The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-09-05 - 2004-09-25

2004-09-26 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list arc

RE: PHP Problem

2004-09-26 Thread JohnsoBS
-Original Message- From: Richard Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 5:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: PHP Problem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You installed the CGI port.. You need to install the apache module. CGI > doesn't al

Re: Mouse wheel on XOrg 6.7.0 (FreeBSD 5.3-beta5)

2004-09-26 Thread Seahawk
I've had my mousewheel running under XOrg, these are the following lines I put in the two following files rc.conf: moused_enable="YES" moused_type="auto" moused_flags="-z 4" xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protoco

Re: Portupgrade problem, possible pkgdb problem?

2004-09-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 06:14:18PM -0700, Matt Navarre wrote: > On Saturday 25 September 2004 05:13, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > It could be a problem with the DBDriver. You could try this: > > Edit /root/.cs... > > and add > > PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash > > PKG_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash > Doesn't the DBDR

Re: Star Office for Mac OS10

2004-09-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 06:16:15PM -0400, Charmian Lang wrote: > A friend of mine recommended I download Star Office for my Mac, to > take the place of MSW, which I cannot afford. I don't understand how > your website works; ergo, how to access information on this software > and instructions

adduser error

2004-09-26 Thread Brett Wiggins
Hi everyone, I am having some problems adding new users to my system. When I use adduser or sysinstall to create a user I get the following error message; pw: user 'testuser' disappeared during update adduser: ERROR: There was an error adding user (testuser). What does this error

problems with boot loader stage1

2004-09-26 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi FreeBSD-Gurus! [Please Cc: me] Short Description: FreeBSD 4.10, installed on /dev/hde (linux lingo), booting via lilo (on hda) -> hde goes to stage0 but stops there. Longer: Recently I have installed FreeBSD (4.10) for compiling TeXlive binaries for i386-freebsd. I used some disk space on ad4

Question

2004-09-26 Thread 15218162
Regards, I have one question. When will come FreeBSD 5.3 release ? If you can tell me approximately date.. Thanks, Urh Lednik Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Question

2004-09-26 Thread Simon Barner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Regards, > > I have one question. > When will come FreeBSD 5.3 release ? > If you can tell me approximately date.. "When it's ready." The schedule is here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html pgpi7tLJBMEds.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question

2004-09-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 01:15:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have one question. > When will come FreeBSD 5.3 release ? > If you can tell me approximately date.. Plan is 10th October. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Ma

BEEP on halt?

2004-09-26 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I've seen this addressed in various places, and I can't find a solid answer. Is there some way to make a FreeBSD system beep when it's been successfully shut down. -Dan -- Hate fedora with a white hot burning passion right now though ... damn thing is Linux-XP(tm) -Bill Nolan 2/24/04

PHP Install Options Problem

2004-09-26 Thread Richard Collyer
Hi All, I'm running FBSD 4.10 and recently had some problems with php. So i decided to de-install it and start again to see if that would help. Basically functions started to fail in "Fatal Errors" after upgrading to a newer version. Now when installing the package (from ports) it does not give

Re: PHP Install Options Problem

2004-09-26 Thread Steve Hodgson
On Sunday 26 September 2004 14:00, Richard Collyer wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm running FBSD 4.10 and recently had some problems with php. So i > decided to de-install it and start again to see if that would help. > Basically functions started to fail in "Fatal Errors" after upgrading > to a newer ver

Re: PHP Install Options Problem

2004-09-26 Thread Mick Walker
On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 14:00, Richard Collyer wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm running FBSD 4.10 and recently had some problems with php. So i > decided to de-install it and start again to see if that would help. > Basically functions started to fail in "Fatal Errors" after upgrading > to a newer version

locating origin of spammer

2004-09-26 Thread Joseph Koening (jWeb)
I got up this morning and discovered that someone sent some spam through one of my servers. The messages were sent from the 'www' user on localhost, which is leading me to think somewhere someone has an insecure php or perl script that is allowing someone to designate the recipient, the subject, bo

Running NAT and can't Ping

2004-09-26 Thread Shu Bin Zhu
I have a strange problem. Here is my setup. ISP 1ISP 2 || Router 1Router 2 192.168.0.1 Internet Address A || || -- Switch -

Re: locating origin of spammer

2004-09-26 Thread Joseph Koening (jWeb)
Right after I posted this I did locate an old version of formmail.pl and disabled it until the customer can replace it with a more secure version. Thanks. > I got up this morning and discovered that someone sent some spam through > one of my servers. The messages were sent from the 'www' user on >

Re: locating origin of spammer

2004-09-26 Thread Peter Risdon
Joseph Koening (jWeb) wrote: I got up this morning and discovered that someone sent some spam through one of my servers. The messages were sent from the 'www' user on localhost, which is leading me to think somewhere someone has an insecure php or perl script that is allowing someone to designate t

Installing Free BSD 5.21

2004-09-26 Thread Chris Winkler
I have had a crash on my computer I try to install McAfee Internet Security 6.0 I keep getting this error message. The Wizard was interrupted before 6.o could be completely installed. It say new program when I check McAfee it says it is empty. Will installing this help this problem. I don't kno

UNIX

2004-09-26 Thread anton Sothinathan
Hi I was told that I could learn UNIX for free on this site. If so please let me know how. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

question

2004-09-26 Thread raju raju
% man 1 chmo whaT does (%) sign means here? root ,user or something else? Note ! [greypixel.gif] Alternatively please send me mails on [i.p.emphone.gif] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and also please add me in your messenger [greypixel.gif] ___

Re: question

2004-09-26 Thread Bill Moran
"raju raju" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >% man 1 chmo > >whaT does (%) sign means here? root ,user or something else? % is the prompt. In the FreeBSD docs, the % prompt means the example was done as root, while the $ prompt means that the example was done as a normal user. Most shell

Re: UNIX

2004-09-26 Thread Bill Moran
"anton Sothinathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I was told that I could learn UNIX for free on this site. If so please > let me know how. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://

Re: Installing Free BSD 5.21

2004-09-26 Thread stheg olloydson
It was said: >I have had a crash on my computer I try to install McAfee Internet = >Security 6.0 I keep getting this error message. The Wizard was >interrupted before 6.o could be completely installed. It say new >program = >when I check McAfee it says it is empty. Will installing this=20 >help th

Re: UNIX

2004-09-26 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >I was told that I could learn UNIX for free on this site. If so please = >let me know how. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Welcome to FreeBSD! You certainly can learn about unix type OSs here. The best place to start is with the Handbook. the URL is http://www.freebsd.

Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-26 Thread Eric Crist
Hello list, I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other servers out there. ;) One of my friends needs backup DNS/Mail in the e

Re: question

2004-09-26 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: > % man 1 chmo > > whaT does (%) sign means here? root ,user or something else? > > Note ! [greypixel.gif] > Alternatively please send me mails on [i.p.emphone.gif] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and also please add me in your messenger > [greypixel.gif] Hello, The % is the "shell prompt.

Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install

2004-09-26 Thread Mayo Jordanov
You could also try BootPart (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) which should be able to either repair the nt loader or be able to figure out what's on which partition and change your boot.ini appropriately. (At least it used to be able to do that back when I used it) m On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 0

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-26 Thread Bill Moran
Eric Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup > mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I > don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other > servers out there. ;

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:19:56PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup > mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I > don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other > servers out th

Re: locating origin of spammer

2004-09-26 Thread Richard Lynch
Joseph Koening (jWeb) wrote: > I got up this morning and discovered that someone sent some spam through > one of my servers. The messages were sent from the 'www' user on > localhost, which is leading me to think somewhere someone has an insecure > php or perl script that is allowing someone to des

help please

2004-09-26 Thread Aaron
I will like to thank you before hand for what you are doing for bsd user. I am a new bsd user who is trying to learn how to buil a kernel or custimize it. I am reading the book absolute bsd and I am using 5.1 version . I followed the step in configuring my kernel. I ran the cvsup update before

make chmod changes to /dev files (bpf devices)

2004-09-26 Thread Eric Crist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What do I have to do to make chmod changes to my bpf devices so that they'll return that way once I reboot? Thanks Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkFXEnUACgkQRAAY9knOW+r4

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Eric Crist wrote: [ ... ] One of my friends needs backup DNS/Mail in the even their connection goes down. How do I go about setting it up so that his user base (about 80 users) will not see any problems in mail transmission and reception if their primary servers go offline. I would like mine t

Re: Screen recording utility

2004-09-26 Thread Daniela
On Saturday 25 September 2004 14:16, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Thursday 23 September 2004 19:18, Daniela wrote: > > VNC is probably a bit too much overhead. > > There must be some device file where all the screen data goes to. If I > > knew the name of this file, I could write a program that read

Re: make chmod changes to /dev files (bpf devices)

2004-09-26 Thread Daniela
On Sunday 26 September 2004 19:03, Eric Crist wrote: > What do I have to do to make chmod changes to my bpf devices so that > they'll return that way once I reboot? I don't know if there's a simpler way, but you could try to make the change from one of the /etc/rc* scripts. Regards, Daniela ___

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-26 Thread Martin Paredes
On Friday 24 September 2004 22:48, Saccheen Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie to FreeBSD. I have a Pentium 3, 5oo IBM > computer that I put two hard drives in. I added a 4.3G > hard drive (master) and an 80G hard drive (slave). > Initially, windows XP was installed on both hard > drives. you

HP psc 2175 doesn't work

2004-09-26 Thread Goncalves Dominique
Hi I have a HP PSC 2175 printer USB, i have installed from ports cups and hpoj. ( FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 ) My printer is detected : venus# dmesg | grep ulpt ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard PSC 2170 Series, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3, iclass 255/204 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode To configure cups i must befor

FreeBSD BETA5 & BETA6 won't boot

2004-09-26 Thread Pratt, Benjamin E.
I'm trying to install FreeBSD BETA #6 onto my computer but the burned ISO won't boot. The boot is stalling just after detecting my CD-RW drive. I'm not sure if it's with the CD-RW detecting or with mounting the root file system. I also had the same problem when I CVSUPed my system from 5.2.1

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-26 Thread Saccheen Martin
Hi, I still cannot boot Windows so I set the BIOS to boot from the slave hard disk that has Windows first and it gave me the following error: NTLDR is missing press ATL-CTRL-DEL to restart --- Martin Paredes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 24 September 2004 22:48, Saccheen Martin > wrote