how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Jay O'Brien
I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is a mess. This is a tutorial on make. I've unzipped the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file. What is the right way

laptop pccard ethernet

2004-08-23 Thread FreeBSD questions
I have a laptop with fbsd 4.10. it seems that altho it boots and recognises the PCMCIA ethernet card, that it never successfully executes the ifconfig for IP number and gateway. I have to enter these two commands manually _after_ it completes booting, and all ethernet activities are fine after

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Jay O'Brien
ashadul hoque wrote: Have you tried opening it with wordpad. Yes. Wordpad, Notepad, Word. It's a mess in all of them. Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: What are the best 3D games in the ports collection?

2004-08-23 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 21 August 2004 11:29 pm, Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the funnest, best look, best quality 3D game you have come across in the ports collection. Some I will list: BZFlag UT2003 Foobillard TORCS BillardGL LBreakout (Not 3D But fun) Just to name a few. small gripe

Re: Network Routing Problems???

2004-08-23 Thread Hakim Z. Singhji
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Very good, I will try it and let you know thanks so much. Cheers Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: | Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: | | I am having problems getting a connection to my FreeBSD gateway from my | Mandrake 10 Linux Machine. I am able to ping,

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jay O'Brien wrote: I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is a mess. This is a tutorial on make. I've unzipped the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file.

unsure

2004-08-23 Thread Urphqedup
I was unsure to where to obtain a recent copy of FreeBSD . can you help out with this I do have an excellent Cable connection so DLing the software is not a problem I can use an alternative to 'Windows' currently using WindowsXP SP2 not impressed

Re: unsure

2004-08-23 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was unsure to where to obtain a recent copy of FreeBSD . can you help out with this I do have an excellent Cable connection so DLing the software is not a problem I can use an alternative to 'Windows' currently using WindowsXP SP2 not impressed

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Jay O'Brien wrote: I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is a mess. This is a tutorial on make. I've unzipped the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display tool that will not show the formatting stuff

FreeBSD 4.10Release + latest nvidia driver=problems

2004-08-23 Thread Pásztor Richárd
Oh, i forgot to tell mye system specs: AMD 2000+, Geforce 4 Ti4200, MSI KT3 Ultra2, Sb live The same problem occured on a Cel300 + Riva TNT2, Intel LX mainboard. ricsip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: links for freebsd 5.3 b1

2004-08-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 06:52:55PM -0400, Ara Avvali wrote: Well. All I wanted to do help if someone is looking for a download link -Original Message- From: Rowdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/5.3/ Sweet

RE: laptop pccard ethernet

2004-08-23 Thread mark rowlands
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FreeBSD questions Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 8:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: laptop pccard ethernet I have a laptop with fbsd 4.10. Good it seems that altho it boots and

Re: HP Netserver RAID Controller + FreeBSD 4.10 problem

2004-08-23 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* Troy Settle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040821 07:59]: wrote: Hi Troy, I don't know if this is the right answer, but if you have to manually specify the root partition, it's because the kernel can't find the root partition to even read fstab. I can't say that I've seen this before, or even

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-23 Thread Ian Moore
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:45, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Ian Moore wrote: I have a DiamondView DV650U scanner that is supported by SANE, but I always assumed that because FBSD doesn't detect it as a uscanner device, just a ugen, it wouldn't work. How would I edit uscanner.c

Re: XFree86 Question

2004-08-23 Thread Ed Budd
Oliver Gould wrote: Sorry if this is not quite the place for this question but I'm at my wits ends here. I need viable Horizontal sync ranges and vertical refresh rates for my compaq presario laptop 1200-XL118 (13 HPA screen, Trident Cyberblade i7 video card)and I have not been able to find

Re: help!?!? portmap , what is it used for ?

2004-08-23 Thread B.Hansson
Brent Bailey skrev: forgive me for posting this twice...i forgot what email address is allowd on this list...anywho.. Well it's your lucky day! Im running a freebsd 4.10 and the other morning i noticed this in my ps -ax output. 13560 ?? Is 0:00.00 portmap 218.49.183.17 Now ive denied

Building rescue/recovery cds

2004-08-23 Thread Matthew Crowe
Hi all, This may not exactly be a Freebsd related question.. but.. here goes =) I wanted to make a Freebsd-based cd that would enable restoring of a FAT32 or NTFS filesystem. I know Windows includes things to do this, but I wanted to use unix and build some nifty scripts to do it all

Re: Building rescue/recovery cds

2004-08-23 Thread Erik Johnsson
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:58:49AM -0400, Matthew Crowe wrote: Hi all, This may not exactly be a Freebsd related question.. but.. here goes =) I wanted to make a Freebsd-based cd that would enable restoring of a FAT32 or NTFS filesystem. I know Windows includes things to do this, but I

Color, resolution, refresh in console

2004-08-23 Thread
Hi people! The question is how to manipulate color, refresh rate resolution in console via vesa using ioctl() system calls. As far as we hack, the only way to do taht - to get right ioctl magic word working for you. We use FreeBSD 4.9 VESA 3.0 Thanks.

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hmm, Would using the command: zcat filename work? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Humble questions for web developers in freebsd.

2004-08-23 Thread Charles Ulrich
Mark Jayson Alvarez said: 4. Do you happen know any good link where I can learn how to write shell scripts so that I may be able to start an application at boot time by putting it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (ex: httpd) Here's one that I reference quite frequently:

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-08-23 07:16, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, Would using the command: zcat filename work? If the file isn't really compressed you can always use just less(1) on it: % less filename.ascii If it is compressed (as the docs of /usr/share/doc usually are), I tend to

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread R. W.
On Monday 23 August 2004 07:17, Jay O'Brien wrote: I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is a mess. This is a tutorial on make. I've unzipped the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display tool that will not show the

Re: sendmail from 4.10-STABLE firewall

2004-08-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Joe Kraft wrote: I'm using a 4.10-STABLE based firewall, which is happily chugging along. It's sending it's daily messages to a local account via sendmail, which I check by logging in using an ssh connection. [ ... ] 3) Is there a way to convince sendmail to send to something like [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD scanners - SOLVED (info)

2004-08-23 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Dear List, I got myself the Canon USB LiDE 30 Scanner. It has 100% support by sane, works in FreeBSD and Suse 9.1 (had to be configured manually by yast). Wonderfull colors, great resolution, lightweight, sharp, BSD style design, special ergonomic functionality for little space consumption

Re: Network Routing Problems???

2004-08-23 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 06:38:05PM -0400, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: Hello All, I am having problems getting a connection to my FreeBSD gateway from my Mandrake 10 Linux Machine. I am able to ping, traceroute, ssh etc. the linux box from my freeBSD machine however I am not able to ping the

cron and vfork

2004-08-23 Thread Malcolm Kay
I'm having a problem with cron and vfork. Here are a couple of samples from the cron log:- Aug 22 16:13:00 central /usr/sbin/cron[89748]: (root) CMD ( /usr/local/sbin/nwmail2linux) Aug 22 16:15:00 central /usr/sbin/cron[89749]: (CRON) error (can't vfork) Aug 22 16:15:00 central

Problem installing on VIA 8237 SATA

2004-08-23 Thread Greg Gladwell
I'm trying to install 5.2.1 on a machine with a VIA 8237 SATA controller. Although the controller is detected on boot the same is not true for the drive (a 200GB Seagate Barracuda). According to the man page the controller is fully supported and having STFW I can't find anything useful to aid my

Re: cron and vfork

2004-08-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] The presence of a problem became evident when when I was unable to log into the machine Monday morning, neither from a console or through ssh on the LAN. At the console it puts up a login prompt and accepts the name entry but that is all -- no password prompt and no

Re:Returned mail: Data format error

2004-08-23 Thread derek
Hi I am retiring the email address - [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is due to excessive spam. My new email address can be accessed from http://derekdickson.com/Spam.htm click on Email Sorry for the inconvenience Best Regards Derek ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: 0i09u5rug08r89589gjrg [Qurb #230606]

2004-08-23 Thread Klaus, Chris (ISSAtlanta)
This is an automated message. I apologize for the inconvenience, but I need your help in fighting spam. Messages from approved senders go directly to my Inbox. Messages from addresses that have not put into my whitelist are quarantined until the address of the sender can be confirmed. TO

Digi PCI / XEM 16-Port

2004-08-23 Thread Kyle Mott
I have tried several times now to compile a GENERIC kernel on 4.10-STABLE with dgm0 (Digi Ports/16em, PCI version!) enabled, and have had no luck. Can anyone give me pointers? Right now, it's not showing up in dmesg (no errors, no warnings, nothing). The config line I have been using is below (but

Copy all files and subdirectories preserving time stamp?

2004-08-23 Thread W. D.
Hi folks, What would be the way to copy all files and subdirectories from one directory to another--preserving the time stamp and other attributes? It seems that 'cp' usually puts a time stamp of the current date and time. Would this work? cp -r -p -@ /some/source/directory/*

Re: Copy all files and subdirectories preserving time stamp?

2004-08-23 Thread Moti Levy
W. D. wrote: Hi folks, What would be the way to copy all files and subdirectories from one directory to another--preserving the time stamp and other attributes? It seems that 'cp' usually puts a time stamp of the current date and time. Would this work? cp -r -p -@ /some/source/directory/*

RE: Customized/automated FreeBSD Installations....

2004-08-23 Thread Sheets, Jason (Manpower Contract)
Hello Forrest, Take a look at the FreeBSD From Scratch article by Jens Schweikhardt at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/in dex.html. This article describes my efforts at FreeBSD From Scratch: a fully automated installation of a customized FreeBSD system

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Help with Interpreting Load Plugin Error Message]]

2004-08-23 Thread Guillermo García-Rojas
I'm getting that message and Java Plug-in does not work. Is there a way to fix that? On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:23:11 -0400, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please ignore previous message. Found what appears to be the problem in /usr/ports/www/mozilla/pkg_message. Must have missed this when

Salvageable? (Was Re: make installworld error)

2004-08-23 Thread Curtis Vaughan
So, could someone tell me if my system is salvageable or not and what I need to do? Or, should I just start over? Curtis On 21 Aug, 2004, at 17:06, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, it is my understanding that I did in fact do things right (or that is to say that The Complete FreeBSD had the right

Re: changing card in a reader (revisited)

2004-08-23 Thread Anish Mistry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 July 2004 05:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:21 am On Monday 19 July 2004 05:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha I had previously started a thread with

Re: incorrect disk geometry warning using 3ware controler

2004-08-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:28:54PM +0800, FreeBSD Daemon wrote: Dear list I bought a 3ware 7500-4LP controller and 4x 200GB IDE disks to go with it. Now installing FreeBSD 4.10 I get a warring that the disk geometry (72963cyls/255heads/63sectrors) is wrong. Can I ignore this warning

Re: Salvageable? (Was Re: make installworld error)

2004-08-23 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Monday 23 August 2004 01:39 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, could someone tell me if my system is salvageable or not and what I need to do? Or, should I just start over? Curtis On 21 Aug, 2004, at 17:06, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, it is my understanding that I did in fact do things right

Re: Salvageable? (Was Re: make installworld error)

2004-08-23 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 23 Aug, 2004, at 10:51, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Monday 23 August 2004 01:39 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, could someone tell me if my system is salvageable or not and what I need to do? Or, should I just start over? Curtis On 21 Aug, 2004, at 17:06, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, it is my

Re: Salvageable? (Was Re: make installworld error)

2004-08-23 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Monday 23 August 2004 01:58 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote: On 23 Aug, 2004, at 10:51, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Monday 23 August 2004 01:39 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, could someone tell me if my system is salvageable or not and what I need to do? Or, should I just start over?

Re: Salvageable? (Was Re: make installworld error)

2004-08-23 Thread Ilker Ozupak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 August 2004 20:39, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, could someone tell me if my system is salvageable or not and what I need to do? Or, should I just start over? Curtis On 21 Aug, 2004, at 17:06, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, it is my

Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re: make installworld error))

2004-08-23 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Thanks to everyone who has been answering my questions over the past several days (weeks) concerning installing and upgrading FreeBSD. I am now going to try again. I am installing v. 4.8 on a server. This server is to be a Postfix w/Courier IMAP server integrated into a Linux-based network,

disk2.iso: rescue disk

2004-08-23 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, is the disk2.iso mainly a rescue disk? Or does it contain further stuff for installation? -Hanspeter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Digi PCI / XEM 16-Port

2004-08-23 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyle Mott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : I have tried several times now to compile a GENERIC kernel on : 4.10-STABLE with dgm0 (Digi Ports/16em, PCI version!) enabled, and have : had no luck. Can anyone give me pointers? Right now, it's not showing up : in

Reinstalling, then upgrading

2004-08-23 Thread Robert Huff
Curtis Vaughan writes: Finally, while I'm reinstalling 4.8, I would like to know something about the following. It seems to me that cvsup is actually downloading the entire repository of packages for FreeBSD. Is that really what one has to do to perform an upgrade? Cvsup

Re: File Manager

2004-08-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Saturday, August 21, 2004 08:16:16 PM -0600 Jon Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:59:23 GMT, Emon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, I did create a new user, but I wasn't sure wich group to put it in, so I kept the GROUP field blank. Now I can't su to root cos it say that

Reinstalling, then upgrading

2004-08-23 Thread Robert Huff
Curtis Vaughan writes: Finally, while I'm reinstalling 4.8, I would like to know something about the following. It seems to me that cvsup is actually downloading the entire repository of packages for FreeBSD. Is that really what one has to do to perform an upgrade? Cvsup

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading

2004-08-23 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 23 Aug, 2004, at 13:16, Robert Huff wrote: Curtis Vaughan writes: Finally, while I'm reinstalling 4.8, I would like to know something about the following. It seems to me that cvsup is actually downloading the entire repository of packages for FreeBSD. Is that really what one has to do to

SCSI disk to disk dump restore

2004-08-23 Thread Dan Rue
Hey Gang, I had an older scsi disk going bad, so I picked up a new disk to replace it. I did a dump | restore to move the data to the new disk, but it went far slower than expected. I'm wondering if there's an issue with the different disk speeds. Old disk from dmesg: da0: QUANTUM ATLAS IV

Re: disk2.iso: rescue disk

2004-08-23 Thread Charles Ulrich
Hanspeter Roth said: Hello, is the disk2.iso mainly a rescue disk? Or does it contain further stuff for installation? It is mainly a rescue disk. It contains nothing that you'll actually need for a FreeBSD install. It would be nice if it were mentioned somewhere in the handbook or FTP site

missing /dev/fd0 after upgrading to FBSD-6.0-CURRENT

2004-08-23 Thread carloma
Hi all, this is my problem ! After cvsupping from FBSD-5.2 to FBSD-6.0-CURRENT I miss fd0 in /dev. Consequently accssing floppy is not possible anymore. It must have something to do with devfs. I tried 'mknod /dev/fd0 ...' but could not find out the correct major/minor numbers for the floppy

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re: make installworld error))

2004-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am now going to try again. I am installing v. 4.8 on a server. This server is to be a Postfix w/Courier IMAP server integrated into a Linux-based network, authentication centralized using PAM LDAP. That's about it. Now, some people might say,

Re: File Manager

2004-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've always thought it was a bad idea to edit the passwd and groups file directly, because the dbs don't get built that way. There is no database for the groups file, so people worry less about it. ___ [EMAIL

Re: Copy all files and subdirectories preserving time stamp?

2004-08-23 Thread W. D.
At 12:00 8/23/2004, Moti Levy wrote: W. D. wrote: Hi folks, What would be the way to copy all files and subdirectories from one directory to another--preserving the time stamp and other attributes? It seems that 'cp' usually puts a time stamp of the current date and time. Would this work? cp

custom boot disk

2004-08-23 Thread Incoming Mail List
Can anyone provide a pointer to a good how-to on creating a customized bootable disk? Specifically, I'm trying to understand: 1) How do you create a 64mb (for example) memory file system as part of the boot procedure? 2) How do you instruct init to mount the newly created memory file

panic when inserting USB drive into 5.2.1R machine

2004-08-23 Thread Steve Hodgson
Hi, I've just bought a new USB flash drive and it causes a panic on my machine. The motherboard is an nForce2 (dmesg can be sent to anyone who requests it). The offending messages are: ===On Insertion=== Aug 21 14:22:37 congo kernel: umass0: vendor 0x0ef8 PANRAM, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 3 Aug 21

Re: switching NAT: ipf to pf not working

2004-08-23 Thread Nagilum
Hi, Try it with this: ext_if=xl0 nat on $ext_if inet from ! ($ext_if) to any - ($ext_if) Kind regards, Alex. Jorge Mario G. wrote: Hello there I'm trying to switch the nat from ipf to pf our lan is pretty simple INTERNET (pf)--- 192.168.0.0/24 LAN1 | | |---

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Jay O'Brien
Jay O'Brien wrote: I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is a mess. This is a tutorial on make. I've unzipped the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file.

Re: Firebird and ipcrm

2004-08-23 Thread B.Hansson
promyk skrev: In Readme they write: # isql /usr/local/firebird/security.fdb Statement failed, SQLCODE = -902 operating system directive semget failed -No such file or directory operating system directive semget failed No such file or directory ^^ Is it?

Re: Network Routing Problems???

2004-08-23 Thread Hakim Z. Singhji
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, I want to thank everyone for there help...attached are the config files for my FreeBSD gateway. I have rc.conf, ipfw rule-set and my natd.conf file. I thought that I took care of incoming traffic, maybe you all can help me and show me if I

Hard Mail Question

2004-08-23 Thread Sean Murphy
Without using leave mail on server or leave mail on server for x days is it possible after I have downloaded my email to my computer using pop3 to put it back so I can access it from a different computer. Possibly ftp it back to the server and copy it to my mail directory to redownload it? or

Re: make package-recursive

2004-08-23 Thread horio shoichi
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 09:59:52 +0700 User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there should some way to tell make that if ports have been made package, the next time that ports should not have been made again in the make package-recursive from some other ports. Unfortunately, no. Change CFLAGS and

Portupgrade killed everytime

2004-08-23 Thread James Brown
Whenever I run portupgrade, I wait about 30 seconds only to see it die: # portupgrade clamav Killed # portupgrade vim Killed I have a recent cvsup of 'ports-all' on 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and have run 'make index' and 'pkgdb -F'. Someone at bsdforums.org has kindly suggested that I'm seeing a Ruby

Re: Portupgrade killed everytime

2004-08-23 Thread Adam Smith
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:21:09AM +0100, James Brown said: Whenever I run portupgrade, I wait about 30 seconds only to see it die: # portupgrade clamav Killed # portupgrade vim Killed Try running it using strace, such as strace portupgrade vim and see what it's doing. -- Adam Smith

Apple 1gz Server -- FreeBSD?

2004-08-23 Thread Forrest Aldrich
We have a 1gz Apple 1U server here -- and I'm wondering if we could run a *BSD on it, other than Darwin. Anyone have some info? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Apple 1gz Server -- FreeBSD?

2004-08-23 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]... We have a 1gz Apple 1U server here -- and I'm wondering if we could run a *BSD on it, other than Darwin. Well, I think the motto of NetBSD says it all Of course it runs NetBSD! You might want to check the specifics over at

df(1) vnconfig(8) hanging ....

2004-08-23 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Hi all, This morning I wanted to edit an ISO to instruct the kernel to redirect its output to serial. i.e # sudo vnconfig -v -c /dev/vn0 5.3-BETA1-i386-miniinst.iso # sudo mount -t cd9660 -o rw /dev/vn0 /mnt # sudo tcsh # echo /boot/loader -h boot.config boot.config: Read-only file system.

Re: Building rescue/recovery cds

2004-08-23 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Matthew Crowe wrote: I wanted to make a Freebsd-based cd that would enable restoring of a FAT32 or NTFS filesystem. I know Windows includes things to do this, but I wanted to use unix and build some nifty scripts to do it all automatically (this is designed to restore

Re: Apple 1gz Server -- FreeBSD?

2004-08-23 Thread Eugene
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:14:16AM +0930, Tim Aslat wrote: : In the immortal words of Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]... : : We have a 1gz Apple 1U server here -- and I'm wondering if we could : run a *BSD on it, other than Darwin. : : Well, I think the motto of NetBSD says it all : : Of

Re: Portupgrade killed everytime

2004-08-23 Thread Steven Friedrich
In /usr/ports/UPDATING, there is a note about upgrading from an older version of Ruby to the latest. Have you been reading UPDATING? You might want to try what's there for this problem before you spend a lot of time troubleshooting... On Monday 23 August 2004 07:21 pm, James Brown wrote:

Re: Portupgrade killed everytime

2004-08-23 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 23 August 2004 04:25 pm, Adam Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:21:09AM +0100, James Brown said: Whenever I run portupgrade, I wait about 30 seconds only to see it die: # portupgrade clamav Killed # portupgrade vim Killed Try running it using

Re: [BUGA] df(1) vnconfig(8) hanging ....

2004-08-23 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:24:51AM +0930, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: This morning I wanted to edit an ISO to instruct the kernel to redirect its output to serial. i.e # sudo vnconfig -v -c /dev/vn0 5.3-BETA1-i386-miniinst.iso

Re: disk2.iso: rescue disk

2004-08-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 17:02, Charles Ulrich wrote: Hanspeter Roth said: Hello, is the disk2.iso mainly a rescue disk? Or does it contain further stuff for installation? It is mainly a rescue disk. It contains nothing that you'll actually need for a FreeBSD install. It would be nice if

Re: [BUGA] df(1) vnconfig(8) hanging ....

2004-08-23 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:30:09AM +0930, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:24:51AM +0930, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: This morning I wanted to edit an ISO to instruct the kernel to redirect its output to

Re: [BUGA] df(1) vnconfig(8) hanging ....

2004-08-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:24, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: This morning I wanted to edit an ISO to instruct the kernel to redirect its output to serial. i.e # sudo vnconfig -v -c /dev/vn0 5.3-BETA1-i386-miniinst.iso # sudo mount -t cd9660 -o rw /dev/vn0

Embedded freebsd How to?

2004-08-23 Thread Gerard Samuel
Well I've been using FBSD since 3.4, and I would like to try my hand at trying to put together an embedded FBSD system. I browsed the -small mailing list, but there doesnt seem to be any relevant up to date data there (I may be mistaken). I did a bit of googling, but Im not finding what Im looking

Re: [BUGA] df(1) vnconfig(8) hanging ....

2004-08-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:40, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: To follow-up again, why doesn't this work ? # sudo umount -v -t nfs -f /cdrom/ports/distfiles umount -f mountpoint should be sufficient. Just hangs. Surely you can force an un-mount of an NFS

Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current

2004-08-23 Thread edwinculp
I'm still fighting with the Epson Stylus C63. I can print images with gimp through gimp-print and after configuring cups I can print the test page and it looks great but I can't print anything else. Other programs see the printer configured by cups and can send jobs to, what I assume to be

Re: Embedded freebsd How to?

2004-08-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 23 August 2004 07:41 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote: Well I've been using FBSD since 3.4, and I would like to try my hand at trying to put together an embedded FBSD system. I browsed the -small mailing list, but there doesnt seem to be any relevant up to date data there (I may be mistaken).

XFree86 -- next step?

2004-08-23 Thread Jay O'Brien
I finally have XFree86 working, at least to the point that I can type X and get the expected grid and X mouse cursor. That in itself doesn't seem very useful, but it works. As a learning exercise, which Desktop environment should I install as a first effort, and how do I run it? I'm

Question for the PPP wizards

2004-08-23 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, My FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE laptop and I are going a trip in the near future to a location that has no broadband access. The only internet connectivity I'll have is dialup. The good news is my ISP is TimeWarner/RoadRunner and they have dial-in access. The bad news is the details for

Re: XFree86 -- next step?

2004-08-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jay O'Brien wrote: I finally have XFree86 working, at least to the point that I can type X and get the expected grid and X mouse cursor. That in itself doesn't seem very useful, but it works. As a learning exercise, which Desktop environment should I install as a first effort, and how do I run

Re: make package-recursive

2004-08-23 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote horio shoichi thusly... On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 09:59:52 +0700 User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there should some way to tell make that if ports have been made package, the next time that ports should not have been made again in the make package-recursive

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Help with Interpreting Load Plugin Error Message]]

2004-08-23 Thread Bob Perry
Guillermo García-Rojas wrote: I'm getting that message and Java Plug-in does not work. Is there a way to fix that? On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:23:11 -0400, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please ignore previous message. Found what appears to be the problem in /usr/ports/www/mozilla/pkg_message.

Re: Apple 1gz Server -- FreeBSD?

2004-08-23 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On Monday, 2004, August 23 at 15:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Forrest Aldrich) wrote: We have a 1gz Apple 1U server here -- and I'm wondering if we could run a *BSD on it, other than Darwin. Anyone have some info? OpenBSD also has limited support. http://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html#hardware

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Re: Question for the PPP wizards (AKA: RoadRunner dial-up woes)

2004-08-23 Thread Doug Poland
Doug Poland said: Hello, I get the 1st capital P in Ppp, but then the session hangs as it waits for: Aug 23 20:03:18 eden ppp[738]: tun0: Phase: Chap Input: CHALLENGE (16 bytes from rrlns1-mc1) Aug 23 20:03:18 eden ppp[738]: tun0: Phase: Chap Output: RESPONSE () I don't know what to

Re: changing card in a reader (revisited)

2004-08-23 Thread hoe-waa
From: Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, August 23, 2004 7:41 am I started to get this too, and just got an answer on the CURRENT list. What you need to do the rescan the GEOM structure is: cat /dev/null /dev/da0 cat /dev/null /dev/da1 etc... This worked for me. Apparently

The problem about the lib file libmysqlclient_r.so when installing mysql

2004-08-23 Thread liyanling
hi, everyone.:) I wanted to install mysql on one server, which belongs to Sun Microsystem's UltraSPARC systems and its os is FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have installed ,mysql-client-3.23.58, and mysql-server-3.23.58 through FreeBSD port. But when I wanted to compile the software ripe-dbase--which

portscan looks like....

2004-08-23 Thread Bob Ababurko
Hello- I have just done a portscan on my FreeBSD box running 5.2.1 and got : PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http 111/tcp open rpcbind 1023/tcp open netvenuechat now, i made a faux pas when i configured this machine and had made this a nfs

Re: Embedded freebsd How to?

2004-08-23 Thread Gerard Samuel
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 23 August 2004 07:41 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote: Well I've been using FBSD since 3.4, and I would like to try my hand at trying to put together an embedded FBSD system. I browsed the -small mailing list, but there doesnt seem to be any relevant up to date data there

Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current

2004-08-23 Thread Anish Mistry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 August 2004 08:49 pm, edwinculp wrote: I'm still fighting with the Epson Stylus C63. I can print images with gimp through gimp-print and after configuring cups I can print the test page and it looks great but I can't print anything

Re: XFree86 -- next step?

2004-08-23 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:28:13 -0700 Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally have XFree86 working, at least to the point that I can type X and get the expected grid and X mouse cursor. That in itself doesn't seem very useful, but it works. As a learning exercise, which Desktop

Re: Copy all files and subdirectories preserving time stamp?

2004-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 74, Issue 3 Message: 14 What would be the way to copy all files and subdirectories from one directory to another--preserving the time stamp and other attributes? It seems that 'cp' usually puts a time stamp of the current date and time. Would

panic: page fault in /stand/sysinstall on Asus K8V with Athlon 64

2004-08-23 Thread Karl Swartz
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10 in a new machine which has an Asus K8V motherboard with an AMD Athlon 64 2800+ CPU and 1GB of PC3200 ECC memory. Storage is a pair of Seagate ST-3200822A 200GB UATA-100 disks in a mirror group on a 3Ware Escalade 7006-2 RAID controller. Initially, I didn't have