Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'?

2006-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:17 PM, Gregory Nou wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: As the subject asks, is there an equivalent? I'm trying to install linux apache2 on a FreeBSD box, and would like have rpm do as much as possible as far as getting the dependencies and downloading them ... baring

Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'?

2006-01-17 Thread Robert Slade
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 08:36, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:17 PM, Gregory Nou wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: As the subject asks, is there an equivalent? I'm trying to install linux apache2 on a FreeBSD box, and would like have rpm do as much as possible as far as

Re: how to use ipod nano in freebsd 6.0

2006-01-17 Thread Crispy Beef
| hello all, i have ipod nano and im using freebsd 6.0. | DMESG command display (umass0: Apple iPod, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2) message.The iPod nano is detected when | plugged in, but a daX device is not created. please help me I get that too with the 30GB iPod I just bought. I think there's an

Lua 5.0 and FreeBSD 4.1

2006-01-17 Thread Evandro Sestrem
Hello, I'm trying compile a project using Lua 5.0 (www.lua.org) in FreePascal (2.0.2 [2005/11/17] for i386) in a FreeBSD 4.1. The Lua 5.0 is correctly installed. It compiles ok, but when it is linking I got these errors: /usr/local/lib//liblualib.a(lmathlib.o): In function 'math_sin':

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 121, Issue 26

2006-01-17 Thread Uncle Deejy-Pooh
On Monday 16 January 2006 20:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:30:01 +0100 From: Daniel A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD To: Uncle Deejy-Pooh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: Setting up lpd on *BSD

2006-01-17 Thread ivan . roth
Quoting Jon Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 1/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jon, First thank you for your reply (same thank to Lowell Gilbert). I tried to change the mode with lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0 but that is even worth because I have no more output at all! Yes - I

syslog logging recommendation

2006-01-17 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I'm looking for a recommendation for capturing syslogs from my small network. Specifically, initially I'd like to capture the syslog from my Netgear router and store it on my FreeBSD machine. Later I'd add other machines on the network. I've seen msyslog in the ports, but there's virtually no

Re: XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.4

2006-01-17 Thread offbyone
Andrew P. wrote: On 1/13/06, offbyone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0.) How to change the underlying o.s. default expectation to XFree86 AND is this a good idea for the present and future of 5.x? Look at /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf Nope, that is not it. Turns out the solution for this is a

Re: Backing up an encrypted partition

2006-01-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From time to time I backup up my ad0s3a and ad0s3d partitions by means of dump issuing a 'dump -a0f fileA /dev/ad0s3a' etc. Having just set up a gdbe encrypted partition /dev/ads0s3e which I mount with gbde attach /dev/ad0s3e -l /etc/gbde/ad0s3e

Re: compile with HFS+ support?

2006-01-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
david [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how can i compile freebsd GENERIC kernel with HFS+ support?sorry for stupid question.i am newbie in freebsd I don't think there is kernel support, but there are some ports (e.g., /usr/ports/emulators/hfsutils) that help you read HFS.

Deejs' Firewall

2006-01-17 Thread Uncle Deejy-Pooh
P.S. I ought to have mentioned I'm DHCP. And,as a further aside to this - you see, I REALLY DO KNOW JACK-ALL - why is it considered bad form to turn off ones broadband connection ? I do it every day, no problems in re-connecting... I have, after my last posting I Mamma'd around a bit,

Re: log file rotation

2006-01-17 Thread Jason King
The only thing that was different was on my maillog line the end of the line had only J instead of JC. I'll add that and see if that makes any difference. Thanks, Jason On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 13:27 -0800, Dan O'Connor wrote: My maillog and daillog files have stopped rotating everyday like they

Re: New FreeBSD 6.0 system advice sought

2006-01-17 Thread Jason King
I would stay with the apache 1.3 branch because of some compatibility issues with the 2.0 branch. I would certainly move to at least the v4 branch of MySQL. I haven't tried any of my webapps with v5 yet because of some strange SQL errors I was getting while installing one of them with MySQL v5. It

Re: log file rotation

2006-01-17 Thread Jason King
Hmm, when I run newsyslog I get the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] newsyslog -vv newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: /var/log/clamd.log 640 3 *$T00 BJ /var/run/clamd.pid 1 Any ideas? On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:48 -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2006

konsole font size and colour ?

2006-01-17 Thread Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT
hi all, how can i resize konsole' font size and change its colour to green ? the default size is so huge, and only a few lines can be seen on the screen. help please, thanks in advance, regards, bye. [for debian i can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst but dont know what to do for freebsd.]

Re: New FreeBSD 6.0 system advice sought

2006-01-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/01/06, Jason King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would stay with the apache 1.3 branch because of some compatibility issues with the 2.0 branch. Compatibility with what? 2.2 is out now, 1.3 seems to be getting mainly security fixes. To the OP: you'll get a better answer if you say what

I killed my Flash player 7 in Konqueror

2006-01-17 Thread Ashley Moran
I've had Flash 7 running in Konqueror for months and months, and yesterday I started playing with libmap.conf to see if I could get it working in Firefox. (I didn't realise you need to patch the base system to do that.) Now Konqueror refuses to play Flash and I can't make it pickup the plugin.

Re: ipfw+antispoof breaks IPv6 link local

2006-01-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can it be solved? with first rule in my firewall config i have flush add 2 deny ip from any to any not antispoof works fine - as long as no IPv6 link-local communication is needed - route6d is an example. changing it to add 2 deny ip4

Re: Syslog logging recommendation

2006-01-17 Thread Henrik Lidström
I'm looking for a recommendation for capturing syslogs from my small network. Specifically, initially I'd like to capture the syslog from my Netgear router and store it on my FreeBSD machine. Later I'd add other machines on the network. I've seen msyslog in the ports, but there's virtually no

Running scripts after ppp connection

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Clark
Hey all, I was wondering if there was any way for ppp to run scripts after connections are built or torn down. I have things like a dynamic dns updater script and a vpn script that needs to run once the external ip changes on me. Thanks Adam Clark Network Administrator

Re: English only, please

2006-01-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
As of Nov 30th, 2005, the following URL: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm Shows, in fact, that Chinese is the /de facto/ /lingua Terra/, sorry to say ... English is the /de facto/ /lingua Internet/ though ... Mandarin and Spanish are the top two languages ... Mandarin by a

Re: English only, please (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew P.
On 1/16/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 16:49:27 -0600, Don Hinton wrote: Hi Greg: On Sunday 15 January 2006 16:28, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 14 January 2006 at 20:02:02 +0100, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: vocativus wrote:

Admin for cvsup.se.freebsd.org

2006-01-17 Thread Jan Rockstedt
Hi! How do i contact for question about the Swedish cvsup.se.freebsd.org? Mvh Jan Rockstedt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 040 - 668 07 45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Avinova AB Spångatan 37 B 211 53 Malmö Tel 040-668 07 40 Fax 040-668 07 55 See you at Common Congress Stockholm 11-13 juni 2006!

Re: Time Zone

2006-01-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
What is the prefered time zone for a web server Is it better to keep it GMT or local timezone ? I am in eastern time zone so I need to deal with standard and daily saving time... We keep ours on local time. I think that is the way most do it. jerry Thanks

Re: Admin for cvsup.se.freebsd.org

2006-01-17 Thread Henrik Lidström
Hi! How do i contact for question about the Swedish cvsup.se.freebsd.org? Mvh Jan Rockstedt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] According to dig the servername is queeg.ludd.ltu.se Try surfing to http://queeg.ludd.ltu.se/ and see if you find some contacts there. Otherwise you can probably get help at

Re: English only, please (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/15/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 16:49:27 -0600, Don Hinton wrote: Hi Greg: On Sunday 15 January 2006 16:28, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 14 January 2006 at 20:02:02 +0100, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: vocativus wrote:

Re: how to force ucom driver to create /dev/cuaU? for some device?

2006-01-17 Thread Micah
Vasil Dimov wrote: Hi all, I have a device (GPS) that connects to the PC via the USB interface and I have a software (comms/garmin-utils) that wishes to talk to the device. The problem is that the software expects a serial port device, not a USB one. The question is how can I make the ucom(4)

Re: English only, please (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/15/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't really mind someone posting a question in another language as long as they realize that most of us will not be able to respond to it. Often enough, I think, there are others out there who can handle that language and they can

Re: New FreeBSD 6.0 system advice sought

2006-01-17 Thread Daniel A.
Hi, When I built my server a few months ago, I was asking the same questions to myself. At first, I decided that I would go with Apache 1.3, MySQL 4, and PHP 5. They played along very nicely, absolutely no problems. Later, I was asked by one of my users if I would like to upgrade to MySQL 5. And

Re: konsole font size and colour ?

2006-01-17 Thread Micah
Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote: hi all, how can i resize konsole' font size and change its colour to green ? the default size is so huge, and only a few lines can be seen on the screen. help please, thanks in advance, regards, bye. [for debian i can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst but dont know what to do

Re: log file rotation

2006-01-17 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:23:25AM -0600, Jason King wrote: Hmm, when I run newsyslog I get the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] newsyslog -vv newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: /var/log/clamd.log 640 3 *$T00 BJ /var/run/clamd.pid 1 Any ideas? Use @T00

Upgrading sources

2006-01-17 Thread Javier Echaiz
I have a machine running FreeBSD i386 6.0 Release and I'd like to know how to update my sources to 6-stable. I know I should run cvsup but port 5999 tcp is being filtered and there is no socks proxy around. We also have CTM, but i think it is not for me... Can i get the sources of the stable

Re: log file rotation

2006-01-17 Thread Jason King
It is already @T00. I don't know why it appears as a $ in the email. Just did a copy paste. Go figure on that one. Any other thoughts? On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:16 -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:23:25AM -0600, Jason King wrote: Hmm, when I run newsyslog I get the following

external audio

2006-01-17 Thread Dimitar Vasilev
Hello! Does anyone have experience either with SoundBlaster 24bit external (usb), Sound Blaster Audigy 2NX, 7.1 external usb 2.0 or SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA under FreeBSD 6.0-(STABLE)? A friend of mine has an audigy 2 and I'd like to compare with you too before I make up my mind

Re: Time Zone

2006-01-17 Thread Crispy Beef
Ian Lord wrote: What is the prefered time zone for a web server Is it better to keep it GMT or local timezone ? I am in eastern time zone so I need to deal with standard and daily saving time... We are UK based but our server (and most of our customers) are US based, so we keep the US time

Re: Lua 5.0 and FreeBSD 4.1

2006-01-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 17), Evandro Sestrem said: I'm trying compile a project using Lua 5.0 (www.lua.org) in FreePascal (2.0.2 [2005/11/17] for i386) in a FreeBSD 4.1. The Lua 5.0 is correctly installed. It compiles ok, but when it is linking I got these errors:

Re: log file rotation

2006-01-17 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:23:31AM -0600, Jason King wrote: It is already @T00. I don't know why it appears as a $ in the email. Just did a copy paste. Go figure on that one. Any other thoughts? Your error is malformed at value and when one does copy/paste the data appears differently than

Re: log file rotation

2006-01-17 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:41:29AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:23:31AM -0600, Jason King wrote: It is already @T00. I don't know why it appears as a $ in the email. Just did a copy paste. Go figure on that one. Any other thoughts? Your error is malformed at value

Re: Rescuing the Ethernet Interface after SCB Timeout

2006-01-17 Thread Danial Thom
--- Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of our FreeBSD systems has begun randomly shutting down its Ethernet interface. After doing so, the box continues to try to run but prints the following errors in syslog: Jan 16 03:01:23 xx /kernel: fxp0: SCB timeout: 0x70 0x0

Re: English only, please (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

2006-01-17 Thread Jerry Dunham
On 17 Jan 2006 at 10:09, Bob Johnson wrote: On 1/15/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, if someone posts a question in something besides English and then begins to rant and flame people for not responding, then it is not acceptable. But, just starting a question here in

NIS client differences between FBSD5 and FBSD6?

2006-01-17 Thread Jim Hatfield
Still trying to migrate our NIS from an old Sparc to a Services For Unix/Active Directory setup. AMD won't play so I'm using text files for that. Now to move forward to actually logging in A test machine running FreeBSD 6 seems to work OK, though ypwhich -m behaves strangely: speyburn# uname

Re: Running scripts after ppp connection

2006-01-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Adam Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if there was any way for ppp to run scripts after connections are built or torn down. According to man ppp, that's what /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup is for. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problems with X11 Forwarding

2006-01-17 Thread Matias
Aaron Dalton wrote: I thought this might be the best place to post the question. I am running FreeBSD5.4-RELEASE. For the sake of argument, let's say I am trying to get the port editors/fte running on my Windows box via an SSH tunnel. I am running WindowsXP, cygwin's X11 server, and PUTTY.

Boot with ACPI

2006-01-17 Thread Crispy Beef
Hi, When I boot my laptop running 6.0-RELEASE I need to boot with ACPI as otherwise it crashes. Was wondering how to make booting with ACPI the default? To be honest I'm not bothered about the boot menu at all as I'm quite happy with the system booting without any interaction. Sometimes I

Re: English only, please

2006-01-17 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jan 15, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: As of Nov 30th, 2005, the following URL: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm Shows, in fact, that Chinese is the /de facto/ /lingua Terra/, sorry to say All depends on how you define it. Almost anyone in the world, when

Re: Upgrading sources

2006-01-17 Thread chris
Can always use cvs ? I have a machine running FreeBSD i386 6.0 Release and I'd like to know how to update my sources to 6-stable. I know I should run cvsup but port 5999 tcp is being filtered and there is no socks proxy around. We also have CTM, but i think it is not for me... Can i get the

Re: English only, please

2006-01-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:48:39PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: As of Nov 30th, 2005, the following URL: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm Shows, in fact, that Chinese is the /de facto/ /lingua Terra/, sorry to say ... English is the /de facto/ /lingua Internet/ though ...

/sbin/dumprestore question

2006-01-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i'm using dump to backup up filesystem of about 1.5 million files and 60GB size (14 DVD+RW disks), will be larger for sure after a time. once per about 2 months - full dump, once a week -1 dump, every other day -2 dump. works fine. i used this under NetBSD, now under FreeBSD. but have 2

Re: Boot with ACPI

2006-01-17 Thread Fabian Keil
Crispy Beef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I boot my laptop running 6.0-RELEASE I need to boot with ACPI as otherwise it crashes. Was wondering how to make booting with ACPI the default? To be honest I'm not bothered about the boot menu at all as I'm quite happy with the system booting

GNOME without media?

2006-01-17 Thread Mike Edenfield
I notice that when I install GNOME, it pulls in all kinds of multimedia-related things, like gstreamer and esound. I don't even have a sound card in this system, so clearly these don't help me at all. However, for some reason a lot of other, seemingly unrelated packages depend on these media

Re: Pooomooocyyyy ;(

2006-01-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
TO JEST ANGIELSKA LISTA MAILOWA. POSZUKAJ POLSKIEJ This is english mailing list, not Polish. please run FreeBSD install CD and enter rescue mode, and type /sbin/dmesg|grep ad this behaviour is very strange, i have never problems with disks on FreeBSD. NEXT TIME PLEASE don't write in

Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?

2006-01-17 Thread Kilian Hagemann
Hi there, I'm managing two FreeBSD based gateways, one running 5.2.1-RELEASE and the other 5.3-STABLE, both not having been updated since I installed from ISO images. They both have custom ipfw firewalls that are dropping pretty much everything that's not supposed to come in. All was fine and

Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'?

2006-01-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Robert Slade wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 08:36, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:17 PM, Gregory Nou wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: As the subject asks, is there an equivalent? I'm trying to install linux apache2 on a FreeBSD box, and would like have rpm do

Re: Boot with ACPI

2006-01-17 Thread Crispy Beef
When I boot my laptop running 6.0-RELEASE I need to boot with ACPI as otherwise it crashes. Was wondering how to make booting with ACPI the default? To be honest I'm not bothered about the boot menu at all as I'm quite happy with the system booting without any interaction. Sometimes I need to

FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread poczta
What is the essential difference between FreeBSD and Linux (Fedora for instance)? Where can I find any list of differences? What/Where are the advantages of FreeBSD vs Linux? Greetings Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: konsole font size and colour ?

2006-01-17 Thread Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT
hi again, the question was about boot screen font size and colour. to be more clear, i copied the line from debian's grub.conf[/boot/grub/menu.lst] kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=792 vga=792 changes the font size seen at boot screen. [this part not included in

Re: GNOME without media?

2006-01-17 Thread michael johnson
On 1/17/06, Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice that when I install GNOME, it pulls in all kinds of multimedia-related things, like gstreamer and esound. I don't even have a sound card in this system, so clearly these don't help me at all. However, for some reason a lot of

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread uidzero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the essential difference between FreeBSD and Linux (Fedora for instance)? Where can I find any list of differences? What/Where are the advantages of FreeBSD vs Linux? Greetings Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Fabian Keil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the essential difference between FreeBSD and Linux (Fedora for instance)? Where can I find any list of differences? What/Where are the advantages of FreeBSD vs Linux? http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php Fabian --

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT
hi, kernel is one of the differences ;) freebsd uses generic kernel. and one other important difference is freebsd doest not support my intel high definition audio card :( so no sound for years :'( [other distros debian, suse ... support my card.] instead of yum or apt-get, you have ports in

Re: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?

2006-01-17 Thread Ken Stevenson
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:07:17PM +0200, Kilian Hagemann wrote: Hi there, I'm managing two FreeBSD based gateways, one running 5.2.1-RELEASE and the other 5.3-STABLE, both not having been updated since I installed from ISO images. They both have custom ipfw firewalls that are dropping

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread FlashWebHost.com
Linux is just kernel only. FreeBSD is complete operating system. FreeBSD and Linux have almost similar performance. There are much already discussed about it, a google search will give you more info. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Danial Thom
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the essential difference between FreeBSD and Linux (Fedora for instance)? Where can I find any list of differences? What/Where are the advantages of FreeBSD vs Linux? Greetings Greg Whats the difference between a wheelbarrow and a dumptruck? You

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Danial Thom
--- FlashWebHost.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux is just kernel only. FreeBSD is complete operating system. FreeBSD and Linux have almost similar performance. There are much already discussed about it, a google search will give you more info. Nothing personal, but thats about the

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 18:42, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote: but freebsd mostly used as a server. not much suitable for PC usage. I really dislike this canard, I have run FreeBSD on a laptop since 3.4 and support for the hardware has generally been adequate, I guess it depends what you want

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT
i use freebsd at home too :) [as the only o.s. for my pc] that was 'my opinion'. [dont have sound :'( but still use it :p ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Mike Hernandez
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:07:25AM -0800, Danial Thom wrote: --- FlashWebHost.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux is just kernel only. FreeBSD is complete operating system. FreeBSD and Linux have almost similar performance. There are much already discussed about it, a

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Philip Juels
At the risk of getting flamed...someone somewhere in the Usenet universe summed linux as the most self-incompatible OS. It's one of the unfortunate side-effects of the myriad of different distributions. And a lot of work must be done to compile apps from source in linux if you can't find an

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Danial Thom
--- Mike Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:07:25AM -0800, Danial Thom wrote: --- FlashWebHost.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux is just kernel only. FreeBSD is complete operating system. FreeBSD and Linux have almost similar

the new 2 in 1 shampoo (compression of english only please and what is the best between tux and beastie)

2006-01-17 Thread ivan . roth
Allright, sorry for that post. (cut here)-- - Gary, tu veux des lecons de francais ? (you want french lessons) :) - I am reading this ML for a few months now and it is (if I remember) the third freebsd vs linux discussion. Now imagine I just want all of

Re: Pooomooocyyyy ;(

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/17/06, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TO JEST ANGIELSKA LISTA MAILOWA. POSZUKAJ POLSKIEJ This is english mailing list, not Polish. Historically, this has not been an English-only list. Questions in any language have been welcome on this list for the nine years that I have

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 1/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the essential difference between FreeBSD and Linux (Fedora for instance)? Where can I find any list of differences? What/Where are the advantages of FreeBSD vs Linux? Just google for it, there are plenty of comparisons. Mike --

Seq faults all over the place

2006-01-17 Thread Philip Juels
I've installed version 6 onto a Dell workstation and as I try to install KDE or Gnome, I'm getting segmentation faults. The latest... === Building for gtkhtml3-3.6.2 ... (snipped for brevity)... cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../src -DORBIT2=1 -D_REENTRANT -DXTHREADS -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Mike Hernandez
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:38:24AM -0800, Danial Thom wrote: No, thats ridiculous. Linux has multiple distributions that use the same kernel. The fact that freebsd only has one distribution doesn't make it any more complete. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Mathias Menzel-Nielsen
Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote: hi, kernel is one of the differences ;) freebsd uses generic kernel. and one other important difference is freebsd doest not support my intel high definition audio card :( so no sound for years :'( [other distros debian, suse ... support my card.] instead of yum or

Problem with Cisco (Atheros) Wireless PCI card on IBM Thinkcentre MT-M-8183-T1S

2006-01-17 Thread eric
Greetings from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (The Maya Land) Am having problems installing FreeBSD in my University under IBM Thinkcentre MT-M-8183-T1S boxes. I can´t detect the Wireless Cisco (Atheros) PCI lan card. Linux and Windows have no problems recognizing the card but i have problems with

config.boot: -Dh and booting to single user mode

2006-01-17 Thread Jev
Hi All, I have a server that has console redirection on, and in /boot.config we have '-Dh'. But now for the life of me I cannot boot into single user mode with a physically connected keyboard and monitor. I get to the boot: prompt. From here '-s' makes it boot to multiuser. Any ideas? I

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT
any idea when i'll be able to use my sound card on freebsd ;) ? [high definition audio :p] changing the topic ;) missed listening to music :'( [my speakers will get rot soon, dont even know if they still work :p] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

PAE causing system crashes

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Barnett
I have 3 dell machines with 2x xeon procs, 8G of ram, and a half terabyte raid 5. I attempted to run the AMD64 distribution on these boxes which was fine for everything except mysql, (which is all these boxes are going to do) so I reinstalled 5.4 i386. uname -a looks like (hostname

Re: Problem with Cisco (Atheros) Wireless PCI card on IBM Thinkcentre MT-M-8183-T1S

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:02:47 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (The Maya Land) Am having problems installing FreeBSD in my University under IBM Thinkcentre MT-M-8183-T1S boxes. I can´t detect the Wireless Cisco (Atheros) PCI lan card. Linux and

Re: Problem with Cisco (Atheros) Wireless PCI card on IBM Thinkcentre MT-M-8183-T1S

2006-01-17 Thread Nate Lawson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (The Maya Land) Am having problems installing FreeBSD in my University under IBM Thinkcentre MT-M-8183-T1S boxes. I can´t detect the Wireless Cisco (Atheros) PCI lan card. Linux and Windows have no problems recognizing the card

Re: Seq faults all over the place

2006-01-17 Thread chris
Sounds like a ram problem I've installed version 6 onto a Dell workstation and as I try to install KDE or Gnome, I'm getting segmentation faults. The latest... === Building for gtkhtml3-3.6.2 ... (snipped for brevity)... cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../src -DORBIT2=1 -D_REENTRANT

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Mike Hernandez
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:32:30PM +0200, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote: any idea when i'll be able to use my sound card on freebsd ;) ? [high definition audio :p] changing the topic ;) missed listening to music :'( [my speakers will get rot soon, dont even know if they still work :p] You know

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread chris
Have similar performance hah Linux is just kernel only. FreeBSD is complete operating system. FreeBSD and Linux have almost similar performance. There are much already discussed about it, a google search will give you more info. ___

Re: log file rotation

2006-01-17 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 9:23 AM -0600 1/17/06, Jason King wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:16 -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:23:25AM -0600, Jason King wrote: Hmm, when I run newsyslog I get the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] newsyslog -vv newsyslog: malformed 'at' value:

Re: PAE causing system crashes

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Barnett
To ammend this slightly.. When running the PAE kernel, they will stay online indefinitely under little to no load. It is only when i want them to actually work will they freak out and reboot. -m On Jan 17, 2006, at 1:47 PM, Michael Barnett wrote: I have 3 dell machines with 2x xeon

Re: Pooomooocyyyy ;(

2006-01-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On 1/17/06, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TO JEST ANGIELSKA LISTA MAILOWA. POSZUKAJ POLSKIEJ This is english mailing list, not Polish. Historically, this has not been an English-only list. Questions in any language have been welcome on this list for the nine years that I

/sbin/restore broken??!!

2006-01-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
or maybe dump while testing my full backup with restore -rvf, after 7-th DVD restoring fine, when started to restore 8-th DVD it prepends ? to every file name like this: extract file ?/home/kopie/3miasto.net/root/NetBSD-1-5/usr/pkg/bin/a2p extract file

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Danial Thom wrote: No, thats ridiculous. Linux has multiple distributions that use the same kernel. The fact that freebsd only has one distribution doesn't make it any more complete. Actually it is spot on. Linux is a kernel. The various distributions add

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jan 17, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote: any idea when i'll be able to use my sound card on freebsd ;) ? [high definition audio :p] changing the topic ;) missed listening to music :'( [my speakers will get rot soon, dont even know if they still work :p] Just get a

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux/ vs. OpenBSD

2006-01-17 Thread Rob
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:02:31 -0500 Mike Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:32:30PM +0200, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote: any idea when i'll be able to use my sound card on freebsd ;) ? [high definition audio :p] changing the topic ;) missed listening to music :'(

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
A FreeBSD vs Linux anecdote: I've read several articles over the years talking about how Linux can breathe new life into old computers. After the last couple of weeks, I don't buy it. After combining the hardware from 2 old computers (circa 1996 and 1998 -- anyone remember ISA cards, serial

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Philip Hallstrom
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 to tightvnc so I can disconnect without disrupting jobs. (Hmm, I wonder if I'll have to add a mouse or

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:57:04 -0700 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Danial Thom wrote: No, thats ridiculous. Linux has multiple distributions that use the same kernel. The fact that freebsd only has one distribution doesn't make it any

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:32:30 -0800 (PST) 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 to tightvnc so I

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread chris
Using sound on a Unix box will not give you the same support for that then on a windows box if the sound card problem is with all major os'es then i would think your sound card is ready to be changed out i have a audigy Z2 in my unix box and i have had no errors so fare freebsd doesnt support high

KDE3 install problem n solution (BUG ????)

2006-01-17 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Installing compiling KDE3 in 4.7 had problem in line 275 of /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3/work/kdebase-3.4.3/kcontrol/usbview/usbdevices.cpp Changing USB_MAX_DEVNAMES to MAXDEVNAMES solves the problem. izzit true for u all or just me?! izzit a bug or feature!

Re: KDE3 install problem n solution (BUG ????)

2006-01-17 Thread Mike Hernandez
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:04:10AM +0600, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: Installing compiling KDE3 in 4.7 had problem in line 275 of /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3/work/kdebase-3.4.3/kcontrol/usbview/usbdevices.cpp Not ready for 3.5 yet are you? Mike

RE: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Tamouh H.
Just get a different sound card. There are lotsof inexpensive sounds cards that are probably supported by FreeBSD for just a few (10-30) $ Btw, this problem happens with Windows, Mac OS X, etc as well. I have been trying to put an extra USB/Firewire card in my G5, and they work, but

Re: Problem with Cisco (Atheros) Wireless PCI card on IBM Thinkcentre MT-M-8183-T1S

2006-01-17 Thread luke
i believe there are also issues with some of the newer firmware versions from cisco on these cards. google might tell you more, just thought i recalled some problems with them in the past and having to roll back the fw ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

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