NIS on a school network - need some clarifications

2004-08-25 Thread Hugo Silva
Hi, I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). I knew about NIS from readings of the handbook years ago, so I revisited it today, but there' is something that's missing. I understand the NIS accounts reside on the ma

Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current

2004-08-25 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 08:21 am, edwinculp wrote: > - Mensaje original - > De: Anish Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fecha: Lunes, Agosto 23, 2004 11:59 pm > Asunto: Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Just to check,

Re: ALTQ@5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 ?

2004-08-25 Thread Nagilum
Yes, they apply cleanly. Regards, Alex. Hugo Silva wrote: Hey, I wanted to know if the patches available for ALTQ on FreeBSD 5.x work on 5.2.1. I can't test this myself because the only 5.2.1 server I have is a production server and I'd like to be 100% sure it will work first. I don't know if the p

Re: kernel compile

2004-08-25 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:11:51AM +0300, Cristi Tauber wrote: > hi all, > I compile a 5.2.1 release's kernel with IPFIREWALL and IPSEC (? > IPSEC_ESP). I compiled the kernel w/o errors i rebooted and everything > works great. I mention that I do not installed any IPSEC software at > t

Re: installed ATA RAID, now cannot boot - get mountroot prompt

2004-08-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"DA Forsyth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm searching the web for answers on this too, but so far nothing > useful. hard to know what question to ask the search engines! "I made a mistake in rc.conf, or another startup file, and now I cannot edit it because the filesystem is read-only. What

Re: building profiled libraries

2004-08-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 25), Robert Huff said: > Having read the "gprof" man page, profiled libraries seem to be an > aid to debugging not necessary for routine system operation. > > Is this correct? Is there any reason not to set "NOPROFILE" in > /etc/make.conf? If you never intend to profile y

building profiled libraries

2004-08-25 Thread Robert Huff
Having read the "gprof" man page, profiled libraries seem to be an aid to debugging not necessary for routine system operation. Is this correct? Is there any reason not to set "NOPROFILE" in /etc/make.conf? Robert Huff __

Re: Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-25 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:40:50PM +1000, August Simonelli wrote: > well, the rebuild has worked fine. i think my symlinking was indeed > messed up. i followed everyone's advice and didn't use a symlink; I > kept my custom config in the same location as GENERIC and just copied > it elsewhere for b

kbear package

2004-08-25 Thread Len Zettel
I am running (or trying to run) 4.10. On the latest go-around, I did a fresh install via ftp, vanilla options with Xwindows, kde for the desktop. Then I went to /stand/sysinstall and added kbear as a package via ftp from freeBSD mirror site 13. reboot, startx, kbear shows up in "lost & found". At

Re: crypto support

2004-08-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:51:49AM -0700, jeff wiggs wrote: > Does freebsd have support/drivers for crypto hardware? Yes. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware-i386.html#AEN1451 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddo

Re: installed ATA RAID, now cannot boot - get mountroot prompt

2004-08-25 Thread mailist
Try this. Get to the shell prompt and run: ed /etc/fstab 1,$s/ad0/da0/ w q Then reboot the system. On Wednesday 25 August 2004 12:53 pm, DA Forsyth wrote: > Hiya all > > I'm searching the web for answers on this too, but so far nothing > useful. hard to know what question to ask the search e

Re: installed ATA RAID, now cannot boot - get mountroot prompt

2004-08-25 Thread mailist
You could try using the ed editor which should be located on the root partition for just this reason. Or, manually mount the usr partition when you get to the shell prompt so you have access to other editors such as vi. Hopefully you know what partition the usr file system is on (ie da0s1e) an

Re: Where is crtl.o?

2004-08-25 Thread Richard P. Williamson
Ah. crt1, not crtl. Idiot schoolboy mistake that I've not made since 1980. *(&$£ font. Thanks! rip At 15:55 25/08/2004, Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Aug 25), Richard P. Williamson said: >> Where is crtl.o supposed to be? >> >> 15:21 [local/bin] rip>./snmpd >> /usr/libexec/elf/ld

Re: Where is crtl.o?

2004-08-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 25), Richard P. Williamson said: > Where is crtl.o supposed to be? > > 15:21 [local/bin] rip>./snmpd > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory It should be in /usr/lib/crt1.o . -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

installed ATA RAID, now cannot boot - get mountroot prompt

2004-08-25 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya all I'm searching the web for answers on this too, but so far nothing useful. hard to know what question to ask the search engines! anyhow, the situation: I installed 5.2.1-R some time back as a start to making a new server. I used a 40 and an 80 Gb IDE drive plugged into the motherboard N

Re: kernel compile

2004-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Cristi Tauber wrote: hi all, I compile a 5.2.1 release's kernel with IPFIREWALL and IPSEC (? IPSEC_ESP). I compiled the kernel w/o errors i rebooted and everything works great. I mention that I do not installed any IPSEC software at that time. I downloaded qmail ? ucspi and try to instal

crypto support

2004-08-25 Thread jeff wiggs
Does freebsd have support/drivers for crypto hardware? - Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

RE: X issue

2004-08-25 Thread Dustin
I did install SSH but did not configure it yet, so I cannot log in over the network using SSH. Graphics Card: SIS 6326 Thanks, Dustin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Toni Schmidbauer Sent: Wed 8/25/2004 2:05 AM To: [EMAIL PR

Where is crtl.o?

2004-08-25 Thread Richard P. Williamson
Where is crtl.o supposed to be? 15:21 [local/bin] rip>./snmpd /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory FreeBSD 4.10 release TIA, rip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re:makeinstallworld error))

2004-08-25 Thread mailist
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 09:28 am, Charles Ulrich wrote: > epilogue said: > >> Just out of curiosity, is it incorrect to simply say that ports build > >> packages? > > > > Yes. > > Well, now I've received one explicit "yes" answer and one explicit "no" > answer to this question, leading me to be

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re:make installworld error))

2004-08-25 Thread Charles Ulrich
Lowell Gilbert said: > If you think you see specific places to improve the documentation, > please write it up and submit it in a Problem Report. FreeBSD is, > after all, a volunteer project...;2~ That would probably be a better use of my time than grousing about it on a mailing list, so I think

Re: digital images

2004-08-25 Thread Marc Wiz
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:45:06AM -0400, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > Well there's always The Gimp (www.gimp.org) -- long learning curve > though, and you'd probably have to build it/port it yourself. But > it's fun anyway :-) > Wasn't a book published about The Gimp in the last couple of years? M

Re: no user interface

2004-08-25 Thread mailist
As others have eluded to, FreeBSD does not provide a windows based user interface after an installation. The graphics you do eventually setup on the system will be based upon X windows (see www.xfree86.org). Unlike Microsoft, there are numerous options for graphical windows interfaces that can

Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current

2004-08-25 Thread edwinculp
- Mensaje original - De: Chip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Martes, Agosto 24, 2004 7:26 pm Asunto: Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current > edwinculp wrote: > > >>>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >>>Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>>Just to check, you have removed the base install's lp* u

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re:makeinstallworld error))

2004-08-25 Thread Charles Ulrich
epilogue said: >> Just out of curiosity, is it incorrect to simply say that ports build >> packages? > > Yes. Well, now I've received one explicit "yes" answer and one explicit "no" answer to this question, leading me to believe that there might not be a clear consensus even among experienced Fre

Re: using ttys to restart a process

2004-08-25 Thread Richard P. Williamson
Hello, According to ttys(5) and init(8), init will restart a process if it is found in ttys. Accordingly, I've added these two lines to my ttys file: ttyv0 "/bin/stp-server" unknown on ttyv1 "/manager/listener 4553" unknown on The first line appears to result in what I'm

Re: FreeBSD.org website CMS

2004-08-25 Thread Ilker OZUPAK
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 August 2004 16:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a fan of FreeBSD, I suppose it's also no surprise that I like the > FreeBSD.org website layout. > > Hoping to implement and learn a website content management system (CMS) > myself, I was

Re: cvsup

2004-08-25 Thread Ilker OZUPAK
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 August 2004 02:49, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > BTW! After updating to 4-STABLE do I then perform all the following > > steps? > > > > Go to /usr/src > > enter the command: make buildworld KERNCO

RE: Trouble with ipfw :( help!

2004-08-25 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, > > #ipfw list > 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 > 00200 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 > 00300 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any > 00400 allow icmp from any to any > 00500 allow tcp from any to any established > 00600 allow ip from any to any frag > 00700 allow ip from me to any set

Re: FreeBSD.org website CMS

2004-08-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:03:56AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a fan of FreeBSD, I suppose it's also no surprise that I like the FreeBSD.org > website layout. > > Hoping to implement and learn a website content management system (CMS) myself, I > was wondering what software(s) FreeBSD.o

Re: FreeBSD.org website CMS

2004-08-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hoping to implement and learn a website content management system (CMS) myself, I > was wondering what software(s) FreeBSD.org uses to manage their vast website? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html ___

FreeBSD.org website CMS

2004-08-25 Thread wesw
As a fan of FreeBSD, I suppose it's also no surprise that I like the FreeBSD.org website layout. Hoping to implement and learn a website content management system (CMS) myself, I was wondering what software(s) FreeBSD.org uses to manage their vast website? I apologize if this information is pos

RE: where to find what a port will try to download

2004-08-25 Thread Peter Ryan
Thanks Matthew. Somehow I again find myself better informed, much entertained, and pleasantly foolish. Hopefully I am soon to acquire the skill of looking for things in the places where they can be found. Thanks again. Peter > > So I had all the numbers, etc. at my fingertips anyhow. > > And

Trouble with ipfw :( help!

2004-08-25 Thread Dmitry Zadvornykh
Sorry for my lame question! I have configured ipfw on my mail server... But i have trouble with understanding what is work wrong... Why FreeBSD stop all traffic? ok? let's go! #uname -a FreeBSD ns2.jamaika.ru 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #2: Mon Jul 26 17:23:28 MSD 2004 [EMAIL

Sharing?

2004-08-25 Thread ro sa
Hi "FreeBSD" I have a question. I'm I aloud to share FreeBSD (e.x. 5.0) in like For example DC direkt connect or kazaa or anything like that ?? And another question Can I download the software and share it to my friends via cd?? Please answer. Keep Up the Good Work /Roger

Re: Portupgrade killed everytime

2004-08-25 Thread James Brown
Adam Smith wrote: Try running it using strace, such as "strace portupgrade vim" and see what it's doing. Sorry I didn't get a chance to reply yesterday. I now have the strace port installed but have hit a small problem (as mentioned by Joshua Tinnin). I'm not familiar with strace either and is th

Re: Firefox woes

2004-08-25 Thread Karel J. Bosschaart
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:35:20PM +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: > > Hi All, > > I wanted to upgrade my Firebord 0.7 to the latest > Firefox (0.9.3?) > > > I cvsuped port-all but still cant see any > > /usr/ports/www/firefox directory. > > This is my supfile > > *default host=cvsup.freebsd.or

Firefox woes

2004-08-25 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, I wanted to upgrade my Firebord 0.7 to the latest Firefox (0.9.3?) I tried downloading the .tar.gz files from the Mozilla site but got some odd messages about being unable to execute (other Linux binaries seem to work ok) So, I went to Fresh Ports an it says do the follwing ; pkg_add

Re: apache permission problem please help

2004-08-25 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Apache (propably) runs as the 'www' user and group. So each file (and path) needs to be readable by -> the www group OR the www users must be a member of the group of the diretory OR the world And each directory needs the 'x' access flag set. See the man pages for chmod,

Re: problem with portupgrade.. or so it seems

2004-08-25 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 03:26 pm, "LiQuiD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a machine running 4.10 stable that has a "problem" whenever I try > to run portsdb -Uu. The message the scrolls down the screen is as > follows: > > /usr/ports/INDEX:11586:Port info line must consist of 1

Re: vinum rebuildparity, when?

2004-08-25 Thread Christian Laursen
Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering about the vinum 'rebuildparity' command, especially the > times when one needs to use this. I run rebuildparity if checkparity finds any errors after unclean shutdowns. > The problem is that I can't find anything in the vinum docs about th

diablo-jre problem with firefox

2004-08-25 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Hi, I installed the firefox-0.9.3 and diablo-jre-1.3.1.0_1 ports. When I start Firefox, I get the following error: > LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library > /usr/local/diablo-jre1.3.1/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so > [Shared object "libintl.so.4" not found] After creating a

Re: where to find what a port will try to download

2004-08-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:40:18AM +0800, Peter Ryan wrote: > Hi Matthew, Hi. > I am trying to find out which files a port > will try to download. > > E.g. JDK14. The Makefile has parameterised > distfiles and I cant see where the parameters > are resolved. I have looked in the other > packag

Re: apache permission problem please help

2004-08-25 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Ok as anyone reading this thread knows i have huge mess on hands. Have found that if i set the all the users dir to 701 chmod -R 701 home then go into each users home directory and set the the www directory to 751 cd /home/user chmod -R 751 www then change the group permissions of this folder to w

Re: dell 8400 install prob

2004-08-25 Thread Robin Becker
David Kelly wrote: On Aug 15, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Robin Becker wrote: Sigh! I tried with 4.10 as well and that also fails. Sadly I don't have a spare IDE / drive lying about. I guess I'll have to wait on freebsd or install one of the more advanced Linux OSes I didn't *install* on my SATA drives o

Virus Alert

2004-08-25 Thread vrsadmin
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vinum rebuildparity, when?

2004-08-25 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, I was wondering about the vinum 'rebuildparity' command, especially the times when one needs to use this. I just recently found out, based on reading the RAIDframe documentation, that you're supposed to recheck/rebuild the parity after every disk crash. As I hadn't been doing that that would

Re: X issue

2004-08-25 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:00:47PM -0500, Dustin wrote: > I'm having some issues, I believe with XFree86. I just installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 Rel, > installed XFree86 v 4.3.0, then ran CVsup to update my ports tree, then installed > Fluxbox from ports. I managed to configure it well enough to get in

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