NEdit dead outta nowhere

2002-09-30 Thread Michael Collette
Normally I'm using NEdit a LOT. It's my primary editor for darn near everything I do under FreeBSD. Just this evening NEdit decided to die on me with the error messages listed below. So far I've attempted the removal of NEdit's config files. I've forced a reinstall of open-motif, gettext

diskless - anybody got one working?

2002-09-30 Thread Nathan Kinkade
I've been attempting to get a diskless FreeBSD machine running which boots across the network using etherboot. So far, I can get the machine to boot off the etherboot created floppy and it loads the kernel across the network. However, after the kernel loads, instead of mounting the remote root

Re: NEdit dead outta nowhere

2002-09-30 Thread Weston M. Price
YESSS..finally someone else with the same problem I have been having. Though I have not been having the problem with NEdit, I have this problem with all Java related IDE's (JEdit, Eclipse, Forte etc). Solidarity you know. Weston On Monday 30 September 2002 06:44 am,

Re: diskless - anybody got one working?

2002-09-30 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: However, if I build the diskless kernel on a 4.6.2-RELEASE (the same box that I'm trying to get to boot diskless) the kernel loads and boots, but stops to ask me where the root filesystem is located. Has anybody got a diskless setup working with

Re: How to restore 'getty'

2002-09-30 Thread Roger Merritt
At 11:13 PM 9/29/02 -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote: gotta build it before you can install it. cd /usr/src/libexec/getty make depend make obj make make install just a thought, anyway. -Adam I'll give it a try. So far I haven't tried going through the chain of makefiles, but I notice the

Make always fails on new system

2002-09-30 Thread Steve Warwick
Hi All, Just starting a new system and every attempt to build / make anything fails with some kind of LD failure, followed by signal 11 errors. The install of the system seemed to go fine. Any suggestions what I have missed? -- New install: 4.6.2 from floppy / FTP On Athlon 1600 / shuttle

Re: How to restore 'getty'

2002-09-30 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I've been searching the google group without finding anything on this subject. I must be using the wrong keywords, because I remember (vaguely) seeing someone post a year or so ago how to restore something in usr.bin or usr.sbin. Well, I'll keep on trying. Section 21.4.14 of the

Re: NEdit dead - XFree86 Libs!!!

2002-09-30 Thread Michael Collette
Just a quick follow up to additional attempts to correct this problem. Turns out my installed copy of GCC was a wee bit out of date. One port revision back at most, but notable never the less. So, I got real desperate here and did the following... portupgrade gcc Then pulled down a fresh

Re: How to restore 'getty'

2002-09-30 Thread Roger Merritt
At 02:50 PM 9/30/02 +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: At 11:13 PM 9/29/02 -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote: gotta build it before you can install it. cd /usr/src/libexec/getty make depend make obj make make install just a thought, anyway. -Adam Well, that sequence of instructions seemed to work, but

Re: How to restore 'getty'

2002-09-30 Thread Roger Merritt
At 11:43 AM 9/30/02 +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I've been searching the google group without finding anything on this subject. I must be using the wrong keywords, because I remember (vaguely) seeing someone post a year or so ago how to restore something in usr.bin or usr.sbin. Well, I'll

Re: how to auto reset log limits

2002-09-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:41:09AM +, Eric Thornton wrote: I have my loglimit set to 100 entries for each ipfw rule. Is there a way in periodic.conf or such to automatically execute ipfw resetlog? My log entires fill up in about 2 days due to attempted tcp connections to http, telnet,

linux-netscape7 with java plugin?

2002-09-30 Thread cfldeneme cfldeneme
Can't i never use linux-netscape7 with java plugin?With linux-base6 netscape isn't running.With linux-base7 java plugin isn't running?Isn't there a way to solve this promlem? Thank you. __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC

Promise FastTrak TX200/SX4000

2002-09-30 Thread OCTAVIAN HORNOIU
Are the TX2000 and SX4000 cards supported under FreeBSD 4.62 or do I have to wait for the 4.7 release to purchase them? Thanks for your answers ahead of time! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: sftp / scp not working?

2002-09-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:46:13AM -0400, Adam Bender wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.6.2. I can ssh into the box fine, but sftp gives this error message: unix13:~/$ sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to machine.name... [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Received message too long 1500476704

Re: Recommend some programs for gnome + sawfish?

2002-09-30 Thread Socketd
Original Message On 9/30/02, 8:10:16 AM, Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Recommend some programs for gnome + sawfish?: cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome-fifth-toe make install clean keep in mind that most things i list below are actually part of gnome-fifth-toe. OKi

Re: sftp / scp not working?

2002-09-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:06:05AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:46:13AM -0400, Adam Bender wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.6.2. I can ssh into the box fine, but sftp gives this error message: unix13:~/$ sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to machine.name...

Re: NEdit dead outta nowhere

2002-09-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:01:19AM -0700, Michael Collette wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 07:46 pm, Weston M. Price wrote: YESSS..finally someone else with the same problem I have been having. Though I have not been having the problem with NEdit, I have this problem

Re: How to restore getty [Solved]

2002-09-30 Thread Roger Merritt
The problem that prompted my original question was that init had stalled during local package initialization and I couldn't use my console. I thought the problem was with getty not opening the terminals, but when I noticed that it stalled while running the mysql-server.sh script I recalled that I

help with portupgrade portupgrade mess?

2002-09-30 Thread A Ling
If I'd known I'd have troubles, I'd have kept a careful log of which errors occured under which conditions. Unfortunately, I tried what seemed obvious after looking at the man pages and message archives, so the following is a reconstruction from memory. After doing 'portupgrade portupgrade',

Re: /usr/ports/java/jdk

2002-09-30 Thread John Bleichert
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:33:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD LIST [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /usr/ports/java/jdk On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, John Bleichert wrote: RE: http://www.freebsd.org/java/install.html

Re: Per directory disk quotas ...

2002-09-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:12:37AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: disks of the right size, which you can then put a filesystem onto and mount in the correct place. I've seen reports that this technique works very well to limit the amount of

question about login.conf

2002-09-30 Thread Radko Keves
hi all i try to set minimum of password lenght but have problem: #cat /etc/login.conf [...] rado:\ :ignorenologin:\ :mixpasswordcase=true:\ :passwd_format=blf:\ :minpasswordlen=6:\ :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\ :welcome=/etc/motd:\

FREEBSD CD Distribution

2002-09-30 Thread John Ferrillo
Hi, Just wondering if it is legal to distribute your iso files on CD-rom. I would like to offer them for sale as a service for people without broadband connections. Basically, I would be downloading the iso's from your site and offer the service of distribution thru ebay for a reasonable

Puzzling NATD problem

2002-09-30 Thread Kim Helenius
The setting: Network topology: Internet---Campus Network---FreeBSD NATD machine---Internal host A custom kernel build including the following options: options IPFIREWALL options IPDIVERT Used the command: sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 And started natd with natd -interface xl0 Then did,

Re: Recommend some programs for gnome + sawfish?

2002-09-30 Thread Adam Weinberger
(09.30.2002 @ 0312 PST): Socketd said, in 1.2K: Original Message X-windows programs can run under gnome right? But what about kde/qt programs? (only some of them or what?) you actually have it backwards. gnome runs under X-windows. kde/qt apps run under X too. independent of gnome,

burncd rewriting cd-rw not functioning

2002-09-30 Thread Andrew Watkins
with acd0: CD-RW YAMAHA CRW8824E at ata1-master PIO4 $ burncd -f /dev/acd0c data conf/conf.iso fixate next writeable LBA 0 writing from file conf/conf.iso size 114080 KB written this track 114080 KB (100%) total 114080 KB fixating CD, please wait.. $ burncd -f /dev/acd0c data conf/conf.iso

Re: migration questions

2002-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-09-30 02:00, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 03:02:53PM -0700, Nicholas Hart wrote: Hello! I would like to migrate my linux (RedHat 7.1) server to FreeBSD. I am familiar with a lot of unix concepts, but am by no means a guru. I need some information

I'm New, Help, regarding Installation

2002-09-30 Thread Mooney Potter
To the Support Group, When I download the iso images for freebsd5, do I just burn them tot he CD? Like do I need something else to read the iso-images when I boot or does my computer? Do I just need the ISo images to install FREEbsd? -xachen

Re: I'm New, Help, regarding Installation

2002-09-30 Thread Paul Everlund
Mooney Potter wrote: To the Support Group, When I download the iso images for freebsd5, do I just burn them tot he CD? Like do I need something else to read the iso-images when I boot or does my computer? ISO-images should not be burned to a CD as data, but as an ISO. If burning as data

RE: I'm New, Help, regarding Installation

2002-09-30 Thread OCTAVIAN HORNOIU
When you burn the ISO images to the CD it converts it from the ISO format to an actual CD where files and such are present on the CD. ISO is simply a standard for exchanging images of entire CDs with other people over the internet and such. Think of it as a giant zip file. You will need to have

Re: I'm New, Help, regarding Installation

2002-09-30 Thread Brossin Pierrick
When I download the iso images for freebsd5, do I just burn them tot he CD? Like do I need something else to read the iso-images when I boot or does my computer? Do I just need the ISo images to install FREEbsd? I am not sure to understand your question but all you need to do is burn the

Re: HP Netserver LH Pro RAID logical disk

2002-09-30 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 13:56, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, I recently bought a HP Netserver LH Pro. It has a HP NetRAID controller with 5 disks attached to it (4x 9.1GB + 1x 2GB, all hotswappable). So it should have a total of 38GB of disk space. But when I look in the HP NetRAID express

Re: FREEBSD CD Distribution

2002-09-30 Thread Bob Johnson
Hi, Just wondering if it is legal to distribute your iso files on CD-rom. Yes. Unlike most Linux distributions, FreeBSD is actually free. The FreeBSD copyright ( http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/index.html ) is short and basically says you can do whatever you want with it as long as you

Re: Groups and Mutt

2002-09-30 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-28 22:24:21 -0500: In the last episode (Sep 28), Bryan Cassidy said: I have been playing around with some other options in mutt and I was just wondering this. When you first open mutt you see all your e-mails right? Well, I want to know instead of seeing ALL

set fnord foo

2002-09-30 Thread Roman Neuhauser
hi there. could anyone tell me what $subject does? i can't find any explanation. man pages for sh(1) (freebsd) and bash(1) (linux) don't mention fnord. what does it do? -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 12:42PM up 12 days, 19:57, 15 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.05, 0.08 end To

Re: named rejecting all kinds of serials

2002-09-30 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-28 22:51:08 +0200: Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-28 15:48:00 +0200: Bye the way, RFC 1912 is definitely recommended reading for anybody who operates a name server or who is responsible for zone files.

Re: how to use 'dd' to create image of a hard drive?

2002-09-30 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 03:50 PM 9.30.2002 -0500, Pranav A. Desai wrote: Hi all! Can I use something like dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 to copy every thing from first drive to the second and be able to boot from the second drive? Do I need to specify block size ? The second drive doesnt have anything on it

sis900 : sis0 attach returned 6

2002-09-30 Thread Guido Van Hoecke
Trying to install FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 on a new ECS iBuddy4 desknote with sis900 fast ethernet card. The sis900 is never attached. When I look at dmesg output, I see repeated blocks about the sis900: =

Q: continuing interrupted 'make buildworld'

2002-09-30 Thread John Mills
Freebies - I would like to restart a 'make buildworld' without deleting or recreating any unnecesary files (i.e., after messing about in the source tree). How should I do this? (Is this the effect of 'make -DNOCLEAN buildworld'?) More generally, is there some outline or the _more_important_

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2002-09-30 Thread Arseniy Parshikov
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Re: FREEBSD CD Distribution

2002-09-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:10:08PM -0400, John Ferrillo wrote: Hi, Just wondering if it is legal to distribute your iso files on CD-rom. I would like to offer them for sale as a service for people without broadband connections. Basically, I would be downloading the iso's from your

Re: how to use 'dd' to create image of a hard drive?

2002-09-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:55:36 -0500 From: Jack L. Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 03:50 PM 9.30.2002 -0500, Pranav A. Desai wrote: Hi all! Can I use something like dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 to copy every thing from first drive to the second and be

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2002-09-30 Thread Arseniy Parshikov
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Re: Unable to make the keyboard work properly

2002-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-09-30 11:32, Jorge Mario G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my problem. When I'm on the machine the keyboard works perfect, but when i conect to that box thru SSH (Putty) the keyboard is a mess; backspace is delete, delete doesnt work! nor does HOME, END. This sounds like you don't

Ports FAQ is a great read

2002-09-30 Thread Peter Leftwich
RE: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html RE2: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html This is a GREAT read, strongly recommended for newbies. One or two corrections though. The part that says Note: You must be the root

Re: how to use 'dd' to create image of a hard drive?

2002-09-30 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 05:16 PM 9.30.2002 -0400, Rob Ellis wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:55:36PM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 03:50 PM 9.30.2002 -0500, Pranav A. Desai wrote: Hi all! Can I use something like dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 to copy every thing from first drive to the second and be

Re: buildworld

2002-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-09-30 12:20, Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am trying to do a make buildworld on my machine and I don't understand a few things about it. can someone explain what the CVSROOT enviornment variable is for? is this the path to the cvsup directory... should i be doing a cvsup

Re: how to use 'dd' to create image of a hard drive?

2002-09-30 Thread David Smithson
Hi all! Can I use something like dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 Yes. This will work fine. NO! An entire image is taken of the ad0 and no labeling is necessary. It is bootable already. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator I agree with Jack. However, if you want to boot

mencoder w bsdbt848

2002-09-30 Thread Peter B
I have tried to get mencoder to capture and encode from my tv card but it won't work. Tried various options and examples from freebsd maillinglists without success. Any suggestions how to accomplish realtime capture and compression ? (possibly with other tools than mencoder..) Motherboard:

Re: how to use 'dd' to create image of a hard drive?

2002-09-30 Thread Mike Hogsett
Please anyone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that when you are using dd with a raw disk blocksize only effects performance and does not have any effect on the duplicated data. Hi ! Thank you all for your prompt replies. You have said in your replies that the bs parameter

Re: Need some ftp access advice

2002-09-30 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:25:55PM +, Socketd wrote: Hi again I am running a ftp server, I don't allow anonymous logins and I chroot all my users. The problem is that I want to hold the above settings, but still give all my users a public/joined up- and download dir, how do I do

suscribe

2002-09-30 Thread Enrique Morfin
suscribe me please tank you _ Do You Yahoo!? La emoción e intensidad del deporte en Yahoo! Deportes. http://deportes.yahoo.com.mx To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Recommend some programs for gnome + sawfish?

2002-09-30 Thread Jud
9/30/2002 12:56:39 PM, Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09.30.2002 @ 0312 PST): Socketd said, in 1.2K: [snip] Mail/word/nntp (staroffice?) openoffice/AbiWord I am just asking :-), why not Staroffice? go for it. it doesn't make too much difference. besides, i can't even get

Re: how to use 'dd' to create image of a hard drive?

2002-09-30 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 06:39 PM 9.30.2002 -0500, Pranav A. Desai wrote: Hi ! Thank you all for your prompt replies. You have said in your replies that the bs parameter should be set appropriately. Is there a way to find out appropriate block size, or any reasonable size should do, like 1k or 4k. I am asking

Re: how to use 'dd' to create image of a hard drive?

2002-09-30 Thread Richard Tobin
bs=102400 or bs=128k will dd faster though you can play with that. That's not my experience. 8k dd runs at disk speed (30-40 MB/s) on all the machines I've used recently when copying between different disks on different ATA controllers. Between disks on the same controller I only get

Re: how to use 'dd' to create image of a hard drive?

2002-09-30 Thread Rob Ellis
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:39:51PM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 05:16 PM 9.30.2002 -0400, Rob Ellis wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:55:36PM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 03:50 PM 9.30.2002 -0500, Pranav A. Desai wrote: Hi all! Can I use something like dd if=/dev/ad0

Re: How to best way to upgrade to KDE3 from ports ?

2002-09-30 Thread Michael Collette
Sean O'Neill wrote: I just noticed that the KDE2 ports are no longer in the ports tree. What the best way to upgrade to KDE3 from ports ? Do I need to delete KDE2 first and then install KDE3 ? This is one of those to bring out the big stick for... pkg_delete -rf qt-* Not a command to be

local patches with buildworld ?

2002-09-30 Thread
Dear Sirs, every time I do make buildworld, I usually apply several patches, is it possible to specify somewhere those patches ? I'm afraid I'll forget to apply them once... Regards, (îÁÉÌÕÞÛÉÅ ÐÏÖÅÌÁÎÉÑ) Ilia Chipitsine (éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

RE: 4.7 RC problem

2002-09-30 Thread Derrick Ryalls
opening up the firewall in rc.conf fixed it. I had explicitly added the firewall stuff in the kernel for router capabilities later, it just didn't click for me to explicity open it up right away. Thanks to all for the help. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: local patches with buildworld ?

2002-09-30 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
On Monday 30 September 2002 09:32 pm, éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ wrote: | Dear Sirs, | | every time I do make buildworld, I usually apply several patches, | is it possible to specify somewhere those patches ? I'm afraid I'll | forget to apply them once... Well, the patches really only need to be applied

Promise driver maintainer?

2002-09-30 Thread Octavian Hornoiu
Who is the active maintainer or person who ported the Promise driver for the latest cards from the available Linux driver? Does anyone know his name and email? I would willingly email him myself with my RAID questions if only I knew a way to find developer contact info. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: help setting up wine

2002-09-30 Thread Adam Weinberger
the freebsd diary put out a good article, i believe. either that or onlamp.com. -Adam (09.30.2002 @ 1913 PST): SweeTLeaF said, in 1.5K: Hello , Setting up wine? I just installed wine from the 4-stable packages and need some guidance on setting it up. The host i installed

DCOPserver:failed inter process communication

2002-09-30 Thread Vinod
Hi there.I was trying to use the kill $! command to kill the last process but instead did a kill $? by mistake and from then on my interprocess communication doesnt start. i get the following message There was an error setting up inter-process Communications for KDE.The message returned by the

Re: Ports FAQ is a great read

2002-09-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: make install clean is the same thing as: make install ; make clean It's a bit closer to make install make clean. (09.30.2002 @ 1539 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 1.5K: and why make can take different commands in the first place. It doesn't

make buildworld -- ERROR

2002-09-30 Thread MET
I've cvsuped to -STABLE. So now following a tutorial in the FreeBSD Unleashed book I'ved simply entered one command. # make buildworld After about 5 minutes it fails horribly. cc -O -pipe -DIN_GCC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPREFIX=\/usr\

program to create partial invisable gifs

2002-09-30 Thread David Banning
Is there anything in the ports to create a gif image with invisable edges? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Ports FAQ is a great read

2002-09-30 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-30 18:39:16 -0400: RE: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html RE2: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html This is a GREAT read, strongly recommended for newbies. One or two corrections