Re: SPARC64 release question

2006-02-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:38:45AM -0500, Jacob Kiefer wrote: > I was just wondering if the SPARC64 release (6.0 stable most likely one > I'll use) will work on an older SPARC system, specifically a MicroSPARC > II two processor running on a SPARCstation 4. Thanks. No, those aren't sparc64 syst

SPARC64 release question

2006-02-22 Thread Jacob Kiefer
I was just wondering if the SPARC64 release (6.0 stable most likely one I'll use) will work on an older SPARC system, specifically a MicroSPARC II two processor running on a SPARCstation 4. Thanks. -Jtkiefer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: portupgrading only certain ports

2006-02-22 Thread Richard Burakowski
Steve P. wrote: I am trying to avoid upgrading two ports: kde and X. HOLD_PKGS in pkgtools.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROT

Re: ports/databases/mysql50-server: where is mysql_upgrade ?

2006-02-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 22), James Long said: > Section 5.6.2 of the MySQL 5.0 docs says: > > 5.6.2. mysql_upgrade -- Check Tables for MySQL Upgrade > > mysql_upgrade should be executed each time you upgrade MySQL. It > checks all tables in all databases for incompatibilities with the > curren

Re: Looking for a mentor on php/mysql

2006-02-22 Thread Daniel A.
Hi, While the idea of a "mentor" is quite widespread amongst people who wish to learn a new field within IT, I find it that not many people who want one get one. I can, though, suggest that you in no circumstance save user passwords in plaintext. I could find that file on a live server and retriev

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Robert Huff
Eric Schuele writes: > > The only thing (again) unnerving is this statement. > > > > [snip] > > pkg_delete: package 'gettext-0.14.5' is required by these other packages > > and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it anyway): <--- *anyway*?? > > bash-3.1.10 > > [/snip] > > Don't wo

Re: portupgrading only certain ports

2006-02-22 Thread Duane Whitty
Peter wrote: --- "Steve P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to avoid upgrading two ports: kde and X. What are the command line options to portupgrade to accomplish this? For instance, I tried this and it failed: #portupgrade -a -x 'kde*' -x 'x*' Where am I going wrong? I've read the

Re: portupgrading only certain ports

2006-02-22 Thread Steve P.
Peter, Apparently it was the quotes! Upgrade appears to be working right. Thanks. > - Original Message - > From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Steve P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: portupgrading only certain ports > Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:23:20

Why did this work? (Flashplugin)

2006-02-22 Thread Vayu
I installed linuxpluginwrapper, linux-flashplugin-6 and linux_base-8 through ports. No errors. Created a libmap.conf with values appropriate for 6.0REL. I followed the same procedure that I did 3 weeks ago that successfully got flash playing in Konqueror on another FreeBSD 6.0REL machine.

Re: portupgrading only certain ports

2006-02-22 Thread Peter
--- "Steve P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to avoid upgrading two ports: kde and X. > > What are the command line options to portupgrade to accomplish this? > > For instance, I tried this and it failed: > #portupgrade -a -x 'kde*' -x 'x*' > > Where am I going wrong? > > I've read

Re: changeing the port of the ftp server

2006-02-22 Thread Peter
--- ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the port of my ftp > server. My (crummy) ISP blocks port 21 and I would like to change the > default port of the ftp server in order to give access to the outside > world. Assuming the server is runni

portupgrading only certain ports

2006-02-22 Thread Steve P.
I am trying to avoid upgrading two ports: kde and X. What are the command line options to portupgrade to accomplish this? For instance, I tried this and it failed: #portupgrade -a -x 'kde*' -x 'x*' Where am I going wrong? I've read the pertinent handbook ports section, and did man portupgrade,

changeing the port of the ftp server

2006-02-22 Thread ross
I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the port of my ftp server. My (crummy) ISP blocks port 21 and I would like to change the default port of the ftp server in order to give access to the outside world. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Re: Looking for a mentor on php/mysql

2006-02-22 Thread Robert Uzzi
> I am trying to teach my self php/mysql/html programming. > I have done native static html web sites before. > Running FreeBSD 6.0 with apache13, php, and mysql all installed and > working. > > Have read a few php books and searched the web for code snippets. > Have been on some of the php forum s

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Campbell writes: Thanks much for sharing the info This server is the primary NFS server with 2GB of RAM, with dual 3GhZ Pentium IVs. While not a truly low-end box, it probably cost about $1,500USD. Ok... so 1 NFS server. This system as one publically accessible MX server that handles

Re: trouble finding burner (k3b)

2006-02-22 Thread Duane Whitty
Peter wrote: This k3b program is great but it I find it very picky. Currently it cannot detect my DVD/CD burner (/dev/acd1) anymore. It can find my CDROM (/dev/acd0) allright but it claims the permissions may be wrong on the burner. I checked and these devices have the same permissions. I eve

/etc/rc.d/jail can't stop jail

2006-02-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
Doing my first jail. I am able to start the jail manually using the jail command and using /etc/rc.d/jail start, however I am unable to stop the jail using /etc/rc.d jail. I get the error Stopping jails:cannot stop jail mail. No jail id in /var/run The name of the jail is "mail". I also trie

trouble finding burner (k3b)

2006-02-22 Thread Peter
This k3b program is great but it I find it very picky. Currently it cannot detect my DVD/CD burner (/dev/acd1) anymore. It can find my CDROM (/dev/acd0) allright but it claims the permissions may be wrong on the burner. I checked and these devices have the same permissions. I even gave them bot

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Eric Schuele
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:58 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: In gentoo, it's a simple "emerge xterm" and all will be done automatically. (Granted, this is compile from source and not from binary packages, which I know can do "cd /usr/ports/x11/xterm && make ins

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-22 Thread Duane Whitty
Rob wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:20 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006-02-22 10:17, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to set the display name on my computer. I have a program used with Xorg that gives me the error message: _X11Tra

ports/databases/mysql50-server: where is mysql_upgrade ?

2006-02-22 Thread James Long
Section 5.6.2 of the MySQL 5.0 docs says: 5.6.2. mysql_upgrade -- Check Tables for MySQL Upgrade mysql_upgrade should be executed each time you upgrade MySQL. It checks all tables in all databases for incompatibilities with the current version of MySQL Server. After installing mysql50-server,

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:02 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a > >rough diamond. > > > > > > "rough diamond" ... I like that idea. :D haha.. > As mentioned by one other poster, "-f" will force the deinstall. > Not an op

RE: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread fbsd_user
I am also a user of the packages. Each new release of FreeBSD has a ftp package directory that matches the release. That is where the pkg_add -r command goes to get your packages. The 4.11 release would have the words '4.11-release' in the directory name. Time passes and we now have 5.4 and 6.0 rel

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:58 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > In gentoo, it's a simple "emerge xterm" and all will be done > > automatically. (Granted, this is compile from source and not from binary > > packages, which I know can do "cd /usr/ports/x11/xterm && make install > > c

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:36 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > what about the dependency then? Ignore it? What if there are "files" > > needed by xorg-clients? eg: libXX.so.Y and which is not present in > > the new xterm? > > > Since you w

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Eric Schuele
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read "Absolute BSD" and still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a rough diamond. Problem statement. FreeBSD-Release-6 Inst

Re: Problem building perl-5.8.8

2006-02-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
> `sh cflags "optimize='-O -pipe'" toke.o` -fpic toke.c > CCCMD = gcc -DPERL_CORE -c > -DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN" -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe > -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -O -pipe -Wall > toke.c: In function `S_scan_formline': > toke.c:10

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:02 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a > >rough diamond. > > > > > > "rough diamond" ... I like that idea. :D haha.. > As mentioned by one other poster, "-f" will force the deinstall. > Not an op

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 20:32 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read "Absolute BSD" > > > and still > > > > > > $pkg_add

RE: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:37 -0500, fbsd_user wrote: > do pkg_info > look in the output for xterm. it will contain its complete name > if its name in the list output is xterm-203 then I did that. > pkg_delete xterm-203 this will remove it It says dependencies on xorg-clients. Another poster s

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read "Absolute BSD" and still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a rough diamond. "rough diamond" ... I like that ide

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 20:32 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read "Absolute BSD" and > > still > > $pkg_add -vr x11/xterm-206_1 > > pkg_add: package 'xterm-206_1' or its older versi

RE: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread fbsd_user
do pkg_info look in the output for xterm. it will contain its complete name if its name in the list output is xterm-203 then pkg_delete xterm-203 this will remove it then pkg_add -rv xterm should fetch the package from the ports collection and install it. There is a better explanation of the

Re: Problem building perl-5.8.8

2006-02-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > I updated the ports, now it is perl 5.8.8 and still the same > > > > `sh cflags "optimize='-O -pipe'" toke.o` -fpic toke.c > > CCCMD = gcc -DPERL_CORE -c > > -DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN" -fno-strict-aliasing > > -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/loca

Automatically changing modes on the DVD writer for K3b

2006-02-22 Thread Donald T Hayford
To get K3b to work I need to change the mode of the following devices to 664 (or 666) from 644. /dev/xpt0 /dev/cd0 and /dev/cd1 /dev/pass0 and /dev/pass1 Is there a way to do this automatically on boot-up? Now I do it using a script that I run as root but, of course, I always forget to run th

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi, > > I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read "Absolute BSD" and > still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to > upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so > I'm not a rough diamo

Re: How Do I Make a Bug Report?

2006-02-22 Thread Chris Maness
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-21 21:52, Chris Maness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I found out why I was not able to log in to my new CUPS installation web interface. The ports patched source tree installation put the CGI files in the wrong place. I moved them to where they are supposed

Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read "Absolute BSD" and still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a rough diamond. Problem statement. FreeBSD-Release-6 Install from minimal cd (

OpenVPN in QEMU on FreeBSD 6.x ...

2006-02-22 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Did some searching tonight, to see what was available as an OSS alternative to VMWare, and came across QEMU ... what I'm interested in doing is running a QEMU vServer that runs FreeBSD inside of it, and will support having outside connections talking to it as a VPN "hub(?)" ... basically, I d

Re: VPN & Jail(s) ...

2006-02-22 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I asked this a little while ago, and had alot of good answers ... but, after doing some thinking, I'm wondering if there might be a better way of doing it, that removed the requirement for 'hitting' the base operating system ... If I ran something like FreeBSD in VMWare, would that work? Ar

Re: anyone using voip?

2006-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 23 February 2006 at 0:43:22 +, Alec Berryman wrote: > Peter on 2006-02-22 18:55:34 -0500: > >> >> --- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I'm using Skype from ports with an analog headset and it works >>> fantastically well. >> >> I installed skype from ports. Withou

Page Fault - Wireless problem?

2006-02-22 Thread Dave Lewis
I am getting the following panic that happens intermittently using 6,0 and 6.1 prerelease with GENERIC and modified kermels [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"] GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software

Re: anyone using voip?

2006-02-22 Thread Alec Berryman
Peter on 2006-02-22 18:55:34 -0500: > > --- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm using Skype from ports with an analog headset and it works > > fantastically well. > > I installed skype from ports. Without a man page it was difficult to > begin. I decided to execute the binary

Re: sendmail hangs with errors after setting hostname

2006-02-22 Thread Derek Ragona
I would suggest setting the hostname as a different address from localhost. There are multiple instances of sendmail that run, as your rc.conf file has them enabled. You can use a private non-routable IP for the hostname. Hope this helps. -Derek At 04:10 PM 2/22/2006, Rob wrote: H

gam_server driving me nuts

2006-02-22 Thread Peter
During a ports upgrade fam was replaced by gamin. Now my power supply fan keeps turning up and down. This is causing a lot of noise and is very annoying. I can't seem to kill the thing either; damn thing respawns. What are other people doing? __

Re: anyone using voip?

2006-02-22 Thread Peter
--- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter on 2006-02-21 22:07:11 -0500: > > > Hi, I'm looking for comments from people who are using a voip solution > > with FreeBSD. The archives of this group show mixed results. I see > > there is a skype port available. To me that implies that t

Re: anyone using voip?

2006-02-22 Thread Alec Berryman
Peter on 2006-02-21 22:07:11 -0500: > Hi, I'm looking for comments from people who are using a voip solution > with FreeBSD. The archives of this group show mixed results. I see > there is a skype port available. To me that implies that this is > possible. What of hardware? USB phones? I'm u

Re: anyone using voip?

2006-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 February 2006 at 22:07:11 -0500, Peter wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for comments from people who are using a voip solution > with FreeBSD. The archives of this group show mixed results. I see there > is a skype port available. To me that implies that this is possible. > What of hardwa

Re: Free BSD on Macintosh OS 10.3.9 ?

2006-02-22 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On 22/02/2006, at 10:37 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Elisabet, I don't think you need the BSD base system to run Adobe Indesign system. But, if you do then you have to do it this way: 1) backup all your data files from your iBook. Unplug your ethernet connection so you have no network c

Re: FreeBSD 6.X Updating Source

2006-02-22 Thread chris
The difference between RELENG_6 and RELENG_6_[0-1] is one is a development branch which releases are based off and RELENG_6_0 is the stable version of the released code which only gets security fixes commited to it. As bother are considred stable code compared to current STABLE sometimes breaks due

Re: How to delete ports?

2006-02-22 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Jose Borquez wrote: Is it safe to go into /usr/ports and delete the entire contents of the ports and then do a cvsup to download only the needed ports? Is there another method to do this? Yes, you can safely delete /usr/ports. You can define the unwanted directories with refuse files for CV

Re: How to delete ports?

2006-02-22 Thread chris
There is no problem doing that, just add each dir you dont need or want in a .cvsignore file in /usr/ports/.cvsignore just remeber that some of those items you dont need might be required as a dep for some other port. Regards, Chris > Is it safe to go into /usr/ports and delete the entire contents

How to delete ports?

2006-02-22 Thread Jose Borquez
Is it safe to go into /usr/ports and delete the entire contents of the ports and then do a cvsup to download only the needed ports? Is there another method to do this? Thanks in advance, Jose ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

sendmail hangs with errors after setting hostname

2006-02-22 Thread Rob
Hi, OK, I think that I now have my hostname set properly in rc.conf and /etc/hosts In rc.conf is the line hostname="xenon" In /etc/hosts there is one line: 127.0.0.1 localhost xenon Upon bootup I get the following error: "xenon sm-mta [1556]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sl

Re: What doesn't work on desktop FreeBSD ? (ex Webcams)

2006-02-22 Thread Jan Holland
Xn Nooby wrote: > I bought a QuickCam Orbit MP, which I apparently must use under Windows (or > Linux). From what I've seen online, not many (if any), people are using > webcams under FreeBSD. I was curious if there were other things that also > were not realistic to do (I'm not complaining). >

Re: virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory

2006-02-22 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On 2/22/06, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi FreeBSD folks, > >I'm having trouble compiling the java/jdk15 package. I've downloaded > the > files from Sun and eyesbeyond, as per usual. When I go to the jdk15 > directory and do 'make' the compilation starts and runs for an h

Looking for a mentor on php/mysql

2006-02-22 Thread fbsd_user
I am trying to teach my self php/mysql/html programming. I have done native static html web sites before. Running FreeBSD 6.0 with apache13, php, and mysql all installed and working. Have read a few php books and searched the web for code snippets. Have been on some of the php forum sites, but res

Re: FreeBSD 6.X Updating Source

2006-02-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/22/06, Cody Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . . . running FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0. > . . . RELENG_6 tag, > Is a prerelease considered stable, or am I doing something wrong? Naming conventions. Nothing else. For the brief life of a -PRERELEASE, that's what -STABLE is. There's also a

Re: FreeBSD 6.X Updating Source

2006-02-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:15:11PM -0600, Cody Holland wrote: > I just installed a server with FreeBSD 6.0. Everything went perfect. > Got it up and running and wanted to download the newest source prior to > installing a lot of ports and software. Used cvsup with stable-supfile. > Went throught

FreeBSD 6.X Updating Source

2006-02-22 Thread Cody Holland
I just installed a server with FreeBSD 6.0. Everything went perfect. Got it up and running and wanted to download the newest source prior to installing a lot of ports and software. Used cvsup with stable-supfile. Went throught the normal update procedure and when it was done it says that I am run

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-22 Thread Rob
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:20 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-02-22 10:17, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been trying to figure out how to set the display name on my > > computer. I have a program used with Xorg that gives me the error > > message: > > > > _

Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-22 Thread Alex Mayfield
I'm rather new to FreeBSD, and have been wanting to try it out. However, I am unable to boot from either the i386 6.0-RELEASE bootonly or the i386 6.0-RELEASE disc 1 CD. I'm running an Athlon 64 3000+ on a WinFast 755FXK8AA motherboard (Socket 939, SiS 755 North Bridge, SiS 964 South Brid

Re: Qpopper v4.0.8

2006-02-22 Thread Derek Ragona
As you said you have just upgraded, did you use the port to upgrade? If you did it will use the configuration setting to build qpopper. Otherwise, if you downloaded qpopper's source and built it yourself, you need to check the configuration settings. You should verify qpopper is built and ex

Upgrading Apache

2006-02-22 Thread andreis
Hi: Could you please help us to find out if it is possible to upgrade 10.3.29 Apache to the latest 10.3.x version through FreeBSD RELENG_5_4 ports? If so, any hints as to how to find the right ports would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot, AS ___ f

Re: xorg-libraries 6.9.0 wont build

2006-02-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:03:51PM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Anyone having trouble upgrading from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0? > > It won't take the patches. You have stale patches in your ports tree. Perhaps you installed ports from sysinstall and then switched to cvsup to update without following the s

Re: Qpopper v4.0.8

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
michaela wrote: I was running an older version of Qpopper on my mailserver and had NO problems whatsoever. Everything was going great. However, I just recently upgraded to Qpopper v4.0.8 and now all of a sudden I can't access my mail via POP3. I'm running Qpopper via INETd and my /etc/in

A question on console and UTF-8

2006-02-22 Thread a
How to force a console to use a multibyte character set (UTF-8)? I use FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. Thanking you in anticipation, Elisej Babenko mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Increase process number in FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-22 Thread Thawan Kooburat
Hi I am using FreeBSD 6.0. My course assignment required me to increase process number running on a system. I have already modify /boot/loader.conf on following parameters kern.maxusers = 384 kern.maxproc = 5 kern.maxprocperuid = 5 But after reboot maxproc and max

Re: 3Ware Escalade Issues

2006-02-22 Thread Peter Giessel
On Wednesday, February 22, 2006, at 10:04AM, Robin Vley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I swapped the broken Maxtors with Seagate disks. I too am a big fan of Seagate disks. So it Seagate it seems. Maxtor and Western Digital give 1 year on the low end and 3 year warranty on their "Special Edition"

Re: help i need a help

2006-02-22 Thread Greg Barniskis
Tim Daneliuk wrote: As Mike points out, you do *not* need X or any GUI tools to do any of this. Well, you don't need a GUI to access the files and share them in the sense of raw file share functionality. I think perhaps the OP was getting at "sharing" at a higher level, like Windows User A b

Re: 3Ware Escalade Issues

2006-02-22 Thread Robin Vley
Don O'Neil wrote: Don, They're Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y250P0 250 GB PATA drives... Never had a problem with that particular drive until this batch. I used the 80, 120 and 160GB version of that series in some of my servers built 2 years ago. Out of the 18 disks originally put in, I have

clipping netstat -w error counts

2006-02-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
I have a very lossy wi-fi link. Is there a bug in netstat? gw# netstat -w1 -I ext0 input (ext0) output packets errs bytespackets errs bytes colls 13 1492 33 0 2563 0 10 0140 31

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-22 Thread Robin Vley
Robert Huff wrote: Robert, > I have a -CURRENT machine - P4, 512mb RAM, SCSI disks, > de-driver ethernet, all mainstream hardware - that has this problem. > Since early last year (maybe longer) it will occasionally reboot. Actually, I had it on three machines now. First on a P4 I leased in

Qpopper v4.0.8

2006-02-22 Thread michaela
I was running an older version of Qpopper on my mailserver and had NO problems whatsoever. Everything was going great. However, I just recently upgraded to Qpopper v4.0.8 and now all of a sudden I can't access my mail via POP3. I'm running Qpopper via INETd and my /etc/inetd.conf file looks

Re: help i need a help

2006-02-22 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Mike Hernandez wrote: On 2/22/06, poria hariry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Dear Sirs i am a ICT student . i have a project that moust install freebsd and sharing file whit windows but i have a problem i can not open Xwindow . can you help me about this. tnx 1. You don't need Xwindow

Re: anyone using voip?

2006-02-22 Thread Ken Stevenson
Peter wrote: Hi, I'm looking for comments from people who are using a voip solution with FreeBSD. The archives of this group show mixed results. I see there is a skype port available. To me that implies that this is possible. What of hardware? USB phones? -- Peter I've started playing a

Re: Trouble Making OpenOffice

2006-02-22 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:23:17PM -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 2/21/06, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to build OO 2.02rc1 on FBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE. I see this error: ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/ed

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-22 10:17, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying to figure out how to set the display name on my > computer. I have a program used with Xorg that gives me the error > message: > > _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for xenon:6000: hostname nor > servname provid

Re: Trouble Making OpenOffice

2006-02-22 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:23:17PM -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > >On 2/21/06, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I am trying to build OO 2.02rc1 > >>on FBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE. I see this error: > >> > >>ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making > >>/usr/ports/ed

Re: 3Ware Escalade Issues

2006-02-22 Thread Nathan Vidican
Charles Swiger wrote: On Feb 22, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: 3) Is there some way I can do a faster FSCK, or perhaps 'fool' the system into thinking the file system is clean? If you update to 5.x or later, you can use background FSCK rather than having to wait for the FSCK t

Re: Trouble Making OpenOffice

2006-02-22 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 2/21/06, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to build OO 2.02rc1 on FBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE. I see this error: ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2.0/work/OOB680_m1/testtools/source/bridgetest dmake: Error code 1,

Re: help i need a help

2006-02-22 Thread albi
poria hariry wrote: > i am a ICT student . i have a project that moust install freebsd and > sharing file whit windows but i have a problem > i can not open Xwindow . can you help me about this. try this : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html if that is n

problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-22 Thread Rob
I have been trying to figure out how to set the display name on my computer. I have a program used with Xorg that gives me the error message: _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for xenon:6000: hostname nor servname provided, or not known Error: Can't open display: xenon:0.0 also wh

Re: 3Ware Escalade Issues

2006-02-22 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 22, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: 3) Is there some way I can do a faster FSCK, or perhaps 'fool' the system into thinking the file system is clean? If you update to 5.x or later, you can use background FSCK rather than having to wait for the FSCK to complete the way it does

Re: help i need a help

2006-02-22 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 2/22/06, poria hariry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dear Sirs > i am a ICT student . i have a project that moust install freebsd and > sharing file whit windows but i have a problem > i can not open Xwindow . can you help me about this. > tnx > 1. You don't need Xwindows to share a fi

help i need a help

2006-02-22 Thread poria hariry
Hi Dear Sirs i am a ICT student . i have a project that moust install freebsd and sharing file whit windows but i have a problem i can not open Xwindow . can you help me about this. tnx - Yahoo! Autos. Looking for a sweet ride? Get pricing,

Re: 3Ware Escalade Issues

2006-02-22 Thread Don O'Neil
Chuck, Thanks for the response, this helps me a lot... My answers are inline: >Don O'Neil wrote: >> There appears to be a bad sector on one of the drives according to smartctl, >> but nothing serious. >What that may mean is that there have been many bad sectors, which have been >corrected usin

bridge

2006-02-22 Thread Daim Willemse
Hello all, On my fine FreeBSD 6.0 box I am running a wireless access point. I set up the interface and bridged it and all worked fine. After that I wanted to install ISDN4BSD. Therefor I compliled a new kernel after adding the ISDN4BSD code. The kernel compiled and it booted. However. In th

Re: 6.0-release remote x application failure to open display

2006-02-22 Thread Heliocentric
> I recently have performed a clean install of 6.0-release on this > machine, on a new hard drive, and then copied over the data and some > configuration files (ssh keys, etc.) from the old hard drive (it is a > slow machine, so I didn't want to build current). Having done so, I > then tried to lo

xorg-libraries 6.9.0 wont build

2006-02-22 Thread Bernt Hansson
Anyone having trouble upgrading from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0? It won't take the patches. make ===> Extracting for xorg-libraries-6.9.0 => MD5 Checksum OK for xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz. => SHA256 Checksum OK for xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz. => MD5 Checksum OK for xorg/X11R6.9.0-src3.tar.gz. => SHA256 Ch

Re: using Realplayer codecs with mplayer

2006-02-22 Thread Andrew
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 11:39 +0200, Adi Pircalabu wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:59:14 -0600 > Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd like to be able to use mplayer to play Realmedia files (more > > specifically, streaming audio), but I can't seem to get it working > > under FreeBSD. I have m

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-22 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:07:21AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Fortunately, the used market is awash in UPSes that have burned out > batteries. Just find the local supplier of lead-acid gell cells and > make friends with him and your in like flyn. Any large city has at > least 1 of them.

Re: 6.0-release remote x application failure to open display

2006-02-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Ben Kaduk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I think this is probably a simple question, but I do not recall having > any difficulties on 5.2.1 or 5.3-beta3, which are the other versions > that I had run on this box. > > I recently have performed a clean install of 6.0-release on this >

Re: Multiple DNS

2006-02-22 Thread bsd
> > Le 19 févr. 06 à 08:46, Robert Slade a écrit : > >> Hi, >> >> I am looking for some advice. I have a network which is based on a >> number of servers running FreeBsd 6.0 serving Win XP work stations. >> (yes >> I know but..) The network is large enough to use DHCP and DNS for the >> internal ne

Re: 6.0 stable: linuxpluginwrapper port build failure

2006-02-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chandan Haldar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the middle of the marathon build of gnome2 2.12, the machine (Compaq > Pentium III 933MHz with 256MB RAM) unpredictably locks up. Happened > several times so far at different places in the build. Keyboard is > dead. Switching > console does not wo

Re: eclipse looks for cairo.2

2006-02-22 Thread Micah
kalin mintchev wrote: I noticed you CC'd freebsd-java & freebsd-questions but didn't CC freebsd-eclipse@ Have you searched their archives? Tried the WITHOUT_CAIRO=yes knob? What kind of system are you trying to build this on? thanks Micah.. i'm not sure if i want to exclude cairo from the b

Re: denyhosts

2006-02-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Robin Becker wrote: > I'm trying out the denyhosts port; it starts up and performs as expected, > but it won't recognize a running instance as this python if test fails. > Is there a more freebsd way for python to find out if a given process is > running? > > if os.access(os.path.join("/proc",

Re: Upgrade 5.4 to 6.0

2006-02-22 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, hal wrote: Is there any reason why I should not upgrade a 5.4 system to 6.0 as opposed to doing a clean install? Have a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING . You might find out you have to rebuild about all of your ports, which can be quite tedious - if you have many of them insta

Re: Free BSD on Macintosh OS 10.3.9 ?

2006-02-22 Thread Ashley Moran
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 11:37, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > I don't think that is true.  I just installed an OSX Panther system > on a new hard disk in my G3 and it works fine.  But you must install > the BSD base system first, before patching anything, right after > installing > osX.  And you m

Ports/packages confusion

2006-02-22 Thread Chandan Haldar
Continuing to wallow in my pool of port upgrade sorrows, I'm confused on a few basic aspects of ports/packages maintenance. Looked around, but couldn't find much clarity (may be haven't found the right docs yet). Will someone please point me to an explanation for why the packages in my install s

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