Re: Creating New Users over Telnet/SSH

2006-09-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 18:29, Derek Ragona wrote: [snip] However you will need to replace the normal process running the login (telnetd or sshd) and pass the login information to that daemon or create a new user depending on the input data. No, you can force a default shell without

Re: freebsd version?

2006-09-27 Thread azhar freebsd
2006/9/26, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 04:35:07PM +0900, azhar freebsd wrote: hi can anybody tell me what is 6.2 preerelease. Just what it says. It is a FreeBSD 6.2 that has not been officially released yet. The present official release is 6.1. The 6.2

Re: freebsd version?

2006-09-27 Thread azhar freebsd
2006/9/25, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 9/25/06, azhar freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi can anybody tell me what is 6.2 preerelease. uname -a FreeBSD belagelo.com 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Sep 24 16:53:30 UTC 2006 [EMAIL

Re: freebsd version?

2006-09-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
azhar freebsd wrote: uname -a FreeBSD belagelo.com 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Sep 24 16:53:30 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thank u for your reply . is there any way to get back the normal freebsd version . i am

fpconst...ports broken...other alternatives?

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Mesa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just submitted a bug report for py-fpconst being broken in ports. What are my alternatives for getting this installed and still being recognized by py-soappy within ports? (When I try to install soappy, it checks if fpconst is installed. Thanks!

Replace worksation, now can't ssh to older machine

2006-09-27 Thread stan
My trusty lon suffering FreeBSD workstation at work died (hardware), and I am in the process of replacig it. The current iss I have is that I have several older HP-UX achines that I need to be able to ssh to. I can't remeber exactly how I set these machines up (it was years agao), but they seem

Re: pdf editor

2006-09-27 Thread George Allan
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 12:47:56PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Anthony Agelastos wrote: On Sep 26, 2006, at 11:46 AM, sean wrote: Can anyone recommend a pdf editor, hopefully one in ports? What you can do is use the command pdf2ps (should install with Ghostscript if

FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Problem

2006-09-27 Thread Warren Liddell
Im running FreeBSD 7.0-Current fresh install, upgraded from 6-STABLE portupgrade and world worked fine .. then today after a cvsup .. portupgrade errors with Segmentation fault (core dumped) Anyone got any ideas as to why ? ___

Re: pdf editor

2006-09-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Maybe it's time to reconsider the nature of that itch? PDF was never meant to be edited (except peripherally), and most definitely not in the sense that you're thinking. Consider it a FINAL print format, like an image that's long since left the photographer, his studio and his camera

Working with DocBook on FreeBSD nothing but problems

2006-09-27 Thread Rico Secada
Hi For some strange reason I no longer can convert my .fo files to .pdf using fop. All I get is this.. $ fop -d mytext.fo mytext.pdf [DEBUG] Input mode: [DEBUG] FO [DEBUG] fo input file: mytext.fo [DEBUG] Output mode: [DEBUG] pdf [DEBUG] output file: mytext.pdf [DEBUG] OPTIONS [DEBUG] no user

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Problem

2006-09-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Warren Liddell wrote: Im running FreeBSD 7.0-Current fresh install, upgraded from 6-STABLE portupgrade and world worked fine .. then today after a cvsup .. portupgrade errors with Segmentation fault (core dumped) Anyone got any ideas as to why ? in which order did you world/portupgrade? if

Re: Working with DocBook on FreeBSD nothing but problems

2006-09-27 Thread N.J. Thomas
* Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-27 16:17:20 +0200]: [ERROR] property - background-position-horizontal is not implemented yet. Then it just freezes. I vaguely remember this happening to me when I wasn't checked for validity against the DocBook DTD. Putting xmllint --valid foo.xml

Running applications on freebsd which currently run on SCO Openserver.

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Borland
Hi, I have an application which is written in cobol and runs on SCO Openserver, we moved from Interactive Unix to SCO many years ago without any problem. Is it possible to just copy the executables ( the compiler, some utility programs etc. ) onto a freebsd machine? I have tried but they don't

Systems Administration Tool

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Borland
Hi, Is there any kind of systems administration tool on freebsd to enable the configuration of such things as printers and users? Is there a graphical user interface? Thanks, Jim. Jim Borland Unit 2 Wallace Studios 27 Wallace Avenue

Re: Systems Administration Tool

2006-09-27 Thread Javier Henderson
On Sep 27, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Jim Borland wrote: Hi, Is there any kind of systems administration tool on freebsd to enable the configuration of such things as printers and users? Is there a graphical user interface? Look at the webmin port. -jav

Re: Systems Administration Tool

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jim Borland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Is there any kind of systems administration tool on freebsd to enable the configuration of such things as printers and users? Is there a graphical user interface? Have a look at webmin. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.

Re: Systems Administration Tool

2006-09-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jim Borland wrote: Hi, Is there any kind of systems administration tool on freebsd to enable the configuration of such things as printers and users? Certainly. You can run sysinstall again and do post-installation configuration with that tool, or you can run adduser or other tools directly.

Re: Creating New Users over Telnet/SSH

2006-09-27 Thread John Cruz
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Tuesday 26 September 2006 18:29, Derek Ragona wrote: [snip] No, you can force a default shell without modifications. Check out login.conf(5) and shell variable. However, the original post implies little FreeBSD experience. Why do you want to automate such a

Re: Has anyone on this list set up an internet connection using a Westell WireSpeed ADSL modem? If so, please

2006-09-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 26 September 2006, at 16:47, ograbme wrote: let me know what gotcha's, if any, I should be aware of. I have. I set it to router mode. Make sure you have it set to that. Then you can simply use DHCP and get your IP and have internets. Thanks in advance.

intermittent boot problem

2006-09-27 Thread Marty Landman
I've got a new FBSD 5.3 release install on an old Compaq pII-233 w/ 128M ram. What I get when the boot fails is tx underrun -- using store and forward mode repeating infinitely. Now that a reboot has succeeded here's what dmesg shows for dc0: dc0: 82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX port 0x1400-0x14ff

Re: intermittent boot problem

2006-09-27 Thread Marty Landman
Sorry there's a bit more info available for my problem: $ dmesg | grep dc0 dc0: 82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX port 0x1400-0x14ff mem 0x4090-0x409000ff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci0 miibus0: MII bus on dc0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:40:3e:9b dc0: if_start running deferred for Giant dc0:

Re: KDE and libflashplayer - help?

2006-09-27 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, On 9/26/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've followed the instructions at http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php. libmap.conf contains: [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2 libdl.so.2

Re: intermittent boot problem

2006-09-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marty Landman wrote: I've got a new FBSD 5.3 release install on an old Compaq pII-233 w/ 128M ram. What I get when the boot fails is tx underrun -- using store and forward mode repeating infinitely. Now that a reboot has succeeded here's what dmesg shows for dc0: dc0: 82c169 PNIC

Re: Systems Administration Tool

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jim Borland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 September 2006 15:55 To: Jim Borland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Systems Administration Tool In response to Jim Borland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: rewrite of multiple incoming IPs into a single IP

2006-09-27 Thread Chris
On Sep 26, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Chris wrote: I have spent the day trying to get multiple IP addresses rewritten to a single address using IPFW and NATD. Is there a simple So as not to leave a hanging post in case someone else searches on this issue, I'm going to answer myself. I am now

Restore OS user, help!!!

2006-09-27 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, I've installed a new freeBSD server and my question is if I copy the /home/* files and /etc/passwd file, then I restart it, the server assume all the users declared into the passwd file or should I do something else? Thanks... Efren Bravo. - Fight back spam! Download the Blue Frog.

Re: rewrite of multiple incoming IPs into a single IP

2006-09-27 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Chris wrote: I have spent the day trying to get multiple IP addresses rewritten to a single address using IPFW and NATD. Is there a simple way to do this. If I put natd on the public interface, it grabs it and the system hangs at boot. Is there

Re: Restore OS user, help!!!

2006-09-27 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I've installed a new freeBSD server and my question is if I copy the /home/* files and /etc/passwd file, then I restart it, the server assume all the users declared into the passwd file or should I do something else? You'll also want to copy over... /etc/group /etc/master.passwd /etc/spwd.db

Re: rewrite of multiple incoming IPs into a single IP

2006-09-27 Thread Chris
On Sep 27, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Damian Wiest wrote: On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Chris wrote: I have spent the day trying to get multiple IP addresses rewritten to a single address using IPFW and NATD. Is there a simple way to do If I understand your problem correctly, you're

Re: pdf editor

2006-09-27 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe it's time to reconsider the nature of that itch? PDF was never meant to be edited (except peripherally), and most definitely not in the sense that you're thinking. Consider it a FINAL print format, like an image that's long since left

Passive ftp?

2006-09-27 Thread Stroganov A. V.
Greetings I've a LAN server (also a router) with vsftpd running on it. According to logs, everything is fine (OK DOWNLOAD). But some windows users say that they are loosing connection or session. They can't change folders at once, only with a few tries. Also they can't download folders with many

Re: pdf editor

2006-09-27 Thread Emre Sahin
On 9/27/06, Xiao-Yong Jin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Lately I was sending them pdfs and got in reply some pdfs that can only be viewed properly with the latest acrobat, and their comments are only visible on the screen anyway and cannot at

Re: freebsd version?

2006-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 07:04:53PM +0900, azhar freebsd wrote: 2006/9/26, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 04:35:07PM +0900, azhar freebsd wrote: hi can anybody tell me what is 6.2 preerelease. Just what it says. It is a FreeBSD 6.2 that has not been

Re: Restore OS user, help!!!

2006-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 07:26:41PM +0200, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, I've installed a new freeBSD server and my question is if I copy the /home/* files and /etc/passwd file, then I restart it, the server assume all the users declared into the passwd file or should I do something else? You

SSH connection cut during dump on tape

2006-09-27 Thread Philippe Lang
Hi, While doing a backup on an HP Ultrium LTO1 tape, my ssh connection froze, and since then, I'm not able to use the tape device anymore. xeon# mt -f /dev/nsa0 rewind mt: /dev/nsa0: Device busy xeon# dump -0uaL -f /dev/nsa0 /dev/da0s1a DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Sep 27 23:21:56

Filtering peer to peer

2006-09-27 Thread bsd
Hello, I am looking for a solution that will allow me to filter peer-to-peer activity on my network. I already have a router that do a bunch of filtering / firewalling. I would like to filter specific trafic from peer-to-peer. I was thinking of Squid ? But I don't know if It will be able to

Re: SSH connection cut during dump on tape

2006-09-27 Thread Charles Swiger
On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Philippe Lang wrote: While doing a backup on an HP Ultrium LTO1 tape, my ssh connection froze, and since then, I'm not able to use the tape device anymore. Presumably there is another instance of dump or whatever is still running; try to kill -INT or kill -9 it.

Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. Now I'm setting up a new server, so I rsynced to it as well. The files end up in a subdir of my home directory, because my account is being used for the rsync. I've been using cp -R to put

RE: SSH connection cut during dump on tape

2006-09-27 Thread Philippe Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While doing a backup on an HP Ultrium LTO1 tape, my ssh connection froze, and since then, I'm not able to use the tape device anymore. Presumably there is another instance of dump or whatever is still running; try to kill -INT or kill -9 it. Works just fine,

ndis + Linksys WPC54Gv3

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have just picked up this card for my notebook. On this site: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/02/linksys-wpc54g-with-freebsd-yesterday.html it is reported to work. I have inserted the card, the status light on it blinks green then goes off. I ran ndis and generated the driver as specified,

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Charles Swiger
On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. rsync (as root) works just fine to perform local copies preserving permissions and symlinks and so forth. Other people use a tar pipeline,

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 27), Paul Schmehl said: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. Now I'm setting up a new server, so I rsynced to it as well. The files end up in a subdir of my home directory, because my account is being

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 18:04:40 -0400 Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. rsync (as root) works just fine to perform local

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 17:04:39 -0500 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use rsync to do this, but It'd probably be easier to get your remote rsync to drop the files in the right directory in the first place. Hmmm...maybe I don't fully understand rsync. The files are

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Paul Schmehl wrote: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. Now I'm setting up a new server, so I rsynced to it as well. The files end up in a subdir of my home directory, because my account is being used for the rsync. I've

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paul Schmehl wrote: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. Now I'm setting up a new server, so I rsynced to it as well. The files end up in a subdir of my home directory, because my account is being used for the rsync. I've

Re: pdf editor

2006-09-27 Thread Damian Wiest
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:14:03PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Maybe it's time to reconsider the nature of that itch? PDF was never meant to be edited (except peripherally), and most definitely not in the sense that you're thinking. Consider it a FINAL print format, like an image

linux recovery tool

2006-09-27 Thread Robin Becker
One of my hosters says they provide a ram based linux recovery tool, but I'm actually using freebsd on the hardware so am wondering if linux knows how to mount UFS partitions? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Support for Execute Disable Bit

2006-09-27 Thread Damian Wiest
I just installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a couple of NetFRAME 1420's that include hardware support for the execute disable bit. Does FreeBSD 6.1 include support for this? -Damian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Downgrade from 6.2 PR to 6.1 RELEASE?

2006-09-27 Thread Chris
I felt I should ask this question before taking a drastic action. I built this new production system complete with jail (which I can recreate very quickly) and all was running perfectly under 6.2 PRERELEASE. I was planning taking a chance and going production (against common wisdom of

RE: pdf editor

2006-09-27 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damian Wiest Sent: Thursday, 28 September 2006 3:33 AM To: Anton Shterenlikht Cc: George Allan; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdf editor On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:14:03PM +0100,

Re: KDE and libflashplayer - help?

2006-09-27 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 08:30, you wrote: Hello, On 9/26/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've followed the instructions at http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php. libmap.conf contains: [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0

Re: Downgrade from 6.2 PR to 6.1 RELEASE?

2006-09-27 Thread Ahmad Arafat Abdullah
- Original Message - From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Downgrade from 6.2 PR to 6.1 RELEASE? Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:46:42 -0700 I felt I should ask this question before taking a drastic action. I built this new

Re: linux recovery tool

2006-09-27 Thread Ahmad Arafat Abdullah
- Original Message - From: Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: linux recovery tool Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:33:04 + One of my hosters says they provide a ram based linux recovery tool, but I'm actually using freebsd on the hardware so

Re: calenders .. silly question !

2006-09-27 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: Desmond Coughlan wrote: The thread on calendars has got me thinking The 'non-profit' organisation I mentioned, is a school. Here in France (and no doubt in dozens of other countries), many universities have constructed 'virtual

Re: Downgrade from 6.2 PR to 6.1 RELEASE?

2006-09-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:46:42 -0700 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Presuming I can live with certain driver issues on 6.1 RELEASE P6, are there any serious dangers or unique procedures in going backward, to RELENG_6_1 from RELENG_6 that suggest it would be better to just start from

Re: Downgrade from 6.2 PR to 6.1 RELEASE?

2006-09-27 Thread Chris
On Sep 27, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:46:42 -0700 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Presuming I can live with certain driver issues on 6.1 RELEASE P6, are there any serious dangers or unique procedures in going backward, to RELENG_6_1 from RELENG_6 that

Accessibility questions.

2006-09-27 Thread Gary Kline
To anyone on-list who has heard of the RFBD rfbd.org, they provide 4-track cassettes (at 15/16ips) for audiobooks for the blind and dislexic. They have begun to switch to some kind of encrypted digital CD's, much more efficient that tape.. Today is the

re: nested labels

2006-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Katz
Adam Martin's discussion of nested partitions was very enlightening and useful. A nice thing about the approach is that it can be used on a dangerously dedicated hard drive. Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Kopete MSN + Cam

2006-09-27 Thread Warren Liddell
Is or will there ever be support to allow the viewing of Webcams from others or is it simply not possible ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to