Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Manish Jain
Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in single-user mode. The only reason to need an editor and not have /usr and /var available is to edit /etc/fstab. It is trivial to spot errors with /rescue/cat

root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Pieter Donche
FreeBSD 7, KDE 3.5 To install Matlab (in linux compat mode), one must execute the matlab install program as root. The installer is graphical. When from a KDE terminal window, I switch to root (# su -) and try a graphical program, e.g. # xpdf, I get Can't open display. The FreeBSD handbook

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Manish Jain wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in single-user mode. The only reason to need an editor and not have /usr and /var available is to edit /etc/fstab. It is trivial to spot

Re: install both jdk15 and jdk 16 from port

2009-05-15 Thread vuthecuong
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 14), vuthecuong said: do I will have conflict etc problems when install both jdk15 and jdk 16 from ports? Nope; all the jdk ports install into separate directories. There is a javavmwrapper port that installs as /usr/local/bin/java and

Re: Emailing 100+ PDFs, one at a time, to a given address

2009-05-15 Thread perryh
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote: I need to email 100s of PDFs, 1 per email, to a given address. What's the easiest way to do this? /usr/bin/Mail won't work, since PDFs are binary, so I must

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread perryh
Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: From all the discussion I have walked through on the issue of where to place vi, it does appear FreeBSD has a skewed policy on the issue. There are plenty of reasons you might need access an editor in single-user mode - editing fstab is just one.

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Pieter Donche wrote: FreeBSD 7, KDE 3.5 To install Matlab (in linux compat mode), one must execute the matlab install program as root. The installer is graphical. When from a KDE terminal window, I switch to root (# su -) and try a graphical program, e.g. # xpdf, I get Can't open display. The

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Pieter Donche
No luck (yet) I tried both methods, (with xpdf as a graphical program) The first still gives # xpdf Can't open display The second method # xpdf No protocol specified Error: Can't open display: :0.0 (after su -, $HOME was indeed /root) (in /root .Xauthority was changed/created, $DISPLAY is

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 15 May 2009 10:38:34 +0200 (CEST), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: No luck (yet) I tried both methods, (with xpdf as a graphical program) The first still gives # xpdf Can't open display The second method # xpdf No protocol specified Error: Can't open display: :0.0

Re: php5 pcre

2009-05-15 Thread Gorbatovsky Dmitry
Saifi Khan wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009, gdn wrote: Hi all! I'm using on CURRENT apache22 with php5. When I install php5-extensions, all packages make fine. But module pcre not work. -- php -m

suitesparse - error when compiling from ports

2009-05-15 Thread cblasius
Hello, I got the foolowing error when copile the suitesparse (/usr/ports/math/suitesparse) on Athlon64 FreeBSD-7.2 RELEASE # make install clean === Extracting for suitesparse-3.3.0 = MD5 Checksum OK for SuiteSparse-3.3.0.tar.gz. = SHA256 Checksum OK for SuiteSparse-3.3.0.tar.gz. === Patching

RE: php5 pcre

2009-05-15 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gorbatovsky Dmitry Sent: vrijdag 15 mei 2009 11:04 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: php5 pcre When I run make config I see selected PCRE and SPL extensions

USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Marco
Hello, iam thinking of building a router with usb wlan and usb ethernet controller attached. as the wlan device shall be an AP i would go for atheros stick. however, i'am unsure if anybody has expirience if or which devices should work out of the box with latest stable release. i read

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Arnold
Hi again, some more input on this. In Xorg.0.log i see: (II) config/hal: Adding input device USB Receiver (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) (The at part makes sense, i only have

Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Saša Stupar
2009/5/15 Marco ilikef...@web.de Hello, iam thinking of building a router with usb wlan and usb ethernet controller attached. as the wlan device shall be an AP i would go for atheros stick. however, i'am unsure if anybody has expirience if or which devices should work out of the box with

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 15 May 2009, Pieter Donche wrote: No luck (yet) I see from your original post that you're using KDE so you could try a third way: Use ALT + F2 to open the run dialog. Enter xpdf or whatever in the Command area. Click on Options, select Run as a different user and fill in the

Re: portupgrade -R problems

2009-05-15 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 14 May 2009 10:39:52 +0200 (CEST) Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: FreeBSD7. I wanted to upgrade print/cups-base and print/hplip From a portsnap run: cups-base-1.3.9_3 needs updating (index has 1.3.10_1) hplip-2.8.2_3 needs

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Pieter Donche
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Mike Clarke wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009, Pieter Donche wrote: I see from your original post that you're using KDE so you could try a third way: Use ALT + F2 to open the run dialog. Enter xpdf or whatever in the Command area. Click on Options, select Run as a different user

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Pieter Donche wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Mike Clarke wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009, Pieter Donche wrote: I see from your original post that you're using KDE so you could try a third way: Use ALT + F2 to open the run dialog. Enter xpdf or whatever in the Command area. Click on Options, select

Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Marco wrote: iam thinking of building a router with usb wlan and usb ethernet controller attached. as the wlan device shall be an AP i would go for atheros stick. however, i'am unsure if anybody has expirience if or which devices should work out of the box with latest stable release. i read

freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory

2009-05-15 Thread Brian Hoort
I've been trying every few days to update from 7.1-P5 to 7.2 using freebsd-update.  It always goes as follows: statler # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2-RELEASE Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done.

Re: Sun E250

2009-05-15 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 16:19 +0100, RAUL H C LOPES wrote: Hi, No. the A1000 does not require any special RAID controller. Freebsd 7.2 is freezing after message: Jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0078000 Okay, this erroneous behavior is happening much earlier than before the RAID controller

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 opencrypto -- kern.cryptodevallowsoft

2009-05-15 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 19:14 +0100, Brendan Kennedy wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to test a hardware crypto driver, but want to run my tests through the software driver first (and possibly use the software driver to validate results). I have set the following in my GENERIC conf file: What

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:05 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: Hi again, some more input on this. In Xorg.0.log i see: (II) config/hal: Adding input device USB Receiver (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard (EE) config/hal:

Re: mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 26 April 2009 11:12:12 Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: Bruce Cran wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:10:42 +0200 Peter Schuller peter.schul...@infidyne.com wrote: I recently began testing mergemaster -U since the perpetual review diff of file I never touched grows annoying real quick.

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Andrew Gould
snip And in /etc/rc.conf: bus_enable=YES Shouldn't the line above be: dbus_enable=YES hald_enable=YES Or does anyone have any hints on why a keyboard (that i'm currently writing on...) don't work in X11/Gnome? Any hints on debugging this? /Chris Andrew

Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 13:04:50 Saša Stupar wrote: I suggest you to buy a good AP (Lynksys, Asus, etc.) and it will work much better than building it from FreeBSD. And this is based on which assumption with what criteria for working better? On my FreeBSD AP I can: - view my logs in realtime -

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:03:58PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chris Rees googlemail.com!utis...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: 2009/5/14 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:38:30AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: I think the problem with that is he meant changing the

Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Maciej Milewski
Friday 15 May 2009 17:15:37 Mel Flynn napisał(a): On Friday 15 May 2009 13:04:50 Saša Stupar wrote: I suggest you to buy a good AP (Lynksys, Asus, etc.) and it will work much better than building it from FreeBSD. And this is based on which assumption with what criteria for working better?

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 08:46:46 Manish Jain wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in single-user mode. The only reason to need an editor and not have /usr and /var available is to edit

Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Zane C.B.
On Fri, 15 May 2009 17:15:37 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 13:04:50 Saša Stupar wrote: I suggest you to buy a good AP (Lynksys, Asus, etc.) and it will work much better than building it from FreeBSD. And this is based on which

craigslist for computers??

2009-05-15 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, Some friends of mine suggested I use craigslist to find the kinds of new (or maybe used and used[?]) computers I'm looking for. I've used both google and yahoo and haven't found what may be best:: Most Green. Can anybody clue me in? gary

Re: subversion / dav_svn_module : Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.'

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 02:27:43 Olivier Mueller wrote: Hi Mel, On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 22:21 +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: I'm still thinking there's two different (threading|bdb) libraries linked into httpd, but not sure to ask for which ldd...httpd or mod_dav. The db version could be a red

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 10:09 -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: snip And in /etc/rc.conf: bus_enable=YES Shouldn't the line above be: dbus_enable=YES Yes, sorry... typo... robert. hald_enable=YES Or does anyone

Re: ghostscript8 - errors when compiling from ports

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 21:08:11 Jonathan Chen wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 05:54:09PM +0200, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: On Wednesday 13 of May 2009 12:08:55 you wrote: just a guess, looks like a problems with cups-base, try to update it first. I recommend ports-mgmt/portmaster.

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 opencrypto -- kern.cryptodevallowsoft

2009-05-15 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Tue, 12 May 2009 19:14:38 +0100, Brendan Kennedy brendan.kenn...@gmail.com: Hi All, Hello, FreeBSD_26# sysctl -a | grep crypto kern.cryptodevallowsoft: 1 However, when I try a test, I get the following: FreeBSD_26# /usr/src/tools/tools/crypto/cryptotest -va 3des cipher 3des keylen

Problem building htop

2009-05-15 Thread Robin Becker
I'm trying to build htop-0.8.1 from ports on a FreeBSD 6.1 system. It seems htop requires ncurses and I see this error In file included from RichString.h:14, from Object.h:12, from Process.h:14, from ProcessList.h:17, from

Re: issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX

2009-05-15 Thread Steven Hartland
Never only set one end manually, always set both the machine and the switch. Regards Steve - Original Message - From: James Tanis jta...@mdchs.org To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:12 PM Subject:

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Robert Noland wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:05 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: Hi again, some more input on this. In Xorg.0.log i see: (II) config/hal: Adding input device USB Receiver (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) (II) config/hal: Adding input

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Arnold
Problem solved, see below.. On Fri, 15 May 2009, Christopher Arnold wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Robert Noland wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:05 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: In Xorg.0.log i see: (II) config/hal: Adding input device USB Receiver (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest

Re: issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX

2009-05-15 Thread Jack Vogel
Better yet, just let them autoneg and you won't have these problems :) Jack On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.ukwrote: Never only set one end manually, always set both the machine and the switch. Regards Steve - Original Message - From:

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 18:56 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: Problem solved, see below.. On Fri, 15 May 2009, Christopher Arnold wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Robert Noland wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:05 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: In Xorg.0.log i see: (II) config/hal:

Re: BGP

2009-05-15 Thread Alessandro Dellavedova
On May 14, 2009, at 12:55 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: is there a way to have FreeBSD work as BGP router and/or at least failover between 2 different ISPs? I, as some random guy on the Internet, would recommend Quagga and, yes, it will work with 2+ ISP's on

Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports

2009-05-15 Thread mfv
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 13:53:35 Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 11 May 2009 15:21:24 Jerry McAllister wrote: But, I very often wish there was a convenient way to see some of those messages and especially messages about things one has to do during the install, such as manually installing

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Powell
Manish Jain wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in single-user mode. [snip] From all the discussion I have walked through on the issue of where to place vi, it does appear FreeBSD has

7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-15 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, I downloaded the DVD version of 7.2 Release and did a minimum install as usual before customizing and for the first time in years FreeBSD installer has done something odd to my XP boot loader (whatever is responisble?) I know I'm likely to be told to go to a Windows forum but wondered if

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Powell
Pieter Donche wrote: FreeBSD 7, KDE 3.5 To install Matlab (in linux compat mode), one must execute the matlab install program as root. The installer is graphical. When from a KDE terminal window, I switch to root (# su -) and try a graphical program, e.g. # xpdf, I get Can't open display.

Problems with PolicyKit and device mounting

2009-05-15 Thread David Karapetyan
Hello all. I am currently running 7.2-Release. I followed the instructions at the freebsd project website for configuring gnome; furthermore, I edited my Policy Kit to allow user 'bobo' to mount removable drives. However, when I start gnome, hal only mounts cd drives; while icons are produced

Customer Notice:- Access Account Has Been Blocked

2009-05-15 Thread Alliance Leicester Plc
Alliance Leicester Dear Valued Customer, We recently have determined that different computers have logged into your Alliance Leicester account, and multiple password failures were present before the logons. In this manner for your security, your

qmail.sh is broken symlink

2009-05-15 Thread Kelly Jones
I just installed qmail on my FreeBSD box out of /usr/ports/mail/qmail, and noticed this: # ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 May 15 18:43 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh@ - /va\ r/qmail/rc # ls -l /var/mail/rc ls: /var/mail/rc: No such file or directory I read

Re: qmail.sh is broken symlink

2009-05-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:29:27PM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: I just installed qmail on my FreeBSD box out of /usr/ports/mail/qmail, and noticed this: # ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 May 15 18:43 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh@ - /va\ r/qmail/rc # ls -l