creating new user account password.

2013-01-23 Thread Fbsd8
I know I can create a new user account having a password same as the user name. After logging in the first time using the user account name as the password, I want to force the user to create a new password. Is there a way to do that? ___ freebsd

Re: creating new user account password.

2013-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/01/2013 20:06, Fbsd8 wrote: I know I can create a new user account having a password same as the user name. After logging in the first time using the user account name as the password, I want to force the user to create a new password. Is there a way to do that? You can set the password

Re: creating new user account password.

2013-01-23 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/23/13 3:06 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: I know I can create a new user account having a password same as the user name. After logging in the first time using the user account name as the password, I want to force the user to create a new password

Re: creating new user account password.

2013-01-23 Thread Fbsd8
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 23/01/2013 20:06, Fbsd8 wrote: I know I can create a new user account having a password same as the user name. After logging in the first time using the user account name as the password, I want to force the user to create a new password. Is there a way to do

New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread alwin doss
Hi, Let me be honest at the outset, I have never used an operating system other than linux with enthusiasm. But something about Linux always troubled me It's licensing, such complex family of distributions which are so different from each other. Which is when I came across FreeBSD. I fell in

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:17 AM, alwin doss alwindos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Let me be honest at the outset, I have never used an operating system other than linux with enthusiasm. But something about Linux always troubled me It's licensing, such complex family of distributions which are so

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 12:47:26PM +0530, alwin doss wrote: Which is when I came across FreeBSD. I fell in love with it, but yes I have never used it yet, I have tried many times to install it, but the installation process is really hard, I must say. I really want to install it on my laptop

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Waitman Gobble wrote on Sun 7.Oct'12 at 0:38:30 -0700 ] On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:17 AM, alwin doss alwindos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Let me be honest at the outset, I have never used an operating system other than linux with enthusiasm. But something about Linux always troubled

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Let me be honest at the outset, I have never used an operating system other than linux with enthusiasm. But something about Linux always troubled me It's licensing, such complex family of distributions which are so different from each other. Which is when I came across FreeBSD. I fell in

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 12:47:26 +0530, alwin doss wrote: But something about Linux always troubled me It's licensing, such complex family of distributions which are so different from each other. A valid point. With UNIX basic knowledge, you can master nearly any outdated commercial UNIX, BSD and

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
On 26 Nov 2010 at 9:53, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Nov 26, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Yes, I found that, good info. I'm relying on the freebsd.org site man pages and documentation among others, as I'm

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
On 26 Nov 2010 at 22:18, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:53:51 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: There are two options that I know of that could make this part easier for you 1) screen (tried and true) can do split windows/multiple windows although I've never been

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
Hi. As I now have ssh working, I can indeed have multiple logins running in indipendant windows on another box. (because I have it) I'm using PuTTY on Win2k. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/ It appears to work well.

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: /usr/ports/sysutils/screen/ Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it was built with a net install, from a V8.0 boot disk, earlier this year (April if memory serves.) I find now, that Sysinstall's

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
On 27 Nov 2010 at 11:22, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: /usr/ports/sysutils/screen/ Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it was built with a net install, from a V8.0 boot disk, earlier this year

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:06:06 -, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it was built with a net install, from a V8.0 boot disk, earlier this year (April if memory serves.) Use this: # pkg_add -r screen Precompiled packaes work

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: On 27 Nov 2010 at 11:22, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: /usr/ports/sysutils/screen/ Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.netwrote: No need to specify the full path w/ portmaster ... just portmaster --no-confirm -D sysutils/tmux is sufficient, portsnap is the best/easiest way to get the latest snapshot of ports. No real reason not to unless your

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 13:18, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:53:51 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: There are two options that I know of that could make this part easier for you 1) screen (tried and true) can do split windows/multiple windows

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 06:53, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote:   Yes, I found that, good info.  I'm relying on the freebsd.org site man pages and documentation among others, as I'm finding it too inconvenient

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 26 Nov 2010 at 14:31:23 PST Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Friday, 26 November 2010: FIVE! Using a tiling window manager like xmonad, just open another xterm. Either share a workspace between them, or put one of them in a different workspace, depending on whether you like to be

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Polytropon
For a standard installation, there's also the base console functionality: ALT+F(n) key combo - each one, F1 up to (IIRC) F12, gets a different console. This depends on how many virtual consoles have been defined in the /etc/ttys file. I think the default is 0 up to 7, and 8 (corresponds to

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-26 Thread Dave
. for csh, the default dialog shell); see the man csh for details. The original instructions I used when creating the GPS/NTP server, resulted in the BASH shell being used. I think that's part of the odd problem, as that does not show up in the list of known shell's, when creating a new user

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-26 Thread Polytropon
a new user. The Bourne Again Shell is NOT, I repeat: *NOT* part of the FreeBSD default installation. It is an ADDITIONAL piece of software. A common Linuxism seems to imply that bash is present on every system. While I agree that bash is a good interactive shell (except some misbehaviour, in my

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-26 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Yes, I found that, good info. I'm relying on the freebsd.org site man pages and documentation among others, as I'm finding it too inconvenient (bad short term memory) using the man pages on the system. At least I can have

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-26 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Nov 26, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Yes, I found that, good info. I'm relying on the freebsd.org site man pages and documentation among others, as I'm finding it too inconvenient (bad short term memory)

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-26 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:53:51 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: There are two options that I know of that could make this part easier for you 1) screen (tried and true) can do split windows/multiple windows although I've never been able to correctly figure it out 2) tmux

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-26 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Polytropon on Friday, 26 November 2010: On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:53:51 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: There are two options that I know of that could make this part easier for you 1) screen (tried and true) can do split windows/multiple windows although I've

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-25 Thread Nathan Vidican
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Hi again. Firstly, many thanks for the responces to my questions. Much appreciated. Especialy as on other lesser forums (Lugs etc) I often get flamed for asking such stuff, and learn nothing as a result. OK. The FTP

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-25 Thread Dave
On 25 Nov 2010 at 9:42, Nathan Vidican wrote: Trimmed... Two commands of interest here, 'chmod' and 'chown'. I'd highly suggest reading the manpage on both, but here's the short/quick-start version: chmod - used to change permissions for a file or directory - permissions are broken

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:00:21 -, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Lots is written about the 'x' bit, and allowing execution of a file, but not that it affects the ability to even use that directory. I guess in this context, using = executing, so it sort of makes sense. It is written

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-24 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:41:17PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: [...] Have a FTP server, so I can automate some of the web page graphics updates, from other systems that generate the data, and can FTP files across the LAN, also of course for general web page maintenance needs. The base

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-24 Thread Polytropon
Allow me to answer some of your questions without begin too precise about the whole picture, because I just can't speak about all aspects due to lack of experience. :-) On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:55:51 -, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: I'd like to:- Have a ssh login via LAN available, I

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-24 Thread Dave
Hi again. Firstly, many thanks for the responces to my questions. Much appreciated. Especialy as on other lesser forums (Lugs etc) I often get flamed for asking such stuff, and learn nothing as a result. OK. The FTP thing first Just for the heck of it, trying to use the built in

new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-23 Thread Dave
If I've not already done so. Hi. Sorry, this goes on a bit New to FreeBSD, but long time served PC nut and user, from the before DOS days onwards... I've not long ago put together a small FreeBSD V8.0 system, primeraly as a GPS derrived NTP server, following instructions from here:-

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-23 Thread Nerius Landys
I'd like to:- Have a ssh login via LAN available, I believe that's a standard feature, but I expressedly disabled that (well, told it not to implement it) when I orignaly installed the OS.   Or have a VNC server running. Add the following line: sshd_enable=YES to file /etc/rc.conf .

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-23 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Tuesday 23 November 2010 13:55:51 Dave wrote: SNIP Have a small web server, again I've read that Apache can do a good job, but I don't want (nor need) all it's facilities, in particular I need to lock it down so no Put's can happen for a start! The web pages are simple flat form, text

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Dave wrote: Hi. Sorry ... snip Hello, and welcome. And I made it a bit shorter ;-) I'd like to:- Have a ssh login via LAN available, I believe that's a standard feature, but I expressedly disabled that (well, told it not to implement it) when I orignaly installed the OS. Or have a VNC

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-23 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 23 Nov 2010 at 17:43:32 PST Beech Rintoul wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2010 13:55:51 Dave wrote: SNIP Have a small web server, again I've read that Apache can do a good job, but I don't want (nor need) all it's facilities, in particular I need to lock it down so no Put's can happen

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2010-01-01 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi Roland, many thanks for the response!!! :-) I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do.. In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult to understand!!! I now have a test machine setup which I built nano and Bind 9.6.1 from the ports

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2010-01-01 Thread Kaya Saman
Just to give a quick overview of what is being used currently: test# du -sch etc 1.7Metc 1.7Mtotal test# du -sch var 1.0Mvar 1.0Mtotal test# du -sch tmp 10Ktmp 10Ktotal test# du -sch usr 1.0Gusr 1.0Gtotal I think I could get away with 500MB for /var and /tmp and

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2010-01-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:41:04PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi Roland, many thanks for the response!!! :-) You're welcome! I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do.. In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult to understand!!! If

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:49:31PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi guys, I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I tried to start X from the CLI using the normal startx command (read the

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:20:10PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@optiplex-networks.com Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results.

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use e2fsck followed by device ID.

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Kaya Saman
Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: Many thanks guys for all the advice :-) It is really appreciated! Sorry haven't snipped more stuff into this mail but things are a bit hectic here but what I will say is this; in a few hours once the BSD 8 DVD ISO comes

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g: # ln -s /usr/home /home ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from the root partition. So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap. How I'd slice up the disk: 2GB for / 2GB for swap 2GB for /var 34GB

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Kaya Saman wrote: How I'd slice up the disk: 2GB for / 2GB for swap 2GB for /var 34GB for /usr Ah so BSD is slightly different from Linux in the fact that it needs to have /var and /usr filesystems separate?? It's not required, it's just nice to do if the disk space

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: [...] What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g: # ln -s /usr/home /home ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from the root partition. So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap.

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:27:11PM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: Many thanks guys for all the advice :-) It is really appreciated! ... I reckon the proposed disk usage spec from the FreeBSD hand book should suffice

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: [...] What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g: # ln -s /usr/home /home ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from the root partition. So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: [...] What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g: # ln -s /usr/home /home ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from the root partition. So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap.

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Kaya Saman
Many thanks again for all suggestions! :-) [...] For my desktop, with around 450 ports installed, I have the following lay-out; Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a484M 93M353M21%/ /dev/ad4s1g.eli373G168G175G49%

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:25:48PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:27:11PM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: Many thanks guys for all the advice :-) It is really appreciated! ... I reckon

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 09:06:09PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: lot's of different pieces of advice rolling in now! I guess what I will do as I have a small hard disk for what I want to do which is to get rid of my music and few movies which are stored on my laptop currently, is create

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Kaya Saman
Roland: If you can afford it, and if your laptop has a USB port, buy one of those external harddisks. Plenty of room for music and movies... Also great for backups! Can't afford :-( I have many disks like that where I bought really cool enclosures and the drives separately but currently

New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi guys, first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much mileage with the OS as of yet! Secondly I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Christmas and New Year also since we are in that period

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@optiplex-networks.com wrote: Hi guys, first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much mileage with the OS as of yet! Secondly I just wanted

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html I'm sure I started them as this doc is exactly what I followed.. I think if I recall

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: I know how strong UFS v.1 is as I use it with Solaris 9, but how about UFS v.2 which is what FreeBSD runs?? When compared with ext3 from a performance/reliability perspective which one comes on top? I would say ufs2

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 14:42, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal are started at boot.  Follow the handbook for best results. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html I'm sure I started them

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
I would say ufs2 easily wins, but remember this is the freebsd-questions list ;) There are some differences though, ufs2 uses softupdates, not journaling(journaling is available and easy to implement via gjournal). Softupdates I believe are a little faster than journaling, but it's

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit much. Once I installed /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 with a 'make config-recursive' then

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Monday 28 December 2009 22:49:31 Kaya Saman wrote: Hi guys, first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much mileage with the OS as of yet! Secondly I just wanted to wish everyone a happy

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:29, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit much. Once I

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
The most common cause is that either hald (sysutils/hal) or dbus (devel/dbus) isn't running. Xorg needs them both to detect mouse and keyboard. Add dbus_enable=YES and hald_enable=YES to rc.conf to get them to start automatically. We'll see what the issue actually is - as I mentioned I

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Kurt Buff wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:29, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: I see I didn't completely read your original message. Indulge me a moment while I ramble here, and probably expose my ignorance... Xorg/X11 Gnome Gnome runs on Xorg: Xorg/Xfree runs X11 Xfree

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Chuck Robey
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@optiplex-networks.com wrote: Hi guys, I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I tried to start X from the CLI using

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 16:23, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: snip So, given what you've written below, you probably know more about this stuff than I do. Cool. I will echo the advice already given, however: add dbus_enable=YES hald_enable=YES to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] add dbus_enable=YES hald_enable=YES to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most likely clear your problem. [...] I will give this a go soon :-) That's what I do with mine under FreeBSD, for both servers and workstations. Having both servers and workstations is cool as both of

Re: New user with a possible ZFS problem

2008-07-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kevin Monceaux wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote: Saturday I finally found one of those round tuits and switched my home PC from Debian to FreeBSD. I probably should have mentioned that the box in question is a slightly older hyperthreaded Intel Pentium 4 box, an HP m260n to

Re: New user with a possible ZFS problem

2008-07-08 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Kris, On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: You may be running out of memory. Increase kmem_size until it goes away. I use 1500M on my systems, which are stable. Yes, ZFS is a memory hog. Boy, ZFS sure does sound like it's earned the title of memory hog. Oddly I'd been running for

New user with a possible ZFS problem

2008-07-02 Thread Kevin Monceaux
FreeBSD Fans, Okay, I'm not exactly a new user. I've been running FreeBSD for about a year or so on my web/mail server, which I only have remote access to. It's currently running 6.3. Saturday I finally found one of those round tuits and switched my home PC from Debian to FreeBSD. I've

Re: New user with a possible ZFS problem

2008-07-02 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote: Saturday I finally found one of those round tuits and switched my home PC from Debian to FreeBSD. I probably should have mentioned that the box in question is a slightly older hyperthreaded Intel Pentium 4 box, an HP m260n to be exact, with 3GB of

tcl84 on FreeBSD 6.2 make error (new user)

2007-04-08 Thread Ben Madin
G'day all, I'm sorry but I am new to FreeBSD, and I am not sure what tcl84 is, but when I tried to install gdal, using portmanager after many hours it told me that tcl84 had an error, so that was that. when I went to ports/lang/tcl84 and tried make install clean it didn't work either.

Re: tcl84 on FreeBSD 6.2 make error (new user)

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Ben Madin wrote: G'day all, I'm sorry but I am new to FreeBSD, and I am not sure what tcl84 is, but when I tried to install gdal, using portmanager after many hours it told me that tcl84 had an error, so that was that. when I went to ports/lang/tcl84 and tried make install clean it didn't

pw generates error when creating new user.

2007-04-01 Thread Wim Vandamme
in /etc/pw.conf (nispasswd=/var/yp/master.passwd). From what I understand from the man pages that pw will update both /var/yp/master.passwd and /etc/master.passwd when a new user is created and/or modified. However when I try to add a new user using pw, an error message is generated: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: new user help

2007-04-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:05:47 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Brady wrote: I am very new to Freebsd so this might be a dumb question, but I can't find an answer through FAQ.. I used the command make install clean to install some ported applications, and the installs

new user help

2007-03-31 Thread Brian
Michael Brady wrote: I am very new to Freebsd so this might be a dumb question, but I can't find an answer through FAQ.. I used the command make install clean to install some ported applications, and the installs went off without a hitch and reported successful.My problem is that I can't

Re: New user

2005-09-28 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 9/28/05, Xian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Tharaka Abeysekera wrote: I'm a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I'm pissed off with Windows On Tuesday 27 September 2005 14:29, Derrick Test wrote:

Re: New user

2005-09-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
right on your machine. You have to install /usr/ports/textproc/docproj first, and there's more details about that here: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/02/08/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Hope I don't scare off the new user, but this does demonstrate the power and simplicity of UNIX in general

Re: New user

2005-09-28 Thread Randy Pratt
don't scare off the new user, but this does demonstrate the power and simplicity of UNIX in general, and FreeBSD in particular. Here's an example straight from my workstation (this can be used as a way to update and serve docs for an entire organization, such as one build machine being used

New user

2005-09-27 Thread Tharaka Abeysekera
Hi… I’m a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I’m pissed off with Windows . Regards, Tharaka - Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Ruud Jansen
* Tharaka Abeysekera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi? I?m a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I?m pissed off with Windows . Regards, Tharaka Hello! If you gave us a little bit more information about what you

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Derrick Test
thats a big question. the handbook off the website is a great resource. On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Tharaka Abeysekera wrote: Hi… I’m a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I’m pissed off with Windows . Regards,

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Hi I'm a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I'm pissed off with Windows . One place to wstart is to break your lines in your messages at about 70 characters. It makes your posting easier to read and reply to

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread jonas
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:04:06 -0400 (EDT) Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi I'm a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I'm pissed off with Windows . One place to wstart is to break your lines

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Ashley Moran
Tharaka Abeysekera wrote: Hi… I’m a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I’m pissed off with Windows . Regards, Tharaka It might be worth looking for local users group near you. If you haven't got a lot of

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:04:06 -0400 (EDT) Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi I'm a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I'm pissed off with Windows . One place to wstart is to

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Xian
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Tharaka Abeysekera wrote: I'm a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I'm pissed off with Windows On Tuesday 27 September 2005 14:29, Derrick Test wrote: thats a big question. the handbook off the

Re: New user getting very discouraged with IPv6 problems, cannot get tunnel working completely :(

2005-09-25 Thread Tilman Linneweh
Am 25.09.2005 um 03:32 schrieb aksis: On the HE site, after you login, in the Tunnel Details section, there is an option to rebuild the tunnel, this might fix the problem. Beyond that I would email HE, send them the relative info and ask them to look at it. Additional check your ipv6

New user getting very discouraged with IPv6 problems, cannot get tunnel working completely :(

2005-09-24 Thread resonant evil
Hi all, I'm a brand new poster to the forums, and consider myself a novice FreeBSD user.. I used to use an IPv6 tunnel broker that worked fine, and even had a great program in C to do all the configuring of my tunnel automatically, but sadly, they are sharing my /48 with like 4 other people

Re: New user getting very discouraged with IPv6 problems, cannot get tunnel working completely :(

2005-09-24 Thread aksis
On Friday 23 September 2005 01:08, resonant evil wrote: Here are the full tunnel details I was approved for Server IPV4 Address: 64.71.128.83 http://64.71.128.83 Server IPV6 Address: 2001:470:1F01:::DD2/127 Client IPV4 Address: 70.28.MY.IP Client IPV6 Address: 2001:470:1F01:::DD3/127

Re: New user getting very discouraged with IPv6 problems, cannot get tunnel working completely :(

2005-09-24 Thread resonant evil
Hi, thanks for the response, but alas it's still not working :( On 9/24/05, aksis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im using Hurricane Electric as well, When you login to HE they have a link for an example config generation, this is what I used. I had some problems with the handbook as well. Yeah,

Re: New user getting very discouraged with IPv6 problems, cannot get tunnel working completely :(

2005-09-24 Thread aksis
On the HE site, after you login, in the Tunnel Details section, there is an option to rebuild the tunnel, this might fix the problem. Beyond that I would email HE, send them the relative info and ask them to look at it. Your side looks correct. ___

Re: New user questions :)

2005-04-07 Thread Graham Bentley
Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also wondered if there is a project based on FreeBSD that achieves similar goals to SME Server (ie all in one LAN server with Web config) or similar to Trustix (ie minimal config with series of scripts to configure server services. Not that I know of,

Re: New user questions :)

2005-04-07 Thread Nick Pavlica
On Apr 7, 2005 2:58 AM, Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also wondered if there is a project based on FreeBSD that achieves similar goals to SME Server (ie all in one LAN server with Web config) or similar to Trustix (ie minimal config

I am new User

2004-12-25 Thread pedram
Hi I want Learn FreeBSD but I am New in Unix Platform. I have MCSE and CCNA Certification and I am Administrator in an ISP and some companies. I was Download FreeBSD 5.3 Which books or sites you suggest me to learn? Thank you Pedram Akbari ___

Re: I am new User

2004-12-25 Thread Giuliano Cardozo Medalha
Pedram, The best first reference about FreeBSD (in my opinion) is their own hadnbook. Take a look that: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is a complete reference to install and use it. After read it ... if you have any more questions ... post it to the list. Have you

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