devfs problem

2004-01-30 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hi all, I have devfs mounted at /somepint/ip/dev and ls shows: acpi cuala0 net1 stdout ttyv2 twed0s1 agpgartcuala1 net2 sysmouse ttyv3 twed0s1a apmdevctl networkttyd0 ttyv4 twed0s1b ast0 devstatnull ttyd1

Re: convert .cshrc to .bashrc

2004-01-30 Thread Robert Barten
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 12:11:54AM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: > Just google "sample .bashrc" that should yield something you can begin > with. The two aren't *that* different y'know, so don't get stressed > about it. > > +> 2) Is there a skeleton (dot.bashrc) file somewhere I can > +> downloa

Invitation to join the Computer_Chess_Discussion group

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Re: convert .cshrc to .bashrc

2004-01-30 Thread Daniela
On Friday 30 January 2004 23:32, Robert Barten wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 12:11:54AM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: > > Just google "sample .bashrc" that should yield something you can begin > > with. The two aren't *that* different y'know, so don't get stressed > > about it. > > > > +> 2) Is t

Re: portsdb -U fails

2004-01-30 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Kris Kennaway thusly... > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:51:43PM +0100, r t g tan wrote: > > However portsdb -U fails and generates a lot of > > error messages like the following: > > > >*** Error code 2: malformed entry: *** Error code 2 > >*** Error co

Re: devfs problem

2004-01-30 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:17, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Hi all, > > I have devfs mounted at /somepint/ip/dev and ls shows: > > acpi cuala0 net1 stdout ttyv2 twed0s1 > agpgartcuala1 net2 sysmouse ttyv3 twed0s1a > apmdevctl network

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Is the online viewing of mailing lists broken?

2004-01-30 Thread Randy Pratt
Hi Normally I read about a dozen freebsd mailing lists online but they appear to have stopped functioning around the 26th of January. That was followed by a brief spurt of stale postings from long ago. After that, nothing. The URL for one of the online mailing lists is: http://docs.free

Re: portsdb -U fails

2004-01-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:57:52PM -0500, parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Kris Kennaway thusly... > > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:51:43PM +0100, r t g tan wrote: > > > However portsdb -U fails and generates a lot of > > > error messages like the following: > > > > > >*

Memory leak on 5.1-RELEASE?

2004-01-30 Thread dpk
(I'm not a member of the list; please Cc me on any replies.) We're running Apache 1.3.28 on a 5.1-RELEASE machine. It's a Dell PE 2650 w/ 2GB RAM. The site contains a lot of large files (multi-megabyte) - otherwise there's nothing unusual running. The Active memory use, according to top, seems ra

RE: convert .cshrc to .bashrc

2004-01-30 Thread Colin J. Raven
+> On Friday 30 January 2004 23:32, Robert Barten wrote: +> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 12:11:54AM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: +> > > Just google "sample .bashrc" that should yield something +> you can begin +> > > with. The two aren't *that* different y'know, so don't +> get stressed +> > > ab

5.2 kernel compilation error

2004-01-30 Thread paul
after i fresh 5.2 install i cvsup using the tag releng_5_2 do a make world i then tryed doing a custom kernel and recieve the following error i also tryed make buildkernel make kernel and recieve the same error sh ../../../conf/newvers.sh GENERIC cc -c -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -Wall -Wredundant

Re: Is the online viewing of mailing lists broken?

2004-01-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
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where am I supposed to put my rc.firewall?

2004-01-30 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello all, I'm trying to add IPFW support. Where do I put my rc.firewall so that it gets read at boot time? I've tried /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc but neither seems to get read. TIA -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: where am I supposed to put my rc.firewall?

2004-01-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Eric F Crist wrote: I'm trying to add IPFW support. Where do I put my rc.firewall so that it gets read at boot time? I've tried /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc but neither seems to get read. Specify the location of your firewall script in /etc/rc.conf like so: firewall_enable='YES' firewall_type=

Re: Using bind9, instead of the default bind8

2004-01-30 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Friday 30 January 2004 20:31, stan wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:52:12PM -, Edmund Craske wrote: > > There's something wrong with the rc.conf stuff for named if you install > > the bind9 port over the base bind8 (by doing a make > > -DPORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9 install clean in dns/bind9

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-01-30 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 at

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2004-01-30 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. Inev

Re: 5.2 kernel compilation error

2004-01-30 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Saturday 31 January 2004 01:29, paul wrote: > after i fresh 5.2 install i cvsup using the tag releng_5_2 do a make > world i then tryed doing a custom kernel and recieve the following error > i also tryed make buildkernel make kernel and recieve the same error > > sh ../../../conf/newvers.sh GEN

Mysql socket security (Was: Re: i found something ugly about freeBSD)

2004-01-30 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Friday 30 January 2004 10:20, Jorn Argelo wrote: > It's up to the administrator of the server to make sure that users > can't reach the /tmp partition then. Ehm, you really don't want to advise this. A proper solution: /etc/my.cnf: [mysqld] socket = /var/run/mysql/socket Then: mkdir /var/ru

Re: where am I supposed to put my rc.firewall?

2004-01-30 Thread Eric F Crist
On Friday 30 January 2004 06:54 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Eric F Crist wrote: > > I'm trying to add IPFW support. Where do I put my rc.firewall so that it > > gets read at boot time? I've tried /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc but > > neither seems to get read. > > Specify the location of your firewa

PHP4 with GD build problem.

2004-01-30 Thread Derrick MacPherson
Freebsd 4.7, ports up to date. When I compile php4 with GD, I get this error: ext/gd/libgd/gdkanji.lo: In function `do_convert': ext/gd/libgd/gdkanji.lo(.text+0x57b): undefined reference to `iconv_open' ext/gd/libgd/gdkanji.lo(.text+0x5c8): undefined reference to `iconv' ext/gd/libgd/gdkanji.lo(.

Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-30 Thread Jeff Elkins
No responses on this yet, but I can hope :) Another issue: After changing the permissions on the /dev/pass* devices, following a reboot, they all reverted, rendering k3b useless. I'd appreciate some help... I've enabled the ATAPI/CAM driver in my kernel under freebsd 5.2 - this has give

anonymous ftp

2004-01-30 Thread Robert Storey
I'm setting up an anonymous ftp server. I understand that a user named "ftp" can log in without a password, and that "anonymous" is an alias for user ftp. What I'm wondering is if it is possible to assign other aliases for ftp, let us say user "aardvark" or "scary.daemon" whatever? How would I go a

RE: PHP4 with GD build problem.

2004-01-30 Thread Marius Kirschner
> Freebsd 4.7, ports up to date. > > When I compile php4 with GD, I get this error: > > ext/gd/libgd/gdkanji.lo: In function `do_convert': > ext/gd/libgd/gdkanji.lo(.text+0x57b): undefined reference to > `iconv_open' > ext/gd/libgd/gdkanji.lo(.text+0x5c8): undefined reference to `iconv' > ext/gd

SpamAssassin quits after upgrade

2004-01-30 Thread Mike Oliveri
Hi all, I've recently upgraded both Exim (to 4.30) and SpamAssassin (to 2.63) on my FreeBSD 5.1 box via their Ports, and suddenly I can no longer get SpamAssassin to work. If I enable spam scanning in Exim (the FreeBSD port includes the Exiscan-acl patch), none of my mail is delivered. If I com

Re: where am I supposed to put my rc.firewall?

2004-01-30 Thread Eric F Crist
On Friday 30 January 2004 09:34 pm, JJB wrote: > firewall_type="/etc/grog.firewall" > > is wrong, replace it with > > firewall_srcipt='/etc/grog.firewall ' > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric F > Crist > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004

One of your employees are very rude.

2004-01-30 Thread lorink
To whom it may concern, I just want to let the bsd team know this has been a great OS and it is meeting my needs over that of other operating systems including windows which I was a software tester of W2k back in the late 90s. While your documentation is excellent and sometimes such subjects on

Re: SpamAssassin quits after upgrade

2004-01-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Yes, it required an upgrade to Perl5.6 to fix it in my case ... in my case, it was with amavisd ... it has something to do with Sys::Hostname::hostname() in Perl5.005 :( On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Mike Oliveri wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently upgraded both Exim (to 4.30) and SpamAssassin (to 2.63) o

Re: One of your employees are very rude.

2004-01-30 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 30 January 2004 10:06 pm, lorink wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I just want to let the bsd team know this has been a great OS and it is > meeting my needs over that of other operating systems including windows > which I was a software t

Re: One of your employees are very rude.

2004-01-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:06:51PM -0800, lorink wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I just want to let the bsd team know this has been a great OS and it is > meeting my needs over that of other operating systems including windows which > I was a software tester of W2k back in the late 90s. Whi

Make Syntax

2004-01-30 Thread Rishi Chopra
Is there any difference between 'make install' and 'make install clean'? -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-30 Thread slave-mike
Jeff Elkins wrote: No responses on this yet, but I can hope :) Another issue: After changing the permissions on the /dev/pass* devices, following a reboot, they all reverted, rendering k3b useless. I'd appreciate some help... I've enabled the ATAPI/CAM driver in my kernel under freebsd

Re: Make Syntax

2004-01-30 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 30 January 2004 11:21 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: > Is there any difference between 'make install' and 'make install clean'? Yes - while Make install - installs the said app, make install clean does a cleanup and remove of the word dir withing

Re: Make Syntax

2004-01-30 Thread Chris
On Friday 30 January 2004 11:26 pm, Chris wrote: > On Friday 30 January 2004 11:21 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: > > Is there any difference between 'make install' and 'make install clean'? > > Yes - while Make install - installs the said app, make install clean does a > cleanup and remove of the word di

RE: SpamAssassin quits after upgrade

2004-01-30 Thread Derrick MacPherson
Can you post some of your exim logs to show what's failing? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Oliveri > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: SpamAssassin quits after upgrade > > Hi all, > >

RE: apache is seg faulting. why ?

2004-01-30 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, Disable mod-php and test. If you find php to be the culprit, check new php scripts running on the server. Regards SSR From: julien Beauviala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: apache is seg faulting. why ? Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:40:34 +0100 Hello, since about four days,

Re: Make Syntax

2004-01-30 Thread Rishi Chopra
Is there any way to run a 'clean' command to remove 'WORK' directories from the ports tree after the fact? Chris wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 11:26 pm, Chris wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 11:21 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: Is there any difference between 'make install' and 'make install clea

Re: Make Syntax

2004-01-30 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 30 January 2004 11:38 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: > Is there any way to run a 'clean' command to remove 'WORK' directories > from the ports tree after the fact? Sure - portsclean -CDD To find out what the flags are: man portsclean - -- Best

compiling kernel with netgraph option

2004-01-30 Thread niraj kumar
1. how can we compile kernel in freebsd 4.7 with netgraph option. 2 what is the procedure to add ur own module between the lower and the higher node of the ng_ether. 3 where i can find more about this niraj Yahoo! India Mobi

Re: compiling kernel with netgraph option

2004-01-30 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 30 January 2004 11:56 pm, niraj kumar wrote: > 1. how can we compile kernel in freebsd 4.7 with netgraph option. > > 2 what is the procedure to add ur own module between the lower and the > higher node of the ng_ether. > > 3 where i can find

looking for a well supported motherboard

2004-01-30 Thread jason
I have just had the video die on my motherboard and got a refund because newegg could not repair or replace it, so I am now in the market. I had an nforce2 which I liked and was pretty well supported. The problem was no 3d hardware acceleration which I would like to have. I have been looking

Re: X Windows

2004-01-30 Thread peter lageotakes
--- Matt Juszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > About 6 months ago, I was having trouble generating > my X config file (so > that it would run in 800x600, etc. etc.). The > command line config would > work but I would never know my video card, etc. > Then someone told me a > utility

FreeBSD IP Device Driver

2004-01-30 Thread Erik Hamilton
I'm currently working on building a simple token ring networking scheme over the parallel port (/dev/ppi0) for a graduate project. The project itself is to be used later for educational purposes, illustrating how you can build a network from the ground up through hardware developement, framing, and

Re: FreeBSD IP Device Driver

2004-01-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:34:41AM -0600, Erik Hamilton wrote: > I'm currently working on building a simple token ring networking scheme > over the parallel port (/dev/ppi0) for a graduate project. The project > itself is to be used later for educational purposes, illustrating how you > can build a

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