Re: can anybody explain?

2007-11-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:41:44PM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:01:50 -0800 > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since my line went dead last Friday I've been having troubles > > simply building a new kernel. I cvsup'd RELENG_6_2 last time, > > rebu

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-28 Thread Bruce Cran
Brian wrote: Isn't 1000 an unrealistically high value? Brian On a system with only 2 cores and 2GB RAM - yes. I'm not sure that even with a huge number of cores you'd get much benefit from running such a massively parallel make, unless the build system is more intelligent than I think it is

Re: Looking for IRC(chat) network with #freebsd channel (English language)

2007-11-28 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 15:42 +0800, williamkow wrote: [...] > *NickServ * Password > accepted > - you are now recognized > > =-= User mode for wwwkow is now +e then you join #FreeBSD, type below command: /join #FreeBSD is there anything else i can help you? > Do you

Re: how to compile and install a new driver

2007-11-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chuck Robey wrote: Nice description, but you'd better include enough info so that they could make FreeBSD-stype diffs: diff has the unfortunate default of making an output that is compatible with ed(1). This supplies extremely little information to use, in case the file you're trying to patc

Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

2007-11-28 Thread Chris
On 26/11/2007, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course not :P What are the PR references? > > > Try this. > > > > Login to twice on ssh. > > If not root su both to root. > > using the 2nd tty do a watch -W on the first tty. > > on the first tty type 'killall watch' > > you have now

Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

2007-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chris wrote: On 26/11/2007, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course not :P What are the PR references? Try this. Login to twice on ssh. If not root su both to root. using the 2nd tty do a watch -W on the first tty. on the first tty type 'killall watch' you have now crashed freebs

Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

2007-11-28 Thread Chris
On 28/11/2007, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris wrote: > > On 26/11/2007, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Of course not :P What are the PR references? > >> > >>> Try this. > >>> > >>> Login to twice on ssh. > >>> If not root su both to root. > >>> using the 2nd tt

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Brian wrote: There's a thread on the -stable list about 8 cores being an issue in a very specific case. I couldn't imagine setting j to something more than 2x or 3x at the most of your available cores. So it's okay by you that freebsd utilities crash when you overload them? Not to me ;-)

Kernel Compile Error

2007-11-28 Thread Schiz0
Hey, I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE. I recently csuped the source code (src-all) and built world. I then tried to "make buildkernel", and it ran for a little while, then gave the following error and stopped: http://schiz0.securityexploits.com/make.buildkernel.out The error is at the bottom -

Re: Kernel Compile Error

2007-11-28 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Schiz0 wrote: > Hey, > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE. I recently csuped the source code > (src-all) and built world. > I then tried to "make buildkernel", and it ran for a little while, > then gave the following error and stopped: > > http://schiz0.securityexploits.com/make.buildkernel.out

2nd try : tap SIOCIFCREATE failure

2007-11-28 Thread Alain G. Fabry
When creating the tap interface, my system gives the following FreeBSD# uname -a FreeBSD FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 11 0xc040 6f7554 kernel 21 0xc0af8000 140c0snd_hda.ko 32 0xc0b0d000 479a8sound.ko 41 0xc0b55000 1d278

Network Configuration with Jails.

2007-11-28 Thread Félix Langelier
Hello, I run a FreeBSD Jailer and I want to have multiple jails in 2 seperate networks. The server has 2 network interfaces and each of them are connected in a different network. Say vlan1 and vlan2. My problem is that all the network traffic is going through the first interface (vlan1). What

Re: 2nd try : tap SIOCIFCREATE failure

2007-11-28 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2007 15:00:35 schrieb Alain G. Fabry: > FreeBSD# uname -a > FreeBSD FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE > FreeBSD# kldstat > Id Refs AddressSize Name > 1 11 0xc040 6f7554 kernel > 21 0xc0af8000 140c0snd_hda.ko > 32 0xc0b0d000 479a8sound.ko > 41 0xc0

Re: Network Configuration with Jails.

2007-11-28 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Félix Langelier wrote: > Hello, > > I run a FreeBSD Jailer and I want to have multiple jails in 2 seperate > networks. The server has 2 network interfaces and each of them are connected > in a different network. Say vlan1 and vlan2. > > My problem is that all the network traffic is going throug

Re: 2nd try : tap SIOCIFCREATE failure

2007-11-28 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Alain G. Fabry wrote: > When creating the tap interface, my system gives the following > > FreeBSD# uname -a > FreeBSD FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE > FreeBSD# kldstat > Id Refs AddressSize Name > 1 11 0xc040 6f7554 kernel > 21 0xc0af8000 140c0snd_hda.ko > 32 0xc0b0d000 479a8

Re: Finding and installing new locale

2007-11-28 Thread Nikola Lečić
У уторак, 28. новембра 2007 у 17:24:47, "Westin Shafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> је написао(ла): > Thanks for the info. I had not seen that doc. However localedef and > makelocale are not valid commands. I also checked out the port tree > and these tools are not located there either. Are these Linu

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-28 Thread Mark Evans
find no aliease for "ls -l" df returns the following. So looks like there is restill about 40 G on the partition. ilesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/aacd0s1a 97G 57G 33G64%/ devfs1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev devfs1.0

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-28 Thread Mark Evans
No we are not using NIS. it is a large directory i am listing. actually it is the /usr/home directory, and is probably the largest on the system. However "ls -l" runs for close to six minutesand spends the 10 seconds scrolling the screen with the results. so i wait ls to start showing the re

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-28 Thread Jeff Mohler
HOW large is the directory? ls | wc -l On Nov 28, 2007 7:44 AM, Mark Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No we are not using NIS. > > it is a large directory i am listing. actually it is the /usr/home > directory, and is probably the largest on the system. However "ls -l" runs > for close to s

Re: short Q

2007-11-28 Thread Bob Johnson
On 11/27/07, jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Originally, I was in a hurry and was having trouble with ports. This > approach had > worked for three machines. But one I was having endless problems with. > Meanwhile > I got it together to get ports to work. But the port did not install a > st

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-28 Thread James Harrison
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:44 -0600, Mark Evans wrote: > No we are not using NIS. > > it is a large directory i am listing. actually it is the /usr/home > directory, and is probably the largest on the system. However "ls -l" runs > for close to six minutesand spends the 10 seconds scrolling the s

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-28 Thread Mark Evans
ls | wc returns " 88368836 71583" Thanks Mark - Original Message - From: Jeff Mohler To: Mark Evans Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:52 AM Subject: Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish. HOW large is the directory? ls | wc -l

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-28 Thread cpghost
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:44:03 -0600 "Mark Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No we are not using NIS. > > it is a large directory i am listing. actually it is the /usr/home > directory, and is probably the largest on the system. However "ls -l" > runs for close to six minutesand spends the 10 s

skype cannot login

2007-11-28 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Hi All, My network configuration is a bit odd: Internet --- SMC Hardware Router (192.168.1.0/225.255.255.0) --- FreeBSD Gateway --- (192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0) --- Client computer - skype is running on the client computer. - The FreeBSD Gateway is a co

Re: Kernel Compile Error

2007-11-28 Thread Schiz0
On Nov 28, 2007 8:47 AM, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Schiz0 wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE. I recently csuped the source code > > (src-all) and built world. > > I then tried to "make buildkernel", and it ran for a little while, > > then gave the follo

Re: Kernel Compile Error

2007-11-28 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Schiz0 wrote: > On Nov 28, 2007 8:47 AM, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Schiz0 wrote: >>> Hey, >>> >>> I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE. I recently csuped the source code >>> (src-all) and built world. >>> I then tried to "make buildkernel", and it ran for a little while, >>> th

remove X11

2007-11-28 Thread Jeff Maxwell
I have X11 installed on a server 6.1. Is there an easy way to remove it all? Do I have to remove each package individually? Jeff Maxwell POS Department Manager Uni-Marts, LLC VM 814-234-6000 Fax 570-829-4390 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

2007-11-28 Thread Chris
On 28/11/2007, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately both of these are not high quality PR submissions, which > is probably why no action has been taken yet. At least in the first one > you give a "how to repeat" that I was able to follow, but in general > when you encounter a

RE: apple bonjour served up on FBSD

2007-11-28 Thread brad davison
the mDNSResponder port is up to date (moreso than even the apple download site) so i installed that with the port. it requires swig13 port as well.. which installed from the port just fine. after you get all that installed and working w/o errors, there is a bonjour python script set that will

Re: skype cannot login

2007-11-28 Thread Rodolfo Pellegrino
On Nov 28, 2007 2:29 PM, Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > My network configuration is a bit odd: > > Internet --- SMC Hardware Router > (192.168.1.0/225.255.255.0) --- FreeBSD Gateway --- > (192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0) --- Client computer

Re: remove X11

2007-11-28 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Jeff Maxwell wrote: I have X11 installed on a server 6.1. Is there an easy way to remove it all? Do I have to remove each package individually? Suppose you have installed the xorg server, you could remove it easily. But it also matters how you installed. If you did it from ports, you can prob

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Re: remove X11

2007-11-28 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jeff Maxwell wrote: > > I have X11 installed on a server 6.1. > > > > Is there an easy way to remove it all? > > > > Do I have to remove each package individually? I highly recommend the pkg_cutleaves port, which makes this kind of thing many orde

Re: skype cannot login

2007-11-28 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Rodolfo Pellegrino wrote: On Nov 28, 2007 2:29 PM, Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, My network configuration is a bit odd: Internet --- SMC Hardware Router (192.168.1.0/225.255.255.0) --- FreeBSD Gateway --- (192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0) --

looking for syscalls especifications

2007-11-28 Thread Sdävtaker
Hello. I was wondering if there is any place where i can get the specifications used to write the syscalls. I was reading the syscalls.master and it only says the number and name of the syscall, and only few are documented at man. Any idea who could have that kind of documentation? As example, what

Re: remove X11

2007-11-28 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Do I have to remove each package individually? Suppose you have installed the xorg server, you could remove it easily. But it also matters how you installed. If you did it from ports, you can probably cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg make deinstall That just deletes the metaport (which is

Advanced Routing/Firewall Interface Options for FreeBSD 7

2007-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I am trying to combine my file server and router into a single box. Before you tell me this is a bad idea, let me remind you this is a personal installation (not intensive file serving) and the machine and NICs are fairly beefy. FreeBSD 7 supports ZFS. From there, NFS and Samba are

Re: remove X11

2007-11-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:40:24 +0100 Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Maxwell wrote: > > I have X11 installed on a server 6.1. > > > > Is there an easy way to remove it all? > > > > Do I have to remove each package individually? > Suppose you have installed the xorg server, you could re

7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-11-28 Thread Freminlins
I used to find FreeBSD easy. What has happened? I have a couple of machines I usually install new versions on, one is headless the other is a desktop machine (which was a 100% reliable 5.4 installation). I boot the headless machine using floppies, then install across the net. But something has happ

Re: Major filesystem problems after crash on 7.0-BETA3 (SOLVED)

2007-11-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, November 27, 2007 15:22, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Doug Poland wrote: >> On Mon, November 26, 2007 15:03, Doug Poland wrote: >>> On Mon, November 26, 2007 14:26, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, This morning my 7.0-BETA3 i386 system (Compaq nx7400) reset shortly after starting X11

Re: Advanced Routing/Firewall Interface Options for FreeBSD 7

2007-11-28 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FreeBSD 7 supports ZFS. From there, NFS and Samba are easy. I've been > using Solaris for this, but it's rather archaic in many ways, and the > only reason I use it is for the stable ZFS support. Everything else in > Solaris - given my needs - is a poor match. People ha

Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-11-28 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Freminlins wrote: I used to find FreeBSD easy. What has happened? I have a couple of machines I usually install new versions on, one is headless the other is a desktop machine (which was a 100% reliable 5.4 installation). I boot the headless machine using floppies, then install across the net. Bu

UPgrade FAILS (was: Re: can anybody explain?)

2007-11-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:20:54PM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:29:15 -0800 > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think it has to do with that "autoload" {or whatever} is the > > first thing that appears after the square box of options. > > I only

Firefox 2.0.0.9 issues on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-28 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I have a freshly installed 7.0-BETA3 i386 system and am having issues with firefox 2.0.0.9. Upon launching /usr/local/bin/firefox from a command line I am immediately returned a cursor with an error code of 1. % /usr/local/bin/firefox % echo $? 1 I debugged both /usr/local/bin/firefox an

Re: remove X11

2007-11-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:33:47PM -0500, Jeff Maxwell wrote: > > I have X11 installed on a server 6.1. > > Is there an easy way to remove it all? > > Do I have to remove each package individually? > You could probably make a good start with: # pkg_deinstall -rf xorg-\* check 1st what it will

Re: Network Configuration with Jails.

2007-11-28 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 08:12:41 am Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > Félix Langelier wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I run a FreeBSD Jailer and I want to have multiple jails in 2 seperate > > networks. The server has 2 network interfaces and each of them are > > connected in a different network. Say vla

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.9 issues on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-28 Thread Jeremy Gransden
> > > I did some googling but nothing interesting turned up. I find it > curious that the latest build of Thunderbird works, but linux-firefox > fails like it's native sibling. > > All help is appreciated... > > > > > -- > Regards, > Doug > > ___ > freeb

Re: Kernel Compile Error

2007-11-28 Thread Schiz0
On Nov 28, 2007 12:17 PM, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Schiz0 wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2007 8:47 AM, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Schiz0 wrote: > >>> Hey, > >>> > >>> I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE. I recently csuped the source code > >>> (src-all) and buil

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.9 issues on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-28 Thread Tore Lund
Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I have a freshly installed 7.0-BETA3 i386 system So have I. > and am having issues with firefox 2.0.0.9. FWIW, native firefox-2.0.0.9,1 runs perfectly OK here. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

ataidle - causing apache & cvs timeouts

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Franks
I'm running ataidle on my personal server to save electricity. However, every time it has to spin up a drive whatever I'm accessing (apache, cvs, etc) gives an error instead of waiting for the disk. If I then access it again after a couple seconds once the disk is active it works fine. Any idea h

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.9 issues on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:58:48PM -0500, Jeremy Gransden wrote: > > > > > > I did some googling but nothing interesting turned up. I find it > > curious that the latest build of Thunderbird works, but linux-firefox > > fails like it's native sibling. > > > > All help is appreciated... > > > > >

Re: ataidle - causing apache & cvs timeouts

2007-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Steve Franks wrote: I'm running ataidle on my personal server to save electricity. However, every time it has to spin up a drive whatever I'm accessing (apache, cvs, etc) gives an error instead of waiting for the disk. If I then access it again after a couple seconds once the disk is active it w

Re: Advanced Routing/Firewall Interface Options for FreeBSD 7

2007-11-28 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:08:37PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > FreeBSD 7 supports ZFS. From there, NFS and Samba are easy. I've been > > using Solaris for this, but it's rather archaic in many ways, and the > > only reason I use it is for the stable ZFS support. Every

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:26:47PM -0600, icantthinkofone wrote: > Oh, who the heck cares. The guy is dead and he's not going to hurt you > so get a life people. If you ban Hitler then ban Stalin and Mussolini > and let's go back another thousand years and dig up those graves, too. > Move on!

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:14:30PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > For example, a famous quote of Hitler's is: > > "I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature." That raises an interesting point: There are quotes that, taken out of context, might be seen as "offensive". In ma

Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: who wrote this

2007-11-28 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Randomly found this : http://xkcd.com/261/ Tuc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

...WELL, latest adventures of The Gary in the Dell

2007-11-28 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, And this is to all the wizards on-list: Why does Gnome take minutes to load? Yes, I finally got 6.3-PRERELEASE to boot after learning that Dell has problems with its serial ports (and Unix). I did see a few postings about the increased del

Re: ...WELL, latest adventures of The Gary in the Dell

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
> And this is to all the wizards on-list: Why does Gnome take > minutes to load? Yes, I finally got 6.3-PRERELEASE to boot > after learning that Dell has problems with its serial ports > (and Unix). I did see a few postings about the increased > delay time to bring

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.9 issues on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:29:38PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I have a freshly installed 7.0-BETA3 i386 system and am having issues > with firefox 2.0.0.9. > > Upon launching /usr/local/bin/firefox from a command line I am > immediately returned a cursor with an error code of 1. > >

Re: K3b

2007-11-28 Thread Predrag Punosevac
ajtiM wrote: On Sunday 25 November 2007 21:58:03 you wrote: ajtiM wrote: Hi! I am new with FreeBSD. I installed one day ago 7.0 beta3 and I try to learn and setup the system. When I start K3b (KDE) I got a message: "No CD/DVD writer found. K3b did not find an optical writing device in

Secure remote shell

2007-11-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Part of (un)registerings users on my system consists in connecting to various servers to add the user account to some services: Registering users is done wia a web page, and the web server will remote execute a script on the mail server to add the users in the aliases and run newaliases, remo

Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-28 Thread Kevin Downey
On Nov 28, 2007 8:28 PM, Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Part of (un)registerings users on my system consists in connecting to > various servers to add the user account to some services: > > Registering users is done wia a web page, and the web server will > remote execute a scr

Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 11:28:24 Nov 29, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > Part of (un)registerings users on my system consists in connecting to > various servers to add the user account to some services: > > Registering users is done wia a web page, and the web server will > remote execute a script on the mail server

Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
> What other solution would you suggest to execute a shell remotely as > root, that could be automated in a script (no password required). - have information input into browser - have web server save information to server disk in non-executable format - have script (or admin) authenticate/authoriz

Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
> ssh using key authentication and sudo configured to allow a certain > user to run the needed commands and only the needed commands as root. > http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/ > http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/ Yes but in the OP's context, providing this would mean that ANY command supp

Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-28 Thread Kevin Downey
On Nov 28, 2007 9:40 PM, Steve Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ssh using key authentication and sudo configured to allow a certain > > user to run the needed commands and only the needed commands as root. > > http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/ > > http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/ >

Re: ...WELL, latest adventures of The Gary in the Dell

2007-11-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:10:45PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > And this is to all the wizards on-list: Why does Gnome take > > minutes to load? Yes, I finally got 6.3-PRERELEASE to boot > > after learning that Dell has problems with its serial ports > > (and Unix). I did se

Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-28 Thread Peter Boosten
On Thu, November 29, 2007 06:23, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> What other solution would you suggest to execute a shell remotely as >> root, that could be automated in a script (no password required). > > - have information input into browser > - have web server save information to server disk in non-ex

Re: Xen howto: inexplicable "Kernel image does not exist" error

2007-11-28 Thread Le Cocq Michel
I'm in front of the same trouble, did you find a solution ? M Matt Pounsett a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to get FreeBSD running under Xen on a RedHat RHEL5 box. I seem to be stumped really early in the process by something... strange. I don't have a g

kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server

2007-11-28 Thread williamkow
I am newbie, recently I have installed FreeBSD 6.2-Stable, and manage to configure and display the x window manager (X11) using command "startx". and then i run command "startkde " and I received error message (kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server) However, if i run command "kdm", then it prom

Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
>> Although sudo and SSH are part of the solution, providing a web server >> with full rights on a remote server if they can gain keyless entry is a >> large mistake. > > Steve, >at no point does the original email say "we need to execute user > input". sudo does not equate to providing full

Re: kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server

2007-11-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, November 29, 2007 a las 03:19:51PM +0800, williamkow escribió: > I am newbie, recently I have installed FreeBSD 6.2-Stable, and manage to > configure and display the x window manager (X11) using command "startx". > and then i run command "startkde " and I received error message >