Re: FreeBSD and NetZero

2004-11-25 Thread Doug Hardie
On Nov 24, 2004, at 23:23, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: They are called dialup accellerators, and an entire industry has grown up to make and sell these programs, with the sole purpose of shagging money out of stupid people who run ISP's and don't understand you cannot compress jpgs, zips, .mp3s and

Re: DVD burner error

2004-11-25 Thread Edvard Fagerholm
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:24:36PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2004 05:02 pm, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:27:03PM +0200, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: Hello! I get sometimes the following error when I burn DVDs. Actually it happens more

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Rob
Scott Long wrote: Rob wrote: Wilko Bulte wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:02:28PM +0900, Rob wrote.. Hi, I thought 386 support had been removed since 5.X. But http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386.html says: 1.2 Hardware Requirements FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 486 or

Solved: Failure to initialise network infterface after pxeboot

2004-11-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
Error in the memory file system caused the problem. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint:

Re: securing mailserver address

2004-11-25 Thread Martin Hepworth
for virus scanning you need something like ClamAV, amavis is wrapper application that can call anti-virus programs AFAIK. Another wrapper program is MailScanner, that is widely used by many people including me.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865

Re: DVD burner error

2004-11-25 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:21:32PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2004 05:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:24:36PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: See the following links regarding burning cd's and dvd's. With a DVD burner, you need to add

Postfix/mutt/nfs @_HOSTNAME_

2004-11-25 Thread Glen Smith
Anytime I send email the recipient email looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm using a central maildir using NFS and mutt as my email client. If I send mail from the server I don't have the problem only when I send it from the client/NFS machine. Anybody have a clue? Thanks Glen

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
Rob wrote: Scott Long wrote: Rob wrote: Wilko Bulte wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:02:28PM +0900, Rob wrote.. Hi, I thought 386 support had been removed since 5.X. But http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386.html says: 1.2 Hardware Requirements FreeBSD for the i386 requires a

Help...am I being hacked?

2004-11-25 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi all, I'm using freebsd 4.10 on my laptop and I was browsing my filesystem and looking at some log files, when I stumbled into the file dmesg.yesterday in /var/log/ The contents of this file worried me. Take a look at the last lines of it: Connection attempt to TCP 192.168.1.101:5554 from

Re: Free-BSD FTP Passive Ports?

2004-11-25 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 November 2004 04:24, robg wrote: Hi: I'm running the built-in FTP program in FreeBSD, but I can't figure out how to specify passive ports. Could someone point me in the right direction Do you mean ftpd - the ftp-server? Ftpd

Re: Don't know what else to do - NetGEAR WG311 54Mbps PCI card not recognized

2004-11-25 Thread Peter Risdon
Dundar Turker wrote: Hi There, I installed FreeBSD 5.3 from CD and later downloaded RELENG_5_3 from a FreeBSD CVS site, then added ath and ath_hal as devices in the kernel configuration file. I generated the new kernel and rebooted the machine with it successfully. However, still I cannot get the

Re: Postfix/mutt/nfs @_HOSTNAME_

2004-11-25 Thread Glen Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi freebsd-questions On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Glen Smith wrote: Anytime I send email the recipient email looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm using a central maildir using NFS and mutt as my email client. If I send mail from the server I don't

Re: md5 problems

2004-11-25 Thread Tarc
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:31:50AM +0100, Xian wrote: I am trying to compile a program using md5 and I had some problems. So I made a test program to see if I was using it properly, and it still doesn't work. ... The problem is it won't compile giving: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/devel] %g++

what is the bsd fs called outside the bsd sphere?

2004-11-25 Thread Richard Williamson
Hello all, I have a 32Mb CF card, formatted with the native BSD fs type (ie, it isn't fat16 or fat32). I've dd'd a raw image off the card. Using FreeBSD, I can clone the flash card using for example dd if=./sandisk.32.img of=/dev/rad8 I would like to be able to flash a card using a different

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 05:20:02PM +0900, Rob wrote: Scott Long wrote: Rob wrote: Wilko Bulte wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:02:28PM +0900, Rob wrote.. Hi, I thought 386 support had been removed since 5.X. But http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386.html says:

Re: securing mailserver address

2004-11-25 Thread Mike Woods
Martin Hepworth wrote: for virus scanning you need something like ClamAV, amavis is wrapper application that can call anti-virus programs AFAIK. Amavis is a combined spam/virus scanner, it uses external programs for this and is able to use multiple programs also so you can say run sophos AND

Re: what is the bsd fs called outside the bsd sphere?

2004-11-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-25 11:12, Richard Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to be able to flash a card using a different system (MacOS X or Linux). Getting sandisk.32.img to the other machine is not a problem. I'm assuming that the dd is not going to be a problem either. The question I

Re: what is the bsd fs called outside the bsd sphere?

2004-11-25 Thread Richard Williamson
At 11:20 25/11/2004, you wrote: Use the -O 1 option of newfs when you create the filesystem of the flash card on FreeBSD. Otherwise, it may be newfs'd to UFS2 which the rest of the world doesn't really grok, yet. _that's_ where I probably went wrong. Ok, I'll recreate the original flash image

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-25 Thread David Landgren
[cc list trimmed] Lowell Gilbert wrote: Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --On Monday, November 15, 2004 06:46:42 PM -0600 Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a useless use of cat. You could accomplish the same thing with: grep WITH Makefile When there are ten different ways

RE: FreeBSD and NetZero

2004-11-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Doug Hardie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 12:15 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Steel City Phantom Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NetZero On Nov 24, 2004, at 23:23, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: They are called

Building base system with CFLAGS=-static

2004-11-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am trying to build the base system statically linked to create an installation root file system. I have tried make CFLAGS=-static buildworld, which fails. Building each program separately, in most cases it works with make CFLAGS=-static but some like systinstall, sh, csh and init fails.

Re: Building base system with CFLAGS=-static

2004-11-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 01:19:44PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi, I am trying to build the base system statically linked to create an installation root file system. I have tried make CFLAGS=-static buildworld, which fails. Building each program separately, in most cases it works with

Can I use mtools to access usb flash memory?

2004-11-25 Thread Choy Kho Yee
The title says it all. Can I use mtools to access usb flash memory stick? So that I don't have to mount it manually. What do I need to configure if the answer to the above question is yes? Thanks. --- Choy Kho Yee url: http://dotkoyi.infoseek.ne.jp/ blog: http://dotkoyi.blogspot.com/ Have you

Getting devfs to recognize a hotplug floppy

2004-11-25 Thread Patrick Bowen
The subject line just about says it all. I'm trying to learn how to get devfs to create an fd0 enty in /dev automatically when I plug a floppy drive into the serial port of a running Dell D600 laptop running 6.0 current. I've looked at 'man devfs/devfs.conf/devfs.rules', searched the lists,

Re: diskspace used on full install?

2004-11-25 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 09:34 PM 11/24/2004, you wrote: The full output of mount(8) might be helpful to us on the list. Also, for your own use, (as root) you might try: # cd / # du -hxm | sort -n Which should get you human readable output on the disk usage of your root file system, without crossing mount points,

more on space used on /

2004-11-25 Thread J.D. Bronson
I found the problem. It was my fault. One of my mount points actually was a directory that -had- stuff in it prior to mounting... once I unmounted the point and then removed it and recreated it all is well. Thanks for the pointers guys. -JDB ___

Re: Deleting Extra Partitions installing a second FreeBSD

2004-11-25 Thread RW
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 03:11, Lucas Holt wrote: ... First, I want to delete the dell partition and merge it into the windows partition. Are there any hurdles with freebsd in doing this? Do i need to change any boot config options for freebsd to find itself if I do this? This will,

Problem with creating home directories when creating users using pw under 5.2.1 Release i386

2004-11-25 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi guys, I'm new to this list, so I hope I'm not flogging a dead horse here, but after an upgrade from 5.1 Release to 5.2.1 Release (i386) I encountered a weird thing: when being root, and creating users using the pw command as follows: pw useradd testusr -g testgrp -s /bin/sh No home directory

Re: Problem with creating home directories when creating users using pw under 5.2.1 Release i386

2004-11-25 Thread Dennis Koegel
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 03:37:24PM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote: pw useradd testusr -g testgrp -s /bin/sh No home directory gets created Give pw the -m option to instruct it to mkdir the home directory. - D. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: Problem with creating home directories when creating usersusing pw under 5.2.1 Release i386

2004-11-25 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, Give pw the -m option to instruct it to mkdir the home directory. Tnx! That works a charm! No idea how I could have missed that one, guess I'd better RTFM somewhat better than I did...:P Cheers! Olafo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

securelevel 2

2004-11-25 Thread J.D. Bronson
I want to make sure that this is the case... When I am in kernel secure level '2' - I cannot even mount a partiton on the second disk? # mount /dev/da1s1d /mnt Operation not permitted I need to be able to mount partitions at times using my 2nd hard drive in the system...but unless I mount them at

Error in ghostscript

2004-11-25 Thread Doug Van Allen
At least that is what I think. Still trying to install KDE and got the ghostscript configuration menu. All I took out was the printer I would not use. Then I hit enter and it started to go. This is the error I got: ./src/gdev1256.c:294: warning: traditional C rejects ISO C style function

Xorg/Modes issue

2004-11-25 Thread Jake Stride
I have tried googling around to find the answer to my query but seem unable to find the answers. I have followed the handbook guide on setting up X and can get everything working OK except for the screen resolution. I have a dell optiplex with an intel 810 card and a iiyama e481s monitor that

Re: Xorg/Modes issue

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
Looking at (and/or posting) /var/log/Xorg.0.log could be very enlightening. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Xorg/Modes issue

2004-11-25 Thread Jake Stride
Adam Fabian wrote: Looking at (and/or posting) /var/log/Xorg.0.log could be very enlightening. Release Date: 18 December 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.3 i386 [ELF] Current Operating System: FreeBSD lancelot.corp.senokian.com 5.3-RELEASE

Re: DVD burner error

2004-11-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 25 November 2004 02:19 am, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:24:36PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2004 05:02 pm, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:27:03PM +0200, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: Hello! I get sometimes

Xorg/Modes issue

2004-11-25 Thread Doug Van Allen
Looks like you forgot to put in DefaultDepth under Section Screen. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg/Modes issue

2004-11-25 Thread Jake Stride
Doug Van Allen wrote: Looks like you forgot to put in DefaultDepth under Section Screen. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure, I

shell programming challenge

2004-11-25 Thread Don Wilde
Hey, folks - I need to find a way to kick off an xterm running BASH and then execute a program within that xterm, but NOT close the new xterm after the program finishes. Another desirable thing would be to also be able to 'source in' a file of shell environment that would affect the new window

Re: nslookup not working on client machines only

2004-11-25 Thread Nicolas
David Jenkins wrote: On Wed, 24 November, 2004 0:47, Nicolas said: Hello, I've set up a FreeBSD box to provide my home network a NAT access to the Internet and a DNS caching-only server with bind 8.3.7 (among other things). It's working perfectly but today I noticed something that I do not

Re: Xorg/Modes issue

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
(II) I810(0): Not using mode 1280x1024 (no mode of this name) [EMAIL PROTECTED] looks like it might be the name of a mode. Otherwise, you could just write a modeline that does what you want. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:26:38AM -0700, Don Wilde wrote: Hey, folks - I need to find a way to kick off an xterm running BASH and then execute a program within that xterm, but NOT close the new xterm after the program finishes. Another desirable thing would be to also be able to 'source

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:26:38AM -0700, Don Wilde wrote: completion of ticktock or INT. I also do not seem to be able to use the --rcfile switch as a bash option, although I can add KEY=VALUE pairs before the xterm launch. Oops. Didn't notice this until after I replied, but I did test

Re: securelevel 2

2004-11-25 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:39:48 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to make sure that this is the case... When I am in kernel secure level '2' - I cannot even mount a partiton on the second disk? Is this expected? I think so... [from man securelevel, or man init(8)] 2

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-25 Thread Don Wilde
Adam Fabian wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:26:38AM -0700, Don Wilde wrote: Hey, folks - I need to find a way to kick off an xterm running BASH and then execute a program within that xterm, but NOT close the new xterm after the program finishes. Another desirable thing would be to also be able

What happened to agm-1.4?

2004-11-25 Thread David Fleck
Based on results of a Google search, it looks like the anagram-generating program 'agm' was at one time part of the ports collection. Google returns multiple broken links to FreeBSD mirrors containing agm. However, agm doesn't seem to be in ports currently. Was there a reason for removing

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-25 Thread Don Wilde
J65nko BSD wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:26:38 -0700, Don Wilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, folks - I need to find a way to kick off an xterm running BASH and then execute a program within that xterm, but NOT close the new xterm after the program finishes. [snip] xterm -hold -e sh -c

Re: What happened to agm-1.4?

2004-11-25 Thread Michael Nottebrock
David Fleck wrote: Based on results of a Google search, it looks like the anagram-generating program 'agm' was at one time part of the ports collection. Google returns multiple broken links to FreeBSD mirrors containing agm. However, agm doesn't seem to be in ports currently. Was there a

Re: what is the bsd fs called outside the bsd sphere?

2004-11-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Richard Williamson wrote: Ok, I'll recreate the original flash image to ensure it is -O 1, and then try again. in order to mount ufs1 on linux, you also have to specify the ufstype=44bsd option to mount. otherwise the mount might succeed, but you won't see any files. -- Matthias Buelow;

Re: Copyright Issues

2004-11-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Thierry Thomas wrote: Le Mer 24 nov 04 à 7:24:48 +0100, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : That is not true. All that is required is that it closely resembles the image, I believe the language is something along the lines that if it is likely consumers would confuse the images

Time sync with NTP questions

2004-11-25 Thread Michael Collette
On my network I have a machine in my DMZ I wish to use NTP to synchronize to a public server for it's time. I then want to have another machine in my private network synchronize time to this box in the DMZ. From there I want to have all my other machines in my private network to sync in to

Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
This is what I get from make buildworld. I've gotten signal 10, 11, and now 5. Is this bad memory? S -DYP -c /usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/net/res_debug.c -o res_debug.o cc -O -pipe -DLIBC_RCS -DSYSLIBC_RCS -I/usr/src/lib/libc/include -D__DBINTERFACE_PRIVATE -DINET6 -DPOSIX_MISTAKE

Re: What happened to agm-1.4?

2004-11-25 Thread David Fleck
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: Yes, see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=28091 Ahh, I see. Thank you. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Mailing-lists behaviour on bounce

2004-11-25 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi, I recently have a problem with my primary mail server and some mails have bounced today. Now, everything seems to work. I know that FreeBSD mail servers handle a very large amount of mail addresses, so I don't expect them to defer bounced mails for the next five days as classical mail

Write failure on transfer for FTP install

2004-11-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am trying to install via FTP, interactive or scripted install gives the same result: Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) after fetching first chunk - I have tried multiple ftp sites. sysinstall complains about the diskgeometry: WARNING: A geometry of 116280/16/63

Re: sound mysteriously not working

2004-11-25 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/23/04 06:18 PM, Kevin Smith sat at the `puter and typed: I had followed the handbook to configure sound (sound blaser Live!) on my new 5.3 installation. It was working yesterday but it doesn't work now. Just to verify, I booted windows on the same system and the sound card/speakers

Re: How do you make install without direct internet access?

2004-11-25 Thread RW
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 21:22, Ralph wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] actually, since I was in csh, the setenv FTP_PROXY my.internal.proxy:80 worked like a charm, except that, for some reason, fetch refuses to work without internet DNS resolution. As with our environment, no internal hosts

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I get from make buildworld. I've gotten signal 10, 11, and now 5. Is this bad memory? That's a reasonable guess, but the only way to tell for sure is to test it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: building any mozilla-based browser fails

2004-11-25 Thread Chip
Nikolas Britton wrote: Chip wrote: I used to have Firefox installed, then tried to run portupgrade, and it failed. I then did a make deinstall and make reinstall now I get a failed install. Also tried to install mozilla and netscape, both also fail. Below is the last bit from the firefox

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 08:16:23PM +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Is this bad memory? If you're not getting the same error every time, it's almost certainly bad hardware, and memory is the most likely candidate. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Help...am I being hacked?

2004-11-25 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 01:35 -0800, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi all, I'm using freebsd 4.10 on my laptop and I was browsing my filesystem and looking at some log files, when I stumbled into the file dmesg.yesterday in /var/log/ The contents of this file worried me. Take a look at the last lines

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-25 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 10:26 -0700, Don Wilde wrote: Hey, folks - I need to find a way to kick off an xterm running BASH and then execute a program within that xterm, but NOT close the new xterm after the program finishes. Another desirable thing would be to also be able to 'source in' a

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-25 Thread Don Wilde
When I do this, the program works interacts, but the xterm dies upon completion of ticktock or INT. I also do not seem to be able to use the --rcfile switch as a bash option, although I can add KEY=VALUE pairs before the xterm launch. Ideas? Please respond to me directly. man xterm. There

Re: Disappearing directory/mount and Crash on umount since 5.3

2004-11-25 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:29:26AM +, Vince Hoffman wrote: I'm having a reoccuring problem with one of my mounts, I have a disk i mount at /usr/scratch which is also exported via samba. since upgrading to 5.3 after a little while (sorry no exact

Tar -N date error?

2004-11-25 Thread Mike Jeays
I have trouble with tar's -N format with 5.1 (yes, I am going to upgrade to 5.3 this weekend). Commands such as tar -cvzf arch.tar.gz -N '2004-09-01' * and tar -cvzf arch.tar.gz -N'10 days ago' * work fine for periods in the recent past (up to about 40 days), but for more than that,

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-25 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:59:47 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 10:26 -0700, Don Wilde wrote: Hey, folks - I need to find a way to kick off an xterm running BASH and then execute a program within that xterm, but NOT close the new xterm after the

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
It's possible to generate temporary files in a secure manner; there's probably something in the ports collection to generate good, random file names. I'm not sure I'd go to so much trouble to avoid using a file for --init-file or --rc-file. That aside, you could try using expect to script the

got one question

2004-11-25 Thread Hasan Cana
hi, I am interested to translate the content of freebsd handbook or the site in my own language Albanian like many countries does..and I'm ready for this...please can you tell me what to do and is it possible? thank you! -- ___ Get your free email

Re: got one question

2004-11-25 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Hasan Cana wrote: hi, I am interested to translate the content of freebsd handbook or the site in my own language Albanian like many countries does ..and I'm ready for this...please can you tell me what to do and is it possible? thank you! See the FreeBSD Documentation Project:

problems with http in fetch for ports

2004-11-25 Thread timopie
Hi everyone, My primary internet access is at University (secondary is at home an a 56k modem). When I want to use ftp, or cvsup, I have to log onto the firewall in order to access the needed ports. This works great. The only time I ever have a problem is when fetch tries to access files

OT: Trying to learn C -- some questions

2004-11-25 Thread Tom Parquette
Hi. This is a little off topic but I'm hoping someone can provide some guidance and answer a few questions. TIA. I'm trying to learn ANSI C using a book circa 1994. It is written from a DOS perspective. Someone at work, who knows a little C, told me that the book was close enough. I'm

random reboots on 5.3 with securelevel 1/2

2004-11-25 Thread J.D. Bronson
I am at a loss on this one.. If I set securelevel at 1 or 2, the 5.3-REL machine will randomly reboot. No logs - nothing on the console...just as if someone hit reboot. No one logged in during this time either. I removed WAN access from this box as well. As long as I run the default level (-1)

Re: problems with http in fetch for ports

2004-11-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:39:25AM +1000, timopie wrote: Hi everyone, My primary internet access is at University (secondary is at home an a 56k modem). When I want to use ftp, or cvsup, I have to log onto the firewall in order to access the needed ports. This works great. The only time

Re: OT: Trying to learn C -- some questions

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 07:38:10PM -0500, Tom Parquette wrote: 1) gcc complains that conio.h was not found. If I comment out the #include, the program compiles. Is this a DOSism or something else? Yes, it is. 2) fprintf is described with stdprn being valid for a default printer. This

mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-25 Thread Kevin Smith
I am able to mount my windows partition manually by either: mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /windows or by putting an entry in by /dev/fstab that looks like: /dev/ad0s1 /windows ntfs ro 2 2 and using command: mount /windows -however, If I leave this entry in

Re: Copyright Issues

2004-11-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Thierry Thomas wrote: The BSD demon is very popular: see http://www.lefaillitaire.com/. This society always uses the demon as their logo, and they have big posters along the roads in France. I've seen one of the standard BSD daemon images on at least one german online sexshop, used as a logo for

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 01:53:11AM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote: I am able to mount my windows partition manually by either: mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /windows or by putting an entry in by /dev/fstab that looks like: /dev/ad0s1 /windows ntfs ro 2 2

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-25 Thread Kevin Smith
Yes, putting a 0 in the sixth field takes care of the problem and the /windows file system is now mounted. thanks. P.S. It's usually helpful to transcribe the exact error, instead of describing vague symptoms. Yes,I agree. I was not able to retreive the exact error message from dmesg on boot

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:16:45AM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote: Yes, putting a 0 in the sixth field takes care of the problem and the /windows file system is now mounted. thanks. P.S. It's usually helpful to transcribe the exact error, instead of describing vague symptoms. Yes,I agree.

RE: Why can't I mount a Video CD in FreeBSD??

2004-11-25 Thread James Hong
isnt VCD another CDFS with MPG1 DAT files ? Why wouldnt it mount ? damaged CD ? or are we talking about different VCD ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Fabian Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 1:58 PM To: Mark Jayson Alvarez Cc:

Partition sizes

2004-11-25 Thread Trey Sizemore
I'll be installing FBSD 5.3 on an 80GB hard drive (machine has 512MB of RAM) and was considering the following partitions: / /usr /usr/local /var /var/tmp /tmp /home SWAP I'm looking for some recommendations around what the partition sizes should be assuming I'm allocating the entire disk to

Re: OT: Trying to learn C -- some questions

2004-11-25 Thread David Fleck
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Tom Parquette wrote: I'm trying to learn ANSI C using a book circa 1994. It is written from a DOS perspective. Someone at work, who knows a little C, told me that the book was close enough. I think they are probably wrong. 1) gcc complains that conio.h was not found. If I

KDE stops install

2004-11-25 Thread Doug Van Allen
At least that is what I think. Still trying to install KDE and got the ghostscript configuration menu. All I took out was the printer I would not use. Then I hit enter and it started to go. This is the error I got: ./src/gdev1256.c:294: warning: traditional C rejects ISO C style function

RE: Why can't I mount a Video CD in FreeBSD??

2004-11-25 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
--- James Hong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: isnt VCD another CDFS with MPG1 DAT files ? According to the some people here, VCD isn't really a file system. I don't know what Windows did to make it visible in their file Explorer. The actual video file seems to be located at cdrom:\mpeg\avseq(n).dat

Re: OT: Trying to learn C -- some questions

2004-11-25 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 25 November 2004 04:38 pm, Tom Parquette wrote: Hi. This is a little off topic but I'm hoping someone can provide some guidance and answer a few questions. TIA. I'm trying to learn ANSI C using a book circa 1994. It is written from a DOS perspective. Someone at work, who knows

Re: OT: Trying to learn C -- some questions

2004-11-25 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Tom Parquette wrote: I'm trying to learn ANSI C using a book circa 1994. It is written from a DOS perspective. Someone at work, who knows a little C, told me that the book was close enough. I think they are probably wrong. 1) gcc complains that conio.h was not

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : This is what I get from make buildworld. I've gotten signal 10, 11, and now : 5. : : Is this bad memory? : : That's a reasonable guess, but the only way to tell for sure is to

RE: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Haulmark, Chris
Someone broke the silence: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I get from make buildworld. I've gotten signal 10, 11, and now 5. Is this bad memory? That's a reasonable guess, but the only way to

How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk

2004-11-25 Thread rain cip
Hello, I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 and ad3. My hardware configuration is such: ad0 -- primary IDE, master (all for Win2k) ad3 -- secondary IDE, slave (all for FreeBSD

RE: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Haulmark, Chris wrote: Someone broke the silence: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I get from make buildworld. I've gotten signal 10, 11, and now 5. Is this bad memory?

Playing DVD movies with Xine

2004-11-25 Thread RL
I just installed Xine from ports because I have been having very odd issues with ogle. However, it says there is no demuxer plugin to handle /dev/acd0 Usually this means that the file format was not recognized when I attempt to play DVD movies. Similarily, xine -p dvd:/ produces that same

Re: DVD burner error

2004-11-25 Thread Mark
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:19:51AM +0200, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:24:36PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2004 05:02 pm, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:27:03PM +0200, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: Hello! I get

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Rob
Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Haulmark, Chris wrote: Someone broke the silence: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I get from make buildworld. I've gotten signal 10, 11, and now 5. Is this bad

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Haulmark, Chris wrote: Someone broke the silence: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I get from make buildworld. I've gotten signal 10, 11, and now 5. Is this bad

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Matt Emmerton
Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Haulmark, Chris wrote: Someone broke the silence: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I get from make buildworld. I've gotten signal 10, 11, and now

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Rob wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Haulmark, Chris wrote: Someone broke the silence: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I get from make buildworld.

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Matt Emmerton wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Haulmark, Chris wrote: Someone broke the silence: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I get

Re: Why can't I mount a Video CD in FreeBSD??

2004-11-25 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:40:09 -0800 (PST) Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day! I'm getting an error whenever I mount a video cd. I can't remember the error right now because I already brought it back to the rental shop (its already overdue). I was also told by my friend

[OT] Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
Does parity RAM reliably report on it's reliability? -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel compile error

2004-11-25 Thread Gert Cuykens
/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/if_rue.c:104:23: miibus_if.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c:122:23: miibus_if.h: No such file or directory mkdep: compile failed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/gert. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/gert. *** Error code 1

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