From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 14 01:01:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F6B16A423 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:01:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F46443D45 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:01:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 83053 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2006 01:01:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.6?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@69.235.31.215 with plain) by smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Jan 2006 01:01:25 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: je killen Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:01:23 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: Re FreeBSD v 6.0 (boxed cd set) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:01:27 -0000 (On e-Machine with Intel Sempron processor and 256 mb memory). I'm not able to log into x via kdm as root and not able to su to root when in Gnome (or KDE for that matter). It also goes through what seem to be excessive sleep cycles (two lasting at least a minute apiece) during the boot process to establish the system's name. It refused ssh from my Mac OSX machine (It starts sshd on boot, which also takes a noticeable amount of time) What ftp server is recommended for FreeBSD? (There doesn't seem to be any provided by default install) How do I tell it who it really is? (Is it trying to contact a DNS server and/or /etc/hosts ?) How can I get set up to su to root in a console window? (Or do I have to learn to live with it?) If I can't get set up to su to root in a console window, how can I log into an x session as root? (Does it have to do with security levels, or who is a member of the 'wheel' group? Even Mac OSX only allows sudo -- and it is based on FreeBSD, isn't it?) Thanks JK This is definitely the most active list I've subscribed to (203 total e-mail load yesterday when usually 30 -50 per day with 3 other tech related list subscriptions)