Re: ssh w/ rsa certs not working

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I tried to setup ssh on a FreeBSD 4.8 (OpenSSH_3.5p1) to use certificates to log in to a FreeBSD 6.1 (OpenSSH_4.2p1) machine, but it still asks for a password. The user needing to log in is root (I know this is not good and turned off by default), so I re-en

Re: Upgrading from 4 to 6

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Diomidis Spinellis wrote: Am I missing any obvious files or directories I should copy over? I didn't notice your SSH server keys on the list. KDK -- Reflections on Ice-Breaking Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker. -- Ogden Nash _

Re: Problem with "ipfw flush"

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all. In trying to tweak my firewall setup I'm using a file called /etc/ipfw.rules However, it seems even though I copy my rules perfectly to that file, the system freezes up and locks me out when I do: /usr/share/examples/ipfw/change_rules.sh? HTH, KD

Re: nfs mount rw

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
en you attempt to do so. See exports(5) for more information about the configuration file. You don't say much about whom should have access, and to what, but I suspect you want to either use "-maproot=user" or "-public" or ? Disclaimer: IANAE. Kevin Kin

Re: Remote Desktop Connection

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kind of interesting to have my FreeBSD desktop apps on my wife's lappy at the breakfast table ;-). With this setup, Windows actually is the "window manager" --- kinda disconcerting at first glance :-D Kevin Kinsey -- Condense soup, not books! ___

Re: cardbus not working

2007-01-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
felix.schalck wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a WLAN pcmcia card working on freebsd 6.2. Kernel with cardbus support compiled fine, but when the card is inserted, i get: Status is 0x3086 Status is 0x3820 cbb0: card inserted: event=0x, state=3820 cbb0: cbb_power: 3V cbb0: cbb_

Re: freebsd ban

2007-01-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
petko wrote: I am sure, that there is no connectivity issue. Why I have ban? The devil have to serve... :( # tcptraceroute www.freebsd.org Selected device fxp0, address 194.160.208.44, port 54794 for outgoing packets Tracing the path to www.freebsd.org (216.136.204.117) on TCP port 80, 30 hop

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ch would serve the rest of us quite well as tinder. Merry "'Netnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" Christmas, Kevin Kinsey -- Don't abandon hope: your Tom Mix decoder ring arrives tomorrow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: dump/restore question

2006-11-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. Could I then expect to reinstall fbsd and restore these dump files and have the same > state of the system when I dumped? including all ports and all? kimberly Yes. Ymmv. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: freebsd desktop | mozilla

2006-11-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ic configuration, but for the million+one combinations that people want as a desktop, you kinda have to search for your answers. (Linux experience might be handy there, heh.) I'm not calling you names or attempting to insult you in any way. I wish you luck with whatever OS you use on your des

Re: sendmail and hosts_access(5)

2006-09-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
e or address pattern listed in the named file. The file format is zero or more lines with zero or more host name or address patterns separated by whitespace. A file name pattern can be used anywhere a host name or address pattern can be used." It could be, I suppose, that the manpage is ou

sendmail and hosts_access(5)

2006-09-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ified pattern. For example, the pattern `.tue.nl' matches the host name `wzv.win.tue.nl' So, why does my server continue accepting SMTP connections from "241net251.net.zeork.com.pl" ? Thoughts, pointers, gentle kicks on the bum welcomed. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ---

Re: I need help with intallation relatd issue

2006-07-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
as an alternative to the above, see: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/ and ask for some help from a vendor/consultant. I'd think there'd be a lot of FBSD "gurus" in the SF area, though not as many as, perhaps, Berkeley? ;-) Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. -- ___

Re: ln -s in FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
r lrwxr-xr-x 1 kadmin wheel 13 Jul 18 16:20 var@ -> /var/homes/me What shell are you using? Or, did you do this from some other program? Can you show the actual output? You've given a very descriptive message right up to "A subdirectory named var"; ln(1) does not create s

Re: How to change NIC IP when system is running FBSD 6.1

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
start the computer. I have Samba installed also. Can anyone help me? Barry Byrne wrote: > Juan: > > Easiest way is to edit /etc/rc.conf and reboot. > > - Barry But please, that's so, um, "Windows-ish"? #ifconfig xl0 down* #ifconfig xl0 192.168.0.2 netmask

Re: Unable to boost maxusers in custom kernel.

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ally opposed to any downtime...it may need to reach crisis point before that can be done. Thanks again for any suggestions! Worth Bishop I'm not sure I've any further suggestions. I've pretty much decided to keep close to updated; however, and somewhat unfortunately perhaps, I

Re: Unable to boost maxusers in custom kernel.

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
idea ATM whether or not this behavior was "MFC'ed" back into your code stream or not ... (surely you're not running 4.3 UNPATCHED) you may wish to check /boot/defaults/loader.conf for evidence of this theory, and, if you find it, give that a try as well. HTH, Kevin Kinsey *This i

Re: newfs_msdos - is their an equivalent app with GUI ?

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
'll get an answer from someone who uses both Macs and FreeBSD, but it's no so likely to happen as, say, you getting a lot of "RTFM" pointers. ;-) Kevin Kinsey FreeBSD User -- Hard work may not kill you, but why take the chance? ___ freebsd

Re: Freebsd 6.1 w/cups

2006-07-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
error or a documentation error? i tried to 'deinstall/reinstall' cups, but that didn't help. Do you, by any chance, have /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd ?? If so, the docs are wrong/outdated. Kevin Kinsey -- Q: What do you get when you cross a mobster with an international standard? A: You

Re: HP Officejet Printer

2006-07-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
r it using > apsfilter either, is there a way to make this thing work? Dunno if it helps, but I print to an HP 6110 all-in-one with the ijs/DESKJET_930 driver and apsfilter with fairly decent results. Kevin Kinsey -- : is not an identifier _

Re: maxusers -> kernel.maxfiles

2006-07-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
) --- 1) if you wish to set a different value for kern.maxusers or kern.maxfiles, you do it in /boot/loader.conf. You can see quite a bit about this in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. HTH, Kevin Kinsey P.S. The doc in the link you sent does seem a little confusing. Might be worth discussion on the

Re: snort and mysql connection at start troubles

2006-07-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
know how. Can some body help me? I think you should take a look at rcorder(8). Kevin Kinsey -- Think honk if you're a telepath. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: mod_proxy missing under freebsd

2006-07-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
.conf LoadModule proxy_module libexec/apache/libproxy.so AddModule mod_proxy.c # document that was negotiated on the basis of content. This asks proxy # enable the proxy server: # # #CacheRoot "/usr/local/www/proxy" # End of proxy directives.

Re: Root crontab for backup

2006-07-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
email that day) :-D The major advantage of periodic would be the built-in logging functionality, should you choose to use it; cron's advantage would be in flexibility (in regard to both time assignment and script requirements). My $.02, Kevin Kinsey -- The world is moving so fast these days that

Re: questions

2006-07-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
w is it different from Windows? Now, that's a religious question. ;-) I can point you here, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/index.html but it's a tad old. Gotta run, good luck with your "questions"! Kevin Kinsey

Re: batching port builds

2006-06-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
our environment. I'm pretty sure you can in make.conf, also, but IIRC you might not want to do that . . . Kevin Kinsey -- What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: batching port builds

2006-06-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
our environment. I'm pretty sure you can in make.conf, also, but IIRC you might not want to do that . . . Kevin Kinsey -- What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: problems with fetch

2006-06-29 Thread Kevin Kinsey
e are also some workarounds. You could try "alias fetch wget -c", which might work. Setting 'FETCH_CMD=/usr/local/bin/wget -c' in /etc/make.conf should definitely work around this issue. Sorry I'm not more help. Kevin Kinsey -- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a

Re: 24/7/365 commercial support wanted

2006-06-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
list of consulting firms is there. and 1 hour emergency response. Thank you, Iv To where?? Kevin Kinsey -- ... and furthermore ... I don't like your trousers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Need urgent help to get Sendmail running again

2006-06-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
nts so that Sendmail would now deliver normally? Just curious, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Error in man page of sendmsg?

2006-06-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
at error is set to EINVAL so the man page should report EINVAL as possible error in this funcion. Looks like a good catch. Could you use send-pr(1) to get this into the GNATS (problem report) database? It's a "doc bug", apparently. Kevin Kinsey -- In war it is not men,

Re: Content filtering

2006-06-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
(/usr/ports/www/squid). Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
but seems to be not. I'm not sure if you *must* install Samba, but I am not aware of an alternative OTTOMH. Windows speaks SMB by default; anything else would be an "add in". We use Samba successfully at most of our locations. Kevin Kinsey -- Don't try to have the

Re: ed0 and xl0 watchdog/timeout errors

2006-06-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
rse. Otherwise, I've no clue. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Q: What is orange and goes click, click? A: A ball point carrot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

[Fwd: Re: Hardware for FreeBSD6(motherboard for LGA775)]

2006-06-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrey Slusar wrote: Hi, peoples. I need buy the motherboard for LGA 775 CPU. My choice is ASUS P5RD1-VM(ATI X200 chipset). FreeBSD 6 is fully supported all devices on this motherboard without any problems or not? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html -- Lewis's Law of T

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
for ya ... you can't tell for certain, though they're a pretty positive group (in spite of the yacking that gets thrown their way about every little piece of writing about FreeBSD on the web) Just my $0.02, Kevin Kinsey PS> and yes, I appreciated the overview that Jerry gave

Re: 6.1 missing device cuaa ?

2006-06-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
all Kevin Kinsey -- The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the trunk of a Dodge Dart. -- Lisa Alther ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Move hard drive

2006-06-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
rwise, you end up in single user, or not booting at all. Kevin Kinsey -- Drakenberg's Discovery: If you can't seem to find your glasses, it's probably because you don't have them on. ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
the relevant bits of /etc/ttys: ttyv0 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm"cons25 on secure #ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure So, this would run the Gnome Display Manager (gdm) on the first virtual terminal on boo

Re: apache13 to 22

2006-06-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
er. and vehement claims that php5 is broken in ports persist, but aren't true as near as I can tell from both external evidence and personal experience. Kevin Kinsey -- When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!

Re: burncd error

2006-06-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
urn anything with 6.0-RELEASE and it worked fine on 5.4-RELEASE Have you tried with "-v"? And for different values of "-s"? Just curious, Kevin Kinsey -- Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. -- motto of the Christopher Society _

Re: write failurer on transfer

2006-06-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
can i let freebsd install the distributions properly?? Can you show us a "transcript" of what's going on? What command is issued, or what action is taken, that yields the response "write failure on transfer"? Kevin Kinsey -- So... did you ever wonder, do garbagemen

Re: Virtual hosts and PHP "downloads": php5 and apache22 on FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE

2006-06-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
r the virtual hosts or the PHP download issue would be greatly appreciated. You said you did this already, but I'd again make **sure** I was editing the correct httpd.conf. Get the right syntax, and it'll be there. Watch out for "IF" syntax, also. Can you pos

Re: qpopper for root

2006-06-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
? cat /dev/null > /var/mail/root would do the trick ;-) (#include disclaimer.h) More useful might be: cp /var/mail/me /var/mail/me.bak mv /var/mail/root /var/mail/me (download root mail via POP or whatever) mv /var/mail/me.bak /var/mail/me YMMV, of course. Kevin Kinsey -- Scenary is he

Re: Hardware

2006-06-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ts earlier. Kevin Kinsey -- For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of two. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: is vinum in FBSD 6.0?

2006-06-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
oduction had "badly broken vinum", so I'm guessing that vinum was removed so that no one would attempt to use it on a newer system and get "unexpected" results. My $0.02, IANAL, IANAE, etc., Kevin Kinsey -- It is now 10 p.m. Do you know where Henry Kissinger is?

Re: help

2006-05-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Levi Campbell wrote: 911? Seriously? Type something, then push "send". You might get a better result. Nothing personal at all; but, your message was blank, except for the subject line. Kevin Kinsey -- A drama critic is a person who surprises a playwright by informing him wha

Re: Mounting to a second hard disk

2006-05-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 5/31/06, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006-05-31 08:37, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Philip Radford wrote: >>Hi All, >> I have just installed FreeBSD 5.4 on a server with two hard disks. > > Cool ... :) N

Re: Mounting to a second hard disk

2006-05-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Brief overview is "fdisk, bsdlabel, newfs". See www.freebsd.org/handbook, chapter 17 --- in particular, 17.3 is "Adding Disks". HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. -- Tallulah Bankhead _

Re: troubleshooting network settings

2006-05-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: On 30/05/2006, at 10:29 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: Running that command returns this: ifconfig: -inet: bad value Bah! I'm on the road too much lately. No "dash" before "inet" ... h

Re: troubleshooting network settings

2006-05-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: Running that command returns this: ifconfig: -inet: bad value Bah! I'm on the road too much lately. No "dash" before "inet" ... KDK -- At social gatherings, I would amuse everyone by standing uponst the coffee table and striking m

Re: troubleshooting network settings

2006-05-29 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: On 29/05/2006, at 1:10 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I am running freeBSD v6.0 security on a home network behind an adsl router. I cannot connect to localhost from a browser (apache is running!) I cannot connect to localhost port 22 (KPackage

Re: troubleshooting network settings

2006-05-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
00200 1279040 547068572 allow ip from any to any via lo0 So this box is doing NAT (rule 100) and is allowing traffic on the "loopback" interface (which is from/to 127.0.0.1/localhost rule 200). ------- If that's not enough to g

Re: PHP viewing in local brwoser.

2006-05-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello Gurus, I'm On FreeBSD 6.1R, apache-2.2, php5, installed plus KDE3 latest and mozilla. AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .php line is enabled in httpd.conf basically, i'm learning php so im very new to it. I used Quanta/KDevelop to create my php file. But from t

Re: Why won't FreeBSD boot from hard drive??

2006-05-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
s. After this, they've been quite reliably booting for a few days now. Kevin Kinsey * Try googling first. IIRC, forum posts on several forums, nick might have been "RobertP" or some such... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Disk Geometry Errors.

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
t if that were the case, this thread would have been over a few posts ago. As for the "G" option, I can't say it's made any difference for me... Have we seen any diagnostic information? Could we see the relevant section of /var/run/dmesg.boot? How about `ls -l /dev/ad* /

Re: CD Burning Not Working

2006-05-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, but I have to ask. You're doing this as root, or a "normal" user? Kevin Kinsey -- What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -- Ursula K. LeGuin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: apache2 & mod_php5

2006-05-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
FreeBSD Daemon wrote: I planed to use the www/apache2 + www/mod_php5 ports ... should I worry and rather stick with apache 1.3? Also, the www/mod_php5 port has been removed. Use lang/php5 instead, which should give options for the module, CGI, and CLI. Kevin Kinsey -- He who hesitates is

Re: apache2 & mod_php5

2006-05-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
quite sure that this page is a copy of the PHP website from quite some time ago. Compare http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php, which doesn't seem to show the same message any longer. Apache2 and PHP are much more stable when together these days. Kevin Kinsey -- The Fifth

Re: Disk Geometry Errors.

2006-05-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Lisandro Grullon wrote: Good Morning, Last night I was trying installing a new Areca controller 1120 8 ports using a 5 bay (300GB seagate) drives Raid 5. The main OS is install using the SATA controller in RAID 1 configuration of the mother board, the addition of last night was a separate con

Re: MESS

2006-05-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Hunter Fuller wrote: On 22 May 2006, at 1:39 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: I hereby admit to being a vi wimp. I did memorize 'q:!', for obvious reasons; and, this isn't about an editor war, either. Woops! Are you sure about that last statement? :P I think you meant :q! :D Ma

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
someone like that, we can only guess. I'd probably start with guessing a big DB on a large SAN; which pretty much negates the "which server to read from" question (up to a point). Everything else is pretty academic. SMTP, IMAP, POP. Kevin Kinsey -- You never realize how

Re: MESS

2006-05-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
CTED]/bin] cat /bin/ee #!/bin/sh /bin/e3pi --- so I wouldn't have to deal with ed(1) if stuck in single-user. Kevin Kinsey -- Then there was the Formosan bartender named Taiwan-On. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: installing MySQL with FreeBSD pkg_add

2006-05-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Peter Michaux wrote: # mysql -uroot ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'tmp/mysql.sock' (2) What to do? The server isn't running. Start it, and this message will go away. If the port/package is correctly installed, then $ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-serve

Re: 6.1 CD is Hanging on Install

2006-05-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
m: Compaq Presario M2105US AMD Mobile Sempron processor 1GB RAM4 ATI Express 200M graphics card w/ shared memory Also, I've tried to use the 2CD set and Boot Only CD for the i386. Hmm, then maybe the "try a different CD" won't work. Sorry I've got no more thoughts

Re: cant run x-windows on fresh 6.1 install

2006-05-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Peter Michaux wrote: Ok, it is time for me to sound really stupid. Not stupid, just, um, new? Everyone was Once Upon A Time ... Actually, it seems logical there *should* be one. What does dmesg(8) say in regard to this? Can you run moused(8)? What hardware is this, anyway? $ moused(8) B

Re: Webmin fails after last portupgrade

2006-05-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
cript supplied with lang/perl5.8. Please see its manual page for details. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Q: How many marketing people does it take to change a lightbulb? A: I'll have to get back to you on that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: cant run x-windows on fresh 6.1 install

2006-05-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
-) When Xwindows starts will it boot into Gnome or KDE? If not, what? Have you installed Gnome or KDE? If not, you'll get twm. Kevin Kinsey -- Reporter: What would you do if you found a million dollars? Yogi Berra: If the guy was poor, I would give it back. __

Re: :::. Sendmail on FreeBSD -> Deferred: Operation timed out with

2006-05-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
at's a cut-n-paste, so whassup with DNS in re: this NT_SQL server? If I knew that, I could maybe help Mikhail... but: >> What do the following files contain in the FreeBSD system that fails to >> resolve the MX records correctly? >> Could be the records th

Re: Hacked Web Site

2006-05-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
eta-refresh' tag; so, I'd starting looking for insecure server-side scripting, especially in the absence of any evidence of compromise of the machine itself. Of course, "compromise of the machine itself" is a whole 'nother "ball of wax

Re: CVSUP date for a successful x11-toolkits/fox-devel

2006-05-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
5.00.00.00 2005.08.00.00.00.00 Anyone know what CVSUP date works well? Any chance of getting "uname -a" output from you? It could be that a cvsup of source is what's needed (plus all that *other* attendant stuff) Kevin Kinsey -- Fortune favors the lucky. __

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
#x27;debug' version of Seamonkey last time, but I've not yet done anything with it. FWIW, it seems a tad less prone to some of the behavior I saw with Mozilla (which seems strange, perhaps). Of course, I use it heavily, so perhaps that characterization is flawed. Kevin Kinsey ___

Re: Kids from Indonesia (sorry, the 1st was wrong!)

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Daniel A. wrote: Hi there, I'm Dean Darmawan and still 18y/o. Well, i get interested with Free BSD, but the main problem are "can this distro Linux recognize my internal modem 56k that I ussally use to get connected to the Internet?" For that kind of reason, i got confuse and step back!! My m

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Barnaby Scott wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Barnaby Scott wrote: (firefox-bin:582): Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display Q: Are you running an X display at the time this message is given, or are you attempting to run Firefox from the console? I have tried both. It is running from the

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
(tm), 'though I have been able to operate a browser whilst standing in a bucket of water. Q: Are you running an X display at the time this message is given, or are you attempting to run Firefox from the console? Kevin Kinsey -- I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct. --

Re: apache re-write?

2006-05-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Gary Kline wrote: I thought I had my rewrite lines set up correctly so that my JWChat utility would work; so that it would be seen from outside my localnet. But, from outside servers, pointing my browser at http://sage.thought.org/jwchat/ hits my 404.html wa

Re: how to enble bootverbose in freebsd

2006-05-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
t/defaults/loader.conf: verbose_loading="NO"# Set to YES for verbose loader output HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller __

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
-booting, you should be able to create a simple wrapper script and run it from cron via the "@reboot" tag. Pseudo-code: sleep(5 min); write "my.ip.ad.ress" >> /etc/hosts sh /etc/rc.d/sendmail start But, I'd strongly advise you to use a static IP if your hos

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
fbsd wrote: To all question list readers; Now with 14576 ports in the collection where do you draw the line that its too large to be downloading the whole collection when you just use 10 or 20 of them? All feedback welcome. 1. Cvsup 2. Prozac /me rolls eyes, again Kevin Kinsey

Re: after upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
if you know sh scripting at all. Now, if you did indeed follow the correct procedure, I'd check your supfile first, because you may have fetch the wrong source code Kevin Kinsey #!/bin/sh # By Kevin Kinsey. See /COPYRIGHT for details on the # BSD license, incorporated herein by refe

Re: Putting FreeBSD to sleep?

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Graham Bentley wrote: Can anyone post some good pointers for setting up ACPI or APM so that I get automatic susepend afer x mins of inactivity and woken up on LAN request ? (in particular shut down disc / slow or shut down psu fan - its the noise I am concerned about) I have looked at posts on

Re: Help: Unable to change to SU through SSH

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
webmaster', 'bob', 'joe', 'fred', 'test', etc.). I've yet to see one that tries to log in as "manjee", though, unless it has parsed the username as part of an e-mail address in a web site or server error page. In e-mail, "aliase

Re: Dead tree documentation

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
quot;Grog" Lehey released "The Complete FreeBSD" under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license. Source is available, as well as a PDF document. I'm sure he'd appreciate it if you buy a paper copy, but you could print your own, also: http

Re: Upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
But that's a whole 'nother thread Kevin Kinsey -- Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: hello (DSL -- should be: installing PHP5)

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
p5-extensions, and you can get sessions and all other kinds of 'neat stuff', too. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States. -- Vic Gold ___ freebsd

Re: Upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
good. I am just unsure about the /etc/upgrade folder and how I get all of that back to /etc. Make a backup and go for it! Kevin Kinsey -- We should have a Vollyballocracy. We elect a six-pack of presidents. Each one serves until they screw up, at which point they rotate.

Re: ftp install / base not found

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Mike Hunter wrote: I was able to install 5.3-RELEASE using this as the specified URL: ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/5.3-RELEASE Good to know that! This one goes in the "save" folder! What bothers me is this verbiage from sysinstall: "Only the Primar

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
r outdated ports, so they could be deleted. Of course, once in a while somebody comes looking for old distfiles. What about moving the distfiles to someplace in /home and symlinking? Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
reboot. Good chance things'll speed up. We are still just shooting in the dark here. Are there no log messages or additional indicators of what the trouble may be? Kevin Kinsey -- Majority, n.: That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law. __

Re: Upgrading

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
6.1. Then there's the filesystem issue. If you go from 4.X to 6.X directly by means of 2 or more cvsup/buildworld cycles, you can't reformat your disks and use UFS2. Kevin Kinsey P.S. I keep complete backups ... Good! -- My Bonnie looked into a gas tank, The height of its contents to

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
rmation then. What about "safe mode"? Does it boot "quickly"? What does /etc/rc.conf contain? Does /var/run/dmesg.boot have any ominous-looking warning, etc.? Kevin Kinsey -- My cup hath runneth'd over with love. _

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
rying to get resolution of the IP address So, what does console say *after* the 5 minute wait? I've not watched a system boot for a while, having configured the splash console Kevin Kinsey -- I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chester

Re: Bourne shell scripting resources

2006-05-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Atom Powers wrote: On 5/11/06, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Can someone point me to a good on-line reference for Bourne shell scripting? I've come across some syntax I don't understand and, since I don't understand it, don't know how to search the web for it. http://www.o

Re: ftp install / base not found

2006-05-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Mike Hunter wrote: One unresolved question remains: Does the "any" suggestion have any effect? Has anybody ever used it successfully? Mike With packages I've had success. I cannot recall trying this with the FTP distribution itself; I always use a current* image. Kevin K

Re: "Anatomy of a Troll" by Bill Moran

2006-05-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Bill Moran wrote: There are other examples of this "Inflame then dodge" technique in this thread. I'll leave their discovery as an exercise to the reader. How many can _you_ find? I wrote a script in sh, complete with artificial intelligence to do the assignment for me! Unfortunately: [49

Re: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right.

2006-05-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Olivier Nicole wrote: I'm trying to move a file system from one disk to another, and when I do this: I think that the way to go is: tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination && tar xfvBp - ) Note the Bp at the end of the extract tar. olivier Is that for BSD tar, or gtar (GNU)? We still have

Re: showing hidden files by default

2006-05-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
e super-user unless -I is specified. ---------- Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: tcpdump on 'any' device

2006-05-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I'm using to running tcpdump like "tcpdump -i any -nn ". But, when I try to use the 'any' device on FreeBSD, I get this. [EMAIL PROTECTED] isc-dhcp3-server]# tcpdump -i any -nn tcp port 22 tcpdump: BIOCSETIF: any: Device not configured Can this not be done on

Re: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right.

2006-05-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
;t say as I can tell. On my 6.X box, everything works as expected. For fun, I shelled into a 4.11 box, and everything works as expected, both my tests and your example. Maybe your tar *is* broken. Or, more likely, we're both a tad dense ATM. Kevin Kinsey -- What foods these morsels be!

Re: X11 6.9 issue -- option "ZAxisMapping" -- "4 5" vs "4 5 6 7"

2006-05-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
martinko wrote: Robert Huff wrote: martinko writes: i've just upgraded X11 from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0 and run into the following issue: I have had this: if i scroll my mouse wheel too fast, i'm suddenly moving in history instead of scrolling the page. one quick finger movement is enoug

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