Re: BSD derivatives

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:15:22AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > > I'm not saying that's what the OpenBSD project does. I'm just saying > > that, for instance, the availability of the ath driver contradicts a > > claim that security is a top priority of the FreeBSD project.

Re: BSD derivatives

2007-06-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:15:22AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> Chad Perrin wrote: >> >>> I'm not saying that's what the OpenBSD project does. I'm just saying >>> that, for instance, the availability of the ath driver contradicts a >>> claim that security is a to

gnome 2.18.2 crashed on getting out of lock screen + when activating keyboard switching applet

2007-06-03 Thread Roman Grachev
Hi everyone, I have just build gnome 2.18.2 from scratch on my system and everything is working fine except for two things: 1) when i press "lock screen" in gnome the screen fades to black, but when i press a button to get out of it, i get the dialog for typing in my password and the dialogs the

COM1 problems

2007-06-03 Thread Tim Judd
I'm subscribed to the digest, everyone -- send CC me on every reply please... Hi there, new installation, 6.2-STABLE. I have a Belkin UPS on COM1 and sysutils/nut is trying to talk with it. I know it talks with it, because it has in the past. The problem I'm getting is that NUT is just filling

Re: COM1 problems

2007-06-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:01:38AM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: > I'm subscribed to the digest, everyone -- send CC me on every reply > please... > > Hi there, new installation, 6.2-STABLE. > > I have a Belkin UPS on COM1 and sysutils/nut is trying to talk with it. > I know it talks with it, because i

Re: BSD derivatives

2007-06-03 Thread Spiros Papadopoulos
Hi Blake, On 02/06/07, Blake Finley, MA, ABD-2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am primarily concerned about security from internet hacking, and am therefore considering setting up a separate internet computer with BSD. Are you trying to secure a network with a secure gateway? To have a secure P

Re: How to disable command prompt history?

2007-06-03 Thread VeeJay
Thank you guys, Actually, it was for the security reason that if somebody breaks in the server then he/she doesn't see what commands are being executed, etc, etc and I am using /bin/sh any more comments? thanks, VJ On 6/2/07, Kevin Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 1:56p -0400 on 02

Re: How to disable command prompt history?

2007-06-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 03/06/07, VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you guys, Actually, it was for the security reason that if somebody breaks in the server then he/she doesn't see what commands are being executed, etc, etc and I am using /bin/sh any more comments? I would not have (honestly!) thought

php5-extensions and xorg libraries

2007-06-03 Thread Toni Stanton
>>I cannot install php5-extensions, nor xorg nor xorg-libraries. I am lost as to what to do. Many thanks in advance! >>Zbigniew Szalbot I presume you did read /usr/ports/UPDATING for the procedure to upgrade or install xorg 7.2 Its a pain, sure. What worked for me was to update the ports

php5-extensions and xorg libraries

2007-06-03 Thread Toni Stanton
>>I cannot install php5-extensions, nor xorg nor xorg-libraries. I am lost as to what to do. Many thanks in advance! >>Zbigniew Szalbot I presume you did read /usr/ports/UPDATING for the procedure to upgrade or install xorg 7.2 Its a pain, sure. What worked for me was to update the ports

php5-extensions and xorg libraries

2007-06-03 Thread Toni Stanton
>>I cannot install php5-extensions, nor xorg nor xorg-libraries. I am lost as to what to do. Many thanks in advance! >>Zbigniew Szalbot I presume you did read /usr/ports/UPDATING for the procedure to upgrade or install xorg 7.2 Its a pain, sure. What worked for me was to update the ports

Re: FreeBSD on Apple Mac Mini?

2007-06-03 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 03/06/2007, at 10:26 AM, Richard Tobin wrote: Does FreeBSD run well on the Mac Mini (x86)? I'm considering getting one to use for both MacOS and FreeBSD (booting from an external disk, if that's reasonable). Yep, it works fine. I used boot camp to create a small boot partition on th

multimedia/gstreamer-plugins80 problem

2007-06-03 Thread Dino Vliet
After I upgraded xorg, I had troubles upgrading this port. Can anyone help me with this because I get the following error message on my system (amd64, running freebsd 6.2) ../../gst-libs -I../../gst-libs -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include/gstreamer-0.8 -

portupgrade -o print/ghostscript-gpl ghostscript-gnu doesn't work

2007-06-03 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi peeps, on my amd64 system which I just upgraded to 6.2 (from 6.1) I wanted to upgrade my ports ass well. Looking into the /usr/ports/UPDATING file I saw the following announcement: 20070405: AFFECTS: users of print/ghostscript-* AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The default ghostscript port i

random xorg crashes after xorg upgrade to 7.2

2007-06-03 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi peeps, now that I've succesfully upgraded my xorg to 7.2 I'm experiencing random problems. Sometimes closing a firefox tab causes xorg to crash or changing the screen resolution in gnome to a lower value. When it crashes, I'm thrown into the command line where I can only reboot. I really do

advice for cache server,

2007-06-03 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello everyone, Im On FreeBSD 6.2R, I run radius and chillispot, sure my fbsd is the gateway. The internet start to be slow due the increase of the users on my lan. I was thinking to install a cache server, that would be easy and simple, even for my users, is the squid proxy server e

Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread Pang
Hello, I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? em0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=b inet 172.16.0.2 netmask 0xfffc broadcast 172.16.0.1 ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX me

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Sunday 03 June 2007, Pang wrote: > Hello, > I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to > half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? > > em0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > options=b > inet 172.16.0.2 netmask 0xfffc broadcast 17

Re: SMP System but only CPU#0 being used?

2007-06-03 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2007 schrieb Alex R: > On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:43:52 -0500, JD Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > to 0, i will try setting it to 1 and see what happens. The CPU is a LGA775 > Pentium-M with EMT64 I think, I remember the CPU box saying dual core on it > (not core duo though). Pen

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-02 21:45, Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an update on what I ended up going with. I decided to go > with my idea of moving all configuration files to a common > directory, but with a bit of a change. I created /config and > under it base/ and user/. Everything in base/

what should I set for CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2007-06-03 Thread Momchil Ivanov
Hi guys, I have IBM T40 with dmesg showing the processor as CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz (1495.16-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x695 Stepping = 5 Features=0xa7e9f9bf Features2=0x180 What sould I set for CPUTYPE in my make.conf pentium4m, pentium-m or som

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread Gelsema, P \(Patrick\)
On Sun, June 3, 2007 13:01, Pang wrote: > Hello, > I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to > half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? man ifconfig -> how to use the ifconfig tool man em -> available options to the em(4) driver. ifconf

Re: Multiple issues (FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE)

2007-06-03 Thread Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3)
I will try reflashing the BIOS with the latest ROMpaq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/06/07, Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hardware: Compaq Presario 1200-XL118 AMD K6-2 500MHz 64MB of RAM Trident CyberBlade i7 video with 4MB shared RAM 6GB ATA66 HD Linksys 10/100

Re: Multiple issues (FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE)

2007-06-03 Thread Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3)
Well, turning securelevel completely off in /etc/rc.conf fixed X, or sort of. X will start up in 800x600 (which is the LCD's native resolution) using the vesa driver; but, when I try the trident driver, it refuses to run at 800x600 and tries 640x480 instead, which the LCD doesn't like. Resul

Re: deleting old mails

2007-06-03 Thread Christopher Hilton
Thierry Lacoste wrote: I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail. I tried mail/archivemail but it cannot create it's lock file in /var/mail because it runs as the user owning the mailbox on which it operates. I al

Re: FreeBSD on Apple Mac Mini?

2007-06-03 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 03/06/2007, at 8:02 PM, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 03/06/2007, at 10:26 AM, Richard Tobin wrote: Does FreeBSD run well on the Mac Mini (x86)? I'm considering getting one to use for both MacOS and FreeBSD (booting from an external disk, if that's reasonable). Yep, it works fine. I use

isc-dhcp3-server in a jail?

2007-06-03 Thread Paul Fraser
Hi all, I'm playing around a bit with jails here, and have decided to try and set one up to run simply the "essential" network services - namely bind and dhcpd. I've managed to get bind working fine within the jail I've set up, but damned if I can get dhcpd to. Here's what's happening: I've bui

Re: deleting old mails

2007-06-03 Thread Thierry Lacoste
On Sunday 03 June 2007 14:01, Christopher Hilton wrote: > Thierry Lacoste wrote: > > I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have > > a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail. > > > > I tried mail/archivemail but it cannot create it's lock file > > in /var/mail

Re: what should I set for CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2007-06-03 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 6/3/07, Momchil Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi guys, I have IBM T40 with dmesg showing the processor as CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz (1495.16-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x695 Stepping = 5 Features=0xa7e9f9bf Features2=0x180 What sould I set fo

Re: what should I set for CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2007-06-03 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 6/3/07, Oliver Herold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nothing at all in my humble opinion. You'll have maybe more problems than advantages because of changing this option. Cheers, Oliver Herold On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:08:38PM +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > On 6/3/07, Momchil Iv

Re: php5-extensions and xorg libraries

2007-06-03 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, >>I cannot install php5-extensions, nor xorg nor xorg-libraries. I am lost as to what to do. Many thanks in advance! I presume you did read /usr/ports/UPDATING for the procedure to upgrade or install xorg 7.2 The thing is that I do not need xorg and would happily skip it. All I

Re: Flashplugin problem after xorg 7.2 upgrade

2007-06-03 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:30:58 +0300 Ozan Enginoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, here are my computer properties: evo n800v compaq laptop with 1.8 > ghz and 512 ram. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nspluginwrapper -a -v -i > Auto-install plugins from /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins >

Re: what should I set for CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2007-06-03 Thread Momchil Ivanov
On Sunday 03 June 2007 15:27:58 Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > On 6/3/07, Oliver Herold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nothing at all in my humble opinion. You'll have maybe more problems than > > advantages because of changing this option. Can you explain this one, please? What kind of prob

GRUB / boot easy problems w / USB stick

2007-06-03 Thread Fred Davidson
>Some thoughts: >1. bsdlabel -Brw /dev/da0s1 >- What is the option "r"? >- bsdlabel is supposed to create standard label >which probably >means creating da0s1a partition (can you call >"bsdlabel /dev/da0s1" to >see what was created?) So your next command should be >"newfs >/dev/da0s1a" ra

Re: COM1 problems

2007-06-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 01:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Tim Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, new installation, 6.2-STABLE. > > I have a Belkin UPS on COM1 and sysutils/nut is trying to talk with it. > I know it talks with it, because it has in the past. The problem I'm > getting is that NUT is

Error updating php5-simplexml-5.2.0 to 5.2.2, missing ext/spl/spl_sxe.h

2007-06-03 Thread Hans Nieser
I'm trying to update one of my FreeBSD machines, but it is failing on php5-simplexml: > ===> Building for php5-simplexml-5.2.2 > /bin/sh > /usr/ports/textproc/php5-simplexml/work/php-5.2.2/ext/simplexml/libtool > --mode=compile cc -I. > -I/usr/ports/textproc/php5-simplexml/work/php-5.2.2/ext/

ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface

2007-06-03 Thread Neil Short
Recently cvsup'd. This is new and I'm not sure I understand it. dmesg... ... ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ... The full atheros stuff is: ... ath0: mem 0xc020-0xc020 irq 20 at device 4.0 on pci2 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath0: Ethernet addr

Re: deleting old mails

2007-06-03 Thread Eric Crist
On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:05 AMJun 3, 2007, Thierry Lacoste wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2007 14:01, Christopher Hilton wrote: Thierry Lacoste wrote: I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail. I tried mail/archivemail bu

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread Mike Bristow
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2007, Pang wrote: Hello, I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? em0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=b inet 172.16.0.2 netmask 0xf

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread r17fbsd
At 07:01 AM 6/3/2007, you wrote: I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP ) You should be more concerned that it is only at 10Mb. I'm not sure

reinstalling a port with new compile option

2007-06-03 Thread Juan Miscara
I have net/samba3 installed on my FreeBSD 6.2 box. I now want to have ACL_SUPPORT compiled in. Without updating my sources, what is the safest way to achieve this? Thank you, Juan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: reinstalling a port with new compile option

2007-06-03 Thread Joe Holden
Juan Miscara wrote: I have net/samba3 installed on my FreeBSD 6.2 box. I now want to have ACL_SUPPORT compiled in. Without updating my sources, what is the safest way to achieve this? Thank you, Juan ___ cd /usr/ports/net/samba3 make deinstall cl

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-03 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On 6/3/07, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-06-02 21:45, Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an update on what I ended up going with. I decided to go > with my idea of moving all configuration files to a common > directory, but with a bit of a change. I created /

Re: reinstalling a port with new compile option

2007-06-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Joe Holden wrote: Juan Miscara wrote: I have net/samba3 installed on my FreeBSD 6.2 box. I now want to have ACL_SUPPORT compiled in. Without updating my sources, what is the safest way to achieve this? Thank you, Juan cd /usr/ports/net/samba3 make deinstall clean make WITH_ACL_SUPPORT=yes

Re: mounting Solaris 10 NFS share

2007-06-03 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 31 May Matthew Herzog wrote: > share -F nfs -o rw=spark -d "generic" /export/home/mush > 192.168.0.26:/export/home/mush /mnt/share nfs0 0 As said it's a uid/gid mismatch. Check your "spark" group on both ends and make sure the uid/gid's are the same. Quick check: -o rw (witho

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread Javier Henderson
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:46:15 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 07:01 AM 6/3/2007, you wrote: >> I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to >> half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to >> full-duplex? >>media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP

Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-03 Thread Tim Daneliuk
(Originally asked on -hardware and -smp but no one seemed to have any ideas. Repeating here to the larger group in hopes of some answers. TIA.) System: Intel D946GZIS MOBO w/ICH7 SATA-II support WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1 250G Hard Drive that claims to do 3G/s Pentium D @ 3.2GHz In addition to the on

Re: BSD derivatives

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:42:33AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:15:22AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > > >> Chad Perrin wrote: > >> > >>> I'm not saying that's what the OpenBSD project does. I'm just saying > >>> that, for instance, t

repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already present on the system). The Slackware install didn't get very far (the installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at all), but

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chad Perrin wrote: Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already present on the system). The Slackware install didn't get very far (the installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap p

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chad Perrin wrote: Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already present on the system). The Slackware install didn't get very far (the installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap p

Re: repear a FreeBSD install (s/repear/repair/ -- wow, I can't spell)

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
Sorry about the typo in the title of this thread. I don't know how that happened. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Larry Wall: "A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you give the audience." ___ freebsd-questio

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 12:34:06PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > >Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a > >triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already > >present on the system). The Slackware install didn't get ve

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:34:28PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > >Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a > >triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already > >present on the system). The Slackware install didn't get very

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:34:28PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already present on the system). The Slackware install did

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:34:28PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > >> Chad Perrin wrote: >> >>> Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a >>> triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already >>> present on the system).

SMP System but only CPU#0 being used?

2007-06-03 Thread Alex R
Hi All, Just wondering about something here. First of all, I am running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE and the CPU stats (parts of dmesg) CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2992.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf49 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x641d> AMD F

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing > is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in > your case) > It's been some time since I've done this myself (I am no longer dual > boo

Re: how many data can i write to my tape, how to tested?

2007-06-03 Thread perikillo
On 6/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 28/05/07, perikillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm running bacula 1.38.11 with one tape storage-works 232 200Gb. . . . > Them, he says that my tape is full, but calculating all clients, is > about 181GB, them why hi say that my ta

Re: SMP System but only CPU#0 being used?

2007-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
Alex R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Just wondering about something here. > > First of all, I am running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE > > and the CPU stats (parts of dmesg) > > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2992.52-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf49 Steppin

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing >> is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in >> your case) >> It's been some time since I've done this mys

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in your case) It's been some time since

Re: COM1 problems

2007-06-03 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:01 AM 6/3/2007, Tim Judd wrote: I'm subscribed to the digest, everyone -- send CC me on every reply please... Hi there, new installation, 6.2-STABLE. I have a Belkin UPS on COM1 and sysutils/nut is trying to talk with it. I know it talks with it, because it has in the past. The problem

mounting fusefs via /etc/fstab

2007-06-03 Thread martinko
Hallo, At the bottom of there's an example of using FUSE via /etc/fstab. It is for Linux. I wonder whether the same thing can be achieved on FreeBSD somehow as it would be very useful. With regards, Martin ___

6.2 make release

2007-06-03 Thread John Burns
I am trying to make a custom release. My goal is to make a custom bsd cd that will install the system to my specification without asking the user any question. My problem is the follwoing: I tried to compile the release without any modifications just to see if it works. I checkout the cvs tree wi

Synaptics trackpad problem

2007-06-03 Thread Robin Becker
I'm trying to get XORG setup on my acer laptop with 6.2 release. Things are fine except I cannot get the trackpad to work; x starts, but the mouse is frozen. I have had pcbsd on the same machine and the mouse worked there, but not as a trackpad. Any help appreciated Xorg.0.log (**) Option "C

Re: Synaptics trackpad problem

2007-06-03 Thread Paul Fraser
On 6/3/07, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any help appreciated Hi Robin, I know this isn't going to be much of a comfort - but I've had great difficulty trying to get Xorg to work nicely with - surprise - the Synaptics touchpad on my Acer notebook as well. I posted to the list almost

Re: RSA SecurID soft tokens under FreeBSD

2007-06-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 13:15:22 -0400 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm > interested in monitoring RSA SecureID using Nagios. Hi Mark, what do you mean by "monitoring" SecureID ? you mean, to monitor auth failures / successess? performance of the related services? I would say it's a matter of kno

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:17:00PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a > triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already > present on the system). The Slackware install didn't get very far (the > installer is

Re: 6.2/i386 X/DRI issues

2007-06-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:11:26 +1000 Alex R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it's in the archives of the list - you need to install the mesa-demos > > port. > > Installed it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ glxinfo > Error: unable to open display > > But thats because I am ssh'd into the box from work,

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:56:08PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing > > is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in > > your case) > > It

Re: Java on the BSD Desktop?

2007-06-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 30 May 2007 12:00:53 +0200 "n j" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I completely agree that Sun's licence is a hassle. Fortunately, in a > year or two, we're going to have an open source Java platform meaning > there will be no hassle with manual download while installing JRE/JDK. > Combined wit

Re: php5-extensions and xorg libraries

2007-06-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:32:57 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I will appreciate any help. When trying to install php5-extensions, I > get the following error: > > ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for php5-gd-5.2.2 > ===> php5-gd-5.2.2 depends on executable in : php

Re: How to disable command prompt history?

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 4:42a -0400 on 03 Jun 2007, VeeJay wrote: > Actually, it was for the security reason that if somebody breaks in the > server then he/she doesn't see what commands are being executed, etc, > etc > > and I am using /bin/sh > > any more comments? I don't use /bin/sh on a regular basis (bash,

Re: Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-03 Thread r17fbsd
At 02:08 PM 6/3/2007, Tim Daneliuk wrote: 3) Both the MOBO and drive are SATA-300 rated, but 6.2 insists that the drive is running at SATA-150. I have verified that the drive has no jumper forcing it into this mode. Don't know about the other issues, but I have a Dell with similar Intel

Re: ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface

2007-06-03 Thread Sam Leffler
Neil Short wrote: > Recently cvsup'd. > This is new and I'm not sure I understand it. > dmesg... > > ... > ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ignore it; it's just a reminder added when people decided to deprecate the api Sam ___ freebs

Re: Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:08:02 -0500 Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Originally asked on -hardware and -smp but no one seemed to have any > ideas. Repeating here to the larger group in hopes of some answers. TIA.) > > System: > > Intel D946GZIS MOBO w/ICH7 SATA-II support > WDC WD2500J

Re: How to disable command prompt history?

2007-06-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:37:59 -0400 Kevin Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, why are you worried about them seeing what commands you've been > running? My first thought is that at the point a malicious someone has > broken into your system, you have (much) bigger things to worry about. goo

Re: downgrading from php5 to php4

2007-06-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:59:37 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for advice how to best downgrade to php4. Is it ok to use > "make uninstall" for php5 and php5-extensions followed by make install > for php4? that's about it - if anything links to php (i doubt it) yo

Re: IPSec-NAT setup using racoon2

2007-06-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:20:01 +0530 "SethuRaman Krishnasamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to know if IPSec-NATT setup can > be made using racoon2 and the procedure for the same. I'm using > racoon2 version racoon2-20061228a AFAIK, you need IPSEC_NATT support in the kernel. search the

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:35:36PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:17:00PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a > > triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already > > present on

Re: purging old mail

2007-06-03 Thread mats . lindberg
Jonathan McKeown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2007-06-01 14:31:48: > On Friday 01 June 2007 14:11, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I'm setting up a FreeBSD 5.4 system that need to run unattended for a > > > year or more. > > > I've noticed that the /var/mail

Re: php5-extensions and xorg libraries

2007-06-03 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Norberto Meijome pisze: On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:32:57 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I will appreciate any help. When trying to install php5-extensions, I get the following error: ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for php5-gd-5.2.2 ===> php5-gd-5.2.2 depends

Re: Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-03 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Norberto Meijome wrote: Maybe unrelated - I had a similar problem yesterday on a small box @ home - it was stopping for about 2 minutes or so just before showing the line about ad0. It turned out one of the PCI cards (TV card) had become a bit lose and was obvioulsy causing problems. Once this w

GRUB / boot easy problems w / USB stick

2007-06-03 Thread Fred Davidson
--- Andrey Shuvikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you copy it recursively (with sub-directories)? > If yes then you > didn't need to copy > /boot/grub separately. If no, you'll probably need > to copy at least > /boot/defaults . > And /boot/kernel as well if you really want to > boot... > >

Configure ipaddress and route entries in /etc/rc.conf file

2007-06-03 Thread bsenthil
I am trying to configure ipaddress and route entries. so that i added below the entries in /etc/rc.conf file. vi /etc/rc.conf inetd_enable="YES" hostname="test.abc.com" ifconfig_fxp0="inet 192.168.110.14 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="192.168.110.2" hostname="test.abc.com" static_routes

Re: Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-03 Thread Tim Daneliuk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:08 PM 6/3/2007, Tim Daneliuk wrote: 3) Both the MOBO and drive are SATA-300 rated, but 6.2 insists that the drive is running at SATA-150. I have verified that the drive has no jumper forcing it into this mode. Don't know about the other issues, but I have

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread Rudolf Cejka
Pang wrote (2007/06/03): > I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to > half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? > em0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 >options=b >inet 172.16.0.2 netmask 0xfffc broadcast 172.16.0.1 >ether