Audio CD burning shouldnt be this difficult!

2004-07-21 Thread Edd
Audio CD burning shouldnt be this difficult! I think I have fundamentally gone wrong here! I have eight raw tracks that I wish to burn to ATAPI cd. I am using burncd. First I did: burncd -s max audio * fixate However I got gaps inbetween tracks so i tried: burncd -s max -d -n audio * fixate

removing gaps inbetween audio tracks?

2004-07-20 Thread Edd
Whenever I burn an audio cd using burncd, the tracks have a 3 second gap between them. Is there a way of removing these? Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: removing gaps inbetween audio tracks?

2004-07-20 Thread Edd
i have tried that, but I wonder if i have to specify -d aswell. will try this On 7/20/2004, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Edd, 2004-07-20] Whenever I burn an audio cd using burncd, the tracks have a 3 second gap between them. Is there a way of removing these? See manual

Hanging on shutdown

2004-06-30 Thread Edd
Has anyone had any problems with thier (x86) machines taking ages to shutdown after the syncing buffers stage? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Utility to guess a remote hosts operating system?

2004-06-23 Thread Edd
My question is: Does such a utility exist? I know nmap can guess os, but it takes a few seconds and a port scan is needed first. Is there just a simply util that can tell me without the port scan? Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread Edd
fsck is what your looking for. To find out more type: man fsck On 6/21/2004, LW Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok gang don't be to rough. I am a long time windows user, and am used to running disk maintenance. Scandisk, defrag, etc Do I need to run something similar on FreeBSD? or not? I let

Encoding MPEG2 using open source software

2004-06-21 Thread Edd
Hi there, Maybe the question I am asking is how do I burn a dvd using open source. But I know that dvd's ar encoded in MPEG2. Apparently ffmpeg can encode mpeg2, but I havent been able to get mencoder (compiled against ffmpeg) to work for me. Anyone have any tips? Thanks!

USB Modem Fun

2004-06-17 Thread Edd
Hi, I have recently required a USB modem (56k). On the casing it says it is a: sitecom connectivity dc-009 56k usb modem Plug in and dmesg says: ugen0: Conexant USB modemInc. USB V.90 56k/FAX Modem erface, rev1.00/0.01, addr 2 So far so good. So i scoot over to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf and type in

probably a silly question. probably requires a silly answer.

2004-06-17 Thread Edd
Is it a bad idea to use a 5.x kernel on a 4.x system? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I must be doing something wrong!

2004-06-09 Thread Edd
Hi there. I am having trouble using CURRENT code. Im sure I must be making a fundamental mistake becasue every time I try to compile I get errors. Ill step you through what I have done: here is my cvsup file: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup4.uk.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default

RE: I must be doing something wrong!

2004-06-09 Thread Edd
On 6/9/2004, BSDBoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all WHY do u want to runthe CURRENT code? Secondly can u paste /etc/make.conf? to run jack audio server which does not complile on 5.2.1 make.conf= PERL_VER=5.6.1 PERL_VERSION=5.6.1 PERL_ARCH=mach NOPERL=yo NO_PERL=yo NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo

RE: I must be doing something wrong!

2004-06-09 Thread Edd
'it will not compile so dont even bother trying'. Please explain proflibs. How might I disable them. Thanks On 6/9/2004, BSDBoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edd, I didn't use jack personally but it is very much unlikely that a port does not compile on the RELEASE tree. It had never happened to me

RE: I must be doing something wrong!

2004-06-09 Thread Edd
. Although off topic, I would recommend you to customize make.conf by introducing processor specific flags and disabling stuff u don't want on your PC. BSDBoy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edd Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 16:01

RE: I must be doing something wrong!

2004-06-09 Thread Edd
malloc.conf. Although off topic, I would recommend you to customize make.conf by introducing processor specific flags and disabling stuff u don't want on your PC. BSDBoy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edd Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 16

Re: I must be doing something wrong!

2004-06-09 Thread Edd
Ok Ill try another cvsup. Thanks! Another quick question. If I wanted to checkout 5.2 branch source. What should my cvsup default tag be? RELENG_5_2 ? I have tried this and nothing is downloaded! On 6/9/2004, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tryed

BP

2004-06-09 Thread Edd
what is a RELENG_x_BP cvs tag? Just out of interest? Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: logo rip-off?

2004-06-09 Thread Edd
Are they not just images that are supplied with that content management system? On 6/9/2004, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Did you give permission to this site to use the Free BSD devil guy logo? http://www.coverz.com/ Permission requirements are pretty loose. But, that

Re: Apache-MySQL-PHP from ports

2004-06-09 Thread Edd
I sure that most of this can be done by setting environmental variables. Also the PHP port presents you with a pretty screen allowing you to choose waht to build in. Maybe apache does this too, but I havent compiled it in a while and cant remember. Best thing you can do is examine the Makefiles.

ho hum. Make installworld

2004-06-03 Thread Edd
Howdy, Checked out current src yesterday and did make buildworld followed by mergemaster -p. Then make installworld: === sbin/geom/class/concat install -s -o root -g wheel -m 444 geom_concat.so.1 /lib/geom ln -fs geom_concat.so.1 /lib/geom/geom_concat.so ln: /lib/geom/geom_concat.so: Not a

Re: ho hum. Make installworld

2004-06-03 Thread Edd
I checked it out of a pserver like always. setenv CVSROOT=bla bla cvs login cvs co src On 6/3/2004, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:24:15AM +0100, Edd wrote: Howdy, Checked out current src yesterday and did make buildworld followed by mergemaster -p

Periodic configuration

2004-06-02 Thread Edd
Hi, I am trying to cut down on the amount of mail I recieve in my root mailbox. I kno this could be done by turning off the periodic tasks. I am happy to tuen off the status daily, but would still like to recieve the security mail ONLY when something is out of the norm. I have looked at making a

OSVERSION

2004-06-02 Thread Edd
Greetings List, Couple of quick queries. a) How might i find my OSVERSION. I have tried echo $OSVERSION. b) I am trying to compile ardour (manually) . It tells me that I need posix threads support. What do I need to install? Thankyou ___ [EMAIL

Ive really broken my cvs repository!

2004-05-29 Thread Edd
Hi there, One day I was playing with branches to see how they worked etc. I was going to delete the branches afterwards, but forgot. Many commits later (to default branch). I realise that I forgot to delete them. And stupidly did a cvs tag -dB on them. Next day I do a cvs up: -bash-2.05b$ cvs up

Re: Ive really broken my cvs repository!

2004-05-29 Thread Edd
Sticky Tag: base - MISSING from RCS file! Sticky Date: (none) Sticky Options: (none) I tagged all of the files base, and all seems well. I think. Has this don any harm does anyone know? On 5/29/2004, Edd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, One day I was playing

cvs export -P?

2004-05-26 Thread Edd
Hi there, I wish to know how to export from cvs and prune empty directories. I know a co can be done and pruned by: cvs co -rSOMETAG -P module but: cvs export -rSOMETAG -P module only show me the usage help even though I have read in may places that -P does infact apply with export too.

Security run question

2004-05-25 Thread Edd
I recieved my security run today (as usual) and an error which I have never seen before appeared: hitbox.monsternet.lan kernel log messages: tabase /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory A quick locate shows that there is no such command as tabase! Any ideas what this might be?

Postfix being stubborn

2004-05-21 Thread Edd
Hi there, I have installed and used postfix many a time with minimal fuss, but this time for some reasona all of my mail just gets stuck: hitbox# mailq -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- E76C639821* 331 Fri May 21 13:20:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ardour Compile on 4.10-RC3

2004-05-21 Thread Edd
Hello again, I was trying to compile ardour (manually (no port)), I have jack installed using portaudio. Whilst doing configure, ardour asks for POSIX threading and fails! surely FreeBSD has this feature. if not, which thread lib do you suggest (there are many in devel). Thanks!

Postfix possibly ignoring myhostname and mydomainname?

2004-05-20 Thread Edd
Hi, I want postfix to send email from a domain name different to the one that it really is. This is because I have no real (as in on the net) domain associated with it, so I am going to use my website address so that the from field resolves and relays are happy to pass on my mail. I have: set

TV card

2004-02-16 Thread Edd Barrett
Can anyone suggest a decent tv card that will work under freebsd in the uk? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SMBFS and vfs.usermount. BUG??

2004-02-10 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi there. I think i may have discovered a bug in free bsd 5.2-RELEASE, it may be in earlier versions too, but I have not tried it (maybe someone running 4.x could try it) I have made an fstab entry and nsmbrc file for a smb share. vfs.usermount is set to 1. A normal user (me in this case (edd

SMB share unmount : was cdrom unmount (oops)

2004-02-07 Thread Edd Barrett
It appears that the mount that I cant unmount was not actually the cdrom, but my remote home dir which is a samba share on another freebsd box. bash-2.05b$ mount /home/edd/cdrom bash-2.05b$ umount /home/edd/cdrom bash-2.05b$ mount /home/edd/rhome bash-2.05b$ umount /home/edd/rhome umount

desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need to be root to do a lot of things. If I didnt have root, I

Howto umount a cdrom as non-root?

2004-02-06 Thread Edd Barrett
I have used vfs.usermount=1 to allow users to mount the cdrom in a dir in thier home dir. What is the most proper and secure method of doing so. If possible without the use of sudo or chmod +s. Thanks vext01 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Kdm at boot

2004-02-06 Thread Edd Barrett
What is the correct way of starting kdm at boot? I have tried echo /usr/local/bin/kdm /etc/rc.local , but this causes the system to hang. kdm works fine if executed on a root shell. Someone told me to do a wait 5 kdm, but i see this as a bodge. Thanks

Re: Howto umount a cdrom as non-root?

2004-02-06 Thread Edd Barrett
well i get permission denied. I cant paste the output here, because im at work. tomorrow I will post up the exact output. I will check all my permissions etc to make sure im not being dumb first. version is 5.2-release dir trying to mount is /home/edd/cdrom1 /dev/acd0 is chmod 777 (for testing