ADSL internet + router

Hello list Am about to get an ADSL internet connection... there are two devices available, an ADSL modem and a router... the modem should not have a problem to work (I have one at office), but have a doubt with the router and don't know which device aquire... I have my local network

Re: MUSIC SERVER.

I am a university student and i wanted to know from you that is it possible to store music in a server? To be more precise, Is it possible that you have a server that is only desighned for storage of music only? I hope that my request will be consindered as soon as possible. Do you want to

Re: Wait 15 seconds for SCSI to settle

I have installed FreeBSD5.2.1-RELEASE on Vmware. When booting I am seeing the message Wait 15 seconds for SCSI to settle. The problem is I am not using any SCSI device on my virtual machine. I tried sysctl kern.cam.scsi_delay=100 but no improvement. ... I want to squeeze maximum performance

Re: burning mp3's

Simple question probably, i want to burn about 690 mb of mp3's to disk. To date i've only used cdrecord to make either audio .wav disks or data disks, make an iso, then burn that iso to disk. I'm wondering if there's a howto on mp3 burning? Do you want to burn them as .mp3, so that

Streaming audio with FreeBSD

Hello list!! I'd like to know if there's a software to stream audio to a ShoutCast server... I tried on linux the shoutcast dj, but is too simple and just plays a list of mp3... I need to transmit a radio program and require to send voice, music and/or both if necesary... Found a *nix

Re: OSS

Hello Sorry for my ignorance, am new to FreeBSD... which is the kernel config file? is it a configuration for compiling or at boot time? am linux user so will not bee too hard, just tell me which is the file pls :D Regards, Miguel This should be automatically created by devfs. I would make

OSS

Hello... Anybody has installed OSS on FreeBSD 5.2.1? Am trying the system inside a VMWare machine and had troubles installing OSS... I did it once, but reinstalled the system and did not work again... it gets installed fine (OSS) but when running 'soundon' it says there was a problem... The

XML utility

Hello Anybody knows a program or utility to view XML documents? Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XML utility

You should realise that XML defines a syntax and grammar for storing data. How that information is intended to be used (or displayed) depends on the particular application for which it was written. To examine an XML file generically requires no more than a standard text editor. Or you can

Re: File mysql.sock lost

have you a Solution about the lost file mysql.sock? I've deleted them, and I thought that a restart of MySQL will recreate the file. mysqladmin [-h ... -u ... -p...] shutdown mysqld_safe --user=mysql that should restore your socket file... Regards.

Re: Boot process too slow or stops

the boot process stops for a very (VERY) long time and sometimes gets stalled there... I can interrupt the process with Ctrl-C and boot continues but it is not a normal way to do things... Usually this kind of behaviour indicates that something is being started and it is trying to do a

tar: /dev/sa0

Hello list! Am installing amsn (a msn clone) and it installs and runs fine, but when dowloading a TLS module, after decompresing the module for FreeBSD gives this message: Error installing TLS module: tar: /dev/sa0 Cannot open. No such file or directory tar: error is not recoverable: exiting

Re: tar: /dev/sa0

Error installing TLS module: tar: /dev/sa0 Cannot open. No such file or directory tar: error is not recoverable: exiting now. What is /dev/sa0 ? /dev/sa0 is the default tape drive. If you don't specify a place to put the file(s) when using tar, that's where it will try to put them.

Boot process too slow or stops

Hello list !! I have a strange problem... from time in time at boot time, when it reaches this: Configuring syscons: blanktime screensaver. the boot process stops for a very (VERY) long time and sometimes gets stalled there... I can interrupt the process with Ctrl-C and boot continues but it

'su' problem

Hello list... When I try to run 'su' it does not run and returns a message: su: Sorry. and returns to the shell prompt... I guess it is 'cos some kind of permission... just read the 'su' manpage and it tells about a /etc/pam.conf but the file is not present... should I create it by hand? or

getenv() fails

Hello... I have a problem getting the hostname from the HOSTNAME var... #include stdlib.h ... char* host = getenv(HOSTNAME); returns always NULL... why? if I do 'echo $HOSTNAME' it is visible, but inside my C program returns NULL... what is wrong? is it a bug? Thanx...

getenv() fails II

Hello 4int 5main(void) 6{ 7char *s; 8 9s = getenv(HOSTNAME); 10if (s == NULL) { 11fprintf(stderr, getenv error\n); 12

Re: PATH var and more...

1. Can't add /usr/local/mysql/bin to the PATH var from the main configuration... Tried to add: ... Modifying the default path setting in /etc/login.conf works well, and applies to all shells. Remember to run 'cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf' after your edits. I found the problem by using

PATH var and more...

Hello list Just reinstalled my freebsd, am advancing with installation of programs and configuration, but still have some details I can't fix... I've installed MySQL 4.0.20 successfully from source code and programs work fine, but have still two little problems... 1. Can't add

FreeBSD + MySQL... solved!!

Hello everybody... The problem disappeared replacing the 4.0.18 sources by the new 4.0.20 ones... it is compiling on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 If somebody has a similar problem get the latest MySQL... Regards, Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Network configuration in FreeBSD

Hello Am new to FreeBSD... just installed it for 2nd time today, but don't know what I did that it didn't ask me for the network configuration (ip, domain, etc)... once installed, is there a command to perform that task? I'm linux user, so am familiar to *nix systems, but don't know how to

MySQL ./configure failure

Hello list Am trying to compile MySQL 4.0.18 on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 i386 but am experiencing an error during the ./configure process... I perform installation just like on my Linux box but it fails with the following message: checking for char... yes checking size of char... configure: error: