Re: Good networking books for a beginner?

2006-10-02 Thread Duane Whitty
helpful was Daryl's TCP/IP Primer http://www.ipprimer.com/overview.cfm I was quite surprised by how much detail was there when I started actually following along with its tutorial style. Best Regards, Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-08 Thread Duane Whitty
do a chroot-ed install world, make dist, etc. There are hints for this in UPDATING as well. Best Regards, Duane Whitty P.S. Your email server bounced my earlier reply which, admittedly, I forgot to CC to list thanks, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions

Re: firefox with flash and java!

2006-06-27 Thread Duane Whitty
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:36:43PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote: On Tue, 23 May 2006 23:40:37 + Marwan Sultan dead_l...

Unable to build Sendmail with LDAP

2006-06-20 Thread Duane Whitty
something I did wrong. --Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AC97 sound card on 6.1

2006-06-05 Thread Duane Whitty
. Thanks. Dave. Hi, It's just a guess without seeing the output of dmesg but I think the ICH driver is the one, YMMV. In my /boot/loader.conf I have the entry snd_ich_load=YES For a more definitive answer post your dmesg. Hth, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: docs/98344: [patch] An update of the article Choosing the FreeBSD Version that is Right for You

2006-06-04 Thread Duane Whitty
forward to any constructive feedback should anyone have the time and desire to give some. That goes for both the article and the actual PR (I've never submitted a PR for something like this before). Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Cannot delete stubborn files - New Hint

2006-06-04 Thread Duane Whitty
? Because of the cross-device link error message maybe this is hard link related? Any files with the same name floating around? Obviously this isn't normal hard link behaviour but maybe a link was somehow damaged? Best Regards, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sound Problem in KDE

2006-06-02 Thread Duane Whitty
the device when I played a media file and hadn't released it afterward. Hope this helps, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

kern.ngroups == num. process groups ?

2006-05-23 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, I saw a reference to kern.ngroups on this list and didn't know what it meant. I decided to peek at the source and it seems to me that it is the number of process groups. Is that correct? Thanks in advance, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kern.ngroups == num. process groups ?

2006-05-23 Thread Duane Whitty
Colin Percival wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: I saw a reference to kern.ngroups on this list and didn't know what it meant. I decided to peek at the source and it seems to me that it is the number of process groups. Is that correct? No, kern.ngroups is the maximum number of groups

Re: installing ports behind IPFILTER

2006-05-21 Thread Duane Whitty
,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\ [snip] Hope this helps Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Skype

2006-05-16 Thread Duane Whitty
-1.7_2Generates groff and HTML from linuxdoc and docbook SGML doc Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this work Please CC me as I'm not tracking multimedia@ Thanks in advance Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Skype

2006-05-16 Thread Duane Whitty
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Tue, 16 May 2006 21:02:20 -0300 Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Here is the procedure I used when trying to get skype to work: dwpc@ /root# brandelf -t Linux /usr/X11R6/bin/skype_bin dwpc@ /root# skype ELF binary type 3 not known. skype_bin: 1: Syntax

Re: PHP not working

2006-05-14 Thread Duane Whitty
index.php to the DirectoryIndex line in /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf It should look like DirectoryIndex index.html index.php Hope this helps. Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: PHP not working

2006-05-14 Thread Duane Whitty
Maan Jee wrote: Hello, I have installed Apache HTTP Server 2.20 and PHP 5. But when I want to open index.php file in the browser instead of getting the Output Html page, I get SAVE index.php file popup. What is the wrong, I have added these lines in httpd.conf AddType application/x-

Understanding The FreeBSD Version Labels [RFC]

2006-05-09 Thread Duane Whitty
, feedback. constructive criticism, etc. Thanks in advance, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Understanding The FreeBSD Version Labels [RFC]

2006-05-09 Thread Duane Whitty
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 5/9/06, Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've written an article trying to explain the FreeBSD version labels, CURRENT, STABLE, and RELEASE. This article, of course, is aimed at newcomers to FreeBSD. The article is here http://www.dwlabs.ca/fbsd-releases

ULE Scheduler and overall performance on 6.x - Wow

2006-05-07 Thread Duane Whitty
on but no WITNESS or INVARIANTS turned on) Well time to rebuild the sources :) dwpc@ /home/duaneuname -a FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #0: Fri Apr 28 18:41:15 ADT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DWPC-KERNEL i386 Best Regards, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ULE Scheduler and overall performance on 6.x - Wow

2006-05-07 Thread Duane Whitty
a reason to. --Duane On Sunday 07 May 2006 04:43, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, I decided to give the ULE scheduler a try a while ago (April 28). when I last built 6-STABLE Anyhow it seems great. I'm running a 2.4GHz Celeron with 512MB RAM and two 40GB, PATA disks. Right now I'm running both a GNOME

Re: dhclient-exit-hooks

2006-05-03 Thread Duane Whitty
of all levels logged. Just a shot in the dark... Best Regards, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fixing stale dependencies with pkgdb

2006-05-03 Thread Duane Whitty
) or for all upcoming selections for all stale dependencies? Thanks, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

portupgrade errors during ruby execution

2006-05-02 Thread Duane Whitty
As not all packages fail when I do this will running portupgrade -a eventually fix this problem? Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ^M

2006-05-02 Thread Duane Whitty
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] From within vi you could do :g/^V^M/s/^V^M//g Best Regards, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: permissions dilemma

2006-04-29 Thread Duane Whitty
jekillen wrote: On Apr 28, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Duane Whitty wrote: jekillen wrote: On Apr 28, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello: I have had a problem with installing MySQL 5.0.18 on a FreeBSD v 6.0 installation where everything seems to compile and install

Re: permissions dilemma

2006-04-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: [snip] Read the chapters in the MySQL manual regarding post-install tasks under UNIX and securing the initial MySQL accounts. Hope this helps, Duane Whitty http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/index.html ___ freebsd

Re: Sendmail Compile-Time Configuration - Success

2006-04-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-04-28 05:07, Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: I'm adding LDAP support to my Sendmail configuration. I couldn't seem to find the appropriate m4 file in which to declare my APPENDDEF statements. My

Sendmail Compile-Time Configuration

2006-04-28 Thread Duane Whitty
? TIA, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail Compile-Time Configuration

2006-04-28 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, I'm adding LDAP support to my Sendmail configuration. I couldn't seem to find the appropriate m4 file in which to declare my APPENDDEF statements. My course of action was to include SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=-DLDAPMAP in make.conf. Does this seem like the correct way to do

Re: Sendmail Compile-Time Configuration

2006-04-28 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, I'm adding LDAP support to my Sendmail configuration. I couldn't seem to find the appropriate m4 file in which to declare my APPENDDEF statements. My course of action was to include SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=-DLDAPMAP in make.conf. Does this seem like

Re: permissions dilemma

2006-04-28 Thread Duane Whitty
neglected to do so. As well, do you also have a mysql user and a mysql group defined? Best Regards, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ?

2006-04-19 Thread Duane Whitty
if packages not available PP (important to use two upper-case Ps here) Be verbose v If you also want to fetch dependencies you can add -R. This will recurse through all the dependencies the new package needs # cd /usr/ports # portupgrade -NFPPRv name-of-package Best Regards, Duane Whitty

KDE + GNOME?

2006-04-19 Thread Duane Whitty
to choose which environment I am going to run on a per-session basis. Any hints, pointer, RTFMs, would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: KDE + GNOME?

2006-04-19 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Hello everyone, I'm contemplating installing GNOME . I am currently using KDE. Does anyone know of any issues I should be aware of before I proceed. I'm mostly concerned about dependency issues, especially wtih respect to the xorg clients and firefox. Essentially I would

Re: KDE + GNOME?

2006-04-19 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: [snip] ... I want to be able to switch back-and-forth whenever I want. Has anyone else tried this? Thanks for your responses. Sincerely, Duane Whitty Thanks again for the responses. I am now busily building GNOME 2.12 from ports. Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL

Re: Your message to freebsd-questions awaits moderator approval

2006-04-19 Thread Duane Whitty
, Well anything I can do to help the fight against spam and email abuse I guess. Too bad real spam still manages to get through... Oh, and why was this sent to the list and not to my personal address? Of course I felt compelled to whine publicly. ; ) Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Device busy

2006-04-15 Thread Duane Whitty
Printing System. I don't know if it supports this particular printer but it seems to offer support for a lot of different printing devices. Hope this helps, Duane Whitty, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Improving kde perfomance...

2006-04-15 Thread Duane Whitty
there is osmething wrong with my installation? I instaleld it via ports by the way. Thanks for your help. ___ Hi, When you say you installed it from ports, do you mean you installed it as a package from ports or that you built it from source? Duane Whitty

Re: WAN setup help.

2006-04-12 Thread Duane Whitty
to do has been done many times and a professional should have no problems doing this for you. If he appears unsure of how to proceed then he probably hasn't done it before and is figuring it out as he goes. Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-11 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, My appologies in advance for the OT post. This probably more appropriately belongs on ISP@ but there doesn't seem to be much traffic there. To the point: I'm about to provide hosting services, including but not limited to email, to a few local business. Right now I

UFS extended attributes

2006-04-09 Thread Duane Whitty
? Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-09 Thread Duane Whitty
If this does not work then do the following su - root cd /usr/ports/www/lynx make install clean exit /usr/local/bin/lynx file:///usr/share/doc/en/books/handbook/index.html This should let you view the English version of the hanbook Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected

2006-04-09 Thread Duane Whitty
Peter Thoenen wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:09:30PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: It's not clear what he means by hard crash, but he also says power off, which is the part that is most confusing to me. Hmmm...I missed that part.

OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-07 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, My appologies in advance for the OT post. This probably more appropriately belongs on ISP@ but there doesn't seem to be much traffic there. To the point: I'm about to provide hosting services, including but not limited to email, to a few local business. Right now I have Sendmail

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
:) So my recommendation is that you simulate a disk going bad now before it happens for real. For instance, what happens if you unplug the disk from the controller, or remove its power connection, etc? Just my $0.02 -- Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
the -DWITH_CUPS option? -- Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FIXED Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
, and deleting ~/.openoffice.org-2.0.2 and running spadmin as a normal user changes nothing -- apparently nothing printer-related is in there Sorry, guess I should have kept reading. Looks like I misunderstood the problem -- Duane Whitty ___ freebsd

Re: software recommendation

2006-04-04 Thread Duane Whitty
fbsd_user wrote: I am looking for am application that will simulate a browser and allow me to program responses to filling in forms from the internet application the browser is accessing. I have read about this type of thing before and even seen it mentioned on this list but at the time I had

Re: ipfw dosnt want to run a rule ???? is it possible ? [Was ipfw n'applique pas une regle ???? est-ce possible ?]

2006-04-02 Thread Duane Whitty
michael wrote: Bonjour, Ok, So, i'll correct u're french because u seems to want to learn it and i think u're french is not to bad And for my problem do think about a begining of an answer ? Hello, Thank you for correcting my French. I need much practice! As for your ipfw problem, I do

Installing Horde 3.1.1

2006-04-01 Thread Duane Whitty
? Thanks in advance, --Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named

2006-03-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Olivier Nicole wrote: devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device I can only assume that it has something to do with the files in

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-29 Thread Duane Whitty
from list members which may challenge this theory? Best wishes, --Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, Your previous message reminded me of a previous project you were working on which I was following closely. I was just wondering if you have had any success with make world et al? I ask because I am very interested in how the build process of FreeBSD works. Is there any follow-up available

[Fwd: Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named]

2006-03-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Original Message Subject:Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:58:45 +0200 From: Dimitar Vasilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ev/null

[Fwd: Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named]

2006-03-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Original Message Subject:Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:35:52 +0200 From: Dimitar Vasilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Fwd: Re: package vs ports question]

2006-03-27 Thread Duane Whitty
Original Message Subject:Re: package vs ports question Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:57:04 -0300 From: Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I also have a question

Re: [Fwd: Re: package vs ports question]

2006-03-27 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: package vs ports question Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:57:04 -0300 From: Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I

Re: Adjusting configuration options during port installation?

2006-03-26 Thread Duane Whitty
Matt Singerman wrote: Hi all, I am installing an upgrade to the Cyrus email server. Our existing email boxes are in a database format that is no longer used by Cyrus; however, there is a configuration option which will instruct the new version to use the old database format. They are

Re: Adjusting configuration options during port installation?

2006-03-26 Thread Duane Whitty
Peter wrote: --- Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Singerman wrote: Hi all, I am installing an upgrade to the Cyrus email server. Our existing email boxes are in a database format that is no longer used by Cyrus; however, there is a configuration option which

Re: package vs ports question

2006-03-26 Thread Duane Whitty
Huy Ton That wrote: I am curious, the key different between packages and ports are that packages are precompiled and ports are not? Am I erroneous in this statement? I'm a little confused as I have been always using make install clean from the ports and don't see the difference... Has anyone

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
of luck to you. Sincerely, --Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- Mode sense fails

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
Oliver Iberien wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 11:46, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Please forgive me for stepping in, but I'm having the same problem, asked sometime ago and did not get any answer. My Yamaha burner is still detected as a read-only device. bye Thanks

Re: What's that filesystem for a usb flash drive?

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
. That way people on the list will have some information about your system. As well include the make and model of the device in question. Without this you are unlikely to receive much (positive) attention. --Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Thanks! and... the su command

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, Check to see if you belong to the wheel group. As root #pw groupshow wheel If your user name doesn't appear then do this #pw groupmod wheel -m your_user_name_here Next time you log in as that user you should be able to su to root --Duane Whitty

Re: USR 56k Internal WinModem

2006-03-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Dmitry Pisklov wrote: How can I set up (if I can do it at all :)) my US Robotics winmodem? I use FreeBSD 6.0 stable. Here's what says pciconf: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:0: class=0x078000 card=0x008112b9 chip=0x100612b9 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = '3COM Corp, Modem Division (Formerly US

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- Mode sense fails

2006-03-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Oliver Iberien wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 12:29, you wrote: On 3/24/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 12:12, you wrote: On 3/24/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got my Plextor PX-W4012S SCSI R/W drive recognized by

[OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1

2006-03-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi all, I recently built 6-STABLE and I was wondering what the #0 and #1 refer to in the uname FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Mar 24 19:34:58 AST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DWPC-200603230410 i386 --Duane Whitty

Re: [OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1

2006-03-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: I recently built 6-STABLE and I was wondering what the #0 and #1 refer to in the uname FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Mar 24 19:34:58 AST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DWPC

Re: encrypted drives

2006-03-22 Thread Duane Whitty
Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: 1) I was thinking, what is the performance penalty of storing data on an encrypted device? Sure, for writing documents, coding and stuff, I guess the performance loss is insignificant, but for music and video which then needs to be decrypted and then decoded, is this

Dropping into ddb from kernel panic

2006-03-21 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, I am trying to learn how to trace kernel issues or determine if a problem even is a kernel issue. Here are the debugging options I have set in my kernel config. makeoptions DEBUG=-g options KDB options KDB_TRACE options DDB options KTRACE options

make.conf syntax

2006-03-20 Thread Duane Whitty
Hello all, I believe I used the wrong syntax in my make.conf I used NO_PROFILE=YES Should I have instead used NO_PROFILE=YES or NO_PROFILE=TRUE Is YES and TRUE and 1 equivalent in this context? Thanks in advance, Duane -- ___

Re: make.conf syntax

2006-03-20 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Hello all, I believe I used the wrong syntax in my make.conf I used NO_PROFILE=YES Should I have instead used NO_PROFILE=YES or NO_PROFILE=TRUE Is YES and TRUE and 1 equivalent in this context? Thanks in advance, Duane

Re: make.conf syntax

2006-03-20 Thread Duane Whitty
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 07:00:08PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: Hello all, I believe I used the wrong syntax in my make.conf I used NO_PROFILE=YES Should I have instead used NO_PROFILE=YES or NO_PROFILE=TRUE It shouldn't matter. Is YES and TRUE and 1

Re: Trouble searching mailing list archives

2006-03-18 Thread Duane Whitty
for sharing your techniques and even more importantly your time. Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Portupgrade fails to upgrade after using portsnap

2006-03-18 Thread Duane Whitty
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Saturday 18 March 2006 12:06, Jez Hancock wrote: Hi Donald, Thanks for the replies. On 3/18/06, Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 18 March 2006 08:06, Jez Hancock wrote: Hi all, For a long time I've been using cvsup and

Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

2006-03-16 Thread Duane Whitty
Andrey V. Semyonov wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Strange things... When launched from xterm (or directly from my WM's button) /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla starts mozilla binary normally. But after such a reconfiguration of TB when I try to open any link in TB it prints /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla: Cannot

resolv.conf getting rewritten at system startup

2006-03-16 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi all, I am running FBSD 6.0-RELEASE I use DHCP to configure my network interface. At startup my resolv.conf is overwritten, setting my nameserver to the address of the router running DHCP. I tried commenting out almost all of the rc.d/resolv startup script but to no avail. I read the man

Trouble searching mailing list archives

2006-03-16 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi all, Well, first I was having a problem searching the archives with the pipermail interface. So after some helpful advice from Micah (thanks Micah) is switched to search.html#mailinglists. This worked great for a while but now it appears to be broken. Is anyone else having this issue?

Re: resolv.conf getting rewritten at system startup

2006-03-16 Thread Duane Whitty
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:29, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi all, I am running FBSD 6.0-RELEASE I use DHCP to configure my network interface. At startup my resolv.conf is overwritten, setting my nameserver to the address of the router running DHCP. I tried commenting out

man dhclient [was Re: resolv.conf getting rewritten at system startup]

2006-03-16 Thread Duane Whitty
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 05:29:45PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi all, I am running FBSD 6.0-RELEASE I use DHCP to configure my network interface Thanks in advance, Duane P.S. Is there a man page for the dhcp client FBSD 6 is using (what is FBSD 6 using

Re: Trouble searching mailing list archives

2006-03-16 Thread Duane Whitty
John Murphy wrote: Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can always use Google with 'site:lists.freebsd.org your key words' I usually find the interface below most usefullest (sp): http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.questions?hl=en Hi, Thanks very much. This is great.

Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

2006-03-15 Thread Duane Whitty
Andrey V. Semyonov wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: If you did not find an entry named network.protocol-handler.app.http then right click on any entry under Preference Name. Choose New, String. When you are prompted for the new string type network.protocol-handler.app.http When you are prompted

Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

2006-03-15 Thread Duane Whitty
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Andrey V. Semyonov wrote: Is it possible and what docs do describe setting a mozilla-bin from Mozilla Suite as URL-browser in Thunderbird? Mozilla Suite and Thunderbird are installed from ports. ___ Hi

Re: Ports upgrade policy

2006-03-14 Thread Duane Whitty
Mike Loiterman wrote: This is my supfile: *default host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_6_0 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all *default tag=. ports-all doc-all I have been using it like this for years, obviously

Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

2006-03-14 Thread Duane Whitty
are prompted for the new value enter the path of the mozilla web browser launcher. Follow the same procedures as above to enable support for https. Everywhere you typed http above type https instead. I hope this helps. --Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions

system crashed - vmcore dump file format not recognized (Long message)

2006-03-13 Thread Duane Whitty
Hello, My system recently crashed and I am looking forward to analyzing the cause. Towards that end I could use some pointers. If someone could point me on my way I'd really appreciate it. When I try to use gdb to look at the core dump I receive an error message (see below for details) and as

Re: Flash Player

2006-03-06 Thread Duane Whitty
On Monday 06 March 2006 15:13, Rem P Roberti wrote: I'm using Firefox with FreeBSD 5.4, and I would like to have Flash Player installed, but have no idea as to which of the available versions will work, if any. Can someone give me a heads up here. Thanks in advance. Rem

Re: no cd* devices appear in /dev [was Re: device atapicam not enabled in GENERIC kernel for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE]

2006-03-06 Thread Duane Whitty
On Monday March 6 2006 16:09 David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote This reminds me to ask: I have ATAPICAM enable in my kernal, specifically so that k3b can find my dvd+rw ... but no cd* devives appear in /dev, and k3b cannot find anything no matter where I tell it to look .. I must be

Re: Flash Player

2006-03-06 Thread Duane Whitty
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 01:42, Chris Maness wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: On Monday 06 March 2006 15:13, Rem P Roberti wrote: I'm using Firefox with FreeBSD 5.4, and I would like to have Flash Player installed, but have no idea as to which of the available versions will work

Re: device atapicam not enabled in GENERIC kernel for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

2006-03-05 Thread Duane Whitty
On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:30, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:26:37PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anyone has any information/opinion as to why device atapicam is not enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel. It's not an appropriate default

Re: device atapicam not enabled in GENERIC kernel for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

2006-03-05 Thread Duane Whitty
On Sunday 05 March 2006 17:31, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:12:36PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:30, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:26:37PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anyone has

Re: reconfiguring a port

2006-03-05 Thread Duane Whitty
On Monday 06 March 2006 00:53, Andrew Spott wrote: i accidentally configured a port incorrectly, how do I get the configure dialog box back up? -Andrew _ __ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

device atapicam not enabled in GENERIC kernel for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

2006-03-04 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, Just wondering if anyone has any information/opinion as to why device atapicam is not enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel. Does this apply to releases other than 6? Thanks in advance, --Duane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

htdig Archive Access Failure

2006-02-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, When searching the FreeBSD mailing lists archives, irrespective of which list I am searching, I receive an error if I try to access a second or subsequent page. Does anyone else experience this? --Duane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: htdig Archive Access Failure

2006-02-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Micah wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, When searching the FreeBSD mailing lists archives, irrespective of which list I am searching, I receive an error if I try to access a second or subsequent page. Does anyone else experience this? --Duane Yes, makes that search interface rather useless

Re: trouble finding burner (k3b)

2006-02-23 Thread Duane Whitty
Fabian Keil wrote: Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter wrote: This k3b program is great but it I find it very picky. Currently it cannot detect my DVD/CD burner (/dev/acd1) anymore. It can find my CDROM (/dev/acd0) allright but it claims the permissions may be wrong on the burner

Re: Looking for a mentor on php/mysql

2006-02-23 Thread Duane Whitty
Robert Uzzi wrote: I am trying to teach my self php/mysql/html programming. I have done native static html web sites before. Running FreeBSD 6.0 with apache13, php, and mysql all installed and working. Have read a few php books and searched the web for code snippets. Have been on some of the

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-22 Thread Duane Whitty
Rob wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:20 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-02-22 10:17, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to set the display name on my computer. I have a program used with Xorg that gives me the error message:

Re: trouble finding burner (k3b)

2006-02-22 Thread Duane Whitty
Peter wrote: This k3b program is great but it I find it very picky. Currently it cannot detect my DVD/CD burner (/dev/acd1) anymore. It can find my CDROM (/dev/acd0) allright but it claims the permissions may be wrong on the burner. I checked and these devices have the same permissions. I

Re: portupgrading only certain ports

2006-02-22 Thread Duane Whitty
Peter wrote: --- Steve P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to avoid upgrading two ports: kde and X. What are the command line options to portupgrade to accomplish this? For instance, I tried this and it failed: #portupgrade -a -x 'kde*' -x 'x*' Where am I going wrong? I've read the

Re: Every 12-hrs -- ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA

2006-02-17 Thread Duane Whitty
Fabian Keil wrote: V.I.Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been reporting: Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2701279 Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)

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