Daniel C. Dowse writes:
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:11:53 + at
Glyn Millington g...@millingtons.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Good Morning :-)
A quick question for anyone running VirtualBox on a FreeBSD _host_
machine, with Linux or Windows as a _guest_ OS.
Does it work
Good Morning :-)
A quick question for anyone running VirtualBox on a FreeBSD _host_
machine, with Linux or Windows as a _guest_ OS.
Does it work?
That is, do the guest additions work fully for those guests, or are
there limitations such those I experience currently when running
FreeBSD 8
Manolis Kiagias writes:
Hey all,
I have just completed the second 8.0-RELEASE based build of the 'Custom
releases' project hosted here:
http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com
Nice!! Many many thanks.
atb
Glyn
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Matthias Apitz writes:
Hello Glyn,
I have read the above page during my configuration but it does not
explain to me which user must be configured in U: value; Is it me? Or is it
the userID the sendmail daemon is running as? It works with U:root,
but what does this mean exactly?
Matthias Apitz writes:
Hello,
Because I was forced by my ISP to do so, I have configured successfully
as described in the FBSD docs the sendmail with SMTP AUTH;
one question remains: the required file /etc/mail/auth/client-info has
the line:
AuthInfo:smtp.1blu.de U:root
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes:
When Bill G. arrives at the pearly gate, ol' Pete won't ask
him what he did do, instead send him to MICROS~1 C:\HELL.EXE
with the advice to click on the devil to start the everlasting
pain. :-)
Brilliant!!
atb
Glyn
Patrick Reich rei...@austin.rr.com writes:
One thing to add here is that the ports tree remains tied to
teTeX. If you install TexLive (either from DVD or Romain's)
and then install a port like texmacs, lyx, texmaker, or auctex
to edit your files, you'll pull in teTeX as a dependency. You
bf bf20...@yahoo.com writes:
Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done.
Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly not trivial! But actually
installing it as free-standing software is not too hard.
Get it from
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl writes:
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
bf bf20...@yahoo.com writes:
Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done.
Well *porting* TeX
Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net writes:
I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a
number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or
FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption
that printing from the machine is possible. I'm
Sorry - meant to add this to post
Take a look here:-
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-OfficeJet_4110
A free driver is available, rather than the windows .dll
Good luck :-)
atb
Glyn
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Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes:
is there any way t o not upgrade all installed ports, but only
those that are not current?
tired of having my main box grinding away for endless days
portupgrade -akOP does the trick here.
The time taken depends in large part on
gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com writes:
Hi all:
I am rebuilding those ports and run into some problems. one of those
is:
checking for XINPUT... configure: error: Package requirements (x11 xext
xi = 1.2 inputproto = 1.5) were not met:
Requested 'xi = 1.2' but version of Xi is 1.1.3
searching for
Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu writes:
But, we can _gently_ (it hasn't always been so gentle) teach
newbies that the list is meant for something higher than just
repeatedly ragging on why isn't FreeBSD more like MS or RHEL
or whatever.
Or even why isn't FreeBSD more like FreeBSD used to
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is there a push button way of turning an odt file or plain ascii file
into HTML using openoffice?
i've googled, but haven't found anything.
In OO 3
File-Export-File Format - html/xhtml
hth
Glyn
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:06:48PM +, Glyn Millington wrote:
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is there a push button way of turning an odt file or plain ascii file
into HTML using openoffice?
i've googled, but haven't found
Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
* Having five gazillion posts that say me too, is not exactly a
productive answer to a problem. Alas, this is often what you get
when you gather hundreds of _very_ inexperienced people and you hand
them a web
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:00:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:58 +0100, peter wrote:
Dear sirs
please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from
windows vista
but i cannot
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it's SLOW and resource hungry - giving nothing else than a good
look. that's why i compare it to windoze.
and why you need desktop (whatever it means) at all?
just window manager is enough, try fvwm2 maybe icewm maybe other etc.
all of them does
Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 10/30/08, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Hello. I am trying to get an AboveCable (model: ACPC 2000-01) wireless
card connected to my home network with 40-bit Hex WEP Encryption on
FreeBSD 6.1.
Mikhail Teterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sent by Glyn Millington:
My solution was to install Wine and run the MS port of Firefox. So far
it works flawlessly for me.
This has two problems:
1. It requires a (licensed) Windows install handy.
No it doesn't. The MS version of Firefox
Hi there FBSD1
I note that your system has twice sent a copy of my post, unaltered, in
the thread Flash 9,10 FreeBSD to the freebsd-questions list!
Is there something wrong ?
atb
Glyn
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Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi there FBSD1
I note that your system has twice sent a copy of my post, unaltered, in
the thread Flash 9,10 FreeBSD to the freebsd-questions list!
Is there something wrong ?
Apologies Joeb, I see now that you did in fact append a question
FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mikhail Teterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sent by Glyn Millington:
My solution was to install Wine and run the MS port of Firefox. So far
it works flawlessly for me.
This has two problems:
1. It requires a (licensed) Windows install handy
Dánielisz László [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello!
I also had some fight with Adobe's Flash player, but unfortunately without
success.
I remaing curios about any solution.
Szia!
To be honest I gave up with Flash for either the FreeBSD or Linux version
of Firefox. Couldn't get it to work
Colin Brace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I use portsnap to keep the port tree of my FreeBSD 7 box up to date.
According to portaudit, which I run nightly, there is a problem with the
current version of libxml2. So, as usual, I run sudo portsnap fetch
sudo portsnap update, and then:
Happy St. Callistus' Day!
FreeBSD 7 release.
I'm having trouble upgrading cups-base. With an up-to-date ports tree
this is what I get.
,
| glynthebearded# portupgrade cups-base
| --- Upgrading 'cups-base-1.3.5_2' to 'cups-base-1.3.8_1' (print/cups-base)
| --- Building
Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Glyn Millington wrote:
| Is there a work-around which will get me a functional cups-base
First read
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/ce29ce1d-971a-11dd-ab7e-001c2514716c.html
and the references cited therein and decide if installing this package
Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Im looking for a GUI or command line that will allow me to extract
information
within an ISO file... im using FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE KDE4.1.1 AMD64
well, you can mount it and then search around inside ..
mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t
Joey Mingrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been told that LaTeX is probably the best solution for creating
scientific papers with math fonts, so I'm trying to get a working
installation.
A noble ambition!
fonts, but it seems they are in the teTex port, but that port
conflicts with the
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This seems to be a common misperception about ports. Ports aren't
something magical. They do exactly what you would do from the
commandline (i.e. ./configure, make, make install), except they come
with several bonuses.
1) The port maintainer has
Sébastien Morand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is the uscanner0 device also dealt with in /etc/devfs.rules ?
I don't have such a file, is devd.conf the same purpose?
No it isn't.
/etc/devfs.conf deals with devices avaiable at boot time - cdrom drives
etc
devices that are plugged in and
Sébastien Morand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
a would like to up my scanner automatically ofr regular user, so I
create theses lines in devfs.conf:
link uscanner0 scanner
perm uscanner0 0660
own uscanner0 root:scanner
I create the group scanner and add the user in
Montag [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've got Postfix SMTP server set up on a FreeBSD 7 box. I'm receiving
mail just fine, and I can send mail to my other web accounts (gmail),
but my mail is getting rejected from the mailing lists. Here is the
output from the local mail queue:
host
Nishita Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
I am having a very strange problem. I just finished installing
Xfce-4.4 and got it to work with XDM. But all xfce native applications
are behaving very strangely:
1. The terminal doesn't echo back my characters till I've typed the
next
Nishita Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log - any interesting error messages?
Nishita Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nothing I can spot.
Okay, I didn't see this earlier.
[drm
John Wynstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And glib2 is part of Gnome?
I never installed Gnome because I don't like Gnome.
I tried to manually install /usr/ports/devel/gio-fam-backend and got
the same error.
Perhaps I need to get Gnome off the installation CDROM.
I really only need the library
John Wynstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now what is -lgio-2.0? and why is it missing?
What tools do I have for debugging this?
Well, I'm pretty new to this too, but you almost certainly have grep.
So you could
$cd /usr/ports
$grep -R lgio-2.0 *
Depending on where in the ports tree it
John Wynstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I applied this fix, it worked for the previous problem and I came to
the next one.
The story of my life :-)
I am getting the impression this is very filthy code.
Couldn't possibly comment!
Not sure I can help directly with this one but ..
1. Is
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry Kris, I was in part plain wrong in my first reply to this one.
Linking /compat/linux/usr/X11R6 to /compat/linux/usr/local fixed my
initial problem
| /usr/compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin:
| error while loading shared
FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error message
,
| /usr/compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin: error while
| loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6: ELF file OS ABI
| invalid
`
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Glyn Millington wrote:
FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error message
,
| /usr/compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin: error while
| loading shared
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Glyn Millington wrote:
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Glyn Millington wrote:
FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error message
,
| /usr/compat/linux/opt
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(via rc.conf)
Is it possible to use libmap.conf to persuade a Linbux binary to use a
Linux library, or is that not the way to go?
compile openoffice from ports. it works fine - natively.
Thanks - yes it does, but it means tying up this by no means
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
system for a couple of days while it builds. The Linux version was
less than 16h on 1200Mhz CPU.
LOL - maybe I exaggerated :-) But this one has a 900Mhz CPU, and this is
the fastest I have available.
atb
Glyn
Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 14:05:43 Glyn Millington wrote:
Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error
message ,
| /usr/compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin: error
| while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib
Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:14:54 Glyn Millington wrote:
FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error message
,
| /usr/compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin
Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 15:48:58 Glyn Millington wrote:
Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 14:05:43 Glyn Millington wrote:
Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error
message ,
| /usr/compat/linux/opt
Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:14:54 Glyn Millington wrote:
FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error message
,
| /usr/compat
Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 16:50:51 Glyn Millington wrote:
Linking /compat/linux/usr/X11R6 to /compat/linux/usr/local got
Openoffice running but reaplay is giving the same kind of error :-(
Which error exactly?
This baby (sorry - should have included
Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 16:34:11 Glyn Millington wrote:
Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:14:54 Glyn Millington wrote:
FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 15:48:58 Glyn Millington wrote:
Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 14:05:43 Glyn Millington wrote:
Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error
message ,
| /usr/compat/linux
Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 17:49:02 Glyn Millington wrote:
Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 16:50:51 Glyn Millington wrote:
Linking /compat/linux/usr/X11R6 to /compat/linux/usr/local got
Openoffice running but reaplay
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 15:48:58 Glyn Millington wrote:
Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 14:05:43 Glyn Millington wrote:
Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error
message ,
| /usr/compat/linux
Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 13 May 2008 09:14:54 +0100 Glyn Millington wrote:
FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date
Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error message
,
| /usr/compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin
Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 13 May 2008 19:16:51 +0100 Glyn Millington wrote:
% echo ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/share/squeak/3.7-7
The culprit is the first path. It results in non-standard linux
path-finding. If you remove it all _linux_ troubles
Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ah! (bangs head against wall!) Yes I do:-
in ~/.bashrc
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/share/squeak/3.7-7
Having removed that realplayer comes up with no problem.
Should have spotted that one :-(
So many thanks for
Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry Kris, I was in part plain wrong in my first reply to this one.
Linking /compat/linux/usr/X11R6 to /compat/linux/usr/local fixed my
initial problem
| /usr/compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin:
| error while loading shared
Ruel Luchavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I already try it but the server reply me an error:
Error: FTP Unable to get
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/
xorg.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch
Greetings!
For the sake of a continuing happy marriage ! I really need to install
OPenOffice 2 on a machine at home - soon to be running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386)
:-) I can't build the port because the hard drive is too small - just
enough spare space for the compiling.
Is it possible to do this
Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just try to pkg_add it. OO doesn't require Java to run,
only to build.
Brilliant!! This (about Java) was what I needed to know.
There are some run-dependencies, you can see them here:
http://www.freshports.org/editors/openoffice.org-2.0/
Sorry -
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'll give xfce a try. Again. I played with it months ago
but gave up on it after a few days. Can I run all KDE-ware
and Gnome suites too?
Hi Gary,
I'm running Xfce4 over here on Slackware, and there are no problems
firing up KDE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
OK I have installed the font server etc -- all I need are some
TrueTypefonts to put in the TT directory. Does anyone know:
1.where can I get them.
2. How I can convert my TT fonts on my ms$ system to TT for freebsd.
1. Have a look in /usr/ports/x11-fonts
jason henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Glyn Millington wrote:
Greetings!
I'm a newcomer to FreeBSD, an immigrant from the wonderful world of
Slackware Linux. Finished installing on Sunday!
I wanted to make sure the system was up to date with regard to security
fixes etc so used cvsup
Greetings!
I'm a newcomer to FreeBSD, an immigrant from the wonderful world of
Slackware Linux. Finished installing on Sunday!
I wanted to make sure the system was up to date with regard to security
fixes etc so used cvsup to upgrade source and re-built the kernel - it
all went like a dream -
Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Glyn Millington wrote:
That is fine, but at the point when 5.4 becomes the production release, I
would like simply to track that for security fixes etc rather than follow
the stable developement branch.
Can I acheive that simply by putting
*default
Anthony M. Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Interrupt storm detected on irq7: lpt0; throttling interrupt source
1. Back up /boot/device.hints
2. In device hints add a line
hint.ppc.0.flags=0x20
AFTER the line which says
hint.ppc.0.irq=7
3. save and reboot
hth
Glyn
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:36:32AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
Anthony M. Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Interrupt storm detected on irq7: lpt0; throttling interrupt source
1. Back up /boot/device.hints
2. In device hints add a line
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can you point me to the docs for this? I'm very new to FreeBSD finished
install with this printing problem yesterday!
The flags for the ppc driver are documented in the ppc(4) manual
page. Just run 'man ppc' from the console or an xterm to view it.
Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
so if i understand it corectly the hole mail thingie is based on
-a mail client (mutt)
-a mail sender (sendmail)
-a mail storage (postfix)
-a mail receiver (fetchmail)
As Chris said, not quite.
The place to _begin_ on all this is is the Handbook
Doug Paquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Group,
Sorry to have to ask this question here, but does
anyone have the address to where I unsubscribe to the
various free bsd mailing lists?
Thanks
Doug
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Matt Rechkemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone else out there running Postfix, seeing this in their syslogs?
postfix/master[83222]: warning: master_status_event: partial status (4 bytes)
postfix/master[83222]: warning: master_status_event: partial status (4 bytes)
It seems to occur during
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