Re: restricting certain users to certain things (pam?)

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:46:59AM -0500, Michael Grant wrote: > I have a requirement to restrict certain users to logging in in > certain ways. For example, some users can ftp, others can ftp, ssh, > and get a shell, other users can relay mail using auth login. > > I am pretty sure I can do this

Re: Cont:SMP and adaptec 3960D problem.

My problem was omission of the kernel option HTT which enables HTT support in kernel. That support was committed to FreeBSD cvs at March 25 2003 which is something new. But interesting thing is that even if I close Hyper Threading support on my bios the system doesnt' boot... I am using 4.8

Re: My computer asks me to run a Manual FSCK

On 2003-03-28 20:41, "Dr. Noah M. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use to have an X-Win environment, but don't anymore. When I first > bootup my system, I the the following error: > /dev/ad4s1a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. > /dev/ad4s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > Automati

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My computer asks me to run a Manual FSCK

I use to have an X-Win environment, but don't anymore. When I first bootup my system, I the the following error: /dev/ad4s1a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. /dev/ad4s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Automatic file system check failed... help! How do I run a manual fsck? I have tried

Re: cvsupit broken (Re: Link??)

On Friday 28 March 2003 10:07 pm, Jordan K Hubbard wrote: > The maintainer is on vacation in Maui and will fix it just as soon as > he returns. He has only sporadic email connectivity and very slow > connectivity at that, too slow to actually do any "work" (nor would his > girlfriend look kindly o

Disk migration question.

Hey there - I'm moving a disk drive from a 4.7 system to a 5.0 system in a different computer. There are two slices on the disk, a swap partition and a large data slice. When I mount the disk into the filesystem, I receive the following error: /var/backups: correcting fs_sblockloc from 65536

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 07:50 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Is that easier than "nslookup 1.2.3.4"? Oops! I forgot that nslookup has a command line more. I usually use it when I want an interactive mode. :) Unfortunately, most of it was wrong :-( To be fair, the question was lacki

Re: cvsupit broken (Re: Link??)

The maintainer is on vacation in Maui and will fix it just as soon as he returns. He has only sporadic email connectivity and very slow connectivity at that, too slow to actually do any "work" (nor would his girlfriend look kindly on that during a vacation :). On Friday, March 28, 2003, at

Re: open-motif installation

On 2003-03-27 21:05, Jianyi Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, there > > i tried to install open-motif 2.2.2 in freebsd4.4 and > got error message > > : ===>Applying FreesBSD patches for open-motif-2.2.2_1 > : /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/open-motif/work/openmotif-2.2.2/demos/programs: > : permission

Re: Running X from a windows PC

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:27:34PM +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > > >You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or > >X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) > > Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ?

USB Wireless Network Adapter

Does anyone know if there are any USB Wireless network adapters that are supported under FreeBSD? (I'm running 5.0) I have read the map pages for wi, but they only list PCMCIA cards. I know that many companies have a PCI version of the pcmcia card. I have heard that you are likely to get better

adding a patch to a port

I was given a patch for the dillo port which I don't quite know how to configure. I wonder how I can take this format and turn it into something I can use in the port. It seems that most patches in the ports are separated as individual files while this one has them in one file. Is there a simple w

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hi, I have a problem when installing freeBSD 5.0. I can not find my vedio card. my card is: ATI rage 128. but I can not find it when config my Xserver. thanks so much for you reply. win __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Mad

Re: running X from windows pc

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:38:32 -0600 "Chad Albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Subject: Re: [notspam] Re: Running X from a windows PC To: "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I believe there is an X server avai

Re: XMMS playing things too slow

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 20:02, Kevin Downey wrote: > I am not sure if this is an XMMS problem or a FreeBSD problem, but XMMS will start > playing mp3s fine, but after 1 or 2 it plays the next mp3 really slowly. If I stop > and play again it works fine. Is anyone else experiencing this? > > /var/lo

Cant resolve - FBSD 5.0

Howdy all. Just installed FBSD 5.0 on a system with a 3Com card (xl0). I'm having trouble with apps such as telnet, ftp, etc resolving domain names. All the entries in /etc/resolv.conf are okay. I can nslookup names until the cows come home. What did I miss? Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - [EMAIL

Re: Mitsubishi Diamond Touch keyboard problem

On Friday, 28 March 2003 at 14:13:45 +1030, W. Sierke wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehy wrote: >> This is probably a timing problem with the keyboard. I had a couple > >> I'd suggest you try 4.8 or 5.0 and see if the problem persists. You > > Thanks for that, Greg. In fact I had originally attempted a

Re: About ADSL and Internet Sharing

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 19:44, Alfonso Romero wrote: > I followed all the indications in the handbook to share an ADSL modem with several > PCs through a FreeBSD box, but can´t access www with the other PCs. I can ping > www.yahoo.com from any PC, but that´s all I can do. What could be the problem?

"The Complete FreeBSD", third edition: errata and addenda

Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, third edition Last revision: 2 August 1999 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 com

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

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

XMMS playing things too slow

I am not sure if this is an XMMS problem or a FreeBSD problem, but XMMS will start playing mp3s fine, but after 1 or 2 it plays the next mp3 really slowly. If I stop and play again it works fine. Is anyone else experiencing this? /var/log/messages doesn't show anything but XMMS gives this error:

Re: PANIC: vinum / atacontrol (5.0-STABLE / 4.8-RC2)

On Friday, 28 March 2003 at 11:32:48 +, james wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] >> >> Computer output wrapped. >> >> On Thursday, 27 March 2003 at 14:18:43 +, james wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I am tr

About ADSL and Internet Sharing

I followed all the indications in the handbook to share an ADSL modem with several PCs through a FreeBSD box, but can´t access www with the other PCs. I can ping www.yahoo.com from any PC, but that´s all I can do. What could be the problem? ___ [EMAIL P

Re: [notspam] Problem with X-windows

Same thing happens to me, but if I exit and startx it runs beautifully anyway. - Original Message - From: "Zahirul Haque" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 5:44 PM Subject: [notspam] Problem with X-windows > Hello: > I've been trying to install fre

error building skipstone

I got this error building skipstone. I wonder if anyone knows what I can do with it. ...spr -I/usr/X11R6/include/mozilla/uconv -I/usr/X11R6/include/mozilla/webbrowserpersist -c -o mozilla.o mozilla.cpp In file included from /usr/X11R6/include/mozilla/string/nsSharableString.h:35,

KBurnCD is now available for testing.

If your like me you may have wished that their was a good GUI front-end to FreeBSD's burncd command for ATAPI CD burners. I know reading this list, I have seen a lot of questions about this. Well it is now here. KBurnCD is a KDE front-end to the FreeBSD command burncd (a command line ATAPI CD b

Re: test

On Thursday, 27 March 2003 at 21:31:09 +0100, ptiJo wrote: > test Please do not send test mail to FreeBSD-questions. We have a separate mailing list for that. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original

help installing

yo, I downloaded a freebsd .iso img, and put in in my drive, but when I reseted, it wouldn't install, how do I get past this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Problem with X-windows

Hello: I've been trying to install freeBSD 5.0. I tried so many times to run x-windows but no luck. Every time I tried to configure XFree86, I got error like this: The XFree86 configuration process seems to have failed. Would you like to try again? Y/N. As video card I'm using S3 Virge gx2 Moni

rpm problems

I'm trying to install something from an rpm which uses the linux emulation. I have tried the following: rpm -vv -i --force --ignoreos --nodeps fmserver-trial-5.5-1.i386.rpm and rpm -vv -i --force --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm --ignoreos --nodeps fmserver-trial-5.5-1.i386.rpm b

Re: Why won't linux_base install for me?

Try upgrading your version of rpm from the ports collection. Michael Grant > I'm running 4.7-R with a recent (~1 week) ports tree, and the install > of > linux_base is failing for me. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] make install > ===> Installing for linux_base-7.1_2 > kern.fallback_elf_brand: 3 -> 3 >

Re: db2

At 2003-03-28T22:12:28Z, "Brian Henning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > looking at the discription i don't think that is a port of db2. thanks Actually, it is a port of *a* DB2. Just not the one you're probably thinking of. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Descr

Re: 5.0 install won't start

http://www.mired.org/5.0-not-production.html You'll probably find -current more stable than 5.0 release anyway right now. Thanks! Great! I can't believe someone is making snapshot ISO-images daily! I would have settled for -current boot floppies. -- Cheers, Petri Metis / Petri Riihikallio GSM: +

cvsupit broken (Re: Link??)

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:45:15PM -0500, taxman wrote: > On Friday 28 March 2003 05:22 am, Eqab Almutairi wrote: > > Hello, > > > > seems this link dosnt work anymore right? > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/cvsupit-3.1.tgz > > > > at > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US

Re: 5.0 install won't start

On Friday 28 March 2003 04:53 pm, Petri Riihikallio wrote: > Hello > > I have a Compaq Armada 1500c C366 notebook with 160MB memory. I have > been running FreeBSD on it since 3.0. At the moment I run 4.7-p9. > > I tried to install the new 5.0 on another partition (slice). The > machine boots happil

Re: Installation Problem.

On Friday 28 March 2003 02:25 pm, Paul Smith. wrote: > My computer freezes when booting from the install CD at, > acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5% then you probably want to try 4.7-Release instead. See: http://www.mired.org/5.0-not-production.html Good luck, Tim

Re: Link??

On Friday 28 March 2003 05:22 am, Eqab Almutairi wrote: > Hello, > > seems this link dosnt work anymore right? > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/cvsupit-3.1.tgz > > at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.ht >ml > > is there any other pla

Re: [notspam] Re: Running X from a windows PC

I believe there is an X server available in Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/ Otherwise, here is a link to some instructions and a free version of Microimage. http://www.linuxnetmag.com/en/issue5/m5xserver1.html - Original Message - From: "Don Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pierrick Brossin" <

Re: db2

looking at the discription i don't think that is a port of db2. thanks brian - Original Message - From: "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian Henning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:46 PM Subject: Re: db2 > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem

I have problem in configuring XFree86 in FreeBSD 4.7 I try to configure it after installation. I used graphical tool and textmode utility too. The result is often the same: "The XFree86 configuration process seems to have failed. Would you like to try again?" have you tried this: http://w

Re: Link??

seems this link dosnt work anymore right? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/cvsupit-3.1.tgz at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html I do not see that one around either... but I would just move ahead if I were you. install the cvsup-wit

Re: db2

At 2003-03-28T21:46:29Z, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: >> is there a port for db2 for freebsd? > > "make search key=db2" in /usr/ports turns up: > > Port: db-2.7.7_1 > Path: /usr/ports/databases/db2 > Info: The Berke

NameVirutalHost on multiple IPs not working??

Hi, I'm having a challenge with my Apache NameVirtualHost config... I have my server connected to two networks, AT&T and UUNET, the NIC is assigned a AT&T IP and is aliased which several others, both AT&T and UUNET. That part is working well. When a client requests a site, our DNS returns two IP

5.0 install won't start

Hello I have a Compaq Armada 1500c C366 notebook with 160MB memory. I have been running FreeBSD on it since 3.0. At the moment I run 4.7-p9. I tried to install the new 5.0 on another partition (slice). The machine boots happily until it says: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0 If I boot from the

Re: db2

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > is there a port for db2 for freebsd? "make search key=db2" in /usr/ports turns up: Port: db-2.7.7_1 Path: /usr/ports/databases/db2 Info: The Berkeley DB package, revision 2 http://www.mired.org/consulting.

db2

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Re: FW: recomended POP server?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:21:27AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > I;ve never set up a POP server before. What packages should I look at? > ports/mail/popper. For IMAP (also includes POP2/3 daemon): http://www.washington.edu/imap/ For webmail, I like squirrelmail (which requires IMAP): http://www

Re: FW: recomended POP server?

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0500, stan wrote: [...] > I;ve never set up a POP server before. What packages should I look at? ports/mail/popper. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- The human mind ordinarily operates a

Re: FREEBSD FOR SIERRA LEONE

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:54:35PM +, John Johnson wrote: > > hello, > > I am about to install FreeBSD in a Pentium II to setup a Mail Server for the Sierra > Leone Association of NGO (SLANGO). SLANGO-Net is going to take off, but I am scared > crazy about using FreeBSD without having a sou

Re: INSTALLING FREEBSD

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 20:39, John Johnson wrote: > How can I get the startup disks. Hi John, I take it from your post (you downloaded some stuff) that you have access to the Net even if your Windows machine does not. Have a look here. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

Re: INSTALLING FREEBSD

On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 11:39 AM, John Johnson wrote: Hello, Please I have a computer with Windows 98 and not connected to the Internet and I want to install FreeBSD on it. How can I possibly go about it? I have previously downloaded something that was supposed to be freeBSD but it did

Re: FreeBSD and Oracle

> I know that there is an Oracle 7 client on FreeBSD, but I don't know about 8i. 8i is not in the ports, but FWIW, I did get Oracle8i (for Linux) client working on FreeBSD last week, for some definition of 'working' - I can't access my Oracle server from it because the server is inside a firew

Re: Running X from a windows PC

On 28-Mar-2003 Pierrick Brossin wrote: > Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > >> You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or >> X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) > > Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ? > A few years back a co

Re: 'origin not recorded' error upon attempt to use pkg_add

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Hello! > Upon attempts to use 'pkg_add' utility, I get a string of error messages > such as the following: > >pkg_add: package wterm-6.2.7a1 has no origin recorded >pkg_add: package wmtime-1.0b2 has no origin recorded >[...] >

Re: Installing JDK 1.4.1

At 2003-03-28T19:25:15Z, "Stuart Morse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been to the http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/java/jdk14/ > page to try and retrieve the tar file containing the JDK but can't find > it. This is probably because I haven't worked out how things hang together > ye

Re: Moving Disks to new PC Machines

Hello, Problem: defined earlier - I need to move my system ( actually 2 hard disk) to another machine w/ different MotherBoard and CPU. The disks have been configured as a bootable system disk and the other data storage. How can I reconfigure to achieve this with the mini

INSTALLING FREEBSD

Hello, Please I have a computer with Windows 98 and not connected to the Internet and I want to install FreeBSD on it. How can I possibly go about it? I have previously downloaded something that was supposed to be freeBSD but it did not open. And then there is this FTP sites offering the softw

Re: Stupid question

Gerard Samuel wrote: How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box via the command line?? Thanks No such thing as a stupid question, it's the answers you have to worry about that make it seem stupid. Dictionary.com defines stupid as: 1. Slow to learn or understand

HP C1537 DDS3

Hi folks, I hope someone can help me with my problem I am facing with my "HP C1537 - 20100" DDS3 tape device, which is a replacement product for the C1554A. I don't know what the problem is, but a "mt fsf 1" command with the device returns the following error: (sa0:sym0:0:6:0): ERASE. CDB: 19 1 0

Re: Moving Disks to new PC Machines

Hello, Problem: defined earlier - I need to move my system ( actually 2 hard disk) to another machine w/ different MotherBoard and CPU. The disks have been configured as a bootable system disk and the other data storage. How can I reconfigure to achieve this with the minimum a

Re: Running X from a windows PC

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > > You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or > > X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) > > Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ? > no sorry can't help you there. I searched for it

Installation Problem.

My computer freezes when booting from the install CD at, acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5% My computers harddrive light lights up and stop on then it says, ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. then freezes, any ideas on how

Re: Running X from a windows PC

Marcel Stangenberger wrote: You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ? Thx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Question about bounced mail

Yes, that means that a spammer from screensaver4u.com attempted (but failed) 143 times to relay spam through your server. The reports do this automatically... If you have your access file in /etc/mail set accordingly to only allow RELAYing from trusted sites (internal), then anything that isn't

Re: Stupid question

Thanks everyone. It was write the command I was after. Gerard Samuel wrote: How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box via the command line?? Thanks -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://test1.trini0.org:81/ ___

Installing JDK 1.4.1

Hi All, I've been to the http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/java/jdk14/ page to try and retrieve the tar file containing the JDK but can't find it. This is probably because I haven't worked out how things hang together yet. Because my company does not have a DNS server inside their firew

Re: [ HOWTO ] - XFree86 and 4 buttons touchpad

On the last episode, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wednesday, 26 March 2003 at 10:27:39 +, ptiJo ptiJo wrote: > > On the last episode, Greg 'groggy' Lehey said: > >> Single line paragraphs. > >> > >> On Wednesday, 19 March 2003 at 16:44:05 +, ptiJo ptiJo wrote: > >>> H

test

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Re: Question about bounced mail

Dragoncrest wrote: In my daily reports lately, since upgrading my sendmail version, I've been getting reports like this: Checking for rejected mail hosts: 143 screensaver4u.com 1 srv.designtechnica.com Not to sound silly, but what does that mean? Does it mean that it rejected 143 messages f

Re: [ HOWTO ] - XFree86 and 4 buttons touchpad

On the last episode, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wednesday, 26 March 2003 at 10:27:39 +, ptiJo ptiJo wrote: > > On the last episode, Greg 'groggy' Lehey said: > >> Single line paragraphs. > >> > >> On Wednesday, 19 March 2003 at 16:44:05 +, ptiJo ptiJo wrote: > >>> H

Re: Running X from a windows PC

> Is it possible to run X remotely from a windows PC? yes, thru XDM you can allow other systems (terminals) to connect to X which is running on your freebsd server > What is the > software needed? > You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is runni

Re: Stupid question

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:17:10AM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: > How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box > via the command line?? write(1) talk(1) --- if you have the talk service enabled in /etc/inetd.conf Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J

Re: Stupid question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 28-Mar-2003, Gerard Samuel wrote message "Stupid question" ~ > How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box > v

Re: Perl

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:28:06AM +0100, CARTER Anthony wrote: > Where can I add the $TERM variable? > > I am using KDE. > > I put in my ~/.cshrc the following: > > setenv TERM "xterm-color" > > but I don't seem to have a color xterm when I open a new shell...Is this the > wrong place? The b

Re: Problem with kdm (or not)?

It happens because for some reason, the later kdm's don't seem to want to start xconsole. I'm not sure why though, I've never had time to mess with it. Ken On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote: > When I boot my machine, I get the following message at the command prompt > before it launches

Re: Problem with this mailing list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 28-Mar-2003, Daniela wrote message "Problem with this mailing list" ~ > Hi all! > > I have a very strange problem. > Since last Friday I

Re: System abused by spammer?

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:51:06AM +0100, Martin Moeller wrote: > BTW, how can I check if somebody specifies me as his MX? ;-) $ host -t mx theirdomainname.com Will give you a list of the MX's they specified for their domain. Of course getting the spammers real domain is a bit more involved.

FW: recomended POP server?

I give up. Our nw=ew "merged" Is group is unable to run a mail server in a aceptable manner. I;m going to set up a machien to recive mail from various control systems throught our site. I then want my users to be able to POP this mail to there desktops. It would be perhaps nice to offer webmal to

Re: UDMA

What is the BIOS set to use? At 01:49 PM 3/28/2003 +0100, you wrote: >From dmesg I get the following: ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsb

Running X from a windows PC

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Can't browse webmin; out of swap space

I just installed 1.070 from a freshly updated ports collection and there didn't seem to be any problem at all with the installation. I'm new to this so please put up with my simplistic perspective on the problem at hand. I had no problem with the make, make install or the make clean. I then ran

poptop error

I am trying (without succes) to install a vpn server on a freebsd 4.7 machine poptop is built from ports - and I get the following message any help, please ? thanks, petre Mar 28 16:46:25 kgb pptpd[414]: MGR: Launching /usr/local/sbin/pptpctrl to handle client Mar 28 16:46:25 kgb pptpd[414]:

'origin not recorded' error upon attempt to use pkg_add

Hello! Upon attempts to use 'pkg_add' utility, I get a string of error messages such as the following: pkg_add: package wmtime-1.0b2 has no origin recorded pkg_add: package wterm-6.2.7a1 has no origin recorded It would be only a curiosity were it not for the fact that pkg_add *fails* to ad

Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?!

Hi Jason, If there was not a clean shutdown, I would start looking for faulty hardware, assuming the power was not interrupted. Any machine that spontaniously reboots on its' own usually has a bad power supply, but it could be very well be the motherboard, or even something else. Further, as man

Stupid question

How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box via the command line?? Thanks -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://test1.trini0.org:81/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

FreeBSD can't find HD adapter Tekram dc-395

Hi! I have a problem with floppy installing FreeBSD5.0 (and 4.4, 4.5 ) using a Tekram dc-395 scsi adapter and one fujitsu 4Gb HD. What happens is that on boot the sysinstall starts and when I go to the disk partitioning it tells me 'no disk found'. The Tekram adapter tools finds the HD fine an

FREEBSD FOR SIERRA LEONE

hello, I am about to install FreeBSD in a Pentium II to setup a Mail Server for the Sierra Leone Association of NGO (SLANGO). SLANGO-Net is going to take off, but I am scared crazy about using FreeBSD without having a source of asking questions. I used FreeBSD in Liberia, but right now I don't

FREEBSD FOR SIERRA LEONE

hello, I am about to install FreeBSD in a Pentium II to setup a Mail Server for the Sierra Leone Association of NGO (SLANGO). SLANGO-Net is going to take off, but I am scared crazy about using FreeBSD without having a source of asking questions. I used FreeBSD in Liberia, but right now I don't

restricting certain users to certain things (pam?)

I have a requirement to restrict certain users to logging in in certain ways. For example, some users can ftp, others can ftp, ssh, and get a shell, other users can relay mail using auth login. I am pretty sure I can do this though pam.conf. Has anyone actually done this? Can someone slide me s

ipfw question

Hi all, I see a strange entry in my mail log from the ipfw log output. I don't really have a firm grasp on ipfw yet and need help understanding how this log entry came about (17 times), below: > ipfw: 1700 Deny TCP 0.0.0.0:80 192.168.xxx.xxx:49339 in via fxp0 The output of "ipfw list" starts

Question about bounced mail

In my daily reports lately, since upgrading my sendmail version, I've been getting reports like this: Checking for rejected mail hosts: 143 screensaver4u.com 1 srv.designtechnica.com Not to sound silly, but what does that mean? Does it mean that it rejected 143 messages from the one host and

poptop error

I am trying (without succes) to install a vpn server on a freebsd 4.7 machine poptop is built from ports - and I get the following message any help, please ? thanks, petre Mar 28 16:46:25 kgb pptpd[414]: MGR: Launching /usr/local/sbin/pptpctrl to handle client Mar 28 16:46:25 kgb pptpd[414]

Problem with this mailing list

Hi all! I have a very strange problem. Since last Friday I don't receive the messages on this mailing list any more. I do receive the messages for the freebsd-current list, however (subscribed two days ago). I can only look at the messages in the archive. Maybe I have to unsubscribe an subscrib

Using .cvsignore

Hello! I'm trying to avoid storing (and updating) some parts of the FreeBSD's repository -- some of the locales under the ports collection, kerberos stuff under src... I tried the obvious -- adding chinese korean portuguese [...] to the /usr/ports/.cvsignore (nex

PICOBSD /dev/mdxx memory disk problems

Dear Sirs. I use FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT on several experimental systems. I try to test new diskless and picobsd facilities and abilities of the newest FBSD 5.0-CURRENT stuff and I am a little bit disappointed. First there is a little bug in the picobsd shell-script/command: newfs does no longer sup

RE: Sony VAIO w/ Linksys card

No, no, no I need to/want to get FBSD on this notebook!!! When I check the dmesg, I see that pcic0 is recognized by "Ricoh Cardbus Bridge on IRQ 9. pcic1 is my Linksys card WTF is Ricoh Cardbus Bridge?? --- Adam Lofstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it is a problem with

Problem with kdm (or not)?

When I boot my machine, I get the following message at the command prompt before it launches me into the KDM login screen (it works, there is no problem with that). What does it mean? kdm[605]: Abnormal helper termination, code 0, signal 5 Thanks, Anthony Carter

missing startkde

hi all. i recently installed kde3 via ports, but it seems that make forgot to install startkde. i thought that it was just a problem with cvsupping in between updates, so i deinstalled kde3, cvsupped again this morning, and reinstalled kde3 via ports. same problem. is it possible to just create a

Re: FreeBSD and Oracle

I know that there is an Oracle 7 client on FreeBSD, but I don't know about 8i. Do you want to run Oracle server on FreeBSD or just a client? Anthony On Friday 28 March 2003 10:25, Michael Hostbaek wrote: > Hi, > > I have a linux box runnning Oracle, I'd like to switch it to FreeBSD. > Has anyone

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