Re: Mutt sendmail configuration problems

2005-03-20 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Ulf Magnusson wrote: I'm trying to set up sendmail to route outgoing mail to an external SMTP server. I need this for Mutt, which doesn't have its own means of transfering mail and relies on whatever MTA the system provides. I found out about sendmail's SMARTHOST

Re: freebsd sendmail smtp auth

2005-03-01 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Noah wrote: sendmail 8.13.3 I have looked over three different SMTP AUTH tutorials for sendmail and they dont fully cover the configuration or I am completely misreading them. somebody please send me to a really good site to explain how to set up SMTP AUTH.

Re: How do I get KDM to launch KDE ?

2005-02-24 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Edward Lichtner wrote: Hi, I selected KDM to run at startup by editing /etc/ttys : ttyv8 ³/usr/local/bin/kdm ­nodaemon² xterm on secure I also created a .xsession file both in /root and in my home directory with the line : exec startkde When I reboot, KDM

run all external commands (!bg) as root in ppp.linkup

2005-02-15 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, on FreeBSD 5.3 I am using ppp in interactive mode with a ppp.linkup script to perform some commands (sendmail and ntpdate): !bg sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q !bg ntpdate ptbtime1.ptb.de In man ppp I have seen: [...] All external commands (executed via the shell or !bg

Re: FreeBSD5.2.1 - adduser pw: user 'user' disappeared during update

2005-02-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Louis Harvey wrote: Hello ! For the first time after installing FreeBSD 5.2.1, I am trying to add a new user, but without success so far. I have tried many times (as root), with /usr/sbin/adduser and also with /stand/sysinstall Configure User Management User (Add a

Re: FreeBSD logo design competition

2005-02-09 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005, stheg olloydson wrote: P.S. Many cultures, such as the Japanese, think that you get what you pay for, so having the name FreeBSD is no different from being named ShiteBSD. I am looking forward to the competition to rename the OS. The name also has to be changed: Free:

Re: Problem with booting freebsd

2005-02-02 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005, Adil F. Mamedov wrote: Hello! After my WINDOWS XP crashed, I decided to reinstall it... But I forgot that during windows installation it overwrites the MBR. So, instead of prompting me for the OS to load (FreeBSD or Windows), the system loads Windows. When I found this

Re: SUDO

2005-02-01 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005, Java Beans wrote: What do i have to enter in /etc/sudoers in order to give some user group the permission to start k3b with root permissions? Hi, what about: ALL ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/camcontrol devlist ALL ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/k3b See

Re: mounted ext2 fs causes bad shutdown

2005-01-31 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Loren M. Lang wrote: On a FreeBSD 5.3 system of mine that is dual boot with linux I have my linux home partition which is ext3fs mounted on freebsd. Anytime I reboot or halt freebsd while it is mounted, freebsd fails to sync all it's buffers. The first message Syncing

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-24 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Montag, 24. Januar 2005 06:17 schrieb Oliver Fuchs: In addition, was on OS running a window manager and the other not? Was one running ssh and the other not, was FBSD running Linux emu? ... Was one running (insert program) and the other

Re: /var is lack of space!!

2005-01-24 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, heccj wrote: My box has Apahce,PureFtp,MySql services, it's hardware:128M memory, i386 FSB 800Mhz,18G SCSI disk,FreeBSD 5.3.It's slice: / 256M /swap 256M /tmp 256M /var 300M /usr others After installation,the useage is about 20%.But after few days, it

Re: xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop

2005-01-24 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Riaan de Klerk wrote: hi there i am stuck i have a older auwa laptop and cant find the s3 savage 86c270 video driver for it. could you be as kind as to assist me in finding it. Kind regards. Using FreeBSD 5.3 (?) depending on what you want to use try: Xorg -configure

Re: xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop

2005-01-24 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Oliver Fuchs wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Riaan de Klerk wrote: hi there i am stuck i have a older auwa laptop and cant find the s3 savage 86c270 video driver for it. could you be as kind as to assist me in finding it. Kind regards. Using FreeBSD 5.3

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-23 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Nick Pavlica wrote: All, This post is not about BSD VS. Linux and should not be taken that way. I think that Flame Wars/Engineer Wars are waste of time and energy. I was surprised by my test results and didn't want to take FBSD out of the loop just yet. There may

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-23 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Chris wrote: Oliver Fuchs wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Nick Pavlica wrote: All, This post is not about BSD VS. Linux and should not be taken that way. I think that Flame Wars/Engineer Wars are waste of time and energy. I was surprised by my test results

Re: change bootloader

2005-01-23 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, dick hoogendijk wrote: I installed the bootmng and now I have the F1 FreeBSD prompt at boottime. This is not what I want though. I want my disk to just boot into FreeBSD. I can't find the right option in boot0cfg to change this behaviour of my harddisk. Can I still

Re: X: wrong resolution

2005-01-19 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I have a box with FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. I'm configuring the X Server and I have some problems with the resolution. When X starts I get the wrong resolution. I run xvidtune in the console and then I press Next in

Re: Procmail Lockfile

2004-12-21 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Gardner Bell wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup procmail to deliver my mail but I continuously receive the following errors in my log file. procmail: Locking ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions.lock procmail: Error while writing to ~/Mail/Lists/_YmHxxx.gardnerbell.ca I do

Re: Change Bash-3.00 Prompt

2004-12-19 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Adam wrote: I installed bash shell and now my prompt says bash-3.00# How do I change the text before the #? I'd like it to say bash# instead of bash-3.00#. Hi, I use this in my .bash_profile: PS1='(\[$(tput md)\]\t \w\[$(tput me)\]) $(echo $?) \$ ' export PATH PS1

Re: controlling the default boot drive

2004-11-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote: I have been experimenting with booting from a USB key vs the HD. If I sit on the console, and hit F1, the next time the machine boots, F1 will be the default. If I hit F5, the next time it will be F5 (the USB key drive in this case). How can I

Re: what does rm // delete?

2004-11-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Mark Ovens wrote: Oliver Fuchs wrote: Hi, I had a directory which contained the following: ls showed me simple this: ? with 0 bytes ls -axl showed me nothing So I tried to delete the directory but could not succeed with rm -R because the directory is not empty. I

Re: what does rm // delete?

2004-11-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Parv thusly... for shell in sh csh tcsh bash ksh93 blah ^ ^ ^ ^ Sorry, that blah shell was there only to test for existence of a shell

what does rm // delete?

2004-11-28 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I had a directory which contained the following: ls showed me simple this: ? with 0 bytes ls -axl showed me nothing So I tried to delete the directory but could not succeed with rm -R because the directory is not empty. I changed to the directory and tried to delete everything inside with

unsure about /etc/hosts

2004-11-22 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I am at the moment unsure about the localhost entries in my /etc/hosts. From /usr/src/etc/hosts I have found this one: # Host Database # # This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts that # share this file. Replace 'my.domain' below with the domainname of your #

test

2004-11-22 Thread Oliver Fuchs
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Re: unsure about /etc/hosts

2004-11-22 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Nikolas Britton wrote: Oliver Fuchs wrote: Hi, I am at the moment unsure about the localhost entries in my /etc/hosts. From /usr/src/etc/hosts I have found this one: # Host Database # # This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts

Re: vidcontrol don't work

2004-11-14 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all. vidcontrol -g 132x25 VESA_132x25 don't work. When I run this command, computer is rebooting. I do not believe that 5.2 can do more than 100x37 on VESA_800x600. To enable it you have to recompile your kernel with option SC_PIXEL_MODE

Re: Using the boot-easy boot loader..

2004-11-09 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004, Nadav Ben-Ami wrote: Hello.. I am currently running FreeBSD 5.2.1, installing of OS'es is really not a hard task for me, except this one time and it has to do with WINDOWS XP on my primary hardrive (IDE1). Problem is this: Since I am running Windows XP on my

FreeBSD STABLE, CURRENT and upgrading

2004-10-21 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi All, I am using FreeBSD since 5.2 RELEASE and I am now running 5.2.1 RELEASE. I upgraded between the two versions from scratch that means I backuped the main configuration files and directories (like home), deleted the old version, installed the new one and reconfigured the whole system. As

tar a complete drive excluding one directory

2004-10-17 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I want in FreeBSD RELEASE 5.2.1 tar a complete / system except one directory e.g. /mnt where I want to store the tar archive. In linux I do: cd / tar cvzf /mnt/root.bak-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz . --exclude=proc --exclude=mnt Trying this in FreeBSD is not accepted because tar is still trying

Re: tar a complete drive excluding one directory (solved)

2004-10-17 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Radek Kozlowski wrote: On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 03:24:45PM +0200, Oliver Fuchs wrote: Hi, I want in FreeBSD RELEASE 5.2.1 tar a complete / system except one directory e.g. /mnt where I want to store the tar archive. In linux I do: cd / tar cvzf /mnt/root.bak

ext2fs cannot be umounted

2004-10-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I am using FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and have compiled my kernel with optinion: options EXT2FS In my /etc/fstab I have added: /dev/ad0s6 /mnt/debian ext2fs rw 0 0 to mount my debian box. everything works fine except one thing: Shutting down via shutdown -p

Re: ext2fs cannot be umounted

2004-10-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Radek Kozlowski wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:17:41AM +0200, Oliver Fuchs wrote: Hi, I am using FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and have compiled my kernel with optinion: options EXT2FS In my /etc/fstab I have added: /dev/ad0s6 /mnt/debian

Midi sequencer and sound sample programm

2004-09-14 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi all, I am searching for a good midi sequencer and/or sample audio programm/wave-editor. At the moment I am using on 5.2: aube ecawave sweep Thanx in advance Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: question about /var/spool/clientmqueue

2004-09-02 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004, joshua wrote: Hi, all I found there is a directory named /var/spool/clientmqueue and many many file below this directory, what's use of this directory and the files under it? thanks. From SECURITY.gz you get: [...] Mail will end up in the client queue if the

Re: no keyboard after boot

2004-08-15 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 08:31:31AM +0200, Oliver Fuchs typed: On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Alex Melkomukov wrote: Hello All, I have a strange situation where the PS/2 keyboard stops working after booting to FreeBSD. There is no mouse

Re: cd and dvd burning program K3b and permissions for non-root users.

2004-08-15 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, edwinculp wrote: I've installed K3b and it works great for the root user but I can't get it to work for any non-privileged user even though I have put the user in the wheel group and have set sysctl vfs.usermount=1, cd0 has permissions set to 666, the same in

Re: no keyboard after boot

2004-08-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Alex Melkomukov wrote: Hello All, I have a strange situation where the PS/2 keyboard stops working after booting to FreeBSD. There is no mouse. It works fine during POST, I can navigate and set BIOS settings, and can even hit the 'enter' key to start booting FreeBSD

Re: Monitor Resolution???

2004-08-10 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: Hello All, I have a question that may be trivial to most however, I don't seem to know how to modify my monitor resolution. I am using FreeBSD without X windows install. Text only and the font and overall resolution is 'HUGE'. I recently

k3b and select single audio track from audio cd

2004-07-23 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I installed k3b on my FreeBSD 5.2-1 RELEASE. I do not understand how to select single audio tracks from an audio cd via drag an drop. I can see the tracks from my audio cd but k3b refuses to select one and drag it over to my project. Do I have to rip the complete audio cd first or am I

Re: k3b and select single audio track from audio cd (solved)

2004-07-23 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Oliver Fuchs wrote: Hi, I installed k3b on my FreeBSD 5.2-1 RELEASE. I do not understand how to select single audio tracks from an audio cd via drag an drop. I can see the tracks from my audio cd but k3b refuses to select one and drag it over to my project. Do I

fortune database

2004-07-19 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I created a new fortune database containing 12259 german epigrams/adages (Deutsche Sprichwoerter). It is based on the collection of Karl Simmrock Die deutschen Sprichwoerter. Because I do not know where to put it else so you can get the tar archieve from:

Re: How do I change the envelope from address in sendmail

2004-07-09 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004, BALU G.S wrote: Hi, What's the proper way to get sendmail to use [1]user at domain.com instead of [2]user at machine.domain.com? Regards, Hi, add: FEATURE(`genericstable', `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl

Re: Turning off submission (587) port

2004-07-07 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004, Chris wrote: Folks, I would prefer to shut this port down if I can. I'm unsure if and how it can/do it. Other then that, would there be an effective ipfw rule that would block this? If the above needs recompiling sendmail, then I would certainly prefer

Re: tar problem

2004-07-01 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004, Bruce Hunter wrote: I am trying to archive this directory for backup purposes. I am getting this error when trying to create a new tar file. Solisix/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar -c Solisix/ tar: /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Operation not supported

Re: sendmail +userdb + Release 4.10p1

2004-06-30 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, hostname.mc ~` dnl define(`confUSERDB_SPEC',/etc/mail/userdb.db) Cwwormhole.pcs MASQUERADE_AS(`bcx.co.za')dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl

Re: sendmail +userdb + Release 4.10p1

2004-06-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greeting, How do i translate any outgoing mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to indicate [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have tried the genericstable as well as the userdb and no luck attached is my configs, please assist. I've tried the config setups below

Re: fetchmail question

2004-06-27 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Bikrant wrote: Hi... I am trying to retrive mails using fetchmail and then deleiver it locally using sendmail. I found that fetchmail adds the following header in every messages that it retrives from the pop server. Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain

Re: Sendmail permission problems

2004-06-27 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Jamie LaPointe wrote: I am having problems with a Perl based application (Bugzilla 2.16.5) that uses Sendmail. I recently upgraded from Sendmail version 8.9.3 to 8.12.10 and am using FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release. I installed this version of Sendmail from the Ports collection

screen 4.00.01 FREEBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE cannot read .bash_profile

2004-06-17 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I am using screen 4.00.01 on FREEBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. Running the csh-shell everything works correctly inside screen. But I have a user who is running the bash-shell. Now this is happening: Screen cannot read the .bash_profile unless I set the option in .screenrc: shell

Re: screen 4.00.01 FREEBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE cannot read .bash_profile (solved)

2004-06-17 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Andy Harrison wrote: Hi, first of all I have to correct my test results: Not correct: [...] .bash_profile. If the alias is set in .cshrc: alias vi vim screen is running vim when typing vi (although the shell is still bash).

Re: archivemail-0.6.1 not working as expected

2004-06-01 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004, Simon Barner wrote: Oliver Fuchs wrote: Hi, I want to use archivemail-0.6.1 (Python 2.3.2) on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. I have three questions/problems with the proper use: 1) I get the error message: /usr/local/bin/archivemail:760: SyntaxWarning: assignment

archivemail-0.6.1 not working as expected

2004-05-31 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I want to use archivemail-0.6.1 (Python 2.3.2) on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. I have three questions/problems with the proper use: 1) I get the error message: /usr/local/bin/archivemail:760: SyntaxWarning: assignment to None (None, last_dir) = os.path.split(os.path.dirname(message.fp.name)) I

Re: How To Copy A Group of Files To Different Name?

2004-05-18 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Drew Tomlinson wrote: How can I copy a group of files to a different name. I want to copy all files starting with 'bacula*' to 'bacula*.old'. So I have these four files: blacklamb# ll bac* -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 949 Apr 22 09:13 bacula-barcodes -rw-r- 1

Re: How to update binary-files?

2004-04-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Oliver, Try: # cd /cdrom/base; ./install.sh # cd /cdrom/ports; ./install.sh and so on. Read INSTALL.HTM-2 Distribution Format on the CD. Yes but I do not want to upgrade the base system but instead the non-base-system binaries

Re: How to update binary-files? (solved)

2004-04-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 07:40:10AM +0200, Oliver Fuchs wrote: I would like to know how to upgrade binary-files on my FreeBSD system. I get them from a vendor on 4 CDs. I have read how to upgrade the kernel, the port and the base system but I

Re: How to update binary-files? (solved)

2004-04-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 07:40:10AM +0200, Oliver Fuchs wrote: I would like to know how to upgrade binary-files on my FreeBSD system. I get them from a vendor on 4 CDs. I have read how to upgrade the kernel, the port and the base system but I

How to update binary-files?

2004-04-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I would like to know how to upgrade binary-files on my FreeBSD system. I get them from a vendor on 4 CDs. I have read how to upgrade the kernel, the port and the base system but I cannot find a documentation how to upgrade these installed binary-packages from my new cdroms? Oliver -- ...

Re: keybell off in rc.conf disables my keyboard in 5.1 release (solved)

2004-02-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Oliver Fuchs wrote: Hi, I installed FreeBSD 5.1 with a new kernel (here I only added options VGA_WIDTH90). I want do disable the PC's internal beep, so I added from man rc.conf this to rc.conf: keybell=off. After rebooting I was not able to type in anything

Re: cron and anacron

2004-02-04 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004, Bjorn Eikeland wrote: Looks like it (from port collection): Port: anacron-2.3 Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/anacron Info: Schedules periodic jobs on systems that are not permanently up Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: sysutils B-deps: expat-1.95.6_1 gettext-0.12.1

cron and anacron

2004-02-02 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I use linux on my laptop and installed FreeBSD on my PC. In linux I used anacron to get all the lost cron jobs my laptop was not on. Is there something similar (or is anacron ported to FreeBSD) on FreeBSD? Thanx for any help. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit

Re: framebuffers?

2004-01-23 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hello, I'm used to having framebuffers in Linux, and I would like to have that in FreeBSD too. I have already reconfigured and recompiled my kernel with options VESA enabled. Then I added this 2 lines to /etc/rc.conf:

keybell off in rc.conf disables my keyboard in 5.1 release

2004-01-14 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I installed FreeBSD 5.1 with a new kernel (here I only added options VGA_WIDTH90). I want do disable the PC's internal beep, so I added from man rc.conf this to rc.conf: keybell=off. After rebooting I was not able to type in anything with my keyboard at the login - there was absolutely no