Daniel C. Dowse writes:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:11:53 + at
> Glyn Millington wrote:
>
> >
> >Good Morning :-)
> >
> >A quick question for anyone running VirtualBox on a FreeBSD _host_
> >machine, with Linux or Windows as a _
Good Morning :-)
A quick question for anyone running VirtualBox on a FreeBSD _host_
machine, with Linux or Windows as a _guest_ OS.
Does it work?
That is, do the guest additions work fully for those guests, or are
there limitations such those I experience currently when running
FreeBSD 8 a
Manolis Kiagias writes:
> Hey all,
>
> I have just completed the second 8.0-RELEASE based build of the 'Custom
> releases' project hosted here:
>
> http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com
Nice!! Many many thanks.
atb
Glyn
___
freebsd-questions@free
Matthias Apitz writes:
>
> Hello Glyn,
>
> I have read the above page during my configuration but it does not
> explain to me which user must be configured in U: value; Is it me? Or is it
> the userID the sendmail daemon is running as? It works with "U:root",
> but what does this mean exac
Matthias Apitz writes:
> Hello,
>
> Because I was forced by my ISP to do so, I have configured successfully
> as described in the FBSD docs the sendmail with SMTP AUTH;
>
> one question remains: the required file /etc/mail/auth/client-info has
> the line:
>
> AuthInfo:smtp.1blu.de
Polytropon writes:
> When Bill G. arrives at the pearly gate, ol' Pete won't ask
> him what he did do, instead send him to MICROS~1 C:\HELL.EXE
> with the advice to click on the devil to start the everlasting
> pain. :-)
Brilliant!!
atb
Glyn
Patrick Reich writes:
> One thing to add here is that the ports tree remains tied to
> teTeX. If you install TexLive (either from DVD or Romain's)
> and then install a port like texmacs, lyx, texmaker, or auctex
> to edit your files, you'll pull in teTeX as a dependency. You
> end up with both
Roland Smith writes:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
>> bf writes:
>>
>> >> Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
>> >
>> > This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't
bf writes:
>> Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
>
> This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done.
Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly not trivial! But actually
installing it as free-standing software is not too hard.
Get it from here:
http://
Sorry - meant to add this to post
Take a look here:-
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-OfficeJet_4110
A free driver is available, rather than the windows .dll
Good luck :-)
atb
Glyn
___
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
Keith Seyffarth writes:
> I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a
> number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or
> FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption
> that printing from the machine is possible. I'm trying to get
Gary Kline writes:
> is there any way t o not upgrade "all installed ports", but only
> those that are not current?
>
> tired of having my main box grinding away for endless days
portupgrade -akOP does the trick here.
The time taken depends in large part on how many po
gahn writes:
> Hi all:
>
> I am rebuilding those ports and run into some problems. one of those
> is:
>
> checking for XINPUT... configure: error: Package requirements (x11 xext
> xi >= 1.2 inputproto >= 1.5) were not met:
>
> Requested 'xi >= 1.2' but version of Xi is 1.1.3
>
> searching for a w
Jerry McAllister writes:
> But, we can _gently_ (it hasn't always been so gentle) teach
> newbies that the list is meant for something higher than just
> repeatedly ragging on why isn't FreeBSD more like MS or RHEL
> or whatever.
Or even "why isn't FreeBSD more like FreeBSD used to be back in t
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:06:48PM +0000, Glyn Millington wrote:
>> Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> >is there a push button way of turning an odt file or plain ascii file
>> >into HTML usi
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is there a push button way of turning an odt file or plain ascii file
> into HTML using openoffice?
>
> i've googled, but haven't found anything.
In OO 3
File->Export->File Format -> html/xhtml
hth
Glyn
___
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
>> * Having five gazillion posts that say "me too", is not exactly a
>> productive answer to a problem. Alas, this is often what you get
>> when you gather hundreds of _very_ inexperienced people and you hand
>>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:00:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:58 +0100, peter wrote:
>>> > Dear sirs
>>> >
>>> > please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from
>>> > w
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> it's SLOW and resource hungry - giving nothing else than a good
> look. that's why i compare it to windoze.
>
> and why you need "desktop" (whatever it means) at all?
>
> just window manager is enough, try fvwm2 maybe icewm maybe other etc.
>
> all of
Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> On 10/30/08, Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>>>
Hello. I am trying to get an AboveCable (model: ACPC 2000-01) wireless
card connected to my home network with 40-bit Hex WEP Encrypt
"FBSD1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mikhail Teterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Sent by Glyn Millington:
>>> My solution was to install Wine and run the MS port of Firefox. So far
>>> it works flawlessly for me.
>>>
>>
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi there FBSD1
>
> I note that your system has twice sent a copy of my post, unaltered, in
> the thread "Flash 9,10 FreeBSD" to the freebsd-questions list!
>
> Is there something wrong ?
Apologies Joeb, I see
Hi there FBSD1
I note that your system has twice sent a copy of my post, unaltered, in
the thread "Flash 9,10 FreeBSD" to the freebsd-questions list!
Is there something wrong ?
atb
Glyn
___
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.f
Mikhail Teterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sent by Glyn Millington:
>> My solution was to install Wine and run the MS port of Firefox. So far
>> it works flawlessly for me.
>>
> This has two problems:
>
> 1. It requires a (licensed) Windows install hand
Dánielisz László <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello!
>
> I also had some fight with Adobe's Flash player, but unfortunately without
> success.
> I remaing curios about any solution.
Szia!
To be honest I gave up with Flash for either the FreeBSD or Linux version
of Firefox. Couldn't get it to
Colin Brace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I use portsnap to keep the port tree of my FreeBSD 7 box up to date.
> According to portaudit, which I run nightly, there is a problem with the
> current version of libxml2. So, as usual, I run "sudo portsnap fetch &&
> sudo portsnap update",
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Glyn Millington wrote:
> | Is there a work-around which will get me a functional cups-base
>
> First read
> http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/ce29ce1d-971a-11dd-ab7e-001c2514716c.html
> and the references cited therein and decide if
Happy St. Callistus' Day!
FreeBSD 7 release.
I'm having trouble upgrading cups-base. With an up-to-date ports tree
this is what I get.
,
| glynthebearded# portupgrade cups-base
| ---> Upgrading 'cups-base-1.3.5_2' to 'cups-base-1.3.8_1' (print/cups-base)
| ---> Building '/usr/ports/pri
Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Im looking for a GUI or command line that will allow me to extract
> information
> within an ISO file... im using FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE KDE4.1.1 AMD64
well, you can mount it and then search around inside ..
mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -
"Joey Mingrone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been told that LaTeX is probably the best solution for creating
> scientific papers with math fonts, so I'm trying to get a working
> installation.
A noble ambition!
> fonts, but it seems they are in the teTex port, but that port
> conflicts wit
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This seems to be a common misperception about ports. Ports aren't
> something magical. They do exactly what you would do from the
> commandline (i.e. ./configure, make, make install), except they come
> with several bonuses.
>
> 1) The port maintainer h
Sébastien Morand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Is the uscanner0 device also dealt with in /etc/devfs.rules ?
>>
>
> I don't have such a file, is devd.conf the same purpose?
No it isn't.
/etc/devfs.conf deals with devices avaiable at boot time - cdrom drives
etc
devices that are plugged in an
Sébastien Morand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
>
> a would like to up my scanner automatically ofr regular user, so I
> create theses lines in devfs.conf:
> link uscanner0 scanner
> perm uscanner0 0660
> own uscanner0 root:scanner
>
> I create the group scanner and add the
"Montag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've got Postfix SMTP server set up on a FreeBSD 7 box. I'm receiving
> mail just fine, and I can send mail to my other web accounts (gmail),
> but my mail is getting rejected from the mailing lists. Here is the
> output from the local mail queue:
>
> host
John Wynstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I applied this fix, it worked for the previous problem and I came to
> the next one.
The story of my life :-)
> I am getting the impression this is very filthy code.
Couldn't possibly comment!
Not sure I can help directly with this one but ..
1
John Wynstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now what is -lgio-2.0? and why is it missing?
> What tools do I have for debugging this?
Well, I'm pretty new to this too, but you almost certainly have grep.
So you could
$cd /usr/ports
$grep -R lgio-2.0 *
Depending on where in the ports tree it
John Wynstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And glib2 is part of Gnome?
> I never installed Gnome because I don't like Gnome.
> I tried to manually install /usr/ports/devel/gio-fam-backend and got
> the same error.
>
> Perhaps I need to get Gnome off the installation CDROM.
> I really only need the
"Nishita Desai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log - any interesting error messages?
>
>> "Nishita Desai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g
"Nishita Desai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I am having a very strange problem. I just finished installing
> Xfce-4.4 and got it to work with XDM. But all xfce native applications
> are behaving very strangely:
>
> 1. The terminal doesn't echo back my characters till I've typed the
>
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Sorry Kris, I was in part plain wrong in my first reply to this one.
>>
>> Linking /compat/linux/usr/X11R6 to /compat/linux/usr/local fixed my
>> initial problem
>>
>>
>>> | /usr/compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin:
>>
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Sorry Kris, I was in part plain wrong in my first reply to this one.
>
> Linking /compat/linux/usr/X11R6 to /compat/linux/usr/local fixed my
> initial problem
>
>
>>>>>>>>>> | /u
Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Ah! (bangs head against wall!) Yes I do:-
>>
>> in ~/.bashrc
>>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/share/squeak/3.7-7"
>>
>> Having removed that realplayer comes up with no problem.
>>
>> Should have spotted that one :-(
>>
>>
Boris Samorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 19:16:51 +0100 Glyn Millington wrote:
>
>> > % echo ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
>> /usr/local/lib:/usr/local/share/squeak/3.7-7
>
> The culprit is the first path. It results in non-standard linux
> path-f
Boris Samorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 09:14:54 +0100 Glyn Millington wrote:
>
>
>> FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
>> Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error message
>
>> ,
>>
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mel wrote:
>> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 15:48:58 Glyn Millington wrote:
>>> Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 14:05:43 Glyn Millington wrote:
>>>>>>>>
Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 17:49:02 Glyn Millington wrote:
>> Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 16:50:51 Glyn Millington wrote:
>>>> Linking /compat/linux/usr/X11R6 to /compat/l
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mel wrote:
>> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 15:48:58 Glyn Millington wrote:
>>> Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 14:05:43 Glyn Millington wrote:
>>>>>>>>
Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 16:34:11 Glyn Millington wrote:
>> Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:14:54 Glyn Millington wrote:
>>>> FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-da
Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 16:50:51 Glyn Millington wrote:
>> Linking /compat/linux/usr/X11R6 to /compat/linux/usr/local got
>> Openoffice running but reaplay is giving the same kind of error :-(
>
> Which error exactly?
This
Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 15:48:58 Glyn Millington wrote:
>> Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > On Tuesday 13 May 2008 14:05:43 Glyn Millington wrote:
>> >> >>>> Trying to launch Linux Open O
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:14:54 Glyn Millington wrote:
>>> FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
>>>
>>>
>>> Trying to la
Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:14:54 Glyn Millington wrote:
>> FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
>>
>>
>> Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error message
>>
>>
>>
Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 14:05:43 Glyn Millington wrote:
>> >>>> Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error
>> >>>> message ,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> | /usr/comp
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> system for a couple of days while it builds. The Linux version was
>
> less than 16h on 1200Mhz CPU.
LOL - maybe I exaggerated :-) But this one has a 900Mhz CPU, and this is
the fastest I have available.
atb
Glyn
_
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> (via rc.conf)
>>
>> Is it possible to use libmap.conf to persuade a Linbux binary to use a
>> Linux library, or is that not the way to go?
>
> compile openoffice from ports. it works fine - natively.
Thanks - yes it does, but it means tying up this
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Glyn Millington wrote:
>> Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> Glyn Millington wrote:
>>>> FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
>>>> Trying to launch Linux Open Office
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Glyn Millington wrote:
>> FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
>>
>>
>> Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error message
>>
>>
>> ,
>> | /usr/compat/lin
FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error message
,
| /usr/compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin: error while
| loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6: ELF file OS ABI
| invalid
`
No
"Ruel Luchavez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I already try it but the server reply me an error:
>
> Error: FTP Unable to get
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/
> xorg.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> pkg_add: unable to f
"Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just try to pkg_add it. OO doesn't require Java to run,
> only to build.
Brilliant!! This (about Java) was what I needed to know.
> There are some run-dependencies, you can see them here:
> http://www.freshports.org/editors/openoffice.org-2.0/
Sor
Greetings!
For the sake of a continuing happy marriage ! I really need to install
OPenOffice 2 on a machine at home - soon to be running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386)
:-) I can't build the port because the hard drive is too small - just
enough spare space for the compiling.
Is it possible to do this vi
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'll give xfce a try. Again. I played with it months ago
> but gave up on it after a few days. Can I run all KDE-ware
> and Gnome suites too?
Hi Gary,
I'm running Xfce4 over here on Slackware, and there are no problems
firing up KDE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi
> OK I have installed the font server etc -- all I need are some
> TrueTypefonts to put in the TT directory. Does anyone know:
> 1.where can I get them.
> 2. How I can convert my TT fonts on my ms$ system to TT for freebsd.
1. Have a look in /usr/ports/x11-fonts
jason henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Glyn Millington wrote:
>
>>Greetings!
>>
>>I'm a newcomer to FreeBSD, an immigrant from the wonderful world of
>>Slackware Linux. Finished installing on Sunday!
>>
>>I wanted to make sure the system
"Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Glyn Millington wrote:
>> That is fine, but at the point when 5.4 becomes the production release, I
>> would like simply to track that for security fixes etc rather than follow
>> the stable developement branch.
&g
Greetings!
I'm a newcomer to FreeBSD, an immigrant from the wonderful world of
Slackware Linux. Finished installing on Sunday!
I wanted to make sure the system was up to date with regard to security
fixes etc so used cvsup to upgrade source and re-built the kernel - it
all went like a dream - w
Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Can you point me to the docs for this? I'm very new to FreeBSD finished
>> install with this printing problem yesterday!
>
> The flags for the ppc driver are documented in the ppc(4) manual
> page. Just run 'man ppc' from the console or an xterm to vi
Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:36:32AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
>> "Anthony M. Agelastos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Interrupt storm detected on "irq7: lpt0"; throttling interrupt source
"Anthony M. Agelastos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Interrupt storm detected on "irq7: lpt0"; throttling interrupt source
1. Back up /boot/device.hints
2. In device hints add a line
hint.ppc.0.flags="0x20"
AFTER the line which says
hint.ppc.0.irq="7"
3. save and reboot
hth
Glyn
__
Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> so if i understand it corectly the hole mail thingie is based on
>
> -a mail client (mutt)
> -a mail sender (sendmail)
> -a mail storage (postfix)
> -a mail receiver (fetchmail)
As Chris said, not quite.
The place to _begin_ on all this is is the Handb
Doug Paquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Group,
>
> Sorry to have to ask this question here, but does
> anyone have the address to where I unsubscribe to the
> various free bsd mailing lists?
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug
>
>
>
> __
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yaho
Matt Rechkemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyone else out there running Postfix, seeing this in their syslogs?
> postfix/master[83222]: warning: master_status_event: partial status (4 bytes)
> postfix/master[83222]: warning: master_status_event: partial status (4 bytes)
>
> It seems to occur d
72 matches
Mail list logo
