Re: cable modem

2003-07-16 Thread Vulpes Velox
1: plug everything in 2: figure out what the device name of the nic is 3: set your machine up to use the nic and dhcp /etc/rc.conf is where you will want to put that so it will be taken care of upon boot On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:52:07 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am a new to unix, not sure how

Re: hrmmm....?

2003-07-16 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Neu, Benjamin S. wrote: I hope this isn't to broad of a question, but I just installed Apache13 on my box (FreeBSD 5.1) the build went like butter... but can't start the server? # /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started unless apachectl configtest

Re: BitTorrent for Freebsd??

2003-07-16 Thread Vulpes Velox
Yeah... /usr/ports/py-bittorrent On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:30:48 -0400 Dragoncrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a copy of BitTorrent that will run on Freebsd? Is it in the Ports cause if it is, I certainly haven't found it yet. I'd like to run my BT downloads on my bsd box as

RE: hrmmm....?

2003-07-16 Thread Neu, Benjamin S.
Atención: I have fixed the problem, hours ago, but thanks. -B -Original Message- From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:06 AM To: Neu, Benjamin S. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: hrmmm? On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Neu, Benjamin S. wrote:

RE: hrmmm....?

2003-07-16 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Neu, Benjamin S. wrote: Atención: I have fixed the problem, hours ago, but thanks. -B No trouble - i missed that ! Dw. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-16 Thread Benzi Mizrahi
, 15 2003, 22:01, Libby Charles-CCL044 : And Kill -9 as root does not do it? Do a ps -ef to see which is the parent process and kill the parent as long as it is not init (piid 1) Servers need not run KDE... -Original Message- From: Neu, Benjamin S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

No /proc or procfs by default in 5.1-RELEASE ... why ?

2003-07-16 Thread Josh Brooks
Hello, As I am sure many have noticed, a default installation of 5.1-RELEASE will leave you with no procfs mounted at /proc, and no entry in /etc/fstab for a procfs. Is this by design ? Is it better to not run /proc on 5.x ? What are the consequences of running without a procfs on 5.x ? OR

Re: getting the mdate of a file

2003-07-16 Thread jan.muenther
Hello, So, question 1 is how do I get the last mod date of a file? if you're running 4.x, you could install the /usr/ports/sysutils/stat port - it's in base in 5.x. Gives you the MAC times of any given file. Question 2 is, is there a better way that I'm missing? See Dan's answer.

Re: /var/run/ pid files

2003-07-16 Thread Supote Leelasupphakorn
--- Ronny Hippler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, What controls the creation of the pid files in the /var/run/ directory? every time I shut down I get the error: bftpd.pid: No such file or directory therefore I am not getting a clean shutdown on bftpd, no biggie but annoying. I am

Re: Re: scp+find, a little help please

2003-07-16 Thread jan.muenther
Hello, Well, I tried both the standford tarballs and the ports' stuff. Both fail with this. Does anybody know what I need to do to fix this? ...Before I scrounge around in the code, that is... . Well, dunno, really - I didn't cvsup my ports and tried to build it,

Re: BitTorrent for Freebsd??

2003-07-16 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 July 2003 07:30, Dragoncrest wrote: Is there a copy of BitTorrent that will run on Freebsd? Is it in the Ports cause if it is, I certainly haven't found it yet. I'd like to run my BT downloads on my bsd box as that's the

Re: BitTorrent for Freebsd??

2003-07-16 Thread Joshua Lokken
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 July 2003 07:30, Dragoncrest wrote: Is there a copy of BitTorrent that will run on Freebsd? Is it in the Ports cause if it is, I certainly haven't found it yet. I'd like to run my BT downloads on my

Re: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-16 Thread daniela5743
Are you by any chance using the NVIDIA supplied drivers? I had exactly the same symptoms with X freezing, especially when doing something that puts a bit of load on the system. The recent upgrade to the drivers actually made things worse. In the short term, the only way to get the

HP LaserJet 1000

2003-07-16 Thread Henrik Poulsen
Hi all, Did anyone get the HP LaserJet 1000 to work under FreeBSD? I am running a dual-boot system. Under Windows XP my LaserJet 1000 works just fine. But under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE I cannot get it to work. When I boot, FreeBSD recognizes the USB and the printer. ohci0: SiS 5571 USB controller

Re: CDRom able to play DVD movies

2003-07-16 Thread ydg
I think ive heard thru the same grapevine as you about such a contraption. i have no idea if something of this nature exists or not. and initial logic makes me think [exactly as previously stated] cd drives, are hardware for cd's. and only dvd's drive has the necessary extra hardware to read

Re: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-16 Thread Jan Grant
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have NVIDIA drivers. Is there any known bug in the ATI Radeon driver? I rebooted, and all I have is the saved output from fstat, no core dump. Is this enough to find out what was wrong? Can I reproduce it under controlled circumstances?

Re: What shuld fsck -p report if all is well for a single AD0 disk?

2003-07-16 Thread keith
HI Dan and thanks, So do I read you correct that the NO WRITE is what I should see? Keith In the last episode (Jul 16), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi all In su mode, I do fsck -p and it tells me the system is NO WRITE. Is this correct? If I read the docs rightly...it is? Signed dazed and

Dead keys on console

2003-07-16 Thread Jacob Vennervald Madsen
Hi I'm fairly new to FreeBSD (with Linux experience). My problem is that I want to have a danish keyboard layout with dead keys on my console but I can only get the danish keyboard to work. I've tried different things, but I can't get the â, ã, é, è etc. characters working. Can anybody help me?

Re: second cd drive sound

2003-07-16 Thread Karel J. Bosschaart
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:38:43PM +1000, frank brierley wrote: Hi, I have a freebsd 4.8 machine a dvd player and a cd writer installed. Freebsd can mount data disks on both drives /dev/acd0c and /dev/acd1a - I'm not sure what the 'a' and 'c' do. Both drives have the audio lines

Re: learning PHP - book idea?

2003-07-16 Thread Jez Hancock
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:21:43PM -0800, admin wrote: I have years of perl experience and PHP has been easy to pick up. however, I am looking for a good book that can bring me way up to speed in choping htis stuff up better. any recommendations there? If you can get hold of the first

Re: No /proc or procfs by default in 5.1-RELEASE ... why ?

2003-07-16 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:42:49PM -0700, Josh Brooks typed: Hello, As I am sure many have noticed, a default installation of 5.1-RELEASE will leave you with no procfs mounted at /proc, and no entry in /etc/fstab for a procfs. Is this by design ? Yes Is it better to not run /proc on

Re: Building 5.1-RELEASE on 4.8

2003-07-16 Thread John Morgan Salomon
Hi Jeremy, thanks for the tip I did this, but still get the following (several times): bpthread/thread/thr_aio_suspend.c -o thr_aio_suspend.o In file included from /usr/src-5.1/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_private.h:53, from

Complete FreeBSD the same as the online handbook?

2003-07-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have a question: The complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey seems to be very good documentation on FreeBSD and it's mentioned often in this NG. Am I right to assume that this is the printed equivalent of the online handbook? If not, how can I obtain a printed copy of the handbook other than printing

Complete FreeBSD the same as the online handbook?

2003-07-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
This message is sent again as I had forgotten to trim te settings in my newly installed sylpheed (I'm sorry about the former one) = I have a question: The complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey seems to be very good documentation on FreeBSD and it's mentioned often in this NG. Am I right

Re: Complete FreeBSD the same as the online handbook?

2003-07-16 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:50:19PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: This message is sent again as I had forgotten to trim te settings in my newly installed sylpheed (I'm sorry about the former one) = I have a question: The complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey seems to be very good

Re: Complete FreeBSD the same as the online handbook?

2003-07-16 Thread Voicu Liviu
dick hoogendijk wrote: This message is sent again as I had forgotten to trim te settings in my newly installed sylpheed (I'm sorry about the former one) = I have a question: The complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey seems to be very good documentation on FreeBSD and it's mentioned often

Re: Problems with Samba shared files

2003-07-16 Thread stan
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:30:30AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Hmm. I would either think it a bug for Samba to be unable to tell MSWindows that it had a file open for read, or a rather advanced technique for Samba to be able to understand from simply mounting the share as read-only that it

Webmin - I broke the installed port How do I fix it on FBSD?

2003-07-16 Thread keith
Hi all, I upgraded webmin to 1.1 and filemanager java was bad. So I (unwisely) did a bit of hacking to remove webmin and try to reinstall a earlier version... I hacked out the conf folder and /usr/lcoa/webmin (I think) NOw installing from ports again it Webmin complains Failed to write to

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring

2003-07-16 Thread Andrey Simonenko
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:32:26 + (UTC) in lucky.freebsd.questions, David Loszewski wrote: Say I have a 20GB Data Transfer limit per month, is there a way to monitor how much of that limit I've used up? MRTG doesn't seem to do the job. sysutils/ipa from the Ports Collection can do it. I

Tyan Tiger 230T

2003-07-16 Thread freebsd_deamon
Dear list, does anyone has had experience with this M/B and cam tell me how it is supported under 4.8 and/or 5.1. thanks -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ Jetzt ein- oder umsteigen und USB-Speicheruhr als Prämie sichern!

Adding a SCSI Logical Drive Dynamically.

2003-07-16 Thread SRIHARI
Hi, I am working with RAID and my problem is that I want to add a SCSI logical drive dynamically. In Linux the /proc files system will be used to write the scsi mid layer command scsi add_single_device . Is there a support to do this in FBSD and if so how should i do this. Thanks, hari

How an arbitrary user can install ports in own home dir?

2003-07-16 Thread Andrey Simonenko
Hello all, How an arbitrary user (without root credentials) can install ports in own home dir? How I tried to do this: I created ~/local/ports, place Mk, Tools, Templates there. I defined in .cshrc: setenv PORTSDIR~/local/ports setenv PREFIX ~/local setenv PKG_DBDIR

FBSD gateway/firewall with squid -will it let request in??

2003-07-16 Thread keith
Hi all, shooting blind here cause I trouble shoot this (although I am remote from the systems in question) 203.111.111.216/29 -NAT- 10.0.0.110.0.0.2 Internet--FBSD (ipfilter/ipnat squid) -- www/mail server All live ips are alias to external interface of FBSD they NAT

Re: How do I create an identity file for scp??

2003-07-16 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:37:08PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:27:36PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: : [ ... ] : : Use ssh-keygen to generate an RSA or DSA keypair without using a : password, : and copy identity.pub, id_dsa.pub, or whatever to

Re: Dead keys on console

2003-07-16 Thread Martin Karlsson
Hi, * Jacob Vennervald Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-16 08.56 +0200]: Hi I'm fairly new to FreeBSD (with Linux experience). My problem is that I want to have a danish keyboard layout with dead keys on my console but I can only get the danish keyboard to work. I've tried different

Re: Complete FreeBSD the same as the online handbook?

2003-07-16 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 16. July 2003 12:50, dick hoogendijk wrote: I have a question: The complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey seems to be very good documentation on FreeBSD and it's mentioned often in this NG. Am I right to assume that this is the printed

Re: Dead keys on console

2003-07-16 Thread Jacob Vennervald Madsen
This is what I've done but that doesn't give me the dead keys (ä, â, ã, é, è etc.). Any ideas? Cheers, Jacob On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 14:37, Martin Karlsson wrote: Hi, * Jacob Vennervald Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-16 08.56 +0200]: Hi I'm fairly new to FreeBSD (with Linux

Re: IMAP stealing mail??

2003-07-16 Thread Ralph Huntington
K, i'm using imap-uw on my mailserver and am using horde and squirrelmail on my webserver. Once I grab my mail using one of these webmail clients it's as if it's actually popping the mail from the mailserver instead of just imapping it so when i go to my desktop mail client it says I have no

Re: Lynx not found (was: Newbie with problem)

2003-07-16 Thread Ralph Huntington
is Lynx not part of the base installation for Free BSD? Correct, it must be installed from ports. cd /usr/ports/www/lynx make install # as root, of course Or package using sysinstall or pkg_add -r ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-16 Thread Kenneth Culver
Reboot! :) Hey, she's not talking about Windows ;-) Sounds like her video card is hung, and in that case, the only thing to do is reboot, as much as it sucks. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Problems locating source to build ksh93 port

2003-07-16 Thread stan
I'm trying to build the ksh93 port, and the build system does not seem to be able to find the source ttraball INIT.2003-04-22.tgz Where can I get this? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Re: How an arbitrary user can install ports in own home dir?

2003-07-16 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:03:04PM +0300, Andrey Simonenko wrote: Hello all, How an arbitrary user (without root credentials) can install ports in own home dir? How I tried to do this: I created ~/local/ports, place Mk, Tools, Templates there. This step isn't necessary. Well, it might

Problem Xfree nvidia

2003-07-16 Thread Ricardo Javier Aranibar León
Hi list I can't install my xfree, I have a video nvidia Riva TNT2 Model64, I recently bougth FreeBSD4.8 from freebsdmall. The problem is when i'm instaling the xfree i have problems in configure my monitor the vertical , horizontal and the resolution i probe all options and i

Panic - Locking Against Myself

2003-07-16 Thread Jack L. Stone
Running FBSD-4.8 Release Random panic reboot - cause locking against myself. appears related to lockmgr. I had asked the list about this a few weeks ago, but had no takers. Previously, all I could find via google was about lockmgr, but any discussions was about code which is way beyond my

PPTP link and MTU

2003-07-16 Thread Francesco Casadei
By default mpd sets an MTU of 1500 bytes, but for a PPTP link type this value is too high, because as stated in the manual: ... However, mpd does not account for overhead that occurs ``outside'' of the PPP frame. For example, when using link types such as PPTP that encapsulate PPP

BSDmall - how many CDs?

2003-07-16 Thread Robert Storey
I'm wondering if anyone bought 5.1 from BSDmall, and can tell me how many CDs are in the set? I sent a message to BSDmall but haven't heard back yet. Their web site has a blurb here... http://www.bsdmall.com/fr51pr.html ...but it really gives no clues as to how many CDs they are selling. I

Re: Automatic bounce problems

2003-07-16 Thread vizion communication
Brian I hate to say this Brian but it is your conclusion that is silly. Seeing as the mails that have bounced did not originate from me but from some other person posting to the list and were forwarded by freebsd-questions to an ISP's server from which they were bounced there can be no way in

IBM T40p: em0/ath0 failure and PCMCIA difficulties

2003-07-16 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, I recently installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE[1] on a an IBM ThinkPad T40p. To my surprise, none of the three different network interfaces I was hoping would work do. I was thinking I would post here first for comments before I start submitting bug reports and such, in case they are known

Re: What shuld fsck -p report if all is well for a single AD0 disk?

2003-07-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 16), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In the last episode (Jul 16), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi all In su mode, I do fsck -p and it tells me the system is NO WRITE. Is this correct? If I read the docs rightly...it is? Signed dazed and confused Thanks Keith You

Re: BSDmall - how many CDs?

2003-07-16 Thread Peter Elsner
I ordered my 5.1 4-CD set from FreeBSD Mall... As far as I know it's complete. Peter At 08:45 PM 7/16/2003 +0800, you wrote: I'm wondering if anyone bought 5.1 from BSDmall, and can tell me how many CDs are in the set? I sent a message to BSDmall but haven't heard back yet. Their web site has

Configure script fails when building many ports (e.g. mozilla,spacehulk)

2003-07-16 Thread freebsd
Hi, configure fails when I try to compile many applications (mozilla and spacehulk) for example. Same error whether using make or portupgrade. It seems that configure can't find (or doesn't like) certain libraries (in spacehulk's case: libXext.so) even though they are definitely there in

Re: Configure script fails when building many ports (e.g. mozilla,spacehulk)

2003-07-16 Thread Jez Hancock
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:13:32PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, configure fails when I try to compile many applications (mozilla and spacehulk) for example. Same error whether using make or portupgrade. It seems that configure can't find (or doesn't like) certain libraries (in

Re: install mozilla from port error

2003-07-16 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 07:37, Marios Trivizas wrote: Hello, I tried to upgrade my mozilla from /usr/ports/www/mozilla and below you can see the error messages i get: You need to XFree86-4.3.0 to build Xft-2.1.2. These symbols are defined in headers installed by XFree86-libraries. Joe

Re: CDRom able to play DVD movies

2003-07-16 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 03:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, what ive heard is there's some kind of tweaked emulation under windows, which tricks the system into thinking the cdrom drive is a dvd drive, and the system compensates for the work the drive cant actually do [perhaps some kind of

Re: Configure script fails when building many ports (e.g. mozilla,spacehulk)

2003-07-16 Thread freebsd
My ldconfig -r is attached. - Everyone should have http://www.freedom2surf.net/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: BitTorrent for Freebsd??

2003-07-16 Thread Edy Lie
What is the main file which run bittorrent after installing it from port ? Thanks! On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 14:09, Vulpes Velox wrote: Yeah... /usr/ports/py-bittorrent On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:30:48 -0400 Dragoncrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a copy of BitTorrent that will run on

RE: CDRom able to play DVD movies

2003-07-16 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 11:44, Neu, Benjamin S. wrote: Is there an echo in this mailing list?! :) Maybe :) I only kept half of the thread. Sorry for wasting bits Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: PPTP link and MTU

2003-07-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
Francesco Casadei wrote: [ ... ] Now the question is: which is the largest value for the MTU of a PPTP link such that it does not cause IP fragmentation? That depends on the rest of the connection: using path MTU discovery to dynamicly adjust the connection MTU as appropriate can be more

Re: BitTorrent for Freebsd??

2003-07-16 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 July 2003 18:45, Edy Lie wrote: What is the main file which run bittorrent after installing it from port ? /usr/local/bin/btdownloadgui.py Antoine -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD)

Re: Configure script fails when building many ports (e.g. mozilla,spacehulk)

2003-07-16 Thread freebsd
What does: ldconfig -r look like? -- Jez Hmm, the text attachment didn't get expanded through - like this: Cheers, Dr Seuk /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints: search directories:

Re: Multi-OS Boot Question

2003-07-16 Thread Jud
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:14:30 +1000, Adam King [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sorry, here's a better link: http://www.informit.com/content/index.asp?product_id=%7B7309E848-0A1E-475A-A1CD-17B5462B1564%7D062903 - Original Message - From: Adam King To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Configure script fails when building many ports (e.g. mozilla,spacehulk)

2003-07-16 Thread freebsd
Sorry, my (text) attachments are behaving weirdly :-) ls /var/db/pkg is in my original post. Here's the config.log from spacehulk: Cheers, Dr Seuk This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. configure:625:

Serial Multipot PCI card

2003-07-16 Thread Alvaro Rosales R.
Hy guys I´ve been using hylafax for a while now , and I´d like to install it in a FreeBSD box (its running in an old linux box now), but as you may know the new mainboards come with one serial port and with none isa slots(i could connect old Super I/o cards that had 2 serial ports each), so I want

Re: IBM T40p: em0/ath0 failure and PCMCIA difficulties

2003-07-16 Thread Peter Schuller
Some (weird?) updates: I tried copying the driver from 5.0 and running it in CURRENT (see below on the 5.1-CURRENT transition), which almost worked. The driver recognized the card and got loaded, but kept printing link up/down messages to te kernel log (network traffic non-operational). I

Re: Configure script fails when building many ports (e.g. mozilla,spacehulk)

2003-07-16 Thread Jez Hancock
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:57:31PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does: ldconfig -r look like? -- Jez /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints: search directories:

Re: Tyan Tiger 230T

2003-07-16 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 13:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list, does anyone has had experience with this M/B and cam tell me how it is supported under 4.8 and/or 5.1. Running SMP kernel on one of those since FeeeBSD 4.7 Rel without problems.., Regards, Stacey thanks -- Stacey

Re: Problems locating source to build ksh93 port

2003-07-16 Thread stan
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:06:10AM -0700, Mikko Ty?l?j?rvi wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, stan wrote: I'm trying to build the ksh93 port, and the build system does not seem to be able to find the source ttraball INIT.2003-04-22.tgz Your ports tree is out of date. The ksh distribution is

Anyone using this mother board successfully?

2003-07-16 Thread Elliot Finley
I need to set up 7 2U rackmount server. I'm thinking of using this motherboard http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P4P800langs=09. Anyone using this? This would be for 4.8 and 5.1 TIA Elliot ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

how to check for bad blocks on IDE

2003-07-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, Is there a way in freebsd to check for bad blocks. Linux can do this via a -c flag to mkfs; but newfs for FreeBSD does not seem to have this functionality. The issue is that I have a IDE disk that I suspect to be bad )but there have been no ATA resets or logged errors so far). I either

Re: learning PHP - book idea?

2003-07-16 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:57:02AM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: If you already have the basics down, a good intermediate level book is: PHP Developer's Cookbook, Sterling Hughes, SAMS I own a copy of that book, and it's terrible. My recommendation is to avoid it. I tried to use it a few months

RE: learning PHP - book idea?

2003-07-16 Thread Neu, Benjamin S.
Again.. Echo! :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Hall Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: learning PHP - book idea? On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:57:02AM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: If you already

Re: learning PHP - book idea?

2003-07-16 Thread Jez Hancock
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:28:18PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:57:02AM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: If you already have the basics down, a good intermediate level book is: PHP Developer's Cookbook, Sterling Hughes, SAMS I own a copy of that book, and it's terrible. My

Re: CDRom able to play DVD movies

2003-07-16 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+-- Chris [freebsd] [15-07-03 21:51 -0500]: | Hiya - | | Is there an app/emulator that will allow my ordinary CD Rom reader to play | store bought DVD movies? | | -- | | Best regards, | Chris *no*. and if you are able to do so,

Re: Seting the hardware clock

2003-07-16 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+-- stan [freebsd] [14-07-03 19:16 -0400]: | ;m struggling with getting the hardware clock (BIOS clock) equal to the | kernels time. | | On my Linux boxes a utility called hwclock is run on the way down to | synchronize the 2. | | The problem I'm running into is that if the time on the system

Re: postfix with dynamic DNS

2003-07-16 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+-- pat bey [freebsd] [14-07-03 22:02 -0700]: | After installing postfix + courier-imap I can send | messages but can't recieve them. Using dyndns.org my | the problem I think lies whenever I check root's | system. There a fatal warning message to root about | tweax-def.net unable to resolve

Re: BitTorrent for Freebsd??

2003-07-16 Thread Dragoncrest
What is the main file which run bittorrent after installing it from port ? /usr/local/bin/btdownloadgui.py GUI? Can this run in console or does it have to run under a WM like KDE? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Configure script fails when building many ports (e.g. mozilla,spacehulk)

2003-07-16 Thread freebsd
Jez, pkgdb /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 indicates it comes from XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_5 - so yes, I guess quite a few ports may be affected ;-) The key bit seems to be the actually errors regarding libXext in the config.log file. There's a load of gubbins about pthreads (beyond me to be

cyclades isa card in 5.x not found ?

2003-07-16 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
Hi, I am having problems to make my kernel find a cyclades ISA card in a 5-CURRENT system. kernel conf has: options COMPAT_OLDISA device cy 1 and [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ tail -5 /boot/device.hints # cyclades hint.cy.0.at=isa hint.cy.0.irq=11 hint.cy.0.maddr=0xd4000

Re: Adaptec 2400A RAID controller corrupting data (4.8)

2003-07-16 Thread Matt Staroscik
I am going to break this saga into 2 posts, one with the ugly details for those who are interested, and one short post with the essential questions and observations. I have that card with 6 60 gig drives and set the box up (freebsd 4.7?) and it would run for a day or so and just crash. I also

Re: learning PHP - book idea?

2003-07-16 Thread Jez Hancock
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:05:06PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:43:18PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: In support of the author, he does answer emails very rapidly. In my experience the majority of the recipes worked perfectly. There was one specific PEAR class example

Re: TeX, teTeX, laTeX which one?

2003-07-16 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:55:26PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: I want to get to learn the world of TeX. I know I have to read some books about it, but I'm a little confused about which port(s) I need to install. TUG (TeX User Group) speaks of teTeX, but in the ports is also a TeX I

Re: TeX, teTeX, laTeX which one?

2003-07-16 Thread bjkwak
dick hoogendijk wrote: I want to get to learn the world of TeX. I know I have to read some books about it, but I'm a little confused about which port(s) I need to install. TUG (TeX User Group) speaks of teTeX, but in the ports is also a TeX I guess I have to install teTeX. Am I right?

Re: how to check for bad blocks on IDE

2003-07-16 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:55:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there a way in freebsd to check for bad blocks. Linux can do this via a -c flag to mkfs; but newfs for FreeBSD does not seem to have this functionality. The issue is that I have a IDE disk that I suspect to be

Question about your logo

2003-07-16 Thread Patrice Guérin
Hi, Is your logo copyrigthed ? Thanks for anwering. Patrice Guérin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IPSec Tunnel w/Racoon between BSD boxes - linksys routers

2003-07-16 Thread Kevin Berrien
I'm looking for tunnel between two 4.8-stable boxes using IPSEC/Racoon. However, both boxes are protected by Linksys cable/router's. Thus, the BSD boxes are behind the routers. I took a general gandor through the docs, websites... through which ports would this traffic flow.. and is this

Re: /var/run/ pid files

2003-07-16 Thread lewiz
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:40:52AM -0400, Ronny Hippler wrote: What controls the creation of the pid files in the /var/run/ directory? afaik, sometimes you have to create them yourself. Some programmes don't have an option to create one. This can be done easily using a combination of

Re: BitTorrent for Freebsd??

2003-07-16 Thread lewiz
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:30:48AM -0400, Dragoncrest wrote: the Ports cause if it is, I certainly haven't found it yet. I'd like to cd /usr/ports make search key=bittorrent will help you ;) Best wishes, -lewiz. -- An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.

Error installing Eclipse 2.1.1 port

2003-07-16 Thread Joachim Dagerot
I get several errors when I'm trying to install the Eclipse 2.1.1 port but before I'm trying to dump the errorlog I just wanted to see if anyone has managed to install this port, or if there's any known bugs. //Joachim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Question about your logo

2003-07-16 Thread Simon Barner
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

Toshiba 6100

2003-07-16 Thread Kenzo
I have a Thosiba 6100 and I want to disable the onboard wireless card. I didn't see any config in the bios to disable it and their tech-support doesn't know crap. I told them that I wanted to disable the wireless card from bios and they kept telling me to do it in device manager after I told them

Centrino COU working on FreeBSD?

2003-07-16 Thread Jakob Breivik Grimstveit
I just wondered whether the Centrino CPU was usable in combination with FreeBSD. I'm just about buying myself an Acer Travelmate 803 laptop, and was wondering whether FreeBSD (5.1 if possible, 4.8 also usable) is usable on that box. Thanks for any help. If you've got other suggestions to other,

Re: IPSec Tunnel w/Racoon between BSD boxes - linksys routers

2003-07-16 Thread Kevin Berrien
To answer my own question, looks as if 7000, 7002, 500. Or just 500? Kevin Berrien wrote: I'm looking for tunnel between two 4.8-stable boxes using IPSEC/Racoon. However, both boxes are protected by Linksys cable/router's. Thus, the BSD boxes are behind the routers. I took a general gandor

Re: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-16 Thread daniela5743
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have NVIDIA drivers. Is there any known bug in the ATI Radeon driver? I rebooted, and all I have is the saved output from fstat, no core dump. Is this enough to find out what was wrong? Can I reproduce it under controlled

Re: BitTorrent for Freebsd??

2003-07-16 Thread Vulpes Velox
more pkg-plist On 17 Jul 2003 00:45:42 +0800 Edy Lie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the main file which run bittorrent after installing it from port ? Thanks! On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 14:09, Vulpes Velox wrote: Yeah... /usr/ports/py-bittorrent On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:30:48 -0400

Re: wanting to pkg_add KDE/Gnome post-install

2003-07-16 Thread Joshua Lokken
- Original Message - From: Torben Brosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:01 PM Subject: Re: wanting to pkg_add KDE/Gnome post-install Thank you for the info, Joshua. I must not have written a very clear message. What you suggest *is* what I

Re: learning PHP - book idea?

2003-07-16 Thread Alfonso Romero
go for safari, the online bookstore from O´reilly, you´ll find at least one book there. - Original Message - From: Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:58 AM Subject: Re: learning PHP - book idea? Hi Noah, I have years of perl

how to copy just part of a file?

2003-07-16 Thread BSD baby
Is there an easy built-in way to copy only part of a file? I want to take a WAV audio file and copy from #__ bytes to #___ bytes into a new file. (I'm making 30-second clips of files.) Though I found a scripting way to do it with PHP, I'm wondering if there's a more direct way to do it with

Re: Centrino COU working on FreeBSD?

2003-07-16 Thread BSD baby
I just wondered whether the Centrino CPU was usable in combination with FreeBSD. Yep! I'm typing on my Gateway 450x Centrino laptop in FreeBSD 4.8 now. I *LOVE* it.Looks and works wonderful. Note that the Centrino built-in wireless ethernet is not recognized, though. But everything else

Re: how to copy just part of a file?

2003-07-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
BSD baby wrote: [ ... ] Though I found a scripting way to do it with PHP, I'm wondering if there's a more direct way to do it with basic GNU/BSD commands. GNU split will take options related to size/byte counts, rather than just ASCII lines. -- -Chuck

Re: how to copy just part of a file?

2003-07-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 16), Chuck Swiger said: BSD baby wrote: [ ... ] Though I found a scripting way to do it with PHP, I'm wondering if there's a more direct way to do it with basic GNU/BSD commands. GNU split will take options related to size/byte counts, rather than just ASCII

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