The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-01-30 - 2005-02-19

2005-02-20 Thread Dan Langille
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What do you use to burn things ?

2005-02-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
How do you burn a iso file for example ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What do you use to burn things ?

2005-02-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:41:59 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you burn a iso file for example ? What does this mean ? I# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s max data /root/Desktop/memtest86-3.2.iso fixate next writeable LBA 581 writing from file /root/Desktop/memtest86-3.2.iso size 1794

Re: What do you use to burn things ?

2005-02-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:54:53 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:41:59 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you burn a iso file for example ? What does this mean ? I# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s max data /root/Desktop/memtest86-3.2.iso fixate

Some sound problems with an Asus A7N8X-X motherboard

2005-02-20 Thread Mattias Björk
Dear list, I have a Asus A7N8X-X motherboard and I wounder what exactly are the right kernel module I should load to get my sound working. I have solved this buy setting snd_driver_load to YES in /boot/loader.conf. But I don't think that its the best solution. Because it loads all the kernel

Re: What do you use to burn things ?

2005-02-20 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, have you tried lower speeds? It seems you are using -s max all the time... You also could try whether your drive works better with cdrecord + ATAPICAM. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html#ATAPICAM A benefit of using ATAPICAM is that this enables you

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 08:41:30AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: So if data is declared as a gchar *data; for example, then the value of data is a memory adress right ? So if A=data; and B=data; then A and B are exactly the same result right ? No. A is a 'pointer to gchar' (or gchar*) and B is

Re: What do you use to burn things ?

2005-02-20 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:53:40AM +0100, Simon Barner wrote: You also could try whether your drive works better with cdrecord + ATAPICAM. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html#ATAPICAM A benefit of using ATAPICAM is that this enables you to use nice

too many LCP NAKs sent

2005-02-20 Thread Tomas Olsson
Hi, Im having trouble getting ppp to work. I have glocalnet ADSL and when Im trying to connect the following message are printed in my log file : too many LCP NAKs sent - abandoning connection What can be wrong? When I use show physical I see that I recieve and send packages. My ppp.conf:

Re: Unexpected resolver behavior

2005-02-20 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:04:22PM -0600, Jamie Ostrowski wrote: I'm running 4.10-p5 on my workstation at home, and I can't understand why I cannot get www.foo.com to resolve to an IP I am specifying in /etc/hosts (I want to over-ride the IP returned by the nameserver I query by

Re: Configuring PF

2005-02-20 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:32:25PM -0700, Pat Maddox wrote: I want to install a firewall on my system. First of all, is PF the one I should be using? It seems to get the most recommendations. I don't actually seem to have any problems configuring it - I just have some problems testing the

Re: probably a simple problem with permissions

2005-02-20 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:53:57PM -0500, David Wassman wrote: I am probably understanding this problem incorrectly meaning there is a simple explanation that is escaping me. My /dev/cd0 is owned by root so I have tried to change both the owner and the group so I can use it as a user. I

Re: SSH-agent setting

2005-02-20 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:23:27PM +0100, kilim wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:51:41AM -0500, Clayton Scott Kern wrote: Why not use keychain and put it in the appropriate rc file (.bashrc, cshrc, etc.), then you'll be connected to the agent automatically. My bad. Please

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-20 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:44:55AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:02:02 -0600, Jamie Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I may have missed something from the thread before I joined the list, but is there any reason you can't just mount the filesystems and use vi as

Re: What do you use to burn things ?

2005-02-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:31:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:53:40AM +0100, Simon Barner wrote: You also could try whether your drive works better with cdrecord + ATAPICAM.

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Gert Cuykens, I would suggest to post such questions to gtk-list@gnome.org, because IIRC you are trying to code a GTK app ... Additionally I would suggest to learn C/C++ first to get a better understanding of the whole language structure. Or at least please join the c# IRC channel at

Bash script programming. Sending commands to a 'screen' session

2005-02-20 Thread Joachim Dagerot
I just accidentily wiped one of my script folders. Really no big deal, I'm not doing multiK scripts. But I had one nice script laying around. It created an additional window in a named screen session and started a bittorrentheadless session within. I do remember that it took me some days to

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:47:50 +, Scott Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 08:41:30AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: So if data is declared as a gchar *data; for example, then the value of data is a memory adress right ? So if A=data; and B=data; then A and B are

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:15:43 +0100, Daniel S. Haischt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens, I would suggest to post such questions to gtk-list@gnome.org, because IIRC you are trying to code a GTK app ... Additionally I would suggest to learn C/C++ first to get a better understanding of

FTP Problems (probably my firewall)

2005-02-20 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello list, I'm trying to get FTPD working, but I think I'm not opening the correct ports for it in my firewall. I've got 20 and 21 open, and I get the login prompt and such, but only after a 10 to 20 second delay. After that, everything seems to work fine, until I try to upload to the

Re: FTP Problems (probably my firewall)

2005-02-20 Thread Chris
Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list, I'm trying to get FTPD working, but I think I'm not opening the correct ports for it in my firewall. I've got 20 and 21 open, and I get the login prompt and such, but only after a 10 to 20 second delay. After that, everything seems to work fine, until I try to

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 04:34:45PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: Thx i think i understand now :) PS Freebsd source is c++ right ? So you could also call this the free c++ question mailing list :) FreeBSD is almost entirely written in C, although there are a few bits of C++ under /usr/src.

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Gert Cuykens, Gert Cuykens schrieb: [SNIP] PS Freebsd source is c++ right ? So you could also call this the free c++ question mailing list :) No wrong! Most Unices are written in C (kernel, device drivers etc.). Basically, you sould get to an understanding that your questions about GTK, and the

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS Freebsd source is c++ right ? So you could also call this the free c++ question mailing list :) No and no. Also about all the get a c++ book comments, i tryed that once but when i ask the book a question, it doesnt say anything back. It only makes

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Chris Hodgins
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:47:50 +, Scott Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 08:41:30AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: So if data is declared as a gchar *data; for example, then the value of data is a memory adress right ? So if A=data; and B=data; then A and

Shell file completion

2005-02-20 Thread Alejandro Pulver
Hello, I was learning regular expressions, and I noticed that the shell has something similar (but it is different from regular expressions). When I type 'echo *', it replaces '*' for all the files/dirs not starting with a '.' (dot). I understand the '*' in regular expressions must be

Re: Shell file completion

2005-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
[Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so] Alejandro Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was learning regular expressions, and I noticed that the shell has something similar (but it is different from regular expressions). When I type 'echo *', it replaces '*' for all the

Re: What do you use to burn things ?

2005-02-20 Thread David Kelly
On Feb 20, 2005, at 3:54 AM, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:41:59 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you burn a iso file for example ? What does this mean ? I# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s max data /root/Desktop/memtest86-3.2.iso fixate next writeable LBA 581 writing from

problem with sharing internet

2005-02-20 Thread ****** ******
good day..i have 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD and a problem with sharing internet to win98, freebsd is a gateway..a i have 2 NIC, fxp0 is a gateway for w98a had before slackware 10.0 and over there wasn't problem with iptables..i need configure correctly ipfw, maybemy configuration: sis0:

qmail?

2005-02-20 Thread gabriel
Ok, well I installed qmail and all that jazz through Matt's Mail toaster. Everything appeared to have been installed without any problems, obviously some tweaking had to be done to customize the installation but nothing major. At this point, my only problem appears to be the from address that its

Re: Annoying ports problem

2005-02-20 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:37 pm, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:45:36 +0100, Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I have run into an annoying problem several times when upgrading ports. Say, if i want to upgrade

IPFW config

2005-02-20 Thread SigmaX
Heya; I have a FreeBSD 5.3 server that I access over SSH. I followed the handbook guide to loading the ipfw kernel module to setup a firewall. I made the mistake the other day of loading the firewall, which defaults to block all, and rebooting, so I couldn't get into the system again (Had to

Re: IPFW config

2005-02-20 Thread Chris Hodgins
SigmaX wrote: Heya; I have a FreeBSD 5.3 server that I access over SSH. I followed the handbook guide to loading the ipfw kernel module to setup a firewall. I made the mistake the other day of loading the firewall, which defaults to block all, and rebooting, so I couldn't get into the system

Re: qmail?

2005-02-20 Thread Chris Warren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I believe this is done in your /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain and /var/qmail/control/defaulthost files. In fact, check through all the files in the control dir to make sure they are right. Chris gabriel wrote: | Ok, well I installed qmail and all

Re: qmail?

2005-02-20 Thread gabriel
I did actually, it USED to have somedomain.com in a lot of the files but I changed them to the actual domain. Should they be the mail server's host or the domain? On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:24:15 -0700, Chris Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I

Re: IPFW config

2005-02-20 Thread Simon Barner
Set IPFW to allow traffic on ports 80, 1, and 23 (That's the default SSH port, right?) Nope, it's 22. Then start IPFW with the kernel module (I know how to do this) Have you already read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html? It describes how to

Re: Configuring PF

2005-02-20 Thread Pat Maddox
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:23:39 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:32:25PM -0700, Pat Maddox wrote: I want to install a firewall on my system. First of all, is PF the one I should be using? It seems to get the most recommendations. I don't actually

Re: qmail?

2005-02-20 Thread Chris Warren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My defaulthost just has myhost, and defaultdomain has mydomain. My daily run output is sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] gabriel wrote: | I did actually, it USED to have somedomain.com in a lot of the | files but I changed them to the actual domain. Should

Re: IPFW config

2005-02-20 Thread Christian Hiris
On Monday 21 February 2005 19:01:19, SigmaX wrote: [...] Set IPFW to allow traffic on ports 80, 1, and 23 (That's the default SSH port, right?) The default shh port is 22, port 23 is assigned to telnet. You can find the list of default port assignments in /etc/services. Cheers, ch --

Re: IPFW config

2005-02-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
- Original Message - From: SigmaX [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 12:01 PM Subject: IPFW config Set IPFW to allow traffic on ports 80, 1, and 23 (That's the default SSH port, right?) Then start IPFW with the kernel module (I know

Re: qmail?

2005-02-20 Thread gabriel
very cool, I edited the appropiate files and restarted everything. The problem is then I send the periodic It gets bounced cause it cant find [EMAIL PROTECTED] *sigh* On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:47:36 -0700, Chris Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My

Re: qmail?

2005-02-20 Thread Chris Warren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've added localhost to the locals and rcpthosts files. Seemed to take care of that. gabriel wrote: | very cool, I edited the appropiate files and restarted everything. | The problem is then I send the periodic It gets bounced cause it | cant find

Re: qmail?

2005-02-20 Thread gabriel
Okay. Thanks! On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:33:20 -0700, Chris Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've added localhost to the locals and rcpthosts files. Seemed to take care of that. gabriel wrote: | very cool, I edited the appropiate files and

Re: Shell file completion

2005-02-20 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:20:01 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so] I am using Sylpheed-Claws, and it appears to be wrapping at 78 characters. But the option 'Smart Wrapping' was set and is marked as *EXPERIMENTAL*. So I turned it off and

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:58:54 -0500, David Vincelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thx i think i understand now :) I wouldn't bet on it. lol no really, the B is a gchar** made sence. Your analogy is invalid. Perhaps you can say that you walked into a fine cigar store and asked the seller about

Partial web page loading

2005-02-20 Thread Scott Stevenson
I'm a relatively new user of FreeBSD (5.3 release), and have encountered a problem that I haven't seen on other platforms. The details and a screenshot are outlined here: http://theocacao.com/document.page/82 Essentially, web content (text and images alike, it seems) occasionally fails to load

Re: Partial web page loading

2005-02-20 Thread Chris
Scott Stevenson wrote: I'm a relatively new user of FreeBSD (5.3 release), and have encountered a problem that I haven't seen on other platforms. The details and a screenshot are outlined here: http://theocacao.com/document.page/82 Essentially, web content (text and images alike, it seems)

Re: Partial web page loading

2005-02-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris wrote: Scott Stevenson wrote: I'm a relatively new user of FreeBSD (5.3 release), and have encountered a problem that I haven't seen on other platforms. The details and a screenshot are outlined here: http://theocacao.com/document.page/82 Essentially, web content (text and images alike,

Re: Do you have gtray-1.1.tar.gz ?

2005-02-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Benjamin Dover wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:49:12 -0600, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin Dover wrote: I am looking for the file gtray-1.1.tar.gz it is the distfile for /usr/ports/mail/gtray It is the Gmail tray app to indicate new mail notifications. The site has gone

undefined ap_block_alarms in libphp5.so in spite of SHARED_CORE

2005-02-20 Thread Gene
Hi - I tried sending this to the PHP-INSTALL list and got an immediate pile of spam back. Anyway - I'm trying to get PHP5 to run with Apache 2.0.5 on FreeBSD 5.3. However, I keep getting the following: Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so into server:

frozen bubble sound issue

2005-02-20 Thread Trey Sizemore
I know it seems trivial, but it's driving me crazy none the less. The game was fine yesterday, but I could not even launch Frozen Bubble today. I did a 'make deinstall' and then reinstalled the port. Now it starts, but I'm getting the following error: Ready. Warning, could not create new music

Update - Undefined symbol ap_block_alarms

2005-02-20 Thread Gene
In reference to the problem posted earlier about libphp5.so, after a reinstall of php4 - the same error results from libphp4.so Perhaps the problem lies in apache? Gene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Partial web page loading

2005-02-20 Thread Scott Stevenson
On Feb 20, 2005, at 1:39 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Are we understanding correctly that it's the server at issue? Pages from theocacao.com are looking fine here. On cocoadevcentral.com, the article I looked at seemed fine; however, the right sidebar/navbar seemed truncated. I felt sure it was a

5.3 /etc/rc.network

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im reading an older article that refers to /etc/rc.network Is there an equivalent to /etc/rc.network in FreeBSD 5.3? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Tape Drive -- broken?

2005-02-20 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
I recently acquired an old IDE QIC/Travan tape drive (for free) and I'm trying to get it to work on FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE. I don't know for sure whether the unit is any good, but I would like to rule out operator error before I throw it away. Here's what happens: at boot time, the tape drive

Re: mlock: not setgid mail

2005-02-20 Thread Vonleigh Simmons
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:04:55AM -0800, Vonleigh Simmons wrote: I asked this question before but I haven't found a solution. I'm getting in my mail log the following entry repeated: usr/local/libexec/mlock[755]: (64) not setgid mail And I can't figure out what it's complaining

Re: 5.3 /etc/rc.network

2005-02-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gerard Samuel wrote: Im reading an older article that refers to /etc/rc.network Is there an equivalent to /etc/rc.network in FreeBSD 5.3? Not a single script. Instead varios scripts for varios tasks, scripts are in /etc/rc.d names should be sufficient explanation. Cheers, Erik -- Ph:

Split DNS [was]: 5.3 /etc/rc.network

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Samuel
Erik Norgaard wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Im reading an older article that refers to /etc/rc.network Is there an equivalent to /etc/rc.network in FreeBSD 5.3? Not a single script. Instead varios scripts for varios tasks, scripts are in /etc/rc.d names should be sufficient explanation. Yeah I

emacs 5.3

2005-02-20 Thread Jim Pazarena
trying to compile emacs and it dies because it cannot find shared library Xaw3d.8 a find produces /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.7 libXaw3d.so and libXaw3d.a I've make installed /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/Xaw3d what do I have left to do to make the .8 shared library ? Thanks, Jim

Re: Split DNS [was]: 5.3 /etc/rc.network

2005-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Im attempting to setup split dns, using instructions from http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/split_DNS.html (Specifically under the heading /etc/rc.network) Can anyone point me as to what can be done to run 2 instances of bind, using freebsd 5.3 rc

Re: emacs 5.3

2005-02-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 03:38:22PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: trying to compile emacs and it dies because it cannot find shared library Xaw3d.8 a find produces /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.7 libXaw3d.so and libXaw3d.a I've make installed /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/Xaw3d what do I

Re: Split DNS [was]: 5.3 /etc/rc.network

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Samuel
Bill Moran wrote: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Im attempting to setup split dns, using instructions from http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/split_DNS.html (Specifically under the heading /etc/rc.network) Can anyone point me as to what can be done to run 2 instances of bind, using freebsd

Re: Split DNS [was]: 5.3 /etc/rc.network

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Im attempting to setup split dns, using instructions from http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/split_DNS.html (Specifically under the heading /etc/rc.network) Can anyone point me as to what can be done to run 2 instances of

PEAR Search Path (PHP's include_path)

2005-02-20 Thread doyou
I am running fBSD 5.3-Release and have installed Horde via ports and am having trouble finding the pear search path to put in the php.ini include_path. When Horde was installed it installed PHP 4. If I bring up the Horde test.php page it shows the following under pear: PEAR Search Path (PHP's

Re: PEAR Search Path (PHP's include_path)

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Samuel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running fBSD 5.3-Release and have installed Horde via ports and am having trouble finding the pear search path to put in the php.ini include_path. When Horde was installed it installed PHP 4. If I bring up the Horde test.php page it shows the following under pear:

Re: Partial web page loading

2005-02-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Scott Stevenson wrote: I'm a relatively new user of FreeBSD (5.3 release), and have encountered a problem that I haven't seen on other platforms. The details and a screenshot are outlined here: http://theocacao.com/document.page/82 Essentially, web content (text and images alike,

Re: Partial web page loading

2005-02-20 Thread Scott Stevenson
On Feb 20, 2005, at 4:37 PM, Andrew L. Gould wrote: Are you sure it's not an odd browser configuration issue? For example: For the longest time, the images at http://bsdmall.com/ wouldn't load in mozilla but would in konqueror. One day, I stumbled across a configuration item in mozilla to

Need IMAP Server Selection Advice

2005-02-20 Thread James Stallings II
Greetings, I'm a recent covert to FreeBSD from many years of using linux on both the server and the desktop. I'm currently using FreeBSD 5.3 on the server and a new variant of FreeBSD called OS/X on the desktop :D My question involves my server; what is the best strategy to a working IMAP

Re: Need IMAP Server Selection Advice

2005-02-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/20/05 07:05 PM, James Stallings II sat at the `puter and typed: Greetings, I'm a recent covert to FreeBSD from many years of using linux on both the server and the desktop. I'm currently using FreeBSD 5.3 on the server and a new variant of FreeBSD called OS/X on the desktop :D Yup.

Re: All your laptops are belong to Windows.

2005-02-20 Thread bsdnooby
If you have an HP or Compaq laptop, and you see this problem TRY the R3000Z patches. I tried a bunch of things to get my HP Pavilion to work, but I decided I would delay converting this machine until I know more about what I am doing. FreeBSD 5.3 *does* install on another P3-650 laptop on

USB drive - crypto filesystem options?

2005-02-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey folks. I have just become the proud owner of a fancy new 1GB USB 2.0 drive; one of those cool new gadgets no bigger than my pinky that holds 1 Billion bytes of data. Naturally, I can't wait to play with it :) Well, I know that USB 2.0 support is kinda sketchy, and I've already decided it's

Re: Need IMAP Server Selection Advice

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Hinrichs
Shouldn't be much difference - except that it might actually be easier. I came from Linux (way back in the RH6.0 days) running Cyrus Imapd to FreeBSD running the same. I recently moved over to Courier Imapd, which I think I like better. Cyrus required a lot of up front work and detailed

Re: IPFW config

2005-02-20 Thread SigmaX
Paul Schmehl wrote: - Original Message - From: SigmaX [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 12:01 PM Subject: IPFW config Set IPFW to allow traffic on ports 80, 1, and 23 (That's the default SSH port, right?) Then start IPFW with the

Re: Need IMAP Server Selection Advice

2005-02-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/20/05 08:07 PM, Jeff Hinrichs sat at the `puter and typed: Shouldn't be much difference - except that it might actually be easier. I came from Linux (way back in the RH6.0 days) running Cyrus Imapd to FreeBSD running the same. I recently moved over to Courier Imapd, which I think I

Promise PDC20267 UDMA100 controller channel attaching trouble

2005-02-20 Thread doug reynolds
I've having a bit of trouble with my promise ATA100 controller card on my server computer. I used to use it fine with my older system (k6-450 with freebsd 4.xx). I've built this newer box (with FreeBSD 5.3 and also 5.3-STABLE, running a K7-650 now) and swapped a lot of things over. The

apache wont start after mhash install

2005-02-20 Thread Bob Ababurko
Hello- I have a box that is running 5.2.1 on sparc64 hardware. After installing php4-mhash-4.3.8_2 via ports, apache will not start again after it is stopped. It will return to normal after I uninstall the port of coarse. The only error message I get is this in /var/log/messages: Feb 20

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-02-20 16:34, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thx i think i understand now :) Not quite, I'm afraid. PS Freebsd source is c++ right ? So you could also call this the free c++ question mailing list :) No. FreeBSD is written mostly in C. C++ is a very different language, so

Re: Need IMAP Server Selection Advice

2005-02-20 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 20, 2005, at 7:07 PM, Jeff Hinrichs wrote: I'd have to agree with the poster. For a small installation Courier is faster to get up and running the Cyrus. But once you start having to use it with 20-30 users, Cyrus is hands down a better deal. Yes, it does take a more grokking to get

Trouble with upgrading ports...

2005-02-20 Thread Eric Schuele
Hello, I am having difficulty upgrading ports on all my freebsd 5.3-stable machines. They all have been cvsup'd and built within the last few days. But for the last week, maybe two... something strange has been (not) happening. Portversion no longer correctly reports what ports need

Re: Trouble with upgrading ports...

2005-02-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:00:37PM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, I am having difficulty upgrading ports on all my freebsd 5.3-stable machines. They all have been cvsup'd and built within the last few days. But for the last week, maybe two... something strange has been (not)

Re: Trouble with upgrading ports...

2005-02-20 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 20 February 2005 09:00 pm, Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, I am having difficulty upgrading ports on all my freebsd 5.3-stable machines. They all have been cvsup'd and built within the last few days. But for the last week, maybe two... something strange has been (not) happening.

Email and scheduling etc sigh -- Was Need IMAP Server Selection Advice

2005-02-20 Thread Murray Taylor
I had been admin' a moderatly sized (cyrus/exim/spamassasin/clam-av) setup until recently when we switched to the darkside. (Don't ask, it's still to painful to think about.)(If you're still curious it had nothing to do with email capabilities but with scheduling capabilities and the

how do i translate non-ascii chars???

2005-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
l Guys, I've got sseveral HTML files with O-aigu and O-grave and others (these files were composed on a Mac. Rather than display as ['] (apostrophes) or backticks, they are rendered in full 8859-1. How to I translate these 128 range

Re: Trouble with upgrading ports...

2005-02-20 Thread Rob
Kris Kennaway wrote: Correct: the machine that builds fetchindex hasn't been getting cvs updates since last week some time. I'm in the process of trying to fix this. In the meantime, you can build your own index ('make index') if you need to update, but this is quite resource-intensive. I

Good rentable servers?

2005-02-20 Thread bsdnooby
Instead of getting a fixed IP address at my house, and having a noisy machine running all the time - I think I might want to try renting a dedicated FreeBSD server. It would be used for running Apache, phpBB, email, listserv, and a few other services. I found several places that have

Re: how do i translate non-ascii chars???

2005-02-20 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 20 February 2005 10:51 pm, Gary Kline wrote: l Guys, I've got sseveral HTML files with O-aigu and O-grave and others (these files were composed on a Mac. Rather than display as ['] (apostrophes) or backticks, they are rendered in full 8859-1.