Re: Unicode support on FreeBSD

2006-12-16 Thread 文鳥
It's worth noting that while this solution may work, it's an add-on. The question of Unicode is complex; you should check for relevant threads in the questions@ and i18n@ archives. I am using FreeBSD 6.1. with locale set to ja_JP.UTF-8 for quite some time now, and it's working

Re: Upgrade a binary package

2006-12-16 Thread Rob Hurle
This thread has been interesting: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, RW wrote: Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:17:42 + From: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade a binary package On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:55, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Thursday December 14, 2006 at

removing x11/linux-XFree86-libs ?

2006-12-16 Thread Beni
Hi all, I noticed that x11/linux-XFree86-libs has been replaced by x11/linux-xorg-libs. I can deinstall and reinstall the linux-xorg-libs but how do I remove the installed port linux-XFree86-libs ? Portmaster aborts updating my ports with the following error and I can't go into the original

devd usage

2006-12-16 Thread Maxim Vetrov
Hi, I'm running 6.1 on Toshiba notebook SAtellite L100. Get stuck with auto config of wireless cardbus adapter (D-Link DWL-G650). I want to load kernel module (if_ath.ko) automatically when I insert it into the slot. I found that I need /etc/devd.conf to be configured properly. There is a

Need explaination for `date` command !

2006-12-16 Thread Supote Leelasuppakorn
Hi lists, I am currently using FreeBSD-6.1 for a while. I am in Thailand so my time zone is GMT+7. Let say the time is 3:00 PM in Thailand. What I would like to know is 1. What is the output of `date` command I should get ? 2. What is the output of `date -u` command I should get ? TIA

Re: How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem?

2006-12-16 Thread FK
Dear all, Still I can not solove the problem. Maybe it is high time to give up, but before that I wonder, as everybody who has had this kind of trouble does, I could mount it read-only and back up my own data. The data is too precious for me to lose... Thank you for your support. -- FK.

Inconsistencies with FreeBSD installation FTP servers

2006-12-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
For some odd reason I can't get FTP/FTP-passive based transactions to work on my new system (bails after the first install floppy completes), and when working with different releases it appears that older releases than 6.1 don't have kernel directories (!). Is this a design choice or are

New style with Fluxbox

2006-12-16 Thread Olivier Regnier
Hello, Yesterday, i installed by the ports, fluxbox version 0.1.14_2 on my laptop with FreeBSD 6.1. I downloaded a new style called Mysta with theses files: - theme.cfg - pixmaps (button.xpm, menu.xpm and toolbar.xpm) Theses files are in /usr/X11R6/share/fluxbox/styles . The permissions are ok

Re: Upgrade a binary package

2006-12-16 Thread Frank Steinborn
Rob Hurle wrote: But, how to do this using portupgrade? I have: #uname -a FreeBSD freebsd.connect-a.com.au 6.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p5A and in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf we see: OS_PKGBRANCH=6-stable but when I try portupgrade, this is what happens: ++ Will try the

Re: removing x11/linux-XFree86-libs ?

2006-12-16 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:15:02 +0100 Beni wrote: I noticed that x11/linux-XFree86-libs has been replaced by x11/linux-xorg-libs. I can deinstall and reinstall the linux-xorg-libs but how do I remove the installed port linux-XFree86-libs ? Portmaster aborts updating my ports with the

Re: removing x11/linux-XFree86-libs ?

2006-12-16 Thread Beni
On Saturday 16 December 2006 14:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday December 16, 2006 at 07:15:02 (AM) Beni wrote: Hi all, I noticed that x11/linux-XFree86-libs has been replaced by x11/linux-xorg-libs. I can deinstall and reinstall the linux-xorg-libs but how do I remove the

Re: if_nfe on nVidia chipset

2006-12-16 Thread Shigeaki Tagashira
I have the same one. And if_nfe works well on it, in both FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE and 7-CURRENT. Please try to initialize if_nfe using ifconfig command; # ifconfig nfe1 down; ifconfig nfe1 up --- S. Tagashira Palle Girgensohn wrote: Hi! Sorry for the cross post, I'd love to know if I can get

Re: Need explaination for `date` command !

2006-12-16 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 16 December 2006 06:18, Supote Leelasuppakorn wrote: Hi lists, I am currently using FreeBSD-6.1 for a while. I am in Thailand so my time zone is GMT+7. Let say the time is 3:00 PM in Thailand. What I would like to know is 1. What is the output of `date` command I should get ?

Re: Legato Client for freeBSD.

2006-12-16 Thread David Robillard
Hi Phillip, Appreciate your help. Sure, no problem :) If you do try it out, I'd like to know if it actually works ! And if it doesn't, well, I've been thinking of other ways you could solve your problem. One is to enable FreeBSD's Linux Compatibility and use Letgato's Linux client (I

Re: How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem?

2006-12-16 Thread FK
Dear listers, Hopefully this may help. To back up the necessary data, all I have to do is $tar -cvzf fk.backup.tgz /usr/home/fk/ assuming that the broken partition /dev/da0s2 is mounted on /, which means all data I need to back up is under /usr/home/fk/. Note: /usr/home/fk/ has lots of files

ipfw rules

2006-12-16 Thread Jurjen Middendorp
I posted this to the freebsd-security list, but i believe that is not the right list to this question (sorry! this is my first message to the freebsd mailing-lists). I hope this is the right list! :) anyway: I tried making a firewall for my laptop..but i'm not sure if i forgot anything. And

Re: New style with Fluxbox

2006-12-16 Thread Chad Gross
On 12/16/06, Olivier Regnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Yesterday, i installed by the ports, fluxbox version 0.1.14_2 on my laptop with FreeBSD 6.1. I downloaded a new style called Mysta with theses files: - theme.cfg - pixmaps (button.xpm, menu.xpm and toolbar.xpm) Theses files are in

xorg on a headless, mouseless, keyboardless box

2006-12-16 Thread Lane
Hi, I need to run X ... or in some way gain access to the display output on a remote box that has neither mouse, keyboard, or console. Is this even possible? I've been looking at the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html#AEN6864 But it doesn't jump

Re: New style with Fluxbox

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 12/16/06, Olivier Regnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Yesterday, i installed by the ports, fluxbox version 0.1.14_2 Please try the newer version, x11-wm/fluxbox-devel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: xorg on a headless, mouseless, keyboardless box

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 12/16/06, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to run X ... or in some way gain access to the display output on a remote box that has neither mouse, keyboard, or console. Can you tell us what you really need? Try ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] and running gui apps or even startx there.

Re: xorg on a headless, mouseless, keyboardless box

2006-12-16 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Alternately you can also run an NX server and NX client or even TightVNC to access GDM, KDM, or XDM remotely as well. Cheers, Lonnie Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 12/16/06, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to run X ... or in some way gain access to the display output on a remote box

Re: compilation problems with some code from Linux

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 12/8/06, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 08 December 2006 11:21, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I'm trying to port some code from Linux to FreeBSD and I've got an issue that revolves around something I've never dealt with before. The code includes the following header: #include

Re: xorg on a headless, mouseless, keyboardless box

2006-12-16 Thread Lane
On Saturday 16 December 2006 12:34, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 12/16/06, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to run X ... or in some way gain access to the display output on a remote box that has neither mouse, keyboard, or console. Can you tell us what you really need? Try

Re: New style with Fluxbox

2006-12-16 Thread Olivier Regnier
I installed fluxbox-devel and it's ok. Im' happy :) Thank you ;) On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:31:03 +0300 Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/16/06, Olivier Regnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Yesterday, i installed by the ports, fluxbox version 0.1.14_2 Please try the

Translate job number from atq to commands that will run

2006-12-16 Thread JAMES T RIENDEAU
Does anybody know how I could translate the job # into the commands that will run from the output of the atq command? For example, here is my current atq: DateOwner Queue Job # Mon Dec 18 09:00:00 CST 2006rootc

Re: xorg on a headless, mouseless, keyboardless box

2006-12-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 16, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Lane wrote: Hi, I need to run X ... or in some way gain access to the display output on a remote box that has neither mouse, keyboard, or console. Is this even possible? I've been looking at the handbook:

Re: xorg on a headless, mouseless, keyboardless box

2006-12-16 Thread Lane
On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:11, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Dec 16, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Lane wrote: Hi, I need to run X ... or in some way gain access to the display output on a remote box that has neither mouse, keyboard, or console. Is this even possible? I've been looking at

Re: xorg on a headless, mouseless, keyboardless box

2006-12-16 Thread Christopher Cowart
I've used this ssh -X that you mention. This works fine for userland programs, but in order to troubleshoot my particular issue I'd need to be logged in as root. When I try to su remotely to run the command I get: X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. X connection to

Re: xorg on a headless, mouseless, keyboardless box

2006-12-16 Thread Lane
On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:32, you wrote: I've used this ssh -X that you mention. This works fine for userland programs, but in order to troubleshoot my particular issue I'd need to be logged in as root. When I try to su remotely to run the command I get: X11 connection rejected

1440x900

2006-12-16 Thread dsikorsky
I just orderd a widescreen 19 inch, I have a radeon x300se 128mb card, and am using freebsd 6.1, gnome 2.16, and x11 6.9 (xorg) how do I use this resolution? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 1440x900

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 12/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just orderd a widescreen 19 inch, I have a radeon x300se 128mb card, and am using freebsd 6.1, gnome 2.16, and x11 6.9 (xorg) how do I use this resolution? The same way you use any other one. (a) autodetection (b) xorg.conf (c) gnome

Re: Unicode support on FreeBSD

2006-12-16 Thread Henry Lenzi
On 12/16/06, 文鳥 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's worth noting that while this solution may work, it's an add-on. The question of Unicode is complex; you should check for relevant threads in the questions@ and i18n@ archives. I am using FreeBSD 6.1. with locale set to ja_JP.UTF-8

Re: Unicode support on FreeBSD

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 12/16/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering if and how I would go about getting Unicode support setup on FreeBSD. Any links I could get would be more than appreciated. Not very helpful, but still: http://infofarmer.blogspot.com/2006/12/unicodifying-freebsd.html

Interrupt storm on an MS-1029 (AMD Turion 64)

2006-12-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is anyone aware of problems with FreeBSD on the MS-1029 notebook or is this a bona fide bug? -Robert Johnson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] STATEMENT OF PROBLEM FreeBSD 6.1 runs very slowly out of the box on my MS-1029 AMD Turion notebook computer. The first line from the output of 'ps

Re: How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem?

2006-12-16 Thread Antony Mawer
On 16/12/2006 6:25 AM, FK wrote: ... But ... I will lose one-month-long-worthing data, which is horrible since I have modified a lot of data for the time. Do I have any practical ways to back up the data without mounting it, given that I could not fix the superblock? Have you tried a

upgrade of portupgrade fails

2006-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I did a portupgrade -R on sysutils/portupgrade, and it started upgrading ruby. Unfortunately, it failed. No definition for sock_s_unpack_sockaddr_un stringio.c: c. strscan.c:

Re: upgrade of portupgrade fails

2006-12-16 Thread Lane
On Saturday 16 December 2006 20:24, Michael P. Soulier wrote: I did a portupgrade -R on sysutils/portupgrade, and it started upgrading ruby. Unfortunately, it failed. No definition for sock_s_unpack_sockaddr_un stringio.c:

Re: upgrade of portupgrade fails

2006-12-16 Thread Lane
On Saturday 16 December 2006 20:24, Michael P. Soulier wrote: I did a portupgrade -R on sysutils/portupgrade, and it started upgrading ruby. Unfortunately, it failed. No definition for sock_s_unpack_sockaddr_un stringio.c:

Re: upgrade of portupgrade fails

2006-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/12/06 Lane said: I had this problem as well after going from 6.1 to -CURRENT I fixed it by doing cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby18 make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install and then rebuilt sysutils/portupgrade Well, it seemed to be a problem in building the ruby rdocs, so I removed that option

mailman upgrade problem

2006-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I just did a portupgrade on mailman, and now it's doing this. Dec 16 22:05:27 kanga Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group nobody, but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group mailman. Try tweaking the mail

Re: Translate job number from atq to commands that will run

2006-12-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 16), JAMES T RIENDEAU said: Does anybody know how I could translate the job # into the commands that will run from the output of the atq command? For example, here is my current atq: Date Owner Queue Job # Mon Dec 18 09:00:00 CST

Re: mailman upgrade problem

2006-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/12/06 Michael P. Soulier said: I just did a portupgrade on mailman, and now it's doing this. Dec 16 22:05:27 kanga Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group nobody, but the system's mail server executed the mail

Re: mailman upgrade problem

2006-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/12/06 Michael P. Soulier said: This is odd though, considering the wrapper program is group ownership mailman, with the sgid bit set. Plus, if I change the group ownership to nobody, it complains about the opposite. I had to build it this way to fix the issue. MAIL_GID=mailman make

openssh security issues

2006-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So, portaudit keeps complaining about openssh, but when I try to upgrade... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo portupgrade -R openssh [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 207 packages found (-1 +1) (...). done] --- Upgrading 'openssh-3.6.1_5' to 'openssh-3.6.1_6' (security/openssh)

Re: Translate job number from atq to commands that will run

2006-12-16 Thread James Long
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:54:58 -0600 From: JAMES T RIENDEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Translate job number from atq to commands that will run To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Does anybody

Re: openssh security issues

2006-12-16 Thread Christopher Cowart
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:47:39PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: So, portaudit keeps complaining about openssh, but when I try to upgrade... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo portupgrade -R openssh [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 207 packages found (-1 +1) (...). done]

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-11-26 - 2006-12-16

2006-12-16 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

i finally got wireless working

2006-12-16 Thread Jonathan Horne
well, a day well spent, i finally sat down to get the intel 2200 wireless on my ibm t42 working. i have sucessfully configured it to attach to my WPA encrypted wifi on bootup. everything is otherwise working to my satisfaction. now, my questions are: 1) how can i set up to access more than

Re: i finally got wireless working

2006-12-16 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
At Sun, 17 Dec 2006 it looks like Jonathan Horne composed: well, a day well spent, i finally sat down to get the intel 2200 wireless on my ibm t42 working. i have sucessfully configured it to attach to my WPA encrypted wifi on bootup. everything is otherwise working to my satisfaction.

Re: i finally got wireless working

2006-12-16 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 17 December 2006 00:40, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Good work Jonathan, As usual with fellow FreeBSD users, any information about how you got past your problem is stuff Unix folks like me love to hear. I actually save success stories like yours to help me out with wireless issues. I

var out of space

2006-12-16 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
Hello, I inherited a freebsd installation with a var slice/mount that is to small and filling up all the time. What type of info should I provide to allow someone to help me with a solution? I would very much prefer to not install another drive just for /var. /usr has plenty of space.