Re: different disk geometry

2003-02-21 Thread Michael Soboleff
it is OK for 4.7 but my old 5.0 installation says that 79780xxx - is invalid, so using more likely geometry - 5005 and while trying to modify anything using sysinstall fdisk i get write error! is this a bug of 5.0-release? - Original Message - From: "Nathan Kinkade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Is there anyone using Voodoo 4500 in FreeBSD?

2003-02-21 Thread Ke Fei
I've got a Voodoo 4500 video card, but I cannot make XFree86 3.3.6 support it, my system is FreeBSD 4.5. -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.bsdmail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fre

freebsd 5.0 + apache + ddclient

2003-02-21 Thread Bryan Cassidy
Hello. Now that I'm able to post to the -freebsd mailing lists I have a questions. I am using FreeBSD 5.0-R with apache 1.3.27 and ddclient 3.6.2 installed. Here is my ddclient.conf file daemon=300 # check every 300 seconds syslog=yes

Re: installkernel first?

2003-02-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:27:47PM +1030, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not being familiar with single user mode, I didn't realise that only / was > mounted in that mode (so why does the handbook put "fsck -p" as the FIRST > command, before "mount -a" ? ). That would be because fsck(8) only works ef

Re: 4.8-PRERELEASE: portinstall -R XFree86 fails

2003-02-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:58:49AM +0100, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to portinstall XFree86-4 on yesterday's > 4.8-PRERELEASE. > > I think I have deleted all old XFree86 packages, > # pkgdb -F > runs without any complaints. > > But portinstall -R XFree86 (I answered yes to XFree86

Re: Is there anyone using Voodoo 4500 in FreeBSD?(I've got the answer)

2003-02-21 Thread Ke Fei
The answer is lying on the XFree86's home website: === 2. 3Dfx 3.3.6: Support (including acceleration) for Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo3 cards is provided by the XF86_SVGA server with the tdfx driver. 4.2.1: Support for Voodoo Grap

RE: gif tunnels?

2003-02-21 Thread Aaron Burke
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Krassimir Slavchev > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 12:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: gif tunnels? > > > Hello All, > > I have: > > Private Net 1 Firewall 1Firewall 2 Priv

Re: freebsd 5.0 + apache + ddclient

2003-02-21 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Friday 21 February 2003 09:40, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > Hello. Now that I'm able to post to the -freebsd mailing lists I have > a questions. I am using FreeBSD 5.0-R with apache 1.3.27 and ddclient > 3.6.2 installed. Here is my ddclient.conf file > I don't get any errors in the logs or anything. W

datasize higher than 512Mo or 2 Gb ?

2003-02-21 Thread Jacques Beigbeder
Hello, Someone said on Jan 16th: Adding kern.maxdsiz="2147483647" to /boot/loader.conf ... This means that now kern.maxdsiz is 2 Gb. Does FreeBSD 5.0 supports higher values? I now have a PC with 4 Gb of memory... and I want to use all that memory for a single process. Or is there some p

Re: OT: MUTT folders

2003-02-21 Thread Roman Neuhauser
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:36:35PM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > > i have been reading throught the file /usr/local/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt and i > > cannot figure out how to change which folder i am reading. i have some mail > > folders in ~/Mail that i cannot figure out how to access from mut

kGPG crash

2003-02-21 Thread Ian Barnes
Hi, I sent an email to the author of the program, and he couldnt help me, so i was wondering if anyone here could help me. I am running FreeBSD 5.0rel, with gnupg-1.2.1, with kgpg-0.9.5, i installed both last night. So, once installed, i type kgpg, at the prompt, and i get the KDE crash handl

mount_ntfs fails

2003-02-21 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, I have two harddisks: 1) ad0 with 1 slice containing Windows XP pro 2) ad2 with two slices s1 is ntfs and s2 is freebsd 4.7-release I can mount_ntfs without problems ad2s1 from freebsd! BUT I can't mount_ntfs ad0s! When I try to mount it with the following command: mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /m

Re: Setting up FreeBSD as a wireless base station

2003-02-21 Thread IAccounts
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > I was looking into setting up a wireless network at home. I'm already using > FreeBSD 4.4 as my gateway/firewall (NATD/ipfw/junkbuster) for my wired network. > I was initially looking at a Cisco 350 as an access point and Orinoco cards for > the laptop

Re: freebsd 5.0 + apache + ddclient

2003-02-21 Thread Bryan Cassidy
The server is running fine but when my ip changes the ddclient script doesn't update it at dyndns.org so that means when my ip changes i have to go to dyndns.org and update it myself and thats getting kinda old ya know? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-quest

Re: ftp users - question

2003-02-21 Thread Jim Trigg
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:59:51AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:13:12PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:15:18PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > I have a machine setup running 4.7 - stable. It is an internal machine. > > > Ho

Re: mount_ntfs fails

2003-02-21 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:54:57PM +0100, Didier Wiroth wrote: > Hey, > > I have two harddisks: > 1) ad0 with 1 slice containing Windows XP pro > 2) ad2 with two slices s1 is ntfs and s2 is freebsd 4.7-release > > I can mount_ntfs without problems ad2s1 from freebsd! > > BUT I can't mount_ntfs

Re: Stuck mail

2003-02-21 Thread IAccounts
> 1.) I run a script on my FreeBSD firewall to parse the > firewall logs into csv format. When I tested this, I > was able to mail them to myself with no problems. But > the last two times, I am getting a message that says > that the email was denied being sent by the localhost. > Is there a way to

Re: mount_ntfs fails

2003-02-21 Thread Wiroth Didier
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:15:03 + Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:54:57PM +0100, Didier Wiroth > wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I have two harddisks: > > 1) ad0 with 1 slice containing Windows XP pro > > 2) ad2 with two slices s1 is ntfs and s2 is freebsd > 4.7-relea

5.0-RELEASE kernel boot problem on acer travelmate 210TEV (laptop)

2003-02-21 Thread Michael
I've been using 4.X for some time with no problems(that I can remember =) So i'm booting the install 5-RELEASE mini cd : Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 8 seconds... Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed h

Re: Displaying Slideshow on Remote Computer

2003-02-21 Thread Matt Smith
I would recommend running VNC, but opposite to what you seem to be thinking. Run the VNC client on the BSD box, and the server on the Windows Box. The PPT slide show could be delivered and controlled by PowerPoint on the Windows box, and the VNC client would display the Windows Desktop on the Kio

SoftUpdates on /

2003-02-21 Thread Alistair Phillips
Hi guys, I know that in the mailing list a while ago people were wondering why SoftUpdates were not enabled by default at install time on the / partition. Now I installed FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE into a 4GB slice. I did not create seperate bits for / or /usr and such - but one large big space. So I

CVSUP of 4.7 only?

2003-02-21 Thread Tuc
Hi, I have : *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 in my stable-supfile, and on one machine all of a sudden on the last update I have : FreeBSD vjofn.ttsg.com 4.8-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Feb 20 13:5 2:11 EST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VJOFN

Re: CVSUP of 4.7 only?

2003-02-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 21 February 2003 06:08 am, Tuc wrote: > Hi, > > I have : > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 > > > in my stable-supfile, and on one machine all of a sudden on the last > update I have : > > FreeBSD vjofn.ttsg.com 4.8-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE #1: Thu > Feb 20 13:5 2:

Re: Logitech USB Keyboard

2003-02-21 Thread John Bleichert
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > Subject: Re: Logitech USB Keyboard > Quoting John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Can't speak to 5.0 (Ive only CVSup'd to it, never installed) but for 4.7 > > you'll probably need to build a boot floppy with a custom kernel on it > > that inclu

Re: lightweight wm

2003-02-21 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jud wrote: > Subject: Re: lightweight wm > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:38:28 -0500 (EST), John Bleichert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> im on a pI 233mhz mmx with 64mb of ram > >> what do u recommen

Re: SoftUpdates on /

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
Alistair Phillips wrote: Hi guys, I know that in the mailing list a while ago people were wondering why SoftUpdates were not enabled by default at install time on the / partition. Now I installed FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE into a 4GB slice. I did not create seperate bits for / or /usr and such - but o

RE: CVSUP of 4.7 only?

2003-02-21 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, CVS Tag list: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html Phil. > -Original Message- > From: Tuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 21 February 2003 14:08 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: CVSUP of 4.7 only? > > > Hi, > > I have : > > *default r

Re: lightweight wm

2003-02-21 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-21 09:09:30 -0500: > Blackbox is great, very clean. Also, the code is very > clean and makes an excellent X/WM tutorial. Interesting. The Openbox developers have the opposite opinion. IANAC++C (I am not a C++ coder), co I can't comment on this. I switche

Fail to boot off installation CD - pci-cfgintr?

2003-02-21 Thread John Straiton
I have a Dell Poweredge 2300/350 machine that I'm trying to install 5.0-RELEASE on via the CD. I'm getting an unusual error that my searches have revealed very little on (seems to be a problem a lot of laptop users get, although this is a 6U server). Server setup is as follows: Dual 350Mhz

Re: CVSUP of 4.7 only?

2003-02-21 Thread Tuc
> > Hi, > > CVS Tag list: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html > So if I read it right: RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE - First ever 4.7 release. Oldest and never updated past that day it was tagged RELENG_4_7 - More current than _RELEASE, but

sound card blocking problem

2003-02-21 Thread Brian Henning
Hello- I noticed that is FBSD4.7 that when i am using the sound device in one process that the system blocks that device so no other processes can use the sound device until that process is killed. I know that in windows 2000 that is not the case, it lets multilple processes have control of the sou

Re: freebsd 5.0 + apache + ddclient

2003-02-21 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Friday 21 February 2003 13:57, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > The server is running fine but when my ip changes the ddclient script > doesn't update it at dyndns.org so that means when my ip changes i > have to go to dyndns.org and update it myself and thats getting kinda > old ya know? > > To Unsubscri

Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread zerotransfer
At http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html, cvsup666 is used as an example. Out of all the possible three number combos, why was 666 used? As a Christian, this does bother me and I would like to know why exactly it was used. I do not think this is being extreme

RE: CVSUP of 4.7 only?

2003-02-21 Thread Philip Payne
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs- > tags.html > > > So if I read it right: > > RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE - First ever 4.7 release. Oldest and never > updated past that day it was tagged > > RELENG_4_7 - More current than _RELEASE, but only with critic

Re: freebsd 5.0 + apache + ddclient

2003-02-21 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Friday 21 February 2003 16:11, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > I'm thinking maybe this is the problem. > > use=if, if=ppp0 # via interfaces > > Should it be ppp0 or something else? I'm thinking that is the problem > but not sure. It depends on your internet interface... Min

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread Jim Trigg
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:14:12AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > At http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html, > cvsup666 is used as an example. Out of all the possible three number > combos, why was 666 used? As a Christian, this does bother me and I > would lik

Re: sound card blocking problem

2003-02-21 Thread Sam Izzo
Hi, On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:00:29AM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > I noticed that is FBSD4.7 that when i am using the sound device in one process > that the system blocks that device so no other processes can use the sound > device until that process is killed. I know that in windows 2000 that i

Re: modern (usb) webcam support?

2003-02-21 Thread Andrew Boothman
jacob rhoden wrote: My searches for information on webcam have not found much, except for some sites which say FreeBSD does not support USB web cameras. Is anyone currently working on support for this? Does anyone have any ideas about where one could go to get information about where to start if

Having a problem with BGE driver?

2003-02-21 Thread Troy
Hello, I have a quick question regarding the BGE Gigabit Driver. I have a 3com 3C966B-T NIC and the driver will initialize the card and I can ping and be pinged however, when trying to use samba, either connecting to or from the FreeBSD box, the connection will always fail

New drive causing panics ffs_vfree

2003-02-21 Thread John Straiton
I had a perfectly good, running 4.7 machine at home that serviced my dhcp, nat & samba needs. I ordered a new Western Digital 160GB drive for it and it came in last night. I decided this would be a great time to make a fresh start on the 5.X tree so I removed the other two drives from the machine a

Security Problem (?): strange logs

2003-02-21 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi, browsing my /var/log directory I found many files like these - (...) log.Ä__îÅÍ3 log._ç___Ä log.a0035934 log.aditi log.alevrius_ log.alevrius_.old log.amanda log.amd log.amul log.andreas log.ang_1730 log.angelas log.aps-02 log.armoire log.atpvpn log.a

Re: 4.8-PRERELEASE: portinstall -R XFree86 fails

2003-02-21 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:58:49AM +0100, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to portinstall XFree86-4 on yesterday's > > 4.8-PRERELEASE. > > > > I think I have deleted all old XFree86 packages, > > # pkgdb -F > > runs without any complaints

Re: *****SPAM***** Security Problem (?): strange logs

2003-02-21 Thread f.johan.beisser
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > Do I have any serious security problem, or are these some > script kiddies ? those are output logs from samba. people are connecting, and trying to see any of your smb shares. ---/ f. johan beisser /--+ http://c

Re: Security Problem (?): strange logs

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
P. U. Kruppa wrote: Hi, browsing my /var/log directory I found many files like these - (...) log.?__???3 log.ibm all in one > -- Most of them are empty, some of them contain messages like this --

Changing ISPs with out much interruption.

2003-02-21 Thread Kevin D Re
My Setup /--- FreeBSD2 (Web,ftp,ssh) ISPA ---\ |--- FreeBSD3 (Webmail,mail,ssh) HUB1 --- (xl0) FreeBSD1 (fxp0)--- HUB2 ISPB ---/ \--- Firewall --- internal network FreeBSD2 192.168

Re: Bizarre Networking Problem

2003-02-21 Thread Joseph Noonan
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 at 7:20pm Bill Moran wrote: > > Perhaps some output form 'netstat -rn' and 'ifconfig' might > provoke some more useful answers. Well the problem is solved, but I am not happy about the solution as it makes absolutely no sense to me. xl0: flags=8943 mtu 1500 options=3

Re: Bizarre Networking Problem

2003-02-21 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Joseph Noonan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 6:07 PM Subject: Re: Bizarre Networking Problem > The above was the ifconfig when I had the problem. Notice the > broadcast addresses

Re: modern (usb) webcam support?

2003-02-21 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Selon Andrew Boothman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This apparently includes : > > Creative Labs WebCam 3 (*** see note about the OV511+ below ***) Be carefull ! Creative Labs WebCam 3 doesn't work for me. I mean the only thing I can do with it take pictures, but it is impossible to get motion

Re: Bizarre Networking Problem

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
Joseph Noonan wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 at 7:20pm Bill Moran wrote: Perhaps some output form 'netstat -rn' and 'ifconfig' might provoke some more useful answers. Well the problem is solved, but I am not happy about the solution as it makes absolutely no sense to me. xl0: flags=8943 mtu 1500

Almost there [was Re: FreeBSD 4.7-REL-p3 and an ... Linksys BEFVP41]

2003-02-21 Thread George Hartzell
George Hartzell writes: > > I'd like to set up an IPsec connection between my laptop running > FreeBSD 4.7-REL-p3 and a Linksys BEFVP41 router w/ built in IPsec > capability. > [...] I almost have things working! I've fallen back to a very simple solution, it took me a while to separate the

RE: Bizarre Networking Problem

2003-02-21 Thread Brent Wiese
> Well the problem is solved, but I am not happy about the > solution as it makes absolutely no sense to me. > > xl0: > flags=8943 mtu 1500 > options=3 > inet 192.246.38.10 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 255.255.255.0 > inet 208.23.240.10 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 208.23

Problems with in the ipf setup in an FreeBSD 4.7 router

2003-02-21 Thread Jim Xochellis
Hi List, I have a FreeBSD 4.7(i386) Release router I am trying to make it run with the ipf firewall on. I have compiled and installed a new kernel with ipf support and then I put the following lines inside my rc.conf file: ... ipfilter_enable="YES" ipfilter_program="/sbin/ipf -Fa -f" ipfilter_ru

Re: gif tunnels?

2003-02-21 Thread David Cramblett
I have a similar configuration, what are your internal router/firewall ip's? From your diagram, I would think something like 10.1.0.1 and 10.2.0.1 ?? so where you have: # ifconfig gif0 inet 10.255.255.1 10.255.255.2 netmask 255.255.255.252 My config would have: # ifconfig gif0 10.1.0.1 10.2.0

Re: Bizarre Networking Problem

2003-02-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 05:17:17PM +, Mark wrote: > From: "Joseph Noonan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The above was the ifconfig when I had the problem. Notice the > > broadcast addresses. The commands that brought up the interface > > at boot are: > > > > /sbin/ifconfig xl0 192.246.38.10 netmas

Verizon DSL & FreeBSD?

2003-02-21 Thread R S
Anyone know if you can get Verizon DSL working with FreeBSD? TIA! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in th

Netmasks for aliases (was Re: Bizarre Networking Problem)

2003-02-21 Thread Willie Viljoen
On Friday 21 February 2003 19:17, Mark wrote: > > > > /sbin/ifconfig xl0 192.246.38.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > /sbin/ifconfig xl0 alias 208.23.240.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > Hmm, I thought aliases always needed to have netmask of 255.255.255.255. > Has something changed? > > - Mark Mark, Alia

Re: Verizon DSL & FreeBSD?

2003-02-21 Thread John E. Martin
> Anyone know if you can get Verizon DSL working with > FreeBSD? No problem at all. Verizon DSL uses straight DHCP. No PPPoE involved at all. At least, here in West Los Angeles that is the case. Peace, -John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions

new bie (tar command)

2003-02-21 Thread Anil Garg
How can i see the contents of a .tar or .tgz file without extracting it.( i couldnt find that in man tar) Thanx anil (FreeBSD user) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Verizon DSL & FreeBSD?

2003-02-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 21 February 2003 10:22 am, R S wrote: > Anyone know if you can get Verizon DSL working with > FreeBSD? > > TIA! First of all, you have choices. My option is static IPs. If you don't have that choice, I can't comment. With static IPs, Verizon is no different than a local lan. I also d

Re: Problems with in the ipf setup in an FreeBSD 4.7 router

2003-02-21 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On Friday, 21 February 2003 at 20:08:17 +0200, Jim Xochellis wrote: > Hi List, > > I have a FreeBSD 4.7(i386) Release router I am trying to make it run > with the ipf firewall on. > > I have compiled and installed a new kernel with ipf support and then I > put the following lines inside my rc.con

Re: new bie (tar command)

2003-02-21 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Anil Garg wrote: > How can i see the contents of a .tar or .tgz file without extracting > it.( i couldnt find that in man tar) > > Thanx > anil (FreeBSD user) > tar -tf archive.tar or tar -ztf archive.tar.gz Rgds Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lifetime

Re: new bie (tar command)

2003-02-21 Thread Willie Viljoen
On Friday 21 February 2003 20:29, Anil Garg wrote: > How can i see the contents of a .tar or .tgz file without extracting > it.( i couldnt find that in man tar) tar -ztvf tarball.tgz Incidentally, this is in the man page :) -t --list List the contents of an archive; if filename arg

Re: new bie (tar command)

2003-02-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:29:41PM -0500, Anil Garg wrote: > How can i see the contents of a .tar or .tgz file without extracting > it.( i couldnt find that in man tar) > Mmm.. from "man tar" -t --list List the contents of an archive; if filename arguments are given, only those files are

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Re: new bie (tar command)

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:29:41PM -0500, Anil Garg wrote: > How can i see the contents of a .tar or .tgz file without extracting > it.( i couldnt find that in man tar) > > Thanx > anil (FreeBSD user) take at look at the -t option in the tar manpage. Nathan -- GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gp

Re: installkernel first?

2003-02-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-02-21 16:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had taken makeworld.html from the handbook and used links to save > as formatted text prior to printing out the contents. Not being > familiar with single user mode, I didn't realise that only / was > mounted in that mode (so why does the handbook

RE: new bie (tar command)

2003-02-21 Thread Anil Garg
thanx anil p.s. i looked earlier at -t, infact i was also trying to use -x with -t. -Original Message- From: Willie Viljoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: new bie (tar command) On Friday 21 February 2003 20:29, Anil

VNC

2003-02-21 Thread Daniel HARTMANN
Hi, I am running vnc to a freebsd 4.7 server If I open a shell I am in "sh" and not in "csh" as defined in /etc/passwd Has anybody an idea ?? Thanks Dany_H ;-) <>

ruby gtk

2003-02-21 Thread Brian Henning
Hello- i have a ruby script that needs gtk so i need to install gtk or install ruby with gtk support. I am not sure which one i need to do. i greped the Makefile in the ports for a WITH_GTK, but i didn't find anything. Any suggestions how to get gtk stuff working with ruby? thanks, b To Unsubscr

Re: Verizon DSL & FreeBSD?

2003-02-21 Thread C J Michaels
Some time in the recent past John E. Martin scribbled: > > >> Anyone know if you can get Verizon DSL working with >> FreeBSD? > > No problem at all. > > Verizon DSL uses straight DHCP. No PPPoE involved at all. At least, > here in West Los Angeles that is the case. This is not entirely true. If y

from GNOME to KDE

2003-02-21 Thread Gary D Kline
A friend set up GNOME on a Redhat system that I successfully networked to my three BSD servers. How do I switch to KDE from Gnome? Also, I would like to set up a similar KDE account here formy seven-year-old. She likes unix better than her windows compu

Re: from GNOME to KDE

2003-02-21 Thread David Cramblett
if you have KDE installed, try the program switchdesk on Linux. Gary D Kline wrote: A friend set up GNOME on a Redhat system that I successfully networked to my three BSD servers. How do I switch to KDE from Gnome? Also, I would like to set up a similar KDE account here formy seven-year-ol

Re: Problems with in the ipf setup in an FreeBSD 4.7 router

2003-02-21 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-21 20:08:17 +0200: > I have compiled and installed a new kernel with ipf support and then I > put the following lines inside my rc.conf file: > > ipfilter_enable="YES" > ipfilter_program="/sbin/ipf -Fa -f" > ipfilter_rules="/etc/ipf.rules" > ipfilter_flags="" rem

Re: lightweight wm

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Dunn
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, John Bleichert wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jud wrote: > > Subject: Re: lightweight wm > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:38:28 -0500 (EST), John Bleichert > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> > > >> im

Re: why does 'ssh-keygen -t dsa' cause a system reboot?

2003-02-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Lee Harr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Every time? > first, i mistyped, sorry... (cut and pasted the wrong thing)... i run 'ssh-keygen -t dsa' and this doesn't happen all the time. it happens about half the time i try generating a keypair. > How about when you do a long compile? (build

Re: Almost there [was Re: FreeBSD 4.7-REL-p3 and an ... Linksys BEFVP41]

2003-02-21 Thread George Hartzell
Stacy Millions writes: > George Hartzell wrote: > > [...] > > I almost have things working! > > > > I've fallen back to a very simple solution, [...] > > > > /usr/sbin/setkey -FP > > /usr/sbin/setkey -F > > > > /usr/sbin/setkey -c << EOF > > spdadd LAPTOP_IP/32 192.168.1.0/2

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread Justin Hopper
Sorry, this of course should have read 'after 665 and before 667'. On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:13, Justin Hopper wrote: > Hello unamed person, > > For the rest of the world that doesn't follow Christian Mythology, 666 > is just the number after 667 and before 665. I've used 666 in several > coding

Re: SoftUpdates on /

2003-02-21 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
On Friday 21 February 2003 08:10 am, Alistair Phillips wrote: | Hi guys, | | So I enabled SoftUpdates when I was busy with FDISK at the install | time and now it seems like it may have been a bad idea. Now I know | 4GB is not much but it seems that there is no more space left. And | at times d

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread Gary D Kline
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:42:05AM -0800, Justin Hopper wrote: > Sorry, this of course should have read 'after 665 and before 667'. > > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:13, Justin Hopper wrote: > > Hello unamed person, > > > > For the rest of the world that doesn't follow Christian Mythology, 666 > > is

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread Willie Viljoen
I don't really get it either, as I pointed out in an off-list e-mail to the original sender earlier, this has nothing to do with Christian mythology or satanic anything. 666 is, by all historic and scientific accounts, a Masonic symbol. Now unless you have a problem with people who have an intr

RE: SoftUpdates on /

2003-02-21 Thread John Straiton
> On Friday 21 February 2003 08:10 am, Alistair Phillips wrote: > | Hi guys, > > | > | So I enabled SoftUpdates when I was busy with FDISK at the install > | time and now it seems like it may have been a bad idea. Now I know > | 4GB is not much but it seems that there is no more space > left.

Re: Verizon DSL & FreeBSD?

2003-02-21 Thread chuck odonnell
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:31:15AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > I also don't user Verizon for an ISP because they don't permit local > servers. > i'm guessing you're talking about the inconvenient way some Cable/DSL ISPs block incoming connections on common server ports (25, 80)? usually thi

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread Henrik W Lund
From: Justin Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cvsup Handbook Example Date: 21 Feb 2003 11:42:05 -0800 Sorry, this of course should have read 'after 665 and before 667'. On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:13, Justin Hopper wrote: > Hello unamed person, > > For the rest of the wo

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread Willie Viljoen
On Friday 21 February 2003 22:11, Henrik W Lund wrote: > > And let's remember that FreeBSD's mascot is a (if not THE) devil. ;) > > -Henrik > FreeBSD newbie and fanatic. Well hey, then I suppose Microsoft were right after all, we are evil ;) News to me though, last I checked, daemons are neutral,

Re: Verizon DSL & FreeBSD?

2003-02-21 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/21/03 03:11 PM, chuck odonnell sat at the `puter and typed: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:31:15AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > I also don't user Verizon for an ISP because they don't permit local > > servers. > > > > i'm guessing you're talking about the inconvenient way some Cable/D

Having problems with mozilla-1.2.1/galeon-1.2.8

2003-02-21 Thread JT Traub
This past weekend, I upgraded the ports collection on my machine (running 4.7, also updated at the same time). When I came back in on Monday morning, mozilla failed with a segmentation fault and galeon failed with a 'gnome has detected a crash' dialog. I spent most of this past week verifying the

Re: from GNOME to KDE

2003-02-21 Thread Gary D Kline
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:24:34AM -0800, David Cramblett wrote: > if you have KDE installed, try the program switchdesk on Linux. Well, I asked for Gnome and that's all my friend installed. Where can I pull down a KDE3 *.rpm file?

Re: OT: shell script problem

2003-02-21 Thread Grzegorz Czaplinski
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:14:22PM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > i have this script with one input file and i keep getting the error: > /files_???/19980527/???/myname # sh doc_id.sh input.txt > /files_???/19980527/???/: No such file or directory > /files_???/19980527/???/ > > sh doc_i

Re: from GNOME to KDE

2003-02-21 Thread Willie Viljoen
You should be able to find links to packages from http://www.kde.org/ To get it on FreeBSD, just use ports. "Check The Handbook (TM)" for more information :) Will On Friday 21 February 2003 22:25, Gary D Kline wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:24:34AM -0800, David Cramblett wrote: > > if you

Re: from GNOME to KDE

2003-02-21 Thread Gary D Kline
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:29:02PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote: > You should be able to find links to packages from http://www.kde.org/ > > To get it on FreeBSD, just use ports. "Check The Handbook (TM)" for more > information :) > Thanks for the KDE URL. Here, portupgrade is giving me

Having problems with mozilla-1.2.1/galeon-1.2.8

2003-02-21 Thread JT Traub
This past weekend, I upgraded the ports collection on my machine (running 4.7, also updated at the same time). When I came back in on Monday morning, mozilla failed with a segmentation fault and galeon failed with a 'gnome has detected a crash' dialog. I spent most of this past week verifying the

Re: from GNOME to KDE

2003-02-21 Thread Willie Viljoen
It built it fine here. Make sure your ports tree is upgraded to the latest, then run: portupgrade -rR kdebase That should do the trick :) On Friday 21 February 2003 22:38, Gary D Kline wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:29:02PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote: > > You should be able to find links

Re: Problems with in the ipf setup in an FreeBSD 4.7 router

2003-02-21 Thread Jim Xochellis
Hi list, Many thanks to all the people that have replied. Thanks to them my problem has been solved! Thank you very much, Jim Xochellis Escape Information Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Having problems with mozilla-1.2.1/galeon-1.2.8

2003-02-21 Thread JT Traub
This past weekend, I upgraded the ports collection on my machine (running 4.7, also updated at the same time). When I came back in on Monday morning, mozilla failed with a segmentation fault and galeon failed with a 'gnome has detected a crash' dialog. I spent most of this past week verifying the

I dont seem able to post here :-(

2003-02-21 Thread Chris Phillips
What be my problem? end intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: I dont seem able to post here :-(

2003-02-21 Thread Lord Raiden
Looks like it's going through fine for me. :) > What be my problem? > > > > end > > intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscrib

Re: Error accessing SquirrelMail on server

2003-02-21 Thread Willie Viljoen
You need to add a block to allow access to that directory :) Will On Friday 21 February 2003 22:41, Lord Raiden wrote: > I'm getting an error when accessing my squirrel mail directory on the > server via a browser after accessing it. It gives the following. > > 403 Forbidden > You don't have pe

Re: Error accessing SquirrelMail on server

2003-02-21 Thread Lord Raiden
So on top of just "Alias /squirrelmail /usr/local/squirrelmail" I also need a tag to go with it? > You need to add a block to allow access to that directory :) > > Will > > On Friday 21 February 2003 22:41, Lord Raiden wrote: > > I'm getting an error when accessing my squirrel mail directory o

logitech usb mouse and thumb button

2003-02-21 Thread c a r s t e n
is there any way to get the thumb button on certain logitech mouseman products enabled, and made to be the back button in mozilla? i have this setup in win2k and am finding it hard to live without in freebsd 4.7. i did manage to get the wheel middle button working as the scroll button, but then

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread zerotransfer
Obviously I don't think it is mythology or I wouldn't believe it :-) Actually it is not my place to tell people what numbers they are and are not allowed to use. More than the number, the issue for me is the motivation of why that number was used. Why use one of the only three digit numbers that

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