Re: Question about ports

2004-10-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
Pierre LeBlanc wrote: Hello, I'm new to the port collection and updating ports with CVSup but I managed to update the ports of my FreeBSD 4.10 system using CVSup. Now, I want to upgrade Perl to version 5.6 and I notice there is a perl5 port in the list I`ve seen on:

Re: question reguarding Evolution...

2004-09-30 Thread stheg olloydson
It was said (with broken MS formatting): X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 Im running 4.10 right now and even since 4.9 and lower i have had this = problem. Im running 1.4.6 right now... the latest as of last night form ports. = (9/29/2004) Basicly what is happening is it

Re: Question

2004-09-26 Thread Simon Barner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regards, I have one question. When will come FreeBSD 5.3 release ? If you can tell me approximately date.. When it's ready. The schedule is here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html pgpi7tLJBMEds.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question

2004-09-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 01:15:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one question. When will come FreeBSD 5.3 release ? If you can tell me approximately date.. Plan is 10th October. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr

Re: question

2004-09-26 Thread Bill Moran
raju raju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % man 1 chmo whaT does (%) sign means here? root ,user or something else? % is the prompt. In the FreeBSD docs, the % prompt means the example was done as root, while the $ prompt means that the example was done as a normal user. Most shells have

Re: question

2004-09-26 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: % man 1 chmo whaT does (%) sign means here? root ,user or something else? Note ! [greypixel.gif] Alternatively please send me mails on [i.p.emphone.gif] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and also please add me in your messenger [greypixel.gif] Hello, The % is the shell prompt. It

Re: Question

2004-09-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 08:16:39PM -0400, Hotmail wrote: I Bought from you FreeBSD 4.10 v, my main concern after I installed it in my laptop I have trouble defining my network wireless card Linksys wireless -B and the network, How can I do that?. Also Do I need the device wi0?, and how can I

Re: Question

2004-09-18 Thread Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ! Can i get one subdomain for domain freebsd.org ? I need subdomain for my personal freebsd page... If i can get it, then please add subdomain: security.freebsd.org - 193.77.58.94 Thanks Urh Lednik Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Urh Lednik Partizanska Cesta 15 2392,

Re: Question

2004-09-18 Thread stheg olloydson
It was said: Hi, I Bought from you FreeBSD 4.10 v, my main concern after I installed it in my laptop I have trouble defining my network wireless card Linksys wireless -B and the network, How can I do that?. Also Do I need the device wi0?, and how can I find it? Sincerely, Ramez. Hello,

Re: Question

2004-09-16 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thursday 16 September 2004 08:38, Doug Paquette wrote: To whom it may concern at Free BSD, I was wondering if you have the Handbook in a PDF format that I can download to make it easier to print the hand book out? Thanks much Doug ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/handbook --

Re: Question

2004-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:38:19AM -0500, Doug Paquette wrote: I was wondering if you have the Handbook in a PDF format that I can download to make it easier to print the hand book out? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It's available there in several

Re: Question

2004-09-16 Thread nbco
On Thursday 16 September 2004 15:44, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:38:19AM -0500, Doug Paquette wrote: I was wondering if you have the Handbook in a PDF format that I can download to make it easier to print the hand book out?

Re: question

2004-09-16 Thread Mike Woods
Vulpes Velox wrote: I know it can easily handle 160GB drives as I have some. It should handle 200GB just fine. I've got a 250gb happily running in my fileserver, has been for a good while now :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL

Re: question

2004-09-15 Thread Luke
Hello, I'm new in freebsd..and want to ask something. 1. Can freebsd handle more than 80 giga Harddisk? (maybe I want to use 100-200 Giga HD for data) 2. If I plugin a new harddisk, can be outomatic detect or I use do manual configuration? Thank you, best Regards, Dave I started using 160GB

Re: question

2004-09-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
dave wrote: Hello, I'm new in freebsd..and want to ask something. 1. Can freebsd handle more than 80 giga Harddisk? (maybe I want to use 100-200 Giga HD for data) 2. If I plugin a new harddisk, can be outomatic detect or I use do manual configuration? Thank you, best Regards, Dave 1. Of

Re: question

2004-09-15 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:50:15 +0700 dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm new in freebsd..and want to ask something. 1. Can freebsd handle more than 80 giga Harddisk? (maybe I want to use 100-200 Giga HD for data) 2. If I plugin a new harddisk, can be outomatic detect or I use do

Re: Question about FreeBSD.

2004-09-10 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 04:03:37PM +, Johan Claesson wrote: Hi, I'm quite new to the world of linux, and I are going to set up a linux server, and I'm looking aroud for a good linux system, and I find FreeBSD quite interesting. Does FreeBSD have a X-mode and is it easy to handle? Whats

RE: Question about FreeBSD.

2004-09-10 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, I'm quite new to the world of linux, and I are going to set up a linux server, and I'm looking aroud for a good linux system, and I find FreeBSD quite interesting. Does FreeBSD have a X-mode and is it easy to handle? Whats the difference between FreeBSD, Slackware and Redhat?

Re: Question about FreeBSD.

2004-09-10 Thread Tom Cook
Johan, First of all, welcome! FreeBSD isn't a distribution of linux, actually. FreeBSD is a derived from an entirely different code base than Linux is. These days, though, they share many common features and also differ in many areas. To answer your questions; yes, FreeBSD does have full X

Re: Question about FreeBSD.

2004-09-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I'm quite new to the world of linux, and I are going to set up a linux server, and I'm looking aroud for a good linux system, and I find FreeBSD quite interesting. Does FreeBSD have a X-mode and is it easy to handle? Whats the difference between FreeBSD, Slackware and Redhat? As you

Re: Question about FreeBSD.

2004-09-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 04:03:37PM +, Johan Claesson wrote: Hi, I'm quite new to the world of linux, and I are going to set up a linux server, and I'm looking aroud for a good linux system, and I find FreeBSD quite interesting. Does FreeBSD have a X-mode and is it easy to handle? Whats

Re: Question about FreeBSD.

2004-09-10 Thread yuri van Overmeeren
Johan Claesson wrote: Hi, I'm quite new to the world of linux, and I are going to set up a linux server, and I'm looking aroud for a good linux system, and I find FreeBSD quite interesting. Does FreeBSD have a X-mode and is it easy to handle? Whats the difference between FreeBSD, Slackware and

Re: Question about Wireless USB Adapter

2004-09-03 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Friday 03 September 2004 00:21, Vince Hoffman wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:53, Will Lieu wrote: Hello, I was just wondering if FreeBSD is going/does it support the following Wireless USB Adapter: Netgear MA111. If not

Re: Question about Wireless USB Adapter

2004-09-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Friday 03 September 2004 00:21, Vince Hoffman wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:53, Will Lieu wrote: Hello, I was just wondering if FreeBSD is going/does it support the

Re: Question about Wireless USB Adapter

2004-09-02 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:53, Will Lieu wrote: Hello, I was just wondering if FreeBSD is going/does it support the following Wireless USB Adapter: Netgear MA111. If not do you know where I can get the drivers for this? I've searched around around and seemed to come up empty. Your

Re: Question about Wireless USB Adapter

2004-09-02 Thread Peter Risdon
Will Lieu wrote: Hello, I was just wondering if FreeBSD is going/does it support the following Wireless USB Adapter: Netgear MA111. If not do you know where I can get the drivers for this? I've searched around around and seemed to come up empty. Your reply would be greatly appreciated. I

Re: question about /var/spool/clientmqueue

2004-09-02 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, [gb2312] joshua wrote: Hi, all I found there is a directory named /var/spool/clientmqueue and many many file below this directory, what's use of this directory and the files under it? thanks. When submitting mail by using sendmail as a mail submission program,

Re: question about /var/spool/clientmqueue

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:09:21PM +0800, joshua wrote: I found there is a directory named /var/spool/clientmqueue and many many file below this directory, what's use of this directory and the files under it? That's part of the workings of sendmail. /var/spool/clientmqueue is the holding

Re: question about /var/spool/clientmqueue

2004-09-02 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004, joshua wrote: Hi, all I found there is a directory named /var/spool/clientmqueue and many many file below this directory, what's use of this directory and the files under it? thanks. From SECURITY.gz you get: [...] Mail will end up in the client queue if the

Re: Question on ATM w/ FreeBSD

2004-08-30 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: Can I plug in an ATM DS3 into something like a Cisco Lightstream LS1010 with a DS3 card, then plug a PC running FreeBSD and Quagga, with a Marconi Forerunner HE155 using the fatm() driver, into a OC3 card on the LS1010, then define a VC, switch it through the switch, and run data

Re: Question for the PPP wizards (AKA: RoadRunner dial-up woes)

2004-08-23 Thread Doug Poland
Doug Poland said: Hello, I get the 1st capital P in Ppp, but then the session hangs as it waits for: Aug 23 20:03:18 eden ppp[738]: tun0: Phase: Chap Input: CHALLENGE (16 bytes from rrlns1-mc1) Aug 23 20:03:18 eden ppp[738]: tun0: Phase: Chap Output: RESPONSE () I don't know what to

Re: Question about backing up filesystem/boot disk

2004-08-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
I have recently built a 1.7TB file storage server for our digital lab and I was wondering what the easiest way to backup the SCSI boot disk to the RAID5 array would be? I was thinking something along the lines of dd if=/dev/X of=/array/fbsd5disk or similar... if anyone can give me

Re: question...

2004-07-27 Thread Remko Lodder
lucky wrote: do you provide also C-sources of your utilities on your web-page? if yes, where can i find them? thank you PS: i know, my english is not very good :-( ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: question...

2004-07-27 Thread Remko Lodder
lucky wrote: do you provide also C-sources of your utilities on your web-page? if yes, where can i find them? thank you PS: i know, my english is not very good :-( And please, fixup your mailserver, it loops back to yourself :-) (private mailing wont work i am afraid) -- Kind regards, Remko

Re: question...

2004-07-27 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:33:44 +0200 (CEST) lucky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you provide also C-sources of your utilities on your web-page? if yes, where can i find them? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user

Re: question...

2004-07-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 27), lucky said: do you provide also C-sources of your utilities on your web-page? if yes, where can i find them? Yes; you can browse the source at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/, or download it from ftp.freebsd.org, or fetch it online and keep up-to-date with

Re: question...

2004-07-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
do you provide also C-sources of your utilities on your web-page? if yes, where can i find them? in installation. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: question

2004-07-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
greetings! just wanted to ask the meaning of BSD,is it an example of operating system?what are the features of operating system? Your best bet is to go to the FreeBSD web site and start following some of the links and reading. There is a lot of historical and technical information that can

Re: Question about cvs-all mail list

2004-07-12 Thread Simon Barner
BSDjunkie wrote: Hello all! Seems like there is a lot of activity on the cvs-all mailing list...however I was wondering what the information that passes through that list can do for me? I am not a developer and do not wish to track the 'bleeding edge'. Other than telling me what

Re: Question reguarding /etc/hosts

2004-07-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-07-02 01:45, j0sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a quake 1 server installed on my 4.9 release box. it works when I disable UDP support, but it core dumps when its enabled. I was told to check the /etc/hosts and make sure there is an entry ther for my machine and its there. any

Re: Question reguarding /etc/hosts

2004-07-02 Thread j0sh
:33 PM Subject: Re: Question reguarding /etc/hosts On 2004-07-02 13:20, j0sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-07-02 01:45, j0sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a quake 1 server installed on my 4.9 release box. it works when I disable UDP support

RE: Question about HP drivers

2004-07-01 Thread Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC)
Peter, but my FreeBSD Version is this: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #7 -Original Message- From: Peter Risdon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Martes, 22 de Junio de 2004 16:42 To: Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC) Cc: 'Lucas Holt'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Question about HP drivers I sent this off

Re: question

2004-06-26 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:17:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please i need driver nic compaq prosignia 200 for unix sco R 3.2 V 4.2 Does this use an integrated Netelligent controller? If so, I believe they use the Texas Instruments ThunderLAN chipset, which uses the tl driver.

Re: Question about KVM switch

2004-06-24 Thread Hillman Dai
--- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hillman Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have just installed the FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm using a KVM switch to share the monitor, mouse and keyboard. I could managed to use keyboard while the mouse still doesn't work. Could you help me to

Re: Question about HP drivers

2004-06-22 Thread Lucas Holt
Is the ethernet chipset listed as supported on freebsd.org? What version of freebsd are you using? On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC) wrote: Hi Folks, we have installed two FreeBSD, is been used as firewall, but own equipment were upgraded and now have HP Compaq d530C/P2 but

RE: Question about HP drivers

2004-06-22 Thread Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC)
To: Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC) Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Question about HP drivers Is the ethernet chipset listed as supported on freebsd.org? What version of freebsd are you using? On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC) wrote: Hi Folks, we have installed two FreeBSD, is been

Re: Question about HP drivers

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Risdon
I sent this off-list, but it would be better here. Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC) wrote: FreeBSD 4.5 Is the ethernet chipset listed as supported on freebsd.org? What version of freebsd are you using? On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC) wrote: Hi Folks, we have installed two FreeBSD,

Re: Question about KVM switch

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Hillman Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have just installed the FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm using a KVM switch to share the monitor, mouse and keyboard. I could managed to use keyboard while the mouse still doesn't work. Could you help me to solve the problem? What kind of command I

Re: Question about KVM switch

2004-06-21 Thread Pavel Duda
Hillman Dai wrote: Hi all, I have just installed the FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm using a KVM switch to share the monitor, mouse and keyboard. I could managed to use keyboard while the mouse still doesn't work. Could you help me to solve the problem? What kind of command I could use to check and

Re: Question regarding reported directory sizes.

2004-05-25 Thread Cordula's Web
I have a very large directory (say, a mail spool) whose directory entry is approx 606K.. drwx-- 5 cyrus cyrus 606208 May 25 10:29 . Now.. That directory had a lot of files in it. However, after deleting all of the files in that directory, the directory entry's size stays the same.

Re: Question regarding reported directory sizes.

2004-05-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 25), Jason DiCioccio said: I know this question may seem silly.. However, here's my scenario. I have a very large directory (say, a mail spool) whose directory entry is approx 606K.. drwx-- 5 cyrus cyrus 606208 May 25 10:29 . Now.. That directory had a lot

Re: Question regarding reported directory sizes.

2004-05-25 Thread Jason DiCioccio
Thanks Dan.. However, this does not appear to be happening... I could of course create a new directory and move everything into it as was suggested earlier. However, this is more of a curiosity thing than anything.. I'm wondering if at any point the entry does become truncated, because it

Re: Question regarding reported directory sizes.

2004-05-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 25), Jason DiCioccio said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (May 25), Jason DiCioccio said: I have a very large directory (say, a mail spool) whose directory entry is approx 606K.. drwx-- 5 cyrus cyrus 606208 May 25 10:29 . Now.. That directory

Re: Question re: eventual upgrade to 5-Stable

2004-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 02:13:35PM -0700, Robert Carr wrote: Is there any update as to when 5-stable might be released? Is 5.3 expected to be forked as 5-Stable? That is still the plan according to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/index.html However, dates

Re: Question re: eventual upgrade to 5-Stable

2004-05-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Robert Carr wrote: Is there any update as to when 5-stable might be released? Is 5.3 expected to be forked as 5-Stable? The last I heard, yes, 5.3 is expected to become 5-STABLE. Release schedules are harder to call. :-/ If I build a FreeBSD 5 server for home use (Postfix, Apache) and use

Re: Question Regarding the Applicability of the GNU General Public License / GNU Library General Public License

2004-05-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 01:04:06PM -0500, Hatteberg, David J non Unisys wrote: I just went to the FreeBSD website (www.freebsd.org), and went to the The FreeBSD Copyright and Legal Information section. I see that two of the possible links are to the GNU General Public License and the GNU

Re: Question for the list about install BSD4.9 from FTP over CD

2004-05-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
If I were to install FreeBSD by doing FTP rather than from a disc, will I get updated sources EG: install 4.9 release, which doesn't support my nic right off, but there is an update driver that does For the base system and source you would get whatever it was at the time it was made in

Re: Question for the list about install BSD4.9 from FTP over CD

2004-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:46:02PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: If I were to install FreeBSD by doing FTP rather than from a disc, will I get updated sources EG: install 4.9 release, which doesn't support my nic right off, but there is an update driver that does For the base

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

2004-04-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i found out a very important thing. one is best off having the top directory owned by the group you want to have access. mine was owned by wheel. no problem for those of us in that particular group! Peter Risdon wrote: Peter Risdon wrote: There's a useful guide to configuring samba at:

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

2004-04-17 Thread Peter Risdon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have been having problems with a SAMBA shared directory and user permissions. My smb.conf file is simple and allows for members of 'wwwdev' access the directory, and they can when i test it, but we get all kinds of problems with the permissions on various files

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

2004-04-17 Thread Anthony carmody
Peter Risdon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have been having problems with a SAMBA shared directory and user permissions. My smb.conf file is simple and allows for members of 'wwwdev' access the directory, and they can when i test it, but we get all kinds of problems with the

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

2004-04-17 Thread Peter Risdon
Anthony carmody wrote: Peter Risdon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have been having problems with a SAMBA shared directory and user permissions. My smb.conf file is simple and allows for members of 'wwwdev' access the directory, and they can when i test it, but we get all kinds of

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

2004-04-17 Thread Peter Risdon
Peter Risdon wrote: There's a useful guide to configuring samba at: http://hr.oregon.edu/davidrl/samba/server.html Whoops. http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/server.html PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

2004-04-17 Thread Peter Risdon
Peter Risdon wrote: create mode 0774 # Windows clients that seems to require the extra bit And just to correct my own gibberish (maybe I need some coffee): create mode = 0774 # Windows clients seem to require the extra bit PWR. ___ [EMAIL

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

2004-04-17 Thread Eric Heintzberger
This is how I would do it, assuming I understand you correctly: [wwwdev] comment = Virtual Web Servers HTTP dirs path = /usr/wwwdev browseable = yes # So that new files are created with 0664 mode -- force create mode = 0664 # So that new directories are created with 0775 mode -- force directory

Re: Question

2004-04-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 17 April 2004 at 7:21:56 +0400, SerVit wrote: Hello! I have laptop Dell Inspiron 1100. I want install any *nix OS on it, but I'm newbye. There is network adapter Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller on this laptop. I cann't install this adapter. This adaptor is

Re: Question about the Linksys EG1032V2

2004-04-15 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Apr 14, 2004, at 5:58 PM, John Barbieri wrote: Hello there list. I was wondering if anyone has found a driver or knows a way of getting the Linksys EG1032V2 gigabit Ethernet card to work under FreeBSD 4.9RC-2 I posted about this a few days ago. No response. I bought 2 of them and I seemed

Re: Question about port update

2004-04-05 Thread frank cheong
Check this link out http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html --- Petr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello. I installed freeBSD 5.0 on my computer, but packages in this OS is very old. How Can update one installed package, because command pkg_update don't work.

Re: Question about port update

2004-04-04 Thread Remko Lodder
Petr wrote: Hello. I installed freeBSD 5.0 on my computer, but packages in this OS is very old. How Can update one installed package, because command pkg_update don't work. please wrap your lines a bit(this was a very long line) Install cvsup from the /usr/ports directory, then read:

Re: Question about port update

2004-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 03:47:51AM +0400, Petr wrote: Hello. I installed freeBSD 5.0 on my computer, but packages in this OS is very old. How Can update one installed package, because command pkg_update don't work. The first thing you need to do is update your OS to a newer version (i.e.

Re: Question about something in ports/CHANGES file (re: upgrading MySQL)

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:10:38PM -0800, Paul D. Schmidt wrote: Where can I find more information about the following? (Taken from /usr/ports/CHANGES) 20040204: ... The ports system now supports MySQL 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0. Also, the ability to scale to newer versions was also

Re: Question

2004-03-18 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Adam wrote: I am very new to this and I have installed the FreeBSD on my computer. What is the command that you use to launch the GUI that is installed with this?? (I think it was Xfree86 or Xwindows) Assuming you have everything properly installed you only need to execute the: startx

Re: Question

2004-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am very new to this and I have installed the FreeBSD on my computer. What is the command that you use to launch the GUI that is installed with this?? (I think it was Xfree86 or Xwindows) Thank you for helping me to learn about this technology. Probably you are looking for startx But,

Re: Question

2004-03-18 Thread Terry L. Tyson Jr.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 04:17:14PM +, carlos.rocha wrote: Hi, Does FreeBSD 4.9 support the Adaptec SCSI Controller 29320R and A2120S? Thank you for your attention, Bye Look in: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.9R/hardware.html -- Terry L. Tyson Jr. Baytown, Texas USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question on OpenSSL

2004-03-18 Thread Chris
On Thursday 18 March 2004 11:23 am, J.D. Bronson wrote: I noticed of course the patch out for OpenSSL...is there anyway to patch openssl and not have to make world? I have done a tremendous amount of custom binary installs and know that this would blow up if I tried it. My other OSs that I

Re: Question

2004-03-18 Thread Jud
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:21:52 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am very new to this and I have installed the FreeBSD on my computer. What is the command that you use to launch the GUI that is installed with this?? (I think it was Xfree86 or Xwindows) Thank you

Re: Question about the build process

2004-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Alina Groulx wrote: I have been asked to do a software assessment on FreeBSD. So what I normally do is use a script to wrap around the build process normally Makefiles. What I do is run a make -i and just read the build process. I have noticed that you do not have a general configure script to

Re: question about hardware configuration

2004-03-10 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:07:41 +0100 Rafa³ Janas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've got a problem. I try to copy files per local network (freebsd is router/server) to/from samba. Is goes OK but when I copy about 50MB freebsd hands up! This same problem is when freebsd is working for

Re: question on cut/paste in Gnome.

2004-02-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:31:56PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I've got Gnome set up as my default GUI on my new DNS server. (Seems much improved over the older RH8 version.) But how do I paste things? Clicking with first/third mouse buttons designate the string or area

Re: question on cut/paste in Gnome.

2004-02-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:38:54AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:31:56PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I've got Gnome set up as my default GUI on my new DNS server. (Seems much improved over the older RH8 version.) But how do I paste things? Clicking with

Re: Question in regards to software verification...

2004-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jason Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is going to sound incredibly new, but i've never understood how to completely verify software that you download. For instance, a new Security Advisory was released today regarding the shmat reference counting bug One thing that I thought of

Re: Question on cvsuping ports tree

2004-02-01 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was reading a article at www.onlamp.com in the FreeBSD section regarding the use of the portupgrade package. As I was reading the article, it stated that everytime you cvsup your ports tree, your /usr/ports/INDEX file should

Re: Question about Postfix + Cyrus-IMAPD

2004-01-26 Thread Reko Turja
- Original Message - From: Jason Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been able to get Postfix and Cyrus to gel correctly with my recent testing. However, I have a question about one thing that continues to pop up my my message logs. Jan 26 09:48:19 obsidian

RE: question

2004-01-15 Thread Mazen S. Alzogbi
# mount /cdrom # umount /cdrom to unmount Cheers, Mazen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of faina bogdan Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: question how can I mount the cd-rom under freebsd 4.9 as

Re: question

2004-01-15 Thread Simon Barner
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

Re: Question about Cyrus IMAP

2004-01-08 Thread Ed Budd
Cyrus-imapd is somewhat unique in that it uses its own database for mail. This means you don't need local user accounts. However, it does take more work to set up. If you've already successfully installed cyrus-imapd (and all its dependencies) from the ports collection, you need to: cd

Re: Question on port usage

2004-01-07 Thread Mathieu Arnold
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:32:23AM -0800, Jason Williams wrote: Hi Mathieu, Thanks for your reply. I do appreciate. You bring up a interesting point, regarding cyrus-sasl. Since cyrus-sasl is a dependency of cyrus-imapd, if I wanted to add some additional options to have cyrus-sasl

Re: Question on port usage

2004-01-07 Thread Jez Hancock
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:13:24AM -0800, Jason Williams wrote: I was reading through 'Absolute BSD' last night and was reading up on the section on port's. I was unaware that with ports, you can actually edit the makefile to add certain options at installation time. Sorta like ./configure

Re: Question about static libraries and compression

2003-12-27 Thread Daniela
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:24, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:32:04 + Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: I have a problem with linking: When I invoke make, I always give it the -DNOSTATIC option on the commandline to save space. However, this

Re: Question about static libraries and compression

2003-12-24 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:32:04 + Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: I have a problem with linking: When I invoke make, I always give it the -DNOSTATIC option on the commandline to save space. However, this doesn't work. My system still builds static libraries. Or are the binaries

Re: Re: Question on PS/2 Wheelmouse through KVM

2003-12-24 Thread Scott W
User wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2003 02:22, Scott W wrote: Via PS2 and through the KVM, it appears there's nothing I've found yet that will enable the wheel, although the wheel 'button' itself works. Are you sure that this part is located in your /etc/X11/XF86config file?: Section

Re: Question on PS/2 Wheelmouse through KVM

2003-12-24 Thread Charles Howse
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 12:03 pm, Scott W wrote: User wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2003 02:22, Scott W wrote: Via PS2 and through the KVM, it appears there's nothing I've found yet that will enable the wheel, although the wheel 'button' itself works. Are you sure that this

Re: Question about static libraries and compression

2003-12-23 Thread Daniela
On Tuesday 23 December 2003 17:44, User wrote: Hi, To be honest, I don't really know about the static libraries question. But other then that, when you install FreeBSD, and choose for the smallest configuration possible during the installation, are you taking up more then 700 MB of space

Re: Question on Web/Content Management packages

2003-12-21 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:33:03PM -0500, Scott W wrote: Hey all- while this isn't a FreeBSD specific question, I'm hoping someone may have an answere or two for me, for a system that's capable of running on FreeBSD. I've done a fair amount of searching (Google, FreshMeat, lists) and I

Re: [Question] Updating from 5.0 to 5.1 stable...

2003-12-21 Thread Oliver Fischer
Hello Greg, Greg Bernard wrote: I would like to know if some of you have tried to update from the 5.0 Release to the 5.1 Stable on i386. If so, how has it been going [ok; not ok] and why ? Yes, I have done multiple times. Would you advise someone to update if It has no particular problem with

Re: Question about daily run output

2003-12-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
samy lancher wrote: Hello, I have freeBSD 4.5 server. I check daily run output sent by server everyday. I notice some change in the output from past few days. In Checking for rejected mail hosts: I see following output: 14 miltnews.com 1 ohhello.com 1 OUTGOING25.myaccountemail.com 1

Re: Question about ports...

2003-12-11 Thread C. Ulrich
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:04, Payne wrote: Hi, I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't want to have to reinstall ports everytime I add something new. Thanks, Payne Does postnuke require a

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Staroscik
I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't want to have to reinstall ports everytime I add something new. I recently installed PHPNuke and have some observations that might be relevant to your situation.

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER
Given PHPNuke's security track record, I would say that this is sound advice. I would suggest going from the latest source as well. Chris Matt Staroscik wrote: I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread Pete Renshaw
Did you try make install FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes clean See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.1-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html Many people don't know to use the =yes for FORCE_PKG_REGISTER. After you get Postnuke installed you may have to make these

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