Re: deny of x sessions

2006-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alain G. Fabry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks, problem is solved. I rebooted in single user mode and then the file could be modified. Make sure that the permissions and flags on the file are set so that next time you want to change it, you can do so from multiuser mode. I don't see any

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, first snare. My new cable, 940-0024D, is not listed in the latest stable apcupsd; only 940-0024C. Will it be a problem if I just set it to 940-0024C? Or perhaps just UPSCABLE smart? Don't worry about it: either will almost certainly work. If neither one

Re: deny of x sessions

2006-11-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alain G. Fabry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey, I've just installed KDE 4.5.3 on a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I'm having problem getting an x-window from another PC when I'm connected to that PC via telnet (with ssh -X everything works fine) When I telnet to the other machine and

Re: uhci.ko keeps showing up

2006-11-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andy Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've commented out device uhci in my kernel config, but I keep getting uhci.ko loaded on boot. I'm not using usb at all. I understand that I should be able to disable usb in my bios, but it's difficult to get to, as the server is remote. Is there

Re: CD Writing from non root accounts

2006-11-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Is there a recommended method of letting non root users write some CDR's ? If so, can anyone give me some pointers / advice etc on this ! They should be able to use the base system's burncd(8) with nothing more than read/write permissions on

Re: error while building lang/p5-Error

2006-11-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to fix? ns : 20:53:22 /root# portupgrade lang/p5-Error --- Upgrading 'p5-Error-0.17.004' to 'p5-Error-0.17.007' (lang/p5-Error) --- Building '/usr/ports/lang/p5-Error' === Cleaning for perl-5.8.8 === Cleaning for p5-Error-0.17.007 ===

Re: pkg_cutleaves listing needed ports as leaf nodes.....

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I use `pkg_cutleaves -l` to list leaf nodes. It is listing things I know are required by other apps. These aren't build dependencies. For example, it lists g-wrap, and libpcap. If I remove g-wrap, my gnucash2 immediately refuses to run. And I

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles. For some odd reason every couple days (~2 days) I have to restart the smbd daemon because it eats up 6000+ filehandles,

Re: Asking for Ports

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ferry Limanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm ferry from ISP in Indonesia. I want run my squid and there is error saying that file libm.so.2 is not found. I suspect that the library is from ports compat4x, and I try to install that ports from freebsd ftp server, buat always failed, or can I

Re: installing port etherape

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, The 'make install' on the etherape stopped, complaining about a missing function. The output is included below. My environment is FreeBSD 6.1 p10 on an Asus motherboard with a Pentium 4 processor. Given the warnings about a dependancy conflict,

Re: AMD64 + FreeBSD 6.1 + Keyboard troubles

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Coen Watstaatervoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a new Dual AMD Opeteron HE server, during the installation the keyboard works fine. But when you plug in the keyboard after a reboot (without the keyboard attached) the keyboard won't work any more. I'm doing the same

Re: X windows configuration problem

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
arnuld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hai all, i am not able to configure my X-Windows system. i will be brief: 1.) ASUS K8V-MX motherboard running AMD64 Athlon 2.) VIA K8M800, VIA 8T237R chipsets. i downloaded FreeBSD 6.1 last night have verified the md5sum. Xorg -configure does not work.

Re: Java plugin for Firefox

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any suggestions? I just built jdk15 with the default options, and the Java plugin works in my firefox. Secondly, is there a way to just build the plugin since I have the jdk built

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original Message- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zondag 12 november 2006 19:31 To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA Hello, Could someone tell me whether I can use the APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD

Re: BGE driver upgrade from 5.3-RELEASE

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
James Kilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a running 5.3-RELEASE system that needs a BGE driver upgrade so that packets with VLAN tags aren't stripped. Is there any way to do this without upgrading the entire OS? This feature was just added to the driver a month ago. It's *possible*;

Re: delete iface tun

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Igoryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to remove the interface tunN, creations ppp demon? In general, you don't. If you unload the if_tun module, that will delete all of them. See the manual for tun(4). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Question about Ventrilo port at startup

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running 6.1 installed from the most recent .iso CD and sync'd ports through CVS, I wish to have the Ventrilo port start up as a daemon upon reboot, however, I'm not having any success in having this happen. I did some searching with Google and found little

Re: bpf kernel module

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vlad GURDIGA wrote: So, is it possible to have bpf apart from kernel? Not sure if it's possible or not, but someone is bound to know on one of the freebsd lists.. Does look possible to me... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer

Re: mknod within a jail ...

2006-11-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm playing with DTC right now, within a Jail ... and one of the steps to set it up is to run mknod to create devices for a chroot environment, which, of course, fail in a jail ... Is there any way around this? Mounting devfs isn't an option,

Re: gnome login problem

2006-11-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Ive just run a portupgrade trying to get some troublesome ports up to date. I noticed after it finished some things werent working anymore like gedit, open office... I copied the output of my portupgrade report but had to reboot and lost it! Now when i

Re: Java plugin for Firefox

2006-11-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
) of the computer's time. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: NO_OPENSSL= true?

2006-11-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No bites on this yesterday. can anyone shed some light on it? Most of us assume that one would only use non-standard security configurations if one *really* knew exactly what one was doing... is this something i should or shouldnt have in my make.conf? I use

Re: fxp(4) and Intel 82801GB NIC

2006-11-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sergey Solyanik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! I have a problem with my -STABLE, fxp(4) doesn't detect available media in the Intel 82801GB onboard NIC. It shows that: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ifconfig fxp1 fxp1: flags=9943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,LINK0,MULTICAST mtu 1500

Re: TFTP Problems

2006-11-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still trying to figure out why the standard tftp won't accept ack connections from 0.0.0.0. It will recv ack's from a normal IP address just fine. It can't be the firewall because I can set it to pass all and restart with the same results. The tftp

Re: HELP! Installation Questions

2006-11-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello There, I wonder if someone from you could spare few minutes and share your knowledge with me. I love FreeBSD and use it time to time but I think I am still novice. I have got an assignment to build a Multi-Task web server. GOALS: A Multi Task Web

Re: 6.2 beta 3 debug?

2006-11-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ke han [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recall that when either 6.0 or 6.1 was in beta that the iso was delivered with debugging on which made it a bit slower. Is 6.2 beta 3 delivered with debugging or production compile options? It should be exactly what we expect to ship.

Re: Questions on first-time installation (Re: (no subject))

2006-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In response to Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: this workstation has two intallations of XP and a windows boot manager for selecting them. Under no circumstances can we afford for this to be disturbed (at least until we can finally get rid of windows

Re: i need to upgrade a disk

2006-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have a system that is FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, that i need to upgrade its single disk. id like to keep all its existing slices the same size, and then use the unused space to create a new /opt slice. would dd be the way to go? if so, could

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Installation problem

2006-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an onboard Intel ICH7-M SATA controller with an SATA hard drive and cdrom connected to it. I am unable to install FreeBSD onto the harddrive. According to the FreeBSD website ICH7 has been supported since version 6.0 I have tried putting

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2006-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peo Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just can´t get FreeBSD to boot... I have been trying everything I can think of. [snip] Can anyone give me a hint? You need to show the actual errors you get when FreeBSD tries and fails to boot. And the mismatching disk geometry error messages aren't

Re: Sound under qemu

2006-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stephen J. Roznowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE and Qemu 0.8.2s.20061031 with kqemu-kmod-1.3.0.p9_1. I've gotten Windows 98 running inside of the emulator, but I'm having trouble getting the sound to work. I'm starting it with various combinations:

Re: About how the GUI should look like after installation!

2006-11-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Evans Durandisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this kind of graphic environment? or something missing in the installation. Try looking at the Handbook section: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html ___

Re: lpt0 printer slows system response significantly

2006-11-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 18 root1 -60 -179 0K 8K *Giant 15:09 77.05% irq7: lpt0 11 root1 171 52 0K 8K RUN 48.0H 11.13% idle The interrupt service for the parallel port is using

Re: Ports maintainer

2006-11-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:33, Robert Huff wrote: Kevin Brunelle writes: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:43, Miguel Vazquez Gocobachi wrote: I am interesting to be a ports maintainer for FreeBSD project. What need I do? Find a port that needs a

Re: Port for gksudo?

2006-11-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There doesn't seem to be a port for gksudo. Is there any port that includes this as a bundle or whatever? sysutils/gksu Apparently gksu is the official upstream name... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Memory information relations

2006-10-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nejc Skoberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know what are exact relations between these 3 memory information printouts: Did you start by reading the FAQ entry What do the various memory states displayed by top mean?? ___

Re: IPFW and PF

2006-10-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andy Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] top-posted: On 10/28/06, David Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, IPFW seems to be the same IPFW that is used on MacOSX, so it seems to make sense to learn and lean on IPFW when using in a mixed Machine Environment. On the other side, many People seem

Re: Instable machine; hardware or not?

2006-10-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ronald Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a small server (AMD XP 2400+, ASRock K7VM4+lan, no ECC) running 4.9-RELEASE since February 2004. It is being used for some small dynamic websites (FAMP), e-mail and some other small stuff. It got an uptime of 400+ days last year but since a few

Re: fsck with freebsd-6.1

2006-10-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking at the man page for fsck, I couldn't find an option to tell fsck when it finds an unreadable sector, to mark it as bad so it doesn't get written to another time. If fsck can't do it, is there a program in the system or in ports that can? There are

Re: dual homing a freebsd server

2006-10-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
of heartbeat protocol with a carefully-chosen router on your primary network, but there may be a better way depending on the precise configuration of that network. Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: xfce panel install external plugin

2006-10-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
plugin That one, at least, is in ports: sysutils/xfce4-battery-plugin along with about a dozen others. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: icu

2006-10-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, got a icu compilation problem, it's icu3.6. ... Errors in total: 1. TestOtherAPI NewResourceBundleTest utility any idea?? thanks!! p.s. icu2 is

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Go back through mergemaster, and actually pay attention to the changes. On files you haven't modified, you will be able to (i)nstall the new versions of those files, but otherwise you will need to (m)erge them. Ok, I tried

Re: pkg_add/delete questions

2006-10-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have several questions: 1. If I install a particular package, its dependencies will be installed as well. Now if I remove it later using pkg_delete, only that package will be removed and not the dependencies. The reason I guess is because some

Re: icu

2006-10-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[don't top-post, please] Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes...under devel/icu? icu2 compile just fine. I looked at the bug database, and there are some reports of this problem; the port's maintainer has a workaround but apparently not a real solution yet.

Re: Howto recompile libgnome-keyring with -fPIC

2006-10-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Klaus Friis Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get this error when trying to install Firefox: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgnome-keyring.a(gnome-keyring.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/X11R6/lib/libgnome-keyring.a:

Re: where to set SSL compile time cipher string ?

2006-10-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure I understood this correctly but at http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html I've read something about cipher list and defaults etc. And I would like to tell my system to build SSL with ``high'' encryption cipher suites. Where can I set

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but there are a number of messages of the form: source_rc_confs: not found $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) $ipfs_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5)

Re: build minimum freebsd from make world

2006-10-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tang Ho Yim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks Gilbert, So, anyone can make some DOC about this ? Go ahead. Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tang Ho Yim writes: I have already install the minimum FreeBSD 6.1. Now, I would like to know how can I build install the same

Re: openoffice for amd64

2006-10-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stroganov A. V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello I've FreeBSD 6.2 prerelease for amd64. When i start OOo, which i installed using package from Good-Day, these messages are printed: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libstdc++.so.6 not found, required by javaldx /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:

Re: kldunload -f has no effect

2006-10-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to 'kldunload -f drm' in order to go into suspend to ram with my thinkpad (suspend works fine with dri disabled). Unfortunately, despite the claims of the manpage the '-f' flag does not alter the behaviour of the kldunload tool. How do I get drm

Re: ports adding users

2006-10-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
between ports installed on different machines adding different uids on each, and unless you were planning ahead, with users being created likewise. I'm not sure there's a perfect solution, other than planning ahead. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Hard Drive Issues

2006-10-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Justin wrote: Greetings, I'm getting the following errors on the terminal: ad1: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=186691903 ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DCS,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED LBA=186691903

Re: unable to find makeobjops.pl

2006-10-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Antoine Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was reading about kernel objects in the FreeBSD Architecture Handbook and noticed that there is no src/sys/kern/makeobjops.pl in my src tree. The section I was looking at is 3.3.5 . Anyone knows where it went? Looks like it was turned into an awk

Re: How does useradd determine the default mailbox/maildir location for new users

2006-10-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Niek Dekker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running Exim 4.62 MTA on FBSD 6.0_release. When I create a new user using useradd, a mailbox file for the new user is created in /var/mail. I assume you mean adduser(8). As I am using Maildir with maildirs in /var/mail, I do not want that. Hmm,

Re: Creating a Super user Account

2006-10-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
alena eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows this employees id or password to update information. Can you please advise how we can create new accounts and

Re: FreeBSD Bonding Support.

2006-10-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey, exist some future project in freebsd for bonding support or we already have something like the Linux bonding driver..? ng_one2many(4) may be what you want. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: stop ata drive rotation after umount

2006-10-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michel Le Cocq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is it impossible ? Impossible? Probably not. Look at the ports collection; a quick search suggested ataidle and smartmontools, but there are probably others... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: build minimum freebsd from make world

2006-10-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tang Ho Yim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have already install the minimum FreeBSD 6.1. Now, I would like to know how can I build install the same minimum FreeBSD 6.1 from make world ? I think that NODOC is enough to do it these days. Even that is usually only worthwhile for an expert

Re: NFS problems!

2006-10-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anders Troback [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having some problems with NFS lately! NFS server FreeBSD 6.1-RELESE NFS client FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELASE (STABLE) I'm using NFS to serve /home via amd but sometimes programs hangs and not even kill -9 will work. I have to restart rpc.lockd,

Re: Permissions on /var/mail directory

2006-10-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p8 postfix-current-2.4.20060903,3 dovecot-1.0.r7 I just did a buildworld along with a new kernel this morning. While doing the installworld, I noticed an error message displayed regarding the /var/mail directory. I have the

Re: Need help, some thing goes with wrong with Bridge-networking

2006-09-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Sir: Those days i tried build an in-line firewall, I take freebsd as a good operation system because it is safety and stabilty, but i came with trouble when i follow the handbook to bridge the two Ethernet Card, the

Re: Replace worksation, now can't ssh to older machine

2006-09-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My trusty lon suffering FreeBSD workstation at work died (hardware), and I am in the process of replacig it. The current iss I have is that I have several older HP-UX achines that I need to be able to ssh to. I can't remeber exactly how I set these machines up

Re: PortUpgrade multiple packages?

2006-09-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 28 September 2006 04:23, Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: That might cause problems if the programs have the same dependencies (fetch conflict or even worse, build conflict) Likely they do; Mozilla, Seamonkey, Opera, and Firefox. (all flagged in my

Re: calendar

2006-09-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where does one get an updated calendar.judaic? Mine seems to be out of sync. Nobody's maintaining that file these days. Because the holidays are scheduled on a whole different calendar, they need to be recalculated every year. A tool that actually

Re: cu

2006-09-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Saifi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using cu to connect to a device on a serial port (/dev/cuaa0) How do I setup the option to capture output to a file ? How about script(1)? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stanley Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. Sure. You just configure the loader(8) to find its kernel and root filesystem on the appropriate disk. If that's too tricky for you, there are lots of other boot loaders. Surely one of them

Re: Video Device problems in new install by Newbie -- FreeBSD 6.1

2006-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joel Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I took the plunge last night and installed FreeBSD6.1-STABLE. I found the experience rather exciting and I'm happy with the results, excep for one major challenge to overcome: no video support. I'm trying to set up X and it's failing.

Re: cvsup between levels, single user issue

2006-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was going to attempt an in-place upgrade of a light load server running 5.3 to bring it to 6.1 RELEASE P6 (RELENG_6_1). I read in UPDATING that going between 5.x and 6.x requires single user mode which isn't an option on a remote machine (though I can stop

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 9/19/06, Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out there know of something a bit more BSD savvy? My best attempt

Re: Constant changing ahc0: Transceiver state changing

2006-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sergey Donskikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the same error messages on my Mail server and can not login as a root as well. Is anybody has a solution regarding this issue? It's hard to tell from such a minimal description, but I would start by replacing the broken SCSI controller.

Re: wvHTML, glib libiconv

2006-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ted Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to install wvHTML. It's dependent on glib, which is dependent on libiconv. I'm on FreeBSD 6.1. It has libiconv installed. But glib says it can't find it: configure: error: *** No iconv() implementation found in C library or libiconv So I'm

Re: how to add flags to ifconfig at boot

2006-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I add flags to ifconfig at boot time, i.e. I want it to start with 'ifconfig em0 -tso' ? Add the flag to the ifconfig_em0 line in rc.conf(5). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++_p

2006-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 9/11/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get the message /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++_p while building the xfe X11 file manager. A google did not give any ideas

Re: how to apply a patch set

2006-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could somebody tell me what have I done wrong? Actually - what is the difference between the 'pX' and the '#X' after the version? The latter is just the number of times you have rebuilt the kernel. ___

Re: [OT] Re: how to apply a patch set

2006-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 09/17/2006 17:40, Matthew Seaman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to apply a patch set to FreeBSD 5.5 (this letter 'p' followed by a number, after the version in 'uname -a') - but somehow it did not work. snip The '#N'

Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Hutchison) writes: The standard kernel doesn't have ext2fs support now; I doubt the 6.1 release was different. Try loading it as a module; kldload ext2fs. It seems not to be that easy :( # kldload ext2fs kldload: can't load ext2fs: No such file or directory

Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Hutchison) writes: # ll /dev/ad0s7 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 # file -s /dev/ad0s7 /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab /dev/ad0s7 /linux ext2fs ro 0 0

Re: device vt causes boot freeze

2006-09-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I enable both sc and vt in device.hints? My impression from a very brief look at the code is that they cannot be active at the same time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++_p

2006-09-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get the message /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++_p while building the xfe X11 file manager. A google did not give any ideas. Need help. Well, start with whether libstdc++_p.a actually exists in /usr/lib. ___

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 shutting down.

2006-09-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everyone, I'm On FreeBSD 6.1R, the box is intel945 extra Dlink NIC P4.3 1G DDR2, 160GB sata. running Freeradius, chillispot, MySql 4.1, apache2. acting as NAT and hotspot login. there is two diffrent servers with the same specifications.

Re: rc.firewall rule for passive FTP

2006-09-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the wrong direction; it needs to be able to *send* the SYN. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: New machine, mouse scroll wheel not working

2006-09-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
not sure what would happen in that case; I assume you've checked the X logs? [I have just 4 5 for the ZAxisMapping parameter, for a simple Compaq-branded wheel mouse.] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Device Drivers and Kernel Modules

2006-09-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
such as cd9660 could be loaded through entering CD9660_load=YES in loader.confand that it would not be used in memory until a cd was mounted. I am assuming this is true (if it is) for other modules as well. It isn't true at all. Loading a module really does load it into memory. -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: problems with creating bind9 under a jail (make: don't know how to make /usr/jail/bind9/usr/lib/libc.a. Stop)

2006-09-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
freebsd neophyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: as for pulling from the FTP server. what i wanted to say was that i booted from a CD, but used an FTP server as my install medium. as for cvsup, i used the following: /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile. as for the existing source tree, i used

Re: mkisofs: out of memory

2006-09-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I'm trying to write a DVD-RW with a directory created with rsnapshot, but there are some problem with mkisofs: Not enough memory # mkisofs -R -J -o /data/rsnap.iso /data/.snapshots mkisofs: Cannot allocate memory. Not enough memory The

Re: VIA C3 - cant boot CD

2006-09-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have an ML6000 (no floppy) and have downloaded the 4.11 mini-iso image, and burned it to a CD-RW. CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (666.55-MHz 686-class CPU) after rebooting, the CD is found, and a boot attempt is made. within 5 seconds, the kernel locks up after about 3

Re: Fullscreen crashes

2006-08-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sean M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Everytime* I use a program, usually a game, that switches into full-screen mode, I get dumped to a tty screen and everything is hung; I have to power cycle to fix it. Yesterday, everything worked perfectly. The only thing I did in the interim that

Re: problems with creating bind9 under a jail (make: don't know how to make /usr/jail/bind9/usr/lib/libc.a. Stop)

2006-08-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
freebsd neophyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i'm following the following tutorial to create bind9 under a jail: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/09/04/jails.html in doing so, i'm getting the following error: --- # make world DESTDIR=/usr/jail/bind9

Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?

2006-08-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
? In principle, there's no problem. But most software will only drive one audio device at a time. Also, note that running long cables at fairly low signal levels can degrade the audio quality... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org

Re: mail to root

2006-08-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
variable settings, not actual commands. Since you didn't show the lines you'd added, we can't suggest the right way to do it, but look at the if settings in rc.conf(5) and the Handbook description of configuring networking. Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer

Re: Ports cvsup failure

2006-08-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just set up a new cvsup server, using the cvsup-mirror port. I can use it to update everything that I need but the ports collection. It fails like this: Parsing supfile ports-supfile Connecting to cvsup.meadwestvaco.com Connected to cvsup.meadwestvaco.com

Re: pkg database backup and restore

2006-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
they are, then you probably don't need /var/db/pkg for the restore. Feeding the list of packages into portupgrade for installation would make the ports reinstall much less painful on the humans involved. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: freebsd problem

2006-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
but the same error occour. For your information i'm using maxtor 20gig , pentium 4 1.8 Please be more specific. When you say configuring the disk, what screen are you looking at? What do you do immediately before the error is printed? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer

Re: Where are teh choices stored when I build a port?

2006-08-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. Are these referenced during a portsupgrade? Yes. However, try to avoid conflicts between (a) such options and (b) settings in pkgtools.conf. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: [OT] CVSUP (was Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??)

2006-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
think so. And it can be used with arbitrary cvs trees, including the FreeBSD source tree. On the other hand, it doesn't come in the FreeBSD base system, and it doesn't sign the updates. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org

Re: Rebuilding Kernel

2006-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
beno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi; I just barely finished upgrading from 5.3 to 6.1 and all is well, however, now I realize I have to rebuild my kernel again to accommodate PF. I've edited the correct GENERIC file (I'm on an i386 box). Are these commands sufficient? make buildkernel make

Re: user level

2006-08-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the Internet to conduct personal business. What must I know to configure sbcglobal.net to operate FreeBSD. And, do you think I need to learn a If DHCP is all you need to setup your internet connection, there is nothing easier you can have. Just put the

Re: Drive Failure or User Error?

2006-08-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was setting up a new server (6.1 i386 STABLE) - more specifically, I was mirroring the functioning server drive - when I suddenly got this: ad0 FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=611703808 GEOM_MIRROR: Request

Re: error : Missing operating system

2006-08-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

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