Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-18 Thread Dick Davies
On 18/01/06, Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18/01/06, Danial Thom > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (actually, no he didn't. your mail clients quoting is insane) (some guy:) > > > > >

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-18 Thread Dick Davies
On 18/01/06, Martin Tournoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So what? That's exactly the same for FreeBSD, even it's core apps. > > And vendors rush to support MS' new OSes. > There's a very big dump of unmaintained software, whenever I want to > play an old "classic" game like c&c, x-com or even s

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-18 Thread Dick Davies
On 18/01/06, Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Microsoft pays hardware manufacturers to > > > make drivers for their OS, > > > > I seriously doubt it. They don't need to with > > their market share. > Ok, what do you guys live in a shoe or something? > MS doesn't have to "pay" vendo

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-18 Thread Dick Davies
[Let me first point out I've seen about 4 different 'unix/windows is teh gayz0r' threads on completely unrelated mailing lists in the last 24 hours. If I sound bored rigid with the whole subject that might be why.] Can we please stop comparing *NIX to windows. They're nothing like each other. Like

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/01/06, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone has an unsupported sound card with a Linux example. All the > tough details about the hardware are spelled out in the Linux driver. > Plenty of FreeBSD drivers have been ported to Linux and vice versa. Danger Will Robinson! The GPL ca

Re: partitioning "after the fact"

2006-01-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/01/06, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #2 containing empty space recovered from a previous Linux install, 15G > primary partition > t I would like to make partition #2 to also contain > FreeBSD. But if I remember correctly there is no way to do such a > thing without starting all over a

Re: New FreeBSD 6.0 system advice sought

2006-01-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/01/06, Jason King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would stay with the apache 1.3 branch because of some compatibility > issues with the 2.0 branch. Compatibility with what? 2.2 is out now, 1.3 seems to be getting mainly security fixes. To the OP: you'll get a better answer if you say what

Re: System hangs for 30 minutes before booting normally into freebsd 6.0

2006-01-16 Thread Dick Davies
Also, try toggling 'pnp os installed' in the bios. On 16 Jan 2006 09:22:55 -0500, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ravi Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 203 > Then try disabling ACPI; I wouldn't be surprised if your system had > no support for

Re: Syntax of dhclient.conf(5)

2006-01-13 Thread Dick Davies
There should be semicolons after each line. On 13/01/06, Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I failed to find detailed syntax layout in dhclient.conf(5) man page, > via web search, or be able to deduce from files in > /misc/src/sbin/dhclient. I was looking for something like as given in > (i)pf.con

Re: pf question

2006-01-12 Thread Dick Davies
On 12/01/06, Vasile Cristescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does pf has something like " ipfw -d show " ? I don't know. What does 'ipfw -d show' do? -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/ ___ freebsd-question

Re: FreeBSD - Is it ok

2005-02-13 Thread Dick Davies
* Tony King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0219 15:19]: > Hi > I use a Mac G4 and have a spare hard drive. > I would like to put a Unix OS on it but do not know what I can use. I think it comes with one. -- 'The State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things b

Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Dick Davies
* Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0216 21:16]: > Peter N. M. Hansteen writes: > > > Because they wrote the software in question, perhaps? > > So? If it's truly open source, the copyrights should be assigned. All > it takes is one copyright holder who withdraws a license and an entire > p

Re: WEIRD: telnet

2005-02-13 Thread Dick Davies
* Colin J. Raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0205 15:05]: > Some tangential observations: > 1. Unless you *must* use telnet for some reason, it's a good idea to > turn it off. This is a telnet client, how would you 'turn that off'. This is a very common way to test if a socket is listening, and there

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Dick Davies
* Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0201 13:01]: > > On Feb 11, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > >Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > > >>That is so not true that it makes me almost as angry as the original > >>debate. > > > >Maybe getting angry about a mere logo is a bad sign. > > Ju

Re: I can't BOOT! You all need to WAKE UP and HELP a BROTHER!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Dick Davies
* Fafa Diliha Romanova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0239 10:39]: > > Hello! > > I am running a new HP Compaq DC7100 CMT. For more information, check: > http://www.antonline.com/p_PC928A-ABA--DC7100-CMT-P4-3.0-512MB-40GB-DVD-WXPP-3-3-3-_102136.htm > > I've been trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE for a

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchasNetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0238 05:38]: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dick Davies > > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:10 PM > > To: FreeBSD Questions > > Sub

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0255 08:55]: > Yep, I was wondering how long it would take before someone figured > this one out. We know the real rea$on$ that this logo change is > being contemplated, don't we. You seem to think you do, certainly. Why don't you ask core instead of r

firefox creating oddly named profile directories

2005-02-09 Thread Dick Davies
anyone else seeing this? I rebuilt my laptop yesterday after an 'incident' (tip of the week; don't mix up ad0 and da0) and rsynced bacx /etc /home and /root, then pkg_add -r'ed my way back to a desktop without too much bother. But firefox (latest one with the hole, 1.0.7mumblemumble) refuses to

Re: Very general shutdown question

2005-02-07 Thread Dick Davies
* Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0203 23:03]: > Hello Ned, > > you can add the user to the operator group. it is possible to run > shutdown then (but not halt etc). Be caneful of that, I think operator has other privileges too (can read from any disk for starters). > You could also create a shu

Re: postgres 8 init script problem?

2005-02-06 Thread Dick Davies
* Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0237 21:37]: > Anyone else having problems starting postgres 8.0.1 (from ports) > on RELENG_5? > > It seems to start alright, but clankily: > > root$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start > > could not start postmaster > root$

postgres 8 init script problem?

2005-02-06 Thread Dick Davies
Anyone else having problems starting postgres 8.0.1 (from ports) on RELENG_5? It seems to start alright, but clankily: root$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start could not start postmaster root$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh status pg_ctl: postmaster is running (PID: 54846) /usr/local/bin/p

Re: de-installing kde & Xfree86 from 5.2.1

2005-01-31 Thread Dick Davies
* bsd @ todoo. biz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0129 21:29]: > Hello, > > I am looking for a fast and secure way to remove all kde* things from > my system. > > We are using this machine as a headless server and do not need this > "kind of things at all". then why did you install them ? :) > This is

Re: Syncing 3 Freebsd servers' accounts Question

2005-01-27 Thread Dick Davies
* Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0129 20:29]: > I forgot: > > O'Reilly has a really good book on LDAP "LDAP System Administration" - > includes a chapter on how to migrate from NIS to LDAP. IMO that's one of the few bad oreilly books - if you want a really good ldap tutorial, get "Understan

Re: Authentication with ldap very slow

2005-01-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0131 23:31]: > Le 26/01/2005 ? 23:28:02+0000, Dick Davies a ?crit > > * Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0105 22:05]: > > > Hi > > > > > > I've a server (FreeBSD 5.3-p5) to use a openldap for authenticati

Re: Authentication with ldap very slow

2005-01-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0105 22:05]: > Hi > > I've a server (FreeBSD 5.3-p5) to use a openldap for authentication. > > Everthing work fine butit's very slow when some operation need to known > the id <--> uid. For example if I try to execute some > > cd /home > ls -l

Re: perl and ports

2005-01-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0137 23:37]: > No i dont know anything about c++ or perl, ok i know what a class is :P > For me is not realy about perl it self its about the way it get used > as a tool to help build things. For me freebsd is build as a base that > can handle everything designe

Re: dns question

2005-01-20 Thread Dick Davies
* Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0157 12:57]: > Not really a freebsdquestion specifically. > > My company uses >ns.foo.com and ns1.foo.com for primay/secondary dns, about 200 > domains rely on these. > > We want a new physical machine , in a different location, with a > different IP to

Re: Web Email

2005-01-17 Thread Dick Davies
* Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0158 02:58]: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to have access to my spool via web browser. What kind of > > applications can I use? > > Nobody's perfect, but we have, on average, been generally happy > with squirrel. Worth pointing out you need an imap serve

Re: 5.3 Install

2005-01-16 Thread Dick Davies
* Ramiro Aceves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0109 11:09]: > Lyn Robie wrote: > > >Rarely have I found such an amateurish installation procedure. It's > >obvious you guys are hard put to find anyone competent in the user > >interfaces. > Never heard such a stupid e-mail! > > If you do not like the i

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Dick Davies
* Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0122 14:22]: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >If your ISPs nameservers are unreliable or overloaded, and not giving > >you a good service, then one course of action you might consider is just > >configuring the named(8) built into your FreeBSD system to do recursive >

Re: Freebsd 5.3 Performance

2005-01-10 Thread Dick Davies
* Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0154 09:54]: > Mark writes: > > M> Ah, this point fascinates me. Running for years? Do you ever have > M> to recompile your kernel? :) > > Usually once when I first install the OS, then never again (unless I > change something in the hardware, which I hard

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-07 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0135 07:35]: > Perhaps we all should ask why it is OK for SuperMicro to release > a > motherboard that is incompatible with the existing FreeBSD versions? Because they hate our freedom, of course... -- 'One cannot make an omelette without breaking eg

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0125 07:25]: > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dick Davies > > > > I don't think it does cost the Foundation nothing, that's the > > trouble. You spend years jumping through hoops to get the certification (

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0157 06:57]: > > Tom Vilot writes: > > I tend to agree. Are people still using Java? > Keep in mind that Sun's main Java push was into micro-code for embedded > devices, that is why Java was written in the first place. And somehow this mutated into J2EE.

Re: [OT] rrdtool examples

2004-12-21 Thread Dick Davies
* Jorn Argelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1218 11:18]: > Hi all, > > I've been playing around with rrdtool for quite a while, but I still don't > really get it. I've been trying to find some example scripts for rrdtool, but > I really can't find much of them. I have found Erik de Mare's perl scripts >

Re: bash- superuser

2004-12-21 Thread Dick Davies
* Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1234 11:34]: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:14:15AM +0000, Dick Davies wrote: > > I thought the issue was the ldconfig path not being set up at the point > > that pppd called su? > > > > pppd lives in /usr, after all :) >

re: bash- superuser

2004-12-21 Thread Dick Davies
(sorry if I cocked up your threading, readers - I accidentally deleted Gregs mail and so pasted this from google groups). > There are a couple of reasons why this shouldn't > happen: > > 1. You don't normally start networking until you have mounted your >local file systems. > 2. The pro

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread Dick Davies
* Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1224 00:24]: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:30:20AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 15:52:27 +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:32:53PM +, Dick Davies typ

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread Dick Davies
* David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1241 17:41]: > Dick Davies wrote: > >To the original poster: just be root and run 'chsh'. > > No. > > When you are logged in as root, you *should* have to go through extra > hoops to get comfortable. On my box

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread Dick Davies
* Ruben de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1250 14:50]: > > Using a shell not contained in the root filesystem can cause problems > even when not in single user mode. There are enough examples in the archives. Indulge me with an example? -- 'When the door hits you in the ass on the way out, clean

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread Dick Davies
* Gerhard Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1207 12:07]: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote: > > I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2. > > > > I have installed bash from ports. > > > > How is possible to use bash in root account ? > > Do not change the

Re: courier imap keys and self-signed ca signing

2004-12-19 Thread Dick Davies
* Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1204 18:04]: > On 12/19/04 12:45 PM, dave sat at the `puter and typed: > > Hello, > > I've got a 5.3 box that i'm using as a self-signing ca. I want to get > > keys going for all the various protocols i use, http, which i've done, pop > > and imap, and smtp.

linux-base borked?

2004-12-18 Thread Dick Davies
just a quick sanity check - I'm trying to install linux stuff, and getting security warnings from portaudit about linux-base-7 having xpm vulns. Is that right? -- 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use regular expressions. Now they have two problems.'

Re: for Centrino (Pentium-M) - ways to decrease CPU power?

2004-12-15 Thread Dick Davies
* Miles Keaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1236 13:36]: > Can FreeBSD tell a Centrino (Pentium-M) CPU to decrease its CPU power? > > I have a laptop (Gateway 450ROG) whose CPU seems to run hotter in > FreeBSD doing *nothing* than it does in Windows doing almost anything. > So much so that the loud "eme

Re: routing monitoring ?

2004-12-10 Thread Dick Davies
* Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1236 11:36]: > Hi > > I've installed an old PC ( PII 350 Mhz ) as a router > it works like a charm ;-) I wonder which tool I could install > on it to monitor a bit the routing process. cricket kicks the ass. built on perl and rrdtool, really powerful config sy

Re: Two versions of ruby == problem?

2004-12-09 Thread Dick Davies
* Roger Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1210 09:10]: > After doing a cvsup on one of my machines I like to run 'portversion -c > > needs.update' to see what needs updating. If the output is small enough I > might try doing 'portupgrade -a', but usually I go through the list one by > one to set the

Re: different passwords for local and remote login?

2004-12-09 Thread Dick Davies
* Geert Hendrickx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1217 08:17]: > Hi, > > is it possible to have a different password for local (console, xdm) and > remote (ssh) logins? absolutely, you need to tweak pam settings for each service. > I have a separate password database for my imap-server (dovecot), and I >

Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD

2004-12-05 Thread Dick Davies
* Damien Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1247 21:47]: > I've been a FreeBSD user for a while now and I love it. I'm running 4.10 > and plan on upgrading soon. I'm also an OpenBSD user but I tend to use > it for firewalls and routers. I setup Apache and Subversion on OpenBSD > 3.6 last week. This is the f

Re: linux emulation

2004-12-02 Thread Dick Davies
* Mikko Heiskanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1244 16:44]: > I've been wondering about this some time now. > The linux compatibility layer (kernel module + linux_base -port) > is told to be able to run linux binaries. The handbook even describes > for a couple of heavy-duty applications how this is done.

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d vs /etc/rc.conf question

2004-12-02 Thread Dick Davies
* Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1210 17:10]: > --On Thursday, December 02, 2004 07:39:00 AM -0900 Andy Firman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >I just took over a FreeBSD box and there is a > >proftpd.sh script in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory. > > > >There is also this entry in /etc/

Re: JDK Issues

2004-11-29 Thread Dick Davies
* Lars Eighner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ 16:11]: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Dick Davies wrote: > > >* Lars Eighner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1126 22:26]: > > > >>Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack > >>location >

Re: JDK Issues

2004-11-29 Thread Dick Davies
* Lars Eighner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1126 22:26]: > Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack > location >^ Mount linprocfs. (Incidentally, you could have just googled this. 'If you can't figure this out for yourself.' :) )

Re: kernel compile error

2004-11-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Brian Bobowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1134 14:34]: > Joshua Lokken wrote: > > >>On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:03:52PM +0900, Rob wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Matt Emmerton wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>Having such a mechanism, would prevent lots of beginners in the > >>>kernel compiling stuff, to get frus

Re: 4 part domain names

2004-11-24 Thread Dick Davies
* Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1153 16:53]: > >For example, I can create a host in example.com called > > > >us.510.mail > > > >and you can't stop me (evil laughter). > Sent the RFC mail prematurely... > > RFC 952 says: > > A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string

Re: httpd.conf

2004-11-24 Thread Dick Davies
* metallarch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1131 16:31]: > > I made a virtualhost on apache 2.0 .. > Here is my configs > rc.conf: > gateway_enable="yes" > ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.0.249 netmask 255.255.255.0" > ifconfig_rl0_alias0="inet 192.168.1.35 netmask 255.255.255.0" > httpd.conf: > Listen 80 > S

Re: 4 part domain names

2004-11-24 Thread Dick Davies
* Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1140 15:40]: > Hexren wrote: > >JM> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Hexren wrote: > >JM> : location. 510 could identify a rack or a datacenter so that > >JM> : us.510.mail.example.com means "a mail server in the datecenter with > >JM> : the id 510 which

Re: 4 part domain names

2004-11-24 Thread Dick Davies
* stheg olloydson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1157 00:57]: > .. Generally, however, > the tertiary domain level is the system's function: www, ftp, mail, > etc. if the system is public. the function is often the leftmost component, not the tertiary - plenty of domains have more than 2 domain compon

Re: How do you "make install" without direct internet access?

2004-11-24 Thread Dick Davies
* Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1129 21:29]: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:22:07PM -0800, Ralph wrote: > > actually, since I was in csh, the setenv FTP_PROXY > > my.internal.proxy:80 worked like a charm, except that, > > for some reason, fetch refuses to work without > > internet DNS resolution.

Re: Copyright Issues

2004-11-24 Thread Dick Davies
* Jonathan T. Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1102 07:02]: > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >Besides, I am amazed this company hasn't already had problems with theft, > >if one of these condom dispensers showed up around here, I can think of > >a dozen people who would be trying to figure out how to steal

Re: How do you "make install" without direct internet access?

2004-11-23 Thread Dick Davies
* Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1132 20:32]: > Hey, I've got a proxy-out connection where these boxes > are installed. In other words, the only way to get > out to the internet is through the http/ftp proxy. So > in my /etc/profile I have a line > > HTTP_PROXY=my.internal.proxy:80 try http_proxy=h

Re: Copyright Issues

2004-11-23 Thread Dick Davies
* Mick Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1137 14:37]: > Hi all, > > Sorry if this post is off topic. > Last night me and a few friends decided to go for a few quiet drinks > after playing football for a few hours. For this we choose a little pub > in the village of Yarm (Close to Middlesbrough in the no

Re: unsure about /etc/hosts

2004-11-22 Thread Dick Davies
* Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1107 21:07]: > # Host Database > # > # This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts that > # share this file. Replace 'my.domain' below with the domainname of your > # machine. > # > # > ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain

Re: Restarting rc.conf

2004-11-22 Thread Dick Davies
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1118 11:18]: > I set up a postgresql server under FreeBDSD 5.3 stable. > > My question: if I modify rc.conf either directly or via sysinstall how > can I make the system be aware of that WITHOUT REBOOTING, in other words, > how can I make FreeBSD execute t

Re: NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

2004-11-22 Thread Dick Davies
* Panagiotis Christias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1116 09:16]: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:05:33 -0500, Ivan Georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just another thing ... > > > > If I remove myself from the group wheel then I CAN ssh to my computer; if I > > put myself back to wheel - then CANNOT ssh to t

Re: your mail

2004-11-21 Thread Dick Davies
* Antoine Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1159 00:59]: > Hello, I am unable to build the jdk14 port. Here are the errors that I get > > > .java ; \ > fi > /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java:1: > 'class' or 'interface' expected > Java HotSpot(TM) Cli

Re: User CD Mount

2004-11-20 Thread Dick Davies
* Graham Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1103 15:03]: > > Hi All, > > I am trying to get permission to mount CD's when logged in non root > Following the handbook advice I have :- > > As root set the sysctl variable vfs.usermount to 1. > # sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1 > Added the line vfs.usermount=1

Re: uninstall freebsd

2004-11-18 Thread Dick Davies
* Ton Keesmaat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1106 13:06]: > Question: > > I got a PC where freeBSD is installed. I want to uninstall freeBSD and > format my the harddrive so i can install Windows. > When starting the PC it asks for a login name and password which i don't > know. Booting with a floppy with

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-10 Thread Dick Davies
* Andrew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1104 17:04]: > I want to setup a Caching DNS server for my network using FreeBSD 5.3. > Can someone point me in the right direction with what port I need to install > and any links to installation guides? You can use bind as others have suggested , though I fo

Re: Postgresql not starting...

2004-11-05 Thread Dick Davies
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1153 22:53]: > In /usr/local/etc/rc.d I find 010.pgsql.sh to start the service but > "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start" > doesn't look to do anything. > > if I "su - pgsql" then try to "createdb" an error of missing server pops > up. > Could you plea

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-05 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1109 16:09]: > Here's a new thread. > Naming the computer host? > > I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS > assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different > location. Yet FBSD seems to want a permanent assignment

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-03 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1113 00:13]: > >Start with the basics > > Exactly! > Here you go: > > plip0: flags=8851 mtu 1500 > lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 >inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 >inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 >inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > > On FreeBSD, I've

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1138 20:38]: > When I go to configure an Internet connection over a network, I seem to > be getting the same errors with FreeBSD and the wifi card that I got > with Linux. I am probably approaching it wrong, someway. Trying to do > something (?) that I shouldn

Re: FreeBSD wireless access point (under 5.2.1)

2004-11-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Jason Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1157 10:57]: > Hi folks. > > I am trying to set up a FreeBSD wireless access point as per the > instructions in chapter 24.3 of the handbook. > > I have successfully done this in the past using FreeBSD 4.8. > > My network topology is illustrated here: > http://b

Re: External Hard drive

2004-11-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1056 19:56]: > I have been using this 6 year old laptop as a test bed for the different > versions of Linux and FreeBSD. (The built-in CD ROM is almost worn out.) > I just put v5.2.1 back on this laptop. It doesn't want to recognize this > hard drive. I have ch

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1057 19:57]: > I have several wifi modems. I've read where the Linksys 802.11b seems > the most compatable with UNIX type systems. I bought this one recently. > I also have the US Robodics 802.11g, Netware 802.11b, and a generic > wavelan 802.11b PCMCIA card. I

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-30 Thread Dick Davies
* Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1036 04:36]: > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200 > Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: > > > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to > > > be used as temporary ro

Re: question about openssh authentication.

2004-10-29 Thread Dick Davies
* joshua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1036 13:36]: > dear firends: > > there is a puzzle about openssh authentication, i try to solve it, > but i could not, could you help me? > there is two account named as 'joshua' and 'moon' on my server. i > want to disable password authentication method for '

Re: Hostname

2004-10-29 Thread Dick Davies
* Mick Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1004 10:04]: > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 00:25, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 12:19:01AM +0100, Mick Walker wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I recently (today) upgraded to 5.3-STABLE. > > > I am wondering why I cant set my hostname. > > > It works i

Re: Can't login to Nessus

2004-10-28 Thread Dick Davies
* Alexandr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1030 12:30]: > I cvsuped my ports tree and install nessus and nessus-plugins. > As root a run nessusd and run nessus, when I type my user name and password > I get message in concole: > > SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such fil

Re: portupgrade and pkgtools.conf

2004-10-28 Thread Dick Davies
* Uros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1054 10:54]: > Hello! > > I'm trying to update subversion from ports and I have > WITH parameters in my pkgtools.conf > > 'devel/subversion' => [ > 'WITHOUT_NEON=1', > 'WITH_APACHE2_APR=1', > 'WITH_BERKELEYDB=42' >

Re: 5.3 external ehci dvd drive

2004-10-27 Thread Dick Davies
* Brian McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1032 12:32]: > Did you compile ehci into the kernel? I chose to upgrade to 5.3 RC1 > since it seamed to have better ehci support...still didn't work all > that well with my drives...but it worked. Remember, ehci is new and > buggy. :) Yeah, that's what I thoug

5.3 external ehci dvd drive

2004-10-27 Thread Dick Davies
Just got a new usb 2 enclosure and swapped out my internal cd/dvd drive to it. I can mount it fine on 5.3 as cd(4) over umass(4) but it's too slow to play DVDs over. Has anyone got this working, and is there a step I've missed? The 1Mb/s speed line looks worrying, though usbdevs does show it han

Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers

2004-10-19 Thread Dick Davies
* Davon Shire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1016 12:16]: > >If by high-speed support you mean 'as fast as a local disk' then try it. It > works. > >> While I appreciate the quick reply. Reading my messages in detail > >>might have been a little more enlightening in the kind of info I wanted. If there was

Re: Apache2 + SSL

2004-10-19 Thread Dick Davies
* Nelis Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1041 11:41]: > Hi, > > I've recently just installed apache-2.0.52_1 from ports on a new system. > I've taken an already working configuration from an older machine and > transferred it to the new server. No matter what I do I can't get SSL > working even thou

Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers

2004-10-18 Thread Dick Davies
* Davon Shire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1008 18:08]: > > >>Hello, > >> I want to start this email saying I'm a very devoted FreeBSD user. > >>I've been using it a very long time. Did the subscription thing. Etc etc > >> > >> That said, I'd very much like to know where on the horizon do USB 2.0 > >>high

Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers

2004-10-18 Thread Dick Davies
* Davon Shire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1044 15:44]: > Hello, > I want to start this email saying I'm a very devoted FreeBSD user. > I've been using it a very long time. Did the subscription thing. Etc etc > > That said, I'd very much like to know where on the horizon do USB 2.0 > highspeed drivers s

Re: Named configuration question

2004-10-16 Thread Dick Davies
* Albert Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1023 10:23]: > Hi all, > > I've got a freebsd dedicated server in germany. My web page is only > accessible by www.mydomain.com. Now, I wanna create subdomains by > country, for instance, france.mydomain.com, spain.mydomain.com, > > I think I have to set-

Re: Compiling mod_proxy WITHOUT apache2

2004-10-14 Thread Dick Davies
* Stephan A. Rickauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1041 16:41]: > Hi there, > > I successfully run an apache2 server on freebsd 4.10. Now I realised > that I've forgot to compile mod_proxy. Is there a way to only compile > the module without compiling whole apache2 and destroying my current > binary? M

Re: Postgres

2004-10-13 Thread Dick Davies
* Norman Uittenbogaart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1010 16:10]: > I'm trying to write a backup script for postgres and us a crontab on it. > In the manual it says for pg_dumpall make $HOME/.pgpass so it won't ask > for a password. > Now I made the .pgpass in root's homedir (i wanted to use root's > cron

Re: Installer

2004-10-12 Thread Dick Davies
* Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1009 23:09]: > > > > Geez, another top poster who mangles the flow of the thread!! > > jerry Can we all shut up about top or bottom postings now please? We know how everybody feels about it, because they've told us a dozen times. Since we're all p

Re: ports freeze and portaudit alerts

2004-10-12 Thread Dick Davies
* Jacques Vidrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1027 17:27]: > > On Oct 10, 2004, at 3:43 PM, Dick Davies wrote: > > Shouldn't serious bugs (like the JPEG vuln > >in firefox for example) to override the freeze? > > What "JPEG vuln in firefox"? Sorry, that w

Re: Java5 and FreeBSD

2004-10-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Adam Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1005 02:05]: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 01:46:51AM +0100, Dick Davies said: > > * De Savant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1038 01:38]: > > > I was looking around with this latest announcement of Sun's Java2 1.5, > > > since I

Re: Java5 and FreeBSD

2004-10-01 Thread Dick Davies
* De Savant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1038 01:38]: > I was looking around with this latest announcement of Sun's Java2 1.5, > since I was considering using FreeBSD on our server (amd64) instead of > Linux. I made my way to Sun's java page, and then to the newest Java2 > Enterprise Edition 1.4 release

Re: Pam_ldap

2004-10-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Bret Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1023 15:23]: > I have ldap.conf in /etc/ and in /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf The one in /etc isn't doing anything, so get rid of it. The /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf should be holding the ad stuff (what user to bind as , etc). > I am able to log into the console as

Re: Pam_ldap

2004-10-01 Thread Dick Davies
nd /var/log/messages * Bret Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1043 13:43]: > It is here: http://www.netsys.com/pamldap/2002/04/msg00074.html > > Thanks, > Bret > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dick Davies &

Re: Pam_ldap

2004-10-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Bret Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1028 00:28]: > I've been trying all day to get pam_ldap to authenticate an ssh session > against Active Directory. I thought that I had found the perfect HOWTO > (read: one that didn't require nss_ldap), but its instructions didn't seem > to get it working on my

Re: Using port system in network using proxy server

2004-09-22 Thread Dick Davies
* Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0933 14:33]: > Good day! > >Do you have any idea on how I can install through > freebsd port system when my internet connection is on > LAN and our LAN uses proxy server? I can set the proxy > details easily in my web browsers but I don't know how > t

daemon book discounts

2004-09-22 Thread Dick Davies
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/21/freebsd_books/ -- The trouble with a kitten is that When it grows up, it's always a cat -- Ogden Nash Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.

Re: What to backup

2004-09-16 Thread Dick Davies
* Gary Aitken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0911 20:11]: > Scott Gerhardt wrote: > > > >On Sep 15, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > >>I have a question about what exactly I should backup on my 5.3 FreeBSD > >>Server. So far I have chosen the following directories for full > >>backup. But pe

Re: /root default permisions

2004-09-15 Thread Dick Davies
* Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0956 09:56]: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:36:59PM +0200, Martin Vana wrote: > > > I installed FBSD 5.3 Beta 3 - Default install, and as a regular user > > I can 'cat /root/.cshrc' or any other file in admin's directory? > > is it a bug? > > No, that's not wro

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