desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need to be root to do a lot of things. If I didnt have root, I

Howto umount a cdrom as non-root?

2004-02-06 Thread Edd Barrett
I have used vfs.usermount=1 to allow users to mount the cdrom in a dir in thier home dir. What is the most proper and secure method of doing so. If possible without the use of sudo or chmod +s. Thanks vext01 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Kdm at boot

2004-02-06 Thread Edd Barrett
What is the correct way of starting kdm at boot? I have tried echo /usr/local/bin/kdm /etc/rc.local , but this causes the system to hang. kdm works fine if executed on a root shell. Someone told me to do a wait 5 kdm, but i see this as a bodge. Thanks

Re: Howto umount a cdrom as non-root?

2004-02-06 Thread Edd Barrett
purposes) Will get back to you tomorrow lowell. Thanks - Original Message - From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 4:41 PM Subject: Re: Howto umount a cdrom as non-root? Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED

SMB share unmount : was cdrom unmount (oops)

2004-02-07 Thread Edd Barrett
It appears that the mount that I cant unmount was not actually the cdrom, but my remote home dir which is a samba share on another freebsd box. bash-2.05b$ mount /home/edd/cdrom bash-2.05b$ umount /home/edd/cdrom bash-2.05b$ mount /home/edd/rhome bash-2.05b$ umount /home/edd/rhome umount:

SMBFS and vfs.usermount. BUG??

2004-02-10 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi there. I think i may have discovered a bug in free bsd 5.2-RELEASE, it may be in earlier versions too, but I have not tried it (maybe someone running 4.x could try it) I have made an fstab entry and nsmbrc file for a smb share. vfs.usermount is set to 1. A normal user (me in this case (edd))

TV card

2004-02-16 Thread Edd Barrett
Can anyone suggest a decent tv card that will work under freebsd in the uk? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]