Re: clearing space

Peter Risdon wrote: How about: #mv /sbin /usr/sbin #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin #mv /root /usr/root #ln -s /usr/root /root Isn't this a bad idea if you ever have to boot to single user mode and only have / mounted? -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net

Re: clearing space

fine, if mildly inadvisable. Therefore, as far as I can see and I did check, you can boot into single user mode without a /root directory. Peter. I was in reference to the /sbin moving to /usr/sbin. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net

Re: Device Perms in 5.3

way to do it. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

quite nicely in the mod_ssl faq (http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_faq.html). Also (as a side note), I use CAcert (http://www.cacert.org) for my key signing needs. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

to do that once for all of your CA-Cert signed certificates. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 and some icons broke in Window Maker 0.91.0

Tabor Kelly wrote: Dave Horsfall wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Tabor Kelly wrote: Of note: I have an Intel i810 video chipset and Xorg 6.8.1 broke the driver for it, but I set NoAccel in my xorg.conf file and that was supposed to take care of it (now X at least starts). Does anyone think

Re: bash version?

isn't a (pre-compiled) package yet. I use 3.0 on my 5.3 system, and I am still using 2.05b on my 4.9 system. I haven't actually noticed any differences. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Thank you!

| / \ \|_| / _\ \ || /|\\ \ || / | | | |\/ || / \|_|_|/ | _|| / / \|| || / | | | --| | | | | --| * _| |_|_|_| | \-/ *-- _--\ _ \ | || / _ \\|/ ` * / \_ /- | | | * ___ c_c_c_C/ \C_c_c_c -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Backups / Dump etc

Jeff MacDonald wrote: snip On a related note: If I want to do complete dumps of all of my file systems do I need to be in single user mode? Will running in multiuser mode (with all of my normal daemons running) mess up my dumps? Thank You. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Backups / Dump etc

web site and that a little mail gets delayed. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: boot up notification

Jim Pazarena wrote: snip In rc.local: mail -s 'subject' [EMAIL PROTECTED] message_to_send.txt -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Download from Windows

You should use something like this: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: I need a cuppa...

have linprocfs mounted before you try to build it (and obviously linux emulation). PS- Linux emulation is for bootstrapping purposes. java/jdk14 requires java/linux-sun-jdk14 to compile, afterwards java/linux-sun-jdk14 can be safely removed. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: 5.3 Install

over the Linux crowd. 6. I am running FreeBSD on my Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop because I have found it more stable and secure than Linux or Windows. Also, I prefer the port system to the packages systems found on most Linux distros (I came from Debian). -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: programming languages and visual programming under FreeBSD

want to learn something purely object oriented. However, some people object to Sun's politics. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Building quasi-full vim

José de Paula wrote: snip You want editors/vim-lite. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Which Way to Partition.

are doing it on purpose. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: port update problem - newbie

. My quick start to portupgrade: http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/ports.html Where I learned about portupgrade: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net

Re: JDK 1.5 and 5.3

Andrew Hall wrote: snip Any idea about the missing browser plugin? Which browser? For Firefox one way to get a functional Java plugin is simply to install the JDK before you build Firefox. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net

Re: vesa,/i810, Dell gx270 and Intel 82865G Graphics

are you using? I have an i810 and it works fine with Xorg 6.8.1. Note: I know mine is one of the affected i840 cards. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: C Language Style Guide

guide, (http://www.nongnu.org/style-guide/) but the GNU people point out that what is more important than following their guide, it maintaining consistency within 1 project/product. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net

Re: reboot DURING a portupgrade

% chance this is a hardware failure. In addition to what Karol suggested, it could also be a faulty power supply. Also, I would say look into the hardware in this order: 1. RAM 2. Power Supply 3. CPU Note: The above is just my personal opinion. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Openoffice startup question

would be appreciated. thanks, Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] try openoffice-1.1.4 -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Very general shutdown question

owned by root that has the SUID (set user id) bit set. It should have one line: 'halt' (or whatever 'shutdown -*' you want). -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Very general shutdown question

EXIT_SUCCESS; /* note: we never actually get here */ } to compile it, but type 'gcc main.c' then copy a.out to /halt then 'chown root:wheel /halt' then 'chmod a+s /halt' But when I got done writing and testing the program, I thought to myself: Why not just set /sbin/halt to SUID root? -- Tabor Kelly

Re: GTK vs QT

around on the internet a bit but that was old stuff about gtk1 and so. I have read the QT is far more efficient and that the only reason anyone uses GTK is for licensing reasons. Any comments? Also, not to mention that QT is fully portable to M$ Windows. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

portsdb -Uu Segmentation fault

have 2 other servers that have the same version of FreeBSD, Ruby and Portupgrade installed that work fine. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank You, Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: portsdb -Uu Segmentation fault

Tabor Kelly wrote: This has been discussed DOZENS of times on this list including TODAY. What do you think the archives are for?! Sorry, I will look harder. Like I said, I found a lot of people having the problem (in the archives), I didn't find anyone explaining what causes the problem or how

Re: port/firefox-1.0,1 : Proper method of having side-by-side libraries?

I don't know what the proper method is. I do know that I upgraded firefox from 0.93 to 1.0 via ports with 'portupgrade -rR firefox' (and it worked). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

How to start a daemon (specifically svnserve) as a specific user in /etc/rc.local

reboot and do a 'ps -axu | grep subversiond' the only process that I see is _su -m (csh). I would appreciate any help/pointers you could give me. Thank You, Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: How to start a daemon (specifically svnserve) as a specificuser in /etc/rc.local

Well, I fixed my problem, I changed my /etc/rc.local file to: su -m subversiond -c 'svnserve -d -r /usr/local/repositories' However, I still don't know why my other method wasn't working. -Tabor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Portupgrade seg. fault

Michael Shafae wrote: Hi, I have a FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 system which I have installed portupgrade--20040701_3, ruby-1.8.2.p2_1, and ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2. Previously upgrading ports were effortless with portupgrade. Today, I first CVSUP'ed the ports tree, read /usr/ports/CHANGES and ran `make

No output from Kernel Booting Up or /dev/console

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Re: No output from Kernel Booting Up or /dev/console

Ash wrote: [snip] Well, I looked and looked for what was wrong, and I was 100% sure it wasn't anything in the /boot directory. However, just to be sure I copied everything in /boot and /boot/default from another FreeBSD 5.3R system I had, and it started working again. I have no idea what file

Re: No output from Kernel Booting Up or /dev/console

Tabor Kelly wrote: [snip] I have no idea what file it was or how it got changed, but thanks Ash. I figured out what I did. I overwrote the default /boot/device.hints with the 4 lines in my original email (I didn't realize there was a default /boot/device.hints). This was all accomplished

Re: Yep - Firefox again.

Kirk Strauser wrote: I can't get Firefox to start. I'm on a 5.3 system with all ports rebuilt on November 8, so there shouldn't be an obsolete library issues. I've completely removed ~/.mozilla. I initially tested with Firefox built from the port, but have also tried installing the pre-built

Re: Diskless Servers

Evan Sayer wrote: Hello- Is it a good idea to run a mail server or web server diskless? The reason I want to do this is so that all of our server's files will be in one place which will make backups more convenient. Basically I am thinking of running one NFS/TFTP file server with disks, and

Re: realtek rl0 not working with dchp

arden wrote: hi folks Im setting up an extra box on my home dchp network to use as an internet station it just will not pick up an ip address by dchp even when nothing else is on the network i can manually assign an ip with ifconfig so pretty sure its detected ok also tried 3 different linux

Re: ACPI kills USB mouse

by myself) that the FreeBSD ACPI support can break all sorts of things if it doesn't happen to agree with your hardware. I think the known workaround is booting with support disabled. -Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Can't boot normally - syslog?

, but have you considered a fresh install of 5.3? In the end it may take you less time than fixing your install of 5.2.1. -Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: 5.3: cant install openoffice 1.1 from ports

Simon Burke wrote: I've recently done a fresh install of 5.3, i updated ports using cvsup to install gnome2.8, which im using know, great. Problem is that it wont allow me to compile openoffice properly, i cant give an error message as its about 7hrs in i get the message and i've since made

Re: Designed for FreeBSD stickers

I want (and I have looked, it doesn't exist) is a FreeBSD Jesus Fish like this Linux Fish here (http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/2898/). -Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Native Java JDK vs. Linux Java JDK via emulation

: The OpenOffice port requires java/jdk-1.4.2p6_7, shouldn't any vendor's copy of version 1.4 of the JDK work? Thank You, Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: OpenOffice - Java problems

) installs the linux JDK. -Tabor Kelly PS- Yes, this does mean the port is broken. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso

install. Also, if I were you, I would install portupgrade and always use portupgrade/portinstall instead of manually compiling ports. -Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: ld-elf.so.1: Shared objectlibintl.so.6 not found

if you couldn't boot into single user mode when you needed to. -Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Qmail Problems

reproduce the bug on demand? -Tabor Kelly PS- please configure your email client to use hard line breaks after 70 characters (70 characters per line). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Qmail Problems

Tabor Kelly wrote: snip In addition to everything Mike Grissom [EMAIL PROTECTED] said Sorry, I meant Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]. snip -Tabor Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

general portinstall question about port names

me like it did for OpenOffice? Thank You, Tabor Kelly ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?

Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed: snip This will also disable those annoying daily, weekly and montly messages recieved from cronjobs. Who wants to read about your disks filling up, attempts to break into your server and other futilities anyway ;-) A

Re: bash - superuser

Tom Vilot wrote: Admittedly, I'm still a bit of a noob, but I can't stand any shell but bash. Then log in as your normal user and then do a 'su -m' -Tabor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Prism GT Chipset, hostap?

-RELEASE): Cards based on the Intersil PRISM-II and PRISM-2.5 chips also have a host-based access point mode which allows the card to act as an access point (base station). -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

issues. Furthermore, can someone recommend a decent POP3 and IMAP server? Thanks in advance, Mike I use qmail + dovecot. I have some rough drafts of howto's here: http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/qmail.html http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/dovecot.html -- Tabor Kelly

Re: freebsd training/certification

? -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 and some icons broke in Window Maker 0.91.0

laptop running FreeBSD 5.3R. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 and some icons broke in Window Maker 0.91.0

Dave Horsfall wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Tabor Kelly wrote: Of note: I have an Intel i810 video chipset and Xorg 6.8.1 broke the driver for it, but I set NoAccel in my xorg.conf file and that was supposed to take care of it (now X at least starts). Does anyone think this could be related to my

Re: [freebsd] Upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 and some icons broke in Window Maker 0.91.0

. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Best way to back up to CD?

is superior to tar, but it looks like dump was only intended for tape drives. Am I reading this right? Thank You. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?

because you need to know that: 1. You need the linprocfs mounted to make java/linux-sun-jdk14 2. You need to install java/jdk14 before you try to build OpenOffice (even though this is not listed as a dependency). Note: this is from my memory, which is not always 100% what it should be. -- Tabor

Re: 5.3 - starting a process as a diff user

line of my rc.local: su -m [user] -c '[command]' but check the man page first. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: 5.3 - starting a process as a diff user

J.D. Bronson. Your mail server is blocking my mail server: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 65.43.82.170 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 sub18-33.member.dsl-only.net[63.105.18.33]: Client host rejected: Connecting IP appears dynamic - Use ISP to relay email Giving up on 65.43.82.170. -- Tabor

Re: Free BSD

/ \C_c_c_c -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

. I have written a short tutorial on how to set up SqWebMail here (it is draft quality now): http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/sqwebmail.html The installation is pretty straight forward (it is in ports), except the Makefile, which is a little confusing at first. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL

Re: Remote upgrade possible?

a risk when I do this? -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]