Where are the config files stored?

Hello I'm posting here coz I got this problem since a while and it's very disturbing. I install a soft like postfix for example and I cant find the sample config files which normally comes with the packages. Under linux the sample are stored either in there right place (i.e. /etc/postfix/main.cf) o

User unknown?

Hello I'm trying to setup (for the first time under FreeBSD!) my usual setup to read my mail (postfix+fm+procmail+mutt) But I got a serious problem: when I try to fetch the mails for my user those mails dont go in /var/mail/my_user but *always* in /var/mail/root... I read all the mails I receive fr

Re: User unknown?

2006/3/27, Erik Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Guillaume R. wrote: Hello > Sounds like you're coming from Linux? Yes I'm an early freebsd user (I use it since one year more or less) > > Did you add the user? can you login as that user? I can login with that user and I

Re: User unknown?

Re To be more accurate here is a trace that I can found in /var/mail/root. Seems to be a internal mail for my user (which never receive any mail...) The original message was received at Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:34:32 +0100 (CET) from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The following addresses had permanent fat

Re: User unknown?

2006/3/28, Erik Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Guillaume R. wrote: > > 2006/3/28, Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello > >> You should be able to find this in /var/log/maillog. Include the error > >> message from the maillog. > > Oki I&#

Upgrade a firmware under FreeBSD

Hello Since a long time I've got a problem with my burner which is : cd0: . Cdrecord writes something like: "cannot load media" while there is a media inside which works find on another burner. So now I decided to use the last chance: the firmware. I found a newer than mine on the constructor webs

Some questions about ports system

Hi At the end of a portsclean -LPPDDC I got this: ** Clean out /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg manually on occasions. ** Try using libchk(1) (sysutils/libchk) to find out unreferenced libraries. I'm asking thus some questions, the one is how could I clean manually the /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg directory

Problem while patching a file

Hello I'm trying to install the last version of emacs (to test Gnus!) on my box. I've got a compil error, I made a search and found that thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-September/025703.html By reading the thread I could deduce that this patch seems to work fine. I dec

Mounting a linux partition under freebsd

Hello I can't mount a linux partition under freebsd with the -t ext3fs option could someone explain me how I could mount a linux partition under freebsd? I got an other question: how could I obtain a human readable output of fdisk to know the content in terms of partition of my disk? Thx -- Powered

Re: A stupid 64bit question ... but ...

2005/12/5, David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:50:55PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > I recently bought a new Intel Xeon server, and when I put it together, I > > didn't realize that the newer Xeon's were 64bit ... now, I've just built > > perl 5.8.7, and its r

Shutdown my pc

Hi all! I've got a little problem on my new pc:I can't shutdown it correctly that is to say: i ran shutdown -h now (in root of course) it comes to shutdown and then I've got a blackscreen with some snow on it (soon christmas???) and to really shutdown the pc I've got to use the power button (which

Re: Mouse Issues

> I am having issues getting my mouse to start with freebsd 5.3, i have > it installed and working fine on one machine, but trying to get the > mouse daemon to start on a dell 400sc just hangs the machine, where > abouts can i look in the logs for this? lo I've got the same issue with a logitech

Re: 'Designed for FreeBSD' stickers

> Whilst upgrading another laptop to FreeBSD, a thought occurred to me: > is there a source of "Designed for FreeBSD" stickers (with Beastie > logo) that can be used to replace the "Designed for M*cr*s*ft W*nd*ws > XP" ones? It will really be a good idea this logo "Designed for xxx" got on my ner

Re: make buildworld failing

>>>While trying to update to 5.3 stable, buildworld errors out on >>> >>> me. I'm >>> running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p11. Following is part of the output, >>> if you need more output please let me know. No luck looking up the >>> errors in google, so your help is appreciated. >> >> try rm'in

Re: "^M"

2006/5/3, Emil Thelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 3 May 2006, FreeBSD Daemon wrote: > How can I non-manually remove the "^M" line breaks from my text files Yes, I know. Alot of people already answered your question, but since no one answered with this I feel obligated :-) col -bx < infile >