Re: can anybody send me a sample aide.conf configuration file for reference?

I know nothing about it, but doing "locate aide.conf" turns up what looks like such a file. /usr/ports/security/aide/files/aide.conf.freebsd And "cat /usr/ports/security/aide/pkg-plist" shows: bin/aide etc/aide.conf.sample To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd

USB Keyboard

Hi, I bougth a Logitech Internet Navigator SE Keyboard. I plugged it in the USB plug and I can't type anything in freebsd. I have to enter my username but I can't. Only 'num lock' , ... are working. How do I fix this? Regards -- Pierrick Brossin IT Employee 15, Ch. du Château, 1422 Grandson,

X problems, please advise helpless newbie

I have been unable to get X to start successfully. Hopefully I am overlooking something stupid. FreeBSD 4.6.2 on an Intel machine My graphics card is an Intel 82845G/GL. I searched for info on the Intel site and it mentioned that this card is in the i810 class. >From my XF86Config file: Secti

NIS server oddities

Hi All Many folks use this? Our NIS master server was until a recent drive crash a 3.5 stable machine. NIS worked OK but for ypserv intermittently core dumping and being unable to push maps to slave servers. I got around this by making the slave servers pull their maps more often. The error

RE: auto replay on sendmail

man vacation - Barry > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leo De Geer > Sent: 16 October 2002 22:26 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: auto replay on sendmail > > > im runing sendmail on my mailserver i nead to put upp a vikation >

auto replay on sendmail

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Re: Problem with sendmail

I have added the line recommended below but I am still getting a similiar error, except now I have Oct 17 05:43:38 infinity mail.local: setreuid(0, 0): Operation not permitted (r=1, e=1) So I decided to look for the file mail.local and notice the following: -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 73967 Oct 16 1

Re: Upgrading to CURRENT

+ Jan Lentfer wrote: | Hi all, | | I am planing to upgrade my 4.6.2/i386 desktop box to current. Is there | some information online about switching from 4.x to 5.0? | What are the new features and bits? CURRENT is a development stream and not intended for general use. It is not guaranteed

Re: openoffice 1.0.1

Thanks all the for the replies! Tim, when you say you just installed the linux binary, are we talking about just using a redhat RPM or something equivalent? I do have linux compatibility enabled (installed during system installation), so maybe thats the row I need to hoe. Although I did notice t

disable I/O ports

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Re: A curious dmesg output entry

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:58:51AM -0400, John Bleichert wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > That's a supported chipset: > > > > happy-idiot-talk:~:% grep viapm /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT > > # viapm VIA VT82C586B,596,686A and VT8233 SMBus controllers > >

RE: KDevelop & qt23 ?

Thanks Kent, I'm not sure what the problem was but I upgraded my kernel to FreeBSD 4.7 and now everything seems to be working correctly. -Original Message- From: Kent Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:22 PM To: Thomas Connolly Cc: FreeBSD Questions Su

Re: CVSup world/ports

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:10:21AM -0400, John Bleichert wrote: > Also, there's a > > *default release=cvs tag= > > line in the example ports supfile - should I/we make that: > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_7 Don't do that. The ports tree is not branched and tagged in the same way

Re: floppy not mounting

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 03:55:21PM -0700, Wayne Lubin wrote: > As I discussed in an earlier email that the fd0 > device is not showing up on dmesg. Can it be that I > burnt out the floppy drive and now at boot up the > floppy is not being detected? It's possible that your floppy has indeed bitte

Re[2]: CVSUP update from 4.6 -> 4.7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JA> The comments in the cvsup file say to comment this line JA> out if you have less than a T1, while cvsupit says to JA> not use compress if your connection is greater than a JA> 56k connection. Which is right for a fast DSL JA> conn

Re: Problem With FreeBSD4.6 core dump

On 2002-10-16 09:24, "Alvaro Rosales R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys I 've got an error everyday on my console at 3:01:01AM, > it shows this message: > /kernel:pid677 (dump), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped). The fact that the message shows up at 03:01:01 is probably indicative of

Re: using an extended partition for freebsd

On 2002-10-16 12:43, "Gary W. Swearingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It just needs slices (which are called partitions by Microsloth). > > Actually, it doesn't. FreeBSD can just have what it calls "partitions", > in which case there won't be a "partition table". But "they" recommend > having

Whiter Teeth & Wild Eye Contacts - Great for Costumes

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Re: Problem with sendmail

I realize what my problem was. I didn't reboot the system after I rebuild sendmail. Thanks everyone!! Cheers, Ada On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Ada Cheng wrote: > I have added the line recommended below but I am still getting a similiar > error, except now I have > Oct 17 05:43:38 infinity mail.local: s

Re: A curious dmesg output entry

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:05:15PM -0700, Wayne Lubin wrote: > So does that means that this ACPI Power Management > Controller is not supported by freebsd? Or does it > mean that I need to compile the corresponding device > driver into the kernel and then it will be > recognized by freebsd? > > -

Re: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

-Original Message- From: Thomas Spreng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "J. Foobar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:27:30 +0200 Subject: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:24:43AM -0700, J. Foobar wrote: > I have been unable to get X to start su

Re: US Robotics Performance Pro modem won't work

-Original Message- From: "E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:15:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: US Robotics Performance Pro modem won't work I've tried that and it still doesn't dial and if you look at my dmesg it's being reco

Re: Problem on ipnat

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello ames, Thursday, October 17, 2002, 2:50:51 AM, you wrote: as> May I know where should I ask about ipnat? I've suffer as> on it for over 2 weeks already. Go on. You are on the right list. - -- Best regards, Artem

Re: Upgrade recommendations

On 2002-10-16 15:12, Jonathan Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >FreeBSD the hardest thing to beat into peoples heads has been "don't use > >-current on critical machines." > > Thanks for insisting on that too! I don't have, by any means, a > "critical" machine - it's just a play web site and mai

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:24:43AM -0700, J. Foobar wrote: > I have been unable to get X to start successfully. > Hopefully I am overlooking something stupid. > > FreeBSD 4.6.2 on an Intel machine > > My graphics card is an Intel 82845G/GL. I searched > for info on the Intel site and it mention

Re: A curious dmesg output entry

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:10:48 +0100 > From: Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:05:15PM -0700, Wayne Lubin wrote: > > > So does that means that this ACPI Power Management > > Controller is not supported by freebsd? Or does

Problem Building Gnome2 from ports

Hello all! I am trying to build gnome2 from the ports collection I cvsuped yesterday. When it gets to the section of building the "xscreensaver-gnome" it errors out with a line saying "/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lgtk". Is there a workaround for this, or better yet a fix? Any help is much

CVSup world/ports

: >> cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile /etc/standard-supfile > >edit /etc/standard-supfile > >change : > >*default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org > >Set "CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org" to a "close" cvsup server. By close I mean >one that has either a good ping or the fewest hops in traceroute

STR

Is STR (suspend to RAM) supported by FreeBSD any verrsion, if it's supported by my BIOS? Seems like 'apm' in -stable doesn't support this function. 15.10.2002; 23:29:08 [SorAlx] http://cydem.zp.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of

Re: Kernel config problem with scbus

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Kevin, Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 5:26:06 AM, you wrote: KS> I'm trying to do "old-style" kernel builds with 4.7 (though I've run KS> into this same issue with earlier releases and other motherboards). KS> In the Handbook, it says that if yo

RE: Problem with sendmail

Ada: Reboot of the whole system is not necessary: killall -HUP sendmail should restart sendmail for you. Cheers, Barry > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@;FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ada Cheng > Sent: 17 October 2002 12:59 > To: Dirk

RE: PPP

Alex I find your question way to vague. Please give more details about your setup and what you want to do. Are the 2 winboxs on the lan behind the FBSD gateway? Does the FBSD gateway box have 2 modems? One to the internet and one for your winboxs to dialin on? Are the 2 winboxs remote and they wan

Re: mount_smbfs: can't get handle to requester (no /dev/nsmb* device)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Markku, Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 11:00:57 PM, you wrote: MK> libra# smbutil login //maxi@samba MK> Password: MK> smbutil: can't get handle to requester (no /dev/nsmb* device) MK> smbutil: can't get handle to requester (no /dev/nsmb* device

Re: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-17 08:38:26 -0400: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:24:43AM -0700, J. Foobar wrote: > > 'startx' returns the following: > > > > > > (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (Device not > > configured) > > (EE) I810(0): AGP GART support i

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Upgrading to CURRENT

Hi all, I am planing to upgrade my 4.6.2/i386 desktop box to current. Is there some information online about switching from 4.x to 5.0? What are the new features and bits? TIA Jan -- Jan Lentfer System Administrator Molecular Cell Biology / AG Holstein, Darmstadt University of Technology, Schn

swapping hard drives

Just a quick question... I have a server running on freebsd 4.1 and want to upgrade to a newer version... BUT I need to keep my server online while I do this. What I want to do is a clean install on the current box that it is running on, and I am hoping that I can swap the hard drive out of the s

Re: CVSup world/ports

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:13:04 +0100 > From: Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: CVSup world/ports > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:10:21AM -0400, John Bleichert wrote: > >

Re: CVSup world/ports

-Original Message- From: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:10:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: CVSup world/ports : >> cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile /etc/standard-supfile > >edit /etc/standard-supfile > >change : > >*default host=CH

Getting linux-realplayer to work with linux-mozilla

Installing the linux-realplayer port doesn't seem to automatically make it work with the linux-mozilla port. You need to: cd /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/raclass.zip raclass.zip ln -s /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so rpnp.so After that it seems to

Which Scsi Raid controller to choose?

Hi, We are in the process of setting up a large NFS server and we are looking for a reliable disk system to be used by the OS. (The data will be placed on some large Storagetek raids). We have a bunch of 2BGyte SCSI disks that we plan to use for this purpose. My question is: Which SCSI RAID cont

Re: swapping hard drives

default wrote: Just a quick question... I have a server running on freebsd 4.1 and want to upgrade to a newer version... BUT I need to keep my server online while I do this. What I want to do is a clean install on the current box that it is running on, and I am hoping that I can swap the hard dr

Re: swapping hard drives

You'll need to make sure that support for the new NIC is compiled into the kernel you're running on the "old" server. You'll also need to be prepared to address any network topography and security issues that come as the result of this host having a new MAC address, etc. OTOH, I've done this at l

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:24:43AM -0700, J. Foobar wrote: > I have been unable to get X to start successfully. > Hopefully I am overlooking something stupid. > > FreeBSD 4.6.2 on an Intel machine > > My graphics card is an Intel 82845G/GL. I searched > for info on the Intel site and it mention

Re: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:37:38PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-17 08:38:26 -0400: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:24:43AM -0700, J. Foobar wrote: > > > 'startx' returns the following: > > > > > > > > > (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open

Re: disable I/O ports

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:51:00PM +0300, Igor wrote: > How to disable I/O ports? Well, if they are built onto the motherboard, which is standard these days, you should be able to disable them in the BIOS. Another way to effectively get rid of them would be to compile a kernel without support for

intel audio card problem with sdr/vat

Hi all, As you may know I have a problem with my sound card. Ok, I can listen CD and I guess mp3 but when I want to listen multicast session it doesn't work in my kernel I have device pcm $ dmesg | grep pcm pcm0: port 0xcc40-0xcc7f,0xc800-0xc8ff irq 10 at device 31.5 on pci0 pcm0: measured

dual boot install

I have a dual boot redhat/win98 box at home that I boot with lilo. I'd like to replace redhat with freebsd. My main concern is getting rid of lilo, so that I can use the freebsd bootloader to choose between windows and freesd. I'm not sure how a freebsd install will treat lilo. Will the freebsd sim

FreeBSD 2.2.6

Hi, I work in a research environnement. I found and installed FreeBSD 2.2.6. But now I need to recompile the Kernel but the download did not come with the src directory. I know that I can check on the CVS server but I don't know how to get the files. I would appreciate if someone can e-mail me the

[no subject]

I guess this would be the right list to post to about this. I am running Mozilla as my web browser and when I click a mailto: link it opens Mozilla Mail. Well, I don't want it to open Mozilla Mail. I want it to open the compose for Sylpheed. Can someone tell me how to do this exactly. Thank You. -

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

had similar problems... if you dont mind starting your wmanager manually, without using xdm or similar programs, try adding sth like this to your /etc/ttys files... comment out the line that starts xdm -nodaemon and add a similar one to start the XFree86 sth like ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86"

Re: Radui card with FM tuner PV-BT878P +FM

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:08:13PM +0200, Mantas S. wrote: > > Hi averybody, > > I got %subj% but I cannot find support fot this on FreeBSD. Yes, Linux > have this, but maybe anyone had such card or smth. > Have you tried the bktr driver? -- Chris D. Faulhaber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PR

Re: CVSup world/ports

>> line in the example ports supfile - should I/we make that: >> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_7 >Don't do that. The ports tree is not branched and tagged in the same >way as the system sources, and using a system tag there will only lead >to wailing and gnashing of teeth. I did this and fou

sendmail woe

I've been having this problem for some time, I thought the upgrade to 4.7 might fix it - it didn't. Neither did using a fresh config file from /usr/src/etc/sendmail. The problem is this: while SMTP works fine, and sendmail otherwise works for the receiving of mail, sendmail doesn't seem to send ma

Re: ipfw rules

- Original Message - From: "Grant Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 5:10 PM Subject: Re: ipfw rules > I am having the same problem. I now just allow ftp from certain IP > address's. But doesn't the second rule, > > # /s

Re: [Mozilla mailto: functionality]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:26:09AM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > I guess this would be the right list to post to about this. I am > running Mozilla as my web browser and when I click a mailto: link it > opens Mozilla Mail. Well, I don't want it to open Mozilla Mail. I want > it to open the compose

Re: Reconfigured named, but now getting errors

Hi Nick, I swear.., this thing was working after I had a fiddle this morning after sending my last e-mail off to you. Now I can't run nslookup on my domain: # nslookup www.vickiandstacey.com Server: localhost.vickiandstacey.com Address: 127.0.0.1 *** localhost.vickiandstacey.com can't find ww

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:25:27AM -0700, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > comment out the line that starts xdm -nodaemon > and add a similar one to start the XFree86 > > sth like > > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86" xterm on secure > > this shud result in X starting every time you start your system with

newbie help, bad kernel?

Help I was installing from a cd and the system locked up I rebooted and the screen says: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default:0:ad(0.a)/kernel boot: OR every other time it says something to the effect of "cant load kernel" and "cant load kernel.old" type help for a list of commands. I told the BIOS to

Mozilla and Sylpheed

Well, I guess no one replied to my e-mail because I didn't have a Subject: or no one knows. I will ask again though just in case something else happened. I use Mozilla as my web browser and when I click a mailto: link it opens Mozilla Mail. Well, I don't want it to open Mozilla Mail. I want it to o

Re: Getting linux-realplayer to work with linux-mozilla

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:45:48AM -0400, Robert Withrow wrote: > Installing the linux-realplayer port doesn't seem to automatically > make it work with the linux-mozilla port. You need to: > > cd /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins > ln -s /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/raclass.zip raclass.zip

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.6

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:20:44AM -0400, Denis Fournier wrote: > Hi, I work in a research environnement. I found and installed FreeBSD > 2.2.6. But now I need to recompile the Kernel but the download did not come > with the src directory. > I know that I can check on the CVS server but I don't kno

Re: Mozilla and Sylpheed

Someone, quite probably Bryan Cassidy, once wrote: >Well, I guess no one replied to my e-mail because I didn't have a >Subject: or no one knows. I will ask again though just in case >something else happened. I use Mozilla as my web browser and when I >click a mailto: link it opens Mozilla Mail. Wel

Re: Mozilla and Sylpheed

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:39:54 +0100 Kevin Golding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nathan kindly added a subject for you. Basically try here: > > http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.0/faq/mail-news.html#3.3 >From your link it says GNOME, KDE (Unix/Linux): This is not yet possible in GNOME or KDE, but wo

CD-R compression

I was wondering if anyone could help me. I would like to know how to compress a cd-r to fit more data on it. There is a cd called the Devil's Own XP cd that was made on freebsd, it's a 700 mb cd with 4 gigs of information on it. They must of used a compression tool to compress the cd-r but I

Re: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-17 08:09:27 -0700: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:37:38PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-17 08:38:26 -0400: > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:24:43AM -0700, J. Foobar wrote: > > > > 'startx' returns the following: > > > > > > > >

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

wud it be better to comment out all the ttyv8 lines and start XFree86 as a normal user, and then start windowmaker? i really cant make xdm to work... any suggestions? __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith

Re: A curious dmesg output entry

A top post seems better on this one: Wayne, it is not enough to just "uncomment" the line in the kernel. It should be this: #device apm0at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management device apm0at nexus? flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management At 10:12 AM 10.17.20

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

-Original Message- From: Thanos Tsouanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie wud it be better to comment out all the ttyv8 lines and start XFree86 as a normal user, and then start wi

Re: A curious dmesg output entry

Evidently top posting is not a good thing. Ok from now on I will try and remember to bottom post on any future threads I participate in. Jack, I am not clear on what you are trying to say here. In my config file I have the following line device apm0at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Adv

Re: A curious dmesg output entry

-Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:06:35 +0100 Subject: Re: A curious dmesg output entry On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:58:51AM -0400, John Bleichert wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > That's a su

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:33:07 -0700 (PDT) > From: Thanos Tsouanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie > > wud it be better to comment out all the ttyv8 lines and start XFree86 as a nor

IPSEC/NAT issues

I have a network/firewall where I want to nat an entire network. However, I also want nat traffic to one remote host in particular out on the internet to be IPsec'd as well. [A] (10.x) [B] (Nat) [C] (Real IP) I've setup IPsec on both machines, and from either machine (B,C) I can ssh to the other

Re: Mozilla and Sylpheed

Bryan Cassidy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021018 02:45]: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:39:54 +0100 > Kevin Golding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nathan kindly added a subject for you. Basically try here: > > http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.0/faq/mail-news.html#3.3 > >From your link it says > GNOME, KDE (

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

wud it be better to comment out all the ttyv8 lines and start XFree86 as a normal user, and then start windowmaker? i really cant make xdm to work... any suggestions? __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith

Re: using an extended partition for freebsd

Someone slandered FreeBSD thusly: > > It just needs slices (which are called partitions by Microsloth). Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some (broken in my opinion) BIOS implementations will refuse or fail > to boot from disks that do not have a "valid partition table". They > are

FreeBSD Help Channels

What servers and channels would you recommend going to for FreeBSD help? Server: irc.Prison.NET Channel:#freebsdhelp - E-Mail: Bryan Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operating System: FreeBSD 4.6.2 GAIM: bsdsys Yahoo M

Re: FreeBSD Help Channels

Bryan Cassidy wrote: What servers and channels would you recommend going to for FreeBSD help? The handbook is nice. So is Google. Depends on the question. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

> > wud it be better to comment out all the ttyv8 lines and start XFree86 as a normal >user, and > then > > start windowmaker? > > > > i really cant make xdm to work... > > any suggestions? > > > > There's a thorough HowTo on setting up a display manager (e.g. xdm, kdm, > ...) here: > > http

Re: wierd errors when building ports

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:27:16PM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote: [...] > else is wrong here and these errors are not normal. Is my make.conf too > strict or something? I copied it from the examples, > (/usr/share/examples/etc/defaults/make.conf) and did *very* little in > customization... My

dump problem in FreeBSD 4.6

Hi Guys I 've got an error everyday on my console at 3:01:01AM, it shows this message: /kernel:pid677 (dump), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped). I've installed this OS in 3 different servers and i've got the same error at the same time everyday. Hown can I eliminate this error?. I am usi

Difference between versions

Hi, I would like to know if FreeBSD has a file somewhere that says with file and with driver was changed between the release of different versions. For example for FreeBSD 4.7 there would be a file on the FreeBSD cd indicating the files changed between the version 4.6 and 4.7. I know that there i

CPU Temperature (was Re: A curious dmesg output entry)

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 02:07:40PM -0400, Jud wrote: > After trying and failing to get the xmbmon port to > work, I found that the author has a 2.0 version of > xmbmon available at his website. It's FreeBSD native, > supports the latest motherboards, and is quite easy to > install. No extra

Re: A curious dmesg output entry

Two questions. In my config file I have the apm0 device uncommented but it does not show up during a dmesg. Is that OK? Should the apm0 device NOT show up during a dmesg? Also, what does this apm0 device do? In LINT is says apm: Laptop Advanced Power Management (experimental) and so it seems th

mkfile??

Hi, I was just wondering if there is something similiar on FreeBSD to Solaris' 'mkfile' command? Thanks. -CM To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: mkfile??

Nevermind, got the port... ;) -CM - Original Message - From: "Chad Morland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 3:27 PM Subject: mkfile?? > Hi, > I was just wondering if there is something similiar on FreeBSD to > Solaris' 'mkfile' command?

citrix ica client

Is anyone using the citrix_ica port with complete success? I just installed it on this fairly fresh (<2 week old) 4.7-stable machine, and the software is not behaving at all like I remember. Wfcmgr seems to basically not work at all (buttons don't do anything, drop down boxes dont drop, selectio

Re: Reconfigured named, but now getting errors

Hi Ceri, I understand why you would suggest that I add an A record for www.vickiandstacey.com in the zone and reverse files, but what remains with me is wondering *why* all was well earlier this morning - that is: I was able to resolve .vickiandstacey.com, returning the external IP addr.., *

Re: mkfile??

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:27:10PM -0400, Chad Morland wrote: > I was just wondering if there is something similiar on FreeBSD to > Solaris' 'mkfile' command? Thanks. truncate(1) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: Difference between versions

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:20:15PM -0400, Denis Fournier wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know if FreeBSD has a file somewhere that says with file > and with driver was changed between the release of different versions. For > example for FreeBSD 4.7 there would be a file on the FreeBSD cd indicating

Re: citrix ica client

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Will Saxon wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:33:19 -0400 > From: Will Saxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: citrix ica client > > Is anyone using the citrix_ica port with complete success? I just installed it on >this fairly fresh (<2 week old) 4.7-st

Re: citrix ica client

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, John Bleichert wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Will Saxon wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:33:19 -0400 > > From: Will Saxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: citrix ica client > > > > Is anyone using the citrix_ica port with complete success? I ju

Increasing the total number of devices

Hello all, Im playing with vnconfig and /dev/vn's. I have tested that cannot have a vn512 device, and what Im planning will need a lot more (thousands) Please, is there any way of increasing the total number of devices of a kind (in my case, vn devices) to have thousands... And another relat

Re: Problem on ipnat

# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-17 07:50:51 +0800: > May I know where should I ask about ipnat? I've suffer on it for over 2 > weeks already. on questions@ -- If you cc me or take the list(s) out completely I'll most likely ignore your message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Reconfigured named, but now getting errors

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:09:37PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hi Nick, >I swear.., this thing was working after I had a fiddle this morning > after sending my last e-mail off to you. Now I can't run nslookup on my > domain: > # nslookup www.vickiandstacey.com > Server: localhost.vickiandst

X and tohiba Satelitte 4000CDT

Hey guys I have some trouble with getting X up and runnig on my laptop, a toshiba satelitte 4000CDT I installed X from prebuild packaged gotten from ftp.dk.freebsd.org. I get no errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. when I type startx X starts and then shuts donw quickly with this messages: ... normal

Re: openoffice 1.0.1

I just downloaded the linux binary from openoffice.org, gunzipped it, uintarred it, and ran setup. It was literally that easy. It does need X running at the time of the setup/install. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Chris Kulish wrote: > Thanks all the for the replies! > > Tim, when

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

Are you root when doing the start commands? If you are not root you need to install the wrapper so other users can use X. /usr/ports/x11/wrapper Richard H At 12:55 PM 10/17/2002, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > wud it be better to comment out all the ttyv8 lines and start XFree86 as a normal user,

Running xdm or kdm after booting

Hello. I have followed the instructions in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html to configure my FreeBSD 4.7 system to use xdm as the login session manager, but it did not work. I have also tried kdm without success. I have attached the /var/log/xdm-errors and /var/l

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

At 02:09 PM 10/17/2002, RichardH wrote: Are you root when doing the start commands? If you are not root you need to install the wrapper so other users can use X. /usr/ports/x11/wrapper Richard H AHHH, sorry for top posting. RH To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

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