Re: Why did this work? (Flashplugin)

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 2/23/06, Vayu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed linuxpluginwrapper, linux-flashplugin-6 and linux_base-8 through ports. No errors. Created a libmap.conf with values appropriate for 6.0REL. I followed the same procedure that I did 3 weeks ago that successfully got flash playing in

Re: changeing the port of the ftp server

2006-02-23 Thread James Long
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:58:36 -0800 From: ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: changeing the port of the ftp server To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii I can't for

I've got spyware!!??

2006-02-23 Thread Joseph Vella
I just installed flash in Firefox. I was playing around with the autoscrolling feature, when all of a sudden some ugly website pops up. It was something I clicked with the mouse wheel. I tried it again and sure enough the same site pops up. It was kind of tricky to do. I had to be

Re: Why did this work? (Flashplugin)

2006-02-23 Thread Joseph Vella
On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:09 am, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 2/23/06, Vayu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed linuxpluginwrapper, linux-flashplugin-6 and linux_base-8 through ports. No errors. Created a libmap.conf with values appropriate for 6.0REL. I followed the same

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-22 13:07, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:20 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read manual pages, searched the archives, but I am really confused about all of this. Thank you for any help. All this can be resolved by using `/etc/hosts'.

Re: I've got spyware!!??

2006-02-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 23, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Joseph Vella wrote: I just installed flash in Firefox. I was playing around with the autoscrolling feature, when all of a sudden some ugly website pops up. It was something I clicked with the mouse wheel. I tried it again and sure enough the same site pops

PPPoE Connection Bug!

2006-02-23 Thread Felix
I am using Freebsd 6.0 to become my server and provide the PPPoE service to rest of my staffs PCs. It is success without any problem but sometimes I found it comes out with errors message in my log file when some of the staffs cannot online. The error messages is looked like below:

Problem connecting a freebsd server using ssh

2006-02-23 Thread Lei Sun
Hi Guys, I did tons of search on what problems might be, but it doesn't seems to be the cases that I have searched even though it looks similar. 1. ssh from Freebsd_A to Freebsd_B: I got Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer error. 2. ssh from windows xp (putty) to Freebsd_B: logs me

Re: Problem connecting a freebsd server using ssh

2006-02-23 Thread mailinglist
A and B are the same version of FreeBSD? Perhaps you can try to remove all the files under ~/.ssh on server B. 2006/2/23, Lei Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Guys, I did tons of search on what problems might be, but it doesn't seems to be the cases that I have searched even though it looks

Re: Increase process number in FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/22/06, Thawan Kooburat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am using FreeBSD 6.0. My course assignment required me to increase process number running on a system. I have already modify /boot/loader.conf on following parameters kern.maxusers = 384 kern.maxproc = 5

Re: Upgrading Apache

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/22/06, andreis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: Could you please help us to find out if it is possible to upgrade 10.3.29 Apache to the latest 10.3.x version through FreeBSD RELENG_5_4 ports? If so, any hints as to how to find the right ports would be greatly appreciated. Apache version

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/22/06, Alex Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm rather new to FreeBSD, and have been wanting to try it out. However, I am unable to boot from either the i386 6.0-RELEASE bootonly or the i386 6.0-RELEASE disc 1 CD. I'm running an Athlon 64 3000+ on a WinFast 755FXK8AA motherboard

Sendmail: 550 Relaying denied after boot up; restart sendmail solves problem !?!

2006-02-23 Thread Rob
Hi, I have a weird problem with my mail server. It's running 6-Stable as Feb. 23rd. After a boot up, sendmail refuses to deliver emails with a reject=550 5.7.1 [...] Relaying denied When I then simply restart sendmail manually: /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart the problem is solved and email

Re: Automatically changing modes on the DVD writer for K3b

2006-02-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Donald T Hayford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To get K3b to work I need to change the mode of the following devices to 664 (or 666) from 644. /dev/xpt0 /dev/cd0 and /dev/cd1 /dev/pass0 and /dev/pass1 Is there a way to do this automatically on boot-up? Now I do it using a script that I

Re: trouble finding burner (k3b)

2006-02-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter wrote: This k3b program is great but it I find it very picky. Currently it cannot detect my DVD/CD burner (/dev/acd1) anymore. It can find my CDROM (/dev/acd0) allright but it claims the permissions may be wrong on the burner. I checked and

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: Your not using the right install CDs. You have an AMD 64-Bit chip so you can't (AFAIK) use the I386 Release. Maybe there is a setting in the BIOS for I386 compat, I have no experience with AMD's 64-Bit chips so this is just a guess. Or try disabling ACPI and everything

RE: 3Ware Escalade Issues

2006-02-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nathan Vidican Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:24 AM To: Charles Swiger Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3Ware Escalade Issues Charles Swiger wrote: On Feb 22, 2006, at 12:31 PM,

portsnap failing

2006-02-23 Thread Ashley Moran
I'm trying to update my ports tree on a 6.0-RELEASE/amd64 machine. I get this error: Updating from Wed Feb 15 08:30:17 GMT 2006 to Thu Feb 23 10:20:03 GMT 2006. Fetching 3 metadata patches.. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 3 metadata files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open

RE: Sendmail: 550 Relaying denied after boot up; restart sendmail solves problem !?!

2006-02-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
One possibility is that sendmail is doing a dns query during boot to find out what it's hostname is, this is failing because maybe networking isn't up yet. put your machine name and IP in /etc/hosts and try it again. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Can I use UTF-8 encoding at the FreeBSD console?

2006-02-23 Thread a
Can I use UTF-8 encoding at the FreeBSD console? Elisej Babenko mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail: 550 Relaying denied after boot up; restart sendmail solves problem !?!

2006-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-23 02:37, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a weird problem with my mail server. It's running 6-Stable as Feb. 23rd. After a boot up, sendmail refuses to deliver emails with a reject=550 5.7.1 [...] Relaying denied When I then simply restart sendmail manually:

Re: torrents.freebsd.org

2006-02-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On 20/2/06 23:34, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: torrents.freebsd.org (216.136.204.113:8080) does not seem to be accepting any connections. Neither ctorrent nor rtorrent will connect to it, nor will a manual telnet connection. torrents.freebsd.org:8080 is the tracker specified in the

RE: changeing the port of the ftp server

2006-02-23 Thread fbsd_user
You would edit /etc/services to change the standard port numbers FTP uses. Say change port 20 21 to 35520 35521. You also must realize that your public internet users who want to access your FTP server must also change their FTP port numbers to the same ones you used in /etc/services before

RE: portsnap failing

2006-02-23 Thread Jack Stone
I'm trying to update my ports tree on a 6.0-RELEASE/amd64 machine. I get this error: Updating from Wed Feb 15 08:30:17 GMT 2006 to Thu Feb 23 10:20:03 GMT 2006. Fetching 3 metadata patches.. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 3 metadata files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open

Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, We have 12 servers running freebsd. They are basically web servers having cpanel control panel. All these server are running FreeBSD 5.4 Release as of now. Now are thinking of upgrading it to 5.4 Stable Please let me know the merits and demerits of the same. Do you feel it is good move to

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-23 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:36 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: what about the dependency then? Ignore it? What if there are files needed by xorg-clients? eg: libXX.so.Y and which

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, We have 12 servers running freebsd. They are basically web servers having cpanel control panel. All these server are running FreeBSD 5.4 Release as of now. Now are thinking of upgrading it to 5.4 Stable Please let me know the merits and demerits of the same. Do you

Re: Page Fault - Wireless problem?

2006-02-23 Thread Mark Tinguely
Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: ural0: could not transmit buffer: SHORT_XFER Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x4 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc0667091 stack pointer

kernel compiling options question

2006-02-23 Thread Daim Willemse
Hello all, On my fine FreeBSD 6.0 box I am running a wireless access point. I set up the interface and bridged it and all worked fine. After that I wanted to install ISDN4BSD. Therefor I compliled a new kernel after adding the ISDN4BSD code. The kernel compiled and it booted. However. In

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Jayesh Jayan
That was valuable in deed The 12 server are all identical but the problem is that the test machine which we will be using is not of the same class as that of the server. Then all the server run a custom built kernel and not the generic one. By mode I meant how to go about doing this

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, We have 12 servers running freebsd. They are basically web servers having cpanel control panel. All these server are running FreeBSD 5.4 Release as of now. Now are thinking of upgrading it to 5.4 Stable Hmmm. I wouldn't call that an upgrade really. Except for a few possibly

Re: kernel compiling options question

2006-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-23 15:37, Daim Willemse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, On my fine FreeBSD 6.0 box I am running a wireless access point. I set up the interface and bridged it and all worked fine. After that I wanted to install ISDN4BSD. Therefor I compliled a new kernel after adding the

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Jayesh Jayan
By mode I meant -- binary upgrade or cvs mode On 2/23/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We have 12 servers running freebsd. They are basically web servers having cpanel control panel. All these server are running FreeBSD 5.4 Release as of now. Now are thinking

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
By mode I meant -- binary upgrade or cvs mode If you go to V-6.xxx as suggested, then do a fresh install, that includes wiping the disk and freshly building the slices and partitions/file systems. Of course, do the appropriate backups first and verify them at least a little. If you are

Converting a Regex into plain text

2006-02-23 Thread Warren Liddell
is there any pkg avilable that'll convert a regex into plain txt ? Presently i dont care if its windows based or FreeBSD based ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

arp: XXX is on rl0 but got reply from ...

2006-02-23 Thread Andrei Iarus
I have read a lot about this error message, but I have another questions: What actually happens when this error occures? I mean what can this error lead to? Is it enough to switch the specific sysctl variable to stop the error (and all it can lead to)? I dont think so, then: Is the

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
That was valuable in deed The 12 server are all identical but the problem is that the test machine which we will be using is not of the same class as that of the server. Then all the server run a custom built kernel and not the generic one. By mode I meant how to go about doing

Re: Can I use UTF-8 encoding at the FreeBSD console?

2006-02-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 23), a said: Can I use UTF-8 encoding at the FreeBSD console? No; since text consoles can only display 256 characters at a time anyway, it wouldn't do much good. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: I've got spyware!!??

2006-02-23 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 23, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Joseph Vella wrote: I just installed flash in Firefox. I was playing around with the autoscrolling feature, when all of a sudden some ugly website pops up. It was something I clicked with the mouse wheel.

Re: Converting a Regex into plain text

2006-02-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any pkg avilable that'll convert a regex into plain txt ? What do you mean? What would the plain text translation of (div|p)[^]*(id|class)=\(Ad.*|Logo|SidebarAds|Tips|Item)\ be? Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc

Re: Converting a Regex into plain text

2006-02-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Warren Liddell wrote: is there any pkg avilable that'll convert a regex into plain txt ? No. Most regular expressions cannot be expressed as finite plain text strings, that is why regex is used in the first place. Presently i dont care if its windows based or FreeBSD based Hmm. -- -Chuck

Re: Problem connecting a freebsd server using ssh

2006-02-23 Thread wc_fbsd
At 03:50 AM 2/23/2006, Lei Sun wrote: 1. ssh from Freebsd_A to Freebsd_B: I got Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer error. 2. ssh from windows xp (putty) to Freebsd_B: logs me in fine 3. try to ssh from Freebsd_A to Freebsd_B again, got the same error I didn't did through your

Re: Converting a Regex into plain text

2006-02-23 Thread Warren Liddell
On Thursday 23 February 2006 15:50, Fabian Keil wrote: Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any pkg avilable that'll convert a regex into plain txt ? What do you mean? What would the plain text translation of (div|p)[^]*(id|class)=\(Ad.*|Logo|SidebarAds|Tips|Item)\ be?

Re: Converting a Regex into plain text

2006-02-23 Thread chip
On 2/23/06, Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any pkg avilable that'll convert a regex into plain txt ? Presently i dont care if its windows based or FreeBSD based ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Converting a Regex into plain text

2006-02-23 Thread Warren Liddell
Take a look at RegEx Coach it has several ways to express what the regex string is doing. It's got lots of other neat tools as well: http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/ --chip -- Just my $.02, your mileage may vary, batteries not included, etc Thanks, i'll give it a shot.

Re: OpenVPN in QEMU on FreeBSD 6.x ...

2006-02-23 Thread Eric Schuele
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Did some searching tonight, to see what was available as an OSS alternative to VMWare, and came across QEMU ... what I'm interested in doing is running a QEMU vServer that runs FreeBSD inside of it, and will support having outside connections talking to it as a VPN

CVSUP ?

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Maness
I have a question in regards to CVSUP. Does it sometimes not delete old files. I did a sync on my ports. I built CUPS and the install scripts were putting files in the wrong place. I fixed it by manually deleting the cups directory and getting the fresh tarballs from from the ports site.

Re: Problem connecting a freebsd server using ssh

2006-02-23 Thread Lei Sun
Actually, both of them are releng_6-p4, and I had no problem connecting in both directions before Freebsd_B is put into the data center. Any more help or suggestions would be gladly appreciated. Thanks Lei On 2/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:50 AM 2/23/2006, Lei Sun

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Jayesh Jayan
All are Dell Poweredge servers with identical specification. I did check the message logs an couldn't find any problem What are the other aspects which I need to check so as to find a solution. On 2/23/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was valuable in deed The 12

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-23 Thread Rob
Rob wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:20 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-02-22 10:17, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to set the display name on my computer. I have a program used with Xorg that gives me the error message:

Solved, thanks! And a hot software tip (was: How to remove Boot Menu)

2006-02-23 Thread wc_fbsd
Hi thanks to everyone who responded, Esp Tim D. on my question about removing the FBSD boot manager. A plain old DOS FDISK /MBR zapped it, and left my BSD installation untouched. Problem is yet again, I needed a dang DOS boot disk. I've been thinking for years it would be cool to

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-23 Thread Rob
On 2006-02-22 13:07, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:20 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read manual pages, searched the archives, but I am really confused about all of this. Thank you for any help. All this can be resolved by using `/etc/hosts'.

proftpd+pam

2006-02-23 Thread Mário Sérgio Candian
Hello guys, I have a FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE box. I installed from the ports the proftpd (proftpd-1.3.0.r3) and I have some problems with autentication. In the /var/log/messages file I have this: Feb 23 13:37:31 brhp_ftp01 proftpd: in openpam_read_chain(): /etc/pam.d/ftpd(22): invalid facility

Trouble setting up wireless network

2006-02-23 Thread Teemu Korhonen
I'm trying to make an adhoc wlan between my desktop computer (WinXP) and laptop (FreeBSD-6.0). Both have 802.11b/g wlan-adapters. They seem to connect, but theres no data transfer and neither can ping each other. Windows machine can ping it self, but freebsd machine can't. (ping: sendto:

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-23 08:38, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-02-22 13:07, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So now Xorg does not give errors on startup or shutdown like the bad display name xenon:0 in remove commandor bad display name xenon:0 in list command But when not

Re: CVSUP ?

2006-02-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Maness wrote: I have a question in regards to CVSUP. Does it sometimes not delete old files. I did a sync on my ports. I built CUPS and the install scripts were putting files in the wrong place. I fixed it by manually deleting the cups directory and getting the fresh tarballs from

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-23 08:23, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if you get this twice Rob as I mistakenly sent my reply only to you without including the list I had the same problem. Add this line to your .xinitrc file xdpyinfo -display :0.0 The hostname is not specified. --Duane

Re: I've got spyware!!??

2006-02-23 Thread Joseph Vella
On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:43, Dave McCammon wrote: --- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 23, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Joseph Vella wrote: autoscrolling feature, when all of a sudden some ugly website pops up. It was something I clicked with the mouse wheel. I

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/23/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Your not using the right install CDs. You have an AMD 64-Bit chip so you can't (AFAIK) use the I386 Release. Maybe there is a setting in the BIOS for I386 compat, I have no experience with AMD's 64-Bit chips so this is

FreeBSD on Sun Fire V20Z

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
Has anyone installed 6.0 RELEASE on this hardware? I can't even get it to boot off the CD, but it boots fine off the Sun-supplied setup CD (which only offers RHE and Suse as options.) I've d/l'd both discs 1 2 and the bootonly ISOs and burned them to CD (like I usually do), but they do not

Re: FreeBSD on Sun Fire V20Z

2006-02-23 Thread Derek Ragona
I am not familiar with this Sun unit, but on other sun sparcs their boot devices were set in the prom. As I recall the cd boot is not the same slice/dev as the FreeBSD one. You may try to drop to the prom and try other cd devices to boot from. -Derek At 12:27 PM 2/23/2006, Paul

Re: FreeBSD on Sun Fire V20Z

2006-02-23 Thread Valerio daelli
We use it since last August without problem. We have FreeBSD 5.4 for amd64 and it works great. Bye Valerio Daelli On 2/23/06, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone installed 6.0 RELEASE on this hardware? I can't even get it to boot off the CD, but it boots fine off the Sun-supplied

Re: FreeBSD on Sun Fire V20Z

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:40:39 -0600 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not familiar with this Sun unit, but on other sun sparcs their boot devices were set in the prom. As I recall the cd boot is not the same slice/dev as the FreeBSD one. You may try to drop to the prom

if_iwi on FreeBSD 6.0 on a Thinkpad T43

2006-02-23 Thread Nathan Lay
Hi all, I've encountered a peculiar quirk in either this laptop or FreeBSD with IPW2915ABG. For some reason or another, either the Thinkpad turns the card on at bootup, or FreeBSD's if_iwi driver and acpi_ibm mistakenly think the card is turned on. My loaded modules: Id Refs AddressSize

Re: trouble finding burner (k3b)

2006-02-23 Thread Duane Whitty
Fabian Keil wrote: Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter wrote: This k3b program is great but it I find it very picky. Currently it cannot detect my DVD/CD burner (/dev/acd1) anymore. It can find my CDROM (/dev/acd0) allright but it claims the permissions may be wrong on the burner.

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: I see, do the Intel EMT-64 chips use the amd64 release too? And what did he mean by certain programs being unavalable for amd64, what are the major ones? There seems to be an IA-64 which I guess is Intel. Only buy AMD chips myself, so I'm a bit hazy on that. I'm

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/23/06, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All are Dell Poweredge servers with identical specification. I did check the message logs an couldn't find any problem What are the other aspects which I need to check so as to find a solution. I've had FreeBSD 5.4 randomly reboot on high

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-23 Thread Rob
Sorry, forgot to copy the list. Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:23:47 -0800 From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:26:28 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas

Re: FreeBSD on Sun Fire V20Z

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, February 23, 2006 19:41:20 +0100 Valerio daelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use it since last August without problem. We have FreeBSD 5.4 for amd64 and it works great. Bye 6.0 works fine if you remember to include the fixate command when you burn the CD. :-( Paul Schmehl

Re: Looking for a mentor on php/mysql

2006-02-23 Thread Duane Whitty
Robert Uzzi wrote: I am trying to teach my self php/mysql/html programming. I have done native static html web sites before. Running FreeBSD 6.0 with apache13, php, and mysql all installed and working. Have read a few php books and searched the web for code snippets. Have been on some of the

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Please try to interleave the replies with quoted material. It's much easier to read related stuff if it close together, instead of having to page up and down my entire original reply :( I've reorganized this post and moved things around, so you may find that the numbering of your text is not

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-23 Thread Rob
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:29:47 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please try to interleave the replies with quoted material. It's much easier to read related stuff if it close together, instead of having to page up and down my entire original reply :( I am sorry. I sometimes

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-23 14:13, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then you have two options: 1. Start the X11 server in ``listen mode'', which will enable connections to port 6000: $ startx -listen_tcp I tried that and then at the xterm I again gave the commands xhost

Re: PPPoE Connection Bug!

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
This may not be very helpful but many of us use net/mpd to provide PPPoE/PPTP services. It's quite robust. Please, don't cross-post, it looks very impolite. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Solved, thanks! And a hot software tip (was: How to remove Boot Menu)

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 2/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi thanks to everyone who responded, Esp Tim D. on my question about removing the FBSD boot manager. A plain old DOS FDISK /MBR zapped it, and left my BSD installation untouched. Problem is yet again, I needed a dang DOS boot

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/23/06, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was valuable in deed The 12 server are all identical but the problem is that the test machine which we will be using is not of the same class as that of the server. Then all the server run a custom built kernel and not the generic

Some SMP questions

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
When you do a default install of 6.0-RELEASE, does the kernel have support for SMP? Or do you have to compile a custom kernel to get that? Does this mean SMP is not enabled? kern.smp.cpus: 1 kern.smp.disabled: 0 kern.smp.active: 0 kern.smp.maxcpus: 1 Can I set these with sysctl? Or do I

moused problem

2006-02-23 Thread Timothy Smith
hi there when i disconnect my mouse from the ps2 port, when i go to reconnect it i find my mouse has stopped working. when i restart moused it works again, but i find that my scroll wheel no longer works in X. any ideas how i can prevent this from happening all together?

Re: Some SMP questions

2006-02-23 Thread Jerry Bell
The default kernel doesn't support SMP. You have to recompile with the SMP config and it'll start getting your other processor. Regards, Jerry http://www.bsdsec.com Paul Schmehl wrote: When you do a default install of 6.0-RELEASE, does the kernel have support for SMP? Or do you have to

Build Backwards Compatible MySQL Client Libs

2006-02-23 Thread Don O'Neil
Hi all... I have some OLD programs I don't have the source for that were built with the MySQL 3.23.55 client libraries. They still work great, even when using those libraries to connect to 4.1.18 Mysql (I have a copy of the old lib in the new lib dir) However, is there some way I can build a

10 years of The Complete FreeBSD

2006-02-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, Installing and Using FreeBSD. It was later renamed to The Complete FreeBSD. I have always retained full rights to the book, and for today I've decided to release it for

Re: /etc/rc.d/jail can't stop jail

2006-02-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Thanks to Valerio daelli for pointing out that the names I had in my rc.conf needed to be changed to match the actual jail name. The jail now starts, however trying to kill it still doesn't work. There is no error and running /etc/rc.d/jail mail stop shows Stopping jails: mail12. However

RE: freebsd.org mailing list memberships reminder

2006-02-23 Thread Xavier Castll
Hello FreeBSD gurus: I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 in the following configuration: SuperMicro X6DH8-G Chassis compatible with board 2 Gigabite of Memory Adaptec RAID 2010S with 3 SCSI hot-swapable Ultra 320 73 GB drives from Hitachi (IBM) The problem I am having is that after the three

Re: 10 years of The Complete FreeBSD

2006-02-23 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 11:30 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, Installing and Using FreeBSD. It was later renamed to The Complete FreeBSD. Dude.. (or Sir) nice Beard!!

FBSD 6.0 locking up.

2006-02-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have a production server that has been online for a few months now running FreeBSD 6.0. Until now it has been performing flawlessly. It is on a brand new Dell PE1850. A few days back, at a clients request I opened port 3306 to allow remote access to mysql. 3 times today I had to

Re: 10 years of The Complete FreeBSD

2006-02-23 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:30:27AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, Installing and Using FreeBSD. It was later renamed to The Complete FreeBSD. I have always retained

Re: 10 years of The Complete FreeBSD

2006-02-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, Installing and Using FreeBSD. It was later renamed to The Complete FreeBSD. I have always retained full rights to the book, and for today I've

RE: installation of FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've given up on the installation of FreeBSD 6.0 on my current system. I bought a new system (it was on sale) and will do the installation of FreeBSD 6.0 on it, but I will start a new message thread for that the subject matter being New Computer System.

New Computer System

2006-02-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I bought a new system (it was on sale), it has 180 Gigabytes of hard drive. Naturally I want to slice it up, so where can I find the documentation on the slice/partition process and table. As I recall, I can make 4 hard slices/partitions and then I can further break-down 1 (or more of

proxy

2006-02-23 Thread Andre Pretorius
I need to monitor traffic from my network to the internet, I then need to charge each user (preferably username and password authentication) for the amount of data used. Can FreeBSD do this? Hope to hear from you soon Andre ___

Re: proxy

2006-02-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
I need to monitor traffic from my network to the internet, I then need to charge each user (preferably username and password authentication) for the amount of data used. I think monowall can do that, it is build on freebsd. Olivier ___

Mod_Auth_Mysql v2.20

2006-02-23 Thread Don O'Neil
Does anyone have instructions on how to build v2.2 of Mod_Auth_Mysql with the latest Apache HTTP release? I have old apps that I cannot rebuild that require some of the directives syntax that are only supported in v2.2 Alternatively, if someone has a pre-built module for the 1x line of HTTPD,

setting up french keyboard

2006-02-23 Thread Peter
Hi. Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to output French characters? If so, how? -- Peter __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___

10 years of The Complete FreeBSD

2006-02-23 Thread David Armour
as a relatively-complete newb, even after several years, i believe i owe a lot of what i have learned in that time to your book. it's a pleasure to have the opportunity to thank you publically for your book, and now, for your generosity in donating it to the creative commons. you even got me to

Re: Automatically changing modes on the DVD writer for K3b

2006-02-23 Thread Donald T Hayford
Fabian Keil wrote: Donald T Hayford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To get K3b to work I need to change the mode of the following devices to 664 (or 666) from 644. /dev/xpt0 /dev/cd0 and /dev/cd1 /dev/pass0 and /dev/pass1 Is there a way to do this automatically on boot-up? Now I do it using a

Re: New Computer System

2006-02-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
I bought a new system (it was on sale), it has 180 Gigabytes of hard drive. Naturally I want to slice it up, so where can I find the documentation on the slice/partition process and table. As I recall, I can make 4 hard slices/partitions and then I can further break-down 1 (or more

Re: OpenVPN in QEMU on FreeBSD 6.x ...

2006-02-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/23/06, Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Did some searching tonight, to see what was available as an OSS alternative to VMWare, and came across QEMU ... what I'm interested in doing is running a QEMU vServer that runs FreeBSD inside of it, and will

Re: moused problem

2006-02-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/23/06, Timothy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there when i disconnect my mouse from the ps2 port, when i go to reconnect it i find my mouse has stopped working. when i restart moused it works again, but i find that my scroll wheel no longer works in X. any ideas how i can prevent this

problem with file creation script

2006-02-23 Thread je killen
I have a question that has not been answered by the php lists I subscribe to. I have written a script that reads a directory in which I have placed True Type font files for use with gd and php 5.1.2 on FreeBSD v6.0. This is used to generate a text file that serves as input for another script

Re: if_iwi on FreeBSD 6.0 on a Thinkpad T43

2006-02-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
Nathan Lay wrote: Hi all, I've encountered a peculiar quirk in either this laptop or FreeBSD with IPW2915ABG. For some reason or another, either the Thinkpad turns the card on at bootup, or FreeBSD's if_iwi driver and acpi_ibm mistakenly think the card is turned on. My loaded modules: Id

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