Re: STABLE + KEXI 1.1.2 (koffice 1.6.2) + KDE 3.5.6 = no sql?

2007-05-14 Thread Laurence Sanford
Jarosław Staniek wrote: Drew Sanford said the following, On 2007-05-14 20:42: Jarosław Staniek wrote: Drew said the following, On 2007-05-14 14:52: As promised, I'm attaching a database I just threw together. It only has four entries, and one query, but clearly the query should list

Re: STABLE + KEXI 1.1.2 (koffice 1.6.2) + KDE 3.5.6 = no sql?

2007-05-13 Thread Laurence Sanford
Jarosław Staniek wrote: On 12 Maj, 02:41, Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yields an empty result. Does anyone have any pointers on what it might take to get this working again? I have about 30 saved queries, none of them work any more. What kind of database? Native

Re: firefox build error

2006-11-26 Thread Laurence Sanford
Lowell Gilbert wrote: By same error, do you mean syntax errors in Intrinsic.h, as included from gtk2xtbin.h:44, as included from from gtk2xtbin.c? Do you have any Gecko mentions in your make.conf? /etc/make.conf: # added by use.perl 2006-04-25 14:48:09 PERL_VER=5.8.8 PERL_VERSION=5.8.8

Re: Can't ping localhost?

2006-10-01 Thread Laurence Sanford
P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: Laurence Sanford wrote: Anyone got any ideas on this? [EMAIL PROTECTED](~)$ ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping

Re: Can't ping localhost?

2006-09-30 Thread Laurence Sanford
Chuck Swiger wrote: Laurence Sanford wrote: Anyone got any ideas on this? [EMAIL PROTECTED](~)$ ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping

Can't ping localhost?

2006-09-29 Thread Laurence Sanford
Anyone got any ideas on this? [EMAIL PROTECTED](~)$ ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping:

tunefs average file size?

2006-09-23 Thread Laurence Sanford
I've been looking at some ways to make fsck and general day to day functionality faster with a large file system I have mounted on one of my machines. I see a setting for average file size in tunefs. What I'm wondering, is what affect this would have on day to day functionality and fsck

Crash; shutdown

2006-09-19 Thread Laurence Sanford
So I got up and walked away from my computer this afternoon, and came back to find it in the middle of shutting down. No good reason, no crash dump (yes, they're configured) no nothing, just this: Sep 19 18:14:53 colossus syslogd: exiting on signal 15 At this point, everything sync'd up and

Re: Crash; shutdown

2006-09-19 Thread Laurence Sanford
Perry Hutchison wrote: So I got up and walked away from my computer this afternoon, and came back to find it in the middle of shutting down. No good reason, no crash dump (yes, they're configured) no nothing, just this: Sep 19 18:14:53 colossus syslogd: exiting on signal 15 At this point,

Re: When is BuildWorld necessary?

2006-09-16 Thread Laurence Sanford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I have one question - do you rebuild the world on a remote machine (without physical access) and if yes - how do you restart in single user mode. This is what I can't understand so far. Thanks, Iv In 6 years, I've never dropped any machine to single user to do

6.1 crashing, no vm dump

2006-08-29 Thread Laurence Sanford
I'm not much on posting mystery stuff for people to try to solve, but I'm at the end of my rope with this one. I have a box that's been pretty stable until very recently, and I don't know if I may have missed something important that was posted somewhere about a problem, or what. I can

Re: ports/net-p2p/ktorrent - can't compile

2006-08-28 Thread Laurence Sanford
Alexey Mikhailov wrote: Laurence Sanford wrote: Just looking for pointers, as I've seen them here from time to time when a port won't build. I'm using the following command line: portupgrade -NR ktorrent All dependencies build successfully. The ktorrent build fails like this: ./../mse

ports/net-p2p/ktorrent - can't compile

2006-08-27 Thread Laurence Sanford
Just looking for pointers, as I've seen them here from time to time when a port won't build. I'm using the following command line: portupgrade -NR ktorrent All dependencies build successfully. The ktorrent build fails like this: /usr/X11R6/bin/moc ./peermanager.h -o peermanager.moc

Re: Monitoring Server Health

2006-06-25 Thread Laurence Sanford
Jerlique Bahn wrote: Hello, What are sys-admin's using to monitor the status and health of their freebsd servers? Specifically what I mean is the collection of data from the server such as CPU Utilization, memory utilization, various networking resources (eg active connections), disk health

Video capture/editing?

2006-06-04 Thread Laurence Sanford
Some time ago I purchased a Pinnacle video capture/editing package to be used on a windows computer. Honestly, this is the last thing I keep a windows computer around for. The capture setup is a PCI card with a breakout unit on it, the editing software, obviously Studio. A number of things

Re: system load mrtg ?

2006-06-01 Thread Laurence Sanford
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for some tools that are able to produce some graphics ( understandables by managers ...) to show the system load ( CPU . DISK I/O , memory ... etc etc ) The purpose is to show how the machine ( mailhub ) is loaded to replace it by a stronger box. TIA

Re: Upgrading and Disk Space.

2006-05-20 Thread Laurence Sanford
Grant Peel wrote: The idea is to try NOT to fill up the filesystem and crap out duing the upgrade. 664M./src 303M./ports Remove those two if you're doing an upgrade using the discs. If you're building the upgrade from source, you obviously can't do that. If adding a drive is an

Panic/reboot - a little help.

2006-04-09 Thread Laurence Sanford
My desktop box, which has run very stable for a couple years now using which ever version of FreeBSD I've been running at the time, has developed a sudden and alarming need to panic. I have two vmcore files at this point, but I'm unsure how much actual help they'll be in figuring out what's

RE: Panic/reboot - a little help.

2006-04-09 Thread Laurence Sanford
haven't ruled out end of life. Fortunately, I back up all of my data once a week, and if I change something important, I make a backup then as well. You only have to lose everything once :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Laurence Sanford

Unable to make buildkernel (fresh cvsup to RELENG_6)

2006-01-14 Thread Laurence Sanford
I'm upgrading a 5.4 machine to 6. I can buildworld successfully, but attempting to make buildkernel fails: HEADERS -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -I@/../include -I/usr/include -I/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Colossus /usr/src/sys/modules/ti/../../pci/if_ti.c /usr/src/sys/modules/ti/../../pci/if_ti.c:2536:35:

natd -redirect_port question

2006-01-01 Thread Laurence Sanford
I have natd set up on a 4.10 box to get the rest of my network on the internet. I have an application that requires connections to be able to be established on a specific port. The problem is, sometimes I run this app on system A and sometimes on system B. The port stays the same. So in my

Pango port broken

2005-12-21 Thread Laurence Sanford
When compiling pango, (/ports/x11-toolkits/pango) I recieve the following error: /bin/sh /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango/work/gnome-libtool --mode=link cc -O -pipe -Wall -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o libpango-1.0.la -rpath /usr/X11R6/lib -version-info 1001:1:1001 -export-symbols-regex

Re: Firefox and Java (new)

2005-09-14 Thread Laurence Sanford
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Beecher Rintoul wrote: Still trying to get java working with firefox. I recompiled and installed jdk14. Now when I go to Sun's test site I get: Applet testvm notinited Loading Java Applet Failed Your about:plugins looks the same as mine. Where is this java test

Re: Any thing better then portupgrade?

2005-08-27 Thread Laurence Sanford
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 05:01:23 -0500 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I run that POS I end up pulling my hair out and trying to stop myself from beating the system with a sledge hammer. Their has to be something better. There is. portupgrade -rR

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Laurence Sanford
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mark Kane wrote: Hmm, if bzip2 can't saturate the CPU, I would say it's probably waiting for disk reads/writes. The drives I was trying to compress from/to are both brand new 200GB Maxtor 7200RPM ATA133 drives. Maybe that has something to do with the bad controller on

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Laurence Sanford
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Tom Norris wrote: I have finally made the jump from paying people to host my websites to doing it myself (setting up apache, perl, php, postgresql, and all that fun stuff.) Now I want to migrate my e-mail addresses over to a FreeBSD 4.11 machine that lives in a data

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Laurence Sanford
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Tom Norris wrote: Something else just occured to me. Am I going to need a separate pop3 daemon, or does postfix do that too? I've always used qpopper, but that's just me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

X11 sleep mode?

2005-06-10 Thread Laurence Sanford
When I leave my web browser (Firefox) open on my desktop looking at a page that should refresh every couple of minutes until a process completes, things will simply quit updating after some time passes. Sometimes it's only a few minutes, sometimes its several hours, but when I come back to the

New and strang log messages.

2005-05-01 Thread Laurence Sanford
I saw this in my daily emails this morning. What does it mean? I find this strange as I have not connected any new accessories to my computer in over a year, and this is the first time I've ever seen this.: cam_periph_mapmem: attempt to map 87192 bytes, which is greater than DFLTPHYS(65536)

Re: Please help if you can

2005-03-05 Thread Laurence Sanford
Chris wrote: I would like to know if this OS platform supports your everday and ever so standard .EXE applications. Basically, I am wondering if FreeBSD is compatible to all of the endless softwares out there that require you to be using a certain version of Microsoft Windows? FreeBSD does not

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Laurence Sanford
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user. In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions: /boot swap / In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more: / swap /usr /var /tmp In particular, it seems that /boot MUST be on the same partition as /.

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Laurence Sanford
Anthony Atkielski wrote: There have been a few exceptions. The Slackware site looked pretty spartan compared to most of the others. I was converted to FreeBSD from Slackware. If you want to go Linux and maintain the freedom of configuration you have with FreeBSD (ie, just edit the text file,

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Laurence Sanford
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Does that include X and KDE? I'm getting wild SCSI errors on FreeBSD trying to install stuff, and I don't really know what that means, but it doesn't appear to be corrupting anything, and it seems to be installing software. Well, I don't use KDE because I don't

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Laurence Sanford
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Laurence Sanford writes: Well, I don't use KDE because I don't particularly like heavyweight software unless I need it ... Heavyweight in the sense of resources required, or complexity, or what? I got the impression that KDE was the one that everyone used. Which

Re: Updated Tyan Tiger MPX BIOS, now onboard ethernet doesnt work!

2005-02-19 Thread Laurence Sanford
Andrew wrote: Hello all, I am new to FreeBSD, so go easy on me. I updated the BIOS of a Tyan Tiger MPX motherboard (S2466-without onboard USB) for support of faster Athlon MP processors. The process appeared to have gone fine, but now I can't start Apache (httpd could not be started), I can't

Re: Remote upgrade possible?

2005-01-06 Thread Laurence Sanford
Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: I have a freebsd 4.9 system that I'd like to get upgraded to 4.10 and then soon to 4.11. However, the server is not physically in front of me, nor do I have physical access to it. Is it possible still to upgrade it, or do I need to physically get in front of the machine

Re: GUI CD Burning

2004-11-20 Thread Laurence Sanford
Graham Bentley wrote: Hi Again! Just wondering what to use for CD burning in X on FreebSD 5.3 ? I notice XCDRoast says for SCSI only and seem remember in Linux you had to enable SCSI Emu for IDE Writers. Last time I used 'burncd' it was pretty easy but would like a front end so I can click about

Burning data DVD's?

2004-11-12 Thread Laurence Sanford
I searched the list archives and couldn't find anything specifically about burning DVD's. I was wondering if the burncd utility will burn data DVD's as well for archiving purposes and such. If not, is there something similar that will do the job? It looks like it would be hard to beat the cost

Phoenix .04 port build problem.

2002-11-30 Thread Laurence Sanford
When I try to build the phoenix 0.4 port it fails like this: === Building for Xft-2.0_1 cc -O -pipe -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -fPIC -DPIC -c xftrender.c -o xftrender.o xftrender.c: In function