FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE and Adaptec 2400A Controller

2003-07-03 Thread Jason Sopko
I am having an issue with the Adaptec 2400A controller using the latest FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE code. The server is hanging with this message: asr0: Blink LED 0x3 resetting adapter The server doesn't reboot or halt, it just sits there with that error message until you manually reboot it with the

Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:37:46PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: There's lots of stuff that might go into XF86Config which isn't mentioned in the automatically generated config file, produced by But I meant, in *my* XF86Config there is no mention

Re: ssh keepalives

2003-07-03 Thread Philip J. Koenig
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:04:51 +0200 From: Christian Stigen Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Steve Coile ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Philip J. Koenig wrote: | I'm having a problem with premature termination of ssh sessions [...] | | Is this a common problem with

Re: Staying up to date - easy way?

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote: Here's my question. Is there a simple way to stay up to date with FreeBSD? The install was great! But the whole CVSup, rebuild thing seems a little much to do for just security updates. Is it just a huge thing the first time

Re: Staying up to date - easy way?

2003-07-03 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote: Hi everbody, I'm new to FreeBSD and coming back after a long time away from UNIX like OSs in the first place. I decided to try out FreeBSD because it seems to be a better controlled product than most of the Linux stuff out there

Re: Staying up to date - easy way?

2003-07-03 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:03:21AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote: Here's my question. Is there a simple way to stay up to date with FreeBSD? The install was great! But the whole CVSup, rebuild thing seems a little much to do

Re: Need guidance in choosing mail-client

2003-07-03 Thread Tony Hacche
I would have to agree. I have tried loads of mail clients in my time and mutt does it for me. I don't go in for bells and whistles so I find gui-based clients somewhat tiresome. mutt is very flexible and the sort-by-thread option is brilliant. It doesn't do html, but then e-mail should be text -

Re: cron executes entries twice

2003-07-03 Thread Dan Welch
Another item to check: Faulty time service might produce such duplication. The first cron job would run on the old time; the time updates; it then runs the job again. There would not be a 3rd run because the clock is now correct. On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:23:30PM -0400, John wrote: For quite

Re: vt/ansi codes

2003-07-03 Thread abc
You don't think you're alone because you've Googled a lot? heh :) namely, i am not happy with the current selection of text editors (i find joe(1) to be very good, but it's got some problems and is aging without good development), 136-sec# ls /usr/ports/editors | wc -l 200

how to influence load order of kernel modules

2003-07-03 Thread Stefan Farrenkopf
Hi all, first of all about the background of my question: if I start vmware (version 2 from the ports tree) on my FreeBSD 4.8 system, the system reboots :(( I found that if I restart /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh (stop, start) the kernel module vmmon gets unloaded and loaded again and I get a

Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.

2003-07-03 Thread Matt Heath
PHP!! All the way...easiest, free, likely to be more secure than Perl if used as Apache module than CGI. More secure, how so? mod_php runs as the same user as the Web Server, giving file permission to look at any file the web server can. Safe_dirs are turned off by default I've been hosted on

system info

2003-07-03 Thread Morten
Hi all, Is there a command line utility that I can use to get info on installed ram, CPU etc? Cheers, -Morten ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: system info

2003-07-03 Thread Luke Kearney
top (B (BLK (B (B- Original Message - (BFrom: "Morten" [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BCc: (BSent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:00 PM (BSubject: system info (B (B (B Hi all, (B (B (B Is there a command line utility that I can use to get info on installed (B ram, CPU etc? (B (B (B (B

Re: system info

2003-07-03 Thread Morten
Hi, Well, yeah, sort of. But it doesn't tell me cpu speed... Cheers, -Morten Luke Kearney wrote: top LK - Original Message - From: Morten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:00 PM Subject: system info Hi all, Is there a command line utility that I can

Re: system info

2003-07-03 Thread Fox
Le Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:11:29PM +0200, Morten ecrivait: Hi, Well, yeah, sort of. But it doesn't tell me cpu speed... less /var/run/dmesg.boot Regards. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Claranet France -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: system info

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:00:13PM +0200, Morten wrote: Is there a command line utility that I can use to get info on installed ram, CPU etc? less(1), as in % less /var/run/dmesg.boot Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The

Re: how to influence load order of kernel modules

2003-07-03 Thread Stefan Farrenkopf
Hi again, I would like to correct the information I send before. After I rebooted my machine once more (by starting vmware :( ) I had to realize, that the vmware.sh stop/start procedure is obviously not always sufficient. Without starting any applications I opened a Terminal window and started

Re: ftp 4.8iso 265k transfer to windows 98 box

2003-07-03 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, DanB wrote: I am ftping 4.8iso to a windows 98 box with ftppro then transferring the file to a xp box with a cd writer. Is there any down falls to this? I notice that Freebsd file size is 265k the download size is 271k on the Windows 98 box is somthing being added to the

A softupdates problem?

2003-07-03 Thread Mark
Hello, Making a daily server backup, using dump (FreeBSD 4.7R), I keep running into a softupdates problem. That is, prior to backing up a partition (/var), I move a large file (several gigabytes) off that partition. But because of the softupdates effect, the size of that large file is added to

Re: A softupdates problem?

2003-07-03 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Mark wrote: Making a daily server backup, using dump (FreeBSD 4.7R), I keep running into a softupdates problem. That is, prior to backing up a partition (/var), I move a large file (several gigabytes) off that partition. But because of the softupdates effect, the size of

Re: A softupdates problem?

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:15:14AM +, Mark wrote: Making a daily server backup, using dump (FreeBSD 4.7R), I keep running into a softupdates problem. That is, prior to backing up a partition (/var), I move a large file (several gigabytes) off that partition. But because of the softupdates

Re: cron executes entries twice

2003-07-03 Thread John
At 04:03 AM 7/3/2003, Andrew Boothman wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2003 1:23 am, John wrote: Hi All, For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously for the periodic scripts, but also on some

Re: boot hangs after install 4.8

2003-07-03 Thread Toomas Aas
From: Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC. Only FreeBSD, no other OS. The installation goes all well; I exit at the end and the PC boots. Immediately after the BIOS stuff, I get the first FreeBSD prompt: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1

Re: cpu

2003-07-03 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! How do I find out if 4.7 saw is using both of my CPU's One way would be to read /var/run/dmesg.boot. Another way would be to run top and see if different processes run on different CPUs (the 'C' column). -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * If you try

DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

2003-07-03 Thread cp
We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. I read the compatibility notes and searched Google for the wide range of

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

2003-07-03 Thread DanB
I have downloaded 4.8ISo and the md5 check sum. Where is the program md5 located? Can it run onan Window 98 machine to check the check sum number? Dan Jerry McAllister wrote: Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me how to get the complete install CD

Re: ftp 4.8iso 265k transfer to windows 98 box

2003-07-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am ftping 4.8iso to a windows 98 box with ftppro then transferring the file to a xp box with a cd writer. Is there any down falls to this? I notice that Freebsd file size is 265k the download size is 271k on the Windows 98 box is somthing being added to the transfer? Most probably you

Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

2003-07-03 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:47:09AM -0700, cp wrote: We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. While we're on this

Re: BSD Question

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Elsner
Go here... http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsddoll-s?id=pqS7TiPemv_pc=56 Peter At 06:20 PM 7/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: Hello, My place of employment recently purchased your services. My boss received a little red devil bean bag beanie toy which he gave to me. I brought it home to my son

Problem building galeon port on STABLE

2003-07-03 Thread stan
I'm trying to build galeon, using the ports mechanisi8m. This is no a machine that was cvsup'd about the end of last week. The build process is dying when regxpcom core dumps. What can I do to solve this problem? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither

IDE reboot after power outage problem

2003-07-03 Thread Alex Teslik
Hello, My system used to be an all SCSI system. After rare power outages the system would automatically fsck the disks and boot up. Recently I added an IDE drive to the system. Now, after power outages the system boots and when it gets to the ide drive it prompts for single user mode shell. I

Re: ftp 4.8iso 265k transfer to windows 98 box

2003-07-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:09, DanB wrote: I am ftping 4.8iso to a windows 98 box with ftppro then transferring the file to a xp box with a cd writer. Is there any down falls to this? I notice that Freebsd file size is 265k the download size is 271k on the Windows 98 box is somthing being added to

Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

2003-07-03 Thread Bill Moran
cp wrote: We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. I read the compatibility notes and searched Google for the wide

mozilla stalls

2003-07-03 Thread Jim Allen
I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. What tends to happen is that I'll try to load/reload a page, and the browser will stall indefinitely -- forcing me to kill it. Strangely, when I run the browser

Probems building amanda client port

2003-07-03 Thread stan
On a recently cvsup'd achine, building the amanda-client port fails when it gets to the gtart port as a dependency. It seesm gtar is now part of the base system. Shouldn't this be OK? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

buildworld errors

2003-07-03 Thread quadrant
I did a cvsupit from FreeBSD 4.8 to current ( =. ) I did a make buildworld 3 times so far with different errors each time. Between each buildworld, I did the rm -rf /usr/obj and started over again. It goes for about 4 hours each time, and this is now the error I received while doing a make

Adding disk space to an FTP directory -- ideas?

2003-07-03 Thread Greg Brooks
I currently use most of /var for a depository of files that move in and out via FTP. /var runs on a secondary hard drive in the system, along with a partition called /storage that's currently empty. Only one user (ftpuser) has login rights to the ftp system, although it's not jailed with its own

Bandwidth Question

2003-07-03 Thread Chris
Hello, I was wondering what is the best way to limit bandwidth to a set of IP addresses? I've read some about dummynet. Would this be the preffered tool to use? Also, if someone could recommend a program to log how much bandwidth a particular IP uses per month etc..., and also display

Re: mozilla stalls

2003-07-03 Thread Matt Heath
I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. I get that too ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD

2003-07-03 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Alexander Haderer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:54 PM Subject: Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD At 12:39 02.07.2003 -0500, Micheal Patterson wrote: [...] It works equally

Re: buildworld errors

2003-07-03 Thread Greg J.
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:23:19 -0400 quadrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a cvsupit from FreeBSD 4.8 to current ( =. ) I did a make buildworld 3 times so far with different errors each time. Between each buildworld, I did the rm -rf /usr/obj and started over again. It goes for about 4 hours

OT Re: mozilla stalls

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Bettinger
On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:44 am, Matt Heath wrote: I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. I get that too My mozilla will hang for a few minutes when I enter a url in the location bar. If I fire

Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
About a year or two ago, someone posted his recipe for sorting FreeBSD lists. This particular one was nice in that it extracted the list name from the From line (I think) and then created the appropriate folder if it didn't exist. So freebsd-questions list items were put in the 'questions'

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread Christian Stigen Larsen
Quoting Drew Tomlinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | About a year or two ago, someone posted his recipe for sorting FreeBSD | lists. This particular one was nice in that it extracted the list name | from the From line (I think) and then created the appropriate folder | if it didn't exist. Probably

Adding disk space to an FTP directory -- ideas?

2003-07-03 Thread Greg Brooks
I currently use most of /var for a depository of files that move in and out via FTP. /var runs on a secondary hard drive in the system, along with a partition called /storage that's currently empty. Only one user (ftpuser) has login rights to the ftp system, although it's not jailed with its own

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:53:30AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: About a year or two ago, someone posted his recipe for sorting FreeBSD lists. This particular one was nice in that it extracted the list name from the From line (I think) and then created the appropriate folder if it didn't

Re: Bandwidth Question

2003-07-03 Thread Nucking Futs
In ports under Net there is IPFM i haven't played with it yet but it is supposed to do some of what you are looking for. Do a google search and you can find the homepage of the author. I would be interested in any information you find out on this subject. Greg From: Chris [EMAIL

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
Woops... On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:12:46PM -0400, Paul Chvostek wrote: Easy enough: :0: * List-Id:[^]+\/freebsd-[^.] $MATCH That should have been: :0: * ^List-Id:[^]+\/freebsd-[^.]+ $MATCH But I'm sure everyone already knew that... ;) -- Paul Chvostek

Apache Security

2003-07-03 Thread Dead Line
Hello Everyone, Is Apache with fp extention (apache-fp) not secure to run in a machine ? In the meantime that this machine is made for this purpose, web hosting! im on FreeBSD 4.8-R Please Advise. Marwan Sultan

Re: Need guidance in choosing mail-client

2003-07-03 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Tony Hacche thusly... It doesn't do html, but then e-mail should be text - if I receive an e-mail message in html-only I have no qualms about deleting it without reading it ;o) True. If somebody does desire to view HTML, add appropriate entries to mutt

Re: Apache Security

2003-07-03 Thread Matt Heath
Dead Line wrote: Hello Everyone, Is Apache with fp extention (apache-fp) not secure to run in a machine ? it is best to assume that nothing is secure 8) In the meantime that this machine is made for this purpose, web hosting! im on FreeBSD 4.8-R Please Advise. your

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Drew Tomlinson thusly... About a year or two ago, someone posted his recipe for sorting FreeBSD lists. This particular one was nice in that it extracted the list name from the From line (I think) and then created the appropriate folder if it didn't exist.

Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

2003-07-03 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: ... While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner yet and to what success? (This would be for 4.8) Also any recommended Firewire cards or cards to avoid? I'm using a current Adaptec on FreeBSD 4.8 with good results.

Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

2003-07-03 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:44:52AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: ... While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner yet and to what success? (This would be for 4.8) Also any recommended Firewire cards or cards to

Re: How to encrypt data on backup?

2003-07-03 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:35:51AM -0700 or thereabouts, Tak Pui LOU wrote: Hi Josh, Thanks. That may work for me if the GBDE works on tape device. Does it? I don't know... get a tape and try it! -- Josh --- Lou On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at

Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

2003-07-03 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:44:52AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: ... While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner yet and to what success? (This would be for

Re: Adding disk space to an FTP directory -- ideas?

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:09:28AM -0500, Greg Brooks wrote: I currently use most of /var for a depository of files that move in and out via FTP. /var runs on a secondary hard drive in the system, along with a partition called /storage that's currently empty. Only one user (ftpuser) has

Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

2003-07-03 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:45:48AM -0400 or thereabouts, Bill Moran wrote: cp wrote: We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive

Re: SpeedTouch 330 USB ADSL Modem

2003-07-03 Thread Rick Duvall
On your SpeedTouch 330 modem, did you have any problems with the USB port just shutting off? I have to reboot to get it back. I am wondering if I need to increase a buffer somewhere, or if it is caused by the phone ringing. - Original Message - From: Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] [EMAIL

/usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports does not exist

2003-07-03 Thread David Kelly
Installed 5.1-RELEASE clean from CDROM on new HD and new filesystems earlier this week. Installed XFree86 and KDE from ports during the initial install. Installed /usr/ports and /usr/src later via CVS and am up to date as of yesterday. Attempting to add certain ports that I'm missing got stuck

ipfw/natd/divert question

2003-07-03 Thread B Franks
I'd like to come up a ruleset that handles the following example. Suppose I have a daemon listeing on port 2000 and I'd like outside clients to be able to communicate with the daemon by addressing traffic to port 2000 or port 2001. So, suppose I have for my natd configuration:

Seting baclground color in fvwm95?

2003-07-03 Thread stan
How can I set the background color for a session using fvwm95? xsetroot sets the color, but when the window manmager starts up, it overwrites that change. I fell certain it's a setting in the .fvwm95rc file, but I cna't find any docs on the syntax. -- They that would give up essential liberty

FW: 2 NIC's (one dhcp) and default route issue

2003-07-03 Thread stan
I'm building a machine with 2 nic's. They will be on seperate subnets, and in the long run both will have fixed addresses. However at the moment I've set one of these up for dhcp. The fixed addres NIC should be the one thta has the default route associated with it, and I have a defaultrouter=

Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD

2003-07-03 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 09:44 US/Mountain, Micheal Patterson wrote: As I recall, that particular system is running an Adaptec 2100S under FreeBSD 4.8. I've not found any software that can access that particular raid directly for configuration from within the running OS. Actually Adaptec has

CVSupping 5

2003-07-03 Thread Ian Barnes
Hi, Please forgive my stupidity. What is the cvsup tag for the 5 branch? RELENG_5 doesnt work. I have searched the archives, the site and I cant find anything that would help me. I just installed a 5.1 box, and would like to cvsup and rebuild my kernel. Thanks alot. Ian

Re: CVSupping 5

2003-07-03 Thread Bill Moran
Ian Barnes wrote: Hi, Please forgive my stupidity. What is the cvsup tag for the 5 branch? RELENG_5 doesnt work. I have searched the archives, the site and I cant find anything that would help me. I just installed a 5.1 box, and would like to cvsup and rebuild my kernel. RELENG_5_1 for the

archive search broken?

2003-07-03 Thread Will Saxon
I'm fairly certain that there was a thread in -current regarding work on a 'health and wellness' type driver for HP ProLiant machines but I can't seem to actually get any results for any searches since at least yesterday afternoon. Is this a known issue or am I doing something wrong? -Will

Problem adding user (4.8R)

2003-07-03 Thread Johan Paul
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 and tried to add a user to the system using 'adduser foo'. I get a few questions and then this: -- 8 -- Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. Enter username [foo]: Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: foo

no /usr/src/etc/

2003-07-03 Thread John DeStefano
I was trying a 'mergemaster' as seen here but kept getting the following error: cp: /usr/src/etc/master.passwd: No such file or directory *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot copy files to the temproot environment I verified that this file indeed does not exist, then realized something else when trying to

Re: Problem adding user (4.8R)

2003-07-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: Johan Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:41 PM Subject: Problem adding user (4.8R) Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 and tried to add a user to the system using 'adduser foo'. I get a few questions and then this: -- 8 -- Don't worry

cvs co CVSROOT

2003-07-03 Thread freebsd_deamon
dear list i just tried to cvs co CVSROOT in order to try out setting up a CVS repository - the FreeBSD way as described in the article of the same name in the docs section but there seem to be a few file missing in the CVSROOT i got trying modules as access got me an error message that the file

Re: Problem adding user (4.8R)

2003-07-03 Thread Bill Moran
Johan Paul wrote: Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 and tried to add a user to the system using 'adduser foo'. I get a few questions and then this: -- 8 -- Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. Enter username [foo]: Please enter a username Enter

Re: Apache Security

2003-07-03 Thread Jason Morefield
As I recall Microsoft offered a Unix version of frontpage server extensions actually. I do however remember it being a serious pain in the neck that wasn't worth the time it took to manage it. But that's just my $0.02. Jason - Original Message - From: Matt Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Problem adding user (4.8R)

2003-07-03 Thread Johan Paul
I get a few questions and then this: -- 8 -- Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. Enter username [foo]: Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: foo Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: -- 8 -- ...whatever I type in as

Re: Problem adding user (4.8R)

2003-07-03 Thread Johan Paul
Stefan Prestele wrote: I think the problem is, that you have entered a user name when you were asked for a regex for user names. So restart adduser and read the questions properly. The question for a regular expression that user names have to match should be 'a-z0-9_-ยด (whithout the quotes). Then

Re: 2 NIC's (one dhcp) and default route issue

2003-07-03 Thread Han Hwei Woo
The correct syntax is: supersede routers 0.0.0.0; Did you forget the semicolon in the config also? /etc/dhclient.conf is the way to do this, so make sure everything in the file is correct. Han Hwei Woo http://www.argosy.ca/~hhw - Original Message - From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Free

list archives not searchable anymore?

2003-07-03 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Hi Using the page http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists I try and search for any term at all and they all come back with no results. This happens on OS X Safari browser, OS X IE, and Windows XP IE6. Is this broken or am I just doing something wrong? thanks Chad

Re: OT Re: mozilla stalls

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:50:12AM -0500, Matthew Bettinger wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:44 am, Matt Heath wrote: I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. I get that too My mozilla will

Re: A softupdates problem?

2003-07-03 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:23 PM Subject: Re: A softupdates problem? Hmmm... not an answer to the question you asked, but does not: # chflags nodump

Re: list archives not searchable anymore?

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:50:39PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Using the page http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists I try and search for any term at all and they all come back with no results. This happens on OS X Safari browser, OS X IE, and Windows XP IE6.

Re: Bandwidth Question

2003-07-03 Thread Patrick O'Reilly
From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was wondering what is the best way to limit bandwidth to a set of IP addresses? I've read some about dummynet. Would this be the preffered tool to use? Yes - dummynet must be used in conjunction with ipfw. ipfw is for firewalling, but you can use it to

Transporting RAID-1 image from a 40G to a 80G set

2003-07-03 Thread Mark
Ok, I know this issue has been brought up in many variations in the past, but I would like to know how to make a disk-image of my RAID-1, in such a way that I can transport the image from a 40G to a 80G set (FreeBSD 4.7R). I know I can use dd to copy the data to another blank hard disk. But I

FReeBSD 5.1 and Promise TX4

2003-07-03 Thread Andrew Batson
Hello, Has nay one gotten FreeBSD 5.1 Release to install on a system that has both a Promise Ultra 66 and a Promise TX4 controller cards. The Promise Ultra 66 controller controls one 20GB hard disk drive (which I would like to be the boot disk) and the Promise TX4 has 4 HD's configured in

Disable PING command

2003-07-03 Thread Nucking Futs
How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*

Re: Disable PING command

2003-07-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Nucking Futs wrote: How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. Well - anyone could compile a fresh version; or copy a version from another machine into his home dir or

Re: Disable PING command

2003-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: Nucking Futs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:43 PM Subject: Disable PING command How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a

GDM and Metacity

2003-07-03 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Hi all, I'm trying to get GDM and Metacity running on FreeBSD 4.8. The first time I ran GDM, I got a message saying no XDMCP running. I then ran gdmsetup in an X session and set Enable XDMCP. Now I can run gdm and it exits without errors, but nothing comes up on screen 9. I see gdm-binary

Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: I suspect that XFree86 is just applying its default settings, given that you haven't told it to do otherwise. Makes sense. I'm not complaining. Is xset the only thing that can make use of DPMS or is there a binary in the default / standard /

format of /etc/crontab?

2003-07-03 Thread Rich Morin
The cron(8) man page (on my FreeBSD 4.7 system) says: Cron searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches for /etc/crontab which is in a different format (see crontab(5)). The

Re: FReeBSD 5.1 and Promise TX4

2003-07-03 Thread Joachim Dagerot
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:35, Andrew Batson wrote: Hello, Has nay one gotten FreeBSD 5.1 Release to install on a system that has both a Promise Ultra 66 and a Promise TX4 controller cards. The Promise Ultra 66 controller controls one 20GB hard disk drive (which I would like to be the

Re: Disable PING command

2003-07-03 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:53:17PM -0400 or thereabouts, Mykroft Holmes IV wrote: Nucking Futs wrote: How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. chmod 700 /usr/bin/ping (or

Re: format of /etc/crontab?

2003-07-03 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:54:36PM -0700 or thereabouts, Rich Morin wrote: The cron(8) man page (on my FreeBSD 4.7 system) says: Cron searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches

Re: Disable PING command

2003-07-03 Thread K Anderson
Nucking Futs wrote: How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. Adverspam removed Good luck. All it takes is a user to port, transfere, compile, copy, move or hack in a ping command of their

Re: format of /etc/crontab?

2003-07-03 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:54:36PM -0700, Rich Morin wrote: The cron(8) man page (on my FreeBSD 4.7 system) says: Cron searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches for /etc/crontab

Re: format of /etc/crontab?

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:54:36PM -0700, Rich Morin wrote: The crontab(5) man page, however, says nothing about any differences in the file formats. Instead, it appears to describe only the format that is used in /var/cron/tabs/* files. I would like to know precisely how the format of

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: Paul Chvostek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 10:37 AM On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:12:22AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: :0: * ^List-Id:[^]+freebsd-\/[^.]+ Maildir/FreeBSD/$MATCH/new And I'm getting messages

crontab same time execution order

2003-07-03 Thread Dave McCammon
If two entries in the crontab are for the same time, which entry gets ran first? __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: About newsyslog behavior

2003-07-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:08 PM +0300 7/2/03, Jim Xochellis wrote: I suspected that some processes are confused because a *new* log file is created and these processes are making the assumption that their log file will be always the same and perhaps they open it once and then work with the FILE pointer. If a program

Eterm / imlib2 / image loaders.

2003-07-03 Thread lewiz
Hi, I've just tried to install Eterm so I can use Esetroot for images, etc. However, I was getting messages and decided to try Eterm -- at which point I get: Eterm: Error: Unable to load image file bar_horizontal_1.png -- No loader available for that file format I get quite a few, but

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:26:49PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: :0 * ^List-Id:[^]+freebsd-\/[^.]+ FreeBSD/$MATCH/ Thanks for pointing out my oversight and all of the help so far. I've added the / and now my recipe is: :0 * ^List-Id:[^]+freebsd-\/[^.]+ /Maildir/FreeBSD/$MATCH/

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