Re: Installed ports

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Valerian Galeru: > Pls tell me where are all the installed ports? After i installed the > port, where i can find the bin file for the port? Information about packages is kept in /var/db/pkg. To have a list of all installed packages, see pkg_version(1). Cheers, -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot ht

Re: Emails and charset issue

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Pierrick Brossin: > so here is a UTF-8 mail (???) No it's not. It is encoded as ISO8859-1 (ISO Latin 1). You should ask your software vendor instead. If you can edit software settings, I'd recommend using Latin 1 as the default. Be sure to [1]check your environment for LANG or

Re: No sound when playing a CD in FreeBSD 4.9

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Rahul Fernandez: > Hi, Thanks for the responses. My understanding from the handbook was > that I did not need to do this as I simply loaded a module (by editing > the 'loader.conf' file). Am I mistaken? I am able to hear sound when > watching films using mplayer. Does that not mean tha

KDE and US International keyboard

2003-11-24 Thread ogautherot
Hi! I am running FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE. My X environment is KDE (the one coming with the install). I tried to configure the keyboard as US International in the KDE config panel but, for some reason, it won't work. The ISO alternative (using Alt-Graph for accent composition) is fine but I would lik

Re: install problem

2003-11-24 Thread radoslaw . zukowski
Hi, OK problem resolved, ufff :-)) Finally it wasn't problem with ACPI. I have unfrozen my FreeBSD 5.1 instaler when I set "USB IRQ" to Enabled status into BIOS(Award bios, motherboard P2L97) setup. Thanks, Radek Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-11-21 14:5

Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist during install

2003-11-24 Thread john
Apprently quite a few people have had this problem. During the install for 5.0 or 5.1 Release, immediately after I select my installation means, I'm given the error "Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/output error (5)" after which I'm told "unable to initialize selected media. Would you like

Re: startx and numlocks

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Dru: > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chris Pressey wrote: > > Thanks, that does the trick. For those that want to try it, after you've > installed the port, add this line to the beginning of your "~/.xinitrc": > > exec /usr/X11R6/bin/numlockx & No, no and no! The "exec" statement replaces the curre

Unisntall Network PCI Card

2003-11-24 Thread Jake Stride
I have recently started using freebsd since the debacle with redhat, and have a question that I am not sure of the answer too. I have a freebsd 4.8 machine running as a print server, and I wish to uninstall a network card from it (wi0). Can I just remove the card (and associated start_if.wi0 co

Linksys WPC11 ver4 troubles

2003-11-24 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello all, I recently (today) got FreeBSD 4.8 installed on my Compaq Presario 2100. I have a working Xserver with KDE, and working integrated touchpad, etc. My biggest problems are audio and my wireless network card. The following is the output of "pccardc dumpcis" command: nomad# pccardc du

Re: Restricting SSH access to only a users home directory.....

2003-11-24 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, This depends on the shell not ssh configuration. Install rbash and assign it to the user having ssh access. Regards SSR From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restricting SSH access to only a users home directory. Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:59:00 -0800 (PST) Hi there , C

Quick Mailing List Solution

2003-11-24 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi Guys, I just got handed a job to do that involves me mailing 6000 people. I was wondering if there was a way i could use my FreeBSD server to do this that wont upset my ISP.. LDAP? Scripts? -- Regards, Carmoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-24 Thread Mark Terribile
[Rahul Fernandez] >> Hi, I shall certainly try installing a port instead. I am rather new >> to FreeBSD and am unclear as to how I can obtain new packages [Matthew Seaman] > ... Even better, use the ports tree. This may sound terrifying > ... but that's the beauty of the ports system. It

Re: wireless networking

2003-11-24 Thread Kim Fredenberg
sudo ifconfig wi0 ssid kieran I still cannot ping either by ip or dns. Here is the output of ifconfig: What are you trying to ping, your gateway or something in the Internet? If your pinging outside of your network your route (default gateway) settings might be incorrect. Try pinging somethi

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