Re: Problems upgrading a 6.0 install to 6.2-RELEASE-p4

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/18/07, Andreas Rudisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007 17:54:41 +0200, Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In /usr/src/UPDATING you can find. 20060204: The 'audit' group was added to support the new auditing functionality in the

How to retrieve the list of files to merge by hand

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I just upgraded my box here at home last night and I made a little mistake (fortunately, not one large enough to keep things from working). I updated my source tree to 6.2-RELEASE-p4 and did the "make buildworld" and "make buildkernel." Then I dropped to single user mode to do the installs

How does FreeBSD handle tcp checksum offloading

2007-05-24 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm curious as to how FreeBSD handles checksum offloading for TCP packets. Is this on by default? It seems that it's only relevant for specific drivers rather than something that's just assumed. How can I determine if this is supported for the hardware I'm running? Is it common for tcp ch

Re: How does FreeBSD handle tcp checksum offloading

2007-05-24 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/24/07, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Checksum offloading is usually enabled by default for hardware that supports it (assuming that the driver for that hardware also supports it of course.) To see if a particular interface uses checksum offloading you can look at the output of '

Flatbed scanners for FreeBSD

2007-06-02 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi everybody, What scanners are best used with FreeBSD? I'm hoping for one that I can use in both Windoze and FreeBSD. Preferably, one that is USB. I've never configured a scanner for FreeBSD before and would like recommendations on hardware before purchasing. Thanks, Andy

Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I just installed a fresh 6.2-RELEASE i386 system last night and was trying to get cvsup-without-gui installed from ports and was having some interesting problems. The install of FreeBSD went flawlessly, and the system boots without a hitch. After installing the ports tree, I went and did "m

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/12/07, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:02:38AM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed a fresh 6.2-RELEASE i386 system last night and was > trying to get cvsup-without-gui installed from ports and was having > some

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew Falanga
If the compiler (cc) dies with a 'fatal signal 11', you could have a memory problem. See e.g. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/GCC-SIG11-FAQ Roland Ok, while researching these things I found this. Does FreeBSD have a work around? http://membres.lycos.fr/poulot/k6bug.html This mac

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/06/07, Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First off, my apologies to the group. I think I've been hitting "reply" only and not "reply-to-all". > > > > If the compiler (cc

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/13/07, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:02:38 -0600 Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a hard hang. Nothing worked. I could not even Alt+ to a > different pseudo terminal. The system just hard hanged. I rebooted > and tried t

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The CPU on basically every x86 machine after the original pentium runs faster than the bus (or memory) speed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Side_Bus The board will probably have jumpers (though sometimes boards this old will have bi

nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I was just wondering, a while ago I remember seeing a port for the nvidia driver. I was just wondering, does this work on amd64? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup (the verdict is in)

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
The verdict is in! The problem was heat. Before swapping out memory, I turned on the system to see what the fan was doing. Nothing was the answer. It wasn't spinning at all. I went digging through my old hardware and found a fan of the right type and dimensions that fit nicely, and more impor

samba config problems

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
I'm trying to get samba working in a test environment. I do not need great functionality, so I'm going off of the simple setup stuff in the Handbook. This should be enough. I've configured my /usr/local/etc/smb.conf file for a single share (the /tmp share) and changed the workgroup name and set

Re: samba config problems

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/14/07, Reid Linnemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't forget to cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Once again I apologize to the forum. I keep forgetting to do this. The rc script at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba follows the FreeBSD rcng scheme, if the rcvar 'samba_enable' is not set to '

samba and IPv6

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, Does samba actually support this? I'm not turning up much information from the "official HOW-TO" at samba.org. In fact, not a single link in the HOW-TO even mentions IPv6. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: samba and IPv6

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/14/07, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Andrew Falanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does samba actually support this? I'm not turning up much information > from the "official HOW-TO" at samba.org. In fact, not a single link > in

Upgrading x.org to 7.2 (to make other ports happy)

2007-06-15 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, Ok, last night I sit down to continue installing software on that web server I mentioned a couple of days ago. By the way, the culprit was definitely heat. Last night, I successfully recompiled the GENERIC kernel for 6.2p5 without a hitch, and the day before I successfully completed the "bu

Re: Upgrading x.org to 7.2 (to make other ports happy)

2007-06-15 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/15/07, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: > I come back a > little later to find that I've got to update X.org according > /usr/ports/UPDATING. I open this file and read up on what it says. > In there it says I need to run a script called

Re: Upgrading x.org to 7.2 (to make other ports happy)

2007-06-18 Thread Andrew Falanga
Please read the instructions more carefully. You are supposed to run a program called "script" with the parameter "xorg-upgrade". script is a program which will create a file called xorg-upgrade. All the commands you subsequently type and all the output you get will be logged in the file xorg

Re: Upgrading x.org to 7.2 (to make other ports happy)

2007-06-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/19/07, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The big clue is in the text description where it refers to script(1) i.e. a command with a manual page in section 1 of the manual! It's always worth a quick man or apropos if you come across something you don't recognise. Yes. Your point is

Configuring dhcp6

2007-06-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello, Has anyone on this list used dhcp6 from ports? What's the magic behind getting it to work? I'm trying to configure for a very simple environment and my hosts are getting anything. My config file is basically just the sample file from the port install with the exceptions that the interfa

Re: Configuring dhcp6

2007-06-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/19/07, Michael K. Smith - Adhost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could you post your config for reference? One thing that comes to mind is to make sure your mask is set to a /64. Regards, Mike Sure, # The followings are a sample configuration to provide a DNS server address # for every cli

Re: Configuring dhcp6

2007-06-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/19/07, Michael K. Smith - Adhost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you post your config for reference? One thing that comes to mind > is to make sure your mask is set to a /64. > > Regards, > > Mike > Ok, I've got a couple of more questions. Why does the port not install the command "dh

Re: Configuring dhcp6

2007-06-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/19/07, Michael K. Smith - Adhost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, I've got a couple of more questions. Why does the port not > install the command "dhcp6sctl"? This is mentioned in manual pages > like, dhcp6s(8), and so forth but doing a "man dhcp6sctl" returns that > no manual page

How does one get the INDEX-6.bz2 file for the ports index "manually"

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, Well, the subject line pretty much says it all. I'm working on updating the xorg packages on my installation so that I can install WireShark. I'm to the point in the upgrade that I'm rebuilding the ports index (I installed portupgrade-devel in favor of the current version of portupgrade as

Getting INDEX-6.bz2 solved

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Falanga
Ok, Sorry for not posting a follow-up to my original request for help, but google mail doesn't show messages sent from me until someone responds. As I was thinking about the problem, I noticed that the fetch directive for "make fetchindex" in /usr/ports was trying to get the file from htt://www.f

To install xorg meta port in preparation for xorg upgrade

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, How can one install the xorg meta port for version 6.9 before beginning the upgrade to 7.2? I have already updated my ports tree, and I don't think I do one of these numbers any longer: cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install clean I then thought about downloading the 6.9 xorg package, but

Re: To install xorg meta port in preparation for xorg upgrade

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/21/07, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 21 June 2007 09:32:31 Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi, > > How can one install the xorg meta port for version 6.9 before > beginning the upgrade to 7.2? I have already updated my ports tree, > and I don'

Having problems with dhcp6 (still), can anyone help

2007-06-22 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm having a difficult time getting this dhcp for IPv6 (dhcp6 from ports) working. I'm embedding my config files in this message. [dhcp6s.conf] # The followings are a sample configuration to provide a DNS server address # for every client as well as to delegate a permanent IPv6 prefix # 200

How do I get libphp5.so back

2007-06-23 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm working on doing some more development on my php and I've just discovered that somehow the libraries were removed. It must have been through a portupgrade I had done recently. It's been several months since I've done anything with it and I noticed that the following lines were commented

Re: How do I get libphp5.so back

2007-06-23 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/23/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Reinstall php and all modules -- that should fix the problem (based on past experience). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: How do I get libphp5.so back

2007-06-23 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/23/07, Joe Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Run "make config" in /usr/ports/lang/php5, make sure the apache option is selected. HTH, Joe I found this just before reading this message. I was reading in UPDATING on something that wasn't quite related to my problem about PHP and saw a sug

Re: Re[2]: How do I get libphp5.so back

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/24/07, Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On June 23, 2007 at 06:20PM Andrew Falanga wrote: > I found this just before reading this message. I was reading in > UPDATING on something that wasn't quite related to my problem about > PHP and saw a suggestion to do

Help getting apache 22 working

2007-06-27 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I've installed apache 22 on my churches web server and am having some difficulty getting it working. I've figured out that I need something call accept filters accept_filter(9) for this as the server was complaining about a missing file named "httpready" (or something like this). I found fr

Re: Help getting apache 22 working

2007-06-27 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/27/07, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: accf_http is not compulsory for apache to work. Ah, ok. That's good to know, though I did put the module to autoload in my loader.conf file. > > However, the server still isn't working as a "lynx localhost" is > denied and sockstat does

mod_perl port

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I installed Apache 2.2 and the appropriate mod_perl port for this version of apache. However, it is not referenced in /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf. How do I get it there? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Does anyone on this list use WebGUI on FreeBSD

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm wondering, does anyone here use WebGUI on their FreeBSD installs and if so, or even if not would know, what is this LoadModule apreq_module modules/mod_apreq2.so mentioned in the installation text file? I can't seem to find it in ports, this could simply mean that it's just not in port

How does one start mysql after installing from ports

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
This is pretty pathetic but I'm batting a 1000 on this one. I installed mysql a few weeks ago on this web server I'm making for my church and didn't do anything with it at that point (that was the first mistake). I've not used mysql (I usually use PostgreSQL) but WebGUI wants mysql. So, being c

Re: Does anyone on this list use WebGUI on FreeBSD

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 7/4/07, Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports> make quicksearch name=apreq2 Port: libapreq2-2.08 Path: /usr/ports/www/libapreq2 Info: Generic Apache2 Request Library Port: p5-libapreq2-2.08 Path: /usr/ports/www/p5-libapreq2 Info: Generic Apache2 R

SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm having a difficult time working with my father to get the port forwarding working on his Linksys router to forward SSH requests to his FreeBSD machine at home. As near as we can figure, it's setup correctly. In case anyone here uses this router it is WRT54G and details (including a users

Re: SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-18 Thread Andrew Falanga
> > > Security through obscurity is a poor substitute for security. Port > scanners > will eventually find that port also. > > Have you checked to see if a firewall is set up that could be blocking the > port? > Not a thorough check, but my father did turn off the firewall system on that linksys r

dovecot questions

2007-12-26 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm trying to install and configure Dovecot. Thanks to the efforts of the port maintainer for Dovecot, installation was mindless. However, configuration isn't quite so simple. There were several in this list that suggested the use of Dovecot when I inquired for suggestions as to a good

How to make sendmail listen on an address other than the loopback

2007-12-28 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm trying to get an e-mail system working for my church (whitneybaptist.org). I've added a file called local-host-names in /etc/mail as described in the Handbook, then did "/etc/rc.d/sendmail restart" and then did "sockstat | grep sendmail" and got the following results: root sendmai

Re: dovecot questions

2007-12-28 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Wednesday 26 December 2007 16:13:50 Peter Schuller wrote: > > Dovecot doesn't really care. You provide the method of obtaining the user > list from the database, in the form of SQL statements (assuming they differ > from defaults), and it's up to you to make sure this returns the > appropriate i

Re: How to make sendmail listen on an address other than the loopback

2007-12-28 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Friday 28 December 2007 11:24:50 Derek Ragona wrote: > At 11:33 AM 12/28/2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm trying to get an e-mail system working for my church > >(whitneybaptist.org). > >I've added a file called local-host-names in /etc

Dovecot login and account issues

2007-12-28 Thread Andrew Falanga
Ok, there's something apparently not quite right in my understanding. I have the following log entries in /var/log/maillog for a login attempt by a virtual user into my new dovecot system: Dec 28 17:48:07 whitbap dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=71.221.173.206, lip=192.168.

Having problems with SMTP authentication

2007-12-29 Thread Andrew Falanga
HI, I've followed the instructions @ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html, but am still having problems with the authentication process. If I set my client to use either CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5, I get an error return of authentication failure, "most likely th

Re: Having problems with SMTP authentication

2007-12-29 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Saturday 29 December 2007 13:51:06 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Andrew Falanga wrote: > > dnl set SASL options > > TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN')dnl > > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN')dnl > > > >

Still having problems burning DVDs

2007-12-29 Thread Andrew Falanga
Ok, Thanks to the help of earlier posts (a couple of weeks ago), using "kldload atapicam" now allows for the scsi ioctls on my IDE CD/DVD burner. However, when I do the following: growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -dvd-video /usr/local/dvds/whereisGod1.iso I get this output: Executing 'mkisofs -dvd-video

Now sendmail won't even start

2007-12-31 Thread Andrew Falanga
HI, Ok, a couple of days ago, Josh Tolbert told me to check out his site for how to setup sendmail+SMTP AUTH+SSL/TLS. So, I went to your (Josh's) site and followed the directions. Now however, sendmail doesn't even want to start. Actually, more correctly, it doesn't want to stay running. If

Now sendmail won't even start (update)

2007-12-31 Thread Andrew Falanga
With every sendmail process turned off (verified using ps -aux | grep sendmail, and netstat -naf inet and lastly sockstat | grep sendmail; ok, ok, overkill); I've determined that nothing on the system is listening on port 25 except sendmail. Andy ___

sendmail is broken, how do I fix

2008-01-01 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello, I'm not sure what I did. I've been following instructions (really!) and after following the instructions from here: http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html to setup SSL/TLS authentication for mail relaying, my sendmail installation always gives me this very frustratin

Re: sendmail is broken, how do I fix

2008-01-02 Thread Andrew Falanga
> > While you think there is nothing on that port something is running not > letting that socket connection. Try rebooting the system and see if the > problem is still there. > > -Derek I did try that too. Didn't work. ___ freebsd-questions@

VoIP and SSH

2008-01-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I don't understand this one and I'm hoping someone here might know. My father's router wasn't forwarding connection requests for any port that we'd configured for sshd to listen on. After changing out his linksys router and his Cable MODEM (the company said it was a very old modem), the p

Re: VoIP and SSH

2008-01-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Friday 04 January 2008 14:55:00 Jon Krause wrote: > Andrew Falanga wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't understand this one and I'm hoping someone here might know. My > > father's router wasn't forwarding connection requests for any port that &g

Re: sendmail is broken, how do I fix

2008-01-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 14:18:53 Derek Ragona wrote: > At 03:03 PM 1/2/2008, Andrew Falanga wrote: > > > While you think there is nothing on that port something is running not > > > letting that socket connection. Try rebooting the system and see if > > &

Re: sendmail is broken, how do I fix

2008-01-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
> > With sendmail generating the errors above, post the results of this: > # sockstat | grep ":25" whitbap# /etc/rc.d/sendmail start Starting sendmail. whitbap# sockstat | grep :25 root sendmail 1133 3 tcp4 *:25 *:* root sendmail 1133 5 tcp6 *:25

How do I get sendmail working again

2008-01-05 Thread Andrew Falanga
HI, I've gotten myself into a real fix at this point. (This is a continuation of the thread I started, "sendmail is broken, how do I fix?") I was trying to setup authentication based relaying using istructions at http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html. I must first say th

RE: How do I get sendmail working again

2008-01-05 Thread Andrew Falanga
Wanted to post the contents of my .mc file: whitbap# cat whitbap.mc divert(-1) # # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modifi

Anyone using dovecot deliver for virtual users

2008-01-05 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, Is anyone on this list, who's using dovecot, using dovecot deliver to deliver mail to virtual users? If so, what's the key to setting up the deliver process in sendmail? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

My sendmail appears to be fixed, advice needed though

2008-01-05 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi everybody, Sorry for this flurry of e-mail from me over the last few days. This has been highly frustrating. At any rate, I think I've worked it out. Although, I'd like to have some folks look over this .mc file and tell me if the fix is legitimate. Basically, the instructions for settin

Re: My sendmail appears to be fixed, advice needed though

2008-01-05 Thread Andrew Falanga
Well, oddly enough I moved those additional lines to a position before the MAILER macros (I'll post the whitbap.mc file below as it exists now). However, I still got those error messages: Jan 5 18:29:10 whitbap sm-mta[6207]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Ad

Re: My sendmail appears to be fixed, advice needed though

2008-01-05 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Saturday 05 January 2008 15:06:59 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2008-01-05 13:08, Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > Sorry for this flurry of e-mail from me over the last few days. This > > has been highly frustrating. > > You sho

Re: My sendmail appears to be fixed, advice needed though

2008-01-05 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Saturday 05 January 2008 19:26:30 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2008-01-05 17:13, Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, oddly enough I moved those additional lines to a position before > > the MAILER macros (I'll post the whitbap.mc file below as it e

Re: VoIP and SSH

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Jan 7, 2008 8:45 AM, Jon Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Falanga wrote: > > On Friday 04 January 2008 14:55:00 Jon Krause wrote: > > > Andrew Falanga wrote: > > > Hi, > > I don't understand this one and I'm hoping someone here mi

Re: How do I get sendmail working again

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Sunday 06 January 2008 02:34:34 Josh Tolbert wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:22:52AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > There's your problem. You've got two conflicting sets of daemon > > options -- effectively you're telling sendmail to bind to the > > same interfaces twice for port 25. > >

KDE won't allow me to logout and restart kdm after upgrade to xorg 7.3

2008-01-18 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, About two months ago (yes, I'm only now getting around to fixing this), I decided it was time to upgrade my Xorg install from 6.9 to the current. I followed the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING from 20070519. After the upgrade, everything was going ok, until I logged out of KDE. I end

Installing apache and it conflicts with a previously installed port, how to fix

2008-01-26 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm installing apache 2.2 on my father's computer and got this error from the install of apache: ===> Installing for apache-2.2.8 ===> apache-2.2.8 conflicts with installed package(s): apr-db42-1.2.8_2 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first wit

Please help in diagnosing these smartmon messages

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
HI, I just installed smartmontools from ports on my churches system and I think I'm glad I did. However, not being completely familiar with it, I'd like some help with the messages (and errors) that have been discovered thus far (since I installed it on Saturday, yikes!). First was this, and

Re: Please help in diagnosing these smartmon messages

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Feb 7, 2008 3:38 PM, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:29:29PM +0100, Mel wrote: > > > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 04:14:39 Andrew Falanga wrote: > > > > > I know it's probably near impossible to know exactly how m

Re: Please help in diagnosing these smartmon messages

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Thursday 07 February 2008 15:29:29 Mel wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 04:14:39 Andrew Falanga wrote: > > I know it's probably near impossible to know exactly how much longer this > > drive has, but how serious are these errors? As I mentioned, the > > unreadable

IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Falanga
HI, On my father's computer there isn't an IPv4 loopback address being assigned to the lo0 interface. What would cause this? I've looked at his configs and they're the same as on my system (obviously something is different, but I don't know what). I see in his /etc/defaults/rc.conf the "ifco

Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

2008-02-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Feb 17, 2008 1:14 PM, Dominique Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Feb 16, 2008 6:41 PM, Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > HI, > > > > On my father's computer there isn't an IPv4 loopback address being > assig

X errors when I open gvim

2009-07-25 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, When I open gVim from the command line, I get the following errors: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extensio

Firefox 3.5 on FBSD

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, Well, I installed firefox 3.5 on my box at home but it wasn't working correctly. Every time I'd start it I'd get, "Bad system call (core dump)," or something similar. Does anyone here run firefox 3.5 on their box? If so, what is the trick? Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in whi

Re: having problems copying a dvd

2009-09-02 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi < lenzi.ser...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > Thanks Roland for the parameters in the mplayer/mencoder... > > To make things easier.. I recomend to create a profile > in the directory ~/.mplayer/mencoder.conf with the content: > ==

Re: postgresql network access problem

2008-12-31 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:42 PM, stan wrote: > > I am having a bit of a problem enabling remote access to postgress on my > 7.1 system. > > I have added to postgresql.conf > > listen_addresses = '*' > > and to pg_hba.conf > > hostall all XXX.159.77.0/24 trust > > XX is

Odd behavior after upgrading to 7.0-p7

2009-01-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I installed 7.0 i386 and all was working great. I upgraded to p7 and now when I end my X session, I have kdm loading, it doesn't bring me to a login prompt. It dumps me on console 0 and I have to kill the kdm-bin process to return to a kdm login. This didn't happen before upgrading to p7

Re: cups issue, unsupported format

2009-01-25 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Michael Powell wrote: > af300...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm working on getting cups working and I've installed the "hplip" port > > and the cups program used that to install the printer. At least, there > was > > an "HPLIP" in a list in one of the pages

Re: having trouble with OpenOffice

2009-02-06 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > af300...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed. >> However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but >> seems to be related to the X server (from

Re: having trouble with OpenOffice

2009-02-06 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > af300...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed. >> However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but >> seems to be related to the X server (from

What flash players should be used from ports?

2009-04-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'd like to finally get a flashplayer installed for use with Firefox. Which one should I use from the ports system? I found this one that looks promising: /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla Is the recommended one, or should I choose another? Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in

Re: What flash players should be used from ports?

2009-04-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:41 PM, John Gage wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Andrew Falanga > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to finally get a flashplayer installed for use with Firefox. > Which > > one should I use from the ports system

Re: What flash players should be used from ports?

2009-04-15 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM, John Gage wrote: > You have three viable choices, I'd recommend the third: > 1. ports/graphics/gnash or gnash-devel (high CPU utilization on FreeBSD) > 2. ports/www/swfdec-plugin [ ports/graphics/swfdec itself is a > standalone flash player, the plugin port instal

Networking issues

2008-06-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello, I have, for some time, been able to ssh into my father's FreeBSD machine in the Road Runner network in Central New York. Last night, I tried so that I could fix a problem for him and ssh timed out. No problem I thought, his modem has a different IP than the one I have in my /etc/hosts

Wipe a drive clean

2008-06-23 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm having no luck finding hits for "wipe drive" or "zero drive" in the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a USB thumb drive? I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I was thinking that

Re: Wipe a drive clean

2008-06-23 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure about flash memory, but for a harddrive, simple writing 0's > is not a secure way to delete data. It can still be recovered. Actually, this is for an experiment that I want to start with a "clean" device for.

Re: Wipe a drive clean

2008-06-24 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:36:35 -0600 > "Andrew Falanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I >> > >> >

User properties and how to make files with a specific group owner

2008-07-09 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I've not had to set this up and so far my efforts have proven less than successful. I'm working on a web project with my father and one other developer. I need to have it so that our user id's, when creating files in the directory we share the source code in, create the files with the gro

Re: User properties and how to make files with a specific group owner

2008-07-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've not had to set this up and so far my efforts have proven less than >> successful. I'm working on a web project with my father and

Reading from USB devices

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'd like to read data from a USB device that is not a thumb drive. How would I do this? For instance, it's an oximeter for reading biometrics. What libraries exist for reading things like VID/PID, and most importantly, reading the data from the device? Thanks, Andy ___

Having trouble installing joomla from ports

2008-07-20 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I've installed the joomla CMS program from the ports tree. Then, following the instructions from joomla's website, started the installation process. The first step in the process is to test for system requirements. It says I'm failing the Zlib compression support requirement. What is it

Re: Any advice for learning debugging threading and stack corruption problems for c/c++?

2008-07-20 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Wednesday 16 July 2008 13:41:46 Edward Sutton wrote: > I have had a very hard time trying to debug which has hindered my work on > some projects. In particular I have had trouble properly grasping how to > work with debugging multi threaded applications, memory errors, and stack > corruption.

Has anyone used libusb for accessing usb devices here?

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'd like to know if anyone here on the list has ever used libusb (http://libusb.sourceforge.net) for accessing usb devices. I successfully compiled and installed it on my FreeBSD 7 laptop but when I run a test program no USB HUBs are found. The same test on a Fedora box works fine. I was wo

Re: Has anyone used libusb for accessing usb devices here?

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Andrew Falanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd like to know if anyone here on the list has ever used libusb >> (http://libusb.sourceforge.net) for accessing usb devices.

Re: Has anyone used libusb for accessing usb devices here?

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 08:38:58 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Andrew Falanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'd like to know if anyone here on the list has ever used libusb > > (http://libusb.sourceforge.net) for accessing usb devices. I > > successfully

Having some problems with a FreeBSD mail server (SMTP)

2008-07-30 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I run a mail server for my church. Today I was called that folks are able to receive, but not send their mail. They are all currently configured for POP3 (I use dovecot). At home I tried to send mail to two different e-mail accounts of mine using the church e-mail server and was successf

Re: Having some problems with a FreeBSD mail server (SMTP)

2008-07-31 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Thursday 31 July 2008 03:31:36 Barry Byrne wrote: > > Andrew: > > I've seen a similar problem from time to time with Outlook 2003 clients. > For seemingly no reason whatsoever, they give a timeout sending mail. > Googling the error code throws up many with the same error and no solution > that

[Off Topic] Clients still not connecting to the FreeBSD mail server

2008-08-05 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, Thanks again everyone for the pointers with Outlook and my fellow church parishoners. I'm hoping for some more pointers. Using tcpdump I'm fairly certain that the initial SYN packets from the clients are never reaching the server. I'll need to test one more time to be sure (I wasn't 100%

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