Re: mail question...

2004-02-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Xpression wrote: Q: Hi list, there is a package / tool to protect against spam ??? Thanks... A: A few ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/ports] [21:49] #make search key=spam | grep port Path: /usr/ports/mail/adcomplain Path: /usr/ports/mail/bayespam Path: /usr/ports/mail/bogofilter Path:

Re: ed4 on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-02-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Banana Flex wrote: hello! i'm a new user of FreeBSD and i have a little problem: i can not use my PCMCIA Ethernet card on FreeBSD 5.2.1 RC2 on an i386 platform. how do i install the ed4 driver? i think is the correct driver because on FreeBSD 4.9 my PCMCIA Ethernet card was properly detected

Re: Can Freebsd run on linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Ken Finegood's Office 2 wrote: ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q: Re: Can Freebsd run on linux? A: No; but some would say it can

Re: id like to help

2004-02-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
siraj kutlusan wrote: hi im a freebsd user and i live in istanbul and im trying to get people to use freebsd and stuff like this. i would love to help in a part of freebsd an some kind of way. is there anything i could help with? i dont mind maybe translating a few docs to turkish and stuff like

Re: filesystem permissions using dump on live filesystem

2004-02-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Aaron Peterson wrote: i put a user in the operator group in /etc/group: -snip- and attempted to dump a live filesystem: -snip- what am i missing here? nevermind. i had to log out and log back in. that solved me problems. now my only question is why does one have to log

Re: How do I turn this off?

2004-02-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Shaun T. Erickson wrote: When I login, I get a UNIX tip by Dru, printed on the screen. I'd like to turn that off, but haven't located where to do that ... TIA. -ste LOL, there not *all* by Dru ... but a lot of them are. Check your dotfiles (.login, .profile, .shrc, .cshrc, and so on) for a

Re: upgrade problem

2004-02-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jim McIver wrote: Trying to upgrade from Freebsd 4.6 to 4.9...haven't got it working yet, but I am getting strange message from the machine. newsyslog: illegal flag in config file -- N Any idea where this is coming from? -Jim McIver The default configuration file for newsyslog(8) is

Re: Quick newbie portupgrade question.

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Shaun T. Erickson wrote: I understand that 'portupgrade -arR' will upgrade everything. Some are packages and some are ports. Will portupgrade upgrade packages with packages, and ports with ports, or do packages get replaced with ports, so that all are ports after it's run? -ste

Re: directories to exclude for backups

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Benjamin P. Keating wrote: My Plan is to make a gzipped tarball of the entire machine, excluding directories that are not necessary. If however, there is a more sound solution then tarballing a machine for a backup, Im all ears. I know rsync is a possibility, but i'd like to have just a solid,

Re: The sensitivity of the mouse

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Valerian Galeru wrote: Hi all! How can I change the sensitivity of the mouse? I am using the 4.9 release. Read the manpage for moused(8), and look for the -a option. Any flag you want could likely be added to /etc/rc.conf. If you're running KDE, or Gnome, and maybe some other WM's, they can

Re: web based configuration as root or equivalent

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bjorn Eikeland wrote: I'm wanting to make a web based configuration tool for my wireless routers (setting up freebsd boxes to make a outdoor wlan) - ofcourse I can use ssh and webmin, but the configuration should be made even easier for less technical users. I've read the how to use Webmin

Re: hangs up on login prompt (very strange)

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
JJB wrote: 5.2 has completely new file system and is know to destroy data and hang causing you to reboot. Submit problem report about what happened to you. If you do not want to be exposed to this problem install 4.9 ??? --- [EMAIL

Re: Boot and MBR (Gnome)

2004-02-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:11:28PM -0900, Mark Weisman wrote: The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on these two would be awesome. Thanks. snip If you're a Gnome

Re: SoundBlaster 16 PnP ISA Card on 5.1

2004-02-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Philippe Vachon wrote: Hey. I guess I was trying my best to avoid having to recompile the Kernel, and stick with the stock kernel in 5.1. Are there any alternatives to recompiling? Thanks. Phil V. Jorn Argelo wrote: Do you have the following kernel options compiled in your kernel? device

Re: BSD 4.4 Configuration

2004-02-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mateusz Rajca wrote: Hi, I have Intel 810 Video Card and BSD 4.4. In the configuration in BSD 4.4 Under Video Cards Intel 810 isn't on the list. What should I do? Thanks Matt You mean you have *FreeBSD* 4.4 ?? Which configuration are we talking about? Lastly, IIRC, there's a chapter in

Re: SoundBlaster 16 PnP ISA Card on 5.1

2004-02-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Philippe Vachon wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Philippe Vachon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just subscribed to the list, but I've been using FreeBSD on and off for a few months now. There has, however, been one thing lacking from my FreeBSD setup and that is the ability to play sound! Do

Re: SoundBlaster 16 PnP ISA Card on 5.1

2004-02-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Chris Pressey wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:25:20 -0500 Philippe Vachon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said before, the sound is compressed -- not in the data sense, but rather in the analogue sense where the wavelength of a waveform decreases, as does the period. I appologize if I had

Re: Where to find apache PHP script mhash function {RTFM answer}

2004-02-28 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
fbsd_user wrote: Have mod_php installed on apache but it does not have the mhash extension function. Where can I find it? Thanks www.php.net/mhash Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Processors

2004-02-28 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Brach Janney wrote: I might have missed it in the long amount of FAQ pages. Is FreeBSD only for 64bit processors. If so can we set up a Donations to Brach Janney so that he may use our operating system page. =) Thank you for your time. And here is a place to send any info you might have that is

Re: SSH Problem

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Stephen Liu wrote: - snip - You say that this works as root, but your example seems to indicate otherwise. By default, root logins via ssh is disabled in the sshd config file, usually at /etc/ssh/sshd_config. If for some reason you want to allow root logins via ssh then uncomment the

Re: Help Setting Up .bashrc

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bob Perry wrote: Hello, My environment variables indicate SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash and ENV=/home/rperry/.shrc. My understanding is that bash reads ~/.bashrc for interactive shells and $ENV for non-interactive shells. I don't have the ~/.bashrc file. Neither do I have a ~/.bash_profile, or a

Re: GNOME-SESSION

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: I NEED TO KNOW IF IT IS POSSIBLE THAT I CAN LOGOUT FROM MY GNOME SESSION BY A COMMAND, I MEAN WHITOUT THE USE OF THE ICON THAT DO THAT FUNCTION Well, quick and dirty, hit CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE and kill the X server? Not that this is the *best* way, probably Kevin

Re: 4.9 kernel error

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jim McIver wrote: I'm trying to build a kernel for 4.9 Freebsd that will work on a 486 or pentium machine and can't get past a make depend error. 'don't know how to make bf_enc.c ...Stop Error code 2 I've done a minimal install of 4.9, used cvsup to get the lastest /sys directory. Copied

Re: flashplugin-mozilla is marked as broken...?

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Rob wrote: Hi, How am I ever be able to convince my labmembers that FreeBSD is so much better than M$-Window$, if they get stuck on FreeBSD already after two minutes by simply browsing with Mozilla to their favorite webpage? This bug is biting some Linuxes as well. Bug 24427 - Get this when

Re: Problems Mounting CDROM

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Rishi Chopra wrote: Rob, The 'c' definitely was missing. Unfortunately, so is /dev/acd0c - what should I do now? Hi, Rishi...have you tried this? as root $mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joseph Koenig wrote: I'm putting together a system that will host a relatively small database (around 20,000 records), as well as run Apache / PHP to search that database. I have the option in front of me to use a P III dual 1GHz machine with a SCSI Raid 5, or to use a single P4 2.8 GHz with a

Re: what raid system should i purchase for freebsd ?

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to install freebsd in a machine with a raid system. So somehone have told me that linux sometimes dos not recognize some raid systems ... can any one tell me what raid system can y purchase to have a garantee that freebsd will recognize im ? i want to

Re: linuxpluginwrapper ERROR

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: I am installin the linux plugin wrapper and it give me these error The linuxthreads port needs source code for libgcc Please install FreeBSD source code in /usr/src *** Error code 1 in my /usr/src i have the sys folder .. some weeks ago i compiled the

Re: linuxpluginwrapper ERROR

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:09:24PM -0500, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: I am installin the linux plugin wrapper and it give me these error The linuxthreads port needs source code for libgcc Please install FreeBSD source code in /usr/src *** Error code 1 in

Re: anyone tried moodle?

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was thinking about setting up an online learning environment for some students here and remembered moodle. http://www.moodle.org i did a #make search name=moodle on my ports and couldn't find anything. now, has anyone tried this? im not familiar enough with freebsd

Do I need alternate architecture source in /usr/src/sys ??

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
? Just curious. I dunno that they take up much space, or much b/w during the cvsup (although here at home I'm going to have to cvsup via modem) Sorry if this is a FAQ or just a stupid ?? :-o Kevin D. Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: sendmail: Operation timed out with

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Justin Brody wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:23:52PM -0500, Justin Brody wrote: Here's a bit from /var/log/maillog: Mar 2 16:40:39 aleph sendmail[327]: i1SGr1hh004059: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], de lay=3+04:47:38, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,

Re: using ipfw

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Karan Gupta wrote: Newbie here so pls excuse if this question sounds trivial i use a single bsd router to service 2 properties. I want ppl on prop A to get 1.024kbit/s and the ones on prop B to get 256kbit/sprop B is connected on the same network as prop A using a wireless device that

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 rebooting into single user mode

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Patrick Fish wrote: Hi, I just applied the FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp patch onto my 4.9-STABLE box and rebooted. On more than one occasion FreeBSD boots into single user mode and awaits for someone to enter the default shell path. This becomes a problem since the server is remote - is there a way to

Re: make world question on remote dedicated server

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mark Sams wrote: Hi, I am thinking of getting a FreeBSD dedicated server that I will only have ssh access to. What is the normal procedure of keeping up to date with kernel changes when you do not have console access? Is it possible to drop into single user mode remotely? No. At least,

Re: Is the handbook no longer installed?

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Randy Bush wrote: I just discoverd that on a machine I recently rebuilt, I have a dead link to /usr/share/doc/handbook. Is this not installed now? same problem. and i am a religious cvsupper. randy ___ I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm

Re: Curious sound problem in 5.2.1-R

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Doug Poland wrote: Thanks Aaron, that's all I needed to do. If you don't mind, how does a mere mortal determine that the snd_ich.ko is the module for an Intel ICH5 82801EB sound chip? i'm quite sure i figured it out the long way. However, it was quick and dirty, and should work on any

Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:00:09AM -0500, Ed Budd wrote: I think what's confusing me here is that I assumed that 5.1R was still officially supported and every other advisory up to this one has been included, like last week's FreeBSD-SA-04:03.jail advisory, for example.

Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
fbsd_user wrote: Are the security advisory fixes rolled into the .iso ftp download images? Not sure, but certainly not put into -RELEASES. I imagine you'd have to grab a snapshot ISO Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Apache

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Michael Banta wrote: Hello. I just installed Apache wilthout error. I started apache and did a ps aux. It appears to be running fine. However I cannot bring up the default webpage. Doing lynx localhost does not work. I set the Servername variable in the config file to localhost, just to

Re: hello

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
dimitar georgiev wrote: hello can you tell me what is the best freebsd version, also stable for web servers. The best is generally the latest. Confusion arises because there are two branches of development, -CURRENT (5.X) and -STABLE (4.X). For more information, see the FreeBSD Handbook,

Re: Installing Squirrel Mail from the Ports

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running FreeBSD 5.1, I Just ran CVSUP on my ports to bring them current. When I try to install Squirrelmail from /usr/ports/mail/squirrelmail I get the following error: snip If you are absolutely sure you want to override this check, type make NO_CHECKSUM=yes [other

Re: php script to count visitors to site

2004-03-04 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Marty Landman wrote: At 07:57 PM 3/3/2004, fbsd_user wrote: I have an php script to read a file bump the counter and write it back. Need html sample code to jump to the php script and return with the counter value and display it. ?php counter(); ? Just put those lines on your page

Re: GUI for user authentication

2004-03-08 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Cookski - RR wrote: My company is moving to our web services Verio which uses FreeBSD on their servers. They do not provide a GUI for securing directories from unauthorized access (htaccess). Is there a GUI application that you recommend or that is preferred by the FreeBSD community? Any help or

Re: Update utility

2004-03-08 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Is there any utility in FreeBSD 4.9 to check for possible updates/bug fixes via internet? I *think* have have kind of a handle on this on the server I just installed... I usually do a cvsup to update the list of the

Re: DHCP issue with comcast (FreeBSD router).

2004-03-08 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Richard Uhlman wrote: Hello, I am new to using FreeBSD, and I am trying to use a FreeBSD box as a firewall/router. I am trying to get the router working correctly first. My issue is that my box will not receive an IP address from Comcast when the dhclient starts. I commented out all of the

Re: firewall rules for mail gateway

2004-03-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mike Jackson wrote: Hi, I have a 5.2.1 firewall box that also has a mailserver. Goal: - firewall can send and receive mail - rest of the world - firewall can send and receive mail - internal LAN machines - firewall blocks internal LAN machines from connecting to external SMTP servers

Re: Maybe a stupid question but....

2004-03-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jeremy Faulkner wrote: Alina Groulx wrote: Hi everyone, I've searched high and low for a download for FreeBSD source code in a form that I recognize. I'm looking for tar.gz of the source code but am not seeing it anywhere. Can someone help me or perhaps let me know how I can download off

Re: i dont know how to get into FreeBSD (was No Subj)

2004-03-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
RAVIKANT PRASAD wrote: I m RAVIKANT from india. Currently i m last sem of MCA. In mca i gave a presentation on freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, mcosx, darwin in contrast to linux. i found it quite interesting. i would like to assosciate my career to freebsd and want to become part of

Re: Rebuilding the World Question

2004-03-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bart Silverstrim wrote: Here's a definite question from a first timer, but there are so many variations out there that I thought I'd bounce this off the list and see what people thought (if I was doing this correctly) Will do. While you're at it, for your second time, wrap your email lines at

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to

Re: DNS on LAN

2004-03-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
David Pratt wrote: Hi. I have just set up a small LAN. I am using an old pentium computer as a firewall using IPCop (192.168.1.1) as a gateway to the web. It uses a dynamic IP from my ISP so all the machines have web access. I have 3 other machines behind the firewall. I have set up a

Re: IPFW problems connecting to port 25!

2004-03-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have IPFW setup, and in my ruleset i have the following line add 04009 allot tcp from any to me dst port 80 in via x10 setup add 04010 allow tcp from any to me dst port 25 in via xl0 setup however if I enable the firewall and try to telnet into port 25, it cannot

Re: IPFW problems connecting to port 25!

2004-03-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You do have a rule for established connections? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo S.P. you know the only rule i have for that is add 6 deny log tcp from any to any established I am assuming this is incorrect? Aye, there's the rub. Last rule is usually deny

Re: Need Info?

2004-03-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
DeAtH KnIgHt wrote: Hi, Ive noticed that there are different iso images within the ftp servers and i need to know which one do i actually need within these ftp servers? is there a difference between these different files? how do i install freebsd? Generally for each RELEASE, there is a

Re: Add a gateway

2004-03-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am running FreeBSD 4.7-stable on a computer. It is configured to be my firewall. My IPS changed the technology to access my DSL. How do I define a gateway for an interface ? thanks, Darryl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 5.2 upgrade and Exim delivery

2004-03-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
joshua lokken wrote: Hello all, I am working on becoming familiar with FreeBSD 5.x after using 4.x for the past few years. The machine in question is a web and mail server; I originally installed 5.1 from the mini iso, then upgraded to RELENG_5_2 last weekend. The upgrade went without

Re: Add a gateway

2004-03-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Darryl Hoar wrote: Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am running FreeBSD 4.7-stable on a computer. It is configured to be my firewall. My IPS changed the technology to access my DSL. How do I define a gateway for an interface ? thanks, Darryl

Re: Portupgrade - Piping Output to file

2004-03-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Ron Joordens wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm currently using portupgrade to upgrade my ports (obviously). I'm getting errors on some of my ports. Eg config error on gedit2, and KDE fails for unknown reason. How do I direct my output to a file so I can review it to find the reason or at least post it to

Re: FreeBSD in the travelling industry

2004-03-14 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 04:58:46PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: jsha wrote: Are there anyone out there with experience in using Open Source software on top of FreeBSD to manage a travel agency? I have searched through Google and Freshmeat without

Re: - Installation -

2004-03-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Francesco Pistolesi wrote: Hi, I'm an italian user. Yesterday I've tried to install FreeBSD in an old and empty 486. I've downloaded the floppies and I've made the images kern.flp e mfsroot.flp . I've switched-on the pc with kern.flp floppy inside at a point the computer has asked to insert

Re: Problme on installing /usr/ports/sysutils

2004-03-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I encountered problem as follow on installing /usr/ports/sysutils # cd /usr/ports/sysutils make install clean . Surely you don't intend to install *every* program under /usr/ports/sysutils? There is a good chance that at any given time, one of them is

Re: [Fwd: Re: deleting directories with ??? in name]

2004-03-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Walter wrote: I managed to delete the files by recreating the directory. Ah, you have the hacker nature, then. That is probably a Good Thing(TM) ... I was going to suggest $cp * ../otherdir/ $cd .. rmdir thatdir $mv otherdir thatdir :-) Not to seem ungrateful, but isn't it a Bad Thing that it

Re: /var/log/messages question

2004-03-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I have a 4.4-stable box configured as my firewall running IPFilter and doing nat and routing to the internet. I keep getting: Mar 16 13:10:09 darryl /kernel: arplookup 10.2.2.2 failed: host is not on local network in my /var/log/messages file. It is coming from my

Re: FreeBSD - Linux / Unix ?

2004-03-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Gil Binder wrote: Hey there, I am a FreeBSD user, I have a debate with someone about FreeBSD. And I would like you to answer our little debate, FreeBSD is: A. Linux B. Unix C. Something else ( Tell us what ;P ) The Project tells us (www.freebsd.org): FreeBSD is an advanced

Re: Server automatically Shuts down.

2004-03-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
samy lancher wrote: I am not sure how to check auto power off at option in BIOS. Yesterday, i let the case open and the system did not crash last night. I will keep the case open for few more days and see what happens. Thanks, Naveen. Hmm; probably this is irrelevant, but: about a couple of

Re: PGP Utility?

2004-03-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bob Perry wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:13:47AM -0500, Bob Perry wrote: I installed gnupg-1.2.4_1, The GNU Privacy Guard, read over the README and HOWTOs. Ran into a problem re ...unsafe ownership of the main configuration file Searched the mailing list

Re: I need help mounting a floppy

2004-03-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Willy Dingledorf wrote: Gentlemen: I am a frustrated newbie who has a good back-ground in Microsoft operating-systems, but no experience with FreeBSD. I have installed various versions of FreeBSD many times on several different computers ... but after a successful install, I keep running

Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joshua Lokken wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+postingsourceid=mozilla-searchstart=0start=0ie=utf-8oe=utf-8 Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted. People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too) that posting replies to the top of an email

Re: problem with su

2004-03-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Eric Yellin wrote: When I su -m and login as root, all I get in the prompt is a % sign. My normal user shell is tcsh and the prompt looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/eric(29): but this is not kept when I su -m. How can I change this? Thanks, Eric Seems a tad unusual. Don't know if I can

Re: problem with su

2004-03-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Edmund Craske wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jez Hancock Sent: 20 March 2004 18:23 To: Eric Yellin Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: problem with su On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 07:41:53PM +0200, Eric Yellin wrote: When I su -m and login

Re: PHP script to scroll msg in window at bottom of all browsers.

2004-03-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
JJB wrote: When out surfing the internet, some sites have an JavaScript as part of their web page source html code to scroll an short message in the small browser window at the bottom of the browser. Using apache with php and would like to do the same thing. Looking for pointer to where I can

Re: Intel chipset to work

2004-03-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
IT2 Wishon, Corey wrote: Sir or Ma'am I guess I'm a sir, but we're all just FreeBSD users around here. Greetings to you wherever the Vella Gulf is ATM, and thanks to all of you Sorry to bother you. I am trying to get a intel chipset to work on my version of freebds. No trouble

Re: mplayer questions

2004-03-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Tadimeti Keshav wrote: Hi, I tried to install mplayer using ports. This was successfully installed. However, I want to know if mplayer is a command line video player? Is there a GUI frontend to it? WHich one? Does it get installed along with mplayer? thanks Tk mplayer is cli; it has a GUI

Re: Top posting

2004-03-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Rob wrote: As for MUA... My ex-employer (anybody want an IT support/installation engineer in the UK?) decided to move everybody and all our clients to MS Outlook and Exchange. Because that's what people want. Gotta love PHB's! And that's another topic But not much of one. KDK

Re: Portupgrade mod_php4 problems.

2004-03-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
samy lancher wrote: mysql-client-3.23.58 is already installed or may be older version blah blah blah... you can uninstall and reinstall mysql blah blah blah ...to install correctly. If you really want to override without deleting use FORCE_PICG_REGISTER blah blah I also tried to install php

Anyone using dual-Sendmail + Amavis? Startup...

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Hello, Is anyone using Amavis with the dual-Sendmail setup? If so, how are you starting two daemons? (And amavisd, for that matter ...) I'm assuming I'm going to have to do some magic with /etc/rc.conf? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need assitance installin FreeBSD

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jerry McAllister wrote: I downloaded the mini FreeBSD for this little pc i have, but im not sure what files to put on cd. Could you please give me a hand? the attached pic is what was unziped. Thank you -Chris No attached PIC. Yup. Maybe it was stripped automagically --- that'd

Re: maxproc is automatically adjusted?

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mipam wrote: Okay, i found LINT, that is, in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf i did make LINT and the file was created. But i still didnt find the answers i was looking for, like kern.maxusers seems to be sized automatically based on you hardware? And so maxproc etc? I still didnt find further docs about

Re: How to properly handle stale dependencies with pkgdb -F?

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Paul D. Schmidt wrote: Hello, I've run into problems (most often with p5-* ports) with stale dependencies. I don't know how to solve them other than deleting them, which I know is the wrong way to do it. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Michael's article's been

Re: Need assitance installin FreeBSD

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Felt a need to clarify this; flame me where I'm wrong Jerry McAllister wrote: Actually, I think the intention of the MINI-ISO is to boot and run the installation with everything loaded from one of the ftp sites. This doesn't sound correct at all. What you've described is what the

Re: User startx ?

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jeff Sandys wrote: As root I can start X-windows with startx, but as a user I get this message: xauth: timeout in locking authority file ... [snip] How can users start X-windows? Thanks, Jeff Sandys Been there, but it's been a while. Check perms on $HOMEDIR/.Xauthority HTH, Kevin

Re: User startx ?

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jeff Sandys wrote: How can users start X-windows? Thanks, Jeff Sandys Oops, more importantly: I meant check owner of $HOMEDIR/.Xauthority KDK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Why does favicon.ico show as error in apache log

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
JJB wrote: I do not use this favicon.ico file in my web site, But an small number of the visitors for some reason try to get this file which is not there. This is reported as file error in the analog apache log reports. Can someone explain why some visitor browsers try to get this file, and what

Re: NATd error Message

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
JP wrote: Hey Gang-- I recompiled my kernel to include support for firewall and such. OK, we kinda know what you mean. So I'll kinda give you an answer. You kinda did something wrong ;-) Seriously, exactly what did you add to your kernel config? After creating my rules file, fwrules and

Re: ! why? [original emails enclosed: last post hopefully]

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
__Clint__ wrote: I had no clue when I posted that bug report that I'd be hurting myself more than helping others. It's a shame what the spammers have done to the intrnet. Hopefully tar was at least fixed. A new tar(1), [actually, that was a new GNU tar(1)] was MFC-ed (merged from

Re: The usbdThis daemon

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jason Dusek wrote: Hi All, When my system boots up, it tries to start the 'usbdThis' daemon and then it tries to load the 'This' module along with the Linux ABI stuff. What files do I need to dig in to fix this problem? Just a guess ... something with rc in title, as in /etc/rc.d/*,

Re: NATd error Message

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
JP wrote: --- Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JP wrote: Hey Gang-- I recompiled my kernel to include support for firewall and such. OK, we kinda know what you mean. So I'll kinda give you an answer. You kinda did something wrong

Re: log off with process running

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Augusto Jun Devegili wrote: nohup is a possible solution; check its man page. Example: $ nohup wget http://server/big.iso On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 05:22, Robert Storey wrote: I want to log off and hang up the modem. The question is, how to do so? With the above process running, I can't even

Re: 4.9 minimal install

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
lee slaughter wrote: from mini cd, just for educational purposes. this is known as the base distribution, right? only 123MB. what does one do next? /usr/ports isn't even there. there is no discussion in handbook. thanks. This has been discussed rather extensively, on this list, over the past

Re: file needed for XFree86

2004-03-31 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im trying to install XFree86 on my i386 FreeBSD 5.2.1 box but there is an error: cc -o xditview -O -pipe -ansi -Dasm=__asm -Wno-system-headers -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -L/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/exports/lib xditview.o Dvi.o draw.o font.o lex.o

Re: KVM Switches

2004-04-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Ron wrote: Need information on how to get a KVM switch to work with the FreeBSD mouse driver. The Monitor and keyboard work fine but I have to hook a mouse directly to the box for it to work. Thanks, Ron Martin I've a pair of TrendNet cheapo 2-ports that are doing fine in two different

Re: workaround for the expat problem

2004-04-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
paul beard wrote: If anyone has any ideas what this is all about and how best to cope with it going forward, I'd be grateful to know about it. Thanks. According to /usr/ports/UPDATING: 20040313: AFFECTS: users of textproc/expat2 Users of expat2 (and its

Re: unknown tcp connections to dawsonmail.com

2004-04-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
At 06:44 PM 3/30/2004, Lorin Lund wrote: I have freebsd 5.2 release running on my server. I have apache2 and MySQL installed and running. No other daemons to speak of. Yet my DSL router shows connections to dawsonmail.com. Does anyone have any knowledge or ideas of what might be going on?

Re: Server down regularly

2004-04-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
meimi wrote: Hello, Thanks everyone. Here is the information FreeBSD 4.8 Server specification: PIII1.7GHz 512MB ram 80GB harddisk The server is used for web, mail, dns and databases (mysql and postgresql). Recently, I have recompiled PHP with option curl and openssl added. The server is in

Re: Simplest way to block a single IP?

2004-04-04 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
H.Wade Minter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got a system that's sending a ton of referral spam to websites on my RELENG_4_9 system. I'd like to block them from accessing my system at the TCP level. What's the best and easiest way to do this? I assume I'll need to

Re: internet via USB: how to use with FreeBSD?

2004-04-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Rob wrote: Hello, My parents have an internet provider, that uses the TV-cable and connects through the USB port. The provider only has M$-Window$ software provided, and this works now with a single computer. I want to replace this M$-Window$ computer by a FreeBSD router, to start a home

Re: Connect to Internet

2004-04-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Remko Lodder wrote: RazorOnFreeBSD wrote: Hello, I just setup a freebsd box with the 5.1 release to be a gateway/firewall. The installation was smooth and to setup the gateway/firewall with nat a lot of sources are available on Internet. Here is my problem, I can't connect to Internet from

Re: internet via USB: how to use with FreeBSD?

2004-04-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Rob wrote: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Rob wrote: My parents have an internet provider, that uses the TV-cable and connects through the USB port. The provider only has M$-Window$ software provided, and this works now with a single computer. I want to replace this M$-Window$ computer

Re: unintelligible questions from pkgdb -F [ part of 5.2portupgrade hairball ]

2004-04-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jay Moore wrote: On Tuesday 06 April 2004 04:39 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: What this means is that the eel2-2.4.1 port claims to have a dependency on the gtk-2.2.4_1 port, but no such port is installed -- it's listed in the file: snipped some of Matthew's Amazing stuff Amazing! That

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