FreeNX in FreeBSD Jail

2006-02-28 Thread matthew
Has anyone had any experience running FreeNX in a FreeBSD Jail. It starts to connect then goes to connection failed, I can use XDMCP from the same box and everything works fine, any suggestions? Thanks in Advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Disk access problem with 5.3 install from CD

2005-03-31 Thread matthew
Disk access problem with 5.3 install from CD John.Dutcher at excellus.com John.Dutcher at excellus.com Thu Feb 3 07:37:03 PST 2005 * Previous message: questions about extra logging * Next message: /dev/ttyd0 as an Input Device Works on some Systems but not others. * Mess

Re: mountd acting strangely

2004-02-11 Thread matthew
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Chad M Stewart wrote: > > Maybe someone can shed some light on this one for me. I'm using > FreeBSD as the nfs server and Mac OS X (10.3.2) as the client. If I > boot the FreeBSD box, then I am unable to mount from my Mac. However > if I simply restart mountd on the serve

Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot

2004-02-11 Thread matthew
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brent Bowman wrote: > > Hello all, I've got a question about the install of the current FreeBSD. > > I am using the floppy install, and I dd (I'm a linux user) both the > kern.flp and mfsroot.flp onto floppies, then I follow the instructions > on this site: > > http://www.fr

Re: networking w/ win9x

2004-02-11 Thread matthew
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Earl wrote: > I was wondering. What is an easy, and good programe to use. To network > my FreeBSD and Win98box. how do you plan to connect these two boxes? Are they both already on your LAN and each box can ping the other? What is your goal? Samba quickly comes to mind wh

Re: /tmp full (newbie)

2004-02-12 Thread matthew
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:35:08 +0100 > gaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > JJB wrote: > > > > >Add this statement to /etc/rc.conf and reboot your system. > > > > > > > > >clear_tmp_enable="YES" # clear /tmp directory on boot > > > > > > > > >-

RE: Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot

2004-02-12 Thread matthew
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brent Bowman wrote: > > Oh boy, I guess that I've either got to find more RAM, find an > older/stripped down version of FreeBSD, or give up. > Well, if i was you i would get on the phone and call every household that you think has a basement full of junk. They will more t

Re: /tmp full (newbie)

2004-02-12 Thread matthew
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, matthew wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:35:08 +0100 > > gaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > JJB wrote: > > > > > > >Add this statement to /etc/rc.conf

Re: routing, 2 nics, and a default gateways

2004-02-12 Thread matthew
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, SixthSense Server Admin wrote: > Hi list, > > I need help on this problem: > > I have 2 nics. The first has about 30 ips assigned to it and working > correctly. The other was a backup nic for the ISP backup network, but its > now I was asked to assign ips and a default gatew

what is your favorite kernel patch revolving around networking.

2004-02-12 Thread matthew
Hello, In the last few months I have used successfully two different kernel patches that helped solved problems I had. The first is the multiple ip jail patch by Pawel Dawidek. His site is at garage.freebsd.pl. He really saved the day for me when my jailed stats machine needed t

Re: startup daemon as unpriviliged user

2004-02-13 Thread matthew
!/bin/sh su username -c "command" Example use on command line: krazykat# id uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 4(tty), 5(operator), 20(staff), 31(guest) krazykat# su matthew -c id uid=1001(matthew) gid=1001(matthew) groups=1001(matthew), 0(wheel), 69(network) krazyka

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 Router Setup

2004-02-13 Thread matthew
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Michael Madden wrote: > I am trying to setup a pc with FreeBSD 5.2 as a > router. I've got two NICs setup. My laptop > can ping the LAN side of the router (192.168.200.1), > and it can also ping the WAN side of the router (172.16.20.10). Good. > However, I cannot get past

Re: rsync: exclude doesn't work?

2004-02-13 Thread matthew
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Rob wrote: > > > Hi, > > I use rsync to back up my files, but I want to exclude uninteresting bulk > files in cache directories of netscape, opera and mozilla. After reading > the man pages, I use following call: > > /usr/local/bin/rsync \ > --exclude "rob/.netscape

Re: BIND 8.3 going insane on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-02-13 Thread matthew
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, questions wrote: > > Howdy, > > I found this report from Mark Edwards after searching for a fix/cause via > The freebsd-questions Archive to deal with the same incident taking place > on my FreeBSD box today! > > After reading about a fix/patch regarding inconsistency betwee

Re: 5.x stable cvsup

2004-02-13 Thread matthew
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2004 03:18 pm, Spades wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I got a question, my dedicated server provider has installed > > 5.1-Release and refuses to install 4.7 for me. Can I recompile to > > 5.1-STABLE using the same method as 4.7 and same 4.

Re: SSH problem partially solved!! Still need help.

2004-02-13 Thread matthew
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Dragoncrest wrote: > Ok, I finally figured out why my configs weren't loading for > ssh. Apparently when you startup SSHD it loads some weird default > sshd_config file that I can't seem to find. However, if I specify "sshd -f > /etc/ssh/sshd_config" it will load my

Re: Migrating users and passwords from one system to another

2004-02-13 Thread matthew
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. I'm kinda surprised that this isn't an FAQ, but... > > How do I move users and passwords from a current system to a new one? > Is it sufficient to move /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd, or are > there other things? > I always just co

Re: APM on 4.9 on a Winbook XL2 laptop

2004-02-14 Thread matthew
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Sara Trice wrote: > I can't get the APM on this to work for anything. I have tried putting: > > apm_load="YES" > > in my /boot/loader.conf file, and the lines: > > apm_enable="YES" > apmd_enable="YES" > > in my /etc/rc.conf file. > > I run apm -a and it tells me: > apm: can'

Re: APM on 4.9 on a Winbook XL2 laptop

2004-02-14 Thread matthew
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, matthew wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Sara Trice wrote: > > > I can't get the APM on this to work for anything. I have tried putting: > > > > apm_load="YES" > > > > in my /boot/loader.conf file, and the lines: >

Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R

2004-02-15 Thread matthew
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Graham North wrote: > This is my second call for help regarding ftp and network connections - if > anyone out there can help, I would greatly appreciate some advice. > > I have loaded an older pc with FreeBSD 4.8 to run as a webserver. It is > behind a USR8000A router - th

Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R

2004-02-15 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Rob wrote: > At 13:32 15/02/2004 -0800, Graham North wrote: > >[snip] > >My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166 > >[snip] > >It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small > >files, most times the process stalls. I

Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R

2004-02-15 Thread matthew
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Graham North wrote: > Hi Rob: > > Thank you for this help. Thanks also to all others who replied this > evening. > I just came home and it is late so I will pursue all suggestions tomorrow > evening. > > My gut sense is that it is the nic setup - at first I thought it might

Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
pt option with ifconfig. no one bothered to code it > > into the driver. unlike xl0... > > Thanks again for your help. Tomorrow, after work... while at work mooch a different isa card. or if this is a laptop which it sounds like, have fun. m > Cheers, g/ > > > > -

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Olga Zenkova wrote: > Hi! > Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What > tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have > sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I > think it is not very effective at all. May be other > mail daemon or some additional t

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:13:16AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote: > > Hi! > > Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What > > tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have > > sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I > > think it is

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote: > > > > I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is > > > also highly recommended for site use. I tend to dislike DNS-based > > > filter

Re: if_tun failed to register (long)

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi :) > > I've been having the same error for months now under FreeBSD-5.x (5.1, 5.2, > 5.2.1-RC2, 5-CURRENT). > It works anyway, but I'm concerned about this error anyway. > When I boot, ppp is started automatically with rc.conf and I get the follo

Re: 5.x stable cvsup

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Spades wrote: > Thanks, but /usr/src/UPDATING doesn't exist > > spank# ls /usr/src > crypto kerberos5 secure > spank# uname -a > FreeBSD spank 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT > 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

Re: can't connect to ftp server

2004-02-17 Thread matthew
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Marty Landman wrote: > At 01:25 PM 2/17/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > >Kinda obvious, but is inetd(8) running at all? > > # ps -ax | fgrep inetd > 20482 ?? Is 0:00.01 inetd start > > >If it is running, did you restart it after editing t

Re: Administration

2004-02-17 Thread matthew
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Derek Burns / Bend-Pak wrote: > Is there a way I can administer my FreeBSD web server from my pc? > Is this a trick question? download putty, it is an ssh client fpr windows. make sure sshd is running on your fbsd machine. ssh into is, su to root, and you can administrate

Re: Video card compatibility

2004-02-17 Thread matthew
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, bradford fligor wrote: > Hello Support ! > > I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old "computer nut" son for > Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version. > > When asked for "video card" on installation, I don't' know what to select. I

Re: Very importand i need help !

2004-02-17 Thread matthew
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Constantin (Cry-Kee) wrote: > Hy . i downloaded from internet FreeBSD 5.2 CDs and i > wanna burnt it . And i wanna add covers.I try > google.com and alot of search engines but no covers > for FreeBSD 5.2 apears. > > If you wanna help me pls send me that covers i need it > !

Re: Freebsd-4.9

2004-02-17 Thread matthew
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Dmitry Chorine wrote: > Hi > > I just download ISO of 4.9-RELEASE and after installing I cvsup > RELENG_4_9, after that I buildwolrd and buildkernel, kernel installed > fine, but when I install world I get this error: > > -

Re: Sending mail gets 'Relaying Denied' from off network.

2004-02-17 Thread matthew
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Eric F Crist wrote: > Hello list, > > What is the *right* way to get rid of the relaying denied message when a user > on another network tries to send mail via my mail server, when they have an > account on the system? > On my mail machine I have sendmail.cf point to this f

Re: Apache ssl certificates?

2004-02-17 Thread matthew
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Eric F Crist wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2004 10:48 pm, Saint Aardvark the Carpeted wrote: > > Eric F Crist disturbed my sleep to write: > > > When I go the the server via https: I get a dialog asking > > > for me to accept a certificate, but it's still the snakeoil cert

Re: Move to mail server? WAS Re: Sending mail gets 'Relaying Denied' from off network.

2004-02-18 Thread matthew
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Luke Kearney wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:26:47 -0600 > Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> granted us these pearls of wisdom: > > > OK, I'm tired of trying to configure sendmail. I think I give up. I've hear > > postfix and qmail recommendations the most. I need a mail

Where should a patch be applied from?

2005-06-13 Thread Matthew
ca ' Am I thinking this out right? -- Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD/Fedora Core 3/Windows XP

2005-07-03 Thread Matthew
On 7/2/05, Javier Ivan Mendoza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed Windows Xp and Fedora Core 3 on the > same hard drive, in another drive is FreeBSD, after > FreeBSD 5.3 installation, GNU/GRUB boot loader does > not work with FreeBSD; according to the GRUB manual > the following sholud w

Bind failures

2005-07-28 Thread Matthew
ces I have found to this problem so far refer me to check my /etc/hosts and /etc/netstart files. But, as far as I know, they are still intact. -- Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread Matthew
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:07:07 -0700 (PDT), Younes Al-Hroub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I am a computer engineer and I want to learn the FreeBSD OS, > and I do not have the FreeBSD software and when I have tried > to download the FreeBSD software form your website, I found > two Releas

BIND: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found

2010-10-01 Thread Matthew
ats/named.stats"; file "named.root"; file "master/named.localhost"; file "master/0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA"; file "master/mbpesecurity.com"; file "master/171.248.206.IN-ADDR.ARPA"; # ls named.root master/named.localhost master/0.0.

Re: BIND: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew
CyberLeo Kitsana, Thank you so much for the history and evolution on Bind expected directory structures. It enabled me to jump through that tough spot. Thanks again, Matthew On 10/01/2010 12:52 PM, Matthew wrote: I would be grateful for any pointers on how to resolve this. I suspect the

Re: BIND: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew
Krad, Thank you for the tip. I've changed the "." to the correct value. Matthew On 1 October 2010 21:16, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 10/01/2010 12:52 PM, Matthew wrote: I would be grateful for any pointers on how to resolve this. I suspect the error message may

JAILS in FreeBSD manual - Minor ambiguity between 15.6.1.3 Creating Jails & 15.6.1.4 Upgrading

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew
in 15.6.1.4 Upgrading that I am to run mergemaster on each jail. I would be very happy to get a tip. Thank you, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: File size discrepancies

2007-09-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
nable explanations for a size difference I can think of would probably result in a bigger discrepancy. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracanino

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
it goes smoothly. Plus you're at quite high risk of rendering your system so completely banjaxed that your only recourse is to recover from backup. So make sure you've got good backups. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Pri

Re: Sendmail IP interface assignment -- how to?

2007-10-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
rned off > smtp as intended, but wondering if I'm doing the right thing with > restricting submission. Any other suggestions on configuring this? > (other than "don't use sendmail") This is on a live server, so I don't > want to hose things up too much experim

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
t seems that you have achieved that happy performance level of "fast enough." Anything else is just gravy. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://w

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
~all" or no entry at all. * Make sure that [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and possibly a few other common addresses are accepted by your domain, the messages are read and acted upon promptly. You should exempt these addresses as far as possible from all forms of

Re: Want to upgrade sendmail in next OS release

2007-10-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
ng .mc into .cf files: SENDMAIL_CF_DIR=/usr/local/share/sendmail/cf MAKEMAP=/usr/local/sbin/makemap Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. Flat 3 7 Prior

Re: Using OpenSSL from ports

2007-10-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
0.9.8e rather than 0.9.8f) and support all the latest ciphers. > Also, if I did install the port version, how would I > insure that applications would use it as opposed to to > the version in the base system? Put: WITH_OPENSSL_PORT= yes into /etc/make.conf Cheers,

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
is to /etc/make.conf: WITH_BDB_VER= 44 Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. Flat 3 7 Priory Courtyard PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgp

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeff D wrote: > Matthew, > > On 10/30/07, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is a known problem with the apache22 port. At the moment it only >> understands about Berkeley DB versions up to 4.4.x -- t

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
version of BDB over any other with apache -- it simply doesn't need any of the new transactional capabilities or anything like that. Hence the way the updates have been prioritized. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
ch things as 'portupgrade'... You don't need to delete all the ports in one go and then reinstall them in another: running 'portupgrade -fa' will do the job. That can take several days to complete if you've got a machine with OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Java, KDE, Gnome,

Re: freebsd using sendmail with tls

2007-11-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
, where encryption is assumed from the very beginning (much more like how HTTPS works) This is not used by the majority of MTAs out there on the 'net -- I believe it exists to support certain client software that can't do STARTTLS when submitting new messages. If you're using eg.

Re: apache13-modperl problem: mod_dir, mod_mime

2007-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
e as part of the default package. Look in /usr/local/etc/libexec/apache to find the loadable modules themselves. Look at the 'LoadModule' lines in /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf to see what is being loaded at runtime - -- the default is to load everything available. Cheers

Re: make configure vs first make

2007-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
pends I can't > obtain again the configuration screen even if i use make configure ... > !!!??? That's because you need to do: make config which has a very different effect to 'make configure.' Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman

Re: Quick question about PF and ALTQ

2007-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
ut transparent proxying of HTTP traffic with squid and pf that Google can find for you. By adapting that approach you may be able to apply the same concept to your traffic. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Sealed Server

2007-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
sful (making order insignificant). Sounds like your own recursive DNSes weren't actually working. Flaky DNS is the cause of most of the delays or failures that spoil your user experience: until you've thoroughly mastered managing DNS servers, I'd recom

Re: IPV6 NTP

2007-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
; I would do for an IPV4 server? Yes. In fact, just put in the host name and NTP will default to using the IPv6 address. Cheers, Matthew PS. Please don't hijack other e-mail threads by replying to a message and changing the subject. It's considered rude at best,

Re: building php5

2007-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
t; I did a make: deinstall && make clean > > How can I reconfigure php to install the Suhosin patch? FAQ: cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 make config Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
megarc-1.51 LSI Logic's MegaRAID controlling software On the other hand, if it's a rebadged Adaptec RAID controller using the aac driver under FreeBSD then you want: sysutils/aaccli aaccli-1.0 Adaptec SCSI RAID administration tool Cheers, Matthew -

Re: Personalised patches in ports

2007-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
of the ports tree as the base layer, maintained by portsnap or cvsup or how you will -- and keep all your modifications in an overlay. See mount_unionfs(8) -- although this page still contains the 'BEWARE OF THE DOG' warning on RELENG_6, I belie

Re: PF - Carp and vhid limitations

2007-12-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
s there are fail-over pairs of physical servers in your configuration. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate

Re: OpenOffice build

2003-11-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
exactly what is going wrong with your compile. Perhaps contacting the port's maintainers -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- would be a good move. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: Linux_Base 8

2003-11-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
impler to upgrade ports later on. Also look at the ALT_PKGDEP array in pkgtools.conf as a way of automatically recording the modified dependency in newly installed ports. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: racoon configuration syntax errors

2003-11-07 Thread Matthew Faircliff
Hello, It looks as though your sainfo line (99) is incorrect. I assume that you blanked out the actual ip with A.A.A.A? As per the racoon.conf.dist, an sainfo entry should have the following syntax: sainfo address 203.178.141.209 any address 203.178.141.218 any That is, the security associatio

Re: extending vnode disks

2003-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
e and the > filesystem without going onto vinum? It certainly is possible: http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-questions_2002/msg40059.html Although making a backup of the vnode backed drive is (as ever) a good idea. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Ma

Re: suidperl in ports?

2003-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
llback to the perl-5.8.0. Which is > the best step-by-step to do that if there's no suidperl available > in ports now. suidperl is now an optional part of the perl(1) install. Just re-install perl-5.8.1_2 as follows: # portupgrade -f lang/perl5.8 -m ENABLE_SUIDPERL=yes Che

Re: pkgdb -F and a few other questions

2003-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
prune out the unused stuff. There's no need to re-install any of the packages that come as standard with 5.8.1, since they're all right up to date already. > 2) how do i fix the above Missing origin errors? You don't need to: any BSDPAN package will inevitably have a

Re: Perl and OpenWebMail question...

2003-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
in them: % perl -e 'print join( "\n", @INC ), "\n";' /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.1/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl

Re: unkown this port

2003-11-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
d. This will show you what process has that port open. Try: % sockstat -l | grep 1658 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infra

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
e account of updates to the dependent packages. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html Then: # cd /usr/ports/misc/instant-server # make install Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Can't /.../rc.d/slapd.sh start

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
iled. slapd should have logged the reason why it didn't start up -- check /var/log/console.log, /var/log/all.log and /var/log/messages If the log message doesn't clarify things, turn up the log level in /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf (see slapd.conf(5)). Cheers, M

Re: Installing Without Video Card

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
tip(1) or some other terminal emulation software on the other machine which makes the first machine's console accessible from a login session. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: Is there a J2SE implementation for NetBSD?

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
ound it on the NetBSD site a few minutes ago and which I have no idea if it's any good or not. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.inf

Re: CVSweb Problem with Netscape Server

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
like. However, I suspect that the simple answer is that you need to scroll down to the bottom of the page and select a valid tag from the 'Show only files with tag:' or 'View only Branch:' pull-downs. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J S

Re: Enemy Territory

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
6/lib/libGL.so.1 pkg_info: both XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6 and nvidia-driver-1.0.4365 claim to have installed /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 Which is why re-installing nvidia-driver helps. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: backups and devices

2003-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
pport for doing that). Many of these products have more-or-less supported backup *clients* available for FreeBSD -- see sysutils/nwclient or sysutils/nwclient602 for some Legato Networker clients, and I've heard that you can use the Linux clients for Veritas BackupExec under emulation. Th

Re: Nroff error

2003-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
oesn't work, then I'd recommend going through a complete {build,install}{world,kernel} cycle to make sure you've got everything that should be in the base system. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: OT - Perl Question

2003-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Please tell me your name: "; chop ($name=); print "Please tell me your nationality: "; chop ($nation=); if ( $nation eq "British" or $nation eq "New Zealand" ) { print "Hallo $name, pleased to meet you!\n"; }

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-11 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> Thanks for all of the great suggestions to my previous question! > > Yet, the responses have led me to another question. If C++ is newer and more advanced than C, will it replace C? If so, should I learn C++ and forget C? You can't learn C++ without learning C first. So I'd suggest you become i

pcm driver kills SMP performance

2003-11-11 Thread matthew tillman
the same, the system is very responsive. I first had this issue with 5.1-Release. I then CVSuped to -CURRENT, and still have the same issue. I also tried swapping the card into a diffrent PCI slot, but that didn't help. Any ideas? Thanks, Ma

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
ings seem eerily familiar -- although the Java syntax is superficially more like C++, Java was based pretty closely on the semantics of Obj-C. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: md5/des ?

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
reasonable idea, but now that we have /dev/random is much less so. Use 'pw useradd' command instead. See pw(8) -- this is a much more capable program for manipulating user and group accounts, and it doesn't suffer from the drawbacks you've noted. Cheers, Ma

Re: Programmatic control of screen-saver

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
t_screensaver_timeout() function in /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.c and the header file. I think that ioctl should do what you want, although I'm not sure that setting the blanking time to zero would actually cancel a running screen saver. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr

Re: backup drive scheme

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
a as possible onto the available media? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614

Re: backup drive bootabel

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
er a short delay the system will carry on an boot up from the same disk as the previous boot: # boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 da0 # boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 da1 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: statvfs.h

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
r for it to be supported. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614

Re: backup drive bootabel

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
t may well be the case that the sample mbr has been moved somewhere else in the filesystem. Checking the fdisk(8) and boot0cfg(8) man pages for clues doesn't confirm that though. The mbr should be a 512 byte file generated from the assembler sources in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/mbr Cheers

Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Hunt
ain grep *.c then is found on several files. When using "-r", the arguments to grep should be directories. It will process all of the files in the given directories, recursively. There is no provision for searching a subset of the files (i.e. "*.c). If you need to do that, use find

Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Hunt
s not mean the same thing as a regular expression as it does as a wildcard, and it could also match parts of the "ls -l" output besides the filename). -- Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ *

Re: Dictionary in ports?

2003-11-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
m requires some version of Windows to run: http://www.oed.com/services/cd-rom/requirements.html In the UK and Europe, it costs £250.00 for a single user version. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: beeping on console...NOT X

2003-11-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
t; bash...does someone happent to know the wawy to turn off > console beeping in the .cshrc or .bashrc file? # kbdcontrol -b off See kbdcontrol(1) for various other things you can tweak about the way the bell sounds. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: About Kernel Compile

2003-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html As part of this process you might consider creating a custom kernel configuration: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html -- Dr Matthew

Re: PHP.ini

2003-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
register_globals on any machine exposed to the internet. The recommended way to access the CGI data is through the $_GET[] array (or $_POST[] for scripts that work by that action) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Fastest way to change IP addresses

2003-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
making the second one the primary address, and then delete the first address. Possibly with some sort of delay between each operation to let verything adjust. But no guarrantees that will work. You'll have to experiment. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Ph

Re: bsd-jdk14-patches-4.tar.gz

2003-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 04:30:21PM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > When I go to get the patch at the referenced site, I get a 'malformed url' > error, and can't download it. Try this one: http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/JDK14SCSLConfirm.html Che

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2003-11-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
lly use yet. You might have more luck over with our fiends at NetBSD, who do have PPC ports available. Don't know about installing over the 'net -- you might have more luck by trying to find a way to replace your broken brive with a cheap off-the-shelf alternative. Cheers,

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