The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-10-23 - 2005-11-12

2005-11-13 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: output of top command question

2005-11-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-11-13 13:28, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. From the article I conclude that Active pages are: Pages with page-used bit set Inactive and cached refers to the different page queues. But I could not correlate wired with anything. Any Tips? The virtual memory pages are not

Re: How can I programatically eject a live cd?

2005-11-13 Thread Thomas Linton
if you use CAM you could use: # camcontrol eject [device id] [generic args] On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:21:11PM -0800, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sat, 12 Nov 2005 it looks like Thomas Linton composed: I believe that you can't do this because you are sitting on this CD. In general: #

device pf

2005-11-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
I cannot find the device pf settings anylonger in de GENERIC kernel config, /nor/ is it mentioned in NOTES. Am I to understand that FreeBSD-6.0 supports pf and ipfilter by default, without compiling it into the kernel? Or do I still compile the right options in? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ --

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-13 Thread Luk van den Borne
2005/11/12, Miles Keaton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Miles Keaton wrote: I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if anyone can explain (for dummies) how to use the new cpufreq + SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the way that sysutils/est

ipw and 6.0-RELEASE

2005-11-13 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, As stated I am trying to install ipw-firmware port on 6.0-RELEASE but port states that I ipw support is already included in source tree. But when I try to activate this interface (ipw0) I get ipw0: Pleas load firmware. and thus I can't associate againsy my AP. Which one is right? I

Re: device pf

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:23:05AM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: I cannot find the device pf settings anylonger in de GENERIC kernel config, /nor/ is it mentioned in NOTES. It isn't mentioned in the architecture specific notes (/usr/src/sys/$ARCH/conf/NOTES) but it is mentioned in the

Freebsd for mail servers.

2005-11-13 Thread Carstea Catalin
I want to start a fresh instalation of freebsd 6.0 for my mail server. 1. I want to use many hard-disks on this server with one directory over this disks .I want to use also RAID - software. This directory will contains mailboxes of users. EX.: Postfix - mail server. 2. If it is possible, how

Re: Freebsd for mail servers.

2005-11-13 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 10:05, Carstea Catalin wrote: I want to start a fresh instalation of freebsd 6.0 for my mail server. 1. I want to use many hard-disks on this server with one directory over this disks .I want to use also RAID - software. This directory will contains mailboxes of

Re: Freebsd for mail servers.

2005-11-13 Thread Jens Holmqvist
On 11/13/05, Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to start a fresh instalation of freebsd 6.0 for my mail server. 1. I want to use many hard-disks on this server with one directory over this disks .I want to use also RAID - software. This directory will contains mailboxes of users.

Re: ipw and 6.0-RELEASE

2005-11-13 Thread Luk van den Borne
You should delete /var/db/ports/ipw-firmware/options and run make install clean again. This time, do not select the build with kernel modules option. (Or just set it to false in the options file and recompile). 2005/11/13, Omer Faruk Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, As stated I am trying to install

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-13 Thread J. Martin Petersen
Miles Keaton wrote: Miles Keaton wrote: I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if anyone can explain (for dummies) how to use the new cpufreq + SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in

FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Derek Tracy
I have finally decided to ditch Gentoo for FreeBSD especially since the new release is out now, but I have ran into a huge problem. Upon trying to boot the install CD (I have tried both the bootonly and official cd1) I get to sysinstall but when I try and partition the disks it tells me it can not

Re: portmanager -slid core dumps

2005-11-13 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 11 November 2005 14:53, Danny MacMillan wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 11 November 2005 13:35, Danny MacMillan wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 11 November 2005 12:55, Danny MacMillan wrote: I am experiencing further difficulties with portmanager -slid. I was

How to use pam_group?

2005-11-13 Thread James O'Gorman
Hi, [Please keep me CC:d as I'm not subscribed] I've been trying to use pam_group.so to limit who can login to various services such as FTP and IMAP, but I can't seem to get it working. For example, I took the stock /etc/pam.d/ftp and added: authrequisite pam_group.so

GTK interfaces in KDE

2005-11-13 Thread edward
Hi, I run 5.4 stable with xorg 6.8.2 and kde 3.4.0. I also use quite a few apps with a rather dull looking GTK interface. I know that GTK interfaces pick up the desktop themes under Gnome. Is there any way of applying a theme to GTK interfaces under kde, either the kde theme itself or a Gnome

Re: GTK interfaces in KDE

2005-11-13 Thread Michał Masłowski
Hi, I run 5.4 stable with xorg 6.8.2 and kde 3.4.0. I also use quite a few apps with a rather dull looking GTK interface. I know that GTK interfaces pick up the desktop themes under Gnome. Is there any way of applying a theme to GTK interfaces under kde, either the kde theme itself or a

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-13 Thread Miles Keaton
On 11/13/05, Luk van den Borne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should load cpufreq in your /boot/loader.conf. cpufreq is the backend that FreeBSD uses for (dynamic) CPU scaling. cpufreq_load=YES rc.conf: powerd_enable=YES powerd_flags=-a adaptive -b adaptive -n adaptive THAT WORKED! Thanks

Re: GTK interfaces in KDE

2005-11-13 Thread Luk van den Borne
2005/11/13, Michał Masłowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I run 5.4 stable with xorg 6.8.2 and kde 3.4.0. I also use quite a few apps with a rather dull looking GTK interface. I know that GTK interfaces pick up the desktop themes under Gnome. Is there any way of applying a theme to GTK

converting a .chm file

2005-11-13 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got some .chm files i'd like to move. I was wondering if anyone know of a cli tool to convert them to another format, perhaps pdf, rtf, html, or plain text? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: converting a .chm file

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:38:53AM -0500, Dave wrote: Hello, I've got some .chm files i'd like to move. I was wondering if anyone know of a cli tool to convert them to another format, perhaps pdf, rtf, html, or plain text? If you mean Compiled HTML files as used by Windows, there is a

decode RFC2047 encodings

2005-11-13 Thread guru
Hello, Is there somehow a tool on shell level in FBSD to decode RFC2047 encodings, like header lines of mails/news looking like this: To: =?utf8?b?Z3VydUBzaXNpcy5kZQ==?= Thx in advance Matthias -- Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g / D-82041

Re: ipw and 6.0-RELEASE

2005-11-13 Thread Greg Maruszeczka
Luk van den Borne wrote: You should delete /var/db/ports/ipw-firmware/options and run make install clean again. This time, do not select the build with kernel modules option. (Or just set it to false in the options file and recompile). I had the same problem the other day and simply ended

Re: converting a .chm file

2005-11-13 Thread Dave
Hi, Thanks, do you know of any non-x ports for converting .chm files? Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 12:10 PM Subject: Re: converting a .chm file

Re: converting a .chm file

2005-11-13 Thread Hans Nieser
Dave wrote: Hi, Thanks, do you know of any non-x ports for converting .chm files? Thanks. Perhaps this one: Port: chmview-1.0_2 Path: /usr/ports/converters/chmview Info: Extractor from .chm files Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] B-deps: R-deps: WWW:http://trexinc.narod.ru I believe there

wpa_supplicant setup problems

2005-11-13 Thread Alan Gerber
Hi everyone. I migrated my laptop to 6.0-stable as of this past Wednesday, mainly for the added WPA support it brings. I've been using as my main source of info for setting up WPA support wpa_supplicant(8), wpa_supplicant.conf(5), and

Ape (Monkey's Audio) decompression tools

2005-11-13 Thread Andrew P.
How do I convert .ape to .wav? audio/xmms-mac works ok, I'm able to play the files, but I want to convert them to flac. Now audio/mac can only verify (-v flag), but when I try to decompress (-d flag) it just prints out the usage statement. I did some googling and found no alternative

What about for Palm's and Pocket PC's in FreeBSD?

2005-11-13 Thread Andrew Pogrebennyk
Could anyone tell me if there's a good support for Palm's and Pocket PC's in FreeBSD, especially for Bluetooth connectivity? I'm going to buy one and if I learn that Palm is supported much better, It'll be one more it's advantage over MS :) Maybe, someone could point me a some sort of guide?

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2005-11-13 Thread Scharp Ledge
How do I delete BSD? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problem with vidcontrol

2005-11-13 Thread Javier Matos
Hello, I will explain my problem... I hope that someone can indicate me a possible solution... . I was setting all necessary in my kernel to use resolutions like 1024x768 or above and I add the next lines to my kernel # Options to change console resolution optionsVESA options

What package contains missing libgmodule

2005-11-13 Thread mylists
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgmodule-2.0.so.600 not found, required by artsd I get the above error from quite a few packages, from mozilla to artsd to others. Any suggestion on what I need to reinstall. I tried gtk, glib and gnome2, but still no joy. Thanks, Obitori

Re: What package contains missing libgmodule

2005-11-13 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 13 November 2005 13:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgmodule-2.0.so.600 not found, required by artsd I get the above error from quite a few packages, from mozilla to artsd to others. Any suggestion on what I need to reinstall. I tried gtk, glib

Re: Ape (Monkey's Audio) decompression tools

2005-11-13 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Andrew P. wrote: How do I convert .ape to .wav? audio/xmms-mac works ok, I'm able to play the files, but I want to convert them to flac. I don't know any specific software to do ape-flac conversion but, since you're using xmms already, you could decompress ape to wav using 'Disk Writer

Re: (no subject)

2005-11-13 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/13/05, Scharp Ledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I delete BSD? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boot up

Re: Ape (Monkey's Audio) decompression tools

2005-11-13 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/14/05, Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. wrote: How do I convert .ape to .wav? audio/xmms-mac works ok, I'm able to play the files, but I want to convert them to flac. I don't know any specific software to do ape-flac conversion but, since you're using xmms

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/14/05, Derek Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have finally decided to ditch Gentoo for FreeBSD especially since the new release is out now, but I have ran into a huge problem. Upon trying to boot the install CD (I have tried both the bootonly and official cd1) I get to sysinstall but

Re: Ape (Monkey's Audio) decompression tools

2005-11-13 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/13/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I convert .ape to .wav? audio/xmms-mac works ok, I'm able to play the files, but I want to convert them to flac. Now audio/mac can only verify (-v flag), but when I try to decompress (-d flag) it just prints out the usage statement. I

Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem

2005-11-13 Thread Murray Taylor
Hi all, I have had a system configured using this mobo and have hit a showstopper. The HDD (a seagate 330GB IDE) have been connected to the ITE IDE controller while the DVDrom has been connected to the primary IDE controller. It seems that the ITE device is a RAID controller, and the BIOS and

Re: Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:13:51AM +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, I have had a system configured using this mobo and have hit a showstopper. The HDD (a seagate 330GB IDE) have been connected to the ITE IDE controller while the DVDrom has been connected to the primary IDE controller.

Re: (no subject)

2005-11-13 Thread Philip Lykke Carlsen
Sunday 13 November 2005 22:49 skrev Andrew P.: On 11/13/05, Scharp Ledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I delete BSD? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Billy Tallis
I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of ram. When I boot to the installation cd, I get the register dump and BTX halted message, and the screen then goes blank but the power stays on. I have disabled

RE: Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem

2005-11-13 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: Roland Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:13:51AM +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, I have had a system configured using this mobo and have hit a showstopper. The HDD (a seagate 330GB IDE) have been connected to the ITE

FreeBSD 6.0 and Objective C

2005-11-13 Thread Marc Argent
Hi, I am trying to compile a very simple Objective C program (actually, it is a 'Hello World' test program with a different file extension and linked to the Objective C library). #import stdio.h int main (int argc, const char *argv[]) { printf(Hello World\n); return 0; } I am

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Objective C

2005-11-13 Thread James Bailie
Marc Argent wrote: This results in the following error message: /usr/lib/libobjc.so: undefined reference to `pthread_attr_destroy' /usr/lib/libobjc.so: undefined reference to `pthread_create' /usr/lib/libobjc.so: undefined reference to `pthread_attr_init' /usr/lib/libobjc.so: undefined

Package Database Corruption

2005-11-13 Thread Sean
I have some package corruption and have had no luck fixing the problem. I have tried pkgdb -f, tried to remove and reinstall, and any other idea that I could find. Can anyone offer some suggestions on this problem? Here are some of the problem packages. I even tried a force and rebuild all

recursive port configuration

2005-11-13 Thread Philip Lykke Carlsen
Hi all.. .. Is there any way to recursively configure the dependencies of a given port? .. there's nothing worse than starting a portupgrade -a before going to bed and then waking up to a blue configure-screen and discovering that the show stopped just about 10 minutes after I left the screen

Fail to install subversion-1.3.0.r2 while compile with WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN=yes

2005-11-13 Thread Ma Jie
I'm using FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. It is OK to compile subversion using standalone mode. But when I want to use apache2 protocol with subversion, a compiling failure occured as below: --

Re: Fail to install subversion-1.3.0.r2 while compile with WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN=yes

2005-11-13 Thread Philip Lykke Carlsen
Monday 14 November 2005 02:19 skrev Ma Jie: I'm using FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. It is OK to compile subversion using standalone mode. But when I want to use apache2 protocol with subversion, a compiling failure occured as below:

Re: Fail to install subversion-1.3.0.r2 while compile with WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN=yes

2005-11-13 Thread Ma Jie
Yeah. It is compiled OK with the `-D' before the switch. But another problem is that I cannot find the mod_dav_svn.so in ths system after the compling. It is needed to use HTTP protocol in subversion. And, when I install apache2 and subversion (after sucessful comple), it prompted a lot of

Re: Fail to install subversion-1.3.0.r2 while compile with WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN=yes

2005-11-13 Thread Ma Jie
I'm not sure why. But now, I built it without ports. Just entered the `work' directory and read the INSTALL file. After compile, I found the mod_dav_svn.so and mod_authz_svn.so in the directory and copied them manually into /usr/local/libexec/apache2/. It works now. But I don't know how to

FreeBSD reliable on Asus P4C800-E Deluxe?

2005-11-13 Thread Danny
Anyone have FreeBSD running on an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe without any issues? Thanks, ...D -- CCBC - Certified Canadian Beer Consumer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

SOLVED: package contains missing libgmodule

2005-11-13 Thread My mailing Lists
Thanks for your reply, Michael. Of course, you are right. I should have been more specific. I had reinstalled glib version 2, but that did not solve my problem. Just to be double sure, after I read your email, I reinstalled glibc-2.8.3 AGAIN, but still got the error. Your email got me

Re: SOLVED: package contains missing libgmodule

2005-11-13 Thread Michael Shultz
On 11/13/05, My mailing Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply, Michael. Of course, you are right. I should have been more specific. I had reinstalled glib version 2, but that did not solve my problem. Just to be double sure, after I read your email, I reinstalled glibc-2.8.3

Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/14/05 07:54 Billy Tallis said the following: I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of ram. 16MB of RAM, that doesnt sound like much. -- Regards, /\_/\ All

Re: recursive port configuration

2005-11-13 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 13 November 2005 05:07 pm, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: Hi all.. .. Is there any way to recursively configure the dependencies of a given port? .. there's nothing worse than starting a portupgrade -a before going to bed and then waking up to a blue configure-screen and discovering

Re: recursive port configuration

2005-11-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-11-14 02:07, Philip Lykke Carlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all.. .. Is there any way to recursively configure the dependencies of a given port? For those ports that support a 'make config' target, you can always use 'config-recursive': # cd /usr/ports/category/foo # make

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Objective C

2005-11-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-11-14 00:44, Marc Argent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to compile a very simple Objective C program (actually, it is a 'Hello World' test program with a different file extension and linked to the Objective C library). #import stdio.h int main (int argc, const char

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Objective C

2005-11-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/14/05 08:50 James Bailie said the following: Try adding -lpthread to the compiler command line? actually -pthread would be better. not the missing el ('l'). -- Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)

Re: Fail to install subversion-1.3.0.r2 while compile with WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN=yes

2005-11-13 Thread Jason Taylor
Ma Jie wrote: I'm not sure why. But now, I built it without ports. Just entered the `work' directory and read the INSTALL file. After compile, I found the mod_dav_svn.so and mod_authz_svn.so in the directory and copied them manually into /usr/local/libexec/apache2/. It works now. But I don't

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Objective C

2005-11-13 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 13, 2005, at 8:11 PM, Dinesh Nair wrote: On 11/14/05 08:50 James Bailie said the following: Try adding -lpthread to the compiler command line? actually -pthread would be better. not the missing el ('l'). I have a question about this (or similar solutions), as I hope to do some

Re: Fail to install subversion-1.3.0.r2 while compile with WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN=yes

2005-11-13 Thread Ma Jie
As shown in Jason's reply, I don't think use -D is a right thing when make in ports. It doesn't make effect when use -D before WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN at all. 2005/11/14, Philip Lykke Carlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Monday 14 November 2005 02:19 skrev Ma Jie: I'm using FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. It is OK to

Re: FreeBSD reliable on Asus P4C800-E Deluxe?

2005-11-13 Thread Dev Tugnait
What kinds of issues are you familiar of with this mobo on freebsd? Issues like?? it works fine in my opinion. On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 21:32 -0500, Danny wrote: Anyone have FreeBSD running on an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe without any issues? Thanks, ...D -- CCBC - Certified Canadian Beer

FreeBSD on ASUS P5S800 fails to boot

2005-11-13 Thread Yance Kowara
Hi, I tried to install FreeBSD 5.3R, 5.4R and 6.0R on ASUS P5S800 motherboard and it fails to reboot. Anyone has similar experience? Any hints? Or just replace the motherboard? Kind regards, Yance __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel