Re: [nycbug-talk] Minimum Install w/ X11 on Virtual PC
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:40:09PM -0400, Hakim Singhji wrote: Hi All, I am going to install FreeBSD 5.4 on MS Virtual PC. My PC (IBM Thinkpad R51) only has 256MB of RAM available. I do not want to install Gnome or KDE however I would like the benefits of colors in text editors, backgrounds, etc. as this is going to be a testing environment for application development. What is the best way to go about doing this? In VPC I allot approximately 96MB of RAM for the Virtual Machine and I was thinking 256MB for virtual SWAP (would that even help... the default is like 166MB for 96MB of RAM... or something like that. If I understand your question, you'd like a window manager that is pretty light but has the ability to do backgrounds and the like. Both rxvt and aterm are lightweight xterms that can show backgrounds as they run--there is also eterm, but it's more resource intensive. As for the window manager itself, I like fluxbox, and it's considered relatively light. There is weewm, which can have a background image--actually, I think most of them can now, using xsetbg. Fluxbox has fbsetbg which will set a background, but does require some other program to do that--some people use feh, xv and xli are two other programs that can work with fbsetbg to set your background. I hope I've understood that aspect of your question. If not, apologies for wasting your time. - -- Scott Robbins GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCzYqd+lTVdes0Z9YRApO9AJ43TJNzDlkyrOj3A+7TiVevl9W+FACdFVhQ BdnWUecCa8GxxOzbuwFjRlQ= =j3gM -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sshd fix
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 06:52:40PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: For the sshd fix, could't I just strip the base openssh from the system and install the updated openssh-3.4 from the ports? If so, what is the best method to disable/eliminate openssh from the base system? This is what I did, and it seems to work. (I'd be grateful if someone pointed out anything I did wrong. Part of it was gotten from a post by someone else, and the rest I figured out, for better or worse, on my own. cvsup ports to make sure you have 3.4. Make install. Edit /etc/rc.conf Change enable_sshd=YES to a NO add the line sshd_program=/usr/local/sbin/ssshd In /usr/local/etc/rc.d you'll find that it's put a script called sshd.sh.sample. Rename that to sshd.sh You've probably seen the various advisories that suggest taking the ChallengeResponse line and changing it to no (and uncomment it as well) Lastly, until I renamed /usr/sbin/sshd, it kept giving me the old version number--so, stop sshd, and rename /usr/sbin/sshd to something else. Then, start the new one /usr/local/sbin/sshd This seems to work. HTH Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-security in the body of the message ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: `pkg_info | grep -i openssh` ; echo 2.9 vs 3.0.2?
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 00:00:55 -0800 (PST) Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: prompt$ pkg_info | grep -i openssh openssh-3.0.2 OpenBSD's secure shell client and server (remote login prog I just upgraded (or tried to upgrade) openssh on my FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE box using /stand/sysinstall but I get this (ver. 2.9??) when I type: prompt$ ssh -V OpenSSH_2.9 FreeBSD localisations 20011202, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090601f pkg_help -r --source majordomo? ;-) Probably the simplest way to upgrade to 3.1 (which seems to be advisable in itself) is Get the source tarball from ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-3.1p1.tar.gz Unzip it. tar -zxvf openssh-3.1p1.tar.gz CD to the new directory cd openssh-3.1p1 Configure it with the following parameters ./configure --with-pam --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh --prefix=/usr make; make install killall -HUP sshd I posted about this recently, and someone mentioned that there is a way to get the same result by using ports and referred me to another web page. After looking at that page, it seemed to me that this way is far less work.(This solution given me by Michael Smith, as I don't want to steal the credit) Thanks Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-security in the body of the message ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 odd net work problems...
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of kitsune Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2 odd net work problems... 1: When ever I am transfering files from my server to my gfx box after having the connection maxed out for something like 20 seconds or that transfer will totally die. 2: During the day if I leave cable running the splitter, the other to the cable modem, to my TV card, during the day, especailly after 11:30am, my connection dies. And I generally have to turn nearly all my hardware off or it is hard to reconnect. I was wondering if any one has encountered either of these befor and what they did to correct them. I had a rather strange one--any friends who see this who hang out on undernet's #freebsd know about it and may snicker. Short version--after a snowstorm, the cable connection would die apparently randomly. Cable company came out twice, at both times it worked perfectly. Finally figured it out--our apartment is not all that warm. When I plugged in an electric heater, it would kill the cable connection. Also, a transformer thing that my wife has to convert a Japanese Microwave to work with American power outlets has been known to do the same thing. So, while it may have no relationship to your problem, you might check if there's any connection (pun intended) to the cable connection dying and plugging in some appliance. I should add--this wasn't a power blackout, or the modem totally dying--it was simply a killing of the connection between the modem and the outside--the LAN connection et al was fine. HTH though I realize it's unlikely it will -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Angel: This isn't some fairy tale. When I kiss you... you don't wake up from a deep sleep and live happily ever after. Buffy: No... when you kiss me, I wanna die. msg17212/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problem upgrading from 4.6 to 5.0 - RELEASE (lib.a not found)
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:41:12PM -0800, James wrote: I've been running FreeBSD 4.6 since last June, and I decided to upgrade to 5.0 Release. I read through and followed the instructions listed in /usr/src/UPDATING. Here is what I did (as per the UPDATING file): cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC cp src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC cd src/sys/boot make install The problem comes at the above command(s): cd src/sys/boot ; make install Hrrm, is it possible, that since you're in src already, the path is off? (The error message seems to point in other directions, but I know this has happened to a few people. I Just for the heck of it, try cd /usr/src/sys/boot (or cd sys/boot) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: The world is what it is---we fight, we die. Wishing doesn't change that. Giles: I have to believe in a better world. Buffy: Go ahead. I have to live in this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: newbie fetchmail help
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:11:28PM -0800, Gary Schenk wrote: Thanks to the readers of this group I can now send mail with Pine. I am doing something wrong with my fetchmail configuration, however. I am not even sure where to start troubleshooting. My .fetchmail.log file reads, in part: fetchmail: sleeping at Sun Jan 19 2003 fetchmail: 43 messages for gwschenk at orangca-mls05.socal.rr.com (17784 octets) fetchmail: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: fetchmail: getaddrinfo(localhost.smtp) fetchmail: SMTP connection to localhost failed fetchmail: transaction error while fetching from pop-server.socal.rr.com fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) Fetchmail will often give those errors, but fetch the mail correctly. I'm not really familiar with pine, but if you're using procmail as the mail delivery agent, you need a line like mda /usr/loca/bin/procmail -d %T in your .fetchmailrc. However, assuming that you're not using sendmail, postfix or another heavyduty agent, you'll still get those errors (though it will successfully deliver the mail). You might want to consider using getmail instead. FWIW, I've found that it seems to work better. I threw up a page on it, mostly as a reminder to myself that might be useful at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/getmail.html HTH -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: I don't get your crazy system! Giles: It's called the alphabet. Xander: Would ya look at that. msg16037/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: annoying fetchmail issue
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:32:39PM -0800, Scott R. wrote: [please cc: me in replies as I am not currently subscribed to this list. Thank you.] I get the following error in my maillog: fetchmail[54779]: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail[54779]: SMTP transaction error while fetching from xxx.xxx.xxx fetchmail[54779]: Query status=10 (SMTP) I've been poring over the manpages and googling like crazy and I haven't found anything to tell me what I'm doing wrong. This is incredibly frustrating and I would appreciate any enlightenment you have to offer. I used to have a web page explaining how to use fetchmail with mutt, but changed it to use getmail. Getmail seems to be preferred by people more knowledgeable than myself, and I've found that it seems to work better. So, I'll send you to the page anyway, in case you feel like making the change. http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/mutt.html However, to answer your immediate questions--it'll work despite the error messages but you have to add to your .fetchmailrc mda /usr/local/bin/procmail -d %T I've found you usually have to add that to each address which is being checked. That is if you have [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] each fetchmail entry should have the mda entry afterwards. Also, you might also need a .forward file in your home directory. That will just say (including the double quotes) |/usr/local/bin/procmail With Fetchmail, you will get those errors, though it will deliver the mail, with Getmail you won't. HTH -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: This is just too much. I mean, yesterday's my life like, uh oh, pop quiz. Today, it's rain of toads. msg15874/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Shell scripting tutorial
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:20:43PM +0200, Wayne Swart wrote: Hi everybody I am looking for shell scripting manual, in html or pdf form, can anyone help While these links are for bash, rather than shell, if you're using sh (as opposed to csh or one of its variants) most of it will work. http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/shellscripting.html There is also http://www.shelldorado.com HTH -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Faith: When I'm fighting, it's like the whole world goes away. I only know one thing: that I'm gonna win, and they're gonna lose. I like that feeling. Buffy: Well sure, beats that 'dead' feeling you get when they win and you lose. msg13958/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD Installation on HP Pavilion ZT1130
Saturday, December 7, 2002, 3:29:10 AM, you wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install the FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE on my HP Pavilion ZT1130 notebook, but there is some problems. Note: my notebook doesn't have floppy drive. When a try to boot from my CD drive (actually a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2102 drive), I got the following message: I don't know if you ever solved this or not (I also didn't see the message till today). At any rate, I was trying to get FreeBSD installed on a Sony Vaio, with those PCMCIA card type CD's. Couldn't get past the boot with 4.x (1 or two different versions) or 5.0-DR2. However, with 5.0-RC2, I was able to boot. (Depends of course, what you're using this machine for, as 5.0 is in the release candidate stage). Then, when I went to do the actual install, it said it couldn't locate the CD. :-( So, I chose FTP install (I have a broadband connection) which went fairly well, but it was unable to install the ports collection. This was fixed after the first reboot, I ~was~ able to install cvsup, so I simply cvsup'd the ports collection. Sorry for the lengthy message, but hope it's of some use. Sincerely, -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: I'm not worried. If there's something bad out there, we'll find, you'll slay, we'll party. msg13900/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Error when trying to mount cd
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:37:19AM -0800, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I get the following error message when trying to mount a cd: sentinel# mount /dev/acd0c cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error What could I be doing wrong? Too obvious, but it does happen. I've gotten that error when I thought I had the CD in drive 0 and it was in drive 1 and I was doing burncd. That's probably not the issue, but worth mentioning, even if most people are more observant than I am. HTH but sort of doubt it did -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: I have my pride. Okay, so I don't have a *lot* of my pride, but I have enough so that I can't do this. msg13794/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Using multiple window managers
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:20:40AM -0500, Bob Bomar wrote: I want to set up a demo box that shows diffrent Window Managers. What is a good way to swith between window managers? A simple shell script would do it--it's 1:30 am here, but quick hack #!/usr/local//bin/bash #script to select window manager echo echo Please select your Xsession echo PS3=Your choice = ; export PS3 select choice in Gnome Kde Fluxbox do case $choice in Fluxbox) echo exec fluxbox .xinitrc startx break ;; Kde) echo startkde .xinitrc startx break;; Gnome) echo exec gnome-session .xinitrc startx break;; *) echo echo Please choose 1, 2 or 3 echo (or hit Ctrl+C to exit) echo esac done Even as I look at this, it looks pretty lame, but should get you started. HTH and happy new year all -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Hmm, and we thought just because we didn't have any money or any place to go, this'd be a lackluster evening. Willow: I know! We could go to the Bronze, and sneak in our own tea bags and ask for hot water. Xander: Hop off the outlaw train, Will, before you land us all in jail. -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob | || | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve.http://www.freeBSD.org | \/ -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Hmm, and we thought just because we didn't have any money or any place to go, this'd be a lackluster evening. Willow: I know! We could go to the Bronze, and sneak in our own tea bags and ask for hot water. Xander: Hop off the outlaw train, Will, before you land us all in jail. msg13889/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Laptops w/ FreeBSD pre-loaded (somewhat OT)
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:28:31PM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: Last year (when I wasn't in the market for a laptop) I found a site/manufacturer which sold Athlon- and Pentium-based laptops with Free/OpenBSD and/or Linux pre-installed. Now that I'm in the market I can't find the site to save my life. Has anybody seen such a site anywhere? I thought I found the site linked from freebsd.org but no luck. I know Walmart sells some laptops (or is it only desktops--don't have time to check at this instant) with some version of Linux installed. If you do find out, please post the site. Thanks -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Drusilla: Your face is a poem. I can read it. Xander: It doesn't say 'spare me' by any chance? msg13646/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFree86 4.2.1 Signal 11 on start
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 09:07:05AM -0800, Paul A. Scott wrote: The XFree86 package delivered with the 4.7-RELEASE of FreeBSD fails on signal 11 at startup. Building XFree86-4 from ports gets the same results. However the XFree86 3.3.6 port works fine. Can anyone, PLEASE help me fix this problem. I have been unable to run XFree86 since version 4. I've tried to rebuild with debugging symbols so I can find the location of the failure, but without success. Log follows. Thanks, Paul S3 Trio 32/64 PCI video card I wonder if this could be the problem--I've found, on several installs of both Linux and FreeBSD that I had much better luck selecting S3 Virge (Generic) for an S3 Trio card in xf86config. Not sure if it'll help, but probably worth a shot. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Willow: Old reliable? Yeah, great. There's a sexy nickname. Buffy: Well, I didn't mean it as... Willow: No, it's fine, I'm Old Reliable. Xander: She just means, you know, the geyser. You're like a geyser of fun that goes off at regular intervals. Willow: That's Old Faithful. Xander: Isn't that the dog that the guy had to shoot...? Willow: That's Old Yeller. Buffy: Xander, I beg you not to help me. msg13239/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What is the Command to Get Web Pages?
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 11:03:09PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: At one time I used a command to get the content from either ftp or web servers but I can't remember the name. It was similar to 'fetch' but had options specific for mirroring a web site. I could also control how deep I wanted to go in the directory level. I've looked through 'pkg_info' and don't see it so I suspect it is a part of FBSD and not a port I installed. Can anyone refresh my memory? Could it be wget? (Though I've only used it to get one web page at a time, not sure if it can go deeper) HTH (but I have my doubts) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 (After finding Spike outside her house.) Buffy: What are you doing here, Spike? Five words or less! Spike: (counting on fingers) Out... for... a... walk... bitch. msg13209/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: About Samba
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 05:59:17AM -0800, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.7 over the weekend and am having the toughest time getting Samba working. I have up and running on the server but I cannot see any of the Samba shares from my WinXP box. I can ping the Samba box from winXP so I know it's there. I used Webmin to configure Samba and don't remember it being this much trouble when I installed Samba in the past. Sometimes, the trouble is in smb.conf with encrypted passwords. It's commented out by default and has to be uncommented. (or you can hack the registry on each MS box). I have a beginner's page on samba, which although Linux oriented, might be of use at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/samba.html Also, you'll find in /usr/local/share/doc/samba/textdocs something called DIAGNOSIS which might be helpful, it's a good troubleshooting guide. HTH -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Anya: You know this isn't your world, right? I mean, you know you don't belong here. Willow: No. This is a dumb world. On my world, there are people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies. msg13009/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CDRW drive
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:47:36PM -0500, Fuzzy wrote: On 22 Dec 2002, Thomas DeYoung wrote: Hello- I'm running 4.7 with a sony 48/24/48 cdrw drive. I try to mount it to burn cd's, using sudo mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom and get mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument Look at the man page for mkisofs and burncd. Even better, check the handbook--the chapter on burning CD's is very clear (imho). If I'm burning a cd I don't have to mount the device. Nor do I have to mount it to copy a CD--that is, if I'm copying a CD to the hard drive to burn it I don't mount the drive, just do the dd if=/dev/acd0c thingie, as explained in the handbook HTH -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Spike: Should I really trust you? Adam: Scout's honor. Spike: You were a Boy Scout? Adam: Parts of me. msg12974/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 05:34:20PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: Hello, I am looking for an application that will allow diagrams to be drawn (such as network topologies) similar to the Windows program Visio (I think that is what it is called). One that has some pre-defined shapes/lines etc suitable for technical use. Does anyone have any suggestions ... ? I haven't used it, but according to some folks on NYLUG, Dia works well. http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/ Hope this is of use. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: I wish dating was like slaying. You know, simple, direct, stake through the heart, no muss, no fuss. msg12838/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 10:03:34PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: Ok, thanks for the answers. I shall have a look at the various suggestions... I may also mail whoever makes Visio and say what an excellent X11 application it would make :) I think it is now an MS application---so you can write some fellow named Mr. Gates. :) (Not 100 percent sure of my info though--I know it was bought by MS at one point, but haven't kept up with it.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Riley: When I'm around you Buffy I find myself needing to know the plural of apocalypse. msg12867/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OpenOffice.org1.0 and much death
jn Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:43:13AM -0800, Matthew E. Boyce wrote: Well here is the problem: I downloaded the OpenOffice1.0 for FreeBSD (it might be 1.0.1 but it doesn't seem to think so) and ran the installer... so far so good... it installs with a pretty installer ( a so very windows like) and I go to run ./soffice and I get nothing more than Abort (core dumped). I tried looking for anyone with a similar error online, but no such luck. If I could get some help on this thing (and mind you I am fairly new using FreeBSD for anything more than a NAT box) that would be great. If, by any chance, you're using version 5.x, those binaries won't work. If you are using 5.x, I cover some pitfalls about it at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html The page is about inputting Japanese in Linux and FreeBSD, but in the bottom section about printing, I cover OpenOffice in 5.x Assuming you ran setup as a user, and are running 4.x, you might try, from your home directory, running the full path to the command, that is, OpenOffice/(I've forgotten now if it's OpenOffice-version/openoffice-version/soffice or just OpenOffice-version.org/soffice, but just run the full path from your home directory without ./ and see what happens. I have had a few cases where simply reinstalling it fixed the problem (if you do that though, be sure to remove the OpenOffice directory and the .svsomethingrc from your home directory before running the reinstall. Good luck with it--when it works it's great, but OpenOffice can sometimes be a pain to get working. My hope is that you're running FreeBSD 5.x, in which case my page ~should~ solve your problem. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD 4.7 + WinXP + GRUB problem
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:35:53AM -0600, Aron Silverton wrote: title FreeBSD root (hd0,1,a) kernel /boot/loader title WinXP root (hd0,0) Change that to rootnoverify and see if it helps 6. I rebooted using the GRUB boot floppy, and repeated step 4. This time, I substituted setup(hd0) for (hd0,0). Does that make a difference? hd0 is usually what is used. Any suggestions as to where I went wrong and how I can get my WinXP install back or is it too late for me? If it is too late, should I be able to reinstall XP on the first partition and maintain my FreeBSD install on the second? Shouldn't be too late. I have a page on Grub that might or might not be of use, as it's dated, at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/grub.html HTH -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 (In response to being asked to fight a troll) Spike: I would, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much. msg12331/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:48:50PM -0600, Tillman wrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:11:31PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've seen little difference. But DONT BUY A HUB! Buy a switch instead. They'll give you better performance, and they hardly cost any more. Great advice. It looks like Cisco has even stopped listing hubs for sale - layer two switching seems to firmly in control these days :-) The price difference has really become almost non-existent--one thing that we've found to happen with some cheap switches (a year or so old, hasn't happened with newer cheap switches) is that if one moves a computer from one location to another, the switch seems to take its time flushing its tables and the box won't immediately be able to get an address. It's only happened once or twice with a VERY cheap Linksys (again, the switch is probably 1-2 years old, and this problem might be fixed by now). I should also add that we never fully determined that was the problem--it was usually a matter of trying this and that and eventually the box would get an address and only afterwards did we think of the switch as the culprit. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Gunn: Fair Cordelia. You still savin' my life? Cordelia: Every minute. Gunn: How's that workin' out? Cordelia: You're alive aren't you? msg12034/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 04:15:34PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 23:05:57 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: ... is that if one moves a computer from one location to another, the switch seems to take its time flushing its tables and the box won't immediately be able to get an address. It's only happened once or twice with a VERY cheap Linksys (again, the switch is probably 1-2 years old, and this problem might be fixed by now). This is probably a feature, not a bug. It's part of the spanning tree algorithm used to detect and avoid link-level routing loops. My expensive Cisco switch has the same feature, but I found somebody with enough Cisco-foo to turn it off. Check the documentation of your switch. Thank you, I'm glad you told me that. We're going to be moving some machines around after the new year, and had thought that with the higher priced switches we've been getting, that wouldn't be an issue. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Anya: I have witnessed a millennium of treachery and oppression from the males of the species, and I have nothing but contempt for the whole libidinous lot of them. Xander: Then why are you talking to me? Anya: I don't have a date for the prom. Xander: Well, gosh, I wonder why not? It couldn't possibly have anything to do with your sales pitch. Anya: Men are evil. Will you go with me? msg12043/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Make Installworld problem
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:35:46PM -0500, Anthony Abby wrote: I loaded FreebSD 4.7 last night and installed cvsup this morning. Cvsupped -current and ran buildworld without problem, however when I attempt to run 'make installworld' I get the follow error. What does this mean exactly? Look in /usr/src/UPDATING. It gives step by step instructions. Either there, or somewhere on the FreeBSD website, they do mention that one should avoid the shortcuts that some of us often take. Experience has shown that they're correct. :-( . The instructions are fairly straightforward. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: It's time for me to act like a man... and hide. msg11382/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Toshiba Satellite won't boot 5.0
I'm not sure if this should go to questions, current or mobile, but have often heard that if you're not sure, start with questions. Firstly, I should state that I don't know enough about the O/S to really be playing with CURRENT--I tried it recently on a whim, and it worked without much trouble, so I kept it (on a fairly vanilla hardware tower). Recently, I installed 4.7 on a Toshiba Satellite 1800-S207 without problem. I then decided to see if I could get the 5.0-DR 2 on it. I put in the cd and it hung on agp0: Ali Generic host to PCI bridge mem 0xf-0xf3ff at device 0.0 on pci0 The few lines before it--- \_SB_.PCI0.FNC0.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 7 10 11] low,level,sharable 0.17.0 (then a few repeats with different numbers at the end--in sequence 0.17.1 018.0 0.16.0 0.16.1 0.12.0 0.6.0 0.2.0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 (Then the line where it hangs). When I saw 5.0 was up to RC, I also tried upgrading from the 4.7 install. make buildworld etc went fine, but when I rebooted after installing the kernel, I had the same error that I had when trying to boot the machine from the DR2 CD. Searching deja I didn't find anything exactly resembling my problem, but saw something similar from May. One suggestion had been to disable PCI BIOS calls with set machdep.bios.pci=disable. I tried that and it went past the agp0 hang but then hung at usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support. The few lines before the hang are pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) ohci0: AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller mem 0xf7eff000-0xf7ef irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0 I repeat, I don't know enough about the O/S to really play with CURRENT and am only posting this since 5.0 is up to RC status. I apologize if I'm leaving out necessary information, or am supplying too much unecessary information. -- Sincerely, Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Well, yeah. I'd give anything to be able to turn invisible. I wouldn't use my powers to beat people up, but use my powers to protect the girl's locker room. msg11397/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Opera
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:11:29PM -0700, Peter Milne wrote: Opera was working fine. I now try to load a page and it crashes and closes. Every page, every site. I installed it from ports. How do I get rid of it all or how do I fix it? I had the same issue--and a search of google indicated that one or two others were as well. So, I then installed Linux-opera from ports. That worked. A day or two later, I tried the normal opera again. And that worked. shrug I can't see one being connected to the other, but who knows? -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Willow: Diana, Hecate, I hereby license thee to depart. Goddess of creatures great and small, I conjure thee to withdraw Amy: (squeak) Buffy: Maybe we should get her one of those wheel thingies. msg10943/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD as Desktop OS with support for Windows
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:14:38PM +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Hi People I want to use FreeBSD as my desktop OS with Gnome but I still need to do Windows luser support. I have installed Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7 Stable and now I'm trying to figure out what is the best solution. Does the Vmware port still work and or should I just install Samba and which Office Software would be best suited to use that is compatible with MS Word and Exel ? I know of Openoffice, Gnomeoffice and Staroffice but have had no experience using either. At work I have the luxury of having a second computer (an old one) with Win2k on it if I have to walk a user through something, or test something before we put it into production. I use vnc (in ports) to manage the servers. I use openoffice--my workstation is running 4.7. I just downloaded openoffice from openoffice.org and installed it following the directions for Linux (using the FreeBSD binaries) more or less--untarred it into tmp, then, as user cd'd to tmp and did ./setup. It complained about being unable to register a README file, I clicked ignore, and everything went fine--I can read Word and Excel documents if necessary, and create ones that are compatible for the users if I have to do so. Quick note--at home I'm using CURRENT as workstation--started doing it just for fun, but right now, everything is working perfectly--however, the openoffice.org binaries didn't work properly--however, there is a tbz package made just for current--I don't have the url handy at this instant, but if you need it let me know (I found it by going to the FreeBSD search mailing lists thing, put in openoffice and just chose CURRENT as the only list to search and it was the first or second hit.) That works perfectly in CURRENT. If you simply need MS to walk a user through something from time to time, vnc would probably be adequate--if you need one running MS handy to test out things then you might have to use VMWare or the like. Or take some box that a user has totally ruined and slap Win2k on it and just use that when you have to use MS. :) Hope this is of some help -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: It's time for me to act like a man... and hide. msg10462/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: using 5.0-RELEASE
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:26:32AM +0100, Jens Rehsack wrote: Hi, just a question to the possibilies using 5.0-RELEASE. In the early adopters guide (chapter 1) it's written, that 5.0-RELEASE should be as stable as possible to getting a large number of users to test. But if it's not recommented to use it in production environments, what test results do you expect? I've been playing with 5.0-2 DR and so far, the only problem I've had was with OpenOffice--lazy sod that I am, I download the binaries from openoffice.org and install them. That's failed to install properly. On the other hand, I've not been using it in production, simply as a desktop. I don't have the courage (or the expertise) to try it in production. The basic workstation type stuff like opera, lbreakout2, sound and the like have all installed without problem. -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Spike: What, your Mom doesn't know? Joyce: Know what? Buffy: That I'm, uh...in a band. A rock band...with Spike here. Spike: Right. She plays the-the triangle... Buffy: Drums. Spike: Drums, yeah. She's hell on the old skins, you know. Joyce: (to Spike) And what do you do? Spike: Well I sing. msg10048/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: openoffice install
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:00:59PM -0800, paul beard wrote: Daniel Harris wrote: Note that http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ has binary packages which won't require those 4GB :-) So being likewise strapped for diskspace, I used the package also. It looks nice, but I am having a couple of problems. I can only run it as root/with sudo. It crashes as soon as it opens the blank workspace otherwise. By crashes, do you mean you get that message, an unrecoverable error thing? I found that in 4.7, installing it caused no problems. However, playing with 5.0 DR 2, during install I get two errors--one about a README --I get that one in 4.7 as well, without it causing problems. However, in 5.0 there's another error message, (I'm not being more specific because this was more of a casual attempt on a sacrificial box to see what would and wouldn't work) and I can't get it to run even as root. Does anyone know what permissions problems this might indicate? FWIW, on the successful installs, I more or less followed their Linux install instructions--I'd download it somewhere, as root, untar it into /tmp then as user simply do ./install. Don't know if this helps at all, I'm afraid -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Joyce: Have we met? Spike: You hit me with an ax one time. Remember? Uh, 'Get the hell away from my daughter!' Joyce: Oh. So, do you, uh, live here in town? msg09862/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to deinstall openoffice?
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:43:51PM -0800, paul beard wrote: Does anyone know what file the installer might be finding that prevents it from reinstalling? I am giving up the FreeBSD package and trying the linux version, but whatever I deleted when cleaning up the old install left something that makes subsequent install runs think there's an installation in /usr/local/bin. I can't figure out what it is or how to force it to install. In the home directory---there's an openoffice.bin or perhaps soffice.bin or even .openoffice.bin, something like that--the file that's most likely causing you trouble though is something .sversionrc in the home directory. HTH -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: Everything has been taken away because Daddy made a little mistake on his taxes... for the last twelve years. msg09877/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OpenOffice
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 05:31:18PM -0800, Ted Brenner wrote: I have FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE installed on a Pentium III machine and I installed OpenOffice but when ever I try and open up a Word2000 document that I saved on my Windows machine, OpenOffice closes sayin an unrecoverable error. Has anyone else experienced this and know what's causing it? Or how to find out what's causing it? I've had that problem with OpenOffice, but usually, in such a case, nothing at all opens (hrrm, is that a bad pun?) One thing that seems to be a factor is that it has to be installed--that is, cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice and make install as root--not sudo and not even su--this seems to have to do with various paths during installation. (This is not from having knowledge of this, it's from searching Google and finding it echoed in my own experience). These days though, on a new installation, I usually just download the FreeBSD binaries from openoffice.org. I've had good luck on a few recent installs with that, no problems whatsoever. FWIW, when it works, I can open Word 2000 documents without problem. Hope this is of some small use. -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 msg08787/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Window/File Manager
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:55:37PM -0600, Ryan Sommers wrote: What are your favorite ultra-light WM's and/or FMs? I'm just looking for something that does the job, looking nice would be an added benefit but I doubt I'll have a high color depth to play with anyway. I'm a wm slut, but always come back to fluxbox. It's quite light, and, especially if one adds a patch that has been made, but isn't official, you can do almost everything by keys. I have a page on it, which includes applying the patch to FreeBSD's version, (this patch enables you to bind keys to the RootMenu, which otherwise, has to be done with the mouse) at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/fluxbox.html (Additionally, it has links to the official fluxbox documentation) :) HTH -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Spike: Where have you been pet? Drusilla: I went for a walk. I met an old man. I didn't like him, he got stuck in my teeth. msg07563/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Fetchmail and mailbox in use error
I usually use either a FreeBSD box or another box running Gentoo Linux, as my workstation. Lately, (I don't remember this happening before upgrading to 4.7-STABLE) I've had a problem with fetchmail. As I'm the only user on the box, rather than run sendmail or others, I use fetchmail which goes to procmail and then read mail with mutt. I use nbsmtp to send mail. If I'm in FreeBSD, and run fetchmail as a daemon, polling at 5 or 10 minute intervals, eventually it stops working. Running it in verbose mode gives me back an error from nyc.rr.com's pop server that the mailbox is in use. Running both fetchmail and procmail in verbose mode indicate that the problem occurs only on the server, before anything reaches my machine. If I wait an hour or so, it usually again works without problem for several hours. However, I haven't had the problem on the Linux box, even if I start polling every two minutes. Googling has come up with nothing--posts about similar error messages had to do with MS platforms--which makes me think that I'm missing something incredibly obvious. The only other differences between the Gentoo box and FreeBSD box that I can see are that Gentoo uses .maildir format and FreeBSD uses Mail by default. However, as mentioned above, all problems seem to occur on the server. While it might be coincidence that it only happens while I'm using the FreeBSD box, it seems peculiar--as fetchmail is an independent program, I don't see what could be causing it to act one way with FreeBSD and not with Linux and would be grateful for any suggestions of manpages, et al. (The fetchmail and fetchmailrc manpages haven't helped--if the answer is there, I'm missing it.) Again, as I haven't found anything on Google, I suspect I am missing something obvious. TIA -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: Do you know what he's going to do to me when he finds out I let his car get stolen? I mean, what are the chances that a vampire has full insurance with a low deductible? msg07031/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cdparanoia users?
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 09:37:16PM -0800, chip wiegand wrote: I am wondering if the linux app cdparanoia works on FBSD-4.7? It's not in the ports, so I would have to download the source from their web site. There's a good section in the handbook on this http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html Apparently, rather than cdparanoia, one can use dd after making a device with MAKEDEV (I haven't tried this actually, but was looking at that page today for other reasons.) :) HTH -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Spike: Oh, listen to Mary Poppins. He's got his crust all stiff and upper with that nancy-boy accent. (everyone looking at him) You Englishmen are always so... (pauses) Bloody hell! (ticks off on his fingers) Sodding, blimey, shagging, knickers, bollocks, oh God! I'm English! Giles: Welcome to the nancy tribe. msg06815/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Install FreeBSD 4.4 into EXTENDED Partition
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 01:29:55PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: In installation programm of FreeBSD 4.4 I have select extended partition, Unless I'm mistaken, FreeBSD cannot use DOS Extended partitions for disk space. -- Matt Emmerton You're not mistaken. FreeBSD requires a primary partition. Isn't that in the faq somewhere? (Don't have time to look at this instant) -- Scott (who was caught by that the first time I tried installing FreeBSD) PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Drusilla: How do you feel about eternal life? Xander: We couldn't just start with coffee? msg06449/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
mutt in rxvt problem--solved
A day or so ago, I posted that I couldn't get mutt working if I declared the termName as rxvt in .Xdefaults, but that it would work in a non-color terminal. Embarrassing as the solution turned out to be, it's probably worth posting in case someone else is as careless--I don't mind being ignorant, but I dislike being stupid--oh well. Anyway, the problem was this--I was using a .muttrc that I use on another box--on that box my rxvt has a default of black background and white foreground. My .muttrc from that box also specifies a black background. You can probably guess the rest--on the box where I was having trouble, my default settings are gray background and black foreground, so it wasn't that mutt wasn't accepting keystrokes, it was simply that it was black text on a black background. -- Abashedly yours, Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 (In response to being asked to fight a troll) Spike: I would, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much. msg05561/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Problem with rxvt and termName
I'm not sure how much information to give here. Two machines, one
installed from a 4.6-rc2 CD the other from a 4.7 release CD. Both
updated in the last day, so uname -a gives the same output. Different
hardware. The problem one is a Dell Dimension.
I use Japanese and have always been able to make it work by simply
calling a script that I call langx--so if I go langx rxvt an rxvt
terminal opens and I can input Japanese. The script goes simply
XMODIFIERS='im=kinput2 LANG=ja_JP.EUC ${1+$}
This enables me to, for example, open an rxvt terminal and then input
Japanese.
On the problem machine, it doesn't work. On that one, I have to specify
XMODIFIERS in my .Xdefaults. I mention that in case it's a symptom.
The bigger problem is that if I have an entry in .Xdefaults
Xterm*termName: rxvt
then if I call mutt from a terminal it doesn't work--it opens mutt but
keystrokes don't do anything--that is, I can't switch mailboxes, I can't
even do m for mail.
The Japanese mentioned above doesn't seem to be a factor, since, when I
removed all mention of it, I had the same problem. I've tried in both my
usual Window Manager, Fluxbox and a vanilla twm. I've done various other
tests, commenting out each line in .Xdefaults. If I try
XTerm*termName: xterm
then mutt works without problem, but no colors. If I try :
XTerm*termName: xterm-color
Again, I have the same problem. I've tried comparing the /etc/termcap
entries for the two boxes but don't see anything different, though I did
it by eye, just looking at rxvt entries, so I may have missed something.
If I don't specify a termName then echo $TERM gives me kterm another
terminal that can input Japanese, (but isn't on either box).
I've been googling and reading various man pages (term, rxvt, etc) and I
can't figure out what I'm missing here. Sorry for the length of this,
but trying to indicate what I've tested.
The problem is only on the Dell Machine. I've used this setup on a
variety of machines in the last year or so and never had this problem.
It's a nuisance rather than a major thing--it just means that I can't
have colors in mutt while running X (I get my colors in console)
TIA
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Re: Re Ports Ymessenger
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:59:41PM -0600, MIKE wrote: Fire up KDE. Create an icon for /usr/local/bin/ymessenger or just use the Run... dialog. so, here's where I am stuck. How do I start the program. It's a common question for folks new to Unix. Yes, you've been spoiled by MS. :) Seriously, it can be called by simply typing the command ymessenger That will start it. HTH I hate to think that Microshaft has spoiled me, like, where is the icon?. Not funny. but how do I start the program? what if I want to run it from xwindows or run from KDE3. Can someone point me in the right direction and also tell me what to do to start the program. I will learn, but I guess I am just a little dense sometimes. Thanks in advance. Has anyody else ever been here? Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: What's going on? Oh god, is the world ending? I have to research a paper on Bosnia for tomorrow, but if the world's ending, I'm not gonna bother. msg05668/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Failure to build Xfree86 from ports
I just did a fresh install of 4.7. Did a cvsup, build world, new kernel, cvsup'd ports, all without problem. I then went to install Xfree--it was going fine, then gave me an error code saying there was no #2 source tarball in /distfiles/xc. I cvsup'd ports again, tried again, same result. Being in a hurry, I downloaded X420src-2 and 3 from XFree's website and stuck them in there, figuring I'd missed some errata somewhere. (Which is why I don't have the exact point of failure and error messages.) However, doing some googling and looking at this week's ports archives and such, I see nothing like this. Has anyone else had this problem, and if not, where did I make a mistake? (Aside from giving the list no error messages to work with) -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 (In response to being asked to fight a troll) Spike: I would, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much. msg06344/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Como utilizar CUPS
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:35:11PM -0500, DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people' wrote: English at bottom...for those interested... :-) From: Julio Cesar Estrada Rico [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have configured CUPS to print in a servant of Windows cons SAMBA and if it works. The problem is that when control to print for example with the command lpr - printing P/etc/hosts it does not send anything and it leaves a message in the console that says: lpd[555 ]: no such file or directory... By which this happens? Possibly, (this happens often, err, including myself) one thing is that cups uses /usr/local/bin/lp . As /usr/bin/lp is first in the path, and nothing's configured there, it has a problem. Try /usr/local/bin/lp. That might solve at least part of the problem. HTH -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Isn't that what they called The Slayer? Willow: Buffy, ohh scary. Xander: Someone has to talk to her people. That name is striking fear in nobody's hearts. msg06517/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:30:37PM -0700, paul beard wrote: Mike Hogsett wrote: My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD world? Ok, time for the honest answer... Coming from Linux to BSD you'll find that many of the various utilities (ps, ifconfig, route, etc.) are just a wee pit different, nothing too bad and nothing the man pages won't help you with. A few other things speaking as a fellow novice convert--sometimes (not always) poorer support for hardware such as sound cards. If you're a vi user, you'll find that FreeBSD uses nvi by default rather than vim, so there'll be a few differences there. You'll also be pleasantly suprised, I expect, by its speed. You didn't say what distribution of Linux you were using, or perhaps, you were like me, a bit of a distro slut. On the plus side, just about everything goes in /usr/local so you won't have to be hunting around for things (that is, most 3rd party apps) ports is far better than most Linux package management systems, especially rpms (though to be honest, Gentoo Linux's portage is excellent) probably more stable. Man pages--MUCH better in FreeBSD. The Handbook though written by gurus is almost always understandable by a non-guru. There will be differences too, depending upon your distro--for example, coming from Slackware or Gentoo, you'll find fewer differences than you would from say, Mandrake or RedHat -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: Willow, you're alive. Willow: Aren't I usually? msg06519/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Regarding Upgrade
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:24:00AM -0400, Matt Garcia wrote: Hi, I finished doing an upgrade for freebsd from 4.5-stable to 4.7RC. I had a question regarding the mergemaster. After everything is done when running the mergemaster everything on the LEFT side is new and everything on the right side is old or is it vice versa ? i forgot which is which. Heh, I used to have to go to the man page, or a book I had every time. I finally figured out a mneumonic, but it's so complex, I'm not going to mention it here, it has to do with the right brain being the dreamer and looking ahead. :) (Well, I sort of mentioned it, but...) Left is old, right is new--easier to determine when you're looking at things like /etc/passwd---because only the left side will have the users you've added. -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Cavalry's here! Cavalry's a scared guy with a club, but it's here! msg04450/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mutt and Filters
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 07:58:08PM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote: OK. I am going to try this one last time. I really want to keep using Mutt because it's small, fast and I like console based apps anyways. I am new at this stuff ok. I have asked a couple places on the net many times in the last 2 weeks and still can't get it to work. I am starting over. I want Mutt to Filter out my e-mails into groups. That particular part is fairly easy. If you don't mind, I'll send you to my mutt page at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/mutt.html which explains about using Procmail. Personally, I think it's a pretty clear explanation of what you'd have to do to get it working. I don't know, however, how to get it to open so that it opens to FreeBSD. However, for example--I have it set so that if I open it, I can see my various mailboxes, and can then arrow down (or pick a number, as they're numbered in sequence) to open that particular box. There's also Xbuffy (the mutt page I gave above gives a link to it) which will, when in X, show you how many messages are in each box. In console mode, it just shows you the size--for example, my In-bsdquestions, with 6 messages shows a size of 22936, nylug with two messages shows a size of 12345 (I'm not making that one up.) :0 After a little while, you get pretty good at judging from that how many (approximately) messages you have. That answers all but the issue of having it open to the bsdquestions mailbox, but it would only be two or three more keystrokes--when it opens I hit 11 for the box and then one or two enters to open it. HTH a little -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: Okay, that was too close for comfort. Not that slaying is ever comfy, but... you know what I mean. msg04052/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Fetchmail and Mutt
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:48:17PM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
I am using FreeBSD 4.6.2 on my system now. I am new to Unix/Linux but liking bsd
alot. Anyways. I use fetchmail 5.9.13 and mutt 1.2.5.1i and I am using Fluxbox as my
window manager. I want to know what can I add to my .fluxbox/menu config file to
launch fetchmail right before it launches mutt or vice versa so I don't have to run
fetchmail by hand each and everytime viewing my e-mails. This is what I have in my
.fluxbox/menu configuration file now to launch mutt
[exec] (Mutt) {Eterm -e mutt} Hope I gave enough information.
There's a few ways to do it. You could simply run fetchmail as a daemon,
by putting it in your .shrc or .bashrc (depending upon your shell) so
that each time you log in fetchmail begins. Something like fetchmail -d
300 which will run fetchmail every five minutes. (the 300 is for
seconds).
Or, you could make a little script called muttx or something that goes
fetchmail Eterm -e mutt and put it somewhere, such as /home/bin, make
it executable
chmod 755 ~/bin/muttx and then just invoke it by typing muttx at a
command prompt every once in awhile.
You can invoke fetchmail while in Mutt by using G (that is shift+G)
although you have to add a line to your .muttrc there.
I use a similar combination. I have my fluxbox keys set to
Mod4 m: ExecCommand rxvt -g 80x29 -e mutt
(I like it larger than default as I have a lot of mailboxes).
I use xbuffy and have it start upon starting X, by putting in my
.xinitrc, BEFORE the exec fluxbox line
xbuffy
I usually have fetchmail running as daemon, whether or not I'm in X.
So, if xbuffy tells me I have email, I hit the MS key and m and mutt
opens up for me.
I've put pages up (mostly as reminders to myself, but other beginners
have found them helpful) and I'll give the links in case they're of use
to you (most have links to better docs anyway).
For fluxbox and menu possibilities
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/fluxbox.html
For various tricks with mutt and fetchmail
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/mutt.html
For xbuffy
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/xbuffy.html
HTH
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Re: install questions
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 05:38:25PM -0700, Mike Shlitz wrote: I have an older machine, Pentium 233 MMX, 256MB SDRAM, 512 cache, (2) Western Digital 8.4 GB HDD, 24X CDROM, 2X CDRW. My intention is to run a tri-boot machine letting Slackware 8.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2 split the second drive. 1. Should I change the harddrives so that C:\ is primary master and D:\ is secondary master? 3. Should I install Slackware or FreeBSD first? Does it matter? It doesn't necessarily matter, but keep in mind that FreeBSD needs a primary partition. Slack can go in a logical drive in an extended partition. Lilo or Grub can boot MS, FreeBSD and the Linux install. Grub is available in the FreeBSD ports. I don't remember if Slack uses Grub or Lilo (these days my Linux distro is Gentoo). Or, you can install Grub in FreeBSD from ports. I think it'll depend upon which one you'll be more likely to be playing with most, as that's the one you'll be most likely to reinstall, and therefore, might want to put the bootloader on the other installation. Both Linux and FreeBSD can boot from a secondary master, so that part doesn't matter. (And, they can boot the other O/S's from it.) HTH -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Harmony: How are you gonna kill her? Think! The second you even point that thing at her, you're gonna be all 'Aaagh!' (holding her hand to her head in imitation of Spike), and then you'll get bitch-slapped up and down Main Street, unless she's finally had enough and just stakes you! Spike: Sure, it'll hurt like hell for about two hours. But she'll be dead just a little longer than that. msg01962/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sendmail Problem during boot
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0200, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: Please explain a sendmail idiot WTF this message means, and why it still appears after setting sendmail_enable=NO in /etc/rc.conf. It's actually covered somewhere in /usr/src/UPDATING sendmail_enable=NO should be changed to sendmail_enable=NONE HTH -- Scott Willow: Oz is a werewolf. Buffy: It's a long story. Oz: I got bit. Buffy: Apparently not that long. Faith: Hey, as long as you don't go scratchin' at me or humpin' my leg, we're five-by-five, ya' know? Oz: Fair enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: /usr/share/examples
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 05:54:49PM -0700, Ross Lippert wrote: I just installed 4.6 and found that many of the /usr/share/examples were missing such as /usr/share/examples/ppp and /usr/share/examples/BSD_Daemon were empty. What gives? Is there something I should have checked off in the base install to have gotten a complete set of examples or what? No, they're in /usr/src/share/examples (or something like that--go into /usr/src and look and you'll find them.) It gets fixed the first time you do a make world. Scott who also had this problem :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
