Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:07, Barnaby Scott wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Barnaby Scott wrote: So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was bang up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and behold, first attempt to use it and I get this:

Re: Please explain make -j to my little brain

2006-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:06, martinko wrote: i remember from mailing lists there used to be a problem with using -j while compiling kernel or world or ports or sth. is it resolved now pls? make -j N has never been a supported option for ports. It is supported for buildworld and

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-20 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gang, A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having to buy a DOS/Win platform. I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu on this one

Re: what does this mean

2006-05-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 21 May 2006 05:19, Imran Imtiaz wrote: i've seen the following log in my messages can any body tell me what does it mean? May 21 02:50:29 darkstar sm-mta[55021]: k4KLoTeq055021: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA It means that someone

Re: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2006-05-25 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robertsen A. Riehle writes: Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a workstation that had ~300 packages on it. And, let's hypothetically say that this workstation's ports tree was up to date as of yesterday. Is there

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:22, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:41, Daniel Bye wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply make installkernel seems install native kernel modules

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:41, Daniel Bye wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply make installkernel seems install native kernel modules into /boot/kernel/, but kldload seems to want to load them

Re: FreeBSD Wireless Access Points with Atheros Cards

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:42, Mark Moellering wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 8:11 am, Nick Withers wrote: G'day all, I was recently asked to set up a wireless access point by a mate. Having read section 27.3.3.2 - Building a FreeBSD Access Point

Re: burncd error

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:04, Josh Paetzel wrote: I'm running 6.1-RELEASE Trying to burn iso's using burncd gives me an error. gimpy# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 48 data i386pkg-3.0.iso fixate next writeable LBA 0 writing from file i386pkg-3.0.iso size 710566 KB written this track 710566 KB

Re: Correct CPUTYPE= for Intel Celeron 2.50GHz (2500.10-MHz 686-class CPU)

2006-06-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 09 June 2006 09:20, Frank Steinborn wrote: can someone tell what the right choice for CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf is for that CPU? You probably want: CPUTYPE?=pentium4 See /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf for a full list. And, is it safe to build kernel and world with --march= too?

Re: Correct CPUTYPE= for Intel Celeron 2.50GHz (2500.10-MHz 686-class CPU)

2006-06-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 09 June 2006 11:48, Frank Steinborn wrote: John Nielsen wrote: You probably want: CPUTYPE?=pentium4 If I put a ? after CPUTYPE, buildworld won't use CPUTYPE, correct? Is it better to do so, or is it safe to use CPUTYPE=pentium4? Incorrect. The ? means that if the CPUTYPE

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 08:53, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/12/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, FreeBSD is #1 to me because it is the most painless operating system I've ever used... Ignoring the 5.x installer. Never used pre-5.x -Jim What do you mean 5.x? FreeBSD

Re: from STABLE to RELENG?

2006-06-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 23 June 2006 00:46, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Thursday 22 June 2006 23:16, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 22, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: generally, how risky of an operation is it to change the branch im following (assuming i have a server in good

Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied

2006-06-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 19:28, Anthony Agelastos wrote: I updated CUPS and I cannot print to my USB laser printer. The web interface shows the following: hp_LaserJet_1160Le (Default Printer) Unable to open USB device usb:/dev/ulpt0: Permission denied Description: Hewlett-Packard LaserJet

Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied

2006-06-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 20:04, Anthony Agelastos wrote: On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:35 PM, John Nielsen wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 19:28, Anthony Agelastos wrote: I updated CUPS and I cannot print to my USB laser printer. The web interface shows the following: hp_LaserJet_1160Le (Default

Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied

2006-06-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 26 June 2006 00:15, Micah wrote: John Nielsen wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 20:04, Anthony Agelastos wrote: On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:35 PM, John Nielsen wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 19:28, Anthony Agelastos wrote: I updated CUPS and I cannot print to my USB laser printer. The web

Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied

2006-07-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 01 July 2006 12:40, Jan-Espen Pettersen wrote: The problem is that read operations on usb printers might just block/hang with no data from the printer (?). ulpt doesn't have non-blocking I/O, so I've made a patch that simply times out read operations, and disables further reads

Re: KDE Text to Speech

2006-07-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 18:03, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Tuesday 04 July 2006 17:48, Danny Pansters wrote: On Tuesday 04 July 2006 17:12, Gerard Seibert wrote: System Info: FreeBSD seibercom.net 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sat May 13 19:46:07 EDT 2006 [EMAIL

Re: Creating vinum RAID 1 on place

2006-07-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 July 2006 00:29, Olivier Nicole wrote: Is there a trick on the way to build a vinum RAID 1 without backup-in the data first? I have the two disk that will get mirrored. One of the disk if formated as UFS 4.2 and already holds all the data. The second disk is blank. NormallyI

Re: Creating vinum RAID 1 on place

2006-07-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 July 2006 08:04, John Nielsen wrote: On Friday 07 July 2006 00:29, Olivier Nicole wrote: Is there a trick on the way to build a vinum RAID 1 without backup-in the data first? I have the two disk that will get mirrored. One of the disk if formated as UFS 4.2 and already

Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution)

2006-07-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 08:43, Peter wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-07-10 23:32, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Stubborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to recompile your kernel with below options VESA Allright, did that. [snip] I

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:07, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Nagy László [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are there any alternative IMAP servers that have good support (e.g. working mailing list, up-to-date documentation), and can share IMAP folders between users? dovecot -- early stages of

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 13 July 2006 08:34, stan wrote: i have a Sun Ultra 40 with 4 500F SATA drives. I plan on using this machine primarily for a large data storage requirement. What I want is one large /data partition. Given all the choices for doing this in FreeBSD (software) what's the best

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 13 July 2006 20:24, stan wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:20:56PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 13 July 2006 08:34, stan wrote: i have a Sun Ultra 40 with 4 500F SATA drives. I plan on using this machine primarily for a large data storage requirement. What I

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 14 July 2006 10:37, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 13 July 2006 20:24, stan wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:20:56PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 13 July 2006 08:34, stan wrote: i have a Sun Ultra 40 with 4 500F SATA drives. I plan on using this machine

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 14 July 2006 13:39, stan wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 11:11:47AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Friday 14 July 2006 10:37, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 13 July 2006 20:24, stan wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:20:56PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 13 July

Re: HOWTO wireless please.

2006-07-20 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 20 July 2006 15:30, Bob Johnson wrote: On 7/20/06, Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello gurus, Can someone help me setting up my wireless device on my laptop im on 6.1R, I tried to do as instructed on handbook, but no luck. My laptop suppose to be the client, and i

Re: Adding another hard drive

2006-07-23 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Rich Demanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to add another hard drive into my system, a 250GB Western Digital 7200RPM SATA drive, and when I have it plugged into the motherboard the system hangs when it gets to: Timecounter TSC frequency 1803775604 Hz quality 800 Timecounters

Re: gmirror dual mirrors?

2006-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 09:38, Mark Busby wrote: New to gmirror so a newb question. I have my computer setup with 4 sata drives. I am using one for the operating system then one to mirror it. One has data and I want a mirror of that. When creating the first mirror I used gm0. Now creating

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 11:23, Joshua Lewis wrote: I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window manager. There are what seems like hundreds of different WM in the ports collection and

Re: Small Unix install

2007-12-28 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am looking for a small install for an old laptop. I have an old but quite reliable Toshiba 330CDT that used to be my personal laptop. I ran FBSD 3.x/4.x on it for years but it has been wiped and in a closet for years. I want to use it again just to access a few

Re: mounting geom partition

2008-01-03 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting John Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quite some time ago I setup a machine with a couple of 250GB disks in that were mirrored using geom, although I can't remember if I mounted it as 1x 250GB partition or several smaller ones. The machine they were in died, and I kept hold of one of the two

Re: changing the postion of a partion in fdisk

2008-01-08 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have my FreeBSD partition as partition 1 and my ntfs as partition 2 but Vista insists that there is no suitable partion to install to (even though the ntfs partition is big enough)... after some research I found that vista absolutely insists that

Re: Fortune

2008-01-08 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Jon Dowd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jan 8, 2008 9:09 AM, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Dowd wrote: Is there a port for the game fortune? I recently installed 6.2 AMD64 and I can't find it when I do a 'pkg_add -rv fortune' or 'pkg_add -rv fortune-mod' The ones I find I am

Re: Frequent DHCP requests from Wii

2008-01-09 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is particularly a FreeBSD question, but finding that there isn't a newsgroup for DHCP (and I am running dhcpd on FreeBSD), I'll ask here. We've got a Wii in the house, and I've got an entry for it in my dhcpd.conf host wii { hardware

Re: FBSD or PCBSD?

2008-01-18 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Which is a better solution for a home user? Thank you very much for your practical recommendations! ... I have had great success using PCBSD on various acers, I eventually got fed up with it being not quite

Re: mfsbsd

2008-01-23 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Chris Haulmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone used mfsbsd to do remote install of a dedicated server with success? No, but.. Summary: A dedicated server has FreeBSD 6.x running with / as the entire partition of the entire disk. Hoping to find a solution to do reinstall remotely.

Re: Huawei 3g Modem

2008-01-28 Thread John Nielsen
, and also mentions the STALLED messages: http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.mobile/browse_thread/thread/8f47c04e4d3058ed/65791d94e7a405e4?lnk=stq=john+nielsen+freebsd+ppp+v620#65791d94e7a405e4 I'm not a ppp guru by any means, so post back to the list the next time you get stuck

Re: Any way to configure VIA Chrome9?

2008-01-30 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My new motherboard has the built-in VIA Chrome9 graphics processor, which seems to use the xf86-video-via driver. The driver works, no doubt about that, but I badly want to configure gamma, contrast, etc. There is supposedly a configuraton utility for

Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 17 February 2008 01:06:28 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I'm not sure whether to have posted this here or on a VMware list; apologies if I'm in the wrong place. The other day, I did a fresh install of v. 7RC2 from the minimal CD on a CentOS 5.1 box running VMware server 1.0.4. I had

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 as guest: vmware-config.pl problem

2008-02-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 18 February 2008 03:07:48 pm Olivier Robert wrote: I try to install FreeBSD 6.3 64 bits in a Fedora VMware Workstation 6.0..2. I have done the install by choosing ALL + no extra packages (but bash). Xorg is 1.4.0 I can have a working X with vesa drivers. When running

Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 18 February 2008 01:47:14 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:29:28 -0500, John Nielsen wrote On Monday 18 February 2008 12:31:37 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:44:17 -0500, John Nielsen wrote On Sunday 17 February 2008 01:06:28 pm Dimitri

Re: wi0 (4.11) = rum0 (7.0)

2008-02-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 21 February 2008 02:46:09 am Lystopad Oleksandr wrote: Hi! I have two FreeBSD boxes. One with 4.11 and wi0 device, and another with 7.0-PRE with rum0 device. I need to connect wi0 and rum0 via adhoc mode. 7.0 cant find wi0 device with ifconfig rum0 scan. Please, help me to

Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 11:14:26 am Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 5:02 pm, Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:58:26 -0500, John Nielsen wrote On Monday 18 February 2008 01:47:14 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:29:28 -0500, John

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 28 February 2008 09:48:43 pm Sean Cavanaugh wrote: which version of the guest tool should I be installing for VMWare Server 1.0.4? guestd5 and guestd6 both core dump. I haven't actually tried to use any version from the ports recently, opting instead to manually use the tarball on

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 01 March 2008 04:23:24 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: cd /usr/src make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0

Re: looks like success

2008-03-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 02 March 2008 03:50:43 am Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello B., Thursday, February 28, 2008, 9:27:03 PM, you wrote: Hello all, make delete-old (took a long time to do by hand) and make delete-old-libs (went rather quickly) if you really want to delete all things: # yes | make

Re: looks like success

2008-03-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 03 March 2008 12:45:31 pm John Nielsen wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2008 03:50:43 am Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello B., Thursday, February 28, 2008, 9:27:03 PM, you wrote: Hello all, make delete-old (took a long time to do by hand) and make delete-old-libs (went rather quickly

Re: VPN - Which way to go?

2008-03-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 06:21:47 pm Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: I need to setup a VPN connection to the university's network. Now, there's a chapter in the handbook about VPN over IPsec and there seems to be this thing called OpenVPN in the ports collection. Which is the better way to

Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion

2008-03-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 04:37:44 pm Alexander Sack wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everydoy: I apologize if this isn't exactly the right place but I'm out of options! I've posted on the Fusion community website up on vmware.com but

Re: interactive stop on boot

2008-03-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 14 March 2008 11:24:57 am Jason Barnes wrote: Hi -- I'm running a Tombstone machine that's functioning as a server. The machine is located somewhere with a fast connection, and not somewhere that I have easy access to. As such, I want this machine to do its best to boot up and get

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-07-06 Thread John Nielsen
I'm behind on my mailing list reading and don't really want to prolong/resurrect this thread unduly, but I do want to respond to this point: On Thursday 12 June 2008 07:37:06 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: you must have disks dedicated for raidz, disks dedicated for mirrored storage and disks

Re: Using ccd with zfs

2008-07-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:18:31 am Steven Schlansker wrote: Hello -questions, I have a FreeBSD ZFS storage system working wonderfully with 7.0. It's set up as three 3-disk RAIDZs -triplets of 500, 400, and 300GB drives. I recently purchased three 750GB drives and would like to convert to

Re: Java

2008-07-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:20:48 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read in _Absolute FreeBSD_ that there is now an easy-to-install Java package for 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0, but I have so far not found this package. Does it exist? Yes. These packages are created. licensed and maintained by the

Re: upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0

2008-07-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 25 July 2008, tethys ocean wrote: I ve got 6.3 stable database server. Can i directly upgrade my server from 6.3 to 7.0 Sure. Be prepared to rebuild and/or reinstall all your ports/packages and follow the other guidelines in src/UPDATING and other documentation. *default

Re: Mounting hfs+ ipod on freebsd i386

2008-07-31 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 31 July 2008, David Gurvich wrote: Does the kernel need to be rebuilt in order to mount an ipod formatted with apple's hfs+ filesystem? If yes, what options are needed in the kernel and if not, what needs to be done? Other than reformatting to fat32. Take a look at emulators/hfs

Re: Adding device to FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE

2008-08-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 01 August 2008, Jack Raats wrote: I would like to add the zyd device to FreeBSD. The zyd driver allready is in FreeBSD 7.0. Which steps do I have to take to add the zyd device to FreeBSD? Sorry, what are you asking? What version of FreeBSD are you using and what do you need help

Re: mount_msdosfs usb flash stick

2008-08-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 02 August 2008, joeb wrote: On 6.2 release of FBSD trying to mount a usb flash memory stick. The stick has a msdos file system on it and has been loaded with files using windows xp. When I plug the stick into my FBSD box I get console msg about da0 device as usb flash memory stick.

Re: How to set quota ( as Mbyte ) for a directory?

2008-08-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 08 August 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Aug 8, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Yavuz Maslak wrote: On freebsd7, How to set quota for a directory? For instance I want to set 100Mbyte quota for a directory. How can I do that ? Quotas are handled per filesystem, not per directory. See man

Re: ATi Intel graphics

2008-08-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Jim wrote: At some point fairly soon, I'll be rebuilding my computer, and I want three things. 64 Bit for more memory, maybe a bit of performance boost as well - it's mostly a multimedia machine decent/good 3D acceleration (better than a GeForce 7300GS - a few

Re: ATi Intel graphics

2008-08-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Jim wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:06 PM, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Jim wrote: At some point fairly soon, I'll be rebuilding my computer, and I want three things. 64 Bit for more memory, maybe a bit of performance

Re: Unable to update transcode port

2008-08-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 07:54:47 pm Clint Olsen wrote: Hi: I've not been able to upgrade my transcode port for some time. It eventually fails with: ERROR: requirement failed: cannot link against libavcodec libavcodec can be found in the following packages: FFmpeg

Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 18 August 2008 05:39:10 am Henry Karpatskij wrote: Hi, I have a failing IDE disk which is running my 7.0-p1 server. I've been investigating the possible solutions and I've decided to go with two new IDE disks and gmirror. However, I'm not too familiar with disk internals, I know

Re: /etc/groups gone

2008-08-21 Thread John Nielsen
I would start by comparing the contents of /usr/ports/GIDs with the ports you have installed (as listed in /var/db/pkg). You can get a stock group file from src/etc/group. Reinstalling ports will recreate the groups they use (though you could do most of it manually), and you may be on your own

Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 25 August 2008 11:50:41 am Julien Cigar wrote: Stupid question: can't you use growfs on the existing gmirror (after replace /dev/oneofdisk, resync, replace /dev/otherdisk, resync) ? Is it mandatory to create a *new* gmirror ? There is no way to resize a gmirror provider without

Re: vmware tools for ESX Server 3.5

2008-09-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 03 September 2008, B. Cook wrote: I am setting up FreeBSD 7.0 and he is asking about the vmware-tools. Ports has some things, but I am not sure what I need, and neither is he. Can anyone tell me what it needs? I usually create VM's with the Intel gigabit vNIC's which can use

Re: vmware tools for ESX Server 3.5

2008-09-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 04 September 2008, B. Cook wrote: On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:11 PM, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2008, B. Cook wrote: I am setting up FreeBSD 7.0 and he is asking about the vmware-tools. Ports has some things, but I am not sure what I need, and neither is he

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA said: Hello, In Google Chrome System requirements (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95411to

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 05 September 2008, Robert Huff wrote: John Nielsen writes: It won't be trivial to port. Last night I got as far as installing the recommended versions of the dependencies (including nspr and nss a version ahead of what's currently in ports). The chromium build script assumes

Re: State of 3d video, which vendor has best support?

2008-09-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 08 September 2008, KlaymenDK wrote: I'm about to build a new pc, the first in quite a few years. My problem is that I can't find out if I should choose a 3D chipset from Intel, Ati, or nVidia. What's the state of support, track record, and such for these nowadays? This is becoming a

Re: Multiple installation of one ports

2008-09-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 01:26:35 pm FreeBSD wrote: I've been asked by a customer to install Drupal on one server to manage a new site. No problem yet. But, he also asked if it would be possible to install it for other sites. I know that there is a warning if you want to install a port

Re: silicon Graphics hardware

2008-09-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 21 September 2008 03:23:58 pm Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:48:37PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: I googled a bit this morning and, except for some old (Freebsd 4.x) posts, I didn'r see anything terribly relevant, but does FreeBSD run on any Silicon Graphics

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd ignored (-269.7C) Message in every 3 seconds .

2008-10-06 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 06 October 2008 02:07:17 am dhaneshk k wrote: I installed freebsd-7.0 in a p4 machine , after installation when I reboot the machine , I am getting the message acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd ignored (-269.7C) in every 3 seconds I have a machine that does this as well. I haven't

Re: Freebsd Access Point

2006-10-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:23, Erik Richards wrote: This is my first submission to a freebsd mailing list so please bare with me. I am relatively new to Freebsd but I have so far set up a box at home acting as a gateway, firewall, and webserver with php and I'm really loving this OS (my

Re: qemu networking help with windows98

2006-10-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 29 October 2006 12:06, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: [I've searched for the answers, but have come up empty] I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE and Qemu 0.8.2_2. I've gotten Windows 98 running inside of the emulator, but I'm having trouble getting the network to work.

Re: ethernet port bondage

2006-11-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 15:52, Kenny Dail wrote: I'm running 6.1 Release, and I've been looking for information on how to bond multiple ethernet adaptors in one box so that if one card or connection fails or is disconnected I still have network connectivity. Have a look at carp(4). It's

Re: Compatible SATA controllers?

2006-11-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 22:20, Gene Dinkey wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 Release and am looking for a compatible 32bit PCI SATA controller. I don't need, and can't afford, a hardware RAID solution so I'm planing on building my storage on vinum. I checked

Re: ftp over ssh

2006-11-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 04:45, Gorobets Igor wrote: Hello. How correctly to adjust this miracle? :-) Assuming you have a server that is running sshd (on all interfaces) and ftpd (only on the loopback interface): ftpclient# ssh -fnN -l 20:localhost:20 -L 21:localhost:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ftp over ssh

2006-11-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 14:12, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 08 November 2006 04:45, Gorobets Igor wrote: Hello. How correctly to adjust this miracle? :-) Assuming you have a server that is running sshd (on all interfaces) and ftpd (only on the loopback interface): ftpclient# ssh

dhcpd with wi and base system dhclient stopped working

2006-11-13 Thread John Nielsen
I have a FreeBSD 6.x machine with an ath interface that serves as a wireless access point, dhcp server, router and gateway for my network. I have a FreeBSD 6.x laptop with an older wi interface that until recently was working just fine, using the base system dhclient. However, the other day

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 02:54, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 18:13, Scott Schappell wrote: The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long enough. What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive amount of ports

Re: desktop for bsd

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 08:05, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:28:58AM -0800, Marshall wrote: hi, I was on the freesbie site and it is a live cd version, but i'd like to have a full version, with XFCE, is this already in freebsd? I'd like to have it as the

Re: gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...)

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:40, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:58, John Nielsen wrote: It is possible to convert regular devices into gmirror members after they have data on them, but unless you're extremely careful there's a small risk of the gmirror metadata

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:42, Armin Arh wrote: I would like to recompile all of the xfce4 stuff. Is the ports system offering a solution here? maybe something like: make reinstall IF CATEGORIES IS xfce4 If you use portupgrade, you should be able to do something like: # portupgrade

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:47, Christian Walther wrote: On 15/11/06, Armin Arh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to recompile all of the xfce4 stuff. Is the ports system offering a solution here? maybe something like: make reinstall IF CATEGORIES IS xfce4 hmm, cd

creating a broken graid3 array?

2006-11-23 Thread John Nielsen
Is it possible to create a (degraded) graid3 array with only two (or one less than the planned total) providers? I'm asking since I would like to move from my current one-disk setup to a three-disk raid3 array, but I'd like the disk currently in use to be a member of the array and I don't have

Re: creating a broken graid3 array?

2006-11-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 23 November 2006 17:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is the loss of your data worth less than the cost of an extra hd? if so, buy another hd. if not, make a clean install? should read: is the cost of an extra hd less than the value of your data/install? if so, buy another hd.

Re: creating a broken graid3 array?

2006-11-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:00, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/23/06, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a (degraded) graid3 array Maybe you'll be able to create graid3 with md0 as the third member (based on sparse file for example) and later emulate

Re: question on virtusertable - sendmail

2006-11-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 24 November 2006 14:39, David Banning wrote: I have several times where I have no user setup in virtusertable but the mail is still delivered to the user. If I delete the user then the mail bounces - I want to keep the user and still have the mail bounce - how would I do that?

Re: question on virtusertable - sendmail

2006-11-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 24 November 2006 15:04, David Banning wrote: @domain.com bounce You can define bounce in /etc/mail/aliases, or just leave it undefined (since it will probably bounce anyway). I am looking at my /etc/mail/aliases how would I define bounce? I know I could simple send

Re: question on virtusertable - sendmail

2006-11-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 24 November 2006 15:18, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-11-24 15:04, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @domain.combounce You can define bounce in /etc/mail/aliases, or just leave it undefined (since it will probably bounce anyway). I am looking at my

Re: now it's openoffice.org-2

2006-11-27 Thread John Nielsen
Both of the applications you've mentioned problems with use GTK and other GNOME-related libraries. About a month ago the default location for gnome libraries was switched from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local in conjunction with a GNOME update and presumably in an effort to modernize/standardize the

Re: Fixing OpenOffice

2006-11-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 06:26, Gerard Seibert wrote: Using: /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL= produces this: openoffice.org-2.0.3! Comparison failed I was told this is because OpenOffice has moved in the 'ports tree'. My question is other than reinstalling it,

Re: FreeBSD VPS providers

2006-11-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 10:41, Eric wrote: I am looking to move a website i run from its current provider (linux based shared box) to a VPS solution. I have been doing some searching via google and the mailing list and so far have found http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html which

Re: Using Screen

2006-11-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:35, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-11-29 12:22, Dan Sikorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I have a good question for you guys. Lets say, I started a job on a computer, if you must know, portmanager -u , and then left... but I know its sitting there

Re: Using Screen

2006-11-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:43, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:35, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-11-29 12:22, Dan Sikorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I have a good question for you guys. Lets say, I started a job on a computer, if you must know

Re: DVD Movies

2006-12-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:49, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 12/2/06, Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to play a DVD without loading X ? Apparently, yes http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_MPlayer_on_Framebuffer I think most of those framebuffer options are

Re: Realtek (re(4)) Driver in 6.1

2006-12-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 04 December 2006 13:54, Jon Drukman wrote: I'm about to install 6.1 on a machine that's been happily ticking away with 4.1.1 for years now. (I need to upgrade it to gigabit ethernet.) Does the default kernel on the 6.1-R installation CD include the realtek re(4) driver? Yes. If

Re: wifi dhcp

2006-12-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:21, Steve Franks wrote: Ok, we're losin our minds here. Me and a friend just bought up no less than 4 boxes (server, 2 laptops, and a net-device) in about 2 weeks on stable 6.1. My first foray into bsd since '95, and I'm way-pleased. One little problem: every

Re: Xorg 7.2 ante portas

2006-12-06 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 12:42, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. Xorg 7.2 is about to be released - with nice new features an, more important, bugfixes, upgraded drivers etc. Are there any plans of supporting this version via the ports collection? Yes. See the freebsd-x11 mailing list archives

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