Re: [FreeBSD] Seti help

2004-06-19 Thread Peter Risdon
LW Ellis wrote: I downloaded the setiathome package. As far as I know everything went OK. It would have been much better to use the port, which launches you straight into registration after make install. It's almost always better to use the port if there is one. WHen I boot the system I get a

FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Joe Schmoe
I have attempted to install 5.2.1-RELEASE on four (very) different computers today: - dell inspiron laptop - toshiba libretto - some other toshiba laptop - Intel N440BX p3 server (with fxp0 and Intel onboard SCSI) Every single time, I boot off kern.flp, move on to mfsroot.flp, and as sysinstall

mysql install problem Continued

2004-06-19 Thread LW Ellis
OK force didn't work, but I renamed hostname to localhost, until the install was done. When I rebooted it showed mysql started. Now please can you tell me how to access it. In Dreamweaver, I need a SQL (server) generally an IP address. I have named running on my machine, do I need to configure

Re: Sendmail and /var/spool/mqueue

2004-06-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 17, 2004, at 2:39 PM, Bill Moran wrote: What does it mean when I have a lot of files in /var/spool/mqueue? I don't really understand what that particular queue is for. That is the queue of unsent messages which sendmail will periodicly attempt to resend (every four hours, by default).

RE: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Joe Schmoe I have attempted to install 5.2.1-RELEASE on four (very) different computers today: Every single time, I boot off kern.flp, move on to mfsroot.flp, and as sysinstall is booting, after most of the dmesg has passed by, it suddenly starts spitting out error messages at an

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 18), Joe Schmoe said: I have attempted to install 5.2.1-RELEASE on four (very) different computers today: - dell inspiron laptop - toshiba libretto - some other toshiba laptop - Intel N440BX p3 server (with fxp0 and Intel onboard SCSI) Every single time, I

Solved mysql install problem

2004-06-19 Thread LW Ellis
Thanx I muddle thru it from here. Have a good weekend. Leon - Original Message - From: Kjell Midtseter To: LW Ellis Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 12:52 AM Subject: Re: mysql install problem Continued On 19 Jun 2004 at 0:26, LW Ellis wrote: OK

Solved [FreeBSD] Seti help

2004-06-19 Thread LW Ellis
Thanx Peter I was not only type thing wrong, I was trying to use the start command as well Turns out I was missing a lib item from another package. Taken care of. Thanx again Leon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Sendmail slow...

2004-06-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:07:21PM -0600, Scott Stahl wrote: Sendmail on my new FreeBSD 4.10 box seems to be VERY slow. When I use the PHP mailer function it sometimes takes almost a minute to run sendmail. On a closer look at my maillog there doesn't seem to be any errors and to log

Re: mysql install problem Continued

2004-06-19 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 19 Jun 2004 at 0:26, LW Ellis wrote: OK force didn't work, but I renamed hostname to localhost, until the install was done. When I rebooted it showed mysql started. First you have to let the SQL server know what databases and users you want to use: 1) Set password for root user after

help!

2004-06-19 Thread ORACLE .
when i start the gnome i get this error Could not look up internet address This will prevent Gnome from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding the file /etc/host. Log on anyway? Cancell? i am getting this error when i start the gnome please tell me what to

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-06-18T23:17:14-0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: A line that starts with: spec_getpages A line that starts with: vm_fault: pager One of the lines ends with: 0xc4866000 (can't tell which) One of the lines contains: md0: I/O read failure One of the lines contains the word: sysinstall

how to mount /dev/ad0s1?

2004-06-19 Thread Julian D. Seifert
Hi guys, I have a 40gb harddisk with 2 windows(fat32) partitions and 1 fbsd partition. I am using fbsd 5.2.1(with devfs). /dev/ad0 tells me the first partition on my harddisk is a windows fat32 partition (as it should be). When i try to mount it with: mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win_c or

Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-19 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hi, Robert Downes a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried to install the last freebds4.10 on an ASUS PUNDIT, from the iso images downloaded from the freeBSD website. But it can't install. It stops on a : ata0 : resetting devices I had that problem. I disabled UDMA (Ultra DMA) in the BIOS,

Re: help!

2004-06-19 Thread Julian D. Seifert
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:58:46 -0700 (PDT) ORACLE . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i start the gnome i get this error Could not look up internet address This will prevent Gnome from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding the file /etc/host. Log on anyway?

Re: Double messages

2004-06-19 Thread Kristofer Jarl
lör 2004-06-19 klockan 06.23 skrev Scott Stahl: I'm new to this list... and I seem to be getting all the meesages on this list in duplicate. Thanks, Scott. Strange, are you sure you are not subscribing to the list with two different addresses, one of which is redirected the other? That

pflogsumm not summarizing log messages

2004-06-19 Thread dave
Hello, 5.2.1 system latest postfix and pflogsumm via ports I get daily summaries from pflogsumm but they all show zeroes for everything, even though i've sent emails during the time periods under observation. I use amavisd-new and spamassassin, and am wondering if these could be contributing

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-19 Thread Patrick Useldinger
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Before I answer to this question, I cannot help noting that you don't *HAVE* to compile everything from source. In fact, if you install a RELEASE version of FreeBSD and use pkg_add to install the binary, precompiled packages of just the applications you are going to

Re: how to extract 512 bytes from a file

2004-06-19 Thread Sergey Zaharchenko
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:36:04PM -0400, Thomas Farrell probably wrote: I was thinking I could take a working avi and extract the first 512 bytes and insert it into the beginning of a bogus file. Does anyone think this may work? Given the number of compression formats actually hiding under

Mounting a multicard reader (FBSD)

2004-06-19 Thread Jason Oakley
Ive managed to mount the CF card in my multicard reader: /dev/da0s1 129254313349792024%/mnt/CF But not the SD card port on the same reader. I'm guessing it's /dev/da1s1 but I used MAKEDEV on it and I still can't mount it. $ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/da1s1 /mnt/SD msdos:

Re: help!

2004-06-19 Thread Brett Wiggins
hey, had the same problem, add the following line to /etc/rc.conf; hostname=localhost hope this helps. Brett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

removal of question

2004-06-19 Thread Rammal -
Hello! Please remove my this question from FreeBSD mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/034758.html Thanks. -Rammal - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

ram disk

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Diaguila
Greetings Trying to create a ram disk with this command and seeing the error below. #mount -t -o -s1048576,noasync /dev/sd0s1b /var/spool/file mount: exec mount_mfs not found in /sbin, /usr/sbin: No such file or directory I'm googling and looking through archives, but nothing so far. Any

Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-19 Thread Phil Schulz
Bernard Dugas wrote: Hi, Robert Downes a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried to install the last freebds4.10 on an ASUS PUNDIT, from the iso images downloaded from the freeBSD website. But it can't install. It stops on a : ata0 : resetting devices I had that problem. I disabled UDMA

Re: help!

2004-06-19 Thread Simon Barner
ORACLE . wrote: when i start the gnome i get this error Could not look up internet address This will prevent Gnome from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding the file /etc/host. Log on anyway? Cancell? i am getting this error when i start the gnome

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 19, 2004, at 3:26 AM, Michael W. Oliver wrote: On 2004-06-18T23:17:14-0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: So the question is, has any person, anywhere, at any time, successfully installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on any hardware whatsoever ? Or is it just a practical joke release ? That's a tad caustic, don't

CMS Software

2004-06-19 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi, I was wondering if anyone can comment on the following :- I am looking to install some CMS software and to run my web site long term on FreeBSD. I am thinking something on the lines of phpWebsite, PostNuke/PhpNuke or similar (ie easy for me to install and maintain / update - don't need

Re: Mounting a multicard reader (FBSD)

2004-06-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 19 June 2004 04:18 am, Jason Oakley wrote: Ive managed to mount the CF card in my multicard reader: /dev/da0s1 129254313349792024%/mnt/CF But not the SD card port on the same reader. I'm guessing it's /dev/da1s1 but I used MAKEDEV on it and I still can't

FreeBSD Wiki

2004-06-19 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, I was just wondering something :- I have used in the past Trustix Linux which has a nice Wiki page http://doc.trustix.org/cgi-bin/trustixdoc.cgi?TrustixWiki It includes some nice step by step configs for that distro and I think its great that peeps can add there own info and

Re: ram disk

2004-06-19 Thread Andy Harrison
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:56:04 -0400, Paul Diaguila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #mount -t -o -s1048576,noasync /dev/sd0s1b /var/spool/file mount: exec mount_mfs not found in /sbin, /usr/sbin: No such file or directory Instead of mount, you ought to use the mount_mfs command. It should also be

blocking internally

2004-06-19 Thread John Lee
hi, i have 7 ips on one box, however they can't connect internally to each other IP ports. please advise. here's my setup: rc.conf: defaultrouter=63.223.65.1 ifconfig_sis0=inet 63.223.65.192 netmask 255.255.255.0 /etc/ips.added: ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.65.193/32 alias ifconfig sis0 inet

USB drive questions

2004-06-19 Thread stan
I had a vendor give me a USB memory stick as a promotional giveaway yesterday. Kind of amazing theat they have gotten cheap enough for this. In any case, I pluged it into my laptop with STABLE on it (cvsuped last weekend). It recognized the device, and told me it was a generic USB storage deviec.

memory

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Diaguila
Greetings I've added a gig of memory to a 5.1 system. When booting, it shows 1024 meg. Looking in the dmesg log, it says: real memory = 268414976 (255 MB) avail memory = 251363328 (239 MB) I would expect to see real memeory at 1024 also What don't I understand thanks... Paul

Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-19 Thread Robert Downes
Bernard Dugas wrote: Thanks very much, Robert, it was the udma option : but this is quite inefficient if I can't use UDMA with FreeBSD ? FreeBSD will drop down to PIO mode, probably mode 4. According to Scott Mueller's book, PIO mode 4 offers up to 16.67 MB/sec, whereas UDMA can offer up to 100

Re: USB drive questions

2004-06-19 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:13:22AM -0400, stan wrote: I had a vendor give me a USB memory stick as a promotional giveaway yesterday. Kind of amazing theat they have gotten cheap enough for this. In any case, I pluged it into my laptop with STABLE on it (cvsuped last weekend). It recognized

Re: Bittorrent not in ports?

2004-06-19 Thread Jez Hancock
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 06:38:23PM -0700, Julian M. Mason wrote: ...is bittorrent really not in ports? my usual # cd /usr/ports ; make search name=bittorrent and # whereis bittorrent turned up nothing; nor did a wandering around /usr/ports/net. Do I have to actually go and get

This is a test

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce
This is a test! Bruce ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NFS Port

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hi all, I am able to connect to my NFS system like so mount 192.168.1.14:/home/NFSave /mnt/coreserver I want to connect from outside my network, like when I'm at school. What port(s) does NFS run off. I have to do port forwarding on my Router/Firewall. Thanks so much Bruce

Application commands without having to restart

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hello everyone, I just installed a port. Usually, a application has a define command to start it and can be run from anywhere on the command line. When you first install an application. The command isn't available to the system until after a reboot. How do I make the system aware? Refresh the

Re: removal of question

2004-06-19 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rammal - wrote: | Hello! | Please remove my this question from FreeBSD mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/034758.html | Thanks. | -Rammal That is not possible. - -- Jeremy Faulkner

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-19 10:58, Patrick Useldinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Before I answer to this question, I cannot help noting that you don't *HAVE* to compile everything from source. In fact, if you install a RELEASE version of FreeBSD and use pkg_add to install the

Re: Application commands without having to restart

2004-06-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
How do I make the system aware? Refresh the commands list? Any reading material on this? # rehash Cheers, sb Thanks for your help Bruce ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: NFS Port

2004-06-19 Thread Renato Marques
NFS will not work travessing a firewall doing NAT or RDR. NFS uses the RPC protocol that controls what ports NFS are going to use, so the Fiewall know nothing about this and block the traffic. You could be setting a VPN... Hi all, I am able to connect to my NFS system like so

Re: memory

2004-06-19 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Diaguila wrote: | Greetings | | I've added a gig of memory to a 5.1 system. When booting, it shows 1024 | meg. Looking in the dmesg log, it says: | real memory = 268414976 (255 MB) | avail memory = 251363328 (239 MB) | | I would expect to see

Re: Application commands without having to restart

2004-06-19 Thread Bernt. H
Bruce Hunter wrote: Hello everyone, I just installed a port. Usually, a application has a define command to start it and can be run from anywhere on the command line. When you first install an application. The command isn't available to the system until after a reboot. How do I make the system

Re: Application commands without having to restart

2004-06-19 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruce Hunter wrote: | Hello everyone, | | I just installed a port. Usually, a application has a define command to | start it and can be run from anywhere on the command line. When you | first install an application. The command isn't available to the

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-19 Thread Matt Juszczak
Renato Marques wrote: Hmmm.. I really can't think about some solution... All of them involve a router before, in or after the bridge. How about proxying before the bridge? I think that my be an option. I'll have to think on it, I appreciate your help though. Thanks!

Re: Application commands without having to restart

2004-06-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-13 01:41, Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I just installed a port. Usually, a application has a define command to start it and can be run from anywhere on the command line. When you first install an application. The command isn't available to the system until

RE: Application commands without having to restart

2004-06-19 Thread JJB
Enter rehash command -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bruce Hunter Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Application commands without having to restart Hello everyone, I just installed a port. Usually, a

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-19 Thread Robert Huff
Patrick Useldinger writes: True for the CDs. But once you want to upgrade, things get more complicated. For example, I did not find a package for OpenOffice 1.1.1 in the offical places, although OO is certainly an excellent candidate for a package. If you have not found in

RE: FreeBSD Wiki

2004-06-19 Thread JJB
What you are talking about is commonly refereed to as how-to Do an google search on FreeBSD + how-to for list of sites which accept your type of how-to write ups. You can post your how-to to all the sites that will accept them. There is noting like that in the official FreeBSD.org environment.

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-19 Thread Thomas Farrell
You can do it with a cisco like this. You can pickup a used 250x series cheap. Just make sure you are using IOS 12 ip nat pool trans 10.10.10.0 10.10.10.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 ip nat inside source list 1 interface Ethernet0 overload ip nat inside source static tcp 10.10.10.13 110 interface

Re: NFS Port

2004-06-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 01:20:57PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: I am able to connect to my NFS system like so mount 192.168.1.14:/home/NFSave /mnt/coreserver I want to connect from outside my network, like when I'm at school. What port(s) does NFS run off. I have to do port forwarding on my

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread j . e . drews
Hello Joe: You may want to look here for advice on installing also. The FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ Maybe you should just get CD 1 of FreeBSD 5.2.1 and try installing from that? Kind regards,

Memory / Swap Space Problem

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce
Hi all, I am having problems with my swap space. Maybe. I'm not sure what's going on, to be honest. If my memory is at 100% load and I just keep opening apps, shouldn't at some point my swap space be used? Its always 0% [EMAIL PROTECTED] swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail

Re: blocking internally

2004-06-19 Thread Pavel Duda
John Lee wrote: hi, i have 7 ips on one box, however they can't connect internally to each other IP ports. please advise. here's my setup: rc.conf: defaultrouter=63.223.65.1 ifconfig_sis0=inet 63.223.65.192 netmask 255.255.255.0 /etc/ips.added: ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.65.193/32 alias ifconfig

Re: login troubles (password prompt is slow to appear)

2004-06-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
RF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: installed... and the password prompt still takes forever to appear. Anyone know what's going on? I heard something about FreeBSD doing a DNS on every connecting IP and that adding my IP (which is unfortunately not static) to etc/hosts would bypass the lookup...

Re: blocking internally

2004-06-19 Thread Pavel Duda
John Lee wrote: hi, i have 7 ips on one box, however they can't connect internally to each other IP ports. please advise. here's my setup: rc.conf: defaultrouter=63.223.65.1 ifconfig_sis0=inet 63.223.65.192 netmask 255.255.255.0 /etc/ips.added: ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.65.193/32 alias ifconfig

interrupt storm on irq 7

2004-06-19 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi, I keep receiving messages about interrupt storm on irq 7 and my device being throttled down on my -CURRENT machine. The result is very slow printout. Does anybody else see this, or is there a workaround for it? Regards, Uli. P.S.I am using cups - perhaps this causes the problem?

Re: Memory / Swap Space Problem

2004-06-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having problems with my swap space. Maybe. I'm not sure what's going on, to be honest. If my memory is at 100% load and I just keep opening apps, shouldn't at some point my swap space be used? Not necessarily. See:

Re: Mounting a multicard reader (FBSD)

2004-06-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 07:45:28AM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Saturday 19 June 2004 04:18 am, Jason Oakley wrote: Ive managed to mount the CF card in my multicard reader: /dev/da0s1 129254313349792024%/mnt/CF But not the SD card port on the same reader. I'm

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-19 Thread Patrick Useldinger
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Indeed, packages-4-stable, packages-4.10-release on ftp.freebsd.org don't include openoffice. A search at google though yields: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ which does list FreeBSD packages of OO-1.0.3 and OO-1.1.0 :-) Which is not 1.1.1 or the latest 1.1.2.

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Matt Juszczak wrote: Is there a way to do IP redirection without using layer 3? (IPNAT or routing)? I have a bridge setup and want to redirect any port 80 traffic outgoing through the bridge to a specific server but it seems I can only do this with ipfw's forward/fwd or ipnat's rdr

Re: Turning off sshd version display when someone telnets to port.

2004-06-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Emperor of Florida wrote: [ ...concealing the purpose of a port... ] Currently when you telnet to it you will see: Escape character is '^]'. SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.6.1p1 YbrickRd As Jeremy said, SSH depends on exchanging the version of the procotols it is using in order for both sides to figure out

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Jorn Argelo
So the question is, has any person, anywhere, at any time, successfully installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on any hardware whatsoever ? Or is it just a practical joke release ? I'm not going to tell you again that the installation media is bad, because everybody else said that already. But something

Re: CMS Software

2004-06-19 Thread Mike
Graham Bentley wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone can comment on the following :- I am looking to install some CMS software and to run my web site long term on FreeBSD. I am thinking something on the lines of phpWebsite, PostNuke/PhpNuke or similar (ie easy for me to install and maintain /

problems installing applications that need GTK

2004-06-19 Thread Marco Beishuizen
Hi, Since I upgraded to 4.10-STABLE I have a lot of problems installing programs. Trying to install by FTP with sysinstall always results in errors and sysinstall core dumps when it's accessing the cdrom. Also installing from the ports results in a lot of errors. It looks like a lot of

Re: blocking internally

2004-06-19 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Jun 19, 2004, at 06:11, John Lee wrote: hi, i have 7 ips on one box, however they can't connect internally to each other IP ports. please advise. Counting below, you only reference 6 IP addresses on the box: 63.223.65.192, 63.223.65.193, 63.223.71.2, 63.223.71.3, 63.223.71.4, and 63.223.71.5.

recording from a dlink dsb-r100 usb radio.

2004-06-19 Thread George Hartzell
I'm trying to become sound savy. I have a D-Link DSB-R100 usb radio, and Sony Vaio PCG-Z505-JE laptop running: FreeBSD rosebud.alerce.com 4.9-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p5 #20: Tue Apr 20 10:02:23 PDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROSEBUD i386 I kldload the ufm.ko

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-19 17:59, Patrick Useldinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Is it possible to satisfy all the users with precompiled packages? No. My argument is the other way round: build a package will *all* available options. It will be bloated, but still smaller (in

Re: FreeBSD Wiki

2004-06-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Saturday 19 June 2004 07:46 am, Graham Bentley wrote: Is there any such resource for FreeBSD ? It's not official, but I host exactly such a thing at: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/WebHome -- Kirk Strauser pgpOGhUD3RzKM.pgp Description: signature

FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-19 Thread Lloyd Hayes
I finally decided that I needed to get more information on FreeBSD. I got it up and running, then I did something else and I start getting errors again So I just ordered 3 books on FreeBSD from Amazon. In most of the reviews posted there about the books, people were complaining about weak

Re: FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-19 Thread Remko Lodder
Lloyd Hayes wrote: I finally decided that I needed to get more information on FreeBSD. I got it up and running, then I did something else and I start getting errors again So I just ordered 3 books on FreeBSD from Amazon. In most of the reviews posted there about the books, people were

Re: Application commands without having to restart

2004-06-19 Thread Julian M. Mason
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 05:27:02PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I don't remember about zsh, but I think it has a 'rehash' command too. GNU bash should take care of this automagically. zsh needs the 'rehash' command; bash does not. --Mac -- Julian Mac Mason

Re: FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-19 Thread Tom McLaughlin
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 14:23, Lloyd Hayes wrote: I finally decided that I needed to get more information on FreeBSD. I got it up and running, then I did something else and I start getting errors again So I just ordered 3 books on FreeBSD from Amazon. In most of the reviews posted

Re: FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-19 Thread Jorn Argelo
Lloyd Hayes wrote: I finally decided that I needed to get more information on FreeBSD. I got it up and running, then I did something else and I start getting errors again So I just ordered 3 books on FreeBSD from Amazon. In most of the reviews posted there about the books, people were

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-19 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On the other hand, the OpenBSD-people advise using packages instead of ports. See http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#PortsvsPkgs I guess it's just a matter of personal taste and needs. GH On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 05:11:22PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-06-19 10:58, Patrick

flayra@overmind.org no longer valid

2004-06-19 Thread Nobody
Hello there, Due to getting thousands of messages of spam every day, I had to shut off this account. Please head on over to http://www.unknownworlds.com to get my new contact info if needed. Sorry for the inconvenience. -Charlie ___ [EMAIL

Re: This is a test

2004-06-19 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:59:49AM -0400, Bruce wrote: This is a test! Bruce It worked ;-) but please use freebsd-test@ for this. GH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: FreeBSD Wiki

2004-06-19 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:46:45PM +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: I have used in the past Trustix Linux which has a nice Wiki page http://doc.trustix.org/cgi-bin/trustixdoc.cgi?TrustixWiki [...] Is there any such resource for FreeBSD ? Not wishing to step on Kirk's toes but there is another

Re: FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-19 Thread Tom McLaughlin
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 15:40, Jorn Argelo wrote: Lloyd Hayes wrote: I finally decided that I needed to get more information on FreeBSD. I got it up and running, then I did something else and I start getting errors again So I just ordered 3 books on FreeBSD from Amazon. In most of

Re: FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-19 Thread peter lageotakes
--- Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally decided that I needed to get more information on FreeBSD. I got it up and running, then I did something else and I start getting errors again So I just ordered 3 books on FreeBSD from Amazon. In most of the reviews posted there

Disabling DHCP

2004-06-19 Thread Dave
I want to turn DHCP on my router off. How can I use FreeBSD to get an IP addresss from it? When the system boots, it runs dhclient, which hangs for awhile before getting anything. What is the better way? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: FreeBSD Wiki

2004-06-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Saturday 19 June 2004 02:54 pm, Andy Smith wrote: Not wishing to step on Kirk's toes but there is another one at the URL in my signature [...] No toe-stepping was inferred. :) As you said, making it available is the important part. -- Kirk Strauser pgpij0IgDYlsD.pgp Description:

Re: Disabling DHCP

2004-06-19 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:40:41PM -0700, Dave wrote: I want to turn DHCP on my router off. How can I use FreeBSD to get an IP addresss from it? When the system boots, it runs dhclient, which hangs for awhile before getting anything. What is the better way? Using a fixed IP, by adding

Re: Sendmail for Large Sites

2004-06-19 Thread Jay Moore
On Friday 18 June 2004, Martin McCormick wrote: How well does the administration of Sendmail scale up to sites serving as many as 25,000 users? ... My thanks to everybody who answered my questions. If we end up doing major revisions to our present mail system, I will have

Re: Disabling DHCP

2004-06-19 Thread Jay Moore
On Saturday 19 June 2004 05:11 pm, Geert Hendrickx wrote: I want to turn DHCP on my router off. How can I use FreeBSD to get an IP addresss from it? When the system boots, it runs dhclient, which hangs for awhile before getting anything. What is the better way? Using a fixed IP, by

Re: problems installing applications that need GTK

2004-06-19 Thread Andy Harrison
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:56:57 +0200 (CEST), Marco Beishuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like a lot of programs need gtk20, which doesn't install correctly. When I try gtk20 the error is: Please clarify doesn't install correctly. -- Andy Harrison

Re: An easy virtual pop solution not involving qmail?

2004-06-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Saturday 19 June 2004 06:15 pm, Chris Smith wrote: Is there an easier to manage solution that DOESN'T involve qmail where I don't need to give users REAL accounts? I'm using Cyrus IMAP (and POP) on my FreeBSD server. There is no direct correlation between Cyrus accounts and system

UFS2 and ufs2 documentation ?

2004-06-19 Thread Joe Schmoe
Quick question - when I run `mount` or view /etc/fstab in fbsd 5.x, I just see ufs as the filesystem type. How can I get some kind of output that assures me that those volumes are indeed UFS2 volumes ? How do I verify that ? Second, where can I find documentation on ufs2 and snapshotting,

Re: An easy virtual pop solution not involving qmail?

2004-06-19 Thread Bill Moran
Chris Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm currently writing a proposal to replace our crapped out Redhat 9 web server with FreeBSD 5-STABLE when it appears. In the process, I need to do something with the mail server running on it. It's currently sendmail with virtual domains and one

Re: An easy virtual pop solution not involving qmail?

2004-06-19 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:15:30AM +0100, Chris Smith wrote: Hi, I'm currently writing a proposal to replace our crapped out Redhat 9 web server with FreeBSD 5-STABLE when it appears. In the process, I need to do something with the mail server running on it. It's currently sendmail with

Re: problems installing applications that need GTK

2004-06-19 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Sat, 19 Jun 2004, the wise Andy Harrison entered: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:56:57 +0200 (CEST), Marco Beishuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like a lot of programs need gtk20, which doesn't install correctly. When I try gtk20 the error is: Please clarify doesn't install correctly. I

Re: Mounting a multicard reader (FBSD)

2004-06-19 Thread Jason Oakley
Fantastic! Thanks, Scott! That did the trick! At 01:31 AM 20/06/2004, you wrote: What does 'camcontrol devlist' say? Probably it will just list one device (da0) that - as you've found - corresponds with the CF slot on your card reader. The other slots are probably mapped to other LUNs (Logical

OpenOffice and Java downloads are such a pain!

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce
I can't believe how much of a pain installing Open-Office 2.0 from the ports collection is. The port fails and tells me I need to download a file from Sun because of licensing restrictions, so I download the file it tells me too. Then start the compiling over again. Once again, I need a different

Cannot compile jdk14 for Freebsd 5.2.1 - weired problem occures

2004-06-19 Thread Lukasz Koszanski
make install === Installing for jdk-1.4.2p6_4 === jdk-1.4.2p6_4 depends on executable: javavm - found === jdk-1.4.2p6_4 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW/fonts.dir - found This is basically what happens: Please use `make -DWITH_DEBUG' if you want to install libraries and

Re: OpenOffice and Java downloads are such a pain!

2004-06-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Saturday 19 June 2004 07:32 pm, Bruce wrote: I can't believe how much of a pain installing Open-Office 2.0 from the ports collection is. The port fails and tells me I need to download a file from Sun because of licensing restrictions... Be sure you're distinguishing between OOo and Java.

Re: LED proggy question

2004-06-19 Thread W. D.
Hey Hugo, Thanks for the info! I don't think that the rest of the list got the reply because [EMAIL PROTECTED] wasn't in one of the recipient fields. I don't know why the list doesn't include it. Regards, W. D. At 05:40 6/19/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: Hey, I got this working, but

Re: FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-19 Thread j . e . drews
Hi Lloyd: I heartily recommend FreeBSD: An Open-Source OS for your PC. by Annelise Anderson http://www.bsdmall.com/freebosforyo.html This is the book for absolute beginners. If you think a port is a place where ships dock and bash is a goth discoteque dance, then this is the book you should be

Miscellaneous Problems

2004-06-19 Thread Douglas Korinke
Hi, I'm a 2 week old FreeBSD 4.9 user who has never used UN*X in my entire life and I was running into a few problems that I haven't been able to find help with. I have been attempting to get my pcmcia wireless card running on my laptop, I have identified the driver to install (wi), but am

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