Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-09-02, Vlad GURDIGA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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=95411&to
>>>pic=14660) they say that a Linux version is going to appear. And in
>>> the "Download and install" help article
>>> (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95346&qu
>>>ery=open-source&topic=&type=) they say that it is open-source.
>>>
>>> Does this mean that is hope we'll have a FreeBSD version?
>>
>> If someone steps up and rolls and submits the port. You're welcome to
>> volunteer :-)
>
> I'd be glad to, but I'm afraid I do not have the skills for that... :-(

Once it runs on Linux it shouldn't be too difficult to port it to FreeBSD.
However it doesn't run on Linux ATM according to what I've read.

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Re: Frets on Fire from ports (short and sweet)

2008-06-19 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-06-19, Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> in short: has anybody been able to get it working from ports?
>
> in here:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # uname -srm
> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # cd /usr/ports/games/fretsonfire
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/games/fretsonfire # make install clean
>===>  Installing for fretsonfire-1.2.451_2
>===>   fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 depends on 
> file: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric/_numpy.so - found
>===>   fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 depends on 
> file: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py - found
>===>   fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 depends on 
> file: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/OpenGL/__init__.py - found
>===>   fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 depends on 
> file: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/amanith.py - found
>===>   fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 depends on 
> file: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py - found
>===>   fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 depends on 
> file: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/glew/__init__.py - not found
>===>Verifying install 
> for /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/glew/__init__.py 
> in /usr/ports/graphics/py-glewpy
>===>  py25-glewpy-0.7.4_1 is marked as broken: fails to install.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/py-glewpy.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/games/fretsonfire.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/games/fretsonfire # 
>
> py25-glewpy-0.7.4_1 has been marked as broken since the day I installed FBSD7 
> (2 two days after its release).
>
> Has anyone tried to install it and succeded or shoud I fill a PR on 
> py25-glewpy-0.7.4_1 (or fretsonfire for that matter ...)??
>
> I want to make sure before submitting a PR .. or two =P

in the graphics/py-glewpy Makefile you can read:

BROKEN=   fails to install
DEPRECATED= Has been broken for more than 6 months
EXPIRATION_DATE=2008-09-19

this means that glewpy is known to be broken and it is scheduled for deletion.

If you try to build glewpy it tells you something about pyrex not generating the
right code. I don't know if that problem actually comes from pyrex or from
glewpy.

Anyway filing PR about this will not change anything, except if they come with a
patch to make it work ;)

As for Frets on Fire, yes it's very unfortunate that it doesn't work on FreeBSD
ATM.


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Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-07 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-06-07, Dick Hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:33:26 -0500
> "Sam Fourman Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> use Firefox for Windows and use wine, then install the windows Flash 9
>> plugin
>
> People choosing FreeBSD shouldn't be "forced" to run windowish
> solution. The OS is not supported. That's a major problem in these
> modern times, although lots of fbsd people tend to say it is not.
> That's not everyday's live however. FreeBSD does not make the web.

Flash is a big pain IMO.
The Flash question has been asked *a lot* of times on this list.
The answer usually boils down to "use www/nspluginwrapper" or "use
linux-firefox". Both "solutions" are far from optimal.
My solution is to simply ignore Flash content. It makes your "online experience"
much more enjoyable. This is my personal choice of course.
I think it is rather reducing when you have to beg unkind vendors to eventually
consider that you exist.
I don't think proprietary binary formats have their place on the web. The WWW is
an information exchange platform, why would you want to diffuse information
around the globe when you know that a lot of people will not be able to decipher
it? It's a bit arrogant I think.

Jona

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Re: massive ports update

2008-06-07 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-06-06, Tuc at T-B-O-H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In UPDATING it says :
>
>   Given the scope and sheer number of dependent ports, it may be more
>   advisable to simply blow away all existing install ports (after
>   keeping any local configuration changes), and rebuilding from scratch.
>
>
>   I'm wondering just how many ports the author of that statement
> has. I have a few to say the least. Actually a few hundred. Ok, well,
> 1102 to be a bit more specific Blow away and re-install 1102 ports?
> For real?

That's not uncommon. For example when you go from one major FreeBSD version to
another you have to rebuild everything most of the time because of ABI changes.
Of course you could also wait for the building cluster to catch up and do a
binary upgrade (-P in portupgrade).

Jona

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Re: xmodmap not working from xinitrc

2008-02-28 Thread Jona Joachim
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:42:21PM +0100, Armando Cambra wrote:
> If I remember correctly (can't test it here... no unixoid system near),
> startx sources the .xmodmaprc in your home directory, so you swap your keys
> twice as you start up X.
> 
> I'd try without xmodmap in your script an see if it works.

No it doesn't work if I comment out the line. Also the startx script doesn't
mention xmodmap. At least I only have to run xmodmap once if I don't put it
inside xinitrc.

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xmodmap not working from xinitrc

2008-02-28 Thread Jona Joachim
Hi!
My .xinitrc has an xmodmap tweak to switch the Ctrl and Caps keys.
For some reason these changes are not applied when I start X, Ctrl is still Ctrl
and Caps is still Caps.
However I have to run xmodmap twice when X has started to actually make it work.
It seems like the changes were applied but somehow not used by X, when I rerun
xmodmap it seems like it switches the keys back to their original states and 
when I
then run it again it finally works.

Here's my .xinitrc:


# X tweaks
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
xset -b
numlockx on
xmodmap ~/.xmodmap

# Desktop environment
feh --bg-center ~/.themes/FreeBSD.jpg
mydzen &

xmonad &

# Wait
wait $!
pkill dzen2
wait


and here's my .xmodmap:


remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L


uname -a:
FreeBSD nirvana.my.domain 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Jan 30 
10:06:18 CET 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HYPOCENTER  i386

Installed versions:
xorg-7.3_1
xmodmap-1.0.3

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Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-01-31 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-02-01, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:47:12 -0500
> Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've been reading over my library of FreeBSD books, which I may add is
>> impressive due to me buying EVERY book available on Freebsdmall and
>> also buying the PowerPak to make sure my Library is complete, and
>> also I've been reading the freebsd.org docs because I'm working on
>> getting an upgrade to work properly.
>> 
>> Here is what happened:
>> 
>> I did as the website said and changed the cvsup example file which is
>> the one I'm using, to a FreeBSD cvsup server, left most of it alone,
>> because I wanted to use most packages, so I wanted basically every app
>> available, and when rebooting, after doing this:
>> 
>> # make buildworld
>> # make buildkernel
>> # make installkernel
>> # reboot
>
> Assuming you went from 6.3-RELEASE to 6.3-STABLE and also assuming you
> do not have customization in /etc - here's what I do...
>
> After a cvsup of the src tree (ensuring I want the STABLE branch
> (*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6) 
>
> # cd /usr/src
> # make buildworld
> # make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC (Assuming you use GENERIC)
> # make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC (Assuming you use GENERIC)
> # shutdown -r now (no need for Single-User Mode if YOU are the only
> user)

Sorry but you're giving wrong advice here.
*Always* drop to single user mode.
You are almost never the only user on your machine when you're in multiuser
mode. There will at least be root an your user account and probably others.

> # cd /usr/src
> # make installworld
> # shutdown -r now
>
> NOTE: I don't use mergemaster unless I go from say 6.3 to 7.0

*Always* use mergemaster. Default configuration is constantly changing slightly.
It never happened to me that mergemaster had nothing to and I upgrade somewhat
regularly. Not running mergemaster will sooner or later result in a broken
system. It can be argued whether `mergemaster -p` has to be run everytime but
just run it, it will never hurt you.
I really recommend following the handbook step by step for this task unless you
know exactly what you're doing.

>> I booted in single user mode and tried this:
>> 
>> # mergemaster -p
>> # make installworld
>> # mergemaster
>> # reboot
>> 
>> Now, this wouldn't work for some reason or another, but the system
>> seemed to be doing just fine. I did uname -a and sure enough I had 
>> 6.3 Stable going. However, when typing kdm to load up that so I can 
>> use a gui, it no longer loads, at all, it pops up for a split second
>> to just stop totally, and then gives me a message about the hostname.
>
> See above for your RELENG Tag
>
>
>> I thought it was odd, and XDM actually loads, but won't load X 
>> itself as it too goes out with errors about hostname.
>
> You may need to update your ports tree and your installed packages
> since you went to STABLE
>
>> I don't have the exact message which I know is bad form on my part,
>> but I decided to just try updating again as I was kind of wondering
>> what RELEASE is like instead of stable.
>
> STABLE is the security fix branch.
>
> *snip*
>
> Someone else may follow up the rest with you.
>

Best regards,
Jona


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Re: pdf edit again.

2007-11-03 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:42:03 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:03:17PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote:
>> On November 3, 2007 08:38:55 pm Gary Kline wrote:
>> >A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF
>> >files.  Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never
>> >thought I would need to edit a GUI file.  I just found a book
>> >from 1883 in pdf format.  I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1
>> >version.  Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work.   Nutshell: is
>> >there something I can use  to edit/look-at this book and get rid
>> >of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail.  (sorry for
>> >the grammar )
>> >
>> >gary
>> 
>> Try gv and xpdf.  You might get lucky. 
>> 
>> Otherwise - try od :-)
>> 
> 
>   Welll, yeah, I can view ths file with xpdf or any other viewer,
>   but can't figure out what's blocking it from being converted to
>   ASCII.  I've seen pdfedit for linux, but haven't found it
> 
>   thanks,
> 
>   gary
> 
>   PS: can't figure out whyanybody would take a pub domain book 
>   125 years old any say "copyright"..   *mumble*

The guy who scanned the book did actually invest a considerable amount
of work into scanning it and he can claim copyright for that work.
The text itself may be in the public domain but the pdf file is subject to
copyright.

Best regards,
Jona


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Re: Atheros wireless

2007-10-28 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:51:19 +0200
"Necati Demir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > [.]
> >
> > If you are running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, you could try updating to
> > either the
> > latest 6-STABLE, or the upcoming 7.0, both of which have a newer
> > HAL. If that doesn't help either I don't think there is much you
> > can do.
> 
> 
> I am running 6.2-RELEASE.
> How to update to 6-STABLE ?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html

23.2.2 Staying Stable with FreeBSD

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Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400
"E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Not anymore!  Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those 
> ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because 
> portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work.  It is not fun any 
> more!  Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or
> it fails all together.  I have forgotten the last time I updated my
> ports without any issues.  Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with
> rarian, they install files on the same directory.  Go figure.  Those
> were the days when it used to work.

From /usr/ports/UPDATING:

Portupgrade users:
# pkgdb -Ff
# portupgrade -f -o textproc/rarian textproc/scrollkeeper
# portupgrade -a

Seems like a PEBKAC.

From http://code.google.com/p/rarian/ :
"Rarian (formerly Spoon) is a documentation meta-data library, designed
as a replacement for Scrollkeeper."

Not a portupgrade issue.


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Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

2007-09-24 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:30:59 +0300
"Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 9/22/07, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> i personally use only sendmail.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Yep... if it works, don't 'fix' it.
> > >
> > same with any other things :)
> 
> I would prefer to have postfix vs sendmail since it built with
> security in mind

spaceman% telnet mx1.freebsd.org 25
Trying 2001:4f8:fff6::34...
telnet: connect to address 2001:4f8:fff6::34: No route to host
Trying 69.147.83.52...
Connected to mx1.freebsd.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mx1.freebsd.org ESMTP Postfix (Postfix Rules!)

;)
I prefer Postfix over Sendmail anytime but there are good reasons why
Sendmail is in the base system and Postfix isn't.
Postfix depends on PCRE which is not part of the base system. So you
would have to include that one, too. Perhaps you can build Postfix
without PCRE but I'm not sure.
The Sendmail source code is around 1.5MB whereas Postfix is around
2.8MB. That's not a big difference but still, the size of a CD is
limited. The release engineering team would have to figure out if that
could be a problem.
Then there are a lot of sysadmins which have been using Sendmail for
years and don't want to switch. After all Sendmail is one of the most
common MTAs on the Internet.
Furthermore Sendmail was initially developed at UC Berkeley. It's not
very common to kick BSD software from a BSD tree to replace it with
non-BSD software.
Finally, if you want Postfix it's very easy to install it from ports
and replace Sendmail.

Best regards,
Jona
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Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

2007-09-06 Thread Jona Joachim
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:10:42 -0700
"Darren Spruell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Wondering if this is a known issue, or if anyone has suggestions to
> get it working...?
> 
> Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 SMP i386.
> 
> I installed nvidia-driver-100.14.11 from ports (Sep. 5 snapshot),
> Linux compatibility enabled. After loading modules 'linux' and
> 'nvidia', I do:
> 
> # X -configure
> # X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
> 
> At this point the system spontaneously reboots. 'X -configure' runs
> fine and produces a configuration without issue, but the reboot
> occcurs when launching X. Nothing is output to screen (it flickers as
> if starting X), and nothing is written to /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I do
> get the same behavior if running 'xorgcfg'.

Did you reinstall/upgrade X after having installed nvidia-driver?
X actually overwrites libraries that nvidia-driver installs so you have
to reinstall nvidia-driver every time you upgrade X.
I remember having had some bad crashes some time ago because X overwrote
nvidia GLX libraries.

Best regards,
Jona
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Re: Meaning of: kill -USR2

2007-08-31 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:24:47 -0700 (PDT)
White Hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have seen 'kill -USR2' used in some scripts;
> however, I am unable to find out exactly what it is
> referring to. The man page for 'kill' does not list
> any 'USR2' flag or signal, unless I am reading it
> incorrectly.
> 
> Perhaps, someone can tell me exactly what this signal
> means.

SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are signals that don't have any predefined meaning.
You can use them for based inter-process communication.

See:
man 3 signal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGUSR1_and_SIGUSR2


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Re: Flash

2007-08-18 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:45:29 -0400
Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jona Joachim writes:
> 
> 
> >  > The only native solution I know of is "gnash" but last time I
> >  > tried it it was very unstable and very slow.
> >  
> >  gnash 0.8 is not in the ports yet.
> 
>   Is there an estimated date of arrival?

Sorry but I couldn't tell you, I'm not the maintainer of the port.

Jona
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Re: Flash

2007-08-17 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:38:12 +0200
Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > can I ask you for help, how to set up flash in Firefox natively,
> > step by step? 
> The only native solution I know of is "gnash" but last time I tried
> it it was very unstable and very slow.

gnash 0.8 is not in the ports yet.
It features some great improvements. It can for example play YouTube
videos without too many problems.
I heard very promising things about gnash last week.
gnash has already a lot of advantages compared to the 'real thing' from
Adobe. For example it runs on many platforms where Adobe's Flash
doesn't run. It will also perhaps soon hit the iPhone.
Useless to say Adobe are not so happy about it ;)

Best regards,
Jona
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Re: Help....How to set FreeBSD to handle UTF8 characters?

2007-08-15 Thread Jona Joachim
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:04:58 +0200
VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> FreeBSD 6.2
> 
> Please help!

Perhaps this can help you:
http://opal.com/freebsd/unicode.html

Regards,
Jona

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Re: ndis wrapped Intel wireless driver causes panic

2007-08-14 Thread Jona Joachim
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:43:45 -0500
Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've got an HP/Compaq nx7400 and am having trouble with kernel
> loadable object generated by ndisgen.  (6.2-STABLE, i386).
> 
> Following the man page for ndisgen(4), I have the following files:
> 
> -rwx--  1 dpoland  wheel27546 May  4 14:14:52 2007
> NETw4x32.CAT* -rwx--  1 dpoland  wheel   180005 May  4 14:14:52
> 2007 NETw4x32.INF* -rwx--  1 dpoland  wheel  2206976 May  4
> 14:14:52 2007 NETw4x32.SYS* -rwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel  4185539 Aug
> 13 16:42:25 2007 NETw4x32_SYS.ko*
> 
> I've copied the .ko file to /boot/kernel and when I type:
> 
> root# kldload NETw4x32_SYS
> 
> the system panics.


I can confirm this.
The FreeBSD ndis layer doesn't support the whole set of ndis features
and is slippery when wet.
Damien Bergamini wrote an OpenBSD driver for the 3945ABG chipset and he
ported it to FreeBSD at some point. It works on fbsd 6.2 i386 only.
Damien stopped developing the FreeBSD version for some reason so it may
be a bit outdated but it works for many people.
You should be able to find the sources for the driver by googling a bit.

Good luck!

Jona
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Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers

2007-07-31 Thread Jona Joachim
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:37:36 -0700
Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am wondering if there is an easy way to stop installing all of the 
> xf86 input an video drivers listed below.



I asked this some time ago on the X11 mailing list:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?f2v3qg$vfl$1

The answer was that this will be changed in the future.

Regards,
Jona

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Re: firefox 3.0

2007-07-24 Thread Jona Joachim
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:41:08 -0400
"Tsu-Fan Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> sorry, i didnt notice that its the "devel" version. I just saw it in
> the freebsd.org/ports page. anyhow, I initial attempt was to find a
> alternative browser to firefox. On windows, there are avant, k-meleon
> and such, they are pretty good and fast compared to ff/IE. I wonder
> if there is any such client on fbsd. thanks!!

dillo

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Re: installer freebsd

2007-07-22 Thread Jona Joachim
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:27:06 +0200
Boudjema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Bonjour,
> 
> Please excuses,
> my english is bad, so i will explain in french my problem if this is
> not understood;
> i have a problem to install x window. my hope is to install kde. but 
> without x, i am stopped; when i do pkg_add -r xorg, the response is: 
> xorg 6.9is already installed or it's old version. when i do with   cd 
> /usr/ports/X11/xorg && make install clean: i have this reponse:
> error code 1, /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries not found in 
> /usr/ports/xorg-libraries.
> other big problem because i have had this response at lot off 
> attemptings: /usr/X11R6/ exists but is not a symlink. I have
> understoot in bad english that in the new versions , this
> file /usr/X11R6 must be only a symlink.
> what i must do to updtate and make all the corrections for all the
> ports? i think that there is a problem with a few of my ports, i can
> delete all the ports and install them in new ? like this i will have
> a system clean. thin you.
> what is error code 1? can i install all x window systeme? with 
> sysinstall lot of packages are not installed: errors and failed are 
> returned.
> I have read the manual in french in first.
> My version is 6.2
> Areski Boudjema  Nanterre France

Hi!
It seems to me like your ports tree is not up to date.
The first thing you want to do is update it. The easiest method is
portsnap. This is explained in the handbook.
Then there are 2 possibilities:
Either you have an old version of X installed (which seems to be the
case). You will then have to update X by following the steps described
in /usr/ports/UPDATING.
Or you don't have X installed. In this case you should build it with
cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install clean
Anyway it would be of great help if you could provide a more exhaustive
error log and the output of pkg_info to see what you have installed.

If some things seem unclear and you have difficulties with English I
can reply in French.

Bien le bonjour de Nancy!
Jona
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Re: GUI Mail Reader for FreeBSD ...

2007-07-14 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:34:04 -0300
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of a good mail reader that does:
> 
>   PGP, unicode *and* shows inline html

I use claws-mail and I love it. It can display inline html with the
dillo plugin.

Jona
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Re: Email Sending Problem to YAHOO

2007-06-12 Thread Jona Joachim
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:39:09 -0700
"DeadMan Xia " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi everybody!
> 
> hope all doing fine 
> well i have configured my Email Server on FreeBSD 6.2 with Qmail, i
> have send email to yahoo, hotmail & gmail. On gmail & hotmail, its
> works quick, bt at yahoo ,,, its delaying nd mail recieved at yahoo
> with huge delays. wen i send email to yahoo, it gives following
> defferal error,
> 
> @4000466e85af2e894abc delivery 12: deferral:
> Connected_to_216.39.53.1_but_greeting_failed./Remote_host_said:_421_Message_from_(
> 58.65.151.33
> )_temporarily_deferred_-_4.16.50._Please_refer_to_http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-
> 06.html/
> @4000466e85af2e8bb3ec status: local 0/10 remote 1/255
> @4000466e85b000c37904 delivery 13: deferral:
> Connected_to_66.196.97.250_but_greeting_failed./Remote_host_said:_421_Message_from_(
> 58.65.151.33
> )_temporarily_deferred_-_4.16.50._Please_refer_to_http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-
> 06.html/
> @4000466e85b000c57ca4 status: local 0/10 remote 0/255
> 
> Kindly Help me out in fixing such probelm ,

The error message mentions a url. Perhaps you can find more information
there.
Perhaps this is interesting to you:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse/abuse-60.html

Jona


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Re: BSD derivatives

2007-06-02 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:10:27 -0700
Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Bill Moran wrote:
> > OpenBSD puts security higher on its list of project goals and
> > motivating factors than any other OS I know.
> 
> I disagree.  I'd say that OpenBSD and FreeBSD put security in exactly
> the same place -- at the top of the list.

Sorry but I have to disagree here.
FreeBSD ships with closed source software including following drivers:
ath, nve, oltr, rr232x, hptmv.
Closed source software implies potential insecurity. If security is at
the top of the list then I see a clear contradiction here.

Jona

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Re: music-generator for FreeBSD?

2007-04-30 Thread Jona Joachim
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:47:51 -0700
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
>   Guys,
> 
>   This is a bit off-topic, but maybe somebody out there can
> give me someclues.  Bearing in mind that I know zip about music
>   composition, is there a MIDI (or mp3 or other) toolkit that
> would generate short background slices of music?  
> 
>   Say that I wanted some jazzy melody for several seconds.  This
>   application would generate it.  Or a classical tune.  Last
> night I found a possibly MIDI app for Windows; there were several that
>   Google found that  mentioned Linux but nothing panned out.
> 
>   Anybod know?

Take a look at Pure Data (audio/pd in the ports). I just found out
about it. It doesn't really create jazz melodies but it such a great
synthesizer. It allows you to arrange objects graphically, like
oscillators and analog/digital converters and combine them to create
sounds. It's a real graphical programming language.

Regards,
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Re: COPYING DATA TO NTFS

2007-03-02 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:39:30 -0800
"Parker Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Using the FreeBSD booter to manage both Windoz XP and FreeBSD 6.1 on
> the same SCSI drive.  Under FreeBSD I've got XP mounted, and I've
> been able to examine the XP directories, but when I try to copy data
> or the contents of directories from FreeBSD to XP.  Usingcp -R
> format, nothing copies, and I get error messages that the target
> files don't exist. 
> 
> Is FreeBSD not capable of copying to NTFS?

No. Or at least writing support is very experimental and might break
your NTFS partition.
However there is ntfs-3g in the ports (sysutils/fusefs-ntfs). This
driver has read/write support.
I've never used it so I can't tell you more.
More info: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

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Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-02 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:26:33 +1100
Malcolm Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >> What do I need to do to wipe the slate clean?
> 
> On 02/03/2007, at 11:53 AM, Chris Slothouber wrote:
> 
> > make config
> 
> 
> Yes. I don't know what arguments to pass to it. Where are the current 
> arguments being stored, surely I can edit that file?

If you run "make config" it pops up the dialog where you can choose
your options. Alternatively you can run "make rmconfig" to remove your
saved options so you will be asked again next time you run make.

The options are saved in /var/db/ports/${PORTNAME}/options
Although you could edit that file manually there is no point to it and
you could make errors.

I must say that when I tried curlftpfs is was not very stable but
perhaps you have better luck.

Regards,
Jona

> >
> > Never you mind wrote:
> >> On 02/03/2007, at 2:58 AM, John Nielsen wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:37, Never you mind wrote:
>  On my Mac from the Finder I can select "Connect to server", give
>  it the
>  details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the
>  ftp space as a drive on the desktop.
> 
>  Can I obtain the same sort of functionality using freeBSD and
>  xfce desktop manager?
> >>>
> >>> I haven't used it, but the sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs should allow 
> >>> you to mount
> >>> an ftp location as a virtual filesystem. The desktop icon thing 
> >>> you'll have
> >>> to work out on your own, but it shouldn't be too difficult (a 
> >>> shortcut to
> >>> your chosen mountpoint should suffice).
> >> I've just made an error during installation. At the dialog I
> >> selected BOTH c-ares and IPV6.
> >> That caused an error:
> >> curl-7.16.0_1  does not support both c-ares and IPv6 - disable one
> >> of them.
> >> OK. I thought I'd simply run "make install clean" again and at the 
> >> dialog I would make my selection. However, I do not get to the 
> >> dialog. My choices have been saved somewhere and are being
> >> re-used. I need to clean up from my first effort. What do I need
> >> to do to wipe the slate clean?
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Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server

2007-02-01 Thread Jona Joachim
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 05:02:02 -0800
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Jeremy Faulkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Eric Hildebrandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
>  Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007
> 1:34 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server
> 
> 
> > On 1/31/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Why?
> > >
> > > FreeBSD isn't commercial software, there's no need to go through
> > > all the hocus pocus to conceal the uploader so the RIAA doesen't
> > > sue him.  Standard FTP works perfectly fine at any of the mirror
> > > sites, and you will get your ISO no slower.
> > >
> > > Ted
> >
> > Bittorrent does nothing to conceal the uploader's identity.
> >
> > The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of Amarica) doesn't give a
> > damn about the piracy of commercial software, the RIAA cares about
> > the piracy of music distributed by their member companies.
> > The RIAA exists to be the bully for their member companies
> > and to draw the negative public relations away from those member
> > companies.
> >
> 
> Which is exactly why I cannot understand why anyone would want to
> use bittorrent to legitimately distribute anything.  Why use a
> service that the RIAA is actively attacking, because such service is
> being used to illegally distribute pirated music?
> 
> It's called guilt by association.
> 
> For the same reason I would be very dismayed if a large porno site
> like playboy.com, hustler.com, etc. put a bunch of banners on their
> website offering free downloads of FreeBSD.  Those porno sites are
> being used for the perfectly legal distribution of images legally
> obtained, by willing participants, all above board, monitored, and
> such.  From a technical perspecitve, the porno sites have some of the
> best bandwidth available. You could make a dozen freedom of speech,
> etc. arguments about how it would be a great thing if those sites
> started distributing FreeBSD.
> 
> But, it would be nothing more than a public relations disaster.
> 
> Sure, bittorrent can be used to legally distribute software.  So can
> porno sites.
> But,  with all the number of willing FTP mirrors out there, who are
> engaged in
> noncontroversial businesses, is it really necessary to deal with
> bittorrent?



Illegal music and software was downloaded from FTP servers long before
BitTorrent existed.
I don't think anybody here cares about what the RIAA is saying.
BitTorrent is used to reduce the traffic on FreeBSD mirrors.
You have the right to stop trolling until the Analogy Police comes for
you.

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Re: mount USB-Device

2006-12-11 Thread Jona Joachim
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:29:14 +0100 (MET)
Karl Sinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to use one of my USB-MP3-Players.
> 
> I plug it in and I can see with dmesg that the device is recognised
> by the kernel.
> 
> "mount /dev/da0 /mnt " gives an error message: incorrect superblock.
> "mount -t fat /dev/da0 /mnt" gives an error message that mount_fat is
> not found

try with msdosfs instead of fat.

Jona
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Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)

2006-12-08 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:25:59 +0800
张韡武 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great
> firewall of China:
> 
> 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server;
> 2) I run this command on my desktop:
> $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server;
> 3) everybody in the office edit /etc/hosts, add this line:
> [my_ip_addr] en.wikipedia.org
> 
> So my computer become a 'proxy'.
> 
> The trouble is I have to keep the ssh running there. The 'proxy' will
> not automatically set up next time I reboot my computer.

You can put the command into /etc/rc.local for it to be executed at
boot time.

Jona
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Re: DVD Movies

2006-12-04 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:09:24 -0500
John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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 Linux-specific, but
> svgalib is certainly available on FreeBSD. The only trick is getting
> it configured properly..

It works with ncurses, too.
Perhaps this will be helpful:
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/4441

Jona
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Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-04 Thread Jona Joachim
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 08:14:44 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:53:44PM -0800, Atom Powers wrote:
> > On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly.
> > >
> > >I typed
> > >
> > >arp -a
> > >
> > >and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet
> > >host one second ago.
> > 
> > The ARP table is a cache of known ARP<->IP addresses. If there are
> > no addresses in the ARP table then the system will send out an ARP
> > broadcast to discover the ARP address that belongs to the IP
> > address. Of course only the Ethernet hosts on your local network
> > will be in your ARP table.
> > 
> > -- 
> > --
> > Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard.
> > --Atom Ray Powers--
> 
> Thank you for response.
> 
> But why there is no MAC address of my ADSL modem connected via
> Ethernet? Does my host send broadcast frames to communicate with
> modem everytime?
> 
> Furthermore, when I ping the modem, a proper entry appears in table:
> 
> 
> $arp -a
> 
> $ping -c 1 rt # It is my modem
> PING rt.my.domain (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=254 time=1.298 ms
> 
> --- rt.my.domain ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.298/1.298/1.298/0.000 ms
> 
> $arp -a
> rt.my.domain (192.168.1.1) at 00:13:49:61:f9:b2 on rl0 [ethernet]
> 
> 
> But no entry appears when I communicate trough the modem.

Perhaps your modem works as a transparent bridge.

Jona
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Re: Lacky Doc @ "5.6.2 Using XDM"

2006-11-26 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:06:20 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > You have just about any right in single user mode. Type
> > chmod 644 /etc/ttys
> > If you edit the file using vi and it isn't writable you can force to
> > write to it by typing :w!
> 
> Not if his FS is mounted read-only.

Yes, I forgot that / is mounted read-only when you enter single user
mode, sorry.
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Re: freebsd desktop

2006-11-26 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:51:46 -0600
"Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sunday 26 November 2006 13:15, probsd org wrote:
> > Regarding my earlier email "Do not install FreeBSD as a desktop"
> >
> >   I don't care how long I have been using FreeBSD, or yadda yadda
> > or yadda
> >
> >   when I cvsup ports, update the databse, and install www/firefox
> > and go to a website I expect firefox's javascript or whatever to
> > work.
> >
> >   Perhaps you enjoy perusing the internet looking for different
> > switches and knobs to make it work, I don't.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Maybe it would be good if you install java. It just might work then.
> If you don't, you can't expect it too work.

JavaScript is included in the Gecko engine used by Firefox. This has
nothing to do with Java(TM).

Jona
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Re: Lacky Doc @ "5.6.2 Using XDM"

2006-11-26 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:09:58 +0100
"Ralf Schreijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi there!
> 
> Today I just installed FreeBSD(6.1) for the first time in my life.
> After several tries on my own I decided to go through the
> installation by following the instructions in the handbook. I
> successfully installed and configured Xorg. Everything went well,
> until I reached the section 5.6.2, "Using XDM". I just tried to
> follow the instructions and enabled xdm to start running on the 9th
> virtual terminal by replacing the "off" by "on" in /etc/ttys: ttyv8
> "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure in ttyv8
> "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on secure
> 
> Now I can't do anything. The system directly boots into the xdm,
> prompts a loginscreen and if I login as root (or as a user) there is
> nothing I can do. As I know now there isn't even a chance to leave
> the xdm. If I hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, it flips into the shell an
> returns immediately to xdm and prompts the login again. I tried
> fixing this  through booting in Single User Mode, but I wasn't
> successful because I have no write permission in /etc/ttys during
> this mode.

You have just about any right in single user mode. Type
chmod 644 /etc/ttys
If you edit the file using vi and it isn't writable you can force to
write to it by typing :w!

Try to hit Ctrl+Alt+F2
This should get you to a shell.


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Re: freebsd desktop

2006-11-26 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:15:38 -0800 (PST)
probsd org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Regarding my earlier email "Do not install FreeBSD as a desktop"
>
>   I don't care how long I have been using FreeBSD, or yadda yadda or
> yadda 
>   when I cvsup ports, update the databse, and install www/firefox and
> go to a website I expect firefox's javascript or whatever to work. 
>   Perhaps you enjoy perusing the internet looking for different
> switches and knobs to make it work, I don't. 

Don't be silly. I never had a problem with JavaScript in Firefox and I
never read that anybody had one. If the JavaScript on the site "doesn't
work" this usually means that the script is broken.
Furthermore, as already said, I can't see why it would be the fault of
FreeBSD developers/contributors when Mozilla software doesn't work.
If you want to get help you should perhaps give more detail about what
problem(s) is (are).
After all, if you don't like FreeBSD you don't have to use it.

Jona
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Re: downloading Free BSD

2006-09-21 Thread Jona Joachim
Ryan and Sabrina Tardi wrote:
> What do I do with the ISO files once they are downloaded?  Do I burn
> them directly to a CD then use the CD to install?

Hi and welcome to FreeBSD!

Yes, you use your favorite CD burning software like Nero or CloneCD and
tell it to burn the ISO to the CD. This is a very common procedure and
should be well documented in the software manual.

After having done this you should read the FreeBSD Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/
It should answer most of your questions.

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Re: NDIS/KLDload

2006-09-17 Thread Jona Joachim
Bill Moran wrote:
> Joel Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I need to get the internet up and running on my new FreeBSD6.1 install.  I'm 
>> using a Belkin F5D7050 wireless adapter that is not recognized as a network 
>> interface in install.  This thing works perfectly with ndiswrapper under 
>> linux, which is how I'm writing this message.
>>
>> I tried using NDISulator (ndis), following the handbook instructions to the 
>> keystroke and when I submit the last step
>>
>> kldload if_ndis
>>
>> I get "cannot load if_ndis: file exists"
>>
>> What does this mean and how do I get it to actually work?
> 
> It generally means that the indicated kld is already in the kernel.

The easiest is to unload it and load it again.

kldunload if_ndis
kldload if_ndis

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Re: Firefox and flash revisited. Don't shoot me for this post.

2006-09-16 Thread Jona Joachim
Christopher Hobbs wrote:
> OK, let me preface this by saying flash 7 was marked broken for a reason
> (a very good one at that).  I'm probably going to be stepping on some
> toes here and I'd like to apologize in advance.  I've managed to install
> the broken port by changing a couple of files and using macromedia's own
> package.  It was a no-brainer.
> 
> I don't recommend doing this by any means.  I've carried out this
> installation for two reasons, one was for development on an internal
> machine that never touches the net.  Second because of the sheer volume
> of people asking about how to do this, I was curious to see if it could
> be done.
> 
> I've detailed the process here:  http://altbit.org/?p=207

To get the distinfo file, just run 'make makesum', it's a lot easier.

Commenting out 'RESTRICTED' is not required.

> Let me say again, that this is a VERY bad idea.

If it's a bad idea then why do you tell people how to do it?
You could perhaps just send in a PR with your changes and the maintainer
and the committers will take a look at it.

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Re: What do I need in FreeBSD 6.1 OS to be able to read a USB Dane/Electric 256 MB thumb drive?

2006-09-15 Thread Jona Joachim
ograbme wrote:
> Howdy.
> 
> I've been going round and round here trying to simply read a USB thumb
> drive.  I've searched many web sites, read the various messages on
> this list, the Handbook and other sources, but nothing is very clear
> to me at the moment.  I think I have bits and pieces, but haven't been
> able to put together the puzzle yet, soo ...
> 
> So here is a clip of my dmesg text ...  Note: I haven't included the
> whole dmesg output ... if need be, please advise.



> I see no references to umass and/or da0 which I have come across in my
> readings. In the /dev file there are two devices, usb and usb0, so I
> tried mounting each one of these devices separately, but had no luck.
> Obviously I'm missing something here, so any reasonably detailed
> pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> At the moment I'm not concerned with USB 2.0.  LOL!
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Do you have a custom built kernel? If so, did you include the umass and
da drivers?
What does 'kldstat -v | grep umass' say?

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Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread Jona Joachim
Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 05:52:45PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote:
> 
>> Jerry McAllister wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:46:19AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>>>>> On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote:
>>>>>> Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer.  It is best *not* to show your
>>>>>> friends that when you introduce them to FBSD.
>>>>> Why?  Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads?
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't
>>>>> install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box.
>>>> I don't have the need for Flash either. Youtube and Google Video should
>>>> provide their videos in a proper way.
>>>> I still believe in dynamic SVG for clear animations. You can watch one
>>>> of those on the Opera site about SVG, it's great.
>>>> Nobody needs proprietary binary formats on the Internet.
>>> Nice thought, but the real world is full of flash, much as it annoys me.
>>>
>>> By the way, I didn't find an SVG animation on the Opera page though
>>> it mentioned SVG and hyped it a little.
>> It's there: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/svg/
>> Your browser has to support SVG 1.1 Tiny to view it. I know that Firefox
>> (even 2.0) and Konqueror don't support it yet. Opera supports it from
>> version 8 on.
> 
> OK.   I see it.  But since I am running Firefox, it doesn't do much.
> Are you proposing to add SVG to Firefox or create a 'plugin' for
> Firefox?

SVG 1.1 Tiny became a W3C recommendation on 14th January 2003 so I
believe they will implement it sonner or later

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Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread Jona Joachim
Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Friday 15 September 2006 12:01, Jona Joachim wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> MPlayer handles wmv streams just fine.
>> You may want to check out www/mplayer-plugin, it works perfectly for
>> mozilla.
> 
> OK, I all ready have that installed. How am I suppose to configure it so 
> that when I click on a link that is suppose to require MS Media Player it 
> intercepts it and displays the streaming video?

The MPlayer plugin loads the streams on the cbsnews.com front page just
fine. What browser are you using? I know that the plugin works fine with
Mozilla and Firefox but it doesn't work in Opera (unfortunately). Type
"about:plugins" in the location bar and check for the "Windows Media
Player Plugin" entry. If you can't find it in the list then the browser
can't find the plugin, reinstalling may help.

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Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread Jona Joachim
Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Friday 15 September 2006 10:34, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> 
>> I don't normally use it either, but there are sites that do videos
>> programs that are all in flash and others that use it for graphic
>> demonstrations. So, it is a feature that is desired by many. �It pains me
>> to have to reboot to Microsloth to see something on those sites.
> 
> I concure; having to use a different PC just to view a web page is a 
> negative factor. I have also noticed that several sites, one bing CBSNews. 
> is now doing streaming real-time video; however, it is only viewable via MS 
> Media Player. It specifically states on the web page that 'realplayer' is 
> not fully compatible and not used for many of the feeds.
> 
> It would be nice if a fully compatible player were available for FBSD. I 
> hate switching between PCs.

MPlayer handles wmv streams just fine.
You may want to check out www/mplayer-plugin, it works perfectly for
mozilla.

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Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread Jona Joachim
michael johnson wrote:
> On 9/14/06, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 15, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>>
>> > On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote:
>> >> Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer.  It is best *not* to show your
>> >> friends that when you introduce them to FBSD.
>> >
>> > Why?  Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads?
>> >
>> > I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't
>> > install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box.
>> >
>> > --
>> > -Chuck
>>
>> Unfortunately a lot of consumer sites are starting to use flash as a
>> semi-static and predictable way to deliver content to people; it's
>> incredibly annoying, and becomes very noticeable once you install
>> stuff that blocks SWF files: http://www.noscript.net/whats :). Thus,
>> that is one solution to get rid of your ads (adblock+ is another, but
>> meh), so you can keep Flash functionality and get rid of crappy Flash
>> animations, while surfing the net.
>>
>> Also, FYI: a lot of sites have built animations with (Adobe) Flash 9,
>> so unless you have a Windows or Mac PC nearby you probably won't be
>> able to load up animations on a Unix PC as the latest version
>> available is 7.
> 
> 
> Go to http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform and
> ask adobe for a native version of flash for FreeBSD.

Great! I bet if everybody fills out this form and asks for a FreeBSD
native version they will perhaps pay attention.

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Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread Jona Joachim
Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:46:19AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote:
> 
>> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>>> On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote:
>>>> Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer.  It is best *not* to show your
>>>> friends that when you introduce them to FBSD.
>>> Why?  Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads?
>>>
>>> I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't
>>> install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box.
>> I don't have the need for Flash either. Youtube and Google Video should
>> provide their videos in a proper way.
>> I still believe in dynamic SVG for clear animations. You can watch one
>> of those on the Opera site about SVG, it's great.
>> Nobody needs proprietary binary formats on the Internet.
> 
> Nice thought, but the real world is full of flash, much as it annoys me.
> 
> By the way, I didn't find an SVG animation on the Opera page though
> it mentioned SVG and hyped it a little.

It's there: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/svg/
Your browser has to support SVG 1.1 Tiny to view it. I know that Firefox
(even 2.0) and Konqueror don't support it yet. Opera supports it from
version 8 on.

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Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread Jona Joachim
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote:
>> Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer.  It is best *not* to show your
>> friends that when you introduce them to FBSD.
> 
> Why?  Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads?
> 
> I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't
> install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box.

I don't have the need for Flash either. Youtube and Google Video should
provide their videos in a proper way.
I still believe in dynamic SVG for clear animations. You can watch one
of those on the Opera site about SVG, it's great.
Nobody needs proprietary binary formats on the Internet.

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Re: Question

2006-09-10 Thread Jona Joachim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello sir
> I am new to freeBSD and i am using "FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE" for my personal
> server.
> i am asking specificly about two questions:
> What is equal to "WGET"?

fetch(1) comes with the base system. You can install wget, curl and
other tools from the ports.

> And why GUNZIP isn't working and how do i unzip ZIPs and RARs?

Using the archivers/unzip and archivers/unrar ports respectively.
If you install archivers/file-roller you have a graphical tool that lets
you handle archives in a very intuitive way.

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Re: ports/java/jdk15

2006-09-07 Thread Jona Joachim
B. Cook wrote:
> Jona Joachim wrote:
>> B. Cook wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> Trying to build java 1.5.0 and it looks like it's needs linux java
>>> 1.4.2? is this right?
>>>
>>> ===>  linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.12 You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK
>>> self-extracting file for the Linux platform
>>> (j2sdk-1_4_2_12-linux-i586.bin) from
>>> http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22&PartDetailId=j2sdk-1.4.2_12-oth-JPR&SiteId=JSC&TransactionId=noreg,
>>>
>>> place it in /usr/ports/distfiles and then run make again.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk14.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk15.
>>
>> Yes, that's right. jdk14 is needed to compile jdk15, welcome to the
>> world of Java ;)
>> Because of license issues you have to fetch the linux jdk14 binary as
>> well as some distfiles required by jdk15 manually as indicated above.
>>
>> However you don't have to build jdk15 as there is an official FreeBSD
>> binary available!
>> See: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?44343C8E.2050707
>>
>> Just install java/diablo-jdk15 and it will install the binary
>>
>> --jona
> 
> So if I just wanted a java binary.. I could also just install the
> java/diablo-jre15

That depends on what you need.
The JRE (Java Runtime Environment) comes with the Java Virtual Machine
and standard libraries: everything you need to run Java binaries.
However, if you want to want to compile Java applications from source
you will need the JDK (Java Development Kit) which comes with the JRE +
the javac compiler and everything else you need to create Java bytecode.

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Re: solaris

2006-09-07 Thread Jona Joachim
White Hat wrote:
> --- Freminlins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> On 06/09/06, White Hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>>  I have
>>> tried Open Office. No matter what anyone says, it
>> is
>>> just not as full featured as Word 2003. It is not
>> even
>>> close.
>>
>> True, but also compare the cost. Not even close...
> 
> Immaterial. the singularly most important feature is
> suitability to task. If it is free and it does not
> work, what good is it?

What feature(s) exactly do you need that OpenOffice doesn't have?
In what way is MS Office better concerning this (these) feature(s)?

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Re: ports/java/jdk15

2006-09-07 Thread Jona Joachim
B. Cook wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Trying to build java 1.5.0 and it looks like it's needs linux java
> 1.4.2? is this right?
> 
> ===>  linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.12 You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK
> self-extracting file for the Linux platform
> (j2sdk-1_4_2_12-linux-i586.bin) from
> http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22&PartDetailId=j2sdk-1.4.2_12-oth-JPR&SiteId=JSC&TransactionId=noreg,
> place it in /usr/ports/distfiles and then run make again.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk14.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk15.

Yes, that's right. jdk14 is needed to compile jdk15, welcome to the
world of Java ;)
Because of license issues you have to fetch the linux jdk14 binary as
well as some distfiles required by jdk15 manually as indicated above.

However you don't have to build jdk15 as there is an official FreeBSD
binary available!
See: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?44343C8E.2050707

Just install java/diablo-jdk15 and it will install the binary

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Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-07 Thread Jona Joachim
Robert Huff wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
>>  anybody seen this behavior before? or have a clue?
> 
>   I don't know if this is your problem, but I have seen similar
> issues.
>   _In my case_, CUPS as ported does not like the permissions on
> /dev/lpt0*.  They default to "crw---"; setting them to
> "crw-rw-rw-" makes the parallel printer appear.
>   There should be a way to tall devfs to change those permissions
> automatically, but I haven't been able to figure it out.

You have to specify
  perm  lpt0  0666
in /etc/devfs.conf

--jona

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Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-06 Thread Jona Joachim
Jonathan Horne wrote:
> is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? 
> or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same
> machine?
> 
> just wondering.  :)

Take a look at misc/tinderbox, it may be just what you need.

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Re: Creating pkg-plist - problems

2006-09-06 Thread Jona Joachim
vittorio wrote:
> Under 6.1 I'm trying to build a port (R-2.3.1) following the instructions in 
> the porters-handbook and particularly I'm having a go at creating the 
> pkg-plist file as suggested in the point 7.5 of
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/plist-autoplist.html
> 
> now,there is said:
>  
> "Next, create a temporary directory tree into which your port can be 
> installed, and install any dependencies.
> # mkdir /var/tmp/$(make -V PORTNAME)
> # mtree -U -f $(make -V MTREE_FILE) -d -e -p /var/tmp/$(make -V PORTNAME)
> # make depends PREFIX=/var/tmp/$(make -V PORTNAME)"
> 
> but, when I try:
> 
> % make -V PORTNAME
> R
> 
> BUT
> % mkdir /var/tmp/$(make -V PORTNAME)
> the answer is 
> "Nome di variabile non lecito" that is "variable name not allowed"
> 
> What's wrong with it?

This is Bourne shell syntax and you are using tcsh. Either type "sh" and
follow the instructions or replace $(make -V PORTNAME) by `make -V PORTNAME`

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Re: flash plugin and firefox

2006-09-02 Thread Jona Joachim
Jordi Carrillo wrote:
> When it says:
> cd /usr/src
> patch -p0< /tmp/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
> 
> a question arises saying:
> File to patch:
> 
> Then what is supposed I have to patch?
> and there's nothing in /usr/src as well.
> Thanks

You don't have the sources of the base system.
You can fetch them using sysinstall or csup.
The FreeBSD Handbook is your friend: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/

The babelfish translation of the page is not so bad:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=pt_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unixlike.com.br%2F%3Fp%3D%252081

P.S. Please don't top post

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Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf

2006-08-30 Thread Jona Joachim
Jonathan Horne wrote:
> ive noticed that apache can be started manually using the apachectl tool, 
> even 
> if it is not enabled in /etc/rc.conf.  do many other daemons have this 
> ability?  i have a dev server that i would like to not have many things 
> enabled in the rc.conf, but i would like an easy way to just start specific 
> daemons when i need.

Take a look at /usr/local/etc/rc.d
You will see several scripts belonging to server applications you
installed. Each one of these scripts can start or stop the service.
For example:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh stop

When you put something into rc.conf it is actually this script that is
executed, so every daemon that can be enabled in rc.conf can also be
started/stopped using those scripts.

Daemons coming with the base system have there scripts in the /etc/rc.d
directory.
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Re: FreeBSD from Scratch

2006-08-04 Thread Jona Joachim
Rich Mayo wrote:
> Is anyone on the list familiar with the "Linux from Scratch" project?
> More to the point, is anybody aware if there is anything like a "FreeBSD
> from Scratch" project??

You may find this interesting:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/index.html

Jona
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Re: AVI to MPEG conversion

2006-07-15 Thread Jona Joachim
Neil Short wrote:
> mplayer is very powerful and it's manpage is
> overwhelming.
> 
> Once you get started with it mplayer's features become
> less inaccessible.

Or you may try gmencoder which offers a GTK interface to the basic
functionality of mencoder. It will be largely sufficient for your needs.

Jona

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Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-19 Thread Jona Joachim
DSA - JCR wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am mounting a NFS server (FreeBSD 6.1 "amd64") for a MS Windows Network
> for a customer and I see that I can not see the NFS server from windows
> boxes.
> 
> Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes?
> I thougth that Windows understand NFS but seems to be not.

There is a commercial solution called "Reflection" by WRQ. Reflection is
a suite of tools to access Unix services from Windows boxes.

http://www.wrq.com/products/reflection/nfs_client/

Best regards
Jona

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Re: how to change roots shell

2006-05-18 Thread Jona Joachim
unixforums 1 wrote:
> Hi,
>  I did a completely newbie move and changed the root’s  shell to something 
> that doesn’t work. So, needless to say now I can’t su to root  or even login 
> as root. Is there a way I can fix this without rebuilding the  server?
>   
>  Thanks for any help you can provide.

Boot in single user mode and change it from there.

Jona
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Re: FreeBSD logo

2006-05-16 Thread Jona Joachim
Adrian Pavone wrote:
> Albert Shih wrote:
> 
>> Hi all
>>
>> No no it's not a new troll for the new/old freebsd's logo ;-)
>>
>> No my question : Where can I find the FreeBSD logo (new or old) to put on
>> my xdm screen.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Albert SHIH
>> Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
>> U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
>> 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10
>> Heure local/Local time:
>> Mon May 15 22:44:30 CEST 2006
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>>  
>>
> If you want Beastie, you can find him at either http://www.freebsd.org/
> or you can always do a search for beastie in http://images.google.com
> 
> In relation to the sex toy, I am not sure of any that don't have a
> background colour/image attached...

You can find it here:
http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html
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sendmail configuration

2006-05-14 Thread Jona Joachim
Hi!
Sendmail drives me mad.
The only thing I want it to do is change the sender's E-Mail address to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and forward everything to smtp.web.de whenever I send mail
from the command line.
It always sends a DNS query to get the MX records of web.de but the
servers designated by the MX records don't accept mail from me as I'm on
a DSL line with no static IP address. I even tried to specify the IP
address of the mailserver directly so that the words "web.de" don't
occur in any configuration file but it still queries for the MX records.


When I type:

#sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
test
.

sendmail first tries to contact the web.de server that is designated by
the MX record. When this server refuses to accept to mail it directly
contacts the gmail server. When I receive the mail the sender's address
is [EMAIL PROTECTED] although I mapped this address to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] in genericstable.
I attached /var/log/maillog and a libpcap file (sniffed using ethereal)
which describe what happens when I issue the command above.

I also attached following configuration files:
/etc/mail/nirvana.lan.net.mc
/etc/mail/nirvana.lan.submit.mc
/etc/mail/genericstable
/etc/rc.conf
/etc/hosts

I created all the .cf and .db files using the Makefile in /etc/mail.
I'm sorry to bug you with this, I must be missing something obvious.



ethereal
Description: Binary data

May 14 19:24:52 nirvana sm-mta[11087]: starting daemon (8.13.6): [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]:30:00
May 14 19:24:52 nirvana sm-msp-queue[11090]: starting daemon (8.13.6): [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]:30:00
May 14 19:24:52 nirvana sm-mta[11088]: k4BIAfF8000497: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
delay=2+23:14:09, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=5521614, relay=10.0.0.11. 
[10.0.0.11], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by 10.0.0.11.
May 14 19:24:54 nirvana sm-mta[11088]: k4AItUc2007774: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
delay=3+22:29:22, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=esmtp, pri=5970323, 
relay=mx-ha02.web.de. [217.72.192.188], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection 
reset by mx-ha02.web.de.
May 14 19:25:00 nirvana sendmail[11097]: k4EHP0oE011097: from=root, size=256, 
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
May 14 19:25:00 nirvana sm-mta[11098]: k4EHP0vK011098: from=<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>, size=547, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
proto=ESMTP, daemon=Daemon0, relay=localhost.lan.net [127.0.0.1]
May 14 19:25:00 nirvana sendmail[11097]: k4EHP0oE011097: to=root, ctladdr=root 
(0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30256, 
relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k4EHP0vK011098 Message 
accepted for delivery)
May 14 19:25:00 nirvana sm-mta[11099]: k4EHP0vK011098: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, 
mailer=local, pri=30810, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
May 14 19:25:05 nirvana sendmail[11101]: k4EHP38b011101: from=default, size=5, 
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
May 14 19:25:06 nirvana sm-mta[11102]: k4EHP5VZ011102: from=<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>, size=340, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
proto=ESMTP, daemon=Daemon0, relay=localhost.lan.net [127.0.0.1]
May 14 19:25:06 nirvana sendmail[11101]: k4EHP38b011101: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
ctladdr=default (1001/0), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, 
pri=30005, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k4EHP5VZ011102 
Message accepted for delivery)
May 14 19:25:07 nirvana sm-mta[11104]: k4EHP5VZ011102: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1001/0), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:01, 
mailer=esmtp, pri=30340, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. [64.233.183.114], 
dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK 1147627507 a23si3294417nfc)

check_quotas="NO"

font8x16="iso15-8x16.fnt"
keymap="swissfrench.iso.acc"

sshd_enable="NO"
usbd_enable="YES"
inetd_enable="NO"
ntpdate_enable="YES"

sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="YES"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES"

linux_enable="YES"
compat4x_enable="NO"
compat5x_enable="YES"

lpd_enable="YES"

nessusd_enable="NO"

apache22_enable="NO"
postgresql_enable="YES"
postgresql_data="/var/pgsql"

moused_enable="NO"
moused_ums0_enable="NO"
moused_nondefault_enable="NO"

hostname="nirvana.lan.net"
ifconfig_sk0="inet 10.0.0.11 netmask 255.0.0.0"
defaultrouter="10.0.0.1"

127.0.0.1   localhost.lan.net localhost

10.0.0.11   nirvana.lan.net nirvana
10.0.0.12   padres

#Brother AP206 Printer
10.0.0.21   RNP6C37EB


default [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]


divert(-1)
#
# Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman
# Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
#   The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved

Re: user accounts messed up

2006-01-22 Thread Jona Joachim

Jona Joachim wrote:

On 21/01/06, Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(...)

I created a master.passwd file from the backup file in /var/backups
and emptied the password field. Then I updated the database with
pwd_mkdb but I still can't login.


In fact it has nothing to do with the user database or the passwd file.
I reinstalled the base system and I found out the following: If I boot
with the newly installed /usr in place I can login. Then I can move the
/usr folder and mount my old /usr partition, set the lib paths with
ldconfig and then everything works fine. If I boot using the old /usr
partition I can't login and I am told my password is wrong.
I don't get it.
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Re: user accounts messed up

2006-01-21 Thread Jona Joachim
On 21/01/06, Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(...)

I created a master.passwd file from the backup file in /var/backups
and emptied the password field. Then I updated the database with
pwd_mkdb but I still can't login.
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user accounts messed up

2006-01-21 Thread Jona Joachim
Hi!
I did something quite stupid...
I installed postgresql from ports and created an unprivileged user
account for it. I wanted to install the database in /var/pgsql and
wanted to chown the folder to the unprivileged user.
To do this, I entered the following as root: chown -R /var/pgsql/
As this command took more than two seconds I presumed chown had
followed .. and so I hit Ctrl-C. After having done this I tried to
switch to the unprivileged user account with su and it said something
like "setuid not running". After having tried to recover from this
situation without success I decided to reboot the system. Now I can't
login to any user account anymore, not even root. I am told the
password is not correct. I tried to boot in single user mode, mount
/usr and change the root password with passwd but I am denied
permission to change master.passwd. Is it possible that the user
database is corrupt? I would be glad if anyone was able to help me.
Greetings, Jona
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Partitioning

2006-01-15 Thread Jona Joachim
Hi!
I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I have some concerns about partitioning.
I plan to install FreeBSD-6 as a desktop system and I bought a new
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JB hard drive to use it as a second
disk for storing music, movies, photos and stuff like that on it. I
also want to put the swap partition on it as this drive will be idle
most of the time. So basically I want to create 2 partitions on this
drive: one 2GB partition for swap and one big UFS partition for data.
Fdisk reported that it couldn't clearly identify the disk architecture
because it thinks that the architecture is different from what BIOS
tells. Here is fdisk's output after having created a slice:

*** Working on device /dev/ad1 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 0, size 156296322 (76316 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 512/ head 253/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:

The data for partition 3 is:

The data for partition 4 is:


After creating a slice I created the partitions inside it with
disklabel. In every example I saw the swap partition was in the second
place. However, I want it to be in the beginning of the disk as this
should result in better performance. Are there any concerns about this
layout? I basically used the standards mentioned by the manual pages
of disklabel:

8 partitions:
# size   offsetfstype [fsize   bsize bps/cpg]
  a: 2g  *  swap
  b:   *  *  4.2BSD  4096 16384  64
  c:   *  *   unused

Here is an output of what the layout now actually looks like:

# /dev/ad1s1:
8 partitions:
#size offsetfstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a:  41943040  swap
  b: 152102018 4194304  4.2BSD 4096 16384 20732
  c: 156296322 0   unused   0 0

The number of cylinders in a cylinder group bps/cpg was automatically
changed to 20732 which is quite different from 64. Why is that so?
I haven't had any problems with the disk until now but I don't want to
expose my data to danger by using a broken disk layout.
Thanks for your help!
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