Re: Using Multiple Internet Connections with FreeBSD

2005-07-15 Thread Ben Jencks
reeBSD includes PF, which supports this. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html You need to NAT to an address pool, with round-robin. - -- Ben -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC14TUpt3yYclAKVsRArs/AKCT6FmcsD8Y61uEpWEUFZfTsPx0XgCdGG75 KyXDfTEO

Re: Left/right arrow and backspace translation confusion

2005-07-14 Thread Ben Jencks
screen session with one keyboard/OS/keymap/method of connection, and attempt to use it from another, it screws up the "special" keys. - -- Ben -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC1rWypt3yYclAKVsRAoApAJwMQ25E500MVlHeisT54TGY2dMvFgCfZNYo WCJprkJoyags

Re: Expire undeleted mail older than specified age

2005-07-12 Thread Ben Jencks
0 23 * * 3 /usr/local/sbin/expire_mail -l -M -a 60 /var/mail/* Here you use expire_mail (no .pl) Is this the problem? - -- Ben -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC03Hwpt3yYclAKVsRAnmPAJ0Sy0bKLgazEQSwPgA6J9Q23ClNhQCghuZn 9Cfxlz9jHx59JK2VL4h+qTY= =

Re: Suspend-to-disk resuming

2005-07-11 Thread Ben Jencks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm trying to get suspend-to-disk (S4OS) working. (S3 doesn't work, but >> I'll worry about that later). When I r

Suspend-to-disk resuming

2005-07-08 Thread Ben Jencks
isks). How do I tell the kernel to load a suspend-to-disk image rather than booting? I'm using the july snapshot of 6-CURRENT on a Thinkpad T43p. Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: rw access to ntfs

2005-06-29 Thread Ben Paley
ile > permissions, or ability to change times). Thanks a lot for this - I'll have a very careful go! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: rw access to ntfs

2005-06-29 Thread Ben Paley
ge.net/ > > Will let you mount a ffs filesystem on Windows. > Not sure how well tested it is, though I'll have a look... ...but frankly the very idea terrifies me. Let Winxp loose on my fbsd partition? Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-q

Re: rw access to ntfs

2005-06-29 Thread Ben Paley
on! Oh well, thanks for your help. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

rw access to ntfs

2005-06-29 Thread Ben Paley
ling about this and everything I find which mentions this is quite old, and all the replies seem to imply it should have been sorted by now. Any ideas? Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: Help, I killed my machine.

2005-06-23 Thread Ben Timby
Chuck Swiger wrote: Ben Timby wrote: [ ... ] I understand a Signal 12 is a non-existant system call. The half installworld probably caused this. How can I recover from this? The easiest way is probably to perform an "upgrade" from a 5.4 CD burned from the ISO image. Make sure

Help, I killed my machine.

2005-06-23 Thread Ben Timby
I was upgrading from 4.10-STABLE to 5.4-STABLE, following the instructions in the freebsd handbook and something went wrong. I used CVSup to update my sources. I built the world and kernel as follows: cd /usr/src make buildworld && make buildkernel I am using the GENERIC config. I had to copy

Re: Flash plugin

2005-06-14 Thread Ben Paley
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 02:53, Alastair G. Hogge wrote: > I used this: > http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php > for Konq-3.4.0. Fantastic, sorted! Just Opera to go now! Thanks a lot, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Flash plugin

2005-06-14 Thread Ben Paley
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 03:21, Eric Schuele wrote: > > Ben, > > Here's a link (back to the archives) that helped me out (firefox & > flash)... > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1302736+0+/usr/local/www/db/tex >t/2005/freebsd-stable/20050306.free

Flash plugin

2005-06-13 Thread Ben Paley
ying to get some flash content in some browser or other... I've got opera 8, mozilla 1.7 and firefox 1.0.4, and konqueror 3.4.0, and I would be _really_grateful for any help. Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: 1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc

2005-06-11 Thread Ben Paley
6.8.3 won't be long. Thanks a lot, everyone. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc

2005-06-10 Thread Ben Paley
If anyone is interested, I will be glad to send my xorg.conf, and logs and all the rest of it. Thank you all very much for your help! I may be none the wiser, but I am much happier! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: 1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc

2005-06-09 Thread Ben Paley
5patch: I think this is what 915resolution does for me. > ModeLine "1280x800" 71.0 1280 1328 1360 1440 800 802 808 823 Thanks for this. > Use the i810 driver. Weirdly, although everyone says to use i810, I could only make it work with the ve

Re: 5.x, LDAP and caching uid/gid data

2005-06-08 Thread Ben Hockenhull
At 1:24 PM -0500 6/8/05, Tony Shadwick wrote: >On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ben Hockenhull wrote: > >> We're in the midst of implementing a couple of FreeBSD servers, each >> containing about 5k users, with authentication against LDAP. We're using >> PADL's nss_ldap

5.x, LDAP and caching uid/gid data

2005-06-08 Thread Ben Hockenhull
and if so, has anyone had experience using it? I found a lookupd utility that looks promising, but I'm leery of implementing it in production as it seems like fairly untested software. Failing nscd or a similar thing, are there other ways I can cache this infomration or otherwise impr

1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc

2005-06-07 Thread Ben Paley
0. But I've yet make or find an xorg.conf that even gives me a display. Thanks a lot for any help! Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

strange network behaviour

2005-06-06 Thread ben
tem that might cause thist type of behavior? it doesn't seem to be the hardware - my laptop is a pentium M centrino system with a bg nic, and they're old Celeron 500 machines with fxp nics. the kernel config is attached, in case i've done something really stupid in there thanks,

FreeBSD 5.x with > 70k users?

2005-06-06 Thread Ben Hockenhull
dentical problem, but didn't see that he'd found a solution. Any input, pointers, solutions greatly appreciated. Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Problem please help

2005-05-29 Thread Ben Sheterline
Hi, I've been trying to contact the administrator responsible for: http://listserver.uk.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-users/1999-August/000215.html On the posting it details my address and i wish it to be removed. Unfortunately when i have tried contacting the post-master from the contact addr

X-terminal Issues.

2005-05-16 Thread Ben Forson
Hello , My name is Ben and I use FreeBSD v5.0. The problem is , I can't get my X-term to work.Whenever I StartX I get an error message stating ,XF86Config file fail to open.I have checked my video card details over and over again and still get the same results. I've de-instal

Netgroups and LDAP?

2005-05-12 Thread Ben Hockenhull
eciated. If there's another way to limit logins via LDAP, I'd be interested in hearing about that, too. Thanks Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

problems with pop3 daemons

2005-05-11 Thread Gal Ben-Haim
Im running a mailserver on FreeBSD 5.4, for some time now im experiencing problems with downloading large messages (above 1 mb but i don't know from which size it starts) through pop3: After about 30 secs of downloading, the download just hangs, qpopper's output to the logs is: ay 11 16:31:00 loki

problems with pop3 daemons

2005-05-11 Thread Gal Ben-Haim
Im running a mailserver on FreeBSD 5.4, for some time now im experiencing problems with downloading large messages (above 1 mb but i don't know from which size it starts) through pop3: After about 30 secs of downloading, the download just hangs, qpopper's output to the logs is: ay 11 16:31:00 lok

Re: How to become su..

2005-05-10 Thread Ben Haysom
are you entering the root password correctly affter su ? On 5/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hy > > I'm new bye in FreeBsd...have a litlle questions. > Supose i'm a user, how to become a su.I tried to type su,and the answer > was "Sorry".What files must modified?[know m

error 16

2005-05-10 Thread Ben Haysom
.html Seems to be the same, but the commands that person entered don't work for me.. I couldn't find anything searching on the full error. Any ideas, or shall I just do a complete reinstall? The machine isn't vital so that is plausib

no /boot/loader error 16

2005-05-08 Thread Ben Haysom
hi I have an AMD Duron 700Mhz running FreeBSD 5.3. When I turn it on I get error 16 lba 287 error 16 lba 287 No /boot/loader I've found: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-March/081879.html but the instructions don't do anything. Help?

Re: sendmail

2005-04-02 Thread Ben Munat
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 2, 2005 8:03 AM, Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Just use the mail command. (the man page for mail is smaller) i read man mail and there is nothing about attachments in mail unless reading a file includes reading a movie file ? Why don

Re: sendmail

2005-04-01 Thread Ben Munat
Gert Cuykens wrote: Just use the mail command. (the man page for mail is smaller) i read man mail and there is nothing about attachments in mail unless reading a file includes reading a movie file ? Why don't you just use your favorite mua to send it? What about using something like icq, ymessen

Re: circular depenencies

2005-04-01 Thread Ben Munat
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 08:35 am, Ben Munat wrote: [... some stuff about circular dependencies] pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/gstreamer-plugins-* then rerun portmanager -u, it will pull the gstreamer stuff back in, in the correct order. -Mike Heh, ran the pkg_delete

circular depenencies

2005-04-01 Thread Ben Munat
dependency gstreamer-plugins-core-0.8_1 that needs to be updated first How can I resolve this? Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: firefox doesn't show up

2005-04-01 Thread Ben Munat
Did you try running it from the command line? That way you can see if it prints errors when it fails. b T.F. Cheng wrote: > hi, >My firefox stop to show up after I started it these > days, from "ps" and "top" I can see the process is > running (firefox-bin), but it won't show up in the > x-

Problems compiling UW imapd on 5.3-STABLE

2005-03-25 Thread Ben Hockenhull
I'm trying to get UW's imapd compiled on a 5.3-STABLE system with PAM support, as I'm trying to get imap users to authenticate to an LDAP server. It seems that I need to compile UW IMAP with PAM support to make that happen, as I then hand off auth to PAM, which then hands it off to LDAP via the PAD

Re: Apache compile prob in portupgrade

2005-03-23 Thread Ben Munat
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 3:53 pm, Niq wrote: Umm I had a similar problem , do a cvsup on ure whole ports tree ,and then perhaps a portupgrade -a . I remember it had something to do with a package in the textconv tree. Hope this helps I just finished doing a complete cvsup with all ports & src and a "

Re: GPL Upheld in Mich -- Seems Relevant to Adaptec

2005-03-21 Thread Ben Goren
On 2005 Mar 21, at 1:48 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: Claiming ISO-9001 when you are not following the processes can get Adaptec into serious legal problems. The Internet is a fascinating thing. I certainly won't claim to be an expert on these matters, but the quick research I've done since I got Th

Re: Doug Richardson is (probably) back online

2005-03-21 Thread Ben Goren
On 2005 Mar 20, at 10:59 PM, Siju George wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:39:13 -0700, Ben Goren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.bartleby.com/141/ Thankyou so much for the link Ben :)) You're welcome. If English isn't your native language, it's worth noting that a (*

Doug Richardson is (probably) back online

2005-03-20 Thread Ben Goren
Folks, I just sent a note to Mr. Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and it doesn't seem to have bounced. First, if anybody really did mailbomb him (as the Anonymous Coward at 68.165.27.173 claims on the OpenBSD Journal), please do us all a favor and turn yourself in to the FBI. To the rest, I woul

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-20 Thread Ben Goren
On 2005 Mar 20, at 6:41 AM, Charles Swiger wrote: While I haven't seen Adaptec's NDA agreements, I'd bet a stack of nickels they exist and limit the information Adaptec is able to make public. This is a moot point. If Adaptec has been foolish enough to bind their own hands in this manner then th

Re: mozilla port issues

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Munat
'll give that a shot... but are you saying then that portmanager does not suffer the same problems with gnome as portupgrade? If so, kewl... Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

mozilla port issues

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Munat
ity issues with mozilla and I need to update my ports tree. I've updated several times however... What else do I need to do? 3) portmanager periodically says that it's missing nautilus-media-0.8.1_1... any idea why that would be? thnks, Ben PS: crap, I just remembered the UPDATING file

New I/O mobo

2005-03-14 Thread Ben
.com and several forums. No relevant information could be retrieved by me. Thank you very much for your time. Kind regards, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [asking again] did a bad thing to my ports?

2005-03-13 Thread Ben Munat
Chris Hodgins wrote: Ben Munat wrote: This morning, after running cvsup and portsdb, portversion told me I had a stale dependency in linux-sun-jdk. This didn't surprise me, as I had installed the jdk yesterday (and what a pain that was). So, I did as it suggested and ran pkgdb -F it

[asking again] did a bad thing to my ports?

2005-03-13 Thread Ben Munat
ed a few days ago, I had nothing to upgrade, so I have a feeling I messed something up. Any help would be appreciated. Ben output: (starting from end of cvsup run...) Shutting down connection to server Finished successfully [EMAIL PROTECTED]: portsdb -uU Updating the ports index ... Generating IND

did a bad thing to my ports?

2005-03-13 Thread Ben Munat
7;ll just paste the output below. The question/problem is that now portversion says that I need to upgrade 85 ports! When I checked a few days ago, I had nothing to upgrade, so I have a feeling I messed something up. Any help would be appreciated. Ben output: (starting from end of cvsup run...

Re: cron mail

2005-03-13 Thread Ben Munat
MAILTO="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the /etc/crontab file... I believe. It's discussed in man 5 crontab. Ben Dennis Olvany wrote: How do I change the e-mail address and SMTP server cron uses to e-mail the daily root report? ___ freebsd-questi

Re: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-10 Thread Ben Paley
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:03, Chris Hodgins wrote: > You can simply use 127.0.0.1 in there. > > 127.0.0.1 localhost my-xp-machine.org I'll give that a go next! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

RE: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-10 Thread Ben Paley
> -Original Message- >From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Setting hostname - fake and real >To: "'FreeBSD-Questions Questions'" >> On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: >> >> > Hello Ben &g

Re: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Paley
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: > Hello Ben > Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure I > understand why you would want to use fake dns names. I don't especially want to use a fake name, I just don't have a real one to use

Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Paley
e shutting down X even! Can anyone help? Thanks very much, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Munat
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-03-05 13:34, Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The delete key sends ^? when in a cons-25 terminal. Depending on what your shell is, this may be remapped to perform whatever you feel suits you best. But this is a shell configuration issue. If you

Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Munat
Chuck Swiger wrote: Ben Munat wrote: >> PS: what keymap should I use anyway? (logitech PC keyboard... US English...) Perhaps /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.emacs.kbd ...? Wouldn't that be for emacs users? Sigh... I just want my delete key to work... I got a response a while back

Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Munat
Chuck Swiger wrote: Ben Munat wrote: Thanks yeah, I figured that. However, in this case I had simply added "keymap="us.iso"" to the rc.conf. So, I had to stop all my daemons just to change my keymap. Of course you didn't. Why not run: kbdctl -l /usr/share/syscons

Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Munat
Peter Schuller wrote: How does one cause rc.conf to be reread without rebooting? Under linux I would generally do "source somefile.conf". But if I do "source rc.conf", I'm told that all my settings are not commands. Generally, you don't. For details, see the explanation of the FAQ: http://www.freeb

reload rc.conf without rebooting

2005-03-02 Thread Ben Munat
How does one cause rc.conf to be reread without rebooting? Under linux I would generally do "source somefile.conf". But if I do "source rc.conf", I'm told that all my settings are not commands. Ben ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Munat
How do I do this? b Chuck Swiger wrote: If you map the Backspace key to DEL and the Delete key to C-d on a standard PC 101/104/whatever-key keyboard... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Munat
I used vipw to set my regular user's shell to tcsh. /etc/passwd shows it correct now but I still appear to be getting sh as my shell. If I run tcsh, I then get the tab completion. But how do I get the terminal to put me in tcsh automatically? Ben Jonathan Chen wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005

Re: tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Munat
I just set all terminals and all users (i.e. me) to have the same shell with the same capabilities? thnx, b PS: grrr... bottom posting. Matthew Seaman wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 01), Ben Munat said: Why doesn't tab completion in the shell work for my regular (non-root) us

Re: tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Munat
According to /etc/passwd, both root and my regular user are using /bin/tcsh. b Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 01), Ben Munat said: Why doesn't tab completion in the shell work for my regular (non-root) user? That depends on what shell "the shell" refer

tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Munat
Why doesn't tab completion in the shell work for my regular (non-root) user? b ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: gnomeapplets build failure

2005-02-27 Thread Ben Munat
Ah. Thanks. That did it. Maybe the build script should just check for the existence of the kernel source and error out immediately with an informative message rather than print a message that just flies by amidst thousands of lines of output? Ben Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sun, 2005-02-27 at

gnomeapplets build failure

2005-02-27 Thread Ben Munat
alling and I'm down to two packages... gnomeapplets and gnome2-lite. But now I get a real build error and I'm stuck... something to do with acpi. I'll paste the output below. Would appreciate any help. Thanks, Ben output: acpi-freebsd.c:43:31: dev/acpica/acpiio.h: No such file or

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-27 Thread Ben Munat
Dru Lavigne's book "BSD Hacks" has a hack called "Build a Port Without the Ports Tree" which might be useful to you... and -- lucky you -- it's one of the sample hacks on O'Reilly's site: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bsdhks/chapter/hack82.pdf Ben Antho

Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?

2005-02-13 Thread Ben Dover
Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page with a Flash object Firefox core dumps. The error is as follows: Feb 13 18:57:53 w00f kernel: pid 27652 (firefox-bin), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped). I have installed the following relevant ports: /usr/ports/www/firefox /

Re: Newbie upgrade problem

2005-02-13 Thread Ben Dover
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:46:43 -0500, aklist_061666 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: I upgraded from freebsd 5.1 to 5.3, and the upgrade went pretty > smoothly. > > I had BIND 9.2.3 running on 5.1, and when I upgraded to 5.3, BIND 9.3.0 was > installed. > > my old named.conf file is still in /etc,

fsck? problems with machine

2005-02-13 Thread Ben Haysom
an explanation anywhere. I'm now pretty sure it's the HD at fault... would explain some dodgy behaviour in the past too. Help? Ben. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: is there a cheat-sheet for WINE?

2005-02-11 Thread Ben Dover
I added the following to the top of my wine config file and the stoppable errors went away. [Drive C] "Path" = "/windows" "Type" = "hd" "Label" = "msdos" "Filesystem" = "win98" Note that "Path" = "/windows" is the directory i created to mount the windows partition in /etc/fstab Good luck On W

Fwd: /var Full

2005-02-07 Thread Ben Dover
You might want to try doing a cd /var and then try the command du -h which will show how much space each directory is using thus showing what is eating up your space. Compare this to df -h and if the numbers dont hash out a process is keeping disk space. To find out which process could be doing

Re: reboot DURING a portupgrade

2005-01-30 Thread Ben Haysom
Why will it have suddenly started doing it? It was fine a week ago. On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:47:43 -0800, Tabor Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Haysom wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am running FBSD 5.3-CURRENT on a Duron 700Mhz 384Mb RAM. > > > > When

Fwd: reboot DURING a portupgrade

2005-01-30 Thread Ben Haysom
Just fixed the stale dependencies, then did portupgrade -a same thing. unclean reboot. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ben Haysom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:26:24 + Subject: reboot DURING a portupgrade To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hi I am r

reboot DURING a portupgrade

2005-01-30 Thread Ben Haysom
e* it reboots itself before the portupgrade is complete. Not a clean reboot though - it doesn't dismount filesystems before it goes. I can't work out what it's doing. There is nothing relevant in /var/log/messages. Can anyone help? Ben. _

Fwd: "Cannot dump. No dump device defined" while using sysinstall

2005-01-21 Thread Ben Salem
Ben Salem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:40:59 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Salem To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "Cannot dump. No dump device defined" while using sysinstall After booting w/ floppies, installation with 5.3-RELEASE fails in /stand/sysinstall when

USB Printer bafflement - ppd problem?

2005-01-04 Thread Ben Paley
7;t print anything. kprinter does the same (won't print a test page, and no other programs can print via it), so does open office... I've tried 3 different ppd files as the driver in kprinter and open office: 2 which I made with foomatic-ppdfile thus: foomatic-ppdfile -d gimp-print-ij

Bandwith info command

2004-12-22 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
What command can I use to see what is using the bandwith on my 56kbs dialup internet connection? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTE

cd bake oven - weird error

2004-12-18 Thread Ben Paley
he slash gone after /usr/tmp? Then I get loads of similarish errors about being unable to remove temporary wav files - but again, the reason seems to be this missing slash. What on earth is going on? Cheers, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Modem/ppp takes 3-4 attempts to connect (56kbps dialup)

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
self, I've scanned the ppp log which made no sense to me (the only error I saw was 'No response from server'). What commands can I use to diagnose this? What does this problem sound like? Connection: 56kbps dialup, dynamic IPs, XTRA NZ. I can post my ppp.conf if you think

Re: ppp (56kbs dialup) not keeping logs

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
Ben Washington-Yule wrote: ppp is playing up and I thought I'd have a look through the log file to try and find the cause. Problem is that ppp.log was to big so I deleted it thinking that ppp would just create a new one next time. It didn't. I need a log file to look at. How? C

ppp (56kbs dialup) not keeping logs

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
ppp is playing up and I thought I'd have a look through the log file to try and find the cause. Problem is that ppp.log was to big so I deleted it thinking that ppp would just create a new one next time. It didn't. I need a log file to look at. How? C

Sharing resources on LAN without NFS

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
The handbook section on NFS was great but having only 3 computers I don't feel the need to set up a client/server system. Nevertheless I would like to be able to share one printer and one cd-writer between these 3 machines. I'll be grateful even for just a shove towards the correct handbook cha

Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-11-28 Thread Jonathan Ben Ari
Does the access point show that the client is associated to it? I'm new to this list, so this may be a heretic question, but have you tried the card in a Windows laptop to see if it works there? On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:22:44 -0800 (PST), Davis Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 20

(Zoomed Video) ZV Port Access

2004-11-23 Thread Ben Popoola
Hi, Where can I find information on how to program the (Zoomed Video) ZV Port on a freebsd laptop. Regards Ben Popoola Software and Systems Engineer SEOS Ltd +44(0) 1444 462428 Fools you are... to say you learn by your experience I prefer to profit by other's mistakes and

Re: Problem connecting with ADSL modem [ was Re: Hello List ]

2004-11-10 Thread Ben Haysom
> > That didn't work. > > I could ping my external IP 80.227.249.79 but not others. > > Error messages on first screen of main server saying that IP wasn't valid. > > Please, I can't see your screen, I can't see what you are trying to do > or what you are actually doing, and I can't see the output

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Ben Haysom
> OK, you have configured your external interface with a static ip, and > from the above line it appears to be wrong. The above ip is? your > assigned ip? or default router? or? > > Most ISP assign ip dynamically. Try running this command: > > # dhclient rl0 > > (rl0 is your external interface r

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Ben Haysom
> > ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" > > Are you sure this is right? have you been assigned this ip by your ISP? > can you ping default router? Try to let dhclient configure your external > interface and see if you get connection out. > > Mayb

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Ben Haysom
> You don't need a router. I've had a setup very similar to > yours in the past (now, I'm on broadband and use OpenBSD > for my router/firewall/filter)... Any rate, I FreeBSD will > make an excellent router/more for you. It just takes a > learning process. > > Provide the outputs from the "uname

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Ben Haysom
0:08 + (GMT), Jan Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Ben Haysom wrote: > > > > > Thing is, it should be so straightforward, but I've stumped loads of > > people with it. > > > > I have a small home network, atm an XP PC, a XP

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Ben Haysom
11:18 schrieb Ben Haysom: > > Thing is, it should be so straightforward, but I've stumped loads of > > people with it. > > > > I have a small home network, atm an XP PC, a XP laptop, and the > > FreeBSD 5.1 machine. > > I am connected to the internet wit

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Ben Haysom
d, 10 Nov 2004 11:09:27 +0100, Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 10/11/2004 à 10:06:07+, Ben Haysom a écrit > > I've tried the hand book, it really doesn't help... > > > > > I think you've better chance to get help if you tell what you want

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Ben Haysom
I've tried the hand book, it really doesn't help... On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:02:24 +0100, Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 10. November 2004 10:45 schrieb Ben Haysom: > > > > I'm having major problems setting up my FreeBSD machine as a

Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Ben Haysom
I'm having major problems setting up my FreeBSD machine as a router/gateway type thing. Where can I go for help? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTEC

Using the boot-easy boot loader..

2004-11-08 Thread Nadav Ben-Ami
Hello.. I am currently running FreeBSD 5.2.1, installing of OS'es is really not a hard task for me, except this one time and it has to do with WINDOWS XP on my primary hardrive (IDE1). Problem is this: Since I am running Windows XP on my primary C drive, and I goto install the FreeBSD boot eas

config MYKERNEL ==> unknown option "ICMP_BANDLIM"

2004-10-28 Thread Ben Ben
Dear users, I suspect that the kernel option "ICMP_BANDLIM" is not included in "FreeBSD 5.3 RC1". The response after the command "config MYKERNEL" is: 'MYKERNEL: unknown option "ICMP_BANDLIM"' Are the s

Re: Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

2004-10-27 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
Adrien Reboisson wrote: Thank you Ben I don't understand where is the problem : when I "ask" freeBSD to install mozilla, sources and makefiles are downloaded from Internet - they should be up to date, no ? Not necessarily; you must update the "skeleton" files yourself us

Re: Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

2004-10-27 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
MAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" For a quick fix you could try "pkg_add -r XFree86-fontScalable", this will download and install the pre-compiled binary. When was the las

Diagnosing program crashes.

2004-10-27 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
on what to do to try and solve the problem myself. There are no *.core files or any sign that the app has crashed after a reboot and thus I am completely clueless as to where to start looking for signs thereof. Many thanks for any help or pointers in general, - Ben _

usb printer won't behave

2004-10-24 Thread Ben Paley
ached I don't understand why that would make any difference, they use different usb drivers... so, I dunno, is this a usb problem, or what? Oh yeah: su-2.05b# uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.3-BETA5 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5 #1: Tue Oct 19 08:53:58 BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/o

Which "mozilla" accepts options

2004-10-23 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
Hi all, "mozilla -help" gives loads of options, the ones I'm interested in are -height and -width , but I have on my computer /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla (a shell script), /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/mozilla (also a shell script) and /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin (an executable), which of the "mozi

Why can't on install packages for 5-current on 5-release?

2004-10-23 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
Hi all, I'm beginning to understand the diffs between -STABLE, -CURRENT and RELEASE but I have a question regarding packages. I am using 5.2.1-RELEASE, and "pkg_add -r mozilla" installs version 1.5 or thereabouts of mozilla, 1.7 being the latest stable release. I have noticed that there is a mu

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