Complaints on X startup about knonsole_grantpty

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Having brought my X-Installation completely up to date (or so I think) to X 3... I know see this in the X messages... konsole: chownpty failed for device /dev/ptyp2::/dev/ttyp2. : This means the session can be eavesdroped. : Make sure konsole_grantpty is installed in :

Re: Portsupgrade -uU

2002-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:28:45PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: At 02:04 AM 11/21/02, you wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: When running portsupgrade -uU I get the output below. How can I fix these malformed entries, non-existent entries and

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:56AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:12:12PM -0500, Chris Pepper wrote: At 7:50 PM -0800 2002/11/20, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip LINT says: # # Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of

Re: Bash programming; Was: connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-21 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-21 02:17:13 -0500: Following the suggestions that were posted, I now have a working script that checks for a connection to the DVD-RAM drive. The following works, but returns the 'Device not configured' error if there's no disk in the drive. elif

Sendmail not relaying to localhost (4.6 and 4.7 RELEASE)

2002-11-21 Thread AlistairP
Hi all, I had a weird problem a while ago that after installing FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE sendmail was not accepting local mail for delivery. After looking at mail -v user I saw that sendmail was not accepting relaying for the localhost. Now I could telnet to localhost on port 25 and that worked so

Re: Sendmail not relaying to localhost (4.6 and 4.7 RELEASE)

2002-11-21 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-21 11:30:30 +0200: I had a weird problem a while ago that after installing FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE sendmail was not accepting local mail for delivery. After looking at mail -v user I saw that sendmail was not accepting relaying for the localhost. Now I could

RE: Sendmail not relaying to localhost (4.6 and 4.7 RELEASE)

2002-11-21 Thread AlistairP
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-21 11:30:30 +0200: I had a weird problem a while ago that after installing FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE sendmail was not accepting local mail for delivery. After looking at mail -v user I saw that sendmail was not accepting relaying for the localhost. Now I

backing up to cd

2002-11-21 Thread Jon Reynolds
What is the best way to backup to an atapi cdr? is it mkisofs or burncd or cdrecord? I would like to be able to have this automated where I will create a cron job that uses tar and gzip to compare the files in the directory and if there is a change in the file it will make a new backup then send

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-20 19:50, David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know they're distinct, but it's silly for a discussion of Linux applications to ignore the possibility of those apps residing on a Linux filesystem. I couldn't find ext2fs documented

Re: backing up to cd

2002-11-21 Thread Denis N. Peplin
mkisofs + burncd for IDE, mkisofs + cdrecord for SCSI read manuals or handbook for details. On Thursday 21 November 2002 13:40, Jon Reynolds wrote: What is the best way to backup to an atapi cdr? is it mkisofs or burncd or cdrecord? I would like to be able to have this automated where I will

Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6

2002-11-21 Thread Martin Moeller
* Visotheary Riviere-Ung [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21.11.02 11:00]: I have only one hard disk and I want to make a dual-boot Windows 2K and FreeBSD. How can I do it? My first attempt had erased W2K. Is there a fix for this? Salut, Visotheary! Have you re-partitioned your harddrive before

mpd

2002-11-21 Thread Marcin M. Jessa
Howdy I have tried to install a server with VPN over pptp using mpd from ports. It starts fine but I cannot connect to it and nothing goes to /var/log/ppp.log The VPN box is my firewall. I am trying to connect to it from Windows2K with static inet IP creating connection directly to the outside

Re: Ang LinuxForum

2002-11-21 Thread Rafter Man
- Original Message - From: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Der er heller ikke mange *BSD folk som har meldt sig til at holde en BoF / foredrag på Linuxforum (er dog lige kommet 2 stks til) Som sædvanlig stiller jeg gerne op hvis det ønskes, men jeg aner lige så sædvanligt ikke hvad

Re: yahoo IM crashing for anyone else?

2002-11-21 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:18:50PM -0800, Jim Arnold wrote: About three days again Gaim started crashing on me with a vengeance with a signal 6. It appears to be related to Yahoo. As a test I installed ymessanger and it too is crashing just as often. Gaim had a bug that was causing a

Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6

2002-11-21 Thread Visotheary Riviere-Ung
Hi, I have only one hard disk and I want to make a dual-boot Windows 2K and FreeBSD. How can I do it? My first attempt had erased W2K. Is there a fix for this? Thanks for your help -- Visotheary RIVIERE-UNG CNRS UMR 7625 Fonctionnements et

Re: does ucom0 work?

2002-11-21 Thread Dan Pelleg
David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been getting the error; Oct 28 11:51:53 ada /kernel: ucom0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.00/1.00, +addr 2 Oct 28 11:51:53 ada /kernel: ucom0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.00/1.00, +addr 2 Oct 28 11:51:53 ada /kernel: ucom0: init failed,

Ðóñïîñò - áóìàæíîå ïèñüìî ÷åðåç èíòåðíåò

2002-11-21 Thread Ruspost
www.ruspost.ru - îòïðàâü áóìàæíîå ïèñüìî ðîäíûì è äðóçüÿì, íå îòõîäÿ îò êîìïüþòåðà! Êèáåðïèñüìî - äåøåâëå òåëåãðàììû, áûñòðåå îáû÷íîé ïî÷òû! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Performance degration of moving FFS hdd from a slow to a fast pc.

2002-11-21 Thread BigBrother (BigB3)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a question about FFS filesystem. According to a paper about the design of UFS filesystem[1], if you create the FFS filesystem on a slow cpu and then move it to a fast cpu with a fast controller, theh the FFS wont perform efficient. This is

Find abandoned packages

2002-11-21 Thread Pascal Giannakakis
Lo folks, how do you find installed ports / packages on your system, that are not required by others? Thanx. -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Arp and Route Commands

2002-11-21 Thread Andrey Simonenko
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 20:56:55 + (UTC) in lucky.freebsd.questions, Karl Timmermann wrote: Hello, I'm new to the list and was hoping maybe someone could help me. These commands work in Linux (and in this order), but not in FreeBSD/Mac OS X as the arp and route commands are different:

RE: Find abandoned packages

2002-11-21 Thread Liquid
If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not it’s a dependency though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that too come to think of it. -SM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Find abandoned packages

2002-11-21 Thread Pascal Giannakakis
If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not it’s a dependency though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that too come to think of it. pkg_info or pkg_version - would be quite the same in

Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.

2002-11-21 Thread Stephen Hovey
I apologize to the list - I thought I can cleared the cc: - didnt realise it went out on the list. Its what I get for gettin pissed off too late at nite. On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Gary D Kline wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:07:57PM -0500, Stephen Hovey wrote: Oh bite me already man,

Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6

2002-11-21 Thread Martin Moeller
* Visotheary Riviere-Ung [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21.11.02 13:26]: Of course, I have re-partitioned my hard disk. In the handbook, they indicate that you must delete a partition (the second one) to install FreeBSD, so did I but it doesn't work. You don't have to actually delete and reassign it.

Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]

2002-11-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-21 08:44, Stephen Hovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Gary D Kline wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:07:57PM -0500, Stephen Hovey wrote: Oh bite me already man, that was worth a laugh! the endless reams of this spam make me think of pt barnum.

Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]

2002-11-21 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 15:58:03 +0200 This very spammer has hit the lists more than once, and every time I mailed {abuse|postmaster} at a2000.nl. If they receive a few hundred messages for each spam message they let through they will certainly start acting fast :-)

Re: perl version in -STABLE build

2002-11-21 Thread Jonathan Arnold
branch. Note, however, that on 4.x there's no problem with keeping 5.8 installed from ports, and the default system perl in its usual place. There's a nice mechanism installed for choosing between them at will. And that would be ... ? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing

rxvt slow startup after installing xfstt

2002-11-21 Thread Nils Nordén
I need help with a bug that occurs when xfstt (truetype fontserver) is installed. I'm using rxvt 2.6.4_1 and it's working great... until I install xfstt 1.1_1. Then it takes about 1 minute to startup an rxvt window. Is this a known problem and is there a cure? I'm using Freebsd 4.7-release on

Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]

2002-11-21 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (11.21.2002 @ 0600 PST): Yann Golanski said, in 1.3K: Would it be possible for the owners of the lsit to install something like SpamAssassin so that those messages actually don't get to us? end of Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD gateway

2002-11-21 Thread Thomas Heien
I am having almost the same exact problem. I've followed the guides on freebsddiary, in the handbook, and instructions here in the list, but I still can't ping out to the internet from my xp box. I can however ping the external NIC's IP address though. Maybe someone can post a simplified

Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]

2002-11-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-11-21T14:00:56Z, Yann Golanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it be possible for the owners of the lsit to install something like SpamAssassin so that those messages actually don't get to us? Erm, I'm roughly 99.999% against that idea. What if someone's writing to ask how to secure

How do I block spam locally? (WAS: Re: Reacting to spam targettedto freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.])

2002-11-21 Thread Matt Smith
I agree, but how do I run spam filtering locally? As an average desktop user, I simply use a client to POP mail from a server -- are there client plugins that filter for spam? I currently use Evolution, but am willing to change if there a spam filter plugins for other clients. As a

Re: yahoo IM crashing for anyone else?

2002-11-21 Thread Jim Arnold
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:18:50PM -0800, Jim Arnold wrote: About three days again Gaim started crashing on me with a vengeance with a signal 6. It appears to be related to Yahoo. As a test I installed ymessanger and it too is crashing just as often. Gaim had a bug that was causing a

Hard drive woes.. (itronix)

2002-11-21 Thread Paul Halliday
I am trying to install free on this machine, as I have no floppy/cdrom for this box I am restricted to installing via another laptop then swapping the drive back. Boot goes fine until: ata0-master: no status, reselecting device ata0-master: timeout sending command=ec s=ff e=00

Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6

2002-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I have only one hard disk and I want to make a dual-boot Windows 2K and FreeBSD. How can I do it? My first attempt had erased W2K. Is there a fix for this? Thanks for your help Well, if you installed the FreeBSD over the top of the W2K slice, then it is gone. You will have to

dhclient too verbose in /var/log/messages

2002-11-21 Thread David Kelly
For the last year or so something changed in dhclient and/or my ISP resulting in dhclient being way too chatty with syslog and flooding /var/log/messages with this about every 75 minutes, when my DHCP lease is renewed: Nov 21 05:43:00 Frisket dhclient: New Network Number: 24.214.110.0 Nov 21

Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6

2002-11-21 Thread Kenzo
this is what I did. created 2 partitions. install win2k on the first partition install freebsd on second partition use freebsd boot manager works great. This is not the only way of doing it I believe. - Original Message - From: Visotheary Riviere-Ung [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: perl version in -STABLE build

2002-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John Von Essen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What system scripts cant't run under 5.8? I don't know specifically, but *all* perl dependencies have been removed in FreeBSD 5.x. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: perl version in -STABLE build

2002-11-21 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:04:10AM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote: branch. Note, however, that on 4.x there's no problem with keeping 5.8 installed from ports, and the default system perl in its usual place. There's a nice mechanism installed for choosing between them at will. And that

Re: perl version in -STABLE build

2002-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathan Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: branch. Note, however, that on 4.x there's no problem with keeping 5.8 installed from ports, and the default system perl in its usual place. There's a nice mechanism installed for choosing between them at will. And that would be ... ?

FreeBSD ISO Images

2002-11-21 Thread Odhiambo Washington
I must have missed this. Or simply dump. period. It looks like there is no more ISO image to burn to a CD since 4.6.2?? Why are there 2 disk images? I burnt a 4.7-disc1.iso and it fails to boot - no kernel... -r--r--r-- 1 3usit 582746112 Nov 17 00:23 5.0-DP2-disc1.iso

How to monitor user commands

2002-11-21 Thread Olivier
Hello, Here is my problem : I have a FreeBSD box with a couple shell accounts, accessible through ssh. I would like to be able to monitor the commands some users are issuing, and be noticed about when they log, how long and what they do, e.g by mail. I know 'w','last','lastcomm', etc.. but

Adding new disk as the primary.

2002-11-21 Thread Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
Hello all, My disk is getting full and I'm thinking of getting bigger and faster disk to accomodate my installation. I do not want to do reinstallation and prefer to export previous settings in the present disk. There's too many of them that I have to customize and I hate to redo it all. The

Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives

2002-11-21 Thread Andrew Y Ng
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 23:13, Andy Sparrow wrote: yeah, i have BIOS in AUTO, I was able to boot to the harddrive with a cdrom by using 0:da(0,a)/kernel, but the harddrive's boot0 booter couldn't boot it on its own. Since I can boot to it, the BIOS should have correct setting for the

Re: FreeBSD ISO Images

2002-11-21 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:48:28PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I must have missed this. Or simply dump. period. It looks like there is no more ISO image to burn to a CD since 4.6.2?? Sure there is. Which server were you looking at, and which directory? Why are there 2 disk images? I

jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread Dave McCammon
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Re: How do I block spam locally? (WAS: Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.])

2002-11-21 Thread Roman Neuhauser
don't top-post please. # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-21 10:00:43 -0500: I agree, but how do I run spam filtering locally? As an average desktop user, I simply use a client to POP mail from a server -- are there client plugins that filter for spam? I currently use Evolution, but am

Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives

2002-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:23:40AM -0600, Andrew Y Ng wrote: I'm wondering if I can just get rid of the booter, I only have one OS on my FreeBSD drive, so it doesn't really make sense to have a booter with only one option, I don't know, but when I had NetBSD I didn't even have a booter. How

jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread Dave McCammon
Anyone got a fix for a jumpy optic mouse in X It is a PS/2 Labtec Optical Mouse. Works fine in Win2k. Generic PS/2 worked fine before I switched. probed at boot as: psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model 4D+ Mouse, device ID 8 Freebsd 5.0-current Nov 19. Latest Xfree4 from ports (in

Re: jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread Kliment Andreev
Works fine in Win2k. Generic PS/2 worked fine before I switched. Option Protocol Auto Option Device /dev/psm0 There are two XFree86Config files. Maybe you are modifying the wrong one. Just a guess... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in

How to Start the Random Number Generator

2002-11-21 Thread Martin McCormick
I need to run the application dnssec-keygen which uses /dev/random to generate keys for signing domain name server transactions. If I run it on any of the FreeBSD systems I have set up which are all running Version 4.5 or 4.7, this application hangs due to lack of entropy, or at

Re: jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Kliment Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works fine in Win2k. Generic PS/2 worked fine before I switched. Option Protocol Auto Option Device /dev/psm0 There are two XFree86Config files. Maybe you are modifying the wrong one. Just a guess... With one modification to

Re: [OT] Spare mailservers

2002-11-21 Thread Len Conrad
We are now adding a second mailserver (20 MX) to our configuration, which will forward mail to the main mailserver (10 MX) through mailertable. A third one will be added as soon as we grow as we now expect. To avoid having to edit all the DNS zones again then why do that? are you running MS

Re: Adding new disk as the primary.

2002-11-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:59:27PM +0800, Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim typed: Hello all, My disk is getting full and I'm thinking of getting bigger and faster disk to accomodate my installation. I do not want to do reinstallation and prefer to export previous settings in the present disk. There's

Re: [OT] Spare mailservers

2002-11-21 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, at 16:53 [=GMT+0100], Len Conrad wrote: We are now adding a second mailserver (20 MX) to our configuration, which will forward mail to the main mailserver (10 MX) through mailertable. A third one will be added as soon as we grow as we now expect. To avoid having to edit

Re: jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread Kliment Andreev
With one modification to /etc/X11/XF86Config I had created a bigger problem(X died completely) so I presumed that was the place. Where is the other file? /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the

Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives

2002-11-21 Thread Andy Sparrow
I'm wondering if I can just get rid of the booter, I only have one OS on my FreeBSD drive, so it doesn't really make sense to have a booter with only one option, I don't know, but when I had NetBSD I didn't even have a booter. How do I get right of boot0? Well, you could overwrite boot0 with

DHCP Question

2002-11-21 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
I don't know if this is the palce to go for help, but here goes. I have freeb running on a machine with 3 NICS-fxp0, dc0, rl0. I want to run DHCP on fxp0 and dc0-the LAN side of the network. I wrote the conf file, and it works for fxp0, but I get an odd error message when I try to bring up

Pptpd , HDCP and LDAP or SQL authentication

2002-11-21 Thread Marcin M. Jessa
Hi guys. Finally I managed to successfully setup mpd allowing me to access the other side of the VPN link. Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I have three remining questions before I will make a HowTo out of my experience. 1. How can I enable access to the whole LAN on the other side of my VPN

Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]

2002-11-21 Thread Miguel Mendez
On 21 Nov 2002 08:47:40 -0600 Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Erm, I'm roughly 99.999% against that idea. What if someone's writing to What about the other 0.001 percent? :) ask how to secure their FreeBSD box that's currently being used as a spam relay (and is on many

Re: Portsupgrade -uU

2002-11-21 Thread Kent Stewart
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:28:45PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: At 02:04 AM 11/21/02, you wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: When running portsupgrade -uU I get the output below. How can I fix these malformed entries,

passwords in /etc/group

2002-11-21 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
Hello. How can I use password in /etc/group? If I can't, why man groups keep silence about it? Sem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

please help: how do I replace words

2002-11-21 Thread adrian kok
Hi all I have problem to replace words from 192.168.0.1 to 172.16.0.1 in file abc.com file content: abc.com 192.168.0.1 localhost.abc.com 127.0.0.1 I tried: sed -n 's/192.168.0.1/172.16.0.1/w abc.com.tmp' abc.com file abc.com.tmp only shows l line abc.com 172.16.0.1 and

Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives

2002-11-21 Thread Chris Dillon
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Andrew Y Ng wrote: Hi all, I shutdown FreeBSD and changed my harddrive and booted up Win2K this morning (needed Windoze for something real quick). I put the FreeBSD harddrive back and it wouldn't boot, it got stuck at the F1 boot0 prompt. Like it couldn't find the MBR or

Re: jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread Dave McCammon
In the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ directory, I only have example config files. One is XF86Config.98 and the other is XF86Config.eg. --- Kliment Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With one modification to /etc/X11/XF86Config I had created a bigger problem(X died completely) so I presumed that was the

Re: please help: how do I replace words

2002-11-21 Thread Norbert Koch
adrian kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried: sed -n 's/192.168.0.1/172.16.0.1/w abc.com.tmp' abc.com file abc.com.tmp only shows l line abc.com 172.16.0.1 and missing localhost.abc.com 127.0.0.1 sed 's/192.168.0.1/172.16.0.1/' abc.com abc.com.tmp norbert. To Unsubscribe:

Re: Performance degration of moving FFS hdd from a slow to a fast pc.

2002-11-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 21), BigBrother (BigB3) said: I have a question about FFS filesystem. According to a paper about the design of UFS filesystem[1], if you create the FFS filesystem on a slow cpu and then move it to a fast cpu with a fast controller, theh the FFS wont perform

Re: please help: how do I replace words

2002-11-21 Thread John Von Essen
Use the following with the -e option, not the -n option: sed -e 's/192.168.0.1/172.16.0.1/g' in-file out-file With in-file containing: abc.com 192.168.0.1 localhost.abc.com 127.0.0.1 And resulting out-file containing: abc.com 172.16.0.1 localhost.abc.com 127.0.0.1 -John

Re: jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread Kliment Andreev
In the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ directory, I only have example config files. One is XF86Config.98 and the other is XF86Config.eg. So you have one XF86Config file. Check this also, it might help. http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/XF86Config.5.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Kliment Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ directory, I only have example config files. One is XF86Config.98 and the other is XF86Config.eg. So you have one XF86Config file. Check this also, it might help. http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/XF86Config.5.html

artsd ogle

2002-11-21 Thread Peter J. Blok
Hi, I am trying to make ogle work, but it bails out /dev/dsp being busy. Turns out that artsd has it still open. When I kill artsd, ogle works fine. It used to work very well, but (I think) since I did a portupgrade from arts-1.0.3 to arts-1.0.4_1 it stopped working. My question: does artsd

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: even into GENERIC. To do the latter, the module must exist; it will be created if you make the kernel with -DWANT_EXT2FS_MODULE. It is also installed by sysinstall, IIRC. [...] Hmm...I think you're right. I don't see any documentation for the

Re: jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread david
On Thursday 21 November 2002 15:08, Dave McCammon wrote: --- Kliment Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ directory, I only have example config files. One is XF86Config.98 and the other is XF86Config.eg. So you have one XF86Config file. Check this also, it

Re: rxvt slow startup after installing xfstt

2002-11-21 Thread parv
in message 000b01c29160$7c5c8000$[EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Nils Nordén thusly... I'm using rxvt 2.6.4_1 and it's working great... until I install xfstt 1.1_1. ... I'm using Freebsd 4.7-release on XFree86 4.2.1. just curious: isn't xfs support built in XFree86 4.2.1 enough (so that you see the

Re: Find abandoned packages

2002-11-21 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Liquid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not it?s a dependency though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that too come to think of it. Please keep non-ASCII

Re: Portsupgrade -uU

2002-11-21 Thread Kent Stewart
Kent Stewart wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:28:45PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: At 02:04 AM 11/21/02, you wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: When running portsupgrade -uU I get the output below. How can I fix these

Re: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE

2002-11-21 Thread lewiz
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:39AM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: Will the nvidia drivers work with 4.7-RELEASE? 4.7-STABLE won't have ISOs, right? You need 4.7-STABLE to get the NVidia drivers working. I don't know exactly what -RELEASE is missing but I'm quite sure. There are still

Re: Portsupgrade -uU

2002-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:58:44PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: INDEX builds shouldn't have any warnings if you perform them in a clean environment. Either your ports collection is out of date (i.e. in an inconsistent state) or the index build is picking up things from the host environment

Re: Advantages over GNU/Linux?

2002-11-21 Thread lewiz
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:45:21PM -0500, Lee Nelson wrote: P.S. if you need a virus scanner on FreeBSD check out VirusScan from Network Associates. They have a command line scanner that integrates with Amavis and is very simple to install and update. Not affliated, just

Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]

2002-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:00:56PM +, Yann Golanski wrote: Quoth Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 15:58:03 +0200 This very spammer has hit the lists more than once, and every time I mailed {abuse|postmaster} at a2000.nl. If they receive a few hundred messages for each spam

Re: How to Start the Random Number Generator

2002-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:54:33AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: the man page in section 4 for random mentions a seed to get everything started, but I can't seem to find any other information to cause /dev/random to spit out data yet. The dnssec-keygen application still hangs so I am

Re: passwords in /etc/group

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:20:32PM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Hello. How can I use password in /etc/group? If I can't, why man groups keep silence about it? Probably because no-one uses them :) What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups

Re: jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave McCammon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone got a fix for a jumpy optic mouse in X It is a PS/2 Labtec Optical Mouse. How jumpy? Do you just need to play with the mouse settings of xset? Mouse will move normally, then, all of the

Changing to/from user within script

2002-11-21 Thread Jeff Penn
Possibly a trivial question. I want to run a cron job as a user on my system. Once the job has completed I need root privileges to power the system down. I don't mind if the script has to run as a root cron job, but running the processing as a user will prevent against filling a partition.

smc wireless adhoc

2002-11-21 Thread Bognr, Attila
Hello, I have an smc2632w, smc2602w and asus spacelink wl-100 wireless network cards. But I can't manage to get all three of them to work together. The configuration is following: - 1 PC with smc2602w PCI card, freebsd 4.6 (gateway) - 1 notebook with smc2632w PCMCIA card, win98 - 1 notebook with

Re: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE

2002-11-21 Thread Kenneth Culver
I had them working just fine on -RELEASE. Ken On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, lewiz wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:39AM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: Will the nvidia drivers work with 4.7-RELEASE? 4.7-STABLE won't have ISOs, right? You need 4.7-STABLE to get the NVidia drivers working. I

Re: artsd ogle

2002-11-21 Thread Lauri Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 November 2002 21.14, Peter J. Blok wrote: My question: does artsd need to keep /dev/dsp open all the time? Should ogle be able to open /dev/dsp at the same time and not get an error while opening it? No, you can tell it to exit

What minimum version to support broadcom 5703?

2002-11-21 Thread Michael Scheidell
What minimum version of FBSD to I need to support the Broadcom 5703X? gig card? I did notice that 4.5 supports earlier ones, and found a patch to stable for the 5702. I applied that patch to my 4.5 sources, and volia! fbsd boots and sees the devices! (but with a bogus mac addy and it really

disk-to-disk backup of root/bootable filesystem (?)

2002-11-21 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I have an x86 system here that contains an 18GB SCSI drive and also a 20GB IDE drive. The 18GB SCSI drive contains a complete FreeBSD system that has been installed and then tailored to my personal preferences. It also contains a lot of my personal working files. The SCSI drive contains only

Re: Changing to/from user within script

2002-11-21 Thread Paul A. Scott
I want to run a cron job as a user on my system. Once the job has completed I need root privileges to power the system down. I don't mind if the script has to run as a root cron job, but running the processing as a user will prevent against filling a partition. Can this be done without

Disk copying

2002-11-21 Thread ertank
Hello, I want to backup my disk with all of its contents. Exactly, I want to copy it completely to another disk. I have only one freebsd partition and several slices on my disk. I want to copy all the data to another bigger disk preserving my user and group settings. Is it possible to use

Re: Portsupgrade -uU

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:21:30AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:28:45PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: At 02:04 AM 11/21/02, you wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: When running portsupgrade -uU I get the output below. How can I

Re: Disk copying

2002-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, I want to backup my disk with all of its contents. Exactly, I want to copy it completely to another disk. I have only one freebsd partition and several slices on my disk. I want to copy all the data to another bigger disk preserving my user and group settings. Is it

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LINT says: # # Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of Linux fame. Be a bit # careful with this - the ext2fs code has a tendency to lag behind # changes and not be exercised very much, so mounting read/write could # be dangerous (and

Multiple questions...

2002-11-21 Thread Chris P
Hello all, I have a couple of simple questions, and 1 tough one.. First the easy ones.. Whats an easy way to check if people are using my machine in the backround.. IE doing an ftp? Is there something other then checking processes? like maybe a netstat command or something? I'm asking this

Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I shutdown FreeBSD and changed my harddrive and booted up Win2K this morning (needed Windoze for something real quick). I put the FreeBSD harddrive back and it wouldn't boot, it got stuck at the F1 boot0 prompt. Like it couldn't find the MBR

Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Yann Golanski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoth Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 15:58:03 +0200 This very spammer has hit the lists more than once, and every time I mailed {abuse|postmaster} at a2000.nl. If they receive a few hundred messages for each spam message they let

Re: Disk copying

2002-11-21 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:44 AM Subject: Re: Disk copying Are the disks the same size/geometry? If so: dd if=/dev/olddisk of=/dev/newdisk bs=32k Can dd also be used to

Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives

2002-11-21 Thread Andrew Y Ng
I actually only have one partition and a swap partition, here are fdisk and disklabel outputs, and it's an IDE drive. thanks! ayn@aynlaptop:~fdisk -s /dev/ad0: 1836 cyl 255 hd 63 sec PartStartSize Type Flags 1: 6329495277 0xa5 0x80 ayn@aynlaptop:~disklabel

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2002-11-21 Thread Eric Dedrick
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