Can't remove files.

2005-02-26 Thread Perttu Laine
Hello! I can't do make clean on ports because it cannot remove /usr/ports/databases/php5-sqlite/work directory or any directories under it. All directories are empty, but rm -rf reports Directory not empty for them. ls -lo says - for all flags... This happened after crash while doing make clean

Re: Can't remove files.

2005-02-26 Thread Rob
Perttu Laine wrote: ad5: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=382096515 ad5: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out So. What can be done here? Typical 5.3 problem/bug. Try adding following line to /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.ata_dma=0 and reboot. This may force the harddisk to operate in

Re: cd copy

2005-02-26 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 25 Feb Simon Dick wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:49:31 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:27:26 +0100 Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the easiest way to copy a complete cdrom with freebsd-4.11? Normally I use burncd to burn

Re: Extracting an img file

2005-02-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 04:32:03PM +1000, Warren wrote: How do i extract the contents of an img file so i can view // empty the contents out? without burning due to it being a 3.1gig img file and i got no DVD Burner. You mean an ISO9660 image? Use an md(4) device. See §16.12.2 of the

Re: Read error on DVD-ROM

2005-02-26 Thread Bachelier Vincent
Ok I have found the solution just change the cdrom cable to hdd cable and it work fine ! see ya Le Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:42:47AM +0100, Bachelier Vincent a écrit: From: Bachelier Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:42:47 +0100 Subject: Read

RE: Toshiba Satellite laptop

2005-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Do you just want a bigger disk? If so, then go for it - although if the disk is buried in the laptop, it's worth it to pay someone else to install it as you aren't going to have the tools to take it apart, nor are you going to have the instructions on how to get it apart. Ted -Original

XF86Config problem

2005-02-26 Thread kalin mintchev
hi... problem with XF86Config. i did the configuration a few times. and tried different versions of the file... i get: (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration. fatal error: no screens found... this is on an old amd machine with 4.10 on it and the video card is generic on the

RE: Lexmark X1100 printer

2005-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roland Smith Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 12:03 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Gerry Freymann; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lexmark X1100 printer On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:53:01PM

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Giorgos Keramidas writes: Not necessarily true all the time. Otherwise, why isn't everyone still using Microsoft Word 2.x or the first version of Outlook Express? A great many people still are. Some people are still using MS-DOS. For much of the population, a computer that works is all they

Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
I'm currently struggling with the Xfce environment and I'd like to install Firefox, but neither the Firefox site nor anywhere else I've looked thus far has comprehensive installation instructions for the product on FreeBSD (or any flavor of UNIX, apparently). Is there a page somewhere that

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 26 February 2005 03:41 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I'm currently struggling with the Xfce environment and I'd like to install Firefox, but neither the Firefox site nor anywhere else I've looked thus far has comprehensive installation instructions for the product on FreeBSD (or any

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread markzero
I'm currently struggling with the Xfce environment and I'd like to install Firefox, but neither the Firefox site nor anywhere else I've looked thus far has comprehensive installation instructions for the product on FreeBSD (or any flavor of UNIX, apparently). Is there a page somewhere that

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:41:52 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently struggling with the Xfce environment and I'd like to install Firefox, but neither the Firefox site nor anywhere else I've looked thus far has comprehensive installation instructions for the product on

Re: RELENG_5 installworld fails

2005-02-26 Thread Velko Ivanov
So, you need to supply more info. Are you setting any special parameters in /etc/make.conf? Did you follow UPDATING as far as the sequence of buildworld, [build/install]kernel, boot to single user mode and do the installworld? Before this build, when did you last update your system? This

RE: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 11:48 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? Ted Mittelstaedt writes: Your missing the point. It's far

RE: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 11:49 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? Ted Mittelstaedt writes: That might be true but what is

RE: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:06 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? Give me a break. Most all (excepting a few power

RE: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:02 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:41:52 +0100

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
markzero writes: # pkg-add -r firefox I tried that, and it works, but the version installed is a preview version that's well behind the current 1.0.1. And even after installing it from the ports, I still can't install the most recent version; it keeps complaining about that missing module.

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Kent Stewart writes: It appears to be built as a compat lib. Locate places it in /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 It's not there on my system. I did install Linux compatibility, and the directory is there and filled with files, but that specific file is not present. How do I put

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: For one thing you can just stop with the site licensing fees. Licensing fees aren't necessarily the largest or even a significant expense for a business. For another you can lay off half your IT staff that you hired to spend their days running around and cleaning

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: Do a portupgrade first. Firefox depends on a lot of stuff. I don't have the ports on the local machine. I go directly to the FTP server each time I install something. Shouldn't they all be up to date in that case? The only Firefox version I see is 0.9, even though

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Chris
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: Do a portupgrade first. Firefox depends on a lot of stuff. I don't have the ports on the local machine. I go directly to the FTP server each time I install something. Shouldn't they all be up to date in that case? The only Firefox version I

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread Jon Drews
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:12:38 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: For one thing you can just stop with the site licensing fees. Licensing fees aren't necessarily the largest or even a significant expense for a business. Ted and others: This guy is

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread John
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:14:19 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote Ted Mittelstaedt writes: Do a portupgrade first. Firefox depends on a lot of stuff. I don't have the ports on the local machine. I go directly to the FTP server each time I install something. Shouldn't they all be up to

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chris writes: This is simple. As someone has pointed out before, you need cvsup the ports tree then a portupgrade. Yes, after the cvsup and portupgrade you will have 1.0.1 There is no ports tree on the machine, so it cannot be out of date. Isn't the index downloaded from the FTP site each

support for multiple gre tunnel pass-through

2005-02-26 Thread emilio
Hi at all the list I got the latest (5.3) free-bsd edition and need to know if there's support for gre protocol into multiple connections We got many clients for vpn into the office acessing a remote server and passing through the firewall who has two interfaces(one public and one internal) in

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Jon Drews writes: If you think the FreeBSD community is a nightmare then why are you sticking around except to stir up strife ? It's the closest thing to support available for FreeBSD. There's nothing else. I do note, however, that only about 10% of my questions to the list actually generate

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Chris
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chris writes: This is simple. As someone has pointed out before, you need cvsup the ports tree then a portupgrade. Yes, after the cvsup and portupgrade you will have 1.0.1 There is no ports tree on the machine, so it cannot be out of date. Isn't the index downloaded from

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
John writes: It would help you if you installed the ports tree and portupgrade (and cvsup it every day via cron to keep it up-to-date). If you did that, you would bave been able to do like I have just done: But I figured that if I always pull the index from an FTP site, it's guaranteed to be

Portupgrading - portauditing

2005-02-26 Thread George Katsanos
Hello, Your team is ALWAYS very helpful . It's the best support i've ever dealt with. Question : How do i portupgrade , just the pkgs/ports that portaudit -a sais have vulnerabilities,and not the whole thing? Thank you G.K. ___

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Chris
Anthony Atkielski wrote: John writes: It would help you if you installed the ports tree and portupgrade (and cvsup it every day via cron to keep it up-to-date). If you did that, you would bave been able to do like I have just done: But I figured that if I always pull the index from an FTP site,

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chris writes: If you don't have the ports tree (/usr/ports) on the box, put it there. I don't have 300 MB to spare, particularly for something that I will use so rarely. What's wrong with getting the index from the FTP site when I run sysinstall? Seems to me that it would guarantee that the

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Chris
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chris writes: If you don't have the ports tree (/usr/ports) on the box, put it there. I don't have 300 MB to spare, particularly for something that I will use so rarely. What's wrong with getting the index from the FTP site when I run sysinstall? Seems to me that it

Re: Request to mailing list moderators rejected

2005-02-26 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 26 February 2005 05:40 am, you wrote: Your request to the moderators mailing list Posting of your message titled you have Verizons smtp server blocked has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the following reason for rejecting your request: If you are

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Chris Hodgins
Anthony Atkielski wrote: John writes: It would help you if you installed the ports tree and portupgrade (and cvsup it every day via cron to keep it up-to-date). If you did that, you would bave been able to do like I have just done: But I figured that if I always pull the index from an FTP site,

Re: Portupgrading - portauditing

2005-02-26 Thread Chris
George Katsanos wrote: Hello, Your team is ALWAYS very helpful . It's the best support i've ever dealt with. Question : How do i portupgrade , just the pkgs/ports that portaudit -a sais have vulnerabilities,and not the whole thing? Thank you G.K. As someone pointed out, IE: portupgrade -rR

Re: Request to mailing list moderators rejected

2005-02-26 Thread Chris
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 05:40 am, you wrote: Your request to the moderators mailing list Posting of your message titled you have Verizons smtp server blocked has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the following reason for rejecting your

Re: Portupgrading - portauditing

2005-02-26 Thread Chris Hodgins
George Katsanos wrote: Hello, Your team is ALWAYS very helpful . It's the best support i've ever dealt with. Question : How do i portupgrade , just the pkgs/ports that portaudit -a sais have vulnerabilities,and not the whole thing? Thank you G.K. ___

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-26 Thread Eric F Crist
On Feb 25, 2005, at 4:27 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: [...] Here's the problem, hope the preceding is a good background to it. Find that the IP address for the 5.3 box gets changed on a fairly regular basis by (I guess) my xp gateway so

Firefox hanging problem

2005-02-26 Thread Chris Hodgins
Hi, Firefox seems to be hanging for a period of time before working again. When I start it up it initially loads the tabs I had open previously (I use the session-saver extension) and before the pages load it then just totally locks up for around a minute. I ktrace'd it to see what it was up

Re: cd copy

2005-02-26 Thread Fabian Keil
Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the easiest way to copy a complete cdrom with freebsd-4.11? Use readcd and cdrecord. Regards Fabian -- www.fabiankeil.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Toshiba Satellite laptop

2005-02-26 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 05:56, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Do you just want a bigger disk? If so, then go for it - although if the disk is buried in the laptop, it's worth it to pay someone else to install it as you aren't going to have the tools to take it apart, nor are you going to have the

Re: Weird character representation in console

2005-02-26 Thread Vittorio
No suggestion for the problem I posted last week? Vittorio Alle 13:02, venerdì 18 febbraio 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: After years of linux distributions now I'm having a go at FreeBDS. Therefore, as a perfect newbye in FreeBSD I have just installed the developer stuff with x support

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 26, 2005, at 7:40 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Jon Drews writes: If you think the FreeBSD community is a nightmare then why are you sticking around except to stir up strife ? It's the closest thing to support available for FreeBSD. There's nothing else. I am sorry, but I get the same level

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: I am sorry, but I get the same level of support here that I do in the Windows list, if not more. I suspect you won't believe me, but I rarely recall ever having to look for Windows support. The few problems I've had with Windows have been with specific

Re: cd copy

2005-02-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:33:33 +0100 Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the easiest way to copy a complete cdrom with freebsd-4.11? Use readcd and cdrecord. I rebuild the kernel with atapicam (ata, scbus,cd and pass were already there) and

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Jon Drews writes: If you think the FreeBSD community is a nightmare then why are you sticking around except to stir up strife ? It's the closest thing to support available for FreeBSD. There's nothing else. http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/consult_bycat.html I do

Re: cd copy

2005-02-26 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the easiest way to copy a complete cdrom with freebsd-4.11? Use readcd and cdrecord. I rebuild the kernel with atapicam (ata, scbus,cd and pass were

Autoinstall

2005-02-26 Thread Subhro
Hello Folks, I am trying to create a custom install CD for a few systems which are exact clones of each other. I am trying to make the CD such that whenever the systems are booted off the CDs, it would be auto partitioned and all the predefined packages would be installed without any user

Re: Autoinstall

2005-02-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:20:24PM +0530, Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, I am trying to create a custom install CD for a few systems which are exact clones of each other. I am trying to make the CD such that whenever the systems are booted off the CDs, it would be auto partitioned and all the

Re: Portupgrading - portauditing

2005-02-26 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I wouldn't bother trying it like straight out if you're trying to get the Firefox update. It still lists firefox as a vulnerability for some reason. I had 1.7.5_1,2, which is the version it listed, but it wouldn't let me upgrade to 1.0.1,1. I even tried listing the vulnerability listed in

Re: Autoinstall

2005-02-26 Thread Christian Hiris
On Saturday 26 February 2005 19:04:19, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:20:24PM +0530, Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, I am trying to create a custom install CD for a few systems which are exact clones of each other. I am trying to make the CD such that whenever the systems are

where is libstd++.so.5?

2005-02-26 Thread Gary Kline
Can anybody clue me in which port builds the lib++ shared libraries? LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so [Shared object libstdc++.so.5 not found, required by nphelix.so] thanks people, gary --

Re: Portupgrading - portauditing

2005-02-26 Thread Nick Pavlica
I believe if you do a portuprade -arR you will also upgrade any dependant ports. On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:28:31 +, Chris Hodgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George Katsanos wrote: Hello, Your team is ALWAYS very helpful . It's the best support i've ever dealt with. Question : How

Constant mysterious SCSI errors

2005-02-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
I get constant streams of messages concerning my disks on the console whenever I have a lot of disk activity on my system (2x SCSI disks, no IDE or other disks). I'd very much like to know what's going on (there's nothing wrong with the hardware, so either it's a configuration problem, or it's a

Re: where is libstd++.so.5?

2005-02-26 Thread Christian Hiris
On Saturday 26 February 2005 20:12:20, Gary Kline wrote: Can anybody clue me in which port builds the lib++ shared libraries? LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so [Shared object libstdc++.so.5 not found, required by

Trouble Compiling 4.3.10 on FreeBSD 5.X

2005-02-26 Thread Tim Traver
Hi all, for some reason, I cannot get php to compile a shared object to work with apache 1.3.33... Here are the config commands that I used for apache and php : EAPI_MM=SYSTEM ./configure --enable-module=so --enable-module=info --enable-module=status --enable-module=rewrite --enable-module=ssl

How to downgrade perl from 5.8.6 to 5.8.5?

2005-02-26 Thread Todd Suits
I need to downgrade the perl port from 5.8.6 to 5.8.5 at least temporarily in order to install Plesk on a 5.3 system. I see the 5.8.5 files on the ftp.freebsd.org/./distfiles server but I have no idea how to go about doing a downgrade. I checked out the ported applications link on the main

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chris writes: If you don't have the ports tree (/usr/ports) on the box, put it there. I don't have 300 MB to spare, particularly for something that I will use so rarely. What's wrong with getting the index from the FTP site when I run sysinstall? Seems to me that

Re: Portupgrading - portauditing

2005-02-26 Thread epilogue
I finally gave up and deleted the db at /var/db/portaudit/auditfile.tbz and then did the upgrade. It still flags firefox as a vulnerability, even though the problem it references is supposed to be explicitly fixed in the version I have installed (window injection vulnerability). Of

Re: Trouble Compiling 4.3.10 on FreeBSD 5.X

2005-02-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Saturday 26 February 2005 01:50 pm, Tim Traver wrote: for some reason, I cannot get php to compile a shared object to work with apache 1.3.33... Is there a reason you're not using the port? -- Kirk Strauser pgpV2KZZZW9WC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RELENG_5 installworld fails

2005-02-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 26 February 2005 04:10 am, Velko Ivanov wrote: So, you need to supply more info. Are you setting any special parameters in /etc/make.conf? Did you follow UPDATING as far as the sequence of buildworld, [build/install]kernel, boot to single user mode and do the installworld?

Re: How to downgrade perl from 5.8.6 to 5.8.5?

2005-02-26 Thread Todd Suits
D'oh on me.. /sysutils/portdowngrade On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:20:15 -0500, Todd Suits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to downgrade the perl port from 5.8.6 to 5.8.5 at least temporarily in order to install Plesk on a 5.3 system. I see the 5.8.5 files on the ftp.freebsd.org/./distfiles

Re: Trouble Compiling 4.3.10 on FreeBSD 5.X

2005-02-26 Thread Tim Traver
Kirk, well, yes, there is...first, the apache port has very few changes. most of the patches are things that the FreeBSD community wanted to change to fit defaults (.i.e different log file names, mostly cosmetic). I think there are a couple of su_exec tweaks in it, but overall, the port is not

AntiVir ALERT [your mail: Mail Delivery (failure marcin@olesno.pl)]

2005-02-26 Thread AntiVir
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AntiVir ALERT * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AntiVir wykryl virusa w mail'u z twojego adresu: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Worm/NetSky.P.ExplWorm/NetSky.P, Worm/NetSky.P.Expl Ten list nie zostal doreczony !!! Prosze usun ze swojego kompututera podejrzany soft i

Re: Question, is there any way or program that will let youclone/image a FreeBSD system

2005-02-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Batson wrote: Hello, I have spend a few hours trying to find way to create a clone/image of a currently working FreeBSD version 5.3 system. I would like to be able to clone/image the system to a secondary hard disk drive attached the PC. I have used Symantec's Ghost many times for

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Well, I've been under the impression for a while that sysinstall is not necessarily reliable ... big snip I need to add, in order that my previous post not go into the archives as absolute fact, and that I not be considered by the general public as more of an idiot than I might

su from root

2005-02-26 Thread Doug Hardie
I have encountered an unusual issue where the behavior is different between FreeBSD 4.6 and 5.3. If I login and then su to root successfully, then do a su to a non-root user I get: pam_login_access: pam_sm_acct_mgmt: user-id is not allowed to log in on /dev/ttyv0 In chasing this down it

Re: Portupgrading - portauditing

2005-02-26 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/26/05 03:25 PM, epilogue sat at the `puter and typed: I finally gave up and deleted the db at /var/db/portaudit/auditfile.tbz and then did the upgrade. It still flags firefox as a vulnerability, even though the problem it references is supposed to be explicitly fixed in the

Re: updating system version of OpenSSH

2005-02-26 Thread wo_shi_big_stomach
Phil Schulz wrote: If you can't afford to upgrade the base OS and you do not want to install OpenSSH from the ports Sorry, I wasn't clear. I have no problem installing or upgrading OpenSSH from ports. Indeed, that's all I know how to do. My question is how to upgrade OpenSSH as included with

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-26 Thread Marty Landman
At 10:32 AM 2/26/2005, Eric F Crist wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: that the IP address for the 5.3 box gets changed on a fairly regular basis [snip] The 4.8 box's IP addr has been stable. The other thing you could try would be to set a static IP on your

gmirror disk mirroring

2005-02-26 Thread Stephen Kelly
Hi All, I'm having a problem trying to set up disk mirroring of two 80G Western Digital IDE drives. I'm using the instructions at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ I've included these instructions at the end of this e-mail. When I reboot the system for the first time as instructed, it

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-26 Thread wo_shi_big_stomach
--- Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just can't help but notice that this is only a problem on my 5.3 box and not on the 4.8. AFAIK the config's are identical, although obviously I am still a newbie at this. you might try paging through dmesg | more to see if the system recognizes

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-26 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:06:41PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 10:32 AM 2/26/2005, Eric F Crist wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: that the IP address for the 5.3 box gets changed on a fairly regular basis [snip] The 4.8 box's IP addr has been

Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-02-26 Thread Pat Maddox
I've been having a weird problem lately...when I download an email from my mailserver, the time is off by 7 hours. For example, if I receive an email at 9:30pm, it lists the time as 2:30pm in my mail client. I've determined that it's just a problem on received messages, because if I use my

Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-02-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 26 February 2005 08:38 pm, Pat Maddox wrote: I've been having a weird problem lately...when I download an email from my mailserver, the time is off by 7 hours. For example, if I receive an email at 9:30pm, it lists the time as 2:30pm in my mail client. I've determined that it's

Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-02-26 Thread Pat Maddox
I forgot to give a bit of info. My local machine has the correct time of 10:05PM, and the server has the correct time of 11:05PM. If I send an email from a mail account on the server to gmail, it has the correct time. If I send an email from gmail back to the server, that's when it has the

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread John
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:41:51 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote But I figured that if I always pull the index from an FTP site, it's guaranteed to be up to date. Isn't that true? It guarantees that the index will be up-to-date [0]. The index is not the port skeleton. To be honest, I don't know

Re: Constant mysterious SCSI errors

2005-02-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 26), Anthony Atkielski said: I get constant streams of messages concerning my disks on the console whenever I have a lot of disk activity on my system (2x SCSI disks, no IDE or other disks). I'd very much like to know what's going on (there's nothing wrong with the

FW: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:41:51 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote How much space have you got to play with? If space is tight, running make distclean after make install helps, as does periodically deleting the contents of /usr/ports/distfiles A refuse file would

RE: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Drews writes: If you think the FreeBSD community is a nightmare then why are you sticking around except to stir up strife ? It's the closest thing to support available for FreeBSD. There's nothing else. I do note, however, that only about 10% of my

RE: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And in cases where I've needed support, the very extensive knowledge base that Microsoft maintains has been useful. It's pretty lame in an absolute sense, but it's much better than anything that other vendors provide (although HP comes close, and probably matches it

RE: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris writes: This is simple. As someone has pointed out before, you need cvsup the ports tree then a portupgrade. Yes, after the cvsup and portupgrade you will have 1.0.1 There is no ports tree on the machine, so it cannot be out of date. Isn't the index

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-26 Thread Timothy Smith
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Drews writes: If you think the FreeBSD community is a nightmare then why are you sticking around except to stir up strife ? It's the closest thing to support available for FreeBSD. There's nothing else. I do note, however, that