Re: Flash in freebsd

2006-12-27 Thread Janvier Pang
My note, it works well on my freebsd 6.1 firefox 1.5, 2.0. please remember to add the following line into /etc/rc.conf: linux_enable=YES FreeBSD FireFox Flash Plugin Installation Guide: a) install www/linuxpluginwrapper b) install www/linux-flashplugin7 c) cp

change password without shell access

2006-12-27 Thread Perttu Laine
Hello! I'm looking tool for freebsd that allows user to change their password without access to server. If there are any? We're running mail server with nologin account and would like to let users change their password. From www would be preferred way. And possibly to change their .forward file

chroot, performance security

2006-12-27 Thread VeeJay
Hi I have made partations on my web server like at very outer edges of the disks, I have /, then /var, /tmp, /usr and in the end /home. Since I read that Data modified used often should be placed at close to outer edges as possible. So, I am having all logs (apache, ftp, mysql and other

RE: limit descriptors

2006-12-27 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello Dima, Why do you need to change it? is it for IRCD server ? If yes..then you have to change many things, not only the output of ulimit -a, However, vi /etc/sysctl.conf kern.maxfiles=16384 kern.maxfilesperproc=8192 which will set: Number of max filedescriptors for the kernel and max

Re: change password without shell access

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Perttu Laine wrote: Hello! I'm looking tool for freebsd that allows user to change their password without access to server. If there are any? We're running mail server with nologin account and would like to let users change their password. From

Re: chroot, performance security

2006-12-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:16:31AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: Hi I have made partations on my web server like at very outer edges of the disks, I have /, then /var, /tmp, /usr and in the end /home. Since I read that Data modified used often should be placed at close to outer edges as

Re: Flash in freebsd

2006-12-27 Thread Mario Lobo
Read these instructions from Arjan van Leeuwen. It works perfectly !! Hi Henry, others, As of the latest weekly development release of Opera (see   http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/), it's now possible to use any Linux   plugin in the native Opera for FreeBSD

Re: change password without shell access

2006-12-27 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to look at the web-based email extensions. There are a few of these, Squirrel Mail is one. You will need to add the modules to support the functions you want. -Derek At 02:42 AM 12/27/2006, Perttu Laine wrote: Hello! I'm looking tool for freebsd that allows user to change

Re: change password without shell access

2006-12-27 Thread Perttu Laine
On 12/27/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to look at the web-based email extensions. There are a few of these, Squirrel Mail is one. You will need to add the modules to support the functions you want. I know squirrel plugins would be one solution, but problem is that we

Re: Flash in freebsd

2006-12-27 Thread RW
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:18:26 +0800 Janvier Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My note, it works well on my freebsd 6.1 firefox 1.5, 2.0. please remember to add the following line into /etc/rc.conf: linux_enable=YES FreeBSD FireFox Flash Plugin Installation Guide: a) install

Re: change password without shell access

2006-12-27 Thread Lane
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 02:42, Perttu Laine wrote: Hello! I'm looking tool for freebsd that allows user to change their password without access to server. If there are any? We're running mail server with nologin account and would like to let users change their password. From www would

Re: Flash in freebsd

2006-12-27 Thread Dan Sikorsky
Hey I got linux-oper/linux-firefox, and for a minute it seemed regular firefox worked as well, then i started messing with plugns lol, but the linux-twins still work, I just have that problem everyone has... no sound, Im using OSS as my sound system. however firefox+oogle lets me download the

Re: change password without shell access

2006-12-27 Thread Derek Ragona
That is the easy solution, as there are plug ins for the vacations and password. Otherwise you will need to roll your own. -Derek At 06:39 AM 12/27/2006, Perttu Laine wrote: On 12/27/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to look at the web-based email extensions.

Re: Getting tty and keyboard input/output?

2006-12-27 Thread Derek Ragona
You can do this from an ncurses based application. -Derek At 12:03 AM 12/27/2006, Tyler Spivey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there an API or somethying that i can use for getting tty/keyboard input/output so that I can write a screen reader that will

Re: Flash in freebsd

2006-12-27 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:43:26 -0500 Dan Sikorsky wrote: Hey I got linux-oper/linux-firefox, and for a minute it seemed regular firefox worked as well, then i started messing with plugns lol, but the linux-twins still work, I just have that problem everyone has... no sound, Im using OSS as my

Fwd: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-27 Thread Jeff Rollin
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 23-Dec-2006 17:21 Subject: Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems To: Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon If you are located anywhere close to Grover Beach, California, please feel free to drop by his

Re: freebsd on i386-type internet appliance and cf card

2006-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, I've installed freebsd on a compact flash card sucessfully in my laptop (or so it looks - sysinstall completes to /dev/ad4, copies everything, no errors, etc) with the regular harddisk removed (for safety, of course). Only it won't boot on the

Re: change password without shell access

2006-12-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:42:44AM +0200, Perttu Laine wrote: Hello! I'm looking tool for freebsd that allows user to change their password without access to server. If there are any? We're running mail server with nologin account and would like to let users change their password. From www

Calculate the time of last modification of a file

2006-12-27 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hiya, I hope you had a merry Christmas ;) I am trying to determine the time of last modification of a file, on FreeBSD. The following code achieves the same on Linux: # AGE = (current time) - (time of last modification of $FILE) # please check your systems 'stat' command! AGE=$(($(date +%s) -

Re: Calculate the time of last modification of a file

2006-12-27 Thread N.J. Mann
On Wednesday, 27 December, 2006 at 18:53:17 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hiya, I hope you had a merry Christmas ;) I am trying to determine the time of last modification of a file, on FreeBSD. The following code achieves the same on Linux: # AGE = (current time) - (time of

Re: Calculate the time of last modification of a file

2006-12-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 27), Odhiambo Washington said: I am trying to determine the time of last modification of a file, on FreeBSD. The following code achieves the same on Linux: # AGE = (current time) - (time of last modification of $FILE) # please check your systems 'stat' command!

Re: change password without shell access

2006-12-27 Thread Perttu Laine
On 12/27/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is the easy solution, as there are plug ins for the vacations and password. Otherwise you will need to roll your own. Easy solution for admins - yes. Not for users. Running another webmail just password change is not option. What I

Re: NEC 7170A-0B

2006-12-27 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 12/18/06, FreeBSD WickerBill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone has used one of the later NEC *7170Ahttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152076 *DVD burners sucessfully with 6.0 or later? Thanks for your responses. Yes, I have and it works fine.

Re: change password without shell access

2006-12-27 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 08:34, Perttu Laine wrote: On 12/27/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is the easy solution, as there are plug ins for the vacations and password. Otherwise you will need to roll your own. Easy solution for admins - yes. Not for users. Running

Re: change password without shell access

2006-12-27 Thread Lars Kristiansen
Perttu Laine skrev: On 12/27/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is the easy solution, as there are plug ins for the vacations and password. Otherwise you will need to roll your own. Easy solution for admins - yes. Not for users. Running another webmail just password change is

linux compatability question

2006-12-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm not sure what to do at this point, I'm trying to run a linux app (binary) that requires libGLU.so.1, and it's an x86 binary. When I first ran it, it complained that the file libGLU.so.1 could not be found (it was in my /usr/X11R6/lib directory. I made a simlink with that name to that file to

problems compiling Maildrop

2006-12-27 Thread Joe Auty
Anybody having problems building Maildrop from ports? If not, any suggestions as to how I ought to negotiate this error under FBSD 5.5? Compiling maildirkwtest.c Linking maildirkwtest Compiling maildirkw.c Linking maildirkw /usr/local/lib/libfam.a(fam.o)(.text+0x31): In function `FAMOpen2':

Re: linux compatability question

2006-12-27 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:02:39 -0500 Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm not sure what to do at this point, I'm trying to run a linux app (binary) that requires libGLU.so.1, and it's an x86 binary. It requires a linux library. When I first ran it, it complained that the file libGLU.so.1 could not be

NIS intermittent connection trouble

2006-12-27 Thread Dan Casey
I have an NIS server setup on a specific vlan. All my nis clients are setup on separate vlans with different networks. All of my clients have the same problem. When i run /etc/rc.d/ypbind start then /etc/rc.d/ypset start, everything works properly. However it will stop working for no apparent

NIS intermittent connection trouble

2006-12-27 Thread Dan Casey
I have an NIS server setup on a specific vlan. All my nis clients are setup on separate vlans with different networks. All of my clients have the same problem. When i run /etc/rc.d/ypbind start then /etc/rc.d/ypset start, everything works properly. However it will stop working for no apparent

Re: Flash in freebsd

2006-12-27 Thread Sean Bryant
Mario Lobo wrote: Read these instructions from Arjan van Leeuwen. It works perfectly !! Hi Henry, others, As of the latest weekly development release of Opera (see http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/), it's now possible to use any Linux plugin in the native

RE: limit descriptors

2006-12-27 Thread dima
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: Why do you need to change it? is it for IRCD server ? If yes..then you have to change many things, not only the output of ulimit -a, ports/security/tor require 1000 descriptors. vi /etc/sysctl.conf kern.maxfiles=16384 kern.maxfilesperproc=8192

where to get the iso c90 compiler?

2006-12-27 Thread deeptech71
so, where? (also for linux?) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where to get the iso c90 compiler?

2006-12-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, where? (also for linux?) Can you not use gcc in pedantic mode? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in

Re: where to get the iso c90 compiler?

2006-12-27 Thread deeptech71
Gabor Kovesdan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: so, where? (also for linux?) The -std option of gcc is for setting the dialect, see this page: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.1/gcc/C-Dialect-Options.html#C-Dialect-Options Cheers, Gabor I want to compile the GCC 4.1.1 compiler.

Re: where to get the iso c90 compiler?

2006-12-27 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: so, where? (also for linux?) The -std option of gcc is for setting the dialect, see this page: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.1/gcc/C-Dialect-Options.html#C-Dialect-Options Cheers, Gabor ___

Re: SCSI Tape Drive Problems

2006-12-27 Thread Mark Kane
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006, at 11:14:57 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 20), Mark Kane said: Thanks very much for the replies. Both drives are external, and they both have terminators on the back. The setup is like this: The DDS autoloader is connected to the back of the

Re: list of emails of mailing lists

2006-12-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, you can write to this list via the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org email, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] is also recognized as an email for this list. This can't be the same with freebsd-doc -doc and cvs-doc -doc, that would be ambiguous. Could someone please direct

Re: Need to restrict DNS requests to just 5 per second

2006-12-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: [ ... ] Thank you very much for your help and suggestions. Actually, the reason why I want to implement this restriction is because some clients whose Windows PCs are infected with viruses and malwares send up to 10-20 bogus DNS queries per second which causes the

kino 0.9.4 compile failed

2006-12-27 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, wonder if anybody has seen this, i just sync my port tree and updrage kino to 0.9.4 by portupgrade, it failed with a report: frame.cc: In member function `bool Frame::CreateEncoder(bool, bool)': frame.cc:1302: error: cannot convert `AVCodecContext' to `AVCodecContext*' in initialization

emachines speakers no sound

2006-12-27 Thread Charles Hickman
I'm having trouble with the speakers it is hook up with my computer. And it said it is not. And it say there is no audio device.Can you help us with the speakers W3107 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: kino 0.9.4 compile failed

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, wonder if anybody has seen this, i just sync my port tree and updrage kino to 0.9.4 by portupgrade, it failed with a report: frame.cc: In member function `bool Frame::CreateEncoder(bool, bool)': frame.cc:1302:

tor, segmentation fault.

2006-12-27 Thread dima
Hello. Does anybody there have experience how to run an ports/security/tor ? I have use FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p13 and tor here always exit with signal 11 and Segmentation fault message. -- dima 7509107*mail,ru 2:550/112 ___

Re: emachines speakers no sound

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Hickman wrote: I'm having trouble with the speakers it is hook up with my computer. And it said it is not. And it say there is no audio device.Can you help us with the speakers W3107 If you haven't setup sound on your FreeBSD machine,

Re: tor, segmentation fault.

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dima wrote: Hello. Does anybody there have experience how to run an ports/security/tor ? I have use FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p13 and tor here always exit with signal 11 and Segmentation fault message. -- dima 7509107*mail,ru 2:550/112 Could

Re: emachines speakers no sound

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: Charles Hickman wrote: I'm having trouble with the speakers it is hook up with my computer. And it said it is not. And it say there is no audio device.Can you help us with the speakers W3107 If you haven't setup sound on

Override dummynet delay limit

2006-12-27 Thread ryan m
Hello, I'm trying to override the 10 second limit to a dummynet pipe delay, and allow it to be unlimited (or at least several minutes). I found this email in the achives: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2004-March/003370.html Following the email I modified

Re: Override dummynet delay limit

2006-12-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 27), ryan m said: Hello, I'm trying to override the 10 second limit to a dummynet pipe delay, and allow it to be unlimited (or at least several minutes). I found this email in the achives: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2004-March/003370.html

Re: tor, segmentation fault.

2006-12-27 Thread dima
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Does anybody there have experience how to run an ports/security/tor ? I have use FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p13 and tor here always exit with signal 11 and Segmentation fault message. Could you provide your make.conf settings, in particular your

No driver for NIC...

2006-12-27 Thread B. Hansmann
Hi, I just got a new mainboard (MSI K9N Platinum) with nvidia nforce 570/MCP55 chipset. It has a dualLAN 1Gbit ethernet adapter which I think is integrated into the southbridge chipset (nforce 570/MCP55). The mainboard manual says it's controlled by Vitesse VSC8601. I am new to FreeBSD and I did

mplayer configuration

2006-12-27 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
i used to use mplayer without a problem but i just upgraded it and now have problems--it doesnt work. i can play audio files wiht xmms, but if i try to use mplayer i get an error Could not open/initialize audio device - no sound. If i use gmplayer, it also doesnt work (same error) but i fooled

Re: mplayer configuration

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: i used to use mplayer without a problem but i just upgraded it and now have problems--it doesnt work. i can play audio files wiht xmms, but if i try to use mplayer i get an error Could not open/initialize audio

Re: No driver for NIC...

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 B. Hansmann wrote: Hi, I just got a new mainboard (MSI K9N Platinum) with nvidia nforce 570/MCP55 chipset. It has a dualLAN 1Gbit ethernet adapter which I think is integrated into the southbridge chipset (nforce 570/MCP55). The mainboard

Re: tor, segmentation fault.

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dima wrote: On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Does anybody there have experience how to run an ports/security/tor ? I have use FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p13 and tor here always exit with signal 11 and Segmentation fault message. Could