Re: next question....
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: When sudo'ing, pass 'sudo su -' (same principle applies, but you don't need to to be in wheel to use this command) Is the end result of 'sudo su - ' any different from the simpler command 'sudo -i'? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: next question....
On 11/27/2010 12:06 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: You need to add yourself to the 'wheel' group to su or you need to add the proper line to /usr/local/etc/sudoers to sudo correctly. no sudoers on my system: $ cd /usr/local/etc $ cd sudoers cd: can't cd to sudoers $ ls CORBAesd.conf.defaultlynx.lsspsiconv ConsoleKitfontslynx.lss.samplerc.d PolicyKitgconfmtreerndc.key X11gnomenamed.confsound apache22gnome-vfs-2.0openldapvfs aspell.vergnome-vfs-mime-magicorbit2rcxdg avahignome.subrorbit2rc.defaultxml2Conf.sh bash_completion.dgtk-2.0pam.dxsltConf.sh bonobo-activationhalpango dbus-1lynx.cfgpolkit-1 esd.conflynx.cfg.sampleprofile.d $ pwd /usr/local/etc $ uname -a FreeBSD bsd.paulandcilla.homelinux.org 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 UTC 2010 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: next question....
On 27 November 2010 17:12, Paul Cartwright p...@pcartwright.com wrote: On 11/27/2010 12:06 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: You need to add yourself to the 'wheel' group to su or you need to add the proper line to /usr/local/etc/sudoers to sudo correctly. no sudoers on my system: $ cd /usr/local/etc $ cd sudoers cd: can't cd to sudoers Yeah, you need to install sudo: # pkg_add -r sudo Then use visudo as root to edit sudoers. Do NOT edit sudoers without using visudo, you can lock yourself out if you mess up the syntax (yes, the voice of experience)! Chris -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Hope you're enjoying the switch ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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On 26 Nov 2010 at 12:11, Arthur Chance wrote: -- Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like. -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_ Hmm.. A Wombat... That's a recoilless anti-tank gun if I remember? Do not stand behind one, when it's fired! http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/b-weapons.htm#wombat I digress Anyway. Some progress here.. I have managed at long last to get the OS's own ftp server to behave how I want it again (except it's port usage, but I'll work on that later). (I failed to get pure-ftp installed. Something in it's dependancies doesn't like V8.0 I think. Come to that, I have to force Sysinstall to look for V8.1 stuff, as all the V8.0 stuff has been archived it seems. This system was built from a boot disk, and a net based install.) Anyway. I've also now got SSH working, and I can connect and login from any number of other (Windows) PC's using PuTTY, it works well. The GPS timed NTP server system also still works well. But, when logged in as a regular (non root) user, I cant 'su' or 'sudo' to achieve root privelages if needed. (Using PuTTY, so I can now copy paste screen output to here.) I get this, regardless of how I log in, at the machine's console, or via SSH. login as: site Password: Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE (PPSGENERIC) #0: Wed Apr 14 22:55:09 BST 2010 Welcome to FreeBSD! . . [stuff snipped for brevity] . $ su su: Sorry $ sudo sudo: not found $ uname -a FreeBSD FBSD.67MK181QZ 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 14 22:55:09 BST 2010 r...@fbsd.67mk181qz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PPSGENERIC i386 $ $ What have I done bad now? For the moment (because I need to, as I want to run this thing headless, no physical keyboard or display) I've enabled root login over ssh. Yes, I realise the risks, but the ssh port will never be exposed to the world, just the rest of my lan, and yes, that could be bad if something got in. Cheers. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: next question....
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: $ su su: Sorry $ sudo sudo: not found $ uname -a FreeBSD FBSD.67MK181QZ 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 14 22:55:09 BST 2010 r...@fbsd.67mk181qz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PPSGENERIC i386 $ $ You need to add yourself to the 'wheel' group to su or you need to add the proper line to /usr/local/etc/sudoers to sudo correctly. When su'ing, pass 'su -' (assumes the path of the user your changing to). When sudo'ing, pass 'sudo su -' (same principle applies, but you don't need to to be in wheel to use this command) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: next question....
On 27 Nov 2010 at 12:06, Chris Brennan wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: $ su su: Sorry $ sudo sudo: not found $ uname -a FreeBSD FBSD.67MK181QZ 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 14 22:55:09 BST 2010 r...@fbsd.67mk181qz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PPSGENERIC i386 $ $ You need to add yourself to the 'wheel' group to su or you need to add the proper line to /usr/local/etc/sudoers to sudo correctly. When su'ing, pass 'su -' (assumes the path of the user your changing to). When sudo'ing, pass 'sudo su -' (same principle applies, but you don't need to to be in wheel to use this command) That was quick! Thanks Chris. That user now part of the 'wheel' group, and 'su' now works. I'll also remove the ability of root to login remotely. Many thanks again. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
next question: dvd-burner.
I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in advance, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: next question: dvd-burner.
Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in advance, gary So far I've had good luck with both DVD burners I've tried in FreeBSD. One was an old Sony DRU500A and the latest one that I have in two FreeBSD machines now is: acd0: DVDR LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S/KS04 at ata1-slave PIO4 The Sony finally died a few months ago after being in use since 2002. I replaced it with the LITE-ON and it has been working great. -Mark -- GnuPG Public Key: http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: next question: dvd-burner.
On 12/14/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in advance, gary So far I've had good luck with both DVD burners I've tried in FreeBSD. One was an old Sony DRU500A and the latest one that I have in two FreeBSD machines now is: acd0: DVDR LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S/KS04 at ata1-slave PIO4 The Sony finally died a few months ago after being in use since 2002. I replaced it with the LITE-ON and it has been working great. -Mark -- GnuPG Public Key: http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think you won't need a device driver for a dvd burner... It's just an atapi device, and there's a standard telling how to write data to it.. Please correct me -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: next question: dvd-burner.
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/14/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in advance, gary So far I've had good luck with both DVD burners I've tried in FreeBSD. One was an old Sony DRU500A and the latest one that I have in two FreeBSD machines now is: acd0: DVDR LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S/KS04 at ata1-slave PIO4 The Sony finally died a few months ago after being in use since 2002. I replaced it with the LITE-ON and it has been working great. -Mark -- GnuPG Public Key: http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think you won't need a device driver for a dvd burner... It's just an atapi device, and there's a standard telling how to write data to it.. Please correct me -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Like Mark, I have experience with Sony and Lite-On models. No additional drivers were needed to read from the DVD burners. To burn to the DVD burner, however, the user will need to recompile the kernel with atapicam and install dvd+rw-tools, which is in the ports. (The name of the port is misleading, as the port also burns other DVD formats in addition to +RW.) I still use cdrecord to burn CD's on the DVD burner. Chapter 16 of the online hanbook has a section regarding DVD's: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: next question: dvd-burner.
Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in advance, gary I have an NEC too and it works fine in FreeBSD 5.4. I use K3B to burn CDs and DVDs with it. See Andrews response for more information. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: next question: dvd-burner.
On 12/14/05, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in advance, gary yes, most modern dvd burners support a standardized instruction set. some brands implement additional extensions, but basic functionality should work out of the box for most of them... Aaron ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: next question: dvd-burner.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:14:23PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/14/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in advance, gary So far I've had good luck with both DVD burners I've tried in FreeBSD. One was an old Sony DRU500A and the latest one that I have in two FreeBSD machines now is: acd0: DVDR LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S/KS04 at ata1-slave PIO4 The Sony finally died a few months ago after being in use since 2002. I replaced it with the LITE-ON and it has been working great. -Mark -- GnuPG Public Key: http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think you won't need a device driver for a dvd burner... It's just an atapi device, and there's a standard telling how to write data to it.. Please correct me -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Like Mark, I have experience with Sony and Lite-On models. No additional drivers were needed to read from the DVD burners. So either thw NEC on the Lite-On burner ought to just-work. That's great because I'm tired of not being able to burn stuff myself. To burn to the DVD burner, however, the user will need to recompile the kernel with atapicam and install dvd+rw-tools, which is in the ports. (The name of the port is misleading, as the port also burns other DVD formats in addition to +RW.) I still use cdrecord to burn CD's on the DVD burner. Chapter 16 of the online hanbook has a section regarding DVD's: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html OT, but could you burn say 5 audio CD's onto a DVD and listen on your computer? Just wondering why nobody had audio on DVD-length discs. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: next question: dvd-burner.
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:04:53 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:14:23PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/14/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in advance, gary So far I've had good luck with both DVD burners I've tried in FreeBSD. One was an old Sony DRU500A and the latest one that I have in two FreeBSD machines now is: acd0: DVDR LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S/KS04 at ata1-slave PIO4 The Sony finally died a few months ago after being in use since 2002. I replaced it with the LITE-ON and it has been working great. -Mark -- GnuPG Public Key: http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think you won't need a device driver for a dvd burner... It's just an atapi device, and there's a standard telling how to write data to it.. Please correct me -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Like Mark, I have experience with Sony and Lite-On models. No additional drivers were needed to read from the DVD burners. So either thw NEC on the Lite-On burner ought to just-work. That's great because I'm tired of not being able to burn stuff myself. To burn to the DVD burner, however, the user will need to recompile the kernel with atapicam and install dvd+rw-tools, which is in the ports. (The name of the port is misleading, as the port also burns other DVD formats in addition to +RW.) I still use cdrecord to burn CD's on the DVD burner. Chapter 16 of the online hanbook has a section regarding DVD's: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html OT, but could you burn say 5 audio CD's onto a DVD and listen on your computer? Just wondering why nobody had audio on DVD-length discs. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix I've burned mp3's to DVD's, which works great on the computer. I've never understood why the portable CD players that can play mp3's aren't DVD-ROM's. Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: next question re the Thinkpad.
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:24:47 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: Is anybody using a Thinkpad among the list? I have found one with the ``SMC 2206 compact USB-Ethernet adapter for connecting to ethernet networks.'' In LINT (4.10) I see SMC 2202USB listed. Can anybody help me? gary I have Thinkpad X30 which runs 4.9-p10 currently and I have had no real issues in setting it up. Mine has inbuilt NIC's though and there were no issues at all in recognising the ethernet or wireless NIC. X was really easy to setup and it's been really reliable since day1. HTH LukeK -- Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: next question re the Thinkpad.
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 05:19:09PM +0900, Luke Kearney wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:24:47 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: Is anybody using a Thinkpad among the list? I have found one with the ``SMC 2206 compact USB-Ethernet adapter for connecting to ethernet networks.'' In LINT (4.10) I see SMC 2202USB listed. Can anybody help me? gary I have Thinkpad X30 which runs 4.9-p10 currently and I have had no real issues in setting it up. Mine has inbuilt NIC's though and there were no issues at all in recognising the ethernet or wireless NIC. X was really easy to setup and it's been really reliable since day1. HTH It helps to a point. The thing is that my budget is limited to th $200-$300 range. I'm not looking for anything fast ... just smething solid with a good drive and CDROM. And a NC that just-works. I've been checking the freebsd laptop list and working from these, but still flying blind pretty much. Anybody else have laptop success stories to share in the 266-400MHz range?? thanks to all, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: next question re the Thinkpad.
Hi Gary: You can look here and see if your Thinkpad runs FreeBSD: The FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ This list is up to date. I had a 600E Thinkpad running 4.9. The USB printer, scanner and Lexar flash ram storage worked well on it. Kind regards, Jonathan Is anybody using a Thinkpad among the list? I have found one with the ``SMC 2206 compact USB-Ethernet adapter for connecting to ethernet networks.'' In LINT (4.10) I see SMC 2202USB listed. Can anybody help me? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
