VimDebug Problems

2005-08-27 Thread Hakim Singhji
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I am trying to use the Vim plugin VimDebug, a debugging tool for C/C++, Java, Python, etc. which can be executed from the Vim editor. However, I am having problems, if anyone is using this tool I would *appreciate* some help. I am new to C

Re: Sending files to Win/Linux clients from FreeBSD 4.3 server?

2005-08-27 Thread Jamie Ann P. Zamodio
Ooops. I already got ftp to run in my Windows client. However, the file sizes drop to almost half of its actual value after transmission using get or recv, and the downloaded files themselves aren't consistent with the original files in the server.What the...? --- Jamie Ann P. Zamodio [EMAIL

Conexant Softv92 Data Fax Modem PROBLEM!!!

2005-08-27 Thread 897344
-- Dear FRIENDS! Does FreeBSD support Conexant Softv92 Data Fax Modem? HOW can i setup modem driver? I need an easy way for kde. I couldn't setup modem... Best regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Error sending message [1125133486424.10251.mailhost] from [euro.centre.org]

2005-08-27 Thread euro . centre . org PostMaster
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Re: cannot ssh to machine on lan when it has no internet connection

2005-08-27 Thread Simon Morgan
On 8/26/05, Adi Pircalabu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could also search your /etc/hosts.allow for the following line: ALL : PARANOID : RFC931 20 : deny No luck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

éö-chars in directories

2005-08-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have a question of which I'm not quite sure it's FreeBSD only. Forfive me if it's not. Here's the problem: I have lots of mp3 files. Some of them contain highascii in the title which also is in the directory. No problem. It goes well. I use iso-8859-1 as charset ;-) The problem is that these

Any thing better then portupgrade?

2005-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Every time I run that POS I end up pulling my hair out and trying to stop myself from beating the system with a sledge hammer. Their has to be something better. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Any thing better then portupgrade?

2005-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/27/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I run that POS I end up pulling my hair out and trying to stop myself from beating the system with a sledge hammer. Their has to be something better. And why is it such a pain in the ass to upgrade Perl (5.8.6 = 5.8.7)? it's a

Re: Conexant Softv92 Data Fax Modem PROBLEM!!!

2005-08-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 01:44:00PM +0500, 897344 wrote: Does FreeBSD support Conexant Softv92 Data Fax Modem? HOW can i setup modem driver? No. It is a software modem which needs a driver. No such driver has been written for FreeBSD, although a company called Linuxant has written a Linux

Re: Any thing better then portupgrade?

2005-08-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 05:09:01AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/27/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I run that POS I end up pulling my hair out and trying to stop myself from beating the system with a sledge hammer. Their has to be something better. And

Re: cpio and tar are loosing flags (and a panic message without trace)

2005-08-27 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 27. August 2005 06:58 CEST schrieb Matthew Dillon: :Thank you, I know cpdup but I haven't known that it's flags aware! :Unfortunately I need to write to a raw device, I guess there's no way : for=20 cpdup without a filesystem... : :I guess cpio and tar really should take care

RE: See what raid arrays are?

2005-08-27 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Hi Matt, I quote : What raid hardware? In general, with hardware RAID (PCI cards and the like), the component physical disks of a logical array are hidden from the OS to keep you from accessing them directly and destroying the array, and to simplify the presentation of the array to the OS.

Re: Interrupt Storm Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-08-27 Thread Nicklas B. Westerlund
John Straiton wrote: Hello, I am attempting to install 5.4R on a brand new Dell PowerEdge 1850 machine. The installation goes perfectly however after the reboot, I am unable to log into the machine (or in this case, create the entropy salt) John, Let me take a quick guess.. You've got

Re: Any thing better then portupgrade?

2005-08-27 Thread Laurence Sanford
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 05:01:23 -0500 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I run that POS I end up pulling my hair out and trying to stop myself from beating the system with a sledge hammer. Their has to be something better. There is. portupgrade -rR

boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Sean
Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the following example from the handbook FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: from my reading this is a boot2 stage booting from cd and going into Fixit it

bind9: dir for files with dynamic updates

2005-08-27 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
Hi. As I can see there is a directory for dynamic updates: /var/named/etc/namedb/dynamic. But files with dynamic updates still placed next to zones files (/var/named/etc/namedb/master). I've looked for an option for it in documentation but failed. So, how can I use

Re: burncd multiple files

2005-08-27 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One question still: you mention cdrtools-devel. What are the pro's/cons of a devel port above the normal sysutils/cdrtools. If you take cdrtools-devel, you get the latest version (ATM cdrtools-2.01.01a03). The normal cdrtools port contains the latest

shell usage (syntax) question

2005-08-27 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, how can I delimit a program parameter from a shell instruction? Example: I want to tell the shell that stderr should be redirected to file /tmp/test, not cpio to use /file/test: # /usr/bin/cpio -idmuv /dev/ad0h 2 /tmp/test This doesn't work, I guess cpio grabs the . How can I write it

Re: Any thing better then portupgrade?

2005-08-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Nikolas Britton wrote: Every time I run that POS I end up pulling my hair out and trying to stop myself from beating the system with a sledge hammer. Their has to be something better. Hmm, I don't know about a *better* Piece Of Software ;) but Portmanager also claims it can update all

Directory permissions issue taring directories onto a Compact Flash card

2005-08-27 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi, I have done a minimal FreeBSD 5.4 install onto single partition ad0s1a I then mounted my 512MB Compact Flash ide drive on ad2s1. When I run this command su'ed as root: tar --one-file-system cf - -C / . | tar xpvf - -C /mnt I find that all the directories end up with permissions of:

Re: éö-chars in directories

2005-08-27 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have lots of mp3 files. Some of them contain highascii in the title which also is in the directory. No problem. It goes well. I use iso-8859-1 as charset ;-) The problem is that these songs *DON'T* show off well when read from a windows computer

Re: shell usage (syntax) question

2005-08-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 03:25:27PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Hello, how can I delimit a program parameter from a shell instruction? Example: I want to tell the shell that stderr should be redirected to file /tmp/test, not cpio to use /file/test: # /usr/bin/cpio -idmuv /dev/ad0h 2

Re: Any thing better then portupgrade?

2005-08-27 Thread Andrew P.
On 8/27/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I run that POS I end up pulling my hair out and trying to stop myself from beating the system with a sledge hammer. Their has to be something better. Man, install Fedora Core and stick with yum for a week. If you survive,

Re: wine error

2005-08-27 Thread Andrew P.
The wine port works fine for me. Never tried M$ Office, but had a success with some complicated software (Counter-Strike with some networking issues, WarCraft3...) Make sure you read the wine user's guide and faq. There's also this linux-winetools port. I haven't tested it a lot, but it might be

How to find out which ports/dependencies were installed when installing a port?

2005-08-27 Thread Robert G.
Hi, New here. I'm running portuprade and wondering if it's possible to find out which ports/dependencies were installed when installing a specific application. For example: I install A which needs B and C to run. So portupgrade installs B and C along with A. Later down the road I

Re: How to find out which ports/dependencies were installed when installing a port?

2005-08-27 Thread Joseph Koshy
Later down the road I deinstall A and decide I'd like to get rid of the ports/dependencies that A needed installed with it. How would I go about finding B and C just by knowing A's name? There has to be an easy answer, but I can't figure it out. You might want to look at

Re: How to find out which ports/dependencies were installed when installing a port?

2005-08-27 Thread John Oxley
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:24:47PM -0400, Robert G. wrote: Hi, New here. I'm running portuprade and wondering if it's possible to find out which ports/dependencies were installed when installing a specific application. For example: I install A which needs B and C to run. So

Re: cpio and tar are loosing flags (and a panic message without

2005-08-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Am Samstag, 27. August 2005 06:58 CEST schrieb Matthew Dillon: :Thank you, I know cpdup but I haven't known that it's flags aware! :Unfortunately I need to write to a raw device, I guess there's no way : for=3D20 cpdup without a filesystem... : :I guess cpio and tar really should take

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-27 Thread Mark Kane
Ariff Abdullah wrote: These are my suggestions: 1) enable 'options PREEMPTION'. This is a MUST. 2) use SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD. ULE is pretty stable on me, but I can't guarantee (especially combining with PREEMPTION). It doesn't hurt to give it a try. 3) Apply these patches:

RE: Wine

2005-08-27 Thread Frank Jahnke
I did a direct install. I'm aware of the report and have read it many times. I thought I'd give it a go from the original CD, as I don't have a Linux machine around. One advantage I have is that I have a version for Small Business so I don't have to worry about Access. I had no issues with

Boot loader won't start windows on other HD

2005-08-27 Thread Barnaby Scott
I know questions like this have been asked before, but I can't find a straight answer! Forgive me though if I have missed one. I have a Windows 2000 machine into which I wanted to put an extra hard disk to run FreeBSD. In my pre-installation reading, I noticed that FreeBSD offers a mechanism to

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-27 Thread Mark Kane
Mark Kane wrote: Ariff Abdullah wrote: These are my suggestions: 1) enable 'options PREEMPTION'. This is a MUST. 2) use SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD. ULE is pretty stable on me, but I can't guarantee (especially combining with PREEMPTION). It doesn't hurt to give it a try. 3) Apply

how to know if i'm under flood?

2005-08-27 Thread vladone
Hi! How i can verify if i'm under flood atack? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to know if i'm under flood?

2005-08-27 Thread Mark Kane
vladone wrote: Hi! How i can verify if i'm under flood atack? Look at netstat, see if tons of connections are there. Maybe try the Ntop port (/usr/ports/net/ntop). It has a nice web interface showing traffic. -Mark ___

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:04 AM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the following example from the handbook FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: from my reading this is a boot2 stage

Re: shell usage (syntax) question

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:25 AM 8/27/2005, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Hello, how can I delimit a program parameter from a shell instruction? Example: I want to tell the shell that stderr should be redirected to file /tmp/test, not cpio to use /file/test: # /usr/bin/cpio -idmuv /dev/ad0h 2 /tmp/test In sh try:

Re: Boot loader won't start windows on other HD

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:24 AM 8/27/2005, Barnaby Scott wrote: I know questions like this have been asked before, but I can't find a straight answer! Forgive me though if I have missed one. I have a Windows 2000 machine into which I wanted to put an extra hard disk to run FreeBSD. In my pre-installation reading,

Re[2]: how to know if i'm under flood?

2005-08-27 Thread vladone
And how exactly use netstat for this purpose? I see many options in man pages. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

backup and restore mysql

2005-08-27 Thread Carstea Catalin
how to backup and restore mysql databases? -- Any help would be greatly appreciated. regards, Carstea Catalin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: backup and restore mysql

2005-08-27 Thread fci
On 8/27/05, Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how to backup and restore mysql databases? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqldump.html most relevent part of it ( you will need to do -u$username -p$password to login: - - snip - - The most common use of mysqldump is probably for

Re: backup and restore mysql

2005-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:04:26 -0700 Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how to backup and restore mysql databases? man mysqldump http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Sean
Glenn Dawson wrote: At 06:04 AM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the following example from the handbook FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: from my reading this

Re: backup and restore mysql

2005-08-27 Thread bob self
Carstea Catalin wrote: how to backup and restore mysql databases? to backup: # mysqldump --opt -u root -p -A dbs.sql to restore: mysql source dbs.sql; ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

pkgdb usage guide

2005-08-27 Thread Vizion
Hi It would be most appreciated if someone who is familiar with the use of pkgdb could either point to a user guide that tells one how in what circumstances to use the various interactive options offered by this utility or maybe help to draft an faq on it. Thanks -- 40 yrs navigating and

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:13 PM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 06:04 AM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the following example from the handbook FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default:

interface alias at start-up

2005-08-27 Thread Carstea Catalin
how tu setting-up interface alias at start-up -- Any help would be greatly appreciated. regards, Carstea Catalin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. You might get better help if you include details like what you installed. Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the following example from the handbook FreeBSD/i386 BOOT

Re: interface alias at start-up

2005-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:26:32 -0700 Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how tu setting-up interface alias at start-up # example /etc/rc.conf part defaultrouter=192.168.2.1 ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.2.222 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet 192.168.2.2 netmask 0x

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Sean
Glenn Dawson wrote: At 02:13 PM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 06:04 AM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the following example from the handbook FreeBSD/i386

Re: interface alias at start-up

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:40 PM 8/27/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:26:32 -0700 Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how tu setting-up interface alias at start-up # example /etc/rc.conf part defaultrouter=192.168.2.1 ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.2.222 netmask 255.255.255.0

ata2-master: FAILURE

2005-08-27 Thread Robert Ken Francis
I have failures like the below: ata2-master: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED What do I do to fix these failures? All of the FAILURE drives are on my Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A card. My secondary built-in IDE is dead so I have to use this card as an

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I doubt there's nothing wrong with the MBR per se, but if it's looking in the wrong place for the third stage loader you'll see exactly the problem you have. Where it's probably refers to boot code, not to the MBR, which doesn't look for anything except

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:40 PM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 02:13 PM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 06:04 AM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the following

Re: interface alias at start-up

2005-08-27 Thread John Barbieri
FWIW: That doesnt work for me :( any other way? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:26:32 -0700 Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how tu setting-up interface alias at start-up # example /etc/rc.conf part defaultrouter=192.168.2.1 ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.2.222

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:47 PM 8/27/2005, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I doubt there's nothing wrong with the MBR per se, but if it's looking in the wrong place for the third stage loader you'll see exactly the problem you have. Where it's probably refers to boot code, not

Re: interface alias at start-up

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:54 PM 8/27/2005, John Barbieri wrote: FWIW: That doesnt work for me :( It should. Can you send the relative parts of your rc.conf? -Glenn any other way? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:26:32 -0700 Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how tu setting-up

Re: interface alias at start-up

2005-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:54:04 -0400 John Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW: That doesnt work for me :( # in /etc/rc.local you can do this ifconfig vr0 inet alias 192.168.2.4 netmask 0x ifconfig vr0 inet alias 192.168.2.5 netmask 0x ifconfig vr0 inet alias 192.168.2.6

Re: interface alias at start-up

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:54 PM 8/27/2005, John Barbieri wrote: FWIW: That doesnt work for me :( One other thing. If the aliases you're trying to create are on a different network, the subnet mask of the first one has to be the real mask, and any further aliases in that same network have to use a mask of

Re: Problem with Epia 800 and Freebsd 5.3

2005-08-27 Thread Lord Raiden
What about installing 5.4-Release or -Stable? 5.4-Stable works fine here on an EPIA PD1. If you still get the error, it might be hardware related. Yeah, I'm starting to pick up other problems too, so this might be a much bigger issue than just a nic card. I had the 2nd HD get a

Re: interface alias at start-up

2005-08-27 Thread John Barbieri
ifconfig_xl0=inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.128 ifconfig_xl0_alias=inet 172.16.2.138 netmask 255.255.255.0 yea they are in different networks. i will try the 255.255.255.255 thing when i get back to work. that seems odd that you have to put a host netmask on there :/ Glenn Dawson

Re: interface alias at start-up

2005-08-27 Thread James Bowman Sineath, III
FWIW: That doesnt work for me :( Make sure that you replaced rl0 with the name of your interface, which can be found with a simple ifconfig -a. any other way? write a simple shell script to do it or do it manually with the following: ifconfig interface inet ip netmask subnet mask alias

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-27 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:38:00 -0500 Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Kane wrote: Ariff Abdullah wrote: These are my suggestions: 1) enable 'options PREEMPTION'. This is a MUST. 2) use SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD. ULE is pretty stable on me, but I can't guarantee

Re: Re[2]: how to know if i'm under flood?

2005-08-27 Thread James Bowman Sineath, III
In response to your first question, I would highly recommend setting up a verbose firewall if you have not already done so. Personally, I use ipfw but there are a variety of options available to you (pf/ipf/ipfw/ipfw2), so check out the handbook and figure out which one you want to use. Doing

Re: adding new lib-PATHs

2005-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:57:28 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'd like to add /usr/X11R6/NX/lib/ to my lib-PATH, in the end grep helped out : added this to /etc/rc.conf (one long line) : ldconfig_paths=/usr/X11R6/NX/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib

adding new lib-PATHs

2005-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i'd like to add /usr/X11R6/NX/lib/ to my lib-PATH, is /etc/rc.d/ldconfig the place to add it ? or create a /etc/ld.so.conf ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Illegal access attempt - FreeBSD 5.4 Release - please advise

2005-08-27 Thread nawcom
I also get a large amount of atttacks via ssh, i decided that the people who have access to my server (only 12) know what their usernames are. my decision was to set up a swatch script to monitor the types of errors that are picked up in the logs: -if the attempt was with a username that

Re: Illegal access attempt - FreeBSD 5.4 Release - please advise

2005-08-27 Thread freebsd-questions
-if the attempt was with a username that doesnt exist - i add the ip to a db of banned ips and flush and restart ipfw I'm curious about this bit - what do you do about accidentally mistyped usernames by valid users? cheers, -- Joel Hatton -- Security Analyst| Hotline: +61

Re: Illegal access attempt - FreeBSD 5.4 Release - please advise

2005-08-27 Thread nawcom
if this server was used by 100+ people i would of course not have such a harsh security script set up. everyone who uses it has great experience and understands the consequences. like i said before, this is usually for personal use and has about 12 users total. if this was used to manage ssh

gnome2 and packages cleanup

2005-08-27 Thread Gareth Campbell
Hey everyone, I was installing gnome2 from the ports collection (on dial-up!) and it took like 3 days of constant work when it finally ran out of space on my /usr drive (only using a 6.4gig). I thought this would be more than enough, but alas... So I guess Gnome is too much for my wee

Re: gnome2 and packages cleanup

2005-08-27 Thread Vizion
On Saturday 27 August 2005 18:12, the author Gareth Campbell contributed to the dialogue on- gnome2 and packages cleanup: Hey everyone, I was installing gnome2 from the ports collection (on dial-up!) and it took like 3 days of constant work when it finally ran out of space on my /usr drive

A quick question about X11 and securelevels

2005-08-27 Thread Tom Norris
I understand the things like not allowing the system clock to change and not allowing formatting of filesystems, but I want to know why you can't run x11 when you have a securelevel greater than or equal to one. there is no _serious_ reason I wish to know, I'm just curious and google keeps

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Sean
Hi guys, Just wanted to say thanks for all the helpful suggestions. Played with things and got into the geometry idea as the possible cause. Did some more work, adjusting bios and geometry settings around the disk and just a few minutes ago after yet another go at installing the laptop just

Re: Illegal access attempt - FreeBSD 5.4 Release - please advise

2005-08-27 Thread freebsd-questions
if this server was used by 100+ people i would of course not have such a harsh security script set up. everyone who uses it has great experience and understands the consequences. like i said before, this is usually for personal use and has about 12 users total. if this was used to manage

Re: Illegal access attempt - FreeBSD 5.4 Release - please advise

2005-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if this server was used by 100+ people i would of course not have such a harsh security script set up. everyone who uses it has great experience and understands the consequences. like i said before, this is usually for personal use and

package foo has no origin recorded

2005-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
How do I get pkg_info and pkg_delete to stop telling me that my 3rd party app has no origin recorded? I've added the two packages to HOLD_PKGS in pkgtools.conf and put +IGNOREME in the package directories but pkg_delete still bitches every time I do anything with ports/package system.

Is FreeBSD displaying my RAM correctly?

2005-08-27 Thread Robert G.
I have a couple of years old Gateway computer I installed FreeBSD on. It came with a P4 2.26GHz CPU (which it recognizes correctly), but when I check out /var/boot/dmesg.today I see the following: real memory = 536608768 (511 MB) avail memory = 519630848 (495 MB) Does this mean it's only

Re: Is FreeBSD displaying my RAM correctly?

2005-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/27/05, Robert G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple of years old Gateway computer I installed FreeBSD on. It came with a P4 2.26GHz CPU (which it recognizes correctly), but when I check out /var/boot/dmesg.today I see the following: real memory = 536608768 (511 MB) avail memory

Re: Sending files to Win/Linux clients from FreeBSD 4.3 server?

2005-08-27 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/27/05, Jamie Ann P. Zamodio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ooops. I already got ftp to run in my Windows client. However, the file sizes drop to almost half of its actual value after transmission using get or recv, and the downloaded files themselves aren't consistent with the original files

Re: basic install question - what am I missing?

2005-08-27 Thread D. Goss
On Aug 26, 2005, at 7:14 PM, D. Goss wrote: Sorry to have to ask this but I'm stuck... I've had FreeBSD 5.4 installed on an IBM xSeries 345 (the same box) many times. I've been experimenting with (a) the stock setup and then (b) adding a ServeRAID card which led to (c) an Adaptec