The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-10-22 - 2006-11-11

2006-11-12 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

Re: hp 1020 printer not working

2006-11-12 Thread Alexander Sashurin
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Sergio Lenzi wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Hello... has anyone been able to make an HP1020 printer work in FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE it finds the printer, attaches it, but

How does mypc.freebsd-users.org sounds?

2006-11-12 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, Have anyone out there already brought up having a free dns service for all FreeBSD fanatics out there? I just got my dsl connection and is about to register my box to dyndns.org, however, most of those domains they were offering aren't that much attractive. It would be cool if I could name

X windows configuration problem

2006-11-12 Thread arnuld
hai all, i am not able to configure my X-Windows system. i will be brief: 1.) ASUS K8V-MX motherboard running AMD64 Athlon 2.) VIA K8M800, VIA 8T237R chipsets. i downloaded FreeBSD 6.1 last night have verified the md5sum. Xorg -configure does not work. GNOME is installed. then i tried

How does mypc.freebsd-users.org sounds?

2006-11-12 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, Have anyone out there already brought up having a free dns service for all FreeBSD fanatics out there? I just got my dsl connection and is about to register my box to dyndns.org, however, most of those domains they were offering aren't that much attractive. It would be cool if I could name

Re: question

2006-11-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 19:40 +0100, Sebastian Herrmann wrote: Hallo, could you tell me how to download FreeBSD from your site? Gruß Sebastian Ein Herz für Kinder - Ihre Spende hilft! Aktion: www.deutschlandsegelt.de Unser Dankeschön: Ihr Name auf dem Segel der 1.

streaming content on fbsd

2006-11-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have the latest ports. I run freebsd-6.1 I compiled almost every option / dataformat into mplayer. Still no streaming media. Although about:plugin states the format is supported (and mplayer is compiled to support the format too). No support for i,e.:

Re: Linux extended partition after FreeBSD slice

2006-11-12 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 5 November 2006, at 14:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to install Linux in an extended partition after my FreeBSD slice so that I won't loose unecessary primary partitions to Linux because I want to install other OS:es too. Are there any problens with this do you think? This, I think

Problems with sr driver and Wanic 400

2006-11-12 Thread John Levine
I'm trying to put together a freebsd 6.1 T1 router with an old PC and a Wanic 400 card I bought on ebay. I'm using the sr driver netgraph, mpd, and pf with altq, since I want to do priority routing for some voip phones. It all works fine until the t1 gets busy, e.g., if I do a wget on the

Re: mknod within a jail ...

2006-11-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm playing with DTC right now, within a Jail ... and one of the steps to set it up is to run mknod to create devices for a chroot environment, which, of course, fail in a jail ... Is there any way around this? Mounting devfs isn't an option,

Re: gnome login problem

2006-11-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Ive just run a portupgrade trying to get some troublesome ports up to date. I noticed after it finished some things werent working anymore like gedit, open office... I copied the output of my portupgrade report but had to reboot and lost it! Now when i

Re: Java plugin for Firefox

2006-11-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi: How do I build the java plugin for Firefox? I have jdk15 installed without the plugin. I tried to rebuild with USE_GECKO=firefox which fails as the Makefile also states: /usr/local/include/firefox/nsDebug.h:207:1: warning: this is the location

Re: bpf kernel module

2006-11-12 Thread Vlad GURDIGA
On 12/11/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vlad GURDIGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to keep very close touch with 6.1_STABLE cvsupping sources once a week or even more often. I'm thinking of removing as much as possible devices from the kernel loading them from

Re: bpf kernel module

2006-11-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 05:29:23PM +0200, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: On 12/11/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vlad GURDIGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to keep very close touch with 6.1_STABLE cvsupping sources once a week or even more often. I'm thinking of removing as much

Re: 6.x hangs on AMD64 again

2006-11-12 Thread Jeff Hinrichs - DMT
On 11/11/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:15:54AM -0800, Chris wrote: If your system is hanging then you need to configure additional debugging to figure out the cause. Read the chapter on kernel debugging the developers handbook; without this

Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)

2006-11-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 03:05, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows. What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD driver for? I mentioned this on freebsd-stable, but I had problems with the newest NVidia driver (8776) causing READ_DMA

Re: Instant Messenger software

2006-11-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 09 November 2006 18:33, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Can anyone here recommend an IM client/server software that runs on FreeBSD? We use ejabberd for the server, and Kopete (Unix) and Psi (Windows) for the client. -- Kirk Strauser pgpHlCUAHAGmr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: streaming content on fbsd

2006-11-12 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:49:45 +0100 dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the latest ports. I run freebsd-6.1 I compiled almost every option / dataformat into mplayer. Still no streaming media. Although about:plugin states the format is supported (and mplayer is compiled to support

sshd, ftpd timing out

2006-11-12 Thread Marty Landman
I have three different fbsd installations - 4.8, 5.3 6.0 iirc. No trouble logging onto the 4.8 using ssh but almost always time out when attempting to ssh to the two newer releases. Same thing happens when trying to ftp. OTOH I connect easily to samba shares on all three boxes, and also to the

Re: X windows configuration problem

2006-11-12 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
do u have an xorg.conf to show us?? tfc On 11/12/06, arnuld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hai all, i am not able to configure my X-Windows system. i will be brief: 1.) ASUS K8V-MX motherboard running AMD64 Athlon 2.) VIA K8M800, VIA 8T237R chipsets. i downloaded FreeBSD 6.1 last night have

Re: streaming content on fbsd

2006-11-12 Thread Fabian Keil
Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:49:45 +0100 dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the latest ports. I run freebsd-6.1 I compiled almost every option / dataformat into mplayer. Still no streaming media. Although about:plugin states the format is

APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-12 Thread Mark
Hello, Could someone tell me whether I can use the APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD 4.11 installation? (yes, I know, I still use 4.11). I have an APC 350 (not smart), but it doesn't really work well with apcupsd (seems to ignore shutdown time). So, maybe it's time for a smart device. Should

Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)

2006-11-12 Thread Eric Schuele
On 11/11/2006 01:28, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 10 Nov Damian Wiest wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:56:39PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows. What do I need

FreeBSD Host

2006-11-12 Thread Beech Rintoul
I have a new client which I'm not going to host on my server (my bandwidth is getting a bit tight). Does anyone know of a good FreeBSD host with reasonable prices? TIA, Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Sys.

portsnap mirrors not being updated (?)

2006-11-12 Thread martinko
Hello, I've seen the following for around last two days: Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done. Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have. No updates needed. Is something going on with portsnap's mirror

Question about Ventrilo port at startup

2006-11-12 Thread Miles
Hi, Running 6.1 installed from the most recent .iso CD and sync'd ports through CVS, I wish to have the Ventrilo port start up as a daemon upon reboot, however, I'm not having any success in having this happen. I did some searching with Google and found little information specific to FreeBSD

hauppauge wintv problem

2006-11-12 Thread Daniel Leal
Hi. I installed a hauppauge wintv pci card in my freebsd 6.1-stable. I followed the instructions in freebsd handbook. dmesg shows: bktr0: BrookTree 878 mem 0xdfffe000-0xdfffefff irq 19 at device 3.0 on pci3 bktr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] bktr0: Hauppauge Model 44804 D148 bktr0: Warning - Unknown

Re: mknod within a jail ...

2006-11-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 10:00:54AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm playing with DTC right now, within a Jail ... and one of the steps to set it up is to run mknod to create devices for a chroot environment, which, of course, fail in a jail

kdeinit

2006-11-12 Thread tech---sub
HI i read your post on here http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1411434+0+archive/2006/freebsd-questions/20061015.freebsd-questions i was wondering if you solved the kdeinit problem seems like when i change the source url for new kde packages i too am having that problem as well when i

Testing firewire

2006-11-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I'd like to know if my firewire interface works before I set out to buy some miniDV - I have no devices to attach, or so I thought, I have two notebooks with firewire interfaces. So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary

Re: Java plugin for Firefox

2006-11-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any suggestions? I just built jdk15 with the default options, and the Java plugin works in my firefox. Secondly, is there a way to just build the plugin since I have the jdk built and installed? It looks possible, but (to me)

Re: Testing firewire

2006-11-12 Thread David Kelly
On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary cable and check that it works? There is no master nor slave in Firewire, all are peers, and all have (essentially) the same socket.

FreeBSD-6, kldload: No such file...

2006-11-12 Thread Armin Arh
Hi, since upgrading to FreeBSD-6 i can't load modules by just typing the name. ## uname -a FreeBSD lance.net.schlund.de 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #8: Sun Nov 12 21:59:06 CET 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LANCE i386 ## kldload linux kldload: can't load linux:

Re: mknod within a jail ...

2006-11-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Sunday, November 12, 2006 17:11:23 -0500 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any approach that requires running mknod is misguided, since you can't do this outside of devfs on modern FreeBSD. Mounting devfs (with appropriate rulesets)

Re: mknod within a jail ...

2006-11-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:00:54 -0500 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm playing with DTC right now, within a Jail ... and one of the steps to set it up is to run mknod to create

Re: portsnap mirrors not being updated (?)

2006-11-12 Thread Colin Percival
martinko wrote: I've seen the following for around last two days: Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done. Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have. No updates needed. Is something going on with

detach/reattach remote GUI applications?

2006-11-12 Thread Luke Dean
I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the screen utility with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application, detach from it, and then reattach to it later to see how it's going. I'm wondering if there's a tool I can use that would allow me to do that with GUI

image based stock spam

2006-11-12 Thread Brian
Looks like the preferred approach many folks re the above problem is fuzzyocr? Since there isn't a port for that, is there another FreeBSD solution worth mentioning here? Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-12 Thread Antony Mawer
On 13/11/2006 12:00 PM, Brian wrote: Looks like the preferred approach many folks re the above problem is fuzzyocr? Since there isn't a port for that, is there another FreeBSD solution worth mentioning here? http://www.freshports.org/mail/p5-FuzzyOcr/ --Antony

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Since there isn't a port for that, is there another FreeBSD solution worth mentioning here? I can't remember if there is a port or not, but I remember it was very easy to install: if fuzzyocr itself is not a port, every tools it is based upon are ports. Olivier

Re: Problems with sr driver and Wanic 400

2006-11-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
What I found works is freebsd 4.x, and a Pentium 2 350-400Mhz this was using risecom n/2 cards. FreeBSD 6.1 doesen't work at any speed in this combo, it loses packets. It's a driver bug, the sr driver needs a rethink of it's buffer structures. also, there's a bug with the wanic 2 port cards

Re: Problems with sr driver and Wanic 400

2006-11-12 Thread John L
What I found works is freebsd 4.x, and a Pentium 2 350-400Mhz this was using risecom n/2 cards. FreeBSD 6.1 doesen't work at any speed in this combo, it loses packets. Phoo. Does the pf or ipfw/altq stuff work on 4.x? I'm currently runing an ISA n/2 in an old BSD/OS box which works fine

Opera-9.02 crash, 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-11-12 Thread Armin Arh
Hi, I just installed Opera-9.02 from ports, and it crashes... [EMAIL PROTECTED] opera Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 87 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0) Abort trap (core dumped) [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a FreeBSD lance.net.schlund.de

Re: FreeBSD-6, kldload: No such file...

2006-11-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/12/06, Armin Arh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, since upgrading to FreeBSD-6 i can't load modules by just typing the name. You do not say from what to 6.x. ## kldload linux kldload: can't load linux: No such file or directory ## kldload linux.ko kldload: can't load linux.ko: No such

Re: Opera-9.02 crash, 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-11-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 04:37:31AM +0100, Armin Arh wrote: Hi, I just installed Opera-9.02 from ports, and it crashes... [EMAIL PROTECTED] opera Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 87 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0) Abort trap (core

Re: detach/reattach remote GUI applications?

2006-11-12 Thread Eric Schuele
On 11/12/06 18:37, Luke Dean wrote: I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the screen utility with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application, detach from it, and then reattach to it later to see how it's going. I'm wondering if there's a tool I can use that would

Re: FreeBSD-6, kldload: No such file...

2006-11-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/12/06, Armin Arh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:38:35 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do not say from what to 6.x. It was 5.4 kldconfig(8) man 8 kldconfig got it now, thx. Armin The 5.4 -- 6.x has probably left you with some old libs hanging

error while building lang/p5-Error

2006-11-12 Thread James Long
How to fix? ns : 20:53:22 /root# portupgrade lang/p5-Error --- Upgrading 'p5-Error-0.17.004' to 'p5-Error-0.17.007' (lang/p5-Error) --- Building '/usr/ports/lang/p5-Error' === Cleaning for perl-5.8.8 === Cleaning for p5-Error-0.17.007 === Extracting for p5-Error-0.17.007 = MD5 Checksum OK

Sendmail and network aliases

2006-11-12 Thread Evgeniy Belomestnov
Hello! I have FreeBSD-6.1 machine with two network interfaces: one for private network, one for internet. Network interface for internet has some aliases. I need to configure mail relay for some domains at this computer. Can I configure my MTA (Sendmail) to send outgoing e-mail for

'help'

2006-11-12 Thread shin_ta
I have some question about the Design and the Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System 1. FreeBSD used System call, Hardware interrupt, Hardware trap, and Software-initiated trap to entry into the system kernel. What is the detailed operation and why FreeBSD design by this

Re: Huawei UMTS Wireless Modem

2006-11-12 Thread David Schulz
i dont have such a device :( On Nov 11, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Joao Barros wrote: On 11/10/06, David Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it is supposed to be a Huawei EC325 Data Modem, just as on this website http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=147 On Nov 9, 2006, at 8:22 PM, Joao

Re: detach/reattach remote GUI applications?

2006-11-12 Thread Luke Dean
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Eric Schuele wrote: On 11/12/06 18:37, Luke Dean wrote: I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the screen utility with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application, detach from it, and then reattach to it later to see how it's going. I'm

Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-12 Thread Leo L. Schwab
I recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my gateway. It replaced an installation of FreeBSD 4.6.8 (fresh install, not an upgrade) on which I had disabled the SSH server. Since all the bugs in SSH are fixed now ( :-) ), I thought I'd leave the server on, and am somewhat dismayed to discover

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-12 Thread Bachilo Dmitry
В сообщении от Понедельник 13 ноября 2006 12:05 Leo L. Schwab написал(a): I recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my gateway. It replaced an installation of FreeBSD 4.6.8 (fresh install, not an upgrade) on which I had disabled the SSH server. Since all the bugs in SSH are fixed now ( :-)

trying to install PhP module from ports

2006-11-12 Thread Desmond Coughlan
X-No-Archive: true Hi. As title. The box is 5.5-RELEASE. I'm getting a host of syntax errors, the last ten lines of which are ... NV_READ' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/ports/databases/php4-pgsql/work/php-4.4.4/ext/pgsql/pgsql.c:1937: error: `INV_WRITE' undeclared

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-12 Thread Brian
Antony Mawer wrote: On 13/11/2006 12:00 PM, Brian wrote: Looks like the preferred approach many folks re the above problem is fuzzyocr? Since there isn't a port for that, is there another FreeBSD solution worth mentioning here? http://www.freshports.org/mail/p5-FuzzyOcr/ --Antony