Re: Special characters?

2005-11-14 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Ron wrote: Hi, How can I create the following characters: ïäéèçë (and others) in an X-session without copy pasting them from Gnome Character map? Thus I want to use the keyboard to use these characters in an easy way. Also, I'd like to bind keys to them myself. I have seen

Re: qemu tutorial?

2005-11-12 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Tim Kellers wrote: I'm feeling a bit _thick_ here. I can seem to get through my brain the process of creating an .img file with qemu that will boot. I can create the .img file, but how do I get an OS on it? I've got a feeling this is a simple thing, but I'm apparently

Printing from Solaris to FreeBSD via Cups

2005-11-12 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi! I would like to print from a Solaris 10 workstation (192.168.10.3) to my FreeBSD server (192.168.10.1). My idea was to use Cups and ipp protocol on both machines since I have already got Cups up and running on my FreeBSD machine. Cups on Solaris seems to be up to (I can access

Re: 4.9-STABLE - need to mount USB hard drive, create partition, newfs, etc

2005-11-06 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Daniel C. Mahoney wrote: I've got a 4.9-STABLE system. I have a 250GB USB hard drive, and I'd like to create a UFS file system on it then mount it. It had an ext2 file system on it, but deleted it before taking it off the Linux box. I've tried working with disklabel and

Re: modem

2005-10-31 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Chrystian Lopez wrote: how can i see where my modem is coneccted how can accees to i t? I guess you want to use a serial modem to connect to your Internet Service Provider? If so, have a look at # man ppp the section MANUAL DIALING . You can use this to

Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, This'll surely be a really novice question, but I'd like to get it right in one go, and RTFM-ing using Google somehow didn't produce uniform enough results for my likings. :) The situation: I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD64 on my new

Re: Stored hard drive failure?

2005-10-05 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, K Anderson wrote: - Original Message - From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: K Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:20 AM Subject: Re: Stored hard drive failure? On Oct 5, 2005, at

Re: /: write failed, filesystem is full

2005-10-05 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, jojo wrote: Hello, I have a problem with the filesystem. I am always getting those /: write failed, filesystem is full errors. If I have a look on df the root has 109% Capacity. How could that be? I had a file in /root with 3.3G that I have now deleted but with no

RE: IE in FreeBSD?

2005-09-15 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: My opinion on WINE is that it merely harms people who are writing software for FreeBSD. If I write a wordprocessor for Linux or FreeBSD and try to sell it, why would a customer buy it when he can just use his Microsoft Word under Wine? Don't forget

Re: Upgrade 2.12 from 2.10 on FreeBSD ...

2005-09-14 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: I am keen on upgrading Gnome to the latest version. However, I see that under my FreeBSD ports only 2.10 is present, even after running the cvsup stuff. Is it still possible to use 2.12 under FreeBSD or do I just have to wait for an official FreeBSD

Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-21 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm talking about a book which

Re: 5.4 or 6 ?

2005-08-19 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: Hi, I will be installing a server that will be online for production environment in 1 month. I want your suggestions if I should use 5.4 or 6 ? I am thinking to install 6.0-Beta2 and upgrade to 6.0-RELEASE when it comes out. But I wanted to take

Re: how can i setup RAID?

2005-08-13 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Carstea Catalin wrote: I want a fresh instalation on my server and i want to setup RAID. Can u help me? Before someone can help you, you should decide 1) which RAID level you want to use, 2) if you want a software or a hardware RAID, 3) which version of FreeBSD you are

problems with uscanner and HP ScanJet 4300C

2005-08-10 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi, I am trying to set up my HP ScanJet 4300C on FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 as described in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html When I attach the scanner to an USB port, dmesg shows this --- uscanner1: vendor

Re: which apache / php things to install?

2005-08-09 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, bob self wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE and am installing a few applications. I need apache with php, but I see many php-related packages (with portupgrade -v php5-\*). So then I tried portupgrade -v php5, but now it wants to know whether I want to use apache2

Re: script for adding a samba-user

2005-07-28 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, been working on a script to add a samba-user, below an example which is not working, can someone provide the fix here to make it work properly ? #!/bin/sh adduser -G data -s scponly $1 smbpasswd $1 Assuming you use samba3 something like

Re: Samba without Cups ?

2005-07-26 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Graham Bentley wrote: I just want file sharing, not printing. pkg_add -r samba3 also pulls in cups then my smb log complains ... [2005/07/26 00:31:17, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_cache_reload(85) Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused (I havent

Re: squid bind to port 80 fails when started via squid.sh script

2005-07-06 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Wayne Sierke wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 03:33 +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Wayne Sierke wrote: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE/squid-2.5.9_3 If I start squid via the script (as root), I get: /var/log/squid_cache.log: commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 11 to *:80

Re: squid bind to port 80 fails when started via squid.sh script

2005-07-05 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Wayne Sierke wrote: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE/squid-2.5.9_3 If I start squid via the script (as root), I get: /var/log/squid_cache.log: commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 11 to *:80: (13) Permission denied FATAL: Cannot open HTTP Port Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE9): Terminated

Re: CUPS test-page prints fine, nothing else.. (freebsd-5.4)

2005-07-04 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, I was wondering if this is a bug somewhere in FreeBSD-5.4 or I've just been getting lucky with CUPS all the time... :) I have a HP 840c and it's connected remotely on my network with a fixed ipaddress and every box on my network can

Re: raid1 with gmirror (some questions left)

2005-07-01 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Danny Howard wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: As far as I can see, booting from gm0 works fine. There are only two questions left: 1) I installed FreeBSD 5.4 -RELEASE and thus I put - as recommended (or was that only for 5.3 ???) - swapoff=YES into my /etc/rc.conf

raid1 with gmirror (some questions left)

2005-06-30 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi! I have to set up a new proxy for our school. Since I found two identical IDE disks, I gave a software raid1 with gmirror a try. I set the two disk as primary and secondary master, ie. ad0 and ad2, and followed Ralf Engelschall's excellent HowTo at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/

running derive6 in wine

2005-06-28 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi! Does anyone have any experience with running the Computer Algebra System derive6 in wine? I downloaded two missing .dlls and get the application started. Calculations on the algebra sheet can be done, but as soon as I try to open a graphics window derive6 will freeze. I'am running this

Re: upgrading all ports

2005-06-26 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I want to do a portupgrade on all installed ports. What's the right way? portupgrade -arR ? or portupgrade -a ? I hesitate and don't want to screw up my machine. # portupgrade -a works fine, if you do it regularily, i.e.

Re: upgrading all ports

2005-06-26 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/25/05, Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: portupgrade isn't suitable for upgrading the entire machine, even though you do recursive and Recursive. It is much faster to deinstall everything and then installing from ground up. And it is far

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-20 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: What model of Proliant? ML 350 G4 Oh good, we have a customer that has been looking at one of these for FreeBSD and I'm glad to hear that you didn't have problems with it. Absolutely smooth - and I

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-19 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: our school has just received a new HP ProLiant and I set up FreeBSD 5.4 -RELEASE with a RAID 1 system on it (using ciss driver). Is there any software tool which can show me the state of the two SCSI discs (if one is failing

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-19 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: What model of Proliant? ML 350 G4 Uli. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of P.U.Kruppa Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:56 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Yet another RAID

Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-18 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi everbody, our school has just received a new HP ProLiant and I set up FreeBSD 5.4 -RELEASE with a RAID 1 system on it (using ciss driver). Is there any software tool which can show me the state of the two SCSI discs (if one is failing or if they are mirrored sorrectly) or is it sufficient

burncd syntax for burning dvd ???

2005-06-12 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hello! I created an .iso file from a dvd by # dd if=/dev/acd0 of=dvd.iso bs=2048 Now I would like to burn dvd.iso on a fresh dvd+rw medium. Could someone be so nice and give me the correct command line for this - seems I am too stupid to understand the man pages :-( . Thanks, Uli.

Re: burncd syntax for burning dvd ???

2005-06-12 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, David Kelly wrote: In the future I suggest using readcd from the cdrtools port. It does a bit better handling end of device and recognizing multisession. Thanks! Now I would like to burn dvd.iso on a fresh dvd+rw medium. Could someone be so nice and give me the correct

Re: Setting a simple firewall for PPPoE connection

2005-06-11 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Paul Dufresne wrote: On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:22:45 +0200 (CEST), P.U.Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, dk dkrules wrote: I am very dissappointed. I have been looking on the net for 3 days now looking for easy setup guides or How to guides and setting up

Re: Very Dissapointed

2005-06-09 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, dk dkrules wrote: I am very dissappointed. I have been looking on the net for 3 days now looking for easy setup guides or How to guides and setting up FreeBSD 5.x with transparent proxy and firewall and there simply is no easy way explaining to beginners how to do such a

Re: 1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc

2005-06-07 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Ben Paley wrote: Hello, I'm running 5.4 on my shiny new dell inspiron 6000 - there are a few things yet to sort out, and one of them is X. Amazing. In winxp it runs at 1280x800, 16bit (I think, or 24? can't remember off-hand, i'd be happy with 8 for the moment!). And it

Re: sendmail problems

2005-06-04 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, John Larson wrote: I am trying to configure sendmail. I have a lan in my room with a personal freebsd 4.11 apache2 web server with one client machine connected directly to it. when I use a form to send mail to the server it is marked as undeliverable to the username and ends

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