The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-02-09 - 2003-03-01

2003-03-02 Thread Dan Langille
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machine accounts and samba

2003-03-02 Thread charles pelletier
how do you add a machine account in samba? i've already added users using smbpasswd -a username password but cannot for the life of me remember how to add a machine to the samba domain. Charles Pelletier Tech Coordinator St Luke's School Irving, TX To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: kernel compile woes

2003-03-02 Thread charles pelletier
speaking of the new compile method, what does that do as far as memory usage is concerned? i'm using a p166 16MB machine as my NAT/firewall and have had to add virtual memory space every time i've upgraded using the old method (i'm at 4.7 current now). am i stuck with having to do this every time

RE: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread charles pelletier
Use EE. it works just fine and you don't have to learn vi or anything near as complicated as vi. And as far as your problem, just posting it here tends to help most of the time. Charles Pelletier Tech Coordinator St Luke's School Irving, TX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

DHCPD on statup?

2003-03-02 Thread Remington L.
I've been trying very hard to get dhcpd to load on boot. I've done extensive hacking of /etc/rc to add a rc.user to the mix. This was a simple addition of: If [ -r /etc/user ]; then . /etc/user fi then in my rc.user is this: #!/bin/sh - echo -n 'Loading third party server stuff:' case $

Blackholes?

2003-03-02 Thread Remington L.
I noticed that all values 1+ in sysctl net.inet.tcp(udp).blackhole= are valid. If 0 is off and 1 is on, what is 2+. What purpose does this server, I cant find documentation of this anywhwere To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the me

Mozilla -view source- window unavailable

2003-03-02 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Running -STABLE CVSUP Friday at about 1800GMT Rebuilt system Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030126 Since then, the Mozilla "View Source" (Ctrl-U) window is unavailable, after Ctrl-U Moz needs to be killed and apperas frozen. Did not find anything else broken. Any clues

Re: Mozilla -view source- window unavailable - fixed

2003-03-02 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Running -STABLE CVSUP Friday at about 1800GMT Rebuilt system Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030126 Since then, the Mozilla "View Source" (Ctrl-U) window is unavailable, after Ctrl-U Moz needs to be killed and apperas frozen. Did not find anythi

Re: machine accounts and samba

2003-03-02 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
charles pelletier wrote: how do you add a machine account in samba? i've already added users using smbpasswd -a username password but cannot for the life of me remember how to add a machine to the samba domain. man smbpasswd smbpasswd -m Then vipw to add a "$" before the name. I don't think you c

Re: DHCPD on statup?

2003-03-02 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Remington L. wrote: I've been trying very hard to get dhcpd to load on boot. I've done extensive hacking of /etc/rc to add a rc.user to the mix. This was a simple addition of: If [ -r /etc/user ]; then . /etc/user fi then in my rc.user is this: #!/bin/sh - echo -n 'Loading third party serve

RE: DHCPD on statup?

2003-03-02 Thread Remington L.
Haha thanks for the reply. I got it working mysterially. Apparently it pulled startup from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ Thanks anyways -Original Message- From: Per olof Ljungmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 2:51 AM To: Remington L. Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: DHCP

Re: dump exept "dir"

2003-03-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 01 Mar Scott Mitchell wrote: > Check out the 'nodump' option to chflags(8) and the '-h' option to dump. > You'll need to specify '-h0' on the dump command line for nodump to be > honoured for a level 0 dump. My reply and thanks on this message goes for all other helpfull answers as well. Thanks

Re: shutdown now probs

2003-03-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 02 Mar Peter Wu wrote: > Dick Hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have an annoying problem. Whenever I want to go to single user > > mode and run "shutdown now" the system freezes. > > shutdown -h now NOT an option ;-)) I don't want to halt the system; I want to go to single user

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minibsd problems

2003-03-02 Thread Ian Gorrie
Hello! I'm having a problem with a reduced bsd install that I've worked out for an embedded system. I'm a bit unfamiliar with fbsd 5.0, so please excuse my ignorance. I'm basically using a default install of 5.0-RELEASE-p3. I've used this page: http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html as my guide thr

5.0 hang - NMI ISA 30, EISA ff

2003-03-02 Thread John Wilson
Good day, First off, I apologize for not using my @charter.net address to write the list; my mail bounces due to the mail list host not being able to resolve my ISP's host, thus preventing the list from accepting my mail. Naturally, my ISP denies any problems on their part, buy anyway... I recen

create ftp account how?

2003-03-02 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I cannot find a way to create the "ftp" account on my fbsd-4.7R needed for running anonymous ftp server. I guess it has to be a system account, and I can only find how to create normal user accounts. Can anybody advise me on how to create the ftp account? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/

Re: FreeBSD 4.6 and funky IPF/IPNat problem.

2003-03-02 Thread Kirill Ponazdyr
After doing some research, I found out that it is the rfc1323 option which causes this problem. If we disable the net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 the problems dissapear. Anyone has an idea why IPSec causes the rfc1323 extended connections to stall ? Best Regards Kirill > Hi, > > We have a quite wierd pr

Re: Apache and shared memory

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Harding
When people talk about optimizing mod_perl shared memory, they are not referring to System V type shared memory as seen by ipcs. They are talking about memory shared by virtue of a process fork - this is effectively read only memory. The net effect is that a process may appear to be 20 meg, but

Re: create ftp account how?

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I cannot find a way to create the "ftp" account on my fbsd-4.7R needed for running anonymous ftp server. I guess it has to be a system account, and I can only find how to create normal user accounts. Can anybody advise me on how to create the ftp account? I'm not aware of any

Re: recover /etc/passwd from pwd.db

2003-03-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:31:28AM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote: > I wrote: > > >after the latest crash of 5.0-p2/i386, my /etc/passwd and > >/etc/master.passwd are trashed (I used chsh just before the crash). > >My user line is missing in passwd, and the master.passwd file is > >just binary garba

RE: kernel compile woes

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, charles pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > speaking of the new compile method, what does that do as far as memory usage > is concerned? i'm using a p166 16MB machine as my NAT/firewall and have had > to add virtual memory space every time i've upgraded using the old meth

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2003-03-02 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, edmund jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Thanks so much for your past help. Of course, I have > another quetion. I've got X up and run Kdesk - coool. > However, the browser -I haven't configured - debating > on netscape. That brings me to install or not? > The bsd ports sit

Re: instant-workstation can't find ldes (for postfix)

2003-03-02 Thread Tom Parquette
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:23:03AM -0500, Tom Parquette wrote: Hi. I've been trying to install misc/instant-server on my 5.0-CURRENT system and I'm running into, I think, a postfix problem. I've been looking at this and I cannot figure out where -ldes should be. For some

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- Jim Mock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 08:47 PM, Pedro F. > Giffuni wrote: > > Hi guys; > > > > Any chance that > http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html > > will be fixed, or FreeBSD dislikes feedback?? > > No, FreeBSD dislikes moronic skript kiddies spamming

problems

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Patryas
I have 2 questions: One is when I installed Freebsd 5.0 from a DOS partition, it gave me an error message: Error mounting /dev/adOs1 on /dist: Operation not supported by device (19) The second one is when I installed the FreeBSD, I chose the boot manager. I choose FreeBSD and it gives me an

Re: Best way to log from several servers

2003-03-02 Thread Volker Kindermann
Hi Thomas, > We have a few servers and we are getting tired of having to log into > each of them to check the logfile. (like tail -f /var/somelog) > > Is there a way to log things like /var/log/messages and > /var/log/maillog to one central logging server ? yes of course: set up a central sysl

Re: RAM

2003-03-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Paul Patryas wrote: > What is the minimal amount of RAM do you need to install FreeBSD > 4.6/5.0? There is a lot of information on this in the INSTALL notes - and the minumun suggested is 4Mb. I personally stick to 16Mb of memory as a resonably minimum for a freebsd system co

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Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: No, FreeBSD dislikes moronic skript kiddies spamming the PR database. OK, I'm screwed :(. It's difficult to find committers interested in my ports (math/cad stuff) anyway. I guess I'll just keep'em for myself for some more time. Or you could consider helping find a way to re

Re: Soundcard not working

2003-03-02 Thread James McNaughton
Orion Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The ALS4000 chipset is supported, it's the bios on the machine in question > bios that causes problems on 4.x. Try adding the following to your kernel > config file and rebuilding and reinstalling the kernel: > > options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES

a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:48:58PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > >>No, FreeBSD dislikes moronic skript kiddies spamming > >>the PR database. > > > >OK, I'm screwed :(. It's difficult to find committers > >interested in my ports (math/cad stuff) anyway. I > >guess I'll just ke

Re: Blackholes?

2003-03-02 Thread Hugo Saro
man blackhole --- "Remington L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed that all values 1+ in sysctl > net.inet.tcp(udp).blackhole= are > valid. If 0 is off and 1 is on, what is 2+. What > purpose does this > server, I cant find documentation of this anywhwere > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail

cvs mirror question

2003-03-02 Thread Tom Parquette
I have cvsup-mirror installed (using the desfault paths) and I recently installed svsweb. I was looking at the cvsweb conf file and I started wondering if accepting the cvsup-mirror defaults was the right thing to do. Playing with the cvsweb config file, the examples showed "local", FreeBSD, Op

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they compiled file on the committers box. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independe

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? > > Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they > compiled file on the committers

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-03-02 05:47, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any chance that http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html > will be fixed, or FreeBSD dislikes feedback?? Not really. Not without making large changes to the way gnats works. I'm not against enabling it again, but it'll take a bit of

Re: translation the FreeBSD homepage to brazilian portuguese

2003-03-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please don't Cc: the board of directors at FreeBSDFoundation.org with general FreeBSD questions. I'm sure they have a lot of work to do already and can't answer questions about documentation, the web site or other similar things. When you have questi

Compiling OpenSCEP under FreeBSD 4.7?

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
Does anyone have experience with compiling OpenSCEP under 4.7? It compiles under NetBSD, but hangs under FreeBSD. I'd rather run it on a FreeBSD box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
At the risk of being accused of a complainer.. I will state here that my experiments in the use of portupgrade, have left me without a useable X system. Guess it is back to the CD's. Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they release compilable ports..especially for the big mothers like X/K

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? > > Lots of different reasons

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 08:22:33PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > At the risk of being accused of a complainer.. > I will state here that my experiments in the use of portupgrade, have > left me without a useable X system. > Guess it is back to the CD's. > Will the ports maintainers *please* make

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they release compilable > ports..especially for the big mothers like X/KDE. I'm sure they do. However, they can't test in your environment. The X ports built fine for me. I don't use

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:48:58PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > >>No, FreeBSD dislikes moronic skript kiddies spamming > > >>the PR database. > > > > > >OK, I'm screwed :(. It's difficult to find committers > > >interested in my ports (math/cad stuff) anyway. I > > >gu

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:22 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: | At the risk of being accused of a complainer.. | I will state here that my experiments in the use of portupgrade, have | left me without a useable X system. | Guess it is back to the CD's. | Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure t

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:49:21PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they release compilable > > ports..especially for the big mothers like X/KDE. > > I'm sure they do. However, they can't

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 02:58:58PM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:48:58PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > > >>No, FreeBSD dislikes moronic skript kiddies spamming > > > >>the PR database. > > > > > > > >OK, I'm screwed :(. It's difficult to

ADSL modem and Security

2003-03-02 Thread Defryn, Guy
Hi there, I am thinking about getting an ADSL connection and I would like to know which (internal) ADSL modems work well with Freebsd. Although I have very good knowledge of NT I have decided to use a Freebsd box to connect my network to the internet. I want host my own website and ftp. I o

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Daxbert
Quoting Matthew Emmerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:48:58PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > > >>No, FreeBSD dislikes moronic skript kiddies spamming > > > >>the PR database. > > > > > > > >OK, I'm screwed :(. It's difficult to find committers > >

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
Ceri Davies wrote: Or you could consider helping find a way to re-enable the www to send-pr while preventing script kiddies from abusing it. Why not have a "pr-moderator" for each category (i386, kern, doc, etc), who approves each incoming PR. Basically this person would act as a front-line defens

Re: portsman - need feedback and testers

2003-03-02 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:11 pm, Anselm Garbe wrote: >a while ago I asked on this list, if someone knows an curses based > frontend for the FreeBSD ports collection, which behaves like a package > manager (e.g. dselect under Debian), but I got only responds, that this > does not yet exist

5.0 and ACPI Errors:

2003-03-02 Thread Lord Sith
Does anyone have a clue what this error means? acpi0: on motherboard ACPI-0625: *** Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 to GPE15 Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00fdf00 acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model. Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz ACPI-1287:

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread taxman
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:22 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > At the risk of being accused of a complainer. > I will state here that my experiments in the use of portupgrade, have > left me without a useable X system. > Guess it is back to the CD's. > Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they

Problem running jdk as a normal user

2003-03-02 Thread André Ramos
Hi, I'm trying to run jdk in freebsd-4.7, I installed it from the ports (linux-sun-jdk-1.4.1_1) but I can't manage to run it as a normal user. I runs fine when I try to run it as root but as a normal user I always get this error: # # HotSpot Virtual Machine Error, Internal Error # Please report t

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 03:17:21PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > Ceri Davies wrote: > Or you could consider helping find a way to re-enable > the www to send-pr while preventing script kiddies from > abusing it. > >> > >>Why not have a "pr-moderator" for each category (i386, kern, doc, etc

Re: Problem running jdk as a normal user

2003-03-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
3505002D7 > # > Abort trap (core dumped) > > > Any ideas of how to solve this? This came up on freebsd-ports recently, and I posted a message to -hackers about getting one of the patches floating around committed to the tree. See PR kern/40611 and http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getm

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: ... > Or you could consider helping find a way to > re-enable > the www to send-pr while preventing script kiddies > from > abusing it. > Well, If heard for years several committers criticising the whole PR system. Time for bugzilla?? ... > > You

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Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-03-02 17:22, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So? Set your EDITOR environment variable to whatever you prefer > > and you won't have to deal with vi. > > I tried that with pico some years ago, but the result > was not nice. That's a problem of pico then. Pico does stupid

Re: ADSL modem and Security

2003-03-02 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On Monday, 3 March 2003 at 9:08:18 +1300, Defryn, Guy wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am thinking about getting an ADSL connection and I would like to know > which (internal) ADSL modems work well with Freebsd. > > Although I have very good knowledge of NT I have decided to use a > Freebsd box to c

Re: 5.0 and ACPI Errors:

2003-03-02 Thread taxman
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:34 pm, Lord Sith wrote: > Does anyone have a clue what this error means? not myself, but see what -current does on that machine. 5.0 is not production code yet. It is a static point along a rapidly moving devlopment branch. It's not expected to work in all cases.

Re: instant-workstation can't find ldes (for postfix)

2003-03-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:08:45AM -0500, Tom Parquette wrote: > >This is due to the upgrade of openssl. Have you tried cvsupping and > >retying? Most of the problems have already been fixed. If it > >persists, then please report which port was building when it failed > >(not instant-server, bu

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-02T20:51:43Z, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's a good idea, but wouldn't really have helped; the email addresses > concerned were "disposable" and all from various free webmail providers. Could you rate-limit the system to 'n' submissions from a given email address in a

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:01 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:49:21PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they release > > > compilable ports..especially for the

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:01 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: | On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:49:21PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: | > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: | > > Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they release | > > compilable ports..especially for t

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2003-03-02 12:15, Daxbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never submitted a pr, but I've written scripts for bulk web > submissions (GET and POST for load testing web apps). Did the > previous web pr-interface have any sort of verification proce

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 03:33:49PM -0500, taxman wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:22 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > At the risk of being accused of a complainer. > > I will state here that my experiments in the use of portupgrade, have > > left me without a useable X system. > > Guess it is back

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:37 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 03:33:49PM -0500, taxman wrote: > > On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:22 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > At the risk of being accused of a complainer. > > > I will state here that my experiments in the use of portupgrade,

Re: OT: AGP Pro 8x Slot

2003-03-02 Thread Troy Ross
Brian Henning wrote: Hello- I just bought a new motherboard, the ASUS A7N8X (not deluxe). I want to use it for my new FBSD machine. I actually want to use my old graphics card (AOpen NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64, 32MB, 4x AGP) in that machine for now because i don't want to buy a new graphics card. M

Re: Looking for mail server tool recommendations

2003-03-02 Thread Anti
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 00:00:42 -0500 Jim Trigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:39:31PM -0600, Anti wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 18:18:16 -0500 > > Jim Trigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > things? Or is there another MTA that I'm failing to consider? > > > > courier-m

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Jens Rehsack
Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: --- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: ... Or you could consider helping find a way to re-enable the www to send-pr while preventing script kiddies from abusing it. Well, If heard for years several committers criticising the whole PR system. Time for bugzilla?? ..

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 02:47:51PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:37 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 03:33:49PM -0500, taxman wrote: > > > On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:22 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > > At the risk of being accused of a complainer. >

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-02T22:15:59Z, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > portupgrade -puf portupgrade > portupgrade -pufr png > portupgrade -pufr fontconfig > portupgrade -pufr libxml2 > portupgrade -pufr ghostscript-gnu Interesting. I almost always user `portupgrade -rR foo' without other options.

Help PLEAS galeon crashing on startup

2003-03-02 Thread stan
Could some kind soul give me a pointer on how to solve a very perplexing problem? I've got a 4.7 STABLE machine that Galeon started crashing (core dumps on startup) about 3 weeks ago. Since then I've cvsup'd and made world 3 times, and did portupgrade each time. Today I deleted the Galeon port an

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 05:24:21PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-03-02T22:15:59Z, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > portupgrade -puf portupgrade > > portupgrade -pufr png > > portupgrade -pufr fontconfig > > portupgrade -pufr libxml2 > > portupgrade -pufr ghostscript-gnu > > Int

Re: ADSL modem and Security

2003-03-02 Thread taxman
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:08 pm, Defryn, Guy wrote: > I am thinking about getting an ADSL connection and I would like to know > which (internal) ADSL modems work well with Freebsd. I don't know, but check the hardware notes on the FreeBSD.org website. also any adsl modem that interfaces intellige

make arts

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Ok, a make in the port of arts... c++: /usr/local/lib/.libs/libogg.so: No such file or directory gmake[3]: *** [libgsl.la.closure] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/audio/arts/work/arts-1.1/flow/gsl' gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/audio/

log rotation

2003-03-02 Thread Chad Kline
Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7, I notice the following problem: Once a month when my log files rotate (simply gzipping the old, and the creating a new empty log file via a cron job) the log files stay empty. all permissions and ownerships are correct. it takes a "reboot" - then the daemons are

Trouble with Starting the Network

2003-03-02 Thread Nelson Headley
I have just installed FreeBSD on a Compaq Deskpro XL 6150 computer. I loaded it from the FreeBSD FTP site directly on to the computer. The system seems to run fine, but it is not able to reach my network. It is a small TCP/IP network, running a few PCs on Windows 98, with an NT 4.0 Server, and a f

Hello and a question :)

2003-03-02 Thread Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek
Hi there all, I'm new on the list, and decided to start with a question: I'm using FreeBSD 4.7 for quite a time now (at least I think :) ) and I wanted to get my scanner to work. I own a Starlight StarScan 4800 (some say it is made by Ultimate, but I'm not sure) with FCC-ID: ITEUECMT3. It is co

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:24 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-03-02T22:15:59Z, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > portupgrade -puf portupgrade > > portupgrade -pufr png > > portupgrade -pufr fontconfig > > portupgrade -pufr libxml2 > > portupgrade -pufr ghostscript-gnu > > Interesting.

Re: log rotation

2003-03-02 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:50:55PM +, Chad Kline wrote: > > Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7, I notice the > following problem: > > Once a month when my log files rotate > (simply gzipping the old, and the creating a new empty log file > via a cron job) the log files stay empty. all permissio

Re: log rotation

2003-03-02 Thread Clement Laforet
On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 23:50:55 + "Chad Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7, I notice the > following problem: > > Once a month when my log files rotate > (simply gzipping the old, and the creating a new empty log file > via a cron job) the log files stay empty

Re: Help PLEAS galeon crashing on startup

2003-03-02 Thread Clement Laforet
> > Pleas, pleas can someone help me get this working? What should I try next? > Do you use special fonts ? try without "extended" X fonts. clem To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
I just sent my ports to Jens... thanks!! Also thank you to everyone that made jokes in private...I'm still laughing :-P. Pedro. __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/

Ok, KDE/Help .. after my moans what now ?

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello, Ok so portupgrde did not work in installing the latest KDE. I cannot get KDE to run at all. I get errors about libintl being missing. Plus a mysterious and new requirement to tell make I have a Matrox 450 card. Plus the fact I cannot even re-intall KDE from the 4.7 ISO CD's. I get the highly

gnome-session?

2003-03-02 Thread blah
I just installed gnome2 with pkg_add -r gnome2 and was about to edit my xinitrc file to run gnome-session, but gnome-session does not exist in /usr/X11R6/bin/ where it is supposed to. What do I need to do to fix this? Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-03T00:28:21Z, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The -rR bothers me because it is making a lot of ports that don't need to > be updated. It was my understand that if `-rR' would upgrade a port, then that port needs to be upgraded. For a non-FreeBSD perspective, look at Debian:

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-02T23:36:45Z, Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, I've succesfully survived XFree, gnumeric, and mozilla upgrades > this way. Good to know! > I do religiously add any port build options to pkgtools.conf though, so > that I never have to do any 'interactive' portbuild. I'

macromedia linux flash 6

2003-03-02 Thread Guillaume
Hi, Is it possible to install macromedia linux flash player v6 on FreeBSD 5-CURRENT? I'm currently running FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT and mozilla-devel (mozilla-1.3b) from ports (www/mozilla-devel). linux flash 5.0r51 + freebsd wrapper v0.20021113 works very well. Thanks in advance! Guillaume

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Alexey V. Litvinov
> Thanks! I'll do this when I find more time to hunt the > problem. What's weird (for me) is that I don't have > their DNS IP address: since Windows doesn't need it, > the ISP doesn't provide it. hmm why you thinking that Windows doesn't need ip of ISP's dns-server? It is getting it through ppp.

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- "Alexey V. Litvinov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > hmm why you thinking that Windows doesn't need ip of > ISP's dns-server? > It is getting it through ppp. > Yeah I meant that Windows doesn't ask the user to write it down. FreeBSD's chap doesn't seem to get it, but I still have t

ATAPICAM problems in 4.7

2003-03-02 Thread Rod Person
Ok, I just went back to 4.7 from 5.0. I'm trying to get the atapicam to work. I cvsup'd all may src. Did a make world and rebuild my kernel and added the device ATAPICAM. Everything went well! Ok on reboot it doesn't list my cd or dvd as a scsi device. camcontrol -devlist returns nothing. I eve

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 02 March 2003 05:25 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-03-03T00:28:21Z, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The -rR bothers me because it is making a lot of ports that don't > > need to be updated. > > It was my understand that if `-rR' would upgrade a port, then that > port need

Re: problems

2003-03-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-03-02 11:39, Paul Patryas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 2 questions: > > One is when I installed Freebsd 5.0 from a DOS partition, it gave > me an error message: > > Error mounting /dev/adOs1 on /dist: > Operation not supported by device (19) > > The second one is when I installed th

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-03-03 03:16, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- "Alexey V. Litvinov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > hmm why you thinking that Windows doesn't need ip of > > ISP's dns-server? > > It is getting it through ppp. > > Yeah I meant that Windows doesn't ask the user to write

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Alexey V. Litvinov
> Yeah I meant that Windows doesn't ask the user to > write it down. FreeBSD's chap doesn't seem to get it, > but I still have to find out why :(. freeBSD also ;) I for example getting it automaticaly from ISP and written in resolv.conf To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsub

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Alexey V. Litvinov
> 8. Ask your ISP to authenticate your nameserver address(es) with > the line > > enable dns > hi said in prevous posts that : >Anyway, it's not even an option since I've been unable >to set up ppp properly. It connects fine but it >doesn't resolv any address, a

Re: gnome-session?

2003-03-02 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:25, blah wrote: > I just installed gnome2 with pkg_add -r gnome2 > and was about to edit my xinitrc file to run gnome-session, but > gnome-session does not exist in /usr/X11R6/bin/ where it is supposed to. > What do I need to do to fix this? Sounds like all of the GNOM

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