Re: Adding a KVM, what should I be aware of?

2003-03-28 Thread Troy Ross
I'm using a IOGEAR MiniView 4 port usb kvmp switch model GCS1714. It is a usb switch that emulates keyboard and mouse connections over usb. It works better than even plugging the usb mouse and keyboard directly into my FreeBSD box. Works with all verstions of windows as well. The only

Re: Request to join id-freebsd denied

2003-03-28 Thread Franklin Pierce
- Original Message - From: Yahoo!Groups Notification [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28 Mar 2003 05:28:08 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Request to join id-freebsd denied Hello, The moderator of the id-freebsd group has denied your request for membership. Like, okay, I HAD to

Re: Request to join id-freebsd denied

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
What? Did someone try and register freebsd-questions e-mail address to another mailing list, thereby adding all the messages from that list to this list also? Hey, then we can register yahoo groups email to freebsd-questions group and get a nice little loop of messages going... :D Anthony On

System abused by spammer?

2003-03-28 Thread Martin Moeller
Hi list, I have a vague feeling that some spammer is abusing my sendmail system. My installation is FreeBSD-CURRENT. Postmaster received some email saying, that some kind of mail cannot be delivered due configuration errors. I looked into the mail queue and found this, what definitely does not

KSim

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
Ksim doesn't report Hard Drive activity correctly. How do I set it up to do so? Currenttly the disk plugin is set to All Disks, but it still registers nothing, even when compiling the kernel...Is there a configuration I need to do? I even tried adding disk /dev/ad0s3f etc (my /usr partition)

Re: System abused by spammer?

2003-03-28 Thread Martin Moeller
* Andrey Simonenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [28.03.03 10:37]: There is relay_based_on_MX feature in Sendmail. Check if your Sendmail has this feature off, also check if that spammer specified your system as MX for his/her domain. Hi, Andrey! Thanks for your response. I've taken a look into my

Xfree86 help required since upgrade.

2003-03-28 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, I recently upgraded Xfree4 via portupgrade (portupgrade -a) and I now have a problem. It appears X will only work in 8-bit mode. Before, my XF86Config specified the default bit depth as 24 and X was fine. Now X fails to start at anything over 8-bit... I mean, it starts... it just hangs after

Re: PANIC: vinum / atacontrol (5.0-STABLE / 4.8-RC2)

2003-03-28 Thread james
Hi Greg I will be able to analyse the 5.0-stable panic a little more when I get home. In the meantime I've been doing simliar tests with 4.8-RC2. I get slightly more progress, but still a panic at the end. Sequence of events: 1, create volume, 2 plexes on 2 disks 2, vinum stop volume.p1 3,

Ymessenger

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
I have compiled ymessenger, and I have COMPAT4X in my make.conf file, but when launching the app, I get: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.4: Undefined symbol stpcpy What is happening? Anthony Carter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

SMP and adaptec 3960D problem.

2003-03-28 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi. I have installed FreeBSD on a double Xeon 2.4 GHZ with HTT feature. Install and bootup went seamlessly but after enabling and compiling SMP support I have started to receive that error: ahc: Timedout SCB already complete. Interrupts may not be functioning this happened with both

Cont:SMP and adaptec 3960D problem.

2003-03-28 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
I am using 4.8-RC which I have cvsuped today for the problem that I have mentioned before this mail. REGARD ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

UDMA

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
From dmesg I get the following: ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 I found in the troubleshooting faq information about

Re: FreeBSD and Oracle

2003-03-28 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 04:25, Michael Hostbaek wrote: I have a linux box runnning Oracle, I'd like to switch it to FreeBSD. Has anyone successfully run oracle on FreeBSD in a prodution environment? I am using Oracle 8i - it should be possible to run it under FreeBSD with linux emulation,

Re: FreeBSD and Oracle

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
I know that there is an Oracle 7 client on FreeBSD, but I don't know about 8i. Do you want to run Oracle server on FreeBSD or just a client? Anthony On Friday 28 March 2003 10:25, Michael Hostbaek wrote: Hi, I have a linux box runnning Oracle, I'd like to switch it to FreeBSD. Has anyone

Problem with kdm (or not)?

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
When I boot my machine, I get the following message at the command prompt before it launches me into the KDM login screen (it works, there is no problem with that). What does it mean? kdm[605]: Abnormal helper termination, code 0, signal 5 Thanks, Anthony Carter

RE: Sony VAIO w/ Linksys card

2003-03-28 Thread Rodney Salomon
No, no, no I need to/want to get FBSD on this notebook!!! When I check the dmesg, I see that pcic0 is recognized by Ricoh Cardbus Bridge on IRQ 9. pcic1 is my Linksys card WTF is Ricoh Cardbus Bridge?? --- Adam Lofstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is a problem with the

PICOBSD /dev/mdxx memory disk problems

2003-03-28 Thread Hartmann, O.
Dear Sirs. I use FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT on several experimental systems. I try to test new diskless and picobsd facilities and abilities of the newest FBSD 5.0-CURRENT stuff and I am a little bit disappointed. First there is a little bug in the picobsd shell-script/command: newfs does no longer

Problem with this mailing list

2003-03-28 Thread Daniela
Hi all! I have a very strange problem. Since last Friday I don't receive the messages on this mailing list any more. I do receive the messages for the freebsd-current list, however (subscribed two days ago). I can only look at the messages in the archive. Maybe I have to unsubscribe an

poptop error

2003-03-28 Thread Petre Bandac
I am trying (without succes) to install a vpn server on a freebsd 4.7 machine poptop is built from ports - and I get the following message any help, please ? thanks, petre Mar 28 16:46:25 kgb pptpd[414]: MGR: Launching /usr/local/sbin/pptpctrl to handle client Mar 28 16:46:25 kgb

Question about bounced mail

2003-03-28 Thread Dragoncrest
In my daily reports lately, since upgrading my sendmail version, I've been getting reports like this: Checking for rejected mail hosts: 143 screensaver4u.com 1 srv.designtechnica.com Not to sound silly, but what does that mean? Does it mean that it rejected 143 messages from the one host and

ipfw question

2003-03-28 Thread Walter
Hi all, I see a strange entry in my mail log from the ipfw log output. I don't really have a firm grasp on ipfw yet and need help understanding how this log entry came about (17 times), below: ipfw: 1700 Deny TCP 0.0.0.0:80 192.168.xxx.xxx:49339 in via fxp0 The output of ipfw list starts

restricting certain users to certain things (pam?)

2003-03-28 Thread Michael Grant
I have a requirement to restrict certain users to logging in in certain ways. For example, some users can ftp, others can ftp, ssh, and get a shell, other users can relay mail using auth login. I am pretty sure I can do this though pam.conf. Has anyone actually done this? Can someone slide me

FREEBSD FOR SIERRA LEONE

2003-03-28 Thread John Johnson
hello, I am about to install FreeBSD in a Pentium II to setup a Mail Server for the Sierra Leone Association of NGO (SLANGO). SLANGO-Net is going to take off, but I am scared crazy about using FreeBSD without having a source of asking questions. I used FreeBSD in Liberia, but right now I

FREEBSD FOR SIERRA LEONE

2003-03-28 Thread John Johnson
hello, I am about to install FreeBSD in a Pentium II to setup a Mail Server for the Sierra Leone Association of NGO (SLANGO). SLANGO-Net is going to take off, but I am scared crazy about using FreeBSD without having a source of asking questions. I used FreeBSD in Liberia, but right now I

FreeBSD can't find HD adapter Tekram dc-395

2003-03-28 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hi! I have a problem with floppy installing FreeBSD5.0 (and 4.4, 4.5 ) using a Tekram dc-395 scsi adapter and one fujitsu 4Gb HD. What happens is that on boot the sysinstall starts and when I go to the disk partitioning it tells me 'no disk found'. The Tekram adapter tools finds the HD fine

Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?!

2003-03-28 Thread Siegbert Baude
Hi Jason, If there was not a clean shutdown, I would start looking for faulty hardware, assuming the power was not interrupted. Any machine that spontaniously reboots on its' own usually has a bad power supply, but it could be very well be the motherboard, or even something else. Further, as

'origin not recorded' error upon attempt to use pkg_add

2003-03-28 Thread John Fox
Hello! Upon attempts to use 'pkg_add' utility, I get a string of error messages such as the following: pkg_add: package wmtime-1.0b2 has no origin recorded pkg_add: package wterm-6.2.7a1 has no origin recorded It would be only a curiosity were it not for the fact that pkg_add *fails* to

poptop error

2003-03-28 Thread Petre Bandac
I am trying (without succes) to install a vpn server on a freebsd 4.7 machine poptop is built from ports - and I get the following message any help, please ? thanks, petre Mar 28 16:46:25 kgb pptpd[414]: MGR: Launching /usr/local/sbin/pptpctrl to handle client Mar 28 16:46:25 kgb

Can't browse webmin; out of swap space

2003-03-28 Thread Tamir Halperin
I just installed 1.070 from a freshly updated ports collection and there didn't seem to be any problem at all with the installation. I'm new to this so please put up with my simplistic perspective on the problem at hand. I had no problem with the make, make install or the make clean. I then ran

Running X from a windows PC

2003-03-28 Thread Edinho
Is it possible to run X remotely from a windows PC? What is the software needed? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UDMA

2003-03-28 Thread Peter Elsner
What is the BIOS set to use? At 01:49 PM 3/28/2003 +0100, you wrote: From dmesg I get the following: ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read

FW: recomended POP server?

2003-03-28 Thread stan
I give up. Our nw=ew merged Is group is unable to run a mail server in a aceptable manner. I;m going to set up a machien to recive mail from various control systems throught our site. I then want my users to be able to POP this mail to there desktops. It would be perhaps nice to offer webmal to

Re: System abused by spammer?

2003-03-28 Thread Victor Bondarenko
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:51:06AM +0100, Martin Moeller wrote: BTW, how can I check if somebody specifies me as his MX? ;-) $ host -t mx theirdomainname.com Will give you a list of the MX's they specified for their domain. Of course getting the spammers real domain is a bit more involved.

Re: Problem with this mailing list

2003-03-28 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 28-Mar-2003, Daniela wrote message Problem with this mailing list ~ Hi all! I have a very strange problem. Since last Friday I

Re: Problem with kdm (or not)?

2003-03-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
It happens because for some reason, the later kdm's don't seem to want to start xconsole. I'm not sure why though, I've never had time to mess with it. Ken On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote: When I boot my machine, I get the following message at the command prompt before it launches

Re: Running X from a windows PC

2003-03-28 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
Is it possible to run X remotely from a windows PC? yes, thru XDM you can allow other systems (terminals) to connect to X which is running on your freebsd server What is the software needed? You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running

Re: [ HOWTO ] - XFree86 and 4 buttons touchpad

2003-03-28 Thread ptiJo
On the last episode, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wednesday, 26 March 2003 at 10:27:39 +, ptiJo ptiJo wrote: On the last episode, Greg 'groggy' Lehey said: Single line paragraphs. On Wednesday, 19 March 2003 at 16:44:05 +, ptiJo ptiJo wrote: Hi, I have one

Re: Question about bounced mail

2003-03-28 Thread K Anderson
Dragoncrest wrote: In my daily reports lately, since upgrading my sendmail version, I've been getting reports like this: Checking for rejected mail hosts: 143 screensaver4u.com 1 srv.designtechnica.com Not to sound silly, but what does that mean? Does it mean that it rejected 143 messages

test

2003-03-28 Thread ptiJo
test ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ HOWTO ] - XFree86 and 4 buttons touchpad

2003-03-28 Thread ptiJo
On the last episode, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wednesday, 26 March 2003 at 10:27:39 +, ptiJo ptiJo wrote: On the last episode, Greg 'groggy' Lehey said: Single line paragraphs. On Wednesday, 19 March 2003 at 16:44:05 +, ptiJo ptiJo wrote: Hi, I have one

Re: Question about bounced mail

2003-03-28 Thread Peter Elsner
Yes, that means that a spammer from screensaver4u.com attempted (but failed) 143 times to relay spam through your server. The reports do this automatically... If you have your access file in /etc/mail set accordingly to only allow RELAYing from trusted sites (internal), then anything that

Re: Running X from a windows PC

2003-03-28 Thread Pierrick Brossin
Marcel Stangenberger wrote: You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ? Thx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Installation Problem.

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Smith.
My computer freezes when booting from the install CD at, acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5% My computers harddrive light lights up and stop on then it says, ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. then freezes, any ideas on

Re: Running X from a windows PC

2003-03-28 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Pierrick Brossin wrote: You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ? no sorry can't help you there. I searched for it in

HP C1537 DDS3

2003-03-28 Thread robert . gierzinger
Hi folks, I hope someone can help me with my problem I am facing with my HP C1537 - 20100 DDS3 tape device, which is a replacement product for the C1554A. I don't know what the problem is, but a mt fsf 1 command with the device returns the following error: (sa0:sym0:0:6:0): ERASE. CDB: 19 1 0 0

Re: Installing JDK 1.4.1

2003-03-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-28T19:25:15Z, Stuart Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been to the http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/java/jdk14/ page to try and retrieve the tar file containing the JDK but can't find it. This is probably because I haven't worked out how things hang together yet.

Re: 'origin not recorded' error upon attempt to use pkg_add

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hello! Upon attempts to use 'pkg_add' utility, I get a string of error messages such as the following: pkg_add: package wterm-6.2.7a1 has no origin recorded pkg_add: package wmtime-1.0b2 has no origin recorded [...] 2) Theories

Re: Running X from a windows PC

2003-03-28 Thread Don Read
On 28-Mar-2003 Pierrick Brossin wrote: Marcel Stangenberger wrote: You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ? A few years back a company

Re: INSTALLING FREEBSD

2003-03-28 Thread Jim Mock
On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 11:39 AM, John Johnson wrote: Hello, Please I have a computer with Windows 98 and not connected to the Internet and I want to install FreeBSD on it. How can I possibly go about it? I have previously downloaded something that was supposed to be freeBSD but it did

Re: FREEBSD FOR SIERRA LEONE

2003-03-28 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:54:35PM +, John Johnson wrote: hello, I am about to install FreeBSD in a Pentium II to setup a Mail Server for the Sierra Leone Association of NGO (SLANGO). SLANGO-Net is going to take off, but I am scared crazy about using FreeBSD without having a source

Re: FW: recomended POP server?

2003-03-28 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0500, stan wrote: [...] I;ve never set up a POP server before. What packages should I look at? ports/mail/popper. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The human mind ordinarily operates at

Re: FW: recomended POP server?

2003-03-28 Thread Victor Bondarenko
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:21:27AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: I;ve never set up a POP server before. What packages should I look at? ports/mail/popper. For IMAP (also includes POP2/3 daemon): http://www.washington.edu/imap/ For webmail, I like squirrelmail (which requires IMAP):

db2

2003-03-28 Thread Brian Henning
is there a port for db2 for freebsd? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: db2

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: is there a port for db2 for freebsd? make search key=db2 in /usr/ports turns up: Port: db-2.7.7_1 Path: /usr/ports/databases/db2 Info: The Berkeley DB package, revision 2 mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NameVirutalHost on multiple IPs not working??

2003-03-28 Thread Phillip Smith
Hi, I'm having a challenge with my Apache NameVirtualHost config... I have my server connected to two networks, ATT and UUNET, the NIC is assigned a ATT IP and is aliased which several others, both ATT and UUNET. That part is working well. When a client requests a site, our DNS returns two IP

Re: db2

2003-03-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-28T21:46:29Z, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: is there a port for db2 for freebsd? make search key=db2 in /usr/ports turns up: Port: db-2.7.7_1 Path: /usr/ports/databases/db2 Info: The Berkeley DB package,

Re: Link??

2003-03-28 Thread Lee Harr
seems this link dosnt work anymore right? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/cvsupit-3.1.tgz at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html I do not see that one around either... but I would just move ahead if I were you. install the

Re: problem

2003-03-28 Thread Lee Harr
I have problem in configuring XFree86 in FreeBSD 4.7 I try to configure it after installation. I used graphical tool and textmode utility too. The result is often the same: The XFree86 configuration process seems to have failed. Would you like to try again? have you tried this:

Re: db2

2003-03-28 Thread Brian Henning
looking at the discription i don't think that is a port of db2. thanks brian - Original Message - From: Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:46 PM Subject: Re: db2 In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian

Re: [notspam] Re: Running X from a windows PC

2003-03-28 Thread Chad Albert
I believe there is an X server available in Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/ Otherwise, here is a link to some instructions and a free version of Microimage. http://www.linuxnetmag.com/en/issue5/m5xserver1.html - Original Message - From: Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pierrick Brossin [EMAIL

Re: Installation Problem.

2003-03-28 Thread taxman
On Friday 28 March 2003 02:25 pm, Paul Smith. wrote: My computer freezes when booting from the install CD at, acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5% then you probably want to try 4.7-Release instead. See: http://www.mired.org/5.0-not-production.html Good luck, Tim

Re: db2

2003-03-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-28T22:12:28Z, Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: looking at the discription i don't think that is a port of db2. thanks Actually, it is a port of *a* DB2. Just not the one you're probably thinking of. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp

Re: Why won't linux_base install for me?

2003-03-28 Thread Michael Grant
Try upgrading your version of rpm from the ports collection. Michael Grant I'm running 4.7-R with a recent (~1 week) ports tree, and the install of linux_base is failing for me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] make install === Installing for linux_base-7.1_2 kern.fallback_elf_brand: 3 - 3

rpm problems

2003-03-28 Thread Michael Grant
I'm trying to install something from an rpm which uses the linux emulation. I have tried the following: rpm -vv -i --force --ignoreos --nodeps fmserver-trial-5.5-1.i386.rpm and rpm -vv -i --force --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm --ignoreos --nodeps fmserver-trial-5.5-1.i386.rpm

help installing

2003-03-28 Thread Joey Hogan
yo, I downloaded a freebsd .iso img, and put in in my drive, but when I reseted, it wouldn't install, how do I get past this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: test

2003-03-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 27 March 2003 at 21:31:09 +0100, ptiJo wrote: test Please do not send test mail to FreeBSD-questions. We have a separate mailing list for that. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original

KBurnCD is now available for testing.

2003-03-28 Thread Justin L. Boss
If your like me you may have wished that their was a good GUI front-end to FreeBSD's burncd command for ATAPI CD burners. I know reading this list, I have seen a lot of questions about this. Well it is now here. KBurnCD is a KDE front-end to the FreeBSD command burncd (a command line ATAPI CD

About ADSL and Internet Sharing

2003-03-28 Thread Alfonso Romero
I followed all the indications in the handbook to share an ADSL modem with several PCs through a FreeBSD box, but can´t access www with the other PCs. I can ping www.yahoo.com from any PC, but that´s all I can do. What could be the problem? ___ [EMAIL

Re: PANIC: vinum / atacontrol (5.0-STABLE / 4.8-RC2)

2003-03-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 28 March 2003 at 11:32:48 +, james wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Thursday, 27 March 2003 at 14:18:43 +, james wrote: Hi I am trying to configure

XMMS playing things too slow

2003-03-28 Thread Kevin Downey
I am not sure if this is an XMMS problem or a FreeBSD problem, but XMMS will start playing mp3s fine, but after 1 or 2 it plays the next mp3 really slowly. If I stop and play again it works fine. Is anyone else experiencing this? /var/log/messages doesn't show anything but XMMS gives this

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2003-03-28 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD, third edition: errata and addenda

2003-03-28 Thread Greg Lehey
Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, third edition Last revision: 2 August 1999 The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge

Re: About ADSL and Internet Sharing

2003-03-28 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 19:44, Alfonso Romero wrote: I followed all the indications in the handbook to share an ADSL modem with several PCs through a FreeBSD box, but can´t access www with the other PCs. I can ping www.yahoo.com from any PC, but that´s all I can do. What could be the problem?

Re: Mitsubishi Diamond Touch keyboard problem

2003-03-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 28 March 2003 at 14:13:45 +1030, W. Sierke wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehy wrote: This is probably a timing problem with the keyboard. I had a couple snip I'd suggest you try 4.8 or 5.0 and see if the problem persists. You Thanks for that, Greg. In fact I had originally attempted an

Cant resolve - FBSD 5.0

2003-03-28 Thread Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM
Howdy all. Just installed FBSD 5.0 on a system with a 3Com card (xl0). I'm having trouble with apps such as telnet, ftp, etc resolving domain names. All the entries in /etc/resolv.conf are okay. I can nslookup names until the cows come home. What did I miss? Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - [EMAIL

Re: XMMS playing things too slow

2003-03-28 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 20:02, Kevin Downey wrote: I am not sure if this is an XMMS problem or a FreeBSD problem, but XMMS will start playing mp3s fine, but after 1 or 2 it plays the next mp3 really slowly. If I stop and play again it works fine. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Re: running X from windows pc

2003-03-28 Thread clayton rollins
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:38:32 -0600 Chad Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Subject: Re: [notspam] Re: Running X from a windows PC To: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I believe there is an X server available in

USB Wireless Network Adapter

2003-03-28 Thread Zachariah P Garner
Does anyone know if there are any USB Wireless network adapters that are supported under FreeBSD? (I'm running 5.0) I have read the map pages for wi, but they only list PCMCIA cards. I know that many companies have a PCI version of the pcmcia card. I have heard that you are likely to get better

Re: Running X from a windows PC

2003-03-28 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:27:34PM +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Marcel Stangenberger wrote: You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ? VNC

Re: open-motif installation

2003-03-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-03-27 21:05, Jianyi Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, there i tried to install open-motif 2.2.2 in freebsd4.4 and got error message : ===Applying FreesBSD patches for open-motif-2.2.2_1 : /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/open-motif/work/openmotif-2.2.2/demos/programs: : permission denied :

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-28 Thread Jaime
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 07:50 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Is that easier than nslookup 1.2.3.4? Oops! I forgot that nslookup has a command line more. I usually use it when I want an interactive mode. :) Unfortunately, most of it was wrong :-( To be fair, the question was

Disk migration question.

2003-03-28 Thread Kevin Stevens
Hey there - I'm moving a disk drive from a 4.7 system to a 5.0 system in a different computer. There are two slices on the disk, a swap partition and a large data slice. When I mount the disk into the filesystem, I receive the following error: /var/backups: correcting fs_sblockloc from

My computer asks me to run a Manual FSCK

2003-03-28 Thread Dr. Noah M. Hastings
I use to have an X-Win environment, but don't anymore. When I first bootup my system, I the the following error: /dev/ad4s1a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. /dev/ad4s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Automatic file system check failed... help! How do I run a manual fsck? I have

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2003-03-28 Thread Thomas Stern
Non-Profit [ 501(C)3 ] organization is in need of approximately 4000 sq. yards of carpeting, 95 Televisions,Telephone-PBX, Restaurant equipment, all furnishing can be used for a Halfway House located in West Texas. Excellent opportunity for any company or individual to help the needy in these

Re: My computer asks me to run a Manual FSCK

2003-03-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-03-28 20:41, Dr. Noah M. Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use to have an X-Win environment, but don't anymore. When I first bootup my system, I the the following error: /dev/ad4s1a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. /dev/ad4s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Automatic file

Re: Cont:SMP and adaptec 3960D problem.

2003-03-28 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
My problem was omission of the kernel option HTT which enables HTT support in kernel. That support was committed to FreeBSD cvs at March 25 2003 which is something new. But interesting thing is that even if I close Hyper Threading support on my bios the system doesnt' boot... I am using

Re: restricting certain users to certain things (pam?)

2003-03-28 Thread David Banning
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:46:59AM -0500, Michael Grant wrote: I have a requirement to restrict certain users to logging in in certain ways. For example, some users can ftp, others can ftp, ssh, and get a shell, other users can relay mail using auth login. I am pretty sure I can do this

Re: System abused by spammer?

2003-03-28 Thread Andrey Simonenko
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:06:21 + (UTC) in lucky.freebsd.questions, Martin Moeller wrote: I thought, sendmail rejects relaying per default. What can I do? (HELP!!! (!!!) ) There is relay_based_on_MX feature in Sendmail. Check if your Sendmail has this feature off, also check if that

FreeBSD and Oracle

2003-03-28 Thread Michael Hostbaek
Hi, I have a linux box runnning Oracle, I'd like to switch it to FreeBSD. Has anyone successfully run oracle on FreeBSD in a prodution environment? I am using Oracle 8i - it should be possible to run it under FreeBSD with linux emulation, right ? Thanks. -- Best Regards, Michael

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2003-03-28 Thread adam
hi, I have a problem when installing freeBSD 5.0. I can not find my vedio card. my card is: ATI rage 128. but I can not find it when config my Xserver. thanks so much for you reply. win __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March

adding a patch to a port

2003-03-28 Thread David Banning
I was given a patch for the dillo port which I don't quite know how to configure. I wonder how I can take this format and turn it into something I can use in the port. It seems that most patches in the ports are separated as individual files while this one has them in one file. Is there a simple

Re: cvsupit broken (Re: Link??)

2003-03-28 Thread Jordan K Hubbard
The maintainer is on vacation in Maui and will fix it just as soon as he returns. He has only sporadic email connectivity and very slow connectivity at that, too slow to actually do any work (nor would his girlfriend look kindly on that during a vacation :). On Friday, March 28, 2003, at

Re: cvsupit broken (Re: Link??)

2003-03-28 Thread taxman
On Friday 28 March 2003 10:07 pm, Jordan K Hubbard wrote: The maintainer is on vacation in Maui and will fix it just as soon as he returns. He has only sporadic email connectivity and very slow connectivity at that, too slow to actually do any work (nor would his girlfriend look kindly on

Re: Perl

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
Where can I add the $TERM variable? I am using KDE. I put in my ~/.cshrc the following: setenv TERM xterm-color but I don't seem to have a color xterm when I open a new shell...Is this the wrong place? Thanks, Anthony On Thursday 27 March 2003 15:36, Michael A. Smith wrote: Ok, lets try

problem

2003-03-28 Thread Aleksey V. Dolya
Hello. I have problem in configuring XFree86 in FreeBSD 4.7 I try to configure it after installation. I used graphical tool and textmode utility too. The result is often the same: The XFree86 configuration process seems to have failed. Would you like to try again? I have Sony CPD-E100E

missing startkde

2003-03-28 Thread NOEL BALANSAG
hi all. i recently installed kde3 via ports, but it seems that make forgot to install startkde. i thought that it was just a problem with cvsupping in between updates, so i deinstalled kde3, cvsupped again this morning, and reinstalled kde3 via ports. same problem. is it possible to just create

Using .cvsignore

2003-03-28 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! I'm trying to avoid storing (and updating) some parts of the FreeBSD's repository -- some of the locales under the ports collection, kerberos stuff under src... I tried the obvious -- adding chinese korean portuguese [...] to the /usr/ports/.cvsignore

Stupid question

2003-03-28 Thread Gerard Samuel
How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box via the command line?? Thanks -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://test1.trini0.org:81/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Perl

2003-03-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:28:06AM +0100, CARTER Anthony wrote: Where can I add the $TERM variable? I am using KDE. I put in my ~/.cshrc the following: setenv TERM xterm-color but I don't seem to have a color xterm when I open a new shell...Is this the wrong place? The best way of

Re: Stupid question

2003-03-28 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 28-Mar-2003, Gerard Samuel wrote message Stupid question ~ How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box via

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