NFS/diskless: mount/unmount problems

2005-01-05 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am trying to setup diskless workstations. I have got to the point where I can boot up the workstations, the nfs_root is mounted correctly read only. I have two problems with NFS: 1) The problem is mounting /var rw. I want to use an nfs mount to let data be persistent and since I don't hav

How to get internet working on installed freebsd 5.1

2005-01-05 Thread Joe Dunsmore
> i would simply suggest running /stand/sysinstall that worked, thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Someone trying to break in.

2005-01-05 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Bill Moran wrote: Over the holiday I replaced a server that appeared to have been cracked. Basically built a replacement with the same services in a sandbox, then swapped it with the old one. The new server seems to be secure, as we're not seeing the spam coming off it that

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-05 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello Ted Many thanks for your response. Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Have you heard of the KISS principle? no :-( > > CUPS is unnecessary. unnecessary software complicates the machine > and makes it harder to troubleshoot. I don't personally care much > for this. I understand now. I agree with you.

Re: phpMyAdmin on 5.3

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jim Pazarena wrote: phpMyAdmin is "marked as broken" on my 5.3 release. has it since been fixed? (I've never tried cvsup, but will if it will help me with phpMyAdmin). Yes, it has been fixed, thank you very much. Update your ports tree using cvsup to get the fixes. You can look here: http://w

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-05 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:10:46 -0800 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, A bit OT but wanted to throw my $0.02 anyway... > CUPS is unnecessary. unnecessary software complicates the machine > and makes it harder to troubleshoot. I don't personally care much > for this. I don't unde

Re: make install clean question

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Olof Andersson wrote: I'm a newbie with a problem. I tried to install phpmyadmin from the ports. When I ran the make install clean for the first time I got a screen where I could make a couple of choices. I chose to install with something called "mysqli". The make install process stopped and I got

RE: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ramiro Aceves > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:06 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: S Salamander; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup > > > Hello Ted > > Many th

Re: install.cfg disklabel customization question

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Curtis Almond wrote: Anyone know how to make /usr100 not mounted at boot time? Edit /etc/fstab and add the 'noauto' flag to the appropriate line. Something like this: /dev/ad0s2f /usr100 ufs rw,noauto 2 2 Or even better How can I create the ad0s2-4 (ad0s2f after boot) label but hav

RE: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Miguel Mendez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:21 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup > > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:10:46 -0800 > "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PR

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Sarunas Vancevicius
On 16:52, Wed 05 Jan 05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number > of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. > Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me > good or bad things about it? Ha

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:19:16 +, Sarunas Vancevicius wrote: > On 16:52, Wed 05 Jan 05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >> of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. >> Can anybody who has one

magicfilter 2.3.b: double sided printing on PS printer possible?

2005-01-05 Thread O. Hartmann
Dear Sirs. Since the change from the older magicfilter 1.X to the newer version 2.X it's impoosible to me to print double sided on a double sided-capable PS-printer. In magicfilter 1.X I was able to add several piped preprocessings (psset ---setpagedevice=DOUBLE:true). In magicfilter 2.X this s

Can't find rootvp if booting with a plugged-in firewire HD

2005-01-05 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Hello, I have a problem after adding a firewire hard disk to my system. I did format and label the drive and the drive works without any problem. After a reboot I am getting the following message after the firewire was detected: ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp The firewire disk is /dev/da1 and my

Can't ping between FreeBSD and Win2K...

2005-01-05 Thread k o u b
Hello, I was setup the Win2K as client on the 192.168.3.2 ip adress (netmask 255.255.255.0), with a passerel on the FreeBSD (5.3R MINI-INSTALL) and the ip adress is 192.168.3.1. the Win2K computer name is "windaube" and the FreeBSD computer name is "skoub". you can look bottom for d

sk0: discard oversize frame (ether type ....)

2005-01-05 Thread mario . lobo
Hi everyone; Using freeBsd 5.3. Trying to get the gigabit sk driver to work but even if I force it to 100baseTX full-duplex I still get when doing an ftp session: sk0: discard oversize frame (ether type ) sk0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header ( len 0 pkt len 0) The transfer finish

Re: sk0: discard oversize frame (ether type ....)

2005-01-05 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, > Using freeBsd 5.3. ... > Maybe one of you guys can shed some light on this for me. please update to RELENG_5; it's fixed there already:) -- Greetings Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT

Re: Can't find rootvp if booting with a plugged-in firewire HD

2005-01-05 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
OK - I did find the answer ... After plugging-in the firewire device, /dev/da0 changes to /dev/da1 while botting and /dev/da1 (aka firewire) changes to /dev/da0. How can it be accomplished that /dev/da0 (my non-removable SCSI disk) remains /dev/da0, no matter how many removable drives are added to

Re: Privoxy at boot.

2005-01-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > able to find out how to make it start up at boot. I tried /etc/rc.conf > but no luck. Well, no. rc.conf is for *configuration* information, not for executing commands. It gets sourced *many* times at startup. There are several different ways to start somethin

Re: FreeBSD 4.10 and finding dependant packages

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:59:24 -0800, Jordan Michaels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, my questions is simple: What do I need to do to figure out what > packages require apache to be installed? I've worked with SuSE's YAST > tool and RPM's (and tools that manage RPM's... like YAST), but what's > the

Re: NIS

2005-01-05 Thread Brian McCann
Nope...just tried that with no luck. Thanks though. Any other ideas anyone? --Brian On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:43:40 -0800, Bob Van Zant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are your dates screwed up? By that I mean is master.passwd newer than > your NIS file? Try touch(1)ing your NIS file and then runnin

Re: NIS

2005-01-05 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Brian McCann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD mailinglist" Cc: "Bob Van Zant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:36 AM Subject: Re: NIS Nope...just tried that with no luck. Thanks though. Any other ideas anyone? --Brian On Tue, 04 J

Re: How to get internet working on installed freebsd 5.1

2005-01-05 Thread Joe Dunsmore
> i would simply suggest running /stand/sysinstall That worked, thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > I wrote a small program: > > > > #include > > #include > > > > main( int argc, char *argv[] ) > > { > > getpwuid( 13076 ); > > } > > > > and ran it under truss on 5.

Unexpected soft update inconsistency

2005-01-05 Thread Gavin Grabias
Hi Everyone, A user is having a problem accessing their maildir. The problem arose when we tried to access it as well. When doing an ls in their directory the one file returns the following: ls -l 1104761413.M777698P25745V0400FF01I0239B49E_0.rmail4.enter.net\,S\=6806 ls: 1104761413.M777698P25

Re: sk0: discard oversize frame (ether type ....)

2005-01-05 Thread mario . lobo
Doing it right now!! Thanks, -- //| //|| // | // || -//--//---|| ARIO LOBO // //|| - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ipad.com.br On 5 Jan 2005 at 12:58, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > please update to RELENG_5; it's fixed there already:) > > -- > Greetings >

Re: Privoxy at boot.

2005-01-05 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Hello, try the attached rcNG file I just did create it a couples of days ago. It is not perfect but the file does its job. You'll need to add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf privoxy_enable="YES" privoxy_flags="/usr/local/etc/privoxy/config" -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Danie

Re: modem not responding to mgetty

2005-01-05 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 11:57 am, Timothy Luoma wrote: > I have been attempting to setup mgetty (installed from ports) to > allow me to dial IN to my FreeBSD 5.3 machine. > > (FWIW, the modem works under WinXP for dialing *out*. XP reports it > as: "PCI Slot 2 PCI Bus 1, Device 1, function 0" on

SSHD on FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-05 Thread Nazim Aliyev
Hi everybody. I have following problem. I installed FreeBSD 5.3, and after installation sshd stated succesfully. But when I tried to login to server using different SSH clients it doesn't let me to pass. I open /etc/ssh/sshd_config and unmark following string PasswordAuthetification yes. But it'

Re: modem not responding to mgetty

2005-01-05 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:28 PM, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 04:27 am, Timothy Luoma wrote: (FWIW, the modem works under WinXP for dialing *out*. XP reports it as: "PCI Slot 2 PCI Bus 1, Device 1, function 0" on "COM3") FreeBSD seems to see it: $ dmesg|grep "^sio" sio0: <16550A-compatible CO

Re: iTunes server SUCCESS (NOT ME)!! Here are my notes

2005-01-05 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:55 PM, Jim Arnold wrote: I've hit a wall getting this to work: ?spike# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mDNSResponder.sh start .: Can't open /etc/rc.subr: No such file or directory I created a symlink to /usr/local/etc/rc.subr from /etc and it now works like a charm! I'd suspect that you

Re: SSHD on FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-05 Thread Rob
Nazim Aliyev wrote: Hi everybody. I have following problem. I installed FreeBSD 5.3, and after installation sshd stated succesfully. But when I tried to login to server using different SSH clients it doesn't let me to pass. I open /etc/ssh/sshd_config and unmark following string PasswordAuthetif

Hardware or OS problem?

2005-01-05 Thread Joseph Koenig (jWeb)
Hi, We have a system that is currently giving us some trouble. The system is FreeBSD 4.9. It's a 2 GHz system with 1MB RAM and (here's the kicker) 73GB RAID 1 ATA drives. The system serves as a web/database server dedicated to 1 site. Daily the system goes out and downloads real estate listings (v

Re: modem not responding to mgetty

2005-01-05 Thread Timothy Luoma
Do you have a serial port on your computer? There's a 9 pin connector (nothing attached) that I'm not sure what it's for, a printer port, and mouse and keyboard connectors, otherwise they are all USB ports. (Hardware is NOT my specialty. This is a new Dell Dimension 3000, if that helps any.)

cam_simq_alloc undefined

2005-01-05 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, i use 5.3-RELEASE-p2. When i try to load module iir for my ICP raid controller, i get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # kldload iir kldload: can't load iir: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # dmesg shows that 'cam_simq_alloc' is undefined. However, module cam.ko, which exports cam_s

Re: iTunes server SUCCESS!! Here are my notes

2005-01-05 Thread Gregory Nou
Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jan 4, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: Are you controlling iTunes (and all it's music library) on your Mac from a FreeBSD box somewhere on the net, and playing it on the FreeBSD box? Oh, there's one big caveat: there's apparently no way to tell iTunes to look

Re: iTunes server SUCCESS!! Here are my notes

2005-01-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 07:48 pm, Timothy Luoma wrote: > On Jan 4, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: > > Are you controlling iTunes (and all it's music library) on your > > Mac from a FreeBSD box somewhere on the net, and playing it on the > > FreeBSD box? > > Oh, there's one big cavea

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > > > I wrote a small program: > > > > > > #include > > > #include > > > > > > main( int argc, char *argv[] ) > > > { > > > getpwuid( 13076 ); > > > } > > > > > > an

Problem with an USB-RS232 Prolific adapter

2005-01-05 Thread Stefano Riva
Hi. I'm trying to use an Hamlet XURS232 (Prolific PL-2303) USB-RS232 adapter with 5.3-RELEASE-p3. Uplcom/ucom are compiled in the kernel and the host correctly sees the dongle booting up. No problem with usbdevs -v. I get /dev/ucom0. HOST A (ucom0) <> XURS232 <> HOST B (sio0) By adding "uco

Re: install.cfg disklabel customization question

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:23:05 -0600, Curtis Almond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to be able to do the following > > 1. Create a / partition of x size > 2. Create a swap partition of x size > 3. Create a /usr partition of x size > 4. Create a ufs partition of the rest of the disk but it i

Re: Why might my USB devices *not* be detected?

2005-01-05 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 20:22 -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 15:13 -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > > Sorry for replying to myself, but wanted to fix the subject (less > confusing). Might this have something to do with the usbd.conf file > (I've not changed mine, but perhaps so

RE: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Boris Spirialitious
One system cost me 3 months salary in Russia. Is this how you treat your users? Why can't your developer use the machine they used to make 5.3 work? Everyone tell me to use LINUX. Now I know why. You support bad slow version and not good one. Very stupid people. Boris Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAI

Re: modem not responding to mgetty

2005-01-05 Thread Charles Ulrich
Timothy Luoma said: > This remains all that dmesg shows: > > # dmesg |grep "^sio" > sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on > acpi0 > sio0: type 16550A > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > sio1: port may not be enabled > > I'm starting to think

Re: SpamAssassin-Milter accuracy...

2005-01-05 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/04/05 08:59 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > > The only problem with doing this is that you have to completely > receive the e-mail message before SA can check it against the > blacklists. > > We do the blacklist checks at the MTA level and turn them off in SA. >

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Eric Schuele
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the inter

RE: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Haulmark, Chris
Someone broke the silence: > One system cost me 3 months salary in Russia. Is this how you > treat your users? Why can't your developer use the machine they used > to make 5.3 work? > Yes, I know things are expensive. So are the rewards. Would it be worth it? The reason that Ted asked for a

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > I wrote a small program: > > > > > > > > #include > > > > #include > > > > > > > > main( int argc, char *argv[] )

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tm4528
In a message dated 1/5/05 12:23:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Everyone tell me to use LINUX. Now I know why. You support >> bad slow version and not good one. Very stupid people. >> >FreeBSD is more organized and managed more professionally compared to many >of the L

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux also doesnt do a major release until its arguably better than the previous version. Another lesson that the FreeBSD camp could well learn from. You do your tweaking in the confines of your labs, not at the expense of your customer base.. I'm sorry ... I missed some

RE: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Kiffin Gish
I've been the happy owner of a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a TrueMobile wireless card. Dual boot Windows/XP and FreeBSD 5.3, and so far never had any major issues. Hope this helps... -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner

Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Paul Krill
This is Paul Krill of Infoworld magazine. I would like to speak with someone at FreeBSD regarding issues with Sun. I am at 415-978-3228 or email me with a number where I can call you. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:53:07 -0800, Paul Krill wrote > This is Paul Krill of Infoworld magazine. I would like to speak with > someone at FreeBSD regarding issues with Sun. I am at 415-978-3228 > or email me with a number where I can call you. Thanks. Where did you get this information? _

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Paul Krill
I was doing some browsing on the Web, looking for something else, and bumped into this. It seems like a lot of people already know. "Jorn Argelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/05/2005 10:59 AM To: Paul Krill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] c

Re: cam_simq_alloc undefined

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:26:12PM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Hi list, > > i use 5.3-RELEASE-p2. > When i try to load module iir for my ICP raid controller, i get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # kldload iir > kldload: can't load iir: No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # > > dmes

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:01:22 -0800, Paul Krill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was doing some browsing on the Web, looking for something else, and > bumped into this. It seems like a lot of people already know. > > "Jorn Argelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 01/05/2005 10:59 AM > >To: Paul Kril

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:53:07AM -0800, Paul Krill wrote: > This is Paul Krill of Infoworld magazine. I would like to speak with > someone at FreeBSD regarding issues with Sun. I am at 415-978-3228 or > email me with a number where I can call you. Thanks. Try talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - th

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:05:03PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:01:22 -0800, Paul Krill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was doing some browsing on the Web, looking for something else, and > > bumped into this. It seems like a lot of people already know. > > > > "Jorn Argelo

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Simon1
> > This is Paul Krill of Infoworld magazine. I would like to speak with > > someone at FreeBSD regarding issues with Sun. I am at 415-978-3228 > > or email me with a number where I can call you. Thanks. > Where did you get this information? http://www.javalobby.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=16

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Paul Krill
Do you have any contact information as to who I would speak to at FreeBSDfoundation? Thanks. Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/05/2005 11:08 AM To: Paul Krill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Sun r

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Paul Krill
I am a writer with Infoworld magazine and would like to speak with someone at FreeBSD regarding these issues with Sun, for a possible story. I will be contacting Sun as well. Here are some links I am following up on here: http://www.javalobby.org/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=16511&tstart=0 http

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:13:06AM -0800, Paul Krill wrote: > Do you have any contact information as to who I would speak to at > FreeBSDfoundation? Thanks. Whoever responds to your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) Putting on my telepathy beanie, it could be Robert Watson. Kris pgpa33d6trPNs.p

live/install cd?

2005-01-05 Thread daniel quinn
i've been asked by my company to put together a basic cd that can install a basic freebsd5 system just by putting in the disc and turning it on. it'd have to have a base number of packages and be configured for networking etc at bootup etc. but here's the problem. i'm a gentoo-linux guy. i'm

dhclient problem: send_packet: Network is unreachable

2005-01-05 Thread Vance Shipley
Folks, I am having a problem using dhclient under FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE. feeble# /sbin/dhclient -v rl0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1 Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP Listeni

RE: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi Paul, Hey, good luck to you! The basic root of the problem as I understand it is that Sun license for the JDK 1.3 originally prevented redistribution of the JDK with the FreeBSD which is something that the Project wanted to be able to do for obvious reasons. As a result the FreeBSD Foundati

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-05 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:13:56PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:21:06 -0500 Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >wrote Scott Bennett thusly... > >> > >> I've downloaded the following ISO image files: > >> > >>5.3-RELEASE-i386-boot

RE: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Paul Krill
Thank you very much for your help. I had some follow-up questions. * For background, FreeBSD wants to distribute the JDK with the FreeBSD OS? FreeBSD's implementation of specific Java technologies? Both? * Which version of the JDK has FreeBSD been prevented from redistributing? Are there cost is

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
One system cost me 3 months salary in Russia. Is this how you treat your users? Why can't your developer use the machine they used to make 5.3 work? Everyone tell me to use LINUX. Now I know why. You support bad slow version and not good one. Very stupid people. Thank you for trolling on an othe

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tm4528
In a message dated 1/5/05 1:20:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>Linux also doesnt do a major release until its arguably better than the >>previous version. Another lesson that the FreeBSD camp could well learn from. >You do >>your tweaking in the confines of your labs, no

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/05/05 11:21 AM, Kris Kennaway sat at the `puter and typed: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:13:06AM -0800, Paul Krill wrote: > > Do you have any contact information as to who I would speak to at > > FreeBSDfoundation? Thanks. > > Whoever responds to your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) Putting

Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-05 Thread Remington
Anyone seen this or know to fix it. CVSup last night cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1 make install <10 hours later> Local Script Particel Zip (c) 2000 Sun Microsystems mkdir -p ../unxfbsd.pro/01/normal rm -f ../unxfbsd.pro/01/normal/* rm: No match. lzip -p . -e ../unxfbsd.pro/misc/lzip.log -

Re: iTunes server SUCCESS!! Here are my notes

2005-01-05 Thread Vincent Zee
On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 16:28:26 +0100, Gregory Nou wrote: > Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > > >On Jan 4, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: > > > >> Are you controlling iTunes (and all it's music library) on your Mac > >>from a FreeBSD box somewhere on the net, and playing it on the

random hdd turned off

2005-01-05 Thread I Nyoman Suka Ada
Hi, This is general problem, but thought I just ask it here first. I have my OS-es installed on the first hdd, so there are partitions for FreeBSD, Linux[c]es, and Windows. Second hdd contains some partitions (some are linux partitions, others FAT partitions). Nothing critical, I seldom use these

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:08:44 -0800, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:05:03PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:01:22 -0800, Paul Krill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was doing some browsing on the Web, looking for something else, and > > >

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I think there is a story there for you but more along the lines of: "Sun's wishy-washy licensing terms driving people away from Java" Agreed. Sun has screwed up the licensing of Java from the start. Their deal with Microsoft early on made that clear to me. I prefer to use

Re: live/install cd?

2005-01-05 Thread Irvin Piraman
take a look at freesbie (www.freesbie.org) hth irvin On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:25:28 -0500, daniel quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've been asked by my company to put together a basic cd that can install a > basic freebsd5 system just by putting in the disc and turning it on. it'd > have to ha

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tm4528
In a message dated 1/5/05 2:39:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>One system cost me 3 months salary in Russia. Is this how you treat your >>users? Why can't your developer use the machine they used to make 5.3 work? >> >>Everyone tell me to use LINUX. Now I know why. You s

RE: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Tom, Have you tried any of the alternative implementations of Java? Sun's isn't the only one out there. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Vilot > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 11:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL P

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you've "missed" the fact that kernels and distributions are independent of one-another in linux. "Redhat" is just a distribution and has little to do with what particular kernel version you are using. First of all, that wasn't missed. It was quite intentional. I am

Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:41:30 -0800, Remington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone seen this or know to fix it. CVSup last night > > cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1 > make install > > <10 hours later> > > Local Script Particel Zip (c) 2000 Sun Microsystems > mkdir -p ../unxfbsd.pro/01/normal

ssh, window managers, and xorg

2005-01-05 Thread Xian
I use xorg and it works well for everything local. To test it I started xorg with just xterm as the client like so: % startx /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm In this terminal I can start a window manger such as twm and it works fine, but I can't start a window manger on a remote machine: % ssh -Xf some.ma

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asking a guy from a poor country to donate his hardware to a US organization at least partially funded by Yahoo is "helpful"? What planet are you from? The planet where 99% of the posts on this list are helpful, and the one from this guy (who calls the members of this l

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Tom, Have you tried any of the alternative implementations of Java? Sun's isn't the only one out there. I have. I'm sorry, I am mostly venting my frustration with Java as a language, Sun as a company, and J2EE as a hugely bloated and over-architected solution in dire need

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Tm4528
In a message dated 1/5/05 1:53:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "This is Paul Krill of Infoworld magazine. I would like to speak with someone at FreeBSD regarding issues with Sun. I am at 415-978-3228 or email me with a number where I can call you. Thanks. " --- So so

Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Andreas Davour
I started to do some research for a kernel compile that should migrate my system into the future I came upon the line "options bpf" in the kernel config file. I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really understood the role of bpf. Is it supposed to be enabled when I use IPFW or

Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:09:55PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > > I started to do some research for a kernel compile that should migrate > my system into the future I came upon the line "options bpf" in the > kernel config file. > > I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really

Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 5, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Andreas Davour wrote: I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really understood the role of bpf. Is it supposed to be enabled when I use IPFW or is it another beast altogether, best left undisturbed? The BPF, or Berkeley Packet Filter, is really intended

sendmail and mbox permissions

2005-01-05 Thread Eugene M. Minkovskii
Hi. I use FreeBSD 5.3 and sendmail. When root rechieve the mail, mailbox's (/var/mail/root) permission bits has been setted to 600. Who and how it does? Can I change this behavior? -- Sensory yours, Eugene Minkovskii Сенсорно ваш, Евгений Миньковский _

Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Olivier Certner
I'm not able to give a deep answer on that. What I can say is that you must compile the kernel with bpf if you want to use the DHCP protocol or the tcpdump utility. It would be great if someone can clarify the precise roles of bpf. Olivier ___ fre

RE: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi Paul, I'm going to top-post here since you used html formatting and it's hard to insert into that. As for the FreeBSD distribution of the JDK, if you go to the link here: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml You will see that the organization "The FreeBSD Foundation" is cu

Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Andreas Davour
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:09:55PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: I started to do some research for a kernel compile that should migrate my system into the future I came upon the line "options bpf" in the kernel config file. I have searched the handbook and th

Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Andreas Davour
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: On Jan 5, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Andreas Davour wrote: I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really understood the role of bpf. Is it supposed to be enabled when I use IPFW or is it another beast altogether, best left undisturbed? The BPF, or B

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tm4528
In a message dated 1/5/05 3:00:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>Asking a guy from a poor country to donate his hardware to a >>US organization at least partially funded by Yahoo is "helpful"? What planet >>are you from? >> >The planet where 99% of the posts on this list

usb modem

2005-01-05 Thread Alvaro Rosales
hello guys , I have installed a usb modem andin my FreeBSD 5.1 box, the system has created a /dev/ugen0 and /dev/ugen0.1, but when I try to do a cu using ugen0 or ugen0.1 I dont get any answer from the modem, cu just says that the device is not configured. Is there any other file I need to confi

Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Andreas Davour
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Olivier Certner wrote: I'm not able to give a deep answer on that. What I can say is that you must compile the kernel with bpf if you want to use the DHCP protocol or the tcpdump utility. tcpdump as well? Worth remembering. It would be great if someone can clarify the precise ro

Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-05 Thread Simon Burke
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:58:24 -0600, Joshua Lokken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's a thread on this list from yesterday that states plainly that > OpenOffice does not build on FreeBSD 5.3: > > However, it does build on 4.11-STABLE. > I have OpenOffice 1.1.3 running on 5.3. All that i nede

Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:52:16 +, Simon Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:58:24 -0600, Joshua Lokken > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There's a thread on this list from yesterday that states plainly that > > OpenOffice does not build on FreeBSD 5.3: > > > > > However, i

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think he was calling the members of this list stupid. You are correct. He wasn't. Rather, it was the people who *developed* the *free* and very powerful operating system (that he is attempting to use) he called stupid. I'm still waiting to see him post an apolog

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:58:47 -0700, Tom Vilot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Besides ... with a name like hardcodeharry, I would expect a little more > intelligence; a little more willingness to dig into things. A slight > tendency to ask the question: "how can I hack this

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Mark
> I, for one, am humbled by the BSD teams... I have come out of hibernation early in order to agree with all of the above points. Back to bed for me, Good night. Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

broken port

2005-01-05 Thread Kiffin Gish
Sometimes when I am trying to make something from the ports I get the message that the port is 'broken'. For example, while trying to build the enlightenment window manager. What does that mean and what can I do to get around it? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands _

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