Re: Help deleted /dev/ad0s2 tree

2003-03-11 Thread Subhro Sankha Kar
Glenn Todd writes: Foolishly I deleted my /dev/ad0s2a tree. However, I tried the following in an attempt to recreated but I am getting stumped at the end of the process. Booted the system in single user mode, then created a read/writable file system with: mount_mfs -T minimum -s 131072

Backup Solution

2003-03-11 Thread Wayne Swart
Hi everyone I am looking for a centralized backup solution for FreeBSD. It must be able to backup to harddrive, rather than to a tape drive, and must have support for FreeBSD/Linux and Windows 2000 clients. Does anyone have any suggestions ? Kind Regards Wayne Swart Network Aministrator MICS

Re: How Do I Build IPFW2 Only (Was Re: How Do I Specify -DIPFW2 In make.conf?)

2003-03-11 Thread Ceri Davies
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Re: your mail

2003-03-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:09:23AM -0600, Ryan Thompson typed: Paul Lathrop wrote to Ryan Thompson: I'd also like to remind the original poster about the security risks associated with suid binaries. There are many subtle ways in which suid binaries can bite one in the ass...

5.0 Release and Xircom CEM56-100

2003-03-11 Thread shpokas
hello all, i have FreeBSD 5.0 RELEASE installed on OmniBook 6000 the problem is that i cannot get Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10/100+ Modem 56 (CEM56-100) to work. i did quite extensive search in newsgroups, but with less help. it is listed in /etc/defaults/pccard.conf (so, supported, also seen

Re: unable to subscribe

2003-03-11 Thread Volker Kindermann
Basically I send this: subscribe freebsd-security-notifications -- I get this commands (exactly as shown) back to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: auth 2cd8eff3 subscribe freebsd-security-notifications [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do not want this action to be taken, simply

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Changing console behaviour

2003-03-11 Thread michael green
Further to my question about missing shared object libmytinfo.so.2, Peter Elsner was again kind enough to guide me to the compatibilty libraries, which once loaded solved the problem. I created a fresh FBSD 4.7 installation and ran the install script which ran through without a problem.

which lib contains ber_malloc ?

2003-03-11 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi, can anyone tell me which library contains the symbol ber_malloc? I am trying to compile am-utils with ldap support and the configure script throws an error: /usr/local/lib/libldap.so: undefined reference to `ber_memalloc' liblber does *not* contain the symbol. I use FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE.

Re: freebsd nis server with debian clients

2003-03-11 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:24:15PM +1100, Neeraj Arora wrote: This means, the libraries on Linux do not understand shadow passwords on NIS. Thus, if I want to use shadow passwords with a Linux Machine, I have to expose them to clients. There is a possibility that I could delete or hide the

Boot/install/config util like Solaris Jumpstart?

2003-03-11 Thread Chris Shenton
We're planning on deploying a handful of commodity boxes to act as a loose mail cluster hidden behind a pair of load balancers. They'll have almost identical SW installs: APOP, SMTP, IMAP, LDAP. Naturally they'll have per-box differences, like their ethernet address, perhaps some box-unique

Re: transparent ipfw

2003-03-11 Thread IAccounts
Been browsing for a bit (knowing I will get some rtfm responses from this) but havnt come across a solid answer for this. Most solutions involve NAT or some other non-routable ip block type of solution. Have the following (192.168.100.0/24 used in place of routable addresses) - Internet

Re: Primary Slave does not work

2003-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: Hello Folks, I am a newbie to FreeBSD. I got a 40GB IDE Seagate Cheetah connected to the Primary as the master and a Samsung CD-ROM SC-152C as a slave to the Hard Drive. I have also got a Samsung CD Writer SW-212B connected to the secondary controller as master. When I

Re: difficulties with BIND going from 8.* to 9.*

2003-03-11 Thread IAccounts
I decided today it was time to install bind9 from ports and I am have having some issues I need help with. Under 8.* I started BIND with the -u bind -g bind flags and a sockstat -4 showed named running as user bind. However, in 9.* I understand the -u bind flag is enough, but the server

Re: suid shell script

2003-03-11 Thread Peter Elsner
One creates the script, places it in /usr/local/bin (for example), and runs it via a root CRONTAB entry. At 12:42 AM 3/11/2003 -0500, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 12:28 AM, Jonathan Chen wrote: Dunno about Linux, but every other

Re: Enabling APM in Freebsd 4.7

2003-03-11 Thread Mica Telodico
--- Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:03:53 +0100 (CET), Mica Telodico wrote: Hi, I've installed FreeBSD 4.7 and I'd like to get enabled the APM support. I know that I can enable it by compile it in the kernel, but I've read about another

Re: which lib contains ber_malloc ?

2003-03-11 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi, can anyone tell me which library contains the symbol ber_malloc? I am trying to compile am-utils with ldap support and the configure script throws an error: /usr/local/lib/libldap.so: undefined reference to `ber_memalloc' liblber does *not* contain the symbol.

Re: difficulties with BIND going from 8.* to 9.*

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:12:35 -0500 (EST) IAccounts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided today it was time to install bind9 from ports and I am have having some issues I need help with. Under 8.* I started BIND with the -u bind -g bind flags and a sockstat -4 showed named running as user

Re: Backup Solution

2003-03-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-11T09:36:24Z, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It must be able to backup to harddrive, rather than to a tape drive, and must have support for FreeBSD/Linux and Windows 2000 clients. /usr/ports/misc/amanda-server /usr/ports/misc/amanda-client I wasn't aware that the

Re: What is a practical max nujmber of files in a directory

2003-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 10), Bill Moran said: Question for the gurus or anyone who has done any test on filesystem performance. Where is the point at which a directory has too many files in it? Mainly with regard to performance degredation? It Depends

Re: Installing Freebds

2003-03-11 Thread Martin Karlsson
* Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-03-11 04.55 +0200]: [...snip...] Note: For details about installing FreeBSD, written in French, you can always point our browser at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Hi Giorgos, FYI, the directory

Re: Difference between Vinum and atacontrol RAID?

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Pete wrote: [ ... ] The RAID-1 volume I'm using right now is with two drives attached to a non-RAID card with a Promise chipset. Does it work if you move the two drives to another machine without a Promise, Highpoint, or other RAID controller card or MB chipset...? Hardware based RAID is likely

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2003-03-11 Thread hamid qureshi
HELLO SIR I READ YOUR MAIL ADRESS WHEN I SEARCHING THE ASSEMBLY LANGUAGR PROGRAMING NOTES. SIR, I NEED UR HELP IN ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE.I NEED A PROGRAM IN WHICH WE INPUT THE NUMBER IN DECIMAL,AND THEN WE RECEIVED THE OPTION IN WHICH FORM YOU WANT RESULT, IN HEXA

disabling sendmail and using postfix

2003-03-11 Thread freebsd
Hi, (freebsd newbie) I've installed postfix from ports. At the end of the installion script I was asked if it should modify the /etc/mail/mailer.conf file which I answered with yes! My question is, how is postfix started? It did not install a .sh file in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Is still started

Re: your mail

2003-03-11 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: True. But there is the suidperl binary to circumvent this. If your /usr/bin/suidperl is suid root (which it is not by default I believe), perl will honor the suid or sgid bits on your perlscripts. I'd still recommend sudo instead

Re: Change default IPC limitations

2003-03-11 Thread Kung Ching-Yi
I got some help from John so I will give it a try. Thanks for all your kind helps. From: taxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kung Ching-Yi [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Change default IPC limitations Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:30:22 -0500 On Monday 10 March 2003 08:49 pm, Kung

Re: which lib contains ber_malloc ?

2003-03-11 Thread Ion Badulescu
[why the bcc to amd-dev? it's a legitimate question, no reason to hide...] On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: can anyone tell me which library contains the symbol ber_malloc? I am trying to compile am-utils with ldap support and the configure script throws an error:

Re: disabling sendmail and using postfix

2003-03-11 Thread Kjell
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:disabling sendmail and using postfix To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:34:20 +0100 Hi, (freebsd newbie) I've installed postfix from ports. At the end of the installion script

send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon,breach of contract for Comcast users

2003-03-11 Thread Christopher Nehren
I'm running FreeBSD as the only operating system on my home machine, using Comcast non-professional as my ISP. My problem is that send-pr is written to use a local mail daemon to send mail to the GNATS submission site. Running a mail daemon, however, is strictly and expressly prohibited by

Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon, breach of contract forComcast users

2003-03-11 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:54:02 -0500 Christopher Nehren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I'm running FreeBSD as the only operating system on my home machine, using Comcast non-professional as my ISP. My problem is that send-pr is written to use a local mail daemon to send mail to the GNATS

Squid and httpd_accelerator

2003-03-11 Thread G D McKee
Hi I am trying to set up a reveres proxy server using squid. I have looked at the following sites but with no luck - has anyone got a working config? I want a virtual config. I have set-up apache to bind all the web servers on the local nic and ones on other boxes and bound squid on port 80 to

Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon,breach of contract for Comcast users

2003-03-11 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 13:09, Dan Nelson wrote: I'm sure runing an incoming mail daemon is the prohibited part. Just using it to send messages can't be prohibited imho. From the Comcast Acceptable Use Policy: You may not resell, share, or otherwise distribute the Service or any portion

Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon,breach of contract for Comcast users

2003-03-11 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Nehren [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 13:09, Dan Nelson wrote: From the Comcast Acceptable Use Policy: This is all silly. send-pr should work without having a local SMTP server. What error are you getting when you run it - at least, I assume

Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon,breach of contract for Comcast users

2003-03-11 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 13:29, Dan Nelson wrote: I'm almost positive that when they mean server they mean an incoming server. A sendmail that simply queues outgoing email for sending should not be prohibited. If you're worried, just send an email to their support group. I've sent them an

Cant' get networking to work with 3comm PCI card on notebook

2003-03-11 Thread Robert Stackpole
I'm new to freebsd but I have set up a couple of systems successfully before. My current problem is with a Dell Inspiron 7000 notebook. I have installed freebsd 4.6 with x running Gnome destop and all is well. The problems is that the network pci is not working. I did not have this computer

APM standby freeze the PC

2003-03-11 Thread Mica Telodico
Hi, I have this configuration: MoBo MSI KT4 Ultra CPU Athlon XP 2400+ Matrox G450 I'd like to keep my computer in standby when I don't use it , but if I give the command : apm -Z in the console appears : ata0: resetting devices... And the system locks up . The Suspend mode works perfectly. On

Re: newbie : no mouse in x

2003-03-11 Thread Lee Harr
I just installed FreeBSD 4.7 and it works fine in the shell but when I try to get into KDE or GNOME I have no mouse. I've used Do you need mouse in the text console? I never use that, and so in all my XF86Config files, I just use the raw mouse device: /dev/psm0 usually, the type auto works,

Re: How to enable ACL support in 5.0?

2003-03-11 Thread Dancho Penev
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:48:23PM +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:48:23 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to enable ACL support in 5.0? Hello, I might appear stupid or not having read the manual, but whatever I try, I can't

Re: Installing ports witout internet

2003-03-11 Thread Lee Harr
I've always used FreeBSD on machines connected to the internet... so I have never experienced installing applications offline. My question is: Is it possible to install applications (using the port collection ) on a machine that's not connected to the internet? If yes, what are the requirements?

Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon, breach of contract for Comcast users

2003-03-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-03-11 12:54, Christopher Nehren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD as the only operating system on my home machine, using Comcast non-professional as my ISP. My problem is that send-pr is written to use a local mail daemon to send mail to the GNATS submission site. Running a

Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon, breach of contract forComcast users

2003-03-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-11T18:40:02Z, Christopher Nehren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've sent them an email asking about the smarthost setup -- the ball's in their court now. Thanks for the help, it's most appreciated. I will go out on a limb and assert as fact that running an outgoing mail queue is

Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon, breach of contract forComcast users

2003-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
Christopher Nehren wrote: I'm running FreeBSD as the only operating system on my home machine, using Comcast non-professional as my ISP. My problem is that send-pr is written to use a local mail daemon to send mail to the GNATS submission site. Running a mail daemon, however, is strictly and

use postfix and spamassassin

2003-03-11 Thread freebsd
Hi, (freebsd newbie) I've tried freebsd for a few month now and now I would like to use it as an anti-spam server. I installed postfix and spamassassin from the ports-collection. The server should only check every [EMAIL PROTECTED] incoming mail against spamassassin and after having checked

/dev and FreeBSD 5.0

2003-03-11 Thread Michael J Ruhl
Howdy, I use tcpdump pretty frequently, and on previous version of FreeBSD, I could set the permissions of the bpf filters so that I could read them (group access). With 5.0, it seems that I can only use tcpdump with root. How can I specify that the bpf devices are created with group r when not

Some Info

2003-03-11 Thread vignesh vignesh
Hi, I am student and I would like to get some information about FreeBSD.What is the advantages and disadvantages of this operating system? Regards, V_Waran _ Are you in love? Find a date on MSN Personals

Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon,breach of contract for Comcast users

2003-03-11 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 14:51, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You can always configure Sendmail to listen on localhost:25 only. This is what the relevant part of my rc.conf looks like: I'm sure that your ISP can't object to *this* sort of setup. Based upon a point raised by Bill Moran, I see how that

installijng freebsd on a second disk

2003-03-11 Thread Rajeev Agrawala
Hi, I have a freebsd machine running 4.2. I dwant to upgrade the machine to 4.7-RELEASE, but don't want to do an in-place upgrade. Is it possible, to install freebsd on a second disk on a freebsd system running live, by running /stand/sysinstall. Here /stand/sysinstall is from 4.2 release and

Re: /dev and FreeBSD 5.0

2003-03-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael J Ruhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use tcpdump pretty frequently, and on previous version of FreeBSD, I could set the permissions of the bpf filters so that I could read them (group access). With 5.0, it seems that I can only use tcpdump with root. How can I specify that the bpf

RE: use postfix and spamassassin

2003-03-11 Thread John Straiton
I can't help you with your transport problems (try the postfix-users list if you don't get a response here), but I've documented my Cyrus+Postfix+SpamAssassin+F-Prot install that I use for my personal email. The configuration should be the same except that you wouldn't take local delivery of the

Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon, breach of contract forComcast users

2003-03-11 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Just configure sendmail for local submission only (see the docs on rc.conf and the new configuratin options for sendmail) That is NOT in breach of your contract since sendmail is NOT running as a daemon at that point. Actually, it *is*

Re: Installing ports witout internet

2003-03-11 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I've always used FreeBSD on machines connected to the internet... so I have never experienced installing applications offline. My question is: Is it possible to install applications (using the port collection ) on a machine that's not

Re: Some Info

2003-03-11 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:21:51AM +0800, vignesh vignesh wrote: Hi, I am student and I would like to get some information about FreeBSD.What is the advantages and disadvantages of this operating system? The advantage of FreeBSD over other OS's is that not only can you try it for free,

Re: Hot-Swapable Drives and FreeBSD

2003-03-11 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:35:46 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there a safe way short of rebooting to let FreeBSD know that a hot-pluggable drive has been added? I recently added one to a FreeBSD4.7 system. When the connector made contact, a console message that Channel A had just

Re: installijng freebsd on a second disk

2003-03-11 Thread Nigel Soon
have a look at this link: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200302/fbsdscratch.html Nigel On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Rajeev Agrawala wrote: Hi, I have a freebsd machine running 4.2. I dwant to upgrade the machine to 4.7-RELEASE, but don't want to do an in-place upgrade. Is it possible, to install

ssh'ing into jail(8)

2003-03-11 Thread Cary Mathews
If this is not the right fourm to ask this question, please redirect me to the correct place, or documentation which addresses this issue. I am setting up an internal (192.168.x.x) network of computers consisting of jail(8)'d virtual machines. I have set up djbdns to provide DNS service for this

Re: newbie : no mouse in x

2003-03-11 Thread Rob
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:17:39PM +, Lee Harr wrote: Do you need mouse in the text console? I never use that, and so in all my XF86Config files, I just use the raw mouse device: /dev/psm0 usually, the type auto works, sometimes I have to use type microsoft. If you don't need mouse

POST data not available in cgi perl scripts

2003-03-11 Thread Olivier Dony
I understand this might be a little off topic but I can only reproduce the problem on one of my FreeBSD server, so it's not that much OT. It's very simple, the data from a HTTP POST never reaches my CGI perl scripts. There are no errors in the server log, the CGI executes fine, no debug with

Silky Sweet Inner Meat...!!

2003-03-11 Thread Samantha Jones
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Re: POST data not available in cgi perl scripts

2003-03-11 Thread Olivier Dony
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:21:59AM +0100, Olivier Dony wrote: (...) Though if I run my script with 'perl -c' in interactive mode and POST ^^^ Sorry here I meant 'perl' in command line to get the CGI.pm interactive mode, and of course not 'perl -c', which I

good compact flash/smart card readers?

2003-03-11 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, Im about to buy a usb cf card reader (i want to be able to write to cf cards) does anyone here have one they would reccomend which works well in FreeBSD? Thanks, Jacob Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 6102 ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne University

ng_pppoe: session in wrong state

2003-03-11 Thread The Anarcat
Hi! Yesterday, I started having problems with my ADSL PPPoE connection. My connection would be slow for about 20 minutes then just timeout. When ppp tries to connect again, the kernel says: /kernel: session in wrong state I search the mailing lists and found a message with a similar problem but

Re: good compact flash/smart card readers?

2003-03-11 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:30:46AM +1100, JacobRhoden wrote: Hi, Im about to buy a usb cf card reader (i want to be able to write to cf cards) does anyone here have one they would reccomend which works well in FreeBSD? SanDisk ImageMate, P/N SDDR-31, works exceptionally well. Just start

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Re: good compact flash/smart card readers?

2003-03-11 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:30:46AM +1100, JacobRhoden wrote: Hi, Im about to buy a usb cf card reader (i want to be able to write to cf cards) does anyone here have one they would reccomend which works well in FreeBSD? Thanks, Jacob I have a Sitecom CN-300 reader that seems to work

nasty HD crash -- can any one help with suggestions?

2003-03-11 Thread Steve Warwick
Murphy struck with a vengeance this morning. I have all my clients data on drive 2 in my server (why, because I was about to do a machine / OS swap). However, for some reason the second drive went down raaaly hard early this morning, some 4-5 hours before the changeover. So the question is,

Re: Backup Solution

2003-03-11 Thread Brian Astill
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:45 pm, Wayne Swart wrote: Hi everyone I am looking for a centralized backup solution for FreeBSD. It must be able to backup to harddrive, rather than to a tape drive, and must have support for FreeBSD/Linux and Windows 2000 clients. bu (in ports) looks good --

Re: suid shell script

2003-03-11 Thread Lee Harr
There are a couple of scripts I use for my own convenience that I ran setuid root I have one of those: my dialer script. What I did is create a short C wrapper: #include stdlib.h int main() { system(/root/bin/dial); return 0; } Then I made that suid root.

Mounting a Bootable FreeBSD disk

2003-03-11 Thread Martin McCormick
This is a time when I don't understand all I know yet. I just built a system using the FreeBSD4.7 CDROM and then removed that bootable drive and temporarily added it to another identical FreeBSD box as a second drive. I added it hot for practice in an upcoming upgrade and used

Re: Mounting a Bootable FreeBSD disk

2003-03-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
try using /dev/da1s1a for the root partition slice of the hot added disk with the bootable system on it. Chad On Tuesday, Mar 11, 2003, at 19:08 US/Mountain, Martin McCormick wrote: This is a time when I don't understand all I know yet. I just built a system using the FreeBSD4.7 CDROM

Re: Mounting a Bootable FreeBSD disk

2003-03-11 Thread Martin McCormick
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: try using /dev/da1s1a for the root partition slice of the hot added disk with the bootable system on it. Oh my! I forgot about the swap partition. It works. Lately, every time I have written to this list, it turns out that I did something

Re: Some Info

2003-03-11 Thread taxman
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 03:21 pm, vignesh vignesh wrote: Hi, I am student and I would like to get some information about FreeBSD.What is the advantages and disadvantages of this operating system? First read the information at www.freebsd.org. There is so much there that will help you

Running Apps with wine...

2003-03-11 Thread Rod Person
Can anyone run anything with WINE. I have setup wine a tried apps using documentation from winehq, but none of the app that are listed as working work for me. Anyone have any tip, hints or good place to find info on running anything on wine? Or someplace to find different examples of wine conf

Re: pkg-comment all gone...

2003-03-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
William Palfreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not that I've got anything against it or anything, but I've noticed that recent ports tree cvsups have wiped out most of the pkg-comment files. They were moved into the makefiles, to save inodes. When did this policy change happen, because I can't

Libtool port question

2003-03-11 Thread Sean O'Neill
Yeah I know - this is more appropriate for the ports mailing list ... hoping someone here knows before I go off and subscribe to the ports mailing list to ask the same question. Anyone know why ports/devel/libtool14 is actually libtool 1.3.4 and NOT libtool 1.4.# ? 1.3.4 is pretty old. Hell,

Package set removal

2003-03-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
I would like to remove the X11 implementation from my 4.7-STABLE installation, and was wondering if there's a better way to do it than package-by-package. I originally installed it over a base system by using /stand/sysinstall and specifying the additional distribution set. Is there a way to

Re: disabling sendmail and using postfix

2003-03-11 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [freebsd] [11-03-03 17:34 +0100]: | Hi, | (freebsd newbie) | I've installed postfix from ports. At the end of the | installion script I was asked if it should modify the | /etc/mail/mailer.conf file which I answered with yes! | | My question is, how is postfix started? It

Re: Fetchmail question

2003-03-11 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+++ Dragoncrest [freebsd] [10-03-03 22:26 -0500]: | Hi all. Got a question about fetchmail again. This one should be | easy. I'm looking for the easiest way to get fetchmail to purge a mailbox | for me. Here's what I'm after. First off, when my mail downloads, fetch | has been told

Status of /usr/ports/mail/drac

2003-03-11 Thread James Long
I find the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the Makefile for the /usr/ports/mail/drac port, but mail to that address bounces with a mailbox disabled error. Is this port still maintained? I am unable to compile it (for sendmail), due to a checksum mismatch. If I override the checksum mismatch,

Re: Installing ports witout internet

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Lee Harr wrote: I've always used FreeBSD on machines connected to the internet... so I have never experienced installing applications offline. My question is: Is it possible to install applications (using the port collection ) on a machine that's not connected to the internet? Possible? Of course.

Traceroute issues

2003-03-11 Thread Dragoncrest
Hi all. Got a really weird issue here. Got a router that uses simple nat that for some reason won't allow me to traceroute out of my freebsd box, but every other computer connected to the router can, and can traceroute with flying colors. What might possibly be wrong with my machine that I

Re: Traceroute issues

2003-03-11 Thread Daxbert
Quoting Dragoncrest [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all. Got a really weird issue here. Got a router that uses simple nat that for some reason won't allow me to traceroute out of my freebsd box, but every other computer connected to the router can, and can traceroute with flying colors.

RE: Traceroute issues

2003-03-11 Thread Michael K. Smith
Hi all. Got a really weird issue here. Got a router that uses simple nat that for some reason won't allow me to traceroute out of my freebsd box, but every other computer connected to the router can, and can traceroute with flying colors. What might possibly be wrong with

5.0 Install Kernel/Dell Inspiron 2650

2003-03-11 Thread Lucas Reddinger
Apparently, I need to disable eisa support to successfully boot a kernel on my Dell Inspiron 2650. In 4.x, I would do a `boot -c` followed by `eisa 0`. What about FreeBSD 5.0? I tried `set hint.eisa.0.disabled=1` at the stage 3 boot prompt. It didn't seem to work. Any other ideas? I _really_

usb not working on intel motherboard

2003-03-11 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, Hi, It seems that no matter what I do I can not get usb devices to even be recognised. (Yes usbd is running). Relevant DMESG and usbd error messages below. Does anyone have any ideas? (I have tried usb mouse, keyboard, and camera). Thanks, Jacob FreeBSD elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au

Re: Libtool port question

2003-03-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:53:52PM -0600, Sean O'Neill wrote: Yeah I know - this is more appropriate for the ports mailing list ... hoping someone here knows before I go off and subscribe to the ports mailing list to ask the same question. Anyone know why ports/devel/libtool14 is actually

sed to replace the words

2003-03-11 Thread Kok Kok
Hi all I have question how to replace words using sed ./script 61.100 192.168 The script is #!/bin/sh sed -e 's/$2/$1/g' file newfile The problem is 192.168 can't replace 61.100 in the newfile Please help Thank you __

XFree86 4.3.0 fails to make

2003-03-11 Thread xcas
I tried updating with 'portupgrade' like recommended.. but it ends up croaking on 'XFree86-libraries-4.3.0'.. uname -a output.. FreeBSD localhost.bsd-unix.org 4.8-RC FreeBSD 4.8-RC #0: Sat Mar 8 19:42:55 MST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KADAFI i386 the error message... +

RE: sed to replace the words

2003-03-11 Thread Michael K. Smith
Does it have to be sed specifically? How about: cat test.sed | awk '{print $2,$1}' newfile Mike Michael K. Smith NoaNet 206.219.7116 (work) 206.579.8360 (cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.noanet.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: (works now) XFree86 4.3.0 fails to make

2003-03-11 Thread xcas
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried updating with 'portupgrade' like recommended.. but it ends up croaking on 'XFree86-libraries-4.3.0'.. uname -a output.. FreeBSD localhost.bsd-unix.org 4.8-RC FreeBSD 4.8-RC #0: Sat Mar 8 19:42:55 MST 2003 [EMAIL

how do i invoke the command ee or vi when system fails to load

2003-03-11 Thread NOEL BALANSAG
hello. pardon my stupid question, but how do i invoke the command ee or vi? i recently removed partition no. 2 on my disk, and fbsd resides on partition no. 3, so now i have 2 partitions, windoze on partition 1 and = fbsd on partition 2. but when i boot into fbsd, the system cannot see the files,

Re: how do i invoke the command ee or vi when system fails to load

2003-03-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
NOEL BALANSAG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pardon my stupid question, but how do i invoke the command ee or vi? i recently removed partition no. 2 on my disk, and fbsd resides on partition no. 3, so now i have 2 partitions, windoze on partition 1 and = fbsd on partition 2. but when i boot into

sfs UID 71

2003-03-11 Thread Dru
I was reading my daily output on a 4.7-RELEASE and noticed the following user was created: sfs:*:71: as well as the following groups: nogroup:*:65533: nobody:*:65534: sfs:*:71: What was strange was that I hadn't installed or upgraded any applications for at least 2 days. The only thing I

Re: how do i invoke the command ee or vi when system fails toload

2003-03-11 Thread Tom Parquette
NOEL BALANSAG wrote: hello. pardon my stupid question, but how do i invoke the command ee or vi? i recently removed partition no. 2 on my disk, and fbsd resides on partition no. 3, so now i have 2 partitions, windoze on partition 1 and = fbsd on partition 2. but when i boot into fbsd, the system

Re: What is a practical max nujmber of files in a directory

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bill Moran wrote: [ ... ] I'm writing a web-interface to file-sharing. It's back-ended by a metadata database and a filesystem based file store. Sounds like a pretty classic application for WebDAV. The question I need to answer is: how many files can a directory contain before the system

Re: Installing Freebds

2003-03-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-03-11 02:29, Marc Bosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello I would like of the assistance to install Free Bds on my computer. I tested by boot starting from CD-Rom but not function. Can be better explained me the simple procedure ? Are you sure you burned the .iso image as an 'image' and

Re: Installing Freebds

2003-03-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-03-11 16:35, Martin Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-03-11 04.55 +0200]: [...snip...] Note: For details about installing FreeBSD, written in French, you can always point our browser at:

Re: What is a practical max nujmber of files in a directory

2003-03-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 11), Bill Moran said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 10), Bill Moran said: Question for the gurus or anyone who has done any test on filesystem performance. It Depends Thanks for the input ... that was definately an interesting article. I would

Thanks for the help!

2003-03-11 Thread J. Seth Henry
I appreciate all the helpful comments regarding programming under FreeBSD. I think I have enough to take another stab at it. I also discovered that the developer's handbook has a lot of useful info - though it seems the chapter on signals is missing? Thanks again, Seth Henry To Unsubscribe:

OT: ML Archive Front end alternatives

2003-03-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im looking for a mailing list archive front end like hypermail. Unfortunately, this is the only one that I've heard about, and was wondering if there were any others, that are in the ports collection. Thanks for any insight you may provide... -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/

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