Re: OT: date command for pflogsumm.pl Script - undefined variable

2004-10-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Danny wrote: I am trying to get this script to run: # day=`/bin/date "+%m-%d-%Y"` # /usr/sbin/pflogsumm.pl -i -mailq --smtpd_stats --problems_first --iso_date_time -d yesterday /home/user/maillog > /var/log/MX1-PostfixDailyReport.${day} # gzip -c /var/log/MX1-PostfixDailyReport.${day} | uuencode MX

Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Glenn Sieb wrote: Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 9:01 PM: Gerely speeking, STABLE doesn't mean things never gets broken. Most reliable are the RELEASE plus fixes. So don't follow 5-STABLE but 5-RELENG To help ease frustration and such.. you mean: Follow RELENG_5_2 not RELENG_5

Re: 5.3-STABLE ????

2004-10-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Vonleigh Simmons wrote: Sorry to hijack the thread. My box is running 5.2, and I'd like to upgrade it to 5.2.1. Problem is that the server is in a colo so I only have SSH access to it; because of this I can't drop into single user mode. So far I grabbed the stable sup file, changed it to

Re: freebsd

2004-10-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Paul Orsi wrote: I was excitedly waiting to download the ISO's Sunday.Now its been put off again to the 25th. ...///???f cool operating system! Paul I couldn't make heads or tail of that middle line ... wrong number of digits for hex I think :-D I totally agree, FreeBSD is a cool op

Re: Hi,there.is.a.FreeBSD-questions.letter.From.a.Chinese.boy!

2004-10-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
FreeBSDer China wrote: Hi,FreeBSDers! First of all, I am a Chinese FreeBSD fan. I am only 16-year-old May be the youngest boy using FreeBSD in China!!! Well, you could be right! But, there are a lot of 16 year old boys in China, I'll bet. I don't know how many of them have a computer, but prob

Re: Daily reboots...

2004-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:11:25PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: Hello all, I don't know why, but my system keeps restarting at about 14:00 or 14:30 every day. Really starting to p!ss me off. Any ideas what could be causing this, or how I could find it? Could be internal

Re: how do I suppress system messages?

2004-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how do I suppress system messages? This is something that drives me crazy but I've not been able to find a way to stop

Re: GNOME questions

2004-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:00:02AM -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 21:36, Gary Kline wrote: To the Gnome wizards out there, I've been experimenting with different window managers and need some tips on how making Gnome more comfortable feel. Here

Re: Updating Literature

2004-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Thomas Beer wrote: Dear All, I searched the FBSD site and the web for a compendium how to updat from 4.x to 5.x but was unsuccessful. Any pointers? Thanks Tom Recommendations up until the present time have been to backup data and reinstall from scratch. This allows you to format new filesystems

Re: Installer

2004-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:08 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote Geez, another top poster who mangles the flow of the thread!! jerry James Skinner wrote: >Sorry about that (not really), but Mac Mail places the reply at the top. >Maybe I should use a Leet mail prog like yourself. Well, the folks at Apple can

Re: Maple troubles with SMP -- solved. How to contribute this to the FBSD documentation now?

2004-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Geert Hendrickx wrote: I have hacked and patched some Maple shell scripts, so that Maple uses the native FreeBSD JDK which I have compiled from the Ports, and now it seems to work right. When I have fully tested this, I would like to update the FreeBSD documentation (the part about Linux emulati

Re: mount smbfs

2004-10-12 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Uros wrote: Hello! I want to know how to add options in /etc/fstab for smbfs mount. I would like to add fmask dmask or -f -d Hmm, not for sure. I do note that I have a mount with an option coming in via root's crontab, though: @reboot /usr/sbin/mount_smbfs -N //house/SharedDocs /hous

Re: FreeBSD Developer

2004-10-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm going to develop software for the FreeBSD project. How do I get listed on the official FreeBSD page as developer and is it possible to get a mail alias like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Manuel Well, you become one. See the "Developer's Handbook", at the webs

Re: need help configuring Xserver

2004-10-08 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
George Theodo wrote: Hi all. I am trying to setup the XServer, but till now no success. My computer is a laptop, an Acer Travelmate 2501LC. The video card is ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9100IGP, and the memory is 64MB shared from RAM.I installed FreeBSD 4.10 RELEASE. I have tried through /stand/sysinstall

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:45:09AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : : >On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:39:05PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: : >: I'm sure that Yahoo, like any large commercial enterprise, has a whole :

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:39:05PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: : I'm sure that Yahoo, like any large commercial enterprise, has a whole : host of specific customizations that they have applied to FreeBSD, : and their version of FreeBSD doesen't look like what we have, a

Re: EAL ?

2004-10-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Stiven wrote: What is the "Evaluation Assurance Level" have FreeBSD ? FreeBSD is EAL 24. Seriously ;-) If you try to haXor with v5.3, it sends 220 Volts/50A current to your console via TCP/IP. B^) Actually, this might shed a little light: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/

Magical HDD Space Doubling!

2004-10-04 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
The other day I decided to dispose of a drive's worth of WinNT data in order to make more FreeBSD machines in the world (cheer!) In the past I've often used sysinstall for this purpose, so I decided to try the other method suggested by the handbook. I think I got a little funky with bsdlabel, thou

Re: about ports reinstall

2004-10-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Lila wrote: Hi, The php4 ports that I installed did not work with mysql, it seems like it never able to configure to work with mysql. No mysql info can be found with phpinfo(). I tried to reinstall php4 many times but no luck for me. I want to ask is there a way to completely remove the installed p

Re: ISP blocking port 80

2004-09-29 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2004, Stanley Wright wrote: If my ISP blocking port 80 and all other ports, what options do I have for running Apache. Either get another ISP or a contract with your current one that allows you to run servers. Or get an account with a "hosting provide

Re: Permssions Question

2004-09-28 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Thomas Moyer wrote: I have recently decided to switch from CUPS to apsfilter for printing and cannot remember the permssions on /usr/bin/lp, lpq, lpr, and lprm. They were changed to non-executable (through chmod 0) and now I need to set them back to their original values. Can someone tell me what

Re: Very very slow

2004-09-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:16:38AM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: 32 sec to do cd /usr/src time find . -type f -print > /dev/null and on other computer I just need 0.8 sec to do that. I don't believe that, unless you already have all of /usr/src in cache. 32 seconds

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
W. D. wrote: At 23:11 9/24/2004, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: W.D. it's your cron job I'm looking, so I'll talk about it. It would work, probably most of the time. Your example has both portsdb -Uu and make index in it. Just use one, otherwise you're building INDEX-5 twice. Running pkgdb -fu (by

Re: Advice: "The Right" authentication method

2004-09-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Al Johnson wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:37:09PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: There are several examples of doing this sort of thing within the ports system -- most are written in PHP, but check out devel/bugzilla and www/rt3 for perl based examples. Cheers, Matthew I'd be grat

Re: Help me please: I'm confused about remote log-in.

2004-09-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Good day!!! My home pc is obtaining an internet connection through a dial-up modem. And as for this, I'm using ppp. On my analysis, the ppp program residing in my pc is connecting to some sort of an authenticating server, am i right? Aside from the PPP, I've read the p

Re: make installkernel help required. (ANSWER... sort of)

2004-09-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Phil Payne wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:18, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-09-22 13:44, Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 13:15, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Weird. Everything seems ok but you seem to be bumping on a problem related to the shell in use :-/

Re: Num lock status on boot

2004-09-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Michael Wichmann wrote: Hello everyone, Just a quick question about this little thing, that bugs me from time to time:) Num-lock ist turned off by default after I boot up FreeBSD 5.2.1. Is there any way to enable it by default? Thanks, Micha There's a nifty little package in ports called "nu

Re: Help with phpmyadmin

2004-09-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
digish reshamwala wrote: Hi... How can I install phpMyAdmin without using ports in FreeBSD 5.2.1?? PLease help me out thanks, Macuser Try this: pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/packages-5-current/databases/phpMyAdmin-2.5.7.1_1.tbz HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___

Re: random device settings on bind9

2004-09-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joshua Lewis wrote: I have set up bind 9.2.3 on 4.10. I followed the instructions for setting up random as per the instructions at the end of the bind install. the instructions say to add the rndc-key in my namd.conf. I was wondering if that is a good idea? Doesn't this file get quarried by people

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Curtis Vaughan wrote: OK, I took Donald on with his test and this is what I got: Here's my INDEX-5 info before running portversion 4947853 Mar 15 2004 INDEX-5 and here it is after 5804696 Sep 21 13:54 INDEX-5 So, a definite change. There might be something to be said for doing it "my way", after

Re: 5.3 stable when?

2004-09-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Isn't 5.3 supposed to be going stable here soon? Any time line? Also, since I have 5.3-BETA1 and I see it's at 5.3-BETA5, should I worry about upgrading to BETA5 or just wait till it goes stable? Curtis http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html Kevin Kinsey

Re: Resolution problems

2004-09-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Tom Connolly wrote: My Sync/Refresh rates are consistent with my monitor documentation but offhand, I'm not sure what they are. I will check when I get on my box. I found out last night (celebrating one year of FBSD on the desktop) that I could gain a higher resolution by increasing those number

Re: Resolution problems

2004-09-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Tom Connolly wrote: Hello list, I am currently running 4.10 with the latest version of xfree86. My video card is an integrated ATI Rage Pro and I can't seem to get resolutions above 800 X 600 (at least I think that's what it is). I want 1280 x 1024 and I'm sure the hardware is capable of this. I

Re: deleting mails

2004-09-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
susmit sarkar wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I know that the question I am asking might sound very stupid. But it has me really perplexed. It relates to Unix mail. I use the d command to delete mails. Like d or d But sometimes I find that the mails get deleted and sometimes not. I want the mails that

Re: Apache+mod_ssl + mod_php segfault (culprit found!)

2004-09-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: This sounds to me very much like you've got the mod_php loadable object linked against an incompatible version of a shlib which apach+mod_ssl is also linked to. At a guess: i) I'd finger the OpenSSL libs as a prime suspect: particularly if you've also installed OpenS

Re: Apache13 + mod_php segfault at startup

2004-09-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Paul Schmehl wrote: - Original Message - From: "Vonleigh Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:36 PM Subject: Apache13 + mod_php segfault at startup Any suggestions at all are welcomed. I'm willing to try anything at this point. It was a

Re: Can we run Windows software packages in BSD

2004-09-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 21:42, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am using a lot of software packages in my study. I can't find the Unix editions for these software. Is there any way that I can run them in BSD? Thanks! Wine, vmware are windows emulators in the ports collection. Your so

Re: Apache Installation

2004-09-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
digish reshamwala wrote: Hey I am a novice at FreeBSD! I want to install apache v 1.3.28 in my FreeBSD 5.21. Can u guys help me? How to proceed? -macuser I see another post in which someone has taken great pains to explain a lot. In a nutshell, though, it's this:

Re: can't get support for postgresql or mysql

2004-09-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
asolomon15 wrote: Hello everyone... I have a problem getting support for mysql within php. I am running freebsd 5.2.1 and php 4.3.8. When I tried to run a php script that uses a mysql db connection, I got this error *Fatal error*: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in I did a php

Re: mini-itx posting.

2004-09-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bill Moran wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:30:58 -0700 (PDT) borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings, I want to post some info on a mini-itx mobo I bought, so other users can benefit from that. can I post that to freebsd-questions@ ? If not what's the right list ? I don't think anyone w

Re: Portupgrade failure: / filesystem full.... any suggestionsshort of full-scale re-install?

2004-09-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm not sure what's next: hedgehogs falling from the skies, perhaps? Mostly, I know I'm flailing around in the newbie waters, an otherwise straightforward 5.2.1 install (single user, desktop) gone horribly, horribly wrong. The story so far... And what have you

Re: Supported Hardware

2004-09-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Ray Smith wrote: Hi all, Apologies for the cross posting. Accepted. Obligatory disclaimer is that it's really not an "on topic" post for the "newbies" list; the charter for that list suggests rather strongly that technical issues be discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] While I'm at it ;-), it's good eti

Re: Supported Hardware

2004-09-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Ray Smith wrote: Hi all, Apologies for the cross posting. Accepted. Obligatory disclaimer is that it's really not an "on topic" post for the "newbies" list; the charter for that list suggests rather strongly that technical issues be discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] While I'm at it ;-), it's good eti

Re: question

2004-09-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
dave wrote: Hello, I'm new in freebsd..and want to ask something. 1. Can freebsd handle more than 80 giga Harddisk? (maybe I want to use 100-200 Giga HD for data) 2. If I plugin a new harddisk, can be outomatic detect or I use do manual configuration? Thank you, best Regards, Dave 1. Of cour

Re: Fwd: Re: pcmcia flash card mounting / reading?

2004-09-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Gary Aitken wrote: The card now comes up: ad0: 15MB [490/2/32] at ata0-master BIOSPIO However, when I try to mount the thing I get: /#mount /dev/ad0 /pccard mount: /dev/ad0 on /pccard: incorrect super block What type of file system do the cards have on them? I tried mount_msdos and that didn't wor

Re: make errors for gtk12

2004-09-14 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Adam Smith wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:09:44PM +0400, Anton Kazak said: ? ? ?? 14 2004 11:41 Adam Smith ???: Hello Adam! I know this bug. Don't use 'make' in xtrerm, if you have Xorg. Use 'make' from text console (like CTRL-ALT-F2, or other). I don't know the reason

Re: acpi shutdown

2004-09-14 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I have a standard pc-style computer, how do I enable acpi?s automatic shutdown (adding something to /boot/loader.conf ?) so that I don?t have to press the power button in then end? Thanx Florian How are you shutting down the computer? What does "shutdown -p now" d

Re: hi

2004-09-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
A W wrote: hello i was wondering if u could answer the following questions 1) is it possible to have both freebsd 5.2.1 with KDE 3.1 and Windows 98 on the same Hard Disk. If yes how can i do this? Yes, it's called "dual booting" by many people. I can't tell you how. AFAIK, it is not covered b

Re: CVS CO Error

2004-09-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kenneth A. Bond wrote: Hello, I am trying to update my source using CVS, as CVSup is not an option in my current environment. I am running FreeBSD 4.10. Below are the commands that I am entering in order to perform the update, but for some reason, I am getting the following error when attempting

Re: Testimonial - Thanks to FreeBSD

2004-09-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Valéry wrote: Hi, Great thanks to the community, and your effort to document FreeBSD, even in French (we are so bad with others languages ..!), i hope to help the FreeBSD users by writing some drivers and other things, Drivers would be cool! Welcome to FBSD! Kevin Kinsey __

Re: State of 5.3 on Sun Blade 100

2004-09-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
3BSD wrote: Hi, I have a couple of Sun Blade 100 workstations, and I would like to install FreeBSD on one or both of them. The last time I tried (5.1-R, and I read that the situation has not improved much with either 5.2 or 5.2.1), there was no keyboard/mouse/floppy support and you had to install F

Re: Name Lookup fail for cvsup.freebsd.org

2004-09-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Huajian Luo wrote: Hi, I have a Compaq Evo N610c Laptop and installed with 5.2.1 release, The Modem is a Lucent winmodem , I've installed comm/ltmdm and config /etc/ppp/ppp.conf as follow, --/etc/ppp/ppp.conf- enable dns and I run #ppp -ddial myISP and check /var/log/ppp/log ever

Re: ftp-master.FreeBSD.org

2004-09-04 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Lewis Thompson wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 03:53:48AM +1000, Chris Ryan wrote: How can I get access to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org to help with testing? I think you might be getting confused. If you want to help with testing you want to be tracking -STABLE (or maybe even -HEAD). Reading the

Re: ftp-master.FreeBSD.org

2004-09-04 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Chris Ryan wrote: Hi All I am a keen freeBSD user. I love rebuilding the kernel / upgrading looking at where its going next... The concepts being released in 5.3 are great including the windows drivers hooks... I am keen to help out where I can. How can I get access to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org to hel

Re: getting off windows

2004-09-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
David Litster wrote: I have a windows machine and I am trying to figure out how to replace the windows with freebsd. how do I do this? Read, read, read: www.freebsd.org/handbook Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Robert Huff wrote: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes: IIRC, Netcraft now claims that most new FreeBSD builds "reset" to zero after 400-something days, so some of their statistics may be no longer as valid... From the NetCraft FAQ: Why do some Operating Systems never sh

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Andy Holyer wrote: The other day I was explaining something to my boss (a suit), You're a patient one, then ... and I mentioned that a FreeBSD box would easily run for a year or more. "Oh", he said, "and then you've got to reboot it?". I explained that generally some upgrade comes along that req

Re: Unable to boot after install, machine just reboots continuously

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Scott Pepperdine wrote: Hi all, I am attempting to load FreeBSD 4.9 from CD onto a Micron Millenia XKU (Pentium II, 300 MHz, 390 MB RAM). The install runs very smoothly and completes successfully. But when I attempt to boot from the hard drive it just reboots. If I tell the install to replace the

Re: 5.1, 5.2, or 5.3???

2004-09-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Charles Swiger wrote: If you can wait two weeks, 5.3 will become the preferred choice. I'd say that's about the size of it. And, for anyone who has to deploy immediately, I keep hearing the song in my head "The Waiting is the hardest part..." Now is the time for plenty of spare HDD, perhaps. Reco

Re: Hardware Recommendations (UK)

2004-09-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Graham Bentley wrote: Hi Can anyone recommend a good solid mobo for building a little web server ? Most brands have a reputation. Select one whose reputation is "good". ;-) I have FreeBSD running on several mobos --- recently, builds have been FreeBSD 5.x on MSI and Shuttle (AK32V, IIRC). A

Re: Unsupported 3Com NIC? (: Question)

2004-08-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
A W wrote: Hello, i am attempting to try FreeBsd on a very old computer, unfortunatly it does not have any cd drive. And i do not know which files to install. Leaving me with only 1 choice to use FTP servers but the problem is the version of FreeBsd that i've tried does not support the netwo

Re: xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop

2004-08-29 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Vaughan Moore wrote: I'm a complete newbie and I'm trying to set up X server on a Toshiba Satellite pro 4620dvd laptop. Everytime I run through xf86cfg or xf86cfg -textmode I get the error message "The XFree86 configuration process seems to have failed. Would you like to try again?" Obviously, t

Re: finding the ip address

2004-08-29 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Matt Emmerton wrote: I'm messing with ubermon for superkaramba and I want to know how to get my hosts ip address from the command line (and only the ip address). I know I can grep and sed rc.conf or the output of ifconfig, but I'm hoping there&#

Re: finding the ip address

2004-08-29 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Matt Emmerton wrote: I'm messing with ubermon for superkaramba and I want to know how to get my hosts ip address from the command line (and only the ip address). I know I can grep and sed rc.conf or the output of ifconfig, but I'm hoping there's a command like whoami for the ip address.

Re: FreeBSD

2004-08-29 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:01:13 +0200, falko klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear FreeBSD-Team, I am looking for somebody officially representing FreeBSD for a short e-mail-interview. As a background: I am student at Faculty of Management in Ingolstadt, writing my final thesis about open-source-proje

Re: vi editor related question

2004-08-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: Hi, I edit C++ codes with a certain text editor under Windows XP, and then I open the C++ codes using vi editor under FreeBSD. Then, there are bunch of "^M" sign at the end of each line. Does anyone know why this is happening? Microsoft has chosen (for a long time now) to i

Re: editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:04:08PM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi typed: A couple of people suggested to read the ifconfig man page. I do understand the ifconfig, and I can change the IP settings using ifconfig without re-booting the system. What I wondered was a way of editing rc.co

Re: Messed up port updating (Was Re: Updated to 4.10, now portupgrade?)

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Ok, first off I didn't follow the instructions above verbatim. What I did do is copy ports-supfile, edited it, and perform a cvsup using it. All it seemed to do, however, is delete everything in the ports directory. Here's how I edited my ports-supfile *default host=cvsup1

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:28 am, "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unlike the system crontab, user crontabs, including root's, are under /var/cron; the file format is slightly different, and misuse of the system crontab fo

Re: Can't upgrade from 5.2.1-p9 to 5.3-BETA1, wrong configversion!what to do?

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joel [Alikzus] Nilsson wrote: [fixed overlong lines] Hi! As my long subject says I can't upgrade from 5.2.1-p9 to 5.3-BETA1 (Source CVSuped with RELENG_5 tag). When I tries to build the kernel I got the error message beneth, telling me I got the wrong version of config. How can I upgrade just confi

Re: Can you e-mail me the minimal requirements for FreeBSD?

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Douglas Blancahrd wrote: Yes, I need a list of minimal requirements for FreeMSD, Do you mean FreeBSD? ;-) including amount of video card memory or whatever it's called, Well, video card memory is video card memory. It sounds as if you're expecting a Windows-like "recommended minimum hardware

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been answered previously, but please forgive me

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 and TCP

2004-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
wilsonb wrote: Good Morning, My name is Brian Wilson and I am currently studying computer science honours at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg South Africa. As part of our honours course we have to conduct some small scale research projects. A number of us are in the position of h

Re: FreeBSD architecture

2004-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Riki wrote: Hi, I would like to know if FreeBSD could work on my PC. I noticed a lot of stuff about supported architectures, but that isn't my language yet and I can't tell if my computer fits into one of them or not. I would really appreciate your assistance. I have a pentium 4, intell processor

Re: 4.8 > 4.10 successful. Now > 5.x?

2004-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Ok, it looks as though cvsup from 4.8 to 4.10 has been successful. Now, first off I want to say that I want this server to be a second Postfix / Courier IMAP server (our other is on a RedHat server, but that's irrelevant). I feel that I should go ahead and first upgrade to

Re: cvsup

2004-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Curtis Vaughan wrote: BTW, how come I can't scroll on the terminal. You can't? In Linux I am used to using PGUP and PGDN in order to scroll up and down my terminal. Works in FreeBSD, also. I can't figure out that functionality under FreeBSD. Even under bash this doesn't work. (NB. I am not us

Re: kernel compile

2004-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Cristi Tauber wrote: hi all, I compile a 5.2.1 release's kernel with IPFIREWALL and IPSEC (? IPSEC_ESP). I compiled the kernel w/o errors i rebooted and everything works great. I mention that I do not installed any IPSEC software at that time. I downloaded qmail ? ucspi and try to instal

Re: Installing ports

2004-08-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm in trouble with installing software using the ports collection. After typing "make install" everything seems to be okay, but in most cases I get a message like this after a few minutes: fetch time out It seemed to me that the mirror

Re: XFree86 -- next step?

2004-08-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jay O'Brien wrote: I finally have XFree86 working, at least to the point that I can type "X" and get the expected grid and "X" mouse cursor. That in itself doesn't seem very useful, but it works. As a learning exercise, which Desktop environment should I install as a first effort, and how do I r

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jay O'Brien wrote: I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is a mess. This is a tutorial on "make". I've unzipped the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file. Wh

Re: Network Routing Problems???

2004-08-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: I am having problems getting a connection to my FreeBSD gateway from my Mandrake 10 Linux Machine. I am able to ping, traceroute, ssh etc. the linux box from my freeBSD machine however I am not able to ping the gateway. What could be the problem, this is my configuration: Fr

Re: Newbie Install Question: No Disks!

2004-08-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm using an old Gateway Pentium 90mhz, w/ 72MB of RAM - I don't actually know what kind of controller, but there is a second hard drive (Western Digital IDE) in the computer. I made the boot floppies for release 4.10 as indicated in the handbook and so on, and I

Re: stale dependencies

2004-08-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mark Withers wrote: Hello everyone! I've been using FBSD for a few years now, but am not sure as to what a 'stale dependency' is... I am receiving an error message with ymessenger pkg that it has stale dependencies and to use 'pkgdb -F' to fix or -O to force. I'm a bit inexperienced when it comes t

Re: Root mount failed: 6

2004-08-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Abbas Karbassian wrote: Dear All; I install freebsd4.10 it was working ok before. Recently I tried to boot into freebsd and following message displayed on the monitor: --Start of Message Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a Root mount failed: 6 Manual root filesystem speci

Re: File Manager

2004-08-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Emon wrote: Hello everyone I am a newbie, I have just installed FreeBSD(4.10), and would appreciate some guidance. First of all, is there any user friendly File Manager like Midnight Commander (or anything else)? Welcome to FBSD. If you've installed the ports tree, try this from a shell prompt:

Re: make installworld error

2004-08-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Curtis Vaughan wrote: After going through a cvsup make buildworld make kernel reboot I am now on make installworld A little too quickly, it seems. I had to do a mergemaster -p in order to get make installworld to run, And the reason for that you may see in a minute ... but finally after seemingly

Re: How to Build a Custom Port Tree

2004-08-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Abid Saigol wrote: I am a newbie to FreeBSD Welcome! <>I'm using an old machine right now with limited disk space, so I don't want to install the entire ports collection. I want to build a custom port tree, and I'm finding the docs to be a bit silent on this account as I guess nowadays disk s

Re: using cvsup

2004-08-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Curtis Vaughan wrote: I'm a little confused about using cvsup. I'm referring to 2 resources (The Complete FreeBSD - 4th edition, and www,freebsd.org manual for cvsup). BTW, I currently have FreeBSD 4.8 installed. Ok, so, I know I need to edit a supfile and I have found all the examples. But it

Re: help !!!!!

2004-08-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
indunil wrote: Hi, I installed FREEBSD 5.2.1. I can telnet to Free BSD box from Windows 2000 client. I can telnet to it with my USERNAME and PASSWORD. Then I want to be root. So I issue SU - ( or SU - root). then FreeBSD box asks me the password (root's password ). when I give root's password, Fre

Re: Nightly cron message question

2004-08-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jason Lieurance wrote: Hello, Late couple days on our Freebsd 4.7 email/web server I've got this message in the nightly cron jobs: Checking setuid files and devices: Checking for uids of 0: root 0 toor 0 You have this line: # 300.chkuid0 daily_status_security_chkuid0_enable="YES" set in

Re: 802.1x

2004-08-17 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Cubicool wrote: Anyways, again, sorry for the bumpage, but I have another complete day off and if I can find out that FreeBSD doesn't support it yet, I'm going to try and spend this time finding an alternative solution. If, however, support will be added soon, I won't reformat and I'll just go with

Re: Frequent crashes with Mozilla and Firefox

2004-08-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Doug Poland wrote: Joshua Tinnin wrote: Two sites that failed consistently for me were >>http://www.pga.com and http://www.statefarm.com The browser versions are Mozilla 1.7.2 Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3 Both versions were built from ports the day after the port was committed. All other ports are up-t

Re: Is promiscuous mode bad?

2004-08-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Aaron Dalton wrote: Thank you so much for your replies! This makes much more sense now. I am currently running Snort. I will examine its documentation to see if promiscuous mode is really necessary. It is. In the meantime, am I correct in assuming the only threat is from local users?

Re: Acrobat Reader 4 on alpha?

2004-08-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, When I had 4.7-RELEASE running on my alpha I had acroread4 installed. Now I run 4.10-RELEASE but Acroread4 isn't in the ports anymore. I have Acroread3 installed but this version is very old and can't display some pdf's correctly. Unfortunately version 5 is i386 only.

Re: Updating Emacs without installing X?

2004-08-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Your Name wrote: i have a server that's running FreeBSD 4.7 and the security patches are up to date but most software hasn't been upgraded in a long time. im trying to do some basic maintenance and there are some problems. First i want to upgrade Emacs from an older version, but when i try to do th

Re: Monitor Disk Usage (Unusual Load Avgs)

2004-08-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Steven Adams wrote: Hi, Server specs Dual p4 xeon 2.4 (4virtual cpus) 1gig ecc ram 5x 36gig 10k rpm scsi on a ami megaraid I only host a few web sites on this server which at the most peak hour of times there is only about 6-7%cpu usage. For some reason my load avg's will jump from 0.05 to 0.98 eve

Re: Clock problems [fixed len]

2004-08-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Dark-MiXer wrote: Hello, Im having problems with the clock on my FreeBSD 5.1-Release, and as a newbie in that area I dont have a clue on what could be wrong. The problem is, that it count too fast. It seem like it's counting 2 times the speed it should. The FreeBSD is running on an old Gigabyte GA-

Re: does a working driver exist for the nForce2 MCP nic?

2004-08-10 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:16:16 -0700 (PDT) stheg olloydson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Out of general principle, I would like to get the onboard NIC working on an MSI K7N2 Delta-L mobo. I have checked the archives and googled this issue. I found A LOT of discussion. To sum

Re: FreeBSD's problem?

2004-08-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Skylar Thompson wrote: On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:37:50PM +0300, Vlad Tudorache wrote: Hello! I've been using Linux for 2 years and I know how to configure this system (not using GUI tools!). I'm now trying FreeBSD. My problems are: 1) If I enable ACPI, my floppy disk controller is not seen by t

Re: MUSIC SERVER.

2004-08-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
vincent kihumba wrote: Dear Sir/Madam I am a university student and i wanted to know from you that is it possible to store music in a server? To be more precise, Is it possible that you have a server that is only desighned for storage of music only? I hope that my request will be consindered as

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