Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-29 Thread Eitan Adler
> % man csh | less +/rehash > > but after exiting less: > > Error executing formatting or display command. > system command exited with status 36096 > Error executing formatting or display command. > system command exited with status 36096 > No manual entry for csh > > This error seems new. I can

RE: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-29 Thread Christopher Illies
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Hoffman [vi...@unsane.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:22 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail as client via smarthost and

Re: mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-29 Thread dan
On 10/29/10 01:00, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Dan-- On Oct 28, 2010, at 3:45 PM, dan wrote: 'mount_msdosfs -L en_US.UTF-8 /dev/da0 local/mnt/' executed by a non root-user prints out the following "mount_msdosfs: msdosfs_iconv: Operation not permitted" and then stops with error 71 on console. L

Re: mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:13 AM, dan wrote: > Thank you for your research and prompt response. The module was available. > I tried both: kldload in command line and adding it in loader.conf. > > Note. In case the module has not been been loaded,as a user, here, one gets > 2 messages > "mount_msdo

Re: Port update problem?

2010-10-29 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/28/10 19:07, Doug Spangler wrote: You are correct I meant chapter 4. Just out of curiosity is your INDEX intact or is that the cause of the odd behavior of /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg, portion of the problem. I understand that it is not the root cause of your problem just a symptom.

Re: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-29 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 29/10/2010 11:19, Christopher Illies wrote: > > I added "U:smmsp" and "M:PLAIN" to my /etc/mail/auth/client-info file, but > that did not change anything. When I left out the square brackets around the > server name in that file, I got another error message in /val/log/maillog: > > Oct 29 12:05:

Copy all users between systems

2010-10-29 Thread Laszlo Nagy
I would like to copy all user accounts, including root from an already installed 8.0 system to a fresh new 8.1 system. My plan is to boot into single user mode, then copy these: /etc/passwd /etc/master.passwd /etc/group then run pwd_mkdb and finally restart the system. (Obviously, I also need

Re: mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-29 Thread dan
On 10/29/10 13:22, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:13 AM, dan wrote: Thank you for your research and prompt response. The module was available. I tried both: kldload in command line and adding it in loader.conf. Note. In case the module has not been been loaded,as a user, her

Re: mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:53 AM, dan wrote: > On 10/29/10 13:22, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:13 AM, dan wrote: >> >> Thank you for your research and prompt response. The module was >>> available. >>> I tried both: kldload in command line and adding it in loader.conf. >

Re: slightly OT... .

2010-10-29 Thread Henry Olyer
I have some information that the problem is because the Macbook fonts are different from the FreeBSD fonts. Thank you!, thank you very much. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:22:26 -0400, Henry Olyer > wrote: > > I wrote some files using a MacBook a

RE: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-29 Thread Christopher Illies
Thanks for your explanations, Vince. It got me one step further (I think). <...> >PLAIN mechanism mean that i'm sending the password/user in plain rather >than using something like DIGEST-MD5 or any of the other possible >mechanisms that can be listed in confAUTH_MECHANISMS in your sendmail >.mc

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-29 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hey guys, Yes xorg is installed: [bluethu...@bsd1 /usr/local/kde4/bin]$ pkg_info -Ix xorg-7 xorg-7.5X.Org complete distribution metaport But startkde does not appear to be in /usr/local/kde4/bin [bluethu...@bsd1 /usr/local/kde4/bin]$ ls checkXMLkjs dolphin

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-29 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hey guys, Yes xorg is installed: [bluethu...@bsd1 /usr/local/kde4/bin]$ pkg_info -Ix xorg-7 xorg-7.5X.Org complete distribution metaport But startkde does not appear to be in /usr/local/kde4/bin ... I have so far only installed kde4base..

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-29 Thread Tim Dunphy
definitely on it!! it takes a while but I'm sure it'll be worth it... thanks On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Tim Dunphy wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> Yes xorg is installed: >> >> [bluethu...@bsd1 /usr/local/kde4/bin]$ pkg_info -Ix xorg-7 >> xorg-7.5    

Re: Resetting the sound system

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Grünewald
Dear Mark, Liontaur wrote: 2010/10/28 Michaël Grünewald > the audio software I use sometimes seems to handle unappropriately its input and leave the sound system in a strange state. When this happens, the lowest frequencies of the played sound are very attenuated and what is still audible sou

Re: Copy all users between systems

2010-10-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/10/2010 12:46, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > I would like to copy all user accounts, including root from an already > installed 8.0 system to a fresh new 8.1 system. > > My plan is to boot into single user mode, then copy these: > > /etc/passwd > /etc/master.passwd > /etc/group > > then run pwd_mkd

Re: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/10/2010 14:49, Christopher Illies wrote: > Although I have no idea what GSSAPI and NTLM are, I remembered that I have > seen these abbreviations before: NTLM is an OPTION for cyrus-sasl2, and yes, > it is compiled in (WITH_NTLM=true). And GSSAPI appeared first in the mc file: GSSAPI is the "

Re: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-29 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 29/10/2010 14:49, Christopher Illies wrote: > Thanks for your explanations, Vince. It got me one step further (I think). > > <...> > Ok, when I use telnet, this happens: >> telnet send.ki.se 587 > Trying 130.xxx.xxx.26... > Connected to send.ki.se. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 KIMSX09.user.

Server hardware

2010-10-29 Thread Scott Sipe
Hello, I'm getting ready to buy a new server system (running FreeBSD of course) for a small business. I have always before bought off-the-shelf parts and built my own, but am thinking of getting a packaged system this time. I want something fairly horsey. Xeon(s), 8-16gb ram, several terabytes sto

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-29 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:30:00 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: > > % man csh | less +/rehash > > > > but after exiting less: > > > > Error executing formatting or display command. > > system command exited with status 36096 > > Error executing formatting or display command. > > system command exited with

Undefined symbol "php_pcre_exec"

2010-10-29 Thread Andy Wodfer
Hi FreeBSD-Questions-readers, This question is not exactly FreeBSD, but since I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE on this server I was hoping this community would be able to give me some help. I'm trying to install the latest version (3.8.2144) of ResourceSpace ( http://www.resourcespace.org/ - open s

Recovering a DVD

2010-10-29 Thread Jason C. Wells
I have a back up DVD that I cannot mount. dd won't read /dev/acd0 with an error "dd: /dev/acd0: Input/output error".Tried dvdisaster but it can't find my drive. Any pointers you can offer in getting this data off this disc are greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jason

Re: Recovering a DVD

2010-10-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 29, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I have a back up DVD that I cannot mount. dd won't read /dev/acd0 with an > error "dd: /dev/acd0: Input/output error".Tried dvdisaster but it can't > find my drive. Any pointers you can offer in getting this data off this disc > are gre

Re: mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-29 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/10/29 Adam Vande More : > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:53 AM, dan wrote: > >> On 10/29/10 13:22, Adam Vande More wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:13 AM, dan  wrote: >>> >>>  Thank you for your research and prompt response. The module was available. I tried both: kldload in comma

Re: Server hardware

2010-10-29 Thread Nathan Vidican
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Scott Sipe wrote: > Hello, > > I'm getting ready to buy a new server system (running FreeBSD of course) for > a small business. I have always before bought off-the-shelf parts and built > my own, but am thinking of getting a packaged system this time. I want > som

Re: Undefined symbol "php_pcre_exec"

2010-10-29 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
I'd try `pkg_info -W /usr/local/lib/php/20090626/filter.so` to determine which port is responsible for that file - however it sounds imho quiet old. (I'd say it comes from security/php5-filter) My guess would be that it is a leftover from some older not properly removed library/program which n

Re: Server hardware

2010-10-29 Thread John Levine
>My question -- are any server vendors well recommended for FreeBSD? I bought a used HP Proliant DL385 for about $300 on ebay, then loaded it up with 8GB of RAM (making a total of 12GB) for another $200. Works great, FBSD 8.1 groks all the controllers, even produces appropriate syslog messages whe

Re: Server hardware

2010-10-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Scott Sipe wrote: > My question -- are any server vendors well recommended for FreeBSD? I've > looked at some seemingly decently priced Dells/HPs, but would appreciate > any > advice. Seems there are at times some hardware issues with some Dell > controllers. > >

Re: Recovering a DVD

2010-10-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Chuck Swiger > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:04:15 -0700 > Message-id: <3ca64aa4-0063-4207-8e72-4eb9396b5...@mac.com> Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 29, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > I have a back up DVD that I cannot mount. dd won't read /dev

Re: Recovering a DVD

2010-10-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I have a back up DVD that I cannot mount. dd won't read /dev/acd0 with an > error "dd: /dev/acd0: Input/output error".Tried dvdisaster but it can't > find my drive. Any pointers you can offer in getting this data off this disc > are

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-29 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Polytropon on Friday, 29 October 2010: > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:30:00 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > % man csh | less +/rehash > > > > > > but after exiting less: > > > > > > Error executing formatting or display command. > > > system command exited with status 36096 > > > Error executing f

FreeBSD8.1 Can't get Syslog file to Log dhcpd Solved.

2010-10-29 Thread Martin McCormick
Ah, the havoc of one stray space at the beginning of a line. I had noticed that all the other examples of various logs one could create in syslog.conf worked right. What on Earth was so special about: *.info;auth.info;mail.warning;cron.warning /var/log/syslog It's t

Moving to RAID1

2010-10-29 Thread Jerrin
Hello, i have a freebsd(7.3) dedicated server with one hard disk.It have partitions for root and swap only.I want to setup RAID1 by adding one more hard disk.i found in freebsd handbook about setting up RAID1 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.html .I only have remote access to the se

Re: Undefined symbol "php_pcre_exec"

2010-10-29 Thread Andy Wodfer
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: > I'd try > `pkg_info -W /usr/local/lib/php/20090626/filter.so` > to determine which port is responsible for that file - however it sounds > imho quiet old. (I'd say it comes from security/php5-filter) > > My guess would be that it is a lef

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-29 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 10/25/2010 09:18 PM, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I have not looked at PC-BSD because I thought the BSD's were all somewhat similar (powerful, stable, and secure). I only moved off of Debian due to feature bloat and the 'Fedoraizing' it (debian) is experiencing. Richard Bejtlich talks so hig

Re: Server hardware

2010-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:52:22AM -0400, Scott Sipe wrote: > Hello, > > I'm getting ready to buy a new server system (running FreeBSD of course) for > a small business. I have always before bought off-the-shelf parts and built > my own, but am thinking of getting a packaged system this time. I w

Re: Moving to RAID1

2010-10-29 Thread Diego Arias
Hi: Using gmirror you wont loose any data, just be carefully editing fstab to point the right devices (triple check). Its actually quite easy. Anyway if you can get console access its better just for precaution. Diego Arias On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Jerrin wrote: > Hello, > > i have a

Re: Moving to RAID1

2010-10-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Jerrin wrote: > i have a freebsd(7.3) dedicated server with one hard disk.It have > partitions > for root and swap only.I want to setup RAID1 by adding one more hard disk.i > found in freebsd handbook about setting up RAID1 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ge

was FreeBSD 8.1 success, now PC-BSD success

2010-10-29 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; I just completed a new PC-BSD install on the same machine I last posted a success message for FreeBSD 8.1. I do not have time to fiddle much right now and upgrading FreeBSD 8.1 from ports was giving me fits. But, living on the edge has it's price. I took the advise provided by respo