trouble installing FreeBSD 5.1 on Vaio PCG-Z505VR/K and PCG N505

2003-08-21 Thread Till Plewe
I run into the following problems trying to get FreeBSD5.1 onto the above two laptops (neither of which has a built in floppy/cd) Basic I use a USB floppy drive. (I only have a Panasonic KXL-808AN CDROM which is not recognized) I used 4 sets of boot floppies ( so floppies should not be the

Re: Intermittent failures with mpd VPN

2003-08-21 Thread Jeff Leary
Hm well answering my own question, I have discovered the problem lies in my linksys router off my cable modem at home. Suddenly the pptp pass-through feature has become pptp pass-through every so often. Upgrading the firmware didn't help. The funny thing is, a co-worker of mine started to have

console bell visible

2003-08-21 Thread Armand Passelac
Hi, I'm on FreeBSD 5.1 with shell bash. As on my linux system, I try to avoid the bell in console mode (not X mode). I realized the following stages : ~/.inputrc : set bell-style visible ~/.bashrc (which is linked with a ~/.bash_profile): set

Re: About SCSI Tape

2003-08-21 Thread Mike Maltese
===Cut=== # mt -f /dev/sa0 status mt: /dev/sa0: Device not configured ===Cut=== when there is no tape in it ? In Solaris there is more appropriate message - Tape not loaded or drive offline. Is it normal in FreeBSD ? Yes. ___ [EMAIL

Re: freebsd 5.1 RAM to 64G ram max

2003-08-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:16:03PM -0700, Kevin Marcus wrote: I see the PFE support claims you need to disable a variety of drivers for PAE it to work, but i am curious if there is another out there with, say, a supermicro board, and 8G ram on it who can verify that indeed it does work? It

Re: gnuplot, libtool, pdflib install hassles under FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 03:09:33PM +1000, paul van den bergen wrote: OK, finally locate the right file, get it all in place, run it compiles the pdf library... sort of, then I get libtool version clash... libtool: ltconfig version `1.3.4-freebsd-ports' does not match ltmain.sh version

Re: SMTP attempt?

2003-08-21 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:46:23AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: I've been noticing a lot of the following the last week: Aug 21 01:00:01 kongemord /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:25 from 1 27.0.0.1:1074 I can't figure out what's trying to connect to the SMTP port. I've got sendmail

Re: SMTP attempt?

2003-08-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:46:50AM +0200, Nils Schmidt wrote: Hi I'm a newbie, but if it helps you port 25 is the standart ftp port,. Nope 25/tcp is SMTP. FTP is 21/tcp. Check out /etc/services for more mappings. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD support for new motherboards

2003-08-21 Thread Dan Strick
During the last two weeks there has been some discussion in freebsd-questions and freebsd-stable about the prospects of FreeBSD support for some motherboard devices associated with the Intel 865PE/875P and ICH5/ICH5R support chips now showing up in recent motherboard designs. I just dropped

Re: Installation

2003-08-21 Thread Jud
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:05:19 -0700, Harry Veltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing FreeBSD 4.8 into an unpartitioned free-space, it states that the installation was successful, but when I start the computer and press F3 to load FreeBSD instead of NT 4, it finally wants me to enter my

Re: Kuser/root account problem

2003-08-21 Thread Jimmy Kimanzi
Hi It worked !! Thanks alot . Jimmy. - Original Message - From: Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jimmy Kimanzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:17 PM Subject: Re: Kuser/root account problem On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:26:24PM +0300 or

Samba Iconv

2003-08-21 Thread Jan Karabas
Hi, I have one small problem with mounting drives of computers with Winxxx. If I want to mount some shared drive, mount_smbfs fails with this message: bash-2.05b$ mount_smbfs //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/TEMP ~/mnt/NEDELA/D mount_smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (default:tolower): syserr =

RE: Samba Iconv

2003-08-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
which options did you include ? I think you need options LIBMCHAIN options LIBICONV as well as options NETSMB #SMB/CIFS requester and possibly options NETSMBCRYPTO#encrypted password support for SMB Someone please correct me if i'm wrong

Need a sendmail guru

2003-08-21 Thread Steve Hovey
I need the cf lines (not mc stuff) to scan for and reject any email with --0700 in the date line - its what that new sobig has stuck on every single copy to enter my system. Anyone know how to do this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

4.8-STABLE compilation error

2003-08-21 Thread marlon corleone
%uname -a FreeBSD mmp.ccp.ph 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #1: Fri Aug 15 10:03:57 PHT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/MMP i386 this is my second time compiling 4.8-STABLE i hope anyone have an idea regarding this errors, === lib/libsmb === lib/libsmdb === lib/libsmutil ===

Re: 4.8-STABLE compilation error

2003-08-21 Thread Simon Barner
/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/lib/libm.a: could not read symbols: Malformed archive Seems, that this library is broken. Does it work, if you erase /usr/obj and re-CVSup? Simon signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Calendar program dates

2003-08-21 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I've got the calendar program emailing me events that occurred (supposedly) today in history. However, it's listing events that occurred tomorrow. Is that normal? The date is correct on my system and the email date is correct. Thanks, Charles

atacontrol raid0 interleave?

2003-08-21 Thread Evren Yurtesen
What is the suggested interleave numbers? how to calculate the best value? Evren ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MySQL from ports on FreeBSD 5.1

2003-08-21 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Hi all, I'm having problems building MySQL from ports on FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2. In /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server I'm doing make install. After quite a while, I get the following error: checking if conversion of longlong to float works... Segmentation fault (core dumped) no configure:

Cvsup script question

2003-08-21 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I'm cvsup'ing from a script in /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily. Here 'tis: #!/usr/local/bin/bash Echo Echo Output of cvsup: /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile Echo Echo Output of portsdb: /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu Echo Echo Output of portversion: /usr/local/sbin/portversion It

Re: MySQL from ports on FreeBSD 5.1

2003-08-21 Thread support
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:49:49PM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Hi all, I'm having problems building MySQL from ports on FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2. In /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server I'm doing make install. After quite a while, I get the following error: checking if conversion of longlong

Re: trouble installing FreeBSD 5.1 on Vaio PCG-Z505VR/K and PCG N505

2003-08-21 Thread Till Plewe
It seems that the Reply-To field of my message was cut off. If you have any suggestion please send them to the list (I subscribed) or to till at score.is.tsukuba.ac.jp. Till ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

dvd+rw-tools

2003-08-21 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Hi all, Sorry for the load of posts this week, but I've got a new toybox and they aren't working well... I'm trying to use dvd+rw-tools port to burn DVD's. My first problem was that after burning a DVD, I was unable to eject it. I had to reboot the machine and only then could I get the disc out.

PPPoE clent trouble under 5.1

2003-08-21 Thread Andrew A. Khlebutin
Hello, I try to establish connection through PPPoE from my home PC but do not succeed ;-(. I read related section of handbook - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html and http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/pppoe/. Any ideas? ppp logs here -

Email clients

2003-08-21 Thread Chris
Hiya folks, As I use my FBSD box at home more and more each day, my Windows box is used less and less. That is a good thing. I would like some recomended mail clients that run on both my FBSD box and to run on my Window box. Idealy, they ought to be able to import/export mail

RE: Calendar program dates

2003-08-21 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I've got the calendar program emailing me events that occurred (supposedly) today in history. However, it's listing events that occurred tomorrow. Is that normal? The date is correct on my system and the email date is correct. OK, I jumped the gun here. After browsing through some of

Re: MySQL from ports on FreeBSD 5.1

2003-08-21 Thread Jez Hancock
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:45:30PM +0100, support wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:49:49PM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Hi all, I'm having problems building MySQL from ports on FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2. In /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server I'm doing make install. After quite a while, I

Re: Email clients

2003-08-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-21T13:18:03Z, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I use my FBSD box at home more and more each day, my Windows box is used less and less. That is a good thing. I would like some recomended mail clients that run on both my FBSD box and to run on my Window box. One obvious choice may

Re: MySQL from ports on FreeBSD 5.1

2003-08-21 Thread Wayne Pascoe
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:44:07PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: This is the PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/53252 The actual patch is in PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/53561 You should be able to fix this by running: cd /usr/ports fetch -o

Problems with PCI RAID installation on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-21 Thread Christopher Raven
Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.8 onto an Intel ISP2150 that I have ripped the SCSI cabling and boards from in place of a PCI RAID system. All seems to have gone well and I can boot and configure the RAID card locally (4x80GB). However, FreeBSD insists in seeing the RAID (supposedly

Re: Email clients

2003-08-21 Thread Chris
On Thursday 21 August 2003 08:53 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: I still need my Windows box to access work via a PIX... Have you experimented with Wine to see if your software will run under FreeBSD? Is there a Linux version that might run? Indeed, there is a Linux VPN client from Cisco however,

Re: Samba Iconv

2003-08-21 Thread Jan Karabas
Fortunately, I solved it. You must be root to do mount_smbfs. So that, I set SET_UID and SET_GID bits at mount_smbfs. It is not secure, but it works. Thanks for interest ** Jan Karabas (J\'an Karab\'a\v s) Institute of Math. and Computer Science

Re: Email clients

2003-08-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-21T14:17:53Z, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, there is a Linux VPN client from Cisco however, it demands a certain version of the Linux kernel. I don't know if there is a way around that. Can you download it for free? As to Wine - I have thought of that, but tried to

Re: Email clients

2003-08-21 Thread Chris
On Thursday 21 August 2003 09:27 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-08-21T14:17:53Z, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, there is a Linux VPN client from Cisco however, it demands a certain version of the Linux kernel. I don't know if there is a way around that. Can you download it for

Re: Email clients

2003-08-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-21T14:30:43Z, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes - it is on the Cisco site. Do you have ideas? Well, I was going to recommend simply downloading it to see what happens. Can anyone download it, or do you have to have an account? If it's open, if you point me toward the URL I'll take

Re: CD-ROM

2003-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
K Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, if you forget your root password (this is practically a FAQ) It's *precisely* a FAQ. I have forgotten the root password! What do I do? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW

make installworld problem with stable upgrade.

2003-08-21 Thread Shobaki sam.
Hello all, Since yesterday (French time), i try to update a fresh install of 4.8 release to stable, and cvsuped sources many many times. Here is the error i got while make installworld: ln: /usr/share/locale/am_ET.UTF8/LC_COLLATE: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Is something going

Re: Crontab error mails

2003-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
please. top-post, Dont Johan Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That is the format for the system crontab. /etc/crontab root has its own crontab entry (under /root). user crontabs have a different format then the system crontab. Remove the root from that line, and it should work. I

Missing libintl.so.1 for Gnome2 build

2003-08-21 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I am trying to build Gnome2 on my system (FreeBSD 4.8), and keep running into a problem. I'm getting the following error: === Building for pkgconfig-0.15.0 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.1 not found I see from some other archived messages that this has something to do with

Re: MySQL from ports on FreeBSD 5.1

2003-08-21 Thread Jez Hancock
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 03:07:41PM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:44:07PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: This is the PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/53252 The actual patch is in PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/53561 You

Re: Installation

2003-08-21 Thread Lucas Holt
It might be helpful to get a UNIX quick reference. O'Reilly makes one called learning the unix operating system. Its a little book with basic commands in it. If you decide to give up on freebsd, I would recommend buying that Macintosh. Mac OS X has BSD roots as they say. In fact, buying a

Re: Problems with PCI RAID installation on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-21 Thread Jason Stewart
Christopher Raven wrote: Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.8 onto an Intel ISP2150 that I have ripped the SCSI cabling and boards from in place of a PCI RAID system. All seems to have gone well and I can boot and configure the RAID card locally (4x80GB). However, FreeBSD insists in seeing

Re: Calendar program dates

2003-08-21 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:48, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I've got the calendar program emailing me events that occurred (supposedly) today in history. However, it's listing events that occurred tomorrow. Is that normal? The date is correct on my system and the email date is correct. OK,

passwd vs adduser

2003-08-21 Thread Kris Yates
I modified my system so that passwd now uses blowfish. However, adduser still uses DES. How can I force adduser to use blowfish? Please send replies directly as a reply to me, as I do not have time to read the list as often as I would like. Thanks, Kris

RE: Calendar program dates

2003-08-21 Thread Charles Howse
OK, I jumped the gun here. After browsing through some of the calendar.* files, I realize that it sends an event for tomorrow if no event for today exists. Sorry about that. :-) From the man page:- The calendar utility checks the current directory for a file named

gtar now in base system

2003-08-21 Thread Kris Yates
While exec 'portupgrade gtar-1.13.25_5' ...gtar is in base system. Should I: a) pkg_delete gtar-1.13.25_5 or b) rm -rf /var/db/pkg/gtar-1.13.25_5/ ? Thanks, Kris PLEASE send reply directly to me as I do not read the list as often as I would like...tkx

Re: passwd vs adduser

2003-08-21 Thread support
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:35:28AM -0500, Kris Yates wrote: I modified my system so that passwd now uses blowfish. However, adduser still uses DES. How can I force adduser to use blowfish? You could try checking /etc/adduser.conf perhaps there's an option in there to specify the password

Re: gtar now in base system

2003-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kris Yates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While exec 'portupgrade gtar-1.13.25_5' ...gtar is in base system. Should I: a) pkg_delete gtar-1.13.25_5 or b) rm -rf /var/db/pkg/gtar-1.13.25_5/ ? The former. It will delete the files installed by the port as well as the package

Re: Missing libintl.so.1 for Gnome2 build

2003-08-21 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 11:12, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I am trying to build Gnome2 on my system (FreeBSD 4.8), and keep running into a problem. I'm getting the following error: === Building for pkgconfig-0.15.0 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.1 not found I see from some

png2html port linker error [help?]

2003-08-21 Thread Kris Yates
png2html-1.1_1 needs updating (port has 1.1_3) linker error While exec portupgrade png2html-1.1_1: /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lgd *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/png2html/work/png2html-1.1. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/png2html.

Re: make installworld problem with stable upgrade.

2003-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:55:39PM +0200, Shobaki sam. wrote: Hello all, Since yesterday (French time), i try to update a fresh install of 4.8 release to stable, and cvsuped sources many many times. Here is the error i got while make installworld: ln:

IDE Raid Card

2003-08-21 Thread Richard Lucas
Could someone suggest an IDE controller card that I could boot off of? I just want to do RAID 1 with 2 disks but don't want to buy one and then find out it doesn't work. I'm running the latest 4-STABLE. Thanks, Richard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

file picker

2003-08-21 Thread Walter
Hi All, I want to run a cron job to upload a different image file to a web site as a new background every night. I need a way to automatically select a different file from a directory which I will populate over time, and then feed that name to the upload script. I can't find anything like

Re: IDE Raid Card

2003-08-21 Thread Peter Elsner
I've successfully used the 3-WARE Escalade series. http://www.3ware.com FreeBSD recognizes it in the GENERIC kernel with the twe driver. Peter Elsner At 11:24 AM 8/21/2003 -0500, you wrote: Could someone suggest an IDE controller card that I could boot off of? I just want to do RAID 1 with 2

Re: IDE Raid Card

2003-08-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
3ware 7200 is my favorite. http://www.hypermicro.com/store/raid_adap.htm, the 7200-2. It works really well with FreeBSD. e.g. shell1# df Filesystem1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/twed0s1a61483065644 5012%/ /dev/twed0s1g 39225660 11567212

Re: dvd+rw-tools

2003-08-21 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:19:32PM +0100 or thereabouts, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the load of posts this week, but I've got a new toybox and they aren't working well... I'm trying to use dvd+rw-tools port to burn DVD's. My first problem was that after burning a DVD, I was

Re: IDE Raid Card

2003-08-21 Thread Johan Paul
Richard Lucas wrote: Could someone suggest an IDE controller card that I could boot off of? I just want to do RAID 1 with 2 disks but don't want to buy one and then find out it doesn't work. I'm running the latest 4-STABLE. Hi, I use Promise FastTrak TX2 with great success for RAID 1 with two

Re: file picker

2003-08-21 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:36:24AM -0500 or thereabouts, Walter wrote: Hi All, I want to run a cron job to upload a different image file to a web site as a new background every night. I need a way to automatically select a different file from a directory which I will populate over

RE: file picker

2003-08-21 Thread Barry Byrne
ls -1 | perl -e 'srand; rand($.) 1 ($filename = $_) while ; print $filename;' - Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Walter Sent:

Re: How does one erase a FreeBSD disk (slice) label?

2003-08-21 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:49:09AM -0700 or thereabouts, Dan Strick wrote: Go back in time and kill the person that wrote this code before he wrote it? LOL What does LOL stand for? Laughing Out Loud -- Josh Dan Strick [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hubs and promiscuous packet listening

2003-08-21 Thread Aaron Wohl
Does anyone know the model number of a cheap hub to use when packet sniffing? The two suposed hubs I have seem to be blocking packets not addressed to me same as a switch would... I'm trying tcpdump and ipgrab as root via a hub to listen to anouther computer. The interface is going into

Re: make installworld problem with stable upgrade.

2003-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:08:52PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:55:39PM +0200, Shobaki sam. wrote: Hello all, Since yesterday (French time), i try to update a fresh install of 4.8 release to stable, and cvsuped sources many many times. Here is the error i got

Re: Missing libintl.so.1 for Gnome2 build

2003-08-21 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:05:08PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 11:12, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I am trying to build Gnome2 on my system (FreeBSD 4.8), and keep running into a problem. I'm getting the following error: === Building for pkgconfig-0.15.0

jftpgw port and seteuid not permitted

2003-08-21 Thread Jim Flowers
Would like to evaluate this ftp proxy on FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE but although it makes cleanly, when I go to run it I get a logged error message: Aug 21 13:16:32 [67924]: Could not change the EUID to 65534: Operation not permitted and the program quits. The program is: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel

libIDL problem during Gnome2 build

2003-08-21 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
Oops, another problem during my attempted Gnome2 build, and this one is even less clear to me. During the build of libIDL, I get the following error: === Bulding for libIDL-0.8.2 bison -y -d -v 2/dev/null ./parser.y gmake:: *** [stamp-parser] Error 1 *** Error code 2 Any thoughts about what to

MODE_SENSE_BIG

2003-08-21 Thread Nader Turki
hello, i'm trying to install freebsd 4.8-r from a cd and i keep getting this line while probing: acd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG command timeout - resetting ata1: resetting devices .. done i keep getting those 2 lines over and over, can someone help me please? thanks, nader

Re: SMTP attempt?

2003-08-21 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:24:58AM -0700, Dan Strick wrote: I've been noticing a lot of the following the last week: Aug 21 01:00:01 kongemord /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:25 from 127.0.0.1:1074 I can't figure out what's trying to connect to the SMTP port. I've got

On vacation

2003-08-21 Thread Jo Espitallier
I will return on Tuesday, September 2 and will respond to your email at that time. For immediate assistance, please contact Nicole Romero Chaidez at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: HELP! Sendmail 8.12.9 problems up the wazzoo on FreeBSD4.3....

2003-08-21 Thread Danny Horne
Steve Camp was once thought to have said: Hi, I am sending / posting this message to FreeBSD questions mailing list comp.mail.sendmail newsgroup sendmail mailing list possibly other comp.unix.bsd.* newsgroups I am quite stumped. Any and all help is welcomed. I

Re: HELP! Sendmail 8.12.9 problems up the wazzoo on FreeBSD 4.3....

2003-08-21 Thread Steve Camp
Hi Danny, Thanks for the reply. I believe I did. To your knowledge, should the following work: city.example.com# grep smmsp /etc/passwd smmsp:*:25:25:Sendmail Queue:/nonexistent:/nonexistent city.example.com# grep smmsp /etc/group smmsp:*:25: Or will the /nonexistent home

Re: HELP! Sendmail 8.12.9 problems up the wazzoo on FreeBSD4.3....

2003-08-21 Thread Danny Horne
Steve Camp was once thought to have said: Hi Danny, Thanks for the reply. I believe I did. To your knowledge, should the following work: city.example.com# grep smmsp /etc/passwd smmsp:*:25:25:Sendmail Queue:/nonexistent:/nonexistent city.example.com# grep smmsp /etc/group

ed1 network problems on laptop

2003-08-21 Thread Michael A. Smith
I've got a Sony VAIO PCG-FX101 (vanilla Celeron 600 laptop). It's run FreeBSD without a problem before. I just installed a new hard drive and installed 4.8-RELEASE on it. Now, I'm having all kinds of network problems that I didn't have a few days ago with the exact same hardware/OS (except the

Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Pat Lashley
Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree? (And, of course, preserve device special nodes, etc.) cp -r Copies hardlinked files as separate files cpioDoesn't preserve flags pax

Re: Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Pat, Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree? (And, of course, preserve device special nodes, etc.) Have you looked at rsync? HTH... Nico ___ [EMAIL

Re: mozilla-firebird dependency on gnomecontrolcenter?

2003-08-21 Thread Chuck Tuffli
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:48:04PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:29:03PM -0700, Chuck Tuffli wrote: Ok, I did a cvsup of ports-base and the build completed without the strangeness I saw earlier. Now when I run firebird, nothing happens (i.e. no browser window, no

Automatic response to your mail

2003-08-21 Thread rentals
Thank you for contacting Adventure Touring - we will be in touch shortly. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libIDL problem during Gnome2 build

2003-08-21 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: Oops, another problem during my attempted Gnome2 build, and this one is even less clear to me. During the build of libIDL, I get the following error: === Bulding for libIDL-0.8.2 bison -y -d -v 2/dev/null ./parser.y

SOCKS5 guru needed

2003-08-21 Thread Hugo Saro
Hey everyone, I want to set up a proxy to play rtcw with lower ping on the usual servers, i've installed the socks5 port, but the manpage didn't help much. I want to have 2 usernames that need to auth on the server and are only allowed to connect to any host on udp ports 27960-28960 . Anyone

Re: Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Pat Lashley
--On Thursday, August 21, 2003 22:19:28 +0200 Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree? (And, of course, preserve device special nodes, etc.) Have you looked at

Re: permission

2003-08-21 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, Directory / Options Indexes Includes MultiViews ExecCGI FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory Regards SSR From: GNorm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: permission Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:18:41 -0400 I have installed apache and got it to run, however when I

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2003-08-21 Thread James Igoe
Hello, I am unable to install freebsd with the ISOs that were provided on the freebsd ftp site. I have burned them onto a cd and I have attempted to boot from them. However, I have found that they will not boot. I am working on a i386 architecture, using both a p3 450mhz, 384MB RAM, ameritech

Re: Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:23:54PM -0700, Pat Lashley wrote: On Thursday, August 21, 2003 22:19:28 +0200 Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree? (And, of

Re: 4.9 New Features

2003-08-21 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 21:53, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Can anyone tell me a URL of new features for 4.9. I can't find anything obvious on freebsd.org. Just a TODO list This is still not a definite list, but it's pretty close.

Re: Gnome2 config files weirdness

2003-08-21 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 21:58, stan wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:16:15PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:09, stan wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:14:59PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 21:01, stan wrote: I'm trying to get Gnome 2

Re: make installworld fails on 4.8 in /usr/src/share/colldef

2003-08-21 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:36:57PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Greetings, I'm attempting to installworld on a 4.8-RELEASE machine. I installed the OS yesterday from CD-ROM. Today I did a cvsup for latest sources. I've successfully built world, built and installed custom kernel. For the

IP Problems

2003-08-21 Thread Ben Dover
OK, this is difficult to explain and my problem is probably bigger than what I have found but here goes. I have a dedicated 5.1 FreeBSD box and when I did a dmesg I received a repeating message as follows: arplookup 66.246.xx.1 failed: host is not on local network This peaked my curiosity

Re: Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Dan Strick
No, I hadn't thought of using rsync for a purely local copy. But now that I've tried it, add it to the list of utilities that lose the flags. (I'm particularly interested in preserving the schg and nodump flags.) So far, the only thing I know of that seems to do everything right is cvsup.

Re: IP Problems

2003-08-21 Thread Nils Vogels
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:00:32PM -0400, Ben Dover (BD) wrote: BD OK, this is difficult to explain and my problem is probably bigger than BD what I have found but here goes. I have a dedicated 5.1 FreeBSD box and BD when I did a dmesg I received a repeating message as follows: BD arplookup

Installing from CD-ROM (was Re: your mail)

2003-08-21 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, James Igoe wrote: I am unable to install freebsd with the ISOs that were provided on the freebsd ftp site. I have burned them onto a cd and I have attempted to boot from them. However, I have found that they will not boot. I am working on a i386 architecture, using both a

Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers

2003-08-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- J. Seth Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, and I know this is off-topic, is anyone here happy with their router enough to recommend it? I'd prefer to go with a hardware router, but I prize reliability and stability apparently higher than the current crop of manufacturers. Even the

Re: Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Pat Lashley
--On Thursday, August 21, 2003 15:45:54 -0600 Tillman Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:23:54PM -0700, Pat Lashley wrote: Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree? (And, of

cvsup problems

2003-08-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
I've done a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.8 on my Dual p3-700 box. I've been having a lot of problems, which i'll outline progressively. However, at the moment, I'm having some issues with cvsup. I've been trying to update my ports and sources and I keep running into problems. I've deleted the

Re: file picker

2003-08-21 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 06:49:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Walter wrote: Josh, Sorry to bother you, but the $RANDOM symbol returns a blank. Do I need to initialize something? On bash/zsh $RANDOM returns a random number. On sh it's apparently undefined. To define it, do RANDOM=$( perl -e

Re: cvsup problems

2003-08-21 Thread Mike Maltese
I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on now (the first error is VERY common): --- TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connetion closed ... Detailer failed: Network write failure: Connection closed Will retry at 08:14:58 Have you tried a

Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT

2003-08-21 Thread R B
hi my name is pyr0teknix696 and i've been using linux for 3 years and decided to try freebsd on an old AST x486 with 32MB ram and a 3.16G HDD my problem is that the BIOS is not able to boot from CROM drives so i read through the docs and BSD and it says to create boot floppies with fdimage i do

KDE Import of Outlook email

2003-08-21 Thread Chris
Has anyone been able to import Outlook email (more so the .pst file when exported) into KMail? If so - can you please lend an How To? -- Best regards, Chris __ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09

Help setup home network when gateways, ip asigned by DHCP

2003-08-21 Thread Rod Person
I have been trying to setup a home network for some weeks now. Here is the setup --- -- --- |Cable Modem|---|Gateway/Server||Cisco Poweredhub|--|FreeBSD| --- -- ||Laptop |

compiler error

2003-08-21 Thread ZaiD Dashti
hi i have tried to install mysql and mod_php4, but i got this message: checking if c++ supports bool types... yes checking if conversion of longlong to float works... Segmentation fault (core dumped) no configure: error: Your compiler cannot convert a longlong value to a float! If you are using

Re: Help setup home network when gateways, ip asigned by DHCP

2003-08-21 Thread Mike Maltese
You may want to try IP Filter instead. In my opinion, it's rule syntax makes it much easier to work with DHCP. http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.html#TOC_29 - Original Message - From: Rod Person [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:17 PM

Re: cvsup problems

2003-08-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on now (the first error is VERY common): This is a network problem. Either the cvsup server, or something between your system and the cvsup server is causing the

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