Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 20:32 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD and still $pkg_add -vr x11/xterm-206_1

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 05:39, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Kristian Vaaf wrote: I don't know what's wrong. But all my makes error out. I've tried over and over again. And sent about a dozen e-mails to this list. http://www.home.no/hedhnta/result.txt This is my supposition. There have

Re: Firefox-1.5.0.1 not starting after successfull instalation

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:41, Vladis wrote: Hi, unfortunately this doesn't help, still the same result. I removed ~/.mozilla and tried to start firefox again. I did the same doesn't start and nothing happened. Just directory ~/.mozilla was created again. It's really annoying. Is

Re: Firefox-1.5.0.1 not starting after successfull instalation

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:41, Vladis wrote: Hi, unfortunately this doesn't help, still the same result. I removed ~/.mozilla and tried to start firefox again. I did the same doesn't start and nothing happened. Just directory ~/.mozilla was created again. It's really annoying. Is

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: manish jain wrote: I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically shuts

Re: Firefox-1.5.0.1 not starting after successfull instalation

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 09:53, Vladis wrote: Hi, I start it from xterm: Ok, there are some dependencies involved here. Do you have all of them? Mine has: %pkg_info -r firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1 Information for firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1: Depends on: Dependency: pkgconfig-0.20 Dependency: expat-2.0.0

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 09:53, Ian Lord wrote: At 10:32 2006-02-21, Peter wrote: --- Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:09 2006-02-21, manish jain wrote: Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:08, Chuck Swiger wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. As best I can tell from

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:46, Ian Lord wrote: Lol in my own opinion, if the user that asked the question can't figure out there is a usb/serial port on the unit (I took the assumption as true :) I can hardly see how he would manage to compile and configure apcupsd :) What can I say.

Re: Removing BOM from UTF-8

2006-02-19 Thread J. Erik Heinz
installation. Cheers Erik -- J. Erik Heinz Keyboard-samuraing in process :: All non-mailinglist mail to this emailadress will be deleted. OpenBC: https://www.openbc.com/hp/JErik_Heinz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: NAS advice?

2006-02-14 Thread j m g
Has anyone used the freenas.org distro? On what equipment? Thanks. On 2/14/06, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, DAve wrote: (I am cross posting to FreeBSD questions and Bacula Users, I will not be cross posting replies) I've been crying for four years

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 10 February 2006 12:41, Andrew wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's

Re: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?

2006-02-04 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 04 February 2006 16:56, Xn Nooby wrote: By the looks of it when you cvsup you get everything (src-all, ports-all, etc) all at once. I think it might be better if you split that into two sup-files where you would have one for the system, src-all, and the other one for ports.

Re: Proper FreeBSD installation practices

2006-02-01 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
never been so hard. Having to set environment variables every time I want to get the newest version of a program should not be the standard way to operate, I am sure it isn't. Thanks. On Jan 31, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: I used sysinstall to look

Proper FreeBSD installation practices

2006-01-31 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
I just installed FreeBSD 6.0 on a computer I want to use to test BIND. The newest release is 9.3.2, but the one installed with FreeBSD 6.0 is 9.3.1. Since according to the ISC's website there are a few bugs in 9.3.1, I decided to upgrade. I then looked over the ports and found versions

Re: Proper FreeBSD installation practices

2006-01-31 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
not thru sysinstall? On Jan 31, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 31), Alvaro J. Gurdin said: I just installed FreeBSD 6.0 on a computer I want to use to test BIND. The newest release is 9.3.2, but the one installed with FreeBSD 6.0 is 9.3.1. Since according

Re: Proper FreeBSD installation practices

2006-01-31 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
Oh, I forgot to mention that I had tried that. It downloaded the package but when I checked, pkg_check bind9-9.3.2 it said the package did not exist and pkg_check bind9-9.3.1 it gave me all the appropriate output. On Jan 31, 2006, at 6:08 PM, lars wrote: You could also try # pkg_add -r

Re: question on the firefox port...

2006-01-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 27 January 2006 22:33, mojo fms wrote: I am having an odd problem on the firefox port. This is a fresh install of Freebsd 6 and basicly what its doing ... === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if www/firefox already installed === firefox-1.5_5,1 is already

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: I just started using 'portsnap' on my FreeBSD 5.4 PC. If I were to run cvsup again, and perhaps 'portsdb -Uu' would that cause a problem if 'portsnap' were run again? Would I have to run the extract command again to initialize the ports

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: I just started using 'portsnap' on my FreeBSD 5.4 PC. If I were to run cvsup again, and perhaps 'portsdb -Uu' would that cause a problem if 'portsnap' were run again? Would I have to run the extract command again to initialize the ports

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 28 January 2006 19:19, Chris wrote: Concerning speed I discovered the version in the ports tree is very slow, I have portsnap running zippy when using fetch on 2 5.4 boxes which I use the version in the base system, on 2 5.3 boxes and a 4.10 box I use the version from ports and

Re: make index

2006-01-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 19:39, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 24/01/06 Donald J. O'Neill said: What version of FreeBSD are you using. It can make a difference as to which way want to you go. If you are using 6.0, you can use portsnap, which is so much faster than anything else, it's

Re: make index

2006-01-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 19:39, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 24/01/06 Donald J. O'Neill said: What version of FreeBSD are you using. It can make a difference as to which way want to you go. If you are using 6.0, you can use portsnap, which is so much faster than anything else, it's

Re: make index

2006-01-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 05:45, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: What version of FreeBSD are you using. It can make a difference as to which way want to you go. If you are using 6.0, you can use portsnap, which is so much faster than anything else, it's laughable. I only

Re: make index

2006-01-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
What version of FreeBSD are you using. It can make a difference as to which way want to you go. If you are using 6.0, you can use portsnap, which is so much faster than anything else, it's laughable. I only use cvsup for updating src. Don On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:01, Michael P. Soulier

S-Video to TV

2006-01-22 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Is it possible, using FreeBSD stable, to see my Desktop in my TV using a S-Video cable? How would one go about it? Thank you. EJC www.only7bucks.com - Yahoo! doce lar. Faça do Yahoo! sua homepage.

Re: S-Video to TV

2006-01-22 Thread E. J. Cerejo
: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sorry, forgot to CC - Original Message Subject: Re: S-Video to TV Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:58:36 +0100 From: David Raison To: E. J. Cerejo References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kind of like this: in your xorg.conf

Re: cannot ping anything

2006-01-20 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
thanks, but the defaultrouter line was already present in my /etc/rc.conf. On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Derek Ragona wrote: Check your /etc/rc.conf for this line: defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 add it and reboot if it is missing -Derek At 12:26 PM 1/20/2006, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote

Re: cannot ping anything

2006-01-20 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
setting. Oh and check the LED's on your ethernet interface and router and hub/switches to be sure you didn't knock a cable loose. -Derek At 12:50 PM 1/20/2006, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: thanks, but the defaultrouter line was already present in my /etc/rc.conf. On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:32

boot process failure (/boot.config, boot2, loader)

2006-01-17 Thread J oberweith
Booting problem... I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 on my little Pentium III box. My problem started when I was trying to have it boot ACPI enabled by default (now, of course, I know about the loader.conf control file). Anyway, I read another post stating that all I needed to do was put the boot

VMware 5.5 w/FreeBSD as host OS?

2006-01-12 Thread Brian J. McGovern
All, I'm just curious, given the Linux support, if anyone is running VMware 5.5 with FreeBSD as the host operating system. VMware claims they don't support it, but history has repeatedly shown me that not supported is not the same as doesn't work. Feedback? -B

Re: How long to compile...

2006-01-03 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:04:41AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Crispy Beef writes: Was wondering on average how long building userland and the kernel for 6.0-RELEASE should take on a 466MHz Celeron machine with 128Mb RAM? Many hours. :-( For comparison: it takes ~1h45

Re: Free BSD install tutorial I wrote

2006-01-03 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Allen wrote: On Tuesday 03 January 2006 16:50, Josh Soza wrote: ..snip.. And another mail I sent to the list today, I pointed out the reason I didn't link tot he docs. I WANT people to BUY the books from Free BSD to help support the project. You can't possibly think that was wrong of

Re: Disk error messages (ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# xxxxxx)

2006-01-02 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:15:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, On my screen, there were messages like the followings comeing up. I have to reboot mutiple times to get it boot up normally. Does this mean I have to replace the disk which is a relatively new disk (1-2 years)?

Mounting SD card of Treo600 via USB

2006-01-02 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
I've been trying to find out if there is a way to mount my Treo 600's SD card using a USB cable. Most of what I seem to find from Google, etc seems to relate to *syncing* which I have no need/desire to do, just to mount the card, which I believe is formatted as FAT32. I'm using FreeBSD 5.4

what is with the instalation?! :(

2006-01-01 Thread artek j
i have problem with instalation to point 2.8 , when should start the instalation explode error : Undable to find /dev/ad2s3b in/dev abort instalation undable to create file system instalation aborted i have 3 partitions c:fat32 for windows primary d:fat32 for warning files

Re: Free BSD install tutorial I wrote

2006-01-01 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Allen wrote: I wrote this quite a while ago and I've posted it to the docs list before and it got a good repsonce, but I've seen a couple install questions on here so I'm going to link to it again for this list. I don't think there is an easier to follow installer help anywhere. Not

Samba system error 5 even with nt acl support = no

2005-12-26 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
OK, I had Samba working, upgraded to FreeBSD 6 (from 5.4) and mgetty stopped working, so I had to reinstall FreeBSD 5.4 again. Now I can't get Samba (smbd Version 2.2.12, via pkg_add) working and I can't figure out what I did differently this time. All my hosts are 192.168.x.x My smb.conf is

Re: Samba system error 5 even with nt acl support = no

2005-12-26 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
SOLVED On the XP machine: Control Panel Administrative Tools Local Security Policy Security Settings Local Policies Security Options Scroll to: Microsoft network client: Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers Double click Enable Reboot. You could do the same thing in

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:36:28AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to use an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB mouse to work. The OS

Re: umass detected, but da is never created

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:48:10AM +0100, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: I have this external harddisk kit, and when I plug it in, the system correctly recognizes it as a umass.. but afterwards, the da device is never created.. this is what I get from the console: umass0: vendor 0x05e3 USB

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:51:13AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? If you're referring to dot files, then the following will show them: ls -a If that is too tedious, then an alias in your shell's RC file can sort

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:29:53AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: - Original Message - From: Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 8:43 AM Subject: Re: USB mice On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:36:28AM -0600, Teilhard

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 04:01:00AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-12-25 09:13, Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:29:53AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:36:28AM -0600, Teilhard Knight

sysctl kern.cp_time: calculating output

2005-12-22 Thread Russell J. Wood
Hi all, I have a question regarding the output from sysctl kern.cp_time. I know that the output is in the form of: user nice sys interrupt idle and that the numbers are incremental, but what I don't know is what these numbers and increments mean. If someone could explain this, it is greatly

Re: Is MegaCameras.com still in business?

2005-12-21 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
On Wed, December 21, 2005 11:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw a posting dated Dec. 1st from Murray Haberman asking: “Is MegaCameras.com still in business?” I have a similar question/worry On Dec. 9th they charged my MasterCard $371.82 for my order and I have still to receive it, even

Re: C++ compile error

2005-12-16 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
On Fri, December 16, 2005 10:33 am, Nathan Vidican wrote: David Miao wrote: Dear list, I try to compile a hello world C++ program in FreeBSD 6.0, but get an error as below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cpp]% CC -o hello hello.C hello.C: In function `int main()': hello.C:5: error: `cout' undeclared

Re: Ebay Auction Win- Item 6574118600

2005-12-16 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
On Fri, December 16, 2005 2:18 pm, gwen wrote: * Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051215 23:51]: The mind boggles how you managed to screw up this email :) A great story from another SysAdmin friend of mine: Mojo_Jojo PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHY TAB-COMPLETION IS NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THING

Re: KDE 3.5 status?

2005-12-15 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
On Thu, December 15, 2005 10:12 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: Does anybody know where I can find the status of porting KDE 3.5 to FreeBSD? -- Kirk Strauser Perhaps here: http://freebsd.kde.org/ I suspect it's already building on FreeBSD, and may already be in the ports. Try updating your ports

Re: courier-authlib-0.58 dumps core at login

2005-12-13 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
On Sun, December 11, 2005 9:44 pm, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Hey folks. Is it me, or is the courier-authlib port the absolute worst thing to upgrade? It seems like *every* single time I try to upgrade this port, I wind up with nobody being able to log into my courier installation. Usually, it's

Re: courier-authlib-0.58 dumps core at login

2005-12-13 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
On Tue, December 13, 2005 11:44 am, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:17:16PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 12/11/05 09:44 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: These passwords do match, but the debug log shows a rejection. I use MySql for users and recently noted

Re: grep'ping the ps output....

2005-12-12 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
On Mon, December 12, 2005 11:04 am, Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, I am sure this is quite trivial, but... I have need to determine if an app (firefox, or anything really) is already running before I perform some action. So I grep the ps output. However sometimes (many times) that which I'm

Re: gnome2

2005-12-07 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
quote who=Paul Schmehl --On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 16:28:59 +0200 spen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have installed freebsd 6.0 STABLE in an ACER laptop recently. I would like to have gui, so I tried to install from the ports gnome2. I have *updated *my ports. I tried to run

Re: gnome2

2005-12-07 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
On Wed, December 7, 2005 12:21 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:13:45 -0500 Louis J. LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Paul Schmehl Edit /etc/ttys like this: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon xterm on secure And gnome will start when you boot

VLC: core dumped

2005-12-07 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Trying to run VLC after a portupgrade on FreeBSD 6 and I get this: VLC media player 0.8.4 Janus Segmentation fault (core dumped) Is there a way to find out what's causing it? EJC www.only7bucks.com ___

Re: use Java LDAP and MySql

2005-12-06 Thread Benjamin J Doherty
On Dec 5, 2005, at 7:14 AM, marc andela wrote: how can i use Java applications to store information in MySql database through LDAP? can i use sql statements through LDAP to make query in MySql? if all this can be possible please tell me what are the requeriments Marc: It's very possible

Uptimes, autoreboots, and package upgrades

2005-12-02 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
Hey folks. This is really just a question about admin practices and procedures. I have a 5.4_RELEASE system that I'll be re-installing (clean, on a new hard drive) with 6.0 some time in the next few months. Before I do, I'm interested in fine tuning my administrative ideology. I hear a lot of

6-RELEASE, calcru, FAQs and kern.timercounter.method

2005-12-02 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I've been getting the calcru: negative time message. After search the site I found the FAQ (5.18) that says to set this variable sysctl kern.timecounter.method=1. When I do that, I get sysctl: unknown old 'kern.timercounter.method'. What is the fix/search term for 6-release?? Thanks Jim

LDAP, NFS, and automount

2005-12-02 Thread Benjamin J Doherty
Friends: I want to put my user's home directories on separate servers/disks and mount them on multiple servers as my users' home directories. I'm using LDAP for authentication and name switching (NSS) already on FreeBSD 5.4. (One client is at 6.0.) I know this is discussed in countless

web based password control?

2005-12-02 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
Hey folks. This is probably going to meet with a good number of warnings against this course of action, but I'm looking for a web based password utility. I have a couple users that do not have access to set their passwords from outside my network (remote logins aren't permitted for most

calcru: runtime went backwards

2005-12-01 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I running 6-RELEASE as a guest under vmware 5.5 and I'm having problems with the clock going backwards. I'm getting the message (sample): calcru: runtime went backwards from 10542602 usec to 10542600 usec for pid 13924 (vmware-guestd) calcru: runtime went backwards from 11589627 usec to

Lets Exchange Links. megacameras.com now links to freebsd.org

2005-12-01 Thread Murray J. Haberman
Is megacameras.com still in business? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Setting up VLAN interfaces with Cisco gear... getting traffic on broadcast only...

2005-11-30 Thread Brian J. McGovern
All, I've got three Catalyst 6500s configured in a switching domain via fiber, with one hub 6500 connecting two remotes. Their port configurations are basically (the actual port number varies based on the device). interface Gigabit Ethernet 9/2 no ip address switchport

Update: Setting up VLAN interfaces with Cisco gear... getting traffic on broadcast only...

2005-11-30 Thread Brian J. McGovern
I hate to add to my own issue. I did some more playing and VLANs != 1 seem to work ok (typically in the 100-150 range). However, operating on VLAN 1 still seems to be an issue. -B All, I've got three Catalyst 6500s configured in a switching domain via fiber, with one hub

pausing boot process

2005-11-17 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I've started to get an error during the boot process that scrolls off the screen so rapidly that I don't have a change to read it. Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error is read-able?? Thanks for any hints. Jim Ballantine ___

Re: pausing boot process

2005-11-17 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Thanks, but I don't get to the boot prompt, it dumps core and then goes to reboot mode. -- In Response to your message - Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:28:05 -0500 To: 'J. W. Ballantine' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] g From: Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: How to redirect mail sent to root to external mailbox?

2005-11-14 Thread Mark J. Sommer
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans Nieser Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 6:55 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to redirect mail sent to root to external mailbox? Hi list, I operate several servers, one of

RE: How to redirect mail sent to root to external mailbox?

2005-11-14 Thread Mark J. Sommer
-Original Message- From: Greg Barniskis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 8:02 AM To: Mark J. Sommer Cc: 'Hans Nieser'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to redirect mail sent to root to external mailbox? Mark J. Sommer wrote

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-13 Thread J. Martin Petersen
in FreeBSD 5? On 11/12/05, J. Martin Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using powerd, it's working great. Any advice on usage? I tried it and got this error: # powerd -a minimum powerd: lookup freq: No such file or directory Have you loaded the cpufreq kernel module. I'm not sure

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-12 Thread J. Martin Petersen
Miles Keaton wrote: I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if anyone can explain (for dummies) how to use the new cpufreq + SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in FreeBSD 5? I'm

mergemaster and RELENG6

2005-11-11 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I'm trying to install RELEASE6 on a BSD machine, and the install fails in the mergemaster stage with: mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BIND.chroot.dist -p /var/tmp/temproot/var/named ./dev missing (created) ./etc missing (created) ./etc/namedb missing (created) ./etc/namedb/dynamic missing

Re: mergemaster and RELENG6

2005-11-11 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Thanks, my understanding was mergemaster before installworld. But that appears to be wrong. -- In Response to your message - Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:05:37 -0700 (MST) To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

NOPROFILE is deprecated in favor of NO_PROFILE

2005-11-08 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Hello, I just finished upgrading from FBSD 5.4 to 6.x stable and now if I want to upgrade any port I get the same warning all the time /usr/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk, line 36: warning: NOPROFILE is deprecated in favor of NO_PROFILE does anyone know on how to fix this? thank you. EJC

Re: NOPROFILE is deprecated in favor of NO_PROFILE

2005-11-08 Thread E. J. Cerejo
That worked thanks. --- Josh Tolbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:51:01PM -0300, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Hello, I just finished upgrading from FBSD 5.4 to 6.x stable and now if I want to upgrade any port I get the same warning all the time /usr/share/mk

5-STABLE to 6-RELEASE upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I'm trying to upgrade from 5-STABLE to 6-RELEASE, and I fail during the kernel install phase of the process. I deleleted the /usr/src tree and did a cvsup to get the new bits. I then ran a make world; make buildkernel; and then a make installkernel. This steps fails with: cd

Re: 5-STABLE to 6-RELEASE upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread J. W. Ballantine
message - Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:36:01 +0800 To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 5-STABLE to 6-RELEASE upgrade On 11/08/05 02:25 J. W. Ballantine said the following: and did a cvsup to get the new bits. I

Help with Apsfilter and HP 842c

2005-10-29 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 and my printer used to print perfectly until I did a fresh install because had to change hard drives, now I can't get my printer to print using apsfilter. Everytime I print the printer starts feeding the paper and to print and then it just hangs and sometimes it turns off.

Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1

2005-10-24 Thread Nick J. Date
Hiya! I've just upgraded my FreeBSD installation from 5.4-RELEASE to 6.0-RC1. With 5.4 I learnt that my sound card (SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit) wasn't supported by the drivers that come with FreeBSD, so I was using the free version of the Open Sound System (www.opensound.com) drivers. On

RE: Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1

2005-10-24 Thread Nick J. Date
Hi Andrew! Many thanks! I'm trying that now! Regards, Nick. -- Nick Date Bath, England, UK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew P. Sent: 24 October 2005 15:32 To: Nick J. Date Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re

RE: Help With Find Syntax

2005-10-14 Thread Mark J. Sommer
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Tomlinson Sent: 10/14/2005 12:54 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Help With Find Syntax I want to recursively search a directory and return files that end in .jpg or .gif but I can't seem to get

NFS hangs (client) when rebooted server tries to [re]mount filesystem

2005-10-13 Thread Brian J. McGovern
All, I'm seeing an odd problem while using a FreeBSD system as a Solaris jumpstart system. If I run a client box through the process, its fine the first time. However, if there is an error, or I'm testing, subsequent passes hang up right around the time it should be trying to do an NFS

Strange problem with MacOS 9 and isc-dhcpd

2005-10-13 Thread J. Seth Henry
I realize this is probably not really a FreeBSD question, but I was hoping someone had seen this before. I am running isc-dhcpd 3.0.1.r14_6 on a FreeBSD 4.11-REL machine. This box also serves as the primary gateway router and firewall (and general network services machine). All of my *nix

Apsfilter problem

2005-10-10 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Since my FBSD5.4 reinstallation I can't get my HP Deskjet 842c to print. I didn't have any problems with it before I configured it exactly the way it was before and now I start printing it starts feeding the first sheet and when it starts printing the first line it just shuts down my printer.

Re: Software to monitor RAID 5 Hardware on Dell Server.

2005-10-07 Thread J. Martin Petersen
Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, I had disturbed you all with some doubts regarding freebsd before. Now i have servers up and running. I am using the monitoring tool named nagios for checking the services run on the server. Now i am in need of a software or so to monitor the RAID hardware

Apsfilter FBSD 5.4

2005-10-05 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I could print perfectly using apsfilter before I did a clean FreeBSD instalation and now something is not right, when I go through the setup program and I finally test a page the sheet of paper gets fed and looks like it starts printing and then everything freezes on my printer or it completely

apsfilter and HP Deskjet 842c

2005-10-04 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I could print perfectly using apsfilter before I did a clean FreeBSD instalation and now something is not right, when I go through the setup program and I finally test a page the sheet of paper gets fed and looks like it starts printing and then everything freezes on my printer or it completely

http://www.freebsd.org

2005-10-02 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Did someone break apache on http://www.freebsd.org? Seems to reply to ping requests but the web page doesnt load. -Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Simple PAM authentication code?

2005-09-30 Thread Brian J. McGovern
Could someone point me at a short, straight forward bit of code that validates a given username and password via PAM? I've tried writing a short app to make sure PAM is working the way I want to locally, but no matter how good the info, I'm getting an authentication denied, so I know I'm missing

Console output disappears during startup/shutdown

2005-09-26 Thread Mark J. Sommer
I'm hoping someone can help me here. I've searched archives, but I haven't see anyone with this exact problem. I'm running 5.3 and for a very long time startup and shutdown were normal. Suddenly, it has changed so that as soon as it loads the kernel, the console output disappears. I've

Debugging Apache with mod_auth_pam2 on 5.4

2005-09-21 Thread Brian J. McGovern
All, I'm having a bit of an issue getting mod_auth_pam2 from the ports collection working with the apache2 port. I've installed the module, uncommented the config lines in httpd.conf, and set up a .htaccess file in the virtual server's top-level data directory... AuthName BXBLIT

JDK 1.5 on Freebsd - Best Method?

2005-09-14 Thread J French
I need to install JBoss for some development and want to use FreeBSD but the Java binary issue concerns me. Is the patchset at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html robust enough for production? How about using the java linux binary in linux compatibility mode? Any advice would

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2005-08-28 Thread Paul J Baptie
Have any of the programmers and other techies written or will write any books or literature that's for sale? I would like to buy 1 or 2 books for 6.0, and am wondering will any of the FreeBSD programmers write any books to sell for it, or who can I look to to release material I can buy to help

Re: cannot ssh to machine on lan when it has no internet connection

2005-08-26 Thread J. Johnston
Simon Morgan wrote: On 8/25/05, Ben Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if this will work or not but try setting up /etc/hosts to reflect your LAN. I had a friend who had issues when, even though he was connected to the Internet, he had DNS messed up on his FreeBSD system. I'm

Getting a Netgear WG511T recognized on 5.4/6.0...

2005-08-23 Thread Brian J. McGovern
I have a HP AMD64 laptop (Pavillion zv5000) with a built-in Broadcom wireless card that doesn't appear to be supported, so I picked up a WG511T, which claims to be supported by the ath man page. However, in recompiling the kernel with the ath driver and installing the card, I don't get the

Re: bootparamd doesn't allow parameters?

2005-08-22 Thread Brian J. McGovern
Dan, In the last episode (Aug 18), Brian J. McGovern said: I'm in the process of trying to set up a Solaris jumpstart server in a lab, and I decided for chuckles to do it with FreeBSD. The problem I'm running in to is that apparently, the Sun bootparamd allows you to pass

Re: bootparamd doesn't allow parameters?

2005-08-19 Thread Brian J. McGovern
Dan, Thanks. I'm out of the office today, but I'll give it a spin Monday and report. -brian --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In the last episode (Aug 18), Brian J. McGovern said: I'm in the process

bootparamd doesn't allow parameters?

2005-08-18 Thread Brian J. McGovern
All, I'm in the process of trying to set up a Solaris jumpstart server in a lab, and I decided for chuckles to do it with FreeBSD. The problem I'm running in to is that apparently, the Sun bootparamd allows you to pass parameters as fields, for instance, as a couple of sample

Re: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

2005-07-28 Thread J. Martin Petersen
Xu Qiang wrote: Hi, all: I am installing MySQL 4.1.13 into my machine. It has finished successfully. But before or after that, I need create some user account rather than root by the command groupadd mysql and useradd -g mysql mysql. However, these commands are not found in my FreeBSD 5.3

5.2.1 GEOM fails to create RAID disk after install

2005-07-23 Thread J- compucate
Would you be interested your Maxtor 60 you discussed on a newsgroup? Thanks, JJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Select Default Mirror (ports/pkg)

2005-07-22 Thread Christopher J. Umina
Hello all! Is there a way I can change the server that ports downloads distfiles/pkg_add downloads tbzs from by default from ftp.freebsd.org to ftp13.freebsd.org? Thank you in advance, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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