Unable to connect to remote X server using X -query

2006-12-29 Thread Christian Walther
Hi there, I'm on $ uname -a FreeBSD pixie.alashan.dyndns.org 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #1: Thu Nov 16 17:15:03 CET 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PIXIE i386 running $ pkg_info|grep ^xorg-server xorg-server-6.9.0_5 X.Org X server and related programs I set up two of

Perl error with Spam Assassin?

2006-12-29 Thread David Kelly
I *think* the following is coming from Spam Assassin, which is launched by procmail, which is launched by fetchmail (so any of those could be the guilty party if they use perl). [31161] warn: (?:(?<=[\s,]))* matches null string many times in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\G(?:(?<=[\s,]))*

problem with samsung flash

2006-12-29 Thread Ivan Frosty
hello there, i have freebsd 6.1 pentiumII 355mhz processor and 128mb of ram. everytime i put my samsung 512mb in tha usb the machine doesnt boot it halts where the error be at if i pull it out it boots.then if i put it back in i get an error...whats with umass? i basically installed ev

Re: change password without shell access

2006-12-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
poppassd Ted - Original Message - From: "Perttu Laine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 9:34 AM Subject: Re: change password without shell access > On 12/27/06, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > That is the easy solution, as there are plug ins

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
I got one better than that: A recent e-mail from Bill Gates of Microsoft stated: " It's interesting that so far I've actually not yet seen even one person e-mail Microsoft since the Windows XP EoL announcement to say, "If I volunteer my time or pay for your time to support Windows XP for secu

timezone question.

2006-12-29 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello List, I'm using some web based application, and in the related configuration files i have choosed to use the machine localtime. But when i check the applications, i found out its still GMT time.. Hmm however I copied my /usr/share/zoneinfo/local to /etc/localtime the output

Re: portupgrade -a useful option??

2006-12-29 Thread RW
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:48:50 -0800 Vizion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gi > > I just wondered whether using portupgrade -a there might be any way > to have an initial interactive dialogue to set all option for all > ports to be upgraded during the run so as to facilitate an attendance > free upgr

Re: problems compiling Maildrop

2006-12-29 Thread Joe Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it just me having problems with this port? I'd really appreciate if somebody could confirm whether or not they are getting this error so I know whether or not to bug the port maintainer. Thanks in advance! On Dec 27, 2006, at 2:18 PM, Joe A

Re: fixit floppy contents?

2006-12-29 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Andy Dills wrote: > Is there a standard way of installing complete filesystem images onto > existing machines via the network, for example using dump, restore, nfs, > and boot floppies? > > I want to upgrade our mail server cluster from 4-STABLE to 6-STABLE, and > there is so much that goes int

Re: where to get the iso c90 compiler?

2006-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-12-28 20:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Does the lang/gcc41 port work for you? > > I don't know I don't care. Ok, then. > I want to learn more about compilation processes, get to know > UNIX-like systems more, and whatever. That's ok too. You are bound for a v

Signing a document with my SSH key, not a PGP key?

2006-12-29 Thread Kelly Jones
I want to sign a document with ~/.ssh/id_dsa so that people who have my public SSH key (~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub) can confirm that it's from me. I don't want to encrypt the document, just sign it. How can I do this? Is it a good idea? Does ssh-keysign (which is disabled by default) play into it? I know

Re: No driver for NIC...

2006-12-29 Thread B. Hansmann
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 07:31:36PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > B. Hansmann wrote: > > > How do I get this ethernet thing to work or is this chipset not > > supported? (mcp55 sound works as stated in the hardware list on freebsd). > > I have almost the same chipset (nForce 550 / MCP55). I know ther

xorg radeon direct rendering

2006-12-29 Thread B. Hansmann
Hi, I have an ATI Radeon Club3d RV370 X300SE graphics adapter in my system running FreeBSD-6.2RC2 amd64. I compiled a custom kernel with radeondrm support which seems to work (printed by Kernel): drm0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xf000-0xf7ff,0xfebf-0xfebf irq 17 at device 0.0 on pc

Re: No driver for NIC...

2006-12-29 Thread B. Hansmann
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 07:31:36PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > B. Hansmann wrote: > > > How do I get this ethernet thing to work or is this chipset not > > supported? (mcp55 sound works as stated in the hardware list on freebsd). > > I have almost the same chipset (nForce 550 / MCP55). I know ther

Re: [NMLUG] Signing a document with my SSH key, not a PGP key?

2006-12-29 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Friday 29 December 2006 07:46, Kelly Jones wrote: > I want to sign a document with ~/.ssh/id_dsa so that people who have > my public SSH key (~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub) can confirm that it's from me. I > don't want to encrypt the document, just sign it. > > How can I do this? Is it a good idea? Does ssh

How to compile first network program? E.g. to PING google.com

2006-12-29 Thread linux quest
May I know how do I write a simple C network program in UNIX FreeBSD? I have bought some UNIX Network Programming books, but the problem is, the book straight away jump into some complex program - without showing how to compile and execute a simple program in the correct location in UNIX. I ev

vpn

2006-12-29 Thread anup roy
hi! I am not abale to understand about vpn? pls, tell me what is vpn & why we will use vpn? thanks anup [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

mergemaster and vimdiff

2006-12-29 Thread Dan Casey
Is there anyway to use vimdiff with mergemaster. Or is it safe to just see what files are different in etc, and vimdiff them manually? I see /var/tmp/temproot has a lot more in it that I was expecting. I thought it would be just etc. ___ freebsd-questio

Kerberos/Heimdal/samba-libsmbclient

2006-12-29 Thread Vizion
I have a conflict regarding samba-libsmbclient-3.0.23d which is no doubt due to making inappropriate option choices while upgrading ports. I now get: Stale dependency: samba-libsmbclient-3.0.23d --> heimal -0.7.2_2 - manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix Attempting to fix selecting install stale dep

Re: problems compiling Maildrop

2006-12-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it just me having problems with this port? I'd really appreciate > if somebody could confirm whether or not they are getting this error > so I know whether or not to bug the port maintainer. It seems to build in a clean environment: http://pointyhat.

Re: vpn

2006-12-29 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 12/29/06, Beni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 16:33, anup roy wrote: > hi! > I am not abale to understand about vpn? > pls, tell me what is vpn & why we will use vpn? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPN PS : Google is your friend... Hey, wikimedia's fundraising campa

Re: problems compiling Maildrop

2006-12-29 Thread Joe Auty
On Dec 29, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is it just me having problems with this port? I'd really appreciate if somebody could confirm whether or not they are getting this error so I know whether or not to bug the port maintainer. It seems to

Re: vpn

2006-12-29 Thread Beni
On Friday 29 December 2006 16:33, anup roy wrote: > hi! > I am not abale to understand about vpn? > pls, tell me what is vpn & why we will use vpn? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPN PS : Google is your friend... Beni. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2006-12-29 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that a

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2006-12-29 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

Re: How to compile first network program? E.g. to PING google.com

2006-12-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
linux quest wrote: [ ... ] Notice: steep learning curve ahead. I suggest you clarify what you want to do and what problems you are trying to solve; learning how to write simple code in C comes before learning how to write network code in C and learning how to work in Unix is a separate issue

Re: Kerberos/Heimdal/samba-libsmbclient

2006-12-29 Thread Vizion
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vizion > Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 7:56 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Kerberos/Heimdal/samba-libsmbclient > > > I have a conflict regarding samba-libsmbclient-3.0.23d which

Re: How to compile first network program? E.g. to PING google.com

2006-12-29 Thread Bob
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:24:48 -0800 (PST) linux quest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > May I know how do I write a simple C network program in UNIX FreeBSD? Have a look at this tutorial. It is pascal specific, but it is so well written that it will give you a good foundation. http://www.bastiso

SATA disk problem

2006-12-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i have 2 identical drives in my machine. atacontrol cap ad4 says: Protocol Serial ATA II device model WDC WD1600JS-60NCB1 serial number WD-WCANM4915646 firmware revision 10.02E02 cylinders 16383 heads 16 sectors/track 63 lba

SATA disk problem - more info

2006-12-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
atacontrol reinit ata3 makes atacontrol cap ad6 showing that write cache is enabled - until i write anything to that drive then it changes to no. is it disk hardware problem or other? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Sleepy thread - Kernel Panic

2006-12-29 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yours makes the third report of this that I know of ... one of us is running 6.2-RC, one 6.1-RELEASE ... what version are you running? I get the same 'hang' also ... Have you enabled DDB in your kernel? Also, have you enabled the dumpdev setting

FreeBSD & Orinoco

2006-12-29 Thread k4m3leon
Hey! I've been working on FreeBSD for some time and I want to kismet with my Orinoco card. My wifi card has Hermes1 chipset and it work great but does FreeBSD support monitor mode for it ? Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: SATA disk problem - everything clear

2006-12-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
installed /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/ and smartctl showed this sorry for taking Your time all is clear - i need new drive Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_R

Ports Vs Base

2006-12-29 Thread Bob
Hi All: I have a question about sendmail. Initially, when I installed FreeBSD, I installed sendmail from the base system. I then proceeded to stay up to date on base by updating my source tree, and going through the "make world" process. I also stayed up to date within ports, by updating my por

Ports Vs Base

2006-12-29 Thread Robert Huff
Bob writes: > My question is this: If I now upgrade from 6.1-RELEASE-p10 > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 to the latest/greatest (possibly even > 6.2-RELEASE) . will my sendmail revert to the base system or > remain at the latest installed ports version? grepped from my /etc/make.conf:

kdebase compile failure

2006-12-29 Thread Vizion
here is the output: gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdebase3/work/kdebase-3.5.5/kdesu/kdesud' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdebase3/work/kdebase-3.5.5/kdesu' gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdebase3/work/kdebase-

Sharing ports tree, possible?

2006-12-29 Thread Simon Gao
Is it possible to share ports tree directory? If so, what's the procedure? Simon Gao ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Sharing ports tree, possible?

2006-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Simon Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is it possible to share ports tree directory? If so, what's the procedure? Yes. You generally want to set WRKDIRPREFIX to something like /var/ports or /usr/obj to ward off conflicts. Otherwise, just put it on an NFS server an NFS mount it. -- Bi

Re: Ports Vs Base

2006-12-29 Thread Bob
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:20:14 -0500 Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bob writes: > > > My question is this: If I now upgrade from 6.1-RELEASE-p10 > > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 to the latest/greatest (possibly even > > 6.2-RELEASE) . will my sendmail revert to the base system or >

Re: Sharing ports tree, possible?

2006-12-29 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Simon Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is it possible to share ports tree directory? If so, what's the procedure? Yes. You generally want to set WRKDIRPREFIX to something like /var/ports or /usr/obj to ward off conflicts. Otherwise, just put it on an NFS server an N

What's that about?

2006-12-29 Thread Tino Engel
0x293734f7 in pthread_testcancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #0 0x293734f7 in pthread_testcancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #1 0x2936c80f in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #2 0x2936f70c in pthread_setconcurrency () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #3 0x29365a3a in _nanosleep ()

baseaudit?

2006-12-29 Thread
Is there an a sibling to portaudit that monitors your base ? -- Jeff H ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: baseaudit?

2006-12-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 29), Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T said: > Is there an a sibling to portaudit that monitors your base ? Subscribing to the freebsd-security-notifications list (very low traffic), or periodically checking http://security.freebsd.org/ is about it. -- Dan Nelson [EMA

Re: baseaudit?

2006-12-29 Thread
On 12/29/06, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the last episode (Dec 29), Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T said: > Is there an a sibling to portaudit that monitors your base ? Subscribing to the freebsd-security-notifications list (very low traffic), or periodically checking http://security.freebsd.o

Re: Sharing ports tree, possible?

2006-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Simon Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Is it possible to share ports tree directory? If so, what's the procedure? > > > > Yes. You generally want to set WRKDIRPREFIX to something like /var/ports > > or /usr/obj