can't startx from user after upgrade

2004-05-23 Thread hoe-waa
Hello I have just successfully upgrade gnome 2.4 to gnome 2.6. Well, at least that's the message on the screen after upgrade. :) Before the upgrade all was working well. After the upgrade I have some problems. I cannot startx from a regular user login. When trying, I get the following errors:

Re: home on a gbde encrypted partion

2004-05-23 Thread platanthera
On Sunday 23 May 2004 01:56, Robert Storey wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2004 12:54:29 +0200 platanthera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 17:49, platanthera wrote: hi all, I want to move my home directory to a gbde encrypted partition. I plan to have only the default

The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-05-02 - 2004-05-22

2004-05-23 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: keyboard country mapping

2004-05-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 03:12:09PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2004, arden wrote: I'm in the UK but my install has set up my keyboard as American how can i alter it ? You can choose a keymap interactively with kbdmap. Based on 'man rc.conf', adding keymap=uk.cp850 to

Re: LSI 20320R Raid Card

2004-05-23 Thread Scott Long
J.D. Bronson wrote: I have asked this and no one replied, but I have more information... The card seems very well supported (mpt) but yet when I setup a RAID MIRROR and it is resyncing - the card DOES tell Freebsd 5.2.1, but the message is unrecognized:

Re: PPP takes the system over :(

2004-05-23 Thread Sergey Zaharchenko
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 09:36:16AM +0400, -=Nihr0M=- probably wrote: Hello Lowell Gilbert! Yes, I have a vterminal open (konsole), but it does change nothing... I can open another virtual term, but only when my network activity is close to zero. If you mean the 'k' in 'konsole', that

internet access from jail with nat

2004-05-23 Thread Khairil Yusof
My host machine acts as a gateway and has a simple firewall setup with ipfw and natd. There are no problems with other computers on the local network or the host machine in accessing the internet with this setup. However I'm having problems with getting jails on the host pc, to access the

Re: Problems with qmail and connecting to smtp daemon and problem with my virtual domain.

2004-05-23 Thread Mattias Björk
Hello Peter, Peter Risdon wrote: Mattias Björk wrote: Hi, list(ners) Problem nr 1. I have read the following guide to install qmail: http://www.stevenfettig.com/mythoughts/archives/cat_qmailhowto.php I'll try to help. You might have looked at these already but if not, they're worthwhile:

New machines - Dump and Restore -deploy

2004-05-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am hopeing someone knowledgeable will read and review my comments below and point out any flaws It is time to deploy two more servers, which are en route to use. 2 Dell 750s single SCSI Duel NICS and regular Pent 4 / 512 MB etc etc. I have spent the last year or so developing a

Re: Maintainer of WHOIS command

2004-05-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-05-22 20:23, Julien Gabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who is the FreeBSD Maintainer of WHOIS command? $ ident /usr/src/usr.bin/whois/whois.c or http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/whois/whois.c ... might give you an idea of who are commiting to this utility. Here's a

Re: New machines - Dump and Restore -deploy

2004-05-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 May 2004, Grant Peel wrote: I have spent the last year or so developing a server platform that I now want to clone from a production box to the two new boxes. I intend to use Dump and Restore to completely copy the OS from the older box to the two new ones. The current (older

Re: New machines - Dump and Restore -deploy

2004-05-23 Thread Mark
Grant Peel wrote: I intend to use Dump and Restore to completely copy the OS from the older box to the two new ones. Before I do this, I have three questions: The current (older box) has only a 18 GB SATA drive on it. The two new machines have 36 GB SCSI drives. So my question is, as long

FTPD SSHD server

2004-05-23 Thread Andri Kok
Hello fellas, I have FTPD and SSHD running. The way enabled it was by uncommenting lines in inetd.conf. Now, If I access it from the outside (school's lab to my home computer, we have static IP) it works. But If my friends try to access it from the local network, it doesn't work (Using

Re: FTPD SSHD server

2004-05-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 23, 2004, at 10:04 AM, Andri Kok wrote: Hello fellas, I have FTPD and SSHD running. The way enabled it was by uncommenting lines in inetd.conf. Now, If I access it from the outside (school's lab to my home computer, we have static IP) it works. But If my friends try to access it from the

afbackup --- switching tapes immediately ejected

2004-05-23 Thread Noah
afbackup-3.3.5_3-sevrer afbackup-3.3.5_3-client Hi there, I am having some difficulties with the server when I am required to change tapes. sometimes it takes a Little while to change the tape - over 3 days but by the time the tape new tape requested is inserted in the dirve - it is

Re: New machines - Dump and Restore -deploy

2004-05-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 May 2004, Mark wrote: You cannot restore the root-partition on the root-partition that you booted from, because it is in use at the time. Actually, you can. There are a couple of errors on files that can't be written, but it works. Although I do at least rebuild the kernel after

Re: Creating ISO image question

2004-05-23 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Eddysan, Tks for your advice. I already solve my problem with following command line; $ mkisofs -R -o cdimage.raw -J -graft-points -hide-rr-moved /usr/home/user-A/Document-AAA/=/usr/home/user-A/Document-AAA/ But I like to learn an alternative. Try mkisofs -J -r -l -allow-lowercase

Disater Recovery With Bacula

2004-05-23 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Can anyone point me to tutorials on best practices for disaster recovery with bacula? The bacula docs seem to cover Linux only and Google didn't turn up anything in particular. I just want to be prepared before there's a problem. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks,

Is www.freebsd.org down.

2004-05-23 Thread Kent Stewart
http://www.freebsd.org seems to be down. Everything else appears to be working. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Installing all versions of PHP: CLI and apache mod

2004-05-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
This post is mostly for the archives. I had installed mod_php4 and later needed to install the CLI version to get pear. After searching the archives and asking around for several days finally found the answer. To get CLI/Pear and web_mod installed just use the /lang/php4 port. To get ONLY mod or

Re: Is www.freebsd.org down.

2004-05-23 Thread arden
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 19:39, Kent Stewart wrote: http://www.freebsd.org seems to be down. Everything else appears to be working. Kent just tried it i cant connect either arden ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Is www.freebsd.org down.

2004-05-23 Thread J.D. Bronson
been this way for hours. Perhaps someone has an explanation ? At 01:39 PM 5/23/2004, you wrote: http://www.freebsd.org seems to be down. Everything else appears to be working. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___

Re: Is www.freebsd.org down.

2004-05-23 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 23 May 2004, J.D. Bronson wrote: been this way for hours. Perhaps someone has an explanation ? Looks like apache has gone as I can still ping the box Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330 www.jvds.com - Root on your own box www.vpscolo.com - Your next hosting

Re: Is www.freebsd.org down.

2004-05-23 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 23 May 2004 11:43 am, J.D. Bronson wrote: been this way for hours. Perhaps someone has an explanation ? It has also been down for me for hours but the only thing it affects is my grabing INDEX and INDEX-5 and access to cvsweb.cgi. It has a benefit because it finally caused me to add

dhcp dhcpd_ifaces question.

2004-05-23 Thread Gary Kline
To any network wizards on-list, I'm just tidying up dhcp and namedb files and would like to know what strings to put after this: dhcpd_ifaces= # ethernet interface(s) I'm assuming it should be dc0 dc1 but would like to make

Re: can't startx from user after upgrade

2004-05-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just successfully upgrade gnome 2.4 to gnome 2.6. Well, at least that's the message on the screen after upgrade. :) Did you read the Upgrade FAQ (http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html) and use the upgrade script

10.0 community mandrakelinux

2004-05-23 Thread denis pranchere
je cherche le cd4 d'install d'une version mandrake 10.0 community on m'a donné un lien arrivant chez vous mais il ne fonctionne pas ftp://ftp.sg.freebsd.org/sites/mandrake/iso/mandrakelinux-10.0-community pourriez-vous m'éclairer cordialement denis pranchere

bad gnome responsiveness with network load

2004-05-23 Thread Joan Picanyol
Hi, Summary: with /home NFS mounted at 10Mbit/s, network i/o makes my sytem noticeably slower (as in GNOME interactivity). I'm running RELENG_5_2, with SCHED_ULE and ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES. [look at the end for the -questions] Some system details (long lines): 528,p4,0$ dmesg | grep -v Preloaded |

Re: 10.0 community mandrakelinux

2004-05-23 Thread Julien Gabel
je cherche le cd4 d'install d'une version mandrake 10.0 community on m'a donné un lien arrivant chez vous mais il ne fonctionne pas ftp://ftp.sg.freebsd.org/sites/mandrake/iso/mandrakelinux-10.0-community pourriez-vous m'éclairer cordialement denis pranchere

Re: dhcp dhcpd_ifaces question.

2004-05-23 Thread Rob
Gary Kline wrote: To any network wizards on-list, I'm just tidying up dhcp and namedb files and would like to know what strings to put after this: dhcpd_ifaces= # ethernet interface(s) I'm assuming it should be dc0 dc1 but would

Proper way to start a program at log-on

2004-05-23 Thread Gerard Seibert
Since I am still new to this OS, I thought that I would check to make sure that I am doing this correctly. On my WinXP machine, I run the Distributed Net 'dnetc' program. Further information regarding this program is available here: http://www.distributed.net//docs/tutor_clients.php. To start

Re: dhcp dhcpd_ifaces question.

2004-05-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 06:34:58AM +0900, Rob wrote: Gary Kline wrote: To any network wizards on-list, I'm just tidying up dhcp and namedb files and would like to know what strings to put after this: dhcpd_ifaces= # ethernet interface(s)

Re: dhcp dhcpd_ifaces question.

2004-05-23 Thread Rob
Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 06:34:58AM +0900, Rob wrote: As far as I know, you can use dhcpd_ifaces to limit the DHCP service to only one interface (provided you have more than one interface on your system). I have rl0 and rl1, where rl0 is on the out-side internet, and rl1 on the

Re: FTPD SSHD server

2004-05-23 Thread Andri Kok
Hi Bart, Thx for the reply. The problem that I had from windows was connection timeout. When I try to ssh to my BSD box, it prompts the login name, than it hangs till it finally get connection time out. The same goes with ftp and telnet. Regarding the error logs, which ones should i check? he

IPF/IPNat router/gateway

2004-05-23 Thread Michael Zimmer
Hello. I apologize for asking a question which has been asked several dozen times before, but none of the prior-offered solutions seem to work. I'm trying to use a freeBSD box (v 5.1) as a gateway/router for my network. I've got a static IP range for the network, but can't get

Limit port 25 via ipfw

2004-05-23 Thread Mark
Hello, I was experimenting a bit with limiting the amount on simultaneous connections to port 25; because if sendmail starts rejecting connections (at 32), my Milter trips over it. I did the following, on FreeBSD 4.9R: ${fwcmd} add 65500 check-state ${fwcmd} add 65501 allow tcp from any to me

Re: FTPD SSHD server

2004-05-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 23, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Andri Kok wrote: Hi Bart, Thx for the reply. The problem that I had from windows was connection timeout. When I try to ssh to my BSD box, it prompts the login name, than it hangs till it finally get connection time out. The same goes with ftp and telnet. There is a

Re: can't startx from user after upgrade

2004-05-23 Thread hoe-waa
From: arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] this may sound strange but is your disc full? Ive had similar probs on Linux boxes when the disc is all but full arden Aloha Arden Funny you should ask Here is the output of df bsd-desktop# df Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted

RE: IPF/IPNat router/gateway

2004-05-23 Thread Andras Kende
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Zimmer Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 7:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IPF/IPNat router/gateway Hello. I apologize for asking a question which has been asked several dozen times before,

sophos anti virus and mailmonitor on freebsd

2004-05-23 Thread Thomas Farrell
Mailmonitor will work on BSD. I have it running you have to build a symbolic link to the libsavi.so.3 library in /compat/linux/lib/ . Like this ln -s /usr/local/sav/lib/libsavi.so.3 /compat/linux/lib/libsavi.so.2 . Keep in mind that this is in linux compat mode so once it starts up all

Re: Proper way to start a program at log-on

2004-05-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-05-23T21:58:06Z, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since everything seems to be workings correctly, I assume that I have done this correctly. If there is a better way to do this, I would appreciate receiving the information. Nope, that's fine. Of course, you *could* just leave

vpn over ipsec question

2004-05-23 Thread Muhammad Reza
Dear List. I try to configure vpn over ipsec between two FreeBSD (4.10PRERELEASE and 5.1.p17) gateways. My guidelines is from FreeBSD handbook, Tunelling is workfine with gifconfig command, i can ping each internal interface from both side gateway. The problem is when i try to securing the link

RE: IPF/IPNat router/gateway

2004-05-23 Thread JJB
Problem can be in how you are cabled or how you assign private lan IP address to xp box behind FBSD. An single xp box cabled to your FBSD needs to be cabled using an crossover cable. An normal configuration is cabling FBSD box directly to public internet cable or dsl modem and then have all the

RE: FTPD SSHD server

2004-05-23 Thread JJB
I think you are confused about difference between ssh and FTPD. FTPD is enabled in inetd.conf. This FTP software gives FTP protocol access the home directory of the person logging in. No account on the FBSD box no FTP access. When logging in using FTP the id/pw is passed over the internet as clear

Re: can't startx after upgrade

2004-05-23 Thread jason
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha I have just successfully upgrade gnome 2.4 to gnome 2.6. At least that's the message I received after running the upgrade script. :) Before the upgrade all was working well. After the upgrade I have some problems. I cannot startx from a regular user login. When

Re: XFree86 help...

2004-05-23 Thread jason
Michal Pasternak wrote: hitokiri [Sat, May 22, 2004 at 04:51:55PM -0500]: Alright, so I recently migrated to FreeBSD and had some trouble configuring the network. I got that problem fixed for the most part now as the internet works, except when I go into X. About a minute after I get into X, my

Re: Proper way to start a program at log-on

2004-05-23 Thread Murray Taylor
Make a shell script like the ones in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start and stop the process. The script MUST be named whatever.sh and must be executable. It must accept start and stop as parameters. This is the general solution. There is probably a doc reference for it but I havent looked. mjt On

RE: Proper way to start a program at log-on

2004-05-23 Thread Eric Crist
Make a shell script like the ones in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start and stop the process. The script MUST be named whatever.sh and must be executable. It must accept start and stop as parameters. This is the general solution. There is probably a doc reference for it but I havent looked. mjt On