Re: firefox can't save file

2006-12-23 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 12/23/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, my firefox and linux-firefox can't save files, all i got is in the dmesg, that said Warning: pid 87165 used static ldt allocation. See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info what shall i do?? May we see the output of uname -a and

Re: freeBSD network error

2006-12-23 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello Arun, If your network interface presents then its super easy, (I think for Realtek it should) if not then you need to find it out, After your installation is done, What is your motherboard model number? I need to know the ethernet device. what is the output of ifconfig -a ?

Re: nvida driver on amd64

2006-12-23 Thread RW
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:08:57 -0700 Modulok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically I'm looking to get an nvidia driver for an FreeBSD system on amd64, that supports openGL 2.0 hardware acceleration. So far, nvidia only supports FreeBSD on the x86. Aside from going to linux (which I really don't

Command-line iridium flare prediction software for Unix/Mac OS X?

2006-12-23 Thread Kelly Jones
I've seen lots of iridium flare prediction software that's graphics-based, but is there any that can be run from the command line? I want to run the predictor as a cron job and pipe the output to a Perl script, for example. I'm running Mac OS X, but if I can get the source of anything that runs

Re: firefox can't save file

2006-12-23 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
yeah, sorry... uname -a = FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #6: Sat Dec 9 10:03:38 EST 2006 root@:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/TFCHENG i386 and pkg_info = Information for firefox-2.0.0.1,1: Depends on: Dependency: expat-2.0.0_1 Dependency: pkg-config-0.21 Dependency:

Protocol error trying to install ports

2006-12-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I walked someone through setup of a FreeBSD 6.1 install over the phone and now when I try to install any ports, I get the same protocol error. I assume something went wrong with the install, is there something I can check or fix remotely? Sorry for the wrapping below, I can't seem to find how

Re: firefox can't save file

2006-12-23 Thread Henry Lenzi
On 12/23/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, my firefox and linux-firefox can't save files, I have the same problem. The funny thing is that for a user in th wheel group, it doesn't save. For a normal user, it does. ___

Re: geli load key before rootfs is mounted

2006-12-23 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Chris wrote: I think you maybe running into a bug in 6.1 where the keyboard wont respond during the boot process. Of course you don't notice because keystrokes have no visual feedback at password input. Try adding this line to /boot/device.hint on your boot media: hint.kbdmux.0.disabled=1

FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
Hello, I installed FF 2.0 from the ports. I noticed that FF 2.0 uses alot of CPU power every time I open a new page in the tabs, or refresh an opened page, it's not app startup issue, beside I don't know if Linux has the same issue too. I didn't notice this issue with Konqueror with KDE 3.5.5.

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 12/23/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/23/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed FF 2.0 from the ports. I noticed that FF 2.0 uses alot of CPU power every time I open a new page in the tabs, or refresh an opened page, it's not app startup

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed FF 2.0 from the ports. I noticed that FF 2.0 uses alot of CPU power every time I open a new page in the tabs, or refresh an opened page, it's not app startup issue, beside I don't know if Linux has the same issue too.

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about Opera, does it have the same issue? No idea, but using a lot of cpu during activity isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's there to be used. The question is, is your system unacceptably slow when using Firefox? AMD Turion(tm) 64

uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Z. Wade Hampton
Greetings to all, I am attempting to run cvsup-without-gui on a Dell Inspiron 1501, with amd64x2 processor and 2GbRAM. I am using the ports-supfile modified to suit location and RELENG_6_1. The process begins, and starts deleting the old stuff...no problem. Then, about 10 minutes into it, the

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Christian Walther
On 23/12/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. I agree. It's painfull to see that you browse a website and it consumes all your cpu cycles

Re: Browser Plugins - State of the Art???

2006-12-23 Thread Frank Jahnke
Overall, I've gotten the best results with Linux-Opera. It works fine with Acroread, Java and Flash. I've not tried Real Player. The only thing it can't do is use the MPlayer plugin. Opera 9.10 (FreeBSD native) supposedly takes Linux plugins directly, which would be a huge step in the right

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 23 December 2006 11:41, Z. Wade Hampton wrote: Greetings to all, I am attempting to run cvsup-without-gui on a Dell Inspiron 1501, with amd64x2 processor and 2GbRAM. I am using the ports-supfile modified to suit location and RELENG_6_1. The process begins, and starts deleting the

not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hello, I had to reboot recently (a truly rare event), and I found that my PPPoE connection didn't come back up automatically. Quite disturbing if I happen to be away from the house and a power failure lasts longer than my UPS. After boot, if I run /etc/rc.d/ppp-user start, it comes up

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Christian Walther
Hello Mike, do you have ppp_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf? If you never configured /etc/rc.conf to start ppp on boot, you should take a look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf to see what options are available, and what options apply to your setup. HTH Christian

remote graphical login to a fbsd server

2006-12-23 Thread dick hoogendijk
[From the handbook] In order for other clients to connect to the display server, edit the access control rules, and enable the connection listener. By default these are set to conservative values. To make XDM listen for connections, first comment out a line in the xdm-config file: ! SECURITY: do

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 12/23/06, Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings to all, I am attempting to run cvsup-without-gui on a Dell Inspiron 1501, with amd64x2 processor and 2GbRAM. I am using the ports-supfile modified to suit location and RELENG_6_1. The process begins, and starts deleting the old

remove suid files question....

2006-12-23 Thread Agus
Hi all.i installed a freebsd 6 and i am going to use it as a server with apache, ssh, ftp and other servicesit is going to be of free accessu register in my page your account (free) and i create an account for u in the systemso i am trying to make it secure.which setuid files

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Mike, do you have ppp_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf? If you never configured /etc/rc.conf to start ppp on boot, you should take a look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf to see what options are available, and what options apply to your

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Z. Wade Hampton
On Saturday 23 December 2006 14:10, Bill Moran wrote: Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings to all, I am attempting to run cvsup-without-gui on a Dell Inspiron 1501, with amd64x2 processor and 2GbRAM. I am using the ports-supfile modified to suit location and RELENG_6_1.

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Bill Moran
Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings to all, I am attempting to run cvsup-without-gui on a Dell Inspiron 1501, with amd64x2 processor and 2GbRAM. I am using the ports-supfile modified to suit location and RELENG_6_1. The process begins, and starts deleting the old

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 23 December 2006 11:48, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I had to reboot recently (a truly rare event), and I found that my PPPoE connection didn't come back up automatically. Quite disturbing if I happen to be away from the house and a power failure lasts longer than my UPS.

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have ppp-user_enable=yes in your /etc/rc.conf? No, and looking at ppp-user, I don't see why I'd need one. I have ppp_enable=YES. # PROVIDE: ppp-user # REQUIRE: netif isdnd # KEYWORD: nojail . /etc/rc.subr name=ppp rcvar=ppp_enable

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 23 December 2006 12:36, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 12/23/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have ppp-user_enable=yes in your /etc/rc.conf? No, and looking at ppp-user, I don't see why I'd need one. I have ppp_enable=YES. # PROVIDE: ppp-user # REQUIRE: netif

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 23 December 2006 12:36, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 12/23/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have ppp-user_enable=yes in your /etc/rc.conf? No, and looking at ppp-user, I don't see why I'd need one. I have ppp_enable=YES. # PROVIDE: ppp-user # REQUIRE: netif

kde and gnome/gtk font appearance...

2006-12-23 Thread Andy Harrison
I was wondering if anyone could explain this discrepancy in font appearance. Here is how fonts appear on my desktop apps in gnome/metacity. http://img110.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotkdegfpfa8.jpg Here is how fonts appear by default in kde/kwin.

Re: kde and gnome/gtk font appearance...

2006-12-23 Thread Andy Harrison
On 12/23/06, Andy Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone could explain this discrepancy in font appearance. Here is how fonts appear on my desktop apps in gnome/metacity. Oops, first screenshot should be... http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotgnomebx8.jpg

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Lane
On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:36, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 12/23/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have ppp-user_enable=yes in your /etc/rc.conf? No, and looking at ppp-user, I don't see why I'd need one. I have ppp_enable=YES. # PROVIDE: ppp-user # REQUIRE: netif

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Lane
On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:36, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 12/23/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have ppp-user_enable=yes in your /etc/rc.conf? No, and looking at ppp-user, I don't see why I'd need one. I have ppp_enable=YES. # PROVIDE: ppp-user # REQUIRE: netif

Re: kde and gnome/gtk font appearance...

2006-12-23 Thread Pramod Venugopal
I am not sure if this might help, but it does improve the way fonts are rendered for me in KDE and Gnome. Basically it turns on hinting. Put this in a file called .fonts.conf in your home directory. --8-- ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd fontconfig match target=font

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to mention, as a workaround if you can't get the rc.d script working you can start it from cron. Just replace the time/day/month variables with @reboot and the path to the exicutable. I use it for a couple of things that don't have

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does not appear that rcorder is invoked when you run the script from the command line ... thus it will start when you invoke it manually as long as /etc/rc.conf agrees. Do this: rcorder -s nostart /etc/rc.d/* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rcorder -s

where are /usr/local/etc/rc.d init scripts run from?

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I was looking in /etc/rc, and it's obvious to see where the /etc/rc.d scripts are run from. skip=-s nostart [ `/sbin/sysctl -n security.jail.jailed` -eq 1 ] skip=$skip -s nojail files=`rcorder ${skip} /etc/rc.d/* 2/dev/null` for _rc_elem in ${files}; do run_rc_script ${_rc_elem}

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 12/23/06, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/12/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. I agree. It's painfull to see that

Re: where are /usr/local/etc/rc.d init scripts run from?

2006-12-23 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 12/24/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking in /etc/rc, and it's obvious to see where the /etc/rc.d scripts are run from. skip=-s nostart [ `/sbin/sysctl -n security.jail.jailed` -eq 1 ] skip=$skip -s nojail files=`rcorder ${skip} /etc/rc.d/* 2/dev/null` for

Re: where are /usr/local/etc/rc.d init scripts run from?

2006-12-23 Thread Kevin Brunelle
On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:15, Michael P. Soulier wrote: I was looking in /etc/rc, and it's obvious to see where the /etc/rc.d scripts are run from. skip=-s nostart [ `/sbin/sysctl -n security.jail.jailed` -eq 1 ] skip=$skip -s nojail files=`rcorder ${skip} /etc/rc.d/* 2/dev/null`

Re: remove suid files question....

2006-12-23 Thread Armin Arh
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 05:41:29PM -0300, Agus wrote: Hi all.i installed a freebsd 6 and i am going to use it as a server with apache, ssh, ftp and other servicesit is going to be of free accessu register in my page your account (free) and i create an account for u in the

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:38:43 -0700 Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bill. I'll keep that in mind. I think I have the problem figured out. *base=/var/db was set in the supfile. After changing it to /usr, the problem went away. You can be 99.9% sure that the problem

Re: where are /usr/local/etc/rc.d init scripts run from?

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Kevin Brunelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They are called from /etc/rc.d/localpkg if they are the old style. The directories searched are defined with local_startup (which defaults to: /usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d). Ok, looking in localpkg, I see this. pkg_start() {

Re: where are /usr/local/etc/rc.d init scripts run from?

2006-12-23 Thread Kevin Brunelle
So rcorder is not used for the rc scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d? That explains much, since I have a runsvstat.sh script needed to start runit, and a script to start one of its services starts with an 'm' and is executing first, which I don't want. Why is rcorder not used on these files as

Search Replace Issue

2006-12-23 Thread Jack Stone
Appreciate a tip on how to search replace hundreds of *.htm files: From this: lia href=http://www.domain.com/tales/wouf.html To this: lia href=tales/wouf.html In other words, I just want the relative path and remove all the extra: http://www.domain.htm/ portions of the lines. Large thanks

Re: Search Replace Issue

2006-12-23 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Saturday 23 December 2006 21:29, Jack Stone wrote: Appreciate a tip on how to search replace hundreds of *.htm files: From this: lia href=http://www.domain.com/tales/wouf.html To this: lia href=tales/wouf.html In other words, I just want the relative path and remove all the extra:

Re: Search Replace Issue

2006-12-23 Thread DeepTech
Don't know anything concrete, but: regexp or wildcards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-12-03 - 2006-12-23

2006-12-23 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

portversion vs. pkg_version

2006-12-23 Thread Edward G.J. Lee
Hi all, What's the difference between `portversion' and `pkg_version -I'? Thanks. Edward ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Search Replace Issue

2006-12-23 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:29:40 -0600 Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Appreciate a tip on how to search replace hundreds of *.htm files: From this: lia href=http://www.domain.com/tales/wouf.html To this: lia href=tales/wouf.html In other words, I just want the relative path and