Re: vmware

2002-10-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:02:25PM -0700, Nick Tonkin wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote: vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon The highest OS I've tested it with is windows 98. the higher os's do something

make command fails :-(

2002-10-10 Thread S Randall
Hello I need a little help. I am trying to buils a custom kernel that will support my soundblaster awe32 card. I am following the instructions in the handbook (I am a determined newbie). I am building the traditional way (as the new way (procedure 2) doesn't work for me. 1. I first run

Re: make command fails :-(

2002-10-10 Thread Adam Weinberger
use the process outlined in /usr/src/UPDATING: cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNCONF=MMKERNEL you probably want to change the ident= line. -Adam (10.09.2002 @ 2248 PST): S Randall said, in 10K: Hello I need a little help. I am trying to buils a custom kernel that will support my

mounting an msdos volume?

2002-10-10 Thread S Randall
Hi I am running a dual boot system. WinXP (NTFS) and freebsd 4.6.2 on a seperate SCSI hard drive. Is there a way to mount the DOS hard drive/partition and read and write files to that volume? I was able to do this in mandrake linux. It was a link in my /mnt folder. Any help is greatly

Re: mounting an msdos volume?

2002-10-10 Thread Adam Weinberger
(10.09.2002 @ 2257 PST): S Randall said, in 0.4K: I am running a dual boot system. WinXP (NTFS) and freebsd 4.6.2 on a seperate SCSI hard drive. Is there a way to mount the DOS hard drive/partition and read and write files to that volume? I was able to do this in mandrake linux. It

building zh-stardict error on current

2002-10-10 Thread suken woo
hi ,all: as title.thanks any help. !!!DO use GNU make(gmake) to compile this software!!! === Building for zh-stardict-1.3 cd ./src ; gmake gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/chinese/stardict/work/zh-stardict-1.3/s rc' c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I/usr/X11R6/include

Re: NICs

2002-10-10 Thread Bryan Cassidy
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:14:47PM +0100, Nuno Pimenta wrote: Hi! I need to find the best Fast Ethernet and ISDN PCI cards for FreeBSD. Can you help me making the decisions? Thanks! Nuno Pimenta. I would get a 3Com NIC Card. I don't know about the ISDN card though. To Unsubscribe:

Re: a installed ports' info displaying perl program

2002-10-10 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote paul beard thusly... parv wrote: would anybody be interested in a perl program which displays information about installed ports? bsdpak (in the netBSD pkgsrc collection) seems close to what you're suggesting and groks ports as well as pkgsrc. no, not

Mail client preferred?

2002-10-10 Thread Brian Astill
Pine, Mutt, Elm, Emacs ... probably others. Anyone care to make a recommendation for a console-based mail client? I'm currently using Kmail. It would be nice if there was a way to transfer Kmail message files to the console client. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: NICs

2002-10-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
Nuno Pimenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to find the best Fast Ethernet and ISDN PCI cards for FreeBSD. Can you help me making the decisions? If the price is not important, get an intel EtherExpress/100 fast ethernet card. They're well supported and perform very well under FreeBSD. If

Re: Mail client preferred?

2002-10-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
Brian Astill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pine, Mutt, Elm, Emacs ... probably others. Anyone care to make a recommendation for a console-based mail client? I'm currently using Kmail. It would be nice if there was a way to transfer Kmail message files to the console client. I guess 90% of

Re: Mail client preferred?

2002-10-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-10 17:23:53 +0930: Pine, Mutt, Elm, Emacs ... probably others. Anyone care to make a recommendation for a console-based mail client? I'm currently using Kmail. It would be nice if there was a way to transfer Kmail message files to the console client. mutt

Re: Mail client preferred?

2002-10-10 Thread Lauri Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 October 2002 09.53, Brian Astill wrote: Pine, Mutt, Elm, Emacs ... probably others. Anyone care to make a recommendation for a console-based mail client? I'm currently using Kmail. It would be nice if there was a way to transfer

Re: Small Example Port (Ports System)

2002-10-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-09 21:09:44 -0600: Any suggestions for a small, non-compiling, plays-by-the-rules port to examine? try /usr/ports/mail/getmail/ At present, it would help just to know the minimum required targets in the project Makefile (not the port Makefile) to support

Re: Security questions

2002-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-10-09 22:45, Socketd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I've noticed that syslogd run as root, but why? Syslog just need to connect to a port, get messages and write them to some files, so why does I have to be root? I know you have to be root to bind() to a port below 1024, but

FreeBSD 4.6

2002-10-10 Thread Hendrik Kluever
I just want to know how can I install FreeBSD without sendmail being install aswell??? Hendrik Kluever SITA - NETECS Office: +27 12 672 2318 Fax: +27 12 672-2716 This message and any attachment are intended only for the use of the Addressee and may contain information that is PRIVILEGED and

Re: Security questions

2002-10-10 Thread Socketd
Original Message On 10/10/02, 4:37:02 AM, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Security questions: I've noticed that syslogd run as root, but why? Syslog just need to connect to a port, get messages and write them to some files, so why does I have to be root? I know

bootstrapping CD-ROM install from network?

2002-10-10 Thread Sacha Varma
Dear all, I'm in the rather peculiar situation of being unable to boot from floppy or CD-ROM on my i386 PC. However, I can netboot (via PXE software on my NIC). What I would like to do is boot into an installer over the network, but install the FreeBSD files from CD-ROM. I've set up DHCP

file table is full

2002-10-10 Thread Jim Freeze
Hi: Today I got up and my security log showed the following: rabbit kernel log messages: 246:3175 63.106.140.204:22 in via sis0 file: table is full file: table is full Limiting open port RST response from 250 to 200 packets per second Limiting open port RST response from 250 to 200 packets

Re: FreeBSD 4.6

2002-10-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-10 11:57:55 +0200: I just want to know how can I install FreeBSD without sendmail being install aswell??? unfortunately you can't. you can disable it, however. Hendrik Kluever SITA - NETECS Office: +27 12 672 2318 Fax: +27 12 672-2716 please, use

RE: FreeBSD usage in safety-critical environments

2002-10-10 Thread Nelson, Trent .
-Original Message- From: Ted Faber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:59 PM To: Terry Lambert Cc: Nelson, Trent .; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: FreeBSD usage in safety-critical environments On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:26:14PM

NFS server not respnding!

2002-10-10 Thread Hartmann, O.
Dear Sirs. Using FreeBSD 4.6.2-pl2 and FreeBSD 4.7-RC2 on our server system (one 4.7-RC experimental system) and utilizing AMD for mounting home space and other services via TCP protocol results in nfs server 134.93.180.216:/usr/homes: not responding nfs server 134.93.180.216:/usr/homes: is

Re: FreeBSD usage in safety-critical environments

2002-10-10 Thread Jamie Heckford
Hardly reassuring from all the recent train crashes really :P - Original Message - From: Nelson, Trent . [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Ted Faber' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Nelson, Trent . [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: Mail client preferred?

2002-10-10 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:23:53PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote: Pine, Mutt, Elm, Emacs ... probably others. Anyone care to make a recommendation for a console-based mail client? I'm currently using Kmail. It would be nice if there was a way to transfer Kmail message files to the console

Re: bad route add command

2002-10-10 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:40:54PM +0800, Craig A. Beasland typed: Hi there, I mistakenly typed in the wrong route command... route add -net 203.33.30.96 255.255.255.224 203.33.30.1 And now I have this entry in the netstat -rn output... 203.33.300xcb211e01 255.255.255.224UGSc

Re: Mail client preferred?

2002-10-10 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Cliff Sarginson on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 13:10:07 +0200 My mail combination is MTA = Postfix, MDA = procmail, MUA = Mutt, Spam catcher = Spamassassin. It works well except I hate procmail beyone rationality, but the setup works well. Have a look at Exim (www.exim.org) as it has a very

Re: file table is full

2002-10-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jim Freeze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rabbit kernel log messages: 246:3175 63.106.140.204:22 in via sis0 file: table is full There is a limit on the number of files than can be held open simultaneously. If that limit is reached, the above message is logged, and trying to open further

INVESTMENT

2002-10-10 Thread Williams Gumbeze
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Re: FreeBSD 4.6

2002-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-10-10 11:57, Hendrik Kluever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to know how can I install FreeBSD without sendmail being install aswell??? a) Install a basic FreeBSD system. b) Remove the bits you don't care about. Very simple. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: /usr/src/lib/libncurses signal 11 during 'make buildworld'

2002-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-10-09 22:41, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This issue appears in the archives from around September 20th Was anything new discovered? What was the final solution for that box? I eventually got a buildworld to finish with -DNOCLEAN, and didn't investigate

Get Star Wars Episode II a Haunted House Screensaver - Free

2002-10-10 Thread Dana
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Re: Security questions

2002-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-10-10 10:13, Socketd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/02, 4:37:02 AM, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that syslogd run as root, but why? Another reason is obvious if you look at the owner and permissions of the system log files:

Exim as an alternative MTA in FreeBSD [was: Re: Mail client preferred?]

2002-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-10-10 12:11, Yann Golanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoth Cliff Sarginson on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 13:10:07 +0200 My mail combination is MTA = Postfix, MDA = procmail, MUA = Mutt, Spam catcher = Spamassassin. It works well except I hate procmail beyone rationality, but the setup

Where is the ucd-snmp port ? I've just cvsup my ports and it's not there !!

2002-10-10 Thread Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella
-- JFRH. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Security questions

2002-10-10 Thread Socketd
Original Message On 10/10/02, 12:28:38 PM, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Security questions: Another reason is obvious if you look at the owner and permissions of the system log files: giorgos@patata[05:33]/home/giorgos$ ls -ld /var/log/messages

Re: FreeBSD usage in safety-critical environments

2002-10-10 Thread Petri Riihikallio
Could you please pick up some URLs with description of all security levels (C-2 and so on) - how to get, who is going on it and so on. Thanks in advance. I read the O'Reilly book Computer Security Basics by D. Russell and G.T. Gangemi sr. The book is ten years old and a great deal is outdated,

Re: Where is the ucd-snmp port ? I've just cvsup my ports and it's not there !!

2002-10-10 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote: -- JFRH. What is your question? Oh wait, it's in the subject line. Why did you put it in the subject line? That's for the subject. Next time, put a small subject in the subject line and the question in the

Re: Please help me

2002-10-10 Thread DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'
This needs to be moved, perhaps now to -chat but here's the C is a joke page. http://www.asandler.com/jokes/computer/c.shtml Regards, KDK - Original Message - From: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD LIST [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:31 PM

Root shell [was: How to create another account with rootprivileges?]

2002-10-10 Thread Petri Riihikallio
Also, never change the shell for root. It needs to be as it is for some things to work right. I have been using bash for root shell some time now without noticing any problems. My bash is statically linked and I have moved it to /bin. What kind of problems should I expect? I even tried to

Re: Root shell [was: How to create another account with root privileges?]

2002-10-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-10 16:06:26 +0300: Also, never change the shell for root. It needs to be as it is for some things to work right. I have been using bash for root shell some time now without noticing any problems. My bash is statically linked and I have moved it to /bin.

Re: FreeBSD 4.6

2002-10-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-10 14:39:20 +0300: On 2002-10-10 11:57, Hendrik Kluever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to know how can I install FreeBSD without sendmail being install aswell??? a) Install a basic FreeBSD system. b) Remove the bits you don't care about. Very

Re: Directory structure for commercial products

2002-10-10 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Thu, 10-Oct-2002 at 15:19:26 +0300, Serban Mihai wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a standard/official specification for the filesystem hierarchy used on FreeBSD (and all BSDs) regarding commercial products. Conforming to hier(7) the PREFIX (/usr/local) location should be used for local

Re: Directory structure for commercial products

2002-10-10 Thread robert Backhaus
Heir(7) _is_ the official specification for filesystems. Save us all some headaches and follow it, --- Serban Mihai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a standard/official specification for the filesystem hierarchy used on FreeBSD (and all BSDs) regarding commercial products.

Re: FreeBSD 4.6

2002-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-10-10 15:33, Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-10 14:39:20 +0300: On 2002-10-10 11:57, Hendrik Kluever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to know how can I install FreeBSD without sendmail being install aswell??? a) Install a basic

Re: FreeBSD 4.6

2002-10-10 Thread robert Backhaus
--- Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-10 14:39:20 +0300: On 2002-10-10 11:57, Hendrik Kluever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to know how can I install FreeBSD without sendmail being install aswell??? a) Install a basic FreeBSD system.

Re: i-buddie

2002-10-10 Thread John Baldwin
On 09-Oct-2002 Guido Van Hoecke wrote: i4o beke wrote: Hi Guido. I've seen your question on freebsd-mobile, without answer. I'd like to buy i-buddie, 3c or 4. So your problems with setup are really interesting for me. Is your sis network card working? Is it possible to run XWin on

Re: FreeBSD 4.6

2002-10-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-10 16:39:45 +0300: On 2002-10-10 15:33, Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-10 14:39:20 +0300: On 2002-10-10 11:57, Hendrik Kluever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to know how can I install FreeBSD without sendmail

Re: Exim as an alternative MTA in FreeBSD.

2002-10-10 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Andre Hall on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:47:28 -0700 OK, I'm just curious. I've heard many reasons for replacing Sendmail but have never heard a valid reason for someone replacing Postfix with yet another MTA. I'm patial to the ease of use and security of Postfix but Exim over Postfix?

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Re: Mail client preferred?

2002-10-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
Brian Astill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pine, Mutt, Elm, Emacs ... probably others. Anyone care to make a recommendation for a console-based mail client? I'm currently using Kmail. It would be nice if there was a way to transfer Kmail message files to the console client. I

Re: Root shell [was: How to create another account with rootprivileges?]

2002-10-10 Thread Petri Riihikallio
I have been using bash for root shell some time now without noticing any problems. My bash is statically linked and I have moved it to /bin. What kind of problems should I expect? in this case probably none. the warning (sh|c)ould be generalized to never change root's shell

diskless tty

2002-10-10 Thread rob
Hi all I've been using a diskless system for quite some time now and never figured out why my tty's are scrambled when the machine boots (everything goes fine) I get the system's tty in the form: .nfsA0b2e4.4 and not he usual ttyv0. Can somebody point me in the right direction how to solve this

Unknown nmbd message

2002-10-10 Thread Siegbert Baude
Hi, Yesterday I got the following message for the first time in my logs: Oct 9 07:58:19 lilith nmbd[211]: [2002/10/09 07:58:19, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserec ordsdb.c:find_response_record(235) Oct 9 07:58:19 lilith nmbd[211]: find_response_record: response packet id 165 88 received with no

Re: vmware

2002-10-10 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:02:25PM -0700, Nick Tonkin wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote: vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon [ snip ] Excuse me, but did you get

unknown nmbd message (better formatted I hope)

2002-10-10 Thread Siegbert Baude
Hi, Yesterday I got the following message for the first time in my logs: Oct 9 07:58:19 lilith nmbd[211]: [2002/10/09 07:58:19, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(235) Oct 9 07:58:19 lilith nmbd[211]: find_response_record: response packet id 165 88 received with no

Errors during CVSUP

2002-10-10 Thread Andre Hall
I have a box running FreeBSD 4.6 and for the past months I've been trying to bring the box current but I'm running into problems. During the start of the update I'm receiving the following error message: function.o: file not recognized: File truncated *** Error code 1 Stop in

FreeBSD backups w/ Tivoli TSM

2002-10-10 Thread Tony
Is anyone using Tivoli's TSM product for backups w/ FreeBSD ? We are trying to consolate a number of OS backup services/products and would like to know if anyone has been able to work w/ FreeBSD/TSM. - Tony Link

Re: How to create another account with root privileges ?

2002-10-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi! I have been asked to create admin accounts for a machine such that all of them can access that machine as root but with different username and password. First, see if you can get by with a web based system admin tool such as webmin. Or check out sudo or some other similar utility

Re: FreeBSD backups w/ Tivoli TSM

2002-10-10 Thread Ryan Dooley
Under Linux compatability, I've had really no success with version 4 or 5 of the TSM client. The client seems to run, I've setup virtualmountpoints in dsm.sys (or is that opt) because UFS isn't a valid file system that TSM expects from a Linux client. It fires off, for a backup, but then we

Re: SSH/FTP Access

2002-10-10 Thread Jason Morgan
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:28:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering is there a way to limit SSH access (when adding a user or period) so that user can only use SSH to access or effect their home directory? With ssh2 you can use chroot to limit access to other dirs. In your

Re: NFS server not respnding!

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
[I'm taking this off -stable because it really doesn't belong there] Hartmann, O. wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Bill Moran wrote: Hello Bill. :Hartmann, O. wrote: : Dear Sirs. : : Using FreeBSD 4.6.2-pl2 and FreeBSD 4.7-RC2 on our server system (one 4.7-RC : experimental system) and

Re: Secure FTPd

2002-10-10 Thread Nick Leuta
http://www.ford-hutchinson.com/~fh-1-pfh/ftps-ext.html The above link mentions to ssl ftp servers, BSDFTP-server and ProFTP-SSL, but none of them are in the ports? There are a lot of software not in the ports... :-) It's possible to make a port (I speak only about bsdftpd-ssl), if it's

Re: bad route add command

2002-10-10 Thread James Wilson
Nathan, If you know what your other routes are you can flush the whole route table by using #route flush James - Original Message - From: Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 4:55 PM Subject: Re: bad route add command On Thu, Oct

/usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install fails looking for libinstall.a

2002-10-10 Thread Mark Miller
Hi, I'm trying to rebuild the pkg_install suite from cvsup'ed source, but the build consistently fails with cc: /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/../lib/libinstall.a: No such file or directory If I copy that file from another machine (the file is built during make world) the build and install

Re: handling .exe self-extracting archives (Was: vmware)

2002-10-10 Thread Doug Poland
Nathan Kinkade said: I had Win2k Pro installed on the vmware2 port just a few days ago, everything seemed to work find including networking. However, I unistalled the whole thing as it is a big ugly beast - both vmware and win2k. By the way, does anyone know of a reasonable way to get at

Re: handling .exe self-extracting archives (Was: vmware)

2002-10-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:08:12AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Nathan Kinkade said: I had Win2k Pro installed on the vmware2 port just a few days ago, everything seemed to work find including networking. However, I unistalled the whole thing as it is a big ugly beast - both vmware and

Re: NFS server not respnding!

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
Hartmann, O. wrote: Dear Sirs. Using FreeBSD 4.6.2-pl2 and FreeBSD 4.7-RC2 on our server system (one 4.7-RC experimental system) and utilizing AMD for mounting home space and other services via TCP protocol results in nfs server 134.93.180.216:/usr/homes: not responding nfs server

Re: NFS server not respnding!

2002-10-10 Thread Hartmann, O.
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Bill Moran wrote: Hello Bill. :Hartmann, O. wrote: : Dear Sirs. : : Using FreeBSD 4.6.2-pl2 and FreeBSD 4.7-RC2 on our server system (one 4.7-RC : experimental system) and utilizing AMD for mounting home space and other : services via TCP protocol results in : : nfs server

Re: handling .exe self-extracting archives (Was: vmware)

2002-10-10 Thread Doug Poland
Nathan Kinkade said: On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:08:12AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Nathan Kinkade said: By the way, does anyone know of a reasonable way to get at the contents of *.exe self-extracting archives. This problem was what led me to fiddle with vmware in the first place. unzip

Re: handling .exe self-extracting archives (Was: vmware)

2002-10-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I've used zip (quite recently in fact) to extract .exe archives. No idea why/when it does/doesn't work, though. On Thursday 10 October 2002 11:52 am, Nathan Kinkade wrote: | On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:08:12AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: | Nathan Kinkade said: | I had Win2k Pro installed on the

RE: disappearing job

2002-10-10 Thread Barry Byrne
Did you do Alt + Fn perhaps? On a console this generally lets you switch to another virtual console. Try Alt + F1 to bring you back? - Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: disappearing job

2002-10-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-10 12:11:14 -0400: I was editing a job in vi, then my hand slipped and I was back at the shell. When I went to edit the file again, it said the file was locked. A ps ax | grep vi showed that the application was still running. Where did it go? into

message for David Banning

2002-10-10 Thread Cliff Sarginson
You have a mail problem -- A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] all relevant MX records point

Proper usage of dump and restore when not using tapes

2002-10-10 Thread Mark Hennessy
I have tried to use dump and restore without using a tape. I can dump successfully, but attempts to restore fail in interactive mode with an indexing issue (it keeps asking for the volume number to check and when I provide 1, it cannot find anything). backup.sh script: #!/bin/sh # dump to file

Re: How to create another account with root privileges ?

2002-10-10 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Bob Johnson wrote: Is there a command similar to vipw that uses a simpler editor, like pico? From man vipw: ENVIRONMENT If the following environment variable exists it will be utilized by vipw: EDITOR The

Native JDK 1.3.1 Linux JDK 1.3.1 vs JDK 1.4.1 inconsistencies

2002-10-10 Thread Weston M. Price
Hello, As some of you on this list know, I have been tinkering with a variety of JDK's on FreeBSD in large part to get the Eclipse Platform running with any sort of consistency. Over the course of a couple of weeks I have found the following issues with each of the JDK's: Native

Re: How to create another account with root privileges ?

2002-10-10 Thread Unix Tools
Just create the account and add it to /etc/group after root for eg. wheel:*:0:root,myuser1,myuser2,myuser3 - Original Message - From: Pranav A. Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:06 PM Subject: How to create another account with root

Re: Native JDK 1.3.1 Linux JDK 1.3.1 vs JDK 1.4.1 inconsistencies

2002-10-10 Thread Doug Poland
Weston M. Price said: ... snip ... I am not really sure if this is the right forum to post this message, it may very be more appropriate for the ports list. Any advice on these issues would be appreciated. I was also wondering if there was a specific mailing list dedicated to Java running

updating multiple machines from one source (make.conf Q)

2002-10-10 Thread Paulius Bulotas
Hello list, I have an idea to update my machines from one source. As their number is very small, I'm used to rebuild everything for every of them with different make.conf's and then install through nfs. But, maybe it's possible to build with make.conf including maximum options (of course, cpu

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FS Problem

2002-10-10 Thread Diego Linke - GAMK
Hi All, I have a server (with 1 HD IDE, 5 HDs SCSI, 2 DAT and 3 SCSI controller) runing FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE. This machine was runing fine until yesterday. Today, this machine freezed. (Crash). PS: FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE (with softupdate in all partition) /var/log/message: Oct 10 08:35:43

RE: Laptop sound

2002-10-10 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Ok Sony left this out of my BIOS. What now? Have you tried to put options PNPBIOS in your kernel config file and then make a new kernel? This works on SOME laptops. -- Torfinn Ingolfsen Norway To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of

Re: Mail client preferred?

2002-10-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mail combination is MTA = Postfix, MDA = procmail, MUA = Mutt, Spam catcher = Spamassassin. It works well except I hate procmail beyone rationality, but the setup works well. I changed from procmal to maildrop (also in the ports). Maybe you might

samba log file question

2002-10-10 Thread sabaker+
On smbd 2.2.6pre2 (i think this happens on previous versions too) I've noticed the following behavior I've set my log file to /var/log/samba.smb and the samba.sh startup file to start smbd simply smbd -D but I notice it creates a /var/log/log.smbd file upon startup. I'm suprised that it

Problems with CVS

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
First off, if anyone know a better list for CVS questions, please point me in the correct direction. The website only seemed to have lists about the development of CVS, and I didn't find a user discussion list or anything of that sort. I'm no pro on CVS, so this question may have a simple

Re: Problems with CVS

2002-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-10-10 13:35, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a CVS repository on my server that was under /usr/home/cvsroot and I was using it for almost a year for two projects. A month or so ago, we upgraded this server with a newer/faster/larger HDD, and the CVS repository moved to

Re: Problems with CVS

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2002-10-10 13:35, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a CVS repository on my server that was under /usr/home/cvsroot and I was using it for almost a year for two projects. A month or so ago, we upgraded this server with a newer/faster/larger HDD, and the CVS

ssh connection timed out

2002-10-10 Thread Goodwin Lawlor
Hi I've just installed FreeBSD4.5 on machine attached to a college network. I can connect to the machine using ssh from another machine on the network. When I try to connect using ssh from home via an ISP (using PuTTY on winxp) I get connection timed out. I can connect from home using telnet

Re: Directory structure for commercial products

2002-10-10 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Be sure to consider the Notes section of the hier(7) manual. If at all possible, make provisions for installers who don't want to install things the standard way or, since it's so sketchy, your interpretation of the standard way. Some variable definitions at the top of an installation script,

http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html

2002-10-10 Thread David A. Wheeler
On your web page http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html, under Secure Programming Guidelines, at the end please add: and the a href=http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs;Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO/a. The Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO is a whole book,

ipfw and natd during internal to internal access ...

2002-10-10 Thread Marc Hunter
Hi, We have just implemented an ipfw and natd firewall and generally it works great. We are using natd for traffic going out and to redirect outside traffic on port 80 to a particular webserver. However, when a machine within the network attempts to access the web server through its

Re: FreeBSD usage in safety-critical environments

2002-10-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Nelson, Trent . wrote: Oh, and Terry, I think you'd be astonished if I informed you of how many rail control systems in the US and around the world use either Linux or some of the commercial variants such as Tru64 UNIX or Solaris. I rather think they run Solaris. Earlier in my career

Re: ipfw and natd during internal to internal access ...

2002-10-10 Thread wolf
The request never hits the firewall rule for it to get diverted into nat. (via INTERFACE, it never goes into that interface). While I know the cause, I am not sure as to the fix. Though I am sure an additional firewall rule would probably work to fix it. Maybe something like divert 8668 ip

Re: Wondering about mail clients (specific features)

2002-10-10 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
I see there are already a few mutt recommendations, so I'll just quote the mutt.org site: 'All mail agents suck. This one just sucks less.' And that is true. Mutt is by far the most flexible and malleable MUA I've found, and I've actually started forgetting the little details about Netscapes

Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-10 Thread paul beard
Weston M. Price wrote: But wait, why does the application require 1.4? What in the code dictates use of the 1.4 JDK? It used NIO from 1.4, from what the author tells me. Perhaps I should take this to the java list. Join me there? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 /

Silicon Image ATA controllers for ATAPI?

2002-10-10 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, has anyone experiance in running Silicon Image ATA or RAID controllers (Sil 0648, 0649, 0860A)? Do some of them support ATAPI? -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-10 Thread paul beard
Oliver Fromme wrote: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, why, when I use truss(1) to look at what a program is doing, does it look for /etc/malloc.conf? Never finds it, carries on anyway. man 3 malloc Hmm, I should have used apropos, I see. Well, that page tells me

Re: How to create another account with root privileges ?

2002-10-10 Thread Pranav A. Desai
Hi all! Thanks a lot to all those who replied. I will try to convince them to use sudo, as most of you have mentioned that it is a better option than changing /etc/passwd. If it doesnt work with them then I will use the second option of changing passwd. Thanks once again. -Pranav

mozilla

2002-10-10 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello I built Mozilla from the ports, when I start it I get Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk13. x-toor@willow/usr/ports/java/jdk13# mozilla LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [Cannot open

Re: ipfw and natd during internal to internal access ...

2002-10-10 Thread wolf
You might try freebsd-hackers or freebsd-stable mailing lists. They are more technically oriented for things like this. Nick Rogness wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Marc Hunter wrote: Hi, We have just implemented an ipfw and natd firewall and generally it works great. We are using natd for

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