Swapped disks and now stuck in the mountroot prompt

2003-12-25 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, I've installed FreeBSD 4.9 via FTP on my T22-laptop while having the hard disk as my first disk on it and then I had to put that disk into the ultrabay and thus have made it the second disk. I know, that all I have to do is probably to edit the /etc/fstab but I can't get there - I'm stuck at

Re: OT samba and XP

2003-11-11 Thread Alexander Farber
Or run nmbd as well as smbd and enter WINS in Windows settings On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:41:21PM -0800, Rick Duvall wrote: Check that your reverse DNS is set up correctly for both machines. I had the same problem earlier today, where my laptop running win98 worked fine but the XP machine

Re: *Editing* PDFs?

2003-10-13 Thread Alexander Farber
I've read some where that the new OpenOffice is capable of pdf-output On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:15:27AM +, David Gerard wrote: We have just seen the many tools for generating PDFs all you want. Is there anything usable on FreeBSD for *editing* existing PDFs, though? Any form of

Re: CMedia8738

2003-10-10 Thread Alexander Farber
Has anybody yet made this chipset (CMedia8738) running under FreeBSD 5.1 Works here on FreeBSD 4-stable and 5.1 - see my dmesg at http://home.t-online.de/home/Alexander.Farber/FreeBSD/ pcm0: CMedia CMI8738 port 0xd400-0xd4ff at device 14.0 on pci0

Re: xfstt and KDE3

2003-09-26 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, I'd try: rm -rf ~/.qt sudo fc-cache On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:35:42AM -0400, Marty Leisner wrote: I just got truetype fonts installed (I'm running linux [redhat 7/8]). I'm building kde-3.1.4. (I like to build things myself ;-)) I'm using xfstt 1.6. But when I enable truetype

KDE - icons and fonts not anti-aliased

2003-09-21 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, does anyone else has this problem as well? I've installed 4.8 a week a go, then upgraded it to -stable, then installed mplayer from ports which has also pulled qt. Then I've installed KDE 3.1.3 from ports and the icons and fonts look jagged there. Also I can't enable anti-aliased fonts

Re: KDE - icons and fonts not anti-aliased

2003-09-21 Thread Alexander Farber
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:12:19AM -0500, Carey Jones wrote: I had similar symptoms once, and found out that somehow (probably through some mistake of my own) my ~/.qt directory had been created owned by root rather than my userID. As soon as I chown'd the directory to the correct userID,

KDE - icons and fonts not anti-aliased

2003-09-20 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, does anyone else has this problem as well? I've installed 4.8 a week a go, then upgraded it to -stable, then installed mplayer from ports which has also pulled qt. Then I've installed KDE 3.1.3 from ports and the icons and fonts look jagged there. Also I can't enable anti-aliased fonts in

Re: Spoofing, defense?

2003-09-09 Thread Alexander Farber
I've always wondered, why write the firewall rules blocking some IP addresses (like on the bottom of this mail). Doesn't it make more sense only to allow connections addressed to the external IP of your firewall, like block in on rl0 from any to any pass in quick on rl0 from any to $myExtIP

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-09-01 Thread Alexander Farber
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:33:37AM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: This looks like you still have to type in the password from the terminal. I would like to update the source each night from a cron job. Is there really no way to do that? With OpenBSD i can simply do: # export [EMAIL

Re: /dev/dsp: device busy

2003-09-01 Thread Alexander Farber
Do you maybe run KDE and arts which blocks /dev/dsp? On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:54:34AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: I'm using Freebsd 4.8 and mozilla 1.4. Whenever I go to google.com or yahoo.com to search for something, I get /dev/dsp: Device busy. I can get to any url, but can't seem to

Re: How to get CUPS to work (newbie)

2003-08-31 Thread Alexander Farber
Is the reason maybe, that you missed to execute these commands: newhope:alex {646} pkg_info -D cups-base-1.1.18.0_5 Information for cups-base-1.1.18.0_5: Install notice: **

2 sound cards, no sound, no /dev/dsp

2003-08-23 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, sorry for a bit helpless question but I couldn't find the answer in the handbook and in the man psm myself. I have put device pcm into my kernel config and compiled it. Since I use FreeBSD 5.1, I haven't run MAKEDEV. Now I have: newhope:mpg321 {564} dmesg | grep pcm pcm0: CMedia CMI8738

putting mount_smbfs -N into /etc/fstab

2003-08-03 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, I have: //pref/pref /pref smbfs rw,noauto 0 0 in my /etc/fstab and it works, but I have to press the return key to submit the empty password when I mount /pref and thus I have to use the noauto option. I there a way to put the mount_smbfs option -N and also -E koi8-r:cp866 into the

Mounting OpenBSD partitions (can see only root)

2003-08-03 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, I have a dual-boot PC and would like to mount the OpenBSD partition (with 3 slices: root, swap and /home) on the hard disk ad1 under FreeBSD 5.1. However there are only 2 ad1 devices visible: newhope:alex {264} ll /dev/ad1* crw-r- 1 root operator4, 12 Aug 3 09:50

Compiling kernel and making world as non-root

2003-08-01 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, I'm a FreeBSD newbie, but have used OpenBSD for few years. Is there a way to compile kernel and also to make world as a non-root user under FreeBSD (5.1/i386)? In OpenBSD I normally put SUDO=sudo into /etc/mk.conf and run make build. Also all /usr/src belongs to alex:wsrc, not to

Boot manager doesn't show the Windows partition

2003-08-01 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.1 on the 1st drive a PC with 3 IDE disks: ad0: 38166MB WDC WD400BB-00CLB0 [77545/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad1: 39083MB Maxtor 6Y040L0 [79408/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA133 ad2: 58644MB IC35L060AVER07-0 [119150/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100 The other 2 disks

Checking out ports using CVS

2003-08-01 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, as user alex:wheel I try the following commands cd /usr sudo mkdir ports sudo chmod g+w ports cvs -z3 -d $CVSROOT co -rRELENG_5_1 -P ports | tee ~/ports.txt Then I see the various ports sub-directories being checked out and they aren't empty. But at the very end I see the

Re: SOLVED! Re: Sendmail + Cyrus + Procmail(?) + SpamAssassin

2003-04-03 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 04:00:56PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-04-01T06:17:40Z, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's now well past my bed time, my brain is all muzzy, and I'm this close to giving up on the whole project. Before I do, I have to ask: has *anyone* made