Re: Shared Partitions?

2004-06-28 Thread Thomas Moyer
Okay so using a FAT partition is not a good idea. What about the other way around. Share /home/user for Windows XP to access. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-28 Thread Jon Noack
On 06/27/04 03:06, Remi wrote: See that's I'm thinking, the raw performance is very attractive to me!! So what's this about a p4 1.7 outperforming a 2.8? You got link to benchmarks? -Original Message- From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 8:23 PM

Re: Shared Partitions?

2004-06-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:05:48 -0400 Thomas Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Fat32 partition that I use to share files between Windows and FreeBSD. I have it mounted on /home and when it mounts the owner of all the files is root and the group is wheel. Is there a way to change that so

Re: changing cards in a reader

2004-06-28 Thread hoe-waa
Scott Mitchell wrote Hi Robert, Weird - that's what works for me, so I don't know how much more help I can offer, but here are a few suggestions that might help us figure out what's going on... Boot with 128MB card installed. hp# ls -l /dev/da* crw-r- 1 root operator4, 20 Jun 26

Warning: E-mail viruses detected

2004-06-28 Thread MailScanner
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Re: [from newbies] RE: IPFW2 + 4.10

2004-06-28 Thread Matt Juszczak
Matt, IPFW2 is not compiled into 4.10 by default. At a shell, type man ipfw, then a single forward slash (to bring up the search tool), then search for STABLE a couple of times directions are in there Here it is anyway USING IPFW2 IN FreeBSD-STABLE ipfw2 is standard in FreeBSD

Re: Mirrors needed?

2004-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Brad Pugh wrote: I just wanted to see if you guys in need of anymore mirrors for you're downloads? If so how much space does you're downloads need? Thanks for your offer. Please refer to: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/mirror-requirements.html -- -Chuck

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One way is to put your local changes into files/patch-aa [1] using diff format. Other times it's as simple as defining some environment variables by passing them into make, via /etc/make.conf, etc. But what happens to the file files/patch-aa after I do

dhclient with reconfigured SSID

2004-06-28 Thread Stephan van Beerschoten
Hi, Somebody on the block has recently bought him or herself WLAN hardware which interferes somewhat with mine. When my laptop (5-CURRENT) is booting, it requests a dhcp address and for that it needs to associate itself with a SSID. Unfortunately my card almost always connects to my neighbors

Re: cue images

2004-06-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 27 Jun Daniel Eriksson wrote: Jeremy Faulkner wrote: What international standard describes their format? Windows is not a standard. Many times a de-facto standard is just as important/valid as a real standard. That's precisely what M$ is aiming at. It's just a wrong attitude. A

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Michal Pasternak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: David O'Brien [Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 04:00:26PM -0700]: You do know you can run FreeBSD/i386 on the Athlon64 3200+ laptop, right? :-) A 3200+ running 32-bit FreeBSD will out-perform the P4 2.8GHz running the same OS. ... but will it outperform it also

what types of network cards work with thinkpads?

2004-06-28 Thread Gary Kline
Well, I'm seeing some promising thinkpads over on ebay. Some with 10/100 netword card, most without. Cann nybody clue me in on what types of laptop NICs work with FBSD? thanks muchly, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org

Problem restarts

2004-06-28 Thread Mark Terribile
Hi, I'm having a problem with spontaneous restarts. This isn't a new problem, but I've done the obvious things and the problem hasn't gone away. I was thinking of asking on -hackers, but I'm trying here first. The system is a 4.8 with a mix of patches and port upgrades of various ages. I'm

mc and kde 3.2

2004-06-28 Thread Javier Ramirez
Hi I have a question, why freebsd 5.2.1 don't have mc ? and how adapt kde 3.2 to my freebsd 5.2.1 ? regards Javier Ramirez ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

mc and kde 3.2

2004-06-28 Thread Javier Ramirez
Hi I have a question, why freebsd 5.2.1 don't have mc ? and how adapt kde 3.2 to my freebsd 5.2.1 ? regards Javier Ramirez ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

RE: Updating source code manually

2004-06-28 Thread Iain Dooley
thanks all for your suggestions. i'll refrain from running the portupgrade on KDE whilst KDE is running. as for the patch procedures you guys suggested, i'm actually looking for a way to do it without using the ports system at all. the problem is that kdebase takes so long to build, and as we

Maximum uptime 497 days?

2004-06-28 Thread Rob
Hi, By accident I happen to come across this remarkable limit of uptime registration for FreeBSD systems. After 497 days, the timer jumps to zero again. 497 days is less than a 1.5 years ! Has this been fixed in newer versions of FreeBSD (stable and/or current) ? Or is there a hardware limitation

Linux Mozilla and Java Error?

2004-06-28 Thread Henrik Hudson
Hey List- I'm trying to get linux Mozilla to work the linux Java SDK. Linux Mozilla itself works fine and have Flash plugins working, but when I symlink to the Java JRE (the ns610-gcc3.2 one) I get an error on starting Mozilla. [libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such

Re: HPA LCD for X?

2004-06-28 Thread Andy Harrison
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 16:42:24 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fellow BSDers, A friend here in Seattle offered to sell his IBM laptop for $100. It needs a new CDROM drive and I don't think it has a NIC. I've been poking around the web and found

sysinstall in a jail

2004-06-28 Thread Frederick N. Brier
I am running into a problem installing packages via sysinstall within a jail using the CD media. I did a minimal install, but added the /usr/src directory. I followed the directions to setup a jail and copied /stand/sysinstall into the jail subdirectory. As per the directions, I then

ipfw help needed

2004-06-28 Thread Incoming Mail List
I'm having a problem with the logic of ipfw-2 on 5.2.1. I have a 4 port NIC (de0, de1, de2, de3) and separate networks on each port. All routing is working fine and trying to work with dynamic rules but not getting the results I'm expecting. For simplicity, I am only working with two of the

Re: fetchmail question

2004-06-28 Thread Bikrant Neupane
I have put following content in my fetchmailrc. poll pop.wlink.com.np localdomains wlink.com.np:                protocol pop3 user bikrant with pass xxx to samit xyz test bikrant here Now it is working fine :) regards, Bikrant On Sunday 27 June 2004 19:45, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: On

a quick mailing list question

2004-06-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
I've been going though transfering all the freebsd mailing lists I've subscribe to over to one account... the small problem I ran into is this, I can send emails from this new account fine, but for some reason if I send something to a list, it does not appear to show up... I niether recieve it nor

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-28 Thread Richard Caley
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kai Grossjohann (kg) writes: kg Software is written for users, isn't it? From observation I would say that most software is written against users. As for FBSD, I hope it is being written for the enjoyment of those writing it, since that is the best insurance that

Re: can't mount 300G USB drive that's FAT32

2004-06-28 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Bill Moran wrote: Dan Finn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FAT32 wasn't my choice. They needed to be writen to by a linux server but they want to be able to take these and just plug them into a windows server if need be. We knew that linux writing ntfs wasn't a good choice so we decided on FAT32. Is

ISP Connection problem - ADSL

2004-06-28 Thread Bryce
Hi, Im a freeBSD newbie have been struggling for some time to get my adsl connection working on Freebsd 5.2.1 Release. I've tried many suggested configurations for /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, and /etc/rc.conf read relevant chapters from 'Complete FreeBSD' the handbook, but my connection still dies

Error in mjpegtools compile

2004-06-28 Thread Erik Mossberg
Hello, When I try to build mjpegtools 1.6.2 from ports, compile fails with this error: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../utils -I/usr/local/include -D_THREAD_SAFE -mcpu=i686 -march=i386 -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ffast-math -march=pentium4 -pthread -Wall -Wunused -MT quantize_x86.lo

help please? corrupted hard disc - invalid super block.

2004-06-28 Thread Rob
Hi! I have a hard disc that I think must have been set up wrong initially... It was however working fine, but at some point filled up to capacity, wherapon the next reboot it failed to mount. System is 4.8-RELEASE, Generic Kernel. Currently the disc shows: luggage# mount -r /dev/ad5s1e /mnt

m0n0BSD: IPSec configuration

2004-06-28 Thread Andy Holyer
I'm playing with m0n0BSD on Soekris boards, FreeBSD Stable 4.10. I need to get an IPSec tunnel up to allow us to connect to legacy systems which use IPSec connection (and which we can't do much with. The various web resources seem confusing on this - different pages mention different

FreeBSD 4.10r Installation trouble on Intel ICH-5R system.

2004-06-28 Thread pr0vider
Hello! I've tried to install FreeBSD 4.10 on Supermicro P4SCE System with 2 SATA HDD's on onboard Intel's ICH-5R SATA RAID Controller. There is a trouble with HDD detection if ICH set to RAID mode. In IDE mode - there are no problems and Hdd's correctly detected as /dev/ad4 and dev/ad6. The

Re: cue images

2004-06-28 Thread artifex
Is there any program that runs on fbsd that allows burning cue files? I did not find anything about it on the burncd man page. .bin/.cue files are not standard. Use ports/sysutils/bchunk to convert them to a standard ISO image. Actually, bin/cue is pretty much standard (at least in the win32

Re: IP alias + NAT through a single NIC?

2004-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Romain Kang wrote: I have a single physical network with 2 disjoint address spaces in it. Logical Net 1 is routable, while Logical Net 2 is in private space intended to keep devices there safe from the outside. Now I need to allow some Net 2 devices the capability to access the web, and putting

status of porting pf and spamd from OpenBSD to FreeBSD

2004-06-28 Thread Jay Moore
I heard some time ago that work was going on to port pf (and spamd, I think) from OpenBSD to FreeBSD. I also recently saw an announcement on the FreeBSD home page that Daniel Hartmeier had joined the FreeBSD team as a committer - a further indication that this work is underway. I'm just

Re: what types of network cards work with thinkpads?

2004-06-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
Well, I'm seeing some promising thinkpads over on ebay. Some with 10/100 netword card, most without. Cann nybody clue me in on what types of laptop NICs work with FBSD? My TP R30 has an Intel NIC, picked up by FreeBSD with the fxp driver. Never had any problems... Steve

calculating/timing dump/restore

2004-06-28 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Hi all, I would like to time a dump/restore operation without actually sitting next to my box with a stopwatch. Specifically restore as dump already indicates the time it took. Can anybody help me out here? Thanks, Ruben ___ [EMAIL

Re: dhclient with reconfigured SSID

2004-06-28 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: Why idea how I can preconfigure an SSID for dhclient ? Just use ifconfig wi0 ssid FOO to lock it. Dw. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: what types of network cards work with thinkpads?

2004-06-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
Well, I'm seeing some promising thinkpads over on ebay. Some with 10/100 netword card, most without. Cann nybody clue me in on what types of laptop NICs work with FBSD? Go to: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware-i386.html for V 4.10 on i386 or:

firewall for web server

2004-06-28 Thread Peter Zyumbilev
Hello, Do you know some good tutorial for bulding firewall for FreeBSD as web server. I found a lot of tutorials but for FreeBSD as router. Some commented premade script with comments will also do the job. I was plannding to use APF, but I am afarid to install it on FreeBSD without good tutorial.

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:03:52PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: So far my athlon 64 3200+ has been one of the coolest running processors I've ever owned... although I've never used it in a laptop, my friend's p4 2.8 is running a lot hotter... Yes, current AMD64 CPUs are fairly lower power

Re: voodoo 2

2004-06-28 Thread platanthera
On Saturday 26 June 2004 20:34, arden wrote: hi all I've been trying to re-use some old pcs i have kicking around i really amazed at how much you can do with a k6/2 400 if you tweak it right one of these pcs has an 16 meg voodoo 2 card is it possible to use the 3d functions of this card

Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot)

2004-06-28 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:57:42 +0300, Dancho Penev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:25:24AM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: For label use /boot/boot file, /boot/boot0 is for mbr. /hd is the temporary directory I created to mount /dev/ad0s2a, so I guess my slice is

Re: ISP Connection problem - ADSL

2004-06-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
Im using an Alcatel Speedtouch 530 Modem connected to Ethernet. My ADSL connection is fine in Windoze however the configuration for the modem is usually set through a web-browser. Do the modem settings(done via browser) affect the connection in FBSD or does the system simply take the

Re: Updating source code manually

2004-06-28 Thread Sergey Zaharchenko
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 06:05:40AM +0500, Iain Dooley probably wrote: thanks all for your suggestions. i'll refrain from running the portupgrade on KDE whilst KDE is running. as for the patch procedures you guys suggested, i'm actually looking for a way to do it without using the ports

Compaq EVO wont boot at 5.2.1 CDROM

2004-06-28 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hi I am unable to install the 5.2.1 on a Compaq EVO When I bootup with the CDROM it starts then crash with some various hexadec characters then the following message BTX halted thanks for any infos -- Cordialement, Frank Bonnet ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

firewall for web server

2004-06-28 Thread Peter Zyumbilev
Hello, Do you know some good tutorial for bulding firewall for FreeBSD as web server. I found a lot of tutorials but for FreeBSD as router. Some commented premade script with comments will also do the job. I was plannding to use APF, but I am afarid to install it on FreeBSD without good tutorial.

Re: Problem restarts

2004-06-28 Thread Bill Moran
Mark Terribile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with spontaneous restarts. This isn't a new problem, but I've done the obvious things and the problem hasn't gone away. I was thinking of asking on -hackers, but I'm trying here first. The system is a 4.8 with a mix of

Re: status of porting pf and spamd from OpenBSD to FreeBSD

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 28 June 2004 01:36 am, Jay Moore wrote: I heard some time ago that work was going on to port pf (and spamd, I think) from OpenBSD to FreeBSD. I also recently saw an announcement on the FreeBSD home page that Daniel Hartmeier had joined the FreeBSD team as a committer - a further

Re: Problem restarts

2004-06-28 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 19:44, Mark Terribile wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with spontaneous restarts. This isn't a new problem, but I've done the obvious things and the problem hasn't gone away. I was thinking of asking on -hackers, but I'm trying here first. The system is a 4.8 with a

Re: calculating/timing dump/restore

2004-06-28 Thread Alexey Karguine
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:52:50 +0200 Ruben Bloemgarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I would like to time a dump/restore operation without actually sitting next to my box with a stopwatch. Specifically restore as dump already indicates the time it took. Can anybody help me out here?

Re: mc and kde 3.2

2004-06-28 Thread platanthera
On Monday 28 June 2004 02:55, Javier Ramirez wrote: Hi I have a question, why freebsd 5.2.1 don't have mc ? and how adapt kde 3.2 to my freebsd 5.2.1 ? regards Javier Ramirez hi Javier, mc and kde3 are in the ports collection. see chapter 4 of the handbook

Re: Compaq EVO wont boot at 5.2.1 CDROM

2004-06-28 Thread Alexey Karguine
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:47:00 +0200 Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am unable to install the 5.2.1 on a Compaq EVO When I bootup with the CDROM it starts then crash with some various hexadec characters then the following message BTX halted thanks for any infos Try to turn off

Re: Maximum uptime 497 days?

2004-06-28 Thread Maxim Konovalov
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, 12:39+0900, Rob wrote: Hi, By accident I happen to come across this remarkable limit of uptime registration for FreeBSD systems. After 497 days, the timer jumps to zero again. 497 days is less than a 1.5 years ! Has this been fixed in newer versions of FreeBSD

Re: Maximum uptime 497 days?

2004-06-28 Thread Ken Smith
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 05:19:10PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, 12:39+0900, Rob wrote: By accident I happen to come across this remarkable limit of uptime registration for FreeBSD systems. After 497 days, the timer jumps to zero again. 497 days is less than a 1.5

Re: sysinstall in a jail

2004-06-28 Thread Frederick N. Brier
I do not know whether this is the proper way of doing it, but I mounted the CD using mount -v -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /usr/jail/myjail/dist Then I went back into the jail'ed environment, started up sysinstall, selected Configure/Media, choosing File System, specifying /dist, then selecting

Re: calculating/timing dump/restore

2004-06-28 Thread David Thakur
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:52:50 +0200, Ruben Bloemgarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try 'man time'. Works like this: 'time command'. David Hi all, I would like to time a dump/restore operation without actually sitting next to my box with a stopwatch. Specifically restore as dump already

FW: help please? corrupted hard disc - invalid super block.

2004-06-28 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
It looks like you wrote the disklabel for the slice to the disk or vice-versa. If you check /dev there probably isn't a /dev/ad5s* there. Try mounting /dev/ad5e instead of /dev/ad5s1e. To verify, do a bsdlabel ad5s1 to see if you have a disklabel for the slice. Otherwise you could : 1.backup

Re: Problem restarts

2004-06-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
I'm having a problem with spontaneous restarts. This isn't a new problem, but I've done the obvious things and the problem hasn't gone away. I was thinking of asking on -hackers, but I'm trying here first. I have a mail server that is doing this exact thing. Very spontaneous, more

Re: Maximum uptime 497 days?

2004-06-28 Thread Michael W. Lucas
Hi, This tickles something in the back of my memory. You aren't by chance talking about remote uptime detection, Netcraft-style, are you? IIRC, that rolls over to 0 at 497 days. But actual system uptime is unaffected. ==ml On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:39:30PM +0900, Rob wrote: Hi, By

Re: cue images

2004-06-28 Thread Sergey Zaharchenko
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:39:46PM +0200, artifex probably wrote: Where are the international standard that describe the ISO file (not the filesystem!) format? \From the mount_cd9660 manpage MOUNT_CD9660(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual MOUNT_CD9660(8) NAME mount_cd9660 -

Re: ISP Connection problem - ADSL

2004-06-28 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Bryce wrote: Hi, Im a freeBSD newbie have been struggling for some time to get my adsl connection working on Freebsd 5.2.1 Release. I've tried many suggested configurations for /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, and /etc/rc.conf read relevant chapters from 'Complete FreeBSD' the handbook,

Datasize change

2004-06-28 Thread Dave Raven
Hi all, I'm having a problem where I need to allow a proccess to use up to 1.5gig of memory, however its going to be a problem to recompile my kernel. I know that these options would solve the problem: options MAXDSIZ = (1536 * 1024 * 1024) options DFLDSIZ = (1536 * 1024 *

Re: Hi

2004-06-28 Thread DoMenus
Hello freebsd-questions, Monday, June 28, 2004, 1:57:16 PM, you wrote: fqfo I hope the patch works. yeah! Its works! -- Best regards, DoMenusmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Maximum uptime 497 days?

2004-06-28 Thread Charlie Schluting
Rob wrote: Hi, By accident I happen to come across this remarkable limit of uptime registration for FreeBSD systems. After 497 days, the timer jumps to zero again. Not here.. 8:00AM up 1074 days, 11:58, 0 users, load averages: 0.57, 0.26, 0.10 That's on 2.1.0-RELEASE, BTW :) -Charlie

Re: Updating source code manually

2004-06-28 Thread Robert Huff
Sergey Zaharchenko writes: Just a minute. You shouldn't portupgrade KDE when KDE is running, but you should be able to run `make' to build everything while KDE is running, shut down KDE and `portupgrade -w' afterwards (which will use the binaries built by `make' and install them,

FreeBSD desktop newcomer (Enemy Territory players read) - need minor help

2004-06-28 Thread klr
Hi list, After sucessfully playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Enemy Territory on FreeBSD 5.2.1, I decided to switch my workstation to freebsd. I have large experience on the server side but kinda new to the desktop. Here are some minor annoyances i'm not being able to solve: 1. I've added

Re: Intel Ethernet card not being detected

2004-06-28 Thread Richard P. Williamson
At 16:52 25/06/2004. Simon Barner had this to say: Richard P. Williamson wrote: [...] Here another thing you could try: I once had a problem with a 3Com NIC not being detected properly when the driver was compiled statically into the kernel. Removing it and using the module instead made it

Re: Maximum uptime 497 days?

2004-06-28 Thread Rob
Michael W. Lucas wrote: Hi, This tickles something in the back of my memory. You aren't by chance talking about remote uptime detection, Netcraft-style, are you? IIRC, that rolls over to 0 at 497 days. But actual system uptime is unaffected. Yes, I read it first time on a Netcraft's webpage, then

Re: status of porting pf and spamd from OpenBSD to FreeBSD

2004-06-28 Thread Mark Frank
* On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:36:55AM -0500 Jay Moore wrote: I heard some time ago that work was going on to port pf (and spamd, I think) from OpenBSD to FreeBSD. I also recently saw an announcement on the FreeBSD home page that Daniel Hartmeier had joined the FreeBSD team as a committer - a

Trying to install Flash... BUT

2004-06-28 Thread Douglas Korinke
S, I am on a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with FBSD 4.9 running KDE 3.1.4 and attempting to get a Flash plugin working.. So I goto the HowTo at KDE's site at: http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php and follow the directions to the line.. but nothing is still going for me. I

Re: Maximum uptime 497 days?

2004-06-28 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:40:53AM +0900, Rob wrote: Michael W. Lucas wrote: Hi, This tickles something in the back of my memory. You aren't by chance talking about remote uptime detection, Netcraft-style, are you? IIRC, that rolls over to 0 at 497 days. But actual system uptime is

Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Your Name
I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how to do this? There's nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING. I see that some people have reported general success, but I'm worried that I'll miss something or forget about rebuilding something in the three days it'll

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Chris
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:10 am, Your Name wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how to do this? There's nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING. I see that some people have reported general success, but I'm worried that I'll miss something or forget

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:15 am, Chris wrote: On Monday 28 June 2004 11:10 am, Your Name wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how to do this? There's nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING. I see that some people have reported general success,

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Chris
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:25 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 28 June 2004 11:15 am, Chris wrote: On Monday 28 June 2004 11:10 am, Your Name wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how to do this? There's nothing in

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Your Name
--- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 June 2004 11:10 am, Your Name wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how to do this? There's nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING. I see that some people have reported general success, but I'm

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:30 am, Chris wrote: On Monday 28 June 2004 11:25 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 28 June 2004 11:15 am, Chris wrote: On Monday 28 June 2004 11:10 am, Your Name wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Chris
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:31 am, Your Name wrote: --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 June 2004 11:10 am, Your Name wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how to do this? There's nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING.

Re: dhclient with reconfigured SSID

2004-06-28 Thread Stephan van Beerschoten
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: Why idea how I can preconfigure an SSID for dhclient ? Just use ifconfig wi0 ssid FOO to lock it. Will this lock the ssid during reboots as well ? If not, that actually is what I am looking for.

Re: dhclient with reconfigured SSID

2004-06-28 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: Will this lock the ssid during reboots as well ? If not, that actually is what I am looking for. Ah - ok - putting into /etc/r.conf ifconfig_wi0=ssid foo will lock it during/after reboots; but kills the DHCP. Options are -

Re: Reinstalling And /usr

2004-06-28 Thread Rishi Chopra
--- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jun 21), Rishi Chopra said: What is the effect on the /usr partition when reinstalling over an installation? I suffered a kernel panic that wiped my MBR; I'd like to simply reinstall with the same partition/slice values -

Re: a quick mailing list question

2004-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Vulpes Velox wrote: I've been going though transfering all the freebsd mailing lists I've subscribe to over to one account... the small problem I ran into is this, I can send emails from this new account fine, but for some reason if I send something to a list, it does not appear to show up... I

Re: Intel Anypoint PCMCIA ethernet card

2004-06-28 Thread Adam Wynne
Is there a way for me to increase the verbosity of pccard's output? I couldn't find such an option specific to pccard in LINT. Would options DIAGNOSTIC do this for me? Thanks --- Adam Wynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get my pcmcia ethernet card working on my laptop. It is the

Re: a quick mailing list question

2004-06-28 Thread Peter
I have the same problem ! Best regards, Peter - Original Message - From: Chuck Swiger To: Vulpes Velox Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 8:08 PM Subject: Re: a quick mailing list question Vulpes Velox wrote: I've been going though transfering all the freebsd mailing

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how to do this? There's nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING. I see that some people have reported general success, but I'm worried that

Re: firewall for web server

2004-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Peter Zyumbilev wrote: Do you know some good tutorial for bulding firewall for FreeBSD as web server. I found a lot of tutorials but for FreeBSD as router. First, are you building a firewall or a web server? If you're building a firewall, you don't want to run any services like WWW at all on the

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Jim Trigg
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:13:53PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how to do this? There's nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING. I see that

Re: Problem restarts

2004-06-28 Thread User LAFFER1
I had a similar problem with a server recently. The issue turned out to be the NIC/NIC driver. I changed it over to a 3com and it worked like a charm ever since. I'm also using that power supply in a server. I've noticed it gets very hot under load. I believe that model only has one fan

Re: a quick mailing list question

2004-06-28 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Peter wrote: I have the same problem ! Best regards, As was said before: there seems to be some sort of knot in the wires today. One of my messages was several hours on its way. Uli. Peter - Original Message - From: Chuck Swiger To: Vulpes Velox Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Chris
On Monday 28 June 2004 12:13 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how to do this? There's nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING. I see that some

Re: firewall for web server

2004-06-28 Thread Peter
I am budiling a web server. Since it is ina remote data center wher I do not contrl the router I prefer I to build firewall on the www server. APF http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php very popular firewall in the linux world. Thanks, Peter - Original Message - From: Chuck Swiger To:

Re: firewall for web server

2004-06-28 Thread Chris
On Monday 28 June 2004 12:44 pm, Peter wrote: I am budiling a web server. Since it is ina remote data center wher I do not contrl the router I prefer I to build firewall on the www server. APF http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php very popular firewall in the linux world. Thanks, Peter Yes

Re: FreeBSD desktop newcomer (Enemy Territory players read) - need minor help

2004-06-28 Thread Andreas Davour
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, 1. I've added a 'paw' menu to access the main menu, but I'd like the win-key to open this menu. possible? Almost anything is possible, if you work hard enough. Please tell us more about what your environment is before you expect any

Re: Updating source code manually

2004-06-28 Thread Sergey Zaharchenko
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:16:16AM -0400, Robert Huff probably wrote: Sergey Zaharchenko writes: Just a minute. You shouldn't portupgrade KDE when KDE is running, but you should be able to run `make' to build everything while KDE is running, shut down KDE and `portupgrade -w'

Re: Trying to install Flash... BUT

2004-06-28 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 12:09, Douglas Korinke wrote: S, I am on a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with FBSD 4.9 running KDE 3.1.4 and attempting to get a Flash plugin working.. So I goto the HowTo at KDE's site at: http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php and follow the

Re: a quick mailing list question

2004-06-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:08:31 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vulpes Velox wrote: I've been going though transfering all the freebsd mailing lists I've subscribe to over to one account... the small problem I ran into is this, I can send emails from this new account fine, but

Burn

2004-06-28 Thread James Mooney
I down loaded the newest version release 5.2.1 i386 and I seem to have a problem burning disk 2 it says ziped it is 268 megs but when I unzip it and try to burn it to CD it says it is 799 megs ?? Any ideas? James Mooney IT Dept Decatur Hotels Corp 317 Magazine St New Orleans La.70130 504-962-5582

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:17:56 -0400 Jim Trigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:13:53PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple

Re: Burn

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 28 June 2004 01:12 pm, James Mooney wrote: I down loaded the newest version release 5.2.1 i386 and I seem to have a problem burning disk 2 it says ziped it is 268 megs but when I unzip it and try to burn it to CD it says it is 799 megs ?? Any ideas? James Mooney Are you talking

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I was unaware that FreeBSD switched to X.org from XFree86. Did we switch or is there name confusion? Are both offered in the newer ports? FreeBSD didn't switch. xorg is an alternative to xfree86 and some people try if it works. See www.x.org and

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Jim Trigg
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:17:56 -0400 Jim Trigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAICT, this won't really do anything -- there does not appear to be a real way to tell the ports system that you want X ports to depend on xorg instead of

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