PAM issues ?

2003-11-28 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi, After my src upgrade to 4.9 stable I've noticed this on bootup and dmesg: Nov 28 13:42:28 pandora /kernel: Nov 28 13:42:28 pandora perl: unable to resolve symbol: pam_sm_open_session Nov 28 13:42:28 pandora /kernel: Nov 28 13:42:28 pandora perl: unable to resolve symbol: pam_sm_close_session

Re: trying installing openoffice

2003-12-12 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 08:30, Eric Boucher wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm trying to install openoffice and it don't work. > Here is the command I did as root: > > make install && make clean > > Here is the error message I get: > > ===> Building for openoffice-1.0.3_2 > cp: > /usr/ports/distfile

Re: trying installing openoffice

2003-12-12 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 08:30, Eric Boucher wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm trying to install openoffice and it don't work. > Here is the command I did as root: > > make install && make clean > > Here is the error message I get: > > ===> Building for openoffice-1.0.3_2 > cp: > /usr/ports/distfile

Re: KDE, Gnome not coming down via cvsup

2003-12-17 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
ke search key=kde" in /usr/ports to get a list of ports used by gnome/kde. You can replace gnome/kde with any keyword you like to be more specific on your search. -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgp/nelis.key "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: see release version in /usr/src

2003-12-18 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 16:16, Lev Klimin wrote: > Hi! > > How can I see, what is release version in my /usr/src? try: grep BASE /usr/src/release/Makefile Not sure if that works for 5.x though.. -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgp/nelis.key "Unix IS user friend

Re: Looking for laptop suggestions

2003-12-23 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
out it's problems. You could probably contact the owners and ask them about any problems they experienced and how they resolved them. -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgp/nelis.key "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

enabling telnet service and capturing packets with ethereal ( was Re: doubts )

2003-12-23 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
al to capture network packet on freebsd 4.7 ? A quick visit to http://www.ethereal.com/docs/user-guide/ch03capturestart.html should answer this question. > > please reply me soon. > > Thanking you > > manish gautam > > B.E computers > > pune (India) > &g

Re: changed hostname, what else shoud I change ?

2004-07-13 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
" in "add" com > mand Hi! What happens when you remove the file .Xauthority ? You need to change the hostname in both /etc/hosts and /etc/rc.conf Regards, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selectiv

Re: Routing issue

2004-07-19 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
mask for the alias to 255.255.255.255 if it's on the same network. Regards, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Re[2]: How to configure PHP build?

2004-07-20 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
for mod_php4-4.3.8_1,1 > ===> mod_php4-4.3.8_1,1 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/apxs - found > ===> mod_php4-4.3.8_1,1 depends on executable: bison - found > ===> Configuring for mod_php4-4.3.8_1,1 > Try doing a 'make reinstall' Failing which you could also

Re: Random Freeze

2004-07-21 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
clue as to why it froze. Checking your memory as already suggested is also a good idea. You can use the memory test located in /usr/ports/sysutils/memtest86 which is a great tool. You might also want to upgrade to the latest source for that particular RELEASE as bugs are constantly found and correcte

Re: How to send attached files on sendmail with mail tool?

2004-07-23 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
t "The file $file has been sent to $to\n"; }; sub PrintUsage { print "Usage: mailfile.pl"; }; Not tested but should work, just alter to suit your needs. Regards, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: SSH Client - OpenSSH dependency problem

2004-07-23 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
lt your $PATH is set to use the base version. If you are going to use the ports then you may also want to ensure the following are defined in /etc/make.conf NO_OPENSSH= true NO_OPENSSL= true Regards, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly

Re: Best way to limit SSH to LAN IP's only ?

2004-07-23 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
ed to do is configure sshd to listen on the LAN interface. in sshd_config: ListenAddress your.lan.interface.ip Regards, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Des

Re: Apaching binding to *:* ?? (Weirdness)

2004-07-26 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
int's filename, or ``??'' if the endpoint could not be determined. FOREIGN ADDRESS (Internet sockets only) The address the foreign end of the socket is bound to (see getpeername(2)). -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http:/

Re: ax88790 chipset 100mbit/s support

2004-12-08 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 02:25:30 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > i have a 10/100 fast ethernet pccard labeled "sitecom". > it is built around the asix ax88790 chipset and runs > at 10 mbit using the ed driver. > > is 10 mbit/sec the maximum transfer rate the ed driver

swapfile

2004-12-14 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi, Checked the manual but couldn't find anything regarding this. If you have created more than one swap file how do you specify them in your rc.conf file ? Manually it works fine but obviously when the machine boots I want them both to be used again. swapfile="/mailstore/swap1" swapfile="/mailst

Re: i'm lost in named trouble.

2004-12-29 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:00:04 +0100 (MET), Mipam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > controls { > inet 127.0.0.1 port 953 > allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { "bla"; }; > }; perhaps this should be: controls { inet 127.0.0.1 port 953 allow { localhost; } keys

Re: i'm lost in named trouble.

2004-12-29 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:39:44 +0100 (MET), Mipam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:00:04 +0100 (MET), Mipam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > controls { > > >

Re: anyone using Putty and ssh-agent?

2005-01-13 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:26:43 -0500, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get putty and ssh-agent working under 5.3-stable. > Anyone succeeded? > > I have plain ssh working with ssh-agent, but not putty. The issue is > just putty, not ssh-agent. > -- Similiar problems have been

portupgrade weirdness

2005-04-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi, I seem to be having some difficulty upgrading some of my packages using portupgrade. Here is an example: medusa# portversion -vl "<" | grep m4 m4-1.4.1< needs updating (port has 1.4.3) medusa# portupgrade m4 medusa# Basically it's doing nothing as if it thinks the port

Re: portupgrade weirdness

2005-04-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
:17 PM, Nelis Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to be having some difficulty upgrading some of my packages > using portupgrade. Here is an example: > > medusa# portversion -vl "<" | grep m4 > m4-1.4.1< needs updatin

mystery /var space usage

2005-01-27 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi, This is not one of those "I've run out of space on /var issues" but rather "what the hell is using up the space" issue. My /var file system shows: /dev/amrd0s1e 9.8G 4.8G 4.2G53%/var A du -h of /var shows a total of 616M data only. First thing that came to mind is some process

Re: mystery /var space usage

2005-01-28 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:29:30 -0800, joseph kacmarcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > /dev/amrd0s1e 9.8G 4.8G 4.2G53%/var > > > > A du -h of /var shows a total of 616M data only. First thing that came > > to mind is some process which is holding onto data so I tried > > restarting va

Re: How change the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE?

2005-02-18 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:25:13 -0800, perikillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, i have been around reading docs about the problem we have a lot > of people went we try to access one ftp server on the Internet, > normally the (Passive servers), in the past i was using rules on > IPFILTER(freebsd 4.

Re: Cleaning /tmp on boot

2005-02-24 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:42:17 +, Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Is there an easy way to have FreeBSD (RELEASE-5.3) clean /tmp on boot > by means of setting a flag or something in /etc/rc.conf? I'd like to > check before I start manually hacking up my boot scripts to get this >

Re: bandwidth throttling for a particlarport for FTP server

2004-01-08 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
hat supports bandwidth throttling eg. ProFTPD ( www.proftpd.org ) It has variables like RateWriteBPS, RateReadBPS etc which you can configure to suit your bandwidth requirements. Regards, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgp/nelis.key "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just sel

Re: syslog question

2004-01-19 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
/var/log/console.log Just do as it says to log to a file as_well_as console. Change the above line to whatever name you would like to call the file. -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgp/nelis.key "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends ar

Re: Traffic Control

2004-01-21 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
ic shaper, bandwidth manager and delay emulator -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgp/nelis.key "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Traffic Control

2004-01-21 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 10:19, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 09:53, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > Does FreeBSD support any kind of traffic control features like the ones > > in linux 2.4, qdiscs like htb or sfq? Or should I just stick with linux > > for setting up a

Re: How to mount a FreeBSD-5.1 partition from FreeBSD-4.9

2004-01-21 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
ce files first: sh /dev/MAKEDEV ad0s3 then mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s3a /mnt/freebsd5.1 ..for access to root or mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s3f /mnt/freebsd5.1 ..for access to /usr you may or may not need to specify the type of file system as above. -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgp/

Re: Ctrl+Alt+Delete

2004-01-30 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
casual user may not accidentally reboot > > the system. > > > > in the kernel config file (great for unattended, publicly > > accessible machines!). > > Does this work on both 5.x and 4.x? Yes. In 5.x see /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES, in 4.x check /usr/src/sys/i3

/usr/share/doc's failing to build

2004-01-30 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
to make all. Stop *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/share/doc. Thanks. -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgp/nelis.key "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: fetch fails, ftp works question

2004-02-02 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
TP_PASSWORD variables. If all else fails you can try the FETCH_CMD variable in /etc/make.conf and change it to use ftp, wget etc. Oh, not sure if that was a typo above but it should be: MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE?= ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ Regards,

Re: mirror

2004-02-02 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 06:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am interested in becoming a mirror for FreeBSD. How much bandwidth is > required/recommended? > Thanks see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/index.html -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgp/

Re: ipf + ipnat + dmz + bridge question

2004-02-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
xl0 from 192.168.1.0/24 ! to xxx.yyy.200.99/32 -> xxx.yyy.200.97/32 which basically tells ipnat to always use NAT unless you are speaking with your DMZ xxx.yyy.200.99/32 Regards, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgp/nelis.key "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective abou

Re: Newbie trying to build a new world

2004-02-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
t; > Then I get this output: > config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MOAK:274: syntax error > Error code 1 > stop in /usr/src > error code 1 > Stop in /usr/src see above. > Is there something wrong in MOAK (see attachment)??? > Hope that somebody can offer me some help. > Many

Re: Newbie trying to build a new world

2004-02-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
whoops, I misread your error, scratch my message...sorry. On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:38, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:15, Nicolas wrote: > > Hello. > > I am a newbie trying to build a new kernel. I have been following the handbook > > step by step but

RE: ipf + ipnat + dmz + bridge question

2004-02-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
; Thanks for your time. > > Jay > > -Original Message- > From: Nelis Lamprecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 3:47 AM > To: Jason Lavigne > Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mail List > Subject: Re: ipf + ipnat + dmz + bridge question > > On Thu, 200

Re: perl issues after port upgrade

2004-02-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
ory /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 > but it has no iconv.pm file in it. You'll find that all the programs you installed that required perl before you upgraded to 5.8.2 will give you problems. My advice for you is a re-install of all those programs. Apache if you use it will probably al

builworld failure after cvsup on 4.9

2004-02-09 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
uhid# "Human Interface Devices" device ukbd# Keyboard device ulpt# Printer device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da Thanks, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc &quo

Re: builworld failure after cvsup on 4.9

2004-02-09 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
disk to be at fault and am now downloading the entire set. I first tried removing the src and then re-installing from the cd, then I upgraded it ( tried 2 diff cvsup mirrors )which gave me the same error. I'll post my result after cvsup of the entire src. thanks, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http:

Re: builworld failure after cvsup on 4.9

2004-02-09 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 14:45, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Monday 09 February 2004 01:12 am, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am busy setting up a new dual HP server ( ML350 Xeon 2.8ghz ) and > > have cvsup the latest source and compiling just the basic options to &

Re: builworld failure after cvsup on 4.9

2004-02-09 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
included buildworld was successful. Regard, Nelis On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 11:12, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > Hi, > > I am busy setting up a new dual HP server ( ML350 Xeon 2.8ghz ) and have > cvsup the latest source and compiling just the basic options to get SMP > working so I can c

disabling nfs in 5.2R-p2 ?

2004-02-10 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
0 0 12 ?? IL3:39PM 0:00.00 (nfsiod 0) root 98 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL3:39PM 0:00.00 (nfsiod 1) root 99 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL3:39PM 0:00.00 (nfsiod 2) root100 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL3:39PM 0:00.00 (nfsiod 3) thanks. -- Nelis Lampr

MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE make.conf variables in 5.x ?

2004-02-10 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi, In 4.x you can use variables such as MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE to add in your local mirrors for the distribution files. Where in 5.x do you put these ? I copied my usual make.conf settings across to a 5.x machine and it doesn't seem to be working. Thanks. -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http:

using ipfw and ipf/ipnat together

2004-02-16 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
imiter options IPSTEALTH #support for stealth forwarding Seeing as though I'm not using ipfw filtering I thought I could just allow everything through by default. Will dummynet still work if IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT is set ? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. --

Re: ICQ question

2004-05-13 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
tp://gaim.sourceforge.net/ for MSN support and others. /usr/ports/net/gaim Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." ___ [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Samba slow to start on bootup

2004-05-17 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
you look at what loads after Samba. Check the above directory. Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Samba slow to start on bootup

2004-05-17 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
actually causing > the pause. > > Why would this be? > > Thanks > Gareth Try running smbd in debug mode smbd -F -S -d3 and see if anything stands out. Perhaps a server you have specified in your configuration file is unavailable or not responding. Do the same for nmbd. Che

Re: ipmon logs to messages AND security

2004-05-17 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
! > > Can you think of anything else that i might do? > Rather use: ipmon_flags="-Dn /var/log/security" Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Disk full / NFS, df, and du

2004-05-17 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF ..regarding this. Maybe a kill -HUP nfsd might help ? Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

RE: ipmon logs to messages AND security

2004-05-17 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
ty" > This is not bad advice, I was offering a solution to his problem. -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: racoon and openssl

2004-05-17 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
use the port. > > Moreover I have an other problem: I can't install racoon. > When I want to make the installation there is an "error 1". > You will have to be more specific here and provide us with a little more information. Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http

Re: Special Keys in less

2004-05-19 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
of less. It works on both FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x in my case. Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Why has cvsup quit working for me?

2004-05-20 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
y typing "hostname" from the command line. Then make sure that the returned name has an ip address associated with it in /etc/hosts Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are.&q

Re: named in sandbox

2004-05-21 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
3 11:21 null -> /dev/null lrwxr-xr-x 1 root bind 11 Mar 3 11:21 random -> /dev/random lrwxr-xr-x 1 root bind9 Mar 3 11:21 zero -> /dev/zero Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who

Re: portupgrade configuration

2004-05-26 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Help with a routing issue

2004-05-26 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
this: ifconfig_rl0="inet 196.25.37.18 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_rl0_alias0="inet 196.25.37.19 netmask 255.255.255.255" Your subnet in the above example may differ according to what block your ISP has provided you. Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za

RE: Help with a routing issue

2004-05-26 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
es. Try adding the following route on the client machine: route add -host 196.25.37.18 192.168.254.1 255.255.255.255 See if that helps. -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall

2004-05-26 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
can have it log to a file daily_output="/var/log/daily.log" Same apply's for weekly and monthly jobs. Personally I find it annoying when it sends out a mail for each job so I change it to log to a file instead which I can check periodically ( excuse the pun ;) As a side note if y

Re: Periodic configuration

2004-06-02 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
he output and have it log to a file instead. eg. daily_output="/var/log/daily.log" Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

ipnat and ipfw dummynet

2004-06-04 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
from any to 192.168.1.0/24 in via bge1 This however will also give 192.168.1.0/24 an internal LAN speed of 128Kbit/s which is to say quite humorous ;-) What is the solution to this ? ..I'm obviously missing something. The internal interface is not firewalled. Many thanks, -- Nelis Lam

Re: ipnat and ipfw dummynet

2004-06-04 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
traffic on the 192.96.48.0/24 network internally is routed via the gateway to get to the 192.168.1.0 network. Hope that makes sense. Nelis On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 14:43, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested to hear how people utilise dummynet in a NAT environment. > Ho

Re: 4.10 Release & Exim 4.32

2004-06-07 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
ports/sysutils/portupgrade ) Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: gnome problems

2004-06-08 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
t http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/. It would be wise of you to check the FAQ's at this site for important information. The Gnome mailing list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] where all questions regarding Gnome on FreeBSD should be posted. Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/neli

Re: Modem configuration

2004-06-10 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
i! No, unfortunately FreeBSD does not support winmodems as their functionality is generally implemented via software drivers only available for Windows. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/x52.html Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc &

Re: XFree86 configure question

2004-06-11 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
s and adjust if necessary to your liking. Also, take a look at the FAQ's regarding the X Window System which can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It

Procedure for migrating user accounts to new system ?

2005-07-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi, What is the correct procedure to follow for migrating user accounts from one FreeBSD 4.x system to a new FreeBSD 4.x system ? We're sticking to 4.x due to legacy issues(Netware) in case I get asked. Didn't see answer to this in the FAQ's or Handbook and google answers seem sketchy. Thanks. N

Re: Procedure for migrating user accounts to new system ?

2005-07-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 05 Jul 2005 16:44:02 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nelis Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is the correct procedure to follow for migrating user accounts > > from one FreeBSD 4.x system to a new FreeBSD 4.x system ? We'r

Re: Procedure for migrating user accounts to new system ?

2005-07-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 7/5/05, Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/07/2005 12:26 AM, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What is the correct procedure to follow for migrating user accounts > > from one FreeBSD 4.x system to a new FreeBSD 4.x system ? We're &g

Re: Procedure for migrating user accounts to new system ?

2005-07-06 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
d all home directories and all is well. Nelis On 7/5/05, Nelis Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > What is the correct procedure to follow for migrating user accounts > from one FreeBSD 4.x system to a new FreeBSD 4.x system ? We're > sticking to 4.x due to legac

Re: FreeBSD 5 - What Options for SMP Kernel?

2005-07-10 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 7/11/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just built my first 5.4-RELEASE system. I want a SMP kernel. The > GENERIC kernel conf file contains this line: > > device apic# I/O apic > > According to NOTES, this is all that's required to build an SMP ke

Re: Who can help me with ISO's

2005-07-11 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 7/11/05, Gavin McDougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am based in Johannesburg, South Africa and would like to know if there > is anyone lurking in this list that could help me with making copies of > the FreeBSD 5.4 ISO's. > > We suffer serious telecoms (bandwidth) disabilitie

Re: Port upgrade error

2005-07-13 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 7/13/05, Beecher Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While trying to update phpMyAdmin I get the following error: > ===>Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/php/20041030/mysqli.so in > /usr/ports/databases/php5-mysqli > ===> php5-mysqli-5.0.4_2 Doesn't work with MySQL version : 50 > (Doe

Re: why CDROM operations cause system to be slow and HD operations do not

2005-07-13 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 7/13/05, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I read something from CDROM my system gets visibly slow and HD > reads/writes do not have the same effect. > > I think they both should have similar effect on system performance since > multiple requests should just wait till completion interrupt

Re: using -t option with unix sort ?

2005-07-14 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 7/14/05, Daniel Malaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to sort a tab delimited file with sort. The problem I am > having is with the -t option. I do not know how to pass a tab. > sort -t \t > > Any suggestions would be much appreciated. remove the space between -t a

Re: using -t option with unix sort ?

2005-07-14 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 7/14/05, Nelis Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/14/05, Daniel Malaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to sort a tab delimited file with sort. The problem I am > > having is with the -t option. I do not know how

Continuation of support for FreeBSD 4.x ?

2005-07-18 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Greetings all, Could somebody please clarify for me what will happen to FreeBSD 4.x support with regards to patches and or security updates in the future ? I've heard that when version 6 becomes RELEASE there will be no more security updates to version 4.x, is this true ? I work at a University w

Re: undelete in FreeBSD?

2005-07-21 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 7/21/05, Xu Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all: > > I mis-deleted /usr/local/bin directory in my FreeBSD. How can I restore it? > There isn't a way to restore unless you have a backup. However, most of the binary files in /usr/local/bin are from packages/ports you have installed on yo

problems after restarting with bind and mysqld

2002-09-20 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi List I recently restarted my system ( reloaded rc.conf and startup scripts by going into single user mode and exiting ) and suddenly have run into 2 problems. I am running 4.6 Stable patched with the various security updates. Firstly, Bind 9.2.1 is giving me this error on startup: named[7

Re: problems after restarting with bind and mysqld

2002-09-20 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Never mind the message below as posted previously, I have managed to source the problem to a system date change that I have no idea how it reverted back to July 5 ?? - Hi List I recently restarted my syste

RealTek 8129/8139 nic problems

2002-10-03 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Greetings, I have a Accton 100baseTX nic that uses the RealTek 8129/8139 chipset. The nic works fine if I plug it into a 10mbit hub but as soon as I plug it into a switch ( 3Com Baseline 10/100 ) which I use internally for ftp'ing it starts transferring data ok and then slowly dies. After awhi

ipfw ruleset

2002-10-03 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi People, I'm trying to setup my firewall using ipfw on 4.6 Stable. I have read through the man pages and also several howto's but now I need your advice. I would like to setup a DNS server that will respond to queries and my current ruleset does not seem to permit this. Please tell me what I

Re: ipfw ruleset

2002-10-04 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
whoops, never mind people I have just realized blocking all udp except for on port 53 does not allow other DNS servers to do queries to my host ( even though I can query them ). would help if I actually bothered to read my logs once in awhile :O) >Hi People, > >I'm trying to setup my firewall

Bind9 - reverse dns ?

2002-10-16 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi People, I've been Googling around trying to find an example to setup reverse DNS on my server but have had no luck. I've read through the administrators guide also but there doesn't seem to be any clear info on setting this up. Hence I have resorted once again to the faithful FreeBSD mail

make builkernel error on Athlon

2002-11-26 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi All I'm busy compiling a custom kernel on a AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ to setup sound. I am also upgrading from 4.7 RELEASE to STABLE. After cvsuping to the latest stable source I run buildworld which works fine but on my 'make buildkernel KERNCONF=ENIGMA' I get the following error: sh /usr/s

Gnome 2 startup ?

2002-11-27 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi People I've just completed installing Gnome2 from ports ( on FreeBSD 4.7 Stable ) and before I start editing any files to get it working can someone tell me ' the correct way ' to start it ? I have configured X and at the moment it just starts with TWM when I run startx. I thought installin

Re: Gnome 2 startup ?

2002-11-27 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Sorry, answered my own ( stupid ) question by basically creating a .xinitrc in home and putting in the line: exec gnome-session in it :) - Hi People I've ju

FreeBSD as Desktop OS with support for Windows

2002-11-28 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi People I want to use FreeBSD as my desktop OS with Gnome but I still need to do Windows luser support. I have installed Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7 Stable and now I'm trying to figure out what is the best solution. Does the Vmware port still work and or should I just install Samba and which Offic

NAT and Firewall Configuration ?

2002-11-30 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi List I am in the process of configuring NAT and a firewall on FreeBSD 4.7 Stable. I have configured the external interface with 2 class C addresses 192.x.x.1 and 192.x.x.2. and the internal interface with 192.168.x.1 ( gateway ) I have also configured natd_flags="-redirect_address 192.168.x

OpenOffice port broken ?

2002-11-30 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi Has anyone tried to install OpenOffice via ports lately ? I have tried but the file it referenced ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/OOo_1.0.1_source.tar.bz2 cannot be found so I downloaded it manually but now I get a checksum error! Yes, I do have all the other files needed d

NAT & IPFW

2002-12-01 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi People I've recently run out of ip's on our class C network and have now setup NAT on my FreeBSD 4.7 Stable machine. I am having difficulty configuring ipfw ( after reading several howto's ) to enable my NAT clients to connect through my firewall. I am able to ping the outside world ( from N

Gnome 2 not starting window manager after crash.

2002-12-06 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi People, I was playing around with Glimmer when it froze and basically I couldn't do anything in X but log in remotely and kill the process that just happened to be Sawfish. Strangely now when ever I start Gnome 2 it doesn't start with Sawfish anymore. If I run it from the command prompt in G

IPFW+NAT

2002-12-07 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi List Has anyone come across a recent ( not old please ) Howto/Info/Manual/Example on using IPFW _dynamic_ rules function with NAT ? If so, please could you point me in the right direction. Thanks. Kind Regards, Nelis To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd

Broken Startup Script

2002-12-16 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi People, Since upgrading to latest stable a few of my startup scripts have stopped working due to the changes in sh. I have fixed most but not sure how to fix the below script which keeps giving me [: /usr/local/sbin/snmpd: unexpected operator Many Thanks, Nelis #!/bin/sh if ! PREFIX=$(expr $

running Linux programs under FreeBSD

2002-07-15 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
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bandwidth limiting

2002-07-19 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi List I would like to limit bandwidth on a per user basis to my 4.6 box, is this possible ? Or perhaps limit them on a per ipaddress basis. I have 2 interfaces( ext and int ) and I am running ipfw. I read somewhere that you can use pipe with ipfw for this but am having a little difficulty u

bandwidth limiting

2002-07-19 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi List I would like to limit bandwidth on a per user basis ON my 4.6 box, is this possible ? Or perhaps limit them on a per ipaddress basis. I have 2 interfaces( ext and int ) and I am running ipfw. I read somewhere that you can use pipe with ipfw for this but am having a little difficulty u

Re: problem when starting mysql

2005-08-18 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 8/18/05, vladone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry. Resolved. I dont have right owner for /var/db/mysql > If you used the script that the port installed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start mysql you wouldn't have had any problems. The startup script would have run mysql_install_db and set the cor

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