I am looking for a nice Open Source app like Microsloth's Project. I
have Googled a bit and find nothing interesting. Do any of you have a
suggestion for such a thing, assuming it even exists? Of course, I would
also like to run it on FBSD, but if it could also run on Winderz, for
some of my
On Mon, May 24, 2004, Andreas Ntaflos clacked the keyboard to produce:
Thank you both, I shall look into each one.
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Robert Huff wrote:
[snip]
An easier solution is to login to a second virtual terminal by
hitting Alt-F2 (all the way up to F7). Then just switch back by
pressing Alt-F1, or whichever terminal you were on before.
And its Ctl-Alt-Fn, not Alt-Fn on my -Current system
IIRC, Ctrl-Alt-Fn is for
We have a Xerox Document Centre 332 on our network. LPD is running on
it. I can send print jobs to it from the FBSD boxes, however I get the
staircase effect. I cannot find at Xerox, nor Googling the escape
sequence required to curtail the staircase effects.
Has anyone figured this out? And if
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] clacked the keyboard to produce:
Hi Please can you tell me how to install freebsd on my thinkpad 600
as I have win 98 on it and it is a refurbed unit
I would like to investigate freebsd as an os and use it in an
everyday enviroment
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004, Jerry McAllister clacked the keyboard to produce:
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] clacked the keyboard to produce:
I would like to investigate freebsd as an os and use it in an
everyday enviroment and say good riddens to MS and hopefolly
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004, Mike clacked the keyboard to produce:
Greetings:
My test system:
FreeBSD 4.9-stable
Pentium III 800
I read an earlier post about using chkrootkit to check for root kits
(intrusions). I'm still learning about FreeBSD so I thought I would run
this too.
Well...
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004, jsha clacked the keyboard to produce:
hi.
i have a dying passion for freebsd and the concept of open source, and now i intend
to patch it into the way architects shape our environments.
architects need two things: autocad, and be able to print (plot). besides that,
On Tue, Apr 6, 2004, Jonathon McKitrick clacked the keyboard to produce:
I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive wireless setup for home that will
work with FreeBSD and an older laptop. Does anyone have any suggestions?
NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks.
Post
On Tue, Apr 6, 2004, Aleksandar Simic clacked the keyboard to produce:
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:31:52PM -0400, Bob Collins wrote:
On Tue, Apr 6, 2004, Jonathon McKitrick clacked the keyboard to produce:
I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive wireless setup for home
On Fri, Apr 2, 2004, meimi clacked the keyboard to produce:
Hello,
My server is down regularly. Could anyone tell what thing I should check?
Thanks
Meimi
We could use a little more information. Not to be rude, but are you
using FreeBSD as an OS? If so, what version? Describe the hardware
On Sat, Apr 3, 2004, meimi clacked the keyboard to produce:
Hello,
From the messages log, the error I found:
/kernel: arplookup xx.xx.xx.xx failed: host is not on local network
And warning I got
/kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
The first is I have got the wrong netmask,
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004, Charles McManis clacked the keyboard to produce:
Perhaps it isn't logical, if you've read all the email then the quoted
thread is just reference anyway. This is the new stuff. I love being able
to read mail in the preview-pane vs next message , jump to the bottom,
next
On Tue, Mar 2, 2004, Michael Banta clacked the keyboard to produce:
Hello.
I just installed Apache wilthout error. I started apache and did a ps aux. It
appears to be running fine. However I cannot bring up the default webpage. Doing
lynx localhost does not work. I set the
Anybody using one of these under 4.9?
I see a good deal for this with a large local retailer and would
consider it for my TP600X if it is known to work.
Thanks
--
Bob
Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's
properly structured in a developmental program, children can
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Chuck Swiger clacked the keyboard to produce:
Peter Leftwich wrote:
Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs)
partition FROM WITHIN Windows XP Pro SP1 (transparently)?
I am not familiar with any such software, regrettably. You'd need a
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Kenneth Culver clacked the keyboard to produce:
Quoting Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Chuck Swiger clacked the keyboard to produce:
Peter Leftwich wrote:
Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs)
partition FROM WITHIN
I am running a few boxes(n) on 4.9-RELEASE and am wondering about
updating the ports and source. Using CVSup, should I tag src with
RELENG_4, or RELENG_4_9? And what if any are the differences, that
are not already noted in the handbook? Up to this point, I have not
updated the system since
On Mon, Feb 9, 2004, Per Hallstrm clacked the keyboard to produce:
Hi!
I need a wireless network card which will work with FreeBSD, and
according to the handbook there are some supported chipsets. However, I
am unable to find a network card with any of those chipsets (I am
having a hard
This is a follow-up question regarding uname -a. After CVSup, making
world, making a new kernel etc, when I run uname -a it reports
4.9-RELEASE #0. Should the #0 portion be a higher number? Also what
exactly does that number represent? I assume an RC
Thanks
--
Bob
Play is the work of
On Tue, Feb 3, 2004, Jonathan Chen clacked the keyboard to produce:
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:39:10AM -0500, Bob Collins wrote:
This is a follow-up question regarding uname -a. After CVSup, making
world, making a new kernel etc, when I run uname -a it reports
4.9-RELEASE #0. Should the #0
I have read through the keeping current section of the book a few times
and I am a bit lost. If I read correctly, to upgrade source(I am running
RELEASE-4.9) I can use either RELENG_4 or RELENG_4_9. Although I am not
sure if I need one, the other, or both. And if both, which order, if it
matters?
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003, Dan Langille wrote:
On 28 Dec 2003 at 3:17, Dev Tugnait wrote:
* Dan Langille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical
examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003, Mike Maltese wrote:
Okay, probably a dumb question but I can't readily find an answer
in the archives..
I just picked up a (used) surestore C1533A (thats an HP device) and am
having some problems getting it work quite right. I've got the dip
switches
set
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, Marc Smits wrote:
Hello,
I am running FreeBSD-4.7-realease and want to create a striped plex from
2 new 80Gb disks.
Here's my vinum-description:
drive a device /dev/ad2s1e
drive b device /dev/ad3s1e
volume stripe0
plex org striped 256k
sd length 78159m
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, Bob Collins wrote:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, Marc Smits wrote:
Hello,
I am running FreeBSD-4.7-realease and want to create a striped plex from
2 new 80Gb disks.
Here's my vinum-description:
drive a device /dev/ad2s1e
[snippage]
76GB
I used sysinstall
On Tue, Dec 2, 2003, DG wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew
Emmerton
Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:32 AM
To: DG; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ejecting a Zip disk using eject(1)
I tried that too. The eject
I am unfortunately running ESRI's ArcIMS GIS server on M$ 2000 server
and would like to move it to FreeBSD. So, the question is; are there any
known GIS servers that run on FBSD as well as clients?
I am not afraid of hard work and troubles installing, but sure would
like to do this. I also know
On Tue, Dec 2, 2003, Ray Seals wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 10:26, Bob Collins wrote:
I am unfortunately running ESRI's ArcIMS GIS server on M$ 2000 server
and would like to move it to FreeBSD. So, the question is; are there any
known GIS servers that run on FBSD as well as clients?
I
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've had so many truncated d/l's trying to install the Mysql server
from the port that came with my 4.8 mini iso that I decided instead to
d/l the mysql-max-4.0.16-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz from
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I did mine the hard way. I grabbed that file and put into /tmp. I then
gunzipped un-tarred and configured and made. It worked, but surely the
distfiles methods is easiest.
It also means you can't use
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Marty Landman wrote:
At 12:15 PM 11/26/2003, Bob Collins wrote:
Have you resolved the truncated downloads? I would make sure that is not
an issue prior to installing from the gz. You sure don't want the further
aggravation of some file broken while installing.
What
Date sent: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:16:49 +1030
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: The FreeBSD Project
Copies to: FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re
At 07:30 PM 11/21/2003, you wrote:
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
Quotation broken.
On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 9:25:58 -0500, Bob Collins wrote:
At 08:41 PM 11/19/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email
At 08:41 PM 11/19/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
Quotation broken.
On Wednesday, 19 November 2003 at 9:13:43 -0500, Bob Collins wrote:
At 10:46 PM 11/17/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Do you have device nodes for da4
At 10:46 PM 11/17/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Friday, 14 November 2003 at 11:50:09 -0500, Bob Collins wrote:
Running FBSD 4.9 on an Intel SMP mobo w/ 2 Intel PII 350s. Onboard SCSI is
recognized and sees all my drives. One SCSI 3 drive is 4.5G for the OS and
/usr. I have 4 identical IBM
Running FBSD 4.9 on an Intel SMP mobo w/ 2 Intel PII 350s. Onboard SCSI is
recognized and sees all my drives. One SCSI 3 drive is 4.5G for the OS and
/usr. I have 4 identical IBM SCSI3 disks 9G each, however one of those 4
will not disklabel. The other three will. This leads to troubles then,
At 04:23 PM 11/14/2003, Darryl Hoar wrote:
Greetings,
What tools exist in Freebsd to determine the primary dsn server for a domain
?
Also, is there a way to determine the company hosting a website ?
Thanks,
D
nslookup, dig (I think)
whois
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At 02:51 PM 11/6/2003, Valerian Galeru wrote:
I installed x windows with sysinstall, then i installed blackbox (a window
manager). Then if x server is not started and i execute blackbox command i
get a error like this: x server not started something like this. If i
start xserver and then run
I have a system running 5.0-RELEASE on an AMD 667Mhz processor with 256MB
ram, Soyo mobo. Install was no trouble, and setup of X, KDE, MySQL, Apache
went fine. I ran a setup of both xmms and mplayer as well. Then I went for
an install of Webmin.
Once webmin was complete, I was running in KDE,
At 10:55 AM 10/24/2003, Sandbox Video Productions wrote:
I would like a tutorial on how to newtork freebsd to
windowsXP via linksys modem. i can ping the windowsXP
but i can't connect nor can i install mozilla. it
seems that it's not connecting to the internet. the
handbook gives good descriptions
At 12:26 PM 10/14/2003, Stephane Raimbault wrote:
Hi,
I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup
Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup
Solutions that run well on FreeBSD?
I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:38:54 -0400
To: Stephane Raimbault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Backup Solutions
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 12:26 PM 10/14/2003, Stephane Raimbault wrote:
Hi,
I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup
Solution
I'm a Unix newbie who just installed BSD 5.1. I made it through the
installation without too much of a hassel and I went ahead and added
XFree86 in the installation, along with the BSD Boot Manager since I'm
dual booting with Windows. I have a 40 gig HD for Windows then I have 2
separate 120
At 03:40 PM 9/30/2003, Darryl Hoar wrote:
Greetings,
I just finished installing FreeBSD 4.7 on my box. My machine has an adaptec
SCSI
host adapter and a SCSI Dat tape drive. I expected to access my tape drive
through
the /dev/rmt device, but instead must use /dev/sa0 (I think this is right.
I'm
A NB question here.
I am trying to limit the number of allowed login attempts against my
FreeBSD box. I cannot find anything for a limit to this other than;
login-retries=x in the /etc/login.conf. This does not seem to work with 5.0
Release, which is what I am running.
A nudge to the FM or
At 03:28 PM 9/12/2003, Vincent Zee wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:19:42 -0400, Veritas wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:16:45 +0200
Vincent Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
In the dmesg it comes up as ad5 but when I mount it, it can't find the
device.
mount ad5 /music2
mount: ad5: No
At 07:55 AM 9/11/2003, you wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:21:18PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote:
I have FreeBSD installed on a laptop, but I am having trouble with
setting up networking.
ifconfig does not show the PCMCIA NIC (3Com 10/100, pretty standard and
works under Linux, so I expect
I have just installed xmail 1.16 on a FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE box. I cannot get
filters to run against the mail moving through this email system. Has
anybody here gotten both to work?
In particular, there is a filter script for attachment checking written in
perl. I do have perl installed.
I also
At 03:53 PM 8/28/2003, Ahmad Memon wrote:
Hello..
We are having presentations on different OS in our class.. and i chose
the Unix freeBSD for my group to do a presentation on.. i would like
some info - if possible - on this system, or anything that could help
me with that
At 02:07 PM 8/4/2003 -0500, gfsd wrote:
Why can't i create a user with a $ on the end? For machine trust accounts
i need to add each one by hand, instead of on the fly creation. When I use
adduser it will not let me add a user with a $ on the end, is there a way
around that?
At 03:59 PM 7/31/2003 -0500, Ken Copling wrote:
hello is there a command in the shell that will let me connect to my
service provider so i can get on the internet to do things like web search
I just dont like having to open up the x window just to get on the net so
is there a way of doing it in
At 12:40 PM 7/30/2003, Ken Copling wrote:
hello i bought an emachine and i chose to put freebsd on it to try it out
and when i go to use the x window it goes and shows it to big on my screen
so i went to the manufacturers website to get the specs of the system so i
can get the display to show
At 11:05 AM 7/25/2003, Jerry McAllister wrote:
At 2003-07-25T14:33:09Z, Charlie Schluting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I guess ...i'm a christian speaks for itself.
On the behalf of Christian FreeBSD users everywhere: screw you.
Kirk Strauser
That is at least as ignorant and worthless a
At 03:52 PM 7/21/2003, Matthew Bettinger wrote:
On Monday 21 July 2003 02:02 pm, Mike Maltese wrote:
I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB.
The tape runs to the end, issues the end of tape, and then dump
fails. I would like to be able to change the tape and get a
At 02:06 PM 7/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:54:48AM -0400, Bob Collins wrote:
At 03:52 PM 7/21/2003, Matthew Bettinger wrote:
On Monday 21 July 2003 02:02 pm, Mike Maltese wrote:
I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB.
The tape runs
I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and cron
and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND allow user
intervention to change the tape.
I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. The tape
runs to the end, issues the end of tape,
I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and cron
and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND allow user
intervention to change the tape.
I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. The tape
runs to the end, issues the end of tape,
I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and cron
and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND allow user
intervention to change the tape.
I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. The tape
runs to the end, issues the end of tape,
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:14:40 -0400
To: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HP or Compaq servers.
At 02:30 PM 7/15/2003, you wrote:
Grzegorz Czaplinski wrote:
[ ... ]
That would be good to have a webpage with server configurations that run
under
At 03:20 PM 7/15/2003, you wrote:
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 02:14 pm, Marc Wiz wrote:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:11:24PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's a bunch of non-sense! :) nobody will notice.. If they do then
you show'em who's boss: rmuser *
:-) No, I'm nice to my users.
At 04:30 PM 7/15/2003, you wrote:
Dear God! REBOOT it man!
Here here!
While it may be a noble experiment to keep the server running, it is
after all, a home server. Reboot it when you are having dinner.
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At 11:16 AM 6/27/2003, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
For an excellent fix for sendmail see:
http://www.postfix.org/
I'm actually thinking of going this route. Is the migration
that difficult? Any special gotchas for someone who has been
using the default sendmail stuff in FreeBSD?
--
Jonathan
At 04:26 PM 6/25/2003, you wrote:
selfghe edherh wrote:
what is this error (this error about XWindows) DCOPSERVER?
I had a similar trouble way back when. Take a look at this message
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1790237+0+archive/2001/freebsd-questions/20010805.freebsd-questions
I am running 5.0 Release on an i386 Intel system. I have 256MB ram and in /etc/fstab
swap is called out for 492MB. How can I tell if this is mounted and in use? Mount does
not indicate swap (/da0s1b) is mounted.
I ask, as I cannot use dump to backup my raid. My raid is /dev/vinum/raid and
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