Hi all,
I am trying to install the FreeBSD 4.8 Release on a i386 m/c.
I have burnt the iso images onto a CD.
My problem
The m/c boots uncompressing the kernel and takes me thru the
menu. While choosing the installation Media I get the message
No CD/DVD devices found
while searching on the
Hello,
Me too. Squirrelmail using courier IMAP does the trick nicely. And
fast too!
Matt.
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:34:36PM +, Jake Stride wrote:
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:34:36 +
To: Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Jake Stride [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552)
Cc:
I know there is no support 3c940 nic with FreeBSD 5.1 version. But
it is added later. I look at the CVS. In FreeBSD 5.1 the driver version
of the sk is 1.59 (if_sk.c). But 3c940 support added to sk with version
1.65. So i take the 1.65.
then i put these files to kernel and i compile itl. Now i
My non-technical understanding:
* A BSD system has a fully qualified domain name that is set and
retrieved by the hostname(1) command. This is normally defined in
/etc/rc.conf and considered the 'true name' of the system. If this name
does not resolve to an IP address, many network services will
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 06:42:54AM +0200, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote:
Hi,
Would anyone know how can I set or change a password from STDIN? Neither
passwd or pw seem to accept STDIN.
Use the -h 0 option for pw(8). Check the man pages for more details.
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Hi, I shall certainly try installing a port instead. I am rather new
to FreeBSD and am unclear as to how I can obtain new packages. When I
run sysinstall, it does not offer new packages. Does that mean that
the new packages are not meant to be installed? Or is it the case
that I need to
Hi there ,
Can any body tell me how i can restrict an user SSH to his own home directory .
I am using FreeBSD OpenSSH_2.9 FreeBSD SSH protocols 1.5/2.0 .
Any links or help will be appriciated
Shrikant
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Hi, I have set up my sound card and am able to hear sound through it
when playing mp3 files with xmms. I have the cd plugin for xmms and
have, I believe, correctly configured it. The songs on the cd appear
in the xmms playlist and a song appears to be playing but I hear
nothing. I have checked the
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:17:30PM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote:
I first encountered networking in CISCO land... where IP addresses and host
names seem to be associated...
what is the freeBSD way? AFAICS, a machine has a defined name regardless of
howmany interfaces it has. if one
Kent Stewart écrit:
If you want to pass large files, you need something you can write to
from FreeBSD. You can read but not write to NTFS. I have a number of
multi-boot machines and I almost always have that much in one partition
that is FAT32.
To solve the problem, I loaded WinXP in a
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:53:49AM -0800, Rahul Fernandez wrote:
Hi, I shall certainly try installing a port instead. I am rather new
to FreeBSD and am unclear as to how I can obtain new packages. When I
run sysinstall, it does not offer new packages. Does that mean that
the new packages are
Hello,
I've been trying to install FreeBSD 5.1-R from the official 4 CD set.
The problem I'm about to describe occurs with 5.0-R too. Incidentally,
everything is fine with the 4.x-R CDs (no hang, no lsdev problem,
perfect installation).
I insert the first CD and the loader kicks in. It doesn't
Hello there,
this is the problem:
I had a machine running FreeBSD 4.7-Stable. There I added a 80GB
harddisk. This harddrive I wanted to install on my other machine running
FreeBSD 4.9-Release. This disk is ad6 so I added
/dev/ad6 /storage ufs rw 2 2
to fstab and rebooted.
While booting the
On Friday 21 November 2003 01:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kent Stewart écrit:
If you want to pass large files, you need something you can write to
from FreeBSD. You can read but not write to NTFS. I have a number of
multi-boot machines and I almost always have that much in one partition
Rahul Fernandez wrote:
Hi, I have set up my sound card and am able to hear sound through it
when playing mp3 files with xmms. I have the cd plugin for xmms and
have, I believe, correctly configured it. The songs on the cd appear
in the xmms playlist and a song appears to be playing but I hear
You wrote:
[...]
Maybe a common mistake:
Is there an audio cable between the drive and the soundcard ?
That is necessary to play cdda.
I don't know the exact specs but your cd-drive sends the sound kinda
directly to your soundcard. So that cable is necessary
But he said it worked correctly
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Is it possible or advisable to downgrade to stable or release from
current? I'm running 5.1-current now, but I'm think I should
probably switch to stable if possible.
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grantADLER
Tel: 630-302-4944
On Friday 21 November 2003 01:14 am, Rahul Fernandez wrote:
Hi, I have set up my sound card and am able to hear sound through it
when playing mp3 files with xmms. I have the cd plugin for xmms and
have, I believe, correctly configured it. The songs on the cd appear
in the xmms playlist and a
Hi,
I'm seeing somewhat strange behavior in my 4.9 System:
Seems like any changes I make to /etc/login.conf get silently ignored.
Here's what I've done:
I wanted to set an environment varialbe LC_CTYPE in /etc/login.conf
like this
Hi,
In order to keep a 4.9 system current - do I need to use the
standard-supfile or stable-supfile with cvsup?
A diff between the two shows the only real difference being:
$ diff standard-supfile stable-supfile
.
.
.
54c71,73
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9
---
# The following line is
Hi Kevin!
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Kevin McKay wrote:
So it will not just grab the latest patched binaries for 5.1?
Correct.
Is it just for updating between releases and not
for keeping the current release up to date?
...also correct, just updating between releases.
Greetings, Mark
olgav wrote:
During the freebsd5.0 mounting I trying mounting DOS partion ,
but got the messege error mounting /dev/ad0s1 on /dist : no such
file or directory (2).
Do you have a directory called /dist already set up to use as a mount point?
PWR
Mike Loiterman wrote:
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Is it possible or advisable to downgrade to stable or release from
current? I'm running 5.1-current now, but I'm think I should
probably switch to stable if possible.
I just moved from 5.1-current to 5.1 release, and fixed a
Hi,
I did some stupid newbie things:
I have 2 cdroms, a plextor 8/4/32A and a 50x aopen cdrom.
I added the line hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 to loader.conf
The plextor now uses WDMA2
The aopen cdrom still uses PIO4 (dma worked under wintendo 2000)
After I tried to enable DMA (using atacontrol) on my
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:50:09AM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote:
Is it possible or advisable to downgrade to stable or release from
current? I'm running 5.1-current now, but I'm think I should
probably switch to stable if possible.
Down... -- er -- regrading to STABLE is certainly possible,
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:27:58PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In order to keep a 4.9 system current - do I need to use the
standard-supfile or stable-supfile with cvsup?
That depends on whether you want 4.9-STABLE (stable-supfile), which is
the latest incarnation of the 4-STABLE branch,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a problem when trying to install FreeBSD 5.1.
Problem appear on initialize part, installer have frozen and it is a
little bit strange for me.
Your problems look like they might be related to the ACPI troubles
listed in the release errata. Did you try the
Ilya V. Serov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've got a curious thing with FBS 5.1-RELEASE, concerning arp
requests/reply. I have a LAN, connected to Internet through CISCO
router. Recently I had to move one ip address inside my LAN from a 4.8
box to a 5.1 box without a reboot (ifconfig ...).
Jake Stride [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have had freebsd 4.9 working fine on a dell optiplex, until I
decided to do a re-install today. However, I am now no longer able to
boot freebsd.
The installation proceeds normally, but when I reboot the system, it
gets to the boot manager and then
Does anyone know how to keep numlocks on when using startx? I have
numlocks on in all of my terminals, but when I start X, it goes off. Is
there a line I can add to .xinitrc?
TIA,
Dru
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Hey...my logon name is ganja on the supernova site.
I have a tracker up and running now if ya want to use it. The announce address is
http://warzone.no-ip.com:6969/announce let me know so i can set ya up an account to
upload torrents and stuff.
Thanks,
ganja
Dru writes:
Does anyone know how to keep numlocks on when using startx? I have
numlocks on in all of my terminals, but when I start X, it goes off. Is
there a line I can add to .xinitrc?
My solution (certainly not the best one!) was to edit
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us
Jean-Marc
Hi,
I would like to deploy a few terminal servers at my company and im wondering
if FreeBSD has a way in which this can be done.
Linux has LTSP (http://www.ltsp.org). It basically allows you to boot up
from a stiffy using a diskless server. Can this be done on FreeBSD and if so
how ? Using
toor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I begin setup I see next message:
eisa0: EISA bus on motherboard
eisa0: unknown card [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0x0808) at slot 1
Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
instruction pointer = 0x58:0x81d1
stack pointer = 0x10:0xeb8
here is the problem i cant track down.when i send mail to an
account set up on mailserver (thru adduser) and using an remote
source email server.when i use a pc through windows 2000
running outlook express i cannot retrieve the mail...it comes back
with error message 550 host
Omer Faruk Sen writes:
Thanks for all answers. That space problem was bothering me all
the times and I have learnt the reason for space loss. By the way
I admit that I have to make more search on google before sending
that to here.
But it can be very nice that this information to be
At 08:41 PM 11/19/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
Quotation broken.
On Wednesday, 19 November 2003 at 9:13:43 -0500, Bob Collins wrote:
At 10:46 PM 11/17/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Do you have device nodes for da4?
Ian Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to deploy a few terminal servers at my company and im wondering
if FreeBSD has a way in which this can be done.
It's not hard at all to slap together, but for real applications, I'd
recommend buying a commercial terminal server anyway. It will
toor wrote:
When I begin setup I see next message:
eisa0: EISA bus on motherboard
eisa0: unknown card [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0x0808) at slot 1
Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel
mode
instruction pointer = 0x58:0x81d1
stack pointer = 0x10:0xeb8
frame pointer
Look at chapter 16 in the Handbook. There are some things that you have to do,
such as add device pcm or others to your kernel before you can have sound.
I have a black Lite-on in my test server and it worked just fine after I
configured xmcd to use /dev/acd0c.
Kent
Hi, Thanks for the
VastNET [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you know what's the reason of it? My machine is rebooting few times a day.
If answer is YES, what should I do?
savecore: reboot after panic: page fault
118savecore: reboot after panic: sbflush: cc 0 || mb 0xc1818500 || mbcnt 2304
118Nov 20 17:21:10
Rahul Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi, I'm am running 4.9 release. A package called hpijs1.4.1 is
installed. I now would like to upgrade to hpijs-1.5. However, this
package is only available in 4.9-stable. Can I install the package
from 4.9-stable or is it advisable to stick to the
olgav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please,help me, becouse as soon as possible we need corporate FreeBSD
server.
If this is for a corporate server application,
please use FreeBSD 4.9 instead.
5.x is still considered a technology preview.
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The folks at the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) are discussing
(again) where directories for recurring temporary mount points should go.
Recurring temporary mount points are for things like cdroms, floppies,
and digital cameras as well as HD partitions from other OSes (like MS
Windows).
Red
I would like to deploy a few terminal servers at my company and im wondering
if FreeBSD has a way in which this can be done.
Linux has LTSP (http://www.ltsp.org). It basically allows you to boot up
from a stiffy using a diskless server. Can this be done on FreeBSD and if so
how ? Using
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:56:40 +
Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:53:52AM +0200, Jani Reinikainen wrote:
Created a new partition 'h':
- size = 12715857 ('c' partition) - 265 = 12715592
- offset 16
Why isn't that:
- size = 12715857 ('c' partition) -
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 15:30, Charles Swiger wrote:
...
Right, but the acd device ['man 4 acd'] and the cd device ['man 4 cd']
are not the same-- that's what the CAM subsystem is for, to provide
passthrough emulation for ATAPI devices so that you can send SCSI
commands to them. The burncd
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:43:53PM +0200, Jani Reinikainen wrote:
I added another spindle for this setup, I just thought debugging one
spindle's setup at a time would be easier. Now my RAID-1 is complete
and working.
I guessed as much but my reply wouldn't have been complete without the
Frank Murphy wrote:
The folks at the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) are discussing
(again) where directories for recurring temporary mount points should go.
Recurring temporary mount points are for things like cdroms, floppies,
and digital cameras as well as HD partitions from other OSes
Rahul Fernandez wrote:
I am able to hear sound when watching films using mplayer.
Does that not mean that the audio cable is connected to the sound card (in
response to somebody's suggestion)? I will check later that this is the case.
Thanks, Rahul
Trying to simplify the difference:
the sound
...
I imagine your answer will be something like We don't care; do what you
want, but I would like to present the different ideas, and perhaps you
would prefer one.
So, please put these in the order of most to least preferred, and say why
you like or dislike any of them.
Ok, Here are
In the last episode (Nov 20), VastNET said:
Hello!
Do you know what's the reason of it? My machine is rebooting few times a day.
If answer is YES, what should I do?
savecore: reboot after panic: page fault
118savecore: reboot after panic: sbflush: cc 0 || mb 0xc1818500 || mbcnt 2304
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:57:05PM -0800, Kevin McKay wrote:
Are the binary ports obtained via pkg_add -r for 5.1 ever updated on
the sever or is the contents static?
Packages for releases are not updated. Packages for -stable are
updated regularly, and you can almost always use them safely
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:51:55PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:27:58PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In order to keep a 4.9 system current - do I need to use the
standard-supfile or stable-supfile with cvsup?
That depends on whether you want 4.9-STABLE
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:07:31 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Good:
- All mount points in / (e.g. /cdrom, /camera, /windows/C) - current
FreeBSD standard
(Just come up with a nice sounding name for each)
The problem isn't what the names of the directories are,
Hi!
This question is inspired by a recent mail on this list.
My ISP was so nice to give me a domain name (pukruppa.net) and
assign it statically to an IP (213.146.114.24).
[So now everybody in the world can telnet pukruppa.net and crack
my private machine :-) ]
From reading manuals one should
Trying to simplify the difference:
the sound from a mpg/divx/xvid movie is read as data over the IDE cable.
then this data is processed by the playersoftware and send to the the
right audio codec (e.g mp3), which sends its output to the soundcard
driver, which instructs the soundcard
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:42:33 -0500
Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom:
At 08:17 PM 11/20/2003, paul van den bergen wrote:
to expand on this, there is a potential many to many relationship here
between
host names and IP addresses (strickly speaking
Probably because there is no DNS set up for the domain.
Have you set up the required names on NS.KAMP.NET, NS2.KAMP.NET,
NS2.KAMPNIC.NET?
Unless there are DNS records they won't resolve to IP Addresses,
perhaps your isp would be kind enough to do that for you too.
Jake
On Friday, Nov 21,
From reading manuals one should think, that now I could give my
machines names like one.pukruppa.net, two.pukruppa.net, etc...
and all these would be reachable via internet - but they aren't.
The only one that can be accessed is pukruppa.net .
If you have control of the DNS zone, then you
My ISP was so nice to give me a domain name (pukruppa.net) and
assign it statically to an IP (213.146.114.24).
[So now everybody in the world can telnet pukruppa.net and crack
my private machine :-) ]
From reading manuals one should think, that now I could give my
machines names like
Anyplace at all
Now, that is not much of a standard - why bother?
Well, the idea would be that the standard wouldn't bother. :)
It sounds like you think that a new root-level directory should be
created for this, and that /media would be OK, but there might be a (yet
undiscovered)
At 10:42 AM 11/21/2003, Cordula's Web wrote:
From reading manuals one should think, that now I could give my
machines names like one.pukruppa.net, two.pukruppa.net, etc...
and all these would be reachable via internet - but they aren't.
The only one that can be accessed is pukruppa.net .
You
I'd like to customize /usr/share/skel. It's an easy matter to edit
/usr/src/share/skel/Makefile and to make my own dot files.
However, will my customizations get overwritten when I make my next world?
If so, what's the best way to go about preventing my files from being
overwritten? e.g. should
At 10:35 AM 11/21/2003, Jerry McAllister wrote:
You can also configure your NIC to answer to multiple IP addresses
and then configure your Apache to treat each as a virtual host with
a separate hostname/URL. Yes, you have to have whoever is serving
DNS for you (either yourself, your ISP or some
It sounds like you think that a new root-level directory should be
created for this, and that /media would be OK, but there might be a (yet
undiscovered) better name. Is this accurate?
That seems like a pretty good summary.
jerry
Cool. Could you also explain to me why you think
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:31:19PM +0100, Frank Murphy typed:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:07:31 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[...]
Anyplace at all
Now, that is not much of a standard - why bother?
Well, the idea would be that the standard wouldn't bother. :)
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 07:14, Peter Risdon wrote:
I just moved from 5.1-current to 5.1 release, and fixed a lot of
problems on a horribly unstable box by doing so. I believe downgrading
to stable is very awkward, but others will be better qualified to
discuss that than I am.
On a related
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But how - if at all - does CURRENT come in? Or does CURRENT wrt my
installed 4.9 only relate to 5.x?
CURRENT is the development version of FreeBSD, basically for developers
only, those who want to test the finest and newest options, and do not
fear a complete systems
Hi!
Is there a way to make sure my mail client is really using UTF-8 as
charset ?
Headers claims so but people reports I'm not
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I'm not a charset guru but I assume there's
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 15:30, Charles Swiger wrote:
On Nov 20, 2003, at 3:52 PM, Chris Meyers wrote:
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:35, Charles Swiger wrote:
Double-check what's going on with your devices, what does camcontrol
devlist give you? Maybe try using /dev/cd0c rather than
/dev/acd0c?
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:31:08 +0100
Pierrick Brossin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could anyone tell me the way to make sure or confirm I'm really
using UTF-8 ?
btw when I use no accent it's using 7bit :)
so here is a UTF-8 mail ()
Regards
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Hello,
I was going to install mrtg from the ports.
As it started to install I saw that it did not find GD and was d/l 1.84 even
tho I have 2.0.15 (or whatever it actually is) installed.
So I d/l the actual mrtg files and was trying to install it.
but it does not like my GD install.
Will the mrtg
I wanted to look at a file and figured why not pipe the output of which to
more, which of course didn't work so I figured if I backticked the which
output with more in front that would work, and apparently it does (though
I'm not sure that the cmd itself wasn't executed?).
e.g. more `which
On Fri 2003-11-21 (15:41), Frank Murphy wrote:
[snip]
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:36:09PM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote:
[2] I do not understand the usefulness nor see the beauty of the current
method of installing ports. Why must a user download elementary
instructions for programs A, B, C, D, through Z when all he or she may
want are programs P
In the last episode (Nov 21), Valerian Galeru said:
Pls tell me where are all the installed ports? After i installed the port, where i
can find the bin file for the port?
Try /usr/local/bin or /usr/X11R6/bin.
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On Friday, Nov 21, 2003, at 16:44 Europe/London, Marty Landman wrote:
I wanted to look at a file and figured why not pipe the output of
which to more, which of course didn't work so I figured if I
backticked the which output with more in front that would work, and
apparently it does (though
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Valerian Galeru wrote:
Pls tell me where are all the installed ports? After i installed the
port, where i can find the bin file for the port?
Ports install in to /usr/local
To see the packages do pkg_info
To see where an package is installed do
pkg_info -L package name
At 10:35 AM 11/21/2003, Jerry McAllister wrote:
You can also configure your NIC to answer to multiple IP addresses
and then configure your Apache to treat each as a virtual host with
a separate hostname/URL. Yes, you have to have whoever is serving
DNS for you (either yourself, your ISP
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:29:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks much for the hints. After going through the explanations of the
FreeBSD handbook (difference between STABLE and CURRENT) one more
time, re-reading your email there are some questions remaining - maybe
you could comment
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:44:22AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
I wanted to look at a file and figured why not pipe the output of which to
more, which of course didn't work so I figured if I backticked the which
output with more in front that would work, and apparently it does (though
I'm
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:38:24 -0500 (EST)
Dru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how to keep numlocks on when using startx? I have
numlocks on in all of my terminals, but when I start X, it goes off.
Is there a line I can add to .xinitrc?
TIA,
Dru
Hi Dru,
Have you looked at
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:54:21AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
At 10:42 AM 11/21/2003, Cordula's Web wrote:
From reading manuals one should think, that now I could give my
machines names like one.pukruppa.net, two.pukruppa.net, etc...
and all these would be reachable via internet - but
Thanks to all who responded, Once I installed IPFW and NATD,
everything started coming up.
Peter
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It sounds like you think that a new root-level directory should be
created for this, and that /media would be OK, but there might be a (yet
undiscovered) better name. Is this accurate?
That seems like a pretty good summary.
jerry
Cool.
Could you also explain to
At 12:25 PM 11/21/2003, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Lets assume that the domain you're using in your intranet is
'example.com' and you've chose to use the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet for
all of your IP numbering.
.
Wow, thanks for all the detail! I will try to put the info to use and post
back how it
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 06:42:54AM +0200, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote:
Hi,
Would anyone know how can I set or change a password from STDIN? Neither
passwd or pw seem to accept STDIN.
As someone else mentioned, use -h switch to pw to modify a user password
command line using pw.
As an example a
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:07:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems like any changes I make to /etc/login.conf get silently ignored.
As I understand it, login.conf is used to set capabilities
on a per user class basis to restrict the environment of classes of
users - ie restricting the ttys
Hi all -
I'm wanting to build my own computer to run FreeBSD, but don't
have the slightest idea (well, maybe the slightest :) what motherboard to
buy. I'd like one that has built-in lan/audio that works in FreeBSD, but
in my searching efforts I've turned up very little.
I know the
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:36:17AM -0500, Dru wrote:
I'd like to customize /usr/share/skel. It's an easy matter to edit
/usr/src/share/skel/Makefile and to make my own dot files.
However, will my customizations get overwritten when I make my next world?
If so, what's the best way to go about
Hello
I have the following problem:
At the time of installing pack of php4-Cli, it requests to me as complement
the PDFlib-Lite-5.0.0-Unix-src.tar.gz already looks for it in ports of
website and I do not locate it.
You have some backup of this pack...
PDFlib-Lite-5.0.0-Unix-src.tar.gz
Hello all,
Whenever I try something like vi (diff file1 file2) in bash I get
an empty file on /dev/fd/63.. is there a way to make it work? Or does
FreeBSD not support this?
5.1 RELEASE
TIA,
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:54:21AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
At 10:42 AM 11/21/2003, Cordula's Web wrote:
From reading manuals one should think, that now I could give my
machines names like one.pukruppa.net, two.pukruppa.net, etc...
and
On Friday 21 November 2003 6:36, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Could you also explain to me why you think that /var would be such
a bad place for this?
Well, I probably can't give a hard and fast absolute reason, but...
We use /var as a place for directoreis/files that can grow somewhat
One of the ideas behind this new directory of mount points is that some kind
of automounter could then create and delete directories someplace as needed
without affecting anyone. So while not as large in K as a logfile, the
contents of the directory could get pretty large. (Probably a
[Drop hostname part of IPv6-only address above to obtain IPv4-capable e-mail,
or best of all, don't reply to me at all]
A bit late for this, but here goes anyway, in case it helps:
(Please don't top-post; it makes it difficult for me to reply and keep
wanted context while stripping away
I am trying to run Nagios everything is working properly accept fping. I need
to know how to use setuid root for fping... what does it do?
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:19:09PM -0800, Chip wrote:
Alex de Kruijff wrote:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:38:34PM -0800, Chip wrote:
I noticed my firewall rules are not being read. I have rc.conf set to
read the file rc.firewall. In rc.firewall the first line is add divert
natd etc
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