microuptime() went backwards

2004-04-23 Thread hugle
Hello all. SOmetimes I see such messages in dmesg. perl# dmesg uptime() went backwards (1574174.333073 - 1573478.944788) what they mean? and what causes them to appear ? is it good or bad?? :) -- Best regards,Hugle ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: installing kde-lite from port

2004-04-23 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
I should have added heh heh... for self sarcasm... On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:38:30PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:31:42PM -0400, Chiang Seng Chang wrote: not a question but may be its not such a good idea after all to install kde from port on a p2-400, still

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2004-04-23 Thread Vijay
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 11:34, hugle wrote: Hello all. SOmetimes I see such messages in dmesg. perl# dmesg uptime() went backwards (1574174.333073 - 1573478.944788) Is your system clock working fine ? what they mean? and what causes them to appear ? is it good or bad?? :) --- Vijay

backing up cvs files

2004-04-23 Thread dave
Hello, I've got a cvs repository i'd like to move to another system, but i am uncertain as to how to back it up, any advice helpful. Also, i've got an anonymous user in the file READERS, however he can still commit changes to the repository, i am speculating this might be a permissions

majordomo question

2004-04-23 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I was trying to find out why I din't receive any mail from the freebsd-java list and sent a which command to majordomo at freebsd.org but didn't get me listed with my email address. That's strange since I'm definitely subscribed to a couple of lists and I'm receiving messages. -- Chris

How to repair a system?

2004-04-23 Thread Daan Hoogland
Once again,... I have a system on which make buildworld won't work. I am thinking of doing a binary install on the system, but my only access to the system is ssh. So I am thinking of copying an image over and running sysinstall to install a new set of binaries and libraries. Can this be

Re: How to repair a system?

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:27:04AM +0200, Daan Hoogland wrote: I have a system on which make buildworld won't work. I am thinking of doing a binary install on the system, but my only access to the system is ssh. So I am thinking of copying an image over and running sysinstall to install a

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 11:32]: The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked fine. so far startx seems to be the only thing that won't run like it used This could

Re: GD from ports on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-04-23 Thread Wayne Pascoe
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:49:33AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 22), Wayne Pascoe said: I'm trying to build mrtg from /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg and it appears to want to update gd The gd update is failing with the following errors: cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro

Re: majordomo question

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:34:28AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: I was trying to find out why I din't receive any mail from the freebsd-java list and sent a which command to majordomo at freebsd.org but didn't get me listed with my email address. That's strange since I'm definitely

Re: majordomo question

2004-04-23 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:10:22AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: FreeBSD mailing lists are no longer managed with majordomo. Everything runs through MailMan now, and has done for over a year -- see http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo Use the web interface to verify your

PPP

2004-04-23 Thread xavier collot
Hi! I'm french and don't understand the chapter 18.2.1.2 (Creating PPP device Nodes) in the freeBSD handbook. Precicely I don't understand what is N in the first paragraph. Is it necessary to change the tun0? I have an other question.(I'm sorry if it seems stupid). Is it essential to have an

Re: Sendmail and masquerading

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:43:22AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: I have another question(s) please: How can I have sendmail using a specified EHLO domain.tld instead of the machines name (changing the machines name is not a solution for me) Use: define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',

compile proftpd with mod_quotatab

2004-04-23 Thread K. Worley
ok I currently make this built and installed with mod mysql(from ports) for user validation and all is good. However I wish to deinstall this and rebuild with mod_quotatab so as to keep track of usage better and limit the abusers. My question is this: How do I add mod_quotatab to the port to

Re: Kernel debugging question

2004-04-23 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Friday 23 April 2004 00:42, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Wrapped text still broken. On Thursday, 22 April 2004 at 16:45:11 +0200, Jorn Argelo wrote: On Thursday, 22 April 2004 at 4:18:52 +0200, Gregg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

Re: PPP

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:18:19AM +0200, xavier collot wrote: Hi! I'm french and don't understand the chapter 18.2.1.2 (Creating PPP device Nodes) in the freeBSD handbook. Yes. It's a pity that http://www.fr.freebsd.org/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.html hasn't finished

MRTG from ports

2004-04-23 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Hi all, I've just installed mrtg from /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg. I used to have an older version of mrtg on the machine that I removed by doing pkg_delete mrtg* Since the re-install, I've been getting this error: SNMP_util version 0.97 required--this is only version 0.93 at

MIDI (and audio) on freeBSD

2004-04-23 Thread Pierluigi Adami
MIDI support on freeBSD. I know it's a quite common question, sorry for not being able to solve it by myself, but I read tons of Google's pages with poor results. I've just installed freeBSD 5.2 on a quite old laptop (Pentium II, audio card Yamaha DS-XG). It works fine for most stuff but the

Warning: A possible virus has been detected in one of your messages.

2004-04-23 Thread control
A virus or an infected file has been detected in a message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Protected Mail System Messages containing infected attachments will no longer be forwarded. If you wish to send emails with attachment, we strongly recommend that you enclose your

What chooses the cvsup server ?

2004-04-23 Thread Aleksandar Simic
Hello, the reason I ask is because when I issue 'make update' command in /usr/src I get the following message: [root@/usr/src]# make update -- Running /usr/local/bin/cvsup

Re: What chooses the cvsup server ?

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:22:34AM +0100, Aleksandar Simic wrote: the reason I ask is because when I issue 'make update' command in /usr/src I get the following message: *note the server name*: cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org *default host=cvsup18.us.FreeBSD.org -- note the server name So where is

Jail and spammass-milter (sendmail/spamassassin)

2004-04-23 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Dear all, is it possible that spamass-milter doesn't work in a jail? I have sendmail running, spamassassin running (both working fine) and the following line in my hostname.mc file: INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock, F=, T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m') But no

Re: Trunking

2004-04-23 Thread Yaraghchi, Stephan
-Original Message- From: Frank Bonnet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:16 AM To: Yaraghchi, Stephan Subject: Re: Trunking Yaraghchi, Stephan a écrit : Hi Frank, I used the explanations found at

Re: What chooses the cvsup server ?

2004-04-23 Thread Aleksandar Simic
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:23:16AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:22:34AM +0100, Aleksandar Simic wrote: the reason I ask is because when I issue 'make update' command in /usr/src I get the following message: *note the server name*: cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org

Using pxeboot for installation (bug in pxeboot - tftp)

2004-04-23 Thread Kasper Fock
Hi I have used pxeboot to load freebsd 5.2.1 through tftp. It seems as the tftp client in pxeboot fails to send an data acknowledge after the last datapacket in each tftp transfer. (not very nice for server which resends last datapacket several times) BTW: Does anybody know a way to specify

Too long dialing time

2004-04-23 Thread Igor Zbirka
I'm using FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE as a server which should provide connection to internet through dialing on demand (tun0). The connection to internet works fine, but the problem I have is with disconnecting. If one of the computers in LAN wants to send for ex. email, the server dials and establish

[OT] - FBSD logo, graphics

2004-04-23 Thread Robert Storey
I'm writing a review of FBSD for a well-known web site (I'll let you know when it's posted - probably tomorrow). Anyway, I'm looking for a few FBSD graphics to dress up the page - Beastie is the likely candidate. I don't need much, one or two images will be sufficient. Can anyone suggest a source

Re: backing up cvs files

2004-04-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-04-23 02:44, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a cvs repository i'd like to move to another system, but i am uncertain as to how to back it up, any advice helpful. Also, i've got an anonymous user in the file READERS, however he can still commit changes to the

Re: Dummynet+Firewall+One_pass question

2004-04-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:25:53PM -0300, Marcelo Pinheiro wrote: Hi, I am very new to FreeBSD, and I have a quite simple question: How does IPFW work when I use PIPES, divert and some other Firewall rules? What does net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass mean? For instance, if I use a pipe before a

Possible security hole in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE????

2004-04-23 Thread MaXX
Good afternoon, I have installed FreeBSD 4.8Release on a machine to experiment settings before attempting to place them on my server. Due to a problem with the port system on this machine I decided to reinstall only the port system via sysinstall, during the process, I switched to anoter

Re: Possible security hole in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE????

2004-04-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:38:47PM +0200, MaXX wrote: Good afternoon, I have installed FreeBSD 4.8Release on a machine to experiment settings before attempting to place them on my server. Due to a problem with the port system on this machine I decided to reinstall only the port system via

Re: Jail and spammass-milter (sendmail/spamassassin)

2004-04-23 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am Freitag, 23. April 2004 11:27 schrieb Harald Schmalzbauer: Dear all, is it possible that spamass-milter doesn't work in a jail? Ok, I verified that it's working with the same configuration under -stabel outside a jail, but not on -current inside a jail. Is there any way I can make it

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2004-04-23 Thread Jez Hancock
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:04:56AM +0300, hugle wrote: SOmetimes I see such messages in dmesg. perl# dmesg uptime() went backwards (1574174.333073 - 1573478.944788) what they mean? and what causes them to appear ? is it good or bad?? :) I'd always presumed these messages occured on my

Fw: Re: IMAP server and client recommendations?

2004-04-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
From: Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:42:00 -0700 To: Danny MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IMAP server and client recommendations? X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) On Apr 21, 2004, at 21:22, Danny MacMillan wrote: Hello. I have six or

Info request

2004-04-23 Thread SergioMarta
Dear Sirs, I am interested in your product very much and I need some information about his capabilities. * I have the following hardware and software: * I developed one application using Merant Net Express (Microfocus Cobol) that created *.exe and *.gnt files (I can also create

netgraph ability

2004-04-23 Thread David Yeske
I'm in a situation where I need to emulate multiple ethernet devices with different mac addresses. I have gotten far enough to have this. I ran ngctl and then ran mkpeer . eiface hook ether I then ran ifconfig ngeth0 link '00:bd:03:11:21:11' ifconfig ngeth0 192.168.20.5 ifconfig sis0

Re: Rackmount Server recommendation

2004-04-23 Thread frank cheong
Don't buy IBM x series server unless you know all hardware components completely supported by FreeBSD. Check out the list below is the problem encountered by me and still not yet solved and now wondering if I should move back to linux where everything is ready..

Fw: Re: OpenSSL/0.9.7c-p1 OpenSSH_3.5p1

2004-04-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:31:24 +0100 To: Pelle Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OpenSSL/0.9.7c-p1 OpenSSH_3.5p1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:27:10AM +0200, Pelle Andersson wrote: Hi! How can I the

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:13:11PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:04:56AM +0300, hugle wrote: SOmetimes I see such messages in dmesg. perl# dmesg uptime() went backwards (1574174.333073 - 1573478.944788) what they mean? and what causes them to appear ? is

Re: Newbie:Home network mail forwarding

2004-04-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:00:48PM -0400, Peter Tokanel wrote: Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 07:33:51PM -0400, Peter Tokanel wrote: Hi, I am new to unix but I have managed to setup a home network using Free BSD. The FreeBSD box is a gateway/firewall/router for

Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Darryl Hoar
I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a wireless access point ? just curious. -D ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Doug Poland
Darryl Hoar wrote: I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a wireless access point ? just curious. http://www.google.com/search?q=freebsd+wireless+access+pointsourceid=mozilla-searchstart=0start=0ie=utf-8oe=utf-8 -- Regards, Doug

RE: Specifying sort fields

2004-04-23 Thread JJB
Thank you that worked. You know that nowhere in the 'man sort' info does it say that to use sort command you have to use pipe commands to feed it data. How is somebody without UNIX programming background going to read that and know how to feed sort it's data to sort? Don't you think the man sort

Re: Re: IMAP server and client recommendations?

2004-04-23 Thread Clarence Brown
You could download Eudora for Windows and import the outlook email into Eudora. It stores the email in mbox format. I don't know if their mbox format is fully unix standard, but they are the same people that maintain the qpopper pop3 daemon, so they obviously understand unix mbox format. Cla.

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
Probably. I'm not too familiar with how the ad-hoc connections work, but i am certain that for a single client it would work. Just get a wireless NIC in it, play a little routing magic, maybe look at the dhcpd port (dhcp server) ~j Darryl Hoar wrote: I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Thomas Beer
The NIC on the AP has to be able to support Host AP mode to work as an access point. Netgear MA 521 *with firmware 1.3* are on example for this. Cheers Tom I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a wireless access point ? just curious. -D

Re: jdk14

2004-04-23 Thread Radu MOLNAR
Yep, that was the problem. When i had started the make i didn't have the linprocfs mounted. I did a make clean and a make and it compiled properly. Thanks Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Matt Navarre wrote: You might have to make clean and restart the build. I was getting the same error building java

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Darryl Hoar wrote: I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a wireless access point ? Install a prism 2 card and do something like (assuming fxp0 is your upstream iface and wi0 your card in AP mode). rc.conf

handbook - kernel build question

2004-04-23 Thread Terry L. Tyson Jr.
In section 9.3 of the handbook just before the two procedures it lists If you are building a new kernel without updating the source code (perhaps just to add a new option, such as IPFIREWALL) you can use either procedure. However, after the two procedures it says If you have not upgraded your

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 23 April 2004 08:01 am, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Probably. I'm not too familiar with how the ad-hoc connections work, but i am certain that for a single client it would work. Just get a wireless NIC in it, play a little routing magic, maybe look at the dhcpd port (dhcp server) ~j

Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk ornetworkperformance?

2004-04-23 Thread Markie
| -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Markie | Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:15 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk | ornetworkperformance? | | | - Original Message - |

Local (UNIX domain) Socket understanding /Jail

2004-04-23 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hi all, can anybody point me to some info which can help me understand local sockets (=? UNIX Domain sockets?)? I have the problem that I can't get milter work in a jail and I suspect the /var/run/milter.sock socket but don't really understand what it is and how it works. Thanks, -Harry --

Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
Hi, The problem first occured with rsync : link_stat /mnt/nwfs/. failed: No such file or directory rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(632) But I have figured out that is not rsync specific problem, I can reproduce the error, with basic system tools, such as cp

fsck: cannot find inode X

2004-04-23 Thread Todd Meister
Hello, Tonight, a server crashed and, when it came up, required a manual fsck. Normally, this is not a big deal, especially on our customer web servers, where there isn't much real activity at the time the server crashed (~5:00am). This time, though, I saw this error for the first time,

Re: handbook - kernel build question

2004-04-23 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 23 April 2004 06:15 am, Terry L. Tyson Jr. wrote: In section 9.3 of the handbook just before the two procedures it lists If you are building a new kernel without updating the source code (perhaps just to add a new option, such as IPFIREWALL) you can use either procedure. However,

Re: Local (UNIX domain) Socket understanding /Jail

2004-04-23 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: can anybody point me to some info which can help me understand local sockets (=? UNIX Domain sockets?)? I have the problem that I can't get milter work in a jail and I suspect the /var/run/milter.sock socket but don't really understand what it

Re: Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
Oh btw, it is 4.10-BETA, since 4.9-RELEASE I had problems with smbfs see here : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=64719 So I have to act as a samba and netware client. I have also tried 5.x, but 5.x freezes with ncpmount ... Any ideas appreciated ... Thanks -- _(_)_ (_. o_)

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Paul Tan
Try this URL: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7121/sam0205a/sam0205a.htm :D cheers, Paul Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. -

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2004-04-23 Thread Peter Elsner
At 01:04 AM 4/23/2004, you wrote: Hello all. SOmetimes I see such messages in dmesg. perl# dmesg uptime() went backwards (1574174.333073 - 1573478.944788) what they mean? and what causes them to appear ? is it good or bad?? :) -- Best regards,Hugle ___

Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard diskornetworkperformance?

2004-04-23 Thread Markie
- Original Message - From: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 2:21 PM Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard diskornetworkperformance? | | | | -Original Message- | | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Upgrade gone bad, please help

2004-04-23 Thread Joseph Koenig
I have a system that was running FreeBSD 4.3. At the time I built the system, I compiled a custom kernel, but at this time, I do not need the modifications I made to the kernel. Turns out I never really did need them. So, I went to upgrade the machine to 4.9 using sysinstall. All went well, except

Re: GD from ports on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 23), Wayne Pascoe said: On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:49:33AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 22), Wayne Pascoe said: gdft.c:485: `FT_ENCODING_MS_SYMBOL' undeclared (first use in this function) Make sure your freetype is up-to-date (2.1.7_3 is

Re: Specifying sort fields

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 23), JJB said: Thank you that worked. You know that nowhere in the 'man sort' info does it say that to use sort command you have to use pipe commands to feed it data. How is somebody without UNIX programming background going to read that and know how to feed sort it's

Jailed postfix - Cannot connect to named Unix socket

2004-04-23 Thread jeremie le-hen
Hi list, I set up a Postfix system in a jail, using mount_nullfs(8) in order to access various files it needs (libs, mailboxes, and so on...). The main goal is that I can start Postfix either in a jail or not, and it doesn't complain. Therefore I can do nearly everything from the host :

Re: Specifying sort fields

2004-04-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-04-23T13:00:17Z, JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you that worked. You know that nowhere in the 'man sort' info does it say that to use sort command you have to use pipe commands to feed it data. It doesn't because you don't. The syntax is: sort [OPTION]... [FILE]... which

Re: ports question

2004-04-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Dear Andri Kok, Please put your reply to the buttom and cut out text thats no longer relevant. This makes the mail more readable for others. On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:23:52PM +1000, sAndri Kok wrote: Hi guys, Thx for he previous replies =) Now, u said that I may not be able to run some

Re: How to repair a system?

2004-04-23 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Daan Hoogland wrote: Once again,... I have a system on which make buildworld won't work. Why doesn't it work? I am asking this, because this would probably be the simpliest way to do an unattended upgrade. Uli. I am thinking of doing a binary install on the system, but

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:03:16AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: * Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 11:32]: The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked fine. so far startx

concurrent portinstall

2004-04-23 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
while portinstall is running, is it safe to do another portinstall in another tty ? or this is a sure recipe for diaster ? -cs ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: How to repair a system?

2004-04-23 Thread Daan Hoogland
On 23-apr-04, at 17:01, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Daan Hoogland wrote: Once again,... I have a system on which make buildworld won't work. Why doesn't it work? crunchgen: make error: cd: can't cd to /usr/obj/usr/5.2/src/rescue/rescue/../../contrib/tcsh/nls/spanish

upgrade a port

2004-04-23 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
currently i have openldap client 2.1 installed. $ pkg_glob -r openldap-client-2.1.30 openldap-client-2.1.30 kdeutils-3.2.2 kdebase-3.2.2 kdenetwork-3.2.2 kdegraphics-3.2.2 kdegames-3.2.2 kdelibs-3.2.2 gnupg-1.2.4_1 samba-3.0.3.p2_1,1 if i want to use version 2.2, do i just simply:

openoffice menus

2004-04-23 Thread Malcolm Kay
I recently installed openoffice1.1 under FBSD 4.9-release. The capability is quite impressive and it genereally seems to behave very well. But I do have a problem: I am using a high resolution 1600x1200 display and the fonts used by the base UI are are crisp and clear but rather too small for

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Thomas Beer wrote: The NIC on the AP has to be able to support Host AP mode to work as an access point. Netgear MA 521 *with firmware 1.3* are on example for this. Cheers Tom I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a

Re: Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
It gets more interesting: $ mkdir /mnt/nwfs/. mkdir: /mnt/nwfs/.: File exists $ file /mnt/nwfs/. /mnt/nwfs/.: can't stat `/mnt/nwfs/.' (No such file or directory). Looks like we realy have problem with nwfs here ;( Any ideas to solve ? -- _(_)_ (_. o_)F3CZ0 (_,)

4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Danny
Greetings, So I have installed Postfix from the ports, read the pkg-message, read the changing the MTA in the handbook, and did a bit of searching. So after the switch, I obviously get: Apr 23 03:01:00 mx1 postfix/sendmail[2175]: fatal: unsupported: -bh Apr 23 03:01:01 mx1

Re: upgrade a port

2004-04-23 Thread John Oxley
On Fri 2004-04-23 (11:18), Chiang Seng Chang wrote: currently i have openldap client 2.1 installed. $ pkg_glob -r openldap-client-2.1.30 openldap-client-2.1.30 kdeutils-3.2.2 kdebase-3.2.2 kdenetwork-3.2.2 kdegraphics-3.2.2 kdegames-3.2.2 kdelibs-3.2.2 gnupg-1.2.4_1 samba-3.0.3.p2_1,1

Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
Danny wrote: Greetings, So I have installed Postfix from the ports, read the pkg-message, read the changing the MTA in the handbook, and did a bit of searching. So after the switch, I obviously get: Apr 23 03:01:00 mx1 postfix/sendmail[2175]: fatal: unsupported: -bh Apr 23 03:01:01 mx1

Re: IMAP server and client recommendations?

2004-04-23 Thread Chris Shenton
Clarence Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could download Eudora for Windows and import the outlook email into Eudora. It stores the email in mbox format. I don't know if their mbox format is fully unix standard, but they are the same people that maintain the qpopper pop3 daemon, so they

Re: Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
Ok here gets realy interesting : $ mount /mnt/nwfs/ $ mount | grep nwfs /NWSERVER:ADMIN/SDI on /mnt/nwfs (nwfs) $ file /mnt/nwfs/. /mnt/nwfs/.: directory $ rm /mnt/nwfs/* rm: /mnt/nwfs/DESKTOP.AFP: is a directory rm: /mnt/nwfs/Icon: Unknown error: 35216 rm: /mnt/nwfs/Network Trash Folder: is a

Re: Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Saturday 24 April 2004 01:04, Feczak Szabolcs wrote: It gets more interesting: $ mkdir /mnt/nwfs/. mkdir: /mnt/nwfs/.: File exists This command should always give an error. If /mnt/nwfs does not exist you can't create /mnt/nwfs/., and if /mnt/nwfs exist then so will /mnt/nwfs/. On Friday

Re: majordomo question

2004-04-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I was trying to find out why I din't receive any mail from the freebsd-java list and sent a which command to majordomo at freebsd.org but didn't get me listed with my email address. That's strange since I'm definitely subscribed to a couple of lists and I'm receiving

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:55:38AM -0500, Darryl Hoar wrote: I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a wireless access point ? Check out the handbook on your machine, in /usr/share/doc/ for the chapter on advanced networking; specifically the page

Re: Upgrade gone bad, please help

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:16:52AM -0500, Joseph Koenig wrote: I have a system that was running FreeBSD 4.3. At the time I built the system, I compiled a custom kernel, but at this time, I do not need the modifications I made to the kernel. Turns out I never really did need them. So, I went to

Re: MRTG from ports

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 23), Wayne Pascoe said: Hi all, I've just installed mrtg from /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg. I used to have an older version of mrtg on the machine that I removed by doing pkg_delete mrtg* Since the re-install, I've been getting this error: SNMP_util version 0.97

Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Danny
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:28 -0400, Bill Moran wrote Danny wrote: Greetings, So I have installed Postfix from the ports, read the pkg-message, read the changing the MTA in the handbook, and did a bit of searching. So after the switch, I obviously get: Apr 23 03:01:00 mx1

Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
[please fix your mail program so it doesn't mangle emails by wrapping lines] Danny wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:28 -0400, Bill Moran wrote Danny wrote: Greetings, So I have installed Postfix from the ports, read the pkg-message, read the changing the MTA in the handbook, and did a bit

Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 23, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Danny wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:28 -0400, Bill Moran wrote /etc/defaults/periodic.conf has all the default values for periodic. Defaults as a reference, or the defaults that are currently enforced even without /etc/periodic.conf? Yes, to both. The two aren't

make package from port

2004-04-23 Thread Killermink !
Hello all, I have installed a few ports, the most notable being xfce-4.0.0 I now want to reinstall BSD, mainly because I am playing, but also because I am going to delete my XP partition and use the whole disk for FreeBSD. So, after doing so I wish to be able to install Xfce again, but don't

bktr sloppy on 5.x

2004-04-23 Thread karma
greetings: does anyone confirm sloppy video on bktr (hauppauge) on 5.2.1 if compared to 4.9? is there a solution for that? cheers, karma ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

updated ports tree

2004-04-23 Thread Killermink !
Hello all, I am about to (re)install FreeBSD 5.2.1, and wish to make sure I have the latest ports afterwards. I do not really wish to install the whole ports tree from sysinstall as disk space is at a premium, and i will (soon) have a fast internet connection so seems pointless when i am only

Re: make package from port

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:59:19PM +, Killermink ! wrote: Is there a way I can create a package of xfce and its dependencies, so i can back them up, reinstall then pkg_add them/it easily? I tried a make package but it failed as it said it was already installed? To create a package from

Re: Jail and spammass-milter (sendmail/spamassassin)

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 23), Harald Schmalzbauer said: Am Freitag, 23. April 2004 11:27 schrieb Harald Schmalzbauer: Dear all, is it possible that spamass-milter doesn't work in a jail? Ok, I verified that it's working with the same configuration under -stabel outside a jail, but not

Slow loading websites

2004-04-23 Thread Jammet
I am running FireFox right now, but this happens a lot with other browsers as well. Just basics about my system, im running a AMD k6-2 400 386mb ram and an 32meg ati video card (dont remember the exact product right now) When i go to a website, say Slashdot or freshmeat, or any where that

Re: backing up cvs files

2004-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
dave wrote: Hello, I've got a cvs repository i'd like to move to another system, but i am uncertain as to how to back it up, any advice helpful. You can back up your CVS repository just like any other files. It would make sense to ensure that nobody is using it when you do so. Just find out

Re: Upgrade gone bad, please help

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
You should be able to hit the space bar at the appropriate time, drop to a prompt that consists of one word: ok then, type ? you'll see a list of options, among them unload...so type: unload kernel then type: load kernel.GENERIC and you should be able to complete a boot...OTOH, there are

Re: Slow loading websites

2004-04-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 23, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Jammet wrote: When i go to a website, say Slashdot or freshmeat, or any where that involves ads on the page some where, about 99% of the time it can take upwards of 2-3 minutes to load the entire page. [ ... ] I guess my main question is, anyone ever seen this, if so

Re: updated ports tree

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:04:06PM +, Killermink ! wrote: Hello all, I am about to (re)install FreeBSD 5.2.1, and wish to make sure I have the latest ports afterwards. I do not really wish to install the whole ports tree from sysinstall as disk space is at a premium, and i will (soon)

Re: vinum requirements

2004-04-23 Thread synrat
thanx Greg. like your book. hope there will be another edition. Does all this mean that if I don't have ~133kb available for Vinum in the beginning of the disk before my first ( root ) partition, I can't use Vinum on that disk ? or would it write half of the configuration in that first 60kb and

Re: Upgrade gone bad, please help

2004-04-23 Thread Joseph Koenig
At this point, I have upgraded my src as it was out of date before I upgraded via sysinstall. The system is up and running, although far from stable. My question is, at this point, have I done enough damage to everything that using sysinstall to upgrade is out of the question, or can I reboot my

Re: Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 01:39:14AM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: This command should always give an error. If /mnt/nwfs does not exist you can't create /mnt/nwfs/., and if /mnt/nwfs exist then so will /mnt/nwfs/. That was the point, to make the os admit, that it exist, so $ mkdir /mnt/nwfs/.

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