Re: cannot log in via console, cannot su(1), only as root

2007-07-12 Thread martinko
Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Hello Martinko: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of martinko Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 4:36 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot log in via console, cannot su(1), only

cannot log in via console, cannot su(1), only as root

2007-07-07 Thread martinko
hello list, i was updating sw configuration of my old computer and towards the end i noticed i couldn't log in on local console other than root. i tried remote ssh using public keys which worked but i found out su(1) to any user except root does not work either. i've no idea how i could

Re: cannot log in via console, cannot su(1), only as root

2007-07-07 Thread martinko
martinko wrote: hello list, i was updating sw configuration of my old computer and towards the end i noticed i couldn't log in on local console other than root. i tried remote ssh using public keys which worked but i found out su(1) to any user except root does not work either. i've

mounting fusefs via /etc/fstab

2007-06-03 Thread martinko
Hallo, At the bottom of http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/ there's an example of using FUSE via /etc/fstab. It is for Linux. I wonder whether the same thing can be achieved on FreeBSD somehow as it would be very useful. With regards, Martin ___

configuring network connection via proxy

2007-05-17 Thread martinko
Hello, I need to plug my company laptop in to different networks many of which make use of some sort of proxy for accessing the internet. And every time I face this challenge of changing connection settings of different applications in many places. This is of course very inconvenient. What I

Re: portupgrade refusin to upgrade a port .. when it shouldn't imho

2006-12-06 Thread martinko
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:55:40PM +0100, martinko wrote: Hello, According to freshports.org the newest multimedia/win32-codecs port (3.1.0.r1,1) is not vulnerable. I'm trying to upgrade version win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8,1 on my system but portupgrade + portaudit refuse me

portsnap mirrors not being updated (?)

2006-11-12 Thread martinko
Hello, I've seen the following for around last two days: Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done. Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have. No updates needed. Is something going on with portsnap's mirror

emulators/qemu: crashes with Bad system call: 12

2006-11-11 Thread martinko
Hello, I'm trying to install Win2K but QEMU is constantly crashing with: Bad system call: 12 The command line I'm using is a variation of the following: qemu -cdrom /opt/win2k.iso -hda /opt/c.img -m 256 -boot d -win2k-hack First I tried to boot directly from CD. Also I used QCOW disk image

Re: emulators/qemu: crashes with Bad system call: 12

2006-11-11 Thread martinko
Josh Carroll wrote: I'm trying to install Win2K but QEMU is constantly crashing with: Bad system call: 12 According to the qemu man page, there is an option you need when installing windows 2000. I don't know if it'd cause the bad system call message, but it's worth a shot. Also, I think

priority of make/ports options (?) -- FreeBSD Port: sysutils/portconf

2006-10-20 Thread martinko
Hello, I'm using portconf to set ports' knobs. Also I'm setting some general knobs via make.conf. Now I've run into this situation: - i've got WITH_GECKO=seamonkey in /etc/make.conf - yelp from new gnome 2.16 does not build with knob above. therefore in /usr/local/etc/ports.conf i set:

kern.maxfiles exceeded soon after KDE or Gnome started

2006-10-20 Thread martinko
Hello list, I've installed KDE 3.5.4 and Gnome 2.14 on a new GENERIC installation of 6.2-PRERELEASE. Both desktop environments syslog error about exceeding kern.maxfiles limit soon after their started. While with Window Maker and many open apps, and even with Xfce 4.2, I usually have between 200

where to set SSL compile time cipher string ?

2006-10-20 Thread martinko
Hi, I'm not sure I understood this correctly but at http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html I've read something about cipher list and defaults etc. And I would like to tell my system to build SSL with ``high'' encryption cipher suites. Where can I set this preference pls ?? I've searched

fstab (local) mount -- FreeBSD Port: sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs

2006-10-20 Thread martinko
Hello, This is from CurlFtpFS FAQ: # *How can I make CurlFtpFS mount automatically at startup?* You can add it to /etc/fstab. Example: curlftpfs#ftp.host.com /mnt/host fuse rw,uid=500,user,noauto 0 0 However, it does not work on FreeBSD -- mount fails with this complain: mount: exec

Re: priority of make/ports options (?) -- FreeBSD Port: sysutils/portconf

2006-10-20 Thread martinko
Doug Barton wrote: martinko wrote: Hello, I'm using portconf to set ports' knobs. Also I'm setting some general knobs via make.conf. Now I've run into this situation: - i've got WITH_GECKO=seamonkey in /etc/make.conf - yelp from new gnome 2.16 does not build with knob above. therefore

Re: fstab (local) mount -- FreeBSD Port: sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs

2006-10-20 Thread martinko
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:10:54PM +0200, martinko wrote: Hello, This is from CurlFtpFS FAQ: # *How can I make CurlFtpFS mount automatically at startup?* You can add it to /etc/fstab. Example: curlftpfs#ftp.host.com /mnt/host fuse rw,uid=500,user,noauto 0 0

running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation

2006-10-19 Thread martinko
Hello list, I've been reading for some time about VMWare, Wine, Qemu, Bochs and some others, but I'm still not sure which one would (best) fit my needs: I've got a dual boot and I would like to make use of existing Windows (XP) installation, not having to create a new virtual disk/system and

Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

2006-10-10 Thread martinko
Mike Friedman wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE and I want to run a current Oracle client-only with encryption support. First, I installed the Oracle client port, which represents Oracle 7. But my database support person tells me that's quite old and, in fact, he couldn't be sure it

Re: ssh tunnel - remote access through nat

2006-10-10 Thread martinko
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Tuesday 25 July 2006 20:03, Drew wrote: Hi, I've got a box that's nat'd out to the internet. It is occassionally neccessary for me to access this box remotely. The obvious answer is: ssh -R :localhost:22 remote.box cat run from the nat'd box where remote box

Re: ssh tunnel - remote access through nat

2006-10-10 Thread martinko
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 10, 2006, at 2:55 PM, martinko wrote: [ ... ] The thing is that if I just simply create an rc script to achieve this, the script is run under root and ssh cannot make use of public key authentication which is set up now for a user running it manually

moving from startx to wdm -- how to make x11 not to listen on tcp ??

2006-10-09 Thread martinko
Hello, I've been using startx / .xinitrc to start up X11 up till now and I made sure startx ran X11 with -nolisten tcp. Now I'm moving to WDM and I'm not sure how to tell X11 not to listen on port 6000. :-/ What is the best way to achieve this, please ? Cheers, Martin

Re: Directory and file comparison tool for X?

2006-06-16 Thread martinko
Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to compare directories (recursively) showing what files are different,etc. meld ( textproc/meld ) can do this to some extent, showing missing files,etc, but not showing what files are different withoug having to open

Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs

2006-06-16 Thread martinko
Mac Newbold wrote: This has finally caused me enough grief that I'm going to ask about it and see if there's something I'm doing wrong or some nice solution to this really annyoing problem. I'm on a 5-STABLE box, currently 5.5-PRERELEASE. I use cdparanoia and lame (via abcde) to rip my

portsnap recreates /usr/ports for no apparent reason

2006-06-16 Thread martinko
hello, i've just discovered strange and unexpected behaviour of portsnap: i configured sudo to allow me to run the script with the following contents: /usr/sbin/portsnap fetch /usr/sbin/portsnap update /usr/local/sbin/portversion -v -l /usr/local/sbin/portaudit -Fda to be precise -- i allow my

Re: mozilla / seamonkey -- unable to install forecastfox for a regular user

2006-05-17 Thread martinko
Lowell Gilbert wrote: martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: since i discovered forecastfox extension i've been trying and unable to install it on freebsd. i've tried many times different versions of mozilla suite and seamonkey now but to no avail. i can install it for root if the browser

Re: Cvsup verses Portsnap

2006-05-17 Thread martinko
Aren Olvalde Tyr wrote: Portmanager already has this I believe. You can add config options to the portmanager config file and it will use them when building things. For example: # # custom settings # # remove # to use # #

Re: Please explain make -j to my little brain

2006-05-17 Thread martinko
Bill Moran wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 11:12:33 +0100 Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've read the following snippet out of the handbook hundreds of times and still don't understand it. I even asked one of the developers I work with and he was baffled too. It is now possible

mozilla / seamonkey -- unable to install forecastfox for a regular user

2006-05-16 Thread martinko
hello! since i discovered forecastfox extension i've been trying and unable to install it on freebsd. i've tried many times different versions of mozilla suite and seamonkey now but to no avail. i can install it for root if the browser is run by root but when i try to install it as a regular

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

2006-05-16 Thread martinko
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if i scroll my mouse wheel too fast, i'm suddenly moving in history instead of scrolling the page. one quick finger movement is enough to trigger this. very annoying. Here's an entry in Novell's bugzilla for a similar issue

how to temporarily override page style/appearance ?

2006-05-16 Thread martinko
hi! i'm looking for an easy way of changing an html page appearance in mozilla/seamonkey browsers. i know i can change default colours in preferences-appearance-colors but that is global and permanent. i'd rather have something like there's in opera where you can easily apply user defined

Re: looking for torsmo program replacement

2006-05-15 Thread martinko
Jimmie James wrote: i had been using sysutils/torsmo happily until i upgraded xorg to 6.9. since then torsmo is not functioning properly, usually after a few minutes its window output looses text and most graphics etc. maybe xorg is not the (only) reason but as i upgraded all my ports after

how to identify / list running java applications ?

2006-05-14 Thread martinko
hello, when running azureus (or likely other java applications) all one can see among running processes is java process which i expect is jvm. how can i find/identify running java programs ?? (something like `ps ax | grep azureus` or `pgrep azureus`) cheers, martin

looking for torsmo program replacement

2006-05-14 Thread martinko
hello ppl, i had been using sysutils/torsmo happily until i upgraded xorg to 6.9. since then torsmo is not functioning properly, usually after a few minutes its window output looses text and most graphics etc. maybe xorg is not the (only) reason but as i upgraded all my ports after longer time

Re: X11 6.9 issue -- options AGPMode and AGPFastWrite

2006-05-13 Thread martinko
Eric Anholt wrote: On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 21:51 +0200, martinko wrote: hello list! i've just upgraded X11 from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0 and run into the following issue: after starting x11 for the first time the screen went black and console was inaccessible (i had to reboot). when i tried

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

2006-05-10 Thread martinko
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 enough

Re: Writing to a mounted NTFS drive

2006-05-10 Thread martinko
Kevin Kinsey wrote: GiL A. Virtucio wrote: Hi, I have a mounted an NTFS partition that is set as rw in fstab. I can read the data stored in the drive but I cannot store new files on that drive. Anybody here encountered this before? Or can anybody please suggest a way to make that drive

Re: seamonkey -- building calendar (option)

2006-05-10 Thread martinko
Garrett Cooper wrote: martinko wrote: hello! i've just upgraded from mozilla (1.7.12) to seamonkey (1.0.1) and discovered the following issue: there's WITH_CALENDAR make switch in the port which is/was supposed to turn building of mozilla with calendar module. i've been happily using

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread martinko
Ceri Davies wrote: On 9/5/06 15:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:01 AM 5/9/2006, you wrote: I have to agree with the original poster. The logo is crap, and so is the font they've started to use since the announcement of FreeBSD6.1-RELEASE. At Me Too. At first I thought

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread martinko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/05/2006 11:42:17: hi, On 5/9/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then take this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's just flame bait here. I don't want a chat, I want to know where I can find out how we ended up with such a terrible logo.

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread martinko
Ceri Davies wrote: On 10/5/06 23:37, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ceri Davies wrote: On 9/5/06 15:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:01 AM 5/9/2006, you wrote: I have to agree with the original poster. The logo is crap, and so is the font

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread martinko
Bill Moran wrote: On Wed, 10 May 2006 13:49:20 + Kep Woof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Take a look at the netbsd logo if you want to see how it's done. It means something. It's neat. It represents the project. What we (the users) seem to have ended up with is a fussy and

Re: X11 6.9 issue -- option XkbOptions and missing keyboard layout

2006-05-08 Thread martinko
Dejan Lesjak wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 02:34, martinko wrote: hello list! i've just upgraded X11 from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0 and after starting up X11 it displays a message saying that xkbcomp reports that it cannot find file pc/sk_qwerty. and therefore it reverts back to default or something

seamonkey -- building calendar (option)

2006-05-08 Thread martinko
hello! i've just upgraded from mozilla (1.7.12) to seamonkey (1.0.1) and discovered the following issue: there's WITH_CALENDAR make switch in the port which is/was supposed to turn building of mozilla with calendar module. i've been happily using it with mozilla suite. the switch is still in

Re: top for tcpdump

2006-05-07 Thread martinko
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 20), Low Kian Seong said: Hmmm the port for trafshow seems unable to fetch the tgz file ? Probably need to ammend to point it here : http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/network-monitoring/trafshow/ ? I was able to download it just fine:

Re: port building linking

2006-05-07 Thread martinko
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 4/21/06, ph rhole oper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to build a port (mail/cyrus-imapd23) and add support for the mit-kerberos implementation to it. It needs to link to the -lkrb5 library.There are two libkrb5*.so in my system: the heimdal one

Re: Remote screen control software - recommendations please

2006-05-07 Thread martinko
Graham Bentley wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions on this. Perhaps I should have worded my question better (well, maybe not on a FreeBSD list ;) I am looking to control Windogs (yuk!) Desktops remotely (and as secure as possible - lol !) Thanks i also used tightvnc and run it through an

seamonkey issue -- theme switching

2006-05-07 Thread martinko
hello! i've just upgraded from mozilla (1.7.12) to seamonkey (1.0.1) and unfortunately run into the following issue: theme change does not last for longer than 1 restart -- i change the theme (to pinball theme http://mozilla-themes.schellen.net/), restart seamonkey as suggested, new theme

Re: port building linking

2006-05-07 Thread martinko
Reko Turja wrote: speaking of cyrus, i've recently spotted new entry in my passwd and have been wondering where/when did it get there.. ?? of course i don't know of installing anything called cyrus.. If you have installed CMU sasl, that does add cyrus user as well. -Reko i'm not

Re: port building linking

2006-05-07 Thread martinko
martinko wrote: Reko Turja wrote: speaking of cyrus, i've recently spotted new entry in my passwd and have been wondering where/when did it get there.. ?? of course i don't know of installing anything called cyrus.. If you have installed CMU sasl, that does add cyrus user as well. -Reko

X11 6.9 issue -- options AGPMode and AGPFastWrite

2006-05-07 Thread martinko
hello list! i've just upgraded X11 from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0 and run into the following issue: after starting x11 for the first time the screen went black and console was inaccessible (i had to reboot). when i tried the generated xorg.conf (`Xorg -configure`) it worked. so i started comparing my

X11 6.9 issue -- option ZAxisMapping -- 4 5 vs 4 5 6 7

2006-05-07 Thread martinko
hello list! i've just upgraded X11 from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0 and run into the following issue: [note that this was first noticed in seamonkey..] if i scroll my mouse wheel too fast, i'm suddenly moving in history instead of scrolling the page. one quick finger movement is enough to trigger this.

X11 6.9 issue -- option XkbOptions and missing keyboard layout

2006-05-07 Thread martinko
hello list! i've just upgraded X11 from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0 and after starting up X11 it displays a message saying that xkbcomp reports that it cannot find file pc/sk_qwerty. and therefore it reverts back to default or something. this is very strange because i've been using the setting since X11

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

2006-04-19 Thread martinko
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :) gftp is quite nice imho -- http://gftp.seul.org/

Re: upcoming release 6.1: old version of some core components

2006-04-12 Thread martinko
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:46:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net wrote: I can't answer you main question, but I would say that you can bet your shirt on the fact that there will be no known security issues in the older packages. At least for openssl and openssh

Re: upcoming release 6.1: old version of some core components

2006-04-12 Thread martinko
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:42:44PM +0200, martinko wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:46:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net wrote: I can't answer you main question, but I would say that you can bet your shirt on the fact

Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...

2006-04-10 Thread martinko
Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 April 2006 20:29 To: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE... On 30/03/06, Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD [EMAIL

Re: Incorrect inline documentation in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf

2006-04-10 Thread martinko
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Spil Oss wrote: Thanks a lot, that makes it very clear for me. Would it be a good idea to make that specific in the pkgtools.conf file? There must be more FreeBSD newbies that can run into the same trouble. It seems like a good idea to me but you'd want to get the

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-10 Thread martinko
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, that's fine, but how can I have a port on my system that isn't in the ports tree available to the world? I mean, won't anything I add to my local tree be deleted by cvsup'ing? cvsup won't delete things you add, but I believe portsnap

Re: CPUTYPE value

2006-03-21 Thread martinko
Frederic Van Assche wrote: Hello, What would be the best CPUTYPE setting for a Pentium M 750? pentium-m or pentium4m? Thanks, Frederic pentium-m ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-08 Thread martinko
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:10:26 -0500, Parv wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote martinko thusly... Norberto Meijome wrote: Hans Nieser wrote: FreeBSD Prospect wrote: ... What I am especially fond of in portage is the USE-flags and the way you can specify then globally

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-08 Thread martinko
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:59:49 +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote martinko wrote: i already raised the following issue with pkgtools.sonf here on MLs some time ago but i didn't get a response i'd be happy with: i want to make sure that a certain port will be compiled with a certain make

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread martinko
Norberto Meijome wrote: Hans Nieser wrote: FreeBSD Prospect wrote: Hi, Reading a lot about FreeBSD recently made me really curious. I know, that the founder of Gentoo (the well known GNU/Linux meta-distribution, which is also based on compiling everything from source) was using FreeBSD for

Re: What's the bright idea? fam - gamin

2006-02-06 Thread martinko
Peter wrote: --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I portupgrade?

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2006-02-01 Thread martinko
Micah wrote: martinko wrote: Micah wrote: Porpoise Power wrote: Which Java VM is the best for freebsd 5.4, running gnome2, and firefox? James Best Both the native jdk14 and jdk15 provide good Java VMs. jdk15 is newer and might be unstable (hasn't been for me). jdk14 is more

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2006-01-22 Thread martinko
Micah wrote: Porpoise Power wrote: Which Java VM is the best for freebsd 5.4, running gnome2, and firefox? James Best Both the native jdk14 and jdk15 provide good Java VMs. jdk15 is newer and might be unstable (hasn't been for me). jdk14 is more tested and is the default java for

NX client server

2005-12-30 Thread martinko
hello, i've installed net/linux-nx-client and net/freenx ports. first i tried to connect to NoMachine's testdrive server but the client crashed with signal 11 somewhere in the middle of the connecting process. then i tried `nxclient --admin` which hanged my whole X11 or window manager

Re: Desktop Note on FreeBSD?

2005-12-26 Thread martinko
Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 23:18, Yuan Jue wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 01:09, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: is there any software that like Rainlender on Windows? I need to make some notes sometimes, and i think it would be much better if the notes could be always

FreeBSD Logo Contest -- whom to contact about?

2005-12-26 Thread martinko
hello, i have got some comments about the winning logo design. who is/are the right person/persons to be contacted regarding this pls? also, could other submitted designs be seen somewhere? (at least top 5 of them) regards, martin ___

Re: pkgtools.conf make arguments ignored (?!?)

2005-12-12 Thread martinko
Scot Hetzel wrote: On 12/11/05, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i'm having troubles with specifying make arguments to portupgrade via /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. this is a part of my config file: MAKE_ARGS = { 'x11/yelp' = 'WITH_MAN=1 WITH_INFO=1 WITH_GECKO=mozilla

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-06 Thread martinko
can just create a boot floppy, and either save the config on the floppy or the MBR, it simple and easy, unlike lilo or grub On 04/12/05, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Albritton wrote: How viable is it to install FreeBSD along side WinXP? (Dual Boot) Also, can the BSD MBR

Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-12-04 Thread martinko
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Nate, 2005/11/30, Nate Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You should send the full output of sysctl dev.cpu. There is no cpufreq driver (est, acpi_perf, or other) driver running. Perhaps look at your dmesg to see if one is probing/attaching. sysctl dev.cpu

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-04 Thread martinko
Mr. Albritton wrote: How viable is it to install FreeBSD along side WinXP? (Dual Boot) Also, can the BSD MBR be removed once it's installed? I've tried FIXMBR with the WinXP CD and it didn't work sigh Any suggestions? --- Mike Albritton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How often portupgrades?

2005-12-04 Thread martinko
Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:29:41 +0100 Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run portupgrades. I figure that once a week should be sufficient, however each time it runs it can take up to a few hours to complete

Re: how to track 6.0 increments ?

2005-12-04 Thread martinko
ke.han wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:20:06AM +0800, ke.han wrote: I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes before something labeled 6.1 comes out. What is the prescribed method for this? I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-25 Thread martinko
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:36:48 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote boot: Simply copy the default line and append .old, as in: boot: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader.old loader.old??? AFAIK loader is not rebuilt while compiling kernel and there is no such file like loader.old created! Here,

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-25 Thread martinko
Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: loader.old??? AFAIK loader is not rebuilt while compiling kernel and there is no such file like loader.old created! It is installed with world and not kernel then. Sorry for getting that wrong, I didn't check. But it makes no difference to the original poster

Re: starting services?

2005-11-21 Thread martinko
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:17:01 +0800, Foo Ji-Haw wrote i wonder why i cannot start for instance ssh with /etc/rc.d/sshd start but i always have to use /etc/rc.d/sshd forcestart and similarly for stop, status, etc. any ideas pls ?? You have to add a line in /etc/rc.conf. I think it is

Re: starting services?

2005-11-21 Thread martinko
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:22:19 +, Halldor R. Haflidason wrote On Monday, 21 November 2005 at 15:11:35 +0100, martinko wrote: On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:17:01 +0800, Foo Ji-Haw wrote i wonder why i cannot start for instance ssh with /etc/rc.d/sshd start but i always have to use

Re: starting services?

2005-11-20 Thread martinko
Gerry Freymann wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:45:14 -0500 Lonnie Cumberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed the Samba3 via the packages in the /stand/sysinstall but am not clear on how to start the daemon. I have had a lot of experience with Linux but have not learned a lot

Re: moused flags behaviour in 6.0 -- regression?

2005-11-19 Thread martinko
Regards, Jayton martinko wrote: hello, until freebsd 6.0 (that is to say in 5.3 and 5.4) i used moused_flags=-3 in rc.conf and both my mice worked correctly (or as desired) -- synaptics touchpad missing 3rd button was emulated while the wheel on my USB mouse worked as expected

moused flags behaviour in 6.0 -- regression?

2005-11-15 Thread martinko
hello, until freebsd 6.0 (that is to say in 5.3 and 5.4) i used moused_flags=-3 in rc.conf and both my mice worked correctly (or as desired) -- synaptics touchpad missing 3rd button was emulated while the wheel on my USB mouse worked as expected. now, in 6.0, with the same setting, touchpad

Re: What happened with portaudit?

2005-11-07 Thread martinko
Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2005.11.06 21:48:52 +0100, Jimmy Scott wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 05:30:00PM +0100, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Hello, One of my machines I got a report about 3 vulnerable packages (php4, ruby, openssl) in tomorrows security run output, but in today's security run

Re: New Logo - http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/ (OFF-TOPIC)

2005-11-07 Thread martinko
Allen D. Tate wrote: Very disappointing. I prefer the current logo over a ball with two horns!!! and the font used to write FreeBSD is very unprofessional. It is interesting to see differing opinions. I kinda like the new logo and new font and think that it does look professional. I am not

Re: boot manager linux/bsd dual boot

2005-11-07 Thread martinko
John Cox wrote: I am preparing for a freeBSD install on my laptop with XP and Fedora. I am familiar with Grub and would like to use that to boot freeBSD. Can someone point me to an example of a grub.conf (menu.lst) entry that will work? Or How do I configure boot manager to boot Fedora?

Re: What happened with portaudit?

2005-11-06 Thread martinko
Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Hello, One of my machines I got a report about 3 vulnerable packages (php4, ruby, openssl) in tomorrows security run output, but in today's security run output all of them disappeared, but nobody upgraded or removed the affected packages. I reinstalled portaudit,

Re: New Logo - http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/

2005-11-05 Thread martinko
Nick Withers wrote: Well, the winner of the FreeBSD logo competition has been announced - see http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/ So what's the verdict then? I have to say I've very impressed, love the horns! hello, i wonder where i could see the other entries ?? also, while looking at

Re: Upcoming FreeBSD releases...

2005-11-04 Thread martinko
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:00:03AM +0100, martinko wrote: but where is the schedule published ?? i fail to locate it on the web site. all i can find are current and old releases and an incomplete schedule for upcoming 6.0 (about which i just complained in other thread

Re: Release Information : A standard question !...:/

2005-11-03 Thread martinko
Erik Norgaard wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, George Katsanos wrote: Is there any information that you can give to the freebsd fans about the 6.0 RELEASE [ releng] and its ..'release' date ? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/schedule.html Erik well, the page appears very static. i myself

Re: Upcoming FreeBSD releases...

2005-11-03 Thread martinko
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:01:32AM +0300, Casper wrote: Hi, I`m trying to make little schedule for upgrading and wanted to know when approximate will be new FreeBSD releases... How I understand in few weeks must be FreeBSD 5.5 release, but I can`t find schedule for

Re: sk0: watchdog timeout

2005-11-03 Thread martinko
Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello, I have a problem with network card. From time to time kernel says sk0: watchdog timeout It has (probably) random behavior. I use FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8, motherboard is ASUS A8V Deluxe (AMD64, Athlon64XP 3200+) and internal network card from pciconf -v -l [EMAIL

Re: Upcoming FreeBSD releases...

2005-11-03 Thread martinko
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:07:09AM +0100, martinko wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:01:32AM +0300, Casper wrote: Hi, I`m trying to make little schedule for upgrading and wanted to know when approximate will be new FreeBSD releases... How I

Re: How often cvsup the ports?

2005-10-10 Thread martinko
Colin Percival wrote: Andrew P. wrote: On 10/6/05, Mikael Backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then. How often should I cvsup the ports? If you like being up-to-date, you should consider using portsnap, which is much more efficient than cvsup.

Re: Samba or something more lightweight ...

2005-10-10 Thread martinko
Kiffin Gish wrote: I want to be able to access other Windows machines on my home network, e.g. exchange files back and forth using shared folders. Do I need to install Samba or is there another more lightweight alternative? Thanks alot in advance? i guess samba client (samba-libsmbclient)

Re: How often cvsup the ports?

2005-10-10 Thread martinko
Colin Percival wrote: martinko wrote: Colin Percival wrote: portsnap -I cron update pkg_version -vIL= what is this I parameter to pkg_version supposed to be? i don't seem to have it here on 5.4R. It's a new flag in 6.0R; it means just use the INDEX, you stupid program. ;-) Without

Re: portaudit question.....

2005-09-28 Thread martinko
Wright Jim Contractor 14MDSS/SGSI wrote: To keep the story short: I'm using version FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #6: Thu Aug 25 09:12:43 CDT 2005; pasted from the dmesg.boot file. To the best of my knowledge, I'm using CVSup, pkgdb -F, and portupgrade commands correctly. But, I'm pretty sure I'm

Re: Cleanup unused files and other junk ...

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Micah wrote: jonas wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:50:21 +0200 Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a good and dependable procedure for cleaning up the file systems from unused junk that just clutters valuable disc space? I am already aware of the 'periodic daily' scripts

Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
John Hoover wrote: On 9/26/05, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP (sorry) and on the other hand good old FreeBSD. My question: is it possible to exchange data files between both both operaing systems in an easy and efficient way?

file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
jonas wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:57:28 +0200 Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP (sorry) and on the other hand good old FreeBSD. My question: is it possible to exchange data files between both both operaing systems in an easy

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 9/27/05, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... hello, when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see below) then in windows. how come ?? e.g.: $ ll -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel734 Mar 1 2005 a.txt -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel649 Mar 16 2003

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: martinko wrote: Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 9/27/05, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... hello, when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see below) then in windows. how come ?? e.g.: $ ll -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel734 Mar 1 2005 a.txt -rwxr

Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Jerry McAllister wrote: John Hoover wrote: On 9/26/05, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP (sorry) and on the other hand good old FreeBSD. My question: is it possible to exchange data files between both both operaing systems in

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