Re: scaning the local network with arping/sh script

2005-04-26 Thread Abu Khaled
I want to thank you all for replying to my post. I'm building the world at the moment and can't wait to start testing what you guys suggested. I knew you guys won't let me down.As always I ended up having my problems solved as well as adding more to my knowledge. It's a wonderful feeling. Thanks

URL on softupdates?

2005-04-26 Thread John Conover
Is there a URL that describes how softupdates work? Thanks, John -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Need help in using NetMos 9835 based card with 2serial 1parallel

2005-04-26 Thread Brian Hobbs
Hi, I have a NetMos 9835 card and have lost the drivers therefore. Can you help with the supply of the initial drivers? Many thanks Brian Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

netcat strange behaviour

2005-04-26 Thread shibbsd
Hi, I recently came across a very stupid behaviour of netcat - the one in base system (/usr/bin/nc in my FreeBSD 5.4-RC3). I just wanted to connect to a POP3 server, authenticate and grab the STAT information, so I issued the following command: printf USER XXX\nPASS XXX\nSTAT\nQUIT\n | nc -i 1

illegal user root user failed login attempts

2005-04-26 Thread Peter Kropholler
I run a server at home on port 22. There are loads of illegal user attempts to login every few days. As its at home I protect myself by having only one user on the sshd AllowUsers list and with a very strong password and no admin/sysman priveleges. So essentially every failed login attempt is

Re: It keeps CRrrASHING!!

2005-04-26 Thread Fafa Diliha Romanova
Hello Tomas! It must be PF. Whenever I download, it crashes. Everytime I reboot after crash, I have to type: # pfctl -F a ; pfctl -Nf /etc/pf.conf ; pfctl -sr For my int_if to get Internet access. Anyway, here is my pf.conf: int_if=ep0 ext_if=lnc0 # *** Options # set block-policy drop

PPP in kernel mode

2005-04-26 Thread eddy_mut
Why my PoPToP server not running ppp in kernel mode. It ignoring file /etc/ppp/options.pptp and take all options only from /etc/ppp/ppp.conf? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Where to find good/cheap tech support

2005-04-26 Thread Joel
You seem to be making assumptions and are looking into this to deeply my friend. But thanks for the feedback anyway :) - The $150 was only an arbitrary number thats common in the field. I could have chosen another number. It would not have mattered, the

Re: illegal user root user failed login attempts

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 09:22:34AM +0100, Peter Kropholler wrote: I run a server at home on port 22. There are loads of illegal user attempts to login every few days. As its at home I protect myself by having only one user on the sshd AllowUsers list and with a very strong password and no

Re: illegal user root user failed login attempts

2005-04-26 Thread J65nko BSD
On 4/26/05, Peter Kropholler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run a server at home on port 22. There are loads of illegal user attempts to login every few days. As its at home I protect myself by having only one user on the sshd AllowUsers list and with a very strong password and no admin/sysman

Re: Questions about processes

2005-04-26 Thread Lord Raiden
Most of those processes are used by the kernel, some of them, if you aren't using the specific hardware or functionality they provide (such as USB or ktrace) can be disabled by compiling your own kernel (see here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/kernelconfig.html). While

Qpopper SSL TLS problem

2005-04-26 Thread BSD
Hello, I have a weired problem with Qpopper FBSD 5.3. I am using the latest version compiled using the port tree. with one or two options : CONFIGURE_ARGS= --enable-nonauth-file=${POPUSERS_FILE} \ --without-gdbm \ --enable-keep-temp-drop \

Re: illegal user root user failed login attempts

2005-04-26 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 09:22:34AM +0100, Peter Kropholler wrote: Is there any way to actually record what passwords the hackers' scripts are trying? I am just really intrigued to know what they are thinking might work. No - ssh transport is encrypted even by the time

RE: Where to find good/cheap tech support

2005-04-26 Thread ChrisC
I guess we are going with RedHat on this server. I would have preferred FreeBSD :( This was just meant to be a little question on where to get help that fits our budget, nothing more. For those that like to poke and hit I'm just a little employee doing what I can with what I'm given. At

Re: getting handbooks via cvsup?

2005-04-26 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:32:59PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: cvsup file: *default host=cvsup.ro.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix doc-all Run cvsup then: cd /usr/doc/ make FORMATS=html html-split ps

Re: URL on softupdates?

2005-04-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Conover) writes: Is there a URL that describes how softupdates work? From /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates: How Soft Updates Work For more general information on soft updates, please see: http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/

[no subject]

2005-04-26 Thread Brandon Osborne
Hello, I want to dial into a system I set up, with BSD and remove it through Command Prompt, and reset the BSD, or remove it completely. How can I go about doing this. Is it possible? B. Osborne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

smbfs in fstab

2005-04-26 Thread kevintaber
currently I mount my XP share via: mount_smbfs -N //a7v133/raid /storage1 How can I get put this in my /etc/fstab so that it doesn't prompt me for a password upon bootup. This winshare is accessible without a password and by anyone. I have read through seveal forums and read man pages gallore,

GhostScript port/pkg broken on 5.3R

2005-04-26 Thread Jeff Kreska
I can't seem to get ghostscript port/pkg to work. I can't find anyone else with this problem so I am not sure if it is onlt my environement. I tryed pkg ghostscript-gnu-7.07 port ghostscrupt-gnu ( cvsupped tried again ) My uname reports: 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE i386 Problem is with

Qt programming

2005-04-26 Thread Steven Friedrich
I want to learn Qt programming. Can I do that without buying anything from TrollTech (until I'm ready to develop a commercial program) ? Does FreeBSD have the tools, libraries, etc.? Steven Friedrich 5112 Mount

Re: Questions about processes

2005-04-26 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:18:30PM -0400, Lord Raiden wrote: Hi all. Looking for some info about some processes I've got running on my box. I'm new to 5.3 having used the 4x line for a long time and I'm curious about my process list. When I do ps -ax I get the following list as

Re: Questions about processes

2005-04-26 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 12:14:26AM -0400, Alexander Chamandy wrote: On 4/25/05, Lord Raiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Looking for some info about some processes I've got running on my box. I'm new to 5.3 having used the 4x line for a long time and I'm curious about my

Re: Qt programming

2005-04-26 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 09:34:18AM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: I want to learn Qt programming. Can I do that without buying anything from TrollTech (until I'm ready to develop a commercial program) ? Does FreeBSD have the tools, libraries, etc.? Use the ports, Luke! Esp.:

Computer hanging when trying to load APM, at boot time

2005-04-26 Thread FIlosofem
Hi. As written in the subject, my computer freezes at the point it should load APM. However, it does boot in safe mode, and shutdown -p now works perfectly. Moreover, unfortunatly, when I boot in safe mode, only one of my two processors is being used (it is therefore impossible to always boot

Re: Qt programming

2005-04-26 Thread Steven Friedrich
Thanks, that helped a lot. I've downloaded the examples from C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 at ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/misc/qtbook-examples.zip I followed the instructions in the README, but it doesn't build the Makefiles in the chapters. I've written Makefiles, so I know the basics. I'll try

Freebsdi386 4.11 release failed to mountroot after make buildworld make kerne

2005-04-26 Thread john pa
Error after upgrade from fresh install 4.11-release to 4.-stable It fail to mountroot : ufs:/dev/ad4s2a Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rightsreserved.

Re: Qt programming

2005-04-26 Thread Steven Friedrich
Turns out, the only reason it wouldn't work is because the files and directories from the zip had write permission turned off. Works now... On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:36:45 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: Thanks, that helped a lot. I've downloaded the examples from C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 at

harddisk problem in the 5.x series

2005-04-26 Thread zoltan sandor
Hi everybody! I have the following problem. I moved my system from FreeBSD 4.11 to 5.4-RC3 by reinstalling everything. The 4.11 system had no problem finding my MAXTOR hard disk as ad3 as slave on the secondary IDE behind the CDROM. The new 5.4 system indicates a lot of errors, but finally accepts

Where does a port store a saved configuration file?

2005-04-26 Thread scott renna
Hello list, I had a question regarding where in FreeBSD5.3 the configuration file for a port is stored. I've been trying to find the saved configuration file that Snort created upon me selecting what options to include during the make install. I had included support for Prelude, since I've

Re: smbfs in fstab

2005-04-26 Thread Ash
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: currently I mount my XP share via: mount_smbfs -N //a7v133/raid /storage1 How can I get put this in my /etc/fstab so that it doesn't prompt me for a password upon bootup. This winshare is accessible without a password and by anyone. I have read through seveal forums and

Re: Where does a port store a saved configuration file?

2005-04-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
scott renna wrote: Hello list, I had a question regarding where in FreeBSD5.3 the configuration file for a port is stored. I've been trying to find the saved configuration file that Snort created upon me selecting what options to include during the make install. I had included support

Re: Where does a port store a saved configuration file?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:28:36AM -0700, scott renna wrote: Hello list, I had a question regarding where in FreeBSD5.3 the configuration file for a port is stored. I've been trying to find the saved configuration file that Snort created upon me selecting what options to include during

Re: Where does a port store a saved configuration file?

2005-04-26 Thread RW
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 16:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: scott renna wrote: ... /var/db/ports/name_of_port ? but you really need to read man ports instead. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Where does a port store a saved configuration file?

2005-04-26 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:28:36 -0700 (PDT) scott renna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I had a question regarding where in FreeBSD5.3 the configuration file for a port is stored. I've been trying to find the saved configuration file that Snort created upon me selecting what options to

Re: acpi, wi0 and apm.

2005-04-26 Thread FIlosofem
Hi. You need to edit /boot/device.hints and, at the line that is about disabling apm, and for which the actual value is 1, change it for 0. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Verizon EVDO - Broadcom a/b/g - Cisco VPN Client = how to in 5.3

2005-04-26 Thread Dana Rawson
Phil, Thanks for the response. I was speaking of the Linux version of the Cisco vpn client software. I was hoping to be able to use it with the Linux binary compatibility as you spoke of. But that appears as though it will not work now as you mentioned. I configured the .pfc file for my windows

Re: Qt programming

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Robey
Steven Friedrich wrote: I want to learn Qt programming. Can I do that without buying anything from TrollTech (until I'm ready to develop a commercial program) ? Does FreeBSD have the tools, libraries, etc.? There are several books on teh subject available also. I would suggest you need tow

Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread edward
Hi all, Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as broken in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE. Thanks for

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Robey
edward wrote: Hi all, Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as broken in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE.

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Frank Staals
edward wrote: Hi all, Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as broken in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE.

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Robey
Frank Staals wrote: edward wrote: Hi all, Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as broken in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005, Chuck Robey wrote: edward wrote: Hi all, Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as broken in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF

Re: Where does a port store a saved configuration file?

2005-04-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-26 08:28, scott renna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I had a question regarding where in FreeBSD5.3 the configuration file for a port is stored. I've been trying to find the saved configuration file that Snort created upon me selecting what options to include during the

Re: smbfs in fstab

2005-04-26 Thread Micheal Patterson
. - Original Message - From: Ash [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:32 AM Subject: Re: smbfs in fstab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: currently I mount my XP share via: mount_smbfs -N //a7v133/raid /storage1 How

Re: Where does a port store a saved configuration file?

2005-04-26 Thread Matt Emmerton
Hello list, I had a question regarding where in FreeBSD5.3 the configuration file for a port is stored. I've been trying to find the saved configuration file that Snort created upon me selecting what options to include during the make install. I had included support for Prelude, since

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Frank Staals
Chuck Robey wrote: Frank Staals wrote: edward wrote: Hi all, Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as broken in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF

Answering my own question Re: Compile of GCC-3.4 port fails on FreeBSD 4.11 --- Help?

2005-04-26 Thread Tom Russo
Answering my own question, just to get the answer into the archives. On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:20:38AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: I've been having trouble with ports on FreeBSD 4.11 lately, as more and more of them seem to

Re: GhostScript port/pkg broken on 5.3R

2005-04-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jeff Kreska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't seem to get ghostscript port/pkg to work. I can't find anyone else with this problem so I am not sure if it is onlt my environement. I tryed pkg ghostscript-gnu-7.07 port ghostscrupt-gnu ( cvsupped tried again ) My uname reports: 5.3-RELEASE

groff alternative?

2005-04-26 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to ~50MB including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing if I don't build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the needed libstdc++ it costs me about 10MB. If I just skip NO_CXX it's only 500k more, so I

kern.openfiles

2005-04-26 Thread Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L
Hi. I'm running FreeBSD 5.3-Release, with apache2, php5, icecast2 and sc_nsv. To my understanding some process is eating up the file handles (over couple of days the kern.openfiles has gone from 170 to 1700). Sooner or later this will result in kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded errors. Is there

Re: groff alternative?

2005-04-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:10:41PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Does anybody know any alternative for the groff part to view man pages simply with the man command? It's horrible that the filter needs more space than all the manpages itself! perhaps cawf -- Thomas E. Dickey

Re: Qt programming

2005-04-26 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:08:13 +, Chuck Robey wrote: Steven Friedrich wrote: I want to learn Qt programming. Can I do that without buying anything from TrollTech (until I'm ready to develop a commercial program) ? Does FreeBSD have the tools, libraries, etc.? snip very good advice

Re: Where does a port store a saved configuration file?

2005-04-26 Thread scott renna
I should have specified that the port never properly built and installed itself. I got a few responses ran a make rmconfig. Then reinstalled and it's all cool now. hey you learn something new everyday --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-04-26 08:28, scott renna [EMAIL

Re: Connecting to the Internet

2005-04-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:07:35PM -0400, Broming plutonium wrote: Hello everyone...for the first time. I have two computers. I very recently installed FreeBSD on my first computer because the operating system it used to have, Microsoft Windows, was infected by so many viruses that my

Re: Connecting to the Internet

2005-04-26 Thread Tomas Quintero
On 4/25/05, Broming plutonium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, by telling the DHCP server to assign a static-IP address to a specific system on the network, what sort of DHCP server are you speaking of. Are you asking about your ISPs DHCP, a Linksys/Dlink/other SOHO DHCP device, or are

Re: groff alternative?

2005-04-26 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
Emanuel Strobl wrote: I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to ~50MB including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing if I don't build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the needed libstdc++ it costs me about 10MB. If I just skip NO_CXX it's only

Re: groff alternative?

2005-04-26 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 26. April 2005 20:26 schrieb Thomas Dickey: On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:10:41PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Does anybody know any alternative for the groff part to view man pages simply with the man command? It's horrible that the filter needs more space than all the manpages

Re: groff alternative?

2005-04-26 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 26. April 2005 20:43 schrieb Diomidis Spinellis: Emanuel Strobl wrote: I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to ~50MB including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing if I don't build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the needed

compaq ML330 server devices

2005-04-26 Thread oHmEr
hello, i just changed my hardware and pciconf -lv give me two unknown devices : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:0: class=0x088000 card=0xb0f30e11 chip=0xa0f00e11 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Compaq Computer Corp (Now owned by Hewlett-Packard)' device = 'Advanced System Management Controller'

fetch hangs for download.kde.org

2005-04-26 Thread cpghost
While running the last phase of gnome_upgrade.sh, fetch always seems to hang, but (apparently) only for the host download.kde.org. Forcing passive mode for fetch (FETCH_CMD=/usr/bin/fetch -ARpr) doesn't help. Repeating the 'make fetch' command manually multiple times in the ports directory

alpha 4.8 iso1 missing

2005-04-26 Thread Martin Krug
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Re: kern.openfiles

2005-04-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running FreeBSD 5.3-Release, with apache2, php5, icecast2 and sc_nsv. To my understanding some process is eating up the file handles (over couple of days the kern.openfiles has gone from 170 to 1700). Sooner or later this will result in

Re: alpha 4.8 iso1 missing

2005-04-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:34:29PM -0400, Martin Krug wrote: Did you intend to ask a question? Kris pgp8AGUr1a5Fy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Qt programming

2005-04-26 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 14:27, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:08:13 +, Chuck Robey wrote: Steven Friedrich wrote: I want to learn Qt programming. Can I do that without buying anything from TrollTech (until I'm ready to develop a commercial program) ? Does FreeBSD

libgmodule-2 questions (and shared libraries in general)

2005-04-26 Thread Steven Friedrich
On one of my two 4.11 boxes, kdelibs fails to build. Here's the output: snip gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3/work/kdelibs-3.4.0/arts/kde' /usr/local/bin/mcopidl -I/usr/local/include/arts -t -I. ../../arts/kde/artskde.idl /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object

Re: groff alternative?

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Diomidis Spinellis wrote: Emanuel Strobl wrote: [ ...about groff... ] Have you considered preformatting the manual pages on the development system, and copying over the pages into /usr/share/man/cat* of the shrinked-down system? I would second this suggestion. Run catman on the dev system with

Re: Where does a port store a saved configuration file?

2005-04-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-26 11:28, scott renna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-04-26 08:28, scott renna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to find the saved configuration file so that I can remove it and reselect what options I want snort built with, but no

RE: Where to find good/cheap tech support

2005-04-26 Thread Robert L Sowders
Redhat is not free anymore my friend. It's close to 800 now. Fedora is free but is unstable. Try CentOS, the free Redhat clone. Either way, the support costs are the same. There is no free lunch, learn it yourself, or pay someone who has. rls ChrisC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL

firefox slow/hang load images and yahoo mail

2005-04-26 Thread benchmark
Basic info: System 5.3 portupdate last night build firefox 1.0.3 build linuxwrapper, flashplugins, etc. A few problems I noticed: a) firefox is very slow loading any site with images. For example, loading www.nyt.com, the text content comes up very quickly, but then it takes forever to load

Re: Questions about processes

2005-04-26 Thread Lord Raiden
These are kernel threads. 5.x is more modular than 4.x and a lot of functionality has been moved to internal threads (for the sake of SMP). There's really nothing wrong with this; esp. since the number of threads is still pretty small :) The kernel may create more such threads if it needs them;

Re: firefox slow/hang load images and yahoo mail

2005-04-26 Thread Michael Johnson
benchmark wrote: Basic info: System 5.3 portupdate last night build firefox 1.0.3 build linuxwrapper, flashplugins, etc. A few problems I noticed: a) firefox is very slow loading any site with images. For example, loading www.nyt.com, the text content comes up very quickly, but then it takes

Re: firefox slow/hang load images and yahoo mail

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
benchmark wrote: [ ... ] A few problems I noticed: a) firefox is very slow loading any site with images. For example, loading www.nyt.com, the text content comes up very quickly, but then it takes forever to load the images. My question: is this a problem with my graphics or it's firefox? it

Re: Questions about processes

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Lord Raiden wrote: These are kernel threads. 5.x is more modular than 4.x and a lot of functionality has been moved to internal threads (for the sake of SMP). There's really nothing wrong with this; esp. since the number of threads is still pretty small :) The kernel may create more such threads

make x LC_ALL=C: command not found.

2005-04-26 Thread Aaron Sloan
Hello, step 1. I cvsup, rebuilt and installed world and generic kernel. Mergemastered just like I always do. I followed the handbook to the letter and this certainly isn't my first time. 5.4 stable. I customized my kernel and went to build it. make buildkernel KERNCONF=XX I get the following

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Gustavo De Nardin
Hi. 2005/4/26, edward [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as broken in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh,

Force install vulnerable port

2005-04-26 Thread Ryan Winograd
How can I override portaudit when trying to install a port with vulnerabilities like jdk? My temp. solution is to remove portaudit, but would like a way to be able to keep it and still be able to build vulnerable ports. Unfortunately, I couldn't find an answer in either the handbook or google.

Re: firefox doesn't show up

2005-04-26 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:40:43 -0800 Ben Munat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try running it from the command line? That way you can see if it prints errors when it fails. b My Firefox will no longer work as a normal user (no page loads and buttons are unresponsive), although it does as

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread edward
Thanks for the suggestion Henry. I'll try it straight away. To all the others who kindly answered my question and suggested xpdf, the utility works well. No thumbnails, though. And something slightly more KDE-ish would be cool. But it definitely showed me which way to go. Thanks again gang.

Re: Force install vulnerable port

2005-04-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:04:09 -0500 Ryan Winograd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I override portaudit when trying to install a port with vulnerabilities like jdk? My temp. solution is to remove portaudit, but would like a way to be able to keep it and still be able to build vulnerable

Re: Force install vulnerable port

2005-04-26 Thread exp
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 06:04:09PM -0500, Ryan Winograd wrote: How can I override portaudit when trying to install a port with vulnerabilities like jdk? My temp. solution is to remove portaudit, but would like a way to be able to keep it and still be able to build vulnerable ports.

Fwd: firefox slow/hang load images and yahoo mail

2005-04-26 Thread benchmark
-- Forwarded message -- From: benchmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Apr 26, 2005 3:13 PM Subject: Re: firefox slow/hang load images and yahoo mail To: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] That might be a potential problem, my cvsup hangs as well. I have setup dhcp via wireless (ipw driver)

Re: Force install vulnerable port

2005-04-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 06:04:09PM -0500, Ryan Winograd wrote: How can I override portaudit when trying to install a port with vulnerabilities like jdk? My temp. solution is to remove portaudit, but would like a way to be able to keep it and still be able to build vulnerable ports.

DBX file format reading....

2005-04-26 Thread sushil choudhari
Hi Everyone, Hello Would anybody please help me in finding the DBX files format (Files used in Microsoft Outlook Express ). I want to read the file format so that i can read individual mails (with or without attachment) from the .dbx file. Thanks! Sushil Choudhari

Re: Qt programming

2005-04-26 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 19:08, Chuck Robey wrote: Steven Friedrich wrote: I want to learn Qt programming. Can I do that without buying anything from TrollTech (until I'm ready to develop a commercial program) ? Does FreeBSD have the tools, libraries, etc.? There are several books on

DNS config for dhcp

2005-04-26 Thread benchmark
I have a DHCP setup, and as part of the network interface config, i've got my hostname and domain setup as rainier.sbcglobal.com. Note that I have my own DHCP sever (my wireless access point, which in turn is getting a dhcp address from SBC). #hostname rainier.sbcglobal.com but host or bind

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Tue 26 Apr 05 15:56, Gustavo De Nardin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. 2005/4/26, edward [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as broken in the notes. Which program (not necessarily

What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line in the dmesg output: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 ... ata2: Generic ESDI/IDE/ATA controller at port 0x36e-0x36f,0x168-0x16f irq

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote edward thusly... Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as broken in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading

Re: Qt programming

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Robey
Danny Pansters wrote: [some eliding] I find this a tad biased. Let me try to counter a bit and provide some more info. Oh, I admit I am a bit prejudiced. I might be a bit more than a little, even. I heartily dislike C++ (I find it FAR too complicated for it's feature set). I Like Python,

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread Joel
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Hi, I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line in the dmesg output: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread Rob
Joel wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line in the dmesg output: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 ...

any problems using dummynet as a module?

2005-04-26 Thread Andy Firman
I need to traffic shape a remote box that runs IPF, and I have taken the time to learn to use IPFW with dummynet, and also that I can run IPFW wide open as IPF is the firewall. The box is 5.4 stable (generic) and I can't get around doing a reboot, from all the testing I have done. Must reboot

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread Rob Bowers
I'm real new to the FreeBSD world so I might be way off on this. Any chance it's an IDE controller on a soundcard? Probably ISA by what i'm reading below. R. Bowers Rob wrote: Joel wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I'm running FreeBSD on a range

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 08:13 pm, Rob Bowers wrote: I'm real new to the FreeBSD world so I might be way off on this. Any chance it's an IDE controller on a soundcard? Probably ISA by what i'm reading below. Some of the motherboards have 4 IDE controllers. The last 2 are frequently RAIDable.

Re: Vinum (Again)

2005-04-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 22 April 2005 at 16:11:55 -0400, Timothy Radigan wrote: Hi all, Ok, I'm still having trouble with vinum, I got it to load at start, but the vinum.autostart=YES in /boot/loader.conf returns a vinum: no drives found message. I had the mirrored set up and running before the reboot

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread Joel
I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line in the dmesg output: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 ... ata2: Generic ESDI/IDE/ATA controller at port

HP Proliant ML110 Adaptec 2610sa Serial Raid Driver Support

2005-04-26 Thread Zarth Man
I am having a problem with a newly aquired server and its Adaptec 2610sa Raid Controller Card. Using to onboard configuration I have made mirrored drives which have been verified but when I try installing FreeBSD 5.3 its days I have no drives to which it can install the operating system. I

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-04-26 Thread jason henson
Rob wrote: Joel wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I'm running FreeBSD on a range of PCs, from Pentium-1 (60 MHz) to Pentium-4 (2.60GHz), though none but one has a 'ata2' line in the dmesg output: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on

can't build kernel [with CONFIG this time]

2005-04-26 Thread /dev/null
Hello, Just got a new CPU today. Running 5.4-RC3 on GENERIC until the new CPU showed up. Installed the CPU drafted a new config for the kernel cd'd to /usr/src, typed make buildkernel KERNCONF=DEMON01, build process went as expected. But before the build process completed the machine froze for no

Re: firefox doesn't show up

2005-04-26 Thread jason henson
Trey Sizemore wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:40:43 -0800 Ben Munat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try running it from the command line? That way you can see if it prints errors when it fails. b My Firefox will no longer work as a normal user (no page loads and buttons are unresponsive),

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