ANNOUNCE: 64 bit 8.0-RELEASE-p1 Custom XFCE build available

2009-12-26 Thread Manolis Kiagias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I have just completed the long awaited, first 64bit build of the 'Custom releases' project hosted here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com You may download the ISO file immediately using the downloads page:

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-26 Thread Dhénin Jean-Jacques
http://www.xm1math.net/algobox/index.html is a very nice french software for beginer be seeing you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

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2009-12-26 Thread Punam Chowhan
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Re: location of discussion of lives

2009-12-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good morning, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Can you help me to negotiate the FreeBSD website? I am trying to find a general discussion about livefs. I have not been successful at entering the correct sequence of search terms to find a general discussion

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Kline wrote: The short answer [Guess] is no, I dont think so. If getting the keys to have an auditory feedback with beeps or shorter clicks were that easy, it would have been done after 15 years. Even Linux lacks this--and I'd bet Minux too. Uh, it was done

Re: Wireless USB adapter

2009-12-26 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 12/26/09, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 05:24:32PM +0100, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 12/25/09, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:29:20 +0100 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com replied: Argh, sorry but 7.2 doesnt have NDIS usb support. You

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Nick Barnes
At 2009-12-26 09:36:14+, Matthew Seaman writes: Uh, it was done years ago. Look at the xset(1) manual page -- there are options there to turn on key-click. They've been there since before the millennium as I recall. Most people find key-click intensely annoying (even more so if it's on

Re: Upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 installworld failed - SOLVED

2009-12-26 Thread Colin
On 25/12/2009 00:44, Mel Flynn wrote: Take the reboot out of the equation and keep it simple: su to root mkdir /usr/testdir cd /usr/src env -i make buildworld env -i make installworld DESTDIR=/usr/testdir Kernel has nothing to do with installworld target. Taking the reboot out of the

Re: Firefox 3.5 and Epiphany crashing since the GNOME 2.28 update

2009-12-26 Thread Anh Ky Huynh
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:36:36 -0800 (PST) Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com wrote: I am suddenly running into the same problem. I was running Firefox 2.0... and when I right-clicked an image and selected save as the program segment-faulted. I upgraded to firefox-3.0.16_1,1. Same issue. I'm guessing

Re: portaudit php vulnerabilities

2009-12-26 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:45:39 -0800 Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com replied: For the past week or so, portaudit has been warning me that the installed version of php on my system (php5-5.2.11_1) has known vulnerabilties. Fair enough. However, I've not seen a fix in the ports tree since then.

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Polytropon
//* OFFLIST On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:50:48 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:53:43PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: There are a few who actually *do* have text-only pages. And fewer do

Re: setlocale command is missing

2009-12-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:04:44 +0100, Daniel Dvořák dan...@hellteam.net wrote: BTW in mc there is not any settings with display bits, there is only options menu with display bits. Wrong help dialogs ? The ini file for MC contains: .mc/ini:use_8th_bit_as_meta=0

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:43:56 +0100, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:47:49PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Nothing tactile, and because neither Linux nor BSD has an audio click, not even that. Sun does have a command line It should. The X window system

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: What I've got to do is pick up where I kwit ten years ago with the kernel driver code and drop the the code to make the speaker-audio create tiny, brief clicks, preferably low, thunky sounds like ye

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:01:07 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: //* OFFLIST Sorry, hit the wrong button - I hope it doesn't bother anyone. If it does, don't read it. Outdoor concert will start today at 3 p.m., but if it rains a 3 p.m., we'll already begin at 1 p.m. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:10:45AM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: at first I'm lookings for a cots (commericial,

stylesheet not loading..

2009-12-26 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello people.. Well, maybe this is not the prober list to ask, but as long we all use FreeBSD and i wonder if someone had this problem : I'm on FreeBSD 7.2-R P5 PHP 5.2.11 (most extensions installed) apache-2.0.63_3 MySql4.1 I have noticed stylesheet is not

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:49:14PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:58:26 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. If you want to use NCURSES / CURSES, it's a bit complicated.

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 02:02:19PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 18:58 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. Could somebody send me an example. I'd be soo grateful. #include

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 03:33:27PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:49:14PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:58:26 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:50:06AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: instead of the printf/fflush, it would clear the screen and beep - if the terminal description says it can do the beep. I have echo $TERM xterm xterm can do beep, can't it? But I can't get it to beep on anything. I probably

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 290, Issue 12

2009-12-26 Thread Manish Jain
Hello, I am looking a convenient way using C to retrieve the current CPU and memory utilization of a process of which I have the pid. Can somebody please give me a hint of which system-calls/library-functions to use for this ? I don't want to use the system() function or grep for information

Ssh: Disconnecting: Corrupted MAC on input

2009-12-26 Thread Mark Terribile
Hi, I am seeing a problem using ssh with a long-running job. After some time, it shuts down, reporting Disconnecting: Corrupted MAC on input. Sometimes it reports a checksum error instead. Sometimes it runs to completion (which takes about two hours). This is between two 7.2 machines; it

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:16:23 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:50:06AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: instead of the printf/fflush, it would clear the screen and beep - if the terminal description says it can do the beep. The exanple I posted

alerts for stopped daemons

2009-12-26 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I was wondering how I can configure bsd to send an email or sms when a daemons stops running- i.e. perl5.10.0 stops for whatever reason send alert. thx and happy holidays ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: alerts for stopped daemons

2009-12-26 Thread Bill Moran
Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: Hi all, I was wondering how I can configure bsd to send an email or sms when a daemons stops running- i.e. perl5.10.0 stops for whatever reason send alert. net-snmp can do this. So can Nagios and a slew of other monitoring/

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 08:08:52PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:16:23 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:50:06AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: instead of the printf/fflush, it would clear the screen and beep - if the

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 05:16:23PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:50:06AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: instead of the printf/fflush, it would clear the screen and beep - if the terminal description says it can do the beep. I have echo $TERM xterm

(no subject)

2009-12-26 Thread Erik Hildrum Saltveit
Hello, I have a question about a ethernet card is supported or not in freebsd? 32-bit PCI,Realtek RTL8169S http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=120787 Best Regards Erik Hildrum Saltveit ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: (no subject)

2009-12-26 Thread Glen Barber
Hi On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Erik Hildrum Saltveit erik.hildrum.saltv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a question about a ethernet card is supported or not in freebsd? 32-bit PCI,Realtek RTL8169S You should use a more descriptive subject next time. The re(4) driver appears to

flash-plugin and epiphany

2009-12-26 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Hello, my desktop's memory is so low (256M). Therefore i can not run firefox. Instead, i'm running epiphany. That's too proper to me. Anyway is there any way to install flash plugin with epiphany? Currently, my version is 8.0-RELEASE. Really i want to see YouTube under FreeBSD! Sincerely, --

Re: flash-plugin and epiphany

2009-12-26 Thread Thomas Adam
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 06:01:17AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Hello, my desktop's memory is so low (256M). Therefore i can not run firefox. Instead, i'm running epiphany. That's too proper to me. Anyway is there any way to install flash plugin with epiphany? Currently, my version is

Re: RFC: Fam/Python based script for bruteforce blocking

2009-12-26 Thread Brandon Low
On 2009-12-19 (Sat) at 03:38:26 -0900, Mel Flynn wrote: Well, my first problem with it is obviously that I now need python, where I don't want python. In fact, my firewalls/gateways only have /bin/sh and /bin/csh as scripting languages. It's one reason I switched from custom sysutils/grok

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 09:36:14AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Gary Kline wrote: The short answer [Guess] is no, I dont think so. If getting the keys to have an auditory feedback with beeps or shorter clicks were that easy, it would have been done after 15 years. Even Linux

which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-26 Thread Len Conrad
VMWare has lots of info how to set up the (Windows XP) VMWare Workstation networking side, but not much on setting up networking in the guest OS. I've tried NAT and bridging, no DHCP, and can't ping anything except the localhost IPs. XP ipconfig shows the fixed IP, plus 2 192.168.c.d IPs

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:14:46PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: What I've got to do is pick up where I kwit ten years ago with the kernel driver code and drop the the code to make the speaker-audio create tiny,

Sendmail client configuration to connect to ISP's SMTP server

2009-12-26 Thread Aflatoon Aflatooni
What configuration do I need to set in my freebsd.submit.mc in order to connect to the ISP's SMTP server? The ISP is blocking all the emails unless it goes through their mail server, so I need my FreeBSD box to connect to the ISP's SMTP server for outbound emails. The client also needs to be

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:42:33 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Oh, yeah. In the late 80's when I joined my Nth startup and worked with several fellow hackers in a large room, my Sun was the only one with the click turned on. It drove my fellow programmers nuts,

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:19:49AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:10:45AM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org

will these (bluetooth) devices work with freeBSD

2009-12-26 Thread Eitan Adler
Can anyone tell me if either of these devices are likely to work with freeBSD for a bluetooth headset? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833242004cm_re=bluetooth_dongle-_-33-242-004-_-Product

Re: Sendmail client configuration to connect to ISP's SMTP server

2009-12-26 Thread Lane Holcombe
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 11:20 -0800, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: What configuration do I need to set in my freebsd.submit.mc in order to connect to the ISP's SMTP server? The ISP is blocking all the emails unless it goes through their mail server, so I need my FreeBSD box to connect to the

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:07:34 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks! I just listened to the opening few notes of Star Trek [!] But very faint and I don't know if the dinky BEL is a chip or a real speaker. You can determine it easily: If you plug something into

Re: Sendmail client configuration to connect to ISP's SMTP server

2009-12-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:50:39 -0600, Lane Holcombe l...@joeandlane.com wrote: Check out SMART_HOST in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README I'm using the SMART_HOST functionality, too. But there's no authentification (username + password). The relay I'm using - my ISP's - seems to be happy with a

chroot SSH users.

2009-12-26 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello people, Im on FreeBSD 7.2-R P5 Its easy to chroot ftp users - adding users to /etc/ftpchroot -makes the job easy. How about if I want to chroot the SSH users (not ftp) any easy way? no need for jail installation or anything like this.. I saw sshd_config file and it

Max kernel dump size

2009-12-26 Thread cronfy
Hello everybody. How can I calculate max kernel dump size? I want to create my swap partition as small as possible, just to fit kernel dump needs. Thanks. -- // cronfy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:18:48PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:01:07 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: //* OFFLIST Sorry, hit the wrong button - I hope it doesn't bother anyone. If it does, don't read it. Ja vohl; I caught it. 'Most everybody know my

Re: Sendmail client configuration to connect to ISP's SMTP server

2009-12-26 Thread George Davidovich
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:20:27AM -0800, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: What configuration do I need to set in my freebsd.submit.mc in order to connect to the ISP's SMTP server? The ISP is blocking all the emails unless it goes through their mail server, so I need my FreeBSD box to connect to the

Re: Sendmail client configuration to connect to ISP's SMTP server

2009-12-26 Thread Lane Holcombe
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 01:13 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:50:39 -0600, Lane Holcombe l...@joeandlane.com wrote: Check out SMART_HOST in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README I'm using the SMART_HOST functionality, too. But there's no authentification (username + password).

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 03:07:34PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:19:49AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:10:45AM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Fri,

Re: (no subject)

2009-12-26 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Should not be any problem and should show up as rl0 On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Erik Hildrum Saltveit erik.hildrum.saltv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a question about a ethernet card is supported or not in freebsd? 32-bit PCI,Realtek RTL8169S

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread b. f.
Anybody know how I can redirect the beep to my speakers? I miss the confirmation that vi/vim puts out. Outside of X, our kbdcontrol(1) offers pitch and duration (but not volume) control for the console bell via the -b flag. The volume is often dependent upon the hardware and/or

Looking for a convenient way in C to retrieve CPU and memory usage of a process

2009-12-26 Thread Manish Jain
Hello, I am looking for a convenient way using C to retrieve the current CPU and memory utilization of a process of which I have the pid. Can somebody please give me a hint of which system-calls/library-functions to use for this ? I don't want to use the system() function or grep for

Package Size Discrepency

2009-12-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Why is gcc42 from: ftp://ftp3.ca.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/gcc42.tbz ~66.6Mbs and has libobjc.so.2 but gcc42 from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/gcc42.tbz ~18.9 and doesn't have this library? Thanks, jlc