The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-09-24 - 2006-10-14

2006-10-15 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Xorg in 6.2-RELEASE

2006-10-15 Thread Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
Hi friends. Let's me quest you what XOrg version will brings next FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE?. Thanks you very much, in advance. Regards. Jose. -- http://www.lordofunix.org/ Not Registered GNU/Hurd User. Registered BSD User 51101. Registered Linux User #213309. Memories. You are talking about

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 14 October 2006 16:58, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 5:38 AM Subject: Re: Non English Spam I have noted however,

Re: Boot2 loading process

2006-10-15 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 21:15:55, jerrymc wrote about Re: Boot2 loading process: So my question is: where does the rest of the boot2 binary is located and how is it loaded ? You skipped boot1 from attention. boot2 is loaded by boot1, not boot0. Not according to that piece of architecture

Re: Boot2 loading process

2006-10-15 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:33:06, netch wrote about Re: Boot2 loading process: Not according to that piece of architecture documentation that was quoted. www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/book.html#BOOT-BOOT0 It says that boot1 is used only with floppy boots. The doc is

Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

2006-10-15 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: He can't, DBD::Oracle uses oci underneath so he needs the Oracle client to get the shared libraries. Mike you also need to compile or install a linux perl and then install DBI DBD::Oracle with the linux perl. You could use DBD::Proxy instead of

Re: USB Mass Storage stopped working, help requested

2006-10-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jim Stapleton wrote: It used to work on this machine, the kernel/world has not been recompiled/reinstalled since then. However, A USB drive that used to work (and still works in windows) no longer works in FreeBSD. When I plug in the drive, the /dev/da* devices do not show up. The system is

Re: dictionaries/spellchecking

2006-10-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2006-Oct-12 14:03:34 +0300, Simon Phoenix wrote: 1)Download http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/DicOOo.sxw Note that this works only for OOo 1.1. It crashes OOo 2.x -- Peter Jeremy pgpG83wlKiSPd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I have noted however, that some subscribers to this list write english encoded in one of the above character sets, I don't know enough about the character set definition, but it seems that English characters are a subset of any character set? What is the recommended

Re: USB Mass Storage stopped working, help requested

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 10/15/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: It used to work on this machine, the kernel/world has not been recompiled/reinstalled since then. However, A USB drive that used to work (and still works in windows) no longer works in FreeBSD. When I plug in the

PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Khaled J. Hussein
hi all last time i found this when i run portaudit -Fda Affected package: php5-5.1.6 Type of problem: php -- _ecalloc Integer Overflow Vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/e329550b-54f7-11db-a5ae-00508d6a62df.html how can i fix this -- Best regards,

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi Khaled, Affected package: php5-5.1.6 Type of problem: php -- _ecalloc Integer Overflow Vulnerability. http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/e329550b-54f7-11db-a5ae-00508d6a62df.html how can i fix this Compile php from source after applying

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:31:25 +0200 Khaled J. Hussein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all last time i found this when i run portaudit -Fda Affected package: php5-5.1.6 Type of problem: php -- _ecalloc Integer Overflow Vulnerability. Reference:

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-15 Thread Danial Thom
--- NOC Meganet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 14 October 2006 17:13, Danial Thom wrote: The fact that a processor has 2 cores doesn't mean you have to use them, just like a MB with 2 sockets doesn't need both to be used. If the OS is faster with 1 processor than 2, then you

FreeBSD Loader

2006-10-15 Thread Nathan Lasseter
Hi I tried to install FreeBSD, but Windows hogs all the drivespace. Now after aborting the installer, every time I power on, the Loader appears. How do I remove it? Thanks Nathan. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [PMX:VIRUS] Delivery failed

2006-10-15 Thread celine
Hello, It's Homecoming 2006. I will be on campus all day Thursday and Friday. Celine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

imap DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE question

2006-10-15 Thread David Banning
I am using imap-uw and so I am familiar with the DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE email which stays on the server. In my case, I read my mail -on- the server so I see this email all the time. Since I use imap as well, deleting it only causes it to come back, I observe. I find this annoying, so my

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:47:37 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I have noted however, that some subscribers to this list write english encoded in one of the above character sets, I don't

Re: imap DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE question

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006, David Banning wrote: I am using imap-uw and so I am familiar with the DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE email which stays on the server. In my case, I read my mail -on- the server so I see this email all the time. Since I use imap as well, deleting it only causes it to come back,

Re: dictionaries/spellchecking

2006-10-15 Thread Simon Phoenix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Peter Jeremy said the following on 15.10.2006 13:40: On Thu, 2006-Oct-12 14:03:34 +0300, Simon Phoenix wrote: 1)Download http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/DicOOo.sxw Note that this works only for OOo

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 15 October 2006 08:12, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:31:25 +0200 Khaled J. Hussein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all last time i found this when i run portaudit -Fda Affected package: php5-5.1.6 Type of problem: php -- _ecalloc Integer Overflow Vulnerability.

Re: FreeBSD Loader

2006-10-15 Thread Tore Lund
Nathan Lasseter wrote: Hi I tried to install FreeBSD, but Windows hogs all the drivespace. Now after aborting the installer, every time I power on, the Loader appears. How do I remove it? It sounds like the installer got far enough to change the active slice (partition). If so, you might

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Thomas
Hi Jonathan Jonathan Horne schrieb: On Sunday 15 October 2006 08:12, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:31:25 +0200 Khaled J. Hussein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all last time i found this when i run portaudit -Fda Affected package: php5-5.1.6 Type of problem: php -- _ecalloc

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 15, 2006 12:39:11 PM -0500 Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ive been scratching my head on this one for a few days too. i have a box at home, that is running 6.2-PRERELEASE. when i try to install the lang/php5 port, i get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/lang/php5]# make

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 15, 2006 7:49:55 PM +0200 Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the bug was not in your vuxml when you compiled php5-5.1.6_1. You can use: make -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES install clean It will ignore the vuxml entry. No offense, but anybody who *deliberately* installs a vulnerable

Re: Xorg -configure results a black screen

2006-10-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10/14/06, Bjoern Thomsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to FreeBSD. I am trying to configure Xorg but when I fire up the command Xorg -configure I get back a black screen. When I try to start X it is telling me a failure message: Can't open display . I have always had to edit the

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Moran
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On October 15, 2006 7:49:55 PM +0200 Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the bug was not in your vuxml when you compiled php5-5.1.6_1. You can use: make -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES install clean It will ignore the vuxml entry. No offense,

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:07:15 -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On October 15, 2006 7:49:55 PM +0200 Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the bug was not in your vuxml when you compiled php5-5.1.6_1. You can use: make -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES install clean It will

RE: imap DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE question

2006-10-15 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Banning Sent: zondag 15 oktober 2006 18:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: imap DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE question I am using imap-uw and so I am familiar with the DON'T DELETE THIS

Re: how to connect a modem to the PS2 port?

2006-10-15 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:34:22 -0400 (EDT) ches wrote: I am using a laptop as a server, and need a second serial port on it. I'd love to use the psm0 port (I know it is an RS232C serial port) connected to a modem, but I am guessing the the psm driver is getting in the way. It is hard to ask

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 15, 2006 2:50:34 PM -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you looked at the vulnerability? There are only certian coding instances that would actually open this up to any attack vector. Since the bug is in unserialize, it's pretty easy audit a program to ensure that it

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ian Smith wrote: Ted's talking about the _first_ Received header, see mine below. It's the only one you _can_ rely on, assuming your mailserver isn't lying to you. Subsequent headers, sure, all can be faked, trust noone .. :) Filtering on the Received header entries is waste of time: Only

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sunday October 15, 2006 at 03:21:37 (PM) Erik Norgaard wrote: Ian Smith wrote: [...] Maybe I didn't make clear how the filtering in Postfix works? Each header line is unwrapped and then filtered independent of the others. There is no info as to if that is the first or last Received

mimedefang with LDAP-enabled sendmail

2006-10-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I'm running 6.1 (the security branch) with a recently-updated ports tree (1 September). I have modified /etc/make.conf to change the options for the system sendmail, by adding these lines: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS = -I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2

Re: Segfaulting perl

2006-10-15 Thread David King
Just to make sure that no bad library dependancies were at work, I did a 'make buildworld installworld', and a 'portupgrade -frR fetchyahoo perl openssl', to no avail (and with the same backtrace generated by gdb as below). Any ideas? On 10 Oct 2006, at 11:05, David King wrote: When

Re: imap DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE question

2006-10-15 Thread jdow
From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using imap-uw and so I am familiar with the DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE email which stays on the server. I find this annoying, so my question is whether -all- imap servers in the ports have this message that appears. If not, maybe I'll

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread DAve
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On October 15, 2006 7:49:55 PM +0200 Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the bug was not in your vuxml when you compiled php5-5.1.6_1. You can use: make -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES install clean It will ignore the vuxml entry. No offense, but anybody who *deliberately*

Sunday's newbie questions

2006-10-15 Thread gregb
(Please CC me directly on the response, as I don't normally subscribe to the list and try to find answers via searching the archives.) Two quick questions I should know the answer to, but don't. * When installing the PHP5 port, will it automatically disable and/or uninstall the PHP4 that's

FREEBSD cross-platform compatibility

2006-10-15 Thread Tom
Question: Is there an alternate-platform emulator available? I have some programs that have no substitute available - and are Windows - only applications. The developer right now says that they won't work on porting to other OSs for the foreseeable future - so Linux and FreeBSD - and Mac

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Sunday October 15, 2006 at 03:21:37 (PM) Erik Norgaard wrote: Ian Smith wrote: [...] Maybe I didn't make clear how the filtering in Postfix works? Each header line is unwrapped and then filtered independent of the others. There is no info as to if that is the

Re: FREEBSD cross-platform compatibility

2006-10-15 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Tom wrote: Is there an alternate-platform emulator available? I have some programs that have no substitute available - and are Windows - only applications. The developer right now says that they won't work on porting to other OSs for the foreseeable future - so Linux

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 15, 2006 4:31:48 PM -0400 DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is a bit extreme. I have a full workload, I put in about 60 hours a week (I work a lot of weekends, I'm working now). I have servers running all different version of apps. I can't go around upgrading everything at the

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: Ian Smith wrote: So the ideal you mention is not an option until a complete public list of authorized mail servers is available and all mail relayed through these requires authentication. That's the 'solution' the mega players appear to be proposing. And who then

Boot Live CDROM with Grub

2006-10-15 Thread David H. Guerrero
Hello, I can make a bootable CD using GRUB + El Torito no-emulation mode. It's almost completely explained in the GRUB manual, section 3.4. I want to do more, I want to offer the user who boots from the CD Live or from a hard disk partition, it's a CD Live with XORP. So I built the following

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 15 October 2006 13:08, Erik Norgaard wrote: (SNIP) Well, anyway, this only serves to enlighten another problem: That even if you find the solution to rejecting non-Roman non-FreeBSD mail while accepting everything from the list, people replying in those character sets will see their

Re: FREEBSD cross-platform compatibility

2006-10-15 Thread Tore Lund
Tom wrote: Question: Is there an alternate-platform emulator available? Sounds like you have already tried an emulator that did not work. Which one did you try? Have you tried Wine or Win4BSD? I have the same problem myself, so I am interested in your experiences. I have some programs

What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread William Tracy
Okay. I've installed FreeBSD on my desktop. I got KDE working, and Amor is running so I have a little daemon sitting on my window. I can mount my USB card reader and open the pictures from my digital camera in Gimp. I can browse the web in Firefox. I even compiled my own kernel so that I'm all

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Thomas Vogt
Paul Schmehl schrieb: --On October 15, 2006 4:31:48 PM -0400 DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is a bit extreme. I have a full workload, I put in about 60 hours a week (I work a lot of weekends, I'm working now). I have servers running all different version of apps. I can't go around

Re: Route #3 - USB 802.11 a/b/g

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 10/8/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/06, Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: On 10/7/06, Lars Engels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:22:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: OK, that's interesting, I tried, that, and got this:

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Tore Lund
William Tracy wrote: [snip] So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. What's so compelling about Linux? At least, tell us which distribution you are talking about and how and why FreeBSD does not seem very impressive

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Joao Barros
On 10/15/06, William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. I've installed FreeBSD on my desktop. I got KDE working, and Amor is running so I have a little daemon sitting on my window. I can mount my USB card reader and open the pictures from my digital camera in Gimp. I can browse the web in

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 15 October 2006 17:26, William Tracy wrote: Okay. I've installed FreeBSD on my desktop. I got KDE working, and Amor is running so I have a little daemon sitting on my window. I can mount my USB card reader and open the pictures from my digital camera in Gimp. I can browse the web

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
Well, in my case: - No matter what method I use to install packages in Linux (Apt-Get, Yum, Deb, RPM, and to a much lesser extent, Emerge, and to a *MUCH* greater extent src tar.gz's), I tend to have a lot more trouble getting installs to finish than with BSD in ports. - The FreeBSD community

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Joao Barros
On 10/15/06, Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/15/06, William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. I've installed FreeBSD on my desktop. I got KDE working, and Amor is running so I have a little daemon sitting on my window. I can mount my USB card reader and open the pictures from

Re: Sunday's newbie questions

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two quick questions I should know the answer to, but don't. * When installing the PHP5 port, will it automatically disable and/or uninstall the PHP4 that's already installed, or should I uninstall the latter manually beforehand? Manually uninstall php4 first. *

libphp4.so not installed from /usr/ports/lang/php4 and mod_php4 is gone??!!

2006-10-15 Thread Lane
Hi, I'm trying to install mod_php on an existing apache13 server. The original config documentation requires that this entry be added to httpd.conf: LoadModule php4_module libexec/apache/libphp4.so libphp4.so was previously built by /usr/ports/www/mod_php4 (iirc) but that port has

Re: libphp4.so not installed from /usr/ports/lang/php4 and mod_php4 is gone??!!

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Moran
Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install mod_php on an existing apache13 server. The original config documentation requires that this entry be added to httpd.conf: LoadModule php4_module libexec/apache/libphp4.so libphp4.so was previously built by

Re: libphp4.so not installed from /usr/ports/lang/php4 and mod_php4 is gone??!!

2006-10-15 Thread Lane
On Sunday 15 October 2006 18:18, Bill Moran wrote: Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install mod_php on an existing apache13 server. The original config documentation requires that this entry be added to httpd.conf: LoadModule php4_module

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 03:26:02PM -0700, William Tracy wrote: Okay. I've installed FreeBSD on my desktop. I got KDE working, and Amor is running so I have a little daemon sitting on my window. I can mount my USB card reader and open the pictures from my digital camera in Gimp. I can

Re: squirrelmail

2006-10-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:41:32PM +0200, albi wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:37:44 + (UTC) justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I`ve got a problem with squirrelmail when i try to reach it through my browser i get the index.php with the following message: --cut -- // Are we configured

Re: squirrelmail

2006-10-15 Thread jan gestre
On 10/16/06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:41:32PM +0200, albi wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:37:44 + (UTC) justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I`ve got a problem with squirrelmail when i try to reach it through my browser i get the index.php with the

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread jan gestre
so the question is, when will the php port be upgraded? it's been days already but i still keep on seeing the vulnerability message even if you say that it isn't that critical. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Moran
jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so the question is, when will the php port be upgraded? it's been days already but i still keep on seeing the vulnerability message even if you say that it isn't that critical. 1) The suhosin patchset apparently plugs the hole. Unfortunately, portaudit

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 15, 2006 3:26:02 PM -0700 William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. Well, let's see. As a server, I have worked with Windows, Solaris, Gentoo, RedHat, Fedora,

Re: squirrelmail

2006-10-15 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 15 October 2006 19:50, jan gestre wrote: On 10/16/06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:41:32PM +0200, albi wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:37:44 + (UTC) justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I`ve got a problem with squirrelmail when i try to

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm getting a ton of spam every day that comes from China, Japan and Korea= =2E=20 Spam Assassin completely ignores it because it has all non-english characte= rs=20 and slows kmail to a crawl loading. Is there a way to filter on non-english= in /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/v310.pre I

dvips conflict with teTeX

2006-10-15 Thread David Banning
I have read a recent thread about the conflict between dvips and teTeX. I get the error; dvips-5.76 conflicts with installed package(s): teTeX-base-3.0_10 teTeX-texmf-3.0_5 I need both packages. I have recently upgrade teTeX and noticed that dvips was not working. Is there another

Re: dvips conflict with teTeX

2006-10-15 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 10:33:19PM -0400, David Banning wrote: I have read a recent thread about the conflict between dvips and teTeX. I get the error; dvips-5.76 conflicts with installed package(s): teTeX-base-3.0_10 teTeX-texmf-3.0_5 I need both packages. I have recently

Re: build minimum freebsd from make world

2006-10-15 Thread Tang Ho Yim
Thanks Gilbert, So, anyone can make some DOC about this ? Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tang Ho Yim writes: I have already install the minimum FreeBSD 6.1. Now, I would like to know how can I build install the same minimum FreeBSD 6.1 from make world ? I think that NODOC

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Andy Harrison
On 10/15/06, William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. There's already been plenty of answers with which I agree. The bulk of my professional life was with Solaris, with some

Acroread not working

2006-10-15 Thread Subhro
Hello Folks, I have installed acroread from the ports collection. I am running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE. When I am trying to run the same from the command line, I am getting quite a few errors. I have pasted the error below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ acroread (acroread:6260): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **:

Flash Plugin not working

2006-10-15 Thread Subhro
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on i386 hardware. I have installed linux-firefox and linux-flashplugin from the ports collection. The same is iterated by pkg_info. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ pkg_info | grep flash linux-flashplugin-7.0r68 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:35:13AM -0400, Andy Harrison wrote: On 10/15/06, William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. Ah well, you have to experience it. No amount of convincing

Error building php5-pcre

2006-10-15 Thread Warren Liddell
Running FreeBSD6.2-PRERELEASE and im trying to build cacti with php5-pcre being a dependancy. Below is the last few lines or so that error. === == cc -DEXPORT= -DNEWLINE=10 -DSUPPORT_UTF8 -DSUPPORT_UCP -DLINK_SIZE=2 -DPOSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD=10

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Jeff Mohler
Linux has iSCSI...which hands Fbsd a real beating in the server space. I work on projects at more customers than I can keep track of that -have- to use Linux in the middle of Fbsd farms just because of the amazing lack of iscsi support. Linux has been doing iscsi since what..2002 or so? Maybe