Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:37:46PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > There's lots of stuff that might go into XF86Config which isn't > > mentioned in the automatically generated config file, produced by > > But I meant, in *my* XF86Config there is no men

Re: ssh keepalives

> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:04:51 +0200 > From: Christian Stigen Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Quoting Steve Coile ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > | On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > | > I'm having a problem with premature termination of ssh sessions [...] > | > | Is this a common problem wit

Re: Staying up to date - easy way?

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote: > Here's my question. Is there a simple way to stay up to date with > FreeBSD? The install was great! But the whole CVSup, rebuild thing > seems a little much to do for just security updates. Is it just a huge > thing the first ti

Re: Staying up to date - easy way?

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote: > Hi everbody, I'm new to FreeBSD and coming back after a long time away > from UNIX like OSs in the first place. I decided to try out FreeBSD > because it seems to be a better controlled product than most of the > Linux stuff out the

Re: Staying up to date - easy way?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:03:21AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote: > > Here's my question. Is there a simple way to stay up to date with > > FreeBSD? The install was great! But the whole CVSup, rebuild thing > > seems a little much

Re: SpeedTouch 330 with MSN Broadband through Qwest ADSL

Okay, I fixed the problem on my own. I had to upgrade my driver software from 1.1b to 1.2b2. Also you have to update adsl.sh so that it does not run the modem_run command. Modem_run should only be used when you first plug in the USB device (like at bootup). If it is already loaded, for some

Re: About newsyslog behavior

Hi Matthew, hi list, On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 07:04 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: [...] samba can also generate a lot of log files depending on configuration. However, it also can be configured to put out all of it's logging information via syslog(3). Samba is also capable of

Bandwidth shaping

Hello all, does anyone can tell me how to throttle the network bandwith based on ip addressses. I think it must be something with ipfw but i am not sure ? Cheers, karsten ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: Bandwidth shaping

> Hello all, > does anyone can tell me how to throttle the network bandwith based on ip > addressses. > > I think it must be something with ipfw but i am not sure ? > > Cheers, > karsten Yea, it is ipfw and dummynet, "man ipfw", "man dummynet" and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8

Re: How to encrypt data on backup?

Hi Josh, Thanks. That may work for me if the GBDE works on tape device. Does it? --- Lou On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 06:56:20PM -0700 or thereabouts, Tak Pui Lou wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there any way to encrypt the backup created by dump while it is >

Re: Questions about x-windows, startx (Extremely long andprobably most blahblah)

I would like to start/stop different programs (such as the java-program mentioned above). I would also like to have many programs running, but only see one at a time (bring to front, maximize). I understand this is certainly not a yes/no question, but if someone can hint me on a window manager tha

Re: Need guidance in choosing mail-client

I would have to agree. I have tried loads of mail clients in my time and mutt does it for me. I don't go in for bells and whistles so I find gui-based clients somewhat tiresome. mutt is very flexible and the sort-by-thread option is brilliant. It doesn't do html, but then e-mail should be text - i

Re: cron executes entries twice

Another item to check: Faulty time service might produce such duplication. The first cron job would run on the old time; the time updates; it then runs the job again. There would not be a 3rd run because the clock is now correct. On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:23:30PM -0400, John wrote: > For quite s

Re: vt/ansi codes

> You don't think you're alone because you've Googled a lot? heh :) > > namely, i am not happy with the current selection of text editors > > (i find joe(1) to be very good, but it's got some problems and > > is aging without good development), > 136-sec# ls /usr/ports/editors | wc -l >

how to influence load order of kernel modules

Hi all, first of all about the background of my question: if I start vmware (version 2 from the ports tree) on my FreeBSD 4.8 system, the system reboots :(( I found that if I restart /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh (stop, start) the kernel module vmmon gets unloaded and loaded again and I get a ne

Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.

PHP!! All the way...easiest, free, likely to be more secure than Perl if used as Apache module than CGI. More secure, how so? mod_php runs as the same user as the Web Server, giving file permission to look at any file the web server can. Safe_dirs are turned off by default I've been hosted on

system info

Hi all, Is there a command line utility that I can use to get info on installed ram, CPU etc? Cheers, -Morten ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL

Re: system info

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Re: system info

Hi, Well, yeah, sort of. But it doesn't tell me cpu speed... Cheers, -Morten Luke Kearney wrote: >top > >LK > >- Original Message - >From: "Morten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <> >Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:00 PM >Subject: system info > > > > >>Hi all, >> >> >>Is there a comman

Re: system info

Le Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:11:29PM +0200, Morten ecrivait: > Hi, > > Well, yeah, sort of. But it doesn't tell me cpu speed... less /var/run/dmesg.boot Regards. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Claranet France -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: system info

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:00:13PM +0200, Morten wrote: > Is there a command line utility that I can use to get info on installed > ram, CPU etc? less(1), as in % less /var/run/dmesg.boot Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Pad

Re: how to influence load order of kernel modules

Hi again, I would like to correct the information I send before. After I rebooted my machine once more (by starting vmware :( ) I had to realize, that the vmware.sh stop/start procedure is obviously not always sufficient. Without starting any applications I opened a Terminal window and started

Re: ftp 4.8iso 265k transfer to windows 98 box

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, DanB wrote: > I am ftping 4.8iso to a windows 98 box with ftppro then transferring the > file to a xp box with a cd writer. > Is there any down falls to this? I notice that Freebsd file size is 265k > the download size is 271k on the Windows 98 box is somthing being added > to

A "softupdates" problem?

Hello, Making a daily server backup, using dump (FreeBSD 4.7R), I keep running into a "softupdates" problem. That is, prior to backing up a partition (/var), I move a large file (several gigabytes) off that partition. But because of the "softupdates" effect, the size of that large file is added to

Re: A "softupdates" problem?

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Mark wrote: > Making a daily server backup, using dump (FreeBSD 4.7R), I keep running into > a "softupdates" problem. That is, prior to backing up a partition (/var), I > move a large file (several gigabytes) off that partition. But because of the > "softupdates" effect, the s

Re: A "softupdates" problem?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:15:14AM +, Mark wrote: > Making a daily server backup, using dump (FreeBSD 4.7R), I keep running into > a "softupdates" problem. That is, prior to backing up a partition (/var), I > move a large file (several gigabytes) off that partition. But because of the > "softu

Re: cron executes entries twice

At 04:03 AM 7/3/2003, Andrew Boothman wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2003 1:23 am, John wrote: > Hi All, > > For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the > crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously > for the periodic scripts, but also on some s

Re: boot hangs after install 4.8

> From: Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>I have just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC. Only FreeBSD, no other OS. > >>The installation goes all well; I exit at the end and the PC boots. > >>Immediately after the BIOS stuff, I get the first FreeBSD prompt: > >> > >> > >>F1 FreeBSD > >>

Re: cpu

Hi! > How do I find out if 4.7 saw & is using both of > my CPU's One way would be to read /var/run/dmesg.boot. Another way would be to run top and see if different processes run on different CPUs (the 'C' column). -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * If you try

DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. I read the compatibility notes and searched Google for the wide range of devic

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

I have downloaded 4.8ISo and the md5 check sum. Where is the program md5 located? Can it run onan Window 98 machine to check the check sum number? Dan Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me > > how to get the complete install CD dow

Re: ftp 4.8iso 265k transfer to windows 98 box

> > I am ftping 4.8iso to a windows 98 box with ftppro then transferring the > file to a xp box with a cd writer. > Is there any down falls to this? I notice that Freebsd file size is 265k > the download size is 271k on the Windows 98 box is somthing being added > to the transfer? Most probably y

Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:47:09AM -0700, cp wrote: > We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. > We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB > IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There > are no USB devices being used now and only > a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. > While we're on

Re: BSD Question

Go here... http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsddoll-s?id=pqS7TiPe&mv_pc=56 Peter At 06:20 PM 7/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: Hello, My place of employment recently purchased your services. My boss received a little red devil bean bag beanie toy which he gave to me. I brought it home to my son

Problem building galeon port on STABLE

I'm trying to build galeon, using the ports mechanisi8m. This is no a machine that was cvsup'd about the end of last week. The build process is dying when regxpcom core dumps. What can I do to solve this problem? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither

IDE reboot after power outage problem

Hello, My system used to be an all SCSI system. After rare power outages the system would automatically fsck the disks and boot up. Recently I added an IDE drive to the system. Now, after power outages the system boots and when it gets to the ide drive it prompts for single user mode shell. I drop

Re: ftp 4.8iso 265k transfer to windows 98 box

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:09, DanB wrote: > I am ftping 4.8iso to a windows 98 box with ftppro then transferring the > file to a xp box with a cd writer. > Is there any down falls to this? I notice that Freebsd file size is 265k > the download size is 271k on the Windows 98 box is somthing being added

Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

cp wrote: We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. I read the compatibility notes and searched Google for the wide rang

mozilla stalls

I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. What tends to happen is that I'll try to load/reload a page, and the browser will stall indefinitely -- forcing me to kill it. Strangely, when I run the browser ag

Probems building amanda client port

On a recently cvsup'd achine, building the amanda-client port fails when it gets to the gtart port as a dependency. It seesm gtar is now part of the base system. Shouldn't this be OK? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

buildworld errors

I did a cvsupit from FreeBSD 4.8 to current ( =. ) I did a make buildworld 3 times so far with different errors each time. Between each buildworld, I did the rm -rf /usr/obj and started over again. It goes for about 4 hours each time, and this is now the error I received while doing a make buildw

Adding disk space to an FTP directory -- ideas?

I currently use most of /var for a depository of files that move in and out via FTP. /var runs on a secondary hard drive in the system, along with a partition called /storage that's currently empty. Only one user ("ftpuser") has login rights to the ftp system, although it's not jailed with its own

Bandwidth Question

Hello, I was wondering what is the best way to limit bandwidth to a set of IP addresses? I've read some about dummynet. Would this be the preffered tool to use? Also, if someone could recommend a program to log how much bandwidth a particular IP uses per month etc..., and also display graphs

Re: mozilla stalls

I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. I get that too ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD

- Original Message - From: "Alexander Haderer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Micheal Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:54 PM Subject: Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD > At 12:39 02.07.2003 -0500, Micheal Patterson wrote: > > >[...] > >It w

Re: buildworld errors

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:23:19 -0400 quadrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did a cvsupit from FreeBSD 4.8 to current ( =. ) > I did a make buildworld 3 times so far with different > errors each time. Between each buildworld, I did the rm -rf /usr/obj > and started over again. It goes for about 4

OT Re: mozilla stalls

On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:44 am, Matt Heath wrote: > >I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): > >The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. > > I get that too My mozilla will hang for a few minutes when I enter a url in the location bar. If I

Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

About a year or two ago, someone posted his recipe for sorting FreeBSD lists. This particular one was nice in that it extracted the list name from the "From" line (I think) and then created the appropriate folder if it didn't exist. So freebsd-questions list items were put in the 'questions' fold

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

Quoting Drew Tomlinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | About a year or two ago, someone posted his recipe for sorting FreeBSD | lists. This particular one was nice in that it extracted the list name | from the "From" line (I think) and then created the appropriate folder | if it didn't exist. Probably t

Adding disk space to an FTP directory -- ideas?

I currently use most of /var for a depository of files that move in and out via FTP. /var runs on a secondary hard drive in the system, along with a partition called /storage that's currently empty. Only one user ("ftpuser") has login rights to the ftp system, although it's not jailed with its own

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:53:30AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > About a year or two ago, someone posted his recipe for sorting FreeBSD > lists. This particular one was nice in that it extracted the list name > from the "From" line (I think) and then created the appropriate folder > if it didn'

Re: Bandwidth Question

In ports under "Net" there is IPFM i haven't played with it yet but it is supposed to do some of what you are looking for. Do a google search and you can find the homepage of the author. I would be interested in any information you find out on this subject. Greg From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

Woops... On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:12:46PM -0400, Paul Chvostek wrote: > > Easy enough: > > :0: > * List-Id:[^<]+<\/freebsd-[^.] > $MATCH That should have been: :0: * ^List-Id:[^<]+<\/freebsd-[^.]+ $MATCH But I'm sure everyone already knew that... ;) -- Paul Chvostek

Apache Security

Hello Everyone, Is Apache with fp extention (apache-fp) not secure to run in a machine ? In the meantime that this machine is made for this purpose, web hosting! im on FreeBSD 4.8-R Please Advise. Marwan Sultan __

Re: Need guidance in choosing mail-client

in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Tony Hacche thusly... > > It doesn't do html, but then e-mail should be text - if I receive > an e-mail message in html-only I have no qualms about deleting it > without reading it ;o) True. If somebody does desire to view HTML, add appropriate entries to mut

Re: Apache Security

Dead Line wrote: Hello Everyone, Is Apache with fp extention (apache-fp) not secure to run in a machine ? it is best to assume that nothing is secure 8) In the meantime that this machine is made for this purpose, web hosting! im on FreeBSD 4.8-R Please Advise. your custo

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Drew Tomlinson thusly... > > About a year or two ago, someone posted his recipe for sorting FreeBSD > lists. This particular one was nice in that it extracted the list name > from the "From" line (I think) and then created the appropriate folder > if it didn't

Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: ... >While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner >yet and to what success? (This would be for 4.8) > >Also any recommended Firewire cards or cards to avoid? I'm using a current Adaptec on FreeBSD 4.8 with good results.

Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:44:52AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: > ... > >While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner > >yet and to what success? (This would be for 4.8) > > > >Also any recommended Firewire cards or card

Re: How to encrypt data on backup?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:35:51AM -0700 or thereabouts, Tak Pui LOU wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Thanks. That may work for me if the GBDE works on tape device. Does it? I don't know... get a tape and try it! -- Josh > > --- > Lou > > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 02, 2

Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: >On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:44:52AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: >> ... >> >While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner >> >yet and to what success? (This would

Re: Adding disk space to an FTP directory -- ideas?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:09:28AM -0500, Greg Brooks wrote: > > I currently use most of /var for a depository of files that move in and > out via FTP. /var runs on a secondary hard drive in the system, along > with a partition called /storage that's currently empty. > > Only one user ("ftpuser"

Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:45:48AM -0400 or thereabouts, Bill Moran wrote: > cp wrote: > >We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. > >We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB > >IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There > >are no USB devices being used now and only > >a CD Drive and single h

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:21:34PM + or thereabouts, DanB wrote: > I have downloaded 4.8ISo and the md5 check sum. Where is the program md5 located? > Can it run onan Window 98 machine to check the check sum number? > Dan Try here (it was the first one I found): http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/f

Re: buildworld errors

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:23:19AM -0400 or thereabouts, quadrant wrote: > I did a cvsupit from FreeBSD 4.8 to current ( =. ) > I did a make buildworld 3 times so far with different > errors each time. Between each buildworld, I did the rm -rf /usr/obj > and started over again. It goes for about

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

- Original Message - From: "Paul Chvostek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christian Stigen Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 9:12 AM > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:53:30AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > > About a year or two ago, someone posted

Re: Adding disk space to an FTP directory -- ideas?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:40:14AM -0500 or thereabouts, Greg Brooks wrote: > I currently use most of /var for a depository of files that move in and > out via FTP. /var runs on a secondary hard drive in the system, along > with a partition called /storage that's currently empty. > > Only one user

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:12:22AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > :0: > * ^List-Id:[^<]+ Maildir/FreeBSD/$MATCH/new > > And I'm getting messages like this in my procmail log: > > procmail: Assigning "PATH=/home/drew/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" > procmail: Lock failure on "Maildir/FreeBSD

Re: SpeedTouch 330 USB ADSL Modem

On your SpeedTouch 330 modem, did you have any problems with the USB port just shutting off? I have to reboot to get it back. I am wondering if I need to increase a buffer somewhere, or if it is caused by the phone ringing. - Original Message - From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <[EMAIL PROTE

/usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports does not exist

Installed 5.1-RELEASE clean from CDROM on new HD and new filesystems earlier this week. Installed XFree86 and KDE from ports during the initial install. Installed /usr/ports and /usr/src later via CVS and am up to date as of yesterday. Attempting to add certain ports that I'm missing got stuck

ipfw/natd/divert question

I'd like to come up a ruleset that handles the following example. Suppose I have a daemon listeing on port 2000 and I'd like outside clients to be able to communicate with the daemon by addressing traffic to port 2000 or port 2001. So, suppose I have for my natd configuration: -redirect_port

Seting baclground color in fvwm95?

How can I set the background color for a session using fvwm95? xsetroot sets the color, but when the window manmager starts up, it overwrites that change. I fell certain it's a setting in the .fvwm95rc file, but I cna't find any docs on the syntax. -- "They that would give up essential liberty

FW: 2 NIC's (one dhcp) and default route issue

I'm building a machine with 2 nic's. They will be on seperate subnets, and in the long run both will have fixed addresses. However at the moment I've set one of these up for dhcp. The fixed addres NIC should be the one thta has the default route associated with it, and I have a defaultrouter= sta

Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 09:44 US/Mountain, Micheal Patterson wrote: As I recall, that particular system is running an Adaptec 2100S under FreeBSD 4.8. I've not found any software that can access that particular raid directly for configuration from within the running OS. Actually Adaptec has F

CVSupping 5

Hi, Please forgive my stupidity. What is the cvsup tag for the 5 branch? RELENG_5 doesnt work. I have searched the archives, the site and I cant find anything that would help me. I just installed a 5.1 box, and would like to cvsup and rebuild my kernel. Thanks alot. Ian __

Re: CVSupping 5

Ian Barnes wrote: Hi, Please forgive my stupidity. What is the cvsup tag for the 5 branch? RELENG_5 doesnt work. I have searched the archives, the site and I cant find anything that would help me. I just installed a 5.1 box, and would like to cvsup and rebuild my kernel. RELENG_5_1 for the 5.1-RE

archive search broken?

I'm fairly certain that there was a thread in -current regarding work on a 'health and wellness' type driver for HP ProLiant machines but I can't seem to actually get any results for any searches since at least yesterday afternoon. Is this a known issue or am I doing something wrong? -Will

Problem adding user (4.8R)

Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 and tried to add a user to the system using 'adduser foo'. I get a few questions and then this: -- 8< -- Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. Enter username [foo]: Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: foo P

no /usr/src/etc/

I was trying a 'mergemaster' as seen here but kept getting the following error: cp: /usr/src/etc/master.passwd: No such file or directory *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot copy files to the temproot environment I verified that this file indeed does not exist, then realized something else when trying to 'c

Re: Problem adding user (4.8R)

From: "Johan Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:41 PM Subject: Problem adding user (4.8R) > Hi, > > I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 and tried to add > a user to the system using 'adduser foo'. > > I get a few questions and then this: > > -- 8< -- >

cvs co CVSROOT

dear list i just tried to cvs co CVSROOT in order to try out "setting up a CVS repository - the FreeBSD way" as described in the article of the same name in the docs section but there seem to be a few file missing in the CVSROOT i got trying modules as access got me an error message that the file

Re: Problem adding user (4.8R)

Johan Paul wrote: Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 and tried to add a user to the system using 'adduser foo'. I get a few questions and then this: -- 8< -- Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. Enter username [foo]: Please enter a username Enter use

Re: Apache Security

As I recall Microsoft offered a Unix version of frontpage server extensions actually. I do however remember it being a serious pain in the neck that wasn't worth the time it took to manage it. But that's just my $0.02. Jason - Original Message - From: "Matt Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: Problem adding user (4.8R)

>> I get a few questions and then this: >> >> -- 8< -- >> Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. >> Enter username [foo]: >> Please enter a username >> Enter username [foo]: foo >> Please enter a username >> Enter username [foo]: >> -- 8< -- >> >> ...wha

Re: Problem adding user (4.8R)

Stefan Prestele wrote: I think the problem is, that you have entered a user name when you were asked for a regex for user names. So restart adduser and read the questions properly. The question for a regular expression that user names have to match should be 'a-z0-9_-´ (whithout the quotes). Then

Re: 2 NIC's (one dhcp) and default route issue

The correct syntax is: supersede routers 0.0.0.0; Did you forget the semicolon in the config also? /etc/dhclient.conf is the way to do this, so make sure everything in the file is correct. Han Hwei Woo http://www.argosy.ca/~hhw - Original Message - From: "stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "F

list archives not searchable anymore?

Hi Using the page I try and search for any term at all and they all come back with no results. This happens on OS X Safari browser, OS X IE, and Windows XP IE6. Is this broken or am I just doing something wrong? thanks Chad ___

Re: OT Re: mozilla stalls

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:50:12AM -0500, Matthew Bettinger wrote: > On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:44 am, Matt Heath wrote: > > >I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): > > >The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. > > > > I get that too > > My mo

Re: A "softupdates" problem?

- Original Message - From: "Matthew Seaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:23 PM Subject: Re: A "softupdates" problem? > Hmmm... not an answer to the question you asked, but does > not: ># chflags nodump you

Re: list archives not searchable anymore?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:50:39PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > Using the page > I try and search for any term at all and they all come back with no > results. > > This happens on OS X Safari browser, OS X IE, and Windows X

Re: Bandwidth Question

From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I was wondering what is the best way to limit bandwidth to a set of IP > addresses? I've read some about dummynet. Would this be the preffered > tool to use? Yes - dummynet must be used in conjunction with ipfw. ipfw is for firewalling, but you can use it t

Transporting RAID-1 image from a 40G to a 80G set

Ok, I know this issue has been brought up in many variations in the past, but I would like to know how to make a disk-image of my RAID-1, in such a way that I can transport the image from a 40G to a 80G set (FreeBSD 4.7R). I know I can use dd to copy the data to another blank hard disk. But I wond

FReeBSD 5.1 and Promise TX4

Hello, Has nay one gotten FreeBSD 5.1 Release to install on a system that has both a Promise Ultra 66 and a Promise TX4 controller cards. The Promise Ultra 66 controller controls one 20GB hard disk drive (which I would like to be the boot disk) and the Promise TX4 has 4 HD's configured in

Disable PING command

How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page

Re: Disable PING command

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Nucking Futs wrote: > How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be > willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. Well - anyone could compile a fresh version; or copy a version from another machine into his home dir or

Re: Disable PING command

- Original Message - From: "Nucking Futs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:43 PM Subject: Disable PING command > How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be > willing to just disable the ping command altogether a

Re: Disable PING command

Nucking Futs wrote: How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. chmod 700 /usr/bin/ping (or /bin/ping) can't remember where ping lives. Adam ___

GDM and Metacity

Hi all, I'm trying to get GDM and Metacity running on FreeBSD 4.8. The first time I ran GDM, I got a message saying no XDMCP running. I then ran gdmsetup in an X session and set Enable XDMCP. Now I can run gdm and it exits without errors, but nothing comes up on screen 9. I see gdm-binary runn

Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > I suspect that XFree86 is just applying its default settings, given > that you haven't told it to do otherwise. Makes sense. I'm not complaining. > > Is xset the only thing that can make use of DPMS or is there a binary in > > the default / standard /

format of /etc/crontab?

The cron(8) man page (on my FreeBSD 4.7 system) says: Cron searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches for /etc/crontab which is in a different format (see crontab(5)). The crontab(5

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