Re: Groff issues with latest FreeBSD-4.x build

2003-07-20 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Hi there, Thanks for responding (sorry for the late reply, have been busy this weekend). I've not really changed anything with the system, which is what is perplexing. I've done a full cvsup and makeworld/installworld at least 3 times since this problem began, and it still happens. I have no

Re: Sendmail reject non-extant hosts? RFC1123

2003-07-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 05:37:31PM -0500, Jack L. Stone typed: > At 09:38 PM 7.20.2003 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 01:37:15PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > >> I'm not happy that Sendmail is > >> allowing connections from non- > >> existent hosts (i.e., spamm

changing local password for root failed

2003-07-20 Thread Vitali Djatsuk
Hi, when im trying to change password console with passwd , it tells that : changing local password for root passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module the same with other users. Where could be the problem ? /etc/pam.d/login # auth #auth sufficient pam_sk

FreeBSD+Apache+PHP+"GD"

2003-07-20 Thread Denis
Hi! I have installed Apache 1.3.27 and PHP4. Does anybody know how can I turn on the GD library support? -- Denis Bolotnov, Russia. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

FreeBSD native Opera 6.x + Flash plugin ?

2003-07-20 Thread Edy Lie
Anyone got the above mentioned browser + plugin works ? Thanks Best Regards, Edy Lie -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

trouble with postgresql-devel port

2003-07-20 Thread David Benfell
Hello all, I'm trying to build the postgresql-devel port. "make install" terminates with: gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/databases/postgresql-devel/work/postgresql-7.4.2003.06.30/src/pl/plpgsql/src' bison -y -d gram.y NONE:0: /usr/local/bin/gm4: ERROR: EOF in string sed -e 's/yy/plpg

Re: Ask about BSD's history.

2003-07-20 Thread Supote Leelasupphakorn
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Re: Ask about BSD's history.

2003-07-20 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Monday 21 July 2003 12:15 am, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: > Hi, all > >I'm now interested in BSD's history and have read > some of article from INTERNET. But because English > isn't my mother language so I havn't cleared > in the point of Please post the URL of the article you read. I'll

Ask about BSD's history.

2003-07-20 Thread Supote Leelasupphakorn
Hi, all I'm now interested in BSD's history and have read some of article from INTERNET. But because English isn't my mother language so I havn't cleared in the point of 1. What is the result of lawsuit between BSDi (maybe include UC Berkeley) and USL in the early of 1970s ? 2. The artic

Re: Remap mouse buttons for remote X serverss

2003-07-20 Thread LLeweLLyn Reese
"J. Seth Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi gang, > I've recently started using NCD Explora's to connect to my FreeBSD > server. They are quiet, reasonably fast, and small. Unfortunately, > NCDware has some odd quirks. > > The first is that it only supports a two-button mouse. What's odd is

Mount a Sony Memory stick

2003-07-20 Thread Sean Countryman
I'm trying to mount a 64MB Sony memory stick via a USB cable and need a bit of help. I recompiled my kernel and upgraded to 4.8 RELEASE and now, if I boot with the camera connected, it finds it as a SCSI device, but it conflicts with my da0 device which has my / partition on it. I've got 4 SCSI d

making a HUGE storage thing using hub+NFS+RAID - feedback?

2003-07-20 Thread BSD baby
Before I jump into something new, could I get some thoughts from someone who's done this kinda thing before in FreeBSD? I need at least 6 terabytes to be available all at once, NOT online but just as backup file storage. But file storage that needs to be available internally and easily to anyone

Re: Listening to a serial port

2003-07-20 Thread Ryan Merrick
Troy Settle wrote: All, How can I configure the serial port to listen at 1200 baud, 8N2, XON/XOFF? I try using stty to set the port speed, but it doesn't take. I also don't see how to set the stop bits. Any help is appreciated. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks http://www.psknet.com 540.99

Re: second cd drive only detected occasonally

2003-07-20 Thread frank brierley
Lowell,   On the weekend I swapped the two drives, DVD becomes master and CD-RW becomes slave, also CD-RW goes to end of IDE ribbon and the problem seems to have resolved. Thanks for your suggestion.   Frank On 20 Jul 2003 20:33:44 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED] well.no-ip.com> wrote

Re: second cd drive only detected occasonally

2003-07-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
frank brierley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a DVD drive as secondary slave (IDE) and a cd burner as > secondary master. Both drives are detected by BIOS and by windows. > However freebsd assignes a device to the cd burner (samsung) only > every now and then. > > Checking dmesg and only a

Re: Army Operations on FreeBSD

2003-07-20 Thread Bill Moran
Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 07:33:22PM +0200, Bill Moran wrote: Hey, I may be asking for too much ... but has anyone gotten the Linux version of America's Army Operations running on FreeBSD? Heh, yes, I just completed Basic Combat Training :-). It installs nicely, and trie

Re: trouble mounting NetBSD file system

2003-07-20 Thread Karel J. Bosschaart
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:39:43PM +0200, nmanisca wrote: > >= Original Message From Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > = > >On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:41, nmanisca wrote: > >> I can't seem to mount one of my two NetBSD file systems. One mounts > fine, > >> the other is not 'seen' by FreeBSD. >

Re: Sendmail reject non-extant hosts? RFC1123

2003-07-20 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 09:38 PM 7.20.2003 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 01:37:15PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: >> I'm not happy that Sendmail is >> allowing connections from non- >> existent hosts (i.e., spammers...) >> >> I run Sendmail more or less straight >> "out of the box" o

Iron Systems opinions

2003-07-20 Thread spork
Hi, I'm shopping for a cheap 1U server, and I stumbled upon Iron Systems from their ads on daemonnews.org. They have three servers that seem to fit the bill for a small mail/web server. One looks to be a VIA-based system, possibly with a mini-itx board (the A110), another is an AMD system (A152)

RE: trouble mounting NetBSD file system

2003-07-20 Thread nmanisca
>= Original Message From Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:41, nmanisca wrote: >> I can't seem to mount one of my two NetBSD file systems. One mounts fine, >> the other is not 'seen' by FreeBSD. >> >> I have two disks. The first disk has two NetBSD file systems (/

Listening to a serial port

2003-07-20 Thread Troy Settle
All, How can I configure the serial port to listen at 1200 baud, 8N2, XON/XOFF? I try using stty to set the port speed, but it doesn't take. I also don't see how to set the stop bits. Any help is appreciated. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks http://www.psknet.com 540.994.4254 ~ 866.477

Re: Rebuilding the system....

2003-07-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-20T20:36:43Z, Matthew Graybosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, it wasn't an unreasonable response, but it I wouldn't say it was very > constructive, either. It doesn't take any longer to write "what do you > have on line 267" instead. I suppose. Maybe I held my tongue for so many y

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-20 Thread Rob
Yep - I've done it for FTP installs. sysinstall(8) prompts you for the floppy, so it presumably deals with the absence of its own media. - Original Message - From: "stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mass producing installs? > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:51:58AM +0930, Rob wrote: > >

Possible Exim/FreeBSD problem: ``non-sleepablelocks held''.

2003-07-20 Thread lewiz
Hi, After my server died a few times (at the time I didn't write the messages down... I wanted it back up asap) I decided to recompile the kernel with debugging, which I have done. It's running 5.1-RELEASE (still devel(ish), I know) and I get the following message: Sleeping on "sw read" with t

Re: Sendmail reject non-extant hosts? RFC1123

2003-07-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 01:37:15PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > I'm not happy that Sendmail is > allowing connections from non- > existent hosts (i.e., spammers...) > > I run Sendmail more or less straight > "out of the box" on -stable. I had > been under the impression that the > l

Re: DNS How do I find what DNS the box is using.

2003-07-20 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Sunday 20 July 2003 04:26 pm, DanB wrote: > How do I find what DNS the box is using. Where to I look for it? Try looking at /etc/resolv.conf. If you configured the machine yourself, you would have had to add at least one nameserver IP address to that file, unless you're connecting via PPP an

Re: Rebuilding the system....

2003-07-20 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Sunday 20 July 2003 04:22 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-20T18:58:31Z, "Remington L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I didn't think it was that out of line. How many times have you > heard clients / friends / employers ask, "why did my email bounce? > I got a message from someone calle

Re: DNS How do I find what DNS the box is using.

2003-07-20 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 08:26:24PM +, DanB wrote: > How do I find what DNS the box is using. Where to I look for it? It should be in /etc/resolv.conf. Also, the last 3 lines of a dig(1) command (eg: dig freebsd.org) should tell you where it's querying. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

DNS How do I find what DNS the box is using.

2003-07-20 Thread DanB
How do I find what DNS the box is using. Where to I look for it? Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Rebuilding the system....

2003-07-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-20T18:58:31Z, "Remington L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL:267: syntax error >> Fix the syntax error. > Haha, such a smart ass ;) I didn't think it was that out of line. How many times have you heard clients / friends / employers ask, "why d

MailScanner

2003-07-20 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello I would like to install MailScanner from ports. The make install works perfect but I've some troubles with the configuration with Sophos and the PERL scripts. Did somebody has experience with it? -- Regards Martin Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PC-Service M. Schweizer; Gewerbehaus Schw

Re: Rebuilding the system....

2003-07-20 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Sunday 20 July 2003 05:15 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:08:52AM +0400, Denis wrote: > > I try to rebuild the system, but: > > === > > config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL:267: syntax error > > *** Error code 1 Hmm. What's on line 267 of your cu

Re: Sendmail reject non-extant hosts? RFC1123

2003-07-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 20), Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. said: > I'm not happy that Sendmail is allowing connections from non- > existent hosts (i.e., spammers...) > > So, how do I tell Sendmail that if a host doesn't exist, (i.e. > d3kr890d.129ddk.org) I don't want to talk to it... This works fo

RE: Rebuilding the system....

2003-07-20 Thread Remington L.
Haha, such a smart ass ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 2:16 AM To: Denis Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rebuilding the system On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:08:52AM +0400, Denis wrote: > I t

Sendmail reject non-extant hosts? RFC1123

2003-07-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
I'm not happy that Sendmail is allowing connections from non- existent hosts (i.e., spammers...) I run Sendmail more or less straight "out of the box" on -stable. I had been under the impression that the line ALL : PARANOID : RFC931 20 : deny in /etc/hosts.allow would help reject some of this s

RE: The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-06-22 - 2003-07-12

2003-07-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
** Reply to note from "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:49:48 -0500 > I don't question the relevance of the site - as I said, I love it, I used > it, it's great! I just wonder if it could be deemed as Spam or not. The > point that I'm making - is it considered Spam as defined to w

Re: Army Operations on FreeBSD

2003-07-20 Thread Karel J. Bosschaart
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 07:33:22PM +0200, Bill Moran wrote: > Hey, > > I may be asking for too much ... but has anyone gotten the Linux version > of America's Army Operations running on FreeBSD? Heh, yes, I just completed Basic Combat Training :-). > It installs nicely, and tries to start, but t

Re: xscreensavers rebooting the box

2003-07-20 Thread Khairil Yusof
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 03:55, Steve wrote: > once I did kldunload nvidia and removed agp_load="YES" from > /boot/loader.conf and rebooted, made a normal XF86Config, xscreensaver is > working. But, I still get mozilla locking up when I try to type in a URL. You've narrowed the issue down already w

RE: The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-06-22 - 2003-07-12

2003-07-20 Thread Chris
I don't question the relevance of the site - as I said, I love it, I used it, it's great! I just wonder if it could be deemed as Spam or not. The point that I'm making - is it considered Spam as defined to what Spam is. If we start to stray from the point of the post - things get clouded. As I quo

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-20 Thread none
I am not entirly sure about this, but i think you can avoid the issue with dd of having the same harddisk sizes by copying partitions rather than disks, since thoes can easily be made the same size. also if i am not mistaken fdisk can be scripted to make the pratitions - Original Message

Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-06-22 - 2003-07-12

2003-07-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:31:25AM -0500, Chris wrote: > As great as the Diary is, and I love it too - I am wondering. Since The > Diary has ads, and if The Diary makes money with these ads, does it make it > on how many users go to The Diary? If so - I wonder if it's proper to Spam > this list in

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-20 Thread stan
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 04:20:41AM +0200, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, stan wrote: > > > I've got about a dozeen machines I need to build with STABLE. The machiens > > will be alike except fo things like name and IP address. > > > > I've been building these thigns one at a time doing

RE: The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-06-22 - 2003-07-12

2003-07-20 Thread Chris
As great as the Diary is, and I love it too - I am wondering. Since The Diary has ads, and if The Diary makes money with these ads, does it make it on how many users go to The Diary? If so - I wonder if it's proper to Spam this list in such a manor as to get users to go there. Should this be cleare

Re: Groff issues with latest FreeBSD-4.x build

2003-07-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The errors continue with port builds: > > nroff -man nasm.1 > nasm.man > troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char > *** Error code 1 > > But I see in /usr/share/tmac: > > tmac.tty-char > > Has anyone else run across this bug. Apparently

Re: Installation problem. kernel not getting copied to / directory

2003-07-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
prasad chandrasekaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install freebsd 4.7 on my pentium 2 > machine standalone machine. The problem is it show 7 > conflicts in kernel configuration under network. Since > I have no network card I disable every conflict by > pressing del key. You proba

Re: Panic - Locking Against Myself

2003-07-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Jack L. Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Running FBSD-4.8 Release > > "Random panic & reboot" - cause locking against myself. appears related > to "lockmgr." > > I had asked the list about this a few weeks ago, but had no takers. > Previously, all I could find via google was about "lock

NSS ``ls''.

2003-07-20 Thread lewiz
Hi, I've been playing around with pam_ldap and nss_ldap on my server in an attempt to replace NIS with something more flexible (i.e. that can have Linux and Windows clients, distribute other data, etc.) but I keep getting stuck. I can login fine (which shows that pam_ldap and nss_ldap are wor

Re: spell checker for mozilla 1.4

2003-07-20 Thread peter lageotakes
Have you check out spellchecker.mozdev.org? Under downloads there is a version for FreeBSD 5.0/Mozilla 1.2.x Pete --- sweetleaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a spell checker xpi or port for mozilla > 1.4? The only ones i > have found were for linux and solaris. I tried > patching the m

Re: Changing gtk application fonts outside of gnome

2003-07-20 Thread Phil Payne
On Saturday 19 July 2003 7:27 pm, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > On Saturday 19 July 2003 10:52 am, Phil Payne wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 4-stable, XFree86 4.30 & windowmaker 0.80.2. > > Default resolution and bitdepth is 1280x1024x24. > > > > Whenever I start GTK based apps (e.g. evolu

Re: IBM xSeries 345 freezes after 15 min. (4.8, 5.0, 5.1, current)

2003-07-20 Thread Alexander Marx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm really depressed and hope someone can help me here. make sure you are running with the latest bios, they fixed quite a few issues wrt keyboard-input and console-redirection and stuff ... see http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-43902.html we also had

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-20 Thread stan
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:51:58AM +0930, Rob wrote: > And if this seems a little ambitious (DHCP, TFTP, PXE, NFS etc), you can > just copy the install.cfg file to a floppy, boot from the install > CD-ROM, and select 'Load config file' from the main menu. It's not > completely automated, but it cer

5.1-rel and kern.cam.da.no_6_byte?

2003-07-20 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hello, is there a way to make umass devices without qirk in scsi_da.c working like wtih kern.cam.da.no_6_byte=1 in 4.8? Btw, almost every umass device needs this so why isn't it standard? I think it's horrible that you can crash a server just by pluging in a USB-Card reader! Best regards, -Harry

Re: no sound with 4.8 & KDE

2003-07-20 Thread Walter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:44:03PM -0500, Walter wrote: Try setting both "vol" and "pcm" to 100:100 using the mixer(8) utility. For me at least, my soundcard is *extremely* soft unless I use 100% volume. Sample commands: # mixer vol 100:100 # mixer pcm 100:100 $ xmms & Tha

Re: How can i make dial up PPP easy? !!!

2003-07-20 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Sunday 20 July 2003 06:04 am, sweetleaf wrote: > I am trying to setup a friends computer with freebsd 5.1. He has > used windows for the last 5 years and has never used a unix based > computer...so i need to make things as easy and "point and > click" as possible. Well, if you set up dial o

Re: FBSD PowerPak

2003-07-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:09:07PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I posted a message a few days ago regarding my frustrations to obtain an > up-to-date PowerPak for FreeBSD 5.1. Because I don't have broadband, I > really would like to have the entire ports collection on CD-R. > Unfortunately, the Po

Remap mouse buttons for remote X serverss

2003-07-20 Thread J. Seth Henry
Hi gang, I've recently started using NCD Explora's to connect to my FreeBSD server. They are quiet, reasonably fast, and small. Unfortunately, NCDware has some odd quirks. The first is that it only supports a two-button mouse. What's odd is that when I run xev, it reports button1 and button3? (I h

FBSD PowerPak

2003-07-20 Thread Robert Storey
I posted a message a few days ago regarding my frustrations to obtain an up-to-date PowerPak for FreeBSD 5.1. Because I don't have broadband, I really would like to have the entire ports collection on CD-R. Unfortunately, the PowerPak sold by FreeBSDmall is version 4.6, a full year (and four versio

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-07-20 Thread Shawn Ramsey
> >> > >> 1) You have a bad cable. CRC and framing errors are usually a result of > > bad > >> media. > >> 2) You should set the port to auto/auto, not 100/Full hard set, unless you > >> have specifically set that up in rc.conf. If one side is hard set and the > >> other is set to auto, you will

How can i make dial up PPP easy? !!!

2003-07-20 Thread sweetleaf
I am trying to setup a friends computer with freebsd 5.1. He has used windows for the last 5 years and has never used a unix based computer...so i need to make things as easy and "point and click" as possible. He uses a dial up isp "everyones internet" for internet service and i dont have a

spell checker for mozilla 1.4

2003-07-20 Thread sweetleaf
Is there a spell checker xpi or port for mozilla 1.4? The only ones i have found were for linux and solaris. I tried patching the mozill 1.4 src with the spell checker patch and then running the port but the freebsd patches and spell checker patches seem to have issues with each other. ___

Re: BitTorrent for Freebsd??

2003-07-20 Thread Andreas Kohn
Am Wed, 2003-07-16 um 07.30 schrieb Dragoncrest: > Is there a copy of BitTorrent that will run on Freebsd? Is it in the > Ports cause if it is, I certainly haven't found it yet. I'd like to run my > BT downloads on my bsd box as that's the only machine that's ever up 24/7 > hence the per

Re: Rebuilding the system....

2003-07-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:08:52AM +0400, Denis wrote: > I try to rebuild the system, but: > === > config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL:267: syntax error > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src. > === > Wh

Re: Rebuilding the kernel......

2003-07-20 Thread Don Croyle
Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I add new line in MYKERNEL that is: > devicepcm #For sounds! > And kernel says that it syntax error. But why? Could you give us a little less information? When you want help with this sort of problem, it's a good idea to include

The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-06-29 - 2003-07-19

2003-07-20 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list arc