Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg, gnome_upgrade aborts

2006-08-05 Thread Gobbledegeek
yup ! doing that! Thanks for the tip! Rgrds On 8/4/06, michael johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/4/06, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I rebuilt the pkgdb.db but all the other files are gone... Now portupgrade thinks no packages are installed. gnome-upgrade.sh aborts

Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 5 Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:38:12 +0200 From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas To: DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS Blacklist Script?

2006-08-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chris Maness wrote: Does anyone know of a script (or application) to automagically add a host to a dns blacklist? It would be very convenient to blacklist all the e-mails sent from a spammer to a honeypot address, or to blacklist all senders that thunderbird moves into the spam sub-folder.

User Information (Easy Questions!)

2006-08-05 Thread beno
Hi; * How do I find out which users have access to the box and what their permissions/groups are? * How do I edit those permissions/groups? * If I delete a user, does that affect the files/programs he installed, etc? TIA, beno ___

Re: Sendmail Question; unable to send mail as normal user

2006-08-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Frank Staals wrote: $ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test usertest . EOT $ /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 0: cannot open: Permission denied Yes -- it's to do with the separation of powers between sendmail-MSP (Mail Submission Program) and sendmail-MTA (Mail Transport Agent). Invoking

vmware library problem

2006-08-05 Thread Robin Becker
I have built and installed vmware3 from a recent(3/Aug) cvsup'd ports tree and everything seems to go fine. On reboot I see these messages which seem to relate to vmware Aug 5 12:44:47 host kernel: vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=200 Aug 5 12:44:47 host kernel: vmmon: Module

Re: User Information (Easy Questions!)

2006-08-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
beno wrote: Hi; * How do I find out which users have access to the box and what their permissions/groups are? Type: % id username which will tell you the users' UID and what groups they are a member of. * How do I edit those permissions/groups? Unless you're using NIS or LDAP or some

E-Mail bloqueado por segurança

2006-08-05 Thread sms . gateway
SMSGateway A Política de Proteção contra Vírus e Spam´s do Ministério da Saúde bloqueou e substituiu este e-mail. Foram detectadas as seguintes violações: Connection From: 200.214.130.50 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:15:14 -0300 Subject: morto --- Scan

Re: S.M.A.R.T. HDD Protocal

2006-08-05 Thread Kurt Wall
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:54:38PM +0100, Richard Collyer wrote: Hello, Does anyone know where I can get the protocol used in SMART HDD diagnostics. My 3ware card puts out the following information and I am trying to write a program to decipher it into something more sensible.

Re: User Information (Easy Questions!)

2006-08-05 Thread beno
Matthew Seaman wrote: Note: this is potentially a problem. If the UID number gets reused for a different account, that new user will get all the ownership rights to the old users' files. It can often be a better policy to disable an old account -- set the password field in /etc/master.passwd

Portupgrade disable certain builds ...

2006-08-05 Thread Kiffin Gish
I would like to disable building certain builds when running a portupgrade -arR. For example, if gnome2 is tagged for a rebuild, Galeon is not built (because I don't use it and have deleted the package). How do I do this? -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: portmanager man page online?

2006-08-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Searching for portmanager in the online man pages doesn't get anything. Should it? Sure. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portmanagermanpath=FreeBSD+Ports+6.1-RELEASE ___

Re: Portupgrade disable certain builds ...

2006-08-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 05 Aug Kiffin Gish wrote: I would like to disable building certain builds when running a portupgrade -arR. For example, if gnome2 is tagged for a rebuild, Galeon is not built (because I don't use it and have deleted the package). As I wrote earlier, see pkgtools.conf = HOLDPKG optionF2

Re: Interesting problem with packages, how to fix if corrupt

2006-08-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I do pkg_info with nothing else, all looks well. However, if I do pkg_info | grep package_name (which I do frequently so I don't have to read through the entire list) I get these two errors: pkg_info: the package info for package

Fwd: failure notice

2006-08-05 Thread Australian National University
To whom it may concern, We here at Australian National University are wondering if there are any recommended (or any whatseover) simulators or emulators (software) that run on Windows X86/i386 Intel hardwre in native true standard 32-bit mode that emulate and provide a fully operational and

Re: User Information (Easy Questions!)

2006-08-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
beno wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Note: this is potentially a problem. If the UID number gets reused for a different account, that new user will get all the ownership rights to the old users' files. It can often be a better policy to disable an old account -- set the password field in

Cups USB workaround was working but now fails

2006-08-05 Thread Ian Moore
Hi, When CUPS 1.2.0 came out, I had the same problem as others with port permissions and the USB backend, so I changed my usb device permissions: crw-rw-rw- 1 root cups 227, 0 Aug 5 22:36 /dev/ulpt0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root cups 227, 64 Aug 5 22:39 /dev/unlpt0 I also edited printers.conf and

Re: DNS Blacklist Script?

2006-08-05 Thread Chris Maness
Matthew Seaman wrote: You need to be very careful implementing something like this. Most Spam nowadays is bot-generated and uses forged 'From' addresses culled from the address books on infected machines. Unless you're careful, you're going to end up blocking a lot of completely innocent

Re: User Information (Easy Questions!)

2006-08-05 Thread Robert Huff
Matthew Seaman writes: Where does it find the email address? The periodic emails are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are at least two every day, plus an extra at the end of each week and at the end of each month -- you're expected to set up an alias that forwards them to the

HPLIP and CUPS - no printing

2006-08-05 Thread Sean M.
I have an HP PSC 1410 printer and I am having issues with getting it working properly with hplip-0.9.11. I followed all the directions as outlined at http://am-productions.biz/docs/hplip.php, and while the connection was apparently a success, it will not print. Nothing happens when printing a test

Re: nppdf.so: undefined symbol __ctype_b_loc

2006-08-05 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Hi all, after upgrading firefox and acroread, I got this when I tried to use the plugin, LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

Using pre-built packages with portmanager

2006-08-05 Thread cpghost
Building packages for multiple machines on a fast CPU, with portmanager's -bu option populates a /usr/ports/packages tree. So far, so good. What I'd like though, is to be able to reuse that tree (mounted via NFS or rsynced over) on other machines with much slower CPUs. The fast build machine and

Re: Cups USB workaround was working but now fails

2006-08-05 Thread Apatewna
O/H Ian Moore έγραψε: It seems that cups now won't recognise the file: setting, yet previously it did. I checked back through my logs to see if a newer cups port had come out I'd inadvertently upgraded to it, but it seems that's not the case - it's still 1.2.0 Using the usb: URI always gives

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 05 August 2006 00:21, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: 'k folks ... the quick and dirty .. actually, not too dirty ... The attached script [...] Can you make this into a port which users can install? I'm not sure, can I?

Re: Cups USB workaround was working but now fails

2006-08-05 Thread Anthony Agelastos
On Aug 5, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Apatewna wrote: O/H Ian Moore έγραψε: It seems that cups now won't recognise the file: setting, yet previously it did. I checked back through my logs to see if a newer cups port had come out I'd inadvertently upgraded to it, but it seems that's not the case

Re: Cups USB workaround was working but now fails

2006-08-05 Thread Micah
Apatewna wrote: O/H Ian Moore Ýãñáøå: It seems that cups now won't recognise the file: setting, yet previously it did. I checked back through my logs to see if a newer cups port had come out I'd inadvertently upgraded to it, but it seems that's not the case - it's still 1.2.0 Using the usb:

Re: cups problems

2006-08-05 Thread Micah
David Johnson wrote: On Friday 04 August 2006 11:47, John Nielsen wrote: You have the permissions fixed, which was half the solution for me when I made the upgrade. The other half was to abandon cups' usb back-end for the time being, since it doesn't work (as well as it used to). The

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-05 Thread Martin Hepworth
Softupdates removes the issue if havinh to fsck filesystems after and unclean umount. On 8/3/06, N. Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Lutz Rabing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, is someone still working on the bigdisk project? it becomes more an more easy to create disk arrays

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-05 Thread Freminlins
On 05/08/06, Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Softupdates removes the issue if havinh to fsck filesystems after and unclean umount. No it doesn't. Absolutely not. After an unclean shutdown fsck runs in the background. And sometimes it can't do that. Here's an example: Jul 23

squid with antivirus

2006-08-05 Thread Imran Imtiaz
I have a router for an internal LAN, i use squid for HTTP and FTP proxy cache and I want to setup an antivirus so when somebody download a file from the internet, the antivirus will scan the file and block it with an error message if the file is infected. I want to ask which is the best

What is the equivalent of glibc's __libc_freeres?

2006-08-05 Thread Vesselin Peev
Hello, The glibc C language runtime has an internal function called __libc_freeres, which frees all resources used internally by the runtime. What is the equivalent in libc? Regards, Vesselin. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: portmanager man page online?

2006-08-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Searching for portmanager in the online man pages doesn't get anything. Should it? Sure. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portmanagermanpath=FreeBSD+Ports+6.1-RELEASE ___

Looking for an emulator (was Re: Fwd: failure notice)

2006-08-05 Thread Bill Moran
Australian National University wrote: To whom it may concern, We here at Australian National University are wondering if there are any recommended (or any whatseover) simulators or emulators (software) that run on Windows X86/i386 Intel hardwre in native true standard 32-bit mode that

Re: portmanager man page online?

2006-08-05 Thread Micah
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Searching for portmanager in the online man pages doesn't get anything. Should it? Sure. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portmanagermanpath=FreeBSD+Ports+6.1-RELEASE

Re: Looking for an emulator (was Re: Fwd: failure notice)

2006-08-05 Thread Micah
Bill Moran wrote: Australian National University wrote: To whom it may concern, We here at Australian National University are wondering if there are any recommended (or any whatseover) simulators or emulators (software) that run on Windows X86/i386 Intel hardwre in native true standard 32-bit

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-05 Thread John Rogers
Hi, you are right - there was indeed the following messages: kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE And this message appeared starting from the date I ran CFS, an encrypted filesystem. It's a half year old WesternDigital250GB disk. I now disabled dma

Will not boot from halt

2006-08-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, The other day I did a complete rebuild by doing a fresh install/CVsup on my office machine and brought it to FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE-p3. The box is a Dell Optiplex GX-270. It is dual booted with Win XP. I didn't make any changes to the XP. Previously, if I did a 'shutdown -h now' it would do

a build server for my network

2006-08-05 Thread Jonathan Horne
i was reading this today, and working on creating a build server: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/small-lan.html the section for ports mentions that the make.conf files need to have DISTDIR and some other things specified in order for it all to work properly. i

Re: squid with antivirus

2006-08-05 Thread Derrick Edwards
On Saturday 05 August 2006 17:18, Imran Imtiaz wrote: I have a router for an internal LAN, i use squid for HTTP and FTP proxy cache and I want to setup an antivirus so when somebody download a file from the internet, the antivirus will scan the file and block it with an error message if the

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-05 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, John Nielsen wrote: Here is a sample (working) port. Un-tar the archive under ports/sysutils. It installs the script to ${LOCALBASE}/etc/periodic/monthly and prints a message about how to enable it. Have a look at it, edit all the text entries to make them your own (in

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-05 Thread Colin Percival
John Rogers wrote: Before I saw your reply, I just manually created those old-index etc by following upgrade.sh, and ran the rest of the upgrade.sh from the Removing schg flag from existing files... part. After that I have ran portupgrade, portsnap etc, and so far don't see problem. Do I

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-05 Thread User Freebsd
John pointed out a bug that I hadn't noticed, mainly because I was testing single host ... basically, I installed PHP5 on the backend, and stupidly didn't check to make sure that they *hadn't* gone and changed all of the DB access functions from 4.x :( The bug is fixed, and I've tested

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-05 Thread John Rogers
freebsd-update IDS found the following. Do I need to grab the kernel files for 6.1? If so, how? I did not find them in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE/kernels/ Thank you, The following files, which are distributed as part of the binary release, have been modified

Re: Looking for an emulator

2006-08-05 Thread Christian Laursen
Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't QEMU do AMD64 too, or am I misinterpreting x86_64 as AMD64? http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/status.html Yes it does. AMD64 and x86_64 is the same thing. -- Christian Laursen ___

Network Failure

2006-08-05 Thread Jonathan Anthony
Uname : FreeBSD famicom.homenet 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 When I boot up, it gets to the point when it tries to bring up the ethernet card, and then it prints out this error: DHCPDISCOVER on r10 to