Re: GDM

2002-07-17 Thread Jonathan Chen
[Please do not remove Cc: freebsd-questions] On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:55:31AM +0530, Akthar Hussain wrote: Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your reply. But why a normal user can able to start GDM withou loging as root. since a normal user able to start GDM, i thought KDM also possible. Are

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread Jim Arnold
Title: Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world I would appreciate a bit more information on the 'world' and 'kernel' building process. Please point me at the right section of the Handbook or Greg's book if there is a succinct description.

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:04 PM -0400 7/16/02, John Mills wrote: Hello - I would appreciate a bit more information on the 'world' and 'kernel' building process. Please point me at the right section of the Handbook or Greg's book if there is a succinct description. I have been doing 'CVSUP' followed by: # make

Remote call by ssh

2002-07-17 Thread fred
Hi all, Could I do the things in freebsd? We have two office, their are in the diffierent location. The two lans are connected by gateway to gateway VPN. On one gatewaynamed "SG"the IP address is static, while on the other named "DG"the IP address is gained dynamiclly. If the IP

Re: WebMail Options

2002-07-17 Thread Simon Dick
I use it too, but the problem is that it requires an IMAP server as a backend, I read his request as needing to use a POP3 server :| On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:26:17PM -0400, Moti Levy wrote: i use SquirrelMail its in the ports -Multiple domains - yes -POP3 - if you mean retriving email

Re: [freebsd-questions] SSH

2002-07-17 Thread Rafter Man
- Original Message - From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I don't want to force users to use bash if they are used to or lve tcsh (or some other shell). But if we are lucky, then maybe sftp and ssh will have a way to chroot users in the future. But thanks for you reply :-)

How to enable digital output ??

2002-07-17 Thread Ivajlo Nikolov
HI, I have Creative sound blaster live 5.1 with digital output. Is there anybody who knows how i can enable it's digital output ??? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Hello

2002-07-17 Thread Rathnakara U M
Hello, This is Rathnakara from WIPRO Technologies, Bangalore, India. I would like to download the source code for FreeBSD release 4.3, But I could not follow the link where exactly I can find the source code. I would appreciate If u could help in this regard. Thx Rat

Mylex DAC 960 PRL RAID card support

2002-07-17 Thread Yalcin Cekic
Hi folks, I wonder that FreeBSD 4.6 has Mylex DAC 960 PRL RAID card support ? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/hardware-i386.html page contains some DAC 960 but not DAC 960PRL. Thx for your helps, Yalcin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

q-mail and DNS

2002-07-17 Thread Grant Cooper
Sorry, I couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS. when I execute the ./config command. I'm getting this error. Well I own my Domain, kooper.ca. And it exist's. But I am not using Bind yet. Don't know how so I am using zoneedit.com to point to me. Is this what they are asking for? I can

Re: /dev/null and 2-

2002-07-17 Thread Mauritz Sundell
- Original Message - From: Abc Xyz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:05 AM Subject: /dev/null and 2- i just installed 4.6-RELEASE, and notice that the '2-' sh (FBSD) construct seems to be broken. i am going thru all my scripts

Re: Hello

2002-07-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:25:18PM +0530, Rathnakara U M wrote: I would like to download the source code for FreeBSD release 4.3, But I could not follow the link where exactly I can find the source code. I would appreciate If u could help in this regard. There isn't a specific web site where

Re: WebMail Options

2002-07-17 Thread Moti Levy
my bad ,sorry - Original Message - From: Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Moti Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:16 AM Subject: Re: WebMail Options I use it too, but the problem is that it requires an IMAP server as a

RE: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread John Mills
Pavan - On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Balaji, Pavan wrote: make buildworld -- builds the kernel and the libraries (both kernel and user level) make buildkernel -- builds only the kernel Thanks - I didn't realize 'buildkernel' was redundant to 'buildworld'. You can build kernels with different

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread John Mills
Garance - Thanks for the information and for replying. On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: You should check: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html Will do. If you are fairly up-to-date with freebsd-stable, the preferred order would be more

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread John Mills
Thanks Jim, Garance, and Pavan - I think I have the information and references now. I also think I had didn't have trouble before because I was basically moving only by very small steps in my rebuilds: bugfixes rather than any changes of APIs. _Much_ better to do this a bit more knowledgably.

Re: When is FreeBSD going to work properly with KVM switches?

2002-07-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-07-16T08:00:54Z, RichardH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It will all work properly if you quit using belkin KVM's, they are too expensive. ...or try using the more expensive Belkin KVMs. I have a Belkin F1DS104T USB KVM. It remaps USB and PS/2 keyboards to either USB or PS/2 outputs

Re: GDM

2002-07-17 Thread Steve Wingate
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 23:21, Jonathan Chen wrote: [Please do not remove Cc: freebsd-questions] On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:55:31AM +0530, Akthar Hussain wrote: Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your reply. But why a normal user can able to start GDM withou loging as root. since a normal

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote John Mills thusly... Pavan - On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Balaji, Pavan wrote: make buildworld -- builds the kernel and the libraries (both kernel and user level) make buildkernel -- builds only the kernel Thanks - I didn't realize 'buildkernel' was

Sams Publishing Sample Chapters Available

2002-07-17 Thread Klocek, Matt
Hello! We are writing you today in an effort to help spread the word about all of the great Open Source related books that Sams has in it's Developer's Library. First of all, Sams Publishing is offering you a chance to have sample chapters of some of our best-selling books. We are also

Re: When is FreeBSD going to work properly with KVM switches?

2002-07-17 Thread Chad Albert
Yes, I also am a victim of the cheap KVM blues ;-) I have had this symptom on FreeBSD, NetBSD, Win2k, and NT4 with a PowerReach 6 port KVM Controller. On the bright side the KVM is a very pretty shade of purple 8-) - Original Message - From: Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Adding disks via an expansion card

2002-07-17 Thread David
- Original Message - From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've looked through what I can of the Handbook and FAQ but can't seem to find an answer. I have added a Maxtor UltraATA/100 PCI Adaptor Card to one of my machines (to replace failing on-board IDE controllers). On boot, I see that

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread Brian T . Schellenberger
I'm pretty sure that that buildworld does *not* build kernels. If anybody has definitive information (like, proof) to the contrary I'd be interested in knowing. On Wednesday 17 July 2002 10:28 am, parv wrote: | in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], | wrote John Mills thusly... | | Pavan - | | On

Re: WebMail Options

2002-07-17 Thread lists
That is Correct, IMAP is not an option. Needs to read via POP3 on a or other POP3 servers. Thanks... - Original Message - From: Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Moti Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:16 AM Subject: Re:

Re: Adding disks via an expansion card

2002-07-17 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
At 08:16 AM 7/17/2002 -0700, David, you wrote: - Original Message - From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've looked through what I can of the Handbook and FAQ but can't seem to find an answer. I have added a Maxtor UltraATA/100 PCI Adaptor Card to one of my machines (to replace

SGI's STL (Standard Template Library) in base system?

2002-07-17 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello list, Maybe I should be posting this to -hackers, but I'll try anyway. Is the Standard Template Library somehow contained in the base system of FreeBSD? I know there is the ports devel/stlport, but if it also resides in the base system (just like sendmail, perl, ssh, etc..)

Re: SGI's STL (Standard Template Library) in base system?

2002-07-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andreas Ntaflos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Is the Standard Template Library somehow contained in the base : system of FreeBSD? Yes. : But if I have to install the port, is it any good? Is it useable? The stl in the base is adequate for most

RE: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread Balaji, Pavan
Nope. buildworld != builkernel. But buildworld does link the libraries. For example if you have a system call and a corresponding library, buildkernel will not be sufficient for you to allow the library call to invoke the corresponding system call -- however a buildworld would do that. Pavan

Re: SGI's STL (Standard Template Library) in base system?

2002-07-17 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: Hello list, Maybe I should be posting this to -hackers, but I'll try anyway. Is the Standard Template Library somehow contained in the base system of FreeBSD? I know there is the ports devel/stlport, but if The GCC STL is in the base

RE: ssh problem

2002-07-17 Thread Balaji, Pavan
The reason why this output would have come up is that you might have initialized the system to use the S/Key one time passwords -- probably using keyinit. I don't know exactly how to get rid of the problem (I myself have it too), but you can set the password to your login password using keyinit

Re: Control of ppp dial-in

2002-07-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to be able to control the time of day that ppp is able to dial the modem on a freebsd-4.5 box , 8-5 in -ddial mode, then deny requests at other times. Any ideas? This is covered in the man page for pppctl(8)... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Strange files in /usr/ports (#cvs.cvsup-nnnn.1)

2002-07-17 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hi, I have several files on /usr/ports/ of the form #cvs.cvsup-n.1 (for example, #cvs.cvsup-14872.1) Can I delete those files? (it seems to me they're from several interrupted cvs updates I've had in the past, but don't know for sure.) Best regards, Carlos.

need webserver advice regarding wget

2002-07-17 Thread default
Hello, I run some FreeBSD webservers and recently a client of mine has asked that I install wget. I know that this is a fairly common application, but I am not very familiar with it. I just wanted to ask you guy's advice on whether or not there are any security concerns at all that may come

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Balaji, Pavan thusly... Nope. buildworld != builkernel. But buildworld does link the libraries. thanks for clearing that up. for a moment you had me in utter amazement. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: need webserver advice regarding wget

2002-07-17 Thread Jim Mock
On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 12:52 PM, default wrote: Hello, I run some FreeBSD webservers and recently a client of mine has asked that I install wget. I know that this is a fairly common application, but I am not very familiar with it. I just wanted to ask you guy's advice on

Re: Thoughts on Web Site Design / Builder apps?

2002-07-17 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm a hands-up newbie at web design and html stuff, but would like to learn for my own amusement on my home system. Is anyone able to recommend a nice informative and straight-forward website design / building app from the ports collection?

Claiming a device which is already claimed byanother driver.

2002-07-17 Thread Sabapathi, Vanishree
I am new to freeBSD. I am writing a character device driver for a pci-ide controller. The problem is that atapci driver already claims my device. So in essence I need to detach the atapci driver from my device and then claim it I have tried using the bus_generic_detach to detach the atapci

Re: Release 4.5 and 4.6 - Boot.flp 2.8 mb?

2002-07-17 Thread Simon Dick
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 07:26:27PM +, Richard Durham wrote: I have checked both releases 4.5 and 4.6, the boot.flp file is 2.8mb?? How can that be transferred to a single floppy? I've searched everywhere and found no answers. When trying to copy to a floppy Rawrite just registers an

Software License Sound Bites, Version 0.1

2002-07-17 Thread Karl O . Pinc
In an effort to combat the general confusion surrounding the terms Free Software and Open Source, I have attempted to write some sound bites to define, contrast, and comment on the terms. I believe I've got the definitions for each term down to two sentences. The entire document is currently

vadduser

2002-07-17 Thread Daryl Meese
Hello, I am currently running FreeBSD in a virtual server environment and have two hopefully quick questions. When I use vadduser with verbose mode turned off (-v) how do I set disk quotas for ftp and mail services I know -s ftp mail but cannot figure out how to get it to accept quotas what

scp and non-shell accounts.

2002-07-17 Thread Ken McGlothlen
I have one system where my users have shell accounts and hang out on. This has an Apache server installed as a staging server. I have another system which is the production webserver. I want my users to be able to transfer files to the production webserver using scp or sftp, but not to have

freebsd and ARCserve

2002-07-17 Thread galle
Hi !!! i want to backup a freeBSD server using the arcserver client (uagent). But there is no client for freebsd hosts. How can i do that ??? Can i use the linux client ??? Thanks all Gustavo Alle

Re: Telnetd

2002-07-17 Thread Roman Neuhauser
From: Rafter Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 05:47:49 +0800 Subject: Telnetd please, wrap your lines at about 72 chars Hi Subscribers If I have a server running telnetd and sshd, how can I denie a users telnet access (he must have ssh access also

Re: Telnetd

2002-07-17 Thread Rafter Man
- Original Message - From: Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] please, wrap your lines at about 72 chars I am using a webmailer, so it is out of my hands. disable telnet in /etc/inetd.conf (isn't it off by default??) Let's take it again one more time, from the top: I have a

Re: Telnetd

2002-07-17 Thread Roman Neuhauser
From: Rafter Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 06:01:16 +0800 Subject: Re: Telnetd - Original Message - From: Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] please, wrap your lines at about 72 chars I am using a webmailer, so it

Internet Fax and FreeBSD

2002-07-17 Thread Lord Raiden
HI all. Got a question. I saw this the other day and I had almost forgot all about this since I haven't heard or talked about it in ages with anyone. But what I saw was someone using an internet fax service on their computer (namely my hardware supplier) to receive faxed in bids and

Re: Telnetd

2002-07-17 Thread Rafter Man
- Original Message - From: Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a system running telnetd and sshd Some users may NOT use telnet to login, they have to login via sshd (using passwords). Perhaps you can take advantage of the $SSH_TTY variable that gets set for all ssh logins? A

Crusoe TM5800 support

2002-07-17 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
[ Please keep me in the Cc; I'm not subscribed to -questions. ] I've recently acquired a new laptop with a Crusoe TM5800 CPU in it. I'm trying to determine the optimal kernel configuration for this machine and the docs appear to be lacking in this area. I initially built a kernel with all _CPU

Re: Software License Sound Bites, Version 0.1

2002-07-17 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Karl O . Pinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In an effort to combat the general confusion surrounding the terms Free Software and Open Source, I have attempted to write some sound bites to define, contrast, and comment on the terms. Other than RMS's desire to distinguish his work from open source

Re: scp and non-shell accounts.

2002-07-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 02:11:34PM -0700, Ken McGlothlen wrote: I have one system where my users have shell accounts and hang out on. This has an Apache server installed as a staging server. I have another system which is the production webserver. I want my users to be able to transfer

Re: /dev/null and 2-

2002-07-17 Thread Mauritz Sundell
- Original Message - From: Abc Xyz [EMAIL PROTECTED] No real name? To: Mauritz Sundell [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 2:47 PM Subject: Re: /dev/null and 2- i just installed 4.6-RELEASE, and notice that the '2-' sh (FBSD)

Re: Yet another ssh issue

2002-07-17 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 08:00:27AM +0900, Roger Williams wrote: After upgrading to 4.6-RELEASE-p1 im getting the following line when I run lsof. Can someone explain itshould I be concerned? Most times when the server is busy connecting with ssh is a real PAIN. Any ideas? sshd

Re: scp and non-shell accounts.

2002-07-17 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Ken McGlothlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want my users to be able to transfer files to the production webserver using scp or sftp, but not to have shell access on the production webserver. So on the production machine, each of these users has a home directory, and a shell of

Re: Telnetd

2002-07-17 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Rafter Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Subscribers If I have a server running telnetd and sshd, how can I denie a users telnet access (he must have ssh access also using passwords). For starters, I would strongly deny telnet access by default. There are very few good reasons to use telnet

Re: Internet Fax and FreeBSD

2002-07-17 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Lord Raiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I could set this up using Winfax on one of our 2k server, but I'd rather do it on a Freebsd server since I have more of them and I am not a big fan of Winfax anyways. :) What port or program would I use to setup such a thing

Re: Telnetd

2002-07-17 Thread Rafter Man
- Original Message - From: Wayne Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I have a server running telnetd and sshd, how can I denie a users telnet access (he must have ssh access also using passwords). For starters, I would strongly deny telnet access by default. There are very few good

help..

2002-07-17 Thread Tony Sim
I have 3Com Megahertz 10/100 Lan Cardbus model 3CCFE575CT for my laptop. Recently, i've made up my mind to try using FreeBSD instead of the Windows 98 that came with the laptop. (all really because i got a new desktop to depend on ^^) But now, i hear that cardbus is not supported. is

/cdrom for normal users?

2002-07-17 Thread Steve Mazerski
Is it the done thing in FreeBSD for normal users to mount CD-ROMs in a local directory rather than /cdrom? As a normal user all I get is this: localuser mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted despite changing the permissions on both the CD-ROM device and /cdrom to

Re: apsfilter: driver script 'epsonc' - MORE Progress

2002-07-17 Thread Brian Astill
Ben wrote: Well it shows that your printcap isnt setup to use apsfilter. Brian. What happens when you run the setup for apsfilter? Does it let you select the epsonc driver? /usr/local/share/apsfilter/SETUP This script should setup printcap correctly. Does it? I think the method has

Re: scp and non-shell accounts.

2002-07-17 Thread Roman Neuhauser
From: Wayne Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ken McGlothlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: scp and non-shell accounts. Date: 18 Jul 2002 00:40:11 + Ken McGlothlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do I really have to permit shell access for these accounts in order to

RE: Yet another ssh issue

2002-07-17 Thread Roger Williams
Dan, You are correct, i do get that error. Ill reinstall lsof and see the outcome. Thanks for the input. ROger To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Release 4.5 and 4.6 - Boot.flp 2.8 mb?

2002-07-17 Thread Jud
7/17/2002 10:00:45 PM, harsha godavari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jud wrote: Simon: I prepared both kern.flp mfsroot.flp. When i tried to format one of those into a DOS bootdisk, it was formatted but without the system files. Scandisk showed sectors marked bad. The disk was

Re: su to root

2002-07-17 Thread Tom Limoncelli
Balaji, Pavan wrote: I wonder what exactly this means. I don't remember seeing any option for creating/not-creating the wheel group while installation. It means Install 'sudo' so that you get tighter control over who can do what, and much better logging. :-) I've known about sudo for ages