re: problems with a LaCie USB disk

2006-10-10 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I have further informations about a problem I described some days ago. With FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 on a Dell PowerEdge 850, when I plug a brand new LaCie 500 GB USB disk I have this: Sep 28 18:24:57 polaris kernel: umass0: LaCie Group.SA BigDisk Extreme, rev 2.00/1.18, addr 2 Sep 28 18:24:59 po

Re: How-to maintain upgrade??

2006-10-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 00:38, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 06:35:37PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > On Monday 09 October 2006 17:53, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > I kind of do the same thing on a weekly basis. I created a shell script > > that runs the following: > > > > cd /

Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface

2006-10-10 Thread Michael S
I didn't follow all the "dialog". But if the only thing desired is a cheapskate webmail interface, as the title suggests, would Usermin be an option? --- jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/9/06, Desmond Coughlan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes, I did everything mentioned in th

Re: How to change all /bin/bash at /etc/passwd to /sbin/nologin?

2006-10-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not recommend using vipw [...] to change your users' shells. Why not? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mai

Re: How to change all /bin/bash at /etc/passwd to /sbin/nologin?

2006-10-10 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Alex Zbyslaw [freebsd] [10-10-06 11:57 +0100]: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | >I would not recommend using vipw [...] to change your users' shells. | > | Why not? | | --Alex man pw and look for '-s' option Though it many need little bit of scripting. This may be useful to automate the proce

RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface

2006-10-10 Thread Desmond Coughlan
X-No-Archive: true > try to telnet port 143, if you can't connect it means you don't have an IMAP server Thanks, yes I _thought_ that I had installed the Cyrus server from the ports collection A manual install is running, as I write these words. D. -

RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface

2006-10-10 Thread Desmond Coughlan
X-No-Archive: true *sigh* rachi# ./configure --with-bdb=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.5 --with-sasl=/usr/local/include/sasl ... checking for sasl/sasl.h... no configure: error: Cannot continue without libsasl2. Get it from ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/. But ...

Re: How-to maintain upgrade??

2006-10-10 Thread Robert Huff
Gerard Seibert writes: > >Why, exactly, you remove the distfiles? > > I just like to remove files that are neither needed or more than likely > outdated. Are you aware of the "DD" option for portsclean? Robert Huff _

RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface

2006-10-10 Thread Desmond Coughlan
X-No-Archive: true > uninstall cyrus and install dovecot from the ports tree. its small, > lightweight, and fast. > > are you trying to install stuff without using the ports tree? Yeah. I used to do Solaris admin (Jesus, you'd never know it...), and usually prefer installing software

Re: cheapskate webmail interface

2006-10-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
The Subject: header has gradually grown to: > Subject: Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface Please, please, edit it or use an email client that does. It's in danger of getting silly now. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Something Like Beagle

2006-10-10 Thread Tom Grove
backyard wrote: --- Tom Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there something like beagle that runs on FreeBSD? If not is it something that people would like to see ported? -Tom Beagle the personal data indexer, or open beagle the evolutionary computation system? The personel data

dovecot installed

2006-10-10 Thread Desmond Coughlan
Better ? :) Sorry, I'm using yahoo and IE. It sucks. D. - Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Demandez à ceux qui savent sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses.

Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface

2006-10-10 Thread Eric
Desmond Coughlan wrote: > X-No-Archive: true > > *sigh* > > rachi# ./configure --with-bdb=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.5 > --with-sasl=/usr/local/include/sasl > ... > checking for sasl/sasl.h... no > configure: error: Cannot continue without libsasl2. > Get it from ftp://ftp.a

bind problem

2006-10-10 Thread Robin Tiwari
i've configured dns server in freeBSD 6.1 but when i query the server it wont resolve my domain name. i've added in resolv.conf also and my bind daemon is also running without any errors. i couldnt figure out the problem. if any suggestion please help me __

Re: problems ssh'ing debug1: An invalid name was supplied (OSX client)

2006-10-10 Thread David Robillard
any clues why ssh is hanging before a prompt is provided from the server side. this prompt stalling behavior is only happening when I am coming from my OSX ssh client. Any clues on this? I have never see this betwe. I had this problem when DNS was broken for the FreeBSD server and the MacOS X cl

Re: bind problem

2006-10-10 Thread Lothar Braun
Hi Robin, On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:22, Robin Tiwari wrote: > i've configured dns server in freeBSD 6.1 but when i query the server it > wont resolve my domain name. i've added in resolv.conf also and my bind > daemon is also running without any errors. i couldnt figure out the > problem. if a

aclocal19 doesn't find macros

2006-10-10 Thread Lothar Braun
Hi list, i'm trying to work on a configure.ac which contains the line AM_PATH_XML2(2.4.0,,AC_MSG_ERROR([*** LibXML version $XML_VERSION not found!])) When i process it with aclocal15 everything works fine. But if i take aclocal19 for that job, i'll get the error message: aclocal:configure.ac

Re: Re: mount_msdosfs 240G

2006-10-10 Thread Kevin Sanders
On 10/9/06, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 18:43, Kevin Sanders wrote: > On 9/26/06, Alistair Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26/09/06, sanya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had a similar problem when trying to mount a 180G USB drive. > > > > Recompi

Re: unable to find makeobjops.pl

2006-10-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Antoine Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was reading about kernel objects in the "FreeBSD Architecture Handbook" > and noticed that there is no "src/sys/kern/makeobjops.pl " in my src tree. > The section I was looking at is 3.3.5 . Anyone knows where it went? Looks like it was turned int

Re: problems ssh'ing debug1: An invalid name was supplied (OSX client)

2006-10-10 Thread Lothar Braun
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:29, David Robillard wrote: > >> any clues why ssh is hanging before a prompt is provided from the > >> server side. this prompt stalling behavior is only happening when I > >> am coming from my OSX ssh client. Any clues on this? I have never see > >> this betwe. > > I

Re: How does useradd determine the default mailbox/maildir location for new users

2006-10-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Niek Dekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am running Exim 4.62 MTA on FBSD 6.0_release. > When I create a new user using useradd, a mailbox file for the new > user is created in /var/mail. I assume you mean adduser(8). > As I am using Maildir with maildirs in /var/mail, I do not want that. Hm

Re: How-to maintain upgrade??

2006-10-10 Thread Gerard
Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Are you aware of the "DD" option for portsclean? Yes, I have read the 'man' pages, or as they are routinely referred to: 'Much About Nothing' documentation. -- Gerard Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with three consecutive double let

Re: dovecot installed -- WAS: Re: cheapskate webmail interface

2006-10-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
Desmond Coughlan wrote: > Better ? :) > > Sorry, I'm using yahoo and IE. It sucks. 1) Why did you change the subject? 2) I have used IE with Yahoo and have not experienced the problems that you seem to be experiencing. Are you sure that this is not a case of 'PEBKC' phenomena? -- Gerard

Re: dovecot installed -- WAS: Re: cheapskate webmail interface

2006-10-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Microsoft has an extra security pack for IE and if you download it and install it, it will break a lot of these kinds of webinterface sites. Sorry I cannot be more explicit, the only machine I am responsible for that has this thing on it which breaks ssites, was setup by one of the other admins an

how to route my public IP

2006-10-10 Thread runlevel 3
hello, i'm new to this freebsd, my office has 16 public IP and divide to 4 branch, each branch has 3 public ip's. my problem is, I want to make all branch connect to the main office's router, but what I found is, all branch is showed by the internet using one public IP (my main router IP) not thei

Re: How does useradd determine the default mailbox/maildir location for new users

2006-10-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Niek Dekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am running Exim 4.62 MTA on FBSD 6.0_release. When I create a new user using useradd, a mailbox file for the new user is created in /var/mail. As I am using Maildir with maildirs in /var/mail, I do not want that. And none of those

Re: Something Like Beagle

2006-10-10 Thread backyard
--- Tom Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > backyard wrote: > > --- Tom Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Is there something like beagle that runs on > FreeBSD? > >> If not is it > >> something that people would like to see ported? > >> > >> -Tom > >> > > > > > > Beagle the

Re: how to route my public IP

2006-10-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 10, 2006, at 8:58 AM, runlevel 3 wrote: hello, i'm new to this freebsd, my office has 16 public IP and divide to 4 branch, each branch has 3 public ip's. my problem is, I want to make all branch connect to the main office's router, but what I found is, all branch is showed by the interne

Re: Using portconf and /usr/local/etc/ports.conf

2006-10-10 Thread backyard
--- James Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 05:15:28 -0700 (PDT) > > From: backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Using portconf and > /usr/local/etc/ports.conf > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain

Segfaulting perl

2006-10-10 Thread David King
When trying to run fetchyahoo (from ports), perl dumps core. It appears to be dumping core in OpenSSL. I've tried recompiling/ reinstalling all ports related to fetchyahoo, perl, and openssl. This happens whether or not I enable SSL in fetchyahoo's configuration. It gets as far as: ~% fetch

Re: how to route my public IP

2006-10-10 Thread Derek Ragona
This is a problem with your router's configuration. You may need better routers, that can handle the routing of your subnet in addition to your internet usage. -Derek At 10:58 AM 10/10/2006, runlevel 3 wrote: hello, i'm new to this freebsd, my office has 16 public IP and divide to 4

.dmg files?

2006-10-10 Thread Drew Sanford
Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on FreeBSD? I have checked in ports/archivers and can't find anything that looks like it will do it, and google turns up nothing of any use that I've found yet. Have I missed something, or can this really not be done? Drew __

Re: minimum requirements

2006-10-10 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On 10/9/06, Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/09/06 12:00, free bsd wrote: > Thank you everyone for responding to my initial question. > > In hindsight I realize I worded my original inquiry inaccurately. What I am attempting to determine is how well or if ver 6.1 will work on a 4

KDE Control Center

2006-10-10 Thread Rem P Roberti
When I bring up the Control Center in KDE the left column is now blank, and I have no options for changing preferences. Anyone know what happened there? Everything else seems to be functioning fine. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to change all /bin/bash at /etc/passwd to /sbin/nologin?

2006-10-10 Thread up
Because that's what pw is for...you don't need to worry about accidentally deleting a colon, for example. A script using pw would also be a huge timesaver over manually editing hundreds of entries, I'd think as well. Of course, sed can do it even quicker, but with the same risks. On Tue, 10 Oct

Re: .dmg files?

2006-10-10 Thread backyard
--- Drew Sanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on > FreeBSD? I have checked > in ports/archivers and can't find anything that > looks like it will do > it, and google turns up nothing of any use that I've > found yet. Have I > missed something, or c

6.1-stable + Wireless + ndiswrapper kernel crash

2006-10-10 Thread Athanasios Zorbas
Hello all, I am experiencing a very strange problem with FreeBSD 6.1-stable. I do not know if this could be a bug report, so please tell me what you think. I have a D-Link G520+ wireless card configured and running with ndiswrapper. The network seems stable and if there is not many network traff

Help

2006-10-10 Thread Nikola Popovski
Hi for the first time i have install FreeBsd 6.1 and i have a problem. I use standard setup and when a make all partition for BSD root swap usr then the problem begins. The messege "Unable to write data to disk ad2!" I make just one partition on the disk. CAN you help me Please write to me.

Creating a Super user Account

2006-10-10 Thread alena eckert
Hello, I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows this employees id or password to update information. Can you please advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user account wi

Re: How does useradd determine the default mailbox/maildir location for new users

2006-10-10 Thread Niek Dekker
Hi Lowell, thanks for the clarification. I'll have a look at the adduser script and probably make my own version. Regards, Niek Lowell Gilbert wrote: Niek Dekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am running Exim 4.62 MTA on FBSD 6.0_release. When I create a new user using useradd, a mailbox

Re: Creating a Super user Account

2006-10-10 Thread Eric
alena eckert wrote: > Hello, > > > > I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only > employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows > this employees id or password to update information. Can you please > advise how we can create new accounts and

unattended restore in script

2006-10-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi all I've got commands like this in a script which is supposed to do an unattended clone of a hard disk dump 0af - /usr |restore xf - It does the dump and restore ok but then stops and prompts me with something like DUMP: DUMP IS DONE set owner/mode for '.'? [y/n] Can I modify the com

Re: Creating a Super user Account

2006-10-10 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:57:54PM -0400, alena eckert wrote: > Hello, > > > > I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only > employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows > this employees id or password to update information. Can you please >

Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

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

OOo-204rc3, package

2006-10-10 Thread Gary Kline
Is there a means of downloading the 2.0.4rc3 package for openoffice? The latest on the OO website is 2.0.3. portupgrade shrugs. I think this is the last thing to replace/upgrade. thanks, people, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Creating a Super user Account

2006-10-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"alena eckert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only > employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows > this employees id or password to update information. Can you please > advise how we can create new accounts

dual core AMD chips

2006-10-10 Thread Brian
How good is the SMP support now for AMD X2 chips? Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: dual core AMD chips

2006-10-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:21:51PM -0700, Brian wrote: > How good is the SMP support now for AMD X2 chips? Fine. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: Creating a Super user Account

2006-10-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:57:54PM -0400, alena eckert wrote: > Hello, > > > > I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only > employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows > this employees id or password to update information. Can you please >

Re: ssh tunnel - remote access through nat

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

Re: ssh tunnel - remote access through nat

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

Re: dual core AMD chips

2006-10-10 Thread Brian
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:21:51PM -0700, Brian wrote: How good is the SMP support now for AMD X2 chips? Fine. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: dual core AMD chips

2006-10-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:04:44PM -0700, Brian wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:21:51PM -0700, Brian wrote: > > > >>How good is the SMP support now for AMD X2 chips? > >> > > > >Fine. > > > >Kris > >___ > >freebsd-questi

Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

2006-10-10 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:59:34PM +0200, martinko wrote: > Mike Friedman wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE and I want to run a current Oracle > > client-only with encryption support. > > > > First, I installed the Oracle client port, which represents Oracle 7. > > But my database support

Re: .dmg files?

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 13:51:46 -0500 Drew Sanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on FreeBSD? I have checked in ports/archivers and can't find anything that looks like it will do it, and google turns up nothing of any use that I've found yet. Hav

Re: dual core AMD chips

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 14:21:51 -0700 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How good is the SMP support now for AMD X2 chips? I'm running 6.0 RELEASE and not having any problems. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http:/

problems using gmirror

2006-10-10 Thread Tom Worster
i've been trying to use the procedure described at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html i followed it to the letter. i'm using the install cd from from the freebsd 6.1-release iso. my primary disk is on sata-0 which is /dev/ad4 on my dell poweredge 400sc. in the label

Re: .dmg files?

2006-10-10 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Oct 10, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 13:51:46 -0500 Drew Sanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on FreeBSD? I have checked in ports/archivers and can't find anything that looks like it will do it, and goo

Re: ssh tunnel - remote access through nat

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

Re: .dmg files?

2006-10-10 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2006/10/10 14:10, Paul Schmehl seems to have typed: > --On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 13:51:46 -0500 Drew Sanford > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on FreeBSD? I have checked >> in ports/archivers and can't find anything that looks like it will do it

Re: requesting help to make sound work on thin/diskless client

2006-10-10 Thread Raymond Gibson
On Monday 09 October 2006 19:43, Doug Poland wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:00:23PM -0500, Raymond Gibson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for help. I built a thin/diskless client that I boot via > > etherboot. After power up the client boots and gives me a login > > prompt. At that time

Re: wxGlade error

2006-10-10 Thread Rod Person
thanks I only had wxPython-common installed. I had to install wxPython-2.6, now it works. On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 21:03 -0400, Michael S wrote: > Have you just installed wxPython? > Maybe you need to execute the rehash command? > > What if you try running python from the command line, > and try imp

iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
This report seems pretty vague. I'm unsure as to whether the alleged "bug" gives the user any more permissions than he'd already have? Anyone know any details? FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06 http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vul

Re: iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability

2006-10-10 Thread Colin Percival
Bill Moran wrote: > This report seems pretty vague. I'm unsure as to whether the alleged > "bug" gives the user any more permissions than he'd already have? Anyone > know any details? This is a local denial of service bug, which was fixed 6 weeks ago in HEAD and RELENG_6. There is no opportunit

Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

2006-10-10 Thread Scott T. Hildreth
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 17:09 -0500, Damian Wiest wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:59:34PM +0200, martinko wrote: > > Mike Friedman wrote: > > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE and I want to run a current Oracle > > > client-only with encryption support. > > > > > > First, I installed the Oracle

Re: iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > This report seems pretty vague. I'm unsure as to whether the alleged > > "bug" gives the user any more permissions than he'd already have? Anyone > > know any details? > > This is a local denial of service bug, which was fixed 6

FAILURE - READ_DMA error

2006-10-10 Thread Hadi Maleki
Hello, Just a quick question, on this one server ( custom server in a 1U supermicro case p4 3.0ghz 1gb ram) I keep on getting HD errors… I replaced many drives and I always get the same error. I just replaced my motherboard and went to a SATA drive from IDE… In the middle of a FreeBSD install..

Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-10 Thread cothrige
I am a complete newb to BSD trying to get started learning a bit about how to make my way in it. I have been using Slackware over the last four years or so, and this has made me a bit used to one way of doing things and now the FreeBSD way is kind of rattling me. For some background, I installed

Re: .dmg files?

2006-10-10 Thread David King
Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on FreeBSD? I have checked in ports/archivers and can't find anything that looks like it will do it, and google turns up nothing of any use that I've found yet. Have I missed something, or can this really not be done? Take a look at

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-10 Thread ke han
Patrick, Since you are already knowledgeable of X-11 apps on slackware, this opinion may not concern you. My opinion of FreeBSD is do not try to configure X-11 desktops and apps with it. Its just too much effort. I have the same opinion of any *nix system that require the user to install/c

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
ke han wrote: Patrick, Since you are already knowledgeable of X-11 apps on slackware, this opinion may not concern you. My opinion of FreeBSD is do not try to configure X-11 desktops and apps with it. Its just too much effort. I have the same opinion of any *nix system that require the user

Re: iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability

2006-10-10 Thread Colin Percival
Bill Moran wrote: > Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is a local denial of service bug, which was fixed 6 weeks ago in HEAD ^^^ > That was what I expected. Section III seems to hint that it could be > used by an unprivilidged user to crash or lo

Re: Help

2006-10-10 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On 10/10/06, Nikola Popovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi for the first time i have install FreeBsd 6.1 and i have a problem. I use standard setup and when a make all partition for BSD root swap usr then the problem begins. The messege "Unable to write data to disk ad2!" I make just one partit

idle auto logoff

2006-10-10 Thread Noah
Hi there, I recently took over the adminstration of a FreeBSD machine at work and cannot figure out what is auto logging me off when I am idled on the machine. Might somebody have some ideas about how I can hunt this down so I can stop it? cheers, Noah __

Re: idle auto logoff

2006-10-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
> I recently took over the adminstration of a FreeBSD machine at work and > cannot figure out what is auto logging me off when I am idled on the > machine. Are you ruunning something called idled? Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: idle auto logoff

2006-10-10 Thread Noah
Olivier Nicole wrote: I recently took over the adminstration of a FreeBSD machine at work and cannot figure out what is auto logging me off when I am idled on the machine. Are you ruunning something called idled? I checked that - the answer is no. cheers, Noah Olivier __

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-10 Thread cothrige
* Garrett Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Btw (Off-topic, but true): > Nothing in Gentoo (or FreeBSD or any other variant of Unix for that > matter) says you have to install KDE ;). You can install the same > metapackage in any Unix OS, if you love the bloat--uh, I mean > functionality--o

RE: idle auto logoff

2006-10-10 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah > Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2006 4:14 PM > To: Olivier Nicole > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: idle auto logoff > > Olivier Nicole wrote: > >> I recently took over the adminstr

Re: KDE Control Center

2006-10-10 Thread doug
I guess would be that one or more configuration files got messed up. An easy way to test this is to create another user and see if it works for the new login. If so you can perhaps find the file or if you do not have too much invested in configuration logout and remove .kde from the console.

custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-10 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Hope you can advise me. I have a FreeBSD 6.1 stable system for which I want to build a custom kernel. However, I am scared to death (almost ;) and just want to make sure I have it done the right way. I have in the past used supfile with ports-all option and couldn't build a custom ker