Hi Brain,
is there an x app out there that can be used to rip a data cd.
If you define 'ripping a data cd' as 'creating an ISO image', you can
use ports/sysutils/xcdroast, which is also a nice X11 frontend to
cdrecord.
Simon
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Hi,
I just bought BSDfree version 5.1 because I had very good
comments about your operating system. Our company is planning to use as a NAT
server . I want to know where can I take some courses to have at least the
basics that it looks to be an awesome operating system.
parahat melayev wrote:
I don't know if it is a problem or not but
I am unable to send e-mails to FreeBSD lists
via my SMTP server on localhost.
The FreeBSD lists have a rather restricted setup in order to prevent
from spam. You need a fqdn, and working reverse lookup in order to have
your
Hello Martin,
I am using almost the same setup, but with sasl version 1 (I selected
only sasl1 and ssl/tls support in the postfix port).
My /usr/local/etc/postfix/saslpasswd file looks like this (you need to
create a .db file with `postmap')
domain name of mail server or ip-adressuser
Curious, what if I want either option. In other words, when I boot up the
machine it shows the gdm login, but if I want a console login can I just hit
Alt-F2?
Yes. ALT+Fn, n=1, ... 8 will give you virtual terminals, ALT+F9 brings
you back to X.
The virtual terminals are defined in /etc/ttys
I searched your site, but my burning question is, How
do I start the Graphical Interfaces, KDE and Gnome? I
did a Custom Installation following the directions of
the website. I installed all the packages and Ports. I
want to learn everything.
I don't know about gnome but for KDE, add
CVSuping the source won't take too long. Even on dialup. Setup your source sup
for late at night if you can.
I'm willing to bet that doing a make world will take longer then your CVSup of
source.
I can second that. Upgrading from one release of FreeBSD to another
didn't take more than 30
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I've just installed my brand new FreeBSD 5.2 system in this machine. I've
never used FreeBSD before and I'm quite used to work with linux (specially
Slackware, although the last 4 months I've been using Gentoo for most of my
daily work).
The Question is that I
Hi. When I boot into FreeBSD, my computer restarts
itself and tries to boot into it again. I am running
FreeBSD 5.1. Recently I would start the computer,
boot into FreeBSD, it would restart itself around
where it begins to load loader.conf and then starts to
boot up again. After it does
Also, when I load KDE it says that it cannot find
device/dev/dsp for sound. I tried loading the
soundcard by typing kldload snd_sb16.ko but it doesn't
seem like that solved the problem.
Does it work if you load the snd.ko module? If it succeeds to
initialize your card, it will print some
zam4ever wrote:
[ quite impressive list ]
FreeBSD mail archives search:
http://freebsd.rambler.ru/
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faina bogdan wrote:
how can I mount the cd-rom under freebsd 4.9 as root
Assuming that you have an IDE cdrom drive:
Put the following line into /etc/fstab
/dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,nosuid,noauto 0 0
and make sure you have a mount point with the following
permissions/owner.
drwxr-xr-x
Daniel J Cain Jr. wrote:
I am trying to get vmailmgr-0.96.9 to build from the ports collection of
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. I 'think' it will work if I can have the port use
a different compiler version during the build. I have been unable to
figure/find out how (if?) this is possible. By
I have some problem with my xmms mm player. When I'm treing to
listen some mp3's it gives me aN error, that I don't know how to fix.
I have KDE 3.1 if you need this info ^)
So here it is:
bash-2.05b$ xmms
/dev/dsp: Device busy
/dev/dsp: Device busy
/* with OSS driver */
** WARNING **:
Hi,
What is the most secure way to enable mounting of flash drives, cdroms, and
floppies? I've seen solutions that include setting setuid on mount. I would
rather not go this route. Is there any other easy, secure way?
You can allow mounting for ordinary users with the following
i have problem.i recently working working with gnome at freebsd 5.0.
when i write startx command i occure with this message : couldnot
open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer.
my sound card is onboard AC97
Is your sound card recognized by the kernel: To test it, have a look at
the output of
%
Especially 2.3 Address Rewriting which mentions the genericstable
feature helped me. Obviously it's the genericstable which is
effective for outbound aliases.
Yes, it permits you to rewrite the envelope from-addresses, which is
necessary to trick the other mail server.
(Yes, I really should
P.S. I am planning to install postfix through ports. :)
Fine :-) The port will do all the FreeBSD specific things for you (some
are automated, for the others you get detailed instructions which you
can re-read in either the pkg-message file in the port's directory).
For the rest of the setup,
Hi Hanspeter,
although you seem to already have set up your email mail, the following
article of mine might help you anyway:
http://home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/articles/mailsetup/article.html
Simon
(Yes, I really should do the final tweaks RSN and submit it to the
documentation project)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html
It would be nice if you could add a point between points 3 and 4 on this
page which says...
If you haven't done a make world, do:
cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil
make depend
make obj
make
cd /usr/src/lib/libsm
make
need drivers for bt848akpf video highway xtreem tv card by aims, ntcs/pal-m
cna u help? thanks tom
If your card is supported, it might be as easy as loading the bktr driver
module (of cource, you can also compile it into your kernel).
kldload bktr
For more information on the bktr driver,
Hello Ivan,
As I'm about to create a kind of a WAN in my area, and I'm having a
specific problem, a friend adviced me to install FreeBsd. Problem is
that this WAN would be connected to the internet with 1Mbit/s
connection, and what I want is that connection to the Internet is
shared to other
You are comparing apples and oranges. Linux is a kernel, not an
operating system. Distributions is a specially ill-choosen word in
the Linux world. There are several operating systems, Debian, RedHat,
Mandrake, which only have in common to use the Linux kernel.
Well, this is what I indendet
Hi Vahric,
First thanks for your answer . Please correct me if I mis understand
something .
1) You mean if I want to keep source up-to-date method and use make world
process I must test it another test machine before apply it to the
production server .
I think that Scott put this
What's a not too complicated way of converting music CD's to mp3 files?
I prefer this port: audio/ripit. It handles everything for you: ripping,
cddb lookup, conversion to mp3, ...
So far I failed using lame: I could create wav files and play them with
x11amp.
Perhaps x11amp is not able to
I want to ask why userland , base-system and Kernel are together ?!
Because some userland programs make assumptions on internal kernel
structures. Examples: top, fstat, fsck, ...
And, most important: Every compiled application needs libc as a wrapper
for system calls (which toggle all
I've gotten cvsup working correctly. It is following
5_1_RELENG and . for ports. I want to do a daily
check using crontabs and have created one under root.
However, my daily mail says that it can't find cvsup.
IS this just a simple fix by putting in the full path
or am I missing something?
Just a guess: Are that your second CPU isn't idle?
^
you sure
I forgot to mention one thing:
Some apps might not build correctly when using make's -j switch
(due to bad makefiles and/or dependency information).
Simon
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How can I list all files in a directory that are 7+ days
old? (That is except last 7 days)
is that possible with use any command(s) on Freebsd4,x ?
Please, consider the following when you post your questions to this
mailing list (applies also to others):
1. Wrap your lines at ~ 72
AuthInfo:mail.covad.net U:userid P:password
(of course userid and password are not the real values).
When my sendmail connects to the email relay, the email relay says
(in SMTP speak):
250-covad.net
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
Perhaps the
Konstantin Gritsenko schrieb am Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:48:42PM +0200:
./sys/sys/syslimits.h:
#define NGROUPS_MAX16
/* max supplemental group id's */
how to explain this limitation?
I can see two reasons for this implementation:
1) It's easier to
I received an e-mail with the following header fragment:
===V=== cut here ===V
Received: from priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net (outbound03.telus.net
[199.185.220.222])
by tinkertoys.net (8.12.10/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hANMNpKS021237;
Sun, 23 Nov 2003 15:23:51 -0700 (MST)
===^===
I have requirement to develop driver for the PCI based hardware
interface using FreeBSD Unix system. Would you please advise on the
following:-
1)What tools are available to develop driver for x86 machine using
C?
2)Suitable package including the operating system, tools and
Hi,
could you please verfiy your postfix configuration using `postfix
check'? Perhaps this will show some errors.
Other hints: Check /var/log/maillog (and post some lines from the tail
if you still can fix your problem).
Is the postfix daemon listening on port 25? Are you able to telnet
there:
I am running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE with
xcdroast 0.98aplpha14
cdda2wav Version 2.00.3 from the cdrtools-2.0.3 package
The lastest version of xcdroast is 0.98alpha15. Perhaps this issue is
fixed there.
Simon
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David,
I do not want sendmail to receive message.
I only want it to act as a local mta/mda and a sending agent.
I have sendmail_enable=no in rc.conf, but can quite seem to locate
what else I need to start it as mentioned above. I googled freebsd
sendmail local delivery but got way too
I need to use an 80GB hard disk on my
old computer, which can only detect
HDs smaller than 8GB.
Does anyone have any advice?
I can confirm what Erik wrote: I got a shiny new 120G hard disk the
other day. The only way to make it work was not to enable it in the BIOS
and let FreeBSD do the
i have just installed freebsd and am running an ati all-in-wonder 7500
card and cannot load the gui
i would be extremly grateful to anyone who can help
-v, please :-)
- Which version of XFree are you using?
- How do you try to start XFree? How did you configure it?
- Do you have any error
Please enter a subject next time -- many people will skip your message
otherwise.
I've installed 4.8 off CD onto a PII-200 w/ 80MB ram and two ide's, primary
has 1GB, secondary has 2GB.
Don't understand how to allocate /usr to the secondary ide or even give it
more space on the primary,
Btw. When I want to use cdparanoia on -CURRENT, I have to sym-link /dev/cd0
to /dev/cd0c. Is this the right way to go, or should that sub-device be
created automatically?
No. /dev/cd0c is a nonsense name, since CDs don't have BSD labels.
You need to change your cdparanoia config, and if
However, /dev gets regenerated after each reboot so losing the soft
links. Is there a way to stop this?
Coincidentally, I struggled with the same problem only 5 minutes ago.
There is a configuration file /etc/devfs.conf where you can specify
rules that are applied to your devfs.
Btw. When I
I read the gcc man page. It is not clear what -O implys. Is -O equal to
-O1 or -O2? If I wish to optimize making does it make sense to add
CFLAGS=-O2 in the make.conf(5)?
Hi,
-O == -O1 (see `info gcc' - Invoking GCC - Optimize Options)
It is recommended not to use anything higher than -O
I'm curious whether there's an easy way to renice(8) a process and all
of its children in one simple command. For example, I might start a
recursive make, which spawns lots of processes, and want them all to
change priority at once.
In this special case with recursive makes you could also
[ Please configure your mailer to wrap the lines at ~ 75 characters ]
My name is Giannis Vlachos and i live in greece.Iam using freebsd 5.1
and i have already install a double pci serial card (Netmos 9835cv)
who is working fine.
I want to put another one or two pci serial cards from the
I was trying to build mplayer tonight, and I ran into a problem with
net/liveMedia. The port that I've got calls for the build done on
10.24.2003. This file was unavailable on *any* of the listed mirrors,
with the closest match being one built on 10.30.2003. I got around this
problem by
What is the procedure to submit a new port when you don't have access to
a dedicated and highly-visible Freebsd machine on the internet?
You have to configure sendmail (or any other MTA of your choice) to use
a proper mail server (e.g your ISP's) as a smarthost/mailrelay. Perhaps
at least a
I've been cvsupping my portstree several
times now over the last past weeks but still
don't get the MD5 checksum file, for kde.
What's up with this?
Are you speaking of this port?
/usr/ports/x11/kde3
It's a so-called meta-port that consists of dependendies only, i.e.
other ports that do
Or just have sendmail config files for the most common cases, e.g. isps
mail server as smart host (with and without asmtp), etc.
That would be good idea too. But when you make world and run mergemaster,
is always the risk of the sendmail configurations getting wiped out. But
I guess it
asolomon15 schrieb am Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:08:29PM -0500:
Hello all, I have a asus P4C-800-E motherboard and I don't know if my
soundcard is supported or not. When I use dmesg this is the mesage that
i get
pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
pci0: multimedia, audio
i figured out how to open the 3.5 drive now i need to
know how to copy the philes from the floppy to the
hard drive into a directory, than how do i un rar the
philes?
1. Copying files from a floppy disk:
a) mount the floppy (bad floppy might cause a kernel panic!)
mkdir /floppy (if it
My conundrum is this: I want to be able to use a Java (and perhaps
Flash) plugin with Firebird on my FreeBSD workstation.
One remark to flash: flash5 is supported by the
ports/www/flashpluginwrapper port. Flash6 support is yet to come on
FreeBSD 4.x (its still in the beta stage. You will find
Hi,
I found many interesting Linux programs on sourceforge.net and other sites,
but they're not in the ports collection. So I thought I'll port some of these
to FreeBSD. However, I'm still pretty new to FreeBSD and I never ported
anything.
I can't even compile most of the programs on my
I've had great success with MPlayer with up-to-date Windows Media files:
same goes for Quicktime's Sorenson 3 codec. Unfortunately, compiling MPlayer
is a bit of a pain, as the Windows codecs are pulled in from elsewhere.
The ports collection helps here:
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer
less
Hi,
Hi! I would like to use gpc, since that's what we use in the computer
science class...but I can't find it among the ports. Isn't it ported?
Sounds weird...
There used to be a port of gpc, but as you can see in the latest cvs log
message the port has been removed since it was broken:
See
So I could upgrade system Openssh. However, when I run ssh
-V it tells me that the version on the system is 3.5p1 and
no the updated version. Anyone know if this technique
works in this page, if so, how do I update my box so it
knows what version is running. Where is the file located
If you want somebody to help you, you will need to provide more
information:
- CPU type and clock
- graphics adaptor
- FreeBSD, XFree and mplayer version
- mplayer compilation switches
- output of xvinfo
- etc.
Simon
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There's an excellent latex2e introduction from Tobias Oettiker which can
be downloaded from http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/lshort/ (filename:
lshort.pdf).
I second that. An older version of lshort is included with the teTeX
distribution, but since the document is actively maintained,
You can use pdftops(1) from the xpdf Port wich seems to make a very
correct PostScript output. For me, the pdf2ps(1) from Ghostscript make
a very, very ugly PostScript document.
In me experience, acroread is the best option to convert pdf to ps
(either be printing to a file or with acroread's
I'm trying to figure out how to convert .doc files into a unix file so I
can read it with say emacs, vi and etc.? Thanks
By 'unix file' I assume you mean a text file.
Try /usr/ports/textproc/antiword.
Yep, that works great. I have this line here
application/msword; antiword %s;
The official archive of this mailing list is at
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/, but I find
http://freebsd.ramblers.ru/ more intuitive.
That's http://freebsd.rambler.ru/;, in fact.
Oops. Thanks for the correction!
Simon
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Second question: why do many users on the list PGP sign messages? Is
there something nefarious out there about which I should worry?
One reason why I personally sign my email to the mailing lists is
that there is lots of spam with forged From-adresses (and that does not
only apply to spam).
Hi,
I have a freeBSD 4.5-Release server. I could not find any packages
available for 4.5 version at freebsd ftp site. So i decided to
upgrade it to FreeBSD 4.8-Release. Can i upgrade the server without
any change in its current configuration.
Since you did not post your current
Hi,
I am new to this list and in an attempt to avoid asking the same question over
and over I was wondeing if there is an archive of messages that the public
has access to?
The official archive of this mailing list is at
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/, but I find
i use used cvsup to update the src after that what do i do? i read that there
are things like make world to install the new src files? how do i do that?
Please have a look at the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
There is also a very brief
Hi,
II am trying to upgrade OpenSSH whihc is default in freeBSD .
I am trying it using /usr/ports/security/openssh
all the installation went good way .
I rebooted my system to the frsh installation of SSH to come into action ,But when i
gave
#ssh -V
it showed me the same old version
Cool. How do you see what the patch date is? I know how to find
the version, but not things like the patch date. Man didn't tell me how to
either.
I am assuming that you mean the base system sshd. You can find the
details for the patch at CVSweb site:
Are there Programs to chat on LAN on FreeBSD ports,
(clients may be on WIN).
And what does I need?
You could use LinPopup (ports/linpopup) and Samba to send and recieve smb
messages. For the windows clients, there is something like winmessenger
AFAIR) (or use `net send').
Regards,
Simon
ERROR: Your BOOTDIR environment variable does not point
to a valid Java 2 SDK for bootstrapping this build.
A Java 2 SDK 1.3.1 build must be bootstrapped against any
1.3 build. Please update your ALT_BOOTDIR setting, or
just unset it, and start your build
[ top posting corrected ]
I have that problem with an ASUS P4S533 motherboard. I add
these sysctl
values to /boot/loader.conf:
hw.ata.ata_dma=0
hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
OH MAN.. You don't know how many hours you just saved me!!! It boots
up beautifully with 3 drives.
Thank
Hi,
I am using mozilla 1.4 and Java 1.3.1 quite happily here (both compiled
from the ports collection).
If you don't want to use the ports but pre-compiled binaries, then you
should not mix Linux and FreeBSD binaries and those from different gcc
versions.
Simon
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I got it running in Linux all I need to is to compile the following:
openquicktime-1.0-src.tar
win32codecs.tar
MPlayer-0.91.tar.bz2
mplayerplug-in-0.80.tar.gz
mini.tar.bz2
Blue-1.0.tar
qt6dlls.tar.bz2
Those too are the same files that freebsd looks for, but all I get is a white
Sorry for all those spelling errors (in the non-quoted part of my mail).
Here is an error that needs to be corrected:
#!/bin/sh
http_proxy=http://your.proxy:1234
export http_proxy
/usr/local/bin/mplayer.bin
The wrapper script should look like this:
#!/bin/sh
Hi,
I have tried to install FreeBSD 5.0 (non-stable release) and have
experienced some problems. I would like to know where I can post these
bugs and problems, so you can figure out what's going wrong.
It would be a great pleasure for me to contribute to your problem.
[...]
FreeBSD uses
Hi,
I have a question concerning the ports : For my Base System I have decided
to stick with RELENG_5_1 as tag for my cvsup-supfile. Should there be any
problems if I use . for the Ports-Collection ? I know what is the
difference between these tags when applied to the base system but what is
Is RELENG_4 to be considered stable? I.e. can i use it for production?
Well, that depends. At the moment, -stable has (or had) some stability problems
since some enhancements for huge memory systems ( 4gb) where merged
from -current).
I think the best for production system is the latest
Hi,
please forgive me if this is a FAQ, but just what is the meaning of the
RELENG_4 branch? Is it more current then RELENG_4_7 or RELENG_4_8 ?
What should i use if i want to get security patches for my 4.7-RELEASE-p4
installation?
RELENG_4_7
What would happen if i use RELENG_4 ?
This is
=== Deinstalling for devel/libtool13
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13.
When I run pkg_version -v it tells me this port is orphaned:
libtool-1.3.4_2 ? orphaned: devel/libtool
Hi,
just a wild guess: Did you try and fix your package database?
Hi Chuck,
Does anyone know of a utility similar to newsyslog that will handle mbox
format files?
[...]
A a look at ports/mail/archivemail. It archives (or deletes) old mail from
mbox-files.
It does not a size-trigger, but it will process mail that is older than N days.
I run it as a cron job
We recently have been having a problem with our server rebooting
spontaneously. It seems to happen about every day or two. Never had the
problem before.. started happening about a week ago when we rebooted to
change IPs on the machine and since we were rebooting anyway, we upgraded to
the
/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/lib/libm.a: could not read
symbols: Malformed archive
Seems, that this library is broken. Does it work, if you erase /usr/obj
and re-CVSup?
Simon
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Hi,
FreeBSD 4.8 and Qt 3.1.2 compiled as is from the portscollection.
I have a brief Qt code:
[...]
Where CC is either /usr/bin/g++ or /usr/local/bin/g++33
With g++ this compiles fine.
But with g++33, I get an error, that says:
[...]
This is due to the ABI changes that were introduced
However, i have a few questions.
1. How can I set up an icon on the panel to start an X term?
2. Is there no weather aplet?
3. How can I set up an icon to start Galeon?
Although these are not FreeBSD specific questions, here is what you want
to know:
To set up an icon in the panel,
Hi,
Could you install FreeBSD on an existing version of Windows 2000
Professional and still have the option of choosing which OS to run
on your computer?
Not directly, but if you have some space on your hard drive left, you can
shrink your Windows 2000 and install FreeBSD then. They will
However, the more I use mount_smbfs or fstab,
the more I long for a GUI utility that I can
use to browse the Network Neighborhood and
mount any shares I desire under /smb or similar.
I think LinNeighbourhood is what you want. You can browse your windows
network with it, and mount shares with
Hi,
The company I work for is implementing a new firewall, and there is some
posibilty I might be able to get the apropriate ports to cvsup my FreeBSD
machines open.
Assuming pasive mode cvsup, what ports would I need open?
I think that the multiplexed mode is more appropriate for your
I have a problem in running a program compiled by CC compiler on Red
Hat Linux 8.0 plateform. It is giving binary errors. Basically the program
sends mail to specified E-Mail address on the specified server. I don't
know what is the problem, because it runs nicely on the Red Hat Linux
Hi,
I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its
end.
Is there some command in vi (or some way) by whcih ^M can be removed.
You can use dos2unix(1) for that. There is also the complementary tool
unix2dos(1).
Simon
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Hi Taulant,
I'm Taulant Galimuna, I'm from Kosovo (ex. Yugoslavia) and I'm ready to
help you if you have anything to translate or something else in Albanian...
I own a website for albanian BSD users (www.albabsd.org) and I'm trying
to help albanian users of bsd.
If you want to start an
Hi,
I just replaced sendmail with postfix. Works great, but I get this warning at
boot time (right after starting sshd, though I dont see why it would be
related to ssh):
sendmail: illegal option -- O
sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [option]
So obviously the postfix sendmail replacement
Setting up the OS itself for Arabic should be covered at least in a
general way in the Handbook (Chapter 14 Localization). OpenOffice also
includes setup routines for different languages, presumably Arabic is
included in that as well.
I just check http://www.openoffice.org, and there seems
I just check http://www.openoffice.org, and there seems to be an arabic
version of OpenOffice - but unfortunately only for MS Windows :(
Nicht wahr:
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-ar
That's true :-)
Simon
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Hi,
Hi all. I've got a server that keeps advancing it's local time by about
a minute every 3-4 days and I'm curious what steps I need to do to
syncronize the time with a given server so that it doesn't keep
advancing like this? I know I saw it mentioned at one time but now I
can't
Hi,
Is your logo copyrigthed ?
Please have a look at this page (at the buttom):
http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/gallery.html
More information on Beastie, the FreeBSD daemon is here:
http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html
Cheers,
Simon
Hi Alfonso,
please avoid top-postings - thanks.
You can easyly do it yourself. CVSup your ports collection to get the
latest postfix port, then run 'make patch' and select the desired
options (sasl, ...).
[...]
Thanks for your advice, it worked without any problems.
I tested it on a
Is there a postfix port for freebsd that includes the vda
patch from www.oavnet/vda?
You can easyly do it yourself. CVSup your ports collection to get the
latest postfix port, then run 'make patch' and select the desired
options (sasl, ...).
Now download the patch to the ports work directory,
Hi,
What do you version do you recomend for me to get since i am a major noob
and do you recomend any reading materials?
I'd recommed FreeBSD 4.8 to you, since 5.1 has still some issues.
Here is how to get FreeBSD:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html
Hi,
Hi, in my years of using freebsd i have collected alot of distfiles in
the ports tree and i want to free up some space on my harddrive and i
was wondering is there a command to delete files in the distfiles folder
that are less than the year 2000?
Or maybe there is a program that
setproctitle(3) - but I don't know how you would call it from perl.
You can do it by altering the $0 variable:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$0='Will it work?';
sleep (10);
A ps | grep 'Will' gives me:
2551 p3 SN 0:00.02 Will it work? (perl)
Regards,
Simon
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Hi,
How would I set up a users account so they are only allotted lets say 100
MB of disk space? Anything more would not be allowed and they would be
just allotted the 100 MB.
I think this page
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/quotas.html
provides the
How would I set up a users account so I could limit the number of
processes they use? For example if they are allotted 5 processes and they
start a 6th either all the processes get killed or the sixth is not
allowed, something along those lines.
Please see
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