Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-21 Thread Terry Lambert
carmoda wrote: ~sigh~ seems like an awful lot of stuffing around for something that a user/developer should be able to access by default *in my opinion*. so far i have about 30% of functionality of my previous W2K system after several times the time required for setup. [as a workstation]

Re: Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive

2003-10-21 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Paul Murphy: I _can_ read/write to it as root, but I would really like to use it as a non-root user. Any thoughts as to why this is happening? See FreeBSD FAQ[1]. Also, in /etc/fstab you may adjust the mode, see below -m700 for msdos filesystem: /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbkey msdos

Re: How to get out of Africa?

2003-10-21 Thread ogautherot
Hi Wayne! Dear FreeBSD, During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find out to reset my time zone. Does anybody else know? I installed 5.1 from the CD. Did you try running sysinstall and redefine

Where to find info on how to clean up port database properly?

2003-10-21 Thread Doug Lee
I have got to be missing something here... I need to find pointers on how to handle the various questions from running pkgdb -F. I'm afraid I may have made a mess, because I keep getting stuck trying to clean up the database. I didn't find any advice about these questions in the FreeBSD

Hosed system

2003-10-21 Thread Shawn Ramsey
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no run-time symbol table I was messing around with libdes trying to get Diablo to compile... and am now getting this error :( Pretty much hosed the system. Any idea how I can fix this? HELP. :) Reinstalling the crypto package

Re: Hosed system

2003-10-21 Thread Shawn Ramsey
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no run-time symbol table I was messing around with libdes trying to get Diablo to compile... and am now getting this error :( Pretty much hosed the system. Any idea how I can fix this? HELP. :) Reinstalling the

RE: Dialup firewalling with FreeBSD

2003-10-21 Thread Aaron Burke
Hello, I followed this doc to install my firewall. Upon reboot I get about 12 lines more or less like this: ipfw: size mismatch (have 176 need..) It also says that dev tun0 doesn't exist. Does the tun0 device exist after boot? If so, I have faced a similar problem in the past.

RE: Hacking calendar(1)

2003-10-21 Thread Charles Howse
On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 16:13:09 -0500, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, When I get my daily calendar email, there is no explanation of which entries come from which calendars. Other than hacking the source code, is there a way to get some headers like this? Music History: Oct 20

Re: Noob FreeBSD 5.1 install question

2003-10-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:22:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A) I have reinstall freeBSD many times over and over. I work with W2k machine at work and do a Unattended install when I don't want to select the same options over and over again on multiple machines. Is there a way I can

Re: Oracle client question

2003-10-21 Thread Nicolai P Guba
On Monday 20 October 2003 20:07, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Netra running Solaris8) to FreeBSD 5.x.  The problem is that I am inextricably tied to Oracle. Oh dear. You have my most sincere sympathies ;) And no, I don't believe Linux is being considered as an actual runtime platform option. LOL

Re: How to get out of Africa?

2003-10-21 Thread Dan Welch
During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find out to reset my time zone. As root type /stand/sysinstall then select Configure from the menu and TimeZone from the next menu.

Re: Help with NV driver - More information part 2

2003-10-21 Thread Nicolai P Guba
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:49, Jason Dictos wrote: Section Monitor     Identifier  NEC2080UX     HorizSync   74.9     VertRefresh 59.9 EndSection Hmmm, are you sure this is correct? Shouldn't they rather be _ranges_ ? Just a stab in the dark... -- =NPG=

IPC with socket connection?

2003-10-21 Thread lbland
hi- I have two processes running on the same computer communicating with sockets created with AF_INET. It works extraordinarily well. I choose all the normal stuff to make the sockets, but I think if I choose some other flags, specific to IPC on the same computer, then the connection will be

What is a unit number of a device

2003-10-21 Thread rk47
What is a unit number of a device and how does it relate to the minor number of the device. Is there a generic relationship or dowes it differ between devives. TIA Riaan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Murphy
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:15:58 +0200 Jean-Baptiste Quenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Paul Murphy: I _can_ read/write to it as root, but I would really like to use it as a non-root user. Any thoughts as to why this is happening? See FreeBSD FAQ[1]. Also, in /etc/fstab you may

Re: Oracle client question

2003-10-21 Thread Michael L. Squires
Here's the real question: Is anyone out there linking CLIENT applications that successfully connect to a separate Oracle server? Procedures for installing Oracle 9i under FreeBSD 5.X were posted to the freebsd-databases mailing list recently. Since the server install also installs client

Recommendation for a live streamer that can take audio input

2003-10-21 Thread srenna
Hello BSDers, Wanted to know if anyone out there had a recommendation for a good audio streaming program. I had used the shoutcast DSP plugin and shoutcast executable server from shoutcast previously on 4.8, but I was never able to get it to work on 5.0. Has anyone set anything like this up on

Re: Wireless setups

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 19 Oct 2003 21:53:15 -0400 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi There, I have recently installed 4.8R on my IBM Thinkpad notebook which fortunately includes a wireless NIC. The nic is

Re: question for portupgrade

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael Lee(HINET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, After cvsupping the port tree ( originally installed by FreeBSD 5.1 Release CD ), I tried to do a portupgrade -acCv last night. Everything seems to be upgraded fine except for Apache. The originally installed apache is apache-1.3.27_4.

Re: mplayer + sound problem

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
please. top-post, Don't Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had a big problem yesterday with the PC. Don't want to get into that but I had to reinstall.. Now that I did a reinstall I can play the video in mplayer but no sound. For example I am tryin to play the new IBM/Linux commercial

Problems with /usr/libexec/save-entropy

2003-10-21 Thread Robert Small
Ok, I'm an idiot! I MUST have done something to my system yesterday. It's been running fine, and around 3:00pm yesterday, I started receiving emails from Cron /usr/local/save-entropy saying: *User: not found I've tried everything, and looking into everything. I've checked my master.passwd and

Re: restoring DOS partition from a tar file

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kent Hauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to backup a DOS partition (bootable) restore it from a tar file? I recently had a disk failure used dump/restore on FreeBSD partitions made a tar dump of the DOS one. After newfs_msdos tar x, the partition is not bootable. Is there a

console connectivity question.

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Hogan
I have installed FreeBSD v4.8 on an Intel system that had a monitor and a keyboard attached at the time of install. I would now like to remove the monitor and keyboard and have a headless unit however I can't seem to make the serial port work as a console. Can't someone direct me to where to

Re: Problems with /usr/libexec/save-entropy

2003-10-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:10:55AM -0500, Robert Small typed: Ok, I'm an idiot! I MUST have done something to my system yesterday. It's been running fine, and around 3:00pm yesterday, I started receiving emails from Cron /usr/local/save-entropy saying: *User: not found Look for the string

Re: console connectivity question.

2003-10-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:11:53AM -0600, Tim Hogan typed: I have installed FreeBSD v4.8 on an Intel system that had a monitor and a keyboard attached at the time of install. I would now like to remove the monitor and keyboard and have a headless unit however I can't seem to make the

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:27:42AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: I would like to know where pkg_add keeps its configuration file? I mean when I execute the command 'pkg_add -r bzip2' how does it know that it needs to fetch it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/./packages-4-stable/ as opposed to

cvsuping 5.x source

2003-10-21 Thread Lute Mullenix
Hi I have been trying to use cvsup to update my 5.1 install, but something is not working right on this end. I have read the section in the handbook several times but still can't get it to work. This is the supfile that I am using with cvsup: # *default host=cvsup9.FreeBSD.org *default

Re: console connectivity question.

2003-10-21 Thread Brendan Kelliher
Tim, I usually add -h to /boot.config and edit the ttyd0 line in /etc/ttys to look something like: ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 vt100 on secure Also see the FreeBSD handbook entry on this subject:

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:27:42AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: I would like to know where pkg_add keeps its configuration file? I mean when I execute the command 'pkg_add -r bzip2' how does it know that it needs to fetch it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/./packages-4-stable/ as opposed to

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
The reason I am asking all these questions is that I am exploring the possibility of of writing an apt-get like application for FreeBSD (call it apt-pkg). Apt-get was written to help out dpkg in Debian. pkg_add has a lot more features than dpkg but not the update/upgrade features of apt-get. So

Re: IPFW Antics

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tom Servo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Each time that I see the request dialog come up in my IRC client the request times out because I think that my gateway is dropping the request packets instead of forwarding them to my IRC machine. I know that ircd usually runs on port 6667 so I am guessing

log_in_vain trouble

2003-10-21 Thread Kenton Brede
I've got two very similar systems, the one in question - FreeBSD janis 4.8-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 #0: Thu Oct 16 09:58:29 CDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM i386 I can't seem to get log_in_vain to work. I've added log_in_vain=YES to rc.conf. I went so far as

Re: [freebsd-questions] root passwd change

2003-10-21 Thread Eric Pogroski
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:55:54 -0400 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Pogroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:37:19 + DanB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there other way to change the root password that been lost without shutting down the computer.

Re: VXA-2 Packet Drive

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jeronimo Romero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know if FreeBSD supports Exabyte VXA-2 Packet Drives?? We are interested in purchasing one but i didn't see it in the hardware compatibility list and we wanted to make sure. I believe those devices are SCSI, in which case they should work

USB and routing...

2003-10-21 Thread Henrik W Lund
...but not necessarily in relation to one another. ;-) This is my second go at FreeBSD, and it's my umpteenth one with UNIXes in general. Having done my share of Linux (with one recent battle being setting up a web/mail/NFS/NIS/Samba server for a school project. *puh* I thought I knew what

Re: console connectivity question.

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Hogan
Thnaks to all who replied. Tim http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setu p.html - Original Message - From: Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:20 PM Subject:

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Q
You might want to look at the portupgrade tool in the ports collection. It supports a '-P' flag that tells it to use packages instead of compiling from source. It does an excellent job of handling dependencies (if used correctly), and is very easy to use. It may be better to create a friendly

Re: USB and routing...

2003-10-21 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 17:26, Henrik W Lund wrote: ...but not necessarily in relation to one another. ;-) This is my second go at FreeBSD, and it's my umpteenth one with UNIXes in general. Having done my share of Linux (with one recent battle being setting up a web/mail/NFS/NIS/Samba

SCSI Host Adapter recommendation

2003-10-21 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I am building a department level server and am going to be running Freebsd Samba on it instead of the windows headache. The machine is going to have a 12/24GB Dat tape drive, and so I'm looking to find an inexpensive, but works straight out of the box with FreeBSD scsi host adapter.

Re: SCSI Host Adapter recommendation

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Hovey
I used to go with adeptecs, but now use tekrams - they seem faster. On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am building a department level server and am going to be running Freebsd Samba on it instead of the windows headache. The machine is going to have a 12/24GB Dat tape

gettext compile problem

2003-10-21 Thread Aaron Sloan
Hello viewers. Can someone talk me through on what to look for so I can start solving these myself.. Information: 4.8 stable / gettext-0.12.1 I have tried removing from distfiles and remaking and reinstall.. I can follow some of what is going on here, but can you give me some detail? What is my

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:27:42AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: I would like to know where pkg_add keeps its configuration file? I mean when I execute the command 'pkg_add -r bzip2' how does it know that it needs to fetch it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/./packages-4-stable/ as opposed to

Re: Hosed system

2003-10-21 Thread Shawn Ramsey
Operating system: i386-pc-freebsd4.8 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no run-time symbol table /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no run-time symbol table This system (FreeBSD-elf) is not supported. See file

RE: Help with NV driver - More information part 2

2003-10-21 Thread Jason Dictos
Well, I've tried ranges too with the same results -Jason -Original Message- From: Nicolai P Guba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:49, Jason Dictos wrote: Section Monitor     Identifier  

Re: unable to use multiple exports for mountd

2003-10-21 Thread Charles Swiger
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 11:21 AM, Jason Cribbins wrote: I have been dealing with this problem for many years and never really found a reasonable solution or explanation and now it has come to a point where I can no longer find work arounds to make it work the way I need it. How do I

Re: SCSI Host Adapter recommendation

2003-10-21 Thread Marc Wiz
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:30:15AM -0400, Steve Hovey wrote: I used to go with adeptecs, but now use tekrams - they seem faster. On another mailing the general opinion is that Adaptec host adapters are overpriced. I am using a LSI Logic U160 adapter in my system. Marc -- Marc Wiz [EMAIL

Re: Help with NV driver - More information part 2

2003-10-21 Thread Nicolai P Guba
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 17:30, Jason Dictos wrote: Well, I've tried ranges too with the same results I'd suggest you leave the ranges in for starters... then what does the XServer's log file say? Logging has been vastly improved in XFree over the years... -- =NPG=

Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
Hi, I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things set up to see my website on the Internet. I know people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually am. :-) My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and I'm serving on port 8080. I can bring up the site no problem on my LAN-

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
Hi Viktor, See comments below. --- Viktor Lazlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Micke P wrote: Hi, I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things set up to see my website on the Internet. I know people like to claim to be newbies, but I

Re: Postfix smtp connect problem

2003-10-21 Thread Sven Pfeifer
Hi, dhull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD stable (4.9 pre) I installed Postfix from ports. If I log onto the server I can send mail using the quot;mailquot; command. If I try an external mail client it times out. For some reasion postfix is not allowing connections

Re: Noob FreeBSD 5.1 install question

2003-10-21 Thread whizkid
Well, there's no law that says you *have* to use the ports system, but it's pretty strange not to take advantage of something so good... There are pre-compiled packages available, but these generally don't track the latest upstream updates to the ported software very efficiently. The ports

Re: Re: Postfix smtp connect problem

2003-10-21 Thread dhull
I think I found the problem. It had something to do with the quot;aliasesquot; file. I noticed this when I ran quot;postfix startquot; at the command line. Before that I was doing everything from webmin. Webmin is nice but in this case it didn't give me any error messages. Not good.

vncserver, rc.local, and blackbox problem

2003-10-21 Thread Scott I. Remick
Ok, for today's edition of Show Scott What Stupid Thing He Missed... Trying to set up a dedicated VNC/ethereal server, so I'm trying to have vncserver run from rc.local (using su to run it as a user and not root). Ran into some path issues to make vncserver happy, which I resolved, but for some

RE: Help with NV driver - More information part 2 - SOLVED

2003-10-21 Thread Jason Dictos
Hi All, After setting the sysctl machdep.disable_mtrrs=1 in loader.conf I was able to re-use the nvidia.ko module without it hosing my server! Thanks, -Jason -Original Message- From: Jason Dictos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:30 AM To: 'Nicolai P

natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Michelle
i am running freebsd 4.6.2. i have 2 nic cards on the machine, one which is the external interface and connects to a router which connects to dsl. the other is internal interface for our subnet. i have enabled natd on the machine, but still cannot get packets out when on the subnet. i can

RE: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Tyler McGeorge
The next question on my mind would be whether or not you've established routes? `man route` Hope it helps, Tyler McGeorge ...to the rescue... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michelle Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: ATA mirroring solution required

2003-10-21 Thread Tyler McGeorge
Well, if you're willing to spend some money, getting a hardware RAID1 2-channel IDE controller would be the way to go. As a cheaper alternative, I, personally, would change the drive configuration so that each channel had a HDD master and a CDROM slave. Hope this helps, Tyler McGeorge ...to the

Equal bandwidth sharing by all hosts using dummynet

2003-10-21 Thread Alhagie Puye
Hi all, First of all, I have spent a lot of time reading up on it. Anyway, I live in a shared accomodation with 2 roommates and a landlord and we share a cable internet connection. It is 2Mbit/400Kbit connection. Sometimes when one of us is downloading a song through Kazaa or a new Linux or

pppoe for 5.1 doesn't work IAW handbook or rc.conf options

2003-10-21 Thread John Estess
The title just about says it all. The handbook, rc.conf, and the ppp man page don't jive and no single one them works. This is really annoying because I had this working with DSL some time ago, but I can't get it going with my cable modem (Redhat and XP worked). Could someone please post the REAL

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
--- Paul Everlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micke P wrote: My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and I'm serving on port 8080. I can bring up the site no problem on my LAN- http://192.168.254.25:8080/, but not outside. My ISP is earthlink and it's a dynamic IP account.

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I opened the port on my (hardware) router box, not the FreeBSD firewall. Internet - ISP - Modem - Router - FreeBSD box. Hopefully that's all I need to do to forward the port 8080 packets. Do I need to configure the FreeBSD firewall settings as well to

Re: Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Murphy
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:26:17 +0200 Jean-Baptiste Quenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Paul Murphy: Jean-Baptiste Quenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Paul Murphy: I _can_ read/write to it as root, but I would really like to use it as a non-root user. Any thoughts as to why

/dist directory missing on 5.1 mfsroot disk??

2003-10-21 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, I am having a peculiar problem with installing 5.1, has anyone successfully used the floppies (made from the ISO image) to boot and install from a CD or DOS partion? When I try I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: No such file or directory (2) My cd rom appears to

Re: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Alhagie Puye
Are you using ipfw or ipfilter? --- Michelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am not aware of a natd.conf file. i edited the rc.conf file to enable natd and specify the interface. the firewall rule i am using for natd is: add divert natd all from any to any via fxp0. On Tuesday, October

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Murphy
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Micke P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I opened the port on my (hardware) router box, not the FreeBSD firewall. Internet - ISP - Modem - Router - FreeBSD box. Hopefully that's all I need to do to forward the port

Re: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Michelle
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 04:08 PM, Alhagie Puye wrote: Are you using ipfw or ipfilter? ipfw --- Michelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am not aware of a natd.conf file. i edited the rc.conf file to enable natd and specify the interface. the firewall rule i am using for natd is: add

Re: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Alhagie Puye
Check this out: http://freebsd.peon.net/tutorials/12/ Cheers, Alhagie --- Michelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 04:08 PM, Alhagie Puye wrote: Are you using ipfw or ipfilter? ipfw --- Michelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am not aware of a natd.conf

make buildworld error

2003-10-21 Thread Grzegorz Neon
Hello, I installed 4.8 yesterday and i need to upgrade it but I'm getting this error when i try to do make buildworld: === usr.sbin/boot0cfg cc -O -pipe -march=k6 -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing- prototypes -W pointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wwrite- strings -

errors with orb drive

2003-10-21 Thread David Bear
I have a castlewood 2.2 gig orb drive in my system. Today, it gave me the follow error: ad1: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ad1 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0) trying PIO mode ad1: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. ad0: DMA limited

Freebsd Amanda?

2003-10-21 Thread DanB
How can you tell if Amanda backup is running and where it is sending the backups to? Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

portupgrade problems, please help

2003-10-21 Thread ivan georgiev
Hello, I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get: -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin': failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:918:in `tsort_build' from

RE: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
have you tried this reading this? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-natd.html dont forget to set the gateway IP address of your network clients to the IP address of your FreeBSD nat server. hope this helps...

My sound card can't work

2003-10-21 Thread stevens root
Hi! I have installed FreeBSD 5.1 release+KDE 3.1,my sound card is Creative SB Vibra 128,I haved added device pcm to kernel and rebuided it,but when I reboot my computer,the system can't initilize my card,I typedmesg|grep pcm without output,when I start kde, the system noticed me that no /dev/dsp

Re: Vinum Offset for Swap: 265 or 281?

2003-10-21 Thread rtjohan
So, my understanding of the bsdlabel process seemed correct: 1) modify swap partition size to be 281 less than what sysinstall created the partition as 2) have the swap offset at 281 instead of 0 3) add vinum partition set to the size of c minus 16 4) have vinum partition offset at 16 I

FreeBSD files' heads

2003-10-21 Thread CBuH.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, all. I've got a question (easier -- ``interesting in'') -- why all FreeBSD files' heads starts with this: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/shells,v 1.3.2.1 2000/07/10 08:47:17 obrien Exp $ - - Why there are buks (am I pronounce right ? :-) ``$'' -- on

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-21 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:37 am, Nicole wrote: An example of how spliting BSD into BSD server and BSD desktop could be a benefit. Hrmmm. /stand/sysinstall /stand/desktopinstall Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 4478 ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne

Regarding spam

2003-10-21 Thread jason dictos
Hi All, I run my own mailsever, and I just wanna know its possible for someone to send an email to my mail box, but yet have no one specified in the TO or CC fields. I guess those fields are probably optional, but how can I adjust my mailserver to reject messages sent to someones mailbox

toshiba satellite (small screen)

2003-10-21 Thread Vitor Py
Sorry, My LCD appears in 640x480, and I can't change it. Can somebody help me? Thanks in advance, Vitor. %uname -a FreeBSD sanjuro 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #8: Tue Oct 21 22:19:49 BRST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/SANJURO i386 %X -version XFree86 Version 4.2.1

Re: portupgrade problems, please help

2003-10-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 05:48 pm, ivan georgiev wrote: I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get: -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin': failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) from

Re: portupgrade problems, please help

2003-10-21 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 09:02 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 05:48 pm, ivan georgiev wrote: I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get: -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin': failed to

Re: Regarding spam

2003-10-21 Thread Gary
Hi Jason, On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:44:13 -0700 GMT (10/21/2003, 8:44 AM +0500 GMT my time), jason dictos wrote: jI run my own mailsever, and I just wanna know its possible for someone to j send an email to my mail box, but yet have no one specified in the TO or CC j fields. I guess those

Re: restoring DOS partition from a tar file

2003-10-21 Thread Dan Strick
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Kent Hauser wrote: Is it possible to backup a DOS partition (bootable) restore it from a tar file? I recently had a disk failure used dump/restore on FreeBSD partitions made a tar dump of the DOS one. After newfs_msdos tar x, the partition is not bootable. Is there

gaim and MSN

2003-10-21 Thread Kan Cai
Hi, All: I am installing gaim 0.71. Everything goes fine, but it seems that there is some problem with MSN lib. Whe I start it, I got plug-in error on finding MSN lib. I didn't install it actually, did I? I have installed Mozilla 1.4, but it seems that it is not able to make the SSL

Re: Regarding spam

2003-10-21 Thread jason dictos
Hey Gary, Before you or anyone else on this lists continues to waste time with a n00b like me, I'm going to first educate myself by reading /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README (paying special attention to ANTI-SPAM CONFIGURATION) :P Thanks! -Jason On Tuesday 21 October 2003 19:10, Gary wrote: Hi

Re: portupgrade problems, please help

2003-10-21 Thread ivan georgiev
I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get: -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin': failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:918:in

Re: FreeBSD files' heads

2003-10-21 Thread Q
These are RCS tags used to identify the revision of the file in question, along with who commited the change and when. RCS is used by the FreeBSD community (in the form of CVS) to manage changes to the source code, and RCS in turn uses '$' to surround special identifiers that get expanded when

RE: Regarding spam

2003-10-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yes they can send using the BCC field. or put your email in a mailing-list or use mail forwarding and other sort of stuff :) You can try using Spamassassin. if you are using postfix you can try this. :) http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200309/postfix-spamassassin.html hope this helps...

Re: question for portupgrade

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Lee(HINET)
- Original Message - From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Lee(HINET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:03 PM Subject: Re: question for portupgrade Michael Lee(HINET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, After cvsupping the port

RE: Regarding spam

2003-10-21 Thread Robert Huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can try using Spamassassin. if you are using postfix you can try this. :) http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200309/postfix-spamassassin.html SpamAssassin also works with Sendmail; see the mail/spamass-milter port for more information.

Re: A couple of ATI video questions

2003-10-21 Thread David Lodeiro
Hi, I have a radeon 8500 , and I have DRI working. Can you paste a copy of your XF86Config in, as well as the log? and dmesg while your at it. I moght be able to help. Thanks David Hi again. I've got a few more questions, this time about ATI Mach64/Rage video support. Under Linux

Re: FreeBSD 4.8 v/s 5.1

2003-10-21 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
mkisofs --- for creating iso's burncd --- for ATAPI CDRW cdrecord --- for SCSI CDRW, and SCSI emulation of ATAPI CDRW -- With Best Regards, Shantanoo Mahajan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

xlock + xautolock question

2003-10-21 Thread Bryan Cassidy
I've read through the man page for xlockmore and xautolock and cant figure out (must be over looking it or something) but can't figure out how to setup a .rc file for the two and how to setup xlockmore to interact with xautolock.. So any help would be apprecited even if its from the man page it's

Re: My sound card can't work

2003-10-21 Thread Bryan Cassidy
Tried this $su password: #cd /dev #sh MAKEDEV snd0 reboot. I know FreeBSD 5.x is suppose to add those devices in automatically but I had the same problem in FreeBSD 5.1 when i used it.. HTH On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:54:19 +0800 (CST) stevens root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have

Re: mplayer + sound problem

2003-10-21 Thread Bryan Cassidy
I've already fixed the problem. Thanks anyways. On 21 Oct 2003 09:05:08 -0400 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please. top-post, Don't Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had a big problem yesterday with the PC. Don't want to get into that but I had to reinstall.. Now that

Re: pppoe for 5.1 doesn't work IAW handbook or rc.conf options

2003-10-21 Thread Don Whitteker
I found this website in my quest to get my DSL modem working...I found it very informative. It doesn't mention anything about DHCP but it works extremely well with mine(mine uses DHCP too...go figure) Good luck!!! http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/pppoe/ DonW --- John Estess [EMAIL

Re: portupgrade problems, please help

2003-10-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 07:50 pm, ivan georgiev wrote: I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get: -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin': failed to convert nil into String

Re: Vinum Offset for Swap: 265 or 281?

2003-10-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 October 2003 at 18:16:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 0:42:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sanity check whether the mirrored vinum root drive is setup correctly. Going to setup two more machines the same way, so