PASSWORD LOST!!

d with no forwarding. I you have need for more information I will supply it. I just don't know where to start. Our company's ftp is down and doesn't look like it will return anytime soon with out further assistance. Thank you for your time and have a great day. -- Eric Peterse

RE: su to root not prompting for a password

pages > beyond the first, and google didn't help. > You probably clobbered master.passwd when you mergemastered. In all probability, root now has no password at all. Set one with passwd. Petersen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

lprps: ioctl(TIOCFLUSH): Operation not permitted

Hi I did something stuppid and messed up my lpd-setup. I looked around in KDE's "Printer Manager" in administrator-mode, and even though I didn't apply any changes it activated cupsd (should it do that?) which in turn overwrote my /etc/printcap. Now I can't get back to the old and working setup

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

ttery life - the >>>way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in FreeBSD 5? > > On 11/12/05, J. Martin Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'm using powerd, it's working great. > > Any advice on usage? I tried it and got this error: &g

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

Miles Keaton wrote: > I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if > anyone can explain ("for dummies") how to use the new cpufreq + > SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the > way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in FreeBSD 5? I

RE: portupgrade -ar (why?)

Peter Matulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The -a switch will upgrade a port only if its version number has >> increased (as you know). >> >> The -r switch will upgrade a port if one of its dependancies has b

RE: portupgrade -ar (why?)

l a library revision bump (i.e., if libfoo.1's ABI changed and broke apps, it shoulda been bumped to libfoo.2). Most times you can get away with not recompiling a port's dependants because developers, but if you don't then it can shoot you in the foot (read the recent list archives regarding openssl-0.9.8 to see an example of this). Petersen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Software to monitor RAID 5 Hardware on Dell Server.

Jayesh Jayan wrote: > Hi, > > I had disturbed you all with some doubts regarding freebsd before. > > Now i have servers up and running. > > I am using the monitoring tool named nagios for checking the services run on > the server. > > Now i am in need of a software or so to monitor the RAID har

Re: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

Xu Qiang wrote: Hi, all: I am installing MySQL 4.1.13 into my machine. It has finished successfully. But before or after that, I need create some user account rather than root by the command "groupadd mysql" and "useradd -g mysql mysql". However, these commands are not found in my FreeBSD 5.3

RE: ssh over a very bad http proxy :(

y does something it doesn't like (like closing the connection - it generally just crashes the hts process), but it does work. Works fine on cygwin too if you only have a windows machine at one end. Checkout the -P option. Petersen ___ freebsd-q

Per CPU load statistics

Hi Is it possible to get per CPU (load) statistics? It seems cp_time is a sum for all the CPUs, so is there another way to get this information? Cheers, Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

attaching an usb mp3-player to a device

Hi I'm trying to attach a mp3-player (usb) to /dev/mp3player but usbd wont "play ball". The mp3-player gets attached to /dev/da0. This is what I've done. # usbdevs -v Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), VIA(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 addr 2:

Re: ircd

kalin mintchev wrote: > > hi all... > > i found this 2 lines in the netstat output on one of my machines. we are > not running ircd and according to nmap ports 3483 and 2143 are closed... > > can somebody please explain?? thanks. > > tcp4 0 0 server.3484 zagreb.hr

Re: VPN through a FreeBSD firewall?

Per B wrote: > Second question: someone told me that the ZyXEL cannot handle 24 Mbit, > therefor I want to use the FreeBSD box instead. Can FreeBSD handle 24Mbit > from the ADSL modem? I think it can, anyone against? ;-) We're using a FreeBSD 5.3 machine with pf and AltQ as our firewall/gateway/na

Re: Italics not shown properly in OpenOffice

On Saturday 09 April 2005 18:10, Andreas Davour wrote: > Hi! > > I have a strange problem in OpenOffice 1.1.4 with italics. Text > formatted as italics doesn't show up in italics on screen. If I cut and > paste som text from an old document it hows up properly. This is very > strange, and a quite s

Re: xfce4 error

Matt Juszczak wrote: Installed xorg and xfce4 Then I get the following. Any ideas? Thank you! -Matt ---snip--- heather$ startxfce4 /usr/X11R6/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build O

RE: portaudit question

ithout bumping the kernel version number, portupgrade tells you that you can disable the check for this uuid in portaudit.conf. This of course assumes you actually have patched the cvs code in the base system (see the multiple security advisories issued on the cvs vulnerabilities for details on

devfs HOWTO... where?

I'm looking for a guide that describes the "magic" of devfs, devfs.conf, devfs.rules? Devfs is all "blackbox" to me. - Bjarne ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

R/W mount of / denied

After a system crash (e.g. a power failure), the terminal-less FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE I run does not boot up properly any more. Here is an excerpt from /var/log/messages: Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: / was not properly d

R/W mount of / denied

After a system crash (e.g. a power failure), the terminal-less FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE I run does not boot up properly any more. Here is an excerpt from /var/log/messages: Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dism

Re: StarOffice60 port help

On Saturday 22 May 2004 09:11, Hermes Trismegistus wrote: > Is there some documentation for installing port StarOffice60? I have > looked on freebsd.org, dutifully did my google'ing, and read all files in > "/usr/ports/editors/staroffice60". When I run "make" in the port > directory, I just get thi

Re: [samba] can't print from w2k to bsd printer

On Sunday 09 May 2004 22:07, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > I've spend several hours trying to get samba to play nice. I can get user > to login from windows to their bsd-account, mount CD's etc.. But I can't > get the users to print. I can see the printer and I can

Re: help: VCD Player for FreeBSD

On Monday 10 May 2004 20:13, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Hi, >If I already have the video cd, what else do I need > to be able to play vcd movies on X windows(im using > kde 3.1.4, freebsd4.9). In Windows, I usually locate > the .dat file in Mpeg folder inside the vcd itself and > open it in M

[samba] can't print from w2k to bsd printer

Hi I've spend several hours trying to get samba to play nice. I can get user to login from windows to their bsd-account, mount CD's etc.. But I can't get the users to print. I can see the printer and I can install it. But when I click on the installed printer I get "access denied". I've tried

libintl.so.4 not found when loading javaplugin in Firebird

Hi! I get this when I start firebird: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/diablo-jre1.3.1/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [Shared object "libintl.so.4" not found] I don't know what it means or whether it's firebird og diablo that's faulty, though the javavm seems

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

On Friday 14 November 2003 13:55, Rod Person wrote: > > cdrdao isn't a dependency for cdbakeoven nor KDE. > http://cdbakeoven.sourceforge.net/software.php > it's listed as a requirement on the web site for cd bake oven. But it's not a dependency in the portssystem! ;) And it shouldn't have any i

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

On Friday 14 November 2003 12:53, Rod Person wrote: > On Friday 14 November 2003 06:42 am, It was written: > > Ok... some of this was black talk to me. I just tested cdbakeoven as > > root, and the devices was recognised. So I get the "it's something about > > permission"-part. What I don't get is

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

On Friday 14 November 2003 03:49, Rod Person wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2003 11:47 am, It was written: > > On Wednesday 12 November 2003 17:13, Charles Howse wrote: > > > > Try reading 'man atapicam'. It tells you what needs to be done. > > > > > > Actually, I read the Handbook section on CD

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 17:13, Charles Howse wrote: > > Try reading 'man atapicam'. It tells you what needs to be done. > Actually, I read the Handbook section on CD's, added device atapicam to my > kernel config file, rebuilt the kernel. > Now my burner is detected in scanbus. Hmm... inter

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 14:38, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > I have an atapi cd burner that cdbakeoven doesn't see when starting. > > (output from dmesg) > acd0: CD-RW at ata0-slave UDMA33 > > I know I can use burncd, although I haven't tried it. > I want to get cdbakeoven working. > I assume

Re: portupgrade -arR

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 18:33, William O'Higgins wrote: > Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: > > portupgrade -arR Try the -n switch (ie. portupgrade -narR), this will show which ports will be upgraded without doing so. Bjarne ___

Re: Problems with latest version of VICE emulator

On Saturday 18 October 2003 16:45, Cory Bajus wrote: > I have been unable to get the latest version of the > VICE Commodore emulator working (1.13 - built from the > ports tree). The PET and Plus/4 emulator work, but > the C64 and C128 emulators just give me a screen full > of @'s and checkerboar

Re: xmms-arts plugin

On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:49, Todd Stephens wrote: > > I am having a lot of pain trying to compile the xmms-arts plugin > > available from xmms.org, since it is not in the ports anymore. If > > anyone uses the xmms-arts plugin on freebsd I would really appreciate > > any help. I am running

Problems

Hey there... I having some problems whit connection to ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/freebsd/snapshots/i386/4.6-release What is my problem... and who can´t i fixes it..? The best regard Tonny Petersen- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

RE: putting mount_smbfs -N into /etc/fstab

b/smbfs/mount_smbfs/* yet. > This can be solved with the smbfs config file. Please see /usr/src/contrib/smbfs/examples/dot.nsmbrc Petersen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: HDDs dividing rules

Behalf Of Peter Rosa said: > Hi all, > > Everywhere I looked, I found only words as "make your > own choice of partitioning schema" etc., but I think, there > must be some rules. How you define your partitions and what mount flags you use is very much dependant on what you're using the box for.

Re: Can't install/upgrade/remove ports

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 00:15, Dragoncrest wrote: > Just recently ran into an issue upgrading, removing, or installing > ports. For some strange reason when I compile the port, it's fine, but > as soon as the "make install" or any installing command runs it > immediately dumps out with an error si

Re: Resolving or blocking eg. doubleclick.net?

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 18:12, Marc Schneiders wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, at 14:53 [=GMT+0100], Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > > $TTL 36000 > > @ IN SOA frodo.my.domain. root.frodo.my.domain. ( > >

Re: Resolving or blocking eg. doubleclick.net?

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 14:43, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > I'm at loss to where to look else. The browser? Konq and phoenix/mozilla > shows the same "stalling" behavior *BUT* opera loads and display > <http://www.politiken.dk> in a snap. Hmm... wha

Re: Resolving or blocking eg. doubleclick.net?

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 12:43, Daxbert wrote: > I do this in named.conf... I'm still getting it to resolve *.doubleclick.net > zone "doubleclick.net" { > type master; > file "db.empty_zone"; > }; This I just cut'n'pasted. My /etc/named/db.empty_zone looks like this: $TTL

Re: Resolving or blocking eg. doubleclick.net?

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 13:15, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:01:14PM +0100, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:22, Daniel Bye wrote: > > > I have just tried to resolve doubleclick.net, and the first hit took > >

Re: Resolving or blocking eg. doubleclick.net?

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:22, Daniel Bye wrote: > I have just tried to resolve doubleclick.net, and the first hit took > around three seconds. Thereafter, with it cachedi locally, it came back > in at most 0.02 seconds. I reckon your best bet is to persevere - does > the cache demonstrate

Re: Resolving or blocking eg. doubleclick.net?

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:17, Daxbert wrote: > One option... cheat > > Make your dns server authoritative > for doubleclick.net, and have no entries > (or optionally your own web server as an * entry) > in the zone file. So, would that mean I should create an entry in named.conf like: zon

Re: Resolving or blocking eg. doubleclick.net?

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:18, Dax Eckenberg wrote: > is your problem with DNS in general? or doubleclick.net specifically? Sites running banners from doubleclick.net and a few others. Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubsc

Resolving or blocking eg. doubleclick.net?

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 10:43, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: > > 3) Since I'm only aiming for a dns-cache I'm right in assuming I should > > keep my hands away from all the zone-stuff? > Much better: follow the instructions in > http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/install.html and > http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-c

Getting dnscache working, howto?

Hi! I'm trying to set up a dnscache with the sole purpose to make resolving sites like doubleclick.net lock up my browsers, when FreeBSD is trying to resolve the IP. I've tried following the guidelines in but apparently I've

Re: [kde-freebsd] lpd/lpr "stopped" working

On Tuesday 04 February 2003 16:46, you wrote: > > "I" haven't installed cups, but looks like KDE "dragged" it along. So > > yes, cups-lpr seems to be installed and no cupsd is not runing. And I > > really don't like cups running, I'm quite happy with the systems lpr/lpd. > > So, can I remove safel

Re: [kde-freebsd] lpd/lpr "stopped" working

On Monday 03 February 2003 22:05, AlanE wrote: > >/usr/local/bin/lpr -P 'laserjet' '/var/tmp/kde-mekanix/kdeprint_pYNslYF' : > >execution failed with message: > >lpr: unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable" > That looks like a cups message; did you install cups-lpr as well? > And,

lpd/lpr "stopped" working

Hi! I'm a bit pussled. I can print from OpenOffice and Phoenix. But konq chokes: "A print error occured. Error message received from system: /usr/local/bin/lpr -P 'laserjet' '/var/tmp/kde-mekanix/kdeprint_pYNslYF' : execution failed with message: lpr: unable to print file: server-error-service-

RE: A vi for /bin?

> put a plain-text copy of the ed man page in /bin, but still...) > Assuming you have the object files from a buildworld hanging around, then cd /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/vi cc -O -pipe -o vi *.o -lncurses -static && strip vi && mv vi /bin/ should probably supply you with wha

Re: mplayer not in full screen mode

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 13:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > I have a problem that sounds like this: > I can see the image, I can hear the sound, but all I can see it's a default > window size, I mean I can't see in full screen mode. Here it's my video and > audio outputs: Have you tri

RE: smbfs - Is this still appropriate

> Is this command line still appropriate or has any of the mknod > parameters changed? > > Yes. Major node has not changed. Petersen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Resolving hostnames takes "forever"

On Saturday 02 November 2002 15:41, Matthew Seaman wrote: Thanks a lot, looks like it's doubleclick.net that is causing me headaches. Which makes sense since most pages that takes time loading have adds from doubleclick.net. Eg: # dig www.computerworld.dk ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> www.computerworld.

Resolving hostnames takes "forever"

Hi! I've got an annoying problem when surfing. The browsers (both konq. and phoenix/mozilla) needs a very long time (30-60 sec.) to resolve hostnames and I'm out of clues to why. My setup is something like: Cable-modem -> Router (speedstream 2601) -> switch -> FBSD-box I've enabled "Hostmappin

Re: ATAPI/CAM and cdbakeoven

On Friday 01 November 2002 19:54, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > Cdrecord 1.10 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.5) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg > > Schilling cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make > > sure you are root. > > cdrecord: Invalid argument. Invalid lun specifier in '01,00,00]'.

ATAPI/CAM and cdbakeoven

Hi! I've just upgraded to a new kernel that includes ATAPI/CAM. Now I'm trying to figure out how to use this with eg. cdbakeoven and I don't have much success. Eg. if I try to copy a music-CD, I can select my drive, but never gets any index loaded. Under "CD-ROM Devices" my DVD/CDRW-drives doe

Re: MPlayer playing DivX (was: divxPlayer)

On Thursday 31 October 2002 20:13, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > Like mplayer can't display the frames fast enough. Eg. looks like frame X > > gets displayed but halfway down frame X+1 takes over. Or perhaps some > > sort stop'n'go (ie. tiny "stops" in the flow). > Run mplayer with the -framedrop opt

Re: MPlayer playing DivX (was: divxPlayer)

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 20:53, Michael Joyner wrote: > > Not on this box. I get a lot of distortions using mplayer playing > > DivX-files > > (encoded with mencoder), while divxPlayer does it nicely... if it don't > > core-dumps, that is. > distortions? what kind? Like mplayer can't display th

MPlayer playing DivX (was: divxPlayer)

On Monday 28 October 2002 18:08, Michael Joyner wrote: > turn on your linuxulator > > btw, mplayer is a native player for *BSD that plays divx files very nicely. Not on this box. I get a lot of distortions using mplayer playing DivX-files (encoded with mencoder), while divxPlayer does it nicely.

Re: About to install FreeBSD as a Desktop...

On Saturday 21 September 2002 19:17, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > Yes, I prefer mplayer. But there is VLC, Xine and Ogle as well (all in > > ports). > I thought DVD playing required the use of patented mathematics (I know > it's mathematics, even if they call it algorithms or methods or even > s

Re: About to install FreeBSD as a Desktop...

On Saturday 21 September 2002 00:13, MET wrote: > Other than that I just need some > productivity apps, but nothing particularly special. S, what's the > REAL difference between 4.5 and 4.6.2? Well, bugfixes for one thing, but also some added functionality (FBSD keeps improving ;)). Best t

Re: Thoughts on Web Site Design / Builder apps?

On Monday 22 July 2002 14:48, Moti Levy wrote: > will that work on gnome and not kde ? You'll need install KDE to run. Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

RE: Bind in sandbox as per Handbook or FBSD Unleashed - valid or not? -Was Cannot start bind in sandbox?

Stacey, I dunno about the Handbook 2nd Edition (as I don't have a copy of it), but what I do know is that the current handbook, section 17.9.8 is correct. Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/dns.html Petersen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]