Re: Enabling Gratuitous ARP

2005-04-20 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 14 April 2005 at 16:10:39 +0930, Adam Smith wrote: Hi, In a particular network scenario we have, swapping an ethernet link between two FreeBSD machines with a different MAC is proving to be a problem. We have discovered that in order to make this work we will need to enable

Re: what kind of BBS software on freebsd work well

2005-04-20 Thread Graham Bentley
And has more security problems than Carter has liver pills If more people are using a project like phpBB surely there is more chance that bugs / problems will be sorted out i.e. more 'reporters' If you have had problems with phpBB surely its better to submit them to the phpBB team rather

Re: what kind of BBS software on freebsd work well

2005-04-20 Thread Andrew P.
Graham Bentley wrote: And has more security problems than Carter has liver pills If more people are using a project like phpBB surely there is more chance that bugs / problems will be sorted out i.e. more 'reporters' If you have had problems with phpBB surely its better to submit them to the

Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine

2005-04-20 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:37:43 -0600 Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may not, but users of FreeBSD do. At the very least, ports should be tagged as to the versions of the OS with which they will work, and it should be possible to retrieve the most recent version of the port that works

DLT tape / no streaming

2005-04-20 Thread Konrad Heuer
Hi, I use a Benchmark DLT tape drive to backup data on my DELL PowerEdge 2650 system; syslog says: Apr 20 09:09:02 gwdu111 /kernel: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 Apr 20 09:09:02 gwdu111 /kernel: sa0: BNCHMARK VS640 5032 Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device Apr 20 09:09:02 gwdu111

Mutt header arrangement

2005-04-20 Thread John Oxley
Hi all, I hope this is the correct list to post to. When I receive mail in mutt, I have set it to ignore certain headers. What I want coming through is From: To: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Date: How can I order them in mutt so that they are always shown like that, not randomly jumbled up by whoever is

Re: Cvsup problems

2005-04-20 Thread Paul Waring
On 4/19/05, Cody Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having cvsup update issues right now. When I try to update I get: Cannot connect to cvsupxx.us.freebsd.org: Connection refused Will retry at xx:xx:xx No matter which server I try. I had this problem a couple of days ago with the UK cvsup

Re: Non Network cvsup?

2005-04-20 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2005-04-19T23:12:33-04:00, Daniel Bass wrote: So my IT department won't open port 5999 so I can't access the servers with cvsup. Is there some manual method to synchronize my installation? If your firewall does not block SSH connections, and if you have a shell account on a machine

Setting Up a X Server

2005-04-20 Thread Mick Walker
Hello everyone; I am looking for information on how to setup a remote X server. This is my setup: Internet. | FreeBSD Gateway (Running Xorg) | 8 Port hub Wireless Base Station | 6 machines, Various Operating Systems What I wish to be able to do is setup the 6 client machines to be able

Re: Mutt header arrangement

2005-04-20 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 08:23:33AM +0200, John Oxley wrote: Hi all, I hope this is the correct list to post to. I believe mutt has its own mailing list for user support. However, it's a while since I was subscribed... When I receive mail in mutt, I have set it to ignore certain headers.

Re: another newbie question

2005-04-20 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:08:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Been playing around with FreeBSD for a couple of months. Just configured my .muttrc, and I'm able to send messages but not to receive. I read the man pages and followed the instructions but still it's not

Re: Connecting to X Server on a FreeBSD Box

2005-04-20 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:40:15PM +0100, Chris Hodgins wrote: On 4/17/05, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X applications from my fedora core 2. So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit. But

2 same IP's on 2 different interface?

2005-04-20 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I accidently configured the same IP on a machine but on different interface and it is accepted. Maybe it is not a bug but semanticly it shouldn't be. I thinks I should send a pr for this problem cause it may cause other problems like the one I lived( losing network connection) Here is

Failover cluster for webserver with dynamic content ?

2005-04-20 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
On k, 2005-04-19 at 17:21 -0400, Paul Mather wrote: to what you describe using geom_gate for the remote component. See ggated(8) and ggatec(8) for how to set up an use a geom_gate provider. Note that the geom_mirror + geom_gate synchronisation would be one-way. Bad luck, I would like to have

Re: gnome2 over an ssh2 connection

2005-04-20 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:46:10PM -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote: I connect to my FreeBSD system from a PowerBook and was wondering (mostly for fun) if I can run Gnome2 or KDE or something within a Terminal connection on my PowerBook. Yes, but you need an X server for your power book. Apple has a

Re: vmware alternative for freebsd?

2005-04-20 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:43:38PM +0100, Grant wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Didier Wiroth Sent: 19 April 2005 14:35 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vmware alternative for freebsd? the

MySQL Server died yesterday !

2005-04-20 Thread Graham Bentley
Hello All ! I made quite a few changes to my system recently but havent touched any MySQL specific stuff. When I came to check my forum it was dead with an unable to connect error :( This is in the logs and is recorded every time I reboot or start manaully with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh

Re: squid problem

2005-04-20 Thread Tofik Suleymanov
Warren wrote: On the machine i am running squid, it runs the program fine, but as soon as anything goes to use the proxy server the program dies. How can i run squid so that im able to see why its crashing/closing when something goes to use it? im running FreeBSD 5.4-Stable CVSUPED and updated

Re: MySQL Server died yesterday !

2005-04-20 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:14:19PM +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: Hello All ! I made quite a few changes to my system recently but havent touched any MySQL specific stuff. When I came to check my forum it was dead with an unable to connect error :( This is in the logs and is recorded

USB Bluetooth dongle recommendation

2005-04-20 Thread FreeBSD Daemon
dear list, i will have to work on a project involving bluetooth technologie, for this i will have to get me a usb bluetooth dongle. i would be very happy to receive recommendations on devices that work esecially well (under FreeBSD). TIA zheyu ___

Re: vmware alternative for freebsd?

2005-04-20 Thread Norberto Meijome
Didier Wiroth wrote: Hey, Please dont top-post...it makes it very hard to know what you are referring to Actually I'm working witn xp and windows vmware. I use it for testing unattended installation CDs, service packs etc..., new windows netware client testing, software testing etc... and use a

question about mirroring

2005-04-20 Thread Eskandar S.Sadek
Dear Sir , I would like to ask about what is the requirement to be freebsd mirror site FTP mirror I hope you can supply me with detail information about this Thank you for your time Best Regards, Eskandar S.Sadek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

how to set fixed address problem at dhcpd.conf

2005-04-20 Thread liu jiachang
Hi, everyone: I installed isc-dhcp3-server on my freebsd 5.3(also it is a gateway which have double NIC), and it can work at our net. example, dhcpd can assign dhcp client internal address from 'A slightly different configuration for an internal subnet' at my dhcpd.conf. But now I want to assign

Re: question about mirroring

2005-04-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eskandar S.Sadek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to ask about what is the requirement to be freebsd mirror site FTP mirror I hope you can supply me with detail information about this http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/

Re: MySQL Server died yesterday !

2005-04-20 Thread Kees Plonsz
Bob Hall wrote on Wednesday 20 April 2005 13:49 in the group list.freebsd.questions: This is a very MySQL specific question. You should post it to the MySQL mailing list. It's been a while since I used MySQL. The host table is in the MySQL database. There should be a directory called

Re: squid problem

2005-04-20 Thread Warren
What do logs say ? 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE9 for i386-portbld-freebsd5.3... 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Process ID 8201 2005/04/20 22:54:57| With 1216 file descriptors available 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Performing DNS Tests... 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Successful DNS name

parse dmesg, compare to GENERIC and create MYKERNEL?

2005-04-20 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hi, I was wondering if there is a tool available that can: 1) parse the dmesg file 2) compare it to the GENERIC kernel file 3) and create a file called (for example) CUSTOM or MYKERNEL where unused devices are disabled (or commented out). There was/is (it's pretty old now) a tool available for

Re: squid problem

2005-04-20 Thread Alex S. Moura
Warren wrote: What do logs say ? FATAL: Cannot open '/usr/local/squid/logs/access.log' for writing. The parent directory must be writeable by the user 'squid', which is the cache_effective_user set in squid.conf.

Re: squid problem

2005-04-20 Thread Tofik Suleymanov
Warren wrote: What do logs say ? 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE9 for i386-portbld-freebsd5.3... 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Process ID 8201 2005/04/20 22:54:57| With 1216 file descriptors available 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Performing DNS Tests... 2005/04/20 22:54:57|

Re: squid problem

2005-04-20 Thread Warren
Log shows you the all of the needed information: /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log is not writeable by the user squid Following two commands should fix things up: chown -R squid:squid /usr/local/squid/ chmod -R 750 /usr/local/squid/ Thanks. Im more concernd as to what changed it so it lost

Is this hardware supported

2005-04-20 Thread Mike Doyle
I have found a supplier of a nice small embeded-system type computer using an x86 system-on-chip motherboard. They supply it with Linux pre installed, but I would prefer to use FreeBSD, since that's what I'm using for other applications. The chipset is from http://www.vortex86.com/ Can anyone tell

Re: USB Bluetooth dongle recommendation

2005-04-20 Thread Christian Laursen
FreeBSD Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i will have to work on a project involving bluetooth technologie, for this i will have to get me a usb bluetooth dongle. i would be very happy to receive recommendations on devices that work esecially well (under FreeBSD). D-Link DBT-120 works very

Re: squid problem

2005-04-20 Thread Tofik Suleymanov
Warren wrote: Log shows you the all of the needed information: /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log is not writeable by the user squid Following two commands should fix things up: chown -R squid:squid /usr/local/squid/ chmod -R 750 /usr/local/squid/ Thanks. Im more concernd as to what changed it so

sysinstall don't want to install packages

2005-04-20 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, I've patched my FreeBSD to 5.3-RELEASE-p9. Afterwards I tried to install with sysinstall via ftp some packages, but sysinstall was saying that the 5.3-RELEASE-p9 isn't at the ftp-server and I should set in the options any in the release-field... My question is: Is this message OK or

vmware 4.5.2 support on freebsd see here...

2005-04-20 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hi, Regarding my previous post: vmware alternative for freebsd? I had a look at the vmware3 port maintainer's website. http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html I was surprised to see that he has a more or less working freebsd port of vmware workstation 4.5.2. There are a few system and kernel

Re: DLT tape / no streaming

2005-04-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 20), Konrad Heuer said: I use a Benchmark DLT tape drive to backup data on my DELL PowerEdge 2650 system; syslog says: Apr 20 09:09:02 gwdu111 /kernel: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 Apr 20 09:09:02 gwdu111 /kernel: sa0: BNCHMARK VS640 5032 Removable Sequential

Re: [freebsd-questions] Error starting opera 8.00

2005-04-20 Thread Frank Staals
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded opera 8.00, extracted the .tar.gz and ran the install.sh script, all the files were copied to the right places. When I tried to run opera I first had to symlink 2 libs ( libm.so.2 and libc_r.so.4 ) that wasn't much of a

Error starting opera 8.00

2005-04-20 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 4/20/05, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded opera 8.00, extracted the .tar.gz and ran the install.sh script, all the files were copied to the right places. When I tried to run opera I first had to symlink 2

Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box

2005-04-20 Thread steve
I have been using FreeBSD 5.3 now for a couple months on a P4 box at home and I have been backing up the box nightly by doing a simple .tgz of the /etc, /usr/home and /var directories to a FreeBSD backup server at home (the backup server is a PI box). I’m at the point now, because I’m using

RE: Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box

2005-04-20 Thread bob
This question has been covered in great detail on this questions list in the past many times. You should review the archives for answer to your question -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of steve Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:53 AM To:

Re: Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box

2005-04-20 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I have been using FreeBSD 5.3 now for a couple months on a P4 box at home and I have been backing up the box nightly by doing a simple .tgz of the /etc, /usr/home and /var directories to a FreeBSD backup server at home (the backup server is a PI box). I’m at the point now, because I’m using

iPod 40GB support on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE/amd64

2005-04-20 Thread Alexander Chamandy
I was curious if anyone had got their iPod 40GB working on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE/amd64? I've tried it under ehci(4) and it isn't properly detected. Sometimes it will even lock the system. When booting up it actually prevents the system from properly starting after it reaches the PATA/SATA drives.

Difference between `mod_auth_mysql' and `mod_auth_mysql_another'.

2005-04-20 Thread David Robillard
Hello everyone, I'm looking for a clear document which explains the differences between the `mod_auth_mysql' and `mod_auth_mysql_another' ports. Ideally, a grid with all of the possible options on top and on the left one line for both modules would be great. Some kind of one-on-one comparison.

mplayer/mplayer-plugin question

2005-04-20 Thread Gary Kline
What post-installation stuff do I have to do to get mplayer-plugin to work with mozilla / firefox? (Also, is there a way of getting this windows-player-clone to work with links?) Here is what's happening: I have everything installed; checking

Re: Setting Up a X Server

2005-04-20 Thread Kees Plonsz
Mick Walker wrote on Wednesday 20 April 2005 11:06 in the group list.freebsd.questions: Hello everyone; I am looking for information on how to setup a remote X server. This is my setup: Internet. | FreeBSD Gateway (Running Xorg) | 8 Port hub Wireless Base Station | 6

AOpen NIC PXE booting w/ FreeBSD 5.3 server

2005-04-20 Thread Alex S. Moura
Hello, Do someone has the AOpen NIC [1] from www.disklessworkststions.com doing diskless PXE booting properly with FreeBSD 5.3+ as server? Ref.: [1] http://www.disklessworkstations.com/cgi-bin/web/17.html Best regards, Alex ___

FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread koen de wijs
Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly and the basic stuff

Re: gnome2 over an ssh2 connection

2005-04-20 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:01:27AM -0700, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:46:10PM -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote: I connect to my FreeBSD system from a PowerBook and was wondering (mostly for fun) if I can run Gnome2 or KDE or something within a Terminal connection on my

Re: sysinstall don't want to install packages

2005-04-20 Thread Randi Harper
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 09:32 am, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I've patched my FreeBSD to 5.3-RELEASE-p9. Afterwards I tried to install with sysinstall via ftp some packages, but sysinstall was saying that the 5.3-RELEASE-p9 isn't at the ftp-server and I should set in the options any

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Chris
koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Chuck Robey
koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly

kernel option HZ and mysql

2005-04-20 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
I have a self-compiled mysql 4.1 (4.1.9) on FreeBSD 5.3. (Not built from ports for various reasons). The system load skyrockets when the web server that is using the mysql for its PHPnuke storage starts to get 100 or so or more active sessions. It appears that mysql is the culprit. The

Re: Sound not working

2005-04-20 Thread Emil Khatib
Didn't work! I saw that ,as you said, volume controls in kmix were turned down to 0. I changed them but it had no effect. I even tried playing saound in Gnome, but it didnt work either. :( On 4/18/05, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 17 April 2005 20:08, Emil Khatib wrote: Hi everybody.

Re: Sound not working

2005-04-20 Thread Randi Harper
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 01:30 pm, Emil Khatib wrote: Didn't work! I saw that ,as you said, volume controls in kmix were turned down to 0. I changed them but it had no effect. I even tried playing saound in Gnome, but it didnt work either. :( Try using the console program, mixer? ex:

Error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start':

2005-04-20 Thread Alexander Chamandy
Has anyone seen these sorts of errors when compiling applications (such as PHP or Apache2)? I can buildworld, kernels and most of the ports.. but occasionally I run in to this error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start': : undefined reference to `_init_tls' Here's the dmesg:

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread W. D.
At 11:43 4/20/2005, koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Ash
koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly

Server-based address book with LDAP

2005-04-20 Thread darren david
Hi all- So having sold my Mac (boo!) and being stuck with FreeBSD (yay!), I'm looking for a server-based address book replacement. LDAP seems like the way to go, but i have yet to find a good HOWTO and/or GUI based application for administering said contact repository. I'd ultimately like to

Re: how to set fixed address problem at dhcpd.conf

2005-04-20 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2005-04-20T08:15:20+08:00, liu jiachang wrote: and another problem is still some words from dhcpd, as these: dhcpd: unable to create icmp socket: operation not permitled One reason could be that the device bpf(4) is not built into the kernel you are using. (This device is part of the

Re: how to set fixed address problem at dhcpd.conf

2005-04-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
liu jiachang wrote: [ ... ] Yes, if you specify hardware MAC addresses, you can assign fixed IPs. and another problem is still some words from dhcpd, as these: dhcpd: unable to create icmp socket: operation not permitled dhcpd: can't open /var/db/dhcpd.leases for append You need to kill and

Re: USB Bluetooth dongle recommendation

2005-04-20 Thread Edwin D. Vinas
also MSI bluetooth dongle is working well in FreeBSD-5.3! On 20 Apr 2005 15:16:11 +0200, Christian Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i will have to work on a project involving bluetooth technologie, for this i will have to get me a usb bluetooth

increasing username length via MAXLOGNAME and UT_NAMESIZE

2005-04-20 Thread freebsd-questions
Hi, I have read the adduser man page which states the following: You can change UT_NAMESIZE in utmp.h and recompile the world; people have done this and it works, but you will have problems with any precompiled programs, or source that assumes the 8-character name limit and NIS. I have had a

RE: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread mmiranda
koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. Yeah, this is unix my friend, that

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Ash wrote: koen de wijs wrote: Could anyone give me a good site that describes the differences between FreeBSD and Linux? This is a good place to start: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php That's an excellent article, and I wonder if the Powers That Be couldn't

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 20, 2005, at 3:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. Yeah,

MSDOSFS_LARGE option -- problem solved

2005-04-20 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
Hello, My problem with mounting a FAT32 80GB disk disappeared after I removed from my kernel config file option MSDOSFS_LARGE and replaced it with option MSDOSFS Thanks to those who responded to my earlier post. Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box

2005-04-20 Thread N.J. Thomas
* steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-20 10:53:25 -0400]: So I'm trying to figure out a scheme to avoid more than a couple hours of downtime. Use rsnapshot: http://www.rsnapshot.org/ The closest thing to a NetApp backup that you will get, minus the US$50,000 price tag. Thomas -- N.J.

Re: iPod 40GB support on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE/amd64

2005-04-20 Thread linuxbaby
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:40 -0400, Alexander Chamandy wrote: I was curious if anyone had got their iPod 40GB working on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE/amd64? I've tried it under ehci(4) and it isn't properly detected. Sometimes it will even lock the system. When booting up it actually prevents the

Re: MSDOSFS_LARGE option -- problem solved

2005-04-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Brian M. Kincaid wrote: Hello, My problem with mounting a FAT32 80GB disk disappeared after I removed from my kernel config file option MSDOSFS_LARGE and replaced it with option MSDOSFS Thanks to those who responded to my earlier post. Brian Hmm, maybe so. The MSDOSFS_LARGE option was quoted as:

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:43:14PM +0200, koen de wijs wrote: I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux.

Font protocol dies unexpectedly

2005-04-20 Thread edward
Hi all, I rencently installed an i386 box under 5.3 Release, with Xorg 6.7.0_1 and KDE 3.3.0_4. I have been trying to add fonts, but when I click on the Fonts bookmark in Konqueror, or when I access the Font Installer pannel in KDE's Control Center, I get the following message : The process for

RE: Error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start':

2005-04-20 Thread Andrew Heyn
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alexander Chamandy Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:37 AM To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start': Has anyone

Re: Error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start':

2005-04-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Alexander Chamandy wrote: Has anyone seen these sorts of errors when compiling applications (such as PHP or Apache2)? I can buildworld, kernels and most of the ports.. but occasionally I run in to this error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start': : undefined reference to `_init_tls'

Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine

2005-04-20 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:16 PM 4/19/2005, Joel wrote: It sounds like a wonderful idea. Who's going to pay for it? The same guy who's paying all of the port maintainers now. ;-) Oh? Well, okay, MSWxp sp2 is not what I would call professionally crafted software. They're professionals; they're just not always

Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine

2005-04-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Brett Glass wrote: At 09:16 PM 4/19/2005, Joel wrote: Oh? Well, okay, MSWxp sp2 is not what I would call professionally crafted software. They're professionals; they're just not always competent professionals. But they're light years ahead of FreeBSD on the issue of maintainability. With

Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine

2005-04-20 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:58 PM 4/20/2005, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Not in my experience. More oft than not, it's FreeBSD I fix and that other OS I flatten. But then, maybe we work in different environments, although I'm betting my experience is more common than yours I consult with, and provide service to, quite a few

Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question

2005-04-20 Thread jason henson
Gary Kline wrote: What post-installation stuff do I have to do to get mplayer-plugin to work with mozilla / firefox? (Also, is there a way of getting this windows-player-clone to work with links?) Here is what's happening: I have everything installed; checking

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread W. D.
At 15:20 4/20/2005, Kevin Kinsey wrote: SNIP After using sysinstall for the base system, with a little reading up on shell scripting, you can set up your own install wizard and run it from a floppy, cross a reboot and take a day off while the server/desktop/whatever box sets itself up I'm

Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine

2005-04-20 Thread Joel
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:10:04 -0600 (BBrett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (B (B At 09:16 PM 4/19/2005, Joel wrote: (B (B It sounds like a wonderful idea. (B (B Who's going to pay for it? (B (B The same guy who's paying all of the port maintainers now. ;-) (B (BYou can't see the

php5, unable to use pcre module

2005-04-20 Thread Stephen Kelly
Hi All, I'm using freebsd 5.3, apache2, and php5. I was getting the following error from one of my php scripts: Fatal error: Call to undefined function preg_match() So, after looking around on various lists, I determined that I needed to install php5-pcre, so I installed the ports

resizing partitions

2005-04-20 Thread dave
Hello, I've got a 5.3-RELEASE box which has a /usr partition /dev/ad0s1e that is to small by approximately 700 mb. I've got the space on /var /dev/ad0s1d to do a resize, but i am unsure as to the procedure. I tried this once a while back on a test box and lost everything. If anyone has done

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
koen de wijs writes: I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. That is the nature of UNIX. I want to try out Linux. I heard it

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Bart Silverstrim writes: I'm afraid after playing with both FreeBSD and some different distros of Linux, that easy way isn't necessarily Linux either. Some of them are apparently much closer to the plug-and-play environment of Windows than are any versions of UNIX. Logically anyone who wants

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
W. D. wrote: At 15:20 4/20/2005, Kevin Kinsey wrote: SNIP After using sysinstall for the base system, with a little reading up on shell scripting, you can set up your own install wizard and run it from a floppy, cross a reboot and take a day off while the server/desktop/whatever box

VESA driver hangs Xorg

2005-04-20 Thread Daniel Bass
OK, I've gotten 5.3-Released installed, and worked around the firewalled ports to upgrade my ports, and I have Xorg 6.8.2 installed. The system I am working on has a Radeon X700 PCI Express graphics card, but I don't need 3d, just basic 2d graphics X-windows support for what I need to develop.

unclean filesystem refusing to salvage

2005-04-20 Thread Warren
im running FreeBSD 5.4 and have /var as well as all the other filesystems not clean and when going to single user mode mounting all and running fsck -y ... it refuses to slvage anything and is causing multiple hassles with my computers stablity and running. How do i fix this or what may be

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Kevin Kinsey writes: And I see no reason why it couldn't be expanded to do a lot of other stuff as well. Scripting is just doing what you'd do yourself in code, so you can do something else, after all... Keep in mind that flexibility and automation are always mutually exclusive. --

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:23 PM 4/20/2005, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Nothing spectacular, to be sure. I simply noticed that I have done a lot of things to set up a server or whatever, and they can easily be scripted. I'm certainly no shell scripting expert (A month ago I would have tried this in PHP, but there's a little

Re: php5, unable to use pcre module

2005-04-20 Thread Anish Mistry
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 11:07 pm, Stephen Kelly wrote: Hi All, I'm using freebsd 5.3, apache2, and php5. I was getting the following error from one of my php scripts: Fatal error: Call to undefined function preg_match() So, after looking around on various lists, I determined that I