On Tue 2008-11-18 11:21:02 UTC-0500, Gary Hartl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd.
>
> I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or
> something like that feeding to my tv.
550 MHz will be a bit slow fo
Hi,
I'm getting an "Invalid address" error trying to run Windows apps
under WINE. "wineconsole cmd" works OK though, and so does winefile.
The error seems to only occur with apps that aren't supplied with
WINE, eg.
C:\Program Files\Winamp>winamp.exe
wine: could not load L"C:\\Program Files\\Wina
On Fri 2008-11-07 15:13:03 UTC-0800, Steve Watt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur
> % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur
> % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur
> % ls -ld */dir1/new
> drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/
What file system are you using?
On Wed 2008-11-05 13:02:27 UTC+, Robin Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm trying to do some benchmarks for a new/improved version of CPython
> and would like to know if gcc 3.4.4 as distributed with FreeBSD 6.1
> handles the -fno-gcse option reasonably. I looked in the man page, but
>
On Mon 2008-11-03 18:33:57 UTC-0400, Marc G. Fournier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats
> to set things up.
I stopped using bsdstats after it caused my FreeBSD router to take too
long to boot up after a reboot. If I recall corr
On Fri 2008-10-31 08:11:49 UTC+1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> localhost# /usr/sbin/freebsd-update --debug fetch
> Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org...
> fetch: http://update1.FreeBSD.org/6.3-STABLE/i386/pub.s
On Thu 2008-10-30 22:38:58 UTC+1100, Alasdair Reed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have been trying to update my system remotely using freebsd-update.sh .
On 6.3 you should be using /usr/sbin/freebsd-update. Can you ping
update1.freebsd.org?
$ ping -c 5 update1.FreeBSD.org
PING update1.FreeBSD.
On Wed 2008-10-29 13:37:11 UTC-0600, Steven Susbauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> freebsd-update fetch fails if the default "ServerName
> update.FreeBSD.org" is not changed to "ServerName update1.FreeBSD.org"
> in /etc/freebsd-update.conf.
> thinkpad# freebsd-update --debug fetch
> Looking up upd
On Wed 2008-10-29 13:43:23 UTC+, pwn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be
> performed by order
> 1 - Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel
> 2 - The Cutting Edge
> 3 - Updating FreeBSD
>
> Is this the proper order?
> there is some set of ru
On Wed 2008-10-29 04:10:33 UTC-0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I'm not sure I got all the emails in this thread... maybe some just
> haven't arrived yet.
It began on freebsd-ports, then the OP started cross-posting to
-questions, so I moved my replies to -questions.
> Anywa
On Wed 2008-10-29 16:53:26 UTC+0800, joeb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Well if you have this cluster build process why have some ports never been
> built all the way back to release 5.0 like kdenetwork-kopete-0.12.8. That is
> almost 3 years of waiting to get in the cluster build process.
You nee
On Fri 2008-10-24 14:03:42 UTC-0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I have a fresh install of FBSD 7 amd64, and I want to run some
> legacy binaries from my old box (Fbsd 5.x i386).
I don't run 64-bit FreeBSD but from what I've read elsewhere, you can
install 32-bit binary suppo
On Fri 2008-10-24 10:50:39 UTC-0500, Kevin Kinsey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> For various reasons, I find myself in need of an MTA accepting
> submission on a port other than 587 (or 25).
>From what I can tell Postfix can be configured to listen on any unused
port (or multiple thereof) by editin
On Sat 2008-10-18 09:47:51 UTC+0200, Peter Boosten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#CAD-REBOOT
>
> Hmmm, didn't know about the second one, and doesn't seem to be working
> either (on both 7.0 and 6.3):
>
> sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot
On Mon 2008-10-13 15:30:43 UTC+, Desmond Chapman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I need to contact whoever is in charge of the ports collection. It
> concerns the status of a port. I'm new at this- maintaining ports,
> that is.
What is your concern? You should probably address your question to
On Sat 2008-10-11 14:58:39 UTC-0400, Garance A Drosehn ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> It would be bad to change the default behavior, but there have
> been several people who wished for some option for newsyslog
> which would make it use some alternate naming scheme. There's
> at least one PR abou
On Wed 2008-10-08 09:21:53 UTC-0700, Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I don't want to rain on your parade, but uptime ultimately means squat.
Agreed.
> I can install FreeBSD on a box under my desk at home, on a UPS, and
> leave it powered on for the next 30 years -- it tells people a
On Mon 2008-10-06 10:39:42 UTC+0200, Zbigniew Szalbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am not sure why but whenever I do:
>
> $ freebsd-update fetch
> Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>
> but if type:
> $ portsnap fet
On Tue 2008-09-23 23:13:32 UTC+0200, Laszlo Nagy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> For making backups I would probably just use FAT32 and tar, because
>> practically anything (not just FreeBSD & Linux) will mount FAT32 file
>> systems, and tar should respect your file attributes (owner, group,
>> crea
On Tue 2008-09-23 14:54:30 UTC-0700, Nash Nipples ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> if there is no warning in the comments i think its harmless
> nobody knows when you are going to need a linux binary to run
> lsof maybe?
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but lsof builds from
Ports as a nat
On Tue 2008-09-23 17:38:57 UTC-0400, Grant Peel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> When I was young, many many moons ago, and I installed FreeBSD 4.4 for
> the first time, I enabled linux compatability ...
>
> Each build since, I have enabled it ...
>
> So not I am at the point of asking myself why?
Y
On Tue 2008-09-23 17:17:21 UTC+0200, Andreas Davour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I've bought a usb connected disk to use as backup, and I've been
> thinking about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do
> anyone here have any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would be
> b
On Sun 2008-09-21 23:11:50 UTC-0700, Gary Kline ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I can't listen to last.fm with firefox2 or firefox3--and parts of
> ff3 don't get loaded. With the KDE3 browser, same thing; it
> won't recognize last.fm. Nutshell: what do I need to do to
> play songs from last.fm here
On Wed 2008-09-17 19:36:02 UTC-0400, Tom Marchand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a utility that I can use with sshd to auto-block
>> by IP if there are more then N failed attempts in a row?
> Why don't you have sshd listen on a different port?
I imagine that on some hosts wh
On Tue 2008-09-02 11:57:35 UTC-0400, FreeBSD ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Can you put the screenshots into some other format? As you mentioned,
>> the jpeg format includes metadata, which might include the creation
>> time and would cause every image to be unique from a filesystem view.
>> For e
On Wed 2008-07-30 09:31:13 UTC-, DSA - JCR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have used in the past year an utility for terminal that permit me to
> split the terminal in several sesions vertically/horizontally and also
> save and restore the sesion, letting it doing some commands.
>
> I installe
On Sun 2008-07-27 12:52:56 UTC+0200, bsd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS
> server.
> I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X?
>
> This has been useless!!
>
> I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port
On Sun 2008-07-13 18:24:50 UTC-0600, Keith Seyffarth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Has anyone else had problems with Firefox 3 installed from the ports
> being massively slow?
No. I installed it from Ports on a FreeBSD 7.0 and it seemed to run
with no major dramas. Certainly no long delays betwe
On Sat 2008-07-05 16:06:39 UTC+0200, Sebastian Tymk?w ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm trying to use sed in script to append file after pattern but I couldn't
> find any good example how can I do it.
> I've tried with sed -e '/PATTERN/ a\ line' file but this did'n work. There
> are many axamples i
On Fri 2008-06-27 14:01:46 UTC+0200, Leslie Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Now that there's been quite some focus on the release of Firefox 3, I'm
> wondering if anyone on the list knows when one can expect it to appear
> in the ports tree?
3.0.a2 is currently in the ports tree - www/fir
On Fri 2008-06-20 19:40:04 UTC-0400, DAve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> No unused perl install, no issues with software getting confused about
> which perl to run, no need for... what was that command to use the port
> perl instead of the base perl? I cannot remember anymore.
The command was "
On Thu 2008-06-12 12:28:06 UTC-0300, Joey Mingrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm trying to determine what sound card a notebook has. There are
> three relevant dmesg lines below, but looking at freebsd's hardware
> notes, I can't tell whether I should use the snd_ich(4) driver for an
> Intel I
On Mon 2008-06-09 12:10:01 UTC-0500, Shelby Cain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:00 +, D Hill wrote:
>
> > Likely you have burned the iso file on a windows machine? I use both
> > Roxio and Nero and have NEVER had any issues. Both will automatically
> > set up correctly t
On Sat 2008-04-26 07:06:34 UTC+1000, andrew clarke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri 2008-04-25 22:56:53 UTC+0200, David Naylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > Has there been any progress on the tarfs, or any place one can find the
> > current sources for it?
Also &qu
On Fri 2008-04-25 22:56:53 UTC+0200, David Naylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Has there been any progress on the tarfs, or any place one can find the
> current sources for it?
Quoting http://www.googlebit.com/doku.php?id=tarfs :
"tarfs is a tar file system implementation for FreeBSD. The cur
On Tue 2008-04-22 17:03:41 UTC-0400, Robert Huff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > > @reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 120
> > >
> > > Is there a specific reason that you choose to do that rather than
> > > starting it by adding: fetchmail_enable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file?
> >
> > Si
On Tue 2008-04-22 16:34:56 UTC-0400, Gerard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > @reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 120
>
> Is there a specific reason that you choose to do that rather than
> starting it by adding: fetchmail_enable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file?
Since I have root access on that mach
On Tue 2008-04-22 17:32:17 UTC+0200, Roland Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:58:29PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
> >> FreeBSD, like all open source systems (that I know of), publishes a
> >> hardware compatibility list [1] that you can consult to see if the
> >>
On Tue 2008-04-22 12:34:12 UTC+0200, Zbigniew Szalbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> If I want to start a program at every system reboot and the program should
> not be started by root, is it enough for me to edit a users crontab with
> the following directive?
>
> @reboot /path/to/file.sh
Yes. T
On Tue 2008-04-22 07:40:38 UTC+1000, andrew clarke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have serveral FreeBSD machines on my home network and was wondering
> why Portsnap failed to find any mirrors on some but not others. I had
> a look at the /usr/sbin/portsnap script to find out what it
I have serveral FreeBSD machines on my home network and was wondering
why Portsnap failed to find any mirrors on some but not others. I had
a look at the /usr/sbin/portsnap script to find out what it is doing.
The command it calls to search for mirrors is:
host -t srv _http._tcp.portsnap.freebsd.
On Mon 2008-04-21 15:27:11 UTC+0800, Ruel Luchavez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> my freebsd server is version 6.2, I want to install cvsup and this is what i
> type in my box:
>
> cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without gui
> make install
>
> ..but during its process i allways has time-out connection the
On Sun 2008-04-20 08:16:51 UTC+0100, Matthew Seaman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> xpi-noscript is even better IMHO. Blocks flash, javascript and all
> forms of embedded media. Will remember the sites where you *do* want
> that stuff, or it will let you turn it on temporarily. It's in ports:
> ww
On Sun 2008-04-20 15:59:14 UTC-0400, Andrew Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> - it appears that FreeBSD and OpenBSD use the same partition
> table format. Is this true? If so, I can potentially avoid
> rebuilding an entire disk if I am right that ...
> - FreeBSD can mount and read
Hi,
Hopefully, a simple request...
I have a series of files in a directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 28 2006 209.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 31 2006 212.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Aug 1 2006 213.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis o
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:15:28AM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
> There are quite a few PHP trackers around, though the one I use is
> Torrent Trader Lite. (http://www.torrenttrader.com/) This is a
> lightweight tracker that stores all its information in flatfiles, so no
> rdbms is necessary. Th
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 04:54:26AM +1000, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> I'm wanting to use BASH as my root shell, so I compiled a statically linked
> version then tried to log in with only / mounted. But I was locked out
> because elf.ld.so could not be found..
>
> I though elf was the native binary f
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:51:03PM -0600, James wrote:
> > > /usr/local/include/log.h:112: error: syntax error before "A_"
> >
> > I'm curious which port installed log.h. I don't have it on my system and it
> > wouldn't surprise me if a local log.h conflicts with this log.h.
> >
> > Could you s
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:37:11PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >> Hi All...I am a newbie using Mutt, and I have Fetchmail running as
> >> daemon. Fetchmail is doing its job, periodically retreiving my pop3
> >> mail, but I am so far unable to find the correct entry for the
> >> .muttrc file whi
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:54:37PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> Hi All...I am a newbie using Mutt, and I have Fetchmail running as
> daemon. Fetchmail is doing its job, periodically retreiving my pop3
> mail, but I am so far unable to find the correct entry for the
> .muttrc file which will resu
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:13:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I suppose I can buy a DVD-R[W] and fnd out, but is there any reason
> > why I can't have many hours of audio on a DVD? In other words, id a DVD
> > *only* for video? --Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's
> >
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:36:54PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE
> audio mp3 files into much much smaller files? Say taking man mp3
> files that are stored at 198k high fidelity and outputting these to
> 16k or 32k mp3 (or *.ogg or
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:50:04AM -0500, David J Brooks wrote:
> > The difference for you with untrained eyes is the double spacing after
> > the dot instead of the standard single spacing.
> >
> > I was just curious if there's a reason to this or not.
>
> Back in the Jurassic era, when typewrit
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:14:50PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> right now, we are at ~200 hosts checking in, from various time zones (see
> http://bsdstats.hub.org/bsd_statistics.php for countries that have checked
> in so far) ... so, even at month end, taking into consideration time zones,
>
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 09:03:47PM +1000, sammy sumer wrote:
> 1.Reinvent the installer and interface.
>
> Fundamental thing like system installer is still phenomenally arcane. There
> is no excuse for FreeBSD developers not to upgrade the system installer and
A lot of people consider FreeBS
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:28:49PM -0400, fbsd wrote:
> I for one think the port/package collection has already grown to
> large to handle in it's present state.
I suspect you are in the minority here.
> Users are consuming massive bandwidth to download and it
> consumes a very large chunk of di
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:32:44PM +1030, Brian Astill wrote:
> Person with deteriorating vision has discovered Dragon
> Naturally Speaking which not only allows the construction of text
> from speech but can also speak from received text. ie letter writing
> and email conversing etc become po
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:30:17AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > Is it possible to configure the FreeBSD firewall to block ports on a
> > per-user or per-executable basis?
> >
> > eg.
> >
> > - Block /usr/local/bin/irc from connecting to TCP port 6667
> >
> > - Block user 'johnsmith' from conn
Is it possible to configure the FreeBSD firewall to block ports on a
per-user or per-executable basis?
eg.
- Block /usr/local/bin/irc from connecting to TCP port 6667
- Block user 'johnsmith' from connecting to TCP port 21
etc.
Thanks.
Regards
Andrew
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On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:58:39AM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> To get rid of IPv6 completely (why would you want this? :) ), you should
> definitely rebuild your kernel without INET6.
I suppose it would be a good idea to remove IPv6 support from hosts on
IPv4-only intranets because it's the
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 04:50:58PM +, Danny Browne wrote:
> How do i turn off IPv6 support in FreeBSD 4.10?
Remove "options INET6" from your kernel config file
(/sys/i386/conf/XXX), rebuild your kernel and reboot your machine.
There may be a way to turn it off at runtime using sysctl, but I
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:42:38PM -0700, Daniel Beck wrote:
> Hi, I am pretty new to freeBSD, so please excuse this question.
> However, I have a laptop with only 4Mb of RAM, and I had read on the
> website that the last version that I could install on it would be the
> 2.7.1 release. I have no
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:27:11AM +0600, ashadul hoque wrote:
> Is there any free software to run FreeBSD on WinXP?
QEMU:
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/
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On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 06:57:16PM +1000, Jon Kurjakovich wrote:
> My problem: I am trying to use NATD to forward packets to machines on
> the internal network using the redirect_port command.
I don't have a solution to your problem with natd, however net/rinetd
(from ports) might be a good enoug
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:09:03PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> I'm plan to disable atime updates in some Web + MySQL servers (to get a
> bit more performance, even if insignificant).
>
> Is there any OS, Apache or MySQL feature that would be affected by
> setting noatime in fstab? ( I coul
On 2004-05-19 18:33, mehrdad nosrati wrote:
Note: forwarded message attached.
But if see the man of atrun(8) then you can see these
line:
*/5 * * * * root
/usr/libexec/atrun
which create an error for me!
atrun(8) refers to /etc/crontab, not /var/cron/tabs/root.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:55:24AM +0100, Martin Vana wrote:
> Is there a way, I can uncompress zip files made under win?
> Unzip from ports collection probably can't do that:
It should. My guess is the file you're attempting to unzip is corrupt
somehow, or simply not a ZIP file at all. Try ru
Just wondering if anyone knows of a program that will connect to a POP3
mailbox and then send me an e-mail notification when there are new
messages in the mailbox (rather than sending me those messages)? Thanks.
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:16:12PM -0600, Earl wrote:
> What is a good program to create mp3s with?
/usr/ports/audio/lame
http://lame.sourceforge.net/
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:09:25AM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> My port hierarchy seems to have gotten out of date or something.
> It is missing some subdirectories, like multimedia, even though I
> run cvsup every other night on it.
I had this problem too with /usr/ports/dns not being updated
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