Re: MBR

2004-01-27 Thread Namik Dala
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:10:51AM -0600, Brian H wrote: > Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only > have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is > there a way with unix to safely reset the MBR? This dev=/dev/ad0 # change this d

dhcp

2004-01-27 Thread Brian H
Greetings: I am trying to get dhclient to work on my laptop, but after a reboot there is an entry in the /var/db/dhclient.leases and ifconfig produces 0.0.0.0 for inet. I took a look at /var/log/messages and there was nothing in there about dhclient or DHCP. any thoughts? thanks, brian rc

Mozilla & flash: crash with Gdk-ERROR message.

2004-01-27 Thread Rob
Hi, I have several FreeBSD PCs, with the mozilla port installed. In addition, I have also flashplugin-mozilla port installed. Now the mistery starts: on one PC the flash works just fine. On all others, mozilla crashes with the message: Gdk-ERROR **: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource

Re: MBR

2004-01-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 09:10 am, Brian H wrote: > Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only > have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is > there a way with unix to safely reset the MBR? I don't understand much about the MBR; but yo

MBR

2004-01-27 Thread Brian H
Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is there a way with unix to safely reset the MBR? _ Check out the new MSN 9 Dial-up — f

Re: Email upon account creation with adduser?

2004-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I seem to recall a feature which sent new users an email upon account creation > with adduser. Is this still possible? Mainly, I want to inform them of the > SpamAssassin feature of my mailer, amongst SquirrelMail and others. I know > this used to e

Re: a few words on BIOS/FDISK geometry

2004-01-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > >> > > Have you put this up as a FAQ somewhere? It seems like a good idea > > to do so. > >> > > I don't have a place to put it. I would gladly offer it to anyone > who does. Hmmm. I don't know how to add it to the FAQ list on the FreeBSD site. Maybe it can be submitted to the DOC proje

Re: p5-Gtk-0.7009 requires Perl 5.6 with FreeBSD 4.9

2004-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Troy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've tried to upgrade this perl library, and it's marked as IGNORE, > being that I'm running stable, should I install lang/perl5 to run Perl > 5.6? According to the IGNORE message in the port, yes. > Is there any point where stable will use Perl 5.6 or

Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?

2004-01-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello, > > "FreeBSD from Scratch" describes a method for REbuilding a FreeBSD system > entirely from sources, starting from an existing FreeBSD system. > > But I want to build a new FreeBSD system on a machine currently NOT > running FreeBSD. How can I do this? > > I'm used to doing this w

Re: web interface for a freebsd dial-up box

2004-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (simon) writes: > I am currently using a Linux box running IPCOP to dial-up to my ISP. > I would like to upgrade to freebsd. Is there a simple web interface > or perl script I can use with freebsd to bring dial-on-demand on/off. It can be done with a simple command line from pp

Re: "No disks found!" in Sysinstall despite of supported IDE Controller

2004-01-27 Thread Ben Koopmanschap
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:30:17AM -0800, Ryan Merrick wrote: > Hi, > > Your problem is that all 4 of your bootable partitions are used on linux. Hello Ryan and others! In the first place I want to thank you for your reply! Yesterday night I tried the 4.9 - CD-ROM on my Pentium III (this is my

Re: open office install fails after two days of installing

2004-01-27 Thread chip
Dinesh Nair wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, chip wrote: Okay, I downloaded and installed the .tbz file, moved it to /usr/local and ran pkg_add. It finished, and the instructions on the screen say to just run openoffice on the command line and answer a few questions. When I run the command I get comma

Re: Mounting ISO r/w

2004-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Daniela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need information how to either mount an ISO image r/w or find out what > options I must give to mkisofs to recreate it. > I have to add and remove some files from the tree, but all other things should > stay as they are. I tried vnconfig, but I can't get t

Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?

2004-01-27 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Geert Hendrickx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:48 AM Subject: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources? > Hello, > > "FreeBSD from Scratch" describes a method for REbuilding a FreeBSD system > entirely fro

Re: Installing OpenOffice from Ports Collection

2004-01-27 Thread Roop Nanuwa
Colin J. Raven wrote: Checksum mismatch for bsd-jdk14-patches-6.tar.gz. ===> Refetch for 1 more times files: bsd-jdk14-patches-6.tar.gz You need to download the patchset from here: http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk14.html --roop

mozilla-firebird 0.7 plugins dont work

2004-01-27 Thread marlon corleone
linux-flashplugin linux-flashplugin6 linuxpluginwrapper i install this three plugins, but when i test mozilla-firebird 0.7 plugins didn't work, help anyone? kern.version: FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 11 04:21:45 GMT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC ___

Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?

2004-01-27 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:48:42AM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > Hello, > > "FreeBSD from Scratch" describes a method for REbuilding a FreeBSD system > entirely from sources, starting from an existing FreeBSD system. > > But I want to build a new FreeBSD system on a machine currently NOT > runn

Re: Installing OpenOffice from Ports Collection

2004-01-27 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 January 2004 07:27 am, Colin J. Raven wrote: > Hi all! > I'm trying to install OpenOffice-1.1 on FreeBSD4.9 RELEASE. > The installation halts - which is in itself highly unusual. Forget building it - get the binary. http://projects.imp.c

Installing OpenOffice from Ports Collection

2004-01-27 Thread Colin J. Raven
Hi all! I'm trying to install OpenOffice-1.1 on FreeBSD4.9 RELEASE. The installation halts - which is in itself highly unusual. It asks for various bsd-jdk & j2sdk files from Sun to be installed in /usr/distfiles, so I download and copy them into the requisite directory, chown & chgrp them as ne

Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?

2004-01-27 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:48:42 +0100 (CET) "Geert Hendrickx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > "FreeBSD from Scratch" describes a method for REbuilding a FreeBSD system > entirely from sources, starting from an existing FreeBSD system. > > But I want to build a new FreeBSD system on a machin

Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?

2004-01-27 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:48:42AM +0100, Geert Hendrickx typed: > Hello, > > "FreeBSD from Scratch" describes a method for REbuilding a FreeBSD system > entirely from sources, starting from an existing FreeBSD system. > > But I want to build a new FreeBSD system on a machine currently NOT > runn

Re: Email upon account creation with adduser?

2004-01-27 Thread Marty Landman
At 10:40 PM 1/26/2004, Eric F Crist wrote: I seem to recall a feature which sent new users an email upon account creation with adduser. Is this still possible? This happens automatically for me whenever I run adduser. Before you start entering user data though it asks you to confirm or change th

Recommendations for newfs parameters for UFS2 ?

2004-01-27 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, Are there any recommendations for the blocksize, bytes/i-node, and cylinders/group parameters when newfs'ing an UFS2 filesystem? I am afraid of ending up with a fs with Gigs of space and no inodes left, or a fs that is heavily fragmented and slow. Which params should i use for a - 10G -

Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi

2004-01-27 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:34:54AM -0600, Gary typed: > Hi Frederick, > > --On Monday, November 17, 2003 09:58:00 AM +1100 Frederick Bowes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting > >something a while ago about how to re-format an ema

Re: Total amount of memory in my system?

2004-01-27 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. I'm running 4.8 on a remote server. I want to know > how much RAM is in the server. 'dmesg -a' doesn't tell me because the you can either look at /var/run/dmesg.boot or check the hw.physmem Regards, /\_/\ "A

Re: Postfix+TLS+SASL

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello Simon, I am using SASL2, because my OpenLDAP required it :). Postfix is not from ports, it is compiled with TLS patch.. SASLAUTHD is running (.sh script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/) cheers, M. On Tuesday 27 January 2004 12:02, Simon Barner wrote: > Hello Martin, > > I am using almost the same

RE: ACL:s are disabled upon reboot into multi-user

2004-01-27 Thread Jarosław Nozderko
Hi, > Ah, no I haven't. Will do. *However*, according to that part > of the handbook, > tunefs should be enough - and indeed, is recommended due to > the permanent > nature of the setting. So even if this ends up working I > don't get why it > didn't work in the first place. As is mentioned

Re: Postfix+TLS+SASL

2004-01-27 Thread Simon Barner
Hello Martin, I am using almost the same setup, but with sasl version 1 (I selected only sasl1 and ssl/tls support in the postfix port). My /usr/local/etc/postfix/saslpasswd file looks like this (you need to create a .db file with `postmap') : My main.cf is as follows --- main.cf --- inet_

mplayer screws up audio device access

2004-01-27 Thread Rob
Hi, I am running 4-Stable with up-to-date ports installed. I'm puzzled by what mplayer does to my audio device (I use mplayer-gtk-esound-0.92.0_4 compiled from ports). When I run "gmplayer -vo x11", I can only play one movie with sound. When I stop the movie (NOT exiting mplayer!) and start anoth

Re: open office install fails after two days of installing

2004-01-27 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, chip wrote: > Okay, I downloaded and installed the .tbz file, moved it to /usr/local > and ran pkg_add. It finished, and the instructions on the screen say to > just run openoffice on the command line and answer a few questions. When > I run the command I get command not foun

How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?

2004-01-27 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Hello, "FreeBSD from Scratch" describes a method for REbuilding a FreeBSD system entirely from sources, starting from an existing FreeBSD system. But I want to build a new FreeBSD system on a machine currently NOT running FreeBSD. How can I do this? I'm used to doing this with Gentoo Linux: Wit

Re: Apple?

2004-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:55:10PM +0100, joost knetsch wrote: > i wonder if its possible to install freebsd on a apple computer? > I have a G4 500mhz macintosh. > ?? The FreeBSD PPC port is at quite an early stage of development still, and not really suitable for any use other than development

Re: ACL:s are disabled upon reboot into multi-user

2004-01-27 Thread Peter Schuller
> did you try to just put "acls" option in /etc/fstab ? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/fs-acl.html Ah, no I haven't. Will do. *However*, according to that part of the handbook, tunefs should be enough - and indeed, is recommended due to the permanent nature of the

Re: Problem update 4.7 STABLE->4.9

2004-01-27 Thread Ryan Merrick
Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello After make buildworld the following occurs: mkmagic: magic, 35458: offset branch1.1.1; invalid mkmagic: magic, 35458: type branch 1.1.1; invalid mkmagic: magic, 35459: offset access; invalid mkmagic: magic, 35459: type access; invalid mkmagic: magic, 35460:

Re: "No disks found!" in Sysinstall despite of supported IDE Controller

2004-01-27 Thread Ryan Merrick
Ben Koopmanschap wrote: Hello Everybody! I have a Pentium 4 2,66 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB UDMA HardDisk which in Linux is recognized to have a Intel 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (IDE). For more details about the chipset and other things, one can eventually visit: http://support.intel.com/sup

Re: CVSup and portupgrade?

2004-01-27 Thread Vanh Phom
> You need both. cvsup(1) will synchronise the ports tree with the > latest version -- that's all the Makefiles and stuff that are used to > build ports, not the actual ports themselves. portupgrade(1) uses the > files downloaded by cvsup(1) to build and install ports or to update > any previous

Re: mod_perl with FreeBSD (stock perl vs perl 5.8 port)

2004-01-27 Thread Rob
Forrest Aldrich said on Tue Jan 27, 2004: > No, use /usr/bin/perl (SYSTEM) versus /usr/local/bin/perl and adjust my > makepl_args file accordingly. > > > At 06:39 AM 1/26/2004, you wrote: > >Forrest Aldrich asked on Mon Jan 26, 2004: > > > > > > > I'm working with mod_perl-1.x *current* on FreeBS

Tuxcards + run away process

2004-01-27 Thread epilogue
Take II.:) - Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:29:12 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tuxcards + run away process Hello all, I have been having problems with the program Tuxcards (ports/deskutils). After about 5 minutes open, i

Re: Freebsd Server Reboots every so often

2004-01-27 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, chris souza wrote: > My server keeps rebooting every so often. I'm running > > FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Wed May 1 > 21:54:31 GMT > 2002 > > Here are the messages from my logs, any help would be > appreciated. Thanks > Chris > > > > Nov 4 19:25:12 ns /kerne

Re: TTF editor for FreeBSD?

2004-01-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 29), Cordula's Web said: > Hello, > > I'm looking for a ttf (truetype fonts) editor on FreeBSD. > Any idea? pfaedit, in ports, will edit ttf and postscript fonts. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROT

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