Question about Installation --

2004-10-05 Thread Vincent M. DeFabis
Hello, I'm not sure if this is going to the right place, but hopefully you can help. I am a new user and I want to set up FreeBSD on a server. I'm just testing it on a server with a Pentium 233, 128MB RAM. The boot loader finds all of my devices, but when it gets to cpu(0) on motherboard, the

Re: reverse ssh

2004-10-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:45 pm, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: [ please don't loose context ] On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:45:38 +0200 Benjamin Walkenhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah Bushouse wrote: I have a BSD box (home) sitting on an apartment complex network (dhcp/nat/firewall) that I

Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Darryl Okahata
Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HP actually provides linux support for their products. I http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/index.php -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support,

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
nbco wrote: Bittorrent is a type of p2p protocol: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html Bittorrent would take the pressure off the servers as those who use it would effectively be getting the isos from those that already have them on their own boxes, in short it cuts the servers out of the

Floppy drive is going nuts

2004-10-05 Thread Daniela
Recently, my floppy drive isn't working properly. The kernel often panics on unmount of a UFS floppy, and sometimes also while reading or writing an ordinary DOS-formatted floppy. Very often, the data is corrupted, but when formatting the floppy, it shows no errors. And once I tried to write a

Re: reverse ssh

2004-10-05 Thread John Mills
Freebies - On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: [ please don't loose context ] On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:45:38 +0200 Benjamin Walkenhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah Bushouse wrote: I have a BSD box (home) sitting on an apartment complex network (dhcp/nat/firewall) that I

backup msdos partition

2004-10-05 Thread hal
What is the best way to back up an msdos partition (FStype msdos) on my FreeBSD 4.7 system? hal ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/usr/ports/java/jdk14 - native or not? problems with build..

2004-10-05 Thread Volker Eckert
i understand that port was the native freebsd port - why do i need linprocfs mounted and why does it depend on /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/bin/javac anyway, i am getting this while trying to build that very port (jdk14): ../../../../src/share/classes/javax/rmi/PortableRemoteObject.java:22:

Re: DRDB ... similar available for FreeBSD?

2004-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 03:17:54PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:38:49AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Does anyone know of anything similar to http://www.drbd.org/ that works under FreeBSD? GEOM Gate by Pawel

Re: /usr/ports/java/jdk14 - native or not? problems with build..

2004-10-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:30:47PM +0200, Volker Eckert wrote: i understand that port was the native freebsd port - why do i need linprocfs mounted and why does it depend on /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/bin/javac Because you need a java compiler to compile the java compiler (thanks, sun!).

How-to capture error messages from ... recent instant-workstation

2004-10-05 Thread dfarmour
Full SubjectLine: How-to capture error messages from ... recent instant-workstation port make install make clean failure on 5.3Beta6...newish, mid-range box. What's next, Ollie? I'm hoping this is the right place to ask this... BAD case of newbie- itis. And there I was thinking: this is

Re: reverse ssh

2004-10-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:30:48PM -0400, Micah Bushouse wrote: Quick Question~ I have a BSD box (home) sitting on an apartment complex network (dhcp/nat/firewall) that I don't control. I also have a BSD box (work) with a static IP sitting on my university's network. Is there a way to

Re: Vinum Help Needed (was: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail)

2004-10-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 5 October 2004 at 7:47:24 -0500, John Souvestre wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please don't reply to unrelated threads. See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for more details. I'm running Vinum on a 4.9 system with 3 drives. The first drive is a small one and I boot

Re: /usr/ports/java/jdk14 - native or not? problems with build..

2004-10-05 Thread Matt Navarre
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:30, Volker Eckert wrote: i understand that port was the native freebsd port - why do i need linprocfs mounted and why does it depend on /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/bin/javac anyway, i am getting this while trying to build that very port (jdk14):

Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread ALeine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just so no one gets screwed, the Cacon multifunction devices are entierly different beasts from the regular printers. I can't find the refrence at the moment, but I looked at them when I was shopping for a new multifunction printer and they were rated as

Re: Problem regarding dhcp and FreeBSD 4.10 on a laptop

2004-10-05 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Scott Key thusly... ( reformatted) I have a Toshiba Satellite that used to run Win 98 until I got fed up and installed FreeBSD. This is my first FreeBSD installation, though I received help from a few people more knowledgable than I. The problem I am

http://FreeBSD.is

2004-10-05 Thread abuse
Good day. I belive FreeBSD is TM and i want to inform you about the site http://freebsd.is There is nothing about FreeBSD there and it redirect's you to www.skrin.is Regards Mr Einarsson Saevar System Administrator ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Unable to install evolution with LDAP support

2004-10-05 Thread Dan Finn
I'm trying to get evolution built with ldap support so that I can connect to the exchange server here at work and see the global address list. I have ximian-connector installed and working, this is the final piece of this puzzle that I need. with recent cvsup of ports tree I did: cd

Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:41:32AM -0700, ALeine wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just so no one gets screwed, the Cacon multifunction devices are entierly different beasts from the regular printers. I can't find the refrence at the moment, but I looked at them when I was shopping for a

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-05 16:35, nbco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2004 17:08, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I'm asking because I don't know: a) What a bittorrent tracker is. b) What it takes to install and set up one. c) Why would I prefer it over FTP/CVSup? Your reply to c) seems

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-05 20:27, Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when I feel that I like watching TV more than playing with ASM, I quickly switch to the monochrome terminal emulator, deactivate the mouse, emulate the destructive hardware cursor, pull out a primitive hexeditor (or TECO) and enter raw

Re: Unable to install evolution with LDAP support

2004-10-05 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 19:45, Dan Finn wrote: I'm trying to get evolution built with ldap support so that I can connect to the exchange server here at work and see the global address list. I have ximian-connector installed and working, this is the final piece of this puzzle that I need.

Re: shell script

2004-10-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-05 12:23, Brent Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need to write a for-loop that will read the 1st line in a aliase file and grep a passwd file for that user...if that user doesnt exsist in the passwd file go the 2nd line and grep the passwd file for that user ...and so on anyone

Re: backup msdos partition

2004-10-05 Thread hal
On Oct 5, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Phil Reynolds wrote: Quoting hal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What is the best way to back up an msdos partition (FStype msdos) on my FreeBSD 4.7 system? Well, FreeBSD is quite happy handling MS-DOS partitions, so there is no reason you shouldn't use tar, together with whatever

Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On Tuesday, 2004, October 5 at 8:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ALeine) wrote: Speaking of support for Canon multifunction PSC devices, is anyone using the drivers for FreeBSD from the following site? http://canon.codehost.com Yes, and if you try to install it on FreeBSD 5.x, the installer won't even

Re: reverse ssh

2004-10-05 Thread Micah Bushouse
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 16:40, John Mills wrote: Freebies - On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: [ please don't loose context ] On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:45:38 +0200 Benjamin Walkenhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah Bushouse wrote: I have a BSD box (home) sitting on

Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Mike Hauber
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 10:54 pm, Peter A. Giessel proclaimed: sniped... I really can't say many good things about our imageRUNNER C3200. I would NEVER recommend it to somebody else. Just curious... Based on my own experiences, I've concluded that any type of multi-function

RE: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ALeine Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

DooM3 not working on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE :/

2004-10-05 Thread Hugo Silva
Hi, I'm running into trouble trying to run the DooM3 beta on FreeBSD. The screen will stay gray for awhile and then my resolution will be messed up and the system mouseless (cursor won't move) - I can fix this by running Return to Castle Wolfenstein which will give back mouse control and reset

RE: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Hauber Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 8:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed Has _anyone_ out there found an exception to this?

RE: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Giessel Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 8:33 AM To: ALeine Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed We just got an

MISSING lib object

2004-10-05 Thread oscar wicks
hello all: my system complaints about run samba deamon and ... First install from cdrom release (4.10) and recive complaint: printserver# smbd /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libkrb5.so.20 not found, required by smbd Next, i update all sources to stable using cvsup (stable-supfile from

RE: Vinum Help Needed (was: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail)

2004-10-05 Thread John Souvestre
Hello. I apologize for the mistakes and omissions in my original posting. I've included additional information in this message. I'm running Vinum on a Free BSD 4.9 system with 3 hard drives. It's been operational for about 5 years. The first drive is a small one and I boot from it. The

Rebuilding world

2004-10-05 Thread Ralph M. Los
OK, so I'm trying to follow the instructions in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html , and failed repeatedly. Everything appears to go OK, except mergemaster -p seems to fail with some variable errors, and make installworld fails with the error:

FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron

2004-10-05 Thread Igor Partola
Good time of day. Recently I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my Dell Inspiron 8600. It works great, everything except for the winmodem got detected right away. I have however a few things I'd like to tweak that I don't seem to be able to do. Namely: 1) My touchpad is an ALPS touchpad. When I had

RE: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On Tuesday, 2004, October 5 at 19:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted Mittelstaedt) wrote: it takes about two minutes to process each page. What CPU are you running? Let me clarify briefly what I mean by two minutes. The 10 page (full color) document is completely spooled to the imageRUNNER C3200. The

Any idea why Sharity-Light is at least 3X faster than smbfs here?

2004-10-05 Thread Doug Lee
I'm running FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE on a P166 and trying to copy very large (but under 4 gig) files from FreeBSD to a Windows 98 (Second Edition) P866 machine. Neither machine has much other load. (The FreeBSD version probably doesn't matter; I've seen this on many 4.x revisions in the same hardware

Re: Rebuilding world

2004-10-05 Thread Andrew Moran
Your installworld error is saying that it can't install without the new proxy user being added.the proxy user is added during the mergemaster -p.. So because your mergemaster -p is failing, your installworld is failing. Fix the mergemaster problem, and your installworld problem should

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