From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 23:15:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF2916A400 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:15:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao104.cox.net (eastrmmtao104.cox.net [68.230.240.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623AF13C43E for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:15:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao104.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20070606231540.KRSF8179.eastrmmtao104.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:15:40 -0400 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id 8PFe1X00B4iy4EG0000000; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:15:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:18:21 -0500 To: "Kevin Miller" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4665EE5F.3000306@gmail.com> <46672954.2080000@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <46672954.2080000@gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.21 (Linux) Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome-system-tools problems (still) X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:15:40 -0000 On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:38:28 -0500, Kevin Miller wrote: > Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:14:39 -0500, Kevin Miller >> wrote: >> >>> I posted this message a couple weeks ago but I guess nobody saw it, or >>> whatever. >>> >>> I have tried updating my cvs sources and updating packages, but am >>> still having the same problems. Maybe someone will see this that will >>> have an idea. >>> >>> I am running FreeBSD 6.2 with gnome 2.18.1 compiled and installed from >>> ports. >>> >>> I am having problems with all of the tools, specifically the >>> shares-admin, and services-admin. >>> >>> None of the gnome-system-tools, even the ones that work, ask for a >>> password if logged in as a normal user. I've tried removing user from >>> wheel group, and they still never ask. >>> >>> > ---- snippity ---- >>> >>> samba, and gnome are running, as well as dbus, polkitd, avahi, the >>> system-tools-backends, and hal. I get no errors on startup from those. >>> >>> Any suggestions? >> >> The system-tools-backend and gnome-system-tools need some love from >> someone to get them port full. >> >> Cheers, >> Mezz >> > > Sounds about right... So, am I not the only one to have this problem, or > is there anything that can be suggested I do? Hack and port it. :-) Other way is to use real ways such as there are tools that are available in base system. For example, if you want to add a new user, use adduser. If you need to edit network, edit in /etc/*. Cheers, Mezz > Thanks -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org