Re: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350

2004-06-23 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:56:26PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A number of software products use the Hauppauge WinTV 350 Personal Video Recorder (what a stupid name!). I've been planning to get one for some time, but here in Australia the prices are

Re: cvsup and ports INDEX

2004-06-23 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 10:19 pm, Matt Navarre wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2004 09:51, Kent Stewart wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2004 09:27 pm, Matt Navarre wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2004 07:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all, snip This checks out the new ports text file. #

Re: read vs. mmap (or io vs. page faults)

2004-06-23 Thread Mikhail Teterin
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 11:27 pm, Peter Wemm wrote: = mmap is more valuable as a programmer convenience these days. Don't = make the mistake of assuming its faster, especially since the cost of = a copy has gone way down. Actually, let me back off from agreeing with you here :-) On io-bound

Re: cvsup and ports INDEX

2004-06-23 Thread Matt Navarre
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 11:34, you wrote: That's not what the man page implys: The portsdb command is a tool to generates the ports database named INDEX.db from the ports index file named INDEX. It is commonly used among the tool suite and automatically updated on demand when

Advice on network setup/layout

2004-06-23 Thread eodyna
hello there, Ive never done this before (and it may seem odd) but, id like to get your advice on how to configure a network with 2 outside interfaces. One interface would be connected to a cable modem and the other to an adsl modem. This is what i have so far. 1 cable connection 1 adsl

Re: interpreting netstat

2004-06-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 10:44:28PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Poking around the system, I discovered the m option to netstat and got this: 261 mbufs in use 74/17088 mbuf clusters in use (current/max) 0/4/4528 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 213 KBytes allocated to network 0

Re: FreeBSD install on SCSI: Missing Operating System

2004-06-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:04:24AM -0400, Jeremy Kister wrote: On Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:57 PM, I wrote: the whole installation process goes smooth, but upon reboot, I simply get 'Missing Operating System'. I've given up on 4.9-R and tried 5.2.1-R, which is working fine. Odd. The

Re: cvsup and ports INDEX

2004-06-23 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 11:56 pm, Matt Navarre wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2004 11:34, you wrote: That's not what the man page implys: The portsdb command is a tool to generates the ports database named INDEX.db from the ports index file named INDEX. It is commonly used among

Re: perl-tk no longer working

2004-06-23 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, I rolled my own perl-tk script for adding/removing users on our cluster and it has been running fine for some years now. But when i wanted to use it today, it died with: My SWAG is that you've

I messed up, removed /usr/X11R6/lib

2004-06-23 Thread Andreas Davour
Hi. Apart from the obvious answer to use the backup, is there any way to get it all back in /usr/X11R6/lib after you did a 'rm -fr' to many? I have reinstalled the /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 port which I had hoped would pull back in all needed stuff. But, now X complains about some missing parts

Re: I messed up, removed /usr/X11R6/lib

2004-06-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:34:02AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi. Apart from the obvious answer to use the backup, is there any way to get it all back in /usr/X11R6/lib after you did a 'rm -fr' to many? I have reinstalled the /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 port which I had hoped would pull

How to turn your Perl programs into standalone executables

2004-06-23 Thread Sex Maniac
Hi just want to ask, if I have a perl program, and I want to turn it into standalone executables/binary. Question is how ? What programs/packages/ports I must use ? Usually in windows98, I can use PerlApp to Turn your Perl programs into standalone executables (.exe) I don't want my users can see

Re: perl-tk no longer working

2004-06-23 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, I rolled my own perl-tk script for adding/removing users on our cluster and it has been running fine for some years now. But when i wanted to use it today, it died with: My

Re: I messed up, removed /usr/X11R6/lib

2004-06-23 Thread Andreas Davour
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:34:02AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi. Apart from the obvious answer to use the backup, is there any way to get it all back in /usr/X11R6/lib after you did a 'rm -fr' to many? I have reinstalled the

Re: I messed up, removed /usr/X11R6/lib

2004-06-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:39:22AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:34:02AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi. Apart from the obvious answer to use the backup, is there any way to get it all back in /usr/X11R6/lib

Re: How to turn your Perl programs into standalone executables

2004-06-23 Thread Simon Dick
Try perlcc On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:08:57 -0700 (PDT), Sex Maniac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi just want to ask, if I have a perl program, and I want to turn it into standalone executables/binary. Question is how ? What programs/packages/ports I must use ? Usually in windows98, I can use

Re: How to turn your Perl programs into standalone executables

2004-06-23 Thread Juho Vuori
Hello, Sex Maniac wrote: Hi just want to ask, if I have a perl program, and I want to turn it into standalone executables/binary. Question is how ? What programs/packages/ports I must use ? First add a line #!/usr/bin/perl as the very first line of your perl program. Without indenting or

Re: How to turn your Perl programs into standalone executables

2004-06-23 Thread Andy Harrison
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:08:57 -0700 (PDT), Sex Maniac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi just want to ask, if I have a perl program, and I want to turn it into standalone executables/binary. Question is how ? What programs/packages/ports I must use ? Usually in windows98, I can use PerlApp to

Re: How to turn your Perl programs into standalone executables

2004-06-23 Thread Juho Vuori
Oops, it seems I didn't really answer your question but something else. I should learn to read before experimenting with writing. Sorry. Juho Juho Vuori wrote: Hello, Sex Maniac wrote: Hi just want to ask, if I have a perl program, and I want to turn it into standalone executables/binary.

Re: three libtools - portupgrade question

2004-06-23 Thread Ben Paley
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 23:57, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 22), Ben Paley said: I've got three versions of libtool on my system: bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep libtool libtool-1.3.5_2 Generic shared library support script (version 1.3) libtool-1.4.3_2 Generic shared

Re: How to turn your Perl programs into standalone executables

2004-06-23 Thread Sex Maniac
--- Andy Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man perlcc Gee, thanks, Sir. Note that, regardless of platform, compiling your perl apps to hide something is a very bad idea. It is very easy to run it through /usr/bin/strings and see bits and pieces of an executable file of any type. With

Re: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350

2004-06-23 Thread Yaraghchi, Stephan
bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachmen ts/20040623/c3b2e14b/attachment-0001.bin -- Hi Greg, I searched the German web page of Hauppauge (http://www.hauppauge.de/) for answers to your questions: There's

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-23 Thread Jan Grant
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Bill Moran wrote: The other option is to take what appears to be the best IMAP server out there (Cyrus) and figure out a way to do real-time mirroring of the mailboxes. I was wondering if it could be done with Coda, but I don't know anything about Coda, and it doesn't

Re: How to turn your Perl programs into standalone executables

2004-06-23 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Sex Maniac wrote: I don't want my users can see the source program in .pl I want my source program is hidden from user and the others administrators. So I need the executable file/binary file only. perldoc -q hide -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

X via ssh to HP-UX problem

2004-06-23 Thread Malcolm Kay
Hi, At work I have been using ssh for X connections between FreeBSD an linux machines without problems. Meanwhile X connections to a HP machine 'HP-UX hphendon B.10.20 A 9000/735' on the network have been established using classical 'rsh' with 'xhost' authentication because the HP-UX system did

Re: help!

2004-06-23 Thread ORACLE .
hey thanx man you was a big help.Can you help me with another thing.I am having problems with my sound card i have recompiled my kernel with pcm and the sound card is working ok but the sound quality is not good.my sound card is ES1938 can you tell me how can i get its drivers or how can i

Re: Problems with Remote Kernel Debugging on the 5.2.1 Kernel

2004-06-23 Thread Mark Teel
It is serial debugging, as described in the Developer's Handbook. I have set up the same remote debugging environment in linux using gdb/ddd with success. Further, the Interrupt button in ddd is ^C, and in gdb ^C is what is used to break execution, at least in past experience in linux. How

Re: Autoheader problem

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
Bernt. H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Trying to build a program from source but I can't. # gmake +==+ | --- GETTING READY TO BUILD - | +==+ | SuckMT 0.55 - A Multi

RH 7.3 to FBSD Question...

2004-06-23 Thread Peter Schulz
Hello, I am looking to free myself of the RH death spiral... I currently use their version of software RAID (RAID 1) I could not find anything like this in your docs.. any direction Y'all can give? Thanks! Peter H. Schulz LocalToolbox Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Utility to guess a remote hosts operating system?

2004-06-23 Thread Edd
My question is: Does such a utility exist? I know nmap can guess os, but it takes a few seconds and a port scan is needed first. Is there just a simply util that can tell me without the port scan? Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: RH 7.3 to FBSD Question...

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
Peter Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am looking to free myself of the RH death spiral... I currently use their version of software RAID (RAID 1) I could not find anything like this in your docs.. any direction Y'all can give? [Please wrap your lines around 72 chars] Look up Vinum.

Re: Soundcard woes (was: help!)

2004-06-23 Thread Simon Barner
hey thanx man you was a big help.Can you help me with another thing.I am having problems with my sound card i have recompiled my kernel with pcm and the sound card is working ok but the sound quality is not good. Don't know, I'm affraid. Perhaps manually assigning its interupt (in the BIOS)

Re: Autoheader problem

2004-06-23 Thread Bernt. H
Bill Moran wrote: autoheader is part of the automake suite of tools. Do you have them installed? If so, make sure they're accessable in your path. Ok. Fixed but now there is this. gmake[1]: *** No rule to make target `.deps/wide_posix_api.Po'. Stop. I've used google to get some answers but

Re: How many hosts can utilize one NAT server?

2004-06-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Minnesota Slinky said: I was wondering how many hosts can a single NAT server server? I couldn't find it on the net, although I know it's there somewhere. It really depends on a couple of things... First, the horsepower of the box. If you want 1-10 users, an old pentium 90 will do just fine

md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after dump/restore operation

2004-06-23 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Hi all, Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem, to be able to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has occurred? Thanks, Ruben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: How many hosts can utilize one NAT server?

2004-06-23 Thread Chris Keladis
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:38:44 -0500, Minnesota Slinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how many hosts can a single NAT server server? I couldn't find it on the net, although I know it's there somewhere. This would depend on the type of NAT being done, ie 1:1 static or PAT (aka

Re: md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after

2004-06-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi all, Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem, to be able to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has occurred? Unless you made a checksum of everything before doing the dump and made absolutely no changes, there is no way

Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 64 ?

2004-06-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Brian Astill wrote: FWIW, I have that card and it seems to work just fine using the nv driver. When you are given choices in the helper programs for XFree86 setup, just choose the nearest descrptor you can find which uses that nv driver. You could also write that nv

Re: Utility to guess a remote hosts operating system?

2004-06-23 Thread Jan Grant
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Edd wrote: My question is: Does such a utility exist? I know nmap can guess os, but it takes a few seconds and a port scan is needed first. Is there just a simply util that can tell me without the port scan? How would that operate? Some kind of network fingerprinting is

Network configuratin issue

2004-06-23 Thread Paul Prinsloo (TEBiVO)
Good day I've worked through the FreeBSD document, searching for a method to assigning one IP address to two physical NICs on the same subnet. Currently I'm a support administrator working on Tru64 UNIX systems, but every now and then I need to lend a hand to the FreeBSD staff, and my

Re: md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem, to be able to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has occurred? snip the potential problems with dump/md5 Could you use

Re: Utility to guess a remote hosts operating system?

2004-06-23 Thread Remko Lodder
Jan Grant wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Edd wrote: My question is: Does such a utility exist? I know nmap can guess os, but it takes a few seconds and a port scan is needed first. Is there just a simply util that can tell me without the port scan? How would that operate? Some kind of network

Re: md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after

2004-06-23 Thread Remko Lodder
Bill Moran wrote: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem, to be able to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has occurred? snip the potential problems with dump/md5 Could you use

Re: md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after dump/restore operation

2004-06-23 Thread Jan Grant
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Ruben Bloemgarten wrote: Hi all, Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem, to be able to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has occurred? Tripwire and its ilk live in the ports system. The base system

Re: RH 7.3 to FBSD Question...

2004-06-23 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Peter, Hello, I am looking to free myself of the RH death spiral... Ooh, you'll be glad you did[*]. :-) I currently use their version of software RAID (RAID 1) I could not find anything like this in your docs.. any direction Y'all can give? It's there allright:

Re: md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after

2004-06-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem, to be able to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has occurred? snip the potential problems with dump/md5

Autoreply from avsgsa

2004-06-23 Thread avsgsa
Please note that our new email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network configuratin issue

2004-06-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:04:25PM +0200, Paul Prinsloo (TEBiVO) wrote: I've worked through the FreeBSD document, searching for a method to assigning one IP address to two physical NICs on the same subnet. Currently I'm a support administrator working on Tru64 UNIX systems, but every now and

Re: Network configuratin issue

2004-06-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 23), Paul Prinsloo (TEBiVO) said: I've worked through the FreeBSD document, searching for a method to assigning one IP address to two physical NICs on the same subnet. Currently I'm a support administrator working on Tru64 UNIX systems, but every now and then I need to

Re: Migrating cvs repositories from Linux to FreeBSD

2004-06-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 22), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I got two hosts with the following specs: The oldhost is running Mandrake Linux 8.2 version 2.4.18-6mdk and newhost is running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. The cvs versions on these hosts are: oldhost# cvs -v Concurrent Versions System

Re: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350

2004-06-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:56:26PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A number of software products use the Hauppauge WinTV 350 Personal Video Recorder (what a stupid name!). I've been planning to get one for some time, but here in Australia the prices are ridiculous (more than double what

MMS Notification

2004-06-23 Thread MMS Notifier
Following message contained an attachment that is suspicious or not allowed. The attachment was removed from the message. Date : 06/23/2004, 10:42:44 AM Subject : Mail Delivery (failure [EMAIL PROTECTED]) From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Attachments : message.scr The message

Re: I messed up, removed /usr/X11R6/lib

2004-06-23 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:44:56 +0200 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:39:22AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:34:02AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi. Apart from the obvious

USB Tape Drive (Seagate Travan)

2004-06-23 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Has anybody out there ever had any experience and/or success with attaching a Seagate USB Travan Tape Drive to FreeBSD? (Or any USB tape drive for that matter?) I plug it in, and FreeBSD detects it and brings up a 'Freecom USB-ATAPI' hardware on /dev/ugen0. However I don't see any

Re: RH 7.3 to FBSD Question...

2004-06-23 Thread Jorge Mario G.
Hi there peter FreeBSD 4-STABLE comes with vinum a volume manager that does raid, it's integrated in FreeBSD but you can get more info on www.vinum.org Jorge = _ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en

losing disk space

2004-06-23 Thread synrat
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/vinum/data 67G 2.0K62G 0%/data Does this look weird or what ?? This is a mirrored vinum volume created from 2 partitions fully taking up 2 73gb drives. vinum shows this as 68gb volume, which I guess

Re: losing disk space

2004-06-23 Thread Mike Woods
synrat wrote: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/vinum/data 67G 2.0K62G 0%/data Does this look weird or what ?? Nope, looks fine to me :) This is a mirrored vinum volume created from 2 partitions fully taking up 2 73gb drives. vinum

Re: losing disk space

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
synrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/vinum/data 67G 2.0K62G 0%/data Does this look weird or what ?? This is a mirrored vinum volume created from 2 partitions fully taking up 2 73gb drives. vinum

RE: FreeBSD install on SCSI: Missing Operating System

2004-06-23 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Jeremy Kister the whole installation process goes smooth, but upon reboot, I simply get 'Missing Operating System'. I usually see this sort of thing when I forget to remove a non-bootable floppy from the drive. -- Danny MacMillan ___ [EMAIL

Re: Utility to guess a remote hosts operating system?

2004-06-23 Thread peter lageotakes
--- Jan Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Edd wrote: My question is: Does such a utility exist? I know nmap can guess os, but it takes a few seconds and a port scan is needed first. Is there just a simply util that can tell me without the port scan? How would

Re: Migrating cvs repositories from Linux to FreeBSD

2004-06-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-23 10:03, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jun 22), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I got two hosts with the following specs: The oldhost is running Mandrake Linux 8.2 version 2.4.18-6mdk and newhost is running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. [...] Now only concern

Re: Audio?

2004-06-23 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:55:49AM -0400, Tom Moyer wrote: I am setting up a new computer and the motherboard I am using has integrated audio. It says it is Realtek ALC850 does anyone know if it is supported by FreeBSD? If so, what driver should I use? The motherboard is the Asus P4P800-E

Re: :::Support PHP/perl???:::

2004-06-23 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 07:11:02PM +0200, Dragan Veljkovic wrote: Is this FreeBSD support PHP/Perl application/language? In the ports collection, take a look at lang/perl5{,.8} and lang/php4. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ pgpZ5EWC11x8V.pgp

xpdf help

2004-06-23 Thread Mike Meyer
For some reason, xpdf (version 3.00, as installed on FreeBSD 4.9 by the ports system) can't find the Courier, Times, Helvetica and Symbol fonts that are built into it. Using xfontsel to try the selectors listed in xpdfrc finds the fonts just fine. Clues? Hints? Anything? Thanks,

route6d crashes (signal 10)

2004-06-23 Thread David Fuchs
Hello, For some reason, route6d is crashing with signal 10: /kernel: pid 142 (route6d), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) I can reproduce this error simply by running rip6query against the localhost. This is the output I receive from route6d when I run it in debug mode (-D) and

Sound issues on dual-boot machine

2004-06-23 Thread Damon Butler
I have a dual-boot FreeBSD/Linux machine. I've had lots of trouble getting sound to work under FreeBSD: sometimes it would, and sometimes it wouldn't, and I could never figure out why. But today I noticed a pattern, and with it, a way to always get sound functioning under FreeBSD. It just

Nokia's DKU-5 cable

2004-06-23 Thread AK
Hello, all! I wonder if anyone had any positive experience with Nokia DKU-5 USB cable When I plug it into my box, it is detected as ugen, instead of ucom, yes ucom module is loaded. kldstat: 61 0xc083c000 3580 umodem.ko 73 0xc084 3aec ucom.ko 81 0xc0844000 3ab0

FreeBSD on 64 bit AMD

2004-06-23 Thread Sean Page
Hi, Is anyone out there running FreeBSD on the AMD Opteron Processor 200 Series ? We're looking at putting a Sun V20z into production and I would very much appreciate hearing any experiences out there using this hardware with FreeBSD. Thanks! Sean. Sean Page Network Analyst, Internet Services

Re: route6d crashes (signal 10)

2004-06-23 Thread David Fuchs
David Fuchs wrote: Hello, For some reason, route6d is crashing with signal 10: /kernel: pid 142 (route6d), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) I can reproduce this error simply by running rip6query against the localhost. This is the output I receive from route6d when I run it in

Re: losing disk space

2004-06-23 Thread synrat
thanx guys. learn something new every day. I actually noticed that my smaller volumes display the same 'discrepancy'..., but it only became a concern after 'loosing' 10gb :). hehe. should've realized that myself right away. is this true though that soft updates use additional disk space ?? Mike

Re: Sound issues on dual-boot machine

2004-06-23 Thread Mike Woods
Damon Butler wrote: Sound functions under FreeBSD only if I boot into Linux first and then reboot the machine into FreeBSD. This sounds rather incredible (to me at least) but here's what I've done to confirm this. Initialisation :) Your soundcard needs initialising before it'll function in some

Re: losing disk space

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
synrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanx guys. learn something new every day. I actually noticed that my smaller volumes display the same 'discrepancy'..., but it only became a concern after 'loosing' 10gb :). hehe. should've realized that myself right away. is this true though that soft

Re: How to turn your Perl programs into standalone executables

2004-06-23 Thread KiDDiE.Ox
On Wed 2004-06-23 (02:08), Sex Maniac wrote: Hi just want to ask, if I have a perl program, and I want to turn it into standalone executables/binary. Question is how ? What programs/packages/ports I must use ? Usually in windows98, I can use PerlApp to Turn your Perl programs into

Re: losing disk space

2004-06-23 Thread Mike Woods
synrat wrote: is this true though that soft updates use additional disk space ?? No, softupdates are just a different way of handling writes iirc, they dont have any space overheads afaik :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL

what happened to ppp-primer

2004-06-23 Thread JJB
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ppp-primer/index.ht ml The directory is there but it's empty. Has the ppp-primer been retired, or has someone messed up? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

LSP Alternative

2004-06-23 Thread Joshua Lewis
Is there an open source System configuration GUI similar to LSP. Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what happened to ppp-primer

2004-06-23 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:01:35 -0400 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ppp-primer/index.ht ml The directory is there but it's empty. Has the ppp-primer been retired, or has someone messed up? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42392 Its

Re: Sound issues on dual-boot machine

2004-06-23 Thread Damon Butler
Mike Woods wrote: Damon Butler wrote: Sound functions under FreeBSD only if I boot into Linux first and then reboot the machine into FreeBSD. This sounds rather incredible (to me at least) but here's what I've done to confirm this. Initialisation :) Your soundcard needs initialising before it'll

Re: Sound issues on dual-boot machine

2004-06-23 Thread Mike Woods
Damon Butler wrote: Hurm. That's all well and good, I guess, but *why* is Linux initializing the on-board sound while FreeBSD is/can not? I admit my understanding of PC hardware to be limited, but I had thought that the purpose of the BIOS was to initialize the hardware for the OS to

RE: Courier-imap + Postfix problem

2004-06-23 Thread Brent Wiese
Thanks. But now i'm back in the dark. Does anyone have any idea what the source of my errors in maillog could be? To recap, i'm running postfix and courier-imap and i'm getting errors as follows: maillog: Jun 20 15:47:05 server imapd-ssl: Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (fre

booteasy output on serial console

2004-06-23 Thread dave
Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to get booteasy output on a serial console? I can make an install floppy that works, but i want to get the choices, f1 boot freebsd, f2 from second disk, etc. And would there be a way of sending function keys via serial console? If not, some other

login/password

2004-06-23 Thread Benjamin Seuser
Hi, I'm new to using FreeBSD and when I boot up the computer (I've already installed FreeBSD) it asks for a login name and password. I don't know either and I haven't been able to get into FreeBSD. Please help me.

Re: login/password

2004-06-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
I'm new to using FreeBSD and when I boot up the computer (I've already installed FreeBSD) it asks for a login name and password. I don't know either and I haven't been able to get into FreeBSD. Please help me. During install, it prompts you to type in the super users password. Did you

Printing Broken in Mozilla Thunderbird?

2004-06-23 Thread Scott Reese
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm using cups to handle my printing. I have no trouble printing from other applications such as Firefox but whenever I try to print an email from Thunderbird I get a warning box that says, There was a problem printing because the paper size you specified is

Re: Sound issues on dual-boot machine

2004-06-23 Thread Damon Butler
Is my problem indicative of a general driver deficiency in FreeBSD? Is there some module I'm not aware of that, were I to load it, take care of this mysterious initialization ? No, this looks like a device specific quirk, like how the 3com 905c will always try and share irq's with my soundcard

freebsd security patches

2004-06-23 Thread bogdan
Hy I want to know more freebsd contributors' / users' websites. I searched a lot for links like: http://www.0xfce3.net/files/freebsd/ or http://garage.freebsd.pl/ (which contains a lot if interesting security related patches/programs) Google is of no help ... I can scarcely find one or

something through nat - something not

2004-06-23 Thread Tomica Crnek
Hi everyone, I would appreciate if anyone can help with this: here is the configuration: box is connected to one (outside) network with 2 interfaces box is connected to one (inside) network with one interface some nodes on outside network do have static routes to inside network, but not whole

Re: login/password

2004-06-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Thanks that worked, But now I have another question, When it boots I enter my user name and password but all I get is a command prompt, how am I supposed to get into free bsd (or is that it?) Well, it doesn't look like much at the command prompt, but yes, that's it. The wonderful

Re: (no subject)

2004-06-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Well my experience lever is 0, I've used Windows and Mac for my whole life and I wanted to see what freebsd is like. Good. Theres quite a learning curve, but I assure you that diligence and the willingness to learn are worth the effort as the result is a whole new computing experience unlike

RE: portupgrade -c (was Re: Boot GUI / Boot data and process / Fragmentation)

2004-06-23 Thread Ralph M. Los
Alright, I feel stupid but I'm going to ask anyway... Portversion exists in /usr/local/sbin on one FreeBSD 5.2.1 server, but not on the other, which is an install off the *same CD*. What package or port does portversion come from? Thanks ::-Original Message- ::From: Randy Pratt

Re: (no subject)

2004-06-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Thanks for your help If i have anymore questions not answered by the handbook i'll e-mail you Please email the list. I rarely answer emails directly to my list subscription email address. Also, if you mail the list, many people will have the opportunity to help and other new users may learn

Re: something through nat - something not

2004-06-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 23, 2004, at 4:27 PM, Tomica Crnek wrote: box is connected to one (outside) network with 2 interfaces What does this mean? what I want to do is to configure it to route packets to these chosen subnets directly - no nat, but I want to be able to see entire outside network from inside net

RE: portupgrade -c (was Re: Boot GUI / Boot data and process / Fragmentation)

2004-06-23 Thread To2600 .
Alright, I feel stupid but I'm going to ask anyway... Portversion exists in /usr/local/sbin on one FreeBSD 5.2.1 server, but not on the other, which is an install off the *same CD*. What package or port does portversion come from? Thanks -- portversion is part of

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 22, 2004, at 9:02 AM, Matt Juszczak wrote: What are some of the other approaches (if you dont mind). I can't really do a NAT, I'd really like to stay with a bridge and not do any routing. Normally, something like squid listens on a specific port and only proxies requests which are

Mozilla, where did I go wrong?

2004-06-23 Thread LW Ellis
I installed Mozilla 1.5 thur the ports package, on FreeBSD 5.2 When I run in it KDE It disotrts the KDE background image. THe toolbar color of the Mozilla browser is a dark maroon or purple, The background of the pages are a light purple. I ran portupgrade, and it said there was none. Did I miss

Re: login/password

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
Benjamin Seuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new to using FreeBSD and when I boot up the computer (I've already installed FreeBSD) it asks for a login name and password. I don't know either and I haven't been able to get into FreeBSD. Please help me. Can you provide these

perl port 5.8.2 won't install?

2004-06-23 Thread Len Conrad
fbsd 4.10 release # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 # make make install === Vulnerability check disabled perl-5.8.2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://www.cpan.dk/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/. perl-5.8.2.tar.gz

Re: login/password

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin Seuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new to using FreeBSD and when I boot up the computer (I've already installed FreeBSD) it asks for a login name and password. I don't know either and I haven't been able to get into FreeBSD.

Re: Mozilla, where did I go wrong?

2004-06-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 23, 2004, at 5:32 PM, LW Ellis wrote: I installed Mozilla 1.5 thur the ports package, on FreeBSD 5.2 When I run in it KDE It disotrts the KDE background image. THe toolbar color of the Mozilla browser is a dark maroon or purple, The background of the pages are a light purple. What color

ar and strip: symbol tables

2004-06-23 Thread Michael A. Branch
hi, I nuked my symbol tables from some shared archived and noticed that ar -s libIsNowStripped.so is not a recognized object and hence, the symbol table is not restored. Is there a workaround? thanks, Mike = Michael A. Branch

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