The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-02-15 - 2004-03-06

2004-03-07 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list

Re: picture?

2004-03-07 Thread Stephen Liu
On Sunday 07 March 2004 12:22, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 07:54:32PM -0800, Brian Henning wrote: where can i find a 1024x768 background jpeg of the bsd daemon? A nice one comes with the wdm port. Kris Hi Kris, $ locate wdm | grep port

Re: picture?

2004-03-07 Thread John Birrell
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:38:21AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2004 12:22, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 07:54:32PM -0800, Brian Henning wrote: where can i find a 1024x768 background jpeg of the bsd daemon? A nice one comes with the wdm port. Kris

Re: picture?

2004-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:38:21AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2004 12:22, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 07:54:32PM -0800, Brian Henning wrote: where can i find a 1024x768 background jpeg of the bsd daemon? A nice one comes with the wdm port. Kris

Apache 2.0.48/DAV2/SSL0.9.7c/PHP4.3.4/ + mod_auth_ldap = httpd child Segmentation Fault on query

2004-03-07 Thread Jason Lixfeld
This may be more of a [EMAIL PROTECTED] question, but I figure I'd ask here as well anyway. su-2.05b# uname -a FreeBSD spam.kill.er 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 #25: Fri Mar 5 03:51:13 EST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ESHARA amd64 su-2.05b# Very new to ldap +

Re: picture?

2004-03-07 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - $ locate wdm | grep port /usr/ports/net/cflowd/files/patch-apps::cflowdmux::CflowdRawFlowClientLis t.hh /usr/ports/x11/wdm /usr/ports/x11/wdm/Makefile /usr/ports/x11/wdm/README.html /usr/ports/x11/wdm/distinfo /usr/ports/x11/wdm/files

Re: picture?

2004-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:54:34AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: - snip - $ locate wdm | grep port /usr/ports/net/cflowd/files/patch-apps::cflowdmux::CflowdRawFlowClientLis t.hh /usr/ports/x11/wdm /usr/ports/x11/wdm/Makefile /usr/ports/x11/wdm/README.html /usr/ports/x11/wdm/distinfo

Re: picture?

2004-03-07 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am Sonntag, 7. März 2004 19:54 schrieb Stephen Liu: - snip - $ locate wdm | grep port /usr/ports/net/cflowd/files/patch-apps::cflowdmux::CflowdRawFlowClientL is t.hh /usr/ports/x11/wdm /usr/ports/x11/wdm/Makefile /usr/ports/x11/wdm/README.html /usr/ports/x11/wdm/distinfo

Re: Csh problems

2004-03-07 Thread Vulpes Velox
nevermind... hehe, finally found something useful... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Shutdown in KDE

2004-03-07 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello FreeBSD, Where do I tell KDE to use shutdown -p now commant to shut down the computer, instead of its default command? -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Shutdown in KDE

2004-03-07 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am Sonntag, 7. März 2004 10:35 schrieb Robert Golovniov: Hello FreeBSD, Where do I tell KDE to use shutdown -p now commant to shut down the computer, instead of its default command? You need to edit the HaltCmd in kdmrc (/usr/local/share/config/kdm) in section [Shutdown]. Since kde3.2

MySQL and FreeBSD 5.x - Using LinuxThreads or not?

2004-03-07 Thread Lasse Laursen
Hi all, We are about to upgrade one of our database servers to a Dual Xeon machine with HT. We have been testing FreeBSD 5.x for 6-7 months on a Uniprocessor box and we haven't had any problems with the platform. We would like to use FreeBSD 5 on our new database server since the SMP support is

FreeBSD Crashes

2004-03-07 Thread
Hello dear Subscribers! I have mail-server (~ 2 users, exim/cyrrus imap/webmail/LDAP auth) under FreeBSD 5.2 box with last patches. After 3 weeks of normal fly it`s crash twice a day. systat -vmstat at ssh-console before crash shows this: 1 usersLoad 0.25 0.14 0.12

Troubles with disk access (5.2.1-RELEASE)

2004-03-07 Thread Martin Welk
Hi, since upgrading to FreeBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE (and even -p1), I get the following error messages under more heavy load (f. e. while compiling something from the ports) - and I get a lot of these mesages at a time, and they are written into /var/log/messages if the system is able to recover -

Re: Accessing Oracle8i Data on a FreeBSD System

2004-03-07 Thread Martin Welk
An Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:39:14PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: (...) There is a linux distribution available on the Oracle web site called linux81701.tar, but it appears to be for those wishing to run an oracle8I server. What we are trying to do is: Receive data from the

Re: Antivir doesn't work on local 5.x file system, but works fine on mounted ...

2004-03-07 Thread Martin Welk
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:32:03PM +0200, George Swentek wrote: Antivir ( http://www.antivir.de/ ) - a popular antivirus scanner doesn't work on local file system in Freebsd 5.X (...) Files are 0 and it seems that antivir doesn't recognize the files in the file system.I'v noticed this

Re: Handling lots of custom packages..

2004-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:33:32PM -0600, adp wrote: So this means I can't really just dump our custom packages to packages/All since files will get overwritten. So I wanted to do something like: /repos/ftp.freebsd.org/.../packages/All /repos/ftp.freebsd.org/.../packages/mail-custom

Re: kernel panic messages?

2004-03-07 Thread Ben Paley
On Saturday 06 March 2004 6:13 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: But, yes -- generally unless you're prepared to cope with crashes and do some debugging work, you shouldn't be running current. What happens if you CVS up the latest RELENG_5_2 sources, do a full buildworld, etc. cycle and then try

Re: Fixing (scsi) drives at particular /dev locations

2004-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:53:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 5.2.1; Sun/Cobalt LX50; GENERIC kernel Greetings, The darned LX50 is wired with the first SCSI bus out the back, and the second toward the builtin drives. So, upon adding an external drive, the internal drives all

Re: nntp-server

2004-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 10:28:25AM +0300, DerAlSem wrote: I want to run nntp-server, or rather i want two servers. Is there a way to link them, as, for example, to IRC-servers can be linked? In this way, what distributive should I use? That's not an easy question to answer without a

CVSUP problem on SUN ULTRA 10 with CURRENT help!

2004-03-07 Thread Chris Demers
Greetings everyone, I have been having a problem trying to get CVSUP working correctly on a SUN ULTRA 10 (256MB 40GB HDD) with CURRENT, i can ftp in the sources and do full build worlds and kernel without any problems, but even after i blow away all the src, ports, and sup, directories and it

Yet another panic... using /dev/speaker this time

2004-03-07 Thread Markie
Well I think I have worked around my other panic that I posted a few days ago by updating the modems firmware, atleast it doesn't panic under the situation it did last time. I still believe the bug exists somewhere though and i'm sure I could still reproduce it if anyone is interested. Just now I

Re: ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off]

2004-03-07 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 08:17, Rishi Chopra wrote: Wayne, I left an SSH connection open to my server last night, and it was still connected this morning; the amount of time exceeded that of past sessions when I was unexpectedly disconnected. I understand your reasoning when stating this

Automatically maintaining dns server addresses from an external router

2004-03-07 Thread Wayne Sierke
As indicated in another thread (ssh disconnecting) I currently have a D-Link router managing my dynamic-IP Internet connection. I currently let my workstations use the dns services provided by the router since the router knows the current IP addresses for the upstream dns servers. I would like to

Re: How close is FreeBSD to OpenBSD?

2004-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:34:33PM -0800, D.B. Lewis wrote: My background is in Redhat Linux and Windows, so please pardon the dumb question: How close are FreeBSD and OpenBSD? The reason I ask is to get a handle on how useful OpenBSD tips, FAQ's, etc. might be as I learn FreeBSD. OpenBSD,

make of Cyrus-sasl fails

2004-03-07 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I tried to make Cyrus-sasl, but I failed like this: (My system is FreeBSD 5.2.1 with MIT Kerberos) cc -Wall -W -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o saslauthd saslauthd.o mechanisms.o auth_dce.o

UW-Imap build question

2004-03-07 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I read that I can get uw-imap to work with Kerberos b compiling nlp with EXTRAAUTHENTICATORS=gss Can I still do this through the port, and how? 3.10 How do I configure Kerberos V5? imap-2002 supports client and server functionality on UNIX and 32-bit Windows.

RE: Automatically maintaining dns server addresses from an externalrouter

2004-03-07 Thread Edmund Craske
Well, the upstream DNS servers you use from your ISP are quite unlikely to have a change of IP address, and with the way that BIND works, when you set up forwarders, it checks them first, then runs its queries to the root servers if it can't get through. You could also configure it just to use

Re: Fax software question

2004-03-07 Thread Dan Pelleg
Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all folks, I need to install a fax software to fax text documents. $ make search name=fax | grep fax Port: acfax-0.981011_1 Path: /usr/ports/comms/acfax Port: efax-0.9a-001114a7 Path: /usr/ports/comms/efax Port: gfax-0.5 Path:

Mitsubishi Diamond Touch keyboard problem

2004-03-07 Thread Bob Dalzell
For some unknown reason, two of my keys have changed places, is there a simple way to remedy this problem, @ REGARDS BOB. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: Mitsubishi Diamond Touch keyboard problem

2004-03-07 Thread Edmund Craske
That's a keymap thing... Depends on your keyboard layout, I'm not sure what the au layout is, but if it's anything like the UK one, it's the opposite way round to the default US keyboard layout for those keys, amongst other things. The easiest way of setting your keymap is probably with

Re: Fax software question

2004-03-07 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - # which acfax # which acfax # which efax # which gfax # which ghfaxview # which hylafx # which tkhylafax # which tkscanfax t# which viewfax all : Command not found. I suppose they have not been installed. Kindly advise which of them is easy to config and

starting xwindows apps from console?

2004-03-07 Thread Dragoncrest
I know I saw something about how to do this at one time, but I can't seem to find any information about it anymore. What I'm looking to do is start several KDE gui based apps from a remote ssh session. I can do it from the actual machine via the console because it knows how to find the running

Re: CVSUP problem on SUN ULTRA 10 with CURRENT help!

2004-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:29:09AM -0500, Chris Demers wrote: I have been having a problem trying to get CVSUP working correctly on a SUN ULTRA 10 (256MB 40GB HDD) with CURRENT, i can ftp in the sources and do full build worlds and kernel without any problems, but even after i blow away all

slow dns resolutions

2004-03-07 Thread Dragoncrest
Hi all. Just started getting these problems over the last couple of days and thought it was my ISP's dns servers, but it would seem that's not true. When trying to resolve websites via the browser, or doing nslookups via shell or anything for that matter that would require dns resolution, I've

Re: Fax software question

2004-03-07 Thread Dan Pelleg
Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - snip - # which acfax # which acfax # which efax # which gfax # which ghfaxview # which hylafx # which tkhylafax # which tkscanfax t# which viewfax all : Command not found. I suppose they have not been installed. Kindly advise which

Re: 5.2.1 hanging on boot

2004-03-07 Thread Aaron Walker
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 19:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 16:01, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed 5.2.1 and upon boot, it hangs at: Timecounter TSC frequency 2153331273 Hz

Re: slow dns resolutions

2004-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:57:28AM -0500, Dragoncrest wrote: Resolv.conf has the right dns servers in the right order and my hosts file is perty much bare, save for the names of both machines at my desk, so I'm stumped as to what could be causing this. Can anyone suggest anything? I've seen

Re: CVSUP problem on SUN ULTRA 10 with CURRENT help!

2004-03-07 Thread Chris Demers
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:20:12 +, Matthew Seaman wrote On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:29:09AM -0500, Chris Demers wrote: I have been having a problem trying to get CVSUP working correctly on a SUN ULTRA 10 (256MB 40GB HDD) with CURRENT, i can ftp in the sources and do full build worlds and

help2man Problem

2004-03-07 Thread Corey Mosher
I am trying to install apache2 from ports. I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1. When it tries to install the help2man package which is a dependancy of autoconf which is a dependancy of apache2 it produces this error: === apache-2.0.48_3 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf - not found ===

Re: starting xwindows apps from console?

2004-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:15:04AM -0500, Dragoncrest wrote: I know I saw something about how to do this at one time, but I can't seem to find any information about it anymore. What I'm looking to do is start several KDE gui based apps from a remote ssh session. I can do it from the actual

A question on installing printer

2004-03-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I am now configuring printer and aware that 'MAKEDEV' has been replaced with 'devfs' According to handbook I should run # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) whether to be replaced with # ./devfs -m lpt0 Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

Re: Fax software question

2004-03-07 Thread Stephen Liu
On Sunday 07 March 2004 22:08, Dan Pelleg wrote: - snip - I think I need to install 'mgetty-1.1.30.12.16_3'. Shall I install 'netpbm-10.17_1' as well. Yes. Do it in one of the following ways: 1. cd /usr/ports/comms/mgetty+sendfax make install clean cd /usr/ports/graphics/netpbm

Re: cdroast

2004-03-07 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:09:47PM -0800, Brian Henning wrote: how can i make it so cd roast burns files with plus signs in it. for example /usr/ports/distfiles/gtk+-1.2.10.tar.gz This should probably be aimed at the xcdroast people since it seems very specific. I'm not really sure but is

Re: Where is 4.9-STABLE?

2004-03-07 Thread James Long
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:08:22PM +, Mark wrote: Yeah; but it's the upgrade I'm unclear about. You'd think there be some standard supfile template to upgrade your OS. www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd worked for me. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Equalizer

2004-03-07 Thread jhoder
hi, i'm running what you might call a minimalist freebsd system for audio playback and i'm currently not running an x server. do you know of any audio equalizers which i could install without a lot of bulk? one that can be adjusted from a command line? i'm running a pcm-enabled kernel and

Re: How close is FreeBSD to OpenBSD?

2004-03-07 Thread David Benfell
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 23:34:33 -0800, D.B. Lewis wrote: The reason I ask is to get a handle on how useful OpenBSD tips, FAQ's, etc. might be as I learn FreeBSD. Some things will be similar. Some will be different. The instances I find where the two projects could learn from each other are:

Disable core dumps

2004-03-07 Thread Tobias Eichert
Hello, I'd like to know whether there's a possibility to disable core dumps in a 'global' manner. I've already modified my bash config by adding a ulimit -c 0 in order to prevent core dumps from being written to the disk. The problem still persists when starting an application via the KDE menu,

Re: tun devices and firewall

2004-03-07 Thread Tim Pushor
JJB, Wow those are some very powerful opinions that you have and are touting as fact. Regardless, I was not asking about the relative stability of the current branch, or advise on coding rules. I simply have a firewall that I have a default deny, and I write rules for what I want to allow. I

Re: pam_acct_mgmt(): user account has expired (was Re: Login Problem)

2004-03-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:42:56 PM Barry Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 4, 2004, at 1:33 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1 - RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 It seems that I can no longer log into my system. Upon boot-up, the usually login appears. I

Re: Where is 4.9-STABLE?

2004-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:08:22PM +, Mark wrote: Yeah; but it's the upgrade I'm unclear about. You'd think there be some standard supfile template to upgrade your OS. What, like /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile? Although there's a bit of a twist to how it works: the

Should I turn MATH_EMULATE back on?

2004-03-07 Thread Mark
This is weird. I installed Perl 5.8.2_5 on a clean FreeBSD 4.9R-p3 box, and got an error on Time::Hires. I grabbed the package manually, and got the same error: PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/perl-threaded/bin/perl -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch') t/*.t

Re: Accessing Oracle8i Data on a FreeBSD System

2004-03-07 Thread Martin McCormick
Many thanks. It looks like our work is cut out for us. Martin Welk writes: Well, I think the Oracle 8i distribution for Oracle includes an Oracle client. I'm not sure if it is possible to install this stand-alone, but at least you could give it a try.

Re: Disable core dumps

2004-03-07 Thread Craig Reyenga
I think you are looking for the 'kern.coredump' sysctl. Put a line like this in /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.coredump=0 Hope this helps. -Craig - Original Message - From: Tobias Eichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 1:39 PM Subject: Disable core dumps

Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-07 Thread Donald Turnbull
Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more user friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for technology is to make people lives easier right? - Do you Yahoo!?

Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-07 Thread Donald Turnbull
Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more user friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for technology is to make people lives easier right? - Do you Yahoo!?

Re: Should I turn MATH_EMULATE back on?

2004-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:07:54PM +, Mark wrote: This is weird. I installed Perl 5.8.2_5 on a clean FreeBSD 4.9R-p3 box, and got an error on Time::Hires. Does Hires use a math co-processor? The only difference with the kernel I ran yesterday, is that I commented out this: # options

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:49:14AM -0800, Donald Turnbull wrote: Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more user friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for technology is to make people

New user install experience

2004-03-07 Thread Luis Trimiño
Hello my name is Luis, I read your email about new users install experience, here is mine: I'm using FreeBSD 4.9 and so far has been the less painful experience installing a system so far even compare to windows(install, reboot, oh I detect that you have some new hardware, do you have this or

Re: Should I turn MATH_EMULATE back on?

2004-03-07 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 9:03 PM Subject: Re: Should I turn MATH_EMULATE back on? On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:07:54PM +, Mark wrote: This is weird. I installed Perl

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-07 Thread Jorn Argelo
Well, basicly, most people I know don't like the graphical installations like Red Hat and Mandrake. When I worked with Mandrake some time ago I never chosed the graphical installation either ... And as far as I know, FreeBSD isn't aiming as much to user friendly-enviroments as Mandrake is.

RE: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-07 Thread Remko Lodder
The you know how it works stuff has a very good resource online www.freebsd.org/handbook It teaches you from the basics through rather advanced stuff. Like every OS you need to learn it, FreeBSD is robust and userfriendly but not with the installation as you want it.. It requires you to educate

Re: Building Packages - Links to Tutorials?

2004-03-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Sean Ellis told a big fish story including the following on 3/6/2004 12:51 PM: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:34:20PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have a faster machine that I'd like to use to build packages and then install those packages on my slower machine. I'm looking for links to info

RE: Building Packages - Links to Tutorials?

2004-03-07 Thread Remko Lodder
I am not sure but perhaps after the make -DCLIENT_ONLY=yes stuff you can do make package, this should in my opinion make the package you can install everywhere you wish (freebsd ofcourse). Note that i did not read any explaination about this, and i just assume this when i decode the command into

Re: Disable core dumps

2004-03-07 Thread Tobias Eichert
On Sunday 07 March 2004 20:30, Craig Reyenga wrote: I think you are looking for the 'kern.coredump' sysctl. Put a line like this in /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.coredump=0 Hope this helps. -Craig Thanks for the hint! That's what I was looking for. Regards, Tobias

using hyperterminal

2004-03-07 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko
How is `tip` related to well-known windows' hyperterminal? E.g. can I use hyperterm-to-tip style connection? If they're using different protocols, is there a BSD hyperterminal version? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: using hyperterminal

2004-03-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 07 March 2004 04:06 pm, Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: How is `tip` related to well-known windows' hyperterminal? E.g. can I use hyperterm-to-tip style connection? If they're using different protocols, is there a BSD hyperterminal version? My understanding of terminal emulation and

Re: Fixing (scsi) drives at particular /dev locations

2004-03-07 Thread scion+fbsdq
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 11:59:43 + From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] hint.da.0.at=ahc1 Close, but no cigar. See the section on SCSI DEVICE CONFIGURATION in /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES. What you want is: hint.scbus.0.at=ahc1 hint.scbus.1.at=ahc0 hint.da.0.at=scbus0

SOLVED! (was: Re: Should I turn MATH_EMULATE back on?)

2004-03-07 Thread Mark
Guess what? After some serious debugging, I found the cause. Test 19, of Hires, which gets the system time, failed because of a Vmware GSX 2.5.1 Server bug: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat vm.uptime vmx| GetSystemTimeAdjustment returned unknown clockInterval 100144 I had some other oddities with it as

Re: Recommend MTA

2004-03-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 6 March 2004 at 20:50:11 -0600, Michael Madden wrote: Which MTA is the recommended one to use on FreeBSD? I've noticed sendmail is installed by default, but my book I've been learning FreeBSD from (The Complete FreeBSD) only covers setting up postfix. But it does say: If

Re: Recommend MTA

2004-03-07 Thread albi
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:23:18 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, 6 March 2004 at 20:50:11 -0600, Michael Madden wrote: Which MTA is the recommended one to use on FreeBSD? I've noticed sendmail is installed by default, but my book I've been learning FreeBSD from

Re: Recommend MTA

2004-03-07 Thread Chuck McManis
But it does say: If sendmail works for you, use it. If you have difficulties, use postfix instead. Should I go ahead a learn/setup sendmail? I don't recommend it. Actually I'm a bit surprised that things didn't go with Qmail. Not only is it everything Postfix aspires to be, it has a

Re: Recommend MTA

2004-03-07 Thread Gary
Hi Chuck, --On Sunday, March 07, 2004 04:13:31 PM -0800 Chuck McManis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I'm a bit surprised that things didn't go with Qmail. Not only is it everything Postfix aspires to be, it has a zillion hours of runtime under its belt. Its been at the 1.03 release forever

recomended mail server

2004-03-07 Thread Micheas Herman
Hi, I have a specific set of wants for a new mail server: 1. deliveries to Maildirs. 2. authenticated forwarding. (can forward to another mail server using authentication) Qmail doesn't do authenticated forwarding without being patched. I haven't done much research on exim

Re: using hyperterminal

2004-03-07 Thread Ryan Merrick
Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: How is `tip` related to well-known windows' hyperterminal? E.g. can I use hyperterm-to-tip style connection? If they're using different protocols, is there a BSD hyperterminal version? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: mp4 spliter

2004-03-07 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, thank you for the tip, but I have tried a few times and it doesn't work :( The vedio track can be processed but not the audio. I played the original movie file again with mplayer and logged the output: . MOV: File-Type unknown Major-Brand: mp42 QuickTime/MOV file format detected.

Re: recomended mail server

2004-03-07 Thread Gary
Hi Micheas, --On Sunday, March 07, 2004 04:23:27 PM -0800 Micheas Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a specific set of wants for a new mail server: 1. deliveries to Maildirs. 2. authenticated forwarding. (can forward to another mail server using authentication) Qmail

Re: Recommend MTA

2004-03-07 Thread David Benfell
On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 16:13:31 -0800, Chuck McManis wrote: Actually I'm a bit surprised that things didn't go with Qmail. Not only is it everything Postfix aspires to be, it has a zillion hours of runtime under its belt. Its been at the 1.03 release forever because there hasn't been

Re: recomended mail server

2004-03-07 Thread Micheas Herman
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 16:31, Gary wrote: Hi Micheas, --On Sunday, March 07, 2004 04:23:27 PM -0800 Micheas Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a specific set of wants for a new mail server: 1. deliveries to Maildirs. 2. authenticated forwarding. (can forward to another

freebsd 4.9 stable and qmailadmin-devel (1.2.1)

2004-03-07 Thread Dott. Andrea Riela
HI folks, I need your support about qmailadmin and freebsd 4.9. I've installed qmailadmin-devel from ports (with some differences, like --enable-spam-command, but I've tried with the original port, the same problem), and when I try to connect with web interface, I can login, but when I try to use

RE: recomended mail server

2004-03-07 Thread Dott. Andrea Riela
I mean that the server I want to relay to requires authentication. (I could work around this, but It would be easier for me to maintain if I could have my mta authenticate. There are a couple of patches for qmail that do this. And the documentation seems very clear, I would like to know

burncd and cdrecord

2004-03-07 Thread elarsen2
I backed some files up using burncd and cdrecord. The files burned fine. But the problem that I am having. Is that I am unabel to see the files. The command I used for burn cd was: burncd -f /dev/asc1c -s max -e data *.* fixate. And the command I used for cdrecord i baleve was: cdrecord

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-07 Thread Bob Johnson
On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:49 pm, Donald Turnbull Donald Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more user friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for

Jails and SSL..

2004-03-07 Thread adp
I want to run Apache under a FreeBSD jail. For normal http this works fine. However, I'm a little worried that we won't be able to use jails because we use SSL for several sites. With SSL we have to define one IP per site. Jails only have one IP. Is there a way around this other than just having

Java Install Continually Failing

2004-03-07 Thread Joe Pokupec
Hi Guys, I've had unsuccessful Java installs on 4.8 and 5.1 so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've downloaded the correct packages from the Java site and put them in the /usr/ports/distfiles so this is not where the install fails. It appears to give the following message: Linging vm...

MAKEDEV question

2004-03-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I am now configuring printer and aware that 'MAKEDEV' has been replaced with 'devfs' According to handbook I should run # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) whether to be replaced with # ./devfs -m lpt0 Kindly advise. TIA B.R. satimis

Re: MAKEDEV question

2004-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:45:16PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I am now configuring printer and aware that 'MAKEDEV' has been replaced with 'devfs' According to handbook I should run # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) whether to be replaced with #

ITunes app or player

2004-03-07 Thread Chris
Do we happen to have a port that can make use of ITunes? Moreover - the files you purchase from them. I think the file extension is m4p. -- Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

postfix MTA questions

2004-03-07 Thread dave
Hello, I'm using postfix and i've got two questions regarding it. Firstly, i'd like to implement maildir style mailboxes for users. I want a pop server that will understand maildir, will qpopper do this or will i have to look at another? I'd like to avoid running services from inetd if

Re: ITunes app or player

2004-03-07 Thread BSD baby
Do we happen to have a port that can make use of ITunes? Moreover - the files you purchase from them. I think the file extension is m4p. They're locked Digital Rights Management-controlled AAC files. Unfortunately you can only play them in real Apple iTunes player or transfer them to an

Re: MAKEDEV question

2004-03-07 Thread Stephen Liu
FreeBSD 5.2 I am now configuring printer and aware that 'MAKEDEV' has been replaced with 'devfs' According to handbook I should run # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) whether to be replaced with # ./devfs -m lpt0 The device should be created automatically if your kernel

Re: postfix MTA questions

2004-03-07 Thread Gary
Hi Dave, --On Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:02:53 PM -0500 dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using postfix and i've got two questions regarding it. Firstly, i'd like to implement maildir style mailboxes for users. I want a pop server that will understand maildir, will qpopper do this or will i

Re: Backups: rsync, software RAID, other strategies?

2004-03-07 Thread Dany Nativel
Hi Bob, I use the following configuration on my file server. It's a small cube based on a low power mini-ITX EPIA 5000 motherboard (fanless) and running two 120GB HDDs. I looked at RAID but it doesn't help solving one of the potential issue ... me, user removing files that are not supposed to

RE: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-07 Thread JJB
Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to be improved? Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS type set to

Re: ITunes app or player

2004-03-07 Thread BSD baby
LUCKILY : as with ALL of the download services (most of which use Windows Media format), you can just click the {BURN TO CD} button, and burn an audio CD, then pop it in your FreeBSD machine and rip it to FLAC or MP3 or OGG or whatever you want. As true as the above may be, and as lazy

Mozilla-1.6 hangs on .pdf file

2004-03-07 Thread Rob
Hi, I have installed: Mozilla-1.6 linux-flashplugin-6.0 linuxpluginwrapper-20040229 mplayerplug-in-2.45 acroread-5.08 In mozilla, when I click on a .pdf document, the opening window of acroread pops up, but then all hangs. Actually, acroread hangs and

RE: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-07 Thread W. D.
At 22:28 3/7/2004, JJB, wrote: Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to be improved? Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq

Postfix install questions..

2004-03-07 Thread Micheal Patterson
Tonight, I starting looking into installing postfix to replace sendmail as our primary MTA. I'm currently playing with it on my home system (fbsd 4.9) and installing from ports. The install goes well, I've went through the main.cf and set it up. However, when trying to connect to port 25, I get an

Re: Recommend MTA

2004-03-07 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
I am surprised that no one has mentioned exim. Been using it since 97 and wouldn't use anything else. Very straight forward to configure, very powerful, and very well supported by its author and the community... I believe it is in the ports system, but I build my own so I don't know for

Re: postfix MTA questions

2004-03-07 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 7, 2004, at 9:02 PM, dave wrote: I want a pop server that will understand maildir, will qpopper do this or will i have to look at another? courier has a separate imap and pop server package that is built around maildir. I use it with exim. courier-mta.org Chad

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