Re: Mounting CDROM as user under 5.x

2004-01-01 Thread Dany
The operator trick worked. Thanks again and happy new year. Since I've started the FreeBSD experience, I've collected about 20 pages of tips and tricks to get stuff running. I will probably publish something so others can enjoy it. Dany Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: On Wednesday 31 December

RE: 4.3 to 4.9 upgrade woes

2004-01-01 Thread Marius Kirschner
Okay, got ssh to work but mySQL gives me the following error when I try to start it: ./mysql-server.sh: 6: Syntax error: unexpected This worked just fine before??? ---Marius -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marius Kirschner

Can't mount primary msdos slice

2004-01-01 Thread Olga Zenkova
Can't mount primary msdos slice on FreeBSD 5.1. Get: /dev/ad4s2 - invalid argument. The file for the device /dev/ad4s2 exists - I see it by ls. May be I need some additional keys in the mount string? Thanks, Olga __ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo!

VMware and Full Screen Mode

2004-01-01 Thread Theresa L. Ford
Forgive the repost. The last was mistakenly threaded: Hi! Google is not looking promising on this topic. I have 4.9-STABLE, a nVidia GeForce Ti 4600, VMware 3, installed through the ports collection. When switching to full screen mode, the application terminates. Any help you can give me

Re: Can't mount primary msdos slice

2004-01-01 Thread Theresa L. Ford
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 01:23:07 -0800 (PST) Olga Zenkova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't mount primary msdos slice on FreeBSD 5.1. Get: /dev/ad4s2 - invalid argument. The file for the device /dev/ad4s2 exists - I see it by ls. May be I need some additional keys in the mount string? Thanks,

Re: Chris tar exclusion problem

2004-01-01 Thread tape bacula
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Re: 4.3 to 4.9 upgrade woes

2004-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:48:42AM -0500, Marius Kirschner wrote: Okay, got ssh to work but mySQL gives me the following error when I try to start it: ./mysql-server.sh: 6: Syntax error: unexpected This worked just fine before??? Oh dear -- this again. There was a lot of traffic on this

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:13:43PM -0800, Sean Hafeez wrote: ok, how about something that works. 100gb? IME, DLT works well and is pretty reliable. No tape backup solution is ever 'cheap', but DLT has been around long enough, and superseded by enough new technologies (LTO, AIT, etc,...) that

Re: SanDisk CompactFlash card reader problem

2004-01-01 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:19:47AM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: I'm having some strange problems with my SanDisk CompactFlash reader. [snip] Any ideas or pointers to specific docs? Is this on -STABLE? I had to remove 'device ugen' from my kernel because I also had problems using the automatic

Samba, Cups and Printing: Windows client gives Access denied

2004-01-01 Thread Phil Payne
Hi, I've got an HP printer on USB port on Freebsd 4-Stable box. Printer is on /dev/ulpt0. Installed cups and printing from BSD is fine. Had samba installed and working great for filesharing. Now introduced an all printers share to share this printer. Printer is browseable from windows

DNS/DHCP redundnacy

2004-01-01 Thread stan
I'm revamping my network infrastructure a bit to increae redundancy. Presently DNS is served by a single FreeBSD, and I've got a dhcp server running on an OpenBSD machine that also serves as my firewall. Where I'm headed is to build a 2nd FreeBSD, and use it and the existing FreebSD as

Fortune

2004-01-01 Thread Chuck PUP Payne
Hi, Strange question, I have notice that in 5.1 there is no more fortune. Can you tell me where I can get it. Thanks. Payne ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: can't login to gdm

2004-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
r t g tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to run gdm, but I can't login. - I don't get any .xsession-errors, and am able to login using xdm. - Neither message saying incorrect user passwd What *does* happen when you try to log in? ___

Re: Fortune

2004-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:29:44AM -0500, Chuck PUP Payne wrote: Strange question, I have notice that in 5.1 there is no more fortune. Can you tell me where I can get it. Thanks. Install the games/freebsd-games port. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

How do I install Netscape Linux binary on FreeBSD 4.3?

2004-01-01 Thread Ken Seggerman
I am running FreeBSD 4.3 running on an old slow laptop which is running low on disk space. I had Mozilla 5.0 0.8.1 and Netscape-communicator 4.76 installed. Netscape was a package off of the FreeBSD 4.3 CDROM. I may have downloaded Mozilla and installed it as a package, or built it as a port. I

Re: Samba, Cups and Printing: Windows client gives Access denied

2004-01-01 Thread T Kellers
Do you have a guest account on the FreeBSD box? I got that error when Windows was using an account that Samba didn't recognize. Tim On Thursday 01 January 2004 08:32 am, Phil Payne wrote: Hi, I've got an HP printer on USB port on Freebsd 4-Stable box. Printer is on /dev/ulpt0. Installed

Problems with GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x, FreeBSD and GLX extension

2004-01-01 Thread xxavi
Hi people! Info. of my system: I have a GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x video card. My OS is FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #20: Wed Dec 10 13:39:46 CET 2003 My XFree86 is, This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted to

A sendmail config question

2004-01-01 Thread stan
I'm setting up a FreeBSD machine behind a firewall to recieve mail. Inside teh firewall the machines are in a fak domain. The IP address that is on the outside of the firewall is in a vaild DNS block. Looking at the default freebsd.mc config file, I don't see anywhere to tell sedmail to accept

-bash: /etc/profile: Device not configured

2004-01-01 Thread Dan Langille
When I try to ssh to a [remote] machine, I get this: $ ssh m20 Password: Last login: Thu Jan 1 10:41:39 2004 from bast.example Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. -bash: /etc/profile: Device not

Re: How do I install Netscape Linux binary on FreeBSD 4.3?

2004-01-01 Thread T Kellers
I think that's the wrong verfsion of linux-netscape, you probably need: communicator-v48-us.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz or navigator-v48-us.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz both can be installed via the ports at /usr/ports/www/netscape48-communicator or /usr/ports/www/netscape48-navigator (if

Re: How do I install Netscape Linux binary on FreeBSD 4.3?

2004-01-01 Thread David Fleck
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Ken Seggerman wrote: I am running FreeBSD 4.3 [...] That's really old, by the way. Do I untar and unzip it first and hope that any installation instructions will work on FreeBSD? Leave it as a tar.gz, and install it with pkg_add, or rpm? Does pkg_add

Re: Samba, Cups and Printing: Windows client gives Access denied

2004-01-01 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi Phil! On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Phil Payne wrote: I've got an HP printer on USB port on Freebsd 4-Stable box. Printer is on /dev/ulpt0. Installed cups and printing from BSD is fine. Had samba installed and working great for filesharing. Now introduced an all printers share to share this

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Scott Mitchell wrote: As for RAID, we use Vinum, but only because I inherited a bunch of machines with hot-swap SCSI bays and no hardware RAID. It works well, once you have it set up, and I've even managed to swap out failed drives without a reboot :-) I'll definitely

Re: XF86Keys.

2004-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a funky keyboard with lots of buttons along the top (like Back, Forward, Stop, Refresh, etc.). I use a number of these in fluxbox by defining them in my keys file. However -- can anybody suggest a way I can make the XF86Back key work in

Re: make install fails for subversion

2004-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lou Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The make runs ok The make install chugs along until: chmod 755 /usr/local/libexec/apache2/mod_authz_svn.so [activating module `authz_svn' in /usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.conf] subversion/svnversion/svnversion . /repos/svn/trunk

Re: Fortune

2004-01-01 Thread Scott W
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:29:44AM -0500, Chuck PUP Payne wrote: Strange question, I have notice that in 5.1 there is no more fortune. Can you tell me where I can get it. Thanks. Install the games/freebsd-games port.

8-bit color in XFree86

2004-01-01 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello again all, and Happy New Year! I'm trying to configure a system for my buddy who has an nVidia 440 MX video card. For some reason XFree86 will only do 8-bit color. Anyone tell me how to get it to do 24-bit color? TIA -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588

Re: Fortune

2004-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Scott W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:29:44AM -0500, Chuck PUP Payne wrote: Strange question, I have notice that in 5.1 there is no more fortune. Can you tell me where I can get it. Thanks.

unknown slowdown

2004-01-01 Thread Simon Strandgaard
In my wardrobe I have my noisy/fast server, to which I can connect via the xdmcp protocol, either with my silent desktop machine or if im not at home I can use ssh. It worked fluently for 6 months, but recently it has become non-responsive and lagging. The network speed are 100Mbits and I have

Re: A sendmail config question

2004-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:09:28AM -0500, stan wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD machine behind a firewall to recieve mail. Inside teh firewall the machines are in a fak domain. The IP address that is on the outside of the firewall is in a vaild DNS block. Looking at the default freebsd.mc

Re: make install fails for subversion

2004-01-01 Thread Lou Katz
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:19:36PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Lou Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The make runs ok The make install chugs along until: chmod 755 /usr/local/libexec/apache2/mod_authz_svn.so [activating module `authz_svn' in /usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.conf]

netgraph.ko vs. compiled in.

2004-01-01 Thread Bill Moran
I'm not sure if this is a bug, or intended behaviour. If the behaviour is intended, documentation improvements may be in order. If I build a kernel with options netgraph, in order to use mpd, netgraph.ko is still loaded at boot (with an error) but mpd does not work. If I build the kernel without

Re: unknown slowdown

2004-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:45:49PM +0100, Simon Strandgaard wrote: In my wardrobe I have my noisy/fast server, to which I can connect via the xdmcp protocol, either with my silent desktop machine or if im not at home I can use ssh. It worked fluently for 6 months, but recently it has become

Re: netgraph.ko vs. compiled in.

2004-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:38:09PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: If I build a kernel with options netgraph, in order to use mpd, netgraph.ko is still loaded at boot (with an error) but mpd does not work. You can't simultaneously load a .ko and have the same code compiled into the kernel. If I

Re: netgraph.ko vs. compiled in.

2004-01-01 Thread Bill Moran
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:38:09PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: If I build a kernel with options netgraph, in order to use mpd, netgraph.ko is still loaded at boot (with an error) but mpd does not work. You can't simultaneously load a .ko and have the same code compiled into

/dev/sequencer missing - Midi support under 5.x

2004-01-01 Thread Dany Nativel
Searching the archives I found a previous thread (http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3FA6C96D.3090502) talking about my problem. Any progress on playing Midi files under 5.x ? My card uses the snd_DS1 module. Kmidi is complaining about a missing /dev/sequencer (which I don't have in my

something wrong withshutdown

2004-01-01 Thread dc
Versino 4.9whenever i use the command shutdownor haltto shutdown the power,system displaytype anykey to rebootso computer reboot~and i have to boot windows(i installed FREEBSD and WINDOWS2000). Someone told me to configue the kernel.Add device acpicato the kernel and make it ~I

5.2-RC2 customize questions

2004-01-01 Thread J.D. Bronson
I have installed 5.2RC2 on i386 and have all of it working well (including ACPI with HTT) Since I am much more familiar with the 4.x flavor, is there any web area that explains the following: 1. it seems alot of startup was moved to /etc/rc.d...thats cool, but I dont see the connection as to

Re: 5.2-RC2 customize questions

2004-01-01 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:59, J.D. Bronson wrote: I have installed 5.2RC2 on i386 and have all of it working well (including ACPI with HTT) Since I am much more familiar with the 4.x flavor, is there any web area that explains the following: 1. it seems alot of startup was moved to

Re: 5.2-RC2 customize questions

2004-01-01 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 03:15 PM 1/1/2004, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:59, J.D. Bronson wrote: I have installed 5.2RC2 on i386 and have all of it working well (including ACPI with HTT) Since I am much more familiar with the 4.x flavor, is there any web area that explains the

Re: netgraph.ko vs. compiled in.

2004-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:02:41PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: It's generally best either to kldload all of the netgraph modules you require for this purpose or to compile them all into the kernel. One way, or the other, but not a mixture of both. I would go beyond

DOS partition permissions.

2004-01-01 Thread Eric F Crist
Hey all, How can I change the write permissions on DOS partitions? I have tried a chmod 0777 /dev/device and chmod 0777 /mount-point and neither have any effect. What am I doing wrong? I'm trying to do this for a USB storage device and a DOS partition I use for sharing some files between

Re: 8-bit color in XFree86

2004-01-01 Thread Eric F Crist
On Thursday 01 January 2004 12:23 pm, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello again all, and Happy New Year! I'm trying to configure a system for my buddy who has an nVidia 440 MX video card. For some reason XFree86 will only do 8-bit color. Anyone tell me how to get it to do 24-bit color? TIA I did

Re: DOS partition permissions.

2004-01-01 Thread Markus Kovero
you can define permissions on mount time with some clever option which I just cant remember right now. Use man mount luke. greets markus kovero - Original Message - From: Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 11:37 PM Subject: DOS partition

Re: A sendmail config question

2004-01-01 Thread stan
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:29:56PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:09:28AM -0500, stan wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD machine behind a firewall to recieve mail. Inside teh firewall the machines are in a fak domain. The IP address that is on the outside of the

using multiple isc-dhcp servers?

2004-01-01 Thread stan
I have set up the isc-dhcp port on 2 machines. and it is serving addresses, but I notice that whichever machine gives the lease is the only one that records the lease in it's leases file. This seems like a problem. How can I configure this package to avoid this problem? -- They that would give

Re: using multiple isc-dhcp servers?

2004-01-01 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 05:06:23PM -0500, stan wrote: I have set up the isc-dhcp port on 2 machines. and it is serving addresses, but I notice that whichever machine gives the lease is the only one that records the lease in it's leases file. This seems like a problem. Yes, I imagine it is

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/npgallery.html

2004-01-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:46:44AM -0800, J.D. Falk wrote: My site, cybernothing.org, is now hosted on a friends' machine running Linux. (I still prefer FreeBSD myself.) Now removed; thanks for keeping us up to date. Cheers, Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DOS partition permissions.

2004-01-01 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:37:51PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Hey all, How can I change the write permissions on DOS partitions? I have tried a chmod 0777 /dev/device and chmod 0777 /mount-point and neither have any effect. What am I doing wrong? I'm trying to do this for a USB storage

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:09:23PM +, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Scott Mitchell wrote: As for RAID, we use Vinum, but only because I inherited a bunch of machines with hot-swap SCSI bays and no hardware RAID. It works well, once you have it set up, and I've even

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott W
Scott Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:09:23PM +, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Scott Mitchell wrote: As for RAID, we use Vinum, but only because I inherited a bunch of machines with hot-swap SCSI bays and no hardware RAID. It works well, once you have it set

Re: something wrong withshutdown

2004-01-01 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 2 January 2004 at 4:25:49 +0800, dc wrote: Versino 4.9whenever i use the command shutdownor haltto shutdown the power,system displaytype anykey to rebootso computer reboot~and i have to boot windows(i installed FREEBSD and WINDOWS2000). Why? Someone told me to

Re: something wrong withshutdown

2004-01-01 Thread Dany
to turn the power off automatically, you should use : shutdown -p now instead of the -h which gives you this message. Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 2 January 2004 at 4:25:49 +0800, dc wrote: Versino 4.9whenever i use the command shutdownor haltto shutdown the

File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Eric F Crist
How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly. Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a 1008M92M 835M10%/ /dev/ad0s2 1020M19M 1001M

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Chris
On Thursday 01 January 2004 06:00 pm, Eric F Crist wrote: How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly. Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:00:23PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly. Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Eric F Crist
On Thursday 01 January 2004 06:04 pm, Chris wrote: If you have source installed, that takes up a bit. If you don't see yourself doing a makeworld and building kernel - a binary install would have done nicely. I do have source installed, and I do a bi-weekly source update automatically when my

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Eric F Crist
On Thursday 01 January 2004 06:15 pm, Eric F Crist wrote: On Thursday 01 January 2004 06:04 pm, Chris wrote: If you have source installed, that takes up a bit. If you don't see yourself doing a makeworld and building kernel - a binary install would have done nicely. I do have source

ISC dhcpd serve configuration question

2004-01-01 Thread stan
I'm still trying to get ISC dhcp to work in a redundnat fashion where I have 2 machines, and they share an address pool. Here's where I am on this. Well I thoguht I had it working for a minute. The executbale is _really_ picky about the syntax od the config file, and I found some help at:

OpenOffice

2004-01-01 Thread Chris
Is there just a binary install of OpenOffice? -- Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice

2004-01-01 Thread peter lageotakes
--- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there just a binary install of OpenOffice? -- Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Printing Problems

2004-01-01 Thread Kurt D. McCullum
I am running FreeBSD 5.1 with the CUPS print server. I am having some problems with my printer and I was wondering if anyone had seen this before. I am using an old HP DeskJet 1200C/PS. I have it setup with CUPS and I can print without any problems. But, when I try to print anything with

Re: using multiple isc-dhcp servers?

2004-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have set up the isc-dhcp port on 2 machines. and it is serving addresses, but I notice that whichever machine gives the lease is the only one that records the lease in it's leases file. Right. If you want them to know about each other, you need to configure

Re: isc-dhcpd weird effect

2004-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pierrick Brossin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a DHCP server at home (isc-dhcpd) and I've been wondering for a long time why it is giving the last IP addresses of the specified range at first? Like I tell him a range from 10.0.0.50 to 10.0.0.100 and it's giving 100 then 99,98,97 and so

Re: ISC dhcpd serve configuration question

2004-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking at tcpdump it _si_ a bootp packet that it sends, so I'm wondering if this line is the problem? deny dynamic bootp clients; Any ideas? How do you know that the packet is BOOTP? BOOTP and DHCP use the same protocol type, so tcpdump(1) (for

Re: ISC dhcpd serve configuration question

2004-01-01 Thread stan
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:26:00PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking at tcpdump it _si_ a bootp packet that it sends, so I'm wondering if this line is the problem? deny dynamic bootp clients; Any ideas? How do you know that the packet is

Re: something wrong withshutdown

2004-01-01 Thread Jud
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 18:51:49 -0500, Dany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 2 January 2004 at 4:25:49 +0800, dc wrote: Versino 4.9whenever i use the command shutdownor haltto shutdown the power,system displaytype anykey to rebootso computer reboot~ Instead

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:23:15PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: On Thursday 01 January 2004 06:15 pm, Eric F Crist wrote: On Thursday 01 January 2004 06:04 pm, Chris wrote: If you have source installed, that takes up a bit. If you don't see yourself doing a makeworld and building kernel - a

Re: 8-bit color in XFree86

2004-01-01 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Eric F Crist [freebsd] [01-01-04 12:23 -0600]: | Hello again all, and Happy New Year! | | I'm trying to configure a system for my buddy who has an nVidia 440 MX video | card. For some reason XFree86 will only do 8-bit color. Anyone tell me how | to get it to do 24-bit color? | | TIA | --

My /etc/ttys file has been overwritten

2004-01-01 Thread Trey Sizemore
I edited my /etc/ttys file in Easy Editor and then saved and exited (or so I thought) to enable kdm. When I rebooted, my machine would hang. I went back into /etc/ttys and noticed that the file is now empty!! What is the best way to replace the file. I'm not aware of a default file

Re: My /etc/ttys file has been overwritten

2004-01-01 Thread T Kellers
/usr/share/examples/etc/ttys On Thursday 01 January 2004 09:59 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I edited my /etc/ttys file in Easy Editor and then saved and exited (or so I thought) to enable kdm. When I rebooted, my machine would hang. I went back into /etc/ttys and noticed that the file is now

CDMA and GPRS support

2004-01-01 Thread Philip Almond
Would you please advise where I can find a hardware compatibility list for GPRS and CDMA modems (or just a recommended hardware supplier/make/model(s)) for FreeBSD? Thanks Philip Almond Chief Operating Officer iPico Australasia Mobile 0422 813 896 Intl: +61 422 813 896 Phone 07 3283 6566

Re: My /etc/ttys file has been overwritten

2004-01-01 Thread Trey Sizemore
T Kellers wrote: /usr/share/examples/etc/ttys Thank you! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dvorak keymap in single user mode

2004-01-01 Thread Robert Downes
I use the US Dvorak keyboard layout, and I find it very difficult to type in single user mode (when installing world, for example), because single user mode uses the QWERTY keyboard layout, and does not seem to pay any attention to kbdmap (I think that's the command name - the one with the

Re: getting rid of cron-sendmail messages

2004-01-01 Thread cb . z . ds
2/01/2004 5:05:21 AM, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the upgrade I get now 2 messages from sendmail daily when cron runs. What's happened? Also, is there other/better solution? According to periodic.conf(5), daily_status_security_output is only meaningful if

sshd crashing server

2004-01-01 Thread Will Prater
List, sshd seems to be crashing my server. I am looking for any help regarding why this could be happening. I am running sshd version OpenSSH_3.6.1. Here is the output from dmesg: the machine crashed every time when running #ipfw show or #dmesg -a for example and will crash when part way

libutil.so.4

2004-01-01 Thread Shawn Dillon
Hi, I am trying to install SpamAssassin and I get the following error. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libutil.so.4 not found I used to get an error of libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not being found , but I linked my /usr/libexec to /libexec and seemed to get further. I have checked the standard

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Robert Huff
Chris writes: Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3e 3.9G 3.9G -260.5M 107%/usr If you have source installed, that takes up a bit. If you don't see yourself doing a makeworld and building kernel - a

Re: Dvorak keymap in single user mode

2004-01-01 Thread Robert Downes
Robert Downes wrote: I use the US Dvorak keyboard layout, and I find it very difficult to type in single user mode (when installing world, for example), because single user mode uses the QWERTY keyboard layout, and does not seem to pay any attention to kbdmap (I think that's the command name -

help for tunnel broker

2004-01-01 Thread gaspo1
hi i'm user of freebsd 4.9,i have read a lot of manual ,i'm search on more site,mailinglist,But nobody can help me. i explain my situation: i have a privat /64 address of ipv6 i want to start a Tunnel broker and give /127 to all people (for my prov der fastweb.it),My problem is: on freebsd i dont

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott W
Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:00:23PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly. Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Brian Astill
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:30 am, Eric F Crist wrote: How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly. Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a 1008M92M

Re: Dvorak keymap in single user mode

2004-01-01 Thread Robert Downes
Reply to myself again, just to make sure this thread can be of use to anyone searching archives at any point in the future. Stéphane Witzmann suggested that the kernel configuration be altered to specify a default keyboard. So, after checking NOTES and the name of the keyboard map I want

Re: My /etc/ttys file has been overwritten

2004-01-01 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:29, Trey Sizemore wrote: I edited my /etc/ttys file in Easy Editor and then saved and exited (or so I thought) to enable kdm. When I rebooted, my machine would hang. I went back into /etc/ttys and noticed that the file is now empty!! What is the best way to replace the

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:44, Brian Astill wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:30 am, Eric F Crist wrote: How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly. Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott W
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:44, Brian Astill wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:30 am, Eric F Crist wrote: How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly. Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h Filesystem