Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

2009-04-16 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:00 AM, lyd mc wrote: > Hi guys, > > Why Freebsd built-in vacation program (/usr/bin/vacation) does not auto > reply? > > I am using fresh installed Freebsd7.0 and 7.1. here is my configs. > > Under the home directory of the user (alydio.mc) > > .forward > \alydio.mc,

Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

2009-04-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: > I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring tool > (Not a viewer, see below.) > > I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF document. > I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a raster P

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
A. Wright wrote: > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> Can someone recommend a *known good* production quality copy mechanism >> that will act like scp, but without the overhead? rsh? nc? > > If you are happy with rsh authentication, then have you looked at > plain old rcp? I reviewed

Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

2009-04-16 Thread lyd mc
Hi guys, Why Freebsd built-in vacation program (/usr/bin/vacation) does not auto reply? I am using fresh installed Freebsd7.0 and 7.1. here is my configs. Under the home directory of the user (alydio.mc) .forward     \alydio.mc, "|/usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc" .vacation.msg    Subject: On vacat

Re: CUPS

2009-04-16 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Bob Falanga wrote: > I have installed cups on freebsd. > The printer configures OK. > When I try a test print in localhost:631 I get an error message: > /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failedI need help with this one. > Is this by chance a HP printer?

PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

2009-04-16 Thread Modulok
I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring tool (Not a viewer, see below.) I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF document. I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a raster PNG, then used GIMP to place a photograph of the signature where I n

LDAP / login.conf user classes

2009-04-16 Thread Michael Helmeste
Hi all, What is the best mechanism for applying classes from /etc/login.conf to users in LDAP (via pam/nss ldap modules)? Is there a special schema / attribute that the FreeBSD ports of these modules will look to for determining the login class, or some way to map a custom attribute? Thanks

remove name "stalzer"

2009-04-16 Thread soccer2000
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Re: passwd file transfer

2009-04-16 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/16 gahn : > > Hi all: > > we have a linux based system and it will be replaced with freebsd based > system. but i would like to reuse users' password. is there any better way to > do this? > > > You *could* use some fancy awk | sed stuff to get passwords from your existing file and stick

Re: passwd file transfer

2009-04-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 16), gahn said: > we have a linux based system and it will be replaced with freebsd based > system. but i would like to reuse users' password. is there any better > way to do this? There's an awk script at the bottom of the passwd(5) manpage that will convert a non-BSD p

bootpd isn't working

2009-04-16 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, I've problem with bootp, it isn't working and no a dhcp server is running over lan. /etc/bootptab -- .default:\ :ht=1:\ :sa=10.10.1.18:\ :sm=255.255.255.0:\ :hd="/diskless":\ :bf="/pxelinux.0": clientel1:ha=001cc025873c:ip=10.10.1.6:tc=.default: s

Re: Problem: FreeBSD 7.x && ssh v2 && nss_ldap

2009-04-16 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Wed, 15.04.2009 at 12:14:48 -0700, Benjamin Lee wrote: > On 04/15/2009 01:33 AM, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > > > I see a problem on two systems running FreeBSD 7.0 or 7.1 which are > > configured as OpenLDAP clients using the nss_ldap module. > > > > When someone logs on using ssh protocol version

Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:30:40PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:21:28 +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > > 2009/4/16 Bruce Cran : > > > Maybe we should tell FreeBSD to stop shouting too? :) > > > > Actually, we really should! Come on, we're not on teletypes any more. > > Did UPPERC

Re: missing xorgconfig

2009-04-16 Thread kenneth hatteland
Tim Judd wrote: can't 'X -configure' generate a config for you too? I've never used the xorgconfig -- and was taught to use X -configure Let us know if that doesn't work or suit your needs. --TJ I`ve only used xorgconfigure and am a little newbie editing such files. But by using the techni

passwd file transfer

2009-04-16 Thread gahn
Hi all: we have a linux based system and it will be replaced with freebsd based system. but i would like to reuse users' password. is there any better way to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: [OT] C programming question: reopen stdin

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 16 April 2009 21:03:52 Tobias Rehbein wrote: > Am Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:07:26PM +0200 schrieb Mel Flynn: > > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 20:13:00 Tobias Rehbein wrote: > > > I'm having a little trouble solving a specific problem in C. I want to > > > write a filter which reads data from

Re: Saving configuration files (was Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding)

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 16 April 2009 21:18:01 Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:59:30PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > > > > I guess I'm just anti-redoing-configuration, since there's so many > > formats out there. One can of course backup ${LOCALBASE}/etc --exclude > > rc.d, but the number of exce

Re: missing xorgconfig

2009-04-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:10:24PM +0200, kenneth hatteland wrote: > Having reinstalled my laptop twice and updated to stable 7.2 prerelease > but each time no xorgconfig exists as I am used to. xfce4 starts ok, but > I get the known mouse locked problem and would love and xorg.conf to > edit a

Re: missing xorgconfig

2009-04-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
kenneth hatteland wrote: > Having reinstalled my laptop twice and updated to stable 7.2 > prerelease but each time no xorgconfig exists as I am used to. xfce4 > starts ok, but I get the known mouse locked problem and would love and > xorg.conf to edit as I have learned but it doesn`t exist. > > An

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 16 April 2009 14:52:34 Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Thursday 16 April 2009 12:27:04 Mel Flynn wrote: > > But yes, all-depends-list is exactly that, with the provision > > that it does not take changed OPTIONS into account. > > That's what I suspected you were saying yesterday, and it se

Disabling touchpad on USB keyboard

2009-04-16 Thread Chris
Hi, I have a Lenovo USB keyboard with trackpoint and touchpad (UltraNav), but I really want to get rid of the touchpad as it just gets in my way. But I can't find a way to do this in FreeBSD (using 7.0-RELEASE). I've seen the question asked in a couple of places but I've found no answer so I f

Re: missing xorgconfig

2009-04-16 Thread Tim Judd
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:10 PM, kenneth hatteland < kenneth.hattel...@kleppnett.no> wrote: > Having reinstalled my laptop twice and updated to stable 7.2 prerelease but > each time no xorgconfig exists as I am used to. xfce4 starts ok, but I get > the known mouse locked problem and would love an

Saving configuration files (was Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding)

2009-04-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:59:30PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > I guess I'm just anti-redoing-configuration, since there's so many formats > out > there. One can of course backup ${LOCALBASE}/etc --exclude rc.d, but the > number of exceptions grows over time (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, /usr/local/squid/

Re: missing xorgconfig

2009-04-16 Thread Christian Laursen
kenneth hatteland wrote: Having reinstalled my laptop twice and updated to stable 7.2 prerelease but each time no xorgconfig exists as I am used to. xfce4 starts ok, but I get the known mouse locked problem and would love and xorg.conf to edit as I have learned but it doesn`t exist. X can ge

[tobias.rehb...@web.de: Re: [OT] C programming question: reopen stdin]

2009-04-16 Thread Tobias Rehbein
s/Good/Could/ --- Begin Message --- Am Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:07:26PM +0200 schrieb Mel Flynn: > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 20:13:00 Tobias Rehbein wrote: > > > I'm having a little trouble solving a specific problem in C. I want to > > write a filter which reads data from stdin. After reading the u

Re: missing xorgconfig

2009-04-16 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:10 PM, kenneth hatteland wrote: > Having reinstalled my laptop twice and updated to stable 7.2 prerelease but > each time no xorgconfig exists as I am used to. xfce4 starts ok, but I get > the known mouse locked problem and would love and xorg.conf to edit as  I > have le

Re: Can't log-in anymore

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 15 April 2009 18:50:10 Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/4/15 Ruel Luchavez : > > Hey.. > > > > Thanks for your reply..lucky for me I have solve my problem...:-) > > How did you solve it? > > It's always best to say what you did, in case someone stumbles on this > thread using Google; even a li

Re: [OT] C programming question: reopen stdin

2009-04-16 Thread Tobias Rehbein
Am Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:07:26PM +0200 schrieb Mel Flynn: > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 20:13:00 Tobias Rehbein wrote: > > > I'm having a little trouble solving a specific problem in C. I want to > > write a filter which reads data from stdin. After reading the user should > > be able to interact w

Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 16 April 2009 18:27:32 Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:17:08PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Thursday 16 April 2009 07:15:05 Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote: > > > > I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading fr

Re[2]: IPFW missing feature

2009-04-16 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Lowell. Вы писали 16 апреля 2009 г., 15:22:31: LG> KES writes: >> The tablearg feature provides the ability to use a value, looked up in >> the table, as the argument for a rule action, action parameter or rule >> option. This can significantly reduce number of rul

missing xorgconfig

2009-04-16 Thread kenneth hatteland
Having reinstalled my laptop twice and updated to stable 7.2 prerelease but each time no xorgconfig exists as I am used to. xfce4 starts ok, but I get the known mouse locked problem and would love and xorg.conf to edit as I have learned but it doesn`t exist. Anyone know hos to install xorgcon

Re[2]: How to check which FIB has a given process

2009-04-16 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Anton. Вы писали 16 апреля 2009 г., 15:19:43: AY> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:04:38 +0300, KES wrote: K>> Hi, Freebsd-questions. K>> K>> I can set process to have some FIB K>> setfib X /some/programm K>> K>> How to check which FIB has some process? K>> AY> It is not easy, but possibl

Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:21:28 +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/4/16 Bruce Cran : > > Maybe we should tell FreeBSD to stop shouting too? :) > > Actually, we really should! Come on, we're not on teletypes any more. Did UPPERCASE LETTERS make the teletype print louder? I always assumed they would jus

Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding

2009-04-16 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:27:32 +0200 Roland Smith wrote: >On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:17:08PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: >> On Thursday 16 April 2009 07:15:05 Roland Smith wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote: >> > > I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading free

Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding

2009-04-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:17:08PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Thursday 16 April 2009 07:15:05 Roland Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote: > > > I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd-current for > > > some time, apparently some ports requir

Re: firefox3 gets stuck/freezing for 30 seconds every 30 seconds

2009-04-16 Thread Gustavo Perez Querol
> Since a week now my firefox3 got stuck and freezing for 30 seconds > (approx.) every 30 seconds. I'm running a SMP box with FreeBSD > 8.0-CURRENT/amd64, OS is most recent. > > I also recompiled firefox3, dbus, libX11 and xcb (maybe senseless since > I do not know what causes the freezing/hungs),

Re: CUPS

2009-04-16 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Donnerstag, den 16.04.2009, 10:01 -0400 schrieb Bob Falanga: > I tried installing foomatic-filters. Then I get "unable to open device > file "/dev/ulpt1": permission denied" I set permissions to 0666, I > don't get the error message but nothing prints. > > Do you have the lines lpd

Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/16 Bruce Cran : > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:03:58 +0100 > Chris Rees wrote: > > 2009/4/16 vijay kumar : >>> >>> SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY > >> Please don't shout. > > fsfsck_ffs/dir.c:467:           pfatal("SORRY. NO SPACE IN > lost+found DIRECTORY" > > Maybe we should tell FreeB

Re: Need to change screen resolution...

2009-04-16 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>> I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the >>> default 720x426 (I think). The monitor I use to view all my servers via >>> KVM >>> switch - the font is too big on

Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:03:58 +0100 Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/16 vijay kumar : >> >> SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY > Please don't shout. fsfsck_ffs/dir.c:467: pfatal("SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY" Maybe we should tell FreeBSD to stop shouting too? :) -- Bruce C

Re: LibSM: You should recreate aclocal.m4

2009-04-16 Thread michel
michel wrote: Hello, I'm having problems upgrading LibSM.. I'm getting "You should recreate aclocal.m4". I tried to run aclocal in work/libSM-1.1.0 but it didn't really help. Thanks for your help Michel FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p12 i386 ---> Upgrading 'libSM-1.1.0,1' to 'libSM-1.1.0_1,1' (x11/li

Re: IPFW: table approvement

2009-04-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
KES writes: > Is it right place to post ideas? Sure. That doesn't mean anyone will implement them for you, but you can try to discuss them here. > If it is lets suggest next approvement > > IPFW has 'table' command > each table entry has some 'tablearg' > > There are situations when you need e

No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Chris Rees
Pasted from subject: 2009/4/16 vijay kumar : > > SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY Please don't shout. Have you checked that / has sufficient space? Try root # fsck / --- root # df -h and post the result. Regards, Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally

Re: Need to change screen resolution...

2009-04-16 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the default 720x426 (I think). The monitor I use to view all my servers via KVM switch - the font is too big on the screen - if I could increase the screen size to maybe 1028x756 tha

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 16 April 2009 12:27:04 Mel Flynn wrote: > But yes, all-depends-list is exactly that, with the provision > that it does not take changed OPTIONS into account. That's what I suspected you were saying yesterday, and it seems to be wrong. Try this (assuming you haven't already configured/

Re: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

2009-04-16 Thread Mehul Ved
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Re: IPFW missing feature

2009-04-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
KES writes: > The tablearg feature provides the ability to use a value, looked up in > the table, as the argument for a rule action, action parameter or rule > option. This can significantly reduce number of rules in some configura- > tions. If two tables are used in a rule,

Re: How to check which FIB has a given process

2009-04-16 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:04:38 +0300, KES wrote: K> Hi, Freebsd-questions. K> K> I can set process to have some FIB K> setfib X /some/programm K> K> How to check which FIB has some process? K> It is not easy, but possible via kgdb. under root run: cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC (if you use cus

SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

2009-04-16 Thread vijay kumar
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Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 15 April 2009 09:26:11 Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:02:08 Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote: > > > make all-depends-list > > > > Two things: > > 1) It surpresses config target and if a port has OPTIONS set, then you > > may ge

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 15 April 2009 01:14:23 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> Is there a make target which will give a list of _all_ dependencies > >>> recursive

Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 16 April 2009 07:15:05 Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote: > > I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd-current for > > some time, apparently some ports require rebuilding as they are kernel > > specific, like hal, so I wonder

Question about amd64 tier1 status.

2009-04-16 Thread J . Julián Rodríguez
Hi, I´m a FreeBSD user from 4.0 version to Current (i386 arch). I've recently switched to a amd64 machine and consecuently to the amd64 version of the OS. You claim the amd64 version enjoys "Tier 1 Status", but in the page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.

firefox3 gets stuck/freezing for 30 seconds every 30 seconds

2009-04-16 Thread O. Hartmann
Since a week now my firefox3 got stuck and freezing for 30 seconds (approx.) every 30 seconds. I'm running a SMP box with FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64, OS is most recent. I also recompiled firefox3, dbus, libX11 and xcb (maybe senseless since I do not know what causes the freezing/hungs), but wit

Re: hard drive performance

2009-04-16 Thread Alexander Best
thanks guys. sorry for the newbie question. ;) Chris Rees schrieb am 2009-04-15: > 2009/4/15 Bruce Cran : > > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:54:13 +0200 (CEST) > > Alexander Best wrote: > >> hi there, > >> i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the > >> other > >> one UDMA100. here

Building file server for multi-tera capacity

2009-04-16 Thread Valerio Daelli
Hi we plan a FreeBSD server which can host at least 20 Terabyte of data. The system will be shipped with FreeBSD 7 or 8 and will be based on a NexSAN SAS Beast. We would like to know if anybody has tried FreeBSD with NexSAN products and particularly if he has a suggestion about a solid HBA. Also

Re: Need to change screen resolution...

2009-04-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the default 720x426 (I think). The monitor I use to view all my servers via KVM switch - the font is too big on the screen - if I could increase the screen size to maybe 1028x756 that would be great. from what you've got that

Re: Which one of these two is the correct version?

2009-04-16 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:40 PM, barbara wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM, barbara > wrote: > > > > > > Hello FreeBSD Gnome users, > > > > > > > > I have been a KDE user because gnome installation/upgrade presents > such a > > > > pain to me most of the time. Today I decided to upgrade