How to reinitialize psm0 without reboot?

2006-03-25 Thread Lena
Hi, A hardware glitch of an (optical) PS/2 mouse can cause the mouse pointer to freeze. Subsequent killall -HUP moused gives: Mar 23 09:11:34 bedside kernel: psm0: failed to reset the aux device. Mar 23 09:11:34 bedside kernel: psm0: the aux device has gone! (reinitialize). or: Mar 23 10:48:27

Re: portmanager configuration and stunnel options

2006-03-25 Thread Gerard Seibert
Noah wrote: Hi there, I am trying to figure out the proper options and configuration syntax for the portmanager configuration file - pm-020.conf . I cant figure out what the proper stunnel switches to automatically keep the stunnel GID and UID. At hte moment stunnel requires manual

Upgrade abiword chokes for some weird reason ...

2006-03-25 Thread Kiffin Gish
For some reason when I try to upgrade/reinstall abiword it fails. This is what happens: -- # cd /usr/ports/editors/abiword # make install clean === abiword-gnome-2.4.2_1 depends on executable: unzip - found === abiword-gnome-2.4.2_1 depends on executable: gmake - found ===

Re: mdmfs -P

2006-03-25 Thread Leo R. Lundgren
Hi, Yeah, I tried the stable mailinglist, no response. I'm a bit unsure where this question belong, so I figured I'd try the questions mailinglist before i go disturb currect, I bet they're all busy making Free an even better product ;) I might try current later on though, just thought

Re: KDE App Launcher

2006-03-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/24/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For /bin/sh, you can't export a variable on the line you set it; that's an extension found in bash, ksh, and zsh, but is not part of the original sh: It is, however, supported

Testing 6.x

2006-03-25 Thread Tim
hey I am downloading your newest version, I will keep you informed about any bugs they may come up. Also what I think could be added to make it better. Tim Stevens Kingston Ontario Canada ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: what is going on??

2006-03-25 Thread Eric Schuele
Garrett Cooper wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: Thanks for the replies everyone. It turned out to be partially ipv6, partially the ipfw on my pfsense firewall. Ultimately, the hangup was in sendmail, unable to start. Ipv6 messages in the logevel 20 maillogs. However, during all my troubles, I

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- Mode sense fails

2006-03-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Duane Whitty wrote: Please forgive me for stepping in, but I'm having the same problem, asked sometime ago and did not get any answer. I believe you may also need in defs.conf perm xpt0 0666 Did that, same situation. My Yamaha burner is still detected as a read-only device. bye

RE: what is going on??

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Horne
[quote] ...that there are still quite a few 'broken' DNS servers out there. 'Broken' with respect to servicing IPv6 requests. [/quote] Actually, when you mention it that way, that makes pretty good sense as to what my situation then was. The server I was specifying was a *very* old metaip 4.1

Re: Fwd: Re: Gnucash takes 5+ minutes to load

2006-03-25 Thread Eric Schuele
Oliver Iberien wrote: Thanks very much for this. This is very thorough, leaving me practically no possible means of screwing up. I can't take credit for the solution. Others more adept than myself (pjeremy and joerg) on hackers@ solved the problem. It's my understanding pjeremy has

How to downgrade a port?

2006-03-25 Thread Yuan Jue
Hi all. I wanna downgrade a port 'cause I found the newest port seems still have some problems :-( the question is: how could I do this? Usually I use portupgrade to upgrade my ports tree. So to downgrade a port, is portdowngrade a choice? I notice that portdowngrade has stopped developing

Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Tim
Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if you have never done it, I am now reloading windows and then putting

ipfw - ipa

2006-03-25 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I use IPFW and IPA to do IP accounting on all my systems. I was wondering if anyone has any opinions on how often the rules, or just the bytecounters should be zero'd/flushed when using ipfw? My rulesets consists of anywhere between 100-300 rules, most consisting of counters (used

kernel optimization

2006-03-25 Thread Grant Peel
Hello, I have several different Dell PowerEdge servers running various branches of FReeBSD ranging from 4.4 (nameserver only), to 6.0. I have had excellent success compiling kernels and am quite comfortable with the process. I was wondering what strategy people use to 'KNOW' which drivers

Installong screenshots

2006-03-25 Thread Tim
Here's an idea, many of the distros I download I get from this site, distrowatch..com , most of the distros have screenshots of installing there OS's, FreeBSD does NOT have set of anything, if they did I am sure it would make is easy as I always use them to install my OS distros. Tim Stevens

Re: How to downgrade a port?

2006-03-25 Thread Dev Tugnait
portdowngrade works On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 22:35 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: Hi all. I wanna downgrade a port 'cause I found the newest port seems still have some problems :-( the question is: how could I do this? Usually I use portupgrade to upgrade my ports tree. So to downgrade a port, is

Re: em device on 4.x: ifconfig alias issue

2006-03-25 Thread Grant Peel
Hi Marc, I don't pretend to know anything about Address Resolution and Routing, but one thing I know (through many hours of frustration), is that an aliased address (in your case, somehting like em0:23), IF the ip address being aliases, belongs in the same subnet as anotherone on the same

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread beni . brinckman
Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if you have never done it, I am now reloading windows and then putting back

Re: portmanager configuration and stunnel options

2006-03-25 Thread RW
On Saturday 25 March 2006 02:21, RW wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 17:13, Noah wrote: Hi there, I am trying to figure out the proper options and configuration syntax for the portmanager configuration file - pm-020.conf . I cant figure out what the proper stunnel switches to

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Tim wrote: Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if you have never done it, I am now reloading windows and then

Re: Installong screenshots

2006-03-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Tim wrote: Here's an idea, many of the distros I download I get from this site, distrowatch..com , most of the distros have screenshots of installing there OS's, FreeBSD does NOT have set of anything, if they did I am sure it would make is easy as I always use them to install my OS distros.

Re: Installong screenshots

2006-03-25 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 09:43 -0500, Tim wrote: Here's an idea, many of the distros I download I get from this site, distrowatch..com , most of the distros have screenshots of installing there OS's, FreeBSD does NOT have set of anything, if they did I am sure it would make is easy as I always

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if you have never done it, I am now reloading

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Daniel A.
On 3/25/06, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim wrote: Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if

RE: kernel optimization

2006-03-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
I was wondering what strategy people use to 'KNOW' which drivers and options can me commented out/deleted when configuring the kernel file. i.e. how does one know he does not need the 'amr' driver (I knowI don't need this one, but the idea relates to a number of other settings in the

console driver and keymaps

2006-03-25 Thread User Elisej
How to understand and write keymaps? Is this any document besides kbdcontrol(1) and kbdmap(5)? The later two is not enought for me. After reading of these two I have many questions. E. g.: How to make Alt+a acting as sequence Meta a Alt+a acts in other way, than a pressed after the key acting as

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Tim wrote: Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if you have never done it, I am now reloading windows and

USB external drive size limitations?

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Horne
Last night I plugged in a 300GB Maxtor USB drive into my FreeBSD 6.0 server (with a fat filesystem), and it told me it was too big!! Haha, its full of my backups from my previous operating system (fedora) and now im going to have a fun time getting those files onto my new FreeBSD server! Can

RE: USB external drive size limitations?

2006-03-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
Haha, its full of my backups from my previous operating system (fedora) and now im going to have a fun time getting those files onto my new FreeBSD server! Can someone recommend a course of action for me here? Google isn't really turning up anything interesting relating to size of external

Re: USB external drive size limitations?

2006-03-25 Thread Fabian Keil
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night I plugged in a 300GB Maxtor USB drive into my FreeBSD 6.0 server (with a fat filesystem), and it told me it was too big!! Haha, its full of my backups from my previous operating system (fedora) and now im going to have a fun time getting

compiling sendmail to 8.13.6

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Horne
Ok, I just cvsup'd and it did not pull down the sources for sendmail 8.13.6 ( I might still have misunderstanding of what exactly cvsup does). Anyway, I took matters into my own hands, and I was wondering if my procedure would be considered acceptable by my peers. So, this is what I did: 1)

best way to use cp?

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Horne
ok, tell them dumb linux user how to properly copy directories recursivly, so he can stop overwritng directories with source files. /humor ok seriously, tho, i think im doing it wrong. last night i blasted some directories, and when i looked at the destination of where i was supposed to be

Re: USB external drive size limitations?

2006-03-25 Thread Fabian Keil
Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night I plugged in a 300GB Maxtor USB drive into my FreeBSD 6.0 server (with a fat filesystem), and it told me it was too big!! Haha, its full of my backups from my previous operating system (fedora)

RE: USB external drive size limitations?

2006-03-25 Thread JHorne
Well im fairly certain that my filesystem has less than a million files, its mostly just large .iso files from my ftp server. I can defiantly quickly check it out against a windows computer before I plug it back in the next time im at my colo. Ok, so since im about to recompile and force myself

Re: best way to use cp?

2006-03-25 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/24/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, tell them dumb linux user how to properly copy directories recursivly, so he can stop overwritng directories with source files. /humor ok seriously, tho, i think im doing it wrong. last night i blasted some directories, and when i

Re: How to reinitialize psm0 without reboot?

2006-03-25 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, A hardware glitch of an (optical) PS/2 mouse can cause the mouse pointer to freeze. Subsequent killall -HUP moused gives: Mar 23 09:11:34 bedside kernel: psm0: failed to reset the aux device. Mar 23 09:11:34 bedside kernel: psm0:

Re: Testing 6.x

2006-03-25 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/25/06, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey I am downloading your newest version, I will keep you informed about any bugs they may come up. Also what I think could be added to make it better. hey thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

sendmail feature options.

2006-03-25 Thread fbsd_user
Tried to add sendmail feature option nodns and received error during make. Where can I find list of all the allowable feature options. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Remote Single User Mode?

2006-03-25 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/24/06, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/03/06, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Schultz wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:11:48AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: I administer this box by remote. Look into setting up a serial console; this is the

Re: wireless (802.11x) sniffer

2006-03-25 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/24/06, Imran Imtiaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which is best wireless network card sniffer except kismet cause kismet is not being installed on my system? Imran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Australian C'wealth Games Daylight Saving Time extension

2006-03-25 Thread Ian Smith
Not a question, but one answer for anyone else caught by the change to the end of Daylight Saving Time in Australia a few hours ago, who hadn't updated their /usr/share/zoneinfo/ data since, um, Feb 21st or so. Yes, I was surprised to notice the clock move back an hour tonight, on my 4.5-R laptop

Re: best way to use cp?

2006-03-25 Thread Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez
El Vie 24 Mar 2006 11:38, Jonathan Horne escribió: ok, tell them dumb linux user how to properly copy directories recursivly, so he can stop overwritng directories with source files. /humor ok seriously, tho, i think im doing it wrong. last night i blasted some directories, and when i

StOOOpid DVD

2006-03-25 Thread Vaaf
Hey! I got this DVD here. It won't play on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. But it plays on Windows. Here's what I did: # mplayer movie.img Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html. MPEG-PS file format detected. demux: File doesn't contain the selected audio or video stream. MPEG: No audio stream

Re: which jdk?

2006-03-25 Thread Eric Schultz
Robert Huff wrote: 1) You need a working Java to build a working Java. Just curious, does that mean after the first time you install Java subsequent re-installs or upgrades can use the /native/ port that was first installed using the Linux package? 2) Due to restrictions

Re: which jdk?

2006-03-25 Thread Robert Huff
Eric Schultz writes: 1) You need a working Java to build a working Java. Just curious, does that mean after the first time you install Java subsequent re-installs or upgrades can use the /native/ port that was first installed using the Linux package? Yes. 2)

E-mail server, minimalist approach

2006-03-25 Thread Vaaf
Hello! I am curious about the best practices of hosting other people's e-mails in FreeBSD, using Postfix and MySQL if necessary. I used to use Postfixadmin but lately I feel sick when using badly laid out web user interfaces like that. Maintaining stuff graphically not only makes me want to

Re: StOOOpid DVD

2006-03-25 Thread Vaaf
Nevermind this, I solved it. I just had to run mplayer dvd:// instead. :) At 20:46 25.03.2006, Vaaf wrote: Hey! I got this DVD here. It won't play on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. But it plays on Windows. Here's what I did: # mplayer movie.img Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html. MPEG-PS

RE: sendmail dns lookups

2006-03-25 Thread fbsd_user
After trying to activate the sendmail nodsn feature in FreeBSD 6.0 I get a make error. It seems that this feature is no longer available. The README file talks about some hosts switch file which does not exist. So back to original question which is now modified to say, How do you tell sendmail

No Route to Host Error with FTP Transfers

2006-03-25 Thread Bob Perry
Hello, Approximately 90%-95% of file transfers during portupgrade result in the error message No route to Host. If the file in question resides only on an ftp site, I disable the firewall in order to transfer the file in. Yesterday, I resorted to commenting out the second of three IPNAT

Dump to DVD problem.

2006-03-25 Thread Scott Ballantyne
I am trying to use dump/restore to backup my filesystems to DVD. I am using a DVD+RW, format it with dvd+rw-format -force /dev/cd0, and then do: dump -0 -b 32 -B 4590208 -f /dev/cd0 / to backup the root filesystem. I do this after going to single user mode. It seems that dump is perhaps not

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Kevin Kinsey thusly... Seems to me, and some others, that PCBSD's implementation of 3rd party software may get its users in the same sort of libc hell that many Linux users find themselves in someplace down the road. Do you have any pointers where above

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Bill Moran
Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, incidentally, Tim, judging an OS by its installer is about as useful as judging women by their appearance. There's more to it than that. ;-) Really? Such as? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 25 March 2006 at 9:36:04 -0500, Tim wrote: Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if you have

Re: TCP delayed acks not being delayed?

2006-03-25 Thread Bill Moran
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 02:09, RW wrote: I have a 1MB/0.25Mb ADSL connection and have an IPFW rule to prioritize outgoing empty acks. If I download a single file with kget at 100 kbytes/s, I see that the rule gets hit at a rate of 50/s: ie a little under 1

Re: Dump to DVD problem.

2006-03-25 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 25 March 2006 12:00, Scott Ballantyne wrote: I am trying to use dump/restore to backup my filesystems to DVD. I am using a DVD+RW, format it with dvd+rw-format -force /dev/cd0, and then do: dump -0 -b 32 -B 4590208 -f /dev/cd0 / to backup the root filesystem. I do this after

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- Mode sense fails

2006-03-25 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Saturday 25 March 2006 11:46, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Please forgive me for stepping in, but I'm having the same problem, asked sometime ago and did not get any answer. My Yamaha burner is still detected as a read-only device.   bye Thanks av. There is a

Re: Dump to DVD problem.

2006-03-25 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:25:32PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 12:00, Scott Ballantyne wrote: I am trying to use dump/restore to backup my filesystems to DVD. I am using a DVD+RW, format it with dvd+rw-format -force /dev/cd0, and then do: dump -0 -b 32 -B

Strange HD behavior

2006-03-25 Thread Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont
Hi, I've recently (2 or 3 days ago) installed 6.1-BETA4 (from bootonly CD). The installation process went on flawlessly. Then I left kdebase3 compiling (and its dependancies) overnight. But I woke up the next day to find the login prompt and a few (2, i guess) messages of bad blocks somewhere in

Re: E-mail server, minimalist approach

2006-03-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 09:38:42PM +0100, Vaaf wrote: My minimalist approach to using MySQL for instance, is to stay away from phpMyAdmin and just create my databases like this: CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS database; GRANT USAGE ON database.* TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Re: Strange HD behavior

2006-03-25 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/26/06, Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've recently (2 or 3 days ago) installed 6.1-BETA4 (from bootonly CD). The installation process went on flawlessly. Then I left kdebase3 compiling (and its dependancies) overnight. But I woke up the next day to find the

-STABLE cvsup this morning breaks wpa_supplicant

2006-03-25 Thread Nicolas Blais
On one of my -STABLE system which uses 802.11g to connect to the network, after a cvsup this morning I was no longer able to use wpa_supplicant. Error message at boot: Starting wpa_supplicant. NDIS: Failed to get adapter list (PacketGetAdapterNames) Failed to initialize driver interface

Sendmail and Jails

2006-03-25 Thread Jack Stone
I have been setting up jails on various production servers on FBSD-6.0 4.11. I was wondering how/where to configure avoid the port conficts for sendmail as follows: - main host - all sendmail services in out (or at least out) - jail - just outgoing services I gather I will need to

Re: best way to use cp?

2006-03-25 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:38 -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: ok, tell them dumb linux user how to properly copy directories recursivly, so he can stop overwritng directories with source files. /humor ok seriously, tho, i think im doing it wrong. last night i blasted some directories, and

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
Tim wrote: Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if you have never done it, I am now reloading windows and

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- Mode sense fails

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
Oliver Iberien wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 11:46, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Please forgive me for stepping in, but I'm having the same problem, asked sometime ago and did not get any answer. My Yamaha burner is still detected as a read-only device. bye Thanks

Re: Sendmail and Jails

2006-03-25 Thread Anish Mistry
On Saturday 25 March 2006 18:42, Jack Stone wrote: I have been setting up jails on various production servers on FBSD-6.0 4.11. I was wondering how/where to configure avoid the port conficts for sendmail as follows: - main host - all sendmail services in out (or at least out) - jail -

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Bill Moran wrote: Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, incidentally, Tim, judging an OS by its installer is about as useful as judging women by their appearance. There's more to it than that. ;-) Really? Such as? Well, is it time to take it to chat@ ? ;) It all

What's that filesystem for a usb flash drive?

2006-03-25 Thread Saul Mena Avila
Hello!. I've been trying to mount my flash memory but it just doesn't let me. I use (as root): mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0 /flash The feedback is something like device ad0 doesn't allow action Can anybody help me? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: What's that filesystem for a usb flash drive?

2006-03-25 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Saul Mena Avila wrote: Hello!. I've been trying to mount my flash memory but it just doesn't let me. I use (as root): mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0 /flash The feedback is something like device ad0 doesn't allow action Can anybody help me? Are you sure that /dev/ad0 is

File/directory encryption - recommendations

2006-03-25 Thread Drew
Hello, I am looking for a way to encrypt a directory and several subdirctories. I've been looking into how best to do this, but I'm wading through quite a lot of information, and thought this might be a good time to look for actual experience with this, since there seem to be quite a few choices.

what is the process for migrating a pre-built kernel to a new machine?

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Horne
What if I want to use a kernel I compiled on one system, on another system? What is the process to successfully migrate a kernel from one system to another (or back to the same after a disaster recovery)? Thanks, jonathan ___

spamassassin build failure

2006-03-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi there, I'm trying to build spamassassin from ports. So, I go to /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin and make. === Checking if devel/p5-Test-Harness already installed === p5-Test-Harness-2.56 is already installed You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again

running ports openssh instead of the base

2006-03-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi there, If I want to use the openssh from ports to replace the one from the base, after building and installing it, so I need to do anything special in rc.conf to specify that I'd like that one run instead of sshd from the base? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any

Re: compiling sendmail to 8.13.6

2006-03-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 25), Jonathan Horne said: Ok, I just cvsup'd and it did not pull down the sources for sendmail 8.13.6 ( I might still have misunderstanding of what exactly cvsup does). Anyway, I took matters into my own hands, and I was wondering if my procedure would be considered

Re: running ports openssh instead of the base

2006-03-25 Thread Mark Kane
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi there, If I want to use the openssh from ports to replace the one from the base, after building and installing it, so I need to do anything special in rc.conf to specify that I'd like that one run instead of sshd from the base? Thanks, Mike Hi. From

Re: What's that filesystem for a usb flash drive?

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
Saul Mena Avila wrote: Hello!. I've been trying to mount my flash memory but it just doesn't let me. I use (as root): mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0 /flash The feedback is something like device ad0 doesn't allow action Can anybody help me? Hi, Give us the output of uname -a and dmesg. That

Re: What's that filesystem for a usb flash drive?

2006-03-25 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Chris Hill wrote: [Replying to myself...] On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Saul Mena Avila wrote: Hello!. I've been trying to mount my flash memory but it just doesn't let me. I use (as root): mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0 /flash The feedback is something like device ad0 doesn't

Re: running ports openssh instead of the base

2006-03-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/03/06 Mark Kane said: Hi. From /usr/ports/security/openssh/pkg-message Doh! Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert

spamassassin build failure

2006-03-25 Thread Robert Huff
Michael P. Soulier writes: Whoops. Apparently it doesn't need to upgrade. Should I make deinstall? And if so, why, since it doesn't need to upgrade? In your shoes I would deinstall/reinstall Test-Harness, then retry the build of SpamAssassin. My gut reaction os the package db

Re: What's that filesystem for a usb flash drive?

2006-03-25 Thread David J Brooks
On Saturday 25 March 2006 20:52, Saul Mena Avila wrote: Hello!. I've been trying to mount my flash memory but it just doesn't let me. I use (as root): mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0 /flash The feedback is something like device ad0 doesn't allow action Can anybody help me? Try mounting

umass0: BBB reset failed, IOERROR

2006-03-25 Thread Peter
Hi, I've run into a very frustrating problem and I hope someone can advise. I acquired two 200 GB USB drives of the same model* and I had tested them both on a 5.4-STABLE and a 6.0-STABLE system. Both had a dislabel on /dev/da0s1d and were working fine. I transported my 6.0 gear to another

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2006-03-25 Thread Bob Goodman
Hi there, If I want to use the openssh from ports to replace the one from the base, after building and installing it, so I need to do anything special in rc.conf to specify that I'd like that one run instead of sshd from the base? Thanks, Mike You will probably prefer to use

Re: Sendmail and Jails

2006-03-25 Thread Jack Stone
From: Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org CC: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sendmail and Jails Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:32:01 -0500 On Saturday 25 March 2006 18:42, Jack Stone wrote: I have been setting up jails on various production servers on

Re: running ports openssh instead of the base

2006-03-25 Thread Bob Goodman
Sorry for double-posting, somehow I forgot to include the subject line. Hi there, If I want to use the openssh from ports to replace the one from the base, after building and installing it, so I need to do anything special in rc.conf to specify that I'd like that one run instead of sshd

Re: running ports openssh instead of the base

2006-03-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/03/06 Mark Kane said: - To enable this port, please add sshd_program=/usr/local/sbin/sshd and make sure sshd_enable is set to YES in your /etc/rc.conf What about the initscript? So I keep running the one from the base, and it picks up this change, or

Re: running ports openssh instead of the base

2006-03-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 26/03/06 Bob Goodman said: You will probably prefer to use security/openssh-portable. That port is more recent if I understand correctly, and is capable of replacing the base ssh automatically, thus making it unnecessary to bug with rc.conf. make config will list the options. Hope this

method for installing ports

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Horne
Ive read many many guides found all over the net in the past few days, and they can never seem to agree on the way a port is installed. I see these methods: Make install Make install clean Make install distclean What is the difference between the 3, and are there legitimate times when one is

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Re: What's that filesystem for a usb flash drive?

2006-03-25 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Saul Mena Avila wrote: Hello!. I've been trying to mount my flash memory but it just doesn't let me. I use (as root): mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0 /flash Did you try /dev/da0 ? ^^ Regards, Uli. The feedback is something like device ad0 doesn't allow

Re: method for installing ports

2006-03-25 Thread Jason C. Wells
Jonathan Horne wrote: Ive read many many guides found all over the net in the past few days, and they can never seem to agree on the way a port is installed. I see these methods: Make install Make install clean Make install distclean What is the difference between the 3, and are there

Re: method for installing ports

2006-03-25 Thread Peter
--- Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ive read many many guides found all over the net in the past few days, and they can never seem to agree on the way a port is installed. I see these methods: Make install Installs a port and any needed build dependencies. Make install clean

Re: what is the process for migrating a pre-built kernel to a new machine?

2006-03-25 Thread Jason C. Wells
Jonathan Horne wrote: What if I want to use a kernel I compiled on one system, on another system? What is the process to successfully migrate a kernel from one system to another (or back to the same after a disaster recovery)? Just FTP, NFS, or otherwise copy the kernel to the new system and

Re: em device on 4.x: ifconfig alias issue

2006-03-25 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Nope, doesn't help ... I've been doing this for years now, and its all scripted, to make sure that I don't make a mistake like that ... its a reproducible issue with 4.x and the EM drivers ... or, rather, the 4-STABLE ones ... in fact, I have three servers with em devices, one of them I

RE: what is the process for migrating a pre-built kernel to a new machine?

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Horne
So if when you say copy the kernel, do you just mean the contents of the /boot/kernel directory, and that's as plain as it is? Or is there more to it? The reason I'm asking, is that I always plan for disaster recovery, and after a build, easily the single longest task for bringing my particular

RE: method for installing ports

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Horne
Thanks to you both! That defiantly clears it up, and explains some of the behavior ive seen when I go back to redo something from ports ive already done :) Cheers, jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Saturday, March 25,

Re: arp_rtrequest: bad gateway (!AF_LINK)

2006-03-25 Thread Harlan Stenn
Chuck, Thanks for your response. Here's an example of some stuff in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_fxp0=inet 66.220.13.226/28 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=inet 192.168.64.10/32 ifconfig_fxp0_alias1=inet 66.220.13.227/32 ifconfig_fxp0_alias2=inet

Re: Cheap FreeBSD hosting?

2006-03-25 Thread Sam Nilsson
Scott I. Remick wrote: Well it seems my perfect FreeBSD webhost, which had great service, great features, and a great support community has been sold-out to a large webhost consolidation company with a reputation for ruining every company they buy. They'll also be switching from FreeBSD to

Thanks! and... the su command

2006-03-25 Thread Saul Mena Avila
Hi!. Thanks for helping me with the USB flash memory. I've also have trouble with the su command... since I installed the FreeBSD 5.4, everytime I try to login as root with su, the shell answers me with Sorry... and that's all. Is it wrong configured or installed? -saul

Re: Thanks! and... the su command

2006-03-25 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Saul Mena Avila wrote: Hi!. Thanks for helping me with the USB flash memory. I've also have trouble with the su command... since I installed the FreeBSD 5.4, everytime I try to login as root with su, the shell answers me with Sorry... and that's all. Is it wrong configured

Re: Thanks! and... the su command

2006-03-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 26), Saul Mena Avila said: Hi!. Thanks for helping me with the USB flash memory. I've also have trouble with the su command... since I installed the FreeBSD 5.4, everytime I try to login as root with su, the shell answers me with Sorry... and that's all. Is it wrong

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