ImageMagick not building

2003-11-11 Thread Noah
FreeBSD 4.8 Stable A little off topic, but... ImageMagick is not building from /usr/ports any clue what installation libintl.so.2 library is part of? I am not quite sure why I dont have it on my machine. here is the tail of the output form the Build: snip - X11 Configuration:

Installation Hang

2003-11-11 Thread Nick P.
I am a first-time user who is having a nightmare installing FreeBSD. I've tried several different methods, but my installation hangs at various points during the installation. Often during the extraction of bin (11% seems to be a popular time) sometimes later in the bin extraction.

newbie: vi - go to previous file

2003-11-11 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I am using the BSD's vi not vim. I learned from :exusage that :N is to swich to the next file in argument list while :P swich to the previous file. :N woks fine, while :P does nothing. Say, I run vi file1 file2, which opens file1, :N begin to edit file2, then I press :P, I thought I

kernel error

2003-11-11 Thread Norhisham Khalil
i have error message on my samba server on freebsd 5.1 FreeBSD bsdbro.fc.com 5.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #1: Sun Aug 24 16:48:49 MYT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BSDKING i386 kernel: psmintr: delay too long; reseting byte count kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0008 !=

serial ports from additional old IDE ISA card

2003-11-11 Thread Rolandas Naujikas
I'm tried to poke into ISA slot additional old IDE card (from old 486 computer) with serials and paralell ports. With jumpers on it I'm disabled IDE, floppy and parallel port. I'm tried to use only serial ports, configured at I/O location of COM3 and COM4 ports and IRQ 5 and IRQ 9. When tried to

Mesa port

2003-11-11 Thread Lutz Kittler
Hi, whats going on with Port: Mesa-3.4.2_2 Path: /usr/ports/graphics/Mesa3 It is deleted in ports database,but many packages ( eg. kde* ) depend on this port. So portupgrade brings up many errors. What to do ? Lutz ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gathering data in cacti

2003-11-11 Thread dhull
I am trying to configure cacti following the instructions in the October issue of Linux Magazine. So far here is what I have. 1. Installed rrd tool from ports 2. Put cacti in my web root 3. Configured cacti according to docs 4. I am using quot;*/5 * * * * wget -O -

Any way to lock down disk errors?

2003-11-11 Thread Jim Hatfield
Strictly speaking OT but the machine is running FreeBSD. While copying a file I got I/O errors. The console shows: ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 31891359 of 31891359-31891486 status=59 error=40 ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 31891231 of 31891231-31891486 status=59 error=40 Given that the disk is

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:31, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are

Re: ImageMagick not building

2003-11-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 10 November 2003 09:33 pm, Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8 Stable A little off topic, but... ImageMagick is not building from /usr/ports any clue what installation libintl.so.2 library is part of? I am not quite sure why I dont have it on my machine. Your port system seems to have an

backups and devices

2003-11-11 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi, Im trying to decide on a sutable backup procedure for the systems we use. Id like if possible to use a auto mount multiple tape device, that can completly store and retrieve all nesecary data as quickly as possible. There are two locations one needs only data backup, systems are not as

Re: ImageMagick not building

2003-11-11 Thread Simon Gray
=== Building for ImageMagick-5.5.7.11_1 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.2 not found *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick. I had a similar problem quite a while ago, its easily fixed tho go in to 'cd /usr/local/lib' and do 'ls -la libintl*' you should

What have I missed? (linux_dri)

2003-11-11 Thread Paul Murphy
I have installed emulators/linux_base-8 and graphics/linux_dri but /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/bin/glxinfo reports: [earth] /root: /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/bin/glxinfo /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/bin/glxinfo: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file:

Re: ipfw question

2003-11-11 Thread Simon Gray
630000 0 deny log logamount 100 udp from any to any 119 via sis0 63000 24 1152 deny log logamount 100 tcp from any to any 135 via sis0 630000 0 deny log logamount 100 udp from any to any 135 via sis0 63000 is the rule number correct? IM wondering what the other 2

Re: newbie: vi - go to previous file

2003-11-11 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I am using the BSD's vi not vim. I learned from :exusage that :N is to swich to the next file in argument list while :P swich to the previous file. :N woks fine, while :P does nothing. Say, I run vi file1 file2, which opens file1, :N begin to

Re: Installation Hang

2003-11-11 Thread Simon Gray
I'm at my wits end and if I could figure out how to simply remove the boot loader I wouldn't be far from giving up and moving on to another OS. Specs: PIII 733 Mhz 384 MB Ram 120 GB HD, w/ a windows partition already on it Also, when I begin a CD install, after it hangs, it strangely won't

Re: Reading non-installed man pages, etc.

2003-11-11 Thread Simon Gray
I'd occassionally like to be able to read manpages from somewhere other than the MANPATH. Let me give you two concrete examples of things that I can do on linux, that I don't know how to do on FreeBSD $ man /mnt/falco3/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.bz2 $ man /home/andi/foo/doc/foo.1 I'm not sure

Re: ipfw question

2003-11-11 Thread Shawn Guillemette
thank you.. Im realy only blocking 135 due to the MSBlaster and others... no Samba yet - Original Message - From: Simon Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shawn Guillemette [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:00 AM Subject: Re: ipfw question 630000

How to find our what version of ports your running?

2003-11-11 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi, Is it possible to print out the base version of when you last installed the ports base, or cvs'ed it? cheers, Paul Hamilton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-11 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:00:45PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:23:25PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: instant-workstation is not included on cd#1. As stated, there isn't enough space for everything. Instant-workstation itself is tiny. It consists of

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/10/03 07:12 PM, Scott W sat at the `puter and typed: Alex Kelly wrote: I need to buy a book on C or C++ to help me in FreeBSD. Which would be better to buy? I first thought a book on C would be best, because the OS is written in C. But, now I'm not sure because I read that gcc can

Re: Two Preinstall Questions

2003-11-11 Thread Siegbert Baude
Hi Ralph, I have two questions before I plunge in and make my first FreeBSD install. Normally I keep a back up copy of all my data in a ReiserFS formated partion on my hard drive. When I do a Linux Distribution install I will reformat the non back up partions and then restore my data by copying

Re: kernel error

2003-11-11 Thread Uwe Doering
Norhisham Khalil wrote: i have error message on my samba server on freebsd 5.1 FreeBSD bsdbro.fc.com 5.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #1: Sun Aug 24 16:48:49 MYT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BSDKING i386 kernel: psmintr: delay too long; reseting byte count kernel:

Keyboard not responding, Dell PE2650

2003-11-11 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
I have a fairly reproduceable problem with a new Dell PowerEdge 2650: After the machine has booted in a headless state (no keyboard or monitor) and then one inserts a keyboard into either the front or rear PS/2 plugs, there is no communication input from the

Re: Installation Hang

2003-11-11 Thread Jez Hancock
Hi Nick, On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:27:20AM -0500, Nick P. wrote: I am a first-time user who is having a nightmare installing FreeBSD. I've tried several different methods, but my installation hangs at various points during the installation. Have you checked the integrity of the

Re: How to find our what version of ports your running?

2003-11-11 Thread Jez Hancock
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:14:23PM +0800, Paul Hamilton wrote: Is it possible to print out the base version of when you last installed the ports base, or cvs'ed it? cvsup keeps a log of it's activity in the directory you specify as your cvsup base: *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup on my

Re: Mesa port

2003-11-11 Thread Jan Grant
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Lutz Kittler wrote: Hi, whats going on with Port: Mesa-3.4.2_2 Path: /usr/ports/graphics/Mesa3 It is deleted in ports database,but many packages ( eg. kde* ) depend on this port. So portupgrade brings up many errors. What to do ? pkgdb -F The above fixed the

Re: OT samba and XP

2003-11-11 Thread Alexander Farber
Or run nmbd as well as smbd and enter WINS in Windows settings On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:41:21PM -0800, Rick Duvall wrote: Check that your reverse DNS is set up correctly for both machines. I had the same problem earlier today, where my laptop running win98 worked fine but the XP machine

owner of dir/files

2003-11-11 Thread M.D. DeWar
Hello, A simple question for you in the know unix guys. I just noticed that when I d/led a program and un-tarred it and set it up that the directory in the apache web root has as owner something like 501:www . I also noticed some others that were mysql:mysql or 500:100 for the user/group. I am

Re: XFree86 difficulties

2003-11-11 Thread LM
Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be useful it you would post the config file... but it sounds like you may have the refresh rates set up improperly. If you mean the XF86Config file, here are the relevant parts on the monitor and card: Section Monitor Identifier Primary

PPPoE Daemon Problems

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
Hi, I have a Windows XP computer connecting to a FreeBSD 4.8 Stable box running PPPoE Daemon. The connection, disconnection works perfectly - however if I yank out the cable of 'live' PPPoE connection (or terminate it via a windows crash) on the Windows XP PC, the tunnel interface fails to be

Re: Strangeness at the drive naming and numering

2003-11-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sergey Zaikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sametimes ago I has two hard drives: Oct 30 08^34^06 acc |kernel^ ad0^ 38162MB Maxtor 6E040L0 [77536|16|63] at ata0-master UDMA33 Oct 30 08^34^06 acc |kernel^ ad1^ 38166MB ST340016A [77545|16|63] at

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread Daniela
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 13:54, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 11/10/03 07:12 PM, Scott W sat at the `puter and typed: Alex Kelly wrote: I need to buy a book on C or C++ to help me in FreeBSD. Which would be better to buy? I first thought a book on C would be best, because the OS is

Re: Bridging

2003-11-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, my scenario is: onan (WinXP) with realtek NIC MAC address: 00:0a:cd:02:be:8d reknaw (FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10) with 2 realtek NIC's, rl0 (mac: 00:50:22:8d:f4:3f) and rl1 (mac: 00:40:f4:18:b1:0c). reknaw:rl0 has a real world ip address

Re: Keyboard not responding, Dell PE2650

2003-11-11 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 11, 2003, at 9:14 AM, Russell P. Sutherland wrote: I have a fairly reproduceable problem with a new Dell PowerEdge 2650: After the machine has booted in a headless state (no keyboard or monitor) and then one inserts a keyboard into either the front or rear PS/2

Re: ImageMagick not building

2003-11-11 Thread Noah
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 03:35:59 -0800, Kent Stewart wrote On Monday 10 November 2003 09:33 pm, Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8 Stable A little off topic, but... ImageMagick is not building from /usr/ports any clue what installation libintl.so.2 library is part of? I am not quite sure why I dont

Re: ipfw question

2003-11-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Shawn Guillemette wrote: Looking at ipfw show 630000 0 deny log logamount 100 udp from any to any 119 via sis0 63000 24 1152 deny log logamount 100 tcp from any to any 135 via sis0 630000 0 deny log logamount 100 udp from any to any 135 via sis0 63000 is the rule

Re: ipfw question

2003-11-11 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:00:10 - Simon Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: 630000 0 deny log logamount 100 udp from any to any 119 via sis0 63000 24 1152 deny log logamount 100 tcp from any to any 135 via sis0 630000 0 deny log logamount 100 udp from any to

Re: recovering data

2003-11-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
carmoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know if there is a proceedure i might be able to follow to recover a file that was deleted on a FreeBSD fileserver with SAMBA from a Windows 2000 workstation.. i know the file's name and i have powered down the server. The usual approach is

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 for Alpha

2003-11-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
kgrotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You will have to excuse me but im sorta new at this whole thing so i hope im asking the correct question. A friend of mine downloaded a copy of the FreeBSD 5.1 for Alpha ISO and burned it to CD for me. Now when i try to install it on an Alpha Workstation

Re: Update module ports after Perl upgrade?

2003-11-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jim Flowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just upgraded to perl-5.8.1 on my FreeBSD 4.9R system (5.8.0 threw an error on shared.bs) but after I had installed mysql-server which builds p5-DBI-137- 1.37 and p5-DBD-mysql-2.1026_1 as dependencies. In the past I have uninstalled perl modules and

Re: backups and devices

2003-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:41:26AM -, Alex Shaw wrote: Im trying to decide on a sutable backup procedure for the systems we use. Id like if possible to use a auto mount multiple tape device, that can completly store and retrieve all nesecary data as quickly as possible. There are two

Problems with Kdevelop under 4.9-REL

2003-11-11 Thread J. Seth Henry
Guys, I know this doesn't *seem* like a FreeBSD question, but the problems started after an upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9. I understand a lot of libraries got minor version upgrades as well. Has anyone had any problems using the Kdevelop editor? I find that it occasionally hangs while typing. There

static build link errors: Python 2.3.2, mod_python 2.7.8, Apache 1.3.29

2003-11-11 Thread Bryn Dyment
Hi... posted this on the mod_python list, with no bites... trying here... --- I'm getting link errors when building Apache with mod_python (static). (I've successfully built mod_perl and PHP statically, so I'm somewhat familiar with the process.) Ideas? Versions: Python: 2.3.2 mod_python:

Vinum and reserved space

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
Hi, I've just bought 2 x 160GB drives which I want to RAID 1 with vinum. I used /stand/sysinstall to fdisk and disklabel them, mounted them as /temp1 and /temp2 and checked the size of them using 'df' to stick into my vinum.conf file. I'm a bit confused though; the output of df does not include

portupgrade -arR

2003-11-11 Thread William O'Higgins
Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: portupgrade -arR It's been running for 15 hours or so now, and I'm wondering how much longer it is likely to take? I realize that that depends grin /, but I've love some anecdotal hints if anyone's got some. I installed 4.8 from

systat -mbufs

2003-11-11 Thread Jamie
I am having a hard time determining what the output of systat -mbufs is giving me. Here is the output I am getting: /0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10 Load Average | /0 /5 /10 /15 /20 /25 /30 /35 /40 /45 /50 /55 /60 data

Re: portupgrade -arR

2003-11-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
William O'Higgins wrote: Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: portupgrade -arR It's been running for 15 hours or so now, and I'm wondering how much longer it is likely to take? I realize that that depends grin /, but I've love some anecdotal hints if anyone's got

Super block errors

2003-11-11 Thread Gregory Stearns
Every time I try to mount my cdrw on my toshiba satelite lap top it comes back with invalid super block. It also does this when I try to mount my jump drive. What do I do to correct this in version 4.7 and 5.1 Thank you -- __ Sign-up for

Re: Rocketport (rp0) mapping failure on 5.1-REL

2003-11-11 Thread Douglas K. Rand
Peter It looks like what I might have is one of the new Universal PCI Peter RocketPort cards - does anyone know if the current rp driver Peter supports the card? (Comport no longer makes the 32-bit-only Peter PCI cards, just the 32 and 64 bit compatible uPCI cards now) If Peter not, is there a

Re: Super block errors

2003-11-11 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:52:37 -0500 Gregory Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I try to mount my cdrw on my toshiba satelite lap top it comes back with invalid super block. It also does this when I try to mount my jump drive. What do I do to correct this in version 4.7 and 5.1 Looks

How to determine the kernel options that are compiled in a running kernel?

2003-11-11 Thread sam2
I've got a customized kernel but no KERNCONF file, how can I determine what options/devices were used when compiling the kernel? Thanks, Sam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: OT samba and XP

2003-11-11 Thread Jez Hancock
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:15:53PM -0700, george wrote: I can connect to my samba shares reliably with 98/95/ME/2000 but when i try and connect with XP pro the xp pro machine locks up like its waiting for something and i eventually have to ctr/alt/del and reboot or log off of it. Below is

Re: ImageMagick not building

2003-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:50:55AM -, Simon Gray wrote: === Building for ImageMagick-5.5.7.11_1 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.2 not found *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick. I had a similar problem quite a while ago, its easily fixed tho

Re: Mesa port

2003-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:00:57AM +0100, Lutz Kittler wrote: Hi, whats going on with Port: Mesa-3.4.2_2 Path: /usr/ports/graphics/Mesa3 See the commit logs, CVS history (e.g. cvsweb) or MOVED file. It is deleted in ports database,but many packages ( eg. kde* ) depend on this

Re: How to determine the kernel options that are compiled in a running kernel?

2003-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:55:30AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a customized kernel but no KERNCONF file, how can I determine what options/devices were used when compiling the kernel? In general you can only do this if you compiled in a copy of your configuration file into your

Re: Super block errors

2003-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
Every time I try to mount my cdrw on my toshiba satelite lap top it comes back with invalid super block. It also does this when I try to mount my jump drive. What do I do to correct this in version 4.7 and 5.1 You didn't say what command[s] you have tried. But, it looks like either you

Re: ImageMagick not building

2003-11-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:19 am, Noah wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 03:35:59 -0800, Kent Stewart wrote On Monday 10 November 2003 09:33 pm, Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8 Stable A little off topic, but... ImageMagick is not building from /usr/ports any clue what installation

undefined reference to `_getopt_internal' when doing 'make buildw orld'

2003-11-11 Thread Loh John Wu
Hello, I'm getitng this error when I try to a make buildworld on a 4.7-RELEASE tree. It's very strange because both getopt.c and getopt1.c have the same reference to _getopt_internal but only getopt1.c has an undefined reference to it, see below: /src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf/../../../contrib/gperf/lib

Routing problems

2003-11-11 Thread Dimitris Xochellis
Dear list members, I have two subnets (10.X.X.X and 193.X.X.X) on the same physical network (ethernet). Subnet 10.X.X.X has its own 10.R.R.R router, which is forwarding packets to the internet (via DSL), Subnet 193.X.X.X has also its own 193.R.R.R router which is also forwarding packets to the

Re: onboard sound card problems

2003-11-11 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:28:22PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: [ I wrote (TOFU reversed) ]: I have been having some problems since upgrading to 4.9 - earlier I had problems with the onboard sound card, so I switched to a PCI card which worked a lot better. Since the upgrade, FreeBSD makes the

Re: Mesa port

2003-11-11 Thread kitsune
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:00:57 +0100 Lutz Kittler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, whats going on with Port: Mesa-3.4.2_2 Path: /usr/ports/graphics/Mesa3 It is deleted in ports database,but many packages ( eg. kde* ) depend on this port. So portupgrade brings up many errors. What to

Re: How to determine the kernel options that are compiled in a runningkernel?

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Maltese
I've got a customized kernel but no KERNCONF file, how can I determine what options/devices were used when compiling the kernel? Short of having INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE in your kernel config at compile time as Kris mentioned, kldstat -v can give you pretty good idea what's in there.

What should i do?

2003-11-11 Thread Valerian Galeru
i installed blackbox, a simple window manager. It doesnt have any web browser in it. But i have installed dillo, a fast web browser, but i cant login to my email with it (perhaps it doesnt support a lot of things). I want to install opera. When run make install command in ports/www/opera i get

Re: Routing problems

2003-11-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
- Original Message - From: Dimitris Xochellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:43 PM Subject: Routing problems Dear list members, I have two subnets (10.X.X.X and 193.X.X.X) on the same physical network (ethernet). Subnet 10.X.X.X has its

pkgdb / portupgrade segfault

2003-11-11 Thread Will Yardley
I have portupgrade version 20030723, installed from ports. I'm having some problems with it. Running pkgdb -Fv gives a segfault. aura# pkgdb -Fv --- Checking the package registry database [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 282 packages found (-22 +71)

Re: Vinum and reserved space

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Maltese
I've just bought 2 x 160GB drives which I want to RAID 1 with vinum. I used /stand/sysinstall to fdisk and disklabel them, mounted them as /temp1 and /temp2 and checked the size of them using 'df' to stick into my vinum.conf file. I'm a bit confused though; the output of df does not include

Re: owner of dir/files

2003-11-11 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* M.D. DeWar: I just noticed that when I d/led a program and un-tarred it and set it up that the directory in the apache web root has as owner something like 501:www . I also noticed some others that were mysql:mysql or 500:100 for the user/group. I am not sure what happens if

Re: What should i do?

2003-11-11 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Valerian Galeru: i installed blackbox, a simple window manager. It doesnt have any web browser in it. But i have installed dillo, a fast web browser, but i cant login to my email with it (perhaps it doesnt support a lot of things). For email, I suggest to browse the ports

installworld hangs...

2003-11-11 Thread fred
FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 14 21:36:51 PDT 2003 Recent CVSUP and portupgrade. # make installworld ; ls mkdir -p /tmp/install.yzJOG6oG for prog in [ awk cap_mkdb cat chflags chmod chown date echo egrep find grep ln make mkdir mtree mv pwd_mkdb rm sed sh sysctl test true uname wc zic; do

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 02:52, Tom Munro Glass wrote: I guessed there isn't a default, but I thought there might be a convention for this and I want to follow conventions where ever possible. I prefer to put things onto /usr/home (e.g.

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 10 November 2003 23:23, Alex Kelly wrote: So, it sounds like I should probably tackle C before C++. Not really, there's need to learn C if you just want to learn C++. Any decent C++ book will teach you all you need to know without

Multiple keyboards in FreeBSD

2003-11-11 Thread Preston Crawford
I'm using 4.9. Does anyone know how to do this or if it's possible? All I can do is use kbdcontrol to switch from my PS/2 to USB keyboard. This is fine as the USB Keyboard in question is a word processor that I only rarely need to connect. But under Linux I could connect both at the same time,

Re: Vinum and reserved space

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:09, Mike Maltese wrote: man tunefs Nope. I did not ask _how_ to change the amount of reserved space, I asked whether I _should_ change the amount of reserved space, and if so, at what stage. - -- Cheers, Chris

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Depends on what philosophy you subscribe to- if it's on a local system only, then create a group for members that will need access to it, and create a directory in the /home tree, like /home/'project_foo If it's going to be NFS mounted by other systems, then create an /export directory and

Re: portupgrade -arR

2003-11-11 Thread Bjarne Wichmann Petersen
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 18:33, William O'Higgins wrote: Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: portupgrade -arR Try the -n switch (ie. portupgrade -narR), this will show which ports will be upgraded without doing so. Bjarne

4.9 kernel re-compile problem

2003-11-11 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
I've recompiled a custom kernel several times using FreeBSD 4.7. When trying to recompile using 4.9 I get many irregular errors. Here's the latest: ... Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -c miibus_if.c cc -O -pipe -include /usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC/opt_global.h -D_KERNEL -Wall

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:38, Tom Munro Glass wrote: filesystem for /home, should I mount this at /home and make /usr/home a link to /home, or do I just mount it at /usr/home? The latter is probably preferable. - -- Cheers, Chris

Re: Installation Hang

2003-11-11 Thread Technical Director
Nick, Alt - F2 will give you a screen of console messages that were experienced during different stages of your installation. Look for error messages or messages that have been printed in FULL CAPITALS. Bin is the first major read operation from the CD-ROM that occurs using the FreeBSD drivers

Re: Vinum and reserved space

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Maltese
Nope. I did not ask _how_ to change the amount of reserved space, I asked whether I _should_ change the amount of reserved space, and if so, at what stage. Sorry, guess I skimmed over the question too fast. So change it to 4% apiece. Or less. I assume a volume of this size is being used for

recover from failed make build

2003-11-11 Thread Marty Landman
I just tried doing a make build for Apache2 from the FBSD 4.8 mini port. Here's what I got fetch: httpd-2.0.44.tar.gz appears to be truncated: 4108288/5505246 bytes *** Error code 1 Any advice on how to recover from this? Also I apologize if this in the docs, but

Getting Evolution, Java, Tomcat, OpenOffice outside of Ports

2003-11-11 Thread Preston Crawford
Is there a CD set that has these common/larger pieces of software for purchase. I'm on a modem and just starting to run FreeBSD. I'd like to run a couple of these, but imagine that download would take forever. Any advice would be appreciated. Preston

Re: 4.9 kernel re-compile problem

2003-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:42:39PM -0500, Russell P. Sutherland wrote: I've recompiled a custom kernel several times using FreeBSD 4.7. When trying to recompile using 4.9 I get many irregular errors. This is a FAQ. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: recover from failed make build

2003-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:18:25PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: I just tried doing a make build for Apache2 from the FBSD 4.8 mini port. Here's what I got fetch: httpd-2.0.44.tar.gz appears to be truncated: 4108288/5505246 bytes *** Error code 1 Any advice

KCron error

2003-11-11 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, FBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13, KDE 3.1. When I click menu/system/KCron, I get an error: The following error occurred when initializing KCron, No password entry for user '#' KCron will now exit. I've searched using Google and searched the list archives with no joy. There is, of course, no local

Nroff error

2003-11-11 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Can someone explain what this error might be: nroff -man nasm.1 nasm.man troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char *** Error code 1 Long-standing issue on the system I'm using -- it affects usage of manpages (they don't work). Can't figure it out...

Re: recover from failed make build

2003-11-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:18 pm, Marty Landman wrote: I just tried doing a make build for Apache2 from the FBSD 4.8 mini port. Here's what I got fetch: httpd-2.0.44.tar.gz appears to be truncated: 4108288/5505246 bytes *** Error code 1 Any advice on

Re: recovering data

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Pressey
On 11 Nov 2003 11:41:15 -0500 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: carmoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know if there is a proceedure i might be able to follow to recover a file that was deleted on a FreeBSD fileserver with SAMBA from a Windows 2000 workstation.. i

Re: Nroff error

2003-11-11 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 15:28:03 -0500 Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone explain what this error might be: nroff -man nasm.1 nasm.man troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char *** Error code 1 Long-standing issue on the system I'm using -- it affects usage

Re: Nroff error

2003-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:28:03PM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: Can someone explain what this error might be: nroff -man nasm.1 nasm.man troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char *** Error code 1 Long-standing issue on the system I'm using -- it affects usage of manpages

mouse curser

2003-11-11 Thread Dagsylad
hi, i'm running windowmaker on a vodoo 3 card, all is set up nicely and is displaying in 32bit color @ 1024x 768 the only problem is the mouse curser, or lack of it, instead of a curser, there is a very pixulated square. the mouse curser does move and clicks fine, but it is displying as a

Re: Nroff error

2003-11-11 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Hi Larry, I seem to have this file: -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5102 Nov 9 22:24 /usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1551 Nov 9 22:24 /usr/share/tmac/tty.tmac This has been a problem for a long time - none of my manpages work at all. I've tried reinstalling

OT - Perl Question

2003-11-11 Thread Darryl Hoar
I am trying to learn perl. I am going through a tutorial and have come across a syntax error I can't figure out. Here's the code: print Please tell me your name: ; chop ($name=STDIN); print Please tell me your nationality: ; chop ($nation=STDIN); if ( $nation eq British or $nation eq New

Re: OT - Perl Question

2003-11-11 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Darryl Hoar wrote: if ( $nation eq British or $nation eq New Zealand ) { print Hallo $name, pleased to meet you!\n; } when I try to run it, it generates a compile errors on the if line. I know its the conditional test, but don't know how to fix it to be

Re: recover from failed make build

2003-11-11 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:30 PM 11/11/2003, Kent Stewart wrote: That may be because the current version is apache-2.0.48_1. It looks like your port setup is fairly old. I'm a newbie. My ports came off the 4.8 mini iso I d/l'd some months ago - and then finally figured out how to use 8^}. Since I plan on doing

Re: Nroff error

2003-11-11 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Yes, I have actually. And this makes it even more mysterious. Check this out: bash-2.05b# truss -o /tmp/truss.out man perl Formatting page, please wait...troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char Done. bash-2.05b# cat /tmp/truss.out bash-2.05b# truss -o /tmp/truss.out man sh

Re: Nroff error

2003-11-11 Thread Forrest Aldrich
LOL Check this out: bash-2.05b# gdb man bash GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD) Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type show copying to see

Re: Nroff error

2003-11-11 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 16:00:48 -0500 Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I have actually. And this makes it even more mysterious. Check this out: bash-2.05b# truss -o /tmp/truss.out man perl Formatting page, please wait...troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char

Re: Nroff error

2003-11-11 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 16:02:47 -0500 Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL Check this out: bash-2.05b# gdb man bash should be: gdb man run man bash GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD) Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General

Re: recover from failed make build

2003-11-11 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:27 PM 11/11/2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:18:25PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: I just tried doing a make build for Apache2 from the FBSD 4.8 mini port. [snip] *** Error code 1 'make distclean; make fetch' Kris, thanks. Only is this a context thing? IOW would

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