Re: Apache2 and UserDir in FreeBSD

2004-06-17 Thread Jez Hancock
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:16:50PM -0400, Duane Winner wrote: Does anybody know why this is happening: I have found that with apache2, installed via portinstall on both 4.9 and 5.x, the UserDir is enabled even if it is commented out in httpd.conf! It is on by default in the stock

Re: Mail

2004-06-17 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:53:05PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:03:05AM -0400, Mark Frank typed: * On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:40:33AM -0500 Jason Dusek wrote: Hi, I am having a lot of trouble setting up mail. And, perhaps more importantly, I am having

Apache config error log

2004-06-17 Thread Lee Ellis
The error log is as follows: [Sun Jun 13 18:18:32 2004] [alert] mod_unique_id: getaddrinfo failed for Ginger.Osoleon (hostname nor servname provided, or not known) [Mon Jun 14 03:15:48 2004] [alert] mod_unique_id: getaddrinfo failed for Ginger.Osoleon (hostname nor

Does 4.x + UFS2 exist in any way ?

2004-06-17 Thread Joe Schmoe
I need to run 4.x (currently 4.10-RELEASE) but I really want to use UFS2 because I also need larger files and filesystems, and I really want to use snapshots. Is UFS2 available on 4.10 ? If not, how big of a hack would it be to try to use UFS2 with 4.10-RELEASE ? thanks.

Re: Apache config error log

2004-06-17 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 17 Jun 2004 at 0:29, Lee Ellis wrote: The error log is as follows: [Sun Jun 13 18:18:32 2004] [alert] mod_unique_id: getaddrinfo failed for Ginger.Osoleon (hostname nor servname provided, or not known) [Mon Jun 14 04:53:41 2004] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable

Re: Does 4.x + UFS2 exist in any way ?

2004-06-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:41:31PM -0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: I need to run 4.x (currently 4.10-RELEASE) but I really want to use UFS2 because I also need larger files and filesystems, and I really want to use snapshots. Is UFS2 available on 4.10 ? No. If not, how big of a hack would it

4.10 Promise TX4 at Intel S875WP1-E motherboard - no disks?

2004-06-17 Thread astesin
Hello people, After having some trouble with CURRENT on this box (P4 3.0E, note `E' on Intel S875WP1-E motherboard, the modification with Promise SATA RAID in 0+1 setup, 4 SATA disks) due to development issues, I decided to install 4.10 on it - the box needs to go into production really soon and

Re: Apache config error log

2004-06-17 Thread LW Ellis
OK seems now I am really confused. Apparently I do not have my network (card) set up right. When I configure my network card. There are the following items Host: Domain IPv4 Gateway: nameserver: Configuration for interface x10 IPv4 Address Netmask Extra options What I have is Host Ginger (made

ATA Tape drives - 5.2.1

2004-06-17 Thread raymond
Is there anyone out there successfully using an ATA tape drive (with or without ATAPICAM). I am having all sorts of problems and would appreciate a hand. Thanks Ray Newman 17 Jun 2004 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Password not requested

2004-06-17 Thread Jan Muenther
Ahoi there, I have a slight problem that I cannot figure out. I used cvsup and did buildworld, etc... When i finished I am no longer asked to supply a password when logging on with any user (tried 3 accounts). did you run mergemaster? My guess would be you f*cked up your PAM config.

Problem while upgrading to 4.10 from 4.7...

2004-06-17 Thread Timothy Gagnon
Alright, I have been trying to upgrade FreeBSD from 4.7 to 4.10...I used cvsup to get all the files make buildworld when through just fine, but the problem comes after make kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC... When I reboot and the kernel starts to load...it *always* just stops at the same point and just

problem compiling php4 with gd

2004-06-17 Thread Ivan Carey
Hello I am using FreeBSD 4.7 and have updated my ports tree. I am having a problem with making php4.3.7 with gd 2.0.25. I have installed gd first The compilation of php stops with the following: /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.3.7/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c: In function `gdImageStringFTEx':

Suggestions for replacements for vanilla ftpd?

2004-06-17 Thread Andy Holyer
I'm setting up our main customer web server: as a check-box feature, every customer gets 10Mb of free web space on our server. I'm very keen that I keep customer and user accounts on the server firmly separate, so that means that vanilla ftpd needs replacing. What are people's favourites out

New user questions :)

2004-06-17 Thread Graham Bentley
Hello to all you FreeBSD guys (and girls:) I am new here and have some questions to ask and comments to invite. For the last year or so I have been using SME server (an optimised Linux based server / LAN server that provides in one distro Mail/Webmail/FTP/ HTTP/Samba - all configurable from a

Re: New user questions :)

2004-06-17 Thread Jorn Argelo
Graham Bentley wrote: [snip] Install the ports tree, use CVSUP to get the latest version of the ports tree (if you don't know how to do that, go to the FreeBSD website and search the handbook) Heres my immediate shortlist :- Setting up DHCP for LAN Clients cd /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-server

Re: Compiling only the base system?

2004-06-17 Thread Cordula's Web
how can I compile just the base system (sysinstall's minimal install) from CURRENT sources in /usr/src into DESTDIR=/some/nonstandard/path? There is certainly some magic in .mk files to do this. I'm just too blind to find it... If you're running -current, check the

USB Modem Fun

2004-06-17 Thread Edd
Hi, I have recently required a USB modem (56k). On the casing it says it is a: sitecom connectivity dc-009 56k usb modem Plug in and dmesg says: ugen0: Conexant USB modemInc. USB V.90 56k/FAX Modem erface, rev1.00/0.01, addr 2 So far so good. So i scoot over to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf and type in

Re: Mail

2004-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:36:49PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Btw, can anyone of the sendmail-guru's tell me how sendmail compares performancewise? It's not a stellar performer, but it does the job. Configuration may be a black art, but with sendmail there will always be some

problem compiling php4 with gd

2004-06-17 Thread Ivan Carey
Hello I am using FreeBSD 4.7 and have updated my ports tree. I am having a problem with making php4.3.7 with gd 2.0.25. I have installed gd first The compilation of php stops with the following: /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.3.7/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c: In function `gdImageStringFTEx':

Re: USB Modem Fun

2004-06-17 Thread Jan Muenther
Hi there, Plug in and dmesg says: ugen0: Conexant USB modemInc. USB V.90 56k/FAX Modem erface, rev1.00/0.01, addr 2 So far so good. So i scoot over to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf and type in /dev/ugen0 for the device. ugen(4) is the generic USB device driver, meaning this gets assigned when no

Re: [going OT] Re: Pruning the Ports Tree

2004-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:36:18AM +0400, Sergey Zaharchenko wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:32:49PM -0600, Dan MacMillan probably wrote: From: Sergey Zaharchenko at June 16, 2004 06:18 On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:38:38AM +0100, Matthew Seaman probably wrote: Heh. There's

probably a silly question. probably requires a silly answer.

2004-06-17 Thread Edd
Is it a bad idea to use a 5.x kernel on a 4.x system? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: probably a silly question. probably requires a silly answer.

2004-06-17 Thread Simon Dick
Very On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:04:37 +0100, Edd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it a bad idea to use a 5.x kernel on a 4.x system? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

which version?

2004-06-17 Thread stanisaw gsior
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newbie trouble - Internet problem solved!!!

2004-06-17 Thread jobse
Thanx Steve Bertrand Michael Clark Remko Lodder I now have Internet up and working. Next problem is to learn handling the ports! cheers jobse ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Re: Your website

2004-06-17 Thread webmaster
Thank you for sending your correspondence to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your feedback and suggestions are important to us, and while we do make every effort to expedite guest requests as quickly as possible, it may not always be possible to personally respond to every inquiry due to the high volume of

Re: probably a silly question. probably requires a silly answer.

2004-06-17 Thread Simon Barner
Edd wrote: Is it a bad idea to use a 5.x kernel on a 4.x system? It won't work at all, because FreeBSD 5.x and 4.x have substantial differences. It isn't even recommented to upgrade the kernel only on a FreeBSD system, because kernel and userland have to be in sync. This is because programms

Re: New user questions :)

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all you FreeBSD guys (and girls:) There are girsl on this mailing list?! ... (fixes hair ...) snip Heres my immediate shortlist :- Setting up DHCP for LAN Clients Synchronising time for LAN Clients Setting up Samba to Share Files on a

Re: newbie trouble - Internet problem solved!!!

2004-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
I now have Internet up and working. Great! One less mass mailing drone on the Inet! :o) Next problem is to learn handling the ports! Ask away... Steve cheers jobse ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: which version?

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
stanis³aw g±sior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi which version will be good to my comp.plizz help me. Check this: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware.html If your hardware is listed, then 4.10 is the way to go. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Problem while upgrading to 4.10 from 4.7...

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
Timothy Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright, I have been trying to upgrade FreeBSD from 4.7 to 4.10...I used cvsup to get all the files make buildworld when through just fine, but the problem comes after make kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC... If you did, literally, what you describe, then your

Means of traversing a directory

2004-06-17 Thread Gerard Samuel
For a shell script. The scenario. Im running tar(1) to make a tar ball of a directory using the --newer-mtime to only get newer files after a specified date. Unfortunately, it also creates unwanted empty directories. Is there a way to scan the directory (recursively) into an array, and loop over

Re: firefox not launching since upgrade to 0.9_1

2004-06-17 Thread Richard Tobin
# firefox -- we no longer need to launch 1st time as root, but... (firefox-bin:87415): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Presumably you don't have DISPLAY set when you're running as root. firefox *** loading the extensions datasource *** loading the extensions datasource ***

Re: New user questions :)

2004-06-17 Thread Jorn Argelo
Graham Bentley wrote: Thanks for that Jorn :) I am still elarning (guess I'll never stop :) I did a minimal config of FreeBSD and wanted to use Midnight Commander (I know this isnt that secure and its a bit of a crutch but its good for noobs like me) Anyway, there was 7 porgs missing all of which

Re: Should gcc be accessable by others?

2004-06-17 Thread Geert Hendrickx
I think a better solution would be to mount the user-writable partitions (/home, /tmp) with option noexec. That prevents users from having their own executables, whether locally compiled or not. GH On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:08:29PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I see that gcc,

Re: Still no graphic desktop

2004-06-17 Thread Curtis Almond
One other thing you can do besides /stand/sysinstall is to use XFree86 -configure. After you boot simply type the above command. After that command is finished it will prompt you with another command to test the configuration. Simply type the command shown on the screen and you should see an X

Re: Apache2 and UserDir in FreeBSD

2004-06-17 Thread Jez Hancock
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:04:07AM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:16:50PM -0400, Duane Winner wrote: Does anybody know why this is happening: I have found that with apache2, installed via portinstall on both 4.9 and 5.x, the UserDir is enabled even if it is

Compatable????

2004-06-17 Thread Roger Williams
Hello, Does anyone know if the following hardware is compatable with 4.10? Chipset • Intel® E7210 (Canterwood ES) chipset • MCH + ICH5-R + FWH Serial ATA • SATA Controller on-chip (Intel® ICH5-R) • Dual Serial ATA ports • RAID 0, 1 Supported Network Controllers • Dual Intel® 82541 Gigabit

Re: firefox not launching since upgrade to 0.9_1

2004-06-17 Thread gaf
Richard Tobin wrote: # firefox -- we no longer need to launch 1st time as root, but... (firefox-bin:87415): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Presumably you don't have DISPLAY set when you're running as root. firefox *** loading the extensions datasource *** loading the

Re: New user questions :)

2004-06-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
Graham Bentley wrote: Thanks for that Jorn :) I am still elarning (guess I'll never stop :) I did a minimal config of FreeBSD and wanted to use Midnight Commander (I know this isnt that secure and its a bit of a crutch but its good for noobs like me) Anyway, there was 7 porgs

Re: Password not requested

2004-06-17 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Jan Muenther wrote: Ahoi there, I have a slight problem that I cannot figure out. I used cvsup and did buildworld, etc... When i finished I am no longer asked to supply a password when logging on with any user (tried 3 accounts). did you run mergemaster? My guess would be

Re: New user questions :)

2004-06-17 Thread Peter Risdon
Jorn Argelo wrote: Graham Bentley wrote: [snip] Install the ports tree, use CVSUP to get the latest version of the ports tree (if you don't know how to do that, go to the FreeBSD website and search the handbook) Heres my immediate shortlist :- Setting up DHCP for LAN Clients cd

Shared Partition?

2004-06-17 Thread Tom Moyer
I currently dual boot Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have files that are common to both (MP3's and some documents). Is there a way to create a partition that can be read by both that would eliminate this double copy problem? I thought creating a separate partition woudl work but Windows XP

[A bit OT]Re: New user questions :)

2004-06-17 Thread Jorn Argelo
Jerry McAllister wrote: Graham Bentley wrote: Thanks for that Jorn :) I am still elarning (guess I'll never stop :) I did a minimal config of FreeBSD and wanted to use Midnight Commander (I know this isnt that secure and its a bit of a crutch but its good for noobs like me) Anyway, there was

probably a silly question. probably requires a silly answer.

2004-06-17 Thread Robert Huff
Edd writes: Is it a bad idea to use a 5.x kernel on a 4.x system? Gun, ear, bang!. Or if you want silly: halibut, pipe wrench, christmas tree ornament. Robert Huff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Means of traversing a directory

2004-06-17 Thread Richard Caley
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gerard Samuel (gs) writes: gs Im running tar(1) to make a tar ball of a directory using the gs --newer-mtime to only get newer files after a specified date. gs Unfortunately, it also creates unwanted empty directories. Have you tried using find? If a relative

Re: Success!

2004-06-17 Thread Lloyd Hayes
After re-installing the system, I typed 'startx' and everything started up right away, using Gnome this time. Lloyd Hayes Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 Web Journal: http://lloyd_hayes.bravejournal.com/ Matt Navarre wrote: On

Tuneable Parameters

2004-06-17 Thread Richard Burnett-Godfree
I am trying to port software currently running on hp-ux to freeBSD 4.9. The application I have will normally run for large numbers of users accessing database applications. On hp-ux to enable reasonable user numbers with large numbers of files open I would normally tune MAXFILES

Re: Problems running Tar (1) for newer files

2004-06-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Im trying to create a tar ball by running - tar -c -N 'Jun 1 2004' -f ../dev.tar * I keep getting this error - tar: More than one threshold date Can anyone see what Im doing wrong? Im running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p6 Works for me (-STABLE). My

IPSec Routing and Interfaces, ping problem (long)

2004-06-17 Thread Andre Rein
Hi Ml, got a little understanding problem with my VPN connection. I set up isakmpd. Connected from a static client ip. Everything works fine. 10.0.1.0---195.226.x.98[INTERNET]195.226.x.124---10.0.0.0 gif0: flags=8050POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1280 tunnel

gcc 2.95 thread model (single or posix)?

2004-06-17 Thread Kurt Miller
What thread model is gcc 2.95 configured for on FreeBSD 4.9 (single or posix)? I asked on gcc-help and they said that it was not easy to tell from the binary, but should be output during configure time. Does anyone here know? Thanks, -Kurt ___ [EMAIL

Re: Shared Partition?

2004-06-17 Thread Curtis Almond
I am pretty sure the only way to do this is to have a FAT32 partition. I have not done this on FreeBSD but while playing with Xandros Linux I was able to get read/write access using a FAT partition. On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:27:34 -0400, Tom Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently dual boot

Sound problem

2004-06-17 Thread CAVELIER Grégory
First, thank you for your answers about CPU frequency. But I have another problem: When I play something through XMMS I sometimes hear some little plop (Don't know how to explain that). It's like my PC is overloaded but it's not... I've renice XMMS to priority -20 but it doesn't change

Re: Shared Partition?

2004-06-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am pretty sure the only way to do this is to have a FAT32 partition. I have not done this on FreeBSD but while playing with Xandros Linux I was able to get read/write access using a FAT partition. I also believe that you need a fat32 slice.It would be accessable by both systems.

Re: Problem while upgrading to 4.10 from 4.7...

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
Timothy Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timothy Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright, I have been trying to upgrade FreeBSD from 4.7 to 4.10...I used cvsup to get all the files make buildworld when through just fine, but the problem comes after make kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC... If

Re: Upgrading openssh

2004-06-17 Thread Nagilum
Hi Eric, The base version of openssh is updated frequently (especially if any vulnerabilities are discovered), so why bother with the port? Kind regards, Alex. Eric Crist wrote: After figuring out perl (with the help of Matthew, I was wondering what the proper way to install/upgrade openssh. I

Re: Shared Partition?

2004-06-17 Thread Renato Marques
I currently dual boot Windos 98 and FreeBSD 5.2.1. The only thing i do is create first a primary dos and extend partition using a DOS FDISK and FOMAT and so, mount -t msdos /dev/ados1 /mnt/c mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s5 /mnt/d mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s6 /mnt/e and even mount /dev/ad0s7

RE: firefox not launching since upgrade to 0.9_1

2004-06-17 Thread Michael Clark
From the ports list:: If you're going to install the new firefox-0.9 update, there's something important you should know. You MUST run firefox as root before running it as any other user. The best way to do this is to su - to root or log in as root (i.e. do not su -m to root). After becoming

vinum setup

2004-06-17 Thread synrat
4.8 I'm trying to setup partitions for vinum. I am in single user mode, but every time I try to modify swap size to accomodate for vinum confuration I get disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: open partition would move or shrink re-edit the label? [y] #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize

Re: Still no graphic desktop

2004-06-17 Thread Lloyd Hayes
That probably was what I needed, plus I needed the exact specs on my video card and display (800x600). But someplace in there I mangled the config file, I think. After deleting and re-installing the system (for my 5th time) everything worked fine. I now have Gnome up and running. I'll probable

firefox menu display issue

2004-06-17 Thread Steve Tremblett
This is a minor annoyance, but since I haven't seen anyone else comment on it I figure I should throw it out and see. When selecting any menu in firefox 0.9 (and 0.9_1), both the focus highlight and the menu title appear as a solid white bar with no text. Has anyone seen this? Any ideas on

Re: Problems running Tar (1) for newer files

2004-06-17 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Thursday 17 June 2004 11:06 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Im trying to create a tar ball by running - tar -c -N 'Jun 1 2004' -f ../dev.tar * I keep getting this error - tar: More than one threshold date Can anyone see what Im doing wrong? Im

Re: which version?

2004-06-17 Thread Reed L. O'Brien
If you aren't using it as a production machine you may as well start with the 5.x, 5.2.1 right now, as it could use a larger test base on the road to stable. cheers, reed stanisaw gsior wrote: hi which version will be good to my comp.plizz help me.

Re: Is PERC4/Di supported under FreeBSD 5.2.1?

2004-06-17 Thread login
To the owners of a Dell PowerEdge 2600 server running FreeBSD 5.2.1: I am in the process of a system purchase as above. It is coming with PERC4/Di hard drive controller. By looking at the hardware compatibility list for 4.10, it is supported. I do not see this same piece of hardware on the

FreeBSD community - best ever !

2004-06-17 Thread Graham Bentley
Have to say this :- I have used alot of online resources and have had help in many forms from far and wide. Sometimes I have received ridicule and criticism and condescending remarks for my inquisitiveness and sometimes stupid questions. But as a new FreeBSD user I am amazed at the first off

Firefox 0.9 Port

2004-06-17 Thread Jamie Novak
I'm not really sure where to ask this, so I'm defaulting to the questions list. I recently reinstalled my machine and am running 5.2.1-RELEASE. Now that Firefox 0.9 has been released, I decided to try installing it. (Note: Since this is a freshly reinstalled workstation, no previous versions of

Re: Is PERC4/Di supported under FreeBSD 5.2.1?

2004-06-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 17), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: To the owners of a Dell PowerEdge 2600 server running FreeBSD 5.2.1: I am in the process of a system purchase as above. It is coming with PERC4/Di hard drive controller. By looking at the hardware compatibility list for 4.10, it is

Re: Firefox 0.9 Port

2004-06-17 Thread Richard Tobin
The install was successful, but as soon as I try to run the program, all I get is the same message repeating over and over again in my xterm: You have to run it as root first. However, it then segmentation faults on most pages, so it's not a great advance. -- Richard

Re: Firefox 0.9 Port

2004-06-17 Thread Jamie Novak
On 06/17, Richard Tobin rearranged the electrons to read: You have to run it as root first. Actually, according to the last checkin, that's no longer true. I did try that, though, to no avail. I'll try it again just to be sure. -Jamie ___ [EMAIL

Re: System freeze on reboot

2004-06-17 Thread Lucas Holt
I think i have isolated part of the problem. The rl driver has some serious problems. Doing a google search i found posts on bugs@ that shows similar log entries to what i'm getting. I suspect the system would not reboot because the network driver was misbehaved. I swapped out the realtek

Re: FreeBSD community - best ever !

2004-06-17 Thread Jorn Argelo
Graham Bentley wrote: Have to say this :- I have used alot of online resources and have had help in many forms from far and wide. Sometimes I have received ridicule and criticism and condescending remarks for my inquisitiveness and sometimes stupid questions. I believe your inquisitivity is

Re: Firefox 0.9 Port

2004-06-17 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:36:09PM -0500, Jamie Novak wrote: The install was successful, but as soon as I try to run the program, all I get is the same message repeating over and over again in my xterm: *** loading the extensions datasource The browser never actually starts and that

Re: FreeBSD community - best ever !

2004-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Sometimes I have received ridicule and criticism and condescending remarks for my inquisitiveness and sometimes stupid questions. I found this to be true as well. Although most of the Linux community is very kind as well, I found this type of I know the answer to that, so you should too in

Adaptec 29160 Scsi card / camcontrol rescan

2004-06-17 Thread J.D. Bronson
I have a machine running 5.2.1 with DUAL Adaptec 29160LP scsi cards. In the machine there are 2 U160 LVD scsi drives...one attached to each drive... I have an external SE tape drive that I have a cable for that I can attach to the 'extra' 29160 card port. If I hook it up to the card and then boot

Re: Adaptec 29160 Scsi card / camcontrol rescan

2004-06-17 Thread Carl Reisinger
J.D. Bronson wrote: I know the bus will slow down with the tape drive attached, but will it come back to normal speeds once I remove the tape drive? - and/or do I have to run the camcontrol command again? Run the rescan again. Just removing the device from the bus does not cause the kernel or

Re: Firefox 0.9 Port

2004-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:04:50PM +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:36:09PM -0500, Jamie Novak wrote: The install was successful, but as soon as I try to run the program, all I get is the same message repeating over and over again in my xterm: *** loading the

Re: Adaptec 29160 Scsi card / camcontrol rescan

2004-06-17 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 01:19 PM 06/17/2004, Carl Reisinger wrote: J.D. Bronson wrote: I know the bus will slow down with the tape drive attached, but will it come back to normal speeds once I remove the tape drive? - and/or do I have to run the camcontrol command again? Run the rescan again. Just removing the

Re: Still no graphic desktop

2004-06-17 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:14:54 -0500 Curtis Almond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lloyd, When I was learning to install and configure FreeBSD for the first year or so I always defaulted to using /stand/sysinstall. This allows you to configure your input devices (mouse and keyboard), video card,

Sendmail and /var/spool/mqueue

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
I'm not a sendmail expert. What does it mean when I have a lot of files in /var/spool/mqueue? I don't really understand what that particular queue is for. This client is not having any problems getting/sending mail, and the mailq command only shows one mail in the queue, but I have 3867 files

Re: Firefox 0.9 Port

2004-06-17 Thread Jamie Novak
On 06/17, Matthew Seaman rearranged the electrons to read: Try starting it as root then as a regular user. It's weird. I had that but after long enough I got a message about too mamy open files. I found that running as root via sudo meant that firefox created a root-owned

Re: Sendmail and /var/spool/mqueue

2004-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
What does it mean when I have a lot of files in /var/spool/mqueue? I don't really understand what that particular queue is for. I believe the q is for messages that have failed, but have not yet expired...don't quote me though. sb This client is not having any problems getting/sending

screen 4.00.01 FREEBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE cannot read .bash_profile

2004-06-17 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I am using screen 4.00.01 on FREEBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. Running the csh-shell everything works correctly inside screen. But I have a user who is running the bash-shell. Now this is happening: Screen cannot read the .bash_profile unless I set the option in .screenrc: shell

Re: Sendmail and /var/spool/mqueue

2004-06-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
What does it mean when I have a lot of files in /var/spool/mqueue? I don't really understand what that particular queue is for. I believe the q is for messages that have failed, but have not yet expired...don't quote me though. Pretty close. All Email messages seem to go their first

RE: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-17 Thread Matt \Cyber Dog\ LaPlante
-Original Message- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:59 PM To: Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keep log_in_vain Value Matt \Cyber Dog\ LaPlante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original

Re: ipfw question

2004-06-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Hi Reuben, Sorry for taking so long to reply. My workstation at work which still runs Fedora Core RC3 and not a real OS, like FreeBSD, decided to throw away all outgoing email this morning. Here's a repost extracted from my =posted mailbox in Mutt [...] On 2004-06-16 17:04, Reuben A. Popp

Re: Best place to spin down disk after boot?

2004-06-17 Thread Stefan A. Deutscher
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:37:22AM +, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote: Hi, I have a 5.1Release machine with currently four SCSI disks, out of which I need only two at any given time (system and /home). The other ones are an alternative system disk, and an OS/2 disk. [ snip ] To reduce noise

Re: Means of traversing a directory

2004-06-17 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Thursday 17 June 2004 10:31 am, Richard Caley wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gerard Samuel (gs) writes: gs Im running tar(1) to make a tar ball of a directory using the gs --newer-mtime to only get newer files after a specified date. gs Unfortunately, it also creates unwanted empty

Re: FreeBSD community - best ever !

2004-06-17 Thread Remko Lodder
Hey Graham, Graham Bentley wrote: Have to say this :- I have used alot of online resources and have had help in many forms from far and wide. Same goes for me ;) Sometimes I have received ridicule and criticism and condescending remarks for my inquisitiveness and sometimes stupid questions. So did

RE: FreeBSD community - best ever !

2004-06-17 Thread Gary Hayers
Remko Lodder wrote: Hey Graham, Graham Bentley wrote: Have to say this :- I have used alot of online resources and have had help in many forms from far and wide. Same goes for me ;) Sometimes I have received ridicule and criticism and condescending remarks for my

Re: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
Matt \Cyber Dog\ LaPlante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:59 PM To: Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keep log_in_vain Value Matt \Cyber Dog\

Re: firefox menu display issue

2004-06-17 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:29:27PM -0400, Steve Tremblett wrote: This is a minor annoyance, but since I haven't seen anyone else comment on it I figure I should throw it out and see. When selecting any menu in firefox 0.9 (and 0.9_1), both the focus highlight and the menu title appear as a

Re: Shared Partition?

2004-06-17 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:19:01AM -0500, Curtis Almond wrote: I am pretty sure the only way to do this is to have a FAT32 partition. I have not done this on FreeBSD but while playing with Xandros Linux I was able to get read/write access using a FAT partition. FAT32 may be the only solution

Re: vinum setup

2004-06-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Output wrapped. On Thursday, 17 June 2004 at 12:04:01 -0400, synrat wrote: 4.8 I'm trying to setup partitions for vinum. I am in single user mode, but every time I try to modify swap size to accomodate for vinum

Re: Upgrading openssh

2004-06-17 Thread Eric Crist
On Thursday 17 June 2004 10:41, Nagilum wrote: Hi Eric, The base version of openssh is updated frequently (especially if any vulnerabilities are discovered), so why bother with the port? Kind regards, Alex. Eric Crist wrote: After figuring out perl (with the help of Matthew, I was

Dlink DSL router doesn't like FreeBSD

2004-06-17 Thread bob
I have had exactly the same experience with linux, using mandrake 10. Everything works from my linux box on the lan to other hosts on the lan. When I try to telnet on ports 22(ssh),25(smtp),80(http) and 110(pop3) NOTHING WORKS. I can browse the web and send/recieve email with

Re: Dlink DSL router doesn't like FreeBSD

2004-06-17 Thread bob
I forgot to add to this ... that if you monitor tcp/ip traffic with tcpdump you can compare a sucessful connection on the internal lan with a failure on when trying to connect to something on the internet. Doing this you can see the syn-ack-syn process of a successful pop/smtp/www connection on

Re: Dlink DSL router doesn't like FreeBSB - FAULT CONFIRMED!!!

2004-06-17 Thread bob
here we go ... the router is rubbish for ssh and telnet even dlink have said it is a problem!!! http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,10278563~mode=flat ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

need help on shell script

2004-06-17 Thread klr
Hi list, I read http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/9074 and tried to adopt this script to my ipfw firewall: #!/bin/sh tail -f /var/log/security | \ awk ' $0 ~ /ICMP/ { system(cat /root/sounds/icmp.wav /dev/dsp ); } $0 ~ /TCP/ { system(cat /root/sounds/tcp.wav /dev/dsp ); } $0 ~ /UDP/ {

Logging the message body from an MTA

2004-06-17 Thread Lonnie Santella
I need to log the message body of incoming and outgoing messages on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 Release server. I'm running Exim right now, but I really don't have a preference of MTA. The main thing is I need to facilitate the logging of message bodies. I don't want to flood you with too many details,

Re: need help on shell script

2004-06-17 Thread Adam Smith
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:15:23PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi list, I read http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/9074 and tried to adopt this script to my ipfw firewall: #!/bin/sh tail -f /var/log/security | \ awk ' $0 ~ /ICMP/ { system(cat /root/sounds/icmp.wav /dev/dsp );

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