Re: forcing boot

On Jun 4, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Lawrence Horvath wrote: How can i force normal boot up even if the filesystem was uncleanly dismounted, i have a box that it looks like the HD is failing, but i still need some of the info off it, so i would like to get it to boot normally anyway so i can sftp/scp th

Re: Linker Error: undefined reference to __ctype_b

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Premal Mishra wrote: Hi, Am tryin to compile a C program which uses 3rd party library. I get the following error during linking: "undefined reference to __ctype_b" and this error comes up for many more names. Whats may be the problem ? Without additional information,

Re: Perl 5.8.6 to 5.8.7 upgrade fails IPC tests

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 06/26/05 02:32 PM, Mikko Tyljrvi sat at the `puter and typed: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 06/26/05 10:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at the `puter and typed: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0400 Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: Perl 5.8.6 to 5.8.7 upgrade fails IPC tests

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 06/26/05 10:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at the `puter and typed: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0400 Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having a little trouble with my perl upgrade from 5.8.6 to 5.8.7. -- cut -- ok 5 ok 6 semget: No spa

Re: simple? sh problen

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Ian Smith wrote: Hopefully not too OT .. the only silly question being the unasked one .. How do I test whether a sh argument is an integer or not, so as to avoid failing on a syntax error from otherwise working code such as: [ $3 -lt 10 -o $3 -gt 600 ] && echo "$0 $1 $2: $3 in

Re: Encryption of login passwords--where and how is it done?

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Where's the actual code that accepts the input of a password and/or encrypts it? I looked in login.c, but that only seems to call PAM or something; from that point on, I wasn't sure where to look. Start with crypt(3). I'm especially interested in knowi

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and too many files open...

Hi, On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i run into a problem on a FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE Applicationserver (2GB of RAM, 4GB Swap, Dual XEON 3.06Ghz). The box serves the "xfrce4-panel" for 80 Network Clients via ssh so the Users can start OpenOffice.org and firefox from that panel. It is go

Re: Xwrapper doesn't use .xinitrc, or does it?

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Andreas Davour wrote: I have just rebuilt my system and a few things aren't as they used to be. When I try to start X with Xwrapper no xterms or other windows appear. Isn't Xwrapper starting the stuff in .xinitrc like "startx" used to do for me (but wont do, since it no long

Re: Synaptics Touchpad driver

Hi, On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Loren M. Lang wrote: It seems that FreeBSD 5.3 now has support in the kernel for the synaptics touchpad that my laptop has. Right now it's just running as a normal mouse, it looks like the support is disabled by default. In isa/psm.c, I can see the synaptics support in th

Re: "Bus errors"

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Tom Parquette wrote: Hi. I'm running 5.3-R with a custom kernel on a dual processor athlon. I've recently started getting "Bus error" showing up as a reason for various failures. e.g. setiathome, make buildworld. I've also gotten some panics (there are only about 5 messages th

Re: Where to find jw on FreeBSD?

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Matt Emmerton wrote: I've working on an open source project that recent went through a documentation frenzy and now we have a bunch of SGML (XML) docs that we reguarly convert to HTML and PDF. The person that usually does this runs RedHat and uses a project called 'jw' (jadewrap

Re: [UPDATED]sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, horio shoichi wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:34:55 -0500 (CDT) "Jorge Mario G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -Original Message- From: Jorge Mario G. (snip) the problem is this: I CAN NOT RESOLV It's amazing this thread lives so long. So far, no new things are found, except

Re: allowing users to mount cdrom

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, jobse wrote: Dear List, When trying to mount the cdrom I get Operation not permitted. sysctl: vfs.usermount=0(what does that mean and how can I *permanently* change it to 1) I'd rather not set the sticky bit on mount/umount if I mustn't. suggestions? /jobse vfs.usermount allows

Re: non-interactive password

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Hey everyone. I'm trying to recreate a password script that sets > passwords (as root on the local system only). The trick is that it > must change the password non-interactively. I had this working, but > when the system was trashed, the script was l

Re: Playing DVD

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Robert Golovniov wrote: > Hello FreeBSD, > > I've followed the instruction in the handbook regarding playing > DVDs, but the playback is still not as smooth as I had it when > running on a Windows box. What steps can be taken to achieve a still > better qual

Re: Perfoce client only

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Igor B. Bykhalo wrote: > Is there a way to install the Perforce client only? > We don't need the server, but i failed to find > standalone client. And yes, command-line version > is sufficient. There is no port but you can just download the command line tool from

Re: mplayer problem

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Monah Baki wrote: > Hi all, > [ Lines wrapped at 72 chars ] > I'm running the Freebsd 4.9 with mplayer 0.91 and mplayerplug-in for > the ports tree and mozilla 1.4. I tried to view the spiderman > trailer from apple's website, medium screem no problem, but when I > try to c

Re: Out of memory error

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Elliot Finley wrote: > 4.8-R > > I have a process that needs to keep about 700MB of data in RAM. It crashes > when it gets to about 512MB. I've looked for a sysctl variable to tune, but > none of them jumped out at me. Same with man tuning' > > Any pointers would be appreci

Re: spamassassin

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Doug Reynolds wrote: > I've been trying to setup spamassassin on my freebsd box with postfix. > I was reading the other thread about spamassassin. What i couldn't > figure out, was how it got the mail from the mail system. I looked at > spamd but it didn't look like the prog

Re: Ultra 2 SMP stop in probing devices during install

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Jens Baedeker wrote: > Hi there, > > i'm pretty new with freebsd. Currently i run a couple of sparc20 with > OpenBSD. But i want to > give Freebsd 5.1 a try. Unfortunately i cant get this Ultra2 with 2 CPUs > working. When boot with > first install CDROM it recognises the 2 cp

Re: Something with port 53

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-2] Gannater János wrote: > Hello, > > I've posted this question to the freebsd-newbies list, but there nobody > could answer it. > Please help me with this qestion... > > I have a box with 2 IP addresses (with aliases). > I usually get these error messages: > Connecti

Re: Anyone using Linux-PAM on 5.x?

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Joe Lewis wrote: > I know of the specification. However, I have a customized version of the > pam-mysql module that I have tried to install. In a previous post to this > list about a week or two ago, I wrote about getting only the following > entrys in the log file (an exampl

Re: Anyone using Linux-PAM on 5.x?

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: > ... > >Having had some experience writing pam modules on a number of > >platforms, I whipped out my suite of pam test modules to have a look > >at this incredbible breakage you speak

Re: Anyone using Linux-PAM on 5.x?

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Joe Lewis wrote: > Question for you guru's; > > I've been trying to install a PAM module on my FreeBSD 5.1 system. > Unfortunately, someone thought they were bright and included OpenPAM, > which would be fine and dandy except for it is installed by default as > static. This me

Re: PASSWD file hosed...

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Eric F Crist wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I'm sure you're all getting sick of my being so vocal, but here goes anyway. > > I was messing around as root in KDE and found the KUser application. I tried > adding a user (my girlfriend), a

Re: explain annoying "You have XXX mail messages"

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Fernan Aguero wrote: > +[ Mailing Lists Catcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (03.Oct.2003 19:53): > | > | I don't know if this applies now but before I ran my own mail server I > | used to see that sort of thing after I su'd so another account. For > | instance if I logged in as b

Re: how to get system information

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >> > >>I am wondering how to find out system hardware information from a > >>running system, I know for instance pciconf(8) but what are the > >>corresponding ones for memory, cpu etc? > >> > > > > > > more /var/run/dmesg.boot to get the info at bo

Re: Problems running new diablo-{jre,jdk} JVMs

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I've installed the new diablo-jdk and diablo-jre ports on my > recently-upgraded-from-4.x FreeBSD 5.1 server. Whenever I try to run any of > the JVMs, either by calling them directly or via the javavm script, I get > this error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: zmore for bzip2?

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Adapting zmore for the case where you specify the files to display on > the command line is not problem at all: > > > diff kk zmore > 5,14d4 > < get_decompressor () > < { > < case `file ${1--} | sed "s/[^:]*: *\([^ ]*\).*/\1

Re: Off Topic Regex Question

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Roger Williams wrote: > I know thins is not the place but I know one of you know this one off the > top of your head. > > I have: > > $list = "dog 1 1 1 cat 2 1 snake 111" > and I want to end up with: > dog 1 cat 2 snake 1 > I thought > $list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g; > would do the

Re: Dumping/reading memory space of a running program.

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote: > > How do i read/dump the entire memory space of a running program? > Is this possible? > I really dont have the option of restarting it. gcore(1) perhaps? $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: gdm crash!

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Peng Zhang wrote: > Hi > > Does somebody meet the similar thing? I have always met this error: > Aug 10 18:49:41 pzhang /kernel: pid 45272 (XFree86), uid 0: exited on sig > nal 6 (core dumped) > Aug 10 18:49:41 pzhang gdm[45271]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X > error - R

Re: rpc.statd and NFS Server on 4.8-RELEASE

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Ernest H. Rice, III wrote: > Folks: > Excuse the interruption, but I have a probably very stupid question... > > I enabled NFS Server facilities on my 4.8.2 FreeBSD system recently. > I export ONE directory, and when nfs is started (via the normal booting > process) my interne

Re: looking for http/web copy program - I think

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Robert Chalmers wrote: > Is there a FreeBSD based app that I can use to bulk copy about 800 .rm > files from one site to another? I really don't want to have to do it one > at a time. ftp isn't available. The only access I have is via the web > port. bummmer but theres no choi

Re: how to copy just part of a file?

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, BSD baby wrote: > Is there an easy built-in way to copy only part of a file? > > I want to take a WAV audio file and copy from #__ bytes to > #___ bytes into a new file. > > (I'm making 30-second clips of files.) Try "dd". Thus: dd bs=1 skip=$offset count=$length < infile

Re: Problems locating source to build ksh93 port

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, stan wrote: > I'm trying to build the ksh93 port, and the build system does not seem to > be able to find the source ttraball INIT.2003-04-22.tgz Your ports tree is out of date. The ksh distribution is called INIT.2003-06-21.tgz now. > Where can I get this? Beats me. But

Re: Hi FreeBSD forum's Champs

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Forum > > I had a task to capture Windows dump (screen shot) in different formats. > > xwd -window > image.xwd > > I also want to convert this default format (xwd) to X window bitmap, X > window Pixmap. > > Any suggestion / utility to achieve this

Re: mod_ssl question: using my own CA?

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, admin wrote: > OS: FreeBSD 4.8 > apache 1.3.27 > modssl 2.8.14 > > goals: > > generate a server.crt file for apache > generate a server.key file for apache > I will be my own CA > > Hi, > > okay I am trying to find a way to overcome this most elusive and vague > documentationt

Re: extracting cd-audio to wav

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Is there some kind of program to digitally read audio-cds to wav-files under > FreeBSD? Yes. > Under GNU/Linux I use cdparanoia, which I have I've come to like very much, > but cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) ref

Re: IglooFTP in free(): error: chunk is already free

ours ago. > PS. if it is a patch ... should we notify the port maintaner? > Thank you. Sure. I don't use IglooFTP, but once you manage to figure out if the one-line patch solves your problem, feel free to file a PR and watch it rot. $.02, /Mikko > > > On Sun, 2003-07-

Re: IglooFTP in free(): error: chunk is already free

On Sat, 6 Jul 2003, Edy Lie wrote: > anyone install iglooftp from ports and run it on KDE3.1 ? > > For some reasons when i tried to launch it from command line, i am > getting that error message. > > Any idea ? It means there's a bug in IglooFTP. Put the following patch in /usr/ports/ftp/IglooFT

Re: using bind() call on FreeBSD

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Gagan Grewal wrote: > Hi Folks :) > > I am trying to write a simple a server process which follows this sequence... > socket() Assuming a "struct sockaddr_in addr;" around here somewhere, do: memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr)); addr.sin_port = htons(blah); etc ... I.e.

Re: accidently deleted user "www"

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Andre wrote: > Hi > > i accidently deleted the user "www" and now my apache doesnt > start. is there a fast way to solve this problem? Don't do that. :-) If your machine has been running for a while there should be backups in /var/backup, so you can do: # grep '^www:' /var

Re: flashpluginwrapper for Flash 6 (Shared Library Tools redux)

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Joe Kelsey wrote: > Ok. I hand-modified the linux-flashplugin6 shared library to remove all > of the DT_NEEDED entries. I then modified flashpluginwrapper to add the > following functions: [ ... snip wrapper functions ... ] > I installed this new version of flashpluginwrap

Re: Problem with USB ulpt0 and CUPS

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I posted this in April and received no response. However, this has been an > ongoing issue since at least 2001 (where I found the first reference to this > trouble via Google). > > The problem seems to be that the FreeBSD USB LPT driver (even with

Re: xterm questions

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > I have a configuration question about how to change the default > selecting proces. I would like it when i select a URL (with a > double click), that it select the whole URL instead of just one > word (sperating at [:/@]). It this posible? Try running

Re: Problems with my terminal device files

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Daniela wrote: [...] > I can't allocate new pty's, no matter what I do. [...] > > > Xterm says that I don't have enough ptys. How do I make more? Umm... this is on 4.x, right? Have you tried making more pty device nodes? Thus: # cd /dev # sh MAKEDEV pty1 #

Re: /usr/src on a dedicated drive?

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Brian McCann wrote: > Hey all. I've got a problem on one of my systems (lack of drive > space) that forced me to remove /usr/src. However, I like that system > to track the STABLE version. I don't think it'd be a problem, but I'd > like someone else to confirm this.

Re: DHCP Server "learning" name servers since server itself is dhcp'd??

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, David Kelly wrote: > On Saturday 08 March 2003 12:32 pm, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: > > > > It is more elegant in perl, but dhclient-enter-hooks is a > > shellscript, so it felt easier to just add it there. > > /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks needs to be crea

Re: DHCP Server "learning" name servers since server itself is dhcp'd??

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, IAccounts wrote: > > > Alternatively is there a way to dynamically tell BIND to get it's > > > forwarders list from /etc/resolv.conf? Here is a shell script snippet that I use on my laptop. It gets called from make_resolv_conf() in /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks, where I make sure

Re: SBC DSL vs Fbsd 4.7 PPPoE?

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How-do. Has anyone gotten SBC's DSL service working on FreeBSD? Yes. Well, it was called PacBell DSL at the time, but it is still working. I pretty much just used the pppoe entry from /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample. Something like this: /

Re: Xfree86-4 question re OpenGL

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Murray Taylor wrote: > I installed XFree86 4.2.0 from a current ports tree WITHOUT having ever had > XFree86-3 loaded. [...] > When I run it from command line i get this > > ttyp0 > kpovmodeler > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missi

Re: catch output from sh -xv to a file

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Need advice on how to modify first line of shell script so that script > can run normally (as called from another program, not from the command > line) and write debugging output to a file like: Short answer: you can't. Not if you absolutely want

Re: #!/bin/sh & execve

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > say i have 2 scripts, scriptA and scriptB. > > scriptA > --- > #!/bin/sh ./scriptB 1 2 3 > > scriptB > --- > #!/bin/sh > > echo 0:$0 > echo 1:$1 > echo 2:$2 > echo 3:$3 > > -- > > $ ./scriptA > > $0:./scriptB > $1:1 > $2:2 > $3:3 > > -- > > acc

Re: LINUX sysinfo syscall

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, William Gianopoulos wrote: > This has probably been asked before, but I could not find any info searching > the archives. > I am trying to run the Linux version Tapeware from Yosemite under FreeBSD > 4.1. It fails because the Linux syscall sysinfo is not implemented. My > qu

Re: Lots of files in a directory

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, MikeM wrote: > On 1/2/03 at 3:13 PM Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > |# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-02 09:01:27 -0500: > |> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org > |> lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling > |> block

Re: linux compatability

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm noticing some odd behaviour with the linux compatability > recently. I have this small gnome app called gnome-run. It links against > a number of gnome libraries that I've copied from my linux partition over > to /compat/lin

Re: NFS - what troubles to expect ?

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Josh Brooks wrote: > > Helol, > > I have used NFS on sun/solaris systems for many years, and the one big > headache that comes to mind is how, if the server is down, and the client > has an automount on boot, the client will hang forever (basically forever) > trying to mount fr

Re: Can I use my USB mice in text mode?

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Alexey Tchouprinine wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to configure 4.7-release. > I have IntelliMouse Explorer 1.0A. I've read FAQ 4.15. > I've tried to execute > moused -p /dev/ums0 -t auto > Result: > moused: unable to open /dev/ums0: Device not configured Is usbd running? If

Re: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!

On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, joe wrote: > While playing around and trying to set aup a chroot environment > I did the following > cd /home/honza > mkdir {etc,dev,lib,bin,.} > > cat /etc/passwd | grep honza >/etc/passwd > ^<== location of the >

Re: mergemaster question

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, David Banning wrote: > I am just in the process of upgrading from 4.5S to 4.7 and I will > be running mergemaster. > > One thing I notice using mergemaster is that it seems to take such a long > time. Is there a quicker way? It wants to replace alot of files, > and that's OK f

Re: ftpd.conf

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Ms Carlsson wrote: > i do not have one, why waste your time to answer me if you dont even can > help me, this is not just a waste of your time it is waste of mine too. > > so is here anybody serious here, i need a working example of ftpd.conf to > the ftp daemon /usr/libexec/f

Re: Ports FAQ is a great read [port.tar??]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On 1 Oct 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > non-cvsup method 3: > > -- cd /usr/ports/ > > fetch > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports//port.tar > > tar -xf port.tar > > Note: Not all of the mirrors support tar-

Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: > > > > > tr -cd a-zA-Z0-9 < /dev/urandom | dd bs=$len count=1 2>/dev/null > > > > Which will give you $len random bytes from the set a-zA-Z0-9 (it reads > > a l

Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool

On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: > I was sorting through my /usr/X11R6/bin/startx text-file and noticed: > > mcookie=`dd if=/dev/urandom bs=16 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -e \\"%08x\\"` > > I started playing around with `cat /dev/urandom` and `head -1 /dev/urandom` > so my question is

Re: /var/spool/uucppublic

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Socketd wrote: > Hi all > > The above dir is world writeable, so I just want to know if it is > installed as part of the base system and that program/process uses that > dir? Can I mount it as no-exec and no-suid? It is part of the system and used by UUCP. As you do not seem

Re: PPP, dynamic IPs, and handling renumbering

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > I have a new question. I have ppp set up on interface tun0, got my IP > and all, handling the DSL connection quite nicely - so far. > > Now the question: Since the IP is dynamic, I have some things that > need doing anytime it changes, like update the

Re: man tcsh | col -b | grep -i stderr

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: > I would like to learn more about redirection and stderr but the manpage for > tcsh does not have any information apparently about "&2>" or whatever: Search for "redirect"... > # man tcsh | col -b | grep -i stderr > # [no output] > > Can someone direc

Re: Bourne shell redirection of STDOUT

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Jimmy Lantz wrote: > Hi, > I wonder if anyone know a way to redirect the STDOUT directly to a variabel > in a shellscript w/o using tempfile. Use backticks ``. > > I know I can use a tempfile but I'm looking for a way to avoid using a file. > > in other words > > Does anyon

Re: find case-insensitive challenge [cut/sed]

On 24 Sep 2002, Duncan Anker wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 12:24, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2002-09-22 21:53, Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > That leads me to wonder about using "rev" to reverse the order of > > > > charact

Re: What kind of PPP connection do you have?

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I'm currently revising my book "The Complete FreeBSD". The new > edition should be out in the bookstores in a couple of months. Right > now I'm revising the chapter on PPP setup, which was written in 1997. > Since then, the ISP landscape has cha