Re: Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive

2003-10-21 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Paul Murphy: > I _can_ read/write to it as root, but I would really like to use it > as a non-root user. Any thoughts as to why this is happening? See FreeBSD FAQ[1]. Also, in /etc/fstab you may adjust the mode, see below -m700 for msdos filesystem: /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbkey msdos rw,-m700

Re: How to get out of Africa?

2003-10-21 Thread ogautherot
Hi Wayne! > Dear FreeBSD, > >During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. > >I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find > out to reset my time zone. > >Does anybody else know? I installed 5.1 from the CD. Did you try running sysinstall and rede

Where to find info on how to clean up port database properly?

2003-10-21 Thread Doug Lee
I have got to be missing something here... I need to find pointers on how to handle the various questions from running pkgdb -F. I'm afraid I may have made a mess, because I keep getting stuck trying to clean up the database. I didn't find any advice about these questions in the FreeBSD handbook

Hosed system

2003-10-21 Thread Shawn Ramsey
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no run-time symbol table I was messing around with libdes trying to get Diablo to compile... and am now getting this error :( Pretty much hosed the system. Any idea how I can fix this? HELP. :) Reinstalling the crypto package m

Re: Hosed system

2003-10-21 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no run-time > symbol table > > > I was messing around with libdes trying to get Diablo to compile... and am now > getting this error :( Pretty much hosed the system. Any idea how I can f

Re: Hosed system

2003-10-21 Thread Shawn Ramsey
> > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no run-time > > symbol table > > > > > > I was messing around with libdes trying to get Diablo to compile... and am now getting this error :( Pretty much hosed the system. Any idea how I can fix this? HELP. :) > > > > Reinstall

Re: not updating XFree86 related stuff while performing portupgrade

2003-10-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:05:22AM +0800, Michael Lee(HINET) wrote: > There is one thing that I am not sure of. I read again an article in FreeBSD > Diary > http://www.freebsddiary.org/portupgrade.php > and it said that if I force it to pkg_delete a certain package that other > packages depend on,

Re: Hosed system

2003-10-21 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > Operating system: i386-pc-freebsd4.8 > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no > run-time > symbol table > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no > run-time > symbol table > This system (FreeB

Re: weird KDE alt-tab problem

2003-10-21 Thread David Lodeiro
Hey, Have you tried changing your shortcut keys in kde go into the control center --> Regional & Accessibility --> Keyboard Shortcuts And change it so it doesnt happen anymore David Lodeiro > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:28 am, David Gerard wrote: > > Every now and then, I press alt-tab to

RE: Dialup firewalling with FreeBSD

2003-10-21 Thread Aaron Burke
> Hello, > I followed this doc to install my firewall. Upon reboot I get > about 12 lines > more or less like this: > > ipfw: size mismatch (have 176 need..) > It also says that dev tun0 doesn't exist. Does the tun0 device exist after boot? If so, I have faced a similar problem in the past.

RE: Hacking calendar(1)

2003-10-21 Thread Charles Howse
> On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 16:13:09 -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > > Hi, > > When I get my daily calendar email, there is no explanation of which > > entries come from which calendars. > > Other than hacking the source code, is there a way to get > some headers > > like this? > > > > Music His

Re: Noob FreeBSD 5.1 install question

2003-10-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:22:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A) I have reinstall freeBSD many times over and over. I work with W2k > machine at work and do a Unattended install when I don't want to select > the same options over and over again on multiple machines. Is there a way > I can

Re: Oracle client question

2003-10-21 Thread Nicolai P Guba
On Monday 20 October 2003 20:07, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Netra running Solaris8) to FreeBSD 5.x.  The problem is that I am > inextricably tied to Oracle. Oh dear. You have my most sincere sympathies ;) > And no, I don't believe Linux is being considered as an actual runtime > platform option. L

Re: How to get out of Africa?

2003-10-21 Thread Dan Welch
> During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. > I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find > out to reset my time zone. As root type /stand/sysinstall then select Configure from the menu and TimeZone from the next menu.

Re: Help with NV driver - More information part 2

2003-10-21 Thread Nicolai P Guba
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:49, Jason Dictos wrote: > Section "Monitor" >     Identifier  "NEC2080UX" >     HorizSync   74.9 >     VertRefresh 59.9 > EndSection Hmmm, are you sure this is correct? Shouldn't they rather be _ranges_ ? Just a stab in the dark... -- =NPG= ___

IPC with socket connection?

2003-10-21 Thread lbland
hi- I have two processes running on the same computer communicating with sockets created with AF_INET. It works extraordinarily well. I choose all the normal stuff to make the sockets, but I think if I choose some other flags, specific to IPC on the same computer, then the connection will be m

What is a "unit" number of a device

2003-10-21 Thread rk47
What is a "unit" number of a device and how does it relate to the minor number of the device. Is there a generic relationship or dowes it differ between devives. TIA Riaan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Murphy
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:15:58 +0200 Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Paul Murphy: > > > I _can_ read/write to it as root, but I would really like to use > > it > > as a non-root user. Any thoughts as to why this is happening? > > See FreeBSD FAQ[1]. Also, in /etc/fstab y

Re: Oracle client question

2003-10-21 Thread Michael L. Squires
> Here's the real question: Is anyone out there linking CLIENT > applications that successfully connect to a separate Oracle server? Procedures for installing Oracle 9i under FreeBSD 5.X were posted to the freebsd-databases mailing list recently. Since the server install also installs client sof

Re: Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive

2003-10-21 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Paul Murphy: > Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Paul Murphy: > > > > > I _can_ read/write to it as root, but I would really like to use > > > it as a non-root user. Any thoughts as to why this is happening? > > > > [...] in /etc/fstab you may adjust the mode, see belo

Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I would like to know where pkg_add keeps its configuration file? I mean when I execute the command 'pkg_add -r bzip2' how does it know that it needs to fetch it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/./packages-4-stable/ as opposed to packages-4-current? Also, along the same note, I searched through the h

Recommendation for a live streamer that can take audio input

2003-10-21 Thread srenna
Hello BSDers, Wanted to know if anyone out there had a recommendation for a good audio streaming program. I had used the shoutcast DSP plugin and shoutcast executable server from shoutcast previously on 4.8, but I was never able to get it to work on 5.0. Has anyone set anything like this up on 5

Re: Wireless setups

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Luke Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 19 Oct 2003 21:53:15 -0400 > Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > Luke Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi There, > > > I have recently installed 4.8R on my IBM Thinkpad notebook which > > > fortunately includes a wireles

Re: question for portupgrade

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Michael Lee(HINET)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > After cvsupping the port tree ( originally installed by FreeBSD 5.1 Release > CD ), > I tried to do a portupgrade -acCv last night. > Everything seems to be upgraded fine except for Apache. > > The originally installed apache is apache-1

Re: mplayer + sound problem

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
please. top-post, Don't Bryan Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had a big problem yesterday with the PC. Don't want to get into that > but I had to reinstall.. Now that I did a reinstall I can play the video > in mplayer but no sound. For example I am tryin to play the new > IBM/Linux comme

Problems with /usr/libexec/save-entropy

2003-10-21 Thread Robert Small
Ok, I'm an idiot! I MUST have done something to my system yesterday. It's been running fine, and around 3:00pm yesterday, I started receiving emails from Cron "/usr/local/save-entropy" saying: *User: not found I've tried everything, and looking into everything. I've checked my master.passwd and

Re: restoring DOS partition from a tar file

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kent Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to backup a DOS partition (bootable) & restore it from a tar > file? I recently had a disk failure & used dump/restore on FreeBSD partitions > & made a tar dump of the DOS one. After "newfs_msdos" & "tar x", the > partition is not bootabl

console connectivity question.

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Hogan
I have installed FreeBSD v4.8 on an Intel system that had a monitor and a keyboard attached at the time of install. I would now like to remove the monitor and keyboard and have a headless unit however I can't seem to make the serial port work as a console. Can't someone direct me to where to

Re: Problems with /usr/libexec/save-entropy

2003-10-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:10:55AM -0500, Robert Small typed: > Ok, I'm an idiot! I MUST have done something to my system yesterday. It's been > running fine, and around 3:00pm yesterday, I started receiving emails from Cron > "/usr/local/save-entropy" saying: > > *User: not found Look for the

Re: console connectivity question.

2003-10-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:11:53AM -0600, Tim Hogan typed: > I have installed FreeBSD v4.8 on an Intel system that had a monitor and > a keyboard attached at the time of install. I would now like to remove > the monitor and keyboard and have a headless unit however I can't seem > to make the se

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:27:42AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I would like to know where pkg_add keeps its configuration file? I mean > when I execute the command 'pkg_add -r bzip2' how does it know that it > needs to fetch it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/./packages-4-stable/ > as opposed t

cvsuping 5.x source

2003-10-21 Thread Lute Mullenix
Hi I have been trying to use cvsup to update my 5.1 install, but something is not working right on this end. I have read the section in the handbook several times but still can't get it to work. This is the supfile that I am using with cvsup: # *default host=cvsup9.FreeBSD.org *default base=/us

Re: console connectivity question.

2003-10-21 Thread Brendan Kelliher
Tim, I usually add "-h" to /boot.config and edit the "ttyd0" line in /etc/ttys to look something like: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure Also see the FreeBSD handbook entry on this subject: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-se

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:27:42AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I would like to know where pkg_add keeps its configuration file? I mean > when I execute the command 'pkg_add -r bzip2' how does it know that it > needs to fetch it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/./packages-4-stable/ > as opposed t

Re: console connectivity question.

2003-10-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setu p.html - Original Message - From: "Ruben de Groot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tim Hogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: Re: console connectivity question.

Re: cvsuping 5.x source

2003-10-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:26:14AM -0500, Lute Mullenix wrote: > Hi I have been trying to use cvsup to update my 5.1 install, but > something is not working right on this end. I have read the section > in the handbook several times but still can't get it to work. > > This is the supfile that I am

Re: Problems with /usr/libexec/save-entropy

2003-10-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:10:55AM -0500, Robert Small wrote: > Ok, I'm an idiot! I MUST have done something to my system yesterday. It's been > running fine, and around 3:00pm yesterday, I started receiving emails from Cron > "/usr/local/save-entropy" saying: > > *User: not found > > I've trie

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
The reason I am asking all these questions is that I am exploring the possibility of of writing an apt-get like application for FreeBSD (call it apt-pkg). Apt-get was written to help out dpkg in Debian. pkg_add has a lot more features than dpkg but not the update/upgrade features of apt-get. So pkg

Re: IPFW Antics

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Tom Servo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Each time that I see the request dialog come up in my IRC client the request > times out because I think that my gateway is dropping the request packets > instead of forwarding them to my IRC machine. I know that ircd usually runs > on port 6667 so I am g

log_in_vain trouble

2003-10-21 Thread Kenton Brede
I've got two very similar systems, the one in question - FreeBSD janis 4.8-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 #0: Thu Oct 16 09:58:29 CDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM i386 I can't seem to get log_in_vain to work. I've added log_in_vain="YES" to rc.conf. I went so far as

Re: [freebsd-questions] root passwd change

2003-10-21 Thread Eric Pogroski
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:55:54 -0400 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Pogroski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:37:19 + > > DanB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is there other way to change the root password that been lost > > > without shutting dow

Re: VXA-2 Packet Drive

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Jeronimo Romero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know if FreeBSD supports Exabyte VXA-2 Packet Drives?? > We are interested in purchasing one but i didn't see it in the > hardware compatibility list and we wanted to make > sure. I believe those devices are SCSI, in which case they shou

USB and routing...

2003-10-21 Thread Henrik W Lund
...but not necessarily in relation to one another. ;-) This is my second go at FreeBSD, and it's my umpteenth one with UNIXes in general. Having done my share of Linux (with one recent battle being setting up a web/mail/NFS/NIS/Samba server for a school project. *puh* I thought I knew what frustra

Re: console connectivity question.

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Hogan
Thnaks to all who replied. Tim > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setu > p.html > - Original Message - > From: "Ruben de Groot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tim Hogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:20

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Q
You might want to look at the portupgrade tool in the ports collection. It supports a '-P' flag that tells it to use packages instead of compiling from source. It does an excellent job of handling dependencies (if used correctly), and is very easy to use. It may be better to create a "friendly fac

Re: USB and routing...

2003-10-21 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 17:26, Henrik W Lund wrote: > ...but not necessarily in relation to one another. ;-) > > This is my second go at FreeBSD, and it's my umpteenth one with UNIXes in > general. Having done my share of Linux (with one recent battle being > setting up a web/mail/NFS/NIS/Samba

Automatic mounting of removable meadia

2003-10-21 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, Is it possible to automatically mount media when they are inserted? From the GNOME 2.4 documentation (Nautilus, 1.8.1:To mount Media): " If your system is not configured to mount the device automatically, you must mount the device manually. Right-click on the desktop, then choose Disks-

unable to use multiple exports for mountd

2003-10-21 Thread Jason Cribbins
I have been dealing with this problem for many years and never really found a reasonable solution or explanation and now it has come to a point where I can no longer find work arounds to make it work the way I need it. How do I export more than one folder for export with different options for each

SCSI Host Adapter recommendation

2003-10-21 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I am building a department level server and am going to be running Freebsd & Samba on it instead of the windows headache. The machine is going to have a 12/24GB Dat tape drive, and so I'm looking to find an inexpensive, but works straight out of the box with FreeBSD scsi host adapter.

Re: Automatic mounting of removable meadia

2003-10-21 Thread Eric Pogroski
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:19:08 +0200 Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > Is it possible to automatically mount media when they are inserted? > From the GNOME 2.4 documentation (Nautilus, 1.8.1:To mount Media): > > " > If your system is not configured to mount the device auto

Re: SCSI Host Adapter recommendation

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Hovey
I used to go with adeptecs, but now use tekrams - they seem faster. On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings, > I am building a department level server and > am going to be running Freebsd & Samba on > it instead of the windows headache. The > machine is going to have a 12/24GB Dat

gettext compile problem

2003-10-21 Thread Aaron Sloan
Hello viewers. Can someone talk me through on what to look for so I can start solving these myself.. Information: 4.8 stable / gettext-0.12.1 I have tried removing from distfiles and remaking and reinstall.. I can follow some of what is going on here, but can you give me some detail? What is my

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:27:42AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I would like to know where pkg_add keeps its configuration file? I mean > when I execute the command 'pkg_add -r bzip2' how does it know that it > needs to fetch it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/./packages-4-stable/ > as opposed t

Re: Hosed system

2003-10-21 Thread Shawn Ramsey
> > Operating system: i386-pc-freebsd4.8 > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no > > run-time > > symbol table > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no > > run-time > > symbol table > > This system (FreeBSD-elf) is not supported.

RE: Help with NV driver - More information part 2

2003-10-21 Thread Jason Dictos
Well, I've tried ranges too with the same results -Jason -Original Message- From: Nicolai P Guba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:49, Jason Dictos wrote: > Section "Monitor" >     Identifier  "NEC

Re: unable to use multiple exports for mountd

2003-10-21 Thread Charles Swiger
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 11:21 AM, Jason Cribbins wrote: I have been dealing with this problem for many years and never really found a reasonable solution or explanation and now it has come to a point where I can no longer find work arounds to make it work the way I need it. How do I export

Installing an Unsupported Driver

2003-10-21 Thread wilddragon
I have an old HP J2575 10/100 ethernet card that does not seem to be supported by FreeBSD. I found a driver for it on the Debian Linus web site. Can I install the Debian driver in FreeBSD, or must I switch to Debian to make this particular machine useful? If I can install a new driver in Fre

Re: SCSI Host Adapter recommendation

2003-10-21 Thread Marc Wiz
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:30:15AM -0400, Steve Hovey wrote: > > I used to go with adeptecs, but now use tekrams - they seem faster. > On another mailing the general opinion is that Adaptec host adapters are overpriced. I am using a LSI Logic U160 adapter in my system. Marc -- Marc Wiz [EMAI

Re: Help with NV driver - More information part 2

2003-10-21 Thread Nicolai P Guba
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 17:30, Jason Dictos wrote: > Well, I've tried ranges too with the same results I'd suggest you leave the ranges in for starters... then what does the XServer's log file say? Logging has been vastly improved in XFree over the years... -- =NPG= ___

Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
Hi, I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things set up to see my website on the Internet. I know people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually am. :-) My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and I'm serving on port 8080. I can bring up the site no problem on my LAN- http:

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Micke P wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things > set up to see my website on the Internet. I know > people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually am. > :-) > > My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and > I'm serving on port 808

Postfix smtp connect problem

2003-10-21 Thread dhull
I am running FreeBSD stable (4.9 pre) I installed Postfix from ports. If I log onto the server I can send mail using the "mail" command. If I try an external mail client it times out. For some reasion postfix is not allowing connections other then local host. Can someone tell me how to fix t

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread whizkid
> > Hi, > > I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things > set up to see my website on the Internet. I know > people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually am. > :-) > > My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and > I'm serving on port 8080. I can bring up the site no > problem

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
Hi Viktor, See comments below. --- Viktor Lazlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Micke P wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get > things > > set up to see my website on the Internet. I know > > people like to claim to be

Re: Postfix smtp connect problem

2003-10-21 Thread Sven Pfeifer
Hi, dhull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running FreeBSD stable (4.9 pre) > > I installed Postfix from ports. > > If I log onto the server I can send mail using the "mail" > command. If I try an external mail client it times out. > > For some reasion postfix is not allowing connections oth

Re: Noob FreeBSD 5.1 install question

2003-10-21 Thread whizkid
> Well, there's no law that says you *have* to use the ports system, but > it's pretty strange not to take advantage of something so good... > There are pre-compiled packages available, but these generally don't > track the latest upstream updates to the ported software very > efficiently. The por

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get > things > > set up to see my website on the Internet. I know > > people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually > am. > > :-) > > > > My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 > and > > I'm se

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread whizkid
> I opened the port on my (hardware) router box, not the > FreeBSD firewall. Internet -> ISP -> Modem -> Router > -> FreeBSD box. Hopefully that's all I need to do to > forward the port 8080 packets. Do I need to configure > the FreeBSD firewall settings as well to reflect the > port? no, if you c

Re: Re: Postfix smtp connect problem

2003-10-21 Thread dhull
I think I found the problem. It had something to do with the "aliases" file. I noticed this when I ran "postfix start" at the command line. Before that I was doing everything from webmin. Webmin is nice but in this case it didn't give me any error messages. Not good. ---Original Mess

vncserver, rc.local, and blackbox problem

2003-10-21 Thread Scott I. Remick
Ok, for today's edition of Show Scott What Stupid Thing He Missed... Trying to set up a dedicated VNC/ethereal server, so I'm trying to have vncserver run from rc.local (using su to run it as a user and not root). Ran into some path issues to make vncserver happy, which I resolved, but for some r

Linux ABI using existing linux setup?

2003-10-21 Thread Andrew Barnert
Hi there. After years of not using BSD, I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.1, and I have some questions about the linux ABI (plus a few other BSD questions). The short version is: Can I use an existing linux installation instead of linux_base (and if so, what do I need to do to set it up), and can

Linux ABI using existing linux setup?

2003-10-21 Thread andi payn
Hi there. After years of not using BSD, I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.1, and I have some questions about the linux ABI (plus a few other BSD questions). The short version is: Can I use an existing linux installation instead of linux_base (and if so, what do I need to do to set it up), and can

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Everlund
Micke P wrote: Hi, I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things set up to see my website on the Internet. I know people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually am. :-) My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and I'm serving on port 8080. I can bring up the site no problem on

A couple of ATI video questions

2003-10-21 Thread andi payn
Hi again. I've got a few more questions, this time about ATI Mach64/Rage video support. Under Linux (until the 2.4.22 kernel's ServerWorks fix broke mtrr support on my machine), I was able to get xv and DRI support on my system (ATI 3D Rage IIc), over a number of versions of XF86 (previously with

Re: How to get out of Africa?

2003-10-21 Thread CBuH.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It'll be very easy for U: man tzsetup do it under root -- it has a text-mode dialog-based interface. WBR, CBuH. On Tuesday 21 October 2003 22:24, Wayne M Barnes wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > >During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my

Re: USB and routing...

2003-10-21 Thread Henrik W Lund
Quoting "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 17:26, Henrik W Lund wrote: > > ...but not necessarily in relation to one another. ;-) > > > > This is my second go at FreeBSD, and it's my umpteenth one with UNIXes in > > general. Having done my share of Linux (wit

login.conf and accents weirdness

2003-10-21 Thread Joan Picanyol
[please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] Hi, I can't see accents in mutt's internal pager (even though I can see them in vim). I've read iconv(), terminfo() and the Internalization section in the Handbook among others, but I'm out of ideas. I've tried setting LANG=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15 (al

viapm

2003-10-21 Thread David Brinegar
Anyone able to read temperatures on a VIA EPIA-M 1, or working on updating viapm? I built a 4.8 kernel with smbus, viapm, etc, but the hardware monitor programs complain about /dev/smb0 and nothing shows in dmesg about smb. The viapm device looks like it was last updated for VT8233A, and the

Need some insight on error messages that I am getting.

2003-10-21 Thread Marshall Heartley
Hello list, I have decided to give FreeBSD a try but I am having a issue that I need help with. I apologize for the length of the email. I just want to ensure that I give enough information to see if anyone can help. Well I am running FreeBSD 4.8. It (FreeBSD) is installed on the second hdd

Re: viapm

2003-10-21 Thread David Brinegar
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ATA mirroring solution required

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, Got a bit of a sticky situation. I have a bog standard Compaq AP230 workstation with two IDE channels and 3 devices so far (two CDROM devices and a hard disk). I want to add a second disk as a software RAID1 mirror of the primary disk. I know how to do this in FreeBSD so thats not a problem

RE: Help with NV driver - More information part 2 - SOLVED

2003-10-21 Thread Jason Dictos
Hi All, After setting the sysctl machdep.disable_mtrrs="1" in loader.conf I was able to re-use the nvidia.ko module without it hosing my server! Thanks, -Jason -Original Message- From: Jason Dictos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:30 AM To: 'Nicolai

natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Michelle
i am running freebsd 4.6.2. i have 2 nic cards on the machine, one which is the external interface and connects to a router which connects to dsl. the other is internal interface for our subnet. i have enabled natd on the machine, but still cannot get packets out when on the subnet. i can s

RE: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Tyler McGeorge
The next question on my mind would be whether or not you've established routes? `man route` Hope it helps, Tyler McGeorge ...to the rescue... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michelle Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: ATA mirroring solution required

2003-10-21 Thread Tyler McGeorge
Well, if you're willing to spend some money, getting a hardware RAID1 2-channel IDE controller would be the way to go. As a cheaper alternative, I, personally, would change the drive configuration so that each channel had a HDD master and a CDROM slave. Hope this helps, Tyler McGeorge ...to the r

Equal bandwidth sharing by all hosts using dummynet

2003-10-21 Thread Alhagie Puye
Hi all, First of all, I have spent a lot of time reading up on it. Anyway, I live in a shared accomodation with 2 roommates and a landlord and we share a cable internet connection. It is 2Mbit/400Kbit connection. Sometimes when one of us is downloading a song through Kazaa or a new Linux or FreeB

MOXA C168H/PCI 8 Port serial card

2003-10-21 Thread Lutz Rabing
Hi list, I'm trying to use a combination of two AST-4-Port ISA serial cards with one MOXA 8-Port serial PCI card... no luck so far. Both AST cards and the 2 onboard ports work fine, only the MOXA PCI card ports refuse to work: cu -l cuaa10 cu: open (/dev/cuaa10): Device not configured cu: cuaa

Re: ATA mirroring solution required

2003-10-21 Thread Thomas Spreng
hello, On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:47:36PM +0100, Chris Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Got a bit of a sticky situation. I have a bog standard Compaq AP230 > workstation with two IDE channels and 3 devices so far (two CDROM > devices and a hard disk). I want to add a second disk as a software > RAID1 mir

pppoe for 5.1 doesn't work IAW handbook or rc.conf options

2003-10-21 Thread John Estess
The title just about says it all. The handbook, rc.conf, and the ppp man page don't jive and no single one them works. This is really annoying because I had this working with DSL some time ago, but I can't get it going with my cable modem (Redhat and XP worked). Could someone please post the REAL

Re: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Michelle
i thought one only needed to use route command when routing between 3 or more networks. i have a local LAN and a subnet. however, i tried the command: route add -net 192.x.x.x 64.x.x.x i received the error message: route: writing to routing socket: File exists add net 192.x.x.x: gateway 64.x.x

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
--- Paul Everlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micke P wrote: > > My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 > and > > I'm serving on port 8080. I can bring up the site > no > > problem on my LAN- http://192.168.254.25:8080/, > but > > not outside. > > > > My ISP is earthlink and it's a dyna

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I opened the port on my (hardware) router box, not > the > > FreeBSD firewall. Internet -> ISP -> Modem -> > Router > > -> FreeBSD box. Hopefully that's all I need to do > to > > forward the port 8080 packets. Do I need to > configure > > the FreeBSD firewall setti

Re: Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Murphy
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:26:17 +0200 Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Paul Murphy: > > > Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > * Paul Murphy: > > > > > > > I _can_ read/write to it as root, but I would really like to > > > > use > > > > it as a non-root use

/dist directory missing on 5.1 mfsroot disk??

2003-10-21 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, I am having a peculiar problem with installing 5.1, has anyone successfully used the floppies (made from the ISO image) to boot and install from a CD or DOS partion? When I try I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: No such file or directory (2) My cd rom appears to b

Re: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Alhagie Puye
Are you using ipfw or ipfilter? --- Michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am not aware of a natd.conf file. i edited the > rc.conf file to > enable natd and specify the interface. the firewall > rule i am using > for natd is: add divert natd all from any to any via > fxp0. > > On Tuesday, O

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Murphy
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Micke P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I opened the port on my (hardware) router box, not > > the > > > FreeBSD firewall. Internet -> ISP -> Modem -> > > Router > > > -> FreeBSD box. Hopefully that's all I need to do > >

Re: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Michelle
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 04:08 PM, Alhagie Puye wrote: Are you using ipfw or ipfilter? ipfw --- Michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i am not aware of a natd.conf file. i edited the rc.conf file to enable natd and specify the interface. the firewall rule i am using for natd is: add dive

Re: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Alhagie Puye
Check this out: http://freebsd.peon.net/tutorials/12/ Cheers, Alhagie --- Michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 04:08 PM, Alhagie > Puye wrote: > > > Are you using ipfw or ipfilter? > > ipfw > > > > > > --- Michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> i am not

make buildworld error

2003-10-21 Thread Grzegorz Neon
Hello, I installed 4.8 yesterday and i need to upgrade it but I'm getting this error when i try to do make buildworld: ===> usr.sbin/boot0cfg cc -O -pipe -march=k6 -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing- prototypes -W pointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wwrite- strings - W

errors with orb drive

2003-10-21 Thread David Bear
I have a castlewood 2.2 gig orb drive in my system. Today, it gave me the follow error: ad1: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ad1 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0) trying PIO mode ad1: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. ad0: DMA limited t

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