Re: Procmail Lockfile

2004-12-21 Thread Lin Jianfong
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:56:21PM -0500, Gardner Bell wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup procmail to deliver my mail but I continuously receive the following errors in my log file. procmail: Locking ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions.lock procmail: Error while writing to

g++ 3.x does not recognize '-auxbase-strip' option?

2004-02-17 Thread Lin Jianfong
Hello, I'm having trouble lately trying to build java/jdk14 from the port system, tried 3 times, each time after a fresh cvsup, and always ended up with error where cc1plus does not recognize option -auxbase-strip. Just to make sure I tried: #include iostream using namespace std; int main() {

Re: php4-cgi -- internal server errror (solution)

2003-08-31 Thread Lin Jianfong
Yeah, I know it's odd. I had different problem from what you had, but after building php by hand (not using portinstall), it worked perfectly. I didn't check which of the default option turned on by the port caused my problem though. My problem was when apache tried to run php compiled as cgi

Re: php4-cgi -- internal server errror

2003-08-27 Thread Lin Jianfong
Hi, I think I know what you're talking about, it's the UMN Mapserver for GIS application. Basically it's the php-mapscript part which needs php to be compiled as cgi. It's a wonderful open source GIS app which works very nice and very stable once configured correctly but it's a major pain in

Re: A couple of definitions

2003-07-17 Thread Lin Jianfong
As far as I know, objective C is sort of ancestor to C++, an object oriented C, and I doubt if anyone is still using it nowadays. As for re-entrant, this is used when doing thread programming. I didn't bother with these either when upgrading a 4.7 box to 4.8. From: Joshua Lokken [EMAIL

Re: Question on /etc/make.conf for upgrade to 4.8R

2003-07-13 Thread Lin Jianfong
. On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 02:52:41AM -0700, Lin Jianfong wrote: I'm wondering about this group of options : # To avoid building various parts of the base system: #NO_CVS= true # do not build CVS #NO_BIND= true # do not build BIND ... #NOSHARE= true # do not go into the share subdir #NOUUCP

Question on /etc/make.conf for upgrade to 4.8R

2003-07-13 Thread Lin Jianfong
I'm wondering about this group of options : # To avoid building various parts of the base system: #NO_CVS= true # do not build CVS #NO_BIND= true # do not build BIND #NO_FORTRAN= true # do not build g77 and related libraries #NO_I4B= true # do not build isdn4bsd package #NO_IPFILTER= true

Re: Opera browser native FreeBSD (was Re: AbiWord)

2003-03-06 Thread Lin Jianfong
The problem is though, linux-java jvm on FBSD is not working very well (I'm not sure if this is fixed already). All linux plugins such as Flash, RealPlayer, etc worked except when loading java applet, the browser would hang up and eat all system resources. I'm using FBSD native mozilla for this

Re: Java and mozilla

2003-03-06 Thread Lin Jianfong
Also make sure that native FBSD mozilla only works with native FBSD java, the linux version mozilla won't work with native FBSD java and vice versa. From: Adam Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Java and mozilla Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:30:22 -0500 Can someone tell me how to

Re: CVSup Tags and release status

2003-02-20 Thread Lin Jianfong
Basically, there are 2 kinds of major upgrades you can do to your whole FreeBSD system : (1) The operating system itself (also called the base system) In this case, TAG = RELENG_4 refers to the stable branch (FreeBSD 4.X and up to but not including 5.X) TAG = . refers to whatever the current

Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer

2003-02-18 Thread Lin Jianfong
not alone :) From: Jason Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lin Jianfong [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:40:28 -0500 On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:33:08PM -0800, Lin Jianfong wrote: Hi, I just bought a Palm m125

Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer

2003-02-16 Thread Lin Jianfong
Hi, I just bought a Palm m125 model recently and tried to sync it via the USB cradle/cable on my fbsd 4.7R box. I got the process going all up to the point when trying to backup and sync using jpilot and pilot-xfer. The problems : - For some reason, jpilot is having trouble reading AddressDB,

Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer

2003-02-16 Thread Lin Jianfong
Oh well, I guess I have to resort to some MS Windows machine and install the software from Palm itself, sigh lol. Thanks for the reply, I mainly want to know if my palm unit is screwed. From: Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lin Jianfong [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Bad PnPBios problem

2003-01-17 Thread Lin Jianfong
Anyone know what this means ? pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum So far, everything worked pretty good for me, so I'm pretty confused as to what's possibly failing. I have looked over the archive and the only answer was FreeBSD simply refused to use the information from existing PnP BIOS in

About linux_base6 and linux_base7

2002-11-30 Thread Lin Jianfong
Hi, This is on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE box, I installed linux-mozilla and linux-sun-jdk13 from the ports collection on the machine. The kernel is enabled for linux_base7 emulation. This Linux version Mozilla 1.1 recognized the java plugin OK from Help-About Plug-Ins, the problem is java_vm

Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?

2002-11-24 Thread Lin Jianfong
Try to avoid any so-called winprinters, i.e. the one that rely specifically on the existence of Microsoft Windows OS to function. One good example of winprinters are some of the older HP series printers that uses Performance Printing Architecture (PPA), in which case much of the computational

Re: configure the printer (II) and apsfilter

2002-11-20 Thread Lin Jianfong
Looking at the date the source file was last modified, which is in year 2000, I don't think you should worry about this if you're using FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE which is the latest version at the moment. But if the advanced features don't work while you suspect it should, then this is worth doing,

Re: configure the printer

2002-11-16 Thread Lin Jianfong
The way the instructions were written in the handbook was catered as much as possible to be general purpose. It merely suggested that if you can see lpt0 by doing dmesg -a | grep lpt0, that means, the kernel has already acknowledged the presence of your LPT1 (first printer port) and you can

Re: USB mouse oddity

2002-11-16 Thread Lin Jianfong
Try doing 'dmesg -a | grep usm'. You should see something that looks like this (yours might be completely different) : ums0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse, rev 2.00/11.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir.] One good place to start is to look at your kernel configuration file in

Trouble setting up HP Deskjet 855Cse printer

2002-11-15 Thread Lin Jianfong
Hi, I have been trying to set up HP Deskjet 855Cse with my machine running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE for a couple days and having trouble getting anything better than garbage printout. Snippet from dmesg -a : ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f drq 1 on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset

Re: [freebsd-questions] Trouble setting up HP Deskjet 855Cse printer

2002-11-15 Thread Lin Jianfong
Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lin Jianfong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Trouble setting up HP Deskjet 855Cse printer Date: 15 Nov 2002 14:58:51 -0500 Lin Jianfong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the SETUP process, printing test page worked perfectly, I can see the usual 4