default boot vs. safe mode

2003-10-17 Thread Jan . Stary
Hello, I wonder what exactly is the difference between booting the 'default mode' and 'safe mode' from the initial booting menu in -CURRENT. Because, with 'default' it _always_ hangs for me, but with 'safe' I _never_ had a problem. Is it just setting some kernel variables (like /etc/sysctl.conf)

ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) This might be a dumb question, but I was wondering if a king of "stable branch" existed for the ports tree. Under OpenBSD I think you can follow the ports tree stable branch so you only get security updates for your ports. This does not seem possible under FreeBSD, if I understood correct

anyone suggest a good PIM for gnome 2.x?

2003-10-17 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi, can anyone suggest a good PIM [personal information manager] to use with Gnome..? perferably something that has scope for conectivity to bluetooth devices. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

FreeBSD 5.1 USB Keyboard support

2003-10-17 Thread Peter
Hi Im using FreeBSD 5.1 and I can't get my Logitech USB keyboard to work directly in the consol. I have search trough the net and found very little (either I searched wrong or there is very little info). In rc.conf I have added support for usb by usbd_enable="YES" >From the dmesg I can see th

Re: ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:47:40AM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi :) > > This might be a dumb question, but I was wondering if a king of "stable > branch" existed for the ports tree. Under OpenBSD I think you can follow > the ports tree stable branch so you only get security updates for you

setend + xracer

2003-10-17 Thread Bryan Cassidy
I'm trying to set the environment variable $XRACER_HOME to /usr/local/share/xracer and don't know how. In the handbook it says setenv ??? /path/ so I tried bothsetenv $XRACER_HOME /usr/local/share/xracer and setenv XRACER_HOME /usr/local/share/xracer and nothing works. Guess I don't get how to set

Gaim and webcams

2003-10-17 Thread Jon Reynolds
I am trying to find something that will allow me to accept a webcam invitation in a messeger app. I have tried gaim and yahoo messenger but with no success. I dont want to have to use msn messenger just to be able to accept this invite. Is there anything out there that will communicate with msn mes

primary and secondary soundcard

2003-10-17 Thread Martin Vana
Hi, I use two soundcards on my Freebsd5.1 box - Sb Live and SB AWE64, FreeBSD somehow figured out that Live is better than Awe and made it "primary" soundcard. The reason I have AWE still in computer, is it's amplyfing skills /2x4W/ so I don't need aditional amplyfier. With Xmms it's fine, I jus

dhclient getting infinite IPs?

2003-10-17 Thread general
I have a Belkin 802.11g router (model F5D-7230-4) and my freebsd 4.7 server connected to it. Everything was working fine, but I moved and changed ISPs. I'm not aware of anything that has changed in the configuration on the server since I moved. I have the router setup for DHCP and I'm having

ppp + ucom

2003-10-17 Thread dmnu
Hello, I got an ATEN USB to serial connector; installed and working as ucom0. Plugged a serial modem and able to communicate via tip. However, when I try to use ppp, I get this error message: "unable to set physical to speed 0" I read the ppp man pages but couldn't find anything about 'set

Re: dhclient getting infinite IPs?

2003-10-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:20:12AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > I have a Belkin 802.11g router (model F5D-7230-4) and my freebsd 4.7 server > connected to it. Everything was working fine, but I moved and changed > ISPs. I'm not aware of anything that has changed in the configuration on >

freebsd tcp/ip stack

2003-10-17 Thread Simon Gray
Hi, Been reading an article around Sun's new Solaris tcp/ip stack: "Sun Microsystems' new Software Express program is alive and kicking with the company delivering a rewritten TCP/IP stack for Solaris that is meant to prepare customers for faster networking technology" "code-named Fire Engine -

Re: setend + xracer

2003-10-17 Thread ogautherot
Hi Bryan! Which shell are you using? The 'setenv' syntax works like a charm for csh but you might want to try 'export VAR=VALUE' under bash. BTW, the subject line states 'setend' - I guess you really meant 'setenv'. Does it help? Olivier Bryan Cassidy écrit: > I'm trying to set the environm

Re: Package Management

2003-10-17 Thread Simon Gray
> Does FreeBSD have package management to view the packages installed > and their names with versions, remove the packages installed, and > track the packages installed to avoid conflicts and retain stability? You can view what packages are installed by doing ls /var/db/pkg | more There is also

Re: ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Kris Kennaway wrote: The reason I'm asking this is that I don't want to update my ports everytime a new version comes out... except if it has a security issue. FreeBSD doesn't provide this. Since our ports collection is about 5 times the size of OpenBSD's it's too much work. Oh I know that :) O

cups + samba on 5.1-RELEASE or 4.8-RELEASE

2003-10-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, Just in case anyone is interested, I have updated my cups+samba install and post-install configuration HOWTO. See attached. Again, this is an update from the configuration I provided here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.questions/65979/match=cups+jesse -- Jesse Guardian

perl serial port access

2003-10-17 Thread Perica Veljanovski
Hi, What is the name of the /dev for the serial port in FreeBSD. dmesg says there are sio0 and sio1 but there are no such file names in /dev. What module should I use in Perl to access (read/write strings) to the serial port? 10x. -- <> ___ [EMAIL P

Re: Package Management

2003-10-17 Thread BSD
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:58:12AM -0600, SoloCDM wrote: > Does FreeBSD have package management to view the packages installed pkg_info(1) > and their names with versions, pkg_version(1) > remove the packages installed, and pkg_delete(1) > track the packages installed to avoid conflicts and reta

Re: Package Management

2003-10-17 Thread Zoltan HERPAI
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, SoloCDM wrote: > Does FreeBSD have package management to view the packages installed > and their names with versions, remove the packages installed, and > track the packages installed to avoid conflicts and retain stability? Yes, it has, look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_U

Re: perl serial port access

2003-10-17 Thread Q
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 22:01, Perica Veljanovski wrote: > What is the name of the /dev for the serial port in FreeBSD. dmesg says > there are sio0 and sio1 but there are no such file names in /dev. The device name you are looking for is /dev/cuaa* > What module should I use in Perl to access (

OT biggest LAN that you have ever seen ?

2003-10-17 Thread faisal gillani
Hello i am just a student wanted to know that size of large LAn,s out there user wise. i my self have seen LAN consisting of about 200 Users on a single subnet thanks = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shoppi

Re: perl serial port access

2003-10-17 Thread Kliment Andreev
> What is the name of the /dev for the serial port in FreeBSD. dmesg says > there are sio0 and sio1 but there are no such file names in /dev. Most devices in the kernel are accessed through ``device special files'', which are located in the /dev directory. The sio devices are accessed through the /

Performance impact with SCHED_ULE in 5.1?

2003-10-17 Thread Hartmann, O.
Hello. Using SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD seems to result in massive performance losses in NFS in conjunction with the Intel "em"-NICs. We use some Intel P4 based diskless/dataless nodes for numerical calculations over GBit LAN (all machines have Intel PRO/1000 LAN NICs) with "clusterit". On t

Re: freebsd testing bandwidth

2003-10-17 Thread Joseph Begumisa
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, DanB wrote: > Is there a way to test bandwidth with a free bsd box? > > Dan you can also make use of pchar located in /usr/ports/net/pchar/ Joseph. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:22:05PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>The reason I'm asking this is that I don't want to update my ports > >>everytime a new version comes out... except if it has a security issue. > > > > > >FreeBSD doesn't provide this. Since our ports coll

Performance impact with SCHED_ULE in 5.1?

2003-10-17 Thread Robert Huff
> Using SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD seems to result in massive > performance losses in NFS in conjunction with the Intel "em"-NICs. > Does anybody recognized similar problems? SCHED_ULE is very much a work-in-progress; I have seen reports of both instability and perform

Re: ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Matthew Seaman wrote: However, is there a way to know if one of my installed packages has a security alert ? I guess not... but we never know... Subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- FreeBSD security notices cover problems with ported applications, as do security alerts when the software in question

Re: ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Simon Gray
I'd recommend signing up to www.zone-h.org's daily advisory report doesn't solve the problem for you, but has most advisories in a single daily email, which you can eye ball or use mail filters to high light ones that apply to you. - Original Message - From: "Antoine Jacoutot" <[EMAIL PR

Re: ports security updates branch

2003-10-17 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Selon Simon Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'd recommend signing up to www.zone-h.org's daily advisory report > > doesn't solve the problem for you, but has most advisories in a single daily > email, which you can eye ball or use mail filters to high light ones that > apply to you. That is a very go

Sony CDRW drive on 5.1

2003-10-17 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi, anyone got any tips on enabling & testing a CDRW drive on 5.1? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Strange pkg_ behaviour

2003-10-17 Thread Jim Hatfield
Anyone know what causes this: >speyburn-isis(113) pkg_info -x php >pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts php4-cli-4*' Jim Hatfield ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Using poptop....

2003-10-17 Thread Jim Hatfield
If anyone can give me a recipe for setting up poptop I'd be very grateful. I want to run it on a machine which is a gateway/firewall. One NIC has a public address and the other is on a private network, ie 192.168.1.x. I want to allow XP clients to connect into the private network. I found the man

Re: PNP ISA Modem Motorola Premier 33.6 Internal can't install

2003-10-17 Thread Matthew Faircliff
Howzit Maxim, I had problems with my FreeBSD 4.7 machine not seeing my generic ISA PNP K56 Flex fax/modem. Here is what I did to get it working: 1. Edit the /usr/src/sys/isa/sio.c file (as root, of course) 2. Insert the appropriate value for your modem in the file under the isa_pnp_id function

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread Matthew Faircliff
Well, got it working and it is TERRIFIC!! Wasn't easy though. Because it takes so long to compile my ACPI kept kicking in and shutting the machine down - this was either becuase the CPU was too hot (I am using a laptop) or else because of inactivity on any terminals. I never thought I would se

Re: Using poptop....

2003-10-17 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Jim Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:00 AM Subject: Using poptop > If anyone can give me a recipe for setting up poptop > I'd be very grateful. I want to run it on a machine which > is a gateway/fir

Re: freebsd tcp/ip stack

2003-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Simon Gray wrote: > Hi, > > Been reading an article around Sun's new Solaris tcp/ip stack: > > "Sun Microsystems' new Software Express program is alive and kicking with > the company delivering a rewritten TCP/IP stack for Solaris that is meant to > prepa

Re: Sony CDRW drive on 5.1

2003-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:56:34PM +, Anthony Carmody wrote: > Hi, > > anyone got any tips on enabling & testing a CDRW drive on 5.1? Depends on the hardware. If it's scsi, you need scsi CD support. If it's atapi, you need atapi CD support. You get the idea ;-) cdrecord and burncd are pop

Re: Strange pkg_ behaviour

2003-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:30:19PM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote: > Anyone know what causes this: > > >speyburn-isis(113) pkg_info -x php > >pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts php4-cli-4*' You're trying to use new packages with your old FreeBSD system, which is not supported. Kris pgp00

Re: Performance impact with SCHED_ULE in 5.1?

2003-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:24:29PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > On the production systems we use FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10. > > Does anybody recognized similar problems? FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and the ULE scheduler, are experimental works-in-progress. Significant ULE improvements have been made in

Re: Using poptop....

2003-10-17 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:11:40 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: >> >> I would use mpd but it has problems with XP clients. >> >> > >What type of problems are you seeing with MPD (Netgraph variety) and >WinXP? >That's my VPN terminator software and all of my remote XP systems seem >to >ha

Re: Strange pkg_ behaviour

2003-10-17 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:55:57 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: >On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:30:19PM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote: >> Anyone know what causes this: >> >> >speyburn-isis(113) pkg_info -x php >> >pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts php4-cli-4*' > >You're trying to us

Re: Using poptop....

2003-10-17 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:00:00 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: >If anyone can give me a recipe for setting up poptop >I'd be very grateful. I want to run it on a machine which >is a gateway/firewall. One NIC has a public address and the other >is on a private network, ie 192.168.1.x. I

mouse and hdd problems with GA-7VT600 (KT600/VT8237)

2003-10-17 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
Hi, I've changed my desktop MB from a (Gigabyte) GA-VA (KT400/VT8235) to a GA-VT600 1394 (KT400/VT8237) ( http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-7VT600%2013 94.htm ). I've swaped the HDD and the system came up with no problem except: 1. Mouse: I have tried an A4 Tech optica

mouse and hdd problems with GA-7VT600 (KT600/VT8237)

2003-10-17 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
Hi, I've changed my desktop MB from a (Gigabyte) GA-VA (KT400/VT8235) to a GA-VT600 1394 (KT400/VT8237) ( http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-7VT600%2013 94.htm ). I've swaped the HDD and the system came up with no problem except: 1. Mouse: I have tried an A4 Tech optica

Upgrade HELP !?!?!??! desperate !?!?!

2003-10-17 Thread Brent Bailey
hello, I just finished upgrading a freebsd 4.6 machine to the newest RELEASE using CVSUP and the whole buildworld procedure. the compiling went ok ..and the system is up ,,,however there are a few problems... 1. for whatever reason the machine doesnt seem to read /etc/rc.conf anymore for all the

Re: Strange pkg_ behaviour

2003-10-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 17), Jim Hatfield said: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:55:57 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you > wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:30:19PM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote: > >> Anyone know what causes this: > >> > >> >speyburn-isis(113) pkg_info -x php > >> >pkg_info: read_plis

Re: Porting to FreeBSD

2003-10-17 Thread Daniela
On Thursday 16 October 2003 20:23, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Daniela wrote: > >Hi there! > > > >I found many interesting Linux programs on sourceforge.net and other > > sites, but they're not in the ports collection. So I thought I'll port > > some of these to FreeBSD. However, I'm sti

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 + Matthew Faircliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and Word > docs in FreeBSD no problem! And its fast! > > I'm trashing my Windows partition tonight! Viva BSD! Why didn't you just get the FreeBSD precom

Re: Porting to FreeBSD

2003-10-17 Thread Chris Readle
--- Daniela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 October 2003 20:23, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > > If so, good. I'm guessing the next step is "UTS,L"! > > ??? I believe that's Use the Source, Luke. chris __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shoppi

Re: Porting to FreeBSD

2003-10-17 Thread Daniela
On Thursday 16 October 2003 21:32, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:44:17PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > > On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 06:11 PM, Daniela wrote: > > > > > >I can't even compile most of the programs on my system, and I'm almost > > >sure it > > >has to

make optimizations

2003-10-17 Thread Chris Readle
Since I'm going to be cvsuping (is that even a word?) up to RELENG_4 from RELENG_4_8 this weekend, I was wanting to see what the general concensus on /etc/make.conf optimizations is, particularly CPUTYPE. I'm running on an Athlon processor and I currently have CPUTYPE = k7 in my /etc/make.conf. I

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread Jud
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:01:11 +0200, "dick hoogendijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 + > Matthew Faircliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and Word > > docs in FreeBSD no problem! And its fast! > > > > I'

decent article / review on 5.1 RELEASE

2003-10-17 Thread Gary
Hi all, Just came out, originally cited on Slashdot http://www.thejemreport.com/software/freebsd51.php -- Gary TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 + > Matthew Faircliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and Word >> docs in FreeBSD no problem! And its fast! >> >> I'm trashing my Windows partition tonight! Viva BSD! > > Why

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:55:41 -0400 Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 + > > Matthew Faircliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and > >Word> docs in FreeBSD no

Dialup firewalling with FreeBSD

2003-10-17 Thread whole_r
Hello, I followed this doc to install my firewall. Upon reboot I get about 12 lines more or less like this: ipfw: size mismatch (have 176 need..) It also says that dev tun0 doesn't exist. How do I correct this. TIA j hullATmonisys.ca ___ [EMAIL PRO

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread Jud
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:55:41 -0400, "Jesse Guardiani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 + > > Matthew Faircliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and Word > >> docs in FreeBSD n

Problems with VIA vr device/driver (possibly O/T)

2003-10-17 Thread Seth Henry
Has anyone had any issues with the vr device driver, or the VIA Rhine ethernet adapter? I recently built an Internet gateway box using FreeBSD 4.8-REL. I used a 3Com 3C905C-TX board for the internal interface, and used the internal vr interface for the external interface (to the cable modem). I

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:12:14 -0400 "Jud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:55:41 -0400, "Jesse Guardiani" > > Maybe I just don't understand how to use the ports tree 100% yet... > > If you cvsup the ports tree, you can choose to install from either > ports or packages. > > Port

PHP settings

2003-10-17 Thread Noah
Hi there, FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE PHP3 and PHP4 I am concerned about PHP vunerabilities. can somebody send me to a good site which discusses what should be enabled and disabled in the php.conf file? thanks in advance, Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: PHP settings

2003-10-17 Thread Mike Maltese
> I am concerned about PHP vunerabilities. can somebody send me to a good site > which discusses what should be enabled and disabled in the php.conf file? http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.index.php ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jud wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:55:41 -0400, "Jesse Guardiani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> dick hoogendijk wrote: >> >> > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 + >> > Matthew Faircliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and Word

Re: src code

2003-10-17 Thread Simon Rutishauser
Am Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:37:28 +0200 schrieb Julien Gabel: >> i need to know where can i download the newest freebsd from, i do not >> have a unix system, but i will, and i wanna know the site that i can DL >> it from . > > * Obtaining FreeBSD (all can be answered here): > http://www.freebsd.org/do

Howto change from RELEASE to STABLE

2003-10-17 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I am running 5.1-RELEASE and would like to update to 5.1-STABLE. How can I go about it? I just want to install the software and not the kernel itself. Is that possible? Also, where is the information for pkg_add kept? I mean when I say 'pkg_add -r bash2' how does it know where to go get it? Is th

Howto change from RELEASE to stable

2003-10-17 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
Me too , i need to know how to change from release to stable ... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Howto find packages

2003-10-17 Thread Simon Rutishauser
Am Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:03:55 +0100 schrieb Jez Hancock: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:01:21PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: >> /ports/Tools/scripts/portsearch > Sorry should have been: > > /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/portsearch > > of course :| Sounds quite nice... But, apt-cache isn't yet finished th

Re: Howto change from RELEASE to STABLE

2003-10-17 Thread Chris Readle
As yet, there is no 5-STABLE. The current -STABLE line is 4. chris --- Dinesh Nadarajah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running 5.1-RELEASE and would like to update to 5.1-STABLE. How > can I go about it? I just want to install the software and not the > kernel itself. Is that possible? > >

How to get temperature ?

2003-10-17 Thread Victor MARBACH
Hi, I have a compaq presario 1500 laptop with 5.1 Just after kernel boot, i have a white message that send me a "Warning CPU temperature" (around 45-50°C). Do you know how to get this temperature ? I tried with apm and acpiconf but it seems there is nothing implemented. Thanks Regards, Victor ___

Re: src code

2003-10-17 Thread Julien Gabel
>>> i need to know where can i download the newest freebsd from, i do not >>> have a unix system, but i will, and i wanna know the site that i can DL >>> it from . >> >> * Obtaining FreeBSD (all can be answered here): >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html > > the

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread Jud
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:37:55 -0400, "Jesse Guardiani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Jud wrote: [snip] > > If you cvsup the ports tree, you can choose to install from either ports > > or packages. > > > Do you run a cvsuped ports tree? I used to run one last year, and I could > never install from a

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jud wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:37:55 -0400, "Jesse Guardiani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> Jud wrote: > [snip] >> > If you cvsup the ports tree, you can choose to install from either >> > ports or packages. >> >> >> Do you run a cvsuped ports tree? I used to run one last year, and I could

Re: Upgrade HELP !?!?!??! desperate !?!?!

2003-10-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-17T17:46:56Z, "Brent Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just finished upgrading a freebsd 4.6 machine to the newest RELEASE > using CVSUP and the whole buildworld procedure. Erm, define "the newest RELEASE". What does 'uname -a' report? There's a good possibility that you just "

Re: Logging users activity with termlog

2003-10-17 Thread Lukasz Wasikowski
Hello! On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: LG> > 1. I'd like to run termlog -u UID as soon as user with UID log in. How LG> > should I do it? LG> I don't think there are any great answers there. The easy hack is to LG> mess with login scripts, but that would be visible to the user (if LG>

Re: Strange pkg_ behaviour

2003-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:21:15PM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:55:57 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you > wrote: > > >On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:30:19PM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote: > >> Anyone know what causes this: > >> > >> >speyburn-isis(113) pkg_info -x php > >> >pkg

Re: make optimizations

2003-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Chris Readle wrote: > Since I'm going to be cvsuping (is that even a word?) up to RELENG_4 from > RELENG_4_8 this weekend, I was wanting to see what the general concensus > on /etc/make.conf optimizations is, particularly CPUTYPE. I'm running on > an Athlo

Re: decent article / review on 5.1 RELEASE

2003-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:36:10PM -0500, Gary wrote: > Hi all, > > Just came out, originally cited on Slashdot > > http://www.thejemreport.com/software/freebsd51.php Not bad, although as with most reviews it contains a number of mistakes and inaccuracies that could have been cleared up by sim

Why build INDEX ?

2003-10-17 Thread Adam McLaurin
Kris, maybe you can answer this definitively, once and for all. What are the precise reasons why INDEX is needed? Also, what is the practical difference between using 'make index' and 'portsdb -uU'? I've been told by a few people that INDEX is unnecessary unless you're building a package, which mo

Re: decent article / review on 5.1 RELEASE

2003-10-17 Thread Gary
Hi Kris, On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:26:54 -0700 GMT (10/17/2003, 4:26 PM +0500 GMT my time), Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Just came out, originally cited on Slashdot >> >> http://www.thejemreport.com/software/freebsd51.php K> Not bad, although as with most reviews it contains a number of K> mistakes a

Re: Third Party Patches that link to OpenSSL

2003-10-17 Thread Matthew Luckie
> > They've said that unless the gaim project sanctions the use of OpenSSL > > with their code, that I should not release the code. Apparently that > > would require contacting all of the prior developers to get their > > permission. > > Who is "they"? ChipX86, javabsp, a few others in #gaim > A

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread Jud
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:35:07 -0400, Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jud wrote: [snip] I'm probably just being thick, but I'm not sure what cvsup-ing the ports has to do with availability/installability of packages. What have you read in the Handbook or elsewhere that gives you the imp

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

Re: Problems whith ACPI in 5.1Release Installation

2003-10-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Osmany Guirola Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install the 5.1Release and i am havin problems with ACPI > these is the message: > > ACPI autoload failed - inappropiated file type or format > Fatal Trap 12 : page fault while in kernel mode > Fault virtual address = 0x240 > Fa

Re: free (or cheap) smtp server accounts?

2003-10-17 Thread Rod Person
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 04:24 pm, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > Hello to all, > > I'm having a lot of problems with my ISP smtp server and I decided to find > a smtp service but for what I see it is rare to find one. You can find a > lot of pop3 services but few smtp ones. > > I found one "smtp.com"

Re: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2003-10-17 Thread Chris Readle
Greg, You might want to update your message body, since the lists aren't run on Majordomo any more. chris --- Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions > == > > When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, yo

Is Port Based Routing Possible?

2003-10-17 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Is there a way to route traffic based on port? Basically, I want to have all traffic on port 8080 use the rl0 interface for its gateway and all other traffic use dc0. Here is a diagram of my network. Internet | Public IP | ADSL Modem/Router

mpayer + sound problem

2003-10-17 Thread Bryan Cassidy
I get this when trying to play movies in mplayer. audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy AO: [arts] can't connect to aRts soundserver /dev/dsp: Device busy AO: [esd] esd_open_sound failed: Resource temporarily unavailable ao_nas: init(): Can't open nas audio server -> nosound S

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2003-10-17 Thread dave jones
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savemail panic

2003-10-17 Thread doug
majordomo is the only thing effected. I can send mail to postmaster and root. majordomo was working on this system when it was 4.7 (now 4.9). I found something on google that suggested the error comes from a config file with a line longer than 80 chars. I removed the new list but none of the previo

Downloading a mms audio stream

2003-10-17 Thread Kenneth W Cochran
How can I download an audio clip like this for subsequent playback? mms://wm.npr.na-central.speedera.net/wm.npr.na-central/atc/20031017_atc_07.wma I have mmsclient but it doesn't seem to be working. That being "asked," how do I set-up things in Mozilla so I can listen to and/or download audio and

install problems

2003-10-17 Thread chuck miller
Hi, I'm having problems trying to install freebsd 4.8 on my sony vaio pcv-rx850.Everything is factory except I added a 2gig hard drive..The problem I have is my computer locks up trying to install and never gets to the menu. However if the hard drives are disconnected I can get to th

XFree86-4-clients Build Failing

2003-10-17 Thread billg
XFree86-4-clients is failing to compile, producing this output: slipstream# make install ===> Building for XFree86-clients-4.3.0_3 making all in lib/lbxutil/lbx_zlib... making all in lib/lbxutil/delta... making all in lib/lbxutil/image... making all in programs/appres... making all in programs/bd

Dual kernel

2003-10-17 Thread Zahirul Haque
Hi Is it possible to have two kernels and at the boot time I want to select which kernel I want? I have two kernel code, one with IPRC (Modified kernel) and other standard kernel of 5.1. Every time I want to switch kernel I need to recompile the kernel. Can I select kernel during boot time? I appr

Re: XFree86-4-clients Build Failing

2003-10-17 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 17 October 2003 08:14 pm, billg wrote: > XFree86-4-clients is failing to compile, producing this output: > > slipstream# make install > ===> Building for XFree86-clients-4.3.0_3 > making all in lib/lbxutil/lbx_zlib... > making all in lib/lbxutil/delta... > making all in lib/lbxutil/image

Re: Dual kernel

2003-10-17 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Friday, Oct 17, 2003, at 21:06 US/Pacific, Zahirul Haque wrote: Hi Is it possible to have two kernels and at the boot time I want to select which kernel I want? I have two kernel code, one with IPRC (Modified kernel) and other standard kernel of 5.1. Every time I want to switch kernel I need t

RE: problem with aue card

2003-10-17 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
Indeed, after specifying 10Mbps media it works fine. Thanks! Alex On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Andrew White wrote: > Mine is on 10/100 network, and negotiates 100mb everytime, still > functions ok, no issues at all (other than LEDS) > > Andrew > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using poptop....

2003-10-17 Thread Jerry Bell
It's really pretty easy. I beat my head on the wall about a year ago, so I don't recall where all the docs are, but this is what my configs look like: /etc/ppp/ppp.conf: pptp: set timeout 0 set dial set login set ifaddr {IP address of internal interface} {IP address range xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - xxx

Re: mpayer + sound problem

2003-10-17 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:47, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > I get this when trying to play movies in mplayer. > > audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy > AO: [arts] can't connect to aRts soundserver > /dev/dsp: Device busy > AO: [esd] esd_open_sound failed: Resource temporarily unavai

vinum volumes crash on reboot

2003-10-17 Thread aarong
I have a FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE system with two identical 80GB IDE drives. Vinum knows /dev/ad0 as "alpha" and "beta" is /dev/ad3. The boxes root slice is a Vinum volume and everything on alpha runs flawlessly. However for the past week I've tried to mirror alpha onto beta without success. Whether

Re: dhclient getting infinite IPs?

2003-10-17 Thread general
>What's the output of > ifconfig fxp0 (~)=-# ifconfig fxp0 fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::204:acff:fe38:ee8%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.1.9 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:04:ac:38:0e:e8 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX

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