Connecting to X Server on a FreeBSD Box

Hi, I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X applications from my fedora core 2. So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit. But it says : (gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: After I had export DISPLAY=freebsdboxip:0.0 it says again:

The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-03-27 - 2005-04-16

The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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

Limiting process memory consumption with rsetlimit and limit. . .

Hey all, I'm currently working on a project where I need to limit the amount of physical memory a process uses. I've tried the rsetlimit function and the limit shell command to do so, but I have had no luck (though I was able to limit the virtual memory and cause it to segfault). Neither seems

Re: KDE not starting. Cannot start kdeinit

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Danny Pansters wrote: IIRC exec used to be needed for some reason, but that's been a while, merely startkde (which is just a shell script) will do. The reasoning is in the man page for startx(1): [[ The .xinitrc is typically a shell script which starts many clients

Suggestions for post rm -rf /etc/*

Anyone have a suggestion for fixing a machine three states away after you rm -rf * dir/* inside of /etc or am I just screwed. I even had zsh ask me if that's what I really want to do. ::sob:: Sincerely, Glen Smith -- IT/Network Administrator Smith's PC Repair Consulting

5.4: vinum not starting at boot gvinum lacking functionality

Hi, Is there any chance we could get either vinum or gvinum to the reliability levels that vinum has had on 4.x before 5.4 gets out? Now vinum does not start at boot time. Gvinum is still very much promise-ware while missing resetconfig, etc. tools for

Re: Connecting to X Server on a FreeBSD Box

Soheil Hassas Yeganeh wrote: Hi, I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X applications from my fedora core 2. So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit. But it says : (gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: After I had export

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

Tim Hogan wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to

Re: Tar chunks

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 06:41:26PM -0500, Chris wrote: Can tar of some other compression util be set to archive a directory in chunks of say, 650 meg? Something like tar cjf - /dir/to/backup |split -b 650m - bkupname- should do the trick. Note that using a pipe saves s lot of space. This

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

On 2005-04-16 21:10, Tim Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq,

aiuto per far funzionare xf86config

Non so se mi potete aiutare ma ho il seguente problema: volevo installare freebsd 4.11 su un portatile ibm tinkpad 1200 sono riuscito ad installare vari sistemi sempre e senza problemi ora con l'installazione di freebsd 4.11 tutto fila liscio ma mi crea dei problemi con la configurazione

Enable SHMEM inside a jail?

Hello all! I'm root inside a FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE jail, and I need to enable SHMEM. I cannot recompile the kernel, because I cannot reboot the server. Would anyone happen to have any suggestions? Thank you, -- Fafa -- ___ Sign-up for Ads

Re: play video streaming in freebsd/kde desktop

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:21:39PM +0800, Edwin D. Vinas wrote: hi, how can i view streaming sites in FreeBSD? what applications do i need to install? thanks! -edwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

messages from dhclient

Hello, I have installed dhcp to get my FreeBSD system on line, a machine which I am trying to set up as a web server. I used sysinstall and it seems to work correctly (this e-mail is coming from my Linux workstation). However, when working on the FreeBSD machine I keep getting the following

Re: Suggestions for post rm -rf /etc/*

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:52:41AM -0500, Glen Smith typed: Anyone have a suggestion for fixing a machine three states away after you rm -rf * dir/* inside of /etc or am I just screwed. I even had zsh ask me if that's what I really want to do. ::sob:: Well, asuming you don't have any backups

ssh terminates connection

Hi all, when using ssh I encounter the following situation after a short moment of inactivity: write failed: permission denied Then I'm logged out and have to re-login. The problem is anoying because whenever I let postgresql for instance start a script, I can't walk away. I'm using openSSH

Re: messages from dhclient

Joost van Dijk wrote: Hello, I have installed dhcp to get my FreeBSD system on line, a machine which I am trying to set up as a web server. I used sysinstall and it seems to work correctly (this e-mail is coming from my Linux workstation). However, when working on the FreeBSD machine I

Re: messages from dhclient

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:04:48PM +0200, Joost van Dijk wrote: Hello, I have installed dhcp to get my FreeBSD system on line, a machine which I am trying to set up as a web server. I used sysinstall and it seems to work correctly (this e-mail is coming from my Linux workstation).

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

Mike Woods wrote: Tim Hogan wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases

Re: messages from dhclient

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:04:48PM +0200, Joost van Dijk wrote: Hello, I have installed dhcp to get my FreeBSD system on line, a machine which I am trying to set up as a web server. I used sysinstall and it seems to work correctly (this e-mail is coming from my Linux workstation).

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-04-16 21:10, Tim Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I

FreeBSD Culture

FreeBSD Culture We are four undergraduate students (1st year) who have chosen Organizational Culture and FreeBSD as the subject for our major written project. The underlying assumption for our project is that the FreeBSD community can be viewed and described within the framework of the theory for

Re: ELF type 3 not known

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:28:27PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: I got this error on one of two 4.11 boxes. is linux.ko loaded? That's the module responsible for reconizing elf type 3 if I'm not mistaken. The other box seems to have upgraded without incident. I use gnome_upgrade.sh

Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

Well, for what it's worth, I was doing some inverse traceroutes yesterday, and it does appear that Indian ISPs take quite a tortuous route from point to point. A traceroute from one Indian ISP (Net4India, the only one I could even reach, which is already a bit worrisome) went from India to

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

On 2005-04-17 06:19, Tim Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I edited the /etc/mail/mailer.conf before I did the last update and it did not seem to work. I think that I will try the NO_SENDMAIL option in the make.conf file and see what happens. One question though, the NO_MAILWRAPPER option will

Re: Connecting to X Server on a FreeBSD Box

On 4/17/05, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X applications from my fedora core 2. So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit. But it says : (gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

autoconf259 question

Hello! I try to make a working configure.in but I have the following problem. I write this: AC_CHECK_HEADERS([netinet/in_systm.h]) AC_CHECK_HEADERS([netinet/in.h]) AC_CHECK_HEADERS([netinet/ip.h],,, [code to insert]) I run autoheader259 to make config.h.in. Thereafter I run configure that

Heartbeat

Hi, I'm trying to get heartbeat going. I have a problem though with the udpport setting. The default is 694, but heartbeat won't start and say that it cannot bind to that port something else is listening on it. Using netstat dosn't show anything (the only thing running on the system is ssh and

System wide setting for OpenSSL CAfile / system certificates?

Good Afternoon, I've spent the past three hours playing with openssl.cnf and surfing google, and so far I've been unable to find an answer to this question. So I thought I'd ask here :). The background is that I've finally got around to getting a wildcard SSL certificate for my personal server,

newbie question

Hello Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to keep the server up, and host about 100 domains. Thank you in

Re: src out of sync or buildworld broken?

Gary Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Afternoon everyone. I track RELENG_5 using cvsup that runs nightly. Today I've been trying to buildworld and keep running into problems with missing directories and files. First, build world was complaing that the /usr/src/sys/dev/ieee488 dir was

Re: about hpoj

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've already installed cups-base. That's ok? Normally hpoj is installed with cups support: .if !defined(WITHOUT_CUPS) WITH_CUPS= yes .endif Then what I've to do? Could you send me and example of lpr config? Thanks for your support Regards Andrea

Re: Enable SHMEM inside a jail?

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 05:22:26AM -0500, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: Hello all! I'm root inside a FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE jail, and I need to enable SHMEM. I cannot recompile the kernel, because I cannot reboot the server. Would anyone happen to have any suggestions? In 4.x you cannot load

Re: Attaching to a Windows peer-to-peer network without a domain

Hi freebsd-questions On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Glen Smith wrote: Hi Ahost On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Ahost Isco wrote: Hello: Could someone tell me the steps necessary to connect freeBSD as a guest to a Microsoft Windows peer-to-peer network that is running without a domain? Windows has

Which driver for SIS sound controller ?

Hi all, I have installed 5.3 release and KDE 3.3 on a NEC machine (i386) with an integrated sound chip. When I start KDE, i get the following error message : Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)

Re: Which driver for SIS sound controller ?

edward wrote: Hi all, I have installed 5.3 release and KDE 3.3 on a NEC machine (i386) with an integrated sound chip. When I start KDE, i get the following error message : Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such

Re: Heartbeat

In the last episode (Apr 17), Robert Slade said: I'm trying to get heartbeat going. I have a problem though with the udpport setting. The default is 694, but heartbeat won't start and say that it cannot bind to that port something else is listening on it. Using netstat dosn't show anything

Stuck in bootstrapping hell - how do I troubleshoot?

I'm having a hell of a time trying to get a new development server to boot FreeBSD. The disk contents are an exact mirror from what I have running on a production server, except for a different IP number in rc.conf. The hardware is identical as far as I can tell. The server is in a datacenter

PPP slows down the system

Hi everybody. I'm using a 56k connection to access the Internet. I'm using user PPP, and everytime I dial up, everything works too slow. At least X works quite bad (and so KDE). When I try startx, it freezes for a few seconds and then it starts and takes a long time to load KDE. Also, the

Sound not working

Hi everybody. I'm using a SoundBlaster PCI 128 and I get a problem with sound when starting KDE. After builing and loading the sound moule (snd_es137x.ko) everything seems to work allright. KDE's startup melody sounds for a few seconds, but it suddenly stops without any error message. When I try

Re: PPP slows down the system

Hi everybody. I'm using a 56k connection to access the Internet. I'm using user PPP, and everytime I dial up, everything works too slow. At least X works quite bad (and so KDE). When I try startx, it freezes for a few seconds and then it starts and takes a long time to load KDE. Also, the

Re: PPP slows down the system

On 4/17/05, Hexren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody. I'm using a 56k connection to access the Internet. I'm using user PPP, and everytime I dial up, everything works too slow. At least X works quite bad (and so KDE). When I try startx, it freezes for a few seconds and then it starts

Re: Sound not working

Emil Khatib wrote: Hi everybody. I'm using a SoundBlaster PCI 128 and I get a problem with sound when starting KDE. After builing and loading the sound moule (snd_es137x.ko) everything seems to work allright. KDE's startup melody sounds for a few seconds, but it suddenly stops without any

Re: PPP slows down the system

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:04:11PM +0200, Emil Khatib wrote: Hi everybody. I'm using a 56k connection to access the Internet. I'm using user PPP, and everytime I dial up, everything works too slow. At least X works quite bad (and so KDE). When I try startx, it freezes for a few seconds and

Re: Time spent on server maintenance (was Re: newbie question)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to keep the server up, and host about 100

PCCARD WIRELESS

Carissimi, già esperto di linux sto cercando di configurare la mia cisco aironet 350 pccard (sicuramente supportata) sul mio laptop sotto freebsd 5.4, ma proprio non ci riesco. Nel kernel sono configurati ovviamente i device pccard, wlan, an. In rc.conf ho pccard_enable. A scheda pcmcia

RE: PCCARD WIRELESS

Sorry this message wasn't directed to this mailing list. Sorry again Vittorio :-- Messaggio originale -- :Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:57:05 +0200 :From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org :Subject: PCCARD WIRELESS : : :Carissimi, : :già esperto di linux sto cercando di

Re: Which driver for SIS sound controller ?

Works like a charm. Thanks Chris. Edward edward wrote: Hi all, I have installed 5.3 release and KDE 3.3 on a NEC machine (i386) with an integrated sound chip. When I start KDE, i get the following error message : Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver:

Support for Alviso (Intel i915) chipset networking?

Hi, I just bought a Sony VGN-S380 laptop, which is based on Intel's Sonoma platform. This includes the Intel i915 chipset. I'm looking for ethernet (not wireless) drivers for it, the fxp driver reluctantly loads, but doesn't recognize that there's a compatible card in my system. I'm running

Re: messages from dhclient

I have installed dhcp to get my FreeBSD system on line, a machine which I am trying to set up as a web server. I used sysinstall and it seems to work correctly (this e-mail is coming from my Linux workstation). However, when working on the FreeBSD machine I keep getting the following message:

Question using growfs with large fs

I am running FreeBSD 5.3 on an x86 system. I have a 3ware 9500-s 12 port raid controller installed. Currently there is 8 250gig HD's attached. I originally created a raid-50 (two raid-5, 4 drives each) but recently, migrated the raid-50 to one large raid-5 (which freed up one of the disks) .

Re: Support for Alviso (Intel i915) chipset networking?

D'oh, you're right, the i915 is the graphics chip (I think, technically, it's the whole northbridge. Intel is damn unclear about what functions are in each chip. The Win XP drivers list the ethernet as Intel(R) PRO/100 VE PCI ID: vendor = 8086 dev= 1068 subsys = 81d0104d

Re: how to make my RAID device WORM(write once and read many)

hai, Thanks for responding to my query, actually it is a raid5 storage device it contains firewire and usb ports, through this interface a user can store data to the raid5 device irrespective of file system. once he copied data to the device it should be immutable(i.e cannot be modify and