Re: file system for FreeBSD, OS X and WinXP?

2006-12-31 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 12/31/06, Keith Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I recently picked up a big 700G external USB/Firewire Seagate drive with the hopes of using it to store my growing collection of music, photos, etc. currently spread across several different machines (all with nearly full discs).

Re: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls?

2006-12-21 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 12/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:35PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 19), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls, i. e. ls | less ? Yes, ls | less is the way to do it. You can add a shell

Re: skype and other *phones

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
. Don't mean to sound like an advertisement, I just love open standards being used. Eric Kjeldergaard -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: skype and other *phones

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 12/12/06, Renegade Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: If you are open to suggestions on other phone systems, I have been very much enjoying my gizmo account. (gizmoproject.com) I generally use ekiga to connect to it, but the benefit of gizmo is that it uses

Re: Konsole Font Color

2006-02-09 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Thursday 09 February 2006 07:51、Peter Marshall さんは書きました: I have my desktop set to a dark blue, and my knosole transparent ... but directories show ip black, as do the text in conf files. How do you specify the color of fonts for different things ? If you mean directories when you ls, you

Re: Proper mail headers

2006-02-05 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Monday 06 February 2006 05:34、Ceri Davies さんは書きました: On 30 Jan 2006, at 18:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to check to see if I am using the proper etiquette when filling in my headers, especially when responding to someone's post. Should I just let

Re: How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?

2006-02-03 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Saturday 04 February 2006 10:02、Philip Hallstrom さんは書きました: Hi - I've got a new 6.0 box and have setup some jails. I'd like to share /usr/ports from the host, to each of the jails. I tried mount_unionfs and while it worked, the box would crash if I did anything intensive (ie. compile a

Re: Screen Command

2006-02-02 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Friday 03 February 2006 04:05、A. Clausen さんは書きました: I'm installing 6.0, but I noticed there's no screen command available. Has it been removed or is this an oversight? Screen is available as a port in sysutils/screen . -- Emails appear more personalised with signatures. pgp8PnGZdGBYa.pgp

Re: Standard way of updating 6.x ?

2006-01-31 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Wednesday 01 February 2006 10:56、RW さんは書きました: On Tuesday 31 January 2006 17:45, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Jan 31, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Xn Nooby wrote: portupgrade: Use for updating your actual ports programs. There may be a more elegant solution though and I would be more than happy

Re: Gnome's bottom panel doesn't display running programs

2006-01-29 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Sunday 29 January 2006 12:36、Derrick Ryalls さんは書きました: Greetings, I did some searching, but didn't find anything so I was hoping someone might have a clue on this. I just did the compile for gnome 2.12 on FreeBSD 6 and so far most everything seems to work except the lower panel does not

Re: Native voip software for FreeBSD

2006-01-13 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
水曜日 11 1月 2006 01:30、User Gandalf さんは書きました: Hello, Do you know any native voip software for FreeBSD? I hate to install Linux compatibility mode just to have skype working. Thanks, Les [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/ports/net] #ls | grep phone cphone kphone linphone linphone-base ohphone

Re: Desktop Note on FreeBSD?

2005-12-26 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Monday 26 December 2005 23:18, Yuan Jue wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 01:09, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: is there any software that like Rainlender on Windows? I need to make some notes sometimes, and i think it would be much better if the notes could be always shown

Re: Desktop Note on FreeBSD?

2005-12-26 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Monday 26 December 2005 23:48, Yuan Jue wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 22:32, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 23:18, Yuan Jue wrote: I just found a software called gDesklets which I think is wonderful. you can find it in http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org

Re: Change default boot option

2005-12-25 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Sunday 25 December 2005 22:49, Sasa Stupar wrote: Hi! How do I change defalt boot option in FreeBSD 5.4? Now it boots with ACPI disable but I'd like to boot with ACPI enabled. In man acpi(4), if you look in the section on LOADER TUNABLES, you can see hint.acpi.0.disabled that variable.

Re: Desktop Note on FreeBSD?

2005-12-25 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Monday 26 December 2005 00:54, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all is there any software that like Rainlender on Windows? I need to make some notes sometimes, and i think it would be much better if the notes could be always shown on the desktop to remind me. Kontact is great, but not at this point

Re: Desktop Note on FreeBSD?

2005-12-25 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Monday 26 December 2005 01:35, Yuan Jue wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 00:15, you wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 00:54, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all is there any software that like Rainlender on Windows? I need to make some notes sometimes, and i think it would be much better

Re: acpi: throttle state in 6.0

2005-12-24 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Saturday 24 December 2005 20:01, Niklas Nielsen wrote: First of all - Merry Christmas :) I am new on the list (and dane) - so please bare with me. I noticed, when upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0 - that hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_statedon't appear in 6.0. I have a IBM ThinkPad T40 with a centrino

Re: Cannot start X

2005-12-23 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Saturday 24 December 2005 03:58, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hi: I just installed FreeBSD 6.0 on a P4 HT, and I cannot start X. Actually I want to start KDE; the .xinitrc is in place, but I couldn't start it before I wrote it, either. As I cannot copy and paste, I do not give you my xorg.conf

Re: default password of toor

2005-12-22 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Friday 23 December 2005 13:49, Imran Imtiaz wrote: what is the default password of toor cause i have forgotton my roots password so any one could help me in recovering ? By default the toor account cannot be logged into via password. Try booting into single-user-mode to change your root

NFS and inability to mount remotely

2005-12-12 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
I'm getting the following error trying to mount the nfs exports that I have set up. [tcp] nfshost:/exportPath: RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out to get it I'm running this mount command: mount -v -t nfs -o tcp nfshost:/exportPath /mnt/temp/ If I run that same command

Re: background fsck

2005-11-21 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 11/21/05, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is the rule to decide if filesystem may be background checked or not? for example my / is checked foreground, while /home checked background. can't root partition be background checked too? On my laptop, if I'm in a hurry to get back

Re: sound on FreeBSD

2005-10-30 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 10/30/05, Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone have a link where a web page has been created which explains clearly how to install sound drivers _and_ test them I.E. play a sound? I found on BSDForums.org an explanation which describes first using kldload to try to determine

Re: Getting my screen to rotate with my monitor

2005-10-30 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 10/30/05, ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a fancy dancy LCD screen that can rotate clockwise. It would be nice to be able to use this functionality but I have no idea where to start. Hopefully somebody can tell me if it's even feasible. My video card is a Voodoo 3 running the tdfx

Re: Getting my screen to rotate with my monitor

2005-10-30 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 10/30/05, Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/05, ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a fancy dancy LCD screen that can rotate clockwise. It would be nice to be able to use this functionality but I have no idea where to start. Hopefully somebody can tell me if it's even

Re: Disc space

2005-10-29 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 10/27/05, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 16:08, Igor Robul wrote: 2) you can buy more memory and use memory backed md (4) /tmp And you can create a 100 MB memory-backed /tmp simply by adding the following to rc.conf tmpmfs=YES tmpsize=100m tmpmfs_flags=-SM

Re: Remote Desktop Connection Woes

2005-10-12 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 12/10/05, Remington L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All: I am looking for a way to VNC or to connect to my FreeBSD laptop, running Xorg and GNOME. I can ssh into, but I do not have access to GNOME. My question is, I know I cannot use VNC because I use Xorg. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Re: Window manager to use with touch panel

2005-09-14 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 8/24/05, Per Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I recently got hold of a computer built into a 15 flatscreen monitor. I want to use this to control lights and other things around the appartment and I need a window manager that runs on FreeBSD and works well with touch

Re: vmware 5

2005-09-14 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 9/14/05, Stefan Farrenkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, will there be a vmware port with version 4 or 5 some day or is there another possibility to run these versions with with FreeBSD 5.4? I thought (though could be wrong) that there was work that had gotten 4 close to working, but

Re: Laptop mode for FreeBSD

2005-07-27 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 7/26/05, Richard Lupton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have an old NEC Versa LX laptop with a very noisy disk. Mostly from the point of view of making it quieter, rather than saving power, I would like to let the disk spin down in the same way as laptop_mode does for linux. I can set

Re: Installing KDE3

2005-06-08 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 6/8/05, Alvaro Rosales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Folks, I am trying to isntall KDE3 in my BSD box from the ports tree , but it seems it is installing more software than I need, where can I tell FreeBSD to install KDE only with the options I need?. Thanks for your answers. Perhaps you

Re: KDE and Gnome

2005-05-30 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
2005/5/31, Tina Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a old laptop which after the suggestion of another programmer i installed FreeBSD. I have used this some before, but because it is free we have decided to use this for are small club. I have a compaq armanda and i installed both KSE and Gnome

Re: Trouble with XFree86 Configuration

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
2005/5/6, Naomi Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! I'm having a devil of a time trying to configure XFree86 Server and Desktop in FreeBSD 5.3. I was running FreeBSD 4.9 just fine complete with Gnome2. Yesterday, I installed (from scratch) FreeBSD 5.3 on the same machine. The installation

Re: Where can i d/l VMware-workstation-3.2.1-2242.tar.gz

2005-05-02 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
2005/4/28, Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: im trying to install the vmware pkg via the port but all URL's listed fail to have the pkg: Where can i grab a copy of this pkg ? snip ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/VMware-workstation-3.2.1-2242.tar.gz: File unavailable (e.g., file

Re: Mucking with other drive

2005-03-17 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
PC bioses only let you boot off of drive C. If you install this other drive as drive D then during the installation FreeBSD is going to have to write a boot loader onto C so that when the PC boots it will load the boot loader, which will then load the FreeBSD system off drive D. This is not

Re:

2005-03-05 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:22:37 -0800, Ross Penner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I searched the archive to no avail on my problem altough I'm sure it's quite simple. I have an aureal vortex 2 sound card which I would be quite happy to use, BUT, I'm having a hang up when installing the port

Re: Window managers

2005-02-24 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:52:35 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck Swiger writes: It's not hard. pkg_delete -xf kde or pkg_delete -xf gnome. [ You might want to be a little more selective than using such a wildcard, however, although if you've got the precompiled

Re: How to handle numeric variables in sh?

2005-02-19 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:55:59 -0300, Alejandro Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there a way to handle numeric variables (addition, multiplication, etc.) in 'sh' (or throught an external command)? `man bc` -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.

Re: Annoying ports problem

2005-02-17 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:45:36 +0100, Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I have run into an annoying problem several times when upgrading ports. Say, if i want to upgrade gstreamer-plugins, i do: # cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins # make This pulls in some

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-14 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:53:23 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Loren M. Lang writes: That's not true in my expeirence, I still see the blue screen occassionally on both WinNT 4.0 and 2K systems. Then you have bad device drivers, or you are running software with OS

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-14 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:18:57 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Kjeldergaard writes: I have to go with Loren, the BSOD certainly still comes up with NT/2k/(especially)XP systems. I have had systems that would Blue Screen about once a week. And, before someone (read

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-14 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:43:37 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Kjeldergaard writes: Well, no that's not entirely true...First off, there's the claim by Windows itself that it's not drivers. The OS itself never identifies problems as being within the drivers. Driver

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

2005-02-12 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Agreed, but have you never inherited control over a system with hardware you did not purchase? Yup, but I've simply not gotten unsupported hardware. In the many computers I've tried, not a single piece of hardware unsupported, from network cards to raid cards, wireless and video, serial cards

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

2005-02-12 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:27:21 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Kjeldergaard writes: Actually, I haven't. I have, but mainly with hardware that I would normally use only on the desktop. I ended up connecting it to Windows instead. FreeBSD has good support

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

2005-02-11 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/bell_logos.html I'm not sure that 6 times in 110 years is constantly changed -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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

2005-02-11 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
athony atkielski =~ /tm452\d/ ? -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

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

2005-02-11 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
If I can remember correctly, I have received help from both of you on some of my previous posts. I thank you and I always enjoy reading your view points. (speaking on behalf of Jerry as well as myself, and making some wild assumptions about Jerry based on his previous posts) Always glad to

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

2005-02-11 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:11:32 -0700, Chad Leigh -- Shire. Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 11, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Robert Marella wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:25 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: athony atkielski =~ /tm452\d/ ? I was beginning to suspect some such. Maybe

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

2005-02-10 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Anthony Atkielski writes: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: And, I am also concerned about the historical revisionists who are claiming FreeBSD never had a logo. That is hogwash. Where can I see the logo? Nobody ever said that FreeBSD lacked a logo until after a few days ago when this

Re: Can I...

2005-02-10 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Hi there! I would to know if i can install the last relase of freeBSD on my computer. It's an acer travelmate 201t(It's old i know), celeron 600, 320Mb RAM, HD 4.7Gb. Can I have problems with KDE (I' ve already had with Mandrake 10...)?!? There is a way to fix these problems (I see the

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

2005-02-10 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:09:47 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Kjeldergaard writes: The logo can be seen on the website www.freeBSD.org. it is in fact a relatively (from a printing perspective) high-resolution image of our daemon, holding a pitchfork on his left side

Re: favor

2005-02-07 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
After having read this thread (yes, every line of it...) I'm really quite interested in it. Unfortunately, an analogy dropped off perhaps below Señor Atkielski's radar so I thought I would recreate it and hear his (and of course everyone else's) opinion(s) on it. Let us make an analogue betwixt

Re: smbfs problems

2005-02-07 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
I don't have X on the FBSD machine so I was not able to test viewing the JPEG images locally on the FBSD side. As kind of an aside, cat can tell you quite adequately if you can view the contents of the file. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.

Re: favor

2005-02-07 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Archiving messages without telling subscribers about it and requiring them to agree with it only invites trouble. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions This is the page on which you sign up. You'll notice it says this in the about: This is the mailing list for

Re: favor

2005-02-07 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
EK Let us make an analogue betwixt our Valerie and one who submits to the EK local newspaper. There is a roughly equal level of consent given in EK both cases ... Not so, on two points: (1) the newspaper is obviously available to anyone (it's on the newsstands), and not only to a selected

Re: favor

2005-02-07 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
It doesn't matter where they go. It only matters where they may be expected to go by someone writing to the newspaper. right. And in this case, the person expects it to go to untold and unnamed numbers of people who desire to see the message. Which is, after all, exactly who's seeing it.

Re: mounted ext2 fs causes bad shutdown

2005-02-01 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
One of the many ways to do the same thing without the bugs could be: # extfs=$(mount | grep '^/.*(ext2fs,' | awk '{print $1}') Actually, better than that would be extfs=$(mount -t ext2fs | awk '{print $1;}') Or even just replace the whole thing with umount -a -t ext2fs While

Re: mounted ext2 fs causes bad shutdown

2005-01-31 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 03:04:32 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a FreeBSD 5.3 system of mine that is dual boot with linux I have my linux home partition which is ext3fs mounted on freebsd. Anytime I reboot or halt freebsd while it is mounted, freebsd fails to sync all it's

Re: which bittorrent client

2005-01-26 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Are there other non-X BT clients I should try? I find bittornado (/usr/ports/net/py-bittornado) to suit my needs better than bittorrent's client. It's the cli version of shadow's bittorrent client (which is to say it has some more control) and I tend to run it in screen as

Re: write state to swap for multi-os boot

2005-01-03 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
But it's a great way to boot Linux under Windows, or FreeBSD under either, or have multiple OSes running simultaneously under a single computer. How good is device support from within vmware? Can I get to serial/usb/audio/network ports seamlessly? Well, these things aren't exactly

Re: write state to swap for multi-os boot

2005-01-02 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Has anyone considered or accomplished allowing FreeBSD to write it's current state (including window manager, windows, etc) to swap and allowing a subsequent reload of the system to last state? This would be sort of like the sleep mode of a laptop, but would allow the user to boot into

Re: triple monitor hardware setup on FBSD - suggestions needed...

2005-01-01 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
I am currently running a triple-monitor setup under winXP, with an extended desktop that stretches across all three monitors. I like it. I would, however, like to use FreeBSD. Good choice :) So, first off, what hardware (video card) comes to mind for doing triple screens with FreeBSD ?

Re: buildworld via ssh

2004-12-28 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
I am doing a buildworld(Rel5.2) via ssh to a remote location. I detached the process from my session, but I failed to pipe the output to a logfile. Long story short, my session was terminated and I am not sure if the process completed correctly or not. Is there any way to find out if the

Re:

2004-12-28 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
como activar el scroll del mouse ps/2. How activate ps/2 mouse scroll en el CLI: moused -p /dev/psm0 -t ps/2 -z 4 en el /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Option Buttons 5 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 En el parte del Section InputDevice Bueno suerte! -- If I write a signature, my

Re: VMWare Workstation?

2004-12-27 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
I have not yet tried this ... but has anyone gotten VMWare workstation running on FreeBSD? Of course, I don't mean running FreeBSD as a client OS in, say, Linux or Windows. But running it as the host OS. well, there is a port for it in /usr/ports/emulators and that works alright. Depending on

Re: FreeBSD loader

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
How can I configure the loader of FreeBSD 5.2 such that the default is loading the kernel with ACPI support. with ACPI is the default, is it not? No. When I let the loader timeout, it does not load the acpi.ko module. This is the second choice. This is the way /boot/beastie.4th

Re: FreeBSD loader

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
How can I configure the loader of FreeBSD 5.2 such that the default is loading the kernel with ACPI support. with ACPI is the default, is it not? No. When I let the loader timeout, it does not load the acpi.ko module. This is the second choice. This is the way

Re: FreeBSD loader

2004-12-18 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
How can I configure the loader of FreeBSD 5.2 such that the default is loading the kernel with ACPI support. with ACPI is the default, is it not? -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Boot splash screens in 5.3

2004-12-15 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
HIya, Im trying to find out how to add a bootsplash to 5.3. I've looked at the handbook and only saw details for 3.x. Is it the same process?? I have a 320x200 bmp file already for this, i assume that is the corrct size etc, as i read of a how-to for 3.x. man 5 loader.conf

Re: Old Computers, -Os, Stripping, and 4-STABLE

2004-12-15 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
1. I'd like to know if it's (relatively) safe to use -Os for CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS? Probably not, although it never hurts to experiment :) 2. I'd like to know what background stuff/daemons/etc that can be safely striped out, sendmail?, etc? Well, I don't have your list of current

Re: Use /var for storing webpages.. Why???

2004-12-14 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Does storing webpages in /var give you a performance increase? No. Well, this is not necessarily true. When designing a server and optimising for performance, one thinks about which partitions will get certain types of usage. One that varies a lot you will want to have a fast disk or the

Re: Linux kernel on FreeBSD

2004-12-10 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Also, I've found the Netfilter firewall in Linux to be, IMHO, a little better designed than ipfilter or ipfw in freebsd, and it definetely has more features than those two freebsd firewalls. Which features? Is there something I'm missing with the firewalls available in FreeBSD? -- If I

Fwd: List of sysctl variables

2004-12-03 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
I searching for a list of sysctl variables.In handbook says that it's about 5000 of sysctl variables.I can find only 50 in the internet and handbook.Where i can find a full list of sysctl variables? I don't know of a published magical list of all sysctl variables because they are dependent

Re: Fwd: List of sysctl variables

2004-12-03 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
one could include -d option too, then you will get a short description what each sysctl mean... I didn't know about that option. Thanks! -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

cc_tools compilations problems on 5.3

2004-12-02 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
I've got my lousy server (200mhz cyrix) running FreeBSD 5.3 finally. I ended up having to boot from the 5.1 installation media because it panics on both 5.2.1 and 5.3. So, happy as a clam, I figured I could probably keep up with RELENG_5_3. Much to my dismay, I'm having no luck getting kernel

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Questions

2004-12-02 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
2) How do I set GCC flags when compiling a port. I added CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe to /etc/make.conf, but get an error when building a port. The error is get is env: -pipe No such file or directory /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf may help you here. Just one quick

Re: USB Flash Drive

2004-11-30 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Yes, put an entry in /etc/fstab for it. e.g.: /dev/da0 /flash[1] msdosfs[2] rw Perhaps my card is just unusal, but freeBSD makes a da0s1 node which is the appropriate one to mount. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Hi! Could you answer my questions, please? I'll try. 1) When I halt or reboot FreeBSD 5.3 I always receive following: Syncing disks vnodes remaining... 4 3 3 1 1 0 done Is it OK? What does it mean? This is relatively normal. What it means is that it is syncing your hard disk

Re: The UFS support of Linux (was: Re: what is the bsd fs called outside the bsd sphere?)

2004-11-27 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:10:28 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-11-25 20:08, Matthias Buelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Williamson wrote: Ok, I'll recreate the original flash image to ensure it is -O 1, and then try again. in order to mount ufs1 on linux,

Re: How best to recover from untimely portupgrade interruption?

2004-11-23 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
I'm afraid I missed the note in /usr/ports/UPDATING about portupgrade building INDEX, so when a simple upgrade stalled for three hours (p166 here) without doing anything obvious, I'm afraid I typed ^C. Portupgrade was rebuilding the database, and the ^C made it move on to the index, which I

Re: Most Suitable version of FBSD for server?

2004-11-21 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Which version of FBSD is currently most appropriate for use as a server (mail, NFS, samba)? 4.9? 4.10? 5.somethingorother? Obviously you'll want something current so 4.9 is out of the question. That kind of leaves the 2 distinct branches. These are the 4.x and 5.x and are currently

Re: bypass beastie press 1 to boot

2004-11-21 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Is there a simple way to configure the boot loader so that it immediately boots freebsd from the harddisk without having to get the beastie menu and pressing the 1 key. This may seem a bit basic, but you realise that you don't have to press the '1' key, right? It'll boot up after the

Re: Most Suitable version of FBSD for server?

2004-11-21 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Is the current branch of 5.x (assuming 5.3 based on previous response) been fairly stable in people's experiences? Has it been fairly bug-free? (I realize that is a pretty subjective question...) correct on 5.3 being the current release. I find it quite stable. I have not crashed or locked

Re: BlackBox slow

2004-11-19 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
and it doesn't change much if I add or remove a line. What is your experience with BlackBox? Is there a BB clone without slit and taskbar or something like that? You may want to look into openbox. It's like all the other boxes only with no slit... -- If I write a signature, my emails will

Re: Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
I have the 5.3-RELEASE CD which I have used to install 5.3 on a laptop I have. I would like to add packages/ports now but have a slight issue. The laptop doesn't have internet access. Nor is there any easy way to put it on the internet. How can I go about installing both packages and

Re: Start gnome's gdm at once

2004-11-18 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
How do you start gnome's at once, without going to the command prompt and doing 'gdm'? # cd /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d # mv gdm.sh.sample gdm.sh Another alternative to this would be to edit /etc/ttys with a line like this: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure Except that you'll

Re: cvups with 5.3 stable

2004-11-17 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Has anyone got cvsup to sucessfully update their ports collection? When I run cvsup, with tag=RELENG_5_3, cvsup just deletes everything in /usr/ports. I replaced the ports collection with the full port tarball from the ports collection search page. Cvsup deletes that as well. I am using

Re: ATI 9600 Support

2004-11-16 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
I have a radeon 9600 and have been trying to get it working in dual-head mode. Someone linked me to a screen-shot that showed an ATI control panel with a dual-head tab. Is there any chance someone could link me to a site that provides said application. I've searched google and the ATI

Re: How to make configuration changes without a reboot?

2004-11-16 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
I learned that in order to make changes to the screen saver, I had to reboot the computer. Those changes, made by sysinstall, appear in /etc/rc.conf. Is there a way to make such changes take effect without rebooting? (Version 5.3 RELEASE, i386) Of course there are. Reboots are only

Re: I did it, and now I need to undo it...

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
I need to reset my root password; I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and golly!, going to single user mode no longer works to change a password -- one gets an authentication error; I have complete control of the box, it's in my lab. What do I do to change the password and bring the machine back

Re: Big Problem, Load Avg Very High

2004-11-06 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
i know that it isn't officially released, but the ISOs are availible on FTPs already. but these ISOs should change it's consistance and will be regenerated by the time. but anyway. i consider 5.3 to be better choice then 5.2.1... Are the isos already there? Oh, yes, they are. BUT it

Re: blackbox, bbkeys, and .xinit...

2004-11-03 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:55:51 -0500, Mike Hauber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greets, This is something I haven't had to mess with before, and I'm confused by the docs... I have several WMs installed on my FreeBSD (4.10) desktop, one of which is blackbox. Is there a way to uniquely state that

Re: FreeBSD wireless access point (under 5.2.1)

2004-11-01 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
options BRIDGE is in my kernel and the following sysctls are set: net.link.ether.bridge.enable=1 net.link.ether.bridge.config=wi0,xl0 net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 1. My wireless laptop can not ping the FreeBSD machine itself. 2. Hosts on my wired network can not ping the wireless laptop,

Re: Compatible NIC

2004-11-01 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Yes Use 5.x! is not technical help. Don't use 5.x because its slow IS technical help. You guys just dont want anyone to say it. I'm not about to get into whether or not these 2 things are or are not technical help. But I certainly don't think that anyone does want to say that saying Don't

Re: Flash Drives Sanity Check

2004-10-27 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Does CF stand lots of read / write operations ? I read somewhere that it has quite low life expectancy ? I can't help you out on much of the quest, but this part is generally advertised when full specs are given for the card. Often I see cards looking in the neighbourhood of 100,000

Re: photoshop

2004-10-26 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:11:45 +0200, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont know anything about photoshop, i only know i like building websites, and every company i want to work for asks photoshop this flash mx that :( So i want to say to my boss screw photoshop i can do the same with

Re: font size on console.

2004-10-25 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:15:34 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-10-25 08:48, pixiedave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey all, is therer a way to adjust the resolution on the console? I have played around with the settings in sysinstall, but it does not apear to do

Re: 10-13 laptop. Where to buy?

2004-10-25 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:26:32 -0400, Michael Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a x86 laptop with a 10 to 13 screen but its very hard to find one under 14 anyone have any ideas of where to look? I recommend the IBM X-series as they are small and still quite sexy. If

Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!

2004-10-21 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
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. certainly the best I've used on the desktop For the most part all the workstations will be used for the usuall, web,email, irc and local development. Noted, I'll

Re: The wheel of a mouse

2004-10-20 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Try this instead of auto: Option Protocol IMPS/2 I have to speak up and concur here. On my system, I was not able to get moused to properly access my mousewheel. (Yes, I was using the appropriate option(s) and did try quite a number fo things.) However, when I switched to ImPS/2 and

Re: hostname

2004-10-20 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:53:27 +0200, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In witch file do you set your hostname ? /etc/rc.conf will set it at boot. To set it at runtime, type `hostname hostname you want` -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.

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