with no problem, thunderbird 0.2 is > installed, but I can't upgrade it to 0.3 because: > ../../../dist/include/string/nsBu

Re: I upgraded from CVSup: did I get a -stable branch ?

2003-10-20 Thread Johan Hendriks
If you installed 4.5 and want to stay that way use : *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_5 This way you stay at the release engenering stream! Succes - Original Message - From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 2

Re: Virtual Console Keyboard Layout

2003-10-20 Thread Rommel B. IKEDA
Thank you very much for the reply. I was not only ABLE to configure my proper Keyboard Layout for my virtual consoles...I was also ABLE to FINALLY compile my FIRST KERNEL... Thank you... Actually, the compilation was the most challenging and interesting not to mention that I have been preparing s

Re: Sent and Email but did'nt get my copy

2003-10-20 Thread Rommel B. IKEDA
Yesterday, the Email that I sent appeared in the mailing list after I sent an Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and this Email...I was able to cancel the Email that I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I am sorry for not being a little patient... Anyway, thank you very much for your reply. Rommel B. Ikeda Ma

Re: I upgraded from CVSup: did I get a -stable branch ?

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris Readle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_5 > or: > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_3 > > respectively. Those tags will also get any future security updates to > either of those versions as well. Maybe. Nobody's promising to support them, but many updates g

Re: Odd network interface (PCMCIA) problem; going insane

2003-10-20 Thread Heath Volmer
When in doubt, check for updates... After about twenty hours of messing with this, I decided to check for an update. I was running 5.0; downloaded 5.1: Viola! Everything is good. I was sure that the problem was in FreeBSD and I guess it was. Thanks for the reply. Heath On 10/20/03 7:03 AM,

Noob FreeBSD 5.1 install question

2003-10-20 Thread whizkid
Hi All, I am new to this list and new to freeBSD. I run a Mandrake 9.1 server and wish to convert to FreeBSD. Here are 2 questions that I have. A) I have reinstall freeBSD many times over and over. I work with W2k machine at work and do a Unattended install when I don't want to select the same

Re: weird KDE alt-tab problem

2003-10-20 Thread JacobRhoden
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:28 am, David Gerard wrote: > Every now and then, I press alt-tab to go between applications > in KDE 3, and it goes into a strange mode: I press alt, hold and > press tab, and the window menu comes up ... I press alt again > and it actually goes to the next window. > 1. Wha

Re: GTK

2003-10-20 Thread Andrew Kozak
Hi All Thank You very much to C Ulrich and Sergey 'Double F' Zaharchen for your help with my GTK problem. Unfortunately I think that C Ulrich is right in that I will have to install again from scratch. Unfortunately reinstalling GTK, gettext etc. has not helped. Ohh well, practice make perfect, a

Re: How to get out of Africa?

2003-10-20 Thread mpd
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:24:51PM +, Wayne M Barnes wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > >During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. > >I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find > out to reset my time zone. > >Does anybody else know? I installed 5.1 f

Re: How to get out of Africa?

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:24:51PM +, Wayne M Barnes wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > >During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. > >I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find > out to reset my time zone. > >Does anybody else know? I installed 5.1 f

Re: How to get out of Africa?

2003-10-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:24:51PM +, Wayne M Barnes wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > >During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. > >I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find > out to reset my time zone. > >Does anybody else know? I installed 5.1 f

Setting time zones (was: How to get out of Africa?)

2003-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 October 2003 at 18:24:51 +, Wayne M Barnes wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > >During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. > >I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find > out to reset my time zone. > >Does anybody else know? I installed 5.1

`atacontrol enclosure` does not work (ioctl(ATAENCSTAT): Device not configured)

2003-10-20 Thread Constantine
Hello. It just does not seem to work. How do I fix that? cnst# whoami root cnst# atacontrol enclosure 0 0 atacontrol: ioctl(ATAENCSTAT): Device not configured cnst# uname -r 4.8-RELEASE Cheers, Constantine. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://list

RE: HP Deskjet 5150

2003-10-20 Thread Derrick Ryalls
> > I really need to know if my HP Deskjet 5150 works with > freebsd, if not, i have to change it in 3 days, please help me! > > I've configured cups like it said in www.freebsddiary.org, > with a difference, i dont have a compatible browser to What browser are you trying? I have had succes

How to get out of Africa?

2003-10-20 Thread Wayne M Barnes
Dear FreeBSD, During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find out to reset my time zone. Does anybody else know? I installed 5.1 from the CD. Thank you, Wayne _

Re: I upgraded from CVSup: did I get a -stable branch ?

2003-10-20 Thread Chris Readle
--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FreeBSD ciao.singles.it 4.9-RC FreeBSD 4.9-RC #0: Wed Oct 15 00:12:26 > CEST 2003 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CURRENT_WINE i386 > > I have two questions: > 1)looking at the output of 'uname', is this a STABLE version of FreeBSD > (as I would

thunderbird 0.3 wont compile

2003-10-20 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Hi guys, I am using FBSD-4.8 STABLE with ports upgraded to the latest as I am writing. I compiled firebird 0.7 with no problem, thunderbird 0.2 is installed, but I can't upgrade it to 0.3 because: ../../../dist/include/string/nsBufferHandle.h:388: See http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html>

Re: 5406 warnings during buildworld & other q's

2003-10-20 Thread David Carter-Hitchin
Hi Kris, Thanks for replying... > d) installworld failed the first time as the user 'smmsp' didn't > exist. I dutifully followed the advice given in UPGRADE by building > and running mergemaster. Second run of installworld also failed - at > mergemaster, saying "Don't know how to build mergem

RE: IPFW Antics

2003-10-20 Thread Tyler McGeorge
Fortunately for you, natd offers DCC forwarding support without mapping ports. Take a gander at `man natd` and pay particular attention to -punch_fw Tyler McGeorge ...to the rescue... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Servo Sent: Saturday,

I upgraded from CVSup: did I get a -stable branch ?

2003-10-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, just a question for a doubt I have:I updated the src tree via cvsup using the file included below.According to some BSD literature (not found in the handbook), by using the 'RELENG_4' tag in the supfile, I will get the source tree for the latest -STABLE branch, and that is what I wanted.I CV

weird KDE alt-tab problem

2003-10-20 Thread David Gerard
Every now and then, I press alt-tab to go between applications in KDE 3, and it goes into a strange mode: I press alt, hold and press tab, and the window menu comes up ... I press alt again and it actually goes to the next window. 1. What is happening? 2. How did it get there? 3. What can I do to g

Re: Hacking calendar(1) - SOLVED

2003-10-20 Thread Charles Howse
>> When I get my daily calendar email, there is no explanation of which >> entries come from which calendars. >> Other than hacking the source code, is there a way to get some headers >> like this? >> >> Music History: >> Oct 20 Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash, 1977 >> >> W

RE: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

2003-10-20 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
Ok People i download the latest port.tar.gz it includes the mozilla-firebird if i install it what could happen whit my system it needs xfree greater than i have installed ?what should i do? upgrade the entite syste? -Original Message- From: Jud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 1

Re: STrange network problem

2003-10-20 Thread Steve Hovey
You show 167 as a broadcast on the first IP line then try to use it also as an available ip On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > I've just tried to bring up a new IP alias and am having trouble using it > > Currently > > ls512# ifconfig -a > vr0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > in

Re: Oracle client question

2003-10-20 Thread S H A N
hi, Port: oracle7-client-0.02 Port: p5-DBD-Oracle-1.14 all you need to connect to oracle7/8/8i databases (and may be 9 also try your luck) rgds, S H A N On Tue Oct 21, 2003 at 03:07:00AM SGT, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Hey all. I'm sure this has been asked a few times, but I've not found >

Re: STrange network problem

2003-10-20 Thread Wes Zuber
Hi Rus, looks like you added an alias beyond the usable range. inet 63.247.81.167 netmask 0x broadcast 63.247.81.167 is your broadcast. --WEs On Oct 20, 2003, at 12:43 PM, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, I've just tried to bring up a new IP alias and am having trouble using it Currently l

STrange network problem

2003-10-20 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've just tried to bring up a new IP alias and am having trouble using it Currently ls512# ifconfig -a vr0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 63.247.81.162 netmask 0xfff8 broadcast 63.247.81.167 inet6 fe80::230:1bff:fe37:fb48%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 63.247.81.

Re: Any ideas on X freezing up with NVIDIA drivers?

2003-10-20 Thread Chris Readle
Fellow newb here, but I've also been working on X issues with my GForceFX in Linux *and* FBSD so I might (and I stress might) be able to help. First things first, can you post your /etc/X11/XF86Config file? Are you using *dm (xdm, kdm, gdm, etc) or are you booting to CLI and doing startx? I've h

Oracle client question

2003-10-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey all. I'm sure this has been asked a few times, but I've not found the answer to my specific question regarding Oracle on FreeBSD. Here goes: I don't need to run the Oracle server on FreeBSD, so I'm not above simply copying in the headers and libraries by hand. So the installation procedure

Re: Virtual Console Keyboard Layout

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Rommel B. IKEDA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My shell is the default Bourne Shell...can anyone help or give me > advice on where to search in the man pages about setting my virtual > console keyboard layout to 105... man kbdcontrol ___ [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

2003-10-20 Thread Eric Pogroski
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:38:03 -0400 Osmany Guirola Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can not use cvsup due to restrictions on my network and i need to do updates of my > ports. > how and what can i do? can you ftp? or use a browser (relatively) freely? If so, go here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub

Re: GTK

2003-10-20 Thread C. Ulrich
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 03:53, Andrew Kozak wrote: > From: Andrew Kozak > Date: Monday, 20 October 2003 05:42:11 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: GTK > > > Hi Everyone > > Hope someone can help me here, I've kinda stuffed up big time. Whilst trying > to install etherape, I received a mess

Any ideas on X freezing up with NVIDIA drivers?

2003-10-20 Thread Don Whitteker
Hello all and thank you in advance...first off I am still a bit of a newbie with FreeBSD (and *NIX in general) but am learning more every day = ) I hope I got this on the correct list but feel free to point me in the right direction if I did not OK...here's the problem. I have an A7N8X board (delu

RE: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

2003-10-20 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
I do cd to /usr/ports/www/mozilla-firebird and these port does not exist I can do cvsup due to restrictions on my FIREWALL Do you have the ports collection (the /usr/ports directory and contents) in your version of 5.1-RELEASE? If so, you can cd to /usr/ports/www/mozilla-firebird and type 'ma

Re: Error Message

2003-10-20 Thread Charles Swiger
On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 02:11 PM, Bob Moore Computer Recruiters TekJobs.com wrote: I'm doing pine -inbox-path=users/tekjobs/mail/Trash Gives me this message Your terminal, of type "ansi", is lacking functions needed to run pine. What do I need to do? Where are you running pine? If you're

Error Message

2003-10-20 Thread Bob Moore Computer Recruiters TekJobs.com
I'm doing pine -inbox-path=users/tekjobs/mail/Trash Gives me this message Your terminal, of type "ansi", is lacking functions needed to run pine. What do I need to do? Thanks for your help Bob Moore tekjobs.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list ht

Re: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

2003-10-20 Thread Jud
On 20 Oct 2003 13:25:49 -0400, "Mailing Lists Catcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > There is no port for 5.x that I can find so updating your ports tree > wont do much good. > > You can try downloading the package for 4-stable or wait for it to > appear for 5.x. I am not certain what would happen

Can I get SMBFS to cooperate with NT apps as well as Sharity Light?

2003-10-20 Thread Doug Lee
I am trying to open a series of database files from FreeBSD that are hosted by a Windows NT share. I only need read-only access at this point. For some reason though, if a file is opened by a Windows program, FreeBSD can't get read access to it if I use smbfs, but other Windows machines can and s

Re: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

2003-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:38:03PM -0400, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: > I can not use cvsup due to restrictions on my network and i need to do updates of my > ports. > how and what can i do? This is answered in the handbook - there are other ways to obtain updates to FreeBSD, like CTM. Kris pg

Re: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

2003-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:25:49PM -0400, Mailing Lists Catcher wrote: > There is no port for 5.x that I can find so updating your ports tree > wont do much good. There certainly is a port. What makes you think otherwise? Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

kernal panic when trying to recompile world or kernel

2003-10-20 Thread Hicks, Raymond
Hello all, I was hoping to get some insight into what could be causing these issues. Any thing you can do to help is appreciated. Here is the situation: I have an asus A7M-266D with dual athalon MP 1800+ and 1.5G of DDR 2100 RAM. The machine has 3 120GIG IDE drives, one floppy and one CD

RE: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

2003-10-20 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
I can not use cvsup due to restrictions on my network and i need to do updates of my ports. how and what can i do? -Original Message- From: Derek Zeanah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 10/20/2003 1:23 PM To: Osmany Guirola Cruz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:Re:

Re: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

2003-10-20 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
There is no port for 5.x that I can find so updating your ports tree wont do much good. You can try downloading the package for 4-stable or wait for it to appear for 5.x. I am not certain what would happen if you downloaded the package for 4-stable and tried pgk_adddo this at your own risk.

Re: info on FreeBSD

2003-10-20 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
everything you wanted to know is on http://www.freebsd.org In particular check out: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html Then before you attempt an install besure to read through the handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/index.html and the faq a: http://www.freebsd.org/

Re: info on FreeBSD

2003-10-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 06:07:30PM +0100, nigel p lawrence wrote: > I aew to linux what is Freeebsd ? > Is some kind of unix or linux ? Like it says right at the top of the page at http://www.freebsd.org/ -- What is FreeBSD? FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, DE

Re: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

2003-10-20 Thread Derek Zeanah
>Waht should i do? How can i update my ports collection ? AHH very important I CAN NOT >CVSUP I'm something of a newbie with FreeBSD, but it seems like cvsup'ing your ports tree is the preferred solution. Why can't you do this? Can you use the package management system instead or ports, or

info on FreeBSD

2003-10-20 Thread nigel p lawrence
Dear Sirs I aew to linux what is Freeebsd ? Is some kind of unix or linux ? Thanks Nigel P Lawrence Amateur Radio Call sign os G0MEJ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: burncd ``only wrote -1...'' coasting discs.

2003-10-20 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Lewis Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to use burncd to write an ISO to a blank disc. The discs are > > all fine, etc. and this is a new DVD drive (writes DVDs and CDs), so I'm > > guessing that is the problem.

5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

2003-10-20 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
I have 5.1 Realease and i want install mozilla-firebird, but in these realease don exist, what can ido? i found the package for the 4.8-Stable and can not install it due to dependencies whit gettext xfree_libraries . Waht should i do? How can i update my ports collection ? AHH very import

Re: mplayer + xmms issue!

2003-10-20 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
Are you getting any sounds at all? Check in /dev to see if you even have a sound device. My guess is no. All sound drivers (I believe) are disabled initially. Check out /boot/defaults/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf. Also the Handbook has a sound card section. Most PCs have a cable connected

Re: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE 4.8-RELEASE 4-9-RC-2 4.9-RC2 4.9-RC3 floppy install problem.

2003-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:38:25AM +0800, Evgeny Larionov wrote: > I just try install some versions FreeBSD from floppy disks via FTP > (HTTP-proxy). During instalation system unsuccessfully trying download > necessary files from > ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snaphots/i386/ > bacuase this directory

Re: Best place to start a misc program at bootup

2003-10-20 Thread Mike Maltese
>So there's /etc/rc, and etc/rc.local, and then there's the fancy rc.conf > scripts which stat programs. /etc/rc and /etc/rc.local don't appear to be > "designated" places for starting up misc. programs, so where do we put these > misc programs which we want to run at startup? Take a look in /

Re: Howto change from RELEASE to STABLE

2003-10-20 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 15:50, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I am running 5.1-RELEASE and would like to update to 5.1-STABLE. How > can I go about it? I just want to install the software and not the > kernel itself. Is that possible? > > Also, where is the information for pkg_add kept? I mean when I sa

Re: CVSup supfile question

2003-10-20 Thread Alden Louis-Pierre
Graham Lillico wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:04:54PM -0400, Alden Louis-Pierre wrote: So running my sample CVSup supfile would not patch my system for the security advisories from SA-03:08 - SA-0318(as of 10/19/03)? I'm under the impression this supfile would take care of security advi

Re: IP Bandwidth Usage Monitoring Question

2003-10-20 Thread Adam Gardner
Check out ipa in the ports. /usr/ports/sysutils/ipa Requires a firewall though. On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Jason L. Schwab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a machine with several ip addresses where users run alot of > > different services, and I am wondeirng

Re: buildingworld & sysctl -w kern.securelevel=2 help??

2003-10-20 Thread David Landgren
Lowell Gilbert wrote: is it safe to reboot the system with the sysctl -w kern.securelevel variable set to -1 ..AFTER the OS has just done a make buildworld ? and then just pickup where i left off ?? The buildworld should work fine in raised securelevels. Installing (kernels or the rest of the "

HP Deskjet 5150

2003-10-20 Thread geek
I really need to know if my HP Deskjet 5150 works with freebsd, if not, i have to change it in 3 days, please help me! I've configured cups like it said in www.freebsddiary.org, with a difference, i dont have a compatible browser to adminsistrate cups, so i do these to add my printer in the se

RE: IPFW Antics

2003-10-20 Thread Tom Servo
Each time that I see the request dialog come up in my IRC client the request times out because I think that my gateway is dropping the request packets instead of forwarding them to my IRC machine. I know that ircd usually runs on port 6667 so I am guessing that DCC requests must land in the same a

Re: errors with dependant packages while installing ports.

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:06:40PM +, carmoda wrote: > > > I seem to get failures just about every time i try to install anything: > > > > in particular errors with dependant packages: > > > > "An older version of whatever/whatever is already ins

Re: Postfix problems

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nicolai P Guba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 20 September 2003 15:34, fbsd_user wrote: > > server you have to disable sendmail and reboot FBSD. > > *ouch* reboots are evil. > > surely there is another way of doing this. or? Yes. You can just kill your sendmail processes. In this

Anyone know of a good way to handle mail for multiple domains (my own _and_ not my own)?

2003-10-20 Thread Scott W
Hey all- this is something I've looked for a good solution for for some time, and I'm sure someone else has already worked out. Any ideas appreciated. The scenario: I have entirely too many email addresses, several of which from domains that are mine, but others that are not mine, but am unabl

Re: errors with dependant packages while installing ports.

2003-10-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:06:40PM +, carmoda wrote: > I seem to get failures just about every time i try to install anything: > > in particular errors with dependant packages: > > "An older version of whatever/whatever is already installed..." > > now, on attempts to update any of these de

Re: errors with dependant packages while installing ports.

2003-10-20 Thread David Lodeiro
Hi, # cd /usr/ports/xxx/directory of port that wont compile # make deinstall # make install or # make install clean or # make package works for me without any problems Seeya David Lodeiro > Hi, > > I seem to get failures just about every time i try to install anything: > > in particular

Re: buildingworld & sysctl -w kern.securelevel=2 help??

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Brent Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After i started my > make buildworld > while it was building .. i noticed that the kernel sysctl was set to > sysctl -w kern.securelevel=2 That's fine. > i tried set it back to 0 or -1 ..but it wouldnt let me. Right. That's the point of securelevels

Re: burncd ``only wrote -1...'' coasting discs.

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lewis Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to use burncd to write an ISO to a blank disc. The discs are > all fine, etc. and this is a new DVD drive (writes DVDs and CDs), so I'm > guessing that is the problem. By itself, it shouldn't be. If you're running 5.x, that's another story

RE: Postfix problems

2003-10-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > On Saturday 20 September 2003 15:34, fbsd_user wrote: > > server you have to disable sendmail and reboot FBSD. > > *ouch* reboots are evil. > > surely there is another way of doing this. or? > you shouldnt have to reboot. try making the rc.conf changes then, $ killall sendmail to get rid

Re: Hacking calendar(1)

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I get my daily calendar email, there is no explanation of which > entries come from which calendars. > Other than hacking the source code, is there a way to get some headers > like this? > > Music History: > Oct 20Three members of Lynyrd

Re: IP Bandwidth Usage Monitoring Question

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Jason L. Schwab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a machine with several ip addresses where users run alot of > different services, and I am wondeirng if anyone knows a way or > some recommended software than can monitor the inbound and > outbound bandwidth usage per i

Re: Postfix problems

2003-10-20 Thread Nicolai P Guba
On Saturday 20 September 2003 15:34, fbsd_user wrote: > server you have to disable sendmail and reboot FBSD. *ouch* reboots are evil. surely there is another way of doing this. or? -- =NPG= ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: Odd network interface (PCMCIA) problem; going insane

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Heath Volmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem: My PCMCIA network interface (Linksys PCM100) doesn't seems to > work - SORT OF. This is odd. I can get online okay, use Mozilla to browse > the web, but when I fire up sshd or apache or any other kind of server they > don't seem to be acces

errors with dependant packages while installing ports.

2003-10-20 Thread carmoda
Hi, I seem to get failures just about every time i try to install anything: in particular errors with dependant packages: "An older version of whatever/whatever is already installed..." now, on attempts to update any of these dependancy packages i break my system... so. do i just accept i cann

Re: ipfw routing

2003-10-20 Thread Petre Bandac
On Monday 20 October 2003 15:48 Anno Domini, Lowell Gilbert wrote using one of his keyboards: > Petre Bandac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have to use a freebsd machine as a gateway router; I did manage to make > > natd work, but now I have also a subnet routed to the machine > > That sounds f

VXA-2 Packet Drive

2003-10-20 Thread Jeronimo Romero
Does anyone know if FreeBSD supports Exabyte VXA-2 Packet Drives?? We are interested in purchasing one but i didn't see it in the hardware compatibility list and we wanted to make sure. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

PQI Intelligent Stick 64M problem

2003-10-20 Thread Vlad Kozin
Hi. I'm trying to read data from my new PQI Intelligent Stick 64Mb usb flash drive. But even 'usbdevs' doesn't see it :( I tried restarting 'usbd' but it didn't help. #uname -a FreeBSD 4.9-RC #0: Sun Oct 19 03:38:20 MSD 2003 i386 Inside the kernel: # USB support device uhci

Re: install problems

2003-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
I realize you're hobbled by Microsoft software, but please don't top-post. "chuck miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > probing for pnp devices on ppbus0 > ppbus0: scp,vlink > plip0: on ppbus0 > ad0: dma limited to udma33,non-ata66 cable or device > ad0: read command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -reset

I have the perfect Coaching & Training directory for your business.

2003-10-20 Thread Agora Institute
In fact, I founded this directory for the same reasons which you've probably found frustrating-a lack of internet traffic. We all know that when we're not on one of the top three or four search engine pages, we're out of the loop. We noticed a few months ago that the search engines are moving a

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