Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Rob
Hi, Here is my progress so far: 1) I had to create a number of /dev/usbX devices (X = 1, 2 , 3). 2) Then the HP 5200C is detected by sane-find-scanner 3) I gave myself permission in /dev to usbX and uscanner0. As a user I then can do: $ xscanimage hp:/dev/uscanner0 Indeed, this works; I get the

Arghhh!

2004-06-10 Thread LW Ellis
Apparently I have not been able to install FreeBSD correctly yet. I run the installation floppies, and everything seems ok. The kernel Configuration utility never runs.. Did I miss something in the instructions.. My understanding is that this should launch automatically. I get a blue screen

Re: Arghhh!

2004-06-10 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, LW Ellis wrote: Apparently I have not been able to install FreeBSD correctly yet. I run the installation floppies, and everything seems ok. The kernel Configuration utility never runs.. Did I miss something in the instructions.. My understanding is that this should launch

Re: pkgdb -F question

2004-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:49:16PM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: I am working on an installation of Metadot. Running a portversion on the server yielded an error, and I suspect it's because part of the instructions had several CPAN modules installed via the CPAN shell rather than just

HTTPtunnel hangs with proxy

2004-06-10 Thread Robert Eckardt
Hello, has someone got an idea, what I'm doing wrong? I'm trying to get httptunnel to work via a proxy. I have observed the following behaviour under FBSD-4.5R as well as under 5.2.1R, with apache-2.0.48_1 as well as with apache-1.3.22_7 and with httptunnel-3.3 as well as with httptunnel-3.0.5.

Re: What is mcopidl ? - breaking kde upgrade

2004-06-10 Thread Yannis Kotsinos
Murray Taylor wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 18:14, Kent Stewart wrote: As far as arts is concerned, did you try doing portupgrade -f arts Kent Was doing portupgrade -R kdebase when it bit the first time Dug into the script log and found that it seemed to be related to arts so have

RE: VPN server

2004-06-10 Thread Aaron Burke
I am looking for some recomendations for a powerful (yet simple if possible) VPN server. You have two options, there is 'mpd' and 'PoPToP'. I have run them both, but mpd seems to support Microsoft clients with less hassle (at least in my experience). At present I will need to only have access

Re: Modem configuration

2004-06-10 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 06:34, miguel calvo wrote: Hi: I have installed FreeBSD 5.2 in my notebook (Compaq Evo N800v). The modem is a Agere Win Modem. It is possible that it can configure and use the modem to create a dial up Internet connection? Hi! No, unfortunately FreeBSD

Re: Still no go with Postfix

2004-06-10 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:18:47PM -0700, Bryan Cassidy wrote: [...] Here is the last few lines or so from /var/log/mail Jun 9 22:09:27 bsdjunky postfix/smtp[209]: 01BFD56F: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=10125, status=deferred (connect to mx4.mail.yahoo.com[216.155.197.63] :

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: even get the image file. But then the problems start. A second scan seems to hang (well, how long am I supposed to wait?). I killed the app, restarted it; again hanging. But I was patientafter 5 or 10 minutes suddently the window popped up. I clicked on

Re: java not running .jar files without absolute path. (take II)

2004-06-10 Thread Jan Grant
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello jan, echo $JAVA_HOME JAVA_HOME: Undefined variable. hmmm. i don't recall ever setting that variable. yet, i do recall this not being an issue with previous installs of java. is JAVA_HOME a variable that is required? shouldn't the $PATH

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Rob
Olaf Hoyer wrote: Just checked some archives to get the grasp... Well, on the german lists we had this discussion about scanner compatibility some time ago, and back then I tested our Scanner @work (also a 5200c) with my notebook. Could you give me a pointer to this discussion? Since I do

/usr/sbin/bootpef: Operation not permitted

2004-06-10 Thread eodyna
Hi Guys, anyone seen this error message before? install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 bootpef /usr/sbin install: /usr/sbin/bootpef: Operatin not permitted *** Error code 71 Stop in /usr/src/libexec/bootpd/tools/bootpef. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/libexec/bootpd/tools. *** Error code 1

RE: Modem configuration

2004-06-10 Thread JJB
FreeBSD does not work using an winmodem. Yes the ltmdm port purpose is to provide the software drives for winmodem modems. That being said, here is what that really means. Winmodems is manufactured specially for the ms/windows market. They are cheaper because the DSP and controller chips are

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: Olaf Hoyer wrote: Just checked some archives to get the grasp... Well, on the german lists we had this discussion about scanner compatibility some time ago, and back then I tested our Scanner @work (also a 5200c) with my notebook. Could you give me a

RE: /usr/sbin/bootpef: Operation not permitted

2004-06-10 Thread eodyna
my thanks i was being a git. and forgot to umm disable securelevel. i remembered that if its set to 0 it fails thanks again and my apologies. --- BSDBoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I have a look at /etc/fstab, /etc/make.conf and /etc/rc.conf? BSDBoy -Original Message- From:

Re: Arghhh!

2004-06-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, LW Ellis wrote: Apparently I have not been able to install FreeBSD correctly yet. I run the installation floppies, and everything seems ok. The kernel Configuration utility never runs.. Did I miss something in the instructions.. My understanding is that this should

Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
I just learned that if you run Apache+Frontpage, you can't teach Apache to only listen on a single IP address. For some reason, Frontpage causes Apache to always bind to all IP addresses. Somehow, this stupidity doesn't really surprise me too much. The reason I wanted to do this is because I

-current boot bring to db prompt

2004-06-10 Thread pirat
hi sirs, i boot my inspiron 1100 box but it stop at db and i can not get out of there. what i did were that i copied ltmdm.ko from other machine to inspiron at /boot/kernel/ and add ltmdm_load=YES at /boot/load.conf i just wanted to remove either ltmdm.ko from /boot/kernel/ or

Re: FreeBSD use for SANs ?? Reasonable ?

2004-06-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 09), Joe Schmoe said: What is the world of SAN on FreeBSD like ? Does it exist at all ? There are working fibre-channel drivers for Qlogic and LSI Logic adapters. For the short time I had a test BSD box on our SAN, it performed very nicely. There are no failover or

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Luke Kearney
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:38:18 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: I just learned that if you run Apache+Frontpage, you can't teach Apache to only listen on a single IP address. For some reason, Frontpage causes Apache to always bind to all IP addresses.

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:38:18 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: I just learned that if you run Apache+Frontpage, you can't teach Apache to only listen on a single IP address. For some reason, Frontpage causes

Re: Certain 4.10 apps failing to run as root

2004-06-10 Thread Anthony Chavez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think that Kris has been swallowed up by other efforts at the moment, so I'm moving this to the freebsd-stable list, where it's probably more relevant anyhow. On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 01:35:33 -0600 Anthony Chavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just

fdisk/label editor say unable to write data to disk?

2004-06-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
I'm cloning a hard disk on 5.2.1-RELEASE system. I put the new disk in on the secondary IDE channel and rebooted. Using sysinstall, I sliced and labeled the disk. I ran newfs on the new partitions and the mounted them at /mnt. I then realized that I had made a mistake in my partitioning

Problems running gdesklets

2004-06-10 Thread Saket Kulkarni
I've been trying for three days to get Gdesklets to run on my FreeBSD 5.2 system. It's been the most frustrating experience of my very short FreeBSD career. One dependency after the other crashed during make or wouldn't run or couldn't be found. After consulting the www.freebsd.org/gnome

How to unsubscribe

2004-06-10 Thread Benjamin Gonzalez
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Re: How to unsubscribe

2004-06-10 Thread Thorsten von Plotho-Kettner
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Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Tim Traver
Bill, Not sure what you mean that frontpage caused apache to bind to all IP's...it shouldn't... The frontpage apache module should respect any of the virtual hosts or virtual IP's that you have set up in apache. The module is just a way for apache to run the fp.exe wrapper script around the

unattended install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 does not umount disk properly

2004-06-10 Thread Richard Smith
I'm trying to do an unattended install of FreeBSD 5.2.1. If I don't include the 'shutdown' command at the end of the install.cfg file, the install works fine, but I have to manually reboot the machine after the install, which is no good for an unattended install. If I do include 'shutdown', then

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:38:18AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: 2) Can anyone suggest an alternative to Apache+Frontpage? I prefer scp myself (and there are even spiffy GUI scp clients for Windows) but many of these clients _insist_ on using Frontpage, so I _must_ continue to cater to them.

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
Tim Traver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, Not sure what you mean that frontpage caused apache to bind to all IP's...it shouldn't... I agree. The frontpage apache module should respect any of the virtual hosts or virtual IP's that you have set up in apache. It definately should. The

freebsd 4.5 partitioning

2004-06-10 Thread Brad McGuigan
Hi, Hope someone out there can help me. I have been charged with looking after a freebsd 4.5 server and have come across a problem I am not sure how to resolve. Basically, the /var filesystem is 108% full. I have free space on another filesystem (/usr) and would like to transfer some of this

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Tim Traver
Bill, I use the latest mod_frontpage module with Apache 1.3.31... I haven't tested whether or not it binds to *:80 or not when I specify an IP. How are you specifying the IP in the conf file ? Are you just using Listen xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 ? t At 09:42 AM 6/10/2004, Bill Moran wrote: Tim Traver

PDF plugin for Mozilla?

2004-06-10 Thread Your Name
I'm using Mozilla on FreeBSD 4.9. When I click on a PDF, it prompts me to use gpdf to view it, and then will open it up in a separate window. Is there a plugin I can use so that it opens right in the browser window? The only Mozilla plugins I found in the Ports collection were for Flash. Thanks!

Bug report 64462

2004-06-10 Thread Chris
I submitted a bug report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=64462 back in March,and didn't notice any followup on it yet. Is there any way to know if/when the bug will be addressed, or if someone found a fix for it? Thanks, Chris

Re: PDF plugin for Mozilla?

2004-06-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using Mozilla on FreeBSD 4.9. When I click on a PDF, it prompts me to use gpdf to view it, and then will open it up in a separate window. Is there a plugin I can use so that it opens right in the browser window? The only Mozilla plugins I found in the

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
Tim Traver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, I use the latest mod_frontpage module with Apache 1.3.31... I haven't tested whether or not it binds to *:80 or not when I specify an IP. How are you specifying the IP in the conf file ? Are you just using Listen xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 ? Both of

Re: freebsd 4.5 partitioning

2004-06-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 06:00:15PM +0100, Brad McGuigan wrote: Hi, Hope someone out there can help me. I have been charged with looking after a freebsd 4.5 server and have come across a problem I am not sure how to resolve. Basically, the /var filesystem is 108% full. I have free space

Re: Bug report 64462

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I submitted a bug report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=64462 back in March,and didn't notice any followup on it yet. Is there any way to know if/when the bug will be addressed, or if someone found a fix for it? Considering that it's for 5.X,

Re: PDF plugin for Mozilla?

2004-06-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:14:29AM -0700, Your Name wrote: I'm using Mozilla on FreeBSD 4.9. When I click on a PDF, it prompts me to use gpdf to view it, and then will open it up in a separate window. Is there a plugin I can use so that it opens right in the browser window? The only Mozilla

Re: freebsd 4.5 partitioning

2004-06-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Hope someone out there can help me. I have been charged with looking after a freebsd 4.5 server and have come across a problem I am not sure how to resolve. Basically, the /var filesystem is 108% full. I have free space on another filesystem (/usr) and would like to transfer some

Re: freebsd 4.5 partitioning

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
Brad McGuigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hope someone out there can help me. I have been charged with looking after a freebsd 4.5 server and have come across a problem I am not sure how to resolve. Basically, the /var filesystem is 108% full. I have free space on another filesystem

Bash Startup Files

2004-06-10 Thread Arend P. van der Veen
Hi, I have been trying to clarify what bash startup files are sourced and when. I am using bash-2.05b.007. I have been hunting around on the web and I have found the following summary: For Login shells: On logging in: If `|/etc/profile|' exists, then source it. If

Re: PDF plugin for Mozilla?

2004-06-10 Thread Patrick Hurrelmann
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using Mozilla on FreeBSD 4.9. When I click on a PDF, it prompts me to use gpdf to view it, and then will open it up in a separate window. Is there a plugin I can use so that it opens right in the browser window?

flash konqueror

2004-06-10 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
hi people i have installed all necesary thing to see flash plugins in the mozillafirefoz browser but i want to see flash plugins in konqueror? what should i do ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Quick File Access (QFA) for tape devices in FreeBSD?

2004-06-10 Thread Stefan A. Deutscher
Hi, I've got another question regarding tape access in FreeBSD. I am running 5.1Release on the box in question, but didn't see anything else on 4.8Release either. I find that, when using tar or dump, finding and restoring some file from a large archive on tape takes often a long time: -

Re: PDF plugin for Mozilla?

2004-06-10 Thread Your Name
--- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using Mozilla on FreeBSD 4.9. When I click on a PDF, it prompts me to use gpdf to view it, and then will open it up in a separate window. Is there a plugin I can use so that it opens right in the

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare! = (VIA USB problem?)

2004-06-10 Thread Nicholas Jackson
Rob, Does your motherboard use a VIA chip for its USB? From what I have heard, many VIA USB implementations from a few years ago were very buggy, particularly with scanners. I have an old Asus A7V motherboard that works fine with a USB keyboard and mouse through a KVM (I'm using it now) but on

Re: Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

2004-06-10 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Stephen Liu thusly... Frequently I save/print doucument from Website as .html .pdf .ps etc. files. If the document consists of several pages then there will be serveral files. What command line/lines shall I use to combine file of several pages as

IPv6 and PPP problem

2004-06-10 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Mozilla is apparantly broken when it comes to IPv6 and attempting to do DNS lookups. I found numerous google results that report this problem and suggested recompiling the kernel with IPv6 disabled. I did this, and Mozilla is again rip-roaring fast. But now PPP does not work! Does

RE: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Lucas Holt
One possibility is to run an ftp service instead of frontpage extensions. FrontPage clients can directly connect to ftp servers, although some of the functionality is lost including generating email forms, etc. Of course ftp is not as secure as scp, but users running FrontPage don't care about

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Lucas Holt wrote: [ ... ] Personally, I find it odd to run frontpage extensions on a unix host. If people want microsoft technology, they should pay for NT hosting. I would very much rather administer a Unix box running software which plays nice with Windows protocols (if that is what the client

Re: flash konqueror

2004-06-10 Thread Radu MOLNAR
try here: http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php Radu On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: hi people i have installed all necesary thing to see flash plugins in the mozillafirefoz browser but i want to see flash plugins in konqueror? what should i do

Re: SO_LINGER on socket with non-blocking I/O

2004-06-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Julian Cowley wrote: I've been developing an application that attempts to send data from one host to another via TCP. The intent is for the data transfer to be as reliable as possible, and to log whenever it detects that it has lost data (this is for a reliable syslog protocol, if you're

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Tim Traver
Bill, ok, I tested this out for ya, and I couldn't duplicate the issue. FreeBSD 4.8... I put an additional IP on the main interface, and started apache with Listen IP:80 for each IP. The server has mod_frontpage using apache 1.3.29. I even tried have the BindAddress in the conf file as well.

A project that requires a 'heartbeat' type application

2004-06-10 Thread Derrick MacPherson
I've been asked to go ahead with a project that will require me to build several machines, 2 of which are to be used for mysql, one being 'live' and writeable, the other being a read only backup server. The developers are Linux people that are used to using an application called hearbeat that does

Re: A project that requires a 'heartbeat' type application

2004-06-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 10), Derrick MacPherson said: I've been asked to go ahead with a project that will require me to build several machines, 2 of which are to be used for mysql, one being 'live' and writeable, the other being a read only backup server. The developers are Linux people that

Problems to install FreeBSD 5.0 with USB keyboard

2004-06-10 Thread Rafael Oliveira Ribeiro
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5 using a bootable CD-ROM, but I can get my USB keyboard working. Is there any way to solve this problem? Thanks Rafael Ribeiro ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: sound card (WAS: FreeBSD 4.10 RELEASE questions)

2004-06-10 Thread Bob Johnson
Message: 8 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 21:55:14 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD 4.10 RELEASE questions To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey everyone. I have a confusing situation here with the new kernel. I just upgraded to 4.10, and in

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Christian Hiris
On Thursday 10 June 2004 13:15, Rob wrote: Olaf Hoyer wrote: I think the warm-up of the device is a bit slow, before it actually will do something. I find it so terribly slow in comparison to its operation on Windows, that I think it's not the HP scanner, but the software, or the way I

Re: Bug report 64462

2004-06-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-10 13:41, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I submitted a bug report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=64462 back in March,and didn't notice any followup on it yet. Is there any way to know if/when the bug will be addressed, or if someone

Headaches from auto* and libtool...

2004-06-10 Thread Henrik W Lund
Greetings, list! I've been given headaches lately, and I believe the auto* brothers and their buddy, libtool, to be the culprits. It all started when I installed Anjuta, the C/C++ IDE for GNOME. What it basically does for project management is use autoconf, automake and libtool to generate the

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Guillermo GarcĂ­a-Rojas
Same problem I had last month. What I did? I comment out the line: device uscanner on my kernel and installed libUSB. My Scanner worked for 2 or 3 times and now it doesn't work anymore. I have FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE Scanner: USB Generic Flatbed Scanner On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:38:41 +0200,

resizeing partion

2004-06-10 Thread bsdlist
i have fbsd 4.10 and i need to find out if theres a way to resize a partion and shrink a different one to gain some room .. see what it is is im fairley new to fbsd and i whent with the default err the auto setting for partion sizeing durring sysinstall and now after a few months i found out that

Re: help setting up natd and ipfw on freebsd5.2.1

2004-06-10 Thread asolomon15
Thanks for all the help with setting up the natd and ipfw.. I will spend some time trying to learn how to setup the proper firewall for my network. I was woundering what would be the proper cource of action on setting up dns services for the entire network. Should I just setup dns on

ERserver for Postgres from ports

2004-06-10 Thread Frank Knobbe
Greetings, I'm curious if anyone had success installing/running the erserver port (databases/erserver) for Postgresql. It doesn't seem to install all files properly after ers_setup (had to copy from examples/erserver and edit them by hand). The next issue was that the Java stuff didn't run. After

Re: SO_LINGER on socket with non-blocking I/O

2004-06-10 Thread Julian Cowley
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: Julian Cowley wrote: I've been developing an application that attempts to send data from one host to another via TCP. The intent is for the data transfer to be as reliable as possible, and to log whenever it detects that it has lost data (this is

Paging multiple columns in the console

2004-06-10 Thread Reed Loefgren
All, I'm moving to FreeBSD from Slackware and have one thing that bugs me a bit. If I do an ls on a big directory, say /usr/bin, I get output in a couple columns (I'm using bash.) In FreeBSD (4.9) If I ls a big directory it will output a couple columns, but I can't page it unless I pipe the

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
Tim Traver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, ok, I tested this out for ya, and I couldn't duplicate the issue. FreeBSD 4.8... Thanks for taking time to research this, Tim. I put an additional IP on the main interface, and started apache with Listen IP:80 for each IP. The server has

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lucas Holt wrote: [ ... ] Personally, I find it odd to run frontpage extensions on a unix host. If people want microsoft technology, they should pay for NT hosting. I would very much rather administer a Unix box running software which plays nice

Re: -current boot bring to db prompt

2004-06-10 Thread pirat
On Thursday, 10 June 2004 at 21:49:01 +0700, pirat wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:49:01 +0700 From: pirat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: -current boot bring to db prompt hi sirs, i boot my inspiron 1100 box but it stop at db and i can not

Terminal VNC server

2004-06-10 Thread John Oxley
I have setup a terminal VNC server, and half-documented the way I did it at http://oxo.rucus.net/docs/Terminal-Vnc-HOWTO I am the sysadmin of a multi-user box and I am doing this for the plebs who are members of the computer society (RUCUS http://rucus.ru.ac.za/). What I want is an easy way of

Re: resizeing partion

2004-06-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
i have fbsd 4.10 and i need to find out if theres a way to resize a partion and shrink a different one to gain some room .. see what it is is im fairley new to fbsd and i whent with the default err the auto setting for partion sizeing durring sysinstall and now after a few months i found

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Lucas Holt
I would second this. At least I know the core OS is secure and stable. The only thing I need to worry about is the Frontpage extension itself. Customers are customers ... they want what they want, and if I don't give it to them, they'll take their money elsewhere. I just remember working at

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would second this. At least I know the core OS is secure and stable. The only thing I need to worry about is the Frontpage extension itself. Customers are customers ... they want what they want, and if I don't give it to them, they'll take

Re: Paging multiple columns in the console

2004-06-10 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Reed Loefgren wrote: I'm moving to FreeBSD from Slackware and have one thing that bugs me a bit. If I do an ls on a big directory, say /usr/bin, I get output in a couple columns (I'm using bash.) In FreeBSD (4.9) If I ls a big directory it will output a couple columns, but I

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
This is for the archives ... I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that I can't repeat the bizaar IP binding behaviour on a test box. On this test box, it works as expected. Figures ... the only time it won't work right is on a production box! grumble grumble The good news is that

Re: sound card (WAS: FreeBSD 4.10 RELEASE questions)

2004-06-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 06/10/04 06:29 PM, Bob Johnson sat at the `puter and typed: Message: 8 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 21:55:14 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD 4.10 RELEASE questions To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey everyone. I have

hotsmtpd dumping core on authentication

2004-06-10 Thread Mike Valentine
I was reading through some archives ( http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-April/044456.html ) And I have the same problem. Did you ever find a solution? Mike Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

2004-06-10 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Parv, FreeBSD 5.2 Tks for your advice. - snip - Do you want to collect a number of files in various formats in one file to be able to extract any file from the resulting collection? Or, do you want to collect information contained in different files in one single file in only one

Re: Scheme for securing LAN

2004-06-10 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:32:31PM +0300, B.Bonev wrote: Hi FreeBSDers, I have a simple question. What scheme for securing LAN is better? Internet | Apache _ FreeBSD LAN Web Server

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare! = (VIA USB problem?)

2004-06-10 Thread Rob
Nicholas Jackson wrote: Rob, Does your motherboard use a VIA chip for its USB? Thanks for the suggestion. I'm sort of aware of these VIA vs. USB trouble. A friend of mine has a mass-storage stick for USB, but his FreeBSD hangs when unmounting this device. He has a VIA chip. I don't so the

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Rob
Christian Hiris wrote: Scenario I. 1. Scanner attached to /dev/usb1. 2. Run xsane, xscanimage and friends under an unprivileged user. 3. Don't want to pass the [driver:/device] parameter to your scanner app. What happens? The initialization code steps thru the usb devices until it finds a device

Re: Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for not having explained clear in my first posting. I repeat it with following examples; 1) Saving webpages from website as following files Page-1.pdf Page-2.pdf Page-3.pdf Page-4.pdf and so on There are a couple of different programs out

Re: Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

2004-06-10 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Bill, Tks for your advice. Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Saving webpages from website as following files Page-1.pdf Page-2.pdf Page-3.pdf Page-4.pdf and so on There are a couple of different programs out that can do this. I found a perl script not so long ago

Problem in running htmldoc

2004-06-10 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I have 'htmldoc' running which I suppose was installed at the time of installing the OS. But I could not start it (GUI) # which htmldoc /usr/local/bin/htmldoc # /usr/local/bin/htmldoc [ENTER] ERROR: No HTML files! HTMLDOC Version 1.8.23 Copyright 1997-2002 Easy Software