RE: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Norgaard Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor Mike Hauber wrote: Fact is, the cats out of the bag, and I have yet

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Feb 4 at 23:43, Mike Hauber opined: On Friday 04 February 2005 10:39 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: TM If you post on a public forum, by implication you are giving that TM forum permission to publish your copyrighted material. The only way to get around this is

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Feb 5 at 08:35, Erik Norgaard wondered out loud: Mike Hauber wrote: Fact is, the cats out of the bag, and I have yet to meet a cat that likes bags. :) I went on radio some years ago, now I realize that the radiowaves are about to hit alien civilizations. In order not to embaras my

Re: Postfix can't deliver mail to virtual domains - cannot create file exclusively

2005-02-05 Thread Volker Kindermann
Hi Pat, Feb 4 19:57:59 cantona postfix/virtual[579]: CA35333C1D: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=virtual, delay=0, status=deferred (mailbox /var/mail/vhosts/javaspot.net/pergesu: cannot create file exclusively: No such file or directory) Shouldn't PostFix create the vhosts/javaspot.net directory and

Re: Postfix can't deliver mail to virtual domains - cannot create file exclusively

2005-02-05 Thread Pat Maddox
I got it working, and managed to get courier-imap working as well. The only problem (big problem?) is that I had to chmod 777 /var/mail to get it all working together. I'm trying to figure out what permissions I can give it to ensure that postfix and courier-imap can work together...but neither

RE: ssh default security risc

2005-02-05 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:54:14 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: restrictions somehow doesen't exist. Not to mention that even without a static IP assigned to your home or other locations that you normally ssh in from, it's pretty simple to block off huge chunks of the

Re: Postfix can't deliver mail to virtual domains - cannot create file exclusively

2005-02-05 Thread Pat Maddox
By the way, the problem appears to be solely permissions-based. When I've got normal-looking permissions on /var/mail, postfix gives that error, cannot create file. Courier-IMAP says, imapd: chdir javaspot.net/pergesu: No such file or directory chmod 777 /var/mail and they both work fine. But

Re: tinderbox ?

2005-02-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:24:51PM -0800, darren kirby wrote: quoth the Gert Cuykens: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:50:13 -0800, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth the Gert Cuykens: what is a tinderbox ? The third result of a http://www.google.com/bsd search for 'tinderbox' is

RE: FreeBSD 3.2

2005-02-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Swiger Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 10:34 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.2 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [ ... ] Seriously -

RE: ssh default security risc

2005-02-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Sandy Rutherford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 12:48 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Giorgos Keramidas; Gert Cuykens; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Chris Hodgins Subject: RE: ssh default security risc On Thu, 3 Feb 2005

RE: Docs for Berkeley Make?

2005-02-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonathon McKitrick Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 5:05 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Docs for Berkeley Make? On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:20:02AM -0800, Ted

Re: /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer-skins

2005-02-05 Thread Adam McMaster
On 5 Feb 2005, at 00:19, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 01:10:02 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: something wrong here , cant download the skins ? = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mplayer/. fetch:

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Mike Hauber writes: MH If I were to send you an email and a header (or signature) stated MH that you were not privy to the contents of the email, then you MH could be in serious trouble. No, because you explicitly sent me the e-mail. If the confidential contents were not your own, however, you

VRRP

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, Does FreeBSD have any support, or does anyone know of any open source applications that can be used to get some form of VRRP into FreeBSD 4.11 / 5.x? -- Chris. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Within X, how can I see console messages?

2005-02-05 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:01:06PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: I know I can Control-Alt-F1 to go back to the console, but is there a way to see these messages in an xterm or something? In addition to xconsole, there is a command dmesg which outputs the last 4k of messages. I run it if I

natd or firewall problem?

2005-02-05 Thread Cristian Salan
Hello dear list, I have one FreeBSD router in front of the internal network. Now I've installed another FreeBSD box which must be the www sever. I've managed to redirect the port 80 at the router and the web server is visible to the outside world. But the problem is now at the other internal

Re: VRRP

2005-02-05 Thread Nils Vogels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Knipe wrote: | Hi, | | Does FreeBSD have any support, or does anyone know of any open | source applications that can be used to get some form of VRRP into | FreeBSD 4.11 / 5.x? A quick make search learns: | cd /usr/ports | make search key=vrrp

Re: /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer-skins

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Hodgins
Adam McMaster wrote: On 5 Feb 2005, at 00:19, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 01:10:02 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: something wrong here , cant download the skins ? = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mplayer/. fetch:

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: TM Yes you are. What do you think publishing is? Publishing is the divulgation of the tangible expression of a work to a party other than the author, as a general rule. Under copyright law in most jurisdictions, any publication must be explicitly authorized by the

Re: natd or firewall problem?

2005-02-05 Thread Gelsema, Patrick
Hi, IN order to enlighten you we need some more information. Sounds to me you could be having issues with internal/external DNS and ip-addresses. In other words, you are querying your www server from a dns and is getting the Internet ip back instead of the lan ip. Can you connect to your www

Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
I've set up a user account that has top for its shell (instead of one of the standard shells). As expected, when I log into this account, I immediately find myself in top, and if I stop top, I'm instantly logged out. That's what I want. I use it to have a continuously running console status

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 5, 2005, at 3:01 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Norgaard Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor Mike Hauber wrote: Fact is,

Re: natd or firewall problem?

2005-02-05 Thread Cristian Salan
Hello dear list, I have one FreeBSD router in front of the internal network. Now I've installed another FreeBSD box which must be the www sever. I've managed to redirect the port 80 at the router and the web server is visible to the outside world. But the problem is now at the other

RE: natd or firewall problem?

2005-02-05 Thread Gelsema, Patrick
Thats right, you can do the following: Put the ip-address with its FQDn (www.webserverwhatever.com) in every hosts file (taken its windows) or in its hosts file on freebsd. Or you run an internal DNS with an internal zone for your domain whilst running on the internet the external zone. Regards,

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 12:53:43PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I've set up a user account that has top for its shell (instead of one of the standard shells). As expected, when I log into this account, I immediately find myself in top, and if I stop top, I'm instantly logged out. That's

Re: natd or firewall problem?

2005-02-05 Thread Cristian Salan
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:54:23 +0100, Gelsema, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats right, you can do the following: Put the ip-address with its FQDn (www.webserverwhatever.com) in every hosts file (taken its windows) or in its hosts file on freebsd. Or you run an internal DNS with an internal

Re: Postfix can't deliver mail to virtual domains - cannot create file exclusively

2005-02-05 Thread Volker Kindermann
Hi Pat, Pat Maddox wrote: By the way, the problem appears to be solely permissions-based. When I've got normal-looking permissions on /var/mail, postfix gives that error, cannot create file. Courier-IMAP says, imapd: chdir javaspot.net/pergesu: No such file or directory chmod 777 /var/mail and

Old version FreeBSD

2005-02-05 Thread
How I recived old version of FreeBSD and his source code? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

2005-02-05 Thread Billy Newsom
saravanan ganapathy wrote: cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile Once you get your cvsup stuff straightened out, try this script, which I run every other day. Change the Log file if you want. This updates my sources to stable and updates the ports tree. I use two different cvsup files and

Example BSD Makefiles *outside* the src tree??

2005-02-05 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Hi all, does anyone know of any project out there I could get my hands on that use BSD make? Obviously the src tree is not a good place to learn the basics, but most makefiles I run across are for GNU make and/or are too complex to learn the basics from. jm --

Re: what are patches ?

2005-02-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Gert Cuykens wrote: They are all located under files right ? But what are they and what do they do ? %man patch !! KDK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Silicon Image SiI 3114 SATA RAID on ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe

2005-02-05 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, Is anyone using the Silicon Image SiI 3114 controller on an ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe motherboard? AFAICS, FreeBSD 5.3 supports the controller, but I can't seem to get the installer to see the SATA RAID 1 array that I set up using the BIOS. The only disks in the system are two identical 200G

Re: make.conf syntax question (MODULES_OERRRIDE)

2005-02-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I was (erroneously) trying to do was trim down the kernel to its absolute minimum size and maximum performance, my thought was if I don't need it, don't load it. Which makes sense. Don't load it is not the same as don't build it, though.

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Hodgins
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 12:53:43PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I've set up a user account that has top for its shell (instead of one of the standard shells). As expected, when I log into this account, I immediately find myself in top, and if I stop top, I'm instantly

Re: natd or firewall problem?

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Hodgins
Gelsema, Patrick wrote: Thats right, you can do the following: Put the ip-address with its FQDn (www.webserverwhatever.com) in every hosts file (taken its windows) or in its hosts file on freebsd. Or you run an internal DNS with an internal zone for your domain whilst running on the internet the

3Com Gigabit LOM (onboard) 3C940 not detected under FreeBSD 4.11

2005-02-05 Thread Maxamillian Conrad
Hello all, I have an Asus P4C800 Delux with this adapter, and as the subject line says, 4.11 doesn't detect it. 5.3 had no problems with it, so I'm not quite ready to write it off as unsupported. How does one go about loading a NIC driver if sysinstall doesn't see it? Thanks for the help!

Modem not detected in FreeBSD 5.3

2005-02-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have some problems getting my modem to work on FreeBSD 5.3.It is an internal modem Intel 537EP V9x DF PCI Modem sitting on COM3. Originally the dmesg for the serial ports read: sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured

boot manager on 5.3 ?

2005-02-05 Thread J.D. Bronson
I dont know how to fix this (or what I did wrong)... When my machine boots...this is what I see: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader boot: ..and it will hang there...until I hit RETURN. How can I fix this machine so that it *just* boots when rebooted? Help! -- J.D. Bronson Aurora

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread John
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 12:53:43PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I've set up a user account that has top for its shell (instead of one of the standard shells). As expected, when I log into this account, I immediately find myself in top, and if I stop top, I'm instantly logged out. That's

Re: Within X, how can I see console messages?

2005-02-05 Thread John
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:51:34AM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:01:06PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: I know I can Control-Alt-F1 to go back to the console, but is there a way to see these messages in an xterm or something? In addition to xconsole, there is a

Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-05 Thread Freebsd9999
In a message dated 2/4/05 11:29:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D'oh. One other thing. In the benchmarks I've seen, Opterons Play Nicer with SMP because of the Hypertransport setup in some applications. (IE, they don't fight over memory the way Xeons do). Look for a

Re: Example BSD Makefiles *outside* the src tree??

2005-02-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does anyone know of any project out there I could get my hands on that use BSD make? Obviously the src tree is not a good place to learn the basics, but most makefiles I run across are for GNU make and/or are too complex to learn the basics from.

[RESOLVED] Postfix can't deliver mail to virtual domains - cannot create file exclusively

2005-02-05 Thread Pat Maddox
Volker, thanks for all your help. I got everything running smoothly. For courier-imap, I set the uid and gid in the authmysqlrc file. But I needed to set the uid and gid in both postfix and courier...so your instructions helped greatly. Thanks a lot! Pat On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:36:19

Re: Example BSD Makefiles *outside* the src tree??

2005-02-05 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 12:21:48PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : does anyone know of any project out there I could get my hands on that use : BSD make? Obviously the src tree is not a good place to learn the basics, : but most makefiles I run

Re: media players

2005-02-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:57:04PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:15:18PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: I am looking for a media player that supports the oss sound driver, easy to install codex, and uses the gtk2 libs ? xine is by far my favorite media app and has the

Can't ssh to server

2005-02-05 Thread Doug Van Allen
I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 and I'm trying to connect to it from school using ssh. At school, I get connection refused. I checked the auth.log and found: Feb 3 21:23:05 FreeBSD sshd[44237]: twist x..edu to /bin/echo You are not welcome to use sshd from x..edu. I ran tcpdmatch and

Re: stack size limits

2005-02-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Isaac Yonemoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to adjust the stack size limit on my computer. I'm not exactly sure what to do. Here's what I've tried: ulimit -s (size) in bash unlimit stacksize unlimited in csh options MAXSSIZE=(size) in

My solutions

2005-02-05 Thread Isaac Yonemoto
Sorry, I managed to resolve the issues myself: 1) the correct option thing is: options MAXSSIZ=(size) --actually in my handwritten notes I didn't have the E. 2) Also, I forgot this: make buildkernel KERNCONF=KERNELNAME make installkerner KERNCONF=KERNELNAME Are you sure you need bigger

Re: Can't ssh to server

2005-02-05 Thread Chris
Doug Van Allen wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 and I'm trying to connect to it from school using ssh. At school, I get connection refused. I checked the auth.log and found: Feb 3 21:23:05 FreeBSD sshd[44237]: twist x..edu to /bin/echo You are not welcome to use sshd from x..edu. I

Re: 5.3 and SMP(HTT)

2005-02-05 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
.. Original Message ... On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:56:39 -0600 J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (there is only 1 CPU in this machine and NO way to add another) but I do want to get any benefit from HTT - presuming a benefit actually exists. the general concensus is that HTT does NOT

Re: Can't ssh to server

2005-02-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Doug Van Allen wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 and I'm trying to connect to it from school using ssh. At school, I get connection refused. I checked the auth.log and found: Feb 3 21:23:05 FreeBSD sshd[44237]: twist x..edu to /bin/echo You are not welcome to use sshd from x..edu. I

Re: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SATA RAID on ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe

2005-02-05 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Saturday 05 February 2005 15:38, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: Hello, Is anyone using the Silicon Image SiI 3114 controller on an ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe motherboard? AFAICS, FreeBSD 5.3 supports the controller, but I can't seem to get the installer to see the SATA RAID 1 array that I set up using

Re: FreeBSD 3.2

2005-02-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [ ... ] Seriously - from a legal perspective you have absolutely no obligation to follow their restrictions unless of course they were smart enough to have you sign a piece of paper before they let you in the door. No contractual relationship exists between you and them

Re: Postfix can't deliver mail to virtual domains - cannot create file exclusively

2005-02-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
Pat Maddox wrote: By the way, the problem appears to be solely permissions-based. When I've got normal-looking permissions on /var/mail, postfix gives that error, cannot create file. Courier-IMAP says, imapd: chdir javaspot.net/pergesu: No such file or directory chmod 777 /var/mail and they

Re: Modem not detected in FreeBSD 5.3

2005-02-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some problems getting my modem to work on FreeBSD 5.3.It is an internal modem Intel 537EP V9x DF PCI Modem sitting on COM3. Originally the dmesg for the serial ports read: sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type

Re: Can't ssh to server

2005-02-05 Thread Doug Van Allen
# Start by allowing everything (this prevents the rest of the file # from working, so remove it when you need protection). # The rules here work on a First match wins basis. #ALL : ALL : allow ALL : 192.168.1. : allow ALL : 151.xxx.xxx.xxx-151.xxx.xxx.xxx : allow ALL : 127.0.0.1 : allow #

trouble mounting partition on hard drive

2005-02-05 Thread Brian John
Hello, I am unable to mount one of my ntfs partitions. When I try to mount it I get this: # mount /hd2_4 fstab: /etc/fstab:12: Inappropriate file type or format fstab: /etc/fstab:12: Inappropriate file type or format mount: /hd2_4: unknown special file or file system Here is my fstab file: #

gtk2 questions ?

2005-02-05 Thread Gert Cuykens
Where can i ask gtk2 questions like What i must do to convert this to gtk2 ? #ifdef __hpux #define G_INLINE_FUNC #endif #include gtk/gtk.h

Re: gtk2 questions ?

2005-02-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:47:03PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: Where can i ask gtk2 questions like What i must do to convert this to gtk2 ? Try reading gtk documentation first, and if you don't find it there then look for the archives of a gtk developer list since this kind of question has

Re: Old version FreeBSD

2005-02-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:10:06PM +0300, ??? ??? wrote: How I recived old version of FreeBSD and his source code? http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/, or download the source with cvsup (see the FreeBSD Handbook). Kris pgp5FP9o2tMsy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Network tuning and port allocation

2005-02-05 Thread Peter Yandell
Is there a simple way to check the proportion of available TCP ports currently in use for a particular address on a particular interface? I'm testing some networking gear, and am using a few tools to generate large amounts of network traffic. One of the tuning issues in doing this is ensuring

Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-05 Thread Peterhin
Is it better to leave a computer (a stand alone) running continuously or is it OK to shut it down at the end of the day.? I remember years ago someone mentioned that it is better for the circuitry to leave it running. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated -- Peter Peace is never more

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-05 Thread Chris
Peterhin wrote: Is it better to leave a computer (a stand alone) running continuously or is it OK to shut it down at the end of the day.? I remember years ago someone mentioned that it is better for the circuitry to leave it running. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated This question is

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-05 Thread Adam McMaster
On 5 Feb 2005, at 22:45, Peterhin wrote: Is it better to leave a computer (a stand alone) running continuously or is it OK to shut it down at the end of the day.? I remember years ago someone mentioned that it is better for the circuitry to leave it running. Any thoughts would be greatly

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Loren M. Lang writes: LML Right now I have two login processes running, one for each virtual LML console I am logged in at the moment, though my ssh login shells don't LML have any login processes for them. My guess is that there staying LML around for some cleanup work to do at logout. I think

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 05:45:25PM -0500, Peterhin wrote: Is it better to leave a computer (a stand alone) running continuously or is it OK to shut it down at the end of the day.? I remember years ago someone mentioned that it is better for the circuitry to leave it running. Any thoughts

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
John writes: J I am not seeing what you are seeing. I see a login process hanging J around with the regular shells, just like you are describing for top. It has occurred to me that all my other logins are ssh, so maybe that's the difference. I don't have telnetd running at all. J There's no

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 23:05 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: When I search for my name, I'm in competition with a wrestler - really anoying, Deja Vu all over again. Who is Gorilla Monsoon and why is google filled up with him when I search my name. ;)

Re: trouble mounting partition on hard drive

2005-02-05 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:39:44PM -0600, Brian John wrote: Hello, I am unable to mount one of my ntfs partitions. When I try to mount it I get this: # mount /hd2_4 fstab: /etc/fstab:12: Inappropriate file type or format fstab: /etc/fstab:12: Inappropriate file type or format mount:

repost of boot issue on 5.3

2005-02-05 Thread J.D. Bronson
No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is here... I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new clean drive. Freebsd is the ONLY OS on the drive. And i used the entire drive. I selected the standard boot manager (not the freebsd one)... and all the install went fine.

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Peterhin writes: P Is it better to leave a computer (a stand alone) running continuously or P is it OK to shut it down at the end of the day.? An age-old debate. Advantages of leaving the computer running: - Electronic components are not subject to thermal stress of start-up and shutdown. Not

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chris writes: C This question is better served on Google. BTW - if you're advanced C enough to install and live with FreeBSD, you ought to know the answer to C that one. There isn't any fixed answer to that question. Of course, if you are running FreeBSD as a server, then normally it has to be

Re: repost of boot issue on 5.3

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Hodgins
J.D. Bronson wrote: No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is here... I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new clean drive. Freebsd is the ONLY OS on the drive. And i used the entire drive. I selected the standard boot manager (not the freebsd one)... and all

how to configure Xorg to run at 1280x1024

2005-02-05 Thread Gary Kline
People, One of my larger servers has 5.3 and Xorg; I can't find the right configuration setting for the display; so it runs at its maximum: 1600x1200. This would be fine except that the apps shake with tiny wavy lines. The driver may be pushing

Re: repost of boot issue on 5.3

2005-02-05 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 05:19 PM 2/5/2005, Chris Hodgins wrote: J.D. Bronson wrote: No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is here... I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new clean drive. Freebsd is the ONLY OS on the drive. And i used the entire drive. I selected the standard boot

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread John
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:00:07AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: John writes: J I am not seeing what you are seeing. I see a login process hanging J around with the regular shells, just like you are describing for top. It has occurred to me that all my other logins are ssh, so maybe

Re: repost of boot issue on 5.3

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Hodgins
J.D. Bronson wrote: At 05:19 PM 2/5/2005, Chris Hodgins wrote: J.D. Bronson wrote: No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is here... I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new clean drive. Freebsd is the ONLY OS on the drive. And i used the entire drive. I selected

Re: questions about extra logging

2005-02-05 Thread Steve Lake
Sorry it took so long getting back to you. Actually, I looked in auth.log and it only shows failures for KDE logins, not successes. I'm looking to log successes too. Thanks. (please reply directly to me as I don't subscribe to this list. ^_^ At 06:35 PM 2/3/05 +0100, Roland Smith

Re: portsdb -uU fails

2005-02-05 Thread Vonleigh Simmons
Figure out why /usr/ports/multimedia/libtheora is non-existent, and fix it. As another part of the message warned you, building an INDEX requires a *full* ports collection, so if you are missing some it will fail. I don't have that folder. I'm not sure why I don't, I haven't changed everything,

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:43:32 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: MH But that's different in that it was never released to a public forum MH in the first place (explicitly or otherwise). I'm not sure what you mean by public forum. A server accessible from the Internet

SCSI Problem

2005-02-05 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a system that was running fine with 2 SCSI drives. Both on the same line, the last one terminated. I removed the first one leaving the one with the termination. Now when the system boots I get the strangest messages and the results are quite unusual. Here are the console messages

Re: repost of boot issue on 5.3

2005-02-05 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 05:19 PM 2/5/2005, Chris Hodgins wrote: J.D. Bronson wrote: No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is here... I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new clean drive. Freebsd is the ONLY OS on the drive. And i used the entire drive. I selected the standard boot

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread John
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 05:24:51PM -0600, John wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:00:07AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: John writes: J I am not seeing what you are seeing. I see a login process hanging J around with the regular shells, just like you are describing for top. It has

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 05:52 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Mike Hauber writes: snip much legal mumbo jumbo and speculation, err mostly the latter The cat is being pushed back into the bag rather rapidly. The legal profession was slow to apply the law to the Internet, but it is learning

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-05 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:47:04 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:21:34AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:58:35 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This enable all programs to have access that are using unix domain sockets to

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-05 Thread Gert Cuykens
Thx this clears alot of questions :) One more question doh, about the x cookie. How long does it take to calculate the x cookie string yourself of a user you want to hack :) PS is the x cookie in anyway related to the user passwd ? ___

Re: repost of boot issue on 5.3

2005-02-05 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 05 February 2005 05:20 pm, J.D. Bronson wrote: At 05:19 PM 2/5/2005, Chris Hodgins wrote: J.D. Bronson wrote: No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is here... I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new clean drive. Freebsd is the ONLY OS on the

Where do all the passwd get saved ?

2005-02-05 Thread Gert Cuykens
I thought it was /etc/passwd but that seemed not to be where i was looking for :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: repost of boot issue on 5.3

2005-02-05 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 06:41 PM 2/5/2005, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Saturday 05 February 2005 05:20 pm, J.D. Bronson wrote: At 05:19 PM 2/5/2005, Chris Hodgins wrote: J.D. Bronson wrote: No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is here... I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new

Re: Loading module for sound chip SiS 7102

2005-02-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
Fabrice wrote: On Saturday 05 February 2005 00:56, you wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Fabrice wrote: Hi ! Debian user just have installed FreeBSD 5.3. Seems great ! But I my sound chip do not properly work. I tried to : kldload snd_... pilots one by

Installing on an IBM 600X - anyone tried it?

2005-02-05 Thread Mr. Ralph
Hi folks, I installed FreeBSD 5.3 on an IBM 600X, and tried to get X started. I get this error I can't really understand. I'm going to type it below so maybe someone can point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance everyone. --Ralph xauth: creating new authority file

Re: Where do all the passwd get saved ?

2005-02-05 Thread Pat Maddox
/etc/passwd is a system file that just lists accounts. Having the passwords in there is insecure because it has to be readable by everyone. In linux systems, the actual passwords are in /etc/shadow. I don't know exactly how FreeBSD handles passwords. I don't even think it uses /etc/passwd

Re: Where do all the passwd get saved ?

2005-02-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 06:00:19PM -0700, Pat Maddox wrote: /etc/passwd is a system file that just lists accounts. Having the passwords in there is insecure because it has to be readable by everyone. In linux systems, the actual passwords are in /etc/shadow. I don't know exactly how

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 5 February 2005 at 17:45:25 -0500, Peterhin wrote: Is it better to leave a computer (a stand alone) running continuously or is it OK to shut it down at the end of the day.? I remember years ago someone mentioned that it is better for the circuitry to leave it running. Any

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
John writes: J No, there are HUGE security concerns. The big problem is that J many things have shell escapes. Top, as far as I know, does not. But it's shell escapes that generally create the security concerns, no? Except for things like buffer overflows, but of course all FreeBSD software

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Sandy Rutherford writes: SR This is not so clear. In a March 2004 decision regarding P-to-P music SR sharing, Justice von Finckenstein of the Federal Court of Canada ruled SR that: SR SRThe mere fact of placing a copy on a shared directory in a computer SRwhere that copy can be accessed

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Robert Marella writes: RM Am I the only one longing for a freebsd-legal mail list that I will not RM subscribe to? Unfortunately, ignoring legal issues won't necessarily exempt you from being affected by them, especially if you operate any kind of public server (and the definition of that can be

Re: portsdb -uU fails

2005-02-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vonleigh Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Figure out why /usr/ports/multimedia/libtheora is non-existent, and fix it. As another part of the message warned you, building an INDEX requires a *full* ports collection, so if you are missing some it will fail. I don't have that

The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software

2005-02-05 Thread Timothy Luoma
I stumbled across this somehow today (don't remember where from unfortunately... I opened it in the background while reading another page and by the time I saw it, I forgot where it came from). http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm He does a good job (I think) of explaining the

Enabling authdaemond creates 5 processes

2005-02-05 Thread Pat Maddox
I installed courier-imap and got everything running fine...found out that I need to enable authdaemond on startup. If I put courier_authdaemond_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf, then there are five or so authdaemond processes running when it starts up. I don't think that should be happening, and

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