The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-03-09 - 2003-03-29

2003-03-30 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list

Re: file permission baffle

2003-03-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:11:18AM -0500, David Banning typed: I have these links from my web directory; root# cd /usr/local/www/data/fax/ root# ls -l lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Mar 29 16:37 chantelle - /usr/chantelle/fax lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 14 Mar 10 00:15 david -

Re: file permission baffle

2003-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:11:18AM -0500, David Banning wrote: I have these links from my web directory; root# cd /usr/local/www/data/fax/ root# ls -l lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Mar 29 16:37 chantelle - /usr/chantelle/fax lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 14 Mar 10 00:15 david -

fonts.alias / fonts.scale

2003-03-30 Thread /* jsha */
Hello! I've got a directory filled with Type1 fonts (.afm, .inf, .pfa, .pfb and .pfm accompanying each font release) which I'm trying to install on X11. However, in order to make mkfontdir work I seem to need a fonts.alias and/or fonts.scale in advance. How do I make one? Thanks, ---johann

file permission baffle

2003-03-30 Thread David Banning
I have these links from my web directory; root# cd /usr/local/www/data/fax/ root# ls -l lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Mar 29 16:37 chantelle - /usr/chantelle/fax lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 14 Mar 10 00:15 david - /usr/david/fax I can't change the permissions on them. It's because the

Help!! My CDR!!!

2003-03-30 Thread /* jsha */
Hi. For some reason, my CDR quit working a while ago. I don't know if it's history, or if there's a hope. It's there in dmesg: ahc0: Adaptec 2902/04/10/15/20/30C SCSI adapter port 0xf800-0xf8ff mem 0xfffbf000-0xfffb irq 11 at device 15.0 on pci0 aic7850: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253

diskless root-etc and special-etc struggles

2003-03-30 Thread Hartmann, O.
Hello. Testing new 5.0-Current stuff for diskless booting I ran into struggle with some kind of misleading hierarchy in how /etc and /conf/default/etc ist treated. I use an environment for diskless systems that has well populated specific i(assuming I am chrooted to the diskless root partition):

Re: Spamassassin tools

2003-03-30 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-24 08:37:04 +0100: I installed the spamassassin port, but I believe somewhere there should be a tools directory for various utility programs. I can find no trace of it ? Anyone a clue ? Have you had a look in the ports plist? grep -v ^@

Sendmail not building

2003-03-30 Thread Robert Hulme
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me? I've used cvsup to get the latest ports collection because of the sendmail vulnerability but sendmail fails to build: www# make clean === Cleaning for sendmail-8.12.9 www# make === Extracting for sendmail-8.12.9 Checksum OK for sendmail.8.12.9.tar.gz. ===

write failed, disk is full

2003-03-30 Thread Jason End
Installing 4.7 through ftp, I get a series of errors that say things like: / write failed. disk is full failed to create /usr/src disk is full The disk is new, and certainly isn't full, so I'm thinking it could be a problem of where I've place the partitions on the disk. The disk is a new 120Gb

Re: Laptop with PCcard ethernet: how to set up?

2003-03-30 Thread Dan Pelleg
Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a laptop with an Ethernet PCcard which comes up as ep0. I want to use DHCP on it. My rc.conf has: pccard_enable=YES pccard_ifconfig=YES ifconfig_ep0=DHCP The card comes up fine, but it doesn't get ifconfig'd. Do I need to add something

RE: Misplaced audio CD question

2003-03-30 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now I'm want to make an audio CD with burncd. I understand the burncd part but the mp3 to audio CD format I dont understand. How do I You need mkisofs (from ports or package) to generate an image wich burcd writes onto CD. If you want a real CD-DA (audio) you

Re: write failed, disk is full

2003-03-30 Thread W. Sierke
From: Jason End [EMAIL PROTECTED] Installing 4.7 through ftp, I get a series of errors that say things like: / write failed. disk is full failed to create /usr/src disk is full The disk is new, and certainly isn't full, so I'm thinking it could be a problem of where I've place the

Bind 9

2003-03-30 Thread dusk
This may be a silly question but I need some help so here it is. I installed bind 9 and I am unable to find it. I installed FreeBSD 4.4 upgraded to 4.7 stable. I have bind 8 installed. I want to run bind 9 for security reasons. I installed in from ports. I can't find it. I thought that

Re: My computer asks me to run a Manual FSCK

2003-03-30 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:59:56 +, Lee Harr wrote: /dev/ad4s1a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. /dev/ad4s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Automatic file system check failed... help! I find this tends to happen when the disk is on its way out. I recommend that you back up any important

Re: Bind 9

2003-03-30 Thread Tim van den Elsen
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 09:55:15 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be a silly question but I need some help so here it is. I installed bind 9 and I am unable to find it. I installed FreeBSD 4.4 upgraded to 4.7 stable. I have bind 8 installed. I want to run bind 9 for

Re: Laptop with PCcard ethernet: how to set up?

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 8:14 AM -0500 3/30/03, Dan Pelleg wrote: I have a laptop with an Ethernet PCcard which comes up as ep0. I want to use DHCP on it. My rc.conf has: pccard_enable=YES pccard_ifconfig=YES ifconfig_ep0=DHCP The card comes up fine, but it doesn't get ifconfig'd. Do I need to add something

How can I rescan the scsi-bus in freebsd?

2003-03-30 Thread Eveline
Hi there, I'd like to know how to rescan the scsi bus in FreeBSD 4.7. I have an external scsi harddisk that I only switch on when needed. I would like to be able to mount the hd as soon as I've switched it on, without having to reboot my FreeBSD machine. Thanx in advance. Greetings,

Problem with Swedish Keyboard after XFree86 and Gnome upgrade

2003-03-30 Thread Magnus J
Hello everyone I just upgraded my FreeBSD 4.7 box from XFree86 4.2.1, Gnome 1.4 to XFree86 4.3 and Gnome 2.2. After that, my Swedish keyboard no longer works as it used to do, e.g. the characters åäö doesn't work anymore. When I press those keys nothing happens. Anyone seen this problem? This

Best X configurator for laptops?

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
Hi again. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, now running 4.7. xf86cfg and xf86config both give (different) unusable results for my system. Which of the other X configurators in the ports collection seem to do a good job on laptops, if any? --Paul Hoffman

Cant fork for getty! FBSD 5.0

2003-03-30 Thread Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM
Howdy all. Got that pesky domain name problem worked out. First entry in my resolv.conf file was no longer vaild for my ISP. Doe! Anyway, I've enabled options IPFIREWALL and IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT. When I reboot I get: init: can't for for getty on port /dev/ttyv4: Resource temporarily

Re: how to aggregate rules using ipfw2 ?

2003-03-30 Thread Markie
Hi! I remember having difficulty getting this to work when I first got IPFW2, turns out it wouldn't accept it because there _has_ to be a space between the { and }. For example... ipfw add allow ip from any to { 192.168.0.0/16 or 10.0.0.0/8 } not ipfw add allow ip from any to {192.168.0.0/16

Re: Bind 9

2003-03-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-30T15:20:17Z, Tim van den Elsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Programs installed via ports are always placed in /usr/local/ and configs to /usr/local/etc/ The same for binaries :) /usr/local/sbin/named That's not true. From /usr/ports/net/bind9/Makefile: .if

Re: Bind 9

2003-03-30 Thread Markie
You can also overwrite the base bind by defining PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9 like so... cd /usr/ports/net/bind9 make -DPORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9 make install make clean or using portinstall or portupgrade portinstall -m '-DPORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9' bind9 portupgrade -m '-DPORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9'

Re: Best X configurator for laptops?

2003-03-30 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:59:59AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: Hi again. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, now running 4.7. xf86cfg and xf86config both give (different) unusable results for my system. Which of the other X configurators in the ports collection seem to do a good job on

Re: Spamassassin tools

2003-03-30 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-24 08:37:04 +0100: I installed the spamassassin port, but I believe somewhere there should be a tools directory for various utility programs. I can find no trace of it ? Anyone a clue ? Have

Re: Bind 9

2003-03-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This may be a silly question but I need some help so here it is. I installed bind 9 and I am unable to find it. I installed FreeBSD 4.4 upgraded to 4.7 stable. I have bind 8 installed. I want to run bind 9 for security reasons. I installed in from ports. I

RE: Sendmail not building

2003-03-30 Thread Robert Hulme
Has anyone got any ideas why it isnt building? something is wrong with your libbind.so please update or deinstall bind8 or bind9 sendmail-8.12.9 builds fine here FreeBSD.4.5-RELEASE. I've tried deinstall and installing bind8 from ports... It installs fine (and now runs the latest version)

Re: how to aggregate rules using ipfw2 ? Follow-up, Why Aggregate?

2003-03-30 Thread Joe Sotham
Markie said: snip ipfw add allow ip from any to { 192.168.0.0/16 or 10.0.0.0/8 } Why aggregate? Is it more efficient? -- Joe Sotham If the only prayer you say in your entire life is Thank You, that will suffice. - Meister Eckhart

Re: audio question

2003-03-30 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I am looking to capture audio input into a file (from a microphone). I looked through the ports but did see anything applicable. Is there a package available that I can use to capture audio input to a file that I can later output it? There are

Re: How can I rescan the scsi-bus in freebsd?

2003-03-30 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eveline [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I'd like to know how to rescan the scsi bus in FreeBSD 4.7. I have an external scsi harddisk that I only switch on when needed. I would like to be able to mount the hd as soon as I've switched it on, without having to reboot my FreeBSD

Re: how to aggregate rules using ipfw2 ? Follow-up, Why Aggregate?

2003-03-30 Thread Markie
More efficient in the way of typing (less of it) :) and I find it easier to read. That's just my personal opinion though. Can't say whether there's any speed improvement though, because I just don't know. Markie - Original Message - From: Joe Sotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Markie [EMAIL

general email question

2003-03-30 Thread DJ Boris
hi there, I need help. I have done quite a bit of reading but it is all just beating around the bush.. or maybe I am missing something. I have one ISP POP3 account (maildrop) with 5 aliases. I need to collect all mail onto the local fbsd server mail server and sort it according to the To: field

RE: Sendmail not building

2003-03-30 Thread Robert Hulme
Is it safe for me to do a buildworld, but just copy the libbind.so in /usr/src/ over the one in /usr/lib ? Or can I make sendmail link against a different libbind.so ? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Problem with Swedish Keyboard after XFree86 and Gnome upgrade

2003-03-30 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 12:02, Juli Mallett wrote: * De: Magnus J [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2003-03-30 ] [ Subjecte: Problem with Swedish Keyboard after XFree86 and Gnome upgrade ] I just upgraded my FreeBSD 4.7 box from XFree86 4.2.1, Gnome 1.4 to XFree86 4.3 and Gnome 2.2. After that,

Re: How can I rescan the scsi-bus in freebsd?

2003-03-30 Thread taxman
On Sunday 30 March 2003 10:52 am, Eveline wrote: Hi there, I'd like to know how to rescan the scsi bus in FreeBSD 4.7. I have an external scsi harddisk that I only switch on when needed. I would like to be able to mount the hd as soon as I've switched it on, without having to reboot my

Re: FreeBSD and Oracle

2003-03-30 Thread Matthew Emmerton
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Adam wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 04:25, Michael Hostbaek wrote: I have a linux box runnning Oracle, I'd like to switch it to FreeBSD. Has anyone successfully run oracle on FreeBSD in a prodution environment? I am using Oracle 8i - it should be possible to run it

Re: db2

2003-03-30 Thread Matthew Emmerton
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: is there a port for db2 for freebsd? make search key=db2 in /usr/ports turns up: Port: db-2.7.7_1 Path: /usr/ports/databases/db2 Info: The Berkeley DB package, revision 2 I think

Re: general email question

2003-03-30 Thread Matthias Teege
DJ Boris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi there, Moin, as far as I understand I need fetchmail, sendmail, procmail, and some mail server. am I right? could someone point me to the right documentation or Yes, that is corrent. examples on the internet OR if possible to explain to me what comes

question

2003-03-30 Thread Qpoilkj
Dear sir, I am interested to host my personal web site on BSD server. Can you please inform if there is any free bsd server hosting please Thanks Asif Qureshi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: general email question

2003-03-30 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], DJ Boris [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I need help. I have done quite a bit of reading but it is all just beating around the bush.. or maybe I am missing something. I have one ISP POP3 account (maildrop) with 5 aliases. I need to collect all mail onto the local fbsd server

Network programming

2003-03-30 Thread Socketd
Hi all I'm programming in C++ and want to play with ACE, but I can't find it in the ports. Am I wrong? if no is someone porting it to FreeBSD? Is libpcap and libnet is the base system? I found libnet is the ports, but not libpcap. (Some people tend to only reply to the group, but as I am not

racoon problems with -STABLE

2003-03-30 Thread chris scott
Hi, I have just cvsuped to RELENG-4 yesterday and made world and installed the new kernel. I also rebuild racoon as it ofen breaks after an upgrade of openssl. Howver racoon still keeps dying. Has anything changed in the build of openssl between 4.7 and 4.8? These are the error messages I am

racoon problems with -STABLE

2003-03-30 Thread chris scott
Hi, I have just cvsuped to RELENG-4 yesterday and made world and installed the new kernel. I also rebuild racoon as it ofen breaks after an upgrade of openssl. Howver racoon still keeps dying. Has anything changed in the build of openssl between 4.7 and 4.8? These are the error messages I am

Accessing network shares without SMB

2003-03-30 Thread Daniela
Is it possible to access a remote Windoze drive by simply mounting it, as if it was a local one? If yes, how? Can I enter a device name in the host:path notation? Could the path be, for example, /dev/ad0s1 to access the first slice (I know almost nothing about that Micro$oft stuff)? At least, I

Backport of ServerWorks ATA to 4-Stable?

2003-03-30 Thread John Wilson
Hello all. I was wondering if there would be a backport of the ServerWorks GC chipset (CSB6 South bridge) to 4-Stable. I am only able to obtain BIOSDMA support on my HD's and basic PIO support of my CD-RW. I played around with 5.0-Current on this machine and by utilizing 'atacontrol', I was

test

2003-03-30 Thread kirt
having trouble posting to the list, please ignore -- -- kirt -- www.pwnd.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backport of ServerWorks ATA to 4-Stable?

2003-03-30 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sunday, Mar 30, 2003, at 11:17 US/Pacific, John Wilson wrote: Hello all. I was wondering if there would be a backport of the ServerWorks GC chipset (CSB6 South bridge) to 4-Stable. I am only able to obtain BIOSDMA support on my HD's and basic PIO support of my CD-RW. I thought that was the

USB Printer

2003-03-30 Thread Konrad Scorciapino
Hello, How can I configure a USB Printer on FreeBSD? Actually I have a Deskjet 656c from HP and I've tried to send something to /dev/ulpt0, but the system simply locked up. Thank you! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

switching IDE controllers

2003-03-30 Thread kirt
i've checked the handbook, man pages, web, etc. for info regarding this and i'm still not entirely sure as to how i should go about it. FreeBSD daemon.pwnd.local 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #6: Sun Mar 30 08:50:48 EST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DAEMONSMP i386 dual AMD 1200

Re: Problem with Swedish Keyboard after XFree86 and Gnome upgrade

2003-03-30 Thread Magnus J
Hello Tried adding the XkbVariant without any success. No xterm don't work either. Just found out that angle brackets are dead too. Which one of the GNOME keyboard utilities? Not very familiar with GNOME, because I haven't really had any problem with it before. Thanks Magnus --- Juli Mallett

Re: Accessing network shares without SMB

2003-03-30 Thread Tim Kellers
On Sunday 30 March 2003 02:15 pm, Daniela wrote: Is it possible to access a remote Windoze drive by simply mounting it, as if it was a local one? If yes, how? Can I enter a device name in the host:path notation? Could the path be, for example, /dev/ad0s1 to access the first slice (I know

Re: Problem with Swedish Keyboard after XFree86 and Gnome upgrade

2003-03-30 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 14:54, Magnus J wrote: Hello Tried adding the XkbVariant without any success. No xterm don't work either. Just found out that angle brackets are dead too. Perhaps this is not the right list for you to be using. Have you tried posting on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which

Re: Backport of ServerWorks ATA to 4-Stable?

2003-03-30 Thread John Wilson
Hi, Kevin. I, too, have the Dell PowerEdge 600SC. Here is my IDE configuration: - 120GB Western Digital on primary master. - Plextor CD-RW on secondary master. - Lite-On DVD-Rom on secondary slave. I've been running the 4-Stable series of FBSD for quite some time now and just relegated the

Re: USB Printer

2003-03-30 Thread Mike Meyer
In 200303301644.13393.Konrad Scorciapino , Konrad Scorciapino typed: How can I configure a USB Printer on FreeBSD? Actually I have a Deskjet 656c from HP and I've tried to send something to /dev/ulpt0, but the system simply locked up. if ulpt0 is showing up in dmesg, then you have the

Re: switching IDE controllers

2003-03-30 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], kirt [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: i've checked the handbook, man pages, web, etc. for info regarding this and i'm still not entirely sure as to how i should go about it. Yes you are. i want to take ad4, which is where FreeBSD is installed and all of my main partitions are

Acroread port errors

2003-03-30 Thread taxman
Hi, I installed acroread-3.02 from ports but I get errors when trying to run it. First I got 3-4 errors about different lib versions needed, eg: libc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Thats true because I had libc.so.6 - libc-2.2.4.so in /usr/compat/linux/lib

FB 5.0 Release - sound card problem - VIA VT82C686A

2003-03-30 Thread Stacy Trippe
Sound card makes no sound. Verified that sound device enabled on boot, and installed mpg123, to test. Verified Mixer is set to 75-100 level on all channels. Everything appears to work, no error, however, no sound. beowulf# uname -a FreeBSD beowulf 5.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p6 #5:

Create a hot backup server machine?

2003-03-30 Thread Ralph Dratman
I'm trying to create an offsite hot backup of a FreeBSD server. If the primary server fails, I want to transport the spare machine to the existing site and bring it up as a replacement, with little or no reconfiguration necessary. Nightly mirroring would be adequate in this situation. The

Re: Create a hot backup server machine?

2003-03-30 Thread Anti
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 17:18:54 -0500 Ralph Dratman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to create an offsite hot backup of a FreeBSD server. If the primary server fails, I want to transport the spare machine to the existing site and bring it up as a replacement, with little or no

Wine

2003-03-30 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 and installed the latest version of wine. I installed two windows applications using wine and they installed just fine, mIRC and WinMX, they run pretty well but I can't connect to any servers and I get the same error: fixme:winsock:WS_bind Setting WS_SO_REUSEADDR on

Re: Create a hot backup server machine?

2003-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:18:54PM -0500, Ralph Dratman wrote: I'm trying to create an offsite hot backup of a FreeBSD server. If the primary server fails, I want to transport the spare machine to the existing site and bring it up as a replacement, with little or no reconfiguration

Re: Create a hot backup server machine?

2003-03-30 Thread Doug Hardie
On Sunday, Mar 30, 2003, at 14:18 US/Pacific, Ralph Dratman wrote: I'm trying to create an offsite hot backup of a FreeBSD server. If the primary server fails, I want to transport the spare machine to the existing site and bring it up as a replacement, with little or no reconfiguration

Re: Mitsubishi Diamond Touch keyboard problem

2003-03-30 Thread Murray Taylor
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:16, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 28 March 2003 at 14:13:45 +1030, W. Sierke wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehy wrote: This is probably a timing problem with the keyboard. I had a couple snip I'd suggest you try 4.8 or 5.0 and see if the problem persists. You

Only one of two builtin USB hubs working with 4.x, both work with5.x

2003-03-30 Thread Jody Franklin
I have an IBM NetVista A40i, and with both FreeBSD 4.7, and 4.8 RC I can only use the first of the two builtin USB hubs. While with 5.0 they both work. I went back from 5.0 to 4.x because of the changes in the device driver handling (I use the 4Front sound drivers), and found that the USB

Re: Best X configurator for laptops?

2003-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 8:44:34 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 8:29 AM -0800 3/30/03, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:59:59AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: Hi again. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, now running 4.7. xf86cfg and xf86config both give (different) unusable

Smarter 'make buildkernel'?

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
Hi again. Is there a way to get 'make buildkernel' in /usr/src to not rebuild things that it already compiled? I'm playing around on a not-very-fast laptop, and the rebuilds take forever. --Paul Hoffman ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Only one of two builtin USB hubs working with 4.x, both work with5.x

2003-03-30 Thread Jody Franklin
I have an IBM NetVista A40i, and with both FreeBSD 4.7, and 4.8 RC I can only use the first of the two builtin USB hubs. While with 5.0 they both work. I went back from 5.0 to 4.x because of the changes in the device driver handling (I use the 4Front sound drivers), and found that the USB ports on

Re: Best X configurator for laptops?

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 9:43 AM +0930 3/31/03, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Thus, my quest for a better configuration... You're jumping to conclusions that it's the configurator. Turns out I wasn't. None of the configuration programs got me anywhere close. They either got the monitor wrong, the card wrong, the

dd

2003-03-30 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am about to make the trip to shutdown one of our servers and 'dd' the first SCSI drive to the second. from what I have read, and what some of you have kindly offered, I just kick into single user mode, with only root mounted on the primary drive, and away we go... dd if=/dev/da0

Re: UDMA

2003-03-30 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
I have seen these errors before. It has to do with Electro Magnetic Interference (noise). Try using different ribbons (ATA33) and see if the errors disappear. - aW ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938

Re: UDMA

2003-03-30 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:39:40AM +0930, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: I have seen these errors before. It has to do with Electro Magnetic Interference (noise). Try using different ribbons (ATA33) and see if the errors disappear. - aW It can also have to do with dying drives and/or controllers,

[no subject]

2003-03-30 Thread skylex
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Possible to use multiple keyboards simultaneously?

2003-03-30 Thread Bob Thompson
Greetings. I'd *really* like to use multiple keyboards simultaneously on the same FreeBSD 4.x box(*). Console mode would be great, but I'd settle for an X11-only solution. A 5.x solution would be fine, too. The best I can find is using kbdcontrol(1) to choose which keyboard is the active one:

Re: Mailing list was: no subject

2003-03-30 Thread taxman
On Sunday 30 March 2003 09:42 pm, skylex wrote: %list The freebsd lists aren't administrated with majordomo anymore, checkout this link: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: dd

2003-03-30 Thread taxman
On Sunday 30 March 2003 07:57 pm, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I am about to make the trip to shutdown one of our servers and 'dd' the first SCSI drive to the second. from what I have read, and what some of you have kindly offered, I just kick into single user mode, with only root mounted on

Re: Bind 9

2003-03-30 Thread dusk
Thank you very much! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And so, it begins - Kosh On 30 Mar 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This may be a silly question but I need some help so here it is. I installed bind 9 and I am unable

Can FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail be fixed with cvsup and portupgrade?

2003-03-30 Thread Gary Dunn
With regards to the sendmail advisory just published (FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail), will upgrading from the ports CVSup fix the problem, or do I have to perform one of the procedures described in the bulletin? I am working towards tracking the 4.6-STABLE tree, but for now I am at 4.6.2-RELEASE. I do

intel desktop board and floppy drive

2003-03-30 Thread Andrew Thomson
anyone experience problems mounting floppies using an intel desktop board?? I've been able to replicate the problem under 4.4 and 5.0 mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/ msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Input/output error fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone) port

evolution...

2003-03-30 Thread Gary D Kline
Folks, I find that the reason my newly build evolution just-hangs is that it is looking for at least one library. After much hassling with the config windows I have evolution working in my daughter's account on my RH platform. (mutt has been

microuptime problem!

2003-03-30 Thread Robert
Dear Sir, Sorry to disturb you, We are motherboard manufacturer on IPC and POS area. Our company is: UNICORN COMPUTER corp., and my name is: Robert Liou We got a problem on FreeBSD! One of customer setup system on our motherboard with FreeBSD4.7(release) and encounter some error message: /kernel:

Re: Smarter 'make buildkernel'?

2003-03-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 04:21:57PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: Hi again. Is there a way to get 'make buildkernel' in /usr/src to not rebuild things that it already compiled? I'm playing around on a not-very-fast laptop, and the rebuilds take forever. 'make -DNOCLEAN buildkernel' should do the

Software Watchdog?

2003-03-30 Thread Lasse Laursen
Hi, Are there any apps. like 'watchdog' - http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/watchdog.html - for FreeBSD? I have been searching the ports tree and freshmeat but was unable to locate anything usefull. Regards -- Lasse Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Systems Developer NetGroup A/S, St.

Re: Network programming

2003-03-30 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 08:48:38PM +0200, Socketd wrote: Hi all I'm programming in C++ and want to play with ACE, but I can't find it in the ports. Am I wrong? if no is someone porting it to FreeBSD? I don't know, sorry. Is libpcap and libnet is the base system? I found libnet is the

Re: Best X configurator for laptops?

2003-03-30 Thread Pierrick Brossin
Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There were some problems with certain chip sets a while back. When I got my Inspiron 7500, I had the same problem (well, as far as you describe it). They needed to update XFree86 to fix it. You might find it a good idea to install the latest

Lyx 1.3.0

2003-03-30 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
I have successfully compiled Lyx 1.3.0 from the ports. It was not simple, I had to cvs-update my ports, and I had to compile qt-3.1.1_4 and kde 3.1. Now, the problem is: I cannot see formulae in the editor. Nevertheless, they are correctly processed by LaTeX and displayed with View/DVI in the

isnan() with gcc 3.2.2 on FreeBSD 5.0-C

2003-03-30 Thread Ying-Chieh Liao
the following code snippet works fine with gcc 2.95.4 on RELENG_4 but failed on my -current code #include iostream #include cmath using namespace std; int main(void) { cout isnan(1.0) endl; return 0; } /code err test.cpp: In function `int main()': test.cpp:8: `isnan' undeclared

Re: Can FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail be fixed with cvsup and portup

2003-03-30 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! With regards to the sendmail advisory just published (FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail), will upgrading from the ports CVSup fix the problem, or do I have to perform one of the procedures described in the bulletin? The advisory is about Sendmail in the base system, so anything you do with

making expect without X11

2003-03-30 Thread Jim Arnold
How do I compile expect without having X windows installed? If I use: make WITHOUT_X11=yes if bombs out with the message below: ct.o shared/exp_event.o shared/exp_chan.o shared/Dbg.o -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -ltcl83 -lm -lc /usr/libexec/elf/ld: unrecognized option

Re: How can I rescan the scsi-bus in freebsd?

2003-03-30 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:52:18PM +0200, Eveline wrote: Hi there, I'd like to know how to rescan the scsi bus in FreeBSD 4.7. I have an external scsi harddisk that I only switch on when needed. I would like to be able to mount the hd as soon as I've switched it on, without having to reboot

/dev on a read-only filesystem?

2003-03-30 Thread J. Seth Henry
I have managed, through hook and crook, to get a full 4.7-REL install on a Compaq IA-1 internet appliance. I put a kernel, /bin, /etc, /boot, /dev, /proc, and a partial /sbin on the internal flash memory. During boot, I mount a complete /sbin, /usr and swap on a microdrive. Since I want to reduce

4.7-REL and the AM79C978C PCNet-Home HNPA/10Base-T adapter

2003-03-30 Thread J. Seth Henry
I think this came up a while back, and no one had any clues, but this device doesn't seem to be fully supported in 4.7-REL. The adapter itself is, but I always get an error message about there being no supported PHY's - which is interesting, because there are actually two MII phy's in the ASIC.

how to aggregate rules using ipfw2 ?

2003-03-30 Thread Ilia E. Chipitsine
Dear Sirs, how can I aggregate rules ... ipfw add allow ip from any to 192.168.0.0/16 ipfw add allow ip from any to 10.0.0.0/8 ... into the single rule, probably using { .. or .. } syntax? I read man page, tried few combination, but them don't work for me. Cheers, Ilia Chipitsine

Re: Sendmail not building

2003-03-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 30), Robert Hulme said: Has anyone got any ideas why it isnt building? something is wrong with your libbind.so please update or deinstall bind8 or bind9 sendmail-8.12.9 builds fine here FreeBSD.4.5-RELEASE. I've tried deinstall and installing bind8 from

Re: fonts.alias / fonts.scale

2003-03-30 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], /* jsha */ [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I've got a directory filled with Type1 fonts (.afm, .inf, .pfa, .pfb and .pfm accompanying each font release) which I'm trying to install on X11. However, in order to make mkfontdir work I seem to need a fonts.alias and/or fonts.scale

Re: fonts.alias / fonts.scale

2003-03-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 30), /* jsha */ said: I've got a directory filled with Type1 fonts (.afm, .inf, .pfa, .pfb and .pfm accompanying each font release) which I'm trying to install on X11. However, in order to make mkfontdir work I seem to need a fonts.alias and/or fonts.scale in advance.