Openoffice and diskless terminals

2004-08-19 Thread Livhu Tshisikule
Hi, I have just installed Openoffice on my server that has a number of diskless terminals booting from it. Openoffice run on the server but not on the terminals. I have other applications that runs on the terminals without any problem. Any idea? Regards Livhu Tshisikule

Re: using cvsup

2004-08-19 Thread Josh Hansen
like someone mentioned, it doesnt matter where you put it. my supfile is in /root, but its just preference. ive noticed you keep mentioning that you wont be using X, and you are thinking you need to deinstall your cvsup or something... you dont have to do that, just use use -g when running cvsup

Trouble with ipfstat

2004-08-19 Thread Sathyanarayana Setty Badrinath
Hi, I have installed freebsd 4.10 (i386) with ipfilter firewall. When I do a cvsup, compile kernel, install and restart with new kernel, I have trouble with ipfstat -t output. The source and destination ip address are a bunch of zeroes and not the actuals. ipfstat -t works well

Research questions on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-08-19 Thread Jason Tan
Hi, I am currently doing a research on FreeBSD 4.10 Release System for a presentation to an institution of 400 students. I would like to enquire on several questions regarding the Operating System : - - Process Management / Model - Scheduling * Is it preemptive ? * Discuss the algorithm -

Re: most commonly used database

2004-08-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 19 August 2004 12:50 am, Peter Ryan wrote: Has anyone got any idea what is the most commonly used database on freeBSD ? Is it mySql ? I was going to install it but the CPU utilitisation problems reported recently are a bit worrying. Thanks Peter Hi Peter, Caveat: I am

Re: Research questions on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-08-19 Thread Siddhartha Jain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Tan wrote: | Hi, | | | I am currently doing a research on FreeBSD 4.10 Release System for a | presentation to an institution of 400 students. | | I would like to enquire on several questions regarding the Operating | System : - | | - Process

UDF / FreeBSD5.1

2004-08-19 Thread DELFNET - Sebastian Turzyski
Can you help me (or forward this message to proper person) about supporting filesystem UDF versions 1.02/1.50/2.01 by FreeBSD 5.2.1 I can mount DVD disc with any of above formats, but there is a problem with reading files written on this disc that are grater than 2GB?! while copying using

Freebsd 4.10 ncplogin + Netware 4.11 = nwerr 89fc

2004-08-19 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
When Im trying to log into the netware server, I got nwerr = 89fc, which according to this source code http://debian.fapeal.br/debian/pool/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10.diff means Unknown server, (even though this source is from a linux distro, I think the netware error codes are more or less

Large Disks lose loads of diskspace

2004-08-19 Thread duncan
I installed 2 new 200gb harddrives lately. Both show up in bios as 200gb, on boot they are shown as 190gb (probably the 1000-1024 conversion), but when I create a filesystem they are only 180gb. Now, I can live with a 20gb loss, but when I check the disks free space, they have only 166gb free

Re: HP Netserver RAID Controller + FreeBSD 4.10 problem

2004-08-19 Thread Artyom Viklenko
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I have installed FreeBSD (well, that is the only one I could anyway), but I am hitting a snag: When I boot up the box, it refuses to automount the root fs, then takes me to Manual Root File System specification option. When I specify

Re: Xorg or XFree86?

2004-08-19 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 18, 2004, at 9:28 PM, Eric Crist wrote: I've seen a lot of posts over the past couple months regarding installation of X.org. I was wondering, is it that much better than XFree86 that it's worth the hassle? If so, what are those advantages? On a new machine with 5.2.1 I decided to use

Re: Large Disks lose loads of diskspace

2004-08-19 Thread Stevan Tiefert
On Thursday 19 August 2004 13:17, duncan wrote: I installed 2 new 200gb harddrives lately. Both show up in bios as 200gb, on boot they are shown as 190gb (probably the 1000-1024 conversion), but when I create a filesystem they are only 180gb. Now, I can live with a 20gb loss, but when I check

Re: Xorg or XFree86?

2004-08-19 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:28:44PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: Hello list, I've seen a lot of posts over the past couple months regarding installation of X.org. I was wondering, is it that much better than XFree86 that it's worth the hassle? If so, what are those advantages? In day-to-day

Re: Large Disks lose loads of diskspace

2004-08-19 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 19, 2004, at 6:17 AM, duncan wrote: I installed 2 new 200gb harddrives lately. Both show up in bios as 200gb, on boot they are shown as 190gb (probably the 1000-1024 conversion), but when I create a filesystem they are only 180gb. Now, I can live with a 20gb loss, but when I check the

Re: Xorg Install

2004-08-19 Thread Tyler Parrott
Thanks guys, That was the problem.I didn't see that step listen in the /usr/ports/UPDATING? TP On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:18:36 -0500 (CDT), Jorge Mario G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi just add X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg to your /etc/make.conf file =

make fails on device iir on freebsd 4.10

2004-08-19 Thread Dino Vliet
I want to compile a new kernel on my laptop running freebsd 4.10. Although I commented out device iir in my kernel configuration file, I still get an error message when trying to make my kernel. Look at my kernel configuration file which I attached to this message. Can somebody help me to get

how do I verify how sshd is starting?

2004-08-19 Thread Jules Gilbert
Someone else put my FreeBSD box together. How to I determine whether sshd is starting via rc.d or by inetd? I've had to tighten down the box and the changes I've made don't seem to have any effect, though I did a shutdown and restart. Please email me your answers -- I am in a critical

AC97 sound support

2004-08-19 Thread OmerMrki
Is AC97 audio FULL DUPLEX ? I plan on doing some recording. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Multi OS Installation

2004-08-19 Thread Jake Zhen
hi. i installed Freebsd in my laptop with Wind XP. every time i boot to freedbsd, it reboots in 15sec again and again. there is a message said before reboot, acpi: state perforemce changed. please, help me to solve this problem. thanks j.

Is my MB supported?

2004-08-19 Thread netgoadmin
Hi, im in trouble again. i had problems with my past motherboard for it didnt detect my ide drives. i could change the motherboard where i bought it but now the problem is to use the xf86 under gnome. my motherboard is an acorp 4pmmnl with an integrated S3 Graphics ProSavage 8

Re: how do I verify how sshd is starting?

2004-08-19 Thread Bill Moran
Jules Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone else put my FreeBSD box together. What version of FreeBSD? How to I determine whether sshd is starting via rc.d or by inetd? I haven't seen anyone start sshd from rc.d in quite a while. If there's a startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and it

Re: Xorg or XFree86?

2004-08-19 Thread R. W.
On Thursday 19 August 2004 03:28, Eric Crist wrote: Hello list, I've seen a lot of posts over the past couple months regarding installation of X.org. I was wondering, is it that much better than XFree86 that it's worth the hassle? If so, what are those advantages? Until 5.x goes stable,

Patch patch-ac failed to apply cleanly.

2004-08-19 Thread Tyler Parrott
Hey guys, I'm currently trying to build evolution (for the sole purpose of using ximian-connector) and the install is choking on m4-1.4.1. The following is what I get when I try to install m4 separately: Chernak# make install === Vulnerability check disabled m4-1.4.1.tar.gz doesn't seem to

Re: ntop problems with FreeBSD?

2004-08-19 Thread Moti Levy
adp wrote: Anyone get ntop totally working with FreeBSD 4.9? We can run it, but it's flaky. On one FreeBSD box it runs fine for a while and then just dies. No syslog messages. It's just gone. On another it won't display anything in the Web interface (it opens new windows when clicking on some

Re: make fails on device iir on freebsd 4.10

2004-08-19 Thread adam
I just took a quick glance at your file, but will this compile if you uncomment iir??? You certainly have a lot of things included in your config file. Re-enabling some options will help you narrow down whether or not the problem is in fact the iir being commented out or whether something

Re: Xorg Install

2004-08-19 Thread adam
Tyler, Try this http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-July/032267.html It's the headsup on the freebsd current list on how to upgrade to x.org Take caer, Adam Tyler Parrott wrote: Thanks guys, That was the problem.I didn't see that step listen in the /usr/ports/UPDATING? TP

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-19 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:01:07AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Interesting. I've just had a very bad experience with Canon's scanners. See http://.lemis.com/grog/product-reviews/Canon-breakage.html for the whole sad story. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised. Since USB is the

Re: make fails on device iir on freebsd 4.10

2004-08-19 Thread Dino Vliet
If Generic compiles, then my file would compile too because I only copied Generic and comment out iir. Then I got that message. Now I tried to work with an even smaller version of the file and removed and uncommented a lot, but still I get the same error (and look at my new configuration file

Re: Problem

2004-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jake Zhen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi. after i installed freebsd, i never able to boot in the console/terminal. when my pc start to reboot, i see something like the following on my screen. the machine reboots until i press the shut down button. Please help me out with this. thank you

KDEInit could not launch 'kmail'

2004-08-19 Thread Owen Gardiner
I've installed KDE 3.23 on a machine running 5.21-release-p9 which has x116.7 from X.ORG installed. I try to start kmail and get a message window of: KDEInit could not launch 'kmail' If I copy the command properties of the kmail icon and run it from the command line: kmail -caption %c %i %m I

Re: KDEInit could not launch 'kmail'

2004-08-19 Thread Ciprian Badescu
Hi, Search for libkdeprint.so.x or libkdeprint.so and make a symblic link from libkdeprint.so.5 to that file. It's an ugly trick, but should work. -- Ciprian Badescu On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Owen Gardiner wrote: Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:35:26 +0200 From: Owen Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Research questions on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-08-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I am currently doing a research on FreeBSD 4.10 Release System for a presentation to an institution of 400 students. I would like to enquire on several questions regarding the Operating System : - - Process Management / Model - Scheduling * Is it preemptive ? * Discuss

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-19 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:52:54PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:01:07AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Interesting. I've just had a very bad experience with Canon's scanners. See http://.lemis.com/grog/product-reviews/Canon-breakage.html for the

Re: Patch patch-ac failed to apply cleanly.

2004-08-19 Thread Ilker Ozupak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 August 2004 16:34, Tyler Parrott wrote: Hey guys, I'm currently trying to build evolution (for the sole purpose of using ximian-connector) and the install is choking on m4-1.4.1. The following is what I get when I try to install

Makeworld issues

2004-08-19 Thread Ronnie Clark
Hello, I am trying to complete a makeworld on my 4.10 STABLE system, to apply the latest source and patches. But, I am getting the following stop error: yacc -b aicasm_macro_gram -p mm -d -o aicasm_macro_gram.c /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_macro_gram.y cc -O -pipe -nostdinc

Re: Research questions on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-08-19 Thread Bill Moran
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am currently doing a research on FreeBSD 4.10 Release System for a presentation to an institution of 400 students. I would like to enquire on several questions regarding the Operating System : - - Process Management / Model

Re: Research questions on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-08-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There are a number of books to read for these topics. One set is the pair by Kirk McKusick called The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 DBS Operating System which is a follow on to his earlier The Design and Implementation of

Re: Patch patch-ac failed to apply cleanly.

2004-08-19 Thread Tyler Parrott
Thanks, that took care of my problem with m4. I now have a similar problem with openldap. After installing m4, I ran pkgdb -F again, and I downloaded the latest makefile from freebsd.org. The following is the error I get: A332195# make install clean === Patching for openldap-client-2.2.15

Re: KDEInit could not launch 'kmail'

2004-08-19 Thread Owen Gardiner
Cheers, There's LOTS of files not found. I don't understand it as I've tried a portupgrade I have made 20 or so links so far. I'll try portupgrade with a few more switches thrown in for good measure as I can now see which port needs upgrading (kdelibs-323_1)! Thanks Owen Ciprian Badescu

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-19 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:57:40AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: So let me ask this question; what are good scanners now days? I'd say a scanner giving good results with slides. I know there are some high end scanners that do Firewire (about ~$400) and some scanners even have SCSI. Any

Re: Makeworld issues

2004-08-19 Thread Ciprian Badescu
Hi, I had the same problem. If it's happening in the same place, you need to perform an update of your sources, else it is a hardware problem (memory, swap disk, processor is getting to hot, etc). Search in archives and google for more informations about signal 11 while making world. For me, a

Re: KDEInit could not launch 'kmail'

2004-08-19 Thread Ciprian Badescu
HI, You should upgrade all you ports collection and perform a portupdate. The trick with linking desn't work forever -- Ciprian Badescu On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Owen Gardiner wrote: Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:31:29 +0200 From: Owen Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ciprian Badescu [EMAIL

Re: Makeworld issues

2004-08-19 Thread Ronnie Clark
Ciprian, Thanks for the info. I did a cvsup before trying again and the same thing happened. I'll dig some more for the error code as you suggest. Thanks, Ron Clark --- Ciprian Badescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I had the same problem. If it's happening in the same place, you need

PostgreSQL || MySQL

2004-08-19 Thread Parahat Melayev
Hi ppl, we are planning to programm Instant Messaging server which will be serving for thousands or many thousands of users. if you have experience in this area which DB server you suggest to use at the backend and can you share your experiences please. thank you, Parahat Melayev

Re: cd and dvd burning program K3b and permissions for non-root users.

2004-08-19 Thread edwinculp
First I would like to thank: Oliver Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] E. Eusey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] For their excellent and similar suggestions for getting this to work and apologize for not answering quicker but I've been trying and trying to find the right combination.

RE: Config freebsd as getway

2004-08-19 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, Is this something obvious like the default gateway not being set on either of the PC's in question. Without seeing the IP setup its not obvious. Cheers, Phil. -Original Message- From: Andras Kende [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 August 2004 17:34 To: 'lily'; [EMAIL

Re: php postgres issues

2004-08-19 Thread Rail mail
is it a lost cause to: /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions make config (choose pgsql support) apache restart but still no support for postgres in php perhaps there is some extra configuration I am missing I changed my php.ini to incudle pgsql.so http.config is set up to add the php module users

Re: PostgreSQL || MySQL

2004-08-19 Thread Siddhartha Jain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Parahat Melayev wrote: | Hi ppl, | | we are planning to programm Instant Messaging server | which will be serving for thousands or many thousands | of users. | | if you have experience in this area which DB server you | suggest to use at the backend

php4

2004-08-19 Thread Mark
after a portupgrade I have lost mysql support with php4. I have pkg_deinstalled did a make--with-mysql=/usr/local/bin/mysql and pkg_reinstall but no support. Then portupgrade -m --with-mysql=/usr/local/bin/mysql php4. Then pkg_delete did make --with-mysql=/usr/local/bin/mysql then make install

Re: php4

2004-08-19 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
Mark wrote: after a portupgrade I have lost mysql support with php4. I have pkg_deinstalled did a make--with-mysql=/usr/local/bin/mysql and pkg_reinstall but no support. Then portupgrade -m --with-mysql=/usr/local/bin/mysql php4. Then pkg_delete did make --with-mysql=/usr/local/bin/mysql then

Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread thrawn
Hi, I have just brought this KVM switch: http://www.level1.com/products3.php?sklop=20id=590430 But Im having major problems with getting the mouse to work under FreeBSD. Even the keyboard does not work sometimes. This KVM switch has support for hotkey and also supports emulation on both mouse

apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current

2004-08-19 Thread edwinculp
I've been trying on and off to get an epson stylus c63 to print on current. I've always used apsprint which has always worked perfectly. In this case I am afraid that Epson has changed something and this model isn't supported by ghostscript. I've always been able to usr practically any of

install info

2004-08-19 Thread Joey Fenley
Installing FreeBSD on hosting server for first time, has dual scsi with raid, loaded FreeBSD but after rebooting error state please insert bootable media. very confused, Joey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current

2004-08-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 19 August 2004 11:27 am, edwinculp wrote: I've been trying on and off to get an epson stylus c63 to print on current. I've always used apsprint which has always worked perfectly. In this case I am afraid that Epson has changed something and this model isn't supported by

Re: install info

2004-08-19 Thread Siddhartha Jain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Fenley wrote: | Installing FreeBSD on hosting server for first time, has dual scsi with | raid, loaded FreeBSD but after rebooting error state please insert | bootable media. | | | very confused, | | Joey Do you remember what did you do with the

Re: php4

2004-08-19 Thread Mark
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:06:52PM -0400, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Mark wrote: after a portupgrade I have lost mysql support with php4. I have pkg_deinstalled did a make--with-mysql=/usr/local/bin/mysql and pkg_reinstall but no support. Then portupgrade -m

Scheduled system backups program

2004-08-19 Thread Joshua Lewis
I have a customer who has learned the hard way (the very hard way) that backups of your corporate data are imperative. Well now that I have spent the last three days trying to recover their data I need to implement a backup plan for them. They only have a few drives for backup (two 40G and a

Re: Patch patch-ac failed to apply cleanly.

2004-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tyler Parrott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I now have a similar problem with openldap. After installing m4, I ran pkgdb -F again, and I downloaded the latest makefile from freebsd.org. Sounds like you updated the makefile without updating the patches in the port. You need to update the

How do I make devices usable from a jail?

2004-08-19 Thread Luke
I'm running CURRENT. I've set up a jail. As part of setting it up, I ran mount_devfs devfs /path/to/jail/dev. This appeared to mount all of my devices in the jail at the proper location. When I start the jail, the jail's /dev looks correct. It looks identitical to the host system's /dev as

RE: FreeBSD 5.2.1 not resolving after kernel compiling

2004-08-19 Thread Hauan, David
-Original Message- From: Jorge Mario G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 7:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD 5.2.1 not resolving after kernel compiling Hi there My freebsd box was working fine (resolving) then I recompiled the kerneld

Re: Scheduled system backups program

2004-08-19 Thread adam
Responses in your quoted message Joshua Lewis wrote: I have a customer who has learned the hard way (the very hard way) that backups of your corporate data are imperative. Well now that I have spent the last three days trying to recover their data I need to implement a backup plan for them. They

Re: KDEInit could not launch 'kmail'

2004-08-19 Thread Owen.G
Ciprian Badescu wrote: Hi, Search for libkdeprint.so.x or libkdeprint.so and make a symblic link from libkdeprint.so.5 to that file. It's an ugly trick, but should work. -- Ciprian Badescu On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Owen Gardiner wrote: Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:35:26 +0200 From: Owen Gardiner [EMAIL

Advice on webmail server

2004-08-19 Thread Metrion
Hi all, I'm hoping someone can give me some tips on setup for a server I'm making. It's going to be a webmail server for a client, with probably no more then 700-800 total accounts, with maybe up to 250 concurrent users. Will be some HTML mail (bleh!) and flash/animated gif/etc also. I thought of

securing postgresql on fbsd

2004-08-19 Thread David Bear
This is not strictly a freebsd question, but this group is the smartest around... so I've installed postgresql on freebsd 4.10-rel. I want to secure ALL connections to postgres through ssh. So I first configured postgresql to connect ONLY to 127.0.0.1 port 5432. Then, when attempting to ssh

Re: Advice on webmail server

2004-08-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi all, I'm hoping someone can give me some tips on setup for a server I'm making. It's going to be a webmail server for a client, with probably no more then 700-800 total accounts, with maybe up to 250 concurrent users. Will be some HTML mail (bleh!) and flash/animated gif/etc also. I

Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread Mattias Björk
Hi, I have just brought this KVM switch: http://www.level1.com/products3.php?sklop=20id=590430 But Im having major problems with getting the mouse to work under FreeBSD. Even the keyboard does not work sometimes. This KVM switch has support for hotkey and also supports emulation on both mouse

Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread hoe-waa
From: thrawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:18 am Hi, I have just brought this KVM switch: http://www.level1.com/products3.php?sklop=20id=590430 But Im having major problems with getting the mouse to work under FreeBSD. Even the keyboard does not work sometimes.

Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread Mattias Björk
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: thrawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:18 am Hi, I have just brought this KVM switch: http://www.level1.com/products3.php?sklop=20id=590430 But Im having major problems with getting the mouse to work under FreeBSD. Even the keyboard does

Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread Leonard Zettel
On Thursday 19 August 2004 04:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: thrawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:18 am Hi, I have just brought this KVM switch: http://www.level1.com/products3.php?sklop=20id=590430 But Im having major problems with getting the mouse to

MP3 voice recorders and FreeBSD

2004-08-19 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... Sometime in September, I plan to purchase a voice recorder capable of MP3 recording. The device here: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=55-603-406DEPA=0 Is similar in nature to what I wish to purchase; it may not be this device, but similar. Does anyone

Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread Jay O'Brien
I had the same problems with a 4-port KVM. I am using a 2-port KVM successfully between an XP box and a FreeBSD 4.10 box. I've found that the scroll wheel doesn't work after switching back to Windows unless I also reset the KVM (Scroll Lock twice + End), but that's not a big deal. Here's

Re: Xorg or XFree86?

2004-08-19 Thread Justin L. Boss
Does anyone know is the nvidia drivers work with Xorg? On Wednesday 18 August 2004 09:28 pm, Eric Crist wrote: Hello list, I've seen a lot of posts over the past couple months regarding installation of X.org. I was wondering, is it that much better than XFree86 that it's worth the hassle?

Re: Xorg or XFree86?

2004-08-19 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: Does anyone know is the nvidia drivers work with Xorg? Hello, Yes it does. Check this lists archives for all you need to know as this topic has come up frequently over the last 6-8 weeks. HTH, Stheg __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail

How to Build a Custom Port Tree

2004-08-19 Thread Abid Saigol
I am a newbie to FreeBSD I'm using an old machine right now with limited disk space, so I don't want to install the entire ports collection. I want to build a custom port tree, and I'm finding the docs to be a bit silent on this account as I guess nowadays disk space is usually abundant so

Re: securing postgresql on fbsd

2004-08-19 Thread David Bear
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 01:10:41PM -0600, Sheets, Jason (Manpower Contract) wrote: It looks like you configured the tunnel to point to the public host (dbsrv1) and configured PostgreSQL to only listen on the loopback 127.0.0.1. Try tunneling to 127.0.0.1:5432 instead of dbsrv1 Something

Wireless Card stop worling after 15min.

2004-08-19 Thread Laszlo Antal
Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.10 installed on my Toshiba Satellite laptop with built in Wireless card. Everything is working fine Thank you for all the advice about the overheating problem. So what happens is after I start my laptop I have internet connection through my wireless card only for 15 minutes or

16-character username limit in quotas?

2004-08-19 Thread Chris Dillon
I've just run into a 16-character username limit in our quota support, or at least in the edquota command itself (5-CURRENT): edquota -u -e /afilesystem:614400:716800:4000:5000 areallylongusername edquota: areallylongusern: no such user Does anybody know what would it take to raise this limit to

Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread Mattias Björk
Hi, Leonard Zettel wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 04:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: thrawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:18 am Hi, I have just brought this KVM switch: http://www.level1.com/products3.php?sklop=20id=590430 But Im having major problems with getting

Re: How to Build a Custom Port Tree

2004-08-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Abid Saigol wrote: I am a newbie to FreeBSD Welcome! I'm using an old machine right now with limited disk space, so I don't want to install the entire ports collection. I want to build a custom port tree, and I'm finding the docs to be a bit silent on this account as I guess nowadays disk

Re: How to Build a Custom Port Tree

2004-08-19 Thread Abid Saigol
Kevin: Thanks for the initial feedback and welcome message: 2) How do I setup a single application port? You would need the skeleton installed in some directory, (generally /usr/ports/somecategory/someapp), and then go to that location and type make install clean, most usually. I get

Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread Mattias Björk
Hi, Jay O'Brien wrote: I had the same problems with a 4-port KVM. I am using a 2-port KVM successfully between an XP box and a FreeBSD 4.10 box. I've found that the scroll wheel doesn't work after switching back to Windows unless I also reset the KVM (Scroll Lock twice + End), but that's

Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread hoe-waa
From: Mattias Björk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: thrawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:18 am snip Does anybody have a clue or have hade any similar problems and/or who could shine some light on this problem? Mvh Mattias Björk

Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread Mattias Björk
Foster, ThomasX wrote: You apparently did try the device hints.. but is your kernel compiled to use that hints file? Also.. if you cat the output of the mouse device.. what do you get? Thom You mean on the FreeBSD 5.2.1-p9 box? If so, check below: [snip] machine i386 cpu

Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread Mattias Björk
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mattias Björk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: thrawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:18 am snip Does anybody have a clue or have hade any similar problems and/or who could shine some light on this problem? Mvh

portindex and INDEX.db

2004-08-19 Thread Charles Ulrich
Is there any downside to generating INDEX.db with the sysutils/portindex program rather than portsdb -Uu? -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: 16-character username limit in quotas?

2004-08-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 19), Chris Dillon said: I've just run into a 16-character username limit in our quota support, or at least in the edquota command itself (5-CURRENT): edquota -u -e /afilesystem:614400:716800:4000:5000 areallylongusername edquota: areallylongusern: no such user

Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread Leonard Zettel
On Thursday 19 August 2004 07:46 pm, Mattias Björk wrote: Hi, Leonard Zettel wrote: (snip) Duh. All this newbie can add is that of all the dropped balls and blind alleys I have experienced wrestling with FreeBSD, problems with my four port KVM switch have not been among them. Make of

problem

2004-08-19 Thread Arthur Purnhagen
Hi, why is my computer doing this, ForbiddenYou don't have permission to access / on this server. - Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.imagine2020.com Port 80 Thank You Art Purnhagen Thank You, Art Purnhagen Oh by the way if you were interested in a Great home

RE: problem

2004-08-19 Thread Eric Crist
What re you trying to do? The site seems to work fine Eric F Crist Best Access Systems 11300 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337 Phone: 952.894.3830 Cell: 612.998.3588 Fax: 952-894-1990 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arthur Purnhagen

Re: 802.1x

2004-08-19 Thread Martin Brecher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cubicool wrote: [...] | I've scoured google all | over and discovered Open1x--which has openly dropped all BSD support [...] This statement does not seem to be entirely correct. The website http://www.open1x.org states that version 0.7 from 12 June

Major Installation Problems

2004-08-19 Thread Patrick Wheeler
I have FreeBSD 4.1 on CD that I am trying to install but can't. I have a 133MHZ Pentium processor with 64MB of RAM and a 2GB hard drive. When I boot to the CD, after the initial startup the Kernel Configuration Menu is displayed. I select the first option (Skip Configuration), and then text that

RE: problem

2004-08-19 Thread Eric Crist
-Original Message- From: Arthur Purnhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:23 PM To: Eric Crist Subject: RE: problem Hi Eric,I'm trying to access the site which I'm member, I wrote Imagine2020 ,they also said it was running fine. But I keep getting forbidden

RE: Major Installation Problems

2004-08-19 Thread Eric Crist
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Wheeler Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Major Installation Problems I have FreeBSD 4.1 on CD that I am trying to install but can't. I have a 133MHZ

RE: HOWTO Ping LAN???

2004-08-19 Thread Rich Shinnick
Hakim, What you are trying to do is possible in two ways: 1. SSH to the box, and tunnel to other internal machines according to the tunnels you have set up. (See the last email I sent). 2. Port forward connections from the Internet thru the BSD to internal machines. Check these links:

RE: HOWTO Ping LAN???

2004-08-19 Thread Eric Crist
SEE BOTTOM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Shinnick Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 11:46 PM To: 'Hakim Singhji'; 'Hakim Z. Singhji'; 'MatthewSeaman' Cc: 'Bill Moran'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: HOWTO Ping LAN??? Hakim,

Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current

2004-08-19 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Friday 20 August 2004 01:57, edwinculp wrote: I've been trying on and off to get an epson stylus c63 to print on current. I've always used apsprint which has always worked perfectly. In this case I am afraid that Epson has changed something and this model isn't supported by ghostscript.

Re: dealing with deffective RAM

2004-08-19 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
I've tested the entire week, with some weird results. No errors are found inside any of the two modules, when I test them separately (in slot one). When I have both modules, I get a few hundreds errors. I've cleaned the slots and the contacts, but no change. The funny thing is that all the