how to view and open file.db file.mdb?

2003-06-21 Thread Marlon Corleone
hi, im running 4.8 do do i open this type of file extension, file.db and file.mdb is there in ports collection that can manage to view and open this type of file? thanks __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

Re: Journaling filesystems

2003-06-21 Thread Christian Laursen
Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last episode (Jun 20), Sergey Akifyev said: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 12:02, Karsten Fuhrmann wrote: i am wondering if there are any journaling filesystems for freebsd which are ready to use like reiser or ext3 for freebsd. FFS + SoftUpdates is

Re: VPN remote access server

2003-06-21 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Node1 is already set up. Now I need to set up Node2. I have no idea how to do it. What programs do I use? How do I set them up? Where can I find some help on it? Please help. Thank you very much. mpd Use pkg_add -r mpd or cd /usr/ports/net/mpd make all install

is this a FBSD printf bug?

2003-06-21 Thread abc
FBSD 4.8 i hope this isn't a question based on extreme ignorance - i haven't programmed in C in a long time, and i don't have another machine to test this on. i can't understand why the output of the following code produces ints when given variables of type char, so it looks like a bug to me ...

Re: is this a FBSD printf bug?

2003-06-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:14:12AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i hope this isn't a question based on extreme ignorance - i haven't programmed in C in a long time, and i don't have another machine to test this on. i can't understand why the output of the following code produces ints when

errata in FreeBSD handbook

2003-06-21 Thread ..
Hello! I find same errata in FreeBSD handbook: cuai0N (must cuaiaN) cual0N (must cualaN) For example, see: 17.2.4 Device Special Files Most devices in the kernel are accessed through ``device special files'', which are located in the /dev directory. The sio devices are accessed

hpt366 and disklabel problem

2003-06-21 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi. I have an old system that has hpt366 card on it. I have connected 4 drive connected to it. But after connecting those drives to that hpt366 I can not do disklabel on them but i can if i connect it to normal ide connectors. I am using GENERIC 4.8 kernel that ships with 4.8Release. The

Re: (Fwd) mountroot

2003-06-21 Thread Alexandru Savescu
hi, exactly this is my problem.. i've read the 7.3 section of the handbook and searched also other forums and sites for this .. it seems i'm not the only one with this problem but i did not find somewhere an answer.. my lilo.conf looks like this: other=/dev/sdb1 table=/dev/sdb

Re: how to view and open file.db file.mdb?

2003-06-21 Thread Han Hwei Woo
The world of Unix and Unix variants doesn't depend on filename extensions for file types. Which program you would use would depend on the individual file. Han Hwei Woo http://www.argosy.ca/~hhw - Original Message - From: Marlon Corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: is this a FBSD printf bug?

2003-06-21 Thread Han Hwei Woo
Hrrm... your question and the code seem to contradict each other. Firstly, you are assigning hex values to the characters in your array. Secondly, you are printing the values stored in the array as hex values by specifying %02x. I think you meant to ask why you are getting the preceding trail of

Re: The Complete FreeBSD, third edition: errata and addenda

2003-06-21 Thread Robert Storey
Dear Greg, I haven't bought The Complete FreeBSD, but I'm seriously thinking of doing so imminently. However, I've been looking - so far in vain - to see if I could find the Table of Contents and Index online. The O'Reilly web site is supposed to have that, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

Fortuna - 030621

2003-06-21 Thread Fortuna
Support, I am currently having a floppy disk drive problem. I have searched all over the Internet for a solution to my problem and I have not found an answer. You are my last resort. For a long time I always mounted the floppy drive by typing, mount /dev/fd0 /floppy, and it worked fine.

Floppy Disk Help - 030621

2003-06-21 Thread Fortuna - Temp
Support, I am currently having a floppy disk drive problem. I have searched all over the Internet for a solution to my problem and I have not found an answer. You are my last resort. For a long time I always mounted the floppy drive by typing, mount /dev/fd0 /floppy, and it worked fine.

Problems with APG

2003-06-21 Thread Emilio Escobar
Hi, I installed 5.1-RELEASE and then tried 4.8-RELEASE but whenever my box tries to boot it gets a panic when it loads the agp0 device. I get something like: panic: congimalloc1: could not be size 0 Any ideas? Emilio Escobar [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Great spirits have always encountered strong

Re: Mount My Creation [ls -c, -t -u etc]

2003-06-21 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:41:36AM -0400 or thereabouts, Peter Leftwich seemed to write: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: I have noticed in the man page for 'find' that the primaries allow selection based on time last accessed, last modified and last change of status.

j2re1.4.2-beta-linux and Mozilla

2003-06-21 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! Did anybody succeed in running the linux-mozilla 1.4rc2 binaries with the new (ie. the new gcc32 compiled) jre ? And if yes: how? Regards, Uli. +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | - Wuppertal - | | Germany

Re: About domain name registrars

2003-06-21 Thread Hasse
Hi. I'm using GoDaddy.com too, and fully satisfied with their services and prices. Regards Hasse. ___ On Saturday 21 June 2003 02.57, Alfonso Romero wrote: What are the best alternatives for registering a domain name? Has anyone used dandomain.com? It seems very attractive, at

Re: Strange formatting error with pkg_info after using portupgrade

2003-06-21 Thread Uwe Doering
Hi, Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent wrote: Hello, everyone, I have a fairly strange error, that has popped up on both machines where I have used portupgrade (both 4.8-RELEASE boxes). Here is an example output: please:~ pkg_info |head BitTorrent-3.2.1b Peer to Peer file sharing/mirroring.Mesa-3.4.2_2

fatal server error

2003-06-21 Thread Rogue Spider
I have a Compaq presario 4770 monitor is a Compaq 1525 grafix card is s3 Trio64V2 every time I try to start X server I get Fatal Server Error No Screens Found No Drivers Available I know I have the monitor settings correct the only thing I could have wrong is grafix card settings. or my card is

how to change server splash image?

2003-06-21 Thread george donnelly
I recently purchased a server installed FreeBSD on it. when it boots i get an image that was put there by the manufacturer. How do i change this image? where is it, etc? tia -- george donnelly - http://www.zettai.net/ - We Love Newbies :) Zope Hosting - Dynamic Website Design - Search Engine

Re: how to change server splash image?

2003-06-21 Thread James Dietrich
I believe the image is kept in the /boot directory. Information about customizing your splash screen can be found at: http://www.baldwin.cx/splash - James ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

packages

2003-06-21 Thread Ian Todd
Hi I am a newbie to freebsd. I am having trouble on installing packages. i know about the pkg_add. I downloaded BichX and its BitchX-1.0c19-FreeBSD4+Tcl1.5.tar.gz. How will i install that packages seeing that its an tar.gz file. ive use tar to extract it then i get stuck. Im just using this file

Re: Strange formatting error with pkg_info after using portupgrade

2003-06-21 Thread Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 06:54:05PM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent wrote: please:~ pkg_info |head BitTorrent-3.2.1b Peer to Peer file sharing/mirroring.Mesa-3.4.2_2 A graphics library similar to SGI's OpenGL ORBit-0.5.17High-performance CORBA ORB with

Re: fwd: Advise needed to write a script

2003-06-21 Thread Mark Pearce
How do you resove? I just insert in the crontab a reboot at 7:00 AM. I think that this is not the best solution. May be the PPPD have a bug. Hi I created a script to kill my ppp, sleep for 30 seconds and restart ppp, this seems to work just fine, but also I have a cronjob to do this

Re: packages

2003-06-21 Thread Han Hwei Woo
Just pkg_add the tarballs, like in Slackware. Han Hwei Woo http://www.argosy.ca/~hhw - Original Message - From: Ian Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 2:56 PM Subject: packages Hi I am a newbie to freebsd. I am having trouble on installing

Packages

2003-06-21 Thread Ian Todd
Ive done what u told me and im still not getting it right. The following is what it says: FREEBSD# pkg_add BitchX-1.0c19-FreeBSD4.tar.gz tar: +CONTENTS: Not found in archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors pkg_add: tar extract of /tmp/b/BitchX-1.0c19-FreeBSD4.tar.gz failed!

Re: Packages

2003-06-21 Thread Han Hwei Woo
Where did you download the package from? Judging from the name of the file, it's not an official one. Try: # pkg_add -r BitchX And it will automatically fetch the package for you. Or better yet, install it from ports to compile it from source. # cd /usr/ports/irc/bitchx; make install clean -

/entropy

2003-06-21 Thread Socketd
Hi I have just installed 5.1 Release and noticed that there is a new file in / (entropy). Why is it placed there and what is it? Btw please cc to me as I am not on the list. br socketd ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: /entropy

2003-06-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 21 June 2003 11:55 am, Socketd wrote: Hi I have just installed 5.1 Release and noticed that there is a new file in / (entropy). Why is it placed there and what is it? Well, for starters, this is the wrong list. You are supposed to ask question about 5.x on -current. You are

Re: FreeBSD vs The Others Brochure

2003-06-21 Thread Andreas Kohn
Am Fri, 2003-06-20 um 20.59 schrieb Peter Elsner: I believe I have seen this before, but I'm not sure where. What I'm looking for is a advertising slick or brochure, that could be handed to a clueless sales prospect. The first time you say the word FreeBSD, and all you get is that blank

newbie: procmail question /var/mail

2003-06-21 Thread admin
Hi, Okay I have read some tutorial sites on procmail but want to make sure I have some things clear here before I move everybody plus some things I dont quite understand are happening and I cant find relevant infromation. /var/mail is filling up quickly. I am attmepting to migrate

Re: [rofug] Re: (Fwd) mountroot

2003-06-21 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, Please use english. Try inserting the following in /boot/loader.conf: root_disk_unit=1 From loader(8): root_disk_unit If the code which detects the disk unit number for the root disk is confused, eg. by a mix of SCSI and IDE disks, or IDE

Re: Packages

2003-06-21 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+-- Ian Todd [freebsd] [21-06-03 20:38 +0200]: | Ive done what u told me and im still not getting it right. The | following is what it says: | | FREEBSD# pkg_add BitchX-1.0c19-FreeBSD4.tar.gz | tar: +CONTENTS: Not found in archive | tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors | pkg_add: tar

Re: packages

2003-06-21 Thread Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 03:44:16PM BRT , Ian Todd wrote: |Ive done what u said but still not comeing right: | |FREEBSD# pkg_add BitchX-1.0c19-FreeBSD4+Tcl1.5.tar.gz Nope. You could do this if a package (.tgz extension), .tar.gz you must unzip and untar in order to get a dir where you can

Re: fatal server error

2003-06-21 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Rogue Spider wrote: I have a Compaq presario 4770 monitor is a Compaq 1525 grafix card is s3 Trio64V2 every time I try to start X server I get Fatal Server Error No Screens Found No Drivers Available I know I have the monitor settings correct the only thing I

System not e-mailing ROOT anymore

2003-06-21 Thread Joseph White
Hi All, According to this FreeBSD handbook I should be able to turn off Sendmail ability to recieve e-mail but still be able to send mail. My FreeBSD box is a Samba backup server and I don't require Sendmail service, but I would still like to recieve the e-mails to root from the system. When

Re: how to change server splash image?

2003-06-21 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, george donnelly wrote: I recently purchased a server installed FreeBSD on it. when it boots i get an image that was put there by the manufacturer. How do i change this image? where is it, etc? If it appears after you have formatted the hard drive and installed FreeBSD

Re: About domain name registrars

2003-06-21 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Alfonso Romero wrote: What are the best alternatives for registering a domain name? Has anyone used dandomain.com? It seems very attractive, at $16.00/year, and you can modify your own DNS record, but has anyone on freebsd-questions used it? Lots of people recommend

Re: Error while compiling Xft

2003-06-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:56:32AM -0300, Augusto Jun Devegili wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to compile Xft (I need it for Qt) and the following error occur. I'm using 5.1-RELEASE. Any ideas? You probably need to first upgrade the Xft dependencies. Try using portupgrade. Kris pgp0.pgp

Re: packages

2003-06-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 03:26:44PM -0300, Han Hwei Woo wrote: Just pkg_add the tarballs, like in Slackware. Correct advice, except the file he is referring to is not a package. i know about the pkg_add. I downloaded BichX and its BitchX-1.0c19-FreeBSD4+Tcl1.5.tar.gz. How will i install that

RE: gnome2 install issue - solved

2003-06-21 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Following this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2003-May/001034.html It built cleanly. # uname -a FreeBSD homer 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 16 23:18:32 PDT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOMER i386 lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -liconv

rc.sendmail

2003-06-21 Thread John Von Essen
Could someone please explain rc.sendmail to me? I am unclear why it does what it does. I currently have everything enabled in rc.conf: mta_start_script=/etc/rc.sendmail sendmail_enable=YES (1) sendmail_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -q30m sendmail_submit_enable=YES (2) sendmail_submit_flags=-L

Re: flashpluginwrapper for Flash 6 (Shared Library Tools redux)

2003-06-21 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Joe Kelsey wrote: Ok. I hand-modified the linux-flashplugin6 shared library to remove all of the DT_NEEDED entries. I then modified flashpluginwrapper to add the following functions: [ ... snip wrapper functions ... ] I installed this new version of

hello

2003-06-21 Thread Tenkoff
Hello freebsd-questions, how i can add my software to ports collections? where i can get information about this? -- Best regards, Tenkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: rc.sendmail

2003-06-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
[Dropped [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the CC -- this is definitely [EMAIL PROTECTED] material] On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 05:33:49PM -0400, John Von Essen wrote: Could someone please explain rc.sendmail to me? I am unclear why it does what it does. I currently have everything enabled in rc.conf:

Re: hello

2003-06-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 02:43:35AM +0400, Tenkoff wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, how i can add my software to ports collections? where i can get information about this? Start by reading the Porter's Handbook --

sendmail config for desktop

2003-06-21 Thread Gary Schenk
I am running 4.7-RELEASE. When I installed freeBSD I made the localhost name fuzz. I am now attempting to get mutt running on this computer. I cannot send email to the outside world. My email is rejected because the doamin part of the address includes the localhost name fuzz. So instead of

Small Database Software Recommendation

2003-06-21 Thread Rod Person
Hi Guys, I'm looking for a small database application to create a database of all may dvds and cds. I think mysql my be too much overkill, since it would be running on my laptop. Any suggestions. TIA Rod ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Where can I find libgcc_s.so.1 ?

2003-06-21 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! Where can I find libgcc_s.so.1 ? (mozilla1.4rc2 seems to need it to run Sun's java plugin) Regards, Uli. +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | - Wuppertal - | | Germany |

Re: Small Database Software Recommendation

2003-06-21 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Rod Person wrote: Hi Guys, I'm looking for a small database application to create a database of all may dvds and cds. I think mysql my be too much overkill, since it would be running on my laptop. Any suggestions. If that's all you're using it for you don't need

Re: Small Database Software Recommendation

2003-06-21 Thread Ryan Thompson
Rod Person wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Guys, I'm looking for a small database application to create a database of all may dvds and cds. I think mysql my be too much overkill, since it would be running on my laptop. Any suggestions. Yes. It's raining in Saskatoon. Feels like a rant

Re: FreeBSD vs The Others Brochure

2003-06-21 Thread Rob
You may be looking for the download link at the bottom of this article - http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtell/story/0,24330,3421080,00.htm l (FreeBSD promo on TechTV earlier this year) - Original Message - From: Peter Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD vs The Others

gnome2 running issues

2003-06-21 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Okay, I have gnome compiled and running and for the most part, things seem to function okay. However, on startup, there are several dialogs telling me it cannot load certain applets (clock, tasklist, etc). They all reference the same missing file of: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgen_util_applet-2.so and

Re: gnome2 running issues

2003-06-21 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 22:26, Derrick Ryalls wrote: Okay, I have gnome compiled and running and for the most part, things seem to function okay. However, on startup, there are several dialogs telling me it cannot load certain applets (clock, tasklist, etc). They all reference the same missing

Re: Abit IT-7 motherboard

2003-06-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html There is info on what hardware is supported and a list of various programs that exist in the portstree. From my experience FreeBSD is far simpler to get up and running than windows is. It is much

[no subject]

2003-06-21 Thread Paige King
forgot my login and password. what do I do to bypass the login. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HID complient keyboard issue

2003-06-21 Thread The Supreme Fool.
hello. I have an amd duron 750 with damaged onboard plugs for keyboard and mouse. due to this, i am using a $40 device for keyboard + mouse - usb port. my bios is also set to emulate this as if it were the onboard keyboard. setup for some reason comes up with an error when i press the down

Re: Lost Passwd (was: )

2003-06-21 Thread Charlie Schluting
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Paige King wrote: forgot my login and password. what do I do to bypass the login. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: your mail (was: no subj)

2003-06-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Reboot and do NOT boot automatically but press another key. At a shell prompt, type 'boot-s' to boot into single user mode. Type 'passwd' and enter a new password. HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. - Original Message - From: Paige King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Abit IT-7 motherboard

2003-06-21 Thread Jud
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 23:04:52 -0500, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html There is info on what hardware is supported and a list of various programs that exist in the portstree. From my experience

Re: rc.sendmail

2003-06-21 Thread John Von Essen
Okay, before people send more responses... Yes, I have looked at man rc.sendmail and I do understand how everything works. My question is WHY was it designed to behave they way it does? Why isn't rc.sendmail setup such that you can start the listening daemon for inbound, queue runner for

Re: Small Database Software Recommendation

2003-06-21 Thread David Kelly
On Saturday 21 June 2003 08:45 pm, Ryan Thompson wrote: As far as defining less tangible goals, though, I want to learn ${X} is a valid goal. And there is nothing quite as motivating as a task *you* want to do. Especially compared against class assignment or something the boss thinks should

cvsup src-all fails on new, local cvsup repository (trying to cvsupRELENG_4_8)

2003-06-21 Thread Pat Young
We have ~50 freebsd servers here where I work. Rather than cvsup'ing all of 'em from geographically local sites, I've built a box to house a cvs repository. I built net/cvsup and net/cvsup-mirror, and installed both. It's done the initial cvsup of the entire repository, and everything looks