Connecting to a headless system

2004-05-11 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 using the headless install method. My problem is this. I can't get the login prompt when connecting using cu -l /dev/cuaa0, after the install /reboot. I did setup ssh, but I can't connect using ssh and root. I did not setup another account, so I have to get in

SSH Help / Installing ports / Internet

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have setup a headless system. I connect to the system from another machine using a ssh client. I have set the headless machine to allow me to login at root. I am able to login and edit files , except I can not ping outside my network or install ports, b/c it won't allow it to access the

Re: SSH Help / Installing ports / Internet

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Brad Tarver wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 08:41 PM: I have setup a headless system. I connect to the system from another machine using a ssh client. I have set the headless machine to allow me to login at root. I am able to login and edit files , except I can not ping outside my

Re: instillation problem

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004 23:02:10 +0800 Jeremy Saville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm installing freebsd on a i386 machine, using the iso image off linuxiso.org Once I configure my mouse and keyboard (ps/2 mouse, microsoft natural keyboard) the text goes completely wonky.

Re: SSH Help / Installing ports / Internet

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Brad Tarver wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:02 PM: Brad Tarver wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 08:41 PM: I have setup a headless system. I connect to the system from another machine using a ssh client. I have set the headless machine to allow me to login at root. I am able

Re: SSH Help / Installing ports / Internet

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote: Brad Tarver wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:02 PM: Brad Tarver wrote: Check /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/rc.conf for your defaultrouter entry. my defaultrouter entry is set to my router ip, any other ideas? hmmm. what

Re: SSH Help / Installing ports / Internet

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Brad Tarver wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:09 PM: I am pinging b/c I am testing. I am trying to install a port. When a port installs, it downloads the required files. Whenever I try, I get an error b/c it can't download any of the files needed for the port. This happens with all

Port Install Error

2004-05-13 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am trying to install 'Portupgrade' using the ports collection What does this mean? and how do I solve the problem [EMAIL PROTECTED] make === Vulnerability check disabled === Extracting for portupgrade-20040325_1 Checksum OK for pkgtools-20040208.tar.bz2. Checksum OK for

Transfering Files

2004-05-13 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have two computer systems. 1 windows 2k system where I do web development work, specifically php development. The other system is a FBSD headless system that I control via ssh, from my windows system. The FBSD system is my local webserver where I do my testing before transfering to another

Connecting to a Headless machine, after install

2004-05-06 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have setup a headless machine via a null modem cable. Instalation went fine. The only problem now, is connecting to the machine after the install. When I #cu -l /dev/cuaao/ I see the boot process, but it gets to the date prompt but doesn't show the login: i did install ssh, but won't let me

ProFTPd installation / configuration help needed

2004-05-14 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have installed ProFTPd from the ports collection on a FBSD 5.2.1 system. The only problem is, it doesn't start up. I know I have to set / change the ftp line in the /etc/inetd.conf i also have setup a user account on the system called ftp and the group ftp. Any help would be great Here is the

Apache 2 / PHP Installation

2004-05-14 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hi all, I installed Apache 2 from the ports collection. Does apache2 come with php support? Probably not, but not sure. I want to install php on the system. I'm not sure what port I need to install?? All the pre recks.. are for 1.* versions of Apache. What's the deal? Thanks so much, Bruce

Portupgrade -N for gimp-devel : install help

2004-06-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am trying to install graphics/gimp-devel I have never had an error before with the portupgrade -N command This is my error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] portupgrade -N graphics/gimp-devel/ make: don't know how to make all-depends-list. Stop ** Invalid package name: graphics/gimp-devel: : Not in due form:

Re: Portupgrade -N for gimp-devel : install help

2004-06-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 23:03, Kent Stewart wrote: On Thursday 03 June 2004 07:50 pm, Bruce Hunter wrote: I am trying to install graphics/gimp-devel I have never had an error before with the portupgrade -N command This is my error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] portupgrade -N graphics/gimp-devel

Problems mounting my cdrom drive

2004-06-04 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am having problems mounting my cdrom drive. i have also run the command mount_cd9660, and this is the result [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom/ mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument this is with the mount command [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount -v -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom/

Re: Problems mounting my cdrom drive

2004-06-05 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 01:52, Jorge Mario G. wrote: check for /dev/acd0 anyway do it the easy way: #mount /cdrom or trya acd0a Jorge i tried #mount /cdrom and #mount /dev/acd0 nothing worked i get this error cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument Any other ideas? Bruce

Re: Problems mounting my cdrom drive

2004-06-05 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 02:07, Luke Kearney wrote: On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 02:03:29 -0400 Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 01:52, Jorge Mario G. wrote: check for /dev/acd0 anyway do it the easy way: #mount /cdrom or trya acd0a Jorge

Re: Problems mounting my cdrom drive

2004-06-05 Thread Bruce Hunter
FS and some data but no folders. I had to use -s 14660. So the solution for me was: root:/# mount_cd9660 -v -s 14660 /dev/acd0 /mnt Hope this helps. -Victor On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 22:44, Bruce Hunter wrote: I am having problems mounting my cdrom drive. i have also run

PHP IDE instead of Bluefish

2004-06-05 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have recently gotten rid of window and now only run FBSD. I am a programmer of many kinds. I program in PHP and was wondering what is a good PHP IDE? Maybe something in the ports collection. I use anjuta for my C, and C++ Development. Any comments would be great. -Bruce-

FreeBSD / Gnome Performance Tuning

2004-06-05 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hey everyone, I have noticed that my system isn't as fast as the windows gui is. Probably has to do with Gnome and GTK 2.0 issues. Is there anything I can do, to increase system wide performance? Either harddrive access time, or gui performance when running multiple apps? - Bruce -

Re: starting Konqueror from the command line

2004-06-05 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 01:40, Jay Moore wrote: This oughta' be easy, but I've been unable to find any documentation on it... I'm using bluefish as an html editor. I don't have mozilla installed (don't really want it), and would like to preview my html in Konqueror. What is the correct

WineTools Error

2004-06-06 Thread Bruce Hunter
I installed winetools from FreeBSD ports collection 1.25a It worked fine. I was having problems setting up wine and winetools solved my issues. I ran wine to install adobe photoshop #wine setup.exe then wine crashed at 80% of install of ps. I couldn't get shutdown wines windows, so I had to

Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-08 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I correct this? Any good reading material? Also, what should I do when I shutdown my system incorrectly and boot up again? Last questions! I promise. Is there a file

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-08 Thread Bruce Hunter
boot. You can also see it by issuing the command dmesg but the display that this one shows can get over written as the system does other log messages. Hope this helps mjt On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 16:01, Bruce Hunter wrote: I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway

Boot GUI / Boot data and process / Fragmentation

2004-06-08 Thread Bruce Hunter
This is off topic, I was wondering if there is a pretty little gui that will run when booting. Kinda like windows, lindows, and even Redhat Fedora has one; which can be switched back and forth. Basically, so I don't have to see the text scrolling down and just see a loader with %. Maybe in the

Re: Boot GUI / Boot data and process / Fragmentation

2004-06-08 Thread Bruce Hunter
this command with portupgrade so it just updates them instead of just showing me. Just do it dang it... just do it! ;o) Bruce.. On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 03:26, Kent Stewart wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 12:03 am, Bruce Hunter wrote: This is off topic, I was wondering if there is a pretty little gui

Buildworld and turning of debugging to speed up the system

2004-06-08 Thread Bruce Hunter
Currently I am running 5.2.1 I am doing a buildworld, buildkernel,installkernel, installworld Whatever you want to call it. I read something about turning off debugging in the current release and how it will help to speed up my system. How the heck would I go about doing this? Does it have to do

Netscape not working

2004-06-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hello everyone, When I try and install any of the netscape ports I get an error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /usr/ports/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] portupgrade -N www/netscape7 * Your choices are saved. You must run the make command again to * complete the build. Ignore the Error code 1 below. *** Error code 1

NFS Port

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hi all, I am able to connect to my NFS system like so mount 192.168.1.14:/home/NFSave /mnt/coreserver I want to connect from outside my network, like when I'm at school. What port(s) does NFS run off. I have to do port forwarding on my Router/Firewall. Thanks so much Bruce

Application commands without having to restart

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hello everyone, I just installed a port. Usually, a application has a define command to start it and can be run from anywhere on the command line. When you first install an application. The command isn't available to the system until after a reboot. How do I make the system aware? Refresh the

Re: Problem restarts

2004-06-28 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 19:44, Mark Terribile wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with spontaneous restarts. This isn't a new problem, but I've done the obvious things and the problem hasn't gone away. I was thinking of asking on -hackers, but I'm trying here first. The system is a 4.8 with a

Re: Trying to install Flash... BUT

2004-06-28 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 12:09, Douglas Korinke wrote: S, I am on a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with FBSD 4.9 running KDE 3.1.4 and attempting to get a Flash plugin working.. So I goto the HowTo at KDE's site at: http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php and follow the

Converting from wma file to mp3 or other

2004-06-28 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hello everyone, What is a good program/port to convert wma files to mp3? Any ideas? Thanks all, Bruce ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gnome installing Mozilla by default

2004-06-30 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hello, When I install the Gnome port, it installs Mozilla 1.6 as default. I guess Epiphany 1.2.6 uses it. I have a few questions: 1) How do I get Epiphany to not use Mozilla and what performance hit will I take for doing this, if any? 2) If Epiphany doesn't use mozilla, then what does it use?

Seti@Home Installation error

2004-06-30 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am trying to install the [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the ports collection: When I run #portupgrade -N astro/setiahome/ I get this error === Installing for compat4x-i386-5.2.1 === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if

Linux-Opera problem

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
When I try and run linux-opera, i get this error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rehash [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-opera ELF binary type 0 not known. ELF binary type 0 not known. /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/bin/opera: 1: Syntax error: ( unexpected what does that mean? What should I do? Bruce

pkg_deinstall problem

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
hello, I ran the #pkg_deinstall -vrR package then I reboot and root no longer had a password, and my only user 'flipnode' was no longer a user. Also, it seemed to delete the main .cshrc file. Also, it seemed to delete or overwrite my /etc/fstab file. Basically, I was trying to remove xfce-4

Re: Linux-Opera problem

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 15:34, Mike Hogsett wrote: When I try and run linux-opera, i get this error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rehash [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-opera ELF binary type 0 not known. ELF binary type 0 not known. /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/bin/opera: 1: Syntax error: ( unexpected

Re: portupgrade fails on every port, undefined method 'each' for nil:NilClass

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
Did you both upgrade 'portupgrade' and then the problem started? I'm running portupgrade rev.1.225 with no problems. On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:22, Joey Mingrone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You're not alone. I'm seeing the same problem on my FreeBSD systems. Joey

Re: Linux-Opera problem

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:55, epilogue wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:54:31 -0400 Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 15:34, Mike Hogsett wrote: When I try and run linux-opera, i get this error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rehash [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-opera

tar problem

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am trying to archive this directory for backup purposes. I am getting this error when trying to create a new tar file. Solisix/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar -c Solisix/ tar: /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Operation not supported tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now What

Re: tar problem

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 22:23, Roop Nanuwa wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 20:36:44 -0400, Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to archive this directory for backup purposes. I am getting this error when trying to create a new tar file. Solisix/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password

Re: Gnome installing Mozilla by default

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:45, epilogue wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:46:04 -0700 Dan Finn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:03:37 -0400, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:04:47 -0400 Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roop Nanuwa

Re: Gnome installing Mozilla by default

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 23:50, epilogue wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:40:08 -0400 Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:45, epilogue wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:46:04 -0700 Dan Finn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:03:37 -0400, epilogue

Re: Gnome installing Mozilla by default

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 18:32, epilogue wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:21:19 -0400 Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 23:50, epilogue wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:40:08 -0400 Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:45, epilogue

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 10:20, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 09:08:35AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Happy belated Canada day to all my Cunuk bros :-) and an early happy 4th of July all as well! I have recently decided to use some extra disk space on one of my

Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
Happy 4th! okay, now that's out of the way. I am bored with freebsds' boot loader and want to install Grub from the ports collection. My question is: When grub installs, will it find my partitions and set everything up for me? So, when I reboot grub is working. Here is my hard drive setup

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 16:17, Geert Hendrickx wrote: title FreeBSD 5.2.1 root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader Sorry, this should be (hd0,1,a) ! The first slice (windows) is (hd0,0) and the second is (hd0,1), and you want the root-partition within that (hd0,1,a). GH

Re: allowing users to mount cdrom

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 17:09, jobse wrote: Dear List, When trying to mount the cdrom I get Operation not permitted. sysctl: vfs.usermount=0(what does that mean and how can I *permanently* change it to 1) I'd rather not set the sticky bit on mount/umount if I mustn't. suggestions? /jobse

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 18:02, Geert Hendrickx wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:35:35PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 16:17, Geert Hendrickx wrote: title FreeBSD 5.2.1 root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader Sorry, this should be (hd0,1

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
I moved all the files and ran the commands that you said. I am having this problem. GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
: Seems as you don't have write permission for /dev/ad0. Did you run grub as root? GH On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:21:45PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: I moved all the files and ran the commands that you said. I am having this problem. GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper