Printing from linux-firefox

2010-07-25 Thread Malcolm Kay
Having trouble getting flshh to work with native firefox, I decided to try one or other of the linux versions. With linux-firefox-devel-3.5.9 I was able to get flash wworking OK. But the linux version does not find any any printer access. I am using (traditional) lpd for spooling to a Postscript

Re: sparse image

2010-06-30 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:49 pm, Aiza wrote: Vincent Hoffman wrote: On 23/06/2010 11:26, Aiza wrote: Is there an equivalent of the MAC sparseimage on FreeBSD? If you mean you would like to make a sparse file and attach it using mdconfg then dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/outfile bs=1M

Re: i cannot login as root

2010-06-17 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:56 pm, Glen Barber wrote: Hi, On 6/15/10 7:15 AM, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: hello, my system has 2 users the user terietor and the root user. after a failed upgrade of my system with portmaster,i can't login as root but i can login as terietor. root was

Re: Burning CDs on FreeBSD 7.2

2010-06-17 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:28 am, Mark Terribile wrote: Hi, I have several systems, one on 5.4 and two on 7.2 . I keep the 5.4 system because every time I upgrade something breaks and cannot be fixed without (apparently) weeks of effort. I *am* trying to get off it. Now: my 5.4 system is

Re: i cannot login as root

2010-06-17 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:18 pm, Olivier Nicole wrote: On my release 8.0 system I find 'portmaster' in the ports but not in the base system! csh is base system portmaster is a port Yes of course! Sorry, I must have read Glen's post rather carelessly. With apology, Malcolm portmaster is in

Re: Switched to Bash and Comparison of Shells

2010-06-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:49 am, Dan D Niles wrote: I had been using csh/tcsh for 20 years and I just switched to bash. The recent discussion about the differences between the shells prompted me to take another look at bash. I thought I'd share my perception of the differences between tcsh and

mingw cross compiler -- cc1 issue

2010-06-09 Thread Malcolm Kay
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Re: [SPURIOUS] Delivery Status Notification(Failure) (fwd)

2010-05-02 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:35 pm, Ian Smith wrote: Has anyone (everyone?) else been receiving these DSNs a week or so after having posted to freebsd-questions@ ? Since around early April? Yes Ian, I've received at least 6 in total -- the latest on 25-04-2010 Regards, Malcolm I've had four

Re: ACPI? problem with release 8.0 | Perhaps solved?

2010-04-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
for your attention, Regards, Malcolm Kay On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:38 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:03 am, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 306, Issue 1, Message: 18 On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:31:33 +0930 Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.net wrote: I

Re: ACPI? problem with release 8.0

2010-04-12 Thread Malcolm Kay
you for your attention. Malcolm Kay On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:22 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: My machine had two SATA 300GB drives (WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0 21.00M21) one carrying FreeBSD RELEASE-6.3 and the other RELEASE-7.0 all of which worked OK. Recently added SATA 1TB (WDC WD10EADS-00P8B0 01.00A01

Re: ACPI? problem with release 8.0

2010-04-12 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:40 pm, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.netwrote: I desperately need to make some progress on this issue. Is it likely that the issue is real rather than hardware or disk corruption? Earlier releases

Re: ACPI? problem with release 8.0

2010-04-12 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:03 am, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 306, Issue 1, Message: 18 On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:31:33 +0930 Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.net wrote: I desperately need to make some progress on this issue. Then I suggest taking it to freebsd-acpi

ACPI? problem with release 8.0

2010-04-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
guess that I have an interaction problem between ACPI and RELEASE-8.0 a reasonable one? Where can I go from here? The system uses a Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 mother board and the prcessor is AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ Please offer suggestions or comments. Malcolm Kay

Re: Can't get mysql to start - permission error

2010-04-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
for some reason but I think not for the error you experienced. Malcolm Kay Anyone know what that's all about? Thanks for any help or words of wisdom. IHN, Gene -- To everything there is a season, And a time to every purpose under heaven

Re: / slice too small

2010-03-04 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:23 pm, krad wrote: 2010/3/4 Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.net On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 02:44 am, krad wrote: On 3 March 2010 14:23, Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.net wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias

Re: / slice too small

2010-03-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
about with questionable schemes. Malcolm Kay I use it in our backup setup at work, and have restored countless freebsd boxes. When you repartition the drive remember to add the boot blocks eg fdisk -B ad0 bsdlabel -B ad0s1 ___ freebsd

Re: / slice too small

2010-03-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 02:44 am, krad wrote: On 3 March 2010 14:23, Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.net wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris elias...@cha.forthnet.grwrote: On Sunday 28 of February 2010 15:26:54 Frank Shute

Re: / slice too small

2010-03-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
you also need --fileflags and the fileflags patch enabled on installing rsync. For example look at: #ls -lo /var and note flag on empty. Malcolm Kay I use it in our backup setup at work, and have restored countless freebsd boxes. When you repartition the drive remember to add the boot blocks

Re: problem with booting and installing

2010-02-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:20 pm, david wilson wrote: I am using win xp on a hp laptop. I want to run bsd. So i get the cd burned and then when i reboot my system. it starts up in the usual way. i have tried setting bios settings for the boot device and nothiing seems to work. any other help

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

2009-10-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:29 am, Chris Rees wrote: I have always considered hard disk, floppy diskette, and compact disc (and digital versatile disc) to be the terminology; but then again the official British spelling is disc, whereas AFAICR the US spelling is disk. What organisation defines

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:39 pm, Polytropon wrote: Hi Rob, just a little terminology note (from me, Mister Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of hard disk, use disk with k. Think like diskette. If you are refering to optical media, use disc with c. Think like CD = compact

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:27 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:39 pm, Polytropon wrote: Hi Rob, just a little terminology note (from me, Mister Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of hard disk, use disk with k. Think like diskette. If you are refering

Re: rc.d ?

2008-08-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:31 am, kalin m wrote: hi all... i used to be able to put startup scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. now on a new 7 install i have the scripts there but after restart nothing happens Most startup scripts now require a line: enable_whatever=YES in rc.conf before they

Re: FreeBSD source code

2008-07-20 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:08 pm, Madana wrote: Dear sir/madam.. I am a student studying computers and would like to build unix operating systems later on so i was browsing through your website for the source code but could not find it so it would be very very nice if you could give me the

Re: dump and restore

2008-07-18 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:51 am, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, My harddisk was failing and I wanted the data copied to another disk, but since my original wouldn't boot, I installed a minimal FreeBSD on the new disk, mounted the old partitions under /mnt and copied from the original to the new

Re: mail not work

2008-07-12 Thread Malcolm Kay
, such as NIS. The NIS protocol mandates an 8-character username. If you need a longer login name for e-mail addresses, you can define an alias in /etc/mail/aliases. Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mail not work

2008-07-12 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:34 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:00 am, EdwardKing wrote: I use mailx command,such as Tom to Kate,I like following command: $mail Kate Subject:Hello Hello world (press Ctrl+D) EOT Then I use user Kate to login,and check mail, $mail

Re: snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45 pm, Mel wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:24:46 Malcolm Kay wrote: 9255 if { as_var=$as_ac_var; eval test \\${$as_var+set}\ = set; }; then I find this line somewhat strange as I've not been able to find documentation for the expansion of ${parameter+set

Re: snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:34 am, Mel wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 16:48:42 Malcolm Kay wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45 pm, Mel wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:24:46 Malcolm Kay wrote: 9255 if { as_var=$as_ac_var; eval test \\${$as_var+set}\ = set; }; then I find

Re: snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-09 Thread Malcolm Kay
*) 477 case `echo 'x\c'` in 478 *c*) ECHO_T=' ';; # ECHO_T is single tab character. 479 *) ECHO_C='\c';; 480 esac;; 481 *) 482 ECHO_N='-n';; 483 esac Best of luck, Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions

Re: usb mouse is detected by fbsd 7 but not X

2008-06-26 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:19 am, Chip wrote: Just installed FBSD 7, after being gone from FBSD the last 3 years. During boot I see that the mouse is detected as ums0, but cannot get it to work in X11. I cannot find any xorg.conf. or xorg.conf.new files. I have gnome installed and working, so I

Re: ppp reconnecting problem

2008-04-28 Thread Malcolm Kay
too much effort. This could keep you operational while looking for the base cause of the difficulty. Malcolm Kay Of course, I start ppp as: # ppp -ddial htnet I really need reliable connection that needs no permanent monitoring by myself and manually reconnecting after being

Re: Distributing makefiles

2008-04-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:31 pm, Michaël Grünewald wrote: Hi all, I am planning to distribute some of the makefiles I wrote on various platforms, including FreeBSD. I need the help of some insightful soul to take a few decisions: --- Where to install? I think /usr/local/share/mk is fine;

Re: Distributing makefiles

2008-04-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:43 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:31 pm, Michaël Grünewald wrote: Hi all, I am planning to distribute some of the makefiles I wrote on various platforms, including FreeBSD. I need the help of some insightful soul to take a few decisions

Re: calcru?? Error??

2008-04-25 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:57 pm, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi, can you help me on this..I attached it in this email whats the meaning of it and how can i get rid of that?? Please...Thanks I don't believe attachments are redistributed by this mailing list. Best to cut and paste your error

Re: Permission to publish article

2008-03-28 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:45 am, Da Rock wrote: Out of sheer curiosity- is this spam? Is there any reference to the paint on FreeBSD? I can't imagine where it would be used... A google search shows it up in http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/ Malcolm

Network identity for sending mail.

2008-03-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
server in the Helo command -- after all this is the rout that will be followed by any responses. Is there a better way around the difficulty. Views please Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Network identity for sending mail.

2008-03-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:46 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: The send-pr appears to assume that mail can and will be sent directly through sendmail or equivalent rather than inderctly through an ISP mail service. Does it not work if you

Re: Network identity for sending mail.

2008-03-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:07 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:26:07AM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:46 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: The send-pr appears to assume that mail can and will be sent

Re: Network identity for sending mail.

2008-03-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:59 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2008-03-17 00:26, Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:46 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: The send-pr appears to assume that mail can and will be sent

Re: Mathematica 6.01 + FBSD 6.3-release

2008-03-07 Thread Malcolm Kay
have installed. # brandelf -t Linux file ... See brandelf(1). Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing FreeBSD from USB CDROM drive

2008-02-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:34 pm, Nerius Landys wrote: I am having problems installing both 6.3 and 7.0 using a CDROM drive that plugs into a USB port. The boot process starts, then I get scrambled text over the whole screen scrolling like crazy. I can't read any of it. Are you sure the CD

Re: ls time/date format from ftpd

2008-02-13 Thread Malcolm Kay
Solved. On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 07:04 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: The default output from ls in a normal shell on my system is mode links owner group size month day time/year filename corresponding to LANG=C or en_US... For most other locales month and day are swapped, including mine { LANG

ls time/date format from ftpd

2008-02-09 Thread Malcolm Kay
. Is there someway to force ftpd to report ls according to the LANG=C default so that I can successfully access through windows. Any ideas please? The FreeBSD system is 6.3-Release and the windows W2K. Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-08 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 07:33 am, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. The help from this group has been outstanding, but getting things CD and DVD actually

Re: uknd - uhub DRAC woes.

2007-09-24 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:16 am, N.J. Mann wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Grant Peel wrote: Whenever I reset my DRAC cards on my Dell machines, I'm sorry but I can't help you with your problem. But, you do need to reset your clock, since you appear to have reached October two months

Re: FDISK output question -- OT

2007-02-28 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:09 am, DAK GHATIKACHALAM wrote: Hi Freebsd Question about FDISK Do you have an idea what does that '+' means in Blocks columns as seen below it is 419425019+ Does it signify anything , because for certain disks I do not see that '+' as the end of blocks? I

Re: change of runlevel 5 to runlevel 3 in FreeBSD 6.1

2007-02-13 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:35 pm, DeadMan Xia wrote: Dear Friends ,, Well i m facing some problem reagrding System Boot in FreeBSD 6.1, I have installed GNOME2 and when my system reboots its start in X Windows. Now i want to change Run Level 5 to Run level 3. Can anybody help me out ? Run

Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 for FBSD?

2007-01-24 Thread Malcolm Kay
Is anyone using the Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 motherboard with FreeBSD? Are there known problems? I am looking for a AMD Athlon X2 5600+ machine, running FreeBSD 6.x, with particular emphasis on numeric simulations. Comments and suggestions would be very welcome! Thank you, Malcolm Kay

Re: error boot up from clone drive

2007-01-23 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:18 am, ann kok wrote: Hi I am trying to test the clone harddrive to boot up the system. I got an error init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/tty.. but I check the clone harddive. the file is there /usr/libexec/getty and /dev/tty. i am using

Re: fortune

2007-01-12 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:03 am, Tim Nilimaa wrote: Hi, Im not able to run fortune on my freeBSD 5.3 installation, and I know why - since its not installed and thats where I step into trouble. Im not able to install it. I've searched the portscollection and asked Mr. Google but none of them

Re: USB drive is a CDROM drive and is not writable

2007-01-08 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 02:18 pm, Michael M. Press wrote: I have a 2 gigabyte USB memory stick from made by PNY. When I plug it in, I get the following: umass0: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable

Re: Permissions Question

2007-01-08 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:37 am, Jay Chandler wrote: Sorry for the dumb question this morning-- caffeine hasn't yet worked its wondrous magic upon my person. I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual

Re: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-08 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote: I have a curious problem. I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and gid so they can run it. A user does not need to own a file to be able to run it. All they need is execute permission. So what is the real problem? HOWEVER,

Re: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-08 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:02 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote: I have a curious problem. I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and gid so they can run it. A user does not need to own a file to be able to run

Re: rsync does not --exclude: (??)

2006-10-28 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:39 am, Lars Kristiansen wrote: Gary Kline skrev: People, Weeks ago I tried this *without* the --exclude flags and overwrote DOT file that I didn't want to. Iust rechecked this use of rsync, saving important files from my work server elseswhere, and

Re: replacing ^M with emacs

2006-10-28 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:27 pm, Noah wrote: well I am pressing control-J for return not control-M so I dont understand your rationale. There seems to be considerable confusion in this thread between keystrokes and the codes they produce. Most modern keyboards report some form of scan code for

mount_smbfs/umount for non root user.

2006-10-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
Running mount_smbfs as a regular user generates a permission denial in relation to iconv in the kernel. This is apparently a well known problem which can be circumvented by setting the set-user-id-on-execution bit for mount_smbfs. This works for me but leads to the problem that the mount is now

Re: rsync does not --exclude: (??)

2006-10-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:15 am, Gary Kline wrote: People, Weeks ago I tried this *without* the --exclude flags and overwrote DOT file that I didn't want to. Iust rechecked this use of rsync, saving important files from my work server elseswhere, and see that some files or

Re: mail to root

2006-10-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:20 pm, jekillen wrote: Hello again; I have a question about how mail from the system is generated for root. This question was prompted when I edited the Postfix aliases file and ran newaliases, then did postfix reload, assuming the mail system was running. I was

Re: Missing operating system (puzzle)

2006-08-20 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:31 am, Peter wrote: On a test system I have 3 SATA drives. On the 1st drive I installed FBSD 6.0, updated sources/ports, build and install world/kernel. Rebooted. All is well. I set up RAID0 on the other 2 drives using my (Tyan) mobo's controller (NVRAID). This

Re: Mounting a snapshot of a file system

2006-08-18 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:21 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi all, I believe that this might be possible.. I have created a snapshot of a filesystem and moved it to a remote host: dump -L0af - / | ssh remote_host 'gzip snapshot.gz' Now I have the file snapshot.gz on the remote host. Two

octave - problem with fsolve

2006-08-02 Thread Malcolm Kay
I installed octave-2.1.73 under FreeBSD 5.4 using the FreeBSD ports. This seems to be a very useful mathematical processor. Unfortunately the 'fsolve' function seems not to work. It seems always to return the given starting point value and a status of -1. Is this a known issue? Does anyone have

Re: multiple interfaces on same subnet?

2006-08-01 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:10 am, Joseph Gleason wrote: Is it possible to reach two hosts via two interfaces that are both on the same subnet? Example: em0: 172.20.0.1/16 em1: 172.20.0.2/16 And I want to reach 172.20.0.3 via em0 and 172.20.0.4 via em1. From 'netstat -nr' I see a line like

Font size problems

2006-07-25 Thread Malcolm Kay
I am running Xorg under FBSD 5.4 with a 1600x1200 19inch monitor. I am also running xfs to serve fonts. According to log file Xorg.0.log the screen resolution is discovered: (**) NV(0): DPI set to (119, 119) But if I call an xterm with: % xterm -fn

Re: Installing Free over linux installation

2006-04-21 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:40 am, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote: Hi list, Using standard installation (sysinstall), I'm trying to install the FreeBSD 6.0 in the machine where exist a old linux installation (The linux will be full replaced) In the fdisk stage, I've created /, swap, /var, /usr and

Xorg XFree86 compatibility issues.

2006-03-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
it? Is it feasible to install both Xorg and XFree86 on the one system and choose the appropriate one at a given time? Any help or information appreciated. Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Xorg XFree86 compatibility issues.

2006-03-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:15 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:47:01PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: My primary activity at home is on a machine alpha running FBSD 5.4 and Xorg version of X. But I have a couple of other machines running older systems FBSD 4.9, beta and RedHat

Re: How to print in duplex mode?

2006-03-04 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:57 am, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Hello! I'm trying to use less paper by printing on both sides of each sheet. The printer is capable of duplex printing, but all the postcript I send to it ends up printed single-sided. The original PS is generated by a web-browser. I

Re: How do you mount a floppy?

2006-03-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 10:50 am, Jose Borquez wrote: How do you add a floppy device and then mount a floppy in FreeBSD? Others have answered this; but many of us most of the time find it more convenient to use mtools for MS floppy access rather than a proper mount. You'll find it in the ports as

Writing CDs on a DVD drive.

2006-03-02 Thread Malcolm Kay
for command line utilities but the base level utilities. Any help appreciated. Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Writing CDs on a DVD drive.

2006-03-02 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:25 am, Chuck Swiger wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: It is not very clear what utilities are capable of writing R or RW CDs on a multipurpose optical drive. It seems that burncd doesn't do this and the man pages for growisofs talks of specific DVD media types but not CDs

Re: Writing CDs on a DVD drive.

2006-03-02 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Thursday, March 02, 2006 a las 11:29:31PM +1030, Malcolm Kay escribió: It is not very clear what utilities are capable of writing R or RW CDs on a multipurpose optical drive. It seems that burncd doesn't do this and the man pages

Re: configuring KDE on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-24 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:24 am, Wendell Anderson wrote: I have successfully installed FreeBSD 6.0 with X.org and KDE 3.4.3. When I execute startx the tcm windowing system, starts up fine. However when I try starting KDE, I get x-server errors. Do you mean tcm or twm? I need help in

Re: Identity for HELO in sendmail

2006-02-15 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:26 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: I can now send e-mails using the standard 'mail' utility to most destinations but apparently 'alpha.home' is still used as the source domain in the HELO command and as this just my private hostname for the machine

Identity for HELO in sendmail

2006-02-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
How do I get sendmail to use a valid host name such as internode.on.net? Help would be much appreciated, Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Partitioning

2006-01-15 Thread Malcolm Kay
the traditional relationship between partition names and usage; just move the partition allocation. Malcolm Kay Here is an output of what the layout now actually looks like: # /dev/ad1s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 4194304

Re: how can I find out which md device I just used ? (mdconfig)

2006-01-05 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:54 pm, user wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Malcolm Kay wrote: On my system (5.4) mdconfig reports the created device to stdout: So: memdevice=`mdconfig -a -t malloc -s10M` sets the device name in $memdevice. Thank you very much - I have just verified

Re: Printing from FreeBSD 6.0 client to Fedora Core 4 server via CUPS/LPD

2006-01-04 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:05 am, Tim Greening-Jackson wrote: Hello there. I hope someone can help me with what I am sure is an elementary problem. I am currently investigating FreeBSD with a view to using it on my server in place of Fedora Core 4. Before I move the server from Fedora to FreeBSD, I

Re: how can I find out which md device I just used ? (mdconfig)

2006-01-04 Thread Malcolm Kay
, but that is not elegant and is vulnerable to a race condition. On my system (5.4) mdconfig reports the created device to stdout: So: memdevice=`mdconfig -a -t malloc -s10M` sets the device name in $memdevice. Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions

Fwd: Re: Disk error messages (ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# xxxxxx)

2006-01-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:25 pm, Gayn Winters wrote: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russell J. Wood Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 3:54 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk error messages (ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# xx) On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:15:08PM

Re: Problems reading CDRW after writing

2006-01-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:37 am, Marc Evans wrote: Hello - I am running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE as of Dec-15-2005 on a P4 system. I have a CDRW drive attached, which identifies as follows: acd0: CDRW CD-RW 52X24/K.NC at ata1-slave UDMA33 I wish to use this device to produce CDRW backup disks

Re: termcap and TERM detection

2006-01-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
help would be greatly appreciated. You should be able to set this through resources: For example in .Xdefaults add: Rxvt*termName: rxvt-unicode Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: termcap and TERM detection

2006-01-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:29 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:34 am, E. Eusey wrote: The secondary screen functionality on my xterm (rxvt-unicode) was acting strangly. So, following the advice at: http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*checkout*/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxv t. 7.html I

Re: specifying a day for at command

2006-01-02 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:50 am, Jim Pazarena wrote: I want to run a job every 00:05 sunday morning. It is a script which run for a few minutes, then attempts to re-submit itself via at. at the end of the script, it has: echo /usr/local/bin/script | at 00:05 sunday this produces an error

Re: specifying a day for at command

2006-01-02 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:58 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:50 am, Jim Pazarena wrote: I want to run a job every 00:05 sunday morning. It is a script which run for a few minutes, then attempts to re-submit itself via at. at the end of the script, it has: echo /usr/local/bin

Re: ext2fs and NFS

2005-12-29 Thread Malcolm Kay
; perhaps not 'ufs2' so you might need to be specific in creating the file system. Malcolm Kay Thanks Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
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Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
of lockout on a FreeBSD system. It is looking as though I will need to do a completely new XP installation -- which I am not looking forward to. It has been said before Windows is OK until something goes wrong; but then it is mostly unfixable. Malcolm Kay

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:15 am, Danial Thom wrote: --- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom wrote: Schwab Streetsmart Accounting Software (CA) Quicken Photoshop Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs) Those are the ones I use daily

Re: Compiling linux applications

2005-12-26 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:46 pm, TV JOE wrote: Hi, I've a C program written for Suse linux. I'm having minor problems compiling. First is that the cexp (complex exponent) is not available in /usr/include/math.h. Is it possible to add on a library that includes this function? I compile as 'gcc

Re: Compiling linux applications

2005-12-26 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:19 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:46 pm, TV JOE wrote: Hi, I've a C program written for Suse linux. I'm having minor problems compiling. First is that the cexp (complex exponent) is not available in /usr/include/math.h. Is it possible to add

Re: What is the M in tar Mcvf

2005-12-25 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:00 am, Teo De Las Heras wrote: I looked through the man pages and online, but I can't find information on what the M is for in 'tar Mcvf'. I constantly see this as a way to archive / backup files. I find it in the man pages without problems: -M --multi-volume

Re: Intresting X Question...

2005-11-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:47 pm, Eric Murphy wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:31 pm, Eric Murphy wrote: Maybe some body can explain this alittle better then my google searchs and other readings. My question is this: Lets say your installing BSD on some workstation, you dont

Re: Im trying to find the H and V sync rates for the LCD in

2005-11-15 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:45 am, Eric Murphy wrote: A Inspiron 9300, I cant seem to find this info ANYWHERE, and i want to configuer Xorg :) Can anyone point me in the right direction? google-ing Inspiron 9300 refresh rate gives a number of references to 60Hz maximum. Malcolm

Re: Intresting X Question...

2005-11-15 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:31 pm, Eric Murphy wrote: Maybe some body can explain this alittle better then my google searchs and other readings. My question is this: Lets say your installing BSD on some workstation, you dont know the hardware specs of the monitor (Vertical and Horizontal rates

Re: copying standard input to standard output

2005-11-12 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:01 pm, Noah wrote: Hi there, I am wanting to copy standard output to a file. I know that 'tee' will do this fine. blah | tee it but I am find that on some occasions processes will not output when pipping to tee. other than screen what are some applications that

Re: tarring over ssh question - pulling from the source to tarfiles

2005-11-02 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 05:51 pm, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 11:20 PM 11/1/2005, user wrote: Hello, Sometimes I have a bunch of data that I want to transfer from source to destination over ssh, but I want to tar it up on the way over (that is, I don't have enough space on the source to create a

Re: An installation on SCSI Drives

2005-10-31 Thread Malcolm Kay
) with the remainder all in the root partition '/' seems to be quite satisfactory for general use. Malcolm Kay The default FreeBSD installation doesn't have slices such as /root or /user - which doesn't mean you can't create them if you want. Also, as you understood, /swap as slice does not exist, because

Re: switch to/from Daylight savings doesn't happen

2005-10-25 Thread Malcolm Kay
by copying /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles to /etc/localtime. Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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