Re: firefox doesn't show up

2005-04-01 Thread Ben Munat
Did you try running it from the command line? That way you can see if it prints errors when it fails. b T.F. Cheng wrote: hi, My firefox stop to show up after I started it these days, from ps and top I can see the process is running (firefox-bin), but it won't show up in the x-windows.

Re: can i delete /stand ?

2005-04-01 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Gert Cuykens wrote: It bugs me... yes you can. If you need to run sysinstall later it will be in /usr/sbin/sysinstall You might want to check your init_path in loader.conf, in /boot/defaults/loader.conf it is set to /sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak:/stand/sysinstall it would be sensible

Re: i did it again

2005-04-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-01 03:46, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:42:55 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-04-01 03:31, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is a termcap ? There's a manpage for this one. so termcap is like a x server but then for

MySQLd crash: signal 11

2005-04-01 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Hi, I've got MySQL 4.1 and FreeBSD 4 and have some issues with it crashing. Does anyone know what could cause this or how it could be solved? uname -a FreeBSD greek-torrents.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Tue Feb 8 22:53:48 CET 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/HOSTING

segfaulting gcc

2005-04-01 Thread Jiri Novak
Hello, I have system running: FreeBSD wopice.valleyofdeath.net 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Wed Feb 16 13:05:24 CET 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WOPICE i386 and I have noticed that lots of ports fail to build because of internal compiler error from GCC... Okay, so I supposed

From Rumiancev Alexander

2005-04-01 Thread rumiancev-psu
Hello! I have a problem! I have the FreeBSD 5.3. And some day ago, when I wrote command make the output was: Makefile:24: *** missing separator. Stop. 24 - this is .if !defined(S) When I doing this procedure one week ago, that was okey!!! That is content of the Makefile: KERN_IDENT=NEW_GENERIC

Re: segfaulting gcc

2005-04-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jiri Novak wrote: and I have noticed that lots of ports fail to build because of internal compiler error from GCC... Does the error always occur in the same place? If not, then it is possible you have a hardware fault. A segmentation fault results from bad memory access, which could be a

Re: segfaulting gcc

2005-04-01 Thread Jiri Novak
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jiri Novak wrote: and I have noticed that lots of ports fail to build because of internal compiler error from GCC... Does the error always occur in the same place? If not, then it is possible you have a hardware fault. A segmentation fault results from bad memory access,

Re: From Rumiancev Alexander

2005-04-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-01 15:25, rumiancev-psu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have a problem! I have the FreeBSD 5.3. And some day ago, when I wrote command make the output was: Makefile:24: *** missing separator. Stop. 24 - this is .if !defined(S) This is usually caused by running the wrong version

Re: Setting up network

2005-04-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:26:13PM -0500, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, While we are on the topic, after the hostname and domain have been setup from the initial installation, how can they be changed? I went through the FreeBSD manual and some Google searching and did not come

Re: ata driver.

2005-04-01 Thread Perttu Laine
On 30 Mar 2005 10:52:40 -0500, Lowell Gilbert Okay, sounds somewhat familiar. That code is undergoing extensive development. Soeren Schmidt has a set of patches for his latest set of upgrades, but they're not going into the main tree quite yet. http://www.freebsd.dk/ I tried to use that

Re: How do I know what a meta port installs?

2005-04-01 Thread Per Berger
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:35:51PM +0100, RW wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 13:57, Per Berger wrote: Hi all! I am running freebsd 5.3 RELEASE p5 and have installed several ports, so now I have X, gnome 2.10, firefox, openoffice and several other goodies installed. And most of it

Re: Sound on Dell Dimension 8300 (FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE)

2005-04-01 Thread Amit Kumar Saha
When I do kldload snd_ich.ko I get an error message: kldload: can't load snd_ich.ko: File exists On doing kldstat -v I can see that the kernel module contains: pcm/snd_ich. I think, during bootup the OS cannot associate the particular sound card (which is built into the motherboard) with the

Re: Sound on Dell Dimension 8300 (FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE)

2005-04-01 Thread Amit Kumar Saha
Yup, I already have device pcm in my config file. The bootup procedure does not seem to recognize the device. amit -- http://www.cs.rice.edu/~amsaha

Re: Testing/repairing IDE drive

2005-04-01 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thursday 31 March 2005 21:25, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi Hi have an IDE drive (bit old) that is starting to develop bad blocks. Is there a tool to scan the disk and reassign/block (I don't care loosing some space on that disk) the bad bocks? Best regards, Olivier Most manufacturers

Re: xorg stuff needed on web server?

2005-04-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: I noticed that there is a bunch of xorg installed on my web server for some reason: They may be dependencies xorg-clients-6.8.2 X client programs and related files from X.Org ... I was just wondering, do I really need all that xorg stuff for a simple web

Re: Problem with PF

2005-04-01 Thread Pat Maddox
I found it out, just didn't have pf.ko loaded up. On Mar 31, 2005 11:50 PM, Peter N. M. Hansteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5. I'm not sure how to check the pf version. One possible source of trouble is running pf from ports on

RE: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 92, Issue 59

2005-04-01 Thread J. Seth Henry
Hi have an IDE drive (bit old) that is starting to develop bad blocks. Is there a tool to scan the disk and reassign/block (I don't care loosing some space on that disk) the bad bocks? Best regards, Olivier Unfortunately, most ATA drives automatically map spares as they detect bad

Re: mksnap_ffs woes

2005-04-01 Thread Ean Kingston
Francisco Reyes wrote: In my experience databases DO NOT like file system backups unless the database is NOT running. The more heavily you use the database the least it will play nice with file system backups. Unfortunately we have no choice. Sorry if this has been mentioned before but

Re: Firewall questions

2005-04-01 Thread perikillo
Only a little note about the comment: On FreeBSD you have a choice of IPFW, IPF, and PF. IPFW is FreeBSD only, IPF runs on many OSes (but not Linux), Since i have been reading the Ipfilter maillist, you can see that Ipfilter now runs on Linux too. This is only information. Greetings. On Mar

Re: Firewall questions

2005-04-01 Thread Ean Kingston
Only a little note about the comment: On FreeBSD you have a choice of IPFW, IPF, and PF. IPFW is FreeBSD only, IPF runs on many OSes (but not Linux), Since i have been reading the Ipfilter maillist, you can see that Ipfilter now runs on Linux too. This is only information. Greetings.

Compiling DBD::Oracle against Oracle 10g (Linux)?

2005-04-01 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I'm trying to set up DBD::Oracle to use the Oracle 10g Client (for Linux). I have Oracle installed, and sqlplus works just fine. However, DBD::Oracle seems to have problems. I've included a script session which contains a typical build (I did run through the all the various suggestions

5.3 not accepting connections - What I'm missing?

2005-04-01 Thread Maximiliano Eschoyez
Dear all, I've recently moved from FreeBSD 4.8 to 5.3. After the upgrade, I found that my computer doesn't accept outside connections anymore. The problem is: I can't connect to my computer through different services (FTP, Telnet, SSH, etc.) and also, I can't redirect X output to my display.

circular depenencies

2005-04-01 Thread Ben Munat
I'm upgrading using portmanager and it doesn't completely finish... from the output: checkForOldDepencies 0.2.9_3 skip: gstreamer-plugins-ogg-0.8.8_2 has a dependency gstreamer-plugins-core-0.8_1 that needs to be updated first checkForOldDepencies 0.2.9_3 skip: gstreamer-plugins-vorbis-0.8.8_2

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-04-01 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ 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

2005-04-01 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.

Quick start with SAN

2005-04-01 Thread scuba
Hi all, Could someone point me where can I learn about integrating FREEBSD with Storage Area Network systems? Any tutorials, FAQs, HOWTos ? TIA - Marcelo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

2005-04-01 Thread Martin McCormick
What is the safest way to let non-root users access /dev/ttyd0? I notice that in FreeBSD, /dev/ttydx is owned by root:wheel. In linux, the ttySx's are in a special group so the trick there is to add users to that group and make sure the ttyS's are group writable. Here, I want

Re: Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

2005-04-01 Thread Chris
Martin McCormick wrote: What is the safest way to let non-root users access /dev/ttyd0? I notice that in FreeBSD, /dev/ttydx is owned by root:wheel. In linux, the ttySx's are in a special group so the trick there is to add users to that group and make sure the ttyS's are group writable.

Sound stutters and mouse slows way down

2005-04-01 Thread Josh Paetzel
I am using a Gigabyte server/workstation board for my desktop. It is a dual socket A board. I have 2x 2400MP athlons in it along with 768 megs of RAM. My load averages tend to be around 1.00 - 3.00 with CPU utilization 30-40% idle. My problem is that cvs, bzip2/bunzip2, and tar bring my

Re: Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:17:14AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: What is the safest way to let non-root users access /dev/ttyd0? I notice that in FreeBSD, /dev/ttydx is owned by root:wheel. In linux, the ttySx's are in a special group so the trick there is to add users to that group

Re: Sound stutters and mouse slows way down

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:49:15AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: I am using a Gigabyte server/workstation board for my desktop. It is a dual socket A board. I have 2x 2400MP athlons in it along with 768 megs of RAM. My load averages tend to be around 1.00 - 3.00 with CPU utilization 30-40%

ssh lockout after # of failed attempts

2005-04-01 Thread Super Daemon
is there a way to configure ssh lockout after # of failed attempts on server running freebsd 5.3Release??? i would like to be able to lock by account or IP address for a certain time period after a certain number of failed ssh login attemps. I'm not on the list so please CC: me. Thanks in

ipmon logging

2005-04-01 Thread as2sb3100
According to every website I've read so far ipmon uses local0 as the facility name. However, on my FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 box, it logs to the security facility. The man page (in both 5.2.1 and 5.3) for ipmon, with -s for logging to syslog says, The default facility when compiled and installed

Re: Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

2005-04-01 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:17:14AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: What is the safest way to let non-root users access /dev/ttyd0? I notice that in FreeBSD, /dev/ttydx is owned by root:wheel. In linux, the ttySx's are in a special group so the trick there is to add users to that group

changing umask in ssh

2005-04-01 Thread Peter C. Lai
I want to be able to set some users' umask to 002 after they login via ssh. Do I have to enable UseLogin to do this from login.conf? or is there another method? The purpose for this is that I want to implement group-based write privs without having to do ACLs which would be overkill for this. So

Re: Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

2005-04-01 Thread Martin McCormick
My thanks to all who have responded with this and similar recommendations: Roland Smith writes: Making kermit users members of a group, and have that group own /dev/cuaa* with read/write privileges seems like a good idea. For instance, create a group kermit with 'pw groupadd kermit'.

RE: ipmon logging

2005-04-01 Thread bob
There is a new write up of IPF in the official manual that explains in detail how to get ipmon to log to separate file. You have to give more technical details about what you have done. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

2005-04-01 Thread Martin McCormick
Roland Smith writes: Since you want to dial out, I think you'll need to use /dev/cuaa*. This turns out to be a much better choice than /dev/ttyd0. I forgot about those serial devices completely because I was focused on the ttyd* devices. The cuaa devices at least in FreeBSD4.11 are

Re: ipmon logging

2005-04-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 01 April 2005 20:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to every website I've read so far ipmon uses local0 as the facility name. However, on my FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 box, it logs to the security facility. The man page (in both 5.2.1 and 5.3) for ipmon, with -s for logging to

Re: Disk access problem with 5.3 install from CD

2005-04-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
matthew wrote: [ ... ] Responding to some other user sites, I tried doing a boot from my Win backup rescue boot disk and ran FDISK to apply a single DOS partition as I had read that this might help.didn't seem to. Results as before. Any ideas available as to what I might try next ?? First,

Re: sendmail

2005-04-01 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Apr 1, 2005 9:59 AM, Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Just how big is this movie and are you sure his ISP's/private mail server would even accept it? Its 5.5mb and my gmail doesnt want to sent it :( So how do you do that with the sendmail command ? As

Re: device.hints help

2005-04-01 Thread dgmm
On Thursday 31 March 2005 21:03, Alejandro Pulver wrote: I have two sound cards: SiS 7012 (C-Media Electronics CMI9739 AC97 Codec) - 'snd_ich' Genius Sound Maker Value 5.1 (CMedia CMI8738)     - 'snd_cmi' The first is integrated in the motherboard, and it is detected first and used as the

Re: i did it again

2005-04-01 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Apr 1, 2005 11:57 AM, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-04-01 03:46, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:42:55 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-04-01 03:31, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is a termcap ?

Re: can i delete /stand ?

2005-04-01 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Apr 1, 2005 11:54 PM, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 7:05 AM, Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 07:26 pm, Gert Cuykens wrote: It bugs me... NO, leave things as they are. If you delete all the things that have been bugging you,

Re: can i delete /stand ?

2005-04-01 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Apr 1, 2005 11:11 AM, Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: It bugs me... yes you can. If you need to run sysinstall later it will be in /usr/sbin/sysinstall You might want to check your init_path in loader.conf, in /boot/defaults/loader.conf it is set to

pf synproxy and fragments

2005-04-01 Thread LukeD
I'm running 5.3 stable. I've recently switched from ipfilter to pf to take advantage of the traffic shaping, and I've run into something I don't understand. I read the documentation on the synproxy option and it sounded good to me, so I replaced my keep state rules with synproxy state. After

Re: sendmail

2005-04-01 Thread wizlayer
On Friday 01 April 2005 04:42 pm, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 9:59 AM, Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Just how big is this movie and are you sure his ISP's/private mail server would even accept it? Its 5.5mb and my gmail doesnt want to sent it :(

Re: FW: dmesg -a lines' explanation? NEWBIE

2005-04-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 01 April 2005 05:39, David Armour wrote: hello Danny, thanks for your help, and sorry for the delay getting back to you. /etc/devfs.conf:permxpt00666#permissions are set properly at boot ... i'll have to take another google around, later perm means

Re: ssh lockout after # of failed attempts

2005-04-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:12:22PM -0500, Super Daemon wrote: is there a way to configure ssh lockout after # of failed attempts on server running freebsd 5.3Release??? i would like to be able to lock by account or IP address for a certain time period after a certain number of failed ssh login

Re: sendmail

2005-04-01 Thread Gert Cuykens
Just use the mail command. (the man page for mail is smaller) i read man mail and there is nothing about attachments in mail unless reading a file includes reading a movie file ? Why don't you just use your favorite mua to send it? What about using something like icq, ymessenger, etc?

Re: nNCL:registering deferred (0)

2005-04-01 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Mar 25, 2005 2:28 PM, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:23:10 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:13:10 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to reinstall mozilla but this time with the mail thingie enabled. I

Re: circular depenencies

2005-04-01 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 01 April 2005 08:35 am, Ben Munat wrote: I'm upgrading using portmanager and it doesn't completely finish... from the output: checkForOldDepencies 0.2.9_3 skip: gstreamer-plugins-ogg-0.8.8_2 has a dependency gstreamer-plugins-core-0.8_1 that needs to be updated first

file mode on dynamicly created cua/tty devices

2005-04-01 Thread Randy Primeaux
How do I set file mode to 0666 on dynamicly created devices, such as cua* and tty* ? I couldn't find the answer in the Handbook. I'm trying to get a alm m500 to hotsync with pilot-link and Kpilot on FreeBSD 6-CURRENT. So far, I can communicate via dlpsh as root if I press the HotSync button on

console mail client

2005-04-01 Thread Gert Cuykens
So the one i could found where -elmo -cone -mutt -pine -mail Are there others you like better ? Wich one do you use ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: circular depenencies

2005-04-01 Thread Ben Munat
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 08:35 am, Ben Munat wrote: [... some stuff about circular dependencies] pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/gstreamer-plugins-* then rerun portmanager -u, it will pull the gstreamer stuff back in, in the correct order. -Mike Heh, ran the pkg_delete

Re: sendmail

2005-04-01 Thread Ben Munat
Gert Cuykens wrote: Just use the mail command. (the man page for mail is smaller) i read man mail and there is nothing about attachments in mail unless reading a file includes reading a movie file ? Why don't you just use your favorite mua to send it? What about using something like icq,

About Qpopper

2005-04-01 Thread KP
Hi All, I installed qpopper with pkg_add, uncomment the following line in /etc/inetd.conf, then restart inetd pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/qpopper popper but I can't connect to the pop3 server with Outlook Express, got a error message like Your server has unexpectedly

Re: circular depenencies

2005-04-01 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:31 pm, Ben Munat wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 08:35 am, Ben Munat wrote: [... some stuff about circular dependencies] pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/gstreamer-plugins-* then rerun portmanager -u, it will pull the gstreamer stuff

Re: file mode on dynamicly created cua/tty devices

2005-04-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 08:12:05PM -0800, Randy Primeaux wrote: How do I set file mode to 0666 on dynamicly created devices, such as cua* and tty* ? See the devfs manpages. Kris pgp6T8C3Ux643.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: About Qpopper

2005-04-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 08:46:20AM +0200, KP wrote: Hi All, I installed qpopper with pkg_add, uncomment the following line in /etc/inetd.conf, then restart inetd pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/qpopper popper but I can't connect to the pop3 server with Outlook Express, got

lnc driver, was RE: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-04-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bernt Hansson writes: Your machine is NOT on the HCL list. The lnc(4) driver supports the following adapters: If the Ethernet card on the machine is supported, this implies that the machine is supported (otherwise why mention the card?). The lnc driver is a

Re: About Qpopper

2005-04-01 Thread KP
Thanks for your help, Kris. I always forgot to check the logs :-(. The log says: inetd[32476]: cannot execute /usr/local/libexec/popper: No such file or directory But I checked the file, it does exist. I can execute it manually, got error message, I think it's because inetd used the socket. cd

multyple gateway or load balancing on two channels

2005-04-01 Thread '
Hello. How I use subject without help of providers side (wthout BGP, pptp etc.). Thanks. Mar'yan Petryshyn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: About Qpopper

2005-04-01 Thread KP
A little more info, I killed inetd and tried to run qpopper manually again, still the same error message: qpopper[32535]: Unable to obtain socket and address of client: Socket operation on non-socket (38) - Original Message - From: KP [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL

Re: About Qpopper

2005-04-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:33:47AM +0200, KP wrote: Thanks for your help, Kris. I always forgot to check the logs :-(. The log says: inetd[32476]: cannot execute /usr/local/libexec/popper: No such file or directory qpopper, not popper P.S. I can't quote you message, it came to me as

Re: About Qpopper

2005-04-01 Thread KP
Kris Kennaway wrote qpopper, not popper Wow, I'm so silly, thanks a lot, Kris! It works now. I'm just wondering how I noticed this last time and why they put such a default line in it, I would rather add it myself :-). - Kevin ___