loging in

2002-11-30 Thread WltBowry
I am interested in finding out how to login and out of freeBSD. Please forward some details because I am a new user to the service. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: loging in

2002-11-30 Thread RichardH
FBSD is not a "service", it is an operating system. You can use it in place of Windows, Mac, and other OS's. It is free.http://www.freebsd.org/ At 01:04 AM 11/30/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested in finding out how to login and out of freeBSD. Please forward some details because I a

enlightenment

2002-11-30 Thread Koh Kok Peng
Hi, I actually started using MS-DOS, proceed to Windows and then the Mac [did not quite like Unix]. Recently discovered BSD from using MacOSX. And suddenly become quite interested in Unix / C programming. Feel that had actually gone one big round.suddenly got a feeling that something that can l

several devel/gettext related problems!

2002-11-30 Thread Ilia Chipitsine
Dear Sirs, I tried to install graphics/xine, x11-toolkits/gtk12 and few other packages, general problem is: /usr/local/lib/libintl.so: undefined reference to `nl_langinfo' devel/gettext is fresh (today's) what did I do wrong ? Regards, (îÁÉÌÕÞÛÉÅ ÐÏÖÅÌÁÎÉÑ) Ilia Chipitsine (éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ) To U

NAT and Firewall Configuration ?

2002-11-30 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi List I am in the process of configuring NAT and a firewall on FreeBSD 4.7 Stable. I have configured the external interface with 2 class C addresses 192.x.x.1 and 192.x.x.2. and the internal interface with 192.168.x.1 ( gateway ) I have also configured natd_flags="-redirect_address 192.168.x

Re: A question on AppleLaser Writer 16/1600 PS [off-topic-ish]

2002-11-30 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Wow, thanks for all the suggestions :) I will dedicate myself this weekend to the problem and pursue them. The 20Kg beast is looking at me woefully as I type, poor thing has been in a cold cellar for 2 years. ( aside ... Jeez, I have never had a laser printer before. Toner cartrdiges require a sec

Re: Mail Server Advice

2002-11-30 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:15:35AM -0500, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: > >postfix on freebsd is apparently more efficient than qmail, though. > > no comment on that (lest we revive deep rooted animosity between the two > camps)... > Hey, no animosity here. I use Postfix, but having never used qmail

OpenOffice port broken ?

2002-11-30 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi Has anyone tried to install OpenOffice via ports lately ? I have tried but the file it referenced ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/OOo_1.0.1_source.tar.bz2 cannot be found so I downloaded it manually but now I get a checksum error! Yes, I do have all the other files needed d

ipfw <-> iptables

2002-11-30 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Has one of you some tips on the best way to convert an existing iptables firewall (linux 2.4.18) to an ipfw script? I'm very content abut my iptables fw, but I want to migrate te linux server (in time) to a FBSD one an I need a safe and good firewall on it ;-)) (24/7 online) Maybe there is a good

kde3.05 port

2002-11-30 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I want to upgrade kde3 through the /usr/ports to version 3.0.5 It says that I have to delete kdelibs, kdebase and kdenetworks. On the kde site people state these are the only parts that are renewed to a higher version, BUT the other packages have been *rebuild* ! Now, if I use the port update, the

Re: AppleTalk addressing/routing question

2002-11-30 Thread Jeff Penn
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:47:45AM -0800, paul beard wrote: > I run netatalk here on my home network and I have noticed that my > netatalk-ers all grab addresses in the 65280 range (as well as I > > [/usr/home/paul]:: nbplkup > red:AFPServer 65280.153:132 > red:netatalk

Re: disable inet6?

2002-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:29:00PM -0500, alex wrote: > I have freebsd 4.7 installed... and it was working just great... till it > decided it (or me) decided to start inet6... > > here's my theory... > > got a bunch of daemons that hang on boot... and sometimes on use.. > including sendmail and m

konqueror 3.0.5 and javascript

2002-11-30 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Just upgraded to kde 3.0.5 (via ports) and now both java and javascript doesn work anymore. Options are set but nothing happens.. It did work in kde 3.0.4 How can I revers the upgrade (if needed)? Just undelete all kde packages and then "pkg_add -r kde" or what? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -

Re: Error on installing FreeBSD 4.4 on Dell Inspiron 2650 ( 2.0 GHz )

2002-11-30 Thread soheil soheil
Dear All I found the way : when the kernel is going to being up to install press space at command OK>boot -c and then config:eisa 0 config:quit then install and after FreeBSD is installed do this routine again make the device eisa in config file of the kernel commented out and then compile the ke

Re: NAT and Firewall Configuration ?

2002-11-30 Thread Jonathan Clarke
> I am in the process of configuring NAT and a firewall on FreeBSD 4.7 > Stable. I have configured the external interface with 2 class C addresses > 192.x.x.1 and 192.x.x.2. and the internal interface with 192.168.x.1 ( > gateway ) > I have also configured natd_flags="-redirect_address 192.168.x.3

Re: enlightenment

2002-11-30 Thread Khairil Yusof
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 18:12, Koh Kok Peng wrote: > It seems to me that with FreeBSD, I could make an Intel m/c running pentium > II to be as powerful as the state of the art pentium m/c running the latest > version of Windows. Is that true?? Heh.. I thought it was a question on Enlightenment wind

Re: IPFW + NATD with redirect_port

2002-11-30 Thread Jonathan Clarke
> I want to redirect incoming ssh packet to another box internally. I have > got the following as my /etc/natd.conf > > dynamic yes > log_denied yes > use_sockets yes > same_ports yes > unregistered_only > redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.200:22 4455 > > When I try to ssh to port 4455 I get nothing - I

rsync of /usr/ports on local lan?

2002-11-30 Thread bsd
Have a small network here of FreeBSD machines (-stable and -current). I have on my production FreeBSD machine setup an rsyncd via xinetd, and would like to rsync /usr/ports across to the other FreeBSD machines so I wouldn't have to crontab cvsup on all of them (thus putting more load on my limited

Re: rsync of /usr/ports on local lan?

2002-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-30 06:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have a small network here of FreeBSD machines (-stable and -current). I > have on my production FreeBSD machine setup an rsyncd via xinetd, and > would like to rsync /usr/ports across to the other FreeBSD machines so I > wouldn't have to crontab cvsup

Re: rsync of /usr/ports on local lan?

2002-11-30 Thread Mathieu Arnold
--On samedi 30 novembre 2002 15:57 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2002-11-30 06:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Have a small network here of FreeBSD machines (-stable and -current). I >> have on my production FreeBSD machine setup an rsyncd via xinetd, and >> would like

Phoenix .04 port build problem.

2002-11-30 Thread Laurence Sanford
When I try to build the phoenix 0.4 port it fails like this: ===> Building for Xft-2.0_1 cc -O -pipe -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -fPIC -DPIC -c xftrender.c -o xftrender.o xftrender.c: In function `XftGlyphSpecRe

login.conf problem

2002-11-30 Thread dslb
Hi all I have written a small program that outputs some info about itself (process info). I have used getrlimit() to output the max openfiles field. As root I get: main# ./infoon | grep open Max open files(s): 3664 Max open files(h): 3664 I have created a test user and have written this in /etc/l

Re: login.conf problem

2002-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 03:31:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > > I have written a small program that outputs some info about itself (process > info). I have used getrlimit() to output the max openfiles field. > As root I get: > main# ./infoon | grep open > Max open files(s): 3664 >

Re: Run as owner

2002-11-30 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Nov 29 Kirk Bailey wrote: > OK, man says to get a script to run as the owner, turn on the 4000 bit. If you execute a script, and the first line begins with `#!/usr/bin/perl -w' (in case of a perl script) and the sript is marked executable then the kernel executes it like: exec("/usr/bin/perl

Re: Mail Server Advice

2002-11-30 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 12:09:28 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: >On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:15:35AM -0500, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: >> >postfix on freebsd is apparently more efficient than qmail, though. >> >> no comment on that (lest we revive deep rooted animosity between the two >> camps)... >>

Re: Run as owner

2002-11-30 Thread david
On Friday 29 November 2002 23:30, Kirk Bailey wrote: > OK, man says to get a script to run as the owner, turn on the 4000 bit. > > OK, I did. No such luck, it continues to run as the apache identity > 'nobody'. I'm just wondering, why is this a problem? > > Any advice? To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: furter data on permissions

2002-11-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kirk Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The aliases file is owned by root. a ls-l quote: > ns# cd /etc/mail/ > ns# ls -l aliases > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7550 Nov 12 01:12 aliases > ns# > > > I even tried to set it as 5755, still no luck, the thing cannot set a > temp file in that director

Re: Run as owner

2002-11-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: "david" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Run as owner On Friday 29 November 2002 23:30, Kirk Bailey wrote: > OK, man says to get a script to run as the owner, turn on the 4000 bit. > > OK, I did. No such luck, it continues to run as the apache identity > 'nobody'. david: I'm just wonderin

Re: login.conf problem

2002-11-30 Thread dslb
On 2002.11.30 15:53 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Perhaps :- > > * The login.conf class 'test' you've created hasn't been set as the > login class for the user 'test'? > > pw user mod -n test -L test main# pw user mod -n test -L test main# pw user show test test:*:1000:1000:test:0:0:test thing:/home

Re: login.conf problem

2002-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:55:12PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2002.11.30 15:53 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Perhaps :- > > > > * The login.conf class 'test' you've created hasn't been set as the > > login class for the user 'test'? > > > > pw user mod -n test -L test > > main# pw user

Re: rsync of /usr/ports on local lan?

2002-11-30 Thread Christian Weisgerber
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have a small network here of FreeBSD machines (-stable and -current). I > have on my production FreeBSD machine setup an rsyncd via xinetd, and > would like to rsync /usr/ports across to the other FreeBSD machines so I > wouldn't have to crontab cvsup on all of them (t

[OT] Re: Mail Server Advice

2002-11-30 Thread joe
> I've used both, I now use postfix.. I can't say which is more > configurable, but postfix has almost everything built in, where as > qmail needs a lot of addon stuff to do relays and such > > --- > doug reynolds | the maverick | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > But the qmail list is waay more fun/a

Re: rsync of /usr/ports on local lan?

2002-11-30 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 05:23 PM 11.30.2002 +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Have a small network here of FreeBSD machines (-stable and -current). I >> have on my production FreeBSD machine setup an rsyncd via xinetd, and >> would like to rsync /usr/ports across to the other FreeBSD m

Opti 931

2002-11-30 Thread Tibor Selesi
Hello to all, I managed to compile my kernel and included the "device pcm" line for my sound card to work. BSD has found my sound card on pcm0. When I launched xmms, it couldn't play any sound. So I realised that something is wrong. I tried to load the snd_sb16.ko driver, but the system reported

Re: Opti 931

2002-11-30 Thread Christopher Rosado
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:17:50 +0100 "Tibor Selesi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TS> When I launched TS> xmms, it couldn't play any sound. Do you have esd running? -- Christopher Rosado To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messag

Re: login.conf problem

2002-11-30 Thread dslb
On 2002.11.30 18:24 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Hmmm... How about if you actually login as test or use 'su -l test' > rather than > just using 'su test' ? As the su(1) man page says: > > > > Resource limits > and session priority applicable to the original user's login > class (See > login.c

poor 3D performance

2002-11-30 Thread La Temperanza
Hello again. I've got a Duron 950 with 256MB RAM and a Radeon 7500 with 32MB vmem, running 4.7-STABLE up-to-date as of a few days ago, and I can't figure out why 3D games like bzflag are running at almost unplayable frame rates. I have the drm-kmod port installed, my video card is detected prop

peq

2002-11-30 Thread bowen
Hi everyone, Just wondering if i can have peq execute on login? I tried adding the following, :welcome=/etc/motd:\ :welcome2=/usr/local/bin/peq:\ But nothing... I just wanted it to show output on login after motd. Anyone?? TIA Rick Tuttle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

ports-multimedia ?

2002-11-30 Thread Ilia Chipitsine
Dear Sirs, I've found that avifile moved from graphics to multimedia, but I cannot cvsup it. Is it right ? Where I can cvsup ports-multimedia collection ? Even when I do "ports-all", multimedia is not included! Regards, (îÁÉÌÕÞÛÉÅ ÐÏÖÅÌÁÎÉÑ) Ilia Chipitsine (éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ) To Unsubscribe: send m

FreeBSD software to create "super computer" ?

2002-11-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm really growing tired of reading articles talking abot so and so creating a super computer of 1400 CPUs running Linux ... latest one I read was one that HP setup ... ... is there software available for FreeBSD that can do this, or is this something we are being left behind in? To Unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD software to create "super computer" ?

2002-11-30 Thread Jens Rehsack
Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm really growing tired of reading articles talking abot so and so creating a super computer of 1400 CPUs running Linux ... latest one I read was one that HP setup ... ... is there software available for FreeBSD that can do this, or is this something we are being left beh

Mail?

2002-11-30 Thread aSe
Hello, I'm trying to find a guide/walk-through/howto on installing postfix/qmail on freebsd, along with a pop3 server. I've been searching on google for awhile now, anything i've found is old and/or doesn't talk about setting up pop3. Thank you! aSe [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe:

Re: Mail?

2002-11-30 Thread Jens Rehsack
aSe wrote: Hello, I'm trying to find a guide/walk-through/howto on installing postfix/qmail > on freebsd, along with a pop3 server. I've been searching on google for awhile now, anything i've found is old and/or doesn't talk about setting > up pop3. We're using qmail and qpopper and it works f

Re: ports-multimedia ?

2002-11-30 Thread Jens Rehsack
Ilia Chipitsine wrote: Dear Sirs, I've found that avifile moved from graphics to multimedia, but I cannot cvsup it. Is it right ? Where I can cvsup ports-multimedia collection ? Even when I do "ports-all", multimedia is not included! Regards, (îÁÉÌÕÞÛÉÅ ÐÏÖÅÌÁÎÉÑ) Ilia Chipitsine (éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ)

ISA modem how to?

2002-11-30 Thread Vasil Yosifov
HI, I have a problem with the modem. Linux was detecting it inder COM3 , but in FreeBSD com3 i com4 are disabled. Please help me, what I have to do? Thanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yaho

Re: peq

2002-11-30 Thread Kyriakos Oikonomakos
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:59:45PM -0700, bowen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just wondering if i can have peq execute on login? I tried adding the > following, > > :welcome=/etc/motd:\ > :welcome2=/usr/local/bin/peq:\ > Why don't you put the /usr/local/bin/peq line into your /etc/profile o

Re: Mail Server Advice

2002-11-30 Thread Brian Jackson
On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 12:17 AM, Ber Ez wrote: Hi to all, I need to build a mail server , I have won the battle of weather to use FreeBSD or Linux or M$ . now i'm facing a new battle ,postfix vs qmail. I need your advice . which of the two would be faster on freebsd ? any optimaizati

samba fails - port already in use problem

2002-11-30 Thread chip wiegand
I just installed samba from the ports and set up the smb.conf file by, initially, setting only the workgroup name to match my home network. I then tried to start samba but it fails with these messages - -bash-2.05b$ tail log.smbd Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002 [2002/11/3

Hardware perfomance question

2002-11-30 Thread Artem Koutchine
I have ask the same question, but pretty much nobody answerred. Please, answer, if you have some opinion on this matter, because i need more opinions. So, the question is DUAL Pentium III XEON 550Mhz 512Kb cache with SDRAM faster than single Pentium 4 3Ghz with hyperthreading with DDR RAM(all othe

Re: samba fails - port already in use problem

2002-11-30 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi Chip, How are you starting samba? You try to determine who's using port 139 by running: sockstat -4l netstat -at | grep -i list netstat -an | grep -i '139' Between the three commands, you should be able to track down who's got port 139 in the bag already. Saying this though, its often a pro

Re: samba fails - port already in use problem

2002-11-30 Thread Tim Kellers
With Samba 2.27 ( and earlier versions, the only samba-like line in /etc/inetd.conf that should be unciommented is: swatstream tcp nowait/400 root/usr/local/sbin/swatswat and that's only if you want to run the web administration tool. I tried the listed smb.conf, and the on

Re: ISA modem how to?

2002-11-30 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:45:04PM -0800, Vasil Yosifov wrote: > HI, > > I have a problem with the modem. Linux was detecting > it inder COM3 , but in FreeBSD com3 i com4 are > disabled. Please help me, what I have to do? > > Thanks Did you compile a special kernel without support for sio2 and s

Re: FreeBSD software to create "super computer" ?

2002-11-30 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 30 November 2002 12:22 pm, Jens Rehsack wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I'm really growing tired of reading articles talking abot so and > > so creating a super computer of 1400 CPUs running Linux ... > > latest one I read was one that HP setup ... > > > > ... is there software ava

Re: ports-multimedia ?

2002-11-30 Thread La Temperanza
The trick is to change the "default release=cvs tag=." in your supfile to "default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4". To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Hardware perfomance question

2002-11-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:41:03AM +0300, Artem Koutchine wrote: > I have ask the same question, but pretty much nobody answerred. > Please, answer, if you have some opinion on this matter, because > i need more opinions. > > So, the question is DUAL Pentium III XEON 550Mhz 512Kb cache > with SDRA

Re: Hardware perfomance question

2002-11-30 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 30 November 2002 02:39 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:41:03AM +0300, Artem Koutchine wrote: > > I have ask the same question, but pretty much nobody answerred. > > Please, answer, if you have some opinion on this matter, because > > i need more opinions. > > > > S

Re: ports-multimedia ?

2002-11-30 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> (11.30.2002 @ 1428 PST): La Temperanza said, in 0.2K: << > The trick is to change the "default release=cvs tag=." in your supfile > to "default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4". >> end of "Re: ports-multimedia ?" from La Temperanza << No it's not. That w

Re: FreeBSD software to create "super computer" ?

2002-11-30 Thread Glenn Johnson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:10:16PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > I'm really growing tired of reading articles talking abot so and so > creating a super computer of 1400 CPUs running Linux ... latest one I > read was one that HP setup ... > > ... is there software available for FreeBSD that can

Re: login.conf problem

2002-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 08:41:31PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2002.11.30 18:24 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Hmmm... How about if you actually login as test or use 'su -l test' > > rather than > > just using 'su test' ? > Jep, now it works! Thanks :-) > But that would say: If you program a

Re: FreeBSD software to create "super computer" ?

2002-11-30 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm really growing tired of reading articles talking abot so and so > creating a super computer of 1400 CPUs running Linux ... latest one I read > was one that HP setup ... I think the people who jabber about clusters need a reality check. At BSDCon,

About linux_base6 and linux_base7

2002-11-30 Thread Lin Jianfong
Hi, This is on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE box, I installed linux-mozilla and linux-sun-jdk13 from the ports collection on the machine. The kernel is enabled for linux_base7 emulation. This Linux version Mozilla 1.1 recognized the java plugin OK from "Help->About Plug-Ins", the problem is java_vm cras

XFree86 and M$ NaturalPro keyboard - blue keys just died . . .

2002-11-30 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey all. I just recently upgraded the Xfree86 port on FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE to XFree86-4.2.0_1,1. Problem is that now my nifty little M$ Pro buttons at the top of the keyboard don't work. I had several of them programmed in Fvwm2 to do things like start mutt, start Netscape, Switch desktops, sta

Getting SCSI Scanner to work (with Symbios 53c810a and FreeBSD 4.4)

2002-11-30 Thread Peter Much
Keywords: FreeBSD SANE Scanner Mustek SCSI MFS-6000CX synchronous disable Symbios 53c810a Just for the records, or: to whom it may concern. This is what I had to do to get a scsi scanner to work. I post it here so others having a similar problem may get inspired. I got some Mustek MFS-6000CX.

ðàáîòà â ñåòè Èíòåðíåò.

2002-11-30 Thread Ivia
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Re: poor 3D performance

2002-11-30 Thread Khairil Yusof
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 03:54, La Temperanza wrote: > Hello again. I've got a Duron 950 with 256MB RAM and a Radeon 7500 with > 32MB vmem, running 4.7-STABLE up-to-date as of a few days ago, and I > can't figure out why 3D games like bzflag are running at almost > unplayable frame rates. I have th

Re: Run as owner

2002-11-30 Thread Kirk Bailey
This script is not perl, it is in python. So far the python community has failed in the search for clue, possibly this one can assist? Andrew Prewett wrote: On Nov 29 Kirk Bailey wrote: OK, man says to get a script to run as the owner, turn on the 4000 bit. If you execute a script, and the

Re: Run as owner

2002-11-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 30), Kirk Bailey said: > This script is not perl, it is in python. So far the python community has > failed in the search for clue, possibly this one can assist? Sudo. You don't seem to be listening to anyone's responses. Perl, Python, /bin/shl, they're all the same. Y

The FreeBSD Diary: 2002-11-10 - 2002-11-30

2002-11-30 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list arc

usbd fails with "Could not read event, Invalid argument" error

2002-11-30 Thread Marshall A. Greenblatt
Hi guys, have a slight problem that google and the list archives haven't been able to shed any light on. When I attempt to start usbd it exits with a fatal error message as shown below. # /usr/sbin/usbd -v usbd: opened /dev/usb0 usbd: opened /dev/usb1 usbd: opened /dev/usb2 usbd: reading configur

Re: Mail?

2002-11-30 Thread Unix Tools
Hi, 1) Install qmail from ports, It get installed in the /var/qmail directory. 2) Install vpopmail from ports. Set the vpopmail directory to /home/vpopmail. 2) Add an entry at the end if the inetd.conf file pop3stream tcp nowait root/var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bi

List of big names ...

2002-11-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list that anyone is maintain about who is using it? I've been having discussions with a partner for awhile now about whether we should launch a product with a base OS of linux vs freebsd ... and its tiring to try and argue against "but, no

Re: List of big names ...

2002-11-30 Thread paul beard
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list that anyone is maintain about who is using it? I've been having discussions with a partner for awhile now about whether we should launch a product with a base OS of linux vs freebsd ... and its tiring to tr

Re: List of big names ...

2002-11-30 Thread Terry Lambert
"Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list that anyone > is maintain about who is using it? I've been having discussions with a > partner for awhile now about whether we should launch a product with a > base OS of linux vs freebsd ... and its tiring