Re: clearing space
Peter Risdon wrote: How about: #mv /sbin /usr/sbin #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin #mv /root /usr/root #ln -s /usr/root /root Isn't this a bad idea if you ever have to boot to single user mode and only have / mounted? -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clearing space
Peter Risdon wrote: snip #mv /sbin /usr/sbin #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin I have a system I need to hose this weekend anyway, so checked first. I moved the /root directory to /usr/root, then exited from su - and su still worked. Then I rebooted into single user mode and got a shell. So it seemed fine, if mildly inadvisable. Therefore, as far as I can see and I did check, you can boot into single user mode without a /root directory. Peter. I was in reference to the /sbin moving to /usr/sbin. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Device Perms in 5.3
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 02:54:28PM -0800, Karl Agee wrote: I want to use 5.3 as a desktop system, but I am having some problems with device permissions. Since devfs re-creates devices on boot I have to redo the perms everytime I want to use these devices. Listening to audio cd's, watching dvd's or burning cd's/dvd's. Gets a little annoying. How can I peg device permissions the way I want them...other than using it on a daily basis as root? man devfs Kris Or you could write a script to do it every time you boot. But 'man devfs' will probably tell you the correct way to do it. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: snip 5) many issues with getting Apache mod-SSL running properly with a self-signed key (you have to generate it manually with openssl, the apache docs that say use make key or whatnot don't work) I am not doubting you that this was an issue. But it is now documented quite nicely in the mod_ssl faq (http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_faq.html). Also (as a side note), I use CAcert (http://www.cacert.org) for my key signing needs. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: snip Pointless for us, as CAcert's root certificate isn't included in I.E., so the end users have to go through the same honky-tonk to include it in their browsers as if you just make your own certs. Not quite. If they include the CA-Cert root certificate, they only have to do that once for all of your CA-Cert signed certificates. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 and some icons broke in Window Maker 0.91.0
Tabor Kelly wrote: Dave Horsfall wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Tabor Kelly wrote: Of note: I have an Intel i810 video chipset and Xorg 6.8.1 broke the driver for it, but I set NoAccel in my xorg.conf file and that was supposed to take care of it (now X at least starts). Does anyone think this could be related to my specific hardware? Could be; grab the latest Xorg from CVS, as a fix to the 810 driver (6.8.1_1) was committed yesterday. Apparently the bug is in libtiff 3.7.1, but I will upgrade xorg because it is very slow with NoAccel. Thanks everyone. I upgraded to libtiff 3.7.1_2 today, and it fixed the problem. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash version?
Duane Winner wrote: Hi all, I use bash instead of the default csh shell that is part of FreeBSD world. I am revising my in-house installation manual for FreeBSD 5.3, and it just came my attention that there is (actually has been I guess) bash version 3 available as a port. But FreeBSD appears to want to use 2.05b as the default. Does anybody know of any good reason why I should stick to 2.05b? I would like to use the latest stable version, but I don't want to go to version 3 if there are any issues that might bite me in the butt or if it will disrupt any other FreeBSD convention/issue that I don't know about. Looking at the the gnu bash site, I don't see any reason *not* to go to version 3, but I tend to let any FreeBSD considerations trump others when coming up with installation standards. Thanks for any info, cheers, DW shells/bash (in ports) is now 3.0. Maybe there just isn't a (pre-compiled) package yet. I use 3.0 on my 5.3 system, and I am still using 2.05b on my 4.9 system. I haven't actually noticed any differences. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thank you!
Boris Spirialitious wrote: snip It's like Dave Horsfall wrote: _ /| /| | | | ||__|| | |Please do not| / O O\__ | feed the | / \ | Trolls | / \ \|_| / _\ \ || /|\\ \ || / | | | |\/ || / \|_|_|/ | _|| / / \|| || / | | | --| | | | | --| * _| |_|_|_| | \-/ *-- _--\ _ \ | || / _ \\|/ ` * / \_ /- | | | * ___ c_c_c_C/ \C_c_c_c -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backups / Dump etc
Jeff MacDonald wrote: snip On a related note: If I want to do complete dumps of all of my file systems do I need to be in single user mode? Will running in multiuser mode (with all of my normal daemons running) mess up my dumps? Thank You. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backups / Dump etc
John wrote: snip Thanks for the _excellent_ reply. Please do submit it to the handbook. I am actually running 4.10R on all of my servers (5.3R on my desktops). I will probably boot into single user mode in the middle of the night, the worst that will happen is that some people can't get to my web site and that a little mail gets delayed. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot up notification
Jim Pazarena wrote: snip In rc.local: mail -s 'subject' [EMAIL PROTECTED] message_to_send.txt -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Download from Windows
Jeff Spector wrote: Thanks to all of you who responded. I am newbie to FreeBSD and UNIX so I may be asking some silly questions. I will try to burn it again and check the parameters. Perhaps I did not mount my cd to the /CDROM folder correctly and that is why I can not ls the file. Thanks again You should use something like this: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need a cuppa...
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ, and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get how to get Java support for FreeBSD. I don't need the JDK, unless that's the only way to get a viable JRE. You can't get a separate 1.4+ JRE for FreeBSD, you need to install the JDK; the JDK is available as a port in java/jdk14. Cheers. But make sure you have linprocfs mounted before you try to build it (and obviously linux emulation). PS- Linux emulation is for bootstrapping purposes. java/jdk14 requires java/linux-sun-jdk14 to compile, afterwards java/linux-sun-jdk14 can be safely removed. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3 Install
Lyn Robie wrote: Rarely have I found such an amateurish installation procedure. It's obv- ious you guys are hard put to find anyone competent in the user nterfaces. And after such snobbishly rave reviews for FreeBSD on the web I was expecting better. I installed on an HP533 I386 with the X Developer package and then discover that the kernel doesn't include the drivers needed for the Intel 845 graphics chip. Ahem. Not exactly the rarest beast in the jungle. It's perfectly clear to me that you guys are not into winning converts from the Linux camp. I suppose you can draw some cold comfort from knowing your distro installation is so obscure and bugridden that no one outside of the few grizzled old graybeard unix administrators will be able to make a system run. 1. Please break your lines around 72 characters. 2. I am using an i845 as I type to compose this message. 3. There is no kernel driver for the i845, I assume you want X? 4. X lives in user land, not kernel land, and the i845 is well supported by both XFree86 4.4.0 and XOrg 6.8.1 (as well as XOrg 6.7.0 for that matter). 5. FreeBSD is focused more at servers than desktops, as suck we aren't trying to win over the Linux crowd. 6. I am running FreeBSD on my Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop because I have found it more stable and secure than Linux or Windows. Also, I prefer the port system to the packages systems found on most Linux distros (I came from Debian). -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: programming languages and visual programming under FreeBSD
koen de wijs wrote: Hallo, I'm just new wtih unix and FreeBSD and I have a question about programming languages, I want to learn some of them but don't know where to start. C, it was the first programming language that I learned, so I may be a little biased. However, it is not that hard to learn, and tied closely enough with the hardware that you will probably learn some things about hardware as you go. I heard that C is the most powerfull language under unix and almost the complete system is written under it. You can do everything with it. Where is a good toturial? I don't remember what book I used to learn it. Right now I have the O'Reilly book _Practical C Programming_, but I don't know if it is as good as it could be. If you decide that you want to learn C++ instead, I like _Using C++_ but my wife says _C++ Primer Plus_. Can you read and write directly with the printer port or does the kernell block that?? I got a programm from someone that putted some assmebler in his c programm to adress the printer port. And where can I find an overview of all the *.h files that you can use under FreeBSD As others have noted, don't do this. snip: stuff I don't know the answer to The other languages that I know are: Perl, I could only find that it is especially for tasks for your system and that it's based on C Shell scripts, for tasks for your systems and simple programms Python. Good, I think you will find that knowing Perl and C is a very good combination. What are the advantages of these languages above C... Faster development time... for example string manipulation of any sort in C is far more difficult than Perl. However, their are some things that you can do in C far more efficiently than in a higher level language. PS- Java is a nice language if you want to learn something purely object oriented. However, some people object to Sun's politics. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building quasi-full vim
José de Paula wrote: snip You want editors/vim-lite. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which Way to Partition.
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 21 January 2005 at 22:14:13 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On Friday, January 21, 2005 9:28 PM, stheg olloydson wrote: snip BTW, having GNU/Linux - Freedom in your sig file when posting to a *BSD list is a bit of a _faux pas_, wouldn't you agree? Probably not as much as a faux pas as posting the same message TWICE, stheg, snip None of the above help improve the standard of the channel. A few weeks back we discussed closing down the FreeBSD-newbies mailing list, because just about everything on it is a technical questions. One of the biggest objections was but the people on -questions are so unfriendly. Can we try to change that? Indeed. My first post to this email list (since I have been back from a 3 year hiatus) was a question about the infamous portsdb -uU/portupgrade -uU segfault. My reward for coming back to this list was an angry email from Don Novello ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Also, if you are going to tell people that they posted duplicate messages, do you need to send that to the whole email list? If you send it to the whole list, you are wasting just as much bandwidth as the guy who accidentally sent his message twice, except you are doing it on purpose. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: port update problem - newbie
saravanan ganapathy wrote: snip --- Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt the ports collections which I don't want. Since you are new, I will give you some (ports) advice: 1. Always update all of your ports so that you can use portupgrade. 2. Use portupgrade. 3. Read /usr/ports/UPDATING if you want things to go smoothly. 4. If you forget step 3, and step 3 happens to have some bad news in it (usually pertaining to gettext), 'portupgrade -rRf [some port]' can work wonders. 5. Don't forget to do a 'portsdb -uU' after cvsup'ing your ports. My quick start to portupgrade: http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/ports.html Where I learned about portupgrade: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JDK 1.5 and 5.3
Andrew Hall wrote: snip Any idea about the missing browser plugin? Which browser? For Firefox one way to get a functional Java plugin is simply to install the JDK before you build Firefox. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vesa,/i810, Dell gx270 and Intel 82865G Graphics
Damian Sobieralski wrote: I extracted the 865patch and ran it before firing up X (865patch 32768 nocheck) and I am currently typing this in 16 bit color mode at 1024x768. Thanks for all those who emailed me with help. I love the FreeBSD community! Out of curiosity, what version of Xorg are you using? I have an i810 and it works fine with Xorg 6.8.1. Note: I know mine is one of the affected i840 cards. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: C Language Style Guide
Michael Madden wrote: Is there an accepted standard C language style guide. I'm starting to develop and test my applications on FreeBSD, and I want to ensure my code is readable and maintainable. I've been able to find specific project's guidelines like the following, but I can find a general standard. Does ANSI or POSIX dictate anything about style or coding standards? Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/styleguide.html GNU: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/ Thanks, Mike Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] pointed out that their is a FreeBSD style guide. There is also a GNU style guide, (http://www.nongnu.org/style-guide/) but the GNU people point out that what is more important than following their guide, it maintaining consistency within 1 project/product. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reboot DURING a portupgrade
Ben Haysom wrote: Hi I am running FBSD 5.3-CURRENT on a Duron 700Mhz 384Mb RAM. When I do (as root) #portupgrade -a it comes back with: Stale dependency: acroread-5.10_1 -- linux_base-8-8.0_6 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. So I do #portupgrade -a -O and *everytime* it reboots itself before the portupgrade is complete. Not a clean reboot though - it doesn't dismount filesystems before it goes. I can't work out what it's doing. There is nothing relevant in /var/log/messages. Can anyone help? Ben. Like Karol Kwiatkowski suggested, I would say you have about a 99% chance this is a hardware failure. In addition to what Karol suggested, it could also be a faulty power supply. Also, I would say look into the hardware in this order: 1. RAM 2. Power Supply 3. CPU Note: The above is just my personal opinion. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice startup question
Ned Harrison wrote: I installed openoffice-1.1.4 via using pkg_add on a package pulled down from the FreeBSD web cite. It installed with only two minor warnings regarding out of date packages. Those have been upgraded and pkgdb -F fixed the dependencies. However, the initiall set up instructions don't seam to work. When I type openoffice, I get Command not found for a response. It doesn't matter whether I enter the command as an ordinary user or as root. This is true even when I move to /usr/local/bin where there are several openoffice files. Any suggestions on what to do next would be appreciated. thanks, Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] try openoffice-1.1.4 -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very general shutdown question
Ned Harrison wrote: I run FreeBSD 5.3 on my home PC in a stand alone machine as a desktop. Is it possible to set it up so an ordinary user can shut the system? I've created a couple of accounts that are not in the wheel group so I can give friends and house guests the chance to play on a non-Microsoft system. I don't want to give them root access just to shut it down. None of the books which I have discuss using FreeBSD in this way. They are mostly geared to setting up networks running it for businesses. Areas where one may not want an ordinary user to be able to shutdown the machine. However, I prefer having the machine off when I'm not on it. If it's not possible that fine I can continue working around it like I do now. Thank you Ned As you have probably noticed, their are lots of ways to do this. IMHO the easiest would be a SUID root script. That is a script owned by root that has the SUID (set user id) bit set. It should have one line: 'halt' (or whatever 'shutdown -*' you want). -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very general shutdown question
Well thanks, too bad I was planning on using those to make my backup
jobs easier. Anyway, here is a quick C program to accomplish the same
thing:
/* main.c */
#include unistd.h
#include stdlib.h
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
extern char **environ;
execve(/sbin/halt, argv, environ);
return EXIT_SUCCESS; /* note: we never actually get here */
}
to compile it, but type 'gcc main.c'
then copy a.out to /halt
then 'chown root:wheel /halt'
then 'chmod a+s /halt'
But when I got done writing and testing the program, I thought to myself:
Why not just set /sbin/halt to SUID root?
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Re: GTK vs QT
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 03:39:05 +, Mick Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would you make a statement like that without making points to back it up? because i dont have points except that qt can kiss my $$$ :) no i am just wondering what you guy's think thats all i lookt around on the internet a bit but that was old stuff about gtk1 and so. I have read the QT is far more efficient and that the only reason anyone uses GTK is for licensing reasons. Any comments? Also, not to mention that QT is fully portable to M$ Windows. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portsdb -Uu Segmentation fault
Hello, This is on a Pentium-II running FreeBSD 4.10R, portupgrade-20040701_3, ruby-1.8.2.p2_1, and ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2. Here is what I did: $ pkgdb -F $ cvsup ports-supfile $ portsdb -Uu And here is the output I get from portsdb: Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.. Done. done [Updating the portsdb format:bdb1_btree in /usr/ports ... - 11939 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000 .6000.7000.8000../usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4] Abort trap (core dumped) I did a google search, and found a bunch of people had a similar problem (Bus Error, not Segmentation fault) in early September, but I didn't notice what (portupgrade/ruby/the ports tree) was actually the problem. What really stumps me is that I have 2 other servers that have the same version of FreeBSD, Ruby and Portupgrade installed that work fine. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank You, Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portsdb -Uu Segmentation fault
Tabor Kelly wrote: This has been discussed DOZENS of times on this list including TODAY. What do you think the archives are for?! Sorry, I will look harder. Like I said, I found a lot of people having the problem (in the archives), I didn't find anyone explaining what causes the problem or how to fix it. Again, Sorry. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: port/firefox-1.0,1 : Proper method of having side-by-side libraries?
I don't know what the proper method is. I do know that I upgraded firefox from 0.93 to 1.0 via ports with 'portupgrade -rR firefox' (and it worked). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to start a daemon (specifically svnserve) as a specific user in /etc/rc.local
Hello, I just installed subversion, and I want to start the standalone subversion server (svnserve) on every reboot. The command I need to execute is: svnserve -d -r /usr/local/repositories I created a user called subversiond, with the shell in /etc/passwd set to /nonexistent. If I am logged into the system, I can use the following commands to start the subversion server as subversiond: su -m subversiond svnserve -d -r /usr/local/repositories exit However, I have not had any luck automating this. What I tried was placing: /usr/local/repositories/subversiond.sh in /etc/rc.local, and creating the following executable file /usr/local/repositories/subversiond.sh: #!/bin/sh umask 022 #just to make sure su -m subversiond svnserve -d -r /usr/local/repositories exit #note: I added these exit's when the script exit # didn't work without them, but it still doesn't work However, if I reboot and do a 'ps -axu | grep subversiond' the only process that I see is _su -m (csh). I would appreciate any help/pointers you could give me. Thank You, Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to start a daemon (specifically svnserve) as a specificuser in /etc/rc.local
Well, I fixed my problem, I changed my /etc/rc.local file to: su -m subversiond -c 'svnserve -d -r /usr/local/repositories' However, I still don't know why my other method wasn't working. -Tabor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade seg. fault
Michael Shafae wrote: Hi, I have a FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 system which I have installed portupgrade--20040701_3, ruby-1.8.2.p2_1, and ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2. Previously upgrading ports were effortless with portupgrade. Today, I first CVSUP'ed the ports tree, read /usr/ports/CHANGES and ran `make index`. Then I tried to upgrade various ports and it all failed with portupgrade seg-faulting. For example: [188] [13:15]lou% sudo portupgrade tiff [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb1_btree in /usr/ports ... - 11959 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000... ./usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4] Abort (core dumped) Check (http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/ports.html), it is one of the three things addressed on this page. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No output from Kernel Booting Up or /dev/console
% to 12.5%), currently 100.0% acd0: CDRW HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4241N/A100 at ata0-master UDMA33 ad2: 19077MB IC25N020ATMR04-0/MO1OAD0A [38760/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a More info: Other than this, my computer still works fine. I have tried this with and without /boot/loader.conf, which has one line: linux_load=YES Thanks For Any Help You Can Give Me, Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No output from Kernel Booting Up or /dev/console
Ash wrote: [snip] Well, I looked and looked for what was wrong, and I was 100% sure it wasn't anything in the /boot directory. However, just to be sure I copied everything in /boot and /boot/default from another FreeBSD 5.3R system I had, and it started working again. I have no idea what file it was or how it got changed, but thanks Ash. -Tabor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No output from Kernel Booting Up or /dev/console
Tabor Kelly wrote: [snip] I have no idea what file it was or how it got changed, but thanks Ash. I figured out what I did. I overwrote the default /boot/device.hints with the 4 lines in my original email (I didn't realize there was a default /boot/device.hints). This was all accomplished with the wrechless use of cat device.hints I guess I learned an important lesson. -Tabor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Yep - Firefox again.
Kirk Strauser wrote: I can't get Firefox to start. I'm on a 5.3 system with all ports rebuilt on November 8, so there shouldn't be an obsolete library issues. I've completely removed ~/.mozilla. I initially tested with Firefox built from the port, but have also tried installing the pre-built package. When run as root (after deleting /root/.mozilla), I get: # firefox *** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching exception so finalize window can close *** loading the extensions datasource *** loading the extensions datasource and then nothing more. I don't know what else to try. Any thoughts? This happened to me, but only _after_ I ran firefox as root once. My shameless hack to fix this was to: $ cd /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox $ rm -R * $ portupgrade -f firefox However now every time I start firefox it says: Extension System Warning: Failed to set up default extensions files probably because you do not have write privileges to this location. While you can run Firefox like this, it is recommended that you run it at least once with privileges that allow it to generate these initial files to improve start performance. Running from a disk image on MacOS X is not recommended.*** loading the extensions data source But, firefox works. I am just careful to never run it with root priveledges. -Tabor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Diskless Servers
Evan Sayer wrote: Hello- Is it a good idea to run a mail server or web server diskless? The reason I want to do this is so that all of our server's files will be in one place which will make backups more convenient. Basically I am thinking of running one NFS/TFTP file server with disks, and those disks will contain the partitions for a web server, a mail server, and a login server which will all boot diskless. Is this safe and ok performance wise? Thanks. So, mbox format mail files can not be run over NFS because NFS does not implement posix standard file locking. You could run courier or qmail with maildir however. I use a patched version of qmail (and I love it), your can read about my experiences here (please note, I haven't quite finished this document yet and it is still a little rough around the edges): (http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/qmail.html). As for a web server, I don't know of any file locking problems, although for some specific implementations I would presume that they would pop up (ex: anything to do with a Berkley DB). So, in short the answer to your question is: depends. Note: I am not an expert unix system administrator, nor have I ever had a disk less server, I have however been monkeying with unix for about 8 years now. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: realtek rl0 not working with dchp
arden wrote: hi folks Im setting up an extra box on my home dchp network to use as an internet station it just will not pick up an ip address by dchp even when nothing else is on the network i can manually assign an ip with ifconfig so pretty sure its detected ok also tried 3 different linux distros and get the same prob with this card the case is compact (built into the monitor) so a different nic is not an option Arden ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am no expert, but try: # dhclient -v rl0 and post the output. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACPI kills USB mouse
Robert William Vesterman wrote: Hi, I've been having a hard time getting my USB mouse to work. Tonight, I accidentally booted without ACPI support, and the USB mouse magically worked. I tried booting with and without ACPI support several times thereafter, and each time, the USB mouse worked if and only if I hadn't booted with ACPI support. Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround? Is there any sort of information I can gather that might help to narrow down the problem? This is with 5.3-RELEASE, by the way. Thanks in advance for any help. Bob Vesterman. It is known (at least by myself) that the FreeBSD ACPI support can break all sorts of things if it doesn't happen to agree with your hardware. I think the known workaround is booting with support disabled. -Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't boot normally - syslog?
Edward Carmody wrote: Hi, Running a 5.2.1-Current box. After we suffered a power outage, and the UPS went offline, the FBSD shut down ugly. I get the usual messages scrolling by when I try to boot, but as soon as the drive gets mounted, I see nothing but zillions of scrolling messages without newlines: = logmsg: pri 166, flags 17, from oberon,g = over and over again. I've let this run like this for an hour, and it shows no indication of stopping. :( I've booted into single-user mode, ran fsck, let it fix some inconsistencies it found, but when I try to reboot normally, I still get the same logmsgs over and over again. Looks like syslog is looping, but I've no idea how to start fixing this. Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Ed Carmody Not to poke fun at your situation, but have you considered a fresh install of 5.3? In the end it may take you less time than fixing your install of 5.2.1. -Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3: cant install openoffice 1.1 from ports
Simon Burke wrote: I've recently done a fresh install of 5.3, i updated ports using cvsup to install gnome2.8, which im using know, great. Problem is that it wont allow me to compile openoffice properly, i cant give an error message as its about 7hrs in i get the message and i've since made clean. Does anyone know if it is broken? or how i can get an openoffice release installed, as 1.0 is apparentlyu broken according to ports and 1.1 wont compile sucessfully. Neither can I, I am also running FreeBSD 5.3R, and I attempted to install OpenOffice 1.1 via 'portinstall openoffice' Here is the error that I got: snip build output Making: ../../unxfbsd.pro/slo/com_sun_star_lib_connections_pipe_PipeConnection.obj gcc32 -w -c -I. -I. -I../inc -I../../inc -I../../unx/inc -I../../unxfbsd.pro/inc -I. -I/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/OOo_1.1.3_src/solver/645/unxfbsd.pro/inc/dont_use_stl -I/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/OOo_1.1.3_src/solver/645/unxfbsd.pro/inc/external -I/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/OOo_1.1.3_src/solver/645/unxfbsd.pro/inc -I/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/OOo_1.1.3_src/solenv/unxfbsd/inc -I/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/OOo_1.1.3_src/solenv/inc -I/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/OOo_1.1.3_src/res -I/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/OOo_1.1.3_src/solver/645/unxfbsd.pro/inc/dont_use_stl -I/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/OOo_1.1.3_src/solenv/inc/Xp31 -I/usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include -I/usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/freebsd -I/usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/bsd -I/usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/native_threads/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I. -I../../res -I. -I/usr/X11R6/include -O -pipe -fno-rtti -fPIC -DFREEBSD -DUNX -DVCL -DGCC -DC300 -DINTEL -DGXX_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-portbld-freebsd5.3/3.2.3/include/g++-v3 -DCVER=C300 -D_USE_NAMESPACE -D_USE_NAMESPACE=1 -DX86 -DNEW_SOLAR -DSTLPORT_VERSION=450 -DOSVERSION=503001 -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT -D__DMAKE -DUNIX -DCPPU_ENV=gcc3 -DSUPD=645 -DPRODUCT -DNDEBUG -DPRODUCT_FULL -DOSL_DEBUG_LEVEL=0 -DOPTIMIZE -DEXCEPTIONS_ON -DCUI -DSOLAR_JAVA -DSRX645 -DSHAREDLIB -D_DLL_ -DMULTITHREAD -w -o ../../unxfbsd.pro/slo/com_sun_star_lib_connections_pipe_PipeConnection.o com_sun_star_lib_connections_pipe_PipeConnection.c In file included from com_sun_star_lib_connections_pipe_PipeConnection.h:2, from com_sun_star_lib_connections_pipe_PipeConnection.c:69: /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:27:20: jni_md.h: No such file or directory In file included from com_sun_star_lib_connections_pipe_PipeConnection.h:2, from com_sun_star_lib_connections_pipe_PipeConnection.c:69: /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:45: syntax error before jsize /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:104: syntax error before jbyte /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:107: syntax error before i /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:108: syntax error before j /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:112: syntax error before '}' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:193: syntax error before jint /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:195: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:198: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:201: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:203: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:206: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:209: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:211: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:214: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:217: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:218: `jint' declared as function returning a function /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:219: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:220: `jint' declared as function returning a function /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:221: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:223: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:225: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:227: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:230: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:231: syntax error before jint /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:231: `jint' declared as function returning a function /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:232: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:235: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:237: syntax error before '*' token
Re: Designed for FreeBSD stickers
Jerry McAllister wrote: snip OK. So I went and looked for them. They are from FreeBSD Mall. Go to: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm Select 'Promo' and then 'FreeBSD Sticker Sheet' They are only $0.50 US each so get a hundred or so. There are a bunch of other promo items at that site as well. The 'FreeBSD Plate Logos' are nice to stick on and look more impressive than a mere sticker. A FreeBSD beanie is good to sit on top of your monitor and keep a benevolent eye on you. And, of course, FreeBSD boxer shorts are a real turn on for your significant other. snip Yea, what I want (and I have looked, it doesn't exist) is a FreeBSD Jesus Fish like this Linux Fish here (http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/2898/). -Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Native Java JDK vs. Linux Java JDK via emulation
Hello Again, First of all, I checked (http://www.freebsd.org/java/), but it did not have the info I was looking for (it also didn't seem to have any contact info for their authors). So, my question: What is the difference between the Native Java JDK (java/jdk14), and the linux one (java/linux-sun-jdk14), besides the obvious fact that java/linux-sun-jdk14 is officially sanctioned by Sun? Also, if java/jdk14 is a native binary build of Java, why does it require java/linux-sun-jdk14? Finally, a more general question: why do ports require specific versions of java? For example: The OpenOffice port requires java/jdk-1.4.2p6_7, shouldn't any vendor's copy of version 1.4 of the JDK work? Thank You, Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice - Java problems
Dave Horsfall wrote: I'm trying to compile OpenOffice 1.1 for FreeBSD 4.10 (may as well exercise the lap-top). After grabbing all the Linuxy bits for Java JDK14, I now find it wants a Solaris library under /compat/svr4/lib (libc.so.2 or similar), and this is found only on a Solaris/86 CD, which of course not being a licensee I don't have. snip -- Dave snip How I got Openoffice 1.1.3 to compile on my laptop: portinstall java/jdk14 portinstall openoffice note: 'portinstall java/jdk14' installs the natively compiled FreeBSD version of Java, and as a dependency (for the build only) installs the linux JDK. -Tabor Kelly PS- Yes, this does mean the port is broken. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso
Jerry Hoover wrote: I downloaded all 4 iso's and I have used Nero 5.5.9.9 to burn them to CD EXCEPT 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso The checksums all worked out. 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso continues to lock up Nero, the others didn't. Any ideas? BTW: I have downloaded that 1 file twice from 2 differant sites, Same results. Just that 1 fileHELP! Sounds unrelated to the image itself. And what is the differance between bootonly.iso and miniinst.iso? miniinst.iso is everything in the base system without any packages (except Perl), but with the ports tree. I am not sure what bootonly.iso lacks that miniinst.iso has (almost certainly the ports tree). snip If you have broadband, I suggest using the miniinst.iso and either installing packages via FTP with /stand/sysinstall or building everything from ports. Since you are new at this: don't forget to CVSup your ports tree after you install. Also, if I were you, I would install portupgrade and always use portupgrade/portinstall instead of manually compiling ports. -Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ld-elf.so.1: Shared objectlibintl.so.6 not found
Andrew P. wrote: snip The only question I have now is how come I've never read about this? I've read the Handbook and the Complete Freebsd and literally thousands of other pages concerning FreeBSD management. I have never seen a warning about changing the default shell for root. Or am I just too blind?.. I haven't noticed it documented recently... but it was literally the first thing I was warned not to do by one of my friends when I started using *nix (linux at the time) about a decade ago (and he wasn't even a guru). As Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) noted, it would be very bad if you couldn't boot into single user mode when you needed to. -Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qmail Problems
Mike Grissom wrote: I have been having a problem with qmail-send dying for a while now. In the log file it says that alert: oh no! lost spawn connection which leads me to believe the problem is with the qmail-lspawn or qmail-rspawn. I have FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #0: Thu Nov 11 17:21:04 EST 2004 installed on the box. Any ideas what could be causing this? Or how to fix this problem? snip In addition to everything Mike Grissom [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, please tell us if you installed qmail from ports or directly from the source tarball on cr.yp.to? Also, how often does it die? Can you reproduce the bug on demand? -Tabor Kelly PS- please configure your email client to use hard line breaks after 70 characters (70 characters per line). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qmail Problems
Tabor Kelly wrote: snip In addition to everything Mike Grissom [EMAIL PROTECTED] said Sorry, I meant Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]. snip -Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
general portinstall question about port names
Hello, I have a general question about how portinstall decides what port to install. When type portinstall openoffice, portinstall asks me which of the 4 openoffice ports I would like to install. When I type portinstall gimp, portinstall installs graphics/gimp1. Why not graphics/gimp, or ask me like it did for OpenOffice? Thank You, Tabor Kelly ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed: snip This will also disable those annoying daily, weekly and montly messages recieved from cronjobs. Who wants to read about your disks filling up, attempts to break into your server and other futilities anyway ;-) A typical qmail install includes the following: $ killall sendmail $ mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.old $ chmod 0 /usr/sbin/sendmail.old $ ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail $ chmod 0 /usr/libexec/mail.local cron ends up calling /var/qmail/bin/sendmail. -Tabor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash - superuser
Tom Vilot wrote: Admittedly, I'm still a bit of a noob, but I can't stand any shell but bash. Then log in as your normal user and then do a 'su -m' -Tabor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Prism GT Chipset, hostap?
Nikolas Britton wrote: Do the Prism GT chipsets support hostap mode in freebsd (does freebsd even support this chipset?)? and are there any other chipsets besides Prism 2/2.5/3? that work in hostap mode? From wi(4) (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wisektion=4manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-RELEASE): Cards based on the Intersil PRISM-II and PRISM-2.5 chips also have a host-based access point mode which allows the card to act as an access point (base station). -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
Michael Madden wrote: I'm looking to setup a mail server with FreeBSD 5.3 for a group of around 100 users, and I was wondering which MTA I should use. I have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some serious security issues. Furthermore, can someone recommend a decent POP3 and IMAP server? Thanks in advance, Mike I use qmail + dovecot. I have some rough drafts of howto's here: http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/qmail.html http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/dovecot.html -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd training/certification
Chris wrote: snip The user states, I have been using the OS for over a year now, Hmmm seems to me that the user should KNOW the answer to, and how come FreeBSD is not as popular as RH/Fedora? Please, enlighten me, why is FreeBSD less popular than RH/Fedora, or linux in general for that matter? -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 and some icons broke in Window Maker 0.91.0
Hello, I just upgraded from Xorg 6.7.0 (where everything worked fine) to Xorg 6.8.1 and my clip icon along with a few others have a black background. Here is a screenshot: http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/images/outfile.jpg Is anybody else having this trouble with Xorg 6.8.1? Everything else works fine. Of note: I have an Intel i810 video chipset and Xorg 6.8.1 broke the driver for it, but I set NoAccel in my xorg.conf file and that was supposed to take care of it (now X at least starts). Does anyone think this could be related to my specific hardware? Note2: This is on an ia32 laptop running FreeBSD 5.3R. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 and some icons broke in Window Maker 0.91.0
Dave Horsfall wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Tabor Kelly wrote: Of note: I have an Intel i810 video chipset and Xorg 6.8.1 broke the driver for it, but I set NoAccel in my xorg.conf file and that was supposed to take care of it (now X at least starts). Does anyone think this could be related to my specific hardware? Could be; grab the latest Xorg from CVS, as a fix to the 810 driver (6.8.1_1) was committed yesterday. Apparently the bug is in libtiff 3.7.1, but I will upgrade xorg because it is very slow with NoAccel. Thanks everyone. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [freebsd] Upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 and some icons broke in Window Maker 0.91.0
regis rampnoux wrote: snip I added the ligne : Load extmod in the config file (Section Module) and this solved the trouble. I had icons frames in blue and cyan too! Hope this can help you... No, I already had this line. I just changed all of my icons to their xpm formated equivalent. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best way to back up to CD?
Hello, I would like to start making periodic backups to CD. I know I can make a tarball, and then create an iso with just that tarball on it, and then burn that to a cd, but is there a better way? Specifically, I have read the into to backups in the Handbook and it says that dump/restore is superior to tar, but it looks like dump was only intended for tape drives. Am I reading this right? Thank You. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?
Dave Horsfall wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html And if you follow the ports route instead, just how many more bloody hoops do we have to jump through? I did it, and it wasn't hard, just confusing. It is confusing because you need to know that: 1. You need the linprocfs mounted to make java/linux-sun-jdk14 2. You need to install java/jdk14 before you try to build OpenOffice (even though this is not listed as a dependency). Note: this is from my memory, which is not always 100% what it should be. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3 - starting a process as a diff user
J.D. Bronson wrote:
I have a daemon that I need to start at boot under
/usr/local/etc/rc.d
and I need it to run as a specific user.
Currently, from root, I su - {userid} and then launch it
and then log out.
Can I make this automated in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and if so how?
This is what I have in one line of my rc.local:
su -m [user] -c '[command]'
but check the man page first.
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Re: 5.3 - starting a process as a diff user
J.D. Bronson. Your mail server is blocking my mail server: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 65.43.82.170 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 sub18-33.member.dsl-only.net[63.105.18.33]: Client host rejected: Connecting IP appears dynamic - Use ISP to relay email Giving up on 65.43.82.170. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free BSD
K.T. wrote: I think, BSD is one with lot of unusable, needless systems. You never get over Windows or Linux. FreeBSD is stupid system, which only nobody will use. :-( It's like Dave Horsfall wrote: _ /| /| | | | ||__|| | |Please do not| / O O\__ | feed the | / \ | Trolls | / \ \|_| / _\ \ || /|\\ \ || / | | | |\/ || / \|_|_|/ | _|| / / \|| || / | | | --| | | | | --| * _| |_|_|_| | \-/ *-- _--\ _ \ | || / _ \\|/ ` * / \_ /- | | | * ___ c_c_c_C/ \C_c_c_c -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.
Rene C. Mendoza wrote: I'm in the process of looking for a webmail frontend to my Postfix mail server setup installed on FreeBSD 5.3. I use cyrus-imap as well. What would you recommend? I've heard of Squirrel Mail and IMP, but I don't know what to choose. thanks, Rene I used IMP a few years ago, and I found it complicated to set up. I use SqWebMail now. SqWebMail may be less elegant than SquirrelMail, but SqWebMail is far more efficient. It is written in C, and accesses Maildirs locally, not through an IMAP server. If Postfix does not support Maildirs, you couldn't use SqWebMail. I have written a short tutorial on how to set up SqWebMail here (it is draft quality now): http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/sqwebmail.html The installation is pretty straight forward (it is in ports), except the Makefile, which is a little confusing at first. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote upgrade possible?
Laurence Sanford wrote: Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: snip This is possible, however you are always taking a chance when you installworld without going to single user mode first. That said, I make a habit out of pushing my luck with systems I have in front of me by going so far as to make installworld while using an xterm in X-windows. I routinely use 'portupgrade -rRN' in xterm, in X-Windows to install new ports on my box. The second to last time I did this, one of the ports what was upgraded was xterm. And it worked! Can anybody explain to my why nothing bad happened? Am I running a risk when I do this? -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
