freebsd

2008-08-11 Thread AAH
Hi, Can someone give me the correct settings to configure an att/sbcglobal 2wire 1800 gateway(it's a modem, router/gateway)to work with FreeBSD? I have been told my other users of FreeBSD that this router/gateway does work with FreeBSD. (Freebsd 6.3). However, the values given to me by att

Re: Need FreeBSD 7.0 XEN-KERNEL

2008-08-11 Thread Cagri Ersen
Thanks mate, If i need that FS files, i can give you a ftp accunt. BTW, My XEN server is installed on Fedora 8.0. And i need 3 FreeBSD as a guest OS for production. That servers will be a qmail cluster with 2 qmail/vpopmail and a NFS storage server for mail servers. Can you tell me your opinion

Re: tt/sbcglobal 2wire,1800 gateway (was: Re: freebsd)

2008-08-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
AAH wrote: Hi, Can someone give me the correct settings to configure an att/sbcglobal 2wire 1800 gateway(it's a modem, router/gateway)to work with FreeBSD? I have been told my other users of FreeBSD that this router/gateway does work with FreeBSD. (Freebsd 6.3). However, the values given

RE: Cluster Filesystem

2008-08-11 Thread Rudi Kramer - MWEB
Norberto Meijome On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:10:52 +0200 Rudi Kramer - MWEB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have setup hadoop on FreeBSD, bit of mission cause of java and I'm not sure about performance but it can be done :) http://hadoop.apache.org/core/ Hi Rudi, what versions of fbsd ,

Re: shutdown/reboot suggestion

2008-08-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 10 August 2008 07:11, Michael Grant wrote: I have such a script, I put it in /bin/require_hostname and symlinked shutdown, halt, reboot, fastboot, and fasthalt to this script: #!/bin/sh if [ $1 = `hostname` ]; then shift exec /sbin/`basename $0` $@ else

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-11 Thread Warren Liddell
Which Belkin wireless card do you have? Which arch are you running (i386/amd64)? I had horrific trouble with a Belkin on the Realtek chipset, played up with Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Fedora, even Windows! Trouble with Belkin is, you never know what you're getting. You need the revision number of

dhcp for ipv6

2008-08-11 Thread Reinhard Haller
Hi, is there a working dhcp port for ipv6 which is able to populate dynamic zones in Bind and deliver ipv4/ipv6 addresses to the clients? Thanks Reinhard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: problems with a C script, exiting with signal 10

2008-08-11 Thread Jordi Moles Blanco
Hi, i've been trying to debug what you suggested, but no luck so far :( The thing is that i checked out all the calls to arrays, space handling and so on, and i couldn't find anything wrong. After that, i ended up trying the hard way, which is to keep a file /tmp/debug.log where the script

Re: freebsd

2008-08-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:32 AM 8/11/2008, AAH wrote: Hi, Can someone give me the correct settings to configure an att/sbcglobal 2wire 1800 gateway(it's a modem, router/gateway)to work with FreeBSD? I have been told my other users of FreeBSD that this router/gateway does work with FreeBSD. (Freebsd 6.3).

Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-11 Thread Jonathan Belson
Hiya I set up a remote box to e-mail 'periodic' output to me directly. It has now stopped working, and I suspect it's because the 'From:' addresses of the status e-mails is of the form '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and the ISP has upped its anti-spam checks. I see /usr/sbin/periodic itself uses the

Re: A few questions from a current linux user

2008-08-11 Thread Krishna Mohan Gundu
First of all, let me thank everyone who has responded to my questions on this mailing list. Hi Giorgos, I've been meaning to respond to this post for a couple of days, but it took me a little longer than I originally hoped... Thank you for taking time to write a detailed response. This may

bsdpan but would prefer deb-make-perl

2008-08-11 Thread Brent Clark
Hi I dont like these bsdpan perl modules that I needed, but have. I would like to build and install these modules myself with something like debian's deb-make-perl. Is there anything like that for freebsd, of how do you guys go about with this. Kind Regards Brent Clark

Re: Cluster Filesystem

2008-08-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:51:33 +0200 Rudi Kramer - MWEB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was speaking to a friend of mine and he also recommended looking at GlusterFS, http://www.gluster.org. thanks for the info. yes, it sounds VERY interesting, in particular I like the modularity provided by FUSE.

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-11 Thread Warren Liddell
Please provide more detailed informatio. Card model, at least, or the output of pciconf -lv supposing that you have a real card, either internal or PCMCIA. If it is a USB model, then use usbdevs -v [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3:5:0: class=0x02 card=0x700f1799 chip=0x700f1799

Re: Need FreeBSD 7.0 XEN-KERNEL

2008-08-11 Thread OutBackDingo
I would only attempot this in Hypervisor mode where FreeBSD runs fine stock I dont think paravirtualized XEN FreeBSD instances are ready for production. Though I can assure you running FreeBSD 7 and CUURENt under linux KVM works fine, i have 13 hosts on two HVM capable systems under Ubuntu On

Re: Query regarding Advertisment

2008-08-11 Thread Bill Moran
Biju Sreenivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir, I am planning a website with BSD FDL. What is FDL? Is advertisment allowed in my website? If no, is there any other options. The license has no restrictions on what you can do with the software once you install it. -- Bill

Re: shutdown/reboot suggestion

2008-08-11 Thread Bill Moran
Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have such a script, I put it in /bin/require_hostname and symlinked shutdown, halt, reboot, fastboot, and fasthalt to this script: #!/bin/sh if [ $1 = `hostname` ]; then shift exec /sbin/`basename $0` $@ else echo For

Re: Query regarding Advertisment

2008-08-11 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2008-08-11T08:10:02-04:00, Bill Moran wrote: Biju Sreenivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir, I am planning a website with BSD FDL. What is FDL? Perhaps Free Documentation License, as in G(NU)FDL. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Screwed up upgrade to 7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have screwed up my upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0 following the doc at... http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html I ran the install a second time and it completed before the next to the last step including 'portupgrade -af' was completed. I went back and ran the

Re: Screwed up upgrade to 7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have screwed up my upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0 following the doc at... http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html I ran the install a second time and it completed before the next to the last step including 'portupgrade -af' was

How to stop my services from trying to bind to IPv6?

2008-08-11 Thread Redd Vinylene
Hello-hello! I haven't enabled IPv6, yet many of my processes are trying to bind to it. Aug 11 16:19:13 camel named[1562]: couldn't add command channel ::1#953: socket already bound Aug 11 16:19:20 camel sshd[1757]: error: Bind to port 22 on :: failed: Invalid argument. Is there an easy way to

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-08-11 Thread Alexander Sack
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edwin L. Culp wrote: Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Edwin L. Culp wrote: Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Final update, I got everything working! I came home and connected by new

How to stop my services from trying to bind to IPv6?

2008-08-11 Thread Robert Huff
Redd Vinylene writes: I haven't enabled IPv6, yet many of my processes are trying to bind to it. Aug 11 16:19:13 camel named[1562]: couldn't add command channel ::1#953: socket already bound Aug 11 16:19:20 camel sshd[1757]: error: Bind to port 22 on :: failed: Invalid argument.

Re: How to stop my services from trying to bind to IPv6?

2008-08-11 Thread Redd Vinylene
I use the default sshd config file, I'd rather not maintain one. As for my named.conf, I haven't enabled no IPv6 setting there either. Perhaps an ipv6_enable=NO in rc.conf will do the trick? Honestly though, shouldn't FreeBSD assume I don't use IPv6 unless I tell it that I do? On Mon, Aug 11,

Re: How to stop my services from trying to bind to IPv6?

2008-08-11 Thread Curt Micol
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the default sshd config file, I'd rather not maintain one. As for my named.conf, I haven't enabled no IPv6 setting there either. Perhaps an ipv6_enable=NO in rc.conf will do the trick? Honestly though, shouldn't

Re: How to stop my services from trying to bind to IPv6?

2008-08-11 Thread Redd Vinylene
I just don't want my logs filling up with useless error messages ;) Thanks! On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Curt Micol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the default sshd config file, I'd rather not maintain one. As for my

RE: Cluster Filesystem

2008-08-11 Thread Rudi Kramer - MWEB
Behalf Of Norberto Meijome Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 1:33 PM To: Rudi Kramer - MWEB Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cluster Filesystem On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:51:33 +0200 Rudi Kramer - MWEB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was speaking to a friend of mine and he also

Re: Screwed up upgrade to 7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:09 +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have screwed up my upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0 following the doc at... http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html I ran the install a second time and it completed before

Re: A few questions from a current linux user

2008-08-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:15:07 -0700, Krishna Mohan Gundu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Is it possible to compile multiple versions of gcc? If so what is the best way to do it? Yes, of course. The base system of FreeBSD includes _one_ version of gcc, installed as `/usr/bin/gcc', but this does

Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-11 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Belson wrote: | Hiya | | I set up a remote box to e-mail 'periodic' output to me directly. It | has now | stopped working, and I suspect it's because the 'From:' addresses of the | status | e-mails is of the form '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and the

Re: Screwed up upgrade to 7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:09 +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have screwed up my upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0 following the doc at... http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html I ran the install a second

Upgrade v5.x to v7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Robert Huff
Vince Sabio writes: I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), Why? and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: 1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a stop at v6.x? It is probably technically possible. However:

Re: Kernel compile R7.0 i386 GENERIC, fails

2008-08-11 Thread pluknet
[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/8/11 Peter B [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to compile the generic FreeBSD kernel 7.0-RELEASE i386. But it fails. Any tip on how to fix it? Extracted sources: sbase, srelease, ssys You also need scontrib (ACPI sources are there) component and maybe

Re: Kernel compile R7.0 i386 GENERIC, fails

2008-08-11 Thread Peter B
Extracted sources: sbase, srelease, ssys You also need scontrib (ACPI sources are there) component and maybe some others for successful build. btw, this is not a very usual (and a simple) way to make kernel. I added device acpi to the kernel configuration file. And it made the error go away.

Xerox Phaser 6110 printer

2008-08-11 Thread Mike Clarke
Does anybody have a Xerox Phaser 6110 printer working with FreeBSD? My current inkjet is on it's last legs and the 6110 looks like a good deal at only 90 GBP for a colour laser. It's listed in the OpenPrinting database as working mostly but I'm not sure if that applies to FreeBSD as well as

FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

2008-08-11 Thread Jack Raats
I would like to put FreeBSD, Ubuntu and WInXP on one system using a boot manager. Which version do I have to put first on the harddisk, which second and which last? I also want to know which bootmanager to use? Thanks for your time Greeting Jack

Re: Video streaming with freeBSD

2008-08-11 Thread Roger Olofsson
Sam Fourman Jr. skrev: If the main purpose of your box is to be a PVR, I suggest going with a Linux distribution and using MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org). While I am a fan of FreeBSD as a web/mail/etc. server, it did not meet my needs when attempting to build a PVR. I found the Gentoo Linux

allowing rtprio in jail

2008-08-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
can it be done? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

2008-08-11 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Jack Raats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to put FreeBSD, Ubuntu and WInXP on one system using a boot manager. Which version do I have to put first on the harddisk, which second and which last? I also want to know which bootmanager to use? Thanks

Upgrade v5.x to v7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Vince Sabio
I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: 1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a stop at v6.x? 2. I'm Unix shell literate with a reasonable level of Solaris sysadmin experience, but have no experience

Re: Video streaming with freeBSD

2008-08-11 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
Some year back I was meddling around with VLC (videolan) that does a pretty good job of the streaming part. There was issues with threads at the time so I let it rest though. Do you have any Idea, how much bandwidth it takes to stream HDTV 1080i via VLC I am assuming a T1 would not be enough

Re: Video streaming with freeBSD

2008-08-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 11, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: Some year back I was meddling around with VLC (videolan) that does a pretty good job of the streaming part. There was issues with threads at the time so I let it rest though. Do you have any Idea, how much bandwidth it takes to stream

mysql and BIND 9.4.2

2008-08-11 Thread Johnson, James
Does any know how to make mysql and BIND work together. I found this, it's similar to what I want to do. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_Bind_with_DLZ,_MySQL_and_replication James Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Like to call friends from your mobile?

2008-08-11 Thread jaxtr
Sunil, Did you know you can use jaxtr to call friends abroad from your mobile phone and bypass expensive international fees? Just click on the jaxtr link of your friend and enter your mobile or landline phone number. Then your phone rings, the phone of your friend rings and you can talk

Re: Xerox Phaser 6110 printer

2008-08-11 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Mike Clarke wrote: Does anybody have a Xerox Phaser 6110 printer working with FreeBSD? My current inkjet is on it's last legs and the 6110 looks like a good deal at only 90 GBP for a colour laser. It's listed in the OpenPrinting database as working mostly but I'm not sure

Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)

2008-08-11 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: An alternative to the inserted text in all http traffic (and probably easier to implement) is just to divert all unknown traffic to an internal ip-adress (using the firewall), and setup a web page on that address. Then have people click some button, which will

Re: Kernel compile R7.0 i386 GENERIC, fails

2008-08-11 Thread Michael Powell
Peter B wrote: [snip] In previous releases. It was possible to make at leas the generic kernel compile out of the box. As it still is. I just did a make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC on a 7-Release box and it built with no difficulty. -Mike ___

Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

2008-08-11 Thread Bruno Schmitt
I recommend installing FreeBSD first, then Windows and then Ubuntu. For reasons that I don't know, WinXP SP3 will become unable to start if you installs FreeBSD after it (It will freeze on the welcome screen). - I don't know if this problem just happened with me or with others people too, but it

Re: buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, shutdow now, fsck -p -- NO WRITE ACCESS

2008-08-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 06:37:28PM -0400, email wrote: I thank you. In addition, I am quite sure the command we are referred to in 23.4.5 Drop to Single User Mode is in fact 'shutdown now' and not 'shutdown -r now'. Yes. But that section

Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:05:10 +0200, Jack Raats [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I would like to put FreeBSD, Ubuntu and WInXP on one system using a boot manager. Which version do I have to put first on the harddisk, which second and which last? I also want to know which bootmanager to use?

Re: Xerox Phaser 6110 printer

2008-08-11 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 11 August 2008, Warren Block wrote: Printers with sole-source drivers like that make me nervous.  If the driver or certain features doen't work on your system, it doesn't leave a lot of options. foo2qpdl doesn't appear to be in ports, but probably it'll build okay anyway.  If it

Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

2008-08-11 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 11 August 2008, Bruno Schmitt wrote: Ubuntu uses GRUB boot manager and as far as I remember it won't recognize FreeBSD partition out of the box, so you will have to add some lines to /boot/grub/menu.lst # For booting FreeBSD title  FreeBSD 5.2 root   (hd0,a) chainloader +1

Monitoring raid health with mpt

2008-08-11 Thread Chris Hastie
I have a Dell PowerEdge 860 with SAS 5iR RAID controller and FreeBSD 6.2. The controller is configured for RAID 1. The controller is recognised as mpt0 and seen as a SCSI device da0. All seems to be working fine, but is there any way to tell if one of the disks fails? Lots of searching has

Re: mysql and BIND 9.4.2

2008-08-11 Thread Chris Hastie
On 11/08/08 19:17, Johnson, James wrote: Does any know how to make mysql and BIND work together. Configure bind with --with-dlz-mysql. I seem to recall that using --disable-threads is also recommended with MySql. Lots of info at http://bind-dlz.sourceforge.net/ There is an issue with

RE: mysql and BIND 9.4.2

2008-08-11 Thread Johnson, James
Thanks Chris, I'll look into this. Have you or anyone you know ever set something like this before? What I'm trying to do is replace our name servers, they will be Virtualized. James Johnson -Original Message- From: Chris Hastie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008

Re: Xerox Phaser 6110 printer

2008-08-11 Thread Chris Hastie
On 11/08/08 17:33, Mike Clarke wrote: Does anybody have a Xerox Phaser 6110 printer working with FreeBSD? My current inkjet is on it's last legs and the 6110 looks like a good deal at only 90 GBP for a colour laser. It's listed in the OpenPrinting database as working mostly but I'm not sure

Re: Upgrade v5.x to v7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Vince Sabio wrote: I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: 1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a stop at v6.x? Theoretically it might be possible but definitely not recommended. 5.1 is very old

Re: Kernel compile R7.0 i386 GENERIC, fails

2008-08-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:32:02 +0200 (MEST), Peter B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Extracted sources: sbase, srelease, ssys You also need scontrib (ACPI sources are there) component and maybe some others for successful build. btw, this is not a very usual (and a simple) way to make kernel. I

KDE4 libssl conflicts

2008-08-11 Thread Warren Liddell
How do i avoid//overturn this conflict ? /usr/bin/ld: warning: libssl.so.4, needed by /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so, may conflict with libssl.so.5 /usr/bin/ld: warning: libcrypto.so.4, needed by /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so, may conflict with libcrypto.so.5 /usr/bin/ld: warning: libz.so.3, needed by

Re: KDE4 libssl conflicts

2008-08-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Aug 11, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Warren Liddell wrote: How do i avoid//overturn this conflict ? You've got a mix of older and newer library versions, which makes me think that you are trying to do a partial upgrade of your ports after upgrading the FreeBSD base system to a newer version.

installing in a ext3 partition?

2008-08-11 Thread Ismael ....
Is it possible to install in an existing ext3 partition? Can freebsd make use of a linux-swap as swap space? how? _ PlugPlay te trae en exclusiva los mejores conciertos de la red http://club.prodigymsn.com/

Re: Kernel compile R7.0 i386 GENERIC, fails

2008-08-11 Thread Peter B
In previous releases. It was possible to make at leas the generic kernel compile out of the box. It still is. You have to get the full sources though. What you are trying to do now, by extracting more parts of the source tree as you need them is a very good way to learn the dependencies of

Re: Upgrade v5.x to v7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Vince Sabio
** At 00:25 +0200 on 08/12/2008, Ivan Voras wrote: Vince Sabio wrote: I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: 1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a stop at v6.x? Theoretically it might be possible

Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

2008-08-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Actually, I have two 'general-computer' type questions, but it might be better to ask them in separate posts. First about FBSD (6.x or 7.x) and newer vs older computers. First, 7.0 seems as stable or more so than its predecessor. It

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE4 libssl conflicts

2008-08-11 Thread Dorian Büttner
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 00:57:16 Warren Liddell wrote: How do i avoid//overturn this conflict ? /usr/bin/ld: warning: libssl.so.4, needed by /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so, may conflict with libssl.so.5 /usr/bin/ld: warning: libcrypto.so.4, needed by /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so, may conflict

Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

2008-08-11 Thread Bruno Schmitt
Sorry for not making myself clear... When I said Ubuntu uses GRUB boot manager and as far as I remember it won't recognize FreeBSD partition out of the box I was referring to the GRUB installed by Ubuntu installation which won't come with FreeBSD partition configured. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at

Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

2008-08-11 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:46:56AM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi Gary Just back from hols so hope I'm not too late to add 2c. If you do go for new machines it's worth doing some research. I found there's no single component to go for when aiming for energy efficiency, you need to look

terminology question - upgrading one port with another

2008-08-11 Thread Jim
I'm trying to update something (actually install KDE4), and In need to make an 'update chain', but I can't remember the proper term. Namely I have port found in 'foo/abc' (abc-12345) and want to replace it with 'var/xyz'. I know there are several ways to do this (one involving entries in a file in

Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

2008-08-11 Thread perryh
I recommend installing FreeBSD first, then Windows and then Ubuntu ... Unless something has changed since the last time I was messing with this sort of thing, one hazard of installing a Linux last is that there may by then be no space left for the /boot partition, which has to be below cylinder

Re: Xerox Phaser 6110 printer

2008-08-11 Thread perryh
Does anybody have a Xerox Phaser 6110 printer working with FreeBSD? I've never had any trouble with my 6120, but I guess the crucial difference is the PostScript support in the 6120. The 6130 just works -- it internally supports lpr/lpd, not even needing CUPS -- but it, too, is PostScript.

Re: terminology question - upgrading one port with another

2008-08-11 Thread Ron Wilhoite
On 08/11/2008 10:31 PM Jim wrote: I'm trying to update something (actually install KDE4), and In need to make an 'update chain', but I can't remember the proper term. Namely I have port found in 'foo/abc' (abc-12345) and want to replace it with 'var/xyz'. I know there are several ways to do this

web log in FreeBSD box to /exchange

2008-08-11 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, One of my clients just switched from a RedHat server to an /exchange web mail on some kind of M$ server. I used to get emails by ssh into the Linux box on my FreeBSD terminal. I tried to get onto the URL they gave me for the webmail on line, but it wants me to load an unamed binary

Re: how to let MPD check the password against POP3, IMAP or WWW?

2008-08-11 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:20 PM, assetburned [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a MPD VPN server and another machine which runs WWW, IMAP and POP3 services. I know that I could check if a password is valid e.g. by writing a script which calls a Lynx command. But how can I forward the