Re: ppp -auto my_provider

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Alexander Bubnov wrote: could you help me, please? (I have FreeBSD 5.3) this question: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ppp.html#PPP-AUTO-NOREASONDIAL Why does ppp(8) dial for no reason in -auto mode? I've fought the same irritating issue now and

Re: How do I do a COLD Reboot on FreeBSD?

2005-02-02 Thread Billy Newsom
Bob Hall wrote: This may help. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/assembly-language/x86/general/part3/section-5.html Bob Hall Hmmm. Good link. Here's a better one that I just discovered reading about this stuff: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/hackers/2003-11/0205.html I began to notice

distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread faisal gillani
Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other distro charging only media cost related to it ? GNU based application are very hard to find here in my country ordering from Internet is very expensive, for a normal user , so i was thinking can i copy my distro Cd's sell @ media cost in my

Re[2]: ppp -auto my_provider

2005-02-02 Thread Alexander Bubnov
Hello Tom, Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 11:02:04 AM, you wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Alexander Bubnov wrote: could you help me, please? (I have FreeBSD 5.3) this question: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ppp.html#PPP-AUTO-NOREASONDIAL Why does ppp(8) dial for no

Re: Problem with booting freebsd

2005-02-02 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005, Adil F. Mamedov wrote: Hello! After my WINDOWS XP crashed, I decided to reinstall it... But I forgot that during windows installation it overwrites the MBR. So, instead of prompting me for the OS to load (FreeBSD or Windows), the system loads Windows. When I found this

Re: Routing Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Thomas Foster
Im confused.. if you have two T1s, then are using /30s dor the ranges? If so.. what about not giving a default gateway for either one and just add routes... Are you attempting utilize this as just a router.? Theres a section that covers setting up routing on interfaces in the handbook:

Re[2]: ppp -auto my_provider

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Alexander Bubnov wrote: Hello Tom, Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 11:02:04 AM, you wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Alexander Bubnov wrote: could you help me, please? (I have FreeBSD 5.3) this question:

Re: Booting FreeBSD-5.3 from NTLDR

2005-02-02 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:32:07PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:04:07 +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 04:10:49 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that you should be able to use boot0 and boot1 as a file once

Re: mounted ext2 fs causes bad shutdown

2005-02-02 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:58:34AM -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: One of the many ways to do the same thing without the bugs could be: # extfs=$(mount | grep '^/.*(ext2fs,' | awk '{print $1}') Actually, better than that would be extfs=$(mount -t ext2fs | awk '{print $1;}')

nsswitch ldap lookup problems

2005-02-02 Thread Klavs Klavsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I've gotten my kerberos and openldap up and running on FreeBSD 5.3 - and can login with my user (because he has been created in kerberos and pam looks in that), but nsswitch can't find the user in ldap for some reason. All help will be greatly

NFS tweaking (mount_nfs and fstab)

2005-02-02 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
Hey FreeBSD community, Firstly - Whats the difference between freebsd-questions and freebsd-newbies? Just the level of detail / questions asked? Let me know if I should be posting somewhere besides this list. Ok, so I've been transferring large tar files (60gig+) to a nfs mount (both client and

Getting FAM up and running from inetd

2005-02-02 Thread Nils Vogels
Hi there! I'm looking for a way to get fam [devel/fam] up and running from inetd. I seem to have followed all the hints in the pkg-message, however it doesnt work: imhotep# ps auxwww|grep inetd root97100 0.0 0.1 1128 836 ?? Is 11:10AM 0:00.02 /usr/sbin/inetd -wW imhotep# ps

My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry

2005-02-02 Thread Gert Cuykens
how do you fix this ? Feb 2 12:09:22 I sm-mta[699]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sle eping for retry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Dealing with ports installations

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Moyer
I have a question. I attempted to install a port and when it failed I realized that it installed its dependancies that I don't need. ( I don't need the port because I found another that does what I need). Is there any way to safely go through and see what is installed, what depends on it and

ssh root@localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Gert Cuykens
Why does it not accept my password ? I# ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Password: Password: Password: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). I# ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ssh root@localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Stephan Lichtenauer
Am 02.02.2005 um 12:16 schrieb Gert Cuykens: Why does it not accept my password ? I# ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Gert, if you really need that (this is disabled for security reasons), you need to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change the following line so it is no longer commented out and says Yes

Re: ssh root@localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Benjamin Thelen
Gert Cuykens wrote: Why does it not accept my password ? I# ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Password: Password: Password: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). I# ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ssh root@localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Oliver Leitner
add your user to the wheel group that might do the trick. Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff http://www.shells.at On Wednesday 02 February 2005 12:16, Gert Cuykens wrote: Why does it not accept my password ? I# ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Password: Password: Password: Permission denied

what is /entrophy ?

2005-02-02 Thread Gert Cuykens
what is /entrophy ? can i delete it ? also can i delete /python.core ? what about /COPYRIGHT :P you just had to put it in the / dont you :) whats wrong with /tmp :P ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ssh root@localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Oliver Leitner
oops, the others are right, i was wrong, i was thinking just two steps ahead once again...) On Wednesday 02 February 2005 12:38, Oliver Leitner wrote: add your user to the wheel group that might do the trick. Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff http://www.shells.at On Wednesday 02

Re: what is /entrophy ?

2005-02-02 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:52:52 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is /entrophy ? can i delete it ? also can i delete /python.core ? what about /COPYRIGHT :P you just had to put it in the / dont you :) whats wrong with /tmp :P PS what is the use of /usr/compat ? Can i delete it

RE: Routing Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Gustafson, Tim
Thomas, No, I'm not using this box as a router. It is a web server, and I need to spread the load of my web traffic across two separate T1s. I can't just add routes. You need a default route, or parts of the internet would become inaccessible. In my case, you need TWO default routes. I have

Re: ssh root@localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Gert Cuykens
thx all ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

netstat reset

2005-02-02 Thread Eugene
Hi, all! Can anybody tell me how can I reset network statistic, which could be seen by command `netstat -i'? Thank you for advance Eugene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

OT: Funny disclaimers (Was: Re: ssh root@localhost)

2005-02-02 Thread Nico Meijer
Hey, Sorry for the noise, but... -- By reading this mail you agree to the following: using or giving out the email address and any other info of the author of this email is strictly forbidden. By acting against this agreement the author of this mail will take possible legal actions

Re: Compiling/installing ports via NFS - any gotcha's? (while building linux_base-8-8.0_6, /usr/bin/build-locale-archive: cannot lock new archive: Operation not supported)

2005-02-02 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:15:19PM -0600, John typed: I don't have enough storage on my laptop for the entire ports tree (surprise, surprise), so I'm trying to make install acroread and jdk14 via NFS mounts from a bigger server. I'm down to trying to get the specific version of linux_base

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
faisal gillani wrote: Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other distro charging only media cost related to it ? GNU based application are very hard to find here in my country ordering from Internet is very expensive, for a normal user , so i was thinking can i copy my distro Cd's sell @

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:29:08AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: faisal gillani wrote: Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other distro charging only media cost related to it ? GNU based application are very hard to find here in my country ordering from Internet is very expensive,

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 04:12, faisal gillani wrote: Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other distro charging only media cost related to it ? GNU based application are very hard to find here in my country ordering from Internet is very expensive, for a normal user , so i was thinking

Big problem with PAE

2005-02-02 Thread musikcom
Hello. I have some interest problem in FreeBSD 5.2 - 5.3. Funny, but 5.1 is not implement for this problem. Problem description: when I try to switch PAE mode (I have 8 Gb installed memory), I have many problems with kernel. It's happening when making lot of proccesses (for forcing this

Re: what is /entrophy ?

2005-02-02 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:52:52PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: what is /entrophy ? can i delete it ? It is used to store entropy to reseed the random number generator at boot time. If it really is in your way there, then you can put it elsewhere by setting entropy_file in /etc/rc.conf. also

Re: Routing Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Thomas Foster
Hi Tim.. If you have multiple interfaces and you configure a default gateway for each interface, the default metric determination that is based on the speed of the interface usually uses the fastest interface for default gateway traffic. This is usually desirable in configurations in which the

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:29:08AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: faisal gillani wrote: Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other distro charging only media cost related to it ? GNU based application are very hard to find here in my country ordering from

RE: Routing Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Gustafson, Tim
Thomas (and John too), Let me clarify a little bit. What I have is this: A single FreeBSD web server with a single NIC in it Two T1 routers, each with a different subnet. My FreeBSD box has two IP addresses assigned to it, one from the first subnet and one from the second subnet. I want to

Re: Compiling/installing ports via NFS - any gotcha's? (while building linux_base-8-8.0_6, /usr/bin/build-locale-archive: cannot lock new archive: Operation not supported)

2005-02-02 Thread John
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:19:18PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:15:19PM -0600, John typed: I don't have enough storage on my laptop for the entire ports tree (surprise, surprise), so I'm trying to make install acroread and jdk14 via NFS mounts from a bigger

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nikolas Britton wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU GPL which has somewhat more restrictions (mainly in that (slightly simplified) you need to include the sourcecode for anything you distribute.) In either case it is certainly allowed to

Re: nsswitch ldap lookup problems

2005-02-02 Thread Klavs Klavsen
Has anyone gotten nsswitch ldap lookup working on a FreeBSD-5.x? I tried this exact config on a linux-client (to the same ldap-server) and it worked fine - I could do: getent passwd - and it also returned the users only on the ldap server. I try to do the equivalent (I think - there's no getent

keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread saravanan ganapathy
Hai , I have installed 5.3 release and want to keep my system uptodate with the security patches. Based on many guides, I have arranged as a doc. Pls confirm me whether my steps are ok 1) Install portupgrade 2) Sync ports Ports-supfile contains as *default

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:00:57AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:29:08AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: faisal gillani wrote: Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other distro charging only media cost related to it ? GNU

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:11:36AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU GPL which has somewhat more restrictions (mainly in that (slightly simplified) you need to include the

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:19:36AM -0800 or thereabouts, saravanan ganapathy wrote: 1) Install portupgrade 2) Sync ports Ports-supfile contains as *default host=cvsup10.us.freebsd.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=.

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Oliver Leitner
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 14:19, saravanan ganapathy wrote: Hai , I have installed 5.3 release and want to keep my system uptodate with the security patches. Based on many guides, I have arranged as a doc. Pls confirm me whether my steps are ok 1) Install portupgrade 2) Sync ports

Re: Dealing with ports installations

2005-02-02 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:13 am, Tom Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question. I attempted to install a port and when it failed I realized that it installed its dependancies that I don't need. ( I don't need the port because I found another that does what I need). Is there

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Oliver Leitner
to add something... pkg_version -v pkgversions.txt then you might check the generated textfile for current packages which are outdated, and need to be upgraded... On Wednesday 02 February 2005 14:25, Oliver Leitner wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 14:19, saravanan ganapathy wrote: Hai

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
saravanan ganapathy wrote: Hai , I have installed 5.3 release and want to keep my system uptodate with the security patches. Based on many guides, I have arranged as a doc. Pls confirm me whether my steps are ok 1) Install portupgrade 2) Sync ports Ports-supfile contains as

Re:(solved) nsswitch ldap lookup problems

2005-02-02 Thread Klavs Klavsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Embarressing.. Once I actually installed nss_ldap - it worked :) on 02-02-2005 14:19 Klavs Klavsen wrote: | Has anyone gotten nsswitch ldap lookup working on a FreeBSD-5.x? | | I tried this exact config on a linux-client (to the same ldap-server) | and

Re: User Limits

2005-02-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't seem to find a way to limit FD per UID nor a way to limit memory per UID Both of these can only be applied per process basis. Is there a reason why FreeBSD still doesn't support these limits per UID? it would very useful to be able to limit per UID as

Re: Dealing with ports installations

2005-02-02 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 05:39 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:13 am, Tom Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question. I attempted to install a port and when it failed I realized that it installed its dependancies that I don't need.

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: saravanan ganapathy wrote: Hai , I have installed 5.3 release and want to keep my system uptodate with the security patches. Based on many guides, I have arranged as a doc. Pls confirm me whether my steps are ok 1) Install

Re: FreeBSD 5.3, Openfiles Limit in login.conf not respected

2005-02-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matt Rechkemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:01:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: What configuration file should I execute this on? login.conf? Yes. Go back to /etc/login.conf and read the first few lines. Lowell, I can't thank you enough :-). I should have

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Oliver Leitner
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 14:57, saravanan ganapathy wrote: --- Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: saravanan ganapathy wrote: Hai , I have installed 5.3 release and want to keep my system uptodate with the security patches. Based on many guides, I have arranged

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:11:36AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU GPL which has somewhat more restrictions (mainly in that (slightly simplified) you need

Re: Unix equivalent of a variant??

2005-02-02 Thread Jason Stewart
Hey everyone, I'm finally doing something very exciting here at work: porting software to Unix! I need the equivalent of a variant, however. A hold-everything variable that can be any type in C/C++. Is there something already out there I can use or should I just roll my own? Are you

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
saravanan ganapathy wrote: I have done the above steps to update my system and when I run 'portversion -v | grep -v = ', I am gettin g the perl package only. freebsd# portversion -v | grep -v = perl-5.8.5needs updating (port has 5.8.6_1) freebsd# portupgrade perl --- Upgrading

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Oliver Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 14:19, saravanan ganapathy wrote: Hai , I have installed 5.3 release and want to keep my system uptodate with the security patches. Based on many guides, I have arranged as a doc. Pls confirm me whether my

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Chris Hodgins
[snip] 4) portversion -v 'portversion -v | grep -v = ' is what I use. You shouldn't require the grep...you can do this instead: # portversion -vl [snip] Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Oliver Leitner
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:11, saravanan ganapathy wrote: --- Oliver Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 14:19, saravanan ganapathy wrote: Hai , I have installed 5.3 release and want to keep my system uptodate with the security patches.

Re: Perl modules

2005-02-02 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:06:57AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hello, I have to do thise things: A) if Perl is installed from pkg_add and not the ports, uninstall it. pkg_delete -f perl5.8 B) add ENABLE_SUIDPERL=true to /etc/make.conf C) cd to /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 D) make

Re: Routing Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Thomas Foster
Sounds like the man page for routed might be what you seek http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=routedsektion=8 T - Original Message - From: Gustafson, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Thomas Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 5:02 AM Subject:

Compile time for kde

2005-02-02 Thread peter.lidell
Hello, I have installed 5.3 on a P4 with 1024mb. I am installing kde3 from source (ports). How long would you guys think that would take? It has been going on for almost 4 hours now... Should I stop it? Have never seen anything like it8) Regards Peter

Re: Unix equivalent of a variant??

2005-02-02 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:04:20AM -0500, Jason Stewart wrote: : Hey everyone, : : I'm finally doing something very exciting here at work: porting software to : Unix! : : I need the equivalent of a variant, however. A hold-everything variable : that can be any type in C/C++. Is there

Re: using portversion (Was: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt)

2005-02-02 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Chris Hodgins wrote: 4) portversion -v 'portversion -v | grep -v = ' is what I use. You shouldn't require the grep...you can do this instead: # portversion -vl Cheers for that, I didn't thought about that. But, that's not exactly what I wanted: '-l' switch includes only while 'grep -v

Re: using portversion (Was: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt)

2005-02-02 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: so it would be like: # portversion -vL doh! should be: # portversion -vL= Sorry! -- Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Compile time for kde

2005-02-02 Thread Xian
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 14:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have installed 5.3 on a P4 with 1024mb. I am installing kde3 from source (ports). How long would you guys think that would take? It has been going on for almost 4 hours now... Should I stop it? Have never seen anything

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: saravanan ganapathy wrote: I have done the above steps to update my system and when I run 'portversion -v | grep -v = ', I am gettin g the perl package only. freebsd# portversion -v | grep -v = perl-5.8.5needs updating (port

MySQL Disk Quotas per User/Group

2005-02-02 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have been struggling with how to include a users MySQL disk usage within thier disk quota. Currently, each user has a disk quota set on thier /home/usernamehere directory The mysql databases are kept in the /home/usernamehere/database directory, but, mysql insists on owning the

Re: Compile time for kde

2005-02-02 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 06:41 am, Xian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 14:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have installed 5.3 on a P4 with 1024mb. I am installing kde3 from source (ports). How long would you guys think that would take? It has been going

Re: Booting FreeBSD-5.3 from NTLDR

2005-02-02 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:48:47 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless BootPart specifically know about how the freebsd boot loaders work and how to reconize them, I doubt that it's modifying those parameters. Now the last 66 bytes of the MBR stores the partition table of the hard

upgrading FreeBSD

2005-02-02 Thread Greg Foster
I was wondering if it is possible to upgrade from FreeBSD 3.2 to 5.3 without doing a fresh install, and if possible what issues might I have. Thanks Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: upgrading FreeBSD

2005-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
I was wondering if it is possible to upgrade from FreeBSD 3.2 to 5.3 without doing a fresh install, and if possible what issues might I have. It might be possible, but it may be less effort to just do the fresh install. You would have to do several stages of upgrades. I don't know anyone

Re: library call for directory path creation?

2005-02-02 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:39:21PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc typed: On 02/01/05 12:58 PM, Michael C. Shultz sat at the `puter and typed: On Tuesday 01 February 2005 11:35 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: I know there might be a better place for this question, but here goes. I'm working on a

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:03:12AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:11:36AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU GPL

Re: what is /entrophy ?

2005-02-02 Thread Adi Pircalabu
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:46:52 + Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what about /COPYRIGHT :P Why bother? It's only using one inode, and occupies very little disk space. But if it offends, then sure, remove it. It'll come back when you upgrade anyway. trollingeven if it's symlinked to

Re: upgrading FreeBSD

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:13:11AM -0500, Greg Foster wrote: I was wondering if it is possible to upgrade from FreeBSD 3.2 to 5.3 without doing a fresh install, and if possible what issues might I have. Possible: Yes. Recommended: Absolutely not! You will almost certainly have to do it in

Re: Slow Thin Clients

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Lee Harr wrote: Hi; I am using FreeBSD-5.3 as a terminal server for a few thin client machines. I have the inside network interface configured so: ifconfig_xl0=inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex and the outside interface is from DHCP. The clients are

Re: SV: Compile time for kde

2005-02-02 Thread Joshua Tinnin
(cc'ed to the list) On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Joshua Tinnin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 2. februar 2005 15:56 Til: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Xian; Peter Lidell, PDI Emne: Re: Compile time for kde On

mx2.freebsd.org in dnsbl.sorbs.net

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have been thrown off the list because of too many bounces, turns out that mx2.freebsd.org has been listed at dnslb.sorbs.net, $ host 119.204.136.216.dnsbl.sorbs.net 119.204.136.216.dnsbl.sorbs.net has address 127.0.0.6 How on earth did it end up there? are someone mad at us? mx1 is not

Questions about Cyrus/SASL with postgress

2005-02-02 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Hi, [Ports is not the appropriate place for the question I know, so please feel free to redirect me to a workable list/group/forum/ on this topic.] I've inherited such a config of which the basic domain has changed. Now basic things still work, but creating new useraccounts fail on: Login

Re: Video Capture, TV tuner devices

2005-02-02 Thread Rod Person
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 10:03 pm, Thomas Foster wrote: You can get the Hauppauge PVR drivers running, though its a manual job... http://mythtv.son.org/tiki-index.php?page=Multimedia+Drivers hope this helps.. Thanks. I had looked at that card but crossed it off figuring it wouldn't

Re: what is /entrophy ?

2005-02-02 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:26:40PM +0200, Adi Pircalabu wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:46:52 + Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what about /COPYRIGHT :P Why bother? It's only using one inode, and occupies very little disk space. But if it offends, then sure, remove it. It'll

Re: upgrading FreeBSD

2005-02-02 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 02 Feb Erik Trulsson wrote: The sequence backup all data make a fresh install of 5.3 restore data from backup will almost certainly be quicker, simpler, and less prone to catastrophic failure. (Making a backup of all important data is a *very* good idea anyway.) You're so right ;-)

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Zlatozar Zhelyazkov
Here are some useful links. Read carefully!! http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_applications_up-to-date.html http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_up-to-date.html On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 06:49:06 -0800 (PST), saravanan ganapathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
saravanan ganapathy wrote: What is the recommended period to update the ports? Someone else should comment on that, but I think updating (cvsup) ports tree once a week should be often enough to track changes and rare enough to not overload mirrors. That applies to single desktop machine, if

Re: problems running k3b in fluxbox with sudo

2005-02-02 Thread Rod Person
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 2:35 am, Brian John wrote: Sorry, I should have been more clear. I have 'dvd+rw-tools' installed, and it works in kde. I just can't get it to work in fluxbox because of this one problem. The difference is I am starting it through the kde menu in kde and I'm

Re: Booting FreeBSD-5.3 from NTLDR

2005-02-02 Thread Mark Ovens
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:48:47 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless BootPart specifically know about how the freebsd boot loaders work and how to reconize them, I doubt that it's modifying those parameters. Now the last 66 bytes of the MBR stores the

Re: mx2.freebsd.org in dnsbl.sorbs.net

2005-02-02 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:37:40 +0100 Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Erik, I have been thrown off the list because of too many bounces, turns out that mx2.freebsd.org has been listed at dnslb.sorbs.net, $ host 119.204.136.216.dnsbl.sorbs.net 119.204.136.216.dnsbl.sorbs.net has

Re: mx2.freebsd.org in dnsbl.sorbs.net

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: I have been thrown off the list because of too many bounces, turns out that mx2.freebsd.org has been listed at dnslb.sorbs.net, $ host 119.204.136.216.dnsbl.sorbs.net 119.204.136.216.dnsbl.sorbs.net has address 127.0.0.6 Just to clarify myself, mx2.freebsd.org is listed in

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Robert Huff
Karol Kwiatkowski writes: Someone else should comment on that, but I think updating (cvsup) ports tree once a week should be often enough to track changes and rare enough to not overload mirrors. The other theory involves more frequent (i,e, daily) but presumably smaller updates.

Trouble reading the nightly security run output report

2005-02-02 Thread Tim Hogan
OK, so every night the default install of FreeBSD generates a security run output report for IPF denied packets. Here is a sample report; 221143 @2 block out log quick on dc0 from any to any head 15 92733 @2 block in log quick on dc0 from any to any head 10 20 @8 block in log quick on dc0

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Oliver Leitner
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:08, Robert Huff wrote: Karol Kwiatkowski writes: Someone else should comment on that, but I think updating (cvsup) ports tree once a week should be often enough to track changes and rare enough to not overload mirrors. The other theory involves

3C2000-T

2005-02-02 Thread Luiz Henrique Ozaki
Im having a problem putting a 3C2000-T to work in freebsd5.3 In the page it isnt saying that It works in 5.3. But is there another way to make it work ? Regards, Luiz Ozaki ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: library call for directory path creation?

2005-02-02 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/02/05 04:23 PM, Ruben de Groot sat at the `puter and typed: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:39:21PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc typed: On 02/01/05 12:58 PM, Michael C. Shultz sat at the `puter and typed: On Tuesday 01 February 2005 11:35 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: I know there might be a better

Strange foreign connections

2005-02-02 Thread Gene
While running netstat I found these entries: Active Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state) tcp4 0 0 localhost.52730undernet1.blueyo.ircd ESTABLISHED tcp4 0 0 localhost.52398

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-02 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:08, Robert Huff wrote: Karol Kwiatkowski writes: Someone else should comment on that, but I think updating (cvsup) ports tree once a week should be often enough to track changes and rare enough to not overload mirrors. The other theory involves

Re: Strange foreign connections

2005-02-02 Thread Tim Erlin
Gene wrote: While running netstat I found these entries: Active Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state) tcp4 0 0 localhost.52730undernet1.blueyo.ircd ESTABLISHED tcp4 0 0 localhost.52398

ee editor rules :)

2005-02-02 Thread Gert Cuykens
I like it allot but i cant seem to find out how to type a / character ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Gert Cuykens
i want a screensaver but the ... xscreensaver daemon wont start complaining about acces controle. I did xhost +localhost but it still wont start :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

IPF, IPFW, or IPFILTER?

2005-02-02 Thread Andy Firman
The author of the FreeBSD handboodk prefers IPF (ipfilter) because its stateful rules are much less complicated The author of The Complete BSD talks about IPFW (ipfirewall) only. People on this list talk of PF (packetfilter) quite a bit. What is the most commonly used firewall for a

Re: Using PAM with ssh

2005-02-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Konrad Heuer wrote: I never tried by myself, but did you also modify /etc/pam.d/sshd? I think that would be necessary. Of course; here it is: # # $FreeBSD: src/etc/pam.d/sshd,v 1.15 2003/04/30 21:57:54 markm Exp $ # # PAM configuration for the sshd service # # auth authrequired

Obtener FreeBSD

2005-02-02 Thread carlonchoboy
Hola, quisiera que me mandaran un link desde donde pueda descargar una imagen de el sistema operativo freeBSD en espaƱol. Gracias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

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