RE: upgrade

2004-08-11 Thread Eric Crist
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rail mail Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: upgrade moved from slowlaris to freebsd for a web server. it is in a production environment. will a binary

Re: Porting new Software into FreeBSD

2004-08-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
have not yet found a way to port it into FreeBSD ports. Can any body tell me how its done. Are there any documentation on how to do this? The new software is called RURS (Remote Unix Recovery Service). Simply said, it is the same as WINDOWS Gost utility. we already have dd and rsh. it's of

RE: Porting new Software into FreeBSD

2004-08-11 Thread Eric Crist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have not yet found a way to port it into FreeBSD ports. Can any body tell me how its done. Are there any documentation on how to do this? The new software is called RURS (Remote Unix Recovery Service). Simply said, it is the same as WINDOWS Gost utility. we already

Re: Graphical Problem FX5500

2004-08-11 Thread Stevan Tiefert
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 01:42, emre kurt wrote: I have a Nvidia Geforce FX5500 graphics card and xf86config program gives error everytime.And also i cant use graphical config tool because i see black screen. How can i configure my graphical environment ? Thanks for your interests

mod_python testing using mptest.py failed on FreeBSD5.2.1

2004-08-11 Thread Suhaimi Jamalludin
Hi All, Need your advice on mod_python. I'm running FreeBSD5.2.1, apache+mod_ssl-1.3.31+2.8.19 and mod_python-2.7.10. I have done the configuration seting on http.conf and restart my apache. Apache runing fine, however during my mod_python testing I got this error in my httpd-error.log. Error

gcc34 Question - Request for help

2004-08-11 Thread SP Network Solutions
Hi there, I have just install the gcc 3.4 into my FreeBSD 4.10 via the ports/lang after make, make check and make install it shows that all install... but when I type : gcc -v it still show my old version 2.95.4 My question is: How do I go about in making my machine to use the new gcc34? What

FreeBSD-MBR is not working

2004-08-11 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, when I install FreeBSD alone on my computer the system is booting normally. When I install Windows 98 before and then installing FreeBSD and boot afterwards the computer, the FreeBSD-MBR offers the menue to boot the systems, but every stroke on the keyboard causes a beep, the

Re: php5 libgd

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Risdon
antenneX wrote: From: Marc Cabanatuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:31 PM Subject: php5 libgd -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ive grabbed php5 and attempted to grab phpMyAdmin from ports and in doing so (php5 works fine) I receive the

Re: php5 libgd

2004-08-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 07:29:46PM -0500, antenneX wrote: From: Marc Cabanatuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:31 PM Subject: php5 libgd ive grabbed php5 and attempted to grab phpMyAdmin from ports and in doing so (php5 works fine) I receive the

Re: gcc34 Question - Request for help

2004-08-11 Thread Jan Grant
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, SP Network Solutions wrote: Hi there, I have just install the gcc 3.4 into my FreeBSD 4.10 via the ports/lang after make, make check and make install it shows that all install... but when I type : gcc -v it still show my old version 2.95.4 My question is: How do

Re: 5.2.1 hang during install attempt.

2004-08-11 Thread Dick Davies
try setting 'pnp os installed' to no in the bios, it's surprising how many hardware problems that can fix. * Egon Spengler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0830 05:30]: maxlat=0x00(0ns) intpin=a, irq=3 powerspec 2 supports D0 D1 D2 D3 current D0 map[10]: type

Re: localtime question

2004-08-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-08-11 10:44, Mipam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'd have to use strftime() and a local buffer for that. I found an example and adjusted it: #include time.h #include stdio.h int main() { struct tm *ptr; time_t tm; char str[60]; char str2[60]; char str3[60];

Open Office?

2004-08-11 Thread h.kriege
Hi there, Will Open Offoice run on Free BSD? regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Open Office?

2004-08-11 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:11:41AM +0200, h.kriege wrote: Hi there, Will Open Offoice run on Free BSD? regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it's in the ports collection (/usr/ports/editors). - Russell pgpUg00pRRJlt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Open Office?

2004-08-11 Thread Michal Pasternak
h.kriege [Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:11:41AM +0200]: Hi there, Will Open Offoice run on Free BSD? Hello, Yes - both native and linux Open Offoice work. -- m signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Open Office?

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Risdon
h.kriege wrote: Hi there, Will Open Offoice run on Free BSD? Hi, yes there are several options in /usr/ports/editors It's a huge compile, though, needs something like 3GB of hard drive and takes a while. Installing as a package is another option. You also, IIRC, have to jump through Sun's java

Re: localtime question

2004-08-11 Thread Mipam
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-08-11 10:44, Mipam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'd have to use strftime() and a local buffer for that. I found an example and adjusted it: #include time.h #include stdio.h int main() { struct tm *ptr; time_t tm;

Re: localtime question

2004-08-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-08-11 12:23, Mipam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-08-11 10:44, Mipam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #include time.h #include stdio.h int main() { struct tm *ptr; time_t tm; char str[60]; char str2[60];

sysinstall doesn't detect my harddrive

2004-08-11 Thread Iuliu Pascaru
Hello people, I have a 40Gb Seagate Barracuda IV IDE HDD. After booting up from my FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE CD I can't proceed with the installation because sysinstall says that it can't find any disks. But lsdev shows something like that: [...skipped...] disk devices:

RE: Porting new Software into FreeBSD

2004-08-11 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 02:12, Eric Crist wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have not yet found a way to port it into FreeBSD ports. Can any body tell me how its done. Are there any documentation on how to do this? The new software is called RURS (Remote Unix Recovery Service). Simply said,

Re: Top posting solution

2004-08-11 Thread Mark Ovens
Chris wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 05:45:58 PM -0400 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the email messages on this list. The fact of life is

Re: Updating jail

2004-08-11 Thread Martin Brecher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Renato Botelho wrote: | Hi all, | | I have a box running FreeBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE-p9, and I have a jail | running on this machine, all works fine. | | When FreeBSD-5.3 releases, I want to upgrade my box to this version, | how must I proceed to upgrade my

Re: Porting new Software into FreeBSD

2004-08-11 Thread David Fleck
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Alex B wrote: I'm almost done writing a new software for FreeBSD. The only thing is that i have not yet found a way to port it into FreeBSD ports. Can any body tell me how its done. Are there any documentation on how to do this? Yes, the Porter's Handbook:

Re: Top posting solution

2004-08-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 10, 2004, at 6:25 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Here's a good reason to top-post: I'm referring to the message as a whole, rather than to the content. What reference to a whole? Whole what? This message came in while I was writing my previous message in this thread. It shows *exactly*

purchase cd

2004-08-11 Thread jeff wiggs
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Re: BuildWorld Compile Error

2004-08-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libiberty/../../../../contrib/binutils/libiberty/choose-temp.c:68: warning: implicit declaration of function `mktemp' What version of FreeBSD were you running, and how had you updated the source? I've built -STABLE this week...

Re: how to resolve openldap version conflict

2004-08-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install Samba3 from the ports collection onto freeBSD 4.10. The Make terminated because there was an earlier version of openldap already installed, and the new one wanted to store files in the same directory. When i tried to

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Re: BuildWorld Compile Error

2004-08-11 Thread Ryan
I got it working, It was using /etc/defaults/make.conf - Original Message - From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:08 AM Subject: Re: BuildWorld Compile Error Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: how to resolve openldap version conflict

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Risdon
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Peter Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install Samba3 from the ports collection onto freeBSD 4.10. The Make terminated because there was an earlier version of openldap already installed, and the new one wanted to store files in the same directory. When i

Re: Monitor Resolution???

2004-08-11 Thread Hakim Z. Singhji
Thank you oliver!!! -Original Message- From: Oliver Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 11, 2004 1:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Monitor Resolution??? On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: Hello All, I have a question that may be trivial to most however, I don't seem

sendmail- 8.13.1 installation failing from /usr/ports

2004-08-11 Thread Noah
sendmail-8.13.1 installation failing freeBSD-4.9 well I deinstalled postfix and now trying to reinstall the sendmail-sasl version on the box again and its failing. -- snip --- ./t-shm shminit failed: File exists 1..bad! t-shm.c:181

Re: Top posting solution

2004-08-11 Thread Joachim Dagerot
(This message is also located at the bottom of the message, and also in-line) [top post] Oh boy, am I tired of this discussion that in some kind of nature law must pop up every three or four month. | Here's a good reason to top-post: I'm referring to the message as a | whole, rather

Re: sendmail- 8.13.1 installation failing [fixed]

2004-08-11 Thread Noah
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:58:16 -0800, Noah wrote sendmail-8.13.1 installation failing freeBSD-4.9 okay did a make clean and a make install clean in the /usr/ports subdir. things are fine. cheers, Noah well I deinstalled postfix and now trying to reinstall the sendmail-sasl version on

Re: sendmail- 8.13.1 installation failing from /usr/ports

2004-08-11 Thread Mark
Noah wrote: sendmail-8.13.1 installation failing freeBSD-4.9 well I deinstalled postfix and now trying to reinstall the sendmail-sasl version on the box again and its failing. -- snip --- ../t-shm shminit failed: File exists 1..bad! t-shm.c:181 cnt = MAX_CNT add -DSM_CONF_SHM=0 to

Re: Top posting solution

2004-08-11 Thread Danny
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:45:58 -0400, JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the email messages on this list. The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the

Re: Help!

2004-08-11 Thread Lester Mesa
Hola: What do you mean by it doesn't detect my IDE drives? FreeBSD installer doesn't even load and it gives you an error like ERR M or FreeBSD installer loads, and when you go to setup partitions there is nothing there? You might want to try installing the HD in an older computer, loading

Re: Open Office?

2004-08-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi there, Will Open Offoice run on Free BSD? regards, Yes. It is in the ports. But, it is easier to install from a package because its build requires a huge amount of space. So go to: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ Find the appropriate version, download it, put it in

Re: Help!

2004-08-11 Thread rhempel
It's funny your drive is recognized in a different PC. Does the BIOS on the PC you are installing FreeBSD on support 40GB drives? Ralph Hola: What do you mean by it doesn't detect my IDE drives? FreeBSD installer doesn't even load and it gives you an error like ERR M or FreeBSD

Re: How to disable UDMA for HDD?

2004-08-11 Thread Matt H
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:08:29 +0200, Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 Now it is possible to install FreeBSD! Thanks very much! Mr. Stevan Tiefert Is there a way to disable DMA for a single hard drive, instead of all IDE devices? -- Matt H [EMAIL

Re: How to disable UDMA for HDD?

2004-08-11 Thread Mark
Matt H wrote: On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:08:29 +0200, Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 Now it is possible to install FreeBSD! Thanks very much! Mr. Stevan Tiefert Is there a way to disable DMA for a single hard drive, instead of all IDE devices? How

/etc/make.conf

2004-08-11 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hi all. Please also reply to my mailbox, as I'm not on the list. Thank you! Can anybody tell me about /etc/make.conf in FreeBSD-5.2.1 ?? Yesterday I moved away /etc/make.conf that looked like this: pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# cat /etc/make.conf.back # -- use.perl generated deltas -- # # Created: Thu Nov

FreeBSD 5, chroot and /dev

2004-08-11 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I have built a new kernel on a FreeBSD 5.2 system which doesn't boot anymore. So I took a Freesbee and mounted the filesystems from the harddisk and changed root to the harddisk's one. But there were no devices in /dev. I tried some of /etc/rc.d/dev*. This only created a /dev/null. Trying

Re: /etc/make.conf

2004-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all. Please also reply to my mailbox, as I'm not on the list. Thank you! Can anybody tell me about /etc/make.conf in FreeBSD-5.2.1 ?? Yesterday I moved away /etc/make.conf that looked like this: pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# cat /etc/make.conf.back # -- use.perl generated deltas -- # #

RE: upgrade

2004-08-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:59:46 AM -0500 Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference between a binary upgrade and an upgrade via CVS or cvsup is the time between creation of the sources. Binary upgrades generally come out durning major releases, for example, from 4.9 to 4.10.

DHCP and rc Questions For FreeBSD 4.10???

2004-08-11 Thread Hakim Z. Singhji
Hi All, I have installed FreeBSD 4.10 to serve as a headless gateway/router/firewall/NAT. The first problem that I have run into can probably be resolved easily. I tried to configure my NIC card via sysinstaller. However, rc.conf does not have a startup variable for dc0. Therefore dhclient is

Re: FreeBSD 5, chroot and /dev

2004-08-11 Thread Bill Moran
Hanspeter Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have built a new kernel on a FreeBSD 5.2 system which doesn't boot anymore. So I took a Freesbee and mounted the filesystems from the harddisk and changed root to the harddisk's one. But there were no devices in /dev. I tried some of

Re: order of starting services at boot?

2004-08-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, Can anybody explain to me how FreeBSD 5.2.1 controls the start order of the scripts in /etc/rc.d ? I think it is just alphabetic order according to whatever sort order is in effect. jerry I've looked all over and am having trouble gleening what controls this. For

Re: /etc/make.conf

2004-08-11 Thread Henrik W Lund
Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hi all. Please also reply to my mailbox, as I'm not on the list. Thank you! Can anybody tell me about /etc/make.conf in FreeBSD-5.2.1 ?? Yesterday I moved away /etc/make.conf that looked like this: pcm2028.dti.supsi.ch# cat /etc/make.conf.back # -- use.perl generated deltas

Re: FreeBSD 5, chroot and /dev

2004-08-11 Thread Henrik W Lund
Hanspeter Roth wrote: Hello, I have built a new kernel on a FreeBSD 5.2 system which doesn't boot anymore. So I took a Freesbee and mounted the filesystems from the harddisk and changed root to the harddisk's one. But there were no devices in /dev. I tried some of /etc/rc.d/dev*. This only created

Re: order of starting services at boot?

2004-08-11 Thread Bill Moran
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Can anybody explain to me how FreeBSD 5.2.1 controls the start order of the scripts in /etc/rc.d ? I think it is just alphabetic order according to whatever sort order is in effect. But that _is_ how 4.X and previous version did

Re: /etc/make.conf

2004-08-11 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Thank you all for your answers. one more questions... What is the preferred/advised version for buildWorld and co? Henrik W Lund wrote: Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hi all. Please also reply to my mailbox, as I'm not on the list. Thank you! Can anybody tell me about /etc/make.conf in FreeBSD-5.2.1 ??

Syslog Server Setup Questions

2004-08-11 Thread Ronnie Clark
Hello all, I am trying to setup a syslog server. Here is my current setup: FreeBSD 4.10 STABLE with syslogd running with the -a switch to allow the remote server to log to it: /usr/sbin/syslod -a 172.16.3.102/26 in syslog.conf: +172.16.3.102 *.* /var/log/syslog/test.log Yet my

Re: /etc/make.conf

2004-08-11 Thread Henrik W Lund
Roberto Nunnari wrote: Thank you all for your answers. one more questions... What is the preferred/advised version for buildWorld and co? Without knowing for sure, I'd say the base version of perl is the best one to use for the whole build* and install* process. -Henrik W Lund

Re: FreeBSD 5, chroot and /dev

2004-08-11 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Aug 11 at 11:25, Bill Moran spoke: Hanspeter Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the recommended way to create the device nodes in /dev in a chroot environment? This isn't a direct answer to your question, but it should help you work around your problem. After booting the CD,

Re: DHCP and rc Questions For FreeBSD 4.10???

2004-08-11 Thread Hakim Z. Singhji
Hi All, I've been researching this issue although it may be minor I don't like to rely on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] unless I have to. I'm sure you understand...anyway, http:www.freebsddiary.com has a tutorial that with info I could not find in The Complete FreeBSD or Absolute BSD. It described two

Re: /etc/make.conf

2004-08-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:20:12AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: NOPERL=yo NO_PERL=yo NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo Is yo kind of like maybe? ;o) Perhaps this could be related to the problem you are having. The values should either be yes, or no. Not so. The test is if 'NOPERL' is *defined* or

Re: order of starting services at boot?

2004-08-11 Thread Dick Davies
* Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0835 16:35]: Hello, Can anybody explain to me how FreeBSD 5.2.1 controls the start order of the scripts in /etc/rc.d ? I think it is just alphabetic order according to whatever sort order is in effect. uh, no, that'd suck.

Re: FreeBSD 5, chroot and /dev

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Risdon
Henrik W Lund wrote: Hanspeter Roth wrote: [...] What is the recommended way to create the device nodes in /dev in a chroot environment? -Hanspeter [...] So, messing with device nodes in a chrooted 5.x system is not possible (someone correct me here, if I'm wrong). It is possible to customise

Re: DHCP and rc Questions For FreeBSD 4.10???

2004-08-11 Thread Bill Moran
Wrap your likes around 72 characters. All you need in /etc/rc.conf is: network_interfaces=lo0 dc0 ifconfig_dc0=DHCP Everything else you added is just re-affirming the default values. Hakim Z. Singhji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've been researching this issue although it may be

Re: DHCP and rc Questions For FreeBSD 4.10???

2004-08-11 Thread Hakim Z. Singhji
Alright, thank you Bill...I will let you know how I fair. Cheers -Original Message- From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 11, 2004 9:25 AM To: Hakim Z. Singhji [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DHCP and rc Questions For FreeBSD 4.10??? Wrap

aterm and us_intl (or xmodmap)

2004-08-11 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I'm desparate. Or, almost.. I always uses xterms under X, but recently I changed my default terms to aterm (transparant, pixmaps backgrounds..). Xterm, rxvt: they use my us_intl keyboard perfectly, but somehow when I use aterm *under_freebsd* things change! My del key becomes a normal backspace,

ATA powermanagement and ATA spindown.. request (?)

2004-08-11 Thread heikki soerum
For countless years Linux, windows and several other OS for the Peasants has had powermanagement on their ATA drives... And countless times has my harddrives on my fileserver suffered the Click of Death Syndrome bacause of overheating.. Until an kind soul made an patch to atacontrol and the

opennssl certs

2004-08-11 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
I have created my own root certificate and key so i can become my own CA. Have created singed certs for my imap smtp and webmail server using the common name computerking.ca. This works fine for mozilla but with microsoft' s outlook and explorer i get errors about the CN name not matching the

Re: /etc/make.conf

2004-08-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Henrik W Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roberto Nunnari wrote: Thank you all for your answers. one more questions... What is the preferred/advised version for buildWorld and co? Without knowing for sure, I'd say the base version of perl is the best one to use for the whole build*

Using IPFW DUMMYNET with an existing IPFILTER/IPNAT setup for QoS

2004-08-11 Thread J. Seth Henry
Hello, I have an existing FreeBSD based router/internet gateway system that is using ipfilter ipnat. It performs quite well, and my wife would be mightily irritated if I screwed it up. :) However, we have VoIP through Vonage, and a standard Comcast cable modem connection to the Internet. Most

error:make:don't know how to make buildkernel.stop

2004-08-11 Thread Abiola Omojola
Hello, please could help me get a solution to the above error message. thank you. Biola = Abiola Olufunke Omojola INTERCELLULAR NIG. UBA HOUSE, 5TH FLOOR, 57,MARINA,LAGOS. 08023067781 __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send

Vinum clarification

2004-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
I am wanting to set up a vinum configuration so that I have a spanned volume containing a large partition on one drive, and a second entire disk. I am a little confused whether I need to build a striped or concat volume. The usable size on one disk is different from the usable size on the other

How to start KDE?

2004-08-11 Thread Laszlo Antal
Hi, I am newbie to freebsd. I just start it. I installed KDE when I installd the os. I do everything from the book I got.(The Complet FreeBSD 4th edition) Everything was going fine until the book telling me to CREATE A FILE .xinitrc in my home directory. Well, How can I do that?? and why do I

Re: error:make:don't know how to make buildkernel.stop

2004-08-11 Thread Bill Moran
Abiola Omojola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, please could help me get a solution to the above error What did you do to cause the error? Is your current working directory /usr/src? Did you install kernel sources on the machine you are trying to do this on? -- Bill Moran Potential

RE: error:make:don't know how to make buildkernel.stop

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Clark
All the instructions are located at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-build ing.html You are either in the incorrect directory or not specifying KERNCONF= Michael Clark Nemschoff Chairs Inc mclark at nemschoff dot com CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, MCP

IMAP Prefrence

2004-08-11 Thread Joshua Lewis
I am trying to set up my mail server with Postfix and wish to use IMAP. I tried asking the postfix mailing list this question and did not receice and feedback. Does Postfix have built in IMAP support or do I have to use a third party. If I have to use a third party are there any suggestions?

Re: error:make:don't know how to make buildkernel.stop

2004-08-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:13:25AM -0700, Abiola Omojola wrote: please could help me get a solution to the above error message. Make sure you have an up to date and complete copy of the FreeBSD sources before you start -- or that you are in the correct directory when you type 'make

Re: /etc/make.conf

2004-08-11 Thread Roberto Nunnari
I just did: # use.perl system # make buildworld on yesterday's RELENG_5_2 and it seems it has finished successfully the build.. tomorrow I'll try buildkernel + install and I'll report the results here. To be true, though, I have no idea if perl is used or not during the build process.. Best

Re: IMAP Prefrence

2004-08-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 11), Joshua Lewis said: I am trying to set up my mail server with Postfix and wish to use IMAP. I tried asking the postfix mailing list this question and did not receice and feedback. Does Postfix have built in IMAP support or do I have to use a third party. If I

Re: /etc/make.conf

2004-08-11 Thread Ryan
Perl Is Required To ReCompile Source Code for both BuldWorld/Kernel. You Must Install Perl Before Trying To Follow Proper Methods Of Recompiling Source Code. You can use Sysinstall or install perl via ports. - Original Message - From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Henrik W Lund

Re: How to start KDE?

2004-08-11 Thread Tilman Linneweh
* Laszlo Antal [Mi, 11 Aug 2004 at 20:22 GMT]: Everything was going fine until the book telling me to CREATE A FILE .xinitrc in my home directory. Well, How can I do that?? and why do I need it? echo exec startkde ~/.xinitrc I installed only KDE so would it work if I will only type

Re: How to start KDE?

2004-08-11 Thread Bill Moran
Tilman Linneweh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Laszlo Antal [Mi, 11 Aug 2004 at 20:22 GMT]: Everything was going fine until the book telling me to CREATE A FILE .xinitrc in my home directory. Well, How can I do that?? and why do I need it? echo exec startkde ~/.xinitrc I installed

Re: IMAP Prefrence

2004-08-11 Thread Martin Hudec
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:45:09AM -0700 or thereabouts, Joshua Lewis wrote: Does Postfix have built in IMAP support or do I have to use a third party. If I have to use a third party are there any suggestions? Postfix does not have any kind of IMAP support. My suggestion is to use Courier

freebssd-upgrade

2004-08-11 Thread Rail mail
according to freebsd-update one should not compile any part of the system, which if true poses a problem, since we had to recompile the kernel to get SMP working, 5.1 must have not had that in the generic kernel. I'm not sure, but i think the stock kernel that goes with the 5.2 has it. I just

Re: How to disable UDMA for HDD?

2004-08-11 Thread Stevan Tiefert
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 16:46, Matt H wrote: On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:08:29 +0200, Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 Now it is possible to install FreeBSD! Thanks very much! Mr. Stevan Tiefert Is there a way to disable DMA for a single hard

Re: How to disable UDMA for HDD?

2004-08-11 Thread Stevan Tiefert
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 16:55, Mark wrote: Matt H wrote: On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:08:29 +0200, Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 Now it is possible to install FreeBSD! Thanks very much! Mr. Stevan Tiefert Is there a way to disable

Re: order of starting services at boot?

2004-08-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Can anybody explain to me how FreeBSD 5.2.1 controls the start order of the scripts in /etc/rc.d ? I think it is just alphabetic order according to whatever sort order is in effect. But that _is_ how 4.X and previous

firefox + tiff images

2004-08-11 Thread Paulo Fonseca Jr.
I have been visiting some sites that try to shows TIFF images with firefox but it ask me with what application I want to view the images. Somebody knows the best way to plugin in browser a TIFF viewer ? Thank's Zumba. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: firefox + tiff images

2004-08-11 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:10:50PM -0300, Paulo Fonseca Jr. wrote: I have been visiting some sites that try to shows TIFF images with firefox but it ask me with what application I want to view the images. Somebody knows the best way to plugin in browser a TIFF viewer ? ports/www/plugger/ may

Alternative to get? Trying to download a file via HTTP

2004-08-11 Thread Danny
I am running FreeBSD 4.9R. My goal is to download an .tar.gz file from an HTTP site? I thought get would do that, but it's not installed (unless the command is not get). Any suggestions? Thank you, ...D ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Alternative to get? Trying to download a file via HTTP

2004-08-11 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:29:11PM -0400, Danny wrote: I am running FreeBSD 4.9R. My goal is to download an .tar.gz file from an HTTP site? I thought get would do that, but it's not installed (unless the command is not get). Any suggestions? fetch is what you want (fetch is in the base

Re: Alternative to 'get'? Trying to download a file via HTTP

2004-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
I am running FreeBSD 4.9R. My goal is to download an .tar.gz file from an HTTP site? I thought get would do that, but it's not installed (unless the command is not get). Any suggestions? # fetch http://www.someserver/somedir/somefil.tar.gz Steve Thank you, ...D

irq mitigation support?

2004-08-11 Thread Mipam
Hi, I saw that the intel PWLA8492MT dual nic is supported, it's the Intel 82546 Gigabit Controller. In the specs of this card according to intel it supports irq mitigation. However,i have only seen support for this in the fxp driver. Is irq mitigation supported in the em(4) driver for this card?

Do I need rc_subr with 5.2.1

2004-08-11 Thread R. W.
I'm not sure what installed it, but I have a port called rc_subr. Does this port serve any useful function on 5.x? The pkg_descr suggests it doesn't, but it doesn't say it categorically. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Alternative to 'get'? Trying to download a file via HTTP

2004-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
I am running FreeBSD 4.9R. My goal is to download an .tar.gz file from an HTTP site? I thought get would do that, but it's not installed (unless the command is not get). Any suggestions? ...also: # wget http://www.server.com/dir/file.tar.gz or: # wget -b

Installing IBM x345

2004-08-11 Thread eric
Has anyone managed to get 5.2.1 working on an IBM x345? We have two here; one installs fine, but then freezes (I can think of no other way to put it unfortunately) when the machine boots and gets to a login prompt. I've tried booting to single user mode, but the host will gets to the point of

Re: How to start KDE?

2004-08-11 Thread Chris
Laszlo Antal wrote: Hi, I am newbie to freebsd. I just start it. I installed KDE when I installd the os. I do everything from the book I got.(The Complet FreeBSD 4th edition) Everything was going fine until the book telling me to CREATE A FILE .xinitrc in my home directory. Well, How can I do

Re: Alternative to get? Trying to download a file via HTTP

2004-08-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:29:11PM -0400, Danny wrote: I am running FreeBSD 4.9R. My goal is to download an .tar.gz file from an HTTP site? I thought get would do that, but it's not installed (unless the command is not get). Any suggestions? Thank you, ...D Try fetch(1). Nathan --

Re: error during make buildkernel in 5.2.1

2004-08-11 Thread Mike
Mike wrote: Greetings: This is my first foray into 5.2.1. I installed and ran cvsup (standard and for ports). I went to build the kernel and and make buildkernel died. Here is the error message. Any comments or hints would be helpful. # make buildkernel KERNEL=TRITON

Playing .ape files with XMMS

2004-08-11 Thread Jason
Has anyone had any luck getting .ape files to play via XMMS? Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alternative to get? Trying to download a file via HTTP (Solved via fetch)

2004-08-11 Thread Danny
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:35:50 +0200, Marc Fonvieille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:29:11PM -0400, Danny wrote: I am running FreeBSD 4.9R. My goal is to download an .tar.gz file from an HTTP site? I thought get would do that, but it's not installed (unless the

Recommended software for various computer types?

2004-08-11 Thread W. D.
Hi Folks, What are some recommendations for programs for these different types of computers? (Internet Web Server, Desktop Workstation, Firewall, Samba LAN File Server) Which programs are essential? Useful? Which to avoid? Why? Comments on configuration options? Here's a chart:

Re: ATA powermanagement and ATA spindown.. request (?)

2004-08-11 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:13:08 +, heikki soerum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For countless years Linux, windows and several other OS for the Peasants has had powermanagement on their ATA drives... And countless times has my harddrives on my fileserver suffered the Click of Death Syndrome

Re: IMAP Prefrence

2004-08-11 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:45:09 -0700 (PDT), Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to set up my mail server with Postfix and wish to use IMAP. I tried asking the postfix mailing list this question and did not receice and feedback. Does Postfix have built in IMAP support or do I

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