Re: A few quick questions, one on daily reports and one on Raid 5...

2005-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:34:10AM -0700, mojo fms wrote: I know its doable, how would i go about adding another email that the daily reports get sent too? I would still like them to be stored on the system its self but also send to another email account. In /etc/periodic.conf, set

Re: best OCR scanner??

2005-09-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:46:27AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:07:26PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: People, I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is Any scanner

Re: USRobotics Sportster MessagePlus X2 PnP modem

2005-09-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:32:48AM +0500, 897344 wrote: Hi Roland. I bought USRobotics Sportster MessagePlus X2 PnP modem. Does FreeBSD support it? If it is an external modem that connects ro a serial port, it will probably work. To find a modem's specifications on the Us Robotics site,

Re: making packages

2005-08-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:26:05PM +0100, Chris wrote: Hi I'm just checking out how to make my own packages from ports. To see how things work I did ``make package'' in misc/bb. I get this: snip Are there better ways of making a package? See the -b option of pkg_create in the manual page.

Re: Users unable to select their own window manager in X.

2005-08-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:35:18AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All: Last week, I did a CVSup on all ports, and then did a portupgrade over the weekend. The portupgrade completed successfully, without significant errors. Now, normal users are no longer able to set their own

Re: mkisofs

2005-08-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:50:07PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, How can I create a iso from multiples partitions without crossing the file system boundary? I.e, how to include / in the mkisofs but not /usr? Use the -x option. See the mkisofs manual page. Roland --

Re: A quick question about X11 and securelevels

2005-08-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 12:59:36PM +0400, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 8/28/05, Tom Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand the things like not allowing the system clock to change and not allowing formatting of filesystems, but I want to know why you can't run x11 when you have a

Re: Conexant Softv92 Data Fax Modem PROBLEM!!!

2005-08-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 01:44:00PM +0500, 897344 wrote: Does FreeBSD support Conexant Softv92 Data Fax Modem? HOW can i setup modem driver? No. It is a software modem which needs a driver. No such driver has been written for FreeBSD, although a company called Linuxant has written a Linux

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:36:04PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: This much improvement almost makes me want to just upgrade this amd64 box to -STABLE and start using it now. I just want to be sure it's stable enough for my use. My amd64 workstation has been running -STABLE since 5.3 without

Re: harddisk not found on 5.4 and 6.0

2005-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:15:49AM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi I'm trying to put FreeBSD on an older machine, that currently has Linux installed. It is a 1 GHz Athlon with a Via KT266 chipset. The disk controller is a VIA 8233. The problem is that FreeBSD does not find the harddisk

Re: optimized + reiserfs

2005-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 08:17:27AM +1000, Bassam Batshon wrote: hi is there anywhere i can find a 586 optimized freebsd You'll have to make it yourself. Install FreeBSD, change the CFLAGS (for userland programs) and COPTFLAGS (for the kernel) to what you want, and rebuild the system as

Re: How to find the cause of core dump

2005-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 06:08:35AM +0800, Pang wrote: Hello all, I have got a lot of signal 11 on dmesg pid 62519 (httpd), uid 398: exited on signal 11 I am sure it is software problem, since I just moved all the things to a new servers and I still got these errors. So, I need to find

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:16:51PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: The issue I'm having is that every minute or two, I will hear some stuttering in any audio/video playback (will see the video freeze if video), and my mouse will freeze for a few seconds as well while this happens. It seems to

Re: question about Portaudit and code freezes

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:23:11AM -0500, Joe Auty wrote: Hello, How come xpdf is still showing up as a vulnerability, even though the latest portrevision was supposed to resolve these problems? Has the portaudit database not been updated because of the code freeze? Some other ports

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:21:41AM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: /boot/device.hints: # Larger DMA buffer for the soundcard, for better sound quality. hint.pcm.0.buffersize=16384 Hey Roland. Yeah, back when I was looking into amd64 vs i386 version and had a thread going that you replied to, I

Re: question about Portaudit and code freezes

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:29:10PM -0500, Joe Auty wrote: On Aug 25, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:23:11AM -0500, Joe Auty wrote: Hello, How come xpdf is still showing up as a vulnerability, even though the latest portrevision was supposed to resolve

Re: Is the Free BSD 47snap licensed under the BSD or the GPL ?

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:18:53AM -0700, Hartley, Joice wrote: Please tell me if Free BSD 47 snap is licensed under the BSD or the GPL. Please provide a link. Thanks The base system is mostly under the BSD license. See http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html But some parts

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:48:17PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: Roland Smith wrote: Another thing to look at might be the scheduler. I'm using SCHED_4BSD. Hmm, I'm using just a GENERIC kernel with support added in for my sound driver and atapicam for K3b. SCHED_4BSD looks default in GENERIC

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:39:25PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: Wow, that would be really nice. I notice whenever I compress something like a backup of my Thunderbird Inbox files (several hundred megs) in bzip2 format it goes nowhere near 100% or even 90% CPU usage. The problems I am talking

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:25:48PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: Hmm, if bzip2 can't saturate the CPU, I would say it's probably waiting for disk reads/writes. The drives I was trying to compress from/to are both brand new 200GB Maxtor 7200RPM ATA133 drives. Maybe that has something to do with

harddisk not found on 5.4 and 6.0

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
Hi all, I'm trying to put FreeBSD on an older machine, that currently has Linux installed. It is a 1 GHz Athlon with a Via KT266 chipset. The disk controller is a VIA 8233. The problem is that FreeBSD does not find the harddisk when booting from the install CD. The boot loader does, though. This

Re: MSI (AMD 64) K8T MASTER 2 does not boot.

2005-08-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:25:23AM -0500, Victor Leo Kallen Soto wrote: Hello : I want to install FreeBSD 5.4 on a MSI K8T MASTER 2, but the loader freezes immediatly after it starts. When you get to the boot screen, try booting without ACPI. Roland. -- R.F.Smith

Re: setting a network printer

2005-08-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:25:41PM +0200, Roldn wrote: hello, i have a network printer and i need to set up in order to print, what can i do? That depends on what kind of printer it is, and what kind of printer spooler and filters you want to use. See chapter 9 of the FreeBSD Handbook for

Re: Backup to CD-R

2005-08-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:36:03AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a3bm() { Hi! I was wondering if somebody can give me a clue to how to schedulle regular backups to CD-R. I'm using FreeBSD 5.3. If your dumps are so small they will fit on CD-R, you could do the following: - make a dump

Re: i can't block win98 computers

2005-08-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:28:10PM +0300, vladone wrote: Hi! I try to block some computers to acces my gateway based on MAC address. I use this ipfw rule: ipfw add 100 deny mac any xx:yy:aa:bb:cc:dd in via $private_interface With this i can block XP computers but not work with Win98. I

Re: Help with xorg.conf

2005-08-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 04:39:37PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, I'm a FreeBSD newbie and have been lovin' the whole experience. I've recently got fluxbox working as my WM, which was an experience, and just got firefox working too. My problem is that I can't get X to use my

Re: XTerm fvwm2 Xorg

2005-08-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 01:54:05AM +0100, Charles Smyth wrote: I'm trying out fvwm2 on a FreeBSD 5.4 box with Xorg The XTerm uses a small font as default. How can the font be made larger, and how can the XTerm window be made larger by default. You could use options on the command line to

Re: Asking the experts. . .

2005-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:35:48PM +, Bryan Maynard wrote: It seems like the suid bit means that only the file owner can execute the file. Is this true? No. It means that if this program is run (by any user) it will have their user id (uid) set to the owner of the programs binary, which is

Re: How to use Bochs?

2005-08-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:43:16PM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 07:53 AM 8/11/2005, Kenny wrote: I have installed Bochs successfully from ports. At first, I planned to install Windows in Bochs, but soon I found that Bochs needed to be configured before functioning properly. You should try

Re: UDF and CD-RW

2005-08-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:51:45AM +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi All! I'm trying to use packet writing software on FreeBSD. The FreeBSD counterpart of the Linux udftools package is the udfclient port. However, I cannot use it. It does not allow me to create a new filesystem, telling me

Re: UDF and CD-RW

2005-08-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 05:11:01PM +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Looking at the port makefile, one of the programs that is installed is called cdrw_format. Maybe you should try that. Roland Looks like it is the right program. But it does not work. I have ide-scsi emulation enabled on

Re: UDF and CD-RW

2005-08-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:47:19PM +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote: I wonder why there is no documentation for this program? Probably there are human beings using it but probably they are very special persons with special knowledge. Most probably because the developer didn't need it or never got

Re: raid monitoring (was: sound vs. PCIX bus)

2005-08-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:54:14AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: Heres a question for others to answer. How would you setup a sound alert if for example one of the drives in a RAID 1 failed? This would be for an ata-mkIII PseudoRAID mirror setup. And what about email or phone call alert?

Re: interrupt issue, storm on parallel port, 5.4

2005-08-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:41:09PM -0400, dave wrote: Hello, I've got a printserver that has an hp deskjet printer attached via parallel port. I just got an email with the following message: Interrupt storm detected on irq7: lpt0; throttling interrupt source I've checked lpt0 in dmesg

Re: pf macro def

2005-08-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 07:05:30PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: I'm in the process of rewriting a ipf firewall to a pf firewall script I have a macro defined like: tcp_services = { 21, 22, 25, 80, 113, 587, 110, 143, 993, 995, 6891, 49151:50251 } The manual page for pf.conf places the

Re: Making the Leap to 5.4 and 64bit

2005-08-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:22:14PM -0700, Wil Hatfield - HyperConX wrote: First, greetings to the group and nice to meet everyone's acquaintance. We are getting ready to make a big leap to Dual 64bit Xeon machines (SuperMicro) and FreeBSD 5.4. We would really have like to stick with 4.11 but

Re: Daemon, Devil... woops!

2005-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 06:36:21AM -0600, Ray Jenson wrote: I mean, really... a logo depicting a daemon, or even a devil, is just a logo. It's not like the Son of the Morning Star is a member of the board, or even an executive. It's not like everyone involved with the project are Satanists

Re: motherboard fbsd 5.x

2005-07-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 03:17:01PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: snip From what I understand there are still some problems with AMD64 boards. Still, 64bits is the future.. so is it better to wait a while, _or_ are there *good* supported motherboards for amd64? Avoid boards with NForce

Re: Optical drive laser misalign guidance

2005-07-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:15:42AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Not sure if this is the best location to ask, but I have to see anyhow... Just wondering if anyone has had any verifiable experience with misaligned lasers in optical drives, and I was curious how they fixed the issue if they

Re: securing FreeBSD

2005-07-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:05:43PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to secure my FreeBSD server. I don't want anyone to be able to access to the disk using a bootable CD (or by setting the actual hdd to secondary and plug an other primary hdd). Put the machine in a locked cabinet

Re: FreeBSD on AMD64 3000+ - amd64 or i386 version of FreeBSD?

2005-07-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:11:30PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: 1) I have an AMD64 3000+ processor. I've been reading some things around the Internet about ports and other software not compiling properly with the amd64 version of FreeBSD. Most of the things I've read about this have been from

Re: cdrom mount question

2005-07-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:42:22PM +, Bryan Maynard wrote: I am not sure which list to post this to, I'll start here. :-) I am trying to play a CD through amaroK in KDE, but when I try to mount the disc I get the following error: You don't have to mount a music CD. cd9660: /dev/acdo:

Re: devfs permissions wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:11:41PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: I have my devfs config set up to allow certain devices to be mounted by users in the cdusers group as follows: own da1 root:cdusers permda1 0660 own da1aroot:cdusers permda1a0660 own da1c

Re: help with sh script

2005-07-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 01:03:40PM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: I get this error printf missing format character Does sed need different syntax or have I got it all wrong? Issue the following command and be enlightend: man 1 printf Or just use 'echo' instead. Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG)

2005-07-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:28:41PM +0200, Ron wrote: Is there any 3d hardware company that does supply enough programming info? I looked a year ago, but I haven't seen any *product* yet, although there are initiatives. There is support for older cards from ATI (up to the Radeon 9250 aka

Re: help with sh script

2005-07-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 12:14:05PM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: many ways, here's one: printf '10.0.10.5' | sed 's/\.//g' Arno * Thanks but I need a little more help. num_ip=(printf $raw_ip | sed 's/\.//g') gives me a error. What would the

Re: firewall on FreeBSD

2005-06-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 08:42:24AM +0200, mess-mate wrote: I've a firewall/router/proxy with openbsd and think to replace it with freebsd 5.4 Do you mean freebsd's PF don't support the 'quick' keyword ?? Thought PF on freebsd and openbsd was identical, isn't ? I don't know if they're

Re: Building applications on BSD software

2005-06-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:12:39PM -0700, Chris Palm wrote: Hello, I am writing a b-school paper on the use of open source software components and libraries used in and distributed with a company's applications, and the legal copyright and other business issues that arise. What kinds of

Re: Sound Jitter.

2005-06-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:21:15PM +0100, Grant wrote: Try enlarging the soundcards DMA buffer; Add the following line to /boot/device.hints and reboot: hint.pcm.0.buffersize=16384 I found the above line on google when i had a looke, i shoved it in but with another number 65536 i dont

Re: -DNOPROFILE with make buildworld...

2005-06-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:49:06PM +0100, Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: I've cvsup'ed my source tree, and stepping through the instructions in the handbook I note that it recommends running make buildworld with -DNOPROFILE (or specifying it in make.conf). I'm not clear what the impact

Re: apsfilter problems

2005-06-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:46:10AM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: apsfilter fatal error: missing pnmdepth; can't convert file type 'jpeg image data' and apsfilter fatal error: missing pngtopnm; can't convert file type 'png image data' You can find these in the 'netpbm' port. Roland --

Re: Sound Jitter.

2005-06-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:31:51PM +0100, Grant wrote: Or so i thought, the sound is fine unless i want to do something, if i'm just scrolling in firefox it causes the sound to kinda of jump or skip, snip The skips only seem to happen when there is some type of activity on the computer,

Re: usb2 external drive gets different designations

2005-06-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:19:59AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a working usb2 external IDE hard drive running on a 5.4-stable box. My problem is sometimes when i connect it it is given a designation of da0 while other times it is given a

Re: GnuPG in the enterprise

2005-06-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:19:19AM -0500, Tony Shadwick wrote: Just so I'm following then, let's say I have gnupg installed on my server, and I'm creating all of my employee's secret keys there, then installing gnupg on their workstations so that they can use local mail clients to encrypt.

Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:14:50PM -0500, James Riendeau wrote: I'm trying to setup backups to the DVD-RW drive on our new server before it goes into production. I've got the DVD-RW drive working, and I figured out how to dump to it: # dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P

Re: disabling ata devices

2005-06-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:08:42AM -0400, JM wrote: i thought about this but the ad0 and acd0 are on the same controller... i think. is there some hardware probe i can use to confirm which controller each ata device belongs to (corresponding to the device.hints entry...) Run atacontrol

Re: Need a HELP Lead .. For: xorg 6.8.2 - wont start

2005-06-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:55:33AM -0700, Everett Batey wrote: Highly Revered Questions Persons at FreeBSD: shout HELP /shout Wish it was a full time job for me to upgrade FreeBSD servers but they work so WELL once up. This migration from Xfree86 to X_org (every effort to follow their

Re: ATI Cards...

2005-06-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:29:55AM +, mojo fms wrote: I have a machine i just switched from Wiindows to Freebsd... This is the second Fbsd machine i have setup but the first with an ATI card.. I want to do some gaming on it and i was wondering where i could find drivers that will work with

Re: Digital Audio Workstation

2005-06-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:12:29AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is anyone on this list using FreeBSD as the OS for a Digital Audio Workstation? If so, could you please point me to some print or online resources for building a digital audio workstation using FreeBSD as the OS?

Re: DRM for Radeon 7000

2005-06-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:54:41AM +0200, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: Has anybody succeeded to run an ATI Radeon 7000 AGP on FreeBSD 5.4 with DRI/DRM? I've got a Radeon 9200 AGP (which is supposed to be a cheaper version of the 7000?) running on a uniprocessor amd64. On my system, drm0 shares an

Re: Backup Question

2005-06-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:02:28AM -0500, Cody Holland wrote: Ok, I'm trying to do a simple tar+gzip backup for my file system. I can do this no problem. The backup is a little less than 2Gb. What I would like to do is chop this up into 650Mb pieces that I can ftp over to a server with a

Re: Problem w/ simple Hello World compiled w/ g++

2005-06-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:01:41PM -0700, Keyser wrote: I know quite a bit about programming, but not a lot about FreeBSD. I've been pulling my hair out all morning just trying to get an unbelievably simple c++ Hello World program to run (it compiles fine) under FreeBSD. Here's the source:

Re: Mailscanner PC requirements

2005-06-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:38:04PM -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Oh the Ironies of life, I actually redid my install because someone on the list told me that there was no reason (point) to even install KDE since I was going to use it only for Mailscanner.. Should I go ahead and reinstall

Re: can't figure out ssh, read lots of docs...

2005-06-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:49:45PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: I'm trying to use scp and I get prompted for a password or passphrase for each invocation. I figure I need to figure out how to get ssh to connect without prompting, but I just can't get it. I've read all the man pages and

Re: Anyone had any luck getting Lexmark Z32 to work?

2005-05-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:12:02AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: I have looked at apsfilter, and did some half-hearted attempts at understand the www.linuxprinting.com site. According to http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-Z32 it works partially, and requires a

Re: Anyone had any luck getting Lexmark Z32 to work?

2005-05-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:04:22PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: I have looked at apsfilter, and did some half-hearted attempts at understand the www.linuxprinting.com site. According to http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-Z32 it works partially, and requires a

Re: drivers

2005-05-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 03:17:30PM +0200, Andreas Rudisch wrote: I would suggest that you NEVER ever attach such a large file to an email and send it to a public mailing list, I bet there are not many people who like it. Especially those on a dialup account! Better make a short summary of

Re: multiple os

2005-05-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 03:07:20PM -0700, Eric LaVoie wrote: I currently have suse 9.2 loaded on a emachines T3985. I want to install freebsd on the machine as well and would like to be able to choose at boot time which I would like to load. How do i do this? You help is appreciated. Read

Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...

2005-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:38:29PM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: Either way: I personally like that separation as well. I have another good Adaptec SCSI controller, but I think it's a bit a pity to 'sacrifice' that just for a DVD burner (it's currently installed in a machine I have

Re: Compatible DVD burners for AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4?

2005-05-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:26:01AM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: snip Actually you mention something interesting: I hadn't checked out the interface type. Do you know if DVD rewriters would typically be SCSI or ATA? I haven't tried burning DVDs with the ATA driver. The manual page for growisofs

Re: Compatible DVD burners for AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4?

2005-05-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:29:56PM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: snip One of the (hardware-wise) things I need to solve before being able to actually get it, is which DVD burner (for back-ups, etc.) I can best install in it. snip Does anyone have any experience with this particular combination

Re: dvi to PCL filter

2005-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 05:37:32PM -0700, sealbeam wrote: Hi I am a complete newcomer to unix and have just created a dual-boot between FreeBSD 5.2.1 and Win2K (each on a separate hard drive). Now I'm trying to get my HP 1160 Laserjet to print dvi files. snip Can anyone tell me what I've

Re: how can I make xterm just like the console ? (colors, etc.)

2005-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:10:12AM -0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: Can someone tell me what configuration I need to make the colors (and as much other behavior as possible) in xterm identical to the normal FreeBSD console ? Edit the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color-static, and

Re: Articles, Tutorials hardware setting in loader.conf

2005-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:33:10PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a newbye I just need a pointer, a hint to the following two subjects: 1) Where can I find a clear explanationt on how to use the many, multilingual articles, books, tutorials and documentation coming with a standard 5.4

Re: trying to use vga11x19.pcf.gz with rxvt under Xorg

2005-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:41:17PM -0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: rxvt: can't load font vga11x19 Sure enough, I do not have that font. So I searched for it and downloaded the file vga11x19.pcf.gz and placed it into my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc directory. I then ran `rehash`. However I

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:12:59AM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: Hey all, I'd like to tweak my drives / view there current configurations. I get really slow xfers from two machine in the same, quite, LAN (both running FBSD 5.4 with good Intell Pro100 NICS). Im not sure if DMA is enabled or

Re: WIFI DHCP

2005-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:52:01PM -0700, Beecher Rintoul wrote: I would like to use a wireless card as my primary internet connection. I have read the manual and see nothing mentioned about setting up the card to use DHCP. Then you've looked in the wrong place. :-) I do not have a static

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:47:21PM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: (please don't top-post.) Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. How did you learn about these tools? From the pages i've read (most of) the handbook, I didn't see it mention them. I came across one of the control

Re: installation

2005-05-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 07:52:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with but i havn't had any luck finding answers. I have that freebsd book by Brian Tiemann 2nd edition with the freebsd 5.0 CD. The 5.0 release is pretty old. Try the latest stable release 5.4 first. If that doesn't work try

Re: sal setup

2005-05-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 01:22:31PM +, paul klatt wrote: coudl anyone please tellme how to setup dsl in freebsd I would appreciate the help You'll have to give the group some more information for us to be able to help you. If you have a dsl router which is connected to your computer by an

Re: Exporting FreeBSD SW

2005-05-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 04:26:00PM -0400, Christian Dickerson wrote: Hello, can you please assist with the export of FreeBSD SW R3.4. Release 3.4 is ancient, and not longer supported. You'd better switch to 5.4 (the current stable release). We request eth ECCN, CCATS and license exception

Re: lmmon + FBSD 5.4

2005-05-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:33:18PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: What's the options now that is required in the kernel to enable the reading for the sensors on the boards??? See /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES, especially the SMB bus section. All my attempts has been futile, /sys/i386/conf/NOTES is

Re: lmmon + FBSD 5.4

2005-05-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:26:20PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: Don't mean to be rude or anything... But as I did indicate before, NOTES was not and still is not, any help... You haven't read what I wrote properly: See /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES, especially the SMB bus section. So see

Re: Spam/AV filtering

2005-05-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:37:22AM -0400, Charles Lamb wrote: I am using sendmail/qpopper and need a way to do spam and virus filtering. There seems to be a number of ports I can use in the ports collection. I was hoping to get some advice on which one you prefer. I am a bit of a novice so

Re: Newbie Questions

2005-05-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:58:51PM +0200, Joseph Borg wrote: Hi, I've got a couple of questions I was hoping someone could help me with: - I've got an (extremely old) HP Scanjet 4c Scanner hooked up via an Adaptec SCSI card to my system. Freebsd seems to recognize this scanner at boot: May

Re: Video Driver

2005-05-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:14:46PM -0400, Adam Stern wrote: I'm kind of new to freebsd. I'm using Gnome, and the resolution doesn't go above 600x800. I assume that is because it doesn't have the exact driver for my video card. Try Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Plus and see if it switches to a higher

Re: Newbie Questions

2005-05-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:01:23AM +0200, Joseph Borg wrote: As for the DVD, I've search my ports for growisofs however, I cannot find it. Can I download it off anywhere? The program is called growisofs, but it's packaged as dvd+rw-tools (in /usr/ports/sysutils). Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: Small business software for FreeBSD

2005-05-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 05:58:18PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote: I've given the ports tree a quick search, and I've poked through freshmeat.net and Google to no avail. Does anyone know of any small business management software -- something that can do quotes, invoicing, time tracking, etc. --

Re: ssh to new ip...

2005-05-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 04:13:47PM -0500, Bagus wrote: Hi, I'm moving my new freebsd 5.3 box to a new static ip address and I'm worried that once I put it at the isp, I won't be able to ssh to it or anything. Right now it's still at home and has dhcp. I'm not able to ssh from my windoze

Re: tetex, latex, dvips

2005-05-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:11:22PM +0200, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! Why do latex and tetex conflict? Firstly I installed latex but couldnt find the koma package but all tools (dvips, xdvi ...). So I removed latex and installed tetex-base and tetex-texmf. Koma works fine, but I can

Re: tetex, latex, dvips

2005-05-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:31:08PM +0200, Florian Hengstberger wrote: A tex live-cd? I wonder why this should be preferable to a port. TeXLive is a TeX distribution that you can install. I think it also includes a live-cd. Anyway what's wrong with the latex port. TeXLive contains more

Re: video card

2005-05-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 06:27:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Is there are better driver for my video card than the standard, generic vga0 driver? My video card is a Diamond Viper v550 vidoe card which uses the nVidia Riva TNT chip. The card uses the AGP interface and has

Re: Network interface counters

2005-05-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:45:18PM -0400, Chad Morland wrote: I was wondering if there is a FreeBSD equivalent to /proc/net/dev from Linux. I am trying to get bit and packet counter info from my network devices. Try getifaddrs(3). For every interface, the data you want is found in the ifa_data

Re: Scripting help

2005-05-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:44:49AM -0500, Chris wrote: I would like some advice on how to script something that will search directories below a named root for all files ending with a certain file extension. Finding files is done (unsurprisingly) with find. E.g. to find all .c files under the

Re: SU Question

2005-05-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:19:31AM -0700, Dixit, Viraj wrote: Final question, I notice the rights of su on another system were like this -r-sr-xr-x. What's the rule of setting the option s in the permissions. Thanks! You can set this bit (the setuid bit) with chmod. See the chmod manual page

Re: proper use of dump to backup a 5.3 box

2005-05-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 05:28:04PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: dump 0auf /mnt/usbdrive/dumps/rootdump.20050510 / might be what you want. That would get you a dump of the whole root filesystem. If you have another file system such as /usr then a second part like dump

Re: cups problem (fwd)

2005-05-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 06:13:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifconfig sk0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 10.0.x.x netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255 inet6 fe80::20e:a6ff:fe90:fc26%sk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether

Re: FreeBSD on AMD 64 Boot Lock Up - ACPI Related

2005-05-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:32:43PM +0200, Joseph Borg wrote: Should I disable ACPI completely? If so, how should I go about doing this and how will it affect my system? Disabling ACPI seems to solve problems for a lot of people who use FreeBSD/amd64. Add hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 to

Re: FreeBSD on AMD 64 Boot Lock Up - ACPI Related

2005-05-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:08:49PM +0200, Joseph Borg wrote: Hi, Yes that seems to have solved the problem. Incidentally, would you know what the disadvantage of having acpi disabled like that is? First of all, please to not top-post. It disturbs the normal flow of reading. But to answer your

Re: How-to change permission on SCSI devices?

2005-05-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 01:36:11PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:39:16AM +0200, regisr wrote: I am looking for a FAQ about dynamic devices: In 5.3 (and 5.4..) SCSI devices nodes (/dev/pass*) are created when discovered (at boot or when running camcontrol rescan

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