Re: Within X, how can I see console messages?

2005-02-04 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Steven Friedrich wrote: I know I can Control-Alt-F1 to go back to the console, but is there a way to see these messages in an xterm or something? xconsole When xdm starts, xconsole gets started, too, on my machine, I can't remember doing anything to get this behaviour, though. Kind regards,

Re: Creator of 4.4 BSD

2005-01-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Just in case somebody cares, The Art Of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond contains a very detailed description of the history of Unix, BSD and Linux. In my opinion, that chapter alone makes the book worth reading. Kind regards, Benjamin ___

Re: KSE and CPU in top...

2005-01-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, Krok wrote: But top/ps shows not several processes, but one process with CPU more then 100% sometimes : 611 mysql 200 142M 91832K kserel 3 6:57 165.09% 165.09% mysqld Is it normal ? Do you happen to be running a multi-CPU system? I recently experienced a similar thing with

Re: KSE and CPU in top...

2005-01-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Dan Nelson wrote: Press H in top to see each thread (or use the H flag to ps). They're hidden by default. Yes it works! I *love* SMP! =) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Running named on one interface only

2005-01-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hexren wrote: *gnaahh* I seem to be unable to locate any information about limiting nameds service to one interface only. Does anybody know where to do this ? Put the following line into your named.conf's options section: listen-on { list of adresses to listen on }; In case you use IPv6, the

Re: ip address behind router ?

2005-01-18 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
FreeBsdBeni wrote: I can indeed access the Linksys modem directly and find out the address. But I was hoping for a more direct or easier way to do it, if possible... Point your browser to www.whatismyip.com Kind regards, Benjamin ___

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-14 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
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, which basically worked okay. Switching from XFree to X.org was really troublesome, on the other hand... Kind regards, Benjamin

Re: I quit

2005-01-10 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Just bin works. But you'll _absolutely_ want to do that. *slight* exaggerationWhy M$ assumes the only thing you'll ever want to d/l via ftp is ASCII text /*slight* exaggeration is beyond me It's not the worst thing I've seen - when you want to transfer a text file from

Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
I was too lazy to wait for the thin to build, so I downloaded the binary package. Works fine. =) Kind regards, Benjamin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Is mplayer port broken ?

2004-12-30 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 21:44 +0100, Xinizul Xinizul wrote: Could someone help me to workaround this or to notify to the maintainer about this issue ? I've been having this problem, too. Since I don't use mplayer's GUI at all, I normally just type Ctrl+C when make is trying to fetch it. Kind

Re: freebsd network

2004-12-07 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, Dude Dude wrote: Right now, i'm changing cable for adsl, and i would like to know if i can mantain my network arch, cause ppp causes me a lot of confusion. I don't know about FreeBSD's support for dsl, but I've got that setup at home with a NetBSD machine connected to a dsl-modem on one

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE SMP Kernel

2004-12-02 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Ronnie Clark wrote: Hello all, I hope what I have is a simple question. I have a dual proc machine, that I have loaded 5.3 RELEASE on and then updated it to STABLE. While reading the Handbook I see where the GENERIC kernel has SMP built in via the SMP file in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf directory.

Re: book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
J.D. Bronson wrote: I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble locally. The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey is very good. If you don't mind something more general, Essential System Administration by Aeleen Frisch is very good,

Re: Everything randomly generates .core files

2004-11-13 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: You probably have a bad CPU cache on your motherboard. The solution is to use that machine for some Windows system and get a different PC. While I agree with your diagnosis, it's probably a hardware problem, I don't think Windows is going to run well on that machine.

Re: Perl 5.005 on Freebsd 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Volker Lieder wrote: Hello list, i need the perlversion 5.005 on Freebsd 5.3. I tried to compile it by hand, but when i try make i got an error like make: don't know how to make built-in. Stop I need this perl-version only for one application :-/ Perhaps anybody has an idea. I also need version

Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-11 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Louis LeBlanc wrote: Quick question about interconnectivity. You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility called RDC (Remote Desktop Connection). Some of you other *BSDers may also be familiar with one called VNC (Visual Network Connection ?) or RDP (?). The purpose of said

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-09 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Danny MacMillan wrote: No doubt BIND can do this ... but I find djbdns much easier to configure. I have never tried out djbdns, so I cannot say for myself, and I also understand that apparently djbdns has caused similarly intense discussions as KDE-vs-GNOME or vi-vs-emacs; so I want to make

Firefox and Mozilla stopped working

2004-11-07 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everybody, I am using FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 I recently grabbed a recent ports-tree via ftp and happily installed firefox-1.0rc1. After the build process said Building Chrome Registry, firefox-bin was eating all free CPU-cycles. When I rebuilt, the same thing happened. Even more weird, Mozilla

Re: Help me, Get a Free flat screen

2004-11-05 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Daniel Jesperson wrote: Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... Copy and paste this link...and add one W to the front and you get a TV ww.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=1141739 Best regards, and Thank you Daniel

Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-02 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Richard Cotrina wrote: Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting to post it to the list. A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused in data risk security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less breached OS in a sample of more that 200K computers permanently connected to the

Re: question..

2004-10-29 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hadi Maleki-Baroogh wrote: my freebsd system tries to start syslogd, panics on ffswrite, and initiates a boot.. it looks like it's continually cycling.. anyone know what can cause this? Not really. ;-? *Maybe*, just maybe, it is because syslog can't write. Maybe file/folder permissions are

Re: Strange file appeared in my home directory

2004-10-28 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, Daniela wrote: I noticed a file called regs in my home directory (which is 21 megs in size) and I have no clue where it comes from. The file format is not recognized by any of the common tools. The creation date was about four days ago, so if I created it, I would have remembered. I

Re: perl vs php round 1

2004-10-26 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Gert Cuykens wrote: Can you do as much with perl as you can do with php ? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I should think so. In fact, I

Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!

2004-10-21 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, Brian wrote: So I've been planning this for sometime and finally have the time to do it. Great! =) [...] I've never really put a lot of time into turning FreeBSD into a solid work station which I'm sure it's more than able to be. Yes, it is. =) I've been using FreeBSD 5.x on my

Re: gtk-sharp build hangs

2004-10-21 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Christopher Nehren wrote: Yes for DotGNU, haven't tried Rotor recently. DotGNU masquerades in the ports tree under the names pnet*, found under lang/. Rotor masquerades under the name cli, and is also under lang/. Thanks, Benjamin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!

2004-10-21 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Brian wrote: Lots of ram is they all have at least 512mb. That *is* enough. =) I didn't have problems at 512mb, so far... I should take Secure out of there I'm fairly well up on FreeBSD Security and all boxes are behind a well maintained FreeBSD Router/Firewall. I have all those books :) I

Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, Seth Henry wrote: I want to run a private DNS server which is visible internally only. Comcast doesn't like servers, so I don't want to broadcast any DNS information upstream. (this would also be kind of dumb, as the entries would point to non-routable addresses) I also want to create a

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I'm looking for a newsreader that has multi-server capabilities in that it can piece together articles using different newsgroup servers. Similar to NewsPro for windoze. Anyone had any luck with a good newreader port for FreeBSD? I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 if that

Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hi, Ezequiel O. Block wrote: The allow-recursion option would limit queries only to your lan. like this options { allow-recursion { 192.168.1.0/24; 127.0.0.1; }; }; You can also say: options { ... listen-on { 192.168.0.1; 127.0.0.1; }; }; ^^^ (Or whatever

Re: gtk-sharp build hangs

2004-10-18 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, Thanks for your answers (that goes to everyone who answered)! Tom McLaughlin wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 16:01 +0200, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: Hello everyone, I am just trying to install gtk-sharp from ports. mono installed just fine, but the gtk-sharp build seems to hang at some

Re: arbitrary programs in /etc/ttys

2004-10-18 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, Geert Hendrickx wrote: ttyv0 /usr/bin/cu -l cuaa0vt100 on secure But this gives me the following error when restarting init: init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv0, sleeping 30 secs Apparently cu can not be started directly from /etc/ttys, can it? How

Re: IDE for gcc

2004-10-16 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Phusion wrote: I was wondering if anyone could give me some recommendations for an IDE for gcc. Let me know. Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

gtk-sharp build hangs

2004-10-16 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everyone, I am just trying to install gtk-sharp from ports. mono installed just fine, but the gtk-sharp build seems to hang at some point: # === Building for gtk-sharp-1.0_2 gmake all-recursive gmake[1]: Entering directory

Re: reverse ssh

2004-10-05 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Micah Bushouse wrote: Thanks in advance for any responses, ~Micah You could write a script that sends an email to you every morning which contains your IP-address. *Encrypted*, of course!!! Such a thing could easily be done in Perl or even in shell. Kind regards, Benjamin

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
nbco wrote: Bittorrent is a type of p2p protocol: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html Bittorrent would take the pressure off the servers as those who use it would effectively be getting the isos from those that already have them on their own boxes, in short it cuts the servers out of the

Re: php4 with gd?

2004-10-04 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Ray Davis wrote: There seems to be a big gap between simply installing a port with its defaults and finding out what other options might be available via the WITH_* and WITHOUT_* options. Isn't this documented with each port somewhere? Look at the Makefile and the CONFIGURE_ARGS variable. I

Thunderbird not displaying mails in IMAP-folder

2004-10-03 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everyone, I recently set up a Courier-IMAP server (version 3.0.5) in my local network. I want to use Thunderbird 0.7.3 running on FreeBSD 5.2.1 to connect to the server. Basically, this works. But when new mails arrive in the mailbox, Thunderbird only indicates them in the folder tree,

Re: Thunderbird not displaying mails in IMAP-folder

2004-10-03 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Radek Kozlowski wrote: You'll need to configure courier-imap with: --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs to make Mozilla/Thunderbird work. -Radek Thanks a lot! Seems to work now. =) Kind regards, Benjamin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Good Outlook Calendar Replacement in ports?

2004-10-01 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 05:09:25 -0700 Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Made my doc a committment to put appointments on FreeBSD, like I used to do at work on Windoze. No more missed ones LOL. Is there a good desk app in ports that will do this? Doesnt have to be fancy, just work reliably.

Re: FTP command line syntax

2004-09-28 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:04:34 -0600 Steve Suhre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I use the suggested syntax: ftp ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path I get:Can't locate or login to host `user' It looks like ftp is not aware of the man page and wants the server where the login

Re: Mouse wheel on XOrg 6.7.0 (FreeBSD 5.3-beta5)

2004-09-25 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:44:46 +0100 David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed the latest 5.3 beta with XOrg 6.7.0. The mouse works, except I can't get the mouse wheel to work. The mouse section of xorg.conf is as follows: [ ... ] The last two option lines are as the

GORM not compiling from ports

2004-09-25 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everyone, I was up to learning a little Objective-C and wanted to install GORM from ports (/usr/ports/devel/gorm), which is a clone of NeXT Step's Interface Builder (as far as I know). However, the build stops with the following error message. I think that some underlying library is causing

Re: what password files do i need?

2004-09-25 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:13:05 -0500 Anthony Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was planning on doing a clean install for 5.3 when it comes out, and I have seveal friends who have accounts on my box. Which password files do I need to move over so that their passwords won't change.

Re: what password files do i need?

2004-09-25 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:31:31 +0100 Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group -- you can regenerate /etc/passwd from /etc/master.passwd by running: # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd But note that there have been changes to the standard system accounts which

Re: No Sound after upgrading KDE

2004-09-25 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:37:06 +0100 R. W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded to KDE 3.3 (under FreeBSD 5.2.1) and the sound stopped working properly. I hear the tune as KDE starts up, but then there is no sound after that. Multimedia applications still work properly under XFce,

Re: Mouse wheel on XOrg 6.7.0 (FreeBSD 5.3-beta5)

2004-09-25 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 22:27:41 +0100 David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, neither of these suggestions work, either separately or together! More detail: the mouse is a Compaq (Logitech) USB optical mouse. I did try moused_port=/dev/ums0 as well. Any other ideas? I am sorry

Re: PHP Problem

2004-09-24 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:41:45 +0200 Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:23:57PM +0200, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: If you habe further questions, I'd be glad to help, but I suggest you contact me privately, since your problem is not that strictly FreeBSD

Re: PHP Problem

2004-09-23 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:59:14 -0700 digish reshamwala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have installed Apache Mod_ssl 1.3.29 first then, I installed PHP using ports in FreeBSD 5.2.1 as: cd /usr/ports/www/php4-cgi make make install clean But my PHP doesn't seems to be working, as my simple

Re: X.org performance?

2004-09-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:40:30 +0530 Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat /etc/make.conf PERL_VER=5.8.2 PERL_VERSION=5.8.2 PERL_ARCH=mach NOPERL=yo NO_PERL=yo NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo CPUTYPE=athlon-mp CFLAGS+= -O2 -pipe X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg

Re: PHP MySQL

2004-09-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:53:18 -0700 digish reshamwala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Hi, I want to install the specific version only if I use the ports to install using: cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql40-server make make insall clean It installs MySQL 4.0.18 not 4.0.20?? So can u help

Re: X.org performance?

2004-09-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:56:28 +0530 Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CFLAGS+= -O2 -pipe X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg make this CFLAGS=-O -pipe -O2 is known to create more problem than it solves Thank you very much! I'm going to try rebuilding X.org as soon as I find the time... Regards S.

Native Mozilla-Firebird build via ports?

2004-09-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everyone, I recently got myself a broadband internet connection and happily started upgrading a lot of software on my machine. Among others, I wanted to upgrade MozillaFirebird. Before the upgrade I used FireBird 0.7. Then I deinstalled the package - I really don't remember where I got the

Re: Native Mozilla-Firebird build via ports?

2004-09-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hi, On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:10:15 +0200 yuri van Overmeeren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Firebird' is now called 'Firefox', you dont have to build it, Native version is in the packages (version 0.9.3) Oh, yes, I remember... ooops... should've thought of that... Thank you very much, Benjamin --

X.org performance?

2004-09-18 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everyone, I am using FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE on a dual AthlonMP 2400+ with 512MB RAM, 60GB of IDE HDD (UDMA100) and a GeForce 4200Ti. I recently switched over X.org. After some minor hassles I actually got it to work. =) However, I *kind of feel* like performance has become worse.

Re: X.org performance?

2004-09-18 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:01:25 -0500 Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Runs like a champ. Good for you. =) I'm not really saying it doesn't run sufficiently - or if I was, I didn't mean to -, it's just that X.org is consuming large amounts of cpu-time. I mean, it's not like my system

Re: X.org performance?

2004-09-18 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 01:43:22 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Björn Lindström) wrote: Benjamin Walkenhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or is it just my perception tricking me, while Xorg is not that different from XFree, technically? Is your configuration identical? Using certain modules can cost

Embarrassing typo [was: Re: New]

2004-02-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:19:25 +0100 Benjamin Walkenhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD is very similar to windows, in many ways, from a user's point of view. I'm sorry, FreeBSD is in not quite similar to windows. What I meant to say was: very similar to Linux, from a user's point of view

Re: New

2004-02-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:25:23 -0500 Patrick Rooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Want to give it a try! it is FreeBSD, I suppose? I hope you'll enjoy FreeBSD as much as I do. =) Very experienced with all versions of windows, have been building computers for 15 years.. Sick of the windows

Re: Administration

2004-02-18 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:08:52 -0800 Derek Burns / Bend-Pak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way I can administer my FreeBSD web server from my pc? Sure, there's ssh. With ssh you can also do sftp, which works like ftp, only it's encrypted via ssh. If your server is on a trusted network, you

Re: TV card

2004-02-16 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:15:15 - Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest a decent tv card that will work under freebsd in the uk? I don't know if this has got anything to do with where you live, but I (living in Germany) have been using a Brooktree 878-based card (Hauppauge

Re: Creating mp3

2004-02-13 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:51:19 -0600 Quintin Riis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mp3 is outdated, use vorbis. I wouldn't say so. Unless you show me an affordable hardware-vorbis-player. There's plenty of CD-Players that will also play mp3-CDs, just like most standalone-DVD-players. Also, I

DVD playback finally works! =)

2004-02-11 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everyone, When I recently switched from Slackware 9.1 to FreeBSD 5.2, one of the few things that didn't work right away was DVD-playback. Now it works, I just have to chmod /dev/acd0 to 666 and create a symlink to /dev/dvd. Contrary to what I've read so far, DVD playback even works with

Re: DVD playback finally works! =)

2004-02-11 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:15:47 +0100 Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2004 09:55, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: Unfortunately, due to devfs, I have to change the permissions for acd0 and create the link (/dev/dvd) every time the system starts up - is there any

Re: Options for a New Kernel

2004-02-10 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:36:56 -0500 Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still trying to learn how FreeBSD works. Can I create a new kernel file with the following entries or are they just for use in the loader.conf file? hint.acpi.0.disabled=0 # enable ACPI (i386 only)

Strange connect attempts

2004-02-07 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, Under FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE on i386 I get lots of kernel messages like this one: Feb 7 12:38:01 neuromancer kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:49383 /etc/services has this to say on Port 512/udp: biff

Re: Strange connect attempts

2004-02-07 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 10:19:12 -0500 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First the message you are getting is issued by the log-in-vain sysctl knob. [...] Best advice is disable Log-in-vain, and let system continue to function as normal without this Log-in-vain bug causing you any more false log

XDMCP and starting XFree on boot

2004-01-26 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everybody, I am currently trying to set up an XDMCP-remote-login. I have two machines at home, but only one screen, so I want to be able to log into both machines via xdm. So far I've set up the headless machine to run xdm and added * CHOOSER BROADCAST to Xacces on that machine. It

Re: latency

2004-01-21 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:29:23 +0600 Stas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How much is latency in FreeBSD? I would like to listen music playing on FreeBSD PC with hi-fi sound. First I need to be sure the system latency is low enough. It depends. a) Where does the music come from?

Re: GDBE and USB-sticks? [was: GBDE and file-backed filesystems?]

2004-01-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:59:07 -0500 Michael W. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will trade links with you. Here is a link to an article describing GBDE on a USB ThumbDrive. If you are not bound by a privacy request, please post the link to the patch you mention above. Thank you very much!

Re: Can FreeBSD Install damage an NTFS Partition

2004-01-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:36:06 -0500 James R. Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So - can a FreeBSD install in free space on the second drive somehow damage an NTFS partition on the first drive? Has this happened to anyone else? Well, I can't tell you for sure, but chances are pretty

Re: Memory disks

2004-01-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hi all I was just reading the man page for md I need to know how to create a 60mg memory disk that is RW what is the cmds? Thankyou Jer Hello, For version 5.x the corresponding command is mdmfs (man 8 mdmfs). Towards the bottom of the man-page you find some examples that should

GBDE and file-backed filesystems?

2004-01-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everybody, I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.2 on my desktop machine. I like FreeBSD very much, I did not make it my primary OS, so far, because of some issues. Among these was the cryptoloop-device I had been using under GNU/Linux, which I used for storing my diary. If I am going to make

GDBE and USB-sticks? [was: GBDE and file-backed filesystems?]

2004-01-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello once more, One of the readers has replied privately, telling me there's a patch for FBSD 5.x, mdcrypt, he also supplied me with a URL for downloading (thank you very much!). GDBE, he told me, would most probably not work on md-filesystems. But another thing came to my mind - is it possible

Watching DVDs in 5.2

2004-01-18 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everybody, I recently installed FreeBSD 5.2 on my Desktop machine. So far I am very pleased. I tried 5.0 in June, and I did not find it suitable for my needs, yet. Now the ISDN-card is gone from my machine and TV works in overlay-mode. =) So I am actually considering to make FreeBSD my

Re: Watching DVDs in 5.2

2004-01-18 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:40:53 -0500 Jeremy Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: I only get this message when I force my dvd drive into DMA when it would normally use PIO4. relevant parts of /var/run/dmesg.boot: atapci0: VIA 82C686B UDMA100 controller port 0xd000

Re: Watching DVDs in 5.2

2004-01-18 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:53:05 +0100 Benjamin Walkenhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:40:53 -0500 Jeremy Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you should put the drive into PIO and try again. Mmmh, I'll try... Didn't work. I put it into PIO-mode, didn't work, I put

Re: mouse with scroll....

2003-08-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
! =) Kind regards, and thanks a lot, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE/QdMXoYumWdMvhMQRAqzOAKCB

Graphics card not recognized - Was: Re:

2003-08-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE/QdQhoYumWdMvhMQRAkb/AJ0fFN0tyTNgDwqHuNQyLpBdJHInKACff3wd

DSL + USB-WLAN-Adapter

2003-08-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
/firewall... - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE/QmRjoYumWdMvhMQRAndNAJ90mAZrsEmBUjb73FlALPAk9CSnXwCfSEUT 5GrLAjZZiFb1+4

Re: RAM increase + swap

2003-08-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
). Kind regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE/Qy8/oYumWdMvhMQRAgqEAJ967MB0HB3cBf+c8+dnPOsSTtmMKQCeNLNP

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2003-08-17 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE/PoIOoYumWdMvhMQRAvn4AJ9PIoPCfsG7v01Tp4I/vbVtSg9D/ACeLi8w zCR25OrBh0OQ2a/ZrnPdiuw

Re: mouse with scroll....

2003-08-17 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
there? /dev/psm0? -- Josh Thanks in advance, kind regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE/P1rMoYumWdMvhMQRArb

Re: Hi Quick question

2003-08-15 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
installing mc I agree, midnight commander is very easy to use, pretty powerful, and it allows you to look inside tarballs and navigate them just like directories. It also includes a file viewer which automatically filters some file types (html, dvi, ...). kind regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin

Installing NetBSD-packages?

2003-08-15 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-system? Has anyone ever tried something like this? Did it work? How does this work performance-wise? Kind regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key

Re: executable folder

2003-08-14 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
by cd $FOLDER. If you want to do cd $FOLDER on a folder without executive permission, you will get cd: no permission. Thanks and regards Anil. Kind regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Hi Quick question

2003-08-14 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Kind regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE/O18HoYumWdMvhMQRApkTAJ98/yogN6tZmc/bEeOHlRKyv3UwnwCbBr0a

Re: Mount NetBSD partition

2003-08-02 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
, they typically show up like logical partitions in extended DOS partitions (/dev/hda5 and upwards) Hope it helps, kind regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key

Re: emacs - gnu, x ...?

2003-08-01 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
instance of emacs, but just attach their client-sessions to the emacs-server. The main advantage I see is memory saved, and also some relief on the disks, for emacs remains in RAM all the time. kind regards, Benjamin Walkenhorst - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http

Re: emacs - gnu, x ...?

2003-07-31 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Emacs comes with a tutorial (start emacs, then type Ctrl-h t to start the tutorial). A lot of what is said there applies to other versions as well. Kind regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: books

2003-07-28 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
books handy, in case my computer really freaks out and leaves without access to the handbook in html-format. --karl Kind regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Re: /dev/psm0

2003-07-28 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
about using UNIX and UNIX-like systems on laptops, www.mobilix.org; unfortunately, the website is not available due to copyright reasons, but there is an eMail-link to the site's owner. Maybe he can give you a hint, as well. Kind regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL

Re: Virus Scanners

2003-07-24 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 24. July 2003 16:44, Schimcek, Derrick wrote: What are the best virus scanners for freebsd? While I don't know about virus scanners for *FreeBSD*, I use AntiVir on a GNU/Linux desktop box happily. I understand, there is a version for

ISO9660/RockRidge transparent de-/compression

2003-07-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
a feature of FreeBSD one day? I would really appreciate that... =) Kind regards, Benjamin Walkenhorst - -- Der Hoffnung beraubt sein, heißt noch nicht - verzweifeln. (Albert Camus) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http

Re: Complete FreeBSD the same as the online handbook?

2003-07-16 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
for more experienced users, so if you buy it, it will remain useful for some time. Hope to help, Kind regards, Benjamin Walkenhorst - -- Der Hoffnung beraubt sein, heißt noch nicht - verzweifeln. (Albert Camus) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public

extracting cd-audio to wav

2003-07-11 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, Is there some kind of program to digitally read audio-cds to wav-files under FreeBSD? Under GNU/Linux I use cdparanoia, which I have I've come to like very much, but cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) refused to compile,

Re: kdm on bootup

2003-06-27 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 27. June 2003 05:40, Chris wrote: Hiya - What file might I modify to enable kdm to start on bootup? And what might that line look like. The file you have to change is /etc/ttys The corresponding entry in my /etc/ttys looks like

Re: kdm on bootup

2003-06-27 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 27. June 2003 15:15, Chris wrote: The corresponding entry in my /etc/ttys looks like this: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure No - did you also change off to on? Tell your kernel to reread /etc/ttys (among

Recommendations on new hardware

2003-06-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, The PC I currently own looks about like this: Pentium III 450MHz 256MB RAM Motherboard by Siemens (I think so, though I am not entirely certain), with a VIA82C686 chipset and just *3* PCI slots (one of them shared with ISA) 2 hard