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I bought a fancy Quickcam (face-tracking), though I have no idea how to make
it work with FreeBSD. I installed qcamview, but when I run it as root, it
says Not found Quickcam, or Permission denied.
Anyone know anything about Quickcams on FreeBSD? I don't expect it to work,
but it would be cool
Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error
messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around
the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to).
I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html but
I'm not clear
Hi all,
I'm running a decently fast server with FreeBSD 5.4. I'd like to set up
a way that the box can act as a voicemail server, and turn the messages into
emails.
I see Asterisk as a possible solution, but it seems awfully heavyweight for
what I want. Are there any lighter-weight ways
Chris wrote:
Evgeny Solovyov wrote:
Chris wrote:
Ariff Abdullah wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:43:50 -0600
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Additional info via pciconf -vl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:27:0:class=0x040300 card=0x81a0104d
chip=0x26688086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:39, Scott I. Remick wrote:
Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error
messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around
the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to).
I've seen
Yance Kowara wrote:
We are trying to use GEOM to make a RAID-1 system
(using a pair of identical IDE) and it is quite simple
to setup.
Does anyone know how to replace the hard disk if any
of the two disks fails? There does not seem to be much
clear documentation, if any exists, about
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:52:43 +0100
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After upgrading Xorg to 6.9 the keyboard option XkbLayout us_intl
does not work anymore. so, I don't have accents :-(
Does anybody know how to (re) install international keyboard layout?
Options XkbLayout us
Options
Hi,
i had checked out the tree RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 and tried to compile
/usr/src with make buildworld, but I always get the errormessage:
--- cut ---
rpcgen -C -h -o crypt.h /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include/rpcsvc/crypt.x
rpcgen -C -l -o crypt_clnt.c
On Sunday 29 January 2006 03:27, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Friday 27 January 2006 17:52, Paul Schmehl wrote:
for files in *.*
do
rm $files
done
Don't ever, *EVER* blindly unlink glob expansions. It's bad for you.
Instead, use something
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:17:28 +0100
Michael Nottebrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dick hoogendijk schrieb:
Running pkgdb -F everytime is not pleasant. What is (are) the
advantage (s) of gamin over fam? Is it wise to change to gamin?
The recent change of the USE_FAM default was done without
Hi all,
I need some help trying to understand why this is happening.
apm -z (or zzz) works just fine from any of the text-based virtual
consoles. If I run it from a shell in X, either as root or myself with
sudo, the computer locks up - no panic, nothing . The only change I can
see is the
Scott I. Remick wrote:
Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error
messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around
the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to).
I've seen
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 6.0 with Bash as my shell. I am trying to automate
a task and I have been reading a lot about Bash, but I haven't been able to get
a script working.
I have a program that I need to pass 3 variables. I have a text file called
list.txt that has the variables separated
On 29 janv. 06, at 16:10, Angelo Christou wrote:
list.txt contains:
bob home 9002
jim data 9005
Running the following for each line is what I'm trying to do:
myprogram bob home 9002
myprogram jim data 9005
and so on..
give this a try:
while read myline; do
set -- $myline
Hello Patrick,
Your suggestion works perfectly. Thank you very much for helping a learner such
as myself.
Ang.
Proniewski Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 janv. 06, at 16:10, Angelo
Christou wrote:
list.txt contains:
bob home 9002
jim data 9005
Running the following for each
Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've just noticed I can't switch from my X session back to the other vtty
screens using Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2 etc.
I can't seem to find any info on this - is it a known issue or is it just my
system? It seems to happen when running both kde twm, so it's
On 1/28/06, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Give the install guide at www.a1poweruser.com a try.
What you call add-ons is what FreeBSD calls the port/package
environment.
A very simple command of pkg_add -r flash will download and install
it.
That's a very good website, it is
This depends on your RAID card. Most RAID cards report the failure of a
drive and will do the rebuilding of a failed drive within the RAID
firmware, outside any OS. So if a drive fails and you replace the drive,
on the next system boot you would have the RAID firmware duplicate the
existing
Matthias Fechner wrote:
Hi,
i had checked out the tree RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 and tried to compile
/usr/src with make buildworld, but I always get the errormessage:
--- cut ---
rpcgen -C -h -o crypt.h /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include/rpcsvc/crypt.x
rpcgen -C -l -o crypt_clnt.c
On 2006-01-28 03:16, Jozef Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This posting doesn't contain a technical question about FreeBSD,
rather a strategic one.
Some time ago, I wanted to migrate to a Unix environment, because I
wanted to have a secure, stable, convenient and efficient environment
for
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:58:10PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote:
Hi,
I've just noticed I can't switch from my X session back to the other vtty
screens using Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2 etc.
I can't seem to find any info on this - is it a known issue or is it just my
system? It seems to happen when
On 29/01/06 Scott I. Remick said:
Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error
messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around
the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to).
Can't you just run xconsole?
Mike
--
Michael P.
Hello,
I've started to experience some system hangs on my Freebsd 5.4-RELEASE-p8.
I'm running it on a P4 3Ghz machine with SMP support.
My make.conf looks like this:
CPUTYPE?=pentium4
CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe
After 1-2 weeks of functioning the machine core dump a verlihub
process and gdb gives:
Hello Jon
I'm in a similar situation as you. I play now a long time with this. You have
to use cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd (is in ports). After the installation man
saslauthd
will explain more details. saslauthd will check the secrets against other
backbone services (saslsb2, ldap, etc.).
Am Tue,
On Sunday 29 January 2006 12:27, Erik Osterholm wrote:
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:58:10PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote:
Hi,
I've just noticed I can't switch from my X session back to the other vtty
screens using Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2 etc.
I can't seem to find any info on this - is it a known
I hope it is ok to post such a problem in this list.
I have installed Jagged Alliance 2 for Linux using the setup.sh on the
first disc and then tried to play it, mounting the game disc to the
directory the installation disc was mounted to whilst installation and
also to /cdrom, as wanted
Hi!
I just finished my first FreeBSD 6.0 installation using the two CD image
files, and my first problem is, that I can't get this optical wireless mouse
to work.
The Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop consists of the receiver, connected to
the PC by USB (also has a PS/2 connector, but it is
Hello
On my two machines (FreeBSD 5.4) I'm not able to compile sendmail with other
mailer then the default ones. The hole thread
and the details you can see in comp.mail.senmdail (link:
Sorry but the Google link was wrong. I attached the hole thread at the end
from this post.
Am Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 07:12:08PM +0100 Martin Schweizer schrieb:
Hello
On my two machines (FreeBSD 5.4) I'm not able to compile sendmail with other
mailer then the default ones. The hole thread
On Sunday 29 January 2006 13:12, Martin Schweizer wrote:
Hello
On my two machines (FreeBSD 5.4) I'm not able to compile sendmail
with other mailer then the default ones. The hole thread and the
details you can see in comp.mail.senmdail (link:
Hello all,
I am the not-quite-proud owner of a Dell system that comes with an
aureal sound card inside of it. In any event, I found the aureal-kmod
kernel module and have gotten it to work on my machine (following
directions on http://www.matey.org/au88x0/). In the process of doing
this
I installed unixodbc mysql2odbc from the ports system.
The /usr/local/etc files odbc.ini odbcinst.ini were empty.
A mysql reference says odbcinst.ini should look like this
[MySQL]
Description = MySQL Driver
Driver= /usr/local/lib/libmyodbc.so
Setup =
Hello freebsd-questions,
I try add machine into domain. If i run smbldap-useradd manually, all
ok. But from samba i get errors:
Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root..
Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: [2006/01/29 22:47:04, 0]
Hello Garrett,
* Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] [29-01-06 09:15]:
The simple answer to your problem is that you haven't cvsupp'ed all
of the sources required to build your system. The more difficult answer
is that you need to find out which category you are lacking in order to
compile
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 20:06, Playnet wrote:
Hello freebsd-questions,
I try add machine into domain. If i run smbldap-useradd manually, all
ok. But from samba i get errors:
Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root..
Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net:
Chuck Swiger wrote:
J.D. Bronson wrote:
I am using this in my pf.conf (on 6.0) and was wondering if these settings
are appropriate.
While 'scrub' by itself is always recommended, I added a few more things
that seem to ought to be there?
I use this for all the NICs...WAN and LAN...
with
Hi:
Where can I find the list of all options of kernel
file for freebsd 5.4?
Thanks
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I installed the mysql-server port.
How do I get it to start at boot time?
Is there some how-to for apache/mysql?
Thanks
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gahn wrote:
Hi:
Where can I find the list of all options of kernel
file for freebsd 5.4?
Thanks
cd /usr/src/sys/[insert_your_arch_here]/conf; make LINT;
All you have to do is fire up your favorite editor and open up the
LINT file that's been created. Of course you have to be root
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 20:32, fbsd_user wrote:
I installed the mysql-server port.
How do I get it to start at boot time?
Is there some how-to for apache/mysql?
Thanks
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fbsd_user wrote:
I installed the mysql-server port.
How do I get it to start at boot time?
I assume that you can do this by adding mysqld_enable=YES to rc.conf.
Is there some how-to for apache/mysql?
Uhm, there's a manual that's served by apache by default, so that's a
good start for
Look in the same directory where the
default kernel source is. One of the files has all the options.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of gahn
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 3:33 PM
To: freebsd general questions
Subject: question of kernel options
By The Way; the American Standard is NTSC (*National Television System C
ommittee*) not NTCS (otherwise you may find it not working as expected).
On 1/23/06, David Raison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Oh, and you most probably have to use the nvidia
At 02:31 PM 1/29/2006, Russell E. Meek wrote:
Chuck Swiger wrote:
J.D. Bronson wrote:
I am using this in my pf.conf (on 6.0) and was wondering if these settings
are appropriate.
While 'scrub' by itself is always recommended, I added a few more things
that seem to ought to be there?
I use
Hi all,
I'm rebuilding my kernel and I noticed some gcc (I believe ) options
being used that I don't think I set anyway.
The options are :
-mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2
Does this mean that the kernel won't make use of these cpu features,
even though they are supported by the cpu
Hello Robert,
Sunday, January 29, 2006, 11:26:05 PM, you wrote:
RS Hmm I think the 1st line says it all. You are not using the correct
RS admin user ie one with sufficient privileges. to add the user to ldap.
RS This is really a question for the samba mailing list.
How subscribe to samba
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:27:29AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote:
Hi all,
I'm rebuilding my kernel and I noticed some gcc (I believe ) options
being used that I don't think I set anyway.
The options are :
-mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2
Does this mean that the kernel won't make
J.D. Bronson wrote:
At 02:31 PM 1/29/2006, Russell E. Meek wrote:
Chuck Swiger wrote:
J.D. Bronson wrote:
I am using this in my pf.conf (on 6.0) and was wondering if these
settings
are appropriate.
While 'scrub' by itself is always recommended, I added a few more
things
that seem to
Hi,
A comprehensive tutorial, in German, could be found at:
http://wiki.bsd-crew.de/index.php/Projektseminar_Mailserver#Einf.FChrung
Best regards,
Ilias
Martin Schweizer wrote:
Hello Jon
I'm in a similar situation as you. I play now a long time with this. You have
to use
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:27:29AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote:
Hi all,
I'm rebuilding my kernel and I noticed some gcc (I believe ) options
being used that I don't think I set anyway.
The options are :
-mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2
Does this mean that the kernel won't make
fbsd_user wrote:
I installed the mysql-server port.
How do I get it to start at boot time?
Is there some how-to for apache/mysql?
If you are using FreeBSD 6, then read the start-up scripts that were
installed as part of the ports. The scripts are in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
Andreas Davour wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Frank Staals wrote:
Hmm I got a question regarding to Fx 1.5. Has anyone else noticed a
tremendous slowdown when using 1.5 ? I especially mean when the
popup-window opens to ask what you want to do with a download ( save
it or open it ) then Fx
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:22:45PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Frank Staals wrote:
Hmm I got a question regarding to Fx 1.5. Has anyone else noticed a
tremendous slowdown when using 1.5 ? I especially mean when the
popup-window opens to ask what you want to do with a
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:13:23PM +, Adam Nealis wrote:
I hate the friendly HTTP error messages. I haven't worked out how to
get bare HTTP error messages yet.
set browser.xul.error_pages.enabled to false
David
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(edquota man page has no examples)
# edquota -u -e /mnt/fs1:810:900:81:90 test200
#
# quota test200
Disk quotas for user test200 (uid 1002): none
#
#
So I run the edquota command non-iunteractively, and it produces no
errors, and it seems to follow the format specified in the
www.LayeredTech.com is good for FreeBSD servers, they are flexable and
offers any version of FreeBSD you need.
They might. But by default they install 5.3. I just signed up with them
and that's what they gave me...
I upgraded to 6 though and so far have been happy with them.
They are the best I know of for cost and support. Cperciva posts in their
forums and they have their own mirror.
Without starting a war does anyone know of any provider that can match
or beat what LT has to offer?
- Original Message -
From: Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
hi sirs,
after cvsup the ports tree , i make index but get errors. it said
inspiron# cat /usr/ports/make-index
Script started on Mon Jan 30 07:10:38 2006
You have mail.
inspiron# uname -a
FreeBSD inspiron.thai-aec.org 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #3: Tue Jan
24 18:17:06 ICT 2006
[EMAIL
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 08:27 +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote:
Hi all,
I'm rebuilding my kernel and I noticed some gcc (I believe ) options
being used that I don't think I set anyway.
The options are :
-mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2
Does this mean that the kernel won't make use of
Sunday 29 January 2006 12:36、Derrick Ryalls さんは書きました:
Greetings,
I did some searching, but didn't find anything so I was hoping someone
might have a clue on this.
I just did the compile for gnome 2.12 on FreeBSD 6 and so far most
everything seems to work except the lower panel does not
Rowdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone have a pointer to a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE Migration Guide?
Try /usr/src/UPDATING, search for To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable
or higher to 6.x-stable (near the end of the file).
I *just* went through this on two 5-STABLE systems, worked like a
Hey people,
I'm trying to build Apache::MP3, but I'm seeing failures.
=== Configuring for mod_perl-1.29_1
Will configure via APXS (apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs)
PerlDispatchHandler.enabled
PerlChildInitHandlerenabled
PerlChildExitHandlerenabled
RJ wrote:
They are the best I know of for cost and support. Cperciva posts in their
forums and they have their own mirror.
Without starting a war does anyone know of any provider that can match
or beat what LT has to offer?
I have a machine with dedicatednow. They've been alright so far.
Pirat SRIYOTHA wrote:
hi sirs,
after cvsup the ports tree , i make index but get errors. it said
inspiron# cat /usr/ports/make-index
Script started on Mon Jan 30 07:10:38 2006
You have mail.
inspiron# uname -a
FreeBSD inspiron.thai-aec.org 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #3: Tue
Jan 24
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:21:23 +, Robert Slade wrote:
I can't help you directly, but have you looked at the error logs? they
should give you a clue, especially Xorg.log
Last few times I remember looking, there was nothing logged. This lead me
to believe that the lockup happened too fast for
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Ian
Moore thusly...
I've just noticed I can't switch from my X session back to the
other vtty screens using Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2 etc. I can't seem
to find any info on this - is it a known issue or is it just my
system?
I can't say if XkbDisable would
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:01:54 -0500, Ken Stevenson wrote:
I was trying to accomplish the same thing a couple weeks ago and
somebody recommended the following:
touch /var/log/console.log
Edit /etc/syslog.conf and uncomment the line that begins with
console.info.
Reboot (you might be
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:32:46 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
Can't you just run xconsole?
Doesn't help me if xconsole is hidden by another window at the time of the
halt.
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Scott I. Remick wrote:
Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error
messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around
the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to).
I've seen
Hello. I am using FreeBSD 6.0 and Bash as my shell. I
am following a tutorial to create a shell script to
copy some files. It works perectly exept for 2 points.
Here is the article -
http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=170517
Here is the script -
#!/bin/sh
A .netrc file (read the ftp man page) may work for you.
Cheers
Gavin
On 1/30/06, Angelo Christou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. I am using FreeBSD 6.0 and Bash as my shell. I
am following a tutorial to create a shell script to
copy some files. It works perectly exept for 2 points.
Here is
Hi all:
I configured pptp server on 5.4 and it seems to be
working (kinda):
1) From log file
Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp0] using interface ng0
Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp1] ppp node is
mpd5309-pptp1
Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp1] using interface ng1
Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp2]
Hi all:
I configured pptp server on 5.4 and it seems to be
working (kinda):
1) From log file
Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp0] using interface ng0
Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp1] ppp node is
mpd5309-pptp1
Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp1] using interface ng1
Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp2]
Hi All,
I am having some confusion regarding the way CVS works with permissions
under unix when importing a new project. Currently, when I import a
project, I get this sort of permissions on the project directory:
drwxr-x--- 2 jim cvs 512 Jan 27 12:31 test_proj
Notice that the group (cvs)
Gavin Cameron wrote:
A .netrc file (read the ftp man page) may work for you.
Cheers
Gavin
If you have shell access on the destination host, you can also try mirror.
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On 29/01/06, Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 28 January 2006 19:19, Chris wrote:
Concerning speed I discovered the version in the ports tree is very
slow, I have portsnap running zippy when using fetch on 2 5.4 boxes
which I use the version in the base system, on 2
david bryce wrote:
Hi All,
I am having some confusion regarding the way CVS works with permissions
under unix when importing a new project. Currently, when I import a
project, I get this sort of permissions on the project directory:
drwxr-x--- 2 jim cvs 512 Jan 27 12:31 test_proj
Notice
Hi Mathieu,
useless to do -r while you search only files (-type f)
the delete function of find seems more apropriate to me
But the -exec mode is more general (understand you put whatever
command you want there) and beside, the first question was refeering
to a syntax using {}.
But I guess
A .netrc file (read the ftp man page) may work for
you.
Cheers
Gavin
If you have shell access on the destination host,
you can also try mirror.
Thanks for the many suggestions, I will be looking
into them all (.netrc doesn't work yet, still trying).
I am still curious why the
david bryce wrote:
I am having some confusion regarding the way CVS works with permissions
under unix when importing a new project. Currently, when I import a
project, I get this sort of permissions on the project directory:
drwxr-x--- 2 jim cvs 512 Jan 27 12:31 test_proj
Hi,
Hi,
I am trying setup a vinum mirrored plex with two disks:
ad2: 38204MB SAMSUNG SP0411N [77622/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
ad3: 38204MB SAMSUNG SP0411N [77622/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA33
Disks are new and fully functional, but when i do:
#vinum start
#vinum
vinum - mirror -v -n mirror /dev/ad2
On Monday, 30 January 2006 at 10:31:13 +0300, Forth wrote:
Hi,
I am trying setup a vinum mirrored plex with two disks:
ad2: 38204MB SAMSUNG SP0411N [77622/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
ad3: 38204MB SAMSUNG SP0411N [77622/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA33
Disks are new and fully functional, but when
Every night I rsync a directory tree from one system to another. Easy.
However there is a particular set of files that could exist anywhere in
that directory at any depth, and it is unknown how many there are at any
given time. I want to make sure that rsync skips over those files
regardless
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