Re: 5.5 and SMP

2006-08-28 Thread Noah
Hi, You have to activate hyperthreading: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060730235206.7A7B743D45 ah ha - thanks! cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Mounting Sony PSP

2006-08-28 Thread Tim Holmes
I would really like to mount my PSP in FreeBSD so I can on and off load files on my workstation, instead of having to use another, else where. Has anybody been able to mount it? Or have a How-To some place I could use? Thus far all my searches have come up with anything but what I'm looking for.

Re: Mounting Sony PSP

2006-08-28 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hi, On 8/28/06, Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would really like to mount my PSP in FreeBSD so I can on and off load files on my workstation, instead of having to use another, else where. Has anybody been able to mount it? Or have a How-To some place I could use? Thus far all my

Re: Building ports with sorces on a local mirror?

2006-08-28 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 26 August 2006 22:15, stan wrote: I'm in the process of seting up to build a fair number of machines behind a very restrictive firewall (and besides that the outbound link is very slow). What I have in mind is setting up a machine using mirror software to create a local mirror of

Fullscreen crashes

2006-08-28 Thread Sean M.
Everytime* I use a program, usually a game, that switches into full-screen mode, I get dumped to a tty screen and everything is hung; I have to power cycle to fix it. Yesterday, everything worked perfectly. The only thing I did in the interim that influenced the system was to install gcc42 from

Re: Intel 64bit / AMD 64 bit advantage

2006-08-28 Thread Martin Miedema
ke han wrote: On Aug 28, 2006, at 4:03 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: 32 vs 64 bits does not give you any raw performance boost for most apps. The yes it will. FreeBSD/amd64 works at least 10% faster than FreeBSD/i386 on athlon64 machine, when i386 version were recompiled for P4. With

Re: ports/net-p2p/ktorrent - can't compile

2006-08-28 Thread Alexey Mikhailov
Laurence Sanford wrote: Just looking for pointers, as I've seen them here from time to time when a port won't build. I'm using the following command line: portupgrade -NR ktorrent All dependencies build successfully. The ktorrent build fails like this: ./../mse/bigint.h:26:17: gmp.h: No such

Re: ports/net-p2p/ktorrent - can't compile

2006-08-28 Thread Alexey Mikhailov
Alexey Mikhailov wrote: Laurence Sanford wrote: Just looking for pointers, as I've seen them here from time to time when a port won't build. I'm using the following command line: portupgrade -NR ktorrent All dependencies build successfully. The ktorrent build fails like this:

Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

2006-08-28 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Marc, * Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [26-08-06 22:43]: Figuring that for the purposes of these stats, driver stats might be too fine, I've just added a page breaking down hardware use by Vendor, eliminating the driver ... (ie. 161 3com devices in use, etc) ... there is a bug in

MySQL package loop

2006-08-28 Thread Nazar
Was trying to set up a quick web server on my old box, so I was using packages and run into a loopback. Whenever I try installing MySQL 5.1server, the package is also installing MySQL 5.1 client with it, but php5-mysql-5.1.2_1 is installing MySQL 4 client. I cant get MySQL v5 without getting rid

Re: MySQL package loop

2006-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Nazar wrote: Was trying to set up a quick web server on my old box, so I was using packages and run into a loopback. Whenever I try installing MySQL 5.1server, the package is also installing MySQL 5.1 client with it, but php5-mysql-5.1.2_1 is installing MySQL 4 client. I cant get MySQL v5

Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

2006-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matthias Fechner wrote: * Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [26-08-06 22:43]: Figuring that for the purposes of these stats, driver stats might be too fine, I've just added a page breaking down hardware use by Vendor, eliminating the driver ... (ie. 161 3com devices in use, etc) ... there

Re: FreeBSD's minimum memory requirements.

2006-08-28 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2006.08.28 00:19:40 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE through 2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation: I been thinking of doing these tests myself but never gotten around to it. I think you should file this information as

strange files

2006-08-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
Recently I see a lot of these file in thje root directory. Probably by a newer version of FAM Is there an option to get tem be put elsewhere. fam.conf and man fam learn me nothing ;-) the listing === drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel -1024 Aug 28 10:23 ./ drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel -

having hard time with mounting floppies

2006-08-28 Thread Tuomas
Hi, all! I run DesktopBSD 1.0 and I cannot mount floppies. I had the same problem with FreeBSD 5.5. Here it goes: localhost# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Input/output error localhost# fdformat /dev/fd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y Processing fdformat:

Re: got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

2006-08-28 Thread newsmaster
Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] well, i finally got it to render at 1680x1050, but the size of my desktop is fixed at about 1.5 outside the physical size of the lcd (and about 3/8 top and bottom). ive dont quite a bit of googling, and i am now trying to figure out if

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-28 Thread Howard Jones
Gary Kline wrote: Well, if/when you *do* try, please clue me in. --I'm too new to DVD's and tooo che--er, thrifty to buy a ten pack of blanks. I'm not sure that I have three hours of favorites; probably, but no more. Most of my favorite tunes are on

Re: FreeBSD's minimum memory requirements.

2006-08-28 Thread Robert Huff
Simon L. Nielsen writes: I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE through 2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation: I been thinking of doing these tests myself but never gotten around to it. I think you should file this information as a docs PR so it

Re: got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

2006-08-28 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 28 August 2006 07:44, newsmaster wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] well, i finally got it to render at 1680x1050, but the size of my desktop is fixed at about 1.5 outside the physical size of the lcd (and about 3/8 top and bottom). ive dont quite a bit

Re: got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

2006-08-28 Thread newsmaster
Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 28 August 2006 07:44, newsmaster wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] well, i finally got it to render at 1680x1050, but the size of my desktop is fixed at about 1.5 outside the physical size of the lcd (and

FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in VMWare Player on Winxp host

2006-08-28 Thread Niek Bouman
I'm running FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in the free VMWare Player on a WinXP host. How can I switch between virtual terminals? Ctrl-Alt-F[n] doesn't work... By the way, is this the right mailing list to place this question? Thank you, Niek Bouman ___

Re: FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in VMWare Player on Winxp host

2006-08-28 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Niek Bouman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm running FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in the free VMWare Player on a WinXP host. How can I switch between virtual terminals? Ctrl-Alt-F[n] doesn't work... By the way, is this the right mailing list to place this question? This is more of a

Re: Booting gvinum fails: missing /dev/gvinum/* device entries

2006-08-28 Thread Aaron Gifford
On 8/26/06, Aaron Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (or in other words, I wrote): No matter what I tried, booting always failed at the point of mounting the root filesystem. I would be kicked to a mountroot prompt. Any attempts at mounting root from ufs:/dev/gvinum/root failed. Even if I

Re: got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

2006-08-28 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 28 August 2006 08:40, newsmaster wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 28 August 2006 07:44, newsmaster wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] well, i finally got it to render at 1680x1050, but the size of my desktop is fixed

Re: mail to root

2006-08-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, there is not to my knowledge a comprehensive text that will offer an analysis of every possible mail message to root and what it means. Well, no, any more than there is a comprehensive text that will list every single noise your car might make

Re: Fw: lothlorien.nagual.nl security run output

2006-08-28 Thread David Robillard
I'm a little worried after reading the security output this morning. It seems some files [ping, ping6, shutdown, at, atq and atrm] have setuid diffs. I really don't know why this could have happened. I updated some ports yesterday, but I don't think any port writes in /sbin (?) Could someboddy

Re: Hostile vs. Friendly instances of Sendmail

2006-08-28 Thread David Robillard
On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Brett Glass wrote: A company for whom I do consulting has a FreeBSD mail server. Because they're being deluged with connections from spammers (who have responded to the increasing use of graylisting by ordering their armies of bots to try again and again even when

Re: FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in VMWare Player on Winxp host

2006-08-28 Thread Micah
Niek Bouman wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in the free VMWare Player on a WinXP host. How can I switch between virtual terminals? Ctrl-Alt-F[n] doesn't work... By the way, is this the right mailing list to place this question? Thank you, Niek Bouman As long as you're not in

Dhclient crashes my laptop

2006-08-28 Thread Stremcha, Matthew
If I run dhclient wi0 the lights on the card go out, dhclient reports failure, and usually locks and reboots the machine. I am not sure what information you need, but here is what I have and what I have learned so far. I will gladly collect and post any info that may help. PCMCIA NIC card

Re: BSDstats: Error message

2006-08-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Just wondering if this is a usual response to my accidentally hammering the bsdstats server: bash-2.05b# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics [1] 5437 bash-2.05b# Posting monthly OS statistics to bsdstats.org

atm in freebsd 6.1

2006-08-28 Thread Thiago Esteves de Oliveira
Hi, Can I enable atm in FreeBSD 6.1 ??? -- Thiago Esteves de Oliveira ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

2006-08-28 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 28 August 2006 10:05, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Monday 28 August 2006 08:40, newsmaster wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 28 August 2006 07:44, newsmaster wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] well, i finally got it

Re: got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

2006-08-28 Thread Kees Plonsz (newsmaster)
Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when you click the narrower and shorters (etc) buttons, shouldnt the display be obeying these buttons? if so, im at a loss, as when i click them back and forth, nothing happens. ill try again, You should press apply after any change. Or

VTOBUS FAILED

2006-08-28 Thread stan
I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem on a Sun Ultra40 with 6.1 STABLE AMD64 on it, that looks like a hardware problem (Signal 10 aborts while compiling a kernel for instance). I have taken the root SATA disk out of this machine, and put it in another similar (but not identical U40). I thought that

RE: FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in VMWare Player on Winxp host

2006-08-28 Thread Bouman, N.J. \(Niek, Student EE,EL\)
I'm running FreeBSD 6-STABLE as guest in the free VMWare Player on a WinXP host. How can I switch between virtual terminals? Ctrl-Alt-F[n] doesn't work... By the way, is this the right mailing list to place this question? I have found it somewhere with google. One has to press

Re: got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

2006-08-28 Thread Kees Plonsz (newsmaster)
Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 28 August 2006 10:05, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Monday 28 August 2006 08:40, newsmaster wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 28 August 2006 07:44, newsmaster wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid:

ng_fec headaches

2006-08-28 Thread Michael W. Lucas
Hi, I'm using a recent -current on amd64, and trying to use ng_fec to hopefully provide a wide-bandwidth connection with cable-level redundancy, and instead I get get errors and sporadic connectivity. I configured fec0 as such: #!/bin/sh ngctl mkpeer fec dummy fec ngctl msg fec0: add_iface

FreeBSD 5.4: 'cp -p' does not behave as documented

2006-08-28 Thread Gabriel O'Brien
Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 i386 We have a script in our environment that is used to back up our mail logs. In essence it does: cp -p /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 /stats/maillogs/maillog-testcopy.bz2 According to the cp man page: snip -p Cause cp to preserve the following attributes of

Re: Problems booting HP Proliant DL-320 G4 6.1-RELEASE

2006-08-28 Thread BHarris
Ok, it does appear to the be BGE driver, as you suggested. Reinstalled, after resetting the bios, and as long as I don't configure the network interface, it boots and seems happy. I need a little help, I setup a sup file, and downloaded the sys hiearchy, but I'm not sure which files to copy

Re: FreeBSD 5.4: 'cp -p' does not behave as documented

2006-08-28 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to run this as root so the permissions and ownership all can be set. -Derek On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Gabriel O'Brien wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 i386 We have a script in our environment that is used to back up our mail logs. In essence it does: cp -p

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:56:31PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Well, if/when you *do* try, please clue me in. --I'm too new to DVD's and tooo che--er, thrifty to buy a ten pack of blanks. I'm not sure that I have three hours of favorites; probably, but no

Forceig a resolution in xorg server

2006-08-28 Thread stan
I'm (huridelly) building a new machine to replaced my (just failed) main workstation at work. I have Xorg installed, and when I type X it starts up OK. KDE, and kdm work also. But, at way too high a resolution. I tried doing X -configure to generate a config file, but the resultant file contains

Re: mail to root

2006-08-28 Thread jekillen
On Aug 28, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, there is not to my knowledge a comprehensive text that will offer an analysis of every possible mail message to root and what it means. Well, no, any more than there is a comprehensive text

Fine tuning conditional compilation of 'make buildworld'

2006-08-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hi, Just wondering if there was a more comprehensive list of variables that can be used when specifying what should and shouldn't be built other than what is specified in man make.conf for make buildworld. I am configuring two 6.1 systems and want to trim down the junk as much as possible.

Re: Forceig a resolution in xorg server

2006-08-28 Thread Andy Greenwood
I haven't used X in a lng time, but IIRC you should be able to just remove all the other modes from the .conf file. If there's only one availilbe mode, X will have to use it :-) On 8/28/06, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm (huridelly) building a new machine to replaced my (just failed)

Re: panic: driver error: busdma dflt_lock called

2006-08-28 Thread Corey Brune
From what I can tell, the function dflt_lock is only called if the dma driver doesn't have a lock. This causes a panic (see busdma_machdep.c line 190). Can you provide the call stack? Thanks, Corey On 8/25/06, Karim Nogas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was wondering if someone could

Various package/ports problems

2006-08-28 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, I inherited a FreeBSD 4.8 box that had a lot of out of date ports on it. in trying to fix some of this, i seem to have screwed up the package or ports system in a way i cant manage to fix. For example if i try to run portversion i get: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass

localhost = ::1

2006-08-28 Thread patrick
I upgraded BIND on one of our DNS servers (running FreeBSD 4.x) to version 9, and now all of our other machines that use this server for DNS resolution is experiencing a problem where localhost seems to be resolving to ::1. For example, if I previously typed: telnet localhost 25 I would get:

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-08-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I inherited a FreeBSD 4.8 box that had a lot of out of date ports on it. in trying to fix some of this, i seem to have screwed up the package or ports system in a way i cant manage to fix. For example if i try to run portversion i get:

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-08-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Aug 28, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I inherited a FreeBSD 4.8 box that had a lot of out of date ports on it. in trying to fix some of this, i seem to have screwed up the package or ports system in a way i cant manage to

Re: localhost = ::1

2006-08-28 Thread Derek Ragona
You are seeing it match the first match. Comment out the IPV6 line and restart bind. -Derek On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, patrick wrote: I upgraded BIND on one of our DNS servers (running FreeBSD 4.x) to version 9, and now all of our other machines that use this server for DNS resolution is

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-08-28 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I inherited a FreeBSD 4.8 box that had a lot of out of date ports on it. in trying to fix some of this, i seem to have screwed up the package or ports system in a way i cant manage to fix. That

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-08-28 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Version 4.x is no longer supported by FreeBSD at all. I suggest either reinstalling FreeBSD 5.4 or just install 6.1. That's a bit of an exaggeration. http://security.freebsd.org/#adv FreeBSD 4.11 and 4-STABLE are officially supported until

Re: Problems booting HP Proliant DL-320 G4 6.1-RELEASE

2006-08-28 Thread BHarris
FYI, setup stable-sup and let it update the kernal on another 6.1 box, then tar'ed the who sys source directory onto a flash drive and onto my DL320. Rebuilt kernel, network up and running. Did find out in the process that the DL320 will try and boot off a flash drive.. didn't expect that..

Re: Forceig a resolution in xorg server

2006-08-28 Thread doug
This is in the handbook but: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection : SubSection Display

Re: FreeBSD 5.4: 'cp -p' does not behave as documented

2006-08-28 Thread David King
According to the cp man page: -p Cause cp to preserve the following attributes of each source file in the copy: modification time, access time, file flags, file mode, user ID, and group ID, as allowed by permissions. If the user ID and group ID cannot be preserved, no error message

Re: Mounting Sony PSP

2006-08-28 Thread Tim Holmes
| Hi, | | First check if with the dmesg command you can see your PSP, you should | read something like this: | | umass0: USB Solid state disk, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 | GEOM: create disk da0 dp=0xc2d74850 | da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 | da0: Generic Traveling Disk 1.11 Removable

UFS2 fsck Question (semantics of -p)

2006-08-28 Thread Can Sar
Hi, I work on a project to automatically (by dynamically running the system) find crash recovery errors in storage systems and we are beginning to do some preliminary checking of FreeBSD. We found an error where on power failure the disk can get corrupted even after an operation has

pxe bootrom

2006-08-28 Thread Raymond Gibson
Hello, I'm trying to build a FreeBSD diskless server. I have a D-link DFE 530TX+ nic. I need to purchase a pxe bootrom. Does anyone know where i can buy one? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Forceig a resolution in xorg server

2006-08-28 Thread stan
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 03:29:41PM -0400, Andy Greenwood wrote: I haven't used X in a lng time, but IIRC you should be able to just remove all the other modes from the .conf file. If there's only one availilbe mode, X will have to use it :-) Problem is, the generate file doesn't have -any_

Einladung von myPIX.ch

2006-08-28 Thread www-data
howdyy! =) gesell dich doch auch zu mypix is echt kuuuhl hier.. voll die netten menschen *fg* Diese Einladung wurde von li (User-ID: 1139) versandt. Sie ist wahrnehmbar unter: http://www.mypix.ch/register/1139 Sollte es sich hierbei um unzulässigen Inhalt handeln, wird gebeten, diese

Re: pxe bootrom

2006-08-28 Thread Chris Hill
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Raymond Gibson wrote: Hello, I'm trying to build a FreeBSD diskless server. I have a D-link DFE 530TX+ nic. I need to purchase a pxe bootrom. Does anyone know where i can buy one? Google does. It showed me this: http://www.argontechnology.com/products.aspx?id=28 ...and

Re: ports/net-p2p/ktorrent - can't compile

2006-08-28 Thread Laurence Sanford
Alexey Mikhailov wrote: Laurence Sanford wrote: Just looking for pointers, as I've seen them here from time to time when a port won't build. I'm using the following command line: portupgrade -NR ktorrent All dependencies build successfully. The ktorrent build fails like this:

Re: having hard time with mounting floppies

2006-08-28 Thread ajm
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:37:55PM +0300, Tuomas wrote: Hi, all! I run DesktopBSD 1.0 and I cannot mount floppies. I had the same problem with FreeBSD 5.5. Here it goes: localhost# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Input/output error localhost# fdformat /dev/fd0

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-08-28 Thread Ahmad Arafat Abdullah
Gosh.. I'm still enjoying my 4.11 prod box ( most of it ).. well time to think abt migration? - Original Message - From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Various package/ports problems Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:01:33 -0400 In

freebsd-specific postfix antispam howto

2006-08-28 Thread Dave
Hello, Does anyone have any information on this? I've googled and have found a lot of information for Linux and even an OpenBSD howto, but i am looking for something freebsd-specific, preferably fbsd6. I'm having issues getting all the services, amavisd-new configured/starting up properly

Re: Fine tuning conditional compilation of 'make buildworld'

2006-08-28 Thread Ahmad Arafat Abdullah
freebsd# less /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf mine just make it simple: PERL_VER=5.8.8 PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 CFLAGS= -O -pipe COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe NO_PROFILE=true CPUTYPE?=pentium4 other thing, i'm set it up on my kernel config :) freebsd# uname -a FreeBSD freebsd.avp.org 6.1-RELEASE-p4

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-28 Thread Viswas Nair
didn't help :( On 8/28/06, ajm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:11:16PM +0530, Viswas Nair wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options)

Adesklets issue - cleaning up the installation

2006-08-28 Thread Viswas Nair
I had installed adesklets and everything was working fine until adesklets crashed with a TK_GUI related error. I couln't find out where the problem was so I make deinstalled it and tried to build it again. It simply wouldnt work. The build completes but when I run the installation program (-i

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 8/27/06, Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf 3) Created a

Re: freebsd-specific postfix antispam howto

2006-08-28 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hello, Does anyone have any information on this? I've googled and have found a lot of information for Linux and even an OpenBSD howto, but i am looking for something freebsd-specific, preferably fbsd6. I'm having issues getting all the services, amavisd-new configured/starting up properly

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-28 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:11:16PM +0530, Viswas Nair wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf

Does QUOTA work for users not in /etc/password (ie. by UID?)

2006-08-28 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I was looking at implementing QUOTA for a server, but all of our users are stored in a database (ftp/pop/imap authenticates against the db). They each have their own uid's though so the files are owned individually. I would think file system quotas would work for this, but from the

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Viswas Nair wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf 3) Created a group called optical and added