Upgrading 9.1-BETA1 -> 9.1-RC1

I've installed a FreeBSD server using the BETA1 release because RC1 was delayed. I notice the 9.1-RC1 is available now, so I thought I'd upgrade ASAP. The following command, however, fails me: freebsd-update -r 9.1-RC1 upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching m

remote X session fonts question

on in which direction I should look? Do I need to setup a font server? Do the xorg.conf fonts sections need to be absolutly equal? Etc. Thanks, Maarten ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Deep in printer hell.

Relax, Take a coffee, sit back and read and the chapters from the handbook up to and including 9.3.1.3. When you have a parallel port configured I recommend apsfilter to do the rest. It took me about 2 minutes to configure a parallel printer. (HP 870 CXi). Good luck, Maarten On Wed, 2005-09-14

pccard, wi0, wep and DHCP

vice stop so I think /etc/pccard_ether should be executed on boot/insertion. Now this works not as I expect. When I manually run: /etc/pccard_ether wi0 start /etc/start_if.wi0 is not interpretted and the WEP key is not set so dhclient fails. I guess I am missing a trivial point, but which? Maar

Re: Custom Build

if 'the next guy' is not there anymore). Maarten On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 20:36 -0500, Jack Barnett wrote: > Hello all, > > How this is the correct list to post this to, if not, please point me to a > more apporiate list. > > What I want to do is make a custom

Spontaneous reboot

info, anyone interested in more please le me know. $ uname -a FreeBSD maarten 5.4-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p1 #10: Mon Aug 22 11:26:23 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAARTEN2 i386 A part of dmesg output: Softoss: Audio device #7 is write only Softoss: Audio device #8 is

Re: Illegal access attempt - FreeBSD 5.4 Release - please advise

ers with sshd? See : http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ssh_config.html I tried adding sshd: 127.0.0.1 : deny to /etc/hosts.allow but I failed the described test. Maarten ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Internationalization, gnome and gnucash

at it should be, quotes on top of the e. Anyone a clue why this happens? BTW, it also happens with french or german language. Maarten ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Read bios settings

Hi, Is it possible to read, e.g., bios version numbers from within FreeBSD? Maarten ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Read bios settings

Hi, Is it possible to read, e.g., bios version numbers from within FreeBSD? Maarten ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Anjuta question, gettext

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Re: sshd and pam

Try first to login as a user who is member of group wheel and then 'su'. See if that works, root login is mostly disabled for security reasons. Maarten On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:53 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed Jul 27 7:49 , Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

sterminal or alternative

Is anyone aware if there have been efforts to port sterminal? If not, are there any ported alternatives which I have overlooked? Maarten ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

portupgrade errors

Hi all, Please see below. Why does portupgrade -a not work? I have tried everything, I read UPDATING, I removed pkgdb.db and INDEX'es. Rebuild ervything with portsdb -u and portsdb -uU and I even removed /usr/ports and did a fresh cvsup. Anyone got a clue? Maarten maarten# portupgrade -a

mplayer, oss and /dev/dspX

ill expire after: 06/2005 *** Unregistered version *** Build: 200504131459 Kernel: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #7: Mon May 2 22:31:25 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAARTEN Card config: VIA 8233 AC97 audio controller at 0xb000 irq 22 OSS Virtual Mixer Pro Audio devices: 0: VT

Tun/tap question

ernel option? vde_switch is working without tap, I can between to linux'es in qemu. ten# uname -a FreeBSD maarten.lan 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Sun May 1 12:03:54 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Thanks

Working with Maxima from inside Lyx broken?

e SIMPSUM. Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging Error signalled by LOAD. Backtrace: SYSTEM:UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER Broken at LOAD. MAXIMA>>$ Does anyone have an idea on where to start looking for the solution to get at least the example at http://maxima.sourceforg

KDM, KDE 3.3 and xmodmap

xmodmap entry. If i do 'sh .xsession' after login xmodmap is processed and I get a message KDE is already running :-) Thanks, Maarten ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Digikam customize names not working?

ton. Anyone an idea? Maarten ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

gbde: total_sectors disagree

: total_sectors disagree with first_sector and last_sector Any idea what's going wrong? Regards, -- Maarten de Vries ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Installing stuff somewhere else

stration under /var/db/pkg for instance, when I would like it under $imagedir/car/db/pkg. Also, what is the smartest way to have 'make installworld' install under something other than / ? Thanks in advance, -- Maarten http://unsavoury.net/ ___

busybox

Hi, I'd like to run Busybox (http://www.busybox.net/) or something similar on FreeBSD. Has anyone on this list succesfully managed to do so yet, or do you know about alternatives? Ta, -- http://unsavoury.net/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:

make buildworld fails

src/i386/usr/lib/libtinfo_p.a -> libncurses_p.a 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error Bummer. Anything I can do to fix this? -- Maarten ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

upgrading 5.0 -> 5.1; make buildkernel failes

Hi, I've been trying to upgrade my desktop pc, which ran 5.0-R without any problems for months, to 5.1-R. After a make clean, I cvsup the latest sources and then go 'make buildworld' and 'make installworld'. This doesn't give any problems, but then the 'make buildkernel' fails miserably: linking

safely running php scripts

Hi, I would like the php scripts that are hosted on my Apache server (FreeBSD 4.8), to run under the UID/GID's that belong to the useraccounts in question; not the webservers'. Before, I patched Apache so it ran php's under SuExec, but now the php standalonebinary port has disappeared, so that

Transparent proxy

Hi, On my NAT-box, I'm trying to redirect all http traffic from the desktops behind to the squid cache, which is on the same machine. The ipfw rule I use that should accomplish this is: $ ipfw add 2350 fwd 192.168.1.1 3128 from any to any 80 And in squid.conf I have: http_port 192.168.1.1:3128

Re: Three Terabyte

On Thursday 20 March 2003 13:13, Alexander Haderer wrote: > a. > Filling 3TB with 1 Mbyte/s lasts more than 800 hours or 33 days. > > b. > Using ssh + dump/cpio/tar needs CPU power for encryption, especially > when multiple clients safe their data at the same time. We're already using a system bu

Re: Three Terabyte

kup. Data on about 50 webservers would be backed up to it on a nightly basis. So performance wouldn't be important. > But check out the 3ware RAID card; I've had great luck with building NFS > servers with 8 or 16 disks as fairly dormant/archival style storage > depots. Thanks,

Three Terabyte

Hi, Let's say I need 3Tb of cheap storage (preferably IDE disks) and I want it controlled by a FreeBSD system; how (if at all possible) would I do set that up in terms of hard- and software? Cheers, -- http://unsavoury.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freeb