The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-03-26 - 2006-04-15

2006-04-16 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 maili

Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner, probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE. My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff? I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system backups for you. The capa

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Andy Reitz
Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar you installed from ports. The last directory will det all of your user's data.

a new ftp mirror of freebsd

2006-04-16 Thread Andrew Wingorodov
i wish make a new ftp mirror of freebsd. i have a private server on the M9 established http://andr.ru/img/resume/se7320vp2.jpg ftp://213.248.60.220/ I shall be grateful for answers: 1) how many the mbyte should be had? 2) what for copying are better for using? (sitecopy? r

adding root cert to openssl

2006-04-16 Thread Tobias Roth
Hi I'd like to add a certificate to OpenSSL. The OpenSSL HOWTO mentions OPENSSLDIR, which is /etc/ssl on FreeBSD (for OpenSSL from base). To have OpenSSL recognize a new certificate, it has to be put into OPENSSLDIR/certs/, but this does not exist on FreeBSD. The only certs/ dir I could find is /u

Re: a new ftp mirror of freebsd

2006-04-16 Thread robert
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 13:46 +0400, Andrew Wingorodov wrote: > i wish make a new ftp mirror of freebsd. > i have a private server on the M9 established > http://andr.ru/img/resume/se7320vp2.jpg > ftp://213.248.60.220/ > > I shall be grateful for answers: > 1) how many the mby

Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 & 6.0

2006-04-16 Thread Mohamad Babaei
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 & 6.0 on my intel Celeron 2.0 Pc, but every time i get the following error when the next installation process is "Fdisk" : "no disks found! please verify that your disk controller is being properly probed" please help. Regards, Mo. ___

TV Tuner viewing software suggestions

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm trying to use my TV Tuner (A Leadtek Brooktree chipset tuner), and I have gotten FXTV to work great with one exception: It appears to only work in something that looks to be about 320x240, when I go fullscreen or anything larger than what it opens as, it only draws to part of the screen... prov

Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 & 6.0

2006-04-16 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to provide more information on your system such as what disk controller(s) it has and what hard disks. -Derek At 07:24 AM 4/16/2006, Mohamad Babaei wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 & 6.0 on my intel Celeron 2.0 Pc, but every time i get the following error when the

RE: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 & 6.0

2006-04-16 Thread fbsd
try trying turn plug-n-play and power management in the pc bios. post the boot probe log here -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mohamad Babaei Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 8:24 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems Installing Fr

Gmail vs FreeBSD

2006-04-16 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
So what's up with gmail and freebsd sites? I haven't seen a single message delivered to my inbox since April 13. Not from mailing lists, not from gnats scripts - nothing. I told the lists to send mail to my other address, I then redirect from there back to gmail - and it works. So gmail seems to b

Re: Gmail vs FreeBSD

2006-04-16 Thread Richard Collyer
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: So what's up with gmail and freebsd sites? I haven't seen a single message delivered to my inbox since April 13. Not from mailing lists, not from gnats scripts - nothing. I told the lists to send mail to my other address, I then redirect from there back to gmail - and it

Gmail and FreeBSD

2006-04-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
Well I'm glad it's not just me - I even tried subscribing again and I haven't got the activation request. So I'd say for reason gmail is bouncing the emails, as the freeBSD lists seem to have unsubcribed me.. Other email seems to be coming in fine.. -- Martin

wifi ath

2006-04-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
Bought a WiFi D-Link with atheros chipset. I use a non-default kernel, so I guess I have to put some options back in and recompile. Will upgrade to 6.1-rc at the same time ;-) Any pitfalls? What options exactly do I need to have my ath based wifi card up and running? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/

where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
I want a non-root user (I'm happy to limit it to wheel users), to be able to mount smb shares and rip music, but I don't know how to do this. Where can I find documentation on this? Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: wifi ath

2006-04-16 Thread Patrick Bowen
dick hoogendijk wrote: Bought a WiFi D-Link with atheros chipset. I use a non-default kernel, so I guess I have to put some options back in and recompile. Will upgrade to 6.1-rc at the same time ;-) Any pitfalls? What options exactly do I need to have my ath based wifi card up and running?

adding root cert to openssl

2006-04-16 Thread Robert Huff
Tobias Roth writes: > I'd like to add a certificate to OpenSSL. The OpenSSL HOWTO mentions > OPENSSLDIR, which is /etc/ssl on FreeBSD (for OpenSSL from base). To > have OpenSSL recognize a new certificate, it has to be put into > OPENSSLDIR/certs/, but this does not exist on FreeBSD. The > o

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want a non-root user (I'm happy to limit it to wheel users), to be > able to mount smb shares and rip music, but I don't know how to do > this. Where can I find documentation on this? For the mounting part, see the FAQ entry titled "How do I let ord

direct rending doesnt work in xorg

2006-04-16 Thread Danny Butroyd
Hi All I have been tearing my hair out trying to fix this problem. Basically Direct Rendering isnt working. My setup:- OS:- FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #3 Xorg Installed from ports:- [rvn] /home/danny# pkg_info | grep xorg xorg-6.9.0 X.Org distribution metaport xorg-clients-6.9.0_2 X cli

[SOLVED] Re: seeking help on "adding a disk"

2006-04-16 Thread Peter
--- Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > # newfs -U /dev/ad2s1e > > > > > > Newfs used to require the raw device name, as in > > > > > >newfs -U /dev/rad2s1e > > > > > > but I see the man page

Re: wifi ath

2006-04-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 16 Apr Patrick Bowen wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > >Bought a WiFi D-Link with atheros chipset. > >Any pitfalls? > >What options exactly do I need to have my ath based wifi card up and > >running? > > > Test the card with "kldload if_ath" as root, then ifconfig and dhcp, > before you re-co

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar you installed from ports. Actually,

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: > >Hi Oliver, > > > >At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: > > > > /etc > > /usr/local/etc > > /home > > > >That will get all of the configurati

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:08 AM 4/16/2006, Oliver Iberien wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: > >Hi Oliver, > > > >At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: > > > > /etc > > /usr/local/etc > > /h

First Upgrade SUCCESS!

2006-04-16 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, After using FreeBSD for many years, and all the time upgrading via backing up data and installing from new ISO CD, I have finally decided to talke the time and learn source and ports upgrading. The first one I did was on a devel server with a few ports installed. Upgraded 5.4 R

Newbie question - using sysinstall "Upgrade an existing system" - easy?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
What actually happens when you use "Upgrade an existing system" in sysinstall? Do you end up with the X-server, etc., all functioning as before, or is there a lot of cleanup to do afterwards? (In my case, this would be from 6.0 to 6.1, whenever the release version of 6.1 comes out. I am gettin

Re: First Upgrade SUCCESS!

2006-04-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
Grant Peel wrote: [ ... ] 1). Is there a simpler way to run mergmaster. What I wound up doing after going blind reading all the diffs, and saying I would 'Deal With Them LAter" was to re-run it and hit 'i' to accept the newly installed version, as the manpage states 'i' is the most commonly use

Plip0:< PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 error .

2006-04-16 Thread Tony Karanja
Dear support. Am trying to install FreeBSD 4.11 on a new machine without anyother software ( HP Compaq dx6120 ) with SATA 80 Gb harddisk. But I keep on getting this error. Plip0:< PLIP network interface> on ppbus0. Reason am using the archived version is due to the fact that Etinc bandwid

wireless setup help

2006-04-16 Thread nathan
Hi, I'm having difficulties connecting to my roommate's apple airport. Following the guide I tried using a fixed IP: ifconfig ath0 10.0.1.5 netmask 0xff00 ssid "True That" but got "status: no carrier" and obviously couldn't ping anything. I believe WEP is turned off at the moment as my roomm

kill aRts

2006-04-16 Thread eoghan
Hello Im having some trouble with my sound on gnome. When I go to my multimedia system selector both my default sink and default source are set to OSS, but when i test them i get: "Failed to construct test pipeline for 'OSS - Open Sound System'" I would like to kill aRts to see if this is my pr

Re: Why are people singing there postings on this mailling list ?

2006-04-16 Thread dgmm
On Saturday 15 April 2006 15:23, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > On Saturday 15 April 2006 15:23, Kees Plonsz wrote: > > Is is so important to know that the question or answer came from > > that person ? I don't think so. > > Even if it were so, for me it is too much trouble to import every key > > into my

Re: wireless setup help

2006-04-16 Thread Patrick Bowen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having difficulties connecting to my roommate's apple airport. Following the guide I tried using a fixed IP: ifconfig ath0 10.0.1.5 netmask 0xff00 ssid "True That" but got "status: no carrier" and obviously couldn't ping anything. I believe WEP is turned o

Re: direct rending doesnt work in xorg

2006-04-16 Thread Björn König
Danny Butroyd schrieb: Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "ati" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9]" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 0 EndSection You have to use the drive

Re: Anything to recode mp3 files in the ports?

2006-04-16 Thread dgmm
On Saturday 15 April 2006 14:08, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hi! > > I have a sizable collection of mp3 files (most of my CDs, actually) encoded > at high ratio for archiving. > > I'd like to put some of them on a low-capacity player. Is there a utility > (preferably -- a ported one), that can reencod

Re: Improving kde perfomance...

2006-04-16 Thread Paulino Calderon
Hey. I did jump in logic assuming kde is to blame, so I tried fluxbox on this machine and everything runs normal, XOrg cpu usage is <1%. but while I was setting everything up some stuff happened that I would like to mention. First I noticed there are two instances of kdm running at the same time e

nvnet fails to make

2006-04-16 Thread jekillen
I hope this would be appropriate for this list, I have just downloaded the distfile for the nvnet network interface card built in to a Gigabyte motherboard. The make command aborted with an avalanche of errors, see attachment. Does anyone have any info that would help me correct this situation s

/boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Brendan Grossman
Hello I'm trying to install FreeBSD with the following partition scheme... /boot 100mb (50mb too small? Install fails with filesystem full error) swap 1gb /tmp 100mb / remainder However after I install and boot, it says it can't find /boot/kernel/kernel The version is 6.0. Am I missing sometihn

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:40 PM 4/16/2006, Brendan Grossman wrote: Hello I'm trying to install FreeBSD with the following partition scheme... /boot 100mb (50mb too small? Install fails with filesystem full error) swap 1gb /tmp 100mb / remainder However after I install and boot, it says it can't find /boot/kernel/

Re: mouse scroll up problem

2006-04-16 Thread Pete Slagle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and optical Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, USB native, plugged to PS/2 port via it's own USB->PS/2 adaptor. When I scroll my mouse wheel up in X11 it acts like "scroll up + left button one/double-click". For example, in Opera, Firefox. In

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Brendan Grossman
> -Original Message- > From: Glenn Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 5:16 AM > To: Brendan Grossman; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive > > /boot has to be in the / file system. > > There's a rather lengthy thread about t

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:59, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Glenn Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 5:16 AM > > To: Brendan Grossman; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive > > > > /boot has to be

FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM

2006-04-16 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC. There must be somethi

Out of memory during ridiculously large request

2006-04-16 Thread Roger Williams
Since an upgrade to 6.0 (perl 5.8.8) I am getting the following error: >>Out of memory during ridiculously large request at /usr/local/pop-before-smtp-1.36/pop-before-smtp line 355 Below is the offending line: >> foreach (keys %db) While googling I see there are other programs having the same i

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Brendan Grossman
> It's not a good idea to put everything on the / filesystem. > At a minimum I would have: > / > swap > /var > /usr > > Your users will not fill up /var unless you allow them > unlimited mail, databases or access to root. They will have unlimited access up until their quota has been reached. Wh

Newbie question - cannot add new disk

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
Hi, I have been trying to add a second IDE hard drive. I can't seem to get it mounted, or to get what I put into sysinstall and what comes out when I use the command line to agree. I can use sysinstall and then run newfs: bsd# newfs /dev/ad1s1c /dev/ad1s1c: 39205.5MB (80292804 sectors) block si

Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM

2006-04-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under > test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: > > real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) > available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) > > This

Re: [SOLVED] Re: seeking help on "adding a disk"

2006-04-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > > > > > > > This is all I have: > > > > > > $ ls -lh /dev/r* > > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 10 Apr 9 15:55 /dev/random > > > > > > No raw devices. > > > > Yes. devices don't just show up and stay there any more. They > > are managed by devfs. I haven't studied that to see ju

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > It's not a good idea to put everything on the / filesystem. > > At a minimum I would have: > > / > > swap > > /var > > /usr > > > > Your users will not fill up /var unless you allow them > > unlimited mail, databases or access to root. > >

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Brendan Grossman
> -Original Message- > From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 6:19 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Brendan Grossman > Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive > > On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > > It's not a good

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread RW
On Sunday 16 April 2006 21:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: > I agree that it's not a great idea, but considering the software I'm using, > user files are stored in /var and /home. I don't know what percentage of > quotas users will use for emails, databases, or home dirs, and I don't want > to take a

gateway setup

2006-04-16 Thread steve lasiter
I just moved into a new position and will be implementing a new network topology and I wanted to use the opportunity to introduce them to FreeBSD. I'll be setting up a FreeBSD gatewall/firewall with 3 NICs behind two networks. Say, fxp0-cable modem to nic1, fxp1-nic2 to a Microsoft Small Business S

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:51, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 6:19 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Cc: Brendan Grossman > > Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive > > > > On Sund

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread RW
On Sunday 16 April 2006 21:51, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, 17 April 2006 6:19 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Cc: Brendan Grossman > > Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive > > > > On Sund

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Colin Percival
Brendan Grossman wrote: > Here is my reason for separating /tmp and mounting it noexec,nosuid: > > http://www.sagonet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2852 Quoth mount(8): noexec Do not allow execution of any binaries on the mounted file system. This option is usefu

Re: adding root cert to openssl

2006-04-16 Thread Tobias Roth
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:03:03AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > Tobias Roth writes: > > > I'd like to add a certificate to OpenSSL. The OpenSSL HOWTO mentions > > OPENSSLDIR, which is /etc/ssl on FreeBSD (for OpenSSL from base). To > > have OpenSSL recognize a new certificate, it has to be pu

Not receiving email from FreeBSD lists on Gmail for about 3 days

2006-04-16 Thread Joao Barros
Hi all, I'm subscribed to several FreeBSD lists and I stopped receiving any email on my gmail account on the 13th. Anyone else experiencing this problem or the exact opposite, actually receiving mail on your gmail account? Please add me as a direct recipient for any response. My thanks in advanc

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Brendan Grossman
> Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /, > /usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install. I can separate /usr, but my goal is to combine /home and /var, or at least where mail and databases are stored, for reasons already mentioned. I suppose I could do this.

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread RW
On Sunday 16 April 2006 22:30, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /, > > /usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install. > > I can separate /usr, but my goal is to combine /home and /var, or at least > where mail and databases are sto

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 16 April 2006 14:19, Colin Percival wrote: > Brendan Grossman wrote: > > Here is my reason for separating /tmp and mounting it > > noexec,nosuid: > > > > http://www.sagonet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2852 > > Quoth mount(8): > noexec Do not allow execution of any binaries o

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:30, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > Having a separate /tmp slice is not a bad idea, combining /, > > /usr, and /var is unless you're doing a very minimal install. > > I can separate /usr, but my goal is to combine /home and /var, or at least > where mail and databases are sto

ssh to Freebsd 6.1 (help)

2006-04-16 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello, I just fresh installed FreeBSD 6.0R, The box connected to a hub and 1 more computer XP connected to same HUB, on my home LAN, both can ping/replay each other, both NIC interfaces are up. XP is the internet gateway. 192.168.0.1 and BSD is 192.168.0.2 The problem is when i Open my S

bounced email to a freedbsd mailing list

2006-04-16 Thread Dan Strick
I just got a couple of messages to freebsd-chat rejected. Can someone clue me in? The rejection message was: The original message was received at Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:33:36 -0400 from h-67-101-99-172.snfccasy.dynamic.covad.net [67.101.99.172] - Transcript of session follows ---

/boot/loader and modules

2006-04-16 Thread jesse marquez
Hello, Last night I installed FreeBSD 6.0 - Release on a Gateway 450SX4 laptop. For some reason it seems the loader is not reading the local changes made to /boot/loader.conf . Have any of you expierenced this? I've checked my changes made to loader.conf and they all seem fine. /boot/loader.rc loo

RE: ssh to Freebsd 6.1-UPDATE

2006-04-16 Thread Marwan Sultan
Sorry, But forgot to say that this problem happens when there is no Internet connection only! But when internet sharing presents on my XP all works fine. Thank you and sorry again. Hello, I just fresh installed FreeBSD 6.0R, The box connected to a hub and 1 more computer XP connected t

Re: bounced email to a freedbsd mailing list

2006-04-16 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 03:23:44PM -0700, Dan Strick wrote: > I just got a couple of messages to freebsd-chat rejected. > Can someone clue me in? The rejection message was: > > The original message was received at Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:33:36 -0400 > from h-67-101-99-172.snfccasy.dynamic.cov

Re: Not receiving email from FreeBSD lists on Gmail for about 3 days

2006-04-16 Thread Richard Collyer
Joao Barros wrote: Hi all, I'm subscribed to several FreeBSD lists and I stopped receiving any email on my gmail account on the 13th. Anyone else experiencing this problem or the exact opposite, actually receiving mail on your gmail account? Please add me as a direct recipient for any response.

Re: TV Tuner viewing software suggestions

2006-04-16 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 16 April 2006 14:39, Jim Stapleton wrote: > I'm trying to use my TV Tuner (A Leadtek Brooktree chipset tuner), and > I have gotten FXTV to work great with one exception: It appears to > only work in something that looks to be about 320x240, when I go > fullscreen or anything larger than w

System user creation

2006-04-16 Thread jekillen
Hello folks; I am trying to create a system user for a program to use. I haven't found any specific instructions for doing this in the FreeBSD manual or Absolute FreeBSD. The program exits with an error saying it can't create/write to a pid file. I believe it is the way I used adduser to create

Re: /boot/loader and modules

2006-04-16 Thread David J Brooks
On Sunday 16 April 2006 17:42, jesse marquez wrote: > Hello, > > Last night I installed FreeBSD 6.0 - Release on a Gateway 450SX4 laptop. > For some reason it seems the loader is not reading the local changes made > to /boot/loader.conf . Have any of you expierenced this? I've checked my > changes

Re: System user creation

2006-04-16 Thread albi
> I am trying to create a system user for a program to use. > I haven't found any specific instructions for doing this in the FreeBSD manual or Absolute FreeBSD. > The program exits with an error saying it can't create/write to a pid file. > I believe it is the way I used adduser to create it and I

Re: System user creation

2006-04-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 16 April 2006 16:01, jekillen wrote: > Hello folks; > I am trying to create a system user for a program to use. > I haven't found any specific instructions for doing this in the FreeBSD > manual > or Absolute FreeBSD. > The program exits with an error saying it can't create/write to a pid

Re: ssh to Freebsd 6.1-UPDATE

2006-04-16 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On Monday 17 April 2006 00:46, Marwan Sultan wrote: > Sorry, > But forgot to say that this problem happens when there is no Internet > connection only! > But when internet sharing presents on my XP all works fine. > > Thank you and sorry again. > > >Hello, > > > > I just fresh installed FreeBSD 6.

On-Board video card configuration.

2006-04-16 Thread Enigma
I am fairly new to FreeBSD, and I have been having problems with my IBM Aptiva 2196-24A in getting the on-board video card configured with freeBSD. So i can run X window system at a decent resolution. All i can get to work is Standard VGA driver at 640x800 at 8bit. I have had this card working p

a favorite graphical ftp client?

2006-04-16 Thread Jonathan Horne
i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :) thanks, jonathan horne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

2006-04-16 Thread albi
> i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a > freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few > recomendations :) gftp is quite nice imho --> http://gftp.seul.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

boot0: is booting from non-BIOS-recognized disk possible?

2006-04-16 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I have read the boot0cfg, disklabel (I have FreeBSD 4.9), and fdisk manpages trying to figure out if boot0 can solve my problem. I did not find the answer there, or in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/disks.html or the freebsd-questions archives. I would like to be able to boot from my Seagate ST3

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

2006-04-16 Thread Jeff Cross
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client > for a >> freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few >> recomendations :) > > gftp is quite nice imho --> http://gftp.seul.org/ > > > > > >

USB MODEM

2006-04-16 Thread FreeBSD MailingLists
I purchased a usb modem recently and connected it to my FreeBSD box to see if it is compatible. I have recompiled my kernel with device ucom device umodem When I connect the modem I get the following kernel message. ucom0: OMRON OMRON ME5614U2 DATA FAX MODEM, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 2/2 uco

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

2006-04-16 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client > > for a > > > freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few > > recomendations :) > > gftp is quite nice imho --> http://gftp.seul.org/ sorry, i sh

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

2006-04-16 Thread Patrick Bowen
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :) gftp is quite nice imho --> http

tip vs minicom

2006-04-16 Thread FreeBSD MailingLists
i am trying to setup a dial-in terminal service between 2 machines with serial modems attached. In the FreeBSD Handbook the instructions for a dial-out service use the tip and cu commands. I have been using minicom to connect to varius serial terminals such as cisco routers, so i am used to it. Is

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

2006-04-16 Thread Micah
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :) gftp is quite nice imho --> http://gftp.seul.org/ sor

Re: System user creation

2006-04-16 Thread jekillen
On Apr 16, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 16:01, jekillen wrote: Hello folks; I am trying to create a system user for a program to use. I haven't found any specific instructions for doing this in the FreeBSD manual or Absolute FreeBSD. The program exits with

DIAL-IN TERMINAL SERVICE

2006-04-16 Thread FreeBSD MailingLists
I have attached a modem to my freebsd box and trying to setup a simple dial-in terminal service. I have tried to follow the instructions in the freebsd handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/dialup.html I am able to get a terminal working on the serial port (tested wi

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

2006-04-16 Thread David J Brooks
On Sunday 16 April 2006 22:56, Micah wrote: > Jonathan Horne wrote: > > On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp > >>> client > >> > >> for a > >> > >>> freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a f

Re: System user creation

2006-04-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:13, you wrote: > On Apr 16, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > On Sunday 16 April 2006 16:01, jekillen wrote: > >> Hello folks; > >> I am trying to create a system user for a program to use. > >> I haven't found any specific instructions for doing this in the > >>

Re: Gmail vs FreeBSD

2006-04-16 Thread Igor Robul
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:11:06PM +0100, Richard Collyer wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > If your running FreeBSD just get a qmail server on the go and slap > squirrelmail on there for web based mail. Not everybody in the world has 24/7 computer with direct connect to Internet. There are at le

Re: last known 4-.x-RELEASE where PicoBSD can be built

2006-04-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Saturday 15 April 2006 10:09, Dinesh Nair wrote: > On 02/16/06 16:07 Nikos Vassiliadis said the following: > > I tried to build PicoBSD using sources from RELENG_4 on a > > 4.10-RELEASE-p5 system and it failed. I (think|know) it's working > > again on RELENG_6, but I want to use 4.x branch. So,

Re: Gmail vs FreeBSD

2006-04-16 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 4/17/06, Igor Robul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:11:06PM +0100, Richard Collyer wrote: > > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > If your running FreeBSD just get a qmail server on the go and slap > > squirrelmail on there for web based mail. > Not everybody in the world has 24/