Re: upgrade kde

2004-03-09 Thread Michael Hollmann
thank´s a lot, but this takes to long, or not? is there another way without a clean install? thank´s michael Chuck McManis schrieb: I found the easiest way was to start with a clean install, then install cvsup, then cvsup ports, then install portupgrade and then build kde from the ports tree.

Re: upgrade kde

2004-03-09 Thread Chuck McManis
I found the easiest way was to start with a clean install, then install cvsup, then cvsup ports, then install portupgrade and then build kde from the ports tree. Took about 32 hours start to finish on a 2.2Ghz Celeron. I wasted about a week trying to do it without re-installing and was unsuccess

Howto for

2004-03-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Where can I find a Howto for "mgetty+sendfax" other than follow; http://www.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/mgetty_toc.html TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsub

upgrade kde

2004-03-09 Thread Michael Hollmann
how can i easy upgrade the kde version? my actually version is 3.1.x and would like to upgrade to 3.2 should i use portupgrade? is there a howto for it? thank´s for your help regards michael ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5

2004-03-09 Thread Crucial Servers
Hi, I need some advice on steps for upgrading a very valueble machine. This machine has an uptime of 393 days. I need to install a secure version of "curl" this is our main focus right now. FreeBSD 3.5 ports collection is very b0rked and nothing works, I tried downloading the cvsup source a

Re: Amavis-Stats.

2004-03-09 Thread Julien Gabel
> :-/ I really am a little bit too far into the configuration of the > 4.9 server to update to a 5.x server...isn't 4.9 the recommended > production release from Freebsd.org? Yes, it is. > To me, it looks like Perl isn't finding an end-of-line (;) somewhere > or isn't seeing the script file prop

USB Driver Questions

2004-03-09 Thread admin2
How does one force the use of a particular driver for a USB device without removing the preferred driver from the kernel conf? For example, I have an HID compliant device that is handled by the uhid driver, however I wish to use the ugen driver temporarily for some testing. I created the appropria

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 09), Jason Dictos said: > I'm investigating what resources are out there for accessing bios > addressable devices while BSD is up and running. The situation is > this, currently we licenses Caldera DOS for a program we wrote which > uses the int13 extensions to manipulate t

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-09 Thread Jason Dictos
Aren't the nodes "/dev/ad[0-9] (ide) or /dev/da[0-9] (scsi/usb)" created by their device drivers, i.e. protected mode device drives? That would mean that I would have to make sure that the hardware is supported by a device driver, whereas if I had raw int 13 access I would be garanteed access to th

Re: xterm

2004-03-09 Thread Gerald S. Stoller
From: Quintin Riis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gerald S. Stoller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: xterm Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 03:59:50 -0600 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 `man xterm' `man xfontsel' :) Read man xterm a long yime ago, it didn't help (al

Re: xterm

2004-03-09 Thread Gerald S. Stoller
From: "Aaron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Gerald S. Stoller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: xterm Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:49:34 -0500 (EST) >I use xterm a lot and I always set the font size to > tiny which requires (to my current

Re: Cron job without emailing errors to root?

2004-03-09 Thread Frank Mueller
See "man 5 crontab": If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so named. If MAILTO is defined but empty (MAILTO=""), no mail will be sent. So just add the following entry to your /etc/crontab: MAILTO="" and cron will send no more eMails. > A quick question-- > I run MRTG for

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-09 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:03:34 -0800 Jason Dictos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > The situation is > this, currently we licenses Caldera DOS for a program we wrote which > uses the int13 extensions to manipulate the systems hard drive (i.e. > to recover partition tables and what not). This for

Re: Remote access in 5.1

2004-03-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:13:21PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: > Since upgrading from 4.7 to 5.1, I can no longer open an xterm from > another machine by setting the DISPLAY variable to point to the 5.1 > machine. Is there some setting that is now disabled by default for > security? Other connectivit

Re: Recommend MTA

2004-03-09 Thread Bob Johnson
On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:50 pm, Michael Madden > wrote: > Which MTA is the recommended one to use on FreeBSD? > I've noticed sendmail is installed by default, but > my book I've been learning FreeBSD from (The Complete > FreeBSD) only covers setting up postfix. Should I > go ahead a learn/setu

Automount unmount time

2004-03-09 Thread Earl Larsen
I am using the automount feature for FreeBSD. And I am wondering. What would be a good time for the unmount. Currently I have 60 seconds But I wonder if I would overdue it (constantly remounting). If I would put something shorter. Like 20 or 10 seconds. __

Cron job without emailing errors to root?

2004-03-09 Thread phoetoid
A quick question-- I run MRTG for many boxes on my network at five minute intervals, and I am seeing massive amounts of email filling up roots inbox due to boxes that are currently offline for the night or something. What I am wondering is, is if there is a way to still have the entries in me /etc

rc script timing issues?

2004-03-09 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1, in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I have scripts that start my MySQL database, and that start my Courier-IMAP daemons. When the scripts for courier run, one of the first things they do is start authdaemond, which should fire up several authdaemond.mysql processes and then they start

Remote access in 5.1

2004-03-09 Thread Mike Jeays
Since upgrading from 4.7 to 5.1, I can no longer open an xterm from another machine by setting the DISPLAY variable to point to the 5.1 machine. Is there some setting that is now disabled by default for security? Other connectivity works fine. ___ [EMAI

Re: recomended mail server

2004-03-09 Thread Bob Johnson
On Sunday 07 March 2004 07:23 pm, Micheas Herman > wrote: > Hi, > > I have a specific set of wants for a new mail server: > > 1. deliveries to Maildirs. > 2. authenticated forwarding. (can forward to another mail server > using authentication) > > > Qmail doesn't do authenticated

Re: XEmacs woes...

2004-03-09 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Henrik W Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > right after it has loaded view-less.el. I tried looking through > view-less.el, but to no avail. You might try putting this in your .emacs file: (setq debug-on-error t) (Or before you read the file that started the problem, pull down the "Options/Trou

ntpd question

2004-03-09 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
I run ntpd to keep my server's time in sync with a remote server. In my "netstat -a" output, I see: Active Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state) udp4 0 0 localhost.ntp *.* udp4 0 0 peter

Re: network type console and /etc/ttys

2004-03-09 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... It's pretty pointless having a remote console if you > can't type 'boot' into it. And it's hard to have the network > interface configured and up, with network comms programs running when > the system is sitting at the boot-loader prompt. H.

Re: A question on installing printer

2004-03-09 Thread Stephen Liu
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:21, Lowell Gilbert wrote: - snip - > > # lptest > /dev/lpt0 > >   > > One line printed on 1st page as follow; > > > > !"#$%&'()* > > +,-./0123456789:;<=>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >   > > It seemed OK but paper feed-in continued with 'no_paper' light on (I put > > only 1 pap

Re: Update utility

2004-03-09 Thread lee slaughter
Bart Silverstrim wrote: I guess what would really help (especially for newer users) is a reference or howto with definitive steps on how to do this, as in a step by step guide or script on how to keep your system up to date after a fresh install and keeping it up to date thereafter...does this

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.9

2004-03-09 Thread lee slaughter
is empty. ??? the other releases are ok. why might this be? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How do I add a local patch to a port?

2004-03-09 Thread Simon Barner
Argh the mailing list software stripped the attachment, so here it is: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $origfile; my $file; my $patch; my @files = `find . -name "*.orig"`; foreach $origfile (@files) { chomp ($origfile); $origfile =~ s/^\.\///; $file = $origfile;

Re: How do I add a local patch to a port?

2004-03-09 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, although your question has already been answered: I have attached a script that will create the patches for you (yes, it's very bad perl code, I know, but it creates nice patches of the from patch-dir1::dir2::filename ;-) Simply remember to copy the source files to filename.orig before editin

Re: Login Incorrect

2004-03-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:12:46PM +, saad hage wrote: > Hi, > >When I try to connect to (freebsd 4.9) with Root or any other user I get > the error Login incorrect. I changed the Root password with boot -s but the > problem persist. > > but I can connect via FTP with users other than

Re: Amavis-Stats.

2004-03-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 9, 2004, at 11:05 AM, Julien Gabel wrote: For my part, it doesn't work... but "later" than you : I get an *access denied on the stats files* when launching the index.php file from my browser... certainly not too hard to fix, but I had no time fot that this week. But the difference is... I u

SOLVED :-) Re: Wierd time changes

2004-03-09 Thread Mark Ovens
Denis R. wrote: Hi Mark, Ok, I have recompiled my kernel and excluded the support for SMP and ACPI. Well, Denis, I've solved it and I bet you can't guess what it was - it was the fscking keyboard!!! After spending the last 8 hours building kernels (about 20) with unnecessary stuff removed and t

Re: XEmacs woes...

2004-03-09 Thread Palle Girgensohn
Hi, Is this with the cc-mode distributed with xemacs? Which version of xemacs? i tend to use xemacs' package manager for all elisp modules - you could try updating all of the related modules, it might help: Menu: Tools -> Packages -> Add download site, Tools -> Packages -> List and install Also

nss compilation failed

2004-03-09 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, BSD people, I am compiling security/nss on freebsd 4.8, and got some problem, I looked it up on some mailing list, someone also have the similar problem, but I didn't find the answer, here is goes: ../../../../dist/FreeBSD4.8_OPT.OBJ/lib/libnss3.so: undefined reference to `PR

Re: squirrel/qmail/quota question [Success]

2004-03-09 Thread Jeff Hinrichs
> Thanks for replying. Peter Risdon told me that earlier but I forgot to > say that i got it working. I was wondering if since that file I was > accessing was only 1M, and it took up about 10M of memory, do files for > example 2M take up about 20M of memory? Is the relation 1:10 or more? > > Im j

Re: I have some questions about telnet/telnetd/libtelnet/tn3270 and why FreeBSD is different than other BSDs in this regard

2004-03-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0600, Paul Seniura wrote: > I'm wondering what historical moves were done to the src that builds > FreeBSD's telnet command and telnetd daemon, because now they do not > match other BSDs (AFAICS). This is the crux of my perplextion. Read the commit logs and ma

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-09 Thread Jason Dictos
Hello again, I did a some googling and I found this source forge project which strives to emulate a DPMI style interface for linux/bsd. Here's a link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lrmi/ Anyone know if this thing works? I'm going to try it and find out. Thanks, -Jason -Original

Re: Recycled cd's

2004-03-09 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Spencer Chirume wrote: > Who do I get in touch with if to get a copy of a old BSD CD? Maybe someone on the list would be willing to burn you a copy of something they have lying around. What exactly are you looking for? -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] **

Re: using samba for backups

2004-03-09 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Marty Landman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:00 PM Subject: using samba for backups > Maybe a dumb question, but now that I have samba servers on all three of my > nix boxes with mapped drives on my two windows wo

Re: tcp port sticks in closing state

2004-03-09 Thread daemon
> Hi all, > > I have a strange question that is probably more a tcp thing than FreeBSD, > but you all have helped me so much in the past that I thought I'd start > here. > > I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1 at home with postfix-2.0.18,1 from ports. When > I send an email from my work (red hat 9, qmail),

Re: Java installation: pdmu not found

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:30:05AM +0100, Sven Hohage wrote: > I've tried your detailed descriptions. > Unfortunately portupgrade -a stopped with libxml2 not being up to date. > My Portupgrade also had a mistake(probably with ruby) and I followed the > advice in /usr/ports/UPDATING. > I've upgrade

Re: squirrel/qmail/quota question [Success]

2004-03-09 Thread rfa
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:17 AM > Subject: squirrel/qmail/quota question ?? > > >> >> courier-imap-1.7.1 >> qmail-1.03_1 >> squirrelmail-1.4.0 >> >> running the mail processes. They are working fine, although I received >> an >> importan

portupgrade -Np Does Nothing?

2004-03-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
OK, now what am I doing wrong? Can anyone explain this? blacklamb# portupgrade -pNn net/wol ---> Session started at: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:43:14 -0800 Install 'net/wol'? [no] ** No package has been installed or upgraded. ---> Session ended at: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:43:15 -0800 (consumed 00:00:00) O

Re: hacked

2004-03-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:56:15AM +0800, re re wrote: > hello > despite having ipfilter blocking all ports except 80 21 and 22, tripwire, and > scoring 99 in nmap, my website got defaced. > the box is currently unplugged. i wanted to know what is the best way to find out > who did it and ho

which java for linux-mozilla-1.5?

2004-03-09 Thread Gary Kline
People, Getting the files to buld jdk14 was a chore, but I finally got them and built everything. I also have jdk13 because I was following step-by-step instructions on getting the java plugin for linux-mozilla. (IIRC, these instructions were a co

Re: How To Set PKG_PATH?

2004-03-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Kris Kennaway told a big fish story including the following on 3/9/2004 1:29 PM: On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:17:51AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Sorry if this has been covered before but I have not been able to find the answer. Where do I set PKG_PATH so portupgrade will install packages fr

Re: using samba for backups

2004-03-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > Maybe a dumb question, but now that I have samba servers on all three of my > nix boxes with mapped drives on my two windows workstations there's a great > temptation brewing in my mind to backup things directly on mapped hard > dr

Re: squirrel/qmail/quota question ??

2004-03-09 Thread Jeff Hinrichs
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:17 AM Subject: squirrel/qmail/quota question ?? > > courier-imap-1.7.1 > qmail-1.03_1 > squirrelmail-1.4.0 > > running the mail processes. They are working fine, although I received an > important email with a 1.2

Re: Login Question

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:47:21PM -0400, Corey Mosher wrote: > This might sound crazy but I'm wondering if it's possible and if so what > software packages to look at. I want to make it so that when I login to > my windows xp (uh oh I used the w word in a freebsd list) machine it > authenticat

Re: Java installation: pdmu not found

2004-03-09 Thread Sven Hohage
I've tried your detailed descriptions. Unfortunately portupgrade -a stopped with libxml2 not being up to date. My Portupgrade also had a mistake(probably with ruby) and I followed the advice in /usr/ports/UPDATING. I've upgraded perl to 5.8 and deinstalled Perl 5.61 . Also libxml2 was updated. But

Re: I have some questions about telnet/telnetd/libtelnet/tn3270 and why FreeBSD is different than other BSDs in this regard

2004-03-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Dear Paul, On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0600, Paul Seniura wrote: > It seems NetBSD and OpenBSD continue to include > telnet+telnetd+tn3270 together under one subdir as part of > /src/usr.bin -- but FreeBSD moved only the telnet[d] pieces > to /src/contrib/telnet and eliminated the tn3270 p

Re[2]: Message from CRON

2004-03-09 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:11:41 AM Ruben de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:25:39PM -0500, Gerard Seibert typed: |>> >From time to time, I receive a notification that I have mail in |>> /var/mail/ges. |>> |>> Upon checking, this is what I find: |>> |>> |>> |>>

Re: NFS and file-locking

2004-03-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 09), Kris Kennaway said: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Dominik Epple wrote: > > can anyone please give me some short information (or a pointer to > > it) about the status of file locking over NFS with FreeBSD clients > > and different servers (e.g. FreeBSD, Op

Re: network type console and /etc/ttys

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:27:35AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:07:09PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > >> Seems like basic stuff, but I've never seen mention of it before. > > > > Actually this comes up on thi

Re: Solved: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:13:43PM -0800, Joshua Lokken wrote: > * Alex de Kruijff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-08 14:24]: > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:27:49PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I just changed the permission and ownership of some files and was denied > > > > >

using samba for backups

2004-03-09 Thread Marty Landman
Maybe a dumb question, but now that I have samba servers on all three of my nix boxes with mapped drives on my two windows workstations there's a great temptation brewing in my mind to backup things directly on mapped hard drives. Are there any potential pitfalls to this approach, iow are there

Re: Tripwire question

2004-03-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:18:00PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > I have Freebsd 5.1 installed. > I want to install tripwire for intrusion detection. > Is there a location that has the basic policy > file for Freebsd 5.1 ? This would sure save a > boat load of typing. That comes install with the po

Re: NFS and file-locking

2004-03-09 Thread Jason M. Leonard
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:19:42PM -0500, Jason M. Leonard wrote: > > > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Dominik Epple wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > can anyone please give me some short i

I have some questions about telnet/telnetd/libtelnet/tn3270 and why FreeBSD is different than other BSDs in this regard

2004-03-09 Thread Paul Seniura
Hi y'all, I've been digging into the port net/tn3270 since I volunteered to maintain it ;) . I have some questions, now, after I did some searches on Google.com to try locating the 'official' Berkeley stuff (our src trees have it branded on just about everything y'know ;) . I'm wondering what h

bootup takes forever due to ACPI problems...

2004-03-09 Thread Kenneth Andresen
Hello all, I have recently installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my Armada E500 laptop, and most things seems to work excellent. That is with exception of the ACPI detection. The ACPI detection did detect that I have an Compaq Armada, and it does detect my primary battery, however it seems to go on probing

Crystal CS423B under 5.2.1

2004-03-09 Thread John Duffey
Hi there, I'm having tremendous difficulty obtaining anything other than a system beep from my Crystal CS423B under FreeBSD 5.2.1. In fact, I had problems with it under 5.1 as well! The machine (for detailled information see http://www.osegroup.com/support/insight/insight/en/products/desktops/ls

Re: Tripwire question

2004-03-09 Thread Rob Ellis
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:18:00PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > I have Freebsd 5.1 installed. > I want to install tripwire for intrusion detection. > Is there a location that has the basic policy > file for Freebsd 5.1 ? This would sure save a > boat load of typing. 'aide' is a "replacement and e

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-09 Thread Robert Huff
Corey Mosher writes: > What would actually be quite nice is to have a fancy GUI install > in addition to the current one. Then at the beginning of the > install you can decide whether you really want to install FreeBSD > or look at the pretty lights in the fancy GUI version. Option 1 > is

Re: NFS and file-locking

2004-03-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:19:42PM -0500, Jason M. Leonard wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Dominik Epple wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > can anyone please give me some short information (or a pointer to it) > > > about the status of

Re: NFS and file-locking

2004-03-09 Thread Jason M. Leonard
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Dominik Epple wrote: > > Hi, > > > > can anyone please give me some short information (or a pointer to it) > > about the status of file locking over NFS with FreeBSD clients and > > different servers (e.g. FreeBS

Re: vinum unable to find root

2004-03-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 9 March 2004 at 15:33:54 -0500, dave wrote: > Hello, > Trying to set up FreeBSD on a mirrored raid1 root. I have followed the > section in ch12 of "The Complete FreeBSD" added the lines to loader.conf, > altered the disklabel, and ran fsck on /dev/vinum/root which worked fine. > Wh

Tripwire question

2004-03-09 Thread Darryl Hoar
I have Freebsd 5.1 installed. I want to install tripwire for intrusion detection. Is there a location that has the basic policy file for Freebsd 5.1 ? This would sure save a boat load of typing. thanks, Darryl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://

XEmacs woes...

2004-03-09 Thread Henrik W Lund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings!! Having installed XEmacs from ports, it's running fine, except for one thing: whenever I try to open an existing C/C++ file (I have syntax highlighting on), it refuses to open it, and gives me the error message: /Invalid regexp: "Invalid syn

Re: Upgrading from 4.7 to 5.2.1 buildworld errors

2004-03-09 Thread Ray Seals
Updated the boxes sources from 4.7 to 5.2.1 Release. I'm running a GENERIC kernel. When I do a make buildworld, I get the following error message: -- >>> stage 4.1: building includes -

Re: Rebuilding the World Question

2004-03-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bart Silverstrim wrote: Here's a definite question from a first timer, but there are so many variations out there that I thought I'd bounce this off the list and see what people thought (if I was doing this "correctly") Will do. While you're at it, for your second time, wrap your email lines a

Re: NFS and file-locking

2004-03-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Dominik Epple wrote: > Hi, > > can anyone please give me some short information (or a pointer to it) > about the status of file locking over NFS with FreeBSD clients and > different servers (e.g. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, linux). FreeBSD 5 has working NFS locking

Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-09 Thread Jason Dictos
Hello, I'm investigating what resources are out there for accessing bios addressable devices while BSD is up and running. The situation is this, currently we licenses Caldera DOS for a program we wrote which uses the int13 extensions to manipulate the systems hard drive (i.e. to recover pa

pam question

2004-03-09 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
I have pam configured so that when my virtual email users (well, the *users* aren't virtual, hehe) send email, they have to use smtpauth. I created a file in /etc/pam.d, called smtp. It has in it: auth required pam_mysql.so user=postfix passwd=apassword host=localhost db=postfix table=mailbox u

Re: Recycled cd's

2004-03-09 Thread Craig Reyenga
Spencer, I doubt that there is a formal way of getting old cd's, besides going to a local computer store, or somesuch. -Craig - Original Message - From: "Spencer Chirume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 4:49 PM Subject: Recycled cd's > Hi > >

NFS and file-locking

2004-03-09 Thread Dominik Epple
Hi, can anyone please give me some short information (or a pointer to it) about the status of file locking over NFS with FreeBSD clients and different servers (e.g. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, linux). TIA, Dominik. -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://li

Recycled cd's

2004-03-09 Thread Spencer Chirume
Hi Who do I get in touch with if to get a copy of a old BSD CD? -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ rockmail.exodus.ro - 30MB free email POP3 Access! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Login Question

2004-03-09 Thread Corey Mosher
This might sound crazy but I'm wondering if it's possible and if so what software packages to look at. I want to make it so that when I login to my windows xp (uh oh I used the w word in a freebsd list) machine it authenticates from my FreeBSD machine instead of xp. I was thinking perhaps LDA

Changing the root device - properly

2004-03-09 Thread Craig Reyenga
Hi, The other day, I replaced my server's motherboard with a new one. The old board had an onboard ATA33 controller that could not read disks >32GB, even with the bios upgrade, so I bought an ATA133 pci card. The computer has two disks, a 40GB 5400rpm ata100, and a 120GB 7200rpm ata133. The way I

System date 7 years ahead

2004-03-09 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, I just built and configured a 4.9 box for a friend and I noticed that the system date was 2011. Timezone, month, day, and time were correct during install/config but I never noticed the year was in the future until ntpd refused to adjust the clock. Will this be a problem when the filesystem

Re: How do I add a local patch to a port?

2004-03-09 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Dancho Penev wrote: Put the patch in security/cyrus-sasl2/files directory. Take a look in port's Makefile where ${PATCHDIR} is set to different location. Aha! That solved it. Thanks. -ste ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: How To Set PKG_PATH?

2004-03-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:17:51AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Sorry if this has been covered before but I have not been able to find > the answer. Where do I set PKG_PATH so portupgrade will install > packages from a local drive instead of attempting to 'fetch'? I tried > adding 'PKG_PATH=

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-09 Thread Corey Mosher
What would actually be quite nice is to have a fancy GUI install in addition to the current one. Then at the beginning of the install you can decide whether you really want to install FreeBSD or look at the pretty lights in the fancy GUI version. Option 1 is choose the current way, option 2 i

Re: portupgrade: uninstall error ???

2004-03-09 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > Have you done the UPDATING process on portupgrade? No. I will look after this first. Thanks, Uli. +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany |

Re: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-09 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-09 14:34]: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:53:12PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > At 04:42 PM 3/8/2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > >What do you get if you run the "id" command? Try logging out and back > > >in. Group memberships are checked at login tim

Re: Solved: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-09 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Alex de Kruijff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-08 14:24]: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:27:49PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just changed the permission and ownership of some files and was denied > > > > cat /etc/passwd > > > > akruijff:*:1001:0:Alex de Kruijff:/home/akruijff:/

Rebuilding the World Question

2004-03-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Here's a definite question from a first timer, but there are so many variations out there that I thought I'd bounce this off the list and see what people thought (if I was doing this "correctly") I have a 4.9-RELEASE installation. It was recently pointed out to me that to get all the bug fixes

Re: portupgrade: uninstall error ???

2004-03-09 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > That still doesn't tell us anything. Look further back in the > portupgrade output and post the actual errors it encounters > (e.g. record the output to a file with script(1) or tee(1) and then > extract the relevant parts). Great idea to use script for

Re: Retrieving numeric filemode

2004-03-09 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:32 PM Subject: Re: Retrieving numeric filemode > In the last episode (Mar 09), Mark said: > > > Is there way (via find or ls, or something e

vinum unable to find root

2004-03-09 Thread dave
Hello, Trying to set up FreeBSD on a mirrored raid1 root. I have followed the section in ch12 of "The Complete FreeBSD" added the lines to loader.conf, altered the disklabel, and ran fsck on /dev/vinum/root which worked fine. When i changed /etc/fstab from /dev/ad0s1a to /dev/vinum/root and reb

iostat and watching disk performance for Promise RAID..

2004-03-09 Thread adp
My disk device is /dev/ar0: # mount /dev/ar0s1a on / (ufs, local) /dev/ar0s1h on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ar0s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) ... Yet iostat shows /dev/adX: n# iostat 5 tty ad0 ad4 ad6 cpu tin tout KB/t

Re: Retrieving numeric filemode

2004-03-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 09), Mark said: > Is there way (via find or ls, or something else), to retrieve the > numeric filemodes? For instance, if "ls -la" says "-r--r--r--", I > would like to get its numeric equivalent, 444. You can use "stat -r" to get the mode. It's the 3rd field. --

Re: How do I add a local patch to a port?

2004-03-09 Thread Dancho Penev
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:44:26PM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 14:44:26 -0500 From: "Shaun T. Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alexander Haderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do I add a local patch to a port? Alexander Haderer wrote: Just an

RE: Login Incorrect

2004-03-09 Thread Remko Lodder
I thought of that as well, but he also stats that he has the same issue with other users? Or am i mistaken now? Otherwise, that is indeed the solution to his problem , though a insecure option, better to use another user and "su -" to the root user , much more secure. Cheers -- Kind regards,

Re: Login Incorrect

2004-03-09 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 02:12 pm, saad hage wrote: > Hi, > > When I try to connect to (freebsd 4.9) with Root or any other user I > get the error Login incorrect. I changed the Root password with boot -s but > the problem persist. > >but I can connect via FTP with users other than Root. >

ssh X forwarding not working through NAT

2004-03-09 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Occasionally I need to tunnel X via ssh to remote hosts. I just built a 5.2.1-R system and noticed that X does not forward from this machine to the outside via our NAT'ing firewall. If I connect to a host on the same network with: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] and type: echo $DISPLAY loca

Retrieving numeric filemode

2004-03-09 Thread Mark
Hello, Is there way (via find or ls, or something else), to retrieve the numeric filemodes? For instance, if "ls -la" says "-r--r--r--", I would like to get its numeric equivalent, 444. Thanks, - Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.fr

Login Incorrect

2004-03-09 Thread saad hage
Hi, When I try to connect to (freebsd 4.9) with Root or any other user I get the error Login incorrect. I changed the Root password with boot -s but the problem persist. but I can connect via FTP with users other than Root. Any idea? Thanks in advance. __

Re: out of file descriptors

2004-03-09 Thread Dancho Penev
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:14:57AM -0500, Chris Strzelczyk wrote: Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:14:57 -0500 From: Chris Strzelczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: out of file descriptors Hello, I am trying to start big brother on FreeBSD 5.2.1 as the bb user. When I run runbb.sh I

Re: Running Linux binaries

2004-03-09 Thread Dancho Penev
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:16:12PM +0300, Dmitry wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dmitry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:16:12 +0300 Subject: Running Linux binaries Hi all. I'm trying to run a Linux binary in FreeBSD 5.2. I have Linux compat installed and kld module linux.ko loaded

Re: How do I add a local patch to a port?

2004-03-09 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Alexander Haderer wrote: Just another guess: Probably it makes a difference if the patchfile patches ./dir/tobepatched and dir/tobepatched. A brief look into other ports shows me that the latter is used. I don't know if it have to be this way or not. Ok. I'm trying to patch "/usr/ports/securit

Re: SMP kernel with RAID

2004-03-09 Thread Michael L. Squires
Dan Rue > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:22:51AM -0600, Dan Rue wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Ok, Here's the brief specs > > dual 2.4 Xeons > > Adaptec Raid-5 SCSI > > > > Is SMP flaky in 4.9 or something? This is my first SMP build.. No problems here with two SMP systems, but they are both older

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