"Hmm! I couldn't move the old kernel over!" during upgrade

2003-09-22 Thread David Landgren
Hello, I'm trying to recover a machine that failed to upgrade from 4.8 to 5.1 (the make installworld failed with a sh core dump half way through :( The restore program is hosed, so I can't restore from tape. I don't have a recent backup of /home either (it's a hardware RAID-1, so I'm slacker t

Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Mark Terribile
I hesitate to step into the fray; it appears that the phrase `more heat than light' now applies. But ... >> Says who? cat works fine on binary files. The >> problem you are having is that people are using >> cat to *display* files. "Fixing" that problem >> could break cat for its more standar

sendmail dnsbl takes precedence over SMTP Auth

2003-09-22 Thread Lutz Rabing
Hi list, we use SMTP auth on our mail servers (sendmail 8.12.10) in addition to blacklists like ORDB and DSBL. When a client wants to send mail and authenticates properly with SMTP auth but gets an ip address listed in dsbl.org sendmail refuses to send the mail (relaying denied). This happens mo

OT: finding a callers number

2003-09-22 Thread Jonas
Sorry for the OT but I have an urgent question and don't really know how else to ask. We have some hostile issues in our planned community against our kids and need to find out who called us between 5-8PM Sunday evening. My 3 1/2 year old picked up the phone call and I need to find out who the ca

Re: Spam and virus filter for mailserver

2003-09-22 Thread Dan Pelleg
Daniela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks a lot for your reply, fetchmail seems just right for the job. > I'll try Clam together with amavis, or is there a better way to run it? You definitely want amavisd-new. Not amavis-perl, not amavisd, but amavisd-new. They're all in the ports. But amavis

XFree86 configuration process

2003-09-22 Thread Fredrik Carlén
Hello! I would like one of two things (inclusive OR, down below!): - A pointer such as an URL to a resource where the details of the X server and configuration is explained in an understandable way, Or - An explanation as to how to use the xf86cfg tool so the end product is a usable graphic inter

Re: How to patch and fix a broken port?

2003-09-22 Thread Dan Pelleg
Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have never done this. So I apologize for my ignorant questions... > > Last week I discovered that the molden port is broken in many ways > (md5 sum wrong, Mesa depence absent & install broken). I reported > it to the freebsd-ports mailing list a

apache error

2003-09-22 Thread H. Bartel
Hi, I did have apache running and then installed mod_php3 after I already have installed mod_php4. Now I get the following errors when I try to start apache: Segmentation fault (core dumped) /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started localhost /kernel: pid 183 (httpd), uid 0: ex

Re: Radeon 8500 LE 128mb

2003-09-22 Thread David L
Hi Trevor, Firstly thanks for the reply, it seems not to many people use this card with dual head under FreeBSD. Secondly, have you got dual head working? I had managed to come up with quite a few Xfree configs of google, however none seem to give me anything usable ( ie. no dual head ).

Re: Internal sound card cannot be recognized

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 02:24 am, you wrote: > Im using freebsd 4.8 and KDE where i usualy get d eror > during startx. > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 pm, Edwin D. Vinas > > wrote: > > > When i turn on my FreeBSD machine, I often rece

FreeBSD 4.8p7 and Sendmail MASQUERADE_AS does not masquerade outgoing mail

2003-09-22 Thread vikashb
Greetings, I looked at http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/10.12.shtml and followed the example, my problem is that when i send an emai to a non local address the From address is not changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:mail $ sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] test please ignore __

Re: antiviruos for FreeBSD mail server ?

2003-09-22 Thread Armand Passelac
[ On Fri, 19 Sep, 2003 at 11:35, Dan Pelleg wrote: ] > RJ45 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > I Tryed to search an economic antivirus for freebsd mailserver. > > Anyone has comments on Vexira antivirus ? > > anyone tryed it ? > > It looks quit economic > > > > How about Clam A

REPOST: FreeBSD 4.8p7 and Sendmail MASQUERADE_AS does not masqueradeoutgoing mail

2003-09-22 Thread vikashb
Reposting since the previous message was incomplete. Greetings, I looked at http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/10.12.shtml and followed the example, my problem is that when i send an emai to a non local address the From address is not changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:cvs $ sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECT

2nd REPOST: FreeBSD 4.8p7 and Sendmail MASQUERADE_AS does notmasqueradeoutgoing mail

2003-09-22 Thread vikashb
Sorry about, the messages keeps getting tuncated, file attached - This message was sent using M-Web Airmail - JUST LIKE THAT M-Web: S.A.'s most trusted and reliable Internet Service Provider. http://airmail.mweb.co.za/ Reposting since the previous mess

Re: What determines if kernel modules are auto-loaded?

2003-09-22 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:53:31 + Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > probably wrote: > > Mostly the program which uses the device. For instance, vnconfig and > > mount will load the necessary modules because they are suppose

Re: What determines if kernel modules are auto-loaded?

2003-09-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
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Re: What determines if kernel modules are auto-loaded?

2003-09-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Fleck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why, for instance, does my (4.6.2-RELEASE-p20) system have a nfs.ko kernel > module, and a line in /boot/defaults/loader.conf to enable this module, > but (apparently) no way to *use* the module? If I compile a kernel with > 'options NFS' uncommented in t

Re: How to patch and fix a broken port?

2003-09-22 Thread Robert Huff
Dan Pelleg writes: > File a PR, and wait. Eventually someone will take care of it. I'm sure someone will confirm or refute this, but I believe the ports system is currently frozen in preparation for the release of 4.9. Due to unusually extensive pre-release changes, the freeze is now a

Re: What determines if kernel modules are auto-loaded?

2003-09-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:58:27AM -0500, David Fleck wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:53:31 + Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > > Mostly the program which uses the device. For instance, vnconfig a

Re: Can't start X... Please help!!!

2003-09-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Enoch Chan wrote: Error Message: "Fatal server error: xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O" Release Date: 3 September 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See

Re: Patch SSH Not Work?

2003-09-22 Thread Brent Bailey
I ran into the same thing...i ran the patch as per the directions on FBSD website ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:12.openssh.asc but i still get the following: sshd version OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030201 when i do a ls -al on the /usr/sbin/sshd it has the date as

CVSUP help w/ old 4.6 system

2003-09-22 Thread Brent Bailey
im getting ready to upgrade a old FBSD 4.6 system ...ive done CVSUP befor but have only had it work sucesfully once for me ...mostly due to the way mergemaster does things. is there a decent how to that i can follow for CVSUP of a system src ? so that the machine will be using the most up to date

Re: Someone on list with latest virus?

2003-09-22 Thread vizion communication
I agree that a number of people on this list have been affected by the virus and it is really helpful of you to have posted to the list because those infected are sending out huge volumes of emails to some of us on the list. I would recomend that everyone on this list checks their system if it is

CVSUP howto ???

2003-09-22 Thread Brent Bailey
I was looking aroung trying to find a decent howto on CVSUP...seeing as ive never had good luck with it .. i found this ...does this look like the right procedure ?? this is what ive been doing ...but ive only had it actually work one time ..all other systems ive done this on,,,it has failed BADLY

Mozilla-firebird port question

2003-09-22 Thread Fredrik Carlén
Hello! I am trying to add the package mozilla-firebird, the latest version, I guess. I downloaded the package mozilla-firebird-0.6.1_1.tgz from the www.freebsd.org/ports page (well, I followed the link to www first, of course...), and another package that was missing, obviously: nspr-4.3_2.tgz.

Re: Someone on list with latest virus?

2003-09-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 22 September 2003 08:10 am, vizion communication wrote: > I agree that a number of people on this list have been > affected by the virus and it is really helpful of you to > have posted to the list because those infected are sending > out huge volumes of emails to some of us on the list.

Re: Unrecognized Broadcom 570x Chip on Dell1750

2003-09-22 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, william paul wrote: > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Olaf Hoyer > had to walk into mine and say: > > > HI! > > > > Got @work a new Dell 1750 machine, serverworks Chipset w/Xeon CPU, also > > dual gigE Broadcom chipsets. > > FreeBSD 4.8-R failed to rec

CVSUP and Make World help !?!?

2003-09-22 Thread Brent Bailey
i found this how to ...is this the correct way to update via CVSUP and make world ?? Read /usr/src/UPDATING carefully so that you understand any special procedures that are required. If you do not follow such special procedures, you run the risk of rendering your system unusable. Make sure you ha

Re: Spam and virus filter for mailserver

2003-09-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Daniela wrote: [ ... ] What MTA would you recommend (sendmail is too insecure)? The two main choices are probably postfix and qmail. Can I just put the mail in the respective user's home directory with fetchmail, and configure their MUA's to get mail from there? Or do I put it in /var/mail/? Fre

ports upgrade w/out internet connection

2003-09-22 Thread Brian Henning
Greetings: Can i perform a ports upgrade to a computer that has no internet connection by ftping the file /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz and replacing the /usr/ports/ directory with the uncompressed version of this file? please let me know your opinion to solve my problem. thanks, brian __

Re: fBSD5.1 and pam-mysql troubles

2003-09-22 Thread Joe Lewis
I apologize - I forgot to request an off-list answer - I'm not on the list. Can anyone reply - again - directly to me this time? In addition - I hunted around quite a bit - I can't find the pam source code, there's not a pam package installed (except for pam-mysql), and there is a library in /

Re: What determines if kernel modules are auto-loaded?

2003-09-22 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Quite simply, it *can* be used as a module. Your problems trying to > do that are probably pilot error; at a guess, you forgot to remove > NFS_ROOT from the kernel configuration when you removed NFS. You, sir, are a genius. Yes, that is exactly what I

Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Pressey
On 22 Sep 2003 09:06:00 +0300 "Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Ruben de Groot wrote (19.9.2003 13:34): > > > >So why don't you for example alias cat to cat -v in your system > >profile and login scripts? This will display non-printing characters > >so they are visib

Re: CVSUP howto ???

2003-09-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 22 September 2003 08:18 am, Brent Bailey wrote: > I was looking aroung trying to find a decent howto on CVSUP...seeing > as ive never had good luck with it .. i found this ...does this look > like the right procedure ?? > this is what ive been doing ...but ive only had it actually work on

Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Chris Pressey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22/09/03 11:54]: > Also, I believe 'GNU ls', in the ports, supports coloured directory > listings. As does FreeBSD's ls. From 'man 1 ls': -G Enable colorized output. This option is equivalent to defining CLICOLOR in the

Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:54:16AM -0700, Chris Pressey wrote: > Also, I believe 'GNU ls', in the ports, supports coloured directory > listings. Have you tried typing 'ls -G' using the system ls(1) recently? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Someone on list with latest virus?

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:22 am, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 08:10 am, vizion communication wrote: > > I agree that a number of people on this list have been > > affected by the virus and it is really helpful of you to > > have posted to the list because those infected ar

ports

2003-09-22 Thread Brian Henning
Greetings: Can i perform a ports upgrade to a computer that has no internet connection by ftping the file /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz and replacing the /usr/ports/ directory with the uncompressed version of this file? please let me know your opinion to solve my problem. thanks, brian __

apache / php problem

2003-09-22 Thread H. Bartel
Hi all, Since I do have php4 running and phpinfo() tells me that it does, Sites that I put into my root dir of Apache are not parsing their variables. The index pages are displayed properly, since they don't require any vars to be passed, but every other sub-pages (e.g. index.php?sub=2) don't d

Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc, But they reappear on subsequent cvsups. Where have I gone wrong? * /etc/cvsupfile * *default host=cvsup11.FreeBSD.org *default base=/u

Re: CVSUP howto ???

2003-09-22 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Brent Bailey wrote: > I was looking aroung trying to find a decent howto on CVSUP...seeing as > ive never had good luck with it .. i found this ...does this look like the > right procedure ?? > this is what ive been doing ...but ive only had it actually work one time > ..all o

Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:06:00AM +0300, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote: > Try to run for example "cat /bin" in Linux, HP-UX, Solaris and other > *NIXes and I'm 90% certain that they will not show the directory but > an error message saying something. "cat /bin" on Solaris 9 does exactly the sam

Re: ports upgrade w/out internet connection

2003-09-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 22 September 2003 08:44 am, Brian Henning wrote: > Greetings: > Can i perform a ports upgrade to a computer that has no internet > connection by ftping the file /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz > and replacing the /usr/ports/ directory > with the uncompressed version of this file? pl

Re: apache / php problem

2003-09-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
H. Bartel wrote: Hi all, Since I do have php4 running and phpinfo() tells me that it does, Sites that I put into my root dir of Apache are not parsing their variables. The index pages are displayed properly, since they don't require any vars to be passed, but every other sub-pages (e.g. index.php

Re: ports

2003-09-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Brian Henning wrote: Greetings: Can i perform a ports upgrade to a computer that has no internet connection by ftping the file /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz and replacing the /usr/ports/ directory with the uncompressed version of this file? please let me know your opinion to solve my probl

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Scott Schappell
Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc, But they reappear on subsequent cvsups. Where have I gone wrong? * /etc/cvsupfile * *default host=cvsup11.FreeBSD.

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Scott Schappell
The refuse file goes in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/refuse as mentioned in the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html Section A.5.3.1 "The refuse file essentially tells *CVSup* that it should not take every single file from a collection; in other words, it te

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:13 AM Subject: Cvsup refuse confusion > Hi, > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. > I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/po

Re: CVSUP and Make World help !?!?

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:41:23AM -0400, Brent Bailey wrote: > i found this how to ...is this the correct way to update via CVSUP and > make world ?? It's mostly right: probably goes a bit beyond what you actually need to do. The problem with it is here: > Drop to single user mode: > # shutdown

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. > I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc, > But they reappear on subsequent cvsups. > Where have I gone wrong? > > * /etc/c

Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:01:15 -0400 Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Chris Pressey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22/09/03 11:54]: > > Also, I believe 'GNU ls', in the ports, supports coloured directory > > listings. > > As does FreeBSD's ls. From 'man 1 ls': > > -G

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:26:49AM -0700, Scott Schappell wrote: > Charles Howse wrote: > > >Hi, > >I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. > >I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc, > >But they reappear on subsequent cvsups. > >Where ha

RE: apache error

2003-09-22 Thread John Straiton
Normally when I've seen this error in the past, it's been because of a module for php that isn't too happy with the state of affairs. What you might do is rebuild php without any modules and see if it still coredumps. If not, keep adding them back one by one until it dies again and then you'll know

Printing with Samba an a HP Deskjet 870Cse

2003-09-22 Thread Andy W Clements
Hello, I've been struggling with this problem for the last week and I am close to getting it to work, but I seem to be missing something. I currently have a HP DeskJet 870Cse hooked up via lpt0 to FreeBSD 5.1 i386 machine. I can print text files via lpr with no problem. This is done through aps

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:39:33AM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > Also, should you be refusing to update ports/INDEX? I refuse the non-English > ports; but my refuse file does not include ports/INDEX. Most people will rebuild the INDEX immediately after running cvsup(1), either by running "make

Installing Ethernet Driver.

2003-09-22 Thread Naveen Glore
hey, While installing FreeBSD4.5 from CD on my system, I could not install the driver for the ethernet. After installing the freeBSD, I checked "ifconfig" and found no entry for the ethernet. Well, since i did not install any driver for ethernet during installation of FreeBSD its obvious that t

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 22 September 2003 09:39 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and > > documentation. I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports > > and /usr/share/doc, But they reappea

RE: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
> Charles Howse wrote: > > >Hi, > >I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation. > >I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and > /usr/share/doc, > >But they reappear on subsequent cvsups. > >Where have I gone wrong? > > > >* /etc/cvsupfile * > >

Re: Installing Ethernet Driver.

2003-09-22 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:55:23AM -0700, Naveen Glore wrote: > hey, > While installing FreeBSD4.5 from CD on my system, I could not install the driver for > the ethernet. After installing the freeBSD, I checked "ifconfig" and found no entry > for the ethernet. Well, since i did not install any

OT: Windows and virus humor

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
For those of you who are not familiar with satirewire.com, here are a few choice articles that may be appropriate for this week and last: http://satirewire.com/briefs/windowsvirus.shtml http://satirewire.com/news/jan02/patchsoft.shtml Have fun, Andrew Gould _

Re: apache / php problem

2003-09-22 Thread H. Bartel
On 09/22/2003 11:26 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.) wrote: >If you have just updated to PHP4 from 3, be advised >that the "register_globals" handle in php.ini is now OFF >by default, and therefore any code of the type > >include "$sub"; > >should now read > >include "$_GET['su

Re: Installing Ethernet Driver.

2003-09-22 Thread Mike Maltese
> hey, > While installing FreeBSD4.5 from CD on my system, I could not install the driver for the ethernet. After installing the freeBSD, I checked "ifconfig" and found no entry for the ethernet. Well, since i did not install any driver for ethernet during installation of FreeBSD its obvious that t

Re: apache, mod_php & filename-dist

2003-09-22 Thread Michael A. Alderete
At 7:19 PM +0200 9/21/03, H. Bartel wrote: >I installed mod_php4 on Apache and phpinfo(); tells me php 4.1.3 is >running. Nevertheless variables do not get parsed at all. I tried looking >for the /usr/local/etc/php.ini file and I realised it is called >/usr/local/etc/php.ini-dist Could this be the

package question

2003-09-22 Thread Brian Henning
Greetings: when performing a 'make package' does that grab all the dependencies for that package so when you go to install the package it doesn't ask for dependencies? thanks, brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

RE: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
> On Monday 22 September 2003 09:39 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and > > > documentation. I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports > > > and /usr/share/doc, But

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Scott Schappell
Charles Howse wrote: OK, the OP is getting confused. ;-) I have moved my refuse file to /usr/sup/refuse I have deleted the directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc that I don't want. I will cvsup when we get this straightened out in my mind. Dr. Seaman says run 'make index' *OR* portsdb -Uu a

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:07 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > On Monday 22 September 2003 09:39 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and > > > > documentation. I've deleted

cvsup problem

2003-09-22 Thread balaji
Hi, I am not able to use cvsup (I have tried other cvsup*) # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile Parsing supfile "/root/ports-supfile" Connecting to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org Cannot connect to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org: Connection refused Will retry at 17:47:15 I looked at the CVSup home page and so did t

IBM Xseries 255

2003-09-22 Thread jeronimo romero
Does anyone have any experience running IBM Xseries 255 servers??? Any comments, tips, experiences would be greatly appreciated. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mai

RE: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
> On Monday 22 September 2003 10:07 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > > On Monday 22 September 2003 09:39 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > > On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and > > > > > documentation. I

FW: Spam mail warning notification! (MS-Update)

2003-09-22 Thread Schalk Erasmus
It is interesting to see that some of our colleagues belonging to the FreeBSD Mailing List, are infected with the Worm.Swen virus! I'm leaving this list, since I get hundreds of these DAMN MICROSOFT update emails. Luckily you can filter these stuff using TREND InterScan. Cheers Schalk -Orig

Re: XFree86 configuration process

2003-09-22 Thread C. Ulrich
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 06:28, Fredrik Carlén wrote: > Hello! I would like one of two things (inclusive OR, down below!): > - A pointer such as an URL to a resource where the details of the X server > and configuration is explained in an understandable way, > > Or > > - An explanation as to how to

Re: cvsup problem

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:40:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I am not able to use cvsup (I have tried other cvsup*) > > # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile > Parsing supfile "/root/ports-supfile" > Connecting to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org > Cannot connect to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org: Con

Re: XFree86 configuration process

2003-09-22 Thread C. Ulrich
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 06:28, Fredrik Carlén wrote: > Hello! I would like one of two things (inclusive OR, down below!): > - A pointer such as an URL to a resource where the details of the X server > and configuration is explained in an understandable way, > > Or > > - An explanation as to how to

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:07:54PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > I have deleted the directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc that I > don't want. You understand that the doc-all collection downloads into /usr/doc, and it contains the SGML source that gets processed into the HTML or other for

Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Read my first post before reading this thing so you'll be on the right track > > > > >> Other *NIX systems seem to have done this to their cat program so why > >> can't FreeBSD? > > > >See above. FreeBSD has a better view of the world than some of the kiddie OSes. > Try to run for examp

RE: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
> > I have deleted the directories in /usr/ports and > /usr/share/doc that I > > don't want. > > You understand that the doc-all collection downloads into /usr/doc, > and it contains the SGML source that gets processed into the HTML or > other formats the Handbook is available in? You will have

Re: IPFW2

2003-09-22 Thread Bruce M Simpson
[Redirected to -questions] On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:07:13PM +0200, Uwe Klann wrote: > >From the Log file IPFW:- > "Sep 22 00:24:13 muc /kernel: ipfw: 3300 Accept TCP 217.10.213.30:4418 > 217.9.121.209:21 in via fxp0" > > How can I extend on FreeBSD 4.8 (ipfw2) the log contens to see the tranfer

Re: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:10:19PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > > > I have deleted the directories in /usr/ports and > > /usr/share/doc that I > > > don't want. > > > > You understand that the doc-all collection downloads into /usr/doc, > > and it contains the SGML source that gets processed int

RE: Cvsup refuse confusion

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
> > I assure you, I have just browsed the German language handbook in > > /usr/share/doc/~de. > > I have not cd /usr/doc ; make install. > > Some of the stuff in /usr/share/doc comes with the system, installed > out of /usr/src but the majority, installed under the locale specific > sub dirs comes

Re: OT: finding a callers number

2003-09-22 Thread David Landgren
Jonas wrote: Sorry for the OT but I have an urgent question and don't really know how else to ask. We have some hostile issues in our planned community against our kids and need to find out who called us between 5-8PM Sunday evening. My 3 1/2 year old picked up the phone call and I need to find ou

Re: FW: Spam mail warning notification! (MS-Update)

2003-09-22 Thread David Landgren
Schalk Erasmus wrote: It is interesting to see that some of our colleagues belonging to the FreeBSD Mailing List, are infected with the Worm.Swen virus! Sven forges envelope senders; that you receive messages purporting to come from FreeBSD lists means nothing. I'm leaving this list, since I get

A quick kernel swap?

2003-09-22 Thread Sean Hafeez
All things being equal, same hardware, same version of the same build of 4.8, etc... I have one box with a kernel w/out DUMMYNET and one with a kernel w/DUMMYNET. If I were to copy the DUMMYNET kernel to the non-DUMMYNET would it work? The other issue I have is space. The system is running off

Re: FW: Spam mail warning notification! (MS-Update)

2003-09-22 Thread Jez Hancock
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:47:18PM +0200, David Landgren wrote: > Schalk Erasmus wrote: > > >It is interesting to see that some of our colleagues belonging to the > >FreeBSD Mailing List, are infected with the Worm.Swen virus! > > Sven forges envelope senders; that you receive messages purporting

Re: CVSUP howto ???

2003-09-22 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:18:12AM -0400, Brent Bailey wrote: > I was looking aroung trying to find a decent howto on CVSUP...seeing as > ive never had good luck with it .. i found this ...does this look like the > right procedure ?? > this is what ive been doing ...but ive only had it actually wor

Re: Mozilla-firebird port question

2003-09-22 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Fredrik Carlén wrote: Hello! I am trying to add the package mozilla-firebird, the latest version, I guess. I downloaded the package mozilla-firebird-0.6.1_1.tgz from the www.freebsd.org/ports page (well, I followed the link to www first, of course...), and another package that was missing, obvious

ethereal port - problems linking with libnetsnmp

2003-09-22 Thread David Rio
Hi all: I am trying to install ethereal from ports. But I always get the same error at the link stage: /usr/local/lib/libnetsnmp.so: undefined reference to `des_cbc_encrypt' /usr/local/lib/libnetsnmp.so: undefined reference to `des_key_sched' /usr/local/lib/libnetsnmp.so: undefined referenc

Re: FW: Spam mail warning notification! (MS-Update)

2003-09-22 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Schalk Erasmus wrote: It is interesting to see that some of our colleagues belonging to the FreeBSD Mailing List, are infected with the Worm.Swen virus! I'm leaving this list, since I get hundreds of these DAMN MICROSOFT update emails. Luckily you can filter these stuff using TREND InterScan. Che

Re: soundcard stopping?

2003-09-22 Thread Jan-Espen Pettersen
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 07:03, Nicholas Holley wrote: > I'm running an up to date version of Freebsd 5.1, and I'm having > problems with my soundcard. I have an Asus a7n8x deluxe. The kernel has > pcm support compiled in and the sound card works mostly, but > occasionally the soundcard will not wo

Re: cvsup problem

2003-09-22 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:40:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile > Parsing supfile "/root/ports-supfile" > Connecting to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org > Cannot connect to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org: Connection refused > Will retry at 17:47:15 seems like cvsup1.freebsd.org

Re: Patch SSH Not Work?

2003-09-22 Thread Sean Hafeez
the patch does not change the version string. there is an earlier email about this. look back a few days. On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 01:45 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote: At 08:27 AM 9/19/2003 -0400, Ben Dover wrote: I patched my SSHD on FreeBSD ver 5.1 (base system, not ports) and after stop

Re: cvsup problem

2003-09-22 Thread Jan-Espen Pettersen
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:08, Toni Schmidbauer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:40:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile > > Parsing supfile "/root/ports-supfile" > > Connecting to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org > > Cannot connect to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org: Connection r

Re: FW: Spam mail warning notification! (MS-Update)

2003-09-22 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Sorry, but I don't receive the hundreds of virus you pretend you receive from this list. I think 10 of them is an accurate estimaition of what I got so far, and most wheren't from the list. I would rather bet that some of your friends or relative have _both_ freebsd-questions and _your_ address

Re: Someone on list with latest virus?

2003-09-22 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Kent Stewart wrote: > I agree and I am seeing similar quanties of virus infected emails. Since > they are arriving from sites around the world, they have to be people > on the FreeBSD lists. There are several mail-to-news gateways that post the contents of the FreeBSD lists t

Running vsftpd from inetd

2003-09-22 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, Would anyone running vsftpd successfully from inetd be kind enough to share the relevant line from their inetd.conf file? Thanks, Charles Got a computer with idle CPU time? Join [EMAIL PROTECTED] and help make history! http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ __

Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Warren Block
"Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it's better for a newbie to get understandable jibrish from cat > when run on directories then an error message stating that they are > trying to run cat on a directory like ls says when they try to run ls > on a file. But as I said earlie

RE: how to enable auto power off

2003-09-22 Thread John Smith
As advised, I omitted the "at nexus? flags 0x20" part from the line: device apm0at nexus? flags 0x20# Advanced Power Management and that's how I got auto power off to work. I think LINT has more info. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

ports on a CD

2003-09-22 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Guys, Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD set? This is one area where Linux fares better. Debian offers a 7 CD (OK they don'y make ISOs) set that contains all packages. I think the FreeBSD distribution would be better off having all ports on the 2 additional CDs rather than have packag

Sound Card - NOT

2003-09-22 Thread Andy K
Hi Everyone Seems that quite a few people are having sound probs ! I am about to join in here - I also cannot get my sound card to operate.I have a P2 with a 20 gig Hdd and 128Mb RAM - the machine has onboard sound so I tried all the options - PNP BIOS, pcm, anything generic, and the sound pro

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-22 Thread Pat Lashley
--On Tuesday, September 23, 2003 00:59:30 +0100 Tadimeti Keshav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD set? This is one area where Linux fares better. Debian offers a 7 CD (OK they don'y make ISOs) set that contains all packages. The short answer is "No". Some

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