Hi,
I have an HP 5200C scanner, attached over USB.
OS is FreeBSD 4-Stable.
In the kernel configuration file, I have this for usb support:
device scbus # SCSI bus (required)
device da # Direct Access (disks)
device uhci# UHCI PCI-USB
Hi,
I am trying to learn the buildworld and mergemaster process from the Handbook.
The handbook says:
[...]
To begin simply type mergemaster at your prompt, and watch it start going.
[..]
SO I did type mergemaster and all went well.
Decided then to remove the temproot directory, but failed!
Hi,
I'm trying to get grip of mergemaster.
Either my logic is up-side-down or mergemaster is not so intuitive,
but learning mergemaster seems a tough process for me.
My problem now:
# mergemaster -v
This does some things, and then presents me a list of files that
are only in my installed
Hi,
How can I find out which app. keeps /dev/dsp busy?
Without any other sound application running, I got this message when
starting mplayer or realaudio. Somehow the system got muddled up.
After some random trial and error, I finally discovered that everything
came back to normal when I
Hello,
I thought I more or less understand how to handle these things in X,
but I am totally puzzled here.
For me, there are three crucial files
/etc/ttys:
ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm on secure
and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config:
! SECURITY: do not listen
Thank you so much for the long and detailed description.
I'm waiting for the first release candidate of 4.9 to test
it out.
(BTW: RC1 should have been there already; is there a delay?).
Regards,
Rob.
Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 08:46:52PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
What
Scott Schappell wrote:
Greetings:
I ran the patch process exactly as listed in the advisory. I'm currently
running 4.8p3 built from source.
After running the instructions verbatim, sshd shows the following version
string:
OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030201, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL
I have compiled and installed the STABLE cvsup'ed kernel sources,
rebooted and discovered that the 'top' command (still from 4.8-RELEASE)
now outputs rubbish:
$ top -b
last pid: 10630; load averages: 1.91, 1.31, 0.59 up 0+00:33:0310:04:48
21 processes: 1 starting, 1 running, 1
Francis A. Vidal wrote:
Did you do a 'make installworld' after you installed the new kernel
(4.9-PRERELEASE)?
Just double checking: 'make installworld' involves being very
careful with my /etc files and the use of mergemaster etc.
Right?
It's my first time ever to sync my system with STABLE.
Daniel wrote:
On 18 Sep 2003 at 10:07, Rob Lahaye wrote:
I have compiled and installed the STABLE cvsup'ed kernel sources,
rebooted and discovered that the 'top' command now outputs
rubbish:
[Snip]
Is there a quicker fix than recompiling the whole base system (base system
now is 4.8
Gil Agno Virtucio wrote:
Hi. I want to randomize the execution of a shell script. Can i use cron
to do this? or are there other available tools that i can use to do this?
See 'man 6 random' and 'man sleep'.
Then try doing something like this in the background:
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
Charles Howse wrote:
I don't happen to have random installed on my system, however jot is
It's in /usr/games/random of FreeBSD 4.8.
Won't randomNumber=$? Just return 0 if the previous command completes
successfully?
Shouldn't it be:
randomNumber=`random -e 60`
No. In 'man 6 random', it
Michael Vondung wrote:
Hello, all,
I successfully managed to install the FreeBSD nVidia video drivers, but ran
into a problem that is apparently X related: How does one tune the gamma
correction? man XFree86 suggests the command line option -gamma value,
where value is a number between 0.1
Dragoncrest wrote:
gmake[2]: *** No rule to make target
`/usr/X11R6/include/qwindowsxpstyle.h', needed by
`.obj/release-shared-mt/qstylefactory.o'. Stop.
My guess would be that there's an error in the make file or
build scripts for this. Since this is happening on the
Dragoncrest wrote:
I agree. I'm waiting till someone totally sorts this out.
Cause it seems like the Band-Aid to get one thing fixed breaks something
else. So for the time being I'm not touching anything.
At 08:19 PM 9/20/03 -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
and then Arts blows
Hi,
I'm installing from scratch gnome2 (not upgrading!), which I do
by installing the meta-port (see below).
This goes on for some time and then ends with an error, that it
cannot find gnome-config. Whaah, I'm installing gnome
Is there a circular dependence in the gome2 port?
What to do?
Hi,
I have never done this. So I apologize for my ignorant questions...
Last week I discovered that the molden port is broken in many ways
(md5 sum wrong, Mesa depence absent install broken). I reported
it to the freebsd-ports mailing list and to the maintainer. I even
attached a sort of
Thomas Spreng wrote:
Hello,
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:51:38AM -0400, Payne wrote:
Hi,
I am wanting to use host.allow and host.deny to make my box more secure.
Is there a site that can explain how to use them.
hosts.deny is depricated just use hosts.allow.
Hmmm, man hosts_access
Scott Schappell wrote:
John Straiton wrote:
Hello,
I'm having a doozy of a problem keeping a default route set up
This has been discussed heavily in the -stable list. It seems the arp
patch (incorporated into the world of 4.9, 4.8, et al) caused a loss of
default routes on some
Piet Slaghekke wrote:
Hello,
When downloading freebsd I am asked what architecture. What does this mean and how
do I determine this?
Choose a proper subject when asking question.
I think only two architectures are supported for the stable 4.x releases:
i386 (the 'regular' PC type) and
Johnson wrote:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:54:23AM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
Glenn Johnson wrote:
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:59:10PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
Since I have upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 (with cups-1.1.18), printing
has a problem with variable width fonts. Variable width fonts are
printed
Thank you Glenn,
Confirmed that indeed now this problem has been solved. Great!
Rob.
Glenn Johnson wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:01:05PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
Glenn,
According to your comments (see below), the problem I addressed some
weeks ago, was caused by the FreeBSD port
Hello,
I've been trying to include the quote () characters and spaces into a tcsh script
variable; for already two days I've been trying various ways doing this to no avail!
I'm about to think that it is impossible.
For example:
#!/bin/tcsh
set flag=-f t
Dan Nelson wrote:
Actually it doesn't. You get this result because sh splits variables
on $IFS before passing the result to a command, so what echo gets is
argv[1]=-f \t
argv[2]=\
I come to the conclusion that there's no intuitive solution in a
tcsh script for
set foo='-f a '
My
Hi,
I want to run my own script in the periodic/daily procedure
(e.g. synchronize time with ntpdate and update ports with cvsup).
I had a look at /etc/periodic/daily/999.local, which says:
# Run the old /etc/daily.local script. This is really for backwards
# compatibility more than
Lewis,
A few weeks ago, there was a troublesome version of ghostscript-gnu
in the ports, which corrupted my output as you describe (I have
an HP laser printer). I think it was version 7.07_1; I had to downgrade
to 7.05 for getting rid of the problem.
The latest port has solved the problem. So
Hi,
I have compiled qt-3.1.2_1 from ports as is.
It appears that FreeBSD defaults to creating the threaded libraries,
which confuses certain configure scripts.
Problem is that configure scripts of some software needs tweeking:
add -DTHEAD_SAFE, replace -lc by -lc_r, etc.
(main reason is that
Hi,
FreeBSD 4.8 and Qt 3.1.2 compiled as is from the portscollection.
I have a brief Qt code:
#include qglobal.h
#include qstring.h
int main ()
{
QString s(mangle_failure);
return 0;
}
I compile this as follows:
${CC} MyQtCode.C -g -O
Tilman Linneweh wrote:
Well there is a seperate list for qt, see
http://freebsd.kde.org/resources.php#mail for details.
What news-server is this on?
I use news.gmane.org and news.easysw.com, but qt-freebsd is on neither.
Freebsd-questions and kde-freebsd are both on gmane!
I have FreeBSD
Hi,
All my email arrives at a remote machine (RH 7.2 Linux box),
from which I pop this email to my own FreeBSD PC.
I'm searching a small application that notifies me by checking
every few minutes the remote pop server for new mail. And it should
do that while iconized (to get rid of all the
Hi,
man swapon says:
BUGS
There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is therefore
not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system
operation.
Is that still a bug?
--
The Handbook explains how additional swap space can be added to a
Ceri Davies wrote:
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
man swapon says:
BUGS
There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is
therefore
not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system
operation.
Is that still
Nagy L?szl? Zsolt wrote:
Hi gurus!
I have a remote FreeBSD computer (RELEASE 4.7 stable). It is on the
other side of Earth. I can access it only with ssh.
It is really a base system. The ports collection (/usr/ports) is
entirely missing. I'm familiar with installing ports. But I have
Hi,
I'm using 4.7 Release.
When the kernel boots, I get a relatively long wait (a minute or more)
at the harddisk detection. The HD is a IBM-DTLA/30.7Gb; CPU is Intel
1.7 GHz.
For the whole 'dmesg' output, see below in the PS; the place where the
wait occurs is here:
[...]
atapci0: Intel
Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:18:17PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
Does the official release come with broken floppy files?
Anything I can do to avoid this?
No, but floppy disks are notoriously unreliable. Sounds to me as if
your mfsroot floppy has got some bad sectors
Hi,
I usually install FreeBSD via FTP on my PCs at work. These PCs
have a fixed tcp/ip address.
At home, however, I use PPPoE for my internet connection, without
having a permanent tcp/ip address. Can I install directly via PPPoE
medium too?
Thanks,
Rob.
Larry Rosenman wrote:
visit:
http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice
and you can download a pre-built package.
Why has this not yet become part of the precompiled package
selection of FreeBSD, so that everyone can find it where one
expect it to be found?
Regards,
Rob.
Hi,
First of all, I am not a (native) Korean speaker/reader!
But I'm working in Korea.
My problem is as follows:
I want to change the OS on one of our very fast lab computers from Windows 98 to
FreeBSD.
My collegues (who know nothing about Unix/FreeBSD) allow me doing that, only if that PC
Hello,
Since I have upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 (with cups-1.1.18), printing has a problem
with variable width fonts. Variable width fonts are printed out as fixed width
fonts; so text looks ugly and runs over the lines.
I use http://localhost:631/admin; to configure CUPS.
The LaserJet 4V printer
: Standard (001.007S) Standard ROM
*Font ZapfDingbats: Special (001.004S) Standard ROM
The line *DefaultFont: Courier is problably the reason for the
fixed width font, isn't it?
So am I using a font that is not defined in this ppd file? I never
had this problem before!
Thanks for help!
Rob.
Rob
I have not inetd running, but instead only allow secure
connections with ssh and sftp.
However, the hints given here seem to only apply to ftpd
server and not the sftp connection. /sbin/nologin disables
both, ssh and sftp.
Is there a way to disable ssh, but allow sftp access only?
Can I do the
Raymond Sundland wrote:
Rob,
You can try setting the user's shell to /usr/libexec/sftp-server (or
wherever the sftp-server binary exists under FreeBSD).
This will give the user ability to SFTP into the box, but without a
normal shell. /usr/lib/exec/sftp-server should be added to
Guy,
I won't help much solve the problem.
All I want to say, is that I see the same thing on my system
(FreeBSD 4.8 with up-to-date-from-ports Xfree and other software).
I have a regular monitor, SamSung SyncMaster 20GLsi.
Indeed it only blanks. When I do xset dpms force off in my X-display,
Hi,
I'm installing FreeBSD 4.8 from floppies and want to proceed with ftp installation.
This is on a fixed network at the university. The ethernet card is 3Com 509B (the BIOS
says it's on interrupt 5).
During the installation, after I have entered the network info, I get a message
that says ep0
Hi,
I created the installation floppy from kern.flp. Removed it from the
drive, to make it read-only.
I then put it back into the drive and do, as root:
# mount -t ufs /dev/fd0 /mnt
# umount /dev/fd0
umount: unmount of /mnt failed: Input/output error
#
It's still mounted! I have to take the
Rob wrote:
That's strange - I get errors as soon as I try and do this, before the
filesystem is even available.
Perhaps the updates from mounting the floppy aren't being written out to
the actual media until you try to unmount it - some kind of caching
issue?
What happens if you try to
I complaint to the national radio station to only provide their live programs for
Windows Mediaplayer.
The reply was that there are version(s) of this Mediaplayer available for Unix systems,
but I had to approach a unix usergroup myself for finding out the details.
Hmmm, I just wonder if this is
Rob wrote:
I think I've figured it out - here's a script(1) of trying to mount a
[...]
I'm guessing that you're doing this in a non-console shell, and the
errors are appearing elsewhere - maybe /var/log/messages?
Yep, my console is indeed filled up with the corresponding error messages.
Rob wrote:
I don't know if it's a bug - you've asked the OS to do something that is
prohibited by the hardware, and (in the Unix tradition) it tries as hard
as it can.
What might be improved is an error message from mount(8) at the time of
the problem - not everyone looks at their
Rob wrote:
Yep - just tried
mount -u -r -f /mnt
and also
umount -f /tmp
Both fail with I/O errors, presumably from the fdc0 device. Also when
rebooting, the failed sync interferes with unmounting other filesystems,
causing fsck(8)s on the way back up.
But mount/umount
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC. Only FreeBSD, no other OS.
The installation goes all well; I exit at the end and the PC boots.
Immediately after the BIOS stuff, I get the first FreeBSD prompt:
F1 FreeBSD
Default: F1
Toomas Aas wrote:
From: Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC. Only FreeBSD, no other OS.
The installation goes all well; I exit at the end and the PC boots.
Immediately after the BIOS stuff, I get the first FreeBSD prompt:
F1 FreeBSD
Default: F1
Stacey Roberts wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 10:17, DanB wrote:
How do you find what sendmail version you have 4.8 stable?
Try:
telnet localhost 25
The sendmail version is returned in the reply
Without having sendmail running, can I check the version without
digging into the
Hi,
I had to change the netmask of my ethernet card. So I modified /etc/rc.conf. But for
that to take
effect, I should reboot. Now, how can I avoid a reboot for such a small change?
I had a look at the ifconfig command, to set the interface manually, but I was
completely
lost by the amount of
Hi,
I have my FreeBSD PC connected to the internet via ADSL with PPPoE.
My ISP claims my speed is 2 Mbs. Is there a reliable command on my FreeBSD system
to double check the internet speed?
I ask this, because when I complain, the answer is always that the reason for
slow network is due to the
Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
I wanted to cvsup src-all from 4.8-STABLE and tried with
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
Either that or RELENG_4_8, where the latter only gets absolutely
critical fixes.
What am I cvsup-ing, when I use:
*default release=cvs tag=.
The manual says about this
Hello,
For my FreeBSD 4.8 PC, my supfile for cvsup contains:
*default host=cvsup2.freebsd.org
*default prefix=/usr
*default base=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
ports-all
When I run cvsup -L2 supfile, it deletes all the ports.
Why is
NiC wrote:
Hi all!
Have trouble - new computer, must be FreeBSD4.8
2 HDDs - first is 20Gb, second 200Gb
When installing - all ok.
After rebooting tried to do through /stand/sysinstall - Fdisk - selecting 200Gb
HDD -a-w-q
Then Label menu-c-selecting maximum volume-selecting mount
Hi,
I've just upgraded all my software from recent ports.
Now realplayer (10.0.2_1) doesn't run anymore, because it cannot
find its libraries:
$ ldd /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin | grep not found
libX11.so.6 = not found
libXrandr.so.2 = not found
libXi.so.6 =
Rob Lahaye wrote:
Hi,
I've just upgraded all my software from recent ports.
Now realplayer (10.0.2_1) doesn't run anymore, because it cannot
find its libraries:
$ ldd /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin | grep not found
libX11.so.6 = not found
libXrandr.so.2
Hi,
I have just upgraded my mozilla install from ports collection to version 1.7.
Since then, mozilla seems to crash frequently (once a day or so) when
webbrowsing. When I then revisit the same page it crashed on, there is no
problem. This makes the error rather unreproducible.
(Much less frequent
in this context of serial port communication?
And eh, is this actually the right way to go for data acquisition?
Thanks,
Rob Lahaye
Seoul National University - Korea
Thanks !
Jean-Marc Francois
Université de Liège
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I got a strange problem.
I want to send a binary string
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