Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/

2002-11-22 Thread Kjell
Ok well I attempted the upgrade on a remote machine from 4.6 to 5.0 and it failed, miserably. Before it failed, it was throwing a message across the screen as to the location where it backed up the existing kernel. Does anyone, by chance, know the default location and filename for the kernel

Re: RAID Recomendation

2002-11-22 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:16:40PM -0600, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 - Can I do this with software? I have read sections 12 and 13 but I am still a bit confused if I can back up the entire disk? Absolutely! I'm using vinum on several production systems to great effect.

42upgrade.tgz

2002-11-22 Thread System administrator
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terminal incompatibility

2002-11-22 Thread Rotaru Razvan
Hello, Well this is just another mail about a problem i think a lot of people have. As i noticed by default terminals in bsd are named cons25. My problem? no compatibility with linux terminals (or with xterm). First of all some console applications behave different in cons25 and xterm (for

terminal incompatibility

2002-11-22 Thread Rotaru Razvan
Sorry for the inconvinence, i accidently pushed send before finishing the mail, so here is the complete message: Hello, Well this is just another mail about a problem i think a lot of people have. As i noticed by default terminals in bsd are named cons25. My problem? no compatibility with linux

Re: dns problem

2002-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:15:34PM -0500, Jeff wrote: I'm not sure why the only requests that go out are the requests and not the A's... as I mentioned before, this is the only domain that I have experienced this behavior on, but the test set is small enough that I dont want to assume

ctm

2002-11-22 Thread Ruslan Ivachnenko
I have subscribed on ctm-announce and ctm-src-cur. How to me to accept ctm of delta? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: terminal incompatibility

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:22:22AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 01:15:03AM -0800, Rotaru Razvan wrote: snip The quickest and easiest thing for you to do is install the misc/screen port, and set it up to use a vt100 terminal type. Just about everything recognises

Re: port forwarding

2002-11-22 Thread Kliment Andreev
What is the easiest way of forwarding a port in FreeBSD. Suppose I want my server to listen on port 8280, but want all connection attempts to port 80 to be forwarded to this port ... can that be done? Put this in /etc/ipnat.rules rdr dc0 0/0 port 80 - 127.0.0.1 port 8280 tcp And this in

Manage, centralize and backup configuration files

2002-11-22 Thread Janine C . Buorditez
Hi. I was thinking better back up my configuration files. Then I thought, what if they were regularly backed up into a centralized directory where I also could manage them from? Like, when I'm done modifying a file it is compied from the config repository into its original directory. What about

What happened to my ports system?

2002-11-22 Thread Janine C . Buorditez
Hi. This message comes no matter what I do with portupgrade: [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 230 packages found (-7 +1) (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:375: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.6.7 (2002-05-23) [i386-freebsd4] Abort (core dumped) Please

wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.

2002-11-22 Thread Andrew
Hi, I have a Linksys WMP11 802.11b card running in hostap mode. Every now and then my wireless network dissappears. If I ssh into the box over a different interface everything looks OK. To get things going I run ifconfig wi0 down. The whole machines seems to lock up - it doesn't even respond to

Re: terminal incompatibility

2002-11-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-22 01:09, Rotaru Razvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well this is just another mail about a problem i think a lot of people have. As i noticed by default terminals in bsd are named cons25. My problem? no compatibility with linux terminals (or with xterm). You can always increase

Re: terminal incompatibility

2002-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:49:09PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: This combination has worked remarkably well both for local programs and remotely displayed stuff from a Solaris, Linux or BSD system :) I believe the Solaris AT386 (or is it 386AT ?) terminal type is pretty much the same thing

Re: terminal incompatibility

2002-11-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-22 13:32, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:49:09PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You can always increase compatibility with other systems by changing cons25 to vt220 in /etc/ttys. Not all systems have a cons25 termcap entry, but they all know

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Re: What happened to my ports system?

2002-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:11:56PM +0100, Janine C.Buorditez wrote: This message comes no matter what I do with portupgrade: [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 230 packages found (-7 +1) (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:375: [BUG] Segmentation fault

Re: What happened to my ports system?

2002-11-22 Thread Kent Stewart
Janine C.Buorditez wrote: Hi. This message comes no matter what I do with portupgrade: [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 230 packages found (-7 +1) (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:375: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.6.7 (2002-05-23) [i386-freebsd4]

Driver question

2002-11-22 Thread Denis Fournier
I hope I sent this question to the good posting. I work in a research environnement and one of my project was to install different kinds of OS's for testing. I am using emulators, so I don't need hundred of computers in the lab. For now I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.0 and up in a producted called

Problem with samba since upgrade to samba-2.2.7

2002-11-22 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, I'm hoping someone might be able to assist me with a problem with samba I've noticed since upgrading to samba-2.2.7 this week. First off, after cvsuping the ports tree the latest version available is samba-2.2.7 but the version displayed at FreeBSD.org's ports/net/samba is still

Re: jailed virtual https, anyone?

2002-11-22 Thread Marc Perisa
[redirecting to questions because it isn't a discussion about security. It is a config problem.] Hi Alex, Alex Povolotsky wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 07:07:41 -0500 Allan Jude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AJ What seems to be the problem with the virtual hosts? AJ You're quite right, but I have

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2002-11-22 Thread Denis Fournier
Hi everybody I have sent a e-mail for help this morning concerning how to add a new driver in FreeBSD. I specified that I work in a test bed and I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.0 up to the current version 4.7. I just want to know how to add a new driver to a freebsd version. I use the example of

Directory

2002-11-22 Thread Peter Milne
I have a cd of photos from Windows that I am trying to put on my HD. The folder I am trying to copy is 'My Pictures'. I am trying to get into the directory on the CD. It will not work with this command: milneweb# ls My Pictures milneweb# cd My Pictures cd: Too many arguments. Is it

Re: Directory

2002-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
I have a cd of photos from Windows that I am trying to put on my HD. The folder I am trying to copy is 'My Pictures'. I am trying to get into the directory on the CD. It will not work with this command: milneweb# ls My Pictures milneweb# cd My Pictures cd: Too many arguments.

Re: Directory

2002-11-22 Thread Benoit Lacherez
Peter Milne a écrit : I have a cd of photos from Windows that I am trying to put on my HD. The folder I am trying to copy is 'My Pictures'. I am trying to get into the directory on the CD. It will not work with this command: milneweb# ls My Pictures milneweb# cd My Pictures cd:

Re: enabling finger - why not?

2002-11-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-11-22T06:56:05Z, Jeff Jirsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, but that can be disabled with the -s switch: Ah. In that case, finger away. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of

Running with WinXP

2002-11-22 Thread Chris Murray
Help! I have successfully managed to install FreeBSD into some free space on my second hard drive, but I am unable to actually boot into the operating system! I have tried to find a boot disk with no luck, and the utilities that modify the boot sector simply throw a wobbler when XP won't let them

Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
Ben Turner wrote: Ok well I attempted the upgrade on a remote machine from 4.6 to 5.0 and it failed, miserably. Before it failed, it was throwing a message across the screen as to the location where it backed up the existing kernel. Does anyone, by chance, know the default location and

Re: Driver question

2002-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
I hope I sent this question to the good posting. I work in a research environnement and one of my project was to install different kinds of OS's for testing. I am using emulators, so I don't need hundred of computers in the lab. For now I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.0 and up in a producted

Re: What happened to my ports system?

2002-11-22 Thread Janine C . Buorditez
That didn't work :/ Thanks anyway, Janine On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:30:15 +0100 Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:11:56PM +0100, Janine C. Buorditez wrote: Hi. This message comes no matter what I do with portupgrade: [Updating the pkgdb

Re: What happened to my ports system?

2002-11-22 Thread Janine C . Buorditez
How do I find out which port that is? Thanks. --janine On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 05:53:05 -0800 Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Janine C.Buorditez wrote: Hi. This message comes no matter what I do with portupgrade: [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 230

Re: Directory

2002-11-22 Thread Kliment Andreev
milneweb# ls My Pictures milneweb# cd My Pictures cd: Too many arguments. Is it because of the space between the words? How do I get around this? # cd My* To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: In search of the ultimate .muttrc

2002-11-22 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-11 09:30:46 +1100: Hi all, I have just started recently using mutt and love it. I know there are heaps of sites that have sample .muttrc configuration files but I am looking for one specifically for use with this listanyone willing to share theirs?

Re: In search of the ultimate .muttrc

2002-11-22 Thread William Bulley
According to Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: here's mine. i'm not sure it will be of any use for you, stuff like this is purely matter of taste and habit. parts were stripped for privacy reasons. How about dotfiles.com ?? Regards, web... -- William Bulley

upgrading sendmail to 8.12.6

2002-11-22 Thread Michelle Weeks
I am running freebsd 4.6.2-Release and would like to upgrade sendmail from 8.12.3 to 8.12.6. I tried using make and make install from /usr/ports/mail/sendmail and then restarted sendmail using the killall -HUP command. However, when I telnet to localhost port 25, it shows that 8.12.3 is

Re: 42upgrade.tgz

2002-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:57:17AM +0300, System administrator wrote: Where is 42upgrade.tgz? Upgrade packages are no longer produced. Kris msg09815/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Directory

2002-11-22 Thread Peter Milne
Yes: either you type cd My Pictures or cd My\ Pictures. Great! That worked. Now I am trying to set permissions and I cannot get it done. $ ls Milnewebgaim.core mystuff XF86Config.new importedpicturespoorcoop.jpg downloads irc

Re: Running with WinXP

2002-11-22 Thread Jud
-Original Message- From: Chris Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:49:02 - Subject: Running with WinXP Help! I have successfully managed to install FreeBSD into some free space on my second hard drive, but I am unable to actually boot into the

Re: Directory

2002-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
Yes: either you type cd My Pictures or cd My\ Pictures. Great! That worked. Now I am trying to set permissions and I cannot get it done. $ ls Milnewebgaim.core mystuff XF86Config.new importedpicturespoorcoop.jpg downloads

Re: Directory

2002-11-22 Thread Paul A. Scott
On 11/22/02 10:08 AM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I am trying to set permissions and I cannot get it done. snip $ cd importedpictures $ ls ls: .: Permission denied What am I doing wrong?? You were setting permissions on the wrong directory. You are currently in

Re: make installworld fails with install: crypto.ko: No such file or directory

2002-11-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-22 09:32, Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, (All sources were CVSUP'd this morning) Here's the actual output of make installkernel: [root@loki src]# make installkernel -DKERNCONF=LOKI === crypto install -o root -g wheel -m 555 crypto.ko /modules install: crypto.ko: No

Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
Ben Turner wrote: Ok well I attempted the upgrade on a remote machine from 4.6 to 5.0 and it failed, miserably. Before it failed, it was throwing a message across the screen as to the location where it backed up the existing kernel. Does anyone, by chance, know the default location and

Re: Directory

2002-11-22 Thread Peter Milne
You are right...I was setting permissions on the wrong directory. I am kinda new at thissorry Thanks all for the help. -- Pete Mail brought to you by FreeBSD 4.7 and Sylpheed-claws http://milneweb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: passwords in /etc/group

2002-11-22 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups for their work. I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, and I seem to recall from some ancient documentation that they are more trouble than they are worth. (Please put blank

PICOBSD: problems when Kerberos IV enabled!

2002-11-22 Thread Hartmann, O.
Hello. Under FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE I could compile a PicoBSD environment when in /etc/make.conf the build of Kerberos IV was disabled. Now, Kerberos iV enabled, a lot of compile errors occurs in the unchanged PicoBSD environment: crunchide -k _crunched_mount_cd9660_stub mount_cd9660.lo cc -static

increasing the size of a file system

2002-11-22 Thread Thomas Connolly
Sorry if there is several copies of this coming through, having some sendmail problems too. Hello all. I am having a problem installing a very large program. It wants to extract itself to the /tmp directory but there is not enough space. I have a 30 Gb hard drive that is only 20% full so

Re: jailed virtual https, anyone?

2002-11-22 Thread Alex Povolotsky
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:21:10 +0100 Marc Perisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MP I'm forwarding incoming connection to jail, currently with ipnat. I need to pass information MP about real (outside) IP to mod_ssl. That is my problem. MP MP ? (I understand what you do - but not why ...) On one hand,

Re: upgrading sendmail to 8.12.6

2002-11-22 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 09:12 AM 11.22.2002 -0800, Michelle Weeks wrote: I am running freebsd 4.6.2-Release and would like to upgrade sendmail from 8.12.3 to 8.12.6. I tried using make and make install from /usr/ports/mail/sendmail and then restarted sendmail using the killall -HUP command. However, when I telnet

Re: Directory

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:47:02AM -0500, Kliment Andreev wrote: Is it because of the space between the words? How do I get around this? Maybe avoid spaces in filenames :) Use a _ or a - or a . or something printable... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has

Re: ATAPI magneto-optical device trouble

2002-11-22 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Ruslan Ivachnenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does FreeBSD-4 STABLE support FUJITSU MCE3130AP/0020 ATAPI magneto-optical device? If yes, how should i configure it? It's not listed at http://freebsd.dk/ata/;, but if it follows the ATAPI standards, it's supposed to work with burncd. (There might

Re: In search of the ultimate .muttrc

2002-11-22 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-22 17:48:51 +0100: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-11 09:30:46 +1100: Hi all, I have just started recently using mutt and love it. I know there are heaps of sites that have sample .muttrc configuration files but I am looking for one specifically for use with

IPFW eDONKEY

2002-11-22 Thread G D McKee
Hi Does any one have an ipfw firewall config that works with edonkey - I keep getting low ID's. I have tried the following: ${fwcmd} add pass log tcp from any to any 4661,4662,4665 keep-state ${fwcmd} add pass log tcp from any 4661,4662,4665 to any ${fwcmd} add pass log udp from any to any 4665

Re: passwords in /etc/group

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:32:54AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups for their work. I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, and I seem to recall from some ancient

Re: passwords in /etc/group

2002-11-22 Thread Mike Hogsett
Wow! An English right here on FreeBSD-Questions! On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:32:54AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups for their work. I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked

Re: upgrading sendmail to 8.12.6

2002-11-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michelle Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running freebsd 4.6.2-Release and would like to upgrade sendmail from 8.12.3 to 8.12.6. I tried using make and make install from /usr/ports/mail/sendmail and then restarted sendmail using the killall -HUP command. However, when I telnet to

Installed colors

2002-11-22 Thread Peter Milne
What is the command to find out what colors Freebsd is capable of. I forgot it and I cant seem to find it. Thanks, -- Pete Mail brought to you by FreeBSD 4.7 and Sylpheed-claws http://milneweb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the

Need help with my new server hardware

2002-11-22 Thread Sren Neigaard
I have just bought an old IBM PC Server 520 from a company that was replacing it. If it's possible, I would like to get some information on it (the company does not have any), and since the computer is only for my own personal use, I can't afford to get official support, and therefore I try

Re: What happened to my ports system?

2002-11-22 Thread Kent Stewart
Janine C.Buorditez wrote: How do I find out which port that is? When I had problems, the pkgdb -F would die and the port with the problem was in the list were it died. Portupgrade, for example, used to use pkg_tarup and it would cause problems when you tried to portupgrade itself. I think

SuperProbe gone missing

2002-11-22 Thread Josef Grosch
Did I miss something? Where did SuperProbe go? Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 4.7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Micro$oft free world | www.bafug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: OSS drivers from 4Front

2002-11-22 Thread Vivek Khera
VK == Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JB == John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JB Is anybody using the OSS sound drivers from 4Front? If so, are they any VK They work. Never used them for anything but playback. My ESS-Solo VK card is now supported by the pcm driver for that, so

Re: Is there such a thing like a TCP proxy|relay?

2002-11-22 Thread Chris Dillon
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Carlos Carnero wrote: ok, this is another wacky question. I have connected two subnetworks to my FreeBSD router to the internet. By design they shouln't be able to communicate between them--which I have done with IP Filter. What I'd like to do now is to make a TCP

Re: SuperProbe gone missing

2002-11-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-22 11:28, Josef Grosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I miss something? Where did SuperProbe go? Why would you need that? (It's been deprecated in some earlier version of XFree86, IIRC). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of

Questions about scsi hba driver

2002-11-22 Thread yiding_wang
This is the first expecrience for me with FreeBSD and I am going to start making fuss here. I am planning to write drivers for iSCSI and FC initiator as well as target ramdisk on FreeBSD, and just installed 4.7 and downloaded a few docs. By looking into CVS, I got a bit confused on driver

Re: artsd ogle

2002-11-22 Thread Peter J. Blok
Hi Chris, Thanks for the tip. It works, except the sound is completely distorted. Without artsd running, it is ok. I'll see if I can put in the aRts plugin. Thx, Peter On Friday 22 November 2002 00:23, Chris Howells wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Thursday 21

Re: artsd ogle

2002-11-22 Thread Peter J. Blok
Hi Lauri, When I saw you e-mail, I thought this is it. But it doesn't seem to work. When I do the sysctls, the artsd won't play any sound anymore, even on /dev/dsp. ogle does display lots of write errors. Thx, Peter On Thursday 21 November 2002 23:23, Lauri Watts wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: make installworld fails with install: crypto.ko: No such file or directory

2002-11-22 Thread Tillman
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:21:32PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2002-11-22 09:32, Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, (All sources were CVSUP'd this morning) Here's the actual output of make installkernel: [root@loki src]# make installkernel -DKERNCONF=LOKI === crypto

OT: QMail, Procmail, Root privs.

2002-11-22 Thread C J Michaels
I am running qmail(mbox)+procmail. I have a script that is run from /usr/local/etc/procmailrc. For reasons I can't fathom it seems to have dropped root privs before the script specifies it (DROPPRIV). It's a very simple script, it sets some env variables, runs 'test' and 'grep' and delivers

Re: upgrading sendmail to 8.12.6

2002-11-22 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Michelle Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 6:12 PM Subject: upgrading sendmail to 8.12.6 I am running freebsd 4.6.2-Release and would like to upgrade sendmail from 8.12.3 to 8.12.6. I tried using

linux-igd route add prob

2002-11-22 Thread James
I'm trying to get linux-igd working. The INSTALL says to add a route using: route add -net 239.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 [int_if] Where int_if is my internal interface (xl1). I get: route: bad address: netmask How might I modify this to get it to work? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: linux-igd route add prob

2002-11-22 Thread James
I created an alias. Perhaps this will work :) Quoting James [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to get linux-igd working. The INSTALL says to add a route using: route add -net 239.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 [int_if] Where int_if is my internal interface (xl1). I get: route: bad address:

Re: linux-igd route add prob

2002-11-22 Thread Paul A. Scott
On 11/22/02 3:43 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: route add -net 239.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 [int_if] Where int_if is my internal interface (xl1). I get: route: bad address: netmask How might I modify this to get it to work? use -netmask For future reference, I recommend reading the man

Re: openoffice install

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
Daniel Harris wrote: Note that http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ has binary packages which won't require those 4GB :-) So being likewise strapped for diskspace, I used the package also. It looks nice, but I am having a couple of problems. I can only run it as root/with sudo. It crashes as

Re: linux-igd route add prob

2002-11-22 Thread James
I recommend not assuming the least of individuals who ask for help. -netmask doesn't work either :) Quoting Paul A. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/22/02 3:43 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: route add -net 239.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 [int_if] Where int_if is my internal interface

Re: linux-igd route add prob

2002-11-22 Thread Paul A. Scott
I recommend not assuming the least of individuals who ask for help. -netmask doesn't work either :) The error you reported was due to the fact that you specified 'netmask' rather than '-netmask'. Since you didn't mention that you also tried the latter, I could only assume you didn't try.

installing VMware from ports

2002-11-22 Thread Islandman
I've looked through the archive but didn't find what I needed. Would like to install VMware on my FreeBSD box. Can I install the old ones from the /ports directory? How would I get a license for the old version2? Do I have to buy a license even for the older copies? Many thanks in advance!

Re: linux-igd route add prob

2002-11-22 Thread James
Quoting Paul A. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now you are saying '-netmask' doesn't work either, but you didn't say in what way. The error could not be the same. Since you didn't reply with further information, I guess now I can only assume you don't require any assistance. Sure don't! Thanks for

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2002-11-22 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update 3 September 1999 This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one

The Complete FreeBSD, second edition: errata and addenda

2002-11-22 Thread Greg Lehey
Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, second edition Last revision: 21 June 1999 The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge

The Complete FreeBSD, third edition: errata and addenda

2002-11-22 Thread Greg Lehey
Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, third edition Last revision: 2 August 1999 The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge

Desktop Menu in latest KDE

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello, I am trying to disable the Desktop Menu in KDE, but it ignores me. Anyone happen to know a manual method of doing this, I searched around the kde files, but my experiments proved fruitless. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To

Re: openoffice install

2002-11-22 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:00:59PM -0800, paul beard wrote: Daniel Harris wrote: Note that http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ has binary packages which won't require those 4GB :-) So being likewise strapped for diskspace, I used the package also. It looks nice, but I am having a

USB Compact Flash reader

2002-11-22 Thread Peter Milne
Would it be possible to get a USB flash card reader to work in FreeBSD? I don't suppose I could plug it and it would work? :O) What must I do to get it working? -- Pete Mail brought to you by FreeBSD 4.7 and Sylpheed-claws http://milneweb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: USB Compact Flash reader

2002-11-22 Thread David Kelly
On Friday 22 November 2002 09:40 pm, Peter Milne wrote: Would it be possible to get a USB flash card reader to work in FreeBSD? I don't suppose I could plug it and it would work? :O) What must I do to get it working? There is a SanDisk model which works just about that easily. Need to run

question on freeX86

2002-11-22 Thread edmund jones
Hi again, I was having a great time getting X up and then ran into a problem. I hope you can help. Here are some particulars. I run an ibm 350 desktop 166Mhz. There is a S3 86c765(Trio64v+) video chip. The monitor is a micron 15FGX 50-60 Hz(no other info). Both the chip and the ibm type

cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ?

2002-11-22 Thread Richard Shea
Hi - For the first time ever I have tried to upgrade a FreeBSD by using CVS. In fact I used CVSUPIT. I'm on 4.4-RELEASE and I just wanted to move up to 4.5,6 or 7. Well I answered a few questions, pressed the button and the process commenced 'checking out' hundreds of files. I thought this was a

Re: cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ?

2002-11-22 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:38:26PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote: [...] Well I answered a few questions, pressed the button and the process commenced 'checking out' hundreds of files. I thought this was a bit suprising given I thought the whole point of CVS was to only pull those files which had

How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
Does anyone know what file the installer might be finding that prevents it from reinstalling? I am giving up the FreeBSD package and trying the linux version, but whatever I deleted when cleaning up the old install left something that makes subsequent install runs think there's an installation

Re: cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ?

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 06:30:00AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE After that change this to RELENG_4_5 which should start to get you the security updates when you again run cvsupit. -And -ditto- to go up the release chain... p.s. You can probably actually update

pppd script and DVD-RAM backups

2002-11-22 Thread Bob Hall
I've put some bash code for starting and stopping pppd on my web site. I've also put up my complete procedure for backing up a FBSD box to a DVD-RAM disk and doing a full restore. This includes some bash code that simplifies the backup process considerably. I've tested the backup and restore

Re: make from file not ftp

2002-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:00:37AM -0600, Bill Baird wrote: I am trying to install Mozilla using the make command. Its looking for the ftp server not the directory that I am in. Is there a way that I can tell it where to look or change the defalt. Trying to get up and running on the net.

what can i use to record my Sonicawall's logs?

2002-11-22 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm looking for a simple to use and simple to configure tool that will record my sonicawall soho's log messages. anyone have any recommendations? i rather not have something overwhelming though. it should be simple to configure and understand and operate.

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:43:51PM -0800, paul beard wrote: Does anyone know what file the installer might be finding that prevents it from reinstalling? I am giving up the FreeBSD package and trying the linux version, but whatever I deleted when cleaning up the old install left something

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:43:51PM -0800, paul beard wrote: Does anyone know what file the installer might be finding that prevents it from reinstalling? I am giving up the FreeBSD package and trying the linux version, but whatever I deleted when cleaning up the old install left something

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
Cliff Sarginson wrote: Look for a file called .install_done in the appropriate work directory under the port you want to remove. If you see it.. delete it. I didn't use the port: that never worked for me. So I have tried the FreeBSD tarball/installer and the linux variant. Neither are quite

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
Scott Robbins wrote: In the home directory---there's an openoffice.bin or perhaps soffice.bin or even .openoffice.bin, something like that--the file that's most likely causing you trouble though is something .sversionrc in the home directory. Go to the head of the class: that was it. The

Re: cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ?

2002-11-22 Thread Richard Shea
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:01:20 +1300, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:38:26PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote: Hi - Thanks for your reply ... [...] Well I answered a few questions, pressed the button and the process commenced 'checking out' hundreds of files. I