Re: Rootkit detection

2006-01-16 Thread Graham North
Hi Spyridon: Thank you for your replies. I was able to install the chkrootkit port and it seems to show the system as clean. To all other replies, thank you for your help also. Cheers, Graham/ SPYRIDON PAPADOPOULOS wrote: Hi again, Well check this the message in my

Re: Difficulty asking questions

2006-01-16 Thread Ian Smith
Hi Bob. I got the mail from your yahoo address too. On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Bob @ Brisbane wrote: Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au ([203.185.225.22]) As suspected, our sendmail was unable to reverse resolve this SMTP sender's IP address, or it would have included it between the () brackets,

unable to build ntp

2006-01-16 Thread Brad Gilmer
Help please. I am running 6.0-RELEASE, and am trying to build ntp. Process fails during ./configure with the following results: # cd /usr/src/contrib/ntp # ./configure --snip--- configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile

RE: Sparc vs i386 architecture

2006-01-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danial Thom Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 6:11 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Sparc vs i386 architecture Yeah, Ted. Good cars are a waste of money. You're really

Re: English only, please

2006-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 15, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 19:45:45 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 16:49:27 -0600, Don Hinton wrote: Where exactly does it say that this is an english only list? I suppose you

RE: FreeBSD

2006-01-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Jeays Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:31 PM To: Uncle Deejy-Pooh Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Anyone can remain on the mailing list. People only get drummed out if they

Re: how to use ipod nano in freebsd 6.0

2006-01-16 Thread Crispy Beef
david wrote: how can i compile freebsd GENERIC kernel with HFS+ support?sorry for stupid question.i am newbie in freebsd This site should help you install the utils and module that you need... http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ ___

Re: FreeBSD

2006-01-16 Thread Daniel A.
Hi, Congratulations on your success with PC-BSD. I think that the nature of the BSD license can also indirectly be applied to the FreeBSD mailing lists: Anyone can play along. We're not elitist snobs =) On 1/13/06, Uncle Deejy-Pooh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I've spent the day using pc-bsd,

Re: dvdwriter - icybox - usb problem

2006-01-16 Thread Guido Van Hoecke
Fabian Keil wrote: Guido Van Hoecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to connect my Plextor PX-716A dvd-writer via an external IDE-to-USB/1394 Icybox (IB-550UE-B-BL) to my freebsd-6.0-RELEASE pc. This pc is an IBuddy Desknote A928 without room for internal extra devices. So I bought an

Re: Raising temperature threshold

2006-01-16 Thread Bob Willcox
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 01:52:22PM -0300, Matthew Flanagan wrote: On 22 Jun 2005 11:46:31 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Flanagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I`ve installed a FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and I was building some ports when suddenly my system shut down.

Re: System hangs for 30 minutes before booting normally into freebsd 6.0

2006-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ravi Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I am a new convert to freebsd 6.0. I installed it on one of my old machine - a celeron 333 MHz, 98 MB RAM, with ISA slots. While installing it on my system, I faced a problem that it took a long time to load the freebsd installer menu. So I

Re: System hangs for 30 minutes before booting normally into freebsd 6.0

2006-01-16 Thread Dick Davies
Also, try toggling 'pnp os installed' in the bios. On 16 Jan 2006 09:22:55 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ravi Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 203 Then try disabling ACPI; I wouldn't be surprised if your system had no support for it

Re: OS use rate

2006-01-16 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 1/14/06, n-n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OS use rate in my project. 2005/01/10 - 2006/01/10 RedHat Enterprise Linux ES3.0 - 3947 RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3.0 - 1287 Sun Solaris 9 - 583 *BSD - 0 You use FreeBSD: http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?host=yahoo.co.jp

Re: /etc/rc.firewall and dhclient(8)

2006-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I activated my firewall client configuration on my desktop that uses dhcp for a cable modem. Everything works fine (I even enabled ping), however, everytime I shutdown and restart the modem I find myself having to check /var/db/dhclient.leases.xl0 to edit

Re: OS use rate

2006-01-16 Thread Jason Stewart
Banana? On 14/01/06 22:33 +0900, n-n wrote: OS use rate in my project. 2005/01/10 - 2006/01/10 RedHat Enterprise Linux ES3.0 - 3947 RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3.0 - 1287 Sun Solaris 9 - 583 *BSD - 0 -- Yahoo! Mail - supported by 10million people

Re: Unable to make buildkernel (fresh cvsup to RELENG_6)

2006-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Laurence Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm upgrading a 5.4 machine to 6. I can buildworld successfully, but attempting to make buildkernel fails: HEADERS -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -I@/../include -I/usr/include -I/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Colossus /usr/src/sys/modules/ti/../../pci/if_ti.c

Re: upgrade of php5-gd

2006-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mathieu CHATEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello freebsd-questions, even with a cvsup of ports 5 minutes ago, i still have the following errors when i try to upgrade php5-gd from 5.0.4_2 to 5.1.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd] # make install clean === Vulnerability

Re: unable to build ntp

2006-01-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 16), Brad Gilmer said: Help please. I am running 6.0-RELEASE, and am trying to build ntp. Process fails during ./configure with the following results: # cd /usr/src/contrib/ntp # ./configure You want to build /usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp . /usr/src/contrib is just where

Re: unable to build ntp

2006-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Brad Gilmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Help please. I am running 6.0-RELEASE, and am trying to build ntp. Process fails during ./configure with the following results: # cd /usr/src/contrib/ntp # ./configure --snip--- configure: creating

trouble installing new printer

2006-01-16 Thread ivan . roth
Hi all, my previous (and still unanswered) message was: --- Hi, I just bought a Canon i865 yesterday. This is my first printer install on FreeBSD. I, of course, followed the steps described in the handbook. But when running the really simple 'lptest

Re: trouble installing new printer

2006-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, my previous (and still unanswered) message was: --- Hi, I just bought a Canon i865 yesterday. This is my first printer install on FreeBSD. I, of course, followed the steps described in the handbook. But when

Re: webcam usb device

2006-01-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:20:21 +0100 dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Logiteck QuickCam Chat webcam (USB-2) The device is detected alright. But I cannot get it to work. Kopete (KDE) i.e. does not see the device. I have two questions: (a) do I need to load some kind of *.ko

Re: Raising temperature threshold

2006-01-16 Thread chris
Some sysctl's can not be changed on a running system try reading the defaults/loader.conf in /boot/ see if you can change the acpi thermal setting in there if not just add those sysctl with a = 50C etc.. to loader.conf and reboot On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 01:52:22PM -0300, Matthew Flanagan wrote:

Re: Raising temperature threshold

2006-01-16 Thread Bob Willcox
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:51:39AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some sysctl's can not be changed on a running system try reading the defaults/loader.conf in /boot/ see if you can change the acpi thermal setting in there if not just add those sysctl with a = 50C etc.. to loader.conf and

Re: cvsup6.us.freebsd.org worthless?

2006-01-16 Thread Elliot Finley
- Original Message - From: Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1/11/06, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Elliot Finley wrote: Connected to cvsup6.us.freebsd.org Server message: Collection ports-all release cvs is not available here also, the same thing with src-all. Is this

Re: webcam usb device

2006-01-16 Thread Andrew P.
On 1/16/06, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:20:21 +0100 dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Logiteck QuickCam Chat webcam (USB-2) The device is detected alright. But I cannot get it to work. Kopete (KDE) i.e. does not see the device. I

(no subject)

2006-01-16 Thread ivan . roth
Hi Jon, First thank you for your reply (same thank to Lowell Gilbert). I tried to change the mode with lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0 but that is even worth because I have no more output at all! I am a bit lost between all the confguration files now. CUPS, apsfilter and friends is too much in one

Re: Partitioning

2006-01-16 Thread RW
On Monday 16 January 2006 07:20, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:03 am, Jona Joachim wrote: After creating a slice I created the partitions inside it with disklabel. In every example I saw the swap partition was in the second place. However, I want it to be in the beginning of

Re: webcam usb device

2006-01-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 16 Jan Andrew P. wrote: On 1/16/06, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I googled a lot on webcam and freebsd but could not find something relevant. I did read somewhre that on linux one has to create a /dev/video* which on my fbsd-6R does not exist. I trust devfs should have made

Re: webcam usb device

2006-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 16 Jan Andrew P. wrote: On 1/16/06, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I googled a lot on webcam and freebsd but could not find something relevant. I did read somewhre that on linux one has to create a /dev/video* which on my fbsd-6R

Re: External USB drive on Sun HW

2006-01-16 Thread Aaron Burruss
Anyone have any ideas here? On 1/13/06, Aaron Burruss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm looking for some help on a problem I'm having with a new setup I've got... I'm running sparc64 6.0 and also have an external USB drive enclosure with a 250GB IDE drive in it. The drive is formatted

PicoBSD Dummynet/bridge errors

2006-01-16 Thread Tyler T
Hi, I just did a default installation of FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. I ran the PicoBSD script in an attempt to create a DummyNet floppy, but I got the following error: http://tinypic.com/kcmjnt.gif It says I have lots of undefined references such as gctl_getr_handle, gctl_ro_param, gctl_issue, and

How do I subscribe to this list?

2006-01-16 Thread Rick McCombs
How do I subscribe to this list? I could not find on the web how to subcribe. I tried majordomo and apparently there is no majordomo. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: webcam usb device

2006-01-16 Thread Tofik Suleymanov
dick hoogendijk wrote: On 16 Jan Andrew P. wrote: On 1/16/06, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I googled a lot on webcam and freebsd but could not find something relevant. I did read somewhre that on linux one has to create a /dev/video* which on my fbsd-6R does not exist. I

Re: External USB drive on Sun HW

2006-01-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 16), Aaron Burruss said: Anyone have any ideas here? On 1/13/06, Aaron Burruss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm looking for some help on a problem I'm having with a new setup I've got... I'm running sparc64 6.0 and also have an external USB drive

Re: How do I subscribe to this list?

2006-01-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-01-16 13:05, Rick McCombs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I subscribe to this list? I could not find on the web how to subcribe. I tried majordomo and apparently there is no majordomo. The list is now managed by mailman. See:

Re: How do I subscribe to this list?

2006-01-16 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Rick McCombs wrote: How do I subscribe to this list? I could not find on the web how to subcribe. I tried majordomo and apparently there is no majordomo. Go to http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo and choose the list You want to subscribe. Fill in the form, and follow the insructions.

Re: How do I subscribe to this list?

2006-01-16 Thread Ian Lord
Check out http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html More specifically: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions At 14:05 2006-01-16, Rick McCombs wrote: How do I subscribe to this list? I could not find on the web how to subcribe. I tried majordomo and apparently

Re: How do I subscribe to this list?

2006-01-16 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 13:05 -0600, Rick McCombs wrote: How do I subscribe to this list? I could not find on the web how to subcribe. I tried majordomo and apparently there is no majordomo. Thanks http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html

(FreeBSD i386 6.0 Release) Does nat that is build in to userland ppp work with the Generic Kernel?

2006-01-16 Thread Rick McCombs
Should I be able to get the nat option in ppp to work with the Generic kernel in 6.0 release? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

log file rotation

2006-01-16 Thread Jason King
My maillog and daillog files have stopped rotating everyday like they use to. I have 2 FBSD machines that have stopped these files from rotating as of Dec 15th. I have no idea what could have caused two different machines to have the same thing happen to them. The entry in my newsyslog.conf file

Re: log file rotation

2006-01-16 Thread Dan O'Connor
My maillog and daillog files have stopped rotating everyday like they use to. I have 2 FBSD machines that have stopped these files from rotating as of Dec 15th. I have no idea what could have caused two different machines to have the same thing happen to them. The entry in my newsyslog.conf file

FreeBSD advocacy PDF?

2006-01-16 Thread Jorge Mario G. Mazo
hi there some months ago I saw a FreeBSD advocacy PDF, it was really nice and small I've been looking for it since I'm going to CON and I'll to have it in our booth... if anybody knows what I'm talking about please let me know. Thanks __ Correo

NFSV4

2006-01-16 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all. Anyone known the quality of mount_nfs4 ? And where can I find a nfsv4 server ? Of course I prefer on my FreeBSD box ;-)) Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local time: Mon Jan 16 22:42:07 CET 2006

Re: log file rotation

2006-01-16 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:50:16PM -0600, Jason King wrote: My maillog and daillog files have stopped rotating everyday like they use to. I have 2 FBSD machines that have stopped these files from rotating as of Dec 15th. I have no idea what could have caused two different machines to have the

RE: FreeBSD advocacy PDF?

2006-01-16 Thread Murray Taylor
try this site - you may find what you are looking for http://www.koetze.net/index.php?option=contenttask=viewid=49 (Google: FreeBSD advocacy PDF ) Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite

Re: (FreeBSD i386 6.0 Release) Does nat that is build in to userland ppp work with the Generic Kernel?

2006-01-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Rick McCombs wrote: Should I be able to get the nat option in ppp to work with the Generic kernel in 6.0 release? Yes, it should Just Work; or, at least it has for me all through 5.X Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

RE: FreeBSD advocacy PDF?

2006-01-16 Thread Murray Taylor
http://linux.oreilly.com/news/bsd_ss.pdf and here too Murray T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray Taylor Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:37 AM To: Jorge Mario G. Mazo; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD

Need help getting OpenOffice to work on FreeBSD 6.0-release

2006-01-16 Thread umagnum338
I installed the package for OpenOffice 2.0 for FreeBSD 6.0 (which needed openssl-beta, which I installed). Now, when trying to run OpenOffice I get: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libuno_sal.so.3 not found, required by javaldx /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libvcl680fi.so not found,

mconfig html demo URL

2006-01-16 Thread Linux Guru
Would any freebsd guys be interested in the concept of an HTML interface for kernel configuration - the demo is below. It could be modified to config the freebsd kernel for building - the tarball below is a proof of concept program that is currently written for Linux:

Re: how to use ipod nano in freebsd 6.0

2006-01-16 Thread Mike Hernandez
Just so very recently, someone said: | hello all, i have ipod nano and im using freebsd 6.0. | DMESG command display (umass0: Apple iPod, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2) message.The iPod nano is detected when | plugged in, but a daX device is not created. please help me I get that too with the 30GB

Re: log file rotation

2006-01-16 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 2:50 PM -0600 1/16/06, Jason King wrote: My maillog and daillog files have stopped rotating everyday like they use to. I have 2 FBSD machines that have stopped these files from rotating as of Dec 15th. I have no idea what could have caused two different machines to have the same thing happen

Re: (FreeBSD i386 6.0 Release) Does nat that is build in to userland ppp work with the Generic Kernel?

2006-01-16 Thread Rick McCombs
Turns out it is working, but I'm having trouble with named. I guess I'll figure it out. On 1/16/06, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick McCombs wrote: Should I be able to get the nat option in ppp to work with the Generic kernel in 6.0 release? Yes, it should Just Work; or, at

Re: mconfig html demo URL

2006-01-16 Thread chris
Why the kernel config process is 50 times easier then linux's kernel i dont see the need for a html based kernel config i find it a waste of time but i don't know maybe other people would like it ? Programing wise would this be done as one big cgi program or how would it work ? Would any

Re: Need help getting OpenOffice to work on FreeBSD 6.0-release

2006-01-16 Thread chris
Try compiling it from scratch seems to me like you installed the wrong package doesnt matter what the name of the lib is as long as its in the path even though it takes hours try compiling it from source I installed the package for OpenOffice 2.0 for FreeBSD 6.0 (which needed openssl-beta,

Rescuing the Ethernet Interface after SCB Timeout

2006-01-16 Thread Martin McCormick
One of our FreeBSD systems has begun randomly shutting down its Ethernet interface. After doing so, the box continues to try to run but prints the following errors in syslog: Jan 16 03:01:23 xx /kernel: fxp0: SCB timeout: 0x70 0x0 0x50 0x400 Jan 16 03:01:24 xx /kernel: fxp0: SCB timeout:

Time Zone

2006-01-16 Thread Ian Lord
What is the prefered time zone for a web server Is it better to keep it GMT or local timezone ? I am in eastern time zone so I need to deal with standard and daily saving time... Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

80 pin SCSI hard drives.

2006-01-16 Thread je killen
I've obtained two SCSI hard drives made by Maxtor that have 80 pin connectors and no power connector port. This isn't necessarily relevant to FreeBSD accept that i'm planning on using them in a FreeBSD installation. I'm only aware of 50 pin SCSI and 68 pin SCSI. I've tried to contact Maxtor to

Re: 80 pin SCSI hard drives.

2006-01-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:21 PM 1/16/2006, je killen wrote: I've obtained two SCSI hard drives made by Maxtor that have 80 pin connectors and no power connector port. This isn't necessarily relevant to FreeBSD accept that i'm planning on using them in a FreeBSD installation. I'm only aware of 50 pin SCSI and 68

Re: 80 pin SCSI hard drives.

2006-01-16 Thread Alfredo Finelli
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 03:21, je killen wrote: I've obtained two SCSI hard drives made by Maxtor that have 80 pin connectors and no power connector port. This isn't necessarily relevant to FreeBSD accept that i'm planning on using them in a FreeBSD installation. I'm only aware of 50 pin

Re: 80 pin SCSI hard drives.

2006-01-16 Thread Ian Lord
There are called sca or single connect if I'm not wrong... Most high end servers (sun, hps, ibm, compaq, etc used those) They are basically 68 pins drive (can be U80, U160 or U320) so you just need a regular se scsi adapter for them. The only difference is that the power is coming though the

Re: unable to build ntp

2006-01-16 Thread BSD Questions user
Thanks everyone for the help. For the archive: I went to /usr/src/contrib/ntp/ntpdate and edited ntpdate.c. I searched for 'host found' and changed the stderror to stdout. I then went to /usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp and performed a make install clean. Problem solved; the new 'host found' messages

Re: unable to build ntp

2006-01-16 Thread Daniel
On 1/17/06, BSD Questions user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks everyone for the help. For the archive: I went to /usr/src/contrib/ntp/ntpdate and edited ntpdate.c. I searched for 'host found' and changed the stderror to stdout. I then went to /usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp and performed a make

rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'?

2006-01-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
As the subject asks, is there an equivalent? I'm trying to install linux apache2 on a FreeBSD box, and would like have rpm do as much as possible as far as getting the dependencies and downloading them ... baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm? thanks ... Marc G.

New FreeBSD 6.0 system advice sought

2006-01-16 Thread JD Arnold
So, I'm building a replacement 6.0 system from the bare metal, moving over my 4.11 server data after I'm done. I've started from a minimal installation, and I'm looking for some input. 1] Apache - do I stay with 1.3 or move on up to the 2.x branch? 2] MySQL - do I stay with the 3.x (!), or

X starts OK for root but fails for other user

2006-01-16 Thread Lorin Lund
I get an error message about can't find 'fixed' font. The font is there. fonts.alias is there. It mentions 'fixed'. I don't see anything wrong with the permissions on the font files, font directories. The ownership is 'root' (if I recall correctly) What else should I look for? What else

Need help for upgrading hardware

2006-01-16 Thread sumardi
Dear all, I have DELL PowerEdge 8450 Server that act as Mail-Server, using onboard SCSI for HDD controller.Now i want to upgrade the Storage hardware to RAID, using DELL PERC3/DC, also known as LSI Logic Elite 1600. Can anybody tell me, how to do that without reinstalling?? in linux, i've

Re: Time Zone

2006-01-16 Thread Carlos A. Carnero Delgado
Hello, On 1/16/06, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the prefered time zone for a web server Is it better to keep it GMT or local timezone ? Both ;) Set the machine's clock to GMT (actually, UTC.) Then set the correct timezone for your location. Best regards, Carlos. -- nick grah

Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'?

2006-01-16 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm? I am a newbie in freebsd with ambitions to become a master :) and up to now I have installed tons of software using freebsd ports collection and freebsd packages and I found them better than rpm. Anyway, FreeBSD can run rpm as well (if

Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'?

2006-01-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: Hello, baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm? I am a newbie in freebsd with ambitions to become a master :) and up to now I have installed tons of software using freebsd ports collection and freebsd packages and I found them

how do I (non-interactively) change a users password in a script ?

2006-01-16 Thread user
/bin/sh script. Need to change a users password within the script based on a file of user/pass I am feeding the script. Easy. Except the passwd command does not seem to be able to take a password as an argument - I don't think that the passwd command can run non-interactively. So how is this

Re: how do I (non-interactively) change a users password in a script ?

2006-01-16 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006, user wrote: /bin/sh script. Need to change a users password within the script based on a file of user/pass I am feeding the script. See ``man pw'', in particular the ``-h fd'' option. .. Except the passwd command does not seem to be able to take a password as an argument

Re: how do I (non-interactively) change a users password in a script ?

2006-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
user wrote: /bin/sh script. Need to change a users password within the script based on a file of user/pass I am feeding the script. Easy. Except the passwd command does not seem to be able to take a password as an argument - I don't think that the passwd command can run non-interactively. So

how to force ucom driver to create /dev/cuaU? for some device?

2006-01-16 Thread Vasil Dimov
Hi all, I have a device (GPS) that connects to the PC via the USB interface and I have a software (comms/garmin-utils) that wishes to talk to the device. The problem is that the software expects a serial port device, not a USB one. The question is how can I make the ucom(4) create a cuaU? entry

Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'?

2006-01-16 Thread Gregory Nou
Marc G. Fournier wrote: As the subject asks, is there an equivalent? I'm trying to install linux apache2 on a FreeBSD box, and would like have rpm do as much as possible as far as getting the dependencies and downloading them ... baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm? thanks