How do I change my email address?

2003-01-23 Thread Kjell
In my /etc/aliases file I have the entry: root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoping that my messages should end up as email messages. Doing a [root@syvert log]# tail maillog lists messages like Jan 24 08:19:24 syvert sendmail[4646]: h0M2327q001033: to=, ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (0/0), delay=2+05:16:11

re: glibc vs BSD libc

2003-01-23 Thread matthew green
They presumably did it because they thought it would be a good idea. Perhaps they wanted to hide implementation differences between different OSes. Either way, the low-level functions in FreeBSD work just fine. FWIW, i just ran "man funopen" on my netbsd box and it says: HISTOR

re: glibc vs BSD libc

2003-01-23 Thread matthew green
To David Brownlee: I doubt NetBSD 1.0 binary could run against a NetBSD 1.6 libc. They don't care much about binary compatibility. You could not even run a statically linked 1.0 app without some COMPAT_ option in the kernel, I think. when making such assertions it helps to be act

Re: freebsd 5.0 and snapshots

2003-01-23 Thread Axel Gruner
Hi. On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:30:07 -0500 Alan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get snapshots working on FreeBSD 5.0. I looked in the > handbook on the web and the file: > "/usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot" The Readme tells you: "To create a snapshot of your /var filesystem,

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-23 Thread John Martinez
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 08:34 PM, mikel king wrote: I suppose one could speculate that FreeBSD could even benefit from such actions. While Linux, MAC OSX, and whomever else these guy point the finger at are battleing it out in court; FreeBSD could quietly move ahead... I would g

FreeBSD, VNC, and VIM: problems...

2003-01-23 Thread Chris Ptacek
I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.7, VNC, and VIM. When attempting to use gvim under vnc vim fails. Everything is fine when I log in normally (console and startx) however when I run gvim under VNC with the -V5 option I get the following message: finished sourcing /usr/local/share/vim/vim61

X, Trident, 8-bit Limitation

2003-01-23 Thread Li Wei
I'm a FreeBSD newbie. When configuring XFree86, I found ONLY 8-bit color mode works. If I "startx" with a 16 or 32 bits mode, the colors on screen seemed to be "mismapped" -- green replaced by red, etc. Things are ONLY normal in 8-bit mode. I'm using: XFree86: Version 4.2.1 Driver: "trident" C

Re: mod_perl: how to compile static ?

2003-01-23 Thread Илья Шипицин
> > On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, [koi8-r] éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ wrote: > > > Dear Sirs, > > > > I asked how to compile mod_perl statically on apache's mailing list, there > > was no answer. > > > > Anyone can tell me how to do that ? > > cd /usr/ports/www/mod_perl > make install > make clean I did so, mod_perl as

missing function.... any ideas?

2003-01-23 Thread Gary D Kline
Hi People, I built jdk13 on a spare machine and installed the results on this platform. Following is output when I launch the newest mozilla. Looks like I'm missing something from gettext. Have any of you bumped into this snafu? Ideas on ho

Re: mod_perl: how to compile static ?

2003-01-23 Thread doug reynolds
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, [koi8-r] éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > I asked how to compile mod_perl statically on apache's mailing list, there > was no answer. > > Anyone can tell me how to do that ? cd /usr/ports/www/mod_perl make install make clean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: cannot access USB CD drive

2003-01-23 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+++ Richard [freebsd] [23-01-03 12:21 -]: | Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:21:37 - | From: "Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Subject: cannot access USB CD drive | | hi | | i am having problems accessing a usb cd writer, i have the following kernel | options configured: | | devicescbus | dev

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-23 Thread mikel king
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:45:04PM -0500, mikel king wrote: McBride also confirmed that the company has hired high-profile attorney David Boies and his legal firm to investigate whether Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and versions of BSD infringed on the Unix intellect

(repost) disklabel problem, please help

2003-01-23 Thread Pete Toscano
(Sorry for reposting, but I don't know any other place to post this -- if there is, please let me know -- and I really need help. I posted this almost 3 weeks ago, but got no response beyond, "Since you have a promise RAID card, why?") Hello, I'm trying to set up a vinum mirrored plex on my 4.7-

Re: Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on our School LAN?

2003-01-23 Thread Michael K. Smith
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 06:31 AM, Martyn Hill wrote: Dear all I'd be very grateful for any insights you could share... Our school network continues to grow. Different departments within the school wish to piggy-back their windows machines on to our broadband internet connection, via

Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Operation not support by device(19) Error

2003-01-23 Thread Sugiono
I tried to install FreeBSD 5.0 on my system that cannot booting from CDROM. So i installed it from floppy disk. When sysinstall ask me where to installation media and i choose CD/DVD then an error message appear : Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Operation not support by device(19). Daes anyon

mod_perl: how to compile static ?

2003-01-23 Thread Илья Шипицин
Dear Sirs, I asked how to compile mod_perl statically on apache's mailing list, there was no answer. Anyone can tell me how to do that ? Regards, (îÁÉÌÕÞÛÉÅ ÐÏÖÅÌÁÎÉÑ) Ilia Chipitsine (éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:45:04PM -0500, mikel king wrote: >McBride also confirmed that the company has hired high-profile >attorney David Boies and his legal firm to investigate whether >Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and versions of BSD infringed on the Unix >intellectual property it

Re: How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9

2003-01-23 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:29:22 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to use bind 9 from the ports tree. I see how to prevent the bundled > bind from being built the next time I make world, and I see how to change > the init files et all to use the ports bind9. > > What I _don't_ see (and

Private Letter

2003-01-23 Thread Kennedy Pinto
DEAR SIR/MADAM, I GREET YOU IN THE NAME OF GOD. I AM KENNEDY KABBA PINTO THE SON OF LATE PERSONAL ASSISTANCE. ON SPECIAL DUTIES TO JONAS SAVIMBA THE LATE ANGOLAN REBEL LEADER, MY DEAR FATHER WAS ASSASSINATED ALONGSIDE PRESIDENT JONAS SAVIMBA THE UNITA REBEL LEADER THIS YEAR BY THE ANGOLAN GOVERNM

Re: How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9

2003-01-23 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, at 14:54 [=GMT+1300], Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:29:22PM -0500, stan wrote: > > I want to use bind 9 from the ports tree. I see how to prevent the bundled > > bind from being built the next time I make world, and I see how to change > > the init files et

Re: How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9

2003-01-23 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:29:22PM -0500, stan wrote: > I want to use bind 9 from the ports tree. I see how to prevent the bundled > bind from being built the next time I make world, and I see how to change > the init files et all to use the ports bind9. > > What I _don't_ see (and I'm certain it

trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-23 Thread mikel king
I just read an article on eWeek about SCO's new SCOx server platform thingie...and tucked away near the bottom of the first page is the follow statement: McBride also confirmed that the company has hired high-profile attorney David Boies and his legal firm to investigate whether Windows

Re: system refuse to mount CDROMs from ordinary users

2003-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"oscar wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >From: Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "oscar wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: system refuse to mount CDROMs from ordinary users > >Date: 23 Jan 2003 17:51:03 -0500 > > > >"oscar wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: Re: SamSung SWL-2100N PCMCIA

2003-01-23 Thread Dung Patrick
My question is : How to clear the busy bit and get the wireless lan card to work? Regards, Patrick -Original Message- From: Mark Rowlands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dung Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:31:52 +0100 Subject: Re: SamSung SWL-2100N PCMCIA On Thursday 23 Ja

Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-23 19:18, Doug Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:12:40 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2003-01-22 16:52, Doug Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:21:08 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >>> >Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed tha

Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-23 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:42:47 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2003-01-23 00:12, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Strange. This has been changed a while ago: >> >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/mount_msdosfs/Makefile.diff?r1=1.17&r2=1.18 >> >> and the only mount_m

Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-23 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:12:40 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2003-01-22 16:52, Doug Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:21:08 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >> >Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed that 5.0-RELEASE does >> >not have a mount_msdos command. It's no b

Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-23 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:12:30 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >Doug Reynolds wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:21:08 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >> >> >>>Not a critical question, but ... >>> >>>Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed that 5.0-RELEASE does >>>not have a mount_msdos command. >>>It's no b

Is chroot bind safe?

2003-01-23 Thread Mark
Hi, I just chrooted BIND 8.3.3 as follows: /usr/sbin/chroot /etc/namedb/ /usr/sbin/named -u bind -g bind I copied a few dirs, made some devices, etc, and everything seems to run wonderfully. :) Then I found the -t switch (doh!). Not wanting to change everything again, is chrooting "named" direc

freebsd 5.0 and snapshots

2003-01-23 Thread Alan Chen
I am trying to get snapshots working on FreeBSD 5.0. I looked in the handbook on the web and the file: "/usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot" and executed the command: "mount -u -o snapshot /var/snapshot/snap1 /var" and get the message: "mount: /var/snapshot/snap1 on /var: specified device d

How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9

2003-01-23 Thread stan
I want to use bind 9 from the ports tree. I see how to prevent the bundled bind from being built the next time I make world, and I see how to change the init files et all to use the ports bind9. What I _don't_ see (and I'm certain it's just my lack of knowledge here), is a clean way to remove all

Re: Installing Stripped System

2003-01-23 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Thursday 23 January 2003 10:10 pm, Jens Haeusser wrote: > > I've always thought that the entire base system should have it's own > package/port system. That way, you could easily remove the bits you don't > want (remove UUCP from a fileserver, remove gcc from a firewall, etc). As > well, this w

Sorry for the off-topic mailing

2003-01-23 Thread John Mark Walker
I did not realize my press release went out to a FreeBSD-specific list. Sorry for the intrusion. I will make sure that our announcements do not go out to this list in the future. -- John Mark Walker Marketing Manager No Starch Press http://www.nostarch.com/ 415.863.9900 To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: make release broken for -STABLE?

2003-01-23 Thread Bruce A. Mah
I wrote: > We might be able to move the de, em, or vx drivers to the mfsroot > floppy, if there's space. I'll try playing around with this, if I get > some time. (Obviously that shouldn't preclude someone else from > working on this problem.) I moved the em driver to mfsroot.flp and was able

Re: What is the difference between ports for STABLE and CURRENT?

2003-01-23 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
| Packages are built from the (single) ports collection. The same port | is compiled for 4.x or 5.x to make the package. Some ports may behave Ah, I was under the impression there was a different ports collection for -CURRENT. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box. To Unsubscribe: sen

Re: system refuse to mount CDROMs from ordinary users

2003-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"oscar wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my system refuses to mount remobable medias as floppies and CDROMs, > > tells me this: > > %mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted > % Looks like the user doesn't own /cdrom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [E

Re: 4.7-STABLE upgrade boot failure. - Semi-solved.

2003-01-23 Thread A. Lewis
> > No, I just meant that I copied MAKEDEV from /usr/src into /dev, and > then ran ./MAKEDEV std from /dev, as per the UPDATING instructions. hmm, does UPDATING say you should do that? all I know is >>mergemaster asks whether I want to have /dev/* rebuilt, and I let it do so. UPD

Is the Kernel device config visual interface still necessary

2003-01-23 Thread JoeB
When using the FBSD bootable CDROM to install FBSD the first thing to display on the screen is the 'Kernel configuration menu'. The handbook says to select the 'Start kernel configuration in full-screen visual mode' which takes you to the 'Kernel Device Configuration Visual Interface' screen that a

Re: back up Win2k workstations?

2003-01-23 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:59:32 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P. U. Kruppa) wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Stephen Hilton wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 05:41:07 + (GMT) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P. U. Kruppa) wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k works

system refuse to mount CDROMs from ordinary users

2003-01-23 Thread oscar wicks
hello, my system refuses to mount remobable medias as floppies and CDROMs, tells me this: %mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted % info that may help to figure up this scenario is: %uname -a FreeBSD kris 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15

Re: a question

2003-01-23 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Andrew Y Ng wrote: > Subject: Re: a question > > I setup FreeBSD dual-boot on my dad's machine with a Samsung 170 flat panel > and it worked just fine. Just make sure you specify the right sync > frequencies in your XFree86 config file. and KDE looked *NICE* on the 17" > flat

Re: Installing Stripped System

2003-01-23 Thread Jens Haeusser
On 1/23/03 2:30 AM, "Paul Everlund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Jens Haeusser wrote: > >> I'd like to install a system lacking some of the binaries you can >> specify as make.conf knobs, such as >> >> NO_I4B= true >> NO_IPFILTER= true >> NOGAMES= true >> NOUUCP= true >> NO_

Re: a question

2003-01-23 Thread Andrew Y Ng
I setup FreeBSD dual-boot on my dad's machine with a Samsung 170 flat panel and it worked just fine. Just make sure you specify the right sync frequencies in your XFree86 config file. and KDE looked *NICE* on the 17" flat panel. i think 5.0 has nv driver. I think just used the nv driver for his nv

Re: make release broken for -STABLE?

2003-01-23 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, "Igor B. Bykhalo" wrote: [kern.flp overflow again] > I don't get it: [snip] > > goshik# ls -l *kern* > > image.kern: > > total 1346 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 22 ÑÎ× 21:19 boot > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1344894 22 ÑÎ× 21:19 kernel.gz > > > > kernels:

question

2003-01-23 Thread Asenchi
Hello, Could someone tell me where to get the clock in the bottom left hand corner of this screenshot? http://themes.freshmeat.net/screenshots/23716/ Is it native to Gnome? Thanks, Asenchi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of th

NMBCLUSTERS and Kernel config

2003-01-23 Thread craig
All, Im getting ready to go with our FreeBSD production mail server and Ive been reading that to optimize network mbufs, specify the NMBCLUSTERS options in the kernel. Ive read that setting this to a quarter of your physical RAM on this is the way to go, or devising a number from a mathematical e

Re: back up Win2k workstations?

2003-01-23 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, P. U. Kruppa wrote: I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how? The approach I use here is to set up Samba on FreeBSD and run Microsoft Backup on Windows to backup to a file on the server. Other Windows backu

a question

2003-01-23 Thread peter andrus
hi, i just bought a brand new system. I want to set it up as a dual boot system with XP and FreeBSD. I would like to know where I can get an updated list of supported hardware,especially flat panel monitors. I have a samsung syncmaster 170MP, and I want to know if it is supported. also, i am cur

Re: glibc vs BSD libc

2003-01-23 Thread Michael Ritzert
Pavel Cahyna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 23.01.03 19:14:41: > > To David Brownlee: I doubt NetBSD 1.0 binary could run against > a NetBSD 1.6 libc. They don't care much about binary compatibility. You > could not even run a statically linked 1.0 app without some COMPAT_ > option in the kernel,

Linux Journal Press Releases "Linux In the Workplace" Under GNU FDL

2003-01-23 Thread John Mark Walker
LINUX JOURNAL PRESS RELEASES "LINUX IN THE WORKPLACE" UNDER GNU FDL Latest in a series of openly published books from No Starch Press imprint New York - January 23, 2003 - Linux Journal Press, an imprint of No Starch Press in partnership with Linux Journal, has announced that "Linux in the Workpla

Re: back up Win2k workstations?

2003-01-23 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Stephen Hilton wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 05:41:07 + (GMT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P. U. Kruppa) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on > > a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how? > > > > Setup a Samba server on the Fr

Re: glibc vs BSD libc

2003-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:41:27PM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote: > And, if there are things like funopen(), why do Gnome hackers invent > their own APIs like gnome-vfs? Does somebody actually use funopen()? > Does it really work? They presumably did it because they thought it would be a good idea. P

Re: What is the difference between ports for STABLE and CURRENT?

2003-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:22:36AM +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was just reading the announcement about OpenOffice packages being released > for 4.7 and 5.0. What are the differences between ports for these two > releases? In general, how is a port for the CURRENT branch d

Re: Vim+Mutt+Backspace

2003-01-23 Thread Michael Barrett
That did it. Any idea why that would be needed for mutt but not for regular vi? Thanks a ton for your help. Wow, it's so nice to be able to use the backspace when I typo. :) On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:02:27PM +0100, Toni Schmidbauer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:16:00AM -0800, Michael Bar

Re: Native Java in FreeBSD when?

2003-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Craig Calef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was excited to hear the announcement of a native FreeBSD > implementation of Sun's JVM. This would finally let me get rid of Linux > in situations where I need to deploy a Java based solution or have to > worry about the quirks of running under Li

Re: The help about the scanner is necessary for me

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Sergey Mushinsky said: > I shall be grateful to you if you will prompt me, what > modern scanners such as USB work in system FreeBSD 4.7 Any scanner supported by sane should work. http://www.mostang.com/sane/ http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-mfgs.html -- Da

The help about the scanner is necessary for me

2003-01-23 Thread Sergey Mushinsky
I shall be grateful to you if you will prompt me, what modern scanners such as USB work in system FreeBSD 4.7 Preference: firms Mustek, Umax. Yours faithfully to you Sergey Mushinsky To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: glibc vs BSD libc

2003-01-23 Thread Jens Rehsack
19. Extended Characters glibc: Supported BSD libc: No multi-byte character set functions.Breaks building UTF(Unicode) support in libncurses. wide character support is present in 5.0. On my 4.7-STABLE machine I took a look now is a wchar.h in /usr/include/. Also audio/id3lib compiles fine with

Re: error during mysql323-server installation, how to configurehostname command.

2003-01-23 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:22:18 -0600 (CST) Mantas Kriauciunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey! > when i try to 'make install' mysql323-server i get: > ===> Generating temporary packing list > /usr/local/bin/mysql_install_db > Sorry, the host 'mntkz' could not be looked up. > Please configure the

Re: Any working combination of jdk and tomcat with stable

2003-01-23 Thread Ernst de Haan
On Thursday 23 January 2003 15:38, Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote: > Tomcat4.0.6 and tomcat4.1.18 do not work here with 4.7-STABLE, 4.1.12 > did some month ago (stand alone server). I am interested to hear of > working combination. I use native jdk-1.3.1 (appletviewer works ...) What doesn't work? Both

Re: glibc vs BSD libc

2003-01-23 Thread Pavel Cahyna
Hello, some notes about NetBSD libc: it supports nsswitch for a long time, see here: http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?nsswitch.conf++NetBSD-current Dynamically loaded NSS modules are not supported. To David Brownlee: I doubt NetBSD 1.0 binary could run against a NetBSD 1.6 libc. They don't

Re: download port packages

2003-01-23 Thread Didier Wiroth
Kevin Golding wrote: Someone, quite probably Didier Wiroth, once wrote: Is it possible to download the "all" the packages of the meta port /usr/ports/x11/kde? I tried make fetch, that doesn't work or partially, because it only fetches qt! I would like to download all the packages and their

Re: download port packages

2003-01-23 Thread Kevin Golding
Someone, quite probably Didier Wiroth, once wrote: >Is it possible to download the "all" the packages of the meta port >/usr/ports/x11/kde? I tried make fetch, that doesn't work or partially, >because it only fetches qt! > >I would like to download all the packages and their dependencies to burn

Re: download port packages

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Didier Wiroth said: > Hey, > > Is it possible to download the "all" the packages of the meta port > /usr/ports/x11/kde? I tried make fetch, that doesn't work or partially, > because it only fetches qt! Try "make fetch-recursive" -- Dan Nelson [EMA

download port packages

2003-01-23 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Is it possible to download the "all" the packages of the meta port /usr/ports/x11/kde? I tried make fetch, that doesn't work or partially, because it only fetches qt! I would like to download all the packages and their dependencies to burn it on a cd, and install it on a PC which is not c

cupsaddsmb and FreeBSD

2003-01-23 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm having difficulty getting cupsaddsmb to export my printer drivers to Samba (installed from packages). The log goes something like this: su-2.05b# cupsaddsmb -v -U root hpdj3820 Password for root required to access localhost via SAMBA: [snip]

Re: Upload question

2003-01-23 Thread Kenzo
You can use sharity-light from your bsd box. It's in the ports, /usr/ports/net/sharity-light. basically it's the opposite of samba. You connect to your windows box and you can do whatever. here is a link to a how to on it. http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/288 - Original Message - From: "Ben W

getaddrinfo problems with gkrellm

2003-01-23 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey folks. I have a wierd question here regarding getaddrinfo(). I recently installed gkrellm2 from the ports, and found that it was misbehaving with remote email checks. It had no problems when being run on the local machine running the mail server, but from work, it seemed to just do nothing.

Re: spam relay

2003-01-23 Thread Kenzo
I'm not familiar with sendmail but It doesn't look like a freebsd issue to me. Make sure that you're not being used for relay and you should setup some black list rules. I use postfix and it's pretty easy to setup the rules once you understand how it works. This is the link to make sure that you're

Re: What is the difference between ports for STABLE and CURRENT?

2003-01-23 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Thanks Matthew. Great info in your answer. NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: What is the difference between ports for STABLE and CURRENT?

2003-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:22:36AM +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I was just reading the announcement about OpenOffice packages being released > for 4.7 and 5.0. What are the differences between ports for these two > releases? In general, how is a port for the CURRENT branch different from a

Re: Installing Stripped System

2003-01-23 Thread Anti
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:56:51 -0800 Jens Haeusser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to install a system lacking some of the binaries you can specify as > make.conf knobs, such as > > NO_I4B= true > NO_IPFILTER= true > NOGAMES= true > NOUUCP= true > NO_SENDMAIL= true > > Even when I install a

Re: back up Win2k workstations?

2003-01-23 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 05:41:07 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P. U. Kruppa) wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on > a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how? > Setup a Samba server on the FreeBSD box, then use the native windows backup tools to back

Re: sound on motherboard GA-7VR

2003-01-23 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Martin Tsanov wrote: > > hello, > > I have a GA-7VR motherboard with VIA KT333 / 8233A(CE) chipset > and installed 5.0 Release on it. > everything works ok except for the sound. the onboard chip is > AC97 codec with 6 channel (Realtek ALC650). > when booting with the generic

Re: Native Java in FreeBSD when?

2003-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:29:56AM -0800, Craig Calef wrote: > I was excited to hear the announcement of a native FreeBSD > implementation of Sun's JVM. This would finally let me get rid of Linux > in situations where I need to deploy a Java based solution or have to > worry about the quirks

Re: Vim+Mutt+Backspace

2003-01-23 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-23 07:48:24 -0800: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:26:53PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > I had this problem some time ago: rxvt (or was it vim?) started from > > my window manager's menu (which was then blackbox) behaved properly, > > while if started t

Re: mutt + filters

2003-01-23 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-23 07:16:31 -0800: > I am using FreeBSD 4.7-Stable, and want to switch back > to mutt. The only reason I stopped using mutt is > because I couldn't figure out how to setup the filters > so I installed sylpheed with no problems. I'm getting > kinda tired of sylpheed and

Re: Cannot kill truss process

2003-01-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 23), Oliver Fromme said: > > Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the last episode (Jan 23), Oliver Fromme said: > > > > I've got a problem on a 4.7-RELEASE machine. I tried using > > > > /usr/bin/truss on a process

SamSung SWL-2100N PCMCIA

2003-01-23 Thread Dung Patrick
Hi, I cannot get this card to work on 4.7 / 5.0 RC. I got 'wi0: busy bit won't clear' problem... Regards, Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: /dev/cdrm symlink?

2003-01-23 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:49:39AM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm tryijng to get grip woring on my laptop runing 4.6 STABLE from a while > back. When I fire it up it complains about not being able to init > /dev/cdrom, which makes lot's of sense as no such device exists. I suspect > I need to create a sy

Re: Vim+Mutt+Backspace

2003-01-23 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:26:53PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > I had this problem some time ago: rxvt (or was it vim?) started from > my window manager's menu (which was then blackbox) behaved properly, > while if started through bbkeys (an app that handles keyboard > shortcuts

Re: Cannot kill truss process

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Oliver Fromme said: > Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the last episode (Jan 23), Oliver Fromme said: > > > I've got a problem on a 4.7-RELEASE machine. I tried using > > > /usr/bin/truss on a process (which was running in a chroot > > > environment, w

Native Java in FreeBSD when?

2003-01-23 Thread Craig Calef
FreeBSD Team, I was excited to hear the announcement of a native FreeBSD implementation of Sun's JVM. This would finally let me get rid of Linux in situations where I need to deploy a Java based solution or have to worry about the quirks of running under Linux emu or rolling my own from so

Re: spam relay

2003-01-23 Thread Andrew Y Ng
i had a similar problem with my open relay (setup for the convenience of my own users) back in college. here was what i did: * FEATURE(access_db, hash -o /etc/mail/access) * FEATURE(rbl) I'm sure it's pretty outdated, so I went to sendmail.org and found: anti-relaying page: http://www.se

Re: Cannot kill truss process

2003-01-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 23), Oliver Fromme said: > > I've got a problem on a 4.7-RELEASE machine. I tried using > > /usr/bin/truss on a process (which was running in a chroot > > environment, which in turn is on an NFS-mounted filesystem, > > if that m

Re: mutt + filters

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), bryan cassidy said: > I am using FreeBSD 4.7-Stable, and want to switch back to mutt. The > only reason I stopped using mutt is because I couldn't figure out how > to setup the filters so I installed sylpheed with no problems. I'm > getting kinda tired of sylpheed and

Re: mutt + filters

2003-01-23 Thread Andrew Y Ng
i use spamassassins for spam filtering, i update my sa to their CVS daily, for more filtering I, like most ppl, use procmail. and i use mutt locally and evolution with IMAP remotely. mutt can do IMAP as well now. I also have squirrelmail setup with IMAP for web-based mail access, my squirrelmail is

Re: Cannot kill truss process

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Oliver Fromme said: > Hi, > > I've got a problem on a 4.7-RELEASE machine. I tried using > /usr/bin/truss on a process (which was running in a chroot > environment, which in turn is on an NFS-mounted filesystem, > if that matters). But now I cannot kill the truss pr

mutt + filters

2003-01-23 Thread bryan cassidy
I am using FreeBSD 4.7-Stable, and want to switch back to mutt. The only reason I stopped using mutt is because I couldn't figure out how to setup the filters so I installed sylpheed with no problems. I'm getting kinda tired of sylpheed and want to switch back to mutt. I really like using mutt but

Re: New to FreeBSD

2003-01-23 Thread Didier Wiroth
Dan Pelleg wrote: "JCBotha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dear Sir I am new to this operating system and became interested when I started to look at a solution for a network set-up. I do not know if I will be able to master this OS because I grew up with Windows and know nothing about UNIX OS

Re: user managing adding , diskquota, maxproc

2003-01-23 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:23:15PM -0600, Mantas Kriauciunas wrote: > Can anyone point me to some great websites where I can find documentation on >managing users? I want to set diskquota on them, then processes and other stuff. Make >few groups that have different quotas and maximum processes ru

Any working combination of jdk and tomcat with stable

2003-01-23 Thread Fritz Heinrichmeyer
Tomcat4.0.6 and tomcat4.1.18 do not work here with 4.7-STABLE, 4.1.12 did some month ago (stand alone server). I am interested to hear of working combination. I use native jdk-1.3.1 (appletviewer works ...) -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hag

Re: syslogd stops logging

2003-01-23 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:44:44PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > Yesteryday, killing and restarting syslogd solved the issue. But I'd > rather investigate this before I do that today. Ideas? this usually happens if you rotate (cp messages message.$DATE && cp /dev/null messages) a file syslog has

Re: ISO IMAGES 5.0

2003-01-23 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:44:01PM -0800, Thomas Marshall wrote: > I have downloaded your new iso images for FreeBSD > 5.0-release twice from two different mirrors. The how did you download the image? toni -- Terror ist der Krieg der Armen, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krieg ist der Terror der Reichen.

Re: New to FreeBSD

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Pelleg
"JCBotha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Sir > > I am new to this operating system and became interested when I started to > look at a solution for a network set-up. I do not know if I will be able to > master this OS because I grew up with Windows and know nothing about UNIX OS > systems. Wi

Re: Cannot kill truss process

2003-01-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Fernando Gleiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Accoding to ps, the truss process is in "disk wait" ("D"), > > but all disks are working perfectly fine, including the > > NFS-mounted filesystems. > > > > The process that had been trussed ("jws") doesn't run any- > > more (I had to kill it, us

Re: Vim+Mutt+Backspace

2003-01-23 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:16:00AM -0800, Michael Barrett wrote: > Anyways, when I run vim from the command line, if I'm in insert mode and I > hit the backspace key it acts normally. IE: It erases the character to the > left of the cursor. try these two options in your .vimrc set t_

Re: Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on our School LAN?

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Pelleg
"Martyn Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear all > > I'd be very grateful for any insights you could share... > > Our school network continues to grow. Different departments within the > school wish to piggy-back their windows machines on to our broadband > internet connection, via our 100Mb

Re: recover overwritten file

2003-01-23 Thread Tillman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:27:05AM -0500, george donnelly wrote: > [talon commented on 1/22/03 11:48 PM] > > - > > Iv been there :) > > > > This probably sounds stupid but i do it ... > > > > file name /bin/rmx > > > > #

/dev/cdrm symlink?

2003-01-23 Thread stan
I'm tryijng to get grip woring on my laptop runing 4.6 STABLE from a while back. When I fire it up it complains about not being able to init /dev/cdrom, which makes lot's of sense as no such device exists. I suspect I need to create a sym link for it. Question is, from what? dmesg reports: acd0: C

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