Adesklets YAB loading from the wrong config file

2006-08-23 Thread Viswas Nair
I am using the YAB desklet from adesklets and have configured it to use my choice of icons and apps by editing config.txt. However, yab seems to be loading up from some other file or is not scanning the config file while load. When i right click and choose configure it brings up the

Re: DVD Hardware Errors

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jason Morgan wrote: Try mounting the device as SCSI cd device. I have to do the same with a Pioneer DVD-ROM (a DVD-118, I believe). You'll need (at least) device scbus device cd Surely you need device atapicam to make that work. In fact, if the OP is

Re: Time zone isn't displaying right one with 'tzsetup'

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
jdow wrote: From: Robert Gabaree [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried to update my new server to the new time zone by running 'tzsetup' and selecting Eastern. However, instead of showing 11:45, it shows 6:45 - 5 hours later. I even tried to do a 'cp /usr/share/ zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime but

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Perry Hutchison
Recommend you get a [bigger|second] disk if you can though, or housecleaning will be a constant chore. I got it more or less working, although not completely set up, and then that 10GB disk died: click -- kerthunk -- click -- kerthunk continuously, even after cycling power, even with only the

Library problems

2006-08-23 Thread Yousef Raffah
I'm running on -CURRENT and facing some library problems I guess. I have GNOME, KDE and Enlightenment DR17 installed on the same box. If I run gnome and start evolution for example or epiphany, it runs smoothly with no issues what so ever. However, if I'm logged in into KDE or Enlightenment and

Re: security certificates ssh

2006-08-23 Thread Martin Miedema
Graham North wrote: I just tried to ssh into freebsd server using Putty (pocketputty actually). I got a connection (sort of) but my Putty device put up the question ...unknown certificate.do you want to trust it... or words to that effect. Due to finger problems on the touchscreen I

Re: kde3 Make Install failure - SOLVED

2006-08-23 Thread Vizion
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scot Hetzel Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:35 PM To: Vizion Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kde3 Make Install failure On 8/22/06, Vizion

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2006-08-23 Thread Vizion
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DHCP question

2006-08-23 Thread Vizion
My home network is connected by my Linksys Broadband Router model RT31P2 to an upstream Cable company supplied Motorola SB5100 cable modem. A single IP address is allocated via DHCP to the Linksys to which my private network is attached. The IP address is rarely changed. I need to monitor and

Re: Newbie questions

2006-08-23 Thread Ralph Ellis
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 12:37 am, E. Gad wrote: Hello First I was directed to post the here because I posted to the stable mailing list before re-reading what it's purpose is- I apologise-. I am playing with freebsd 6 on a testing box. I Upgraded l from 6.0 to 6.1 because it looked

Re: Scan to PDF

2006-08-23 Thread Ralph Ellis
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 11:26 pm, Lilo Stich wrote: Hi I was wondering if there is something like Scan2PDF for FreeBSD? If not, how is the way to do it? Thanks. Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Cluster mail system using FreeBSD

2006-08-23 Thread bsd
Hello, I am looking for the best possible solution in order to setup a High availability mail cluster using FreeBSD (smtp/imap/pop server with 1000 accounts). Selected software are as followed : --- - Postfix - Amavisd-new - SpamAssassin - Courier Imap -

Re: Flash Upgrade

2006-08-23 Thread Lars Kristiansen
Chris Maness skrev: Funny thing about Freebsd is that you can run linux-executables. If you install www/linux-firefox you can use linuxplugins like flash and it just works. At least one less complication. P.S. It also runs much faster. I find that very odd. Why would a non native ap. run

Re: DHCP question

2006-08-23 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Vizion írta: My home network is connected by my Linksys Broadband Router model RT31P2 to an upstream Cable company supplied Motorola SB5100 cable modem. A single IP address is allocated via DHCP to the Linksys to which my private network is attached. The IP address is rarely changed. I need

Re: DHCP question

2006-08-23 Thread Gerard Seibert
Vizion wrote: My home network is connected by my Linksys Broadband Router model RT31P2 to an upstream Cable company supplied Motorola SB5100 cable modem. A single IP address is allocated via DHCP to the Linksys to which my private network is attached. The IP address is rarely changed. I

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Greg Barniskis
Perry Hutchison wrote: Recommend you get a [bigger|second] disk if you can though, or housecleaning will be a constant chore. I got it more or less working, although not completely set up, and then that 10GB disk died: click -- kerthunk -- click -- kerthunk continuously, even after cycling

e-mail from cron

2006-08-23 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi, This ought to be a fairly simple question, but I've googled and can't really find the answer. I'ld like to have the reports from the system cron jobs (daily run output, security run output, weekly run output and monthly run output) sent to an e-mail address other than root, but I want

Re: Linux-HA howto for FreeBSD.

2006-08-23 Thread David Robillard
Hi, I am looking for a good howto or a detailed explanation in order to deploy Linux HA on two BSD boxes. You can grab heartbeat from the FreeBSD ports at sysutils/heartbeat (i.e. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/heartbeat/pkg-descr) But unfortunately, it is only at version

Re: e-mail from cron

2006-08-23 Thread albi
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:05:14 -0400 Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly 21 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] # but all I get is a blank email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] does it work if you use the command mail instead ? see : man

Re: e-mail from cron

2006-08-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Lisa Casey wrote: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 21 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly 21 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30 5 1 * *

Re: e-mail from cron

2006-08-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 23), Lisa Casey said: This ought to be a fairly simple question, but I've googled and can't really find the answer. I'ld like to have the reports from the system cron jobs (daily run output, security run output, weekly run output and monthly run output) sent to an

Re: e-mail from cron

2006-08-23 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: to this: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 21 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a bad idea, mainly because (as you already know) it doesn't work :) If you want to use

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Derek Ragona
I have seen this happen where the kernel is not copied by sysinstall. I booted the install CD but exited sysinstall to a shell prompt, mounted the root partitiion and manually copied the kernel. You might give that a try. -Derek At 01:48 AM 8/23/2006, Perry Hutchison wrote:

Re: security certificates ssh

2006-08-23 Thread Graham North
Hi Martin: Thank you for your help. I wasn't sure whether it was Putty or FreeBSD that did the blacklisting. I will take your suggestion and see what happens. Thanks! Graham/ Martin Miedema wrote: Graham North wrote: I just tried to ssh into freebsd server using Putty (pocketputty

Geli questions.. ponderings..

2006-08-23 Thread Jeff Palmer
Hello, Let me preface the email by saying I'm not overly familiar with geli, and it may already have the ability to do what I'm about to describe. The scenario: A FreeBSD based appliance at a customer premise. The customer really can't be trusted not to disasemble the box, and gain

Re: e-mail from cron

2006-08-23 Thread David King
30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly 21 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] but all I get is a blank email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] also.. using 21 doesn't seem appropriate, afaik you would use that in crontab if you don't want to get emails via cron You would

Re: e-mail from cron

2006-08-23 Thread David King
to this: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 21 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] However, you might find it easier to just add the following line to the top of the crontab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which will cause all mail

Re: e-mail from cron

2006-08-23 Thread Bill Moran
In response to David King [EMAIL PROTECTED]: to this: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 21 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] However, you might find it easier to just add the following line to the top

Ethernet over Firewire fwe0:

2006-08-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Is there any known problem with installing on a machine whose Ethernet is fwe0: Ethernet over Firewire ? I am still trying to install on that IBM Z61t notebook. I get it all to appear to work - boot into sysinstall, slicing and partitioning, making install choices and setting up the network

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Perry Hutchison
Well, you're at least as far as having the disk sliced up in a workable way, or the bootstrap wouldn't start at all. This jumps out as not only being bad, but happening right before meltdown. acpi: bad RSDP checksum (210) I suspect it's a red herring, since I was getting that message at

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Greg Barniskis
Perry Hutchison wrote: Well, you're at least as far as having the disk sliced up in a workable way, or the bootstrap wouldn't start at all. This jumps out as not only being bad, but happening right before meltdown. acpi: bad RSDP checksum (210) I suspect it's a red herring, since I was

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread backyard
--- Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perry Hutchison wrote: Well, you're at least as far as having the disk sliced up in a workable way, or the bootstrap wouldn't start at all. This jumps out as not only being bad, but happening right before meltdown. acpi: bad RSDP

Problems with recording

2006-08-23 Thread Matti J. Karki
Hi! I tried to find some information about this issue via Google and it seems that I'm not only one having this problem, but there was no clear solution available. So... I try to use microphone for recording. The sound card (Conexant AC-Link Audio) works otherwise correctly, but when trying to

More newbie questions

2006-08-23 Thread E. Gad
Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subhro wrote: yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start using it to get the required software. Refer to the handbook for understanding how ports work. For most people portsnap would be a better way of updating one's

Re: More newbie questions

2006-08-23 Thread backyard
--- E. Gad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subhro wrote: yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start using it to get the required software. Refer to the handbook for understanding how ports work. For most people

Re: Ethernet over Firewire fwe0:

2006-08-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, Sorry for adding to my post before anyone responds, but: I went ahead and installed from CD and have tried to talk to the net with the fully installed system up. During boot it finds the fwe0: card and appears to be happy, but nothing talks. When I do an 'ifconfig -a' I get: fwe0:

Re: pkg database backup and restore

2006-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If part of a normal backup routine, we are regularly backing up /var/db/pkg, how can we best use that backup in a scenario in which a machine needs to be rebuilt from scratch, and we're trying to save time going through and doing a portinstall on everything we can

Re: freebsd problem

2006-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
yusof khalid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i got some problem when i want to install the FreeBSD 6.1 on my hard disk. This error occour while i'm finish configuring the disk, the error state that Cannot create new root file system , command return status 36 i have try to reconfigure the disk but

Re: More newbie questions

2006-08-23 Thread E. Gad
backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- E. Gad wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Subhro wrote: yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start using it to get the required software. Refer to the handbook for understanding how ports work. For most

how to install asterisk on freebsd 4.11 release

2006-08-23 Thread Mansour Safaie
Hi There, Is there anybody who installed asterisk on freebsd 4.11 release ? I was not succesful. please guide me. I updated the ports and I installed the lib using ports but when I try to install zaptel it says cannot load it for release before than 5 I couldn't install the asterisk from ports

Re: More newbie questions-again?

2006-08-23 Thread E. Gad
backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- E. Gad wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Subhro wrote: yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start using it to get the required software. Refer to the handbook for understanding how ports work. For most

Re: Geli questions.. ponderings..

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Brown
The idea: I'd like to use geli to encrypt *everything* on the disk. So if someone (a competitor maybe) removes the disk from the machine, he can't gain any data off of it easily. I know nothing is 100%, but why make the process easy for him? It seems like there is a more basic problem

howto install asterisk on freebsd release 4.11

2006-08-23 Thread mansour safai
Hi There, Is there anybody who installed asterisk on freebsd 4.11 release ? I was not succesful. please guide me. I updated the ports and I installed the lib using ports but when I try to install zaptel it says cannot load it for release before than 5 I couldn't install the asterisk from ports

Re: Problems with recording

2006-08-23 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:37, Matti J. Karki wrote: Mixer vol      is currently set to  55:55 Mixer pcm      is currently set to  48:48 Mixer speaker  is currently set to   0:0 Mixer line     is currently set to   0:0 Mixer mic      is currently set to   1:1 Mixer cd       is currently

Re: Occasional System Lockups

2006-08-23 Thread Pgold
Hi Bob, I've seen this happening to a Dell server, that used a SCSI raid. One disk was with a faillure, and this would lock up the machine. This faillure however was not logged, because tthe SCSI raid controller wouldn't send the apropriate signal to FreeBSD, since they were not compatible. It

Cluster mail system using FreeBSD

2006-08-23 Thread Greg Bernard
Hello, I am looking for the best possible solution in order to setup a High availability mail cluster using FreeBSD (smtp/imap/pop server with 1000 accounts). Selected software are as followed : --- - Postfix - Amavisd-new - SpamAssassin - Courier Imap -

Re: Time zone isn't displaying right one with 'tzsetup'

2006-08-23 Thread Pete Slagle
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 22 August 2006 at 23:45:19 -0400, Robert Gabaree wrote: Hi, I tried to update my new server to the new time zone by running 'tzsetup' and selecting Eastern. However, instead of showing 11:45, it shows 6:45 - 5 hours later. I even tried to do a 'cp

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Perry Hutchison
After a CD boot, is there a reasonably simple way to have sysinstall reinstall just the kernel -- or the package containing it -- without starting completely over? Yeah, see what Derek wrote. Never done that, myself, or even heard of the kernel not getting installed. What Derek wrote?

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Derek Ragona
You pretty much followed what I had wrote before that when I had a similar problem, I booted the install disk, but exited sysinstall to a shell prompt. I then mounted the root partition, then manually copied over the kernel from the install CD to the root partition. That does copy over the

Re: More newbie questions-again?

2006-08-23 Thread backyard
--- E. Gad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- E. Gad wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Subhro wrote: yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start using it to get the required software. Refer to the

MailScanner

2006-08-23 Thread rithy4u- CEO
Dear all: I have successfull setup mailscanner+spamassassin and now I can deliver mail to my domain by mailscanner filtered. Now I got so many spam? Email message which scaned by mailscanner. How can I configure mailscanner to delete all those spam? Richard Ben, CIO -- This message has been

Re: More newbie questions-again?

2006-08-23 Thread E. Gad
backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- E. Gad wrote: backyard wrote: --- E. Gad wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Subhro wrote: yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start using it to get the required software. Refer to the

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-23 Thread Derek Ragona
Edit the MailScanner.conf file and set at least high scoring SPAM to bounce. -Derek At 07:57 PM 8/23/2006, rithy4u- CEO wrote: Dear all: I have successfull setup mailscanner+spamassassin and now I can deliver mail to my domain by mailscanner filtered. Now I got so many spam? Email

Re: freebsd problem

2006-08-23 Thread yusof khalid
hi Lowell, sorry for the misinformation about the problem. Actually i'm using the sysinstall option.After I finish make the partition for my hdd using the fdisk option, and after selecting the package(i select all with the Xwindow) and the ports and ready to install the error occour. Is FreeBSD

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Edit the MailScanner.conf file and set at least high scoring SPAM to bounce. Please DONT BOUNCE. There is never any usefull return address in SPAM, so bouncing will not get back to any spammer, but it will rather annoy some innocent person. It is totally useless to bounce for virus or spam,

disable javascript:alert() on firefox?

2006-08-23 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi all, Someone know how to disable the [1]javascript:alert() function? Because it's anoying when you enter a page and have a lots of SPAM from that Sad . Best Regards, Carlos Silva, CSilva Web: [2]http://www.csilva.org/ References 1. javascript:alert( 2.

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-23 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
At 07:57 PM 8/23/2006, rithy4u- CEO wrote: Dear all: I have successfull setup mailscanner+spamassassin and now I can deliver mail to my domain by mailscanner filtered. Now I got so many spam? Email message which scaned by mailscanner. How can I configure mailscanner to delete all those

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-23 Thread rithy4u- CEO
Not yet. I want both of them to start automaticly at boot time, how? Richard Ben, CIO - Original Message - From: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: rithy4u- CEO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:24 AM Subject: Re: MailScanner i think derek ragonas reply touches on

Sendmail and Proper Authentication

2006-08-23 Thread Nicholas Ink
Hello all. I have been using FreeBSD for several months now, and have been configuring it as a multipurpose server. I've installed a web server, database, and a handful of other utilities. I also have now been attempting for some time to configure an e-mail service - with Sendmail. Although

Re: Problems with recording

2006-08-23 Thread Matti J. Karki
On 8/24/06, Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:37, Matti J. Karki wrote: Mixer vol is currently set to 55:55 Mixer pcm is currently set to 48:48 Mixer speaker is currently set to 0:0 Mixer line is currently set to 0:0 Mixer mic is currently set to 1:1

Low Priority Apps

2006-08-23 Thread Dave Raven
Hi all, I have a FreeBSD 4.x box running an app that uses 30-50% of the processor. Periodically (through cron) we run a perl app that processes log files and inserts the entries to sql. This perl + mysql combination is causing problems for our app and I'd like to run them at a low