Re: Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Jorn Argelo] Recently I came across something which kind of bothered me. Every time when pkg_info removes and/or registers a package it gives this output: pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBD-mysql-2.9003 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBI-1.42 has no origin recorded pkg_info:

growfs, bsdlabel or fdisk issue

2004-03-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On my laptop I have dual-boot with Windows XP, but as I allmost never boot it in Windows, and since my /usr-partition is running out of space, I decided to shrink the FAT-partition that I've been sharing between to two oses. So I used FreeBSD's fdisk to remove the existing FAT-partition, and to

Re: crontab email

2004-03-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Brian Henning, 2004-03-04] Everytime something runs from the the crontab for a given user such as root, I get an email with the results of the execution. I am running a few crontabs that run every 2 minutes and this gets to be a lot of excess email. How can I turn off this feature. You

Problems width ESS1869 and 5.0-CURRENT

2002-11-15 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Hi! I just cvsup-ed the -current branch the other day and rebuilt my kernel. I did this to have support for my FujiFilm FinePix 2800z-camera as a USB mass storage device. But since then my soundcard won't work! It shows up in during boot, and has the right nodes in /dev, but whenever I try to

Re: Ftpd

2005-01-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Phillip Neumann [2005-01-23 20:28 -] Your right, The root directory is writeable by the ftp user. But if i do not let the dir writeable, the user will not be able to upload anything... How would i setup things, so users can upload and download, but not delete nor rename? This

Re: Ftpd

2005-01-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Phillip Neumann [2005-01-21 00:36 -] 2) I dont understand permitions... i.e. lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ls root-file -rw--- 1 rootwheel 0 Jan 22 19:12 root-file lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ mv root-file why_can_i_do_this rename successful I'm guessing

Re: OT: Funny disclaimers (Was: Re: ssh root@localhost)

2005-02-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Bart Silverstrim [2005-02-03 08:01 -0500] I wonder why if the messages are so important they don't PGP or GPG them. Wouldn't that make more sense for sensitive material? To send email from the Ullevål university hospital in Oslo, the first to words of the email needs to be ikke sensitiv

Electricity bill [was: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?]

2005-02-07 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Erik Trulsson [2005-02-05 23:55 +0100] Also keep in mind that if you leave the computer running all the time it will show up on your electricity bill, so if you wish to save power you should shut down your computer over night. Given that your house needs to be warmed up (a presumption I

Re: .snap

2005-02-07 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Gert Cuykens [2005-02-07 00:32 +0100] What are .snap directories ? Take a look at these references: - mksnap_ffs(8) - dump(8) [under the -L option] - mount(8) [under the -o snapshot option] - /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot Svein Halvor

Re: Electricity bill [was: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?]

2005-02-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Louis LeBlanc [2005-02-07 14:57 -0500] I'm coming into this thread a bit late, but if you go to : You'll see a neat little gadget that will tell you exactly what your computers electrical usage is. I'm not saying that leaving your computer on 24/7 consumes little power. I'm just

Re: Electricity bill [was: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?]

2005-02-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Adam McMaster [2005-02-08 14:00 -] It's not really the case that all the energy becomes heat, since the computer also has moving parts and generates sound (a *lot* of sound if it's anything like mine). Most of the energy going into a computer probably does become heat in the

Re: Electricity bill [was: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?]

2005-02-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Erik Trulsson [2005-02-08 11:17 +0100] Not necessarily true. It was my message you originally replied to, and the apartment where I live has central heating, such that the heating is included in teh rent, and does not show up on the electricity bill (and I don't think the heating

Re: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?

2005-02-24 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Graham North [2005-02-23 22:36 -0800] Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend? Take a look at ataidle in the ports collection. Note that the disk will come back to life again when you access it, and that

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Fafa Diliha Romanova [2005-03-13 05:41 -0500] It's not a demon, but a daemon. demon n 1: one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief [syn: {devil}, {fiend}, {daemon}, {daimon}] Firstly, I'd like to say that you of course are free to

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-14 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Jerry McAllister [2005-03-14 10:30 -0500] [...] So then wouldn't a second dump of the same snapshot diffed to the tape device be a good for a verify? No, because the condition of the files that you are dumping the second time is different from the first time. : Most places cannot

Re: inode

2005-03-16 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Giorgos Keramidas [2005-03-16 15:06 +0200] Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a253678 35430 19795415% 981 320413% / devfs 1 1 0 100% 0 0 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1e253678

Re: HDD idle shutdown.

2005-03-18 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-18 11:24 +0100] On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:21:17AM +0100, Christian Tischler wrote: I wondered whether there is an option to shut down an idle HDD until it is needed again? I am using FreeBSD 5.x. /usr/ports/sysutils/ataidle Note that, while this

Re: aac support

2005-03-21 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Theo de Raadt [2005-03-19 20:27 -0700] We do it all the time! We mail a vendor, and then we start a frank dialogue. I (or some other developer, maybe even Bill Paul from FreeBSD (Mr. Ethernet)... anyways, people like that.. ) explain the business case to the vendor. They

Re: sFTP nologin

2005-03-29 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Grant Peel [2005-03-25 09:19 -0500] Is there a quick - secure way to allow the sshd sFTP subsystem to allows sftp connections without allowing shell accounts? I'm using this shell-script as a nologin-shell: - #!/bin/sh if [ $1 = -c -a $2 = /usr/libexec/sftp-server ]; then

Re: Problems with man

2005-03-29 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Lord Raiden [2005-03-29 19:55 -0500] After updating everything to its latest version, did you remember to mergemaster to update your /etc files? Nope, didn't think to do it because I've never had to do it before. This would be a first. But I did run it and it errored out

Re: Sound on Dell Dimension 8300 (FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE)

2005-03-30 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Amit Kumar Saha [2005-03-30 11:30 -0600] I am trying to enable the builtin sound card present in Dell Dimension 8300 but cant seem to get it done. As far as I remember, in FreeBSD 5.3 it can be done simply by having the following two options in the kernel config file: device

RE: making freebsd known to the world

2005-03-31 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Ted Mittelstaedt [2005-03-31 01:45 -0800] but why is FreeBSD never listed on websites of third party applications like firefox? In this directory I can't find a FreeBSD package for example. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.1/contrib/ Have you ever

Re: ssh key fingerprints

2005-04-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Erik Nørgaard [2005-04-04 14:02 +0200] How do I see the fingerprints of my ssh keys, both user and host keys? Excerpt from man ssh-keygen(1) SYNOPSIS ssh-keygen -l [-f input_keyfile] -l Show fingerprint of specified public key file. Private RSA1 keys are also

Re: Locale data

2004-07-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[João Carlos Mendes Luís, 2004-07-12] Shouldn't the locale select the best charset if it is not defined? I have problems with this in third party applications. They just set locale as pt_BR and dont give me a choice of adding a charset extension. What should I do? Is this a

Building JDK-1.4 fails, even with linprocfs mounted

2004-07-15 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Trying to build the port jdk14, I get the following error message: /.amd_mnt/mirrorball/export/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java:1: 'class' or 'interface' expected Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location ^

Re: Locale data

2004-07-15 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
? Is this a FreeBSD bug? [Svein Halvor Halvorsen] Try making a symlink from pt_BR.ISO8859-1 to pt_BR in /usr/share/locale [João Carlos Mendes Luís, 2004-07-13] This would probably solve my problem, but I'd like to know what is the expected behaviour. If FreeBSD is right, I'll try to fix

smc 2602w r3 using if_ndis on 5.2.1

2004-07-18 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Copying src/sys/modules/if_ndis src/sys/modules/ndis src/sys/compat/ndis src/sys/dev/if_ndis ... from a current source-tree to my 5.2.1-box, and compiling using a ndis_driver_data.h made from the latest driver found on SMC's website using a ndisctl on my current

Re: removing gaps inbetween audio tracks?

2004-07-20 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[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 page burncd(8) Note the -n option. /sve ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re[2]: How to configure PHP build?

2004-07-20 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Gabriel Ambuehl, 2004-07-20] after the last PHP commits, I can't seem to be able to configure my PHP builds anymore. It keeps on telling me : Is there any way to get it to behave like in the past, specifically asking me what libs it should compile in? Have you executed make

ports-collection borked?

2004-07-21 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
When rebuilding the index after cvsup-ing the ports collection I get lots and lots of these lines: /usr/ports/INDEX-5:11379:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. This from a 15 min old port collection. The same happened earlier today (which is why I retried just now). Is this a local

Re: ports-collection borked?

2004-07-21 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Kent Stewart, 2004-07-21] I saw the 10 field messages for a short time yesterday but don't : Do you have any options in your /etc/make.conf to specify any features? It now seems to work. All I did was to cvsup again. It seems that most people experienced this yesterday. Could it be that

Re: ports-collection borked?

2004-07-22 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Kent Stewart, 2004-07-21] Sometimes mirrors break. The only way to find out is to try a different one. The port fastest_cvsup is a good starting point. Just remember that the closest may not produce the overall fastest cvsup. Not that I've tested this in any scientific manner, but I think

Re: AW: 3dm port obsolete...

2004-07-22 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Alexander Liebau, 2004-07-22] the best part is they point you to the 3ware-site and actually there is nada at the site :) no 3dm for freebsd lol http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp Correct me if I'm wrong (I don't know what exactly that you're looking for), but you can select FreeBSD

[Off-topic] Re: Hiding SSH version string

2004-07-23 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Markie, 2004-07-23] The hackers are likely to just try whatever exploit anyway. They'll even probably be thinking Oh, they're hiding their version... probably quite old :-) Best just to keep up to date. I know that in modern English the word hacker has more than one meaning, but I think

Font issue under linux-emulation

2004-07-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Lately fonts in linux-programs running under the linux-emulation on my FreeBSD system aren't rendered as they used to. The antialiasing doesn't seem to work anymore. I'm not sure what caused this, but it happened after a major portupgrade of lots of ports. Both Mathematica, Maple and Opera are

Antialiased fonts in Linux applications

2004-07-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Font in Linux applications no longer render as they should. Both antialiasing and hinting is off. This applies to Acrobat Reader, Mathematica, Maple and Opera (ie. all my Linux applications) I have symlinks to /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/* in /usr/compat/linux/etc/fonts This used to work, but I don't

Re: Antialiased fonts in Linux applications

2004-07-31 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[epilogue, 2004-07-28] i noticed the same thing happen to my setup, after upgrading to xorg. in my case acroread works. unfortunately, i don't run mathematica or maple. however, for linux-opera, try adding the following settings in $HOME/.linux-opera/opera6.ini: [User Prefs]

Re: [OT] QWERTY key layout (was Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installerpackage like this ???)

2004-08-01 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Bill Moran, 2004-08-01] I don't remember where, but I read somewhere that the qwerty layout was not designed for raw speed (as some people think) but was designed for speed on _mechanical_ typewriters. i.e. part of it's design is to maximize the possibility that you'll alternate

Re: 4.2 - 5.2 passwd format change?

2004-08-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Peter N. M. Hansteen, 2004-08-04] I'm in the process of moving users from a 4.2 machine to an updated setup using 5.2.1. There appears to have been some changes in the password format (as in the users are not able to log in to the test system), and the main reference I find is this entry

Re: suspend works, but resume doesn't on Dell desktop

2005-11-06 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Mohan Singh [2005-11-06 00:52 -] How can I get resume to work properly? On my ThinkPad R51 I put acpi_video_load=YES hw.acpi.reset_video=0 hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch=1 Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but the issue persists. =-( I have a Dell

Re: suspend works, but resume doesn't on Dell desktop

2005-11-06 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Svein Halvor Halvorsen [2005-11-06 13:42 +0100] When closing the lid on my laptop, while in X, and opening it again, the ~50 topmost pixels are garbled and the entire view is shifted down. Switching to console and back seem to fix it. Any takes? I fixed this by calling /etc/rc.lid

Re: suspend works, but resume doesn't on Dell desktop

2005-11-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Svein Halvor Halvorsen [2005-11-06 13:42 +0100] When closing the lid on my laptop, while in X, and opening it again, the ~50 topmost pixels are garbled and the entire view is shifted down. Switching to console and back seem to fix it. Any takes? I fixed this by calling

Backup scheme

2005-11-18 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I'm in the process of employing the following backup scheme: 1) Take a snapshot using mksnap_ffs 2) Mount the snapshot 3) rsync the mounted snapshot to a remote server 4) Unmount and delete local snapshot 5) Take a new snapshot on the remote computer 6) Rotate old snapshots 7) Somehow export the

Re: Backup scheme

2005-11-19 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Lowell Gilbert [2005-11-19 08:58 -0500] Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : So I've got 1-6 working. This gived my a space efficient backup system, remotely stored. As to pt. 7, I was thinking of using NFS, but since the remote server is behind NAT, this seems

Re: Asterisk on FreeBSD, anyone?

2005-11-19 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Kiffin Gish [2005-11-19 17:21 +0100] Has anyone had any experience running Asterisk on FreeBSD 5.x ? Yes! If so, then which drivers are required and what is the best way to install the system? I only use sip, so no drivers. ___

XVideo-support gone

2005-11-29 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I'm not sure when this happened, but I'm not able to use the XVideo extension enymore. I'm 100% positive that I was able to before, but now MPlayer wont let me use it. xvinfo also says no adaptors present. I imagine this might have happened during the 6.0-upgrade, but I can't say for sure. I

Re: XVideo-support gone

2005-12-02 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Svein Halvor Halvorsen I'm not sure when this happened, but I'm not able to use the XVideo extension enymore. I'm 100% positive that I was able to before, but now MPlayer wont let me use it. xvinfo also says no adaptors present. I imagine this might have happened during the 6.0

Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Ian Lord [2005-12-03 20:18 -0500] I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to run under a specific uid... I don't see anything for this in man cron... See crontab(5) You can use the @reboot magic to make cron run a script once, at startup.

Re: Wireless networking in ad-hoc mode?

2005-12-07 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I used some ascii2hex converter that I found online to turn the wep key 1n4te into 316E3474410D0B. From ifconfig(8) manual page (my emphasis): wepkey key|index:key Set the selected WEP key. If an index is not given, key 1 is set. A WEP key will be either 5 or

Re: MD5 discrepancy in 6.0-RELEASE/src/CHECKSUM.MD5

2005-12-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 12/8/05, James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inside the CHECKSUM.MD5 file, however, it says that its own checksum should be MD5 (CHECKSUM.MD5) = 6ee62cd847afff4cadf6648389c67a11 This is interesting; how can the MD5 of a file be contained inside the file itself? Or rather, how can one

Re: Can't Mount Windows NT From FreeBSD 6.0 Stable

2005-12-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 12/8/05, RdBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kernel Error : WARNING: userland calling deprecated sysctl, please rebuild world Do as the waning tells you: Rebuild your world. Seems your userland and kernel is out of sync. The process is described here:

Re: ntp problems (strata too high)

2005-12-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 12/8/05, Michael Wynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The information contained in this e-mail and its attachments ('the information) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed, is private and confidential, may be privileged or otherwise protected by work

Re: Detect hardware changes

2005-12-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 12/8/05, Keith Bottner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a utility that can run on FreeBSD and detect the addition of new hardware? Specifically network cards? When I originally installed FreeBSD I only had a single NIC and since I installed a second but FreeBSD does not

Re: /usr/disk usage

2005-12-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 12/8/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently installed 6.0 on a new server. Never had a problem with a /usr FS at 2.0 Gig before, but this one seems to be filling up fast. make clean already done on ports, what else am I missing here? DOnt really want to delete source, but what

Re: Copying kernel and OS

2005-12-10 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 12/10/05, Damon Blom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank's. Is there an easy way to install ports on slow machine using nfs after portupgrade on fast machine? For one port I guess you could do a nfs mount of faster machine ports after doing make on ithe port and just do install on slower

Re: FW: RE: FreeBSD starter machine...

2005-12-12 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
In the past I've run 4.6 on a P1 133mhz with 64MB RAM and a 3GB disk. More recently I was running 5.3 on a Thinkpad 600e PII 333mhz with 160MB RAM and 2GB slice within the disk (until the hardware died). Although the OS ran fine on both of these there are limitations. You'd probably need to

Re: Slices

2005-12-12 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 12/12/05, Jan Krediet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At first: I'm a newbie when I am talking about FreeBSD or UNIX! Welcome to the community! For long time i had the wish to install BSD because I experienced that UNIX or related versions are more powerfull than OSses from Microsoft. So i

Re: SCP!

2005-12-12 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 12/12/05, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You use PSCP.EXE instead of PUTTY.EXE from a Windows' cmd prompt. That's probably awful, if you're looking for something with fancy, colourful GUI buttons, but it has certainly saved my a$$ a few times :) http://winscp.net/ is a nice GUI

Re: Running qmail

2005-12-18 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 12/18/05, Gojyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've some problem making qmail work. I've installed qmail (with smtp auth support), ucspi-tcp and daemontools from the ports tree (I'm using Freebsd 6.0). I've disabled sendmail running the enable-qmail script after qmail installation (and I can

Re: Running qmail

2005-12-20 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 12/20/05, Gojyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I manually started qmail-smtp. However, even if it's running, it doesn't listen on any socket. I think I'm missing something, but what? Is there some other thing that should I do? I don't think qmail-smtpd is listening on any socket, but rather on

Intel 855 AGP blues

2005-12-20 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I've got agp in my kernel, but get no /dev/agpgart device, and hence no xvideo in xorg. No trace of agp in my dmesg (neither in verbose mode). I recompiled my kernel from RELENG_6 today, but to no avail. I've asked this question before also, but got no replies. I can seem to find any traces of it

Re: switching timezone within crontab?

2006-03-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 3/3/06, Danny Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a system is not running UTC as its locale, but I want to schedule a UTC cron job in crontab, is it sufficient to put a little: TZ=UTC Right before the job? On 3/4/06, Noel Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty sure the above will only

Re: dvd-slideshow

2006-03-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 3/12/06, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to see if others are getting similar errors with dvd-slideshow. If you have the current ports tree, try to install and run dvd-slideshow. The ports tree has version 7.2. When I try to run the script, I get error messages like

Re: How to see keyboard scan codes?

2006-03-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 3/28/06, User Elisej [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a program showing keyboard scan codes? I mean I press a key, and the program shows its code. Under X, xev might help. Svein Halvor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: pow function working unexpectedly

2006-04-11 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 4/12/06, Jonathan Herriott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question then. Why would it work when I don't use variables if I don't include the library? This question is just out of curiosity. Since you use only hard coded operands, the result is given, and gcc optimizes such arithmetics and

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 4/13/06, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that if only one person questions this, their response will be that there aren't enough FreeBSD users to worry about. If several question it (politely), it might get a little attention somewhere above the front-line customer service

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 4/13/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen writes: They were understanding, though, and asked me to file a feature request for the Flash team, to support FreeBSD, which I did. Did you, by any chance, an id on that request? I'm looking for something

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On Thursday 13 April 2006 14:17, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: They were understanding, though, and asked me to file a feature request for the Flash team, to support FreeBSD, which I did. On 4/13/06, Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do you go to file this feature request? I

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 4/13/06, Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reading the Adobe licensing FAQs http://www.macromedia.com/licensing/distribution/faq/ It seems to me that the proper route would be via a special license request rather than a feature request. You are probably right. I filed the feature

Re: getting a user's home dir (sed/awk?)

2006-04-17 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 4/17/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found pw usershow user1 will return a line from the passwd file, but that needs to be split chewed, and spit out. Seems awk can do it but I have no clue. cut is probably about the cheapest way to split a line: pw usershow user1 | cut

Re: Getting xmms to use glib-2

2006-05-01 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 5/1/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've rebuilt everything that used glib-1.2* to use glib-2.10.* without a problem, with the exception of xmms (multimedia/xmms). : Should I uninstall glib-2, install xmms with glib1.2, then reinstall glib-2? Try one of these ports instead:

Re: Getting xmms to use glib-2

2006-05-02 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 5/2/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers Svein - tried audacious but couldn;t get sound output to work at all. esound and/or oss . realplayer would play the same file just fine (mp3) Sorry, but I can't help you. It works here. I don't know the code base, so I can only

Re: Virtual CD drive for FreeBSD?

2006-01-10 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 1/10/06, Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there such a thing as a virtual CD drive in the Ports. Something that allows you to treat an ISO image file - data or audio - as though it were a real CD in a real drive? Like Nero ImageDrive in Windows. Look no further than the base system.

Re: (no subject)

2006-01-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 1/13/06, Susanka Kodisinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this regarding Midicart PHP Shopping Cart i have used your demo s/w and i am happy with your shopping cart solution. i nead clear some infomation befor buy that s/w. FreeBSD is an operating system. Also, it's free. You might be thinking

Re: OS use rate

2006-01-16 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 1/14/06, n-n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OS use rate in my project. 2005/01/10 - 2006/01/10 RedHat Enterprise Linux ES3.0 - 3947 RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3.0 - 1287 Sun Solaris 9 - 583 *BSD - 0 You use FreeBSD: http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?host=yahoo.co.jp

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 2/7/06, FreeBSD Prospect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The approach with different qualification of a software state (stable / unstable at least) is a common way to go, as it is handled with the FreeBSD OS (release / stable / current). That's why I wanted to know, how everybody else is comming

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
At 18:26 24.02.2006, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Welcome to the select few on my kill list. On 2/28/06, Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you threatening me man? No, he's ignoring you. (You might interpret it as a threat to ignore you, but certainly not a threat to kill you)

Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie

2006-03-01 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 2/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? You could go via vnc. It can save vnc-sessions to

Re: console beep?

2006-03-01 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 3/1/06, Andrew Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'd like to change the console beep to a visual beep whenever possible. Not only in X, but also in the console. At least you could have readline ommit the beep and issue a visual signal, bu placing this in your .inputrc-file: set

Re: console beep?

2006-03-01 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Sorry about all the typos. Bah! On 3/1/06, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/1/06, Andrew Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'd like to change the console beep to a visual beep whenever possible. Not only in X, but also in the console. At least you could have readline

Re: Recommended Web Mail software

2006-03-02 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 3/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was wondering what you recommend. We have a small 5 person user base on a [fairly] screamin' new Dell box, so performance isn't an issue. Just easy to use, reliable, basic, low maintenance web mail. I'm leaning toward SquirrelMail, as I

Re: console beep?

2006-03-02 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Andrew Spott, 2006-03-01] Hi. I'd like to change the console beep to a visual beep whenever possible. Not only in X, but also in the console. [Svein Halvor Halvorsen, 2006-03-01] At least you could have readline ommit the beep and issue a visual signal, bu placing

Re: Hard drive encryption

2004-09-17 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 2004-09-16] I understand that gbde requests a password before the partition can be mounted anyway so this simulates the same functionality of PointSEC, but since it is part of the OS, it seems that if someone has access to the OS, they could still get in. Is that

Re: How to make the boot menu just like I want?

2004-10-11 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Frederick, 2004-10-11] This is Frederick. Is there any table to list the partition number(subtype) or sysid? I have two hard disks. The first one install windows, and the second one install freebsd. I first install windows, then install freebsd. I use boot manager to manage my boot. :

Re: accidental fdisk -BI

2004-10-17 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Henrik W Lund, 2004-10-17] What this means is that any other slices you had on the disk will be gone. I don't know what disk layout you had, but something tells me that you may have erased /usr, /var and /tmp (if you used the default fdisk layout when installing FreeBSD, that is). I'm no

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

2004-10-07 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Stan, 2004-10-06] What's a good tool to do some really lightweight editeing on them with? Mostly I just need to rotate the vertical ones, but I _might_ do just a little cropping on some few. [John Mills, 2004-10-06] ImageMagick (and sibs - it's a collection of utilities, like gcc)

Network setup

2004-10-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
At home I have in my network: - A FreeBSD server - A FreeBSD workstation - A Windows gaming box - A FreeBSD laptop - A friend's backup server All are connected to a switch witch in turn is connected to the internett. I have real ethernet comming into my house, and all my machines have

Re: Network setup

2004-10-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[David Jenkins, 2004-10-08] : I *think* you might need to setup a network bridge. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/index.html Hope this helps. This seems to be *exactly* what I'm looking for! Thanks! Svein Halvor

128 GiB+ disks on Intel PIIX4

2004-10-18 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Is this at all possible? My BIOS don't seem to recognize my brand new 200 GB disk, but that is nothing new. I can initialize a new slize, setup bsdlabel and do newfs on if without problems. How can I verify that the entire disk is usable without filling it all up (or past the 128 GiB barrier),

Re: 128 GiB+ disks on Intel PIIX4

2004-10-18 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN], 2004-10-18] dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/null If it succeeds without errors, you should also be able to write the entire disk. It is not possible that the controller will rotate when it reaches its 28bit address barrier, and that the controller will return the first part

Re: Video over Firewire?

2004-10-19 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Loren M. Lang, 2004-10-18] I am intresting in doing video capture over firewire on FreeBSD. I understand that FreeBSD supports firewire controllers that conform to the OHCI spec (basically, all of them), but it seems that it really is only useful for SBP2 which is just hard drives. Is

Re: 128 GiB+ disks on Intel PIIX4

2004-10-19 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Svein Halvor Halvorsen, 2004-10-18] Is this at all possible? My BIOS don't seem to recognize my brand new 200 GB disk, but that is nothing new. I can initialize a new slize, setup bsdlabel and do newfs on if without problems. How can I verify that the entire disk is usable without

Re: Samba/Windows Messenger Service

2004-10-20 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[h0444lp6, 2004-10-20] Is it possible to SEND Windows Messenger Service massage from a FreeBSD server running Samba 2.2.8a_2? See smbclient(1), spesifically the -M option. Svein Halvor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: refreshing /dev direcotry to show CD tracks

2004-10-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Eric Thornton, 2004-10-25] I'm trying to figure out how to update the /dev directory after inserting a CD to show the CD's tracks. The /dev direcotry does list the CD tracks (/dev/acd0t01...02...) but only after i try to access the disk erroneously through mount /cdrom. I have a shell

Re: 10-13 laptop. Where to buy?

2004-10-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Michael Johnson, 2004-10-25] I'm looking for a x86 laptop with a 10 to 13 screen but its very hard to find one under 14 anyone have any ideas of where to look? I am very happy with my Dell Latitude X300. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: 4.10 - 5.2.1

2004-10-27 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 2004-10-27] In a message dated 10/27/04 6:49:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can i find a step by step upgrade method (from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.2.1)? Sorry if I seem lazy, but is somehow urgent (because a Plesk interface must be installed).

Re: Problème d'installation de Freetype pour php4

2004-11-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Cyril Blaison, 2004-11-04] J'ai bien récupérer toutes les sources nécessaires (zlib,freetype,libpng et gd) et tout c'est bien passé jusqu'à la compilation de Freetype. Il a fallu que j'installe makepp (sans probleme) puis j'ai modifié le fichier configure pour l'utiliser comme

Re: Help me, Get a Free flat screen

2004-11-05 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Daniel Jesperson, 2004-11-05] Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... Copy and paste this link...and add one W to the front and you get a TV ww.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=1141739 Please note the

Re: Do you need to dismount /usr to dump it?

2004-11-10 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Matt Staroscik, 2004-11-09] If I boot to single-user mode (reboot, hit space, do boot -s) and dump /usr to a file, I get read errors on a couple of blocks. : I thought it was safe to dump /usr in single-user mode. Will I need to boot off a CD or try another trick to get a clean dump of

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Ben Haysom, 2004-11-10] I've tried the hand book, it really doesn't help... Well, not to be rude, but it doesn't really help us much either, if you do not specify what exactly you tried, what you whish to accomplish, and what errors you got. ___

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