J. W. Ballantine wrote:
The full fdisk output is:
*** Working on device /dev/ad0 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=4865 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
[snip]
I take it that the partition sizees reported are correct?
It a Dell, but given the
Mark Ovens wrote:
Not come across Smart Boot Manager but I wonder if it creates a small
partition to run from; the OS/2 Boot Manager, which was also shipped
with older versions of Partition Magic, did but, like recovery
partitions it didn't get a drive letter.
Ah! I've just thought
Bart Silverstrim wrote:
On May 7, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Mark Ovens wrote:
J. W. Ballantine wrote:
It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came
pre-installed from the factory.
I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS pre-installed.
Not always. I am running FBSD
Patrick Crosby wrote:
Joshua Lokken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[from
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html]
[snip]
[snip]
# make -j4 buildworld
[snip]
Be aware that this is still somewhat experimental, and commits to the
source tree may occasionally break this
J. W. Ballantine wrote:
Ok, either I'm missing something very basic or
I'm trying to mount a w2k ntfs file system with: mount_ntfs
/dev/ad0s1 /C and I get back: mount_ntfs: /dev/ad0s1: Invalid
Argument
Is the filesystem you are trying to mount the first _primary_ partition
on the first (i.e.
J. W. Ballantine wrote:
yes, there is only one hard disk.
What does the output from `fdisk ad0' show?
Regards,
Mark
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I've run `pkgdb -F' prior to using portupgrade to update some ports. The
obvious stuff, such as dependency versions being bumped, I've dealt with
as they were pretty much self-explanatory but I'm left with these few.
The manpage doesn't offer any explanation and I can't find anything else
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Subject: Re: ntfs mount
J. W. Ballantine wrote:
yes, there is only one hard disk.
What does the output from `fdisk ad0' show?
Regards,
Mark
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and both freebsd show 165.
Which is correct.
Regards,
Mark
Thanks
Jim
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Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 20:40:45 +0100
To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ntfs mount
J. W. Ballantine
Malcolm Kay wrote:
On Saturday 15 May 2004 12:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is the output of fdisk when ran from FBSD:
frankie# fdisk
*** Working on device /dev/ad0 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Figures
I'm completely baffled by this one. When FreeBSD shuts down/reboots it
changes the system clock. It *always* sets the hours to 20 and changes
the minutes and seconds (but I haven't worked out a pattern for that),
but the date stays the same (see /var/log/messages below) although I
once saw it
Denis R. wrote:
Hi Mark and list members,
I am experiencing the same problem on my dual PII-450 SP700 Compaq Pro
workstation. After poking around on Google, it is pointing to the FreeBSD
and a i8254 programmable interupt timer. In my case the time is lagging
behind 10 times! What does your:
#time
Mark Ovens wrote:
Denis R. wrote:
Hi Mark and list members,
I am experiencing the same problem on my dual PII-450 SP700 Compaq Pro
workstation. After poking around on Google, it is pointing to the FreeBSD
and a i8254 programmable interupt timer. In my case the time is lagging
behind 10 times
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Where does FreeBSD store the corrupted time across reboots though and,
more importantly, why?
Just to be clear; it doesn't sound like it's actually storing
anything, right? The time it comes up with is roughly the same every
time
Denis R. wrote:
Hi Mark,
Ok, I have recompiled my kernel and excluded the support for SMP and ACPI.
Well, Denis, I've solved it and I bet you can't guess what it was - it
was the fscking keyboard!!!
After spending the last 8 hours building kernels (about 20) with
unnecessary stuff removed and
Quintin Riis wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
That has to be worth millions!
If that's the case then I can retire as I've got boxed sets of 2.0.5,
2.2.5, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, and 3.1 here :-)
I've also still got two sheets of FreeBSD stickers that Walnut Creek
used to send with the
Denis R. wrote:
Hi Mark!
Gee, who would have thought that it was the keyboard. Thanks for your
ideas. I recompiled the kernel (Compaq SP700 dual PII-450) following the
NOTES guidelines and your email, with these enabled:
# To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed
options SMP
Anyone know why I get the messages below when I boot with an audio CD in
a drive? It looks a though FreeBSD assumes that it is a data disk and
tries to read it as such.
Running
FreeBSD redshift 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #19: Wed Mar 10
01:50:42 GMT 2004 [EMAIL
[Followup-To: set to -questions]
Please excuse the X-posting but I'm not sure which is the better list
for this problem.
I've got 3 SCSI optical drives mounted in an external case so I can't
use an analogue audion cable but need to use DAE for playing CDs. The
drives support DAE as they all
Surely not? I was advised that a problem I'm experiencing is fixed in
-current. I just updated my source tree to -current with ''cvs co src/''
but no files have been updated :-/
Here's what I'm currently running (the tree is a few days older than the
kernel build date):
FreeBSD redshift
BTW, some places have recommended commercial solution like Norton Ghost
or Partition Magic. Do these products work on FreeBSD's UFS format and
grok partitions-in-a-slice?
Partition Magic only manipulates slices and does not know anything
about partitions within slices - especially FreeBSD
Loren M. Lang wrote:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:00:38AM +, Mark Ovens wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 07:51:48PM +, Mark Ovens wrote:
Surely not? I was advised that a problem I'm experiencing is
fixed in -current. I just updated my source tree to -current
with ''cvs
Mark Ovens wrote:
I'll try pulling a new tree using CVSup instead.
That did the trick; I zapped src/ and ports/ and started again with
CVSup (pulling the trees directly, prefix=/usr, rather than via a local
repository).
Thanks again.
Regards,
Mark
Thanks for your help guys.
Regards,
Mark
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:48:30PM +0200, Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote:
Don't you know why 4.x packages're distributed tar gzipped for 4.x?
pkg_(?:add|update) understands both .tgz/.tbz but the last saves
~20% of my time money while downloading from mirror
1) Please wrap your
Jerry McAllister wrote:
I'm with you... Top-posting makes the most sense for me.
No, it is like reading all the answers and then being handed
the questions. I know some college students like to function
A. Top posters
Q. What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?
QED
Mark
10,000 Screaming Monkeys wrote:
I tried sending this to freebsd-hardware, but nobody replied, so I
thought I would try here, as well.
On one of my machines, I'm running FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT (last built on
Jan 15th, 2004).
I recently purchased a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop, which is a
10,000 Screaming Monkeys wrote:
On 04/17, Mark Ovens rearranged the electrons to read:
10,000 Screaming Monkeys wrote:
Plugging the mouse cord on the wireless receiver into the PS/2 mouse
port doesn't seem to have any effect on the matter -- the system detects
a mouse on the psm0 port
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
Hi,
Could somebody explain me why in the second case I get an error (both
with test(1) and with sh's builtin) ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/log/ports [16:51:38] 0
# sh
# cat ports_sup_log | wc -l
3
# if [ `cat ports_sup_log | wc -l` -eq 3 ]; then echo 'da'; fi
da
# if [
JJB wrote:
I have an perl scrip somebody else wrote.
I am just learning perl by modifying this script.
An temp field $dup-counter contains an counter that is suffixed with
x
as in 23x have no idea how big of an number the counter can grow
to.
The suffix is all ways one position but has different
Kirk Strauser wrote:
At 2004-04-21T17:29:34Z, Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
$dup-number = substr($dup-counter, 0, length($dup-counter) - 1);
Did you actually test that? I'm pretty sure Perl doesn't like dashes in
variable names:
% perl -e '$foo-bar = 1;'
Can't modify subtraction
KDE 3.3.2
Any key combination that includes Ctrl+Shift doesn't work, e.g.
Ctrl+Shift+C to MArk All Read in Thunderbird or Ctrl+Shift+D to
Uncomment a line in KWrite.
It is the combination that is ignored; Ctrl+key and Shift+key work
as expected.
I've looked at all the keyboard stuff in
Daniel Bye wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:30:52PM +1000, Warren wrote:
What is need for me to add/do in order for the pressing of Tab to
autcomplete a name to work? It works fine in root .. also when i
press the up or down arrow keys it dosent bring up the previous
command issued ...
im
Warren wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:03 pm, Daniel Bye wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:52:16AM +, Mark Ovens wrote:
It does support command history and editing, though not auto-complete.
''set -E'' or ''set -V'' at the prompt (or put either - they are
mutually exclusive - in ~/.profile
Gardner Bell wrote:
After rebuilding world last night I can no longer chmod some system
binaries that I don't need. When attemtping to do so I get a permission denied.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] chmod 000 /bin/rcp
chmod: /bin/rcp: Operation not permitted.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] chmod 000 /bin/rlogin
chmod:
I see this in the daily run output on a 4.10-R box:
Removing stale entries from sendmail host status cache:
purgestat: no mapping in /etc/mail/mailer.conf
What is the mapping that is missing? The machine is running postfix, not
sendmail BTW.
TIA
Regards,
Mark
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On 22/01/2005 17:58 Jorn Argelo stood on a soap-box and preached to the
unwashed masses:
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:46:32 +, Mark Ovens wrote
I see this in the daily run output on a 4.10-R box:
Removing stale entries from sendmail host status cache:
purgestat: no mapping in /etc/mail/mailer.conf
On 22/01/2005 19:01 Paul Schmehl stood on a soap-box and preached to the
unwashed masses:
--On Saturday, January 22, 2005 5:46 PM + Mark Ovens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see this in the daily run output on a 4.10-R box:
Removing stale entries from sendmail host status cache:
purgestat
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
No, boot0 is just a normal file that is 512 bytes long. There is
nothing special about it. In it is a bootloader program that can be
used to boot FreeBSD, and if you run it during boot, it will read the
partition table and look for all OSes. I think it will modify the
the FreeBSD F1/F5 choice.
Caveat: Things have no doubt changed since then so it may now be
possible to add FreeBSD to the NTLDR menu with FreeBSD on a different
disk, but I've never investigated it as I am happy with the solution I use.
HTH
Regards,
Mark
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:44:23 +, Mark Ovens
Loren M. Lang wrote:
replacing MYWORKGROUP, SERVER, USER, secret as neccessary. Make sure
nsmb.conf is only readable by root. Add the following line to fstab:
//[EMAIL PROTECTED]/share /mnt/share smbfs rw 0 0
PMJI, but do you know if it's possible to handle a share
saravanan ganapathy wrote:
Hai ,
I am using 5.3 release and included tag=RELENG_5_3 to
my ports-supfile and when I tried to update ports
using cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile, it deleted
almost all the ports and finally it says
...
...
...
Delete ports/x11-wm/yawm/Makefile
Delete
Mark Ovens wrote:
Also are you sure that you want your ports tree in /var/db? /usr would
be more usual.
*default base=/usr
Duh! Ignore that, /var/db is fine (although I use /usr/sup) I was
confusing base and prefix. Sorry, 'bout that.
Mark
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Loren M. Lang wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:38:53PM +, Mark Ovens wrote:
Loren M. Lang wrote:
replacing MYWORKGROUP, SERVER, USER, secret as neccessary. Make sure
nsmb.conf is only readable by root. Add the following line to fstab:
//[EMAIL PROTECTED]/share /mnt/share smbfs rw
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:33:59 +, Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I rewrote that section of the FAQ years ago (around FreeBSD 3.1!!)
because the previous wording was unclear and I did _exactly_ what
Rakhesh has done :-(
Ah! Glad to see I am not the only one
I want to install apache with SSL but there are two ports,
www/apache13-modssl and www/apache13-ssl
What is the difference, and which is the best to install? It is just for
use on my home LAN but I want to run squirrelmail to access my mail from
remote machines.
TIA
Regards,
Mark
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Charles Swiger wrote:
On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:22 PM, albi wrote:
Mark Ovens wrote:
I want to install apache with SSL but there are two ports,
www/apache13-modssl and www/apache13-ssl
What is the difference, and which is the best to install?
i think the apache13-ssl has SSL build in, the other uses
Tim Erlin wrote:
Andrew L. Gould wrote:
Not necessarily. I've heard lots of complaints about PHP and Apache2
not playing nice. (Does anyone have any updates on this situation?)
I've been running apache2 with squirrelmail for a while. The biggest
problems were performance issues. Squirrelmail
Adi Pircalabu wrote:
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:54:19 +
Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway, it's all working now, except that when I try to connect to
squirrelmail in a browser I just get a directory listing of
/usr/local/www/squirrelmail.
Hi,
Maybe you forgot listing index.php
Adi Pircalabu wrote:
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:12:02 +
Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should have mentioned that I tried adding that but it just caused the
contents of index.php to be displayed in the browser rather than the
directory listing.
If I understand this correctly, your .php page
Mark Ovens wrote:
That's fixed it, thanks :-)
httpd.conf from the previous version I had installed doesn't have
index.php in the DirectoryIndex directive, but it does have
Duh! brain fade; that should say:
...does have index.php in the DirectoryIndex directive, and it also has
Mark
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Ruben de Groot wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:47:53AM -0800, Loren M. Lang typed:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:38:53PM +, Mark Ovens wrote:
Loren M. Lang wrote:
replacing MYWORKGROUP, SERVER, USER, secret as neccessary. Make sure
nsmb.conf is only readable by root. Add the following line
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:48:47 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unless BootPart specifically know about how the freebsd boot loaders
work and how to reconize them, I doubt that it's modifying those
parameters. Now the last 66 bytes of the MBR stores the
Nathan Kinkade wrote:
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 06:13:01PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
Steven Friedrich wrote:
I know I can Control-Alt-F1 to go back to the console, but is there a way
to see these messages in an xterm or something?
xconsole
When xdm starts, xconsole gets started, too,
Tom Huppi wrote:
Almost totally unrelated, but this reminds me of a very pleasant
conversation I had with on of the early FreeBSD developers. He
mentioned that the FreeBSD project grew out of what was known as
'the unofficial 386BSD patch kit' or something like that name. He
said that it got to
daniel wrote:
On February 7, 2005 10:40 pm, Chris Hill wrote:
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, daniel wrote:
i've been trying to install freebsd-5.3RELEASE on this old computer on
and off for days now. i downloaded the floppies, watched the thing
boot and each and every time, it'll get to the little
Charles-André Landemaine wrote:
This will sign the death of FreeBSD.
How could they believe such crap?! Who said beastie is evil?! This is
totally non-sense, it's a logo, it's not the CD cover of a heavy-metal
release...!
I think the reasons are the same as NetBSD. Do extremist Republicans
Louis LeBlanc wrote:
On 02/09/05 04:32 PM, Charles-André Landemaine sat at the `puter and typed:
This will sign the death of FreeBSD.
How could they believe such crap?! Who said beastie is evil?! This is
totally non-sense, it's a logo, it's not the CD cover of a heavy-metal
release...!
I think the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I have installed apache and spamd from source and would like for them
to start on bootup. How do I do that? (there are no .sh scripts for
them in /usr/local/etc/rc.d)
For apache add ''apache_enable=YES'' to /etc/rc.conf
There should be apache.sh in
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Linux is a great case in point. What a pity that when people finally
looked at something like UNIX, it turned out to not be UNIX at all,
but someone cooked up in a schoolkid's garage.
History repeating itself? Microsoft began life in Bill Gates' garage
didn't it?
A
I'm trying to upgrade kde (the meta-port), 3.1.2-3.2.3_1 using
portupgrade(1) but it fails trying to install kdelibs.
Can anyone shed any light on what's wrong?
FreeBSD redshift 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #2: Sun Jul 25 19:19:46
BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REDSHIFT
for the reply.
Regards,
Mark
Kent
On Monday 26 July 2004 05:40 am, Kent Stewart wrote:
On Monday 26 July 2004 05:20 am, Mark Ovens wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade kde (the meta-port), 3.1.2-3.2.3_1 using
portupgrade(1) but it fails trying to install kdelibs.
Can anyone shed any light on what's wrong
Henrik W Lund wrote:
Greetings!
No, nothing you put into make.conf will affect already installed
software. This file is for setting build-time options, and as such will
only affect subsequent software builds. And yes, rebuilding and
reinstalling a package you already have qualifies as a
Hakim Singhji wrote:
Hello All,
I recently purchased a pair of 3Com 3C905CTXM EtherLink XL PCI TX
Network adapter PCI 100 Mbps NIC Cards and I wanted to know if they
are compatible with FreeBSD 4.10 (stable). Could someone please give
me some feedback on this thanks.
Yes,
Kent Stewart wrote:
Kdelibs has the new files and when you try to update kdebase later, it
messes up the install. That is why you have to delete kdebase first. If
the files had been moved from kdelibs into kdebase, it wouldn't have
mattered.
Ah, I see. OK, I'll give it a spin. Thanks for the
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
Joseph Peterson wrote:
Unfortunately that is not the solution to my problem, I've run
memtest86 on my laptop several times and found no problems... any
other thoughts? =)
-joe
Just a thought:
Have you build your world and / or kernel from source? If that's the
case double
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
Mark Ovens wrote:
I'm seeing the same problem on my dual Athlon box. The freezes are
totally random AFAICT, sometimes when the machine is just idling.
I've not used any CPU-specific make options but may try setting some to
see if it makes a difference. One thing though
If I put this in ~/.xinitrc
exec startkde /dev/console 21
to redirect messages to the console in order to read them in xconsole, X
starts and immediately exits with the error:
/home/mark/.xinitrc: cannot create /dev/console: permission denied
I've uncommented this line in /etc/fbtab:
Mark Ovens wrote:
If I put this in ~/.xinitrc
exec startkde /dev/console 21
to redirect messages to the console in order to read them in xconsole, X
starts and immediately exits with the error:
/home/mark/.xinitrc: cannot create /dev/console: permission denied
I've uncommented this line
Paul Mather wrote:
Mark,
When you do, look for PREEMPTION. That should speed up the search. :-)
Yes, I searched the mailing lsts and found it, deleted #define
PREEMPTION from sys/i38i6/include/param.h, rebuilt my kernel and the
machine has been up for 13 hours now :-)
Only thing is the
Chris wrote:
Sandbox Video Productions wrote:
IF i install both gnome kde. how do i choose which
one i want to start up. It seem that it only starts
the GUI that was installed last.
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Mariano Guadagnini wrote:
Hi guys, I am new to Freebsd (after years of linux) and, althought system
installation and configuration was quite seamlessly, I've an issue with the
delete key of my keyboard (101 keys us layout): In xterm, the backspace key
works ok, but when I press del, it prints
Peter Ryan wrote:
I've got the same thing on the 2 machines i am experimenting
with. I am new and thought it was a standard feature :)
I also defined a standard US 101 keyboard.
Makes me think there is a setting or choice at installation that
deals with this, rather than having to patch
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:30:59 +0100
Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Ryan wrote:
I've got the same thing on the 2 machines i am experimenting
with. I am new and thought it was a standard feature :)
I also defined a standard US 101 keyboard.
Makes me think
Chris wrote:
Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 05:45:58 PM -0400 JJB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard
liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the
email messages on this list.
The fact of life is
FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE
My ADSL router/modem, Zyxel P650R-31, supports error logging to a remote
*nix host using syslog but I can't get it to work.
The router has been set up to log to the local2 facility and I've added
these lines to the end of /etc/syslog.conf:
!*
+P650R-31
local2
Martin Hasenbein wrote:
On 26 Aug 2004 (13:55:35) [1093521335], Mark Ovens wrote:
Hi Mark,
The router has been set up to log to the local2 facility and I've added
these lines to the end of /etc/syslog.conf:
!*
+P650R-31
local2 /var/log/router/zyxel
Can anyuone suggest why
Martin Hasenbein wrote:
On 26 Aug 2004 (15:30:52) [1093527052], Mark Ovens wrote:
Hi Mark,
Thanks, yes, I was. I've changed it and restarted without ''-s'' but it
still doesn't appear to be logging anything - I configured the router to
log everything so the file should grow quite quickly.
Do
FreeBSD postie 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #1:
Sun Mar 21 19:46:39 GMT 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POSTIE i386
I'm trying to upgrade cups-base on this system, using packages (as the
machine doesn't really have enough grunt for building ports), with
portupgrade, but it
kstewart wrote:
Well, png is up to png-1.2.5_8 and if you did a recent cvsup and
recreated your INDEXs, that is what you should be seeing.
OK, portupgrade(1) _is_ looking for 1.2.5_8 but it is trying to get it
from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/All
where the
kstewart wrote:
His PACKAGESITE environment variable is set to a wrong location. I think that
he needs to set it using something like
setenv PACKAGESITE
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All
Thanks Kent, but it didn't work. Setting it made it search in
Kent Stewart wrote:
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 12:55 pm, eoghan wrote:
Hello
Ive recently upgraded to 6.0 and I decided to upgrade my ports... So
I ran a:
portupgrade -af
Its running fine, but each time its upgrade a port I get:
[Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... Failed
Colin Percival wrote:
Mark Ovens wrote:
After reading this thread, I killed the upgrade, deleted INDEX-6,
INDEX-6.db, and pkgdb.db; rebuilt pkgdb.db using `pkgdb -u' and re-ran
`portupgrade -af'
It started off OK (using dbm_hash) but after a couple of hours it had
started continually
Since src u/g 5.4-6 the *_enable variables in rc.conf for local rc.d
scripts are being ignored. For example, neither lisad (for KDE LAN
Browsing) or giftd (for giFT) are starting.
In rc.conf I have:
lisa_enable=YES # Lisa daemon for LAN Browsing in Konqueror
giftd_enable=YES
Scott Ballantyne wrote:
Running 5.3-RELEASE.
After many years of using FreeBSD, and as many reboots or more, I had
occasion to reboot today, and a few hours later discovered to my
horror that the system time had suddenly been moved ahead to the year
2020!
I did the best I could with the
Is there such a thing as a virtual CD drive in the Ports. Something that
allows you to treat an ISO image file - data or audio - as though it
were a real CD in a real drive? Like Nero ImageDrive in Windows.
TIA
Regards,
Mark
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Alfredo Finelli wrote:
I have 80 pin SCSI discs mounted in hot-swappable trays on a SCSI
backplane which takes care also of powering them up and of SCSI
termination. This is one way of using them.
I also have the same drives in a different system connected to normal SCSI
LVD cable using
Is it correct that you can't ssh(1) between two machines on the same LAN
(using NAT) _via the Internet?_
Strange question I know, but I need to be able to access one of my
machines, postie, remotely. I've got sshd(8) running and can ssh(1) to
it from a local machine using it's local hostname.
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Mark Ovens wrote:
Is it correct that you can't ssh(1) between two machines on the same LAN
(using NAT) _via the Internet?_
Strange question I know, but I need to be able to access one of my
machines, postie, remotely. I've got sshd(8) running and can ssh(1) to
it from
Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:15:47PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
Is it correct that you can't ssh(1) between two machines on the same LAN
(using NAT) _via the Internet?_
What do you mean 'via the Internet'? If both machines are on the same
LAN any connections between them
Michael Nottebrock wrote:
On Friday 17 September 2004 21:14, Mark Ovens wrote:
Hmmm, if I delete XFree86-libraries then X won't run, and without
libXinerama.so.1 KDE won't run :-/
Anyone have a solution to this conundrum please?
Yes: Update all of XFree86 to the latest version in ports (4.4
Graham Bentley wrote:
Hi All,
When I was about to install the new drive which was sitting on top of
the system box I tilted the box to move the disc access LED lead onto
the SCSI card. My nice new SCSI disc slid off and hit the MDF worktop
- Agh !
I reckon the drop height was about 14 ~ do you
I've set up postfix, fetchmail, and courier-imap on a FreeBSD box (4.10)
and got it working - for one account. When I added a second account it
goes wrong; all mail gets sent to the user that fetchmail is running as.
My .fetchmailrc contains
poll pop.myisp.com protocol POP3
user mark
Trey Sizemore wrote:
I've just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my desktop machine (P4 2.8GHz with
512MB RAM) and cannot get my mouse pointer to move in KDE. It is a
Microsoft Wireless Optical 2.0 mouse (USB) and I have the following
section in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:
Driver mouse
Option Protocol
Oliver Fuchs wrote:
Hi,
I had a directory which contained the following:
ls showed me simple this: ? with 0 bytes
ls -axl showed me nothing
So I tried to delete the directory but could not succeed with rm -R
because the directory is not empty. I changed to the directory and tried
to delete
On Sat November 27 2004 22:26, Trey Sizemore wrote:
Mark Ovens wrote:
Trey Sizemore wrote:
I've just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my desktop machine (P4 2.8GHz with
512MB RAM) and cannot get my mouse pointer to move in KDE. It is a
Microsoft Wireless Optical 2.0 mouse (USB) and I have
On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote:
Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless
version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it's kind of a light
purple color ).
Yes, same as mine.
You did change ''moused_port'' in /etc/rc.conf to /dev/psm0
On Sun November 28 2004 19:35, Trey Sizemore wrote:
Mark Ovens wrote:
On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote:
Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless
version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it's kind of a light
purple color ).
Yes
On Sun November 28 2004 22:22, Trey Sizemore wrote:
Mark Ovens wrote:
On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote:
Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless
version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it's kind of a light
purple color ).
Yes
On Mon November 29 2004 02:32, Robert Huff wrote:
Trey Sizemore writes:
OK...making some progress now. I have these entries (except I'm
using /dev/psm0 for the time being) and now the mouse is jumping
to the upper left corner of the screen and flickering menus
mysteriously. Moving
On Sun November 28 2004 21:03, Trey Sizemore wrote:
Mark Ovens wrote:
On Sun November 28 2004 19:35, Trey Sizemore wrote:
Mark Ovens wrote:
On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote:
Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the
wireless version? Mine says
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