Daniela wrote:
Hi there!
I found many interesting Linux programs on sourceforge.net and other sites,
but they're not in the ports collection. So I thought I'll port some of these
to FreeBSD. However, I'm still pretty new to FreeBSD and I never ported
anything.
I can't even compile most of the
jxz wrote:
Hello!
I'm considering upgrading from Linux to FreeBSD in my home machine. I
have some doubts concerning the ports collection:
Nice participle (gerund?) in that first sentence :-)
I would use the 4.8-RELEASE branch. The ports are stalled (just
security upgrades) or they continue to
jason dictos wrote:
Hi All,
I've always used grep text /*/*/* to recursivly search directories for
files with the specified text string in them, however this method doesn't
always work very well (sometimes it bails out halfway through with error
"Argument list too long").
Is there a more e
Rogue Spider wrote:
is there a freebsd equivalent to scandisk and
diskdefrag so that i can clean the drive it says on
start up that the dir are fragmented but after that i
am unsertain.
If there is "fragmentation", it is cleaned up
in the boot process (for 4.x) or done in
the background after b
Gerard Samuel wrote:
Could someone point me to a man page, where I can temporarily change
the time on
FBSD 4.8.
Im testing a php script and Im looking to see how it will handle the
upcoming time change this weekend.
Thanks
Hmm, I'm going to step out on a limb and recommend:
$man date
You can
Damien Hull wrote:
I've got Apache running on 4 stable. The server started out with one
network card plugged into our privet network. We could get to the
website on the server just fine.
Here is what we want
1. access from the outside
2. some websites will be internal and others will be public
CBuH. wrote:
Hello Q-s..
I have some problems in saving russian words/files/chars/sententces... to file
in ufs, I know that I does nothing in locale'n my box, but I want help on it.
Every russian symbol is shown as ``?'' and after saving to file and then --
openning it I have ``? ??? ??''
Leo P. Gaten wrote:
Greetings:
Are there any wordprocessing/spreadsheet packages available that run
on BSD?
Leo Gaten
Sequim, WA
Of course! AbiWord, oleo, sc, and of course Open Office come
to mind. And that's just the free stuff ... how 'bout Sun's "Open
Office" ... and textmaker.de just rel
Chris Readle wrote:
Doesn't Sun call their version Star Office?
Doh! Long day, please 'scuse
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Are there issues with trying to install 4.8 on i386 machines? I've tried
upgrading from 4.2 on ISO cd to using the FTP site directly, even tried
a clean install from the ISO but the istall continues to fall apart while
retrieving anything with the Xserver and the
Gregory Stearns wrote:
I hate to be a pest but is there a utility to do http web browsing from the command line, and how would I use it?
Lynx (/usr/ports/lynx) is a text mode http browser.
To install, connect to the Internet, and then run
the following commands as root:
$cd /usr/ports/lynx
$ma
Rob wrote:
Hello,
My parents have an internet provider, that uses the TV-cable and
connects through the USB port. The provider only has M$-Window$
software provided, and this works now with a single computer.
I want to replace this M$-Window$ computer by a FreeBSD router,
to start a home networ
Remko Lodder wrote:
RazorOnFreeBSD wrote:
Hello,
I just setup a freebsd box with the 5.1 release to be a
gateway/firewall.
The installation was smooth and to setup the gateway/firewall with
nat a lot
of sources are available on Internet.
Here is my problem, I can't connect to Internet from the
Rob wrote:
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
Rob wrote:
My parents have an internet provider, that uses the TV-cable and
connects through the USB port. The provider only has M$-Window$
software provided, and this works now with a single computer.
I want to replace this M$-Window$ computer by
Jay Moore wrote:
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 04:39 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
What this means is that the eel2-2.4.1 port claims to have a
dependency on the gtk-2.2.4_1 port, but no such port is installed --
it's listed in the file:
Amazing! That makes sense... why, oh why isn't it in th
Chris Hill wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Andrew Elmore wrote:
[...] I can't for the life of me figure out how to print a manpage.
The closest "man man" gives me is:
-t Use /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual page, passing the
output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff -S -man m
Andreas Davour wrote:
Hi!
I just decided to take a deep breath and cvsup some fresh ports. Now,
having done that I have run 'portupgrade -ar' and constantly found it to
stop some problems.
Some ports have failed and been flagged as "configure error" or "install
error". Then I have tried to do a m
Andreas Davour wrote:
Hi!
And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new
cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!?
Because it's a dependancy of about 538 distinct
ports, at least one of which you must have
installed
GNOME, perhaps
Kevi
Andreas Davour wrote:
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Martin Hudec wrote:
Could it be I have made such a basic mistake as to not cvsup'ed a vital
dependedcy?! I kind of figured the newly cvsup'ed port of cvsup would have
included a new example file of ports-supfile if that had been the problem.
One should
lrnobs wrote:
I am setting up a new server so I could just reinstall, but this is a
learning opportunity.
I was changing the hostname of the computer. In rc.conf I apparently left
the leading " off the name.
BSD doesn't like this. It stops the boot and allows/forces me to a shell. So
I found that
David Jones wrote:
Hello. I’m struggling with my first install of FreeBSD
(4.9 from CDROM).
I can find my way around the kernel config (visual and cli)
but when I quit this, the sysinstall menu appears and my
keyboard is dead (reset button doesn't work either). I
have tried to supply as much rel
Jeff Coleman wrote:
I have a Dlink 614 + router I use on my network using roadrunner as my
isp
I am running 5.2 freebsd
I installed the MTR package and it can resolve names when it runs
Ping works fine, and using Links text browser I can access the net.
Traceroute itself however will not resolve n
Casey wrote:
Hello,
Also, on a completely unrelated note, how do you get the mouse scroll
wheel to work? I've got a Microsoft Optical mouse(PS/2) and while I
can use the wheel as a middle button, the scroll function doesn't seem
to help.
Thank you
Casey
Hi, Casey!
Check the FAQ
David Jones wrote:
Hi all - I'm still trying to debug my first install of
FreeBSD (4.9-RELEASE). Can anyone suggest why lsdev would
hang with the following? bcachestat also reports a lot of
misses - would this point at dodgy memory?
ok heap
Active Allocations: 581/598
155648 bytes reserved 62288
Lisa wrote:
Greetings all,
It has been a long time since I worked with any unix, and I had a spare pc
laying around that hadn't been on in months, so I decided to toss freebsd
onto it.
The installation went smoothly and I've got it up and running. My next goal
is to get it's internet access work
RazorOnFreeBSD wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have some troubles with ssh
I have a Freebsd server 4.9 working in a closet without screen.
So I would like to use it through ssh from another station with OpenSSH to configure
it when I need it.
I can connect with a user login / password, but not with ro
RazorOnFreeBSD wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just had an electricity problem ... my freebsd server
lost the power and shutted down without being requested.
So far everything looks good on the system, except for sshd
When the kernel boot up it is one of the daemons started,
it is clearly written. Ex
RazorOnFreeBSD wrote:
I have a firewall and it's running.
But the outputs for the command "ps -auxv | grep sshd" are :
root93 0.00.430082176??Is6:19PM0:00.16
/usr/sbin/sshd
root1680.00.0336 204 v0R+ 6:58PM0:00.01
grep sshd
I d
RazorOnFreeBSD wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RazorOnFreeBSD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: ssh Connection refused
Thank
Can anyone help me interpret the following output?
I read the ping manpage, but came to the end before
I learned much that helps me here
Other than "source" and "destination", where can I
find an explanation for the rest of this? And, if possible,
can you tell me what might be happening?
I've
Rob wrote:
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
can you tell me what might be happening?
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [/home/kdk] [16:25]
#sudo ping -s 2048 app
PING app.southuni.com (192.168.0.80): 2048 data bytes
36 bytes from app.southuni.com (192.168.0.80): Destination Host
Unreachable
Th
Brian Henning wrote:
Greetings,
The following files are in the /src directory on the bsd install cd. How can I
get the most recent version of these files?
or are they only updated on release?
Thanks,
Brian
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 240640 Apr 10 04:54 ssys.aa*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 240640
Peter Leftwich wrote:
I thought I would post this as something of a warning. Using
FreeBSD as a primary, non-dual-boot OS means sacrificing. Here is a
partial list of sacrifices, as compared to Microsoft Windows XP:
I'm sure you put on your flame-retardant PJ's before you posted,
right? So,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just installed FreeBSD 5.1, but I can't get online. When I
try to ping yahoo, it either hangs or gives me an error message.
Several folks on the list would like it if you'd
wrap your email message lines at 80 chars
or so
Can you "ping 66.218.71.114"? Also, what
is
Robert Storey wrote:
Dear all,
Having looked at the mind-boggling amount of configuration information
that is in the Handbook, I decided to just install CUPS. I'm very familiar
with CUPS, having configured it many times in Linux.
So I installed the CUPS daemon, and started it by going to
/usr/loc
RazorOnFreeBSD wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm pretty sure I so that in another thread but I can't remember and I can't find it in the archive.
I don't search the right words probably
I just would like to know how can I read the exact text that is displaying very fast at the FreeBSD boot.
All the
Hi chip,
Please wrap your characters at 80 columns
of so for some of the people who use text
based email. Thanks!
Read on..
chip wrote:
Yesterday I installed, from pkg_add, mysql/php/apache and apache and php
work fine, mysql did not create the /tmp/mysql.sock file. I have searched
the drive
Stephen Fisher wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:46:21AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst
4 5 00 05dc 07bd 0 3f 01 1677 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.80
The device (router?) is sending a host unreachable message
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey thanks! If that isn't in any of the copious instructions on doing the upgrade it should be.
It was, but given their "copious" nature, it's
possible to miss it:
From gnome-upgrade.sh:
echo "You can watch the upgrade process in real-time by running:"
echo "
James T. Harrison wrote:
My server had some apps running that should not have been there.
That is probably true. It's possible that Microsoft Windows(R)
is one of them, in this case.
You have a hacker using your site to gather info on servers.
That doesn't ring true. Your machine is t
Brian Henning wrote:
The following is a copy of my kernel config file. I am trying to optimize it as
much as possible.
do i need any of these psudo devices?
pseudo-device loop # Network loopback
Most people would leave this in. I've no idea
what might break without it, but I'll wager somet
Henrik Zagerholm wrote:
Hi all!
Installing 5.2 on my new box with an integraded Intel PRO 1000 CT NIC.
System detects it as em0 but I cant get it to work. I'm trying dhcp
and I have added the line: ifconfig_em0="DHCP" in rc.conf but I still
get this problem.
em0: Watchdog Timeout ---Resetting
I
Dan wrote:
I made an error in the rc.conf.conf file used ;# for rem statement.
Oops! You can recover, but it may be a tad tricky.
It hang on that statement at boot.
But then it at least gives a loader prompt, apparently?
Also can't find shell get error message to use /bin/sh hit return.
Dick Davies wrote:
* Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0430 12:30]:
Here's your answer. This means that the SMTP server that you
use as a relay is poorly configured. There is a FAQ entry:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES
Looks like the 4th bull
Edward Aronyk wrote:
Just a heads up: I did a search of the archives before posting this and
found several posts that sort of answer my question, but none that
answer it completely so I am posting this. If my question has been
answered elsewhere I am sorry for wasting your time and only ask that
s
Chris wrote:
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 07:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 12:18, you wrote:
I found an email that said Audigy support was added to current after
5.2 was released. I doubt it ever made it into 5.2.1. You might do
your own search of the archives. I was
hal wrote:
A coworker is bumping up against the one terabyte
file system size limit of Redhat Linux. He needs
more space. Can FreeBSD help? Where would I look
for info?
hal
This gets asked periodically, but AFAIK isn't
documented as a FAQ. Furthermore, the best
I can suggest is that you try
Aaron Sloan wrote:
Is the TCP vulnerability something to worry about in Freebsd?
http://www.osvdb.org/displayvuln.php?osvdb_id=4030
Thanks,
Aaron
This potential DOS is currently being discussed
on the freebsd-security list. I'm counting about
15 posts in my inbox on that one since someone
po
Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi Bill,
- snip -
You can use dump/tar to back up the actual data.
I also apply 'tar' command to backup actual data
keeping the directory tree simultaneously. Kindly
advise what is 'dump/tar'
B.R.
Stephen
I'm pretty sure he meant "OR", as in "you can use
dump or ta
Peter Tokanel wrote:
Hi,
I am new to unix but I have managed to setup a home network using
Free BSD. The
FreeBSD box is a gateway/firewall/router for my Windows XP box and a
wireless access
point. The XP box can access the web just great using the shared
connection.
My problem is when email
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am tring to install mrtg on my test FreeBSD 5.1 box. I change into my
/usr/ports/net/mrtg directory and find that there is only a README.html
How can I get this port back? I tried to cvsup it with ports-all but the
files are not there. What would be a quick solution
Christoph Kukulies wrote:
I was trying to find out why I din't receive any mail from
the freebsd-java list and sent a
which
command to majordomo at freebsd.org but didn't get
me listed with my email address. That's strange since I'm definitely
subscribed to a couple of lists and I'm receiving mes
Joe Rhett wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:47:01PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote:
I'll make a try at answering the issues you raise, but the best way of
handling missing documentation is to submit PR's which update the
manpages or the Handbook with something better.
When I know what somet
Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote:
Can anybody point me to an application capable to view such files (or
extract them into HTMLs)? For those asking what I'm talking about: *.chm is a
MSWindows format to keep a set of HTMLs & related info (content tree, index)
in one compressed package. The Microsoft's u
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Is there a way for me to find out which port provides the fig2dev
binary? I tried pkg_which and ports_glob, but I think that the former
operates on installed ports only, and the latter operates on port
names only.
Hm. Ah, I could "grep fig2dev /usr/ports/*/*/pkg-plist", bu
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Is there a way for me to find out which port provides the fig2dev
binary? I tried pkg_which and ports_glob, but I think that the former
operates on installed ports only, and the latter operates on port
names only.
Bah! Weekend, and my brain is turned off. Sorry for
was
Gerard Seibert wrote:
This is probably very simple, but I can not seem to get it to work.
I have one physical 3.5" 1.44MB drive. It is configured as /dev/fd0. Is there
a way that I can also configure this drive to be /dev/fd1. The reason is that
I have an alias command : alias A:='sudo mount -t
Ralph M. Los wrote:
Hi,
I'm thinking of converting the last of my servers (Win2k) to
FreeBSD. This last box has the following things, and I want to make
sure I can get the equivalent in FreeBSD. Could someone give me
suggestions on the stuff I can't find info on?
This is a long list,
Bruce Hunter wrote:
Brad Tarver wrote:
Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:02 PM:
Brad Tarver wrote:
Check /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/rc.conf for your defaultrouter entry.
my defaultrouter entry is set to my router ip, any other ideas?
hmmm.
what are you trying to ping? an ip address or a host
Bruce Hunter wrote:
I am trying to install 'Portupgrade' using the ports collection
What does this mean? and how do I solve the problem
Dependency warning: used OpenSSL version contains known vulnerabilities
Please update or define either WITH_OPENSSL_BASE or WITH_OPENSSL_PORT
Thanks,
Bruce
Yo
frank wei wrote:
Hi FreeBSD,
I'm a software engineer in the networking industry. I'm very intersted
in the the implementation of IP routing in FreeBSD. Two questions here:
1. Can I get FreeBSD source code without any charge?
2. If so, how can I get them?
Regards,
Well, for starters, you *could
cc'ed to questions: let's move it there?
Geoffrey Lane wrote:
I'm fairly familiar with linux and have been running redhat for a few years
now. I'm looking for something I have more control over and isn't bloated
with alot of stuff I don't need...
BSD is on the top of my list, there are only a f
Peter Risdon wrote:
Darryl Hoar wrote:
I have 5.1-release installed. I wish to install php4 and want it to
work with apache, mysql and openldap. Which one of the php ports
do I use ?
Easiest thing to do is install www/mod_php4 and select the options
you want (mysql - which is a default - and
xavier collot wrote:
Hi!!
In the FreeBSD handbook, the chapter 18.3.3 talk about the file
/etc/ppp/options.
I think I must create it and copy that it's written in the
handbook concerning this file but I'm not sure.
Xavier
That is correct, oui
Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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David H. Ingham wrote:
Hopefully, a simple question.
I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client.
my system is:
FreeBSD Version 5.2
Apache Version 2.0.47
MySQL Version 4.0.16
My
Lex Hider wrote:
OK, there are 2 things I'd like help with:
1)
What's the recommended or best way for ripping audio
CDs in FreeBSD-5.X? That is putting music CD to HD for
encoding ogg/flac/mp3 etc.
I use lame (/usr/ports/audio/lame).
KDK
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mark wrote:
On May 5, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
David H. Ingham wrote:
Hopefully, a simple question.
I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client.
my system is:
FreeBSD Version 5.2
Apache
Thomas Beer wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently trying to install XFree86-4. It stops with
Error code 127 makestrs: not found but makestrs is located
in /usr/X11R6/bin and the path is set. Any pointers would
be highly appreciated.
Thanks Tom
Hello Tom,
Unfortunately, I'm not able to help you. There are
Bruce Hunter wrote:
Hi all,
I installed Apache 2 from the ports collection. Does apache2 come with
php support? Probably not, but not sure. I want to install php on the
system. I'm not sure what port I need to install?? All the pre recks..
are for 1.* versions of Apache. What's the deal?
Thanks
Bob wrote:
Hi there,
I'm having a difficult time turning off the keyboard bell. I have tried
kbdcontrol -b off and setting keybell="NO" in rc.conf, but this only shortens
it down to a chirp. If I set kbdcontrol -b visual, then the audible bell goes
away completely and I get a flashing screen i
Karen Donathan wrote:
Hello.
What is the best way to back up the html directory? We do not have a
tape drive.
There are many. Keep watching the list and some might show up.
Is there a way to have an automated .tar file created and
sent as email so I could save it on another server? Any h
Grant Peel wrote:
Hi all,
TO this point, I have been installing everything from source. Starting with
the new servers, which I am working on now, I would like to do as much as
possible from ports.
I have mysql installed correctly.
I need now to install PHP and Apache.
The source type install would
Dark-MiXer wrote:
Hello,
Im having problems with the clock on my FreeBSD 5.1-Release, and as a
newbie in that area I dont have a clue on what could be wrong.
The problem is, that it count too fast. It seem like it's counting 2
times the speed it should.
The FreeBSD is running on an old Gigabyte GA-
Steven Adams wrote:
Hi,
Server specs
Dual p4 xeon 2.4 (4virtual cpus)
1gig ecc ram
5x 36gig 10k rpm scsi on a ami megaraid
I only host a few web sites on this server which at the most peak hour of
times there is only about 6-7%cpu usage. For some reason my load avg's will
jump from 0.05 to 0.98 eve
Your Name wrote:
i have a server that's running FreeBSD 4.7 and the
security patches are up to date but most software
hasn't been upgraded in a long time. im trying to do
some basic maintenance and there are some problems.
First i want to upgrade Emacs from an older version,
but when i try to do th
Marco Beishuizen wrote:
Hi,
When I had 4.7-RELEASE running on my alpha I had acroread4 installed.
Now I run 4.10-RELEASE but Acroread4 isn't in the ports anymore. I have
Acroread3 installed but this version is very old and can't display
some pdf's
correctly. Unfortunately version 5 is i386 only.
Aaron Dalton wrote:
Thank you so much for your replies! This makes much more sense now.
I am currently running Snort. I will examine its documentation to see if
promiscuous mode is really necessary.
It is.
In the meantime, am I correct in
assuming the only threat is from local users?
Doug Poland wrote:
Joshua Tinnin wrote:
Two sites that failed consistently for me were
>>http://www.pga.com and
http://www.statefarm.com
The browser versions are
Mozilla 1.7.2
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3
Both versions were built from ports the day after the port was
committed. All other ports are up-t
Cubicool wrote:
Anyways, again, sorry for the bumpage, but I have another complete day off
and if I can find out that FreeBSD doesn't support it yet, I'm going to try
and spend this time finding an alternative solution. If, however, support
will be added soon, I won't reformat and I'll just go with
Jason Lieurance wrote:
Hello,
Late couple days on our Freebsd 4.7 email/web server I've got this message in the
nightly cron jobs:
Checking setuid files and devices:
Checking for uids of 0:
root 0
toor 0
You have this line:
# 300.chkuid0
daily_status_security_chkuid0_enable="YES"
set in
indunil wrote:
Hi,
I installed FREEBSD 5.2.1. I can telnet to Free BSD box from Windows 2000
client. I can telnet to it with my USERNAME and PASSWORD. Then I want to be
root. So I issue SU - ( or SU - root). then FreeBSD box asks me the
password (root's password ).
when I give root's password, Fre
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
I'm a little confused about using cvsup. I'm referring to 2
resources (The Complete FreeBSD - 4th edition, and
www,freebsd.org manual for cvsup). BTW, I currently have FreeBSD 4.8
installed.
Ok, so, I know I need to edit a supfile and I have found
all the examples. But it
Abid Saigol wrote:
I am a newbie to FreeBSD
Welcome!
<>I'm using an old machine right now with limited disk space, so I
don't want to install
the entire ports collection. I want to build a custom port tree, and
I'm finding
the docs to be a bit silent on this account as I guess nowadays disk
s
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
After going through a cvsup
make buildworld
make kernel
reboot
I am now on make installworld
A little too quickly, it seems.
I had to do a mergemaster -p in order to get make installworld to run,
And the reason for that you may see in a minute ...
but finally after seemingly
Emon wrote:
Hello everyone
I am a newbie, I have just installed FreeBSD(4.10), and would
appreciate some guidance.
First of all, is there any user friendly File Manager like
Midnight Commander (or anything else)?
Welcome to FBSD. If you've installed the ports tree, try
this from a shell prompt:
Abbas Karbassian wrote:
Dear All;
I install freebsd4.10 it was working ok before.
Recently I tried to boot into freebsd and following
message displayed on the monitor:
--Start of Message
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
Root mount failed: 6
Manual root filesystem speci
Mark Withers wrote:
Hello everyone!
I've been using FBSD for a few years now, but am not
sure as to what a 'stale dependency' is...
I am receiving an error message with ymessenger pkg
that it has stale dependencies and to use 'pkgdb -F'
to fix or -O to force.
I'm a bit inexperienced when it comes t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. I'm using an old Gateway Pentium 90mhz, w/ 72MB of RAM - I don't
actually know what kind of controller, but there is a second hard drive
(Western Digital IDE) in the computer. I made the boot floppies for
release 4.10 as indicated in the handbook and so on, and I
Hakim Z. Singhji wrote:
I am having problems getting a connection to my FreeBSD gateway from my
Mandrake 10 Linux Machine. I am able to ping, traceroute, ssh etc. the
linux box from my freeBSD machine however I am not able to ping the
gateway. What could be the problem, this is my configuration:
Fr
Jay O'Brien wrote:
I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in
/usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is
a mess. This is a tutorial on "make". I've unzipped
the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display
tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file.
Wh
Jay O'Brien wrote:
I finally have XFree86 working, at least to the point that
I can type "X" and get the expected grid and "X" mouse cursor.
That in itself doesn't seem very useful, but it works.
As a learning exercise, which Desktop environment should I
install as a first effort, and how do I r
Florian Hengstberger wrote:
Hi!
I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm in trouble with installing software
using the ports collection. After typing "make install" everything
seems to be okay, but in most cases I get a message like this after
a few minutes:
fetch time out
It seemed to me that the mirror
Cristi Tauber wrote:
hi all,
I compile a 5.2.1 release's kernel with IPFIREWALL and IPSEC (?
IPSEC_ESP). I compiled the kernel w/o errors i rebooted and everything
works great. I mention that I do not installed any IPSEC software at
that time. I downloaded qmail ? ucspi and try to instal
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
BTW, how come I can't scroll on the terminal.
You can't?
In Linux I am used to using PGUP and PGDN in order to
scroll up and down my terminal.
Works in FreeBSD, also.
I can't figure out that functionality under FreeBSD.
Even under bash this doesn't work.
(NB. I am not us
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
Ok, it looks as though cvsup from 4.8 to 4.10 has been successful.
Now, first off I want to say that I want this server to be a second
Postfix / Courier IMAP server (our other is on a RedHat server, but
that's irrelevant).
I feel that I should go ahead and first upgrade to
Riki wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know if FreeBSD could work on my PC. I noticed a lot of
stuff about supported architectures, but that isn't my language yet and I
can't tell if my computer fits into one of them or not. I would really
appreciate your assistance.
I have a pentium 4, intell processor
wilsonb wrote:
Good Morning,
My name is Brian Wilson and I am currently studying computer science honours
at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg South Africa. As part
of our honours course we have to conduct some small scale research projects.
A number of us are in the position of h
Joshua Tinnin wrote:
On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700
Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question
has been answered previously, but please forgive me
Douglas Blancahrd wrote:
Yes, I need a list of minimal requirements for FreeMSD,
Do you mean FreeBSD? ;-)
including amount of video card memory or whatever it's called,
Well, video card memory is video card memory. It sounds
as if you're expecting a Windows-like "recommended minimum
hardware
Joel [Alikzus] Nilsson wrote:
[fixed overlong lines]
Hi!
As my long subject says I can't upgrade from 5.2.1-p9 to 5.3-BETA1
(Source CVSuped with RELENG_5 tag). When I tries to build the kernel
I got the error message beneth, telling me I got the wrong version of
config. How can I upgrade just confi
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