Re[3]: adduser .. revisited, an alternative

2002-12-30 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Perhaps this can be helpful: there is an administration tool called webmin (found in /usr/ports/sysutils/webmin) which can be accessed via some graphical browser (either from your local machine or from your network) which helps you to administer users, groups and all kinds of services you run on y

Re: Netscape 7

2003-01-07 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Alvaro Rosales R. wrote: > Hi guys , I have installed NEtscape 7 in a FreeBSD 4.7 Box , it works > fine but everytime I close the program, Netscape asksme for a profile, I > try to use the one I used in my earlier session and it says that It cant be > used because it is already

Re: Netscape 7

2003-01-08 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 01/07/03 05:56 PM, P. U. Kruppa sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Alvaro Rosales R. wrote: > > > > > Hi guys , I have installed NEtscape 7 in a FreeBSD 4.7 Box , it works > > > fine but everytime I c

Drgenius with gnome2

2003-01-09 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! Has anyone tried to run DrGenius on FreeBSD with gnome2 ? DrGenius is an intuitive geometry system, that might be interesting for students (More information on http://www.ofset.org/drgenius/ml.html ). I could do # ./configure successfully, but # ./gmake fails. Regards, Uli. *-

Re: Drgenius with gnome2

2003-01-09 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi Joe! On 9 Jan 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 11:48, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Has anyone tried to run DrGenius on FreeBSD with gnome2 ? > > Nope. > > > > > DrGenius is an intuitive geometry system, that might be >

Re: Drgenius with gnome2

2003-01-09 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On 9 Jan 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 16:44, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > Hi Joe! > > > > On 9 Jan 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 11:48, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > >

Re: freebsd curiosity

2003-01-09 Thread P. U. Kruppa
There have been many long discussions about all your questions. A good starting point to get all the answers you need is the FreeBSD homepage www.freebsd.org . And ... if you know Linux you can easily install and setup FreeBSD on your machine and find out everything yourself. Have fun! Uli. On

Re: freebsd curiosity

2003-01-09 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > There have been many long discussions about all your questions. > > A good starting point to get all the answers you need is the > FreeBSD homepage www.freebsd.org . > And ... if you know Linux you can easily install and setup > FreeB

Re: Help! my wm just went awol from X!

2003-01-09 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Ok, this one is pretty frustrating. We had a power cut tonight, and > my machine rebooted. It came up quite nicely, better than I expected, > considering I had recently updated some of the startup packages, and > hadn't yet had a chance to power cycle

Re: Help! my wm just went awol from X!

2003-01-09 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Ok, this one is pretty frustrating. We had a power cut tonight, and > my machine rebooted. It came up quite nicely, better than I expected, > considering I had recently updated some of the startup packages, and > hadn't yet had a chance to power cycle

Re: Drgenius with gnome2

2003-01-10 Thread P. U. Kruppa
part of the gnome project. Thus it would be a good idea if someone - who knows about these things - could write a port for it, to make it easily accessible for students and teachers. Thanks, Uli. On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > > > > DrGenius is an intuitive g

Re: freebsd curiosity

2003-01-10 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Andrew Y Ng wrote: > On 0, "P. U. Kruppa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And ... if you know Linux you can easily install and setup > > FreeBSD on your machine and find out everything yourself. > > that's not really true, the RH ins

Re: mounting a dos file system

2003-01-10 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, chip wiegand wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:13:49 -0500 > Adam Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Instal Samba. I have a silimar situation, and Samba works great foe > > me. > > Samba is for sharing FBSD shares on the windows network. There is a port > for Sharity-Light

Re: Drgenius with gnome2

2003-01-10 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, paul beard wrote: > P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > Hi again! > > > > In the meantime I played around a little bit with DrGenius. > > > > (As I teach maths and physics - ) I think it is quite a valuable > > tool for visualization and

Re[2]: Drgenius with gnome2

2003-01-11 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Alex wrote: > > Dear/Beste P., > > Thursday, January 9, 2003, 11:10:12 PM, you wrote: > > > On 9 Jan 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > Indeed, I uncommented > > # include > > and now it seems to install and run. > > # That isn't a comment sign in C. > > But "/* comment */"

Re: Zope does not start on boot-up

2003-01-12 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi Hanspeter! On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Jan 11 at 21:15, P. U. Kruppa spoke: > > > The rc.d-script that came with the port does not do anything - > > neither manually - nor on boot-up (besides echoing " Zope"). > [...] > > >

Re: Zope does not start on boot-up

2003-01-13 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi Hanspeter! On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Jan 13 at 05:31, P. U. Kruppa spoke: > > > File /usr/local/www/Zope/z2.py, line 690, in ? > > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/www/Zope/var/Z2.pid' > > > Hi Uli, > > m

watch: fatal: cannot open snoop device

2003-01-14 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi, I try to watch user activities with # watch [tty] but keep receiving watch: fatal: cannot open snoop device I have recompiled my kernel with device snp as the manual says. Any idea what else could be wrong? Thanks for your answers, Uli. *---*

Re: watch: fatal: cannot open snoop device

2003-01-14 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > On 14-Jan-2003 P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I try to watch user activities with > ># watch [tty] > > but keep receiving > > > > watch: fatal: cannot open snoop device > > > > I have

talk can't find connection

2003-01-14 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! I try to conect two users via talk. Both typed # mesg y But when user_1 types # talk user_2 the talk screen appears and continues saying [No connection yet] [Checking for invitation on caller's machine] [Checking for invitation on caller's machine] [Checking for invitation on

Re: dual boot

2003-01-14 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, bluegreen wrote: > Just purchased FreeBSD4.7. Brand new to Unix! New to Linux! Old hand at > Windows! Is dual boot of win2k and freeBSD4.7 possible for extreme > novice. Yes. > Is support available? A good starting point would be www.freebsd.org especially the handbook sectio

Re: entropy

2003-01-14 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:46 US/Pacific, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: > > > Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on > > entropy. > > > > ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc > > > > - aW > > Entropy is a tendency towards disorder in the

Re: Linux downloads

2003-01-15 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, E. Rens wrote: > Hi, > > what is the best way to download packages in the Linux compat realm? I'm > looking for something like the ports system, that would search and > download the file with the appropriate dependencies too. You won't believe ist: You will find them in the po

Re: Linux downloads

2003-01-15 Thread P. U. Kruppa
cooledit # make install clean Probably someone (the port-maintainer) has solved this problem for you. If you don't know if an application has been ported, type # locate cooledit Uli. > > > > P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > >On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, E. Rens wrote: > > > >

Re: learning to compile and installing sources without using theports collection

2003-01-15 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi Didier, I think there are too many questions in this email. On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Didier Wiroth wrote: 1) > I'm using xfce 3.8.18 (from ports collection). I download the sources of > xfce4 from cvs and wanted to compile the stuff! Like they mentionned it: > ./configure than make (but I get an

Easily access ftp filesystems????

2003-01-16 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hello, is there any easy way to access ftp filesystems, i.e. - by one mouseclick or - by "mounting" it somewhere - without always having to reenter usernames und passwords - like in Windows (sorry!) Thanks for your answers, Uli. *---* *Peter Ulrich Krupp

Re: Easily access ftp filesystems????

2003-01-17 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Rick Fournier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On January 17, 2003 03:28 am, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > Hello, > > > > is there any easy way to access ftp filesystems, i.e. > > - by one mouseclick or > >

Re: how to restore /usr

2003-01-17 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Len Conrad wrote: > Trying to free up disk space, a user accidentally rm'd /usr instead of > /usr/ports. > > Starting with the cdrom, what is the best way to get the /usr tree back > onto the disk? If your system still can boot, you can do # /stand/sysinstall --> configure -->

Re: how to restore /usr

2003-01-17 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Len Conrad wrote: > /stand/sysinstall works > > so what if we did > > install additional dist sets + just binary base distribution? Yes, and the manuals are quite useful. Good Luck! Uli. > > Len > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebs

Re: Possible attack?

2003-01-17 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Jim Freeze wrote: > Hi: > > I got an interesting log report today. > Has anyone seen such messages lately? > > Jan 14 12:59:52 rabbit /kernel: ipfw: limit 100 reached on entry 64000 > Jan 14 17:39:13 rabbit ftpd[1502]: ANONYMOUS FTP LOGIN REFUSED FROM > p5089A961.dip.t-diali

back up Win2k workstations?

2003-01-22 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi, I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how? Thanks, Uli. *---* *Peter Ulrich Kruppa* * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *---

Re: back up Win2k workstations?

2003-01-23 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Stephen Hilton wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 05:41:07 + (GMT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P. U. Kruppa) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on > > a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how? &g

Re: slightly OT: official CD tree structure

2003-01-27 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Igor B. Bykhalo wrote: > I'm going to burn installation CDs after make release, > but i also want to put distfiles of my ports on it, > just for more convenient local work. > > The question is: where should i place distfiles? > Should it be /distfiles or ports/distfiles? Defau

Re: I 'm learning

2003-02-04 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, jim wrote: > I got two very good responces to a question I asked here even though I > didn't really know what I wanted so. I will atempt to be more specific I > am trying to setup bsd on an old machine .aptiva IBM from 1995 32megs of > ram 133 mghtz proccessor 1.5gig maxtor hd

permissions for /tmp ???

2003-02-05 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! Cleaning up my system I accidentally deleted my /tmp directory - it had grown to 462M, though I couldn't find any files as big as that. Anyway: I created a new one, rebooted my system and everything seems to work all-right. Please could someone send me the default permissions of /tmp ? I wou

Re: Good way of upgrading from FreeBSD 4.5?

2003-02-06 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Johannes Angeldorff wrote: > Dear FreeBSD:ers, > > I am happy to use FreeBSD for web, mail and applications serving. But > when I come to the question about how to upgrade to a newer FreeBSD > version, I really could need your expertise! I think this is what you would call a pr

kernel loadable modules ?

2003-02-06 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! Where can I find documentation for the kernel loadable modules in /modules ? Regards, Uli. *---* *Peter Ulrich Kruppa* * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *---* To Unsub

starting ppp on boot up

2002-12-19 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! I have a well working user ppp configuration, which I run manually by # ppp -nat -ddial adsl What is the simpliest way to start this automatically on boot up? Thanks, Uli. *---* *Peter Ulrich Kruppa* * - Wuppertal - * *

Re: starting ppp on boot up

2002-12-20 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:47:33PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 06:59:18AM +0000, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I have a well working user ppp configuration, which I run >

Re: starting ppp on boot up

2002-12-20 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:31:20PM +0000, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > In the meantime I found # man and copied/edited this > > - working - /usr/local/etc/rc.d - script: > > > > ---

SQUID question

2002-12-21 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi, I am testing Squid on my home network: +--+ +--+ | 192.168.10.1 | | 192.168.10.2 | | squid proxy |<--|Win2k | | on -STABLE | | Client | +--+ +--+ Squid can be used properly on the proxy-machine (with

Re: local copies of packages during their installation

2002-12-21 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Jörg Meyer wrote: > Hello, > > I've been experimenting with FreeBSD since the day > day before yesterday. Coming from the MS-world I am very > impressed already. > > I installed the system from a CD created from the Mini-Iso-Image. > Installing packages with pkg_add -r I would

Re: How do you suspend and resume a remote shell session?

2002-12-21 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On 21 Dec 2002, Andrew Cutler wrote: > Maybe my question wasn't clear enough. I would like to SSH into a box > with say my laptop, setup some tasks, run some programs, suspend the > connection, unplug and turn off my laptop, and then come back to the > same session a few days later, perhaps using

Re: SQUID question

2002-12-22 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-21 09:35:33 +: > > I am testing Squid on my home network: > > > > +--+ +--+ > > | 192.168.10.1 | | 192.168.10.2 | > > | squid proxy |<--|Win2k | > > | on -STABLE |

Re: SQUID question

2002-12-22 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, David S. Jackson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 09:35:33AM +0000 P. U. Kruppa ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am testing Squid on my home network: > > > > +--+ +--+ > > | 192.168

RE: SQUID question

2002-12-22 Thread P. U. Kruppa
192.168.10.1 And: when I kill Squid and reset IE it can access the Internet as it always did. Uli. > > Howard > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David S. > > Jackson > > Sent: S

squid and ipfw ... fwd ...

2003-02-13 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! I am trying to setup a transparent proxy with Squid. Proxying and caching itself works fine (thanks to the help of this list!) - my Squid is listening on port 80. I have got the ipfw kernel module running and seem to be able to change all kinds of rules via ipfw or from bootup via some firew

Re: squid and ipfw ... fwd ...

2003-02-13 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Dancho Penev wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:44:24PM +0100, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > >Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:44:24 +0100 (CET) > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P. U. Kruppa) > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: squid and ipfw ... fwd ... > > &

Re: IPFW: rc.firewall script doesn't load when loading rules froma file

2003-02-18 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Jason Williams wrote: > I'm using FBSD 4.7 and have compiled ipfw into the kernel. My rc.conf > file has the following: > > firewall_enable="YES" > firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall" > firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.rules" > firewall_quiet="NO" > firewall_logging_enable="YES" > log_

Re: Need help formatting HDD

2003-02-19 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Shantanu Mahajan wrote: > +++ . Saevio . [freebsd] [16-02-03 23:21 -0800]: > | Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:21:17 -0800 > | From: ". Saevio ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | Subject: Need help formatting HDD > | > | Hi All, > | > | Sorry to write a F-BSD list with this, but i figured yo

Re: Transparent Proxy

2003-02-20 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > I'm trying to deploy a transparent proxy server for a friend's office but have > run into a couple of snags that I can't seam to find the correct answer for. > Please see http://home2.dbitech.bc.ca:8080/netconfig.txt for graphical > topology > > Note

4.8-PRERELEASE: portinstall -R XFree86 fails

2003-02-20 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi, I am trying to portinstall XFree86-4 on yesterday's 4.8-PRERELEASE. I think I have deleted all old XFree86 packages, # pkgdb -F runs without any complaints. But portinstall -R XFree86 (I answered yes to XFree86-4) ends doing imake with ---

Security Problem (?): strange logs

2003-02-21 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi, browsing my /var/log directory I found many files like these - (...) log.Ä__îÅÍ3 log._ç___Ä log.a0035934 log.aditi log.alevrius_ log.alevrius_.old log.amanda log.amd log.amul log.andreas log.ang_1730 log.angelas log.aps-02 log.armoire log.atpvpn log.a

Re: 4.8-PRERELEASE: portinstall -R XFree86 fails

2003-02-21 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:58:49AM +0100, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to portinstall XFree86-4 on yesterday's > > 4.8-PRERELEASE. > > > > I think I have deleted all old XFree86 p

Re: 4.8-PRERELEASE: portinstall -R XFree86 fails

2003-02-21 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Peter Wu wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P. U. Kruppa) writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to portinstall XFree86-4 on yesterday's > > 4.8-PRERELEASE. > > > > I think I have deleted all old XFree86 packages, > > #

Re: hpijs

2003-02-27 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi ! > > I has been almost a month now that I have been trying to make my printer work > under FreeBSD. > I am now seeking for a direct help, I am totally confused. > Basically, everything always worked perfectly, but the quality is not here. > Is the

Re: hpijs

2003-02-27 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Thursday 27 February 2003 18:34, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > > here. Is there anyone on the list who uses apsfilter+hpijs to print to a > > > Hp Deskjet printer ? > > > > Yes, I do and it works fine. > &g

Re: hpijs

2003-02-27 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, chuck odonnell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:18:24PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > I has been almost a month now that I have been trying to make my > > printer work under FreeBSD. I am now seeking for a direct help, I > > am totally confused. Basically, everything

Re: hpijs

2003-02-27 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Thursday 27 February 2003 19:15, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > > aps1|ijs/DESKJET_990;r=600x600;q=high;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\ > > > > > > These are your default printe

Re: hpijs --> mostly solved

2003-02-28 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Thursday 27 February 2003 19:39, Wayne Lubin wrote: > > When I want to print something I just convert it to > > post script and feed it to gs which knows how to talk > > to printers. Read the gs man page to see how to do it. > > I think I have foun

Re: installation question/problem

2003-03-06 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, scott mcclellan wrote: > I wrote an earlier thread with regards to installing via CD-ROM. > Unfortunately I think I have a hardware technical problem that's beyond > my intellect at this point. (Get a FAILURE error when the boot process > starts - the CD hadn't even started hum

Re: kernel configuration

2003-03-08 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, charles pelletier wrote: > Okay, just to make sure this is correct (my first use of the newer more > current kernel config).. > > The only steps involved are those listed in the handbook: > Change to the /usr/src directory. > # cd /usr/src > Compile the kernel. > # make

Re: mplayer and afterstep

2003-03-12 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Brian Henning wrote: > Hello- > is there a way to hide the window selector on the to righthand corer of after > step and the start menu on the right while i am watching a movie in mplayer? > when i press the 'f' key for full screen these items stay on the desktop. Try left [a

RE: Remote X from another BSD Box

2003-03-20 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Brian McCann wrote: > Thanks guys, -X worked great! KDE on my Sun box now. :) Now all I need > is a non-optical Sun mouse, and to try NetBSD so I can use SMP. :) > > --Brian Just to throw in some 0.01 ¤ : If you can spare some time, have a look at /usr/ports/vnc . You can no

Re: your mail

2003-03-17 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Annie Chen wrote: > Hi, > > Can I get some information abt FreeeBSD system as following: > - procedures for adding users > - procedures for deleting users > - service starup instructions > - service shutdown instructins > - system maintenance instructions A good starting point

Re: Transparent proxy

2003-03-24 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Maarten de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > On my NAT-box, I'm trying to redirect all http traffic from the desktops > behind to the squid cache, which is on the same machine. > > The ipfw rule I use that should accomplish this is: > > $ ipfw add 2350 fwd 192.168.1.1 3128 from any to an

Re: 5.0 Release frequently asked questions

2003-03-25 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, taxman wrote: > > Hi, due to the multiple questions that users have regarding 5.0, and not > reading the documentation, I whipped up a quick version specific FAQ, that I > think will be useful at least until 5.1 is released or 5-stable is created. > We seem to get up to

Re: Running X from a windows PC

2003-03-29 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Jason Hunt wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:27:34PM +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > > Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > > > > >You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or > > >X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) > > > > Do you know an

Re: can't find smbpasswd file

2003-04-05 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Thanks so much... how comes locate couldn't find this file ? Perhaps because locate is - per default - only updated once a week? Uli. +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | - Wuppertal - | |

console fonts

2003-05-29 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! Something (the last system update or me myself) has messed up my console fonts. These are the symptoms: - pseudographic characters which are needed to display useful tools like /stand/sysinstall and the midnight-commander look awful. Strange symbols are displayed instead of neat lines. -

Re: rc.conf in 5.1?

2003-06-14 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Kjell Midtseter wrote: > On Saturday, 14 June 2003 at 21:38:41 +0200, Markus Svensson wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I've just finished src upgrading my 5.0R box to 5.1R. > > I've got one small problem though. After the upgrade, the system no > > longer seems to use /etc/rc.conf d

Re: SV: rc.conf in 5.1?

2003-06-14 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Markus Svensson wrote: > > This is not a problem of /etc/rc.conf . There was a long > > discussion about that on the freebsd-currrent mailing list the > > last days. Several people complained about it and several others > > will try to fix the problem > > If you can, try to cv

Strange message: --: not found

2003-06-14 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! I have to admit I have been playing around with NIS/NFS . Everything seems to work fine, but I keep receiving messages like this: --- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 21:00:00 GMT From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Re: Strange message: --: not found

2003-06-14 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 14), P. U. Kruppa said: > > I have to admit I have been playing around with NIS/NFS . Everything > > seems to work fine, but I keep receiving mes

HowTo repair my console fonts/kbd ?

2003-06-15 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hello List! Since some cvsup three or four weeks ago my text-console on -CURRENT is a complete mess (on previous versions of -CURRENT everything worked fine). Here are some symptoms: - special characters (you need for drawing neat lines in /stand/sysinstall or the midnight-commander) display as

Re: Secure tunnel: SSH or SSL or IPsec?

2003-06-17 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Bill Moran wrote: > Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > I need to create a secure connection over the inter between my workstation at > > home and a server I have elsewhere. My workstation is running RELENG_5_0 and > > the server runs RELENG_4_8, both up to date. I need the secure con

Re: Free Pascal and Lazarus

2003-06-17 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Rod Person wrote: > Is anyone using Free Pascal and Lazarus on FBSD? > > I've download source for Lazarus but can't get it to build on 4.8 with the version > of free pascal in the ports. Marco van de Voort mailed me yesterday, you would need the latest version of fpc, which h

j2re1.4.2-beta-linux and Mozilla

2003-06-21 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! Did anybody succeed in running the linux-mozilla 1.4rc2 binaries with the new (ie. the new gcc32 compiled) jre ? And if yes: how? Regards, Uli. +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | - Wuppertal - | | Germany

Where can I find libgcc_s.so.1 ?

2003-06-21 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! Where can I find libgcc_s.so.1 ? (mozilla1.4rc2 seems to need it to run Sun's java plugin) Regards, Uli. +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | - Wuppertal - | | Germany | +-

Re: Where can I find libgcc_s.so.1 ?

2003-06-22 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:36:41AM +0200, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > > Where can I find libgcc_s.so.1 ? > > (mozilla1.4rc2 seems to need it to run Sun's java plugin) > > Assuming that you're trying to run the FreeBS

Re: Where can I find libgcc_s.so.1 ?

2003-06-22 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > So I wonder where this file should come from. > > You would need to install a Linux package of gcc-3.2 --- if you're > using the emulators/linux_base port, all of the standard linux stuff > you have installed is based on RedHat 7.1, so grabbing a .rpm

Re: GIMP

2003-06-25 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:08:13PM -0300, Konrad Scorciapino wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I want to install the stable version of gimp with the package > > system, however, after checking the FreeBSD's main ftp site, I've only > > found the unstable version

Re: WIN2000 & FreeBSD

2003-06-29 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Quinn Ellis wrote: > At 11:06 PM 28/06/2003 +0400, you wrote: > >How can I install WIN2000 and FreeBSD on one machine. The reason is in > >this: the FreeBSD loader cannot see WIN2000 fs, and WIN 2000 loader can't > >see FreEBSD fs. If you can, send me your reply in russian :)

aoi (Art of Illusion)

2003-06-29 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! I tried the aoi port. Construction of 3D-Objects works nicely, but I have problems rendering textures. Uniform seems to be ok, but I don't get any Procedural 3D . Do I have to read more manuals or is this a problem with the FreeBSD port? Regards, Uli. +---+

Re: aoi (Art of Illusion)

2003-06-30 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:10:46PM +0200, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I tried the aoi port. Construction of 3D-Objects works nicely, > > but I have problems rendering textures. > > Uniform seems to be ok,

Re: Samba passwords

2003-06-30 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Bob Hall wrote: > samba-2.2.8a > FreeBSD 4.8 > > I'm trying to get samba running on my FBSD server. I've done this > previously with another server, but I can't seem to get it to > work this time. If I turn off password encryption, then I pass > all the tests in the DIAGNOSIS

Re: FreeBSD Startup Question

2003-07-05 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, ACiD wrote: > All, > > I have been working a lot with Free 5.0. Because of a few issues, I had to > back down to 4.8-RELEASE. Now I am having problems understanding the rc > loading process. On 5.0 its easier (what I am used to from the Solaris > days, etc.) The file system

Re: openoffice install

2003-07-06 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I've downloaded the binaries for OpenOffice (openoffice-1.0.3_2.tgz) but > now I'm not sure how to "install" this tgz file. > Can I use pkg_add openoffice-1.0.3_2 Yes, though I guess you will be asked to download some other things, too. For more informa

Re: Internet Connection Problem

2003-07-07 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Eddie Tremblay wrote: > I just finished install Unix FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE. I am new to unix and i am > having trouble setting it up on the internet. > > I live in Ontario , Canada and i am using Bell Sympatico, DSL. > > It is a broadband connection. Can you please email me ba

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-10 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Hi > > I saw this post on /. today, under the announcement about a FreeBSD 5.1 > review. > > Is there much truth is this? > How many FreeBSD servers are out there? And is there number declining? > > I really hope that BSD will be arround for a long time

Re: Dead natd -> dead system

2003-07-10 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:56:12 -0400 (EDT) > Matthew Emmerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brett Glass wrote: > > > > > While working with a FreeBSD system this afternoon, I did something which killed > > > natd (the NAT daemon), wh

samba(2.2.8) printer server (on 4.8-RELEASE)

2003-07-18 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! I am trying to set up a printer server (SAMBA 2.2.8 package on 4.8 -RELEASE, printer is a Kyocera FS-3700+ laser printer) which should be accessible from Win2000 and WinNT4 workstations _without_ any authentication. These are the steps I have taken so far: 1. I used apsfilter to make the ky

Re: Thanks

2003-07-19 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Axl Rose wrote: > thanks > > what bout to telnet freebsd from windows box on same network > > [telnet] > 10.0.0.1 fbsd <> 10.0.0.2 windows > > never connects (could not open connection) You can enable telnet by removing the # in the telnet st

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-19 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, stan wrote: > I've got about a dozeen machines I need to build with STABLE. The machiens > will be alike except fo things like name and IP address. > > I've been building these thigns one at a time doing the following. > > Bott from install disks > install minimum set > instal

Re: samba(2.2.8) printer server (on 4.8-RELEASE)

2003-07-24 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Andrew Stuart wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 at 07:58:05 +0200, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I am trying to set up a printer server > > (SAMBA 2.2.8 package on 4.8 -RELEASE, printer is a Kyocera > > FS-3700+ laser printer)