Re: instillation problem

2004-05-12 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 12 May 2004 23:02:10 +0800 Jeremy Saville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm installing freebsd on a i386 machine, using the iso image off linuxiso.org Once I configure my mouse and keyboard (ps/2 mouse, microsoft natural keyboard) the text goes completely wonky. Huge gaps

sendmail on lan

2004-05-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
How do I get sendmail to work on the lan? How do I stop all mail errors from piling up so I can get the daily run and security check out put messages? example... from one entitled Returned Mail: see transcript for details The original message was received at Fri, 14 May 2004 10:00:00 -0500

Re: sendmail on lan

2004-05-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 14 May 2004 17:43:31 -0400 Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 14, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Vulpes Velox wrote: How do I get sendmail to work on the lan? The easiest way to get sendmail to work properly on your LAN is to configure DNS for the local machines. It's also

Re: How to allow 'User-A' to burn CD

2004-05-17 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 17 May 2004 13:10:23 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Which file shall I re-configure to authorize 'User-A' using 'burncd' to burn CD and how to edit it. What I would do is create named cdrw or what ever. Chmod that device to readable and writable by that

Re: digital video cameras?

2004-05-17 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 17 May 2004 19:16:20 +0300 Adrian Pircalabu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 May 2004 20:13:15 +0100 Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Anyone know anything about digital video cameras and freebsd? I've got usb but no firewire. What might be a good choice? And what

Re: sendmail problems

2004-05-17 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 18 May 2004 05:01:09 +1000 Andri Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gurus, I don't know wether this problem have come up beore, so here it goes... After a fresh installing and rebooting, the sendmail takes around 1 min and 10 sec to load. Then everytime it starts up, it takes the same

Re: Firewalling Q

2004-05-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 18 May 2004 14:04:45 +0400 Schizik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, gurus! I do need to limit people from my internal LAN to access filesharing services like eDonkey, Mule, Kaza, etc The problem is that it is can not be done with port ranges based ipfw rules, because ports

Re: Still no graphic desktop

2004-06-17 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:14:54 -0500 Curtis Almond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lloyd, When I was learning to install and configure FreeBSD for the first year or so I always defaulted to using /stand/sysinstall. This allows you to configure your input devices (mouse and keyboard), video card,

Re: Encoding MPEG2 using open source software

2004-06-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:52:45 +0100 Edd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Maybe the question I am asking is how do I burn a dvd using open source. But I know that dvd's ar encoded in MPEG2. Apparently ffmpeg can encode mpeg2, but I havent been able to get mencoder (compiled against

Re: Shared Partitions?

2004-06-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:05:48 -0400 Thomas Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Fat32 partition that I use to share files between Windows and FreeBSD. I have it mounted on /home and when it mounts the owner of all the files is root and the group is wheel. Is there a way to change that so

a quick mailing list question

2004-06-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
I've been going though transfering all the freebsd mailing lists I've subscribe to over to one account... the small problem I ran into is this, I can send emails from this new account fine, but for some reason if I send something to a list, it does not appear to show up... I niether recieve it nor

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple guide to how to do this? There's nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING. I see that some people have reported general success, but I'm worried that

Re: a quick mailing list question

2004-06-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:08:31 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vulpes Velox wrote: I've been going though transfering all the freebsd mailing lists I've subscribe to over to one account... the small problem I ran into is this, I can send emails from this new account fine

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:17:56 -0400 Jim Trigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:13:53PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86. Is there any simple

Re: cue images

2004-06-29 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:25:53 +0200 Daniel Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Faulkner wrote: What international standard describes their format? Windows is not a standard. Many times a de-facto standard is just as important/valid as a real standard. Commonly used, but not a

Re: WinKey doesn't work in X.org? (was Re: Guide to x.org update?)

2004-06-30 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:05:22 +0200 Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One difference I noticed, after switching to X.org, is that my WinKey doesn't work anymore. I used it a lot for custom keybindings in IceWM. Any clue, anyone? Check and make sure the kb is set correctly in the

Re: What is the function of the archived flag?

2004-07-03 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 18:42:54 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the function of the archived flag? I am running FreeBSD 4.9 with kern.securelevel = -1. I am using vnconfig with a msdos diskimage to mount it using the command: mount -t msdos /dev/vn0c

pattern replacement

2004-07-04 Thread Vulpes Velox
If I wanted to replace every instance of a pattern in a file with something, what would I use? Sorta like doing a include in a html file and then something goes threw and replaces that include with the file that include pointed it at? Sorta want something to make web admining easier and I am

Re: pattern replacement

2004-07-04 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 17:51:22 -0500 Jon Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: Sed is useful for this. Here are some good tutorials on it: Common threads: Sed by example: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed1.html

Re: how long is installation time

2003-09-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
That is odd. It should not take that long. I've been bored enought to see how long KDE takes to start on a 486dx4, before... it takes just a little while to install and 15 minutes or so for it to start... I why not just put that drive in the amd system and use it there? If you are looking to

Re: CHAT ON LAN WITH WIN MACHINES?

2003-09-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
I would just throw a ircd on the FreeBSD box... that way all that is needed is a irc client on the others. On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:33:18 +0300 Alex Zivenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again! Are there Programs to chat on LAN on FreeBSD ports, (clients may be on WIN). And what does I need?

Re: questions about themes

2003-09-16 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 01:14:29 -0400 ALIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after i download a theme from a website and select it, all the windows changes colors and all but in the theme file it shows that the console has also changed colors but when i open the console it's still the same color,

Re: BSD graphic interface

2003-09-18 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:15:53 +1000 Alastair G. Hogge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: libsdl (http://www.libsdl.org/index.php) can write to the console, and also works with C++. Yeah I'm aware of LibSDL and I was thinking of using it. But decided against it because of the GLPL. If there's some

Re: Free operating system for home pc

2003-09-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:13:51 -0400 sunghero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to find an open source operating system to use for a personal computer. I have WindowsXP now, but I feel I'd be at home with something at least a little in tune with my personal

gcc 3.3.1

2003-09-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
Do I have any thing to worry about upgrading versions of gcc, from ports, in stable? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hot swapping IDE hard drives

2003-09-22 Thread Vulpes Velox
What does it take to hot swap a IDE hard drive? Can this be done on any controller or just some? 1: unmount device 2: swap trays 3: ??? 4: mount new drive What would 3 or so be? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: can FreeBSD run dos

2003-09-27 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:51:50 -0500 fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to different OS's . Can this Os run Wordperfect 5.1 for dos??? Dosbox may work... but seriously... it is probally best to leave old DOS apps where they are... dead... I suggest something like AbiWord2... btw why

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-03 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:47:51 -0600 (MDT) SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, SoloCDM wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:43:39 -0600 (MDT) From: SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED], FreeBSD-Questions (Request) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: flphoto for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 02:06:18 +0200 Gabriel Striewe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! In the magazine Linux-User (http://www.linux-user.de) I came across the photo editing programme flphoto, written by cups-author Michael Sweets. This port is not yet included in the ports collection.Anybody

Re: Installing an Unsupported Driver

2003-10-22 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:41:46 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old HP J2575 10/100 ethernet card that does not seem to be supported by FreeBSD. I found a driver for it on the Debian Linus web site. Can I install the Debian driver in FreeBSD, or must I switch to Debian to make this

Re: Migrating from Linux: mounting ext2fs

2003-10-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:03:17 +0100 Miguel Gonçalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear BSDers, I am about to move a workgroup server from Linux to FreeBSD. How stable is the FreeBSD support for ext2fs? It should be able to read it with out probs. Not sure about writeing. Just mount the

Re: Pls answer my question.

2003-10-26 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 06:25:44 -0800 (PST) Valerian Galeru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I`ve got a Pentium MMX 150 MHZ. Tell me pls what is the best version of FreeBSD for my computer. Pls send the response to this e-mail. Thank You! I personally would wait a few days till 4.9-release comes out and

firebird as non-root

2003-10-31 Thread Vulpes Velox
Has any one else here had problems running firebird not as root? I can execute it and a ps -aux shows it as running, but nothing comes up on the screen. Under root it works rather fine. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: firebird as non-root

2003-11-01 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:32:25 -0500 Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 11:25 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: Has any one else here had problems running firebird not as root? I can execute it and a ps -aux shows it as running, but nothing comes up on the screen. Under

Re: Gateway traffic reporting tool (port)

2003-11-08 Thread Vulpes Velox
Check out ntop. On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 02:29:08 -0200 Augusto Jun Devegili [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a small home LAN with four machines. One of them (mine, actually) runs FreeBSD 5.1 and serves as a NAT/gateway between the LAN and an ADSL connection. I would like a tool for

Re: Old Computer + New HD

2003-11-09 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 03:42:36 -0200 fallenbr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to use an 80GB hard disk on my old computer, which can only detect HDs smaller than 8GB. Does anyone have any advice? How about using one of these IDE to USB racks from ViPower (www.vipower.com)? Do they

Re: XFree86 difficulties

2003-11-10 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:38:29 -0500 (EST) LM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure out if I can get X running on my system and could use some help. I have an ATI All-in-Wonder 128, AGP card with 32MB. I also recently purchased a Sony SDM-X72 TFT LCD Color Monitor with specs of:

problems creating a bootable image using burncd

2004-01-13 Thread Vulpes Velox
I've been trying to create a a bootable CD using freesbie. I ran into problems getting that to work. It failed to boot and the same thing happened upon reburn. I then went to download a the 4.9 install iso to see if it was a possible problem with the image that was created. The iso passed the

Re: problems creating a bootable image using burncd

2004-01-13 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:16:06 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 01:07 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: I've been trying to create a a bootable CD using freesbie. I ran into problems getting that to work. It failed to boot and the same thing happened upon

Re: problems creating a bootable image using burncd

2004-01-13 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:49:56 -0800 Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:07:20 -0600 Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to create a a bootable CD using freesbie. I ran into problems getting that to work. It failed to boot and the same thing

Re: problems creating a bootable image using burncd

2004-01-13 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:16:06 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 01:07 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: I've been trying to create a a bootable CD using freesbie. I ran into problems getting that to work. It failed to boot and the same thing happened upon

NIS problems

2004-01-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
I've recently set up a NIS server on my lan. All machines are running freebsd 4stable. I have added the nisdomainname and nis_client_enable lines to the client machines along with the correct lines on the server in rc.conf. I have also added +: to the end of /etc/master.passwd and +:*::

Re: Enabling Macromedia Flash

2004-01-27 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:55:33 -0500 Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkg_info shows: linux-flashplugin-6.0r79 linux_base-7.1_5 linuxpluginwrapper-20040111 linuxthreads-2.2.3_13 which I installed via /usr/ports. However, the plugin does not show up as registered. Is there a FAQ

Re: mplayer screws up audio device access

2004-01-27 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:06:51 +0900 Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running 4-Stable with up-to-date ports installed. I'm puzzled by what mplayer does to my audio device (I use mplayer-gtk-esound-0.92.0_4 compiled from ports). When I run gmplayer -vo x11, I can only play one

Re: mozilla-firebird 0.7 plugins dont work

2004-01-27 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:00:23 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linux-flashplugin linux-flashplugin6 linuxpluginwrapper i install this three plugins, but when i test mozilla-firebird 0.7 plugins didn't work, help anyone? kern.version: FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 11

Re: Enabling Macromedia Flash

2004-01-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:37:10 -0500 Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 10:10 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:55:33 -0500 Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkg_info shows: linux-flashplugin-6.0r79 linux_base-7.1_5 linuxpluginwrapper

Re: Newbie firewall question

2004-01-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:15:46 +0100 Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have just installed 5.2 on my machine and everything works. Now I am trying to configure it and I want to put up a firewall but a everything I read seem to refer to a dial up connection, I have a LAN connection.So

Gigabit ethernet

2004-01-29 Thread Vulpes Velox
Any suggestions on gigabit ethernet? I've been looking around and I've been having a hard time finding 64 gigabit ethernet cards. Most I come across have slightly newer chip numbers than what is listed. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Free BSD

2004-01-29 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:54:44 -0800 T Glaser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This website leads me to believe that this is an OS software package? I don't know for sure though. What did I stumble across here? What are you offering for free? Not real clear here on the website. If this is an OS do you

Re: X Windows

2004-01-30 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:43:11 -0500 (EST) Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, About 6 months ago, I was having trouble generating my X config file (so that it would run in 800x600, etc. etc.). The command line config would work but I would never know my video card, etc. Then

Re: Making an ISO fails

2004-02-08 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 06:44:50 -0800 Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to make an iso of some dvds, an cdroms by just copying the file /dev/acd0c, but most of the time it seems to fail with an i/o error. I underestimated the size of a 6G dvd and ran out of disk space

libtool and ports build problem

2004-02-09 Thread Vulpes Velox
Has any one else had problems with libtools and XFree86 and a missing libtool file? (/usr/X11R6/libX11.la) I don't have it on another box running 4stable and I can compile stuff that requires it fine. (Xft and fluxbox-devel and ect) I am running 4stable on this box with a upto date portstree.

Re: libtool and ports build problem FIXED

2004-02-09 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:08:56 + Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has any one else had problems with libtools and XFree86 and a missing libtool file? (/usr/X11R6/libX11.la) I don't have it on another box running 4stable and I can compile stuff that requires it fine. (Xft and fluxbox

is x11/libX11 broken?

2004-02-09 Thread Vulpes Velox
I've been trying to get x11/libX11 port to work, but I've not had much luck. I've decided to try to get some of the freedesktop.org X libs and ect to work, but not had much luck. If I install x11/libX11, when I got and startx, it starts, but nothing comes up, the .xinitrc file is good, and then

Re: libtool and ports build problem FIXED

2004-02-09 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 16:56:23 -0800 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:30:29PM +, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:08:56 + Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has any one else had problems with libtools and XFree86 and a missing

Re: libtool and ports build problem FIXED

2004-02-09 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:08:22 -0800 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:01:28PM -0600, Vulpes Velox wrote: turns out it requires libXau, which it does not check to see if it is installed... libXau is part of XFree86-libraries, so you probably have

Re: Hardware vs software firewall on FreeBSD

2004-02-12 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:37:45 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm upgrading the hardware on my webserver. It will run FreeBSD 4.9. I need to decide whether to use a hardware firewall (Cisco) or use ipfw, ipf, pf, etc. The hardware firewall will increase my monthly server rental bill by

Re: ipfw bandwidth limit

2004-02-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
here is a example from my ftp server... ipfw add 200 pipe 2 tcp from me to any out gid ftpusersBWL ipfw pipe config 2 bw 16KBps queue 100 this will pipe any thing from that gid into pipe 2... and pipe 2 is bw limited at 16KBps... the only dif is that you will have to change the packet matching

Re: mplayer

2004-02-19 Thread Vulpes Velox
I just commented the lines for setting it broken out and it compiled fine on 5.2.1... On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:02:53 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i fix mplayer-gtk-esound-0.92.0_5 so i can install mplayer? thanks mmp# make install clean ===

Re: freebsd not boot

2004-02-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:21:43 - Pat Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to run freebsd 4.9 on a PC / IDE architecture. I have one IDE drive and two 3COM 3c90 Network Cards and CD-ROM The PC will be a dedicated FreeBSD box. I have installed freebsd v4.9 , using the whole 4G

Re: Nvidia

2004-02-22 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:29:15 +0100 Uwe Laverenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eduardo Fernandes wrote: how install nvidia drivers in freebsd 5.2? AFAIK the nvidia drivers don't work with FreeBSD 5.2 anymore. Last time I tried was 2 weeks ago with -CURRENT and it did not work. I switched back

file selector and shell scripts

2004-02-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
I am currently working on putting together a shell script to allow me to save files with certian extensions under firefox and then run a few commands on them... the problem I am running into is there I can't seem to find any thing to take care of the file selector part... Any one seen any thing

Re: file selector and shell scripts

2004-02-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:31:38 -0800 Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vulpes Velox disturbed my sleep to write: I am currently working on putting together a shell script to allow me to save files with certian extensions under firefox and then run a few commands on them

Re: Radeon 9800 XT 256 in FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x

2004-02-27 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:35:56 -0500 Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to install/build a new FreeBSD system... but am curious if anyone has gotten a sufficient driver for this card. ATI provides one for Linux, of course... (frustrating) but not FreeBSD. Just like on linux,

Re: Gtk#/Mono on FreeBSD?

2004-03-02 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:43:14 -0500 Joe Marcus Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 13:54, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: Can anyone please tell me if GTK# is available on FreeBSD? Already searched the Applications database but no entries there. Have not heard of anyone working on

Re: IPTables - Netfilter

2004-03-03 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 17:00:35 -0500 Michael Banta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. New here to FreeBSD. I wanted to install iptables(netfilter) but it will not compile on FreeBSD. Is there a version fro FreeBSD? Thankfully there is not :P Look into ipfw and ipf.

Re: Unable to Install FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-03-04 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 07:16:19 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a question for anyone running 5.2.1.. I currently have 5.1 running on a Test server, I decieded to try ver 5.2.1. However after I did the Make Buildworld Make Buildkernel Make installkernel reboot commands,

Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:16:09 -0800 Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might be setting up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating whether I should use

Re: PowerChute Plus

2004-03-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:30:45 +0600 K.S.Selvarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Advise me to install APC PowerChute Plus 4.5.2.1 on FreeBSD 5.1 or later. PowerChute 4.5.2_1 is for Red Hat 6.1 or 6.2 The other version of PowerChute 4.5.3_1 is for Red Hat 7.2 Which is suitable for our FreeBSD

Re: GUI-related questions.

2004-03-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:51:41 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces

Re: Where to find e2fsck?

2004-03-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 22:02:30 +0200 Kyryll A Mirnenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's very stupid problem when using EXT2[3]FS partitions read-write on FreeBSD that after power failure you have nothing to check it (e.g. apropriate fsck) and can't use it rw any more (I've no linux on my

Re: USB cameras - Xirlink IBM PC Camera/W9967CF

2004-03-06 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 23:59:03 +1030 Wayne Sierke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following two cameras on-hand: kernel: ugen0: WINBOND W9967CF, rev 1.10/1.10, addr 3 kernel: ugen2: Xirlink IBM PC Camera, rev 0.01/0.02, addr 8 I can't find anything to support either of these cameras.

Csh problems

2004-03-06 Thread Vulpes Velox
Where is a good place to get info on csh? Trying to put together a back ground changing script... have it all the way done for the most part except for the part that handles some of the extra switches... The error I am getting is 3: Command not found. set loop=1 set loopnum=1 set numofargs=$#

Re: Csh problems

2004-03-07 Thread Vulpes Velox
nevermind... hehe, finally found something useful... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-07 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:28:03 -0500 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to be improved? Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, boot time

Re: Migrating from RedHat 7.3 with ext3 to FreeBSD

2004-03-09 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 07:32:44 +0200 Eric Yellin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a RedHat 7.3 machine that I had to bring down do to security problems. I have it off production to re-install and am considering to migrate to FreeBSD. Now here's my problem. I have a RAID 5 setup with RedHat

Re:

2004-03-09 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 17:21:55 +0530 RAVIKANT PRASAD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I m RAVIKANT from india. Currently i m last sem of MCA. In mca i gave a presentation on freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, mcosx, darwin in contrast to linux. i found it quite interesting. i would like to

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5

2004-03-10 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:33:34 -0500 Crucial Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need some advice on steps for upgrading a very valueble machine. This machine has an uptime of 393 days. I need to install a secure version of curl this is our main focus right now. FreeBSD

Re: IDE cd-burner, Can it be done???

2004-03-10 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:37:23 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a IDE cd-burner in my FreeBSD 5.1 box. I have installed cdrecord from the ports but this looks like it needs a SCSI drive. Is there a CMD line cd-record package that works with a IDE cd-burner. Here is a line from

Re: XFree86-4.2.0 ?

2004-03-18 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:42:14 -0700 (MST) RJ45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know but it is a pain in the ass. The source code without FreeBSD/alpha specific patches is pretty unusable No clue about how to go about using it, what about portdowngrade in the sysutil dir?

Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

2004-03-19 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:45:12 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, I'm upgrading my hub from a 5-port hub and thought I would check with this list to see if the Linksys EFAH08W is still a good deal. If there is somethng other that would work equally

Re: portupgrade error?

2004-03-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:57:34 -0500 Ralph M. Los [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone ever had this problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]portupgrade mozilla-devel /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:35:in `require': No such file to load -- pkgtools (LoadError) from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:35 Try

Re: X is broken....

2004-03-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:11:47 -0500 Ralph M. Los [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Something happened, most likely a weird error on my part, but when I booted up and hit my usual startx I got a bad command error. So I went into the ports directory and installed X, which is weird because it

Re: restricted shells

2004-03-22 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:29:14 -0700 (MST) RJ45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, are there any restricted shells version in the ports collection? if there aren't where I Can find a restricted shell tar.gz to be compiled and isntalled? http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html

Re: DVD - SVCD with FreeBSD?

2004-03-29 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:22:14 +0100 Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried mencoder. The ports version won't produce mpeg2 (at least not with libavcodec). The version from the mplayer site will, but the results look like modern art. I got the same with transcode, though it's a while

Re: ports hosed

2004-04-04 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 01:53:11 -0600 Jay Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 5.2 installed from the cd a couple of weeks ago: I guess I've stepped into it, somehow... the sequence was: # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile completed OK # pkgdb -F

Re: Windows VOD player: what to do in FreeBSD?

2004-04-12 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:00:16 +0900 Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running up-to-date ports with 4.9-stable. My favorite radio station used to broadcast over the internet in way that popped up Windows Media player in MS-Windows. I used mplayer on FreeBSD and it worked just fine.

Re: jumping mouse in X

2004-04-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:55:08 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... something I found in XFree86log file: (**) Option Protocol auto (**) Mouse0: Protocol: auto (**) Option CorePointer (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer (**) Option Device /dev/psm0 (**) Mouse0: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout:

Re: PCI Graphic card install

2004-04-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:36:21 +0930 Jeffrey P. Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find some information about how to install a graphics card on FreeBSD? I had no problem finding the information and installing the sound card but cannot find anything about how to install the graphics

Re: Will FreeBSD work on my hardware?

2004-04-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:16:08 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to try FreeBSD, but I have some problem hardware that I'm having trouble getting Linux on. It's an AMD64 with an NForce ethernet, and an external Iomega Zip Drive plugged into the USB port. Also, I want to dual-boot with

Re: lament about freebsd sacrifices

2004-04-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:33:47 +0200 Radek Kozlowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004.04.14 22:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 April, 2004, at 14:55 (-0500) Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * digital cameras I use Sony Cybershot DSC-P92: 1. Plug camera into computer using

Re: What happened after gnome upgrade??

2004-04-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:48:32 -0400 R. M. Los [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Something strange has happened. In gnome-2.4 I had the CPU/Memory/Network monitors setup on my bottom bar, as well as my battery meter, etc. Now with Gnome-2.6 upgraded (mostly OK, crashed towards the VERY

Re: What happened after gnome upgrade??

2004-04-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:09:52 -0400 R. M. Los [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 22:08, Vulpes Velox wrote: GTK+ was updated recently and this sounds like what happens when apps that use it get out of sync with it. You will have to recompile everything that uses GTK+. I

Re: What happened after gnome upgrade??

2004-04-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:21:27 -0400 R. M. Los [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK...so I got this idea, maybe if I did a portupgrade gnomesystemmonitor, something would giveboy was I wrong. What the heck is this?! ERROR from 'portupgrade gnomesystemmonitor' checking what warning flags to

Re: Amaya 8.4

2004-04-18 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 02:58:32 +0800 Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To whom it may concern; Is current Amaya release going to be ported soon? No clue, check the ports on freebsd.org... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Tuning FreeBSD for HIGH PERFORMANCE Web Server

2003-07-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
Check out /etc/make.conf choose the closest arc for your proc and go with either O2 or O3 optimizations. When using O3 you may end up with a few problems. I have had a bit of problems compiling some things when I optimized some X stuff using O3. I have not had any problems with O2 so far. On 14

Re: cable modem

2003-07-16 Thread Vulpes Velox
1: plug everything in 2: figure out what the device name of the nic is 3: set your machine up to use the nic and dhcp /etc/rc.conf is where you will want to put that so it will be taken care of upon boot On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:52:07 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am a new to unix, not sure how

Re: BitTorrent for Freebsd??

2003-07-16 Thread Vulpes Velox
Yeah... /usr/ports/py-bittorrent On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:30:48 -0400 Dragoncrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a copy of BitTorrent that will run on Freebsd? Is it in the Ports cause if it is, I certainly haven't found it yet. I'd like to run my BT downloads on my bsd box as

Re: BitTorrent for Freebsd??

2003-07-16 Thread Vulpes Velox
more pkg-plist On 17 Jul 2003 00:45:42 +0800 Edy Lie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the main file which run bittorrent after installing it from port ? Thanks! On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 14:09, Vulpes Velox wrote: Yeah... /usr/ports/py-bittorrent On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:30:48 -0400

Re: HARDWARE COMPATABLE

2003-07-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
Check the hardware notes on the releases against the hardware used. Info on the errors would be of help to. FreeBSD is for the most part not responsible for handleing the video card, that is done by the X server. On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:56:34 -0700 (PDT) ALLEN WANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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