Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting the system? Best regards, Olivier There are two ways of doing this, both described in the FreeBSD FAQ here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#CAD-REBOOT

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting the system? Best regards, Olivier There are two ways of doing this, both described in the FreeBSD FAQ here:

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Peter Boosten wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting the system? Best regards, Olivier There are two ways of doing this, both described in the FreeBSD FAQ here:

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:58:29AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Peter Boosten wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting the system? Best regards, Olivier There are two ways of doing

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2008-10-18 09:47:51 UTC+0200, Peter Boosten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#CAD-REBOOT Hmmm, didn't know about the second one, and doesn't seem to be working either (on both 7.0 and 6.3): sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=0

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
andrew clarke wrote: On Sat 2008-10-18 09:47:51 UTC+0200, Peter Boosten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#CAD-REBOOT Hmmm, didn't know about the second one, and doesn't seem to be working either (on both 7.0 and 6.3): sysctl

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:58:29AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Peter Boosten wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting the system? Best regards,

Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?

2008-10-18 Thread Uwe Laverenz
Frank Bonnet schrieb: I am on the way to setup a brand new Samba server with OpenLDAP backend I am very interrested by feedback of real world samba admins running it with FreeBSD or Linux , my boss push hardly to use Linux but I would much prefer FreeBSD so good arguments are welcome ( my

mounting an MP3 player?

2008-10-18 Thread Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach
Hello, can anyone tell me how to mount an MP3 player (usb)? I seem to be too stupid to figure it out by myself. I thought it would be as easy as mounting a usb memory stick which I can mount with a device file of the form /dev/da#s#, e. g. /dev/da0s1, which is present after connecting the memory

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting the system? Compile your own kernel with this option: # Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT Peter -- http://www.boosten.org

gconcat question

2008-10-18 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, What are the steps to bring back gconcatenated disks if doing an upgrade from FreeBSD6 to FreeBSD7 like this? As-is situation: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE ad0 has FreeBSD ad1, ad2 and ad3 are gconcatenated using 'gconcat label -v data /dev/ad1 /dev/ad2 /dev/ad3'. Planned upgrade:

Using mirroring to replace drive?

2008-10-18 Thread Chris Pratt
Hi, For years I've been upgrading by building a temp server, transferring a production function to it and temporarily decommissioning the one server while I upgrade and rebuild it. I was thinking of trying a different approach since having tried out gvinum in the last couple of years. The

disable ipv6 lookups

2008-10-18 Thread Sandra Kachelmann
I'd like to disable ipv6 () lookups entirely since I'm not using ipv6 at all. I tried taking INET6 out of my kernel but i still see lookups being made. I stumbled accross some references in old resolv.conf manpages (it's not in there anymore) about where you can enable inet6 but not on

Disable kontact/kmail automatic activation

2008-10-18 Thread Benzi Mizrahi
Hello all, I am running FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #2 with KDE: 3.5.10. A few *PORTUPGRADEs* ago , I can't recall when, I noticed that when KDE is started, usually after system startup , kontact application is started automatcally, which I 'd like to disable.

Re: mounting an MP3 player?

2008-10-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:32:37AM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote: Hello, can anyone tell me how to mount an MP3 player (usb)? I seem to be too stupid to figure it out by myself. I thought it would be as easy as mounting a usb memory stick which I can mount with a device file of

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread mdh
--- On Sat, 10/18/08, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL To: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday,

error installing kmymoney2 on amd64 system running freebsd 6.3

2008-10-18 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi freebsd peeps, Who can help me sort this error out when I try to installl kmymoney2 on my amd64 system. The error I get is: test ! -f sk.gmo || touch sk.gmo rm -f es_AR.gmo; /usr/local/bin/msgfmt -o es_AR.gmo ./es_AR.po test ! -f es_AR.gmo || touch es_AR.gmo rm -f pt_BR.gmo;

fsdb yields GEN=ffffffffb5f6de87

2008-10-18 Thread Kayven Riese
I was running a java make job and did a du last week and suddenly brought my frankenstein ASUS M6800N Notebook to a frozen mouse state. That was running from a FreeBSD 7.0 on a 160GB HD. I was looking at this question: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-December/016043.html

pfSense

2008-10-18 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, I've been using the FBSD firewall pfSense since last January without fully understanding it. Now I'm getting some clues as to one *possibility* why my new laptop may not be working. --It is more probably a hardware fauly, but maybe somebody

Re: pfSense

2008-10-18 Thread Sahil Tandon
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [pfSense question removed] Please ask your question on the pfSense mailing list or forum. Thanks. http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=66Itemid=71 http://forum.pfsense.org/ -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pfSense

2008-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 02:44:57PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've been using the FBSD firewall pfSense since last January without fully understanding it. Now I'm getting some clues as to one *possibility* why my new laptop may not be working. --It is more probably a

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-09-28 - 2008-10-18

2008-10-18 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

Re: back to kde3

2008-10-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:46:53 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 17 October 2008 16:26:54 RW wrote: Whichever version you use, kdm defaults to the last desktop or window manager. Thanks. I was hoping that when KDE4 was more stable, polished, we would say goodbye to

Re: gconcat question

2008-10-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 18 October 2008, Roger Olofsson wrote: What are the steps to bring back gconcatenated disks if doing an upgrade from FreeBSD6 to FreeBSD7 like this? As-is situation: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE ad0 has FreeBSD ad1, ad2 and ad3 are gconcatenated using 'gconcat label -v data /dev/ad1

Re: Using mirroring to replace drive?

2008-10-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 18 October 2008, Chris Pratt wrote: Hi, For years I've been upgrading by building a temp server, transferring a production function to it and temporarily decommissioning the one server while I upgrade and rebuild it. I was thinking of trying a different approach since having tried

Re: error installing kmymoney2 on amd64 system running freebsd 6.3

2008-10-18 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dino Vliet wrote: Hi freebsd peeps, Who can help me sort this error out when I try to installl kmymoney2 on my amd64 system. The error I get is: test ! -f sk.gmo || touch sk.gmo rm -f es_AR.gmo; /usr/local/bin/msgfmt -o es_AR.gmo ./es_AR.po

Re: Using mirroring to replace drive?

2008-10-18 Thread Chris Pratt
On Oct 18, 2008, at 7:03 PM, John Nielsen wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2008, Chris Pratt wrote: 1. Is this an appropriate way to deal with this? It could be. However if the new disks are not the same size as the failing ... it. Worst case you end up booting from a single drive and have

Inode numbering

2008-10-18 Thread Polytropon
Hi! Because I didn't find sufficient informations and try and error would be incomplete (and insecure regarding the result), I'd like to ask the following question: Let's assume we have a directory D with an inode number i(D). It contains a file F with its inode number i(F). May I state that

KDE4 general q....

2008-10-18 Thread Gary Kline
One thing I just confirmed is that the kttsd is missing. Anybody know about this? say, is it missing but just not loaded? It may be time to go back to kde3 for some more months. Feedback, please. tia, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inode numbering

2008-10-18 Thread perryh
Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's assume we have a directory D with an inode number i(D). It contains a file F with its inode number i(F). May I state that i(D) i(F)? In general, no. It might work in the special case where nothing on the filesystem is ever moved or removed, and no