The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-01-01 - 2006-01-21

2006-01-22 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

WebDav for Apache

2006-01-22 Thread Jose Borquez
Is there a WebDav module for Apache? Thanks in advance, Jose ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: user accounts messed up

2006-01-22 Thread Jona Joachim
Jona Joachim wrote: On 21/01/06, Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) I created a master.passwd file from the backup file in /var/backups and emptied the password field. Then I updated the database with pwd_mkdb but I still can't login. In fact it has nothing to do with the user

NFS trouble

2006-01-22 Thread David Raison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I need to set up an nfs server on one of my machines, and so far I've been pretty unsuccessful ;( I'd like to access the nfs shares with some macOSX and a linux box. I followed the guidelines in both the linux and freeBSD nfs howtos, but to

RE: String variable expansion routine wanted

2006-01-22 Thread Alexander Pohoyda
Well If I understood well you need printf() No, I am looking for the function which will parse the input string, find variables and invoke my callback function with the name of the variable to get it's value. This functionality is used in all shells and make utilities, so I'm wondering why

Re: WebDav for Apache

2006-01-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jose Borquez wrote: Is there a WebDav module for Apache? Yes. It's called mod_dav and it's part of the default Apache install for apache 2.0.x or above. Apache 1.3.x users should install www/mod_dav Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7

Re: upgrade ssl, ssh

2006-01-22 Thread Adam Nealis
Playnet wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, portupgrade openssl ** No such installed package: openssl portupgrade -N openssl If something is not installed, you can't upgrade it! But the -N flag will make portupgrade behave like portinstall. whereis openssl openssl: /usr/bin/openssl

Re: WebDav for Apache

2006-01-22 Thread Adam Nealis
Jose Borquez wrote: Is there a WebDav module for Apache? Not as a port for apache 2. But there is one for apache 1.3: /usr/ports/www/mod_dav ___ Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now.

wait(2) does not return after SIGCONT

2006-01-22 Thread Peter
Hello, I call waitpid() with the WUNTRACED|WCONTINUED options set in order to know when the child process receives SIGSTOP's and SIGCONT's. The SIGSTOP is not the problem, but I can't get the SIGCONTs to work. The appended code illustrates the problem: SIGCONTs to the child do continue the

Re: Sound driver for Compaq Presario?

2006-01-22 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:15:09 +0100 (CET), Andreas Davour wrote: Have you tried contacting the technical support staff for the PC? They should be able to tell you what is installed. No, but I might have to do that after all. I'm afraid I have very bad experiences from similar support

Re: NFS trouble

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew P.
`showmount -e lusitania`? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS trouble

2006-01-22 Thread David Raison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andrew Right, that's a point I had forgotten to post, although not a very surprising one [EMAIL PROTECTED] showmount -e lusitania Exports list on lusitania: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew P. wrote: `showmount -e lusitania`? -BEGIN PGP

Re: strange error with NFS on freebsd

2006-01-22 Thread Danial Thom
--- Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 4.11 server runing nfs server and a nfs client running freebsd 5.4 ive setup both according to the freebsd handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html When i go to mount the nfs share onto the client

Re: Post-Install update steps?

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew P.
On 1/22/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing FreeBSD, I would like to follow some simple steps to get it fully up-to-date. The Handbook and other online instructions seem a bit overwhelming. I developed some instructions when I was experiementing with 5.x, and I'm not sure

Re: NFS trouble

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew P.
On 1/22/06, David Raison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andrew Right, that's a point I had forgotten to post, although not a very surprising one [EMAIL PROTECTED] showmount -e lusitania Exports list on lusitania: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Look for

ahd scsi adapter problem on 5.4-STABLE

2006-01-22 Thread Ludo Koren
Hello all, could somebody help me to identify problem on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE? I am not sure if it is SCSI adapter problem or disk problem. Thank you very much. Regards, lk # dmesg LQIRetry for LQICRCI_LQ to release ACK ahd0: Transmission error detected LQISTAT1[0x10] LASTPHASE[0x1]

Re: NFS trouble

2006-01-22 Thread David Raison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sadly even that simple example doesn't work. There's no output of mountd in the syslog and showmount -e doesn't list any shares either. David Andrew P. wrote: On 1/22/06, David Raison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

S-Video to TV

2006-01-22 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Is it possible, using FreeBSD stable, to see my Desktop in my TV using a S-Video cable? How would one go about it? Thank you. EJC www.only7bucks.com - Yahoo! doce lar. Faça do Yahoo! sua homepage.

trouble with KDE 3.4-3.5 and xorg - 6.9.0

2006-01-22 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
On 6.0-STABLE, after doing a portupgrade of KDE and xorg according to UPDATING, I cannot start X as non-root. I've cleared /tmp, removed old files in home directory created by to KDE and xorg but problem persists. I'm currently out of ideas and would really appriciate a hint, thanks. X hangs

trouble with KDE 3.4-3.5 and xorg - 6.9.0

2006-01-22 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
On 6.0-STABLE, after doing a portupgrade of KDE and xorg according to UPDATING, I cannot start X as non-root. I've cleared /tmp, removed old files in home directory created by to KDE and xorg but problem persists. I'm currently out of ideas and would really appriciate a hint, thanks. X hangs

Re: NFS trouble

2006-01-22 Thread Danial Thom
--- David Raison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sadly even that simple example doesn't work. There's no output of mountd in the syslog and showmount -e doesn't list any shares either. David Andrew P. wrote: On 1/22/06, David Raison

Re: NFS trouble

2006-01-22 Thread David Raison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sure thing, but I wish to share my external usb hdds which are mounted @ those mountpoints. /mnt is usually a mount point, are you sure you don't have it backwards? /etc/exports on server1: /usr -alldirs -mapall=root:bin 10.1.1.1 mount with:

Re: trouble with KDE 3.4-3.5 and xorg - 6.9.0

2006-01-22 Thread Don Hinton
Hi Peter: On Sunday 22 January 2006 10:43, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: On 6.0-STABLE, after doing a portupgrade of KDE and xorg according to UPDATING, I cannot start X as non-root. I've cleared /tmp, removed old files in home directory created by to KDE and xorg but problem persists. I'm

Re: strange error with NFS on freebsd

2006-01-22 Thread David Stanford
Brent, Just yesterday I had this same problem with a 6.0 box attempting to mount an NFS share off a 5.4 box. Although I couldn't tell you why this happened, my solution was to kill rpcbind, mountd, and nfsd and then restart them on the 5.4 box. That got it to work. However, I also noticed that

[Fwd: Re: S-Video to TV]

2006-01-22 Thread David Raison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sorry, forgot to CC - Original Message Subject: Re: S-Video to TV Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:58:36 +0100 From: David Raison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

samba mount by name

2006-01-22 Thread Aivaras
How to get to samba share by name? On windows mashine typing in explorer \\192.168.0.1 opens shares and \\server doesnt. Mounting localy on server: mount_smbfs -I 192.168.0.1 //server/data /mnt/samba - works mount_smbfs //server/data /mnt/samba - mount_smbfs: can't get server address:

Re: trouble with KDE 3.4-3.5 and xorg - 6.9.0

2006-01-22 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Quoting Don Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Peter: On Sunday 22 January 2006 10:43, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: On 6.0-STABLE, after doing a portupgrade of KDE and xorg according to UPDATING, I cannot start X as non-root. I've cleared /tmp, removed old files in home directory created by to KDE and

Help getting wordpress working oon 4.11

2006-01-22 Thread stan
I'm trying to set up wordpress on a fairly current 4.11 machine. I've installed the wordpress port, and the mysql 1.41 port. I've created a mysql database called wordpress, and I can access it from the command line with mysql. I'm able to access the setup instructions from apache on that

Re: S-Video to TV

2006-01-22 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Because I live in the US and here we have a different TV Standard which is NTCS, should I change this PAL-B to NTCS (TVStandardPAL-B) also? Also I'm a bit confused about Section ServerLayout, can I have more than one? Or can I create a new xorg.conf just for my TV and have startx

Re: samba mount by name

2006-01-22 Thread Mike Hernandez
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 07:24:00PM +0200, Aivaras wrote: How to get to samba share by name? On windows mashine typing in explorer \\192.168.0.1 opens shares and \\server doesnt. Mounting localy on server: mount_smbfs -I 192.168.0.1 //server/data /mnt/samba - works mount_smbfs

Re: Help getting wordpress working oon 4.11

2006-01-22 Thread David Raison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Stan, add the following to your httpd.conf AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps And index.php to the DirectoryIndex (so your index.php file gets loaded automatically if no filename is supplied)

Re: S-Video to TV

2006-01-22 Thread David Raison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 E. J. Cerejo wrote: Because I live in the US and here we have a different TV Standard which is NTCS, should I change this PAL-B to NTCS (TVStandard PAL-B) also? Yeah, sure Also I'm a bit confused about Section ServerLayout, can I have more

Re: samba mount by name

2006-01-22 Thread David Stanford
Aivaras, I had this problem a while back too. If I remember correctly, I didn't have nmbd running. Also, as a quicker workaround, you could just add the host map to your Windows hosts file located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. -David On 1/22/06, Aivaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: samba mount by name

2006-01-22 Thread Playnet
Hello Aivaras, Sunday, January 22, 2006, 8:24:00 PM, you wrote: A How to get to samba share by name? A On windows mashine typing in explorer \\192.168.0.1 opens shares and A \\server doesnt. Check netmask in these computers... -- Best regards, Playnet

Re: S-Video to TV

2006-01-22 Thread David Raison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oh, and you most probably have to use the nvidia driver, not the generic nv driver. But I'm not sure about this, might be possible that the nv driver is able to use the tvout mode... D. Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values:

Re: samba mount by name

2006-01-22 Thread Aivaras
Thank you a lot. When started nmbd no problems left. David Stanford wrote: Aivaras, I had this problem a while back too. If I remember correctly, I didn't have nmbd running. Also, as a quicker workaround, you could just add the host map to your Windows hosts file located in

Re: NFS trouble

2006-01-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
David Raison wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sadly even that simple example doesn't work. There's no output of mountd in the syslog and showmount -e doesn't list any shares either. David Andrew P. wrote: On 1/22/06, David Raison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2006-01-22 Thread martinko
Micah wrote: Porpoise Power wrote: Which Java VM is the best for freebsd 5.4, running gnome2, and firefox? James Best Both the native jdk14 and jdk15 provide good Java VMs. jdk15 is newer and might be unstable (hasn't been for me). jdk14 is more tested and is the default java for

Re: NFS trouble

2006-01-22 Thread Danial Thom
--- David Raison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sure thing, but I wish to share my external usb hdds which are mounted @ those mountpoints. /mnt is usually a mount point, are you sure you don't have it backwards? /etc/exports on server1:

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2006-01-22 Thread Micah
martinko wrote: Micah wrote: Porpoise Power wrote: Which Java VM is the best for freebsd 5.4, running gnome2, and firefox? James Best Both the native jdk14 and jdk15 provide good Java VMs. jdk15 is newer and might be unstable (hasn't been for me). jdk14 is more tested and is the

Apache 2.0.55_2 mod_dav not working

2006-01-22 Thread Brent Kearney
Hello, After upgrading apache from 2.0.54 to the latest version, 2.0.55_2, WebDAV has stopped working. The mod_dav and mod_dav_fs modules load OK, but the lock file that is specified in the DavLockDB directive does not get created, and WebDAV clients cannot connect. The /server-info page

Re: Help getting wordpress working oon 4.11

2006-01-22 Thread stan
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 07:19:18PM +0100, David Raison wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Stan, add the following to your httpd.conf AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps And index.php to the DirectoryIndex (so your

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2006-01-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
Micah wrote: martinko wrote: Micah wrote: Porpoise Power wrote: Which Java VM is the best for freebsd 5.4, running gnome2, and firefox? James Best Both the native jdk14 and jdk15 provide good Java VMs. jdk15 is newer and might be unstable (hasn't been for me). jdk14 is more

Re: urgent, agir vite

2006-01-22 Thread Ceri Davies
On 18 Jan 2006, at 10:47, Roland Romero wrote: on dirait qu'il y a un bug là : http://www.fr.freebsd.org/cgi/search.cgi? max=25source=ords=TurboGXsubmit=Rechercher ça affiche tout le code perl ! Rol, My French has withered to nothing since I studied it 12 years ago, so I hope you can

Re: NFS trouble

2006-01-22 Thread David Raison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, Could you do ls -l /mnt, and include your fstab as well as your /etc/exports file? This is very important because maybe the issue lies with permissions of the files and directories, as well as whether or not those are the actual mountpoints

Re: make.conf Question

2006-01-22 Thread Chris
On 22/01/06, Adam Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All: I have been playing around with make.conf and I see that it is possible to to use the NO_OPENSSH variable to not build openssh when updating fbsd from source. I also noticed in the /etc/defaults/rc.conf file that there is a

Re: NFS trouble

2006-01-22 Thread David Raison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, first time I tried to export something different than an ext2fs device. It works. Now what I don't know is whether this has something to do with it being an ext2 fs or with the permissions. (regular users not being able to mount ext2 filesystems)

Re: information about distribution

2006-01-22 Thread Ceri Davies
On 19 Jan 2006, at 15:20, Martin Rolinec wrote: Hello. I would like to make a web page on which I would like to sale Linux distibution to people, who don´t have an opportunity to download it from internet. So I have few questions about a licence: 1. I would like to ask, if I can

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-22 Thread Ceri Davies
On 18 Jan 2006, at 17:17, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/17/06, Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The computer is currently without keyboard, mouse or monitor. I am adding applications to the computer via ssh while I work. As soon as I get openbox and tightvnc installed, I'll switch

DRAC 4 - ugen

2006-01-22 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, A little more on the ongoing saga to get my dracs working. It seems the the PE1850 with the DRAC 4 wants to use an (internal) USB connection to the keyboard-console. Through some investigation, when I start the remote session I see this in my messages log: Jan 22 15:24:27 s1

cmucl crashes on 6.0-RELEASE i386

2006-01-22 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
Hi, I am unable to get cmucl to work in freebsd 6.0-release for i386. When I run it, there is a lot of disk usage for a few seconds (allocating too much memory?) and then cmucl core dumps. Has anyone seen this before? Can it be fixed? I have tried installation through ports and packages and they

package tools out of date?

2006-01-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Trying to 'portupgrade openldap-sasl-server-2.2.29' and get the following errors. Does this mean my FreeBSD 54. package tools? Which ports or how do I upgrade? pkg_create: read_plist: unknown command '@dirrmtry etc/openldap/schema' (package tools out of date?) pkg_create: read_plist: unknown

Xorg 6.9.0 xkb problem

2006-01-22 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I've problem with Xorg 6.9.0. I think it's problem with Xorg and not with FreeBSD ports. But maybe someone can help me. On all my pc I use US-Keyboard, and because I'm french guys I need some caractere like : éèà etc... On my Xorg config I have Section InputDevice Identifier

RE: package tools out of date?

2006-01-22 Thread Tamouh H.
Hi Robert, Do CVSUP on all your ports, this will upgrade the package tools. Funny to ask because I just had this problem today. For info on how to use CVSUP and upgrade ports: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html Tamouh Trying to 'portupgrade

Encrypted volume - how?

2006-01-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem which can then be mounted in any mount point. I know I can use GELI in FreeBSD 6 - as I understand, it performs the encryption at the

Re: Encrypted volume - how?

2006-01-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem which can then be mounted in any mount point. Is this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mdconfig what you

Re: Encrypted volume - how?

2006-01-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:39:52AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem which can then be mounted in any mount point. I know I can use GELI in

Re: Encrypted volume - how?

2006-01-22 Thread Arne Woerner
--- Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: openssl, OR any other tool ? I have heard of gbde(8), which might be a few years old, than geli(8)... -Arne __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

Re: Encrypted volume - how?

2006-01-22 Thread Kees Plonß
Norberto Meijome wrote on Sunday 22 January 2006 23:39: Hi all, I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem which can then be mounted in any mount point. Why don't you use gbde. It is in your

Re: C/C++ call to detect cpu?

2006-01-22 Thread Nicolas Blais
On Saturday 21 January 2006 15:33, John Levine wrote: Other than 'grep'ing dmesg, is there a way to know the current cpu such as a struct with the machine's cpu and cpu feature (kinda like a time_t struct)? $ sysctl hw.model hw.model: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ If you want more

Re: Encrypted volume - how?

2006-01-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:39:52AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem which can then be mounted in any mount point. I know

Re: C/C++ call to detect cpu?

2006-01-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Nicolas, I have commented assembler code for the intel family of CPU's. This code goes back to the i386 and also takes into account the CPU string, and will calculate the clock speed. I do call this as a library function from c/c++ programs. Unfortunately this is written for Microsoft's

Re: C/C++ call to detect cpu?

2006-01-22 Thread Nicolas Blais
On Sunday 22 January 2006 19:53, Derek Ragona wrote: Nicolas, I have commented assembler code for the intel family of CPU's. This code goes back to the i386 and also takes into account the CPU string, and will calculate the clock speed. I do call this as a library function from c/c++

Re: Encrypted volume - how?

2006-01-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-01-23 09:39, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem which can then be mounted in any mount point. I know I can use GELI in

Re: package tools out of date?

2006-01-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:30:38PM -0500, Tamouh H. wrote: Hi Robert, Do CVSUP on all your ports, this will upgrade the package tools. No, package tools means things like pkg_create(1). It's not the problem here, although the solution is to cvsup again since it was already fixed. Kris

can't build jdk15 on 6.0

2006-01-22 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Am trying to build jdk15 form ports on 6.0. Happens to be inside a jail with linux emulation running etc. I previously was able to build jdk142 in s similar environment. The linux jdk14 is installed (I believe the port itself did that). Any thoughts or help appreciated. gmake[5]:

Re: cannot install freebsd 6.0

2006-01-22 Thread Stephen Krauth
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:49:12PM -0800, Stephen Krauth wrote: I'm unable to even boot the FreeBSD 6.0 install CD (i386 version). I have an AMD64 with an Nvidia nForce 3 250Gb based motherboard (MSI K8N Neo Platinum), currently running 4.10-RELEASE.

Re: WebDav for Apache

2006-01-22 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
That's an Apache question, not a FreeBSD thing. WebDAV comes standard with Apache2. - Original Message - From: Jose Borquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions group freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 4:26 PM Subject: WebDav for Apache Is there a WebDav

RE: WebDav for Apache

2006-01-22 Thread fbsd_user
For the rest of us who use apache 13 what is webdav?? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Foo Ji-Haw Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:52 PM To: Jose Borquez; FreeBSD Questions group Subject: Re: WebDav for Apache That's an Apache question, not

Re: WebDav for Apache

2006-01-22 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
Check out http://www.google.com/search?hl=enhs=n5rlr=client=firefox-arls=org.mozilla:en-US:official_soi=defmoredefl=enq=define:WebDAV In a nutshell, WebDAV, uses the HTTP protocol to manage files, pretty similar to FTP. Do note that while it sounds like fun, it is sometimes a security issue as

linux_base-8 fetch # of ports errors

2006-01-22 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello everyone, Several hours ago, I tried to upgrade linux_base-8 on my 6.0-STABLE box and it ran into many fetch problems, which can be seen below. Prior to this upgrading, I upgraded xorg without problems and after the failed troubleshooting, I had the machine install Firefox and it

securelevel doc?

2006-01-22 Thread Joel Hatton
Hi, I may be confused, but istr that man security[7] used to document the results of different kernel securelevels; this no longer seems to be the case. Is this still documented in the base system without recourse to online help? (I'm OK with securelevels, btw, I'd just like to know where to

RE: securelevel doc?

2006-01-22 Thread Gayn Winters
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel Hatton Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 8:52 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: securelevel doc? Hi, I may be confused, but istr that man security[7] used to document the results of different kernel securelevels; this no longer

Can FreeBSD play DVD movies?

2006-01-22 Thread Peter
I tried playing a DVD movie with mplayer today but the sound was just a hiss. Does anyone know why? Here is my version: MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team Here is the STDOUT: DVD successfully opened. MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970

gtk library for linux application?

2006-01-22 Thread John
I am trying to run a Linux application on my 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD system, but it needs a gtk library. Having the equivalent native FreeBSD library is apparently of no consequence. I can find Linux RPM source bundles for this all over the place, but I can't seem to find the binaries anywhere. I'm

Re: Can FreeBSD play DVD movies?

2006-01-22 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:47:27AM -0500, Peter wrote: I tried playing a DVD movie with mplayer today but the sound was just a hiss. Does anyone know why? Dunno, but multimedia/vlc works great for me. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can FreeBSD play DVD movies?

2006-01-22 Thread David Wilhelm
On 01/22/06 21:47, Peter wrote: I tried playing a DVD movie with mplayer today but the sound was just a hiss. Does anyone know why? Does this occur for every dvd that you've tried? I'm not sure about the audio decoder errors, but I've had the sound hiss with a few dvds. Try explicitly setting

portupgrade and dialog boxes.

2006-01-22 Thread Luke Bakken
Hello all, I'm in the process of doing a mega-portupgrade and I've noticed that certain ports use the dialog command to collect options from the user. I've searched for a way to ensure that these dialogs won't show up and the closest I've come to an answer is the 'make rmconfig' command in the