Rem Roberti wrote:
I just installed FreeBSD 7.2 on a new box and am having trouble getting
either fetchmail or getmail to talk to the ISP. Is this a question that
can can be answered here, or is there another more appropriate forum. I
thought it best to ask that question first before going any
Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:43:17 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:
Been using the same serial mouse since release 7.0 through 7.1 and 7.2.
Just installed release 8.0 and the rc.conf statements
dont work any longer.
# serial port radioshack 2 button mouse
moused_port="/dev/cuad0"
m
Been using the same serial mouse since release 7.0 through 7.1 and 7.2.
Just installed release 8.0 and the rc.conf statements
dont work any longer.
# serial port radioshack 2 button mouse
moused_port="/dev/cuad0"
moused_type="intellimouse"
moused_enable="YES"
Nothing has changed on the box hard
Samuel Martín Moro wrote:
In fact, we provide the servers and the keys.
So we're sure everything will work.
And also, our install CD is already able to create this kind of USB stick.
I am just curious.
What manufacture / model and GB size of USB stick are you using?
When you plug the USB stick
Samuel Martín Moro wrote:
Hello
I'm having some troubles, trying to create bootable USB keys.
I found (freebsd-hackers ML archives) a script, supposed to create the
bootable image from my iso file.
But, it still don't boot... (I may do it wrong)
In details:
-We distribute a FreeBSD (4.7, 5.4, 6
Randi Harper wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <
lenzi.ser...@gmail.com> wrote:
Em Qui, 2009-07-23 às 12:52 +0800, Fbsd1 escreveu:
Hello
I found here that some bios does have problem with booting
from partitions they do not know
So first I initiali
Have problem with being able to boot off an new 8GB USB Flash Memory
stick. When I load the 8.0 disc1.iso to an 2GB USB Flash Memory stick it
will boot fine. But when I do the same thing to a new 8GB USB Flash
Memory stick it’s not recognized as bootable. I can access the installed
partitions m
Randi Harper wrote:
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Fbsd1 wrote:
Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to
download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another
method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads faster. dd does no
compression
Have problem with being able to boot off an new 8GB USB Flash Memory
stick. When I load the 8.0 disc1.iso to an 2GB USB Flash Memory stick it
will boot fine. But when I do the same thing to the new 8GB USB Flash
Memory stick it’s not recognized as bootable. I can access the installed
partitions
Fbsd1 wrote:
dd if=8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 worked
I used my laptop to boot from the usb memstick. The 8.0 sysinstall
started right up but it has problems. In this test i am booting off a
2gb usb memstick containing the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img and
installing on a
Randi Harper wrote:
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Fbsd1 wrote:
Randi Harper wrote:
On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 wrote:
What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img?
What raw size memstick is needed?
Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk?
Sigh. Reply-to-all fail
Randi Harper wrote:
On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 wrote:
What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img?
What raw size memstick is needed?
Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk?
Sigh. Reply-to-all fail. Resending.
It's all in the email about the 8.0 BETA(s). Use
... or you could just download an official image instead of going to all
of that trouble. Check the FTP site, there's a memstick.img if you're
down for using with 8 instead of 7. There are currently three PRs about
this, and I recently took ownership of them. Filing duplicate bug
reports does
Mark Wallbank wrote:
OK I know this has probably been done to death by know and I keep
hitting the same problems with the methods I have tried to find on
google and I know I could just sacrifice a laptop and do a build to
create the image or do a net (pxe) install from another NIX serverbut
it do
Al Plant wrote:
Aloha Gurus.
All the gogle-ing I did does not give a current status on or how-to on
installing FreeBSD 7.2 on a flash stick on one slice with the default
partions. I want to boot from it on a mini lap top ( no CD ) and use it
like the hd inside.
I see plenty of how-to's on
Eric Hsieh wrote:
hello, this is my first time to ask a help from FreeBSD.
I have a question about installing FreeBSD on USB stick.
There are so many informations about how to install FreeBSD on USB
stick from Internet, but I can not find out any information about
follow :
first, if i install Fre
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
ignore errors about package can't be deleted because X, Y or Z
requires it. it's exactly what you want.
pkg_delete `cat /tmp/pkglist` gives error 'no such package `cat
/tmp/pkglist` installed
for sure you used ' instead of `
Yet that was the error. I did not kno
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Hello list.
I am trying to clean up a system with a LOT of cruft. Is there some
argument I could pass to pkg_deinstall that would result in "delete
all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z" (and obviously their
dependancies)?
just do
pkg_info |cut -f 1 -d " " >/tmp
Been unable to purchase karaoke of rock and roll greats like "AC/DC, THE
ROLLING STONES, THE DOORS, LED ZEPPELIN". Looking for advice on software
that will allow me to edit out the singing voice tracks from a mp3 file
and write the resulting music as a avi file so I can have the song words
show
Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 22 May 2009 23:53:09 +0200 (CEST), Ronny Mandal
wrote:
I'm experiencing problems when attempting to install Win4BSD 1.1. I've
downloaded the most recent .tbz of W4B, it installs but fails while
building kqemu.
You downloaded sources manually? Why not use the ports
Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 22 May 2009 23:53:09 +0200 (CEST), Ronny Mandal
wrote:
I'm experiencing problems when attempting to install Win4BSD 1.1. I've
downloaded the most recent .tbz of W4B, it installs but fails while
building kqemu.
You downloaded sources manually? Why not use the ports
Ltcddata wrote:
On Mon, 18 May 2009 20:22:34 +0800
Fbsd1 wrote:
In 7.1 and previous pkg_add -r apache fetched apache13.
Now in release 7.2 pkg_add -r apache installs apache22.
Looks like someone made apache22 the default pkg and did not
point this out in the release notes or bother to
In 7.1 and previous pkg_add -r apache fetched apache13.
Now in release 7.2 pkg_add -r apache installs apache22.
Looks like someone made apache22 the default pkg and did not
point this out in the release notes or bother to create a
named package for apace13 in the Latest directory.
Is apache13
Running 7.1 and trying to do clean install of 7.2. Downloaded both disc1
and bootonly iso files because the 7.2 release announcement says this.
Note: late in the testing cycle it was discovered some machines do not
recognize
the i386 disc1 as bootable (they just fall through to booting off th
How can i just download the source for sysinstall?
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Annelise Anderson wrote:
I am trying to use fetchmail on FreeBSD but get the message:
fetchmail: SMTP< 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address
owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org does not resolve
I can send mail out from the box but can't fetch mail.
Annelise
Paul Halliday wrote:
I am following the instructions on this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/pppoe.html
I had initially thought it was a problem with the modem so I had a
technician come in to take a look; when hooked up to his windows
laptop:
1) He had to assign the interf
Eugene L. wrote:
Hello everyone, I have a FreeBSD 7.1-Release (generic kernel), and I am
trying to make splash screen feature work properly, so I followed the
procedure described in handbook and the splash screen actually loads,
except the black is now white, red is violet, etc.
So all the co
APseudoUtopia wrote:
My FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 system has gone down a few times in the last
two days. I'm trying to figure out why, but there is nothing in
/var/log/messages or dmesg about the incident.
Here's the output from the `last` command:
User ttyp01.2.3.4Tue Apr 14 19:02 s
Ricardo Jesus wrote:
Fbsd1 wrote:
I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD
containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice.
What is the mount command to use?
Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1
slices on that HD
I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD
containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice.
What is the mount command to use?
Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1
slices on that HD.
Tim Judd wrote:
I'm getting ZERO feedback when I install the xorg metaport, updated
ports tree today.
# cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg
# make install
#
So what am i missing?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-install.html
tells me to install this port.
I even deleted /var/db/pkg/* an
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window
manager.
Here are the major problems with XFCE4 4.6:
* < 20% probability of starting X without crashing and locking
computer
* 20-25 minutes to start X (was about 1 under XFCE4 4.4)
* 0% chance of shutti
Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:16:38 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:
I know i can mount fat32 partition using mount_msdos command. But my
msdos fat32 partition is a bad disk with corrupted fat table.
Question is can i use freebsd to recover data from this msdos fAT32 disk
Oh yes, you can
Fbsd1 wrote:
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Fbsd1 wrote:
In 7.1 phpmyadmin now drops you into a logon screen.
How do I stop this function and always go to main menu screen?
That's nothing to do with the FreeBSD version -- phpMyAdmin works the
same on any platform.
To make phpMyAdmin auto-login
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Fbsd1 wrote:
In 7.1 phpmyadmin now drops you into a logon screen.
How do I stop this function and always go to main menu screen?
That's nothing to do with the FreeBSD version -- phpMyAdmin works the
same on any platform.
To make phpMyAdmin auto-login to a DB, you
In 7.1 phpmyadmin now drops you into a logon screen.
How do I stop this function and always go to main menu screen?
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Peter wrote:
Fbsd1 wrote:
Turn off all options accept Apache module
===> php5-5.2.9 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.62 - found
===> php5-5.2.9 depends on executable: pkg-config - found
===> php5-5.2.9 depends on shared library: xml2.5 - found
===> Configuring fo
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
Your problem is not xfce but xorg. It went through massive changes in
7.1 and it's now mandatory to have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf. You have to add
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "Off" statement as last line in "ServerLayout"
section. Doing console command Xorg -config /etc/X11/xorg.
Turn off all options accept Apache module
===> php5-5.2.9 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.62 - found
===> php5-5.2.9 depends on executable: pkg-config - found
===> php5-5.2.9 depends on shared library: xml2.5 - found
===> Configuring for php5-5.2.9
cannot create /usr/ports/lang/
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
I went through pkg_rmleaves and deleted xfce and then everything it
exposed, then re-installed using portinstall -R
This installed 32 packages when I had only deleted 31, so something
got installed that wasn't previously.
Unfortunately, this still didn't fix the problems.
Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Fbsd1 :
Having problems installing php5 in 7.1 so tried 8.0 and see that in
release 8.0 php5 in defaulting to apache 22 when apache interface is
selected from the make config menu. The config menu should give option
to select apache 13 or apache 22 not force
Having problems installing php5 in 7.1 so tried 8.0 and see that in
release 8.0 php5 in defaulting to apache 22 when apache interface is
selected from the make config menu. The config menu should give option
to select apache 13 or apache 22 not force apache 22 on the user
community. Is the main
When doing a pkg_add for autoconf262 it does not do auto package add for
its dependents like other packages do. Some thing is wrong with the
autoconf262 package on 7.1.
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Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
"Jean-Paul Natola" wrote:
Ok so I left the machine running over the weekend to install KDE,
And when I got in this morning it said that my disk was out of space-
I loaded nothing but the basic freebsd os and nothing other than kde
(granted its only a 10 gig drive) but
What is /etc/wall_cmos_clock used for and how is it created?
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bsdstats is now in the base system.
Have bsdstats_enable="YES" is rc.conf
Worked this way in 7.0.
What am I missing here???
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Roland Smith wrote:
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:00:27PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:
I use the dos2unix console command all the time. I am tried to typing in
that long name. I tried to do a hard link on it.
ln /usr/local/bin/dos2unix /usr/local/bin/d2u
This command is accepted without error, but when it
I use the dos2unix console command all the time. I am tried to typing in
that long name. I tried to do a hard link on it.
ln /usr/local/bin/dos2unix /usr/local/bin/d2u
This command is accepted without error, but when it execute it
d2u .txt
I get message ==oops you renamed me using unix2dos in
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
Fbsd1 wrote:
I am looking for software like portmanager/portmaster but works on the
package system instead of the port system. Is there such am
application available?
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Just installed Xorg package from parkages-current hoping to get
environment containing all the fixes. Still have the no mouse curser
movement on xfce desktop.
Adding
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "Off"
statement to ServerLayout section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
got the mouse curser moving.
But I still g
I am looking for software like portmanager/portmaster but works on the
package system instead of the port system. Is there such am application
available?
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When is the the X-Org mega package going to be recreated so it contains
all the fixes caused by 7.1 release as detailed in /usr/ports/UPDATEING?
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Steve Franks wrote:
I've tried several. I have a need of this - anyone have one that
works with our USB stack?
Thanks,
Steve
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Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
Em Sex, 2009-02-20 às 20:51 +, Formula 1 escreveu:
Is there going to be a possibility for FreeBSD, in the future or now, that
there will be a release of it that allows for install and running of the
operating system off of a USB memory stick?
I have it r
Formula 1 wrote:
Is there going to be a possibility for FreeBSD, in the future or now, that
there will be a release of it that allows for install and running of the
operating system off of a USB memory stick?
In 7.1 I installed from cdrom cd1 to USB memory stick using the
sysinstall util
Is there a differences between a usb external hard drive
and a usb flash drive boot loader pgm?
When i plug a usb flash drive in FreeBSD handles it
just like a internal IDE hard drive.
To make a hard drive bootable you have to write the boot loader pgm to
the disk. Does the ide hard drive boot l
I have php code on home page to count how many times it is accessed from
the internet. Problem is pages deeper in website can jump back direct to
home page and this again gets counted.
Is there any way to give the php counter routine intelligent so it will
bypass bumping the counter on accesse
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Fbsd1 wrote:
I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju.
The company is now out of business.
It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick.
I want to find an bio's update that adds booting from usb memory stick.
I k
How do I get the system to reread /etc/newsyslog.conf file with out
rebooting the system?
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patrick wrote:
(Sorry for the repost, but in retrospect, I thought a subject
detailing the actual problem would garner more responses.)
Hi, I just got a new Dell Inspiron 530s, and am having some trouble
getting FreeBSD 7.1 installed on it. When I boot up from the CD, after
it detects all of the
matt donovan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Fbsd1 <mailto:fb...@a1poweruser.com>> wrote:
I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju.
The company is now out of business.
It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory st
I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju.
The company is now out of business.
It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick.
I want to find an bio's update that adds booting from usb memory stick.
I know the desktop uses AWARD bio's chip and the bio's id
Brian McCann wrote:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian McCann wrote:
Well this just got a LOT more frustrating and interesting. I made a
stick following those directions using a new stick...worked fine,
booted off of it...did some work on it...somehow the filesystem got
very corrupted in o
Pieter Donche wrote:
On FreeBSD 7, out of the box, one can send mail to internet destinations
and can send mail locally from one user to another user on the same
FreeeBSD machine
But it can't receive mail from internet as it appears ..
A sendmail is running
freebsd7box># ps -jaxw | grep sendmai
Masoom Shaikh wrote:
hello list,
in my previous FBSD installations i always had a local copy of handbook
never bothered how it got there, until now. i lost my installation due to
some good ups. reinstalled minimal 7.0 and build installed kernel & world
uname -a
FreeBSD raptor 7.1-PRERELEASE Fre
I know i can mount fat32 partition using mount_msdos command. But my
msdos fat32 partition is a bad disk with corrupted fat table.
Question is can i use freebsd to recover data from this msdos fAT32 disk
What tools do you suggest to use?
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Richard Yang wrote:
hi,
i am trying to use freebsd as my home network gateway to the internet.
any good reference i should know besides what's in the handbook?
thanks
rich
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Gabe wrote:
Its a conspiracy. Is it safe to say that it is in fact gmail related?
-Original Message-
From: Odhiambo Washington
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:41 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Double Posts
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 1
Glen Barber wrote:
Gary Hartl said:
I'm considering just wiping the system clean and starting from scratch to
say either 6.4-release or 7.0 release.
For what it's worth, I've (so far) had 50% luck with 7.1. My home server runs nothing special, mostly development stuff and the occasional X se
G magicman wrote:
And incomplete yes i agree that the doc does need to be updated and examples
(more) need to be added.
--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Dean Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Dean Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPFilter section in Handbook needs updating
To: freebsd-questions@fr
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So on the Limewire "Advanced -> Firewall" config page enter a port
number, such as 6346 in both the "Listen on Port" and the "Manual Port
Forward" boxes.
Then after your NAT rule in pf.conf enter something like the following:
rdr on $ExtIF proto tcp from any to any
Bernt Hansson wrote:
Fbsd1 said the following on 2008-11-28 07:24:
Bernt Hansson wrote:
Fbsd1 said the following on 2008-11-27 09:56:
What pf or ipf firewall keep-state rules needed to allow p2p
application such as limewire through? Using same firewall rules as
in handbook example.
Put
APseudoUtopia wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Fbsd1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What pf or ipf firewall keep-state rules needed to allow p2p application
such as limewire through? Using same firewall rules as in handbook example.
Well, what port does limewire use? You need to figu
Bernt Hansson wrote:
Fbsd1 said the following on 2008-11-27 09:56:
What pf or ipf firewall keep-state rules needed to allow p2p
application such as limewire through? Using same firewall rules as in
handbook example.
Put this in your /etc/ipnat.rules
rdr rl0 0.0.0.0/0 port port# -> inter
Andrew D wrote:
Fbsd1 wrote:
Tried to pkg_add -r limewire. Dependant diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02.tbz
File unavailable. The package diablo-jdk is not on 7.0 or 7.1 pkg
server.
Looking up diablo-jdk on the ports website, the long description
points to here http://www.freebsdfoundation.org
Tried to pkg_add -r limewire. Dependant diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02.tbz File
unavailable. The package diablo-jdk is not on 7.0 or 7.1 pkg server.
Looking up diablo-jdk on the ports website, the long description points
to here http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml
How am i to get
What pf or ipf firewall keep-state rules needed to allow p2p application
such as limewire through? Using same firewall rules as in handbook example.
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dick hoogendijk wrote:
My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing
application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share files,
usually music, often copyrighted, over the internet. It is one of the
fastest, most effective ways to spread viruses, trojans, spywa
These applications have predefined ports they use to start up the
bi-directional packet conversation. But them unsolicited packeted come
in from other pc nodes to share data using a wide range of high port
numbers. IPFW, IPF, and PF don't seem to have a rule option to allow
packs in/out based o
Mike Price wrote:
How do I permanently set the numerical ip in dmesg?
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If you mean the ip
Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
Hi All,
I have just subscribed to freebsd-questions and I have a question about ppp
-nat.
I have 2 computers. One is running FreeBSD-7.0R, the other is running WinXP.
The host running FBSD7.0R has been connecting to the outside world using
user-ppp without any prob
Trying to use diff program to create a patch.
Output gos to console and does not create the patch file.
If it do diff original updated > patch.file
The patch.file does not look like a normal patch file.
What am I doing wrong here?
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Vinny wrote:
Hi,
A friend of mine is trying out FreeBSD and ran into
a booting problem. Here is his message:
"Well, that's discouraging.
I have put together an old PII 400 with three 20GB drives and a CDROM
that I'd like to run BSD on. Half a GB of RAM I figured would be
respectable.
Do
In the past (alt.binaries.warez) contained monthly posts of a list of
Free usenet nntp servers. I dont have access to a nntp server so I can't
search foe the list. Does any one here know of a Free usenet nntp server
I can access?
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Greg Larkin wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Fbsd1 wrote:
On the developers website there is a patch i want to apply
http://developer.berlios.de/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=2283&group_id=2663
[ Patch #2283 ] Add a variable to run shutdown commands without r
On the developers website there is a patch i want to apply
http://developer.berlios.de/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=2283&group_id=2663
[ Patch #2283 ] Add a variable to run shutdown commands without root pass.
How can i get "make install" to apply this patch while compiling the port?
This
I picked up this jpg of Beastie over 10 years ago. Tried using
it for a gdm logon screen background, but it's really light.
http://www.a1poweruser.com/beastie.JPG
Does any one know where i can get a darker version of this image?
I tried to use gimp to make the image darker, but had no
Bernt Hansson wrote:
Hello list
When exiting xfce to return to my console, xfce put my graphicscard in
an unusable state i.e no picture and my monitors led blinks slowly as if
it where in powersave/suspend mode. This do not happen with fluxbox,
windowmaker or twm. Commenting out the "Virtual" di
Daniel Bye wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:40:29PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:
Running a release 7.0 Xorg / Gdm / Xfce Desktop world. Would like to go
from powering on the PC directly to the Gdm login screen. Don't want the
users seeing all those boot message roll by.
Can this be
I picked up this attached jpg of beastie over 10 years ago. Tried using
it for a gdm logon screen background, but it's really light.
Does any one know where i can get a darker version of the image?
Or if you have a beastie background image you would care to share.
I sure appreciate you help. T
Running a release 7.0 Xorg / Gdm / Xfce Desktop world. Would like to go
from powering on the PC directly to the Gdm login screen. Don't want the
users seeing all those boot message roll by.
Can this be done?
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My /etc/ttys looks like this
ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
#ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure
#ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
The "init: getty repeatin
Next question is are the xdm
configuration files suppose to work as delivered by the port install AS IS?
As a default config demo?
Yes. When I said 'range', I did mean range. Not 2 possibilities. Missing
libraries, tainted environment, typos, tied up resources, tight security
settings, existi
Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 12:09:01 Fbsd1 wrote:
Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 11:35:41 Fbsd1 wrote:
Still getting error msg
init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30
second
You first need to get rid of that. xdm can't open /dev/ttyv8 while
Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 11:35:41 Fbsd1 wrote:
Still getting error msg
init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 second
You first need to get rid of that. xdm can't open /dev/ttyv8 while getty is
hammering at it.
I turned that off all ready b
Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 00:56:29 Fbsd1 wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:21:38 +0800, Fbsd1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also created the .xsessions file in the users home directory.
The file is ~/.xsession, without an s at the end. I assume
that csh is your
Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:21:38 +0800, Fbsd1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also created the .xsessions file in the users home directory.
The file is ~/.xsession, without an s at the end. I assume
that csh is your login shell. Put these in your ~/.xsession:
#!/b
logging in at command line works and startx works. Now want to use x11
xdm to control logins for virtual terminals 9+
Followed handbook instructions 5.6.2 Using XDM doing this
ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
Then kill -HUP 1 to reread the file.
Also created the .xsess
James Williams wrote:
Hello List,
[On FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2, i386.]
1) How can I change the number of rowsxcols of the console? I'd like
to use the maximum rows/cols available for the 1440x900 screen.
2) How can these settings be made default (takes effect at boot)?
IOW, what is the equivalent of
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