> What is the procedure to submit a new port when you don't have access to
> a dedicated and highly-visible Freebsd machine on the internet?
You have to configure sendmail (or any other MTA of your choice) to use
a proper mail server (e.g your ISP's) as a smarthost/mailrelay. Perhaps
at least a re
> I've been cvsupping my portstree several
> times now over the last past weeks but still
> don't get the MD5 checksum file, for kde.
>
> What's up with this?
Are you speaking of this port?
/usr/ports/x11/kde3
It's a so-called meta-port that consists of dependendies only, i.e.
other ports that
27, 2003 at 11:36:48PM +0100, Simon Barner wrote:
> > > What is the procedure to submit a new port when you don't have access to
> > > a dedicated and highly-visible Freebsd machine on the internet?
> >
> > You have to configure sendmail (or any other MTA of your c
> > Or just have sendmail config files for the most common cases, e.g. isps
> > mail server as smart host (with and without asmtp), etc.
>
> That would be good idea too. But when you make world and run mergemaster,
> is always the risk of the sendmail configurations getting wiped out. But
> I gues
asolomon15 schrieb am Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:08:29PM -0500:
> Hello all, I have a asus P4C-800-E motherboard and I don't know if my
> soundcard is supported or not. When I use dmesg this is the mesage that
> i get
> pci0: at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
> pci0: at device 31.5 (no driver att
> I was trying to build mplayer tonight, and I ran into a problem with
> net/liveMedia. The port that I've got calls for the build done on
> 10.24.2003. This file was unavailable on *any* of the listed mirrors,
> with the closest match being one built on 10.30.2003. I got around this
> problem b
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> My name is Giannis Vlachos and i live in greece.Iam using freebsd 5.1
> and i have already install a double pci serial card (Netmos 9835cv)
> who is working fine.
>
> I want to put another one or two pci serial cards from the
> I read the gcc man page. It is not clear what -O implys. Is -O equal to
> -O1 or -O2? If I wish to optimize making does it make sense to add
> CFLAGS=-O2 in the make.conf(5)?
Hi,
-O == -O1 (see `info gcc' -> Invoking GCC -> Optimize Options)
It is recommended not to use anything higher than
> I'm curious whether there's an easy way to renice(8) a process and all
> of its children in one simple command. For example, I might start a
> recursive make, which spawns lots of processes, and want them all to
> change priority at once.
In this special case with recursive makes you could al
Me wrote:
> Hi,
> I've learn shell scripting and java on my freebsd box
> since I migrated from winblows 98 a while back. now
> i'm ready to move to a more sophisticated language. I
> have decided to go with C++. Is there any bigginer
> guides online that you may have run a cross that would
> help
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
> I'm just wondrin' who exactly am I mailing to? Are
> you all employees from FreeBSD Mailing Center?
As the others have already pointed out: this is a FreeBSD user mailing
list. But speaking of employees: cheques are welcome anyway ;-)
SCRN,
Simon
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su su wrote:
> sir, my pc is using FreeBSD now. and now i would like to add a new hard
> disk which is RedHat. The new harddisk is plug with IDE 2. then , i have no
> idea how to view the data inside the redhatis it i need to mount the
> new hard disk.???thank 4 help
Yes, you need to mount
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I am running freeBSD 5.1.
>
> I read the handbook on updating the ports system. The
> updated ports were placed in the /home/ncvs/ports. I cd
> to the /home/ncvs/ports/3ddesktop. I typed the usual
> make install clean as root. I gotten this error message:
>
OLAF STEIN wrote:
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text console - thanks ]
> i recently switched from linux to freebsd, so this question might sound
> a little stupid
>
> the problem
> i removed 2 users from my system by deleting their entries in /etc/passwd
Bill Moran wrote:
> Client bought a pair of 160G Samsung SP1604N ATA drives. I'm supposed
> to install them in an existing FreeBSD 4.9 system for additional
> storage space.
[ drives don't work in various systems except for one ]
I once had a similar problem with a 120 GB Maxtor drive. My solu
Jeronimo Romero wrote:
>
>
> 1-Installed 5.2.1 release
> 2-installed Developer release (without X)
> 3-cvsuped ports tree
> 4-tried compiling gnome 2.6 meta port from ports
> it kept on failing at pango
>
> anybody have any ideas as to why???
Perhaps, if you shared the error messages with us ;
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
> Hi,
>I've installed an internal "Smartlink HSP56
> Micromodem" pci modem on the first pci slot of my
> H30CF jetway motherboard with(if i'm not mistakem)
> only one com1 port and a com2 header which i think is
> just an extra or something. I'm really having a hard
>
Joe Schmoe wrote:
> I already have a good method for saving realaudio
> streams to local files. No discussion of this is
> necessary.
>
> So now I have locally saved realaudio files, and I
> would like to convert them to mp3 (or at least to wav,
> and then to mp3). There is some lame GUI tool in
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- cut here -
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# extraido de http://bulmalug.net/impresion.phtml?nIdNoticia=1744
# y modificado por mapelo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# necesita mplayer y lame
# Convert
Hi,
> How do I add a patch to a certain port? Usually I would use the "patch"
> program to add the patch to the source code. But when using ports the
> system begins compiling right after rewtrieving the source. Thus not
> giving me a change to apply the patch. I've seen a folder named "files"
> i
?? ?? wrote:
>I am a novice to unix,I am going to install it on my computer ,but I
> encounter a problem,so I report it to you,and I will be very thankful if
> you can give me some advice!!!
>I have installed windows2000 on my computer,I make two boot flopy
> disks,and copy the files nee
Daniela wrote:
> Hi!
>
> My Mozilla hangs very often, and now I attached to the hanged process with gdb
> to see what's wrong. I have debug symbols in Mozilla, in every other program
> and in the entire OS. The backtrace is:
>
> #0 0x28458d60 in __sys_poll () from /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4
> #1 0x
Khong SF wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been using FreeBSD 4.7-stable on a PIII box for a while.
> I tried for weeks to get the gnome1.4 desktop running but to no prevails.
> The problems i encountered were:
>
> 1) when gnome starts, it pop up a diaglog box saying
>" unable to find host adress for.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by Pos1 key?
Pos1 == Home on German keyboards.
> On my machine from both console
> and gnome-terminal I can use the "Home" and "End" key to get to the
> beginning and end of the file using versions 358 and 371 of less. It
> works on both FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x in my case
Hi,
> Summary: with /home NFS mounted at 10Mbit/s, network i/o
> makes my sytem noticeably slower (as in GNOME interactivity). I'm running
> RELENG_5_2, with SCHED_ULE and ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES.
What NIC are you using? It sounds like your system is slowed down by
vast interrupt stroms (use top an vms
> Hello, I am new to this list, so hopefully I an
> writing to the right address.
Yes, you are, so welcome aboard!
> Anyway, I just installed FreeBSD in conjunction with
> WindowsME, and when it asked for a boot manager to be
> installed, I selected "None", since it said that's
> what people who
Raymond Lillard wrote:
> I just failed at an attempt to pull down the latest sources
> via anoncvs using the instructions found at the URL below.
Hi,
it seems that this server has been shut down due to security concerns.
See this thread on -current for more information:
http://lists.freebsd.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Which release of FreeBSD by standard has GCC 3.3.3 or higher?
5.2.1 has GCC 3.3.3 - don't know whether some lower versions of FreeBSD
5.x also had it (they're all GCC 3.x based), but you wouldn't want to
install anything below 5.2.1 anyway (if you decide to go for FreeBS
Lars Eighner wrote:
> works fine without X - whether you can build it without X, I
> don't know and I rather doubt.
Hi,
out of curiosity, I renamed /usr/X11R6, removed the USE_XLIB line from
the port. It configured fine (stating that all of the X11 video out
options were disabled), so I guess it
> I need to make both the floppy drive (fd0), the internal zip dive (afd0)
> and the cdrom (acd0) usable by any user without having to use 'sudo' or go
> the 'su' route.
Hi,
you want /dev/devfs.conf (see devfs(8) for more details).
E.g.:
# Commonly used by many ports
linkacd0cdrom
perm
> I check the devfs(8) manual and found nothing about a devfs,conf file.
Oh, sorry. The reference was just for more in-depth information about
devfs.
> I tried to create on but was not successful. I therefore assume you mean
> that I am to use the commands in the devfs(8) manual to create this f
Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to use archivemail-0.6.1 (Python 2.3.2) on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE.
> I have three questions/problems with the proper use:
>
> 1) I get the error message:
> /usr/local/bin/archivemail:760: SyntaxWarning: assignment to None
> (None, last_dir) = os.path.split(os
Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just bought a server from DNUK . It claims to have the following
> Ethernet card combination:
>
> Intel PRO/1000 / 1000 Mbit / integrated
> Intel PRO/100 / 100 Mbit / integrated
>
> I've installed FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE onto the box, and all I see is em0,
> I do
Aldinson C. Esto wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Can anyone give me the ifconfig documentation? or refer me
> to a link wherein I can find one?
If you're on a FreeBSD (or *nix) machine, you there's the ifconfig man page:
% man ifconfig
These man pages are also available on the FreeBSD web site (b
Hi,
I just had a look at that older post of yours, and I saw that you are
still running FreeBSD 4.8. Could you consider upgrading to 4.10-RELEASE or
-STABLE?
Have a look at the CVS logs for the fxp driver, and at the driver
source itself, and you will notice that quite a lot has changed:
http://
> Does the handbook or man page you are referring to have the
> documentation for each function of the ifconfig.c's source
> code? I really need this for our DHCP server development.
No, these are just user manuals. I hardly believe that there exists
developer documentation for that.
For specific
> I've tried installing 5.2.1 on the machine and it still doesn't work.
> Now though, it's even worse, as the em0 device doesn't work either.
>
> I get something along these lines:
> em0: Link is up 10Mbps Half Duplex
> em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> em0: Link is up 10Mbps Half Duplex
> em
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have two computers systems in my network. The first system is a headless
> FreeBSD 5.2.1 system. This system stores my mp3's, datafiles and runs mysql and
> apache. I recently, got rid of windows off my laptop and installed FreeBSD
> 5.2.1. When I had windows on the lap
> So to make it clear: If I want to run a cron job for a special user I use
> crontab and otherwise to run a system-wide cron-job that is not defined by
> FreeBSD itself I use /usr/local/etc/periodic?
AFAICS /usr/local/etc/periodic is mainly used by ports, e.g. portaudit
uses it to fetch its datab
Brent Wiese wrote:
> I recently added a new disk to a 4.9 machine. I was having problems running
> out of swap space, so I used a couple gigs of this drive as another swap
> partition.
>
> It is listed as a swap partition in /etc/fstab.
>
> I couldn't actually find something that would confirm th
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
> I'm currently on freebsd 4.9 and wanted to upgrade to
> 4.10 using cvsup
>
> This is my supfile
[...]
Hi,
do yourself a favor and use a copy of the example supfile
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
The only thing you need to change is the `host' line. If yo
Travis Troyer wrote:
> ===> Configuring for libltdl-1.5.8
> cp: /usr/ports/devel/libltdl15/work/libtool-1.5.8
> /usr/ports/devel/libltdl15/work/libtool-1.5.8
> /usr/ports/devel/libltdl15/work/libtool-1.5.8/libltdl
> /usr/ports/devel/libltdl15/work/libtool-1.5.8/libltdl/config.guess: No such
> fil
Thomas,
[ PS/2 mouse woes ]
which mouse device are you using?
Section "InputDevice" in /etc/X11/XF86Config should look like this (at
least it works for me...)
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol""SysMouse"
Option "Device" "/de
Peter Ryan wrote:
> I plan to burn my distfiles to a CD, but I am not sure
> which of the burn software options is preferable.
>
> I would like to be able to read the CD on both
> XP and FreeBSD.
>
> I would appreciate any recommendations or warnings
> from those who have been there before.
If y
mailing lists at MacTutor wrote:
> I've come across a ton of DNS tutorials on the web. Everything I've
> found so far is very lengthy. I need to setup a simple small
> office/home office network with DNS so that it resolves my inside
> network among the machines and hides it from the greater int
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Regards,
>
> I have one question.
> When will come FreeBSD 5.3 release ?
> If you can tell me approximately date..
"When it's ready."
The schedule is here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html
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Huajian Luo wrote:
> hi,guys
> I installed fetchyahoo and when I run fetchyahoo
> It told me
>
> Logging in securely via SSL as
> Failed: Couldn't get challenge to log in, Try again
> later,
>
> any comments on this?
> Thanks in advance!!!
I remember to have read that they changed their
Michael G. Goodell wrote:
> My question is this: I currently run 5.1 (uname -a yields: 5.1-RELEASE-p17)
> and I read at the page http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html it states
> that 5.1 is Frozen and also states (not officially supported) - Does this
> mean that I am using a release that is no
Hi,
I guess you have to fix your hostname:
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20
Simon
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Bill Moran wrote:
> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> > Then something has changed. So often flames start by a user simply
> > asking a question that had he/she simply searched the list - would have
> > found the answer covered many times over.
>
> No. Nothing has changed. The officia
Markie wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that the 5.x series kernel compile times take much
> longer than that of the 4.x series? My friends 233MHz machine running 4.x
> finished a kernel compile before my 500MHz machine running 5.x a while
> back. It seems to take forever? Is there a reason for thi
Elwaleed Khafagy wrote:
> dear sir;
> i can not tell you how happy we am to use free BSD
> but i need some information .
> I am from egypt and our language is arabic , so our
> company really need to know how to make free BSD
> support for arabic .
> we have informix database on our server and some
> While attempting to install postfix from the ports collection I get
> the following:
>
> Unknown option(s): subwin(dialog,16,71,4,7) failed, maybe wrong dims
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/mail/postfix.
>
Perhaps the error is in postfix's dependency: ports/devel/pcre
Simon
To Un
> is there an app that would allow me to play CDs on my BSD box and have that
> stream over an intranet? I want to set up a CD tower that allows for that
> sort of thing. Here's what i've got:
Maybe /usr/ports/audio/icecast or /usr/ports/audio/icecast2 is something for
you. It will encode an audi
> Why? How can I force it to install gcc in normal way?
Because your base system *and* most important the FreeBSD 4-STABLE kernel are
developed with gcc 2.95.x. If you use a different compiler, you might (and
probably will) end up with a br0ken system!
You can safely use gcc 3.x for the ports col
> I am using this port to make PDFs for the Windoze people from my
> LaTeX files... but it is not inserting the epsfig pictures.
>
> A is there a way to get it to do this -- the man page does not seem to
> indicate this ability ...
>
> B Is there a different tool to do 'production-grade' PDFs fr
> Now when I try to
> mount the EXT3 partition appears the message
> "/dev/ad0s2 : Invalid argument" ?
Maybe it's the wrong partition. How was that ext3 partition called on Linux?
Simon
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> > > mount the EXT3 partition appears the message
> > > "/dev/ad0s2 : Invalid argument" ?
> >
> > Maybe it's the wrong partition. How was that ext3
> > partition called on Linux?
Hmm, have a look at the diagramm shown in
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.ht
> So optimal security would be have every
> needed component compiled in, and turn off the ability to load any modules.
> I have no idea if this can be done or how in FreeBSD.
This is what securelevel(8) is about:
[...]
1 Secure mode - the system immutable and system append-only flags may
> > http://packetstorm.decepticons.org/papers/unix/bsdkern.htm
Btw, the article about "(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules", which
is often being referred to by the BSD Kernel article can be found at
http://blacksun.box.sk/lkm.html.
(the URL given in the BSD article is no longer vali
Hi,
> I'm running fbsd 4.8RC and trying to build postfix 2.0.6 and running
> into a kerberos issue. I want to build postfix with cyrus-sasl2, TLS,
> PCRE, and DB3 support. No matter what I do, if I enable cyrus-sasl2
> during the postfix build process, I receive the errors below. I don't use
> k
> This is, because you have disabled syslogd. You should thinking about
> enabling it but protect it against external access using ipfiler or
> ipfirewall.
Or use syslogd's -s option:
syslogd(8)
[...]
-s Operate in secure mode. Do not log messages from remote
machines. If
Hi,
> I have a webserver serving a lot of requests (almost filling
> up 4 Mbits/s of http at peak time everyday). It's running
> Apache 1.3.27 on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE, and there are usually
> about 200-250 http processes running. Today I was looking at
> the various *stat tools to monitor it, and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# ifconfig -m fxp0
> fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500
> inet xxx.xxx.191.100 netmask 0xfff0 broadcast xxx.xxx.191.111
> inet xxx.xxx.191.101 netmask 0x broadcast xxx.xxx.191.101
> ether 00:e0:81:23:c5:32
> media: Ethernet autoselect (10b
> my smb.conf file is below. When i access my samba shares from windows it
> displays the directory 'henninb' which i expect and the directory 'homes' which
> i do not expect. do i have something wrong is my configuration? why does the
> directory 'homes' show up?
> thanks,
> [homes]
> comment
Hallo Stefan,
> I am searching for a program which runs on FreeBSD
> for UML-modelling.
You might want to have a look at "umbrello":
http://uml.sourceforge.net/
It's in the port's collection (ports/devel/umbrello), but it's a KDE
application, so unless you are already runnig KDE, it will install
> Hi,
>
> Is there any driver that provides xvideo support for ATI Rage Pro / 128?
> I cannot get fullscreen support with mplayer.
You you try the gatos drivers: http://gatos.sf.net
The driver binaries for linux will work on FreeBSD, too. It is also possible to
compile them yourself, but you wil
> I am considering purchasing a toshiba libretto 110ct with a pentium 233
> mhz MMX processor.
>
> Is this speed/processor fast enough to play mpeg video and DVD movies from
> my hard drive, assuming I have _no_ hardware acceleration at all ?
I have an AMD K6-III 400 here, and I can watch DivX mo
Hi,
> In windows they have two programs for making UML class diagrams,
> Together and Rose, do we have anything like that in FreeBSD?
This his been discussed recently in this list:
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:08:30 +0100
From: "INV/Stefan K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Su
> I've just tried to get Kylix 2 Open Edition running on FreeBSD 4.6 and the
> Linux 7.1 package. After jumping through a few hoops getting libraries up to
> snuff and paths straight, I'm at the point of executing "startkylix" which
> runs "kylix". The error I receive is:
>
> modify_ldt : Fun
s about porting third party
applications to FreeBSD. For general questions, please use
freebsd-questions, for freebsd-stable, if it's specific to a -STABLE
branch of FreeBSD.
I have Cc'ed freebsd-questions, so further discussion should happen
there.
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tor since users
can update their email configuration on their own.
If you still have problems, please give me as much detail as you can.
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OT doc files: they are needed by bjam.
> Their "right" place should be something like, say,
> /usr/local/lib/boost/tools/...
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Hi,
> I have a comma delimited file with approximately 7000 rows and 5 columns.
> I have absolutely no database skills and and almost as much HTML skill,
> yet I need to convert this file into an HTML table. Is there something in
> the ports collection that will do this for me, a sort of converter
> Someone mentioned Perl. Try the following little Perl snippet:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> print "\n";
> while (defined($line = )) {
> chomp $line;
> print "" . join("", split(/;/, $line)) .
> "\n";
> }
> print "\n";
Yes, this is exac
> My / partition is getting pretty full, 92%. Usually the culprit is something
> I'm not rotating in /var/log, but that's not the case this time. Does anyone
> have any suggestions to find out where this is? I'm guessing it's probably
> something using ls and sort but I'll be damned if I can put so
Hi,
> I changed yesterday the password for root on my server because I found it too
> simple. Unfortunately I didn't write it and now I just can't remind it. I still have
> access to an account belonging to the wheel group. Is there any means to recover or
> to set a new password for root?
> I
Hi,
> I am looking for some sort of software which would allow me
> to generate C/C++ (and preferably other languages, like Python
> or PHP) references for a given project.
You should have a look at doxygen (ports/devel/doxygen,
http://www.doxygen.org). It generates nice documentation for C, C++,
Hi,
> I need to run a script, perhaps using FBSD's 'rand' or 'random' command (or
> any other) that will generate one single 5-digit number 'at random' between
> 1-9
>
> Anyone have thoughts on how to do this??
Don't know about a shell way to do this, but what about this tiny
C progr
Whoops, did too much C++ programming these days, in C this should really
be:
#include
#include
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
unsigned int r;
srandomdev();
/* use this on non-BSD systems:
srandom(time (0));
*/
r = random (
Hi,
> But I need other
> packages like "wxPython", "PyCrypto" and others for my work. I know I can
> download the source code and compile them. I could also find binaries but
> the dependency
> tree is endless (and I had version problems too). I read the comparison
> where someone said FreeBSD
Hi,
> I have a very slow connection an I want to update the ports collection
> of my FreeBSD 4.7(i386) Release box. Somehow I have managed to download
> the collection from the
> "ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports.tar.gz"; and
> I have expanded it into a new "/usr/ports
Hi,
> How would I set up a users account so they are only allotted lets say 100
> MB of disk space? Anything more would not be allowed and they would be
> just allotted the 100 MB.
I think this page
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/quotas.html
provides the i
> How would I set up a users account so I could limit the number of
> processes they use? For example if they are allotted 5 processes and they
> start a 6th either all the processes get killed or the sixth is not
> allowed, something along those lines.
Please see
http://www.freebsd.org/doc
Hi,
> is there a way to have the system automatically use nice on all
> command-line apps during a session? i don't want to keep typing it over
> and over every time i run a batch script or compilation.
You could either modify your scripts to use nice, or start a new shell
with an appropriate ni
> setproctitle(3) - but I don't know how you would call it from perl.
You can do it by altering the $0 variable:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$0='Will it work?';
sleep (10);
A ps | grep 'Will' gives me:
2551 p3 SN 0:00.02 Will it work? (perl)
Regards,
Simon
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Hi,
> Hi, in my years of using freebsd i have collected alot of distfiles in
> the ports tree and i want to free up some space on my harddrive and i
> was wondering is there a command to delete files in the distfiles folder
> that are less than the year 2000?
>
> Or maybe there is a program th
Hi,
> What do you version do you recomend for me to get since i am a major noob
> and do you recomend any reading materials?
I'd recommed FreeBSD 4.8 to you, since 5.1 has still some issues.
Here is how to get FreeBSD:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html
Gener
> Is there a postfix port for freebsd that includes the vda
> patch from www.oavnet/vda?
You can easyly do it yourself. CVSup your ports collection to get the
latest postfix port, then run 'make patch' and select the desired
options (sasl, ...).
Now download the patch to the ports work directory,
Hi Alfonso,
please avoid top-postings - thanks.
> > You can easyly do it yourself. CVSup your ports collection to get the
> > latest postfix port, then run 'make patch' and select the desired
> > options (sasl, ...).
[...]
> Thanks for your advice, it worked without any problems.
>
> I tested
Hi,
> Is your logo copyrigthed ?
Please have a look at this page (at the buttom):
http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/gallery.html
More information on Beastie, the FreeBSD daemon is here:
http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html
Cheers,
Simon
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> Setting up the OS itself for Arabic should be covered at least in a
> general way in the Handbook (Chapter 14 Localization). OpenOffice also
> includes setup routines for different languages, presumably Arabic is
> included in that as well.
I just check http://www.openoffice.org, and there seem
> > I just check http://www.openoffice.org, and there seems to be an arabic
> > version of OpenOffice - but unfortunately only for MS Windows :(
>
> Nicht wahr:
>
> /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-ar
That's true :-)
Simon
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Hi,
> Hi all. I've got a server that keeps advancing it's local time by about
> a minute every 3-4 days and I'm curious what steps I need to do to
> syncronize the time with a given server so that it doesn't keep
> advancing like this? I know I saw it mentioned at one time but now I
> can't reme
> Greetings,
>
> Using windows based machines, you can send a "System Broadcast Message" to
> all windows machines in the network. I was wondering if there is a tool
> for FreeBSD that can do similar, sending to all windows clients.
For sending messages to single windows hosts (and receiving mes
Hi,
> I just replaced sendmail with postfix. Works great, but I get this warning at
> boot time (right after starting sshd, though I dont see why it would be
> related to ssh):
> sendmail: illegal option -- O
> sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [option]
>
> So obviously the postfix sendmail replac
Hi Taulant,
> I'm Taulant Galimuna, I'm from Kosovo (ex. Yugoslavia) and I'm ready to
> help you if you have anything to translate or something else in Albanian...
> I own a website for albanian BSD users (www.albabsd.org) and I'm trying
> to help albanian users of bsd.
If you want to start an Al
Hi,
> I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its
> end.
> Is there some command in vi (or some way) by whcih ^M can be removed.
You can use dos2unix(1) for that. There is also the complementary tool
unix2dos(1).
Simon
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> I have a problem in running a program compiled by CC compiler on Red
> Hat Linux 8.0 plateform. It is giving binary errors. Basically the program
> sends mail to specified E-Mail address on the specified server. I don't
> know what is the problem, because it runs nicely on the Red Hat Linu
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