make.conf and USA_RESIDENT

2006-06-30 Thread Adam Stroud
I have seen references to a USA_RESIDENT make.conf entry. However, I cannot find any reference to this variable in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf, or the make.conf man page. Does this setting still exist? If so, is there are documentation for it? Thanks A

pkgdb error

2006-06-19 Thread Adam Stroud
I am having a problem with pkgdb and I am wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I was trying to update some of my out of date ports with portupgrade and when I get a pkgdb error. Now whenever I try to run any portupgrade command, or even and pkgdb command (like pkgdb -Fu)

portsnap question

2006-04-14 Thread Adam Stroud
I have a question on what the handbook says about portsnap. According to the handbook: "Adding the following line to /etc/crontab will cause portsnap to update its compressed snapshot and the INDEX files in /usr/ports/, and will send an email if any installed ports are out of date: 0 3 * *

CVSup/Ports Question

2006-04-12 Thread Adam Stroud
I just have a quick question on some of the documentation I have read about FreeBSD and it's ports collection. I read in the handbook that the cvsup tag for the ports-* collection should be ".". "In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections." However, when I was reading the ports

Re: How to Stop Bruit Force ssh Attempts?

2006-04-11 Thread Adam Stroud
I second that. I have been doing the same thing (except running an OpenBSD firewall that blocks the offenders via pf) and it works like a charm. A Jonathan Franks wrote: On Mar 18, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Chris Maness wrote: In my auth log I see alot of bruit force attempts to login via ssh.

Re: "Blob" and FreeBSD

2006-03-29 Thread Adam Stroud
the kernel? A Michael Hernandez wrote, On 3/29/2006 10:00 AM: On Mar 29, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Adam Stroud wrote: I have been using both Open and Free BSD for a few years. Here is a Quick question about FreeBSD and the use of third party closed source binary drivers (known as "blob&qu

"Blob" and FreeBSD

2006-03-29 Thread Adam Stroud
I have been using both Open and Free BSD for a few years. Here is a Quick question about FreeBSD and the use of third party closed source binary drivers (known as "blob" to the OpenBSD community). I was just doing some reading on the OpenBSD website about their views on third closed source dr

make.conf Question

2006-01-21 Thread Adam Stroud
All: I have been playing around with make.conf and I see that it is possible to to use the "NO_OPENSSH" variable to not build openssh when updating fbsd from source. I also noticed in the /etc/defaults/rc.conf file that there is a "sshd_program" entry that can be used to adjust where the installa

Re: FreeBSD will not boot

2005-07-15 Thread Adam Stroud
>unload > >load /boot/kernel.old/kernel > >boot > > let me know if you make it into the OS and if you do - be sure and > remove that nvidia option! > ok i hope this help let me know of your status. > -Ben > > > > > Adam Stroud wrote: > >

FreeBSD will not boot

2005-07-15 Thread Adam Stroud
All: I updated my nvidia drivers from the ports collection (Using the WITH_LEGACY_GPU_SUPPORT option to add support for my GeFroce2 GTS). During the upgrade process, my machine rebooted on it's own and now when I boot I get the following error message: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 24 23:25:37

Re: Nvidia Driver

2005-07-15 Thread Adam Stroud
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Re: Nvidia Driver

2005-07-15 Thread Adam Stroud
Thanks for the enlightnement. I have already rebuilt the driver with the changes that I need. My system will now longer boot, but that is another issue. Thank you for your help. A On 7/15/05, Ian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 15 July 2005 20:59, Adam Stroud wrote: >

Re: Nvidia Driver

2005-07-15 Thread Adam Stroud
I am using the GeForce2 GTS On 7/15/05, Ian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 15 July 2005 12:37, Adam Stroud wrote: > > All: > > > > I am having a problem getting my nvidia video card to work since I > > portupgraded to the latest nvidia driver i

Nvidia Driver

2005-07-15 Thread Adam Stroud
All: I am having a problem getting my nvidia video card to work since I portupgraded to the latest nvidia driver in the port. I had everything working find using many of the old verions. Then I upgraded to the latest version and now when I attempt tp startx, I get: X Window System Version 6.8.2

Nvidia Driver (Dual post)

2005-07-15 Thread Adam Stroud
All: Sorry about the second post, it was accidental. My apologies. A ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Nvidia Driver

2005-07-14 Thread Adam Stroud
All: I am having a problem getting my nvidia video card to work since I portupgraded to the latest nvidia driver in the port. I had everything working find using many of the old verions. Then I upgraded to the latest version and now when I attempt tp startx, I get: X Window System Version 6.8.2

Re: ACL and tunefs

2004-11-27 Thread Adam Stroud
I did not try that. When I booted into single user more again and tried the tunefs -a enable / I get a messaged saying that acl was already enabled. Strange. A Kees Plonsz wrote: On Saturday 27 November 2004 22:58, Adam Stroud wrote: I dont think the acl got enabled, here is my output from

Re: ACL and tunefs

2004-11-27 Thread Adam Stroud
I dont think the acl got enabled, here is my output from mount: /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, NFS exported, local) Kees Plonsz wrote: Adam Stroud wrote: Kees: You were right, I did not umount the filesystem first, I dropped into single user mode and I thought that did unmount the filesystem. When I

Re: ACL and tunefs

2004-11-27 Thread Adam Stroud
e and the handbook says I should see one. Does this mean that things did not take? A Kees Plonsz wrote: Adam Stroud wrote: All: I am trying to enable ACL support of my FreeBSD 5.3 box. I drop into single user mode and run the tunefs -a enable command on my partition and get the following: tue

ACL and tunefs

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Stroud
All: I am trying to enable ACL support of my FreeBSD 5.3 box. I drop into single user mode and run the tunefs -a enable command on my partition and get the following: tuenfs: ACLs set tunefs: /dev/ad0s1a: failed to write superblock When I reboot it seems that the ACL are not set. Any ideas?

acl enabling

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Stroud
All: I am trying to enable ACL support of my FreeBSD 5.3 box. I drop into single user mode and run the tunefs -a enable command on my partition and get the following: tuenfs: ACLs set tunefs: /dev/ad0s1a: failed to write superblock When I reboot it seems that the ACL are not set. Any ideas?

Re: Re[2]: DHCPClient

2004-11-24 Thread Adam Stroud
The DNS server is a unix box that I dont have access to. I know that makes things difficult. My main question is why would this have stopped working from 5.2.1 to 5.2 On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:47:07 +0100, Hexren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AS> The DHCP server is a windows box. > > >> > > -

DHCPClient

2004-11-24 Thread Adam Stroud
I have recently installed FBSD 5.3 and I am having problems using DHCP. I get an IP address, however I get no DNS resolution on the address I get leased. This machine previously used 5.2.1 and I had no problems. I have not touched the /etc/dhclient.conf file, it is still empty. Does anyone have

xscreensaver/xscreensaver-gnome

2004-08-27 Thread Adam Stroud
Hey all: I have built (from the ports) KDE and xscreensaver. Now I am trying to again build Gnome2 from the ports and the istallation breaks when trying to install xscreensaver-gnome stating that it conflicts with xscreensaver. When I do a okg_delete to xscreensaver the system states that thi

Re: CVSUP

2003-07-31 Thread Adam Stroud
No, that was fine. I understand what you are saying. I was actually thinking that myself, I was just wondering if anyone had any easier way. It's not a big deal really, I just change the default install dirs on one port. That means that I change all of 4 lines in a Makefile, I was just wonde

Java and mozilla

2003-03-05 Thread Adam Stroud
Can someone tell me how to get java working with mozilla under Freebsd. I have installed the jre from the ports collection, but I cant get java support in any browser working (opera, mozilla or konqueror) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the

Mono and C#

2003-02-11 Thread Adam Stroud
Has anyone successfully built mono (more specifically the C# compiler) on FreeBSD. If so, could you tell me what you did? I downloaded the source, and in the docs it tells me that I need a C# compiler installed in order to build the compiler. Since I am trying to build the compiler for the fi

Re: mounting a dos file system

2003-01-10 Thread Adam Stroud
I thought that he was talking about mounting drives from distant machines > Adam Stroud wrote: > >Instal Samba. I have a silimar situation, and Samba works great foe me. > > > >>I have small network at home, my system running freebsd and two other > >>systems ru

Re: mounting a dos file system

2003-01-10 Thread Adam Stroud
Instal Samba. I have a silimar situation, and Samba works great foe me. > I have small network at home, my system running freebsd and two other > systems running windoze. I would like to be able to mount one of the > logical dos drives on one of the windoze systems so I can transfer files > to i

Re: kazaa on bsd

2003-01-09 Thread Adam Stroud
The Kazaa client for Linux was discontinued. There is however a client for Linux that uses the Fast Track network. I forget the name of it, but I am usre that it can be found on sourceforge.net. It took some configuration and time, but I did have it running at one point. It seems to me that

FreeBSD Handbook NIS/YP Instructions

2003-01-03 Thread Adam Stroud
I am tryin to setup a NIS/YP domain. I just get done reading that chapter in the FreeBSD handbook and I just have a quick question. Since NIS uses RPC, do I need to configure inetd.conf to allow RPC on the NIS server and clients? The handbook does not make any mention of editing the inetd.con

Re: Disable Mozilla profile

2003-01-03 Thread Adam Stroud
Thanks for the reply, I am seeing the profile manager when I try to open a second instance of Mozilla. I cant open another instance until I create another profile. I understand that these profiles can be useful, but they can also be a sole reason not to use Mozilla. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Disable Mozilla profile

2003-01-03 Thread Adam Stroud
Does anyone know how to disable the profile in Mozilla? I have tried re-building the port with the "--disable-profile" option, but profiles are still active. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

vsftpd and samba problem

2003-01-02 Thread Adam Stroud
I am having some problems with vsftpd and I was wondering if someone could offer me some insight. I have an ftp server (using vsftpd) that mounts FAT32 shares from another machine via Samba. I can mount the shares with no problem and access the files if I log onto the machine with SSH. Howeve

Samba Problem

2002-11-21 Thread Adam Stroud
I am relatively new to FreeBSD. I have been using Linux for about a year and I have decided to make the change to FreeBSD. I currently have one computer running Win98, one running RedHat Linux and one running FreeBSD. I am having trouble connecting to the smb shares on the Linux box from the