Re: Cross-compiling for other architectures

2005-07-19 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 7/19/05, Kövesdán Gábor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Hodgins wrote: > > >Is it possible to cross-compile the base system for the sparc > >architecture from an x86 machine? I thought I had seen an article on > >setting this sort of thing up befo

Cross-compiling for other architectures

2005-07-19 Thread Chris Hodgins
Hi all, Is it possible to cross-compile the base system for the sparc architecture from an x86 machine? I thought I had seen an article on setting this sort of thing up before but I can no longer find it. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Epson Stylus C86 Printer

2005-05-16 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 5/16/05, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just bought one of these printers, and am having trouble getting > it to work with ghostscript. It is connected via a USB port, and it > responds momentarily when I send anything directly to /dev/ulpt0. > > I would appreciate the correct p

freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2005-05-16 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 5/16/05, Moy Easwaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > > freetype is already being loaded. > > pkg_add -r webfonts gives me a file not found error, and when I look > for it manually (in a browser) there doesn't appear to be a package. > I added arkpandora fonts but

Re: Daemon Process

2005-05-16 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 5/16/05, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-05-16 18:48, "Sergey S. Ropchan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Monday, May 16, 2005, 6:41:03 PM, you wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I want to know how can I programmatically restart a dead daemon > > > process in Unix? > > > > You can rest

Re: Learning UNIX internals

2005-05-07 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 5/7/05, Jon Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/7/05, Chris Hodgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you are interested in Unix and FreeBSD this is a good choice: > > > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0201702452/reviews/026-97

Re: Learning UNIX internals

2005-05-07 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 5/7/05, Jon Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I was thinking of getting one of these two books. I want to learn > more about how UNIX and in particular, FreeBSD work. Has anyone read > either of these books? > > UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers > by Uresh Vahalia > > http://www.am

Re: starting mysql server automatically

2005-05-07 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 5/6/05, Paul Keyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm setting up a server running Freebsd 5.3 I have > mysql running well but I can't seem to get it to start > automatically at boot time. I can only start it as > root with the command: > mysqld_safe --user=mysql & > > (when I do th

Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

2005-05-07 Thread Chris Hodgins
This keeps coming up time and time again. Why don't we simply put up a message on the subscription page that says if you subscribe you agree that your messages will be archived for public viewing. End of story. No more bitchy emails on this subject, no more heated debates and much more time devo

Re: Installing DCOM98 with Wine

2005-05-04 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 5/4/05, Karel Miklav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Hodgins wrote: > > I have the latest Wine and Winetools installed and I am now trying to > > install DCOM98 with the purpose of installing internet explorer 6 for > > my web development needs. > > Have you

Installing DCOM98 with Wine

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
Hi, I have the latest Wine and Winetools installed and I am now trying to install DCOM98 with the purpose of installing internet explorer 6 for my web development needs. I have downloaded DCOM98.exe and ie6setup.exe into my /root/.wine/dosdevices/c:/ directory and then to install DCOM98 I do the

Re: What is *** WRONG *** with my network?

2005-05-02 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 5/2/05, Fafa Diliha Romanova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > Something is terribly wrong here: > > 1. My name server setup is disfunctional. > 2. My web, mail and fileserver is disfunctional. > 3. I cannot SSH and FTP into certain servers. > 4. I cannot ping my IP from the outside. > 5

Re: Connecting to X Server on a FreeBSD Box

2005-04-17 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 4/17/05, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X > applications from my fedora core 2. > So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit. > But it says : >(gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open displa

Re: Is this a good or a bad idea to delete all off this ?

2005-03-15 Thread Chris Hodgins
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:45:24 -0800, Michael C. Shultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 06:17 am, Tom Trelvik wrote: > > Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > can i do controle C when i want to go to sleep while upgrading ? > > > > A cleaner solution, regardless of whatever you're run

Re: firefox share profile in freebsd and windows!

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Hodgins
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:55:23 +0800, heccj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ean Kingston said the following on 03/15/05 02:43: > >>Perhaps this is not proper site to place this question,but i just meet > >>this problem! > >> > >>I want to share my firefox 1.0.1 profile in windows xp and freebsd 5.3,i >

Re: Port options and portmanager

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Hodgins
Chris Hodgins wrote: Hi, If I want to retain a port option (that perhaps I passed at the command line using -D) between uprades of a port, will portmanager handle this automatically or do the options need to be placed in make.conf? Thanks Chris Ah don't worry I have my answer. I need t

Port options and portmanager

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Hodgins
Hi, If I want to retain a port option (that perhaps I passed at the command line using -D) between uprades of a port, will portmanager handle this automatically or do the options need to be placed in make.conf? Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: [asking again] did a bad thing to my ports?

2005-03-13 Thread Chris Hodgins
Ben Munat wrote: Don't mean to be a pest, but I can't believe no one has anything to say about this... :-) b -- previous message This morning, after running cvsup and portsdb, portversion told me I had a stale dependency in linux-sun-jdk. This did

Re: If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade?

2005-03-13 Thread Chris Hodgins
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:38 pm, you wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:05 pm, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: If I just do: cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile && portmanager -u Do I need portupgrade at all then? Thanks. Not for upgrading. portsclean (a part

Re: If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade?

2005-03-13 Thread Chris Hodgins
Chris wrote: Chris Hodgins wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:05 pm, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: If I just do: cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile && portmanager -u Do I need portupgrade at all then? Thanks. Not for upgrading. portsclean (a part of portsupgrade packa

Re: If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade?

2005-03-13 Thread Chris Hodgins
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:05 pm, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: If I just do: cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile && portmanager -u Do I need portupgrade at all then? Thanks. Not for upgrading. portsclean (a part of portsupgrade package) is a nice feature of portupgrade, so is pk

Re: FreeBSD & Java

2005-03-13 Thread Chris Hodgins
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Rhys Campbell writes: I have an application written in Java that I am thinking about deploying on FreeBSD. I am considering FreeBSD because of its reputation for stability and performance. The only concern I have is the port of Java on this system. I am a newcomer to FreeB

Re: FreeBSD & Java

2005-03-13 Thread Chris Hodgins
Rhys Campbell wrote: I have an application written in Java that I am thinking about deploying on FreeBSD. I am considering FreeBSD because of its reputation for stability and performance. The only concern I have is the port of Java on this system. I am a newcomer to FreeBSD (a few days in fact)

Re: How to merge an unused partition.

2005-03-12 Thread Chris Hodgins
Chris wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 12 March 2005 at 21:09:47 -0600, Chris wrote: Heya folks - here's my issue; I removed a OS from my drive and that freed up 10 gig. I wish to "merge" the free 10 gig into my FreeBSD file system. Here's what she looks like via fdisk: Disk nam

Re: portinstall: fetch(1) doesn't fetch

2005-03-11 Thread Chris Hodgins
Michael L. Hostbaek wrote: h p (regnans) writes: Hi, I don't understand the behaviour of fetch(1). Whenever I try to fetch from an URL, I get anwers like > fetch http://www.google.com fetch: http://www.google.com: No address record Do you have any weird environment variables set ? Like FETCH

Re: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Hodgins
Ben Paley wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Setting hostname - fake and real To: "'FreeBSD-Questions Questions'" On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure

Re: sshd - public key vs keyboard interactive authentication

2005-03-06 Thread Chris Hodgins
Jeff With wrote: So, my questions: 1. How do I disable password authentication - i.e. force to use the DSA keys? Make sure all 'password' auth is disabled and publickey is enabled. PasswordAuthentication no UseLogin no UsePAM no PubkeyAuthentication yes 2. Can I use both for added security

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
Daniel Eriksson wrote: Emanuel Strobl wrote: You can also use nullfs (man (8) mount_nullfs). It's slow and not certified to be bugfree but I never had any problems and especially for centralized ports very useful. What has given you the idea that nullfs is slow? I'm using it extensively and have

Re: [repost] ip.forwarding with pf

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-03-03 10:15, Tomas Quintero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:30:52 -0600, J.D. Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No one replied to this and I thought it was easy for someone on this list to help me? I am going to run pf and setup FBSD as a router (

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
Ean Kingston wrote: How dangerous is it to share the ports directory with jails on the system? I am using the jails to give other access to a freebsd system. You can assume they are untrusted (hence the jail ;)). Is it enough just to: ln -s /usr/ports /usr/jail/ajail/usr/ports That won't work. T

Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
How dangerous is it to share the ports directory with jails on the system? I am using the jails to give other access to a freebsd system. You can assume they are untrusted (hence the jail ;)). Is it enough just to: ln -s /usr/ports /usr/jail/ajail/usr/ports Thanks Chris ___

Re: Default security: other users can ACCESS MY HOMEDIR?!

2005-03-02 Thread Chris Hodgins
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Nick Pavlica wrote: I was thinking along the lines of a scp server that would only allow the user to browse only there directories. On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:39:43 +0100 (CET), Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Nick Pavlica wrote: How would you re

Re: ICMP in Java

2005-03-02 Thread Chris Hodgins
Pat Maddox wrote: I'm writing an app that needs to send out ICMP packets. ICMP isn't supported in Java until 1.5, and it looks like 1.5 is alpha and shouldn't be used for production. Is that correct? Yes that's accurate I believe. From what I've read, I'll need to use a JNI implementation. Does

Re: c standard

2005-03-02 Thread Chris Hodgins
Florian Hengstberger wrote: Following is possible with gcc and g++: #include double sin(double) { return 1; } int main() { sin(1); return 1; } Why I don't get any warnings like: sin prevously defined in math.h ... when I compile with -Wall -pedantic -ansi. Why is it possible to overwrite the de

Re: Documentation Error?

2005-03-01 Thread Chris Hodgins
Jerry McAllister wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/confi gtuning-v irtual-hosts.html states that adding a virtual address is done in rc.conf like this: ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 10.1.1.2 net

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-01 Thread Chris Hodgins
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: I have an Adaptec AAA-131 Ultra 2 card here that is just jumping up and down to prove you wrong. This is an AIC7880. When you have one of those, let me know. However, I CAN tell you how to go about finding out what you need to change. Do you wa

Re: Which app to watch movies?

2005-03-01 Thread Chris Hodgins
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: bsdnooby wrote: I get an error when I try to install mplayer. Something about a fetch size mismatch on Blue-1.4.tar.bz. I'm not sure how to cut and paste the error, I thought the middle mouse button would cut from an xterm window, but I guess not. The skins' tarba

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-28 Thread Chris Hodgins
Anthony Atkielski wrote: RacerX writes: The hardware has ran for over 8 years - you don't think that after 8 years its going to show wear and tear? I do/would. It's not going to suddenly fail on the very day and hour that I install FreeBSD. Sounds like the perfect time for them to go wrong. They

Re: JDK15 and JDK14 for Firefox and OpenOffice.

2005-02-27 Thread Chris Hodgins
BSD Mail wrote: Greetings, I've installed /usr/ports/java/jdk15 then installed /usr/ports/www/firefox I'm not really sure why Firefox didn't detect that I have JDK15 installed. Also Later I'm going to install OpenOffice. In OO website http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ seems they want to have J

Re: How would you install all Gnome ports?

2005-02-27 Thread Chris Hodgins
Chris wrote: Chris Hodgins wrote: Chris wrote: Chris Hodgins wrote: Chris wrote: Chris Hodgins wrote: Chris wrote: Is there an all inclusive command to install all Gnome ports from within the ports tree? Not everything but enough to get you started: /usr/ports/x11/gnome2$ cat pkg-descr GNU

Re: How would you install all Gnome ports?

2005-02-27 Thread Chris Hodgins
Chris wrote: Chris Hodgins wrote: Chris wrote: Chris Hodgins wrote: Chris wrote: Is there an all inclusive command to install all Gnome ports from within the ports tree? Not everything but enough to get you started: /usr/ports/x11/gnome2$ cat pkg-descr GNU Network Object Model Environment This

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-27 Thread Chris Hodgins
John wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:13:51 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote John writes: 1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can you nfs mount it? I pulled all the NFS stuff out of the kernel, alas! well, put it back in then :) You'd only need the client stuff on the smal

Re: How would you install all Gnome ports?

2005-02-27 Thread Chris Hodgins
Chris wrote: Chris Hodgins wrote: Chris wrote: Is there an all inclusive command to install all Gnome ports from within the ports tree? Not everything but enough to get you started: /usr/ports/x11/gnome2$ cat pkg-descr GNU Network Object Model Environment This metaport installs the entire GNOME

Re: How would you install all Gnome ports?

2005-02-27 Thread Chris Hodgins
Chris wrote: Is there an all inclusive command to install all Gnome ports from within the ports tree? Not everything but enough to get you started: /usr/ports/x11/gnome2$ cat pkg-descr GNU Network Object Model Environment This metaport installs the entire GNOME 2 desktop, including the the most c

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-27 Thread Chris Hodgins
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chris Hodgins writes: It should be trivial to update your kernel config and rebuild and install the new kernel. Remember to reboot when you are done. It's trivial in principle, but this is a production server. The golden rule for production servers is never to c

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-27 Thread Chris Hodgins
Anthony Atkielski wrote: > John writes: > > >>1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can you nfs >>mount it? > > > I pulled all the NFS stuff out of the kernel, alas! > It should be trivial to update your kernel config and rebuild and install the new kernel. Remember t

Re: security without NAT?

2005-02-27 Thread Chris Hodgins
Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I have a thinking problem... If workstations in a private network have set up a gateway, but the gateway has no NAT-deamon running, are the workstations not able to be attacked? What happens if these workstations behind this gateway are serving unprotected services

Re: open office freeze

2005-02-27 Thread Chris Hodgins
kalin mintchev wrote: what now? I've seen this problem too when I'm using the nvidia driver with the RenderAccel option. Once I turned it off openoffice no longer froze the machine. I think it's an nvidia driver problem that "hopefully" will be fixed in the next release. Whenever that will be.

Firefox hanging problem

2005-02-26 Thread Chris Hodgins
Hi, Firefox seems to be hanging for a period of time before working again. When I start it up it initially loads the tabs I had open previously (I use the session-saver extension) and before the pages load it then just totally locks up for around a minute. I ktrace'd it to see what it was up t

Re: Portupgrading - portauditing

2005-02-26 Thread Chris Hodgins
George Katsanos wrote: Hello, Your team is ALWAYS very helpful . It's the best support i've ever dealt with. Question : How do i portupgrade , just the pkgs/ports that portaudit -a sais have vulnerabilities,and not the whole thing? Thank you G.K. ___ fr

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Chris Hodgins
Anthony Atkielski wrote: John writes: It would help you if you installed the ports tree and portupgrade (and cvsup it every day via cron to keep it up-to-date). If you did that, you would bave been able to do like I have just done: But I figured that if I always pull the index from an FTP site, i

Re: DSL modem recommendation

2005-02-23 Thread Chris Hodgins
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris Hodgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:51 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: markzero; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DSL modem recommendation [snip] STAY AWAY from ANY dsl modem that does NOT have

Re: DSL modem recommendation

2005-02-23 Thread Chris Hodgins
[snip] STAY AWAY from ANY dsl modem that does NOT have an ethernet jack on it!!! Such as the USB speedtouches that Pipex was handing out for free!! There's a reason they are free!! You can't pay people (who know anything) to take them!!! Ted What is so wrong with USB DSL modems? I have an Alcate

Re: IPFW config

2005-02-20 Thread Chris Hodgins
SigmaX wrote: Heya; I have a FreeBSD 5.3 server that I access over SSH. I followed the handbook guide to loading the ipfw kernel module to setup a firewall. I made the mistake the other day of loading the firewall, which defaults to block all, and rebooting, so I couldn't get into the system a

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Chris Hodgins
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:47:50 +, Scott Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 08:41:30AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: So if data is declared as a gchar *data; for example, then the value of data is a memory adress right ? So if A=data; and B=&data; then A a

Re: WHAT KIND OF SH*T IS THIS: telnet and ssh

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Hodgins
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:47:31 -0500 "Fafa Diliha Romanova" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: let's get straight to it: Yes: 1, post to the appropriate list(s) ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is not, at least not w/o a PR). 2. Double-check before reporting. whenever i telnet or ssh to something

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-16 Thread Chris Hodgins
Mike Jeays wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:42, aklist_061666 wrote: Hi All: I was editing my rc.conf file and left off a quote mark, and now when I try to reboot I get an error and am prompted to drop into shell to fix it. The default prompt is /bin/sh, and if I hit return I get a prompt. How can

Re: netstat -rn error

2005-02-16 Thread Chris Hodgins
Robert Stevenson wrote: Help. I get an error when I execute netstat -rn command. I'm using FreeBSD 5.3 release. command: #netstat -rn error: netstat: kvm not available Routing tables rt_tables: symbol not in namelist # How do I fix this? Thanks, Robert Stevenson

Re: maybe slightly OT - web content management kits

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Hodgins
Jay wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:56:01PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 02/09/05 04:07 PM, Chris Shenton sat at the `puter and typed: Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hmm. Plone didn't exactly rise to the top at opensourcecms.org, but since you saw fit to plug it, I'll give it a chan

Re: Help to get Sound functioning on FreeBSD 5.3

2005-02-08 Thread Chris Hodgins
Ean Kingston wrote: On February 8, 2005 07:44 pm, albi wrote: Ean Kingston wrote: I've been having problems getting sound to work on FreeBSD 5.3. It worked find on 4.10 (before the upgrade) using the new sound system. [quote of handbook] you followed all of that ? (just to be sure) Yes I did follo

Re: ktrace as a replacement for strace

2005-02-08 Thread Chris Hodgins
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 08), Loren M. Lang said: I'm looking for a replacement for the strace program I used to use on linux; freebsd has a port of strace, but it just hangs everytime I use it. It looks like the bsd version of strace would be ktrace/kdump. I was able to get the

Re: repost of boot issue on 5.3

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Hodgins
J.D. Bronson wrote: At 05:19 PM 2/5/2005, Chris Hodgins wrote: J.D. Bronson wrote: No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is here... I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new clean drive. Freebsd is the ONLY OS on the drive. And i used the entire drive. I selected

Re: repost of boot issue on 5.3

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Hodgins
J.D. Bronson wrote: No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is here... I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new clean drive. Freebsd is the ONLY OS on the drive. And i used the entire drive. I selected the standard boot manager (not the freebsd one)... and all the

Re: natd or firewall problem?

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Hodgins
Gelsema, Patrick wrote: Thats right, you can do the following: Put the ip-address with its FQDn (www.webserverwhatever.com) in every hosts file (taken its windows) or in its hosts file on freebsd. Or you run an internal DNS with an internal zone for your domain whilst running on the internet the ex

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Hodgins
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 12:53:43PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I've set up a user account that has top for its shell (instead of one of the standard shells). As expected, when I log into this account, I immediately find myself in top, and if I stop top, I'm instantly logge

Re: /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer-skins

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Hodgins
Adam McMaster wrote: On 5 Feb 2005, at 00:19, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 01:10:02 +0100, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: something wrong here , cant download the skins ? => Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mplayer/. fetch: ftp://ft

Re: /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer

2005-02-04 Thread Chris Hodgins
Rob wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mplayer/Abyss-1.1.tar.bz2: size mismatch: expected 314296, actual 314264 => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/mplayer and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop

Re: favor

2005-02-04 Thread Chris Hodgins
Chuck Swiger wrote: Chris Hodgins wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] Google does offer a way to remove posts that you have made from its index: http://www.google.co.uk/googlegroups/help.html#9 Notice the part which says: "Messages posted by other people By its very nature, Usenet con

Re: favor

2005-02-04 Thread Chris Hodgins
Erik Norgaard wrote: Chris Hodgins wrote: IANAL but I think it would be interesting to know what the legal implications are here. Could it be a legal requirement that you can request that your data is removed? Could it be a legal requirement that you can prove that you are actually the

Re: favor

2005-02-04 Thread Chris Hodgins
Chuck Swiger wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi FreeBSD. When googling my name, your list comes up 13 times because of a thread from 2003. Could you kindly remove and delete this thread from your archives? I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Regrettably, there is no reliable or convenient way

Re: Memory problems

2005-02-04 Thread Chris Hodgins
Luís Vitório Cargnini wrote: Hi i'm using FBSD 5.3-p5 and i having problems since 5.3, my memory is been fulled swap too but swap isn't been released, i always having some garbage on swap, and main memory is always partially occupied. How could i solve this ? Have to say I have also been noticing F

Xvfb server

2005-02-04 Thread Chris Hodgins
Hi, I am currently doing the big upgrade with perl and all related packages. I have just noticed that I now have the Xvfb server running on 7001. My firewall stops it from being accessed remotely but I never had it running before. I am guessing that one of the ports that has been upgraded de

Re: ssh default security risc

2005-02-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:05:34 +, Chris Hodgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:34:42 +, Chris Hodgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: By default the root ssh is disabled. If a dedicated server x somew

Re: ssh default security risc

2005-02-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:34:42 +, Chris Hodgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: By default the root ssh is disabled. If a dedicated server x somewhere far far away doesn't have root ssh enabled the admin is pretty much screwed if they hack his user

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:58:35 -0800, Loren M. Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This enable all programs to have access that are using unix domain sockets to not need the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE stored in the .Xauthority file in the users home directory so any user can open a program on th

Re: ssh default security risc

2005-02-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
Gert Cuykens wrote: By default the root ssh is disabled. If a dedicated server x somewhere far far away doesn't have root ssh enabled the admin is pretty much screwed if they hack his user account and change the user password right ? So is it not better to enable it by default ? __

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
epilogue wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:43:39 +0100 Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:32:23 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While all of this is very interesting academic, if user Gert is dumb enough to leave the console of his UNIX system accessible t

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Chris Hodgins
Gert Cuykens wrote: I assume this refers to the root window. Surely you're not logged into X as root. no i am just logged as a user into X and my user name is the same as root :) Lets call it the user root window. Try this: check your DISPLAY environment variable with echo $DISPLAY make sure it'

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Chris Hodgins
Gert Cuykens wrote: I# xhost local: non-network local connections being added to access control list I# ok that seems to work a bit better meaning i dont get the message "can not start screen saver deamon bl bla bla." Instead i get a message in my log that locking is not enabled ? _

Re: Getting a microphone to work

2005-02-02 Thread Chris Hodgins
Steven Friedrich wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 04:44 pm, Tom Huppi wrote: BTW, does anyone know off-hand how to set 'mixer' settings as default (so I would not have to re-set them after a re-boot?) I don't know how you could do it automagically, but when you want to save the settings, you c

Re: Java 1.5 and FreeBSD 5.3

2005-02-02 Thread Chris Hodgins
Brian John wrote: Is it possible at all to get Java 1.5 running on FreeBSD 5.3? If so, how can I do it? Thanks /Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Chris Hodgins
[snip] 4) portversion -v 'portversion -v | grep -v "=" ' is what I use. You shouldn't require the grep...you can do this instead: # portversion -vl"<" [snip] Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Firefox

2005-02-01 Thread Chris Hodgins
Nikolas Britton wrote: Alfredo Perez wrote: Hi I just updated my ports and installed Firefox. I have installed Firefox version 0.9.3. How can I update it to version 1.0? Thanks PS: I am running FreeBSD 5.3 Your post is a bit ambiguous. did you have 0.9.3 on your system and wanted to upgrade to

Re: Firefox about:plugins (oopppss)

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Hodgins
Steven Friedrich wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 (tracking STABLE). I recently installed jdk1,4,2 and firefox. My firefox doesn't have an "about:plugins" menu item. Did I miss something? Yes, it is not a menu item. :) Type "about:plugins" into your address bar. I forgot to mention that I als

Re: Poor information in ports UPDATING file

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Hodgins
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:01:06AM +, Chris Hodgins wrote: "20050126: AFFECTS: users of x11-wm/xfce4 AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe I am just too used to the excellent amount of detail in the UPDATING file usually but this doesn't even offer advice on how

Poor information in ports UPDATING file

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Hodgins
Hi, Not sure which list I should email this to...so I apologise for the noise if this is the wrong one. There is a recent upgrade in the ports for the excellent Xfce4 port to 4.2. There is also a note in the UPDATING file as how to do this. "20050126: AFFECTS: users of x11-wm/xfce4 AUTHOR: [EM

Re: removing phpMyAdmin

2005-01-26 Thread Chris Hodgins
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Well, I wanted to remove phpMyAdmin from my 5.3 server. Usually I would just go to the port location under /usr/ports/ and type make deinstall. However, phpMyAdmin apparently isn't here anymore. I don't even know exactly where it should be be but judging by freebsd's websi

DRI support for Intel i810

2005-01-25 Thread Chris Hodgins
Hi, I am trying to get DRI to work with X.org on my 5.3-RELEASE system. I am loading dri in my xorg.conf file. From what I can tell I do not have a dri directory under /dev...this can be seen from the errors in the X.org log file. How can I get dri to work with my card? I have pasted all th

Re: Reparing FreeBSD ports tree.

2005-01-25 Thread Chris Hodgins
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:44 am, you wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 12:58 am, Christian Tischler wrote: Hi everyone. My primary question is how to repair a broken ports tree. I did a portupgrade to CVS FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE, and now my ports tr

Re: Reparing FreeBSD ports tree.

2005-01-25 Thread Chris Hodgins
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 12:58 am, Christian Tischler wrote: Hi everyone. My primary question is how to repair a broken ports tree. I did a portupgrade to CVS FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE, and now my ports tree ist all screwed up. There are tons of wrong/failed/whatever dependenci

Re: uscanner problem with HP Scanjet 3400C

2005-01-22 Thread Chris Hodgins
Chris Hodgins wrote: Hi, I am trying to get my HP ScanJet 3400C scanner to work with FreeBSD 5.3. Whenever I plug it into the usb port on my laptop I get in dmesg: uscanner0: Hewlett Packard ScanJet 3400cse, rev 1.00/0.00, addr 2 uscanner0: setting config no failed device_attach: uscanner0

uscanner problem with HP Scanjet 3400C

2005-01-22 Thread Chris Hodgins
ms to have been around for a while now and I have found a few unanswered threads about it on google. Thanks for your help. Chris Hodgins # uname -a FreeBSD paranoia 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #1: Fri Dec 3 18:15:16 GMT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/paranoia

Re: pdflib for php

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Hodgins
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:38:01PM +, Chris Hodgins wrote: Thanos Tsouanas wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:11:04PM +0200, Cristi Tauber wrote: ===> pdflib-6.0.1 is forbidden: http://vuxml.freebsd.org/fc7e6a42-6012-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html. Forbidden ?

Re: pdflib for php

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Hodgins
Thanos Tsouanas wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:11:04PM +0200, Cristi Tauber wrote: ===> pdflib-6.0.1 is forbidden: http://vuxml.freebsd.org/fc7e6a42-6012-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html. Forbidden ? Why ? anyone ... Yes this one: just follow the link. (pretty obvious ;)) If you insist