The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-07-27 - 2003-08-16

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Langille
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Re: FreeBSD and Sound

2003-08-17 Thread David
The sb0 and opl0 started showing up after I recompiled the kernel with device pcm as the only entry regarding sound. pcm nor pcm0 show up in dmesg. # grep pcm /var/run/dmesg.boot # Here is what is in the kernel: # For Sound device pcm #For BrookTree 878 Capture Device device bktr

Need route add default 192.xxx after every reboot

2003-08-17 Thread Joachim Dagerot
I need to add a default route everytime I reboot. Where are these settings stored, what can I do to get the default route added automatically at a boot? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: shutting down

2003-08-17 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [freebsd] [16-08-03 14:40 -0400]: | I used | shutdown -h now | but the comp I use won't let me power off no matter how many times i hit | the power switch, what do I do? try # halt what is the last message you see? I do have a ATX mobo, and

Submit new PR or Submit to an existing PR?

2003-08-17 Thread K Anderson
Hey folks, Since I didn't get a response asking about the module already existing problem with miibus and if_ed I went and checked for a PR and found what that pretty much matches my problem. It is Problem Report kern/55279. I would like to know if I should either submit a new PR or click on

Re: Sendmail address rewriting

2003-08-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:38:17PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I have what is most likely a simple misunderstanding of the sendmail.cf file configuration. But, nothing I have tried works. Basically I have one machine (zoon) which is the mail host for all received mail. All user mailboxes

Re: xterm: colors and keys

2003-08-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:34:51PM -0300, fallenbr wrote: Hello, 1 - How can I set color on xterm? I've tried creating a .Xdefaults with XTerm*termName: xterm-color on it, but nothing really changed. Make that: xterm*termName: xterm-color and make sure that your .Xdefaults is

Re: Need route add default 192.xxx after every reboot

2003-08-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:26:52AM +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: I need to add a default route everytime I reboot. Where are these settings stored, what can I do to get the default route added automatically at a boot? Such settings are all in /etc/rc.conf. In particular you need to look at

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2003-08-17 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Samstag, 16. August 2003 09:57 Alastair G. Hogge wrote: And what filesystem does FreeBSD use? I believe it's Berkeley Fast File System. or Unix File System 2(not sure someone might correct me)...or a combition of the two..? The Filesystem was

Re: mouse with scroll....

2003-08-17 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On Sonntag, 17. August 2003 01:52 Joshua Oreman wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:31:40AM +0400 or thereabouts, Denis wrote: Hi All!!! Does anybody know how in freebsd use mouse with 3 button and one scroll? --snip

SLRN in a gnome-terminal issue

2003-08-17 Thread Nicholas Wieland
Hi, I'm experiencing a very strange issue with Slrn and Gnome-Terminal 2.2.2. I'm used to have an icon on a gnome-panel that simply launch Slrn inside a Gnome-Terminal, but I can't make it work ... I can see a window flash up and disappear immediately. If I open a Gnome-Terminal and start Slrn

Re: xterm: colors and keys

2003-08-17 Thread Nicholas Wieland
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:34:51PM -0300, fallenbr wrote: 1 - How can I set color on xterm? I've tried creating a .Xdefaults with XTerm*termName: xterm-color on it, but nothing really changed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nicholas]$ echo $TERM xterm-color [EMAIL PROTECTED] nicholas]$ less /etc/profile

permission in apache

2003-08-17 Thread GNorm
I have installed apache and got it to run, however when I tried to access a web address that I have set for virtual hosting I get the following message: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. I assume this error is the results of the permission on the directory

stupid question

2003-08-17 Thread Eugene Vinokurov
'chmod -R o+w /' had been done on filesystem reinstall is impossible chmod -R o-w / , chmod o-w /, and chmod o+w /tmp /var/tmp seem to help What problems I have to expect ? Is there any way to restore default permissions for system directories? Maybe I have to check something? Please, help

Re: permission in apache

2003-08-17 Thread Mike Maltese
This shouldn't have anything to do with UNIX permissions. You'll get this error (403) if there is no document by the name specified in the DirectoryIndex directive (defualt is index.html) and the directory does not have the Indexes option (display directory contents). So either create index.html

Re: permission

2003-08-17 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 08/16/03 06:18 PM, GNorm sat at the `puter and typed: I have installed apache and got it to run, however when I tried to access a web address that I have set for virtual hosting I get the following message: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. I assume

Re: mouse with scroll....

2003-08-17 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 20:07, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On Sonntag, 17. August 2003 01:52 Joshua Oreman wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:31:40AM +0400 or thereabouts, Denis wrote: Hi All!!! Does anybody know how in freebsd use

Re: permission in apache

2003-08-17 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 05:29:11AM -0700, Mike Maltese wrote: This shouldn't have anything to do with UNIX permissions. You'll get this error (403) if there is no document by the name specified in the DirectoryIndex directive (defualt is index.html) and the directory does not have the Indexes

Sound under laptop

2003-08-17 Thread geek
I'm completely puzzled about soundcards under freebsd, i have read the respective chapter in the handbook but i dont found a good relation with my laptop (compaq 725) soundacard that's: 16-Bit Sound Blaster CompatibleJBL Proi Audio System c/ Bass Reflex # kldload snd # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD

Re: stupid question

2003-08-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-17T12:10:23Z, Eugene Vinokurov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to restore default permissions for system directories? Maybe I have to check something? Please, help Look at mtree. It can fix much of the damage. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

how to install on fbsd 4.8 new version of KDE?

2003-08-17 Thread Denis
Hi All!!! Does anybody know how can i to install on fbsd 4.8 new version of KDE, such as in fbsd 5.1 Or it's impossible? -- Best regards, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Problems after CVSUP

2003-08-17 Thread Tuc
Hi, I CVSUP every other day or so, depends on when I remember. Any time there is something out of date, I portupgrade it. Within the last week, after CVSUP, it appears I loaded something thats really wreaking havock on my system. My Netscape browser is SLOW AS HELL. If

Re: Problems after CVSUP

2003-08-17 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 17 August 2003 07:51 am, Tuc wrote: Hi, I CVSUP every other day or so, depends on when I remember. Any time there is something out of date, I portupgrade it. Within the last week, after CVSUP, it appears I loaded something thats really wreaking havock on my system.

Re: Problems after CVSUP

2003-08-17 Thread Tuc
Has anyone heard/seen this before and maybe know what the issue is? Did you recently upgrade libxml2 and not build the ports that depend on it? I am seeing the same problem and it started when I only portupgraded libxml2. I am rebuilding everything that uses it right now (-pufr

Re: Need route add default 192.xxx after every reboot

2003-08-17 Thread thornton
Putting defaultrouter= in rc.conf is easy for specifying an upstream router. If you need to add other routes, for example to another subnet on your LAN you can specify static_routes= in rc.conf to point to a list of routes to add upon entering multiuser mode. This list, i belive follows the

Re: Problems after CVSUP

2003-08-17 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 17 August 2003 08:27 am, Tuc wrote: Has anyone heard/seen this before and maybe know what the issue is? Did you recently upgrade libxml2 and not build the ports that depend on it? I am seeing the same problem and it started when I only portupgraded libxml2. I am

RE: how to install on fbsd 4.8 new version of KDE?

2003-08-17 Thread liquid
You can always install portinstall from the ports. Then cvsup your ports tree regularly and run ports db -Uu (or something similar, I can't recall right now - it's in the portinstall man page) and simply type: Portupgrade kde And it'll go through the whole thing. Be warned, it can take a LONG

Re: Which process are waiting for I/O?

2003-08-17 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 02:28 PM 8/10/2003 -0700, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, I've got a box which is getting high loads as process are starting waiting for I/O but I can't track down the process as I think they stop/start quickly. Any ideas of how to track it down? Yes. You need to enable process accounting using

Re: mouse with scroll....

2003-08-17 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:22:46PM +0400 or thereabouts, Denis wrote: Hi! Sunday, August 17, 2003, 3:52:44 AM, you wrote: JO On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:31:40AM +0400 or thereabouts, Denis wrote: Hi All!!! Does anybody know how in freebsd use mouse with 3 button and one scroll?

Re: mouse with scroll....

2003-08-17 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:37:00PM +0200 or thereabouts, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On Sonntag, 17. August 2003 01:52 Joshua Oreman wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:31:40AM +0400 or thereabouts, Denis wrote: Hi All!!! Does

Re: permission in apache

2003-08-17 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:10:41PM +0100 or thereabouts, Jez Hancock wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 05:29:11AM -0700, Mike Maltese wrote: This shouldn't have anything to do with UNIX permissions. You'll get this error (403) if there is no document by the name specified in the DirectoryIndex

Re: how-to run javascript on my server

2003-08-17 Thread David Banning
First of all. Java and Java script are two different things. I take it you use Java. Your Java applets don't run on the server but on the client. The main problem from a server point of view is that you need to make sure that the class files can be handed out by the webserver. You could

toshiba-acpi-extras

2003-08-17 Thread edscott wilson garcia
Does anybody know if there are plans to port the toshiba-acpi-extras from linux to the freebsd kernel? Without these additional acpi variables it is not possible to adjust the LCD brightness for recent Toshiba laptops (satellite 2400,2450,2455 and others). Not being able to dim the LCD screen is

Re: A big favor..

2003-08-17 Thread Rod Person
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 22:31:36 + unknown name [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to try to tell you that i dream of having an email with FreeBSD.org =$, i know im it sounds crazy, but i would like so much to have an email with FreeBSD.org, just a foward, not mailbox, just a

panic on heavy read/writes (5.1 + vinum)

2003-08-17 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
Hi, I recently installed 5.1 RELEASE on a PII (old!) machine. I am using vinum on everything except '/' ( I am not using the new vinum-root setup possible with 5.1 ) (Versions are straight out of the 5.1 RELEASE, no cvsup) I got a panic during a make distclean on cvsup-without-gui (which

IPF DHCP request

2003-08-17 Thread geek
Hey guys, can u please post (who have) rules with DHCP involved?! because, i'm in troube, my firewall doesnt work because because my ipf.rules doesnt work and i dont know why!! When i put in rules pass in/out all i have acess to the internet, otherwise, with my rules i dont, and i have change

Need help with mldonkey, Anybody...

2003-08-17 Thread kristof
Hi, I'm trying to get mldonkey working but I don't really know what I'm doing wrong. Fisrt I got the error of no servers in servers.ini but was able to solve this by copying the servers.ini in the ../distrib dir over the other ones. now I can see a list of all the servers in the browsers but I

Re: [JunkMail] IPF DHCP request

2003-08-17 Thread Mark Woodson
At 09:29 PM 8/17/2003 +0100, geek wrote: Hey guys, can u please post (who have) rules with DHCP involved?! because, i'm in troube, my firewall doesnt work because because my ipf.rules doesnt work and i dont know why!! When i put in rules pass in/out all i have acess to the internet, otherwise,

Re: Need help with mldonkey, Anybody...

2003-08-17 Thread Rod Person
On Mon 18 Aug 2003 00:01:44 +0200 kristof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get mldonkey working but I don't really know what I'm doing wrong. Fisrt I got the error of no servers in servers.ini but was able to solve this by copying the servers.ini in the ../distrib dir over the

Re: Re: Need help with mldonkey, Anybody...

2003-08-17 Thread kristof
Hi, I don't really think you tip had effect, but thx anyway. The weird thing is that when I change the configuration to wich networks it may connect, include soulseek end fasttrack, these server our found almost directly. But it is so that my servers.ini list contains about 6700 donkey servers,

Re: panic on heavy read/writes (5.1 + vinum)

2003-08-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 17 August 2003 at 15:01:41 -0500, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: Hi, I recently installed 5.1 RELEASE on a PII (old!) machine. I am using vinum on everything except '/' ( I am not using the new vinum-root setup possible with 5.1 ) (Versions are straight out of the 5.1 RELEASE, no cvsup)

RE: RE: [JunkMail] IPF DHCP request

2003-08-17 Thread geek
i read it already, but i have a problem with it # # Allow bootp traffic in from your ISP's DHCP server only. # pass in quick on ed0 proto udp from X.X.X.X/32 to any

freebsd iso

2003-08-17 Thread bob door
what iso do i download for a i686 processor? thank you - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

SAMBA 2.2.8a, FBSD 4.8 Release Win2K Remote Print Issues

2003-08-17 Thread RA Cohen
Hello, list -- I trust this is the correct list for this post. I have been wrestling literally for days with SAMBA/Win2K remote printing. Here is the architecture: qty 1- FBSD SAMBA Server PDC qty 2- Network printers (an HP LJ2100 with Built-in net card, and a Canon 6500 printer/copier also with

RE: freebsd iso

2003-08-17 Thread Craig M. Luchtefeld
i386. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bob door Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: freebsd iso what iso do i download for a i686 processor? thank you - Do you Yahoo!?

Re: freebsd iso

2003-08-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:20:42PM -0700, bob door wrote: what iso do i download for a i686 processor? The regular i386 iso. If you want to recompile FreeBSD with non-generic CPU optimizations, see the handbook section on 'make world'. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

/dev/dsp inaccessible

2003-08-17 Thread epilogue
hello all, i have been playing with FBSD for almost a year now. i would very much like to use it for music recording and editing. i have installed several programs (audacity, spiral synth modular, etc.) which all want to access /dev/dsp, however that device only responds with error messages

Fragments of kernel log text in security run message

2003-08-17 Thread Ralph Dratman
Until recently, my security run messages from Release-4.7 have been reasonably comprehensible. Certain events and changes have been reported, such as login failures and setuid changes, but I could always figure out roughly what was being reported. Recently, though, I've been seeing small

Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible

2003-08-17 Thread Mike Maltese
Here are a couple of links that may be helpful: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/09/19/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia.html hello all, i have been playing with FBSD for almost a year now. i would very much like to use it for music

Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible

2003-08-17 Thread Mike Maltese
I should have asked this also - what desktop are you running? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/dev/dsp inaccessible

2003-08-17 Thread epilogue
hi mike, thanks for your super quick replies! 1) i already checked out the info in the handbook as well as that article at onlamp. alas, no results. 2) my desktop -- XFree86-4.3.0,1 and window manger -- fluxbox-0.1.14_2. hope this helps. ___ [EMAIL

iso disk 3 and 4

2003-08-17 Thread David R. Stegner
I am trying to move up to 4.8 release. According to the online installation guide, section 2.13.1, for each release there are ISO disks 1 - 4. I have downloaded 1 2 and all is well. Does anyone have an idea where disks 3 4 are, I am unable to find them at ftp.freebsd.org. Dave

Building GTK2 with -O2 might be a bad idea if you use Evolution.

2003-08-17 Thread Matthew Graybosch
When building GTK2 with -O2 in my CFLAGS under 5.1-RELEASE on an Athlon XP, I noticed that Evolution 1.4.3 has a nasty tendency to segfault. However, rebuilding GTK2 with -O instead of -O2 seems to have cured Evolution's tendency to segfault and die. Has anybody else noticed this? -- Matthew

Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible

2003-08-17 Thread Mike Maltese
I had a problem with KDE and arts at one time. IIRC, I had to manually point the applications at the different virtual sound devices. What sound server does fluxbox use? Also, what sound card are you running? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Forgot passwords - locked out of 4.3 - flops no help

2003-08-17 Thread suleyman
Greetings: I have FreeBSD 4.3 installed on my Toshiba 305 CDS laptop, which I installed a couple of years ago from the WindRiver CD-ROM set. After many days of work, I had everything running just the way I wanted. Sicne then, I have forgotten my passwords, and I gave away my computer books when

Sohoware ncb100 pcmcia cardbus nic in 5.1-release

2003-08-17 Thread jim
Pcmcia cardbus Sohoware ncb100 is found by kernel, seems to be using dc driver,identifies properly, even showing correct mac address, even led shows link, but does not work. Just shows 'no carrier'. After manual configuration can even ping itself at the assigned address. The card works under

Re: Forgot passwords - locked out of 4.3 - flops no help

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 18), suleyman said: Greetings: I have FreeBSD 4.3 installed on my Toshiba 305 CDS laptop, which I installed a couple of years ago from the WindRiver CD-ROM set. After many days of work, I had everything running just the way I wanted. Sicne then, I have forgotten

Re: Fragments of kernel log text in security run message

2003-08-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:39:49PM -0400, Ralph Dratman wrote: Recently, though, I've been seeing small fragments of text in the kernel log portion of that report. This happens almost every day now. Following are a few examples. There is just one fragment per report.

Re: iso disk 3 and 4

2003-08-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 08:37:09PM -0700, David R. Stegner wrote: I am trying to move up to 4.8 release. According to the online installation guide, section 2.13.1, for each release there are ISO disks 1 - 4. I have downloaded 1 2 and all is well. Does anyone have an idea where

Java and Netscape 7.1?

2003-08-17 Thread Warren Toomey
Hi, I've installed both netscape7-7.1 (a Linux browser) and linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2 via ports on FreeBSD-4.8. Both are working fine, but I can't work out how to enable Java support from within netscape7english. I've searched the questions mailing list with no luck. All the Netscape 7.1 release

Re: Fragments of kernel log text in security run message

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 17), Kris Kennaway said: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:39:49PM -0400, Ralph Dratman wrote: Recently, though, I've been seeing small fragments of text in the kernel log portion of that report. This happens almost every day now. Following are a few examples. There is

buildkernel errs: aicasm_scan.c gives signal 5 error

2003-08-17 Thread Dave Banning
I cvsuped last evening and tried to buildkernel and got this error; cc -O -pipe -nostdinc -I/usr/include -I. -I/usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm -D__FBSDID=__RCSID -c aicasm_scan.c {standard input}: cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 5 *** Error code 1 Stop in