5.2-RELEASE build snafu.

2004-04-23 Thread Gary Kline
People, I've been trying to build the latest cvsup'd src for 5.2-RELEASE. make buildworld finishes without err. But buildkernel quits as shown in this cut-and-paste. make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC is the make command. ---This is the firs

Problem starting jail

2004-04-23 Thread Gerald Holguin
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 4.9. I am new to Unix (great learning). I have setup the jail according to the man page with no errors and upon completion while trying to start the jail I get this error: bsdbox# jail -u root /home/jail/192.168.10.3/ ecj 192.168.10.3 /bin/sh jail: execv: /bin/sh: No

Re: upgrade a port

2004-04-23 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
exactly what i am looking for, thx. -cs Lowell Gilbert wrote: Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chiang Seng Chang writes: portupgrade wont work because ver 22 was not installed in the first place. pkg_deinstall ver 21 wont work because there are dependencies. portinstall ver 22 wont work

How to config CDRom to read udf files

2004-04-23 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 My CDRom could not read udf files burned with DirectCD on Windows. I made following tests; cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options ... /dev/acd0 /usr/home/user/cdrom cd9660,udf ro,noauto $ mount_udf /d

Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs.

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Rhett
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:47:01PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > I'll make a try at answering the issues you raise, but the best way of > handling missing documentation is to submit PR's which update the > manpages or the Handbook with something better. When I know what something better is, su

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 57, Issue 20

2004-04-23 Thread jerad.hampton
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Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs.

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Rhett
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:36:46PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > get rid of the ppp0 and sl0 interfaces. The answer was to copy related > > parameters from /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf and change them. > > > > (The handbook actually does say "modify rc.conf" but it doesn't say what >

Re: updated ports tree

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:41:36PM +, Killermink ! wrote: > I see what your saying and i suppose I have two points: > > 1) Can you install a port without installing the ports tree? I see that you and I are using terms that aren't really at odds, in what we mean; but are at odds in what they a

AMD vs Intel

2004-04-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm looking at picking up the following: Intel Technology Server Chassis Intel SC1300 1U Rack MainBoard: Intel SE7501WV2SCSI Ram memory: 4 x 1 GB Processor: 2 x Xeon 3.06 Ghz Discos Duros: 3x Seagate ST336607KLC Intel: SRCZR CD-ROM: 52x Floppy: 3.5" Monitor, Mouse & Keyboard: Not Included Now

Re: updated ports tree

2004-04-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:38:37PM -0600, Danny MacMillan wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:41:36 +, Killermink ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >I see what your saying and i suppose I have two points: > > > >1) Can you install a port without installing the ports tree? > > Ports can not be i

Re: updated ports tree

2004-04-23 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:41:36 +, Killermink ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I see what your saying and i suppose I have two points: 1) Can you install a port without installing the ports tree? Ports can not be installed without first being built, and the ports tree is what enables you to build

Re: updated ports tree

2004-04-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Killermink ! wrote: I see what your saying and i suppose I have two points: 1) Can you install a port without installing the ports tree? Yes, or sort of. You need things like the ports Makefiles in /usr/ports/Mk, but if you copy, say, archivers/gtar to /tmp/gtar and then deleted /usr/ports/arch

1024x768 Resolution in console?

2004-04-23 Thread Eric Crist
Hello list, I've posted this question before, and I've had some good tips on where to look for the right answer. I started with man pages for syscons, vidcontrol, and others. I can't figure it out. I've been toying with this for quite a while, but I'm failing. Apparently, there's a way to g

Re: vinum requirements

2004-04-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 23 April 2004 at 14:47:30 -0400, synrat wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Thursday, 22 April 2004 at 11:32:22 -0400, synrat wrote: >>> >>> does vinum configuration need to be located >>> in the beginning of the drive after bootstrap or >>> is it possible to

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2004-04-23 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

2004-04-23 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

Re: updated ports tree

2004-04-23 Thread Killermink !
I see what your saying and i suppose I have two points: 1) Can you install a port without installing the ports tree? 2) If you must install the ports tree, what is the best way to keep it up to date? I am still new at this, and can't seem to find packages for all the ports in the tree... --

Re: upgrade a port

2004-04-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chiang Seng Chang writes: > > > portupgrade wont work because ver 22 was not installed in the > > first place. > > > > pkg_deinstall ver 21 wont work because there are dependencies. > > > > portinstall ver 22 wont work because ver 21 is there. > >

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2004-04-23 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:41:18 +0100, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:13:11PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:04:56AM +0300, hugle wrote: > SOmetimes I see such messages in dmesg. > > perl# dmesg > uptime() went backwards (1574174.333073 ->

Re: Bridging Firewall

2004-04-23 Thread Mike Maltese
> I find no reference to MAC rules showing up in 5.2.1. Any help or advice > would be appreciated. That's because bridge(4) doesn't do Layer 2 filtering. Neither does ipfw (as well it shouldn't). I don't know if there are any plans to add this capability to FreeBSD's bridge, but I know that OpenBS

Re: 25mb vs 300mb ports

2004-04-23 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Peter Leftwich wrote: > At the FreeBSD.Org ports website, however, it says the total size of > the tarball (tar/gzip) is 25mb. Is this a matter of compressed > versus uncompressed? Why the discrepancy? That's part of it, the other part is that the ports consist of a lot of

Bridging Firewall

2004-04-23 Thread Casey Lenhart
I am using this document – HYPERLINK "http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/filte ring-bridges-contributors.html"http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ar ticles/filtering-bridges/filtering-bridges-contributors.html I find no reference to MAC rules showi

25mb vs 300mb ports

2004-04-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
I gave the FreeBSD online Handbook a good read (of several chapters that walked the reader through sysinstall)... One of the prompts said to have 300mb or more of space for the ports. At the FreeBSD.Org ports website, however, it says the total size of the tarball (tar/gzip) is 25mb. Is this a m

RE: Specifying sort fields

2004-04-23 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, JJB wrote: > Thank you that worked. You know that nowhere in the 'man sort' info > does it say that to use sort command you have to use pipe commands > to feed it data. You don't have to use pipes or redirection: sort -n /etc/hosts > Don't you think the man sort info needs

Re: upgrade a port

2004-04-23 Thread Robert Huff
Chiang Seng Chang writes: > portupgrade wont work because ver 22 was not installed in the > first place. > > pkg_deinstall ver 21 wont work because there are dependencies. > > portinstall ver 22 wont work because ver 21 is there. > > how do i get out of this catch-22 ? pkg_dele

Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs.

2004-04-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 23, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Joe Rhett wrote: Sorry, it's been quite a while since I've played with FreeBSD and some things are taking a while to get used to. The configuration system has come a long way... but the documentation seems to be lacking a bit. I'll make a try at answering the issues yo

stupid sendmail question (did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN)

2004-04-23 Thread Duane Winner
Hello all: I am getting this in my /var/log/maillog: Apr 23 15:23:39 library sm-mta[169]: i3NJNd8g000169: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA when my Tomcat serlvets attempt to send an email from my web app. I only want sendmail listing on 127.0.0.1

Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs.

2004-04-23 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:37:00PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote: > Sorry, it's been quite a while since I've played with FreeBSD and some > things are taking a while to get used to. The configuration system has > come a long way... but the documentation seems to be lacking a bit. > > This is a quick li

Re: MIDI (and audio) on freeBSD

2004-04-23 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
> After some troubles, and a Kernel recompilation with the option "device > pcm", I found in /dev directory lots of devices related to sound. KDE > still does not sound at all: it looks for a /dev/dsp device that does > not exists; a /dev/dsp0.0 exists instead, but I haven't found the way to > inst

Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs.

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:37:00PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote: > Sorry, it's been quite a while since I've played with FreeBSD and some > things are taking a while to get used to. The configuration system has > come a long way... but the documentation seems to be lacking a bit. http://www.freebsd.org

Re: upgrade a port

2004-04-23 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
portupgrade wont work because ver 22 was not installed in the first place. pkg_deinstall ver 21 wont work because there are dependencies. portinstall ver 22 wont work because ver 21 is there. how do i get out of this catch-22 ? -cs John Oxley wrote: On Fri 2004-04-23 (11:18), Chiang Seng Chang

Re: Removing wierd file

2004-04-23 Thread Paul English
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Paul English wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Warren Block wrote: > > > > > > Does ls -lo show anything unusual? > > > > Nothing that makes any sense to me, but that is not a flag I usually use: > > > > ls -lo > > total 0 > > -rwxr

Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs.

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Rhett
Sorry, it's been quite a while since I've played with FreeBSD and some things are taking a while to get used to. The configuration system has come a long way... but the documentation seems to be lacking a bit. This is a quick list of items that I had to struggle through without references from th

Re: installing kde-lite from port

2004-04-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-22 17:41]: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:31:42PM -0400, Chiang Seng Chang wrote: > > not a question but may be its not such a good idea after all to install kde > > from port on a p2-400, still compiling after 10 hours... > > It'll be going for a while y

Courier-MTA/maildrop

2004-04-23 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Pardon if this is a bit off topic, but here it goes... I have a couier-mta system that is running nicely on my 4.9 box, and I wanted to add some server side mailfilter for some of my email (like put mail from this list into a specific folder automatically). I enabled maildrop in courierd, but I a

Re: Slow loading websites

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Rue
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 02:13:13PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Apr 23, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Jammet wrote: > >When i go to a website, say Slashdot or freshmeat, or any where that > >involves ads on the page some where, about 99% of the time it can take > >upwards of 2-3 minutes to load the entire

Re: Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 08:49:18PM +0200, Feczak Szabolcs wrote: > 4.9-Beta and 5.2.1 has this fixed, saidly 5.2.1 produces > critical kernel panic with ncpmount, so my only choice > currently is 4.9-Beta ... but If I can't resolve these > problems ... maybe none :( I ment 4.10-Beta here ...

Re: Upgrade gone bad, please help

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:37:59PM -0500, Joseph Koenig wrote: > At this point, I have upgraded my src as it was out of date before I > upgraded via sysinstall. The system is up and running, although far from > stable. My question is, at this point, have I done enough damage to > everything that us

Re: Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 01:39:14AM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: > This command should always give an error. If > /mnt/nwfs does not exist you can't create > /mnt/nwfs/., and if /mnt/nwfs exist then so will > /mnt/nwfs/. That was the point, to make the os admit, that it exist, so $ mkdir /mnt/nwfs/.

Re: Upgrade gone bad, please help

2004-04-23 Thread Joseph Koenig
At this point, I have upgraded my src as it was out of date before I upgraded via sysinstall. The system is up and running, although far from stable. My question is, at this point, have I done enough damage to everything that using sysinstall to upgrade is out of the question, or can I reboot my ol

Re: vinum requirements

2004-04-23 Thread synrat
thanx Greg. like your book. hope there will be another edition. Does all this mean that if I don't have ~133kb available for Vinum in the beginning of the disk before my first ( root ) partition, I can't use Vinum on that disk ? or would it write half of the configuration in that first 60kb and th

Re: updated ports tree

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:04:06PM +, Killermink ! wrote: > Hello all, > > I am about to (re)install FreeBSD 5.2.1, and wish to make sure I have the > latest ports afterwards. I do not really wish to install the whole ports > tree from sysinstall as disk space is at a premium, and i will (s

Re: Slow loading websites

2004-04-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 23, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Jammet wrote: When i go to a website, say Slashdot or freshmeat, or any where that involves ads on the page some where, about 99% of the time it can take upwards of 2-3 minutes to load the entire page. [ ... ] I guess my main question is, anyone ever seen this, if so ev

Re: Upgrade gone bad, please help

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
You should be able to hit the space bar at the appropriate time, drop to a prompt that consists of one word: ok then, type ? you'll see a list of options, among them unload...so type: unload kernel then type: load kernel.GENERIC and you should be able to complete a boot...OTOH, there are (pr

Re: backing up cvs files

2004-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
dave wrote: Hello, I've got a cvs repository i'd like to move to another system, but i am uncertain as to how to back it up, any advice helpful. You can back up your CVS repository just like any other files. It would make sense to ensure that nobody is using it when you do so. Just find out wh

Slow loading websites

2004-04-23 Thread Jammet
I am running FireFox right now, but this happens a lot with other browsers as well. Just basics about my system, im running a AMD k6-2 400 386mb ram and an 32meg ati video card (dont remember the exact product right now) When i go to a website, say Slashdot or freshmeat, or any where that involv

Re: Jail and spammass-milter (sendmail/spamassassin)

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 23), Harald Schmalzbauer said: > Am Freitag, 23. April 2004 11:27 schrieb Harald Schmalzbauer: > > Dear all, > > > > is it possible that spamass-milter doesn't work in a jail? > > Ok, I verified that it's working with the same configuration under > -stabel outside a jail,

Re: make package from port

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:59:19PM +, Killermink ! wrote: > Is there a way I can create a package of xfce and its dependencies, so i > can back them up, reinstall then pkg_add them/it easily? I tried a make > package but it failed as it said it was already installed? To create a package fr

updated ports tree

2004-04-23 Thread Killermink !
Hello all, I am about to (re)install FreeBSD 5.2.1, and wish to make sure I have the latest ports afterwards. I do not really wish to install the whole ports tree from sysinstall as disk space is at a premium, and i will (soon) have a fast internet connection so seems pointless when i am only

bktr sloppy on 5.x

2004-04-23 Thread karma
greetings: does anyone confirm sloppy video on bktr (hauppauge) on 5.2.1 if compared to 4.9? is there a solution for that? cheers, karma ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

make package from port

2004-04-23 Thread Killermink !
Hello all, I have installed a few ports, the most notable being xfce-4.0.0 I now want to reinstall BSD, mainly because I am playing, but also because I am going to delete my XP partition and use the whole disk for FreeBSD. So, after doing so I wish to be able to install Xfce again, but don't wa

Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 23, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Danny wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:28 -0400, Bill Moran wrote /etc/defaults/periodic.conf has all the default values for periodic. Defaults as a reference, or the defaults that are currently enforced even without /etc/periodic.conf? Yes, to both. The two aren't ex

Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
[please fix your mail program so it doesn't mangle emails by wrapping lines] Danny wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:28 -0400, Bill Moran wrote Danny wrote: Greetings, So I have installed Postfix from the ports, read the pkg-message, read the changing the MTA in the handbook, and did a bit of

Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Danny
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:28 -0400, Bill Moran wrote > Danny wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > So I have installed Postfix from the ports, read the pkg-message, read the > > changing the MTA in the handbook, and did a bit of searching. > > > > So after the switch, I obviously get: > > > > Apr 23 0

Re: MRTG from ports

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 23), Wayne Pascoe said: > Hi all, > > I've just installed mrtg from /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg. I used to have > an older version of mrtg on the machine that I removed by doing > pkg_delete mrtg* > > Since the re-install, I've been getting this error: > SNMP_util version 0

Re: Upgrade gone bad, please help

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:16:52AM -0500, Joseph Koenig wrote: > I have a system that was running FreeBSD 4.3. At the time I built the > system, I compiled a custom kernel, but at this time, I do not need the > modifications I made to the kernel. Turns out I never really did need them. > So, I went

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:55:38AM -0500, Darryl Hoar wrote: > I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure > this machine to be a wireless access point ? Check out the handbook on your machine, in /usr/share/doc/ for the chapter on advanced networking; specifically the page la

Re: majordomo question

2004-04-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I was trying to find out why I din't receive any mail from the freebsd-java list and sent a which command to majordomo at freebsd.org but didn't get me listed with my email address. That's strange since I'm definitely subscribed to a couple of lists and I'm receiving mes

Re: Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Saturday 24 April 2004 01:04, Feczak Szabolcs wrote: > It gets more interesting: > > $ mkdir /mnt/nwfs/. > mkdir: /mnt/nwfs/.: File exists This command should always give an error. If /mnt/nwfs does not exist you can't create /mnt/nwfs/., and if /mnt/nwfs exist then so will /mnt/nwfs/. On Fri

Re: Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
Ok here gets realy interesting : $ mount /mnt/nwfs/ $ mount | grep nwfs /NWSERVER:ADMIN/SDI on /mnt/nwfs (nwfs) $ file /mnt/nwfs/. /mnt/nwfs/.: directory $ rm /mnt/nwfs/* rm: /mnt/nwfs/DESKTOP.AFP: is a directory rm: /mnt/nwfs/Icon: Unknown error: 35216 rm: /mnt/nwfs/Network Trash Folder: is a dir

Re: IMAP server and client recommendations?

2004-04-23 Thread Chris Shenton
"Clarence Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could download Eudora for Windows and import > the outlook email into Eudora. It stores the email in > mbox format. I don't know if their mbox format is fully > unix standard, but they are the same people that maintain > the qpopper pop3 daemon, s

Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
Danny wrote: Greetings, So I have installed Postfix from the ports, read the pkg-message, read the changing the MTA in the handbook, and did a bit of searching. So after the switch, I obviously get: Apr 23 03:01:00 mx1 postfix/sendmail[2175]: fatal: unsupported: -bh Apr 23 03:01:01 mx1 postfix/

Re: upgrade a port

2004-04-23 Thread John Oxley
On Fri 2004-04-23 (11:18), Chiang Seng Chang wrote: > currently i have openldap client 2.1 installed. > > $ pkg_glob -r openldap-client-2.1.30 > openldap-client-2.1.30 > kdeutils-3.2.2 > kdebase-3.2.2 > kdenetwork-3.2.2 > kdegraphics-3.2.2 > kdegames-3.2.2 > kdelibs-3.2.2 > gnupg-1.2.4_1 > samba-3

4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Danny
Greetings, So I have installed Postfix from the ports, read the pkg-message, read the changing the MTA in the handbook, and did a bit of searching. So after the switch, I obviously get: Apr 23 03:01:00 mx1 postfix/sendmail[2175]: fatal: unsupported: -bh Apr 23 03:01:01 mx1 postfix/sendmail[2176

Re: Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
It gets more interesting: $ mkdir /mnt/nwfs/. mkdir: /mnt/nwfs/.: File exists $ file /mnt/nwfs/. /mnt/nwfs/.: can't stat `/mnt/nwfs/.' (No such file or directory). Looks like we realy have problem with nwfs here ;( Any ideas to solve ? -- _(_)_ (_. o_)F3CZ0 (_,) http://f

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Thomas Beer wrote: > The NIC on the AP has to be able to support "Host AP" mode to work > as an access point. Netgear MA 521 *with firmware 1.3* are on > example for this. > > Cheers Tom > > > I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure > > this machine

openoffice menus

2004-04-23 Thread Malcolm Kay
I recently installed openoffice1.1 under FBSD 4.9-release. The capability is quite impressive and it genereally seems to behave very well. But I do have a problem: I am using a high resolution 1600x1200 display and the fonts used by the base UI are are crisp and clear but rather too small for m

upgrade a port

2004-04-23 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
currently i have openldap client 2.1 installed. $ pkg_glob -r openldap-client-2.1.30 openldap-client-2.1.30 kdeutils-3.2.2 kdebase-3.2.2 kdenetwork-3.2.2 kdegraphics-3.2.2 kdegames-3.2.2 kdelibs-3.2.2 gnupg-1.2.4_1 samba-3.0.3.p2_1,1 if i want to use version 2.2, do i just simply: > pkg_deinstal

Re: How to repair a system?

2004-04-23 Thread Daan Hoogland
On 23-apr-04, at 17:01, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Daan Hoogland wrote: Once again,... I have a system on which make buildworld won't work. Why doesn't it work? crunchgen: make error: cd: can't cd to /usr/obj/usr/5.2/src/rescue/rescue/../../contrib/tcsh/nls/spanish crunchg

concurrent portinstall

2004-04-23 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
while portinstall is running, is it safe to do another portinstall in another tty ? or this is a sure recipe for diaster ? -cs ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:03:16AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: > * Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-22 11:32]: > > > > The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in > > console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked > > fine. so far

Re: How to repair a system?

2004-04-23 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Daan Hoogland wrote: > Once again,... > > I have a system on which make buildworld won't work. Why doesn't it work? I am asking this, because this would probably be the simpliest way to do an unattended upgrade. Uli. > I am thinking of > doing a binary install on the system,

Re: ports question

2004-04-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Dear Andri Kok, Please put your reply to the buttom and cut out text thats no longer relevant. This makes the mail more readable for others. On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:23:52PM +1000, sAndri Kok wrote: > Hi guys, > > Thx for he previous replies =) Now, u said that I may not be able to run > some

Re: Specifying sort fields

2004-04-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-04-23T13:00:17Z, "JJB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you that worked. You know that nowhere in the 'man sort' info does > it say that to use sort command you have to use pipe commands to feed it > data. It doesn't because you don't. The syntax is: sort [OPTION]... [FILE]... w

Jailed postfix - Cannot connect to named Unix socket

2004-04-23 Thread jeremie le-hen
Hi list, I set up a Postfix system in a jail, using mount_nullfs(8) in order to access various files it needs (libs, mailboxes, and so on...). The main goal is that I can start Postfix either in a jail or not, and it doesn't complain. Therefore I can do nearly everything from the host : exportin

Re: Specifying sort fields

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 23), JJB said: > Thank you that worked. You know that nowhere in the 'man sort' info > does it say that to use sort command you have to use pipe commands to > feed it data. How is somebody without UNIX programming background > going to read that and know how to feed sort it

Re: GD from ports on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 23), Wayne Pascoe said: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:49:33AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Apr 22), Wayne Pascoe said: > > > gdft.c:485: `FT_ENCODING_MS_SYMBOL' undeclared (first use in this > > > function) > > > > Make sure your freetype is up-to-date

Upgrade gone bad, please help

2004-04-23 Thread Joseph Koenig
I have a system that was running FreeBSD 4.3. At the time I built the system, I compiled a custom kernel, but at this time, I do not need the modifications I made to the kernel. Turns out I never really did need them. So, I went to upgrade the machine to 4.9 using sysinstall. All went well, except

Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 -> 5.2.1, drop in hard diskornetworkperformance?

2004-04-23 Thread Markie
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Re: microuptime() went backwards

2004-04-23 Thread Peter Elsner
At 01:04 AM 4/23/2004, you wrote: Hello all. SOmetimes I see such messages in dmesg. perl# dmesg uptime() went backwards (1574174.333073 -> 1573478.944788) what they mean? and what causes them to appear ? is it good or bad?? :) -- Best regards,Hugle ___

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Paul Tan
Try this URL: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7121/sam0205a/sam0205a.htm :D cheers, Paul Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -

Re: Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
Oh btw, it is 4.10-BETA, since 4.9-RELEASE I had problems with smbfs see here : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=64719 So I have to act as a samba and netware client. I have also tried 5.x, but 5.x freezes with ncpmount ... Any ideas appreciated ... Thanks -- _(_)_ (_. o_)

Re: Local (UNIX domain) Socket understanding /Jail

2004-04-23 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > can anybody point me to some info which can help me understand local sockets > (=? UNIX Domain sockets?)? > I have the problem that I can't get milter work in a jail and I suspect > the /var/run/milter.sock socket but don't really understand what

Re: handbook - kernel build question

2004-04-23 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 23 April 2004 06:15 am, Terry L. Tyson Jr. wrote: > In section 9.3 of the handbook just before the two procedures it > lists "If you are building a new kernel without updating the source > code (perhaps just to add a new option, such as IPFIREWALL) you can > use either procedure." > > How

fsck: cannot find inode X

2004-04-23 Thread Todd Meister
Hello, Tonight, a server crashed and, when it came up, required a manual fsck. Normally, this is not a big deal, especially on our customer web servers, where there isn't much "real" activity at the time the server crashed (~5:00am). This time, though, I saw this error for the first time, whi

Serious NWFS problems ...

2004-04-23 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
Hi, The problem first occured with rsync : link_stat "/mnt/nwfs/." failed: No such file or directory rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(632) But I have figured out that is not rsync specific problem, I can reproduce the error, with basic system tools, such as c

Local (UNIX domain) Socket understanding /Jail

2004-04-23 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hi all, can anybody point me to some info which can help me understand local sockets (=? UNIX Domain sockets?)? I have the problem that I can't get milter work in a jail and I suspect the /var/run/milter.sock socket but don't really understand what it is and how it works. Thanks, -Harry --

Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 -> 5.2.1, drop in hard disk ornetworkperformance?

2004-04-23 Thread Markie
| -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Markie | Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:15 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 -> 5.2.1, drop in hard disk | ornetworkperformance? | | | - Original Message - | From

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 23 April 2004 08:01 am, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: > Probably. I'm not too familiar with how the ad-hoc connections work, > but i am certain that for a single client it would work. Just get a > wireless NIC in it, play a little routing magic, maybe look at the dhcpd > port (dhcp server) >

handbook - kernel build question

2004-04-23 Thread Terry L. Tyson Jr.
In section 9.3 of the handbook just before the two procedures it lists "If you are building a new kernel without updating the source code (perhaps just to add a new option, such as IPFIREWALL) you can use either procedure." However, after the two procedures it says "If you have not upgraded your s

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Darryl Hoar wrote: > I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure > this machine to be a wireless access point ? Install a prism 2 card and do something like (assuming fxp0 is your upstream iface and wi0 your card in AP mode). rc.conf ifconfig_w

Re: jdk14

2004-04-23 Thread Radu MOLNAR
Yep, that was the problem. When i had started the make i didn't have the linprocfs mounted. I did a make clean and a make and it compiled properly. Thanks Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Matt Navarre wrote: > You might have to make clean and restart the build. I was getting the same > error building java aft

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Thomas Beer
The NIC on the AP has to be able to support "Host AP" mode to work as an access point. Netgear MA 521 *with firmware 1.3* are on example for this. Cheers Tom > I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure > this machine to be a wireless access point ? > > just curious. > > -D

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
Probably. I'm not too familiar with how the ad-hoc connections work, but i am certain that for a single client it would work. Just get a wireless NIC in it, play a little routing magic, maybe look at the dhcpd port (dhcp server) ~j Darryl Hoar wrote: I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed

Re: Re: IMAP server and client recommendations?

2004-04-23 Thread Clarence Brown
You could download Eudora for Windows and import the outlook email into Eudora. It stores the email in mbox format. I don't know if their mbox format is fully unix standard, but they are the same people that maintain the qpopper pop3 daemon, so they obviously understand unix mbox format. Cla.

RE: Specifying sort fields

2004-04-23 Thread JJB
Thank you that worked. You know that nowhere in the 'man sort' info does it say that to use sort command you have to use pipe commands to feed it data. How is somebody without UNIX programming background going to read that and know how to feed sort it's data to sort? Don't you think the man sort in

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Doug Poland
Darryl Hoar wrote: I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a wireless access point ? just curious. http://www.google.com/search?q=freebsd+wireless+access+point&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 -- Regards, Doug

Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Darryl Hoar
I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a wireless access point ? just curious. -D ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Re: Newbie:Home network mail forwarding

2004-04-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:00:48PM -0400, Peter Tokanel wrote: > > > Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 07:33:51PM -0400, Peter Tokanel wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I am new to unix but I have managed to setup a home network using > >>Free BSD. The > >>FreeBSD box is a gat

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:13:11PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:04:56AM +0300, hugle wrote: > > > SOmetimes I see such messages in dmesg. > > > > perl# dmesg > > uptime() went backwards (1574174.333073 -> 1573478.944788) > > > > what they mean? and what causes them to a

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