Re: subscribe freebsd-stable

2000-11-29 Thread Erick Mechler
Please see http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/eresources.html. At Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:52:20PM -0500, Emmanuel Paré said this: :: :: Emmanuel Paré :: HTRC Paper Technologies Inc. :: http://www.htrc.com :: Tel: 819 346 4522 ext 222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscrib

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2000-11-29 Thread Emmanuel Paré
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Re: Password Encryption Problems

2000-11-29 Thread O. Hartmann
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, David O'Brien wrote: Dear Sir. Thank you for replying. I see, some problems occur during a period of time when using a system, so for that, in the past I was told to use DES encryption due it's mentioned to be a standard, but today's opinion seems to say the opposit. As I rea

Re: file: table is full

2000-11-29 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:10:25AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > If 'maxusers' is less than 128, bump that up first. Then you can try > defining MAXFILES in your config file if you still hit the limit; check > the output of 'sysctl kern.maxfiles' to find what it's currently at. You can also do it

Re: Password Encryption Problems

2000-11-29 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:26:56PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > Last week, I installed a new user and its password seems to be > definitely encrypted by DES, but today's encrypted passwords seems to > be MD5 although I did not change anything I assume this was mentioned in the 4.2 Release notes --

RE: pkg_version

2000-11-29 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Passki, Jonathan P wrote: > > Of all the understanding and interaction I do with FreeBSD, this one issue, > the issue of a seamless (or semi-seamless) upgrade of installed ports seems > to be the one I have never seen a consistent solution with. Given my lack > of port unde

Re: Sound Woes

2000-11-29 Thread Keith Jones
Dumb question probably, but did you include the csa(4) bridge driver? On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:30:09PM +1100, Anthony Williams wrote: > Howdy, > > Am having a little bit of trouble getting my soundcard to work under > 4.2-RELEASE...contents of /dev/sndstat is: > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm

Re: pkg_version

2000-11-29 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> Maybe it's just the nature of installed ports that make them so difficult to > upgrade, but it's still for me, a pain when there are so many dependencies > (usually XFree86 + window manager + apps related to window manager), and not It's an easy problem to identify but a much harder one to sol

Xfree86 4.x and xdvi

2000-11-29 Thread janb
After upgrading to xfree86 4.0, xdvi no l, longer worksd. I get a long list of messages. Hre is a sample, they are all similar Have your system admin update MakeTeXPK' instead of a filename. xdvi: Can't find font cmex10.600pk xdvi: Not all pixel files were found Has anybody seen this problem, or

Re: Password Encryption Problems

2000-11-29 Thread O. Hartmann
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Tom wrote: Thanks a lot. :> :>On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, O. Hartmann wrote: :> :>... :>> In DES I have a password limitation of 8 characters, while FBSD's MD5 allows us :>> 128 characters. But using NIS/YP limits again passwords and login to be limited :>> by 8 characters, so I ask

Re: Password Encryption Problems

2000-11-29 Thread Tom
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, O. Hartmann wrote: ... > In DES I have a password limitation of 8 characters, while FBSD's MD5 allows us > 128 characters. But using NIS/YP limits again passwords and login to be limited > by 8 characters, so I ask myself what encryption service is the best choice ... As

and still more sound questions (driver porting for an s3 SonicVibes)

2000-11-29 Thread Mike Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, since sound questions appear to be the topic of the week... IT occurs to me that perhaps there should be a -sound mailing list? (or am I missing something and there is already? If so I apologize, as this rightfully belongs there if there is a

Re: pkg_version

2000-11-29 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Reynolds~ writes : > > [ On Tuesday, November 28, Szilveszter Adam wrote: ] > > > > When I am sure that all of them have actually changed, I usually work my > > way up on the dependency list from the bottom, eg I do X first. If this is > > just a patch, the

Re: pkg_version

2000-11-29 Thread Mike Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Passki, Jonathan P wrote: > > > I have to agree with the rant, but I think we are straying off topic for - -stable, and need to either move it completely to -ports or go private. And I know I'm not one with time or experti