Re: how to avoid recompiling applications?

2006-06-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/4/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, could i theoretically use 'make reinstall' on a fresh system where the port had never been previously installed? Yes... but what's the point?... when you can make your own packages. instead of typing 'make install' type 'make package',

Re: Cannot delete stubborn files - New Hint

2006-06-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/4/06, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mv: /bin/rm: terminated with 1 (non-zero) status: Cross-device link Does this new hint stike any bells?

Re: FreeBSD and newer HDD problems ?

2006-06-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/4/06, Pavel Duda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've forgot to add that system is FreeBSD 6.0 (no custom kernel), P4 1.8GHz, 384MB RAM, Realtek gigabit NIC (8169), Intel EE NIC 10/100mbit. What SATA controller are you using?, and have you tried this with FreeBSD 6.1? if not you should. --

Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix?

2006-06-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
/126238 And the link to the FreeBSD handbook article is here: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/mail-changingmta.html - Original Message - From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:58 PM Subject: Replacing

Re: Selecting CPU/architecture for new system?

2006-05-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/31/06, Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm currently in the process of selecting hardware for a FreeBSD system having the main task of collecting network statistics via MRTG or RRDtool. In addition the machine in question should be used to collect netflow statistics plus

Re: FreeBSD notebook

2006-05-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/31/06, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to buy notebook to use with FreeBSD. Not new one, something like Pentium 200-PII/500 with 64-128MB RAM will be OK, and there are lots of them available cheaply. Unfortunately most of them have windows-only hardware. Does anyone

Re: More mergemaster errors

2006-05-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/31/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a fresh install from a 6.1 ISO and then used cvsup to get the the latest stable, approximately 17:00 EDT May 30,2006. I did a mergemaster -p at the appropriate spot to add the audit group. I think The audit group is in 6.1 so why

Re: Mounting to a second hard disk

2006-05-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/31/06, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-05-31 08:37, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philip Radford wrote: Hi All, I have just installed FreeBSD 5.4 on a server with two hard disks. Cool ... :) Nice :) No Comment. I have access to all my partitions on the

Replacing Sendmail with Postfix?

2006-05-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hey did anyone see the article on /. about Sendmail being removed from NetBSD, and being replaced with Postfix? What advice can you offer about doing this on FreeBSD? What's involved, How do you do it, are there any gotta's (cron scripts?), etc? Is it just as simple as installing the Postfix

Re: grub on FreeBSD

2006-05-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/29/06, Ask Bjørn Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to use grub instead of the usual boot0 thing on a Compact Flash card I use in Soekris and PC Engines WRAP systems. I installed grub from ports/sysutils/grub and put the package on my nanobsd system on the CF card. Booting

Re: what is the use of drm_os_freebsd.h

2006-05-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/27/06, william wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi ,all I am porting something from linux to freebsd ,i found the DataTypes hard to translate ,then i saw that many types inlinux can be found in drm_os_freebsd.h,such as typedef int8_ts8; typedef int16_t s16; typedef int32_t

Re: what is the use of drm_os_freebsd.h

2006-05-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
in the source code you can read to tell you whats what. On 5/28/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/27/06, william wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi ,all I am porting something from linux to freebsd ,i found the DataTypes hard to translate ,then i saw that many types

Disk Compression

2006-05-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
Does FreeBSD / UFS2 offer on the fly disk compression like windows NTFS does? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Disk Compression

2006-05-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/28/06, Iantcho Vassilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not aware of this feature.. That's what I thought... What compression methods are there for *NIX? I need to backup about 1.33TB of data to a 1TB array. On 5/28/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does FreeBSD / UFS2

Re: What is the maximum file size on a dvd+r ?

2006-05-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/28/06, Hans Lambermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the maximum file size on a dvd+r ? System : 5.4-RELEASE-p6 Command used : growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -l -J -r burn/ In burn/ I have a backup file of size 4166629386 bytes and some smaller files. In total 4577410 kB. growisofs ends

Re: What is the maximum file size on a dvd+r ?

2006-05-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/28/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/28/06, Hans Lambermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the maximum file size on a dvd+r ? System : 5.4-RELEASE-p6 Command used : growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -l -J -r burn/ In burn/ I have a backup file of size 4166629386 bytes and some

Re: OT: Torn between SCSI and SATA for RAID

2006-05-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been spending the last couple of days extensively looking at various options for RAID and getting some storage system in place. Performance is not really a BIG issue, but I also don't want to have things hecticly slow either. This

Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking for a Linux distro that has a ports like system. I need KDE, X.org, and a 2.6 kernel installed by default... dammit... I don't want to #$%! with Linux, maybe I'll

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/15/06, vayu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 15, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking for a Linux distro that has a ports like system. I need KDE

Re: Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup)

2006-05-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/9/06, John Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I want to upgrade to 6.1, but I've never used cvsup before and all the documentation is confusing as can be. Would it be easier to download the install mediums and do an upgrade install or is cvsup the better way? if so how do I go about it? the

Re: Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup)

2006-05-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/9/06, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped] 2) Create a supfile appropriate for your situation (and location). Here is mine: *default host=cvsup12.freebsd.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default

Re: Lock up during install on Compaq Presario notebook with Turion chip

2006-05-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/9/06, Lorin Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried installing 6.0-RELEASE for x64 and 6.1-RELEASE for i386. They both lock up. Below I have transcribed the information showing on the screen when it stops: I'm open to any suggestions/pointers. atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) port

Re: Understanding The FreeBSD Version Labels [RFC]

2006-05-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/9/06, Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've written an article trying to explain the FreeBSD version labels, CURRENT, STABLE, and RELEASE. This article, of course, is aimed at newcomers to FreeBSD. The article is here http://www.dwlabs.ca/fbsd-releases For anyone who can time

If you have a working DRI multi-head setup read this:

2006-05-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
Do you have a multi-head setup, does DRI/DRM work? If it works report your setup, if you can confirm it doesn't work post that too! Let me lead the way: drm0: AGP ATI Radeon QL R200 8500 LE drm1: PCI ATI Radeon QY RV100 7000/VE drm2: PCI ATI Radeon QY RV100 7000/VE DRI broken, hardlocks system

Re: If you have a working DRI multi-head setup read this:

2006-05-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/3/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a multi-head setup, does DRI/DRM work? If it works report your setup, if you can confirm it doesn't work post that too! Let me lead the way: drm0: AGP ATI Radeon QL R200 8500 LE drm1: PCI ATI Radeon QY RV100 7000/VE drm2: PCI ATI

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-04-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/29/06, Yousef Raffah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote: I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with UFS when you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD would be able to read them. You are right but this isn't my

Re: Perl: sort string alphabetically, or remove dupe chars?

2006-04-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/27/06, Andrew Reitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 26, 2006, at 12:34 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 4/25/06, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Thanks parv... I meant the algorithm was clunky, not the code... I'm so new at this that I can't read your code, and I have a hard

Re: Perl: sort string alphabetically, or remove dupe chars?

2006-04-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/25/06, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Nikolas Britton thusly... This works... but it's clunky: my $string = letter; my @chars = split(, $string); $string = ; @chars = sort (@chars); foreach (@chars) { $string .= $_; } $string =~ tr///cs

Perl: sort string alphabetically, or remove dupe chars?

2006-04-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
basically what I want to do: my @wordlist = (letter, remember, alphabetically); ## some whizbang code that changes words like ## letter to eelrtt, remember to beeemmrr, ## and alphabetically to aaabcehilllpty. @foobar =~ tr///cs; #hmm, doesn't work. print @wordlist\n; Hmm, that's broke, how

Re: Perl: sort string alphabetically, or remove dupe chars?

2006-04-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/25/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: basically what I want to do: my @wordlist = (letter, remember, alphabetically); ## some whizbang code that changes words like ## letter to eelrtt, remember to beeemmrr, ## and alphabetically to aaabcehilllpty. @foobar =~ tr///cs; #hmm

Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: Problem compiling KOffice

2006-04-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/14/06, Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 14, 2006, at 10:15 am, Michael Nottebrock wrote: Hello Ashley, Did you see this part? Has it really not been fixed in all this time? This isn't an error in KOffice - take a look at the actual problem report:

Re: Problem compiling KOffice

2006-04-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 16:15, Ashley Moran wrote: I'm not having much luck today... I just tried updating my KOffice and got this error: [snipped] Has it really not been fixed in all this time? Has anyone here made KOffice 1.5

Re: 6.1-PRERELEASE CVSUP tag=???

2006-04-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
=??? Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:56:46PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: the branch for 6.1 was cut on the 5th, you can cvsup to 6.1 now using the RELENG_6_1 tag... Oh yeah, so it was. Missed that, thanks. at this point if you sync up with RELENG_6 you

Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: Problem compiling KOffice

2006-04-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/13/06, Michael Nottebrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton schrieb: On 4/12/06, Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 16:15, Ashley Moran wrote: I'm not having much luck today... I just tried updating my KOffice and got this error: [snipped

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/12/06, Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 02:37, Eric Schuele wrote: Either way... I hope somehow they see fit to loosen the language a bit in the future. Can't we petition Adobe somehow? I'm

Re: 6.1-PRERELEASE CVSUP tag=???

2006-04-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Bryan Curl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:56:46PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: the branch for 6.1 was cut on the 5th, you can cvsup to 6.1 now using the RELENG_6_1 tag... Oh yeah, so it was. Missed that, thanks

Re: 6.1-PRERELEASE CVSUP tag=???

2006-04-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:56:46PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: the branch for 6.1 was cut on the 5th, you can cvsup to 6.1 now using the RELENG_6_1 tag... Oh yeah, so it was. Missed that, thanks. at this point if you sync up

Re: Problem compiling KOffice

2006-04-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 17:04, Ashley Moran wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 16:15, Ashley Moran wrote: I'm not having much luck today... I just tried updating my KOffice and got this error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldpstk I just

Re: 6.1-PRERELEASE CVSUP tag=???

2006-04-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/12/06, Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:56:46PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: the branch for 6.1 was cut on the 5th, you can cvsup to 6.1 now using the RELENG_6_1 tag... Oh yeah, so it was. Missed

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 02:37, Eric Schuele wrote: Either way... I hope somehow they see fit to loosen the language a bit in the future. Can't we petition Adobe somehow? I'm a bit stuck now - my company's main application is written in

Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...

2006-04-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/30/06, Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realise the answer to this question is when it's ready, but does anyone have a rough idea how close to being ready 6.1 is? The 6.1 branch was cut on the 5th, this means you can cvsup to RELENG_6_1 branch and rebuild world to

Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...

2006-04-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/11/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I beg to differ Nikolas, there is still work that needs to be done on the disk driver. See PR 95184. It was right to shift the release schedule. I don't know what you running for hardware but I don't think many people really appreciate

Re: 6.1-PRERELEASE CVSUP tag=???

2006-04-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/11/06, Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:25:25PM -0600, Bryan Curl wrote: What is the cvsup tag for getting 6.1-PRERELEASE src? I think it should be tag=RELENG_6_1 . Can I use src-all for this revision to upgrade from where I am now? Right now I

Re: BEWARE upgrading Horde System

2006-04-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/9/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped] I have never understood the demand for being able to do an inplace upgrade of applications or of the operating system, and I've seen enormous trouble with servers that people do this with, under Windows as well as FreeBSD.

Can't fetch tiff-3.8.1.tar.gz

2006-04-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
I can't fetch tiff-3.8.1.tar.gz from any of the mirrors listed in the port. -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

ssh session hangs when term is flooded with text.

2006-03-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
When I log into any FreeBSD box through the VPN (IPsec site-to-site) my ssh session will eventually hang when a large amount of text/data is displayed, for example compiler output, running top, running links or lynx, etc. Obviously this is a networking problem but I'm not sure where to start. --

Re: Deleting Kernel conpile directory

2006-03-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 30 Mar 2006 09:40:03 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running a little low on disk space in /usr Can I delete the /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/mykernel directory? Sure. And if you use the buildkernel method when you build kernels,

Re: KDE App Launcher

2006-03-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/24/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For /bin/sh, you can't export a variable on the line you set it; that's an extension found in bash, ksh, and zsh, but is not part of the original sh: It is, however, supported

KDE App Launcher

2006-03-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
How do I get KDE to run this command: setenv SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE 0; setenv QEMU_AUDIO_DRV sdl; nice +5 qemu -soundhw es1370 ~/qemu/win98se/win98se_disk.img or this: export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0; export QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=sdl ; nice +5 nohup qemu -soundhw es1370 ~/qemu/win98se/win98se_disk.img

Re: Few thunderbird questions

2006-03-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/17/06, Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steel City Phantom wrote: ok, bsd 6, kde 3.5, thunderbird 1.5, firefox 1.5 few things that are slightly annoying in thunderbird that if someone knows how to fix, i would be very happy. 1) when i click on a url link in thunderbird,

Sending error messages to a cell phone?

2006-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
I have an email address setup for my cell phone and I would like FreeBSD to send critical error messages to this address. How do I tell FreeBSD to do this and more importantly should I do this, because it costs 10 cents for each message? -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/5/06, Beastie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/3/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this email to me, and left only my name in the attributions as if I were

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/3/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this email to me, and left only my name in the attributions as if I were someone suggesting either dd or diskinfo as accurate benchmarks, when

Re: How do you mount a floppy?

2006-03-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/3/06, Jose Borquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you add a floppy device and then mount a floppy in FreeBSD? Mount a floppy?? http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group%3A*.freebsd.*;

Re: How do you mount a floppy?

2006-03-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/3/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/3/06, Jose Borquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you add a floppy device and then mount a floppy in FreeBSD? Mount a floppy?? http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ http

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped] Why not happy? Transfer rates from 53 to 92Mb/s, give or take; what's wrong with that? On a plain sata disk I get: Seek times: Full stroke: 250 iter in 4.717248 sec = 18.869 msec Half stroke: 250

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: This and all the other benchmarks you've run are useless. Run a real benchmark like iozone. It's in ports under benchmarks/iozone. http://www.iozone.org/ Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments

Re: FreeBSD CD

2006-03-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/2/06, Tamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sir, FreeBSD CDs should be distributed freely. There are two reasons for that: 1. People either buy Windows CD or burns Linux CDs from computer magazines. Those magazines distribute Fedora Core, Slackware but never distributes FreeBSD. It's not

Re: FreeBSD CD

2006-03-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/3/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/2/06, Tamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sir, FreeBSD CDs should be distributed freely. There are two reasons for that: 1. People either buy Windows CD or burns Linux CDs from computer magazines. Those magazines distribute Fedora Core

Re: System Burn In

2006-03-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/28/06, Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to 'burn in' or 'stress test' a new system w/ FreeBSD? I'd like to stress test the CPU, Memory, Disk, etc.. To make sure the hardware is 100% good before putting

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/27/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped] Click on Browse Find and Select: 6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.1/6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso That should be disc 1, sorry: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.1/6.1

Re: elinks-0.11.1: make install fails

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot install a port elinks-0.11.1. make works perfectly, but make install fails. An output of make install is attached. The first error is in line 251. #include ruby.h in file core.c cannot find the file ruby.h. The file ruby.h is present

Re: freebsd distributor

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/27/06, Linux Distro UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, i would like to know if you could add me to your list of distributors as we distribute FreeBSD Our url is http://www.linux-distro.co.uk email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] we are based in the UK but do offer international shipping Wrong

Re: elinks-0.11.1: make install fails

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:10:41AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/28/06, a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot install a port elinks-0.11.1. [snipped] Any ideas? www/links works just fine, built and installed it yesterday

Re: regarding new logo...

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You like the logo? Speaking as a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts, on behalf of myself and a lot of other designers, the new FreeBSD logo is worthless. It's useless eyecandy. As if we don't have enough of that already. The logo

Re: release tag for ports

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Another FreeBSD Newbie question pertaining to ports. based on the example ports-supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile [snip] *default release=cvs tag=. [/snip] What I would like to know if there are any other

Re: System Burn In

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to 'burn in' or 'stress test' a new system w/ FreeBSD? I'd like to stress test the CPU, Memory, Disk, etc.. To make sure the hardware is 100% good before putting it in production. Maybe try http://www.holm.cc/stress/ but

Re: elinks-0.11.1: make install fails

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does links support Java-script? As a matter of fact, yes. I compared this javascript test page* in both links and firefox, both did everything correctly. * http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/GO/EXPLORIT/java/IntroJavaScript.html Also Links 2 can do color at the

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitri Pisarev wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer. The

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running FreeBSD 6.0(athlon

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/24/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Mayfield wrote: I have tried both the 6.1 and 5.4 CD's, both of them bombing at the exact same point the 6.0 boot failed. I'll try 5.5 sometime tomorrow, though I kinda doubt it would make a difference. Is there anything else I can

Re: release in cvsup supfile

2006-02-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/24/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey people, I notice that in my supfile, I have this: *default release=cvs tag=. I'm using FreeBSD 5.4. Should I change the tag to 5.4-RELEASE? I don't want ports that aren't going to work on 5.4. Is that a concern? No, but you need

Re: release in cvsup supfile

2006-02-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/24/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now install FreeBSD, delete the old slices first with fdisk and don't install X11, the only package you should install is cvsup-without-gui. After FreeBSD is installed run cvsup to get all the new ports, then uninstall perl, run

Re: Increase process number in FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/22/06, Thawan Kooburat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am using FreeBSD 6.0. My course assignment required me to increase process number running on a system. I have already modify /boot/loader.conf on following parameters kern.maxusers = 384 kern.maxproc = 5

Re: Upgrading Apache

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/22/06, andreis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: Could you please help us to find out if it is possible to upgrade 10.3.29 Apache to the latest 10.3.x version through FreeBSD RELENG_5_4 ports? If so, any hints as to how to find the right ports would be greatly appreciated. Apache version

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/22/06, Alex Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm rather new to FreeBSD, and have been wanting to try it out. However, I am unable to boot from either the i386 6.0-RELEASE bootonly or the i386 6.0-RELEASE disc 1 CD. I'm running an Athlon 64 3000+ on a WinFast 755FXK8AA motherboard

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/23/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Your not using the right install CDs. You have an AMD 64-Bit chip so you can't (AFAIK) use the I386 Release. Maybe there is a setting in the BIOS for I386 compat, I have no experience with AMD's 64-Bit chips so

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/23/06, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All are Dell Poweredge servers with identical specification. I did check the message logs an couldn't find any problem What are the other aspects which I need to check so as to find a solution. I've had FreeBSD 5.4 randomly reboot on high

Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/23/06, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was valuable in deed The 12 server are all identical but the problem is that the test machine which we will be using is not of the same class as that of the server. Then all the server run a custom built kernel and not the generic

Re: 10 years of The Complete FreeBSD

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/23/06, Tillman Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:30:27AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, Installing and Using FreeBSD. It was later

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/17/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast, though I would prolly want to

Re: Windows XP and FreeBSD boot Question

2006-02-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group%3A*.freebsd.*+boot.ini+dualqt_s=Search On 2/16/06, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had a bad time trying to get Windows XP to boot using the FreeBSD boot manager. Is there a way I can use the XP boot manager to boot FreeBSD. I use it to

Re: motherboard recommendations for 6.0

2006-02-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/3/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's time to set up another box to act as file server and I'm at the crucial motherboard-choice stage. I'm looking for recommendations for an i386 single-cpu mid-price board that work well with FreeBSD 6.0-stable. I don't see the point in buying an

Re: recoll and other desktop indexing/search utilities

2006-02-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/6/06, lyubich_freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am looking for a desktop indexing/searching utility. At the moment, I am trying recoll. Are there also other tools with the same functions? (e.g., in kde ore gnome suits). Beagle, but it's not in the ports system yet. and

What's the bright idea? fam - gamin

2006-02-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I portupgrade? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: What's the bright idea? fam - gamin

2006-02-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/6/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I portupgrade? Remove fam by force and then install gamin. I don't want

Re: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?

2006-02-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/4/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It just does, after you cvsup new ports cd into /usr/ports and type make fetchindex. what way is the old foolproof way? Here is how I update my system (without using a 'make fetchindex') cvsup -g -L 2 /root/stable-supfile less UPDATING

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/3/06, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote: Garrett Cooper schrieb: Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there should be a noticeable difference. The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much

Re: Best way to partition a small HD

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/25/03, Gunnar Flygt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old Toshiba laptop with 24MB of RAM and 500MB HD. What is the best way of partitioning this disk for 4.7-RELEASE or later? Should I use 450MB for / and the rest for swap or should I bother splitting the partition with / /usr and

Re: Need advice re SCSI

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/31/06, je killen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all; I have installed an LSI Logic SCSI adapter card and have attached to it two 18GB Maxtor 15k SCSI hard drives. These drives are 80 pin drives and I have obtained adapter boards to convert the 80 pin connectors to 68 pin ribbon cable

Re: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/1/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I've gone back to the old foolproof way of updating my system, I'm doing a portsdb -Uu again - which has always taken forever to run on my various machines. Is there a way to speed it up (without replacing it), or has anyone looked at it to

Re: Promise SATAII150 TX2plus ok for 6.0?

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/1/06, Ville Lundberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, being quite fed up with the crappy Sil3512 SATA-controller on my mainboard (write_dma timeouts, and just when I thought 6.0-release fixed it, setfeatures set transfer mode semaphore timeout-messages is filling my screens), I'm looking

Re: Java without Motif/X?

2006-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/1/06, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Triantos wrote: Greetings, Has anyone successfully gotten Java (1.4 or 1.5) running on FreeBSD without Motif/X? I'd like to run a gui-less Java app on my server, and would strongly prefer to not install all of X + Motif, and all its

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2006-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 01 Feb 2006 12:10:01 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: martinko writes: $ cat /usr/local/etc/javavms Will someone please confirm that once these /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java # FREEBSD-JDK1.5.0

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2006-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/1/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton writes: So what your saying is that once you have a native jdk built and installed (say 1.4.2) you can compile the native jdk15 port with the native jdk14 port and not need the linux jdk14 port? Yes. Ok, Cool

(OpenOffice2 build failure) ERROR: Shared object libmawt.so not found

2006-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hi, I'm trying to build the OpenOffice 2 port and I get the errors below. My make options are: nice +20 make JAVA_VERSION=1.5 WITH_KDE=yes install My System: FreeBSD infomatic.intranet 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 16 00:35:00 CST 2006 [EMAIL

Re: (OpenOffice2 build failure) ERROR: Shared object libmawt.so not found

2006-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
put it for the OOo build to find it? On 2/1/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build the OpenOffice 2 port and I get the errors below. My make options are: nice +20 make JAVA_VERSION=1.5 WITH_KDE=yes install My System: FreeBSD infomatic.intranet 6.0-RELEASE

Re: GENERIC freebsd 5.4

2006-01-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/30/06, serge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have compiled a kernel but it is not loaded. In a manual it is written that after installation is formed two catalogues /boot/kernel and /boot/kernel.old. But it has not taken place. My actions: # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # mkdir

Re: Source upgrade in FreeBSD 5.4

2006-01-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/30/06, Jose Borquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When performing an upgrade after doing a minimal install of FreeBSD 5.4, I would like to upgrade the source using the stable-supfile. In the supfile I have the option to do a src-all update or to specify from the following: What are the

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