ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-27 Thread W. D.
Hi folks, I have Tardis (Windows) running on my network broadcasting NTP time signals (right now every 4 seconds), but the FreeBSD machine is running 5 seconds faster than all the other computers. Here are the lines that I added to /etc/rc.conf: xntpd_enable=YES xntpd_flags=-A -c

Re: cannot get rc.conf to configure an second interface

2004-08-27 Thread Ciprian Badescu
--- Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello- I am trying to configure rc.conf to set up my second interface. Right now, I have these lines in the rc.conf file and when I boot the mahine, fxp1 is not configured. Also, it seems that that ipv6 is set

[Q] Portupgrade error

2004-08-27 Thread Anton Kazak
Example of my error: - portupgrade libtool --- Upgrading 'libtool-1.3.5_1' to 'libtool-1.3.5_2' (devel/libtool13) --- Building '/usr/ports/devel/libtool13' === Cleaning for libtool-1.3.5_2 === NOTICE: This port is deprecated; you may

Re: Portupgrade killed everytime

2004-08-27 Thread James Brown
Try running it using strace, such as strace portupgrade vim and see what it's doing. I checked my kernel and found the PROCFS and PSUEDOFS options were in there. I have added this line to my fstab: proc/procprocfs rw00 I no longer see this message: # strace portupgrade vim

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and Windows XP on one system

2004-08-27 Thread Marc van Woerkom
I use the FreeBSD boot manager which comes with the system. Is there a difference between the one that sysinstall installs and the one in the tools directory of a installation cdrom? Anyway, I put the 40GB drive as Master at the end of the cable and the 2GB drive as Slave in the middle

Re: sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems

2004-08-27 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Ok, I am sorry if I ask you to repeat yourself. Please submit a brief summary containing: ifconfig information netstat -r information /etc/resolv.conf ipfw show information /etc/hosts information uname -a information kldstat information sockstat information After that, if there are still

Re: [Q] Portupgrade error

2004-08-27 Thread kstewart
On Friday 27 August 2004 12:59 am, Anton Kazak wrote: Example of my error: - portupgrade libtool --- Upgrading 'libtool-1.3.5_1' to 'libtool-1.3.5_2' (devel/libtool13) --- Building '/usr/ports/devel/libtool13' === Cleaning for

Portmanager Crash

2004-08-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
I followed Matthew Seaman's instructions, except that there was no 'portmanager.core' file created. The file that was created was 'pmStatus.core'. I assume that is the file that I am to work with. In any event, I ran 'portmanager' to create the core dump, Next I ran 'gdb' which produced the

Re: vinum rebuildparity, when?

2004-08-27 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, thanks for your response, I didn't notice it at first because it only went to the mailing list :) On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:08:53PM +0200, Christian Laursen wrote: Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering about the vinum 'rebuildparity' command, especially the times when

burncd problems

2004-08-27 Thread abc
FBSD 4.10 keywords: burncd cdrw 700 650 device busy i have had seemingly inconsistent problems/errors with 'burncd', and i exhausted myself on it the past few days trying to prepare a bunch of CD sets. to possibly prevent others from struggling, this is some information i have found which may be

Re: [Q] Portupgrade error

2004-08-27 Thread Anton Kazak
I just rebuilt it. So, they haven't popped a change in on us. This is really a strange error so lets start at the beginning. What does your cvsup port-supfile look like and how do you run cvsup to update your ports. What options do you use on portupgrade? FWIW, config.guess is extracted from

Re: Rack-Mount Server cases

2004-08-27 Thread Joe Greco
On Friday 09 July 2004 07:19 am, Eric Crist wrote: I'm just asking opinions here, but: What do you prefer for a 2U rack mount server case? I want to keep the cost down, but I want something that looks nice and is functional. I've got 5 servers I'm looking at replacing existing cases

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and Windows XP on one system

2004-08-27 Thread Jud
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:58:23 +0200, Marc van Woerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I use the FreeBSD boot manager which comes with the system. Is there a difference between the one that sysinstall installs and the one in the tools directory of a installation cdrom? Anyway, I put the 40GB

Re: 5.2.1 custom kernel build fails with floating point exception error#1 during make on Cyrix 333 cpu

2004-08-27 Thread Subhro
You need to install the cvsup package before you can go through it. First pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui (if you are just on a dumb terminal as I am on) or pkg_add cvsup After it completes, then copy the supfiles from /usr/share/example/supfile to you home (I mean the root's home) or anywhere you

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and Windows XP on one system

2004-08-27 Thread Subhro
Are you sure it was ad2? If yes then you have fixed the drives on the secondary controller. Even I made that mistake :-) Regards S. On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:45:34 -0400, Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:58:23 +0200, Marc van Woerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I use the

Re: Still No Luck with IBM x306

2004-08-27 Thread Subhro
dmesg -a please Regards S. On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:11:23 -0500, eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've still had no luck getting either 4.10 or 5.2.1 working on an IBM x306 with a SATA controller. Someone on another mailing list mentioned this might be a 6300ESB controller. I tried several BIOS

Re: sendmail help needed!!!

2004-08-27 Thread Ed Budd
Hussain Umair wrote: hi all, im tryin to get my bsd box to run as an email server on my local lan, squid is already running perfectly on that but my lan clients cannot retrieve their mails through pop or smtp...ive tried everything but im getting nowhere my bsd box has an ip 192.168.1.125

Re: [Q] Portupgrade error

2004-08-27 Thread Subhro
cvsup the port tree with ports-all. You have most likely not cvsuped or cvsuped with a partial update. Regards S. On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:59:15 +0400, Anton Kazak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Example of my error: - portupgrade libtool ---

Re: vinum rebuildparity, when?

2004-08-27 Thread Christian Laursen
Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:08:53PM +0200, Christian Laursen wrote: When reviving a disk the data on that disk is calculated from the data and the parity on the other disks. Yes, but the parity should be recalculated at the same time, right? Yes. --

xscreensaver/xscreensaver-gnome

2004-08-27 Thread Adam Stroud
Hey all: I have built (from the ports) KDE and xscreensaver. Now I am trying to again build Gnome2 from the ports and the istallation breaks when trying to install xscreensaver-gnome stating that it conflicts with xscreensaver. When I do a okg_delete to xscreensaver the system states that

editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
Hi, When I need to change the IP settings, I usually go over the rc.conf directly (as root) to change the IP settings. The question is that once I change the settings I need to re-boot the system in order to the change be working. Is there any way that I can apply the changes without re-booting

Re: editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Bill Moran
Soo-Hyun Choi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I need to change the IP settings, I usually go over the rc.conf directly (as root) to change the IP settings. The question is that once I change the settings I need to re-boot the system in order to the change be working. Is there any way

hosts.allow Question (help)

2004-08-27 Thread Long Story
Hello everyone. Im on FreeBSD 4.8R. In my hosts.allow file, i have set my IPs to :allow and the last line is to deny all by default. so the server accepts only my incoming IPs. the problem is I have a webmail running so the mails also start to be rejected! i cannot see any

TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors in security output

2004-08-27 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey all. I'm seeing some things I'm not comfortable with in the security output from one of my systems - a new Dell Dimension 8300. This is what I'm seeing: key2.keyslapper.org kernel log messages: ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=31672255 ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

Re: cannot get rc.conf to configure an second interface

2004-08-27 Thread Bob Ababurko
At 04:55 PM 8/26/2004 -0500, you wrote: Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello- I am trying to configure rc.conf to set up my second interface. Right now, I have these lines in the rc.conf file and when I boot the mahine, fxp1 is not configured. Also, it seems that that ipv6 is set up an I am not sure

Re: Postfix thinks there isn't enough disk space in a jail

2004-08-27 Thread Charles Ulrich
Andy Smith said: Hmm, I run postfix in two jails (both hosted on -STABLE), and have never had this problem unless I've really been out of disk.. Interesting. Maybe it's been fixed as of late and we didn't notice. I'll take another look at it when I get the time but I can say with 100%

Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors in security output

2004-08-27 Thread Subhro
Goofy drive data cables? Regards S. On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:13:01 -0400, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. I'm seeing some things I'm not comfortable with in the security output from one of my systems - a new Dell Dimension 8300. This is what I'm seeing: key2.keyslapper.org

Re: editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Subhro
Read the manual pages for ifconfig. Regards S. On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:48:19 -0400, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soo-Hyun Choi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I need to change the IP settings, I usually go over the rc.conf directly (as root) to change the IP settings. The

Re: Portmanager Crash

2004-08-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:26:47AM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: I followed Matthew Seaman's instructions, except that there was no 'portmanager.core' file created. The file that was created was 'pmStatus.core'. I assume that is the file that I am to work with. In any event, I ran

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and Windows XP on one system

2004-08-27 Thread Marc van Woerkom
Go back to your old familiar drive configuration and do one of the following: 1 - Install the FreeBSD boot loader on *both* hard drives. Also be sure to set the FreeBSD slice (a/k/a partition in Windows-speak) bootable during sysinstall. During installation I did set the FreeBSD slice with

Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors in security output

2004-08-27 Thread Sopov Alexey
Backup your data imediatly! I think your ad4 dies... LL Hey all. I'm seeing some things I'm not comfortable with in the LL security output from one of my systems - a new Dell Dimension 8300. LL This is what I'm seeing: LL key2.keyslapper.org kernel log messages: ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

Re[2]: cannot get rc.conf to configure an second interface

2004-08-27 Thread Sopov Alexey
This should work fine. /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_fxp0=inet 192.168.102.14/24 ifconfig_fxp1=inet 192.168.102.15/32 defaultrouter=192.168.102.1 BA At 04:55 PM 8/26/2004 -0500, you wrote: Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello- I am trying to configure rc.conf to set up my second interface. Right now, I have

Re: Roaming tunnel (IPSEC or something).

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am in the process of setup a similar configuration using poptop to create a pptp link between a static server and a roaming computer with an anonymous. There is also l2tpd from what I read it is more secure than pptp but it does not work through a NAT. I will hopefully get this up

Re: Roaming tunnel (IPSEC or something).

2004-08-27 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:28:58AM -0600, Aaron Siegel wrote: Hello I am in the process of setup a similar configuration using poptop to create a pptp link between a static server and a roaming computer with an anonymous. There is also l2tpd from what I read it is more secure than pptp but

Re: editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Ifconfig was mentioned. You can also reinitialize your system with shutdown(8). Shutdown will bring the system in single-user state (will kill all processes) and when you exit that, you'll have all changes made to rc.conf, active. Use shutdown now and then just exit the single-user shell. Cheers,

vmware

2004-08-27 Thread Emre BALCI
Hii I have installed vmware3 on freebsd 4.10 and I typed vmware the following error displayed; vmware-ui: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libX11.so.6: ELF file OS A BI invalid what is the problem ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

kde3

2004-08-27 Thread Emre BALCI
Hello I am trying to install kde3 on ports but a depencies ImageMagick does not exist in ftp.freebsd thus installation aborted What can I do ? __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!

Re: editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
A couple of people suggested to read the ifconfig man page. I do understand the ifconfig, and I can change the IP settings using ifconfig without re-booting the system. What I wondered was a way of editing rc.conf directly and how I can it be working without re-boot the system. As Nikos

ntop constant segfaults

2004-08-27 Thread Andy Smith
Perhaps this would be better on an ntop-specific list but due to how completely broken this applications apears to be I wondered if anyone else on FreeBSD has seen this.. Basically, on -STABLE, the net/ntop port just won't stay running for more than a few minutes without segfaulting like so: Aug

Re: editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:04:08PM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi typed: A couple of people suggested to read the ifconfig man page. I do understand the ifconfig, and I can change the IP settings using ifconfig without re-booting the system. What I wondered was a way of editing rc.conf directly and

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-08-27 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2004-08-27 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

RE: kde3

2004-08-27 Thread mark rowlands
This seems to be a bug. the distfile listed does not seem to exist. I found the source as a tgz, turned it into a bz2 and amended the distinfo accordingly. this worked, but I would imagine a patch will be issued soon. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot get rc.conf to configure an second interface

2004-08-27 Thread Charles Swiger
On Aug 27, 2004, at 9:30 AM, Bob Ababurko wrote: I am curious as to how these netmask settings will effect the way my routes will be handled. If I use a /32, what does that meanor more specifically, what is going on here? FreeBSD does not let you configure two network interfaces on the

Re: editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:04:08PM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi typed: A couple of people suggested to read the ifconfig man page. I do understand the ifconfig, and I can change the IP settings using ifconfig without re-booting the system. What I wondered was a way of editing

Re: [Q] Portupgrade error

2004-08-27 Thread kstewart
On Friday 27 August 2004 03:16 am, Anton Kazak wrote: I just rebuilt it. So, they haven't popped a change in on us. This is really a strange error so lets start at the beginning. What does your cvsup port-supfile look like and how do you run cvsup to update your ports. What options do you

Re: Roaming tunnel (IPSEC or something).

2004-08-27 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:40:08PM +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:28:58AM -0600, Aaron Siegel wrote: Hello I am in the process of setup a similar configuration using poptop to create a pptp link between a static server and a roaming computer with an anonymous.

m4 Problems

2004-08-27 Thread Crist J. Clark
I want to do something that I _think_ should be rather simple within m4(1). I want to test if a macro value has been set. If it is set, I want to modify it and continue. If it is not set, I want to produce an error message and bail out. However, it is not working. Here is an example of a test

Can I NAT incoming connections?

2004-08-27 Thread stan
I've set up a ppp conection (tuneled over ssh and socks) from a machine on the home network to a mcahine at work. At home, where I have control of the rotueing tables, I've set up routes to allow all amchines to use this link to access the machine at work. However, I want more :-). I want to be

keyboard - how to konfigure for local settings?

2004-08-27 Thread Marcel.lautenbach
Von: Marcel.lautenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] An : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum : Freitag, 27. August 2004, 13:15 Betreff: keyboard - how to konfigure for local settings? ===8=== Original Nachrichtentext === hi again, well, after my problems with my shellt and its

fstab - why different file systems nummers?

2004-08-27 Thread Marcel.lautenbach
hi folks, well, i new to freebsd but i didn't find help in the newbelist. and since i got this daily message from the list i think this is the right place to go. i am at the point to change my /etc/fstab file. well, there i can set two numbers 1 for root file system; 2 for another ufs file

Re: fstab - why different file systems nummers?

2004-08-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 27), Marcel.lautenbach said: well, i new to freebsd but i didn't find help in the newbelist. and since i got this daily message from the list i think this is the right place to go. i am at the point to change my /etc/fstab file. well, there i can set two numbers 1

Re: fstab - why different file systems nummers?

2004-08-27 Thread Marcel.lautenbach
Guten Tag Dan Nelson, am Freitag, 27. August 2004 um 21:37 schrieben Sie: DN In the last episode (Aug 27), Marcel.lautenbach said: well, i new to freebsd but i didn't find help in the newbelist. and since i got this daily message from the list i think this is the right place to go. i am at

Re: editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Charles Ulrich
Except that the man page for ifconfig will tell you nothing about the correctness of your entries in rc.conf. For that you have to reboot. Most of us here can glance at them and say yea or nay, but most new users can't. And the ifconfig man page is not really newbie material either. Charles

Re: vmware

2004-08-27 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:25:36AM -0700, Emre BALCI wrote: Hii I have installed vmware3 on freebsd 4.10 and I typed vmware the following error displayed; vmware-ui: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libX11.so.6: ELF file OS A BI invalid what is the problem ? Did you enable Linux

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-27 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Thursday 26 August 2004 04:04 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:28 am, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unlike the system crontab, user crontabs, including root's, are under /var/cron; the

Re: editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:04:08PM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: A couple of people suggested to read the ifconfig man page. I do understand the ifconfig, and I can change the IP settings using ifconfig without re-booting the system. What I wondered was a way of editing rc.conf directly and

Re: Still No Luck with IBM x306

2004-08-27 Thread eric
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 17:30:59 +0530, Subhro proclaimed... dmesg -a please Is there a way I can do a dmesg from a beta release of 5.3? I don't have access to a floppy drive in this machine and would need a bootable CDROM, but I could test it then if possible. If anyone could throw me a link

Re: editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Robert Huff
Geert Hendrickx writes: You could simply rerun one/some/all of the /etc/rc-scripts, e.g. sh /etc/rc.network in your case. But I don't think this is recommended. Let me second this. It is entirely possible that a script expecting to start networking makes assumptions about the

Re: Startup with no-ip

2004-08-27 Thread Olof Andersson
Good suggestion. I have created the file /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks but do I need to do something else to get the noip to run when the ip-address changes? I'm a beginner so i could really need some help with the details. Thanks in advance /Olof Andersson but I suggest not running the updater as

Re: m4 Problems

2004-08-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-08-27 12:13, Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to do something that I _think_ should be rather simple within m4(1). I want to test if a macro value has been set. If it is set, I want to modify it and continue. If it is not set, I want to produce an error message and bail

compiling openoffice

2004-08-27 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
is it posible compile openoffice without install java i do this %make WITHOUT_JAVA=yes but the port still try to download tha java files apache-ant etc etc etc i can not download the java files due to restrictions of Sun with my domain .cu what can i do binaries of openoffice does not

Python blowups w/5.2.1

2004-08-27 Thread Chris
Why am I getting this error, that happens to lead to a core of python and this on the console: Aug 27 16:32:34 racerx kernel: pid 78759 (python2.3), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) racerx# make install Syntax error: ( unexpected /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2557: warning: echo

qt-3-3-3 errors

2004-08-27 Thread Chris
Here is the error I'm getting, but first, some history. This was a 5.2.1-REl-p9 system, upgraded to 5.3Beta1. Things blew up, so I suped the source back to 5.2.1 Re fetched the complete ports tree, and started to work. 2 -I/usr/local/include -I../shared -I../uilib -I/usr/local/include

WEBMIN alternative?

2004-08-27 Thread Ara Avvali
Is there an alternative to webmin for a GUI management tool for server? I have found PLESk so far but would appreciate if someone helps in this case ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

portmanager (pmStatus) crash

2004-08-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
OK, I think I have it right this time. The following is the output from using 'gdb' with the 'pmStatus' binary. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ gdb /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager/work/portmanager-0.2.0/pmStatus/pmStatus -c pmStatus.core GNU gdb 5.2.1 (FreeBSD) Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation,

Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors in security output

2004-08-27 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I doubt this is the problem. The disk is only a couple months old and hasn't seen any abuse so far. It is also unlikely to be goofy data cables as suggested by another poster. The cable is no older than the drive, and no more abused. Thanks all the same. Lou On 08/27/04 06:18 PM, Sopov Alexey

Development project in Africa

2004-08-27 Thread Jason Keeney
I am an international volunteer at the Institute for International Cooperation and Development (IICD - www.iicd-volunteer.org ). I am interested in starting a project in sub-Saharan Africa teaching people about Free and Open Source Software. I would also like to teach people how to use a linux

Re: Roaming tunnel (IPSEC or something).

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
Lewis I am currently struggling with getting IPSEC to work, I had everything working until my hard drive died. bellow is a link to a tutorial that on setting up PPTP with X509 certificates. I believe there are some errors in the commands the author used for generating the certificates.

Re: Development project in Africa

2004-08-27 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: I am an international volunteer at the Institute for International Cooperation and Development (IICD - www.iicd-volunteer.org ). I am interested in starting a project in sub-Saharan Africa teaching people about Free and Open Source Software. I would also like to teach people how to

vi editor related question

2004-08-27 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
Hi, I edit C++ codes with a certain text editor under Windows XP, and then I open the C++ codes using vi editor under FreeBSD. Then, there are bunch of ^M sign at the end of each line. Does anyone know why this is happening? And, does anyone can tell me how to avoid this kind of things? Cheers,

IPSEC Problems

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am stumped I am try to get a very simple IPSEC tunnel between my laptops and gateway. I can not seem to get the IKE to authenticate. I have had this working in with my other server which has been moved to a new location. I have a FreeBSD 4.10 Stable server and an 5.2.1 Release. I am

Re: vi editor related question

2004-08-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: Hi, I edit C++ codes with a certain text editor under Windows XP, and then I open the C++ codes using vi editor under FreeBSD. Then, there are bunch of ^M sign at the end of each line. Does anyone know why this is happening? Microsoft has chosen (for a long time now) to

Development project in Africa -- More Information

2004-08-27 Thread Jason Keeney
I am an international volunteer at the Institute for International Cooperation and Development (IICD - www.iicd-volunteer.org ). I am interested in starting a project in sub-Saharan Africa teaching people about Free and Open Source Software. I would also like to teach people how to use a linux

Re: vi editor related question

2004-08-27 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Soo-Hyun Choi thusly... I edit ... certain text editor under Windows XP, and then I open ... using vi editor under FreeBSD. Then, there are bunch of ^M sign at the end of each line. Does anyone know why this is happening? Cause is the default line ending

ports - MySQL/php/apache

2004-08-27 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
Compiling the mod_php doesn't seem to have the same makefile as it once did. The dialog box that comes up does not give you MySQL, XML, etc. options as it once did. I had to modify it's makefile by hand. Any idea when this port will be fixed? If you could CC me that'd be great. Im not on the

Re: fstab - why different file systems nummers?

2004-08-27 Thread Andrew J Caines
Marcel, and i am stick with another prolbem. so far i've read that the md driver can be used to mound a file in an filesystem. before i could use mdconfig. buti don't have mdconfig on my branch (4.10) On 4.x you can use md, but it's easier to use mfs. In the vfstab, you simply put the

Re: Portmanager Crash

2004-08-27 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 27 August 2004 6:54 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:26:47AM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: I followed Matthew Seaman's instructions, except that there was no 'portmanager.core' file created. The file that was created was 'pmStatus.core'. I assume that is the

Re: Portmanager Crash

2004-08-27 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 27 August 2004 6:54 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:26:47AM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: I followed Matthew Seaman's instructions, except that there was no 'portmanager.core' file created. The file that was created was 'pmStatus.core'. I assume that is the

Re: Development project in Africa

2004-08-27 Thread stheg olloydson
please keep the list in the loop it was said: Because my download speeds are slow and I am trying to obtain several distributions of linux or BSD, downloading ISO images isn't a feasible option. I will be doing development work in Angola. I haven't been assigned a position within the

Re: File Manager

2004-08-27 Thread Shantanu
+++ Lowell Gilbert [freebsd] [23-08-04 17:19 -0400]: | Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | I've always thought it was a bad idea to edit the passwd and groups | file directly, because the dbs don't get built that way. | | There is no database for the groups file, so people worry less

Re: sendmail from 4.10-STABLE firewall

2004-08-27 Thread Shantanu
+++ Joe Kraft [freebsd] [24-08-04 22:49 +0100]: | | | Chuck Swiger wrote: | Joe Kraft wrote: | | I'm using a 4.10-STABLE based firewall, which is happily chugging | along. It's sending it's daily messages to a local account via | sendmail, which I check by logging in using an ssh connection.

Re: vi editor related question

2004-08-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 20:46, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Soo-Hyun Choi thusly... I edit ... certain text editor under Windows XP, and then I open ... using vi editor under FreeBSD. Then, there are bunch of ^M sign at the end of each line. Does anyone know why this is

setting up links to work with a lightweight m3 player

2004-08-27 Thread Gary Kline
Does anyone on this list have links set up to use similarly lightweight tools. There is no substitute for Realplayer, but I'd like to use one of the cmdline or curses mp3 players. Nothing I've tried in configuring th Attributes works so far. Advise

Re: Python blowups w/5.2.1

2004-08-27 Thread Subhro
Well looks to me as if somehow you have got your ports tree corrupted. I would recommend a complete cvsup before compiling. Btw your email address is really cool :-). Regards S. On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:36:53 -0500, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why am I getting this error, that happens to lead

Re: compiling openoffice

2004-08-27 Thread Subhro
Well first of all if you are someone who had recently stepped into the FreeBSD world then you should NOT be using Beta software. Coming back to your point the command you should be using is make -DWITHOUT_JAVA=yes You missed out the D. Read the man page for make if you want to know more about it.

Re: WEBMIN alternative?

2004-08-27 Thread Subhro
There are many, unfortunately as far as I know none of the others are free to use. You can try out cpanel (http://www.cpanel.com) or Plesk (Google for the link). Regards S. On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:56:46 -0400, Ara Avvali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an alternative to webmin for a GUI

Re: qt-3-3-3 errors

2004-08-27 Thread Subhro
May we have a look at /etc/make.conf ? Regards S. On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:39:15 -0500, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the error I'm getting, but first, some history. This was a 5.2.1-REl-p9 system, upgraded to 5.3Beta1. Things blew up, so I suped the source back to 5.2.1 Re fetched

Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors in security output

2004-08-27 Thread Subhro
Well it is really unfortunate that hard disks don't need a reason to die. Maybe you are right. Are you using a 40 conductor or a 80 conductor cable? You can also try disabling DMA by setting the values displayed by sysctl -a | grep dma to 0 in /boot/loader.conf Regards S. On Fri, 27 Aug 2004

RE: WEBMIN alternative?

2004-08-27 Thread Ara Avvali
Thanks for reply. So the only good free one out there is webmin -Original Message- From: Subhro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 27, 2004 11:29 PM To: FreeBSD-questions Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WEBMIN alternative? There are many, unfortunately as far as I know none of

Re: vi editor related question

2004-08-27 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:52:04PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: If you are using plain vi, you can get rid of the unwanted characters with the command :1,$s/ctrl-v-m//g where ctrl-v-m' means hold down the Ctrl key while you press v followed by m. You will see them magically disappear. Another

Re: vi editor related question

2004-08-27 Thread Subhro
I have come across a script (Perl) called dos2unix. You can check that out too. Google for the link. Regards S. On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:46:04 +0200, Radek Kozlowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:52:04PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: If you are using plain vi, you can get rid

Re: IPSEC Problems

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
I figured my problem. I kept receiving error HASH mismatched. I reduced my racoon.conf down to the basics and it worked. racoon.conf path pre_shared_key /usr/local/etc/racoon/psk.txt ; remote anonymous { exchange_mode aggressive ; lifetime time 24 hour ; proposal {