OpenOffice2 with german user interface

2006-09-06 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello - Forwarded message from Simon Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Simon Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Phoenix Lab. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Martin Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OpenOffice2 with german user interface Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:35:20

Abwesenheitsnotiz: Information

2006-09-06 Thread Roduner Daniel
Out of the office - reply Thank you for your message. I am out of the office from September 6th, until October 5th, 2006. Messages are checked upon my return. In urgent matters please contact: Elisabeth Katz; Tel. +41 (0) 52 354 97 35; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best regards, Daniel Roduner

Recommended remote management card for FreeBSD 6.X?

2006-09-06 Thread Philippe Lang
Hi, What remote management card (like Drac, for example) would you recommend for a FreeBSD 6.X Server? -- Philippe Lang, Ing. Dipl. EPFL Attik System rte de la Fonderie 2 1700 Fribourg Switzerland http://www.attiksystem.ch Tel: +41 (26) 422 13 75 Fax: +41 (26)

Re: Recommended remote management card for FreeBSD 6.X?

2006-09-06 Thread Nicklas B. Westerlund
Philippe Lang skrev: Hi, What remote management card (like Drac, for example) would you recommend for a FreeBSD 6.X Server? I guess you'll get as many replies as there are vendors here, but my 2 cents worth of advice is to go with the HP iLO / iLO2 - they work like a charm! Nick.

Creating pkg-plist - problems

2006-09-06 Thread vittorio
Under 6.1 I'm trying to build a port (R-2.3.1) following the instructions in the porters-handbook and particularly I'm having a go at creating the pkg-plist file as suggested in the point 7.5 of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/plist-autoplist.html now,there is

Re: easy patch management tools

2006-09-06 Thread Toomas Aas
Aaron Bliss wrote: I was wondering if there are any packagement tools for freebsd/pcbsd that offer simular functionality to up2date or yum; I take care of installing and updating complete rpm based systems using yum, and have not found a tool simular to yum for freebds (I'm also trying to

Re: KBTV setup problem

2006-09-06 Thread Danny Pansters
Are you by chance attempting to use bktr's MSP for sound (kernel option)? That's not supported by kbtv (unless someone who has a card to reproduce this writes the code), only wiring through the soundcard. HTH, Dan On Wednesday 06 September 2006 05:09, Mike jeays wrote: Has anyone else

Re: easy patch management tools

2006-09-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
Aaron Bliss wrote: Hi everyone, first let me say that I'm pretty new to bsd, so please forgive the newbie questions; I've been using linux (redhat, suse, centos) for many years, and so learning bsd was a bit of a learning curve, but not bad (I almost never use gui's for administration); I was

Re: easy patch management tools

2006-09-06 Thread David Stanford
On 9/5/06, Aaron Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, first let me say that I'm pretty new to bsd, so please forgive the newbie questions; I've been using linux (redhat, suse, centos) for many years, and so learning bsd was a bit of a learning curve, but not bad (I almost never use gui's

Acepting lnown bad mail?

2006-09-06 Thread stan
I just built a replacement machine for one that died at work. The system was quite old, and I'm struggling to get the new one to do all the things the older one did. The current issue is, the new machine gets mail using fetchmail from another machine for local delivery, so that I can read it. A

Re: News of latest Release

2006-09-06 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
On 06/09/2006 06:57, Mohit parkash wrote: To Free BSD, I m Mohit the admin of FlyNix http://flynix.co.nr (Linux Coustomization Community )would like to request u that. If FreeBSD has a launch any of its new addition can u inform me via mail. so that i can give this news on my site.

Re: Acepting lnown bad mail?

2006-09-06 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 06 September 2006 06:59 -0400 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's going on is that the local sendmail on the new machine is rejecting these mails. Like this Sep 6 06:50:43 brown sm-mta[12249]: k86Ai3w8012249: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=r [EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=localhost [127.0.0.1],

Re: New machine, mouse scroll wheel not working

2006-09-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just set up a new 6 CURRENT machine with xorg, and KDE. The scroll wheel on my mouse does not seem to be scrolling anything. I have the follwinf lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse

Re: Acepting lnown bad mail?

2006-09-06 Thread stan
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:11:12PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 06 September 2006 06:59 -0400 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's going on is that the local sendmail on the new machine is rejecting these mails. Like this Sep 6 06:50:43 brown sm-mta[12249]: k86Ai3w8012249:

Disabling background fsck?

2006-09-06 Thread stan
ON machines that I'm actively making chnages on, and may make frequent reboots, I'd like to disable backgroundfsck to avoid the risk of rebooting wile t is still running. How can i do this? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)

Re: Disabling background fsck?

2006-09-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:29:07AM -0400, stan wrote: ON machines that I'm actively making chnages on, and may make frequent reboots, I'd like to disable backgroundfsck to avoid the risk of rebooting wile t is still running. How can i do this? Just add the line background_fsck=NO to

Re: ebook reader

2006-09-06 Thread Ivan Levchenko
Thanks a lot, will definately give them a try. On 9/6/06, Henry Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/5/06, Ivan Levchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything in the ports tree for reading books on the computer? something like Tom Reader or Ice book reader for windows? I don't know

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-09-05 22:50, Bill-Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If just a relatively small handful of dedicated FreeBSD coders can produce an OS that will install on damm near ANYTHING I always found it troubling that SUN Microsystems, with all it's resources, could not, at the least, make

Re: Creating pkg-plist - problems

2006-09-06 Thread Jona Joachim
vittorio wrote: Under 6.1 I'm trying to build a port (R-2.3.1) following the instructions in the porters-handbook and particularly I'm having a go at creating the pkg-plist file as suggested in the point 7.5 of

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread stan
Just a point, I'm the proud owner of _at least_ 2 different current types of Sun hardware, that FreeBSD does not work on, at least not wekk enoygh to deploy production machines that is. Blade 1500's don't work _at all_ and U40's are too unstable to deploy. It's shame,as for the applications I

gdb does not want to attach to a primitive process

2006-09-06 Thread a
Subject: gdb does not want to attach to a primitive process I have written the next program: // foo.c #include unistd.h int main(void) { sleep(30); return 0; } compiled it with cc -g -o foo foo.c then run it with ./foo then switched to another tty and tried to attach to the process:

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread backyard
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-09-05 22:50, Bill-Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If just a relatively small handful of dedicated FreeBSD coders can produce an OS that will install on damm near ANYTHING I always found it troubling that SUN Microsystems,

can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-06 Thread Jonathan Horne
is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same machine? just wondering. :) thanks, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jonathan Horne wrote: is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same machine? Yes. Just slice up your disk and use one of the extra slices to install your other version. AFAIK, you need

ClamAV upgrade

2006-09-06 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I am running Freebsd 6.0-release. I have installed a mail server using the freebsd.qmailrocks.org. I am not familiar with clamav which is installed. ClamAV generates messages in the log that it needs upgraded. Currently at version 0.83 and needs to be 0.88.1. The ClamAV website FAQ

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread White Hat
--- backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I think the important thing to remember in all this is every system using one version of UNIX over another is one more machine not running NT. And since NT is single handedly stealing code, and destroying internationally set standards I think

RE: ClamAV upgrade

2006-09-06 Thread Johan Hendriks
You'll need to start freshclam. Put in /etc/rc.conf the following line. clamav_freshclam_enable=YES then start freshclam /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamac-freshclam start -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Darryl Hoar Verzonden: woensdag 6

Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same machine? I realise you may have meant, use one server to build different worlds for different source trees for later installation on other

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread Freminlins
On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried Open Office. No matter what anyone says, it is just not as full featured as Word 2003. It is not even close. True, but also compare the cost. Not even close... He/she does not want to read tons of manuals and spend hours in a

RE: ClamAV upgrade

2006-09-06 Thread Darryl Hoar
evidently I don't have freshclam installed on the system as /usr/local/etc/rc.d does not contain clamac-freshclam. Is there any trick to installing freshclam ? Or do I just use /usr/ports ? thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-06 Thread Jona Joachim
Jonathan Horne wrote: is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same machine? just wondering. :) Take a look at misc/tinderbox, it may be just what you need. --jona

Re: KBTV setup problem

2006-09-06 Thread Mike jeays
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 12:36 +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: Are you by chance attempting to use bktr's MSP for sound (kernel option)? That's not supported by kbtv (unless someone who has a card to reproduce this writes the code), only wiring through the soundcard. HTH, Dan On Wednesday

Re: ClamAV upgrade

2006-09-06 Thread Toomas Aas
Darryl Hoar wrote: evidently I don't have freshclam installed on the system as /usr/local/etc/rc.d does not contain clamac-freshclam. As you mmention, you have ClamAV 0.83. If it is installed from FreeBSD ports/packages, this old version didn't have separate startup script for freshclam,

xemacs: how to suppress a warning

2006-09-06 Thread a
Every time I start xemacs, it reads in a separate buffer: (1) (xintl/warning) System supports locale `' but X Windows does not Indeed, locales is as follows: LANG= LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.CP866 LC_COLLATE=C LC_TIME=C LC_NUMERIC=C LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=C LC_ALL= and X Windows does not support

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread White Hat
--- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried Open Office. No matter what anyone says, it is just not as full featured as Word 2003. It is not even close. True, but also compare the cost. Not even close... Immaterial. the

Re: OpenOffice2 with german user interface

2006-09-06 Thread Simon Phoenix
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 09:17, Martin Schweizer wrote: I installed OOo2 successfully on FreeBSD 6.1 with KDE 3.5.3. The default language for the user interface is english. How I can change the user interface to german? What I've done: - set the environment to DE like

Re: hp_no_device_found

2006-09-06 Thread Anish Mistry
On Sunday 03 September 2006 06:55, Sean M. wrote: Follow these directions: http://am-productions.biz/docs/hplip.php --- Andriy Babiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Could you advise me on how to properly configure my printing? I have LaserJet HP-1022, on FreeBSD 6.1 and CUPS-1.2. I

Anyone using the txp interface driver?

2006-09-06 Thread Erik Osterholm
I sent a PR in for a problem in if_txp.c back in July and haven't seen any activity on it. Now I'm not complaining--I know that the developers are pretty busy. I'm just wondering if anyone else sees this problem or if I'm just going crazy. Basically, on a clean install of 6.1-RELEASE with a

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 6, 2006, at 8:41 AM, White Hat wrote: Most of these can be far more easily done on a WinXP machine then anything now available in the *nix family. OS X will do it as easily or more easily for the average person than WinXP. OS X is a unix based OS. Chad --- Chad Leigh --

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried Open Office. No matter what anyone says, it is just not as full featured as Word 2003. It is not even close. True, but also

installing 6.1 on Compaq Proliant 5000

2006-09-06 Thread Lee Shackelford
Initial message posted on 8/24/2006: Good morning dear FreeBSD enthusiasts. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 6.1 on a Compaq Proliant 5000. The computer is equipped with four Pentium Pro processors clocked at 200 mhz and with a Smart 2/P hardware-RAID array. The BIOS indicates that the first

Re: KBTV setup problem

2006-09-06 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 17:33, you wrote: snip SOUND - Sound card and tuner sound wiring === SND MODULE LOADED Yes AUDIO CHIP... CMedia CMI8738 Hmm, someone else had the same problem

Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9/6/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same machine? buildworld and buildkernel targets are fairly sophisticated. The /usr/obj tree

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread White Hat
--- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried Open Office. No matter what anyone says, it is just not as full

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread Freminlins
On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Immaterial. the singularly most important feature is suitability to task. If it is free and it does not work, what good is it? It depends what you are using it for. You made a comment about occaisonal word processing (pasted below). For such

troubles with 6. booting

2006-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
Two toubles with my reinstallation of FBSD seem to be, one, that getty can't exec and that acpi: bad read|write from|to port 71|70 I'm back in at single user mode, but but's abut it. (I ran mergermaster, but it was a very short run.) Suggestions?

Re: easy patch management tools

2006-09-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
Aaron Bliss wrote: Hi everyone, first let me say that I'm pretty new to bsd, so please forgive the newbie questions; I've been using linux (redhat, suse, centos) for many years, and so learning bsd was a bit of a learning curve, but not bad (I almost never use gui's for administration); I was

installing ssh after freebsd has been installed?

2006-09-06 Thread g
how do is install ssh once i've installed freebsd 6.1? i used sysinstall. check ssh in the networking section. ok'ed my and exited my way back to the system prompt. as root i typed /usr/sbin/sshd i get from the system: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host/dsa_key Disabling protocol

Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-06 Thread Hilt, Ian
Basically, I want to know where the BIOS gets the hard drive parameters when the Drive Type is set to AUTO in the BIOS configuration. The best I've been able to come up with from the internet is an IDENTIFY command that purportedly (http://www.linux.com/howtos/Large-Disk-HOWTO-10.shtml) gets its

Re: installing ssh after freebsd has been installed?

2006-09-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
g wrote: how do is install ssh once i've installed freebsd 6.1? i used sysinstall. check ssh in the networking section. ok'ed my and exited my way back to the system prompt. as root i typed /usr/sbin/sshd i get from the system: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host/dsa_key

Re: installing ssh after freebsd has been installed?

2006-09-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to g [EMAIL PROTECTED]: how do is install ssh once i've installed freebsd 6.1? i used sysinstall. check ssh in the networking section. ok'ed my and exited my way back to the system prompt. as root i typed /usr/sbin/sshd i get from the system: Could not load host key:

Re: Gnome 2 - Fuzziness

2006-09-06 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 5 September 2006, at 10:22, Shane Ambler wrote: One good thing I like is KDE will run the gnome apps but gnome won't run KDE apps. Does for me. So you don't loose out on any choices with KDE. It is in ports at /usr/ports/x11/kde3, but you may want to get hold of the pre-built

Any burncd changes

2006-09-06 Thread Jerold McAllister
Hi All, I have read through release notes, etc and not seen anything, but I am wondering if there have been any changes in recent FreeBSD releases - especially 6.xx, (but possibly 5.xx), that would affect burncd(8) and how it works - or if it works. I have a machine that was at about 4.11

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread White Hat
--- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Immaterial. the singularly most important feature is suitability to task. If it is free and it does not work, what good is it? It depends what you are using it for. You made a comment about

Re: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 6, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Hilt, Ian wrote: Basically, I want to know where the BIOS gets the hard drive parameters when the Drive Type is set to AUTO in the BIOS configuration. The best I've been able to come up with from the internet is an IDENTIFY command that purportedly

Re: installing ssh after freebsd has been installed?

2006-09-06 Thread g
Thanks, Bill and Matthew, your suggestions did the trick. g. On Sep 6, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Bill Moran wrote: In response to g [EMAIL PROTECTED]: how do is install ssh once i've installed freebsd 6.1? i used sysinstall. check ssh in the networking section. ok'ed my and exited my way back

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried Open Office. No matter what

Xorg install

2006-09-06 Thread g
i'm trying to install xorg. using chapter 5, i installed Xorg, but it seems to break something. with the default install of 6.1, x window system starts. when i follow the instructions, in chapter 5, i get this message when i tried to start it (startx). This is a pre-release version of

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Immaterial. the singularly most important feature is suitability to task. If it is free and it does not work, what good is it? It depends what

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, dick hoogendijk wrote: I have a 3-part disk: (a) XP for games (b) FreeBSD-6.1 (my main OS) (c) FreeBSD-6.1 (a backup) I want to replace the third partition with solaris 10, mainly for studying this OS. I burned the DVD. Will it install solaris on this third partition

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
P.U.Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, dick hoogendijk wrote: I have a 3-part disk: (a) XP for games (b) FreeBSD-6.1 (my main OS) (c) FreeBSD-6.1 (a backup) I want to replace the third partition with solaris 10, mainly for studying this OS. I burned the DVD. Will it

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread White Hat
--- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to fix init - /etc/ttys?

2006-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
Anybody know why getty is having such a bear of a time finding a tty? I Can't even get in. I'm at 6.1 and logged in single-usr and have /usr mounted on /dev. Because X expects to find /usr/lib/Y in /usr I csn't use anything very complex; can't poke

RE: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-06 Thread Hilt, Ian
-Original Message- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 2:55 PM To: Hilt, Ian Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Origin of hard drive parameters On Sep 6, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Hilt, Ian wrote: Basically, I want to know where

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Hilt, Ian wrote: The hard disk has an on-board controller which answers the ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE command with the hard drive parameters used by the BIOS, assuming that the BIOS is operating in the legacy C/H/S mode rather than the newer LBA mode which uses absolute

RE: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-06 Thread Hilt, Ian
-Original Message- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:21 PM To: Hilt, Ian Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Origin of hard drive parameters On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Hilt, Ian wrote: The hard disk has an on-board

Re: How to fix init - /etc/ttys?

2006-09-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Kline wrote: Anybody know why getty is having such a bear of a time finding a tty? I Can't even get in. I'm at 6.1 and logged in single-usr and have /usr mounted on /dev. Because X expects to find /usr/lib/Y in /usr I csn't use anything very complex;

need a restricted shell

2006-09-06 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
I am looking for a shell that will allow Subversion to be run over ssh but not allow interactive login or if it allows interactive login, will only allow Subversion commands to be run... Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I have been looking at various shell lists in ports but nothing

Getting GELI Keys from Floppy

2006-09-06 Thread Frank Steinborn
Hello, i want to encrypt my HDD's with GELI (not the root-fs, though). I want to do the encryption without password, just with a key. The key should be stored in a floppy disk, and the read should be read automatically on boot, from the floppy. There is a problem here, because GELI initializes

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 06 Sep P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, dick hoogendijk wrote: I want to replace the third partition with solaris 10, mainly for studying this OS. Hope to get some advice and reading points. I have years of experience with linux and FreeBSD and like to explore new (OS) challences.

Re: need a restricted shell

2006-09-06 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 6 September 2006, at 15:55, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I am looking for a shell that will allow Subversion to be run over ssh but not allow interactive login or if it allows interactive login, will only allow Subversion commands to be run... Any ideas on how to accomplish

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-09-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Gerard Seibert wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: So now i can find out what version each port is, but that doesnt help me know whether these are outdated, or to update them. For that im still stuck on the Ruby core dump problem. I did reinstall portupgrade, ruby18,

rc.firewall rule for passive FTP

2006-09-06 Thread Noah
what is a good rule to allow passive FTP to work. the following rules still blocks passive FTP. #/** Allow setup of FTP PASSIVE **/ ${fwcmd} add allow tcp from any to ${ip} 49152-65534 setup ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-06 Thread jdow
From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Hilt, Ian wrote: The hard disk has an on-board controller which answers the ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE command with the hard drive parameters used by the BIOS, assuming that the BIOS is operating in the legacy C/H/S mode rather than the

Re: How to fix init - /etc/ttys?

2006-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:48:04PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Anybody know why getty is having such a bear of a time finding a tty? I Can't even get in. I'm at 6.1 and logged in single-usr and have /usr mounted on /dev. Because X expects to find

Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-06 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 13:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/6/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same machine? buildworld and

Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-06 Thread Andrew Falanga
I am by no means the worlds best serial programmer, but recently I have done some work on this subject and I noticed one thing in the code sample above that should be avoided. However, I'll give you what I saw in-line: #include stdio.h #include termios.h #include unistd.h #include fcntl.h

OpenOffice port vs Firefox

2006-09-06 Thread Perry Hutchison
Having gotten a sufficiently-recent version of glib, I am now several hours into the build of OpenOffice, and I've discovered that Firefox has quit working. When I try to start it: GThread-ERROR **: file gthread-posix.c: line 187 (): error 'Invalid argument' during 'pthread_mutex_trylock'

Re: OpenOffice port vs Firefox

2006-09-06 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Hutchison) wrote: Having gotten a sufficiently-recent version of glib, I am now several hours into the build of OpenOffice, and I've discovered that Firefox has quit working. When I try to start it: GThread-ERROR **: file gthread-posix.c: line 187 (): error

Re: OpenOffice port vs Firefox

2006-09-06 Thread Michael Hughes
On Wed, 6 Sep 06 17:37:36 PDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Hutchison) wrote: Having gotten a sufficiently-recent version of glib, I am now several hours into the build of OpenOffice, and I've discovered that Firefox has quit working. When I try to start it: GThread-ERROR **: file

Re: Xorg install

2006-09-06 Thread Pablo Mora
On 9/6/06, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm trying to install xorg. using chapter 5, i installed Xorg, but it seems to break something. with the default install of 6.1, x window system starts. when i follow the instructions, in chapter 5, i get this message when i tried to start it (startx).

acpi: bad read from port 0x71:: FreeBSD 6.1 /boot fault

2006-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
Does anybody know what to tweak in /boot/* to stop bad read/write messages from/to the BIOS? [At least so fare as I can tell? I've triied everything suggested on Google; rebooted, no-joy. The BIOS is reset (AFAICT) to their fail-safe defaults, but

Hey

2006-09-06 Thread Alsports1
Hi! I have a question. I have no idea what an operating system is. I know that FreeBSD is one. And do you know what kind of program or thing you need to watch TV on the computer? I know that they have screens that you can plug your TV into, and they might even have screens that you can just

Re: OpenOffice port vs Firefox

2006-09-06 Thread doug
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Michael Hughes wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 06 17:37:36 PDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Hutchison) wrote: Having gotten a sufficiently-recent version of glib, I am now several hours into the build of OpenOffice, and I've discovered that Firefox has quit working. When I try to start

RE: Hey

2006-09-06 Thread Dan Corrigan
An operating system (OS) is a software program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. A key component of system software, the OS performs basic tasks, such as controlling and allocating memory, prioritizing the processing of instructions, controlling input and output

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 6:18 AM Subject: Re: Word processor for 6.1 On 9/5/06, Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Xorg install

2006-09-06 Thread g
how do i do that? i'm a newbie. g. On Sep 6, 2006, at 10:22 PM, Pablo Mora wrote: On 9/6/06, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm trying to install xorg. using chapter 5, i installed Xorg, but it seems to break something. with the default install of 6.1, x window system starts. when i follow the