Searching contents of files

2003-10-21 Thread jason dictos
Hi All, I've always used grep text /*/*/* to recursivly search directories for files with the specified text string in them, however this method doesn't always work very well (sometimes it bails out halfway through with error "Argument list too long"). Is there a more effective way to sear

image a disk/partition?

2003-10-21 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
Hi, I am looking for a program that would let me image HDDs in my test lab and restore them, either completely or just a few first partitions. I don't mind buying it (although freeware would be preferred of course) but I don't want to buy an OS to host this program on, so I would like to use FreeB

Re: Vinum Offset for Swap: 265 or 281?

2003-10-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 October 2003 at 18:16:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 0:42:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Sanity check whether the mirrored vinum root drive is setup correctly. >>> Going to setup two more machines the same way

Re: portupgrade problems, please help

2003-10-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 07:50 pm, ivan georgiev wrote: > > > > > > I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I > > > > > > get: > > > > > > > > > > > > -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR > > > > > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in > > > > > > `deorigin': failed to convert

Re: Best way to cleanly uninstall packages?

2003-10-21 Thread Bryan Cassidy
cd /usr/ports//port/ make deinstall On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:55:59 +1000 "Chris Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have installed 2 packages which inturn installed a bunch of > dependencies... They are "imageindex-1.0.6" and "gallery-1.4.0.1" I was > seeing which one I like

Re: pppoe for 5.1 doesn't work IAW handbook or rc.conf options

2003-10-21 Thread Don Whitteker
I found this website in my quest to get my DSL modem working...I found it very informative. It doesn't mention anything about DHCP but it works extremely well with mine(mine uses DHCP too...go figure) Good luck!!! http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/pppoe/ DonW --- John Estess <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: gaim and MSN

2003-10-21 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 22:31, Kan Cai wrote: > Hi, All: > > I am installing gaim 0.71. Everything goes fine, but it seems that there > is some problem with MSN lib. > > Whe I start it, I got plug-in error on finding MSN lib. I didn't install > it actually, did I? > > I have installed Mozill

Re: mplayer + sound problem

2003-10-21 Thread Bryan Cassidy
I've already fixed the problem. Thanks anyways. On 21 Oct 2003 09:05:08 -0400 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please. top-post, Don't > > Bryan Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I had a big problem yesterday with the PC. Don't want to get into > > that but I had to reinstall

Re: My sound card can't work

2003-10-21 Thread Bryan Cassidy
Tried this $su password: #cd /dev #sh MAKEDEV snd0 reboot. I know FreeBSD 5.x is suppose to add those devices in automatically but I had the same problem in FreeBSD 5.1 when i used it.. HTH On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:54:19 +0800 (CST) stevens root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I have inst

xlock + xautolock question

2003-10-21 Thread Bryan Cassidy
I've read through the man page for xlockmore and xautolock and cant figure out (must be over looking it or something) but can't figure out how to setup a .rc file for the two and how to setup xlockmore to interact with xautolock.. So any help would be apprecited even if its from the man page it's s

Re: FreeBSD 4.8 v/s 5.1

2003-10-21 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
mkisofs --- for creating iso's burncd --- for ATAPI CDRW cdrecord --- for SCSI CDRW, and SCSI emulation of ATAPI CDRW -- With Best Regards, Shantanoo Mahajan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: A couple of ATI video questions

2003-10-21 Thread David Lodeiro
Hi, I have a radeon 8500 , and I have DRI working. Can you paste a copy of your XF86Config in, as well as the log? and dmesg while your at it. I moght be able to help. Thanks David > Hi again. I've got a few more questions, this time about ATI Mach64/Rage > video support. > > Under Li

RE: Regarding spam

2003-10-21 Thread Robert Huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > You can try using Spamassassin. if you are using postfix you can try > this. :) > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200309/postfix-spamassassin.html SpamAssassin also works with Sendmail; see the mail/spamass-milter port for more information.

Re: question for portupgrade

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Lee(HINET)
- Original Message - From: "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Lee(HINET)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:03 PM Subject: Re: question for portupgrade > "Michael Lee(HINET)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > After c

RE: Regarding spam

2003-10-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yes they can send using the BCC field. or put your email in a mailing-list or use mail forwarding and other sort of stuff :) You can try using Spamassassin. if you are using postfix you can try this. :) http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200309/postfix-spamassassin.html hope this helps... ---

Best way to cleanly uninstall packages?

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Richards
Hi Everyone, I have installed 2 packages which inturn installed a bunch of dependencies... They are "imageindex-1.0.6" and "gallery-1.4.0.1" I was seeing which one I like best - now I have decided I want to keep gallery and uninstall imageindex. What is the cleanest way to do this? I have noticed

Re: FreeBSD files' heads

2003-10-21 Thread Q
These are RCS tags used to identify the revision of the file in question, along with who commited the change and when. RCS is used by the FreeBSD community (in the form of CVS) to manage changes to the source code, and RCS in turn uses '$' to surround special identifiers that get expanded when the

Re: portupgrade problems, please help

2003-10-21 Thread ivan georgiev
> > > > > I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I > > > > > get: > > > > > > > > > > -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR > > > > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in > > > > > `deorigin': failed to convert nil into String > > > > > (PkgDB::DBError) from > > > > > /usr/local/

Re: Regarding spam

2003-10-21 Thread jason dictos
Hey Gary, Before you or anyone else on this lists continues to waste time with a n00b like me, I'm going to first educate myself by reading /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README (paying special attention to ANTI-SPAM CONFIGURATION) :P Thanks! -Jason On Tuesday 21 October 2003 19:10, Gary wrote: > Hi

gaim and MSN

2003-10-21 Thread Kan Cai
Hi, All: I am installing gaim 0.71. Everything goes fine, but it seems that there is some problem with MSN lib. Whe I start it, I got plug-in error on finding MSN lib. I didn't install it actually, did I? I have installed Mozilla 1.4, but it seems that it is not able to make the SSL optio

Re: restoring DOS partition from a tar file

2003-10-21 Thread Dan Strick
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Kent Hauser wrote: > Is it possible to backup a DOS partition (bootable) & restore it from a tar > file? I recently had a disk failure & used dump/restore on FreeBSD partitions > & made a tar dump of the DOS one. After "newfs_msdos" & "tar x", the > partition is not bootable

Re: Regarding spam

2003-10-21 Thread Gary
Hi Jason, On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:44:13 -0700 GMT (10/21/2003, 8:44 AM +0500 GMT my time), jason dictos wrote: j>I run my own mailsever, and I just wanna know its possible for someone to j> send an email to my mail box, but yet have no one specified in the TO or CC j> fields. I guess those fie

Re: portupgrade problems, please help

2003-10-21 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 09:02 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 05:48 pm, ivan georgiev wrote: > > > > I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get: > > > > > > > > -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR > > > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin'

Re: portupgrade problems, please help

2003-10-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 05:48 pm, ivan georgiev wrote: > > > I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get: > > > > > > -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR > > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin': > > > failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) > > > fr

toshiba satellite (small screen)

2003-10-21 Thread Vitor Py
Sorry, My LCD appears in 640x480, and I can't change it. Can somebody help me? Thanks in advance, Vitor. %uname -a FreeBSD sanjuro 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #8: Tue Oct 21 22:19:49 BRST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/SANJURO i386 %X -version XFree86 Version 4.2.1

Regarding spam

2003-10-21 Thread jason dictos
Hi All, I run my own mailsever, and I just wanna know its possible for someone to send an email to my mail box, but yet have no one specified in the TO or CC fields. I guess those fields are probably optional, but how can I adjust my mailserver to reject messages sent to someones mailbox wit

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-21 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:37 am, Nicole wrote: > An example of how spliting BSD into BSD server and BSD desktop could be a > benefit. Hrmmm. /stand/sysinstall /stand/desktopinstall Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 4478 ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne U

FreeBSD files' heads

2003-10-21 Thread CBuH.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, all. I've got a question (easier -- ``interesting in'') -- why all FreeBSD files' heads starts with this: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/shells,v 1.3.2.1 2000/07/10 08:47:17 obrien Exp $ - - Why there are buks (am I pronounce right ? :-) ``$'' -- on

Re: Vinum Offset for Swap: 265 or 281?

2003-10-21 Thread rtjohan
So, my understanding of the bsdlabel process seemed correct: 1) modify swap partition size to be 281 less than what sysinstall created the partition as 2) have the swap offset at 281 instead of 0 3) add vinum partition set to the size of "c" minus 16 4) have vinum partition offset at 16 I mig

My sound card can't work

2003-10-21 Thread stevens root
Hi! I have installed FreeBSD 5.1 release+KDE 3.1,my sound card is Creative SB Vibra 128,I haved added "device pcm" to kernel and rebuided it,but when I reboot my computer,the system can't initilize my card,I type"dmesg|grep pcm" without output,when I start kde, the system noticed me that no /dev/d

Re: portupgrade problems, please help

2003-10-21 Thread ivan georgiev
> > I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get: > > > > -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin': > > failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) > > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:918:in > > `tsort_build'

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Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Micke P wrote: > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I opened the port on my (hardware) router box, not > > the > > > FreeBSD firewall. Internet -> ISP -> Modem -> > > Router > > > -> FreeBSD box. Hopefully that's all I need to do > > to > > > forward the port 8080 packets.

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-21 Thread Nicole
An example of how spliting BSD into BSD server and BSD desktop could be a benefit. Nicole On 21-Oct-03 My Homeland Security Spies reported that Terry Lambert said: > carmoda wrote: >> ~sigh~ >> >> seems like an awful lot of stuffing around for something that a >> user/developer should be a

RE: Postfix smtp connect problem

2003-10-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
have you tried reading this guide? that was the guide that i used when i installed postfix a few days ago. it worked for me :) http://www.postfix.org/basic.html#mynetworks good luck.. hope this helps... - Gil Agno Virtucio Janitor/

Re: portupgrade problems, please help

2003-10-21 Thread Jens Rehsack
ivan georgiev wrote: Hello, I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get: -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin': failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:918:in `tsort_bui

RE: Freebsd Amanda?

2003-10-21 Thread Jason Lavigne
> How can you tell if Amanda backup is running ps -aux | grep amdump > and where it is sending the backups to? Check your amanda.conf file for your setup. The files are copied to a holding disk first (before going to tape or what ever backup device you are using). In amanda.conf look for holdin

RE: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
have you tried this reading this? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-natd.html dont forget to set the gateway IP address of your network clients to the IP address of your FreeBSD nat server. hope this helps... -

portupgrade problems, please help

2003-10-21 Thread ivan georgiev
Hello, I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get: -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin': failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:918:in `tsort_build' from /usr/local/l

Freebsd Amanda?

2003-10-21 Thread DanB
How can you tell if Amanda backup is running and where it is sending the backups to? Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

errors with orb drive

2003-10-21 Thread David Bear
I have a castlewood 2.2 gig orb drive in my system. Today, it gave me the follow error: ad1: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ad1 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0) trying PIO mode ad1: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. ad0: DMA limited t

make buildworld error

2003-10-21 Thread Grzegorz Neon
Hello, I installed 4.8 yesterday and i need to upgrade it but I'm getting this error when i try to do make buildworld: ===> usr.sbin/boot0cfg cc -O -pipe -march=k6 -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing- prototypes -W pointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wwrite- strings - W

Re: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Alhagie Puye
Check this out: http://freebsd.peon.net/tutorials/12/ Cheers, Alhagie --- Michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 04:08 PM, Alhagie > Puye wrote: > > > Are you using ipfw or ipfilter? > > ipfw > > > > > > --- Michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> i am not

Re: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Michelle
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 04:08 PM, Alhagie Puye wrote: Are you using ipfw or ipfilter? ipfw --- Michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i am not aware of a natd.conf file. i edited the rc.conf file to enable natd and specify the interface. the firewall rule i am using for natd is: add dive

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Murphy
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Micke P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I opened the port on my (hardware) router box, not > > the > > > FreeBSD firewall. Internet -> ISP -> Modem -> > > Router > > > -> FreeBSD box. Hopefully that's all I need to do > >

Re: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Alhagie Puye
Are you using ipfw or ipfilter? --- Michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am not aware of a natd.conf file. i edited the > rc.conf file to > enable natd and specify the interface. the firewall > rule i am using > for natd is: add divert natd all from any to any via > fxp0. > > On Tuesday, O

/dist directory missing on 5.1 mfsroot disk??

2003-10-21 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, I am having a peculiar problem with installing 5.1, has anyone successfully used the floppies (made from the ISO image) to boot and install from a CD or DOS partion? When I try I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: No such file or directory (2) My cd rom appears to b

Re: Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Murphy
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:26:17 +0200 Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Paul Murphy: > > > Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > * Paul Murphy: > > > > > > > I _can_ read/write to it as root, but I would really like to > > > > use > > > > it as a non-root use

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I opened the port on my (hardware) router box, not > the > > FreeBSD firewall. Internet -> ISP -> Modem -> > Router > > -> FreeBSD box. Hopefully that's all I need to do > to > > forward the port 8080 packets. Do I need to > configure > > the FreeBSD firewall setti

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
--- Paul Everlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micke P wrote: > > My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 > and > > I'm serving on port 8080. I can bring up the site > no > > problem on my LAN- http://192.168.254.25:8080/, > but > > not outside. > > > > My ISP is earthlink and it's a dyna

Re: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Michelle
i thought one only needed to use route command when routing between 3 or more networks. i have a local LAN and a subnet. however, i tried the command: route add -net 192.x.x.x 64.x.x.x i received the error message: route: writing to routing socket: File exists add net 192.x.x.x: gateway 64.x.x

pppoe for 5.1 doesn't work IAW handbook or rc.conf options

2003-10-21 Thread John Estess
The title just about says it all. The handbook, rc.conf, and the ppp man page don't jive and no single one them works. This is really annoying because I had this working with DSL some time ago, but I can't get it going with my cable modem (Redhat and XP worked). Could someone please post the REAL

Re: ATA mirroring solution required

2003-10-21 Thread Thomas Spreng
hello, On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:47:36PM +0100, Chris Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Got a bit of a sticky situation. I have a bog standard Compaq AP230 > workstation with two IDE channels and 3 devices so far (two CDROM > devices and a hard disk). I want to add a second disk as a software > RAID1 mir

MOXA C168H/PCI 8 Port serial card

2003-10-21 Thread Lutz Rabing
Hi list, I'm trying to use a combination of two AST-4-Port ISA serial cards with one MOXA 8-Port serial PCI card... no luck so far. Both AST cards and the 2 onboard ports work fine, only the MOXA PCI card ports refuse to work: cu -l cuaa10 cu: open (/dev/cuaa10): Device not configured cu: cuaa

Equal bandwidth sharing by all hosts using dummynet

2003-10-21 Thread Alhagie Puye
Hi all, First of all, I have spent a lot of time reading up on it. Anyway, I live in a shared accomodation with 2 roommates and a landlord and we share a cable internet connection. It is 2Mbit/400Kbit connection. Sometimes when one of us is downloading a song through Kazaa or a new Linux or FreeB

RE: ATA mirroring solution required

2003-10-21 Thread Tyler McGeorge
Well, if you're willing to spend some money, getting a hardware RAID1 2-channel IDE controller would be the way to go. As a cheaper alternative, I, personally, would change the drive configuration so that each channel had a HDD master and a CDROM slave. Hope this helps, Tyler McGeorge ...to the r

RE: natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Tyler McGeorge
The next question on my mind would be whether or not you've established routes? `man route` Hope it helps, Tyler McGeorge ...to the rescue... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michelle Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECT

natd question

2003-10-21 Thread Michelle
i am running freebsd 4.6.2. i have 2 nic cards on the machine, one which is the external interface and connects to a router which connects to dsl. the other is internal interface for our subnet. i have enabled natd on the machine, but still cannot get packets out when on the subnet. i can s

RE: Help with NV driver - More information part 2 - SOLVED

2003-10-21 Thread Jason Dictos
Hi All, After setting the sysctl machdep.disable_mtrrs="1" in loader.conf I was able to re-use the nvidia.ko module without it hosing my server! Thanks, -Jason -Original Message- From: Jason Dictos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:30 AM To: 'Nicolai

ATA mirroring solution required

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, Got a bit of a sticky situation. I have a bog standard Compaq AP230 workstation with two IDE channels and 3 devices so far (two CDROM devices and a hard disk). I want to add a second disk as a software RAID1 mirror of the primary disk. I know how to do this in FreeBSD so thats not a problem

Re: viapm

2003-10-21 Thread David Brinegar
This is the correct e-mail address, sorry about that. -- David Brinegar http://brinegar-computing.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Need some insight on error messages that I am getting.

2003-10-21 Thread Marshall Heartley
Hello list, I have decided to give FreeBSD a try but I am having a issue that I need help with. I apologize for the length of the email. I just want to ensure that I give enough information to see if anyone can help. Well I am running FreeBSD 4.8. It (FreeBSD) is installed on the second hdd

viapm

2003-10-21 Thread David Brinegar
Anyone able to read temperatures on a VIA EPIA-M 1, or working on updating viapm? I built a 4.8 kernel with smbus, viapm, etc, but the hardware monitor programs complain about /dev/smb0 and nothing shows in dmesg about smb. The viapm device looks like it was last updated for VT8233A, and the

login.conf and accents weirdness

2003-10-21 Thread Joan Picanyol
[please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] Hi, I can't see accents in mutt's internal pager (even though I can see them in vim). I've read iconv(), terminfo() and the Internalization section in the Handbook among others, but I'm out of ideas. I've tried setting LANG=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15 (al

Re: USB and routing...

2003-10-21 Thread Henrik W Lund
Quoting "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 17:26, Henrik W Lund wrote: > > ...but not necessarily in relation to one another. ;-) > > > > This is my second go at FreeBSD, and it's my umpteenth one with UNIXes in > > general. Having done my share of Linux (wit

Re: How to get out of Africa?

2003-10-21 Thread CBuH.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It'll be very easy for U: man tzsetup do it under root -- it has a text-mode dialog-based interface. WBR, CBuH. On Tuesday 21 October 2003 22:24, Wayne M Barnes wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > >During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my

A couple of ATI video questions

2003-10-21 Thread andi payn
Hi again. I've got a few more questions, this time about ATI Mach64/Rage video support. Under Linux (until the 2.4.22 kernel's ServerWorks fix broke mtrr support on my machine), I was able to get xv and DRI support on my system (ATI 3D Rage IIc), over a number of versions of XF86 (previously with

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Everlund
Micke P wrote: Hi, I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things set up to see my website on the Internet. I know people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually am. :-) My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and I'm serving on port 8080. I can bring up the site no problem on

Linux ABI using existing linux setup?

2003-10-21 Thread andi payn
Hi there. After years of not using BSD, I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.1, and I have some questions about the linux ABI (plus a few other BSD questions). The short version is: Can I use an existing linux installation instead of linux_base (and if so, what do I need to do to set it up), and can

Linux ABI using existing linux setup?

2003-10-21 Thread Andrew Barnert
Hi there. After years of not using BSD, I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.1, and I have some questions about the linux ABI (plus a few other BSD questions). The short version is: Can I use an existing linux installation instead of linux_base (and if so, what do I need to do to set it up), and can

vncserver, rc.local, and blackbox problem

2003-10-21 Thread Scott I. Remick
Ok, for today's edition of Show Scott What Stupid Thing He Missed... Trying to set up a dedicated VNC/ethereal server, so I'm trying to have vncserver run from rc.local (using su to run it as a user and not root). Ran into some path issues to make vncserver happy, which I resolved, but for some r

Re: Re: Postfix smtp connect problem

2003-10-21 Thread dhull
I think I found the problem. It had something to do with the "aliases" file. I noticed this when I ran "postfix start" at the command line. Before that I was doing everything from webmin. Webmin is nice but in this case it didn't give me any error messages. Not good. ---Original Mess

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread whizkid
> I opened the port on my (hardware) router box, not the > FreeBSD firewall. Internet -> ISP -> Modem -> Router > -> FreeBSD box. Hopefully that's all I need to do to > forward the port 8080 packets. Do I need to configure > the FreeBSD firewall settings as well to reflect the > port? no, if you c

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get > things > > set up to see my website on the Internet. I know > > people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually > am. > > :-) > > > > My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 > and > > I'm se

Re: Noob FreeBSD 5.1 install question

2003-10-21 Thread whizkid
> Well, there's no law that says you *have* to use the ports system, but > it's pretty strange not to take advantage of something so good... > There are pre-compiled packages available, but these generally don't > track the latest upstream updates to the ported software very > efficiently. The por

Re: Postfix smtp connect problem

2003-10-21 Thread Sven Pfeifer
Hi, dhull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running FreeBSD stable (4.9 pre) > > I installed Postfix from ports. > > If I log onto the server I can send mail using the "mail" > command. If I try an external mail client it times out. > > For some reasion postfix is not allowing connections oth

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
Hi Viktor, See comments below. --- Viktor Lazlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Micke P wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get > things > > set up to see my website on the Internet. I know > > people like to claim to be

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread whizkid
> > Hi, > > I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things > set up to see my website on the Internet. I know > people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually am. > :-) > > My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and > I'm serving on port 8080. I can bring up the site no > problem

Postfix smtp connect problem

2003-10-21 Thread dhull
I am running FreeBSD stable (4.9 pre) I installed Postfix from ports. If I log onto the server I can send mail using the "mail" command. If I try an external mail client it times out. For some reasion postfix is not allowing connections other then local host. Can someone tell me how to fix t

Re: Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Micke P wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things > set up to see my website on the Internet. I know > people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually am. > :-) > > My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and > I'm serving on port 808

Trying to see website from the Internet

2003-10-21 Thread Micke P
Hi, I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things set up to see my website on the Internet. I know people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually am. :-) My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and I'm serving on port 8080. I can bring up the site no problem on my LAN- http:

Re: Help with NV driver - More information part 2

2003-10-21 Thread Nicolai P Guba
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 17:30, Jason Dictos wrote: > Well, I've tried ranges too with the same results I'd suggest you leave the ranges in for starters... then what does the XServer's log file say? Logging has been vastly improved in XFree over the years... -- =NPG= ___

Re: SCSI Host Adapter recommendation

2003-10-21 Thread Marc Wiz
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:30:15AM -0400, Steve Hovey wrote: > > I used to go with adeptecs, but now use tekrams - they seem faster. > On another mailing the general opinion is that Adaptec host adapters are overpriced. I am using a LSI Logic U160 adapter in my system. Marc -- Marc Wiz [EMAI

Installing an Unsupported Driver

2003-10-21 Thread wilddragon
I have an old HP J2575 10/100 ethernet card that does not seem to be supported by FreeBSD. I found a driver for it on the Debian Linus web site. Can I install the Debian driver in FreeBSD, or must I switch to Debian to make this particular machine useful? If I can install a new driver in Fre

Re: unable to use multiple exports for mountd

2003-10-21 Thread Charles Swiger
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 11:21 AM, Jason Cribbins wrote: I have been dealing with this problem for many years and never really found a reasonable solution or explanation and now it has come to a point where I can no longer find work arounds to make it work the way I need it. How do I export

RE: Help with NV driver - More information part 2

2003-10-21 Thread Jason Dictos
Well, I've tried ranges too with the same results -Jason -Original Message- From: Nicolai P Guba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:49, Jason Dictos wrote: > Section "Monitor" >     Identifier  "NEC

Re: Hosed system

2003-10-21 Thread Shawn Ramsey
> > Operating system: i386-pc-freebsd4.8 > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no > > run-time > > symbol table > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no > > run-time > > symbol table > > This system (FreeBSD-elf) is not supported.

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:27:42AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I would like to know where pkg_add keeps its configuration file? I mean > when I execute the command 'pkg_add -r bzip2' how does it know that it > needs to fetch it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/./packages-4-stable/ > as opposed t

gettext compile problem

2003-10-21 Thread Aaron Sloan
Hello viewers. Can someone talk me through on what to look for so I can start solving these myself.. Information: 4.8 stable / gettext-0.12.1 I have tried removing from distfiles and remaking and reinstall.. I can follow some of what is going on here, but can you give me some detail? What is my

Re: SCSI Host Adapter recommendation

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Hovey
I used to go with adeptecs, but now use tekrams - they seem faster. On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings, > I am building a department level server and > am going to be running Freebsd & Samba on > it instead of the windows headache. The > machine is going to have a 12/24GB Dat

Re: Automatic mounting of removable meadia

2003-10-21 Thread Eric Pogroski
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:19:08 +0200 Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > Is it possible to automatically mount media when they are inserted? > From the GNOME 2.4 documentation (Nautilus, 1.8.1:To mount Media): > > " > If your system is not configured to mount the device auto

SCSI Host Adapter recommendation

2003-10-21 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I am building a department level server and am going to be running Freebsd & Samba on it instead of the windows headache. The machine is going to have a 12/24GB Dat tape drive, and so I'm looking to find an inexpensive, but works straight out of the box with FreeBSD scsi host adapter.

unable to use multiple exports for mountd

2003-10-21 Thread Jason Cribbins
I have been dealing with this problem for many years and never really found a reasonable solution or explanation and now it has come to a point where I can no longer find work arounds to make it work the way I need it. How do I export more than one folder for export with different options for each

Automatic mounting of removable meadia

2003-10-21 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, Is it possible to automatically mount media when they are inserted? From the GNOME 2.4 documentation (Nautilus, 1.8.1:To mount Media): " If your system is not configured to mount the device automatically, you must mount the device manually. Right-click on the desktop, then choose Disks-

Re: USB and routing...

2003-10-21 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 17:26, Henrik W Lund wrote: > ...but not necessarily in relation to one another. ;-) > > This is my second go at FreeBSD, and it's my umpteenth one with UNIXes in > general. Having done my share of Linux (with one recent battle being > setting up a web/mail/NFS/NIS/Samba

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Q
You might want to look at the portupgrade tool in the ports collection. It supports a '-P' flag that tells it to use packages instead of compiling from source. It does an excellent job of handling dependencies (if used correctly), and is very easy to use. It may be better to create a "friendly fac

Re: console connectivity question.

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Hogan
Thnaks to all who replied. Tim > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setu > p.html > - Original Message - > From: "Ruben de Groot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tim Hogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:20

USB and routing...

2003-10-21 Thread Henrik W Lund
...but not necessarily in relation to one another. ;-) This is my second go at FreeBSD, and it's my umpteenth one with UNIXes in general. Having done my share of Linux (with one recent battle being setting up a web/mail/NFS/NIS/Samba server for a school project. *puh* I thought I knew what frustra

Re: VXA-2 Packet Drive

2003-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Jeronimo Romero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know if FreeBSD supports Exabyte VXA-2 Packet Drives?? > We are interested in purchasing one but i didn't see it in the > hardware compatibility list and we wanted to make > sure. I believe those devices are SCSI, in which case they shou

Re: [freebsd-questions] root passwd change

2003-10-21 Thread Eric Pogroski
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:55:54 -0400 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Pogroski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:37:19 + > > DanB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is there other way to change the root password that been lost > > > without shutting dow

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