On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:28 pm, Chris Howells wrote:
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| On Wednesday 05 March 2003 19:35, Tuc wrote:
| So the next question is how do I approach Dell to replace
| the motherboard/cpu/memory? If I show them FreeBSD they'll
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:30 pm, Chris Howells wrote:
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| Hi,
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| On Wednesday 05 March 2003 19:44, Bill Moran wrote:
| Hell ... just install ActivePerl and write a perl script that does
| lots and lots of number crunching (it need not be
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:22 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
| At the risk of being accused of a complainer..
| I will state here that my experiments in the use of portupgrade, have
| left me without a useable X system.
| Guess it is back to the CD's.
| Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:01 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
| On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:49:21PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
| In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson
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| Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they release
| compilable ports..especially for the big
On Friday 21 February 2003 08:10 am, Alistair Phillips wrote:
| Hi guys,
|
| So I enabled SoftUpdates when I was busy with FDISK at the install
| time and now it seems like it may have been a bad idea. Now I know
| 4GB is not much but it seems that there is no more space left. And
| at times
On Friday 21 February 2003 07:42 pm, Gary D Kline wrote:
| On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:01:55PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger
wrote:
| On Friday 21 February 2003 03:25 pm, Gary D Kline wrote:
| | On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:24:34AM -0800, David Cramblett wrote:
| | if you have KDE installed
On Friday 21 February 2003 03:25 pm, Gary D Kline wrote:
| On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:24:34AM -0800, David Cramblett wrote:
| if you have KDE installed, try the program switchdesk on Linux.
|
| Well, I asked for Gnome and that's all my friend
| installed.
|
|
and then
try to get KDE to use the alternate prefix as its load library location
but my record trying that sort of thing has not been good.
On Friday 21 February 2003 08:15 pm, Gary D Kline wrote:
| On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:59:04PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger
wrote:
| On Friday 21 February
I would suggest installing staroffice instead. You can install it from
binaries so you don't have to compile it. In my experience it runs a
lot faster better than openoffice as well. I had installed
openoffice but wound up dumping it in favor of staroffice myself.
On Tuesday 18 February
burncd is for IDE burners.
Use cdrecord for SCSI.
On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:17 am, David Loszewski wrote:
| When I try to burn with my Plextor scsi cdrom drive I get the
| following:
|
| zeus# burncd -f /dev/cd1 -s 12 data 4.7-disc1.iso fixate
| burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCGETBLOCKSIZE):
No, not the vncserver script, the init script that invokes vncserver.
In fact, if you simply replace the line that says
vncserver
with the *exact* syntax I put in, it will work.
THe parentheses start a local environment and the PATH adds to the path
for that environment and then invokes
I tried a couple of FreeBSD ICQ clients but they wanted me to tell them
my ICQ ID.
Well, I don't have one yet..
How do you get one in the first place?
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On Thursday 12 December 2002 03:45 pm, Brian wrote:
| getting vnc to start at boot is tricky, since you want it to start as
| some user, rather than as root. A solution I've been thinking of is
| looking at the output os ps auxw, grepping for Xvnc owned by the
| desired user, if its there
I've used zip (quite recently in fact) to extract .exe archives.
No idea why/when it does/doesn't work, though.
On Thursday 10 October 2002 11:52 am, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
| On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:08:12AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote:
| Nathan Kinkade said:
| I had Win2k Pro installed on the
On Monday 07 October 2002 09:19 am, Pookie wrote:
| How does FreeBSD handle itself when i disconnect the power plug on my
| laptop? I'm not sure how this works. Can someone please direct me in
| the proper direction?
Why would FreeBSD have to do anything?
Your laptop should handle it itself
On Friday 04 October 2002 04:49 pm, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
| On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, the wise Oliver Fromme spoke, and said:
| Marco Beishuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|That did the trick. I wrote a file to the cd and fixate worked
|correctly. At least I think it did, because when I want
On Monday 30 September 2002 09:32 pm, éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ wrote:
| Dear Sirs,
|
| every time I do make buildworld, I usually apply several patches,
| is it possible to specify somewhere those patches ? I'm afraid I'll
| forget to apply them once...
Well, the patches really only need to be applied
Or just boot off disk 2 of the distribution which is a live filesystem
rescue CD.
Then run boot0cfg to re-install the bootloader.
On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:22 am, Jimmy Lantz wrote:
| Check out liveCD
| livecd.sourceforge.net.
| / Hth
|
| At 18:26 2002-09-29 +0800, you wrote:
| Hello
On Friday 27 September 2002 07:01 am, Petri Riihikallio wrote:
| h I use apcupsd from ports which has shown to be very
| reliable and has great docs. It has been months since I looked at
| this stuff, but remember something like this issue you make was
| covered in detail.
|
|
Yes, I believe that they do.
On Friday 27 September 2002 08:16 am, John Bleichert wrote:
| On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote:
| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:55:09 -0500
| From: Jack L. Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| To: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED],
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:
On Thursday 19 September 2002 01:52 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
| On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 06:47:11PM -0400, Adam Bender wrote:
| I tried to install LaTeX through /usr/ports/print/latex, and it
| seemed to go OK, but it seems to be missing the package files.
| When I try to compile with it, is
On Thursday 19 September 2002 01:38 am, Peter Leftwich wrote:
| Tonight I surprised myself by running `find ~/Desktop/folder/ -name
| *.jpg -exec mv {} ~/Desktop/folderjpgs/ \;` successfully! My first
| custom find command line ever.
|
| But there were two issues -- I had to escape the
xv
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On Thursday 25 July 2002 06:41 pm, Jeff Jirsa wrote:
| On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Ed Yu wrote:
| 4. Things like right click to change resolution and
| wizards to help setup things, and various other small
| things. But once you get the hang of it, you will
| stick with FreeBSD, trust me.
|
| This
On Thursday 25 July 2002 02:23 pm, MET wrote:
| There is without a doubt that FreeBSD is an amazing server OS, but how
| well does it stand as a desktop, or rather a laptop. To be blunt, I'm
| tired of Microsoft and was wondering how feasible it is to run FreeBSD
| as my Laptop OS. I will do
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 03:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi Doug,
|Thanks for getting back to me. I actually got around that problem in the
| end.
|
| However upon completing the upgrade, I noticed a couple of things:
|
| 1] startx has stopped working (just XFree86-4.0.2 from the 4.4 CD
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 09:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi Brain,
|Thanks for getting back to me.
No problem.
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| I'm happy to at last find someone who is willing to at least *say* that
| he's blasted and reinstalled a higher version of XFree86-4.
|
| From what you said here, I'll
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 10:47 pm, Wanda wrote:
| To whom it may concern,
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| I am writing to ask for help about installing the FreeBSD in my computer.
| I have a DELL Optiplex GX 115, X86 Computer with Windows XP installed on
| the master drive 40 gigs. It has 512 Ram, 800 mhz, a slave drive
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 06:19 pm, Jon Reynolds wrote:
| I am new to freebsd and I need to update PHP because of the security hole
| found in it. I believe that I can use a diff file to update it without
| having to completely redownload and recompile it, is this right? I also
| have never tried
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 07:30 pm, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
| patch diff.txt orig.file
Please don't top-post on this list.
Also, that's not the right patch syntax. It's
patch diff-file
(the patch should have the source file to which it applies already embedded in
the patch)
If
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 10:36 pm, karl agee wrote:
| When using burncd, is it necessary to first create a iso fs on the cd??
| It's not clear in the man page if it does this or not.
Well, burncd will burn whatever you give it.
If you want an ISO disk then you'll need an ISO image. If you want
On Monday 22 July 2002 06:23 am, Jens Rehsack wrote:
| Philip Hallstrom wrote:
| Hi all -
| This seems like an obvious answer, but I didn't see anything in
| the man pages or the FQ so...
|
| If I mount *all* of my partitions as read only (ignoring the problems of
| needing to write
Actually, I posted about this just yesterday, but not this list.
Set the location to get it from All instead of Latest and you should be
golden.
On Monday 22 July 2002 07:52 pm, Chris Denault wrote:
| I am trying to install XFree86 4.2 via package add using
|
| zeus:~ pkg_add -rv
On Saturday 20 July 2002 08:32 am, éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ wrote:
| Dear Sirs,
|
| after installing the port I see the following message in httpd-error.log:
|
| [Sat Jul 20 18:31:15 2002] [error] [client 212.57.175.94] Premature end of
| script headers: /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/majordomo
|
| what should I
On Monday 15 July 2002 01:04 am, you wrote:
| sorry i did not explain properly, it just hangs at this message.
|
| F1FreeBSD
| Default: F1
| -
|
| hitting F1 or enter does not start the loading process.
| so what could be the cause of the problem?
Unfortunately, I don't have any idea.
On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:08 pm, Grant Cooper wrote:
| quick question for the admins, do you guys perfer to work out of a GUI such
| as KDE or just from freeBSD CLI(command line interface)?
That's a little ambiguous. I, for one, Like to use a GUI on my main screen
just so that I can have
I just updated my system after about six months, and this is surely the most
trivial of issues, but . . .
For some reason, now that I've updated my system to stable (as of Friday
night) and also wiped out and reinstalled *all* of my packages and ports,
I've run into a rather odd problem:
On Monday 22 July 2002 01:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi
| I am trying to work out how to symlink my log files from /var
| to /usr/var (?/usrvar/log/) as var is full.to create some space.
| Should I copy the logs across then make the link?
| How do I actually make the link? Do I make
On Friday 19 July 2002 05:14 am, osama zekry wrote:
| what is kernel functions and what kernel meaning
First, please give your mail a meaningful subject.
Second, you are going to have to do some basic research before you send
questions to the list. Find and read a book or article on Unix;
On Thursday 18 July 2002 02:54 pm, Steve Mazerski wrote:
| On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote:
| On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote:
| By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD.
| You can make it mountable by normal users by
IMHO, op is far superior to sudo.
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 03:04 pm, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
| Balaji, Pavan wrote:
| I wonder what exactly this means. I don't remember seeing any option for
| creating/not-creating the wheel group while installation.
|
| It means Install 'sudo' so that you get
On Thursday 18 July 2002 11:06 am, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
| IMHO, op is far superior to sudo.
Hmm . . . come to think of it, that's a little terse.
op is easy to configure, and it allows you give access to people not to
certain commands but to certain commands *only* with certain
I'm pretty sure that that buildworld does *not* build kernels.
If anybody has definitive information (like, proof) to the contrary I'd be
interested in knowing.
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 10:28 am, parv wrote:
| in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
| wrote John Mills thusly...
|
| Pavan -
|
| On
On Monday 15 July 2002 09:23 am, Richard Tobin wrote:
| I deleted some files immediately before dumping a filesystem. When I
| checked the dump with restore rN I got several cannot find
| directory inode xxx messages. I dumped again, and the dump file
| was slightly smaller and produced no such
On Monday 15 July 2002 09:52 am, Richard Tobin wrote:
| Yes. You need to wait for the system to settle down before dumping.
|
| Is there any way to wait until a soft-update filesystem is up-to-date -
| something like sync (which doesn't wait for soft updates to complete).
|
| Of course you can
On Friday 12 July 2002 10:33 pm, Holt Grendal wrote:
| Hi,
|
| My kernal has these modules loaded:
| kldstat
|
| Id Refs AddressSize Name
| 13 0xc010 1bb548 kernel
| 21 0xc5b8d000 14000linux.ko
That's probably because you enabled linux emulation way back when you
On Saturday 13 July 2002 12:36 am, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
| From: Brian T.Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| To: Holt Grendal [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: Unloading Kernel Modules
| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:40:02 -0400
|
| On Friday 12 July 2002 10:33 pm, Holt
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