Re: crontab synatx

2005-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
directly number of day: # min hour mday month wday command 0 714 * * echo Hello world That will execute at 7:00 AM on the 14th of every month. And how will be counted months? January is 1, December is 12. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: arplookup 192.168.1.254 failed: host is not on local network

2005-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
a script for one of the dhclient-script(8) hooks, and put the route in there. You would be able to refer to the interface and server address by variables which dhclient-script provides... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org

Re: Firefox and Macromedia Flash Plugin...

2005-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Zlatozar Zhelyazkov wrote: cd /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-firefox/ make install clean cd /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/ make clean all install cd /usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads make install clean cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper make install

Re: arplookup 192.168.1.254 failed: host is not on local network

2005-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mar 1, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mark Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just put my server on a new connection that requires DHCP, even for a fixed IP. Anyway, the DHCP server gives a fixed public internet IP to my server

Re: hd timeouts.

2005-03-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: make, etc, whereis, commands broken

2005-03-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, as well as its problems. See How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions http://www.lemis.com/questions.html -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: arplookup 192.168.1.254 failed: host is not on local network

2005-03-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mar 1, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Looking on the net, I found the following suggestion, which does cure the errors: /sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.254 -netmask 255.255.255.0 -interface 1 My question is, is that the proper

Re: driver recompiler or translator for evdo and hsdpa

2005-03-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
bob wireless internet evdo wifi hotspot guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lemme start by admitting i am NOT a programmer... and the APPLE OS is the most i know about unix.. that said (go easy on me :o) is it possible to make a translation program that takes drivers and just ports them over to

Re: error while compiling kernel help ?!?

2005-03-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That doesnt seem to work .. also in /etc/rc.conf it was already set to kern_securelevel=0 kern_securelevel_enable=YES Try spelling that NO instead of YES. Next reboot, you'll be able to change file flags. ___

Re: Running vsftpd standalone vs inetd

2005-03-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. No big deal -- just look at man rc. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jerry McAllister writes: Actually, if used frequently for backups - such as every day, DAT is notoriously prone to failure. I've heard this for years, but I've never encountered it, on my own

Re: Change to different SCSI interface causes boot failure

2005-03-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Danny Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to replace the motherboard in my FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE server for a different one. The old board has on-board Adaptec AIC-7896N SCSI, the new one has on-board Symbios Ultra3 SCSI, on bootup I get the following error - Mounting root from

Re: quick q

2005-03-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
D3xt3r G3niu5 none [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi guys, sorry to bother you but this was my last resort since the forum could not help me. I added device sound, and device snd_emu10k1 to my kernel, i compiled and at restart i hear the music but then it cuts off at the end. By any

Re: Disk Error ... back up method

2005-03-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: Issue to install Gnomemeeting

2005-03-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bachelier Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a problem to install gnomemeeting openh323 is what's actually failing for you. It builds for me, with ports and system updated yesterday... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
want to type) would be easier (because it will work in either direction, from either machine). But that depends on your actual usage patterns, of course. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: boot.flp for FreeBSD 4.11

2005-03-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Olivier Casasole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to create a floppy with boot.flp for FreeBSD 4.11. I am using fdimage as described in the handbook. The Handbook says to use kern.flp and mfsroot.flp for FreeBSD 4.11. It says to use boot.flp on FreeBSD 5.x, but that is not what you are

Re: CVSup versions?

2005-03-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to know from http://www.cvsup.org/. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: cron mail

2005-03-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
favorite method is by redirecting *all* of root's mail in the aliases(5) file. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: permissions on partition?

2005-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a FAT partition on ad0s3 that I am sharing with Windows. For one reason or another everything on this partition is owned by root:wheel. I can't change the permissions to any files on this partition. This is what I have in devfs.conf: own

Re: Filesystem creation with integrated bad-block detection

2005-03-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pásztor Richárd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder if it would be possible to implement under freeebsd an interesting feature which can be found in linux: mkfs.ext2(8) ... -c Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system. If this option is specified twice, then a

Re: after init messeages

2005-03-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Omer Faruk Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Is it possible to disable messages that was given by rc_ng to the console? Well, at least you could edit the scripts. Look at rc.conf(5), though: maybe setting rc_info would do what you want? Personally, I think it's a better idea to just use a

Re: IPFW or pf?

2005-03-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read the handbook about firewalls, and compiled my kernel without switching on any explicit support for pf. Now, when I ran the mergemaster it suddenly found a lot of references to pf in my startup scripts. The startup scripts support pf, but

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hard to believe, but this beast is swapping. Here's a typical top snapshot: load averages: 0.75, 0.36, 0.23 up 14+12:39:04 12:40:02 128 processes: 1 running, 125 sleeping, 2 zombie CPU states: 7.5% user, 0.0% nice, 1.3% system, 0.0%

Re: Source-upgrading from FreeBSD 4.9 to 4.11

2005-03-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to do a source upgrade from FreeBSD 4.9 to 4.11, but during the make buildworld, I get the following: === gnu/usr.bin/cvs/cvs make: don't know how to make stack.c. Stop *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs. *** Error code 1 ...

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM Hmm, yeah I should have included what I've actually read in the handbook and elsewhere. In fact I did

Re: strange behaviour : grep -i --colour

2005-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello, i've just found out that while 'grep -i ' and 'grep --colour ' behave as expected (by myself), running 'grep -i --colour ' results in very strange behaviour - grep consumes all available cpu and, based on its input and terminal type, its output is

Re: password length default install

2005-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the password lenght one may use at login? I didn't change the defaults on my fbsd-4.11 (login passwd md5 ??) I remember linux had as default some eight chars or so. I want to use more chars for some accounts. Can I safely use 10-12 chars?

Re: script to save a particular mail file??

2005-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just thought I'd ask the list if anyone has a script to read /var/mail/login and grab a single file. I just sub'd to a mailing list that is produced only in HTML. I'd like to save it to /tmp, strip it, and have it ready for

Re: Why acroread 5 -- 7 -- 5

2005-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why the acroread change version ? Last Monday : acroread -- acroread 5_10 Midle of last week : acroread -- acroread 7 end of last week : acroread -- acroread 5 There is now a separate acroread7 port. See the commit messages. E.g.,

Re: Howto extract only one channel from a wav file ?

2005-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jean-Jacques Dhenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Howto extract only one channel from a wav file ? The left channel, for example, is very bad. Howto get only the right one ? I dont find into xwave, sox, lame ... something for this use. The sox manual says: The -f and -b options

Re: 4.11 without nameserver: NO_BIND=true is OK?

2005-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This machine will not run a nameserver; it will query external nameservers for hostname resolution. Is the NO_BIND=true is that case? It will probably work, but it will not update your resolver code. BIND isn't just named: it also includes the code that the

Re: wmf file browser ?

2005-03-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
bsdzz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Google for libwmf - see if that helps I find the main website for libwmf has been taken over by a spammer: http://www.wvware.com/libwmf.html I thought a library was an enabler for an application, and that to use this WMF library I would have to use a

Re: Emacs and backspace - again

2005-03-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rodger Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using emacs20 from the ports collection (as emacs from ports would not compile due to the Xau3d compile error) on 5.4-PRERELEASE. $TERM is xterm There haven't been any reported failures in building x11-toolkits/Xaw3d in at least several months.

Re: gcc

2005-03-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: definition of soft/hard interrupts.

2005-03-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
suspect the usage dates to before the invention of software interrupt opcodes. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Bad Block on 4.5

2005-03-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
do I do when I have bad blocks on my hard drive? entry in the FreeBSD FAQ will explain this for you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#AWRE -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Dependency problem: atk-1.0.901

2005-03-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
still matches your system's release level (uname -r), as it has gone from 5.4-PRERELEASE to 5.4-BETA1, so the 5.4-PRERELEASE directory path no longer exists on the FTP servers. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: error installing openssh-portable

2005-03-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Redmond Militante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all i get this installing the openssh-portable port on a 4.8-RELEASE machine === Building for openssh-portable-3.9.0.1,1 if test ! -z ; then /usr/bin/perl5 ./fixprogs ssh_prng_cmds ; fi (cd openbsd-compat make) cc -o ssh ssh.o

Re: Dependency problem: atk-1.0.901

2005-03-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bnonn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Lowell, thanks for your comments...I'm not trying to install via a package. I'm going into /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 (or gtk20) and typing make install clean. Afaik this is how to install a port, unless I'm missing something really obvious. This is

Re: RPC: Timed out

2005-03-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alan Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to find out why I can mount my FreeBSD disk as an NFS share on one of my Macs but not the other. When I ran $ showmount -e on my FreeBSD machine, I got the expected response Exports list on localhost: /usr

Re: Basic grep isn't working for me

2005-03-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This command has always worked before, but we recently moved to a new server and now it isn't. --- su-2.05b# /usr/local/bin/keychain | grep -c existing KeyChain 2.5.1; http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/ Copyright 2002-2004 Gentoo Foundation;

Re: Meaning of repo-copy

2005-03-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quick question: Repo copy means that a current port or piece of src is being renamed, probably with other changes or a split-out of parts that become new ports or contribs. Should be seen in the context of CVS. Do I grasp this correctly? More

Re: md5

2005-03-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matt Kosht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a simple way to compare the md5 checksum of a file, to a file that contains possibly more than one md5 checksum entry in it? Kind of like mdsum -c does? I've never heard of mdsum, but try mtree(8). ___

Re: ata driver.

2005-03-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. Perttu Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:11:24 +0300, Perttu Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could there be problem in FreeBSD 5.x (specially in 5.4) ata driver that causes dma timeouts? mostly those problems in burning dvd-images that I was

Re: error installing openssh-portable

2005-03-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
because of concerns about export regulations and patent issues. i've also read that make -DWITHOUT_KERBEROS=yes would also work, but it didn't in my case. [Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:14:07AM -0500] This one time, at band camp, Lowell Gilbert said: Redmond Militante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: ata driver.

2005-03-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Perttu Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 30 Mar 2005 09:41:55 -0500, Lowell Gilbert Try enabling DMA for ATA but *not* for ATAPI. Don't help. Works only when ATA has DMA disabled. Writing to all drivers works with dma on. Reading causes timeouts. Okay, sounds somewhat familiar

Re: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations

2005-03-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So let me ask you here on this list: somebody has compiled kdelibs3 (version 3.4) on a 4.11R system? The package system did. The latest results are for RELENG_4, which isn't all *that* different, and it built this morning:

Re: problem with Azureus

2005-03-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently had trouble with Azureus using approx 53% of my mem and 90% of my SWAP so idecided to upgrade my RAM from 512 to 1gig thinking this would solve my problem, but alas i was mistaken. Is there a way i can instruct it so Azureus only uses a certain

Re: System Panic (Trap 12)

2005-03-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
James Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have posted this message to hackers but have not gotten a response. I think this is networking related, but I don't know how to solve it? Any ideas? I am getting numerous panics. It seems to be totally random with no bearing on

Re: Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD?

2005-04-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
/source to the client Is that so difficult? C'mon guys, just one step forward to perfection :) Are you able to run NFS? If you share /usr/ports across all the machines, and build packages on the main server, everything will work pretty much the way you described... -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

2005-04-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Apr 3, 2005 9:12 PM, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One you've changed resolv.conf, it should stay that way permanently across boots, unless you change it again. dhclient will overwrite /etc/resolv.conf on boot How can I

Re: Determining what port owns a file

2005-04-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mac Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to put kghostview on a machine, but I don't want to install too much of KDE in the progress. Given that I have another machine with it already installed, how might I go about figuring out which port owns, say, /usr/local/bin/kghostview? If you

Re: tcpdump (/dev/bpf* permission) in FreeBSD-current

2004-07-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to all devices as they're created. Setting up the rules at boot time should be exactly what you need. Is this not happening? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell

Re: Removing thousands of files using rm

2004-07-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I often have the need to remove hundreds or even thousands of files from a single directory (very often). Using rm, I usually get: pearl# rm -rvf * /bin/rm: Argument list too long. Is there any way to work around this instead of having to select a

Re: tcpdump (/dev/bpf* permission) in FreeBSD-current

2004-07-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Patrick Dung [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Only /dev/bpf0 is there at boot time But when I run tcpdump, it automatically create /dev/bpf1 (I have multiple NIC). Running devfs at boot time cannot set the /dev/bpf1, which is not present. Running devfs(8) at boot time will set rules that will be

Re: Network configuration

2004-07-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
actually happened when it didn't work. You will probably find the FreeBSD Handbook documentation on this topic useful: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.html -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: Running processes...

2004-07-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Klann) writes: in the message Running processes fom Sat Feb 14 08:26:45 PST2004 it is writen in the artical that IPFILTER sample rule is available. I am interested to get a copy. Thank you. You mean like /usr/share/examples/ipfilter/* ?

Re: openoffice install and java JRE on 4.10

2004-07-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
it is) Can someone tell me where to get the java JRE necessary for freeBSD to run openoffice ? (and even what it is called) I believe most people install all of java/jdk14. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell

Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and Dell RAID

2004-07-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
devices since then. It definitely *was* enabled on 4.8, so the original poster definitely needs to look a little more closely. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell

Re: Audio CD burning shouldnt be this difficult!

2004-07-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Edd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Audio CD burning shouldnt be this difficult! I think I have fundamentally gone wrong here! I have eight raw tracks that I wish to burn to ATAPI cd. I am using burncd. First I did: burncd -s max audio * fixate However I got gaps inbetween tracks so i

Re: SSH Client - OpenSSH dependency problem

2004-07-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Danny De Bie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ruben de Groot wrote: This is craziness! The guy is asking for an ssh client on FreeBSD, which is allready on his system (/usr/bin/ssh). There is no need to confuse him further by letting him install unnecessary ports. my 0.02 It depends... I

Re: Hiding SSH version string

2004-07-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aaron Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read a number of times that people hide their ssh version string so that attackers don't know what version you are running. I've read the documentation and can't seem to figure out how to do this. Can somebody explain to me how this is done?

Re: Third and (maybe) last try: GEOM fails to create ad0

2004-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subject: GEOM fails to create ad0 Date: Thu July 22 2004 05:58 pm From: Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I successfully built a kernel for FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1 on my 8Gig ad2 but when I boot it my 30Gig ad0 does not appear in /dev/ I boot

Re: De-installing Gnome 2.4.2

2004-07-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
R. W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed both Gnome and KDE (FreeBSD 5.2.1) and have been keeping both up to date for some time. But I scarcely ever use Gnome, and don't want the hassle of running the 2.6 upgrade script. How do I de-install Gnome 2.4.2? Will removing the metaport

Re: help make crashes

2004-07-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Abidoon Nadeem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: please find my kernel config file attached this does fine when i make depend but it fails on make please help i dont understand whats wrong i get an error code 1 The useful error messages were before that, and I don't have a -CURRENT box at

Re: limit login attempts with pam

2004-07-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, but a denial-of-service attack on specific users will become trivial. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: osversion

2004-07-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Osmany Guirola Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i foun these line in the Makefile of mono .if ${OSVERSION} 50 EXTRA_PATCHES= ${FILESDIR}/extra-patch-signbit .elif ${OSVERSION} 502113 IGNORE= Does not work on 5.X before 502113 .endif how can i know if myosversion is greater than

Re: sendmail and make file ....

2004-08-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vahric MUHTARYAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Everybody , I can leave sendmail from base system . First I updated src tree then I copyed /etc/default/make.conf under /etc directory and remove the # in front of the NO_SENDMAIL = true , then I maked make buildworld make

Re: 4.2 - 5.2 passwd format change?

2004-08-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter N. M. Hansteen) writes: I'm in the process of moving users from a 4.2 machine to an updated setup using 5.2.1. There appears to have been some changes in the password format (as in the users are not able to log in to the test system), and the main reference I find is

Re: Updating local copy of documentation

2004-08-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tom Munro Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you install FreeBSD, lots of useful documentation is installed in the articles and books directories under /usr/share/doc/ including the essential handbook. Is there a way of automatically updating this documentation - I thought that maybe

Re: cvsup fails because of xlib connection error

2004-08-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just set up a new box using FreeBSD-5.2 and install cvsup. Now when I run cvsup I get this - chip3# cvsup ports-supfile Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol

Re: custom bootdisk for installation?

2004-08-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Tremblett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install 5.2.1 on my Thinkpad T30, but it completely freezes when the kernel is booted, specifically at the cardbus driver. I guess there is no kernel configuration before booting as it was in 4.X? There is, but it works a bit

Re: BuildWorld Compile Error

2004-08-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libiberty/../../../../contrib/binutils/libiberty/choose-temp.c:68: warning: implicit declaration of function `mktemp' What version of FreeBSD were you running, and how had you updated the source? I've built -STABLE this week...

Re: how to resolve openldap version conflict

2004-08-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install Samba3 from the ports collection onto freeBSD 4.10. The Make terminated because there was an earlier version of openldap already installed, and the new one wanted to store files in the same directory. When i tried to

Re: /etc/make.conf

2004-08-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Henrik W Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roberto Nunnari wrote: Thank you all for your answers. one more questions... What is the preferred/advised version for buildWorld and co? Without knowing for sure, I'd say the base version of perl is the best one to use for the whole build*

Re: /etc/make.conf

2004-08-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Roberto Nunnari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As announced yesterday.. ..today I finished the upgrade process and all went just fine. ...have you had the chance to find out whether perl is needed at all in 5.2.1? I'm sorry, but I haven't. [I just moved to a new house this week and I can't

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:40:58PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. Fetchmail (nor getmail) will do this for you. Specifically, see the SPAM FILTERING section of the fetchmail(1) manual, and

Re: Error Compiling cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd

2004-08-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post. Alex Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found my problem. Current version of OpenSSL is 0.9.7d. Downloaded package of it off FreeBSD.org. Question now is, Why is my ports list so out of date? Just installed system today. Your ports list has nothing to do with it.

Re: logins

2004-08-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've beend getting the sshd login attempts, like everyone else so I've been watching the logs close, this is the first time to see this item in /var/log/messages. Aug 14 04:15:00 chillico su: _secure_path: /nonexistent/.login_conf is not owned by uid 65534

Re: multi-homing and pf; removing user with uid 0

2004-08-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marc Cabanatuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is somewhat of a multipart question and unrelated question. Please try putting them in separate messages next time, then. Figured I would ask here since the host I have the box on isn't much help with anything, and when they do help they want to

Re: Problem

2004-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jake Zhen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi. after i installed freebsd, i never able to boot in the console/terminal. when my pc start to reboot, i see something like the following on my screen. the machine reboots until i press the shut down button. Please help me out with this. thank you

Re: Patch patch-ac failed to apply cleanly.

2004-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tyler Parrott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I now have a similar problem with openldap. After installing m4, I ran pkgdb -F again, and I downloaded the latest makefile from freebsd.org. Sounds like you updated the makefile without updating the patches in the port. You need to update the

Re: MP3 voice recorders and FreeBSD

2004-08-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometime in September, I plan to purchase a voice recorder capable of MP3 recording. The device here: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=55-603-406DEPA=0 Is similar in nature to what I wish to purchase; it may not be this

Re: Rollback

2004-08-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerome Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a machine that is running freebsd 5.1, I need to go back to 4.10 because a software manufacturer that I have to do business with only supports that release right now. Is there an easy way install 4.10 over 5.1? Probably back up, do a fresh

Re: make installworld error

2004-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yup. Go back to the top --- I missed where in your list of steps you actually *installed* the new kernel... That would be where he said: make kernel which is equivalent to make buildkernel installkernel. It doesn't explain quite

Re: cracking FreeBSD 5.2.1 using windows 98 startup diskette

2004-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Talgat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear FreeBSD i like FreeBSD and i am working on it now last time when i installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my computer and used it for 1 week then i had a project for windows so i had to remove FreeBSD from my comp i had old win98 startup diskete so i used it i

Re: Is the handbook on buildworld accurate?

2004-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Clint Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The instructions in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html say to run 'make installworld' after running 'mergemaster -p'. I have successfully (to my knowledge) run mergemaster, and the master password

Re: dhcpd MAC filter

2004-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. [http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html] [format re-arranged] Wayne M Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 02:01:26PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Wayne M Barnes wrote: Is there a way to allow or disallow certain computers by their

Re: Can I use netgraph to change packets source address?

2004-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to build a vpn from my home network to my work network. So far I've managed to ge the ppp link (tuneled over ssh through socks) between a mchine at work, and a machine at home. I've added routes to the work network on the mahcine at home, and added

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re: make installworld error))

2004-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am now going to try again. I am installing v. 4.8 on a server. This server is to be a Postfix w/Courier IMAP server integrated into a Linux-based network, authentication centralized using PAM LDAP. That's about it. Now, some people might say,

Re: File Manager

2004-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've always thought it was a bad idea to edit the passwd and groups file directly, because the dbs don't get built that way. There is no database for the groups file, so people worry less about it. ___ [EMAIL

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re:make installworld error))

2004-08-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Charles Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just out of curiosity, is it incorrect to simply say that ports build packages? No, packages are indeed built from ports. That is, once a piece of software is installed with 'make install', is it treated the same as any package that was

Re: Installing ports

2004-08-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm in trouble with installing software using the ports collection. After typing make install everything seems to be okay, but in most cases I get a message like this after a few minutes: fetch time

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re:make installworld error))

2004-08-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That phrase -- ports build packages is just so right on so many levels. Except for the literal description of what actually happens. It seems that a lot of the supposed confusion of novices comes from the fact that we don't have a separate word to

Re: FreeBSD.org website CMS

2004-08-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hoping to implement and learn a website content management system (CMS) myself, I was wondering what software(s) FreeBSD.org uses to manage their vast website? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html

Re: installed ATA RAID, now cannot boot - get mountroot prompt

2004-08-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
DA Forsyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm searching the web for answers on this too, but so far nothing useful. hard to know what question to ask the search engines! I made a mistake in rc.conf, or another startup file, and now I cannot edit it because the filesystem is read-only. What should

Re: Startup with no-ip

2004-08-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Olof Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I have problems getting noip to start automatically at startup. I'm a beginner at FreeBSD and Unix and I need help with this. I added some info from my system that I hope will be usefull. noip works fine when manually started. [snip[

Re: Startup with no-ip

2004-08-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post. http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Olof Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good suggestion. I have created the file /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks but do I need to do something else to get the noip to run when the ip-address changes? I'm a beginner so i could

Re: Swap file errors on 4 GB drive.

2004-09-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 03:39 9/5/2004, Markie wrote: |- Original Message - |From: W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 7:36 AM |Subject: Swap file errors on 4 GB drive. | |Hi folks, | Hi |I tried to install FreeBSD

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