Re: ipfw intricacies?

2003-07-27 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:02:08PM -0700, Charlie Schluting wrote: Hi, I have a fbsd box that runs its own firewall.. and tonight I learned my lesson about trying to configure it remotely :) This script might be of use to you: /usr/share/examples/ipfw/change_rules.sh -- Jez

Re: Sharing among jails

2003-07-27 Thread User KATRINA
Do you have any URL's with info on UNIONfs (setting up, etc.) - I'll look into this and NFS - Thank you! On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, The Hermit Hacker wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, BSD wrote: IMHO, the best way would be to use mount_union or mount_null (I still can't figure out what's the

The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-07-06 - 2003-07-26

2003-07-27 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 mailing list

Re: Problems printing to remote print server. (Not PC/Nix)

2003-07-27 Thread Sue Blake
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:27:56PM +1000, Robert Chalmers wrote: The thing I have on the network isa Print Server. A DLink three port print server. Its not a FreeBSD box sharing print jobs, nor a W2K machine doing the same. Its on a network connection of its own, and the printers are

Re: /dev/psm0

2003-07-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 01:45:46AM -0400, DJ Landreneau wrote: I recently installed fbsd on my Sony Vaio. I am unable to get my trackpad mouse to work under X. I noticed that the device psm0 is not on the system under /dev. You didn't mention which version you're running, but if you're running

Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...

2003-07-27 Thread Mark Weinem
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Matthew Graybosch wrote: FreeBSD has nothing whatsoever to do with Ahriman, Hades, Lucifer Son of Morning, Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos, Duke Arioch of the Seven Darks, or even big ol' Satan himself. you can never be sure about that... We just use the red cartoon

DockApp

2003-07-27 Thread marlon corleone
%pkg_info |grep -i wmspaceweather wmspaceweather-1.04_1 A DockApp that shows the weather at geosynchronous orbit i just installed this app, how do make this thing work? i run wmspaceweather but no command found. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free,

Re: DockApp

2003-07-27 Thread Herbert
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:01:27AM -0700, marlon corleone wrote: i just installed this app, how do make this thing work? i run wmspaceweather but no command found. % rehash Run 'grep bin /var/db/pkg/wmspaceweather-1.04_1/+CONTENTS' to find out the name of the binary. % wmSpaceWeather

error running ps

2003-07-27 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
i am getting the following problem while running 'ps' ps ps: proc size mismatch (36176 total, 1056 chunks) what exactly is the problem? Regards, Shantanu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: error running ps

2003-07-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 05:29:08PM +0530, Shantanu Mahajan wrote: i am getting the following problem while running 'ps' ps ps: proc size mismatch (36176 total, 1056 chunks) what exactly is the problem? This question is answered in the FAQ. kris

Re: HARDWARE COMPATABLE

2003-07-27 Thread Ross Tregaskis
At 15:56 24/07/2003 -0700, you wrote: we are computer company for computer server, we sold out some severs with ECS P4VMM2 motherboard, but our customer can't run FreeBSD. would you please list the compatable motherboard, video card, hdd etc. What's the problem you're having? The current

RE: /dev/psm0

2003-07-27 Thread DJ Landreneau
I am running 5.0 that came with FreeBSD Unleashed by Sams. Can you point me into the correct direction for enabling kernel support for psm0? DJ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 5:10 AM To: DJ

SOLVED! Re: Writing to parallel port

2003-07-27 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 5:12 AM Subject: Re: Writing to parallel port On Friday 25 July 2003 19:22, Mark wrote: Hello, Has

Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...

2003-07-27 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Sunday 27 July 2003 06:49 am, Mark Weinem wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Matthew Graybosch wrote: FreeBSD has nothing whatsoever to do with Ahriman, Hades, Lucifer Son of Morning, Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos, Duke Arioch of the Seven Darks, or even big ol' Satan himself. you can never

S3 ProSavage DDR 32MB K7VMM+

2003-07-27 Thread Baas van Grat
Hi, did anyone succeed in getting this f shared memory graphics adaptor to work with XFree4.3.0? According to XFree it's supposed to work. But on my system (5.1) starting X always ends in 'no connection to server' :-( Any hints? Cheers, Baas ___

Re: DVD/CD-RW not recognized (was: Re:)

2003-07-27 Thread Fierman
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 08:46, Peter Rosa wrote: It's because (as I know from some old articles) if you connect one device with high-speed, and second with lower speed onto the same cable, they will BOTH use the lower speed. And it may be problematic for some new HDD, to be as slow as CD is

$ locate httpd.conf

2003-07-27 Thread DanB
When I try to use locate on my new box I get this below. What do I need to do to make it work? Dan $ locate httpd.conf locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database $ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: $ locate httpd.conf

2003-07-27 Thread Frank Reppin
Hello, DanB wrote: When I try to use locate on my new box I get this below. What do I need to do to make it work? run /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate manually, ie `sh /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate` and the locate.database gets build. HTH, best regards, Frank Reppin -- 43rd Law of

Re: $ locate httpd.conf

2003-07-27 Thread Jonas Anderson
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, DanB wrote: When I try to use locate on my new box I get this below. What do I need to do to make it work? Dan $ locate httpd.conf locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database Use /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb .. That should fix your problem. Best regards,

Re: $ locate httpd.conf

2003-07-27 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:03:17PM +, DanB wrote: When I try to use locate on my new box I get this below. What do I need to do to make it work? When you first install the box, the script that generates the locatedb does not run. You can either wait until the first weekly periodic run,

Need just a little help. would be much appreciated

2003-07-27 Thread mike hell
hello my name is mike and i was wondering if you could possibly help me for just a minute. i have come to a dead end with getting my nic card to work in freebsd 4.8 it seems that with the nic i have i need fxp this is my nic card info from windows. Name[0008] Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network

Re: Need just a little help. would be much appreciated

2003-07-27 Thread Khairil Yusof
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 22:28, mike hell wrote: and well i have added fxp to my kernel and rebuilt it. device fxp fxp is already in the GENERIC kernel, did you take it out from your kernel config? Could you email your kernel config file, as well as the output from dmesg after boot up?

Re: $ locate httpd.conf

2003-07-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-27T14:21:24Z, Jonas Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Use /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb .. That should fix your problem. Unfortunately, you have to be root to run that. Unless you, as root, instruct it to run as 'nobody', it has full access to index every file on the hard drive,

Auth fails partly for imap

2003-07-27 Thread Johan Paul
Hi all, What have I done wrong when I can log into my IMAP account (cyrus-imapd-2.0.17) via Mozilla and web mail (Squirrelmail) but Pine doesn't allow me to log in? I use PAM with MySQL authentication. This is what I get to my log file (first when I log into with Mozilla from a remote client,

Urgent, PPP Problems.

2003-07-27 Thread Chris Knipe
Lo all, I've successfully set up FreeBSD on numerous occasions as a PPP Dialin Server, both for modem usage, as well as PPTP and other types of VPNs. I even managed to get the Radius sorted and working with that as well. But alas, this one, is giving me a *really* hard time, it refuses to work,

Urgent, PPP Problems.

2003-07-27 Thread Chris Knipe
Lo all, I've successfully set up FreeBSD on numerous occasions as a PPP Dialin Server, both for modem usage, as well as PPTP and other types of VPNs. I even managed to get the Radius sorted and working with that as well. But alas, this one, is giving me a *really* hard time, it refuses to work,

Simple cron script to copy remote webpage locally?

2003-07-27 Thread Dragoncrest
I've got a webpage that updates dynamically on one of our servers and lists a bunch of statistics about spam and such on our servers. Problem is, the script puts a load on the server if too many people access it and it eventually kills the server. I would like to lower the traffic on this server

Re: Urgent, PPP Problems.

2003-07-27 Thread Andrew BOGECHO
Sun Jul 27 11:41:20 EDT 2003 Hi, Is this with FreeBSD 5.1?. If it is, then does your /var/log/auth.log have PAM authentication errors? This is the same problem currently plaguing us. We have yet to do a latest build world. I'll let you know if that fixes things. Andrew. On Sun, Jul 27, 2003

FreeBSD5.1 Vinum Mirror root

2003-07-27 Thread Richard Johannesson
Read everything I can find on vinum: vinum website, freebsd documentation on vinum, and Complete FreeBSD section on vinum. Still not sure which method is correct for setting up a mirrored root drive for a FreeBSD 5.1 system. The instructions I've found online regarding a vinum root drive,

Re: imapd for squirrelmail is not found

2003-07-27 Thread Lucas Holt
If you want a simple imapd, then visit http://www.washington.edu/imap/ There is no config file. You just copy it to /usr/local/libexec/imapd after you compile it. If you want ssl or imapd, you add it to the make file. I'm sure its in ports somewhere too. On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 04:43

Re: Urgent, PPP Problems.

2003-07-27 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, Is this with FreeBSD 5.1?. If it is, then does your /var/log/auth.log have PAM authentication errors? This is the same problem currently plaguing us. We have yet to do a latest build world. I'll let you know if that fixes things. Andrew. Ooops, I forgot to mention that yes.

RE: FreeBSD5.1 Vinum Mirror root

2003-07-27 Thread Richard Johannesson
Actually there is one other source I found: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/ Good arcticle, but a little old so I'm guessing it's not appropriate for Rel 5.1 since vinum setup / support in 5.1 has been improved. Is this a bad assumption? Again, I'm just trying to figure

Re: Auth fails partly for imap

2003-07-27 Thread Lucas Holt
Historically, Netscape has not supported encrypted (even if it is weak) authentication for imap and pop3. Slowly, they add standards as people complain. I'm sure the mozilla project is no different. I know for a fact that early builds of mozilla did not support cram md5. Basically, webmail

Re: FreeBSD5.1 Vinum Mirror root

2003-07-27 Thread Tillman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:57:23PM -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: Is this second method outdate, or is there simply several ways to accomplish this task. I'm new to FreeBSD, so setting up vinum seems a little overwhelming. Just trying to mirror a 200GB root drive with another 200GB drive.

Kerberos / sshd

2003-07-27 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm trying to get sshd to authenticate users via Kerberos. I want to do this using a forwardable ticket (I get this by doing kinit -f). I have the necessary host/[EMAIL PROTECTED] and rcmd/[EMAIL PROTECTED] entries in the krb5.keytab file in /etc. I have defined the following

Re: Auth fails partly for imap

2003-07-27 Thread Andrew BOGECHO
Sun Jul 27 12:18:29 EDT 2003 Hi, We use plaintext over SSL. For pine to work we add the following line in the pine.conf disable-these-authenticators=CRAM-MD5 Hope that helps. Use with care over insecure connections. Andrew. On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:57:04AM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote:

Re: Simple cron script to copy remote webpage locally?

2003-07-27 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Sunday 27 July 2003 16:51, Dragoncrest wrote: I've got a webpage that updates dynamically on one of our servers and lists a bunch of statistics about spam and such on our servers. Problem is, the script puts a load on the server if too many people access it and it eventually kills the

Re: Auth fails partly for imap

2003-07-27 Thread Johan Paul
Hi, Hi! We use plaintext over SSL. For pine to work we add the following line in the pine.conf disable-these-authenticators=CRAM-MD5 Hope that helps. Use with care over insecure connections. Hi! That helped! Now I can log into my IMAP account even with Pine. I will use SSL to secure the

Re: Sharing among jails

2003-07-27 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Nope, I just used the man pages for stuff like this ... On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, User KATRINA wrote: Do you have any URL's with info on UNIONfs (setting up, etc.) - I'll look into this and NFS - Thank you! On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, The Hermit Hacker wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, BSD wrote:

proc filesystem error

2003-07-27 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
i am getting following error # killall squid proc size mismatch (47880 total, 1056 chunks) userland out of sync with kernel, recompile libkvm etc Immediately, after this, if i run 'ps' it also gives error. i reinstalled 'ps' for sources and

ARP Problem - Please Help

2003-07-27 Thread Company 2210
Hi, My problem is this (and it's driving me nuts as I can't see the solution). I have two freebsd boxes acting as routers, the layout is like this: Clients (12.20.78.0/25) -(eth0) ROUTER A (eth1)=== (eth1) ROUTER B (eth0) (12.20.65.69) Upstream ISP Internet Router A

FreeBSD featured on TechTV

2003-07-27 Thread Grzegorz Czaplinski
Hi there! Does any one have a copy of FreeBSD featured on TechTV? I went to: http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/oms/news/techtv_031403.html but rtsp://206.40.55.71:554/freebsd-techtv.rm is not working. I have a copy of Revolution_OS.avi (this is on GNU and Linux).

multiuser screen sessions

2003-07-27 Thread Christopher Nehren
I've looked through the screen manual, and did :multiuser on, :acladd $user, :aclchg $user +rwx ?#, and still can't connect to another user's attached or detached screen using -r $otheruser/ or -x $otheruser/. My screen is setuid root as the manual states is required, but I keep getting a message

qpopper pop3 and SSL experiences

2003-07-27 Thread Matt Staroscik
To make a long story short, I have been unable to get qpopper 4.0.5 + SSL to work with Eudora 5.2.1. Using my self-signed cert I can get a secure connection to Apple's OS X mail client, but not Mac or Windows Eudora. On the Mac I see handshake errors, on Windows I get errors which I may be able

Re: Simple cron script to copy remote webpage locally?

2003-07-27 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # man fetch Add also curl and wget, lynx --source, ... For a cron job its the best to first fetch the page to a temporary file. This file should be checked for some success indicators. If the file is valid, it can be renamed to the public

Re: qpopper pop3 and SSL experiences

2003-07-27 Thread Anti
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:09:33 -0700 Matt Staroscik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone found a pop3 daemon with SSL support that works with a wide variety of email clients? yes, courier ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: qpopper pop3 and SSL experiences

2003-07-27 Thread Brent Sims
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Matt Staroscik wrote: To make a long story short, I have been unable to get qpopper 4.0.5 + SSL to work with Eudora 5.2.1. Using my self-signed cert I can get a secure connection to Apple's OS X mail client, but not Mac or Windows Eudora. On the Mac I see handshake

Re: proc filesystem error

2003-07-27 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 05:59:57PM +0530, Shantanu Mahajan wrote: i am getting following error # killall squid proc size mismatch (47880 total, 1056 chunks) userland out of sync with kernel, recompile libkvm etc Userland not in sync with kernel. FAQ. --

pkg_add help

2003-07-27 Thread marlon corleone
should it be in the ports directory when running pkg_add? like usr/ports/security/packge say the package is in the security category or its ok to run in in my home directory or should it be in ports directory? thanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder -

Drivers for canon

2003-07-27 Thread Serge Terryn
Hi, My friend has a canon S520 printer. Any idea which driver to use under apsfilter ? -- Essetee -- Roeselare -- Belgium URL : http://www.essetee.be MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Operating System ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

whats COMPAT_LINUX for?

2003-07-27 Thread marlon corleone
whats COMPAT_LINUX for in NOTES, cant find man pages about this. and also is it ok if to remove from kernel config this two lines: device scbus # SCSI bus (required) device da since i have ni scsi device thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!?

RE: pkg_add help

2003-07-27 Thread Derrick Ryalls
should it be in the ports directory when running pkg_add? like usr/ports/security/packge say the package is in the security category or its ok to run in in my home directory or should it be in ports directory? pkg_add can be run from anywhere, and the file.tgz can reside

How do I enable my microphone on 5.1-RELEASE

2003-07-27 Thread Augusto Jun Devegili
Hi all, I'm using 5.1-RELEASE and I'm trying to enable my microphone. I've browsed the handbook, googled and couldn't find useful information. Multimedia is on-board, device pcm has been compiled within the kernel and audio output is working. TIA and regards, Augusto Jun Devegili

Re: pkg_add help

2003-07-27 Thread Augusto Jun Devegili
If it's a port, say, /usr/ports/security/nmap, you should: # cd /usr/ports/security/nmap # make install clean This will compile nmap and install it. Regards, Augusto Jun Devegili On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 18:54, marlon corleone wrote: should it be in the ports directory when running pkg_add?

Re: qpopper pop3 and SSL experiences

2003-07-27 Thread Doug Hardie
I am using qpopper 4.0.3 for an ISP and it works fine for all the various SSL mail clients. Configuration may be a bit difficult for the client as some of them use the interim SSL mail port and some use the standard POP3 port. I have to run 2 separate POP servers with different ports to

New Webserver with multiple drives

2003-07-27 Thread Duane Stark
Hello! To preface this, I'm not OS retarded - just BSD retarded ;) I haven't had to mess with my current BSD server since I bought it, and now I have purchased a new p4 3.0(something), 2 gig ram, 2 IDE 200gig HD's to replace it.. Here is my question: How do I setup these multiple drives?

Re: whats COMPAT_LINUX for?

2003-07-27 Thread Mica Telodico
--- marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: COMPAT_LINUX is the FreeBSD Linux-compatibility Layer. With this option in the kernel FreeBSD will be able to convert Linux Syscalls into FreeBSD syscalls , in order to Run Linux Binary on FreeBSD (you'll need also the package Linux_Base in

Re: software packages

2003-07-27 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:34:33PM -0400, david wrote: Hi, I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series Since all files are downloaded to the /usr/ports/distfiles, I would like to know which software packages belong to what program. For example, I install mplayer and it downloaded mplayer and

Promise Fasttrack

2003-07-27 Thread Joseph Yuen
Hey, Did anybody get Promise Fasttrack TX2000 working properly under FreeBSD? Does the driver in the FreeBSD handle the RAID duties properly or not? According to the hardware support list, it's supported by FreeBSD. However, I've heard ppl having problem with Promise Fasttrak series. Thus, for

Re: whats COMPAT_LINUX for?

2003-07-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 03:19:36PM -0700, marlon corleone wrote: whats COMPAT_LINUX for in NOTES, cant find man pages about this. and also is it ok if to remove from kernel config this two lines: (freebsd-isp removed since this is off-topic for there). It compiles in Linux binary

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2003-07-27 Thread Peter An. Zyumbilev
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Re: whats COMPAT_LINUX for?

2003-07-27 Thread Vulpes Velox
That option allows you to run linux binaries with a compat layer installed. On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:19:36 -0700 (PDT) marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats COMPAT_LINUX for in NOTES, cant find man pages about this. and also is it ok if to remove from kernel config this two lines:

Re: Kerberos / sshd

2003-07-27 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 05:09:14PM +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: I'm trying to get sshd to authenticate users via Kerberos. I want to do this using a forwardable ticket (I get this by doing kinit -f). I have the necessary host/[EMAIL PROTECTED] and rcmd/[EMAIL PROTECTED] entries in the

Re: How do I enable my microphone on 5.1-RELEASE

2003-07-27 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Sunday 27 July 2003 06:36 pm, Augusto Jun Devegili wrote: Hi all, I'm using 5.1-RELEASE and I'm trying to enable my microphone. I've browsed the handbook, googled and couldn't find useful information. Multimedia is on-board, device pcm has been compiled within the kernel and audio output

Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...

2003-07-27 Thread LLeweLLyn Reese
Charlie Schluting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: Rissland, Thorsten wrote: ...i'm a christian. I hope this helps, freebsd is really a great operating system and I hope you wont let religion or politics stop you from using it.

Re: How do I enable my microphone on 5.1-RELEASE

2003-07-27 Thread Augusto Jun Devegili
Nope. Output from mixer (command line) is: Mixer mic is currently set to 100:100 I use GNOME. Its volume control app reports `mic' at 100, also. However, when I tried GNOME's sound recorder app, it seems there's no input signal. It might be a GNOME issue, though... how can I test the

Re: How do I enable my microphone on 5.1-RELEASE

2003-07-27 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Sunday 27 July 2003 09:02 pm, you wrote: Nope. Output from mixer (command line) is: Mixer mic is currently set to 100:100 I use GNOME. Its volume control app reports `mic' at 100, also. However, when I tried GNOME's sound recorder app, it seems there's no input signal. It might be

Re: Promise Fasttrack

2003-07-27 Thread Jonathan
Joseph Yuen wrote: Hey, Did anybody get Promise Fasttrack TX2000 working properly under FreeBSD? Does the driver in the FreeBSD handle the RAID duties properly or not? According to the hardware support list, it's supported by FreeBSD. However, I've heard ppl having problem with Promise

Re: /dev/psm0

2003-07-27 Thread Nicolas Galler
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:31:59PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 08:52:39AM -0400, DJ Landreneau wrote: I am running 5.0 that came with FreeBSD Unleashed by Sams. Can you point me into the correct direction for enabling kernel support for psm0? Read the chapter

Re: how to set background in a fluxbox desktop

2003-07-27 Thread Mark Sergeant
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 20:16, marlon corleone wrote: i apologize for unrelated question in freebsd-questions. i have no other option but to email here. but thanks thanks very much for the reply. i have a 2nd question Akira# Esetroot -scale dxy.jpg Esetroot: Command not found. Akira#

Re: how to set background in a fluxbox desktop

2003-07-27 Thread Mark Sergeant
This is not really a FreeBSD question, but the answer is Esetroot -scale backgroundname.jpg, you should also man bsetroot bsetbg. Cheers, Mark On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:25, marlon corleone wrote: anyone got a tip, on how to setup a background in fluxbox? i have eterm and xv installed. i load

Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...

2003-07-27 Thread Charlie Schluting
Your comment is insulting, unfair, hostile to encouraging the spread of BSD, and hostile to those who both happen to be Christian and need to use BSD. (note: I am atheist, and would say the same if you had labeled any religion - Muslim, Hindi, Marxism, etc, as stupid. ) Please

Re: whats COMPAT_LINUX for?

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:47:19PM -0700 or thereabouts, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 03:19:36PM -0700, marlon corleone wrote: whats COMPAT_LINUX for in NOTES, cant find man pages about this. and also is it ok if to remove from kernel config this two lines: (freebsd-isp

Re: /dev/psm0

2003-07-27 Thread Charlie Schluting
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 08:52:39AM -0400, DJ Landreneau wrote: I am running 5.0 that came with FreeBSD Unleashed by Sams. Can you point me into the correct direction for enabling kernel support for psm0? Read the chapter in the handbook about kernel configuration, and take it

Re: whats COMPAT_LINUX for?

2003-07-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 06:25:38PM -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:47:19PM -0700 or thereabouts, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 03:19:36PM -0700, marlon corleone wrote: whats COMPAT_LINUX for in NOTES, cant find man pages about this. and also is it ok

Re: whats COMPAT_LINUX for?

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 06:30:12PM -0700 or thereabouts, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 06:25:38PM -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:47:19PM -0700 or thereabouts, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 03:19:36PM -0700, marlon corleone wrote:

Re: whats COMPAT_LINUX for?

2003-07-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 06:41:23PM -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 06:30:12PM -0700 or thereabouts, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 06:25:38PM -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:47:19PM -0700 or thereabouts, Kris Kennaway wrote: On

Re: /dev/psm0

2003-07-27 Thread Nicolas Galler
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 06:25:59PM -0700, Charlie Schluting wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 08:52:39AM -0400, DJ Landreneau wrote: I am running 5.0 that came with FreeBSD Unleashed by Sams. Can you point me into the correct direction for enabling kernel support for psm0?

Re: Promise Fasttrack

2003-07-27 Thread Johan Paul
Joseph Yuen wrote: Hey, Did anybody get Promise Fasttrack TX2000 working properly under FreeBSD? Does the driver in the FreeBSD handle the RAID duties properly or not? I am using Promise Fastrak TX2 om my FreeBSD 4.8 box and it works like a charm all the way from installation. No problems

books

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
Ok, so, if you could buy only ONE of the currently available FreeBSD books, which one would it be??? --karl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Fwd: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:15:57 -0700 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group? Hi Greg and all: Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip Screen: 800x600 hpa system: FreeBSD

Re: books

2003-07-27 Thread Jerry M. Howell II
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 07:25:33PM -0700, Karl Agee wrote: Ok, so, if you could buy only ONE of the currently available FreeBSD books, which one would it be??? I only have one book. I haven't had any problems with freeBSD uleashed by sams -- Jerry M. Howell II

Re: Drivers for canon

2003-07-27 Thread Adam
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 18:09, Serge Terryn wrote: My friend has a canon S520 printer. Any idea which driver to use under apsfilter ? http://www.linuxprinting.org Although the website seems to be down at the moment, it has all the answers you seek. Try back in a little while. -- Adam [EMAIL

Re: books

2003-07-27 Thread Adam
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 22:25, Karl Agee wrote: Ok, so, if you could buy only ONE of the currently available FreeBSD books, which one would it be??? The handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Best part is, it's free. And it's up-to-date. And it's

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? Start here,

Re: Adaptec AIC-7902 SCSI HostRAID Installation

2003-07-27 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
Hello, I am having some issues installing FreeBSD (4.8 and 5.1) onto a server which has a SCSI HostRAID (http://www.intel.com/design/servers/se7501wv2/index.htm) mirror partition setup. HostRAID is not supported under FreeBSD. You must disable HostRAID via SCSISelect in order to use your

Re: $ locate httpd.conf

2003-07-27 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, Run /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate Regards SSR From: DanB [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: $ locate httpd.conf Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:03:17 + When I try to use locate on my new box I get this below. What do I need to do to make it work? Dan $ locate

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
At 12:53 PM 7/28/2003 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post

More POP3/SSL Eudora [Was: Re: qpopper pop3 and SSL experiences]

2003-07-27 Thread Matt Staroscik
Thanks all for the help. Today I installed courier-imap, and reconfigured Exim for Maildir delivery, and I can now get mail out over POP3 + SSL. Apple's OS X mail client and Mac Eudora 6b are working fine. (I had sort of been wanting to try maildirs, and this way I can evolve to IMAP if I want,

more Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
Ok, I just made a change to the monitor setting.and it froze up like before. Here is the log message: (II) Silicon Motion(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (II) Silicon Motion(0): Write-combining range (0x0, 0x1000) was already clear (II) Silicon Motion(0): Current Mode 0x00 (II)

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quoted text inappropriately wrapped. On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 20:49:55 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 12:53 PM 7/28/2003 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 11:10

Re: more Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 21:06:04 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: Ok, I just made a change to the monitor setting.and it froze up like before. Here is the log message: (II) Silicon Motion(0):

SSH Link to routers went down

2003-07-27 Thread DanB
I made an error in routing table alias added 10.0.0.1 to either net port that had an standard outside IP on it also. It made 3 other router go down I could ping them but they wouldn't route. The SSH on all boxes went down. Is there an central connection for SSH somewhere? Could the old admin

scbus

2003-07-27 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, marlon corleone wrote: device scbus # SCSI bus (required) device da since i have ni scsi device ... I don't think you can remove it, because it is used by a lot of stuff you wouldn't normally associate with SCSI (ex. USB). Tom

Weird terminal behavior 5.1-Release

2003-07-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello After working at a terminal for awhile (long enough that the scroll bar becomes really small), xterm and rxvt (I am not sure if it problem occurs at the council) begins to act strangely, I cannot su another user and when I try to use a program that uses standard input (cin) the program

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
Karl Agee snipped: (II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device I2C bus:SAA 7111A registered at address 0x48. (II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device I2C bus:SAA 7111A removed. It looks as if you have trimmed too much. Look for lines starting with (WW) and (EE). (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not