Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 08:39:32AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:45:33 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. On reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have done an excellent

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of months ago after a few

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:09:52AM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:39:38AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, so that this does the same thing on

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:25:24PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:39:38AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be

Re: Clicking on Terminal crashes XFCE4

2009-03-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:05:05AM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Jack L. wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Manish Jain wrote: I am Gnome user just trying out xfce for fun. I did a 'make install

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-20 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:14:32AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:21:05PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: The last couple of days I've been running portupgrade -av and am to the point where I'd like

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:21:05PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: The last couple of days I've been running portupgrade -av and am to the point where I'd like to move onto something else, but there is one package that won't upgrade . . . xorg-server. As you can see below, it claims that there is a

Re: checknewver.sh

2009-03-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:59:13PM +0200, Peter Portin wrote: Tiss error is appears on two different computers running 6.4and 7.1. What is wrong? [r...@fritjof /usr/ports/Tools/scripts]# ./checknewver.sh ERROR: Couldn't find Makefile here. [r...@fritjof /usr/ports/Tools/scripts]#

Re: Xorg - Resolution issues

2009-03-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:02:35AM -0400, Francis Dub wrote: Martin Turgeon a écrit : Francis Dubé a écrit : Francis Dubé wrote : Hi everyone, I got this TV : http://www.samsung.com/ca/consumer/detail/spec.do?group=tvtype=tvsubtype=lcdmodel_cd=LN40A330J1DXZCfullspec=F I'm trying

Re: Linux Compatability

2009-03-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:14:59PM +0100, rasz wrote: hi i have 2 distinct questions, and first is, i installed a linux app (binaries) and it failed when run complaining that it needs a CPU with SSE instuctions enabled. does anyone know what this is and related too? SSE is an Intel

Re: 7.1 64 bit

2009-03-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:25:34AM -0700, Gal Lis wrote: Hello, I have tried installing 7.1 64 bit onto a Dell M600 in an M1000E enclosure for a client, and the 7.1 disk does not boot. Is there anything you can recommend? I have installed 6.4 32 bit onto it with no issues. Thank you.

Re: portupgrade question (failed updates)

2009-03-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:24:10PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: What do we do about packages that fail to update? This is my first time running portupgrade, and am unsure what to think about the ones where there is a configure error or uknown build error or install error FYI -- I followed

Re: 7.1 64 bit

2009-03-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 04:08:25PM -0700, Gal Lis wrote: Hi Frank and Glen, I tried both disks on my workstation, and 6.4 started up, but there was nothing from 7.1, so maybe my copy is bad. I burned it using imgburn, and i also have magiciso. How can I check to make

Re: the pause that removes

2009-03-16 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:37:13PM -0700, prad wrote: one of the neat things i've found about freebsd vs linux is the 'instantaneous' rm. when you remove a large file or a substantial directory, freebsd does it right away ard you get your prompt back, while with every linux i've tried, you

Re: Inetd and multiple IP addresses

2009-03-16 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 03:38:05AM +0100, skx wrote: I have inetd configured to open a listening port for leafnode nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/leafnode but this opens the port on all IP addresses associated with this machine. I would like to choose only

Re: Portinstall insists on rebuilding openldap client

2009-03-16 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 01:12:56PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I was trying to install samba and it keeps wanting to build the openldap client package that I already have installed. I really don't want to mess with that as it is also supporting other packages for the mail system. Why

Re: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:34:36PM -0400, David Banning wrote: Here is the php line that gives the error; cat start_text | sed s/--maintext--/$test/ endtext give error; sed: 1: s/--maintext--/ Comment ...: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern where $test contains customer

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-10 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:31:41AM +, Saifi Khan wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Takashi Inoue wrote: Hi, i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a laptop model (available in market)

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 02:23:52PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi Frank, Hi Bertram, Am Donnerstag, 05. Mär 2009, 04:15:05 + schrieb Frank Shute: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:08:03PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: from man sh: Invocation [...] the shell inspects

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 06:11:18PM -0800, Peter Steele wrote: I first wondered why none of my commands in /etc/profile and ~/.profile got executed. Finally, I modified /usr/src/bin/sh/main.c to trace what files are read, recompiled the sh command and: the only file that is executed is

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:08:03PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, from man sh: Invocation [...] When first starting, the shell inspects argument 0, and if it begins with a dash (`-'), the shell is also consid- ered a login shell. This is normally done

Re: bsdstats not working in 7.1

2009-03-03 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 02:15:03PM -0900, Mel wrote: On Sunday 01 March 2009 06:59:35 Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:20:21PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: bsdstats is now in the base system. On what? In PC-BSD since forever, maybe OP is confuzzled a bit ;) Ah! That confuzzled

Re: Cron Not Sending Mail

2009-03-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:24:47PM -0500, APseudoUtopia wrote: Cron is not sending output as emails. I noticed this when I stopped seeing the output of a backup script in my daily email. I thought there was a problem with the backup script - but no, it's cron not sending the emails. I had

Re: unhappy XOrg upgrade ate the linux version of libuuid.so.1

2009-03-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:21:21PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: There has always been a /usr/ports/UPDATING atleast as far back as 6.0 is when I noticed itbut that's when I started using FreeBSD Well, I'll be d###'ed. So there is. Makes sense, I guess. Wonder how many other UPDATING's

Re: bsdstats not working in 7.1

2009-03-01 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:20:21PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: bsdstats is now in the base system. On what? Have bsdstats_enable=YES is rc.conf Worked this way in 7.0. What am I missing here??? $ pkg_info -D bsdstats* Still in a port (sysutils/bsdstats) on: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64 Regards,

Re: Root shell

2009-03-01 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:50:29PM +0100, Sniper wrote: Hi! I heard that changing root shell to bash is not good idea, also programing in any C shell not applicable. So which shell is the most appropriate for root user ? I changed my root shell to pdksh with no ill-effects. I just copied

Re: Cron Not Sending Mail

2009-03-01 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:24:47PM -0500, APseudoUtopia wrote: Cron is not sending output as emails. I noticed this when I stopped seeing the output of a backup script in my daily email. I thought there was a problem with the backup script - but no, it's cron not sending the emails. I had

Re: Rsync | Push script

2009-02-26 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:40:21PM +0100, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Just having made a backup script that should take care of nocturnal backup of my mySQL data from one server to my backup server. cd /backup DATE=`date +%d%m%y` DIR=backup.$DATE /letc/rc.d/mysql-server stop rsync

Re: exporting http proxy

2009-02-26 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:30:08PM +0800, GrimJow Espada wrote: I tried the setenv, it doesnt give any error but when i try to browse using links , error was connection refused, i tried wget www.freebsd.org and it was able to grab On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Wojciech Puchar

Re: Top returning 0.0% cpu usage

2009-02-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:21:28PM -0800, mojo fms wrote: last pid: 11406; load averages: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00 up 2+20:54:15 15:36:35 23 processes: 1 running, 22 sleeping CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle That is what it is

Re: OT: The official stool for FreeBSD users?

2009-02-23 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:18:16PM -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/07/i-dont-wanna-grow-up-im-a-big-kid-now/ I'd describe it, but I don't want to spoil the surprise. Enjoy. I was thinking of stool in the medical sense shudder I wondered for a minute

Re: w(5) shows non-existent or lost process?

2009-02-21 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:54:47PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:02:12AM -0600, Randy Belk wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: The who (or w, or finger) command shows that I'm still logged into ttyp5, even

Re: Top returning 0.0% cpu usage

2009-02-21 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:07:54PM -0800, mojo fms wrote: What would cause top to report back 0.0% cpu usage across the top row? It shows the minmal adverage and max correctly and seems to show the correct amount for the processes. How about showing us the lines of top that seem to be a

Re: broken ports

2009-02-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:30:44AM +, David Collins wrote: What does: $ ldconfig -r | grep gcc_s give you? viper:~$ ldconfig -r | grep gcc_s 247:-lgcc_s.1 = /usr/local/lib/gcc-4.2.5/libgcc_s.so.1 On my FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64: $ cc -v Using built-in specs.

Re: broken ports

2009-02-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:08:28AM +, David Collins wrote: I think the problem is that somebody has installed a compiler out of ports on your machine it's associated libraries. See what cc -v says. My cc is exactly the same as yours viper:~$ cc -v Using built-in specs. Target:

Re: broken ports

2009-02-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:52:58PM +, David Collins wrote: Then you should be able to build rtorrent. Then what I'd do is deinstall gcc42: # pkg_deinstall -f gcc-4.2.5_20080702 Comment out the CC line in /etc/make.conf run ldconfig: # /etc/rc.d/ldconfig start and

Re: broken ports

2009-02-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 04:16:53PM +, David Collins wrote: How did you uninstall that port after which everything fails at the configure stage? Which port was it? It was rtorrent that I uninstalled, I used make deinstall Check a couple of things: $ which c++ and: $

Re: broken ports

2009-02-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:24:52PM +, David Collins wrote: I'm wondering whether your use of sudo is mucking things up and it's a permissions problem. i.e: it's running make OK but freaking out when it tries to invoke the compiler in the config stuff. I always build my ports using

Re: broken ports

2009-02-06 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:18:52AM +, David Collins wrote: Sorry, forgot about that. Looking at it again I am not sure this is a ports thing, and more of an issue with the compiling tool chain. viper:/usr/ports/net-p2p/rtorrent$ sudo make === Vulnerability check disabled, database

Re: problems building Parse::RecDescent

2009-02-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 09:20:54PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: I'm trying to build p5-Apache-MP3-4.00 from ports. I had it installed and working, but it recently stopped working so I'm rebuilding it. Unfortunately I'm having build problems. === Building for p5-Ogg-Vorbis-Header-0.03_1

Re: printf and utf-8

2009-01-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:05:28AM +0100, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: As far as I can see, printf is not calculating strings lengths correctly when using utf-8 encoding. Either that, or I'm using byte count,

Re: portupgrade dies during upgrade of x11

2009-01-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:48:58AM +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, During an upgrade of my ports involving x11 portupgrade dies (FreeBSD 7.1, AMD64) Here's what I did: After cvsup, make fetchindex, I did a pkgdb -F and then portupgrade -rf libxcb as per UPDATING of 20090123. Next

Re: jdk16

2009-01-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:53:31PM -0800, Brian McQueen wrote: I can't seem to find the files listed in the jdk16 port. What are folks doing to get java going? The urls listed in the port are not right, so the manual download step does not work. I built jdk16 a few months ago the urls were

Re: dumb how to clear scroll-back buffer in console/xterm?

2009-01-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 01:49:13PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: Occasionally, one wants to do this. Unfortunately this is one of those topics with too many generic search terms that gives 2.99x10e8 hits. Clearly, I'm suffering from information overload both in my console sessions and my

Re: dumb how to clear scroll-back buffer in console/xterm?

2009-01-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:50:09PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: Ctl-L does it for me in xterm. Might work in the console too. Just clears the screen, not the scrollback buffer for me. Must be some secret setting somewhere... Sorry Steve, I forgot to mention that I've got:

Re: dumb how to clear scroll-back buffer in console/xterm?

2009-01-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 01:49:13PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: Occasionally, one wants to do this. Unfortunately this is one of those topics with too many generic search terms that gives 2.99x10e8 hits. Clearly, I'm suffering from information overload both in my console sessions and my

Re: PATH used by www user

2009-01-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:16:12AM +, Andy Smith wrote: Quoting Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk: User www doesn't have a shell, profile hence PATH. I don't know how your path is being set but it depends on perl how your script looks. Look at Env(3) the other perldocs

Re: Experience with DELL PowerEdge 2900

2009-01-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:59:02PM +0100, Tobias Daub wrote: Hi There, I'm pretty new to UNIX/FreeBSD and I'm going to install and administrate FreeBSD on a DELL PowerEdge 2900. Does anybody have experience with that machine, or are there any known problems, for example: - Perc RAID

Re: PATH used by www user

2009-01-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:47:24PM +, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, I'm trying to work out why the PATH is different for the www user on two different FreeBSD servers. The problem being that on one it cant find the traceroute binary (via a perl script hosted on apache 2.2). The www

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 07:17:27AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, 1/ backing up the hacked [mailman] files and restoring them later (but I will overwrite the newer files with older ones perhaps breaking something). 2/ making them read only (but the end result will be the same

Can't boot machine after upgrade

2009-01-09 Thread Frank Shute
Hi all, I just updated my server from 6.3-RELEASE to 6.4-RELEASE and I now can't boot my machine - a rather crappy HP desktop. The boot seems to go along nicely without any errors that I can see but when it comes to mounting the root filesystem it bails out: Trying to mount root from

Re: Can't boot machine after upgrade

2009-01-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:42PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:27:20 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Anybody got any idea on what's going on how to fix it? The messages you presented seem to indicate that ad0 is not found. It's not listed in the available

Re: Can't boot machine after upgrade

2009-01-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:05:57PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:54:55 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: I tried booting a FreeBSD CD going into sysinstall then fdisk but it said it couldn't find any disks. Ah! This means something like the disk *really

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-06 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:09:03PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: freebsd-questions: I'm building a fresh Amanda server using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=miscportname=amand a-server Most of my software background is GNU/Linux. I

Re: Portuguese accents

2009-01-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:47:08PM +, Daniel Leal wrote: Hi! I am portuguese, and so I need accents above a few letter, like a, e and i. I mean: ã â á à é è í ì ê, etc etc etc... I am really confused with the accents. In most X apps these accents work well, but for example, in a

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 04:02:53PM +0100, cpghost wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:26:03AM -0500, Ryan da Silva wrote: Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-01 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:27:31AM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: snip wow, am waiting eagerlyHTML is complex, what is SGML :) The fdp primer introduces it: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html All the docs are written it, from which the html, postscript

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 08:39:42PM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also csup didn't help

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:43:19PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have csup'd

Re: [6.3] Assigning shutdown to eg. Syst?

2008-12-23 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 03:31:27PM +0100, Gilles wrote: Hello I'd like to make it easier for my dad to shutdown a server. Instead of having him plug a keyboard, log on as root (with a complicated password) and finally type shutdown -h now, is it possible to assign this command to some

Re: Vetting motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE

2008-12-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:15:33AM -0800, ThinkDifferently wrote: I'm currently looking for an ATX motherboard that supports the AM2+ socket, Phenom Quad-Core processor, 4 DDR2 RAM slots (800 MHz is fine), 6 SATA ports with RAID, and Gigabit LAN. Onboard VGA would be nice. It needs to

Re: i686 CPU Compatibility

2008-12-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:29:02PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: 7.0 is perfectly stable and is recommended for production use. It's not bleeding edge code. That's 8.0-CURRENT which is NOT for production use. Unless you have a particular reason for using 6.x I would go with 7.0 It's fully

Re: Error Kernel Compiling

2008-12-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:08:12PM +0100, Federico Cicciarella wrote: My Machine i: ASUS P5N-E, Celeron D 440, 1 slot PCI 10\100 Realtek Configure Kenrel: machinei386 cpu I686_CPU ident ArrakisKernel makeoptions DEBUG=-g# Build

Re: Error Kernel Compiling

2008-12-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 08:02:33AM +0100, Federico Cicciarella wrote: linking kernel.debug if.o(.text+0x1027): In function `if_setlladdr': /usr/src/sys/net/if.c:2646: undefined reference to `arp_ifinit' igmp.o(.text+0x45): In function `igmp_sendpkt': /usr/src/sys/netinet/igmp.c:472:

Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...

2008-12-06 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:43:39AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: On 12/2/08, andrew clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue 2008-12-02 00:41:58 UTC-0600, Javier Vasquez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was reading chapter 4 of the handbook, as well as chapters 24 and 26... If I got it

Re: To swap or not to swap

2008-12-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:56:52PM +, Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Fellas, I need opinions. Asus Eee PC, SSD storage, 512MB RAM, with GNOME and other desktop thingy (testing out of curiousity). Question is, swap or no swap? Remember, this is SSD, it is reasonable to have no swap. However,

Re: mounting an MP3 player?

2008-10-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:32:37AM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote: Hello, can anyone tell me how to mount an MP3 player (usb)? I seem to be too stupid to figure it out by myself. I thought it would be as easy as mounting a usb memory stick which I can mount with a device file of

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:59:17AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. When

Re: Sysinstall

2008-10-10 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 08:32:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have the following prblem with sysinstall: when I run sysinstall inside an xterm I find it very difficult to read the yellow font on the gray background, which appears very light on my laptop LCD and also on an

Re: Can't get soundcard to work

2008-10-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:12:28AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 23:31 +0100, Frank Shute wrote: ls /dev/d da0 da2 dconsdevstat dsp0.0 dsp1.0 da1 da3 devctl dgdb dsp0.1 dumpdev On my machine: $ ls /dev | grep dsp dsp0.0

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 06:00:38PM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: No Problem, I figured that there are other systems out there with a longer uptime. I have this server as a postfix/courier-imap/ squirrelmail (60+ accounts and 30-40 forwards) mailserver with apache/ php/mysql. Also use it

Re: bash script on FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:11:40PM +0700, Kalpin Erlangga Silaen wrote: Dear all, I am going to extract field username and UID from /etc/passwd and passed into some scripts. Let say I got line admin 100 admin2 200 admin3 300 admin4 400 and then I want to echoing into screen:

Re: bash script on FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:11:56AM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:11:40PM +0700, Kalpin Erlangga Silaen wrote: Dear all, I am going to extract field username and UID from /etc/passwd and passed into some scripts. Let say I got line admin 100 admin2 200

Re: Can't get soundcard to work

2008-10-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:21:12PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:39 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cat dmesg /dev/dsp su: /dev/dsp: Operation not supported This is a weird error message. Don't know whether /dev/dsp exists or not -

Re: Can't get soundcard to work

2008-10-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 11:41:31PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: Thanks for the help! Here are the answers: cat dmesg /dev/dsp su: /dev/dsp: Operation not supported This is a weird error message. Don't know whether /dev/dsp exists or not - worth checking. ls /dev/d da0 da2

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:54:47AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: Hello, Would like to share a success story which I'm sure you've had in the past but one of my servers running FreeBSD will have an uptime of 2 years tomorrow. I plan on putting on my blog but as it doesn't have much

Re: Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit

2008-10-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:39:40AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: I have a Gigabyte motherboard with an Intel ICH-9 chipset, and a 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo (E8400). The coretemp sysctls seem to always show 50C as the baseline temperature: $ sysctl dev.cpu | grep temp dev.cpu.0.temperature: 50

Re: Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit

2008-10-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:28:32AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:39:40AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: I have a Gigabyte motherboard with an Intel ICH-9 chipset, and a 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo (E8400

Re: Logrotate

2008-10-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:52:48PM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I have recently started using logrotate to rotate all the logs in the users home directories. These are all apache logs files. /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.0.gz

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:18:10PM -0400, Mungyung Ryu wrote: Hi BSD folks! I installed FreeBSD 7 Release - amd64. I have ATI Radeon HD2600 pro VGA card but ATI is sucks for supporting driver for Linux or FreeBSD! So, I'm considering to replace the dam ATI card with NVIDIA Geforce. I

Re: error compiling kernel

2008-10-01 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:24:48AM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: --- On Mon, 9/29/08, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:09:01PM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi all, In an effort to compile a new kernel on my amd64 system running freebsd 6.3 I get

Re: error compiling kernel

2008-09-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:09:01PM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi all, In an effort to compile a new kernel on my amd64 system running freebsd 6.3 I get the following error message after the make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL step. The error I get is: /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/udbp.c: 426:

Re: ScreenCapturing tool for FreeBSD-7.0 Release

2008-09-25 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:09:23AM +, dhaneshk k wrote: HI all ; Can anyone recommend a working screencapturing tool such as XvidCap for FreeBSD-7.0 , I installed XvidCap but its not working any other tools OR Solutions for doing screen Capturing .. It will be useful for demo

Re: bash shell colors

2008-09-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 08:56:09AM +0200, Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, I use something like this (heavily inspired by Gentoo): if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[00m\] ' else PS1='\[\033[01;[EMAIL PROTECTED];34m\] \w \$\[\033[00m\] ' fi

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:14:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: This is for any webmaster types: which color gray (in hex, #xx) is best for a site that has probably very long articles? I've googled around and found various grays such as #696969 or #708090, but I haven't found anything that

iso contents; using dial-up

2008-08-26 Thread Frank Shute
Is there a list of which packages come on the iso's? I particularly wanted those on 7.0 AMD64. My googling fu has failed me :( I also wanted any tips on handling FreeBSD on a dial-up link whilst you also have broadband access at school. How do you go about installing ports/packages to utilise

Re: Disabling Super key?

2008-07-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:47:57PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 05:08 PM, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Any idea how I could make the effect of xmodmap permanent? (Adding relevant lines to ~/.xsession doesn't seem

Re: Printer Installation

2008-07-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:45:58PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: This has been an ongoing problem for me because of my lack of knowledge about the processes involved. I have a postscript printer which was installed using CUPS via the KDE printer wizard. The printer works fine when printing

Re: Disabling Super key?

2008-07-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 05:08:18PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Sebastian Tymków wrote: Did you try kbdcontrol ? Thanks. I could do that using kbdcontrol(1) although this disables the Windows key only in the console and not in X, where xmodmap(1) does the

Re: Procmail error

2008-07-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:22:19PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Probably the wrong forum for this, but since it's on a freebsd system: I have mutt installed on two other freebsd computers. I fetch pop mail via getmail, and procmail puts things where they belong. I just

Re: Procmail error

2008-07-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:52:33AM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: On 2008.07.08 16:46:18 +, Frank Shute wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:22:19PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Probably the wrong forum for this, but since it's on a freebsd system: I have mutt installed

Re: Sound on amd64

2008-07-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:41:34PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: First, my apologies - I sent my last missive to Conrad, and not to the list. I'm replying to myself with an update. Details below. Kurt On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at

Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?

2008-06-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:49:16PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote: Frank Shute writes: [...] My top on 7.0 says CPU states: not CPU: Are you sure you're running on 2 cores? dmesg will tell you and top will have a C column with 0 or 1 in it. If you're running on one core

Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?

2008-06-23 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:52:07PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote: Josh Carroll writes: [...] I'd recommend taking the heat sink off and seeing how the thermal grease is spread on the CPU's head spreader and on the heatsink itself. If it looks lopsided or extremely thick on one side of

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:25:32PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: Hi All, Today I read an article describing how my government had lost ZAR200 000 000 from fraud. This is just under $25 000 000. The article credited this loss largely due to the use of spyware. My question is how secure

Re: [OT]Change font for aterm

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:39:21PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: 2008/6/8 Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 06:06:38PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: 2008/6/8 Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: Dear All, I

Re: Similar Experience/Forget Hardy

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:42:27PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:05:47 pm Mike Bird wrote: All we need is stable unadulterated versions of most packages, a real binary package manager (sorry Gentoo and Slackware), and a recent kernel and graphics support.  Compared to

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