Re: I can't see my user name in `pw group show wheel`

2006-12-22 Thread lveax
On 12/22/06, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lveax wrote: hey all. i found a problem just now. i added this user(in wheel group)with sysinstall when i install freebsd. $ id uid=1001(user) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 5(operator), 69(network) $ pw group show wheel

Could anybody tell me how to drive ATI Radeon X1300?

2006-12-22 Thread Janvier Pang
Dear everyone, A laptop (Acer Aspire 5100), and there's ATI Radeon X1300 on it. I've chose ati (general and radeon) driver in my xorg.conf, the X is fail to start: (EE) No devuces detected. could anybody tell me how to drive it? p.s. I searched the googel, and i found something named fglrx

Re: X server remote login and sound

2006-12-22 Thread Christian Walther
I'm not sure if sending uncompressed audio data over the network is such a good idea. I know that it works, but what actually happens is that you use a Windows machine to connect to a FreeBSD machine, just to send audio signals back to the Windows host (including all the graphics stuff required

Re: CUPS not working on FreeBSD 6.2-BETA

2006-12-22 Thread he ccjj
I meet this problem too! My KDE can't connect CUPS. And CUPS can't detect out my HP 5100 printer. On 11/29/06, Tino Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD people, Despite having started various attempts, I cannot print within KDE 3.5.4 on FreeBSD 6.2-BETA. I always receive error message

Browser Plugins - State of the Art???

2006-12-22 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi, I found out I need three plugins for opera, mozilla or whatever: - Java Runtime Enviroment - Linux Flash Player - Linux Realplayer JRE works nicely with native FreeBSD browsers, the Linux plugins can be run with Linux Browsers. (.pdf files can be viewed externally with Evince,

Re: Remove the cursor with Xorg

2006-12-22 Thread Kelvin Woods
On Thu, December 21, 2006 10:27, Olivier Regnier wrote: Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 with xorg version 6.9.0. I want to make the mouse cursor invisible. Can you help me please ? Thank you :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [ot] can I have an account on your host? (so that I can edit wikipedia)

2006-12-22 Thread Fabian Keil
Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:59:59AM +0800, ? wrote: Hello. I am from China and I'd like to contribute to wikipedia, but this is not easy / possible because we cannot access wikipedia from inland (the great firewall) and my usual method

Re: Browser Plugins - State of the Art???

2006-12-22 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, P.U.Kruppa wrote: I found out I need three plugins for opera, mozilla or whatever: - Java Runtime Enviroment - Linux Flash Player - Linux Realplayer JRE works nicely with native FreeBSD browsers, the Linux plugins can be run with Linux Browsers. (.pdf files can be viewed

Re: Acer Aspire WLMi 5102 with AMD Turion 64 X2 system hanging with powerd on 6.2-RC1 and 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-22 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 12/21/06, Scot Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/20/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, I have problem with my laptop Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi which has AMD Turion™ 64 X2 dual-core TL-50 1.6 GHz with 1.5 GB of ram. I'm running i386 6.2-RC1 upgraded to

Re: I can't see my user name in `pw group show wheel`

2006-12-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
lveax wrote: On 12/22/06, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The primary group is defined in /etc/master.passwd -- the gid number is put into the third field. Eg: consider the standard system user bin: happy-idiot-talk:~:% id bin uid=3(bin) gid=7(bin) groups=7(bin)

Drivers for an old pcmcia ethernet card, help.

2006-12-22 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, I've an old laptop, fujitsu http://www.epinions.com/cmhd-Notebooks-All-Fujitsu_Lifebook_i_Series/display_~full_specs and I installed freeBSD6.1 on it. A friend gave me a pcmcia ethernet card: GVC PCM-002bt but freeBSD hasn't drivers for it. I've searched on Internet without results. I was

Dell PERC5 (SAS 5) controller boot flr

2006-12-22 Thread Thomas Kindig
Drive is detected and install is successful, however on reboot the drive drops out. Cannot boot in any mode. This is a new Dell PowerEdge 1950 server with a single 160G ATA HD, but with a PERC 5/i controller. I have been to the Dell Support boards, but this OS is not supported so they are not

FreeBSD and HP ML110 G3

2006-12-22 Thread Jonathan Horne
i have not one, but 2 clients who in the very near future are taking delivery of a ML110 G3, and have contacted me to build a freebsd server on them. the ML110 has an intel E7230 chipset on the motherboard. this page: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html ... says that a

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2006-12-22 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2006-12-22 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-22 Thread Simon Chang
rant snip Folks, I too had a recent epiphany about something that I wish to share with you. It's not about operating systems; it's about terabyte_pete, the original poster who initiated this message. Terabyte_pete, or Peter Daigle as some know him, has been trolling several other mailing

Re: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls?

2006-12-22 Thread a
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:42:37PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 21), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:35PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 19), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls, i. e. ls | less ?

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-22 Thread usleepless
Simon, On 12/22/06, Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rant snip If you are located anywhere close to Grover Beach, California, please feel free to drop by his office and let him know how much we appreciate his pseudo-intellectual analyses of operating systems. His office is just off the

boot iso atheros

2006-12-22 Thread Steve Franks
Anyone know if the boot iso supports atheros wifi (ath)? If not, is that planned in 6.2-stable? Make installation quicker in a wifi-only environment, that's all. What about wap wep? Obviously, they would require an additional configuration menu beyond the standard if/ip config screen, or at

Re: X server remote login and sound

2006-12-22 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Christian Walther wrote: I'm not sure if sending uncompressed audio data over the network is such a good idea. Are you sure that esd does not compress the data? By the way, esd can be used with any audio application. It can emulate a real soundcard. Example follows. On the server (where

Spamassassin error

2006-12-22 Thread Beech Rintoul
I just set up spamassassin on one of my servers. Everything appears to be working properly, except I'm seeing this error in the maillog: Dec 22 08:49:57 pinnacle spamd[25077]: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Permission denied. Anyone have an idea how to fix this? Beech

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-22 Thread stas khromoy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thanks for the help guys ! Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:28:27AM -0500, stas khromoy wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey folks we are working on building a failover server. now everything is going

What options to netstat will tell me what protocols are listening on what ports?

2006-12-22 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, In Linux, I would normally use 'netstat -tl' to see a listing of all listening ports on the tcp protocol; however I'm not having as much luck in determining what options I need for netstat in FreeBSD. What are the options that I need to use? Andy

freebsd on i386-type internet appliance and cf card

2006-12-22 Thread Steve Franks
So, I've installed freebsd on a compact flash card sucessfully in my laptop (or so it looks - sysinstall completes to /dev/ad4, copies everything, no errors, etc) with the regular harddisk removed (for safety, of course). Only it won't boot on the internet appliance when I stick the CF in there

Re: Dell PERC5 (SAS 5) controller boot flr

2006-12-22 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 22, 2006 8:51:43 AM -0700 Thomas Kindig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drive is detected and install is successful, however on reboot the drive drops out. Cannot boot in any mode. This is a new Dell PowerEdge 1950 server with a single 160G ATA HD, but with a PERC 5/i controller. I

Re: Spamassassin error

2006-12-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 12/22/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just set up spamassassin on one of my servers. Everything appears to be working properly, except I'm seeing this error in the maillog: Dec 22 08:49:57 pinnacle spamd[25077]: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Permission

Re: X server remote login and sound

2006-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Christian Walther wrote: I'm not sure if sending uncompressed audio data over the network is such a good idea. Are you sure that esd does not compress the data? By the way, esd can be used with any audio application. It can emulate a real soundcard. Example follows.

Re: freeBSD - Apache php configuration

2006-12-22 Thread Xian
On Friday 22 December 2006 04:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I want to install php with apache in freebsd unix. I installed apache2 and php 5.2.0. But php file not working and also i want to know the method of running. A long time ago I seem to remember having to do step 15 from

Re: How to change users rights for a symboliked file.

2006-12-22 Thread Xian
On Thursday 21 December 2006 10:16, Halid Faith wrote: I use Freebsd6.1. I want to give a symbolic link for a directory with ln -s as below; cd / ln -s /var/tmp/ tmp2 ls -l /var/tmp lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Dec 21 10:12 tmp - /var/tmp I change write of user and group but i

Re: What options to netstat will tell me what protocols are listening on what ports?

2006-12-22 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:04:07PM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: In Linux, I would normally use 'netstat -tl' to see a listing of all listening ports on the tcp protocol; however I'm not having as much luck in determining what options I need for netstat in FreeBSD. What are the options that I

Re: How to change users rights for a symboliked file.

2006-12-22 Thread Xian
I mean to say from the man page: -h If the file is a symbolic link, change the mode of the link itself rather than the file that the link points to. -- /Xian Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein

Re: What options to netstat will tell me what protocols are listeningon what ports?

2006-12-22 Thread Jon Krause
From: Andrew Falanga : Hi, : : In Linux, I would normally use 'netstat -tl' to see a listing of all : listening ports on the tcp protocol; however I'm not having as much luck in : determining what options I need for netstat in FreeBSD. What are the : options that I need to use? : : Andy See

Re: Dell PERC5 (SAS 5) controller boot flr

2006-12-22 Thread Thomas Kindig
At 03:00 PM 12/22/2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On December 22, 2006 8:51:43 AM -0700 Thomas Kindig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'm not clear on why you have PERC5/i with only one drive. Is the drive partitioned and set up with RAID1? I was thinking I might avoid proprietary controller

Re: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls?

2006-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:35PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 19), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls, i. e. ls | less ? Yes, ls | less is the way to do it. You can add a shell alias to make it easier

Re: freeBSD - Apache php configuration

2006-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
Xian wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 04:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I want to install php with apache in freebsd unix. I installed apache2 and php 5.2.0. But php file not working and also i want to know the method of running. A long time ago I seem to remember having to do

Re: 3ware raid array

2006-12-22 Thread hal
On Dec 21, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Thursday 21 December 2006 18:01, hal wrote: On Dec 21, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Eric wrote: hal wrote: Is there software that will let me manage a 3Ware raid array while FreeBSD is running? Here is what I have: FreeBSD 6.1 3Ware 7500-8 and

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and when you stop by: bring him a windows 95 for dummies book as well. regards, usleep Actually, I have vintage discounted copies of UNIX for dummies, which might be invaluable in this case, and Windows 3.11 for dummies, which would serve the rest of us quite

Re: freeBSD network error

2006-12-22 Thread Xian
On Friday 22 December 2006 06:02, freebsd wrote: Hi all I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 unix recently. But I am not able to configure network (internet). I am having leased line with Realtek gigabit ethernet NIC. When I try to configure it is not showing the interface itself on sysinstall.

nvida driver on amd64

2006-12-22 Thread Modulok
First of all, I'm not asking for a step by step guide...just needing someone to point me in the right direction: There is a FreeBSD project un-officially named project evil which allows one to use binary drivers from Microsoft windows for network interface cards that are not natively supported.

java/diablo-jre15 without xlib?

2006-12-22 Thread Josh Tolbert
Hello, Is there any way to install java/diablo-jre15 without installing X libraries? Thanks, Josh -- Josh Tolbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Re: make world for a jail

2006-12-22 Thread Fred Condo
On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Robin Becker wrote: I'm trying to make world for a jail build following the recipe in http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/09/04/jails.html First off I started by updating the src tree. I copied /usr/share/ examples/cvsup/stable-supfile edited the host name

Re: What options to netstat will tell me what protocols are listeningon what ports?

2006-12-22 Thread Nicolas Blais
On Friday 22 December 2006 16:52, Jon Krause wrote: From: Andrew Falanga : Hi, : : In Linux, I would normally use 'netstat -tl' to see a listing of all : listening ports on the tcp protocol; however I'm not having as much luck in : determining what options I need for netstat in FreeBSD.

Re: freeBSD network error

2006-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
Xian wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 06:02, freebsd wrote: Hi all I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 unix recently. But I am not able to configure network (internet). I am having leased line with Realtek gigabit ethernet NIC. When I try to configure it is not showing the interface itself on

looking for advice on NAS

2006-12-22 Thread Peter Matulis
I am currently setting up a FreeBSD box that is currently running some ugly kind of Linux (Mandrakelinux?). It currently has 350 GB of data residing in Samba shares so I am thinking about exporting storage to a NAS device. So I am looking for advice or comments on this move. I am attracted by a

Re: nvida driver on amd64

2006-12-22 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 22 December 2006 17:08, Modulok wrote: First of all, I'm not asking for a step by step guide...just needing someone to point me in the right direction: There is a FreeBSD project un-officially named project evil which allows one to use binary drivers from Microsoft windows for

firefox can't save file

2006-12-22 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
HI, my firefox and linux-firefox can't save files, all i got is in the dmesg, that said Warning: pid 87165 used static ldt allocation. See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info what shall i do?? TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list