Can't Find Kernel

2006-09-03 Thread Andy Street
Hi guys, I had installed FreeBSD in my schools computer systems lab, so I decided to install it at home as a dual boot with Solaris 10, already installed on half the HD. I downloaded the images off FreeBSD.org, burned them to CD's, and then did a post burn md5sum on them to make sure they

Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

2006-09-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/2/06, Robert C Wittig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Phipps wrote: Right now my biggest resources have to be google and the O'Reilly book Essential Sys. Admin. but I'd like to have a reference guide more suited to only the FreeBSD platform. Any recommendations on this as well? I

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-08-13 - 2006-09-02

2006-09-03 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

ADSL

2006-09-03 Thread horn . root
Does FreeBSD support ADSL-modem D-Link DSL-200 ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: From FIXIT: (was:Re: System down, won't come up

2006-09-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Kline wrote: fixit mode. What I really want is to get the data files off and over to another servr. Havng /etc/* and maybe /var/db/pkg/* would be a big help. Then I could reinstall 5.3 -5.5 and finally over to 6.1. Why go via 5.5 if you're upgrading by

Re: crontab entries not executing

2006-09-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Noah wrote: I just rebuilt a new 5.5 server and I am finding root's crontab entries are not being executed. any body got some clues about how I can troubleshoot this issue so my cron entries are bring executed. Verify that root's crontab does anything at all by running a simple command every

hp_no_device_found

2006-09-03 Thread Andriy Babiy
Hello, Could you advise me on how to properly configure my printing? I have LaserJet HP-1022, on FreeBSD 6.1 and CUPS-1.2. I installed hplip, hpijs, and foomatic-*. (as root) hp-setup says: ERROR no devices found In CUPS I see: hp_no_device_found dmesg shows: ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet

Re: Boot message: atapci: failed to enable memory mapping!

2006-09-03 Thread Beni
On Saturday 02 September 2006 22:39, Viswas Nair wrote: Been getting this message everytime I boot. atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port 0x20d8-0x20df,0x20f0-0x20f3,0x20e0-0x20e7,0x20f4-0x20f7,0x20b0-0x20bf irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 atapci1: failed to enable memory mapping! Any ideas

Re: ADSL

2006-09-03 Thread Beni
On Sunday 03 September 2006 09:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does FreeBSD support ADSL-modem D-Link DSL-200 ? ___ hi, It seems possible with the eciadsl-program : http://users.tpg.com.au/johnd/dsl200.html (i know, its for fedora, but it could work

WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error

2006-09-03 Thread Tamas (septi) Gal
Yesterday I upgraded my hardware from a Pentium2 400mhz setup (running freebsd 5.4) to a Sempron 2.8ghz and installed freebsd 6.1 on it (the 32bit version). There are 4 harddisks attached to the IDE-controllers: ad0: 6150MB Seagate ST36421A 6.01 at ata0-master UDMA66 ad1: 38166MB Seagate

Re: hp_no_device_found

2006-09-03 Thread Sean M.
Follow these directions: http://am-productions.biz/docs/hplip.php --- Andriy Babiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Could you advise me on how to properly configure my printing? I have LaserJet HP-1022, on FreeBSD 6.1 and CUPS-1.2. I installed hplip, hpijs, and foomatic-*. (as root)

Ghostview errors

2006-09-03 Thread Jordi Carrillo
I've compiled ghostview. All ok. But when I try to execute it to view a dvi file it launches several errors. Any of you have the same problem? thanks -- http://jordilin.wordpress.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Ghostview errors

2006-09-03 Thread Dhénin Jean-Jacques
For a .dvi file use xdvi and use ghostview or gv for .ps file 2006/9/3, Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've compiled ghostview. All ok. But when I try to execute it to view a dvi file it launches several errors. -- jjd ___

Re: Ghostview errors

2006-09-03 Thread Tamas (septi) Gal
Could you post the errormessages? On 9/3/06, Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've compiled ghostview. All ok. But when I try to execute it to view a dvi file it launches several errors. Any of you have the same problem? thanks -- http://jordilin.wordpress.com

Re: Ghostview errors

2006-09-03 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sunday 03 September 2006 07:30, Jordi Carrillo wrote: I've compiled ghostview. All ok. But when I try to execute it to view a dvi file it launches several errors. Any of you have the same problem? thanks Kind of hard to say since you failed to list any errors. Try prefixing your command

Re: Ghostview errors

2006-09-03 Thread Jordi Carrillo
I haven't post the error because the message is quite big. But no problem I use xdvi now. Thanks anyway. Jordi 2006/9/3, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 03 September 2006 07:30, Jordi Carrillo wrote: I've compiled ghostview. All ok. But when I try to execute it to view a dvi file

File Flags in directories

2006-09-03 Thread Jordi Carrillo
In the FreeBSD handbook when it talks about the file flags permissions it says: These flags add an additional level of security and control over files, but not directories. Well, I am able to put file flags in directories as well. If I do: mkdir curric chflags uchange curric It works well and

Re: Azureus downloads slow

2006-09-03 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 18:06:57 -0500 (CDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know all that. I am saying that Azureus on FreeBSD runs slower than d/ling the same torrent on a windows or even a linux (ubuntu) box when getting the same torrent from the same network. You did not mention that before.

Re: migrating user and web files to new server

2006-09-03 Thread Philip Q
Noah wrote, On 3/09/06 5.15 p: there are cooler ways of doing this. there will be people on this list that know what I am talking about. I will await their responses. Does rsync meet your coolness requirements? -Phil ___

Problesm with X application default

2006-09-03 Thread stan
I'm building a replacement machine for a long serving workstation that finally died a hardware death. I've built a new machine updated to 6 CURRENT, and installed the KDE metaport. I have a customize XTerm application defaults file from a backup of the old machine. However, I can't seem to get

Re: Azureus downloads slow

2006-09-03 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 09:48:19 +1000 Wei Hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give utorrent a try. Azureus is slow and takes too much resources. utorrent is Windows-only. Do not come with the excuse to run it with Wine. And Azureus is far from being slow. It might use a few more resources than other

Re: Azureus downloads slow

2006-09-03 Thread rlw2
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 18:06:57 -0500 (CDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know all that. I am saying that Azureus on FreeBSD runs slower than d/ling the same torrent on a windows or even a linux (ubuntu) box when getting the same torrent from the same network. You did not mention that before.

Re: migrating user and web files to new server

2006-09-03 Thread Noah
Philip Q wrote: Noah wrote, On 3/09/06 5.15 p: there are cooler ways of doing this. there will be people on this list that know what I am talking about. I will await their responses. Does rsync meet your coolness requirements? this command also meets my coolness requirements.

Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-03 Thread Oliver Iberien
As usual, as soon as I post, I discover the correct search string to get me to the answer: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/msg147148.html This poster even bought the same monitor I did. Does anyone know: Will newer nvidia cards generally work at this resolution? It

Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-03 Thread Atom Powers
On 9/3/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usual, as soon as I post, I discover the correct search string to get me to the answer: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/msg147148.html This poster even bought the same monitor I did. Does anyone know: Will newer

Re: From FIXIT: (was:Re: System down, won't come up

2006-09-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:25:01PM -0400, Jerold McAllister wrote: Gary Kline writes: On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:33:44AM -0700, Atom Powers wrote: If it's only the data you want, try a FreeSBIE boot disk. That will give you access to the file system/network,

calendar

2006-09-03 Thread Michael S
Good day all. I have a question about calendar.usholidays. In the man page for calendar it says that this file must be updated every year. Is it enough just to cvsup, buildworld and installworld? I am following RELENG_6_1. Thanks in advance. Michael

A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-03 Thread Сергей Собко
Hello. I have a question I can't deal myself. And nobody can help me in resolving my problem. Problem: I have a hand-made device, I want to control from FreeBSD 6.1 (I am porting this application from Windows equivalent). But I don't know, in what device /dev/ I should write to get reults. I

Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-03 Thread stan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:26:04PM +0600, ?? ? wrote: Hello. I have a question I can't deal myself. And nobody can help me in resolving my problem. Problem: I have a hand-made device, I want to control from FreeBSD 6.1 (I am porting this application from Windows equivalent). But I

man page bug in mv(1) ?

2006-09-03 Thread James Long
The man page mv(1) states: It is an error for either the source operand or the destination path to specify a directory unless both do. However: mv file /tmp/ works. Am I reading things wrong, or is the man page incorrect? Jim ___

how do you get gnustep to run?

2006-09-03 Thread g
using the direction in chapter 5 didn't help. i followed the instructions and now x window system does not start. i'm going to reload the os and follow the directions again. the xorg.conf.new file requires information i may not have and cannot find, the vertical and horizontal

Re: From FIXIT: (was:Re: System down, won't come up

2006-09-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:19:10AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Gary Kline wrote: fixit mode. What I really want is to get the data files off and over to another servr. Havng /etc/* and maybe /var/db/pkg/* would be a big help. Then I could reinstall 5.3 -5.5 and

Re: migrating user and web files to new server

2006-09-03 Thread Philip Q
Noah wrote, On 4/09/06 3.58 a: this command also meets my coolness requirements. oldsys # tar -C /var/www -cf - . | ssh newsys tar -C /var/www -xvf - Which is almost /exactly/ what Chad recommended to you... -Phil ___

Re: migrating user and web files to new server

2006-09-03 Thread Noah
Philip Q wrote: Noah wrote, On 4/09/06 3.58 a: this command also meets my coolness requirements. oldsys # tar -C /var/www -cf - . | ssh newsys tar -C /var/www -xvf - Which is almost /exactly/ what Chad recommended to you... kinda. this is the syntax I was looking for. Cheers, Noah

Re: Having trouble getting ppp configured on my 6.1 box

2006-09-03 Thread Matteo Pillon
Hi Andrew. On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 11:51:40AM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: ppp works and all, but I can't resolve any DNS hostnames. Everytime I try, I get something like no address associated to the name. Or something similar. Sorry, I'm writing this mail from the Windows OS (one computer

samba problem; member server can't authenticate

2006-09-03 Thread Henrik Hudson
Hey List- I tried the Samba lists...but didn't get any tips there..so possibly a freebsd issue? Dunno, anyways I have a Samba PDC and a Samba Member Server. The Samba PDC works fine, but the problem is that the Member Server can't authenticate users and let me browse file shares and i

Re: samba problem; member server can't authenticate

2006-09-03 Thread Atom Powers
On 9/3/06, Henrik Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Samba PDC and a Samba Member Server. The Samba PDC works fine, but the problem is that the Member Server can't authenticate users and let me browse file shares and i always get the error: NT_STATUS_NO_LOGON_SERVERS Sounds like your

Your message to Opseuregion2 awaits moderator approval

2006-09-03 Thread opseuregion2-bounces
Your mail to 'Opseuregion2' with the subject (no subject) Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Post by non-member to a members-only list Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the

Error in the list of ports www.freebsd.org

2006-09-03 Thread Santos
The http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/mail/courier-authlib-vchkpw courier-authlib-ldap-0.58_2 port requires openldap-client-2.2.30, not 2.3.27 Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Conrad

2006-09-03 Thread Conrad Bellman
I am interested in downloadind the 2 disks for linux, and trying to install them on my computer, but I am not sure what i have to download, could comeone please help me Conrad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how do you get gnustep to run?

2006-09-03 Thread Anthony Agelastos
On Sep 3, 2006, at 1:43 PM, g wrote: using the direction in chapter 5 didn't help. i followed the instructions and now x window system does not start. i'm going to reload the os and follow the directions again. You probably do not need to reload the OS. When you install FreeBSD, I

Re: samba problem; member server can't authenticate

2006-09-03 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Sunday 03 September 2006 13:59, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent a missive stating: On 9/3/06, Henrik Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Samba PDC and a Samba Member Server. The Samba PDC works fine, but the problem is that the Member Server can't authenticate users and let

Re: Problesm with X application default

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:33, stan wrote: I'm building a replacement machine for a long serving workstation that finally died a hardware death. I've built a new machine updated to 6 CURRENT, and installed the KDE metaport. I have a customize XTerm application defaults file from a backup

ensuring the same group and user IDs

2006-09-03 Thread Noah
Hi there, How can I ensure the user and group IDs are the same between two systems without breaking things? Is it as easy to copy /etc/group and /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd between machines? Cheers, Noah ___

portversion is part of what?

2006-09-03 Thread Henry Lenzi
Hi -- Is portversion a part of another big binary? Apparently, I can't just reinstall portversion. TIA, Henry L. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Error in the list of ports www.freebsd.org

2006-09-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:04:21PM +0200, Santos wrote: The http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/mail/courier-authlib-vchkpw courier-authlib-ldap-0.58_2 This confused me for a while, because your URL is for a different port. port requires openldap-client-2.2.30, not 2.3.27 You

Re: portversion is part of what?

2006-09-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:21:49PM -0300, Henry Lenzi wrote: Hi -- Is portversion a part of another big binary? Apparently, I can't just reinstall portversion. sysutils/portupgrade Kris pgpz9bDWiJ0yz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: portversion is part of what?

2006-09-03 Thread Philip Q
Henry Lenzi wrote, On 4/09/06 8.21 a: Hi -- Is portversion a part of another big binary? Apparently, I can't just reinstall portversion. portversion comes as part of sysutils/portupgrade -Phil ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: portversion is part of what?

2006-09-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Henry Lenzi wrote: Hi -- Is portversion a part of another big binary? Apparently, I can't just reinstall portversion. $ pkg_info -W `which portversion` /usr/local/sbin/portversion was installed by package portupgrade-20041226_7 --Alex ___

solaris

2006-09-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have a 3-part disk: (a) XP for games (b) FreeBSD-6.1 (my main OS) (c) FreeBSD-6.1 (a backup) I want to replace the third partition with solaris 10, mainly for studying this OS. I burned the DVD. Will it install solaris on this third partition without trouble? Will I be able to continue to use

Re: Conrad

2006-09-03 Thread Perry Hutchison
I am interested in downloadind the 2 disks for linux, and trying to install them on my computer, but I am not sure what i have to download, could comeone please help me You may be asking the wrong list. FreeBSD is not Linux, although it can run many Linux binaries if configured appropriately.

Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-03 Thread backyard
--- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:26:04PM +0600, ?? ? wrote: Hello. I have a question I can't deal myself. And nobody can help me in resolving my problem. Problem: I have a hand-made device, I want to control from FreeBSD 6.1 (I am porting

Can't Find Kernel

2006-09-03 Thread Andy Street
[I'm not sure if this got sent becvause I just got a message saying that since I wasn't a member, a message entitled No Subject was waiting approval. I think I'm a member now, but if this email went out twice, I appologize] Hi guys, I had installed FreeBSD in my schools computer systems lab,

Re: samba problem; member server can't authenticate

2006-09-03 Thread Henrik Hudson
FYI: It seems the winbind use default domain = yes was getting the member server all messed up in the head. I removed that and suddenly it became just a problem of changing my permissions to include the ECW domain in the allowed users. Thanks for the responses. henrik On Sunday 03

Re: ensuring the same group and user IDs

2006-09-03 Thread Bill Moran
Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, How can I ensure the user and group IDs are the same between two systems without breaking things? Is it as easy to copy /etc/group and /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd between machines? Yes, but read the man page for pwd_mkdb first. Other

Re: portversion is part of what?

2006-09-03 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 17:21:49 -0300 Henry Lenzi wrote: Is portversion a part of another big binary? Apparently, I can't just reinstall portversion. TIA, $ which portversion /usr/local/sbin/portversion $ pkg_info -W /usr/local/sbin/portversion /usr/local/sbin/portversion was installed by package

Re: Can't Find Kernel

2006-09-03 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 03/09/06, Andy Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I'm not sure if this got sent becvause I just got a message saying that since I wasn't a member, a message entitled No Subject was waiting approval. I think I'm a member now, but if this email went out twice, I appologize] Hi guys, I had

Re: ensuring the same group and user IDs

2006-09-03 Thread Noah
Bill Moran wrote: Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, How can I ensure the user and group IDs are the same between two systems without breaking things? Is it as easy to copy /etc/group and /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd between machines? Yes, but read the man page for

changing the gdm resolution

2006-09-03 Thread Jordi Carrillo
Is there a way to change the gdm resolution (login screen). It's a little bit low for me and I need 1280x1024 thanks -- http://jordilin.wordpress.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Best gigabit network interface for FreeBSD?

2006-09-03 Thread Brett Glass
Was going to post this to net@, but figured I'd get a bigger audience and better answers on this list. (Please copy responses to me as well as the list to make sure I see them.) I'm building a machine which is going to have very high network loads, but can't really use a TCP/IP accelerator

Re: Problesm with X application default

2006-09-03 Thread stan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 08:32:14PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:33, stan wrote: I'm building a replacement machine for a long serving workstation that finally died a hardware death. I've built a new machine updated to 6 CURRENT, and installed the KDE metaport.

Re: changing the gdm resolution

2006-09-03 Thread stan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:52:46PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: Is there a way to change the gdm resolution (login screen). It's a little bit low for me and I need 1280x1024 thanks Doesn't kdm just use the X settings? If so, you can fix this in your X config file. -- Unix is very simple,

Conrad(CB)

2006-09-03 Thread Conrad Bellman
To Whom It May Concern:: I am interest in downloading installing freebsd, but I can not find the links to download the two disks, I am hopeing someone could help with with the nlinks for downloading trhe 2 disks, please thank you, I am anxious to get involved with this, but as you can see I am

Re: changing the gdm resolution

2006-09-03 Thread Jordi Carrillo
Already solved, thanks Just tweaking the /etc/X11/xorg.conf has solved the problem 2006/9/4, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:52:46PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: Is there a way to change the gdm resolution (login screen). It's a little bit low for me and I need 1280x1024

joystick as mouse?

2006-09-03 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
I managed to convince moused that my USB joystick, a Logitech WingMan Extreme Digital 3D on /dev/uhid0 (3 axis, throttle, 8 buttons and a HUD switch), is actually a mouse. Of course the mouse cursor acts absolutely insane when I touch the joystick. But it shows that it is possible. My question

Re: Conrad(CB)

2006-09-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:37:47PM -0700, Conrad Bellman wrote: To Whom It May Concern:: I am interest in downloading installing freebsd, but I can not find the links to download the two disks, I am hopeing someone could help with with the nlinks for downloading trhe 2 disks, please thank

Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to multiple DVD's and keep getting a write error when the DVD runs out of space. I need an example of the proper command. I think I need to add file size to the command, but I'm not quite sure how to do it. I don't normally use DVD's

Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread stan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to multiple DVD's and keep getting a write error when the DVD runs out of space. I need an example of the proper command. I think I need to add file size to the

New machine, mouse scroll wheel not working

2006-09-03 Thread stan
I just set up a new 6 CURRENT machine with xorg, and KDE. The scroll wheel on my mouse does not seem to be scrolling anything. I have the follwinf lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol

Fwd: Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-03 Thread backyard
--- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 16:49:51 -0400 From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A question about programming RS-232 On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 01:39:00PM -0700, backyard wrote: --- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-09-03 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:59:14PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: I wish i could, but i dont have physical access to the machine - its in a remote location with no serial console. So if anything gets messed up during an upgrade, im in a hell of a

Re: man page bug in mv(1) ?

2006-09-03 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 3 September 2006, at 12:37, James Long wrote: The man page mv(1) states: It is an error for either the source operand or the destination path to specify a directory unless both do. However: mv file /tmp/ works. Am I reading things wrong, or is the man page incorrect? I think what it

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-09-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:58:36PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:59:14PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: I wish i could, but i dont have physical access to the machine - its in a remote location with no serial

Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, stan wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to multiple DVD's and keep getting a write error when the DVD runs out of space. I need an example of the proper command.

how can I su as root over telnet or ssh?

2006-09-03 Thread armstrong adam
hello every one! I have just installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE,but I cannot su as root by telnet or ssh,why this happen? FreeBSD is really safe maybe, How can I su as root from remote? thanks!! best regards!! ___

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-09-03 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:58:36PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:59:14PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Thanks, i CAN compile from the ports collection (i never wanted to use packages). Its

Re: migrating user and web files to new server

2006-09-03 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 3 September 2006, at 13:11, Noah wrote: Philip Q wrote: Noah wrote, On 4/09/06 3.58 a: this command also meets my coolness requirements. oldsys # tar -C /var/www -cf - . | ssh newsys tar -C /var/www -xvf - Which is almost /exactly/ what Chad recommended to you... kinda. this is the

Re: how can I su as root over telnet or ssh?

2006-09-03 Thread Jeff Cross
armstrong adam wrote: hello every one! I have just installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE,but I cannot su as root by telnet or ssh,why this happen? FreeBSD is really safe maybe, How can I su as root from remote? thanks!! best regards!!

Re: Best gigabit network interface for FreeBSD?

2006-09-03 Thread David Kelly
On Sep 3, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Brett Glass wrote: I have some Intel em interfaces available to me, but have been told that while the driver is well supported they are quirky and not the best choice. I have an em built into the MB of a Dell PowerEdge 400SC and have no complaints. It will

Re: migrating user and web files to new server

2006-09-03 Thread Noah
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 3 September 2006, at 13:11, Noah wrote: Philip Q wrote: Noah wrote, On 4/09/06 3.58 a: this command also meets my coolness requirements. oldsys # tar -C /var/www -cf - . | ssh newsys tar -C /var/www -xvf - Which is almost /exactly/ what Chad

Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread stan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:17:58PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, stan wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to multiple DVD's and keep getting a write error when

Re: how can I su as root over telnet or ssh?

2006-09-03 Thread armstrong adam
yes,the user logging on is in the wheel group, any suggestion is appreciated!! From: Jeff Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: armstrong adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how can I su as root over telnet or ssh? Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:33:05 -0500 armstrong adam wrote: hello

Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-09-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote: (1) When run for the first time, you get an error message: : not found That's because a few bogus spaces after the backslash in the line containing the chmod command. Those trailing spaces should be removed. I suppose I don't need to send a PR for

Re: how can I su as root over telnet or ssh?

2006-09-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:12:26AM +0800, armstrong adam wrote: yes,the user logging on is in the wheel group, You should add the user to `wheel' via /etc/group, and not via the login-group. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-09-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: Marc, thanks for all your hard work on these issues. One small change needs to be made. The pkg-message file reads, at its end: o view current statistics, go to: http://bsdstats.hub.org That needs to be changed to http://www.bsdstst.org/ This

Unicode support on freebsd?

2006-09-03 Thread Wei Hu
When will Freebsd support unicode? Freebsd 7? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: migrating user and web files to new server

2006-09-03 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 3 September 2006, at 20:34, Noah wrote: hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: I find it incredibly interesting that, while you REFUSE SPECIFY exactly what you want, you find it necessary to deem certain commands unacceptable! No one is going to freaking spoon feed you this stuff! What

Re: migrating user and web files to new server

2006-09-03 Thread Noah
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 3 September 2006, at 20:34, Noah wrote: hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: I find it incredibly interesting that, while you REFUSE SPECIFY exactly what you want, you find it necessary to deem certain commands unacceptable! No one is going to freaking

Re: solaris

2006-09-03 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, dick hoogendijk wrote: I have a 3-part disk: (a) XP for games (b) FreeBSD-6.1 (my main OS) (c) FreeBSD-6.1 (a backup) I want to replace the third partition with solaris 10, mainly for studying this OS. I burned the DVD. Will it install solaris on this third partition

Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-03 Thread Oliver Iberien
Yes, you'd think, but no. I got a $50 GeForce 6200 LE/256M card and it works, as long as I use the proprietary driver. With the standard nv driver that xorgconfig came up with, it was just as bad as the Radeon. The nvidia config utility did not add extra lines to the config file,

Re: Unicode support on freebsd?

2006-09-03 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Wei Hu wrote: When will Freebsd support unicode? Freebsd 7? What exactly do you want be supported? In my /usr/share/locale/ I can see some UTF-8 directories. Regards, Uli. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: solaris

2006-09-03 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 3, 2006, at 9:20 PM, P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, dick hoogendijk wrote: I have a 3-part disk: (a) XP for games (b) FreeBSD-6.1 (my main OS) (c) FreeBSD-6.1 (a backup) I want to replace the third partition with solaris 10, mainly for studying this OS. I burned the DVD. Will

Re: migrating user and web files to new server

2006-09-03 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 3, 2006, at 8:59 PM, Noah wrote: hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 3 September 2006, at 20:34, Noah wrote: hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: I find it incredibly interesting that, while you REFUSE SPECIFY exactly what you want, you find it necessary to deem certain

Re: how can I su as root over telnet or ssh?

2006-09-03 Thread armstrong adam
It really woks!!thanks, but why this happen? which part of the document explain this? I browsed the documentation and cannot find it From: Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: armstrong adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how can I su as root over telnet or ssh? Date: Mon,

time to come clean... .

2006-09-03 Thread Gary Kline
Folks, It's time to come clean and admit that parts/most of rsync are lost on my. The good-old-days when everybody trusted everybody on the net--when it was mostly just we geeks are way gone. Crackers, prob'ly 12-year-olds using DOS scripts, tried to

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-03 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 3, 2006, at 10:35 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? I believe the default for rsync is to use ssh as a transport. That is how I am using it with ssh certificates. Read up on rsync and if you want to create

Re: HP-1022 laser printer

2006-09-03 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Andriy Babiy wrote: Hello, Could anybody advise me on the HP-1022 laser printer? Does anyone have this model working on the FreeBSD? I'm going to buy it, therefore I wanted to check if there are any issues/problems about it. I found postings about USB port busy problem, but guys didn't

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-03 Thread David King
It's time to come clean and admit that parts/most of rsync are lost on my. [...] How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? Depending on the backup strategy that you want, I highly recommend rsnapshot (/usr/ports/sysutils/rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ ). It handles most

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:39:40PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Sep 3, 2006, at 10:35 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? I believe the default for rsync is to use ssh as a transport. That is how I am

Re: apache22 Checksum mismatch

2006-09-03 Thread Alexey Mikhailov
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hi. I'm trying to install apache22 on a 6.1 machine. Here what I get since days: = MD5 Checksum OK for apache22/httpd-2.2.3.tar.bz2. = SHA256 Checksum OK for apache22/httpd-2.2.3.tar.bz2. = MD5 Checksum mismatch for apache22/apr_dbd_mysql.rev-50.c. = SHA256 Checksum

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