Hi Chris,
>
> The pkg_create man page advises to ``use a front-end tool for the job
> rather than muddling through it yourself''
Did you receive any response to this particular question? I have only
lately noticed this anomaly myself, and wished that it read "... a
front-end tool, such as
Would be real nice to be able to remove mass groups of options with one
nooptions
nooptions scsi or nooptionsgroup scsi
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To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
It means an account that can not be logged in to.
The in the hash algorithm used in master.password nothing encrypts to * so
no possible password will ever match the encrypted value * thus locking out
the account from login.
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On 16 Sep Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> On Friday 16 September 2005 11:20 am, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > I googled and googled and found quite some references to this, but
> > NONE have the answer where this errormessage comes from.
> >
> > It started after a small X crash. All *seems* to work well,
> >
On 16 Sep cpghost wrote:
> While doing 'portupgrade -a', I regulary experience problems while
> fetching KDE distfiles from the first host in the MASTER_SITE_KDE list
> (in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk), ftp.scarlet.be. This site apparently
> stalls connections (instead of dropping them?), which slow
Hi,
I've been setting the DESTDIR environment var when installing into a jail,
either by first performing:
setenv DESTDIR /usr/jail/example
and then installing world, or by running:
make installworld DESTDIR=/usr/jail/example
Both methods work ok. However, I've been studying sh
I've spent a lot of time looking into how to set up multiple monitors,
and I'm kind of clueless. I'm not great with configuring stuff in the
first place, so that's probably why I'm having trouble.
Anyway I've got a Dell 2001fp and a Viewsonic vp201, hooked up to a
GeForce4 Ti4600. Right now I've
El día miércoles, septiembre 14, 2005 a las 11:31:31 +0200, Matthias Apitz
escribió:
...
> they work in FreeBSD with Xorg as well but some FreeBSD commands
> don't show the chars very well:
>
> $ cat espanol
> áéíóñÁÉÍÓ¡¿
> $ od -c espanol
> 000 341 351 355 363 361 301 311 315 323 2
# Jordan Freeman:
> Here's the output. Any assistance would be apprecaited.
>
> make
> Warning: Object directory not changed from original
> /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
> cc -O2 -pipe -march=pentium3
[...]
> -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL -I/usr/local/lib -o sendmail
[...]
> /u
# Pat Maddox:
> Anyway I've got a Dell 2001fp and a Viewsonic vp201, hooked up to a
> GeForce4 Ti4600.
You'll need to run the binary nvidia-driver (~ports/x11/nvidia-driver)
for this to work. Once that works, the xorg.conf-entries are rather
simple:
# see /usr/X11R6/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0 fo
I'm trying to get SPF working on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine. I've added the
sid-milter from ports, and it appears to be working. But I've set up a
test domain with, what I believe to be a correct SPF
record. The domain is i-v-o.net , and here's the yxy record for that
domain:
i-v-o.net text =
>
> Hi
> I have partitioned a disk using bsdlabel and I have used
> the c partition for the entire disk. According to the manual
> this mean I have used the disk in dedicated mode.
No, it does not mean you have used it in "dedicated" mode
(or 'dangerously dedicated' mode). That is something els
I use FreeBsd 5 generic Kernel. I have a takeMS mem drive 2.0 , 1G capacity ,
for USB . The system recognizes the USB port but when i plug the device in i
get an error message after 20-30 seconds. The device is not listed within the
hardware compatibility list of the USB Mass-Storage daemon ( um
Good day!
My question deals with VESA-patch, which was commited some time ago
into CURRENT. I dont' know if it is a known bug or a bad luck of mine
so I ask... Yet before I've tested VESA-patch with 5.3-RELEASE and
5.4-RELEASE, and currently I'm using 6.0-BETA4. And everytime I've got
one the same
Hi! Recently I've bought USB-Bluetooth-adapter and made the following
changes to setup it in FreeBSD: added ng_ubt_load="YES"
to /boot/loader.conf,
cp'ed /usr/share/examples/netgraph/bluetooth/rc.bluetooth
to /etc/rc.bluetooth, chmod'ed 555 /etc/rc.bluetooth and
changed wrote next lines in /etc/rc.
Valerio daelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it preferable to use another partition?
At least because /boot.config only works on "a", it has been
recommened that "a" be used, and maybe because almost every one uses
it, I've never learned what bad things happen if you don't use "a".
You're unli
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:05:44AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> > Is there a more permanent way to drop this site without having to
> > manually edit bsd.sites.mk after every cvsup of the ports tree? Some
> > magic variable to set in /etc/rc.conf or so? Any idea?
>
> What I did was: put this s
Joel Hatton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> # E.g. use `env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/somewhere/obj make'
>
> However, and at this risk of exposing my inexperience and just plain old
> sounding foolish, how does this method of setting MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX differ
> from:
>
> setenv MAKE
Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am using a test system and have been try to get the nvidia drivers
> working.
>
> I am running freebsd 5.3 release, nvidia ultra 6800 256mb, and tried
> installing the drivers using the port.
>
> Went through all the info I can find and tried various things a
Denny White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Installed ntop. ntop.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, so starts
> automatically at boot. That part I understand. Couldn't
> find where there's any conf file for it. Read all over
> google & in mailing lists. So, question is, I simply have
> to move the script ou
I understand that BSD binary code can not run under Linux. Is there a way to
compile my programs in such a manner that tey would work under Linux?
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On September 17, 2005 09:56 am, Andrew Pogrebennyk wrote:
> Good day!
> My question deals with VESA-patch, which was commited some time ago
> into CURRENT. I dont' know if it is a known bug or a bad luck of mine
> so I ask... Yet before I've tested VESA-patch with 5.3-RELEASE and
> 5.4-RELEASE, and
Mario Hoerich wrote:
# Jordan Freeman:
Here's the output. Any assistance would be apprecaited.
make
Warning: Object directory not changed from original
/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
cc -O2 -pipe -march=pentium3
[...]
-D_FFR_SMTP_SSL -I/usr/local/lib -o sendmail
[...]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Denny White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Installed ntop. ntop.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, so starts
automatically at boot. That part I understand. Couldn't
find where there's any conf file for it. Read all over
google & in mailing lists. So, questi
Hi,
I'm trying to create a package from a set of binaries for local
installation only, without installing it first. I've added the files into
a temporary directory first:
/tmp/application/work/bin
/tmp/application/work/bin/app1
/tmp/application/work/bin/app2
/tmp/application/work/etc
/tmp/applica
On 2005-09-17 07:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I understand that BSD binary code can not run under Linux. Is there a
> way to compile my programs in such a manner that tey would work under
> Linux?
If they are reasonably portable, you can compile them *on* Linux.
That should work.
__
Hello,
I'm experiencing strange behaviour with my keyboard's accent and can't
figure out where it's coming from.
It's about circumflex/grave accents "^`" with a fr_CH.ISO8859-1 (swiss
french) keyboard.
I'm using few Eterm window a time but accents work only in one window.
Where it became strang
> Joel Hatton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > # E.g. use `env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/somewhere/obj make'
> >
> > However, and at this risk of exposing my inexperience and just plain old
> > sounding foolish, how does this method of setting MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX differ
> > from:
> >
> >
On 2005-09-18 01:30, Joel Hatton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Joel Hatton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > # E.g. use `env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/somewhere/obj make'
> > >
> > > However, and at this risk of exposing my inexperience and just plain old
> > > sounding foolish, how do
dave wrote:
Hello,
Is anyone experiencing issues getting rt3.4 installed on 5.4? I'm
getting an error via a port dependency that it conflicts with mod_perl.
Thanks.
Dave.
Running via fastCGI is working well here. I had problems with mod_perl
too. It was a long time ago and I don't remem
Hi all,
need help to setup DNS for mai domain.
I would like to get dk-milter to sign all my outgoing mail to be DNS confirm
with my "domain.net"
That means, my emails get classified as [BULK] or "SPAM" if I send mails to
strong anti-spam-NX1.mail.domains with out a propper DNS setup.
by dig in t
Good Day
I just want to ask if FreeBSD has support on online games,like Ragnarok Online
and others.
Thank You very Much.
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On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:27:37 -0400
Nicolas Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On September 17, 2005 09:56 am, Andrew Pogrebennyk wrote:
> > Good day!
> > My question deals with VESA-patch, which was commited some time ago
> > into CURRENT. I dont' know if it is a known bug or a bad luck of
> > min
Roberto Velo wrote:
I just want to ask if FreeBSD has support on online games,like Ragnarok Online
and others.
Thank You very Much.
Are there online multiplayer games for FreeBSD? Yes.
I've never heard of "Ragnarok", which presumably is a Windows title, but games
which are released in a Lin
Joel Hatton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm a little confused about the Bourne shell, however. Do you mean that
> (1) 'MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/somewhere/obj make' is equivalent to (2) 'setenv
> MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX /somewhere/obj' or (3) 'env
> MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/somewhere/obj make'? Can (1) be substituted
Ok I am logged in as root, yet I cant delete /var/empty ( I get operation
not permitted).
Any suggestions?
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Ansar Mohammed wrote:
Ok I am logged in as root, yet I cant delete /var/empty ( I get operation
not permitted).
Any suggestions?
man chflags
In particular, check for the "immutable" flag and how to change it.
G
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Ansar Mohammed wrote:
Ok I am logged in as root, yet I cant delete /var/empty ( I get operation
not permitted).
Any suggestions?
Don't do that. /var/empty is used by SSH for privilege seperation, which means
it should exist and not contain any files, which is enforced using the "system
imm
On Saturday 17 September 2005 11:17, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> Ok I am logged in as root, yet I cant delete /var/empty ( I get operation
> not permitted).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
chflags noschg /var/empty
rm -r /var/empty
You do realize the immutable flag is set for a good reason
on that file I hope
A FBSD 4.7 server this morning locked up and when I got to the data center I
found a bunch of IO error messages saying the pager couldn't allocate needed
swap space (or something close to that). Unfortunately these messages didn't
get logged anywhere that I could find and I didn't have anything
Hey Mario,
Thanks for the response. I installed nvidia-driver and changed the
conf file as you suggested, but I get the error:
NVRM: Detected agp.ko, aborting NVIDIA AGP setup!
X still starts up, but only with one screen. Not really sure what to
do - any ideas?
Thanks,
Pat
On 9/17/05, Mario H
I did some searching and disabled agp.ko in the device.hints file.
Still I get this error (twice), and I have no idea what it means:
Symbol __glXGetActiveScreen from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
On 9/17/05, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey Mario,
>
this might not be related... supposedly to use the nvidia klm you have
to disable agp support in the kernel (remove/comment the device agp
line). I believe GENERIC kernel has this built in.
here is my xorg.conf for reference. I have an nvidia ti4200 with dual
monitors...
sorry, no clue :(
>>Sym
First of all, all low level diagnostic tools I've used on my drive show
no signs of hardware error. The shutdown prior to when the problems
started went smooth, without any error messages.
Yesterday GRUB would suddenly not display the boot menu anymore. After
some investigation I discovered that
Damon Blom wrote:
Hi
freebsd cheat sheets.
Damon
You can't "cheat" with FreeBSD. If you try,
Mr. Beastie will fork(2) and roast you on a
flame(1)-ing stack of Microsoft marketing circulars.
Or was your post supposed to be a sentence?
Hint 1: it looks more like something to
>- Original Message -
>From: "Pat Maddox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Mario Hoerich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions"
>
>Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 12:03 PM
>Sbject: Re: Configuring multiple monitors
>
>Hey Mario,
>
>Thanks for the response. I installed nvidia-driver and
Okay I managed to get it working, here's my entire xorg.conf file.
Everything look alright there? Anything I may want to change?
Thanks for all the help, seems to be working fine. If you have any
other suggestions I'd appreciate them.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Dual Head"
Hello!
I use FreeBSD/amd64 6.0 as the only OS on my desktop
PC. Having carefully thought over pros and cons, I decided
to downgrade to i386 for the time being.
My plan is to
1. cvsup
2. Deinstall all ports
3. Somehow build/install new world and kernel
4. Reinstall all ports
I know that the i386
Hi all,
cvsup failed on me ( filled up a 3.0 G /usr dir).
I am in the proces of moving /usr to a sub dir under /home/ which has 30 G.
Hopefully, I can rerun cvsup with success.
I will create a soft link from /usr -> /home/usr.
At some point, I will want to move /usr back to its proper place.
On Saturday 17 September 2005 13:44, Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> cvsup failed on me ( filled up a 3.0 G /usr dir).
>
> I am in the proces of moving /usr to a sub dir under /home/ which has 30 G.
> Hopefully, I can rerun cvsup with success.
>
> I will create a soft link from /usr -> /home/usr.
>
When I run portsnap update, I get the following error after it
extracts the files:
Building new INDEX files... Segmentation fault (core dumped)
This is occuring on three different machines, so I'm guessing it's a
problem with portsnap, not my one machine. But they all have similar
configurations,
Andrew P. sat at his 'puter and typed on 9/18/2005 1:49:
Hello!
I use FreeBSD/amd64 6.0 as the only OS on my desktop
PC. Having carefully thought over pros and cons, I decided
to downgrade to i386 for the time being.
What on earth does this mean? This is simply not possible. amd64 is a
comp
Hello,
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:56:11PM -0600 or thereabouts, Pat Maddox wrote:
> When I run portsnap update, I get the following error after it
> extracts the files:
> Building new INDEX files... Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> This is occuring on three different machines, so I'm guessing
I just updated it, and now get the error:
Building new INDEX files... make_index: Circular dependency loop
found: timidity++-2.13.2_1 depends upon itself.
Is that a problem with the database file or something? Do I just wait
for Colin to fix it?
Thanks for the reply.
Pat
On 9/17/05, martin hud
Andrew P. wrote:
Hello!
I use FreeBSD/amd64 6.0 as the only OS on my desktop
PC. Having carefully thought over pros and cons, I decided
to downgrade to i386 for the time being.
My plan is to
1. cvsup
2. Deinstall all ports
3. Somehow build/install new world and kernel
4. Reinstall all ports
Pat Maddox wrote:
> When I run portsnap update, I get the following error after it
> extracts the files:
> Building new INDEX files... Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Any ideas what's going on?
There is a bug in versions of portsnap prior to today which causes
make_index to core dump when it
snacktime wrote:
A FBSD 4.7 server this morning locked up and when I got to the data center I
found a bunch of IO error messages saying the pager couldn't allocate needed
swap space (or something close to that). Unfortunately these messages didn't
get logged anywhere that I could find and I did
I don't use the floppy drive in my laptop (an Inspiron 7500) often, so it was
only a few days ago that I discovered that my floppy drive is not being
properly recognized in 5.4R with the generic kernel. I put my test drive in
the system, and it turns out that the floppy wasn't working in 5.3R e
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:55:33 +0100, Hanno Krusken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sendmail + dk-milter + sid-filter setup with DNS+BIND9
Wrote these words of wisdom:
>
> Hi all,
> need help to setup DNS for mai domain.
> I would like to get dk-milter to sign all my outgoing mail to be DNS confirm
>
I am in the process of making FreeBSD my primary desktop OS, which is
not always easy since I have a limited amout of *nix experience. I
chose FreeBSD after doing the Linux distro-dance, and eventually settled
on FreeBSD because it seemed to be the best behaving OS. Based on
word-of-mouth,
I was just wanted to ask if anyone is using vinium on a standalone system?
I was reading about it in Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD and am
wondering if it is something that might be beneficial?
Thanks
Sean
Andrew P. wrote:
Hello!
I use FreeBSD/amd64 6.0 as the only OS on my desktop
PC. Having carefully thought over pros and cons, I decided
to downgrade to i386 for the time being.
My plan is to
1. cvsup
2. Deinstall all ports
3. Somehow build/install new world and kernel
4. Reinstall all ports
I
Subhro wrote:
Andrew P. sat at his 'puter and typed on 9/18/2005 1:49:
Hello!
I use FreeBSD/amd64 6.0 as the only OS on my desktop
PC. Having carefully thought over pros and cons, I decided
to downgrade to i386 for the time being.
What on earth does this mean? This is simply not possible. a
I scarfed up a slew of php files that are around 100 bytes
in strlen and with "\ " and other non-shell-friendly bytes.
Is there a way to use perl to chop off the first N bytes?
For example, a file many be named 1\
2xyz\?3=Test.php. What's the m
On 9/17/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I scarfed up a slew of php files that are around 100 bytes
> in strlen and with "\ " and other non-shell-friendly bytes.
> Is there a way to use perl to chop off the first N bytes?
>
> For example, a file many b
I've set up an ASUS small form factor machine based around an P4S8L
motherboard. It's running 6.0BETA4 and Gnome2.12 from the tinderbox
packages.
I'm kldload'ing snd_ich and (after getting a helpful pointer to the
gnome FAQ) all of the sounds stuff is working.
Here's my problem:
The machine
Hello,
Is there any similar program to instantcopy for FreeBSD that compress
dual-layer discs onto single layer 4.7GB recordable discs?
thanks,
PR
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I think part of my solution is to encourage other newbies to track a
release instead of stable. So we would follow "5_4" instead of "5",
since "5" is on its way to become "5_5" - and might have some bugs with
the features that are being added.
I read about this here:
http://www.freebsd.org
On 2005-09-17 21:41, WOB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think part of my solution is to encourage other newbies to track a
> release instead of stable. So we would follow "5_4" instead of "5",
> since "5" is on its way to become "5_5" - and might have some bugs with
> the features that are being ad
Trying to move a NFS share to another NFS server and having a bit
of trouble with it. I moved all the files and and I edited exports.
/etc/exports
/home/install/fbsd -network 192.168.2.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
/home/install/mdk -network 192.168.2.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
Now the 1st one works just fi
Recently set up a firewall using ipf and apparently ran into a problem
with FTP sites. Received error, "No route to host" while fetching files
located on ftp sites during portupgrade and also was unable to open the
FreeBSD FTP Server (550 Could not accept passive data connection-timed
out.) Had n
On Saturday 17 September 2005 07:10 pm, Tim Holmes wrote:
> Trying to move a NFS share to another NFS server and having a bit
> of trouble with it. I moved all the files and and I edited exports.
>
> /etc/exports
> /home/install/fbsd -network 192.168.2.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
> /home/install/mdk -ne
Recently, I have installed FreeBSD 5.4, first I would
like to thank all those who work on for such a stable,
useable operating system. I have tried OpenBSD and
NetBSD on many of my computers, which would not boot
at all. FreeBSD is the only OS that will boot on many
of the computers we have and h
On 9/17/05, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> snacktime wrote:
> > A FBSD 4.7 server this morning locked up and when I got to the data
> center I
> > found a bunch of IO error messages saying the pager couldn't allocate
> needed
> > swap space (or something close to that). Unfortunatel
Tim Holmes wrote:
Trying to move a NFS share to another NFS server and having a bit
of trouble with it. I moved all the files and and I edited exports.
/etc/exports
/home/install/fbsd -network 192.168.2.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
/home/install/mdk -network 192.168.2.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
Now the 1s
# Pat Maddox:
> I did some searching and disabled agp.ko in the device.hints file.
> Still I get this error (twice), and I have no idea what it means:
> Symbol __glXGetActiveScreen from module
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
Search your xorg.conf for
Load "
On 9/17/05, Milscvaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
[...]
> However, there is room for improvement. One of the
> major issues I have is with the out of date binary
> packages available for the latest stable release
> (5.4).
The packages distributed with the release are current at the time of
t
On 9/15/05, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am using a test system and have been try to get the nvidia drivers
> working.
>
> I am running freebsd 5.3 release, nvidia ultra 6800 256mb, and tried
> installing the drivers using the port.
>
I have installed the nvidia driver a few times and i
On 9/16/05, Eric Pretorious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What do I have to do to install/use HPIJS without devoting my life to
> becoming a FreeBSD+CUPS expert?! (Setting up CUPS+foomatic+HPIJS was a
> breeze under Gentoo!)
I find that apsfilter is a lot easier to install and configure than is
I have the following directories on seperate partitions partitions:
/
/var
/tmp
/usr
/data
/dev shouldn't have a partition mounted to it, as it wastes space. if you do
a "df -h" you will see /dev is always 100% full and has a size of 0
On 9/15/05, Rein Kadastik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> BT
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of P.U.Kruppa
>Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:44 PM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: Garrett Cooper; FreeBSD Questions
>Subject: RE: IE in FreeBSD?
>
>
>On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
>>
>> My o
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