Re: The FreeBSD Foundation

2004-12-24 Thread Jay Moore
On Friday 24 December 2004 01:07 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Now, as for the Foundation's status as a charity: I'll start with asking you a simple question: Setting aside the legal definitions, what in your mind IS a charity, exactly? Hey look - I don't need a lecture about

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 12/24/04 12:09 AM, Nikolas Britton sat at the `puter and typed: Chris wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: From a business perspective we look amateurish. As opposed to, say, Microsoft? Everyone pushing this new image crap keeps forgetting one thing. This isn't a business. This is

Re: Mystery message from mystery cron

2004-12-24 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 December 2004 07:59, John Conover wrote: Root's inbox gets the message at the bottom about every half hour, or so. There is nothing in /var/cron/tabs, so I can't find out what's causing it. This runs from an entry in /etc/crontab.

Re: The FreeBSD Foundation

2004-12-24 Thread Ian Moore
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:37, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Jay Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:32 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Foundation Yes - I buy from FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:44 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: I hate to see FreeBSD to something like my once favorite news site (www.antiwar.com) did. Early on they had a website that wasn't at all artistic, but they always had links to

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 24 December 2004 01:09 am, Nikolas Britton wrote: [snipped] As long as the artwork does not get in the way of content, and you don't mess with beastie I say have at it if it means so much to you. That is sort of what FreeBSD is all about, you got an idea you know will make it

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Mark
Who me?, no, I just use wiki's for my sites and edit the templates, I'm to lazy to do it any other way as It's a pain in the ass to keep an html site updated. I've kept quiet up until now but I'm afraid I have to step in and respectfully disagree here. If a site is hard to update, that

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Martin Hepworth
I did it on a 5.2.1 machine and loaded Exim from the ports tree. That gives full instructions on what to turn off/on in the rc.conf and a little rc script to start exim at boot. What's not working? -- Martin On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:47:15 -0800, comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Just a

Problems booting my computer

2004-12-24 Thread Darksidex
A few days ago I tried to compile and install FreeBSD 5.3-p2 from a FreeBSD 5.3-p1 Everething worked until I wanted to make installword. I switched to single mode, and during the installation my computer stoped and shaw me a error (I don't remember it). I had to reboot, and booting process

Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?

2004-12-24 Thread James
Hello, Use: sendmail_enable=none This will disable all sendmail processes. On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:55 pm, John Conover wrote: I just installed 5.2.1, and after installing qmail, I still have sendmail running on localhost 25; even though I have sendmail_enable=NO in /etc/conf. Where

Re: Java [was: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines]

2004-12-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
Skylar Thompson wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:20:09PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: to give you a confidence boost, I very recently built jdk14 on a 5.3-RELEASE machine *by the instructions*, and it built without problems, and apps were able to find it afterwards. If that's all that's keeping

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. In my experience, it should

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2004-12-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
Brian Astill wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:13 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: Ah. A crucial bit of information that was missing from the original post. Standard practice in that case is to create a partition on the system with a filesystem that both OSes can read and write. Between Windows and

LoadBalancer With FreeBSD

2004-12-24 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi Everybody , Do you know any load balancer program for FreeBSD like linux LVS . I checked ports and find out morebalance-0.3 and loadd-0.8 ?! Anybody use those programs?! I want make a load balance on my frontend servers ?! Could you give me advise about using

Re: Problems booting my computer

2004-12-24 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 December 2004 11:18, Darksidex wrote: A few days ago I tried to compile and install FreeBSD 5.3-p2 from a FreeBSD 5.3-p1 Everething worked until I wanted to make installword. I switched to single mode, and during the installation my

Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.

2004-12-24 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 03:09:14AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: When I try it with Linux it worked, in fact, here is a patch for kernel 2.6.7: https://kilobyte.dyndns.info/linux/armada_1700_dsdt_linux-2.6.7.diff.bz2 Ok, I will test this on my 1750 right after christmas, as soon as I find

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:27:31 +0100 jsha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing this e-mail hoping that someone will share my thoughts on how the world's best operating system should represent its attributes and users to the rest of the world. You know that you write this a t a time where a lot

FreeBSD Jails Perl: Reading /proc ...

2004-12-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm trying to read /proc/*/status, specifically to find what processes belong to what jail ... but, doing 'direct views' on it tends to generate errors since processes come-n-go ... So, I loaded p5-Proc-ProcessTable, since it looked the closest to what I'm looking for, but it doesn't report

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-23 23:02, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of Cascading Style Sheets?) CSS? Isnt that a bit outdated? Isnt that more a Windows

Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd?

2004-12-24 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Good day, I currently have this setup at home and its working fine with FreeBSD 4.10. Motherboard: Jetway 830CH Hard Drive: 10 Gb Samsung Video Card: SiS on-board Processor:AMD Athlon 1200 Mhz (this is not an Athlon XP) Memory: 256 mb PC100 SDRAM I bought a new 80 Gb

Kernel page faulting

2004-12-24 Thread David LeCount
Alright, I'm a step forward in getting this 486 upgraded from 5.0 to 5.3 but things aren't getting any easier. For those that don't remember, I've been trying to build a kernel and world on my Pentium 4 and install it on a 486 but make was calling a bad system call while installing the new kernel.

ppbus programming / porting freenomad to FreeBSD

2004-12-24 Thread Nimrod Mesika
Hi all, I'm trying to port 'freenomad' (an abandoned sourceforge project) from Linux to FreeBSD. The software uses the Linux parallel port framework (parport) to setup a simple IEEE 1284 ECP session. It seems like the equivalent functionality is provided by FreeBSD's ppbus(4). However, I can't

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: Then the thing to do is create another root account and make the default shell for that one be bash, leaving the root root be /bin/sh. So for those of us that want to go back to the way things should be, (leaving root shell be

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread RW
On Friday 24 December 2004 07:38, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:16 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. Following the Dru

Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-24 Thread David Vincelli
Hi Ian, What do you mean by when you say you mount them as a SCSI device. Which device is that? Thanks, On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:22:16 +1030, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:58, David Vincelli wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with a custom kernel I just

Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-24 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:28:20AM -0500, David Vincelli wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with a custom kernel I just compiled a few days ago to have the atapicam device (the only difference with the stock kernel). I added hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 to /boot/loader.conf, and indeed the

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: Then the thing to do is create another root account and make the default shell for that one be bash, leaving the root root be /bin/sh. So for those of us that want to

RE: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd?

2004-12-24 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 20:27 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd? Good day, I

Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?

2004-12-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed: Hello, Use: sendmail_enable=none This will disable all sendmail processes. This will also disable those annoying daily, weekly and montly messages recieved from cronjobs. Who wants to read about your disks filling up, attempts to

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
Great suggestions, everyone! Now, can we PLEASE move this thread off of -questions. It doesn't belong here. Thank you. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 03:26:15 -0700, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Use: sendmail_enable=none This will disable all sendmail processes. Please don't top-post. Also, the above is deprecated, and the pertinent documentation shows the following: sendmail_enable=NO

Re: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd?

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:42:32 +0530, Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 20:27 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On 24 Dec 2004 11:33:53 +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just

does FreeBSD support nvidia ethernet?

2004-12-24 Thread alexei kozlov
Hello, Gurus. I have EPOX 8rda3 motherboard based on nvidia2 chipset with 2 ethernet interfaces. One is well known -- rtl8139. It works (great). The other is based on nvidia chipset. And I do not know what to do to activate it in FreeBSD. What driver support this ethernet interface. Thanks,

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2004-12-24 Thread Lilith B.
como activar el scroll del mouse ps/2. How activate ps/2 mouse scroll - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I think there's more FreeBSD installations than Apple installations, way, way more. Obscurity is in the eye of the beholder. And talk is cheap. The FreeBSD documentation team has already asked the FreeBSD community to do a site redesign, see here:

help

2004-12-24 Thread Geo B.
como activar el scroll del mouse ps/2. How activate ps/2 mouse scroll - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
Matthew Seaman wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I think there's more FreeBSD installations than Apple installations, way, way more. Obscurity is in the eye of the beholder. And talk is cheap. The FreeBSD documentation team has already asked the FreeBSD community to do a site redesign, see here:

Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-24 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 11:09:51AM -0500, David Vincelli wrote: Exactly as from the handbook. I blanked a DVD-RW using: # dvd+rw-format -blank=full /dev/cd0 I burned a DVD-RW, using: # growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -J -R /usr/backup and I tried a DVD+R, using: # growisofs -Z /dev/cd0

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 24 December 2004 16:06, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: Then the thing to do is create another root account and make the default shell for that one be bash, leaving

Re: help

2004-12-24 Thread Danny Koenig
How activate ps/2 mouse scroll Add following lines into your XF86Config in section InputDevice. Option Buttons 5 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 -- Danny Koenig BSD User Group Berlin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-24 Thread David Vincelli
That's exactly what I mean (I can't mount any DVDs at all). I tried with both devices, they both fail. mount: Input/Output error. I'll try with dma disabled on atapi devices (I assume hw.ata.atpai_dma=0 means disable dma for atapi devices) when I have access to the box - it's at work and the

Re: your mail

2004-12-24 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Lilith B. extolled: como activar el scroll del mouse ps/2. How activate ps/2 mouse scroll If the mouse itself works, but the mouse scroll wheel does not, just add the following to your mouse definition in your X config file: Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Example

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-12-24 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2004-12-24 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread Jay O'Brien
RW wrote: On Friday 24 December 2004 07:38, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:16 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. Following the

Re: help

2004-12-24 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
Geo B. wrote: como activar el scroll del mouse ps/2. How activate ps/2 mouse scroll - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 24, Josh Paetzel launched this into the bitstream: On Friday 24 December 2004 16:06, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: Then the thing to do is create another root account and make

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 24 December 2004 10:52 am, Josh Paetzel wrote: -snip- I've always been curious as to why you can't(shouldn't?) just change the shell that root uses. I think it has to do with the fact that some shells executables are in /bin and others are in /usr/local/bin. Root users should use a

mkfifo: No such file or directory

2004-12-24 Thread Frank Staals
I want to use my printer which is on a windoze computer to use on my intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php . As it is explained I did: mkfifo /dev/smbprint but I got this : bash-3.00# cd /dev/ bash-3.00# mkfifo smbprint mkfifo: smbprint:

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:02:30 -0800, Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Friday 24 December 2004 07:38, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:16 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote:

Re: does FreeBSD support nvidia ethernet?

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:38:51 +0300, alexei kozlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Gurus. I have EPOX 8rda3 motherboard based on nvidia2 chipset with 2 ethernet interfaces. One is well known -- rtl8139. It works (great). The other is based on nvidia chipset. And I do not know what to do to

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-24 15:38, Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 24, Josh Paetzel launched this into the bitstream: I've always been curious as to why you can't(shouldn't?) just change the shell that root uses. Josh that's been the backbone of this particular thread over the last few

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:27:51PM -0500, Brian Astill wrote: Could this conversation please be moved to -advocacy and ONLY to -advocacy? Seconded. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Error sending email with mutt

2004-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-24 13:04, Alfredo Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am running freebsd 5.3 Release I am trying to send emails with Mutt and I am getting this message: SMTP 552 sorry, You envelop sender domain must exist Does anybody knows what it means and how I can fix it? Add this option to

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering

NFS fstab and ipfw

2004-12-24 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I can't boot my machine with out using the noauto switch on my nfs mount, presumeably, because ipfw has'nt set up a tule to allow lo0 access. I have read some things about nfs_mount and wonder if the -i -s switch can be used in fstab on the nfs mount, or if there exists a switch that

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim

Re: mkfifo: No such file or directory

2004-12-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:16:06PM +, Frank Staals wrote: I want to use my printer which is on a windoze computer to use on my intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php . As it is explained I did: mkfifo /dev/smbprint but I got this :

Re: NFS fstab and ipfw

2004-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-24 13:25, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I can't boot my machine with out using the noauto switch on my nfs mount, presumeably, because ipfw has'nt set up a tule to allow lo0 access. I have read some things about nfs_mount and wonder if the -i -s switch can be used

gnome-cd: connecting to cddb server as user

2004-12-24 Thread Karl Agee
Freebsd 4.11-pre, gnome-lite 2.8.1. using gnome-cd to listen to cd's in my user acct, but it wont connect to the cddb server to pull down cd info. It does when I do it as root, however. The only error I see is this: ** (gnome-cd:671): WARNING **: could not contact cddb server how to fix

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:31:37PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:05:30 -0500, Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:31:37PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL

Re: NFS fstab and ipfw

2004-12-24 Thread Grant Peel
I may have left out a key piece of info: I am not using a ipfw.rules sh script. I am using Webmin, which loads the ipfw.rules in the rc.local file. I don't know alot about the order of operations as far as the rc files go, but assume the rc.local is of the last ones to run, likely after mounts

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 24 December 2004 07:54 am, RW wrote: On Friday 24 December 2004 07:38, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:16 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to

Re: NFS fstab and ipfw

2004-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Please don't post the reply on top of what you're replying and trim your replies a bit, keeping only what's relevant :-/ On 2004-12-24 14:11, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-12-24 13:25, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't boot my

Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Scott Bennett
I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual- Band card for laptops. If anyone can point me in the right direction, please let me know. Thanks in advance! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: mkfifo: No such file or directory

2004-12-24 Thread Frank Staals
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:16:06PM +, Frank Staals wrote: I want to use my printer which is on a windoze computer to use on my intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php . As it is explained I did: mkfifo

Re: mkfifo: No such file or directory

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:08:19 +, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running 5.3 Stable, how can I configure FreeBSD that I can use the printer on the windows pc Please read the official documentation: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html --

Re: gnome-cd: connecting to cddb server as user

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 11:02 -0800, Karl Agee wrote: Freebsd 4.11-pre, gnome-lite 2.8.1. using gnome-cd to listen to cd's in my user acct, but it wont connect to the cddb server to pull down cd info. It does when I do it as root, however. The only error I see is this: **

Text Filter

2004-12-24 Thread Leon
Hi, Where can I get advanced Text Filter for printer Dell AIO A960 . Thanks, Leon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Printer

2004-12-24 Thread Leon
Hi, I have tried to configure printer by KDE. When I start to print it gave me an error: The rlpr executable could not be found in you path. Check your installation. What should I do? What should I install? Where I can find this file? Thanks, Leon.

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Matthias Buelow
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: This is a particularly tenacious rumour. I've been using bash as my root shell on many different UNIX platforms for nearly 14 years, and I've never had any problems. I've also never seen any substantiated problems reported anywhere. Besides, when your favourite shell

Answers: Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date

2004-12-24 Thread Richard Bejtlich
Three weeks ago I posted notification of my article Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date. Today I am happy to announce the publication at TaoSecurity.com of Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date: http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_applications_up-to-date.html The new article takes the same

Re: checksum mismatch on hicolor-icon-theme-0.5

2004-12-24 Thread Chandler May
I had downloaded the latest version (hicolor-icon-themes-0.5.tar.gz), and it was even the exact same size as the file that Ports was requesting, so I didn't think that redownloading it would do any good. Well, out of desperation, I did (delete the current file and download a new one), and that

FAQ: What constitutes an inappropriate posting? Was: Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:11:31PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: I guess I'm really not sure what your malfunction is, Joe. What do you not understand about 'deprecated' and 'will be removed in a future release'? BTW, I really don't care to discuss it any further; if you have any

portupgrade time, xorg ports

2004-12-24 Thread Jay O'Brien
Running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, i386 P3-667MHz, 512MB RAM. This is my first experience using portupgrade. I ran cvsup successfully for ports-all. I ran pkg_version -v. It showed a total of 28 ports, 20 needed updating. Of those, 16 were xorg- ports; the others were xterm, freetype2, imake

Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports

2004-12-24 Thread albi
Jay O'Brien wrote: hi, Running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, i386 P3-667MHz, 512MB RAM. - cut for brevity -I didn't install xorg. Why are the 16 xorg ports present? a fresh FreeBSD 5.3 has xorg by default instead of XFree86 ___

Re: Answers: Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date

2004-12-24 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:14:16 -0500, Richard Bejtlich wrote Three weeks ago I posted notification of my article Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date. Today I am happy to announce the publication at TaoSecurity.com of Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date:

Re: Supported CDRW listing for 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:11:04 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to be in the market for a new CDRW soon - I thought there was a list of supported devices. There certainly isnt a mention in the 5.3 Hardware Notes. Nearly any CDRW drive should work. My only suggestions is to advoid

KDM problems on fresh install of 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Peter McMahan
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a Dell Latitude, and installation went without a hitch. While trying to configure KDM for graphical login, though, I ran into some problems. startx works fine as both root and as a regular user. However, when I run KDM and enter my username and password all that

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 6:53 AM -0900 Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So for those of us that want to go back to the way things should be, (leaving root shell be /bin/sh) I fire up vipw and change this: root:*:0:0:Charlie :/root:/usr/local/bin/bash to this: root:*:0:0:Charlie

Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports

2004-12-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:54:04PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: I ran portupgrade -a -N -vu -rR, and it tried several times to fetch X11R6.8.1-src1.tar.gz, each time taking over an hour, and when the file failed, it failed showing a checksum mismatch. I tried it again today, and it was able

Re: mkfifo: No such file or directory

2004-12-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 09:08:19PM +, Frank Staals wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:16:06PM +, Frank Staals wrote: I want to use my printer which is on a windoze computer to use on my intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this

Re: Answers: Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date

2004-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 4:14 PM -0500 Richard Bejtlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Three weeks ago I posted notification of my article Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date. Today I am happy to announce the publication at TaoSecurity.com of Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date:

Re: ifconfig for WLAN using WEP

2004-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:49 AM -0600 Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As it turns out, this was the right question to ask, for which I thank Paul. Glad I was able to help. I interpret the above as meaning that the Broadband interface is the dial-up interface, the Local Area

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 1:54 PM -0600 Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual- Band card for laptops. If anyone can point me in the right direction, please let me know. It's probably the wi driver, which should

Re: Text Filter

2004-12-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:46:48 -0500 Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Where can I get advanced Text Filter for printer Dell AIO A960 Check out the apsfilter port. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

CUPS server

2004-12-24 Thread Leon
Hi, How can I check if SUPS server is running? If it is not running , how can I Install it, and configure? Thanks, Leon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2004-12-23 23:02, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of Cascading Style Sheets?) CSS?

tarball

2004-12-24 Thread Leon
Hi, What is the tarball? How can I extract it? Where I can extract it from? Thanks, Leon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Chris
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2004-12-23 23:02, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of Cascading Style

Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-24 Thread Ian Moore
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 02:25, David Vincelli wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:22:16 +1030, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:58, David Vincelli wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with a custom kernel I just compiled a few days ago to have the atapicam device

Re: CUPS server

2004-12-24 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Leon schrieb: Hi, How can I check if SUPS server is running? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps ax | grep cups 696 ?? Ss 0:03.87 /usr/local/sbin/cupsd ^ If it is not running , how can I Install it, and configure? cd /usr/ports/print/cups make install clean

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Responding to Chris: CSS is neither outdated nor a Windows thing. You apparently need to get an extra clue or two before you rejoin this discussion. Not really - Some years back MS made a big issue about CSS. It was then that I

Re: tarball

2004-12-24 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Leon schrieb: Hi, What is the tarball? for example that's a tarball: /usr/ports/distfiles/samba-3.0.9.tar.gz actually it is 'gzipped' to shrink its size. How can I extract it? a standard tarball: tar xpvf my-tarball.tar a gzipped tarball: tar xpvfz my-tarball.tar.gz a bzipped tarball: tar

Device Driver

2004-12-24 Thread Giuliano Cardozo Medalha
All, Lets supose that I am having a device that does not have support in the FreeBSD Kernel. How is the procedure to compile and use a device driver for FreeBSD ? There is some place and documents to learn how to do that ? Thanks a lot, Giuliano ___

Re: Answers: Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date

2004-12-24 Thread Richard Bejtlich
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 23:00:25 +0100, Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Richard, It looks good. However, it would be nice if you actually wrapped the text to make it readable. Hi Jorn, I realized I missed a closing tag when I posted the file. It should render properly now. Thank

Re: KDM problems on fresh install of 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Michael L. Squires
A couple of problems that might cause this have been discussed recently in the freebsd-kde mailing list. One of them involved not having the correct KDE startup files in /usr/local/share/config/kdm (where kdmrc lives, apparently) and another had to do with commands in the shell startup

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread Peter Schuller
That is indeed the case with portmanager. Sometimes it is a waste of time to rebuild everthing when a dependency changes, and sometimes it is the right thing to do, portmanager assumes it is always the right thing to do. One way this has proved to be a benefit is I've never had to run the

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