Installing KDE-3.1.3 on 5.1-REL

2003-09-19 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I am trying to install KDE, but it fails with the message that it requires a working libXext. Anyone knows what can fix this? What package is associated with libXext that I need to install? -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said 'Requires

Re: [OT] replacing fan with mismatched specs

2003-09-19 Thread Siegbert Baude
Hi Bill, I have a switch that has a fan in it that failed. It's a 40MM .22Amp 5V. Look here: http://www.papst.de/pdf_dat_e/S11gb.pdf The 405 (40x40x20) or 405FH (40x40x20) should be what you need. Ciao Siegbert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.4 not found

2003-09-19 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hi people, I lost my hard disk (no backups) yesterday and now I am the most miserable man on earth! I have installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. I have installed X, which is running fine, but I have tried installing mozilla, gaim, evolution, and a few others, all of which fails with the message:

MS Intellimouse and XFree86

2003-09-19 Thread Reid Linnemann
Okay, so here's the skinny: I have a 3-button mouse with Z axis (wheel) that behaves as a PS/2 intellimouse. Running moused -f -p /dev/psm0 shows Z axis events reported when I use the wheel. However, in X using /dev/sysmouse as the mouse device, no Z axis events make it through. This is

Re: decompressing source

2003-09-19 Thread Andrey Simonenko
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 04:37:46 + (UTC) in lucky.freebsd.questions, Alain Dazzi wrote: Just a basic question, what unix command should I use to decompress (expand) the various data files after downloading the sources via ftp. For instance ssys.aa - ssys.ak should get expanded into sys.

ipfw.conf is not read

2003-09-19 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi ! I have a stange problem today. I just set up a brand new 5.1 box. I added in my rc.conf: firewall_enables=YES firewall_script=/etc/ipfw.conf firewall_logging=YES IPFW is compiled in the kernel. If I go: sh /etc/ipfw.conf; the rules get loaded with no problem, but when I reboot the computer,

Re: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.4 not found

2003-09-19 Thread Joseph Begumisa
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi people, I lost my hard disk (no backups) yesterday and now I am the most miserable man on earth! I have installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. I have installed X, which is running fine, but I have tried installing mozilla, gaim, evolution, and a

Re: ipfw.conf is not read

2003-09-19 Thread Michael L. Hostbaek
Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot) writes: firewall_enables=YES firewall_script=/etc/ipfw.conf firewall_logging=YES try: firewall_enable=YES firewall_type=/etc/ipfw.conf I don't know why, but that works for me. /mich -- Best Regards, Michael L. Hostbaek FreeBSD Committer -

apache startup problem

2003-09-19 Thread H. Bartel
Hi everybody, after succesfully de- and reinstalling apache13, I get the following error after running /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start Bus error (core dumped) /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started /kernel: pid 141 (httpd), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) After

Re: apache startup problem

2003-09-19 Thread Jens Rehsack
H. Bartel wrote: Hi everybody, after succesfully de- and reinstalling apache13, I get the following error after running /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start Bus error (core dumped) /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started /kernel: pid 141 (httpd), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core

Re: apache startup problem

2003-09-19 Thread Laurens Heeren
Hey, what do you get when you run: apachectl configtest ? Greets, Laurens On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:10:13 +0200 H. Bartel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, after succesfully de- and reinstalling apache13, I get the following error after running /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start Bus

Re: Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:27:00AM +0300, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV typed: OK! I admit that it isn't THE BIGGEST problem for me BUT it is A problem. What I ment in my last mail was that it is the biggest problem concerning cat. Since someone always seems to cat a binary file without having the

Re: ipfw.conf is not read

2003-09-19 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
try: firewall_enable=YES firewall_type=/etc/ipfw.conf I already tried that, but it does not work :( Antoine ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

cannot alias non-local names

2003-09-19 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi, Since last sendmail update, whenever I change an alias in /etc/mail/aliases and run make I get: # make /usr/sbin/sendmail -bi -OAliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases: line 19: root... cannot alias non-local names /etc/mail/aliases: line 22: MAILER-DAEMON... cannot alias non-local

Re: apache startup problem

2003-09-19 Thread H. Bartel
On 09/19/2003 12:17 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laurens Heeren) wrote: what do you get when you run: apachectl configtest ? I get: Syntax OK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: ipfw.conf is not read

2003-09-19 Thread Armand Passelac
[ On Fri, 19 Sep, 2003 at 11:52, Michael L. Hostbaek wrote: ] Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot) writes: firewall_enables=YES firewall_script=/etc/ipfw.conf firewall_logging=YES try: firewall_enable=YES firewall_type=/etc/ipfw.conf I don't know why, but that works for me.

Re: apache startup problem

2003-09-19 Thread H. Bartel
On 09/19/2003 10:17 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jens Rehsack) wrote: If I were you I'd try gdb apache apache.core to identify the module which dumps. If it's a standard one, you shouldn't probably rebuild it using lower optimization level. I read the man pages for gdb but 'gdb apache apache.core'

Re: apache startup problem

2003-09-19 Thread Jens Rehsack
H. Bartel wrote: On 09/19/2003 10:17 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jens Rehsack) wrote: If I were you I'd try gdb apache apache.core to identify the module which dumps. If it's a standard one, you shouldn't probably rebuild it using lower optimization level. I read the man pages for gdb but 'gdb

Re: ipfw.conf is not read

2003-09-19 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Armand Passelac wrote: YES your problem is the *s* at the and of the firewall_enable line ;-) I can NOT believe how stupid I am... I'm really sorry about this ;) Moreover, according to me, a chmod 600 /etc/ipfw.conf seems to be better ;-) Yes, of course, I just set it to 644 for my testings...

Re: apache startup problem

2003-09-19 Thread H. Bartel
On 09/19/2003 11:21 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jens Rehsack) wrote: You should either search the file or start the apache from within the gdb. If I start the apache from within the gdb I get the following: Undefined command: . Try help. What I typed is: (gdb) /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start

Patch SSH Not Work?

2003-09-19 Thread Ben Dover
I patched my SSHD on FreeBSD ver 5.1 (base system, not ports) and after stopping the SSHD server and restarting I checked the version and received the following: schizoid# /usr/sbin/sshd -\? sshd version OpenSSH_3.6.1p1 FreeBSD-20030423 Why did I not receive the September date? Did the patch

NATD, interface with two IPs.

2003-09-19 Thread William Fletcher
Hi, I have a slight problem with natd. I have the following interface. ed2: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 196.14.166.30 netmask 0xffe0 broadcast 196.14.166.31 inet6 fe80::200:21ff:fe20:f11%ed2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet

antiviruos for FreeBSD mail server ?

2003-09-19 Thread RJ45
Hello, I Tryed to search an economic antivirus for freebsd mailserver. Anyone has comments on Vexira antivirus ? anyone tryed it ? It looks quit economic thanks Rick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: A Problem configuring X-server...(version 4.0)

2003-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nour-Al-Din [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bonjour, Hello, I currently experience problems configuring X-server on freeBSD (last version I think (ie 5.smthing)). I comes out with : No screen found. or Abort fatal error Abort 6 (or smthg close to that) messages. The machine i use is

Re: antiviruos for FreeBSD mail server ?

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 September 2003 07:45 am, RJ45 wrote: Hello, I Tryed to search an economic antivirus for freebsd mailserver. Anyone has comments on Vexira antivirus ? anyone tryed it ? It looks quit economic thanks Rick I'd like to add on to this question: Has anyone run the Linux Desktop

Re: make: permission denied error when doing make installworld

2003-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mike Tibor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (if this question is more appropriate for freebsd-stable, let me know) Not really. I'm trying update one of my servers, and can't get past a make: permission denied error when doing a make instalworld as root in single user mode. My sequence was this:

Re: antiviruos for FreeBSD mail server ?

2003-09-19 Thread Gary
Hello RJ45, Friday, September 19, 2003, 7:45:25 AM, you wrote: R I Tryed to search an economic antivirus for freebsd mailserver. Anyone R has comments on Vexira antivirus ? anyone tryed it ? It looks quit R economic I know several mail admins who use it and love it, although personally I have

Re: questions regarding sound driver

2003-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ALIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i can't seem to get my sound to work, i've installed freebsd and got it working before but don't remember how and everytime i try to open up a mpeg file it says Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device

How to set VPN over firewalls.

2003-09-19 Thread Ajit @ FreeBSD
Hi All, How to set VPN over firewalls. Thanks in advance ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem with afd0: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0

2003-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
yew chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: after a clean installation, i keep getting this error message and i just search a lot of web site but still couldn't figure out the problem. does anyone has any idea? On FreeBSD 4.8, I assume. The afd device is an ATAPI floppy disk, which is slightly

Re: MS Intellimouse and XFree86

2003-09-19 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 07:06, Reid Linnemann wrote: Okay, so here's the skinny: I have a 3-button mouse with Z axis (wheel) that behaves as a PS/2 intellimouse. Running moused -f -p /dev/psm0 shows Z axis events reported when I use the wheel. However, in X using /dev/sysmouse as the mouse

Re: BIND fix for VeriSign's unregistered domain redirections?

2003-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
liquid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any fix for BIND 8 in the near future? Maybe. Also, anyone know of a workaround for BIND 8 at this time? If I were to simply install bind9 on my system from the ports, does it in fact simply overwrite the default installation included with FreeBSD? No. It

sendmail being the default MTA in FreeBSD

2003-09-19 Thread ftyczka
Hello, I was just wondering - are there any (perhaps historical) reasons, why sendmail is the default MTA that comes with the system on FreeBSD ? I know I can use others like postfix, but I was just curious. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Good article on using ports at O'Reilly's BSD DevCenter

2003-09-19 Thread Barry C . Hawkins
All, For those relatively new to FreeBSD (like me) and who use ports regularly (who doesn't?), there is a great article by Dru Lavigne at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/09/18/FreeBSD_Basics.html that is a wonderful walkthrough on getting to the next level of proficiency in using ports

Re:Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-19 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 19 Sep 2003, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote: I personally think that some of these tests should be added to the real distributable version of cat that comes with FreeBSD cause I can't be the only one that this bugs. I mean what could a little more code hurt to the program since cat

What's the meaning of these arp messages...

2003-09-19 Thread RA Cohen
Hi, I have a FBSD 4.8 box running Samba in my network. Lately I am noticing some strange messages at the console concerning my firewall. The messages basically say the MAC address of my linux firewall's internal ip address has changed...and 15 minutes later changed again (to the original MAC

g++ -pedantic errors on include files

2003-09-19 Thread Guy Middleton
On my 5.1-RELEASE system, if I compile a C++ program thus: c++ -O -pipe -march=pentium3 -Wall -W -Wno-long-long -pedantic wchar.cc -o wchar The compiler prints many warnings like this: /usr/include/g++/bits/stl_alloc.h:979: warning: ISO C++ forbids the use of ` extern' on explicit

CUPS vs. apsfilter--newbie setup problems

2003-09-19 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured with either CUPS or apsfilter (as someone here had recommended). I've tried to look over the docs, and search through here, but am still stumped for what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm

Re: make: permission denied error when doing make installworld

2003-09-19 Thread Mike Tibor
On 19 Sep 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mike Tibor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying update one of my servers, and can't get past a make: permission denied error when doing a make instalworld as root in single user mode. My sequence was this: cvsup make buildworld make

Re: CUPS vs. apsfilter--newbie setup problems

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 September 2003 10:39 am, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured with either CUPS or apsfilter (as someone here had recommended). I've tried to look over the docs, and search through

Re: CUPS vs. apsfilter--newbie setup problems

2003-09-19 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:05:50AM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 10:39 am, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured with either CUPS or apsfilter (as someone here had

Re: CUPS vs. apsfilter--newbie setup problems

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 September 2003 11:05 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 10:39 am, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured with either CUPS or apsfilter (as someone here had

Re: What's the meaning of these arp messages...

2003-09-19 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 08:23 19.09.2003 -0700, RA Cohen wrote: Hi, I have a FBSD 4.8 box running Samba in my network. Lately I am noticing some strange messages at the console concerning my firewall. The messages basically say the MAC address of my linux firewall's internal ip address has changed...and 15 minutes

php postgresql error - howto?

2003-09-19 Thread Alex Zivenko
Hi people! Can I get some help from you? At once I want to tell sorry for this question. So, I have got the error when I'm trying to insert data from php variable into db table. It gives me error like: You have not permission to increase the index key of db (tablename.fieldname). But I have

Re: Unrecognized Broadcom 570x Chip on Dell1750

2003-09-19 Thread william paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Olaf Hoyer had to walk into mine and say: HI! Got @work a new Dell 1750 machine, serverworks Chipset w/Xeon CPU, also dual gigE Broadcom chipsets. FreeBSD 4.8-R failed to recognize the chip, but Knoppix 3.2 (Linux Distro, based on

Wireless Network Card

2003-09-19 Thread Jakub Witek
First I must say than my english is on very pimary level... so be patient, please --- I have a huge problem with my netwok card (Planet wl 8305, chip acx100) because it not compability with any vesion of FreeBSD. I'd like to use this os because it is very stable and better than Linux and of

Re: BIND fix for VeriSign's unregistered domain redirections?

2003-09-19 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-09-19 09:58:25 -0400: liquid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right now, I've blocked off verisign's IP. I don't know how effective that is though. Not very to moderately, depending on your goals. hurts *you* mail sent to nonexistent domains under .com and

USB-console?

2003-09-19 Thread Daniel Johansson
Hello dear FreeBSD users ;) I've got a small question. Scince more and more companies take away the old serialport on all new computers that the sell today we won't be able to admin our servers with serialconsole, when one don't have network etc. and don't want to have a screen + keybord next to

fdisk

2003-09-19 Thread Florin Betivoiu
Hi, I'm a newbie that's been doing stuff and now needs help. I have two harddrives, on the master drive there's FreeBSD 5.0 and on the slave drive you could find Slackware 9. I used lilo from the slackware drive as a boot loader and installed it in the master boot record of the first drive,

modem on serial port?

2003-09-19 Thread Sean Hafeez
i am using a freebsd box as a router. it has a serial port. i would like to hook up a modem and use it to manage the router if the lines go down. now i know you can use the serial port as a console but how about when i stick a modem on it. does anything change. anything i need to install?

Re: Is FreeBSD up to this job?

2003-09-19 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-09-17 12:33:30 -0600: My plan is to build a custom jukebox looking enclosure like everyone is used to seeing in bars, poolhalls, etc. In place of the CD changer I'd like to have a full PC (Thinking XP2800, 1GB RAM, 500Gb SATA RAID) built inside, connected to a CD

Imap configuration question.

2003-09-19 Thread Voith Consulting
Hello, I recently started up a FreeBSD system (4.8 Stable) and as part of the post install selected the imap-uw-2002 server. So the install is from packages rather than ports. I looked at some of the archived imap questions but they all assume one is building it. Is there a way to figure out how

Problem installing/upgrading QT3.2

2003-09-19 Thread Steve Lake
When trying to upgrade/install QT3.1 to 3.2 I get an install error. This is what it gives me. Sorry for the length of this but I'm not sure what's useful and what's not. Can someone look at this and maybe give me an idea of what I need to do to fix this? Thanks. I did

Re: Is FreeBSD up to this job?

2003-09-19 Thread Jeremy D. Pavleck
I'm beginning to agree it is now overspec'ed. But only because I'm thinking now (thanks to input from you folks) about making a marketable version instead of one for my own pool hall. When I say jukebox, I mean ones like these: http://www.gameroomantiques.com/CDjukebox.htm

logrotate courier

2003-09-19 Thread dick hoogendijk
I installed courier and since then my /var/log/maillog does not get 'rotated' How do I set this up myself? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.8 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja

logrotate mail.log

2003-09-19 Thread dick hoogendijk
I installed courier and since then my /var/log/maillog is nog rotated. Can someone explain to me how to set this up myself on fbsd-4.8? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.8 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna

Re: modem on serial port?

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 September 2003 12:35 pm, Sean Hafeez wrote: i am using a freebsd box as a router. it has a serial port. i would like to hook up a modem and use it to manage the router if the lines go down. now i know you can use the serial port as a console but how about when i stick a modem on

Re: Imap configuration question.

2003-09-19 Thread Lucas Holt
There is no config file for imapd, and there are several authentication options when you compile it. It would be easier for you to just compile it yourself. imapd is the easiest program i've found to compile. I've also found the development versions to be much more friendly (although don't

RE: Imap configuration question.

2003-09-19 Thread Voith Consulting
You may be correct. Here is some more info. It appears I do have a pam server running and the configuration file contains a line for imap server (it also does not have two additional lines recommended by the pkg-description of /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw. My login attempts are logged to the console

kernel compile error: unknown option USER_LDT

2003-09-19 Thread Barry C . Hawkins
List, I am trying to build a kernel using a copy of GENERIC for RELENG_5_1. I have CVSuped by source tree prior to copying /usr/src/conf/GENERIC. I initially disabled the all RAID devices, so I started with a fresh copy of GENERIC. That was recommended once in the list archives for what

Mouse problems

2003-09-19 Thread Dave Wiebe
Hi, Thanks for reading my email. I recently installed Free BSD and when I run X windows, whenever I move my mouse, the cursor moves to the top left of the screen. I set it up as best as possible(making sure it is setup as a ps2 mouse in the config file). I even tried a serial mouse but the

Uninstalling GNOME by /stand/sysinstall ?

2003-09-19 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello, I've installed 4.8 on my laptop and realized I needed to reclaim back some space from /usr so removing all of GNOME was my first choice, keeping KDE. When using /stand/sysinstall and chosing the post-installation of packages I can remove certain GNOME packages but the other GNOME ones

Re: Basic printer setup (repost)

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Harr
So I gave apsfilter a try, and having problems here too-- I managed to nuke my CUPS setup, and printing a test page died with nbp_lookup: Protocol not supported, even though netatalk is installed on the system. I think the only thing apsfilter changes is the /etc/printcap and it saves a copy at

soft updates enabled?

2003-09-19 Thread Sergei Vyshenski
Is there a way to find out which filesystems actually use soft updates? I am asking because after tunefs -n enable /usr reboot in single-user mode there is no sign of soft updates in the output of mount. System id 4.9-PRERELEASE Thank you for any comment ahead of time. Sergei

Re: soft updates enabled?

2003-09-19 Thread Danny Horne
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:26:22 +0400 Sergei Vyshenski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to find out which filesystems actually use soft updates? I am asking because after tunefs -n enable /usr reboot in single-user mode there is no sign of soft updates in the output of mount.

Is pst(4) bootable?

2003-09-19 Thread Harold Paulson
Hello, I have a Promise SuperTrak sx6000. It's on the supported hardware list and I can fdisk, label, mount and use it. However, I'm not able to boot from it. It gets through BOOT0 ok, but then I get: Disk Error 0x80 (lba=0x0) Disk Error 0x80 (lba=0x0) No /boot/loader Isn't pst

vmware?

2003-09-19 Thread Ralph
I was wondering someone had written to the list about vmware 3 and how yto get it to work. i tried from ports and it alway's comes up that it cant find the file when it goes out on the web to download the tgz file. Has anyone installed vmware 4 on free bsd 5.1 and gotten it to work and if so how

Re: CUPS vs. apsfilter--newbie setup problems

2003-09-19 Thread David Banning
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:39:58AM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured with either CUPS or apsfilter (as someone here had recommended). I've tried to look over the docs, and search

Re: Mouse problems

2003-09-19 Thread Daniela
On Friday 19 September 2003 21:10, Dave Wiebe wrote: Hi, Thanks for reading my email. I recently installed Free BSD and when I run X windows, whenever I move my mouse, the cursor moves to the top left of the screen. I set it up as best as possible(making sure it is setup as a ps2 mouse in

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2003-09-19 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: errata and addenda

2003-09-19 Thread Greg Lehey
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 computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Postfix against spam

2003-09-19 Thread Gerard Samuel
A bit off topic, but with a rash of crap coming down my pipe, Im looking for solutions to fight spam using Postfix running on FreeBSD 4.8. I've come across a few links that suggest using Postfix with RBL. If anyone has any experiences with this or any other techniques with FBSD/Postfix, email me

File deletion problem

2003-09-19 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a situation that I have not been able to track down where on one of my servers some process is writing a log file (I presume) and it is getting rotated out from under it. The net result is that the log continues to be written to the original file which eventually is deleted thus

Re: File deletion problem

2003-09-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 19), Doug Hardie said: I have a situation that I have not been able to track down where on one of my servers some process is writing a log file (I presume) and it is getting rotated out from under it. The net result is that the log continues to be written to the

Re: making 4.8-RELEASE-p7

2003-09-19 Thread Alexander Portnoy
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:17:12 +0400 Nickolay Krylov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, freebsd-security. I'm trying to build 4.8-RELEASE-p7 to distribute it trought my clients. What am I doing: #cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup #cvsup standard-supfile (after I've done necessary changes)

Re: May be forged?

2003-09-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 19 September 2003 at 3:20:21 +, Mark wrote: On Friday, September 19, 2003 2:44 AM, Mark wrote: Thanks to Kris I found the new sendmail. :) But a slight anomaly occurs in 8.12.10: AUTH=server, relay=my-xp-machine.net [192.168.1.3] (may be forged), authid=admin That is odd;

Re: how

2003-09-19 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 07:15, ëéòäùë ÁÎÄÒÅÅ×ÉÞ wrote: How to boot FreeBSD by Windows XP loader? I'd recommend checking out GAG. It's an excellent and easy boot manager. -- Adam McLaurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Canon s200x, how to setup?

2003-09-19 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 14:03, Alex Zivenko wrote: How to setup yhis printer on FreeBSD? Canon S200x, new model... Did you check linuxprinting.org ? -- Adam McLaurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Witch database do you recommend?

2003-09-19 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 14:54, Paredes Sánchez Martín A. wrote: Hi: I want to begin to explore the SQL world in FreeBSD. I read somewhere that PostgreSQL has more in the enterprise than MySQL, so my first choice is PostgreSQL. But I like to hear some advise an reasons on why should I use

Question about freebsd.org

2003-09-19 Thread Dan
I emailed you some time ago regarding our site and am wondering if you had time to get to it. I saw that you mention alldomains.com on your page http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/cgallery.html and am wondering if you would like to do a link exhange with my site, www.Cheap-DomainRegistration.com .

Question about icz.com.pl

2003-09-19 Thread Dan
I emailed you some time ago regarding our site and am wondering if you had time to get to it. I saw that you mention alldomains.com on your page http://freebsd.icz.com.pl/cgallery.html and am wondering if you would like to do a link exhange with my site, www.Cheap-DomainRegistration.com . We are

Re: Question about freebsd.org

2003-09-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 19 September 2003 at 20:13:15 -0700, Dan wrote: I emailed you some time ago regarding our site and am wondering if you had time to get to it. This is a mailing list, not an individual. See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for more details. I saw that you mention alldomains.com

Toshiba 490XCDT

2003-09-19 Thread Kan Cai
hi, all: I have a TOSHIBA 490XCDT and try to install freebsd 5.0 on it. Everything goes smoothly but the vga card. The X server cannot use the full screen and totally useless when I start KDE or Gnome. I use dmesg and see the following: vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem

FreeBSD Installation on AlphaStation 200 4/233

2003-09-19 Thread Danny
I am still floundering with regard to installing FreeBSD on my AlphaStation 200 4/233 box. I am at a complete loss of what to try next. I have attempted installations from both floppy and CDROM. Have have attempted multiple set command on different variables on the alpha bios but nothing works.

FreeBSD Installation on AlphaStation 200 4/233

2003-09-19 Thread Danny
I am still floundering with regard to installing FreeBSD on my AlphaStation 200 4/233 box. I am at a complete loss of what to try next. I have attempted installations from both floppy and CDROM. Have have attempted multiple set command on different variables on the alpha bios but nothing works.

Re: May be forged?

2003-09-19 Thread Mark
On Friday, 19 September 2003 at 3:20:21 +, Mark wrote: On Friday, September 19, 2003 2:44 AM, Mark wrote: Thanks to Kris I found the new sendmail. :) But a slight anomaly occurs in 8.12.10: AUTH=server, relay=my-xp-machine.net [192.168.1.3] (may be forged), authid=admin

RE: Postfix against spam

2003-09-19 Thread Mark
I just posted a short tutorial on Postfix on my website that deals with today's MS virus outbreak, take a look here: http://samba.netfirms.com/postfix/postfixrules.pdf A bit off topic, but with a rash of crap coming down my pipe, Im looking for solutions to fight spam using Postfix running on

Unable to access ssh after patching openssh

2003-09-19 Thread Edy Lie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ ssh -v -a -x [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030201, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090701f debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: ssh_connect: needpriv 0