Re: Alternative to Sharity Light in the base system?

2005-03-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 17 March 2005 08:51 am, Gerry Freymann wrote: I've been using Sharity Light to access open shares on my Windoze machine from FreeBSD. But somewhere along the line I know this is now built-in to FreeBSD but I can't remember or find what program to use to do this and I would prefer

Re: minicom and ugen

2005-03-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 11 March 2005 10:33 am, Paulo Roberto wrote: Hello, I am not able to use a usb/serial converter with minicom. I loaded ucom and uplcom, but only ugen messages are printed on the console. ugen0: FTDI USB - Serial, rev 1.10/4.00, addr 2 I tried ugen0, ugen0.1 and ugen0.2 with no

Re: A possibly simple query about pf on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

2005-03-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:44 am, Madhusudan Singh wrote: After nearly a week of fighting the dual problem of OpenBSD 3.6 release freezing on my hardware, and some rather odious personalities on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, I decided to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on the web server I

Re: cd copy

2005-02-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 25 February 2005 05:27 am, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: What is the easiest way to copy a complete cdrom with freebsd-4.11? Normally I use burncd to burn an iso file to a new cdr, but I never copied a complete cdrom to cdr under freebsd. My windows machines are down and I need the copy

Re: PPP Connection.

2005-02-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 25 February 2005 02:12 pm, Peterhin wrote: On February 25, 2005 14:09, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:11:34PM -0500, Peterhin wrote: I have 5.3 installed, and am trying to get my dial-up going. In the handbook under 21.2.1.2 when I try to do a 'cd /dev' 'sh

Re: PPP Connection.

2005-02-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 25 February 2005 03:47 pm, Peterhin wrote: OK here is what I get when I 'ps ax | grep ppp' '202 ?? ls 0:00.04 /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -auto -nat papchap' FYI. the modem does disconnect after the '300sec'. and I can re-dial to get the connection again, so that all works fine. Also I

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:46 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Jacob S writes: Good. I'm glad to see the average Windows user looking around the computer store still gets to see an alternative once in a while. I'm pretty sure I've seen Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, Fedora, and a couple of

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 02:24 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Andrew L. Gould writes: You can still find FreeBSD at Fry's Electronics and MicroCenter. I don't know if CompUSA still carries it. I have mixed feelings about FreeBSD 5.0-5.2.1 being sold in the retail market. How so

Re: Trying to get X working.

2005-02-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 21 February 2005 10:37 am, Peterhin wrote: I have installed Freebsd 5.3, and I am at Chapter 5.6 of the handbook, and really can't figure out where to go from here. How do I start XDM? or do I do that with 'startx'. If so I have a further problem, in that when I try 'startx' I get

Re: Partial web page loading

2005-02-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Scott Stevenson wrote: I'm a relatively new user of FreeBSD (5.3 release), and have encountered a problem that I haven't seen on other platforms. The details and a screenshot are outlined here: http://theocacao.com/document.page/82 Essentially, web content (text and images alike,

Re: Defining a new slice

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 17 February 2005 07:08 am, Vittorio wrote: As a newbie I can create a new FreeBSD UFS partition/slice by means of sysinstall (by the way, I installed freeBSD 5.3). Now recently I freed some partitions devoted to M$ Windows (at last!) and I want to transform them into UFS

Re: Defining a new slice

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 17 February 2005 07:08 am, Vittorio wrote: As a newbie I can create a new FreeBSD UFS partition/slice by means of sysinstall (by the way, I installed freeBSD 5.3). Now recently I freed some partitions devoted to M$ Windows (at last!) and I want to transform them into UFS

Re: Upgrading to 5.3

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:18 pm, Joachim Dagerot wrote: I just cvsuped to freebsd-stable and buildworld. No problems. Now I want to build the kernel with the same conf as I used for the last years (5.x), but I ran into problems. device pcm is unknown. Is this a 'common' problem, or am

Re: FreeBSD motherboard survey site disappeared

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:48 am, Randy Pratt wrote: There was a site collecting information about motherboards. It was at: http://www.eilio.com/freebsd-motherboards/ It seems to be gone along with all the information that was collected. For reference, this was the original list

Re: Wireless PCMIA problems

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:40 am, Lars Hederidder wrote: Hey, I have a 3Com 3CRSHPW_96 Wireless PCMIA card for my laptop. However I'm a newbie at using PCMIA cards on FreeBSD. BSD finds the card when I plug it in, but it doesn't show up when I use the ifconfig command. Can anyone help

Re: Configure X Server

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:55 am, Peterhin wrote: I have just installed Freebsd 5.3 using a standard install, with all packages, and ports. When I go to Configure X (as per the handbook 2.9.12) using Configure Do post-install configuration of Freebsd, in the Configuration menu there is

Re: Configure X Server

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 12:23 pm, Peterhin wrote: On February 15, 2005 12:09, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:55 am, Peterhin wrote: I have just installed Freebsd 5.3 using a standard install, with all packages, and ports. When I go to Configure X (as per the handbook

Re: Wireless PCMIA problems

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:06 pm, Lars Hederidder wrote: I've tryed to use the Windows driver, but it doesn't seem to work. I did the following: # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/ # make make install # cd ../if_ndis/ # cp /cdrom/driver/* ./ # ndiscvt -i ./netwpx96.inf -s ./wlpx96e.sys -o

Re: Firefox and java

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 04:22 pm, RL wrote: Java isn't showing up in about:plugins on Firefox. I compiled java (when I compiled OpenOffice) and here is my /etc/libmap.conf entry for it (maybe I missed something?) [/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java] libkse.so.1libc_r.so.5

Re: Kernel Config. Menu.?

2005-02-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 14 February 2005 08:17 pm, Peterhin wrote: I have been reading the handbook and have started my installation, from a CD. However it goes straight to the sysinstall menu, it does not give me the Kernel Configuration menu, as per the handbook. (2.3.2 Kernel Configuration) What am I

Re: Kernel Config. Menu.?

2005-02-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 14 February 2005 09:40 pm, Peterhin wrote: I am using 5.3. My question would be how current is the handbook, I was under the impression that it was the most current of all the sources for Freebsd. Am I wrong.? Thanks for your quick reply. The handbook currently represents both

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchasNetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:38 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dick Davies Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:10 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 11 February 2005 08:14 am, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Imagine Linux dropping Tux for some meanlingless, lifeless logo? I'm glad you asked. Tux is a mascot, not a logo. These are Linux logos: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiccaldera.gif

Re: (mySQL) benchmarks strike back

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 11 February 2005 10:46 am, Jorge Mario G. wrote: Hi there I just read http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/12/27/1243207.shtml?tid=72; tid=29%20result and as in any onther benchmark there is a lot stuff that can be arguable. I would like to know why is that happening? the

Re: SQL Questions (MySQL or PostgreSQL?)

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 11 February 2005 04:17 pm, Sean wrote: What is the difference between PostgreSQL and MySQL? From what I see MySQL seems to be more common. Sean What.not enough holy wars this week? ;-) PostgreSQL and MySQL are both good database server applications. Here are some

Re: KDM doesn't launch any WindowManager

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:36 am, HuGo Herter wrote: Hello, I've just installed the last version of FreeBSD (5.3), after the reference, but I cannot launch any WindowManager using KDM : KDM closes and restart immediatly... I think that it's the same about XDM. But my Window Managers

Re: Secure file transfers

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 10 February 2005 02:28 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Danie Du Toit writes: Which packages are available to upload /download large dumpfiles in a secure fashion (e.g. using SSL). The customer should not need any secure client installed on his PC. Anything that is secure will

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 10 February 2005 06:00 pm, Mark A. Garcia wrote: snip I'd like to hear a story of a system administrator who has chosen not to use FreeBSD explicitly because of the logo. That would be way more entertaining. Everyone could learn more about human nature. -.mag If you're trying

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 10 February 2005 07:13 pm, Mike Hauber wrote: I have two questions. These are not accusations, but questions and I don't want accusations in response. 1. Why was this so hush-hush (ie, Why was it leakable (ie, why the secrecy, if FreeBSD is supposed to be a project where

[OT] easy authpf access from Windows (for non-unix users)?

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Is anyone running authpf with Windows clients in the network? If so, how are the Windows clients logging in? What's the easiest mechanism for this. I want my grandson to have free access to the (Windows) computers; but I want an adult to manually authorize internet access to prevent

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 12:58 pm, Julien Gabel wrote: See the thread The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new logo design. in -advocacy - I've already replied with my views on the subject, along the same lines as your comments. I'm not subscribed to

Re: [OT] easy authpf access from Windows (for non-unix users)?

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:49 pm, Volker Kindermann wrote: Hi Andrew, Is anyone running authpf with Windows clients in the network? If so, how are the Windows clients logging in? What's the easiest mechanism for this. as Hexren posted, putty is good for doing this. You can

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 07:09 pm, - wrote: http://www.petitiononline.com/fbsdmsc1/petition.html Julien Gabel wrote: See the thread The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new logo design. in -advocacy - I've already replied with my views on the subject,

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 09:51 am, Jerry McAllister wrote: OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop environment (including JAVA) for both Windows XP and FreeBSD on my laptop. :( I have used

Re: startup

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 07 February 2005 08:33 am, Marshall Kiam-Laine wrote: ***hi all, rookie fiddler calling :) just loaded fbsd5.3amd64 but it stopped at the login prompt. (1) $startkde didnt work, is that the right command please ? (2) what command to start gnome ? (3) how to tell it

Re: easy VPN config HOWTO?

2005-02-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:39 pm, darren david wrote: Hi all- I have been searching high and low for a straightforward VPN configuration HOWTO with no luck. everything i've found is way over my head and very convoluted (to me, at least). Perhaps such is the nature of VPN. My goal is

Re: MySQL query tool and Administrator

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 04 February 2005 10:45 am, Damian Sobieralski wrote: I'd be happy to try that. Quick question- I use KDE. Can I have GNOME installed on the same box with KDE without any conflicts? Can I run the compiled app via KDE? In ignornance, - Damian Yes, KDE and Gnome can coexist

Fwd: Re: dvd-burning/alternative to k3b?

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
oops. I forgot to send this back to the list. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: dvd-burning/alternative to k3b? Date: Thursday 03 February 2005 09:56 am From: Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 03 February 2005 09:02 am, Brian John wrote

Re: Video Capture, TV tuner devices

2005-02-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 07:54 am, Rod Person wrote: On Tuesday 01 February 2005 6:23 pm, Roland Smith wrote: AFAICT, the only video driver in the kernel is the 'bktr' driver, which supports cards based on the bt848/bt848a/bt849a/bt878/bt879 chipset. See paragraph 7.5 of the Handbook.

Re: apache+SSL, which port?

2005-01-31 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 31 January 2005 12:39 pm, Mark Ovens wrote: Charles Swiger wrote: On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:22 PM, albi wrote: Mark Ovens wrote: I want to install apache with SSL but there are two ports, www/apache13-modssl and www/apache13-ssl What is the difference, and which is the best to

Re: Login

2005-01-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 28 January 2005 06:25 pm, Pete Dela Cruz wrote: I tried to boot FreeBsd for the first time and I get this Login prompt. What to do? I don't know what my login is. I don't remember being prompted or assigned a login during the installation process. Please help. Thanks Pete Dela

Re: Acrobat plugin

2005-01-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 28 January 2005 10:13 pm, Steven Friedrich wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 STABLE. I've installed firefox and linuxpluginwrapper. Where do I get plugin support for acrobat? I've installed acroread and I rebuilt firefox hoping it would see it and add it. A file named libmap.conf

kernel info question

2005-01-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I'm about to recompile a kernel on a computer with an AMD K6-2 450 processor. Is the K6-2 an i586 or i686 CPU? Thanks, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Burning CDRs on DVD recorders

2005-01-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 03:15 pm, RW wrote: I recently upgraded my CD burner to a DVD burner. I have the ATAPI/CAM options built-in to my 5.3 kernel and can burn DVDs with growisofs. How should I burn CDs in the DVD drive? Should I use growisofs with /dev/cd0 or should I used burncd

php ports question

2005-01-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I noticed that php ports conflict with php-cli ports. Does that mean you can't do both web and cli programs in php on the same computer? Or does php include command line capabilities? Thanks, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

FreeBSD 4.11 Release

2005-01-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I just noted that FreeBSD 4.11 has been released and that there are now 2 CD#1's -- one for gnome and one for kde. Does anyone know how exclusive these CD's are? That is, does the gnome CD have kde-lite, or no kde at all? Does kde lack all gnome stuff? (Or better yet, does this mean that

Re: kernel info question

2005-01-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 05:06 pm, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:37 pm, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: I'm about to recompile a kernel on a computer with an AMD K6-2 450 processor. Is the K6-2 an i586 or i686 CPU? I

Re: kernel info question

2005-01-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 05:32 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-25 17:15, Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm selecting CPU types in the kernel configuration file, which lists only i386, i486, i586 and i686. AFAIK, and I may be a bit wrong here, if you don't really expect

'nat pass' not working in PF

2005-01-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I'm running pf in FreeBSD 5.3 on my laptop. The filters for the local box work fine. I'm also working on a pc for a friend; but ran out of ethernet ports in my router. This pc doesn't have a wireless adapter; so I adjusted my pf rules to use my laptop as a gateway for the pc. I want my

workaround: Re: 'nat pass' not working in PF

2005-01-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 21 January 2005 08:20 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I'm running pf in FreeBSD 5.3 on my laptop. The filters for the local box work fine. I'm also working on a pc for a friend; but ran out of ethernet ports in my router. This pc doesn't have a wireless adapter; so I adjusted my pf

Re: DVD burner questions

2005-01-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 21 January 2005 05:21 pm, Dana / Lucas wrote: Im trying to figure out why my some of my burns skip randomly and some don't. Also, my Miramax videos don't give any sound on playback of the burned dvd. Do I have to slow my burning speed? If so, how? If you're using growisofs from

Re: ALTQ support?

2005-01-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 20 January 2005 05:30 pm, Brian John wrote: Hello, I am trying to get pf to work on my 5.3 machine. I thought that I had it setup but it says that I don't have ALTQ support? What is that? Can someone help me set it up? Thanks /Brian ALTQ is a kernel option. Add the line

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 14 January 2005 06:43 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: lord grinny writes: lg Don't they?? Then what are all the law suits about? Business. I respectfully disagree. Business is people. People who do business well abhor lawsuits. Lawyers are like nuclear missiles -- they have

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 14 January 2005 05:13 am, Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello FreeBSD Friends. I have just arrived to the FreeBSD world. I am not an expert on anything, I am only a computer fan and use my computer mainly for my engineering work and hobbies (amateur radio, photography, astronomy, etc.). I

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 14 January 2005 12:23 pm, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: Hello, Andrew L. Gould wrote: 3. Definitely go with a clean installation of FreeBSD 5.3 rather than 5.2.1. Just a sidenote, I did a source upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 14 January 2005 02:12 pm, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:32:03PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 12:23 pm, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: Hello, Andrew L. Gould wrote: 3. Definitely

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:24 pm, John wrote: I just keep painting myself into corners, and I'm hoping that people can point out some (presumably dumb) things that I am doing, and recommend a course of action that will get me back to where I want to be. I have a Compaq Armada M700 on

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 13 January 2005 04:18 pm, John wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:08:53PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:24 pm, John wrote: I just keep painting myself into corners, and I'm hoping that people can point out some (presumably dumb) things that I am

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 13 January 2005 05:05 pm, you wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:01:25PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 04:18 pm, John wrote: ... Thanks, Andrew - any advice on the kde versus kde-lite thing? I've been looking around, and I can't find a clear

Re: Setting up USB Printer???

2005-01-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 13 January 2005 07:04 pm, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 and I have a USB HP printer (Deskjet 842C) and I can't find any tutorials and the hand book is not much help either unless I'm missing something on how to setup any USB printer under FreeBSD. Can anyone help me

Re: UNIX-Based VPN Applications

2005-01-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:19 am, Martin McCormick wrote: I have been asked as to whether there are any VPN applications that can run on UNIX clients using Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS. I think the general idea is that they could tunnel in from outside of our campus and receive an IP

Re: freebsd question

2005-01-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 03:00 am, Tri wrote: Dear Sir or Madam: I am currently learning about unix, and my teacher told me about freebsd. He also told me that this program is free, stable, and secure. I am interested in creating my own ftp server using freedsb. However, I don't know how.

Re: Which OS should we use?

2005-01-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 05:54 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: Thanks to those who provided (and may provide in the future) their responses to my question. I appreciate the input. Frankly, when I saw a recent post about instabilities in 5.3, I think I may have gotten overly concerned about it.

Re: NFS export of evolution

2005-01-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 10 January 2005 02:45 pm, Robert Marella wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:01 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Robert Marella wrote: Hello I am not sure where this problem should go so I am posting to -questions. I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of

Re: I quit

2005-01-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 09 January 2005 02:53 am, william gatlin wrote: Hello, I have spent at least two weeks of my free time downloading 5.3 and trying to get it to work. After figuring out how to get an ISO image, windows couldn't do it because netscape insisted on modifying the file, I loaded it and

Re: iTunes server SUCCESS!! Here are my notes

2005-01-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 07:48 pm, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jan 4, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: Are you controlling iTunes (and all it's music library) on your Mac from a FreeBSD box somewhere on the net, and playing it on the FreeBSD box? Oh, there's one big caveat:

Re: sco utility

2005-01-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 01:32 pm, Leon wrote: Hi, I have installed KDE 3.3 on free bsd. But the KDE doesn't have a SCO utility. Where can I download this utility from? Thanks, Leon. sco.com? What utility (or function) is missing? ___

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2005-01-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 01 January 2005 01:05 am, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 9:41 PM, jason henson wrote: [did that... I have downloaded Rendezvous.tar.gz and mDNSResponder-58.8.tar.gz to /usr/ports/distfiles/] After doing this, go back to /usr/ports/net/rendezvous (if needed) and

Re: Production Release 5.3 Installation Won't Boot

2004-12-31 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 31 December 2004 05:19 am, babaloo munchies wrote: Hello, I downloaded ISO images disc 1 disc 2 the boot disk for FreeBSD 5.3 to install on a Pentium MMX machine. None of these discs will boot for the installation! What happens is the CD drive fires up, I see a couple of lines

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 31 December 2004 08:14 pm, Chris wrote: Timothy Luoma wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Chris wrote: Somewhat related - is there a port that will play the files downloaded from ITunes? I think the answer is no. Protected AAC files can only be played in iTunes, I believe.

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 31 December 2004 09:34 pm, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 10:09 PM, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 08:14 pm, Chris wrote: Timothy Luoma wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Chris wrote: Somewhat related - is there a port that will play the files

Re: hoe to install x

2004-12-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 30 December 2004 04:37 am, Filip Haragus wrote: hy i'm new in freebsd and i have a problem. I installed freebsd 5.3 at my workplace, but i have limited acces to the itnernet. I want to install xface enviroment(or any other) from the 5.3 release cd's(NOT over the internet). can u

Re: Installing Apache 2.0

2004-12-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 09:55 am, Fernando Matzdorf wrote: Help!! I recently downloaded version 2.0 of the Apache server from their website, and I tried to install it to my system using pkg_add but was unsuccessful (maybe it's not a package but I can't tell). I downloaded it on a

Re: pkg_add Not Working

2004-12-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:29 am, Adam wrote: I'm trying to add packages over my network connection. I can anonymously FTP into ftp.freebsd.org so I know my FTP connection is working. In the manual for pkg_add it said that I may have a problem with FTP firewall but I have none set up.

Re: Printer

2004-12-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 02:14 pm, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 9:34 AM -0500 12/28/04, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 12/27/04 09:46 PM, Parv sat at the `puter and typed: Lest somebody gets the wrong idea that all Lexmark printers behave as descried above, my Optra E310 laser printer --

Re: I am new User

2004-12-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 24 December 2004 12:45 pm, pedram wrote: Hi I want Learn FreeBSD but I am New in Unix Platform. I have MCSE and CCNA Certification and I am Administrator in an ISP and some companies. I was Download FreeBSD 5.3 Which books or sites you suggest me to learn? Thank you

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: Then the thing to do is create another root account and make the default shell for that one be bash, leaving the root root be /bin/sh. So for those of us that want to

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 24 December 2004 10:52 am, Josh Paetzel wrote: -snip- I've always been curious as to why you can't(shouldn't?) just change the shell that root uses. I think it has to do with the fact that some shells executables are in /bin and others are in /usr/local/bin. Root users should use a

Re: ipfw - a detailed howto

2004-12-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:30 am, Florian Hengstberger wrote: hi! Can anybody recommend an in deep guide to ipfw? I googled now for a longer time and found nothing really apropriate. The FreeBSD security howto is a little short, other guides don't cover security topics. Is there

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 20 December 2004 12:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I was unable to get a Compaq's pccard working under FreeBSD 5.2.1 using either the new or old pccard systems. I had no

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 20 December 2004 04:54 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 20 December 2004 12:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I just read about the website below at linuxtoday.com

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal alternative?

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 13 December 2004 01:16 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: snip And, on that line of thought, I suppose that kermit is a/the canonical piece of software, traditionally speaking; but last I looked, it was a significant time investment unless you just pick up things like that

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal alternative?

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 13 December 2004 03:48 pm, dave wrote: Hello, Everytime i've tried to get kermit to terminal, it's either trying to query a modem for dialup or if i can make it not do that I've never tried serial console access. My use has been limited to modems and ethernet. The tutorial at

Re: HI

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 13 December 2004 12:25 pm, Leon wrote: Hi, I have unusual question. I have tried to install and configurate FreeBSD but unfortunately I couldn't do it myself. So I would like to know if you can give me a phone number of somebody who lives in Brooklyn, NY with whom I can contact

Re: bsd book

2004-12-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 09 December 2004 09:40 am, Brian McCann wrote: I haven't read either...I normally find what I need in the handbook or friends. But...if I may make another suggestion, the BSD Hacks book, by Dru Lavigne published by O'Reilly, has some really nice tips in it. I got it a few days ago

Re: Sysinstall XFree86 is missing for some reason...

2004-12-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 04 December 2004 03:09 am, Kiffin Gish wrote: No I have not installed from the mini-inst, but from the standard FreeBSD 5.3R release disk #1. Anything else that could be the cause of my problem? Do you mean that the X Window system is not installed, or that XFree86 is not

Re: Sysinstall XFree86 is missing for some reason...

2004-12-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 13:57:28 +0100 Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I mean is that normally after the installation when you run sysinstall there is an item in the list allowing for configuration of XFree86 but that does not appear on my machine. Isn't it supposed to be there? How

Re: php4-cli or mod_php4

2004-12-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:30:15 +0200 Cristi Tauber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, i want to install apache+php+mysql. If i install mod_php i cannot install php4-extension (mysql, etc ...). If i try to install php4-cli and extensions apache doesn't know how to handle .php

Re: question

2004-11-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 29 November 2004 11:48 am, Glenn wrote: do you have any information as to where I could acquire a beastie mascot costume? -Glenn You can get horns and tail at: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm

Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-11-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 28 November 2004 04:16 pm, Matthias Buelow wrote: Davis Doherty wrote: The wireless card uses the Prism 2 chipset, and was recognized when I plugged it in. I did 'wicontrol -n my network SSID' and 'wicontrol -p What is the version number of your WPC11? Version 4 is not compatible

Re: FreeBSD Printing

2004-11-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 27 November 2004 02:12 pm, gabriel wrote: Nice, thanks for the replies guys. I was looking into this printer. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/18972-238444-410635-120 85-f57-90805-90810-90811.html HP PSC 2175 All-in-One (Q3068A) I don't remember the source; but I

Re: Playing DVD movies with Xine

2004-11-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 25 November 2004 10:39 pm, RL wrote: I just installed Xine from ports because I have been having very odd issues with ogle. However, it says there is no demuxer plugin to handle /dev/acd0 Usually this means that the file format was not recognized when I attempt to play DVD

Re: DVD burner error

2004-11-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 25 November 2004 02:19 am, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:24:36PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2004 05:02 pm, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:27:03PM +0200, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: Hello! I get sometimes

Re: DVD burner error

2004-11-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 05:02 pm, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:27:03PM +0200, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: Hello! I get sometimes the following error when I burn DVDs. Actually it happens more often than not... When burning a DVD with growisofs, burning stops with

Re: DVD burner error

2004-11-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 05:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:24:36PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: See the following links regarding burning cd's and dvd's. With a DVD burner, you need to add atapicam to the your kernel. The use of atapicam will also mean

php4 ports configuration file

2004-11-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I currently have the php4 port installed with support for various programs such as postgresql. I would like to add support for imap; so I did a make clean (in both php4 and php4-extensions) followed by a make so there is no directory for working files. Rather than see a screen to allow me to

Re: php4 ports configuration file

2004-11-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 04:49 am, Peter Risdon wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 03:04:11AM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I currently have the php4 port installed with support for various programs such as postgresql. I would like to add support for imap; so I did a make clean (in both php4

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card Question

2004-11-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 November 2004 03:03 am, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:21:58PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 12:42 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:30 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I

Re: postfix launch at system startup

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 18 November 2004 09:46 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 11/18/04 03:31 PM, Kjell Midtseter sat at the `puter and typed: When I later went through a cvsup/portupgrade sequence, I had to answer YES to the question Would you like to activate Postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf [n]? If

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card Question

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 18 November 2004 12:42 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:30 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I have just put FreeBSD 5.3 Release on my Dell Latitude C600 laptop. I wish to go wireless but I'm new to this technology. I have

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