Setting up USB Printer???

2005-01-13 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 and I have a USB HP printer (Deskjet 842C) and I can't find any tutorials and the hand book is not much help either unless I'm missing something on how to setup any USB printer under FreeBSD. Can anyone help me with this?

Re: automake, autoconf compiling

2005-01-13 Thread Tom Huppi
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: snip I use autoconf/automake and libtool daily at work[1]. The programs I write have to run on at least 3 different operating systems (FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris) without the need for constant manual tweaking of the source. At work (former),

CyrusIMAPd, SquirrelMail, and sendmail troubles...

2005-01-13 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello list. I've got a whole slew of issues I'm hoping you can help me resolve. I followed the instructions at http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~venkat/tutorial1.html to install cyrusimapd. Everything seemed just fine. I tried to install SquirrelMail, which installed fine, but I cannot log in.

Re: Setting up USB Printer???

2005-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 13 January 2005 07:04 pm, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 and I have a USB HP printer (Deskjet 842C) and I can't find any tutorials and the hand book is not much help either unless I'm missing something on how to setup any USB printer under FreeBSD. Can anyone help me

Re: Serial communication, terminal

2005-01-13 Thread Jay Moore
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:22 am, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I have a microcontroller with an uart interface. I want to communicate with my computer through the serial port of my FreeBSD box. Is it somehow possible to connect the serial io to a xterm? Case it is not: I don't want

Re: Trackball, extra buttons, and X - I've lost something

2005-01-13 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I think I have it partly figured out. I had to change the xmodmap command in .xsession to this: xmodmap -e pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 But I kept the ZAxisMapping at 6 and 7. Now xev shows the side buttons registering at 6 and 7, but I still can't seem to get them working right through Fvwm. At

Re: FBSD boot loader?

2005-01-13 Thread Jud
On 13 Jan 2005 09:02:42 -, John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a 1024 cylinder limit on the first slice for a dual boot PC system using the FBSD boot loader? I presume there is, but I couldn't find it in the handbook. Maybe I missed it. Somewhere between 1997 and 1999 this stopped

Re: making jail on 5.3 release

2005-01-13 Thread pete wright
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:49:49 +0100, Henryk Martinczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings I installed FreeBSD 5.3 (it is my first Freebsd) from iso image and I try to make jail with: # make world DESTDIR=/jail/test everything go fine until this: cc -0 -pipe

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies that need support for the latest hardware. Thank you for informing me. Thought you decided to leave. That's why I said 'Bye' Someone who begins with their first post on the questions list with invective and insults instead

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-13 Thread Chris
Jerry McAllister wrote: Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies that need support for the latest hardware. Thank you for informing me. Thought you decided to leave. That's why I said 'Bye' Someone who begins with their first post on the questions list with invective and

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
The other AMD processor, on my server, dramatically overheated for 8-12 hours at a time (process stuck in a loop--I never found out why). It damaged something that failed intermittently at first (segment violations in the kernel and in daemons that should never have such problems), then got

RE: Trackball, extra buttons, and X - I've lost something

2005-01-13 Thread Mark Beaver
I think it's not so much a setting in X. I think it's more that X simply doesn't have the software to support those extra buttons (wether it's the server or the wm of choice) that's got the lack I'm not sure. What I do know is that I can set this up fine using 4,5 as my ZAxisMapping, and leave

Re: Cut and paste in Emacs

2005-01-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
When I select some text with the mouse in Emacs, i can copy it into another X window application, but I cannot copy it in a Win2K application. It would be helpful to know how you access the win2k application (rdesktop, vmware, ...). Sorry, I should have mentionned it. Xwin-32 6.1. My

flock failure on NFS from 5.3 client to 4.7 server

2005-01-13 Thread Bruce Campbell
NFS server: FreeBSD 4.7 Old Mail server: FreeBSD 4.7, home directories mounted to NFS server New Mail server: FreeBSD 5.3, home directories mounted to NFS server After the mail server upgrade to 5.3, flock gives error operation not supported on nfs mounted home directories. Example: Jan

Re: flock failure on NFS from 5.3 client to 4.7 server

2005-01-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:42:55PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: NFS server: FreeBSD 4.7 Old Mail server: FreeBSD 4.7, home directories mounted to NFS server New Mail server: FreeBSD 5.3, home directories mounted to NFS server After the mail server upgrade to 5.3, flock gives error

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-13 Thread Tabor Kelly
Boris Spirialitious wrote: snip It's like Dave Horsfall wrote: _ /| /| | | | ||__|| | |Please do not| / O O\__ | feed the | /

Re: flock failure on NFS from 5.3 client to 4.7 server

2005-01-13 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... After the mail server upgrade to 5.3, flock gives error operation not supported on nfs mounted home directories. ... On our NFS server, rpc.statd is running, but rpc.lockd wasn't. Started it, still no worky. Killed it, other 4.7

Linux_Base

2005-01-13 Thread E. J. Cerejo
How can you make linux_base-8 the default for FreeBSD 5.3? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___

Re: Linux_Base

2005-01-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:54:51AM -0300, E. J. Cerejo wrote: How can you make linux_base-8 the default for FreeBSD 5.3? It is the default for all versions of FreeBSD, as of a few weeks ago. Kris pgp4d2yVQFwOZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
Boris Spirialitious wrote: Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies that need support for the latest hardware. Thank you for informing me. Boris Personally I moved away from Linux because of all the support problems it had, I've learned more about UNIX from the 1 1/2

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-13 Thread Duo
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Tabor Kelly wrote: Boris Spirialitious wrote: snip It's like Dave Horsfall wrote: _ /| /| | | | ||__|| | |Please do not| / O O\__ | feed

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-13 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Boris Spirialitious writes: BS Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies BS that need support for the latest hardware. It's not a question of latest, it's a question of which hardware. FreeBSD, like all operating systems, targets a broad but not universal user base, and

Re: How can I speed up a dd copy?

2005-01-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 13), Matt Emmerton said: When I am performing a dd between (2) 36 Gig 160 disks (to duplicate them) it takes about 2.5 hrs. Is there any way I can speed this up? Is there any better way I can clone a bootable main disk? A larger blocksize (bs=) will help

RE: Gnome

2005-01-13 Thread admin
Hi there i just have a quick problom i installed Freebsd befor and got gnome to work on startx now when i reinstalled it like sevral times now when i do startx i get the old windows 3.1 look to the startx if you can shed some light on this please do thanks chris

Re: CyrusIMAPd, SquirrelMail, and sendmail troubles...

2005-01-13 Thread Bryan Fullerton
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:18:49 -0600, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I want to use the regular user accounts and passwords for email. How have you setup authentication against user accounts? The tutorial you referenced is a little vague about SASL authentication sources, and seems to be

Re: login.conf problems

2005-01-13 Thread Static
Resource limits (current): cputime infinity secs filesize infinity kb datasize 524288 kb stacksize 65536 kb coredumpsize infinity kb memoryuseinfinity kb memorylocked infinity kb maxprocesses 867 openfiles1735

del key in bash or tcsh

2005-01-13 Thread dkouroun
Dear list, Does anybody know how to change this annoying default behaviour of bash or sh in FreeBSD when somebody presses the del key? When I press the del key I want this to work as it works on any editor or in Linux bash! Anyway to achieve this? And does anybody knows how to have coloured

Re: How to back-rev?

2005-01-13 Thread Ian Moore
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:01, John wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:25:38PM +0100, albi wrote: John wrote: I think I may have been too eager to go to Major Release 5 of FreeBSD. I'm having a lot of trouble with my laptop - with my WIFI cards freezing the system, and trying to make the

Re: gmirror problem on 5.3-R i386

2005-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:51:03AM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:54, Doug Poland wrote: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 bs=512 count=79 You probably destroyed your slice table here. The dd command only makes sense if you insert whole disks (ie. /dev/ad4 and

Re: CyrusIMAPd, SquirrelMail, and sendmail troubles...

2005-01-13 Thread Joerg Pulz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list. I've got a whole slew of issues I'm hoping you can help me resolve. I followed the instructions at http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~venkat/tutorial1.html to install cyrusimapd. Everything seemed just

Re: RELENG_4 IPX commit broke net/mars_nwe?

2005-01-13 Thread Igor B. Bykhalo
First, small followup: for now, i reverted netipx/ipx.h to previous version 1.15, and after system and port were rebuilt all works (not surprisingly :) Other stuff below... On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:50:02PM +0300, Igor B. Bykhalo wrote: Looks like the follwoing commit broke net/mars_nwe

Getting OpenBSD PF to work with 5.2.1-RELEASE

2005-01-13 Thread johnc
Hi, I can't seem to find any docs beyond what's in the handbook about how to set up pf with FreeBSD 5.3.x I've installed pf from ports ... but config(8) doesn't seem to recognize the pf device entries at all. Any pointers to docs/other resources for the hapless freebsd-pf n00b? Thanks, -John

Re: Default LQR timeout period

2005-01-13 Thread Bikrant Neupane
Hi thanks for the answer. However I am trying to find solution from the server end if that is possible. Also I tried setting the InactivityTimeout to different values but still I am getting time out at 40-45 seconds :( regards, Bikrant On Thursday 13 January 2005 12:22, Ted Mittelstaedt

Re: How to use X without installing X?

2005-01-13 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
albi wrote: Richard Morse wrote: Apparently, in order to run the installer for 9i, it needs X. But, I figure it shouldn't need all of X, because I intend to connect via `ssh -X` from a different computer which is running X to actualy do the display. However, even once I've installed

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