Re: Question about ps display

2007-05-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm trying to figure out why courier imap ssl refuses to display the status of the process. I've tried adding both check_pidfile and check_process to the startup script, but neither works. I think the problem is related to the way ps displays the process. Even though

Re: ld can't find -lX11

2007-05-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, I guess this is really simple, but I am not familiar with ld thing. During xorg upgrade, graphics/glitz failed, and complained that ld can't find -lX11, what should I do?? please advise, thanks!! TFC Check to make sure that /usr/local (i.e. ${LOCALBASE} =

Re: Xorg 7.2.0 Release

2007-05-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
Erik Norgaard wrote: Joseph Marah wrote: Does anyone know if this is available for FreeBSD as a port? Thanks. I have just received a message on the ports list that xorg 7.2 has been merged into the ports tree: As you may already know, the X11 team has been working hard for the past few

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 ZFS boot freeze

2007-05-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
pepe perez wrote: I have an ASUS P4S800D motherboard with a Seagate 120GB Serial ATA disk. I want to install on it FreeBSD 7.0 ZFS, but I have probed all options in beastie screen and all freezed during boot process (usually when it reach the CD/DVD type detection). I'm now using that

Re: what's the easiest way to de-html-ize files?

2007-05-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:34:14PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: On Sat, 12 May 2007 14:34:52 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:09:07PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 12, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This is for those of us who

Re: Default interface font size in Firefox Thunderbird 2.0

2007-05-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Erin Conn wrote: Okay, I think what I'm seeing is that since upgrading to the 2.0 versions of these applications, they're taking a font size that looks a few points higher than what's set in gtkrc-2.0. If I set the font down to Arial 10 in gtkrc-2.0 it looks about right in Firefox and

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Robert Huff wrote: Garrett Cooper writes: Anyhow, getting back to the video thing at hand, if Gary was to purchase a card he should purchase an nVidia card. It's the only brand with OpenGL support properly enabled in Linux and FreeBSD. 5000-6000 series would be sufficient

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
Eric Crist wrote: On May 9, 2007, at 8:34 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: Gary, Most cards that might come with DVI output instead of the standard VGA output usually include at least one DVI-VGA adapter, an additional one could be

Re: Some questions about hardware and software

2007-05-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Michele wrote: Hi, I'm thinking to change my OS from windows to freeBSD and I would some information about: - There is an ATI graphics driver with 3D acceleration for freeBSD that works fine? No. - I have the AC'97 realtek controller audio, there is a driver for it? Yes, AFAIK.

Re: sending email with perl

2007-05-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On May 6, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Olivier Regnier wrote: Hello, I written a small script in perl to send email. Here is the code: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use MIME::Lite; my $msg = new MIME::Lite From ='[EMAIL PROTECTED]', To ='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',

Re: [Fwd: Re: Ports forbids me to install compat3x-i386]

2007-05-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Subject: Re: Ports forbids me to install compat3x-i386 From: Theorem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 16:13:22 -0400 To: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote: Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the right thing afterwards. The mistake: /usr/local/# rm -f * note that root was

Re: Easiest method to install a DVD writer

2007-05-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a desktop Compaq computer running the latest stable version of FreeBSD. I want to install a DVD writer to use for backups (either internal or USB). Can someone recommend the easiest method to do this by? Is there a list of supported DVD writers for the

Re: Make is broken! How to fix?

2007-05-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
W. D. wrote: usw2# cd make++ usw2# ls -lt total 5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1221 May 1 18:35 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 190 May 1 18:35 distinfo -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 643 May 1 18:35 pkg-plist -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 602 Oct 17 2004 pkg-descr usw2# make install

Re: Make is broken! How to fix?

2007-05-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
W. D. wrote: At 20:59 5/1/2007, Matt Emmerton wrote: usw2# cd make++ usw2# ls -lt total 5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1221 May 1 18:35 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 190 May 1 18:35 distinfo -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 643 May 1 18:35 pkg-plist -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 602 Oct 17

Re: music-generator for FreeBSD?

2007-04-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Gary Kline wrote: Guys, This is a bit off-topic, but maybe somebody out there can give me someclues. Bearing in mind that I know zip about music composition, is there a MIDI (or mp3 or other) toolkit that would generate short background slices of music?

Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?

2007-04-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
Murray Taylor wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garrett Cooper Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2007 4:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept

Re: nVidia port build failure in ldconfig

2007-04-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
John Murphy wrote: While trying to build /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-9631 from a freshly csup'd ports tree, it stopped with the following error: === Installing for linux-expat-1.95.8 === linux-expat-1.95.8 depends on file: /compat/linux/etc/fedora-release - found === Generating temporary

Re: freebsd installation server (nfs/ftp/http) local network

2007-04-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
anujgunj anuj singh wrote: Hiee, I have ISO images on network pc, I want to perform a network installation using nfs OR ftp OR http. Plus what is the best way of installation (package selection) to not to switch cd's between 2 cd's. regards anugunj anuj On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 23:37 +0400,

Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?

2007-04-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Zhang Weiwu wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 14:30 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Dear James run Office 98. However the OpenOffice office suit which by default installed in SuSE and Ubuntu is superior than Office 98 in functionality, and can open your old Office 98 documents just fine I forgot to

Re: annoying problems after upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-04-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Scott Bennett wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:38:31 -0400 quoth Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please note that I posted the first two items merely to inform the readership of the existence of the problems. I only hoped for assistance on the third problem. Now, given that you are

Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?

2007-04-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenOffice in OSX still isn't that great either because there still isn't a native (Aqua) build. I suspect the NeoOffice folks would be surprised to hear that :) Yes _.. I mean that the latest and greatest version of OOo isn't available for Aqua native yet. It's

Re: Help, please ....Port Install Problem, Google didn't help!

2007-04-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
VeeJay wrote: Hello I am trying to run a perl script connecting a mysql50 database on a freebsd61 box. But I get this error: Can't locate Mysql.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8

Re: Hardware requirement

2007-04-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Reshmakov Roman wrote: We sucessfuly use amd64 arch on Intel Xeon CPUs. EMT64 is fully compatible with the major features in AMD64. However, IA64 (64-bit architecture made by Intel in older Xeons) isn't compatible with AMD Opterons AFAIK. Besides, IA64 doesn't allow binary/library profiling

Re: Need your help

2007-04-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
maximo4k wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, From: Maksym Kuvyklin[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I have suspicion that somebody use my server like zombie server. Environment:FreeBSD mail.ukremb.com 5.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE #6:MonApr 23 14:41:21 EDT

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op (workaround)

2007-04-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
Howard Goldstein wrote: Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Michel Le Cocq wrote: I think it's a global thunderbird 2 bug, because i have exactly the same trouble ona mac os 10.4 with a binary update. I do not think it is exactly the same -- see below. Howard Goldstein a écrit : Jan Henrik

Re: limited shell access

2007-04-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
kalin mintchev wrote: hi all.. is it possible to limit access for certain users only to a certain directory tree - other then his/her home directory? so... can i do that or not? for example joe logs into his home directory where there is a symbolic link to some other directory on the

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
Ivan Voras wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Does this test demonstrate usage of memory over 4G? It's my understanding that PAE starts to suffer when it has to look at the memory over 4G (which is the problem it's intended to solve) If your entire test fits in under 4G, you're not seeing

Re: first of misc questions....

2007-04-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:49:56AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Gary Kline wrote: Guys, This is an awk-type question. Hopefully a one-liner. If I need to use #!/usr/bin/awk and a BEGIN/END (or

Re: first of misc questions....

2007-04-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Irsla wrote: Hi, On 4/25/07, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: find . -type f \( -mtime 6 -o -mtime 29 \) -print0 | xargs -0 vi what about the -exec option of find ? I always wonder why people don't use it.

Re: first of misc questions....

2007-04-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:21:52AM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 02:29 AM 4/25/2007, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, This is an awk-type question. Hopefully a one-liner. If I need to use #!/usr/bin/awk and a BEGIN/END (or whatever it is), that's okay...

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
Robert Huff wrote: Howard Goldstein writes: Could everyone affected by this issue document a few more steps of what they do to cause Thunderbird to coredump, please? 1. start thunderbird 2. ^M or click on the write message label 3. attach any file 4. send an email to self, garbage

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
Robert Huff wrote: Garrett Cooper writes: Did you build thunderbird with custom cflags, CFLAGS= -O -pipe -g and have to tried getting a backtrace for all of the calls made from thunderbird using the coredump and gdb? ??? Coredump? I meant core dumped. Bleh. -Garrett

Re: MS Windows emulator or VM with USB support

2007-04-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
Adam J Richardson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Milan Knizek wrote: Hello, is there an emulator or virtual machine, which would run MS Windows on FreeBSD as a host system and support USB devices? (I do not mean USB Mass Storage, but e.g. Garmin GPS device with

Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?

2007-04-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: On 4/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS when it comes to web media. I hope they kill each other and take the

Re: 6.2 custom kernel build HELP

2007-04-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Troy Kocher wrote: I'm trying to build my first custom kernel and it seems to be blowing up each time I try to: bsd#make buildkernel KERNCONF=SMP_TAOSCSI Here is the last part of the output when it blows up. . MAKE=make sh /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh SMP-TAOSCSI_v1 cc -c -O -pipe -Wall

Re: trouble printing from opera

2007-04-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
David J Brooks wrote: On Sunday 15 April 2007 09:49:57 pm you wrote: im running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3, with KDE, cups, and most current opera. i can print from everything else i use (which is i guess just kmail... but i did test from konqueror, and that works too), but i cannot get opera to

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I think it is also true that depending on your hardware a FreeBSD

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Paul Butler wrote: Message: 17 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:21:43 -0500 From: Claude Menski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I like Ubuntu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Why is freebsd better then

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:17:20PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:57:44AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Well, we have some problems sometimes with cyclic dependencies (portinstall / portupgrade and friends), and people aren't really happy when names of categories / packages get changed (like what's happened

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:52:18AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Also, it's Linux-based so documentation in terms of manpages are most likely non-existent, like with Gentoo Linux. That's by no means universal among Linux distributions. Debian actually provides

Re: FreeBSD Native JDK/JRE

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
patrick wrote: You could also just install the pre-built, Sun-sanctioned build: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml On 3/3/07, Chris Bowlby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As luck would have it, 2 minutes after posting this message, I managed to find this URL:

Re: make index on FREEBSD_4_EOL

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Benjamin Lutz wrote: Hello, Is make index on FREEBSD_4_EOL supposed to work? I'm getting breakage in the gstreamer-plugin ports. If there's no easy fix, could someone send me an INDEX file that matches the state of the ports tree at FREEBSD_4_EOL? Cheers Benjamin Ports support for 4.x

Re: make index on FREEBSD_4_EOL

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Benjamin Lutz wrote: Hello, Is make index on FREEBSD_4_EOL supposed to work? I'm getting breakage in the gstreamer-plugin ports. If there's no easy fix, could someone send me an INDEX file that matches the state of the ports tree at FREEBSD_4_EOL? Cheers Benjamin

Re: [OT] can sed handle this situation? (might require variable)

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Dear list. I could not find a mailing list about 'sed' (there is an very inactive Yahoo Group though) so I wish to try some luck here. Sorry for OT. I've got a situation that looks like require using variable and not possible to process with sed. But I am not sure. Can

Re: Recompiling the vim port for gui capability

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I recently updated some of my ports (due to the fact that I now have a high speed connection to the Internet at home). One of the ports I updated was vim. I used portupgrade -r vim_port_name and let it do its thing. All went well, but now gvim no longer exists.

Re: test

2007-04-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chris wrote: Hangmn wrote: GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING LIST On 4/11/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list for testing. It avoids spamming 1000s of inboxes with test messages. In response to Bill Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -- Bill

Re: Shell scripting: Absolute path name of a file given as parameter

2007-04-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
Aitor San Juan wrote: Hi List, Just a simple question. I have developed a shell script that, among other things, shows the filename that was specified as a parameter. However, when I invoke the script and the file is located in the current working directory, it just shows: ./my_input_filename

Re: Error in gotmail with freebsd

2007-04-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
dbetts wrote: Receiving this error when I run current port of Gotmail and Freebsd 6.2 Can't exec curl: No such file or directory at /usr/local/bin/gotmail line 677. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/bin/gotmail line 677. curl: not found Could not open

Re: There's any other UI like GNOME or KDE available (like Mac) for FreeBSD

2007-04-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Arvee Klesk wrote: [Subject line: There's any other UI like GNOME or KDE available (like Mac) for FreeBSD] I assume that's the question? GNOME and KDE are available on FreeBSD, and are probably the most featureful. XFCE is somewhat lighter weight, but also has a good

Re: Package management question

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chris Kottaridis wrote: I need a little advise on FreeBSD package management, I am kind of new to the FreeBSD package management thing and so I am sure this is a very basic question. I just installed 6.2 and apparently it installed the mysql-client 5.0 package. I want to get mysql up to 5.1

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-04-07 17:31, Olivier Regnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my perl script with the command sed. Here is a example of my code: Don't use system(sed ...) in Perl. It's considered poor style, since Perl can do the same without having

Re: tcl84 on FreeBSD 6.2 make error (new user)

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Ben Madin wrote: G'day all, I'm sorry but I am new to FreeBSD, and I am not sure what tcl84 is, but when I tried to install gdal, using portmanager after many hours it told me that tcl84 had an error, so that was that. when I went to ports/lang/tcl84 and tried make install clean it didn't

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Olivier Regnier wrote: Giorgos Keramidas a écrit : On 2007-04-07 17:31, Olivier Regnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my perl script with the command sed. Here is a example of my code: Don't use system(sed ...) in Perl. It's considered poor style, since

Re: perl/script and retval

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Olivier Regnier wrote: Hello, I written a small script in sh : # Downloading doc files echo === Downloading doc files /usr/bin/csup $doc_supfile RETVAL=$? if [ $RETVAL != 0 ]; then echo abort exit 0 fi I want to rewritte this code in perl script. my $retval=0; my

Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hello again all, I was wondering if there was an automatic, and possibly timed means to spin down disks available in either ports or the base system, by chance. Just trying to cut down on energy use, and increase my disks' lives :). TIA, -Garrett

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Yuri Grebenkin wrote: Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all. Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch? What do you think? Hello again all, I was wondering if there was an automatic, and possibly timed means to spin down disks available in either

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:10:17PM +0400, Yuri Grebenkin wrote: Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all. Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch? What do you think? My guess (really a SWAG) is that it's bettter to leave

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 08 April 2007 18:11:51 Garrett Cooper wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:10:17PM +0400, Yuri Grebenkin wrote: Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all. Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Olivier Regnier wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my perl script with the command sed. Here is a example of my code: # Selecting the fast server print Using the server called $server; system(`/usr/bin/sed 's|\*default host=\(.*\)|\*default host=${server}|' $standard_supfile

Re: Linux emluation of Skype not complete.

2007-04-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Paris Jones wrote: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paris Jones wrote: */Garrett Cooper /* wrote: Paris Jones wrote: I am using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable. My friend told me about Skype and was very egar

Re: net-snmp: portupgrade or clean instalation from ports throughNFS failed again and again

2007-04-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Daniel Dvořák wrote: Yes, you were right! It was enough to rename .PL to .pl with Makefile. So I guess the net-snmp port is broken, isn´t it ? Dan -Original Message- From: Garrett Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2007 03:41 AM To: Daniel Dvořák Cc: freebsd

Re: Skype will can't connect.

2007-04-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
B H wrote: Paris Jones skrev: Using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable. Using the linux_base-8 port. I would like to try Skype, but the port will only allow me to use ONE of my devices at a time, so my headset can't hear and talk at the same time, I have to manually swich between the headset and speaker

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
John Levine wrote: I'm looking for an external backup solution for my FreeBSD file server. I want it to be pluggable via USB interface (I'd share it with a couple of servers). I'd also like to be able to move backups to an off-site storage, so external HDD won't probably work for me. My

Re: Linux emluation of Skype not complete.

2007-04-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
Paris Jones wrote: */Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Paris Jones wrote: I am using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable. My friend told me about Skype and was very egar to try it, to my dismay the port of Skype will only accept one device for audio input and output, (Which

Re: Should sudo be used?

2007-04-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
Christian Walther wrote: On 05/04/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Moved answer to the bottom -- please don't use top post] On 4/5/07, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/5/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use sudo. I find it rather pointless. If I need to do

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
Andrea Milani wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: well, wikipedia says this (something that i just now learned about standard pentium4 line of processors) [wikipedia] HyperThreading was present in all Northwood CPUs, but was disabled in the core in all but the 3.06 GHz model. [/wikipedia]

Re: Linux emluation of Skype not complete.

2007-04-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
Paris Jones wrote: I am using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable. My friend told me about Skype and was very egar to try it, to my dismay the port of Skype will only accept one device for audio input and output, (Which my headset requires) and I would rather not mess with the DSP hijacker so I installed the

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-04-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:51:28AM +0200, Ivan Zenzerovic' wrote: Hi, I just put instead of sk0 nve0 (wich is my ethernet card). But, on boot i see that it searches for ALTQ and I saw that it can be turned on only by configuring the kernel. Is there maybe any other way?

Re: Filesystem that both FreeBSD and OS X can read/write

2007-04-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
mal content wrote: On 01/04/07, Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 1, 2007, at 12:53 PM, mal content wrote: Hello. I have a small USB hard disk enclosure and would like to start using it to transfer files between OS X and FreeBSD machines. Is there a filesystem that both OS X and

Re: Filesystem that both FreeBSD and OS X can read/write

2007-04-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Eric Crist wrote: On Apr 1, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: mal content wrote: On 01/04/07, Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 1, 2007, at 12:53 PM, mal content wrote: Hello. I have a small USB hard disk enclosure and would like to start using it to transfer files

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
Stan Cooper wrote: Garrett Cooper writes: # ntfs-3g /dev/ad0s1 /win Failed to open /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory modprobe: not found Failed to open /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory Error opening partition device: Operation not permitted Failed to startup volume

Re: time problems

2007-03-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
Lowell Gilbert wrote: bram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I am running 6.1-RELEASE-p2-AMD64 on a dual AMD opteron system. Lately (after installing a twa-3ware raid controller I think) time just stops. We leave at work one evening and the clock is set ok. The next morning the clock is

Re: deleting file '--preserve-permissions'

2007-03-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
Derek Ragona wrote: try: rm -i * only answer y to the one you want deleted. -Derek At 02:36 PM 3/31/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made mistake with tar. Something like tar cvfz --preserve-permissions home.tgz * or tar cvfz --preserve-permissions * home.tgz As result I have

Re: how to make i386 port on amd64

2007-03-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 06:22:05PM -0300, freenity wrote: Hi I wanted to make Nvidia video driver, but because there is no for amd64 I wanted to install the only one that is avaible for freebsd that is i386, but it throughs this error: === nvidia-driver-1.0.9746 is

Re: deleting file '--preserve-permissions'

2007-03-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: try: rm -i * only answer y to the one you want deleted. -Derek At 02:36 PM 3/31/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made mistake with tar. Something like tar cvfz --preserve-permissions home.tgz * or tar cvfz --preserve-permissions

Re: net-snmp: portupgrade or clean instalation from ports through NFS failed again and again

2007-03-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
Daniel Dvořák wrote: Ok thanks for your quick reply. It helped me ... for a while. I did what you advised me and it worked, but after some comilling time this new error appeared: Makefile out-of-date with respect to Makefile.PL /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/Config.pm

Re: not able to install some ports

2007-03-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
dbetts wrote: I have been trying to install amavisd-new, portgrey, and portupgrade. I get the same error on all ports when they try to install dependencies:(this is an example from trying to install the port portupgrade) = bdb-0.6.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/ruby.

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Derek Ragona wrote: You are able to mount the primary partition, not the extended partitions. This is a also a limitation mounting ms-dos fat drives. The extended partitions are done differently and are outside the partition table. -Derek At 07:58 AM 3/30/2007,

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Stan Cooper wrote: Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:hmm sounds kind of like the fuse kmod isnt loaded. whats the output of kldstat ? # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 14 0xc040 6f6544 kernel 21 0xc0af7000 59f20acpi.ko 31 0xc33a9000 a000 ntfs.ko

Re: ATI x1600 support

2007-03-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hello, I just received a new laptop Compaq nc8430 with an ATI Mobility Radeon x1600 graphics card. Didn't have a selection option, just take what you get. Has anybody got this working with a decent resolution? I can't get it better then 1024x768. Is there a way to bring it

Re: Ports maintainer or adopting a port

2007-03-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kimi Ostro wrote: Hello list Not sure if this is appropriate for this list, basically I am looking to hear from past, current and future ports maintainers: is it fun? what are the requirements? (besides time) what does it mean to you? do you recommend it? best way to get started? what do I

Re: Help

2007-03-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
Marcel Erz wrote: Hello! On which operating system? Do you have already an image for the VM player? Is VM player already installed on you computer? For the future: Give us more information to figure out ur problems. It will help to get an answer! Marcel On 3/28/07, Lumbu, Mfumuke

Re: Help

2007-03-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
in Deterlab. Or if you can grant me a sudoer privilege, i will be able to install packages on Deterlab FreeBSD images. Thanks. *From:* Garrett Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thu 3/29/2007 11:16 AM

Re: Moving paritions around

2007-03-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
John Levine wrote: I set up my laptop to dual boot between [EMAIL PROTECTED] and FreeBSD. When I first set it up I made the partitions the same size, but since then I found I do a lot more with FreeBSD so I'd rather give it more space. So the last time I had to reinstall Windows from

Re: tsclient removed from SuSE?

2007-03-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
Zhang Weiwu wrote: I recall that there had been tsclient come with SuSE 9.x. Now I am using SuSE 10.2. I cannot find tsclient in the SuSE standard repository nor in packman. (Can I know why this is removed?) tsclient is not important to me, because I always use vncviewer commandline. But

Re: Install with modified kernel?

2007-03-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
jekillen wrote: On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, jekillen wrote: Hello: Is it possible to install FreeBSD ( in this case v6.2 GENERIC RELEASE) with a modified kernel? I am having some network problems with an installation on ASUS N2M32 WS pro

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Jeffrey Goldberg said: On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Josh Carroll wrote: Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 - p5-GSSAPI-0.24 (security/ p5-GSSAPI): p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] In this case the port

Re: Dual Monitor Video Cards

2007-03-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a good video card for xorg+FreeBsd i386. I won't be playing any games on this computer. Should do well at 24bit color depth and 1600x1280 resolution. preferably $100-$200 range. I've had good luck with 2 of these and 4 monitors at $work

Re: Installing on large disk

2007-03-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
John C Nolen wrote: I have a 40 GB hard disk that was made in 2001 with windows xp installed on a 20 GB partition. BIOS setup says 19158 cylinders, 16 heads and 255 sectors. I want to install freeBSD on the second 20 GB partition. All the instructions seem to refer to small disks, as they

Re: What happened to my Perl installation???

2007-03-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
Peter Matulis wrote: I did an upgrade of my ports and I got some errors regarding Perl modules. The system asked my to remove BSDPAN which I did. Later I discovered I had other problems updating certain ports because of missing Perl parts. This is part of the problem: $ perldoc BSDPAN

Re: What happened to my Perl installation???

2007-03-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Peter Matulis wrote: I did an upgrade of my ports and I got some errors regarding Perl modules. The system asked my to remove BSDPAN which I did. Later I discovered I had other problems updating certain ports because of missing Perl parts. This is part

Re: autoconf error while portupgrading audio/vorbis-tools

2007-03-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
James Long wrote: I'm tackling the great 'portupgrade -r gettext'. All but about five ports built okay, and I'm focusing on the exceptions. vorbis-tools reports an error when building that suggests to me that something is not right in the way it is using autoconf, however it's beyond my

Re: optimization for Athlon 64 X2

2007-03-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mar 23, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Josh Paetzel wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: Daniel Dvo??ák wrote: Hi all, out of curiosity, which CPUTYPE setting is appropriate for dual Manchester core Athlon 64 X2 3800+ processor with FreeBSD 6.2 (GCC 3.4.4) ? Googling throws up nothing useful. Dan Try

Re: samba3 compile failure

2007-03-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mar 23, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Vizion wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:29 AM To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: samba3 compile failure On

Re: Reinstalling 'vlc-devel'

2007-03-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
White Hat wrote: A few days ago, there was a warning in the '/usr/ports/UPDATING' file regarding removing '/multimedia/vlc' prior to updating. Anyway, I had 'vlc-devel' installed; however, I deleted it anyway to be safe. I now assume that I can simply reinstall the port via: make install make

Re: samba3 compile failure

2007-03-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
Vizion wrote: I am trying to compile samba... Is the cause something up with my kerberos installation (see errors below)? If so I do not know how to fix it :-( If not what and how can I fix it?? Is any more information needed to help identify the cause of the compile failure? Thanks in

Re: Reinstalling 'vlc-devel'

2007-03-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: White Hat wrote: A few days ago, there was a warning in the '/usr/ports/UPDATING' file regarding removing '/multimedia/vlc' prior to updating. Anyway, I had 'vlc-devel' installed; however, I deleted it anyway to be safe. I now assume that I can simply reinstall the port

Re: Upgrade from 4.x - 6.2: Old file systems?

2007-03-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mar 23, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:36:21AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Brett Glass wrote: I have a server which I am considering upgrading from 4.11 to 6.2. Besides the operating system disk (which contains all of the

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