Re: webmail solution

2005-12-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
> I'm looking for experiences with a webmail solution. I want to use > postfix as my mta and on a freebsd6 machine. The users who will be using the > server probably would do better with a webmail package so they can get to it > from anywhere. The box already has apache and php so i don't th

Re: X error: [drm] failed to load kernel module "i915"

2005-12-17 Thread Remington
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 20:46 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I have problem with running X. I have tried to run it on FreeBSD 6.0 with LG > 1730s and intel integrated card 82865G. > after I had read previous posts I have tried to change the Xorg.conf.new and > test it but I still gett

Re: IPFW pipe command

2005-12-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 18), Malcolm Clarke said: > I have a question regarding use of the "pipe" command in IPFW. I use > the following commands > > #ipfw add pipe 1 ip from any to any > #ipfw pipe 1 config > > but get the following error > > ipfw: setsockopt(IP_DUMMYNET_CONFIGURE): Protocol n

How to make init(8) run a daemon to me??

2005-12-17 Thread Gustavo Parrini
Hi All, I'm having a pretty hard time trying to figure out how can I get init(8) to run a daemon and respawn it if it crashes. By the time I was a Linux user, it was done by adding a line in /etc/inittab and it was all... I know that it must be done in /etc/ttys but I couldn't find any syntax ex

Re: how to dual boot

2005-12-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > At 07:39 PM 12/16/2005, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >You need to read the documentation better. > > Or at all. :) Was hoping it would just magically guide me through it. Not > a critical box of mine of course. > > >It tells you that you should install Microsloth first and then FreeBSD. >

Re: wired and wireless network setup interactions

2005-12-17 Thread Barney Wolff
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:24:47PM -0500, Dave wrote: >I have a setup that was a 10 megabit hub holding together a freebsd6 > firewall/router/webserver/other box. Updated that to a 10/100 megabitt > Belkin g+ router for wireless. The problem now that i'm having is both the > server and this

Re: Problems rebuilding world

2005-12-17 Thread Frank Steinborn
Justin Pessa wrote: > ===> share/termcap (all) > gzip -cn /usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.5 > termcap.5.gz > TERM=dumb TERMCAP=dumb: ex - /usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.src < > /usr/src/share/termcap/reorder > cap_mkdb -l termcap > cap_mkdb: illegal option -- l > usage: cap_mkdb [-v] [-f outfile] f

wired and wireless network setup interactions

2005-12-17 Thread Dave
Hello, I have a setup that was a 10 megabit hub holding together a freebsd6 firewall/router/webserver/other box. Updated that to a 10/100 megabitt Belkin g+ router for wireless. The problem now that i'm having is both the server and this new router do the following: firewall dhcp dns nat an

Re: Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers

2005-12-17 Thread Will Maier
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:11:24PM -0800, patrick wrote: > I have a bunch of FreeBSD servers to manage, and I'm wanting to > find a device that lets you SSH/telnet in, and access the servers > connected to it via serial cables. I know such a device exists, > but it was a long time ago since I last

Question about PHP5 vs mod_php5

2005-12-17 Thread Jose Borquez
I am currently running FreeBSD 5.4 with Apache+mod_ssl 1.3.34 and I am attempting to configure group office which is a project management suite. I need php support and I am confused about what the difference is between PHP5 and mod_php5. If I just install mod_php5 will that be enough to allow

IPFW pipe command

2005-12-17 Thread Malcolm Clarke
I have a question regarding use of the "pipe" command in IPFW. I use the following commands #ipfw add pipe 1 ip from any to any #ipfw pipe 1 config but get the following error ipfw: setsockopt(IP_DUMMYNET_CONFIGURE): Protocol not available I have added firewall_enable="YES" in rc.conf Is ther

Re: Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers

2005-12-17 Thread David Gerard
RW wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 23:11, patrick wrote: >>I have a bunch of FreeBSD servers to manage, and I'm wanting to find a >>device that lets you SSH/telnet in, and access the servers connected >>to it via serial cables. I know such a device exists, but it was a >>long time ago since

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 117, Issue 23

2005-12-17 Thread Jeff Molofee
Having some serious problems with gnome-theme-manager. Up until last week it was running great. I installed a few icon packs, themes, etc, no problems. 2 days ago I went to install a new theme and notice the the theme manager took a long time to come up, and when it did, none of the themes l

Problems rebuilding world

2005-12-17 Thread Justin Pessa
I'm rebuilding world to upgrade from 5.4 to 6.0 on my laptop. The original build worked find then crapped out when running install world with an error saying that /usr/share/locale/uk_UA.CP1251/LC_COLLATE could not be found. So now I can't load any additional applications because almost everything

Re: Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers

2005-12-17 Thread RW
On Saturday 17 December 2005 23:11, patrick wrote: > I have a bunch of FreeBSD servers to manage, and I'm wanting to find a > device that lets you SSH/telnet in, and access the servers connected > to it via serial cables. I know such a device exists, but it was a > long time ago since I last saw on

FreeBSD 6, WPA-PSK, wpa_supplicant and a IBM a31p

2005-12-17 Thread Daniel Hanson
Ok, I've exhausted a FreeBSD phanatic friend of mine, and spent quite a while trying different configurations to get this working, and am coming up against a brick wall. I am attempting to setup a Thinkpad a31p with a built in wireless card, it uses the wi driver. The output of dmesg =-=- wi0:

RE: Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers

2005-12-17 Thread Tamouh H.
> I have a bunch of FreeBSD servers to manage, and I'm wanting > to find a device that lets you SSH/telnet in, and access the > servers connected to it via serial cables. I know such a > device exists, but it was a long time ago since I last saw > one, and I'm not really sure what one of these woul

Re: Script Problem

2005-12-17 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 17, 2005 2:13:04 PM -0500 Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using FreeBSD 5.4 Please do not laugh. I absolutely suck at writing scripts. Someday I might learn, but in the mean time, I need some assistance. I want to run a script from CRON that will check to see if MySQL

Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers

2005-12-17 Thread patrick
I have a bunch of FreeBSD servers to manage, and I'm wanting to find a device that lets you SSH/telnet in, and access the servers connected to it via serial cables. I know such a device exists, but it was a long time ago since I last saw one, and I'm not really sure what one of these would be calle

Re: Script Problem

2005-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gerard Seibert wrote: I want to run a script from CRON that will check to see if MySQL is running, and if not, restart it. I have had a problem with MySQL shutting down unexpectedly. This is my first attempt at writing the script. #!/bin/sh if (`ps -wxuU mysql | grep -o mysqld_safe`)

Re: HP ScanJet 4100c?

2005-12-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 12:57:59PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 03:21 am, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 02:39:07AM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > > > On Friday 16 December 2005 11:31 pm, you wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:19:21PM -0500, Anish Mi

Re: Passing make options to portmanager

2005-12-17 Thread Dimitris Tsamis
RW wrote: >On Saturday 17 December 2005 17:54, Dimitris Tsamis wrote: > > > >>I prefer to use pkgtools.conf because from what I understand it is a >>system file, whereas pm-020.conf is only for portmanager >> >> > >This is incorrect. > >pkgtools.conf is the configuration file for portupgra

Script Problem

2005-12-17 Thread Gerard Seibert
Using FreeBSD 5.4 Please do not laugh. I absolutely suck at writing scripts. Someday I might learn, but in the mean time, I need some assistance. I want to run a script from CRON that will check to see if MySQL is running, and if not, restart it. I have had a problem with MySQL shutting down unex

Re: Passing make options to portmanager

2005-12-17 Thread RW
On Saturday 17 December 2005 17:54, Dimitris Tsamis wrote: > I prefer to use pkgtools.conf because from what I understand it is a > system file, whereas pm-020.conf is only for portmanager This is incorrect. pkgtools.conf is the configuration file for portupgrade and the other package-tools i

Re: Download the whole ports tree

2005-12-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 04:59:57PM +, RW wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 07:54, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Well, if you really think you want this, then just: > > > > cd /usr/ports > > make fetch > > Just idle curiosity, but does anyone have a feeling for how much that would > download?

Re: Download the whole ports tree

2005-12-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:03:12PM +0100, K??vesd??n G??bor wrote: > RW wrote: > > >On Saturday 17 December 2005 07:54, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > >>Well, if you really think you want this, then just: > >> > >>cd /usr/ports > >>make fetch > >> > >> > > > >Just idle curiosity, but does anyo

Re: Download the whole ports tree

2005-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
RW wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 07:54, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Well, if you really think you want this, then just: >> >> cd /usr/ports >> make fetch > > Just idle curiosity, but does anyone have a feeling for how much that would > download? Around 25 GB. -- -Chuck ___

Re: webmail solution

2005-12-17 Thread chip
On 12/17/05, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > I'm looking for experiences with a webmail solution. I want to use > postfix as my mta and on a freebsd6 machine. The users who will be using > the > server probably would do better with a webmail package so they can get to > it > from a

Re: shell script doesnot executing

2005-12-17 Thread Harley D. Eades III
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 23:17 -0800, James Long wrote: > > Message: 24 > > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:51:22 -0600 > > From: "Harley D. Eades III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: shell script doesnot executing > > To: Anirban Adhikary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > M

Re: Passing make options to portmanager

2005-12-17 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 17 December 2005 09:54, Dimitris Tsamis wrote: > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > >On Friday 16 December 2005 16:31, Dimitris Tsamis wrote: > >>I want to switch from portupgrade to portmanager, but I have a few > >>questions. > >> > >>First of all, how do I pass make options to portmanager? (

Re: HP ScanJet 4100c?

2005-12-17 Thread Anish Mistry
On Saturday 17 December 2005 03:21 am, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 02:39:07AM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > > On Friday 16 December 2005 11:31 pm, you wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:19:21PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > > > > On Friday 16 December 2005 08:02 pm, Gary Kline wr

Re: Passing make options to portmanager

2005-12-17 Thread Dimitris Tsamis
Michael C. Shultz wrote: >On Friday 16 December 2005 16:31, Dimitris Tsamis wrote: > > >>I want to switch from portupgrade to portmanager, but I have a few >>questions. >> >>First of all, how do I pass make options to portmanager? (like the -m >>option for portupgrade). I often pass selected ma

RE: change max username length

2005-12-17 Thread Gayn Winters
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Lowell Gilbert > Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 8:54 AM > To: aksis > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: change max username length > > > aksis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I

Re: webmail solution

2005-12-17 Thread Sasa Stupar
--On 17. december 2005 11:46 -0500 Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm looking for experiences with a webmail solution. I want to use postfix as my mta and on a freebsd6 machine. The users who will be using the server probably would do better with a webmail package so they can get t

Re: grub doesn't know ufs filesystem

2005-12-17 Thread RW
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 21:42, Micah wrote: > I used chainloading for a while until I wanted multiple installs of > FreeBSD on the same drive. Using chainloading from grub always booted > the first FreeBSD regardless of which slice was specified in menu.lst. > Changing it to use /boot/loader

Re: Download the whole ports tree

2005-12-17 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2005 09:03, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: RW wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2005 07:54, Kris Kennaway wrote: Well, if you really think you want this, then just: cd /usr/ports make fetch Just idle curiosity, but does anyone hav

Re: Download the whole ports tree

2005-12-17 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 17 December 2005 09:03, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > RW wrote: > >On Saturday 17 December 2005 07:54, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>Well, if you really think you want this, then just: > >> > >>cd /usr/ports > >>make fetch > > > >Just idle curiosity, but does anyone have a feeling for how much tha

Re: Download the whole ports tree

2005-12-17 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
RW wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2005 07:54, Kris Kennaway wrote: Well, if you really think you want this, then just: cd /usr/ports make fetch Just idle curiosity, but does anyone have a feeling for how much that would download? This would not fetch all of the distfiles, because

Re: Download the whole ports tree

2005-12-17 Thread RW
On Saturday 17 December 2005 07:54, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Well, if you really think you want this, then just: > > cd /usr/ports > make fetch Just idle curiosity, but does anyone have a feeling for how much that would download? ___ freebsd-questions@fre

webmail solution

2005-12-17 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm looking for experiences with a webmail solution. I want to use postfix as my mta and on a freebsd6 machine. The users who will be using the server probably would do better with a webmail package so they can get to it from anywhere. The box already has apache and php so i don't thi

Re: change max username length

2005-12-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
aksis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a simple was to change the max username length? Check the archives of this list; this has been discussed more than once in the last month. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Recursive ACLs commands

2005-12-17 Thread bazzoola
Greetings, I was just wondering if I can set or lists acls recursively on specific directories ? I couldn't find the usual '-R' option for setfacl Is there another way to do this? Thanks, bazzoola ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ntp problems (strata too high)

2005-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Christopher McGee wrote: [ ... ] > I hate to reopen a dead thread, however, I'm having a very strange > problem I have 2 machines running ntpd. I just set this up and it is > not working. [ ... ] > 192.168.1.3.STEP. 16 u1 12800.0000.000 > 192.168.1.2.DROP.

Re: Random password generation

2005-12-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sean Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When creating user accounts with adduser you can have the system > generate a random password. > > Can you use a tool included in FreeBSD to change specific existing > users passwords with a random one such as the one in adduser? I've occasionally hacked

Re: how to dual boot

2005-12-17 Thread RW
On Friday 16 December 2005 21:31, Marty Landman wrote: > I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP sp1. > First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP on the > remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can get back to > the FBSD installe

change max username length

2005-12-17 Thread aksis
Is there a simple was to change the max username length? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

CardBus problems. $PIR: ROUTE_INTERRUPT Failed.

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew Walker
Yeah, so I'm about to give up on this computer entirely and throw it away unless someone can even give me some sort of clue about what's going on here. I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 on my Thinkpad 380XD, but I cannot get networking to work, and I believe it is because there is a conflict with my ca

Re: syntax error

2005-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gojyo wrote: While trying to install the php5-pcre port (called from the phpmyadmin port), I get this error: ... ./configure.lineno: 3204: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")") ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [maintainer] and a

syntax error

2005-12-17 Thread Gojyo
While trying to install the php5-pcre port (called from the phpmyadmin port), I get this error: ... ./configure.lineno: 3204: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")") ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [maintainer] and attach the "/usr

extended/logical slices

2005-12-17 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, FreeBSD 6 seems to recognize logical slices in extended ones. The appropriate entries /dev/ad0sN appear. At least this works with logical slices that contain VFAT or ext2fs. Just 'fdisk' doesn't list the logical slices. Is there a tool that can list these? -Hanspeter __

Re: Adding lines to /etc/rc.conf during sysinstall wihout being "REMOVED"

2005-12-17 Thread legalois
Josh Endries wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know the correct way to add lines to rc.conf without sysinstall commenting them out and prepending "REMOVED" to them, during an automated install.cfg routine? Currently I have a pkg I made that adds stuff like ntp.conf

Re: HP ScanJet 4100c?

2005-12-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 02:39:07AM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > On Friday 16 December 2005 11:31 pm, you wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:19:21PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > > > On Friday 16 December 2005 08:02 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Do I have to build it into the kernel or what?

Re: Closing some open ports

2005-12-17 Thread James Long
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:13:13 -0800 > From: BSD Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Closing some open ports > To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > All I want is to get rid > of this: > root smbd