Re: disable cntl+alt+del function

2007-01-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 18 January 2007 16:55, Sean Murphy wrote: > cntl+alt+del at the console without being logged in reboots the server. > The server runs through its shutdown procedure and reboots. How do I > disable this function? Add this to your kernel config file: options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT JN ___

Re: Reread rc.conf....

2007-01-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 16:23, Guido Demmenie wrote: > A little bit offtopic: > Only /etc/rc.d/mountd won't stop mountd on my 6.0 system. But to > restart my nfsd I use the next commands > > #killall mountd > #/etc/rc.d/nfsd restart > > This usualy works to restart and reread my /etc/export fi

Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:37, Firas Kraiem wrote: > Hi to all of you ! > > The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install > seems to run without problems but when I try to run it, no joy. If I try to > run it from a terminal, I just get thrown back to the prompt withou

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 07:56, Christian Baer wrote: > Greetings fellow computer haters! :-) > > As I have already written on the STABLE mailing list, I can't seem to > get Firefox to start on my Sun U60. Thunderbird works fine (as far as I > can tell after two days), but Firefox just exits inst

Re: FreeBSD 6.2, rebuild the system with CPUTYPE=prescott?

2007-01-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 15 January 2007 14:42, Daniel Tourde wrote: > Hello, > > Let me present myself: > - I am an advanced user of Gentoo Linux. I know quiet a lot about that > system and about how to optimize it to fit the hardware the best possible > way. - I am a casual FreeBSD user. I like it a lot though,

Re: advice on compiling a new kernel & upgrading to the latest sources

2007-01-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 14 January 2007 15:44, kbtrace wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2007-01-14 11:56, Dino Vliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2. Cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf which contains the file MYKERNEL > > > > No it doesn't. CVSup will delete the files it doesn't know about, so > > you should

Re: CUPS +

2007-01-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 12 January 2007 12:53, César Amaya wrote: > Hi list, have you ever installed cups + samba for a print server? That > is what I am trying to do, the print server box set up is as the following: > > - FreeBSD 6.1 release > - cups-1.2 > - samba 3 > - hpijs-2.1.4 > - foomatic-db-20061214 > -

Re: startup script for poppassd

2007-01-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:26, Joe Auty wrote: > Does anybody have a startup script or experience with how to get the > poppassd port to listen on port 106? You run it from inetd, so all you have to do is add a line to /etc/inetd.conf (and enable inetd if it isn't already). There are example

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 08 January 2007 14:52, DAve wrote: > We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I > have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI > without much success. > > We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more in the > queue/on

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 12:34, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > > Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I have a new system with NO FLOPPY CONTROLLER and a 3ware 9550 card. > >> It's a 1u system -- sticking extra things into

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 14:18, John Nielsen wrote: > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 12:34, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > > > Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > >> Hey all, > > >> > > >&g

Re: The moving-your-system FAQ: Anything else I should know?

2006-12-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 17 December 2006 18:16, Oliver Iberien wrote: > I'm about to move my system, I've read the FAQ, I don't want to rearrange > anything. I want to make sure I have the process down correctly before I > try, so I am asking here. I am using 6.0 #2. > > First, I hook up both drives. I partition

Re: Setting up RAID-1 on 2 unequal disks

2006-12-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 11 December 2006 03:47, Foo JH wrote: > Hi all, > > I unfortunately have 2 uneuqally sized SATA disks to set up a mirrored > shared folder: 80GB and 120GB. On the 120GB I plan to set up this way: > > /temp2GB (double the system memory) > /shared80GB > / 38GB > >

Re: How to install the same port twice but at different locations?

2006-12-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 08 December 2006 15:57, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: > Lane a écrit : > > On Friday 08 December 2006 13:58, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Subject says it all. I would like to install the package phpMyAdmin on > >> two different locations on my server. Is this doable? I

Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)

2006-12-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 08 December 2006 07:12, Vince Hoffman wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, å¼ é~_¡æ­¦ wrote: > > Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great > > firewall of China: > > > > 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; > > 2) I run this command on my desktop: > > $

Re: Xorg 7.2 ante portas

2006-12-06 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 12:42, O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello. > Xorg 7.2 is about to be released - with nice new features an, more > important, bugfixes, upgraded drivers etc. > Are there any plans of supporting this version via the ports collection? Yes. See the freebsd-x11 mailing list archiv

Re: wifi & dhcp

2006-12-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:21, Steve Franks wrote: > Ok, we're losin our minds here. Me and a friend just bought up no less > than 4 boxes (server, 2 laptops, and a net-device) in about 2 weeks on > stable 6.1. My first foray into bsd since '95, and I'm way-pleased. > One little problem: every

Re: Realtek (re(4)) Driver in 6.1

2006-12-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 04 December 2006 13:54, Jon Drukman wrote: > I'm about to install 6.1 on a machine that's been happily ticking away > with 4.1.1 for years now. (I need to upgrade it to gigabit ethernet.) > > Does the default kernel on the 6.1-R installation CD include the realtek > re(4) driver? Yes.

Re: DVD Movies

2006-12-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:49, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 12/2/06, Graham Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to play a DVD without loading X ? > > Apparently, yes > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_MPlayer_on_Framebuffer I think most of those framebuffer options are Linux

Re: Using Screen

2006-11-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:43, John Nielsen wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:35, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2006-11-29 12:22, Dan Sikorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey, I have a good question for you guys. > > > > > > Lets say,

Re: Using Screen

2006-11-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:35, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-11-29 12:22, Dan Sikorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, I have a good question for you guys. > > > > Lets say, I started a job on a computer, if you must know, portmanager > > -u , and then left... but I know its sitting

Re: FreeBSD VPS providers

2006-11-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 10:41, Eric wrote: > I am looking to move a website i run from its current provider (linux > based shared box) to a VPS solution. I have been doing some searching > via google and the mailing list and so far have found > > http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html > > wh

Re: Fixing OpenOffice

2006-11-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 06:26, Gerard Seibert wrote: > Using: > > /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL= > > produces this: > > openoffice.org-2.0.3! Comparison failed > > I was told this is because OpenOffice has moved in the 'ports tree'. My > question is other than reinsta

Re: now it's openoffice.org-2

2006-11-27 Thread John Nielsen
Both of the applications you've mentioned problems with use GTK and other GNOME-related libraries. About a month ago the default location for gnome libraries was switched from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local in conjunction with a GNOME update and presumably in an effort to modernize/standardize the fil

Re: question on virtusertable - sendmail

2006-11-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 24 November 2006 15:18, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-11-24 15:04, David Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> @domain.combounce > >> > >> You can define "bounce" in /etc/mail/aliases, or just leave it > >> undefined (since it will probably bounce anyway). > > > >

Re: question on virtusertable - sendmail

2006-11-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 24 November 2006 15:04, David Banning wrote: > > @domain.com bounce > > > > You can define "bounce" in /etc/mail/aliases, or just leave it > > undefined (since it will probably bounce anyway). > > I am looking at my /etc/mail/aliases > > how would I define bounce? > > I know I cou

Re: question on virtusertable - sendmail

2006-11-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 24 November 2006 14:39, David Banning wrote: > I have several times where I have no user setup in virtusertable but > the mail is still delivered to the user. If I delete the user > then the mail bounces - I want to keep the user and still have > the mail bounce - how would I do that? Cr

Re: creating a "broken" graid3 array?

2006-11-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:00, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 11/23/06, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to create a (degraded) graid3 array > > Maybe you'll be able to create graid3 with md0 as > the third member (based on sparse file for

Re: creating a "broken" graid3 array?

2006-11-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 23 November 2006 17:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > is the loss of your data worth less than the cost of an extra hd? if > > so, buy another hd. if not, make a clean install? > > should read: > is the cost of an extra hd less than the value of your data/install? if > so, buy anothe

creating a "broken" graid3 array?

2006-11-23 Thread John Nielsen
Is it possible to create a (degraded) graid3 array with only two (or one less than the planned total) providers? I'm asking since I would like to move from my current one-disk setup to a three-disk raid3 array, but I'd like the disk currently in use to be a member of the array and I don't have

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:47, Christian Walther wrote: > On 15/11/06, Armin Arh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to recompile all of the xfce4 stuff. > > > > Is the ports system offering a solution here? > > maybe something like: > > > > make reinstall IF CATEGORIES IS xfce4 > > h

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:42, Armin Arh wrote: > I would like to recompile all of the xfce4 stuff. > > Is the ports system offering a solution here? > maybe something like: > > make reinstall IF CATEGORIES IS xfce4 If you use portupgrade, you should be able to do something like: # portupgr

Re: gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...)

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:40, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:58, John Nielsen wrote: > > It is possible to convert "regular" devices into gmirror members after > > they have data on them, but unless you're extremely careful there

Re: desktop for bsd

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 08:05, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:28:58AM -0800, Marshall wrote: > > hi, > > I was on the freesbie site and it is a live cd > > version, but i'd like to have a full version, with > > XFCE, is this already in freebsd? I'd like to have it > > as

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 02:54, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 18:13, Scott Schappell wrote: > > The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long > > enough. > > > > What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive > > amount o

dhcpd with wi and base system dhclient stopped working

2006-11-13 Thread John Nielsen
I have a FreeBSD 6.x machine with an ath interface that serves as a wireless access point, dhcp server, router and gateway for my network. I have a FreeBSD 6.x laptop with an older wi interface that until recently was working just fine, using the base system dhclient. However, the other day whe

Re: ftp over ssh

2006-11-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 14:12, John Nielsen wrote: > On Wednesday 08 November 2006 04:45, Gorobets Igor wrote: > > Hello. How correctly to adjust this miracle? :-) > > Assuming you have a server that is running sshd (on all interfaces) and > ftpd (only on the

Re: ftp over ssh

2006-11-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 04:45, Gorobets Igor wrote: > Hello. How correctly to adjust this miracle? :-) Assuming you have a server that is running sshd (on all interfaces) and ftpd (only on the loopback interface): ftpclient# ssh -fnN -l 20:localhost:20 -L 21:localhost:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compatible SATA controllers?

2006-11-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 22:20, Gene Dinkey wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 Release and am looking for a compatible 32bit PCI > SATA controller. I don't need, and can't afford, a hardware RAID solution > so I'm planing on building my storage on vinum. I checked > http://www.freebsd.org/rele

Re: ethernet port bondage

2006-11-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 15:52, Kenny Dail wrote: > I'm running 6.1 Release, and I've been looking for information on how to > bond multiple ethernet adaptors in one box so that if one card or > connection fails or is disconnected I still have network connectivity. Have a look at carp(4). It'

Re: qemu networking help with windows98

2006-10-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 29 October 2006 12:06, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: > [I've searched for the answers, but have come up empty] > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE and Qemu 0.8.2_2. > > I've gotten Windows 98 running inside of the emulator, but I'm having > trouble getting the network to work. > > Ba

Re: Freebsd Access Point

2006-10-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:23, Erik Richards wrote: > This is my first submission to a freebsd mailing list so please bare with > me. I am relatively new to Freebsd but I have so far set up a box at home > acting as a gateway, firewall, and webserver with php and I'm really loving > this OS (m

Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system?

2006-10-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 05 October 2006 07:25, albi wrote: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:14 +0200 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the > > wheel group during the add users portion of the installation. For > > some reason I have not put a finger on

Re: no specifc dhcpd port found

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 17:53, John Nielsen wrote: > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 17:46, Noah wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I am unable to find the dhcpd port in /usr/ports > > > > where should I be looking? > > net/isc-dhcpd and friends. Sorry

Re: no specifc dhcpd port found

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 17:46, Noah wrote: > Hi there, > > I am unable to find the dhcpd port in /usr/ports > > where should I be looking? net/isc-dhcpd and friends. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: cheapskate webmail interface

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 12:54, Desmond Coughlan wrote: > Now we just need forums and webmail. The latter will be > http://www.phpbb.com/ but for webmail, we're having difficulty finding a > free solution. ismail won't install from the ports, and other than that, > everything I've found look

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 10:48, Jeff Dickens wrote: > John Nielsen wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote: > >> I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like > >> to configure their kernels so as to min

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote: > I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like > to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware > host system. After reading and partially digesting the white paper on > timekeeping in VMware

Re: Swap Size Importance?

2006-09-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 29 September 2006 11:52, Chris wrote: > As a standard practice, I've always configured swap file to be double > the size of real ram split across system and data disk. For example, > 8gb on da0 and 8gb on da1 if the system has 8g real ram. In practice, > In 7 or 8 years, I've never seen s

Re: Question!

2006-09-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 29 September 2006 05:13, Дмитрий Ефремов wrote: > Hello! I have one question. I had installed Free BSD 6.1 and i use GNOME.My > monitor is Philips 107p5 and i want to have 100 Hz at 1024x768. I wrote the > characteristics of my monitor to xorg.conf,but it doesn't switch to 100 Hz, > only

Re: Raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions

2006-09-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 28 September 2006 19:43, Damian Wiest wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:35:10PM +, m3 BSD wrote: > > Hi, i would like to do a raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions > > and not with a entire disk. For example: I've a two SCSI drivers with > > 68Gb. I want to make a two parti

Re: moused insists on starting

2006-09-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:08, Bill Moran wrote: > 6.1. Moused starts on boot, and issuing /etc/rc.d/moused stop has > not effect. My /etc/rc.conf has the line: > moused_enable="NO" > yet the damn thing starts. Assuming you have a USB mouse, this is controlled by /etc/devd.conf (or /etc/u

Re: Resizing Partitions, Losing Windows XP...

2006-09-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 22 September 2006 14:23, Jeff Cross wrote: > I have been dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP for quite sometime. > However, I never boot into Windows XP any longer. I can pretty much do > everything I need to do from within FreeBSD. Is there a way that I can > wipe out the Windows XP pa

Re: geom - help ...

2006-09-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 21 September 2006 01:37, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > So, again, if I'm reading through things correctly, I'll have to do > > something like: > > > > gstripe st1 da1 da2 > > gstripe st2 da3 da4 > > gmirror drive st1 st2 > > newfs drive > > That's the wrong way rou

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 21 September 2006 06:15, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Robin Becker wrote: > > Dave wrote: > >> Hi, > >>I've got smartd going on a gmirror system, however when smartd > >> starts up it says it can't find the various drives. I've tried both > >> the autodetection line as well as specifying t

Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure

2006-09-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 16 September 2006 12:38, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: > At Sat, 16 Sep 2006 it looks like Viswas Nair composed: > > I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. > > Just go to any website using flash and opera will ask you to download the > > plugin and automatical

Re: got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

2006-08-27 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: i just brought home new samsung 22" widescreen LCD. so far, i cannot get xorg to take anything other than standard CRT type resolutions, such as 1280x1024. the first part, seems to be the normal video modes that i would expect to see from an i810 g

Re: Which version of Flash to use

2006-08-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 24 August 2006 14:29, Gerard Seibert wrote: > FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE > > Using 'Firefox 1.5.0.6,1' is there any version of flash that I can > install that will work with it. I cannot seem to get anyone of them to > work with it when running from with KDE. It makes it rather difficult to >

Re: FreeBSD on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread John Nielsen
When running sysinstall from the FreeBSD CD the debug screen is at Alt-F2. JN On Tuesday 22 August 2006 12:02, Derek Ragona wrote: > The debug screen should not be blank, in addition to this error message you > will see all the output from the install up to that point. > > If this is a new instal

Re: How do I access external USB fat32 160 GB drive?

2006-08-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 18 August 2006 13:40, Bobby Knight wrote: > When I try to mount the drive with mount_msdos it tells me the filsystem > is to big. The drive consists av a single fat32 partition. > > Windows can access it so it must be possible in FreeBSD too. I read about > recompiling the kernel with

Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 08:12, Igor Robul wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:19:05AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > None of the pre-v3.x clients can talk to the v3.x server, since the DB > > format has totally changed, so everyone needs to grab the latest version > > and run it so that we ca

Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 14 August 2006 09:19, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Over the past few days, I've been working with Paul Schmehl and Matthew > Seaman to come up with a more "security sensitive" version of BSDstats ... > one that reduces the amount of "sensitive information" stored in the > database down to ..

Re: Accessing FreeBSD partition from Windows with dual boot

2006-08-10 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 10 August 2006 09:22, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > Martin Miedema wrote: > > I'm looking for a way to access (read only is fine) a FreeBSD partition > > on my Windows installation on a dual boot notebook (so Samba won't do > > the trick) > > Maybe this will do: http://ffsdrv.sourcefo

Re: Ndis + Netgear WG311v3 ; Won't attach device correctly

2006-08-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 11:40, Frank Staals wrote: > The only thing changed since the first time I loaded the module was I > copied it to /boot/kernel and I added WG311v3XP_sys_load="YES" to > /boot/loader.conf but those changes shouldn't have effect on not > correctly loading it I think. This

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 05 August 2006 00:21, User Freebsd wrote: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Colin Percival wrote: > > User Freebsd wrote: > >> 'k folks ... the quick and dirty .. actually, not too dirty ... > >> > >> The attached script [...] > > > > Can you make this into a port which users can install? > > I'm n

Re: nppdf.so: undefined symbol "__ctype_b_loc"

2006-08-05 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Hi all, after upgrading firefox and acroread, I got this when I tried to use the plugin, LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so [/usr/X11R6

Re: cups problems

2006-08-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 04 August 2006 14:34, David Johnson wrote: > Like millions of other users, my printing capabilities came to an abrupt > end when I upgraded cups to version 1.2. After weeks of wasting time on > the problem, I'm still not printing. > > I've seen lots of hints and tips on this list and else

Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another

2006-08-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:04, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to David Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server > > to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging > > from one to the other via the windows

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 11:23, Joshua Lewis wrote: >I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished >installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window >manager. > >There are what seems like hundreds of different WM in the ports >collection a

Re: gmirror dual mirrors?

2006-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 09:38, Mark Busby wrote: > New to gmirror so a newb question. I have my computer setup with 4 sata > drives. I am using one for the operating system then one to mirror it. One > has data and I want a mirror of that. When creating the first mirror I > used gm0. Now creatin

Re: Adding another hard drive

2006-07-23 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Rich Demanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm trying to add another hard drive into my system, a 250GB Western Digital 7200RPM SATA drive, and when I have it plugged into the motherboard the system hangs when it gets to: Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1803775604 Hz quality 800 Timecounte

Re: HOWTO wireless please.

2006-07-20 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 20 July 2006 15:30, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 7/20/06, Marwan Sultan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello gurus, > > > > Can someone help me setting up my wireless device on my laptop > > im on 6.1R, I tried to do as instructed on handbook, but no luck. > > My laptop suppose to be the cli

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 14 July 2006 13:39, stan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 11:11:47AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: > > On Friday 14 July 2006 10:37, John Nielsen wrote: > > > On Thursday 13 July 2006 20:24, stan wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:20:56PM -0400, Jo

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 14 July 2006 10:37, John Nielsen wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 20:24, stan wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:20:56PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: > > > On Thursday 13 July 2006 08:34, stan wrote: > > > > i have a Sun Ultra 40 with 4 500F SAT

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 13 July 2006 20:24, stan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:20:56PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: > > On Thursday 13 July 2006 08:34, stan wrote: > > > i have a Sun Ultra 40 with 4 500F SATA drives. I plan on using this > > > machine primarily for a lar

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 13 July 2006 08:34, stan wrote: > i have a Sun Ultra 40 with 4 500F SATA drives. I plan on using this > machine primarily for a large data storage requirement. > > What I want is one large /data partition. Given all the choices for doing > this in FreeBSD (software) what's the "best

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:07, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Nagy László" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Are there any alternative IMAP servers that have good support (e.g. > > working mailing list, up-to-date documentation), and can share IMAP > > folders between users? > > > dovecot -- early stag

Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution)

2006-07-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 08:43, Peter wrote: > --- Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2006-07-10 23:32, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >--- Stubborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> You need to recompile your kernel with below > > >> options VESA > > > > > > Allright,

Re: Creating vinum RAID 1 on place

2006-07-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 July 2006 08:04, John Nielsen wrote: > On Friday 07 July 2006 00:29, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Is there a trick on the way to build a vinum RAID 1 without backup-in > > the data first? > > > > I have the two disk that will get mirrored. One of the disk if

Re: Creating vinum RAID 1 on place

2006-07-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 July 2006 00:29, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Is there a trick on the way to build a vinum RAID 1 without backup-in > the data first? > > I have the two disk that will get mirrored. One of the disk if > formated as UFS 4.2 and already holds all the data. The second disk is > blank. > > Norm

Re: KDE & Text to Speech

2006-07-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 18:03, Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 17:48, Danny Pansters wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 17:12, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > > System Info: > > > FreeBSD seibercom.net 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sat May 13 > > > 19:46:07 EDT 2006 > > > [EMAIL P

Re: CUPS, USB printers & "Permission Denied"

2006-07-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 01 July 2006 12:40, Jan-Espen Pettersen wrote: > > The problem is that read operations on usb printers might just > > block/hang with no data from the printer (?). ulpt doesn't have > > non-blocking I/O, so I've made a patch that simply times out read > > operations, and disables furthe

Re: CUPS, USB printers & "Permission Denied"

2006-06-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 26 June 2006 00:15, Micah wrote: > John Nielsen wrote: > > On Sunday 25 June 2006 20:04, Anthony Agelastos wrote: > >> On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:35 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > >>> On Sunday 25 June 2006 19:28, Anthony Agelastos wrote: > >>>> I up

Re: CUPS, USB printers & "Permission Denied"

2006-06-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 20:04, Anthony Agelastos wrote: > On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:35 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > > On Sunday 25 June 2006 19:28, Anthony Agelastos wrote: > >> I updated CUPS and I cannot print to my USB laser printer. The web > >> in

Re: CUPS, USB printers & "Permission Denied"

2006-06-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 19:28, Anthony Agelastos wrote: > I updated CUPS and I cannot print to my USB laser printer. The web > interface shows the following: > > hp_LaserJet_1160Le (Default Printer) "Unable to open USB device > "usb:/dev/ulpt0": Permission denied" > Description: Hewlett-Packard

Re: from STABLE to RELENG?

2006-06-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 23 June 2006 00:46, Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Thursday 22 June 2006 23:16, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: > > > generally, how risky of an operation is it to change the branch im > > > following > > > (assuming i have a server i

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 08:53, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 6/12/06, Jim Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Heh, FreeBSD is #1 to me because it is the most painless operating > > system I've ever used... > > > > Ignoring the 5.x installer. Never used pre-5.x > > > > -Jim > > What do you mean 5

Re: Correct CPUTYPE= for Intel Celeron 2.50GHz (2500.10-MHz 686-class CPU)

2006-06-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 09 June 2006 11:48, Frank Steinborn wrote: > John Nielsen wrote: > > You probably want: > > CPUTYPE?=pentium4 > > If I put a ? after CPUTYPE, buildworld won't use CPUTYPE, correct? Is > it better to do so, or is it safe to use "CPUTYPE=pentium4"

Re: Correct CPUTYPE= for Intel Celeron 2.50GHz (2500.10-MHz 686-class CPU)

2006-06-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 09 June 2006 09:20, Frank Steinborn wrote: > can someone tell what the right choice for CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf > is for that CPU? You probably want: CPUTYPE?=pentium4 See /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf for a full list. > And, is it safe to build kernel and world with --march= too

Re: burncd error

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:04, Josh Paetzel wrote: > I'm running 6.1-RELEASE > > Trying to burn iso's using burncd gives me an error. > > gimpy# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 48 data i386pkg-3.0.iso fixate > > next writeable LBA 0 > writing from file i386pkg-3.0.iso size 710566 KB > written this track 7

Re: FreeBSD Wireless Access Points with Atheros Cards

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:42, Mark Moellering wrote: > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 8:11 am, Nick Withers wrote: > > G'day all, > > > > I was recently asked to set up a wireless access point by a > > mate. Having read section 27.3.3.2 - "Building a FreeBSD Access > > Point" > > ("http://www.freebsd

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:41, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply "make > > installkernel" seems install native kernel modules into /boot/kernel/, > > but kldload seems to want to

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:22, John Nielsen wrote: > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:41, Daniel Bye wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply "

Re: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2006-05-25 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Robertsen A. Riehle writes: Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a workstation that had ~300 packages on it. And, let's hypothetically say that this workstation's ports tree was up to date as of yesterday. Is ther

Re: what does this mean

2006-05-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 21 May 2006 05:19, Imran Imtiaz wrote: > i've seen the following log in my messages can any body tell me what does > it mean? > > May 21 02:50:29 darkstar sm-mta[55021]: k4KLoTeq055021: localhost > [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA It means that someo

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-20 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Gang, A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having to buy a DOS/Win platform. I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu on this one mach

Re: Please explain make -j to my little brain

2006-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:06, martinko wrote: > i remember from mailing lists there used to be a problem with using "-j" > while compiling kernel or world or ports or sth. is it resolved now pls? "make -j N" has never been a supported option for ports. It is supported for buildworld and buildk

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:07, Barnaby Scott wrote: > Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > Barnaby Scott wrote: > >> So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was > >> bang up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and > >> behold, first attempt to use it and I get this: > >

Re: Does NDISulator work on amd64? Has anyone made this work?

2006-05-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 00:33, Lorin Lund wrote: > I have a Compac Presario V2607CL notebook with a Turion chip. I have > 6.1-RELEASE for amd64 loaded. > It is running fine. But I'm trying toget the built in Broadcom wireless > working. > > I downloaded the driver from hp.com. The .INF file was o

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 12 May 2006 12:28, bsd wrote: > Hi again, > > Most of the files that are "large" seems to be located in /usr/ports/ > distfiles/ > > What will be the effect of deleting some of these files ? You will have to download them again if you rebuild / reinstall the packages that use them. Of

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