Anyone have Comcast for an ISP?

2008-03-21 Thread Allen
Does anyone on here have comcast for an ISP? I use them and today I was messing around on a machine I use for FTP service over my LAN (Not accessible from the net so I'm not worried about using it for back ups) and anyway, I wanted to set up one of my comcast accounts on it so I could do as I've do

Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 207, Issue 18, Message: 6 On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:54:36 -0500 Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I fixed it but I am not sure I would have > figured it out quickly without the help from the list. > > It seems that FreeBSD default

"Mutex unlock failure" when compiling KDE (upgrade from 6.x)

2008-03-21 Thread RCL
Hi, I'm having the same troubles as Leslie Jensen when compiling KDE (or anything that uses uic, e.g. amarok): compile process stucks with the following message: Mutex unlock failure: Operation not permitted I found out that the problem was already being investigated here on the list, but no sol

Re: List replies

2008-03-21 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 22 March 2008 06:33, Da Rock wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 22:38 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > --On March 22, 2008 1:10:40 PM +1000 Da Rock > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 02:58 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000,

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 23:37 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. > I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first if > possible. > > Any documents/suggestions that anyone can point me to? I'm not certain that it is p

[Fwd: Re: List replies]

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
--- Begin Message --- On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 23:24 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > Da Rock writes: > > > > Because many people who ask questions here are not subscribed to the > > > list and thus would not see any answers that were sent only to the list. > > > > Well that certainly explains it,

Re: List replies

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 22:38 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On March 22, 2008 1:10:40 PM +1000 Da Rock > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 02:58 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > >> > This may have been suggested o

virtual machine software

2008-03-21 Thread Jim Stapleton
I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first if possible. Any documents/suggestions that anyone can point me to? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: List replies

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On March 22, 2008 1:10:40 PM +1000 Da Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 02:58 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > This may have been suggested or discussed before, but is there a > reason why the reply-to on this list is

Re: How to uninstall a flash port.

2008-03-21 Thread Eduardo Cerejo
> I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with > SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites. > > How can I de-install this port with out causing problems to other programs? > > I cant find it in the handbook how to's. Im I missing something? > > Thanks... If

Re: List replies

2008-03-21 Thread Robert Huff
Da Rock writes: > > Because many people who ask questions here are not subscribed to the > > list and thus would not see any answers that were sent only to the list. > > Well that certainly explains it, but it does surprise me. I thought > you'd have to subscribe to post. I believe

RE: Console Random Text

2008-03-21 Thread Tamouh H.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Andy Christianson > Sent: March 21, 2008 7:28 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Console Random Text > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am having a very strange problem. My sever st

Re: List replies

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 02:58 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > This may have been suggested or discussed before, but is there a reason > > why the reply-to on this list isn't the list itself instead of the > > person who posted? Ie reply-to:

RE: Console Random Text

2008-03-21 Thread The-IRC Hosting Administration Team
I have been having the same problem with a 6.3 server but without random text. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

How to uninstall a flash port.

2008-03-21 Thread Robert Huff
Al Plant writes: > I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with > SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites. > > How can I de-install this port with out causing problems to other > programs? > cd > made deinstall or use pkh_deinstall.

How to uninstall a flash port.

2008-03-21 Thread Al Plant
Aloha Gurus, I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites. How can I de-install this port with out causing problems to other programs? I cant find it in the handbook how to's. Im I missing something? Thanks... ~

Re: List replies

2008-03-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > This may have been suggested or discussed before, but is there a reason > why the reply-to on this list isn't the list itself instead of the > person who posted? Ie reply-to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Because many people who ask questi

Console Random Text

2008-03-21 Thread Andy Christianson
Hello everyone, I am having a very strange problem. My sever stopped responding in SSH. At the time, a co-worker said he was importing a MySQL database from a USB drive mounted as ext2fs. I went back to check on the console, and it was scrolling *EXTREMELY* quickly with apparently random

Card readers

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
I have mentioned this before in other threads, but it appears it requires a thread of its own. I have a laptop with a card reader built in which I have never been able to get to work. Everything I have looked up regarding these has to do with usb versions, and other than the laptops my card reader

List replies

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
This may have been suggested or discussed before, but is there a reason why the reply-to on this list isn't the list itself instead of the person who posted? Ie reply-to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Curious... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 16:21 +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > >>> I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can > >>> see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I > >>> could use some help getting

Re: smbfs CIFS

2008-03-21 Thread Darren Spruell
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > isn't SMB and CIFS the same? Superficially, although there are differences in the protocols. CIFS descended from the original SMB specification and adds to it. Hence, why e.g. in Linux you find separate module support

uscanner and ugen drivers questions

2008-03-21 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Dear All, I was playing with various scanners and all-in-one devices on FreeBSD (probably 6-7 different scanners and all-in-one devices) and I noticed that the range of scanners supported on FreeBSD is far smaller than that of sane-backends. This is due to the fact that there is no standard dev

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:57:01AM -0700, mdh wrote: > It's been my experience that finding drivers for > hardware created for open source operating systems by > developers within the communities is quite easy, while > such community doesn't exist for windows and you are > 100% reliant on the vendo

Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)

2008-03-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:01:35AM +0800, Gelsema, P (Patrick) wrote: > On Fri, March 21, 2008 00:39, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:50:34AM +0100, Nejc Å koberne wrote: > >> > >> So you are saying that merely setting up an OpenLDAP server with proper > >> DNS > >> configuration

Re: mtree

2008-03-21 Thread Robert Huff
Lowell Gilbert writes: > In the "EXAMPLES" section of its manual, there is a formula for > how to "create an /etc/mtree style BSD.*.dist file" which is the > first half of what you want. I saw that ... > Offhand, I think "mtree -U" is enough to mash > e

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:29:09PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > 2008/3/20, Nerius Landys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You could make it a video game server. That's why I set up a FreeBSD > > server. I run games/iourbanterror, but there are other games you could > > run. > > And cou

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:40:53AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:32:08PM -0800, Donald Laniohan wrote: > > > My task is to build a BSD server and do something with it. That is all the > > information he gave me, that, and any questions I have to make Google my > > bes

Re: samba

2008-03-21 Thread Werewolf
Thanks for pointing that out So attaching the smb.conf file from the /usr/local/etc directory uname -a FreeBSD server.ZOO 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 smbstatus Samba version 2.2.12 Service uid gid

Re: How do I add search paths to gcc

2008-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mdh wrote: > --- Eduardo Cerejo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My gcc is only looking in /usr/lib and /usr/include >> for libraries and hearders and I added the paths >> /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include to my .cshrc >> file: >> >> set path = (/

Re: help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread D Hill
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 at 08:47 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hey William, Was in a similar situation about a month ago.. I knew the drive was on its way out but once it went, i could not retrieve the data nor use it under freebsd even under a new system. My drive had physical issues.

Re: help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread Ezat - Ezatech
Hey William, Was in a similar situation about a month ago.. I knew the drive was on its way out but once it went, i could not retrieve the data nor use it under freebsd even under a new system. My drive had physical issues. I got the drive, stuck it in a 3.5inch usb enclosure and plugged it i

Re: help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Friday 21 March 2008 1:39 pm, William Bulley wrote: > I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 > system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on > this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. > > The drive is mecha

Re: help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:39:50PM -0400, William Bulley wrote: > I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 > system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on > this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. > > The dri

RE: Various X errors (difficult to see)

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:07 PM 3/21/2008, Luca Presotto wrote: >>This error refers to the artsd daemon already running, or the system thinks this daemon is running. You should open a terminal window and do: >>ps -ax|grep -i art >>and see if the artsd daemon is running or not. If it is not, you may need to forc

Re: mtree

2008-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know mtree can be used to describe a directory layout, and > then to re-create that structure. Is there a place where this is > described? I figured out everything I wanted to know from the manual page. It's a pretty good manual -- the reason it

Re: mtree

2008-03-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
Robert Huff wrote: I know mtree can be used to describe a directory layout, and then to re-create that structure. Is there a place where this is described? Start with the manpage, I guess ;) There are also examples in /etc/mtree. Kris ___

mtree

2008-03-21 Thread Robert Huff
I know mtree can be used to describe a directory layout, and then to re-create that structure. Is there a place where this is described? Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:39 PM 3/21/2008, William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and elect

Re: java plugin for Firefox on AMD64 running FreeBSD 6.3

2008-03-21 Thread Dino Vliet
Jung-uk Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 21 March 2008 08:46 am, Dino Vliet wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm lost at finding a solution for getting the java plugin to work > in Firefox 2.11 on my AMD64 system running FreeBSD 6.3. > > I've upgraded my ports and the diablo-jdk version is: > pkg_in

Re: How do I add search paths to gcc

2008-03-21 Thread mdh
--- Eduardo Cerejo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My gcc is only looking in /usr/lib and /usr/include > for libraries and hearders and I added the paths > /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include to my .cshrc > file: > > set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games > /usr/local/sbin /usr/loca

How do I add search paths to gcc

2008-03-21 Thread Eduardo Cerejo
My gcc is only looking in /usr/lib and /usr/include for libraries and hearders and I added the paths /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include to my .cshrc file: set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib /usr/local/include $HOME/bin) but I s

Re: samba

2008-03-21 Thread Eduardo Cerejo
> Hash: SHA1 > > Greetings, I have a FreeBSD box i set up long ago as a file server > > has worked great till I had to get a better laptop with gfx card to keep > up with my SecondLife Addiction. and now can't get the installed > Vista Os to connect to it. > > Help would be appreciated, > > r

samba

2008-03-21 Thread MD Keith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I have a FreeBSD box i set up long ago as a file server has worked great till I had to get a better laptop with gfx card to keep up with my SecondLife Addiction. and now can't get the installed Vista Os to connect to it. Help would be app

RE: Various X errors (difficult to see)

2008-03-21 Thread Luca Presotto
>>This error refers to the artsd daemon already running, or the system thinks >>this daemon is running. You should open a terminal window and do: >>ps -ax|grep -i art >>and see if the artsd daemon is running or not. If it is not, you may need to >>force it to start. >I'll try that later! If

R: Various X errors (difficult to see)

2008-03-21 Thread Luca Presotto
>>Is it something wrong in /etc/hosts?? >It could be your /etc/hosts or /etc/hosts.allow or you may need to add: > -listen_tcp >to your startx commandline. I supposed the problem was there! I'll look at -listen_tcp and at hosts.allow. I have doubts about setting hosts. X used to give me errors a

help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread William Bulley
I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it and use it

RE: Various X errors (difficult to see)

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:14 AM 3/21/2008, Luca Presotto wrote: >You should run startx and redirect the output to a file and check the >errors and then try to fix them. To do this try: >startx >/tmp/somexerrorlogfile 2>&1 Done that! Here-s the first error(s): DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2008-03-21 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2008-03-21 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that a

RE: Various X errors (difficult to see)

2008-03-21 Thread Luca Presotto
>You should run startx and redirect the output to a file and check the >errors and then try to fix them. To do this try: >startx >/tmp/somexerrorlogfile 2>&1 Done that! Here-s the first error(s): DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket DCOPClient::attachInterna

Re: java plugin for Firefox on AMD64 running FreeBSD 6.3

2008-03-21 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Friday 21 March 2008 08:46 am, Dino Vliet wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm lost at finding a solution for getting the java plugin to work > in Firefox 2.11 on my AMD64 system running FreeBSD 6.3. > > I've upgraded my ports and the diablo-jdk version is: > pkg_info | grep diablo > diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.0

Re: Various X errors (difficult to see)

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:18 AM 3/21/2008, Luca Presotto wrote: Hi, I have a freebsd 7.0 release with xorg 7.3 installed on a i386 with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 Official nvidia drivers installed and apparently no problems. In the xorg.0.log file there aren't any errors, glx is correctly loaded etc.. My system starts

Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:46:34 -0500 Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I followed all the UPDATING instructions, and still had many issues > because of old libraries. So the: > portupgrade -faP > > didn't work well for me. I ended up rebuilding all the ports, which > of course fixed every

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-21 Thread Tijl Coosemans
>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: >>> I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can >>> see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I >>> could use some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card >>> reader), but the removal se

Re: i have questions

2008-03-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:50:20PM -0800, Ko Htoo wrote: > Are you crazy ? > you are bastard > .!$%$#@@[EMAIL PROTECTED]&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&@[EMAIL > PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > $!%$^%$&[EMAIL PROTECTED]@%#&^%#% This kind of stupid and obnoxious message is not acceptable on

Re: Various X errors (difficult to see)

2008-03-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:18:45 +0100, "Luca Presotto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a freebsd 7.0 release with xorg 7.3 installed on a i386 with a > NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 Official nvidia drivers installed and > apparently no problems. In the xorg.0.log file there aren't any > errors, gl

Re: Odd aliasing question

2008-03-21 Thread DAve
Vince wrote: DAve wrote: I've looked but found no examples to give me confidence. While I have lots of servers running alias IPs the IPs are all on the same network. I've have been informed by my network admin that we will need to change the IPs of our legacy name servers (we are just dragging

Re: Powerpc port

2008-03-21 Thread Simon Chang
Hi there, On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:13 PM, K. Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed 7.0-RELEASE on an old Mac G4. > I have cvs'ed the latest sources (using the RELENG_7 tag) > in order to track 7.0-STABLE. <...snip...> Yeah, the information about FreeBSD seems rather biased to

Re: i have questions

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, March 20, 2008 21:50:20 -0800 Ko Htoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you crazy ? man (8) dump -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___

Various X errors (difficult to see)

2008-03-21 Thread Luca Presotto
Hi, I have a freebsd 7.0 release with xorg 7.3 installed on a i386 with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 Official nvidia drivers installed and apparently no problems. In the xorg.0.log file there aren't any errors, glx is correctly loaded etc.. My system starts without X and then I use startx to start X se

Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:54 AM 3/21/2008, Martin McCormick wrote: I think I fixed it but I am not sure I would have figured it out quickly without the help from the list. It seems that FreeBSD defaults to a chroot of bind with the tree owned by root. You can run bind in a sandbox as the documentati

FreeBSD compatiblity

2008-03-21 Thread Eduardo Cerejo
FreeBSD 7 stable If you have these options in your kernel: options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5 options COMPAT_FREEBSD6 # Compatible with FreeBSD6 you don't need to enable them in /et

Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-21 Thread Martin McCormick
I think I fixed it but I am not sure I would have figured it out quickly without the help from the list. It seems that FreeBSD defaults to a chroot of bind with the tree owned by root. You can run bind in a sandbox as the documentation says and have it chroot but if you do, and her

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:56 AM 3/21/2008, Joe Demeny wrote: I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone have experience with these? Any suggestions for other

Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:24 PM 3/20/2008, Peter Boosten wrote: Novembre wrote: I've read UPDATING before doing anything, but I assumed that " portupgrade -faP " also covers that part about gnutls as well. Isn't it true? Unless portupgrade did upgrade samba first and then gnutls, which means it's not smart enough

OT: using arts & noatun

2008-03-21 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hello, I just updated(actually re-installed) my system from 6-STABLE to 7-STABLE. I spent two days choosing and compilling this and that, and now it seems that it's usable again. But, I have trouble with arts or maybe noatun. It skips audio, no matter what. Zero load and it skips. I tried to use

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-21 Thread Colin Brace
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Joe Demeny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 Read the user comments carefully. For this laptop, you'll find, for example: --- Cons: RTL818

java plugin for Firefox on AMD64 running FreeBSD 6.3

2008-03-21 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi folks, I'm lost at finding a solution for getting the java plugin to work in Firefox 2.11 on my AMD64 system running FreeBSD 6.3. I've upgraded my ports and the diablo-jdk version is: pkg_info | grep diablo diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_9 Java Development Kit 1.5.0_07.01 The handbook said I needed

ports / easiest way to install older version when new is marked as ignored?

2008-03-21 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, The subject says it all - I have a port which is marked as ignored and I am wondering how I can proceed with installing an older version of it? Thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

instalation problem - unable to find device node

2008-03-21 Thread javo
hi , I'm newbie to FreeBSD, I tried to install it month ago and everything was OK, freeBSD was the only system running, later, I've installed windows and gentoo, and I've left space for FreBSD, now during the instalation I got this error after configuring my disk partitions, unable to find device

start/stop network services on a Laptop

2008-03-21 Thread michel Junger
Hello, First, my question: Is there a standard way to boot without network services and then to start them all later ? Second, the situation: I've got a laptop running FreeBSD 7 fine. By default it boots without enabling network interface, later I manually run /etc/rc.d/netif start ath0 and /et

Re: Removing aliases removes primary IP

2008-03-21 Thread Spil Oss
Thanks Pietro! Somehow the man-page for ifconfig is confusing In the examples: Add the IPv6 address 2001:DB8:DBDB::123/48 to the interface em0: # ifconfig em0 inet6 2001:db8:bdbd::123 prefixlen 48 alias Note that lower case hexadecimal IPv6 addresses are acceptable. Rem

Laptop advice

2008-03-21 Thread Joe Demeny
I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone have experience with these? Any suggestions for other comparable choices? -- Joe Demeny __

Process in lockf with apache/php

2008-03-21 Thread Nicolas Letellier
Hi. I use Apache 1.3 and PHP5 in module. I have a timeout of 30 seconds for my PHP scripts. When a process is out of this timeout, I have this message in my error.log: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /var/www/data/test.php on line 10 Ok, this is normal. In a "top", I see th

RE: Jittery PS/2 Mouse in 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
I believe if you run the mouse daemon and use /dev/sysmouse in xorg it will work a lot better. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alexander Dunn > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:12 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: J

RE: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)

2008-03-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nejc Škoberne > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:51 AM > To: User Questions > Subject: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me > learn FreeBSD...) > > > Sorry, but OpenOffice is more

You have just received a virtual postcard from a friend !

2008-03-21 Thread received
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RE: Realtek 811B LAN card on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-03-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Mars > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 6:51 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Realtek 811B LAN card on FreeBSD 7.0 > > > A few months ago, I posted asking about how go

Re: i have questions

2008-03-21 Thread Peter Boosten
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