Openwebmail with maildir patch on FBSD?

2004-12-15 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I know it's not technically a FreeBSD question, but answers on the openwebmail forums are slow in coming and I was wondering if anyone here had tried to use openwebmail with the maildir patch. The patch is listed as for openwebmail 2.32, and the current port of openwebmail in the FreeBSD Ports

FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE: PHP 5.0.2 won't compile

2004-12-15 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. Under FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, PHP 5.0.2 from ports collection will not compile anymore. Compilation ends up with ext/standard/dns.lo(.text+0x1d49): In function `.L166': : undefined reference to `res_ninit' ext/standard/dns.lo(.text+0x1db5): In function `.L166': : undefined reference to

Sharing resources on LAN without NFS

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
The handbook section on NFS was great but having only 3 computers I don't feel the need to set up a client/server system. Nevertheless I would like to be able to share one printer and one cd-writer between these 3 machines. I'll be grateful even for just a shove towards the correct handbook

openoffice for 5.2.1?

2004-12-15 Thread John Conover
Is openoffice available for BSD 5.2.1? Pkg_add -r grumbles that it isn't. Thanks, John -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: openoffice for 5.2.1?

2004-12-15 Thread Phil Schulz
John Conover wrote: Is openoffice available for BSD 5.2.1? Pkg_add -r grumbles that it isn't. John, there is a link on this page http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ where you can download the packages. You can then use pkg_add to install them. Maybe you can even have pkg_add fetch them for

Re: Sharing resources on LAN without NFS

2004-12-15 Thread Don Tyson
The handbook section on NFS was great but having only 3 computers I don't feel the need to set up a client/server system. Nevertheless I would like to be able to share one printer and one cd-writer between these 3 machines. I'll be grateful even for just a shove towards the correct

Old Computers, -Os, Stripping, and 4-STABLE

2004-12-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello, I have an old laptop (P100 / 40MB RAM / 40GB hdd) that I'm trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of and I like some advice on things I can do. Currently It's running 4.10-STABLE with a kernel that has been striped clean of all the useless crud, also I add in sound support

Boot splash screens in 5.3

2004-12-15 Thread Simon Burke
HIya, Im trying to find out how to add a bootsplash to 5.3. I've looked at the handbook and only saw details for 3.x. Is it the same process?? I have a 320x200 bmp file already for this, i assume that is the corrct size etc, as i read of a how-to for 3.x. -- Theres no place like ::1 Thanks,

Re: Boot splash screens in 5.3

2004-12-15 Thread Paul Robinson
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:49:22PM +, Simon Burke wrote: HIya, Im trying to find out how to add a bootsplash to 5.3. I've looked at the handbook and only saw details for 3.x. Is it the same process?? I have a 320x200 bmp file already for this, i assume that is the corrct size etc, as

file and print sharing

2004-12-15 Thread kaak kaabakas
hello, i seem to have some trouble with file and print sharing. i have three pc-s connected to a freebsd5.3 server. i use samba to share files on the server, and that works fine. the problem is, that every pc is on it's own subnet - different lan cards - and they cannot access each other

Re: for Centrino (Pentium-M) - ways to decrease CPU power?

2004-12-15 Thread Dick Davies
* Miles Keaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1236 13:36]: Can FreeBSD tell a Centrino (Pentium-M) CPU to decrease its CPU power? I have a laptop (Gateway 450ROG) whose CPU seems to run hotter in FreeBSD doing *nothing* than it does in Windows doing almost anything. So much so that the loud emergency

Re: Dmesg truncated

2004-12-15 Thread Nagilum
I don't know the answer to your question, but if you're looking the bootmessages, have a look at /var/run/dmesg.boot . I hope this helps, Kind regards, Alex. David Erickson wrote: I've been having this problem for quite a whlie but it's never bothered me too much until I had some free time on my

Re: checking out from cvs without cvs info?

2004-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-15 22:14, Choy Kho Yee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, for a certain reason I need to check out sources for one of my programs from the local CVS repository, without the CVS folder in every directory but just my source files. How can I do that? There are multiple ways to do that. 1)

Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-15 Thread Charles Ulrich
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. said: It's really a question for the programmers, and it's likely that whatever they say will include a lot of disclaimers and warnings. I once got kernel and world a lil' out of sync, and had things running apparently normally. However, top(1) broken; when I

Re: HTT/SMP Dual Xeon systems unstable

2004-12-15 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 10 December 2004 09:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm sorry for typing this mail for the third time, I'm not sure if the other mails did reach the list. The domain I was using to send emails has just expired. Please cc me, as I'm not subscribed to the list with this email.

Re: Old Computers, -Os, Stripping, and 4-STABLE

2004-12-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:48:42AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: 1. I'd like to know if it's (relatively) safe to use -Os for CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS? Only on 5.3 and above. Kris pgp134ILrfLoX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: make package don't build package

2004-12-15 Thread Alexandr
Hello Donald J. O'Neill Hello Alexandr, If you did not have mpg123 installed, then make package would make the port, install the port, and build a binary package that would be put in /usr/ports//packages/All if you have /usr/ports/packages, other wise it would be put in the port you are

Re: cpu temperature

2004-12-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
O. Hartmann wrote: Dominique Goncalves schrieb: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:33:02 +0100, Lukasz Bigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:19:24 +0800 Spades [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try /usr/ports/sysutils/healthd. I can also send You a small PHP script which grabs some ACPI

No sound from audio cd's

2004-12-15 Thread Marco Beishuizen
Hi, I don't know how to get sound from audio cd's. Normal sound works fine (from mp3, movies etc.). I have an audio cable attached between the DVD player (Plextox PX-712A) and the soundcard (Creative Audigy2), but that doesn't help. All sound is maximized to 100% in mixer (not muted). The

PCI-X sound card

2004-12-15 Thread hal
I have a need for a sound card on a backup server I have built. Something sound blaster compatible would be wonderful, but anything that works with 4.7 is ok. The mother board, a Supermicro X5DP8-G2, has only PCI-X slots. I am running FreeBSD 4.7. All suggestions are welcome. hal

Re: Building custom kernel - 'make' fails in FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:14:48PM +0100, Fred Patmore wrote: Hi, I've just installed FreeBSD (after removing it due to portupgrade gone awry), did CVSup and now trying to build a custom kernel. make depend was successful but I get the following error messages when doing 'make' [EMAIL

Re: Building custom kernel - 'make' fails in FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-15 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:14:48 +0100 Fred Patmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, but I get the following error messages when doing 'make' [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/C-KERNEL#] make linking kernel [...] : undefined reference to `xpt_done' umass.o(.text+0x233f): more undefined

Re: ld-elf.so.1: Shared objectlibintl.so.6 not found

2004-12-15 Thread Andrew P.
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 09:08:50PM +0300, Andrew P. wrote: The real question you should be asking is why does ppp (a system binary) depend on libintl (not a system library)? You've probably replaced your ppp(8) with something else, with poor consequences. Can you tell me

Re: Hylafax Help

2004-12-15 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:26:15 -0500, Alvaro Rosales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys is there any hylafax hpwto for freebsd?. It looks like there are some hints in this thread (however sparse): http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/2004-02/1531.html And Google says

Re: Building custom kernel - 'make' fails in FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-15 Thread Fred Patmore
Fred Patmore wrote: Guess this is why some say 99% of users are users :-) Oops, meant to say 99% of users are lusers.. darn, guess I am one of them ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

freebsd kernel

2004-12-15 Thread Ricardo
Hi. my name is Ricardo and i would like to know what kind of kernel you are including in FreeBSD 5.3? Thanks in advance. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: freebsd kernel

2004-12-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi. my name is Ricardo and i would like to know what kind of kernel you are including in FreeBSD 5.3? Thanks in advance. The FreeBSD kernel is included in FreeBSD. What other kernel would you possibly expect? jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Boot splash screens in 5.3

2004-12-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Paul Robinson wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:49:22PM +, Simon Burke wrote: HIya, Im trying to find out how to add a bootsplash to 5.3. I've looked at the handbook and only saw details for 3.x. Is it the same process?? I have a 320x200 bmp file already for this, i assume that is the

Re: make package don't build package

2004-12-15 Thread epilogue
pkg_create -- i can't use becose I need create package recursively, but I don't find in man page for this tool options for recursively. hello again alexandr, to my knowledge, such a switch does not exist. you can 'pkg_deinstall -R fooport' and then 'make package fooport' but, because you'll

Re: cpu temperature

2004-12-15 Thread Lukasz Bigo
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:44:25 +0100 Dominique Goncalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:33:02 +0100, Lukasz Bigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interrested by your script :-) It's available here: http://venus.ci.uw.edu.pl/~zbyfek/cputemp/ BTW. I must admit xmbmon + MRTG is the

Re: Boot splash screens in 5.3

2004-12-15 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
HIya, Im trying to find out how to add a bootsplash to 5.3. I've looked at the handbook and only saw details for 3.x. Is it the same process?? I have a 320x200 bmp file already for this, i assume that is the corrct size etc, as i read of a how-to for 3.x. man 5 loader.conf

Re: How can I make a program keep running even after I logout?

2004-12-15 Thread O. Hartmann
Mat Kovach schrieb: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:40:02PM +0100, Nico Meijer wrote: Hi, I want to cvsup or/and portupgrade and logout but the program keep running? Try screen: /usr/ports/misc/screen To run it, simply type `screen`, do your work, type Ctrl-A d to detach (you can go home

rl0: watchdog timeout

2004-12-15 Thread Andrew
Good day! I know, this question is famous, but i can't handle it myself. The problem is: After some time my realtek card becomes unresponsible. It happens because of buffer overflow. I tried ping -f xxx. 15 seconds later, the kernel says that rl0: watchdog timeout. I can't send files more then

Re: rl0: watchdog timeout

2004-12-15 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Andrew, Warning: no definitive answer ahead. After some time my realtek card becomes unresponsible. It happens because of buffer overflow. I tried ping -f xxx. 15 seconds later, the kernel says that rl0: watchdog timeout. I can't send files more then 100MB via network. This problem is

Re: HTT/SMP Dual Xeon systems unstable

2004-12-15 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
John Baldwin wrote: There is a problem in the kernel that causes with 3 or more processors (including logical CPUs from HTT). Disabling HTT in the BIOS is probably your best bet as it will get you down to 2 CPUs which should work much better. HTT also isn't but so useful anyways for most

Re: Sharing resources on LAN without NFS

2004-12-15 Thread Zane C. Bowers
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:52:21 +1300 Ben Washington-Yule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The handbook section on NFS was great but having only 3 computers I don't feel the need to set up a client/server system. Nevertheless I would like to be able to share one printer and one cd-writer between

Re: How can I make a program keep running even after I logout?

2004-12-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
Rae Kim wrote: I connect to my computer from school computer. I want to cvsup or/and portupgrade and logout but the program keep running? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: php4 install has conflicts

2004-12-15 Thread Noah
I could be wrong about this, but I don't believe you need to reinstall those ports. Just force delete all old versions of mod- php4 and then install the new version of php4 or mod-php4 (whichever one you actually want). The other ports shouldn't need to be reinstalled, because the new

Re: ld-elf.so.1: Shared objectlibintl.so.6 not found

2004-12-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Note to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: you are blocking mail from me. Kris On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:21:27AM +0300, Andrew P. wrote: [originally built in May] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldd /usr/sbin/ppp /usr/sbin/ppp: libcrypt.so.2 = /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2 (0x280b6000) libmd.so.2 =

Re: php4 install has conflicts

2004-12-15 Thread Noah
Try portupgrade -rR php4\* The -N flag is for installing new packages, not upgrading existing ones. -rR should resolve all dependencies above below php4. That should also remove all the old versions . Oops, I shouldn't answer things before I've woken up properly! I missed the fact

Re: ld-elf.so.1: Shared objectlibintl.so.6 not found

2004-12-15 Thread Andrew P.
Kris Kennaway wrote: Note to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: you are blocking mail from me. Kris I'm sorry for that. Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for personal messages or cc'd mails, please. [originally built in May] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldd /usr/sbin/ppp /usr/sbin/ppp: libcrypt.so.2 = /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2

Gvinum and swap partitions

2004-12-15 Thread Lapo Nustrini
I recently converted a vinum boot mirror to gvinum on a FreeBSD STABLE box. The mirror was initially setup using the information on Greg Lehey's The Complete Freebsd book, resulting in everything being mirrored on my boot drive, including the swap partition. While trying to get up to speed

Re: for Centrino (Pentium-M) - ways to decrease CPU power?

2004-12-15 Thread Miles Keaton
Install sysutils/estctrl, works for me. PERFECT! Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: php4 install has conflicts

2004-12-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Noah wrote: HI, okay one more question. what is the best method to get rid of all the stale dependencies please? --- snip --- Hi, Noah. (Thanks for building that boat all those years ago... :-) Anyway, this helped me in understanding how to answer pkgdb -F:

Network Problem

2004-12-15 Thread Chris Kelly
Hi Guys, I've been experiencing a strange problem with our FreeBSD web server: FreeBSD www.piyeepress.com 4.8-RELEASE Server version: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) When accessed via a web browser, it will return pages for a few minutes. Eventually access is super super slow, as if some TCP state table

Re: How can I make a program keep running even after I logout?

2004-12-15 Thread Rae Kim
Thank you all guys.. I've tried daemon, nohup and Nicolas' csh method all works fine. On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:42:52 -0600, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rae, I asked this very same question back in (Job Control) back in November, first thing to know is that the default for the

Gnome without the stuff?

2004-12-15 Thread Robert William Vesterman
I installed the Gnome2 port, and it installed a whole lot of stuff that I wasn't expecting, including stuff that I don't know what it is, and also stuff that I never intend to use. Is there a way to install just a basic Gnome, without all the stuff? That is, the default applications of various

Re: portupgrade perl and openwebmail

2004-12-15 Thread Noah Garrett Wallach
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Lapo Nustrini wrote: If you have just gone from a 5.8.1 version of Perl to the current 5.8.5, you are probably running into the following: (From the Openwebmail README file at http://www.openwebmail.org/openwebmail/doc/readme.txt ) If you are using FreeBSD and your perl

att: Randall D. DuCharme (RadioAD5GB)

2004-12-15 Thread Minnesota Jo
Hello, Why does this work this way? Thanks, Jo W. Try this... You need to read this and answer the question. It will take about 30 seconds but you just will not believe this!!! At the end of this, you are asked a question. Answer it immediately. Don't stop and think

Re: portupgrade perl and openwebmail

2004-12-15 Thread Noah Garrett Wallach
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Lapo Nustrini wrote: If you have just gone from a 5.8.1 version of Perl to the current 5.8.5, you are probably running into the following: (From the Openwebmail README file at http://www.openwebmail.org/openwebmail/doc/readme.txt ) If you are using FreeBSD and your perl

Re: ld-elf.so.1: Shared objectlibintl.so.6 not found

2004-12-15 Thread Andrew P.
Kris Kennaway wrote: Starting ppp as root /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.6 not found ... OK, but that's not coming from executing /usr/sbin/ppp since you've shown us that it's not in fact linked to libintl, as expected (you could also verify this by executing ppp by hand).

Re: 5.0

2004-12-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:53:51PM -0300, Rodrigo wrote: Good Afternoon, My name is Rodrigo, I live in Brazil(my english is very bad, sorry) and I would like to know where can I find the versions 5.0 (i386) and 5.1(i386) to download? http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org, but it is not

Re: ld-elf.so.1: Shared objectlibintl.so.6 not found

2004-12-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:43:12AM +0300, Andrew P. wrote: echo Starting ppp as \${ppp_user}\ echo JUST BEFORE - ${ppp_command} su -m ${ppp_user} -c exec ${ppp_command} echo JUST AFTER Here I almost pressed the Send button in my Thunderbird, but oops. Back to the shell :-) # man su

Re: FreeBSD 5.3: panic page fault with nge driver

2004-12-15 Thread sp0ng3b0b
No one has replied to my posts. :( I hope I provided all the info that was needed. I tried 5.3-STABLE, but no success. OS still panics with same message below. 5.2.1-RELEASE works, but its not current anymore and I don't want to install an older OS. Besides, even with 5.2.1, I had to hardcode

Re: handbook version

2004-12-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:50:27PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: I noticed that the local version of the handbook is from Release 4.7 and the version on the web site is 4.10. I'm not trying to be critical, I'm just wondering if I'm supposed to be performing some action to get the latest,

Re: handbook version

2004-12-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Steven Friedrich wrote: I noticed that the local version of the handbook is from Release 4.7 and the version on the web site is 4.10. I'm not trying to be critical, I'm just wondering if I'm supposed to be performing some action to get the latest, or if 4.11 release (which I believe will be

Re: php4 install has conflicts

2004-12-15 Thread Ian Moore
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 06:45, Noah wrote: I could be wrong about this, but I don't believe you need to reinstall those ports. Just force delete all old versions of mod- php4 and then install the new version of php4 or mod-php4 (whichever one you actually want). The other ports shouldn't need

Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-15 Thread Robert Huff
Paul A. Hoadley writes: There are numerous hits from Google on very similar issues, but almost all the solutions point at DNS problems. If there is a local DNS issue, I can't find it. Because it may not be what you think. Yesterday, I upgraded my -CURRENT system from

Re: How can I make a program keep running even after I logout?

2004-12-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
Rae Kim wrote: Thank you all guys.. I've tried daemon, nohup and Nicolas' csh method all works fine. My way isn't a csh way it's just that I use csh as my default shell and was just stating the fact that with csh background jobs do not die when you exit, so the nohup is optional (but

Re: ALT key on console25?

2004-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-15 23:55, John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas writes: On 2004-12-15 21:47, John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to make the ALT key work on console25? It highly depends on what work means. Can you elaborate a bit? Oh, ALT-k does the same thing

Re: handbook version

2004-12-15 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 07:21 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:50:27PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: I noticed that the local version of the handbook is from Release 4.7 and the version on the web site is 4.10. I'm not trying to be critical, I'm just wondering if

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-15 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hi Robert, On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:27:40PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: I was totally confused ... until I did ps -ax | grep named and found an unrequested -t /var/named at the end of the command line. So what's that about? -t causes named to run chrooted, per entry 20040928. That's not

Re: handbook version

2004-12-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:36:22PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2004 07:21 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:50:27PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: I noticed that the local version of the handbook is from Release 4.7 and the version on the web

Re: handbook version

2004-12-15 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 08:49 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:36:22PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2004 07:21 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:50:27PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: I noticed that the local version

Re: handbook version

2004-12-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:08:12PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: You can download a newer version from the FTP site, or install it using the installer from the relevant release. Kris I can't figure this out. I've set Options...release to any and to . to no avail. If

Re: handbook version

2004-12-15 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 09:18 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:08:12PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: You can download a newer version from the FTP site, or install it using the installer from the relevant release. Kris I can't figure this out.

Re: rl0: watchdog timeout

2004-12-15 Thread Mike Jeays
I have no first hand experience with this particular problem, but it's almost common knowledge RealTek nics are great because they are cheap, not because they are of good quality. The phrase piece of crap has been uttered more than once in relation to these nics. I have three of them, and

Re: handbook version

2004-12-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:25:07PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2004 09:18 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:08:12PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: You can download a newer version from the FTP site, or install it using the installer from

Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Adam
In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? Thanks, Adam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Subhro
MY personal opinion is, the shell one uses depends a lot on the personal taste of the user. For example, although people had said lots of good (and probably bad?) things about bash, I feel it's a bit too linuxish. My personal preference is the zsh shell. Regards S. Indian Institute of

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? That's largely a religious issue. I used csh for my first 6 years or so of

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED]... In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 Because that is his shell of choice. I prefer to use TCSH for the same reason. What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? Thanks, Adam I like a .30-06 for deer, antelope, etc, .762[mm] for terrorists, and a .340

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? That's largely a religious issue. I used csh

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Nikolas Britton wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells?

perl 5.8.5 portupgrade now openwebmail complains

2004-12-15 Thread Noah
Perl-5.8.5 SUIDPERL set openwebmail-2.41 FreeBSD-4.9 any clues why its complaining about this? and how to fix it? snip # /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl --init /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/speedy_backend: Undefined symbol Perl_ malloc speedy[24754]:

why must boot in single mode.

2004-12-15 Thread Supote Leelasupphakorn
Hi all I'm using FreeBSD 4.[89] for a few years. So far I upgraded my release to security branch by following the instructions in /usr/src/Makefile and after finished, my box is running fine. Only one thing that I ignored - rebooting in single mode but because I am not at the box's console.

Re: why must boot in single mode.

2004-12-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:36:11AM +0700, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Could anyone clarify me why we have to (according to comment in /usr/src/Makefile) reboot in single mode ? Is it necessary ? It's safest; if you try and do without it then applications running on the machine may crash

Re: why must boot in single mode.

2004-12-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: [ ... ] Could anyone clarify me why we have to (according to comment in /usr/src/Makefile) reboot in single mode ? Is it necessary ? It's a good idea, more than a necessity. If you feel that you have reason to believe that the kernel you just compiled actually does

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2004-12-15 Thread Magendran
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Re: ALT key on console25?

2004-12-15 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, John Conover wrote: Is it possible to make the ALT key work on console25? The console keyboard is easily mappable. Assuming you have a normal PC (and not some Sparc or Alpha thing about which I know nothing), your ALT key should work right out of the box. The problem, if you

updating pkgdb results invalid argument

2004-12-15 Thread Noah
FreeBSD-4.9 any clues why this is happening? the update of the package DB ends off with invalid argument. --- snip # pkgdb -Fu --- Updating the pkgdb Invalid argument snip --- cheers, Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: Gnome without the stuff?

2004-12-15 Thread Mark Rowlands
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:29 AM To: Robert William Vesterman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gnome without the stuff? Robert William Vesterman

Re: Status of java support in FreeBSD 5.x release?

2004-12-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:15:52PM -0800, rain cip wrote: one question though. I followed the suggestion in the pkg message that says: # kldload linprocfs and # mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc Is this just a one time procedure for compiling the jdk or do I have to

Re: Status of java support in FreeBSD 5.x release?

2004-12-15 Thread rain cip
Thanks for the tip! And, yes, the bad first line in the Currency?.java file is still there! Has anyone submitted a bug report to the port maintainer? I cvsup my port tree just 5 hours ago before starting compiling /usr/ports/jdk14. Can't believe the problem still hasn't been fixed. :-( one

make package don't build package

2004-12-15 Thread Alexandr
I run FreeBSD 5.3 I free my ports tree and make this: cd /usr/ports/www/audio/mpg123/ make package and get: === Installing for mpg123-esound-0.59r_15 === mpg123-esound-0.59r_15 depends on shared library: esd.2 - found === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if audio/mpg123

Re: make package don't build package

2004-12-15 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:59:30 + Alexandr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run FreeBSD 5.3 I free my ports tree and make this: cd /usr/ports/www/audio/mpg123/ make package and get: === Installing for mpg123-esound-0.59r_15 === mpg123-esound-0.59r_15 depends on shared library: esd.2 -

Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
Christian Hiris wrote: AFAIK the define is named DSP_BUFFSIZE (in src/sys/dev/sound/pcm/sound.h. DSP_BUFFSIZE can be used to define the default buffersize for sound drivers, but most of the sound drivers use their own defines. If you want to change the default buffersize for a sound driver you

Re: make package don't build package

2004-12-15 Thread Alexandr
Hello epilogue. cd /usr/ports/www/audio/mpg123/ make package with this command I make test. I wont make package-recursive and this command take me some result for others ports and get: === Installing for mpg123-esound-0.59r_15 === mpg123-esound-0.59r_15 depends on shared library:

Re: web-based password checking tool?

2004-12-15 Thread Frank Richter
Fernando Gleiser wrote: I need a web based tool to let the users change their passwords, since they don't have shell access, a web-based solution seems like the only way to let them do it without bothering the admins. I'm using cgipaf! Advantage: cracklib/dictionary and exclude words as

Re: ssmtp fails to open smtp server

2004-12-15 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:53:53PM -0800, Gary Schenk wrote: Yep, these typos are killing me. That got ssmtp working, and I'm sending mail out quite nicely with mutt now. However, into each life a little rain must fall. Fetchmail is no longer working. After googling the error message I

Re: Sharing resources on LAN without NFS

2004-12-15 Thread Phil Schulz
Ben Washington-Yule wrote: The handbook section on NFS was great but having only 3 computers I don't feel the need to set up a client/server system. Nevertheless I would like to be able to share one printer and one cd-writer between these 3 machines. I'll be grateful even for just a shove

LAN Browsing not working in KDE 3.3

2004-12-15 Thread Mark Ovens
LAN Browsing in Konqueror (Services tab in Navigation panel) was working fine in the previous version I was running (3.2.x IIRC) using the lisa daemon. In 3.3.0 however, when I select LAN Browsing I get an error Protocol not supported: lan. ISTR reading somewhere that lisa had been replaced by

checking out from cvs without cvs info?

2004-12-15 Thread Choy Kho Yee
Hi, for a certain reason I need to check out sources for one of my (Bprograms from the local CVS repository, without the "CVS" folder in (Bevery directory but just my source files. How can I do that? (B (BThanks. (B (B--- (BChoy Kho Yee (B___

5.0

2004-12-15 Thread Rodrigo
Good Afternoon, My name is Rodrigo, I live in Brazil(my english is very bad, sorry) and I would like to know where can I find the versions 5.0 (i386) and 5.1(i386) to download? Thnak you! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

for Centrino (Pentium-M) - ways to decrease CPU power?

2004-12-15 Thread Miles Keaton
Can FreeBSD tell a Centrino (Pentium-M) CPU to decrease its CPU power? I have a laptop (Gateway 450ROG) whose CPU seems to run hotter in FreeBSD doing *nothing* than it does in Windows doing almost anything. So much so that the loud emergency fan kicks on often to cool the CPU, even when the

Re: trying to locate Teddy Field's son

2004-12-15 Thread Toomas Aas
Subhro wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sasha.roxie I'm trying to locate Teddy's son, so googled your name. If you're the Eh???!! Maybe Teddy Field's son is called Questions Field. Or even Freebsd Q. Field. Sorry,

Re: cpu temperature

2004-12-15 Thread Dominique Goncalves
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:33:02 +0100, Lukasz Bigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:19:24 +0800 Spades [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try /usr/ports/sysutils/healthd. I can also send You a small PHP script which grabs some ACPI values using sysctl to draw a thermomether

Re: cpu temperature

2004-12-15 Thread O. Hartmann
Dominique Goncalves schrieb: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:33:02 +0100, Lukasz Bigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:19:24 +0800 Spades [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try /usr/ports/sysutils/healthd. I can also send You a small PHP script which grabs some ACPI values using

Re: FreeBSD 5.3: panic page fault with nge driver

2004-12-15 Thread sp0ng3b0b
I've been told that this might be fixed in CURRENT. That's nice, but I am trying to run a production quality server and CURRENT is not recommended for that purpose. Any recommendations? By the way, is Questions the wrong list for my problem? sp0ng3b0b wrote: I am getting a page fault with a new

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