Re: PAWS security vulnerability

2005-05-20 Thread Tim Traver
Ted, I don't know your experience lately with people on this or any other list, but that last personal attack was WAY out of line. I am not a Troll, nor have I ever been one. I use freeBSD extensively on hundreds of servers, but I am not a FreeBSD source contributor. Yes, I was shown this

RE: PAWS security vulnerability

2005-05-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Tim, In my first e-mail I said: If it works I would submit it to the FreeBSD security list OK., so I see how you might have misinterpreted that. But the sentence if it works you would submit it to the FreeBSD security list isn't grammatically correct. In my second e-mail I said: I told you

Re: stupid question

2005-05-20 Thread Clement Twine
Charles Lamb wrote the following on 05/19/2005 07:25 PM: How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? the most stupid question is that one which was not asked :) anyway: vi /etc/resolv.conf clem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: BSD legal question

2005-05-20 Thread Joel
Suppose I distribute a library that is under my own copyright, yet carries a BSD-like license. Suppose you then come along and take my library, and a GPLed library, link both of them together into a new program of yours. The FSF says that the entire code now

Re: Can't run natd after upgrade to 5.4

2005-05-20 Thread Wisut Ponpattana
From: Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wisut Ponpattana [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't run natd after upgrade to 5.4 Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 00:23:40 -0400 (EDT) On Fri, 20 May 2005, Wisut Ponpattana wrote: Look back at my configuration file. Sure enough, at the

Re: ftp server

2005-05-20 Thread Sergey S. Ropchan
No, it's working ... try traceroute to server, maybe it's something with route ... I am unable to get access to the ftp.freebsd.org server. Is it down? Jason King ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How do I run this cron job?

2005-05-20 Thread Sergey S. Ropchan
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 01:49 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Perhaps trivial How do I run a cron job at the end of every month? #minute hourmdaymonth wdaywho command 59 23 29 * * user/path/to/cmd

RE: BSD legal question

2005-05-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joel Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 12:12 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD legal question Suppose I distribute a library that is under my own

Re: How do I run this cron job?

2005-05-20 Thread Rob
Odhiambo Washington wrote: How do I run a cron job at the end of every month? Depending how date-critical 'end of every month' is to you, you may also consider adding your script in /etc/periodic/monthly/ Rob. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

Re: amavis

2005-05-20 Thread Martin Hepworth
Trey asking on the amavis email list On 5/19/05, Charles Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran cvsup. Installed clamav, amavisd-new, and spam assassin. I changed my sendmail configuration file to allow amavisd-milter. When I restart sendmail and try to send a test email the email goes

syncing sources without cvs and cvsup

2005-05-20 Thread Luca Micali
Hi, i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. There's an alternative? Something like subversion or a client for cvsweb? current.freebsd.org services seem to be suspended...

Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.

2005-05-20 Thread Julien Gabel
i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. Just for information, why is CTM an overkill? I use it at work for the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback (yet...). -- -jpeg.

Re: FreeBSD and Exim

2005-05-20 Thread John Oxley
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:03:32PM -0400, Joe Wood wrote: Can someone point me to a good how-to on setting up Exim on FreeBSD 5.4? I've looked in a few places but haven't seen anything informative yet. http://ws.edu.isoc.org/workshops/2005/pre-SANOG-VI/bc/mail/exim/EximPrac.htm

Re: BSD legal question

2005-05-20 Thread Joel
[...] NOT(FSF=GPL) NOT(NOT(FSF=GPL)) Politically, the two are the same - the FSF owns copyright on the GPL itself, they can change it anytime they want - thus the GPL says what the FSF wants it to say. Then why is the copyright on the current

Re: The availability of socketbits.h?

2005-05-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Xu Qiang wrote: Thanks for finding the info I need. But I really don't know how you find it. I have done info gcc, and pressed 's' button in my keyboard to search -std or -fstd, but got nothing. :( info gcc Move down the screen using the arrow key to the line * Invoking GCC:: and press return.

RE: BSD legal question

2005-05-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joel Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 2:40 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD legal question Legally, no, but that doesen't count when the press is

Correct system message configuration?

2005-05-20 Thread Frits Westra
Hello, My system appears to be sending system messages to my ISP at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I disable this? I still want to be able to view log messages, of course. Thanks for your help. Regards, Frits ___

Re: Correct system message configuration?

2005-05-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 20 May 2005 12:36:53 +0200 Frits Westra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system appears to be sending system messages to my ISP at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I disable this? I still want to be able to view log messages, of course. you didn't mention whether you

Re: BSD legal question

2005-05-20 Thread Joel
Legally, no, but that doesen't count when the press is interviewing Eric Raymond for the bazillonth time. And it is those interviews that do the damage, not the legalities. Well, that explains a lot. You know, you don't have to jump either left or right

Can't install jre - fails on install of /usr/ports/misc/compat3x

2005-05-20 Thread Robert S
I have tried to install jre from the ports collection and get the following error: freebsd jre # make install === jre-1.1.8 depends on shared library: c.3 - not found ===Verifying install for c.3 in /usr/ports/misc/compat3x === compat3x-i386-5.0.20020925 is forbidden: FreeBSD-SA-03:05.xdr,

mdconfig problem on make release of 5_4_0_RELEASE

2005-05-20 Thread William Richter
i'm attempting to make a release and the build of the mfs image is failing (see below). it's mdconfig that's failing: + mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Inappropriate ioctl for device if fact i chroot'ed into the release directory and played around

Re: Correct system message configuration?

2005-05-20 Thread Sergey S. Ropchan
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 12:36 +0200, Frits Westra wrote: Hello, My system appears to be sending system messages to my ISP at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I disable this? I still want to be able to view log messages, of course. Try to edit /etc/mail/aliases ... you

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, PHP 5, MySQL 4.1 (and ftpd)

2005-05-20 Thread Can Berk Guder
OK, both of my problems are now resolved: 1. I didn't know I needed to restart inetd. I don't know what I was thinking... =) 2. I used the ports collection to reinstall MySQL, PHP and all the PHP libraries I need. I thought it was gonna become a nightmare but it didn't. Only the MySQL

Re: Can't install jre - fails on install of /usr/ports/misc/compat3x

2005-05-20 Thread Tony Shadwick
compat3x-i386-5.0.20020925 is forbidden http://www.freshports.org/misc/compat3x/ Mark FORBIDDEN because of FreeBSD-SA-03:05.xdr and FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath: xdr isn't fixed, and the realpath lib isn't available precompiled (at least we haven't found one). So...the question on my mind is do you

Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.

2005-05-20 Thread Tony Shadwick
Just a thought here. Is ssh blocked? :) You have a machine on the outside that you trust? You could do an ssh tunnel out and then point cvsup to localhost:myforwardedport, could you not? On Fri, 20 May 2005, Julien Gabel wrote: i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall

Re: stupid question

2005-05-20 Thread Tony Shadwick
You're breaking my heart here. :) emacs /etc/resolv.conf *ducks* On Fri, 20 May 2005, Clement Twine wrote: Charles Lamb wrote the following on 05/19/2005 07:25 PM: How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? the most stupid question is that one which was not asked :) anyway: vi

Re: Non-identical CPUs in dual-processor system

2005-05-20 Thread Tony Shadwick
My general thoughts on the matter is that if the bios is happy and letting you boot up multi-cpu, then you should be fine. The OS is going to throw instructions at the two cpu's, and those instructions will be run. The only real difference between any chips that are i386-compatible that you

Re: Pine

2005-05-20 Thread Tony Shadwick
Just a point of curiousity here, how are you trying to fetch pine? pkg_add -r pine, or pkg_add -r pine4 ? Only the latter works. That, and if you'r etrying to retrieve it from the default server, no shock that it fails. That server gets quite overloaded during the day. I'm getting more and more

Re: portaudit is being stubborn

2005-05-20 Thread Chris
This annoys me as well, I expect portaudit to alert me when an update is available to fix an exploit, but wget has no update so what is the point of the warning, there also seems to be no way to shut it up. Chris On 5/17/05, Tony Shadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is driving me nuts. I

Re: ng_netflow complile problems

2005-05-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all. I've made ng_netflow work on one of my SMP boxes, and now I need to make it work on a UP box...should be fairly simple. I'm trying to compile ng_netflow, and I get the following error: --- === ng_netflow

Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.

2005-05-20 Thread Julien Gabel
i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. Just for information, why is CTM an overkill? I use it at work for the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback (yet...). Just a thought

FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted

2005-05-20 Thread Vizion
I hope noone minds but as I have not had a reply I thought I would repost hoping that someone would pick up the thread. Thanks David Original follows: - Hi Below is the output from dmesg.boot I have some questions: 1. re: 802.11a

Spontaneous reboot before AND after memory swap

2005-05-20 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Hi all, I'm running 4.11 on a server, and for the last week or so it has been spontaneously rebooting about once a day or so. It has 512M of memory. I ran memtest and it causes the reboot as well. I went and bought 2 sticks of memory, took out the old one, and put the new ones in. That gave

bad nat on ipnat

2005-05-20 Thread 12arc12
Hi, i`m natting about 200 pc on one machine ipnat -s shows: ipnat -s mapped in 1569397 out 1688052 added 40190 expired 39045 no memory 0 bad nat 728 inuse 494 rules 8 wilds 0 the bad nat value is increasing in time, my ipnat rules are: #squid rdr bge0 0/0 port 80

Test

2005-05-20 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Disregard Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Shared /usr/ports directories

2005-05-20 Thread Richard Danter
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 06:13:09PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:39:54PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote: Hi all, I have several machines running FBSD now. At the moment I have a complete ports tree on each machine. I was wondering

Re: /etc/make.conf weirdness

2005-05-20 Thread RW
On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:51, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:31:02PM -0400, Nicolas Blais wrote: Hi, This is probably a user problem (me), but why is it that when I put this in /etc/make.conf: .if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/transcode} WITH_DIVX5=yes

Re: Spontaneous reboot before AND after memory swap

2005-05-20 Thread Tony Shadwick
Mainboard, cpu or power supply. Take your pick which to test for next. :\ How many devices do you have to power in your system? http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/ Make sure your power supply has enough 'oomph' to power everything you're trying to power in your system. Other than that, cpu

Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.

2005-05-20 Thread Tony Shadwick
Hmm. Is port 80 actually blocked then to everyone but the actual proxy servers? Just getting a feel for your environment. Try telnet www.google.com 80. Does it connect? If it does, then I wonder if your firewall is statefully inspecting non-http traffic across 80. You could get an ssh

Intel SE7320VP2 support ?

2005-05-20 Thread Francesco Ferreri
Hi all, we're planning to buy some new servers for our company (an IXP), we would like to run FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE on these servers: we got an offering for dual Xeon machines with Intel SE7320VP motherboard. The board has a dual Intel pro gigabit lan adapter and SATA controller, anyone knows

Re: Cyrus IMAP from Ports in 5.X?

2005-05-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do I need to create users from cyardm or from saslpasswd2? saslpasswd2. Recall that sasl2 is a system-wide authentication framework -- a one-stop shop for controlling access to cyrus-imapd and your MTA, or any other daemon designed to use this framework. It is conceivable that you would want

Re: portaudit is being stubborn

2005-05-20 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 20 May 2005 13:43:29 +0100 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This annoys me as well, I expect portaudit to alert me when an update is available to fix an exploit, but wget has no update so what is the point of the warning, there also seems to be no way to shut it up. Chris On

Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.

2005-05-20 Thread Julien Gabel
i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. Just for information, why is CTM an overkill? I use it at work for the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback (yet...). Just a thought

Odd Messages showing up in /var/log/messages

2005-05-20 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. Just recently, some very odd messages started showing up in my /var/log/messages on a FreeBSD 4.9 MailGateway box.This box serves as our primary email scrubber, removing viruses and quarnatining spam. It has worked flawlessly for over a year. This messages started popping up

Printing to a USB-printer + making it available to one other Windows machine

2005-05-20 Thread Ron
Hi there, Since the last thread I started died, I start a new one. I was using CUPS, but when I tried printing a test page, the printer did respond(by doing it's usual initializing work(like cleaning the printhead(I think))), but didn't print the testpage. Someone said if you don't use CUPS, it

Re:

2005-05-20 Thread Joe Altman
25. FreeBSD and Exim (Joe Wood) Message: 25 Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 22:03:32 -0400 From: Joe Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD and Exim Can someone point me to a good how-to on setting up Exim on FreeBSD 5.4? I've looked in a few places but haven't seen anything informative yet.

Re: Epson Stylus C86 Printer

2005-05-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 17:49, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just bought one of these printers, and am having trouble getting it to work with ghostscript. It is connected via a USB port, and it responds momentarily when I send anything directly to

Re: PAWS security vulnerability

2005-05-20 Thread Tim Traver
Ted, you just can't stop being a dickhead, can you ??? I admitted what I did wrong (unlike you), and yes, I posted this to the wrong list. Big deal. A lot of things get posted to this list that are a thousand times worse. Get off your high horse, and maybe use some manners instead of barking

Re: Printing to a USB-printer + making it available to one other Windows machine

2005-05-20 Thread Ron
If you can get it working locally it is easy to make it work with CUPS on the network. CUPS is the easiest way to print on the network. (though there are good reasons to use others) Start simple: get something (either ghostscript or plain text) printing locally. Until the printer works on

Re: mdconfig problem on make release of 5_4_0_RELEASE

2005-05-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 06:49:44AM -0500, William Richter wrote: i'm attempting to make a release and the build of the mfs image is failing (see below). it's mdconfig that's failing: + mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Inappropriate ioctl for

Re: /etc/make.conf weirdness

2005-05-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:13:08PM +0100, RW wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:51, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:31:02PM -0400, Nicolas Blais wrote: Hi, This is probably a user problem (me), but why is it that when I put this in /etc/make.conf: .if

Re: 5.4 +apache (how to restart)

2005-05-20 Thread Tofik Suleymanov
fbsd_user wrote: Thanks that worked use 'apachectl graceful' in order to do a graceful restart ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-05-20 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

2005-05-20 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: Radeon+nForce4 NIC for AMD64

2005-05-20 Thread jason henson
Emelianov wrote: Dear friends! Please help me with my new equipment: FreeBSD-5.4-RELEASE/AMD64 mobo Foxconn NF4UK8AA-8EKRS Socket-939 nForce4 U RAM2x512Mb PC3200 (Dual Channel) VGAPCI-Express 128Mb PowerColor R41A-PC3 (ATI Radeon X700 Pro,TV-Out,DVI) NICInternal 1Gbps (nForce4) Look

Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

2005-05-20 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 here's some of my bookmarks from dru lavigne's stuff at oreilly on working with ports. the one on portupgrade really helped jumpstart my learning it. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html

Trying to DTRT: backup UFS2 with POSIX.1e ACLs, how?

2005-05-20 Thread Ash
What is the recommended method to backup UFS2 file systems with ACLs enabled? I made the mistake of assuming (yes, yes, I'm well aware of the old adage) that dump(8) and restore(8) are compatible with POSIX.1e ACLs. I found during some testing that my assumption was either incorrect or I have

Re: Pine (Tony Shadwick) giving in to temptation(s)

2005-05-20 Thread David Armour
hello, I'm getting more and more tempted to start up a wiki for newbies on good package management practices and port management. get on with that, wouldya? The handbook seems to deal well with these things once you know lots of ways to get yourself into lots of deep water, yes. and a

Re: mdconfig problem on make release of 5_4_0_RELEASE

2005-05-20 Thread William Richter
well, it's the kernel that's on disc1 of the 5.4 release iso's. mdconfig works. it just doesn't work when chroot'ed into the build directory. i've just discovered that the /sbin/mdconfig that comes with the distribution works when copied into the release tree (i also had to copy libc.so.5 in

NEWBIE: pkg_add syntax clarification for opera 8.01?

2005-05-20 Thread David Armour
hello, reading the manpages for pkg_add pkg_create have left me no wiser. i'm still confused as to how to use pkg_add to replace a wonky opera 8 with a patched opera 8.01. the handbook instructions i have advise: ... 226 Transfer complete. 92375 bytes received in 5.60 seconds (16.11 KB/s) ftp

more than 4GB in opteron board running i386 version of 5.3/5.4

2005-05-20 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Just want to confirm that FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 can access and use more than 4GB of RAM in a Tyan Opteron MB (in this case an S2882) running the i386 version of FreeBSD. Thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dump/restore over ssh question

2005-05-20 Thread Elliot Finley
From: Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:28:40PM +0100, Xian wrote: To restore the filesystems: Boot from a rescue disk and create the partitions of on the disk. I've never smashed anything badly enough to need to work out how to do this. At least the partitions were

Re: more than 4GB in opteron board running i386 version of 5.3/5.4

2005-05-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:19:45PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Just want to confirm that FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 can access and use more than 4GB of RAM in a Tyan Opteron MB (in this case an S2882) running the i386 version of FreeBSD. I don't know about the particular motherboard,

Re: more than 4GB in opteron board running i386 version of 5.3/5.4

2005-05-20 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 20, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:19:45PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Just want to confirm that FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 can access and use more than 4GB of RAM in a Tyan Opteron MB (in this case an S2882) running the i386 version of FreeBSD. I

Java 1.3.1 Port Build Problem linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1

2005-05-20 Thread M. Goodell
warpstone# make install === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1 = Checksum OK for j2sdk-1_3_1_14-linux-i586.bin. === linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1 depends on file: /compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6 - not found ===Verifying install for

Java 1.3.1 Port Build / File dependency Problem

2005-05-20 Thread M. Goodell
Please ignore the previous post - I clicked the send button prematurly When I attempt to install the port linux-sun-jdk13 from the directory /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk13 port I eventually get this message after the search for the dependency file glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm fails.

Re: Pine (Tony Shadwick) giving in to temptation(s)

2005-05-20 Thread Vizion
On Friday 20 May 2005 11:09, the author David Armour contributed to the dialogue on Re: Pine (Tony Shadwick) giving in to temptation(s): hello, I'm getting more and more tempted to start up a wiki for newbies on good package management practices and port management. get on with that,

all users to mount cd's

2005-05-20 Thread Ryan Winograd
Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo. There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying to meet. I would like the mounting process to be much easier. I am

Re: Java 1.3.1 Port Build Problem linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1

2005-05-20 Thread Vizion
On Friday 20 May 2005 12:22, the author M. Goodell contributed to the dialogue on Java 1.3.1 Port Build Problem linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1: warpstone# make install === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1 = Checksum OK for

Keyboard key repetition

2005-05-20 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
Hi list, I installed the 5.4-Release an updated to 5-Stable on a friend's notebook Toshiba A20. A problem the I never seen before is happening when he start the X, all the keyboard keys have a lot of repetitions I Tried to change the following /etc/rc.conf parameters:

Re: all users to mount cd's

2005-05-20 Thread Nicolas Blais
On May 20, 2005 04:10 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote: Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo. There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying to meet. I

maxproc limit exceeded with vpopmail

2005-05-20 Thread John S. Strock
We keep getting the following error on the console every 2 minutes: May 20 13:30:45 mail /kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid , please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5). Uid is vpopmail. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, John (Please respond to john (at) vqis (dot) net

RE: PAWS security vulnerability

2005-05-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
You STILL haven't taken this to the correct security mailing list, after being told gently, then yelled at, then told firmly. What do we have to do to get you to do this? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Traver Sent: Friday, May

Re: NTP issues with 5.4 (SOLVED) (fwd)

2005-05-20 Thread Christian Hiris
On Friday 20 May 2005 01:01:01, Darrel wrote: I installed openntpd considering that it should run with reduced privileges. The Workgroup did not sync up right away and I reinstalled NTP4. Currently, I can sync Window XP and Windows 98. My /var/log/messages: May 19 12:25:37 ntpd[379]:

Re: all users to mount cd's

2005-05-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ryan Winograd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo. There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying to meet. I would

downloading entire directories

2005-05-20 Thread Eugene Hercun
I was wondering if ftp is able to download entire directories. I've read through the man page and didn't really find anything specific to downloading a selected directory. There was a note however, saying to use tar to tar a directory and then download that tar file. The problem is I do not have

Penis enhancement patch, doctor approved and recommended.

2005-05-20 Thread Harriet
Dude check out this sweet site! http://www.legahe.com/ss/ Dude check out this sweet site! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: downloading entire directories

2005-05-20 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Hmmm could you possibly try rsync? Also, I believe that ncftp has a recursive (-R) option in it that would allow you to download all of the files in a given directory structure. I'm not sure if thats what your looking for. HTH, -- Jonathan On Fri, May 20, 2005 5:10 pm, Eugene Hercun said: I

DDB

2005-05-20 Thread Goran Gajic
I have compiled my kernel with options SMP and with following options in hope that I will be able to drop into debuuger after fatal trap 12 (FreeBSD-5.4-STABLE). I have added following lines to my config: options KDB options KDB_TRACE options DDB Although dmesg | grep SMP

Dual monitors - right one doesn't work right away

2005-05-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
I just installed 5.4 RELEASE, cvsup'd the ports and portupgraded everything to current. I'm using one ATI Radeon X300 card and two monitors with Xinerama. When I first login, only the left screen displays its half of the desktop. (I'm using gdm and gnome, but xdm with twm does the exact

RE: maxproc limit exceeded with vpopmail

2005-05-20 Thread mmiranda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We keep getting the following error on the console every 2 minutes: May 20 13:30:45 mail /kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid , please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5). Uid is vpopmail. Any ideas? Increase maxproc limit?

Re: downloading entire directories

2005-05-20 Thread Tony Shadwick
There are two ways you could do this. The first is like so: create the actually directory locally ftp to the remote system cd to the directory Then type the following: prompt mget * Now, that doesn't recurse. :\ The other way would be to do 'portinstall wget', then 'man wget'. Tony On Fri, 20 May

Re: all users to mount cd's

2005-05-20 Thread Ryan Winograd
Ryan Winograd wrote: On May 20, 2005 04:10 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote: Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo. There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying

Re: all users to mount cd's

2005-05-20 Thread Nicolas Blais
On May 20, 2005 06:02 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote: Side note: Is it a mistake to be using FreeBSD as a desktop OS? Its main purpose is as a server, FreeBSD even admits its goal is not to be a desktop OS. Funny, I just gave a presentation discussing FreeBSD as a desktop os. I run FreeBSD as a

GUI mailer...

2005-05-20 Thread Gary Kline
I've just tried 'sylpheed' again. --This time I do have pop3 and IMAP. After I set up the configuration, (pointing at ns1.thought.org), when I tried to get mail, I was asked to input a password. I typed in my password for kline on ns1 and sylpheed quit

Re: all users to mount cd's

2005-05-20 Thread RW
On Friday 20 May 2005 23:02, Ryan Winograd wrote: Ryan Winograd wrote: On May 20, 2005 04:10 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote: Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/

gvinum, raid5 on 5.4

2005-05-20 Thread dave
Hello, Wondering on gvinum's stability status on 5.4 for raid5? So far i've worked with vinum and raid1 creating mirrored disks, but i'd like now having 3 identical disks and a partition i could take off of an optional fourth create a completely redundant raid5 array where i can take any of

any way to tell memory config of a machine?

2005-05-20 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Hi I was wondering if there was any way to tell the memory configuration of a server running FBSD 5 (while running). By this I mean: can I tell if 2GB is 2x1GB or 4x512MB etc? Obviously I can shut it down and either look at the BIOS or physically look inside, but I would rather not do

root filesystem occationally not found

2005-05-20 Thread dave
Hello, I've got a 5.2 box that on the very rare times i have to reboot it occationally, not always but enough to be a concern, it can not find it's root filesystem, and i'm dropped at a loader prompt. At the loader prompt i issue reboot the box does so again and this time it boots completely.

newbie question

2005-05-20 Thread Glenn Panuelos
last year i downloaded the miniinst iso disc 3 from the official ftp mirror, now i cant find it does 5.4 miniinst disc will be available only in the official 5.4 release announcement? or it has been permanently removed (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/5.4/README.TXT)

Re: newbie question

2005-05-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
last year i downloaded the miniinst iso disc 3 from the official ftp mirror, now i cant find it does 5.4 miniinst disc will be available only in the official 5.4 release announcement? or it has been permanently removed This has been well documented in the installation instruction. The

radeon

2005-05-20 Thread .VWV.
Hello. Once again, I have problems in order to use any kind of graphical environment on FreeBSD, therefore I write from Wingsdowz. I was trying to move to RADEON-based cards, but I have no idea how to make them work with X servers. I have a mixed-up 4.7 and 4.11 system, with the kernel of the

Re: radeon

2005-05-20 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 20 May 2005 07:11 pm, .VWV. wrote: Hello. Once again, I have problems in order to use any kind of graphical environment on FreeBSD, therefore I write from Wingsdowz. I was trying to move to RADEON-based cards, but I have no idea how to make them work with X servers. I have a

Re: PAWS security vulnerability

2005-05-20 Thread Tim Traver
Ted, I did take it to the security list (freebsd-security@freebsd.org). Since I did not actually know if this was an issue yet, I figure I would ask it to the appropriate list before sending it directly to the security officers. I'd rather not waste their time until I knew it was an issue.

Portupgrade breaks Apache13-modssl

2005-05-20 Thread Eric Sheesley
I am running Freebsd 5.3 and just did a portupgrade(upgraded php, amavis, clamav, and cyrus-sasl. When I rebooted apache refused to start. I can get apache started with no ssl but not with it. I have apache13-modssl installed. It wasn't modified during the upgrade though. So it would seem

Re: Dual monitors - right one doesn't work right away

2005-05-20 Thread pete wright
On 5/20/05, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed 5.4 RELEASE, cvsup'd the ports and portupgraded everything to current. I'm using one ATI Radeon X300 card and two monitors with Xinerama. When I first login, only the left screen displays its half of the desktop. (I'm using