Re: setting autoconf version?

2004-02-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:19:16AM -0500, Louis Munro wrote: > Hello all of you, > I'm installing KDE 3.2 from ports and I get this (see below). > It seems to say that I don't have the right version of autoconf, but I just > installed all of them from ports (2.53_1 & 2.57_1) and that doesn't make a

RE: setting autoconf version?

2004-02-06 Thread JJB
I believe auto.conf comes with the ports-base category. Did you cvsup download it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis Munro Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 12:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: setting autoconf version? Hello all of y

Re: a.out

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 07), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > What's the last version that supported the a.out format? Is it 3.5? If by support you mean the ability to execute a.out binaries, 5.2 runs old a.out binaries just fine if you've installed the compat22 and/or compat3x packages. I think 4.0 w

RE: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted

2004-02-06 Thread JJB
What did you use to install from? Where did you get it from? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danny Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 12:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted Just an update: -OS is installe

Re: Accessing Windows files from FreeBSD

2004-02-06 Thread Luke Johannsen
On Feb 7, 2004, at 12:24 AM, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: Hi, I would like to access files that exist in a Windows partition on the same machine from FreeBSD 4.9. What's the Windows partition formatted in? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.fre

RE: Routing 4 network cards

2004-02-06 Thread Roland Wells
> "Sjaak Nabuurs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Wireless USERS > Wireless USERS > > > >W W W W W W W > W W W W W > > |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| > |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| > > |-| |-| |-| |-| |-|

Accessing Windows files from FreeBSD

2004-02-06 Thread Mazen S. Alzogbi
Hi, I would like to access files that exist in a Windows partition on the same machine from FreeBSD 4.9. I appreciate your help in showing me the way to do that. Cheers, Mazen S. Alzogbi www.MazenAlzogbi.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://

Re: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted

2004-02-06 Thread Danny
Just an update: -OS is installed, this is not during installation. In the BIOS: -Boot virus detection is disabled -Power Management/APM is now disabled -Did not see any PNP settings Any ideas now? - Original Message - From: "Danny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thurs

esound - esd keeps terminating

2004-02-06 Thread Douglas A. Maske
Why does esd terminate everytime I exit an audio program? I want to use ayttm and xmms but have to keep restarting esd... Thanks, Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

a.out

2004-02-06 Thread Ruchw3
What's the last version that supported the a.out format? Is it 3.5? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

setting autoconf version?

2004-02-06 Thread Louis Munro
Hello all of you, I'm installing KDE 3.2 from ports and I get this (see below). It seems to say that I don't have the right version of autoconf, but I just installed all of them from ports (2.53_1 & 2.57_1) and that doesn't make any difference. I still get the same error message. How do I tell ma

Re: Portupgrade crash

2004-02-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:23:58PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > My machine just suffered a power-failure 6 hrs into a portupgrade -a > > I restarted it after a pkgdb -F > > Did I do the right thing? Yep, that should be pretty safe (assuming e.g. fsck didn't discover that the power failure caused

Re: 5-Button Trackball

2004-02-06 Thread Steve D
On Friday 06 February 2004 07:24 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I'm using a 5-button Microsoft Trackball/Explorer (a gift) that > functions perfectly under Debian Unstable/KDE3.1 > [...] > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol""auto

Re: Portupgrade of KDE-3.1.4 to KDE-3.2.0 (5.2.1-RC)

2004-02-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 08:29:29PM -0600, Chris wrote: > Ok - I have been away for a spell - perhaps someone can led insight. > Granted, I have 5.2.1-RC installed, and granted I do a weekly cvsup of the > ports then a portupgrade. > > But what the hell-o is up with the replacement of KDE-3.1.4 w

[OT] where to question about gnome?

2004-02-06 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. This is really a dump question, but all the mailing lists on gnome.org seems pretty cold. There are only several posts each month on lists like gnome-freebsd and gnome-2-list. Where do people go to when they want to discuss about gnome? Thank you. __

RE: 5.1 & telnet

2004-02-06 Thread JJB
To be more clear on that last comment, you can not use 'root' from the remote telnet, or ssh client as the login id on the gateway. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Malcolm Kay Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EM

RE: 5.1 & telnet

2004-02-06 Thread JJB
To get native telnet working on your gateway box, Besides un-commenting the telnet tcp6 statement in /etc/inetd.conf, you also have to enable inetd in /etc/rc.conf, by adding this statement inetd_enable="YES" # Run super server network daemon dispatcher. Reboot to activate or issue ki

Re: 5.1 & telnet

2004-02-06 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 02:40, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings, > I have tried to get putty configured to access my 5.1 release box using > SSH. No joy, and I'm quite tired of trying. > > I tried to enable telnet on my 5.1 box. Uncommented inetd.conf line, and > verified that the services line was in p

RE: firewall rule(s) for ports and packages

2004-02-06 Thread JJB
The cvsup process uses port 5999 add this rule to # Allow out FBSD (make install & CVSUP) functions # Basically give user root "GOD" privileges. allow tcp from me to any out via $pif setup keep-state uid root $pif = interface facing the public internet -Original Message- From: [EM

Portupgrade crash

2004-02-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
My machine just suffered a power-failure 6 hrs into a portupgrade -a I restarted it after a pkgdb -F Did I do the right thing? Jeff Elkins ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: 5-Button Trackball

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 06), Jeff Elkins said: > I'm using a 5-button Microsoft Trackball/Explorer (a gift) that > functions perfectly under Debian Unstable/KDE3.1 > > I copied the Debian X settings to my BSD XFree86 config file, which > added ZAxis and Buttons settings: > > Section "InputDevice

Re: Howto umount a cdrom as non-root?

2004-02-06 Thread Mark Weinem
Hi Edd! Don't forget to make the user a member of wheel group. Greetings, Mark Weinem ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Portupgrade of KDE-3.1.4 to KDE-3.2.0 (5.2.1-RC)

2004-02-06 Thread Chris
Ok - I have been away for a spell - perhaps someone can led insight. Granted, I have 5.2.1-RC installed, and granted I do a weekly cvsup of the ports then a portupgrade. But what the hell-o is up with the replacement of KDE-3.1.4 with KDE-3.2.0??? This just totally whacked my system. I guess

5-Button Trackball

2004-02-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
Howdy List, I'm using a 5-button Microsoft Trackball/Explorer (a gift) that functions perfectly under Debian Unstable/KDE3.1 I copied the Debian X settings to my BSD XFree86 config file, which added ZAxis and Buttons settings: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "m

Re: Dlink dwlg520 netgear WG311

2004-02-06 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 05:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a little problem! > > I have to configure my dlink dwl g520 and netgear WG311 card for Freebsd in > ad hoc mode, but it doesn't. > > I have installed Freebsd 5.2 on two machines. > On the first i have typed : > > ifconfig ath0 inet

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2004-02-06 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

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-02-06 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

Keyboard not detected on install.

2004-02-06 Thread David Murray
I have an old IBM PS-2 keyboard. When trying to load FreeBSD (any version) from CD there is no response to keyboard actions. I get to where I'm asked what I want to do by using the arrow keys and there is no response. I try to exit and try again and there is no response. I can't get a

programming help - dlopen() segmentation fault

2004-02-06 Thread Joe Lewis
G'Day, ladies and gents; I've got a program that I am trying to play around with. Once I've added dlopen() using --export-dynamic, every time I try to run the program, I get a segmentation fault. It always occurs on the same line of code : modules = new_module_pointer; I can comment that

help with my Xfree (RU)

2004-02-06 Thread Abadon33
my videocard not recognized with (video: ASUS agp 3dp-v3000) X -probeonly and i can't load X because my monitor is old(COMPAL) & worcks only in 640*480*65536 when i try to load X he became not sync no image etc but in WIN98 ALL is OK what can i do Thanks _

help with my Xfree (RU)

2004-02-06 Thread Abadon33
my videocard not recognized with X -probeonly and i can't load X because my monitor is old(COMPAL) & worcks only in 640*480*65536 when i try to load X he became not sync no image etc what can i do Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lis

Problems upgrading from 4.1.1 to 4_9_RELENG

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Schumacher
Hello- I'm trying to upgrade from 4.1.1 via sources to the 4_9_RELENG codebase, and I'm getting some compile errors. Any help in figuring out how to deal with these would be greatly appreciated. Here's the output: $ make buildworld [ ...clipped a bunch of stuff that worked... ] ===> usr.bin/yac

pop3 and pam

2004-02-06 Thread john
The USER command did not succeed. Mail server responded: Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command ** trying to set up pop3 to work with 5.2 and keep getting the above messages via netscape email (unix or pc) can someone share some help i think its the pam that is causing it i can internal

Re: newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles

2004-02-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 06 February 2004 5:28 pm, Jez Hancock wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:21:22PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than > > insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them > > around? > > No, you can safely

Re: newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles

2004-02-06 Thread Julien Gabel
>> I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than >> insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep >> them around? > No, you can safely delete anything in /usr/ports/distfiles or remove > and recreate the directory. It just means that if you decide to > rei

Re: newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles

2004-02-06 Thread Jez Hancock
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:21:22PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than insurance > in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them around? No, you can safely delete anything in /usr/ports/distfiles or remove and recreate the

Re: how to lock kernel buffers in mem.

2004-02-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 09:57:16AM -0700, hal wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 4.7 with 512M of memory. > > How do I lock kernel buffers in memory? I am thinking > specifically of the disk cache buffers. Why do you think you want to? Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: using port collection problem (URGENT HELP NEEDED PLZ)

2004-02-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:40:33PM +0100, Didier WIROTH wrote: > As we use a proxy for "http" connections I've also added this to make.conf: > FETCH_ENV=HTTP_PROXY=http://ourproxy:8080 > Fetch was also trying to use the proxy for ftp connections?! > > Here is the output of my entire make.conf > C

newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles

2004-02-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them around? My BSD system is tight for space and will likely remain that way for a while. Thanks, Jeff Elkins ___

Re: key mapping...

2004-02-06 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:47:01PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: > Can someone refresh my memory as to the app that will tell me the code for > each key I press? It was posted here, for me, about 6-8 months ago and I > can't find it in the archives. > > TIA > -- > Eric F Crist xev(1) Nathan --

Re: mount a smb filesystem

2004-02-06 Thread HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER
Try: //servername/sharename /mountdirectory smbfs username=windowsuserename,password=windowspassword 0 0 HTH, Christopher Hollow Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, If you put a line like: //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/misc /test smbfs ro,noauto 0 0 in /etc/fstab, is there a way to sp

Re: sem_open(3) and FBSD 5.2 : what the point ?

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 06), Eric Jacoboni said: > Here's a sample code: > > #include ... >dis_ping = sem_open("/ping.sem", O_CREAT, 0777, 1); ... > > On FBSD 5.2, gcc first complains it doesn't know about O_CREAT... > That's not what the sem_open() manpage claims but, ok, let's include > .

Re: Problem upgrading KDE (Problem Solved)

2004-02-06 Thread Dragoncrest
Ok, I found a solution and a work around for this. I was sweating bullets the whole time because I wasn't sure this was gonna work and I could just picture myself horking my KDE install because of this. Ok, here's what I did. Since kdelibs wouldn't install so long as kdebase was installed, I sim

sem_open(3) and FBSD 5.2 : what the point ?

2004-02-06 Thread Eric Jacoboni
Hi, Here's a sample code: #include #include int main(void) { sem_t *dis_ping, *dis_pong; dis_ping = sem_open("/ping.sem", O_CREAT, 0777, 1); dis_pong = sem_open("/pong.sem", O_CREAT, 0777, 0); for(;;) { sem_wait(dis_ping); puts("Ping..."); sem_post(dis_pong); }

mount a smb filesystem

2004-02-06 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, If you put a line like: //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/misc /test smbfs ro,noauto 0 0 in /etc/fstab, is there a way to specify the pasword so that when you mount the filesystem, it doesn't prompt for the password ? I see that mount_smbfs uses .nsmbrc, but that has no effec

Umax astra 1220p

2004-02-06 Thread Rumko
i have fbsd 4.9-release and installed sane-backends and sane-frontends from ports, then i edited the dll.conf and deleted the "#" in front of umax_pp and edited the umax_pp.conf (changed the device to various values including /dev/ppi0 /dev/lpt0 auto) ... after that i ran "scanimage -L" but it

Re: desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread greg
Make yourself part of the wheel group. That should solve a lot of your problems. On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 05:30, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi all, > I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and > it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd >

Re: Routing 4 network cards

2004-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Sjaak Nabuurs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wireless USERS Wireless USERS > >W W W W W W W W W W W W > |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| >

Re: cvsup ports question Freebsd 5.2

2004-02-06 Thread jens
On Friday 06 February 2004 21:24, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Ok thanks > jens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi folks, > > I have build the ports tree using the default ports-sup file tag > > tag=. > > > > I want to understand why my ports tree is wiped off when i change the tag > > value to > > RELE

Re: Mail Delivery within Local Domain Takes Hours

2004-02-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Maxine Simpson wrote: [ ... ] 3. Mail between users in our local domain ([EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) takes ~4 hours to be delivered. (???) Any thoughts on what might be causing this? Several, although you should look at /var/log/maillog and see what's really going on. :-)

Re: cvsup ports question Freebsd 5.2

2004-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
jens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > I have build the ports tree using the default ports-sup file tag > tag=. > > I want to understand why my ports tree is wiped off when i change the tag > value to > RELENG_5_2_0_RELEASE > or > RELENG_5 > or > RELENG_5_2 Quoted from some of the e

key mapping...

2004-02-06 Thread Eric F Crist
Can someone refresh my memory as to the app that will tell me the code for each key I press? It was posted here, for me, about 6-8 months ago and I can't find it in the archives. TIA -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

atacontrol software raid

2004-02-06 Thread dave
Hello, Trying to help a friend set up a system for raid. He's got two 4 gb drives he'd like to mirror. And we were thinking atacontrol, googled for a site on this, and didn't find anything. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

Re: Procmail recipe not working with mutt

2004-02-06 Thread Jez Hancock
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 06:33:32PM -0600, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > Pretty much all my mailing list filters work but the FreeBSD Security > Advisory one goes into =Default for some reason. All mail from my dad > which is Bob_Cassidy, goes into =Default as well as mail from Richard > and Jim. They all

Fiber card support.

2004-02-06 Thread Micheal Patterson
Has anyone been able to get a AT-2700FTX fiber card to work in 4.9 by chance? I'm in the need of a fiber card but many of the ones listed in the hardware guide are at end of life and I'd rather not purchase eol unless necessary. Thanks. -- Micheal Patterson TSG Network Administration 405-917-06

Apache2 mod_auth_ldap (FreeBSD-specific problem?)

2004-02-06 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I've got a working Apache2 server that I've just recompiled to support mod_auth_ldap. The ldap stuff all works great (I'm using it via Samba). However, when I set up LDAP for authentication in my .htaccess file: AuthLDAPURL ldap://yellow.lewiz.org/ou=People,dc=lewiz,dc=org?uid require use

RE: atacontrol weirdness: RAID 1 array is shown to be degraded but bothdisks are

2004-02-06 Thread Lord Sith
From: Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: atacontrol weirdness: RAID 1 array is shown to be degraded but bothdisks are up Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:30:29 +0100 The 4.9 box has got onboard Promise RAID w

Re: Mail Delivery within Local Domain Takes Hours

2004-02-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Maxine Simpson wrote: Hello, This is my first posthere goes... My mail server is a FreeBSD box running sendmail and cucipop. Cucipop is doing its authentication with Radius. I realize this is 'bare bones' information (and would happily supply more) - but my situation is thi

Re: cvsup ports question Freebsd 5.2

2004-02-06 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 06 February 2004 10:32 am, jens wrote: > Hi folks, > I have build the ports tree using the default ports-sup file tag > tag=. > > I want to understand why my ports tree is wiped off when i change the > tag value to > RELENG_5_2_0_RELEASE > or > RELENG_5 > or > RELENG_5_2 > > in order to g

cvsup ports question Freebsd 5.2

2004-02-06 Thread jens
Hi folks, I have build the ports tree using the default ports-sup file tag tag=. I want to understand why my ports tree is wiped off when i change the tag value to RELENG_5_2_0_RELEASE or RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_2 in order to get the ports updating. I followed the instructions of the bsd manu

atacontrol weirdness: RAID 1 array is shown to be degraded but both disks are up

2004-02-06 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
The 4.9 box has got onboard Promise RAID which so far has worked just fine. However, today I got a report about a degraded disk array so I went to check and found something rather odd: $ atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: no device present Slave: no device present ATA chann

how to lock kernel buffers in mem.

2004-02-06 Thread hal
I am running FreeBSD 4.7 with 512M of memory. How do I lock kernel buffers in memory? I am thinking specifically of the disk cache buffers. hal ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

Mail Delivery within Local Domain Takes Hours

2004-02-06 Thread Maxine Simpson
Hello, This is my first posthere goes... My mail server is a FreeBSD box running sendmail and cucipop. Cucipop is doing its authentication with Radius. I realize this is 'bare bones' information (and would happily supply more) - but my situation is this: 1.

firewall rule(s) for ports and packages

2004-02-06 Thread Chris Nowlin
I'm trying out 5.1 and 5.2, and with each, I utilize IPFW2 for the firewall. My rules allow passive FTP from the server, but often this does not seem to cover me when adding ports. To temporarily solve this (each time with the intention to find the correct solution) I just add a rule at the top to

5.2 RC2 named

2004-02-06 Thread Joe Nave
Hi, We recently installed FreeBSD 5.2 RC2 on an i386 platform and we are noticing intermittent slowness/timeouts on DNS when querying from remote PCs (i.e. it is an ISP DNS, users trying to resolve domain names). (You may test, the IP is 206.117.248.2.) Has anything like this been reported? Tha

Re: smbfs and amd?

2004-02-06 Thread albi
On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:46:18 -0600 Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a server that needs to mount several smbfs filesystems at boot. > One > obvious option is to make a local rc.d script to do the mounting, but > I'm interesting in exploring amd to automount those filesystems on >

dig/named - res_nsend: Protocol not supported

2004-02-06 Thread Luke Cowell
Hi I'm running FreeBSD 4.9 and I'm having a little difficulty with named/dig. %uname -a FreeBSD polo.asap.bc.ca 4.9-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 #1: Thu Feb 5 16:23:04 PST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/POLO i386 Here's what's happening. %dig @localhost ; <<>> DiG 8.3

Re: 5.1 & telnet

2004-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Darryl Hoar wrote: > > >Greetings, > >I have tried to get putty configured to access my 5.1 release box using > >SSH. No joy, and I'm quite tired of trying. > > > >I tried to enable telnet on my 5.1 box. Uncommented inetd.conf line, and > >verified that the services line was in place. I t

Re: USB Wireless Adapter support in fbsd 5.1?

2004-02-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 06 February 2004 10:47 am, Wang wrote: > Hi, > > I get access to the Internet via a wireless connection to my router in > another room. I use a usb wireless adapter (Netgear WG121), which works > fine under Winbut I am really not sure how to get this working with > FreeBSD 5.1. I have

5.2 ssh/telnet with trafshow using in excess of 50-100kps on aver age

2004-02-06 Thread Michael Clark
After several complaints about disconnections this this morning, I notices this morning that nagios was reporting several network problems for latency. First thing I did was look at my ssh session running trafshow, and behold I am at the top of the list pulling over 120kps! This is the first time

Re: Howto umount a cdrom as non-root?

2004-02-06 Thread Edd Barrett
well i get permission denied. I cant paste the output here, because im at work. tomorrow I will post up the exact output. I will check all my permissions etc to make sure im not being dumb first. version is 5.2-release dir trying to mount is /home/edd/cdrom1 /dev/acd0 is chmod 777 (for testing pur

Re: 5.1 & telnet

2004-02-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I have tried to get putty configured to access my 5.1 release box using SSH. No joy, and I'm quite tired of trying. I tried to enable telnet on my 5.1 box. Uncommented inetd.conf line, and verified that the services line was in place. I tried to connect to the box

Re: desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Darryl Grant wrote: Perhaps you can use sudo for your normal user and setup the sudoers file for only the privleges you want your normal users to have. HTH, Darryl I've found this to be handy also in Gnome. Assigning "sudo ppp -background myisp" to an icon gives a better then M$ functional

Re: Question in regards to software verification...

2004-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jason Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is going to sound incredibly new, but i've never understood how > to completely verify software that you download. > > For instance, a new Security Advisory was released today regarding the > shmat reference counting bug > > > One thing that I t

Re: to let dhclient renew ip address

2004-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Zhang Weiwu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using a notebook (5.2 on a Thinkpad T40). Sometimes I move it > from one room to another (managed by different dhcp server), and I > cannot figure out a fast way to tell the dhclient(8) to renew my > address. I read the manuals. It seems the only wa

USB Wireless Adapter support in fbsd 5.1?

2004-02-06 Thread Wang
Hi, I get access to the Internet via a wireless connection to my router in another room. I use a usb wireless adapter (Netgear WG121), which works fine under Winbut I am really not sure how to get this working with FreeBSD 5.1. I have read the manual and a few forum posts, and it seems that U

Re: Howto umount a cdrom as non-root?

2004-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Edd Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have used vfs.usermount=1 to allow users to mount the cdrom in a dir in > thier home dir. What is the most proper and secure method of doing so. If > possible without the use of sudo or chmod +s. If the users can mount the disk, they should be able to

Mountroot prompt with 4.9 Generic kernel

2004-02-06 Thread Kristian Strickland
Hi, I've got a running 4.6 system that I want to upgrade to 4.9. I've updated source with RELENG=4_9 in my supfile, and have build a new kernel using the GENERIC config file. The box is a Compaq Proliant 1600 with two embedded wide-ultra SCSI controllers, detected by 4.6 as sym

Re: Kdm at boot

2004-02-06 Thread Jorn Argelo
edit /etc/ttys, and change xdm to the appropiate kdm path. Jorn On Friday 06 February 2004 16:51, Edd Barrett wrote: > What is the correct way of starting kdm at boot? I have tried echo > "/usr/local/bin/kdm >> /etc/rc.local" , but this causes the system to hang. > kdm works fine if executed on a

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping?

2004-02-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Dan Pelleg wrote: > Vincent Poy writes: > > > >That's the part where it becomes difficult since even though I > > have 8 IP's, it's still on a /24 mask so only the 8 IP's in that /24 are > > actually local. > > Use a /27 mask. a /27 would work except it'll be 3

Re: [FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness

2004-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Herbert Wolverson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is good, since the correct amount of free space now shows, and the > > server is back to running perfectly. Can anyone shed any light as to why > > this discrepancy happened in the first place? I'd love to know what I can do to > > avo

5.1 & telnet

2004-02-06 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I have tried to get putty configured to access my 5.1 release box using SSH. No joy, and I'm quite tired of trying. I tried to enable telnet on my 5.1 box. Uncommented inetd.conf line, and verified that the services line was in place. I tried to connect to the box with telnet and go

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping?

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Pelleg
Vincent Poy writes: > > That's the part where it becomes difficult since even though I > have 8 IP's, it's still on a /24 mask so only the 8 IP's in that /24 are > actually local. > Use a /27 mask. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://li

Re: Advertising?

2004-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I thank you for your display of considerable arrogance and unwillingness to > cooperte on a socdial or business level. I didn't notice anyone displaying arrogance or unwillingness to cooperate. What I see is someone completely misunderstanding what they were doing and then trying to blame s

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping?

2004-02-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On 6 Feb 2004, Dan Pelleg wrote: > Vincent Poy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > After reading ipfw(8), I hope I have it correct that it's > > like this: > > > > ipfw add queue 1 ip from any to any out xmit xl0 > > Shouldn't "ipfw add queue 1" be enough? Don't know, that was what

Re: Kdm at boot

2004-02-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 06 February 2004 10:51 am, Edd Barrett wrote: > What is the correct way of starting kdm at boot? I have tried echo > "/usr/local/bin/kdm >> /etc/rc.local" , but this causes the system to hang. > kdm works fine if executed on a root shell. Someone told me to do a wait 5 > && kdm, but i see

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping?

2004-02-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On 6 Feb 2004, Dan Pelleg wrote: > Vincent Poy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 6 Feb 2004, Dan Pelleg wrote: > > > > > Vincent Poy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Greetings all: > > > > > > > > I have a ADSL connection where the upstream pipe is smaller than > > > > the down

Cisco 3des VPN connection from FreeBSD

2004-02-06 Thread Michael Clark
We have a cisco VPN and I have been looking for ways to connect to it from home using a FreeBSD 5.2 desktop. We have a 3000 concentrator, I saw the client for that in ports, and actually got it to connect although I could not communicate with anything on the VPN network after connecting. Cisco ma

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping?

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Pelleg
Vincent Poy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > After reading ipfw(8), I hope I have it correct that it's > like this: > > ipfw add queue 1 ip from any to any out xmit xl0 Shouldn't "ipfw add queue 1" be enough? > ipfw pipe 1 config bw 384Kbit/s > ipfw queue 1 config pipe 1 weight 30 mask al

Kdm at boot

2004-02-06 Thread Edd Barrett
What is the correct way of starting kdm at boot? I have tried echo "/usr/local/bin/kdm >> /etc/rc.local" , but this causes the system to hang. kdm works fine if executed on a root shell. Someone told me to do a wait 5 && kdm, but i see this as a bodge. Thanks _

smbfs and amd?

2004-02-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have a server that needs to mount several smbfs filesystems at boot. One obvious option is to make a local rc.d script to do the mounting, but I'm interesting in exploring amd to automount those filesystems on demand. I don't really know enough about amd to know where to find the answer for mys

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping?

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Pelleg
Vincent Poy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 6 Feb 2004, Dan Pelleg wrote: > > > Vincent Poy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Greetings all: > > > > > > I have a ADSL connection where the upstream pipe is smaller than > > > the downstream with it at 1.5Mbps/384kbps now and will be upgradin

Re: Advertising?

2004-02-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-02-06T02:03:02Z, "Greg Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thank you for your display of considerable arrogance and unwillingness to > cooperte on a socdial or business level. We're not the ones who sent an advertising request to an email address that is heavily documented as being ar

Re: VMWare licensing file problem.

2004-02-06 Thread Geir Svalland
Hi Sean. Thx a lot for your answer. Helped me a lot. / Geir. On Friday 06 February 2004 16.07, Sean Welch wrote: > Version 2 of VmWare is no longer sold so the evaluation license you > got is most likely for version 4 (which does not run on FreeBSD yet). > The confusion results from the fact that

Problem upgrading KDE (kdelibs??)

2004-02-06 Thread Dragoncrest
Hi all. When trying to do a port upgrade of KDE I'm hitting something that says it needs to be upgraded called kdelibs-3.1.4_1, but when I tried to upgrade that, it says that it can't be upgraded because kdelibs conflicts with kdebase which are installed to the same directory. Is kdelibs and

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping?

2004-02-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Vincent Poy wrote: > On 6 Feb 2004, Dan Pelleg wrote: > > > Vincent Poy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Greetings all: > > > > > > I have a ADSL connection where the upstream pipe is smaller than > > > the downstream with it at 1.5Mbps/384kbps now and will be upgrading

Re: buildworld inside a jail

2004-02-06 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Friday 06 February 2004 16:23, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:07:15PM +0100, Harald Schmalzbauer typed: > Content-Description: signed data > > > On Friday 06 February 2004 14:06, Colin Percival wrote: > > > At 12:49 06/02/2004, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > > >On Friday 06 F

Re: buildworld inside a jail

2004-02-06 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:07:15PM +0100, Harald Schmalzbauer typed: Content-Description: signed data > On Friday 06 February 2004 14:06, Colin Percival wrote: > > At 12:49 06/02/2004, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > >On Friday 06 February 2004 03:24, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > > > On Friday 06

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping?

2004-02-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On 6 Feb 2004, Dan Pelleg wrote: > Vincent Poy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Greetings all: > > > > I have a ADSL connection where the upstream pipe is smaller than > > the downstream with it at 1.5Mbps/384kbps now and will be upgrading to > > 6Mbps/608kbps soon. The issue I'm having is t

Re: desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Pelleg
"Edd Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and > it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd > on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need > to be root

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