Re: what about BadAtom Error?

2009-06-04 Thread PstreeM China
i mean that , use the command $rox ... that's ok , i can explorer my directory and file . but , i want Rox to Manager my desktop , use the command #rox -p default ,the error is still there . befer upgrade the ports (#portupgrade -arR) , the rox is worked fine ! On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:44 PM,

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Ignore him please. because? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Alert: Know about Project Management Training

2009-06-04 Thread nitesh bharti
Hi Professionals, I would like to inform you all abouthttp://www.astrowix.com/ Project Management Training Managing any project is never an easy job. In every project we come across decisive project management obstacles including geographically dispersed teams, decentralized

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/4 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: Ignore him please. because? The FreeBSD project still uses man pages as the principle form of documentation. Texinfo is for GNU projects. Try 'info tar' on a BSD system, you'll get the man page. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
because? The FreeBSD project still uses man pages as the principle form of documentation. Texinfo is for GNU projects. Try 'info tar' on a BSD system, you'll get the man page. indeed. But i was talking about how linux looks. Forgot to read all - as usual?

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 14:07:53 Ghirai wrote: Is there any (native) FreeBSD supoprt for Phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com? I think you have the question backwards - it should be does Phidgets support FreeBSD and that you can answer. There seems to be linux source, how far did you get

Re: pkg_deinstall: delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z

2009-06-04 Thread Fbsd1
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Hello list. I am trying to clean up a system with a LOT of cruft. Is there some argument I could pass to pkg_deinstall that would result in delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z (and obviously their dependancies)? just do pkg_info |cut -f 1 -d

Re: pkg_deinstall: delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ignore errors about package can't be deleted because X, Y or Z requires it. it's exactly what you want. pkg_delete `cat /tmp/pkglist` gives error 'no such package `cat /tmp/pkglist` installed for sure you used ' instead of ` ___

Forgotten password

2009-06-04 Thread Deji Ogunsanya
Good day am a new user of of freebsd Os and i forgot my login password, i will need an assitance on how to get it changed. Thanks Deji When God opened the windows of heaven, he asked me:” what is your wish today I said. Lord please takes special care of the person reading this message Amen!

Re: Forgotten password

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Good day am a new user of of freebsd Os and i forgot my login password, i will need an assitance on how to get it changed. boot, press 4 at boot loader prompt to get single user. after seeing a guestion what to run as a shell (/bin/sh as default) press enter. then /sbin/mount /

Re: Forgotten password

2009-06-04 Thread Joseph Olatt
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:32:27PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Good day am a new user of of freebsd Os and i forgot my login password, i will need an assitance on how to get it changed. boot, press 4 at boot loader prompt to get single user. after seeing a guestion what to run as a shell

Re: Forgotten password

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 13:32:27 Wojciech Puchar wrote: Good day am a new user of of freebsd Os and i forgot my login password, i will need an assitance on how to get it changed. boot, press 4 at boot loader prompt to get single user. after seeing a guestion what to run as a shell

Re: presentation application (other than OpenOffice)?

2009-06-04 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, November 26, 2008 a las 02:55:43PM +, Didi escribió: You might want to have a look at http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ Works in a browser ;) any idea why S5 does not work in KDE's 3.5.x Konqueror? for example this page shows up only blank in Konqueror:

Re: Forgotten password

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
/sbin/mount / /usr/bin/passwd Without any arguments, the password for root will probably get changed. If the user wants to change his/her personal account passwd, then: what a sense to reboot and get single user mode to change non-root password? just log as root and then change

Re: Can One Query an Oracle 10 Data Base under FreeBSD?

2009-06-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Tyson Boellstorff writes: On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:07:57 Gary Gatten wrote: Surely there's a native Oracle SQL or ODBC client in the ports collection. Have you checked there? I believe OP is looking for assurances that the oracle 7 and 8 clients listed in ports/databases would

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/4 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: because? The FreeBSD project still uses man pages as the principle form of documentation. Texinfo is for GNU projects. Try 'info tar' on a BSD system, you'll get the man page. indeed. But i was talking about how linux looks. Forgot

n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread John .
Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-advanced.html ? (the machine has no floppy drive (yet) thanks -- John ___

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per make your own CD add file boot.config containing just one line: -P to existing, make sure you it's bootable (mkisofs -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot) and record refer to

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 04 June 2009 08:28:08 am Chris Rees wrote: Perhaps your emails would be easier to read if they weren't so rushed. I think that's the problem. After re-reading his email, I think I can see how he meant it to refer to the state of Linux's documentation and not FreeBSD's, but I

xf86-video-intel-2.7.1

2009-06-04 Thread Jimmie James
I'm tired of X craping it's pants. After a day or so, if I try to exit and restart X X locks up, screen garbles and the following is in Xorg.0.log shows: WW) intel(0): drmDropMaster failed: Unknown error: -1 (II) intel(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) intel(0): [drm]

Can a Bourn Shell Script put itself in the background?

2009-06-04 Thread Martin McCormick
I tried bg $$ but $$ is the current process invoked just as $! is the process of a backgrounded process started by that shell. So, can I make a shell script background itself after starting? Right now, I remind my coworkers to append the after the script name. the bg command expects

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 04 June 2009 15:46:11 John . wrote: Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-advanced.html ? (the machine has no floppy drive (yet) It's possible -

SetUID/SetGID Kernel Option

2009-06-04 Thread Martin McCormick
I have been asked to enable the following kernel option: SetUID/SetGID - Allow directories to inherit their owner from the parent directory. The generic kernel under FreeBSD6.3 is what we presently use on the system in question and I see no commented-out option for compilation.

Re: Can a Bourn Shell Script put itself in the background?

2009-06-04 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Martin McCormick wrote: So, can I make a shell script background itself after starting? You could run all your code in a sub-shell: #!/bin/sh ( #your script here ) or in a shell function: old_script() { #your script here } old_script $* Perhaps the second way

cups and ghostscript recursive dependency problem

2009-06-04 Thread Mike Clarke
I'm getting recursive dependency problems following a recent portupgrade -a. I've deinstalled cups-base as advised in UPDATING and somehow ghostscript8 has also ended up being removed. Now when I attempt to rebuild cups-base I get recursive dependency problems. curlew:/root# cd

RE: Can a Bourn Shell Script put itself in the background?

2009-06-04 Thread Barry Byrne
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Martin McCormick I tried bg $$ but $$ is the current process invoked just as $! is the process of a backgrounded process started by that shell. So, can I make a shell script

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread John .
Hi, Thanks everyone, I know what to do now :D -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: SetUID/SetGID Kernel Option

2009-06-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
Hi Martin On Thursday 04 June 2009 16:23:29 Martin McCormick wrote: I have been asked to enable the following kernel option: SetUID/SetGID - Allow directories to inherit their owner from the parent directory. The generic kernel under FreeBSD6.3 is what we presently use on the

{Classmates#889-142}read it immediately

2009-06-04 Thread Dion Innes
I did not ask to renew my membership in May. My account was automatically charged $39.00. I would like to cancel and would like my account credited. Thank you, Dion Innes 503-502-7856 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: {Classmates#889-142}read it immediately

2009-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Dion Innes din...@comcast.net: I did not ask to renew my membership in May. My account was automatically charged $39.00. I would like to cancel and would like my account credited. Not sure who you're trying to reach, but you've failed. This address is not associated with

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
man boot.config Sure that's enough? ttys is still going to mark the ttyd0 line as off and won't present a tty/login then. no. it's set to console in installator IMHO. that's universal. I think it's more complicated than that. And what if the boot process hangs for some reason? no

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:23:34 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: The FreeBSD project still uses man pages as the principle form of documentation. Sorry I brought up this topic... I don't think manpages are bad, I cosider them THE BEST SOLUTION for local documentation, so I don't

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/4/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per make your own CD add file boot.config containing just one line: -P to existing, make sure you it's

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It should be The FreeBSD project uses man pages [...] - not still, which reads like The FreeBSD project still uses those old fashioned man pages, but will abandon them soon in favour of a GUI-driven help system that is used via Internet. :-) are you sure it won't? at least i wish so, as most

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/4 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: Polytropon wrote: It should be The FreeBSD project uses man pages [...] - not still, which reads like The FreeBSD project still uses those old fashioned man pages, but will abandon them soon in favour of a GUI-driven help system that is

Re: SetUID/SetGID Kernel Option

2009-06-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Jonathan McKeown writes: You need to add option SUIDDIR To the kernel config. You can find a sample line in /sys/conf/NOTES We see in the fstab the following: Once you've recompiled the kernel you also need to use suiddir in the mount options for any filesystem where you

I want a laptop to connect to Internet via satelitte

2009-06-04 Thread Steven Friedrich
I have a laptop and I was looking at the ATT LaptopConnect cards. They appear to only work with Windows. I do need windows support, but I insist on FreeBSD support. I tried looking at the hardware and release notes for FreeBSD, but what do you call these devices to distinguish them from

Re: cups and ghostscript recursive dependency problem

2009-06-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:36:56 +0100, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: I'm getting recursive dependency problems following a recent portupgrade -a. I've deinstalled cups-base as advised in UPDATING and somehow ghostscript8 has also ended up being removed. Now when I attempt to

Re: Can a Bourn Shell Script put itself in the background?

2009-06-04 Thread Nerius Landys
Just a thought, you can use the screen utility depending on what you are trying to do. For example if you want to start a job, long out of the machine completely, and then return to your job to see how it's running, you may choose to run screen. screen bash (Press Control-A then d) (Logout from

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 04 June 2009 11:20:24 am Chris Rees wrote: PS Does _anyone_ prefer info manuals, apart from Stallman? I like them *in their place*. Can you imagine how long the man page for GCC would be? IMHO, though, info pages are only tolerable within Emacs. -- Kirk Strauser

ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Mark Hartkemeyer
I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition. I found the section on ISPs in chapter 18 really interesting. I put some of his recommended questions to my ISP, Cincinnati Bell's Zoomtown. I think I talked to three or four people before I even

Named ignoring forward-only zones?

2009-06-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
For some reason, BIND 9 (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE) isn't properly forwarding queries. A snippet of named.conf: acl clients { localnets; localhost; ::1; 10.45.12/19; }; view internal { match-clients { clients; }; zone

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mark Hartkemeyer hartk...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition.  I found the section on ISPs in chapter 18 really interesting.  I put some of his recommended questions to my ISP,

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Mark Hartkemeyer hartk...@gmail.com: I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition. I found the section on ISPs in chapter 18 really interesting. I put some of his recommended questions to my ISP, Cincinnati Bell's Zoomtown.

Re: I want a laptop to connect to Internet via satelitte

2009-06-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:22:22PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: I have a laptop and I was looking at the ATT LaptopConnect cards. They appear to only work with Windows. I do need windows support, but I insist on FreeBSD support. According to

linux compatibility ports upgrade

2009-06-04 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, Just use portmaster to upgrade ports and found out a lot of linux-* ports are renewed. But strange to see that upgrading was interrupted by ports conflicts, such as linux-f8-tiff and linux-tiff. What I have are a whole bunch of f8 stuff, I dont understand why portmaster choose to upgrade

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
PS Does _anyone_ prefer info manuals, apart from Stallman? I don't, it's much easier to just type man something than browsing through big document ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: I want a laptop to connect to Internet via satelitte

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a laptop and I was looking at the ATT LaptopConnect cards. They appear to only work with Windows. I do need windows support, but I insist on FreeBSD support. I tried looking at the hardware and release notes for FreeBSD, but what do you call these devices to distinguish them from

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:20:24PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: Er, yeah, i think man pages are the best solution too, and I apologise for appearing to look down on them. I can't *stand* info manuals, they're clunky and bloated. Chris PS Does _anyone_ prefer info manuals, apart from

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:10:17 -0400 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Mark Hartkemeyer hartk...@gmail.com: 4. What kind of hardware and software are you running? Can't provide this, due to security reasons. That's the stupidest answer I've heard today. Actually, I

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
PS Does _anyone_ prefer info manuals, apart from Stallman? Well, man pages are good at formally documenting the how of use, but they often are not so helpful on the why and wherefor of use. for me it's exactly for this - to know how and why to use.

Re: Can't get ndis0 working

2009-06-04 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 5/14/09, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Walter, Richard richard.wal...@hob.de wrote: Hello, I tried to activate my Acer's Aspire 5315 wireless card with FreeBSD 7.2 i386 and had no luck. What i did: 1) #prtconf -lv no...@pci0:6:0:0:

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
4. What kind of hardware and software are you running? Can't provide this, due to security reasons. That's the stupidest answer I've heard today. It isn't that stupid. As many ISPs admins aren't very good, they simply fear. ___

Re: linux compatibility ports upgrade

2009-06-04 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:15:21 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, Just use portmaster to upgrade ports and found out a lot of linux-* ports are renewed. But strange to see that upgrading was interrupted by ports conflicts, such as linux-f8-tiff and linux-tiff. Yes, those ports install files with

about restarting services

2009-06-04 Thread leonardo
hello everybody: I´m new to freeBSD, I want to know how I can restart the network services ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: linux compatibility ports upgrade

2009-06-04 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Thank you, Boris. This is my linux ports,linux-f8-atk-1.20.0_1 Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary (Linux Fedora 8) linux-f8-cairo-1.4.14_1 Vector graphics library Cairo (Linux Fedora 8) linux-f8-curl-7.18.2_1 The command line tool for transferring files with URL synta linux-f8-expat-2.0.1_1

repeating error message from ssh

2009-06-04 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm seeing this message repeating in my logs from ssh. I'm running a 7.2 system, no patches, with ssh installed from ports. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. Jun 4 13:08:06 ssh-server ssh: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for NetworkMachineName IN , got type A

Re: linux compatibility ports upgrade

2009-06-04 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
It's funny, sometimes I think portmaster knows that it should upgrade linux-f8* ports and not linux-* ports but sometimes doesn't. I don't know why... TFC On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Tsu-Fan Cheng tfch...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Boris. This is my linux ports,linux-f8-atk-1.20.0_1

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That's the stupidest answer I've heard today. It isn't that stupid. As many ISPs admins aren't very good, they simply fear. Based on the answers provided, I highly doubt that the OP was speaking to an admin... Of course not, but THEY require others to not talk about used hardware and

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-04 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:06:18PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: Whatever happened to BeOS? http://www.haiku-os.org/ -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: about restarting services

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
hello everybody: I´m new to freeBSD, I want to know how I can restart the network services what services? /etc/rc.d/service restart or if installed from ports /usr/local/etc/rc.d/service restart ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: repeating error message from ssh

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm seeing this message repeating in my logs from ssh. I'm running a 7.2 system, no patches, with ssh installed from ports. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. Jun 4 13:08:06 ssh-server ssh: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for NetworkMachineName IN , got type A DNS behave strangely.

Re: linux compatibility ports upgrade

2009-06-04 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 14:15:42 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Thank you, Boris. This is my linux ports,linux-f8-atk-1.20.0_1 Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary (Linux Fedora 8) linux-f8-cairo-1.4.14_1 Vector graphics library Cairo (Linux Fedora 8) linux-f8-curl-7.18.2_1 The command line tool

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 4. What kind of hardware and software are you running? Can't provide this, due to security reasons. That's the stupidest answer I've heard today. It isn't that stupid. As many ISPs admins aren't very good, they simply fear. Based on the answers provided, I

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-04 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:13:43PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:35:31PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere? There is an open source clone in the works:

Re: linux compatibility ports upgrade

2009-06-04 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
I see, can you tell me which are FC4 ports?? thanks!! TFC On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 14:15:42 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Thank you, Boris. This is my linux ports,linux-f8-atk-1.20.0_1 Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:21:01 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: PS Does _anyone_ prefer info manuals, apart from Stallman? I don't, it's much easier to just type man something than browsing through big document As far as I know, info doesn't let you search

Re: repeating error message from ssh

2009-06-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dave wrote: Hello, I'm seeing this message repeating in my logs from ssh. I'm running a 7.2 system, no patches, with ssh installed from ports. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. Jun 4 13:08:06 ssh-server ssh: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for NetworkMachineName IN , got type A sshd

/etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-04 Thread Peter
iH, This all started with NFS not mounting at bootso, testing in VMs: This is a fresh/generic install of 7.2-REL no firewall em1=10.21.20.0/24 network - DHCP for ssh access client# uname -a FreeBSD client.test 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009

RE: repeating error message from ssh

2009-06-04 Thread Dave
Hi, Thanks everyone for the information on this. I'm not running anything ipv6, i'd like to turn this off completely. The dns for my network unfortunately due to lack of computers is being provided by a 2wire gateway 2701, if anyone has any information on this thing's dhcp or dns i'd love

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-04 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 20:31:46 +0200, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: BTW, since we're talking about vintage OSes: anyone knows of a BS2000 clone, emulator, ...? http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/bs2000/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS2000 I'm especially interested in an emulation

Re: about restarting services

2009-06-04 Thread pp
leonardo wrote: hello everybody: I´m new to freeBSD, I want to know how I can restart the network services If you by network services mean your network interfaces you type: /etc/rc.d/netif restart True network services, like inetd, sendmail and others, also have their scripts in the same

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Mark Busby
--- On Thu, 6/4/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Subject: Re: ISP questions To: Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 12:56 PM 4. What kind of

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Mark Hartkemeyer on 06/04/09 11:23 I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition. I found the section on ISPs in chapter 18 really interesting. I put some of his recommended questions to my ISP, Cincinnati Bell's Zoomtown. I think

Re: linux compatibility ports upgrade

2009-06-04 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 14:34:44 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: I see, can you tell me which are FC4 ports?? thanks!! Please, reread my previous email. I wrote _all_ linux ports. On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 14:15:42 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng

Re: cups and ghostscript recursive dependency problem

2009-06-04 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 04 June 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Do you have the latest port revision of ghostscript8?  We have tweaked its dependencies in the last 2-3 commits.  Check that the `Makefile' in `/usr/ports/print/ghostscript8' includes:     # New ports collection makefile for: ghostscript    

Re: /etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:48:21 Peter wrote: iH, This all started with NFS not mounting at bootso, testing in VMs: snip Why is ping using one IP, and ssh/mount_nfs/showmount using another IP from /etc/hosts? Q: Where is described that name resolution for A or PTR records should be

Re: repeating error message from ssh

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:59:57 Dave wrote: Hi, Thanks everyone for the information on this. I'm not running anything ipv6, i'd like to turn this off completely. The dns for my network unfortunately due to lack of computers is being provided by a 2wire gateway 2701, if anyone has any

RE: repeating error message from ssh

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thanks everyone for the information on this. I'm not running anything ipv6, i'd like to turn this off completely. The dns for my network unfortunately due to lack of computers is being provided by a 2wire gateway 2701, if anyone has any information on this thing's dhcp or dns i'd love to

RE: repeating error message from ssh

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Powell
Dave wrote: Hi, Thanks everyone for the information on this. I'm not running anything ipv6, i'd like to turn this off completely. The dns for my network unfortunately due to lack of computers is being provided by a 2wire gateway 2701, if anyone has any information on this thing's dhcp or

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Your the only one who's found this problem, so we'll wait until the next version to patch this problem. It's just like my upstream network provider. When they have longer problems i heard Sorry we working on this, you must be really unlucky, as nobody else have problems here. I asked few

Re: cups and ghostscript recursive dependency problem

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 18:27:00 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: PORTNAME= ghostscript8 PORTVERSION= 8.64 PORTREVISION= 5 ^^ \o/ Thanks for also respecting WITHOUT_CUPS since rev 3. -- Mel ___

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
These responses don't surprise me. I'm actually impressed your rep knew the numbers for the up/down bandwidth, even though their metric was It's just marketing bandwidth as most clients don't understand what it mean anyway, but just expect higher value that others for the same price. It's

Re: cups and ghostscript recursive dependency problem

2009-06-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:54:04 +0200, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Thursday 04 June 2009 18:27:00 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: PORTNAME= ghostscript8 PORTVERSION= 8.64 PORTREVISION= 5 ^^ \o/ Thanks for also respecting

Re: [off-list] Re: Open_Source

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:26:00 Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Mel On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:12:28 madunix wrote: 3- General experience with Open Source technology? Kinda getting fed up with

Re: about restarting services

2009-06-04 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:40:16AM -0800, leonardo wrote: hello everybody: I?m new to freeBSD, I want to know how I can restart the network services Start by creating a new email and addressing it to the list rather than Reply-To another and edit it down. The two are not the same. -- David

Re: [off-list] Re: Open_Source

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 22:05:55 Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:26:00 Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Mel On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:12:28 madunix wrote: 3- General experience

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Robert Huff
Wojciech Puchar writes: Well, man pages are good at formally documenting the how of use, but they often are not so helpful on the why and wherefor of use. for me it's exactly for this - to know how and why to use. It is important to understand man is a _reference_, not a

Re: /etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-04 Thread Peter
On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:48:21 Peter wrote: iH, This all started with NFS not mounting at bootso, testing in VMs: snip Why is ping using one IP, and ssh/mount_nfs/showmount using another IP from /etc/hosts? Q: Where is described that name resolution for A or PTR records should be

The quest for linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus

2009-06-04 Thread Martin McCormick
I have run across a couple of other ports that required the acceptance of a software agreement and the process was relatively painless, but this one makes up for all that and then some. For hours today, I have been wading through the Oracle web site trying to connect the URL

Wireless Woes (NDIS, WPA2)

2009-06-04 Thread Gene
Hi All: I'm trying to get wireless working on a laptop. It works fine as long as no encryption is used, but if I try to use either WEP or WPA2, I ueem to always wind up with Status: No Carrier Any help greatly appreciated. _- From /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_ndis0=WPA DHCP

time to ask for help... .

2009-06-04 Thread Gary Kline
Around 18 months ago when my network was disintegrating, one Jon Horne very thoughtfully came to my rescue and stuck with me until things were reorganized and then rebuilt. The way my site is now configured, my ISP (Qwest) baby-bell has its router connected to my

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/4 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 04:17:43PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Wojciech Puchar writes:   Well, man pages are good at formally documenting the how   of use, but they often are not so helpful on the why and   wherefor of use.  for me it's

openoffice.org-3 compiling issue

2009-06-04 Thread Jason Helfman
Hello, Newbie to FreeBSD here, however I have been studying like a madman, running it on my desktop, and administering systems on a daily basis so I've learned quiet a bit recently. I am trying to install openoffice.org-3 port, and am receiving the following error. 1 module(s): openssl

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It is important to understand man is a _reference_, not a _tutorial_. It's great if you need to refresh your memory of the Handbook is a tutorial. And looking at files in /bin, /sbin/ etc.. and doing man was my way of learning unix years ago. to the _fillintheblank() library call.

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am not sure a 'tutorial' is it either because they tend to take a person through a couple of particular tasks using the item in question, but still not discuss much of the why and wherefor. What's wrong in FreeBSD handbook and many different paper books available about unix? Actually not

Re: The quest for linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Powell
Martin McCormick wrote: I have run across a couple of other ports that required the acceptance of a software agreement and the process was relatively painless, but this one makes up for all that and then some. For hours today, I have been wading through the Oracle web site trying to

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What's wrong in FreeBSD handbook and many different paper books available about unix? Actually not that many, but still there are available about design of unix. FreeBSD is really much more than the base OS. Even though it is divided in to base and ports, it is really all of them together.

Re: The quest for linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: I have run across a couple of other ports that required the acceptance of a software agreement and the process was relatively painless, but this one makes up for all that and then some. For hours today, I have been wading through the Oracle

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 04:17:43PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Wojciech Puchar writes: Well, man pages are good at formally documenting the how of use, but they often are not so helpful on the why and wherefor of use. for me it's exactly for this - to know how and why to

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