Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-19 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. június 19. 19:41 napon Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com írta: There have been some excellent responses, and I just wanted to add a quick point: Virtual machines with VirtualBox work very well and avoid the problem of trying to make compatible partition layouts. Enable sshd on

FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I have a question regarding FreeBSD slices/partitions. I have a disk with linux partitions with the following layout: /dev/sda1 / /dev/sda2 /home /dev/sda3 /usr/local /dev/sda5 swap /dev/sda6 /home/user1 /dev/sda7 /home/user2 etc. sda1, sda2, and sda3 are primary partitions, sda5 and

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. június 18. 19:49 napon Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com írta: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: ... How can I do this in FreeBSD? Can I have slices with only one partition occupying the whole slice? Can I do something like the following

Re: configure recursively and build question

2013-03-20 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. március 19. 23:32 napon kalth...@googlemail.com írta: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:45:07PM +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello: As there are no compiled FreeBSD 9.1 packages for pkg_tools I decided to build them. Last I started to build kde3. First I issued make configure-recursive

Re: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1

2013-03-20 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. március 19. 17:12 napon Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com írta: On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 16:59 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: I tried google search but w and who are not good search terms. Indeed, it for sure isn't easy, but did you try with quotes and other options? http

Re: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1

2013-03-20 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. március 19. 17:03 napon Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org írta: On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Istvan Gabor typed: Hello: I have both FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 on two different computers. w and who commands do not list logged in users in any of them (either for root

Re: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1

2013-03-20 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. március 19. 18:44 napon Nikos Vassiliadis nv...@gmx.com írta: On 19/3/2013 6:03 μμ, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Istvan Gabor typed: Hello: I have both FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 on two different computers. w and who commands do not list logged

getopt port in FreeBSD-9.1

2013-03-20 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I would like to install firefox-esr-i18n port but is stops at getopt install. I tried to install getopt port but it gives: root@:/usr/ports/misc/getopt # make install clean === Extracting for getopt-1.1.5 = SHA256 Checksum mismatch for getopt-1.1.5.tar.gz. === Refetch for 1 more times

w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1

2013-03-19 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I have both FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 on two different computers. w and who commands do not list logged in users in any of them (either for root or a regular user). The output of w is: root@:/root # w 4:56PM up 10 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.18, 0.26, 0.20 USER TTY FROM

Re: configure recursively and build question

2013-03-14 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. március 12. 21:17 napon Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org írta: Thank you for answering. Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu writes: As there are no compiled FreeBSD 9.1 packages for pkg_tools I decided to build them. Last I started to build kde3. First I issued

linux program with kernel module

2013-03-14 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: This might be a silly question but I would like to be sure. FreeBSD can run linux programs with its linux compatibility module (linuxulator). Can it run linux programs that have their own (linux) kernel module? If yes, how can I install such program, and how can I load the kernel module?

configure recursively and build question

2013-03-12 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: As there are no compiled FreeBSD 9.1 packages for pkg_tools I decided to build them. Last I started to build kde3. First I issued make configure-recursive in /usr/ports/x11/kde3, then make install clean, and left the computer for overnight to work. I expected a successful build by the

Re: How to connect to VPN

2013-03-07 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. március 5. 23:44 napon Любомир Григоров nm.kn...@gmail.com írta: I have been trying to find a way to connect to a PPTP or L2TP VPN for over a year now. There is no GUI client that I know of and any text configuration I try with pptpclient fails. How can I connect to a VPN, the fast

kde3 maintainer contact

2013-03-07 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I have a few specific questions regarding kde3 in freebsd. As there is no freebsd kde3 list I would like to ask my questions directly from port maintainer(s). Do you know how can I contact them? Thanks, Istvan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD update

2012-10-09 Thread Istvan Gabor
2012. október 8. 17:35 napon Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net írta: On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:52:24 +0200 Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: As I remember correctly during the fetch I saw a message that the current patch level is p4. After rebooting the computer uname gives p3

FreeBSD update

2012-10-08 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I updated FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE (FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386) using freebsd-update fetch and freebsd-update install commands. As I remember correctly during the fetch I saw a message

proxy setup

2012-10-08 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: My FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE system is behind a institutional firewall. Obviously I can not change any settings of this firewall. After installing FreeBSD and not setting any proxy servers I could install packages using pkg_add -r command. But when I tried to update the system freebsd-update

stop and start X server in FreeBSD 9.0

2012-10-02 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I configured FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE with X starting automatically at boot. I use kdm3 login manager, and it works. I would like to make changes to xorg.conf and test the effects. How can I stop X in a terminal temporarily? If I kill kdm it is restarted immediately. In openSUSE I could do this

Re: stop and start X server in FreeBSD 9.0

2012-10-02 Thread Istvan Gabor
Polytropon, Mike, Thank for your answers. 2012. október 2. 17:29 napon Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk írta: On Tuesday 02 October 2012 14:49:54 Polytropon wrote: For the desired test scenario, I'd suggest to disable KDE (kdm) startup in /etc/rc.conf, and finally stop the

filter this folder extension in FreeBSD kde3 konqueror

2012-10-01 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: As I could not find a kde3 specific freebsd list I am asking the question here. How can I make filter this folder extension work in kde 3 konqueror as the image at the link shows? http://i48.tinypic.com/5x5t2s.jpg I have FreeBSD 9.0-REELEASE with the following kdeaddons packages:

Re: older version of programs in freebsd

2012-09-30 Thread Istvan Gabor
2012. szeptember 29. 13:16 napon Polytropon free...@edvax.de írta: On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:48:49 +0200, Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello: ... But I would like to use/keep with libreoffice 3.4 (since I don't like the interface changes they made in version 3.5 and 3.6). How can I do

older version of programs in freebsd

2012-09-29 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I am a freebsd beginner. As I understood correctly there is only one ports tree which contains the most up to date (and stable) versions of programs. And there are compiled packages for the different releases, which reflect the version at the time of the release. For example the ports

Re: kinternet alternative in FreeBSD

2012-09-14 Thread Istvan Gabor
2012. szeptember 11. 15:26 napon Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de írta: El día Tuesday, September 11, 2012 a las 02:56:07PM +0200, Polytropon escribió: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:15:50 +0200, suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: Hello FreeBSD users: I am new to FreeBSD. I've been using openSUSE

Re: kinternet alternative in FreeBSD

2012-09-14 Thread Istvan Gabor
2012. szeptember 11. 15:26 napon Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de írta: El día Tuesday, September 11, 2012 a las 02:56:07PM +0200, Polytropon escribió: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:15:50 +0200, suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: Hello FreeBSD users: I am new to FreeBSD. I've been using openSUSE