Re: Cups USB workaround was working but now fails

2006-08-05 Thread Apatewna
O/H Ian Moore έγραψε: It seems that cups now won't recognise the file: setting, yet previously it did. I checked back through my logs to see if a newer cups port had come out I'd inadvertently upgraded to it, but it seems that's not the case - it's still 1.2.0 Using the usb: URI always gives

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-23 Thread Apatewna
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: Forging ahead, I get ready to start playing the mounting game, but lo-and-behold, suddenly I have 4 disks whereas in windows I had two. Now I praise FreeBSD for it's superior intellect here, but now I have a problem. I want two

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 install CD causes immediate reboot

2007-01-28 Thread Apatewna
O/H Garrett Cooper έγραψε: Also just for the sake of the archives, Win95 ver. b (basically SP2) did have USB support but it really sucked; I couldn't the machine to recognize a number of USB devices with this version of 95. However, Win98 made a big difference in this arena since they started

Re: A VERY Strange Question.

2007-02-06 Thread Apatewna
O/H Grant Peel έγραψε: Hi all, SInce the inception of out company in 1998, we have been using FreeBSD exclusively, and will continue to use it and contribute where we can. Due to many client requests, we may be forced into offering a Microsoft Server Solution as well. I would like to discuss

Re: toggle between english and french (how?)

2007-02-08 Thread Apatewna
O/H Peter έγραψε: Darn. Now I see that these commands cannot be used via an xterm (remotely via SSH). Any ideas? I always change the locale settings in ~/.login_conf For example for the greek language I use : me:\ :charset=iso-8859-7:\ :lang=el_GR.UTF-8: -- RTFM and STFW before anything bad

Re: A VERY Strange Question.

2007-02-09 Thread Apatewna
O/H Grant Peel έγ�α�Ρ: Hello, I do use Webmin/Usermin for User front ends and Admin back ends, but I doubt these will come into play with MS. I prefer sticking my hands in the console rather than trusting a third party GUI to do the job for me. I've seen some horrors with webmin so I

Re: Portsnap and port versions

2007-02-10 Thread Apatewna
O/H Robert Inder έγραψε: when it had finished, I cd'd to the directory for portupgrade, and typed make and make install. Everything seemed to go smoothly, and portupgrade-2.1.3.3_1,2 was duly installed. During installation of portupgrade there is a choice between new 2.x version of cdb

Re: backup solution

2007-02-10 Thread Apatewna
O/H Dino Vliet έγραψε: Hi peeps, I'm busy preparing my via c3 system to utilize it as a backup file server. ...snip I will use the system then as a central node with rsync to do daily backups of my main data that is scattered around on different desktops on my lan. Are those

Re: Mail server recomendations

2007-02-14 Thread Apatewna
J65nko wrote: [big snip] I use qmail using a combination of setup instructions from various sites like http://freebsdrocks.net www.lifewithqmail.org and applied the combined patch from http://qmail.jms1.net/ I am happy so far. The main thing is to build something that you understand and

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-16 Thread Apatewna
Kevin Downey wrote: I'll second the qemu. And the speed (or lack thereof) is bearable if you get kqemu going as well. -- Regards, Eric I see. rdesktop would be great if I had windows installed anywhere :P Well, thanks everyone There is also www.win4bsd.com, although a commercial

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-19 Thread Apatewna
Peter, Oliver wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 09:35:30AM +0200, Apatewna wrote: ... There is also www.win4bsd.com, although a commercial application and still at its infancy (v1.1) it works quite well. ... it is only a nicer frontend to qemu, isn't it ? Yes it is and it uses kqemu also

Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

2007-02-19 Thread Apatewna
As far as I can tell, the problem with duplicate emails resides on how the list software is setup. I am a member of another list where each email sent out by the list software is stripped of all CCs and ReplyTOs. There is only a ReplyTo address in the form of [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Now, whenever

Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

2007-02-19 Thread Apatewna
Frank Staals wrote: Apatewna wrote: As far as I can tell, the problem with duplicate emails resides on how the list software is setup. I am a member of another list where each email sent out by the list software is stripped of all CCs and ReplyTOs. There is only a ReplyTo address in the form

Re: i can't start my ssl

2007-04-01 Thread Apatewna
O/H Robert Huff έγραψε: Frank writes: after i type apachectl startssl then it display : Syntax error on line 142 of /usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: SSLCertificateFile: file '/path/to/this/server.crt' does not exist or is empty i don't what's the problem it is. Try

Re: Printer issue

2007-04-01 Thread Apatewna
O/H Warren Block έγραψε: The LJ6L can't directly understand a PDF, and would print binary garbage. So it's doing what it can. If the test print worked, the next step would be to install ghostscript (/usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gpl) and update the printcap file to use the ifhp filter as

Re: time problems

2007-04-01 Thread Apatewna
O/H Garrett Cooper έγραψε: Some vendors are lame too and ship motherboards with dead batteries (or the voltage in them dissipates over time because of parasitic impedances in the area). -Garrett As a field service tech, I am advising all people on the list that there is a high probability

Re: Virtual Hosting Control Panel

2007-04-05 Thread Apatewna
O/H Marc G. Fournier έγραψε: Theres always raqdevil (www/raqdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/) although i'm afraid its BSD not GPL Licenced ;) First thing in favor of it, the BSD license ... second, developed under FreeBSD :) ...third it is abandoned http://www.freshports.org/www/raqdevil

Re: Virtual Hosting Control Panel

2007-04-05 Thread Apatewna
O/H Apatewna έγραψε: O/H Marc G. Fournier έγραψε: Theres always raqdevil (www/raqdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/) although i'm afraid its BSD not GPL Licenced ;) First thing in favor of it, the BSD license ... second, developed under FreeBSD :) ...third it is abandoned http

Re: mail server blues

2007-04-08 Thread Apatewna
O/H Eric έγραψε: qmail is horrible and outdated. heres a ton of reasons not to use it: snip But thats just my opinion! =) I use qmail and I am happy with it, following a composition of what suits me best from the following sites: a) http://www.freebsdrocks.net/ provides the basic

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-09 Thread Apatewna
O/H Garrett Cooper έγραψε: i would agree that the greatest stress on a disk might just be while its turning on from cold... but with the warranties that seagate is offering these days, i feel bold enough to power them off/on at least once a day. Well, I feel the same but only about WD's

Re: fetchmail checksum mismatch error

2007-04-11 Thread Apatewna
O/H Zbigniew Szalbot έγραψε: Dear all, I tried updating fetchmail today from 6.3.6 to 6.3.8. I used portupgrade to do it. However, I got an error message about checksum mismatch. I suspect it may have something to do with me stopping the upgrade process because while downloading the files, the

Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help?

2007-04-20 Thread Apatewna
O/H Adam J Richardson έγραψε: Hi all, Firstly, apologies for the length of this. It's my first mailing list posting, so I hope I'm not breaching any etiquette codes. Also I've only been using FreeBSD for a couple of years, so I'm still very new to the system. Maybe you should use FreeBSD

Re: Mount an iso image?

2007-04-23 Thread Apatewna
O/H Martin Tournoij έγραψε: cd9660 can only mount read-only: $ mount_cd9660 -o rw /dev/md0 /mnt/md0/ $ mount | grep cd9660 $ dev/md0 on /mnt/md0 (cd9660, local, read-only) Note that I made a typing error in my previous email, 'nvode' should be 'vnode' So what is wrong with: mount -o loop

Re: Mount an iso image?

2007-04-23 Thread Apatewna
O/H Kris Kennaway έγραψε: That is a Linux command? Kris Whoaaa, wasted bandwidth! You are right, I'll archive the correct commands for future reference. -- RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens _ Thanos Rizoulis Electronic Computing Systems

Re: Linksys wireless pcmcia card / FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE

2007-04-24 Thread Apatewna
O/H Spiros Papadopoulos έγραψε: Hi, I am running FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE and I have the above card in my DELL's latitude c810 cardbus. If the card is not directly supported you can always try ndisgen

Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?

2007-05-08 Thread Apatewna
O/H Jerry McAllister έγραψε: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 07:09:16PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Friday 04 May 2007 16:01:38 Jeff Palmer wrote: At 03:26 PM 5/4/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how did you get around this

Re: startup scripts not working

2007-05-14 Thread Apatewna
O/H Howard Goldstein έγραψε: None of the scripts work, they show the same behavior, and i ran them as root. I don't have any of those installed but most of the local rc.d scripts need an enable flag in /etc/rc.conf . Take a look at your rc.d scripts and see if they need them to. You can

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-10 Thread Apatewna
The only real drawback I see in sysinstall is that at several stages you cannot perceive what the previous part was and what the next step is. There are times that you have to exit in order to continue. Maybe an overall progress bar in plain text (eg Welcome - Select disk - Select partitions