Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-06 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On 07/04/2006, at 12:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: orange_ wrote: I would like to run a BSD distribution off a 1GB USB Flash drive... What would be the most suitable - something like FreeSBIE? That's possible. You do understand that flash drives only have very limited # of write cycles

Re: BST instead of GMT

2006-04-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 6 April 2006 at 10:58:10 +0100, Philip Radford wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a way to get my FreeBSD 5.3 box to show my local time as BST (British Summer Time) as apposed to GMT. I have checked and double-checked the timezone and have set this to Europe/London. How?

Re: SCO OPENSERVER

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 06), American Eye Center said: I just had a really quick question, the company I work for uses a software that runs on SCO Openserver 5, or later, I have read that Freebsd is compatible with software written for SCO OpenServer, I

Re: FIXED Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Oliver Iberien
About 30 seconds after I finally sent this, I found the answer. It's always a matter of phrasing the Google search correctly: $ xhost +local:local non-network local connections being added to access control list $ su Password: bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin I18N: Operating

Keypad no longer works under X

2006-04-06 Thread Donald T Hayford
My numeric keypad no longer works under X except as a way to move the mouse cursor (i.e., no 1-9, etc). The LED changes states when pushed. I've searched through the X.org site but haven't found anything of use. Does anybody know how to fix this? My xorg.conf looks like this: /Section

Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-06 Thread wc_fbsd
At 07:40 PM 4/6/2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I would like to run a BSD distribution off a 1GB USB Flash drive... That's possible. You do understand that flash drives only have very limited # of write cycles before they fail, and should be operated in read-only mode most of the time? I've

Re: Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
Oliver Iberien wrote: In order to set the printer setting for openoffice.org-2.0.2 I have to, as far as I know, run the program /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin as root. (The default settings are for lp and I am using cups.) It's a series of dialogs in windows and so I've tried

Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-06 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On 07/04/2006, at 12:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:40 PM 4/6/2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I would like to run a BSD distribution off a 1GB USB Flash drive... That's possible. You do understand that flash drives only have very limited # of write cycles before they fail, and should

Re: FIXED Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
Oliver Iberien wrote: About 30 seconds after I finally sent this, I found the answer. It's always a matter of phrasing the Google search correctly: $ xhost +local:local non-network local connections being added to access control list $ su Password: bsd#

freebsd 6.0 personal firewall

2006-04-06 Thread ilyana ramlan
Hello, I have few questions: 1) How do i block websites by typing their url name (eg. www.yahoo.com) using built in freebsd 6.0 firewall? 2) Do i have to configure the hosts.allow file to block websites and must i know their IP address to block websites? Can i block them by their URL names?

Re: Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Oliver Iberien
No... I didn't know about the cups option for openoffice. I find it mentioned, now that you mention it, at http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/#howto . I now see that the option's existence can also be extrapolated from the code in ./files/Makefile.knobs. I had no idea that knob meant a

firewall

2006-04-06 Thread ilyana ramlan
hello, i have another question, Do i have to install IPTable before configuring hosts.allow file? thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Login broken and rc.conf variables suddenly invalid after kernel/world upgrade (?!?!)

2006-04-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
So, I basically upgraded my source again and did installworld. Had to run make quite a few times because it appeared that the makefile for /usr/src was broken (or at least the targets were incorrect since it kept on complaining about stuff not being compiled in buildworld). So I ran

How to read a damaged tape

2006-04-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have a SLR 100 tape drive (SCSI interface) and a tape cartridge with 4 files. The first file is damaged so I cannot mt fsf over that file to read the others. Is there a secret way to to advance the tape by a certain number of meters, or by a certain number of seconds or something. I know

Re: Keypad no longer works under X

2006-04-06 Thread Vayu
On Thursday 06 April 2006 19:47, Donald T Hayford wrote: My numeric keypad no longer works under X Since when? except as a way to move the mouse cursor (i.e., no 1-9, etc). The LED changes states when pushed. I've searched through the X.org site but haven't found anything of use.

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