Re: Mounting USB-stick

2005-04-24 Thread Fridtjof Busse
* Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now I have /dev/da0, but no /dev/da0s1. No matter what I try with camcontrol, I don't get da0s1. By accident I found out that after I mount /dev/da0 (which of course doesn't give me any files on the stick) and umount it, I get /dev/ da0s1. What's going

Re: 5.4-RC2: Unexpected reboots

2005-04-24 Thread Ed Stover
Hi On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 12:39 +0200, Erik Nrgaard wrote: Hi, I have had problems recently keeping my 5.3 up, then I upgraded to 5.4-RC2. Things seemed stable, but then I just ran last: norgaard ttyp1charmSat 23 Apr 12:05 still logged in norgaard

Re: USB hard disk

2005-04-24 Thread Alex Soares de Moura
Carolina Mallol wrote: I have a kangaroo usb hard disk that stopped working (skips, makes strange vibrating clicking noises and the computer does not recognize it. could you offer any help? suggestions? Maybe a strange suggestion from recent articles from technical newspapers published here:

The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-04-03 - 2005-04-23

2005-04-24 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Jack and Icecast

2005-04-24 Thread Loren M. Lang
I'm curious what clients people use to send data to icecast. I tried the native client, ices, but it kept bus erroring. I've found oddcastv3-jack and I'm working on porting it to freebsd. Also, how well does jack work on FreeBSD. I can't seem to get it to work. Any tips on using it? Every

how can i get the freebsd CURRENT vision

2005-04-24 Thread kylin
my machine use the broadcom 5721 pci express NIC, but the 5.3 release of freebsd only support 5701 of this band i have gone to the ftp.freebsd.org but there are so many , i cannot find the patch or the iso of the FreeBSD 5.3 CURRENT version ,which kindhearted could thell me how? i only want the

Re: Stuck in bootstrapping hell - how do I troubleshoot?

2005-04-24 Thread Chris Zumbrunn
On Apr 23, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Chris Zumbrunn wrote: On Apr 23, 2005, at 1:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turn off power management in PC bios and try again. Thanks, I'll try that. When this happend to me before, I fdisk'ed, disklabel'ed, atacontrol'ed, sysinstall'ed, dd'ed, newfs'ed, boot0cfg'ed

Re: how can i get the freebsd CURRENT vision

2005-04-24 Thread Stevan Tiefert
kylin schrieb: my machine use the broadcom 5721 pci express NIC, but the 5.3 release of freebsd only support 5701 of this band i have gone to the ftp.freebsd.org but there are so many , i cannot find the patch or the iso of the FreeBSD 5.3 CURRENT version ,which kindhearted could thell me how? i

non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, does the non-official support for 5.2.1 still exist? With regards Stevan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How do I do UPDATINg in AMD Architecture?

2005-04-24 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hello people, When it comes to the Intel platform, I can always find my way around, but in this one case of AMD, I am purely clueless. I don't even know what keyword to search for in the handbook, FAQ, google. Attached you will find the dmesg output of an oldish box on which I just installed

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:44:08AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, does the non-official support for 5.2.1 still exist? I don't know what you're asking. Kris pgpR7VaTUBoAX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How do I do UPDATINg in AMD Architecture?

2005-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:51:32AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello people, When it comes to the Intel platform, I can always find my way around, but in this one case of AMD, I am purely clueless. I don't even know what keyword to search for in the handbook, FAQ, google. Attached

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Kris Kennaway schrieb: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:44:08AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, does the non-official support for 5.2.1 still exist? I don't know what you're asking. Kris That's bad... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:25:16AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Kris Kennaway schrieb: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:44:08AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, does the non-official support for 5.2.1 still exist? I don't know what you're asking. Kris That's bad...

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Kris Kennaway schrieb: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:25:16AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Kris Kennaway schrieb: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:44:08AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, does the non-official support for 5.2.1 still exist? I don't know what you're asking.

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:44:08AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, does the non-official support for 5.2.1 still exist? Feel free to ask your questions on this list. But for a lot of questions the answer will probably be to update your system. So if you have trouble, update your

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Roland Smith schrieb: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:44:08AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, does the non-official support for 5.2.1 still exist? Feel free to ask your questions on this list. But for a lot of questions the answer will probably be to update your system. So if you have

Swatch sort of (not) working...

2005-04-24 Thread Per B
Hi all! So I got snortsnarf to work but now I'm stuck again.. I installed swatch to monitor the auth.log for those (in-)famous Illegal user lines and take som actions on them. I have some ideas what I want to do (firewall the IP-address out for good) but I've started pretty basic. I am setting

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 11:11 +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello Kris, to explain better, what I want (It was my job to specify better what I want :-) Does the RELENG_5_2 security branch still exist? And if not, when and where did they annouced to stop the support for 5.2.1? With

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Andreas Rudisch schrieb: On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 11:11 +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello Kris, to explain better, what I want (It was my job to specify better what I want :-) Does the RELENG_5_2 security branch still exist? And if not, when and where did they annouced to stop the support for

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:23:33AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: I have no problem with my system. I was only wondering about the last one or two security advisories concerning the patchlevel of the releases! The 5.2.1-release is not appearing anymore and I think that I was not announced

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Roland Smith schrieb: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:23:33AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: I have no problem with my system. I was only wondering about the last one or two security advisories concerning the patchlevel of the releases! The 5.2.1-release is not appearing anymore and I think that I

Azureus port not installing

2005-04-24 Thread edward
Hi all, I'm having a hard time installing the Azureus port. I use FreeBSD 5.3 Release on an i386 box, with Xorg 6.0.7_1 and KDE 3.3.0_4. My port tree have been updated with CVSup. I have located azureus-2.2.0_6 in the 5-STABLE/i386 section of http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html During my

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Odhiambo Washington schrieb: * Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050424 10:44]: wrote: Hello list, does the non-official support for 5.2.1 still exist? No! Because 5.3 is out and there is even 5.4-RC ;-) -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: what kind of BBS software on freebsd work well

2005-04-24 Thread Ed Stover
What ever happend to the old telnet style bb shells? I would much rather run one of those ;) On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:08 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: Graham Bentley wrote: And has more security problems than Carter has liver pills If more people are using a project like phpBB surely there

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:35:47AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Andreas Rudisch schrieb: On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 11:11 +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello Kris, to explain better, what I want (It was my job to specify better what I want :-) Does the RELENG_5_2 security branch

how to enable the root in telnet

2005-04-24 Thread kylin
i find it difficult to use root account when i telnet to freebsd 5.3 release , anything need to change? thank you -- we who r about to die,salute u! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 11:49 +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello Wash, a small question: Why is then 4.11, 4.10 still supported? :-) With regards Stevan 4.10 and 4.11 are from the STABLE-branch. As far as I know 5.2.1 was the CURRENT-branch which let to the 1st STABLE 5 version FreeBSD 5.3

getting handbooks via cvsup?

2005-04-24 Thread O. Hartmann
I'm looking for a way getting various handbook's sources via cvsup, common handbook English/German and some developers handbooks (developer, porter). On each nstallation CD I can find various handbook types (PS, PDF, HTML). My intention is having a local webserver at the department keeping

Re: how to enable the root in telnet

2005-04-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 06:09:38PM +0800, kylin wrote: i find it difficult to use root account when i telnet to freebsd 5.3 release , anything need to change? You're not supposed to log in as root over telnet. It would expose the root password to anybody intercepting your IP traffic. It would

Re: unclean filesystem refusing to salvage

2005-04-24 Thread Ed Stover
Is this on one computer or across multiple machines running 5.4? My first thought is of a dying hard drive. Run low level disk repair tools from your hard drives' manufacturer. On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:28 +1000, Warren wrote: im running FreeBSD 5.4 and have /var as well as all the other

Re: how to enable the root in telnet

2005-04-24 Thread kylin
thank u for your advise! but now i am in a very save local network ,and the su return sorry in my telnet, so is that mean i have to go to ssh? or can i chage some file to enable it thank u and best wishes On 4/24/05, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 06:09:38PM

apache vhost help.

2005-04-24 Thread Perttu Laine
I have domain configured so *.domain.tld are A record to same IP. Now I have apache vhosts so www.domain.tld and domain.tld goes to apache data dir and webmail.domain.tld goes to webmail data dir. Problem is howto forward those all others to certain directory. s it possible to make *.domain.tld

Re: Jack and Icecast

2005-04-24 Thread Tilman Linneweh
* Loren M. Lang [Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 09:15 GMT]: I'm curious what clients people use to send data to icecast. I tried the native client, ices, but it kept bus erroring. I've found oddcastv3-jack and I'm working on porting it to freebsd. Also, how well does jack work on FreeBSD. I can't

Re: getting handbooks via cvsup?

2005-04-24 Thread Tilman Linneweh
* O. Hartmann [Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 12:21 GMT]: I'm looking for a way getting various handbook's sources via cvsup, common handbook English/German and some developers handbooks (developer, porter). On each nstallation CD I can find various handbook types (PS, PDF, HTML). My intention is

Re: exif.10 libexif-0.6.12_1

2005-04-24 Thread Tilman Linneweh
* Drew Tomlinson [Tue, 19 Apr 2005 at 18:10 GMT]: I'm trying to install an unofficial port of MythTV Gallery. It looks for exif.10 library but doesn't find it even after installing libexif-0.6.12_1. Does the port makefile need to updated or do I need to install something else to get

Re: getting handbooks via cvsup?

2005-04-24 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:21:53 +0200 O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a way getting various handbook's sources via cvsup, common handbook English/German and some developers handbooks (developer, porter). On each nstallation CD I can find various handbook types (PS,

Re: how to enable the root in telnet

2005-04-24 Thread Lis
u have to log in with your normal account that is not your root account... add this account to the group wheel and su to root... - Original Message - From: kylin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; kylin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:53 PM Subject:

Re: how to enable the root in telnet

2005-04-24 Thread Lis
abbendum: but think about the problem that your data is send unencrypted over the network if u make no ssh logins - Original Message - From: kylin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; kylin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:53 PM Subject: Re: how to enable

Re: how to enable the root in telnet

2005-04-24 Thread Ed Stover
um hi On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 18:53 +0800, kylin wrote: thank u for your advise! but now i am in a very save local network ,and the su return sorry in my telnet, so is that mean i have to go to ssh? or can i chage some file to enable it thank u and best wishes On 4/24/05, Roland Smith

Re: apache vhost help.

2005-04-24 Thread Lis
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2003/07/24/vhosts.html - Original Message - From: Perttu Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:58 PM Subject: apache vhost help. I have domain configured so *.domain.tld are A record to same IP. Now I

Re: getting handbooks via cvsup?

2005-04-24 Thread O. Hartmann
Tilman Linneweh wrote: * O. Hartmann [Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 12:21 GMT]: I'm looking for a way getting various handbook's sources via cvsup, common handbook English/German and some developers handbooks (developer, porter). On each nstallation CD I can find various handbook types (PS, PDF,

Azureus shutdowns

2005-04-24 Thread Perttu Laine
I have problems with Azureus 2.2.0.2 (from ports). It shutdowns without any error message on logs or anything. Sometimes it runs for hour sometimes a day and few times even for a week. But then suddenly it just dissappears with no warning. Anybody have idea what could be wrong? -- kpn @ IRCnet

Re: apache vhost help.

2005-04-24 Thread Duo
Perttu Laine wrote: I have domain configured so *.domain.tld are A record to same IP. Now I have apache vhosts so www.domain.tld and domain.tld goes to apache data dir and webmail.domain.tld goes to webmail data dir. Problem is howto forward those all others to certain directory. s it possible to

fsck in securelevel 2?

2005-04-24 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Hi, I tried to check the root partition with fsck and it found errors and for my greatest surprise, it answered its questions automatically with no. It is due to the securelevel 2? I've been thinking whether fsck uses direct access (which is denied by the securelevel) or not? Cheers, Gábor

Where to find good/cheap tech support

2005-04-24 Thread ChrisC
Where would you all recommend that one can go to find good FreeBSD tech support that does not cost $150+ an hour? If there are no places that are less expensive, then what places do you recommend that are expensive? I am having a SCSI controller boot problem that no one seems to be able to

Re: fsck in securelevel 2?

2005-04-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:49:27PM +0200, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Hi, I tried to check the root partition with fsck and it found errors and for my greatest surprise, it answered its questions automatically with no. It is due to the securelevel 2? I've been thinking whether fsck uses direct

Re: fsck in securelevel 2?

2005-04-24 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:49:27PM +0200, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote: Hi, I tried to check the root partition with fsck and it found errors and for my greatest surprise, it answered its questions automatically with no. It is due to the securelevel 2? I've been thinking whether fsck uses direct

Blocking traffic with PF

2005-04-24 Thread Frank Staals
Hey everyone, I would like to bock all traffic from one host, the problem is the data isn't comming from that host anymore, it is redirected from my router, I am using PF as firewall, this is te ruleset I wanted to use for it: block in from { example.host.com , example2.secondhost.com } to any

Re: Where to find good/cheap tech support

2005-04-24 Thread Benjamin Rossen
On Sunday 24 April 2005 15:58, ChrisC wrote: Where would you all recommend that one can go to find good FreeBSD tech support that does not cost $150+ an hour? If there are no places that are less expensive, then what places do you recommend that are expensive? I am having a SCSI

Re: Mounting USB-stick

2005-04-24 Thread Dan Olson
Fridtjof Busse wrote: * Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now I have /dev/da0, but no /dev/da0s1. No matter what I try with camcontrol, I don't get da0s1. By accident I found out that after I mount /dev/da0 (which of course doesn't give me any files on the stick) and umount it, I get /dev/ da0s1.

Would like to get back my command prompt!

2005-04-24 Thread Michael Neeff
A newbie with installing FreeBSD 5.3...I installed X and got excited to direcly log on to X (xdm) with the dialog box. I modified the lineto turn xterm on: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon xterm ON secure. Now I am stuck in a login loop... I would like to configure X and install KDE, but it

Re: Would like to get back my command prompt!

2005-04-24 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:37:23PM +, Michael Neeff wrote: A newbie with installing FreeBSD 5.3...I installed X and got excited to direcly log on to X (xdm) with the dialog box. I modified the lineto turn xterm on: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon xterm ON secure. Now I am stuck in a

Audit tools?

2005-04-24 Thread Jay O'Brien
What are the tools that I should use to audit an existing FreeBSD installation? Without changing anything, I wish to quickly determine what is installed, i.e., the basic system, ports and packages, and then to compare what is installed to the currently available versions. Jay O'Brien Rio

Re: Audit tools?

2005-04-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 08:02:39AM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: What are the tools that I should use to audit an existing FreeBSD installation? Without changing anything, I wish to quickly determine what is installed, i.e., the basic system, ports and packages, and then to compare what is

Re: Mounting USB-stick

2005-04-24 Thread Fridtjof Busse
* Dan Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For me to get da0s1 to appear I use the command: cat /dev/null /dev/da0 I think there is a timing issue with my device, a Kingston Elite. Great, thanks, that works for me as well. I also found out it works if the stick is plugged in at boot time. After all,

usermin/webmin external access

2005-04-24 Thread dave
Hello, I've got a 5.3 box that i've got usermin and webmin running on perrequest. I want to set this up in such a way that anyone on the local subnet will be able to access either, but that any external access is handled by something similar to sshd's AllowGroup directive, anyone in the group

cvsup hang problem and X question

2005-04-24 Thread benchmark
Basic info: FreeBSD 5.3 I have been trying to use cvsup to sync up my ports, but it seems to hang everytime, see the following... rainier# cvsup -L 2 -h cvsup10.FreeBSD.org /root/ports-supfile Parsing supfile /root/ports-supfile Connecting to cvsup10.FreeBSD.org Connected to cvsup10.FreeBSD.org

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:11:44AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: to explain better, what I want (It was my job to specify better what I want :-) Does the RELENG_5_2 security branch still exist? And if not, when and where did they annouced to stop the support for 5.2.1? Check

Re: Toshiba Portégé 4000 laptop

2005-04-24 Thread Laurent Debacker
Okay the solution is to disable COM and Parallel ports in the bios. (Maybe also USB KB, and USB FDD). To access the bios you have to press ESC while the red TOSHIBA boot screen is displayed, then press F1. (I explain that becaused it's undocumented). With the default settings, I even got the 5.x

Re: Where to find good/cheap tech support

2005-04-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
ChrisC wrote: Where would you all recommend that one can go to find good FreeBSD tech support that does not cost $150+ an hour? This mailing list usually does a pretty good job, considering, and it's free. However, someone located on-site or near to where-ever the machine is, is going to do a

Re: cannot start k3b

2005-04-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, k3b stopped working on me when I upgraded my ports. This is what it says when I try to start it up: Could not start process Unknown protocol 'file'.. Could not find mime type application/octet-stream Any clue what might cause this? I'm

Re: Audit tools?

2005-04-24 Thread Jay O'Brien
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 08:02:39AM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: What are the tools that I should use to audit an existing FreeBSD installation? Without changing anything, I wish to quickly determine what is installed, i.e., the basic system, ports and packages, and then to

Re: Audit tools?

2005-04-24 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:08:55PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 08:02:39AM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: What are the tools that I should use to audit an existing FreeBSD installation? Without changing anything, I wish to quickly determine what is

Re: Building firewalk 5.0 from ports

2005-04-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steven R Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, In attempting to build firewalk from the ports collection, I received the following error: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I/usr/local/include -O -pipe -Wall -c init.c init.c: In function `fw_init_net': init.c:156:

Re: Sanity check needed on an idea

2005-04-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm planning on deploying a few servers, each of which will be doing some same things (Web, mail, etc) and some that will have other tasks (MRTG, IRRPT, etc). I'm to the point where going to upgrade software or make a config change on 10

Re: Re[4]: WRITE_DMA problem again

2005-04-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Cezar Fistik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Kendall, Friday, April 22, 2005, 8:50:42 PM, you wrote: Anyhow, my understanding is that the current work-around to this problem is to turn DMA off for your ata drives. I guess this can be done manually with the atacontrol command as I've

Re: Allowing a group to use fstab mount-points

2005-04-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have fstab entries for several devices that aren't mounted at boot, but when mounting as an ordinary user, I can only mount a device on a mount-point that I own. Is it possible to relax this so that any user in the operator group can make use of the same

Re: OT: HTTP response handling - date correction in the client?

2005-04-24 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 12:43:48PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: This is OT, I know, but there's gotta be someone on this list that knows the various HTTP specs better than I do. I do know them better than your average bear, at least, but apparently not as well as I thought. I seem to

Re: Sanity check needed on an idea

2005-04-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Tuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm to the point where going to upgrade software or make a config change on 10 servers gets really annoying. I was looking to do something a little different. I know there are other things out there to do this (cfengine) but wondered if that

Re: Where to find good/cheap tech support

2005-04-24 Thread ChrisC
Thanks for the reply. - I have tried posting the problem in the bsdforums.com as well as on this mailing list but no one seems to be able to help. - In my mind there is always the possibility of a problem being a pebkac but this problem only occurs with FreeBSD. The SCSI

Re: Azureus shutdowns

2005-04-24 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 15:30 +0300, Perttu Laine wrote: I have problems with Azureus 2.2.0.2 (from ports). It shutdowns without any error message on logs or anything. Sometimes it runs for hour sometimes a day and few times even for a week. But then suddenly it just dissappears with no warning.

Postfix with SASL2 Problem

2005-04-24 Thread John Morgan Salomon
Hi there, sorry if this is offtopic, but I'm a bit lost as to where else to ask. I have cyrus-sasl2, cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd and Postfix installed from ports on a FreeBSD 5.3-R system. I'm trying to get SASL2 getpwent auth working with Postfix. Unfortunately, I keep getting the following error:

Re: Audit tools?

2005-04-24 Thread Jay O'Brien
Clifton Royston wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:08:55PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 08:02:39AM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: What are the tools that I should use to audit an existing FreeBSD installation? Without changing anything, I wish to quickly

FreeBSD Update Upgrade

2005-04-24 Thread Giuliano Cardozo Medalha
People, When I try to use CVSUP ... if I use the script with: tag=. ... what it mean ? It mean 5.4 or 5.3 sources ? How is possible to put the system in the current version and in the stable version ? Thanks a lot giuliano ___

Re: FreeBSD Update Upgrade

2005-04-24 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 25. April 2005 01:59 schrieb Giuliano Cardozo Medalha: People, When I try to use CVSUP ... if I use the script with: tag=. ... what it mean ? It mean 5.4 or 5.3 sources ? It's HEAD, which is 6-current, the developers code base ;) You want RELENG_5_4 for 5.4 sources and RELENG_5

Portupgrading - many problems

2005-04-24 Thread Iain Dooley
hi all, i recently attempted to portupgrade the kde super package and had loads of problems. i first upgraded from FreeBSD 4.10 to FreeBSD 4.11, and then cvsup'd 'ports-all'. i then did portupgrade -R kde, but ran into several issues. a common error was: Program X has conflicts with the

Re: Portupgrading - many problems

2005-04-24 Thread Till Plewe
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:21:47AM +, Iain Dooley wrote: hi all, i recently attempted to portupgrade the kde super package and had loads of problems. i first upgraded from FreeBSD 4.10 to FreeBSD 4.11, and then cvsup'd 'ports-all'. i then did portupgrade -R kde, but ran into several

Re: DLT tape / no streaming

2005-04-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
I use a Benchmark DLT tape drive to backup data on my DELL PowerEdge 2650 system [...] The problem I see is that data flow is not steadily streaming; the tape drive is operating in start-stop-mode. I use team(1) (/usr/ports/misc/team) to bufferize the acces to a tape drive, in a command like:

Re: exif.10 libexif-0.6.12_1

2005-04-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 4/24/2005 4:08 AM Tilman Linneweh wrote: * Drew Tomlinson [Tue, 19 Apr 2005 at 18:10 GMT]: I'm trying to install an unofficial port of MythTV Gallery. It looks for exif.10 library but doesn't find it even after installing libexif-0.6.12_1. Does the port makefile need to updated or do I

Re: Allowing a group to use fstab mount-points

2005-04-24 Thread Joel
I have fstab entries for several devices that aren't mounted at boot, but (B when mounting as an ordinary user, I can only mount a device on a (B mount-point that I own. (B (B Is it possible to relax this so that any user in the operator group can (B make use of the same fstab

RE: Where to find good/cheap tech support

2005-04-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where would you all recommend that one can go to find good FreeBSD tech support that does not cost $150+ an hour? Why are you so hung up on the billing rate? Problems with Windows take much longer to fix than problems with FreeBSD, so your going to end up paying the

teTeX fails to bulid; complains about freetype

2005-04-24 Thread Mac Mason
# cd /usr/ports/print/teTex # make install [...snip...] making all in programs/x11perf... cc -O -pipe -ansi -pedantic -Wno-system-headers -Dasm=__asm -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -I/usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/work/xc -I/usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/work/xc/exports/include

Re: scaning the local network with arping/sh script

2005-04-24 Thread Abu Khaled
On 4/24/05, Alex Soares de Moura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abu Khaled wrote: Greetings... I don't know much about scripting but i tried to write one to scan my local network using the net/arping port. here is the script: sciprt start #!/bin/sh IP=1 while [ $IP -le 20 ] do echo -e .\c

Re: scaning the local network with arping/sh script

2005-04-24 Thread Alex Soares de Moura
Abu Khaled wrote: On 4/24/05, Alex Soares de Moura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abu Khaled wrote: Greetings... I don't know much about scripting but i tried to write one to scan my local network using the net/arping port. here is the script: sciprt start #!/bin/sh IP=1 while [ $IP -le 20 ] do echo -e